Black Member of Curriculum Board Rips VP Harris’ Slavery Claims as ‘Categorically False’

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A current member of Florida’s African American History Standards Workgroup ripped Vice President Kamala Harris’ claims that Florida is teaching kids slaves “benefited” from slavery as “categorically false.”

Harris claimed Thursday in a speech that Republican “extremists” in the state of Florida are forcing schools to teach students that slaves “benefited from slavery.”

“Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery. They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us and we will not stand for it!” Harris said, prompting backlash against the sunshine state.

“So there’s been a little bit of backlash to these standards that were put out and you know like you said these were done in open sessions so the public could listen or watch along. What would you say to critics who say these standards have set education back?” an ABC reporter asked Dr. William B. Allen during an interview.

“Well I can’t answer critics I haven’t seen or heard, the only criticism I’ve encountered so far is a single one that was articulated by the vice president, and which was an error. As I stated in my response to the vice president, it was categorically false,” Allen replied.

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Rich Liberal Suburbs Use Invisible ‘Border Wall’ to Keep Out Poor Minorities, Report Finds

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A new think tank report shows how liberal New York suburbs use restrictive zoning laws to drive up housing prices and prevent poor minorities from moving into their neighborhoods.

The Century Foundation released a study about zoning laws and educational opportunities in Scarsdale and Port Chester, liberal suburban areas in Westchester County, New York, located north of New York City. The study compares zoning laws, demographics and public school performance in the neighboring towns as a case study for how liberal suburbs prevent low-income people and racial minorities from moving in.

“Today, among the most important government policies and practices driving segregation include (1) decisions about where to place public housing; and (2) flagrant income discrimination through exclusionary zoning (which disproportionately hurts people of color),” the study reads.

Scarsdale has a median household income of $250,000 and its population is 71.2% white, with 90.7% of adults having attained a bachelor’s degree or more of education, according to data from New York University’s (NYU) Furman Center. Port Chester has an $88,093 median income and its population is 64.2% Hispanic, with 31.1% of adults attaining at least a bachelor’s degree. (Read more from “Rich Liberal Suburbs Use Invisible ‘Border Wall’ to Keep Out Poor Minorities, Report Finds” HERE)

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STEM Students Troll Woke LGBT Survey — Researchers Blame ‘Rise of Online Fascism’

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Academic researchers reacted with horror when college students submitted irreverent responses to the researchers’ LGBT survey.

Academics from Oregon State University wrote they were shocked to receive sarcastic and offensive responses to a survey as part of their research into undergraduate LGBT students in STEM fields.

Out of 349 total survey responses, 50 — or about 15% — were from “malicious respondents” and contained “slurs, hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team,” the researchers said.

One “malicious” responder said his gender was “aerosol,” his race was “Afro/Klingon-Asiatic Galapogayation,” and his disability was “being 2.86% white.”

Another said his gender was “airplane,” his race was “Native American (Elizabeth Warren),” and his disability was “transgenderism.” (Read more from “STEM Students Troll Woke LGBT Survey — Researchers Blame ‘Rise of Online Fascism’” HERE)

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IRS Ends Decades-Long Practice of Visiting Taxpayers’ Homes Unannounced

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The Internal Revenue Service announced Monday that it would cease sending federal agents to make unannounced visits to taxpayer homes, citing safety concerns for both the employee and the taxpayer.

“These visits created extra anxiety for taxpayers already wary of potential scam artists,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a news release. “At the same time, the uncertainty around what IRS employees faced when visiting these homes created stress for them as well.”

The federal agency began making unscheduled visits to households and businesses in the 1950s to collect unpaid taxes and resolve unfiled tax returns. But in recent years, Werfel said increased security concerns “on multiple fronts,” including frauds posing as IRS agents bombarding taxpayers, confusing local law enforcement, and hazardous situations, led to the decision to end such in-person visits.

“This is the right thing to do and the right time to end it,” he added. (Read more from “IRS Ends Decades-Long Practice of Visiting Taxpayers’ Homes Unannounced” HERE)

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Hunter Biden Put Then-VP Dad on the Phone With Business Associates at Least 2 Dozen Times, Ex-Partner to Testify

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Hunter Biden would dial in his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on speakerphone into meetings with his overseas business partners, according to testimony expected before Congress this week from Devon Archer, the first son’s former best friend.

Archer, 48, who is facing jail for his role in a $60 million bond fraud, is scheduled to testify to the House Oversight Committee about meetings he witnessed that were attended by Joe Biden either in person or via speakerphone when Hunter would call his father and introduce him to foreign business partners or prospective investors.

“We are looking forward very much to hearing from Devon Archer about all the times he has witnessed Joe Biden meeting with Hunter Biden’s overseas business partners when he was vice president, including on speakerphone,” says Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the committee chairman.

One such meeting was in Dubai late in the evening of Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, after a board meeting of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which was paying Hunter $83,000 a month as a director.

Archer, who also was a director, is expected to testify that, after dinner with the Burisma board at the Burj Al Arab Hotel, he and Hunter traveled six miles north to the Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach to have a drink with one of Hunter’s friends. (Read more from “Hunter Biden Put Then-VP Dad on the Phone With Business Associates at Least 2 Dozen Times, Ex-Partner to Testify” HERE)

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Public Trust in FBI Has Reached ‘The Red Zone,’ U.S. Inching Closer to ‘Mayhem, Chaos, Anarchy:’ WSJ Columnist

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The United States is battling a “crisis of confidence” with U.S. governing institutions on the line and FBI Director Christopher Wray’s recent testimony before Congress may have been the last straw for the bureau, Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger warned.

