The minimum wage law is very cleverly misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero – and that is what many inexperienced and low-skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.
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If You Want a COVID ‘Vaccine’ In DC You’ll Need ID to Prove You Live There
The party that thinks requiring ID is racist will demand you prove you live in DC before pumping you with the Experimental gene therapy doing business as a Vaccine for COVID19. If you can’t prove you live in the District, they will deny you the juice.
Important Questions About Critical Race Theory
In a fabulous interview four years ago with Mark Steyn, James Mitchell, the man (in)famous for waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, presented a pearl of wisdom gleaned through one of his interactions with the terror mastermind:
United Way was supposed to raise money for other charities, right? Guess what now…
The United Way was supposed to raise money for other charities, right? Not so much, not anymore. They’ve decided (at least in Illinois) that their job is our re-education on how race quotas should work, probably because we are all racists.
Rep Kris Schultz Wants Schools to Teach White Kids That They Are Inherently Racist
HB 544 would ban “CRT,” which stands for Critical Race Theory in New Hampshire. As I explained in September of last year: Essentially, “critical race theory” describes the pseudoscientific concept that all people with white skin are inherently racists and are not even aware of it because they have “internalized” their “racial superiority” and, consequently, … Read more
Until They Heal Their Own Bias, They Have No Moral Authority to Question Ours
You have probably heard the phrase, physician, heal thyself? If you contemplate the meaning from scripture, it means “you first!” Get your act together before telling us to do the same. American academia has this problem in spades, a ‘virus’ that has infected the Left and most of the Democrat party.
Biden Wants to Turn the Military Into his Praetorian Guard
During Rome’s imperial period, the Praetorian Guard (cohorts praetoriae) was an elite unite that functioned as the Emperor’s personal bodyguard. It appears that Imposter-President Biden envisions a similar role for our military.
Notable Quote – You’re Racist if You Support Minimum Wages
The racial effect of the minimum wage laws exist in the absence of racial preferences on behalf of employers. The minimum wage law gives firms effective economic incentive to seek to hire only the most productive employees, which means that firms are less willing to hire and/or train the least productive employee, which includes teenagers, … Read more
Biden Education Secretary is Good With Teaching That America is Intrinsically Racist
Joe Biden’s pick for education secretary is Miguel Cardona. He helped create Connecticut’s statewide mandatory minority studies course. It “analyze[s] how race, power, and privilege influence group access to citizenship, civil rights, and economic power.”
Some of the Dangers of Social Media & the Internet
Dawn Johnson of Laconia is an elected member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and of the City of Laconia School Board. In an article appearing in the December 12 edition of the Laconia Daily Sun newspaper, it was reported that she had posted to her Facebook page certain materials that included a link … Read more
Notable Quote – It Isn’t “Implicit Bias”, It’s a Bias by Our Educational System
Emphasis mine: “It’s the achievement gap, not systemic racism, that explains demographic disparities in education and employment.”
There’s another side to this unmentioned
At least here at Instapundit as it points to the NYT which has paywalled it (emphasis mine): GENTRY LIBERALS CONTINUE THEIR WAR ON ASIANS: To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions: If ensembles are to reflect the communities they serve, the audition process should take into account race, gender and other factors. Why should ensembles … Read more
Taxpayer-funded Propaganda in the Classroom
Social Justice has infiltrated the Nashua public schools without any pubic discussion at board meetings or elsewhere.
Blowback Works
Racists and aspiring totalitarians are what Leftists masquerading as Democrats have become. The only moral principle they are guided by is the old Bolshevik saw, “the ends justify the means.”
Land O Lakes Got Rid of the Indian and Kept the Land
The summer of scrubbing ethnic people from store packaging seems to have calmed down now that autumn is upon us. But it was heady for a while. Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemimah, even the Mutual of Omaha Indian Chief got the hatchet. A process exemplified by Land O Lakes when they ditched Mia for a box with land but no Indian.
More Reasons to Ignore Yelp! – They Will Be Flagging Businesses as Racist
When I think of Yelp!, it reminds me of Friendster, StumbleUpon, Google+, and MySpace. I had little to no use for any of those (experimented on Google+ a bit). So, this latest announcement only affirms my indifference to their existence. Yelp! has decided it will be flagging businesses as racist.
Student Group Claims Racially Motivated Attacks on White People Are Not a Hate Crime
Two incidents involving the same individual(s) were recorded as hate crimes. Racial slurs were followed by acts of assault. The problem? The perpetrators in both cases were black, and the different victims were white. According to a student group, that’s not a hate crime.
Experts Claim Re-Opening is Racist and Evidence of White Supremacy
Boston University would like to get back to business, but some students and faculty are not having it. In a letter titled, “A Call for BU to Dismantle Institutionalized White Supremacy,” they insist that any action which increases the risk of transmission of COVID-19 disproportionately affects people of color.
“Challenging the idea that White parents of kids of color are inherently ‘not racist'”
Tolerance and acceptance or racism and Marxism; which side are you on? One of the greatest challenges for leaders in society is to educate public opinion. What passes for leadership today is of questionable rather than unquestioned value. Let me give you an example.