Conservative: Obama’s Fake Outrage
Campaigning for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, “Barack Obama dismissed conservative media and Virginia parents as peddling ‘fake outrage’ over recent scandals involving the state’s public schools,” gripes The Federalist’s Kelsey Bolar. The ex-prez even accused GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin “of concentrating on controversial educational issues instead of ‘serious problems that affect serious people,’ ” Bolar notes, as if “no serious person would complain” about “severe learning loss, violence, exposing children to pornography, and child rape.” The Loudoun County school board, “trying to pass a new transgender policy,” covered up the rape of a high-school freshman “by a ‘skirt-wearing male student’ in a ‘gender fluid’ bathroom.” There’s “shocking” school violence in Alexandria and “porn and pedophilia in public-school libraries.” “Obama put politics ahead of fundamental parental concerns and tried gaslighting Virginia voters about what’s happening in their own backyards.”
School beat: Scandalous Data-Mining of Kids
Schoolchildren surveys from Panorama Education Inc. (co-founded by AG Merrick Garland’s son-in-law) go far beyond the promised effort to gauge students’ “social and emotional learning,” Asra Q. Nomani and Erika Sanzi warn at Real Clear Education, asking “all kinds of prying questions, including gender and sexual orientation and views on racial issues.” And the company also gathers “the private information of all students” in schools it contracts with. Says one angry parent, “They are data mining and psychologically profiling our kids.” Other parents, Nomani and Sanzi report, think the surveys give activist school boards cover to infuse curricula with divisive ideology,” from “queer theory” to critical race theory. Panorama operates in 23,000 schools and with statewide contracts in nine states plus DC. Nationwide, they’ve identified 249 such contracts “that add up to $19,575,169.45 spent for consultants who teach lessons like, ‘Defining the ‘N’ word,’ including to ‘3-5 years old’ kids, according to a copy of the contract.”
From the right: Another Broken Biden Promise
President Biden’s repeated vows not to raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000 is belied by the “Build Back Better” plans for steep hikes on tobacco-product levies, notes National Review’s Jim Geraghty, from a doubling of cigarette taxes to a 2,000 percent hike for chewing tobacco. Yet the progressive Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy says such hikes hit the poorest 20 percent of Americans hardest. Smoking is especially high among uninsured Americans and those on Medicaid, as well as the disabled and those identifying as LBGTQ. Add this one to the long, “an embarrassing litany of broken Biden promises.”
Poll watch: Major Voter Remorse on Joe
It seems voters are “starting to have a serious case of buyers’ remorse” about electing Joe Biden president, quips Issues & Insights’ Terry Jones. An October I&I/TIPP Poll of 2020 voters shows Donald Trump “sharply narrowing” his gap with Biden and “leading across most of the country if the election were held today.” Overall, Biden is up by just a 45 percent to 44 percent margin, with 5 percent unsure — a “virtual dead heat.” Key demographic groups, such as black voters, are shifting toward Trump. Why? Inflation, COVID, surging illegal immigration, the Afghan debacle, the supply-chain collapse, weak job growth and soaring energy prices have all fueled “a growing sense” that Biden is “not up to the job of being president.”
Green: Getting Real on Climate Change
“Polar bears would not exist today without climate change, and they may even be thriving because of current climate trends,” one fact the Washington Examiner’s Kevin Mooney flags from a talk by Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who described climate change as more of a “natural, dynamic evolutionary process at work.” E.g., “there would be no polar bears today if not for the Pleistocene ice age and the change in climate that occurred going into it.” On energy policy, “Moore called for the development of more nuclear power plants to help reduce fossil fuel use,” because right now “fossil fuels are the most important energy for making civilization.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
