Plus: Here’s How Wisconsin Public Schools Are Promoting Critical Race Theory
June 8 2021
Good morning from Washington, where lawmakers on the left prescribe silly solutions to big problems. Chris Rufo shows how that’s working out in San Francisco’s battle against homelessness. The new racism taught in Wisconsin may be a preview of what’s coming to your area schools, the MacIver Institute reports. On the podcast, we get Sen. Ted Cruz’s take on the Hamas-Israel conflict. Plus: post-pandemic America; Florida’s response to China; and a loss for Planned Parenthood in Texas. On this date in 1972, Alabama Gov. George Wallace, a segregationist, weeps when visited in the hospital by Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York, a fellow Democratic presidential candidate and the first black woman elected to Congress, three weeks after Wallace is shot five times by a would-be assassin.
In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across sidewalks, and first responders dart through the chaos to revive overdose victims.
“Teaching is a political act, and you can’t ... be neutral. You are either a pawn used to perpetuate a system of oppression or you are fighting ... it,” says a White Privilege Conference speaker in Madison.
Some civilian casualties “are predominantly the result of a decision that Hamas made to use Palestinians as human shields,” says the Texas senator, who just visited the region.
One measure is intended to safeguard public institutions from “undue foreign influence,” Gov. Ron DeSantis says, noting it will prohibit “agreements between public entities and the Communist Party of China.”
Suddenly, the tough talk about retaliation from corporations and other organizations is being exposed for what it is: empty threats from big-mouthed bullies.
