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What Makes Public-School Teachers Different from Everyone Else? https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-makes-public-school-teachers-different-from-everyone-else/

Yep, and here is the new hypocrite-in-chief signing a big old stack of them:

So some of what the late Jimmy the Greek said was true?

Tennessee Cops Arrest Man For Posting Photoshopped Picture of Men Urinating on Dead Officer's Grave https://reason.com/2021/01/25/tennessee-cops-arrest-man-for-posting-photoshopped-picture-of-men-urinating-on-dead-officers-grave/ It's unclear how a dead person can be criminally harassed under Tennessee law, which requires that the subject be "frightened, intimidated or emotionally distressed." Rather, Garton committed the unwritten crime of hurting a police officer's feelings, also known as "contempt of cop." For example, in 2019 an Iowa man won a lawsuit after he was charged with third-degree harassment for saying online that a sheriff's deputy was a "stupid sum bitch" and "butthurt." (In hindsight, the latter seems undeniably true.) Then there's the San Diego Police Department, which issued more than 80 tickets over the last decade for "seditious language" under an unconstitutional World War I–era law. The Voice of San Diego reported that the majority of the tickets were issued to minorities for allegedly using vulgarities. Another Tennessee resident was arrested in 2017 after he wrote "Erin's police chief is a bitch" in white paint on the back of his car. There's a wide body of case law upholding the right to flip off police officers, but despite this, arrests and tickets are still meted out to people who hurt cops' feelings by giving them the finger. Just this month, the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals denied qualified immunity to a Minnesota police officer who pulled over and arrested a man for flipping her off. A spokesperson for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation directed a request for comment to Crouch's office. Agreed. In very poor taste, but not a crime.

Yep, it has pretty much turned into that.

https://dvorak.substack.com/p/how-trump-lost

Chicago Teachers Union Refuses Order To Go Back to Classrooms https://reason.com/2021/01/25/chicago-teachers-union-vote-strike-school-reopen-covid-19/ Yet more evidence that public sector unions should be abolished.

Joe Biden's Plan for Big Government https://reason.com/2021/01/21/joe-bidens-plan-for-big-government/ Yep. Leftist socialist like Dante must be swooning over this proposed expansion of the federal government. After all they want nothing more than the federal government to be the cradle-to-grave sugar daddy for every American. And who gives a damn on how to pay for it all.

Crown Point - 76.6% White: : https://inview.doe.in.gov/schools/1046603901/population Center Grove- 84.1% White: https://inview.doe.in.gov/schools/1042053437/population The free/reduced lunches and textbook numbers for both schools are very close, 19.4% for CP and 16.3% for CG.

Ultimately have to have the Jimmies and Joes to do that, regardless of your coaching pedigree. What kind of OMG! Athletes are walking the streets of Crown Point? Will CP become an open-enrollment transfer destination due to this hire?

Him as well.

Unbiased, impartial links please to support your claim that all the D.C. Rioters were all out to murder elected officials. Are you endorsing the INDISCRIMINATE LOOTING, PILLAGING, AND DESTRUCTION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY?

Doyel: Colts' complicated offseason just got easy — trade for Matthew Stafford https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2021/01/25/colts-offseason-just-got-easy-trade-for-matthew-stafford/6699179002/ I believe Mr. Doyel is spot on with his analysis.

Correct, that would probably be Jim Thorpe, Bo Jackson, or Jim Brown: https://thegruelingtruth.com/top10/20-greatest-athletes-time/

That depends on what you mean by the term "athlete". Is Mr. Brady as athletic as say a Michael Jordan? A Lionel Messi? A Michael Phelps? A Roger Federer? Is Mr. Brady the best quarterback to ever play the game of professional tackle football? Probably. But greatest "male team sport athlete"? That is up for considerable debate.

Detroit Free Press lists Colts as the #1 trade partner for Mr. Stafford: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2021/01/24/ranking-potential-trade-partners-detroit-lions-matthew-stafford/6691558002/

I could not care less about Rodgers failing to make another SB, but kind of sad to see ISU product Robert Tonyan miss the the big dance.

https://reason.com/2021/01/24/in-2020-teachers-unions-and-police-unions-showed-their-true-colors/ Yep, just more and move evidence on why public-sector unions should be completely abolished.

