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Time and time and time again, “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” and other similar words are being used as excuses to dumb down educational standards.Here are 24 examples:1) The New York Times wrote, “The Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.”Original: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html?_r=0Archive: https://archive.ph/GzyQM2) The New York Times wrote, “A 2009 Princeton study showed Asian-Americans had to score 140 points higher on their SATs than whites, 270 points higher...

The star of a controversial new film about Donald Trump has said the former president "should be grateful" that it provides a "complex, three-dimensional take" on his life. US actor Sebastian Stan portrays Trump in The Apprentice, which focuses on Trump's younger years as a real estate tycoon in New York. The former president has threatened to take legal action against producers, describing the film as "fake and classless" and saying he hoped it would "bomb" at the box office. The film struggled to find a distributor in the US and its director has described the process of making and...

Former President Donald Trump has widened his lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the battleground state of North Carolina. A new telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and American Thinker finds that, if the election were held today, 51% of Likely North Carolina voters would vote for Trump, while 46% would vote for Harris. In September, Trump had a three-point lead – 49% to Harris’s 46% – in North Carolina.

Russia is reportedly assembling a battalion of North Korean nationals to help push Ukraine's forces out of Kursk. -snip- In an apparent effort to remedy its waning forces, the North Korean soldiers will form a "special Buryat battalion," named after the Mongolic ethnic group, indigenous to the region spanning Siberia as well as northern Mongolia and China. -snip- The battalion is anticipated to comprise up to 3,000 North Korean soldiers and is currently being equipped with small arms and ammunition. This North Korean unit will complement the Buryat presence in the Russian army, currently one of the most overrepresented groups...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson announced a multi-million dollar lawsuit against both a major news network and a local musician over multiple published reports that Robinson claims are defamatory. On Tuesday, Robinson and his attorney, Jesse Binnall, who represented former Pres. Donald Trump in multiple cases including his unsuccessful attempts to have the 2020 election thrown out, announced in a Tuesday morning news conference that they had filed a defamation lawsuit. They accuse The Assembly and CNN of publishing false articles in September that allege that Robinson frequented a pornographic video store and pornographic message...

Explanation: How bright and strange will the tails of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS become? The comet has brightened dramatically over the few weeks as it passed its closest to the Sun and, just three days ago, passed its closest to the Earth. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) became of the brightest comets of the past century over the past few days, but was unfortunately hard to see because it was so nearly superposed on the Sun. As the comet appears to move away from the Sun, it is becoming a remarkable sight -- but may soon begin to fade. The featured animated video shows...

Itay Shabi: ''For five hours I hid under a tree, when the terrorists passed by my side. I felt that God protected me from the terrorists. That morning of Simchat Torah, Shabi started it with me like most of the residents of the Gaza Envelope with a series of loud alarms and explosions. "Immediately we understood that we were at war. The intensity of the barrages left no doubt that we were in an event on an unusual scale. Something we had never experienced before. However, in the first few minutes we did not understand what was happening, but we...

Forty-nine House Democrats signed an open letter to Fortune 1,000 chief executives asking them to affirm their commitment to their workplace equality initiatives, amid heightened backlash and legal challenges to the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs. “We write to call on you to reject division and continue supporting programs, policies, and initiatives that give everyone a fair chance at achieving the American Dream,” read the Tuesday letter, led by Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.). Garcia and his colleagues made the case that supporting programs that foster inclusion is smart for business, since, the lawmakers said in the letter, if the...

NATIONAL CHEESE CURD DAY On October 15, National Cheese Curd Day celebrates the velvety goodness of cheese curds. #NationalCheeseCurdDay Cheese Curds are unique, funky, snackable little pieces of yellow or white Wisconsin cheddar cheese. Many restaurants coat and deep-fry them to a golden brown. When you bite into one, first expect a warm buttery crunch on the outside. The next delicious taste will be an ooey-gooey burst of dairyland delicacy on the inside. What are they? Well, cheesemaking naturally creates cheese curds. Fresh ones squeak when you bite into them. Cheesemakers create different flavors to appease the growing number of...

An anti-sex trafficking activist claims that the trafficking of migrant girls has exploded since the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration, according to a Monday report from the Free Press. A woman who identified herself as “Lisa” and runs a non-profit organization dedicated to dismantling sex trafficking rings said that the number of girls being trafficked has drastically changed in just the past few years as open border policies have made it easier for criminals to operate in the U.S., according to a report by the Free Press. The claims follow hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) from Latin...

