April 2 2022
 
Good morning from Washington, where yet another federal agency is exploring the development of a database of employees seeking religious accommodations. Fred Lucas reports. Has COVID-19 changed how education will look in the years ahead? Richard Reinsch explores on the podcast. Plus: Mike Pence outlines a new agenda for conservatives; Terry Jeffrey looks at President Biden’s budget numbers; and Pete Parisi has a bunch of questions for Judge Jackson. 
 
 
 
NEWS
Homeland Security 20th Agency to Track Religious Vaccine Objectors
By Fred Lucas

“The Biden administration is creating a blacklist of federal employees,” says Sarah Parshall Perry, a legal analyst at The Heritage Foundation.
COMMENTARY
History Should Be Our Guide in Ukraine
By Victor Davis Hanson

That Ukraine is morally in the right and certainly deserves Western help does not mean that an often-corrupt Ukrainian government that just suspended its opposition parties should be deified.
NEWS
Pence’s New ‘Freedom Agenda’ Promotes Patriotic Education, Challenges Big Tech
By Fred Lucas

“We looked at what have been the ideas of the conservative movement from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, and we put them all in one place,” says Pence.
COMMENTARY
Biden's Budget Lies
By Terence Jeffrey

President Biden elaborated on a lie, saying, “The previous administration, as you all know, ran up record budget deficits,” but “my administration is turning that around.”
ANALYSIS
What Educating Our Kids Looks Like After COVID-19
By Richard M. Reinsch II

During the pandemic, “we saw the rise of pods, hubs, and hybrid homeschooling and also microschooling,” says Manhattan Institute’s Andy Smarick.
COMMENTARY
20 More Questions Ketanji ‘I’m Not a Biologist’ Brown Jackson Probably Can’t Answer
By Peter Parisi

Because Jackson, a leftist activist judge, is the nominee of a liberal Democratic president, and her answer was indefensible, the late-night hosts conspicuously haven’t ridiculed it as they should have.
 
     
 
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