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Professor Quits Over Woke Curriculum 'Takeover,' Warns Against 'Leftist Ideology'
By Sarah Arnold
Wokeness has seeped into America's education system. Critical Race Theory and gender ideology are among the topics students are learning these days rather than basic English and math skills, causing parents and teachers to stand up and revolt against the left's push to indoctrinate kids.
A UCLA professor said he is leaving his job at the California university because of a pervasive woke culture on the campus.
Joseph Manson described himself as a "refugee from mainstream higher education" in his blog post.
In his scathing post, Manson said, "The Woke takeover of higher education has ruined academic life."
"I strongly suspect that mainstream U.S. higher education is morally and intellectually corrupt, beyond the possibility of self-repair, and therefore no longer a worthwhile setting in which to spend my time and effort," Manson wrote.
The Anthropology professor has been teaching at the university for more than 22 years and found that the school's department was "unusually peaceful, cohesive, and intellectually inclusive" once he was tenured.
"I'm a professor, retiring at 62 because the Woke takeover of higher education has ruined academic life. 'Another one?' you ask. 'What does this guy have to say that hasn't already been said by Jordan Peterson, Peter Boghossian, Joshua Katz, or Bo Winegard?'" Manson wrote.
He continued to say that he began noticing the change every time the school hired a new faculty member.
"Gradually, one hire at a time, practitioners of 'critical' (i.e. far-left postmodernist) anthropology, some of them lying about their beliefs during job interviews, came to comprise the department's most influential clique," Manson wrote.
He noted that the change wasn't just in the Anthropology department but throughout the entire"campus.
“Outside the anthropology department, UCLA as a whole is showing all the signs of Woke capture that typify the contemporary U.S. u"iversity," Manson wrote, predic"ing that "leftis" ideology" will only continue to grow throughout education.
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Very Bad News for Stacey Abrams
By Rebecca Downs
We're now about three and a half months out from the upcoming November elections, where voters will not only cast ballots in the midterms but gubernatorial races across the country, including in Georgia. The race is a re-match from 2018, with Gov. Brian Kemp (R) facing Stacey Abrams (D).
While the race was, until recently, considered a "Toss-Up," Cook Political Report has now shifted the race to the "Lean Republican" territory. Sabato's Crystal Ball and Inside Elections had already changed their ratings to "Lean Republican" and "Tilt Republican," respectively.
Particularly telling for Kemp is that a majority of his donations have come from Georgia, while a significant amount of Abrams' donations are coming from California. Axios published a helpful chart last week.
That Axios report where the chart is included noted that "If the trend holds, Abrams would be the only Georgia gubernatorial nominee from either party since at least the 1990s to receive a majority of campaign funds from out of state, according to an Axios analysis of campaign finance records."
It also points to how this could be a liability for Abrams:
The intrigue: Republicans see out-of-state support as one of Abrams' biggest liabilities.
Kemp's campaign has tried to paint her as someone who's been busy "courting liberal billionaires in New York and California" since their 2018 race.
"Georgia will never be on Stacey's mind," Kemp said at his May primary victory party. "Her radical ideas are meant to please people in New York, California and Chicago who are funding her campaign."
The Kemp campaign has certainly jumped on highlighting these figures, calling on voters to "Help us BEAT Abrams & her blue-state buddies."
As Spencer highlighted earlier on Friday, this is a tactic for other vulnerable Democrats, who have received funds from out of state, including Georgia's Sen. Raphael Warnock.
This rating change also comes as a Cygnal poll released on Wednesday shows Kemp ahead of Abrams with his 50 percent to her 45 percent.
In addition to highlighting Kemp's higher support, a memo from Cygnal noted that "Hispanic and Asian voters are shifting toward Kemp" and that "African-American voters are not a homogenous voter block for Abrams," as one-quarter of such voters under 35 are supporting Kemp.
The memo points out that "These younger African-American Georgians are overwhelmingly concerned about the cost of gas and rising costs without a pay increase" and "They also are more likely to blame Biden for inflation because one-third of them have an unfavorable opinion of the President."
Further, the memo argues that "Compared to 2020, Kemp is doing better with key voter groups." President Joe Biden won Georgia by 49.5 percent, compared to former President Trump's 49.3 percent, with the president's victory coming in part thanks to his winning margin with independents. Kemp has a +13 margin with independents over 50, and is down only 6 points with independents under 50.
Kemp also has more support, at 94 percent, among Republicans than Abrams does among Democrats, which is at 92 percent. The Republican governor is also increasing his "very favorable" rating.
The poll was conducted July 5-7, 2022 with 1,200 likely general election voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.65 percentage points. It's with pointing out that there was an oversampling of minority voters from July 5-11, 2022, with higher margins of error.
