Joe Biden Is Not Normal

 Joe Biden Is Not Normal

Rich Lowry for National Review

President Biden speaks to reporters at Des Moines International Airport in Des Moines, Iowa, April 12, 2022. (Al Drago/Reuters)

Joe Biden is falling down on his promise to bring normality back to the presidency for a basic reason — he’s not normal.

Biden’s long pedigree, conventional politics, and contrast with Donald Trump suggested that he’d bring predictability and calm to the highest reaches of the nation’s politics.

The press touted this impending shift. A headline in Financial Timesannounced, “Biden signals return to normality on first day as president.” The CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza opined, “The single most radical thing that Biden has done in his first 48 hours of being president is act totally and completely normally.”

Yeah, well, a funny thing happened on the way to renewed normality — President Biden has engaged in one bizarre escapade after another as he’s crashed his presidency into the rocks of incompetence, tone-deafness, and stubbornly misplaced priorities.

It’s not normal for a president to say things flagrantly at odds with his own administration’s position, but there was Joe Biden the other day saying that Vladimir Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine.

This statement fared about as well as his declaration that Vladimir Putin has to be removed from power, or the distinction he made between a Russian invasion or “minor incursion” at a press conference prior to the war.

The president, his aides said of his latest meandering, “spoke from his heart” (undersecretary of state for political affairs Victoria Nuland), and “is allowed to make his views known at any point he would like” (White House press secretary Jen Psaki). This amounted to administration officials patting the president on the head and telling people not to take whatever he says too seriously.

(In this, Biden is continuing in the unfortunate tradition established by Donald Trump of issuing readily ignored presidential pronouncements.)

It’s not normal for a president to be such a tepid performer that it’s very difficult for him to command a stage.

It’s not normal for a president to misspeak so routinely that it almost seems strange when he gets it right.

It’s not normal for a president to shovel trillions of dollars into a growing economy, and then still want to spend trillions more when it’s clear that inflation is a real problem.

It’s not normal for a president to want to suppress U.S. oil and gas production at the same time he begs OPEC to pump more.

It’s not normal for a president to open the floodgates for illegal migration at the southern border and pretend that if he doesn’t call the ensuing deluge a “crisis,” it somehow isn’t.

It’s not normal for a president to abandon his long-standing support for the Senate filibuster to try to pass a no-hope Democratic voting bill and warn of looming autocracy if the legislation doesn’t pass.

It’s not normal (or shouldn’t be) for a president to extend an eviction moratorium that he knows is illegal.

It’s not normal for a president to abandon Americans in a foreign country after his withdrawal of U.S. forces, against the advice of his generals, leads to a hostile force rapidly sweeping to power.

It’s not normal for a president’s son and brother to get millions of dollars in easy money from a company that is a cat’s-paw of the Chinese government.

It’s not normal for a first-term president to be on the verge of becoming a lame duck because almost no one believes his assurances that he’s going to run again (only 41 percent of Democrats in a recent Wall Street Journalpoll say they think Biden will run in 2024).

It’s a badly divided country at a time of growing threats abroad and of declining faith in U.S. institutions. These are serious challenges that it would take deft, farsighted presidential leadership to overcome. Instead, what’s on offer isn’t even above-average presidential leadership, and that’s not going to change.

For Joe Biden, this rocky, uninspired performance is indeed the norm.

© 2022 by King Features Syndicate

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Americans Will Spend 6.5 Billion Hours on Income Taxes This Year

Americans Will Spend 6.5 Billion Hours on Income Taxes This Year

The IRS takes not only your money, but a lot of your time.

Eric Boehm for Reason 4.15.2022 1:05 PM

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For new father and first-time homeowner Erik Breidenbach, this year's tax-filing season was one of the more difficult of his adult life.

Breidenbach says he spent about 12 hours working through the process by hand, as he does every year, figuring out which business expenses could be deducted, how to factor in the mortgage interest payments, and sorting through the complexities of getting paid in two states as a civilian and an active-duty member of the military. A mix-up involving the amount of federal taxes withheld from his wife's paycheck created another headache. When it was all over, "I thought with the house and baby I would get some amazing refund" that would at least make the effort worth it, he says, "but nope."

