LEAVWORLD: GRAFFITI POLITTI

It was 1963 when George Wallace famously stood in the schoolhouse door, proclaiming "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Almost sixty years later, minority children are falling behind in those schools Wallace tried to bar them from attending. Not in every public school, but especially in the largest urban school districts nationwide. It's not all minorities, either. Asians, as a whole, are still outperforming Whites in most public schools. For some reason, Black and Latino students are not getting the education they deserve from our public schools. This column examines some of those reasons, and common sense solutions. It's important to remember who controls these public school districts. Virtually all of them are controlled by Democrat administrations, and have been for decades. These administrations have remained in power thanks to the power of the public sector unions, especially the teachers' unions. In fact, in many jurisdictions, it ...

God bless Joe Lieberman. He writes a great editorial about the roots of faith getting us back to the roots of national unity. If only he could see fit to see that it is people in his own party that are not only tearing down religious faith, but the very founding unity of our nation. The NY Times "1619 Project" explicitly rejects the 1776' founding proclamation that "All men are created equal," and it is being pushed only by people of one party, and they are Democrats. As for religious faith, it is under siege by those that equate religious freedoms with persecution of others. While it may be a bit more bipartisan, there are not many Republicans looking to force religious people to abdicate their beliefs to comply with any US law. The constitution forbids it, even if the result is called "discrimination" by leftist politicians, bureaucrats and media.  I do love Sen. Joe, in that way one love a misguided family member, whose heart is in the right place,...