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When the pandemic hit, school went online and learning seemed to be thrown to the wind. As the pandemic stretched on, many teachers were loath to return to the classroom because of apparent COVID fears. Parents began to question whether teachers were really concerned about or eager to foster their children’s learning, especially as they could see the learning loss that was happening … or rather, the learning that often wasn’t happening at all. Such fears were groundless, according to Cecily Myart-Cruz, head of the powerful United Teachers Los Angeles union. Myart-Cruz scoffed at the idea of learning loss in...

Thirteen House Republicans on Friday saved the progressive “Squad” from voting for the $1.2 trillion so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill. Thirteen House Republicans voted for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The bill passed 228-206, meaning that the bill did not receive support from 218 Democrats, and Republicans gave Democrats the necessary votes for it to pass Congress’s lower chamber. This is similar to how 19 Senate Republicans gave Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) the votes to reach the 60 plus-vote majority needed for the bill to pass through the Senate. Reps. John Katko (R-NY), Don Bacon (R-NE), Jeff Van...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi addresses the nation following a drone strike that targeted his residence in Baghdad on November 7. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi addresses the nation following a drone strike that targeted his residence in Baghdad on November 7. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi survived an attack by an armed drone on his residence on November 7 amid escalating tensions over the refusal of Iran-backed militias to accept last month's parliamentary election results. The Baghdad residence inside the city's fortified Green Zone was hit by a rocket attack early on November 7, the prime minister’s office said...

After learning George Zimmerman was scheduled to speak at The Riverside Hotel this weekend as part of a multiday conference, the hotel canceled the event. Zimmerman was listed as featured speaker at the “Lethal Force Gun Laws 2021 Tactics & Strategies Conference.” It was scheduled to take place Friday through Monday. In 2012, Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, and was later found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter after claiming self-defense. The shooting in Florida sparked a national conversation on racial profiling and so-called Stand Your Ground laws. “We recognize the immense pain that George...

ARLINGTON, Mass. — A Massachusetts town administered 1,200 COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11 on Saturday. Health officials in Arlington hosted the clinic inside the Arlington High School gymnasium from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In 1761, 63 merchants brought suit against a British law that allowed the search of homes and businesses without written justification or prior warning. An attorney named James Otis represented the merchants in this case, known as Paxton v. Gray. He lost the case, but uttered a line that made history: “An act against the constitution is void.” Britain had no formal “constitution” as we now have. Otis was referring to established legislation and case law, which should have taken precedence. Otis’s point: When government tries to implement unconstitutional law, it is illegitimate and should not be obeyed. This principle...

Subversion was from the "Right". How was our freedom being subverted 60 years ago when JFK & RFK were still anti-communist? Extending the ruling principle that the proprietorship of govt was privately held by powerful financial capitalists, going back thru JP Morgan into English history all the way back to the Cecil Power behind Elizabeth of Lord Burghley, it had been held by the Dulles Bros in Ike's Admin, who were primarily investment bankers, not diplomats or spooks. The Kennedys were cowboys who still sought the approval of Wall St but didn't really understand the rules, so they went afoul...

Public Health England (PHE) is an agency of the UK Govt. One of their current functions is to publish medical statistics on Covid and the effectiveness of treatment. This post is to present critical detail from PHE's technical briefing 23 that covers the period: 1 February 2021 to 12 September 2021. At this link: SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation in England: technical briefing 23Please look at the top of page 20: "Deaths within 28 days of positive specimen date" All deaths: 2,542All deaths (Unvaccinated): 722All deaths (Vaccinated): 1779 - or 1820 if one includes the 'Unlinked' columnThe...

I’ve already wasted my extra hour as I just slept through it. That’s how you know for sure I don’t have a cat.It knows it’s really 8:07So on this fine first day of non-daylight saving time, I have nothing on offer. The best I can do is showcase a charming little story out of New Zealand. It seems a couple found this huge potato growing in their garden. Since they didn’t plant it they’ve no idea how it got there. Colin explains that their gardening technique consists of “throw(ing) a bunch of cow manure and straw onto their garden and...

