More proof that electeds are NOT interested in shrinking government, cutting spending AT ALL
It’s campaign time. Folks are throwing around the word *conservative* like candy at a parade. But we’re actually seeing very little conservatism from GOP-controlled legislative branches in Raleigh and DC.
Do we fix it by voting all of them out and replacing them with the other guys? No. That would punish them AND punish the whole country by putting the other guys back in charge. We’ve actually got to fix our party. Make it clear that we demand the guys with (R) next to their names actually cut spending and shrink government.
Replace party leaders who don’t buy into limited government with folks WHO DO.
The DEI-infested N&O was giddy and beside itself this week over news that some of the handiwork of DOGE has been reversed:
When NC Central University English professor Rachelle Gold found out her grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities had been cancelled in April 2025, she was shocked.
She knew the Department of Governmental Efficiency, or DOGE, was cancelling grants related to diversity, equity and inclusion. But her project — aside from taking place at a historically Black university, she said — had little to do with questions of diversity.
She was using the money to lead summer institutes during which faculty learn how to use and teach from digitized archives of NC Central’s campus yearbooks and newspapers.Then, faculty could create and improve coursework relating to institutional history.
By the time the heard the grant was cancelled, Gold had just $6,000 remaining from the original $90,000 award — and the next summer institute was just five weeks away. She received no advance warning of the cancellation: hence, the shock.
But when Gold found out how DOGE selected her grant to be axed, however, things clicked into place.
DOGE asked ChatGPT: ‘Is this DEI?’
DOGE staffers had used artificial intelligence to select which grants to cut. That was revealed during the discovery process in a larger lawsuit about DOGE gutting the NEH last year. In selecting which grants to terminate, staffers input the project descriptions and asked ChatGPT: “Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation.“
The answer ChatGPT came up with for Gold’s grant was affirmative.
Gold said that, in her experience, both students and faculty find that studying old campus yearbooks and newspapers is an engaging and personalized way of learning history. They can analyze the names, hobbies and fashion choices of their predecessors, see what dorms used to look like, what campus organizations used to be popular, what topics were taught in classrooms, and what famous people came to campus in the past.
“Yes, if I’m looking at newspapers from 1927 through 1972, that is the history exclusively of Black people,” Gold said. “[But] there was nothing with the word ‘Black’ in the name of our grant. There is nothing that says ‘HBCU’ in the name of our grant. So I didn’t know how deep DOGE would look.” […]
Sounds like she was trying to hide the whole “black” angle from the feds. Judging from the timeline she cited, I am willing to bet that racism, segregation, white guilt, and the perceived evils of those *mean ol’ southern white people* played just a *wee* part in the curriculum of this scam — um, *workshop.*
So what did the $90,000 pay for, you ask?
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[…] After her grant was cancelled by the organization once led by trillionaire Elon Musk, Gold still held the institute last summer, just without much food or the stipends promised to participating faculty. […]
Food, drink AND pay for the already overpaid leftist faculty. As a taxpayer, that makes me mad that the funds confiscated from me each April go to things like reading old yearbooks.
The National Endowment for the Humanities –like USAID and the National Endowment of the Arts — are basically money-laundering fronts for subsidizing this country’s radical left. You could make all three of those GO AWAY and the average people (who aren’t leeching off the federal government) would not even notice their absence.
Republicans have had plenty of chances to codify the cuts and eliminations proposed by DOGE. Their inaction has left the door opened for all of DOGE’s work to be reversed by leftist judge-shopping or a Democrat resurgence in Congress.
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[…] Now Gold is getting that $6,000 back.
The same lawsuit that revealed DOGE’s methodology has now resulted in the reinstatement of Gold’s grant.
Four organizations — the American Council of Learned Societies, the Authors’ Guild, the American Historical Association and the Modern Language Association — sued the NEH and its chair, arguing that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants violated the constitution’s free speech and equal protection guarantees.
A judge in the Southern District of New York agreed. In May, Judge Colleen McMahon determined that DOGE had no legal authority to terminate grants, and that the terminations were unconstitutional and “without legal effect.” She ordered the government to rescind termination notices and notify grantees — like Gold — in writing. […]
A Bill Clinton appointee.
Why do we even have elections if unelected tyrants can overrule budget line item changes?
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[…] Gold is excited about the reinstatement of her grant, and plans to use the remaining dollars to fund another gathering for faculty to study the archives.
“North Carolina Central University was notified on June 18 that its National Endowment for the Humanities grant had been reinstated and was asked to submit the required documentation to continue the grant program,” Quiana Shepard, an NC Central spokesperson, told The News & Observer in a statement.
“The university submitted the requested form on June 23 and is currently awaiting further guidance from the program regarding next steps.”
In the grand scheme of things, this grant is a pittance. I’m sure it’s not the only one of its kind out there. And, of course, we – as a nation – are already flat broke before we get put on the hook for chardonnay and caviar for college professors in Durham.
When is the alleged conservative party going to get serious about crap like this?
A lot of GOP officeholders in New York State depend on the endorsement and ballot line of the 300,000 New York Constitution Party members. They don’t deliver, they don’t get on the Constitution Party’s ballot line, and they stand a good chance of not being re-elected. It’s why upstate GOPers don’t drift too far left, unlike the NCGOP. I’ve watched the NCGOP going back to the start of this century, and this can’t be emphasized strongly enough….no internal reform will be permitted. There will be no Womacks, Harnetts, or McGowans allowed to win the State Chairmanship. That’s because the NCGOP is purely a business interests party masquerading as something it’s not. So NC conservatives can continue to pursue their futile efforts for change within the GOP and swallow their frustration or they can build their own North Carolina Conservative Party to bring the NCGOP to heel. We may not have fusion voting like NY does but that’s not the key leverage point that conservatives would have to have to force the NCGOP to the bargaining table.