August 11 2023
 
 
 
 
NEWS
Parents Could Face Jail Time for Sending 2 Emails School Staff Don't Like: Critics Sound Alarm on California Bill
By Tyler O'Neil

"It’s clear they’re trying to chill parents from speaking out," Sarah Parshall Perry, a Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow, tells The Daily Signal.
NEWS
School System Shuts Down as Students Stranded on Buses After First Day Back
By Tony Kinnett

Hundreds of students in Louisville, Kentucky, wait on school buses until 10 p.m. after the first day of school while the district’s superintendent gets a huge raise.
NEWS
‘ESPECIALLY CRUEL’: Mother of Down Syndrome Daughter Calls Montgomery County’s Denial to Opt Out ‘an Attack on Children’
By Gigi De La Torre

Grace Morrison, a Catholic mother who has a daughter with Down syndrome, says her school board’s decision to deny parents the right to opt their kids out of Pride Storybooks is “an attack on children.”
COMMENTARY
Obesity Epidemic Threatens Not Just Public Health, but Also National Security
By Thomas Spoehr, Isaac Tang

Obesity is one of the main contributors to the military recruiting crisis. Among Americans ages 17 to 24, it is the single-largest disqualifier for military service.
ANALYSIS
‘It's a Little Late,’ Lawmaker Says of Biden's Executive Order on US Investments in Chinese Technology
By Samantha Aschieris

"China has been stealing our technology for decades," House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green warns. "The problem is the high-tech stuff is now fueling their military expansion."
COMMENTARY
How That ‘Scientific Consensus’ on Climate Change Was ‘Manufactured’
By John Stossel

A former climate alarmist comes clean about the “manufactured consensus.”
COMMENTARY
The Left’s Relentless, Unjustified Assaults on the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy
By John G. Malcolm

These one-sided attacks on Republican appointees to the Supreme Court, and the unending assaults on the legitimacy of the court itself, have to stop.
NEWS
ICYMI: EXCLUSIVE: New Mexico Pays Hefty Fee for Trying to Hide Voter Information
By Fred Lucas

“This is a message to all governing bodies. You are being watched and we do not take ignoring public records requests lightly,” Southwest Public Policy Institute President Patrick M. Brenner says.
 
     
 
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