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The leftists writing your child’s social studies lessons

It’s hard to know what’s worse — brainwashing kids or lying about it. Parents worried their kids are being indoctrinated with critical race theory can’t get straight answers. Local school boards and principals lie to them, claiming children are merely being taught to be “critical thinkers.” Last Saturday, the truth came out. Teachers unions and activists held rallies in 22 cities to support critical race theory. What they said was eye-popping. They unabashedly declared that their goal is indoctrinating students in far-left causes. The Zinn Education Project, which ...

Election reform panel cuts through rhetoric, identifies meaningful solutions

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our republic. Unfortunately, numerous questions have been raised over the past year about our election system in Pennsylvania. This has created a crisis of confidence that threatens to plunge our Commonwealth into an even deeper political divide if we fail to take action to fix it. In my 22 years as a lawmaker, I have never seen an issue as divisive and politically charged as the handling of the 2020 general election. That is what makes the report this week from the Special Committee on Election Integrity and Reform so remarkable and ...

Will Republicans step up to challenge on Christian values?

For sure, Democrats rejoiced as they watched Republicans painfully twist in the wind at the beginning of LGBTQ Pride Month, trying to figure out how to position their party on this issue. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel got flak from the right and from the left, as she essentially waved a white flag, declaring Republican Party neutrality on a key issue of our cultural conflicts. “We will continue to grow our big tent by supporting measures that promote fairness and balance protections for LGBTQ Americans and those with deeply held religious beliefs,” she ...

Cybersecurity in the age of cyberwarfare

The Department of Homeland Security has declared the United States has 16 “critical infrastructure sectors.” Translated, that means these enterprises are crucial to a safe and orderly society. The sectors include: food and agriculture, water, medical and health care, energy, transportation, telecommunications, law enforcement and, of course, our defense systems. With increasing regularity foreign-based cybercriminals are attacking these vital systems and temporarily crippling essential services. Why? Sometimes these keyboard terrorists simply want to create mayhem. More often they ...

Biden and Harris need to act now to fix the border crisis

Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Guatemala and Mexico this past week showcased her total disregard for the heartbreaking crisis currently taking place at our southern border and a flippant attitude about her own role in exacerbating the issue. Unfortunately, this carelessness is exactly what we have come to expect from the Biden administration. In the time since she has been put in charge of the administration’s immigration response, Vice President Harris has routinely laughed at the prospect of visiting the southern border, dismissed the idea as “political games,” and ...

Are you ready for a road trip?

School is out for the summer and everyone’s thoughts are turning toward vacation! After the year we have had, the wide-open road is beckoning each of us. Even though our destinations may be varied, the importance of the family vacation is more crucial than ever. Recently, my thoughts traveled back to vacations spent exploring with my parents and brother more years ago then I care to acknowledge. Mom and Dad would pack up the station wagon, which was the size of a small tank, with a small camp stove, a cooler packed with pounds and pounds of meatloaf and various food items for the ...