thetennesseestar--2020-07-07--In Joe Biden’s 50 Years of Public Service He Did Not Accomplish Anything, Says Crom Carmichael

Live from Music Row Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville ’ s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio .
During the third hour , Carmichael reviewed Joe Biden ’ s history noting that in his 50 years of public service he had not accomplished anything .
He noted that Biden did however manage to support issues that prohibited the advancement of Blacks through busing and exorbitant prison sentence policies .
Leahy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I thought at Mt .
Rushmore to a crowd of about 7,500 not wearing masks and not socially distancing .
Mary Hart of Entertainment Tonight who is a South Dakota girl was there .
It was a great event .
I thought it was a very very good speech .
So did Marsha Blackburn the Senator of Tennessee who complimented it .
Carmichael : I don ’ t think the four fellows behind him were wearing masks either .
Leahy : Or Theodore Roosevelt .
His speech was very good .
He took @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a story about each one of those presidents and why they were so great .
It was very very well done .
Carmichael : I did not hear the speech but I ’ m sure I can pull it up on YouTube and I will do that .
Leahy : So we have two different visions of America and voters are going to choose around the country in early November .
Four months from now .
From The Hill , former Vice President Joe Biden made race a central theme of his July @ @ @ @ @ @ @ widespread unrest .
So here ’ s what he said .
Our country is founded on the idea and we find these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal .
We ’ ve never lived up to it !
Jefferson himself didn ’ t do it .
He had slaves .
We have a chance to rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country .
This is what Joe Biden who served in the Senate for well over 30 years and was Vice President of the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all that time in public service according to him… Carmichael : Not one thing .
And now he wants at age 77 soon to be 78 , he wants Americans to say ignore the last 50 years of my life and pick me now so that I can solve a problem that I didn ’ t identify in 50 years and that I did not identify in 50 years and that I still can ’ t really describe .
Carmichael : Because you can not fix something that is systemic and innate .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ were true .
And in fact , there are many Black people today who I would describe as the Shelby Steeles .
The Walter Williams .
The Thomas Sowells .
They will point out that during the 50 years that Biden has done nothing that actually great progress was made .
And in fact Michael , Joe Biden actually tried to stop progress in his 50 years .
Didn ’ t he oppose integrating schools ?
Leahy : Well he was opposed to forced busing .
Carmichael : So he opposed that .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to put Black people in prison for very very long sentences ?
Leahy : He co-sponsored that bill back in the 90s .
Carmichael : He helped write the darn thing .
And back in the 80s he also ramped up the penalties for drug possession .
So the first thing he did in the 80s and disproportionately affected the Black population .
In the 70s he tried to keep Black children in lousy all-Black schools .
In the 80s he tried to put Black people in prison if they had just a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the 90s , he wrote legislation to put Black people in prison for decades at a time .
Leahy : And don ’ t forget , everything he did to undermine the nomination of the Black conservative justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas .
Carmichael : Which is the most despicable thing he ’ s done in his entire lifetime .
Not only did he do everything he could to undermine but he knew that everything he was doing was a lie .
He knew that what he was doing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did not care .
In fact , he did care , I take that back .
He did care .
He did not want a Black person who as Clarence Thomas says , who can think for themselves .
He did not want a Black person who could think for themselves on the Supreme Court .
I would encourage anyone who cares about this issue to go back and listen to it .
It ’ s on YouTube .
Go back and listen to Clarence Thomas ’ s testimony on the Anita Hill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liberals up there on that Senate judiciary committee .
And for Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden to be sitting right next to each other , the irony is just absolutely incredible .
Leahy : Here ’ s what the Trump campaign said about Joe Biden ’ s speech which by the way Newt Gingrich called the most un-American speech he ’ s ever heard from a major presidential candidate .
And I agree with that assessment .
The Trump campaign said , “ The idea Joe Biden with his 40 plus years of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or ability to strengthen our union is absurd.
” Because of political pressure from the Left , Biden is forced to agree that America was fundamentally flawed from the beginning and remains so today .
By contrast , President Trump is proud of our history and believes strongly in our present greatness .
His policies have provided more opportunities for more people at any other time in America ’ s existence .
Carmichael : Yes .
And that statement , you ’ re going to hear things like that in the debates .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ very interesting .
Trump has challenged Biden to four debates .
Biden has said he will do three debates and no more than that .
But at least he has said he will do three .
Leahy : He said that .
But we ’ ll see .
Carmichael : He has said he ’ ll do three debates .
He hasn ’ t been honest about anything in his life .
So we ’ ll find out about whether he ’ s honest about doing three debates .
I think he ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he may not want to .
Leahy : I ’ m skeptical about that .
But there is one scheduled for October 19th in Nashville at Belmont University .
Carmichael : Yes .
And that ’ s the last of the three debates .
How do you get tickets for that ?
Or there won ’ t be tickets ?
That ’ s fine .
I ’ m perfectly fine with the theater itself being empty and having the two candidates on the stage 20 feet apart and then the three people or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ feet away from them .
Leahy : Wait for Mayor John Cooper to have some sort of ordinance about the requirement of wearing masks at that event .
Carmichael : He may actually try .
But it won ’ t work .
Leahy : Related to that I ’ d like to segue to our own project called the National Constitution Bee .
Our plan is we will be holding a National Constitution Bee .
Carmichael : Did you delay it ?
Leahy : It was scheduled to be in June .
Carmichael @ @ @ @ @ @ @ June .
To start in June ?
Leahy : To be in Washington , D.C. in June with four or five regional rounds around the country .
Leahy : We had to stop all of that .
But now we have come up with a solution .
We will have a formal announcement next week .
But October 17 just before the debate we will be holding the National Constitution Bee in Middle Tennessee .
There will be a $ 25,000 .
prize for the number one student who wins that .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to the which we ’ ve got podcasts coming out on that .
There will be a website people can get to at nationalconstitutionbee.org .
We had to cancel the hotel in D.C. We moved it out to October .
We don ’ t know what the D.C. government is going to do .
We also don ’ t know what the Davidson County government is going to do because Mayor John Cooper is very unpredictable and very inconsistent .
Carmichael : Could you schedule it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : That is exactly what we are going to do .
It will be in Williamson County and the venue will be announced next week .
But that ’ s exactly what we did Crom because we can not rely on the whims of Mayor John Cooper .
Carmichael : In Nashville , while the number of COVIDs is going up , the hospitalization of COVID is not an issue .
Leahy : I think they are up slightly but not anywhere ’ s near capacity .
Carmichael : Well , good for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ figured it out .
How many people have entered so far ?
Can you tell us ?
Leahy : It ’ s hard to say because we haven ’ t put the formal announcement out .
We expect 50-100 kids .
Leahy : The majority will be from Tennessee .
So kids if you are listening right now and you want $ 25,000 .
college scholarship , you ’ ve got a 1 and 50 chance to win it .
Carmichael : No .
If you study the book you ’ ve got @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Listen to the full third hour here : Tune in weekdays from 5:00 – 8:00 a.m. to the Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy on Talk Radio 98.3 FM WLAC 1510 .
