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Issue No. 3

A 12-year-old practices gun control – He uses both hands

It is universally accepted that a gun in the hands of a juvenile is a dangerous situation to be avoided at all times. In Goldsboro, N.C., last weekend, it proved very, very dangerous – for a character called Kalil Herring after he shot a 12-year-old boy’s grandmother during a home invasion.

The boy, who has not been identified, grabbed a handgun and returned fire at the two criminals and put an untimely end to Mr. Herring’s career. The late Mr. Herring was found dead in the street after the botched robbery. WTVD-TV reported that the boy’s grandmother was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to her leg.

A college sets up its own DMZ

In Vermont, Middlebury College has figured how to solve the white supremacy problem on the minds of all Americans: “Demilitarize white bodies to make them more human.”

At a virtual event in January, Campus Reform reports, participants discussed ways to deal with the growing pandemic of whiteness. “Evidence that whiteness is always weaponized is everywhere,” says an advertisement for the event on the college website. Proof they are everywhere: A dog walker in New York’s Central Park who threatened to call the police on a birdwatcher who offended her in some way, and a mentally-defective person who occupied Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk during the Capitol vandalism.   

A Middlebury education professor was a co-sponsor of the event. He teaches a courses called “Social Justice and Evolutionary Spirituality,” where students learn “whether we can create intellectually dynamic spaces of regeneration and renewal, using Zoom, while enrolled at an historically White supremacist institution.” Students preparing for Green New Deal careers in the Biden-Harris Administration are advised to sign up early. This one will fill up fast.

Advancing Western Civilization in the academy’s pursuit of truth

A University of Iowa history professor and director of undergraduate studies says she knows how to cleanse corrupted minds of the poison they’ve been fed about Western Civilization: Stop teaching the classics. As reported at Campus Reform, Sarah Bond says entire academic fields should be “dismantled and burned” in order for “white supremacy to be smothered.”

In a tweet, Sarah says classics studies should be renamed the global antiquity department, ditching Latin and Greek with “a more global approach that doesn’t privilege one language or culture.” Like Esperanto and smoke signals?

Sarah’s writing includes a book called Advancing Feminism Online: Online Tools, Visibility, and Women in Classics. Hum. Her scholarship is suspect. She doesn’t even know how to spell womyn.

Black Lives Matter lists its demands

On its website, the anti-police Black Lives Matter movement posts its seven current demands, including expulsion of Republican Members of Congress who question the November election results. With brief summaries, they are:

1.     Convict and ban Trump from future political office. This push comes from Representatives Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, and Jamaal Bowman.

2.     Expel Republican Members of Congress who “attempted to overturn the election and incited a white supremacist attack.” Calling their actions “dangerous and traitorous,” BLM wants to expel all Republicans who seek investigation of the 2020 election fraud.

3.     Launch a full investigation into the ties between white supremacy and the Capitol Police, law enforcement, and the military. BLM says police departments “have been a safe haven for white supremacists to hide malintent behind a badge, because the badge was created for that purpose.”

4.     Permanently ban Trump from all digital media platforms, because Trump spreads “lies and disinformation.”

5.     Defund the police. BLM accuses police of “posing for selfies with rioters” at the Capitol.

6.     Don’t let the coup be used as an excuse to crack down on our movement. “We don’t need new domestic terror laws, facial recognition, or any other new police power for the state. Our government should protect righteous protest and stay focused on the real issue: rooting out white supremacy.”

7.    Pass the BREATHE Act. “The police were born out of slave patrols. The BREATHE Act paints a vision of a world where Black lives matter through investments in housing, education, health, and environmental justice.”

We hire only the best, most experienced gangsters

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has found the perfect hire as its senior advisor for diversity and inclusion, a former $12,000-a-month drug dealer whose resume includes the razor slashing of a competitor.

A felon called Dyjuan Tatro, released from prison in 2017 after serving time for crimes dating to 2006, most recently served six years for racketeering conspiracy. When he was convicted in 2011, he was already in prison for shooting two rival gang members, The New York Post reported. Tatro has called himself a “triggerman” for the Original Gangsta Killas gang that terrorized Albany, The Post reported.

A DCCC press release said that hiring Tatro and other operatives would bring “years of critical experience in progressive politics, and a valuable range of background.” A committee press flack called Tatro “a national leader in a bipartisan movement to reform prison education systems.”

One of Tatro’s first assignments might be to elaborate on his recent statement – as senior advisor for diversity and inclusion – that police officers are white supremacists. – from stories at The New York Post, The Daily Caller, and Just the News.

The mother of all awkward situations

Matrimony is not working out well for Joseph Davis. After he proposed to his girlfriend with an expensive engagement ring, the two were seen walking by a woman to whom he had previously proposed – with the same ring. The first woman checked her jewelry box to find out that the engagement ring, a wedding ring from a previous marriage, and a ring belonging to her grandmother, were missing.

Neither woman was particularly amused. They got together and went to the police in Volusia County, Florida. Police would like to speak with Mr. Davis. Actually, they would like to arrest him. Turns out he is a convicted felon out of Oregon and North Carolina, with an active arrest warrant for leaving the scene of an accident with injuries. – from a story at The Daily Mail.

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