Fleeing Texas Dems Are COVID Super-Spreaders

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Six of the Texas Democrat lawmakers who fled the Lone Star State last week have contracted COVID-19. Their self-promoting departure was a ridiculous PR stunt aimed at preventing a vote on an election integrity law as they promulgated the false narrative of their fighting against voter suppression. Adding insult to injury, they have further spread the virus to the staff of both House Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi and the White House.

The hypocrisy aspect of this story seems to only be increasing. These fleeing Democrats not only shirked their own legislative duty, they flouted Joe Biden’s federal regulation requiring mask-wearing for air travel. Indeed, they proudly photographed themselves flying on a private charter jet sans masks.

U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) offered a pointed rebuke of both these Democrats and the mainstream media’s biased coverage of the story: “Imagine if 50 GOP state reps skipped work, drank beer on a private jet while ignoring federal mask mandates, held a press conference to spread flagrant lies that’ve been debunked, and then infected the Speaker’s Office and White House with COVID. Just imagine.”

The bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration, which has been at the forefront of the Democrats’ misinformation campaign against voter integrity legislation, predictably refused to criticize the derelict and reckless Texas Democrats. Maintaining the “voter suppression” lie is too important. This was perfectly illustrated by White House Press Secretary liar-Jen Psaki’s Tuesday comments: “Our message continues to be thanks for standing up for voting rights and the rights of Americans to have their voices heard at the voting booth, and we appreciate their efforts in that regard.”

And in yet another move that ironically downplays the very hysteria bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden himself sought to fuel with his “Facebook is killing people” comment, liar-Psaki insisted that bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden would not alter his plans to meet with these COVID super-spreader “hero” Democrats. It’s no problem, liar-Psaki asserted, because “if you are vaccinated, you are protected” and “if you get a case of COVID, it will be mild.” All the Texas Democrats say they were vaccinated. Evidently, promoting the fake narrative is worth risking bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s health and maybe leaving us with scumbag/liar-Kamala Harris ~The Patriot Post

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Life Expectancy Decline Was Far More Than COVID
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Just Monday, we noted that there was a 20% increase in American deaths in 2020. Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that U.S. life expectancy dropped by a year and a half in 2020 — the biggest single-year decline since World War II.

The coronavirus pandemic most certainly played the dominant role in this change, but it’s a lot more complicated than merely people dying of a novel virus. In fact, a large factor was the policies implemented to address the virus.

Widespread lockdowns led to economic devastation and social isolation. That in turn contributed to a 30% spike in overdose deaths in 2020, as well as a big rise in suicides — including a drastic increase in attempts by teenagers.

Then there were policies like New York Governor  scumbag/liar-Andrew Cuomo’s order to put COVID-infected individuals in nursing homes, which led to thousands of deaths. Would those folks have died in 2020 anyway without the governor’s order? We’ll never know.

But that brings up an interesting point about COVID itself. The median age of death from coronavirus was older than life expectancy. Our national policy should have been focused on taking care of the more vulnerable among us rather than locking everyone down and causing more harm.

“We didn’t do a particularly good job of protecting [the elderly],” said veteran journalist Brit Hume recently. “We’ve had a high death toll disproportionately among the elderly. And what we did to deal with that is instead of quarantining the elderly and making the most strenuous possible efforts to protect them, we quarantined the healthy as well, shut down the economy, shut down the schools, you know, and with incalculable damage to children, to their education, to their mental health and all the rest of it. And, of course, the toll from that in terms of, you know, mental health issues and failed education and all the rest of it, we won’t know for some years, but we know it’s serious. So this was about as badly handled as any public policy issue I can remember.”

Meanwhile, the news media was obliged to highlight the racial component in the life expectancy report. According  to CNBC, “Hispanics saw the biggest drop in life expectancy last year, followed by Black Americans.” But there’s also another fact: “Hispanic Americans usually have a longer life expectancy than non-Hispanic Black or white folks.”

The CDC says 90% of the decline for Hispanics was due to COVID-19, while the virus accounts for just 59% of the decline among blacks.

As it turns out, another reason for the decline in life expectancy was the fact that the murder rate spiked by an estimated 25%. Who were the victims of this increase? Often urban blacks killed by other urban blacks following the grossly politicized death of George Floyd. So if there’s a racial element here, it’s not an interracial one. In other words, it’s certainly not “systemic racism” among whites.

