The Liberty Loft
Editor’s note: The powers that be at WND.com have told Michael Ackley he may submit an occasional column. As Golden State madness has accelerated, he has succumbed to the urge to get back in the game. Hence, the items below. Remember that Ackley’s columns may include satire and parody based on current events, and thus mix fact with fiction. He assumes informed readers will be able to tell the difference.
“Education is under assault!” exclaimed Amy Handleman, opening her press conference by emphasizing California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s complaint about outbreaks of parental concern.
Handleman, director of the governor’s Office of Protected Classes, continued, “The governor pointed out there are book bannings, the suppression of speech and ‘the othering of our students, teachers, parents,’ and it is, as he said, alarming.”
Howard Bashford, a reporter for a Sacramento online newspaper, noted, “Some think he was concerned about California being designated the least literate of the 50 states, or about its system of public education ranking around the bottom 10 states nationally in reading and math.”
