Great letter. But, seriously, it takes how long to figure this out? Dear A.G., It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times.  I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home. The reason for this effort was clear: The paper’s failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn’t have a firm grasp of the country it covers. Dean Baquet and others have admitted as much on various occasions. The priority in Opinion was to help redress that critical shortcoming. I was honored to be part of that effort, led by James Bennet. I am proud of my work as a writer and as an editor. Among those I helped bring to...

What is the most striking aspect of this article? Is it the amount of money New Yorkers are willing to pay for private elementary school tuition? Is it that private schools in NYC are hard to get into? Is it the fact that so many wealthy people have fled the city? NOPE. None of the preceding. The most striking aspect of this article is that those people who vote and vote and vote for people who run the worst schools in the country continue to vote for them. Parents Are Paying $50,000 To Reserve Spots At NYC Private Schools Even Though Kids May Never Attend by Tyler Durden Mon, 07/13/2020 – 17:25 Parents in New York City are locking up spots at elite private schools for their kids by paying deposits of up to $50,000 – even though children may never wind up attending. One mom highlighted by Bloomberg paid more than $50,000 per child to reserve NYC private schools for her kids...

CNN Reporter an hour after crash Jimmy Dore on World Trade Center Building 7:“If you think that building fell into its own footprint because a plane hit another building, I’ve got a vaccine that I’d like to sell you.” pic.twitter.com/tVJwHM73fp— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 18, 2024 The coup attempt to oust President Trump from power, this report explains, was led and directed from the highest reaches of the FBI—who maintain in their possession the surveillance footage from the 85 cameras that showed what happened at the Pentagon on the morning of 11 September 2001—surveillance footage from all 85 cameras that within minutes were confiscated by an army of FBI agents who could have only been prepositioned to confiscate them after the Pentagon was attacked, and only 6 frames of hundreds of feet of footage have ever been released—an attack said to have been caused...

DEADLY DISCUSSION Young mom, 24, shot dead ‘after telling Black Lives Matter protesters “all lives matter” during argument about movement’ Lucy Sherriff 12 Jul 2020, 16:45 Lucy Sherriff Invalid Date, A YOUNG mom was shot dead in Indianapolis in front of her fiancé after an argument about the Black Lives Matter movement. Jessica Doty Whitaker was walking with her partner Jose Ramirez and two friends at 3am on July 5 when they came across four men and a woman and an argument broke out. Young Indianapolis mom, Jessica Doty Whitaker, 24, was shot deadCredit: Fox59 The groups clashed over language and the Black Lives Matter movement, WTHR reported. “I’ll never probably ever get that image out of my head of what happened,” Ramirez told the local news station. According to Ramirez, the groups got into a racially charged argument, and one man pulled out a gun, and so Ramirez...

Why Washington, D.C. Is In Trouble: 7,780 Public Employees With $100,000+ Salaries Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion Authored by Adam Andrzejewski via Forbes.com, Local politicians in Washington, D.C. claim a $1.5 billion budget deficit due to the coronavirus pandemic. So, they’re lobbying Congress for a two-year $3.15 billion bailout. But the city’s financial woes aren’t stopping nearly 8,000 city government employees – including the mayor and city council – from bringing home six-figure salaries and higher. Washington’s leaders try and fail each year in their application for statehood, but they’re already out-earning their state counterparts. Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found that Mayor Muriel Bowser earned $220,000 last year – an amount exceeding every governor of the 50 states ($202,000). What’s more, DC city councilmembers ($141,282) out-earned members...

The Shared History of NAACP and Black Lives Matter By Allen West | July 6, 2020 | 5:18am EDT “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”(Quote attributed to George Santayana) If American Blacks are to truly overcome, the time has come for them to stop being driven into irrational emotionalism. Somehow, in the Black community, reason and rational thought have taken a backseat to the acceptance of thoughts, perspectives, and ideologies that are not consistent with the “proclaimed” principles and values over which many in the black community shout “hallelujah” on one particular day of the week — Sunday. Why are we watching a community self-implode but go right along “whistling past the graveyard” in addressing its real, true issues. I believe the fountain from which this irrational emotionalism flows has to do with organizations that have been established in the...