Learning Loss: Time to Stop Blaming COVID

Student achievement began sinking decades ago. 

A thorough overhaul should replace reforms that didn’t work. - Eric Hanushek.

• But while educators rushed to address COVID learning losses, few Americans grasped that their children had already been falling behind for almost ten years. 

By 2019, before anyone had ever heard of Wuhan, N95 masks, or social distancing, eighth-grade math scores had already dropped to levels not seen since the early 2000s. 

And the declines continue...
The decline in scores has also been accompanied by a widening of the achievement distribution: 

lower-achieving students have suffered greater declines than those at the top of the achievement distribution...

Gavin Newsom's divisive racial pandering * WorldNetDaily * by Kenin M. Spivak, Real Clear Wire

Gavin Newsom's divisive racial pandering * WorldNetDaily * by Kenin M. Spivak, Real Clear Wire: 

He opposed race neutral admissions to the California state university system (overruled by the people of California – twice), imposed gender and racial requirements on corporate boards (held unconstitutional – twice), required ethnic studies and ethnically dumbed-down math in K-12 curricula, and is carefully advancing a potentially multi-trillion dollar reparations plan for California's black residents.

Newsom's unconstitutional quest to curry favor with, undermine the confidence of, and potentially spend trillions of dollars on, California's 2.5 million black residents began in 2020 when he signed AB3121 into law. That act required the state to study and develop reparation proposals for black Californians, with "special consideration" for descendants of slaves.

What Can You Do If a Mob Surrounds Your Car?

Maybe Totally Legalizing Vice Was Not Such a Great Idea After All

Of course, vice invites corruption... - Kurt Schlichter

...and it’s now publicly infecting sports themselves (it has no doubt infected them for a while, with point shaving, thrown games, and the like). 

• It is also resurrecting the mob – I guess when the FBI was busy hassling moms for being mad about sex offenders in their kids’ locker rooms, the Mafia took advantage of the opportunity. 

The recent busts will be just the tip of the iceberg. 

Mark my words and move over, Black Sox – this will be a disaster for professional sports.

• Then there’s the vice of dope smoking...

Lunch video-----'Facing a storm': Selectively edited Donald Trump speech places BBC in h...

Noon-toon

 

Oklahoma ICE sting busts 34 illegal alien truck drivers, others with rap sheets | Blaze Media

Oklahoma ICE sting busts 34 illegal alien truck drivers, others with rap sheets | Blaze Media: 

Of the 70 illegal aliens nabbed by immigration officials, 36 reportedly had a prior criminal history with offenses that included assault and battery, soliciting prostitution, and DUI. Two illegal aliens were wanted overseas for fraud and burglary. Those arrested originated from 15 different countries, including China, Colombia, Georgia, Guatemala, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela.

Worth a try??

•  Triple your deep sleep with breath holds!

🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: International actors are involved in the State Department led color revolution 🚨🚨

This is not speculation; it’s straight from a recorded call. - DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican
Ex-USAID employees describe how, before January 20, they moved internal groups off government systems and into encrypted Signal chats, then quickly linked with foreign partners and NGOs after the inauguration...

They reference coordination with Johns Hopkins, "international democracy and conflict mitigation spaces," and efforts to mobilize across borders against what they perceive as domestic authoritarianism. 

• At what point does this become treason?...

#1 Movie this day 1963-----It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World Official Trailer #1

Who or What Will Finally End Hamas? - Victor Davis Hanson

Hamas is an irredeemable terrorist cartel that subverts Gaza, uses civilians as shields, and must be dismantled and barred from power before any genuine peace can begin. - Victor Davis Hanson

Hamas was born and exists to kill Jews, seek the destruction of Israel, and, to some extent, overthrow or subvert pro-Western Arab governments. Period.

• For those ends, it diverted billions of dollars from the people of Gaza to build a vast subterranean labyrinth of military headquarters and arsenals. 
• It expropriated hospitals, mosques, and schools for use as tunnel entries and exits, using expendable civilian shields to protect its rich terrorist hierarchy...
• Hamas was willing to execute its Palestinian Authority rivals, cancel all elections after its first and only victory, hold kangaroo death courts to murder dissidents, and steal hundreds of billions of dollars in Western and international relief...

Hamas will never give up power, despite the fact that its ruling elite is all but wiped out...

