The weird and wonderful world of education in America…how much more bizarre can it get? Consider the terrible price our children paid for the covid shutdowns…all under the auspices of those who we entrusted to teach our children in the first place: the teacher’s unions and the liberal members of academia. School choice is going to present severe challenges to our public-school institutions. Those chickens were coming home to roost no matter what; the administrators of our children’s education have gotten to the point where they place their concerns, their well-being, and their ideals above those that best serve our kids.
Our nation’s
public-school systems are now going into a time period where they will be
dysfunctional, highly unpopular, underutilized, strapped for cash, and heading
into a very serious episode or two of soul-searching. They had better wake up, acknowledge their
missteps, return to the education basics, reinstitute parental involvement in
schools, narrow their focus to the mission assigned to them, and institute a
transparent and accountable system that can begin to restore confidence. The very serious competition they are going
to be dealing with from private educators is, in the long run, going to force
them to improve. This is good thing.
And government, please…get
out of the education business. Take
your wokeness, your politics, your social engineering idealism, your historical
revisionism, and your autocratic attitudes and put them where the sun don’t
shine. Let education return to the state
and local levels where it can be organized and operated by those closest to the
children themselves.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/17/the-perils-of-historical-ignorance/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/behold-the-effects-of-progressive-education/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/americas-lost-generation.php
Fiscal irresponsibility
at the federal level has unfortunately become an accepted
truth to the American people. Both
national parties have given up on taking a serious approach to solving the
national deficit and debt crisis. The
Democrats have gotten to the point where it is taboo in their lexicon to even mention
debt or deficit in a serious way.
They have literally adopted an official party policy that sets
forth the premise that all national problems, regardless of their
characteristics, can be solved by directing massive federal spending in their
directions. As if there needed to be an
apt illustration of these points, just pay close attention to how the
approaching debt ceiling debate unfolds.
When it comes to dollars and cents (sense, also), our national
leadership in both parties is vacuous.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-costly-folly-of-student-debt-forgiveness/
https://reason.com/2023/02/14/is-inflation-sneakily-starting-to-rise-again/
https://issuesinsights.com/2023/02/17/the-cbo-exposes-bidens-5-45-trillion-lie/
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/18/oh-no-republicans-wont-raise-the-debt-ceiling/
If we are to preserve and
continue Social Security and Medicare for future generations, changes will
have to be made to both programs. If
these changes are not made, the programs will fail. They are unsustainable in their current
forms: https://reason.com/2023/02/16/social-security-and-medicare-cuts-are-coming-whether-politicians-do-it-or-not/
There are some serious
people who say that it is time for Social Security to end. I am not one of them, but here is their
argument: https://reason.com/video/2023/02/15/3-reasons-to-abolish-security-now/
It is way past time to
have a serious debate about if we want these programs and, if so…how
do we restructure them to make them sustainable. It is difficult to see how any serious debate
of this type might occur in today’s political climate. There is no political courage remaining in
either national party; they have spines of jelly.
The political
weaponization of our Department of Justice, several federal judges, and
government in general by the Democrat Party has not only
destroyed the credibility of these institutions…it has corrupted them to point
where some are finding their very need for existing is being questioned. As it should be. The Congress of the United States must
reestablish its co-equal status in government and begin to bring ideological
and rogue bureaucrats to account for their past and ongoing bad behavior;
behavior that is unethical, bordering on illegality, and without a doubt…sometimes
criminal.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/remember-how-the-left-hated-nixons-imperial-presidency/
I love podcasts. You can stream them on one window, and
continue your browsing in another. You
can put them on like the radio and perform other activities while listening. They are so…non-invasive. Here is a great one dealing with the RussiaGate
debacle foisted upon our nation by the liberal elite, the Democrat Party,
the high-tech industry, and the mainstream media. It is most likely the biggest political scam
in history. Take just a few minutes and
listen. It is difficult to believe that
this stuff actually happened…and even more incredible that essentially no
one is being held accountable for their part in it: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/a-twitter-files-footnote-10.php
Karma is a bitch: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/clappers-claptrap.php
https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/14/james-clapper-cant-stop-lying/
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/16/judge-tim-kellys-court-of-contempt/
Democrats are still
chasing their great…white…whale: https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/since-everyone-had-classified-docs-prosecutors-are-going-after-trump-for-obstruction/
Here are a few quick hits
on articles that demonstrate the sheer lunacy of our current
Administration in WDC and our society/culture in general. What are we doing to ourselves?
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/15/destroying-meritocracy-is-deadly/
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/19/the-covid-lockdown-disaster-three-years-later/
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/19/the-toxic-racialist-obsessions-of-joe-biden/
In many American cities,
crime is running rampant and criminals are running free. In my humble opinion, here is an idea that is
long overdue: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/mike-braun-leads-bill-to-increase-penalties-for-killing-or-targeting-police-officers
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/the-ufo-shoot-downs-still-dont-make-sense/
Speaking of the “UFO
business”, file this one away in the
satirical “reality bites” category: https://babylonbee.com/news/ok-take-us-to-a-different-leader-say-exasperated-aliens-after-trying-to-communicate-with-joe-biden
Taking a sweep across the
political landscape…the race for 2024 is on and we all need to be paying
attention. The next presidential choice
we make will be extremely consequential.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/make-or-break-for-the-senate-gop/
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/16/democrats-have-no-good-option-for-2024/
https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/its-time-for-biden-to-go-even-democrats-think-so/
Is there any chance at
all that this type of strategy still works? https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/its-trumps-fault-fast-becoming-favorite-line-biden-admin-amid-myriad-scandals
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/the-desantis-they-know
Nikki Haley has created
quite a stir with her presidential bid announcement. Some like her, some don’t…judge for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARWLEPf5iaw
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/give-nikki-haley-a-chance/
https://reason.com/2023/02/14/nikki-haleys-presidential-bid-is-an-unappealing-mix-of-maga-and-rino/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/haley-trump-and-a-gop-race-like-no-other
I spend a lot of time heaping
well-deserved derision on Joe Biden and his Administration. I stand by every word I have written. But on those rare occasions when Biden deserves
credit, I want to step up and give it to him.
Here is one of those times. If
you want to take a broad view and not dig too deep beneath the surface, I
support this Administration’s support for Ukraine in their war against Russian
aggression. It has always been, and
remains, my position that when free nations are attacked by aggressors, America
should support them in their struggle for freedom and liberty. That support should of a material and
geo-political nature; not in the sense of shipping American troops to the
battlefield.
Even though Biden has been
mealy-mouthed and foolish in his rhetoric involving Ukraine support and much of
that material support has been delayed for no good reason, the United States
has belatedly stepped up and given Ukraine all the support it could expect from
us. Now Biden has performed a meaningful
act that is long overdue; he has personally visited Ukraine and has visually
demonstrated for the world that America stands behind them. Kudos to Joe Biden for athis courageous act. This is a fine demonstration of
leadership. We can only hope that Biden
allows this act to speak for itself on the merits and doesn’t wring all the
juice from it by using it as a political prop for self-advancement.
And a good way to close
out this piece is some commentary by Jim Geraghty on Biden’s Ukraine trip and John
Fetterman’s bizarre Senate experience.
Common sense paired with high intelligence is a rare commodity these
days in the journalistic community; Geraghty has a plentiful supply of both.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/zelensky-really-needs-ammunition-not-a-visit/
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