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First-grade textbook reads like ‘propaganda’ for pro-gay gubernatorial candidate: conservative group

A California conservative group said a first-grade textbook still in its pilot stage reads like political “propaganda” for a Democratic gubernatorial candidate over his support for gay rights.

“My World Interactive” includes a section about Gavin Newsom — formerly San Francisco’s mayor and now the state’s lieutenant governor — calling him a “champion for people’s rights” and noting he said “people could marry who they choose. Sometimes, Gavin helped marry people. Some marriages were not between a man and a woman. He made sure that people’s rights were respected,” KOVR-TV reported.

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California Family Council blasts textbook

The president of the California Family Council, a conservative group, blasted the book.

“This lesson is supposed to be for first grade students, but it reads like a piece of political propaganda put together by the Democrat Party,” Jonathan Keller noted on the group’s website. “It is both premature and outrageous to list Gavin Newsom alongside universally loved American heroes like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Millions of Californians who voted twice to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman opposed Newsom’s flagrant defiance of our state’s marriage laws and use of the courts to push his personal views of marriage on the population.”

Keller added that the state’s Department of Education “is promoting the controversial political views of a candidate for governor to six year olds and blatantly smearing the sincerely held religious beliefs of countless families. This political puff piece should be removed from any public textbook.”

Greg Burt, the group’s director of capitol engagement, added to KOVR that the textbook is “way over the top. This looks like it was written by [Newsom’s] campaign staff.”

Image source: KOVR-TV video screenshot

‘Significant contributions to our history’

Elk Grove Unified School District in Sacramento County is among several districts testing new history and social science textbooks for grades K-8, the station said, adding that a letter sent last week from the district to parents noted the following:

The newly amended curriculum aims to accurately portray the cultural and racial diversity of our society and includes new references and historical information that portrays the significant contributions to our history by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans, Persons with Disabilities and Members of other Ethnic and Cultural Groups.

Two parents, two views

One Elk Grove parent told KOVR that the Newsom section of the textbook seemed biased to her.

“It’s like he’s promoting himself,” T. Williams added to the station, “and I don’t really think that’s what first-grade learning is about.”

But Michael Hoss, a father of two, told KOVR it seemed factual.

“It’s fine with me,” he added to the station. “It’s history, right? And if he was a champion for people’s rights, great!”

Parents have more time to preview textbooks — the next preview day is Oct. 11 — but the district told KOVR the pilot will end in December and a publisher will be selected in January.

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California Climate Policies Facing Revolt From Civil-Rights Groups


Left eats left.

In April, civil-rights groups sued to stop some of California’s policies designed to address climate change. Then on Monday, California governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 100, which requires the state’s utilities to obtain all their electricity from carbon-free sources by 2045. Before signing the bill, Brown said the legislation was “sending a message to California and to the world that we’re going to meet the Paris agreement.” In fact, it will only increase the hardships that California’s climate policy imposes on the poor, as detailed in the lawsuit.

High electricity prices should be a concern for California policymakers, since electric rates in the state are already 60 percent higher than those in the rest of the country. According to a recent study by the Berkeley-based think tank Environmental Progress, between 2011 and 2017 California’s electricity rates rose more than five times as fast as those in the rest of the U.S. SB 100 will mean even higher electricity prices for Californians.

In addition to cost, the all-renewable push set forth in SB 100 faces huge challenges with regard to energy storage. Relying solely on renewables will require a battery system large enough to handle massive seasonal fluctuations in wind and solar output. (Wind-energy and solar-energy production in California is roughly three times as great during the summer months as it is in the winter.) According to the Clean Air Task Force, a Boston-based energy-policy think tank, for California to get 80 percent of its electricity from renewables would require about 9.6 terawatt-hours of storage. This would require about 500 million Tesla Powerwalls, or roughly 15 Powerwalls for every resident. A full 100 percent–renewable electricity mandate would require some 36.3 terawatt-hours of storage, or about 60 Powerwalls for every resident of California.[…]

Even before SB 100 passed, though, California’s leaders were already facing a legal backlash from minority leaders over the high cost of the state’s climate policies. On April 27, The Two Hundred, a coalition of civil-rights leaders, filed a lawsuit in state court against the California Air Resources Board, seeking an injunction against some of the state’s carbon dioxide–reduction rules. The 102-page lawsuit declares that California’s “reputation as a global climate leader is built on the state’s dual claims of substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions while simultaneously enjoying a thriving economy. Neither claim is true.”

