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A Rhythm Of Racist Prayer: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/a-rhythm-of-racist-prayer/ The book contains a “Prayer of a Weary Black Woman,” by Chanequa Walker-Barnes, an associate professor in the Mercy University’s School of Theology (Mercer is a Georgia Baptist school). This piece breaks down the prayer. Here are close-ups in the photo of the tweet above: Here are quotes, if you can’t read the shots. More: And: My, my, we have come a long way from Dr. King, haven’t we? Now, imagine that you are a white student at Mercer, and Dr. Walker-Barnes is your professor. How can you possibly succeed in that class, knowing that your professor is an open racist who asks God to help her hate people like you? This is not really about the deranged hater Chanequa Walker-Barnes, who, get this, says that her ministry advocates for “reconciliation.” This is about a progressive establishment that valorizes anti-white hatred. How the hell did the people at Convergent Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, approve this? Is racial hatred fine by them if it’s directed at white people? Apparently so. I’ve read a couple of reviews of A Rhythm of Prayer, and not one of them have expressed surprise or alarm that Walker-Barnes prays for God to help her hate white people, and asking God to help her see them all as Klansmen. Not one. Walker-Barnes would not have written such a blasphemous, hateful, racist prayer if she thought she would face any sanction for it from her university, or within her professional milieu. My conclusion is that the woke establishment is completely on board with stoking anti-white hatred. This is the fruit of Critical Race Theory. This week, the black Southern Baptist pastor Voddie Baucham published an incredibly powerful indictment of CRT and what it’s doing to Evangelical churches: Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe. Baucham pulls no punches. He writes: I’m going to devote a separate post to Baucham’s powerful, urgent book, but let me here exhort Christian readers to buy it and share it with everyone you know. It’s important. What Walker-Barnes and her progressive Christian allies represent is, let’s be clear, the spirit of Antichrist. It is blasphemous to call on God to make you hate people at all, much less on the basis of race. Voddie Baucham is calling them out on it. I have said for years in this space that the progressives are calling up racist demons that they won’t be able to control. A Rhythm Of Prayer — or at least the Walker-Barnes contribution to it — is an incantation to the demon of racial hate. This is embraced and promoted by a mainstream publisher. Until this morning, when I saw this on conservative websites, there was no criticism of it. This is what these people, these progressives, believe. They are preparing the country for violent racial conflict. Voddie Baucham characterizes the “antiracist” propaganda as follows: People like Chanequa Walker-Barnes get away with this because all the white people in their social and professional circles sit down and shut up as a matter of course. And those who don’t — like Kieran Bhattacharya (who, by the sound of his last name, is not even white) — face the full weight of persecutorial institutions coming down on them to destroy their careers and their lives. But not all white people, and not all people in general, are like those cowardly white liberals. It is time for those who hate this racism to find their backbones and their voices. Do not embrace anti-black racism, which is also the spirit of Antichrist! Stand against all race hatred. Confront managers of stores that sell this hateful book. Tell everybody you know that Mercer University employs an open racist. When your school, or your kid’s school, teaches garbage like this, confront the school’s administration. Don’t let it pass. If your church is teaching it, leave that church. This evil will never stop until and unless people of good will stand up against it, like Voddie Baucham is doing, and demand that