SALENA ZITO: Rats may infest our cities, but there are bigger barriers to a better life.

BARNEY & CLYDE on the cost of government.

BEARING ARMS: A racially motivated attack the mainstream media is ignoring.

This is why I don’t trust the media. This is why you can’t trust them on guns or any other issue. It’s because they will ignore inconvenient stories and focus on the ones that they can use to try and take away your rights.

You get crickets when the facts don't support the narrative.

PURE EVIL: Sister of slain El Paso couple isn't happy [an understatement] with local Democrats for not welcoming President Trump to their city.

Apparently some of the El Paso citizens aren't sufficiently 'woke'....

I REPORTED on the gay Republican organizer of a clean-up of Rep Elijah Cummings' district in Baltimore in a post last week.

The Baltimore Sun was not happy.

LIBERAL DILEMMA.

SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP: the contemptible Bernie Sanders.

MANDATORY ETHNICS STUDIES as a condition of high school graduation in California? Here's a small part of the curriculum guide for the class:

At its core, the field of Ethnic Studies is the interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity with an emphasis on experiences of people of color in the United States. Further, it is the xdisciplinary, loving, and critical praxis of holistic humanity – as educational and racial justice. It is from communities of color and our intergenerational worldviews, memories, experiences, identities, narratives, and voices. It is the study of intersectional and ancestral roots, coloniality, hegemony, and a dignified world where many worlds fit, for present and future generations.

The field critically grapples with the various power structures and forms of oppression, including, but not limited to, white supremacy, race and racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, islamophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia, that continue to impact the social, emotional, cultural, economic, and political experiences of Native People/s and people of color.

Ethnic Studies is xdisciplinary, in that it variously takes the forms of being interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, undisciplinary, and intradisciplinary. As such, it can grow its original language to serve these needs with purposeful respellings of terms, including history as herstory and women as womxn, connecting with a gender and sexuality lens, along with a socioeconomic class lens at three of its intersections.

If you can, get out of California now!

Note: I used this link in an earlier Shadow's World post and it's importance cannot be overemphasized.

A REMINDER FROM EL PASO: Politicos, Gun-Grabbers, Nuts, and Heroes.

HOW MUCH would 'Medicare-for-all' really cost?

To paraphrase the late Sen. Everett Dirksen [R-IL], "A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."

SHOULD ONE-ROOM SCHOOLS COME BACK? Why isn't every kid an 'A' student?