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No, they don't. Only if you allow it to be so, just the same as in a public sector job.

H.R. 1: The Overstuffed and the Skinny https://www.cato.org/blog/hr-1-overstuffed-skinny

Brown University Will Let Students Anonymously Report Title IX Sexual Misconduct What could go wrong? https://reason.com/2021/03/22/brown-university-will-let-students-anonymously-report-title-ix-sexual-misconduct/

Everybody Except Teachers Unions Loves the CDC's Revised School Distancing Guidelines https://reason.com/2021/03/19/everybody-except-teachers-unions-loves-the-cdcs-revised-school-distancing-guidelines/ On one hand, you can understand why the unions are so chippy. Having isolated themselves on the science of school spread, alienated parents with reckless accusations of racism, and leveraged their significant influence on Democratic politicians to help make the United States a world leader in shuttered schools, the guilds are coming under increasing public criticism. Including from leading New York mayoral candidate, Democrat Andrew Yang, who took aim at the city's United Federation of Teachers (UFT) in a Politico interview this week: "I will confess to being a parent that has been frustrated by how slow our schools have been to open, and I do believe that the UFT has been a significant reason why our schools have been slow to open." (Retorted UFT President Michael Mulgrew, lamely: "The UFT was the leading force in New York City public schools opening and opening safely, protecting students and staff. Mr. Yang needs to do his homework.") On the other hand, unions just received a no-strings-attached $200 billion gift from the federal government via an American Rescue Plan that spends most of its K-12 component on hiring, even at a time when schools have been closed and students have been exiting public schools. Mulgrew, and the New York City Department of Education, illustrate how even policies that are labeled as "reopening" end up with a school experience as anything but. My NYC kindergartener, who is podding a few feet away from me as I type, attends a school of more than 800 kids, where—per city policy arduously negotiated by Mulgrew—the whole institution, already operating at half-time capacity because of the six-foot rule, will shut down if there are two concurrent positive cases of COVID-19. Weingarten has repeatedly touted New York City (as opposed to, say, the state of Florida, where schools have been open five days a week since September) as a national model. Today's long-overdue CDC revision will hopefully instead make Gotham a stingy outlier in an increasingly vaccinated K-12 world that's accelerating toward full reopening. As New York magazine's Jonathan Chait put it this week, "Just Reopen the Schools Now." The Department of Education on Wednesday said that a whopping $122 billion from the recently passed American Rescue Plan will be disbursed to public schools by the end of March. An additional $10 billion is being spent by the Department of Health and Human Services on school COVID testing by early April. The unions got their massive payday. Time to go to work.