it go away. I remind you that propaganda like A Rhythm Of Prayer is what pre-Nazi Germany did to the Jews, preparing Germany for the Holocaust. It’s what the Hutus in power did to the Tutsis of Rwanda, preparing Rwanda for the 1994 genocide. If a bestselling prayerbook called on God to help one learn how to hate people of color, we would know exactly what we were looking at, and we would rightly condemn it without qualification. But our institutions — academia, publishing, media, and others — have been captured by this evil ideology. If we don’t stand up against it right now, without fear or apology, then history tells us where it may lead. Again, the problem here is not really Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes. The problem is a progressive-controlled system — academia, publishing, and retailing — that valorizes her kind of race hatred. I believe that she should have the legal right to publish this. But it should be vigorously condemned all the same. You can buy this book featuring Chanequa Walker-Barnes prayer for the gift of racial hatred through Amazon. You cannot buy Ryan T. Anderson’s sober, well-reasoned book critiquing transgender ideology at Amazon. This is what it means for progressives — not liberals, progressives — to have captured institutions. None of this moral insanity will stop if the rest of us simply sit back and hope that it goes away. Fight it now, or the fight that’s coming is going to be much uglier, maybe, God forbid, even violent. If that happens, if the shooting starts, remember that progressive elites did this to us, to all of us, black, white, brown, all of us. They are openly teaching us to hate each other on the basis of race. Hell, they’re even praying for it! UPDATE: Reader Coleman Glenn comments: I see. I’m not sure I buy it, though. I need to think about it. I see your point, and you might well be right, but Walker-Barnes’s writing is so muddled on this point that it’s not clear to me what she’s saying. Or rather, given the fact that she has written such a long and vivid version of an imprecatory prayer, one fuzzy paragraph saying, in effect, “They deserve all this, but I need you to keep me on the straight and narrow in my denunciations of them,” is pretty puny. It reads to me as completely insincere, though obviously I can’t know my heart Put another way, it reads like a kind of pornography: a detailed and highly-charged prayer about lust, with an obligatory, “but I know I can’t have that” graph slapped on to pass the censors, so to speak. Still, I will concede that that may have been her intention, however badly executed. UPDATE.2: Think of it this way: if a white theologian had written a “prayer” that was a lengthy, lurid discourse on how black people deserved to be hated, but saying in a single paragraph at the end, “but Lord, I know that I can’t have what I’m asking for,” would we think that it was unproblematic? Again, if Walker-Barnes’s sin here is not moral, but aesthetic — that is, if she simply did a poor job of saying what she meant — that is important to note. But that potentially exculpatory graf seems awfully weak. I remember when I was writing about the black radical professor Tommy Curry at Texas A&M a few years ago, and the many awful, racist things he was saying, some who came to his defense argued that in some cases, technically, he was simply quoting others, etc., and that we can’t say that he really believed these things. This was maybe — maybe — plausible in some of the instances, if you squinted and applied the strictest possible hair-splitting logic. But it was clear what he was doing. I think the same thing is happening here. Reading the entire “prayer,” I don’t believe for one second that Walker-Barnes struggles with her anger at white people. She does not sound like the sort of person begging for deliverance from her anti-white passions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur-de-lis The National Honor Society chapter at Greenfield High School is called the Fleur-De-Lis chapter. There may be a connection there, but I am not sure.

