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Funding proposals for implicit bias and antiracism training in schools are coming into focus and some see it as an unnecessary controversy that distracts from education in Illinois’ 850 districts. A draft proposal from the Illinois State Board of Education Professional Review Panel set to be considered next month contemplates how to spend an additional $350 million from the evidence based funding model that lawmakers approved several years ago. There are recommendations for a variety of programs, including teaching foreign languages. There are also suggestions for “interventions to have more explicit focus on racial dynamic, including equity direct approaches that...

Some truly ugly anti-white racism reared its head on MSNBC today. On MSNBC's Cross Connection, host Tiffany Cross on Saturday had as a guest someone she described as "our audience favorite," and "my pal": Elie Mystal of the far-left Nation magazine. Discussing the death of Ahmaud Arbery, Mystal savaged all white gun owners: "I contend that what they care about is using their guns on black people and getting away with it. That’s what they want." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

The gap between rhetoric and fact is a perennial feature of politics. But seldom can the chasm between claim and reality have been as wide as that displayed by Alok Sharma at the Cop26 conference in Glasgow. The British president of the latest intergovernmental climate change gathering told the delegates (and the world’s media) that “the end of coal is in sight”, as a result of the agreement he had negotiated. Not only was the declaration to phase out coal by the 2040s not signed by the world’s top three consumers (China, India and America, which account for more than...

Dr Peter Doshi, associate editor of the British Medical Journal(BMJ), discusses the total lack of scientific process behind the development and roll out Covid vaccines in a meeting called by Senator Ron Johnson on the topic of vaccine mandates. Peter Doshi is an associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research in the School of Pharmacy and associate editor at The BMJ. His research focuses on policies related to drug safety and effectiveness evaluation in the context of regulation, evidence-based medicine, and debates over access to data. Video... [5 mins]

No one wants to live through a pandemic. But for those who don’t have a choice, there is a silver lining: pandemics have historically brought about periods of social disruption that have had positive outcomes for the following generations. There are reasons to be optimistic that we will experience some of that today. The most prominent historical example of this is the Black Death in 14th century Europe, which by some estimates wiped out 30 to 50% of the total population (exact numbers are not known). The comparison to COVID-19 deaths is dramatic: As of a month ago, 0.2% of...

Maybe this happens on the left – I don’t know because I don’t follow their insane inner workings, focusing instead on their crazy end results – but there are an inordinate number of people on the right who insist they are the only true conservatives in the world and everyone else is impure. If there are corresponding progressives engaging in some kind of kabuki theater about what is really progressive or who isn’t progressive enough, they’ve managed to keep it quiet. But, for some reason, the right it lousy with people insisting their way is the only way, their thoughts...

The left's core principle is deceit. To rationalize any of its policy prescriptions or behavior is to turn oneself into a pretzel. So it is with last week's losses in Virginia and elsewhere. One would think leftists would step back from their (hard-left) agenda and analyze its appeal (or not) among the voters and tack toward a different course, but alas, they seemingly have learned nothing from their loss. Rather than analyze and adjust, they are intent on pursuing their tried and true tactic of blaming — wait for it — "racism" and "white supremacy"...even going so far as to...

We can only look how the FBI reacted in the past when journalists received material through questionable channels. Yesterday, reports appeared in the The New York Times and elsewhere that the FBI searched the home of James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas, on Saturday as part of its investigation into the possible theft of a diary belonging to Ashley Biden, President Biden’s daughter. Mr. O’Keefe released a statement acknowledging that the raid had indeed occurred and that the FBI had taken materials of current and former Project Veritas journalists despite the fact that Project Veritas’s legal team previously contacted...

It looks like Alec Baldwin will be living in Vermont for the foreseeable future. Baldwin, who surfaced in Manchester, Vermont, late last month after accidentally fatally shooting a cinematographer and injuring his director with a prop gun on his Western “Rust” in New Mexico, has been spotted house-hunting in the area, Dirt reported. One of the Manchester homes the actor toured is a 14,000-square-foot, nine-bedroom property on 13.5 acres with a dozen bathrooms, and goes for just $3.6 million, according to Dirt.

That's why they're so unpleasant to everyone and everything they see. To put it bluntly, liberals can't handle guilt. They live with an uncomfortable tension. They ambivalently believe they deserve to feel guilty because they're sort of sure they are. After all, they are Democrats. When a Democrat friend leaves the table in a huff at Starbucks, that's what's worrying him. At the height of COVID-19, Democrats' guilt anxiety was especially obvious as they hassled their fellow citizens to put those masks on. Last summer as we walked from the post office parking lot, a man chastised my wife for...