Racializing The Atlanta Massage Parlor Killings: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/racializing-atlanta-massage-parlor-killings/ Oh, come on. Absolutely Christians and everybody else ought to be opposed to anti-Asian racism. But Stetzer calls this “racially connected violence,” as if the fact that most of the victims were Asian makes racist motive clear. If these killings really are driven by racial hatred, then by all means let’s confront that demon and exorcise it. But there is no reason at this point to believe that. In many cities, if you want to go to a massage parlor for sexual activity, those places will be staffed by Asian women. It’s well worth asking why, and if these are women who were sexually trafficked into sex slavery. But at this point, we don’t even know if the killer had a sexual fetish for Asian women. All we know is that he went to massage parlors. It is more reasonable to think that he went to massage parlors for the same reason that Willie Sutton robbed banks: because that’s where the money is. The alleged killer is also a Southern Baptist, so now we are seeing Southern Baptists demonized. Stetzer (who is Baptist) again: The Washington Post wrote a story about the alleged killer’s connections to his Southern Baptist church. Excerpts: Wait a damn minute here. The story says — correctly — that pastors preach on the apocalypse all the time, and the reporters don’t even know if the suspect was in church to hear that sermon. But they’re still going to bring it up. Why on earth would they do that, if not to connect a bog-standard Baptist sermon about the End Times to the murderous mindset of a man who the paper’s reporters don’t even know for sure was in church that day! The story goes on to talk about how the murders might be connected to conservative Southern Baptist theology. There are something like 16 million Southern Baptists in America. About half of them are men. Eight million men have been exposed to some degree to conservative Southern Baptist teachings about sexual purity, but this is the first one who has gone out and shot women at a massage parlor. Does it even occur to these journalists and commentators that the problem here is not necessarily Southern Baptist theology, but a depraved young man? Of course not! Anything to destroy one’s culture war enemies. Of course I know nothing about how Southern Baptist churches teach sexuality. I may well agree on certain points with critics of their approach. But it is slanderous and inciteful on its face to blame Southern Baptist theology for these murders, with almost no evidence whatsoever.We know that serial killers often target prostitutes, for a variety of reasons, including a contempt for women who do sex work.If the women at these spas were prostitutes, then what Long is alleged to have done is explainable by misogyny, and his turning outward his hatred of himself for having uncontrollable sexual desires. We know that Long was so tormented by his demons — his obsessions with sex and pornography — that he went to rehab for sexual addiction.We also know that he was a quiet loner and weirdo in high school, who was sometimes bullied. Every young Christian man who takes the teachings of his faith seriously, and tries to live by them, struggles to conquer sexual desire. This is normal. This does not turn them into monsters. Where are all the other Southern Baptist misogynist serial killers? They don’t exist. We are likely to find out that this Long fellow had deep psychological problems — again, he went to rehab for his sex addiction. But hey, why miss this opportunity to slander and slime conservative Southern Baptists. The fact that conservative Southern Baptists are against Critical Race Theory is, incredibly, also trotted out in this story — as if that had anything to do with mass murder. The Post had this paragraph, which explains a lot of the coverage we’re seeing: And there it is: the alleged killer has said point blank that he did not target his victims because they were Asian, that their race was just a coincidence. But disparate impact theory makes his murders racist, even if the killer himself said they were not, and even if all the available evidence indicates that these killings were acts of a depraved man who was driven to homicide by his sexual urges. It just feels too good to our elites — media, professors, et alia — to blame their ideological enemies. I say this all the time on this blog, but it can’t be said often enough. Here is a quote from Live Not By Lies: For these journalists, academics, preachers, politicians and other commenters, the most important thing to know about the mass murders in Atlanta is that the victims were Asian women, and the confessed killer was a white male Southern Baptist. No facts that complicate the narrative should be allowed to interfere with the conclusions drawn, which is that this is the fault of white supremacy and religious conservatism. We are in the middle of a moral panic over race and racism in this country, a panic driven by the media and elite institutions. We are seeing a horrible act of mass murder being turned into a culture-war weapon by people who are not seeking understanding, but just looking for enemies, and looking to reinforce an intoxicating narrative. UPDATE: OK, OK, some of you are saying, “Why should we believe the killer when he says he didn’t kill out of racial motives?” Well, usually when someone confesses to a crime, and says, “This is why I did it,” we give them the benefit of the doubt, especially if the facts in the case fit the claim. We know that Long has a history of disordered sexuality, and went to rehab for sex addiction. He says he visited those massage parlors before. It stands to reason that a deeply religious man who is sexually compulsive and tormented by his desires would seek to eliminate what he believed to be the sources of his torment. (To be clear, those victims were innocent; the sources of Long’s torment were inside of Long.) There is a single Korean media report in which someone says that the killer said he was going to “kill all Asians.” It may yet come out that Long was motivated by racism. If so, let’s confront that ugly reality. My point is that people in the media, and in progressive circles, are acting as if they are excited to pin all of this on race hatred, when that may play little or no role at all in why that man killed all those people (not all of his victims were Asian, too). A bigmouth Evangelical race-baiter at The King’s College in New York is now trying to blame Long’s Baptist Church, and the 9Marks movement, for what Long did: This is utter slander, and disgusting. Of course Bradley will get away with it. We are moving towards a war of all against all. Of course, which is what the progressive left wants.

