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Blue state suicide

It’s not just California and New York. All across the nation, blue states are committing political and economic suicide by targeting millionaires with high taxes. Who will suffer most from this misguided, ideologically driven push to punish the wealthy? Wage workers and the poor. Leftist Democratic pols calling for states to tax the rich are ignoring the fact that the rich can exit their state, taking jobs, tax revenue and the right to congressional representation with them. The states that fall for the tax-the-rich mania will be left in the dust, with failing economies and shrinking ...

Battle over child literacy

“My child can’t read!” That’s become a common complaint from parents. Why? It might be because kids are distracted by social media and video games. But I think it’s also because reading instruction became lazy and political. “Progressives” at teachers’ colleges pushed a reading technique called “Balanced Literacy.” Instead of memorizing sounds and letters, teachers push what they call “cueing,” guessing words based on their context, or pictures. Balanced Literacy downplays “structured phonics,” the older technique where kids memorize letters’ ...

Husted testifies in ex-FirstEnergy executives’ corruption trial

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted testified Wednesday that he was present at a 2018 dinner with Ohio's then-Gov.-elect Mike DeWine and two former FirstEnergy Corp. executives who are accused of bribing a top utility regulator, whom DeWine appointed shortly thereafter. But Husted, who testified remotely, said he recalled little of what was discussed that night and that he was not aware that former CEO Chuck Jones and former lobbyist Michael Dowling planned to meet with DeWine's ultimate choice to lead the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Sam Randazzo, right ...

Terror in Zohran Mamdani’s New York

It’s hard to get a more perfect metaphor for our times than a leftist braying on his bullhorn at a protest about how welcoming New York City is, then having a jihadist throw a bomb directly over his back. That’s what happened to progressive influencer Walter Masterson last weekend when he was telling far-right provocateur Jake Lang a thing or two about New York values — before getting interrupted by an act of Islamic terrorism. Irving Kristol famously said that “a neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” What’s a preachy left-winger who has ...

California foster care system buckling under the weight of unexpected cost

(AP) — An insurance crisis continues to rattle California’s foster care system, threatening to displace thousands of vulnerable children. Since 2024, more than two dozen nonprofits that recruit, train and support foster parents have shuttered across 13 counties, according to the California Department of Social Services. Counties have historically relied on the licensed nonprofits, known as foster family agencies, to place children — especially those in need of intensive support — in certified homes until they are adopted or reunified with their birth families. Their ...

Trump talks drug prices in Ohio, midterm races in Kentucky as Iran looms large

HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — President Donald Trump toured an Ohio pharmaceutical company on Wednesday and campaigned in the nearby Kentucky district of a Republican in Congress he’d like to see defeated — attempting to project political and economic strength as war in Iran has scrambled financial markets and hurt his poll numbers. Trump toured Thermo Fisher Scientific in suburban Cincinnati, talking up his administration’s efforts to persuade major manufacturers to lower prescription medication prices so that they are closer to what is charged abroad. The trip is a test of Trump’s ...