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This week, a Massachusetts elementary school teacher was fired after he was exposed as an unabashed white supremacist writer who routinely published his work on white nationalist websites under multiple pseudonyms.

Hes a self-described race realist, which, as far as I can tell, only means that hes a Critical Race Theory-bashing, leftist-hating, garden-variety conservative who thinks white people are the truly oppressed racial group in a country dominated by whitenesswhich makes him no different than your average GOPropagandist legislator in office right now.

Anyway, 33-year-old Benjamin Welton was fired from Star Academy in Watertown, Ma.where he taught English, social studies and computer scienceafter he was investigated by a group of researchers called the Anonymous Comrades Collective and then exposed to his employer by HuffPost.

The researchers found out that his whiny people greatest hits collection includes work he did as a freelance writer for the American Renaissance. In case youre unfamiliar, its a white supremacist website that serves as a virtual gathering spot for mediocre white people to rant about how Black people are inferior to them while crying the saltiest of white tears over the normalization of anti-white rhetoric without smelling even a whiff of their own hypocrisy.

On this site, Welton wrote an essay titled, From Wide-Eyed Liberal to Race Realist under the name Sinclair Jenkins.

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Jenkins wrote that his radicalization began in the Navy, where it angered him to see blacks be mean to his fellow white sailors. Later, in graduate school, he grew disgusted over the ingrained culture of anti-white hatred in academia. Also, once I began paying attention to the news, I started seeing why so many people in my hometown took a dim view of blacks, wrote Jenkins, who noted that he grew up somewhere in Appalachia. After Ferguson and Baltimore, I understood that pumping money into the ghetto would never fix things. Later, he said, he discovered writers like John Derbyshire and Ann Coulter, who shared his distaste for immigrants, and websites like American Renaissance and VDare, which shared his firmly held belief in the biological foundations to race, and helped shape his white nationalist worldview.

Near the end of the article, Jenkins noted that he was a teacher, an audacious admission to make in a white supremacist publication.

If you need any more proof that Weltonwho I cant help but laugh at because, despite his extreme whiteness, he chose a Black-ass name like Sinclair Jenkins to hide behindis ideologically indistinguishable from the most prominent members of the current Republican Party. He also tweeted under a different pseudonym last August that making America great again requires defunding critical race theory.

According to the investigators, Welton also worked his neo-Nazi pen under aliases like Jake Bowyer and the second Blackest name a white supremacist could think of, Elias Kingston.

But in 2018, he wrote a piece under his real name called Against Education for a right-wing blog called the American Sun.

Your typical man on the street in America 2018 A.D. will come up with a small catalog of answers about what to do with our education system, Welton wrote, HuffPost reports. The race realist will speak of declining worldwide IQs and Americas increasing mongrelization driven by unassimilated races with below-average intelligence capacities.

He also wrote a bunch of white nonsense on how education is wasted on non-whites while bitching about how he feels American college campuses today are essentially playgrounds for far-Left agitators, anti-White elitists, and subsidized international students.

Just as abroad, if there is a rape culture on campus, it is largely being created because of the importation of Third Worlders, he wrote.

After the Anonymous Comrades Collective shared its findings with HuffPost, which then contacted Star Academy for comment, Welton was fired. He deleted all of his online activity, including a social media post from March 31, when he reportedly wrote: No mercy for our enemies. Do not weep, for they are not human. Treat those who want to abolish whiteness with the same venom if not more. They deserve medieval punishments. He wrote this seven months into his job as an elementary school teacher.

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Earlier this week, before they fired Welton, Star Academy administrators said in an emailed statement that they had not been aware of the concerning online publications allegedly made by a teacher at the school.

Star Academy, the statement continued, is committed to a diverse and inclusive community and embraces our responsibility as an educational institution to foster a safe and healthy environment for our students. We do not support, condone, or agree with white supremacism or white separatist ideologies.

After HuffPosts inquiries, Star Academy deleted the Faculty page from its website, which had included a photo of Welton and a brief description of his job.

So basically, all of these right-wingers who are suddenly hellbent on ridding the world of Critical Race Theory are worried about the wrong thing. It is teachers like Welton who should be banned from the classroom.

But Welton pretty much embodies neo-conservatism, so I wouldnt hold my breath for Republican lawmakers to have the same energy for teachers like him that they do for anyone who wishes to teach about America through a lens of Blackness.

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One thing Ive learned watching the media: its like drinking tequila. Do it on an empty stomach. I watched two minutes of Don Lemon after dinner last night and my wife is still trying to get the smell of vomit out of two throw pillows. But also - it's amazing how fast they bury their own mistakes. Which maybe they learned watching "Goodfellas."

