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  • NYT Claims Public Schools Have Less Money Than Private Ones

    NYT Claims Public Schools Have Less Money Than Private Ones0

    According to the New York Times, one of the main reasons why public K–12 schools are reopening more slowly from Covid-19 lockdowns than private schools is because public schools generally have less money. Times reporter Claire Cain Miller makes this claim three times in a single article, but her assertion is the polar opposite of reality and has been

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  • NYC Seeks to Curb Speech About Illegal Aliens0

    New York City is seeking to use an overly broad ordinance against discriminatory harassment to restrict speech about illegal aliens, such as use of the word ”illegal alien” to describe workers or tenants. That violates the First Amendment. Its Commission on Human Rights is targeting such speech in recent ”immigration guidance.” The Commission states, ”Even an employer’s

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  • NY Teacher’s Assignment Compares Police to KKK, Slave Owners

    NY Teacher’s Assignment Compares Police to KKK, Slave Owners0

    On the first day of classes, a high school teacher in Westchester County issued an assignment that included a comic style strip comparing police officers to slave owners and Ku Klux Klan members, the New York Post reported. The assignment was part of a chapter on “European Colonization of America,” given by Westlake High School

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  • NY Admits to Intentionally Undercounting COVID Nursing Home Deaths

    NY Admits to Intentionally Undercounting COVID Nursing Home Deaths0

    On May 7, I wrote about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial policy of prohibiting eldercare facilities from screening recently discharged hospital patients for COVID-19. The order, passed by New York’s Department of Health on March 25, stated: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed

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  • Nuclear Option Restores Senate Sanity

    Nuclear Option Restores Senate Sanity0

    Via Ilya Shapiro at Cato: “Thursday’s removal of the filibuster – a parliamentary tool effectively requiring 60 votes to proceed with a vote on a matter – for Supreme Court nominees is the long overdue denouement of a process that began not with Senate Republicans’ refusal to vote on Merrick Garland, or even Harry Reid’s

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  • Nuance in Social Media? What We Are Losing in the Binary

    Nuance in Social Media? What We Are Losing in the Binary4

    If there’s anything studying philosophy has taught me, it’s that black-and-white issues are incredibly few and far between. Most anything can be questioned, most any terms redefined, and most any argument examined from a dozen different angles. For this reason, I’ve found myself frustrated by the lack of nuance that most social mediums provide. Particularly

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