Plus: DC Council ‘Beginning to Recognize Irrationality’ of Kicking Kids Out of School Over Vaccine Mandate, Ted Cruz Says
November 2 2022
Good morning from Washington, where powerful Democrats are worried about what could happen at the polls next Tuesday in some heavily Hispanic congressional districts. Virginia Allen looks at six such battlegrounds. The D.C. Council kicks a decision on a vaccine mandate for students into next year, Gillian Richards reports. On the podcast, the topic is Elon Musk’s commitment to free speech on Twitter. Plus: the dark money behind assaults on Pennsylvania’s charter schools; the First Amendment is at odds with same-sex marriage at the Supreme Court; and why Jewish leaders are slamming The New York Times. On this date in 1983, President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Cesar Ybarra, vice president of policy at FreedomWorks, says that “Democrats are losing ground with Hispanics because they are wrong on the issues, and conservatives have capitalized on this.”
“Just 16% of eighth graders in D.C. are proficient in math and just 23% … in reading,” says a Heritage Foundation scholar. “The last thing these children need is to be denied entry to school.”
It’s a “classic tactic” by union operatives to sway public opinion against charter schools, says Mike Watson, research director at Capital Research Center.
Heritage Foundation’s Jake Denton, who is currently locked out of his own Twitter account, explains why he is cautiously optimistic about Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