The gist of the lawsuit is this: California’s high housing, transportation, and energy costs are discriminatory because they are a regressive tax on the poor. The suit claims that the state’s climate laws violate the Fair Employment and Housing Act because CARB’s new greenhouse-gas-emissions rules on housing units in the state “have a disparate negative impact on minority communities and are discriminatory against minority communities and their members.” The suit also claims the state’s climate laws are illegal under the Federal Housing Act, again because their effect is felt predominantly by minority communities. It also makes a constitutional claim that minorities are being denied equal protection under the law because California’s climate regulations are making affordable housing unavailable to them.

The lawsuit, which Michael Shellenberger of Environmental Progress spotlighted in his recent Forbes column, points out that since 2007, “California has had the highest poverty rate in the country, over 8 million people living below the US Census Bureau poverty line when housing costs are taken into account.” The lawsuit claims that CARB has “ignored” the state’s “modest scale of greenhouse gas reductions, as well as the highly regressive costs imposed on current state residents by CARB’s climate programs.”

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WATCH: Bernie Sanders Trashes America During Interview With Sarah Silverman

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) bashed the United States during an interview with Sarah Silverman, saying that the U.S. starves "little children" and "bomb houses."
Silverman, who referred to Sanders as the "voice of the millennial generation," traveled to Washington D.C. to interview the failed presidential candidate who told her that she needed to use her "indoor voice."

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How To Fly To A Climate Change Summit? In A Private, Carbon-Spewing Jet


Commercial air travel is for the little people.

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One of the hottest spots during the just-concluded Global Climate Action Summit was the private runway at San Francisco International Airport, where SFO spokesman Doug Yakel reports corporate jet traffic was up 30 percent over normal.

Airport sources told us that the carbon-spewing corporate jets nearly filled the landing area’s parking slots and that many had flown in for the conference.

The three-day climate confab drew more than 4,000 elected officials, business executives and environmentalists from around the globe and was aimed at addressing how to lower the carbon emissions responsible for global warming.

The summit was organized by Gov. Jerry Brown, who has been known to fly private.

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Gillum Wants 40 Percent Increase to Florida Corporate Tax


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The Democratic nominee for governor in Florida who ran a primary campaign claiming he was the only “true progressive” in the race is proposing a 40 percent hike in the state’s corporate taxes, and is selling the idea in-part by comparing his proposed tax rates to California, one of the highest states for corporate taxation in the nation.

“By adjusting our state corporate tax level to a modest 7.75%, which allows our richest corporations to receive a tax cut and keeps our corporate tax rate more than 1% lower than California, we’ll be able to recoup at least $1 billion and put it where we need it most — investing in our future,” the Gillum campaign website says.

Florida’s current top marginal corporate tax rate is 5.5 percent, half-a-point lower than neighboring Georgia, and a full point lower than Alabama, according to data compiled at the Tax Foundation.

Republicans are already highlighting the proposal as a stark difference between Gillum and the Republican nominee, Representative Ron DeSantis.

A recent report from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune produced a long list of civic and business entities as well as former politicians saying the issue was certain to create on of the bigger clashes in the remainder of the campaign.

“National headquarters of companies in this state are focused on this like a laser beam,” Tom Feeney, a former Republican Florida House speaker and president of Associated Industries of Florida, told the paper. Feeney’s industry group represents some of the biggest companies in the state.

“Punishing corporations by taking money out of the pockets of job-creators is going to have a chilling effect on this state’s economy.”

Long-time Republican analyst Mac Stipanovich says the Gillum proposal is one more way in which the policy differences between the two major-party candidates will be more divergent than other Florida races this year or in years past.

“What’s odd about it is, is Gillum is so unapologetic about it.” Stipanovich told the Free Beacon. “He doesn’t try to say, ‘Well, what I really mean, and what this is…’ No. This is what I mean: Let’s increase the corporate income tax from [5.5] to [7.75], it’ll raise a billion dollars, let’s spend it on public education.”

