Sunday, August 18, 2019
Judge Orders FBI To Search For Additional Christopher Steele Records | The Daily Caller
Judge Orders FBI To Search For Additional Christopher Steele Records | The Daily Caller:
A federal judge ordered the FBI on Friday to search for records of any contacts with dossier author Christopher Steele after the bureau cut ties with him as a confidential human source in November 2016.
Judge Christopher Cooper issued the ruling in favor of Judicial Watch, which sued the FBI and Justice Department for all of its records on Steele, a former British spy who investigated the Trump campaign on behalf of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.
Judge Christopher Cooper issued the ruling in favor of Judicial Watch, which sued the FBI and Justice Department for all of its records on Steele, a former British spy who investigated the Trump campaign on behalf of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.
1877!-----6 Forgotten Tips from America’s Oldest Public School | Intellectual Takeout
6 Forgotten Tips from America’s Oldest Public School | Intellectual Takeout
"6 Forgotten Tips from America’s Oldest Public School
...But there’s something we may not have considered.
Is it possible that the path to fixing American education may not be found in the latest and greatest education theories?
Could our history instead hold the answer?
I thought of this when I ran across an 1877 article from the American Journal of Education.
The article described the educational practices used by Boston Latin School – the oldest and longest operating public school in America – when it was under the leadership of Francis Gardner in the mid-1800s.
During Gardner’s time at Boston Latin, the school offered a six-year course of study to which students ages 10 to 16 could attend after successfully completing grammar school.
Some of the methods which stand out include:
1. Memorization – According to Gardner, one of the first lessons a student was given was in Latin Grammar. This lesson was to be thoroughly memorized. Memorization was required because it was efficient and “because [the memorized words] express the ideas to be conveyed better than the pupil can give them in his own language….” Fear of memorization without understanding was groundless, Gardner noted, because future oral examination of the student made “it impossible for the learner to acquire mere words without ideas.”
2. One Class – Today’s high school students move from one class to the next by the sound of the bell – a process which John Taylor Gatto once claimed was hindering learning and simply training students to obey rather than think. The Boston Latin School of Gardner’s time seems to have agreed with Gatto’s reasoning, for it had an entire class study every subject with one teacher for the entire year. The reason? “This arrangement is found to produce better results than when frequent changes are made….”...
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- Would the practices of the Boston Latin School help restore order and rigor to today’s classrooms?
"6 Forgotten Tips from America’s Oldest Public School
...But there’s something we may not have considered.
Is it possible that the path to fixing American education may not be found in the latest and greatest education theories?
Could our history instead hold the answer?
I thought of this when I ran across an 1877 article from the American Journal of Education.
The article described the educational practices used by Boston Latin School – the oldest and longest operating public school in America – when it was under the leadership of Francis Gardner in the mid-1800s.
During Gardner’s time at Boston Latin, the school offered a six-year course of study to which students ages 10 to 16 could attend after successfully completing grammar school.
Some of the methods which stand out include:
1. Memorization – According to Gardner, one of the first lessons a student was given was in Latin Grammar. This lesson was to be thoroughly memorized. Memorization was required because it was efficient and “because [the memorized words] express the ideas to be conveyed better than the pupil can give them in his own language….” Fear of memorization without understanding was groundless, Gardner noted, because future oral examination of the student made “it impossible for the learner to acquire mere words without ideas.”
2. One Class – Today’s high school students move from one class to the next by the sound of the bell – a process which John Taylor Gatto once claimed was hindering learning and simply training students to obey rather than think. The Boston Latin School of Gardner’s time seems to have agreed with Gatto’s reasoning, for it had an entire class study every subject with one teacher for the entire year. The reason? “This arrangement is found to produce better results than when frequent changes are made….”...
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History for August 18
History for August 18 - On-This-Day.com
Merriwether Lewis 1774, Caspar Weinberger 1917, Shelley Winters 1920
Roman Polanski 1933, Robert Redford 1937, Martin Mull 1943
1963 - James Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi. He was the first black man to accomplish this feat.
2004 - Donald Trump unveiled his board game (TRUMP the Game) where players bid on real estate, buy big ticket items and make billion-dollar business deals.
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Tucker And Patel: The American Tragedy Our Leaders Don’t Want To Talk About | The Daily Caller
Tucker And Patel: The American Tragedy Our Leaders Don’t Want To Talk About | The Daily Caller:
Nobody really believes this is about Trump or about assault weapons. If only it were that simple. Our problems go far deeper. What’s the real diagnosis? Author James Howard Kunstler, one of our wisest cultural observers, summed it up this way: “This is exactly what you get in a culture where anything goes and nothing matters. Extract all the meaning and purpose from being here on earth, and erase as many boundaries as you can from custom and behavior, and watch what happens, especially among young men trained on video slaughter games.”
He’s right. Young men are the problem. Many of our boys are living in what Kunstler describes as an “abyss of missing social relations” with “no communities, no fathers, no mentors, no initiations into personal responsibility, no daily organizing principles, no instruction in useful trades, no productive activities, no opportunities for love and affection, and no way out.”