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Live from Music Row Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio.
During the third hour, Carmichael reviewed Joe Biden’s history noting that in his 50 years of public service he had not accomplished anything. He noted that Biden did however manage to support issues that prohibited the advancement of Blacks through busing and exorbitant prison sentence policies.
(President Trump Mr. Rushmore clip plays)
Leahy: President Trump gave a terrific speech I thought at Mt. Rushmore to a crowd of about 7,500 not wearing masks and not socially distancing. Mary Hart of Entertainment Tonight who is a South Dakota girl was there. It was a great event. I thought it was a very very good speech. So did Marsha Blackburn the Senator of Tennessee who complimented it.
Carmichael: I don’t think the four fellows behind him were wearing masks either.
(Laughter)
Leahy: George Washington was not wearing a mask.
Carmichael: Nor was Abraham Lincoln.
Leahy: Or Thomas Jefferson.
Carmichael: Or Roosevelt.
Leahy: Or Theodore Roosevelt. His speech was very good. He took a page from Reagan and he told a story about each one of those presidents and why they were so great. It was very very well done.
Carmichael: I did not hear the speech but I’m sure I can pull it up on YouTube and I will do that.
Leahy: So we have two different visions of America and voters are going to choose around the country in early November. Four months from now. From The Hill, former Vice President Joe Biden made race a central theme of his July Fourth message as the country grapples with widespread unrest. So here’s what he said. Our country is founded on the idea and we find these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
We’ve never lived up to it! Jefferson himself didn’t do it. He had slaves. We have a chance to rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country. This is what Joe Biden who served in the Senate for well over 30 years and was Vice President of the United States for eight years said. So now all that time in public service according to him…
Carmichael: He didn’t accomplish anything.
Leahy: Didn’t accomplish anything.
Carmichael: Not one thing. And now he wants at age 77 soon to be 78, he wants Americans to say ignore the last 50 years of my life and pick me now so that I can solve a problem that I didn’t identify in 50 years and that I did not identify in 50 years and that I still can’t really describe.
Leahy: Yes.
Carmichael: Because you cannot fix something that is systemic and innate. That cannot be fixed if that were true. And in fact, there are many Black people today who I would describe as the Shelby Steeles. The Walter Williams. The Thomas Sowells. They will point out that during the 50 years that Biden has done nothing that actually great progress was made. And in fact Michael, Joe Biden actually tried to stop progress in his 50 years. Didn’t he oppose integrating schools?
Leahy: Well he was opposed to forced busing.
Carmichael: So he opposed that. And then didn’t he want to put Black people in prison for very very long sentences?
Leahy: He co-sponsored that bill back in the 90s.
Carmichael: He helped write the darn thing. And back in the 80s he also ramped up the penalties for drug possession. So the first thing he did in the 80s and disproportionately affected the Black population. In the 70s he tried to keep Black children in lousy all-Black schools. In the 80s he tried to put Black people in prison if they had just a tiny bit of marijuana. And then in the 90s, he wrote legislation to put Black people in prison for decades at a time.
Leahy: And don’t forget, everything he did to undermine the nomination of the Black conservative justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas.
Carmichael: Which is the most despicable thing he’s done in his entire lifetime. Not only did he do everything he could to undermine but he knew that everything he was doing was a lie. He knew that what he was doing to Clarence Thomas was a lie but he did not care. In fact, he did care, I take that back. He did care. He did not want a Black person who as Clarence Thomas says, who can think for themselves. He did not want a Black person who could think for themselves on the Supreme Court.
I would encourage anyone who cares about this issue to go back and listen to it. It’s on YouTube. Go back and listen to Clarence Thomas’s testimony on the Anita Hill thing because he absolutely roasted those white liberals up there on that Senate judiciary committee. And for Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden to be sitting right next to each other, the irony is just absolutely incredible.
Leahy: Here’s what the Trump campaign said about Joe Biden’s speech which by the way Newt Gingrich called the most un-American speech he’s ever heard from a major presidential candidate. And I agree with that assessment. The Trump campaign said, “The idea Joe Biden with his 40 plus years of Washington, D.C. failure has any notion or ability to strengthen our union is absurd.”
Because of political pressure from the Left, Biden is forced to agree that America was fundamentally flawed from the beginning and remains so today. By contrast, President Trump is proud of our history and believes strongly in our present greatness. His policies have provided more opportunities for more people at any other time in America’s existence.
Carmichael: Yes. And that statement, you’re going to hear things like that in the debates. The debates are going to be very very interesting. Trump has challenged Biden to four debates. Biden has said he will do three debates and no more than that. But at least he has said he will do three.
Leahy: He said that. But we’ll see.
Carmichael: He has said he’ll do three debates. He hasn’t been honest about anything in his life. So we’ll find out about whether he’s honest about doing three debates. I think he’ll have to. But I think he may not want to.
Leahy: I’m skeptical about that. But there is one scheduled for October 19th in Nashville at Belmont University.
Carmichael: Yes. And that’s the last of the three debates. How do you get tickets for that? Or there won’t be tickets? That’s fine. I’m perfectly fine with the theater itself being empty and having the two candidates on the stage 20 feet apart and then the three people or four people who are questioning them 50 feet away from them.
Leahy: Wait for Mayor John Cooper to have some sort of ordinance about the requirement of wearing masks at that event.
Carmichael: He may actually try. But it won’t work.
Leahy: Related to that I’d like to segue to our own project called the National Constitution Bee. Our plan is we will be holding a National Constitution Bee.
Carmichael: Did you delay it?
Leahy: It was scheduled to be in June.
Carmichael: It was scheduled to be in June. To start in June?
Leahy: To be in Washington, D.C. in June with four or five regional rounds around the country.
Carmichael: Before that?
Leahy: We had to stop all of that. But now we have come up with a solution. We will have a formal announcement next week. But October 17 just before the debate we will be holding the National Constitution Bee in Middle Tennessee. There will be a $25,000. prize for the number one student who wins that. It’s based upon our Guide to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to the which we’ve got podcasts coming out on that.
There will be a website people can get to at nationalconstitutionbee.org. We had to cancel the hotel in D.C. We moved it out to October. We don’t know what the D.C. government is going to do. We also don’t know what the Davidson County government is going to do because Mayor John Cooper is very unpredictable and very inconsistent.
Carmichael: Could you schedule it right now in Williamson County?
Leahy: That is exactly what we are going to do. It will be in Williamson County and the venue will be announced next week. But that’s exactly what we did Crom because we cannot rely on the whims of Mayor John Cooper.
Carmichael: In Nashville, while the number of COVIDs is going up, the hospitalization of COVID is not an issue.
Leahy: I think they are up slightly but not anywhere’s near capacity.
Carmichael: Well, good for you! I’m glad you figured it out. How many people have entered so far? Can you tell us?
Leahy: It’s hard to say because we haven’t put the formal announcement out. We expect 50-100 kids.
Carmichael: To enter?
Leahy: The majority will be from Tennessee. So kids if you are listening right now and you want $25,000. college scholarship, you’ve got a 1 and 50 chance to win it.
Carmichael: No. If you study the book you’ve got a much better chance than that.
Leahy: It’s a good deal.
Carmichael: That’s a great deal!
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thetennesseestar--2020-07-07--Commentary: An Industry of Lies is Working to Guarantee an Appointed Presidency in 2020 and Beyond

