April 26, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where the Supreme Court ponders the constitutionality of President Trump's travel restrictions on terrorism-prone nations. Some of The Heritage Foundation's brightest legal minds analyze how arguments went. House conservatives offer a new plan to cut spending and fix government programs. Rachel del Guidice has the scoop. The Trump administration aims to lower prescription drug prices and protect your personal information, Fred Lucas reports. Plus: Monica Burke on the sad case of British toddler Alfie Evans, Cathy Ruse on sexualizing kids in school, and David Kreutzer on the "jobs for everyone" campaign of Bernie Sanders.
This shocking instance of government overreach into the realm of parental rights and the personal relationship between doctors and patients sets a troubling precedent for government control over who lives and who dies.
Our current problem is not a lack of jobs. It's a lack of workers who can show up and pass a drug test.
Justice Samuel Alito pressed on whether the president's proclamation was really a Muslim ban, noting that while there are roughly 50 majority-Muslim countries, only five are included in the proclamation.
The United States pays far more than other countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an intergovernmental group of 35 member countries.
"If we are ever going to talk about the expectation of the federal government to live within its means, here’s the framework, this is the blueprint," says Rep. Mark Walker, chairman of the Republican Study Committee.
The CFPB, the government agency created by the Dodd-Frank bill, scoops up information that includes Social Security numbers, loan data, credit scores, employment records, phone numbers, and addresses.
Sex ed curriculum advisers in Virginia recently announced that "biological sex is essentially meaningless," and the phrase is being scrubbed from all lessons and replaced by the phrase "sex assigned at birth."
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