SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE – FROM NATIONAL PULSE:    Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and her appointees have repeatedly met with and hosted leaders from a leading organization in the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front.  The United Front functions as China’s premier influence and propaganda organization, raising flags with the U.S. government’s Economic and Security Review Commission.  It seeks to “co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and coerce American leaders “to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies.”  What’s more, the State Department has described the group as seeking to “directly and malignly influence” U.S. state and local leaders.  Despite these warnings, Bowser and her appointees repeatedly met with the United Front’s Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC). The group, led by the daughter of a former Chinese Communist Party paramount leader, is the “public face” of the United Front and “avowedly an arm of the party-state.”  This is the mayor of our capital city, and, if the radical leftists get their way, our next state.  This association requires a major congressional investigation, but it will never happen. 

OUR ENEMIES ARE LAUGHING – FROM FOX:   Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has called for an investigation into a Baltimore High School after a local investigation found scores of students at the school are failing.  A senior at Augusta Fells Savage (AFS) Institute of Visual Arts failed all but three classes over four years and still graduated at the top half of his class with a 0.13 GPA, according to a Fox 45 Baltimore report published earlier this week.  "This is something I’m going to ask the inspector general to immediately look into. They have to get to the bottom of this and find out who’s responsible," Hogan told the outlet on Thursday.  He added that the report was "far worse than anything" he has "heard in the whole time" he has been governor.  Tiffany France, the mother of the failing student, thought her son would be receiving his diploma in June but was surprised to discover that he is being sent back to the ninth grade to start over.  Just the tip of the iceberg.  And don't think there'll be any real improvement.  The failures will be blamed on "racist" tests, and "consultants" will be brought in to paper over the real problems.  The losers:  black students.  The winners:  the education industry.

March 7, 2021