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Middle School Sells T-Shirt That Quotes Communist
For Black History Month, the devotees of critical race theory at Wheaton, Illinois’ Edison Middle School are offering a new divisive t-shirt for kids to buy for $20 that features a quote from lesbian feminist, the notorious Communist Angela Davis, supporter of cult leader Jim Jones and of brutally repressive Communist regimes in the 1960’s and beyond.
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It’s a Scam…
It;s a Scam. I am talking about the complete failure of Evidenced Based School Funding (EBF), the new system adopted to spend state money on education in 2017. At the time of the bill’s passage, Illinois was the number one state for reliance on local taxes to fund schools. This created large disparities in how much was spent on education among our 862 school districts (Florida, with nearly 70% more people, has only 68 school districts, btw); those disparities were mostly a factor of local property wealth and the numerous special grants that overtook the old general state aid formula over time.
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Biden’s State of the Union Speech, Optimism and Unity?
Last Tuesday night, Biden said to the nation in his own baffling and baffled way, grimacing, glaring, and growling, “As I stand here tonight, I have never been more optimistic about the future of America.” Last year, in his State of the Union speech, he said, “I’m more optimistic about America today than I’ve been my whole life.”
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Invited To Dinner And On The Menu
I will leave it to the political science majors, pundits, consultants, and talking heads to make all the prognostications about the Red Wave that wasn’t. They will have a laundry list of explanations, many of them valid. It is very important to get to understand the election outcome because the country – and specifically Illinois – could not be in worse shape culturally, economically, and from a freedom perspective.
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We’re extreme end of progressive thought and behavior.
There are a couple of hot-button issues that just get my blood boiling to use an old cliché. One of them is the hysterical response to the COVID-19 virus. How people responded to COVID ended up being very revealing – and for that, we should be thankful.
