March 12, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where Congress has an opportunity to fix welfare programs after decades of government failure that left millions of Americans trapped in poverty. Kay Coles James, president of The Heritage Foundation, speaks from experience in pointing the way forward. At a crucial hour, North Korea expert Bruce Klingner offers strategy tips for the Trump administration. Fred Lucas reports on warnings that tariffs on steel and aluminum will hurt jobs and small business. Plus: Bill Walton on what free trade really is, Kyle Perisic on a teen who seeks consensus on safer schools, and Jarrett Stepman on the liberal fallacy about gun control and the Wild West.
Being black and the daughter of a former welfare recipient, I know firsthand the unintended harm welfare has caused.
A recent article in Smithsonian magazine, "Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West," lays out the case that some famous western towns, such as Tombstone and Dodge City, actually had gun control laws.
To take a page from North Korea’s playbook, Washington should call upon Pyongyang to demonstrate its commitment to progress by releasing the three U.S. captives currently in the communist regime’s possession.
The job losses will be direct and indirect, as price hikes will hit American companies that buy international steel to make screws, wires, and machines, one expert says.
"There is an element of coercion in Chinese economic activity, and I think you can't let them get away with things like the theft of intellectual property," says The Heritage Foundation’s Terry Miller. "That's just wrong."
Employing veterans to guard schools and making mental health counseling available to students could help prevent mass shootings, says a survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
"I find it concerning and disgusting that too many people in our country have refused to support Trump as our president," writes Carolyn Cody Stewart. "He is doing a tremendous job, and in spite of more opposition that any president in my time has had to handle."
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