The Reading Wars

"My child can't read!" - John Stossel

That's become a common complaint from parents...
But I think it's also because reading instruction became lazy and political.

• "Progressives" at teachers' colleges pushed a reading technique called "Balanced Literacy."
• Instead of memorizing sounds and letters, teachers push what they call "cueing," guessing words based on their context, or pictures.
• Balanced Literacy downplays "structured phonics," the older technique where kids memorize letters' sounds and learn to sound out words.
• Balanced Literacy does sound more fun than boring phonics drills. 

Progressives said it would make kids want to read.

It mostly didn't...

Bombshell: O'Keefe Videos Indisputable Proof of Huge CA Voter Fraud - So Big Newsom's Office Instantly Called for Prosecution

Bombshell: O'Keefe Videos Indisputable Proof of Huge CA Voter Fraud - So Big Newsom's Office Instantly Called for Prosecution: 

“We encountered 28 instances of petitioners offering cash, cigarettes, and marijuana for signatures on petitions,” O’Keefe posted to X.

O’Keefe also further accused Weingart Center, a human services group that seeks to help the homeless and receives “hundreds of millions in public funding,” of helping homeless people find these fraudulent petitioners and, perhaps most worryingly, also coached these homeless people on plausible deniability.

Europe’s New Unrealized Capital Gains Tax (They’re Taking 1/3rd of EVERYTHING)

Europe’s New Unrealized Capital Gains Tax (They’re Taking 1/3rd of EVERYTHING)

Yeah. This'll make them a lot of friends.-----CA Bill Will Create 2 New Islamic State Holidays, Help Combat Rising 'Islamophobia' as Islamists Slaughter Innocents in Iran

KTXL reported on Sunday that Democratic State Assemblyman Matt Haney has introduced a bill that would officially recognize two Muslim holidays — Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha — as state holidays. - Samuel Short 

Muslim community leaders commended the bill as a “historic step” in efforts to combat Islamophobia, per KTXL...

• Haney gave the typical answer for Western liberals, viewing this issue on the basis of tolerance. “California is home to one of the largest and most vibrant Muslim communities in the country, and their traditions deserve recognition and respect,” he said.
• “No student should have to choose between celebrating one of the holiest days of their faith and showing up to school, and no worker should feel they have to sacrifice their religious observance.”...

Lunch video-----Europe’s Iran Schizophrenia on Full Display Now | Victor Davis Hanson

Europe’s Iran Schizophrenia on Full Display Now | Victor Davis Hanson

Noon-toon

 

China DID meddle in 2020 presidential vote and intel officials hid it from Trump, unnerving report reveals * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff

China DID meddle in 2020 presidential vote and intel officials hid it from Trump, unnerving report reveals * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff: 

The Chinese did, in fact, meddle in the 2020 presidential vote in the United States, and the intelligence community did hide that information from President Donald Trump. That's according to a new investigative report at Just the News on the clouded vote results that already are known to have been under the undue influence of two factors.

No one is fooled.

 

The "1st Lady" of the 9-11 City??!!-----Zohran Mamdani’s Wife Celebrated Palestinian Terrorists, Including Plane Hijacker, In Social Media Posts From Early Adulthood

Rama Duwaji also boosted a post that said Tel Aviv ‘Shouldn’t exist in the first place’ - Jon Levine

• New York City's first lady, Rama Duwaji, glorified terrorist violence in a wide range of posts made on social media when she was a teenager and in her early 20s, celebrating members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group and the First Intifada...

Under the username "diimashq," she echoed one of Khaled's most famous statements.
"If it does good for my cause, I'll be happy to accept death," the caption read...

Deport her!

 

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is being mocked nationwide after she BEGGED people to move back from Florida.

4 years ago, she was GLOATING, saying Republicans should "jump on a bus and head down to Florida" - Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh

•  Mamdani will make the problem EVEN WORSE!

# ! This day 1958-----The Champs "Tequila" - YouTube

(27) The Champs "Tequila" - YouTube

Vote fraud's been happening for decades!-----Democratic state senator alleges 'deeply troubling' fraud in party convention process | Alpha News MN

Rep. Walter Hudson weighed in, saying: "If they'll do this to their own, why wouldn't they do this in the election?"  -  Jenna Gloeb
A Minnesota state senator recently took to social media to voice her concerns with her party’s caucus and convention process, alleging “deeply troubling incidents” that “undermine the rules of the process.”...

