Anonymous ID: 1f3671 May 6, 2021, 9:14 p.m. No.13602873   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3189 >>3202

Jim Jordan Says “Votes are There” to Oust Unhinged and Bitter Liz Cheney from GOP House Leadership

 

Popular Republican Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) told FOX News on Wednesday that the votes are there to get rid of Liz Cheney from GOP House leadership.

 

She should have been removed months ago but Kevin McCarthy was too weak to remove her as the third-ranked Republican in the House of Representatives.

 

Maybe Kevin McCarthy will force members to make their vote public this time so their constituents can see who they support? President Trump or Liz Cheney?

 

Better yet, maybe Republicans will vote McCarthy out while they’re at it.

McCarthy needs to get ousted along with Liz.

 

Via Yahoo.com:

 

Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) said Wednesday that “the votes are there” to oust Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) from her position as House GOP Conference Chair.

 

“You can’t have a Republican conference chair reciting Democrat talking points,” Jordan told Fox News. “You can’t have a Republican conference chair taking a position that 90 percent of the party disagrees with, and you can’t have a Republican party chair consistently speaking out against the individual who 74 million Americans voted for.”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/jim-jordan-says-votes-oust-unhinged-bitter-liz-cheney-gop-house-leadership/

Anonymous ID: 1f3671 May 6, 2021, 9:19 p.m. No.13602907   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2934

Ivy League Professor: Teaching Identity Politics is ‘Criminal Abdication’ of Teachers’ Responsibilities

 

During his latest show, Glenn Loury, an Ivy League economics professor and host of video blog The Glenn Show, blasted the teaching of identity politics in higher education, calling it a “criminal abdication of our pedagogic responsibilities,” while asserting a teacher’s responsibility is to challenge students’ preconceptions about themselves.

 

Loury was talking to John McWhorter, an author and linguistics professor at Columbia University, on Tuesday when he began discussing the issue of identity politics in American higher education.

 

“To teach young people that they are this [the color of their skin] is criminal in my opinion,” he stated.

 

“We’re to challenge them!” he exclaimed.

 

The teaching of identity politics in American higher education is a criminal abdication of our pedagogic responsibilities, says this Ivy League prof. pic.twitter.com/Zi65wfQXeh

 

— Glenn Loury (@GlennLoury) May 4, 2021

 

Loury lamented that students present themselves by the nature of their skin or sexual preference.

 

“They [students] come in telling me that they’re this [the color of their skin] or that they’re their genitalia,” he said. “That’s how they get to me at 18 years old. They think they are these things.”

 

The professor also criticized the lack of knowledge on behalf of those presenting themselves as such.

 

“They haven’t read anything,” he said. “They haven’t been anywhere. They haven’t done anything.”

 

Loury then expressed what he believes are his duties as an educator.

 

“I’m a teacher,” he said. “My job is not to reaffirm them in their preconceptions. It’s to challenge them to outgrow them — their preconceptions.”

 

Emphasizing the “pedagogic trust” accorded to educators, Loury blasts the failure to challenge students.

 

“We’re entrusted to shepherd young minds into their maturity,” he said.

 

“To jump on a bandwagon and to fill their heads with slogans rather than challenge them with the best that human beings of any color have thought through the ages, is a criminal abdication,” he cautioned.

 

After the segment was aired, many prominent figures on Twitter expressed support for Loury.

 

“Want to know what truth sounds like? Take a listen to this,” political commentator and YouTube personality Dave Rubin wrote.

 

“Glenn, would love to have you on the show…,” he added.

 

Want to know what truth sounds like? Take a listen to this.

 

Glenn, would love to have you on the show… https://t.co/mx0LXUb380

 

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) May 5, 2021

 

“Must watch,” South Dakota state Rep. Fred Deutsch wrote.

 

“Must watch!” Moisés Naím, a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, exclaimed.

 

“I know this is being shared a lot but wow ‘abdication of pedagogic trust’ is SUCH a framing of this issue,” political commentator Charmaine Yoest said .

 

“Can we make @GlennLoury a national holiday?” former Lt. Governor of Missouri Peter Kinder wrote.

 

“I propose reducing every freshman orientation at every college or university in the country to the 1 minute and 13 seconds it takes to play this video clip of Professor Glenn Loury telling it exactly like it is,” Robert P. George, professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, wrote.