#1 This day 1969-----The Fifth Dimension - Wedding Bell Blues (Woody Allen Special - 1969)

Forget Pelosi, Here’s Why You Should Fear Her Likely Successor

The man who has been looking to replace her in Congress in State Sen. Scott Weiner.  - Matt Margolis

• He checks all the boxes for the radical left: fanatically obsessed with climate change lawsuits, a champion for “trans refuge” policies that upend families and public safety...
• Wiener’s zeal for legislating the culture war is unmatched. In 2023, he pushed AB 957, rewriting California’s Family Code so that if a parent doesn’t “affirm” his or her child’s “gender identity,” a judge could deny the parent custody of their child during divorce proceedings.
• This isn’t Wiener’s only foray into pushing the sexual boundaries that the left favors. He’s the architect of SB 145, dubbed the “pro-pedophile” bill, which essentially decriminalizes sex with certain minors under the guise of “equity” for the LGBTQ community.

His legislative legacy reads like a roadmap for chaos and perversion...

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics)

Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber, sources say | Blaze Media

Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber, sources say | Blaze Media: 

A forensic analysis of a female former U.S. Capitol Police officer’s gait is a 94%-98% match to the unique stride of the long-sought Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect, according to a Blaze News investigation confirmed by several intelligence sources.

Geopolitics of Drones

As of 2025, more than 100 countries use military drones.
Traditionally, fighter jets represented air superiority.
They were seen as needed for gaining control of the skies and neutralising enemy airforce before it can respond.
But this model is being disrupted.

• Fighter jets require highly trained pilots, complex maintenance, and careful risk calculation.
• Drones can be used in large numbers, sacrificed in high-risk missions, and quickly replaced.

This shift transforms the concept of modern air power...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for November 10

History for November 10 - On-This-Day.com 

Richard Burton 1925 - Actor

• 1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress...
• 1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA.
• 1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.
• 1980 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare.
• 1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors.
• 2001 - The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.

After Mamdani Victory, DeSantis Makes NYPD Officers an Offer They Can't Refuse

After Mamdani Victory, DeSantis Makes NYPD Officers an Offer They Can't Refuse: 

“In the last budget, the City Council tried to make the NYPD reduce its overtime budget by half. They simply refused,” Mamdani wrote in an December 2020 post on X. “There is no negotiating with an institution this wicked & corrupt.

“Defund it. Dismantle it. End the cycle of violence.”

Mamdani, like most modern leftists, apparently believes the “cycle of violence” starts with police officers, rather than criminals.

The way we were-----The Great Northeast Blackout - 1965 | Today In History | 9 Nov 17

The British government passes a law to stop people having two cups of co...

Maldives Are Thriving, Not Sinking

Electroverse Substack | Cap Allon | Substack

America Fought a Civil War So Trump Could Enforce Federal Law

America Fought a Civil War So Trump Could Enforce Federal Law - Victor Davis Hanson

• Nancy Pelosi,...going to warn federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that if, in the opinion of state authorities, they acted in the way the state felt was improper, then she would order their arrest.
• Mayor Brandon Johnson said that he was going to actively oppose the enforcement of federal law within his jurisdiction in Chicago...
• Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other Los Angeles city and county authorities have proudly announced..
• JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, on numerous occasions...
• Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani says that if he were to be elected...

This is all very dangerous. 

I suggest that all of these entities, authorities, mayors, governors, police chiefs read Article VI of the Constitution, especially the paragraph known as the supremacy clause. 

In it, it details that local state authorities are subject to treaties and the laws that the federal government makes...

'Citizens first': Florida launched first strike against visa abuse, but H-1B is only half the battle * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta

'Citizens first': Florida launched first strike against visa abuse, but H-1B is only half the battle * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta: 

Florida has become the first state in the nation to take formal action against the use of foreign worker visas in its public university system. Gov. Ron DeSantis's new proclamation to "pull the plug"on H-1B visas in state institutions, sets a national example, one that could reshape how other states protect their own graduates and taxpayers. "This is about putting Florida workers and American citizens first," DeSantis declared. "We can do it with our residents of Florida and with Americans." It's a landmark moment, a state finally standing up to the federal government's decades-long neglect of American labor. However, the H-1B visa is just one part of a much larger system that feeds cheap foreign labor into American jobs.