Sep 03, 2019
Good morning from Washington, where we’re praying for Floridians in the path of Hurricane Dorian. Now that Labor Day is behind us, politics get even nuttier. The Democratic National Committee is catering to those who profess no religious faith, Peter Hasson reports, and the left is rewriting the history of the tea party as racist, David Harsanyi writes. Plus: Mary Clare Amselem on discounting merit in college admissions, Nick Loris on the betrayal of consumers in fuel economy standards. A hundred years ago today, President Woodrow Wilson begins a national tour to promote the ill-fated League of Nations.
The Left Can’t Stop Lying About the Tea Party
In the first draft of this column, I joked that The New York Times might add a line about tea party “racism” before the day was over to placate the Twitter mob. It did it before I could even publish.
The SATs company is now promoting Landscape, which will rank a student’s perceived difficulty based on the neighborhood that he lives in for the purpose of providing greater advantage to those from particularly disadvantaged neighborhoods.
For 12 straight months, annual wage growth has been at or above 3%. And 7.3 million open jobs means that we have even more opportunity for Americans to find their career path, writes Jonathan Berry, a Labor Department official.
Get Off the Sidelines: #StandWithICE in Sanctuary Cities
Inside a detention center in Colorado, illegal immigrants get free access to dental services, a full-scale pharmacy, video games, pingpong tables, and even telepsychiatry appointments. But you wouldn’t know it from the hysterical rhetoric and lies.
DNC Resolution Celebrates Religiously Unaffiliated
The Democratic National Committee’s “Resolution Regarding the Religiously Unaffiliated Demographic” states that “religiously unaffiliated Americans overwhelmingly share the Democratic Party’s values,” and “have often been subjected to unfair bias and exclusion in American society.”
Automakers’ Flip-Flop on CAFE Standards Kicks Car Buyers to the Curb
Automakers are siding with California rather than the Trump administration, voluntarily agreeing to increase the average fuel economy of their fleets to about 50 miles per gallon by 2026. But what’s been lost is what’s best for the consumer.
We Hear You: Our ‘Back to School’ Edition
“When we surrender our children to these state-run institutions influenced so heavily by groups like Planned Parenthood, we can’t expect the content or outcome to be what we want. The problem is systemic and not particular programs,” writes Karen Cox of Waynesboro, Georgia.
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