It's a frustration that many Americans can relate to—and one that lots of us will be dealing with this weekend, as the federal income tax filing deadline looms on Monday—thanks to the complexities of a federal income tax system that consumes money and time every year.

This year, Americans will spend an estimated 6.5 billion hours trying to file their taxes, according to a new analysis by the American Action Forum (AAF), a nonprofit that has been tracking the burden of tax-related paperwork since 2017.

The aggregate time it takes for Americans to comply with income tax paperwork, according to the AAF's tracker, has fallen a bit in recent years—probably due to the tax reforms passed in 2017 that expanded the standard deduction for all filers—but the overall cost of compliance has kept on growing. This year, the group estimates, Americans will spend more than $200 billion just trying to pay their taxes.

That's an insane amount of added expense—in terms of time and money—being put toward no productive ends whatsoever.

Much of the complexity (and paperwork) of paying federal income taxes flows from the federal government's effort to tax income many times, Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, a fiscally conservative nonprofit that advocates for lower taxes and flatter rates, tells Reason. Income is taxed "once when you earn it, again if you invest and receive interest or capital gains, again if you invested in a company that is subject to the corporate income tax, again if you are imprudent enough to die," he says. "If they taxed your income one time—when you received it as income—it would be simpler and be less damaging to your privacy."

Some of that complexity is the natural result of a tax system that attempts to do a lot more than simply collect the revenue necessary to run the federal government. The tax code attempts to balance fairness, enforceability, efficiency, and other goals that are often in conflict with one another. "Simplicity often loses out to other priorities," notes the Tax Policy Center, a centrist think tank.

Some of the complexity is not an accident, either. Companies that profit off the complexity of the tax code—like Intuit, which owns the "TurboTax" brand—lobby hard to block changes that would make it easier for Americans to do their taxes without help. They have plenty of help in the form of a multitude of special interests that deploy legions of lobbyists to preserve or create the many exemptions, breaks, and credits that make filing your taxes such a pain. That's why the idea of a postcard-sized tax form has always been a pipe dream.

Some politicians, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.), see all that as a reason for the IRS to create its own version of a TurboTax-like software system. As opposed to, you know, addressing the actual problem: the complexity of the tax code.

Relying on the IRS for more aspects of the tax-filing process seems like a recipe for more pain and frustration. Indeed, the IRS is barely capable of meeting its existing obligations to federal taxpayers—last week, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig told the Senate Finance Committee that agents only answer about one in every five phone calls from taxpayers seeking assistance.

How many of those 6.5 billion hours were spent on hold, one wonders.

Each year, the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service submits a report to Congress that includes a summary of the biggest problems facing the agency. Most of them are usually related to customer service and the confusion created by the tax code, in some way or another. This year's report suggests that Rettig was exaggerating the agency's responsiveness to taxpayer questions: During fiscal year 2021, only 11 percent of phone calls were even answered. "Many taxpayers are not getting answers to their questions and are frustrated," the Taxpayer Advocate Service's reportconcludes.

As part of a 1998 law aimed at improving the IRS, Congress directed the agency to publish a separate report each year detailing how to make the tax code less complex. That's a good idea, and one that could help Congress identify productive reforms. Too bad the IRS hasn't published such a report since 2002.

The obvious solution to these problems is not giving the IRS more funding or directing it to create a sure-to-be-dysfunctional tax-filing program to compete with the private sector. President Joe Biden has proposed giving the IRS a $2.2 billion budget increase so the agency can target more tax scofflaws, but the president's agenda doesn't seem to include anything about making taxes easier for everyone to pay.

Instead, lawmakers should try to simplify the tax code so every American can pay what is owed without waiting for an IRS agent to finally answer the phone or shelling out $60 to TurboTax for help. The federal income tax, if it is to exist at all, should be simply a tool for funding the federal government—not used as a mechanism for social engineering.