• Pha wrote that participants reported “troubling incidents,” including the “recruitment of individuals from outside the district to participate as delegates and instances where candidates and campaign organizers instructed people to list addresses where they do not live in order to qualify as delegates.”
• “These kinds of actions undermine the rules of the process and are deeply troubling,” Pha said, adding the convention system “only works when the rules are followed equally and when participants can trust that the process is fair and legitimate.”...

Get US out of UN and NATO!

 

'Our tax base has been eroded': Governor begs rich people to move back to state, pay high taxes * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Our tax base has been eroded': Governor begs rich people to move back to state, pay high taxes * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

"I need people of high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state," she demanded. "There are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. OK! Cut me the checks. But if you want to be supportive, maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home.

The Democrats love preaching about "threats to democracy" while their own party hasn't let voters truly decide a nominee in over a decade.

Since Obama's walk-through re-election in 2012, the establishment has anointed their candidates—rigging the process behind closed doors and sidelining anyone who challenges the script. - Republican Patriots

Look at what happened: 

• they kneecapped Bernie twice because he wasn't their pick, 
• coronated Biden after a stacked field, 
• then swapped him out for Kamala without a single primary vote. 

No debates, no real contest—just top-down control disguised as protecting the system...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for March 20

History for March 20 - On-This-Day.com 

B.F. Skinner 1904

• 1792 - In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approved the use of the guillotine.
• 1854 - The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group.
• 1933 - The first German concentration camp was completed at Dachau.
• 1969 - U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy called on the U.S. to close all bases in Taiwan.
• 1995 - In Tokyo, 12 people were killed and more than 5,500 others were sickened when packages containing the nerve gas Sarin was released on five separate subway trains. The terrorists belonged to a doomsday cult in Japan.

'This is the sound of hospice money': Nick Shirley releases new video revealing astronomical fraud in California * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'This is the sound of hospice money': Nick Shirley releases new video revealing astronomical fraud in California * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

Monday evening, Shirley launched his latest video exposing astronomical fraud in the Golden State, focusing on alleged fake hospices in Los Angeles and fraudulent daycare centers in San Diego. "Minnesota was big but California is even bigger," said Shirley. "We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP."

The way we were----- FROM THE ARCHIVES: Officials order another round of blackouts in March 2001 - YouTube

(26) FROM THE ARCHIVES: Officials order another round of blackouts in March 2001 - YouTube

Woman Shut Off Patient's Oxygen Because It Made Too Much Noise - YouTube

(26) Woman Shut Off Patient's Oxygen Because It Made Too Much Noise - YouTube: 

Nick Shirley Exposes L.A. County's Wildly High Number of People 'Dying' in Hospice Scams

In 2022, a state audit of California hospice licensure and oversight found that there were “numerous indicators” that “large-scale hospice fraud” was happening in Los Angeles County.  - Victoria Taft

• The fix was for the legislature to set up a fraud and abuse task force. 

Renewed reporting from independent journalist Nick Shirley shows that the fraud is "frauding" at unprecedented levels...

• "No dedicated commission was created after the 2022 California State Auditor report on hospice fraud...

Effectively taxpayer-funded, arms of the democrat party!-----Nonprofits are giant ticks sucking the life out of the progressive project.

NYC “Nonprofit” shelter execs: what they make running a system that costs ~$82K/person/year: - 
Noah Smith @Noahpinion

• Jack Brown, CORE: ~$1M+ 
• Raul Russi, Acacia: ~$1M 
• Lymaris Albors, Acacia: ~$0.9M 
• Joanne Oplustil, CAMBA: ~$0.8M 
• Rosa Gil, Comunilife: ~$0.7M 

'It's gonna sting': NFL manager says liberal state tax proposal will hurt team's prospects | Blaze Media

'It's gonna sting': NFL manager says liberal state tax proposal will hurt team's prospects | Blaze Media: 

The general manager of the Seattle Seahawks football team says a new tax proposal from Democrats will make it much harder for him to sign new players. On Wednesday, Washington state Democrats passed a proposal to impose a 9.9% state income tax on high earners, and it awaits the governor's signature to be put into law.