How Better Treatment of the Mentally Ill Could Reduce Mass Shootings
April 19, 2018 |
Good morning from Washington, where the House's top tax writer says tax cuts are just the beginning of annual reforms. Rachel del Guidice reports. Obama's Interior Department chiefs spent more of your money on chartered flights than Trump's guy is, Kevin Mooney finds. The new Supreme Court justice gets it right on immigration law, John-Michael Seibler argues. Plus: Ginny Montalbano on a Parkland survivor's Second Amendment celebration, Star Parker on the president's poverty plan, Jarrett Stepman on the failure to treat mental illness, and Michelle Malkin on a new crusade against Chick-fil-A. |
CommentaryHow Better Treatment of the Mentally Ill Could Reduce Mass Shootings"At least a third of these mass shootings that we've had in the past few years have really been the direct result of untreated serious mental illness," says John Snook, executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center. |
NewsObama Interior Secretaries Spent More Than Ryan Zinke on Chartered FlightsInterior Secretary Ryan Zinke has spent far fewer taxpayer dollars on chartered flights than his two predecessors in the Obama administration, public records show. |
CommentaryGorsuch Defends the Rule of Law in Immigration CaseIf you take anything away from Justice Neil Gorsuch's opinion concurring with the Supreme Court's so-called "liberal" bloc in an immigration case this week, it should be his continued faithfulness to the rule of law and the separation of powers. |
CommentaryTrump's Vitally Important Anti-Poverty InitiativeOver the last half-century, some $22 trillion has been spent on anti-poverty programs and yet the percentage of poor in this nation remains unchanged. |
NewsTax Reform 2.0 Is About Creating Culture of Ongoing Reforms, Ways and Means Chairman Says"The old way of doing things, which is to do tax reform once every 30 years and in between just adopt a bunch of special-interest provisions … those days are over," says Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas. |
NewsParkland Student Plans Conservative Livestream on Columbine AnniversaryThe goal is to "discuss ways to save lives without infringing on [the Second Amendment] and the importance of mental health and not bullying," says Kyle Kashuv. |
CommentaryThe Chick-Fil-A-Phobes Are Back With New SymptomsWelcome to Social Justice 101, where discriminating against Christian-owned business in the name of opposing discrimination is the definition of tolerance. |
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