Tax Day is never going to be something worth celebrating. But it would be nice to spend fewer hours trying to figure out what you owe the IRS—or what the IRS owes you.

Drop the Useless Mask Mandates and Leave Us Alone

Drop the Useless Mask Mandates and Leave Us Alone

Revived mandates remind everyone that governments have done far more harm than good in the pandemic.

J.D. Tuccille for Reason 4.15.2022 7:00 AM

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The last couple of years have been a revelation when it comes to public health measures for battling COVID-19 and whatever bugs come next. We've seen that masks offer little protection unless they're the uncomfortable medical variety, states that locked down hardest took nasty economic hits in return for little if any health benefit, and kids isolated by decree from their peers suffer mental health issues.

But don't tell the politicians—they want more!

Across the country, government officials seem eager to revive mask mandates and, perhaps, other artifacts of pandemic policy, if only as reminders of the high-tide mark of their emergency authority.

"If we do start seeing an uptick, particularly of hospitalizations, we may need to revert back to being more careful and having more utilizations of masks indoors," Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the White House, taunted a COVID-weary nation on ABC News earlier this week.

Sure enough, within days the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended the mask mandate for federally regulated travel; Philadelphia's city government did the same for indoor spaces. (Many colleges and universities followed suit.) Philadelphia officials offer no specifics about acceptable masks, but do say that restaurant patrons only have to wear them "while not seated and eating or drinking." For its part, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which enforces the CDC mandate, allows that "masks can be either manufactured or homemade and should be a solid piece of material without slits, exhalation valves, or punctures." It's hard to see what good masks are supposed to do if they're crumpled up in pockets while people talk and laugh or, for that matter, if they're worn but made of common fabric.

"Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations," CNN medical analyst Leana Wen told viewers in December 2021. The CDC also largely conceded the point, admitting in January that "loosely woven cloth products provide the least protection." Fitted surgical masks and K95 masks are better and "well-fitting NIOSH-approved respirators (including N95s) offer the highest level of protection." But CDC Director Rochelle Walensky advises against N95s because "they're very hard to breathe in when you wear them properly."

That leaves much of the general public performatively donning t-shirt fabric over their noses and mouths in their airplane seats and for short strolls between restaurant entrances and tables. That'll show that nasty virus!

Not that face masks make up the entirety of pandemic theater. Political figures ordered businesses and schools closed (while exempting themselves from inconvenient rules), restricted travel, and savaged anybody who objected. But the evidence suggests these authoritarian measures impose high costs in return for little benefit. A new working paper covering state-level pandemic policy published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that closing businesses and schools increased unemployment and reduced GDP without reducing deaths from COVID-19.

"The correlation between health and economy scores is essentially zero, which suggests that states that withdrew the most from economic activity did not significantly improve health by doing so," wrote authors Casey Mulligan, a University of Chicago economist, and Stephen Moore and Phil Kerpen of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. (Hawaii is an exception, suggesting to the authors "that island locations can, by sustaining significant economic losses, reduce mortality for a year or more.")

The study largely replicated findings in an earlier paper by Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve H. Hanke that lockdowns in Europe and the United States were ineffective.

What Mulligan, Moore, and Kerpen did find is that "school closures may ultimately prove to be the most costly policy decision of the pandemic era in both economic and mortality terms." The authors correlated interrupted education with reduced lifetime earnings and shortened lifespan. But they might also have added that disrupting learning and social interaction for kids drove many of them nuts.

"Depression and suicide concerns have increased during the pandemic, especially among female adolescents," according to a September 2021 paper by Stephanie L. Mayne and associated authors published in Pediatrics.