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I am reposting this excellently written op ed not because it provides the reader with an answer to the article's title but simply because it is so well written.
Personally I believe causes allowing the widening of the wage/wealth disparity to occur in America, over the past decades, are at the root of the problem. The wealthy executives and entrepreneurs have lost touch with their workers. We now have human resources departments to care for the needs of "humans." The departments are full of bureaucrats with immense power who would fit right in with big government agencies.
Animals in zoos are likely to get more humane treatment because the personnel come in contact with their charges and they eventually bond.
Today's HRP are totally disconnected from the reality of the life of their workforce they preside over and over whom they hold life and death decision making power and influence
When I was growing up my neighbor worked for TCI, a U.S Steel subsidiary. That was his only job and any criticism of his company could lead to a fist fight. He was a dedicated and loyal employee and management was his family. That ain't so no mo!
Today he is another number and Wall Street analyzes the amount of volume that "human" produces and this scale then determines the earning power as his worth to the company. This is why the value of technology exceeds that of capital formation and raw material companies etc.. Leverage and scalability are king. The worker, the lowly pawn
Even in education, that a teacher cannot hug a pupil is grotesque.
The hierarchy of employment has shifted in radical ways and so has their worth as a human..
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How Did Democrats Become So Out of Touch With the American People?
By Josh HammerJosh
The president of the United States, equal parts senescent and feckless, garners record-shattering low approval ratings seemingly each week. This week, a new Quinnipiac University survey found that a paltry 31% of Americans approve of the way Joe Biden is handling his job. Among political independents, that number is, somehow, considerably lower: 23% approval, compared with 67% disapproval. Overall, nearly three-quarters of Americans hope that Biden does not seek a second term in office.
It is not difficult to figure out why. The republic is not in good shape. Unforced foreign policy blunders, such as the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, embarrass America on the world stage. Our homeland territorial integrity has never been more undermined, as a wide-open southern border permits an unprecedented flow of smugglers, traffickers and other miscreants. Homicide and other violent crime, which skyrocketed in the 2020 "summer of love" riots, continue to spike; the New York City subway is unsafe, and Chicago is a veritable war zone. Mobocracy runs amok; a sitting Supreme Court justice just faced a near-assassination attempt. Inflation, now over 9% and smacking those lower on the economic ladder, is at a four-decade high; the national average for gasoline is well over $4 per gallon.
Yet, amidst these remarkable challenges confronting the American people, the Biden administration and Democratic Party elites would rather focus on the overarching imperatives of climate change hysteria, abortion up until birth and a faraway war in Eastern Europe that has become utterly disconnected from the American national interest. This raises the obvious, but nonetheless crucial, question: How, exactly, did modern Democrats become this out of touch with the American people?
Energy policy is perhaps the best example. Most lower- and middle-income Americans drive cars or trucks as part of their daily commutes; they cannot resort to urban rail, let alone the "work from home" that has become a post-COVID hallmark of the professional-managerial laptop class. Bank account-busting gasoline prices directly cut into stagnant wages, affecting blue-collar families' very ability to put food on the table.
But Biden, as recently as this month, still continues to deny new drilling permits in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. He failed on his recent Middle East trip to secure a durable commitment from Saudi Arabia, or OPEC more generally, to boost production. Worse, he openly flirts with declaring a "national emergency" on climate change, the ultimate upper-income "limousine liberal" hobbyhorse, notwithstanding the fact the U.S. only contributes about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions and the obvious reality that draconian unilateral reductions to fossil fuel extraction and usage would destroy already-battered consumers. In a bit of loose-lipped candor, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, testifying this week before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, let slip his belief that "the more pain" Americans feel at the pump, "the more benefit" there is for electric vehicle owners.
Such astounding disdain and haughtiness from a Cabinet official, if it were to come under a Republican administration, would make headline-grabbing fodder for weeks. It would dominate the late-night shows, as Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at those nasty, "Gordon Gekko"-esque robber baron Republicans.
Democrats fail to appreciate that America is truly blessed to sit atop such an abundant wellspring of hydrocarbons. To not only ignore and fail to take advantage of that blessing, but to actively thwart it and instead celebrate "pain" by focusing on the alleged virtue of electric vehicle ownership, is downright evil. (Incidentally, the average electric car costs 82% of the median American household income.)
But energy policy, though a particularly acute example, is in this respect hardly unique. Current Democratic priorities have never been so far removed from the sensibilities of the median American citizen.
