Today’s Editors’ Choice

• George Will: A Case for Preventing Children’s Scraped Knees
• Burt Prelutsky: This, That & the Other Thing
• Todd Starnes: University Students Vote to Make American Flag ‘Optional’

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Opinion in Brief

Burt Prelutsky: “One of the nutty things about the way the Left has been attacking Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is that, on behalf of the Teacher’s Unions, they pointed out that she doesn’t have a degree in education; has no teaching experience; didn’t attend government schools; and didn’t send her kids to ‘public’ school. To me, that would be like opposing a superintendent of prisons because he had never been arrested, indicted or served time in a penitentiary. What highlights the fact that the Democrats in Congress who voted against confirming her were merely signaling that they were the pawns of the unions was the fact that everything said about DeVos could have been said of Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. The difference, of course, is that Duncan was bought and paid for by the teachers’ unions, and, as their official mouthpiece, never had a good word to say for private schools, religious schools, charter schools or home-schooling. Although liberals are forever railing against monopolies, they are always happy to make an exception when it comes to appeasing public school teachers, whose unions constitute the single biggest contributor to their elections.”