Conservative author and pundit, Christopher Rufo, posted an old news article on X, uncovered by The Washington Free Beacon, about Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s affinity for Communism. The 1991 article painted a rosy picture of Chinese students — doubtless under the watchful eyes of their CCP masters — pen-palling with Walz’s American students as if they lived in a free country where ordinary people do ordinary things. The one truth in the fantasy descriptions of Chinese life was the disclosure of China’s onerous “one-child” per family policy that was in place at the time. The article failed to note, however, that male children were preferred and that females were often aborted or killed after birth. Walz was quoted as telling his students that China “is governed by communism,” which he claimed “means that everyone is the same and everyone shares.” He bragged that workers, such as doctors and construction workers “make the same,” and praised the Chinese government for providing housing and “14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing,” he enthused. Rufo described Walz as “a real-life communism respecter,” adding that “I’ve traveled to China a half-dozen times. Lived there for a year. It’s a fascinating country, but you’d have to be a moron or a communist—or both—to believe that the CCP is a regime committed to the idea that ‘everyone is the same and everyone shares.’” A commenter to Rufo’s post asked: “Is anyone surprised? This imbecile equates SOCIALISM with just being ‘NEIGHBORLY,’” referring to a viral video in which Walz said exactly that. (The video can be viewed at the X link above.) Another commenter sagely noted: “Capitalism is when you are free to share.... Communism is when you execute people who don’t share the way you want them to.”

Uber successful Moms for Liberty will host Summit24, their annual “Joyful Warriors” national conference, in Washington, DC August 29 through September 1. Billed as “the ultimate gathering of parents fighting to defend their parental rights and improve education in America,” the summit caps off the many events and activities the organization holds across the country during the year. According to co-founder Tiffany Justice, the summit “attracts hundreds of parents and other group members to the nation’s capital for three days of training, strategizing, and relationship building to empower them to carry on the fight for the future of their children and our country.” The Moms’ conference comes on the heels of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles’ Eagle Council, which took place earlier this month and featured Tiffany Justice among its many distinguished speakers. During the two-day meeting, Justice opened a discussion about education by celebrating the 50th anniversary of Phyllis Schlafly’s seminal book, Child Abuse in the Classroom (1984, 1985, 1993), which is still available and relevant today. Justice led a panel of moms, along with Eagles leader John Schlafly, in the discussion. The panel shared personal experiences and showed how involved parents and citizens can make a difference by running for their local school boards or otherwise becoming active in their school districts. Similarly, the Moms for Liberty summit will inform, empower, and help “like-minded warriors” arm themselves with the tools to “fight the issues” and navigate “the chaos created by a radical ideology.”

During the Democrat national convention, 320,000 Chicago students were kept out of class in order to “attend, volunteer, and participate in the civic process of hosting the convention” at the behest of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). According to Fox News, the students were “locked out of class” so they could “be indoctrinated by the DNC.” The CTU bused teachers to Soldier Field on the final night of the convention “to watch Harris’ acceptance speech on the big screen.” Observers would be hard pressed to imagine the same courtesies being extended to any other political party. The Fox report observed that even when Chicago schools are open, “many of them are mostly empty.” Between 2018 and 2023, “enrollment declined by more than 50,000 students, and 181 district schools were operating at less than 50 percent” capacity. The district is prohibited from closing empty schools due to a CTU-backed law that placed a moratorium on doing so until at least 2025. But the CTU does not appear concerned about these facts nor that Chicago students are illiterate and cannot do basic math. “District wide,” reports Fox, “reading and math proficiency rates are under 30 percent.” Instead of encouraging student enrollment by actually teaching basic skills, the CTU wants to fill the underused and abandoned school buildings by converting vacant floors into shelters for illegal alien “unaccompanied migrants.” This scheme is actually part of the $50 billion CTU contract currently in negotiation with the city. Fox reports that the contract “would cost taxpayers, over time, more than triple the amount the mayor proposed for the entire city’s budget for 2024.” In stating the obvious, that Chicago public-school students are unlikely to learn reading and math even when in class, Fox added: “...But they will learn the sad lesson that, for education bureaucrats and union bosses, learning comes second place to politics.”

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