As the contentious issue of abortion returns to the states following the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, congressional Democrats rush to statutorily codify national abortion access right up until birth. George Soros-funded "progressive prosecutors," such as George Gascon in Los Angeles and Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, continue to fan the flames of unrest and anarchy, undeterred by last month's stunning recall of like-minded San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. The fight for Ukraine, a deeply corrupt country whose security establishment just endured Stalin-esque "treason purges," is held up as the defining struggle for Western liberal democracy. Rewriting Title IX to encompass transgenderism -- by executive fiat, no less -- may imperil women's locker rooms and destroy women's sports, but is foisted upon us by the neoliberal establishment as "progress," tout court.
The priorities of the modern Democratic Party are comically out of touch with those of the American people, who simply want safe communities, stable prices, secure borders and to be left alone by the COVID-era biomedical security state. Democrats don't talk about any of that, at best -- and they outright impede those prerogatives, at worst. The transformation of the Democratic Party from a one-time working man's labor party into today's identity politics-driven woke monstrosity did not transpire overnight, but that transformation is now complete. And the result is unseemly.
The dog that is the Democratic Party is manipulated by a multifaceted tail that is a grotesque fusion of criminal adulation, Gaia worship, Malthusian radicalism, eugenicist lust and a gender ideology downstream of the worst excesses of American academia. Maybe that will play well for certain Upper West Side and West Hollywood voting precincts this November, but it won't play very well in real America.
To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Our school yard bully of a president:
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Biden Came to Make a Mess and Eat Ice Cream
As former President Trump might say, “Total disaster!”
By Brandon J. Weichert
When Joe Biden ran for president, we were told he was the embodiment of competence and intelligence. Biden, his backers insisted, would solve our problems in a genial, grandfatherly way. He’d make fixing America look as easy as licking an ice cream cone on a nice Delaware day. A year into his presidency, it seems that Biden came only to make a mess and eat ice cream.
The ordinary American consumer suffers and endures high prices due to the bad decisions and policies of the Biden Administration. It is no wonder, then, that a recent poll found 60 percent of voters would vote Biden out of office were the election held today. From the supply chain to Ukraine, Biden seems to have had the opposite of the Midas Touch—and it isn’t going to get any better!
The Chip Shortage Will Be with Us
To combat the worldwide computer chip shortage, Biden told the press that his policies had led to the construction of new computer chip manufacturing facilities being built within the United States for the first time in decades (currently, nearly 90 percent of all worldwide computer chips are produced overseas, in places like Taiwan and Japan). But these facilities will take a few years to come online.
And once these production facilities are producing computer chips, it will take months and years for them to meet all the varying demand for chips. So, one can anticipate the prices of anything requiring a computer chip (including cars) to remain high over the next few years—especially if China invades Taiwan during that time, thereby knocking one of the world’s largest computer chip manufacturing facilities offline.
Biden did champion the American CHIPS Act, a bill designed to allot $52 billion to encourage more domestic chip manufacturing. Instead of his “Build Back Better” boondoggle, this should have been Biden’s chief legislative priority. And $52 billion for a crisis decades-in-the-making is pathetic (and shows just how unserious Biden is on this matter).
Biden’s Ukraine Policies Are Squeezing Americans’ Wallets
Meanwhile, gas and grocery prices continue to rise. And, while Biden may want to blame his predecessor for having locked down the country at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (a policy that Biden and his fellow Democrats insisted should have continued), the fact remains that these negative trends are occurring under the Biden Administration’s watch. More to the point, there are direct actions Biden has taken since his turbulent inauguration last year that exacerbated what were already dangerous trends in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For example, as I have noted previously, Biden’s decision to terminate the Keystone XL Pipeline as well as his obsession with imposing the most onerous restrictions on North American natural gas and oil shale development has helped raise the cost of fuel for millions of Americans.
Similarly, the Biden Administration’s shambolic Ukraine policy has resulted in a dangerous standoff with Russia. The Russo-American spat over Ukraine risks devolving into a nuclear war unless some diplomatic off-ramp is taken by both sides. As the fight rages between the two sides, ordinary Americans are caught in the middle. Once more, because of these unnecessary tensions over Ukraine, the price of fuel is spiking everywhere, with some analysts predicting the cost per barrel of oil could peak to around (or even slightly above) $100.
Related to Biden’s horrible Ukraine policy is the slowly rising price of foodstuff. Ukraine is a major exporter of agricultural goods to the global market, so if Russia invades Ukraine, you can expect the price of food will explode soon.
It is unlikely that this administration will ever accept a Russian-controlled Ukraine. It’s a fair bet the United States would impose sanctions on Russia if Putin invades Ukraine, which would likely knock production and distribution from the region out of the global market entirely. In effect, you and I are set to pay permanently higher prices on essential goods unless their production and distribution changes fundamentally. And what are the odds of that happening quickly?
