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Building on a district-first approach to Washington politics, Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-1) in his re-election bid has been focused around building up the U.S. military and helping the booming economy grow, while advocating for better infrastructure planning for rural communities.
Nate Silver is now saying that it is “extremely possible” that the Republicans could maintain control of the lower chamber.
After the departure of United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley weeks ago, who will stay in her post until the end of the year, the Trump Administration may be getting ready to announce her successor to the world’s governing body. The position is rumored to be filled by former Fox News host and current State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert.
She has held positions at several news organizations during her two decades as a journalist, having a much shorter government career that began in April 2017. Following the dismissal of Steve Goldstein on March 13, 2018 after the firing of then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Nauert was named acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
The White House has been unwilling to comment on the matter, even after Nauert met with President Donald Trump on Monday. Nevertheless, in a report from CNN, the President said that Nauert is “under very serious consideration” to become the next U.S. ambassador to the UN.
“She’s excellent. She’s been with us a long time. She’s been a supporter for a long time. And she’s really excellent,” Trump said. “We’ll probably make a decision next week. We have a lot of people that want the job and they’re a lot of really great people.”
The current contenders to replace Haley are also said to be U.S. Ambassador to Germany Ric Grennell, U.S. Ambassador to the French Republic and Principality of Monaco Jamie McCourt, and U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft. President Trump has repeatedly reiterated that he wants a woman to fill the role at the UN.
When a pick is selected, which is presumed to be Nauert, a Senate confirmation hearing will be undertaken. The Senate voted 96-4 to confirm Haley to represent the U.S. at UN in early 2017.
Following what occurred during the most recent confirmation hearing with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, it is safe to assume that Democrats will grill the former “Fox & Friends” host about qualifications for the vital role.
The problem for the polls highlighting the district is that it sees through a national looking glass, which has biases of its own – that is the true understated total error. Considering Tom Garrett won by a very hefty margin in the previous election cycle and Trump still has the good graces of many in VA-5, do not be surprised if Republican Denver Riggleman wins by a pretty sufficient margin.
Although the news is good on the job creation front, the bigger story is with wage growth, which has languished in the years since the Great Recession of 2008. Average hourly earnings increased by five cents an hour for the month and 83 cents year over year, representing a 3.1 percent gain.
The former Navy SEAL and Iraq combat veteran said his primary goals upon getting to Washington in January 2016 were to expand the military, help veterans through post-active duty care and other areas, and to help improve the Virginia Beach and Eastern Shore economy. Responding quite categorically to his mission, he said, “We’ve done just that.”
President Trump is pointing to the obstructionism of Democrats in Congress and has been as hard hitting as Truman ever was, causing the snowflakes in the media great distress.
Although Republican-based economic policies may not get a credit they deserve in the news cycles, the markets are responding much differently.
Larger companies, those with 500 employees or more, have more resources available to provide the competitive wages and strong benefits prospective employees desire. To combat increased employment costs, employers in the small business sector have been looking to non-salary measures like insurance and benefits packages to retain workers, but may have to start increasing wages to attract and retain talent going forward.
Many believe the younger generation has been indoctrinated with the vast, over-bearing progressivism plaguing the American populous through the public education system. After all, the father of the nation’s educational approach, Horace Mann, famously quipped, “Men are cast-iron, but children are wax.”
Schooling has always been – presumably always will be – a process that molds not only a student’s abilities, but more importantly even, a student’s worldview based upon the values of the particular educator. Therefore, within the education system, there is no basic value-neutral premise.
Stated in a piece from Intellectual Takeout, Mann’s vision for American education was initially challenged. In an 1840 special committee in the Massachusetts legislature, many had serious reservations about increasing government control over education.
Lawmakers were worried that the public education system would destroying America’s republican principles, insofar as a government founded as a Republic is concerned. Moreover, they found criticism in the ideal that it would be used as a tool for increasing the government’s power, for the purposes of propaganda, and reducing parents’ influence over their children:
In 1840, legislators remarked:
“The right to mold the political, moral, and religious opinions of…children is a right exclusively and jealously reserved by our laws to every parent; and for the government to attempt, directly or indirectly, as to these matters, to stand in the parent’s place, is an undertaking of very questionable policy. Such an attempt cannot fail to excite a feeling of jealousy, with respect to our public schools, the results of which could not but be disastrous.”
We were warned over 175 years ago that education could become a tool of indoctrination, with it now being undeniably used as such, and those propagating it denying those claims. Nevertheless, it seems that it is not just the public education system that is spouting ridicule over those who value equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. Children far younger than of schooling age are now getting a taste of the poisonous elixir.
Although there seems to be many, here are two books that were recently identified as invoking indoctrination as a means to mold a child’s mind.
The first book is: “Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights”
As stated in a staunch review by the non-profit organization Prager U, which sees things undoubtedly from a conservative perspective, the aforementioned children’s book is not meant for high school students, but for kids ages four to eight, and sold at your local Barnes and Noble.
“Assemble. Take Action. Create Allies.” Those are the phrases overshadowed by a colorful cartoon depicting people holding a sign saying “Resist. Resist. Resist.” Yes, that’s what little children need to know. No longer are shapes, historical facts, geography, and mathematics important, it’s political “wokeness.”
Pictures in the book also show people holding signs that say “Boycott Grapes” next to the raised fist symbol, an iconic piece of imagery of socialism. How did grapes become traditionalist, patriarchal twaddle?
Written on another page is, “Be fearless. Fly a flag. File a lawsuit. Have faith.” What child is filing a lawsuit?
Depicted is also a football player wearing red and gold colors kneeling before the flag amid an array of protesters.
Hmm…wonder who that is.
Flipping the pages more, there comes a depiction of what seems to be workers in uniforms and hard hats, with one carrying a baby below the words, “Organize. Organize. Organize. Parade. Picket. Post. Persist. Persevere.” Who has a small child in factory? Who makes hard hats that small? All great questions, but, of course, when all are working in conjunction to give the government money to redistribute to those who have no jobs, child labor laws kind of go out the window at that point.
Then, two pages are used to show a massive “STRIKE.” depiction. Four year olds don’t have jobs and are not striking from their jobs. What does this even mean?
“Be nonviolent,” the book says. Well, that is one good thing coming out of this prose – better tell that to Antifa.
Overall, super weird.
The second book is: “The Little Book of Little Activists”
“Activism. Taking action in order to create social change.”
“Feminism. The belief that women and men deserve equal rights, opportunities, and respect.”
Those are the two defining phrases with which the book begins. Then there is pictured a kid, not more than six or seven, holding a sign saying “We will not be silenced.” From what? Yelling at cartoons on the television?
Again, another child, this time younger, holding a sign that says, “DIVERSITY MAKES AMERICA GREAT!” Agreed, however, it’s highly doubtful that they’re talking about diversity of outcome, thought, or anything else that actually makes the U.S. a great place.
Lastly, what looks to be an 18-month-old child holding a sign emblazoned with “I DISSENT.” From what? Eating crushed peas?
Many say indoctrination starts in American colleges and universities, even in high school. From the looks of it, it starts even before school begins.
Well, it’s almost Christmas time. So, if you want your toddler or young child to be a gleaming example of a postmodernist, woefully under-educated, emotion-only driven, social justice warrior-like, charlatanesque huckster of false, alternate realities devoid of any sense of habitual veracity, pushing forth revisionist history all in the name of power, go ahead, buy these books. But, understand, in the eyes of the radical neomarxists, whom controls the present controls the past, and whom controls the past dominates the future.