By: Gov. Abbott’s Staff – gov.texas.gov – May 30, 2018 Governor Greg Abbott today joined state and local leaders to unveil his School and Firearm Safety Action Plan. The Governor’s plan contains 40 recommendations and includes proposals that call for increasing law enforcement presence at schools, strengthening existing campus security programs, enhancing firearm safety, providing mental health evaluations that identify...

By: Jerry Newcombe – townhall.com – May 24, 2018 About twenty years ago, I produced a story for D. James Kennedy Ministries on the subject of a school prayer case in Santa Fe, Texas. On the one hand, many parents and ministers were eager to promote godly influence in the school district. On the other hand, the judge ruled against...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – May 23, 2018 Unhappy people make fewer babies, and Americans are shockingly unhappy. I’ll never forget the moment my wife told me she was expecting. I had just returned home from work, and she asked me to come into the kitchen. She was radiating the kind of nervous excitement a person has when they’re...

By: Lathan Watts – dailycaller.com – May 15, 2018 In early May, Minnesota State Senator Dan Hall (R) introduced a bill that would allow privately funded posters displaying the national motto “In God We Trust” to be placed in all Minnesota public school classrooms. There may have been a day in the not-so-distant past when a subtle reminder to students...

By: Arianna Prothero – blogs.edweek.org – July 14, 2017 Private school choice supporters continue to hit a wall of opposition made up by not only by Democrats, but also members of their own party. In particular, Republicans from rural areas. Residents of the Lone Star State take serious pride in their sense of independence, so it may come as a...

By: Arianna Prothero – blogs.edweek.org – July 14, 2017 Private school choice supporters continue to hit a wall of opposition made up by not only by Democrats, but also members of their own party. In particular, Republicans from rural areas. Residents of the Lone Star State take serious pride in their sense of independence, so it may come as a...

By: Julie Chang – statesman.com – May 22, 2018 The Texas Senate approved 21-10 a bill early Monday morning that would inject about $530 million into the public education system while creating a so-called school choice system that would redirect state money to help students pay for private school tuition. House Bill 21, originally would have injected $1.6 billion extra...

By John Daniel Davidson – thefederalist.com – April 30, 2018 It wasn’t in the ‘best interests’ of Alfie Evans to die. It was in the best interests of the British welfare state to demonstrate its power. Alfie Evans is dead. The 23-month-old boy died Saturday morning at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, England, five days after his life support...

By John Daniel Davidson – thefederalist.com – April 30, 2018 It wasn’t in the ‘best interests’ of Alfie Evans to die. It was in the best interests of the British welfare state to demonstrate its power. Alfie Evans is dead. The 23-month-old boy died Saturday morning at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, England, five days after his life support...

By: Danica Kirka, Jill Lawless, & Nicole Winfield – abcnews.go.com – April 24, 2018  A British judge on Tuesday said the parents of a terminally ill toddler cannot take him to Italy for treatment, a course of action U.K. courts have said would be futile and wrong. Justice Anthony Hayden rejected what he said was a final legal appeal by...