A Texas school district’s Mexican-American Studies curriculum says restrictions on immigration are “oppression,” and the terms “illegal” and “undocumented” “perpetuate stereotypes.” - DAVE HUBER
"...In addition, the curriculum highlights a quote from Mexican-American poet Luis Alberto Urrea who says “illegal immigrant” is “A term by which An invading colonial force Vilifies Indigenous cultures By identifying them as An invading colonial force.”
A student learning objective for the unit “Systems of Power and Oppression” reads “Students will able to describe how significant events from 1975 to present have strengthened systems of oppression against Mexican Americans, such as the strengthened immigration laws that made immigration from Mexico harder.”...
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Illegal immigrant from Venezuela charged after causing car crash that killed 12-year-old Missouri boy | Blaze Media
Illegal immigrant from Venezuela charged after causing car crash that killed 12-year-old Missouri boy | Blaze Media:
An illegal immigrant from Venezuela has been charged with manslaughter after she caused a car crash in Missouri that killed a 12-year-old boy. The New York Post reported that the immigrant was traveling on the wrong side of the road when the crash occurred.
Degrowth - Stossel TV
The left has a new goal: degrowth!"We should “buy less stuff,” forgive debts, grow our own food, etc.
They say this will “build a more just and sustainable society” and “save the planet” from “climate chaos.”
This idea is popular with capitalism-haters...
Climate change may be a serious threat.
They say this will “build a more just and sustainable society” and “save the planet” from “climate chaos.”
This idea is popular with capitalism-haters...
Climate change may be a serious threat.
But reducing global growth won’t help.
It would make things worse...
Norberg points out, “If we didn’t have any economic growth since the 1950s, we would have slightly less global warming, but around half a million more people would die because of climate-related natural disasters. The risk of dying has declined by some 90%, and that’s not because we have fewer disasters. … It’s because we’ve had economic growth.
It means that we improve construction, improve early warning systems, improve health care … we can deal with disasters in a better way.”...
History for March 14
History for March 14 - On-This-Day.com 
Paul Ehrlich 1854
- 1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
- 1900 - U.S. currency went on the gold standard with the ratification of the Gold Standard Act.
- 1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12― hours to 93 minutes.
- 1958 - The U.S. government suspended arms shipments to the Batista government of Cuba.(How'd that work out?)
- 1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
- 1979 - The Census Bureau reported that 95% of all Americans were married or would get married.
- 1989 - Imported assault guns were banned in the U.S. under President George H.W. Bush.
- 1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton committed $100 million for an anti-terrorism pact with Israel to track down and root out Islamic militants.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
House Overwhelmingly Passes Bill to Ban TikTok in U.S.
House Overwhelmingly Passes Bill to Ban TikTok in U.S.:
The House on Wednesday passed legislation that would ban TikTok if they do not sell the company from its Chinese parent company.
The House voted 352-61-1 H.R. 7521, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The bill featured 15 Republicans against the bill, 50 Democrats against it, showing that there is strong bipartisan interest in curbing TikTok’s apparent national security threat.
Dershowitz: Who will prosecute Fani Willis and her paramour?
Dershowitz: Who will prosecute Fani Willis and her paramour?:
Alan Dershowitz, a longtime liberal law professor who now is a popular commentator on legal issues, says there is "an extremely strong case" to prosecute Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her former boyfriend, Nathan Wade, for perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Willis, of course, is the Democrat who hired her boyfriend for two-thirds of a million dollars to build an organized crime case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others over their comments about the troubled 2020 presidential election.
In 1972 Colorado passed the Sunshine law; a law that said the conduct of public business should not be done in secret.
Today's neo-Marxist-dominated General Assembly just passed a law that guts the Sunshine law,
"...now allowing legislators to HIDE the conduct of our business from us, to actively conceal discussions about pending legislation.
It's now on the desk of Governor Polis who is expected to sign it.
"...now allowing legislators to HIDE the conduct of our business from us, to actively conceal discussions about pending legislation.
It's now on the desk of Governor Polis who is expected to sign it.
- The neo-Marxists have eroded and sidestepped CO's Taxpayers Bill of Rights which prevents them from adding new taxes without taxpayer approval. They now call everything a fee.
- Now the sunshine law has been gutted and rendered useless because it can easily be sidestepped via email and text....
LEG.COLORADO.GOV
Road diet insanity! They've already deleted this!-----Muskegon, MI: Shoreline Drive Pilot Project
Muskegon, MI: Shoreline Drive Pilot Project
Shoreline Drive Pilot Project
Phase Two of the Shoreline Drive Pilot Project begins soon and will impact all motorists and pedestrians who use this roadway. The goal is to slow traffic, reduce the number of crashes and their severity, and make the roadway safer and easier to cross between downtown and surrounding neighborhoods and the developing Muskegon Lake waterfront. Please find additional information below, including project details, frequently asked questions as well as an opportunity to give feedback to City staff.
