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From the right: US Left Envies French Horrors

“France is once again supplying footage of burning vehicles, smashed businesses, and streets full of tear gas,” as rioters “wave Algerian and Palestinian flags,” as a “symptom of a much larger, unspoken failure,” notes Jens Heycke at Guerre and Shalom. The combo of “barriers to hiring, immigration without a serious demand for assimilation, and a government expected to pay for nearly everything” has led to high unemployment, economic stagnation and massive social division. Beware: The “American progressive left” holds these same policies as the “crown jewels” of its agenda, favoring “doubling the minimum wage,” no “immigration restrictions” and “bigger government.” In short, “the progressive left would love nothing more than for the U.S. to become France.”

Schools beat: Teachers Unions vs. Kids

Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay on NYC “public schools’ decadelong failures to educate her daughter drew a telling response” from union head Randi Weingarten, who lamented that “we must learn what went wrong.” Hah! roars Joel Klein at the Wall Street Journal: Weingarten should look in the mirror, as her union is the “primary reason New York’s public schools fail so many children, especially poor black children.” “Hannah-Jones chronicles a wide range of unprofessional practices at Najya’s........

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