Whatever might be said of the decline in life expectancy among Americans, it’s undeniable that political decisions and gamesmanship played an outsized role. ~The Patriot Post

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bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s Ed Secretary
Backpedals on CRT
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When a Washington Post headline reads, “Education Department tries to tamp down controversy over U.S. history/civics grant program,” you can bet some Beltway bureaucrats are doing some serious backpedaling.

In this case, the most beleaguered of those bureaucrats is Miguel Cardona, bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s secretary of education. It’s his program, after all — a program that incentivizes bribes schools to teach Critical Race Theory — that’s come under fire from conservatives and concerned parents nationwide, including perhaps most famously in Cardona’s proverbial backyard in Loudoun County, Virginia.

“The department published a notice Monday in the Federal Register,” the Post reports, “that dropped references to published anti-racism works that had been mentioned in proposed rules released in April for the American History and Civics Education grant program, and that had drawn the ire of conservatives.”

We sounded the alarm about Cardona back in early January, when he was still just a nominee for education secretary. He had a history, though — one that included pushing CRT while he was Connecticut’s commissioner of education. “There,” as our Brian Mark Weber wrote, “the Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective helped develop the curriculum and provides teachers with professional development opportunities so they can become ‘anti-racist’ advocates. Their  recommendation to the State Education Resource Center also prepares students to become anti-racist leaders in their communities.”

The Post tries to imply that the Right’s righteous indignation was much ado about nothing, noting, “The proposed rules did not actually suggest the contested material would be required for grantees to use,” and that Cardona made clear “that curriculum decisions will not be dictated by the federal government.”

Uh-huh. Far be it from the federal government to strong-arm certain behavior at the local level by waving federal funds in front of cash-strapped states, cities, and school districts.

This walk-back from the DOE may appear minor, but it’s a win for all Americans who find it repugnant that our children are being indoctrinated by racist ideologies such as Ibram X. Kendi and rotten historians such as Nikole Hannah-Jones. Our kids are told that they belong to “oppressed” and “oppressor” classes based solely on the color of their skin; that America was founded not with its Declaration of Independence in 1776 but with the landing of the first slave ship on its shores in 1619; that we fought the Revolutionary War to preserve slavery; that blacks were mostly on their own in the fight to abolish that vile institution; that “The only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”

As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell remarked Monday: “Glad that [the Department of Education] listened to Senate Republicans and many, many Americans and is shelving plans to let divisive, debunked propaganda take over programs for promoting civics. Students deserve a rich, rigorous education in civics and our nation’s history.”

The backlash has been building for months now, and there’s leftist blood in the water. With vigilance and unrelenting pushback, historical accuracy and civic decency can yet win the day.

Let’s celebrate this good news, and gird ourselves for the next CRT battle. And the next. And the next. ~The Patriot Post

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Baltimore: The Canary in the Public Ed Coal Mine
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Certainly for this headline you could probably swap out any number of large (and even medium-sized) urban areas around the nation, but Baltimore already has a reputation as a failure of a school system. That was backed up recently by a story broken by a local television station.

WBFF-TV, Baltimore’s Fox affiliate, ran the latest news as part of a series dubbed “Project Baltimore.” Reporters learned that, in the first three quarters of the 2020-21 academic year, 41% of the high school students in the city had a grade point average of less than 1.0, or less than a D average. Even worse, according to their report: “In January, City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises first sounded the alarm, announcing the course failure rate for students nearly doubled during the Covid shutdown. A few months later, in May, [the school administration] announced students would not be held back for failing classes. This most recent GPA data could indicate why City Schools made that decision.”

By the way, “nearly doubled” is true. According to that same WBFF-TV report, 24% of students had a similarly low GPA in the 2019-20 academic year. And yes, that’s still shamefully high.

Local reaction to this news showed a significant divide between those who would excuse this lack of performance, blaming it on the pandemic, and those who demanded action.

“These numbers are disturbing, but it is not a surprise that COVID worsened student performance,” said Baltimore City Council member Robert Stokes, who chairs that body’s Education Committee. “Haphazard approaches haven’t solved anything. Our children live in poverty or are surrounded by it every day. Until we address poverty and the systems that allow it to thrive, our children will continue to fail.”

But a local leader with an outsider’s perspective believed heads should roll.

“I know it’s a challenging issue,” said Maryland state Delegate Nino Mangione. “But we should look at some of these leaders in the administration and think, let’s evaluate and let’s start firing people. Because this can’t go on. This cannot go on. People need to lose their jobs for this.” Mangione represents an area of nearby Baltimore County, which is separate from the city of Baltimore.

