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Education system can be fixed

Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions. "Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low," reports Gallup. Of 14 core institutions - banks, big business, labor, ...

Governor redefines tech boom

In June 2025, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) stood in Berwick and described a new economic horizon for Pennsylvania: Amazon's plan to invest at least $20 billion in cloud-computing and artificial intelligence campuses across the commonwealth. "Pennsylvania is competing again – and I'm ...

Data shows tests are useful

My new video shows anti-SAT ads from activist groups like FairTest that said, "Real learning is not standardized, so why judge children just by test scores?" During Woke I, FairTest won. Most colleges stopped requiring the test for admissions. That was ironic, given that ...

Universities undermine case for evolution

Most higher education institutions don't adhere to the theory of evolution. Sure, they say they believe in it, but look at their actions. In recent weeks, the career of former Cambridge University professor Jason Arday unraveled. He wasn't a household name, but he was an academic ...

Is this nation going bankrupt?

Thank God, no, we aren't going bust as a nation, despite our gargantuan $40 trillion national debt. The rapid pileup of debt under Republicans and Democrats alike is certainly a disgrace and worrisome. When I came to Washington in the mid-1980s, our debt hit $1 trillion for the first ...

Ditching net zero

What a difference a few years make. Not long ago, politicians said climate change was going to kill us, so we must move to "net zero" emissions. This is theoretically possible. Since vegetation removes carbon, we could get to net zero by burning fewer fossil fuels. Governments ...