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Wednesday, July 7. 2021Wednesday morning links
MC: A Few Thoughts For Independence Day Weekend Please, Progressives: Go Ahead and Cede What Makes America Great to the Right New York City's Chaotic Democratic Mayoral Primary Is Over…And the Former Cop Won Book Review: Brian Domitrovic Reveals the Monetary Genius of Arthur Laffer Social Equity and the Re-Segregation of Higher Education Manhattan Institute Offers Toolkit for Parents to Fight Back Against Woke Schools What Is A University Student? April Powers Condemned Jew-Hate. Then She Lost Her Job. The inclusion officer's identity as a black Jew should have made her unassailable. Instead, it was used to discredit her. Nancy Pelosi Directs Capitol Hill Security Police Units to Regional Offices in California and Florida, Future Locations coming What America Didn’t Understand About Its Longest War - That the war went on so long may be tragic, but it is hardly surprising. Tuesday, July 6. 2021Tuesday morning links Dem Rep. Cori Bush Says American Freedom Is Only For ‘White People’… National Geographic Says 4th of July Fireworks Are Racist Because Smoke Disproportionately Affects Black People To Stop Climate Change Americans Must Cut Energy Use by 90 Percent, Live in 640 Square Feet, and Fly Only Once Every 3 Years, Says Study The pandemic didn't affect mental health the way you think YET MORE PROVERBS FOR MODERN TIMES Chicago: Chiraq: 88 Shot, 14 Killed… A city where black lives do not matter Can Unhinged Pro-Crime Progressive Prosecutors Survive The Crime Wave They Helped Create? Judge Orders Thug-Loving Minneapolis City Council, Mayor to Hire More Cops. Good Luck With That! VDH:The Genesis of Our American Collective Meltdown. Our adversaries can’t quite believe their good fortune. Had they thought up ways to divide and impoverish America, they could not have improved on our own collective meltdown. Our friend comments on the above Monday, July 5. 2021Monday morning links Related? Chinese Scientists Produce Genetically Modified Pigs for Human Transplant Young Americans need to appreciate the good fortune they take for granted Our American Inheritance - We must not forget our forebears’ sacrifices. The Left’s War on Gifted Kids. Local progressive activists have found a cause even more unpopular than "Defund the police," and are pushing it with even greater vigor. The Real Problem With Critical Race Theory NEA Goes All-In on Critical Race Theory Hate in America's Classrooms Has there ever been a nation in history with more opportunities for Black people than the USA? Rep. James Clyburn outright lies about Voter I.D. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Blames Trump For Surge In Violent Crime Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Says 99% Of The Criticism She Receives Is Because She Is A Black Woman…Nothing to do with her trainwreck policies. Trump Says One Of His Greatest Accomplishments Was Exposing The ‘Fake News Media’ China’s deal with Montenegro makes sense if you realize it’s not about money Saudi Arabia moves towards the Gulf peace train with Israel Sunday, July 4. 2021Happy Independence Day
I don't believe in being humble about our national identity. No other nation has done many of the things our nation has. Our Constitution was one of the very first, and certainly the first that enshrined individual rights as primary over the predations of a government. Our Constitution started a period of constitutional revolution which spread around most of the world at that time. And while our nations' flaws are evident, we are among the few nations which air our dirty laundry, not proudly, but to learn and improve. Other nations can point to civil or human rights failings we have now, or have had in the past, but none of them have a track record better than ours improving these rights.
