Sunday, September 05, 2021
SCOTUS Lets Texas Six Week Abortion Ban Stand
SCOTUS Lets Texas Six Week Abortion Ban Stand:
In a pro-life victory, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 on Wednesday not to block the new Texas law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy while legal challenges to that law proceed in lower courts.
A narrow majority of justices held that the abortion-provider plaintiffs had failed to meet the high standard required for the Supreme Court to issue an injunction blocking a law before it goes into effect.
Accounting Critic Says Biggest Problem Facing Social Security, Medicare Is Trillions in Unfunded Debts
History for September 5
History for September 5 - On-This-Day.com
Freddie Mercury (Queen) 1946
- 1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.
- 1774 - The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association, and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress.
- 1793 - In France, the "Reign of Terror" began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities.
- 1836 - Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
- 1914 - The Battle of the Marne began. The Germans, British and French fought for six days killing half a million people.
- 1939 - The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.
Saturday, September 04, 2021
Rep. Mullin accuses Biden of thwarting his mission to help American citizens get out of Afghanistan - TheBlaze
Rep. Mullin accuses Biden of thwarting his mission to help American citizens get out of Afghanistan - TheBlaze:
Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma defended his "rogue" mission to try to help American citizens leave Afghanistan and accused the Biden administration of standing in the way.
"When I say that blood is on his hands, that means the President Biden's hands, I mean that with everything in my heart," said Mullin in an interview Friday with Bret Baier of Fox News.
Report: 30-Plus California Children Remain Stranded in Afghanistan
Report: 30-Plus California Children Remain Stranded in Afghanistan:
More than 30 California children likely remain stranded in Afghanistan, days after President Joe Biden evacuated U.S. forces from the country while abandoning billions of dollars worth of military equipment to the Taliban terrorists.
According to California school board officials in three districts, which confirmed the U.S. legal status of the children to the Associated Press (AP), 30 children “have been forgotten by the U.S. government.”
And excuses abound! A disgrace! Child abuse!!!-----Michigan releases M-STEP scores: Here's where students fell behind
Michigan releases M-STEP scores: Here's where students fell behind
"Students lagged in nearly every grade and category on state tests taken in the spring of 2021, according to scores released Tuesday by the Michigan Department of Education.
Those scores, and separate data also released from benchmark assessments of students across the state from the previous school year, illustrate just how much learning was interrupted through the pandemic.
...“These new data demonstrate what national research predicted: Michigan’s students have experienced significant unfinished learning during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Amber Arellano, executive director of the Education Trust-Midwest, a nonprofit education advocacy group.
...While the results show more than a quarter of students falling behind grade level, Katharine Strunk, a researcher with EPIC and a professor at MSU's College of Education, said the results don't mean students learned nothing at all last year.
"Students learned through the year in Michigan," she said. "And I think that that's a really critical piece of it. ... But they did not grow in their learning as much as might have been predicted in a typical year."
Find the full benchmark report here...Read all!!!
Those scores, and separate data also released from benchmark assessments of students across the state from the previous school year, illustrate just how much learning was interrupted through the pandemic.
...“These new data demonstrate what national research predicted: Michigan’s students have experienced significant unfinished learning during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Amber Arellano, executive director of the Education Trust-Midwest, a nonprofit education advocacy group.
...While the results show more than a quarter of students falling behind grade level, Katharine Strunk, a researcher with EPIC and a professor at MSU's College of Education, said the results don't mean students learned nothing at all last year.
"Students learned through the year in Michigan," she said. "And I think that that's a really critical piece of it. ... But they did not grow in their learning as much as might have been predicted in a typical year."
Find the full benchmark report here...Read all!!!
A School Movement Targeting Minorities That Works. But Progressives Don't Like It. | RealClearInvestigations
A School Movement Targeting Minorities That Works. But Progressives Don't Like It. | RealClearInvestigations
"Michael Landsbaum hit bottom after his father lost his job and couldn’t pay rent, leaving the teenager homeless in Dallas.
He slept on friends’ couches for months until he was rescued by an unlikely source: his high school.
But Pathways in Technology Early College High School did much more than provide him with a place to stay at a counselor’s home.
"Michael Landsbaum hit bottom after his father lost his job and couldn’t pay rent, leaving the teenager homeless in Dallas.
But Pathways in Technology Early College High School did much more than provide him with a place to stay at a counselor’s home.
Its accelerated program, including college courses, gave Landsbaum the drive to get through the tough times and the hope for better days.
“My goal was to get my associate’s degree, and when I got that, things got a whole lot easier,” he says.
Landsbaum, 20, is finishing his bachelor’s in computer science at the University of North Texas – a turnaround that’s typical of the school, part of a growing movement better known by its acronym P-TECH.
