Muda69

So you are saying theft and corruption never occurs in traditional government schools? https://assets.ctfassets.net/lwlwwghvkufv/7N1Kt117gW66megQG8cOmI/0fc83900a208087dd973a6880a7a1ed7/shameofschools_copy.pdf https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/bad-education-why-shocking-public-school-corruption-remains-hidden

Yeah, what about it?

Allow Mr. Cueto to wear the standard Giants uniform, not the Gay Pride version. Simple.

True. One of the tragedies of the 1947 act was that it created the modern CIA. We all know it is now the spooks, along with the M-I-C, that really fun the federal government.

https://reason.com/2021/06/01/the-bipartisan-war-on-work/ We are frankly becoming a country of lazy bums, content to suckle at the government teat for a subsistence existence, as long as the subsistence includes a cell phone, smart TV, and fast internet.

Private virtual schools coming to Indiana for first time after state board gives OK https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2021/06/02/indiana-private-schools-could-soon-include-virtual-option/7497425002/ More school choices for Hoosier families is good thing.

Was there a SCOTUS ruling?

Public University Threatens To Monitor and Punish Off-Campus Student Behavior https://reason.com/2021/06/01/public-university-threatens-to-monitor-and-punish-off-campus-student-behavior/ Agreed. Good luck with enforcing this new policy and not being sued, UO.

I'm not. IMHO Bobref answered it quite succinctly. After all he is much smarter than both your or I.

Proof please. So I take it you have no issues taking requests from your students to call them whatever personal pronoun they choose to identify with at that point in time?

Where do we draw the line here? Let's say student Jenny comes to you, a high school math teacher, one day and says "I no longer identify as a human female, instead I now identify as a female canine. Therefore I would like you to refer to me in all our future interactions as "bitch" instead of "her" or "she". Is this a reasonable request an adult high school teacher should automatically acquiesce to? Would doing so help to preserve the fragile young psyche of Jenny?

You do realize most Christians only recognize two genders, male and female? One can understand why Mr. Cross would have issues referring to students as "ze" or "hir".

Loudoun County Teacher Suspended for Refusing to Bend the Knee to Gender Pronouns in Classroom: https://redstate.com/kiradavis/2021/05/31/loudoun-county-teacher-suspended-for-refusing-to-bend-the-knee-to-gender-pronouns-in-classroom-n389270 Cross came before the board last Thursday and calmly addressed the proposed policy, explaining that it violated his religious principles and constituted “lying” to his students. Cross’s penalty for telling the truth as a teacher and Virginia taxpayers? An unceremonious email from the school principal announcing his involuntary and indefinite leave of absence. It should not be lost on us that school administrations typically take years to fire or suspend teachers accused of sexual abuse. Cross gave a calm, reasoned, and personal appeal and was suspended for simply expressing his religious (and scientific) beliefs. So a teacher can be suspended for religious expression but children are to be revered for “gender expression.” Got it. Loudoun County parents continue to gather signatures to trigger a recall of the offending school board members. They represent a larger battle that is beginning to sweep through counties across the nation as average Americans begin to push back on a harmful progressive agenda that they did not vote for. In a video that any person of faith who struggles with the balance between protest and evangelism should watch, Cornerstone Chapel pastor Gary Hamrick deftly explains why he chose to distribute the recall petition in his congregation, using Cross’s testimony as an example. If you live in Loudoun County and want to help with the petition drive or you’re just motivated to support the fight from where you are, Fight For Schools has information on petition drives, which school board members are being targeted, and ways to donate to support the effort. Justice for Mr. Cross.

The Case of Joe Rogan: Vaccine Policy and Freedom of Speech https://mises.org/wire/case-joe-rogan-vaccine-policy-and-freedom-speech This comment created a furor in the United States, where the government's target is vaccination of the entire adult population. For these few sentences he received a sharp reprimand from the White House and Dr. Fauci, who accused Rogan of being selfish and endangering vulnerable members of society. Given the very low covid risk for this age group, Rogan’s comments seem to make some sense. Wouldn't it be more altruistic, rather than selfish, to let a vaccine dose first go to someone who needs it more? Either way, such criticism is ludicrous when it comes from a government that so often acts contrary to the interests of society. Additionally, considering the way in which the covid vaccines were launched, some skepticism on the part of Joe Rogan, and the general population, seems warranted. Indeed, these vaccines have become available so quickly that their Phase II and the Phase III development has been conducted in parallel and is not yet completed. In the US, the covid vaccines are currently approved only as emergency measures by the FDA, though nearly 260 million Americans have already been vaccinated. In the case of AstraZeneca, the pressure to get a vaccine out as quickly as possible caused an issue in the dosage during the first distributions. In many European countries this vaccine has not been recommended to young people because of a perceived risk of blood clots. In Russia, an antibody test is recommended before vaccination to ensure that the patient is not already immune, in order to avoid wasting doses and to avoid overloading the body with antibodies. In this context, it does not certainly seem shocking to suggest, like Joe Rogan, that healthy young adults may not really need to get vaccinated. Government Agents Attacking the Opinions of Private Citizens In reality, the real question is not whether Joe Rogan was right or wrong in saying what he said. Criticism of a citizen by the US government is disturbing regardless of the comments that were made. What about freedom of speech when the state criticizes an individual's speech? The protection of freedom of speech and of the press in the USA is among the strongest that exists. The First Amendment to the Constitution in theory offers extremely robust protection with its famous words: "Congress will not make any law curtailing freedom of speech, or of the press." But this implies that it is not unconstitutional for the authorities to publicly judge the speech of its citizens, such as Rogan. As reported by Glenn Greenwald, this represents in practice a government control of speech. He quotes a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner who notes that: For politically "sensitive" subjects, authorities do not accept deviations from their official story. This deleterious situation has existed since long before the pandemic. Today, it is about vaccine policy, but yesterday, about the war on terrorism, about Russiagate, about the corruption of Joe Biden, and many other topics. Greenwald explains: Concretely, this means that when Joe Rogan is publicly criticized by the authorities, countless other content is never published. This process of media self-censorship, without open and direct coercion from the state, is of course part of the propaganda system that Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky famously called "manufacturing consent." For intrepid journalists who still take the risk of publicly challenging the official consensus, the lucrative and prestigious positions in mainstream media are no longer accessible. As shown by Greenwald, the risk to their reputation that they incur is real, because they are also then systematically victims of unscrupulous practices, such as being accused of being a conspiracy theorist or of inciting terrorism. These accusations, usually completely unfounded, can destroy careers in the toxic politically correct environment that exists in the United States. Unfortunately, it doesn't end there. The authorities go much further than these mafia methods of intimidation. The main social networks in the US are now filled with reliable servants of the state, who filter and censor persons or publications at the request of various state institutions, the same way that mainstream media has behaved for ages. With respect to covid vaccine policy, for example, Facebook and YouTube today systematically censor comments and videos that are not in line with the official version of governments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO). The fact that these institutions have often changed their opinion about which health policy to recommend does not seem to be a problem. A Constitution Is Not Sufficient Protection This situation with Joe Rogan should remind everyone that the fight for individual freedoms, including freedom of speech and of the press, is a permanent struggle. No document, be it the US Constitution or the Declaration of Human Rights, gives an absolute guarantee against the violations of these freedoms by the state, as shown by many historical examples. The authoritarian tendencies of nominally democratic governments are nothing new. Indeed, these governments have a natural interest in trying to influence—not to say shape—public opinion. Recent history shows that in collaboration with traditional mainstream media and now social networks, the government is willing to do almost anything to prevent the electorate from understanding its real behavior. The fame of Joe Rogan will at least have contributed a little to exposing this truth.

