#TEXIT: Texas Rep. Introduces Bill That Would Let Residents Vote on Seceding From the US

Texas State Representative Kyle Biedermann introduced a bill on Tuesday that would allow Texans to vote on seceding from the United States.

House Bill 1359, otherwise known as the Texas Independence Referendum Act, would let residents vote on if the Texas Legislature should create a joint interim committee to create a plan for independence for the state.

In a press release provided to The Gateway Pundit, the Texas Nationalist Movement explained that “the bill would give Texans an opportunity to head to the polls in November of 2021 and start the process of reasserting our status as an independent nation. If the people vote in favor, the bill provides for the establishment of a committee to begin working on a transitional plan which would address all of the issues related to decoupling from the federal government.”

Texas Nationalist Movement President Daniel Miller added that, “this bill is simply to put the question to the people of Texas. Even if legislators don’t personally support TEXIT, at a minimum, they should support your right to publicly debate and vote on the issue. Your representatives either believe that you are smart and responsible enough to make this decision, or they believe that they know what’s best for you regardless of what you think. There is no middle ground.“

“The people of Texas are sick and tired of living under 180,000 pages of federal laws administered by 2.5 million unelected bureaucrats,” said Miller. “At the end of the day, the best people to govern Texas are Texans, and this vote will give us that chance.”

Representative Biedermann said that the national government is failing Texans and they should be allowed to vote on leaving the union.

“This Act simply lets Texans vote through a referendum. This decision is too big to be monopolized solely by the power brokers in our Capitol. We need to let Texans’ voices be heard! Voters of all political persuasions in Texas can agree on one thing, Washington D.C. is and has been broken,” Biedermann said in a statement. “Our national government continuously fails our working families, seniors, taxpayers, veterans, and small business owners. For decades, our federal government has eroded the promise of America and our individual liberties. It is now time that the People of Texas are allowed the right to decide their own future. This is not a left or right political issue. This is simply about allowing Texans the right to vote.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/texit-texas-rep-introduces-bill-let-residents-vote-seceding-us/

Linda Tripp memoir reveals dirty details about Lewinsky-Clinton affair

The seeds of a scandal that nearly brought down a president were planted almost 25 years ago — when 23-year-old Monica Lewinsky confided in her colleague Linda Tripp that she had been having sexual relations with Bill Clinton. Tripp died in April of pancreatic cancer, but her memoir, “A Basket of Deplorables: What I Saw Inside the Clinton White House” has been published posthumously by Post Hill Press. In this exclusive excerpt, Tripp reveals when she first learned of the affair.

I first met Monica Lewinsky in April 1996, when she was transferred from the White House to the Pentagon’s Public Affairs Office. I had been transferred to the same office in May 1993, long before Monica had started at the White House.

Monica’s arrival at the Pentagon meant that political appointees had better tread carefully. She had clout and was not shy about letting us know it. She belonged to someone with influence. There was simply no other explanation for how or why this 23-year-old woman landed at this particular desk in the Pentagon.

Monica made sure that everyone in the office knew that her current position would only be temporary. She was going back to the White House right after the November election.

As August approached, and even though Monica had not admitted it, I was becoming more and more certain that her benefactor was Bill Clinton.

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https://nypost.com/2021/01/26/linda-tripp-memoir-reveals-how-she-learned-of-clinton-affair/

Compulsory Political Ideology for Illinois K-12 Teachers And Classrooms Moves Closer To Finalization – Wirepoints

A sweeping, radical rule is pending for Illinois K-12 teachers that should prompt everyone, of all political stripes, to fear about the fundamental roles that teachers and classrooms are assigned to fulfill.

We will get to the specifics of what is in the rule, but first ask some basic questions: What does it mean to be a teacher? What should it mean?

At least some answers are probably shared by most everybody — right, center and left – and certainly by the best of our teachers.

It should mean devotion to training our young people to think critically, free from any doctrinaire political mandates imposed on classrooms.

It should mean prioritizing basic skills for students in systems that have failed to teach them to read or compute at the most basic levels.

And it definitely should mean freedom to enter and stay in the teaching profession without any political litmus test.

Those answers, however, will be void if a pending rule in Illinois is allowed to become effective. The rule, proposed by the Illinois State Board of Education, is called the Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards, or CRTL Standards. It will get final ratification on February 16 unless heavy opposition materializes.

As you will see, it’s no exaggeration to say the standards would tell teachers what they must think, believe and teach – in broad political terms — and they would disqualify teachers who don’t conform.

We wrote about the proposal in November when we first heard of it. Unfortunately, the scope of its threat to education got little attention, with a couple important exceptions.