 

I propose reducing every freshman orientation at every college or university in the country to the 1 minute and 13 seconds it takes to play this video clip of Professor Glenn Loury telling it exactly like it is. https://t.co/yApQicpakn

 

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) May 5, 2021

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/06/ivy-league-professor-teaching-identity-politics-criminal-abdication-teachers-responsibilities/

Anonymous ID: 1f3671 May 6, 2021, 9:20 p.m. No.13602916   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2937 >>3189 >>3202

SF Mayor Announces $3.75 Million Redirected from Law Enforcement to Black Businesses

 

The mayor of San Francisco announced Wednesday that $3.75 million will be taken from the city’s police and sheriff’s office budget to go to help black organizations.

 

Mayor London Breed issued a statement about the Dream Keeper Initiative that will fund “nonprofits that serve the black community.”

 

“Across this country, and in our city, we’ve seen how the black community’s economic growth and prosperity has historically been disrupted and marginalized,” Breed said in the statement. “We have invested our resources in a way that lifts up and supports African American small business owners, entrepreneurs, and the entire community.”

 

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on the development:

 

As part of the initiative, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development awarded funds to 17 black-serving community organizations to provide services for African American businesses, entrepreneurs, and their communities in San Francisco.

 

Organizations awarded the funds include the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco Housing Development Corporation, and the Children’s Council of San Francisco.

 

The funds will be used to provide economic relief from the pandemic; help start, stabilize, or grow existing Black businesses by offering consultations and legal guidance; and support African American cultural preservation events. Funds will also be used to establish community hubs that stimulate cultural and business development and provide education and resources in historically African American neighborhoods such as Bayview-Hunters Point, Fillmore/Western Addition, Potrero Hill, and Visitacion Valley.

 

“This funding represents an investment in the community and addressing the wealth and opportunity gaps created by years of biased policies and approaches,” Sheryl Davis, executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, said in a statement.

 

“There is tremendous talent and potential that has been stifled by our biased policies and strategies,” Davis said.

 

Neither the report nor the statements explained what portion of law enforcement’s budget would be affected by the cuts.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/06/sf-mayor-announces-3-75-million-redirected-law-enforcement-black-businesses/

Anonymous ID: 1f3671 May 6, 2021, 9:22 p.m. No.13602936   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2943 >>2969 >>2973 >>3189 >>3202

Pro golfer Dan Bowling tried to meet 15-year-old for sex: cops

 

 

Professional golfer Dan Bowling was arrested for sexting a person posing as a 15-year-old girl.

 

Bowling, 26, had been chatting up a detective acting as a teen online since April with conversations that “turned sexual in nature within the first 24 hours and intensified quickly,” Florida police said.

 

The “dangerous online predator” was arrested Thursday in Orlando “as he arrived to meet up with the decoy,” police reportedly said.

 

The Canadian linksman was charged with obscene communication, traveling to meet with a minor and attempted lewd and lascivious molestation, according to People Magazine.

 

“Unfortunately, there are potentially hundreds of predators like Mr. Bowling online,” Jennifer Wing of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force reportedly said.

 

“I hope news of today’s arrest encourages parents to be more proactive in monitoring their children’s lives online.”

 

https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/pro-golfer-dan-bowling-tried-to-meet-15-year-old-for-sex-cops/

Anonymous ID: 1f3671 May 6, 2021, 9:25 p.m. No.13602958   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Biden Admin. Playing ‘Shell Game’ on Unaccompanied Minors

 

During a portion of an interview aired on Thursday’s “NBC Nightly News,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) stated that the Biden administration is engaging in a “shell game” on unaccompanied migrant children in Border Patrol custody in Donna, TX by simply moving children from Border Patrol facilities to facilities “next door” that are run by the Department of Health and Human Services.

 

Cuellar said, “What they’re doing now is they’re moving the kids from the Border Patrol tents over to next door to the HHS facility. With all due respect, it’s all a shell game.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/05/06/cuellar-biden-admin-playing-shell-game-on-unaccompanied-minors/

Anonymous ID: 1f3671 May 6, 2021, 9:26 p.m. No.13602965   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Governments can weaponize First Amendment to silence critics, groups tell SCOTUS

 

Appeals court allowed Pennsylvania school districts to file "objectively baseless" suit against anti-union group.