They'll report something that's false, but before anyone has a chance to expose the lie, they've already moved on. And like that hitchhiker I picked up last August, the storys gone without a trace. So thank God there are people out there, who go back and show us the most egregious media mistakes during this pandemic. These hacks wont get away with it just because they were wearing masks.

I must credit Human Events Christina Pushaw, Charles Cooke from National Review, and the great Ann Coulter for exposing this following media malpractice.

Do you remember the story of Rebekah Jones? Like Bernie Sanders' hair, it was everywhere! A heroic whistleblower accusing governor Ron DeSantis of demanding that she falsify data. Cable news embraced her like Andrew Cuomo groping a female staffer.

CNN HEAVILY PROMOTED REBEKAH JONES' FAKE CONSPIRACY ACCUSING DESANTIS ADMIN OF ALTERING COVID DATA

Clip of media praise for Jones: "Rebekah Jones, thank you for your invaluable work. This is very, very important work that you are doing. We greatly appreciate it.//I know this has been hard for you to be in the spotlight. There are a lot of big accusations coming your way, so thank you for taking this opportunity to help us understand what this is about and what it means for the people of Florida"// Ali Velshi: Rebekah Jones, the light is shining on you. Dont be scared because the whole country now is watching you and your family and what they do to you and your family and what they do to you.

But as quickly as you can say "Michael Avenatti," the narrative fell apart - crumbling faster than Julie Swetnick under oath. And when it fell apart -- the press ignored it. Like a burning police station in Minneapolis.

To remind you - After the Florida Department of Health fired Jones last May, she claimed it was for not helping to falsely boost DeSantis stats. Overnight, she became a star. Forbes awarded her "technology person of the year." Proof that Forbes has sunk lower than George Stephanopoulos in bare feethe is shorter than me. She raised hundreds of thousands of dollars; her Twitter followers exploded. It was all about as real as Kat's glasses, but that didnt matter.

The media loved her because she fit a role they needed: To bash an evil pro-Trump republican, who was beating the pandemic despite rejecting full lockdowns in a state teeming with rabid spring breakers and people in their late hundreds. Those bath-salt huffing, alligator-riding hillbillies just couldnt be right.

CNN'S JAKE TAPPER RETWEETS CRITICISM OF REBEKAH JONES AFTER PROMOTING HER FAKE CONSPIRACIES ON-AIR

Now as this is happening, the media's embracing Andrew Cuomo, who shoved COVID patients into rest homes that killed thousands. Might as well been gas chambers. Even as - per capita, New York has nearly double Floridas COVID-19 fatalities. The only thing higher than New Yorks COVID death rate are its taxes.

But what about this perfect hero? Turns out the lady NPR called a top scientist was about as much of a scientist as Bill Nye. In fact, she had held three non-scientist jobs - and all of them had her fired and criminally charged. She'd been busted for trespassing, resisting arrest, attempting to steal computer equipment; and in 2018 she was accused of sexual cyberharassment facing stalking charges, stemming from an extramarital affair with her former student. Her resume is more of a rap sheet. Although it sounds like someone Hunter Biden might be into.

So she was no doctor. She never even played one on TV. Youd get better health advice from the muscle head working at Vitamin Shoppe.

According to Human Events, "case files allege Jones stalked and robbed her former student, sent explicit photos to his family and employer, and trespassed on his property." Sounds exactly like what happened to me when I switched long-distance carriers. So maybe that mightve tipped the media off. No such luck. Even though all of this seems like an easy fact check.

But the media didn't care - cuz they needed a hero. And when the media seeks a hero, they'll overlook the very worst. Like this lewd lollipop. Remember how CNN embraced Michael Avenatti - yet his story had more flaws than the diamond Kat wears on her ring. That didn't stop Bri.

Clip of Brian Stelter interviewing Avenatti in 2018: Looking out to 2020, one reason I am taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.

Other than where to go for the best blueberry pancakes, does he ever get anything right? Remember how they embraced Jussie Smollett - the guy that did his best acting when being interviewed by the cops. Remember, hoaxers - when you hire two Nigerian brothers to fake a hate crime dont pay by check. And Ive lost count of all the questionable sources the media used in the Russian collusion hoax.

They flooded the zone with bitter clowns and spotlight chasers. Remember this guy? Anthony Scaramucci. I think he's now Jeff Zucker's footstool. Fact is - if the media can nail you -- they'll use any tool within reach. Including tools with a few screws loose. Then they stop covering it when theyre wrong and pretend the whole thing never happened. They shout the lie to ruin an enemys reputation, then dont have the integrity to admit they were wrong.

