Never Assume Anything

1.  Women cannot achieve the way men can.  According to a 9/6/21 piece in the Wall Street Journal, women comprised 59.5% of college students, compared to 40.5% for men, at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year.  And, in a rather astonishing fact, women obtained 13 million more academic degrees at all levels than men, during the period 1982 to the present.

While some will cheer this data, it should at least give us pause.  What are the implications for society if women delay/reject marriage and family?  (No nasty emails please.  I have two daughters who are very accomplished, with advanced degrees as well.)  And why are so many fewer men applying to colleges than are women (2.8 million men vs 3.8 million women) for the 2021-2022 academic year.  I think that there are many questions to be asked.

2.  Structural racism is real.  According to a 9/7/21 Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal by William McGurn, there is a serious racial problem in our schools.  According to McGurn, "Of the 27 U.S. urban school districts that reported their results for 2019 (in the National Assessment of Education Progress report) - from Boston and Chicago to Fort Worth, Texas and Los Angeles - not a single one can say a majority of the black eighth graders in their care are proficient in either math or reading.  It isn't even close."

And McGurn discusses that it is not for lack of money.  But, instead, the Democrats and the left object to what may actually aid black students: vouchers.  Vouchers that can be used for private schools or parochial schools.  As long as the teachers unions continue to contribute large sums to Democrat campaigns, do not expect those elected politicians to vote in favor of anything that will negatively impact those teachers.   

3.  Joe Biden is a nice guy.  Does anyone seriously still believe this?  After he and his staff repeatedly said that they had no authority to issue a vaccine mandate, Biden then issued a vaccine mandate.  Biden:  "  We've been patient.  But our patience is wearing thin.  And your refusal has cost all of us."  (Full disclosure.  I previously reported in this blog that I received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine.  And that I believe in vaccines.  Since then, I have had a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine.)

My beef with Biden is not that he wanted to encourage people to get vaccinated.  Rather, it was the threatening manner in which he did it.  Threatening people is not the way to get them on your side.   

4.  Joe Biden supports women.  In a 9/22/21 editorial, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Taliban would not be allowing girls to return to school.  Also, no women were named as part of their new government.  We have seen the way that women protesters have been beaten by the Taliban.  Said the Journal:  "No single act by an American President has done more harm to more women than Mr. Biden's willy-nilly withdrawal from Afghanistan.  Noble but feckless exhortations at Turtle Bay (where the UN is located in New York City and where Biden spoke yesterday) can't make up for that reality."