To Keep Students Safe, This School Allows Teachers to Carry Guns

The Daily Signal
March 6, 2018

Good morning from Washington, where some lawmakers are nervous about arming teachers to make schools safer. One superintendent says he does it as part of Job One, Kelsey Harkness reports. The Parkland gunman got cover from liberal policies, Jarrett Stepman writes. Some states know how to make work part of welfare, Mimi Teixeira argues. Plus: Stepman on streetcar strife in the nation's capital, Diana Verm on one college's win as a matter of faith, and Whitney Jones on repealing more of the Obamacare mess.

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To Keep Students Safe, This School Allows Teachers to Carry Guns

When Charles McMahan agreed to talk with The Daily Signal about his program enabling trained teachers and other staff to carry guns in school, the Oklahoma school superintendent knew he'd be falling on the politically incorrect end of a sensitive conversation.

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Obama-Era Policies Helped Keep Parkland Shooter Under the Radar. Here's What Went Wrong.

An Obama-era Department of Education initiative designed to put an end to the "school to prison pipeline," combined with local mismanagement, helped allow the shooter in Florida to fall through the cracks.

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Work Requirements Have Revolutionized Welfare at the State Level. Now It's Uncle Sam's Turn.

"Too many states have asked to waive work requirements, abdicating their responsibility to move participants to self-sufficiency," says Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.

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Obama Mandate Threatened My College's Right to Exist. Here's How Religious Liberty Won.

Through an unconstitutional mandate, the government tried nine different ways to achieve the same goal: forcing religious schools, orders, nonprofits, and businesses to give up their religious beliefs as the price of admission to life in the public square.

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How Congress Can Provide Relief From Looming Obamacare Mandates

Late last year, American businesses received their first Obamacare bills from the IRS. Some businesses are facing thousands, if not millions, of dollars in unexpected penalties.

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A Streetcar Named Disaster

There are few more illustrative examples of government dysfunction and waste than the DC Streetcar.

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