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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Three western Pennsylvania school districts are suing the state for requiring "culturally relevant and sustaining education."

The Mars Area, Penn Crest and Laurel school districts, as well as two teachers, several board members and parents, filed a lawsuit Monday trying to stop the Shapiro administration from implementing "culturally relevant and sustaining education," also known as CRSE, in every school district in Pennsylvania. 

Leonard Rich, the superintendent of the Laurel School District, explained to KDKA-TV why he and the district joined the lawsuit.

"CSRE goes beyond and tells students what to think," he said. "I'm more driven to tell students and encourage students on how to think."

"The district's objection that we are being mandated to not teach our kids how to think but what to think," he added. "Freedom of expression is a First Amendment right." more

Jonathonturley.org 4/18/23: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer  has revealed that there are not three but nine members of the Biden family that may have benefitted from suspected influence peddling efforts. For those of us who have long criticized the corrupt practices of the Biden family, the identity of these other family members is intriguing after the Committee secured new bank and financial records. Democratic members again insisted that there is no need to investigate such influence peddling. Read more

Victor Davis Hanson, 4/17/23 Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory of gradual decline—until it began to implode.

Was the accelerant the COVID-19 pandemic and unhinged lockdowns? Or was the catalyst the woke revolution fueled by the 2020 summer of exempted rioting, looting, arson, and violence? Or was it perhaps the deranged fixation on removing Donald Trump from the presidency and destroying the rule of law in the process? Or all that and more?

Now with the election of Joe Biden, what had been a fast-tracked decline has accelerated at such an astonishing rate we can scarcely recognize our country. Read more

10/18/2022 CNN: Pennsylvania Democratic Senate Candidate John Fetterman said in a national television interview last week that he has always supported fracking in his state, but in 2018 Fetterman said he never supported the industry and “never” will. 

The comments are part of a long and often contradictory series of positions from the Senate candidate on the industry, which provides tens of thousands of jobs and contributes millions to Pennsylvania’s economy. 

Fetterman’s message about the industry has often depended on his audience and he has attempted a balancing act – supporting a transition to green and renewable energy, while also pledging support for the Pennsylvanians employed by it – according to a review of his past interviews by CNN’s KFile.

......Said he did not support fracking and never has in 2018 “I don’t support fracking, at all and I never have,” Fetterman told a left-wing YouTube channel in 2018 when running for lieutenant governor. “And I’ve, I’ve signed the no fossil fuels money pledge. ......... 

In 2016 when running for US Senate, Fetterman said in a comment published on Reddit, that fracking was a “stain” on the state but he worried about the ability to get a ban passed with the industry so entrenched in Pennsylvania." see article

10/18/2022 WTAE: WEST HOMESTEAD, Pa. —

The Allegheny County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 91 announced its support for Dr. Mehmet Oz on Tuesday in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race.

Oz made an appearance at the lodge in West Homestead, and spoke on crime, including the recent shooting on Pittsburgh's North Side that left three people dead. The candidate said he spoke to Steelers fans on Sunday, who were tailgating.

"Two of them we now know were innocent bystanders," he said of the shooting victims. "People weren't shocked. They were sad. They weren't shocked because it's happening too much."

Oz also received the endorsement of the Pennsylvania State Fraternal Order of Police. He and other speakers Tuesday spoke against his opponent, John Fetterman, who was once the mayor of nearby Braddock.

"I know he (Fetterman) says he was the law and order candidate, I have to disagree with that," said Vincent DiCenzo Jr., the president of the Allegheny County FOP and the retired police chief of North Versailles Township. "He was always good to show up for a photo opportunity, but as the crime was going on in Braddock, you did not see Mr. Fetterman." See more

10/07/2022 Townhall.com: In the midterm battleground of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Senate race has some Democrats crossing party lines to vote for GOP nominee Mehmet Oz over current Lt. Governor John Fetterman. 

