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-Great Cultural Revolution
Ban Critical Race Theory from Our Schools
[TOWNHALL] As we head toward this weekend's 245th anniversary of American independence, Critical Race Theory has emerged as the dominant subject gripping and dividing the nation. The threshold question, itself the subject of rancorous and oftentimes disingenuous debate, is what the term "critical race theory" even refers to. When this semantic debate surfaces, proponents usually attempt two things at once.

First, they accuse their CRT-skeptical interlocutors of being bigots, white supremacists or apologists who want to deliberately muddle and whitewash America's complex -- and at times tragic -- history of race relations. This first step involves CRT proponents grilling CRT critics as to why they are so "scared" to "discuss racism" or "discuss slavery," as if that applied to anyone other than a truly infinitesimal and politically powerless fringe subset.

Second, while publicly seizing the moral high ground, CRT proponents simultaneously work behind the scenes to advance what it is that they actually believe. Consider this forthright (and harrowing) admission from "Critical Race Theory
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Close all the government schools and give each childcare provider a voucher. Let the parents decide if they want their kids educated or indoctrinated. Or if they care at all. If they don't, why should I?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/04/2021 6:52 Comments || Top||


#3  if the Republican wins the Gov race in VA this November it will because of the CRT issue

CRT is toxic even in many of the leftist strongholds like the suburbs of Washington DC

probably it will be important in NJ but not as much as other issues

about a dozen large cities (e.g., NYC, Cleveland, Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, Pittsburgh) have elections for mayor in Nov but crime will likely be the dominant issue
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/04/2021 11:31 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 Abolish teacher colleges and departments of education. Make aspiring teachers to get BA in the subject they plan to teach and then 3 - 6 months course to get a teaching license.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/04/2021 16:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Make aspiring teachers to get BA in the subject they plan to teach No BAs in teaching elementary schoolkids, last I heard.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/04/2021 17:47 Comments || Top||

#6  ^BA is what you Americans call an undergraduate degree. In my experience, people with a BA in something-education know about 1/10 of what a BA in something from a regular university knows.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/04/2021 18:06 Comments || Top||

#7  I agree, g(r)omgoru.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/04/2021 21:38 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Federal Judge Overrules Biden Tax Restriction
[Epoch Times] A federal judge issued a permanent injunction on Thursday to block the ambiguous tax mandate in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.
I imagine the blue states thought it was a good idea, right Nancy?
U.S. District Judge Douglas R. Cole from the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled that the tax mandate in the America Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)—which seems to tie the relief fund to the states’ authority to reduce tax—exceeds the Congress’s authority under the Spending Clause due to its ambiguity.

A stipulation in the $1.9 trillion sweeping relief package has caused considerable disputes between red states and the Biden administration.

"A State or territory shall not use the funds provided under this section … to either directly or indirectly offset a reduction in the net tax revenue of such State or territory resulting from a change in law, regulation, or administrative interpretation during the covered period that reduces any tax (by providing for a reduction in a rate, a rebate, a deduction, a credit, or otherwise) or delays the imposition of any tax or tax increase," the bill reads.
I suppose some states have a balanced budget and wouldn't know how to properly spend the windfall from Washington. Paid with their own taxes, no less.
Several red states argued that this paragraph may deprive their authorities to reduce tax after receiving the relief.
But the blue states would never even think of reducing taxes with an influx of revenue.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/04/2021 09:25 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Hunter Biden used Joe's VP perks to pursue deal with Carlos Slim
[NYPOST] Hunter Biden
......son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him.....
used the perks of the vice presidency — parties, meetings with Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
and flights on Air Force Two — to pursue business deals with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim while his father was in office, records show.Hunter’s involvement with Slim, at one time the world’s richest man, commenced soon after a White House state dinner the magnate attended in May 2010, along with Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, to honor Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

The diary on Hunter’s abandoned laptop shows he and Slim were both guests at a State Department luncheon during Calderon’s visit, which was hosted by his father and then-Secretary of State Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
. Spanish tenor Placido Domingo also reportedly attended.

The charmed path that always opens for Hunter when his father meets a foreign leader or oligarch led him to Mexico on a VIP trip the following year. Hunter’s diary in May 2011 shows a "tentative tour hosted by Carlos Slim" of the tycoon’s private "Soumaya Museum," in Mexico City, which Slim founded and named after his late wife, Soumaya Domit. Containing priceless sculptures from pre-Spanish Mesoamerica, it is the most visited museum in the country. There could be no greater honor offered to Hunter than a private tour with the billionaire founder.

Hunter also had breakfast with Slim’s friend, Mexican billionaire Carlos Bremer, at his magnificent villa in the shadow of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range in Monterrey. Bremer, former director of the country’s stock exchange, had donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and sat on the foundation’s board.



Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Why did 'Vogue' call Dr. Jill Biden a 'goddess in stilettos?'
[JPOST] ...As if the title of its cover story — "A First Lady for All of Us: On the Road with Dr. Jill Biden" — wasn’t sufficiently sycophantic, its accompanying content reads like a parody of a totalitarian regime’s propaganda sheet.