What is the Shoreline Drive Pilot Project?
Last fall, the first phase of the project included reducing lanes for six weeks on the four-lane Business U.S. 31/Shoreline Drive along with regularly scheduled maintenance from Seventh Street to Terrace Street. Upon the conclusion of the road work and collection of traffic data during a time last year with fewer events and tourists in the downtown area, a second phase of the study would be conducted in the Summer of 2023.
Traffic control devices will again be installed to temporarily eliminate one lane in each direction. The public space created by the lane reductions will be tested for landscaped plantings, public art, and community gathering areas. With the observations and data from the two test periods, the City's consultant will provide results and recommendations to City officials later this year.
Why is the City interested in discovering better uses for Shoreline Drive?
- Connecting Downtown Neighborhoods and Muskegon Lake | Testing a project that slows traffic by limiting cars to one lane in each direction. Two goals of the project are to create a safer, more people-friendly roadway and to connect the Muskegon Lake waterfront to our downtown and neighborhoods. Additional benefits include better opportunities for development and park-like green space along this corridor.
- We often hear the argument, "there's nothing by the lake to connect to!" Walkable locations on the Muskegon Lake side of Shoreline Drive include Shoreline Inn, Hartshorn Marina, Terrace Point Marina, Boys & Girls Club of the Muskegon Lakeshore, Neal Fitness Center, The Lake House Waterfront Grille and Event Center, Aqua Star Cruises, Cruise and Tall Ship Docks, LST Maritime Museum, Pigeon Hill Brewer's Lounge, Heritage Landing, Bike Trail, Dog Park, GVSU Annis Water Resources Institute, Kayak Launch, Terrace Point Landing, Viridian Shores, and more.
- Increasing Safety | Shoreline Drive from Southern Avenue to Terrace Street carries from 12,000 to 20,000 vehicles a day at speeds 45 mph and higher. In the last 5 years, almost ¼ of crashes in the city where a person walking was killed or seriously injured happened in this area. In the last 10 years, 8 of 30 total crashes where a person was killed within the City occurred on this roadway.
- Addressing Social Inequities | Muskegon, like many urban areas, has a legacy of redlining, highways, urban renewal projects, and continues to face their ongoing effects on marginalized populations. Today, urban highways are commonly known to have led to disinvestment in core cities, accelerated suburbanization, and caused damage to their immediate surroundings. Watch a brief video about redlining here. Watch the 5/9/2022 commission video to learn more about the history of Business Route US-31.
- Fiscal Responsibility | To put it simply, the larger the street the more expensive it is to maintain. Reduction of the size of the street would also reduce the cost of pavement repair and replacement, underground stormwater management infrastructure, snow removal, traffic signal operations, and policing.
Why is the City looking at Shoreline Drive now?
Shoreline Drive is maintained by the City but owned by the State of Michigan (Michigan Department of Transportation, MDOT). For many years, the City has sought to have permanent control of this roadway in order to make it safer for motorists and pedestrians visiting the downtown area and Muskegon Lake waterfront. In advance of MDOT's transportation planning process for updating roads throughout the state, they have offered the City the opportunity to engage the community to reimagine what a reconfigured Shoreline Drive might look like. This pilot study project allows City staff to collect the necessary data to assess the viability of undertaking a multi-year process of making more permanent changes to Shoreline Drive.
How does this impact the future of the lakeshore corridor?
No decisions are being made at this time. The data gathered from this pilot project will inform future community discussions about Muskegon's lakefront and the transportation options to and through downtown. Those conversations could include which transportation modes and which system users are most important to the community, and how to safely accomodate all users that want to get to the lakefront. There are grants available to help our community reimagine what the Muskegon lakefront could look like, and the data gathered from this pilot will strengthen funding applications. Federal regulations do not allow Moses J. Jones Parkway to be included in the pilot project at this time, but the data gathered on Shoreline Drive will help inform future discussions about returning lakefront access to the core neighborhoods affected by the Parkway as well. You can learn more about how Shoreline Drive and Moses J. Jones Parkway are barriers to equitable access to the waterfront by viewing the video on this page.
What were the results of the first traffic study?
Find a summary and the full report under the Supporting Documents section. Below are a few key takeaways:
- Average Time Delay on Shoreline Drive: 5 seconds of additional delay.
- Highest Average Delay on Shoreline Drive: 20 seconds of additional delay.
- Speed Changes on Shoreline Drive: Average speeds were reduced by 3 to 7 MPH, increasing safety for both vehicles and pedestrians.
- Traffic volume on Webster and Muskegon: There was not a consistent substantial change in traffic volume on Muskegon and Webster. Some data showed a slight increase (+10-20 vehicles per hour during peak weekday times) on Muskegon/Webster, and some results showed a decrease in traffic with the Shoreline lane closures in place.