 

Is it constitutional for the government to file a lawsuit to stop you from criticizing its decisions?

 

If you live in Pennsylvania, New Jersey or Delaware, it is for now.

 

Anti-union and free speech groups are urging the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to a ruling in favor of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA), whose members are public school districts.

 

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that PSBA sued activist Simon Campbell and Pennsylvanians for Union Reform (PFUR) expressly to make them stop filing embarrassing public records requests and pressuring members to leave the PSBA.

 

Though it determined the suit was "objectively baseless," the 3rd Circuit upheld "petitioning immunity" for the PSBA. That means it has First Amendment rights to file lawsuits against individuals using their own First Amendment rights to criticize it.

 

The case has been pending at the Supreme Court for nearly two months yet has received little attention in legal communities. That may soon change: Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California-Berkeley Law School, recently joined the petitioners as counsel.

 

"The Third Circuit's opinion is a road map for how government officials and other state actors can retaliate against their critics with impunity by using the judicial process," Jack Cohn, who is representing PFUR and Campbell, told Just the News.

 

He agreed that public college professors and administrators could use the ruling to silence their critics as well. They would simply need to be "wearing their badges" as public officials and acting "under color of state law" when they went to court, as did the elected governing board of PSBA.

 

Both private and government plaintiffs could use the ruling to circumvent state laws that crack down on "strategic lawsuits against public participation" (SLAPP), according to Campbell, a naturalized U.S. citizen whose YouTube channel calls him the "Government's (Least) Favorite Pain-in-the-Arse."

 

Faced with paying a defendant's legal fees, a plaintiff could argue "'I subjectively believed in the merits of my retaliatory lawsuit and that fact automatically grants me constitutional immunity, so go shove your state law,'" he wrote in an email.

 

The PSBA sought and was granted a monthlong extension, to May 17, to file its opposition to the Supreme Court hearing the case. It declined to provide a summary of its planned argument or comment on the case.

 

https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/governments-can-weaponize-first-amendment-silence-critics-groups-tell-scotus

Anonymous ID: 1f3671 May 6, 2021, 9:37 p.m. No.13603038   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Biden Admin Hiding Damning Report on Student Debt Crisis, Lawmakers Say

 

GOP lawmakers call for transparency on government's student loan portfolio

 

Republican lawmakers claim that the Biden administration is burying a report that shows how shoddy accounting at the Department of Education could cost taxpayers billions.

 

In a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Representatives Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) and Greg Murphy (R., N.C.) say Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is hiding information from a Trump-era report that found that student loan repayments have continuously fallen short of the Education Department's projections. Taxpayers may end up footing the bill for that discrepancy, which could amount to roughly one third of the federal government's $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio.

 

The demand for financial transparency comes as the Biden administration moves to spend big on higher education. President Joe Biden last week proposed his American Families Plan, a $1.8 trillion spending package that promises Americans at least two years of taxpayer-funded higher education. And the president asked Congress to relieve $10,000 in student loans per borrower in January.

 

Foxx and Murphy are asking the GAO for information regarding the government's negligent accounting practices.

 

"We understand the Department of Education is hiding information from the public that could provide a more accurate depiction of the budgetary impact of the federal student loan program," the letter says. "The stakes are simply too great for Congress to look the other way and allow these accounting games to continue."

 

In 2018, then-education secretary Betsy DeVos tapped former JPMorgan executive Jeff Courtney to investigate whether the department was overestimating borrowers' willingness to repay their student loans. The resulting report, which the Wall Street Journal reviewed in April, found a major gap between projected and actual student loan repayments.

 

Courtney concluded that lawmakers have spent decades trying to make the federal student loan portfolio look profitable in order to justify expansions of the aid program. The government operates under the assumption that it will recover nearly all defaulted student loans. Actually, it recovers just over half.

 

The true cost to taxpayers of the federal loan program is likely much higher than the government has projected for decades, the report found.

 

The Biden Education Department ended Courtney's project in February, claiming that DeVos commissioned as part of a scheme to end the federal student loan program, the Journal reported. The Biden administration will not consider Courtney's findings in further evaluations of the federal government's student loan program.

 

Foxx told the Washington Free Beacon that while the problem is decades old, the Biden administration is the first to ignore it altogether.

 

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-hiding-damning-report-on-student-debt-crisis-lawmakers-say/