A new high school lesson

A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give.
-- By Dennis Prager.
To the students and faculty of our high school:
I am your new principal and honored to be so.
There is no greater calling than to teach young people.
I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our
school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of
the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked
against you, against your teachers and against our country.
First --
this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care
less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white I could
not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian
or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on
slave ships. The only identity I care about, the only one this school
will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your
scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school
will care about is American.
This is an American public school, and American public schools were
created to make better Americans. If you wish to affirm an ethnic,
racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go
elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity, race and non-American
nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America, one
of its three central values -- E Pluribus Unum, "from many, one." And
this school will be guided by America's values. This includes all
after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students
based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual
orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by
political correctness.
Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic,
racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate
narcissism -- an unhealthy preoccupation with the self -- while the
purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will
have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music,
astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If
the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being
interested in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that
means that little outside of yourself really interests you.
Second --
I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only
interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking
and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has
united America's citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at
this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of
immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this
school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in
my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in
the American job market. We will learn other languages here -- it is
deplorable that most Americans only speak English -- but if you want
classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is
not your school.
Third --
Because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this
school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other
things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people
in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church
or school. These people have their priorities backward.
Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.
Fourth --
No obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school's property
-- whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events If you can't
speak without using the f-word, you can't speak. By obscene language I
mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus
epithets such as "Nigger," even when used by one black student to
address another black, or "bitch," even when addressed by a girl to a
girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time
you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to
instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the
holy and the obscene.
Fifth --
We will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will
be attained in only one way -- the way people attained it until decided
otherwise a generation ago -- by earning it. One immediate consequence
is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.
Sixth --
And last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from
politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you
about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment
or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing
and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a
health issue.. There will be no more attempts to convince you that you
are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual
or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this
school and does not consider him or herself inordinately fortunate -- to
be alive and to be an American.
Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of
our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers
will hand them out to you.
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Pass this along if you agree. . . .

The Trump Saga

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The outcome was never really in doubt, but now it is official. The Senate has acquitted President Trump of the two articles of impeachment that alleged he abused his power and obstructed Congress. He remains in office, retains all his power, and can finally focus more of his efforts on campaigning and governing the nation. The good guys won this round.

Democrats, on the other hand, once again tried and failed to oust this president from office using the most desperate and dishonest tactics imaginable. It is hard to view the impeachment sham as anything other than a political blunder for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The scorched earth tactics of the left are backfiring. The approval rating for Trump is now at 49 percent, according to Gallup, the highest it has ever been.

In stopping at nothing to remove him from office, Democrats may be helping to ensure he stays in the White House for another four years, and they would richly deserve that. Opponents of the president in Congress have exhibited a clear pattern of bad faith, not just during impeachment, but from the earliest days of his administration. Democrats have never accepted the legitimacy of his admittedly stunning 2016 defeat of Hillary Clinton. They decided that the election outcome must have been illicit, and then have desperately sought evidence over the last three years to support that belief so that Trump will be ejected from the White House.

Through a combination of delusion and denial, Democrats convinced themselves that the most extreme measures to oust Trump are justified. They do not want to beat him at the ballot box. They want him gone now. Any plot, excuse, or mechanism of removal will do. Never before has an American president been subject to such outlandish theories from the opposition political party about why he needs to be kicked out of office.

With the connivance of the mainstream media, Democrats in power have been scheming to doom this presidency by every undemocratic method conceivable. They have claimed that Trump is a traitor, out of his mind, an election cheat, subject to foreign bribery, and guilty of criminal campaign finance violations. They insist that Trump should be removed by his own cabinet under the 25th Amendment as a result of his alleged insanity, or because of a personal payoff to Stormy Daniels, or the “corruption” of foreign diplomats having beer and burgers at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. There are so many reasons Democrats claim they should be able to boot Trump that it is hard for them to focus on one.

Before impeachment, the main effort to push Trump out was the Russia collusion theory rooted in false premises that led to a special counsel. That investigation of all things Trump had involved no small amount of government malfeasance and stunning media malpractice. In the end, Trump was exonerated of “colluding” with Russia, however, the blatantly partisan team of Robert Mueller bent over backwards to hand Democrats numerous counts of “possible” obstruction crimes, within an absurd and Kafkaesque perversion of the justice system. If Mueller could not force Trump out, then Democrats in Congress would pick up where he left off.

But that scheme also failed. The Justice Department found that Trump committed no crimes, and Democrats moved on to impeachment as the latest manifestation of Trump derangement syndrome. They abandoned the long standing consensus that presidential impeachments should be bipartisan and based on clear and egregious wrongdoing. Instead, the government “whistleblower” alleged a nebulous violation of the “thou shalt not ask uncomfortable questions about Joe Biden” golden rule.

Once the whistleblower set that latest round of hysteria in motion, the only thing that mattered to Democrats was undermining Trump. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff began an impeachment inquiry. Every move he made was calculated to undermine Trump and present the most unbalanced and distorted view of the facts possible. After a series of sham impeachment hearings, the House Democratic majority voted across strictly partisan lines to impeach the president.

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In the Senate, however, the story was different. Not only was Trump safe from Democrats reaching the supermajority vote needed for his removal, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell prevented the Schiff circus from continuing its smear campaign. House impeachment managers whined constantly about a lack of fairness, after they put on a master class in the mockery of due process when the House was in charge of the process.

With the impeachment trial over, reality has set in for Democrats. Trump has now been acquitted, and another soft coup effort has been defeated. Democrats may soon return to protests about the 25th Amendment or the emoluments clause, but this routine is wearing thin. Their endless cycle of plots to remove Trump has been shameless and contemptible. Perhaps if they had focused on economic growth policies instead of Trump removal schemes, Democrats would not be so terrified of the upcoming election. The only thing that scares them more than this president is the prospect of the American people choosing him as the commander in chief again.

Buck Sexton is the host of the Buck Sexton Show. He is a former analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency and served in the intelligence division of the New York City Police Department. You can follow him @BuckSexton.