DeSantis Signs Bill Banning Males from Female High School, College Sports https://www.nationalreview.com/news/desantis-signs-bill-banning-males-from-womens-high-school-college-sports/ Good news for fairness in Florida High School Atletics.

Toward A Critical Woke Theory https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/toward-a-critical-woke-theory/

Biden Administration Sought to Use Race to Determine Federal Benefits. Courts Have Now Stepped In.: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2021/06/01/biden-administration-sought-to-use-race-to-determine-federal-benefits-two-courts-have-now-stepped-in-n2590270 The WSJ goes on to describe Thapar's legal analysis as an "arrow to the heart of much of the Biden Administration’s racially divisive agenda," perhaps leading this and other similar cases to the Supreme Court.

Why are you trying to equate the defense of the nation with Amtrak?

https://www.cato.org/commentary/entitlement-spending-not-covid-19-stimulus-threatens-our-fiscal-future Agreed. Both of these federal entitlement programs needs to be drastically reduced or eliminated altogether. Frankly any individual <= the age of 50 is a fool to think that social security will be there for them when they retire. Again, the number of Americans over the age of 80 now exceeds the number of Americans under the age of 5. Think about that and what it means for the future of this country, for out children and grandchildren.

Amtrak Wants $75 Billion To Create More Money-Losing Routes https://reason.com/2021/05/28/amtrak-wants-75-billion-to-create-more-money-losing-routes/ Where in the U.S. Constitution is a federally owned rail system an enumerated function of the federal government?

Should Mr. Nagy be on the "hot seat" in Chicago? Most Bears fans seem to say "YES". Here is an alternative viewpoint: https://deadspin.com/matt-nagy-being-on-the-hot-seat-in-chicago-makes-zero-s-1846989273

Plexiglass Barriers Are Everywhere, but They're Probably Useless: https://reason.com/2021/05/27/plexiglass-barriers-are-everywhere-but-theyre-probably-useless/ For a virus that spreads via airborne transmission of aerosols—something scientists have known for many months, though it took the World Health Organization until the end of April to update its guidance—these plastic barriers between diners were always a confusing addition. Think of the particles that disperse through the air when someone smokes a cigarette. A plastic barrier wouldn't prevent you from smelling that cigarette and breathing some of that same air. It would be one thing if this form of hygiene theater was limited to restaurants. But school districts across the country have forced children to try to learn while encased in plexiglass desk dividers—that is, if they've allowed kids to return to full-time in-person schooling at all. Not only does this make it harder for children to connect with their friends and teachers, but forcing them to learn this way may lead them to speak up louder to be heard—an act that increases aerosol production and is more likely to spread COVID than speaking at a quieter volume. Given the incredibly low risk of death to children posed by COVID, and the mounting evidence that Plexiglass barriers do not make people safer, it's past time to remove them; a kindergarten classroom shouldn't be filled with thick, see-through partitions like a convenience store in a bad part of town. Some might counter that if they make people feel safer, that ought to be reason enough to keep plexiglass barriers in place. But this is misguided. Hygiene theater gives people a false understanding of how this virus actually works and which preventative measures to take. Pervasive COVID anxiety should not be used to justify silly rituals, especially when there's good evidence a ritual may hurt us in the end.

Senate Republicans Released a $928 Billion Infrastructure Plan. Biden Says It Still Doesn't Spend Enough.: https://reason.com/2021/05/28/senate-republicans-released-a-928-billion-infrastructure-plan-biden-says-it-still-doesnt-spend-enough/ Sickening. Slowly destroying this country. I fear for the future of our children and grandchildren.

USA Today Removes ‘Hurtful Language’ from Female Athlete’s Op-Ed on Sports Fairness: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/usa-today-removes-hurtful-language-from-female-athletes-op-ed-on-sports-fairness/