The current revolution is based on a series of lies , misrepresentations , and distortions , whose weight will soon sink it .
Unfortunately few in authority have been more wrong , and yet more self-righteously wrong , than the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci .
Given his long service as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his stature during the AIDS crisis , he has rightly been held up by the media as the gold standard of coronavirus information .
The media has constructed Fauci as a constant corrective of Trump ’ s supposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ travel bans , analogies with a bad flu year , and logical endorsement of hydroxychloroquine as a “ what do you have to lose ” possible therapy .
But the omnipresent Fauci himself unfortunately has now lost credibility .
The reason is that he has offered authoritative advice about facts , which either were not known or could not have been known at the time of his declarations .
Since January , Fauci has variously advised the nation both that the coronavirus probably was unlikely to cause a major health crisis in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yet kill 240,000 Americans .
In January , he praised China for its transparent handling of the coronavirus epidemic , not much later he conceded that perhaps they ’ d done a poor job of that .
He has cautioned that the virus both poses low risks and , later , high risks , for Americans .
Wearing masks , Fauci warned , was both of little utility and yet , later , essential .
Hydroxychloroquine , he huffed , had little utility ; when studies showed that it did , he still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ times , he emphasized that social distancing and avoiding optional activities were mandatory , but earlier that blind dating and going on cruise ships were permissible .
Fauci weighed in on the inadvisability of restarting businesses prematurely , but he has displayed less certainty about the millions of demonstrators and rioters in the streets for a month violating quarantines .
The point is not that he is human like all of us , but that in each of these cases he asserted such contradictions with near-divine certainty – and further confused the public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States “ fared , ” it is simply untrue that Europe embraced superior social policies in containing the virus .
The only somewhat reliable assessments of viral lethality are population numbers and deaths by COVID-19 , although the latter is often in dispute .
By such rubrics , the United States , so far , has fared better than most of the major European countries – France , Italy , the United Kingdom , Spain , Sweden , and Belgium – in terms of deaths per million .
Germany is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is to be allotted to public officials for the United States having a higher fatality rate than Germany , then the cause is most likely governors of high-death , Eastern Seaboard states – New York , New Jersey , Massachusetts , and Connecticut in particular .
They either sent the infected into rest homes , or did not early on ensure that their mass transit systems were sanitized daily as well as practicing social distancing .
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo , more than any other regional or national leader , is culpable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patients .
He did not just suggest long-term-care facilities receive active COVID-19 patients , but ordered them to take them – knowing at the time that the disease in its lethal manifestations targeted the elderly , infirm , and bedridden .
Then in shameful fashion , after thousands died , Cuomo claimed that either the facilities themselves or Donald Trump were responsible for the deaths .
In truth , in the United States , the coronavirus is largely a fatal disease in two senses : the vulnerable in just four states on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ percent of the nation ’ s population but close to half of its total COVID-19 fatalities , and/or patients in rest homes or those over 65 years old with comorbidities .
Why are there currently spikes in cases among young people in warmer states and those of less population density in late June ?
No one is certain .
But one likely reason is that millions of protestors for nearly a month crammed the nation ’ s cities , suburbs , and towns , shouting and screaming without masks , violating social distancing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and sanitizing – most often with official exemption or media and political approval .
The period of exposure and incubation is over , and the resulting new cases – for the most part asymptomatic and clustered among the young – are thus no surprise .
Still , what is inconvenient is the rise in these cases – given that the Left either had claimed its mass demonstrations would not spread the disease , or , if they would , the resulting contagion was an affordable price to pay for the cry of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real cost of four weeks of protesting , rioting , and looting was to undermine the authority of state officials to enforce blatant violations of the quarantine .
Obviously , if some can march with impunity in phalanxes of screaming , shoulder-to-shoulder protestors , while others are jailed as individuals trying to restart a business , then the state has lost its credibility with people and they will simply ignore further edicts as they see fit .
Now what adjudicates quarantines are the people ’ s own calibrations of their own safety .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ been four disastrous official policy decisions : sending patients into rest homes ; allowing millions en masse for political reasons to violate state mandates on masks and social distancing ; retroactively attempting to reissue quarantine standards that their advocates and authors had themselves earlier de facto destroyed ; and consistently issuing pandemic alerts solely on the flawed basis of new positive cases , without distinguishing those who were asymptomatic , or who were infected and recovered without ever being tested , or who were asymptomatic and tested positive for antibodies , or who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and by no means still a case-patient .
Black Lives Matter , Antifa , and other revolutionary groups hijacked the tragic death of George Floyd .
Within hours they created a mythology of rampant white police lethal attacks on innocent black victims .
But that trope , too , was without a factual basis .
The wrongful deaths of unarmed African-Americans in custody have been on the decline , is far less than the number of police murdered per year , less than the number of white suspects killed , and proportionally fewer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arrested by police , than other racial groups .
In rare interracial violence , blacks are five times more likely to attack whites than vice versa .
There is a tragic war against young , black males – over 7,000 murdered per year – but it is an urban genocide of sort perpetrated in liberal cities , governed by liberal mayors and governors , and overseen by liberal police chiefs .
The shooters are overwhelmingly other black males .
Somehow those facts were distorted by the Left into a trope that George Floyd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lethal racial hatred .
One can certainly argue about systematic racism as being a factor in all these asymmetries , but that is not what the rioting and their apologists have done in trafficking in accusations that have no data to support them .
There is no logic to statue toppling , name changing , or culture canceling other than the quest to assert power , humiliate authorities , and create crises where they do not exist in order to manufacture a faux state of emergency – in service of a political agenda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ statues fall is contingent entirely on the lack of resistance .
We know this because the ignorant rioters and protestors can not explain why monuments to Ulysses S. Grant , Cervantes , black Civil War veterans , or Abraham Lincoln need to be toppled and destroyed as much as a statue of Robert E. Lee .
We are not told why the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton is canceled out , but not the Wilson Center in Washington , or why a memorial to President Washington is targeted for defacement but not the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ another founder who at one time owned slaves .
And what or who , if any , exactly is to replace our fallen luminaries ?
Name the most iconic – Martin Luther King Jr. , Malcolm X , or Che Guevarra and the current rules of perfection would disqualify them all .
The abettors of the madness – corporations , the Democratic National Committee , universities , and the media – are not so mad .
Yale , named for a slave owner , is now mostly a brand name , not a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and classically liberal education .
Take the elite stamp away , and what replaces it might as well be an online degree mill – given that it is no longer so demonstrable that a Yale graduate learned more than in his four years than did a graduate of Cal State Stanislaus .
So university presidents at Princeton , Yale , Stanford , and Columbia , know that by the standards of BLM their brand names must be changed .
But to do so is synonymous with multi-billion-dollar losses and the destruction of centuries-old @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pander to the mob the way a Roman would-be emperor outbid rivals seeking to win over the Praetorian Guard .
The truth is that the COVID-19 epidemic , the lockdown , and the rioting were seen by the Left , the media , and now the Democratic Party as a renewed effort in this election year to do what Robert Mueller , Ukraine , and impeachment had not – abort the presidency of Donald Trump , or make it impossible for him to be reelected .
So Trump was to be reconfigured as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ George Floyd .
Then he was smeared as a Herbert Hoover who supposedly crashed the economy all on his own .
And then he became a Typhoid Mary purveyor of death who sickened and killed tens of thousands of Americans at his rallies in a way millions at left-wing protests did not .
To that end , almost daily , entire fantasies were birthed , floated , crashed , and then were replaced by new hoaxes .
The strategy was that while one lie might be refuted , the bigger and more numerous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ narrative could be fabricated .
Consequently , the last two weeks , in succession we were told by the media that a noose was left in a NASCAR garage as a racist threat to NASCAR ’ s only major African-American driver , typical of Trump ’ s racist America ; that Donald Trump , in dejection and self-incrimination , was soon to quit rather than face the humiliation of a landslide defeat in November ; that the president knowingly rejected intelligence that the Russians were paying bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Putin ; and that Trump went to Mount Rushmore to honor racist presidents and dishonor sacred Native American land .
All were not just lies , but respectively unimaginative and banal successors to similarly long ago discredited lies – the Jussie Smollett hoax , the “ Trump never wished to be president in the first place ” hoax , the Russian “ collusion ” hoax , and the hoax that Trump ’ s presence turns once esteemed monuments that prior presidents , most recently Barack Obama , visited into racist dog whistles .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Joe Biden has no cognitive disabilities .
That he does was the consensus of one in five polled Democratic voters , of many of his own primary rivals in numerous Democratic debates , of handlers who bragged that his basement quarantine need not end because it resulted in him outpolling Trump , of a scramble to turn the vice-presidential nomination into a veritable presidential bid , and in a litany of gaffes , blank outs , and tragic memory lapses of familiar names , places , and common referents .
Biden finally came @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tele-fundraising and talk to a few preselected reporters .
He almost immediately blasted a reporter as a “ lying dog face.
” In one of his next appearances , his opening statement started with “ I am Joe Biden ’ s husband , even as the liberal media insisted “ Joe ” was “ Jill.
” There is now a Biden-inspired cottage industry of arguing that what Biden is recorded as saying is not what he was saying – on the theory that he so poorly pronounces words that they can become almost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is cynically using a cognitively challenged candidate for the purpose of winning an election and then replacing him with a far-left vice president who otherwise likely would never have been elected .
FDR and the Democratic Party did something similar in his successful fourth-term bid in 1944 because of FDR ’ s anticipated early death in office – but in matters of hiding physical rather than cognitive impairment .
Moreover , at least that dishonest gambit was undertaken in order to prevent a socialist takeover of the United States by jettisoning the hard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In 2020 , the effort is not to ensure that a socialist not be appointed president who otherwise would not have been elected , but rather to ensure that she will be .
The brand of all cultural revolutions is untruth about the past and present in order to control the future .
Why we have let this happen to our country is the only mystery left .
Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian , columnist , former classics professor , and scholar of ancient warfare .
He was a professor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fresno , and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University ’ s Hoover Institution .
He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004 .
Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush .
Hanson is also a farmer ( growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma , California ) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism .
He is the author most recently of The Second World Wars : How the First Global @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Books ) .