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But at least some people are doing the work Im too lazy to do. I wonder what our angry White male has to say!

Tom Shillue, Angry White Male: Ah the whistleblower huh? Yea, I didnt pay much attention to that story when it happened. Kinda shows you what I think about the mainstream media. I was probably out hiking like today. Which begs the question, if a fake whistleblower blows a whistle and youre not around to hear it, did it even make a sound?

There's definitely something wrong with that man.

This article is adapted from Greg Gutfeld's opening monologue on the May 20, 2021 edition of "Gutfeld!"

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The largesse has transformed Thiel, an early Facebook investor and PayPal co-founder, into an outsize figure in the fight for control of the 50-50 Senate, providing fuel to two longtime associates who embrace his populist-conservative views. Top Republicans have expressed astonishment at the size of the donations and say theyve turned Vance and Masters whove never before run for elected office and will have to overcome primary rivals with far longer political resumes into formidable contenders in the blink of an eye.

A lot of people didnt know if they should take Blake [Masters] seriously as a candidate before the money came in, and when the money was announced Blake became a serious prospective candidate, said Kirk Adams, a former Arizona state House speaker. Before folks didnt really have any metric to judge his prospective candidacy, but now they do. Ten million dollars is a pretty damn good metric.

Thiel declined an interview request. His donations are by far his largest in two decades of giving to Republican candidates a partial reflection, friends say, of his intensifying interest in politics.

The tech investors profile in donor circles grew during the 2016 election, when he contributed around $1.5 million to pro-Trump outfits and spoke at the Republican National Convention. The 53-year-old, German-born Thiel would become an influential figure in Trumps orbit. He served on Trumps transition team and saw several of his aides become senior figures in the administration. He maintains a close relationship with Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner; the two both have homes in the Miami area.

Then-President-elect Donald Trump shakes the hand of Peter Thiel during a meeting with technology executives at Trump Tower on Dec. 14, 2016. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images

But Thiels latest contributions stem not only from his growing political involvement but from his closeness with Vance and Masters. Vance became acquainted with Thiel when he was at Yale Law School and then went to work for Thiel in Silicon Valley; Thiel later became an investor in Vances venture capital firm. Masters, meanwhile, was a student of Thiels at Stanford University and eventually became chief operating officer of Thiel Capital and president of the Thiel Foundation. He maintains a website in which hes posted detailed notes from Thiels class at Stanford.

Vance and Masters appear to closely embrace Thiels ideological beliefs, including his distrust of globalization one of the issues that drew Thiel to Trump.

Vance, who authored "Hillbilly Elegy," a bestselling memoir about growing up in working-class Ohio, laid out his views during a July 2019 speech lamenting the shifting of jobs overseas. Last year, he published an essay titled End the Globalization Gravy Train.

Masters, meanwhile, co-authored with Thiel the 2014 book Zero to One, in which they portrayed globalization as the enemy of innovation.

Thiels support for 2022 candidates is expected to go beyond Vance and Masters, those familiar with his plans say. The list includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a rising star in Republican politics up for reelection next year, with whom Thiel has met privately.

Thiel is also looking at donating to an assortment of House candidates, including Army veteran Joe Kent, who is waging a challenge to GOP Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Trump impeachment backer, in Washington state's all-party primary next year. Earlier this year, Thiel contributed to Brian Harrison, a former Trump administration official who ran unsuccessfully in a Texas congressional special election.

Over the years, he has supported an array of libertarian-leaning politicians, including Utah Sen. Mike Lee, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, and former Michigan Rep. Justin Amash.

But Thiel has never made political donations at this scale before and not all of his political bets have paid off. In 2018, he backed the gubernatorial campaign of Kansas Republican Kris Kobach, an immigration hardliner who defeated the sitting Republican governor in the primary before losing the general election to Democrat Laura Kelly. Two years later, he spent more than $2 million in support of Kobachs failed Senate campaign, which ended with a loss to an establishment-backed candidate in the Republican primary.

Thiels giving drew scrutiny in 2017, when he donated to then-Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawleys Senate campaign. The contribution landed just days before Hawley launched an antitrust investigation into Google, a company Thiel has criticized as monopolistic.

Within Republican circles, Thiel is seen as an unconventional donor. Unlike other major givers, he lacks a singular political adviser or gatekeeper for candidates looking to court him. The billionaire has operated mostly independently of those in the tight-knit world of Republican operatives, though he counts the incendiary conservative commentator Ann Coulter, with whom Thiel co-hosted a 2019 fundraiser for Kobach, as a friend.

