1) The Most Predictable School Closure Consequence: Kid's Reading And Math Scores Plunge
We said from the beginning of Covid that school lockdowns were an outrageous case of national child abuse.
Now we have the strongest evidence yet. NAEP math and reading test scores for nine-year-old 4th graders fell for the first time in 50 years from 2020 to 2022.
“These results are sobering,” said Peggy G. Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the tests. “It’s clear that COVID-19 shocked American education and stunted the academic growth of this age group.”
But it wasn't COVID-19 itself that did it.
Let’s be clear about who the villains are here.
July 7, 2020, was Trump's White House schools forum. The American Academy of Pediatrics was there calling for all schools to open full-time.
Three days later they reversed in a literal joint statement with the teacher's unions:
The alternative was simple: keeping the schools open. That's what Sweden did with no evidence that it contributed to worse COVID outcomes and zero learning loss.
Was there ever a stronger case for school choice than this absolute and unforgivable education debacle of the past two years?
The Biden Administration is all in on the green energy “transition” to end fossil fuel production and consumption in 20 to 30 years.
Mark Mills, an energy expert at the Manhattan Institute proves fairly compellingly that this “transition” can’t happen without causing a worldwide economic crash that would cause a surge of poverty, hunger, and misery that would make the Great Depression feel like a picnic on the beach.
The chart below shows how divorced from energy reality the climate change fanatics are.
Mills exposes the green energy fantasy well:
“After at least $5 trillion in spending over the past two decades, hydrocarbons still supply 84% of global energy, down just two percentage points. [At this pace it would take 84 years to end fossil fuel consumption – which puts us into the 22nd century.] For context, burning wood still supplies more than five times the amount of global energy than all the world’s solar panels. Meanwhile, the total demand for hydrocarbons has risen over those 20 years by an amount equal to six times the entire oil output of Saudi Arabia.”
The real-world reality is simple: the world is going to be using massive amounts of oil, gas, and coal over the next five decades and the only question is whether that energy will come from North America (the U.S., Canada, and Mexico), or whether it comes from China, Russia, and the Middle East.
More than two million people have used social media to watch the trailer of a new film on the Hunter Biden scandal and if you’re not one of those, we provide a link below.
The film, produced in conjunction with Breitbart News and featuring reporting by Peter Schweizer of the Government Accountability Project, is timely in light of new revelations by Mark Zuckerberg that Facebook limited its coverage of the original story on Hunter Biden’s laptop after being told by the FBI it was most likely “Russian propaganda.”
“You literally have the most powerful family in the United States taking money from our sworn rivals' and taking it from four businessmen who are linked with Chinese intelligence,” Schweizer stated.
We haven’t seen the movie yet, so we can’t vouch for its quality or entertainment value. But we believe that Schweitzer almost single-handedly took down Hillary Clinton with his book “Clinton Cash,” and this movie may similarly take down Biden.
4) Democrats' Have Totally Different Priorities From Everyone Else
This is from the latest Quinnipiac Poll. Republicans and independents are overwhelmingly concerned with inflation – while for Democrats it ranks behind abortion, gun violence, and climate and is tied with health care.
5) Speaking Of Covid Scandals – In Britain, Lockdowns Were Enacted Through Intimidation Tactics And Shaming Opponents As “Crackpots”
Rishi Sunak, Britain’s Treasury Secretary under COVID and now a candidate for Prime Minister, has parted the curtain with an insider’s account of how lockdowns happened there.
Sunak reveals that Boris Johnson wholly adopted "the fear narrative” and recited frightening but wrong COVID death toll predictions from various computer models. As for the cost of lockdowns on health, civil liberties, and the economy: “The script was not to ever acknowledge them,” Sunak said. “The script was: oh, there’s no trade-off, because doing this for our health is good for the economy.”
Sunak’s account has been confirmed by other former government officials. Mark Harper, former chair of the Covid Recovery Group, says “dissenting voices were not allowed” in COVID deliberations. “When I raised questions — and we questioned the modeling — people in Number 10 briefed out to journalists that we deliberately wanted to kill thousands of people, which was clearly nonsense.”
Lord Sumption, a former British Supreme Court Justice, calls the lockdown “an experiment in authoritarian government unmatched in our history even in wartime.” He blames “the government’s hysterical public messaging” for the severe lockdowns that “made the UK’s recovery the slowest in Europe.”
Fraser Nelson, the Spectator editor who interviewed Sunak, concludes the government’s plan was “to create the impression that lockdown was a scientifically-created policy which only crackpots dared question.”
Let’s be clear: the crackpots were the politicians and “experts” on both sides of the Atlantic who imposed lockdowns on society at a ruthless cost