by Victor Davis Hanson
The current revolution is based on a series of lies, misrepresentations, and distortions, whose weight will soon sink it.
Viral confusion
Unfortunately few in authority have been more wrong, and yet more self-righteously wrong, than the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci. Given his long service as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his stature during the AIDS crisis, he has rightly been held up by the media as the gold standard of coronavirus information. The media has constructed Fauci as a constant corrective of Trump’s supposed “lies” about the utility of travel bans, analogies with a bad flu year, and logical endorsement of hydroxychloroquine as a “what do you have to lose” possible therapy.
But the omnipresent Fauci himself unfortunately has now lost credibility. The reason is that he has offered authoritative advice about facts, which either were not known or could not have been known at the time of his declarations.
Since January, Fauci has variously advised the nation both that the coronavirus probably was unlikely to cause a major health crisis in the United States and later that it might yet kill 240,000 Americans. In January, he praised China for its transparent handling of the coronavirus epidemic, not much later he conceded that perhaps they’d done a poor job of that. He has cautioned that the virus both poses low risks and, later, high risks, for Americans. Wearing masks, Fauci warned, was both of little utility and yet, later, essential. Hydroxychloroquine, he huffed, had little utility; when studies showed that it did, he still has kept mostly silent.
At various times, he emphasized that social distancing and avoiding optional activities were mandatory, but earlier that blind dating and going on cruise ships were permissible. Fauci weighed in on the inadvisability of restarting businesses prematurely, but he has displayed less certainty about the millions of demonstrators and rioters in the streets for a month violating quarantines. The point is not that he is human like all of us, but that in each of these cases he asserted such contradictions with near-divine certainty – and further confused the public in extremis.
In terms of how the United States “fared,” it is simply untrue that Europe embraced superior social policies in containing the virus. The only somewhat reliable assessments of viral lethality are population numbers and deaths by COVID-19, although the latter is often in dispute.
By such rubrics, the United States, so far, has fared better than most of the major European countries – France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, and Belgium – in terms of deaths per million. Germany is the one major exception. But if blame is to be allotted to public officials for the United States having a higher fatality rate than Germany, then the cause is most likely governors of high-death, Eastern Seaboard states – New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut in particular. They either sent the infected into rest homes, or did not early on ensure that their mass transit systems were sanitized daily as well as practicing social distancing.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, more than any other regional or national leader, is culpable for decisions that doomed thousands of elderly patients. He did not just suggest long-term-care facilities receive active COVID-19 patients, but ordered them to take them – knowing at the time that the disease in its lethal manifestations targeted the elderly, infirm, and bedridden.
Then in shameful fashion, after thousands died, Cuomo claimed that either the facilities themselves or Donald Trump were responsible for the deaths. In truth, in the United States, the coronavirus is largely a fatal disease in two senses: the vulnerable in just four states on the Eastern Seaboard that account for about 12 percent of the nation’s population but close to half of its total COVID-19 fatalities, and/or patients in rest homes or those over 65 years old with comorbidities.
Why are there currently spikes in cases among young people in warmer states and those of less population density in late June? No one is certain. But one likely reason is that millions of protestors for nearly a month crammed the nation’s cities, suburbs, and towns, shouting and screaming without masks, violating social distancing, and often without observant hand washing and sanitizing – most often with official exemption or media and political approval.
The period of exposure and incubation is over, and the resulting new cases – for the most part asymptomatic and clustered among the young – are thus no surprise. Still, what is inconvenient is the rise in these cases – given that the Left either had claimed its mass demonstrations would not spread the disease, or, if they would, the resulting contagion was an affordable price to pay for the cry of the heart protests.
Perhaps, but the real cost of four weeks of protesting, rioting, and looting was to undermine the authority of state officials to enforce blatant violations of the quarantine. Obviously, if some can march with impunity in phalanxes of screaming, shoulder-to-shoulder protestors, while others are jailed as individuals trying to restart a business, then the state has lost its credibility with people and they will simply ignore further edicts as they see fit. Now what adjudicates quarantines are the people’s own calibrations of their own safety.
Mismanagement of the virus? There have been four disastrous official policy decisions: sending patients into rest homes; allowing millions en masse for political reasons to violate state mandates on masks and social distancing; retroactively attempting to reissue quarantine standards that their advocates and authors had themselves earlier de facto destroyed; and consistently issuing pandemic alerts solely on the flawed basis of new positive cases, without distinguishing those who were asymptomatic, or who were infected and recovered without ever being tested, or who were asymptomatic and tested positive for antibodies, or who were only briefly ill, recovered, and by no means still a case-patient.
Endemic Racial Violence?
Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other revolutionary groups hijacked the tragic death of George Floyd. Within hours they created a mythology of rampant white police lethal attacks on innocent black victims. But that trope, too, was without a factual basis.
The wrongful deaths of unarmed African-Americans in custody have been on the decline, is far less than the number of police murdered per year, less than the number of white suspects killed, and proportionally fewer, in terms of percentages of those arrested by police, than other racial groups.
In rare interracial violence, blacks are five times more likely to attack whites than vice versa. There is a tragic war against young, black males – over 7,000 murdered per year – but it is an urban genocide of sort perpetrated in liberal cities, governed by liberal mayors and governors, and overseen by liberal police chiefs. The shooters are overwhelmingly other black males.
Somehow those facts were distorted by the Left into a trope that George Floyd was typical of an epidemic of white-generated lethal racial hatred. One can certainly argue about systematic racism as being a factor in all these asymmetries, but that is not what the rioting and their apologists have done in trafficking in accusations that have no data to support them.
Iconoclasm Redux
There is no logic to statue toppling, name changing, or culture canceling other than the quest to assert power, humiliate authorities, and create crises where they do not exist in order to manufacture a faux state of emergency – in service of a political agenda. In some sense, whether any statues fall is contingent entirely on the lack of resistance.
We know this because the ignorant rioters and protestors cannot explain why monuments to Ulysses S. Grant, Cervantes, black Civil War veterans, or Abraham Lincoln need to be toppled and destroyed as much as a statue of Robert E. Lee. We are not told why the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton is canceled out, but not the Wilson Center in Washington, or why a memorial to President Washington is targeted for defacement but not the hit play, “Hamilton,” another founder who at one time owned slaves. And what or who, if any, exactly is to replace our fallen luminaries? Name the most iconic – Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, or Che Guevarra and the current rules of perfection would disqualify them all.
The abettors of the madness – corporations, the Democratic National Committee, universities, and the media – are not so mad. Yale, named for a slave owner, is now mostly a brand name, not a certification of a first-class, disinterested, and classically liberal education.
Take the elite stamp away, and what replaces it might as well be an online degree mill – given that it is no longer so demonstrable that a Yale graduate learned more than in his four years than did a graduate of Cal State Stanislaus.
So university presidents at Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and Columbia, know that by the standards of BLM their brand names must be changed. But to do so is synonymous with multi-billion-dollar losses and the destruction of centuries-old brands. Perhaps that is why they pander to the mob the way a Roman would-be emperor outbid rivals seeking to win over the Praetorian Guard.
Trial Balloon Lies
The truth is that the COVID-19 epidemic, the lockdown, and the rioting were seen by the Left, the media, and now the Democratic Party as a renewed effort in this election year to do what Robert Mueller, Ukraine, and impeachment had not – abort the presidency of Donald Trump, or make it impossible for him to be reelected.
So Trump was to be reconfigured as a racist responsible for the death of George Floyd. Then he was smeared as a Herbert Hoover who supposedly crashed the economy all on his own. And then he became a Typhoid Mary purveyor of death who sickened and killed tens of thousands of Americans at his rallies in a way millions at left-wing protests did not.
To that end, almost daily, entire fantasies were birthed, floated, crashed, and then were replaced by new hoaxes. The strategy was that while one lie might be refuted, the bigger and more numerous the lies, the more a continuous narrative could be fabricated.
Consequently, the last two weeks, in succession we were told by the media that a noose was left in a NASCAR garage as a racist threat to NASCAR’s only major African-American driver, typical of Trump’s racist America; that Donald Trump, in dejection and self-incrimination, was soon to quit rather than face the humiliation of a landslide defeat in November; that the president knowingly rejected intelligence that the Russians were paying bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan, as part of his obeisance to Vladimir Putin; and that Trump went to Mount Rushmore to honor racist presidents and dishonor sacred Native American land.
All were not just lies, but respectively unimaginative and banal successors to similarly long ago discredited lies – the Jussie Smollett hoax, the “Trump never wished to be president in the first place” hoax, the Russian “collusion” hoax, and the hoax that Trump’s presence turns once esteemed monuments that prior presidents, most recently Barack Obama, visited into racist dog whistles.
Then there was the monstrous lie that Joe Biden has no cognitive disabilities. That he does was the consensus of one in five polled Democratic voters, of many of his own primary rivals in numerous Democratic debates, of handlers who bragged that his basement quarantine need not end because it resulted in him outpolling Trump, of a scramble to turn the vice-presidential nomination into a veritable presidential bid, and in a litany of gaffes, blank outs, and tragic memory lapses of familiar names, places, and common referents.
Biden finally came out of his bunker to do some tele-fundraising and talk to a few preselected reporters. He almost immediately blasted a reporter as a “lying dog face.” In one of his next appearances, his opening statement started with “I am Joe Biden’s husband, even as the liberal media insisted “Joe” was “Jill.” There is now a Biden-inspired cottage industry of arguing that what Biden is recorded as saying is not what he was saying – on the theory that he so poorly pronounces words that they can become almost anything you wish.
What is cruel is cynically using a cognitively challenged candidate for the purpose of winning an election and then replacing him with a far-left vice president who otherwise likely would never have been elected.
FDR and the Democratic Party did something similar in his successful fourth-term bid in 1944 because of FDR’s anticipated early death in office – but in matters of hiding physical rather than cognitive impairment. Moreover, at least that dishonest gambit was undertaken in order to prevent a socialist takeover of the United States by jettisoning the hard leftist, Vice President Henry Wallace.
In 2020, the effort is not to ensure that a socialist not be appointed president who otherwise would not have been elected, but rather to ensure that she will be.
The brand of all cultural revolutions is untruth about the past and present in order to control the future. Why we have let this happen to our country is the only mystery left.
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Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He was a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Hanson is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author most recently of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict was Fought and Won (Basic Books).