Those observing the current Orwellian climate in the United States no longer gasp at each new move by "progressives" to control society’s collective mind, but some take occasional breaks from tearing their hair out to laugh at the more egregious examples. Vogue’s Jonathan Van Meter, who penned the lengthy tribute, is an apt target for ridicule in this regard.

Not that he was trying to be funny. On the contrary, he was clearly proud of praising Jill Biden, in all seriousness, for the "several degrees" that earned her the "title [of doctor] that she has every right to."
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Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  not just a teacher in girlie garb

Hey! What's wrong with teachers in girlie garbs?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/04/2021 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Because their writers wouldn't know a Goddess unless she was sporting a strap-on.
Posted by: badanov || 07/04/2021 1:21 Comments || Top||

#3 
'goddess in stilettos'
Posted by: Grearong Clunk1850 || 07/04/2021 2:03 Comments || Top||

#4  a 'goddess in stilettos'

Hecate? Kali? Mórrígan?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/04/2021 4:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Really? Really? Yes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/04/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Remember Big Mike's "toned arms?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/04/2021 7:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Why did 'Vogue' call Dr. Jill Biden a 'goddess in stilettos?

That's a rhetorical question, right?
Posted by: Raj || 07/04/2021 7:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Why?

Conquest's Third Law.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/04/2021 8:14 Comments || Top||

#9  USSA
Like a piece on Madame Ceausescu
Posted by: Clusoque Sholuck9332 || 07/04/2021 8:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Journolism
Posted by: Frank G || 07/04/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Written by an obvious homosexual. Also thinks having a stringy, leather faced, pink haired rug muncher model for Victoria's Secret is a great idea.
Posted by: Thraviling Thromons4323 || 07/04/2021 12:04 Comments || Top||

#12  If the percentage of ghey men was actually what the media lies about it being, I'd have a harem myself, and im neither muzz nor Mormon...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/04/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||

#13  How about nauseatingly sycophantic?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/04/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

#14  she went to poland and got the madonna michael jackson makeover!
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 07/04/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||

#15  Medusa
Posted by: JHH || 07/04/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||

#16  That's no way to talk about our current POTUS
Posted by: Frank G || 07/04/2021 13:15 Comments || Top||

#17 
Person
Of
Totally
Unknown
Sanity
Posted by: Jack Omusons8004 || 07/04/2021 13:20 Comments || Top||

#18  "Dr" Jill is actually employed as "Nursemaid" Jill".
Posted by: warthogswife || 07/04/2021 13:35 Comments || Top||

#19  Go read the whole Vogue tongue bath, if you have the stomach. After all, I went and found it for you!
Posted by: Bobby || 07/04/2021 14:00 Comments || Top||

#20  We thank you for your sacrifice Bobby... :)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/04/2021 14:48 Comments || Top||

#21  Please replace Jack with Joe


Well with the paper, Jill knows, she is a doctor.
Posted by: Angating Spusose8182 || 07/04/2021 15:06 Comments || Top||

#22  Dice Man: Jack and Jill went up the hill
Each with a buck and a quarter.
Jill came back with $2.50
The f*ckin whore...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/04/2021 16:42 Comments || Top||

#23  Oh Gawd, Just read some of it. I hoped the author at least wiped his mouth off after that servicing of the Bidens.

I was thinking the same thing Murcek...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/04/2021 16:52 Comments || Top||

#24  Johnathan Van Meter
Association Signal on the Book Leaf
With Hair & Without Hair



This author is a political

Posted by: Bill Elmaing3013 || 07/04/2021 17:17 Comments || Top||

#25  Her husband is dung on stilts
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/04/2021 17:45 Comments || Top||

#26  Off the Pride Month pile...

A drag show needs plenty of drama.
Does Biden deliver? Oh, mama!
The girls at her service
Look suitably nervous.
"The brogans are Joe's..."
"And those Dr. Jill's clothes!"
"But that booty look just like..."
"OBAMA!"
Posted by: Zenobia Thud8506 || 07/04/2021 19:21 Comments || Top||


White House goes into damage control mode after reports of dysfunction in Kamala Harris' office
[CNN] The White House dove into damage control this week after reports of dysfunction and infighting in Vice President Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's and bimbo votes. She's displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
' office, with the administration trying to stop a drama-filled narrative from taking hold, according to five people who spoke to CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
about the dynamics within Harris' office.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She has a challenging job, a hard job, and she has a great supportive team of people around her.

And they've been doing what, exactly? Planning a trip to Europe?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/04/2021 14:02 Comments || Top||

#2  She has a challenging job, a hard job, and she has a great supportive team of people around her.

Read as : She's just not cut out for this job but has some very desperate people propping her up.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/04/2021 14:09 Comments || Top||

#3  The Democrats seem to be big on the concept of "You WILL elect the one that WE choose!"
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/04/2021 14:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Democrats just follow the lead of their heroes.

Posted by: Angating Spusose8182 || 07/04/2021 15:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Face it: the Vice President has exactly two constitutionally mandated jobs:
1. Break ties in the Senate
2. Check if the President is still alive, and if so, and the VP is not needed for job #1, go back to sleep.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/04/2021 16:02 Comments || Top||



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