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A Tale of Two Governors
On President’s Day last Monday, I had the privilege to be a part of Governor DeSantis’ visit to Elmhurst for his Back the Blue three-city tour. The event was a closed, by-invitation-only event with the focus on inviting law enforcement officers. The few of us authorized to share the invitation with others were specifically told not to share it over social media or in an email. It was inevitable that the invitation was going to get leaked. When it did, on Thursday before the event, the vitriol from members of the Democrat party, including Governor Pritzker, truly showed them as the bullies they are.
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Leftist Mandating CRT Reading List
Leftists in Springfield are still not done using public schools to preach “woke” beliefs to Illinois school children, thereby driving more families out of Illinois—which is a bad thing for Illinoisans who can’t leave—and driving more families out of government schools—which is a good thing except for those who can’t leave.
Leftist lawmakers are nothing if not tenacious. They are also bigoted propagandists as well. My evidence for those claims is the new-ish bill introduced by State Representative Mary Flowers, a Democrat from Chicago, who seeks to force all Illinois schools to promote racism.
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Hello, Illinoisans, it’s baaack!
Yes, an amendment to the “Equitable Restrooms Act” is back thanks, ironically, to a woman—at least I think State Representative Katie Stuart (D-Collinsville) is a woman. It’s hard to tell these days.
Stuart has resurrected a moribund amendment to the Equitable Restrooms Act, which was passed in 2019 and took effect January 1, 2020. But before we get to Stuart’s pernicious amendment, some background about the Equitable Restrooms Act is in order.
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Who’s the Real Carnival Barker?
Gov. Pritzker has a bad habit of calling people who point out failures of public policy in Illinois “Carnival Barkers.” This would have to include every major newspaper, state, and national think tank, and the state’s own Committee on Government Forecasting and Accountability. But, what really is a Carnival Barker? It’s someone trying to sell you a chance at a game that is rigged or a sideshow that is deceptive. I think that term, Carnival Barker, more aptly fits Governor Pritzker, especially after the speech he gave on Wednesday.
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The Battle Over AP Course
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker proves again that he is an inveterate leftist—far leftist—hell-bent on using public money and public schools to advance his far-left theories on race and sexuality. Pritzker’s newest educational goal is to “queer” public high schools by forcing the College Board’s new Advanced Placement African American Studies (APAAS) course to include the “role played by black queer African Americans.”
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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.”