thetennesseestar--2020-07-07--Crom Carmichael: If You Are a Black or Hispanic Person That Cares About Children’s Education Then Do

Crom Carmichael: If You Are a Black or Hispanic Person That Cares About Children’s Education Then Donald Trump is the Clear Choice for President

Live from Music Row Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville ’ s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio .
During the second hour , Carmichael weighed in on Joe Biden ’ s recent advocacy for teachers and not students in his endorsement of the National Education Association ( NEA ) during a virtual assembly last Friday .
He stated that Donald Trump is the clear choice for Blacks , Hispanics , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about their children ’ s education .
Leahy : We are joined in the studio now by our good friend and the original all-star panelist , the man who builds the edifice of logic brick by brick Crom Carmichael .
Crom , you are finding something interesting of note on the news here today .
Carmichael : Michael , how are you , sir ?
Carmichael : I ’ m going to try and put this up to my microphone and hopefully it will play .
Carmichael : ( Laughter ) This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ me .
He said what do you think this is about ?
And the reporter says , we tried to reach out to the man who died in this pursuit but he was unavailable for comment .
( Leahy laughs ) and she says that to the TV cameras .
Carmichael : With a straight face .
My grandson asked me what I thought was going on here and I said , she ’ s applying for a job at CNN .
( Laughter ) You have to prove in order to get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that you are willing to say anything that your superiors tell you to say .
Leahy : I am totally buying into your premise that these talking heads of CNN , NBC , and MSNBC are just puppets .
Leahy : Who are not that bright .
Leahy : Who are paid 10 times what they are worth .
Carmichael : At least !
At least 10 times .
Leahy : In order to basically spout off the left-wing dogma .
By the way , we have some breaking news .
Here ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tell you what it is .
Carmichael : That should be our new intro to Joe Biden .
Leahy : That ’ s from Young Frankenstein .
It ’ s alive !
It ’ s alive !
( Carmichael laughs ) So he gave a speech to the National Education Association and The Wall Street Journal has a story about that .
I just want to read it to you because you know we ’ ve talked about this before .
Education is really the civil rights issue of today .
Leahy : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and others are not getting a fair shake because they are stuck in these awful public schools .
Carmichael : No they are government-run .
Leahy : Government-run schools as opposed to the charter schools .
Carmichael : Because charter schools are paid for by the public .
Leahy : Right .
Here ’ s the headline at The Wall Street Journal .
Joe Biden Bows to the Teachers Union .
Here is a place where Joe Biden differs from his old boss .
President Obama had fraught relations with the teacher @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which in 2014 called unsuccessfully for the resignation Secretary of Education Arne Duncan .
Mr. Biden seeking the NEA ’ s endorsement at a virtual assembly on Friday pledged his loyalty to the union noting that his wife is a member “ you don ’ t just have a partner in the White House , you ’ ll have an NEA member in the White House and if I ’ m not listening I ’ ll be sleeping alone in the Lincoln bedroom.
” His wife is a community college professor .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ special interest group with that kind of amorous devotion , the Journal writes , the caterwauling in the press would never end .
What about this line from Mr. Biden , this is going to be a teacher-oriented Department of Education .
And their comment is , oh , not a student-oriented one ?
And then what ’ s interesting Biden did not get a question about school choice during Friday ’ s forum .
But he ’ s made clear he believes the union dogma which says no privately funded charter school @ @ @ @ @ @ @ penny of federal money .
Now the Trump campaign has jumped on his previous statements and said if he ’ s the president , none of the current Secretary of Education ’ s Betsy DeVos policies including school choice and charter schools would be implemented .
So they jumped on that saying he would end charter schools .
There ’ s a little bit more wiggle room there .
But it wouldn ’ t surprise me if he does .
Carmichael : Michael , based on what you just read to me I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wiggle room at all .
He says not a penny will go to charter schools .
Is that what the article reports ?
Leahy : Not a penny of federal money .
It ’ s only eight percent .
Carmichael : Ok .
It doesn ’ t matter .
Eight percent of total federal dollars can be an awful lot of money to individual charter schools .
It can be the difference between whether they exist or they do not exist .
And so these are not small amounts of money .
Plus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government doing everything it can to stifle school choice then what you have in the White House is the enemy of Black people .
So let me paraphrase Joe Biden .
If you are a Black person and you care about education , you know who to vote for .
Let me just paraphrase that because Donald Trump has made it really really clear that school choice and charter schools are what he believes is the key .
And not just charter schools but vouchers .
Because vouchers can go to private schools @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Supreme Court ruled that private schools that have a church affiliation can still receive vouchers .
And that was over the vehement opposition by the Democrats and by the unions .
Leahy : And the four liberals on the Supreme Court .
Carmichael : Yes .
And so what you have is you now have a very very clear choice .
If you are a Black or Hispanic person who cares about the educational results for children who are of your color then Donald Trump is clearly your choice for President .
Clearly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interesting because as you point out , he left what would appear to be a little bit of wiggle room because if he implemented the policy as he ’ s announced it right now it would economically hurt these charter schools because there is eight percent of federal money that goes to them .
Carmichael : He can ’ t unilaterally destroy private schools .
If he ’ s the president he can ’ t do that .
Let ’ s put it this way Michael , he ’ s doing everything in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everything in his power to destroy charter schools .
Leahy : Yes .
That ’ s exactly right .
Carmichael : OK. Then that ’ s no wiggle room .
That ’ s not wiggle room because he can ’ t do something that he doesn ’ t have the power to do but he will use 100 percent of his power that he does have to destroy charter schools .
Leahy : Now my question to you Crom is we look at all the polls on this with choice , vouchers and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American community is like 65 percent support it .
Leahy : Now this is a disconnect when he is touting a policy that will hurt African Americans and President Trump is touting a policy that will help African Americans , how do you think that will translate when it comes down to real voting behavior with African Americans ?
Carmichael : We ’ ll see .
Let ’ s be clear about this .
I had said since you ’ ve invited back on your show that the Democrat Party is the party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of government .
It is not the party of the people .
And in this case , this is another clear situation where a Democrat could stand up and say I want to help Black children get a better education by giving their parents as many choices on where their child should go if possible .
He is doing the opposite because it is the government schools .
This kind of hearkens back to me to the 50s and 60s in Alabama and the southern states that were run by Democrats at that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ segregated colleges .
And it took the National Guard to force the Democrats to open schools .
If you are a Democrat you have to own up to this .
All this White privilege stuff , if you are a Democrat you have to own up to something that happened and if you are my age , happened during your lifetime .
And you didn ’ t do anything about it you Democrats that are out there .
And you ’ re not doing anything in Nashville by the way .
Nashville , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Hispanic children .
Carmichael : Terrible schools and the results are just terrible .
And there are some charter schools here in Nashville that are doing a wonderful job .
Leahy : Nashville Classical is doing great .
We did a story on that .
Carmichael : LEADS .
You have a number of charter schools that are doing a good job .
And the Democrats in this community , many of them are doing everything they can to stifle .
Leahy : All of them are .
All of them want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nine members are Democrats of the Metro School Board .
Carmichael : To get back to your question on how will this translate , if Black and Hispanic parents know , if they are informed about the differences and the media may try and cover it up , but if they are informed about the differences between Biden and Trump on education and education matters to them , then Trump will gain dramatically .
Leahy : That ’ s the key .
The quote from Biden , “ this is going to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wall Street Journal says , teachers first .
Put it on a bumper sticker Mr. Biden and hope people don ’ t notice the corollary is that students and especially poor minority students come second .
Listen to the full second hour here : Tune in weekdays from 5:00 – 8:00 a.m. to the Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy on Talk Radio 98.3 FM WLAC 1510 .
Listen online at iHeart Radio .
Photo “ Joe Biden ” by Gage Skidmore .
CC BY-SA 2.0 .