I also always liked Kautz Field in Kokomo, nestled behind historic Memorial Gymnasium. Unfortunately it was ruined when they tore down the fantastic old covered grandstand seats, replaced them with generic metal bleachers, and moved the high school games to the field at the Hayworth building on the west side of town.

Fleur-De-Lis field in Greenfield, Illinois. Hands down the best high school football stadium in the nation:

Here come the new laws..... err executive orders from Mr. Biden: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-gun-politics-gun-violence-violence-edc7a2c8dc505915a8ad841616d40ebe Practically anything with two pieces of metal pipe and nail is a 'ghost gun'. As a youth I built a few.

A Medical Student Questioned Microaggressions. UVA Branded Him a Threat and Banished Him from Campus. https://reason.com/2021/04/07/microaggressions-uva-student-kieran-bhattacharya-threat/ Then a dean of student affairs asked to meet as well. Meanwhile, the Academic Standards and Achievement Committee met to to discuss the concern card. This committee voted to send Bhattacharya a written reminder to "show mutual respect" to faculty members and "express yourself appropriately." The committee also suggested that he get counseling. On November 26, this suggestion became a mandate: The student was informed that he must be evaluated by psychological services before returning to classes. Bhattacharya repeatedly asked university officials to clarify what exactly he was accused of, under whose authority his counseling had been mandated, and why his enrollment status was suddenly in doubt, according to the lawsuit. These queries only appear to have made UVA officials more determined to punish him: Bhattacharya's mounting frustration with these baseless accusations of unspecified wrongdoings was essentially treated as evidence that he was guilty. At his hearing, he was accused of being "extremely defensive" and ordered to change his "aggressive, threatening behavior." He was ultimately suspended for "aggressive and inappropriate interactions in multiple situations." On December 30, UVA police ordered him to leave campus. UVA's administration engaged in behavior that can be described as "gaslighting." Administrators asserted that Bhattacharya had behaved aggressively when he hadn't, and then cited his increasing confusion, frustration, and hostility toward the disciplinary process as evidence that he was aggressive. And all of this because Bhattacharya asked an entirely fair question about microaggressions, a fraught subject. His lawsuit contends that UVA violated his First Amendment rights by retaliating against him for speaking his mind. UVA filed a motion to dismiss the case, but a district court judge ruled that the suit could proceed. "Bhattacharya sufficiently alleges that Defendants retaliated against him," wrote the court. "Indeed, they issued a Professionalism Concern Card against him, suspended him from UVA Medical School, required him to undergo counseling and obtain 'medical clearance' as a prerequisite for remaining enrolled, and prevented him from appealing his suspension or applying for readmission." It is vital that UVA lose this case, and lose badly. Students must have the right to question administrators about poorly formed concepts from social psychology without fearing that they will be branded as threats to public order. That's the difference between a public university and an asylum. Update: This post initially identified Sara Rasmussen as the professor who filed the complaint, but it was Nora Kern, a co-organizer of the event. Both are defendants in the lawsuit. Agreed. This case should be a slam dunk victory for Mr. Bhattacharya and free speech. And the UVA administrators who foisted this ridiculousness on him should be the ones ordered to leave the UVA campus.