"Disruptions and consequences related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including school closures, social isolation, family economic hardship, family loss or illness, and reduced access to health care, raise concerns about their effects on the mental health and well-being of youths," agreeda CDC survey of teens conducted in spring 2021. "Approximately one in three high school students experienced poor mental health (most of the time or always) during the COVID-19 pandemic (37.1%) and during the past 30 days (31.1%)"

Interestingly enough (and bringing us full circle), one of the better ways to mess kids up is by requiring them to wear face masks. Psychologists find that they obscure human expressions and our ability to read other people's mood and intent. 

"A mask obstructing a face limits the ability of people of all ages to infer emotions expressed by facial features, but the difficulties associated with the mask's use are significantly pronounced in children aged between 3 and 5 years old," reported Monica Gori, Lucia Schiatti, and Maria Bianca Amadeo last May in Frontiers in Psychology. "These findings are of essential importance, as they suggest that we live in a time that may potentially affect the development of social and emotion reasoning, and young children's future social abilities should be monitored to assess the true impact of the use of masks."

"Wearing face masks decreases facial expression recognition, confidence in expression identification, as well as the perception of intensity for all expressions," concurred Farid Pazhoohi, Leilani Forby, and Alan Kingstone last September in PLOS One. Especially affected are people who score high for autism.

And government officials want us wearing masks again? As infuriating as that is, it's also a warning that the political class has learned nothing. If the powers-that-be are willing to revive useless and psychologically damaging mask requirements, they may well be poised to again close schools, shutter businesses, disrupt travel, and otherwise meddle in our lives with measures that do little if any good, but inflict measurable harm.

If politicians insist on retaining tokens of their elevated status during the pandemic, maybe we could instead buy them some "I Got Vaccinated" stickers that they can keep in trophy cases to admire while the rest of us get on with our lives.

Good grief, they even lied about the “biting incident”

Remember back in March 2021 when it was reported that there had been a “biting incident” involving the Biden’s dog Major and...

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Remember back in March 2021 when it was reported that there had been a “biting incident” involving the Biden’s dog Major and a secret service agent?

Well, this White House that lies about everything (“Putin’s Price Hike”) even lied about how many times Major bit secret service agents before he was finally sent away.

Shortly before Christmas last year, Jill Biden’s press secretary Michael LaRosa announced that Major had been sent to live with “family friends” and the Bidens were adopting a new German shepherd puppy to replace him.

(Is “he went to live with family friends” a White House euphemism for “we put the damn dog down because he became an optics problem?”)

And virtually every news report from the time noted that Major bit two people in March, a secret service agent and a National Parks Service employee because that’s what the White House told the press.

But that was a lie.

First of all, the March 8, 2021 “biting incident” wasn’t the first as the White House claimed.

Second of all, there was a series of biting incidents over eight consecutive days starting on February 28, 2021.

Not only that, the secret service agent in the March 8 “biting incident” was actually the target of Major’s teeth on two separate occasions.

Poor guy. Talk about bad luck.

Judicial Watch obtained records through a FOIA request that got to the truth of Major’s major biting problem.

According to the report in the New York Post Thursday:

Secret Service agents were outraged last year by the White House’s attempt to downplay bite injuries caused by then-first dog Major — even trying to get President Biden to personally pay for a damaged coat, newly released documents show.

Secret Service leaders also sought to keep attack details out of official paperwork — at one point rejecting an agent’s “excessively detailed” account to avoid upsetting the first family — after Major bit agents on eight consecutive days. [Bold emphasis mine]

The records, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Judicial Watch, show that attacks occurred both earlier and later than previously known.

When Jen Psaki admitted the March 8, 2021 “biting incident” to reporters in a press briefing the following day, she claimed that poor Major had been “surprised” by the secret service agent and reacted in a way that caused a “minor injury.”

The agent in question was not amused. He wrote to a colleague:

“NO I didn’t surprise the dog doing my job by being at [redacted] as the press secretary just said! Now I’m pissed.”

And the injury wasn’t “minor” either. Major bit the guy’s leg hard enough to cause puncture wounds and bruising.

That agent got bit by Major a second time as well, though it isn’t clear from the records obtained when and where that second “biting incident” happened.

