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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
Education at a Crossroads
by Thomas Sowell
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Top Headline
The Democrat Party is basically on life support in these 10 states. (The Washington Post)
Not helping the leftist narrative: Report says minimum wage hikes will lead to 1.8 million job losses. (Washington Free Beacon)
Trump wisely estimates liar-nObamacare replacement plan could take a year to formulate. (CBS News)
Some IRS employees cheated on their taxes and yet the agency let most keep their jobs. (The Hill)
Climate change whistleblower alleges NOAA manipulated data to hide global warming "pause." (The Washington Times)
Trump taps Mike Pence to lead panel investigating voter fraud. (Business Insider)
Trump administration sanctions Iran over missile test. (Reason)
Navy decommissions the USS Enterprise — the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. (Navy Times)
Trump administration backs off bid to reopen CIA "black sites." (Reuters)
In a comeback for the ages, Patriots beat Falcons in heart-pounding Super Bowl. (The Boston Globe)
Policy: Don't let the Democrats fool you about a 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court confirmations. (The Daily Signal)
Policy: Voter registration requires reform. (Washington Examiner)
~The Patriot Post
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Republican Traitors BETRAY Trump,
Issue Sick Message About Tax Cuts
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{hosted.ap.org} ~ A group of Republicans are trying to thwart President Trump’s plan to change the tax code. “I’m not very enthused about it,” said Republican Utah Senator Orrin Hatch... said about the corporate tax plan. Hatch is the chairman of the Finance Committee...Texas Senator John Cornyn is also questioning the job-creation tax plan. To entice companies to stay or return to the United States, we have to reduce our corporate tax rates – which are the highest in the entire world. “The question is, who is going to pay the tax?” Senator Cornyn asked. “Is it going to be our citizens?” President Trump and the Republican majority are the first national leaders in three decades to push for a tax code overhaul. The House plan would drastically reduce the 35 percent tax on company profits...
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‘Forget about lone wolves,
Islamic State is in command’
by Vincent van den Born
{gatestone.eu} ~ On February 4 2017, the New York Times published a lengthy, investigative report by Rukmini Callimachi on IS control of various terrorist plots around the world... Termed ‘enabled’ or ‘remote-controlled attack’ by counterterrorism experts, targets and method are determined by handlers in IS-controlled areas, while they instruct operatives through the internet, all the while remaining anonymous: “As a result, remotely guided plots in Europe, Asia and the United States in recent years, including the attack on a community center in Garland, Tex., were initially labeled the work of “lone wolves,” with no operational ties to the Islamic State, and only later was direct communication with the group discovered.” The shift in strategy is partly due to the greater difficulty involved in travelling to Syria, and the specific targeting of recruiters in Syria by US and UK intelligence. Instead of letting recruits come to them, IS are now looking for operatives in places they want to strike... https://gatestone.eu/is-puppetmaster/
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Our most dangerous and
treacherous times in our history?
