The biggest “bogeyman” that the left-leaning teacher's unions and “woke” school administrators, who have claimed that CRT is not being taught in our schools and universities, is the fact that during the pandemic when schools were shut down, and remote learning taking place, the parents actually witnessed what was being taught in many of our schools, and they didn't like what they saw and heard.

The schools and school administrators claim that the schools don't teach CRT, but how do they know?  As a former teacher for over 30 years, once that classroom door is closed you don't know what that teacher or professor is saying or teaching.  Since most of the teachers and professors (upwards of 80%) are politically left-leaning and liberal, you can bet that CRT is woven into the curriculum, whether or not it is stated in the curriculum.

In Florida, for instance, Governor Ron DeSantis, who is against teaching CRT, doesn't want to change history, but he wants to change the idea that our country was built on racial superiority of Whites over Blacks. Yes, we had slavery, just like many countries had, and even some still have today. We, as a nation, have come a long way since those days.  In fact, we have a vast rich and middle-class Black community who have taken advantage of what our democratic republic has to offer (Ex. Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Hollywood actors, professional athletes, and quite a few CEO's at the helm of many corporations, plus a goodly number of black politicians at the local, state, and federal levels of government).  Is that an example of racial oppression and systemic racism?

​In CRT and other race based theories, like the 1619 Project, historical errors were stated as immutable facts.  It was claimed that Blacks were kidnapped from Africa, but missing from that statement was the fact that those Blacks that were taken as slaves by the slave traders were sold to the slave traders by other Blacks who held those Blacks as slaves themselves. It took awhile, but using our Constitution, we have gotten rid of, from our society, the vestiges of slavery and endemic segregation. If, as the CRT by portraying our country as a racist country, then how come so many of people of color want to come to our country, both legally and illegally, to live and work in our “racist” country?

To perpetuate the idea that Whites are trying to suppress Blacks from voting, which the Democrats had done up to the Civil Rights Acts of 1965, it doesn't meet the smell test. By demanding voter I.D. and expanding voter days and limiting voting by mail, are not acts of voter suppression. What those voting requirements try to do is make  voting more honest and less fraudulent. In fact, more blacks have voted in our elections than ever before. It is “racist to claim that Blacks can't or couldn't meet voting requirements like what Whites have to do.  Claims of suppressing the Black vote is a bogus attempt, by the “racial arsonists” to stir up racial tension among Whites and Blacks.

By trying and succeeding to change our voting laws prior to the election, as what happened during the presidential election of 2020 by the Democrats, it had opened up the chance of voter fraud for the benefit of one political party, the Democrats.  That's what Governor DeSantis, and other governors and state legislatures have done to try to make our voting more fair and honest.  For that, they have been accused of voter suppression.

CRT is historically and intentionally being used to drive a wedge between the races.  The constant use of the word “racism”, if you disagree with a proponent of CRT (mainly members of the Democrat Party) has made the term meaningless, in many cases, just like in the fable of the “boy who cried wolf”. 

So, it is imperative that CRT be put on the scrap heap of history, and people of all races should look upon our country with “race” blinders on, and take advantage what our great country has to offer for all our citizens regardless of their color, ethnicity, or national origin.

Conservative Commentary by Chuck Lehmann

A great question to ask a liberal Democrat is, “Can you list all the successes of Biden's term so far”?  I'm sure they will be at a loss for words – and then they will reply that Republicans (and Trump) are racists, homophobes, sexists, and bigots etc.  Imagine a political party being at such a stage in life that they can't justify the policies that President Biden and the Democrats have put forth, and must rely on epithets and slander?

During the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden swore he was going to be a unifying influence who was going to bring sanity and decorum back to our country once we got rid of the “evil” Donald Trump.  Well, how have things worked out so far? 

Upon his inauguration, Joe Biden, took pen in hand and negated most all of the executive orders of his predecessor, Donald Trump. It didn't matter to Biden if those policies of Trump were working for the benefit of the country, he wanted to wipe out any legacy of Trump out of vindictiveness, paranoia, and hatred.

Look where we are today, has Biden's actions really made life easier for all Americans, or are they suffering as a result of those misguided actions by the “great uniter”, Joe Biden?

A number of years ago, a program on radio and T.V. called “Your Hit Parade” was broadcast naming the top songs of the week sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes. Can you imagine a show today using that format naming the best policies and successes of the Biden Administration?  What would be the best policies put forth by the Biden Administration which could honestly be called “Hits”? 
Let's take a look at some of Biden's “Hits”, or should we really call them “Misses”?
 
1) Upon being sworn in, Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline and restricted       “fracking” on government lands and halted exploration for gas and oil in ANWR in Alaska.

2) He canceled the construction of the southern border wall that Trump had initiated to reduce the number of illegal aliens crossing our border.