Founded in 2011 by IBM and the Bloomberg administration in New York City, P-TECH has spread to 10 states with 127 schools as of last year, achieving remarkable results for the low-income, black and Latino students they serve.
“My goal was to get my associate’s degree, and when I got that, things got a whole lot easier,” he says.
Landsbaum, 20, is finishing his bachelor’s in computer science at the University of North Texas – a turnaround that’s typical of the school, part of a growing movement better known by its acronym P-TECH.
Founded in 2011 by IBM and the Bloomberg administration in New York City, P-TECH has spread to 10 states with 127 schools as of last year, achieving remarkable results for the low-income, black and Latino students they serve.
In Dallas, for example, 72% of students graduated with a high school diploma and an associate’s degree in about four years.
...P-TECH's success offers a counterpoint to critical race theory, a controversial academic movement increasingly adopted in schools that casts “systemic racism” and white supremacy as pervasive problems that students can counteract through racial awareness.
P-TECH is showing that underperforming students from poor communities can master a race-neutral mainstream STEM curriculum, especially when they see a brighter future, in the form of a well-paying job, within their grasp.
...That’s about eight times the national average for on-time community college graduation by students of color...Read all!
Banks to Introduce Amendment to Ban Military from Promoting CRT
Banks to Introduce Amendment to Ban Military from Promoting CRT:
Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) on Wednesday will introduce an amendment to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act to ban the military from promoting ideas affiliated with Critical Race Theory.
"So to be authentically of color, you have to be lazy and sloppy?"
Instapundit---So to be authentically of color, you have to be lazy and sloppy?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: So to be authentically of color, you have to be lazy and sloppy?
Nice anti-racism you got going there.
You know what really fosters white supremacy?
Nice anti-racism you got going there.
You know what really fosters white supremacy?
College.
Maybe we should shut ’em all down.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds
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George Soros Gives Another $500,000 to Help Gavin Newsom Fight California Recall; Total $1 Million
George Soros Gives Another $500,000 to Help Gavin Newsom Fight California Recall; Total $1 Million:
Billionaire left-wing donor George Soros has given another $500,000 to Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s campaign to stop the California recall, bringing his total contribution to the effort to $1 million, making him one of Newsom’s top backers.
Bad management equals bad "luck"-----GM shutting down production at most of its plants in North America - CNN
GM shutting down production at most of its plants in North America - CNN
"New York (CNN Business)General Motors will shut production at most of its North American plants for a week or two starting next week as the worsening chip shortage takes another bite out of its plans.
GM and other automakers had hoped the chip shortage would be mostly behind them by now.
"New York (CNN Business)General Motors will shut production at most of its North American plants for a week or two starting next week as the worsening chip shortage takes another bite out of its plans.
GM and other automakers had hoped the chip shortage would be mostly behind them by now.
But the surge in Covid cases, especially in Southeast Asia where many of the chip manufacturers are based, has actually created a worsening problem for automakers.
...some of its large pickup and SUV production capacity will be affected by the shutdowns...Read all.
...some of its large pickup and SUV production capacity will be affected by the shutdowns...Read all.
Not enforced ANYWHERE!!!-----NYC Man Free On Bail From Gun Charges Commits Fatal Shooting
NYC Man Free On Bail From Gun Charges Commits Fatal Shooting
Getting a gun is difficult if you’re a law-abiding citizen, which we’re told makes it even more difficult for criminals to get firearms.
Yet, that’s not really true.
"New York City is famous for its incredibly strict gun control laws.
Yet, that’s not really true.
We know it’s not true because of the amount of crime New York City is currently experiencing.
These aren’t law-abiding citizens shooting up the streets, after all.
And what about those gun laws?
And what about those gun laws?
Well, a recent homicide illustrates just how beautifully those laws don’t work.
An allegedly trigger-happy Brooklyn man admitted to shooting two people — killing one — while out on bail on felony firearm charges...Read all.
Should white people "commit suicide as an ethical act?" This professor at a Catholic university had some very confusing thoughts about it | Not the Bee
Should white people "commit suicide as an ethical act?" This professor at a Catholic university had some very confusing thoughts about it | Not the Bee
"Have you ever considered whether or not white people should, in some circumstances, kill themselves "as an ethical act?"
No?
Well, congratulations, you're unenlightened and you should probably be sent to a reeducation camp.
Anyway, this professor from Duquesne University is way ahead of you:
"Have you ever considered whether or not white people should, in some circumstances, kill themselves "as an ethical act?"
No?
Well, congratulations, you're unenlightened and you should probably be sent to a reeducation camp.
Anyway, this professor from Duquesne University is way ahead of you:
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