"Parents are fed up. According to a new Gallup poll, 79 percent of parents want their kids back in the classroom, in spite of the pandemic. For working parents, the figure is 82 percent.

"Any politician -- Democratic or Republican -- who does not seize this moment to rein in the excessive power of our largest labor unions is actively working against our children. They are abandoning in particular Black and Brown youngsters who so desperately need the advantages that come with a solid education.

"Democrats, in thrall to the tens of millions of dollars they receive in political donations from the teacher unions, cannot bite the hands that so generously feed them. Republicans can and should own this issue.

"Can challenging the teacher unions and fighting to give parents more choices in how they spend their education dollars win elections?

"Yes. Allowing parents to choose where their kids go to school is wildly popular, with 69 percent of voters approving of the concept. A proposed federal tax credit that would support scholarships to broaden school choice gains even more supporters, with 78 percent backing the initiative. That includes 83 percent of both Latino and Black voters, and even 77 percent of Democrats."

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"Thirty-five states currently have photo ID requirements for a voter to prove their identity before they are handed a ballot at a polling place. If Nancy Pelosi's 'HR 1' bill makes it past the Senate and to President Biden's desk, those laws will be nullified.

"Supporters of this abomination will call that assertion a lie or partial truth or whatever other euphemism 'fact-checkers' wish to utilize. But that's only because they ignore the English language.

"HR 1 nullifies existing state photo ID requirements. Nullifies them.

"HR 1 does not ban photo ID requirements. It does not erase photo ID requirements. It does not do away with photo ID requirements. It nullifies them. The state photo ID laws will remain on the books in those thirty-five states; they will just be useless.

"HR 1 would force a state with photo ID laws (which the bill describes as 'excessively onerous') to offer a voter without photo ID the option to sign a statement under penalty of perjury that they are who they claim to be. Then that voter would be allowed to vote without presenting a photo ID for identification.

"HR 1 nullifies existing state photo ID requirements.

"Fact check that."

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"When people vote -- with a moving van or a U-Haul truck -- they vote for lower taxes and smaller government. That's the conclusion from comparing a new report on freedom at the state level with the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data.

"Over the course of a year a net of 788,381 people moved to Florida, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, the 'freest' five states in America, according to the Fraser Institute's annual Economic Freedom in North America index.

"The annual report, published by Canada's Fraser Institute, ranks the states and provinces of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico using objective measures of government spending, tax rates and labor market freedom. The least-free U.S. state is New York. West Virginia, Alaska, California and Vermont round out the bottom five.

"According to Census Bureau state-to-state migration estimates through mid-2018, the freest five states attracted a net of 270,608 people from other states while the bottom five saw a net outbound loss of 398,067 residents through domestic migration. New York lost the most, as 458,014 left the state and 254,447 moved in for a net loss of 203,567. California's net loss was 190,122 for the year."

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"While Democrats aim to eliminate voter ID laws under the 800-page election bill H.R. 1, also known as the 'For the People Act,' they contrarily flirt with the idea of mandating citizens show proof of COVID-19 vaccine or testing results.

"According to H.R. 1, states are to be prohibited from requiring voter identification, including things like witness signatures, and notary stamps. This would ultimately overturn laws in 36 states, as noted by the National Conference of State Legislatures.

"'A state may not require an individual to provide any form of identification as a condition of obtaining an absentee ballot,' the legislation states, which passed in the House 220 to 210 on March 3. ...

"Why would mandating proof of vaccination be acceptable if laws that reasonably mandate people demonstrate they are an American citizen by ID are not?

"In an executive order in January, President Joe Biden urged government agencies 'to assess the feasibility' of having COVID-19 vaccination certificates, and documents available for digital purposes. Subsequently, 30 airlines and travel organizations penned a letter to Jeff Zients, the COVID-19 Recovery Team Coordinator, telling Zients to take action on vaccine passports for international travel."