Shot mandate dating back to 1905 gets constitutional challenge
Shot mandate dating back to 1905 gets constitutional challenge:
The NCLA said, "An unelected, unaccountable administrator imposed MSU’s COVID vaccine mandate on all employees and students without an approved medical or religious exemption. Despite claiming to rely on CDC guidance, MSU permitted individuals to satisfy the standard by taking any WHO-approved vaccine, including those that are not FDA-approved. At the same time, and contrary to all scientific evidence and basic principles of immunology, MSU refused to recognize naturally acquired immunity to the virus.,"
Clarice Feldman - Hussain Abdul-t's been six months and thousands of deaths
The non lazy Arab thinkers know that the Gaza War is not the fault of others, but ours."Hussain Abdul-t's been six months and thousands of deaths and we, the Arabs, have yet to sit down for a candid talk, debate what went wrong, what brought us here, how we can correct course.
What we have offered so far are lazy thinkers who found in Western attention a good way of declaring ourselves victims:
What we have offered so far are lazy thinkers who found in Western attention a good way of declaring ourselves victims:
Six months of showing pictures of Gazans as dead, hungry and helpless. That makes up for a great story for white guilt enthusiasts to use us, Arabs, as their props. The brown people who are victims of Western civilization -- liberty, democracy and capitalism.The non lazy Arab thinkers know that the Gaza War is not the fault of others, but ours.
We have failed in producing Arabs who can compete in the global economy, and therefore we blame globalization (capitalism, white man, Martians) for our failure...
Like Black Lives Matter, DEI must die | Blaze Media
Like Black Lives Matter, DEI must die | Blaze Media:
The social commentary about the death of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs across the country is so dramatic and hyperbolic you’d think it was written by Tyler Perry. It also proves that many people are just as vulnerable to racial propaganda as they were four years ago. At that time, everyone from politicians to pastors bought the lies that a Marxist, anti-God, anti-family, anti-capitalist, pro-abortion organization was fighting for racial uplift.
Why?
Must read!-----We Could Use a Man like Calvin Coolidge Again - American Thinker
"We added more to the national debt than any president in his term in all of history!" - Clarice Feldman"A day after his pumped-up divisive State of the Union address, unsurprisingly headlined “fiery” by the copycat media lackeys, President Biden, speaking in Pennsylvania, reverted to his old befuddled self.
And large budget deficits are a pattern in Democrat-run cities and states.
Well, the last statement is true. I’ll give him that."Pennsylvania, I have a message for you: send me to Congress!"
"Last night [at] the U.S. Capitol -- the same building where our freedoms came under assault on July the 6th!"
"We added more to the national debt than any president in his term in all of history!"
And large budget deficits are a pattern in Democrat-run cities and states.
- Democrats pay off cronies and constituencies with government money and then raise your taxes because they’ve spent more than they were able to squeeze out of the economy.
- They look the other way at rising crime because they defunded the police and decriminalized conduct and then bemoan empty purses as people and businesses flee.
- They locked down their states and were surprised to learn that capped the revenue spigot.
- They made ridiculous, frivolous expenditures like bike lanes and street cars and painting BLM on a major street and then can’t pay for necessities like cops, road repairs, and schools.
Maryland’s budget problems worsened Thursday with tax receipts failing to hit estimates for the fifth consecutive time since the pandemic ended...
Extreme leftist propagandists at PolitiFact Cover Up Biden’s Role in the Murder of Laken Riley
Useful idiots at PolitiFact assert that President Biden had nothing to do with the murder of a nursing student by an illegal border crosser - By James D. 
"Overview
The “fact checker” PolitiFact asserts that President Biden had nothing to do with the murder of a nursing student by an illegal border crosser because “Biden does not decide who is released into the country.”
In reality, the president has vast powers to decide who is allowed into the U.S., and the person charged with this murder was let in as a direct consequence of Biden’s actions...
Biden’s Actions
The “fact checker” PolitiFact asserts that President Biden had nothing to do with the murder of a nursing student by an illegal border crosser because “Biden does not decide who is released into the country.”
In reality, the president has vast powers to decide who is allowed into the U.S., and the person charged with this murder was let in as a direct consequence of Biden’s actions...
Biden’s Actions
- During the Republican Party’s formal response to Biden’s recent State of the Union address, U.S. Senator Katie Britt of Alabama blamed “President Biden’s senseless border policies” for “horrific murders”...
- Countering Britt, PolitiFact reporters...claim that: Biden does not decide who is released into the country. Border officials decide whom to release into the U.S. because they lack enough resources to detain everyone who illegally crosses U.S. borders.
- Border officials work for the Department of Homeland Security, which is under the authority of Biden and the person he appointed to lead this agency, Alejandro Mayorkas.