Biden’s Vaccine Mandates and Our Supply Chain
Speaking of distribution, supply chain problems have mounted as the leadership of many countries—including the Biden Administration—have insisted upon what many view as extreme vaccination mandates for private companies. In fact, it is opposition to the vaccine mandates in Canada that has sparked the ongoing Freedom Convoy of truckers currently “terrorizing” the gelded leadership of Justin Trudeau. In both Canada and the United States, failure to comply with these mandates usually results in a loss of business and the firing of workers en masse.
What’s more, it means there are only a limited number of businesses and workers to carry out their jobs—imposing greater costs on consumers. Thus, our supply chain and distribution woes are exacerbated yet again by bad Biden policies as there are not enough workers or businesses in compliance with the vaccine mandates to fulfill the national demand for supply chain services.
And rather than deploy the logistical capabilities of the United States military to ameliorate the ongoing distribution problem, as retired U.S. Army General Russel Honoré argued in October 2021, the Biden Administration has simply insisted that Americans consume less. This was the message of the current secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, who could not have been less helpful during the height of the supply chain crisis over the recent holiday season. Honoré’s prediction has proven correct: the longer the crisis continues, the greater the threat to our national security.
Biden’s team doesn’t really care, apparently. It’s time to feed the Old Man some more ice cream!
We Need Solutions, Not Rhetoric
Joe Biden was elected on a message of competence and intelligence. A year into his misadministration, everything is falling apart, both at home and abroad. It’s easy to blame your predecessor for everything that’s gone wrong. But, at some point, Biden needs to take the blame as readily as he took the reins of power.
Nearly every problem the United States has faced over the past year has been self-induced. Extreme or unwise Biden policies have led us to a place where inflation is soaring and where that problem is being worsened by the ongoing Biden-induced crises in Ukraine and in the supply chain. The few times that Biden has addressed these concerns he has glossed over the fact that his policies either caused or exacerbated the problems facing ordinary Americans today—namely high prices, and insufficient access to goods.
The solutions are straightforward, though. Biden should ratchet down tensions with Russia over Ukraine. A simple declaration that Ukraine does not—and will not—qualify for NATO membership coupled with a call to restore the Minsk II Agreement signed with Russia in 2015 for Ukraine will likely give Vladimir Putin an excuse to stand down on his invasion threat. Once that occurs, volatility in global commodities markets will decrease and likely give American consumers a reprieve.
At home, the Biden Administration must reexamine its draconian stance on vaccination mandates—especially for critical workers. Further, Biden should order the military’s vast logistical capabilities to be brought to bear on items closer to home—assisting with clearing American ports and getting the country’s supplies moving again.
Americans are not able to keep pace with the spike in prices that so many bad Biden policies are causing. It is a drag on the economy. Biden’s goal should be to mitigate the pain most Americans are feeling by enacting policies that will help to reduce the costs on ordinary consumers for essential items, like gas and groceries.
Thus far, all Biden has done is pick fights with nuclear-armed Russia and fired essential workers for not getting their vaccines—all while eating ice cream. If this is competence, according to our elite, I don’t want to see what incompetence looks like.
As former President Trump might say, “Total disaster!”
About Brandon J. Weichert
Brandon J. Weichert is a geopolitical analyst who manages The Weichert Report. He is a contributing editor at American Greatness and a contributor at Asia Times . He is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower (Republic Book Publishers). His second book, The Shadow War: Iran's Quest for Supremacy (Republic Book Publishers) is due in Fall of 2022. Weichert is an educator who travels the country speaking to military and business audiences about space, geopolitics, technology, and the future of war. He can be followed via Twitter: @WeTheBrandon.
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It is no wonder normal people are depressed with what is standard in todays world. These are commonplace occurrences and in no special order:
a) random street/subway shootings
b) wanton school shootings
c) street rioting and property burning
d) robberies and smash and run theft
e) no bail, immediate criminal releases
f) calls to disband and/or defund police
g) epidemic drug use and sales of deadly fentanyl
h) massive/epidemic illegal immigration
i) no law enforcement of certain level crimes
j)intimidation, identity politics, terrorism, ant-Semitism
k) youth suicides and physical and/or computer bullying
l) disrespect for authority, contempt for law and order
m) unattended mental issues, homelessness
n) host of other such type aberrant behaviour and personal attacks
o) Social media boorishness and crudity
p) street filth and health challenges.
q) submission to shakedowns at all levels of society
r) attacks on all segments and sectors of society including religion, our Constitution and SCOTUS
These conditions have always been evident but not in such heightened levels and such prominent display.
We are truly living in a period of barbaric proportions.
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