#Lori Lightfoot talks truth on teacher-union entitlement

#Lori Lightfoot talks truth on teacher-union entitlement

“#Lori Lightfoot talks truth on teacher-union entitlement” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is a perfect progressive — who just let loose on the Chicago Teachers Union over its resistance to reopening schools and other issues. After cutting a deal with the CTU to finally reopen elementary and middle schools, Lightfoot told the The New York Times…

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#The New York Times dilemma and other commentary

#The New York Times dilemma and other commentary

“#The New York Times dilemma and other commentary” Media critic: The Times’ Dilemma The New York Times’ media critic Ben Smith examines recent events and muses that the paper’s “unusual, perhaps unhealthy, central place in American news, culture and politics” makes it “an object of obsession” for others, intensified by its “media ambitions” as it “seeks to…

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#Lincoln Project’s disgrace and other commentary

#Lincoln Project’s disgrace and other commentary

“#Lincoln Project’s disgrace and other commentary” Scammer alert: Lincoln Project’s Disgrace Last summer, donations to the Lincoln Project rolled in “by the tens of millions,” as “the group tried to claim a higher moral ground in an effort to purge Trump from the GOP,” recount Steve Peoples and Brian Slodysko at RealClearPolitics. Yet multiple sources…

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#NYC’s real homeless problem is its mad political pieties

#NYC’s real homeless problem is its mad political pieties

“#NYC’s real homeless problem is its mad political pieties” Will the murder spree of the homeless, allegedly by another mentally ill homeless man, finally bring the city to its senses, and move it to start protecting the public and get horribly dysfunctional people the help they need? Rigoberto Lopez, 21, is being held without bail, accused…

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#A founder who still inspires Americans

#A founder who still inspires Americans

“#A founder who still inspires Americans” “Presidents Day” is actually still Washington’s Birthday officially, though no longer always honored on Feb. 22, his actual birth date. And that’s entirely right and proper, as every American should happily honor our first chief executive. What was most remarkable about Washington was (to riff off a fellow whose…

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#Biden’s gift to Beijing’s spies and propagandists

#Biden’s gift to Beijing’s spies and propagandists

“#Biden’s gift to Beijing’s spies and propagandists” On one front, at least, President Biden is already giving Beijing a gift — even if that’s not his motive. His “Not Trump” rule seems to be a higher priority than checking China’s power: Why else nix the last president’s mandate requiring schools and universities to disclose any…

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