Live from Music Row Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio.
During the second hour, Carmichael weighed in on Joe Biden’s recent advocacy for teachers and not students in his endorsement of the National Education Association (NEA) during a virtual assembly last Friday. He stated that Donald Trump is the clear choice for Blacks, Hispanics, and other people of color that care about their children’s education.
Leahy: We are joined in the studio now by our good friend and the original all-star panelist, the man who builds the edifice of logic brick by brick Crom Carmichael. Crom, you are finding something interesting of note on the news here today.
Carmichael: Michael, how are you, sir?
Leahy: I’m great.
Carmichael: I’m going to try and put this up to my microphone and hopefully it will play.
(TV Reporter clip plays)
Carmichael: (Laughter) This is a reporter my grandson sent this to me. He said what do you think this is about? And the reporter says, we tried to reach out to the man who died in this pursuit but he was unavailable for comment. (Leahy laughs) and she says that to the TV cameras.
Leahy: With a straight face.
Carmichael: With a straight face. My grandson asked me what I thought was going on here and I said, she’s applying for a job at CNN. (Laughter) You have to prove in order to get on CNN, you have to prove that you are willing to say anything that your superiors tell you to say.
Leahy: I am totally buying into your premise that these talking heads of CNN, NBC, and MSNBC are just puppets.
Carmichael: Yes!
Leahy: Who are not that bright.
Carmichael: Yes!
Leahy: Who are paid 10 times what they are worth.
Carmichael: At least! At least 10 times.
Leahy: In order to basically spout off the left-wing dogma. By the way, we have some breaking news. Here’s the clip and I’ll tell you what it is.
(Young Frankenstein clip plays)
Leahy: Joe Biden gave a speech. (Laughs)
Carmichael: That should be our new intro to Joe Biden.
Leahy: That’s from Young Frankenstein. It’s alive! It’s alive! (Carmichael laughs) So he gave a speech to the National Education Association and The Wall Street Journal has a story about that. I just want to read it to you because you know we’ve talked about this before. Education is really the civil rights issue of today.
Carmichael: It absolutely is.
Leahy: And minority kids, Black, Hispanic, and others are not getting a fair shake because they are stuck in these awful public schools.
Carmichael: Government-run.
Leahy: Government-run public schools.
Carmichael: No they are government-run.
Leahy: Government-run schools as opposed to the charter schools.
Carmichael: Because charter schools are paid for by the public.
Leahy: Right. Here’s the headline at The Wall Street Journal. Joe Biden Bows to the Teachers Union. Here is a place where Joe Biden differs from his old boss. President Obama had fraught relations with the teacher unions including with the National Education Association which in 2014 called unsuccessfully for the resignation Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
Mr. Biden seeking the NEA’s endorsement at a virtual assembly on Friday pledged his loyalty to the union noting that his wife is a member “you don’t just have a partner in the White House, you’ll have an NEA member in the White House and if I’m not listening I’ll be sleeping alone in the Lincoln bedroom.”
His wife is a community college professor. If a Republican presidential candidate spoke to a special interest group with that kind of amorous devotion, the Journal writes, the caterwauling in the press would never end. What about this line from Mr. Biden, this is going to be a teacher-oriented Department of Education.
And their comment is, oh, not a student-oriented one? And then what’s interesting Biden did not get a question about school choice during Friday’s forum. But he’s made clear he believes the union dogma which says no privately funded charter school or private charter school would receive a penny of federal money.
Now the Trump campaign has jumped on his previous statements and said if he’s the president, none of the current Secretary of Education’s Betsy DeVos policies including school choice and charter schools would be implemented. So they jumped on that saying he would end charter schools. There’s a little bit more wiggle room there. But it wouldn’t surprise me if he does.
Carmichael: Michael, based on what you just read to me I don’t think there is any wiggle room at all. He says not a penny will go to charter schools. Is that what the article reports?
Leahy: Not a penny of federal money. It’s only eight percent.
Carmichael: Ok. It doesn’t matter. Eight percent of total federal dollars can be an awful lot of money to individual charter schools. It can be the difference between whether they exist or they do not exist. And so these are not small amounts of money. Plus also, when you have the national government doing everything it can to stifle school choice then what you have in the White House is the enemy of Black people. So let me paraphrase Joe Biden.
If you are a Black person and you care about education, you know who to vote for. Let me just paraphrase that because Donald Trump has made it really really clear that school choice and charter schools are what he believes is the key. And not just charter schools but vouchers.
Because vouchers can go to private schools. And now in Montana, the Supreme Court ruled that private schools that have a church affiliation can still receive vouchers. And that was over the vehement opposition by the Democrats and by the unions.
Leahy: And the four liberals on the Supreme Court.
Carmichael: Yes. And so what you have is you now have a very very clear choice. If you are a Black or Hispanic person who cares about the educational results for children who are of your color then Donald Trump is clearly your choice for President. Clearly.
Leahy: It’s very interesting because as you point out, he left what would appear to be a little bit of wiggle room because if he implemented the policy as he’s announced it right now it would economically hurt these charter schools because there is eight percent of federal money that goes to them.
Carmichael: He can’t unilaterally destroy private schools. If he’s the president he can’t do that. Let’s put it this way Michael, he’s doing everything in his power. He’s doing everything in his power to destroy charter schools.
Leahy: Yes. That’s exactly right.
Carmichael: OK. Then that’s no wiggle room. That’s not wiggle room because he can’t do something that he doesn’t have the power to do but he will use 100 percent of his power that he does have to destroy charter schools.
Leahy: Now my question to you Crom is we look at all the polls on this with choice, vouchers and charter schools, support within the African American community is like 65 percent support it.
Carmichael: Correct.
Leahy: Now this is a disconnect when he is touting a policy that will hurt African Americans and President Trump is touting a policy that will help African Americans, how do you think that will translate when it comes down to real voting behavior with African Americans?
Carmichael: We’ll see. Let’s be clear about this. I had said since you’ve invited back on your show that the Democrat Party is the party of government. It is the party of government. It is not the party of the people. And in this case, this is another clear situation where a Democrat could stand up and say I want to help Black children get a better education by giving their parents as many choices on where their child should go if possible.
He is doing the opposite because it is the government schools. This kind of hearkens back to me to the 50s and 60s in Alabama and the southern states that were run by Democrats at that time which had segregated schools and then segregated colleges. And it took the National Guard to force the Democrats to open schools.
If you are a Democrat you have to own up to this. All this White privilege stuff, if you are a Democrat you have to own up to something that happened and if you are my age, happened during your lifetime. And you didn’t do anything about it you Democrats that are out there. And you’re not doing anything in Nashville by the way. Nashville, Tennessee has lousy government-run schools for black and Hispanic children.
Leahy: Terrible schools.
Carmichael: Terrible schools and the results are just terrible. And there are some charter schools here in Nashville that are doing a wonderful job.
Leahy: Nashville Classical is doing great. We did a story on that.
Carmichael: LEADS. You have a number of charter schools that are doing a good job. And the Democrats in this community, many of them are doing everything they can to stifle.
Leahy: All of them are. All of them want to stifle the charter schools. All nine members are Democrats of the Metro School Board.
Carmichael: To get back to your question on how will this translate, if Black and Hispanic parents know, if they are informed about the differences and the media may try and cover it up, but if they are informed about the differences between Biden and Trump on education and education matters to them, then Trump will gain dramatically.
Leahy: That’s the key. The quote from Biden, “this is going to be a teacher-oriented department of education.” The Wall Street Journal says, teachers first. Put it on a bumper sticker Mr. Biden and hope people don’t notice the corollary is that students and especially poor minority students come second.
Listen to the full second hour here:

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Photo “Joe Biden” by Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 2.0.


thetennesseestar--2020-07-07--Support Exists for Tennessee Special Session to Address Stalled COVID-19 Liability Protection

