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Archive for January, 2023
January 11th, 2023 - 6:11 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Campaign official asks schools to provide student volunteers
A deputy campaign manager for Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot fired off a mass email to Chicago public school teachers asking them to rustle up student volunteers to work for the mayor’s re-election campaign, even suggesting the kids be given extra credit for volunteering (read story here). This [...]
A Georgia school district that allows Confederate clothing banned a girl’s “Black Lives Matter” t-shirt
Effingham County, Georgia, is a coastal area just north of Savannah, mostly rural, and about three-quarters white (see 2020 census data here). It has a county-wide school system, whose website lists 8 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, 2 high schools, and a “college and career academy.R[...]
What to expect from Covid in 2023
Covid 19 is still with us, and pretending it’s over is making Americans more vulnerable. (Read story here.) What to expect in the year ahead is summarized below: Covid-19 is still deadly The virus hasn’t gone away, and with Americans taking fewer precautions, relatively few getting boost[...]
When you should take a plea deal
Richard Barnett, 63, a self-employed contractor from Gravette, Arkansas, is the man kicking back behind Nancy Pelosi’s desk on January 6, 2021, in the infamous photograph below. He was arrested two days later, and spent three months in the D.C. jail, giving jailers a hard time and complaining [...]
January 10th, 2023 - 7:05 pm § in Law and Courts
The Old West in Port Orchard
Now that American society is saturated with guns, it’s not surprising people are resorting to them with increasing frequency. Washington self-defense law is clear: You can legally use deadly force only to defend yourself or another person from an imminent threat of death or great bodily harm. [...]
January 10th, 2023 - 4:56 am § in Science
Still think climate change is a hoax?
“Don’t Look Up” is a satire film about humanity in denial about an impending comet collision with earth (details here). It’s a not-too-subtle play on attitudes about climate change. Denialism is quite possibly the most striking cultural phenomenon of our time. Election, clima[...]
January 9th, 2023 - 10:23 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Universities shouldn’t teach intolerance
But Hamline University, in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a private college; so they can do that, and they just did. Writing for CNN, David M. Perry, a journalist and academic, says (here), “Last fall, Hamline University … hired Erika López Prater, an art history professor, on an adjunct basi[...]
Pennsylvania county recounts 2020 election
“More than two years after the last ballot was cast in the 2020 election, Lycoming County plans to recount all presidential votes by hand — an extraordinary step no other Pennsylvania county has taken,” Raw Story reported (here) on Monday, January 9, 2023, adding, “County commiss[...]
Don’t raise kids in Arizona
The importance of education doesn’t need to be explained or defended here. Arizona is known as a retirement haven. Low cost of living is part of what attracts older folks on fixed incomes. They don’t like paying school taxes, and don’t have school-age children, so they don’[...]