I have been away since Monday a week ago and this memo will include a lot of articles I have read while I was away but very abbreviated commentary. There is much I will write in future memos and I will devote one to our trip and the highlights.
I am digging through accumulated mail, newspapers and magazines and this will take several days.
To all my female friends who are mothers the very Happiest of Mother's Days. What would the world be without you? Maybe quieter? Just kidding.
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This from a dear friend, neighbor and fellow memo reader who, with his charming wife, served his country admirably. (See 1 below.)
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I have been very concerned about the vulnerability of our power grid to an attack. (See 2 below.)
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Who is Rod Rosenstein? (See 3 below.)
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Commentary about some of Europe's current leaders about the impact of their policies and views on the continent's future. (See 4 below.)
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DeVos and HBCU. Who are the real fascists? (See 5 below.)===
Various video links:
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1)OFA is for real ... Google it. This is unprecedented behavior for an ex-president. Article from the New York Post.......
If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the past eight years with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country? We are about to find out in America. The ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues, and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep.
He has moved many of his
administration's top dogs over to an organization called Organizing for Action (OFA).
OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance we are seeing across America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.
OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for "progressive" change. Issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform.
OFA members were propped up by the ex-president's message from the shadows:"Organizing is the building block of everything great we've accomplished.
Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities-and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines...Commit to this work in 2016 and beyond." OFA's website says it obtained its "digital" assets from the ex-president's re-election effort and that he inspired the movement. In short, it's the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic.
Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president "will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House." Sperry writes that the ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the incoming administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide.
OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate OFA has 32,525 volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the operation from their home/ office near the White House. Think about how this work, for example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; violence follows- all emanating from the ex-president's signal that he is heartened by the protests.
If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.
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As society moves toward an increasingly connected world, keeping the U.S. electrical grid reliable and safe from hackers and other potential security threats has perhaps never been more crucial.
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Energy Security: Upgrading The U.S. Electrical Grid
Author(s): HSNW Staff Source: homelandsecuritynewswire.com
As society moves toward an increasingly connected world, keeping the U.S. electrical grid reliable and safe from hackers and other potential security threats has perhaps never been more crucial.
To address this challenge, in November 2014 the Department of Energy (DOE) established the Grid Modernization Initiative (GMI), a DOE-wide collaboration that gets funding support from the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), and the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis (EPSA).
The initiative aims to deliver fundamental knowledge, new concepts, tools and data to support the nation’s journey to modernizing the electric power system infrastructure. Enhanced grid security, grid flexibility via energy storage and improved economic competitiveness are key outcomes of this initiative.
“We are working on building a platform of tools and technologies to help industry and grid operators to develop the grid of the future,” said Kevin Lynn, GMI co-chair and director of Grid Modernization for EERE. “We are working holistically — not just on new technologies — but also on core topics like interoperability, valuation and modeling that will help propel early stage development of grid modernization helping to stop terrorist attacks.”
LLNL says that a total of 87 grid modernization projects are distributed throughout the Energy Department’s national laboratories and institutions, through the Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC), a partnership involving 13 DOE national laboratories. Three of these projects, considered foundational and addressing the resiliency of the electric power grid, are being led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory but involve numerous industry partners, academic institutions, vendors and utility companies. In all, LLNL researchers are involved in 16 projects under the GMLC banner.
“For LLNL, the Grid Modernization Initiative represents an enormous opportunity for the Lab to expand our impact to a national level,” said John Grosh, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s deputy associate director in Computation and team leader for the Grid Modernization Lab Consortium’s Design and Planning Tools area. “Through this program, we have built collaborations with over a dozen labs and numerous industry partners. Although the Lab’s grid research activities focus on modeling and simulation, high performance computing, analytics and cyber security, to be relevant the Lab really needs to be connecting into the grid community in a broad way…and this program is critical for doing just that.”
Researchers presented these projects headed out of Livermore Lab, and dozens of others, at a comprehensive peer review 18-20 April in Arlington, Virginia. The review session examined projects at a program level, provided lessons learned, and shared best practices, according to DOE.
Using data analytics to assess cyber threats
Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) —better known to consumers as smart meter technology—has become commonplace across the U.S. As convenient as smart meters are for the utility companies and their customers, they also could be vulnerable to cyber attack, according to Jamie Van Randwyk, an LLNL division leader in Computation.
Van Randwyk is leading a project that will focus on using data analytics to better understand and assess the security risks of smart meters. He’s working with industrial partners and small public utilities to find anomalous behavior in smart meter signaling that could indicate an attack on the smart meters themselves, or an attack on the grid through the meters.