The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk losing access to U.S. weapons funding. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned their Israeli counterparts in a letter dated Sunday that the changes must occur. The letter, which restates U.S. policy toward humanitarian aid and arms transfers, was sent amid deteriorating conditions in northern Gaza and an Israeli airstrike on a hospital tent site in central Gaza that killed at least four people and burned others....

Robert Adolph Boehm, in accordance with his lifelong dedication to his own personal brand of decorum, muttered his last unintelligible and likely unnecessary curse on October 6, 2024, shortly before tripping backward over "some stupid mother****ing thing" and hitting his head on the floor. Robert was born in Winters, TX, to the late Walter Boehm and Betty Smith on May 6, 1950, after which God immediately and thankfully broke the mold and attempted to cover up the evidence. Raised Catholic, Robert managed to get his wife Dianne pregnant (three times) fast enough to just barely miss getting drafted into the...

Florida’s public universities are purging the list of general education courses they will offer next year to fall in line with a state law pushed for by Gov. Ron DeSantis targeting “woke ideologies” in higher education. These decisions, in many cases being driven by the university system’s Board of Governors, have the potential to affect faculty and thousands of students across the state. Hundreds of courses are slated to become electives after previously counting toward graduation requirements. The state’s involvement in a curriculum process — which has historically been left to universities — is riling academics and students who oppose...

This 1st day of early voting is a blowout. As of noon, we are at 122,049 voters so far today. The record 1st day was 2020, with 136,000 votes cast. We will be blowing past the previous First Day record. Great job counties, avg check in time is 55 seconds. #gapol

Biden’s border policies have led to an explosion in the forced prostitution of migrants in the U.S. ‘If I wanted to, I could order a girl within 15 minutes.’ DALLAS, TEXAS — Lisa slides a Hellcat pistol into her backpack, slinging it over her shoulder. She jumps out of the driver’s seat of her massive Ford F-250 as we head into a barbecue joint for lunch. Steel brass knuckles glint in the console beside a pencil-shaped, pronged object. She sees me looking at it. “That’s my stabby-stick,” Lisa says before I even ask. “In case I can’t bring my gun...

Kamala Harris questioned Donald Trump's mental state Tuesday after the 78-year-old Republican's latest televised town hall veered into a surreal, impromptu music session. "Hope he's okay," the Democratic candidate posted on X. Harris's campaign, which has begun to aggressively challenge Trump on his health and mental stability, said that during the late Monday event he appeared "lost, confused, and frozen on stage." Former president Trump defended the event in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, saying it was "so different". "It was amazing! The Q and A was almost finished when people began fainting from the excitement and heat," Trump...

Transcript linked below video Li'l Kim blew up roads and railway between Nork and Sork. Sork fired back. Trump has commented.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went on CNN to make the case for giving government total control over information. "Right now, there are too many websites that allow users to post anything that's on their mind," she complained. "This is because federal law permits Internet platforms to pretend that they are, like the Post Office, just passing along communications without taking any responsibility for inspecting the content. It's bad enough that the Post Office passes along malicious and erroneous content, but it's limited to one recipient per envelope. A messaged placed on Facebook or X can reach millions in...

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg incorrectly fact-checked a guest about a famous moment when President Ronald Reagan challenged the Soviet Union. Actress Rosie Perez was comparing former President Trump’s years in office to the Biden-Harris administration, arguing that Trump was a national embarrassment during his tenure in the White House and the crises he faced. "Biden and Harris got us out of a pandemic. Our world was crumbling around us. What did Trump do on the pandemic? He sent COVID tests that we desperately needed over to our adversary, to Russia. What happened?" she asked. "Even if you are a...

Hurricanes Helene and Milton hit Florida's west coast back-to-back in the span of weeks, with families barely able to rebuild in the time between them. Representative Greg Steube (R-FL) discussed the impact of the hurricanes in a recent appearance on Fox Business's Cavuto Coast to Coast, describing how "people on the coastline just got hammered" and offered insight into the prevailing homeowners' insurance crisis in the Sunshine State. Rep. Steube noted that Helene brought a 5—to 7-foot storm surge, a record high, while Milton's eye passed over his congressional district, so the people on the coastline just got hammered." I...