Continue reading "Happy Independence Day" Saturday, July 3. 2021A few Saturday morning links Powerful, Prestigious Legal Organization Rejects “Affirmative Consent” Caving to the Mob Week in Higher Education Ohio private school expels students because their MOMS launched campaign against woke curriculum and Critical Race Theory HOW RADICAL ARE THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS? Watch out for the extremists around you Target has now acknowledged that San Francisco is the only city in America where they have decided to close some stores early because of the escalating retail crime. " What the f- is going on in California?" MC: Justice In This Country Is Not Dispensed Impartially Between Democrats And Republicans Friday, July 2. 2021Friday morning links If a Person Can Be Trans-Gender, Why Not Trans-Race? Most of FL condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs Biden Official Claims Climate Change May Be To Blame For Florida Condo Collapse… California Begs For More Electricity As Shift To Renewable Power Leaves State In The Dark ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON COLLISION COURSE WITH REALITY ‘Tree Inequity’ plaguing ‘peoples of color’ The week in whoppers: Randi Weingarten’s chutzpah, The Gray Lady’s revisionism and more MSNBC Expert Seems to Leave Mika Speechless When He Delivers a Harsh Blow About Trump Charges Trump must be extremely clean if this is all the NY prosecutors came up with The Bill Will Come Due on Biden's Trillions. Biden's infrastructure package is really a jackpot for public unions and big business. Why Is the Buttoned-Up Biden White House Leaking Dirt on Kamala? Thursday, July 1. 2021Thursday morning links It is a short easy read and is chock full of information that challenges the woke narrative How did Bill Cosby's conviction overturn happen? Legal experts weigh in Vogue declares Jill Biden 'a goddess' and puts her on their cover as the epitome of style Supreme Court Says Students Who Identify As Teachers Must Be Allowed To Use Teacher's Lounge Majority of liberal college students not proud to be American, favor socialism, NDSU survey finds If Trans Women Are Women, What Does That Make Women? Crime: What Was California Thinking? HOW LOW CAN HOLLYWOOD SINK? California: Put your masks back on, and don’t whine about it Global Warming 33 Year Birthday a Celebration of Failures Via Schneiderman:
NSA VS. TUCKER: AN UPDATE [UPDATED!] If the Woke Revolution Cancels Truth Itself, What Then? Kamala Harris Has a Big Problem The incredible shrinking Kamala Harris Putin Declares The Age Of American Dominance And Leadership Is Dead… Wednesday, June 30. 2021Wednesday morning links
Putting Climate Models On Trial With Its Power Grid Under Pressure, California Asks Residents to Avoid Charging Electric Vehicles Rand Paul Blows Up Another Fauci Claim, This Time on the Delta Variant The Left Is Now Scaremongering The COVID ‘Delta Variant’ Attempting To Silence Your Opponents Is A Sign You Are Losing The Debate US just finished dead last among 46 countries in media trust — here's why Why Fake News Flourishes: Emitting Mere Information Is Easy, But Creating Actual Knowledge Is Hard University Allows Deadline Extensions for Nonwhite Students With Self-Reported 'Racial Trauma' Shocker: Cutting Federal Unemployment Benefits Is Getting People Back to Work The left’s dangerous push to hook the middle class on government ‘help’ Homicides Have Skyrocketed in These 6 Democratic Cities. Black People Are Disproportionately the Victims, Data Shows. Is The Entire Democratic Party Compromised By China? Tuesday, June 29. 2021500,000 illegalsMore Than 500K Illegal Immigrants Crossed Southern Border Since Kamala Harris Named ‘Border Czar’ I am in favor of any legal immigration which fits American interests.
