No, of course I didn't watch the

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There’s a nice round-up of reactions on Twitchy.

If you missed the interview, congratulations. However, if you want to see the kinds of gems that Harris served up, it immediately becomes clear why her campaign won't let her sit down with anybody who will press her on the issues: 

There’s more on Free Beacon.

Kamala Harris sat down last night for her first solo network interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle. She "recited familiar talking points and dished out indecipherable word salads," the Free Beacon's Andrew Stiles writes. It was "her second interview this month with a media figure who openly supports her campaign."

If you missed it, we've got the highlights here—and some of the best quotes below: 

  • "Well, if you are hardworking, if you have, uh, the dreams and the ambitions and the aspirations of what I believe you do, um, you're in my plan."

  • "One must be serious, and have a plan, and a real plan that's not just about some talking point ending in an exclamation at a political rally." 

  • "Some of the work is gonna be through what we do in terms of giving benefits and assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars, and looking holistically at the connection between that and housing, and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in [a] holistic manner that includes prioritizing affordable housing."

  • "I did fries."

Harris had her pick of sympathetic interviewers in the mainstream media, but even by that standard, Ruhle had managed to distinguish herself, Stiles and Thaleigha Rampersad report. 

"Earlier this month, at the MSNBC Live Democracy 2024 gathering in Brooklyn, Ruhle praised the Biden-Harris administration for saving the economy and scolded Americans for failing to appreciate those efforts. 'It has been a great recovery,' she said. 'The problem is when you're at ShopRite buying London Broil and it's $15, you don't think, 'It would be $22 if I was in Portugal.'

"Ruhle scolded the media as well for their unfair coverage of the vice president's policy agenda. '[Harris's] plan is more pro-business, is more centrist than President Biden's, but what's truly twisted is that people aren't taking the time to see that,' she told MSNBC nepo baby Luke Russert. 'And when people say, "Oh, she's super-progressive," what they're really saying is "She's a black woman."' Days earlier, Ruhle went on MSNBC to praise Harris's qualifications, as well as her 'optimism and light' and 'vision for the country,' compared with Trump's 'darkness and fear.'"

They're here to stay — permanently

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The news cycle is focused right now on the newcomers from Venezuela that our Border Czar has invited in, but the real story is that none of the 11 - 33 million illegal aliens that have crossed our border and settled here will ever be deported; our laws might allow it, but our courts and the liberal law groups funded by Soros and every billionaire’s child’s — including his own* — will make sure that these people are ours forever.

Even Tren de Aragua gang members will remain, because their home country won’t accept deportees, and U.S. law forbids deportations of illegals to countries that won’t take them. In fact, a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court decision means that these people can’t even be held for indefinite periods and must be released to roam about the country, to prey upon the rest of us.

If dissolving our borders isn’t being done in order to dissolve our country itself, what other explanation is there?

  • And here’s an irony: despite opposing walls on our borders, the NYT has placed this story behind its own cash wall:

https://www.nytimes.com › 2024 › 09 › 23 › nyregion › a-venezuelan-gang-reaches-new-york.html

A Venezuelan Gang Reaches New York - The New York Times

3 days agoThe Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — a feared criminal organization that concentrates on sex trafficking, human smuggling and drug dealing — has emerged in New York City amid

Absolutely related to the post below

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on my way to med school!

Stephen Green:

THAT IS NOT WHAT ENGLISH TEACHERS SHOULD BE SAYING: Books are too long and boring, say English teachers.

Nowadays, many students rarely read full-length novels, reports AP’s Sharon Lurye. Teachers assign excerpts, “a concession to perceptions of shorter attention spans, pressure to prepare for standardized tests and a sense that short-form content will prepare students for the modern, digital world.”

In a 2022 statement, the National Council of Teachers of English declared: “The time has come to decenter book reading and essay-writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.” Instead, teachers are urged to focus on “media literacy” and short texts that students feel are “relevant.”

Deep reading builds “critical thinking skills, background knowledge and, most of all, empathy,” said UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf told Lurye. “We must give our young an opportunity to understand who others are, not through little snapshots, but through immersion into the lives and thoughts and feelings of others,” Wolf said.

“Only 14% of young teens say they read for fun daily, compared with 27% in 2012,” according to federal data, Lurye reports. So, if students aren’t asked to read books for school, most will not read at all.

Longer attention spans are made, not born — and English teachers are supposed to help make them. Instead, they’re making excuses.

I don't find this shocking at all

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"Medical school coursework appears to be much more concerned with conveying ideological goals to future doctors than with teaching them how to interpret, let alone conduct, scientific research," Do No Harm concluded.

Among the highest-ranked institutions Do No Harm studied, seven had more politicized than scientific terms printed in their course catalogs: Harvard, UPenn, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Icahn School of Medicine, Baylor, and Emory.

Do No Harm discovered that this divisive ideology is infused into introductory classes covering basic topics. For example, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, "Introduction to Anesthesiology" is described as "a core component of the Human Rights and Social Justice Scholars (HRSJ) program for first-year medical students" and "is intended to provide students with a space for building critical thinking and community around social justice work."

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At Harvard Medical School, a course on Integrated Human Pathophysiology "focuses on key concepts in normal physiology and pathophysiology of the kidney, endocrine and reproductive endocrine systems." However, content that "explores health equity" and "climate change" is also "integrated."

Meanwhile, Stanford offers a course called "Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health: Sustainable Societies Lab" that centers on "environmental sustainability" as well as "social and environmental justice and equality."

The Baylor College of Medicine's class on "Human Rights and Medicine" covers "immigration reform," "gender issues," "cross-cultural considerations," and "issues of distributive justice affected by militarization in society."

I’m not shocked because we’ve been hearing about this sort of nonsense for some time now. Here’s an example, from earlier this May:

Almost HALF Of UCLA Medical Students Fail Basic Competency Tests, Professors Say Aggressive DEI Policies Are To Blame

Nearly half of all students at UCLA’s medical school, [once] known as one of the best in the world, fail basic tests of medical competence, a new report has revealed. Many are attributing the school’s fall from grace to its agressive acceptance of less-qualified minority candidates.

The report, released today by the Washington Free Beacon, stated that the rates of failure on “shelf” exams (standardized tests that cover a number of issues including emergency medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, and other specializations), have increased tenfold at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine since 2022.

A number of professors, members of staff, and members of the admissions committee, spoke anonymously with the Free Beacon. One professor told the outlet that a student failed to identify a major artery, and then shouted at them for even asking them the question to begin with. Another claimed that students at the end of their medical rotation couldn’t even comprehend basic lab tests, or present patients.

“I don’t know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors,” the professor said. “Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students.”

The blame for the failures has been attributed to the arrival of Jennifer Lucero as the Dean of Admissions in 2020. Lucero allegedly prioritized the admission Black and Latino admissions over white and Asian applicants, rather than basing acceptance on competency. This practice has been occurring even though California has explicitly banned public schools from considering race on admissions since 1996.

Not so long ago, patients were suspicious of entrusting their healthcare to doctors with foreign medical degrees: now, they should probably insist on it.

Of course it did; there's no time to waste

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InstaPundit:

FCC FAST-TRACKS George Soros’ purchase of 200+ radio stations. “The FCC decision to fast-track his deal is the first time in modern history such a deal has been approved by the full Commission without first running the national security review process—a process that could take up to a year or more.”

In the meantime, every branch of the government, every agency, is attempting crush Elon Musk’s entire panoply of revolutionary business from Space X to Starlink to Tesla, all because he disrupted their control of propaganda when he purchased Twitter. No such danger with Soros, of course; he owns the government.