Sunday, August 19, 2018
Couple pay with their lives for embrace of progressive delusions
Couple pay with their lives for embrace of progressive delusions
Couple pay with their lives for embrace of progressive delusions
This is a "tragedy" in the original Greek dramatic understanding: people undone by their fatal flaw, based on pride.
Image from simplycycling.org via the Daily Caller.
Couple pay with their lives for embrace of progressive delusions
This is a "tragedy" in the original Greek dramatic understanding: people undone by their fatal flaw, based on pride.
Benny Johnson reports in the Daily Caller:
An American couple decided to bicycle around the world in an attempt to prove evil does not exist. They chose to bicycle through ISIS territory and ISIS killed them...In one post, Austin – who is a vegan – said he worked for the Department of Housing and Urban Development during Obama's presidency explained how he and his girlfriend were planning to bike around the world with hopes to meet "generous" and approachable people.He did acknowledge that biking makes one more "vulnerable." ...In another post, right before entering the ISIS hotbed recruiting grounds of Tajikistan, Austin waxed about how "evil" does not exist in the world. ..."I don't buy it. Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own—it's easier to dismiss an opinion as abhorrent than strive to understand it. Badness exists, sure, but even that's quite rare. By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind. No greater revelation has come from our journey than this."
It is a lovely fantasy, to be sure.
It's the same mentality that attaches a bumper sticker reading,
"Mean people suck" to a Volvo.
It's the same mentality that attaches a bumper sticker reading,
"Mean people suck" to a Volvo.
Image from simplycycling.org via the Daily Caller.
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What Went Wrong With Human Rights - WSJ
What Went Wrong With Human Rights - WSJ--James Taranto
To U.N. watchers it’s a familiar critique, but Mr. Rhodes, 69, applies it far more broadly.
In his recent book, “The Debasement of Human Rights: How Politics Sabotage the Ideal of Freedom,” he argues that virtually the entire human-rights enterprise has been corrupted by a philosophical error enshrined in the U.N.’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights—and that this explains the travesty of the Human Rights Council.
That error is the conflation of “natural law” with “positive law.”
Mr. Rhodes explains the difference: “Natural law is a kind of constraint on positive law.”
The idea is “that laws have to answer to a higher law,” he says.
Mr. Rhodes explains the difference: “Natural law is a kind of constraint on positive law.”
Think of America’s Bill of Rights, whose opening clause is “Congress shall make no law.”
The idea is “that laws have to answer to a higher law,” he says.
“This is a vision of law that is very deeply embedded in Western civilization,” finding premodern expression in the ideas of the Greek Stoics and the Roman statesman Cicero, as well as in biblical canon law.
Natural law is universal—or at least claims to be.
“Positive law,” Mr. Rhodes continues, “is the law of states and governments.”
A statute like the Social Security Act of 1935 creates “positive rights”—government-conferred benefits to which citizens have a legal entitlement..."
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Why Bruce Ohr Pushing His Wife's Oppo Research To The FBI Is Huge
A review of publicly available information causes a reasonable person to wonder whether Bruce Ohr broke the law by promoting his wife’s anti-Trump research to the FBI when he was working at the Justice Department.
Engineers refute allegations of gender bias in licensing exam
Engineers refute allegations of gender bias in licensing exam
A recent academic journal article speculated that "biases in the exam itself" may be the reason that women pass the field's licensing exam at a lower rate than men, but professional engineers find the allegation "hard to believe."...
Professional engineers are expressing befuddlement over unsubstantiated scholarly accusations that the field’s licensure exam is biased against women..."
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Journalist probing child-trafficking allegations against Bill Clinton found dead
Journalist probing child-trafficking allegations against Bill Clinton found dead in her room at the Radisson Country Inn & Suites in Washington D.C. on Monday.
She had been investigating claims of alleged involvement of former President William J. Clinton in sex trafficking.
Four weeks before her death, Moore had provided information from interviews with the alleged victim to the Department of Homeland Security and allegations against Clinton.