Enter Democrat Tom Knox, a former deputy mayor of Philadelphia and one-time candidate for governor of the Keystone State. Knox endorsed Oz on Friday, citing rising crime in his city and Democrats' failure to crack down on violent offenders.

"I am a lifelong Democrat," Knox explained in his endorsement of Oz over his Democrat opponent. "I have met with John Fetterman, and I personally like him," Knox continued. "But I am sad to say, as a resident of Philadelphia, that our city has become increasingly dangerous, and John Fetterman's policies on crime will make things much worse." See article

10/11/2022 New York Post: Former Democratic House member and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced she was leaving the party Tuesday — blasting it as an “an elitist cabal” driven by “cowardly wokeness” and trading in “anti-white racism.”

“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms that are enshrined in our Constitution,” Gabbard, 41, said in a searing video posted on Twitter. See article

9/22/2022 Wall Street Journal: I’m writing in disbelief at Corey DeAngelis’s op-ed “A Democrat Defects on School Choice” (Sept. 20) about gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania. Under the veil of school choice, Mr. Shapiro wants people to forget the incalculable harm that he and other Democrats caused via draconian school shutdowns and other excessive Covid-mitigation measures. I haven’t forgotten.

By the summer of 2020, the science had already clearly shown that children were at minimal risk from Covid complications. When President Trump alluded to withholding federal funding from school districts that fail to offer in-person learning, Mr. Shapiro, as Pennsylvania’s attorney general, threatened to sue the Trump administration to keep schools closed. See more

9/21/2022 Fox News: America does have a student loan problem. But it’s not the problem Joe Biden wants you to believe it is. The real issue with student debt today is that the cost of college tuition has skyrocketed, yet the value of a college diploma has plummeted. What’s worse is the federal government created this problem by writing blank checks to colleges, with little effort to control the cost or quality of higher education. My Student Loan Reform Act of 2022 would end this academic Gilded Age, reduce the cost of tuition, and give colleges a much-needed reality check.

Here’s what liberals aren’t telling you: almost one-third of college students now drop out before graduation. Nearly two in five college graduates regret their major, over 40% of recent graduates are underemployed, and more than half work in fields they didn’t study. Yet, in the past 20 years, tuition prices have risen over 180% and total student loan debt is now nearing $2 trillion.

Meanwhile, institutions of higher education are reaping unprecedented profits. See article

9/5/2022 Post Gazette: The Biden administration’s reckless decision to arbitrarily cancel student loan debt is bad policy, worse precedent and legally questionable. It’s also a slap in the face of hardworking Americans at a time when our country needs to help them overcome economic hardship and achieve the American dream.

The problems with President Joe Biden’s plan are well-documented: It will increase inflation with half a trillion dollars of taxpayer money; redistribute Americans’ hard-earned income to upper-middle class college-goers; and make college something the government pays for, which will only make college even more expensive. All this comes on top of the Biden team spending billions ignoring the needs of working Americans to push an extreme climate agenda, while rejecting the reality that our economy is spiraling in a dangerous direction.

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8/28/2022Joe talks about the pandemic and the rise in the number of registered republicans.. See the video

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8/22/2022 HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa. — Ten days ago, Doctor Oz agreed to five debates in Pennsylvania. John Fetterman has agreed to zero debates. The Doctor Oz for Senate Campaign released the following statement:

“Doctor Oz has agreed to five debates. John Fetterman has agreed to zero debates. If John is too sick to debate and is concerned he can not stand in front of cameras for more than 10 minutes, then he should just say so. We’re sure voters would understand and so would we. Otherwise, he should pick some of the many debates Doctor Oz has agreed to or explain why he won’t agree to debate on KDKA on September 6th,” said Oz Campaign Communications Director Brittany Yanick.

