March 14, 2018
Good morning from Washington, whose pressure on schools to adopt uniform discipline standards four years ago is getting the wrong results, according to analysts. Jarrett Stepman reports. "60 Minutes" misrepresents facts in a profile of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Jonathan Butcher writes. A House committee concludes the Trump campaign didn't conspire with Russia, Kevin Mooney reports. Plus: Walter Williams on the trouble with tariffs, Dennis Prager on the promise of America, and Katrina Trinko on Hillary Clinton's problem with women who didn't vote for her.
My father, an Orthodox Jew, wrote his senior class thesis on anti-Semitism in America. Yet he taught his two sons—my older brother and me—to believe that we, as Americans, were the luckiest Jews in Jewish history.
"[Democrats] don't do well with married, white women," says Hillary Clinton, adding that part of the reason is "ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should."
The guidance to schools from the Obama administration took discipline decisions out of teachers' hands and put them in the hands of bureaucrats.
CBS' "60 Minutes" grills Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on why she supports the idea that families should be able to choose where and how their children learn.
There is "no evidence of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians," the House intelligence committee concludes.
When the government creates a benefit for one American, it is a virtual guarantee that it will come at the expense of another American.
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