Papa John Was Railroaded https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/papa-john-was-railroaded/ On that fateful conference call, Schnatter described the building of his business: The Target Schnatter became a high-value target in the culture wars a decade ago. In 2011, he pulled Papa John’s ads from Wonkette after the site mocked Sarah Palin’s then-toddler son for having Down syndrome, making Schnatter a long-running butt of retaliatory attacks by Wonkette’s sister websites in the Gawker Media universe, such as Deadspin. In 2012, Schnatter criticized Obamacare as bad for his business, and some Papa John’s fans rallied in support after he came under fire for that position. Schnatter was also a multimillion-dollar donor to Americans for Prosperity and other Koch brothers pro–free-market initiatives, teaming with them to endow scholars at the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville. Schnatter himself valued his total donations to Koch-related projects at $53 million. In November 2017, after a disappointing quarter for the company, Schnatter complained on a quarterly earnings conference call with analysts that he felt that the NFL had damaged itself by the lingering “debacle” of controversy over national-anthem protests led by Colin Kaepernick: At the time, Papa John’s was a major sponsor of the league — the “official pizza of the NFL” — and spent a quarter of the company’s advertising budget, some $40 million a year, on its NFL sponsorship. It was not unreasonable, then, for the nearly double-digit declines in TV viewership for NFL games in two successive seasons from 2015–16 to be a serious business concern for Papa John’s. As Jim Geraghty noted of the counter-reaction at the time: In February 2018, with its stock price down by a third, the company dropped its sponsorship of the NFL. Its competitor Pizza Hut stepped in to replace it. Being active in hot-button culture-war fights while heading a publicly traded company is not a great idea, but aside from the Trig Palin controversy, most of Schnatter’s political profile was directly related to free markets and his business interests. In the Obamacare battle, Schnatter was commenting on legislation that directly affected his company’s bottom-line. In the case of the NFL protests, he was briefing investors on one of his company’s most important business relationships. And his public comments on the anthem protests, for which he was broiled by left-wing media, did not even take aim at the protesting players so much as at the league. The Explosion In July 2018, a bombshell story broke. Schnatter had resigned as the company’s chairman after he “used the N-word on a conference call in May” with Papa John’s ad agency, Forbes announced in a story titled “Papa John’s Founder Used N-Word On Conference Call.” Much of the press coverage, which followed the Forbes story, was similar. German Lopez of Vox wrote, “Not using the n-word is a basic show of restraint and respect — the kind of restraint and respect consistently demanded of black people in American society. That Schnatter couldn’t live up to even this bare minimum is a strong sign that he shouldn’t be representing a big pizza chain that’s trying to repair its image.” Schnatter was forced to resign as a trustee of the University of Louisville, under fire from the local NAACP. His wife of 32 years filed for divorce. The fallout for both the company and its founder (who held nearly a third of its shares and a seat on the board) was ugly: Was this justice done to a bigot, a politically correct overreaction, or something more sinister? Unlike a lot of targets of cancel culture, John Schnatter has a lot of money, plenty of free time on his hands, and a combative enough nature to fight back. He launched lawsuits and a coordinated public-relations push of his own: “In a 61-page letter sent after his resignation, Schnatter accused Papa John’s senior executives of ‘frat club’ behavior, including sexual harassment and bigotry.” He set up websites to get his side of the story out. He ate 40 Papa John’s pizzas in a month, in a publicity stunt to critique the state of the company’s product after his departure. He donated $1 million to a historically black college in Kentucky. Now that we finally have a public record of what transpired on the entire call, it is clear that Schnatter — who had no prior record of racial incidents — has been the victim of character assassination. It appears that the Forbes article may have been revenge by his ad agency after Schnatter fired them. Schnatter alleges, not without reason, that the whole thing was an ambush from the beginning, as the agency was already on thin ice with the company. Either way, the reactions by the ad-agency personnel on the call are symptomatic of people too saturated in left-wing political assumptions to see Schnatter with any measure of fairness or perspective. The Ambush Early in 2018, Papa John’s hired Laundry Service, a Brooklyn-based ad agency owned indirectly by Casey Wasserman, the grandson of legendary Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman. Laundry Service’s assignment was to manage some of the public-relations blowback from Schnatter’s NFL “debacle” comments. Schnatter now says that the relationship never went well, and that Laundry Service was in over its head on such a large account. The company parted ways with the ad agency in June 2018, after the call and before the Forbes article was published. Schnatter says that he fired them. Forbes, which apparently drew its report from Laundry Service sources, claims that it was the ad agency that ended the relationship. The facts of the story appear to support Schnatter on that score: Schnatter, in his lawsuit, says that Laundry Service actually wanted to run an ad campaign replacing Schnatter with Kanye West — not the first person you’d identify with stilling the waters and steering away from controversy. Ironically, according to Schnatter, he vetoed that choice in part because Kanye’s songs use the N-word. The conference call at issue took place on May 22, 2018. According to a report prepared by former FBI director Louis Freeh’s firm (working for Schnatter’s lawyers), Schnatter expected the call to address new marketing initiatives, but “instead, when the call commenced, Mr. Schnatter was informed that the focus of the call would be ‘diversity training,’ and would include ‘role-playing exercises’ to foster a discussion of race and diversity.” The recording and transcript do not mention either “diversity training” or “role playing,” but they do reflect that Schnatter