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Great piece, Mr. Otis.

[Authoritarianism], Cowardice, Dishonesty, Ignorance, Sloth and Mush = Government + Ruling Class = Communism.

"Give me your kids for four years..."

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Fantastic, concise summary with zero vitriol. I want to know more about you!

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Thanks very much. I'm mostly an over-the-hill federal prosecutor, now an adjunct law professor at Georgetown University. Over the course of things, I've been at the White House as Special Counsel to George HW Bush and was Counselor to the head of the DEA under his son. Pres. Trump nominated me for a seat on the US Sentencing Commission, but the Senate adjourned without taking a vote, and oddly enough I was not renominated by Pres. Biden. By far my biggest distinction is that I'm married to Lee Liberman Otis, a co-founder and Director of the Federalist Society and head of its Faculty Division. Lee has been as important to the conservative legal movement as anyone in the country save Justice Scalia, for whom she clerked.

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Instead of donating money to PACs or Think Tanks................donate to private schools. Then in turn the private schools can offer school choices and scholarships to fund those choices.

We need to follow the liberal left's game plan....get to the kids.

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Thoth

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It may be more strategy than dodge. If a black kid can't read or add, he will be isolated by the wider community, together with all the other black kids from that area that can't read or add either. The only thing they have been taught before dropping out will seem true - there is a white plot against them. Voila - a self-actuating "education".

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Educating the whole child appears to mean installing the perpetual child. Talk about an increase of well, “arrested” adolescents….

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