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Steve Gardes

The root cause of education crisis

A recent op-ed by The Advocate newspaper questioned whether “School Choice” and the “political plea to let the state money follow the child” was just “Campaign Rhetoric” that fails to address the root problem of poverty—as Louisiana’s child poverty rate is the second highest in the nation—and that “economically disadvantaged students face much greater challenges and achieve lower educational outcomes.” They closed by “demanding specifics from candidates on what they propose to do on education—as poverty has profound impacts on children who don’t have the family support so vital to success i

Mice lobby against the better mousetrap

Standing up against a government which will crush the dreams of everyday Americans just to assert its power was the inspiration for my coming to Washington, D.C. many years ago.
The idea that an inventor could build a better mousetrap and the mice could hire a lobbying firm to get Congress or a regulator to ban it was abhorrent to this young man fresh on the heels of reading Atlas Shrugged. Yet, that has unfortunately become the norm in an America which is barely recognizable.

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Bill Wilson

Anti-War sentiment is rising on the Right, driven by young people and minorities

The public is growing weary of the globalist cabal continuing to ensnare us financially and otherwise in overseas conflicts that do not benefit Americans and instead create decades of costly chaos.
Our involvement in the Russia-Ukraine dispute has been largely without gain, and the public is turning on those who seek to keep us tethered there. Since the conflict began, Congress and the Biden Administration have directed $75 billion dollars in military and economic funds to Ukraine, and yet there are no signs of peace and many thousands of casualties on both sides.

Robert Romano

“It’s Actually Common to Indict Leaders of Democracies.”
That was the headline of a piece from Foreign Policy’s Ashley Ahn and Brawley Benson on July 18, outlining a sort of categorical imperative for democracies to prosecute their former leaders in a bid to preserve the rule of law, often times when the prosecuting force is from the opposing party.

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