Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Why Being Left Handed Matters for Mental Health - Neuroscience News
Why Being Left Handed Matters for Mental Health - Neuroscience News:Summary: Researchers believe some treatments for mental health conditions may be ineffective, or even dangerous for left handed people.
A new study reports areas of the brain housing alertness and determination may be on the right side for left dominant people.
The new theory suggests the location of a person’s neural system for emotion depends on their handedness.--Source: Cornell University.
Treatment for the most common mental health problems could be ineffective or even detrimental to about 50 percent of the population, according to a radical new model of emotion in the brain..."
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How to Make a Pension Crisis Worse: N.J. Officials Want Back in, Without Paying for It - Hit & Run : Reason.com
How to Make a Pension Crisis Worse: N.J. Officials Want Back in, Without Paying for It - Hit & Run : Reason.com
"A bill would allow some officials retroactive access to potentially 10 years of pension payments. Guess who would be on the hook for it?
New Jersey's public pension fund is a terrible black hole of debt and unfunded obligations, a familiar story for those who follow various state pension crises.
The state is $60 billion short to pay off its pension commitments and it would consume 15 percent of the state's budget each year until the year 2049 to get it back into balance.
It looks like some New Jersey lawmakers are trying to make the problem even worse and undo at least one attempt to defuse this ticking time bomb..."
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"A bill would allow some officials retroactive access to potentially 10 years of pension payments. Guess who would be on the hook for it?
New Jersey's public pension fund is a terrible black hole of debt and unfunded obligations, a familiar story for those who follow various state pension crises. The state is $60 billion short to pay off its pension commitments and it would consume 15 percent of the state's budget each year until the year 2049 to get it back into balance.
It looks like some New Jersey lawmakers are trying to make the problem even worse and undo at least one attempt to defuse this ticking time bomb..."
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Ben Shapiro: Media lying about border so Dems can 'play political football with children' - Washington Times
Ben Shapiro: Media lying about border so Dems can 'play political football with children' - Washington Times:
He then echoed the Department of Homeland Security, which has noted that asylum seekers who go to proper border crossings are not separated from family members.
“The legislature can fix that law at any time,” Mr. Shapiro said. “The facilities he’s using are the same facilities Obama used. Pretending that this is Japanese internment (as Laura Bush suggested) or the Holocaust (as General Michael Hayden suggested) is ridiculous. This policy ought to be fixed. But lying about it isn’t designed to fix it. It’s designed to prevent a fix by allowing Democrats to play political football with children, believing they’re winning a victory by holding Trump’s feet to the fire with pictures of crying children.”
“The legislature can fix that law at any time,” Mr. Shapiro said. “The facilities he’s using are the same facilities Obama used. Pretending that this is Japanese internment (as Laura Bush suggested) or the Holocaust (as General Michael Hayden suggested) is ridiculous. This policy ought to be fixed. But lying about it isn’t designed to fix it. It’s designed to prevent a fix by allowing Democrats to play political football with children, believing they’re winning a victory by holding Trump’s feet to the fire with pictures of crying children.”
Prof blames mathematics for 'global disparities in wealth'
Prof blames mathematics for 'global disparities in wealth'- In a chapter for a new textbook, University of Exeter professor Paul Ernest warns that mathematics education can cause "collateral damage" to society by training students in "ethics-free thought."
- He even argues that since money involves mathematics, math is "implicated in the global disparities of wealth" because math students are taught to value "detached" and "calculative" reasoning..." Read on.
Separating Families At The Border: The Hysteria Overlooks Some Key Facts
Separating Families At The Border: The Hysteria Overlooks Some Key Facts:
"Illegal Immigration: The latest outrage by the Trump administration is its policy of "ripping" children away from parents who've crossed the border illegally.
As with so many other things involving Trump, there's plenty of emotion but precious little in the way of facts.
...So what's going on here?
What To Do?...
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"Illegal Immigration: The latest outrage by the Trump administration is its policy of "ripping" children away from parents who've crossed the border illegally.
As with so many other things involving Trump, there's plenty of emotion but precious little in the way of facts.
...So what's going on here?
- First, it's important to note that many of the "separations" don't last long at all.As Rich Lowry explains in a detailed article in National Review, "when a migrant is prosecuted for illegal entry, he or she is taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals," in which case, as when other adults are incarcerated in the U.S., they are separated from their children.Lowry notes that "The criminal proceedings are exceptionally short, assumng there is no aggravating factor such as a prior illegal entry or another crime. ...However, it only took a matter of hours to reunite more than a third of these children with their parents.