Yet Another Study Shows—Yet Again—That Lockdowns Don't Work https://mises.org/wire/yet-another-study-shows-yet-again-lockdowns-dont-work That is, the more restrictive lockdown measures pointed to worse outcomes. This data suggests the theoretical underpinnings of the lockdown philosophy is wrong. As summed up by Bendavid, et al, Translation: mild measures encouraging caution on exposure to others probably lessens the spread. Therefore, more stringent measures will surely do an even better job of limiting the spread! But this doesn’t appear to be the case. Rather, the authors suggest those areas with lower covid mortality are areas where the public pursued low-hanging fruit in terms of slowing the spread. This included cancelling large, crowded events, and limiting travel. More stringent requirements on top of this appeared to produce no beneficial effect, and, if anything, had the opposite of the intended effect. This study, of course, is just the latest in a long line of similar studies calling into question the assumption—for it is only an assumption—that harsh lockdowns lower mortality. For example, back in May, researchers in The Lancet concluded that “hard lockdowns” don’t “protect old and frail” people, nor do they decrease mortality from Covid-19. Later, a July study in The Lancet stated: “The authors identified a negative association between the number of days to any lockdown and the total reported cases per million, where a longer time prior to implementation of any lockdown was associated with a lower number of detected cases per million.” In an August 1 study, also published by The Lancet, the authors concluded, “Rapid border closures, full lockdowns, and wide-spread testing were not associated with COVID-19 mortality per million people.” A June study published in Advance by Stefan Homburg and Christof Kuhbandner found that the data “strongly suggests" that In fact, the overall trend of infection and death appears to be remarkably similar across many jurisdictions regardless of what nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are taken by policymakers. In a paper published with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), authors Andew Atkeson et al.found that covid-19 deaths followed a similar pattern “virtually everywhere in the world” and that “Failing to account for this familiar pattern risks overstating the importance of policy mandated NPIs for shaping the progression of this deadly pandemic.” Refusing to be daunted by these holes in the official narrative, lockdown advocates often insist that lockdowns must be tolerated because “it’s better to be safe than sorry.” But this is a highly questionable notion as well. Lockdowns and other forms of mandated isolation bring with them a host of health problems of their own. As Bendavid, et al note, restrictive NPIs: Perhaps not surprisingly, data on excess mortality during the covid-19 pandemimc suggests only two-thirds of excess mortality can be medically connected to covid-19. As explained in a study in JAMA: Increase in dementia deaths were especially notable. And these effects can also be felt in the long term, and as I showed in an April 30 article, unemployment kills. Economic crises, such as this one made worse by mandatory shutdowns and stay-at-home orders, leads countless “years of life lost” through more suicide, heart disease, and drug overdoses. Moreover, given the nature of the shutdowns and who is affected, this has lopsidedly affected women and especially Hispanic women, who are heavilty represented among the workforce behind the service industry businesses shut down by government-imposed business closures. The cumulative effect can be quite large. In a new study from Francesco Bianchi, Giada Bianchi, and Dongho Song from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the authors conclude that the economic fallout—in terms of unemployment and its effects—will lead to nearly 900,000 deaths over the next 15 years. Of course, not all of the economic pain that coincided with the covid-19 panic of 2020 can be blamed on forced shutdowns. Many people would have likely minimized contact with others voluntarily out of fear of the disease. This would have indeed caused economic distortions and greater unemployment in some sectors of the economy. But, as Bianchi, et al admit, the lockdowns “contributed to further reduce economic activity” above and beyond normal voluntary reactions to covid-19. Combining these facts with what we know from the new Bendavid study—namely that voluntary measures accomplished the bulk of mitigation—suggests the "further reduction" in economic activity produced no additional health benefits. That is, the portion of economic destruction wrought by forced shutdowns was inflicted upon the public for nothing. Prior to 2020, of course, this was common knowledge. In a 2006 paper in Biosecurity and Bioterrorism called “Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza” by Thomas V. Inglesby, Jennifer B. Nuzzo, Tara O’Toole, and D.A. Henderson. The authors conclude: Yet, “public health” bureaucracts suddenly decided in 2020 that decades of research was to be thrown out the window, and lockdowns were to be imposed on hundreds of millions of human beings. Mantaory Lockdowns vs. Voluntary Social Distancing It should be noted that none of these researchers questioning the lockdown narrative expresses any problem with voluntary measures to reduce exposure to disease. Few are even likely to oppose measures like avoiding mass indoor gatherings of crowds. But those sorts of measures are fundamentally different from mandated business closures and stay-at-home orders. The problem with mandatory lockdowns—in contrast to voluntary social distancing—is highlighted by the fact that they indiscriminately rob vulnerable populations of the services and assistance they need. And by "volnerable populations" I mean anyone who is vulnerable to any life threatening condition. Although we're being conditioned to believe that deaths from covid are the only deaths worth noticing, the fact is the world includes people who are vulnerable to suicide, to drug overdoses, and to economic ruin—which brings countless secondary effects in the form of health problems. By denying these people the freedom to seek an income and secure the social and medical support they need during lockdowns, we are essentially saying those people are expendible, and it's better to tilt the scales in favor of covid patients. But as the mounting evidence discussed above suggests, the lodckdowns don't even produce the desired effects. So vulnerable people suffering from depression, untreated cancer, and other life-threatening conditions were forced to simply suffer un-aided for no justifiable reason. This was done to fit a political narrative, but it was based on a batch of bad assumptions, half-baked science, and the arrogance of politicians.

Will Democrats Embrace the Imperial Presidency Now That Their Guy Is in Charge? https://reason.com/2021/01/21/will-democrats-embrace-the-imperial-presidency-now-that-their-guy-is-in-charge/ But the democratic side of the uni-party won't resist such a temptation because, well it's the uni-party. And both sides covet nothing more than power, power over the American populace.

Here's How Donald Trump's 'Patriot Party' Could Become a Political Force https://reason.com/2021/01/21/heres-how-donald-trumps-patriot-party-could-become-a-political-force/

Portland rioters damage ICE building; police declare 'unlawful assembly': https://www.foxnews.com/us/anti-biden-antifa-portland-police Ahh, the peaceful left.

Biden Sees Own Shadow, Predicting Just Six Weeks Of Being President: https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-sees-shadow-predicting-six-weeks-of-being-president

Biden's Inauguration Was Small and Quiet. Good.: https://reason.com/2021/01/20/bidens-inauguration-was-small-and-quiet-good/

Iran, here we come!: https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-iraq-baghdad-d138cf4f0b9bf91221e959ea4d923128 The first chance for Mr. Biden to the nation how "strong" he is?