What major American city is now finding its school system under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights for its illegal plan to segregate disabled students?
We'll tell you in the next issue of The Last Word.
This is only the latest in a decades-long nationwide buildup of violations of the 51-year-old Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. It seems as if this trend has only worsened in recent years.
We at The Online Lunchpail want to know why the Democrats are writing a Republican policy document. Here's a hint: It's because they're pretty much Republicans now.
It's called Project 2029, and it's supposed to be the Democrats' answer the Heritage Foundation's far-right Project 2025. But the first plank the Democrats released in this manifesto is a demand for a law barring anyone under 16 from using social media.
Laws like this aren't meant to protect children, but to micromanage and keep tabs on adults, as adults will be forced to verify their identities just to use sites like Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit.
The next issue of The Last Word will explore this a little more, but in the meantime, we'd like to suggest some good policy stances that actually belong in a party's policy document:
• Expanding Social Security.
• Accountability for the disastrous COVID-19 lockdowns.
• Reviving enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.
• An end to the overprescription of psychotropic drugs.
• Lifting of the Citizens United ruling.
And a lot more! It seems like every political cycle brings another layer of right-wing stupid that needs to be reversed, and the longer the party establishment bogs things down, the harder it will be. It's a shame the Democrats think age limits for social media of all things is more important than Social Security or the Voting Rights Act. Just let that sink in.
This Last Word partnership is really good stuff!
In our latest investigation, we will cover a story in New Jersey in which a school got a judge to censor a newspaper that posted surveillance footage from the school.
One of the main problems in this sorry episode is that the ruling represents prior restraint against the free press.
Watch for this and other incisive reports!
As our fusion with The Last Word expands, that monthly road atlas to freedom will be offering an investigative report on an embattled local Catholic high school's foray into electoral politics. This report will explore how this flies in the face of a federal law that bars nonprofits such as religious bodies from engaging in electoral campaigns.
At issue is the school's posting of signs that supported Amendment 2 - a Kentucky referendum in 2024 that would have allowed public funds to be given to private schools. This amendment would have violated the U.S. Constitution, and it ended up losing in every county in the state.
As separation of church and state is in the crosshairs of the far right, watch for this investigative report in the next edition of The Last Word.
This blog is experiencing an exciting new link with The Last Word, with more investigative reports that will be shared between each project. You can almost hear the screaming guitars and horns. It's like the upbeat late '80s music that you used to hear in your head when someone graduated from school and went on to the next stage in life.
But don't get too excited, because it's back down to business when we do our investigating. Our latest probe deals with a right-wing op-ed by the Club for Growth's David McIntosh and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell that attacked a congressional proposal to shore up Social Security. As a bipartisan duo of senators wants to save Social Security by removing the payroll tax cap, Blackwell and McIntosh laughably assailed the plan.
Each of the points by McIntosh and Blackwell is easily debunked by basic facts that are essentially built into our projects. The pair claims that the American economy is fueled by the wealthy so they shouldn't have to pay more. This is false, as the economy is actually powered by the working class. More buying power for the working class is the real job creator. The op-ed also says that removing the tax cap would turn Social Security into a welfare program, though it contradicts itself in the very same sentence.
More details on the Club for Growth's assault on Social Security lurk in the next ish of The Last Word.
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