Richard, President Biden is so drunk with power.
And I’m going to tell you exactly why in my quick new video.
The truth is that Joe Biden thinks he’s a king - not a president.
And his vaccine mandates make that more clear than ever. He acted without considering
- Congressional approval.
- Constitutional authority.
- Actual science.
Richard, these mandates have 0 exemptions for natural immunity. They don’t address the growing problem of “breakthrough” cases. There’s no proof that this will do anything to make anyone healthier!
It’s completely authoritarian, unscientific, and should not be adhered to or promulgated by the government.
And unfortunately, we know this is only the FIRST step of what is to come. That’s why we need to get this message out there - before it goes any further.
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How Can 84% Of Chicago Public Schools Students Graduate When Only 26% Of 11th-Graders Are Proficient In Reading, Math?
It’s shameful.
Chicago Public School officials want to celebrate a record graduation rate when much of the other data shows they are failing Chicago’s children.
Only 26 percent of CPS 11th-graders can read and do math at grade level, according to the latest Illinois Report Card data, and yet last week the district proudly announced that 84 percent of students graduated from CPS in 2021 – a new record high.
First of all, color us skeptical about that record high rate. Everyone knows that the city’s children were underserved by remote learning – the failures were reported ad nauseum by the press. Announcing record graduation rates is a way for district officials to sweep those failures under the rug.
But there’s a more fundamental problem: the graduation rate distracts from the fact that CPS officials are pushing out poorly educated children.
Only 26 of Chicago 11th-graders are proficient in English Language Arts and only 27 percent proficient in math according to 2019 Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) data.
Nearly 83 percent of students in CPS are either black or Hispanic, and, unfortunately, they have the lowest scores.
Just 14 percent of black 11th-graders are proficient in English Language Arts and just 13 percent are proficient in math. Hispanics aren’t much better, with just 25 proficient in reading and 27 percent proficient in math.
Pushing students through the system under “social promotion” only sets up thousands of children for failure every year.
“Social promotion” starts early at CPS. Just 30 percent of black children can read at grade level in the third grade, and just 37 percent of Hispanics can. Nevertheless, those students are sent on to the next grade year after year.
And when they do finally graduate, about 60 percent of students that attend community college end up having to take remedial courses.
CPS is in deep trouble, as we’ve documented recently, with more than 100,000 kids having left the district since 2000. And that’s despite a doubling in per student funding.
There are plenty of reasons for inner city families to leave Chicago. The homicides, the ever-increasing cost-of-
Unsurprisingly, the farce continues. District officials now say they want to hit a 90 percent graduation rate by 2024.
Forget the graduation rate. Focus, instead, on whether the kids can read or write at grade level.
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Rabbi Yaakov Menken: Virginia candidate Youngkin's criticism of Soros not anti-Semitic, it's legitimate
Response to Glenn Youngkin's comment on George Soros was as fast and furious as it was predictable
Addressing supporters this week, Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin took aim at both his opponent and one of the foremost backers of progressive causes. "The blame for… the present chaos in our schools lays squarely, squarely at the feet of 40-year politician Terry McAuliffe… but also at George Soros-backed allies."
The response was as fast and furious as it was predictable. "I call it out in my own party and I’m calling it out now," tweeted Democrat Congresswoman Elaine Luria, of Virginia’s Second District. "Evoking George Soros as a shadowy funder is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. This is an unacceptable statement from Glenn Youngkin."
Luria’s criticism is misplaced for two reasons. First, there is no comparison between Youngkin condemning Soros and his allies and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., targeting all Jews. More fundamentally, it is counterproductive to employ the charge of anti-Semitism to shield an individual of Jewish origin from legitimate criticism.
And criticism of Soros is legitimate.
Soros and his Open Societies Foundations have been working to elect left-wing district attorneys whose focus on "criminal justice reform" has resulted in the failure to prosecute even violent offenders, targeting of police, and unsafe streets for millions of Americans. In 2020, he started the Open Society University Network to "transform" higher education by integrating "civic engagement," meaning left-wing indoctrination, into academics.
Regarding children’s schooling, a Soros priority for decades, the Open Society Foundations are backing the "1619 Freedom School," started by Nikole Hannah-Jones, the New York Times journalist responsible for the "1619 Project" that slanders the United States as founded to promote racism and slavery, rather than freedom.
Not incidentally, the foregoing are also not the worst of Soros’ activities.
Open Society funds groups like the Arab American Institute, which condemned Israel for protecting civilians by placing barriers in the way of suicide bombers; Ilam, a propaganda network blaming Israel for Arab terrorism; Gisha, which aims to give terrorists from Hamas-run Gaza free rein to enter Israel; and the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), which lobbies on behalf of the murderous, theocratic Iranian regime.
NGO-Monitor, a respected research institute promoting transparency and human rights, concluded in a 2013 report that Soros-funded groups exacerbate tensions throughout the Middle East, while pretending to promote peace.
These Soros investments make life less safe for everyone, especially for Jews. Criticizing him for these reasons is not anti-Semitic. In fact, it is absolutely fair and right and just.
Hatred of Jews is too real and too dangerous to be utilized as a partisan cudgel.
