Saturday, November 5, 2022

The Battle Over Parents’ Rights in Education Is Just Getting Started

 Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., Director, DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family

It should come as no surprise that parents have been fighting for their rights so vociferously when it comes to public education.

Critical race theory is far less shocking than the radical gender ideology that seems to have overtaken our nation’s schools.

Universal school choice for everyone would not just make schools better and more competitive. It would make them less of an arena for the culture war.

  "It should come as no surprise that parents have been fighting for their rights so vociferously when it comes to public education. They’re fighting because they sense that those rights are under attack.

"It started with the lockdowns in 2020. For the first time, many parents suddenly saw, courtesy of online conferencing apps like Zoom, what their kids were being taught. And they didn’t like it: Toxic and divisive ideas about race—disguised as lessons on slavery and racism—contradicted the belief in racial equality that most Americans—whatever their politics—shared with civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"But critical race theory is far less shocking than the radical gender ideology that seems to have overtaken our nation’s schools. It teaches children that “some people are boys, some people are girls, some people are both, neither, or somewhere in between”’—as one popular children’s book puts it.

"Schools are promoting the notion that some kids—perhaps many kids if recent trends continue—are born in the wrong body. Suddenly, from Florida to Texas to Wyoming, parents are discovering that schools are teaching, seemingly across the curriculum, that an internal sense of gender trumps biological sex. Worse, some schools are changing, at their students’ request—but without their parents’ knowledge or consent—their students’ names and pronouns to conform to a child’s surprising new “gender identity.” 

"When parents come to school board meetings to complain, far too many are met with silence or risible accusations that they are politicizing education. Parents have the primary right and responsibility to raise and teach their children.

"Many parents delegate part of the teaching task to schools, in an act of trust. Rather than acting as faithful stewards of that trust, too many schools have decided that it’s their job to alienate kids from “regressive” views of their parents.".

"Is it any wonder that this has proved controversial?We could dissipate some of the heat by increasing the rights of parents over their children’s schooling. States should connect school money to children, rather than to school buildings. Universal school choice for everyone—rich and poor, conservative and liberal—would not just make schools better and more competitive. It would make them less of an arena for the culture war that is otherwise roiling our culture.". . .

Increasing chaos engulfs CNN as its ratings hit rock bottom with no end point in sight

While CNN seems to this writer to be staffed with high school airheads, much more insidious is MSNBC. What channel sinks lower nor more venomous than Joy Reid, Joe Scarborough, Nicolle Wallace, Chris Hayes and the mostly-peaceful- but-fiery Ali Velshi, to name a few.


Peter Barry Chowka    "Big news this week in the world of left-wing mainstream cable news.  It almost gives one hope that the fake news house of cards that has ruled the roost since 2016 or earlier may be coming to a well deserved end.

"While the rest of the MSM won't admit and scarcely report it, the future of fake news leader CNN is bleak at best and possibly terminal.  Its leader during the Trump era of pioneering woke news, Jeff Zucker, was offed earlier this year.  His successor, leftist programmer Chris Licht, has produced nothing but failures.  These are now reaching critical mass as the channel's prime-time hour at 9 P.M. lacks a host while ratings for CNN's new nightly show from 10 P.M. to 12 A.M. are shockingly low, possibly the worst in the channel's entire history.  In addition, the move of leftist prime time host Don Lemon to co-hosting the channel's morning show is proving to be another looming disaster.

"The two most recent cable television ratings reports, by Nielsen Media Research, for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week are astonishing.  On Wednesday, for instance, CNN's 11 P.M. hour, CNN Tonight, hosted by Alysin Camerota and Laura Coates, had only 260,000 total viewers.  At the same time, Gutfeld! on Fox News had almost ten times as many viewers — 2.5 million.  In the advertiser-preferred demographic, viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, CNN had only 44,000 viewers versus Fox News Channel's 417,000.  The number of total viewers CNN had is approximately 0.1% of the U.S. population.

"These ratings are not anomalies but are reflective of most of the day, when Fox News had more than twice as many viewers overall as CNN and MSNBC combined.". . .

Who has really been running our country?

