Aug. 16, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump faces pitfalls as he tries to tame the bureaucracy. Fred Lucas has words of caution from veterans of two previous Republican administrations. A White House-backed immigration bill promises big relief to taxpayers, Robert Rector and Jamie Bryan Hall argue. Is pulling down Confederacy-related statues the new mob favorite? Jarrett Stepman has zero tolerance. Plus: Melanie Israel on Iceland's chilling answer to Down syndrome, Ben Shapiro on the left's rationale for violence, and Walter Williams on men, women, and Google.
This is a perfect example of how tribal and identity politics are raging out of control in America, and how radicals will continue to ratchet up their tactics to match one another.
A legal immigrant without a high school degree typically receives $4 in government benefits for every $1 he pays in taxes.
In Iceland, more than four out of five women have a prenatal screening test and close to 100 percent of women who received a positive test for Down syndrome chose to abort their child.
Two Republicans, Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., and former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, will compete in a runoff election in September after failing to garner 50 percent of the vote in Alabama's special election to fill the seat of now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
There are lessons for President Trump from President Reagan, who had success in cutting 100,000 nondefense employees and moving to a more performance-based system.
"If a straight, white male, or anybody else who ranks lower on the victimhood scale, says something contrary to the viewpoint of the higher-ranking, intersectionality identity, that person has engaged in a microaggression," says Ben Shapiro.
Though women and men are equally represented in the population at large, women make up only 17 percent of engineering degrees conferred compared to 83 percent conferred to men.
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