Responsibility isnt racist, whats New York hiding and other commentary

Tuskegee University’s recent request for “its mostly Black students to stop wearing revealing clothes to class” and “dressing down by wearing durags,” is a welcome bid “to end habits that hurt any Black youngster’s chances for success,” cheers Juan Williams in The Hill.These days, “any call for personal responsibility in Black America gets confused with partisan politics and ideological purity,” but: “Standards are not racist.

Discipline is not disrespectful of Black culture.” Note that former President Barack Obama agreed that “too Black men were under the influence of negative stereotypes.” Tuskegee is doing its part to counteract the lie that “ ‘authentic’ Black life” should replicate “jailtime.” Instead of “surrendering to popular stereotypes,” the school is “preparing young people to win.”“Parents deserve to know how well high schools are preparing their students for college-level work,” roars Eva Moskowitz at The Washington Post after the New York State Education Department blocked US News & World Report “from accessing data” on “students’ performance on Advanced Placement exams as part of its widely followed national high school rankings.” “The state has censored AP reporting on the grounds of privacy,” claiming “U.S.News shouldn’t be allowed to use student data for a ‘commercial product.’ ” By that bogus standard, SED “could restrict any number of stories based on student data.” Success Academy has sued Education Commissioner Betty Rosa, warning, “Parents can’t demand excellence if government prevents them from seeing it.”Eli Lilly and the FDA “begin oral arguments before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals” this month over whether the “experimental weight loss treatment retatrutide” is a “biologic product or a conventional drug,” notes Jen Basile at Reason.

In trial, retatrutide “produced an average weight loss of 28.3 percent in 80 weeks.” But it’...