had been sent a document just before the call that he had complained of having little time to review, he was asked, “Do you want to do this exercise now?” and he went along. The call then focused entirely on how Schnatter could handle interviews with sports journalists Stephen A. Smith, Darren Rovell, or Bill Simmons about the anthem protests and race. Jason Stein, then the CEO of Laundry Service, told Schnatter that “the goal is . . . to clear the air and John’s name to as many consumers as possible in as broad a way as possible as quickly as possible. So that’s the point of this sort of small media blitz tour,” which he proposed starting with Smith because “we like him because he’s black and he agreed with John’s comments” and felt he would give a fair hearing. The other participants on the call besides Schnatter and Stein were Papa John’s CEO Steve Ritchie, Papa John’s marketing and advertising vice president Katie Wollrich, and Tim Polder of Laundry Service. A few other unidentified Laundry Service personnel seem to have been listening in, and were caught in a hot-mic incident at the end. The setting of the call was a frank conversation among senior people and public-relations professionals about managing the image and communications of the company chairman: What to say, what not to say. Any lawyer or PR person who has ever done witness preparation or media training will know the drill. The whole point of this sort of thing is to candidly hash out a message that is true without creating trouble. People getting walked through such paces are invariably going to vent some of their frustrations about being in this situation. It was not a management setting or a public event. It was supposed to be a situation of trust. The call is, in several places, amusing for Schnatter’s bluntness, which the Laundry Service people found unsettling. The call transcript gives some sense of Schnatter’s sentiments about the anthem protests. Schnatter expressed a businessman’s concern that the players were harming themselves economically by continuing the protests, but acknowledged that this was not a safe opinion to air in public: That said, Schnatter reserved his real anger for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and for Donald Trump. Here is Schnatter’s take on Goodell and the NFL owners: In Trump, Schnatter did not find “level-headed” leadership. In fact, he blamed the president for sabotaging his effort to resolve the anthem controversy collaboratively: Schnatter was, plainly, frustrated at how he was being portrayed in the media and the difficulty of proving he’s not a racist in today’s media environment — a charge that seems to have been aired in the Laundry Service memo he was sent: In response to a question about distancing himself from online racists, Schnatter pointed to the absurdity of this by describing real, vicious racism that horrified him growing up in Indiana: Stein and his team pressed Schnatter to distance himself from a $1,000 donation to Trump. Schnatter noted that he was really a Mike Pence guy, not a Trump guy, and that $1,000 is not a big deal to a man who put $53 million into the Koch network: The Word As the call wound down, it appears from the recording and transcript that Schnatter (unmuted) began venting to his team about the situation he was in, while Stein (on mute) started venting to his team about their shared loathing of Schnatter, and the Laundry Service team recorded both conversations. Schnatter complained about prior PR and ad agencies refusing to let him talk, and that’s when he said this to Ritchie and Wollrich: Should Schnatter have used that word, in quoting what somebody else said? Not in a public setting, surely — and maybe not wisely here, either. But his whole point was that this was an example of a bad thing he wouldn’t say. Who among us, even those of us who would never use that word, has not described something bad to make a contrast? This is like what the New York Times did to Donald McNeil, but worse, because there isn’t even the excuse that Schnatter was talking to kids. Stein and his team, meanwhile, immediately lit into Schnatter even before the “N-word” was uttered. You can listen here to the highlights: You need to read the rant session by the Laundry Service team at some length to truly taste their open contempt for their Midwestern client and their incomprehension of how someone could not regurgitate corporate woke-speak. Some of this is just Blue America and Red America not understanding one another, but Stein’s musings about how to sabotage Schnatter reveal the difference: It’s Blue America that is out to get Red America fired: In the world of “woke capitalism,” anything less than 100 percent support for Kaepernick is seen as ideological treason and irrefutable proof of being a racist. Anything Schnatter said to defend himself was taken as evidence against him. Then, we get to the part where Stein and his team openly suggest that they should set up Schnatter with a hostile interview: Finally, they started grumbling about Schnatter being tied to Pence and Koch, in case you had any illusions that these sorts of people merely hate the Donald Trumps of the world: These people worked for Schnatter. His company had hired them to help him, and when they couldn’t do that, they appear to have leaked a selectively presented account of the conversation to the press to destroy him. Only because they saved the recording can we hear the whole thing now. Maybe there was more: Schnatter alleges that Laundry Service held up Papa John’s for $6 million before going to Forbes, and he also alleges that Ritchie, his own CEO, “has admitted privately that he launched a false and defamatory campaign against Mr. Schnatter, falsely accusing him of racism, for the sad and simple reason that Mr. Ritchie learned that he was going to lose his job.” Thus far, however, public accounts do not offer any evidence of whether or not Schnatter can back up either of those allegations. Laundry Service has been laying low, not offering anything but the most boilerplate public defenses. Representatives for Schnatter and Laundry Service did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Telling your close associates in senior management, on a private call, that you disapprove of somebody else using the N-word should not be a firing offense and a reputation-destroying incident in a country of adults. The mere fact that this has to be explained is a sign of the madness that has gripped corporate America. Agreed. This is another form of corporate espionage foisted by the progressive left.

