1971—By a vote of 6 to 1, the California supreme court rules in Serrano v. Priest that California’s “public school financing system, with its substantial dependence on…
The progressive journalist Thomas Frank wrote a much-discussed book in 2004 titled, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” Right now some other like-minded journalist might...
Why Washington and President Biden injects delays and restrictions that make the job harder escapes any logical explanation. Ukraine is running out of time.
At the core of conservative ideology lies a fundamental belief: Government should refrain from picking winners and losers in the market. Yet recent headlines ignited concern as presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reportedly pledged concessions to a room of oil executives in exchange for campaign contributions to the tune of $1 billion. Shortly after a campaign […]
Most veterans don’t talk much about their military service. You must experience it to understand truly. This Memorial Day will be followed by the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944. In that battle, after just 24 hours, over 4,400 soldiers died on the beaches of Normandy in the service of their country. […]
The Biden White House last week acknowledged America’s record-low-and-still-falling birthrate and then issued an entirely inapt analysis and unfitting prescription which happened to match the White House’s ideological leanings. President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers sees our baby bust and prescribes more day care, more federal subsidies for day care, and more mothers of […]
This Memorial Day, let’s learn something from the first famous person who died in combat for the United States. Then, consider the nonfamous ones who died the same day and ever since. Joseph Warren was a prominent Boston physician. He was the man who, in April 1775, enlisted Paul Revere for the midnight ride to warn that the […]
Donald Trump’s first election redrew the map of American politics — suddenly Pennsylvania and Michigan were in the Republican column for the first time...