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As the vast majority of California students approach one year of distance learning, Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed Tuesday that classrooms will reopen “very, very shortly.” But his forecast was called into question by Los Angeles teachers who continue to insist that the state's largest school district won't open without more vaccinations. “The pressure building to return to schools is political. It is not science,” the United Teachers Los Angeles said in a statement. The union said it will vote next week to refuse resuming in-person classes unless certain demands are met, including that all returning staff get access to vaccinations...

Los Angeles teachers’ unions tried to shut down a South Central charter school that had been very successful at teaching low-income black and Hispanic studentsIn my opinion, successful schools should not be shut down.Instead, they should be copied.Every child should be allowed to attend a school as good as this one.The fact that the teachers’ union tried to shut down this successful school, instead of copying it, is despicable.This is the complete article from the Wall St. Journal:https://web.archive.org/web/20081014175429/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122394095677630803.htmlCharter Success in L.A.School choice in South Central.October 14, 2008With economic issues sucking up so much political oxygen this year, K-12 education hasn’t...

President Joe Biden’s administration announced Wednesday a new program to deliver free masks to Americans in communities around the country. “While masks are widely available in many different shapes and sizes, many low-income Americans still lack affordable access to this basic protection,” Biden’s Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters during a press briefing.

Frost breaks off and “jumps” upward due to an electrostatic charge. Credit: Virginia Tech =========================================================== If you have ever gotten up on a winter morning and thrown yourself into the arduous task of scraping frost from a windshield, a Virginia Tech lab is engaging science that could make your life much easier. In research funded by the National Science Foundation, Associate Professor Jonathan Borekyo has led a team in developing a potential solution for frost removal by way of electrostatics. As water freezes, positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons separate. Frozen ice crystals become electrified as the top of...

Piedmont Glacier in north-east Greenland (Coen Hofstede/Alfred Wegener Institute) ============================================================= It should be simple. When temperatures on Earth get hotter, huge amounts of water ice trapped in giant glaciers begin to thaw, releasing water into the oceans, and causing sea levels to rise. It's the story of our lives. By contrast, when global temperatures plummet, which happens during ice ages, sea levels proceed to drop, as water content retreats from the ocean, freezing once more in huge inland ice sheets. This epic, ongoing cycle of ice ebb and flow – the transitions from glacials to interglacials – has been occurring...

ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Senate on Tuesday pushed through the first batch of what could be a raft of restrictive voting measures Republican lawmakers say will safeguard voting but Democrats decry as based on a lie and aimed at overturning their party's recent electoral success in Georgia. The most important measure passed was Senate Bill 67, which carried on a largely party-line 35-18 vote. It would require that a voter include their driver’s license number, other state identification number or a photocopy of an approved ID when applying for an absentee ballot. That would replace the current process of...

Democrats are defending special interest provisions packed inside the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 spending package, arguing criticism of the legislation from Republicans is just “misinformation and partisan spin." Republicans on the House Budget Committee, who all voted against the package Monday, argued the bill is nothing more than “special interest pork and other liberal goodies.” Despite its $1.9 trillion price tag, Republicans say only 8% goes toward coronavirus-related spending, while billions are tacked on to help Democratic-allied activist groups, unions, and bailouts to state and local governments that imposed shutdowns on their communities and made irresponsible budgetary decisions related to pensions....

Rep. Liz Cheney said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump should have no role in the future of the Republican Party or the country. The No. 3 House Republican denounced Trump after she was asked at a press conference if she thought it was appropriate for Trump to be speaking Sunday at the annual CPAC event. “That’s up to CPAC. I’ve been clear on my views about President Trump and the extent to which following Jan. 6, I don’t believe that he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country,” she said.

The United States will seek election to the United Nations Human Rights Council, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. The announcement comes three years after former president Donald Trump’s administration withdrew the US from the council. […] Blinken added that the Biden administration would work to eliminate what he called the Geneva forum’s “disproportionate focus” on its ally Israel. The council, established in 2006, has a stand-alone item on the Palestinian territories on its agenda every session — the only topic that receives such treatment, and a move which both Democratic and Republican administrations have opposed. While...

A record 5.6 percent of Americans now identify as LGBTQ, the majority of whom say they are bisexual, according to a new survey. Gallup on Tuesday published its latest update on LGBTQ identification, showing a 1.1 percent increase since the poll was last conducted in 2017. It marks the largest increase since the survey began in 2012, with an estimated 18 million adults in America identifying as LGBTQ last year.

