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Tuesday, April 27. 2021

Survey: We Keep Raising the Age That Children Are Allowed To Play Outside. No freedom for kids until they're 11.

We used to have an 11 year-old babysitter

Myron Magnet: Defounding America - On the erosion of American freedoms.

Deserves a separate post

Civic Education Should Unite Americans, Not Divide Us

Law professor may be fired after personal blog post criticized Chinese government

What? Everybody criticizes the CCP.

Is School Policy for Transgender Student Bathroom Use Discriminatory Under Title IX?

Sheesh. Is this real?

Supreme Court considers whether students can be punished for comments outside class

No - just punish them for anything and everything they say on campus. Again, is this for real?

Gravity is Cancelled: Professors at Sheffield University Want Disclaimers on Isaac Newton’s Theories for ‘Eurocentric’ and ‘White Savior’ Science

Newton's secret scheme finally exposed

Syracuse course questions whether academia should stop teaching Shakespeare. Syracuse University is offering a course in the English Department this Fall, entitled “Why Shakespeare? Race in the Academy.”

Shakespeare's secret scheme finally exposed

Whites Aren't Hated for Slavery but for Making America and the West

White people are not hated. It's just in-fashion posturing.

A Mom’s Research (Part 4): Why Are Many Elites Leftists?

A good question. Maybe because they are superior to rubes like me.

How Equity Pulls People Down Rather Than Lifting Anyone Up.

With real Equity, I'd be teaching Astrophysics at Oxford

Biden's Stimulus Checks "Wreck Labor Pool" As People Get Paid To Stay Home

Shamelessly?

Portland Mayor finally notices people have been burning down his city

Progressive Policy Means Crime without Punishment and Chaos with Anarchy. Used to be let them eat cake, now it’s let them stab each other

When police shoot white people, it's not news

Police shoot lots of white people

JOE BIDEN’S ANTI-AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

Why Iran Negotiations Will Go Nowhere

Biden's Betrayal of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is not a nation. It's just a place

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Why are many elites leftists? Because they can afford to be. They don't have to deal with the real world, they can hypothesize about their theoretical worlds all they want. Your average plumber is more concerned with paying the bills, about putting a roof over his family's head and food on the table and clothes on their backs, than about theoretical nonsense. He's too busy running his own life to worry about running everybody else's.

#1 Jerryskids on 2021-04-27 08:13 (Reply)

You forgot one of the defining characteristics of the wealthy elites: they're cheapskates, and exert extraordinary effort to get some poor schlub (like you or me) to pick up the check.

#1.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2021-04-27 12:44 (Reply)

Portland Mayor finally notices people have been burning down his city. Of course he has. But ask him who these people are and I'm sure he'll tell you it's not BLM or Antifa, those people are peaceful protesters. No, the violent rioters are undoubtedly white supremacists, Nazis, and members of the KKK, you know, Trump supporters.

#2 Jerryskids on 2021-04-27 08:22 (Reply)

"Syracuse course questions whether academia should stop teaching Shakespeare. Syracuse University is offering a course in the English Department this Fall, entitled 'Why Shakespeare? Race in the Academy.'"

I caught the superb and starkly austere National Theatre production of Romeo and Juliet on PBS last Friday night and It struck me again how universal Shakespeare is.

I've seen his works performed by all manner of casts and in every type of setting - and in three or four different languages. I believe the most interesting version I've seen was Macbeth in Swahili performed by a troupe of - were they Kenyan? - actors in tribal dress. It was stunningly effective; just like the rest of us, I doubt there is any African who would not personally find the themes expressed in the play rather close to the bone.

But no! How dare a 16th-Century Englishman presume to write about the quintessential human condition we all share!

There's little hope for any society that can't see through the playwright's "ethnicity" to understand that.

#3 JJM on 2021-04-27 09:03 (Reply)

The sooner the kids start playing outdoors, the sooner they become grounded in the realm of the real, physical, natural world. I don't think there's a more effective way to begin teaching a child the basics of critical thinking skills than by putting them outside to experience all of their senses and begin developing them.

#4 Aggie on 2021-04-27 09:11 (Reply)

“If you come home before the street lights turn on I’ve got a lot of jobs for you to do”……My Mom to 8 year old me, and yes I was, and remain, a huge pain in the ass.

When I moved to Europe 8 years ago I never thought, ever, that Europe would be the sane ones in the EU/US contest. Don’t trust my predictions.

#4.1 DblTap on 2021-04-27 09:45 (Reply)

Best explanation I have heard.

#4.2 faculty wife on 2021-04-27 12:49 (Reply)

And they build a great immune system at that age.

#4.3 indyjonesouthere on 2021-04-27 13:47 (Reply)

yup. I was digging caves under fallen trees in the forest around the place I grew up when I was 10.
Maybe not the smartest thing to do, but taught me something about structural integrity and how you get caveins when you try to make the place too big for the root system and soil to support.