Stipanovich also pointed to Gillum’s proposal to expand Medicaid and to boost the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour as the other major differences between the two campaigns.

The Republican Governors Association is currently running television ads taking aim at the proposed tax increase.

“Gillum wants to increase Florida taxes by a billion dollars—disaster for the economy.” the narrator for the RGA ad says.

The Herald-Tribune also reported that the Florida Chamber of Commerce quickly donated $100,000 to the DeSantis campaign shortly after Gillum produced the upset win in the Aug. 28 primary.

“We definitely don’t see this as just a symbolic move by Gillum,” said DeSantis spokesman Stephen Lawson. “It’s very much in keeping with where he’s going in this campaign.”

 

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HUGE! Judge Kavanaugh Says He Was NOT EVEN AT THE PARTY in Question!


HUGE! Judge Kavanaugh Says He Was Not Even at the Party in Question

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by Cristina Laila
September 17, 2018

The Senate met for the first time Monday afternoon since Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor and far left activist publicly came forward with allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh.

All the facts aren’t even in but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is calling for a delay in the Kavanaugh confirmation process.

Christine Blasey Ford is a far-left activist who alleged Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her over 35 years ago while she was at a high school party in Maryland.

Now this…

Judge Kavanaugh told Senator Hatch that he was not even at the party in question!

Senator Hatch blasted the Democrats on Monday for the way they handled the accusations thus far, reported Chad Pergram.

Senator Hatch said it seems in bad faith to withhold info from Republicans and from the FBI for over a month.

Furthermore, the only other witness to the alleged attack said it never happened and the allegations are “absolutely nuts.”

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Black Trump intern has blistering message for liberals after being mocked for serving in White House

Jalen Drummond, a black intern at the White House, faced ridicule, racism, and more over his decision to work for President Donald Trump this summer.

The University of Alabama graduate faced heavy criticism after the White House interns’ photo surfaced on the internet, featuring his smiling face amid a sea of other interns.

What are the details?

In addition to criticism he faced on the internet, website Funny or Die even made Drummond’s appearance in the photo a meme, comparing him to the black protagonist from “Get Out.”

The film is a psychological thriller about racism, and features a young black man who meets his white girlfriend’s family for the first time. It doesn’t go well.

See the meme below.

The meme went viral on Facebook, and many other people piled on Drummond, calling him things like “white n***a,” and “house n***a.” Others called him an “Uncle Tom.”

What has Drummond said about the abuse he’s received?

Drummond remains undaunted by his sour online experience and has nothing negative to say about his experience with the president or at the White House.

In a Saturday tweet, Drummond wrote, “It was an incredible honor and privilege serving as one of @realDonaldTrump’s White House interns this summer. Of course, the so called ‘tolerant left’ wasted no time leveling racist and disgusting rhetoric my way!”

You can see the tweet, which contains screenshots of racial epithets, here.

The same day, Drummond shared a Facebook article detailing his experience at the White House, and the abuse he received from online peers as a result.

Drummond also shared a quote from the book of Matthew, which states, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”

In a since-deleted Facebook posting, Drummond expressed gratitude for the experience.

He wrote, “Thousands of individuals, many of whom are educated at Ivy League institutions and have connections to power, applied for one of these few coveted spots. Every single morning when I walked through the White House gates, I would pinch myself to remember that this wasn’t a dream.”

He added, “I say that because never in a million years would I have thought that such an opportunity would be bestowed upon me, an average kid who was raised in rural east Alabama and educated at a poor county school. However, we truly serve an almighty God and his plans are much bigger than man’s expectations. Serving as an intern in the Trump White House has been an experience of a lifetime, and I have made friendships that I will cherish forever.”

Anything else?

According to Alabama’s Randolph Leader, Drummond was recently appointed to serve as an adviser to Secretary Dr. Ben Carson in the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Drummond began his job on Sept. 4.

After he graduated from the University of Alabama — and before interning at the White House — Drummond interned with Alabama Rep. Mike Rogers (R) and served with Luther Strange’s campaign for U.S. Senate.

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