The Good, the Bad, the Uncertain

Making Sense of Recent News Stories 

GOOD: Illinois Bans Lying to Juveniles During Interrogations 

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill prohibiting police from using deception during interrogations of minors, the first law of its kind in the US. The new law bans commonly used deceptive interrogation tactics, including making false promises of leniency and false claims about the existence of incriminating evidence. According to The Innocence Project, such tactics have long been used to induce false confessions, which have played a role in about 30% of all wrongful convictions overturned by DNA evidence.

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BAD: Killings Continue in Chicago 

Despite Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s insistence that crime is going down in the Windy City, shootings and killings continue to soar – especially on weekends and almost exclusively in Black neighborhoods.

She’s blaming the mayhem on weak gun control regulations, and promising that things will get better soon. So far, things are only getting worse. For example:

Mass shooting on the west side…

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This mother is fed up and leaving…

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Two mass killings in the same neighborhood…

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DISTURBING: The UN’s Idea of Sex Education for Children 

It’s Perfectly Normal, a US government-funded, UN-produced sex-education curriculum for grammar school children, contains “graphic depictions of children engaging in masturbation and various sexual acts,” according to Sharon Slater, co-founder and president of advocacy group Family Watch International.

For slightly older children, ages 12 to 14, the curriculum encourages children to “share their sexual feelings” through activities including oral and anal sex, masturbation, or touching each other’s genitals while saying “I like you.”

In addition, the curriculum encourages children to label themselves with sexual identities and needs. Example: I am a “polyamorous queer teen who needs to know how to have safe sex and relationships with multiple partners.”

“We’re seeing it in almost all the schools,” Slater said. “And now under President Biden, they’ve even increased the budget to $130 million.”

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GOOD: Teenage Americans Are Having Less Sex 

Notwithstanding the above, American high schoolers are having less sex today than they’ve been having since the early 1990s.

According to the most recent (2019) biannual edition of Youth Risk Behavior Survey, administered by the CDC, 38.4% of high schoolers reported having had intercourse. This is down from 46% in 2009 and 54% in 1991.

What’s perhaps most encouraging is the decline in Black teens having sex. It’s down to 42.3% from 81.5% in 1991.

BAD: Twitter Is At It Again… 

Twitter recently suspended several accounts dedicated to reporting on 2020 election audits.

One, the Audit War Room, had 40,000 followers. Another, the Maricopa County Audit, had 100,000.

Twitter’s actions came just a week after Ken Bennett, the liaison and a former Republican Arizona Secretary of State, announced that he had been blocked from entering the audit.

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IRONIC: Violence Prevention Chief Gets Robbed 

And it happens on air!

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GOOD: Michigan Legislature Repeals Governor’s Emergency Powers Act 

Michigan has repealed the Emergency Powers Act used by Governor Whitmer to implement COVID-19 restrictions in the state. (The governor had agreed to end the lockdown several times early last year, but reneged, citing her authority under the Act.)

The Senate vote came two days after the state Board of Canvassers certified that Unlock Michigan, a coalition of state residents, had obtained more than the required 340,000 valid signatures to put a repeal proposition before the voters at the next general election.

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BAD: Cop Tasers Kid in Girlfriend’s Yard 

This Florida Highway patrolman tases a kid in the backyard of his girlfriend’s house because he “looked suspicious.” As the commentator says, teenage boys have been at the backdoors of their paramours since Romeo and Juliet. What made this particular kid look suspicious? Could it be that he was biracial?

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HYPOCRITICAL: Defund-the-Police Advocate Cori Bush Spends Campaign Funds for Personal Security 

Here’s the story.

And here she is defending herself.