Right now, job number one is openly exposing the "shadow government" that is really running America, and doing everything possible to drive them completely out.  Seeing what is happening now (and learning from the past), it is not an exaggeration to say that we are all on a freight train headed to hell.  If we don't derail it soon, there will eventually be no turning back. 


Brian Camenker  "On the day that Joe Biden was sworn into office, he signed dozens of extensively radical executive orders.  Then the Biden administration began populating the federal government and the federal Judiciary — including the new Supreme Court vacancy — with hundreds (probably thousands) of the most extreme anti-American people imaginable. 

"The administration has re-crafted an enormous number of laws and regulations — often illegally — to push the hard-left, woke, LGBT agendas throughout business, government, education, and society in general.  U.S. foreign policy, including the hideous abandonment in Afghanistan and unhinged Ukrainian response, has clearly been coordinated to weaken America and strengthen our enemies.  Our military is being emasculated — and proselytized to consider patriotic Americans as the enemy.

"The Biden administration ignores our immigration laws and welcomes millions of illegal aliens to swarm across our southern border, and then methodically ships them to cities across the country (and even gives them cell phones to use).

"The administration's aggressive "green new deal" is paralyzing our transportation system and causing crippling inflation never seen in this country before.  Federal agencies, spearheaded by the Justice Department and FBI, have viciously become weaponized against conservatives, at the same time allowing "Antifa" and other left-wing hoodlum groups to terrorize citizens at will.

"As many have observed, it's a controlled demolition of America.". . .

This has all the fingerprints of the Soros organization.  The people there are extremely intelligent and proficient, they passionately hate America, they've been leading up to this for several decades, and they have access to untold wealth and influence.  Everything mentioned above is something they are more than capable of organizing and carrying out.

The Walls Are Closing In on Woke DAs

American Greatness

The media wants us to believe record crime spikes arriving on the heels of a series of rogue district attorneys getting into office must be pure coincidence.
Toon added by TD

 "Throughout America’s run as the freest country in history, we have implemented a broad range of ideas on governance, with varying results. Having a Bill of Rights in our Constitution, for example, was a very good idea. Allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections, not so much.

"Among the notions firmly in the “bad idea” box has been the recent trend of advancing radical, “progressive” district attorneys in a slew of metropolitan areas. These DAs have unleashed a torrent of violent crime, illegal aliens, and general lawlessness that has made these once-sparkling cities unlivable. With residents of these cities pushed to the breaking point, many are beginning now to push back and it may signal the end of this horribly destructive experiment. 

"Installing extremist prosecutors into large U.S. cities has been the pet project of George Soros, the Hungarian-born leftist billionaire who appears fixated on dismantling capitalism in America. By funneling donations through a network of political action committees and nonprofits, Soros has been successful the last few years in getting DAs elected who push through initiatives like eliminating cash bail, “reimagining” the role of police, and assisting criminal aliens to avoid deportation.

"Thanks in large part to fawning coverage from the corporate media and support from leftist politicians in Washington, these radical prosecutors were allowed to put their policies into place. Today, the consequences of those policies can no longer be hidden or explained away. After crime spiked to absurd levels in San Francisco, the residents of that proudly progressive city voted in June to remove their rogue DA Chesa Boudin.  

"On the watch of the Soros-backed Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, the city set an all-time record for homicides in 2021. After Krasner’s now-defunct “Conviction Integrity Unit” helped free Jamir Harris from prison for a 2013 murder, Harris is now wanted for the murder of a 50 year-old Philadelphia man in September.

"In 2021, an investigation by the Immigration Reform Law Institute revealed the extent to which Krasner is turning Philadelphia into a magnet for criminal aliens. Shortly after assuming office in 2017, he appointed immigration attorney Caleb Arnold to consult on criminal cases involving non-citizens.". . .

Brian Lonergan is an adjunct fellow of the Center for American Greatness and director of communications at the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest law firm working to defend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative effects of mass migration.

