On Friday, a federal judge struck down a Kentucky law that would have caused the last abortion clinic in the state to shut its doors.[...]
It was a day that will be remembered for decades on Thursday in Washington, D.C., as the hotly anticipated Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford featured compelling and powerful testimony on the sexual assault allegations roiling the capital. Nearly two weeks after reports emerged that Kavanaugh was being accused of a sexual assault while he was in high school 36 years ago, the accuser finally made her case in public, and Kavanaugh got a chance to respond on the national stage.[...]
The education swamp-expanding budget process discussed a few weeks ago is now near completion. The table below shows the final levels of difference between this fiscal year and last in the column in bold. Sadly, none of the unconstitutional, wasteful, ineffective programs were cut. The "best" outcome in some cases was that a couple of them were not increased. It is a sad state of affairs, but totally not surprising in an election year.[...]
A recent column in Investor's Business Daily gives an important perspective on why the stakes for confirming Brett Kavanaugh are so high: If conservatives obtain a majority on the Supreme Court, it could spell doom for Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Warren's CFPB is, as author James Bowers notes, "the federal government's youngest and most aggressive federal agency." This predatory bureaucracy has come under fire since its inception for inflicting far more harm on the same consumers it purports to protect.[...]
The pro-life movement had a major victory last week in an unexpected state: Hawaii.[...]
Finally! Although the horse may be long out of the barn, the FBI should nevertheless be commended for issuing this warning about the dangers of education technology and cyber security threats for students and their families:[...]
When news first broke that Professor Christine Blasey Ford had accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of committing attempted sexual assault against her when they were both teenagers -- just days before his Senate confirmation vote to become the Supreme Court's newest justice -- many on the Left immediately called for Kavanaugh's head.[...]
1.) Reagan economist Arthur Laffer corrects the record on who deserves credit for our economic boom.
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About a year ago, I wrote about the stunningly precipitous (but deserved) 13-percentage point drop in support for charter schools nationwide. Although these alternative public schools have gained back a modest 5 percentage points this year, other concerning data is coming out showing that charter schools, especially the corporate chain model, are not particularly effective in helping struggling students or turning around poorly performing public schools in neighborhoods where many other factors are in play.[...]
Planned Parenthood Federation of America is under new leadership. The abortion giant announced late last week that outgoing president Cecile Richards is being replaced by former Baltimore Health Commissioner Leana Wen.[...]