MSNBC All In host and esteemed beta male Chris Hayes smeared Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (CO) on Tuesday night because she dared to display her guns as decorations during a virtual congressional hearing. Comparing her to the likes of Osama Bin Laden and communist revolutionaries in Cuba, he claimed her display was an “implicit threat” of politically motived violence. He also suggested all in the GOP were “now signaling they retain the right to use violence to overthrow the government at any time.” In teasing the pathetic segment, Hayes flashed an image of Boebert and her background, which featured two...

Recently, I appeared as a guest on Andrew Sullivan’s podcast. Sullivan is vociferously anti-Trump, so I expected us to disagree—which, naturally, we did. But I was surprised by the extent to which he insisted I assent to his assertion that the 2020 election was totally on the level. That is to say, I wasn’t surprised that Sullivan thinks it was; I was surprised by his evident yearning to hear me say so, too. Which I could not do. Sullivan badgered me on this at length before finally accusing me of being fixated on the topic, to which I responded, truthfully,...

We’ve been playing the blame game about coronavirus for months now here in the United States. It’s President Donald Trump’s fault that the pandemic got out of hand. Or Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s. Or Mayor Bill de Blasio’s. We’ve leveled blame at people who refuse to wear masks. Or those who continue to gather in large groups. It’s gotten political. It’s turned Americans against each other. Everybody’s got some blood on their hands. But we have to remember where this pandemic started: China. And we have to remember that that country’s Communist rulers lied about the virus from day one. That’s...

After watching Biden read via Teleprompter It is obvious to me that it may very well be his downfall. If it is on the Teleprompter he reads it. Imagine the power a group has that may want old Joe to take a dive.

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Following a wave of trial results alternatively teasing, and questioning, the efficacy of the company’s vaccine – including the possibility that it might not be effective as a single-shot jab – new data from Johnson & Johnson purports to show the shot is surprisingly effective at preventing severe illness and reducing transmission in its current (single-dose) form.- Advertisement -An analysis of the company’s trial data by the FDA was released on Wednesday, two days before an FDA committee is expected to meet to discuss the safety and efficacy of the JNJ vaccine. According to the NYT, the jab could be...

Guatemalan-American Catalina Lauf, a former top adviser to former President Donald Trump, has announced she will challenge Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) to represent the people in the state’s 16th Congressional District. According to a press release from the Lauf campaign, Kinzinger is “an anti-Trump RINO who has turned his back on the GOP and its conservative values.” “As President, Donald Trump lifted millions out of poverty, invested historically in our schools, hospitals, and communities, restored America’s status as the strongest nation on earth, and defended the right to life, our Second Amendment, our borders, and our faith,” Lauf said. “Almost...

Joe Biden’s Catholic Priest Defends Giving Him Communion: It’s “an Encounter With God”Father Kevin Gillespie believes the Catholic Church should not deny communion to President Joe Biden even though he persists in advocating for the killing of unborn babies in abortions.ADVERTISEMENTGillespie is a Jesuit priest at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown, where the president attends Mass regularly. The Atlantic reports the church is associated with liberal politics and politicians; it has a Black Lives Matter banner hanging outside, and its priests often speak about social justice issues.In an interview with the news outlet, Gillespie weighed in on the...

Finnish scientists claim to have found another coronavirus variant which shares some of the same mutations as other troublesome strains. Only one case of the virus — temporarily named Fin-796H — has been spotted so far but experts have admitted they are unsure how widespread it is. Finland said was unlikely the variant emerged there, given the country's low infection rate. The Scandinavian nation has recorded just 51,000 cases and 700 deaths since the pandemic took off. Finnish researchers who made the discovery said the variant shared some mutations seen in the Kent and South African strains but in a...

2020 wasn't the greatest year in film, but it turned out to be a Godsend in light of the leftist propagandizing films nominated for The Golden Globes this year.Last year, comedian Ricky Gervais was unafraid to mock the Hollywood elites at the 77th annual Golden Globes. From celebrities’ cushy relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, to James Corden’s emasculating role in “Cats,” to Apple, Amazon, and Disney’s reliance on Communist China, Gervais absolutely nailed it.“You say you’re woke…but if ISIS started a streaming service, you’d call your agent.” @rickygervais with a flamethrower for Hollywood tonight at the Golden Globes. Watch...