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Tuesday morning links
Rome's Colosseum opens its underground for the first time in its history Bryan Caplan's Profound Understanding of Human Nature Romney Blames Climate Change For Severe Weather…. Climate Anxiety Is Bad For Solving Climate Crisis Officials Denounce National Archives Rotunda as Racist Nike chief executive says brand is ‘of China and for China’ WHEN CITY OFFICIALS ARE PRO-CRIME USA Today: To Fight Toxic Polarization, We Need All Sorts Of National Service GEN. MILLEY FEARS “WHITE RAGE” OF GRANDMOTHERS Brandeis U takes woke language policing to new depths of stupidity Democrats Get Some Really Bad News as Normal Americans Wake Up Here’s a Look at the Shocking White Privilege, Gender Equity Lesson Plans Used To Indoctrinate Your Kids Is Your School Hiding Its Critical Race Theory Teaching? Here Are 5 Things to Ask About The Left Is in Panic Mode Over Losing Voters of Color Leftists Discover They May Be The White Supremacists They're Looking For “This is Bull Sh*t” – Iowa Teacher Fumes She Can’t Teach Marxist CRT in Her Classroom, ‘We Need to Tear the Systems Down’ WaPo Shoots Down Biden's Cannon Misfire Democrats Are Considering a $6 Trillion Infrastructure Plan That Has Little to Do With Infrastructure The US Military’s Perilous Experiment Biden's Lawless Bombing of Iraq and Syria Only Serves the Weapons Industry Funding Both Parties Monday, June 28. 2021Fun Stuff
At this point, I should note that in the 5 months I've been laid off, I've now spent 5 hours on the phone with NY State Unemployment trying to solve problems with my account. The idea is to get me back to work - and those are 5 hours I could have spent productively elsewhere...even searching for a job or replying to other inquiries I'd engaged. One may be inclined to say "would you rather have the 5 hours back or solve the problem?" I'm inclined to reply I would prefer to not have had the problem and not wasted the 5 hours - which were not my fault, but due to a bureaucratic error on the part of some unknown official somewhere who hit the wrong processing button. Errors happen. They happened even in private business, I remember enough that I had to fix at my old job. But the point is private business is far more accountable and I am willing to believe that there is a fraction of the errors or problems that I've experienced with government work, in private industry. Unaccountable and faceless bureaucrats, or as my father-in-law likes to say "Assholes with a clipboard" cause more problems than they solve. If they didn't, the Soviet Union would still be around. Monday morning links
The NYT worries about the politics of crime Higher ed: Has The “Victim Bias” Bubble Burst? A Fascinating Interview with the Composer Whose Career Was Canceled About the Indiana Grandmother Forced to "Confess" to Her Wrong-Think at Sentencing for Her January 6 Actions Dealing with the Pandemic — An Authoritarian Precedent New York Has No Idea Whatsoever How To "Decarbonize" Its Electric Grid Some 'root causes' for Kamala to hunt down at border: Venezuela's migrant surge snowballs Saturday, June 26. 2021Saturday morning links
Trudeau government unable to define the term 'woman' Hungary Told To Repeal Law Banning LGBT Promotion To Children "Or Else Leave EU" Simon Campbell Calls Out Pennsbury School Board During Public Comment Asian Enrollment Slashed at Top Virginia High School After Admissions Changes Subject Of Lawsuit The Morning Briefing: Humorless Democrat Marxists Are Terrified of the Babylon Bee Calling Out the Propaganda Media Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee, which is the body that has jurisdiction over antitrust law, wrote and voted on legislation to break up big tech firms Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Glenn Loury talks to Charles Murray about the "shift away from racism as a moral issue to accusations of racism as a kind of attack on [white people] as people." What is Behind Gen. Mark Milley's Righteous Race Sermon? Look to the New Domestic War on Terror. Kamala Blames Trump for Biden Border Crisis, Lashes Out at Trump for Kids in Cages — Something They’ve Quadrupled! Friday, June 25. 2021Friday morning links Spotify Bans Song For Having Lyrics Critical of BLM… Homicides Have Skyrocketed in These Six Democratic Cities; Black People Are Disproportionately the Victims, Data Shows Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial
Green New Deal Illinois Style: Unions Battle Greens Over How To Screw Taxpayers The Republic Is Preserved – But The Democrats Will Try Insurrection Again US has lowest levels of public trust in media among 46 countries: Reuters survey Attack Damages Iran’s Nuclear Centrifuge Manufacturing Facility Thursday, June 24. 2021Breaking news: There are lots of bad people out thereRepublicans Are Not Responsible for the Democratic Party’s Crime Problem Big surprise that there is a significant portion of the population whose behavior is deterred by serious policing and rough justice. Whenever I think about the topic, I realize it's why I keep it straight with my taxes. Avoiding criminal behavior has worked out well for me. Speeding is my main issue. Not reckless, just driving fast when I can.
