June 4, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where a permissive school discipline policy imposed by the Obama administration is under scrutiny for emboldening young thugs. Kelsey Harkness’ video report on one Maryland family’s experience will shock you. HUD Director Ben Carson’s reassessment of a regulatory tool prompts legal action from a housing group that raked in $16 million in taxpayer money during the Obama years. Fred Lucas reports. Plus: Rachel del Guidice on Planned Parenthood’s stance on sexual abuse, Patrick Tyrrell and Julia Howe on the crumbling of Venezuela, and Bill Walton on the woeful state of air traffic control. How about them Caps?
Nicole Landers found a note written by her 9-year-old son, Jared. “Kill me. I mean nothing. I have issues,” it read.
People are starving and dying of treatable diseases. This dire situation has created a refugee crisis, with thousands of Venezuelans spilling into neighboring countries.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has given the liberal National Fair Housing Alliance $16.1 million in grants since 2009. Under the Trump administration, the organization has received just one grant—$300,000.
“Time and again, rather than reporting abuse to authorities, Planned Parenthood has repeatedly looked the other way and performed abortions on victims as young as 12 years old,” says Lila Rose, president of Live Action.
Over 60 countries—including all the developed nations—have modernized their systems, but ours is stuck in the past thanks to politics and special-interest turf wars.
In some states, like North Carolina, the number of kids in home schools is actually growing faster than private school enrollment.
“Over the past several decades, regulatory powers have been given to overzealous bureaucrats with unlimited controls on taxpayers’ lives that impacted their wallets and personal lives,” writes Brannen Edwards of Savannah, Georgia.
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