Ngo interview: Hungary defends the banning of transitioning children

 Andy Ngo Live


Budapest—On Oct. 25, 2022, Andy Ngo interviewed Balazs Orban, the political director of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban (they are not related) and MP in the nationalist-conservative Fidesz Party. Hungary is being taken to court by the European Commission after it passed the Children Protection Act in June 2021 which banned "LGBT propaganda" for minors. Hungary had already banned gender transitioning services for minors but the act further bans what LGBT content can be taught in schools or shown to children. A referendum put up to voters prior to the law being passed showed that over 90 percent opposed the transitioning of children. Please follow and support my journalism at https://www.andy-ngo.com,

Friday, November 4, 2022

Hillary Clinton suggests election 'stolen' from her, other Dems could suffer same fate

 Hillary Clinton suggests election 'stolen' from her, other Dems could suffer same fate | Fox News   "Hillary Clinton claims 2016 election was 'stolen' from her."

“Democracy” is now just a euphemism for the one-party state to which Democrats feel entitled. George Neumayr


Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, acknowledged on Friday that the left-wing establishment has a massive censorship apparatus to which conservatives are largely helpless.

 Hillary, Heal Thyself   "She tried to steal the 2016 election, but now pops up as a self-appointed expert on election integrity."

"The hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton is scarcely believable. Despite her obvious attempt to steal the 2016 election — she hired foreign agents tied to Russia to smear her opponent as an agent of Vladimir Putin — she has the gall to claim that Republicans “already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election, and they’re not making a secret of it.”

"She asserts out of thin air that the Republicans will use courts to invalidate legitimate votes. In a ghoulish example of brazen gaslighting and projection, the candidate who paid for a phony dossier full of Russian disinformation against Donald Trump still claims that he won improperly.". . .

The Democrats are already preparing excuses for the election disaster to come. All of their supposed “fears for democracy” amount to nothing more than a fear of robust democracy. Normal democratic resistance to their insane policies is cast by Hillary Clinton and other Democrats as subversive

Chelsea Clinton tells 'The View' her mom Hillary accepted 2016 election results: ‘She conceded’ (msn.com)  Making sure if Republicans take this election, Democrats can clam the fix was in. Do we REALLY want to be governed by the likes of Hillary, Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Eric Swalwell, and anyone at MSNBC, including those pictured below?.

NYC jogger raped hours before Hillary Clinton accuses New York GOP of scaring voters about crime   "  A female jogger in New York City was raped Thursday by a homeless man wanted for two sex crimes with at least 25 prior arrests.
"The shocking attack on the West Side occurred just hours before former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at a Manhattan rally for Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, accused Republicans of trying to scare voters about a crime wave.". . .

'We're going to win': Biden believes Democrats could keep the HOUSE despite Republicans' poll lead

 Daily Mail Online

'I think we're gonna keep the Senate, pic up a seat. I think we have a chance of winning the House.'


"President Joe Biden on Friday offered an upbeat assessment of his party's chances in next week's midterm elections, claiming Democrats will hold the Senate and could even hold on to the House of Representatives - despite a slew of polls suggesting Republicans will make sweeping gains.

" 'We're gonna win this time this time around, I think. I feel really good about our chances,' he said.". . .


. . ."The latest analysis by number crunchers at the politics website FiveThirtyEight - based on complex model that weighs polling data - forecasts that Republicans have an 84 percent chance of winning control of the House.

"Things are closer in the battle for the Senate. It calculates a 55 percent chance of the Republicans taking the upper chamber.

"Both of those numbers have shifted in favor of Republicans in the closing weeks of the campaign. ". . .

Obama the albatross

 What gall!  What preposterous preposterousness!  Translation: "If the people elect someone I don't like, it's curtains for democracy!"  Who is so stupendously stupid, or believes many of the rest of us to be, that he would seriously suggest that diverse voting is anti-democratic?  Would "democracy" be better served if there were always only one name on the ballot, followed by a "D"?  Eric Utter


Obama says democracy under threat if Republicans win in Arizona  "Former (and sort of current) president Barack Obama used a rally in Phoenix Wednesday night to deliver a crazy remark about America's system of self-government. The Anointed One asserted that if the Arizona Republican candidates are successful, "democracy as we know it may not survive" there.  He added, "That's not an exaggeration.  That is a fact."  Opinions are now facts, as facts are "disinformation" to the wannabe tyrants called Democrats.". . .