Gov .
Bill Lee plans to call a special legislative session to take up COVID-19 liability protection that Tennessee lawmakers debated but did not pass last month .
While an executive order Lee signed Wednesday limits liability for licensed health care workers responding to the coronavirus , it leaves businesses , local governments and school districts across the state open to COVID-19-related lawsuits .
“ There is an urgent need for broad COVID-19 liability protection , ” Lt. Gov .
Randy McNally , R-Oak Ridge , tweeted last week .
“ [ Executive Order No .
53 ] is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is necessary .
Businesses need these protections to stay open , schools need them to re-open and local governments need them to continue providing essential services .
That can only be done through legislation.
” House Majority Leader William Lamberth , R-Portland , also shared his support for the governor ’ s executive order and signaled support for continued consideration of the issue .
“ I appreciate [ Gov .
Lee ] issuing an executive order to protect certain sectors of the medical community going forward , ” Lamberth said in a tweet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on liability protection that protects other businesses in a way that is in compliance with the Constitution.
” Legislatures in five of Tennessee ’ s eight neighboring states have passed COVID-19-related liability protections in various forms : Alabama , Arkansas , Georgia , Mississippi and North Carolina .
Tennessee ’ s business community said it ’ s time to join them .
“ It is critical for the Tennessee General Assembly to convene soon to pass COVID-19 safe harbor legislation because businesses , nonprofits , schools and churches are operating in an uncertain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brown , Tennessee state director of the National Federation of Independent Business .
“ There ’ s unfinished business for small business , and we continue to urge a special session to adopt sorely needed protections.
” In a letter urging Lee to call a special session last week , the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce said businesses are struggling to make ends meet .
“ For weeks , businesses have been calling for essential safe harbor protections in order to have the confidence to remain operational throughout this uncertain time .
Those protections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Chamber of Commerce wrote .
“ Throughout the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic , businesses have retrofit , repurposed , closed and/or reopened .
The Tennessee Chamber of Commerce is disappointed by past attempts to implement common sense safe harbor protections that simultaneously promote commonly accepted governmental public health protocols.
” As school districts make plans to bring students back this fall , educators also said there is work to be done , as school districts , schools and educators face liability issues .
“ Whether students return to brick and mortar , online @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , inevitably some person or organization will very likely bring a legal action against them , which will subsequently add to the cost of recovery from this pandemic , ” said J.C .
Bowman , executive director and CEO of Professional Educators of Tennessee .
“ Our fear is that some district or school may choose to simply not reopen if this matter remains unresolved.
” The Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents also has said it will work with the Legislature on the liability protection issue .
In considering what COVID-19 liability protection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Sen. Sara Kyle , D-Memphis , said it ’ s important to keep workers ’ health in mind , as well as businesses , and guard against making lawsuits inaccessible to those who need it .
“ Worker health is public health , ” Kyle said .
“ Given that state officials are failing to investigate and protect workers when it ’ s needed , workers should be able to use every available tool to hold employers accountable for following basic precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
” Kyle also said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ workers to hold employers accountable through civil lawsuits .
“ The scope of what has been proposed in this corporate immunity bill is too sweeping and unprecedented , ” she said .
“ It offers the same legal immunity for bad employers who cut corners and endanger their workers for short-term profit as it does for businesses that play by the rules .
This uncomfortable reality sets up a race-to-the-bottom for workplace safety.
” Lee has not yet called for a special session or specified the scope of legislative consideration .
Vivian Jones @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Square .

by Vivian Jones
Gov. Bill Lee plans to call a special legislative session to take up COVID-19 liability protection that Tennessee lawmakers debated but did not pass last month.
While an executive order Lee signed Wednesday limits liability for licensed health care workers responding to the coronavirus, it leaves businesses, local governments and school districts across the state open to COVID-19-related lawsuits.
“There is an urgent need for broad COVID-19 liability protection,” Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, tweeted last week. “[Executive Order No. 53] is a much-needed step but across the board protection is necessary. Businesses need these protections to stay open, schools need them to re-open and local governments need them to continue providing essential services. That can only be done through legislation.”
House Majority Leader William Lamberth, R-Portland, also shared his support for the governor’s executive order and signaled support for continued consideration of the issue.
“I appreciate [Gov. Lee] issuing an executive order to protect certain sectors of the medical community going forward,” Lamberth said in a tweet. “I expect conversations will continue on liability protection that protects other businesses in a way that is in compliance with the Constitution.”
Legislatures in five of Tennessee’s eight neighboring states have passed COVID-19-related liability protections in various forms: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina.
Tennessee’s business community said it’s time to join them.
“It is critical for the Tennessee General Assembly to convene soon to pass COVID-19 safe harbor legislation because businesses, nonprofits, schools and churches are operating in an uncertain, higher-risk environment,” said Jim Brown, Tennessee state director of the National Federation of Independent Business. “There’s unfinished business for small business, and we continue to urge a special session to adopt sorely needed protections.”
In a letter urging Lee to call a special session last week, the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce said businesses are struggling to make ends meet.
“For weeks, businesses have been calling for essential safe harbor protections in order to have the confidence to remain operational throughout this uncertain time. Those protections have yet to be provided,” the Chamber of Commerce wrote. “Throughout the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, businesses have retrofit, repurposed, closed and/or reopened. The Tennessee Chamber of Commerce is disappointed by past attempts to implement common sense safe harbor protections that simultaneously promote commonly accepted governmental public health protocols.”
As school districts make plans to bring students back this fall, educators also said there is work to be done, as school districts, schools and educators face liability issues.
“Whether students return to brick and mortar, online, or a combination of the two, inevitably some person or organization will very likely bring a legal action against them, which will subsequently add to the cost of recovery from this pandemic,” said J.C. Bowman, executive director and CEO of Professional Educators of Tennessee. “Our fear is that some district or school may choose to simply not reopen if this matter remains unresolved.”
The Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents also has said it will work with the Legislature on the liability protection issue.
In considering what COVID-19 liability protection will look like for Tennessee, however, Sen. Sara Kyle, D-Memphis, said it’s important to keep workers’ health in mind, as well as businesses, and guard against making lawsuits inaccessible to those who need it.
“Worker health is public health,” Kyle said. “Given that state officials are failing to investigate and protect workers when it’s needed, workers should be able to use every available tool to hold employers accountable for following basic precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.”
Kyle also said state law already makes it difficult for workers to hold employers accountable through civil lawsuits.
“The scope of what has been proposed in this corporate immunity bill is too sweeping and unprecedented,” she said. “It offers the same legal immunity for bad employers who cut corners and endanger their workers for short-term profit as it does for businesses that play by the rules. This uncomfortable reality sets up a race-to-the-bottom for workplace safety.”
Lee has not yet called for a special session or specified the scope of legislative consideration.
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Vivian Jones is a staff reporter at The Center Square.


thetennesseestar--2020-07-07--Bill Hagerty Says No to COVID-19 Mask Mandate During Signal Mountain Stop

U.S. Senate candidate Bill Hagerty reportedly said last weekend that governments in Tennessee should not require residents to wear a mask to guard themselves against COVID-19 , according to the Chattanooga-based WRCB .
Hagerty reportedly said this as he appeared alongside U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann ( R-TN-03 ) in Signal Mountain .
Fleischmann reportedly told WRCB that he agrees with Gov .
Bill Lee and thinks local authorities should decide .
Hagerty , however , “ doesn ’ t think there should be a mandate at all , ” the station reported .
“ I think Tennesseans are tired of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Hagerty reportedly said .
“ I think they ’ ll make the right decisions for themselves.
” As The Tennessee Star reported , Lee signed an executive order late last week granting the mayors of 89 counties the authority to issue local face mask mandates .
Six Tennessee counties – Sullivan , Knox , Hamilton , Davidson , Madison , and Shelby – have local health departments , and therefore already have the authority to issue mask requirements as needed , Lee ’ s office explained .
The Metro Nashville and Davidson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in favor of requiring residents to wear masks in public places .
Under ordinary circumstances , the remaining 89 counties don ’ t have the authority to issue such requirements because they don ’ t operate local health departments .
Lee ’ s Executive Order 54 grants the mayors of those counties the authority to issue local mask requirements in the event of a significant rise in COVID-19 cases .
The executive order requires counties to include a number of exemptions , such as for children under the age of 12 or people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health conditions .
Lee has strongly encouraged Tennesseans to wear face masks , recently launching a “ TN Strong Mask Movement , ” but has refrained from issuing a statewide mask mandate .
Williamson County residents must wear face coverings or masks in public to fight COVID-19 starting Tuesday .
County residents will have to wear masks or other coverings in public until at least Aug. 3 .
County Mayor Rogers Anderson announced the news Monday in a press release on the Williamson County Government ’ s Facebook page .
In a separate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said he acted on other people ’ s advice .
“ Many other health care professionals think this is the best approach , as all of you know , ” Anderson said , even though he did not specify which health care professionals .
Chris Butler is an investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star .
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Background Photo “ People Wearing Facemasks ” by Studio Incendo .
CC BY-SA 2.0 .