by Sher Zieve
{renewamerica.com} ~ We have entered a time in the history of the United States of America that augurs whether or not we will survive as a nation. When We-the-People elected Donald J. Trump as our president... the globalist powers visibly headed by Luciferian leader and liar-nObama Friend George Soros began their malicious work to overturn the election and end the USA as it was founded. Since 20 January 2017, the protests against our elections – and us – have increased as more anarchists have been and are continuing to be brought into the fray by these same New World Order globalists. George Soros – just as he fomented and spurred on the Ferguson and other paid-for riots – is firmly behind the worldwide rioting and attempted overturn and destruction of the Trump administration...and the USA. In order to affect that destruction, it is necessary for most, if not all, government institutions to stop following any and all US laws that would defeat the ultimate purpose of the New World Order; which is the complete dismantling and destruction of the United States as it now stands. To wit, liar-nObama and Soros met multiple times in our White House during liar-nObama's presidency... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/170206
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CAIR’s California Classic
by Lloyd Billingsley
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Sometime during the night of February 1, the Sacramento Bee reported, “someone spray painted anti-Muslim graffiti on the walls of the Tarbiya Institute” in nearby Roseville, and “police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime.”... In a statement, the Institute said “we at Tarbiya believe that this incident is a microcosm of a sinister spirit that has been perpetuating our country, and sponsored by people in power. This spirit emboldens some who are full of hate to actually take action.” The story also noted another recent “hate crime” at the Islamic Center in Davis, where “windowpanes were smashed, bicycle tires were sliced and strips of uncooked bacon were placed on an exterior door handle of the center.” Last December, this mosque received a threatening letter “identical to one sent to numerous mosques around the country.” The note was from a group calling itself Americans for a Better Way, addressed to “the children of Satan,” and referenced Donald Trump by saying “there’s a new sheriff in town,” therefore Muslims’ “day of reckoning has arrived.”... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265694/cairs-california-classic-lloyd-billingsley
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Sessions Must Target,
Prosecute Soros, Treasonous Left
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ We would expect that President Trump is fully aware of the subversive activities of billionaire anti-American George Soros, his funding of public unrest, attacks on Trump’s own campaign and supporters and most recently his funding of the lawsuits and other interferences in his ability to govern our nation... Soros organizations are behind the illegal terrorist aiding and abetting that is disguised as a lawsuit stopping his executive order banning terrorist travel into the United States. Surely they are aware of the threat and the criminal, treasonous acts of Soros. The questions are, what does he do about it, when and how. We hope that Attorney General Sessions will be able to answer those questions soon, possibly this week. Surely he’s already working on a strategy. Over a dozen lawsuits and counting have been filed against President Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven terrorist nations. The common thread underlying all of them is the funding, either provided through George Soros front groups or the abuse of and misappropriation of public funds by corrupt politically motivated Democrat state attorneys general... http://rickwells.us/statesman-vs-subversives-sessions-must-target-prosecute-soros-treasonous-left/
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Education at a Crossroads
by Thomas Sowell
{townhall.com} ~ In just a matter of days -- perhaps next Monday -- a decision will be made in Washington affecting the futures of millions of children in low-income communities, and in the very troubled area of race relations in America.
An opportunity has arisen -- belatedly -- that may not come again in this generation. That is an opportunity to greatly expand the kinds of schools that have successfully educated, to a high level, inner-city youngsters whom the great bulk of public schools fail to educate to even minimally adequate levels.
What may seem on the surface to be merely a matter of whether the U.S. Senate confirms or rejects the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be head of the U.S. Department of Education involves far bigger stakes.
The teachers' unions and the education establishment in general know how big those stakes are, and have mounted an all-out smear campaign to prevent her from being confirmed.
What makes Mrs. DeVos seem so threatening to the teachers' unions and their political allies?
She has, for more than 20 years, been promoting programs, laws and policies that enable parents to choose which schools their children will attend -- whether these are charter schools, voucher schools or parochial schools.
Some of these charter schools -- especially those in the chain of the Success Academy schools and the chain of the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) schools -- operate in low-income, minority neighborhoods in the inner-cities, and turn out graduates who can match the educational performances of students in affluent suburbs. What is even more remarkable, these charter schools are often housed in the very same buildings, in the very same ghettoes, where students in the regular public schools fail to learn even the basics in English or math.
You and I may think this is great. But, to the teachers' unions, such charter schools are a major threat to their members' jobs -- and ultimately to the unions' power or existence.
If parents have a choice of where to send their children, many of those parents are not likely to send them to failing public schools, when there are alternative schools available that equip those youngsters with an education that can open the way to a far better future for them.
Already there are tens of thousands of children on waiting lists to get into charter schools, just in New York alone. Those waiting lists are a clear threat to teachers' unions, whose leaders think schools exist to provide guaranteed jobs for their members.
Mrs. DeVos has shown for more than 20 years that she thinks schools exist to educate children. One of the biggest complaints about her is that, unlike Secretaries of Education before her, she does not come out of the government's education establishment. Considering what a miserable job that establishment has done, especially in inner-city schools, her independence is a plus.