Records show that she contacted DHS from July 6 through July 9.
True Pundit reported that she contacted the FBI one week later with identical information gleaned from the alleged victim..."
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Four weeks before her death, Moore had provided information from interviews with the alleged victim to the Department of Homeland Security and allegations against Clinton.
Records show that she contacted DHS from July 6 through July 9.
True Pundit reported that she contacted the FBI one week later with identical information gleaned from the alleged victim..."
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Feds accuse Facebook of discrimination over ad-targeting policy - Washington Times
Feds accuse Facebook of discrimination over ad-targeting policy - Washington Times:
The complaint goes to the heart of Facebook’s business model, which depends on being able to offer advertisers micro-targeting.
“Facebook mines extensive user data and classifies its users based on protected characteristics. Facebook’s ad targeting tools then invite advertisers to express unlawful preferences by suggesting discriminatory options,” the Housing and Urban Development Department said in the complaint.
“Facebook mines extensive user data and classifies its users based on protected characteristics. Facebook’s ad targeting tools then invite advertisers to express unlawful preferences by suggesting discriminatory options,” the Housing and Urban Development Department said in the complaint.
Fourth instance of mob violence this year shuts down Chicago’s fanciest shopping district
Fourth instance of mob violence this year shuts down Chicago’s fanciest shopping district
"Business interests and police are doing their best to minimize attention to the slide into mob rule of the streets in Chicago’s nicest, most famous neighborhood.
But shoppers, tourists, and ordinary working Joes and Janes can no longer take for granted the freedom to walk around Chicago’s upscale shopping district along North Michigan Avenue near the famous Water Tower.
Four times this year, mobs of “urban youths” have taken to “wilding” and attacking random pedestrians while looting stores.
"Business interests and police are doing their best to minimize attention to the slide into mob rule of the streets in Chicago’s nicest, most famous neighborhood.
But shoppers, tourists, and ordinary working Joes and Janes can no longer take for granted the freedom to walk around Chicago’s upscale shopping district along North Michigan Avenue near the famous Water Tower.
Four times this year, mobs of “urban youths” have taken to “wilding” and attacking random pedestrians while looting stores.
The latest instance happened on Tuesday. CBS Chicago reports:
A brawl involving dozens of teenagers broke out near Chicago’s Water Tower Place Tuesday night, prompting a flurry of 911 calls as the mob spread to Chicago Avenue and State Street.The disturbance grew so large at one point that some businesses in Chicago’s busiest tourist district were forced to shut downOne person who witnessed the fight asked to stay anonymous, but told CBS that a group of about seven teenagers jumped a person walking down Chicago Avenue between Wabash Avenue and Rush Street.
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Thread by @KimStrassel: "1) It is never fun to tackle fact checkers, but this one is a case study in that modern art of omitting details, stating unsupportable asser […]"
Thread by @KimStrassel: "1) It is never fun to tackle fact checkers, but this one is a case study in that modern art of omitting details, stating unsupportable asser […]"
1) It is never fun to tackle fact checkers, but this one is a case study in that modern art of omitting details, stating unsupportable assertions as fact, slipping things in, manipulating a narrative.
1) It is never fun to tackle fact checkers, but this one is a case study in that modern art of omitting details, stating unsupportable assertions as fact, slipping things in, manipulating a narrative.
Opinion as "fact."
So let's go through it.
2)"Ohr exists in a netherworld — a subject of fascination in right-leaning media". Right, though piece fails to note that is because mainstream media is more "fascinated" by Omarosa than it is the news that a high ranking DOJ official--
3)--whose wife worked for Clinton oppo-research group Fusion GPS--was feeding said oppo research to the FBI. And that the FBI was taking it even after having officially terminated Fusion employee Christopher Steele as a source, for breaking FBI rules.
4)"Ohr is less of a central player." The guy was among highest ranking DOJ officials. And anybody who works for one central player in this drama (DOJ) and has dozens of contacts with all the other central players (Fusion, FBI, Steele) is by definition pretty central..."
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