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.
Ian Underwood
Trust the Experts
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.
Reviving Affirmative Action
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 … Read more
Senile AND Tone-Deaf
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 … Read more
Numbers aren’t Principles
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 lazy.
‘Anti’ Labels Are Lazy Journalism
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].
Trump Reads Grok?
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: ‘I Support The [Oral] 2nd Amendment’
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.
Public Schools and Teachers Are Inherently Political, so Let’s Treat Them Accordingly
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 … Read more
No Wonder They Want To Make Pistol Braces Illegal!
Quote of the day:
“Made it harder for people to buy stabilized braces. Put a pistol on a brace, it turns into a gun. Makes them more, you can have a higher caliber weapon, a higher caliber bullet coming out of that gun.”
Tuckervision
It’s hard to predict what’s going to happen with Tucker Carlson. Will Fox be able to ‘silence him until after the 2024 election’? It seems unlikely. Will he be able to produce a show on Twitter while still drawing his salary from Fox? That would certainly be helpful since he could use it to pay … Read more
Unbanning the Banning of Banning books
Illinois just passed a law banning the banning of books in libraries. Actually, the state can’t really do that. What it can do is withhold state funding from libraries that restrict or ban materials because of ‘partisan or doctrinal’ disapproval.
They Say Indictment, I Say Endorsement
Apparently, former President (and current GOP presidential candidate) Donald Trump said that his poll (and fundraising) numbers have increased as a result of his being indicted for various supposed crimes.
Guns: Bad news, good news, better news
California’s governor has proposed amending the federal constitution to raise the federal minimum age to buy a firearm to 21 from 18; mandate universal background checks; institute a ‘reasonable’ waiting period for all gun purchases; and ban assault rifles nationally; while ‘leaving the Second Amendment unchanged.’ That’s the bad news. The good news is that … Read more
Where is the Law?
Newsweek just reported a ‘huge win’ for Ron DeSantis because a particular judge was assigned to a particular case to which he’s a party. Does anyone else see the problem here? If it matters which judge hears a case, then it means that the answers to the legal questions, in that case, aren’t to be found in the law.
My DNA is my Permit
I used to be on the fence about the idea of ‘intellectual property rights’ until, by chance, I heard a comment from one of the leaders of the Swedish Pirate Party: You know that something can’t be a right if it expires.
The Parents’ Bill of Wishes
As I’ve noted elsewhere, one of the many problems with the Parents’ Bill of Rights (SB 272) that recently failed to make it out of the General Court is that there are no penalties for failing to comply with it.
The Assault Children Ban
Gun control advocates in Texas are excited because a House panel has advanced a bill to raise the age at which you can buy an AR-15 from 18 to 21.
Quote of the Day
This is from someone calling himself Rev. Tony Pierce, an activist for reparations in California:
Let’s Stop Confusing Teaching With Learning
His Excellency just signed into law a bill that requires public schools to ‘provide instruction in cursive writing’ and ‘provide instruction of the multiplication tables’ by the end of fifth grade.