3) In addition to canceling the wall, Biden re-instituted the “catch and release” program of illegal aliens entering our country.

4)  He proposed rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, and

5)  WHO (World Health Organization). In addition, he said he wanted to restart the Iran nuclear agreement which Trump canceled.

6) He said he wanted to institute a $15 minimum wage for federal employees and to restore collective collective bargaining power to the unions.

7) He issued a mask and social distancing mandate on all government lands and facilities.

8) He reversed Trump's travel ban on certain countries, some Muslim and other countries with a high incidence of COVID.

9) He sent a sweeping immigration bill to Congress that included an 8 year path to citizenship for undocumented aliens.

10) He approved the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan which resulted in the killing of 13 U.S. servicemen and the stranding of thousands of American and friendly Afghans to the trials and tribulations of the Taliban, and he left approximately $80 billion of military equipment to the Taliban.

11) He had passed a $1.9 trillion COVID relief package of funding in which in which only 10% went for COVID relief and the rest for “pork” for the various Congressmen and Senators.

12) He has been the overseer of an unprecedented influx of illegals crossing our border with very few being deported, and most being sent around the country without the knowledge of the various governors and mayors of the states and cities that are the recipients of these illegal border crossers. Neither Biden or his Vice-President Harris have visited the southern border to observe the havoc their immigration policies have wrought upon the citizens of our country.

13) In the 14+ months of Biden's presidency, he has presided over of an 8.5% rate of inflation, which he blames, incredulously, on Trump, which includes rates of inflation of 46.5% for fuel oil, 40% for gasoline, and 12.2% for meat, fish, and poultry etc.
14) Etc., Etc. Too many to list here, but you get the idea. I hope?

The Democrats and Biden supporters wonder why his approval is in the dumper (33% approval by the Quinipiac poll)?  It seems that they don't want to admit that their policies are a failure and that the midterm elections this November will be a blowout for the Republicans, but it looks like failure has gone to their heads.  God help us to survive this aberration in our government. Let's hope that change comes about this November and that sanity is restored in the halls of the Congress and Senate.

Conservative Commentary by Chuck Lehmann 

Why are the “woke” media platforms today having such a hard time getting subscribers and making a profit?  Both CNN+ and Netflix are either halting production or losing loads of money from lost subscribers. It seems that “cancel culture” is starting to eat its own. Social media started out as a platform to offer “free speech” to the masses, but as the executives of these companies became “woke”, users realized they were being manipulated and recruited by the Marxist/Socialist cabal who run these leftist platforms.

Now, we have the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, who claims to be a “Libertarian”, has purchased “Twitter” for $46 billion with the stated purpose of giving Americans a platform to express themselves without being censored.  This is the same company that banned a sitting president, Donald Trump, from using their platform because they didn't like him, his views, and what he tweeted.  With Musk's announcement, the left is going crazy, attacking Musk, which is laughable on its merits.

The social media platforms have had a monopoly on the dissemination of political views – only left-wing political views (a/k/a Democrat views) seem to be promoted and right-wing views are the one's being censored.  The 2020 election was a perfect example of how these social media giants used their platforms to censor speech, especially that of Donald Trump and his followers.  It was one-way censorship – against conservative views and thoughts.  As private companies they had the right to manage their platforms without government intervention. Purporting to be "champions of free speech," these tech giants were given certain government benefits when they were created.  However, the time is ripe to rein in their benefits and their 'right' to stifle free speech. 

Even entertainment companies, like Disney,  have jumped on the “woke” bandwagon by outwardly proclaiming they will actively move against the State of Florida, as they perceive recent laws passed by the Florida legislature and signed by Gov. DeSantis, are anti-LGBTQ.  In response to Disney entering into politics, the State of Florida and Gov. DeSantis, have passed a law depriving Disney of the sweetheart deal that was put in place in the 1960's, giving Disney autonomy over the land that their theme park sits on.  I guess Disney found someone (Gov. DeSantis) who is willing to stand up to their “woke” statements about how Florida should conduct their business. I'm sure the Disney shareholders are not too happy with the way Disney executives have handled this situation. 

On the downside of the “woke” culture, the company called Netflix, which the aforementioned Elon Musk, has stated that Netflix has been infected with the “woke mind virus”, the company has lost over 200,000 subscribers between January and March of this year. The public seems to be rebelling against the political views of this high tech company and others who promote the “woke” culture.

Just recently, that virulently anti-Trump cable channel, CNN, spent over $300 million in an attempt to start a new streaming outlet called CNN+.  It opened up at the end of March to much fanfare, but by the end of April it will be shutting down   due to its meager subscriber base of only 10,000. Much to their chagrin, they had to let go of hundreds of newly hired employees. Again, the public seems to be telling these “woke” companies that their indoctrination days are over and that free speech should not be censored. Instead, the free and open exchange of ideas should be the rule and NOT the exception. So, the writing is on the wall, if a company gets “woke” they'll most likely go broke.

