The Groves of Academe will find their shorts in a bunch over this.

On a Friday evening and as November looms, the White House has opened another front in the culture war. At the direction of the president, the Office of Management and Budget is ordering all federal agencies to “cease and desist” any government training programs that include any reference to “critical race theory” or “white privilege,” RealClearPolitics has exclusively learned. The theory has long been in vogue within academics. Trump now seeks to root it out within the administrative state. Among the ideas underpinning CRT, now formally condemned by the White House, is that the law and all accompanying legal institutions are inherently racist, and that race itself has no biological grounds. The concept of ethnicity is, instead, the product of a white society that uses systems and institutions to advance its own interests at the expense of minorities.

A thoroughly destructive view of the universe, espoused by so, so many Dems and teachers.

Mending the enforcement gap in “the city of roses.”

Oregon State Police who are now charged with keeping the peace in Portland and its surrounding suburbs have been “cross-deputized” by the federal government, a local news organization revealed Wednesday, meaning that those arrested by Oregon state police officers can be prosecuted by the United States attorney for crimes stemming from the ongoing unrest even if the local prosecutor refuses to.

It may be part of an earlier deal to reduce federal police presence in Portland.

Now it seems the agreement also involved allowing the United States attorney the opportunity to supersede decisions made by the Multnomah County district attorney who noted, early on in the unrest, that he would pursue only “limited prosecution” for certain crimes, including interfering with a peace officer, disorderly conduct in the second degree, harassment, criminal trespass, and even “riot.”

The Multnomah County prosecutors office also said, back in early August, that if a person is arrested for “a misdemeanor or felony crime that causes only financial harm during a protest,” they will be offered “conditional dismissal.”

A get-out-of-jail-free card.

Ultimately, this is Trump’s doing, saving a city from itself. With AG Barr an essential part of it. Put good people in charge, get results. So far.

Getting at the heart of the matter:

The Trump administration announced late on Friday that it was cracking down on “critical race theory,” a far-left anti-American ideology that promotes racial division, from being taught in federal agencies and paid for by federal money.

The memo released by Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, called critical race theory “divisive” and “anti-American propaganda,” adding that the far-left ideology falsely promotes the notion that “there is racism embedded in the belief that America is the land of opportunity or the belief that the most qualified person should receive a job.”

more more more about this getting rid of the viper in the nest . . .

Here’s How.

“The Atlantic Magazine is dying, like most magazines, so they make up a fake story in order to gain some relevance,” Trump tweeted on Friday. “Story already refuted, but this is what we are up against. Just like the Fake Dossier. You fight and fight, and then people realize it was a total fraud!”

Because it’s one of a list of false accusations, like the fake dossier. They lied and they still lie.

And the Trump camp has that llist.

Nestling among the GOP response items:

White House spokesman Judd Deere called the request by Democrats ???just another witch hunt??? that will ???waste valuable time and money.”

Handy riposte there, in view of past 3 1/2 years of deeply flawed accusations and investigations, mainly the failed Mueller report. Credibility, you have been sacrificed for political gain by nutter Dem leadership.

Shootout at the Pierce County (Wash) corral.

Story of a man who was tired of living.

Joe Sleaze.