May 9, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump puts pressure back on Iran by pulling out of the nuclear deal with the Islamist regime, as promised. Heritage Foundation expert Jim Phillips tells what it means. Trump loses a fierce opponent in the disgrace of New York's attorney general, Fred Lucas reports. The president's request for Congress to cancel $15 billion in spending is a good start, Justin Bogie writes. Plus: Matt Sharp on California's war on traditional values, Ana Quintana on hope for Nicaragua, Jon Butcher on failed school safety policies, and Walter Williams on the toll of welfare programs.
"Schneiderman was the ringleader of the activist attorneys general that sought to use the courts to pursue their liberal political agenda," says Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge.
President Trump's implicit call for regime change was balanced with a willingness to negotiate a new deal with Iran.
While the rescission package is not the answer to fixing our mounting debt problem, it is a good first step toward rebuilding fiscal responsibility and for re-establishing a tool to restrain spending.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets to demonstrate against their authoritarian government led by former communist revolutionary Daniel Ortega and his hand-picked vice president and wife, Rosario Murillo.
If this bill passes, a religious ministry could not hold a paid conference on maintaining sexual purity if the conference encourages attendees to avoid homosexual behavior.
The Broward County school district finally admits that Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz was referred to an Obama-era program in which educators avoid sending students with behavior problems into the criminal justice system.
What we have in our nation is not material poverty but dependency and poverty of the spirit, with people making unwise choices and leading pathological lives, aided and abetted by the welfare state.
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