Conservative: Questions for IRS Whistleblowers
Whistleblower testimony has “revealed scores of ways in which the DOJ and FBI interfered” with the Hunter Biden investigation and US Attorney David Weiss and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s “attempts to cover up that interference,” fumes The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland. At his Wednesday hearing, Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and fellow Republicans should be looking to hold DOJ/FBI accountable, as the two whistleblowers “who exposed” interference give their public testimony. Comer & Co. should let the two “tell their story, using follow-up questions to draw out more details” — and “attempt to learn what other evidence may have been secreted from the investigative team.” Weiss may have “called off the investigation, but that doesn’t mean the case of corruption against the Biden family” must be “dead.”
Ed desk: Families Flee, Schools Wither
New census data show “families with the preschool-age children who would form the next generation” of public-school students “abandoning cities, especially big ones, at unprecedented levels,” notes City Journal’s Steven Malanga. “The trend is most pronounced in states where population growth has lagged,” and “the under-five population has slumped 10.3 percent in urban counties” across the mid-Atlantic. No wonder: “Rising urban disorder, growing homelessness, and extended school closures sent families fleeing from cities.” That’s why “New York City’s traditional public schools...
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