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welcome to the show from the Relief Factor Studios. This is Red Eye Radio. All across the USA. We are Red Eye Radio, and he is there. Currently, he has the morning off. I'm Gary McNamara. I'm here. And just having to see this here, just scanning during the top of the hour, and I thought it was really interesting because this is from a Democrat, former advisor to Bill Clinton, former advisor to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Iran skits a friendia to,
as was suggested, Iran's leadership has splintered and is typical, which as as typical
when the top leadership has gone, the old revolutionary fundamentalist leadership was taken out,
and you have some who want to make a deal, and then you have the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which should not be confused with the mullas. They are just plain old military dictators who have the guns and think that they will be thrown overboard in any deal. They either have to preserve some power in a deal or be decisively defeated, likelihood is that there will be another round of fighting here, but nothing is certain. They know they can only strike out at the world economy,
but face certain defeat with no air cover if the president goes all out here. The media remains
and its negative spin all the time, and the Europeans continue to show their worklessness as allies
in the battle against Iran. Do not take, you've heard this before here on this show. Do not take anything
“the president takes as face value, as disinformation is a key strategy at defeating Iran. We talked”
about that earlier in the show saying that you're talking to two audiences. One audience is again your enemy, but the other audience, if you look at some of the polling on the the war, and Americans aren't looking too favorably at it, a lot of the messaging the president's putting out is directed towards the enemy, but the media uses it as its consumption for the American public, and we said from the very beginning, don't pay attention to the don't pay attention to a
lot of what you hear because there is disinformation. Now, when the president talks about the golden air of Iran and the great economic things that could come out of it and that Iran wants
“to deal, I believe that's been taken negatively by some Americans because they're like we don't know”
we don't know what victory is, we don't know one day the president's up, one day the war's over the next day it's back again, what's going on. As I've said, if you can define a clear win here, which I believe probably a clear win would be that the American public believes that Iran is no longer a nuclear threat. I think the American public will look pretty favorably about what has happened, but he said don't take anything the president takes at face value as disinformation is a
key strategy at defeating Iran, but the basic strategy remains continue to step up economic and military pressure until they buckle one way or another. And the schizophrenia of Iran now is just another phase in the collapse of a regime that still cannot turn on the internet for fear of real communications and continues to suppress the will of its people with heinous acts of mass executions on the streets and in the gallows. And you know that we said that's the one thing that's been going on
here with the you know the media even over the weekend. President gonna commit a war crime, President gonna commit a war crime. Well it wouldn't be a war crime even if you took out bridges and and power plants. Because as we all know, they are all used for military purposes. And there is no international law that disagrees with that. And as for Democrats wanting to Iran, wanting Iran to win or putting out the propaganda that Iran is winning,
that's delusional. But that's where we are right now. But I wanted, I just thought it was interesting,
Because that's Mark Penn.
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I saw this story went with the logic. Senator Chuck Schumer has called
on fee five full-fum soccer on FIFA to cover the full rail costs for New Yorker's attending the World Cup. As New Jersey transit train ticket prices are set for 150 bucks to get to MetLife Stadium for matches. Schumer released a statement on Sunday calling for them to pay the full fair, which is astronomically higher than the regular cost to travel from Penn Station to the Metalans. So the New Jersey government jacked up the prices to 150 bucks.
And Schumer is screaming insane. The soccer off foot should pay for it. Now remember, cities from all over the world bid for World Cup soccer because of the economic benefits they believe that come from it. And so yeah, the economic benefits may come to New York and New Jersey and hotels, or excuse me, New York, probably parts of New Jersey and hotels and everything else. But New Jersey wants to make a ton of money on this. They want to gouge the people that are in
for the World Cup. But I just find it fascinating that the whole purpose of bringing them in
“is for economic benefit. That's why cities and states and countries bid for it.”
The economic benefit. Hey, come on, it's soccer. But apparently people around the world care about soccer. And so they're willing to come here for these for these games. And then the communities will benefit from it. This is where liberalism going is going right now, whether it's
Kathy Holko. All right, let's get the people that have second homes in New York, but don't live here.
