“Community schools”? Sounds like the old days when families and neighborhoods shaped their kids’ local schools. No so now. The new version—being...

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August 16, 2023 • Weekly Newsletter
Beware the ‘Community Schools’ Trojan Horse ([link removed])
Williamson M. Evers (The American Spectator)
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“Community schools”? Sounds like the old days when families and neighborhoods shaped their kids’ local schools. No so now. The new version—being rolled out in several states—makes public schools into one-stop indoctrination and mobilization centers, controlled by politically progressive teachers’ unions. READ MORE » ([link removed])

California’s New Woke Math Curriculum: Williamson Evers on Special Report with Bret Baier ([link removed])
Reject Any Grand Bargain between U.S., Saudi Arabia, Israel and Palestinian Authority ([link removed])
Ivan Eland (Minneapolis Star Tribune, et al.)
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Will Joe Biden pull off a grand U.S.-sponsored rapprochement among the Saudis, Israelis, and Palestinians? As Independent Institute Senior Fellow Ivan Eland warns, “everybody wins—except the U.S.” Look at what America would have to put on the table, and your eyes will bug out. READ MORE » ([link removed])
In Search of Monsters to Destroy ([link removed])
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace ([link removed])
By Christopher J. Coyne
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I was Oppenheimer’s Graduate Student ([link removed])
William Happer (The Beacon)
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was not very friendly to students in the early 1960s. But among the things they learned: that most scientific breakthroughs result from accidents—so long as smart people recognize the unexpected as important. READ MORE » ([link removed])
Hot Talk, Cold Science (2021) ([link removed])
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition) ([link removed])
By S. Fred Singer et al., Foreword by William Happer
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Fauci-Friendly Jeanne Marrazzo Named New Director of NIAID, Billingsley ([link removed])
Lloyd Billingsley (The Beacon)
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The stated convictions of President Biden’s new Director of NIAID? “Health equity,” which should be part of the medical curriculum “because most physicians in training are very privileged people.” And med schools should be “naming chief diversity officers, equity officers.” Also, “wearing a mask is very effective” against COVID. This new Director will control the agency’s $6.3 billion budget. READ MORE » ([link removed])
New Way to Care ([link removed])
Social Protections that Put Families First ([link removed])
By John C. Goodman
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