The History and Results of America's Disastrous Public School System - Foundation for Economic Education

The History and Results of America's Disastrous Public School System - Foundation for Economic Education:
"...While it’s almost universally understood that the American school system is underperforming, “reform,” too, is almost universally prescribed as the solution.
Yet in other walks of life, bad ideas are not reformed—they are eliminated and replaced with better ones. 
Our school system is rarely identified as a bad idea.
The motivations at the origins were not pure; they were never to educate but to nationalize the youth in a particular mold.
The system is reflexively left alone while the methods are the bad ideas that get cycled in and out: open concept schools, multiple intelligences, project-based learning, universal design for learning, merit-based pay, vouchers, charters, and most recently, educational neuroscience.
Every decade or so we are told by the pedagogic experts that they have found an answer to our school’s problems..."
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Who Is John Durham, The Man Assigned To Examine The Origins Of The Russia Investigation? | The Daily Caller

Who Is John Durham, The Man Assigned To Examine The Origins Of The Russia Investigation? | The Daily Caller:

Durham went after Connecticut street gangs in 1992 and prosecuted mobsters in the Gambino, Genovese and Patriarca crime families, TIME Magazine reported. Durham was also responsible for exposing former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland’s corruption in 2004, which led to the governor spending a year in prison.
Former Attorney General Janet Reno commissioned Durham to investigate the FBI’s relationship with informant and Boston mobster Whitey Bulger in 1999. Durham’s team was responsible for indicting Bulger cronies Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi and special agent John Connolly Jr. who are portrayed in “Black Mass,” according to The Day.
Durham also investigated a case at the request of former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey in 2008 involving videotapes the CIA destroyed that depicted the torture of terrorism suspects. He further examined the CIA’s handling of detainees at the request of former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. under the Obama administration in 2009, according to The NYT.

Seattle Is Overwhelmed by Garbage and Filth, But the City’s Leaders Won’t Admit It.

Seattle Is Overwhelmed by Garbage and Filth, But the City’s Leaders Won’t Admit It.:
"Over the past few years, Seattle has become a dumping ground for millions of pounds of garbage, needles, feces, and biohazardous waste, largely emanating from the hundreds of homeless encampments that have sprouted across the city.
Now, the Emerald City is on the verge of a full-blown public-health crisis.
Last year saw a 400 percent increase in HIV infections among mostly homeless addicts and prostitutes in the city’s northern corridor.
Public-health officials are sounding the alarms about the return of diseases like typhus, tuberculosis, and trench fever.
Even the region’s famed mussels and clams have tested positive for opioids..."
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CO2 Data Manipulation – Dr. Tim Ball

CO2 Data Manipulation – Dr. Tim Ball
CO2 Data Manipulation

The consistent pattern of the IPCC reveals demonization and misrepresentations of CO2. Here are some basic facts about CO2 that illustrate the discrepancy between what the IPCC claim and what science knows.

• Natural levels of Carbon dioxide (CO2) are less than 0.04% of the total atmosphere; it is far from being the most important or even only greenhouse gas as most of the public understands.
• Water vapour which is 95 percent of the greenhouse gases by volume is by far the most abundant and important greenhouse gas.
• The other natural greenhouse gas of relevance is methane (CH4), but it is only 0.000175 percent of atmospheric gases and 0,036 percent of all greenhouse gases.
• In order to amplify the importance of CO2 they created a measure called “climate sensitivity”. This determines that CO2 is more “effective” as a greenhouse gas than water vapour
• Here is a table from Wikipedia showing estimates of the effectiveness of the various GHGs. Notice the range of estimates, which effectively makes the measures meaningless, unless you have a political agenda. Wikipedia acknowledges “It is not possible to state that a certain gas    causes an exact percentage of the greenhouse effect.”

• The result of determining “effectiveness” was the creation of a Global  Warming Potential (GWP) chart. It was similar to the chart of Ozone Depleting Substances(ODS) created after the false claim that CFCs were destroying ozone in the upper atmosphere..."
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Lunch video---No Climate Emergency

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EXCLUSIVE: Senate Republicans Trash Democrats For ‘Unprecedented Obstruction’ In New Video | The Daily Caller

EXCLUSIVE: Senate Republicans Trash Democrats For ‘Unprecedented Obstruction’ In New Video | The Daily Caller:

Senate Republicans are knocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for “unprecedented obstruction” of Trump nominees in a new video Wednesday.
The Senate Republican Communications Center points out in the video, which was provided exclusively to The Daily Caller, that Democratic filibusters on Trump nominees have forced a historic number of cloture votes in the Senate.

Cuba starts widespread rationing of food and other basics | CBC News

Cuba starts widespread rationing of food and other basics | CBC News:
"The Cuban government announced Friday that it is launching widespread rationing of chicken, eggs, rice, beans, soap and other basic products in the face of a grave economic crisis.
...Cuba imports roughly two thirds of its food..."
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Harvard surrenders to the #MeToo mob: black dean to leave prestigious post

Harvard surrenders to the #MeToo mob: black dean to leave prestigious post
"Something extraordinary happened at Harvard yesterday: a black professor who had done nothing wrong was removed from a prestigious position that carries the title of “dean.” 
In the process, the implicit pecking order among grievance-mongering identity groups was clarified, even though fig leaves were employed to provide deniability to the administrators who delivered the blow.

First, the basic facts, via a New York Times article (non-paywall version) by Kate Taylor:

Harvard said on Saturday that a law professor who is representing Harvey Weinstein would not continue as faculty dean of an undergraduate house after his term ends on June 30, bowing to months of pressure from students.

The professor, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., and his wife, Stephanie Robinson, who is a lecturer at the law school, have been the faculty deans of Winthrop House, one of Harvard’s residential houses for undergraduate students, since 2009. They were the first African-American faculty deans in Harvard’s history..."

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#1 This day 1968-----Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up

Delingpole: Viva Brexit! Nigel Farage Totally Destroys BBC's Andrew Marr

Delingpole: Viva Brexit! Nigel Farage Totally Destroys BBC's Andrew Marr
Nigel Farage just totally destroyed a BBC interviewer on TV this morning.

And, in doing so, Farage reminded us exactly why his Brexit Party is flying so high in the polls, why he’s being tipped as a future prime minister, and why the current shambles of a Conservative party is so inadequate to the task of beating him…

Interviewer Andrew Marr began by making the huge mistake of treating Farage like the BBC treats all politicians to the right of Lenin: with unutterable contempt, as if he were a dangerous idiot with wacky views which no civilised person could possibly hold.

Marr began (from a long list of “gotcha” questions designed to make Farage look like an extremist) with climate change:

“Do you still believe that worrying about global warming is the stupidest thing in human history?”

Farage was ready:

“I believe that if we decide in this country to tax ourselves to the hilt, to put hundreds of thousands of people out of work in manufacturing industries, given that we produce less than 2 per cent of global CO2, that isn’t terribly intelligent.”

Then he segued seamlessly into an attack on the BBC:

“Here we are with one of the biggest changes in politics that has ever occurred and you don’t want to talk about it. What is wrong with the BBC?”

A more nimble interviewer might have changed tack at this point. 

Not Marr.."

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