That and climbing trees, hiking in sand pits, building rabbit hutches and chicken pens using sharp tools and the only time I ended up in the ER was when a car hit me while I was standing on the side of the road waiting until it was safe to cross...

#4.4 JTW on 2021-04-28 02:18 (Reply)

Portland Mayor finally notices people have been burning down his city: He's been out to lunch for a couple of years....

A Mom’s Research (Part 4): Why Are Many Elites Leftists? Delusions of "intelligence". Also, "competence".

#5 Sam L. on 2021-04-27 10:04 (Reply)

"Whites Aren't Hated for Slavery but for Making America and the West"

It's envy. It's the fuel of the Left - envy of masculinity and the innovation it gives us (Feminism), envy of the wealthy (Marxism), and envy of people who put in the effort to be attractive (fat acceptance).

#6 Maniac on 2021-04-27 10:27 (Reply)

Yes. Any Rand called that emotion"Hatred of the Good for being the Good."

#6.1 snopercod on 2021-04-27 12:47 (Reply)

Does reading fiction make us better people?

Reading fiction has been said to increase people’s empathy and compassion. But does the research really bear that out?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190523-does-reading-fiction-make-us-better-people

#7 feeblemind on 2021-04-27 10:29 (Reply)

"White people are not hated. It's just in-fashion posturing."

Spoken by a lily white who has never lived in a supra majority minority neighborhood.

One day you will wake up to a big surprise and it's coming fast.

#8 LibDis on 2021-04-27 11:08 (Reply)

Spot on. Anyone who says whites are not hated is none to bright or very coddled….some overlap.

#8.1 DblTap on 2021-04-27 11:32 (Reply)

You are on fire today Bird Dog. Will take a few days to digest all this.

#9 Easy on 2021-04-27 12:36 (Reply)

Re: Supreme court and high school students off campus.

We have just seen a demonstration of a similar situation. The interesting thing to add to this particular story (see link below) is that the white high school boy writes in a style typical of someone with an 8th or 9t grade level of composition skills. However, that was not taken into account. What this child said on facebook should have brought him into the principal's office. His comments and the use of FB to record those comments should have provided him with something like a 2 week suspension. Rather it brought him into the public square facing a well organized "protest" from a small minority group. Of course, in the preplanned audience the local press was present to report the event. This young man's life is ruined. All for what? Please note this demonstration was organized by teacher's during school hours. Also, it has been noted elsewhere that the young Indian/American woman sitting in the left of the picture with her face down has previously been arrested. Read it weep:
pubic execution

https://missoulian.com/news/local/missoula-students-racist-video-sparks-protest-from-high-schoolers/article_56ac9c66-8513-56a8-8b91-370dd1c402c8.html

#10 faculty wife on 2021-04-27 12:44 (Reply)

The article at the link is demanding that I turn off my ad blocker.

That's an instant bye bye for me. Too bad, the article might have been interesting.

I don't mind ads on a page. I might even click on one or two that interest me if they were unobtrusive. What I hate with the heat of 1000 suns, are the pop-up, pop-over, flip this way, flip that way, slide over, get-in-your-face ads that seem to be all the rage these days.

#10.1 Roy on 2021-04-29 18:46 (Reply)

There are help wanted signs all over my part of Michigan. The government is competing with the private market for workers and are winning. So far. As Elon Musk said, if you don't make stuff, there is no stuff. When the stuff to buy runs out
that free money will be worthless.

#11 Becky on 2021-04-27 13:57 (Reply)

Kerry’s Denial on Leaking to Iran Doesn’t Add Up

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/kerrys-denial-on-leaking-to-iran-doesnt-add-up/

#12 feeblemind on 2021-04-27 14:31 (Reply)

John Kerry Has Made A Career Of Violating Logan Act

https://lidblog.com/javad-zarif-john-kerry/

#12.1 feeblemind on 2021-04-27 18:15 (Reply)

Law professor may be fired after personal blog post criticized Chinese government

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There is little doubt the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The evidence is actually pretty overwhelming. The info I find most persuasive are the leaked Chinese health department maps and data showing the initial spread of the virus in Wuhan. The epicenter of the virus was not the wet market. It was the residential neighborhood right next to the Wuhan Institution of Virology.

#13 Jim on 2021-04-27 15:19 (Reply)

Dennis Prager is a snake.

#14 ccoffer on 2021-04-27 18:19 (Reply)

I would submit that Afghans are a nation without a nation state.

#15 ccoffer on 2021-04-27 19:28 (Reply)

Civics Education should unite us, not divide us, as the NR article says.

So who benefits from us being divided?

#16 Assistant Village Idiot on 2021-04-28 06:38 (Reply)

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