Teachers' unions have fought for years to prevent charter schools from being created. Now that such schools have been created, and there are now huge waiting lists, the teachers' unions have gotten politicians to put a numerical cap on the number of such schools, regardless of how large the waiting lists are.
Desperate attempts to smear Betsy DeVos, in order to prevent her from being confirmed as Secretary of Education, have not let the facts get in the way.
She is accused of "steering public dollars away from traditional public schools." But nobody can steer anything anywhere, when it is individual parents who make the decisions as to where they want their children educated. The money follows the children.
Neither the money nor the children get steered by education bureaucrats, as happens with traditional public schools.
If charter schools educate one-third of the students in a district, and get one-third of the money, how does that reduce the amount of money per child in the public school? Actually, charter schools usually get less money per student, but produce better results.
American education is at a crossroads. If the teachers' unions and their allies can defeat the nomination of Mrs. DeVos, and the Republicans substitute someone else more acceptable to the education establishment, a historic opportunity will be lost, and may never come again in this generation.
An opportunity has arisen -- belatedly -- that may not come again in this generation. That is an opportunity to greatly expand the kinds of schools that have successfully educated, to a high level, inner-city youngsters whom the great bulk of public schools fail to educate to even minimally adequate levels.
What may seem on the surface to be merely a matter of whether the U.S. Senate confirms or rejects the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be head of the U.S. Department of Education involves far bigger stakes.
The teachers' unions and the education establishment in general know how big those stakes are, and have mounted an all-out smear campaign to prevent her from being confirmed.
What makes Mrs. DeVos seem so threatening to the teachers' unions and their political allies?
She has, for more than 20 years, been promoting programs, laws and policies that enable parents to choose which schools their children will attend -- whether these are charter schools, voucher schools or parochial schools.
Some of these charter schools -- especially those in the chain of the Success Academy schools and the chain of the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) schools -- operate in low-income, minority neighborhoods in the inner-cities, and turn out graduates who can match the educational performances of students in affluent suburbs. What is even more remarkable, these charter schools are often housed in the very same buildings, in the very same ghettoes, where students in the regular public schools fail to learn even the basics in English or math.
You and I may think this is great. But, to the teachers' unions, such charter schools are a major threat to their members' jobs -- and ultimately to the unions' power or existence.
If parents have a choice of where to send their children, many of those parents are not likely to send them to failing public schools, when there are alternative schools available that equip those youngsters with an education that can open the way to a far better future for them.
Already there are tens of thousands of children on waiting lists to get into charter schools, just in New York alone. Those waiting lists are a clear threat to teachers' unions, whose leaders think schools exist to provide guaranteed jobs for their members.
Mrs. DeVos has shown for more than 20 years that she thinks schools exist to educate children. One of the biggest complaints about her is that, unlike Secretaries of Education before her, she does not come out of the government's education establishment. Considering what a miserable job that establishment has done, especially in inner-city schools, her independence is a plus.
Teachers' unions have fought for years to prevent charter schools from being created. Now that such schools have been created, and there are now huge waiting lists, the teachers' unions have gotten politicians to put a numerical cap on the number of such schools, regardless of how large the waiting lists are.
Desperate attempts to smear Betsy DeVos, in order to prevent her from being confirmed as Secretary of Education, have not let the facts get in the way.
She is accused of "steering public dollars away from traditional public schools." But nobody can steer anything anywhere, when it is individual parents who make the decisions as to where they want their children educated. The money follows the children.
Neither the money nor the children get steered by education bureaucrats, as happens with traditional public schools.
If charter schools educate one-third of the students in a district, and get one-third of the money, how does that reduce the amount of money per child in the public school? Actually, charter schools usually get less money per student, but produce better results.
American education is at a crossroads. If the teachers' unions and their allies can defeat the nomination of Mrs. DeVos, and the Republicans substitute someone else more acceptable to the education establishment, a historic opportunity will be lost, and may never come again in this generation.
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