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It's a matter of what they've been taught. "No one ever washes a rented car." This old cliché explains much of what is happening in both politics and society today. The entire CRT/BLM/wokist sentiment in the country — epitomized by what is happening in a sizable majority of high school and college classrooms — highlights what is arguably the most dangerous issue currently facing America: we are raising — encouraging, even! — an entire generation of people who feel no ownership of, loyalty to, or obligation to the country in which they live. The woke movement is the predominant force...

This past weekend, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd added another column to the myriad irrational and hysterical pieces about the "existential threat" climate change allegedly poses to human life. As I do after almost every piece I read on the internet, I read comments submitted by readers. One provided me with an epiphany. It was a comment submitted by New York Times reader "Sophia" of Bangor, Maine: "I have one child, a daughter, who told me age 8 that she would never have a child because of global warming. She's now 34 and has never changed her mind. So...

Several King County, Washington, activist teachers revealed to Crosscut how they inject race and “equity” lessons into their elementary classrooms. Kent teacher Joanne Barber took advantage of violent Black Lives Matter protests last year “to teach more about race” in her second grade class. “I am willing to be that teacher that has those hard conversations,” she said. “I would be doing a huge disservice to my students if I didn’t give them information that they could see themselves in.” She told Crosscut learning that “racial history” is “just as important as reading or math.” Barber teaches children 7- and...

Ever notice when you watch or hear (not read to some extent) the supposed "news" on TV, on video, streaming, etc. their tone is one as if that told you they got back from a routine errand, slightly serious tone, anunciating certain words, slight or pronounced nods/etc. on certain words/phrases, eyebrow movements, featuring "on cue", etc.?

Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) has introduced legislation that seeks to ban critical race theory from being taught in public schools in Washington, D.C. Grothman, who announced the measure on Friday, is accompanied by four GOP co-sponsors, including Reps. Ralph Norman (SC), Pat Fallon (TX), Bob Gibbs (OH) and Ronny Jackson (TX). According to a press release from Grothman, the bill, dubbed the Ending Critical Race Theory in D.C. Public Schools Act, proposes that public and charter schools in D.C. be prohibited from requiring instruction on “ideas that promote race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating,” or that a person “bears responsibility...

As children, while we enjoy fantasy, we easily recognize reality. We’ve been trained as adults, though, to abandon that innate understanding. My daughter was born in June 2008, in Hollywood, California, the same year California voters went to the ballot box to reject same-sex marriage by a significant margin. Over the course of the next seven years, court after court overturned the voters' understanding of the word “marriage” and, in 2015, the Supreme Court settled the matter (at least for now) in the Obergefell decision. Around the time my daughter turned three, I began to engage her in an interesting...

The other day I wrote that “Woke” was the new conformism. It is, of course, but I undersold it. It is much more than that and more dangerous. As Tal Bachmann notes at Steynonline, it is now our state religion, a state religion in a country that—constitutionally and for good reason—is not supposed to have one. * * * * * * * * “Woke” gains adherents much in the manner of “est”—the cult-like Erhard Seminars Training—that I attended in the 1970s at the behest of a movie producer interested in making a film about it. (It never happened.) If...

The current cultural miasma we find ourselves in might lead you to ask “where did we go wrong?” To which I reply “what do you mean ‘we’ Kemosabe?It certainly wasn’t us who determined language had to evolve to the point of meaninglessness in order to accommodate the sensitivities of the loonies amongst us.Nor was it us who determined that our elections needed to be “fortified” to ensure victory to the cabal. “Saved” – I don’t think that word means what you think it means, TimeThe simple term “rigged” was so old school, and had so many negative connotations.Time has published...

An astounding number of young people pose a real danger to the public, at the drop of a hat. Many of us recently saw an online video of a young teenage girl brandishing a knife, large enough to be a deadly weapon, attempting to stab another young girl. Just in the nick of time, a police officer shot the attacker, who died. While this is the most extreme video I've seen, there are many other instances of similar behavior, mostly unrecorded by media. SNIP Bear in mind that the military learned a long time ago that training a combat infantryman...

The factor that determines how able to be hypnotized a person is, is suggestibility: If the strong suggestions in hypnosis are readily received, the person is able to be hypnotized. If there is strong resistance, the opposite. Why did some of the Republican establishment react so viscerally (with the guts) to the news monopolies' portrayal of the events of Jan 6 2021 as a seditious attack upon the United States? The main factor has to be suggestibility. The left counts on us to be highly law abiding. They can best further their plans to eliminate us from civil life using...

