April 11, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has some 'splainin' to do. Sen. Ted Cruz asks the questions conservatives want answered. That FBI raid on the president’s lawyer raises legal and political questions, which Fred Lucas takes a whack at. As Rachel del Guidice reports on military families who want more school choice, Lindsey Burke assesses a new "report card" on public education. Plus: Nick Loris and Elliott Raia on a bad policy move by College Republicans, Walter Williams on real black power, and Ginny Montalbano on tweens and the first lady.
"It's outrageous to raid the office of the attorney of the president," The Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky says. "It's rare that you go after a lawyer unless he is being recalcitrant and/or there is a fear he is destroying documents."
"Mr. Zuckerberg, I will say there are a great many Americans, who I think are deeply concerned that Facebook and other tech companies are engaged in a pervasive pattern of bias and political censorship," Sen. Ted Cruz says.
"It's clear that military families want more choice on how to best educate their children," Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., tells The Daily Signal.
The scores are a particular indictment of Obama-era education policies, including historically high levels of spending, the addition of new programs, numerous federal directives, and perhaps most consequentially, Common Core.
The reality is a carbon tax is another big government regulatory scheme.
"Don't worry," Melania Trump said with a smile as a boy knocked over a glass of water. "It's just a water, OK?"
The challenge for blacks is to better position themselves to take advantage of existing opportunities, and that involves addressing the anti-social, self-defeating behaviors and habits and attitudes endemic to the black underclass.
When you attend an American university, you are taught to have contempt for America and its founders, to prefer socialism to capitalism, to divide human beings by race and ethnicity.
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