Procter & Gamble (“P&G”) is one of America’s largest corporations, with over 100,000 employees worldwide. It is putting a vaccine mandate into place for its more than 26,000 America-based employees, which will require them to get vaccinated, meet a “company-approved” exemption, or take weekly COVID tests. Those employees opposed to the vaccine mandate are pushing back. To that end, they released a powerful video warning, not P&G, but all Americans, what will happen if these employees lose their jobs. It’s unlikely that you’ve navigated through life without ever purchasing a product from P&G. Its list of products includes Charmin, Crest...

The Expendables isn’t just a movie anymore. It is fast becoming the American way of life under the most callous and dictatorial Presidential administration this nation has ever seen. On Wednesday, November 3, US House Representatives Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Luis Gohmert attempted a welfare check on the January 6 prisoners in the D.C. jail in which they are being held. They were turned away. The US Marshals, however, when they conducted a surprise inspection of the jail in which the 1/6 prisoners were being held, were able to obtain admission. They found the conditions so deplorable that 400 pretrial detainees...

Regaining Republican control of the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections is at the top of Sen. Ted Cruz's political agenda. And toward that end, the Texas conservative views Tuesday's elections as "enormously consequential." "I think the elections in Virginia, the elections in New Jersey, they’re foreshadowing what’s coming next year in 2022," Cruz said in an interview with Fox News on Friday night, ahead of his speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas. [cut] Cruz was the runner-up to former President Donald Trump in the rough and tumble 2016 Republican primary and...

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The survival of businesses in America relies upon the general goodwill of both their employees and customers. We are indeed in the most interesting of times -- times that call upon us, as freedom-loving Americans, to rise to our moment in history and to fight to save the freedoms and rights that were won for us across the years through the blood and treasure of our forefathers. On Thursday of this week, OSHA released its “rules” that will require approximately 84 million American workers to be vaccinated by January 4 of 2022. The enforcement of President Brandon’s executive order is...

I want to thank the Democrats for giving me, a trial lawyer living in Los Angeles, exactly what I need – a big, heaping tax cut. In their reconciliation bill, there are plenty of giveaways for lay-abouts, losers, and grifters, but also for us living by the beach getting hit with huge state taxes rendered un-deductible by that evil Donald Trump, notorious friend to the rich who he…shafted. Anyway, the Dems are going to wrong this right and fix this manifest justice, though – they are going to make essentially all the money I hand over to the socialist clique...

Wokeism is fatally flawed at the core. It pretends to be a road to universal harmony. But it will never deliver. Wokeism might seem intimidating at first but, like the Death Star, critical weaknesses make it vulnerable. The most obvious flaw is that certain individuals claim to be oppressed while simultaneously enjoying support from the government, the media, academia, the entire entertainment industry, Big Business, and Big Tech. You can either be a marginalized victim or enjoy the support of the most powerful institutions in existence but not both. Wokeness also contradicts itself. Take the phrase, “all white people are...

I saw Tucker Carlson’s Patriot Purge (all three parts) for free on RoxyTube yesterday along with 175 others. (That’s right only 175 people were watching it then.) There is a lot to recommend. Indeed, everyone should see it and determine for themselves if Tucker has raised relevant issues as to whether there was an “insurrection” on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol or not. Most of you who read American Thinker know that Tucker set out to tell the truth. For reasons discussed below, he may not yet have the complete truth, but there are numerous markers he reveals that...

My son Christian Allen and I almost died during childbirth. From the start, he was always stubborn and tenacious. He also was the one who would be there the second he was needed. He was an amazing football player at East Mecklenburg High School and had many accomplishments. He had a niece who he absolutely adored. Chris didn’t get to graduate high school or go to college. I will never see his children, his education or his accomplishments. All of that was robbed from us. Gone. In one night. Carlos Olguin, the man who shot my son to death in...

The FBI raided Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s home on Saturday, as authorities continued to investigate the apparent theft of President Biden’s daughter’s diary, a report said. The court-ordered early morning raid of O’Keefe’s Mamaroneck apartment was reported by The New York Times. It came two days after the feds reportedly raided two New York addresses linked to associates of the conservative website’s creator. Neighbors of the 37-year-old told the Times about the several-hours long search, and the FBI confirmed to the paper that agents had “performed law enforcement activity” at his building. “They asked for James,” next door neighbor...