As the race for the 2020 presidential election heats up, the debate over the merits of socialism is getting more and more attention. Some candidates are openly running on a socialist platform advocating for higher taxes and public ownership of utilities. 

These positions are receiving ample support from younger generations. According to a recent poll, 36% of millennials support communism and Marxism, and 22% support the abolition of all private property.
Due to this increasing fascination with the ideology, two college students who fled the failing socialist Venezuelan state are now travelling across the United States to speak on college campuses and warn students about the danger of socialism.

On February 24, the Senate will try once again to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. It is a commonsense piece of legislation that has struggled to find any sort of foothold in either house of Congress over the last year.

When this bill was first introduced last year in the Senate, it was in response to the comments made by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. In an ill-conceived radio interview after a radical pro-abortion bill failed in the Virginia legislature, the governor, himself a physician, blatantly discussed the practice of infanticide.

“If the mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen,” Governor Northam said. “The infant (with severe disabilities in this instance) would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if this is what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physician and the mother.”

If you watched the State of the Union Address you might remember President Trump introducing Janiyah Davis, a fourth-grader from Philadelphia and her mom, Stephanie, seated in the first lady’s box. Janiyah was not succeeding in the public school she attended, but the family lacked the funds to put her in a private school. To make matters worse, Pennsylvania’s governor had vetoed state legislation that would have provided donor-funded scholarships so that students like Janiyah could afford a better education than a public school could offer her. 

When President Trump announced a scholarship would be provided to her, she and her mom laughed and cried, and many watching (me included) couldn’t help tearing up a bit as we saw just how much it impacted them.