Plus: Watchdog Seeks Answers on White House Role, Garland Conflict in Memo Targeting Parents as Terrorists
October 15 2021
Happy Friday from Washington, where The Heritage Foundation is welcoming its incoming president. On the podcast, our Virginia Allen asks Kevin Roberts about his goals for America’s leading conservative think tank. What’s behind Attorney General Merrick Garland’s threat to send the FBI after public school parents? Fred Lucas reports on the questions in play. Plus: Bob Woodson on what racial justice really is; YouTube gags comedian Steven Crowder; Democrats’ plan to bloat Medicaid; and Halloween scares woke Seattle. Thirty years ago today, after contentious confirmation hearings, the Senate votes 52 to 48 to confirm President George H.W. Bush’s nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
America’s education system is broken, says Roberts, citing “overwrought COVID shutdowns” and “the indoctrination of our kids, whether it be through critical race theory or teaching transgenderism.”
A watchdog group alleges the Justice Department’s controversial targeting of parents for speaking up on local school matters was a “White House priority.”
Racial justice advocates now insist on redefining the black American struggle as a quest to trust our lives to elites who promise to make sure we all get the same amount of stuff.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced over the summer that a record 80 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid, and federal spending on it has increased by an estimated 19%.
The banned how discussed reports that a female inmate in a California women’s prison became pregnant after biological males who said they identified as females were housed in the prison.
An educator and former college president, Roberts will lead The Heritage Foundation after five years as president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
