Plus: EXCLUSIVE: 16 Attorneys General Back Florida Rule Blocking Medicaid Funds for 'Experimental' Transgender Interventions
May 4 2023
Greetings from Washington on this National Day of Prayer. Our Virginia Allen lines up some appropriate prayers from pastors and other faith leaders. Fred Lucas covers Republican lawmakers’ bombshell subpoena seeking FBI information on a bribery allegation against President Biden. Tyler O’Neil reports that top law enforcers in 16 other states support Florida’s ban on using Medicaid for transgender treatments. On the podcast, Heritage Foundation scholar Adam Kissel exposes the real reasons for students’ lack of proficiency in history and civics. Plus: a dubious New York Times series on Jewish day schools; Biden’s “kids in cages” don’t interest the media; details of that troubling leak of top-secret documents; and “Problematic Women” ponders the new unemployment numbers.
House Republicans subpoena the FBI for a document they say potentially implicates President Biden in a bribery scheme while he served as vice president.
The state attorneys general defend Florida's rule blocking Medicaid funds from transgender medical interventions on the grounds that they are experimental.
Hasidic leaders have complained that Times reporters, now under consideration for a Pulitzer Prize, presented a profoundly biased and inaccurate portrait of their schools.
Who makes the law in America? If you answered “Congress,” you’d be partly right. Who interprets the law in America? Again, if you answered “the courts,” you’d only be partly right.
Just 13% of eighth graders are proficient in U.S. history and only 22% in civics. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona blames “book bans,” but Heritage Foundation scholar Adam Kissel calls that wrong.
Heritage Foundation economist Peter St. Onge explains how “the magic of government statistics” has led to “fake job numbers” and a misleading narrative.