They Said Things Would be Much Worse in States without Lockdowns. They Were Wrong. https://mises.org/wire/they-said-things-would-be-much-worse-states-without-lockdowns-they-were-wrong Even the LA Times was forced to admit this reality, although the Times insisted that when you consider the higher levels of poverty and “overcrowding” in California—translation: California is a filthy breeding ground for disease—California should have had far worse rates than Florida for covid deaths. Thus, the Times concludes “California better controlled the virus.” The Times goes on to point to the fact Florida’s covid death rate, while similar, is nonetheless six percent higher than California’s, and this translates into 3,000 deaths that presumably wouldn’t have happened if Florida had adopted lockdown rules similar to California. Btu the numbers don't stack up so well in favor of lockdowns if we use the Times's method to make other comparisons. For example, New York’s total deaths-per-million rate is 67 percent higher than in Florida. Translated into raw numbers, that means if Florida were like New York, Florida would have experienced 54,000 deaths instead of the 33,000 that the CDC now attributes to covid in Florida. (New Jersey’s outcomes are even worse than New York’s.) Similarly, if Florida were like Massachusetts in its outcomes, Florida would have experienced 54 percent more deaths. Moreover, if the Times is going to claim overcrowding should translate into more death in California, we might also note that Florida fares worse than California in terms of median age and higher incidence of obesity. Yet we know advanced age and obesity are major factors in covid hospitalizations and deaths. By these measures, Florida should be among the nation’s hot spots for covid deaths. (According to the CDC, Florida and New York are evenly matched in terms of obesity, Florida has more obesity than Massachusetts, and Florida has the highest median age of them all.) And what about Georgia, that experiment in human sacrifice? Well, the CDC reports Georgia total deaths-per-million rate at 1,720. That’s worse than California’s rate of 1,400, but Georgia is still far and away better than New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts which have rates of 2,530, 2,690, and 2,400, respectively. What About Economic Performance? Meanwhile, it is likely that the economies of Florida and Georgia have suffered less. Although the Daily Beast assured us that the “damage will be substantial both medically and economically” if a state ends lockdowns “too soon,” we now find that the unemployment rates in Florida and Georgia are 4.8 and 5.1, respectively. In California, the picture is quite different, where the unemployment rate now sits at 9 percent. New York doesn’t fare much better with an unemployment rate of 8.8 percent. New Jersey clocks in at 7.9 percent. In other words, the dire predictions surrounding states that first canceled stay-at-home orders have been spectacularly wrong. Many lockdown enthusiasts will now do what the LA Times did: quibble over small differences between Florida and California to show that California did a little bit better. New York, of course, will just be completely ignored. As one doctor at US San Francisco admitted: “One might’ve expected that the Floridas of the world would’ve done tremendously worse than the Californias of the world…” Places like Florida and Georgia were supposed to be overwhelmed by an absolute tsunami of death if they were “reckless” in ending covid restrictions. That’s didn’t happen. Yep, the lockdowns were mostly a farce, and exercise in government control over the populace.

That depends on who you ask.

https://reason.com/2021/03/17/texas-senators-want-sports-teams-to-shut-up-and-play-the-anthem/ Wow, you would think our elected representative at any level understand what the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution actually means. Yet here we have these Texas lawmakers trying to pass a law "compelling others to speak" and frankly manufacturing faux-patriotism at Texas professional sporting events. Sickening.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/02/15/968059128/fauci-awarded-1-million-israeli-prize-for-speaking-truth-to-power-amid-pandemic Umm, isn't it illegal or unconstitutional for an employee of the federal government to accept such a "prize"?

Yep. If an IU basketball coach can't get into the NCAA tournament, and just as importantly can't beat Purdue, then he isn't welcome in Bloomington for that long.

Sorry, I don't watch insipid You Tube videos with those incessant and annoying jump cuts. Do you have a written transcript of this missive or perhaps it given in a speech format?

No, just got straight A's. And your answer was a dodge. Why haven't the dems wielded this incredible power invested in the 14th amendment to right this great wrong?

Actually the origin of this quote has been attributed to multiple football coaches. Darrell Royal of Texas, Robert Neyland of Tennessee, and Duffy Daugherty of Michigan State to name an additional few.

And where has your precious democratic side of the uni-party coin been to wield this constitutional provision when it held legislative power?

Biden's Planned Corporate Tax Hike Will Cost Jobs and Reduce Economic Growth. Because That's What Taxes Do. https://reason.com/2021/03/17/bidens-planned-corporate-tax-hike-will-cost-jobs-and-reduce-economic-growth-because-thats-what-taxes-do/

lol, if you say so Dante. If you say so.

Trump urges Americans to get Covid-19 vaccine: 'I would recommend it' https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/politics/donald-trump-covid-19-vaccine/index.html

And this reason now just started to exist? There is a REASON that section has never been truly invoked, and I laid that all out quite nicely in a previous post.

https://deadspin.com/signing-andy-goddamn-dalton-is-the-most-bears-move-ever-1846493532 Some excellent takes here.

You really believe that?

Just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should. And yes, the federal government has MORE than enough power, power over the states and power over it's citizens. Tell me Dante, are you first a citizen of Nevada or a citizen of the United States of America?

Yep. And the sad thing is I think the Bears current ownership is ok with that, like the Ford family is with the Detroit Lions. Be just mediocre enough to put fans in the seats (covid excepted of course) and sell enough merchandise to turn a small profit on the franchise. If once every 20 years or so you have a 'miracle season' and get to the SB then that is just icing on the cake.