Two years after the COVID school lockdowns, the collapse in K-12 learning still has significant downward momentum. Of the 1.4 million high school seniors who took the ACT college preparedness test in 2023, the percentage meeting all four benchmarks — English, math, reading, and science — was 20.8% — down 1.3 percentage points from the previous year, according to ACT.
Breathe. Just Breathe.
I haven’t felt this wrung out or this despondent about the state of the world since the week of September 11, 2001.
Jew-Hating Student Groups Crop Up Like Cockroaches
These brainwashed fans of Hamas cheer the murder of Jewish babies, the rape of Jewish women and the taking of Jewish hostages. They wave the Palestinian flag. They spew anti-semitism cloaked in something they call decolonization.
News Outlets Shy Away From “Terrorists” To Describe Hamas
I agree that the word “terrorist” doesn’t adequately describe religious fanatics who decapitate babies, rape their mothers and mutilate their fathers. I prefer “barbarians.”
Never Again.
All decent, civilized people must join Israelis in a chorus of “Never Again!” We will not stand by or send any more aid to these merchants of death. We will not buy their oil or make sure they have food and antibiotics. In fact, we will enforce embargoes and boycotts and mercilessly starve any country that helps Hamas.
Stop All Aid To Palestinians And Other Terrorists. Every Bit Of It.
The Biden administration and Democrats in Washington have been playing a deadly game of footsie with the most bloodthirsty terrorists on earth. They stupidly believe that money - in the guise of humanitarian aid - buys you peace and goodwill. There is only one thing that money buys: Weapons.
According to lore, Yogi Berra is supposed to have said, “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
Virginia has a home-ownership problem, which is intimately connected to the home affordability problem. What’s next — tent cities?
Youngkin’s “Bromance” With Petersburg’s Mayor
Youngkin’s explanation for “Partnership For Petersburg” repeated at one event after another, is simple: “Petersburg matters.”
Patrick McHenry To Nancy Pelosi: Get Out!
McHenry’s bespectacled, bow-tied bearing is misleading. Underneath that unassuming Southern gentleman’s disguise beats the heart of a political tiger.
Matt Gaetz: Chaos Agent
Florida firebrand, Matt Gaetz, who clearly loathes Kevin McCarthy, engineered a coup against the Speaker Tuesday with just seven other malcontents. They sided with Democrats to oust McCarthy from the Speakership and then seemed perplexed about what would happen next. Seems they only had one play.
Jamaal Bowman: The Dumbest Member Of Congress 2023?
Either the congressman from New York is a partisan hack who was up to no good Saturday. Or he has the IQ of a bivalve.
Abigail Shrier deserves a Pulitzer Prize for her 2019 work of journalism, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.”
Democrats mean what they say: abortions allowed up until the moment of birth and for some, like former Governor Ralph Northam, even after a child is born.
But there must be some measure of regret at being unable to push through a more robust tax reform of the kind that made North Carolina the number one state for business, a state where the top corporate tax rate is 58 percent lower than in Virginia and the top personal tax rate is nearly 20 percent lower.
Glenn Youngkin. The GOP’s Red Vest Savior?
A national game of political chess is underway. With poll after poll showing that most Americans do not want a Biden/Trump rematch, power brokers in both camps are gaming last-minute top-of-the-ticket switcheroos.
GOP Debate: Part II. Another Clusterfart
You can’t have seven ambitious politicians on stage and expect them to politely wait their turn to speak.
Biden’s Box-Checking Trip To A Picket Line
Once on the line, Biden wandered around for a total of 12 minutes. He finally got a megaphone and delivered a few boilerplate cliches about the middle class. No meat in his message. No passion
The New Math: $600 Million Is FREE!
These kits are not free. They are costing taxpayers $600 million. For 200 million kits that will expire in a couple of months.
Even this former English major can do the math: That’s 3 bucks a pop for a Q-tip, a plastic tray and some magic serum that may or may not give you can accurate reading.