Peter Thiel and Ann Coulter pictured in April 2019. | Theo Wargo/Getty Images

While some other Republican contributors, such as those in the Koch political network, have used their money to invest in building party infrastructure, Thiel has so far refrained from doing so. And unlike other donors who delve into the minutiae of how candidates they invest in build their campaign teams, Thiel has taken a largely hands-off approach with Vance and Masters, those familiar with the discussions say.

Thiel, who according to Forbes is worth more than $4 billion, made his first splash in conservative politics in 2009, when he penned an essay in outlining libertarian views that sharply diverged from the liberal bent of Silicon Valley. His attraction to Trump, friends say, partly stemmed from their shared distaste of the media. After the gossip blog Gawker in 2007 wrote that Thiel was gay, Thiel retaliated by secretly financing wrestler Hulk Hogans lawsuit against the website over its posting of a Hogan sex tape. The suit, which resulted in millions of dollars in damages being awarded to Hogan, forced Gawker out of business.

Republicans in Ohio and Arizona say Thiels money by itself wont be enough for either Vance or Masters to win the GOP nomination. Vance is squaring off against a handful of wealthy candidates with the ability to pour millions of dollars into their own campaigns, which would offset Thiels funding.

Masters will need to get by Jim Lamon, a deep-pocketed energy executive who could self-finance his campaign, and state Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a potential candidate who would benefit from widespread familiarity among voters.

There are also limitations as to how far Thiels money can go, given that super PACs must pay higher rates for TV advertising than a candidates official campaign. Both states include expensive media markets, making it necessary for Vance and Masters to build formidable war chests on their own, say Republican strategists in Arizona and Ohio.

Its unclear whether Thiels $10 million donations are a one-time investment or if more money is on the way.

Unless youre Stephen King with successful movies, bestselling authors are not household names, Doug Preisse, the chair emeritus of the Franklin County, Ohio, Republican Party said of Vance. Its a super start, but hell need every bit of that and more in a race with a number of other well-connected self-funders.

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You probably think your opinions are your very own and superior to everyone elses, of course so you may not realize how much Mike Clark helped shape them.

Sure, you roll your eyes and rant and rave about your newspapers editorials and other opinions on these pages, and thats exactly what Mike intended in the 15 years he was the Times-Union editorial page editor until he retired in December.

The goal of editorials is not so much to convince you of one truth but rather to stimulate you to think about the issues and form your own opinions, and ideally to act on them with your behavior, your attitude, your money or your vote.

Communications experts have long understood that opinion journalism does not tell you what to think; it suggests what you think about and arms you with facts to interpret on your own. An editorial endorsement of a political candidate wont change your personal belief system, but it might well legitimize a candidate you hadnt taken seriously.

Fortunately, wielding such influence, Mike was the complete professional, built over almost a half century in journalism. After some years as a reporter, he was the Times-Unions reader advocate for 15 years, actively and assertively representing the readers in their interactions with the newspaper. Then he was editorial page editor those last 15 years.

As we admirers said in announcing a tribute to him: Eschewing any political extreme or special interest, he favored optimism over pessimism, civility over attack, fairness over foulness, good news as well as bad and, as in his earlier years, always the interests of the ordinary person on the street.

Mike didnt believe in sitting aloof in the media castle and tossing elite opinions out to the masses. As a way of adding diversity to the editorial board of staff and executives, he started the practice of adding rotating citizen board members and listening to them. Over the years, about 75 people served.

I remember one such member, a very conservative woman who had always lived in a small echo chamber of like-minded people, complaining after a few meetings that she had never before heard people talk as we did, with opinions and ideas ranging across a wide spectrum of experiences and beliefs.

Mike also conceived the E-mail Interactive Group comprised of as many as 4,000 loyal and diverse readers on whom we could call anytime to add their opinions on a specific issue or topic.

As editor of the Times-Union, I was Mikes boss for 10 years. Or I thought I was; Mike pretty much ran the editorial page on his own. Early on, I asked him whether we shouldnt diversify the pages daily Bible verse by rotating it with other faiths. Well … the Bible verse is still there.

And when I told him I believed we could represent a conservative viewpoint with a more thoughtful, substantial syndicated columnist than Ann Coulter, whom I considered lazy, shallow and mean-spirited, he said a sizable portion of readers would disagree strongly. Coulter stayed.

