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December 6 2021
Good morning from Washington, where we’re mourning Bob Dole, the former Senate Republican leader and presidential candidate who died yesterday at age 98. It’s doubtful Dole would recognize the “science” that Jarrett Stepman describes being advanced by today’s social justice warriors. On the podcast, Doug Blair explores the leftist trend of social-emotional learning with an Indiana teacher who was fired for objecting to it. Plus: a nonprofit snags Biden administration contracts despite past improprieties; parents fight schools that encourage secret gender transitions; and your letters in defense of education. Sixty years ago today, Syracuse running back Ernie Davis becomes the first black player to win college football's Heisman Trophy.
Jennifer McWilliams was a teacher in Indiana when she noticed that social-emotional learning was being taught. When she voiced her concerns about the racist ideology, she was fired.
The Biden administration approves $77.5 million for a nonprofit, even though it previously didn’t properly document the release of hundreds of border-crossing children.
“Government officials have had over a year and half to come up with some recommendations, but all they can do is create crises to justify the Biden vaccine mandate,” writes Philip G. Daspit.
In my travels, I observed some common characteristics of a so-called Third World society. All of them might feel increasingly familiar to contemporary Americans.