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Thursday morning links Secret Room Holds 'Lost' Michelangelo Artwork. These rarely seen drawings on the chamber walls may have been created when the famed artist took refuge from the Medici family in 1530. First Clear View of a Boiling Cauldron Where Stars are Born - UMD-led team used NASA’s SOFIA telescope to capture high-resolution details of a star nursery in the Milky Way Climate Today: Guardian Pushes Nuclear Power eBay Bans Dr. Seuss, Allows Hezbollah Suspending Reading and Math Requirements for Oregon Students U. of Oklahoma Instructors Receive Training on How to Censor, Indoctrinate Students MacDonald: Down a Black Hole - Even the hard sciences are no longer immune to the ongoing racial hysteria. Fat Liberation Joe Rogan Explains Why Hollywood is So Liberal ‘Huge Win for Democracy’: GOP Blocks Federal Election Takeover Who won the NYC mayoral primary? Nobody knows Joe Biden’s policy puts America last: Goodwin Biden Administration Undermines Women’s Equality Under Title IX The Russian Navy Loves Drones (And For Good Reason)
Wednesday, June 23. 2021Wednesday morning links Senate Republicans and Democrats Agree To Double Amtrak's Funding. A bill approved by the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation would give the money-losing rail company $19 billion over 5 years. "I'm Not Going Back To Work": Indiana Residents Sue After Governor Nixes Unemployment Benefits Ikea Atlanta Juneteenth menu changed after blowback over plans to serve fried chicken, watermelon WHO Stealth Edits Page Warning Against Vaccinating Children University Lab Finds 11 Dangerous Pathogens on Children’s Face Masks Democrats' voter ID debacle Black parents furious with Critical Race Theory Woke, Inc: Why I’m blowing whistle on how corporate America is poisoning society Cal State professor worries Victorian literature studies promote ‘white feminism’ A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow's Viewers Know She Offers Exaggeration and Opinion, Not Facts Gen Mattis on law, lawyers, law school, and the commanders’ role in military justice Tuesday, June 22. 2021Book-burningBari Weiss and Abigail Schrier discuss: The Books Are Already Burning. The question is only: How long will decent people stand by quietly and watch it happen?
Tuesday morning links
University of Oregon can discipline students for off-campus offenses under new policy 85% of Liberal Students Think Professors Should Be Reported for Offensive Comments What Is Going On at Yale Law School? The prestigious institution has tied itself in knots over a dispute involving one of its most popular—and controversial—professors, Amy Chua. American University Has Maoist Self-Incrimination Session, Decides It’s 'Islamophobic' Greenfield: THE WHITENESS OF WOKE Slave Stories History 'Forgot.' Black People Owned Slaves Too What If the Media Had Told the Truth? Five MSM Lies for Which Trump Has Been Vindicated, and the Damage They Caused Has the average member of the press corps ever actually met anyone in America? Alleged Hate Crime At Florida Gay Pride Parade Yesterday Was Actually Drunk Gay Man Who Stepped On Wrong Peddle… Could Israel Replicate Its Syrian Military Strategy in Gaza? Monday, June 21. 2021We suck at it![]()
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Monday morning links
Youth Protest Group Inspired By Greta Thunberg Disbands, Accuses Itself Of Racism Bill Maher to Lin-Manuel Miranda: Don't apologize to these whiny progressive bullies Bookworm Beat — the stupid leftist’s illustrated edition A disturbing look at corporate Critical Race Theory brainwashing CNN IS CRAZY All the Projection That’s Fit to Print. On the New York Times’s blindness to what it has become Chicago Alderman Says Gangs Are Responsible For Chicago Problems, Not Racism, As Mayor Lori Lightfoot Claimed Singer Macy Gray Calls for Replacing ‘Tattered and Divisive’ American Flag Taibbi: Why Has "Ivermectin" Become A Dirty Word? Following the Scientists Who Were Destroying America Just to Spite Trump Palestinians reject 1 million corona vaccine doses from Israel Saturday, June 19. 2021Saturday morning links
