Head Start 2.0

Penna Dexter The massive social spending bill the Left is attempting to foist on America provides for free universal Pre-K for 3 and 4-year-old children. The proposal is modeled after the decades-old Head Start Program. Head Start was launched in 1965 to get kids from low-income families prepped for kindergarten. In 2012, after extensive research into results, the U.S. Department…

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Climate Central Planning

Penna Dexter When global warming began losing credibility as an environmental catastrophe, the Left substituted the term climate change because there is no doubt that the climate is changing. It always has been. Progressives act very panicky and claim that if they get enough money and power, they can somehow lessen the bad effects of climate change. Their real goal,…

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Parliamentarian Pressure

Penna Dexter Right now, Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate parliamentarian, may be the most powerful public official you’ve never heard of. The debate in Congress on a proposed $3.5 billion spending bill depends in great part on the advice she provides. The massive spending bill is jam-packed with progressive priorities, many of which involve big policy changes. Senate Democrats are attempting…

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Not Going Back

Penna Dexter It was a shocking overreach when the president instructed the Labor Department to mandate that businesses with over 100 employees require that those employees receive Covid-19 vaccines or be subject to regular Covid testing. Penalties could hit $14,000 per violation. Medical providers that accept Medicare or Medicaid, and federal workers are also required to be vaccinated with no…

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Texas Heartbeat Law

Penna Dexter Once in a while, a law is enacted that shocks us in the way it illuminates the difference between good and evil. This happened on September 1st when Texas’s new “Heartbeat Law” went into effect. Here’s what conservative writer and podcaster Matt Walsh said about it. “If you have ever had any doubts about which is the bad…

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Troubled Trans Teens

Penna Dexter Who could miss the disturbing shift in how our society deals with gender confusion in young people? The consensus once was that it’s best to give children time for gender dysphoria to pass and — if it persists — to help them with their pain. Now medical professionals routinely agree with and affirm trans-identifying adolescents, allowing them to…

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Breakthrough Data

Penna Dexter The vaccine brought temporary relief from Covid anxiety. Now, as Covid’s Delta variant spreads, Americans — vaccinated and unvaccinated — have been shaken out of any comfort zone we thought we had attained. Breakthrough cases were supposed to be rare. So, it was jarring when it dawned on us that they’re not. Breakthrough cases were also said to…

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Abusing James

Penna Dexter For three years, I have been following the story of James Younger. James is nine years old. He has a twin brother, Jude. The boys’ father, Jeff, has been fighting for custody of them because their mother, a pediatrician, is socially transitioning James to live as a girl. She treats James as a girl, dresses him as a girl,…

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Eviction Ban

Penna Dexter When Congress passed a moratorium on evictions back in March 2020, it all seemed a little backwards and unfair to landlords. Lawmakers’ provision for renters’ lockdown job losses seemed compassionate but has proved to be misguided. The eviction moratorium provided protection for renters of government-subsidized housing who got behind on their rent. Their landlords would have to wait…

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Woke Math Pushback

Penna Dexter Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn writes: “If the land of woke has a capital, it’s San Francisco.” But he writes, the city has now become “ground zero for a revolt by unwoke moms and dads.” An effort to recall three San Francisco school board members is well on its way to getting enough signatures to force the…

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Making You Pay

Penna Dexter For the first time in more than 40 years, the President’s proposed federal budget calls for taxpayers to directly fund abortion. This is being done chiefly by eliminating the Hyde Amendment from spending proposals. The Hyde Amendment stipulates that Medicaid cannot pay for abortions and has been attached to federal spending legislation since 1976. This protection has been bipartisan. There have…

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