Category: Government (Page 10 of 22)

Racist programs eliminated at state universities.

December 12, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

College Fix: Race-based programs at Ohio law schools

Five public law schools in Ohio are ending their scholarships and programs based on race following a conservative think tank’s investigation.

The Buckeye Institute, based in Columbus, Ohio, launched the investigation this year into five law schools at Ohio State University, Cleveland State University, University of Akron, University of Cincinnati, and University of Toledo.

It’s great that the Buckeye Institute got law schools to drop racist programs, but why did those programs even exist? Ohio has a Department of Higher Education intended to advise the governor and General Assembly on higher education issues. What have they been doing?

Ohio has a Republican governor with a General Assembly that looks like this:

If Ohio can’t address divisive progressive policies and eliminate DEI in state universities, then what are Republicans even good for?

Notre Dame Cathedral is back in business.

December 8, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Mary and I visited the Notre Dame cathedral in 1991, back when you could still do fun stuff like hang from the clapper of a giant bell.

Our tour guide was impressive. He switched from English to German to French so smoothly, often in the same sentence, that everyone could follow what he was saying without having to repeat himself.

Biden breaks a promise to keep his family out of jail.

December 1, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

ABC News: Biden pardons Hunter

This morning, when there were rumors that Biden might pardon Hunter, I felt that would be fine. I had hoped that Biden would speak frankly and honestly, but assumed he’d issue a statement similar to what is linked here.

Where did all the 2020 mail-in ballots come from?

November 30, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

A good friend called “bullshit” on my suggestion that the 2020 election was shady.

In a kidding-not kidding way, he diagnosed me as having had a mental breakdown. My experience bringing automation into heavy manufacturing plants required me to develop a thick skin. I take no offense, and interpret my buddy as not kidding about his actual puzzlement at my election assertion.

Which presidents talk to the press?

November 28, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

This article is interesting because the numbers aren’t what I’d have guessed. The graph lumps press conferences in with interviews, but the article provides more detail.

Biden hid from the press, but I wouldn’t have guessed that Reagan wasn’t out there more.

I got on this track because, “The White House press corps is already “exhausted” at the outset of the second Trump administration.”

It’s never appealing to hear people complaining about their jobs, but it is appalling to hear grumbling from the White House press corps.

Being a part of the White House press corps is, I understood, a prestigious position for a journalist. They really aren’t going to like it when bloggers and social media influencers are given press passes.

The White House press corps was derelict in their duty to inform Americans about President Biden’s frailty and deteriorating mental health. They should be ashamed.

In an alternate time-line, the corporate press would have reported on Biden’s condition, Dr. Jill would not have insisted upon a second term, the Democratic Party would have held a legitimate primary, the world would not have learned that Kamala Harris was dumb and unprepared, nobody outside of Minnesota would be familiar with Tim Walz and some other Democrat would have run for president against Trump.

The election result may have been the same, but it wouldn’t be as embarrassing for the Democratic Party.

Make Lunch Great Again

November 27, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Bold action like this would get teachers to eat in the cafeteria again.

The NRHS cafeteria used to serve the best bagel sandwiches. You know how some restaurants serve the best bread or rolls? It’s not just butter or garlic, they do something to make the rolls feel, smell and taste just right. NRHS bagel sandwiches were like that. I think they steamed them or something, then wrapped them in aluminum foil. They weren’t greasy or sloppy, just warm, soft and savory.

Michelle Obama ruined all that. The cafeteria ladies at Normandy and NRHS used to cook. Lunch might be casseroles, pasta or pizza that they made that morning. What ruined everything was requiring nutritional information, like you’d get on packaged food, for each item. Restaurants can afford to determine that information for each recipe, but school cafeterias can’t. Bagel sandwiches stopped soon after that.

The Democratic Party is off in the weeds.

November 18, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

The Democratic Party is off in the weeds. They are making excuses for lunatics, and it would be better off if they weren’t.

Democrats are in charge.

November 18, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

The Republicans took the House, Senate and presidency, but only because Democrats made it happen. Not the Democratic Party, they are off in the weeds, but people who were Democrats not too long ago. Trump wasn’t a Republican when he was a TV personality and real estate developer in NYC. He was the first president to take office in favor of gay marriage.

Establishment Republicans don’t have to learn a lesson from this because Trump has pushed most of them out of office.

“Just so” stories of the perpetually oppressed.

November 17, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, there were many Twitter posts from celebrities and influencers describing poignant reactions from their young children. The posts were too on-the-nose, and people called bullshit. This time, it’s “Just So” stories purported to have been written by high school girls or teachers.

The 2020 Election was shady.

November 12, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Being a heterodox free-thinker, students would occasionally ask if I believed in conspiracy theories. A group of people colluding on a secret plan to do something sneaky? Sure, conspiracies happen all the time. Of course they meant “conspiracy theories”, like faking the Moon landing or something along that line.

You shouldn’t read any further because I intend to discuss a conspiracy theory.