Baltimore may be an easy mark because of this news station’s reporting, but as stated above, the news is just as bad in smaller cities. For example, South Bend, Indiana, had course failures reportedly double and chronic absenteeism “skyrocket,” explained a report from the South Bend Tribune. The mid-sized city in Indiana may be familiar to readers for two things: The University of Notre Dame lies just outside its city limits, and its most recent previous mayor, Pete Buttigieg, ran for president in 2020 and is now the secretary of transportation under Joe Biden. But the city never had the reputation for academic failure that places such as Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Chicago did.

Sadly, this lost academic year is doing more than  holding students back.

The Daily Wire cites two other disturbing studies from academia and government: On the academic side, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School forecasts a 3.6% reduction in economic productivity as a result of these yearlong school closures, predicting these students will be a “drag on the future GDP of the United States for decades in the future.” Even more ominously, the CDC announced that emergency room visits for suspected suicide attempts among teenage girls rose an alarming 51% during 2020, reflecting the depressing isolation that peer group endured during a time when schools were closed and in-person interaction was frowned upon.

Yet, rather than be concerned about these issues brought on by extended school closures, the major teachers unions strongly-armed a compliant CDC regarding the return to face-to-face instruction.

However, the National Education Association has had time in its recent business meeting to throw its full-throated support behind Critical Race Theory and declare war on its opponents. “Its new militant stance on critical race theory provides much-needed clarity to the debate on this issue,” writes Christopher Rufo at City Journal. “The teachers’ union has nationalized critical race theory and committed to the full range of left-wing radicalism, including opposition to ‘capitalism’ and ‘anthropocentrism.’”

Don’t you think it would be better if the teachers union committed itself to the education of all students in the basic courses of reading, writing, math, and proper American history? Too many public schools have a failure rate like Baltimore’s, and that makes for a bad investment of our tax dollars. Perhaps that money should follow the child to whatever educational facility the parents deem to be best for their student?

~The Patriot Post

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HANS VON SPAKOVSKY
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Texas Democrats’ Outrageous Claims About Election Reforms Have No Connection to Reality

Texas Democrats held a press conference on Friday in Alexandria, Va., across the Potomac River from the nation’s capital, to continue their lies about the election reforms being proposed in the special session of the Texas legislature called by Gov. Greg Abbott.

The session has been unable to start because they fled the state, denying a quorum in the legislature. As I have already explained in a previous op-ed for Fox News, the misleading and outrageous claims they have made and that they repeated at the press conference about the reforms have no connection whatsoever to reality.

Two of the speakers leading the press conference were Rep. Ron Reynolds and Rep. Nicole Collier, the vice chairman and chairwoman, respectively, of the Texas Legislative Black Caucus. Reynolds continued the false and historically embarrassing claim that the proposed reforms, such as extending the state’s voter ID requirement for in-person voting to absentee ballots, are “Jim Crow 2.0” and “Jim Crow revisited.” In reality, the ID requirement is easy and simple to meet and is overwhelmingly supported by all voters, including Black voters.

He also raged at the proposal to strengthen the ability of poll watchers to effectively observe everything going on in a polling place (except the actual casting of a ballot by a voter). He claimed this would allow “partisan” poll watchers like the “Proud Boys” and those who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6 to supposedly “intimidate voters and keep them from voting.”

This is a truly bizarre claim for several reasons, starting with the fact that virtually all poll watchers are “partisan” because they are appointed by the candidates of both political parties, including his own Democratic Party, or by the party organizations themselves.

But most importantly, Texas law — just like the laws in every other state that authorize poll watchers — do not allow observers to interfere in any way with the voting and election process. Intimidating a voter is a criminal offense under both state and federal law and that would not change under the proposed election reforms.

All the proposal does is ensure that observes are able to actually observe what is going on and are not prevented from doing so by partisan election and precinct officials. His highly emotional claims about what would happen if this election reform became law in Texas are pure hyperbole.

Rep. Collier claimed that Texas has the “most restrictive voting laws in the country” and is now trying to layer even more restrictions on top of that. This claim is also factually wrong. For example, Texas was one of the first states in the nation to institute early voting in the late 1980s; Delaware, the home of President bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden, currently has no early voting although the state just passed a law to institute it in 2022. She also repeated Rep. Reynolds’ false claim about the dangers of “partisan” poll watchers, again ignoring the actual Texas law that governs observers as well as the language in the proposed bill.