Tens of thousands of Ethiopians rallied in Addis Ababa on Sunday in support of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government as federal troops fight rebellious forces who are threatening to march on the city. Some demonstrators denounced the United States, which is among the foreign powers that have called for a ceasefire as a year-long war that has killed thousands of people intensified amid rebel advances last weekend. (snip) "They want to destroy our country like they did to Afghanistan. They will never succeed, we are Ethiopians." (snip)

Although rare, it is possible for a naturalized U.S. citizen to have their citizenship stripped through a process called "denaturalization." Former citizens who are denaturalized are subject to removal (deportation) from the United States. Natural-born U.S. citizens may not have their citizenship revoked against their will, since birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, but they may choose to renounce their citizenship on their own. This article covers the grounds for having one's U.S. citizenship revoked, the basics of the denaturalization process, and defenses to denaturalization. Grounds for Denaturalization The following are some of the grounds...

The AMA again rejects “equality” in favor of “equity” — The AMA is gone. It’s influence needs to be minimized, because much like the American Bar Association, it can’t be reformed. The American Medical Association is becoming the poster child for institutional devaluation at the hands of “antiracism” and other offshoots of Critical Race Theory. While the AMA has limited enforcement power, its influence is substantial. While the injection of CRT into the medical field was a long time coming, November 2020 may have been the inflection point, when the AMA declared Racism is a threat to public health: The...

Former Vice President Mike Pence has spoken in defense of his role in certifying the presidential election of Joe Biden. An Iowa student asked Pence why he “bucked Trump” and certified the 2020 election results on January 6th. “On January 5th, you were convinced that the election was correctly stolen,” the student named Jared said. “You, Trump, Peter Navarro, John Eastman, and others had a plan on the morning of the 6th to send the certification back to the states. What is the name of the person who convinced you to buck President Trump’s plan and certify the votes?” Pence...

Q: Can the government take your property without a conviction? How is that legal? Civil forfeiture is when the government seizes the money, homes and cars of people engaged in criminal activity. The money is mostly used to boost the budget of law enforcement agencies. Historically, civil forfeiture was used infrequently until it was developed as a tool in the war on drugs in the 1980s. It expanded in use to seizing the cars of intoxicated drivers, or the proceeds from activities ranging from illegal gambling to securities fraud. The reason this is legal is that, while people have constitutional...

It’s true, as the late, great Andrew Breitbart famously said, that “politics is downstream of culture.” But both are downstream of education. Nothing is more important to our families—or the future of our country. In that regard, Republican Glen Younkin’s recent gubernatorial victory in Virginia, fueled in part by fed-up parents, was heartening. But does it signal that the tide has turned? Not to downplay that happy outcome or the role brave parents played in it, but sadly, I think not. I still believe, as I wrote recently, that the “public” schools are lost to us. Which leaves parents to...

The Talk Shows November 7th, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass. Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. Chris Wallass receives the Clinton has-been Panetta Institute’s Jefferson-Lincoln Award. Bill Hemmer interviews Biden advisor Cedric Richmond. Panel of Wallass idiots: Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.); Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) (wow! There some political balance!—Sarcasm). Marc Short, former Chief of Staff to Vice President Mike Pence; Catherine Lucey I’m home, Wall Street Journal; Whine Williams, Fox News. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda...

A few days ago Scientology put out its usual press releases about how it was at the scene of yet another disaster with its yellow-shirted “Volunteer Ministers,” this time on the island of La Palma in the Canaries where a volcano began erupting on September 19. As we’ve documented time and time again here, what’s actually going on is that Scientology dispatches its members for the primary reason of setting up PR photos like the one you see above. This time, at least, a Spanish news website, El Español, is calling out Scientology for its vulturish opportunism in a substantial...

Joe Biden—or more likely his behind-the-scenes handlers who tell him what to say and do—has nominated Jessica Rosenworcel to become the first female chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Biden as always read off the Teleprompter to tout his latest “historic first” as a champion for Internet and Cable connectivity for all. Chances are, however, Rosenworcel will be just another Washington insider mope passing through the revolving door of the FCC without making much actual “history.” But she could break that cycle if she’d take a long overdue run at placing oversight of cable tv networks under the same FCC...

Election post-mortems used to be pretty simple affairs. The winners would claim a “mandate” to govern, and the losers would mutter to themselves something approximating to the late Dick Tuck’s public pronouncement when he lost a race for the California Senate in 1966: “The people have spoken, the bastards.” But sooner or later they’d have to go back to the drawing board to try to figure out what they were doing wrong and what they could do differently to win back the voters who had chosen the other party. Sometimes it took a while for the message from “the people”...