It wasnt a political judgment. After 10 years of working with him and hundreds of editorial board meetings, Im not sure I can categorize him politically. We used to tell our owners that we wanted the T-Us editorial positions to be generally center right, so maybe that comes closest to Mike.

I asked Mike what his toughest stance was, and he pointed to the multi-month investigation of the City Council ignoring the Sunshine Law. They all denied wrongdoing and it took examining the calendars of all 19 of them. A grand jury chastised the council and commended the T-U for its work.

When Mike retired, the current City Council thanked him for making the T-U a truer voice reflective of the full diversity of people and ideas that populate our city, and his calm and friendly demeanor and encyclopedic knowledge of local affairs will be greatly missed. … His contributions to civic discourse in Jacksonville and Northeast Florida have been monumental and will be long and gratefully remembered.

Mikes biggest regret was outside his control: the directive by the T-Us then owner to endorse Donald Trump in 2016. Knowing readers already had made up their minds, he would not have made any endorsement, as the paper did in 2008 for Obama-McCain.

On the positive side, where Mike always tried to be, I am proudest of comforting the afflicted, for those who lost babies before the first birthday, for victims of mental illness and suicide, for bringing Black history to light as Jacksonville history, for hiring four women and a Black male, for supporting the HRO, for writing about climate change before it was cool, for pushing smart justice reforms, for fighting blight in needy neighborhood.

So whether you know it or not, Mikes retirement in December has left a void in your and our communitys life, and now we owe him the cheer he always provided for worthy others on the Opinion page every Monday.

On April 1, 6-7 p.m., his admirers will hold a virtual celebration of Mike and his career. The event will be a benefit for the First Amendment Foundation, which shares and advances Mikes commitment to open government via Floridas open-government laws, continually under attack across the state and annually in the Legislature. Please join us. You may register at http://www.floridafaf.org.

Frank Denton is the retired editor of The Florida Times-Union and a member of the board of the First Amendment Foundation.

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BILL Maher's ghosts of girlfriends past includes models, CEO's, journalists, and more.

Maher plays up his distaste for monogamy but the man has an extensive dating history.

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Maher has said before that he does not plan on getting married.

His website says: I'm the last of my guy friends to have never gotten married, and their wives they don't want them playing with me. I'm like the escaped slave I bring news of freedom.

In 2020, Maher made an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, where spoke candidly about his reason for not marrying.

He explained that he never understood how anyone could be with the same person day after day and is not a fan of monogamy.

He elaborated that he valued his "me time" saying: "I like all my time. I like to decide what to do with all MY time."

However, Maher has an extensive list of ex-girlfriends and has been in a relationship for almost a decade.

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Maher has had a boisterous dating life with a range of different women from models to CEOs.

Throughout the 90s he was tied to women including: Tracy Richman, Adrienne Barbeau, Heather Hunter, Amber Lee Smith, Arianna Huffington, Karin Taylor, Brook Lee, Vanessa Kay, Aiko Tanaka, Bai Ling, Kaya Jones, Rochelle Loewen, Thora Birch, and Ann Coulter.

In 2003, Maher dated Playboy model Coco Johnsen for 17 months.

Their relationship was short-lived but their breakup made headlines when Johnsen sued Maher for $9 million claiming he caused her pain and suffering, with degrading racial comments and humiliation.

In her suit, she alleged that Maher had promised to marry her and support her financially, convincing her to quit her job as a flight attendant and model.

His lawyers defended him saying that he is a confirmed bachelor, and a very public one at that who never promised to marry."

Maher maintains his denial of her claims saying that Johnsen tried to extort him for money when their relationship ended.

Then in 2005, he began dating Karrine Steffans, a best-selling author and hip-hop model.

He seemed serious about the relationship, and when Steffans commented on all the men she has been with in bed, she said that nobody compared to Maher.

From 2009 to 2011, Maher dated Cara Santa Maria, a science communicator, journalist, television host, and podcaster who hostsSkeptics' Guide to the Universe.

Santa Maria and Maher both confirmed to the press that their split was mutual and they "continue to be friends and work together."

Since 2014, Maher has dated singer Canadian signer, Anjulie Persaud.

Anjulie and Maher have been dating for seven years.

The Indo-Guyanese 37-year-old has released one self-titled album in 2009.

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She has since collaborated with major names such as Diplo, Kelly Clarkson, Nicki Minaj, and Benny Benassi.

She has been nominated for several awards throughout her career and won the 'Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year' for the song 'You and I' in 2013.

She's also done work with Maher producing the theme song for his show Real Time with Bill Maher.

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