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The War on History Comes for George Washington

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 10:30am
The Daily Signal

May 21, 2019

 

Good morning from Washington, where liberals aren’t likely to embrace The Heritage Foundation’s new plan to balance the budget and cut taxes. Rachel del Guidice reports. Is George Washington too frightening for schoolchildren? How did women win the right to vote 100 years ago? Jarrett Stepman takes on both questions. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers visits the podcast. Plus: Jude Schwalbach on the power of charter schools, Patti J. Smith on what nobody told her about abortion, and David Azerrad on the leftists who give progressives a bad name.

 

 

 

Commentary

The War on History Comes for George Washington

The perpetual war on history now has the father of our country in its sights as the San Francisco Board of Education considers removing a mural of Washington from a local school.

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How Charter Schools Empower Inner-City Children to Escape Failing Public Schools

Opponents of charter schools, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., argue that they drain funds from public schools and prevent integration.

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Analysis

100 Years Ago, the House Voted for Women’s Suffrage. Here’s the Back Story.

For a brief time prior to the 19th Amendment, women in New Jersey were allowed to vote, a policy that was reinforced in 1790 when the state constitution was revised to add “he or she” to the language on voting rights.

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News

Heritage Foundation Blueprint Would Balance Budget While Cutting Taxes, Stressing National Defense

The Heritage Foundation’s new “Blueprint for Balance” “lays out an agenda both for our long-term governing vision [and] our conservative policy priorities,” says the think tank’s Romina Boccia.

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Analysis

This Congresswoman Has a Warning for High Schoolers About Socialism

"I'm reminding the high school students that I visit ... that socialism and human rights do not coexist," says Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash.

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Before I Had Abortions, Nobody Told Me the Truth. Now I’m Supporting Alabama.

Nobody told me I would eventually realize what I destroyed was not tissue or a clump of cells, but my children … or that guilt and shame would follow me for decades.

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Today’s Left Is Worlds Apart From the Old Progressivism

The contemporary multicultural left has turned against the early progressives. The arch-progressive Woodrow Wilson is now despised by the left. In the summary judgment of The Atlantic: “The Virginia native was racist.”

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May 20, 2019

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The Similarities Between Declining Rome and the Modern US

By Victor Davis Hanson

“The Satyricon,” an insider’s novel about moral corruption in Imperial Rome, contains themes that are timeless and still resonate today.

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Satisfaction High in DC School Voucher Program, Study Finds

 

By Joshua Nelson

“Perceptions of student safety increased 34% among participants, student satisfaction increased 18%, and chronic absenteeism dropped 27%,” Heritage Foundation education expert Lindsey Burke says.

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The Trump Administration Can Bring Justice to Iran for Its role in 1983 Beirut Bombing

 

By Hans von Spakovsky & Cully Stimson

The Trump administration’s Justice Department should, through the brief it will file at the Supreme Court, support the families of the victims of the 1983 terrorist bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.

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Pompeo Seeks New Strategic Agenda for Arctic, Cautions Allies on China’s Intentions

By Maiya Clark

“China’s pattern of aggressive behavior elsewhere ... should inform what we do and how it might treat the Arctic,” the secretary of state says.

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I’ve Had 2 Abortions. Here’s Why I Support Alabama’s Pro-Life Law.

By Leslie Dean

The horror I felt when I realized I had been lied to—not once, but twice, and by different doctors—was overwhelming.

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