Shavar Jeffries writes in a statement Thursday in response to the fact that lists of potential education secretary candidates in the future Trump administration include some Democrats, such as Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of Washington, D.C. schools, and Eva Moskowitz, CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools.
While on the campaign trail, the president-elect described Common Core as a “disaster,” and said that the federal government should leave education to states and local school districts.
Grassroots parents groups that have been fighting against federal intervention in education for years are urging President-elect Donald Trump to choose an education secretary who has been opposed to the Common Core standards and will scale back the federal education department.
“You made up the fact that Obamacare has caused job loss,” Jonathan Gruber says. “There is no evidence…there is none…look at the data. There is not a single data point.”
“I absolutely hate wishing people congratulations on their engagement, and I won’t do it anymore,” writes Ashley Mateo at Redbook, adding that the word “congratulations” is associated with an achievement, not a “grown-up decision made between two people who have discussed their relationship and decided that, hey, they’re clearly better together than not, so why not make it official?”
Even as a GOP-led Congress irons out its own plans for the repeal and replacement of Obamacare, President Donald Trump could begin the demise of Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law on the very first day of his presidency.
The president and CEO of Planned Parenthood says in a pledge she asks her supporters to sign that “the majority of voters chose Hillary Clinton” as the nation’s next president.
Leftwing media are misleading their own readers by spreading a story that a rule drafted by the Obama administration to prevent states from defunding Planned Parenthood is now “permanent.”
In congratulating Donald Trump on his victory, Rev. William Owens says in a statement that those who “voted their values” helped give Trump the win.
Feminist publications, including Elle, are advocating that women who choose to rely on taxpayer funding for their birth control get intrauterine devices (IUDs) inserted now – before Trump takes office – with the hope they’ll last until the next president is elected in 2020. Birth control can cost as little as under $10 per month when savvy women consumers use websites such as GoodRx and WeRx to scout out the best prices and coupons.
LGBT activist group GLAAD is lashing out at the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States.
A national exit poll is showing President-elect Donald Trump won the Catholic vote Tuesday, 52 percent to Hillary Clinton’s 45 percent.
President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign manager is now the first woman to lead a winning presidential campaign in the United States.
Donald Trump promises to appoint pro-life justices and to eliminate Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding if the group continues to perform abortions.
Colorado voters have rejected Amendment 69, the “Colorado Creation of ColoradoCare System Initiative,” a proposed constitutional amendment that would have replaced most private health insurance with a fully government/taxpayer-paid system for all Colorado citizens.
Data released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show the U.S. lost 9,000 manufacturing jobs while gaining 19,000 government jobs in October.
lanned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards urges Cosmopolitan readers on this day before the presidential election to recognize “the presidential nominee of the Republican party has been exposed by his own words as a sexual predator.”
The state of Georgia is reportedly launching an investigation into student voter registrations handled by the local chapter of the NAACP at Glynn County area high schools.
Leaders of the black church in America are urging African American voters to abandon the Democratic Party once and for all as Election Day approaches.
The nation’s largest provider of abortions and its affiliates are spending nearly $34 million this election cycle to ensure Hillary Clinton and other Democrats will be in office to grow their industry on the taxpayer’s dime.
The Hartford Courant editorial board is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, reposting its October 7 endorsement of Clinton “as Americans prepare to vote Tuesday.”
Demand for abortion “pills” is on the rise, while the number of surgical abortions has declined over the decades, says a Reuters report.
On February 17, 2016, Tanden wrote to Jake Sullivan, the Clinton campaign’s top foreign policy adviser, and John Podesta on the subject of “political corruption.”
Rev. William Owens, who is endorsing the Republican candidate as a private citizen, says Trump deserves the chance to prove himself to Christian voters, including those in the black church. He asserts the Democrat Party has offered blacks nothing but failed policies.
Pro-life activists in New Hampshire are denouncing Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Sununu who has adopted the liberal Democrat narrative that abortion is “women’s healthcare.”
Barack Obama is threatening to veto the NDAA over the Russell Amendment, a measure that simply restates what is currently law in the United States because of the First Amendment.
A survey conducted by the education department’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) finds an increase in the percentage of students of ages 5-17 who are homeschooled. In 1999, the estimated number of homeschoolers was 850,000. By 2012, the estimate was 1.8 million.
The nation’s largest group of pro-life students is releasing its 2016 list of the top public colleges and universities that provide resources for pregnant and parenting students.
WBTV in North Carolina reports its “On Your Side” investigation discovered that a Planned Parenthood PAC was posing as an anti-tolls group as a means to recruit campaign workers.
During a Planned Parenthood event, Sen. Elizabeth Warren told townhall attendees the “future of women’s rights is at stake” in the election next week. She called on women “to stand up and fight before it’s too late” to protect “women’s right to abortion” and “paid family and medical leave.”
The national Catholic-based advocacy group CatholicVote.org is launching a $500,000 digital media campaign Tuesday targeting Catholic voters in key swing states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Nevada.
Abortion is an issue in the deep blue state of Vermont, where Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott has been targeted by Democrats for his past support for legislation that restricts late-term abortions and requires parents to be notified when their teenage daughters are seeking an abortion.
More than 20 national black leaders are challenging Hillary Clinton and her campaign for assaults on the black community via attacks on religious freedom, the promotion of abortion, and the ignorance of the prevalence of “black on black” murders and other crimes.
The major networks have essentially ignored the Obama administration’s confirmation that Obamacare will offer Americans double-digit premiums and very few choices in insurance plans in 2017.
The survey states 22 percent of Clinton voters say Obamacare (the ACA) is working “very well,” while 57 percent say the health care law is working “somewhat well.” In contrast, only 1 percent of Trump voters say Obamacare is working “very well,” and only 4 percent say “somewhat well.”
Last week Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber told Americans that Barack Obama’s healthcare law was working just as it was designed – jacking up premiums and deductibles, and limiting choices for its customers.
Emails from the account of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta reveal the campaign’s deputy communications director affirming the Clinton campaign’s close “relationship with the press.”
Flanked by giants of the abortion industry as she spoke in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at a women’s rally, Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton emphasized that one of her primary areas of focus as president will be the welfare of children.
Hillary Clinton vows to repeal the Hyde Amendment – which prohibits taxpayer funding of abortions in the United States – as the way to allow more access to abortion for low-income black and Hispanic women. At the same time, Clinton asserts that unborn babies have no constitutional rights.
Camille Paglia’s view of feminism is light years away from the likes of Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright, who told young women there would be a “special place in hell” for them if they chose Bernie Sanders instead of Clinton.