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7/28/22 Washington Free Beacon:A group of 13 Pennsylvania sheriffs urged Senate candidate John Fetterman (D.) on Thursday to clarify his positions on criminal justice reform, saying they "share concerns" about his soft-on-crime record....The sheriffs also pressed Fetterman on his endorsement of Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner, whose progressive policies have been blamed for skyrocketing crime in the City of Brotherly Love.

"We believe such measures would add to already rising crime rates in Pennsylvania, particularly in Philadelphia," the sheriffs said of Fetterman’s crime policy positions. They noted Fetterman in September 2020 criticized a judge for setting bail too high for rioters charged with felony arson. They also took issue with his support in 2015 for decriminalization of all drugs, not just marijuana. Fetterman, who presides over Pennsylvania’s Board of Pardons, has voted to release several violent criminals, including murderers, the Washington Free Beacon reported. Read full article

711/2022 Fox News: Pennsylvania's Democratic governor vetoed a high-profile bill that would have barred biological male athletes who are transgender from competing in women's sports, calling it discriminatory against "marginalized youth." .....The legislation would have required athletic teams sponsored by a public school "be expressly designated" based on biological sex, and that athletic teams designated for "females, women or girls" may not "be open to students of the male sex."

Republicans, who hold legislative majorities in both chambers, pledged to continue pressing the issue, while a handful of Democrats also broke with Wolf to support the legislation. See article

7/6/2022 Daily Wire: Despite the Pennsylvania Department of Health warning against non-essential travel, lieutenant governor and pro-COVID lockdown advocate John Fetterman used tax-payer funds for a Jersey Shore family getaway three months into the coronavirus pandemic.

Records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show Fetterman spent $3,500 on security detail for overtime, food, and lodging from June 24-27, 2020, in Ocean City, New Jersey.

Fetterman’s family vacation came two days after New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced a crackdown on maskless beach goers amid a spike in COVID-19 cases at the time. See article

7/8/2022 Butler Eagle: HARRISBURG — Lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the main Pennsylvania state budget bill Friday, more than a week after it was due — a plan fattened by federal stimulus cash and unusually robust state tax collections.

Big winners were public schools, environmental programs and long-term care facilities, but the budget also will leave some $5 billion in the state’s rainy day fund, create a multibillion-dollar cushion for next year and cut the tax on corporate net income.

The Senate approved the bill 47-3 after the House passed it by a similar margin the prior evening. Gov. Tom Wolf signed the bill into law Friday. See article

7/7/2022 Daily Wire: The Biden administration sold close to one million barrels of oil from the United States’ strategic reserve to a Chinese company that one of his son’s equity companies once bought a $1.7 billion stake in.

In March, the Energy Department announced that it was releasing 30 million barrels of crude oil out of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The “emergency sale” was conducted to “provide a wartime bridge that will support American consumers and the global economy in response to Vladimir Putin’s war of choice against Ukraine.”

.....The revelation comes after a Wednesday Reuters report revealed that the Biden administration had recently released five million more barrels of crude oil from the strategic reserve to other countries. China received about one million barrels of the latest release. See article

7/7/2022 AZ Central: Prosecutors are seeking a one-year prison sentence for a school board member in southern Arizona for illegally collecting four early ballots during the 2020 primary election.

But if probation is imposed instead, prosecutors said the judge should then enforce a provision of Guillermina Fuentes’ plea deal that bars her from holding public office while on probation. Fuentes and another woman, Alma Juarez, were scheduled to be sentenced Thursday afternoon on a ballot abuse conviction in Yuma, but the hearing has been postponed until Sept. 1.

Authorities say Fuentes and Juarez participated in “ballot harvesting.” That's a practice once used by both political parties to boost turnout but was made illegal by a 2016 state law that barred anyone but a family member or caregiver from returning early ballots for another person. It’s the only case filed so far by the state attorney general under the law, which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld last year. Read more

1/13/2022 Tom Cotton uses Chuck Schumer's exact speech to argue in favor of keeping the filibuster.

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