He’s right. Young men are the problem. Many of our boys are living in what Kunstler describes as an “abyss of missing social relations” with “no communities, no fathers, no mentors, no initiations into personal responsibility, no daily organizing principles, no instruction in useful trades, no productive activities, no opportunities for love and affection, and no way out.”
Here’s How Bad the TSA Is Failing at Airport Security. It’s Time for Privatization. | The Heritage Foundation
Here’s How Bad the TSA Is Failing at Airport Security. It’s Time for Privatization. | The Heritage Foundation"This year, the Department of Homeland Security carried out covert tests on TSA security, and the results weren’t pretty.
The results of the tests showed that the TSA screeners failed to detect weapons, drugs, and explosives almost 80 percent of the time..."
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SUNY Women's Studies Staffer: Milking Cows Is 'Sexual Assault' | Breitbart
SUNY Women's Studies Staffer: Milking Cows Is 'Sexual Assault' | Breitbart
"A new research paper published last week by a staff member of the women’s studies department at SUNY Brockport makes the case that the dairy industry’s production process involves the “rape” and “sexual assault” of cows.
"A new research paper published last week by a staff member of the women’s studies department at SUNY Brockport makes the case that the dairy industry’s production process involves the “rape” and “sexual assault” of cows.
According to a report by Campus Reform, a staff member of the women’s studies department at The College at Brockport, State University of New York argued in a recently published academic journal article that the production of milk on farms is akin to “rape” and “sexual assault.
The research article’s author, Mackenzie April, is in charge of social media for the women’s studies department at the college..."
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Google Employees Compare Enforcing U.S. Immigration Law to the Holocaust | Breitbart
Google Employees Compare Enforcing U.S. Immigration Law to the Holocaust | Breitbart:Google employees are calling on the tech giant to ban the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other law enforcement entities including ICE, from accessing the Google Cloud Platform. The Google staffers — who are urging other tech companies to join them in hindering cloud access for law enforcement agencies — claim that U.S. law enforcement has been “terrorizing” immigrants, and compared providing its services to “IBM’s role working with the Nazis during the Holocaust.”
Clinton IT Aide Who Defied Subpoena Says He Created A Cryptic Gmail Account And Sent It Nearly All Of Hillary’s Emails | The Daily Caller
- All but four of Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 emails were copied, likely secretly, to a Gmail address called CarterHeavyIndustries@gmail.com, according to a new Senate report.
- The FBI says that the account was linked to Paul Combetta, an IT aide Clinton hired who used BleachBit to destroy emails after they were subpoenaed and misled FBI agents.
- Combetta said he sent all of her emails to the Gmail account as part of trying to copy them to a new server. Combetta was copying Clinton’s emails off of an old laptop that he was supposed send back in the mail, but there’s no evidence he returned it, according to the Department of Justice Inspector General.
- When an intel agent discovered the copying to a third-party account, he said Peter Strzok seemed uninterested. The intel agency feared the email account could be a link to a foreign power, but the FBI refused to explain it to them.
Virtually every single one of Hillary Clinton’s emails were sent, potentially secretly, to a cryptically named Gmail address, according to a new Senate report.
The finding, which has not been previously reported, means that Clinton’s emails, including classified ones and ones which were later deleted, likely existed on Google’s U.S.-based servers. The FBI said in the report that it knew this — and of the suspicious explanation for it — but did not alert other intelligence agencies or the public, according to the report..."
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HEH: “Sometimes people ask me how I, as a member of the very liberal newspaper industry, came to be …
Instapundit Blog Archive HEH: “Sometimes people ask me how I, as a member of the very liberal newspaper industry, came to be …
HEH: “Sometimes people ask me how I, as a member of the very liberal newspaper industry, came to be a conservative. The answer is that I’ve been around liberals enough to know that we don’t want them running —— well, anything.”
HEH: “Sometimes people ask me how I, as a member of the very liberal newspaper industry, came to be a conservative. The answer is that I’ve been around liberals enough to know that we don’t want them running —— well, anything.”
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It is increasingly like dealing with an angry cult — run out of a middle-school lunchroom.--Posted byThankfully, while these guilt trips used to work on me, no longer. Their white guilt is their problem, not mine. They can grovel in their self-hatred and parade their bleeding hearts all day in a futile effort at redemption. But when I left New England, I left that crap behind.Why am I a conservative? Because I know liberals. There is no grace there. No love there. Only hatred and judgment and pettiness. I joined the St. George’s Facebook page hoping to find old high school classmates. Instead all I found was high school.
Open letter to all who compare Trump to Hitler - WND
Open letter to all who compare Trump to Hitler - WND:
These attacks are occurring during a time when Democrat politicians and media personalities are continually comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, ICE officers to Nazi guards and border detention facilities to “concentration camps” where children are “locked in cages” and forced to “drink from toilets.”
Which raises a big question currently being debated: To what extent is such dishonest, defamatory – and frankly insane – rhetoric responsible for the ensuing violence that often occurs?
After the San Antonio attack, ICE spokesperson Nina Pruneda said this:
These attacks are occurring during a time when Democrat politicians and media personalities are continually comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, ICE officers to Nazi guards and border detention facilities to “concentration camps” where children are “locked in cages” and forced to “drink from toilets.”
