Plus: Only the Rich and Powerful Can Thrive in Lawless San Francisco
November 16 2021
Good morning from Washington, where parent activists vow to keep fighting for public education focused on academics, not political ideology. Our Mary Margaret Olohan has details. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis promotes living free rather than bowing to the ruling class, Rob Bluey reports. San Francisco has become livable only for the rich, Jarrett Stepman writes. On the podcast, we explore investment giant BlackRock’s promotion of Communist China. Plus: a day in court for teachers opposing the transgender agenda, and a liberal panel urges Biden to target online “conspiracy theories.” Twenty years ago today, bestselling British author J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard makes his big-screen debut in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”
“Biden really represents potentially the culmination of … this entrenched political class that has really ruined a lot about our country over the last generation,” says Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
My parents, who live near San Francisco, have had the same car stolen twice in the last six months, and their neighborhood has been hit with constant burglaries and property crimes.
“Where [is BlackRock] investing your money? China. Pouring in billions, propping up … communist leaders, putting money into surveillance companies used by the Chinese military,” says Will Hild.
Three teachers in Loudoun County, Virginia, go to court to challenge a school district policy requiring them to call students by their preferred pronouns regardless of biological sex.
“While other states kept locking people down, Florida lifted people up. We did not subcontract out leadership to Dr. Fauci,” says the Republican governor.
