Plus: DeSantis Deals Blow to Woke Takeover of Education
January 26 2023
Good morning from Washington, where liberal educrats want to make everything in schools about race and “gender.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just blocked such nonsense, and our Jarrett Stepman cheers him on. In Georgia, a rookie police officer turns in his badge rather than be cowed into suppressing his beliefs. Virginia Allen has the story. On the podcast, a look at a documentary that Disney hopes you don’t see. Plus: Iowa promotes school choice, and a Texas senator wants to deny oil to China. On this date in 2005, President George W. Bush nominates Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state, which will make her the highest-ranking African American woman ever to serve in a presidential Cabinet.
The College Board has backed down to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and now will revise its national Advanced Placement course in African American studies.
The White House has said that President Biden wouldn’t negotiate over conditions for raising the national debt ceiling, but “I have news for him,” Sen. Rand Paul said, “He absolutely will negotiate.”
Iowa families will have about $7,600 per child to use for private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, curricular materials, special-needs therapy, and more.
"Biden sold oil to the Chinese Communist Party when the CCP was stockpiling oil for its own strategic use, and while Americans are paying higher and higher prices for fuel," says the Texas senator.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, quoted lyrics from Taylor Swift's song "Blank Space" during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Ticketmaster. We discuss this and more on the "Problematic Women" podcast.