But there were other “biting incidents” that occurred earlier that the White House did not acknowledge, including two separate incidents on the day Bite-a-Palooza kicked off.

On February 28, during one of the president’s many visits to Delaware, a secret service agent got bit twice during a single encounter with Biden’s demon dog. First Major bit the agent on the arm. After the agent shook Major off and started to turn away, the dog bit him again, this time on the ass.

That all happened just hours after Major took a bite out of another secret service agent’s thigh.

I don’t know if any reporter is going to ask Jen Psaki about what Judicial Watch uncovered. Probably not.

And even if they did, Jen would probably lie. She might even find a way to put the blame on Putin.

After all, you know how much Vladimir Putin loves his dogs.

 

Article by Jonathan Lange in The American Thinker

The Truth crisis

The world is facing a crisis of confidence. Whenever a once-trusted institution is caught in a lie, two things happen. First, those betrayed begin to look elsewhere for reliability and truth. Second, the level of proof that they demand becomes higher than before.

That higher level of scrutiny can, in turn, expose other lies. The exposure of these lies shakes confidence in still more institutions and raises the level of scrutiny even higher. Before long, the spiral of increased scrutiny applied to ever more institutions becomes an uncontrollable chain reaction.

That is what we are experiencing on a global scale. Legacy media, the intelligence community, globalist corporations, and international NGOs are nearing a meltdown as more and more information becomes available about their blatant and complicit lies.

Unless they quickly restore confidence by public repentance for past lies and absolute transparency, they will sink into irretrievable irrelevance. They may still speak just as loudly as before, but their betrayed constituents increasingly tune them out as part of the background noise.

Soon they are viewed as the anti-truth. People listen to them only to learn what not to believe. There has always been a fringe who viewed legacy media and government officials in this way. But today, that group may well be a majority. And, polls indicate that it is growing larger by the day.

From the perspective of news consumers, this meltdown is disorienting, even tragic. But it doesn’t have to be. It can also be a catharsis, a cleaning out of the cobwebs. It gives us an opportunity to ask a more fundamental question, namely, what makes any source reliable or unreliable?

That question is at the heart of epistemology, the study of why we believe what we believe. “What is truth?” That’s the question Pontius Pilate asked Jesus on the day of His crucifixion. On this Holy Saturday it still hangs in the air.

“What is truth?” The very question presupposes that truth exists. That is the very first truth. Modern philosophies that deny truth’s existence contradict themselves by claiming that the statement “there is no truth,” is itself true. In so doing, they discredit themselves and the entire system they have built.

This is good news for many who have been led falsely into the desert of nihilism. This dead-end philosophy destroys lives with a fundamental lie. It strips life of meaning and purpose and leaves behind a wake of despair, suicide, and murder. The lie of nihilism is the world’s most deadly weapon.

This leads to the second rule of epistemology: Once any source is caught in a single lie, the entire source becomes unreliable. It may still speak some truth from time to time, but it must always be judged by something outside of itself. We experience this whenever we are lied to. We are no longer able to trust that source. This is not a choice, it’s a consequence.

When we recognize this reality, it is immensely helpful. It narrows the field of competing truth sources -- drastically. What human being has never told you a falsehood? Which of you has never deceived yourself? Honest answers to these two questions turn our eyes away from every human teacher. As the Psalmist says, “all men are liars” (Psalm 116:11).

Stripped of any confidence in humanity, but armed with the knowledge that truth nevertheless exists, we must conclude that truth transcends humanity. This observation discredits Humanism and Secularism as lying philosophies. Both falsely claim that human beings can find -- or create -- truth for themselves.

It is no coincidence that those philosophies that deny the transcendence of truth are the same ones that now deny plain biology, math, and logic. This is simply the logical outcome of denying plain truth.

Truth is an integrated whole. It is impossible to deny one aspect of the truth without distorting all of it. This explains why Jesus told Pontius Pilate, “Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice” (John 18:37).

