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China and the Wuhan virus have been in the forefront of news in recent months in an increasingly revealing way.
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Sunday morning there was some boring football highlight TV show on when I got up and poured myself a Dr Pepper. Before I could find the remote I heard familiar names: Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw and Troy Aikman.
Read moreAs I repeated my sporadic ritual sacrifice of innocent bedding plants to the god of no gardening skills this weekend, Nancy Schwartz came to mind.
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Black politicians, civil rights leaders and their white liberal advocates have little or no interest in doing anything effective to deal with what’s no less than an education crisis among black students. In city after city with large black populations, such as Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., less than 10% of students test proficient in reading and math. For example, in 2016, in 13 Baltimore high schools, not a single student tested proficient in math. In six other high schools, only 1% tested proficient in math. Citywide, only 15% of Baltimore students passed the state’s English test. Despite these academic deficiencies, about 70% of the students graduate and are conferred a high school diploma.
Read moreThe Pulitzer Prize Board recently awarded its commentary award to The New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay launching the “1619 Project.” This will accelerate a trend already under way: subjecting schoolchildren to a curriculum that blames slavery on capitalism and whose creator believes socialism offers the best path to racial equity.
Read more[Ed. Note: Romina Boccia focuses on federal spending and the national debt as director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation.
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The House in early May passed a $7.7 billion general appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2021. The governor first vetoed three of the appropriations bills that supported the budget. When those bills got overridden with votes in the House of 97-3, 95-5 and 94-4, he vetoed the entire budget. In what was perhaps the fastest veto override in state history, the House overrode his veto within hours of it being filed. The budget is now law.
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Kingfisher businessman Brian Walter’s efforts to fulfill former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn’s dream of a reformed national Congress are most commendable.
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