A Professor Pushed Back Against 'White Fragility' Training. The College Investigated Her for 9 Months. https://reason.com/2021/04/05/a-professor-pushed-back-against-white-fragility-training-the-college-investigated-her-for-9-months/?itm_source=parsely-api

Progressive Surprised To Learn He Can Still Wear Mask Even Without Government Forcing Him To: https://babylonbee.com/news/progressives-worried-that-without-mask-mandate-theyll-have-to-take-responsibility-for-their-own-decisions

That 60 Minutes Story on Ron DeSantis and Florida's Vaccine Rollout Is Wildly Flawed https://reason.com/2021/04/05/60-minutes-ron-desantis-vaccines-florida-publix-sharyn-alfonsi/ Remarkably, CBS cut this portion of DeSantis' response. In fact, the 60 Minutes story reduced his two-minute answer to just a few seconds. The Daily Wire has a full breakdown of the sizable gap between what DeSantis actually said and what CBS included, and it's telling. This was not a case of a journalist condensing the essence of what a source told her: Alfonsi blatantly ignored the part of the governor's statement that clashed with her narrative, and instead included a brief comment that made it sound like he became combative with her for no reason. The rest of the story is also quite flawed. It maligned DeSantis for "breaking with CDC guidelines" and prioritizing vaccination for the elderly instead of "teachers and essential workers." Since the elderly are at the highest risk of dying from COVID-19, this prioritization makes absolute sense, irrespective of the CDC's warped views on the subject. CBS also implied that there's something sinister and unique about a Republican administration having "privatized" the vaccine rollout. (Corporations +profits = scary.) But private entities are aiding with vaccine distribution elsewhere as well: In the District of Columbia, CVS has partnered with the city's Democratic mayor to vaccinate all sorts of people. The mainstream media seems intent on peddling a false narrative that Florida's approach to the pandemic has been uniquely bad. As Zeynep Tufecki explained in a recent article, this is an example of how "polarization has eaten a lot of our brains": 60 Minutes' report is another example of this weird fixation. Moreover, it's misleadingly clipped to deprive viewers of DeSantis' plausible explanation of the alleged controversy. No wonder that so many people—and Republicans, especially—distrust the media. Yep, yet another left-wing MSM hit piece. They hate Mr. DeSantis and the state of Florida for their personal freedom-based and rational approach to this pandemic.

Vermont Is Prioritizing 'BIPOC' Households for Vaccines. That's Almost Certainly Unconstitutional. https://reason.com/2021/04/02/vermont-is-prioritizing-bipoc-households-for-vaccines-thats-almost-certainly-unconstitutional/ That would seem to disadvantage the state residents who are white and don't live with anyone identifying as BIPOC. The state currently restricts vaccine eligibility for those people to those 50 years and older, unless they qualify for a vaccine by virtue of being a health care worker, employed in public safety, having a high-risk health condition, or being a parent or caregiver of someone with a high-risk health condition. Mark Levine, the state's health commissioner, told VTDigger that people of color are being prioritized for the vaccine because of their higher rates of COVID-19 and lower rates of vaccination. All Vermonters 16 or older, white or not, should be able to register for a vaccine appointment by April 19, said Levine. Some 34 percent of Vermont's population has received at least one vaccine dose, making it the ninth most vaccinated state in the country. It ranks middle of the pack in how many of its allocated vaccines it's actually administered. The prioritization of vaccine eligibility along explicitly racial lines is unconstitutional, argues Cato Institute legal expert Walter Olson in a December 2020 op-ed for The Detriot News written in response to the Department of Veterans Affairs opening up vaccines to black, Asian, Native American, and Hispanic veterans. "This runs into the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which says citizens of all races are entitled to the equal protection of the laws. The Supreme Court has long interpreted this to mean that the government may ordinarily not dole out valuable benefits, or impose harms, based on a citizen's race," writes Olson. It's true that people of color are more likely to be frontline workers or have health conditions that make them more at risk of COVID-19 complications and death. However, directing vaccines to those higher-risk people can, and should, still be done through race-neutral categorization, says Olson. "Many sensible priority rules do incidentally protect relatively more minority persons — and that's fine, so long as the decision is based on the neutral grounds rather than being a pretext aimed at getting results based on race," he writes. All these problems identified with the V.A.'s policy would also apply to Vermont's vaccination racial preferences. In November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to prioritize essential workers over the elderly for vaccine distribution, in part, on the grounds that the elderly skew white, reports The Washington Free Beacon. The fact that we have COVID-19 vaccines that are both safe and effective is a true miracle of modern medicine. Getting them in as many arms as possible should be public policy goal number one. That is only undermined when public health officials at any level of government start creating arbitrary, likely unconstitutional categories for who can get a vaccine next.

The CDC vs. the Constitution https://reason.com/2021/04/01/the-cdc-vs-the-constitution/ Agreed. Federal government overreach at it's most egregious.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/the-ten-radical-new-rules-that-are-changing-america/ I fear for the future of America.

