Point That Finger in the Mirror
Recently, I saw someone complaining that the Biden administration’s attempts to suppress free speech on social media are inconsistent with promises that Biden made to ‘bring decency and morality’ back to government.
Recently, I saw someone complaining that the Biden administration’s attempts to suppress free speech on social media are inconsistent with promises that Biden made to ‘bring decency and morality’ back to government.
People are, with good reason, afraid to let Joe Biden continue in office, given some of the things that come out of his mouth when he goes off script. But here are a couple of recent quotations from his vice president, Kamala Harris.
You might have heard that in Croydon, our superintendent admitted, on two separate occasions, in public, that even for $1 million per student per year, he wouldn’t be able to teach the two dozen kids in the Croydon Village School (CVS) to read.
Conventional wisdom seems to be that affirmative action in the United States began with an executive order issued by JFK in 1961, which (ironically) mandated government contractors to ‘take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin’. Without …
Joe Biden on July Fourth: As our nation celebrates Independence Day, we pray for the day when our communities will be free from gun violence. It is within our power to once again ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, to require safe storage of guns, to end gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability, and to enact …
There’s a saying in software that the only numbers you should be seeing in code are zero, one, and infinity. If you’re seeing other specific numbers (e.g., there can only be 140 characters in a message, or 255 characters in a filename, or a finite number of elements in a list), then someone is being …
A lot of journalists these days have a vocabulary problem. In particular, they think that if someone wants to repair or reform an institution, he is anti-[that institution].
Recently I’ve started pushing the idea here at Grok that libraries and schools are inherently political institutions, so we should start treating them as such by electing librarians, teachers, and school administrators.
RFK Jr is saying that he ‘supports the 2nd Amendment’. But I’m pretty sure it’s not the same one that I support. The written 2nd Amendment — the one that I support — says: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Read this. Then ask yourself: If 70 or 75 percent of parents want (or don’t want) their children to be treated a certain way, how is it that teachers and administrators are able to ignore them? It’s because we pretend that these positions are not political when in fact, they are. So they are protected …
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