“We’re trying to detect cyber events and differentiate a cyberattack from all the other hazards and background noise,” Van Randwyk said. “We want to take in different data feeds from the networks that run the grid and use data analytic technology to see if we’re under a cyberattack. We’re looking for the needle in the haystack, but we don’t know what the needle looks like.”
VanRandwyk and his team, which includes LLNL scientist Seth Bromberger, also is working with partners at Pacific Northwest, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, Sandia and Idaho national laboratories. The researchers aren’t collecting data yet, but plan to have an agreement in place to borrow smart meters from a utility company to test their data.
Later, the team will simulate attacks on key distribution systems in laboratory environments, such as LBNL’s FLEXLAB and Sandia’s Distributed Energy Technologies Laboratory (DETL), leveraging data and sensors to build physical models and analytic algorithms to distinguish between cyber threats and the rest of all-hazards threats.
Building better communication channels to respond to outages
Historically, the electric power grid’s infrastructure has been operating separately among transmission, distribution and the consumer (such as building management) systems. Lawrence Livermore engineer Liang Min, who came to the Lab from the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, would like to get each component to communicate better.
Historically, the electric power grid’s infrastructure has been operating separately among transmission, distribution and the consumer (such as building management) systems. Lawrence Livermore engineer Liang Min, who came to the Lab from the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, would like to get each component to communicate better.
“Each area has its own control system, and they don’t really coordinate very well,” Min explained. “The future grid control systems must be able to coordinate the grid’s interconnected elements – from the central and distributed generator through the high-voltage network and distribution system, to building automation systems, to controllers for distributed energy resources, and to end-use consumers, including their thermostats, electric vehicles, appliances and other household appliances.”
Liang’s project will take advantage of the national labs’ capability to simulate the three components of the electrical grid, using the Integrated Distribution Management System (IDMS) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NETL) and the Electricity Infrastructure Operations Center (EIOC) and VOLTTRON at Pacific Northwest National Lab.
Instead of shutting down the whole street, in the event of an outage, Min explained, a smarter grid could turn off certain applications, decreasing the load on the transformers enough to help recovery. The second benefit is economic, Min said. With a more controllable strategy, utilities could better integrate distributed energy resource and coordinate buildings with an automatic alert and response.
“We hope we can have a really integrated transmission, distribution and building control systems and a well-defined use case to demonstrate with the three entities and show the value to private industry,” Min said.
Can machine learning predict and respond to transformer failure?
A recent arrival from Lawrence Berkeley, scientist Emma Stewart came to LLNL in pursuit of developing machine learning and distributed data analytics to solve building-to-grid interface issues. The idea is to examine disparate sources of data for signals of incipient failure, or in other words, detecting a failing transformer before it blows and predicting the availability of behind-the-meter resources to participate in new distribution grid support services.
“It’s about translating huge amounts of data into useful information and something meaningful for grid operators,” Stewart said. “There are thousands of transformers located in distribution feeders that they can’t tell are failing until they pop. We’re trying to use sensor data to predict if the distribution system is developing a problem, and, in tandem, improve planning and resource utilization. We’re pushing to use data analytics directly with operators and field crew on the ground to maintain reliability in real time.”
Machine learning, Stewart explained, can be a useful tool to predict possible transformer failures, because it works well as a predictive analysis when there are a lot of unknowns involved, such as distribution. Through machine learning, computers should be able to learn trends in data that indicate when there is a problem looming.
Seven national labs are involved in Stewart’s project, led by LLNL, Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley, along with industrial partners and utilities. Her team is testing the existing state-of-the-art of the platform, setting baseline analytics and doing diagnostic analysis. The final goal of the project is to enable the analytics to act when there’s trouble on the grid, such as unloading a transformer. The biggest hurdle, she said, is understanding what the grid operators need, and making sure the right people get the information at the right time.
“There’s a basic lack of understanding on the grid with respect to sensors,” Stewart said. “Sensors are expensive, and hard to install on a distribution feeder that might have 10,000 nodes. That is a hard issue to solve, and without analytics, they can’t tell what’s happening.”
LLNL notes that the 2017 Grid Modernization Initiative peer review session was open to the public. Throughout the session, a portfolio of more than 80 grid modernization projects across 13 programs were reviewed. Twenty-nine foundational projects were also examined, where industry leaders served as objective reviewers, according to DOE.
See more information at 2017 Grid Modernization Initiative Peer Review, and at Grid Modernization Initiative
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3) Rod Rosenstein: 5 things to know about the man who helped get Comey fired.
By Ben Sales
Rosenstein, 52, whose appointment by Trump as deputy attorney general was confirmed only two weeks ago, wrote the memo outlining concerns with Comey’s performance, mostly related to his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Based on the memo, said the White House, Trump decided to fire Comey, delivering the surprise decision last night.