Which raises a big question currently being debated: To what extent is such dishonest, defamatory – and frankly insane – rhetoric responsible for the ensuing violence that often occurs?
After the San Antonio attack, ICE spokesperson Nina Pruneda said this:
Michigan State orders student employees not to say ‘but’ – it’s triggering | The College Fix
Michigan State orders student employees not to say ‘but’ – it’s triggering | The College Fix
"...MSU Facilities Manager Sheena Ballbach laid out the no-nos and the replacement terms for Service Center employees at a mandatory training on “Inclusive & Culturally Sensitive Service to Residents & Guests” this month.
Some of them are predictable on a college campus: Don’t misgender people (ask for names). Don’t use gendered terms such as “sir” and “ma’am.”
Call individuals “they,” regardless of grammar.
...Eduardo Olivo, assistant director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, promoted MSU’s official ideology in a different presentation:
“We all know” the gender binary is a “social construction,” students from “minoritized communities” are “victims of oppression systems” and feel “powerless,” and black people are “considered a threat” because of their skin color..."
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"...MSU Facilities Manager Sheena Ballbach laid out the no-nos and the replacement terms for Service Center employees at a mandatory training on “Inclusive & Culturally Sensitive Service to Residents & Guests” this month.
Some of them are predictable on a college campus: Don’t misgender people (ask for names). Don’t use gendered terms such as “sir” and “ma’am.”
Call individuals “they,” regardless of grammar....Eduardo Olivo, assistant director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, promoted MSU’s official ideology in a different presentation:
“We all know” the gender binary is a “social construction,” students from “minoritized communities” are “victims of oppression systems” and feel “powerless,” and black people are “considered a threat” because of their skin color..."
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The Grim Consequences Of Democratic Socialism - Daniel J. Mitchell
The Grim Consequences Of Democratic Socialism - Daniel J. Mitchell
"It’s difficult to be optimistic about some parts of the world.
When I look at Greece and Italy, for instance, I can’t help but think that economic renaissance is very unlikely, in part because of demographics, but even more so because voters have been conditioned to think that they have a right to live off the government.
This dependency mindset shows that societal capital has eroded, and it’s why I fear those nations have passed a tipping point.
Another example is Argentina.
The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial page is very discouraged that the Peronists may return to power in that country.
Does Argentina have a death wish?
...P.S. One external reason for Argentina’s awful performance is that it keeps getting rewarded for bad policy with IMF bailouts..."
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"It’s difficult to be optimistic about some parts of the world.
When I look at Greece and Italy, for instance, I can’t help but think that economic renaissance is very unlikely, in part because of demographics, but even more so because voters have been conditioned to think that they have a right to live off the government.
This dependency mindset shows that societal capital has eroded, and it’s why I fear those nations have passed a tipping point.
Another example is Argentina.
The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial page is very discouraged that the Peronists may return to power in that country.
Does Argentina have a death wish?
...P.S. One external reason for Argentina’s awful performance is that it keeps getting rewarded for bad policy with IMF bailouts..."
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Trees are racists too!-----Golf course removes ‘racist’ trees
Golf course removes ‘racist’ trees"Palm Springs, Calif., says it will remove a row of trees dividing a neighborhood and a golf course after residents complained that the trees evoked feelings of “segregation” and “discrimination.”
...Many residents previously told the Sun they believed the trees, which were planted in the 1960s, stemmed from racism and had a negative impact on the value of their homes as it cut the homes off from the golf course..."
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Teacher to Parent - Students need encouragement to deal with issues, not mental health days during the school year | Opinion | moultrienews.com
"Q: Oregon schools are now allowing kids to take five mental health days each school year.
It was pushed by a group of high school students who want to lower Oregon’s very high teen suicide rate and incidences of mental illness.
Should other states or districts follow suit?
“Students request less school” is hardly a headline that would have garnered attention in previous generations, but in today’s culture where the “wisdom” of youth is revered with almost religious fervor, apparently it demands a serious looking into..."
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Red Flag Laws & Mass Shootings: Wrong Solution | National Review
Red Flag Laws & Mass Shootings: Wrong Solution | National Review:
Depending upon the state, anyone from a family member, intimate partner, or ex to house- or apartment-mates or a police officer can file a complaint. Under Colorado’s recent law, anyone at all can make a phone call to the police. They don’t even have to be living in the state. There is no hearing. All the judge has before him is the statement of concern.
While Trump emphasized mental health in last week’s speech about the Texas and Ohio shootings, red-flag laws are not specifically about mental illness. Indeed, only one state law even mentions the term. It’s about figuring out who is going to commit a crime (or suicide). This is the realm of science fiction, and is the theme of the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report. At least the Future Crime division in the movie had the help of psychics.
While Trump emphasized mental health in last week’s speech about the Texas and Ohio shootings, red-flag laws are not specifically about mental illness. Indeed, only one state law even mentions the term. It’s about figuring out who is going to commit a crime (or suicide). This is the realm of science fiction, and is the theme of the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report. At least the Future Crime division in the movie had the help of psychics.
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