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Rep. Hunt: Racial Argument Against Voter ID Is ‘Insulting’

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/19/rep-hunt-racial-argument-against-voter-id-is-insulting-n4954167

Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) emphasized to Congress the importance of passing the election integrity SAVE America Act and rejected woke arguments against voter ID as racist and condescending.

Democrats’ idiotic arguments against requiring ID to vote include claiming that black Americans are somehow mysteriously unable to get IDs. Aside from the obvious elitism and racial prejudice of such a claim, it is practically impossible to live in America and not have identification. They are required at doctor’s offices, airports, bars, liquor stores, car rentals, welfare programs, and many more places. But somehow expecting IDs at polling places is unreasonable?

Hunt sarcastically said, “I've been black for my entire life. I had to bring up the most racist thing I've ever heard [which] is the insinuation by Democrats that black and brown Americans are too stupid to get an ID to vote, just like everybody else.”

The congressman continued, “I call this the soft bigotry of low expectations. Figuring out how to vote in this country is a very low bar, and we could all figure it out regard of your race, religion, color, or creed, and we should all want free and fair elections.”

TBH, blacks leaders should have been making this argument - the claim that blacks are too stupid to get REAL ID compliant drivers licenses and/or state IDs - very public should have happened months ago. The misleaders parroting the Dems' argument demonstrate their partisanship. The ones not shouting this counter-argument from the proverbial rooftops puzzle me. Their lack of or muted response make the Dems' claim seem unanswerable.

The same is true, BTW, of the Dems' absurd claim that married women will be unable to vote. The Dems need to have their racist and misogynist absurdities rammed down their throats and yanked out the other end.

Arkansas Student Scores Improve After State Rejected DEI and Focused on Fundamentals

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/arkansas-student-scores-improve-after-state-rejected-dei-and-focused-on-fundamentals/

Arkansas children have shown significant improvement in their education on the statewide exam, the Arkansas Teaching, Learning, and Assessment System (ATLAS), since the state passed the LEARNS Act in 2023, offering a blueprint for other states.

“The 2026 ATLAS exam scores confirm what we’re hearing from educators across the Natural State: Arkansas LEARNS is working and students across Arkansas are doing better because of it. We took education back to the basics to focus on what really matters, and our students’ success will power our state’s future for years to come,” boasted Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “The message these scores send is clear: now is the time to double down on the successes of the LEARNS Act and continue to pursue the strategy we know is helping more students than ever before thrive.”

The proficiency numbers are fantastic. Everything has gone up since 2024:

* Proficiency across all subjects and grade levels: +20% from 25% to 42%
* Math: 36.4% to 44.2%
* Science: 35.6% to 44%
* English language arts: 33.8% to 39.5%

Other stats:

* Students performing at the lowest levels: -17% from 27.9% to 23.1%
* Students proficient in reading in the third grade: +18% from 35% to 43%
* Proficiency for K-2 students: tops 50% in all but one subject in one grade level
* Kindergarten English language arts: +31% from 50.2% to 66%

First Mississippi, now Arkansas? Horrors! More seriously, this is "just" the fruit of a mere 2-3 years of focus of teaching fundamentals instead of time-wasting mind-wasting socio-political male bovine feces.

A personal note ... when in the mid 1980s we decided to homeschool our munchkins, we did so to give them a solid academic education. We knew public schools, at the time, varied considerably, and the trends were not good. I, at least, knew the damage a single year of a teacher following his/her agenda instead of teaching what they were supposed to teach could do. 40 years later, we are very happy with the fruit of our "K-12" efforts. What we did NOT foresee was that PSs' downward progress would continue to the degree that a person capable of reading fluently would become almost part of an adequately educated elite.

Oh, Yay - Looks Like We're Going to Get Treated to POTATUS on Tape

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/06/19/oh-yay-looks-like-were-going-to-get-treated-to-potatus-on-tape-n3816133

It looks as if the public interest in Joe Biden's conversation with his ghostwriter supersedes the Biden family's sincere desire to keep just how compromised the former president was from the public.

The redacted version, of course.
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Besides the obvious - wanting to establish just how hopelessly pudding-brained the former president was by the stage he was being quizzed by Hur - the Heritage Foundation sued under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get access to tapes of conversations Biden had with the ghostwriter for his biography to further investigate the claims that Biden had mishandled classified information. The recordings POTATUS made with his ghostwriter are all circa 2016-2017, years before his election.

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...The dispute over Biden's discussions stems from a Freedom of Information Act request that the Heritage Foundation filed in March 2024. The group sought records that former special counsel Robert Hur relied on to write specific portions of his report on Biden's handling of sensitive government records, which included passages referring to the former president's recorded conversations with Zwonitzer in 2016 and 2017.

The interviews were used for Biden's 2017 memoir, "Promise Me, Dad."

Hur's report referenced the former president's "diminished faculties and faulty memory" shown in Zwonitzer's recordings, and called Biden's recorded conversations with his ghostwriter "painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries."

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A federal judge on Friday rejected an effort by former President Joe Biden to block the Justice Department from turning over hours of nearly decade-old audio conversations to the Heritage Foundation.

Biden’s lawyers immediately launched an injunction pending appeal.

But it could mean a major blow for the former president, who in May sued the DOJ to block the release of the recordings. Heritage contends the audio files contain proof that the former president mishandled classified information, which Biden has emphatically denied.

Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, wrote in her ruling that the former president’s privacy concerns “though substantial,” paled in comparison to the significant public interest in the case and were mitigated by extensive redactions undertaken by the DOJ.

Judge Ruling on the Biden Tapes Is a Big Win for Open Government

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/19/judge-ruling-on-the-biden-tapes-is-a-big-win-for-open-government-n4954165

President Joe Biden fought to keep the ghostwriter tapes unreachable, and a federal judge just told him no:
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CBS News reports that U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich has denied Biden's request to block the Justice Department from turning over redacted recordings and transcripts of his conversations with biographer Mark Zwonitzer to the Heritage Foundation.

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In a 26-page decision, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich denied Biden's bid to stop the Justice Department from disclosing the material to the Heritage Foundation. The judge said Biden's privacy interests in the case are mitigated by "extensive redactions" by the Justice Department.

The government had agreed to delay the release of the material to the Heritage Foundation until 5 p.m. Friday.

"Biden has not identified any public harm that would arise absent an injunction in this case," Friedrich wrote. "And, as with the Department's FOIA balancing discussed above, the harm to Biden's diminished privacy interest is outweighed by the public's interest in the Zwonitzer materials and FOIA's 'policy of broad disclosure of Government documents in order to ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society.'"

The materials came from 2016 and 2017 interviews used for Biden's memoir, Promise Me, Dad, and were later collected during Robert Hur's classified documents investigation.

The ruling is a win for open government because the public has lived with years of claims about Biden's condition and very little hard evidence. Hur, a special counsel, didn't recommend charges against Biden over the classified documents. His report still raised serious questions about Biden's memory, recall, and ability to explain key events.

To some degree, this will extend the visible-observed history of LIEden's mental state/capacity by several years.

However, the main focus of the Heritage Foundation's FOIA is LIEden's illegal retention - and possible use in the 2016-2017 interviews - of classified documents.

Are they talking about the grand opening ceremony (or whatever) of the Borg collective's new US branch...I mean the Magic Muslim's "library"?

The guy was having a grand time with all his celebrity friends when he stiffed the contractors by not payinh his bills!

Perhaps the worst president in this nations history...and worshipped by a DUmmy.

Yep. That tracks.