It was not very long ago that we all knew this. Universities openly acknowledged theology as “the queen of the sciences.” Bacon, Newton, and all scientists knew that denial of Jesus would lead down a rabbit hole of nonsense and madness. Like it, or not, current events have proved them right.

But our situation is not hopeless. While madness is contagious, there is an inoculation against it. Jesus has promised, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:31-32). This, of course, refers to freedom from hell in eternity. But its blessed side benefit is freedom from today’s madness.

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/the_truth_crisis.html 

 

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Media downplays accused Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James’ hatred of whites

Media downplays accused Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James’ hatred of whites

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The media has ignored Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank James' history of racism against white people. Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images

“The videos he posted frequently devolved into outbursts of homophobia, misogyny and offensive comments about Black people, Hispanic people and white people,” the New York Times writes about Frank James, the suspect in the subway terrorist attack. 

“Mr. James, who is Black, directed much of his hatred toward Black people, whom he often blamed for the way they were treated in the United States.”

CNN echoes the claim. James “repeatedly espoused hatred toward African Americans.”

That will come as a surprise to anyone who watched any significant portion of James’ YouTube rants. Though he does spew hate about some black people, particularly black women, he often returns to and espouses themes of black nationalism. In one video, he says “what happened in Europe with the Jews” could happen to blacks in America. He suggests that Russia’s war on Ukraine is a prelude to using nuclear weapons to wipe out black people. “Ultimately at the end of the day, they kill and commit genocide against each other. What do you think they gonna do to your black ass?” 

He concludes that “white people and black people, as we call ourselves, should not have any contact with each other.”

James is unhinged, but do you think the media would treat a white killer’s bouillabaisse of paranoia as “Oh, he hates everyone”? You think they would ignore him reposting memes that said “O black Jesus kill all the whiteys” if the races were reversed? Hell, no.

Just as they did with Darrell Brooks, the man charged with driving through a Wisconsin Christmas parade, the press is eager to bury a black suspect’s anti-white statements and ignore them as a possible motivation.  

James frequently posted hateful and violent videos on YouTube.

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James’ statements are similar to those of alleged Waukesha Christmas parade killer Darrell Brooks.

Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, Pool

We don’t know what will be revealed in court. Considering that his victims were of all racial backgrounds, it appears that James is simply a nihilist, obsessed with hatred and killing. But pretending that James didn’t praise the Nation of Islam or predict there would be a race war is nothing more that biased journalism. To the woke, only whites can be racists, and any evidence to the contrary must be ignored.

 

Article by Thomas Lifson in The American Thinker

Media that gleefully pilloried the Catholic Church over pedophilia charges averts their eyes over much larger schoolteacher pedophilia problem

Imagine if 7 separate charges of pedophilia against Catholic priests had surfaced in one day.  The progressive media would have blared the total on front pages and in newscasts all day long.

But yesterday, 7 separate cases of accused pedophile teachers came to light, and it took astute blogger (and veteran newspaperman) Don Surber to put together the story of the crime wave.

Courts across the country on Thursday dealt with 7 pedo cases involving teachers. Here are the 7 news stories.

THV reported, "An Arkansas middle school teacher was arrested and charged with two counts of rape and computer exploitation of a child. 

"According to the Warren Police Department, 23-year-old Kaitlyn Raines who worked as an 8th grade social studies teacher at Warren Middle School, was arrested on April 12 by city police and the Bradley County Sheriff's Department."

WHBY reported, "A former Green Bay band teacher faces child sexual assault charges.

"Twenty-six-year-old Kelton Jennings is charged with Repeated Acts of Sexual Assault of a Child and First-Degree Child Sex Assault–Sexual Contact with a Child Under 13."

WNEP reported, "A former Lackawanna County teacher pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a child online.

"Jaime Chorba of Archbald was a teacher in the Valley View School District when he was first arrested back in 2020.

"According to court paperwork, the investigation showed he received child pornography between 2016 and 2020."

KTLA reported, "A 53-year-old man who works as a substitute teacher has been arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse, authorities said Wednesday.

