Sean Trende | May 25, 2026 (RealClearPolitics) — Today is a day I’ve dreaded for over a decade. At around 6:20 a.m., we’ll get my oldest son Judson up, give him a bath, put his safety harness on (don’t worry, we’ll dress him first), and then watch him amble down our driveway to the school […]
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Philip Wegmann | March 22, 2025 (RealClearPolitics) — Forty-five years ago Ronald Reagan promised to abolish the Department of Education. Now, more than a generation later, Donald Trump has finally started to deliver with an executive order that serves as the most dramatic mile-marker in his long march through the federal bureaucracy. “It sounds strange,
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John R. Lott, Jr. | June 20, 2024 (RealClearPolitics) — The 2023 Nashville Covenant School murders understandably received massive news coverage when they occurred. The fight over obtaining the murderer’s diary also received news attention. But when “nearly four dozen pages” of the murderer’s diary were finally released last week, the mainstream media completely ignored
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Richard Porter | February 2, 2024 (RealClearWire) — Diversity and inclusion are not what’s wrong with DEI. “Diversity” and “Inclusion” are apple-pie American concepts that echo our national motto: out of many, one; from diversity, inclusion, and unity. What DEI proponents have cleverly done, though, is sandwich between two “good” words a third word with
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John Maxwell Hamilton | January 29, 2024 (RealClearPolitics) — Not long ago, over a dinner with college students, I asked if they longed for a normally functioning government. Their collective answer was, “We don’t know what normal government looks like. The government we have today is the government we have had our entire lives.” As
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Eric Felten | March 7, 2023 (RealClearPolitics) — In January 2022, on his first day in office, Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, showed race antagonists the schoolhouse door. During the campaign, Youngkin had promised voters he would end what he called the “Inherently Divisive Policies, Programs, Training, and Curricula” centered on race. Conservative parents had
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Asra Nomani | February 18, 2023 (RealClearPolitics) — Right after 11 a.m., Monday, Feb. 7, Democratic Virginia state Sen. Chap Petersen was walking up a hill to a session of the state legislature in Richmond when his phone rang. The caller was Rafi Ahmed, the Pakistan American cofounder of the Dar Al-Noor mosque in Manassas,
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