All right, let's get the people that's the only place they can go now. They can't raise taxes on the people, so they're trying to find anybody that they can tax. All right, you're coming in for the soccer games. We're going to tax you a ticket that's normally 12 bucks is going to be 150. And then Schumer comes back and says the World Cup organization should pay for it. Wait a minute. They didn't cause the increase. New Jersey did.
It's just hilarious. The New Jersey transit. You know, defended the Fair Hikes on Friday saying the ultimate cost to the company should not burden New Jersey commuters. Well, New Jersey commuters going to be hit with it or just how do you know? So there you go, Schumer, arguments unfair for New Yorkers to have to deal with the price hike, especially considering that the World Cup soccer organization is eliminating parking at Met
Life Stadium. Also parking at the nearby American dream mall is $225.
“Well, walking access is being prohibited as well. In turn, mass transit is effectively the only way”
to enter out of the stadium on match days. Well, the whole point is it's for the economic benefit around Met Life, right? That's why they took it to begin with. The economic benefit
For New York and New Jersey.
If it can come in and just say, no, we're ordering Met Life Stadium to take these games. Damn it,
“you have no choice. No, they will, Felice, said we want it.”
Such humor's furious. He doesn't go after New Jersey. He just says the World Cup organization should pay for it. I don't think that's going to happen. So there you go, I just find that's just Oh, my, oh, my, just hilarious. In other news, Harvard's recent great inflation controversy has renewed concerns about how many students are receiving top marks, but some professors say
the deeper problem in higher education isn't just inflated A's. It is the quiet disappearance
of failing grades. Hollis Robbins, a former dean and professor of English at the
“University of Utah told the college fix. The larger problem may be what happens to low grades”
before they ever appear on the transcript. Robbins says she hears from professors and lecturers across the country that they are under pressure from deans, not to fail students who are at risk. In a post on X, responding to a report about sinking academic standards, Robbins wrote
that universities will not let professors fail any students because they will lose tuition dollars.
When she was a dean at Sinoma State University, she told the college fix. She noticed the resources being marshaled to identify students at risk of failure and to prevent the failure because her job is just to keep a warm body in there because you pay the tuition. While there are certainly good and socially responsible reasons for supporting students at risk of failing to public institutions when the taxpayer is subsidizing the education, I have
long seen the pressure put on faculty members not to give a student an F even if the student deserved it. Her comments comment concerns about grading standards, especially at elite universities in November the fix highlighted a 25 page report from Harvard's office of undergraduate education warning that the university's grading system is damaging the academic culture of the college according to the report 60% of undergraduate grades are now A's.
Concerns about grade inflation are limited to the Ivy League.
“That's what more college in Pennsylvania recently released data shows a 0.15 point increase in the mean”
grade given in courses across all three of the college's academic divisions over the past 20 years according to the student newspaper. Robin said faculty are often nudged towards alternative alternatives that keep failing grades off the books. A a student if they are failing sometimes are allowed to withdraw from the class instead faculty are told repeatedly that the failure of a student is the faculty's failure. She tried that pressure to rankings and retention.
Universities are ranked by graduation rate and retention rate so every student who fails lowers the ranking of the university Robin said adding that the pressure on the faculty takes the form of constant reminders that any student failure puts the entire college or university at risk of a loss of a ranking and prestige. So what they're saying is we need to lie about the performance of our students and we need to lie bigger in order to pretend that we are a prestigious
university with a lot of young people that legitimately get a great education when in essence
It's going in the opposite direction and we can't let you know that.
