Why not investigate COVID’s origins?

July 8, 2021

Editor’s note: The op-ed by Rep. Fred Keller was originally published Wednesday in the Washington Examiner. ¯¯¯ One year, five months, and 16 days. That’s how long it’s been since COVID-19 was discovered in the United States. Since then, more than 100,000 small businesses have been destroyed, an entire generation of students have fallen behind, and, tragically, more than 600,000 Americans have died. The coronavirus pandemic devastated our economy, isolated us from one another, and affected every aspect of Americans’ lives. And yet, after all this time, we still don’t ...

EU to Orban: Back gay rights or get out!

July 6, 2021

Respect LBGT rights or get out of the EU, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte instructed Hungary’s Viktor Orban at last week’s gathering of the European Union in Brussels. According to Reuters, attendees described it as the “most intense personal clash among the bloc’s leaders in years.” What caused the clash? Hungary just passed a law that bans schools from using materials seen as pro-homosexuality. According to the AP, the new law “prohibits sharing content on homosexuality or sex reassignment to people under 18 in school sex education programs, films or ...

Can the American president kill?

July 5, 2021

Last weekend, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. ordered the U.S. military to bomb targets in Syria and Iraq in an effort “to send a clear and unambiguous deterrent message” to Iran. It is apparently the belief of the Biden administration — as it has been with Biden’s three immediate presidential predecessors — that the U.S. has the moral and legal authority to destroy any target outside the U.S. with financial or political or military ties to Iran. Morally, the U.S. can only use force defensively or to repel an imminent attack. When asked for the legal authority for an offensive ...

Joe Biden’s unconstitutional workplace indoctrination scheme

July 3, 2021

If you’re white and work for the federal government, get ready to be labelled a racist, regardless of how fair and open-minded you are. On Friday, President Joe Biden ordered all federal agencies to ramp up workplace training on “systemic and institutional racism” and “implicit and unconscious bias.” Those are buzzwords for critical race theory, which holds that all whites are biased against people of color, even if unconsciously. Under this theory, throughout American history and continuing now, whites oppress Blacks and need to acknowledge their guilt. Assume you work in ...

Pa. budget secures state’s fiscal future

July 2, 2021

Pennsylvania just wrapped up completing the state budget for the coming fiscal year and I am proud to that the budget kept spending growth down in the current year and did not include any new taxes. Doing the right and responsible thing, state government finally budgeted like Pennsylvania families: Using limited resources wisely to meet today’s needs, while planning for future uncertainty. For years elected officials have talked at length about the need to boost Pennsylvania’s Rainy Day Fund—money specially set aside to ensure balanced state budgets in the case of an economic ...

School choice is only option in divided nation

July 1, 2021

The issue of critical race theory is raising a more fundamental question about our nation: education. Education is about more than teaching children to read and write. It is about transmitting values, transmitting a worldview, that will define how our youth think and how they will live. Per the Department of Education, in 2020, 56.4 million children were enrolled in K-12 education. Of these, 50.7 million were in public schools, and 5.7 million were in private schools. So, government plays a substantial role in the education of our children. Per the Department of Education, ...