Justice: School officials who censored a student at Southern Illinois University for saying things her classmates disagreed with received First Amendment training from the student’s lawyers as part of a settlement agreement with the university.

• This sort of training should be the norm for censors, argue Senior Legal Fellow GianCarlo Canaparo and Senior Research Associate Seth Lucas.
• “It will remind them of the uncomfortable consequences of bad behavior. And it will make it easier to get punitive damage awards against them in future lawsuits,” write Canaparo and Lucas.

Read their proposal here.

‘Universally angry’: That’s the feeling on the ground in Maui about the federal response to the horrific fires, reports The Daily Signal’s Virginia Allen. Joe Biden’s narcissistic comparison of Maui’s desolation with a kitchen fire only poured salt on the wound.

• “There are no words in response to something like that,” one resident shared.

Watch what other Hawaiians had to say to Biden here.

Enough is enough: The Heritage Foundation released an advertisement during the official Republican presidential debate pre-show condemning President Biden’s request for more spending on the seemingly endless war in Ukraine.

• Heritage’s position made news and raised the ire of the neo-con crowd. Read the Washington Examiner report here.

Watch the ad here.

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As your children and grandchildren return to school, are they being subjected to radical curricula? 

• How Country Music Speaks for Everyday Americans—James Carafano
• Confessions of a Rich Man North of Richmond—Eric Teetsel
• Biden’s Hostage Deal Would Boost Iran’s Threats—James Phillips
• Interest Rates Are Soaring, Raising the Alarm for a Painful Reckoning for America—Preston Brashers
• From Land Acknowledgements to Zombie Lies, Biden’s State Department Pushes Divisive Diplomacy—Simon Hankinson
• Do Biden’s Latest Fuel Economy Standards Hurt National Security?—Alexander Gage
• Court Slaps Down FDA Again for Illegally Dropping Abortion Pill Rules—Thomas Jipping and Sarah Parshall Perry
• Air Force Colonel in Line for Promotion Preaches DEI Agenda, Endorses CRT Book—Rob Bluey
• Destruction of Rule of Law in Fani Willis’ Georgia Star Chamber—Hans von Spakovsky
• It’s Not Hard to Tell Good Guy From Bad Guy, as 12 More Defensive Gun Uses Show—Amy Swearer and Pierce Sandlin
• Ohio Ballot Initiative Is a Trojan Horse—and a ‘Right’ to Abortion Is Just the Beginning—Sarah Parshall Perry
• Davis-Bacon Act: End It, Don’t Amend It—Rachel Greszler
• EXCLUSIVE: Half of Imprisoned Men Who Identify as Trans Women Convicted of at Least One Sexual Assault—Mary Margaret Olohan

Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts appeared on Fox News to discuss Heritage’s position on continued funding for the Ukraine war. Watch the clip here.