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Corrupt Mayor Bankrupts Chicago’s Failing Schools To Reward The Teachers Unions That Got Him Elected

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Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson nominated seven appointees to the city’s board of education early last week after the previous board collectively resigned in early October. The move stunned the city and the rest of the nation. The drama is the latest sad episode of Chicago’s downward spiral, thanks to its Democrat mayor and the teachers union.

The direct cause of the previous school board resignation was sparked by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) contract negotiation. With more than 30,000 members, the CTU is one of the nation’s most powerful teachers unions. The CTU’s current demands included “a 9% annual raise, 45 days off school each year, and a list of other benefits that could cost the city between $10.2 billion and $13.9 billion between 2025 and 2028.”

There are two significant problems with the CTU’s demands. First, how could the CTU demand a considerable pay raise when it has shown that it is neither capable nor cares about educating Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students? The CTU’s resistance to “reopen” schools after the Covid pandemic ensured the 355,000-student school district, the third largest in the nation, was one of the last to return to in-person classes, causing significant learning losses for its primarily black and Latino student body. Even the city’s then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, also a Democrat, became frustrated with the CTU and lamented in February 2021, “We’ve extended ourselves beyond measure. We need our kids back in school. We need our parents to have that option. It should not be

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Harris Won’t Say When She First Noticed Biden’s Cognitive Decline After She Helped Cover It Up

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In a Fox News interview Wednesday evening, Bret Baier asked Vice President Kamala Harris a question that has long been on the minds of the American people and, of course, her answer was evasive.  

It was the question about President Joe Biden’s mental status and Harris’ role in concealing his cognitive decline, prompted by Harris’ comment that former President Donald Trump is “unstable.”

“You say now [Trump is] unstable, he’s not well, you say he’s mentally not stable,” Baier said, before noting that Harris “told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game” and “ran around circles on his staff.”

“When did you first notice that President Biden’s mental faculties appeared diminished?” Baier asked.

Harris paused for three beats, mouth hanging open, eyebrows furrowed. She was not expecting that question. After all, Biden announced his departure from the race on July 21, some 87 days before this interview. Perhaps she thought folks had forgotten about the mental decline thing.

She responded in a defensive tone.

“Joe Biden, I have watched in — from the Oval Office to the Situation Room. And he has the judgment and the experiment — experience to do exactly what he has done, in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people,” Harris said.

Baier tried for a follow up question, “There were no concerns raised…”

“Bret!” Harris interrupted, speaking louder and over him. She tried to overpower him with her voice and body language, her hand extended flat, palm down as

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That Fox News Interview May Have Done To Kamala What The Debate Did To Biden

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What happened Wednesday night to Kamala Harris on Fox News may have been the equivalent to what happened to President Joe Biden at that infamous debate in June — irreparably exposed her as unacceptable to voters.

In what was widely seen as a Hail Mary move by Kamala’s campaign, the vice president agreed to an extended interview on Fox News, one of the exceedingly few national TV interviews she’s done since she was anointed the Democrat Party’s post-Biden nominee. Remarkably, she offered nothing new in terms of her weak, often confusing answers to obvious questions, but she did finally face probing lines of inquiry and necessary follow-up when time after time she attempted to change the subject from her performance in the White House to attacks on Donald Trump.

The entire interview was tense, an obvious effort by Brett Baier to wring direct answers out of Kamala on questions that for months she has responded to with professions of her “middle-class family,” and her delight in the “ambitions,” “dreams” and “aspirations” of Americans. She was visibly upset and exasperated by the countless interruptions and redirections, but only because until then she had faced none.

The most plain and self-evident questions a person would have for Kamala are why she’s campaigning as though she’s not currently in the White House; how her administration would be recognizably different from the one in which she serves right now; and when did she decide to take the exact opposite position on several major policy

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Kamala Harris Offers Backhanded, Half-Hearted ‘Apology’ To Families Of Victims Killed By Illegal Aliens She Let In

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After twice being pressed to do so in a Wednesday interview, Vice President Kamala Harris only sort of apologized to the families of victims killed by illegal immigrants let into the U.S. by the Biden-Harris administration — and immediately followed the apology with “but…” before launching into tired talking points about Donald Trump.

The moment came during the Democrat nominee’s “Special Report” interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier. After naming U.S. citizens who were allegedly “brutally assaulted and killed” by illegal aliens released by the administration into American communities, the network host asked Harris if she owes the families of these Americans “an apology.”

Baier specifically cited remarks issued by Bill Clinton earlier this week, in which the former president admitted that Laken Riley, a 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student allegedly murdered by an illegal alien earlier this year, would still be alive had Biden-Harris properly vetted foreign nationals entering America.

While acknowledging there’s “no question” those deaths are “tragic cases,” Harris initially declined to issue an apology to the aforementioned families. Instead, she deflected by hyping a congressional bill introduced earlier this year that would have enshrined the ongoing border invasion into law.

“I can’t imagine the pain that the families of those victims have experienced for losses [that] should not have occurred,” Harris said. “So, that is true. It is also true that if a border security [bill] had actually been passed nine months ago … that [would have ensured] that no future harm would occur.”

Baier pressed

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