Video: Barack Obama Argues With Heckler In A Heated Video From His Latest Rally – Obama’s Reaction Speaks Volumes  . . ."That’s right, the champion of black people escort a Latino American from a rally because he wanted to talk about the discrimination case of a Black woman who was fired from her legislative job years ago.
"Talonya Adams said her firing from her job as a policy adviser for state Senate Democrats in 2015, when Hobbs was the Senate’s Democratic leader, was discriminatory. Federal juries found Adams was discriminated against based on her race and gender and awarded her millions.". . .


While Biden Was Babbling About Dangerous Republicans, Mostly Peaceful Leftists” Were Caught On Video As They Attack A Republican Senate Candidate

USA Supreme    "While Biden Was Babbling About Dangerous Republicans, Mostly Peaceful Leftists” Were Caught On Video As They Attack A Republican Senate Candidate. . ." While the president uses the Paul Pelosi attack carried out by a mentally unstable former nudist green party member with rainbow flags outside his home as an example of right-wing violence, I can’t help but notice nearly EVERY example of political violence is from folks on the Left or those attacking Republicans.

"As Biden was preening on and on about how ‘our democracy’ is AT STAKE in the upcoming midterm and once again vilifying half the country implying they are a threat and a danger, some yahoo attempted to punch/attack Republican candidate, General Don Bolduc.". . .

When Biden speaks, people listen...


Tucker Shreds Biden  Well, he is indeed shred-worthy.  Tucker Carlson Shreds Biden Hate Speech — “The Guy Who Showered With His Daughter Is Telling You You’re a Bad Person”

‘One-Stop Chop’ Can Stave Off Sleepy, Sloppy Joe’s Slouch To ‘Armageddon’ — And More

 Issues & Insights

"Sleepy, Sloppy Joe Biden is King Midas-in-Reverse. Everything golden thing he touches – from a vibrant economy with low inflation to energy independence to order at the border to unprecedented diplomatic breakthroughs through an assertive foreign policy – turns to dreck, to put it politely.

Here he is...
"Which is why the hapless Scrantonite is well underway toward displacing the only other born-Keystone Stater to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania – James Buchanan – as history’s worst president.

"All Buchanan did, in many chroniclers’ view, was lose his grip on a nation sliding toward a bloody Civil War. Besides deep-sixing the American Dream, faux President Brandon is stumbling, bumbling and slouching his way – and ours – toward Doomsday.

"Don’t take this scribe’s word for it. The Chief Wreck-xecutive just dropped
the bombshell (excuse the pun) his-own-self before a select collection of Democratic heavy-hitters: “He’s (Vladimir Putin’s) not joking. I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.”

"Leading wry political analyst Byron York to muse as to the Commander in Thief’s odd choice of venue for his “alarming remarks:” “Shouldn’t he tell someone else first — like the nation?”... 

UPDATED; Nov 5th; NPR Broadcasts Ghastly Audio of Woman Getting Abortion

Photo added by TD

 NRO  "On its radio broadcast Thursday morning, NPR played audio of a woman undergoing an abortion, complete with disturbing sounds of machinery vacuuming out the unborn child and the mother crying and moaning.

"The Michigan woman, whose identity was not revealed, received the procedure at eleven-weeks gestation, the outlet reported. In the audio, a vacuum can be heard suctioning out the unborn child, as well as the woman’s cries and moans. The segment concludes with a doctor telling the patient that the abortion had been completed. Laughter, sighs of relief, and words of moral support followed from the people in the room.". . .

"After Wells posted the story on Twitter, she received angry replies from commenters claiming that it was highly skewed to favor the pro-abortion argument. NPR is publicly funded.

"Wells retorted: “I have to disagree that doing a story inside an abortion clinic is somehow ‘pro-abortion.’ Abortion is on the ballot in Nov. I’d argue that getting to see what’s actually happening in clinics right now isn’t biased, it’s factual.' ”. . .

