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New Inflation Numbers: ‘American Families Still Losing Ground’ - After casting blame in every direction for the inflationary storm they created, the Biden administration now wants to take credit for an inflation rate that remains nearly six times what it was when Biden took office. The reality is that American families are still losing ground because of his policies. People are demonstrably worse off today than when Biden became president. Real wages have fallen 5.5%, the annual equivalent of $3,000 for the average American. Meanwhile, home affordability has plummeted 35%, monthly savings have collapsed 75%, and credit card debt has risen 22%. Americans have been financially crushed by the Swamp’s monetary malpractice and fiscal irresponsibility of Washington. While the Federal Reserve is belatedly beginning to do its job by reducing money creation and allowing interest rates to rise, it is working at cross purposes with Congress and the president, who continue their profligate spending and borrowing. To avoid a worsening recession, our governmental and monetary leaders must stop the reckless spending, borrowing, and money-printing, while also embracing policies that will unleash American energy production. Heritage Experts: EJ Antoni and Joel Griffith
Biden Education Department Declines to Explain 160,000 ‘Missing’ Public Comments on Redefining ‘Sex’ in Title IX - The jaw-dropping disparity in the Federal Register’s number of total comments received on the proposed Title IX rule from one day to the next, without explanation or disclaimer, should raise alarm bells for American parents whose children at federally funded schools will receive the direct impact of any finalized rule. Whether the sudden loss of nearly 200,000 citizen comments stems from incompetence or obfuscation, the Department of Education has some explaining to do. Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry
‘Mudge’ Reveals No Other Choice: Congress Must Act - Twitter, and their California tech partners, see American people as users in the same way the cartel sees American teenagers as users. We are a people of whom Twitter can take advantage to manipulate for profit and ideology. As a result of Mudge’s whistleblower report, we can no longer claim to be surprised. Tech giants will act to subjugate an entire class of Americans unless compelled to do so by the greatest extent of the law. Congress should pursue all-encompassing tech legislation to include anti-trust measures, speech protections, data privacy, and child protection. We will get to the details of what this bill should include. Regardless, corporate office holders should be personally liable for breaking the laws representatives write. As Mudge outlined, corporate fines are meaningless. It is past time we hold decision makers in these Silicon Valley conglomerates personally accountable for the dereliction of their duty as leaders of common carriers so central to the American way of life. Heritage Experts: Will Thibeau and Jake Denton
By Eliminating Cash Bail, the Safe-T Act Poses a Massive Threat - Illinois’s misnamed Safe-T Act makes it more difficult for law enforcement officers to do their jobs and requires many criminal defendants to be released back onto Illinois’s streets. Most controversially, starting on Jan 1, 2023, it abolishes cash bail in Illinois while at the same time making it difficult—if not impossible—to hold those accused of even very serious crimes in jail pending their trials. Under the new law, entire categories of violent crimes including certain robberies, burglaries, and drug offenses would not be eligible for detention no matter the severity of the crime or the defendant’s risk to a specific person or the community,” unless prosecutors prove by a heightened legal standard that the person has a “high likelihood of willful flight to avoid prosecution.” Is it any wonder that crime in Illinois, especially Chicago, is out of control? If you think it’s bad now, wait until the Safe-T Act’s provision go into effect. Heritage Experts: Cully Stimson and Zack Smith
Russia, China and the Power of Nuclear Coercion – First, the administration must accept that appeasing dictators will only encourage them to continue their bullying. Indeed, after Biden delayed the first Minuteman III test, Putin doubled-down by testing his new Sarmat missile capable of delivering nuclear-armed, hypersonic weapons to the U.S. homeland. And after delaying another Minuteman III test amid tensions with China, Xi expanded Chinese military exercises near Taiwan. Moving forward, the U.S. needs to reject nuclear coercion by demonstrating the will to defend ourselves if necessary. Following through with routine missile tests to prove that U.S. nuclear missiles will work as intended is essential to this effort. Second, the U.S. needs to develop the capabilities that would backstop this strong stance against aggression. We must field regional or tactical nuclear weapons in a way that would fill the perceived deterrence gap between the U.S. and both Russia and China. Fortunately, the House of Representatives and both Senate defense committees have rejected the Biden administration’s decision to cancel the nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile, a weapon that would begin to fill these gaps. While Russia and China have not employed a nuclear weapon, they have certainly used their growing forces to their advantage. To avoid being subject to nuclear coercion efforts in the future, the U.S. must demonstrate strength of its own. Heritage Expert: Patty-Jane Geller
After teacher ‘union antics,’ it is even clearer parents need more school options - Nationwide, some 2 million children have left assigned schools over the last two years. They have either transferred to a private school, opted for homeschooling, or dropped out of school altogether. Ohio lawmakers should give parents and children more learning options, make coursework more transparent, and reduce the bureaucracy that dictates assigned schools. Otherwise, thousands of families will be looking at another school year with no options outside of a system that opens only on the say-so of union officials. Heritage Experts: Jonathan Butcher and Jason Bedrick