The move puts Rosenstein in a difficult position: He is the Justice Department official overseeing the FBI investigation of Russian involvement in Trump’s presidential campaign that Comey was leading. Pundits are questioning the timing of the memo, as well as asking whether it was drafted to provide cover to what was a foregone conclusion to oust Comey.
So who is Rosenstein? Here’s where he came from, his Jewish ties and what people are saying about him now.
Rosenstein was respected as a skilled, by-the-book government lawyer.
Before ascending to the deputy attorney general post, Rosenstein spent more than a decade serving as a U.S. attorney in Maryland. He is politically conservative and was appointed by President George W. Bush. But when Barack Obama took office, Rosenstein was one of only three U.S. attorneys among 93 to be kept on the job by the new president.
As U.S. attorney, Rosenstein led successful prosecutions for leaks of classified information, corruption, murders and burglaries. He was particularly effective taking on corruption within police departments, according to an essay in Vox by Thiru Vignarajah, a former colleague.
Vignarajah wrote that Rosenstein “made real strides.”
“Over his first decade as the lead federal prosecutor in Maryland, murders statewide were cut by a third, double the decline at the national level. Other violent offenses like robberies and aggravated assaults also fell faster than the national average,” he wrote.
A sign in Rosenstein’s former office read, “Don’t tell me what I want to hear. Just tell me what I NEED TO KNOW.”
The Senate voted 94-6 to confirm Rosenstein to his new post.
He played a key role investigating Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Comey was allegedly fired for mishandling his investigation of Hillary Clinton. If that’s true, he may have learned from Rosenstein, who was praised for his own Clinton probe two decades ago.
In 1995, Rosenstein joined the team of lawyers investigating the Whitewater scandal, which involved allegations of illegal real estate dealings by the Clintons. The allegations against the Clintons were ultimately unproven, but they led to the exposure of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and President Clinton’s subsequent impeachment.
Rosenstein headed one of the few successful Whitewater prosecutions, which led to the conviction of former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and Clinton associates James and Susan McDougal. He questioned Hillary Clinton at the White House in 1998 as part of a separate case, according to the Baltimore Sun, but she was never implicated.
He graduated from Penn and Harvard — and he’s a family man.
Rosenstein grew up in the upscale Philadelphia suburb of Huntingdon Valley. He’s a 1982 graduate of the public high school and earned a merit scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton School of Business — also Trump’s alma mater. He later attended Harvard Law School, joining the conservative Federalist Society, which gave him a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006.
Rosenstein is married to Lisa Barsoomian, who also served as a U.S. attorney. The couple have two daughters, 17 and 15, and live in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Bethesda, Maryland. While Rosenstein works late nights, the Sun reported that he would often go bicycling with the family on Sundays.
He used to play sports at the local JCC.
Not much surfaces about Rosenstein’s Jewish involvement online, but he has been affiliated with Jewish institutions in the past. He was a member of Bethesda’s Reform Temple Sinai from 2008 to 2014, and of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2001 to 2011.
According to a questionnaire he filled out ahead of his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this year, Rosenstein also was a member of a “Jewish Community Center Sports League” from 1993 to 2012.
Which JCC? Which sport? An ongoing JTA investigation has yet to uncover the answer.
He wrote a damning letter against Comey — but never explicitly recommended firing him.
Rosenstein didn’t hold back in a 1,000-word letter delineating Comey’s missteps. He lambasted Comey both for his July statement that Hillary Clinton would not face indictment and for Comey’s Oct. 28 letter announcing the reopening of the Clinton investigation.
“I cannot defend the Director’s handling of the conclusion of the investigation of Secretary Clinton’s emails, and I do not understand his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken,” Rosenstein wrote. “Almost everyone agrees that the Director made serious mistakes.”
But the evisceration stops just short of calling for Comey to be canned. Rosenstein does write that “the FBI is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a Director who understands the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. Having refused to admit his errors, the Director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions.”
But just before that, he cautioned, “Although the President has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly.” The memorandum is dated Tuesday, May 9.
Trump read Rosenstein’s letter and made the decision.
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4)Europe's Childless Leaders Sleepwalking Us to Disaster
There have never been so many childless politicians leading Europe as today. They are modern, open minded and multicultural and they know that "everything finishes with them". In the short term, being childless is a relief since it means no spending for families, no sacrifices and that no one complains about the future consequences. As in a research report financed by the European Union: "No kids, no problem!".
Being a mother or a father, however, means that you have a very real stake in the future of the country you lead. Europe's most important leaders leave no children behind.
