News & Brews September 4, 2026
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The Philly public schools are flat-out nuts
There’s just no sugar coating it. If you send your kids to the Philadelphia public schools and have any way to get them out, do it. And if you don’t have a way to get them out, find a way. (We’re working on expanding school choice from our end to make this easier.). A new story from the Washington Free Beacon adds more info to the already mounds-high info on how Philly is teaching kids to hate Jews and kill white people. 2+2? That equals ‘resist capitalist imperialism.’
Per the story, “The Philadelphia public schools hosted a series of ‘liberation’ workshops for students taught by a convicted felon who has argued that Jews control the media and was involved in torching a police car.” This felon, by the way, thought the Hamas terror attack on Israel was a great idea. Another facilitator at the workshops was a Penn lecturer who once wrote, “All I want for Christmas is white genocide.” There’s just no subtle way to say it: Get your kids out of Philly’s public schools.
Why send kids to public schools?
Timely given the story above, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal argues that instead of asking folks why they would homeschool their kids, we should ‘flip the question’ and ask, ‘Why not continue the schooling you started with your children at birth? Is there compelling evidence for sending one’s child to institutional school rather than continuing parent-directed, home-based education?”
National Home Education Research Institute President Brian D. Ray writes that a systematic review of four decades of research offers a strong case for homeschooling. And anecdotally, my super brilliant nieces and nephews who are homeschooled also offer a strong case. “If educators and policymakers want children to receive the best education possible,” Ray concludes, “they should treat home education as the default option—not an eccentric one.”
Dear Trump: Please don’t come
After President Trump announced he would spend the final 30 days before Election Day campaigning for vulnerable GOP House members, some of those members are responding with, “Please — no.”
POLITICO reports, “Many privately admit they’re stuck in an uncomfortable spot: By running too far from Trump, Republicans risk alienating the MAGA faithful or the president himself, whose super PAC is sitting on more than $400 million they desperately need deployed to help them win key races. But if the candidates keep Trump close, they could be dragged down by the president, as the unpopular war in Iran has increased costs for Americans across the country.”
One who is welcoming Trump, however, is U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan in northeast Pa. “Anytime we can work with the administration to accomplish goals for people in northeastern Pennsylvania,” Bresnahan said, “we’re always excited to do that.”
Johnny Doc to walk free, thanks to Trump
Well, so much for justice. Apparently you can steal from your union members, embezzle money, and walk out of prison free. At least, former Philly labor leader John ‘Johnny Doc’ Dougherty can, thanks to President Trump who just commuted Johnny Doc’s sentence.
The Inquirer reports that he could walk out of prison as early as today. “A commutation will keep Dougherty’s conviction intact, but allow him to return home to his wife, Cecilia, who [his attorney George] Bochetto said was in ‘a desperate situation.’ Bochetto said the act of clemency would also relieve Dougherty of having to pay about $1.6 million in restitution, and that Dougherty would not be subject to any monitoring or house arrest, saying Dougherty, upon release, would be ‘a free man.’”
WSJ: Fetterman has ‘little interest’ in senator’s work
This story is making lots of rounds this morning. The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. Sen. John Fetterman “often portrays himself as a ‘regular Democrat’ calling out aspects of his party’s progressive fringe—just the profile that past centrists have leveraged in a divided Senate to cut bipartisan deals and score big wins. But behind closed doors, the first-term senator shows little interest in doing the job beyond cultivating relationships with conservative media figures and advocating for Israel, according to interviews with more than a dozen former staffers and lawmakers, as well as text messages and other internal records.” Of course, Fetterman has been a frequent target of his own party over the past few years specifically because of his support for Israel.
