To the contrary, it's the Republicans who should be gloating

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Pelosi orders her munchkins not to gloat during impeachment vote: “try to look serious”.

Pelosi’s evidently believes that by leaving the pussy hat brigade outside the chamber and dressing her acolytes and lickspittles in black, the Democrats can fool a gullible public into buying the pretense that there’s something other than a partisan circus going on here.

That would be the same public that saw, at the very minute he was being sworn into office, the Washington Post proclaim, “The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun”. The politicians and their operatives in the press may put on solemn faces, but none of them can manage a straight face during this farce. Voters know that this has f*** all to do with the constitution and everything to do with the continuing campaign to overturn the 2016 election. Some voters are perfectly happy with that, others, not. We’ll find out how many there are of each next November.

Until then, stiff upper lip!

No, mas — school takes the Christ out of Christmas, converts it to a holiday celebrating an obscure Dominican

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“Away in a Manager” keeps a kid named Jesus, but substitutes “little baby” for “Lord”.

Zakia Khatun, the headteacher of Whitehall Primary School in East London, told students they were not to sing "Lord" in "Away in a Manger," and replaced it with "little baby" so "all pupils" could participate in an annual Nativity Tuesday.

Why bother having a “Nativity Tuesday” at all? Wouldn’t a Ramadan Thursday ceremony replete with exploding goats and suicide vests be even more festive?

You can't always get what you want

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124 Old Mill Road, 75.7 acres and an old mansion, was purchased for $24 million in 2010, listed for $32.995 in 2012, slowly dropped over the ensuing seven years to $19. 950 and finally sold yesterday for $13.250 million.

Interestingly, all the photos of this property have been yanked, which is unusual. Mel Gibson is long gone — it was he who sold it back in 2010, but is someone else with a desire for publicity moving in? Maybe the rumors of Tom Brady moving into town had the wrong address?

So let's give more money to union teachers, and pay for "free" tuition at college so we can keep this going

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De Blasio has listened, and is moving to end charter schools’ drain on public funds

De Blasio has listened, and is moving to end charter schools’ drain on public funds

142 of NYC schools in its poorest neighborhoods have a 90% flunk rate on state proficiency exams.

A total of 23 schools had at least one entire class where not a single student passed a math or ­English proficiency test given annually to kids in grades 3 to 8.

With many of the city’s lowest-performing schools spending in excess of $30,000 annually per student, Chu called for urgent scrutiny of the Department of ­Education.

“What exactly is being taught in these classrooms?” she asked. “These kids are spending 35 hours a week or so in class. What is that time being used for? What is the curriculum?”

There were 142 schools across the boroughs where more than 90 percent of students failed math or English tests.

At PS/MS 46 Arthur Tappan in ­Harlem, 57 eighth graders sat for the state math exam last year, ­according to state data, and all failed.

At the Academy of Public Relations middle school in The Bronx, 50 students sat for the same eighth-grade math test, and not one was proficient, the numbers show.

But don’t worry:

“We are laser-focused on strengthening instruction, and we’re making gains on more accurate and consistent measures of progress — with record-high high school graduations and college enrollment,” she said.

RELATED: WaPo has published an article claiming that spending on schools, always insufficient, is falling. That article was “corrected” after the chart below was published in the alternative press.

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