1) Nevada Democrats Defund Scholarships For Poor Kids
Last month, Illinois Democrats killed "Invest In Kids", a modest program that provides grants to 9,000 students from low-income households to attend a private school. Polls showing that around 71% of Black voters and 81% of Hispanic voters backed the program were ignored.
Now, Nevada’s Democrats are aiming to kill that state’s seven-year-old Opportunity Scholarship program. The $7 million program will now be zeroed out and over 2,000 low-income kids will be forced to return to urban schools known only for their failure.
Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo fought to expand the program to more than 10,000 kids. The total cost would still have represented just 2 percent of the $2 billion Nevada spends on public education.
Pitifully not one Democrat broke ranks to support keeping the existing scholarships alive. Assemblywoman Danielle Monroe-Moreno, who also chairs the state Democratic Party, led the opposition even as she admitted that her mom “worked two jobs” to send her to a private school.
So, we guess the Democrat position on education is that great schools are only for the rich or for kids with single mothers who will work two jobs.
2) Biden To Put U.S. Back Into the Anti-America UNESCO
Among Donald Trump’s many unheralded accomplishments was pulling the U.S. out of the flagrantly leftwing United Nations agency UNESCO.
UNESCO has long been a shakedown operation with its Marxist “North-South” explanation of economic development – that northern hemispheres countries like the U.S. and Britain got rich through imperialism and raping poor nations of their resources.
So we shuddered when we heard that not only does Biden want the U.S. to re-enter UNESCO, his administration sent an apologetic letter pleading to be allowed back into the Paris-based agency. Please sir: can we pay you $150 million a year for the high privilege of sitting at the table - while you cut deals with China and trash the U.S.?
It gets worse: The WSJ reports that Biden has agreed to pay $619 million in “arrears” that American taxpayers supposedly owe UNESCO. We will also suffer the humiliation of a vote of readmission undertaken by “193 member countries.” Can we count on Zimbabwe to vote for us? Will there be a hazing process if readmitted?
And for what? The leftists who populate Biden’s State Department fret that the Chinese are taking over UNESCO and we must rejoin to “counteract their influence.” Why is this a problem? By all means, let Beijing pay the bills.
3) On the Way to “Net Zero” Emissions, the Brits Turn Back to Coal
In its mad dash to meet a “net zero” carbon emissions mandate by 2050, Britain now already gets 31 percent of its electricity generation from wind and solar.
But Solar, of course, is not a reliable or scalable source of energy, so we weren’t unsurprised to learn from the Daily Telegraph that: “Britain has started burning coal to generate electricity after the heatwave made solar panels too hot to work efficiently….High temperatures over the weekend also reduced the amount of energy generated from solar panels. ….Supply was also lower because of depressed wind speeds, which hit turbine output.”
Regulators now say Britain’s electric grid may have to permanently reward customers for using less energy at peak times in order to reduce its new dependence on coal.
4) What the Latest Betting Markets Are Telling Us About the Presidential Race
We thought we’d check in on the betting markets for the presidency. Things can and likely will get shaken up, but right now it’s shaping up as a three-man race between Biden, Trump, and DeSantis. Trump’s odds are dropping and DeSantis has made up some ground.
We note that the Election Betting Odds site has not yet added Kennedy to their chart, even though he's firmly in fourth place presently.
5) Red Ink Was by Far the Federal Government’s Biggest Revenue Source Last Month
Just last week Joe Biden again boasted that he’s slaying the deficit and the debt at a rate that no other president has ever done. Uh-huh. Here’s the latest budget picture from the Treasury (with a graph that is curiously out of scale).
CTUP senior fellow EJ Antoni noted: Interest on the debt was a whopping $61 billion in May, more than was spent on veterans benefits and services, education, and transportation COMBINED; interest costs were a quarter of the deficit last month."
But don’t worry, Joe’s putting us back on the path to a balanced budget.
