Day: March 17, 2024

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Meet LPS’ newest teachers: District music teacher Steve Engel

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From the New beginnings: Meet some of Lincoln Public Schools’ newest teachers series Zach Hammack – Aug 14, 2021 Updated Sep 19, 2021 – Lincoln Journal Star There are 318 teachers new to Lincoln Public Schools this year — including 158 in their first year of teaching. Starting this week, they’ll be jumping into a year that will be crucial for schools. The Journal Star met with a few of them earlier this month to get to know them. (Interviews have been edited for length and clarity). School: Hill, Huntington and Lakeview elementaries and Lefler Middle School Class: Elementary strings, music How’d you get here: Recently moved … Continue reading Meet LPS’ newest teachers: District music teacher Steve Engel

Government, Issues of Interest, Politics, Theology and philosophyLeave a comment

African Founders: How Enslaved People expanded American ideals

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Celebrating the resilience, creativity, and contribution of the nation’s African founders. by Diana Schaub – Spring 2023 – Claremont Review of Books Who founded the United States? Although Americans give special accolades to a few indispensable individuals, we clearly have no single founder—no one like Lycurgus, who gave Sparta its laws and way of life. Instead, we have founders—plural—and often refer to the founding generation or the founding era. This difference between the ancient lawgiver and the modern phenomenon of elected representatives acting on behalf of the people is remarked on by Publius (himself the plural creation of James Madison, … Continue reading African Founders: How Enslaved People expanded American ideals

Covid19, Democrat Corruption, Issues of Interest, Politics, Pseudo ScienceLeave a comment

Covid Catastrophes: The Big Fail

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by Jeffrey H. Anderson – Winter 2023/24 – Claremont Review of Books It’s still hard to believe that Americans recently lived through a period in which executive officials, with no legislative involvement, ordered churches, shops, and schools to be closed, forced Americans to hide their faces behind masks, and even demanded that they be fired for not taking experimental vaccines. Yet that was life in America—at least in many states—throughout much of 2020, 2021, and even 2022. Now, an Olympiad removed from the arrival of the apparently human-enhanced Wuhan virus on our shores, it seems clear that the lockdown and … Continue reading Covid Catastrophes: The Big Fail

Democrat Corruption, Race, Economics & MarxismLeave a comment

Kaylee Gain’s ‘devastated’ grandma says family statement on her condition after vicious beating is forthcoming: report

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Small, white girl viciously beaten by large, black girl who was apparently trying to kill her By Joshua Rhett Miller and Matthew Sedacca – Published March 16, 2024 – New York Post Prominent WLM (white lives matter) advocate calls for national riots, looting and destruction in the wake of horrific attack An update on the condition of the Missouri teen viciously beaten in a twisted caught-on-camera brawl earlier this month is “imminent,” her agonized grandmother said Saturday. Kaylee Gain, 16, was seriously injured during a fight with another girl a few blocks from Hazelwood East High School in Spanish Lake … Continue reading Kaylee Gain’s ‘devastated’ grandma says family statement on her condition after vicious beating is forthcoming: report

Democrat Corruption, LGBTQ and gender dysphoriaLeave a comment

Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale identified as transgender and had detailed manifesto to attack Christian academy

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By Ronny Reyes – Published March 27, 2023 – Updated March 28, 2023, 6:24 p.m. ET – New York Post Nashville police revealed that the 28-year-old who shot and killed six people at the Covenant School, including three children, identified as transgender and had a detailed manifesto to attack the Christian academy. Officials said Audrey Hale, a former student, entered the school Monday morning by shooting through a door on the side of the building. While inside, Hale killed Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all age 9, as well as custodian Mike Hill and substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, both 61, … Continue reading Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale identified as transgender and had detailed manifesto to attack Christian academy