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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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These libraries claim they are only providing materials but what they are really doing is promoting an ideology. My library had a teen reading list and all four books on it were LGBTQ themed.
Same for my library. The teen and youth programming directors at local libraries are complete freaks. Nearly all of them use twitter and tweet their biases, and mental illnesses, into the void, often with no replies or likes. My local teen programming director is a mid 30’s they/them with blue hair. They has a twitter feed that makes is clear that they sees them’s job as teen librarian as transing and gaying as many kids as theys can in the local community. My local library even has Zoom book discussion sessions where they/them can talk to local kids – without… Read more »
Soooooo…school choice?!
On a related note: The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour Aimed at children, the phenomenon is far more subversive than its defenders claim. Christopher F. Rufo – Autumn 2022 https://www.city-journal.org/the-real-story-behind-drag-queen-story-hour “…The drag queen might appear as a comic figure, but he carries an utterly serious message: the deconstruction of sex, the reconstruction of child sexuality, and the subversion of middle-class family life. The ideology that drives this movement was born in the sex dungeons of San Francisco and incubated in the academy. It is now being transmitted, with official state support, in a number of public libraries and… Read more »
Drag queens are to women what blackface performers were to African Americans.
Yup, exactly… it is disgusting. it’s the most misogynist thing imaginable. Where is the “Pink Pussy Hat” brigade to protest this…??? Betty Friedan must be rolling over in her grave, lol…
What pathetic hypocrisy by the Tribune. The Tribune is among the worse of media’s book burners, in the broad sense of that term. Day after day it selects nationally syndicated stories that from crap sources like AP that are designed only to reinforce the far left’s narrative and it suppresses day after day countless stories of historic importance that are embarrassing to the left. The top story on every paper today should be this, about the the massive, ongoing collusion between the federal government and social media to suppress stories they don’t like. https://news.yahoo.com/leaked-documents-reveal-dhs-collaborated-225111799.html. I don’t know about the particular… Read more »
A must – read: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ala-guide-to-grooming-young-readers/ ALA Guide To Grooming Young Readers – American Library Association offers tips to small-town librarians on how to secretly queer the stacks By Rod Dreher ‘The American Library Association has some advice for small-town librarians about how to subvert community standards. Excerpts: “Do you work for a library in a small, rural, conservative community? Are you a frontline staff member there, with no managerial or administrative authority? Do you wish you could do more to make your library more inclusive to the LGBTQIA+ community, but meet with resistance? I have struggled with trying to affect… Read more »
“…Robinson said parents have a right to not read books to their children that they disagree with. “But you don’t get to make decisions for other people and other people’s children,” she added. “Libraries are doing what they’ve always done,” Robinson said, “which is to serve the community and to provide materials for people in the community.” Uh, NO! These is ***not*** about “books”, but is indeed about the sexual grooming of children. It is about “recruitment” into the LGBTQ “lifestyle”, which is a far cry from simply “providing information” about a group of people. We are not talking about… Read more »
I recall reading about some school districts in Seattle and California banning To Kill a Mockingbird and Huck Finn in 2018. No one cared. It is infuriating to me now how conservatives are being framed for not wanting books like Gender Queer on reading lists. BTW, if you’ve never read Gender Queer, you should. You won’t see the most distasteful parts on Amazon as it’s against the rules to post those pages in the review section. It’s also only recommended for 18 and up. Yet…