The Left Can’t Stop Lying About the Tea Party

Plus: College Board Scraps 'Adversity Score,' but Still Plans to Weigh Admissions

Sep 03, 2019   Good morning from Washington, where we're praying for Floridians in the path of Hurricane Dorian. Now that Labor Day is behind us, politics get even nuttier. The Democratic National Committee is catering to those who profess no religious faith, Peter Hasson reports, and the left is rewriting the history of the tea party as racist, David Harsanyi writes. Plus: Mary Clare Amselem on discounting merit in college admissions, Nick Loris on the betrayal of consumers in fuel economy standards. A hundred years ago today, President Woodrow Wilson begins a national tour to promote the ill-fated League of Nations.     Commentary The Left Can't Stop Lying About the Tea Party In the first draft of this column, I joked that The New York Times might add a line about tea party "racism" before the day was over to placate the Twitter mob. It did it before I could even publish. More Commentary The College Board Scraps Controversial 'Adversity Score,' but Continues Plan to Weigh College Admissions The SATs company is now promoting Landscape, which will rank a student's perceived difficulty based on the neighborhood that he lives in for the purpose of providing greater advantage to those from particularly disadvantaged neighborhoods. More Commentary Labor Policy Is Jobs Policy For 12 straight months, annual wage growth has been at or above 3%. And 7.3 million open jobs means that we have even more opportunity for Americans to find their career path, writes Jonathan Berry, a Labor Department official. More Commentary Get Off the Sidelines: #StandWithICE in Sanctuary Cities Inside a detention center in Colorado, illegal immigrants get free access to dental services, a full-scale pharmacy, video games, pingpong tables, and even telepsychiatry appointments. But you wouldn't know it from the hysterical rhetoric and lies. More News DNC Resolution Celebrates Religiously Unaffiliated The Democratic National Committee's "Resolution Regarding the Religiously Unaffiliated Demographic" states that "religiously unaffiliated Americans overwhelmingly share the Democratic Party's values," and "have often been subjected to unfair bias and exclusion in American society." More Commentary Automakers' Flip-Flop on CAFE Standards Kicks Car Buyers to the Curb Automakers are siding with California rather than the Trump administration, voluntarily agreeing to increase the average fuel economy of their fleets to about 50 miles per gallon by 2026. But what's been lost is what's best for the consumer. More Commentary We Hear You: Our 'Back to School' Edition "When we surrender our children to these state-run institutions influenced so heavily by groups like Planned Parenthood, we can't expect the content or outcome to be what we want. The problem is systemic and not particular programs," writes Karen Cox of Waynesboro, Georgia. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames1.diogenes--light@blogger.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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