Conservative Commentary by Chuck Lehmann   

​Our country is facing a political crossroad, similar to what happened at the beginning of the Civil War, when family and friends chose different paths to follow.  It shaped the character of the two main parties in conflict, determining their stance between liberalism or conservatism, Democrat or Republican. Slavery and the post war aftermath scarred the Democrats with lynching's, the KKK and Jim Crow. while the Republicans had carpetbaggers. In each case, the shoe is now on the other foot, labeling the conservatives' racists, the Democrats compassionate and empathetic.

The truth being, Republicans are disciplined and stand for individualism with limited government intrusion, while the Democrats are undisciplined, stigmatized as the party of mediocrity, to who the mediocre flock to, because it rewards and requires little or no effort to care for themselves, relying on the government for their needs instead. Everyone gets a trophy in the liberal utopia. Race, gender, and unidentified sexes serve as the main criteria in selecting appointees for government positions now, instead of selecting the most qualified person to do the job. 

The traditional Democrat is slowly being replaced by radical progressives who are not interested in a more perfect union, but are bent on transforming the country of our founders into a potpourri of self interest projects, consisting of union workers, Cancel Culture, Black Lives Matter, ANTIFA, Creative Race Theory, the 1619 Project, Occupy Wall Street, the Green New Deal, all with a Marxist/Socialist aroma. The old guard along with the Black Caucus, have been forced to play along with the progressives to maintain unity and the illusion that America is a racist nation, a narrative kept alive by the media, all seeing who can sop up the most lucrative gravy from the racist pot. 

At the end of President Biden's four years, if he lasts that long, there won't be any trophies to hand-out, unless they give booby prizes for the worse administration in modern memory. Starting with the bungling of the end of the long Afghanistan campaign by a haphazard, disorganized departure, that left billons of dollars
worth of arms and equipment behind. It was followed by "Biden's March to the Sea" with a slew of executive order, hatchet jobs reversing everything good President Trump had done to get our country on the right course. Within months, Biden managed to destroy everything that had us on solid ground in regards to energy , the economy, jobs, foreign relations, security and prestige. The American people are experiencing the consequences of our past election. Something smelled rotten
in Denmark when somebody who never left his Delaware basement to campaign tallied more votes than any previous presidential candidate in American history.

On this account, all indications point to a sound defeat in the midterm election for the democrats, in both houses, to carry over to the presidential election in 2024.  Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has happened, it is believed censorship will be a thing of the past, effecting Big Tech companies and the media from their monopoly on sources of information. If this combination comes to fruition, it will mean the return of the country to its people.

Conservative Commentary by George Giftos

Have you had enough of the hypocrisy of BLM (Black Lives Matter) yet? This dubious, racist organization that sprung up after the George Floyd incident, has played victim by using race as the cudgel to scam money from guilt ridden white liberals, feckless corporations and race obsessed politicians.

It has been estimated that BLM, run by three Marxist/Socialist black women, has raised at least $90 million, supposedly to help disadvantaged black people.  The only problem is that little, if any, of that money ever reached the people they purported to help.  Instead, much of the money was used by the lady “grifters” for their own personal use, which included buying very expensive homes and property around the country. It was a clever shakedown by using black victimization as the selling point of getting funds by using “white guilt” as the major talking point and the unspoken threat of economic boycotts.

Even today, the new black mayor of New York, Eric Adams, has come out and called BLM a bunch of hypocrites for ignoring the plight of blacks being killed by other blacks.  It seems that BLM and their sympathizers are only concerned about black deaths when a policeman in involved in a killing, which is very rare, but for which they use as a rallying cry to gin up hatred for the police.

BLM and their “evil” counter group, ANTIFA, have been causing havoc and mayhem around the country for the past three years, with practically a free hand as the liberal elites jump on the bandwagon of “white supremacy”.  Even President Biden has joined the chorus by claiming that the biggest threat in the country is “white supremacy”.  He never mentions BLM or ANTIFA for their roles in the burning, looting, and murdering that has taken place by those groups.  Yes, there are “white supremacist” groups, but they are not the ones burning down towns and cities. Their members committing crimes dwarf in comparison to both BLM and ANTIFA.

It seems that no matter what happens in the black community, the word “racism” is bandied about willy-nilly to describe anything negative affecting the black community.  Even the white liberal elites in Congress throw around that epithet in trying to justify the bad behavior of both BLM and ANTIFA.

When will the leaders of the black community face the fact that crime against other blacks is mainly not from the white population and the police, but by other blacks in their own communities?  And, when will the liberal elites stop using race to try to generate support in the black community?  It seems the so-called leaders of the black community like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, Jim Clyburn, Stacy Abrams, Joy Reid of MSNBC, etal. like to stir up animosity between blacks and white folk, thereby generating money for their coffers.