anything? We need to keep we need to keep the pretend prestige that we are in elite education
“institution even though we're moving in the opposite direction. Now I guess this is for courses”
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to to give F's looking at from a students point of view when I was in high school and I mentioned
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then came college and I had a pay for it completely different ball game it was my money I was paying for my college hold different changed completely I've told my story about the college only took out and then put it in the bank for four four years and then right before I had to pay you know start paying making payments on it with the interest I paid the whole thing off I used to to my benefit I actually did now I worked a couple of jobs and went to college I worked over 50
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after ramen manuals appearance former Obama advisor on Bill Mar is he running for president now here's a part of the back and forth all right because this is it's this all this all relates to what what happened late last week where Senator Mark Kelly has signed up 32 Senate Democrats to repeal the school choice tax credits all right this word taxpayers can get a credit up to $1700 for donations to scholarship organizations that fund tuition for children to attend
the the school of their choice mark Kelly in 32 Democrats now have signed up to repeal it he claims the scholarships take money out of public schools and give to private ones
“no they don't they take no state money at all none zero he's making that up”
the Democratic party is not for school choice so here is here they are talking about education this is Bill Mar with the ramen manual on Friday night here we go what you're doing does that include the teachers union because that's the Democrats biggest constituency you just went on a rant about how bad the you're looking at the prompt robber on something I look okay the guy you're going to have to take on that group in the Democratic party are you
willing to do that I have a record that showed that I took a created we had the shortest school
day in the shortest school year in the United States of America was in the city Chicago and I finally
got him a full school day that okay now that's where he talks about he got him a full school day not sure exactly what he's precisely talking about the education improved no that wasn't the question does he want to give the monopoly of public schools does he wish to continue that monopoly because the other point that Bill Mar brought up is this one here now it was on the radical transgender movement but he was trying to make a point here here's it let's go
he sounds a lot like you he sounds a lot like this Democrat I wish would come forward and not wilt will see if he wilt because everybody wilt I only see wilting so far and hear a lot of
this stuff and then I see wilting okay here's what and that's the point they say one thing
but when they get in office they do another as we have seen for example spanberger is a perfect
“example of that in Virginia say here's what I'm going to do and does the opposite and that's what”
Democrats that's what they're looking to do and that's why if ramen manual would run you know we talked about this last week the identity politics the Democrats are bluntly saying we've got to have a white male in order to win so we need a white male to sell the insanity but here's more from Bill Mar this is why people like you said well I don't remember well well they asked you about the trans thing and you and you said you you're the only one who said you know basic what
no but then you said and I'm going to get killed by this and look at it okay I don't have to hear that I don't have to hear that you know don't just what I don't I don't hear you're going to get killed by my own people just say it and own it that's okay just say it and own it and again you can you can you can see it in his face it's like painful for him to say no I'm not going to go for that you can see it's paint you can see the paint in his face he didn't want Bill Mar to bring that up
he was like okay said that a while back but let's not bring it up again I don't want people to know about it but I it just it that hit me over the weekend both that and then the Mar Kelly story because I'm looking for any evidence the Democrats truly want to change and I don't see it the Democrats wish to moderate at all you know we talked about the liberal patriot and Roy to share or who put it together and if you've been a long time
listen to show you know we've read his stuff because it was it was point on as to what's wrong
With the Democratic Party they had a close-up shop three weeks ago lost other...
donors said no we we can't we can't have you saying this stuff anymore everybody has to
“basically get in line with the insanity and he was point by point right on everything”
from my identity politics to the radical transgender movement to the border everything that is a problem for the Democrats everything where they hold insane ideas is what he would bring up as a lifelong Democrat sorry can't do that anymore and school choice is like voting is like a voting a voter ID it's got the same count in numbers
and the interesting thing is when Rama manual says see we have long memories here
when Rama manual says you know he didn't say he would take on billmar asked him will you take on the we you take on the the school the the unions he didn't say take him on he simply said
“I help expand education from being basically part time where there was a full day of class now”
and I'm like you know union was it was it that a union keeping that or was that just the Chicago school district but understand that under Rama manual it was Obama that really did everything he could to stop school choice his department of justice when after what was it in Louisiana when after the school choice program the state school choice program not federal dollars weren't being used they went after it for being discriminatory
they eventually dropped it because of the pressure inside from Louisiana from so many minorities who voiced their outrage because they loved the fact that they were getting a choice of education
