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Election Integrity

What Do Long Voting Lines Actually Mean?

Only a few days remain until the Nov. 3 election, and—as in many years prior—the old chestnut of “long lines” at the polling places has appeared again right on schedule. The difference this time is that many are calling any line a sign of organized “voter suppression” or the new buzzword, “systemic racism”. Viewed objectively,...

November 2, 2020
Energy & Environment

Our Next President’s Energy Policies Will Shape America’s Future

When it comes to energy policy, there was a clear loser at the last presidential debate: Joe Biden. Our next president’s energy policies will shape America’s future. Biden’s vision of expensive, scarce, and government-controlled energy – energy dependent on the whims of weather, and about as reliable as Obamacare is affordable – would spell disaster...

November 2, 2020
K-12 Education

I Promise: Reimagining Student Support for Student Success

The LeBron James Family Foundation (LJFF) in partnership with Stand Together held a conference in Akron, Ohio, which was an eye opening experience on educational innovation. The organizations operate within the framework of the Akron public school system to provide a first of its kind, complete wrap-around of support services to the students, siblings, and...

October 31, 2020
Criminal Justice

Feel-good police reforms are actually dangerous

Even if we believed that “feel-good” police reform measures from the Left had the best of intentions (I do not), the fact would remain that most of its proposals are wrongheaded and dangerous. The Washington, D.C., City Council adopted measures apparently aimed at making its leftist base feel good; now, let’s see how it reacts when the...

October 31, 2020
Economy

It’s time for a universal charitable deduction

The sharp economic halt brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has left millions of Americans unemployed and looking for help to make ends meet. Businesses and individuals are responding by donating school supplies, masks, and meals. These responses of compassion aren’t just from the wealthiest among us but from average Americans who care about their neighbors. Though giving to charitable...

October 31, 2020
Election Integrity

Trump By A Landslide In Texas? Early Voting Numbers Are Diverging Strongly From The Polls

NBC News has created a useful early voting resource that tracks in-person and by-mail balloting at the state level nationwide. What it tells us doesn’t match what we’re hearing from the pollsters—who continue to insist that Texas is turning blue, or at least a little purplish. As of Oct. 29, NBC News has analyzed Texas’ early and by...

October 29, 2020
Health Care

The Doctor-Patient Relationship Will Fix Health Care, Not Insurance

Who is at the other end of the stethoscope? Sure, it may be your doctor who is listening intently. But who is making the decisions about your care? Is it you and your doctor, or do insurance functionaries have the real say? Anything that comes between the doctor and the patient is bad for health...

October 29, 2020
Election Integrity

Media Coverage of Early Voting is Uninformed

On Oct. 13, Texas polls opened for the first day of early voting and predictably, there were enthusiastic reports of record early totals. Information is good, but information without context might yield some incorrect assumptions. Only a few counties throughout the state have fully reported this year’s election in-person and mail-in voting totals, and comparisons...

October 27, 2020
Election Integrity

Foreign Election Influences, Then And Now

In the aftermath of a major conflict, an ambassador representing a world power bribes U.S. senators to reject the peace treaty formally ending the war. After the treaty is narrowly approved anyway, the ambassador mobilizes the press to sway the election for president in favor of a candidate more to his nation’s liking. The foreign...

October 27, 2020
Border Security

Biden wants to dismantle immigration law

Joe Biden has promised that if he’s elected president, he will set in motion on Day One the largest dismantling of U.S. immigration law enforcement in the history of the republic. On the very day he’s sworn in as president, the oath for which includes a constitutional obligation to “take care that the Laws be faithfully executed,”...

October 27, 2020
Election Integrity

The Plans For Post-Election Violence To Seize Victory From The Ballot Box

We know that groups are planning for violence on election night and the days and weeks after. Their goal? To pressure, threaten, and force politicians, election officials, and judges into turning President Donald Trump out of office, regardless of the election results. Nov. 3 will be unlike any Election Day in living memory. Millions of...

October 26, 2020
Health Care

Obamacare has failed

The Democratic Party that is defending the Affordable Care Act before the U.S. Supreme Court next month is the very same Democratic Party that is proposing even bigger changes to our health care system. Though former Vice President Joe Biden prevailed in his party’s presidential primary, he was the last remaining proponent of former President Barack Obama’s...

October 26, 2020
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