Lego Introduces New Sharper Bricks That Instantly Kill You When You Step On Them What Ever Happened to Flirting? By assuming that any approach is malign unless proven otherwise, we lose something potentially risky—but also potentially wonderful. My Mother Came to America the Right Way. Here’s How Biden’s Policies Devalue Legal Immigration. Who trusts the US Federal govt to do what is right? Jeff Bezos-Backed Company To Build Fusion Plant In UK World Report Card: The Inexorable March Toward Zero Carbon Emissions (Not!) When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake Could there be anything more gross than the masks your kids are wearing? The CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Safely Travel, But Please Don't - More mixed messages from CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. Scientist Admits: We Concealed Our Knowledge That a Lab Leak Was Likely Because We Didn't Want to be "Associated With Trump" Wuhan, Weapons, & Burned Spies: CCP Defector Identified, Gave 'Terabytes' Of Dirt To US Govt. Minneapolis police investigating bags of human body parts found on the street Welcome to Wokespeak: Its Logic-Defying Rhetoric Is Making Heads Spin Parent Destroys CRT At Illinois School Board Meeting: ‘How Do I Have Two Medical Degrees If I’m Sitting Here Oppressed?’… Don't Ban CRT. Expose It. There's a liberal way to fight illiberalism. And it's beginning to work. So It Begins: Lori Lightfoot Declares Racism a 'Public Health Crisis' to Justify New Policy Chicago mayor: Racism is a public health crisis, It is "literally killing us" Army Long Range Strike Gives China A Taste of Its Own Medicine Friday, June 18. 2021Apple Pie as a racist, colonialist symbol
Half or more of The Guardian is difficult to distinguish from the Babylon Bee. Seems to me that their specialty to beclown themselves much of the time. The apple is an import from the Chinese mountains. The pie idea has been around since there was flour - probably the Sumerians put some fruit or meat inside some dough. In my view, the nurseryman Johnny Appleseed, aka John Chapman -(photo) did us all a great favor. I am not a big fan of fruit, but most people are. Well, I like cooked fruit in desserts because fruit is nothing but sugar anyway. The idiot who wrote the Guardian article clearly did not know that pumpkins came from Mexico, not from England. Pumpkins, and all squash, were appropriated from Central American farmers by North American natives - and by the Spanish too. Shame on them. For me, I prefer a Tarte Tatin with a hard caramelized crust to an apple pie. With some ice cream (invented in Egypt). Is that un-American of me?
Friday morning links
Happy Birthday Mr. President From the Marginalized Majority Bookworm Beat 6/14/21 — the Flag Day illustrated edition Father's Day: Fatherlessness Is America's Top Domestic Problem Why Do Colleges Dislike Men? The Disappearing Collegiate Male Mark and Patricia McCloskey Plead Guilty to Charges, Will Surrender Guns Mom Won't Let Her Vaccinated 15-Year-Old Go to Summer Camp, and Slate Agrees. A bad response from the magazine's parental advice column CONCERNED SHAREHOLDERS TAKE ACTION AGAINST COKE’S RACIST DEMANDS Critical Race Theory and Academic Freedom - State-based legislation banning the teaching of the toxic ideology is philosophically and legally justifiable. Last Men Standing: Charles Murray vs. Ibram X. Kendi England’s first Black Studies professor accuses his university of being racist The Wrong Turn of Civil Rights In Loudoun County, Dad Has 2 Reasons to Take on Critical Race Theory John McWhorter: Ignore the left's gaslighting, it's not racist to criticize Critical Race Theory Via HET:
Abbott launches Texas border wall project with $250 million 'down payment'. Texas' governor accused the Biden administration of abandoning its border responsibilities Australian Media Mocks CNN's Glowing Coverage of Bumbling Joe Biden
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