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    Reading and Math Scores Plummet as Racial and Sexual Activism Replace Academics

    As America’s public education system reports the worst literacy and math performance in decades, its schools dedicate increasingly immense portions of their time to lessons on the supposed virtues of racial and gender segregation. With only eight hours per day and 180 school days per year, one would think that everyone from the newest teacher’s…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Hollywood May Tell You Differently, but Reality Includes These 12 Examples of Defensive Gun Use

    Last month, the University of Southern California’s Hollywood, Health & Society Program published “Trigger Warning: Gun Guidelines for Media,” a series of recommendations for the entertainment industry on how it should portray firearms. Although some of these guidelines offer helpful suggestions, particularly about how the media should deal with the topic of suicide, the publication…
    Amy Swearer
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    Those Systemically Racial Pulitzer Prizes

    In theory, the Pulitzer Prizes are a celebration of the best journalism in America. But in reality, it represents something entirely different. It rewards left-wing journalists for most effectively thumping the tub for the Left. They call it “[elevating] our understanding of the world.” We’ve entered the third year of the Biden administration, and no…
    Tim Graham
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    Eager Publicists for Racial Reparations in California

    How insanely radical and unjust can blue states get? California’s nine-member Reparations Task Force voted May 6 to recommend that state lawmakers provide billions of dollars in compensation payments to black residents, along with a formal apology for slavery. Why should an 18-year-old white person—or a freshly minted migrant—pay taxes through the nose to atone…
    Tim Graham
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    ‘Model for Rest of the Country’: South Dakota History Standards Scrap Critical Race Theory, Build on Hillsdale Foundation

    While much of the cultural debate about education centers on school libraries removing sexually explicit books, South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem's team has been hard at work crafting new K-12 history and social studies standards that her chief of staff calls a "model for the rest of the country." Noem rejected an earlier effort…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Critical Race Theorists Admit Their Revolution Is Failing

    It was a bit cognitively dissonant last month when some of the best-known merchants of critical race theory began whining that their campaign to transform society had hit a rough patch. Surely, they couldn’t be serious? Woke orthodoxy is firmly in place in all the cultural centers and even at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Then along…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    San Francisco’s Loony Racial Reparations Proposal Flows From Logic of Woke Ideology

    The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is talking about ideas to bring racial reparations to the Bay Area. The proposals discussed during a recent board hearing, if adopted, would come with a significant financial cost for taxpayers. More on that in a bit. The entire reparations plan is predicated on the idea that black residents…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    If You’re Woke and Go Broke, Should Taxpayers Pay Your Bills?

    It’s feeling like 2007 all over again as Silicon Valley Bank and other financial institutions are going belly up and asking for bailouts from the federal government. President Joe Biden insists that he won’t be bailing out Silicon Valley Bank, but he certainly is. The bailouts are coming. They’ve already begun. The official reason for…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Woke Wrecking Machine

    Almost everything that has followed from the woke mass hysteria gripping the nation since 2020 has proved disastrous. Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result, history’s prescription for civilizational decline. If we continue with the woke hiring of administrators, air-traffic controllers, ground crews, pilots, and rail workers, there will be even more…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Woke Education Hurts America on World Stage, Sen. Tommy Tuberville Warns

    OXON HILL, Md.—Wokeness is harming education and making America less competitive on the world stage, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., says.  “I want them to have the opportunity that we had,” Tuberville, a retired college football coach, said Thursday during a forum at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside the nation’s capital.  During the CPAC forum,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Joe Biden Turns America’s Government Into Wokeness Inc.

    As Presidents Day weekend loomed last week, the Biden administration dropped a little-noticed executive order. That executive order happened to be one of the broadest, most transformative executive orders in modern American history; it turned the federal government into one giant machine designed for the propagation of woke principles. Biden’s so-called Executive Order on Further…
    Ben Shapiro
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    ‘Why We Have to Win This War’ Against the ‘Woke Army,’ According to Asra Nomani

    Asra Nomani, author of “Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Destroying America’s Freedom” and co-founder of Save Merit, is emphasizing the necessity of “winning this war against the woke army.” “It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of America depends on our winning this war against the woke army,” Nomani says….
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Well-Intentioned AmeriCorps Now Rotten to Core After Falling to Woke Left

    AmeriCorps, an independent federal agency that provides stipends for more than 5 million Americans who do volunteer work, misled the public on how much it spends in its grant program.  A program launched under President George H.W. Bush, AmeriCorps was expanded under President Bill Clinton and officially became a corps under Bush’s son, President George W. Bush….
    Roman Jankowski
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    Senate Should Reject Radical Leftist FCC Nominee Sohn

    Even by Washington’s appallingly low ethics standards, Gigi Sohn gives “pay to play” a bad name—even though she would surely deny that was, for all practical purposes, what she was doing. At a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called out President Joe Biden’s nominee to…
    Peter Parisi
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    Woke Left Pushed to Remove Discipline From Classrooms. Consequences Have Been Tragic, Teacher Says.

    Children are always going to misbehave, teacher Daniel Buck says, and that’s why discipline is needed in the classroom. “I think the idea that we’re going to solve misbehavior is kind of utopian,” Buck says, adding that is “what the progressive idea is.” “If we just get the system right, then kids are going to…
    Virginia Allen
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    Texas Universities Demand That Job Applicants Pledge Woke Allegiance

    There never has been a better time to combat the publicly funded racist advocacy that has become prevalent in Texas universities.  Entire departments at Texas Tech University and the University of Texas spend millions of taxpayer dollars each year on pseudoscientific nonsense—setting divisive standards that are stoking racial tension instead of easing it. One bill…
    Tony Kinnett
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    America’s Pop Culture Is Stagnating. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.

    Americans seem to be stuck in a cultural rut. In 1981, a mere 16% of the most popular movies in the country were sequels, spinoffs, or remakes of other films. In 2019, that number shot up to 80%. Just this week, multiple outlets reported that Mattel’s Barney, the purple dinosaur from the 1990s, is getting…
    Douglas Blair
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    How Woke Can You Go? Majority-Minority Groups Automatically Disqualified for ‘Food Equity’ Grant If CEO Is White

    Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation is offering a three-year, $300,000 grant to advance "healthy food equity," but many organizations that work to expand access to healthy food in minority populations need not apply. Indeed, some organizations that employ a majority nonwhite staff and have a majority-nonwhite board of directors automatically are disqualified…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Woke Finance Is Hurting Americans. Here’s How the Hoosier State Is Trying to Stop It There.

    The Indiana General Assembly will continue consideration this week of a commonsense bill that would help protect Indiana’s economy and retirees from the threat of the woke environmental, social, and governance movement. House Bill 1008’s purpose is simple: Asset managers who invest for Indiana would be required to make investment decisions based on financial factors,…
    Rep. Jim Banks
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    Florida Shows How Americans Can Fight Back Effectively Against Woke Institutional Power

    Americans need to curtail the power of the radicals who control higher education. Perhaps now we have a blueprint to really turn things around. On top of entirely changing the leadership of the New College of Florida, rooting out critical race theory and gender ideology in K-12 schools, and pressuring the College Board into revising…
    Jarrett Stepman
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