In a Wall Street Journal column titled “The FBI Loses the Public,” Henninger examined the public’s diminishing trust in institutions like the FBI as studies show voter confidence in the bureau and the DOJ has hit rock bottom. An NBC poll cited in the column found the public’s positive view of the bureau has tanked by 15% in the last five years. The poll came days before Wray’s contentious hearing before Congress and amid calls for his resignation from GOP lawmakers over his leadership of the bureau.

“Conservatives no longer trust the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Liberals—or more precisely progressives—no longer trust the local police. We have a problem,” Henninger wrote.

“Confidence in U.S. institutions such as the FBI, Supreme Court and Congress has been on a steady decline since 2017 and is now reaching record lows. More broadly, less than a third of voters trust the federal government – a 20-year low…what’s going on now is different. The U.S. is already amid a crisis of confidence in what we call our governing institutions. That word, governing, is taken for granted, but it took a long time for governing to become a fact of daily life. Consider the opposite of governing elsewhere—mayhem, chaos, anarchy,” he continued.

With accusations of a politicized Department of Justice intensified by – among other things – the FBI raid on former President Trump’s home, Americans are turning away from the institutions that “provide the bedrock of domestic tranquility.” Henninger argued. (Read more from “Public Trust in FBI Has Reached ‘The Red Zone,’ U.S. Inching Closer to ‘Mayhem, Chaos, Anarchy:’ WSJ Columnist” HERE)

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Pentagon Confirms Myocarditis Cases in Troops Spiked After COVID Vax Rollout

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Myocarditis diagnoses skyrocketed among U.S. troops after the COVID-19 vaccine was rolled out, according to a top Defense Department official.

Gilbert Cisneros Jr., undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, confirmed the annual average of myocarditis cases soared 151% in 2021 in the wake of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Epoch Times reported.

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“When reported, the cases have especially been in adolescents and young adult males within several days after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna),” the CDC’s website states.

Earlier this year, whistleblowers who spoke with the Daily Caller said the Department of Defense ignored numerous reports of adverse health effects related to the COVID-19 vaccines. (Read more from “Pentagon Confirms Myocarditis Cases in Troops Spiked After COVID Vax Rollout” HERE)

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RFK Jr. Calls for Investigation Into Biden Over Bribery Allegations

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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for an investigation into President Joe Biden during an interview over the weekend inlight of an FBI form that was released this week that outlined allegations of corruption against Biden.

The FBI-generated FD-1023 form, released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), alleges that Burisma co-founder and CEO Mykola Zlochevsky told a highly credible FBI confidential human source that he was “coerced” into paying Biden and his son Hunter each $5 million to get a Ukrainian investigation into his company shut down.

“I have avoided criticizing the President because I, you know, I’m trying to bring people together and and some of the vitriol, the poison that’s made politics so poisonous,” Kennedy told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“I think though the issues that are now coming up are worrying enough that we really need a real investigation of what happened,” he said. “I mean, these revelations about the, you know, where you have Burisma — which is a notoriously corrupt company that paid out apparently $10 million to Hunter and his dad — if that’s true, then it is really troubling.”

Kennedy said that in addition to the need for the allegation to be thoroughly investigated, Americans need to be worried about the politicization from federal law enforcement agencies. (Read more from “RFK Jr. Calls for Investigation Into Biden Over Bribery Allegations” HERE)

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Trump World Revels Over Ramaswamy Poll Uptick to Jab DeSantis

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Some allies of Donald Trump appear giddy over GOP foe Vivek Ramaswamy’s recent uptick in the polls — because it means the entrepreneur is gaining on the former president’s hated key rival Ron DeSantis.

Ramaswamy, who is now clocking in at 5.9 percentage points in the key RealClearPolitics aggregate, toppled former Vice President Mike Pence at 5.7 points to take over a distant third place among Republican hopefuls behind Florida Gov. DeSantis at 19.3 and Trump at a commanding 51 points.

And unlike many of Trump’s rivals who often face the wrath of his supporters, the 37-year-old Ramaswamy’s rise appears to be getting a somewhat warm reception — at least for now.

A multitude of Trump allies have latched onto Ramaswamy as a cudgel against DeSantis, with whom they have chaffed bitterly.

“Vivek is surging to 2nd place DeSantis is imploding into single digits President Trump remains the dominant frontrunner, and the only candidate the Deep State continues to attack,” MAGA Inc. spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt tweeted. (Read more from “Trump World Revels Over Ramaswamy Poll Uptick to Jab DeSantis” HERE)

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Illegal Alien Convicted of Beheading His Girlfriend Found Not Guilty Due to Mental Illness

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An illegal immigrant who was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder for beheading his girlfriend in Minnesota has been found not guilty due to his mental illness.

Alexis Saborit, 42, was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder in May. However, Judge Caroline Lennon ruled on Monday that Saborit was not guilty due to his mental illness.

The judge cited psychologists who determined that Saborit’s “mental illness prevented him from understanding his actions were morally wrong.”

CBS News reported, “Two doctors analyzed Saborit’s case and determined he ‘was suffering from mental illness to the extent that it prevented him from understanding the moral wrongfulness of his actions during the alleged offense.'”

The judge said Saborit’s medical history included traumatic brain injury from a 2017 car crash, “symptoms of mania in conjunction with psychosis,” “significant history” of non-compliance with prescribed treatments, and hospitalizations in 2013 for “bizarre delusions.” (Read more from “Illegal Alien Convicted of Beheading His Girlfriend Found Not Guilty Due to Mental Illness” HERE)

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