Europe's most important leaders are all childless: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron. The list continues with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
As Europe's leaders have no children, they seem have no reason to worry about the future of their continent. German philosopher Rüdiger Safranski wrote:
"for the childless, thinking in terms of the generations to come loses relevance. Therefore, they behave more and more as if they were the last and see themselves as standing at the end of the chain".
"Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide", wrote Douglas Murray in The Times. "Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument". Murray, in his new book, entitled The Strange Death of Europe, called it "an existential civilisational tiredness".
Angela Merkel made the fatal decision to open the doors of Germany to one million and half migrants to stop the demographic winter of her country. It is not a coincidence that Merkel, who has no children, has been called "the compassionate mother" of migrants. Merkel evidently did not care if the massive influx of these migrants would change German society, probably forever.
Dennis Sewell recently wrote in the Catholic Herald:
"It is that idea of 'Western civilisation' that greatly complicates the demographic panic. Without it, the answer would be simple: Europe has no need to worry about finding young people to support its elderly in their declining years. There are plenty of young migrants banging at the gates, trying to climb the razor wire or setting sail on flimsy boats to reach our shores. All we need to do is let them in".
Merkel's childless status mirrors German society: 30% of German women have not had children, according to European Union statistics, with the figure rising among female university graduates to 40%. Germany's Minister of Defense, Ursula von der Leyen, said that unless the birth rate picked up, the country would have to "turn the lights out".
According to a new study published by the Institut national d'études démographiques, a quarter of European women born in the 1970s may remain childless. Europe's leaders are no different. One in nine women born in England and Wales in 1940 were childless at the age of 45, compared to one in five of those born in 1967.
French politician Emmanuel Macron has rejected French President François Hollande's assertion that, "France has a problem with Islam". He is against suspending the citizenship of jihadists, and keeps insisting, against all evidence, that Islamic State is not Islamic: "What poses a problem is not Islam, but certain behaviours that are said to be religious and then imposed on persons who practice that religion".
Macron preaches a sort of multicultural buffet. He speaks of colonialism as a "crime against humanity". He is in favor of "open borders", and for him, again against all evidence to the contrary, there is no "French culture".
According to philosopher Mathieu Bock-Coté, the 39-year-old Macron, who is married to his 64-year-old former teacher, is the symbol of a "happy globalization freed of the memory of the French lost glory". It is not a coincidence that "Manif Pour Tous," a movement that fought the legalization gay marriage in France, urged voting against Macron as the "anti-family candidate". Macron's slogan, "En Marche!" ("Forward!"), embodies the globalized élites who reduce politics to an exercise, a performance.
That is why Turkish leader Erdogan urged Muslims to have "five children" and Islamic imams are urging the faithful to "breed children": to conquer Europe. Islamic supremacists are busily building a clash of civilizations in Europe's midst, and they depict their Western host countries collapsing: without population, without values, and abandoning their own culture.
If you look at Merkel, Rutte, Macron and others, are these Islamic supremacists so wrong? Our European leaders are sleepwalking us to disaster. Why should they care, if at the end of their lifespans Europe will not be Europe? As Joshua Mitchell explained in an essay, "'finding ourselves' becomes more important than building a world. The long chain of generations has already done that for us. Now let us play".
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5) Students’ Insult to DeVos Embarrasses HBCUs
I was a little concerned when Donald Trump won. I didn’t believe the “fake news” that Trump was racist─sure, his father was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally, but that was his father; Bill Clinton in the 1990s praised the United Daughters of the Confederacy multiple times─I just figured since Trump won without the black vote, he would follow Republican orthodoxy.
In other words, I thought we’d hear arguments about how historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are anachronistic, or worse, racist. The latter, of course, is a false charge, as I have taught students from Saudi Arabia and Iran at my HBCU, and when a white student saw a point I was making about compound interest and student debt, that was such a pleasing moment for me as a teacher, I told it to a Fox Business reporter.
That is, I thought it was a false charge until I saw the reaction of the students at the historically black Bethune-Cookman College─hereafter dubbed “Beffune” students─to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
I found it hard to watch─and I saw the “Spice Girls” movie in full. It was embarrassing to see the students jeering and turning their backs on an invited guest who had done them no harm. The president of the college had to scold them as if they were in kindergarten.
beige, pedicured senator had been the speaker, the students would have been lining up to take photographs with him.
My own HBCU has invited former Vice
Presidential plagiarist Joe Biden to speak. His academic dishonesty and his low class rank while in law school─76th out of 85─make him a curious choice for a university commencement speaker, but I wonder if our debt-laden students will turn their back on the man who, in 2005, voted to change the bankruptcy laws. The changes made it almost impossible to get a clean slate. (The change rewarded all the national banking constituents in Delaware, his real masters.)