Our country has come a long way since the days of slavery and we will (must) overcome this misguided exercise in stirring up animosity between the races, and the politicians must stop the pandering and the denigration of one race over another by using the overused term racism.  Common sense should prevail and both blacks and whites must respect each other and not be drawn into a fight by the "Disciples of Deceit”.

Conservative Commentary by Chuck Lehmann 

​The biggest health care problem in our country is not a lack of affordable health insurance, it is that too many Americans are obese (in other words, too damn fat) and no amount of affordable health insurance will make the situation better.  To be totally upfront, I must admit that I am about 20 lbs. overweight, so in some ways, I am also part of the problem.

If you have a chance and want to relax, sit down on one of the chairs or benches in a shopping mall or flea market, and watch the people walk by.  I’ll bet you that over 50% of the people walking by have a weight problem and that more than half of them could be considered obese.  Those people come in all ages, all colors and both genders.  It is quite a sight.  The way some of these weight-challenged (obese) people dress it looks like they are trying to put 10 lbs. of potatoes into a 5 lb. bag. It defies the law of physics.

How did we get into this mess?  Well, it seems that our entrepreneurial American spirit for innovation in making life easier for us to conduct and live our lives, have added significantly to our tendency to put on the blubber.  We don’t walk, we drive even around the block; we don’t eat home-cooked meals at home, like in the past, instead we order take-out or eat in fast food restaurants; we don’t play vigorous games or participate in sports as much as we did in earlier times; and the kind of food we eat regularly is chock full of weight producing calories that could and should be avoided. Add in the phenomenon, the excessive use of I-Phones, by both young and old,  in other words, we are becoming too soft as well as too fat.

Obesity is quite evident in our young people and especially in the poor minority communities.  It seems that the lower the income of people the bigger the girth around the middle as compared to higher income people – you’d think the opposite would be true, but look for yourself at the “Mall observation testing lab” – it’ll confirm what I’ve just said.

Physical education in today’s schools is not what it used to be either.  Due to the fear of lawsuits and the “politically correct” police, schools are afraid to have students exert themselves by doing meaningful physical exercise or playing physical games (ex. Dodge Ball, tag etc.).  Youngsters today spend too much sedentary time playing computer games and by sitting in front of their computers and TV’s for hours on end.  That routine is not a healthy regimen to follow.

One result of pursuing this unhealthy lifestyle is the burgeoning incidence of Type II diabetes, especially in young people.  All the talk about reforming healthcare will be meaningless if we can’t control the out-of-control obesity problem that is causing the cost of healthcare to mushroom.  A government-run healthcare option, which former President Obama and Congress passed,  only exacerbated the problem and did not alleviate it.  Since healthcare rationing always comes about when the government gets involved, a person’s access to quality healthcare has been dramatically reduced as more and more sick people will be using our medical facilities as the pool of doctors, to treat these sick people, decrease in number.

So, in Shakespeare’s time the question was, “To be or not to be”, but in today’s frenetic times, the question is, “Obese or not Obese” and it will not be cured by government decree, or by government-run healthcare.  We’ll need a significant dose of private enterprise and self-sufficiency as we wean ourselves from the “nanny state” mentality and by taking control of our own lives without the inhibiting aura of “big brother” hanging over our heads.  Remember what former President Ronald Reagan once said, “Government is part of the problem, not the solution”.  Now, you go do the right thing!

 Conservative Commentary by Chuck Lehmann

"Revisionism" has been developed by neoliberal elites, replacing family
values, to define their concept of truth, and discount what has always 
been accepted by society.

Taken out of the realm of the three Rs, to accommodate acronymic
groups advocating their narrative, controversy has flourished. One of
them, LGBTQ has been adopted by many a public school's curriculum, 
to indoctrinate children as young as kindergarten age, without parental 
consent, that gender is a matter of choice and acceptable. The laws 
of nature discount this absurdity. Save for birth abnormalities, gender
confusion is a mental disorder and should be treated as such, through
psychiatry, not through hormonal injection and surgical methods that 
mutilate the body, although the plumbing remains the same.

Today's Frankenstein is a doctor who creates superficial female
mummies that can never be mommies. Changing a pronoun is verbal
and not factual, because gender is determined by a Y chromosome,
the type of gonads, sex hormones, internal and exterior genitalia

God's original product may be altered, but it can never be recreated.
Advocates for the LGBTQ group want homosexual activity to be
acceptable and the bathhouse lifestyle shoved down our throat as a
normal healthy activity.

When and where do we draw a line between ponography, pedophilia
and transgender teaching to minors, when talking to young children
about genitalia and sexual urges? It's like a session for people posing
as teachers, getting their jollies? 

Conservative Commentary by George Giftos