‘My Eyes. My Eyes!’: Beto’s Abortion Video is the Creepiest and Cringiest Video in 2022 Politics    “Please god let me unsee this”

"I saw this, and so do you because this is the worst political…thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

Robert Frances O’Rourke has no self-awareness. None. No one likes you. But if you produce the content, I will spread it out because, well, we’re not laughing with you, bro.

*Failed Senate campaign
*Failed presidential campaign.
*Soon-to-be failed Texas governor campaign

I do not know the lyrics to the song but the camera goes to him when the lyrics tell a woman with big hips to get in his car while giving…that look. What a creep. 

Intellectual Takeout: In Memoriam: ‘Baby Girl #1’  "This piece should be written in blood, tears, and brimstone rather than type.

"A hideous event took place recently—not in some faraway totalitarian hellhole—but right here at home in our nation’s capital, Jonathan Von Maren reports in a recent article for American Conservative.

On March 25, a truck driver who works for the bio-medical waste company hired to dispose of children aborted at the Washington Surgi-Clinic looked the other way to give pro-life sidewalk counselor Lauren Handy the opportunity to take two boxes. Stuffed inside the medical-waste containers within were the remains of 115 children. A.J. Hurley, a Californian pro-life activist, drove down to help her and her companions and to photograph the bodies. It was a surreal experience, Hurley said. The women “were beside themselves.” As they photographed the babies, the activists frequently broke down, but to photograph the children was to validate their existence.

. . . "My good editor rightly warns me against “rants,” articles enflamed with rage and personal opinion rather than facts and circumstances, but here I intend no rant. No—this is a lamentation, verbal ashes and sackcloth for our country, for its laws and values, for the little regard we so often show to human life, and for the removal of faith, morality, honor, dignity, and truth from our public square and from many of our homes.". . .  Jeff Minick

UPDATE:  NPR goes sick  . . ."This is sick. Women leaving a clinic after "removing" their babies from "their wombs"?   

"Well, at least she got an abortion after the Dobbs decision.  So much for women losing reproductive rights!

"And the reporter called them babies, or whatever was removed from their wombs.  

"Not long ago, a story like this would have been rejected by the editor for being repulsive and not a news story.  However, the people running NPR are abortion activists and feel compelled to push the issue in such a grotesque manner."


Thursday, November 3, 2022

Warning! Crime Deniers on the Ballot in All 50 States!

Democrats can't change and won't change -- they can only be defeated at the polls. (Even that's only a start.) If you ever want to leave your home again, without fear of your body or property being violated, vote Republican on Nov. 8.

  Ann Coulter  "Next Tuesday, voters, please remember that Democrats will never run out of excuses for criminals. They drone on about "racism," "root causes," "poverty," "drug addiction," "his gun dropped," "mental illness," "learning disabilities," "he made a mistake" and "prison doesn't work"!

"It's not the government's job to probe criminals' psyches. These are predators, monsters, feral beasts attacking civilization, with no regard for your property, bodily integrity or life. The government's only job is to keep them away from us, not to ensure that they have fulfilling lives.

"At the New York gubernatorial debate last week, feisty Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin hit Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, hard on the crime wave engulfing New York. Finally, he said, "We're halfway through the debate, she still hasn't talked about locking up anyone committing any crimes."

"In a city where citizens are afraid to leave their homes because of crime, Hochul's blithe response made headlines. She said: "I don't know why that's so important to you."

"Her unfathomably out-of-touch reply was so infuriating, viewers might have missed the first part of her answer: "Anyone who commits a crime under our laws, especially with the change we made to bail, has consequences."

" 'Has consequences." Take note, New Yorkers! She did not say, "will go to jail" or "will be prosecuted" or "will be removed from the streets for the welfare of society."

" 'Has consequences" is progressive code for "restorative justice." In lieu of actual punishment, the criminal will be required to write a letter to the victim, hug it out or attend a family "mediation." Thus, if a pack of teenagers beat the crap out of your kid at school, he will be forced to sit down with his attackers so they can tell him, Hey, sorry, man, we thought you dissed us.". . .

. . .The purpose of the criminal justice system is to lock up bad guys, not to allow liberals to feel good about themselves. (Least of all is it to ensure that all ethnicities are incarcerated at the exact same percentages.). . .