Greetings and happy summertime! Wishing you and yours safe travels and low fuel prices.
May was a busy month. I joined Candace Owens on her Daily Wire program discussing various topics, including the SCOTUS Roe leak. I’m personally supportive of overturning this decision, which even the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg acknowledged was poorly decided. I also don’t think abortion will be a determinative midterm issue. Given likely state-based moves to protect against pregnancy termination, I hope there is strong bipartisan effort for unwanted pregnancy prevention. I’m a big proponent of crisis pregnancy centers that offer material, medical, emotional, and spiritual support for mothers facing an unexpected pregnancy. Last month, I spoke at Hope for NOVA, my local center.
For the New York Post, I wrote about how President Biden’s reported plan to “forgive” student debt ignores that the U.S. government helped fuel this student-loan debt balloon to begin with. College tuition vastly outpaced inflation in the past two decades alone, and universities kept raising tuition because they knew government-backed student loans would keep pace. By continuing to back loans without any accountability over schools’ pricing or the usefulness of degrees, the federal government allowed universities to recklessly shell out more loans to hapless students.
Also for the Post, I praised state and federal leaders in my family’s home state of Utah for pushing back against S&P Global, a bond-rating firm politicizing public finance through politically correct “environmental, social and governance” metrics, aka ESG scores. S&P (competitor to my former employer, Moody’s) wants to punish states issuing public bonds by holding them hostage to politically correct ESG standards. But leaders of the Beehive State fired off a stinging letter to S&P refusing to comply with ESG paperwork and demanding the firm focus on financial fundamentals.
Last month, I also authored multiple Daily Caller columns on topics ranging from inflation and jobs numbers, “woke” capitalism, and more.
I dusted off my violin to play for my local Episcopal Church (I also play sometimes for a non-denominational church), if you’d care for a sampling below.
On the streaming platform Timcast, I shared about our Women’s Bill Of Rights (WBOR) introduced on Capitol Hill by my organization, Independent Women’s Voice, alongside other women’s groups, including the progressive Women’s Liberation Front. WBOR’s a pending federal bill now, and we're also working for state laws to recognize and protect the distinct status of biological women.
Lastly, the Steamboat Institute, a Colorado-based ideas network—which is in some ways the Right’s alternative to the Aspen Institute—sent out the ad below calling for young journalists to apply for their Tony Blankley Fellowship. Applications are due June 30. As I mentioned in my award acceptance remarks last August at the beautiful ski resort of Beaver Creek, I was privileged to work for Tony as an editorial writer for The Washington Times.
From the Institute: “Tony’s grasp of public policy, the proper role of government, and the concept of American Exceptionalism is beyond dispute. It is our intention to build on Tony’s substantial legacy by nurturing and supporting the careers of outstanding young journalists and emerging conservative thought leaders who share the principles and values espoused by the late Tony Blankley and Steamboat Institute.”
Read more about the fellowship, and encourage young journalists to apply here. Until next time, cheers and Godspeed!