“for their children that easy but loved it everybody understands choice sub Bernie Sanders”
oh I did see it over the weekend mom Donnie Mart Maldani Mart's oh and we'll have to did I have that here because that's that's also about a choice I find out that the one that's supposed to cost 30
million dollars on this with like less than a three-minute way of walk is a supermarket
that has produce and everything else he said that and and there was the study on New York City saying New York City is not a food desert really interesting stuff coming up as I actually examine those things but I just thought that it was just get back to this here for a moment that school choice is one of those things that has landslide numbers for the one of the main constituency of the demographics of the the Democratic Party that evoked a Democrat which is minorities
and there's Mark Kelly there you know saying oh you know nope and lies about the fact of why he won't do it no no no no federal tax credit because it'll take away money for students because it doesn't take away any state money this is all federal nothing to do with the state at all doesn't matter he doesn't have any way to justify it except lying about it I'm an astronaut and therefore I am of a higher morality and credibility I will not lie because I may scientist and I'm an astronaut
stop the BS Mark I'm an astronaut and just like if like when he was on for the Artemis 2 launch someone said he voted against all the funding for this by the way just people he voted against the funding that actually funded all of this and there he's out there promoting all of it and it's like yeah all right but it's and as the Wall Street Journal writes on it enter Mr. Kelly who claims the scholarship takes money out of public schools and gives to private one sigh they write the
tax credits take no state money they're credit off an individual's federal tax liability this looks like a flat out pander to the countries two main teacher unions as Mr. Kelly likely prepares to run for president the National Education Association and American Federation
Of teachers want to kill the tax credits because they promote competition for...
over public schools you think you actually believe anybody is foolish enough to believe
“that the obama surrogate obama who went after school choice with the full approval of”
Rama manual as his chief of staff believe that Rama manual would stand up to the school unions police that isn't going to happen just give me one of those weeks again yeah and anything going out was swallow oh I heard what tax payer fund tax payer funded stuff for liquor I saw that one I don't have a story in front of me here but apparently
but not tax perics excuse me campaign funds you know what I was thinking about that the other
day you know how they spend there you know they're they're campaign money seriously if you ran for office wouldn't you view every campaign dollar if I'm going to run for political office especially
“if I'm going to run at that level I'm going to use my campaign I'm going to make sure that my”
campaign money is spent so efficiently because my only goal is to win odds are I probably can afford the stuff that I wish to do and if it's a legitimate campaign expense for the things that I want to do yeah but am I going to be blowing money for a ton of liquor hey well I guess you're running for federal office next thing I'm thinking well let's have an edible party for all of our donors I guess it's still technically illegal on the federal level but no I'd be that's a last
thing because I'd want as much of that money to go into the actual campaigning and advertising but yeah I saw that story on swallow oh and in Texas here the other story is
“habit going after those states you know the sanctuary city states and states that aren't it was”
interesting because I saw Greg Abbott over the weekend when you know whether comes to police and sanctuary cities and all this and Greg Abbott the governor wrote this editorial over the weekend these editorial writers can't read or think the state did not force this is Austin on the money for the police department the state didn't force Austin or other cities into a contract the city signed a contract to get money from the state after they got the money the cities refused
to comply with the contract terms those terms include the requirement that the cities were pay the state all of the money they got if they don't comply with the contract enforcement of the contract doesn't defund the police I signed a law preventing defunding the police under the law the cities that still have to fully fund the police they just have to find other funds and their budgets to pay
for if cities don't like the contract terms they should have never entered into it by the way the
contract is just one page with clear requirements and consensus for failing to comply as to the local control entering into a contract was a local decision breaching the contract is a local decision if you agree to get money and then you say no we're not going to use it for the police for this or the police aren't going to cooperate with the state or whatever in any way sorry you lose the money you're the one making all of the decisions you're the local government
you made the decision to take the money and abide by the contract we are Red Eye Radio we're the right back with more Red Eye Radio with every currently and Gary McNamara we're Red Eye Radio and I'm Gary McNamara Erica is a morning off okay I found the story about the robot running it was a half marathon a a humanoid robot that won a half marathon race for robots in Beijing ran faster than the human world record the winner a Chinese smartphone
maker completed the 21 kilometer 13 mile race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds according to the post from the Beijing economic technological development area where the race kicked off that was faster
Than the human world record holder the performance by the robot marked a sign...
from last year's inaugural race but the competition which was held alongside a race for humans
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