- Under the "zero tolerance" policy, Trump has tried to put an end to this "catch and release" policy, by arresting every adult caught illegally crossing the border.
- Asylum Claims-The administration is right to point out, however, that there is a legal process for seeking asylum that won't involve facing such a choice — just show up at a port of entry to make the asylum claim. "As I have said many times before, if you are seeking asylum for your family, there is no reason to break the law and illegally cross between ports of entry," Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tweeted over the weekend. Critics complain that the legal process just takes too long, as a way to justify illegal border crossings. But illegal border crossers are not only jumping the line...
- Another fact conveniently overlooked amid all the hysteria is that just because a group claims to be a family, doesn't mean it's true. The Department of Homeland Security says that from October 2017 to February 2018 it saw "a 315% increase in the number of cases with minors fraudulently posing as 'family units' to gain entry." Presumably that's because they think posing as a family will improve their chances of avoiding deportation. Whatever the reason, those children's separation from their parents occurred long before the border patrol showed up.
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Clinton donor's dealings and murky connections questioned by watchdog group | Fox News
Clinton donor's dealings and murky connections questioned by watchdog group | Fox News:
The murky nature of Hillary Clinton’s former presidential campaign fund continues to rise to the surface.
Fox News has learned that one of the top donors to the “Hillary Victory Fund” (HVF) in 2016 was a Los Angeles-based attorney who is alleged to have misused company funds to create his own $22 million real estate portfolio. He has also been considered by California to be one of the state's biggest tax cheats, and allegedly has ties to the Kremlin.
The murky nature of Hillary Clinton’s former presidential campaign fund continues to rise to the surface.
Fox News has learned that one of the top donors to the “Hillary Victory Fund” (HVF) in 2016 was a Los Angeles-based attorney who is alleged to have misused company funds to create his own $22 million real estate portfolio. He has also been considered by California to be one of the state's biggest tax cheats, and allegedly has ties to the Kremlin.
Census Bureau Has Been Co-Opted by Leftist Ideologues
Census Bureau Has Been Co-Opted by Leftist Ideologues:
“Are you an American or not?”
It’s a simple question, one that every U.S. census should include, especially when the survey already contains nonsensical and intrusive inquiries into one’s ethnic DNA composition and whether one co-habits with someone of the opposite sex or one’s own.
Whether you are a citizen or not is a valid question in a civic-minded constitutional democracy. Whether your parents are ethnic Chinese born in Peru or you are a nonpracticing heterosexual, not so much.
And yet, the inclusion of a citizenship question and other changes rightly being made by the Trump administration to the 2020 census caused a lamentably predictable furor on Thursday, at the first day of the spring 2018 meeting of the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations.
The liberal Left continue to push their radical agenda against American values..."
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“Are you an American or not?”
It’s a simple question, one that every U.S. census should include, especially when the survey already contains nonsensical and intrusive inquiries into one’s ethnic DNA composition and whether one co-habits with someone of the opposite sex or one’s own.Whether you are a citizen or not is a valid question in a civic-minded constitutional democracy. Whether your parents are ethnic Chinese born in Peru or you are a nonpracticing heterosexual, not so much.
And yet, the inclusion of a citizenship question and other changes rightly being made by the Trump administration to the 2020 census caused a lamentably predictable furor on Thursday, at the first day of the spring 2018 meeting of the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations.
The liberal Left continue to push their radical agenda against American values..."
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Prof claims Google search algorithms 'privilege whiteness'
Prof claims Google search algorithms 'privilege whiteness':
"A University of California professor claiming that Google’s search algorithms “privilege whiteness” and “discriminate against people of color.”
Safiya Umoja Noble argues that "big data" is not "neutral" because programmers "hold all types of values, many of which openly promote racism, sexism, and false notions of meritocracy."
According to Google, however, the algorithms in questions had already been revised prior to the book's publication, though the company acknowledges that search results may still "mirror" real-world biases.
A University of Southern California professor argues in a new book that Google’s search algorithms “privilege whiteness” and “discriminate against people of color,” a claim Google says was outdated before the book was even published..."
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"A University of California professor claiming that Google’s search algorithms “privilege whiteness” and “discriminate against people of color.”
Safiya Umoja Noble argues that "big data" is not "neutral" because programmers "hold all types of values, many of which openly promote racism, sexism, and false notions of meritocracy."According to Google, however, the algorithms in questions had already been revised prior to the book's publication, though the company acknowledges that search results may still "mirror" real-world biases.
A University of Southern California professor argues in a new book that Google’s search algorithms “privilege whiteness” and “discriminate against people of color,” a claim Google says was outdated before the book was even published..."
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