Rex Murphy: The woke rot at the heart of Canada's largest school board | National Post
Political correctness is toxic; wokeism is an insult to reason. Both seem to have found a home in the Toronto District School Board
Sometimes a public backlash is exactly what’s needed to kick some common sense into our increasingly woke school boards.
"Such is the case with the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) insane decisions not to allow students to attend book club events featuring Marie Henein, an outstanding criminal lawyer the board took issue with because of who she chose to defend, and Nadia Murad, a Nobel Prize-winning woman who had been a victim of ISIL, endured torments too ugly to speak, but managed to escape and now champions young women the world over.
..But it does raise a couple of questions.
Such as: how could any functioning educational institution reach the conclusion that allowing an articulate, accomplished lawyer to speak to young students would send the wrong message?
Or: why did some TDSB bureaucrat think she had the right to bar such a person from speaking in front of a book club?..Read all.
You knew it was coming. The Omnicron Variant coming to devour the planet was going to cause more mask panic. South Park foretold this. Joe Biden mumbled today that you should wear a mask indoors at all times. Unless you're eating... or talking into a microphone. Yes, he specified talking into a microphone. Then walked away without wearing a mask. DOOCY addressed the matter to White House Spokessoulessginger Jen Psaki, pointing to another "Biden is confused about wearing masks" incident from over the weekend.
Here is that exchange, followed by my dramatic interpretation.
Thomas Gallatin: Reuters Paints Trump Supporters as Dangerous | The Patriot Post "Those who dare to oppose the leftist agenda of Joe Biden and the Democrats must be considered dangerous right-wing extremists who “cling to guns or religion,” to borrow the words of Barack Obama.
Not only has this become the political perspective of today’s Democrat Party, but it has become the widely unquestioned and accepted caricature of conservatives among the mainstream media. ...One of the more recent egregious examples of the Leftmedia producing Democrat propaganda comes via a Reuters “investigative journalism”piece entitled, “Campaign of Fear: Reuters unmasks Trump supporters who terrified U.S. election officials.”
Edwin Meese III 1931 - Attorney general in the U.S.
1823 - U.S. President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
1927 - The Ford Motor Company unveiled the Model A automobile. It was the successor to the Model T.
1942 - A self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated by Dr. Enrico Fermi and his staff at the University of Chicago.
1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared in a nationally broadcast speech that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that he was going to lead Cuba to communism.
1990 - The Midwest section of the U.S. prepared for a massive earthquake predicted by Iben Browning. The earthquakes did not occur.
1997 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of telephone fund-raising by President Clinton and Vice President Gore. She had concluded that they had not violated election laws.
2001 - Enron Corp. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. The filing came five days after Dynegy walked away from a $8.4 billion buyout. It was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Should the required number of signatures be obtained, the State Legislature could enact the proposals into law without leftist Governor Gretchen Whitmer being able to veto them as she did with respect to other similarelection law reforms. Governor Whitmer’s opposition to election integrity protections is a trend among the Left. As we explained in a prior post, the Biden Administration is currently attempting to block aGeorgialaw designed to bring about fairer elections.
Some key provisions of the proposals in the Michigan election integrity petition are as follows:
FDA advisors narrowly recommend Merck’s COVID-19 pill for authorization
"On Tuesday, Nov. 30, the Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee members voted whether the potential benefits of the oral drug molnupiravir outweigh the potential risks, based on safety and efficacy data from clinical trials.
Thirteen members voted in favor of recommending authorization, while the remaining 10 members voted against authorization...Read all.
The court order said that the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid had no clear authority from Congress to enact the vaccine mandate for providers participating in the two government health care programs for the elderly, disabled and poor.
A Thomas Jefferson statue is taken down while George Floyd is elevated to Jesus status.
"Even if you agree with the toppling of Confederate statues — especially of those that occurred last year in solidarity with capitulation to the Black Lives Matter movement — prominent figures noted that this was a slippery slope and that the Founding Fathers were next. President Donald Trump was one of those Cassandras issuing the unheard and unheeded warnings against statue toppling.
At a news conference in 2017, he remarked: “So this week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You really have to ask yourself, where does it stop?”...Read all.
According to Horowitz, the most important agenda item is making red states "red" again and making them strong enough to interpose between the federal government and us. Later, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis joined the program and discussed his plan to stand between federal tyranny and the people's liberties.
Across the country, state and government agencies are moving in opposite directions: some release the genie of racial equity and Critical Race Theory (CRT) while others try to corral it and squeeze it back into the bottle.
In California, CRT, either explicitly or implicitly through its aligned pedagogies, is present at every level of education—from universities and community colleges to K-12 education...Read all.
It is a wholly unnecessary crisis, created by the Biden Administration and the progressive extremists who control it. Accepting the most radical of approaches to environmental concerns,
Biden moved swiftly to curtail U.S. energy production the transportation of natural gas.
Almost immediately upon taking office, he cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline,
halted new oil and gas leases on federal property,
stopped drilling in ANWAR, and
targeted federal subsidies for oil and gas production.
Before Biden attacked U.S. energy production, Americans were enjoying the financial benefits of the energy independence the Trump Administration had achieved.
Household energy expenditures had dropped dramatically.
Now, oil prices have hit a seven-year high...Read all!
Prager: Leftism Has Destroyed Institutions of Culture and Society
"To understand the modern world, perhaps the most important rule one needs to know is this: Everything the Left touches it ruins. This first became clear to me years ago during my radio show. I was talking about the Left’s war on the Boy Scouts (for not accepting announced gay people). It was becoming clear that this would ultimately lead to the decline of the Boy Scouts, which led me to ask: “Will the left replace the Boy Scouts with a left-wing Boy Scouts?” Then I answered my own question: Of course not. Because the Left only destroys; it doesn’t build anything (other than government). In support of that observation, here is a list of many of the things the Left ruins and often destroys.
...No. 3: Journalism--Journalists were once highly respected. Unless a piece was listed as “opinion,” people generally believed they were getting, to the best of a journalist’s ability, as truthful a report as possible—”just the facts.”Today, on virtually any controversial issue, they are getting opinion, not truth. The purpose of nearly every major newspaper and other “news” outlet is the same purpose Pravda had in the Soviet Union: to transmit the party line.
"With his arrogant partisan performances this weekend, Fauci's laid bare the inherent weakness of his obsession with going on TV," Morgan wrote. "The more he talks, the less many Americans either like or believe him," he added. "They just see a narcissistic blow-hard who likes the sound of his own voice and constantly changes his mind."
6. Chart of the Day VI (above) shows another look at how the value of the US dollar has decreased over time since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913."
1913 - Ford Motor Co. began using a new movable assembly line that ushered in the era of mass production.
1943 - In Teheran, leaders of the United States, the USSR and the United Kingdom met to reaffirm the goal set on October 30, 1943. The previous meeting called for an early establishment of an international organization to maintain peace and security.
1952 - In Denmark, it was announced that the first successful sex-change operation had been performed.
1955 - Rosa Parks, a black seamstress in Montgomery, AL, refused to give up her seat to a white man. Mrs. Parks was arrested marking a milestone in the civil rights movement in the U.S.
1991 - Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.
