Behind the Headlines with Paul Dragu

The Trump administration is threatening to hollow out the education department until the agency is completely shuttered by an act of Congress. This is triggering glee among some and concern from others.

While both sides have legitimate concerns, few proponents seem aware that the agency is a colossal failure by its own subpar standards. Moreover, there are some major misconceptions about what happens to public schools if the education department is abolished.

In this video, I break down the education department’s own assessment of itself and discuss frustrating experiences with those in the system.

Notes:

There are zero academic categories in which more than half of America’s public education students are proficient. ZERO.

* In 2024, 30% of fourth-grade students performed at or above the proficient level on the mathematics assessment > SOURCE

* It only got worse with more time. Only 28% of eighth-grade students performed at or above proficient levels in math > SOURCE

* The report only gets worse when it comes to reading. Only 31% percent of fourth-grade students performed at or above the proficient level on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)] reading assessment > SOURCE

This level of failure is prevalent across the board. See for yourself @ The Nation’s Report Card.

Read my story on this topic in The New American magazine, “Trump Plans to Hollow Out Education Department Until It’s Abolished: Report.”

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Hope is in the air.

The borders are being secured, legacy media is neutered, the wagers of lawfare are on the run, DEI is unraveling, and the commonsense cultural revolution is raging.

This is all great, but the institutional and cultural rot that allowed that brought this nation to the brink of national collapse needs to be addressed or the roaches will return.

In this video I explain what needs to happen over the next few years to ensure decades of liberty and prosperity.

References

Read my article in The New American, “Rebirth of the Nation: How to Restore America.”

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Congress just introduced a bill to abolish the income tax and the IRS with it H.R.25 - To promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes

CIA Document 1035-960 – Countering Criticism Of The Warren Report (CIA supervisor advises agents to use “friendly media” contacts to help persuade the public that JFK was indeed killed by a lone gunman

Gallup: Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low

CNN laying off about 200 employees as part of shift to digital model

“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands …” Carroll Quigley

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing for Health and Human Services secretary was a disgusting display of politics over issues.

Once upon a time in a land right under our feet, America didn’t have a federal income tax. This was a time when even the nation’s highest court recognized the destructive power of the tax.

As I wrote in a recent article for The New American:

In 1819, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall wrote in the case McCulloch v. Maryland that “The power to tax involves the power to destroy.” In 1895, more than a century after the nation’s founding, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company that directly taxing Americans’ income was unconstitutional. Back then, the government raised revenue by putting tariffs on imports and excise taxes on items like horses and carriages. Those were “indirect” taxes on consumption. They gave citizens power over their tax burdens by controlling their purchases. But in July 1909, Congress passed the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, and by 1913, the amendment had been approved by enough state legislatures to make it law.  

In this video, Paul explains the reasons Power Elites want love the federal income tax and why we should hate it.

Read my cover story on how to restore America HERE

Wildfires are once again destroying California—and the people in charge are once again trying to blame everyone and everything except themselves.

Only this time the jig might finally be up for the Golden State’s incompetent, ideologically-possessed leaders.

California’s greasy-haired sociopathic governor is once again under fire for mismanaging the state’s resources, the communist mayor of Los Angeles is facing calls to resign, as is the DEI lesbian fire chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

It’s becoming clear even to believers of climate change and other leftist ideologies that the people in charge have completely mismanaged the resources of one of the most beautiful and richest states.

It’s been 13 days since the apocalyptic Palisades fire and several others ignited and has since incinerated thousands of buildings to the ground, burned through more than 40,000 acres, and killed at least 27 people.

Is this the wake-up call needed to save the beautiful state of California?

Moreover, will Californians learn the hard lessons of Eastern Europe and China, where leftist, sociopathic ideologues took over the region and imposed fidelity to party ideology above all else?

RELATED READING

Gavin Newsom Cut $100M From Fire Prevention Budget Before California Fires, https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-cut-100m-fire-prevention-budget-before-california-fires-2012980

Los Angeles Residents Demand Resignation of Mayor Karen Bass Over City’s Botched Response to Fires, https://thenewamerican.com/features/california-residents-demand-l-a-mayor-karen-bassresign-as-reports-of-incompetence-continue-surfacing-gov-newsom-calls-for-investigation/

Every Company Leaving California: 2020-2024, https://buildremote.co/companies/companies-leaving-california/

Stunner: Why Was Pacific Palisades Reservoir EMPTY? It Gets Worse., https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/01/11/why-was-pacific-palisades-reservoir-empty-n4935875

Demand the Immediate Resignation of Mayor Karen Bass, https://www.change.org/p/demand-the-immediate-resignation-of-mayor-karen-bass

Something is happening in Romania, where the nation’s top court nullified the first-round election victory of Călin Georgescu, a nationalist whose surprising victory was supposedly brought about by Russian interference.

Georgescu denies he had any help from Russia. It would, however, be very surprising if the Russians took no interest in Romania’s elections. Romania is one country away from Russia and hosts what is set to become the largest NATO base in Europe.

Many analysts believe what’s really happening is the West stepped in and pressured the Romanian government to void his victory to prevent a NATO-skeptic leader coming to power and jeopardizing the West’s strategic war presence.

You can learn more about this in my article in The New American HERE.