US left envies French horrors, teachers unions vs. kids and other commentary

“France is once again supplying footage of burning vehicles, smashed businesses, and streets full of tear gas,” as rioters “wave Algerian and Palestinian flags,” as a “symptom of a much larger, unspoken failure,” notes Jens Heycke at Guerre and Shalom.The combo of “barriers to hiring, immigration without a serious demand for assimilation, and a government expected to pay for nearly everything” has led to high unemployment, economic stagnation and massive social division.

Beware: The “American progressive left” holds these same policies as the “crown jewels” of its agenda, favoring “doubling the minimum wage,” no “immigration restrictions” and “bigger government.” In short, “the progressive left would love nothing more than for the U.S.to become France.”Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay on NYC “public schools’ decadelong failures to educate her daughter drew a telling response” from union head Randi Weingarten, who lamented that “we must learn what went wrong.” Hah! roars Joel Klein at the Wall Street Journal: Weingarten should look in the mirror, as her union is the “primary reason New York’s public schools fail so many children, especially poor black children.” “Hannah-Jones chronicles a wide range of unprofessional practices at Najya’s school” that could “persist only in the absence of accountability.” Legendary teachers union chief Al Shanker believed “that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system.” Indeed: Without it, the union plays a “power game” it “can’t lose and the kids can’t win.”On Aug.

31, 2023, ex-Israeli counterterror adviser Yigal Carmon “published a warning on the website of his think tank, the Middle East Media Research Institute,” headlined: “Signs of Possible War in September-October” — but it failed to “cause alarm in Jerusalem or Washington.” reports Jay Solomon at The Free Press.Carmon is mpw “expanding on his warnings” ...