Biden's Infrastructure Plan Would Overturn 'Right-To-Work' Laws in 27 States https://reason.com/2021/04/01/bidens-infrastructure-plan-would-overturn-right-to-work-laws-in-27-states/ That is one of the mantra's of democrats and progressives: "This is for your own good, because you are too stupid to know otherwise."

Biden’s Not‐Really‐Necessary Plan https://www.cato.org/blog/bidens-not-really-necessary-plan Agreed. It's really just more political slush-funds.

G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate mastermind, dead at 90: https://apnews.com/article/g-gordon-liddy-dead-d64dac896ea0c73e19079b19e171cf21 Truly an American Villain.

Crybullies Sue Christian Colleges https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/lgbt-crybullies-sue-christian-colleges-bob-jones/ What does the Post story say? Excerpts: So they chose to go to these Christian schools, but are now trying to break the Christian schools to their will. More: Why on earth would you intentionally go to a conservative Christian university, one whose policies towards gay sexuality were clear, then curl up in a ball and cry when the school acts on the basis of its clearly stated policies? Nobody should be called slurs on a campus, Christian or not, but why is that a matter for federal court? And if a school wants to kick men out for wearing women’s clothes, why shouldn’t they have that right? What these plaintiffs are trying to do is to compel every school in this country to conform, even at the cost of their consciences. Read it all. From the REAP website, here’s a profile of one of the plantiffs: So York College has to have all federal funding taken away because queer demiboy wants to wear dresses to class, and his Christian school says no, you can’t do it. Great. This is what the Left fights for now. From the profile of plaintiff Jake Picker, whose photo is at the top of this item: So he can’t even name a single harm he suffered! He just feels “unsafe and unprotected.” Religious liberty should be taken from Baylor because this queer crybully chose to attend a Baptist university whose policies were perfectly clear before he filed his application, and because Christian teaching hurts his feelings. It’s infuriating. These plaintiffs are not victims. They are crybullies. What they seek in this lawsuit is the end of exemptions to Title IX for religious schools. What this would mean is that religious schools would either have to change their policies on LGBT, or lose all federal funding. The crybullies and the progressives will not stop until they have crushed dissenting Christians. The thing about the famous 1982 Bob Jones case is that SCOTUS held that the IRS can remove the tax-exempt status of a religious school because “[g]overnment has a fundamental, overriding interest in eradicating racial discrimination in education . . . which substantially outweighs whatever burden denial of tax benefits places on [the University’s] exercise of their religious beliefs.” I’d like to hear the opinions of lawyers in this blog’s readership, but it seems to me that the Biden administration could simply announce a policy change at the IRS, and tax exemption for religious colleges and universities that discriminate against LGBTs would disappear. Understand, though, that the Bob Jones case involved federal tax exemption, but the federal LGBT lawsuit would be even broader, taking away all federal funding from non-compliant schools. It’s not enough that LGBT folks have nearly every university in the country. They’re going to smash the few Christians holdouts. Love wins through hatred.

Maybe Red Devils vs. Red Devils, aka Jeffersonfille vs. West Lafayette would be a good matchup?

School Choice Is on The Move. Is It Too Late? https://www.cato.org/blog/school-choice-move-it-too-late

Legislators Override Kentucky Governor's Veto of School Choice Bill https://reason.com/2021/03/30/legislators-override-kentucky-governors-veto-of-school-choice-bill/ A vote for Freedom is always a good thing.

Heh heh, back in the early 1980's the freshman football team I was on had ONE coach, although sometimes an assistant coach from the JV/Varsity squad would wander over and help a little bit during practices. And this coach drove the school bus to away games.

Take A Stand Against The Mask Mandates https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/take-a-stand-against-the-mask-mandates/

Federal appeals court rules in favor of Ohio professor who refused to use student's preferred pronouns https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/29/us/ohio-professor-transgender-appeals-trnd/index.html Good, a decision supporting sanity.

Time for Americans to Take Back Power from Teachers’ Unions https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/time-for-americans-to-take-back-power-from-teachers-unions/ Yep. The logical thing it to make public-sector labor unions illegal, as even the leftist-demigod FDR supported.