- On his first day in office, Biden temporarily suspended President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy (formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols), which required border officials to quickly eject the vast bulk of Central Americans who illegally cross the U.S./Mexico border.
- Any of these migrants who claimed to have a legal basis to be in the U.S. could then wait in Mexico while their cases were adjudicated—instead of being released into the U.S. where deportation is extremely unlikely.
- Four months later, Mayorkas permanently terminated Remain in Mexico to the cheers of “migrant rights advocates” who called this “a huge victory” and welcomed the illegal border crossers into the U.S. with literal hugs.
- After a federal judge and a federal appeals court ordered the Biden administration to reinstate Remain in Mexico, the Supreme Court issued a 5–4 ruling in June 2022 that allowed Biden to end it.
- Three months later in September 2022, a Venezuelan migrant named Jose Ibarra illegally crossed the U.S./Mexico border, was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol, and was released into the U.S.—an action generally prohibited under Remain in Mexico.
- A year and a half later, Ibarra was arrested for the murder of Riley.
The Big Picture...
Biden’s Treasury ‘Hiding’ $40 Billion in Outlays
"...less transparency and less accountability of secret sweetheart deals, - By Mark Tapscott"Federal officials secretly spent more than $40 billion under what they call “Other Transaction Agreements” (OTAs) despite a federal law that requires the government to post such expenditures on the USAspending.gov website...
Biden is hiding billions by not disclosing the details about the dollars his deputies are doling out using loosely defined deals referred to as ‘Other Transaction Agreements,’ or OTAs,” Ms. Ernst said...
This means less transparency and less accountability of secret sweetheart deals,” the Iowa Republican continued...
Inside California's bipartisan fight to save kids from Big Trans | Blaze Media
Inside California's bipartisan fight to save kids from Big Trans | Blaze Media:
The battle Protect Kids is fighting began with AB 1314, a proposed California state law mandating parental notification concerning any gender issues a child reports to teachers or other school employees. When that bill was struck down, its author, Bill Essayli, brought the idea directly to school boards. Those who implemented such notification measures found themselves embroiled in lawsuits filed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Protect Kids then decided it would be more efficient to take the issue directly to the public in the form of a ballot initiative, which could be voted on as early as this November.
Can the CCP turn them all off?!!-----‘Clearly Overlooked This’: Probe Finds Strange Communication Devices On Chinese Cranes In US Ports
"...built by Chinese mega-manufacturer ZMPC, contain communications devices that were not requested or don’t appear to support standard operations, heightening existing espionage concerns...
"...the U.S. relies heavily on Chinese-built cargo cranes that are relatively cheap to produce and equip at seaports across the country.
"...the U.S. relies heavily on Chinese-built cargo cranes that are relatively cheap to produce and equip at seaports across the country.
The congressional probe discovered that several of these cranes, built by Chinese mega-manufacturer ZMPC, contain communications devices that were not requested or don’t appear to support standard operations, heightening existing espionage concerns, according to the WSJ.
U.S. intelligence has warned that Chinese cranes – equipped with an array of sensors and equipment – could be exploited by Beijing, as part of China’s larger effort to disrupt national security through several fronts...
U.S. intelligence has warned that Chinese cranes – equipped with an array of sensors and equipment – could be exploited by Beijing, as part of China’s larger effort to disrupt national security through several fronts...
History for March 13
History for March 13 - On-This-Day.com 
William Casey-CIA Director 1913
- 1660 - A statute was passed limiting the sale of slaves in the colony of Virginia.
- 1781 - Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
- 1852 - The New York "Lantern" newspaper published the first "Uncle Sam cartoon". It was drawn by Frank Henry Bellew.
- 1877 - Chester Greenwood patented the earmuff.
- 1884 - Standard time was adopted throughout the U.S.
- 1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court approved corporate tax law.
- 1957 - Jimmy Hoffa was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges.
- 1974 - An embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries was lifted.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Flashback: Biden in 2006 tells MSNBC's Chris Matthews 'illegal aliens' must 'learn to speak English,' 'earn their way' in | Blaze Media
Flashback: Biden in 2006 tells MSNBC's Chris Matthews 'illegal aliens' must 'learn to speak English,' 'earn their way' in | Blaze Media:
Let's flash back to another MSNBC clip that's been making the rounds on social media since left-wing undergarments got in a twist over Biden's ghastly "illegal" utterance.
It's a 2006 video of then-U.S. Sen. Biden telling MSNBC's Chris Matthews that "illegal aliens" need to "learn to speak English," among other requirements for getting to reside in the U.S.
In the clip, Matthews kicks things off with — count 'em — three "illegal" references in one question as he asks Biden if there's "a Democratic Party position which accommodates the need to stop illegal entry, punish people who hire people with cheap wages illegally, and also gives hope to people who live here illegally and people who want to come here right now?"
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