One who wrote about it is Nathan Hoffman, a black education policy researcher.

In an op-ed opposing the standards, he wrote they would “force onto teachers a singular view for some of our country’s most-heavily debated topics that they are then expected to carry forth into the classroom.”

Even if well-intentioned, Hoffman wrote, the standards would “impose one view of our culture and politics. They strip teacher candidates of a presumption of good faith intent and distract from the primary goal of providing a basic quality education to our students.”

Harsher criticism came this week from Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. “Illinois is literally about to mandate that every one of its licensed teachers adopt progressive political orthodoxy and impart that ideology to students,” Kurtz wrote. “The entire Illinois teacher corps will be effectively forced into political re-education and compelled to turn their classes into woke indoctrination sessions.”

We hope Kurtz’s article sparks further national attention to the pending standards.

What do the proposed standards say?

https://wirepoints.org/compulsory-political-ideology-for-illinois-k-12-teachers-and-classrooms-moves-closer-to-finalization-wirepoints/

Spike Lee likens Trump to Hitler, says former president and 'all his boys … are going down on the wrong side of history'

The controversial filmmaker has spoken out against Trump before

Controversial filmmaker Spike Lee likened former President Donald Trump to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler while accepting an award Sunday from the New York Film Critics Circle for his short film, "New York, New York," People said.

Lee started his pre-recorded speech — taped Jan. 6, the day of the U.S. Capitol riots — by acknowledging that it was "a very sad day in the history of America."

"The whole world is laughing at the United States of America, the so-called cradle of democracy," Lee continued, soon adding that "we are living in a very serious time in America. All of us as true Americans gotta really think about what's important … There's no way possible I could go before the iPhone and thank you guys without … telling you what's in my heart and my soul as a descendant of slaves who helped build this country."

He then noted that "we're at the crossroads now" and pleaded with people to "please be safe, this is not a game. These people got guns with ammunition … people are gonna get killed behind the bulls**t."

Lee then lit into Trump, who was still in office Jan. 6: "This president, President Agent Orange, will go down in history with the likes of Hitler … These guys, all his boys … they're going down on the wrong side of history."

"Thank you for the award," he noted at the end of his speech. "Peace and love." It wasn't the first time Lee ridiculed Trump. Lee included a black Trump supporter in his movie "Da 5 Bloods" to add "tension" to the movie, explaining last year that "there are some negroes that have drunk or will drink the orange Kool-Aid that's coming in November, but it's a very, very small percentage."

And after winning Best Adapted Screenplay for his movie "BlacKkKlansman" at the 2019 Academy Awards, Lee told the audience — reading from notes and never mentioning Trump's name — that "the 2020 presidential election is around the corner. Let's all mobilize. Let's all be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate. Let's do the right thing."

Trump responded to Lee on Twitter, calling the director's subtle salvo against him "racist" and insisting he's done more for black people than nearly any other president: "Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all …"

https://www.theblaze.com/news/spike-lee-likens-trump-to-hitler

Las Vegas Schools Forced To Reopen Amid Rash Of Student Suicides

A surge of student suicides across Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County School District to reopen schools as soon as possible, according to NYTimes.

By December, eighteen students in the district had taken their own lives; an early-warning mental health system embedded within computers and tablets issued to students for remote learning received 3,100 alerts since schools shuttered their doors last March.

"When we started to see the uptick in children taking their lives, we knew it wasn't just the Covid numbers we need to look at anymore," said Jesus Jara, the Clark County superintendent.

"We have to find a way to put our hands on our kids, to see them, to look at them. They've got to start seeing some movement, some hope," Jara said.

Efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 across the country have led to drastic changes in the way children and teens learn and socialize.

Government data show a 24% increase in the number of children who arrived in emergency departments with mental health issues from mid-March through mid-October, compared with the same period in 2019.

Countrywide, tens of millions of students have been thrown into a new distance learning environment that has resulted in many extracurricular activities being canceled. Recreational spaces have closed, sports canceled, and playdates shifted to Zoom calls, resulting in many kids developing mental issues, especially in Clark County.

Clark County administrators had GoGuardian Beacon alert system installed on every device given out to students after the sixth student suicide last year. The system alerted administrators of more than 3,100 cases where a student searched suicide-related material between June and October.

In one instance, a 12-year boy searched "how to make a noose" on his iPad." Administrators quickly reached out to the boy's parents as he was about to hang himself.

The alerts have been so disturbing to Jara that he doesn't sleep near his phone anymore.