No protestors ever attacked the car of an Obama cabinet member, as happened earlier in the year when DeVos visited a school. The real “fascists” have revealed themselves.
I wonder if the shouting students could name any policies of Mrs. DeVos that warranted such behavior. Is it that she attended private schools? So did President Obama’s children. As for the public schools that Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan, once ran in Chicago, every few weeks one hears of a shooting, brawl, or sadistic torture scene captured on Facebook Live.
I am guessing that none of those Beffune slacktivists would lift a finger to stop a real instance of racism. I had to flee my previous institution, the predominately white Vanderbilt University, where Klan-supporting terrorists were telling me, “I hope you are killed in the most violent, bloody way possible…,” beginning a 10-year odyssey that took me to MIT, Harvard, Stanford University, and Caltech before I found safe harbor at Baltimore’s historically black college, Morgan State University. (Yes, this happened in the 21st century.) But whenever I asked black American student groups to help, I heard crickets.
These Beffune students, unless they were especially precocious, only have known an America with a half-black president, one where the racial climate has improved so much that we can put “1776-2008” on the gravestone of American Racism. Kellyanne Conway, a gracious, conservative white woman, and counselor to President Trump, now is perfectly at ease in the company of black university presidents.
The Trump those infants call a “white supremacist” went out of his way to talk about his plan for rebuilding urban America─black America. Whether or not Trump had heard much about Frederick Douglass before 2017, whether or not DeVos’s staffers know how to spell “DuBois” matters less than what Trump and DeVos are doing, putting money where their mouths are. I was elated at President Trump’s meeting with the presidents of HBCUs. DeVos even met with an HBCU president her second day in office.
The reaction from African-American “adults” has been baffling.
On Facebook you can read warnings of a Trojan Horse. Go to HBCU Digest, and you’ll see comments like “Something wicked this way comes. We have to be very careful when we get into bed with the devil….” “I don’t trust him or his intentions.” Some even interpreted Trump’s order to “just get it [legislation to help HBCUs] done” as “sounds like hurry up and get them out of my house.”
Have they all been drinking the water in Flint, Michigan since birth? The Beffune barbarians may have just staged the costliest protest in their university’s history. Trump doesn’t need a single black vote. African-Americans have no political power that I can see to impose their will upon the governing party. Trump could defund HBCUs tomorrow and the Supreme Court would rubber-stamp his decision with all deliberate speed. Mrs. DeVos would have to be as forgiving as the blacks who voted for George Wallace to want to go to another HBCU.
It’s always sensible to be wary of a good deal, but I wish black voters were this savvy when Democratic politicians come to their neighborhoods and disappear after the election for four years. While the Washington Post reported in 2015 that “[h]istorically black schools say Obama’s policies have fallen short,” blacks themselves as a rule were Obama’s biggest cheerleaders. Meanwhile, many cash-strapped HBCUs were actually angry when the Koch brothers donated $25 million to the United Negro College Fund.
Give the Kochs and DeVos a chance. Because of the Republicans’ olive branch, I’m personally willing to tutor Kellyanne Conway’s kids in math.
After all, it’s clear what Trump is getting out of the HBCU partnership: goodwill from enough blacks to weaken his Democratic opposition.
Works for me.
Democrats have lost their way. The cities they have led for decades, and the school systems within them, have failed. As President Trump said, they offer nothing but carnage and failure. Of course, the Democrats counsel patience, so their leaders can preserve their riches, preserve their chokehold on urban residents, and condemn those children to illiteracy, joblessness, and homelessness.
What solutions does Chicago native (via Indonesia) Barack Obama have for Chicago? Why won’t he move there at once to stop the carnage?
Betsy DeVos has the answers, and they are simple. That does not mean they are easy–each new generation must find the courage to fight.
If a school is defective, shut it down. Give parents the choice, the opportunity to give their children the American dream. I am pretty sure that even with vouchers, private schools will simply increase their tuitions to keep out teens like the one who threw the 68 year-old woman into the pool, but the status quo is unacceptable.
Let ambitious parents send their children to better schools today. “Some day” is too late.
Praise hard work, dedication and discipline. Praise modesty, kindness and decorum. Punish wrongdoers.
Give DeVos a chance. I think she has a true understanding of James Weldon Johnson’s poem, often called the “Negro National Anthem,” “Lift Ev’ry ‘DeVos’ and Sing.” I am certain Booker T. Washington, once a slave, later the founder of Tuskegee University, would rush to embrace her.
We should all do the same.
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