When he was a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to protect the First Amendment and end the Obama Administration's war against religious liberty. He specifically assured Catholics in a letter in October of last year that he would stop the federal government from suing the Little Sisters of the Poor over the Obamacare HHS mandate, promising that lawsuits like that were "a hostility to religious liberty you will never see in a Trump Administration."[...]

Monday, in an appearance on Fox News, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos once again asserted that “[t]here isn’t really any Common Core anymore” and that the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed last year by Congress and signed by an enthusiastic President Obama, “essentially does away with the whole argument about Common Core.” You can watch DeVos’ full interview below:[...]

The Center for Medical Progress has released another new video showing the head of the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Pasadena, Calif., haggling over the price of baby body parts:[...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a report called Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy. The report is free of incomprehensible technical jargon, making it easy to read and understand. The EFF conducted a survey on student privacy concerns, though the report goes beyond presenting survey results. A legal analysis of industry self-regulation includes information about loopholes and shortcomings, and a brief analysis of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is also included. This is followed with information about student privacy legislation in California, Colorado, and Connecticut. Finally, the last section of the report provides recommendations for school procedures, school administrators, teachers, librarians, system administrators, parents, and students.[...]

A recent survey of likely voters conducted in Pennsylvania shows that large swaths of voters oppose SOGI laws and their intended effects. The findings illustrate that while the large majority of Republicans in the state (over 80 percent) are opposed to the radical SOGI agenda of the Left, even a majority of Democrats are opposed as well.[...]

Recently, Politico reported that former Treasury undersecretary Randy Quarles will likely be nominated as the Federal Reserve’s top bank regulator. Since a potential Quarles appointment is viewed by some as a continuation of “business as usual” at the Fed, it’s prudent to revisit the Fed’s recent ineptitude that has shrunk its credibility.[...]

Left-wing snowflakes are at it again -- this time shutting down a speaking gig by Ann Coulter at the University of California, Berkeley. Violent protesters rioted there earlier this year when alt-right pot-stirrer Milo Yiannopolous came to campus, and his event eventually had to be cancelled after the protesters destroyed school property, threw Molotov cocktails, and assaulted students.[...]

The Democrats, like moths to the flame, can't help turning Hillary Clinton into a martyr-hero. In Manhattan, she gets rapturous applause every time she goes to the theater, which she has taken to doing surprisingly often.[...]

In the months following her 2016 election loss, former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had stayed relatively quiet on the issues facing the candidate who defeated her, Donald Trump. However, in the past month, Clinton has finally broken her silence and recommenced her attacks on the President.[...]

The evidence showing the decided lack of effectiveness of government preschool continues to mount.[...]