Gov. Gretchen Whitmer makes remarks on day 4 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday, August 22, 2024. Ron Sachs - CNP for NY Post See more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on Google Schools beat: A Key Test for Blue-State Govs With kids now back to “the daily school grind,” USA Today’s Ingrid Jacques is blasting blue-state governors for not opting in to the new federal school-choice tax-credit program. The govs’ opposition “has nothing to do with what’s best for kids”; they’re just “afraid to tick off the teachers unions that bankroll their campaigns.” So far, 31 states have opted in and three governors declined, leaving the rest of the states with Democratic governors “stuck between angering unions and angering parents.” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is under “heavy pressure from teachers’ unions” to “stay out.” By contrast, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis admits “he’d be ‘crazy not to’ opt in.” It’s time Dems like Whitmer prove they “truly care about kids more than special interests.”
“If Democrats are going to earn the confidence of Americans this November and beyond, the answer will not be found in the Democratic Socialists of America’s platform,” warns Rep. Tom Suozzi at the Free Press. “It calls for abolishing immigration enforcement, police, and prisons”; replacing the Senate and independent executive and judicial branches with a single “unicameral legislature”; and state ownership of all “food, education, energy, medical, and transportation sectors.” The nation envisioned by the DSA is not one “most Americans would want to live in.” Democrats “will lose huge numbers of votes if they believe our party accepts or embraces the DSA worldview.” Unless Democrats “speak out against the DSA and its platform,” voters may decide “the party is too radical to be trusted.”
Many prominent tech investors “want the immigration debate to be strictly polar because it is the only way their traitorous ideas might seem reasonable,” thunders Anduril’s Palmer Luckey on X. Employment laws should and do “advantage American citizens,” who “should not have to compete on an even playing field with billions of people” from around the world, even if “they are ‘the most qualified’ or willing to work double the hours for less wages.” After all, many immigrants wind up returning “home after less than 5 years,” taking “their savings and vested shares with them.” “I . . . have strongly supported immigration to America for many years with countless public examples. That doesn’t put me on the same side as the men who want to sell out America.”
“Democrats have always argued that if they could just tax the rich hard enough, they could erase all of society’s ills while eliminating deficits and debt,” grumble Issues & Insights editors. Yet as the Cato Institute recently noted, even if the federal government confiscated every dollar earned over half a million dollars in 2023, it still would have run a budget deficit. Taxing corporations until they can’t be taxed any more wouldn’t work, either. But “facts won’t stop the Democrats and their socialist progeny taking over the party.” Their goal is to eliminate “boundaries to protect property rights” and silence any “dissent from an agenda that Karl Marx would approve of.” They require “other people’s money to further their revolution and will go to any means to take it.”
“Football is back,” cheers Ben Sasse at The Wall Street Journal, “and America’s boys need to play it.” In recent years, “war and work have faded” as formative masculine experiences, and “bureaucratized schooling and digital media” have “filled the void.” Yet “factory-model education keeps young men passive,” while “digital media has a profoundly negative effect on young men,” by distracting and addicting them. “Society needs strong men,” and “football is a character-forming institution that channels strength” and “teaches perseverance.” It “creates community” and “forms brotherhood,” “privileges action” and “prepares us for war,” simultaneously “celebrating and constraining violence.” It “forms such habits” as “delayed gratification and self-sacrifice.” And it “produces character,” which is why “we owe our boys football.”
