Slandering the 1776 Report
When the Trump administration created, via Executive Order, a 1776 Commission to promote “patriotic education,” it did not do so in a political vacuum. The Commission was established just two days before the November 2020 election, and was understood to be the administration’s response to the ideologically driven history promoted by the
New York Times’s “1619 Project.”
It is thus not surprising to see the
Times, whose corporate brand is heavily invested in the “1619 Project,” attack the 1776 Commission’s first (and only) report. In a tone of high dudgeon,
Times reporters Michael Crowley and Jennifer Schuessler described the report as “a sweeping attack on liberal thought and activism.”
and one daughter. how are they doing? i have a daughter in saint paul, minnesota. i have a son that is in jail now. and i have a younger son that stays in victorville. i wish you all good things. yeah. i hope this turns around. i wish it did. thank you. thank you. i brought someone else down to skid row to see it in person, that would be charles kessler, the editor of the claremont review of books, professor of government at claremont mckenya college, and claremont graduate university, he had written this recent the wall street journal op-ed on the homeless cities. california s biggest cities have a deaf cation crisis while lawmakers ban plastic straws a far worse kind of waste covers the city streets. dr. kessler, it is one thing to read about these condition, it s quite another to come here, and see for yourself. what are you thinking as you see this? well, it is really a community, almost a third world
program. from twitter, smerconish, thank you for highlighting the homeless problems in downtown l.a., as an l.a. native, this problem worsens daily. it worsens despite increased taxes to quote-unquote help the homeless. i don t want to be repetitive, steve, i can only say this, first of all, two things, one, to see it is quite different than to be in my case 3,000 miles away and just reading about it. nothing prepared me for that which i saw on skid row yesterday in los angeles. and secondly, i think that dr. kessler s right to some extent, that the best of intentions to help the folks who find themselves in this predicament may have worsened their plight. i also want to say that i recognize that housing and the escalating property value, especially in san francisco, have eradicated what would have been low income housing heretofore, and all of these factors, plus some of that which he described have created really an untenable situation. now, l.a. politicians, as you heard us discuss,
is a health crisis that the political leadership, which happens to be democrat, cannot solve. won t solve. did you watch where youan stepped, i hoped, when you were out there? there s a reason why i don t take my shoes into my home or where i m staying or at friends houses.ever. charles, what is going on here? it s an amazing thing because the governments of los angeles county and san francisco in the state are spending unprecedented amounts of moneyto combat homel. they will spend 5 billion additional dollars in the next 10 years, and there s 10,000 homeless in san franciscoand 36. in the county of los angeles, there s 59,000 people who, on any given night, are sleeping outside.
laura: and, charles, there was a piece in the los angeles times, if my memory serves me correctly, you have to pay some of their rent. you might have seen the piece. it s kind of a cycle of drug abuse, mental illness. some people make it, which is great, but this is a problem that should really have a bipartisan solution to it but instead we are feeding more of it.what can be continue to to immediately solve this, from you? it is not a problem that can be solved quickly, i don t think. if you think back to the great depression, when unemployment was at 25% and there were shanty towns and hoovervilles being erected outside of cities and having a bonds and hobos crossing the land vagabonds and hobos crossing the country.