Such viciousness reveals the lack of good arguments for the critical race perspective and that parents’ refusal to endorse racism has put agitators on the defensive.Kathy Del Calvo is not a racist. Of her four grown children, three are sons, and one of her sons is black. Her other two sons are married to black women.Del Calvo is married to a naturalized American who was born in Cuba, and their family is that exciting blend of backgrounds, appearances, and cultures that used to be celebrated as embodying the American “melting pot.” Hispanic, African-American, European, Afro-Caribbean, immigrant, native-born, white, black, brown:...

President Joe Biden will call for free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, a $200 billion investment to be rolled out as part of his sweeping American Families Plan being unveiled Wednesday in an address to Congress. The administration said the historic investment would benefit 5 million children and save the average family $13,000. It calls for providing federal funds to help the states offer preschool, with teachers and other employees earning $15 an hour. “These investments will give American children a head start and pave the way for the best-educated generation in U.S. history,” the administration said. The...

Anti-American brainwashing starts early The Left’s unceasing efforts to turn the young against America will be supercharged with your tax dollars if a radical new plan devoting $6 billion to leftist educational indoctrination becomes law. The proposed “Civics Secures Democracy Act,” introduced in Congress last month would authorize $1 billion per year in federal grants over six years for K–12 curriculum development, teacher training, and research on the teaching of history and civics.

WXMI — On Monday, March 8 at 7 p.m., FOX 17 is airing a special segment on diversity and implicit bias called ‘The Hidden Bias of Good People.’ The segment will be led by Dr. Bryant Marks, a leading implicit bias trainer. Dr. Marks completed his undergraduate major in psychology at Moorehouse College, where he now teaches, and his doctorate in psychology from University of Michigan. He has worked on diversity and equity initiatives for Fortune 500 companies, police departments and served as a presidential adviser on race and diversity to the Obama Administration. During the hour, Dr. Marks will...

Racists State-sponsored instruction that makes your child a dogmatic racist relativist is not worth any benefit you feel schools give in return. Not a single one. Being Mowgli would be better.To obtain or keep teaching licenses, Illinois now requires all K-12 teachers to indoctrinate their students in critical race theory, destructive lies about sex and gender, and other leftist mind poison. The rules clearly communicate that in Illinois public schools are no longer places to learn, but places children will be lied to, manipulated, and warehoused as wards of a corrupt and malevolent state. And this kind of schooling is...

It will take an all-out national effort to dismantle the radicalization pipeline that has planted conspiracy theories in the heads of millions of Americans and inspired last month's attack on the Capitol, experts tell Axios. Keeping extremists out of the institutions where they could do the greatest damage — like the military, police departments and legislatures.

American Girl, a doll and storybook brand beloved by young girls since the 1980s, has released a “2021 Girl of the Year” named Kira whose story featuring aunts in a same-sex “marriage” has taken parents and children by surprise. “Kira's aunts are married lesbians, and that needs to be known by every adult who hands the book to a child or who allows a child to check it out from the library,” said one book reviewer on Amazon. The character Kira, along with her doll avatar, was revealed as “2021 Girl of the Year” on Good Morning America on Dec....

At the height of the Matrix, the protagonist Neo (he'd been called CopperTop) sees that everyone in the world is wired into a giant power grid. Dr. Robert Epstein -- a mysterious man warned that he'd better watch out, then his wife died in a mysterious "accident" -- most recently reported on Tucker Carlson that Google switched 6 million votes. Earlier before the Senate, he projected about 10 times that much cheating. How often do you vote, every 2 years? What about the rest of the 365 (×2) days? We listen to conservative talking heads who use the same old...

The result of Democrats controlling Washington will be "more regulation, less freedom, more taxation, less religious liberty, more socialism, less democracy [and] more funds for abortion," contends James Dobson. And, he said in his latest newsletter, there will be "less support for the sanctity of human life, less funding for the military, more illegal immigration, more restrictions on speech, less patriotism, more wasteful spending, less support for families, more regulations on business, more appeasement of China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea, less support for the electoral college, trillions more dollars for climate nonsense, more LGBTQ propaganda, less moral compunction, more...

Concerned that “free speech can be abused by enemies of the Biden Administration to undermine its policies and programs,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is calling for “the creation of a commission or some similar agency to rein in media who deviate from the truth.” While the United States has relied on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech for the last 230 years to prevent the government from censoring criticism of itself, Ocasio-Cortez contends that “the anarchy allowed by our Constitution is not up to the task of shepherding the American people toward the democratic socialism voters just endorsed...