"Detectives assigned to the sexual assault unit of the Riverside Police Department began investigating allegations of sexual abuse against a minor earlier this month.

"They arrested Carl Jess Sanchez, of Riverside, on April 9. He was booked on suspicion of aggravated sexual assault and lewd and lascivious acts against a child under 14. His bail was set at $1 million, police said."

The Charlotte Observer reported, "A former North Carolina music professor who pleaded guilty to trafficking an underage student for sex will spend the next five years behind bars, a federal judge decided Thursday.

"Stephen Shipps, 69, admitted last year to sexually abusing one of his violin students in 2002. Women who studied violin with him at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts when they were teens said that he molested them too on campus and in his home."

WKRN reported, "A former Sumner County teacher, accused of soliciting students for sex, is back behind bars.

"Carrie Norman, the Westmoreland woman who once taught at Bethpage Elementary School, now faces new simple possession charges in addition to charges alleging she offered money to a 16-year-old boy in exchange for sex. Investigators say she also sent nude photographs of herself."

Patch reported, "A youth sports coach has been arrested on suspicion of the rape of a student at a Sunnyvale middle school where he taught in 2009, public safety officials said Tuesday.

"Phillip Anthony James was arrested Monday in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a student at Cupertino Middle School, according to the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety.

"James retired from teaching three years ago but was still a volunteer softball and basketball coach at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale at the time of his arrest, public safety officials said."

The research is via An Open Secret, which exposes Hollywood pedos.

I am not complaining that the Catholic Church’s problems should have been ignored by the media.  The institutional failure of the Church to confront its pedophile priests caused great suffering among innocent children.

But that suffering and institutional failure apparently is dwarfed by the magnitude of the pedophilia and grooming problem (they are closely related) in government schools. In both institutions, people entrusted with leadership responsibilities failed their young charges, and used them for their own perverse sexual gratification.  The media highlighted pedophilia cases in the Church to the point that pedophile priests became a cliché because of its hostility to  the Catholic Church for its unwavering commitment to unchanging moral standards given by God (including the sanctity of human life). But now that government schools have become indoctrination camps, dominated by left wing teachers’ unions and boards of education that do their bidding, the media usually limit coverage of teachers’ pedophilia to local media, if that. (The sole exception seems to be hot, young female teachers who have posed for pictures in provocative outfits.)

OF COURSE, not all teachers are pedophiles. Just as was true for priests, many people selflessly devote themselves to the cause of helping others. But there needs to be strict scrutiny of those who seek to be put into the classroom, and awareness, as David Mamet recently pointed out, that pedophiles gravitate towards occupations that put them in contact with vulnerable children.

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/media_that_gleefully_pilloried_the_catholic_church_over_pedophilia_charges_averts_their_eyes_over_much_larger_schoolteacher_pedophilia_problem.html 

 

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Racist Twitter Board Declares They Would Rather Go Bankrupt Than Be Owned By An African American

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Twitter's board of directors has elected to block an attempt from an African American immigrant to purchase the company. According to sources, they decided they would rather destroy their own company than see it in the hands of an African American.

"Over my dead body!" said angry board member Foghorn Callaway, twirling his mustache and shaking his cane in the air. "I'll be hornswoggled if I ever allow an uppity foreigner own this glooooorious company!" 

The other board members hooted and hollered and banged their hands on the elegant mahogany board room table in agreement. 

According to sources, the young African businessman who offered to buy the company has ambitions to ensure Twitter is prioritizing free speech and "maximally trusted." His detractors accuse him of being a "yucky Nazi" and a "poopoo head" who might use his strange foreign ways to upset the systems of power that control elections and cultural movements around the world. 

"Ain't no foreigner gonna get his hand's on TWITTER!" said Callaway. "He needs to go back where he came from and build his own platform!" He then spat into a golden spittoon and limped out of the board room.

According to sources, if the Twitter deal falls through, the African American businessman plans to make a cash offer of $12 for TRUTH Social.