In the Book of Isaiah [5:20] we read, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." In other words, call it like it is.
Unfortunately, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) sometimes doesn’t do that. The ADL, founded to combat anti-Semitism a century ago, was taken over in 2015 by CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, an ex-Obama appointee with no background in Judaism or Jewish causes, much less in fighting anti-Jewish hatred. It released a report in 2018 dismissing criticism of Soros’ targeted investments in left-wing causes as "conspiracy theories" spread "in far-right circles."
Given that he previously directed a program funded by Soros, it is unsurprising, though distressing, that Greenblatt would leverage the ADL’s credibility to protect his former patron. But if criticizing wealthy Jews for funding political causes is anti-Semitic, why did the ADL not defend the late Sheldon Adelson, a wealthy supporter of conservative causes, with equal vigor?
Hatred of Jews is too real and too dangerous to be utilized as a partisan cudgel. It makes the charge of anti-Semitism more likely to be dismissed on the occasions when the danger is, in fact, real.
Fighting anti-Semitism is obviously a Jewish value, but it is also an American value. As George Washington wrote in his letter to the Jews of Newport in 1790, the government of the United States "gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."
When people use their wealth to promote partisan causes, that is certainly their right. Similarly, it is not illegitimate, much less anti-Semitic, to criticize them and the organizations they back. In fact, when their efforts result in less civility, increased tension and danger to our very lives, this condemnation is an expression of both Jewish and American values.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken is managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, the largest rabbinic public-policy organization in America.
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https://freebeacon.com/democrats/soros-bankrolls-far-left-group-at-heart-of-anti-semitism-scandal/
Soros Bankrolls Far-Left Group at Heart of Anti-Semitism Scandal
By Joseph Simonson
Left-wing billionaire George Soros is bankrolling the political arm of the Sunrise Movement, a far-left group engulfed in an anti-Semitism controversy after its Washington, D.C., chapter said it will no longer hold rallies with Jewish organizations.
As part of his eight-figure cash infusion during the 2020 election cycle Soros’s Democracy PAC gave $250,000 to Sunrise Movement’s political action committee, according to Federal Election Commission filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Sunrise PAC also received $500,000 from the far-left dark money group the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which received $9.6 million from the Soros-run Open Society Policy Center in 2019. Those two donations constituted nearly a third of the $2.35 million Sunrise PAC raised from Jan. 1, 2019, to Dec. 31, 2020.
Sunrise DC was widely condemned last week after it released a statement on "future coalition spaces with Zionist organizations." The group said it will not appear at a rally for Washington, D.C., statehood because other left-wing groups in attendance, such as the National Council of Jewish Women and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, support Israel’s existence as a nation. The group said the fight for D.C. statehood was "incompatible" with Zionism.
Soros did not respond to a request for comment on his future funding of the organization.
Soros and his allies have raised the alarm about anti-Semitic attacks against the billionaire, but his decision to bankroll a group purveying an anti-Semitic trope—and his silence in the face of it—raises questions about his sincerity.
For example, when Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, mentioned Soros at a rally earlier this month, Democrats said his comments were anti-Semitic.
"Evoking George Soros as a shadowy funder is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory," Rep. Elaine Luria (D., Va.) said in a tweet. "This is an unacceptable statement from Glenn Youngkin." Luria did not respond to a request for comment on Soros and the Sunrise Movement.
Soros's involvement in the Sunrise Movement raises questions about how he oversees the distribution of his fortune. Sunrise isn't the only anti-Semitic group Soros is known to give money to that has promulgated anti-Semitic tropes. He also funds the isolationist Quincy Institute, a think tank that employed scholars such as Sarah Leah Whitson, a former Human Rights Watch executive, who appeared to celebrate draconian public health measures used early on in the coronavirus pandemic by the Israeli government. She said whatever inconvenience they imposed on Israeli citizens was not enough to compensate for the suffering they have perpetrated on Palestinians. Whitson later deleted the tweet and said it "didn’t come out right."
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and director of global social action at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish organization formed to combat anti-Semitism, said Soros should cease his funding of the Sunrise Movement and other anti-Semitic organizations.
"Major funders of progressive causes as well as conservative causes have an obligation not to donate to individuals or institutions who are anti-Semitic," Cooper said. "When such bigotry is exposed, they should publicly stop further support—financial or otherwise."
The Sunrise Movement’s national chapter eventually called the decision by Sunrise DC "anti-Semitic and unacceptable." On Sunday, Sunrise DC apologized for its decision, although it reiterated that it "stand[s] against Zionism."
In August 2020, Open Society Foundations president Patrick Gaspard, a longtime deputy of Soros, defended the anti-Semite Stokely Carmichael, who once said Hitler was the only white man he could respect. His remarks came after former president Bill Clinton said the civil rights movement briefly "went a little too far towards Stokely."
"I didn’t want to tweet this during the funeral for John Lewis, but who is Bill Clinton to show up at a black funeral to attack Stokely Carmichael? Stokely was ours," Gaspard said in a now-deleted tweet. "He was targeted for destruction by the FBI and forced into exile. He gave all for us. Bill Clinton ain’t no hero."
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