"I can't get these alerts anymore," said Jara. "I have no words to say to these families anymore. I believe in God, but I can't help but wonder: Am I doing everything possible to open our schools?"

Dr. Anthony Fauci has called for schools on a countrywide basis to reopen safely.

An indirect consequence of the pandemic and forcing children to learn at home has contributed to a rise of mental health issues and suicides among America's future generation.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/las-vegas-schools-forced-reopen-amid-rash-student-suicides

China To Hold Military Drills In Gulf Of Tonkin As Warning To Nearby US Carrier Group

China has announced plans to hold military exercises in the South China Sea this week, a mere days after the Pentagon confirmed a US aircraft carrier group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt had entered the disputed waters in a "freedom of the seas" operation and after daily Chinese incursions of Taiwan's airspace had been reported the prior week.

Beijing, indignant at the US muscle-flexing in its own backyard, will hold the drills in the Gulf of Tonkin also during a crucial week top Communist Party leaders of Vietnam are meeting for the once in five years National Congress to select a new leader for the country.

Reuters reports of the new Chinese military drills, "A notice issued by the country’s Maritime Safety Administration prohibited entry into a portion of waters in the Gulf of Tonkin to the west of the Leizhou peninsula in southwestern China from Jan. 27 to Jan. 30, but it did not offer details on when the drills would take place or at what scale."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-hold-military-drills-gulf-tonkin-warning-nearby-us-carrier-group

CDC researchers: In-person schooling has resulted in hardly any spread of the coronavirus

'Little evidence' of increased spread

Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discovered as part of a recent study that schools operating with in-person instruction have contributed to hardly any transmission of the coronavirus at all.

The researchers wrote in an article posted on the Journal of the American Medical Association website on Tuesday that while there have been some isolated reports of the virus spreading in schools, fears that in-person schooling would wreak havoc on communities across the U.S. have not been backed up by evidence.

"As many schools have reopened for in-person instruction in some parts of the U.S. as well as internationally, school-related cases of COVID-19 have been reported, but there has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission," the researchers wrote.

"The preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring insofar as the type of rapid spread that was frequently observed in congregate living facilities or high-density worksites has not been reported in education settings in schools," they added.

The team came to its conclusion after reviewing data from schools in the U.S. and around the world, including data from 11 North Carolina school districts that restarted in-person instruction for nine weeks during the fall semester of 2020. Of the more than 90,000 students and staff attendants in the districts, just 32 infections were reported from school activities and no cases of student-to-staff transmission were reported.

The researchers concluded that the data, which aligns with what other studies have found, "suggests a path forward to maintain or return primarily or fully to in-person instructional delivery."

Schools debate on whether to reopen

The news comes as several schools across the U.S. grapple with whether or not to fully reopen, of which many have adopted a fully or partially online approach to instruction for the better part of year since the start of the pandemic.

Additionally, a growing amount of evidence also indicates that school lockdown measures have taken an immense toll on students' mental health. Yet even with accumulating data supporting a return to in-person classes, some teachers' unions have fought back against plans to reopen.

Anything else?

The CDC researchers were careful to note in the report that however safe in-person instruction is, certain activities, such as school sports, pose a greater risk for transmission and should still be avoided if possible.

They also advised continuing to practice transmission mitigation efforts such as mask-wearing and social distancing.

"The conclusion here is with proper prevention efforts … we can keep transmission in schools and educational settings quite low," Margaret Honein, lead author of the JAMA report, told the Washington Post. "We didn't know that at the beginning of the year but the data has really accumulated."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/cdc-little-covid-spread-schools

Former Trump Adviser Larry Kudlow Tapped By Fox News As Contributor, Host Of His Own Fox Business Show

Former President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow is joining Fox News as a contributor and business host, the network announced Tuesday.

“FOX News Media was among the first news organizations in the country to understand the critical importance of the relationship between Washington and Wall Street,” Kudlow said in a statement included in the press release. “I’ve long admired their insightful coverage and am excited to join many of my former colleagues now at FBN, creating a show that speaks to the real issues truly impacting Americans.”

Kudlow will “provide expert financial analysis on domestic and global affairs across all” Fox News platforms, according to the announcement. In addition, he will host a weekday program on Fox Business. More information regarding the new program have not yet been announced.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/26/larry-kudlow-donald-trump-fox-news-contributor-host-fox-business/

Hospital Pharmacist to Plead Guilty to Attempting to Spoil Hundreds of COVID Vaccine Doses

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/hospital-pharmacist-plead-guilty-attempting-spoil-hundreds-covid-vaccine-doses

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