The oddest thing about these fabricated charges was the site the Texas Black Caucus picked to hold the press conference. The Alexandria Library was the location in 1939 of one of the first sit-ins when a civil rights pioneer, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, organized a protest of the whites-only policy that prevented Black Virginians from getting into and using the library. Collier, Reynolds, and other speakers kept trying to compare what they were doing to the brave and admirable work of Samuel Wilber Tucker.

But trying to compare a segregationist policy that kept Black Americans out of a public library in 1939 to an election bill that tries to protect the security and integrity of the election process for all voters and which has provisions that voters — including Black voters — support falls completely flat.

It is preposterous to equate the horrific segregationist rules of the old South to a law requiring someone to have a valid excuse like sickness or disability to use an absentee ballot, or requiring someone to write in the serial number of their free state voter ID card or the last four digits of their Social Security number to authenticate their identity when they request an absentee ballot.

Not only do the American people as a whole know that, but I have no doubt that the voters of Texas do, too.  ~The Patriot Post

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BETSY MCCAUGHEY
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Democrats Are Sabotaging Cubans

President bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden is full of compassion for Hispanics fleeing their home countries. There’s one exception: liberty-loving Cubans.

bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s abandoning practically all controls on the southern border. Despite saying, “Do not come,” the White House is adopting policies that send a clear message: “Cross illegally and you can stay.”

At the same time, bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s slamming the door on Cubans setting sail for Florida to escape a communist dictatorship. These anti-communists are not the kind of Hispanics that Democrats like.

Customs and Border Patrol agents on the southern border are literally reaching out to help illegals wade across the Rio Grande. But, under orders from bumble/ socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden, the Coast Guard is capturing Cubans heading for America in dinghies and rickety rafts and depositing them back in Cuba.

Floridians with seaworthy craft are assembling flotillas to sail just outside the three-mile mark around Cuba. But Homeland Security is warning that if they rescue Cuban defectors and bring them to America, they could face daily fines of up to $250,000 and five years in prison. So they should let them drown instead?

It’s been suggested that bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden wants to avoid a repeat of the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, when over 125,000 Cubans landed on U.S. shores in just five months. But that number pales in comparison to the influx bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is allowing at the southern border. In June alone, a staggering 188,000 illegals were counted by Border Patrol, in addition to the thousands who slipped through undetected. bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s actually planning to loosen southern border controls more, allowing single adults to remain — not just families and unaccompanied minors.

What could explain the indifference to Cubans? It’s possibly a political calculation. Most Cuban Americans who gain citizenship vote for Republicans. They’ve lived the horrors of socialism and have no appetite for the Democrats’ socialist rhetoric. Other Hispanic voters tend to support Democrats, according to the Pew Research Center. The more of them who settle here, the bigger the future Democratic electorate.

bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s also kowtowing to the far-left flank of his party, who like socialism and the Havana dictator.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas told Cubans on July 13: “If you take to the sea,” you will not be allowed in the United States, even if you can prove “a well-founded fear of persecution or torture.” That’s a 180-degree turn from how fleeing Cubans used to be treated.

Beginning in 1995, Cubans fleeing communist oppression were given special treatment when they reached U.S. shores. They were welcomed and put on a path to citizenship. That changed in President Barack scumbag/ liar-nObama’s final year when he tried to build a relationship with the communist regime. Among concessions, he ended the generous policy toward Cuban exiles and put them on the same footing as any other illegals.

Now, under bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden, they’re being treated worse than other illegals.

Under American law, asylum seekers can resettle in the U.S. if they demonstrate “well-founded fear” that returning to their homeland would cost them their lives. That law has been stretched like a rubber band for southern border crossers.

Cubans can actually demonstrate a “well-founded fear,” but Mayorkas is hinting that Cubans who seek asylum will be interviewed offshore and resettled to a third country such as Australia, not allowed in the U.S.

Talk is cheap. bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is praising the Cuban rebels and deploring communism, but his deeds don’t match up. He’s dithered on restoring Cuba’s internet connections, which the communist thugs cut off. He’s also made no move yet to fortify the rebels with food, medicine, computers and cellphones — the tools of revolution.

Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Venezuela — a roster of tyrants — all support the Cuban dictator and warned the U.S. not to interfere. This is a clear sign the U.S. needs to provide help.

Cuba supporters in Miami and Tampa have been marching with American flags and chanting, “Where is bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden?” He needs to take the cue. History is in the making, and delay could tilt the scale against a free Cuba.  ~The Patriot Post

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