K-12: Sight-words are a sick joke

Recent article on American Thinker explains why so many Americans are illiterate.

My big theme is that we can’t save the country if we don’t first save the public schools. (And we can’t do that without eliminating one of the world’s dumbest educational methods, i.e., using sight-words to teach reading.)

Parents can’t expect help from major universities and foundations. The media are especially compromised, as they remain silent on how the schools might be hurting your children. So, it’s everyone’s job to improve literacy.

Read article.

Rittenhouse got arrested. Reinhoel got executed. Or so it appears.

Probably paywalled. Sorry for that.

The original story was that Reinoehl, who was wanted for the killing of a member of Patriot’s Prayer, pulled a gun on police who were attempting to arrest him, who then opened fire in self defense.

The original story is falling apart and it appears that Mr. Reinoehl was the victim of an execution by the authorities. He was deserving for arrest, but not for extra judicial execution.

The investigation is not yet complete, but the pieces coming out appear rather damning to the authorities.

The Plot to Nab Northam

Source: Bacon’s Rebellion.

“Self-styled ‘militia’ members based in Michigan accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also considered nabbing Ralph Northam, Virginia’s governor, according to court testimony Tuesday.”

I suspect Virginia would never have become a blip on the Michigan crazies’ radar, except for the national attention our gun control debates received on Lobby Day back in January.

Unmasked!

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/520922-unmasking-probe-concludes-without-finding-any-substantive-wrongdoing

Another of Dear Leader’s politically motivated “investigations” of his political opponents crashes and burns. For lying liars reality is a cruel mistress. In normal times, the President using the DOJ as his opposition research arm trying to “lock up” his enemies would be the cause of a Constitutional crisis. With this jackass in the White House it is just another Ho Hum moment.

CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks

Source: The Federalist.

Tucker Carlson had a segment on this CDC study Tuesday night. The segment followed The Federalist narrative linked above fairly closely, right down to including Dr. Redfield’s goofy video clip claiming that face masks are better than vaccines in preventing the spread of Covid-19.

The base claim of the story is that most people in the study who got sick with Covid-19 were people who “always” wore masks (more than 70%). You might assume that these results are evidence that masks don’t work. But that’s not quite right.

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