U.S. Senate candidate Bill Hagerty reportedly said last weekend that governments in Tennessee should not require residents to wear a mask to guard themselves against COVID-19, according to the Chattanooga-based WRCB.
Hagerty reportedly said this as he appeared alongside U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN-03) in Signal Mountain.
Fleischmann reportedly told WRCB that he agrees with Gov. Bill Lee and thinks local authorities should decide. Hagerty, however, “doesn’t think there should be a mandate at all,” the station reported.
“I think Tennesseans are tired of mandates period. I trust Tennesseans,” Hagerty reportedly said.
“I think they’ll make the right decisions for themselves.”
As The Tennessee Star reported, Lee signed an executive order late last week granting the mayors of 89 counties the authority to issue local face mask mandates. Six Tennessee counties – Sullivan, Knox, Hamilton, Davidson, Madison, and Shelby – have local health departments, and therefore already have the authority to issue mask requirements as needed, Lee’s office explained.
The Metro Nashville and Davidson County Board of Health voted June 26 in favor of requiring residents to wear masks in public places.
Under ordinary circumstances, the remaining 89 counties don’t have the authority to issue such requirements because they don’t operate local health departments.
Lee’s Executive Order 54 grants the mayors of those counties the authority to issue local mask requirements in the event of a significant rise in COVID-19 cases.
The executive order requires counties to include a number of exemptions, such as for children under the age of 12 or people who have trouble breathing because of underlying health conditions.
Lee has strongly encouraged Tennesseans to wear face masks, recently launching a “TN Strong Mask Movement,” but has refrained from issuing a statewide mask mandate.
Williamson County residents must wear face coverings or masks in public to fight COVID-19 starting Tuesday.
County residents will have to wear masks or other coverings in public until at least Aug. 3.
County Mayor Rogers Anderson announced the news Monday in a press release on the Williamson County Government’s Facebook page.
In a separate Facebook post, a video, Anderson said he acted on other people’s advice.
“Many other health care professionals think this is the best approach, as all of you know,” Anderson said, even though he did not specify which health care professionals.
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Chris Butler is an investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star. Follow Chris on Facebook. Email tips to [email protected]
Photo “Bill Hagerty” by Bill Hagerty. Background Photo “People Wearing Facemasks” by Studio Incendo. CC BY-SA 2.0.


thetennesseestar--2020-07-07--Slow Processing, Lost Markets Mean New Challenges for Livestock Farmers

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on many sectors of the economy and livestock farming is one of them .
Closures of public spaces such as schools , restaurants , bars , and hotels mean decreased demand for meat products .
In addition , outbreaks of coronavirus-caused illness at meatpacking plants caused some large operations to shut down temporarily , swamping small mom-and-pop operations that are now booked into spring 2021 .
“ We ’ re lucky in Illinois in that Smithfield only closed for five days , and nationwide we ’ re back to about 90 percent capacity , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communications for the Illinois Pork Producers Association .
But that still isn ’ t enough .
“ There is no middle man , ” she said a telephone interview about the size of processing plants .
There are huge operations like Smithfield and small shops that can handle maybe 25 hogs a week .
“ That ’ s a huge difference , and that ’ s why we swamped them so quickly , ” she said .
“ Smithfield was down for five days , and they process over 12,000 pigs per day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s how many pigs immediately didn ’ t have a home.
” Jackson said farmers are putting their pigs on high-fiber diets so that they don ’ t grow too large to be processed when their time does come .
And so far , they ’ ve been able to avoid euthanizing animals .
They do , however , have to worry about excess meat stockpiling .
“ Even if you get to the processor , it ’ s sitting in the warehouse someplace , in refrigerators and freezers somewhere , waiting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ open back up , ” Jackson said .
“ So the forecasted prices are actually really , really bad for the fourth quarter of 2020 because again , we ’ re gon na have too much supply and not enough demand.
” She said federal programs such as direct grants and buying food for food banks “ took a little bit of the supply off our hands , so these programs have been hugely beneficial for our farmers , but it ’ s not enough .
It will never make some whole .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Square .

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on many sectors of the economy and livestock farming is one of them.
Closures of public spaces such as schools, restaurants, bars, and hotels mean decreased demand for meat products. In addition, outbreaks of coronavirus-caused illness at meatpacking plants caused some large operations to shut down temporarily, swamping small mom-and-pop operations that are now booked into spring 2021.
“We’re lucky in Illinois in that Smithfield only closed for five days, and nationwide we’re back to about 90 percent capacity,” said Jenny Jackson, director of communications for the Illinois Pork Producers Association.
But that still isn’t enough.
“There is no middle man,” she said a telephone interview about the size of processing plants. There are huge operations like Smithfield and small shops that can handle maybe 25 hogs a week.
“That’s a huge difference, and that’s why we swamped them so quickly,” she said. “Smithfield was down for five days, and they process over 12,000 pigs per day. So 12,000 times five. That’s how many pigs immediately didn’t have a home.”
Jackson said farmers are putting their pigs on high-fiber diets so that they don’t grow too large to be processed when their time does come. And so far, they’ve been able to avoid euthanizing animals.
They do, however, have to worry about excess meat stockpiling.
“Even if you get to the processor, it’s sitting in the warehouse someplace, in refrigerators and freezers somewhere, waiting for restaurants and foodservice and schools to open back up,” Jackson said. “So the forecasted prices are actually really, really bad for the fourth quarter of 2020 because again, we’re gonna have too much supply and not enough demand.”
She said federal programs such as direct grants and buying food for food banks “took a little bit of the supply off our hands, so these programs have been hugely beneficial for our farmers, but it’s not enough. It will never make some whole.
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Written by staff reporters at The Center Square.


thetennesseestar--2020-07-07--Gov. Lee Announces Law Enforcement Reform Partnership to Improve Police Training, Policies

Gov .
Bill Lee announced a new partnership last week with law enforcement agencies across the state in an effort to reform policing in Tennessee .
“ The intent of this partnership is the desire to ensure law enforcement are consistently reflecting the values of the communities they serve , ” Lee explained in a press release .
“ Horrifying , preventable events across the nation have challenged us all to confront the difference between law enforcement and police brutality and also challenged us to examine troubling , inconsistent citizen experiences with law enforcement .
I am proud of our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ensure Tennesseans ’ rights , dignity and humanity be at the forefront of policing , ” he added .
The new partnership includes the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police , the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation , The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security , the Tennessee Highway Patrol , The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance , Tennessee Sheriffs ’ Association and the Peace Officer Standards & Training Commission .
Under the partnership , the agencies will review and update their use of force and duty to intervene policies within the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ office said use of force policies will be updated to ensure chokeholds are not used as a restraining technique , while updated duty to intervene policies will require officers to step in when a fellow officer uses excessive force .
“ The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security looks forward to supporting local agencies in the review of policies , ” said Commissioner Jeff Long .
“ The Tennessee Highway Patrol has recently conducted a thorough review of its use of force policy in comparison with the International Association of Chiefs of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and National Tactical Officers Association .
The department ’ s policies go above and beyond the recommendations for established guidelines and we advocate for this approach across Tennessee , ” he continued .
Lee said the Peace Officer Standards & Training Commission will make the National Decertification Index more accessible to all law enforcement agencies in Tennessee .
The index is a national registry that tracks officers who have lost licenses or certificates because of misconduct .
The Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy , meanwhile , will update its curriculum to require @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s duty to intervene , interaction with protesters , and building positive community relationships .
“ We look forward to working with law enforcement partners to continue to provide highly professional , world-class training through our Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy , ” said Commissioner Hodgen Mainda .
“ Training enhancements will ensure we our force is one of the best in the nation.
” Anthony Gockowski is managing editor of The Minnesota Sun and The Ohio Star .
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Gov. Bill Lee announced a new partnership last week with law enforcement agencies across the state in an effort to reform policing in Tennessee.
“The intent of this partnership is the desire to ensure law enforcement are consistently reflecting the values of the communities they serve,” Lee explained in a press release.
“Horrifying, preventable events across the nation have challenged us all to confront the difference between law enforcement and police brutality and also challenged us to examine troubling, inconsistent citizen experiences with law enforcement. I am proud of our law enforcement agencies for spearheading efforts to ensure Tennesseans’ rights, dignity and humanity be at the forefront of policing,” he added.
The new partnership includes the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, the Tennessee Highway Patrol, The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, Tennessee Sheriffs’ Association and the Peace Officer Standards & Training Commission.
Under the partnership, the agencies will review and update their use of force and duty to intervene policies within the next 60 days.
Lee’s office said use of force policies will be updated to ensure chokeholds are not used as a restraining technique, while updated duty to intervene policies will require officers to step in when a fellow officer uses excessive force.
“The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security looks forward to supporting local agencies in the review of policies,” said Commissioner Jeff Long.
“The Tennessee Highway Patrol has recently conducted a thorough review of its use of force policy in comparison with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, State and Provincial Academy Directors, and National Tactical Officers Association. The department’s policies go above and beyond the recommendations for established guidelines and we advocate for this approach across Tennessee,” he continued.
Lee said the Peace Officer Standards & Training Commission will make the National Decertification Index more accessible to all law enforcement agencies in Tennessee. The index is a national registry that tracks officers who have lost licenses or certificates because of misconduct.
The Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy, meanwhile, will update its curriculum to require training on de-escalation techniques, an officer’s duty to intervene, interaction with protesters, and building positive community relationships.
“We look forward to working with law enforcement partners to continue to provide highly professional, world-class training through our Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy,” said Commissioner Hodgen Mainda. “Training enhancements will ensure we our force is one of the best in the nation.”
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Anthony Gockowski is managing editor of The Minnesota Sun and The Ohio Star. Follow Anthony on Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].