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"Cuomo's single accomplishment of late has been to unite both parties against him, with fellow Democrats and Republicans in nearly equal numbers calling for him to resign or be impeached. The wave reached a peak Friday when New York's senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, called for him to step down.

"The media, much of which lavished praise on him not long ago, is similarly uniform now, with not a single major outlet defending Cuomo.

"Among their sordid revelations, the scandals show the governor to be a one-trick pony, as his defense against the assault claims mirrors his defense against the 15,000 nursing-home deaths. In both, presented with evidence of his own mistakes and misconduct, he attacks, blaming everyone else. ...

"As the cases increase and the outrage mounts, the only surprise now is that Cuomo still thinks he can hang on to power. Earth to him: Tick tock, tick tock."

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"Among many things, H.R. 1 would shift control of elections from cities, counties and states to Washington, D.C. It would make mass mail-in ballots permanent, prohibit voter ID, launch automatic voter registration (whether people want to vote or not), allow same-day registration and voting (allowing zero time to vet potential voters for eligibility), enshrine ballot harvesting, and funnel all appeals into one court -- the traditionally Democrat-controlled D.C. Circuit Court.

"What could go wrong?

"Step one in foiling the Democrat Party, the party of vote fraud, is to follow the advice that former first lady Nancy Reagan might have offered:

"Just say No to H.R. 1."

"Under union pressure, Democrats have provided an $86 billion bailout for union pensions in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill the House passed Wednesday.

"The American Rescue Plan legislation, which reflects the Biden stimulus plan unveiled in January, includes $86 billion for struggling union-managed pensions. Ahead of the Biden inauguration, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was pressuring Democrats to provide the pension funding.

"In September, Democrats were advocating for passage of the $3 trillion HEROES Act, a coronavirus stimulus bill. Republicans were critical of the bill, arguing that some of the funding would be used for a pension bailout unrelated to COVID-19.

"'Democrats think they smell an opening they have wanted for years, to make Uncle Sam bail out decades of mismanagement and broken policies in places like New York, New Jersey and California,' Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had said."

"With the rise of gig economy jobs such as driving for Uber and other forms of independent work enabled by the digital era, more than 57 million Americans now work as freelancers in some capacity. But President Biden just endorsed a radical labor law that endangers their livelihood.

"House Democrats recently reintroduced the PRO Act, which, among many sweeping reforms, would make many commonplace forms of independent contractor (freelance) arrangements illegal. It's based on a California law that was so dysfunctional even voters in the very blue state voted to change it.

"'The Administration strongly encourages the House to pass [the PRO Act] and looks forward to working with the Congress to enact this critical legislation that safeguards workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively,' the White House said in a statement on Monday. 'The PRO Act will strengthen our democracy and advance dignity in the workplace.'

"Far from 'advancing dignity,' in reality, this law would strip millions of their income. ...

"The president is really just doing the bidding of labor union officials who want to outlaw competition to their traditional business model. So, yes, Biden's latest endorsement might make union officials happy -- but there's nothing pro-labor about it all."

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"A coalition of 12 states has lodged a lawsuit against the Biden administration over an executive order.

"State attorneys general from Missouri, Arkansas, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah are involved in the suit, which pertains to Biden's order titled 'Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.'

"The legal challenge alleges that the presidential administration lacked authority to put out binding numbers for greenhouse gases' social costs to be utilized in federal regulations and that the potential stringency of regulations that might stem from the order would have a significant economic impact throughout the nation, according to a press release.

"'If the Executive Order stands, it will inflict hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars of damage to the U.S. economy for decades to come. It will destroy jobs, stifle energy production, strangle America's energy independence, suppress agriculture, deter innovation, and impoverish working families,' the suit asserts."

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"We have a lost generation of kids who have neither the education nor the trained skills to succeed in society.

"As teachers' unions fight to keep schools closed, the true cost is being felt by students who are racking up failing grades, dropping out of virtual classes, increasing drug use, and, in rising numbers, committing suicide.

"Watching this happen to the public schools has been particularly hard for some of us who are ardent supporters of public education."

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