The left is planning on censoring conservative radio. Be ever vigilant!-----Opinion | Seeds for insurrection were planted 34 years ago with a rule change | Bridge Michigan

Opinion | Seeds for insurrection were planted 34 years ago with a rule change | Bridge Michigan

"...Many attribute the rise of extremist politics to social media. 

It goes deeper than that. 

The roots of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol trace back to a government decision 34 years ago.

In 1987, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed the Fairness Doctrine, a rule which required broadcasters to present issues of public importance, and in doing so provide a discussion that was fair, balanced and honest. 

...There were two direct impacts, both of which coarsened our public discourse: 

• broadcasters no longer were under an obligation to cover/report local news; and 
• the door was opened to one-sided talk-radio, with no obligation on the part of broadcasters to insure that the information on those programs was balanced or even factual.

...Within a year of the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, Rush Limbaugh’s pioneering three hours of one-sided, fact-challenged talk was launched...Read all!

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History for February 17

History for February 17 - On-This-Day.com

Thomas Malthus 1766 (He was wrong. Totally wrong.)

• 1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president.
• 1878 - In San Francisco, CA, the first large city telephone exchange opened. It had only 18 phones.
• 1924 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 100-yard freestyle. He did it with a time of 57-2/5 seconds in Miami, FL.
• 1934 - The first high school automobile driver’s education course was introduced in State College, PA.
• 1992 - In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. In November of 1994, he was beaten to death in prison.
• 1995 - Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings. He was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.

Minneapolis Police Department gets $6.4 in funding - TheBlaze

Minneapolis Police Department gets $6.4 in funding - TheBlaze: 

The Minneapolis City Council's mission to defund the police has failed spectacularly. Following an increase in crime, Minneapolis has had a change of heart about defunding or abolishing the police. In fact, the city is going to spend millions to beef up its law enforcement.

The way we were-----Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go (1964) HD 0815007

Boob-tube-----7-Up Commercial w/Fresh Up Freddie - 1950's

This explains much.-----IQ by Country

IQ by Country (Interactive at link)

We are doomed!-----Shocking Navy Pledge Revealed, Reads More Like an Oath to the DNC Than a Warfighter's Vow

Shocking Navy Pledge Revealed, Reads More Like an Oath to the DNC Than a Warfighter's Vow

• The false narrative about the United States being “systemically racist” has been gaining ground in many areas of American culture. Now, it has fully made its way into the U.S. Navy.
• In June, the Navy created Task Force One Navy in order to “identify and eliminate individual and systemic racism within our force,” according to a news release.
• The service has now revealed the findings of this task force in a report, and it includes a pledge that task force members were forced to take.
  
• It reads like something right out of a pamphlet at the Democratic National Convention.

...However, the pledge then takes things a step further.

“I pledge to advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every Sailor in the Navy,” it says.

In this line, the pledge crosses over from the noble goal of inclusion into the nasty world of identity politics...Read all.

VIDEO: Kids of Mom Who Died in NY Nursing Home Call for Investigation

VIDEO: Kids of Mom Who Died in NY Nursing Home Call for Investigation: 

The children of a woman who died in a New York nursing home in spring 2020 are demanding justice for their mother after one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) aides admitted hiding numbers related to the nursing home deaths.

“During an appearance on ‘Fox & Friends,’ 93-year-old Agnes Minisalle’s three children said that the nursing home deaths and subsequent alleged cover-up should not be partisan issues,” Fox News reported Monday.

Gutfeld on author going after pro-Trump neighbors who shoveled her snow

LA Times columnist calls out Trump-supporting neighbors after plowing driveway; reaction and analysis on 'The Five' #FoxNews​ #TheFive

Deceptively Titled 'Equality Act' Would Be Giant Step to Destroying Religious Freedom

Deceptively Titled 'Equality Act' Would Be Giant Step to Destroying Religious Freedom

"It’s baaccckkk! 

That horrendously mislabeled Equality Act from 2019 has re-appeared but this time there are Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress and a Democrat in the Oval Office.

There are two keys to understanding why this proposal is such a threat to the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious assembly and practice without interference from Congress.

• First, as with so much else that appears under the rubric of “social justice,” this proposal absolutizes the concept of equality into a battering ram against the rights of unfavored groups... That is why the “social justice” movement is the source of the Cancel Culture...
• Second, the Equality Act essentially rewrites the definition of what constitutes a public accommodation in America so that its reach can encompass whatever federal bureaucrats, lawyers and politicians decide it is. Doing that will strike a lethal blow against the idea of privacy of individuals. And when there is no realm of privacy into which the government cannot inject itself, the ultimate politicization of everything will be a reality, just as it always is in every totalitarian regime...Read all!!

Lunch video-----Bjorn Lomborg | Don't waste trillions on BAD Climate Policy

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Recall Newsom Campaign Gaining Momentum Ahead Of Signature Deadline | The Daily Caller

Recall Newsom Campaign Gaining Momentum Ahead Of Signature Deadline | The Daily Caller: 

The Daily Caller’s Jorge Ventura spoke with California State Assemblyman Kevin Kiley about the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The handling of the coronavirus pandemic has added political pressure on Newsom as he faces a potential recall election.

The Recall Gavin 2020 organizers announced on Friday they have reached the 1.5 million signatures required to place the proposal on the ballot.

"...Scream at them at airports..."

 

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Here is WTI oil pricing for the last 6 months. 

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The West's Decline of Intelligence

The West's Decline of Intelligence

"Recent studies have reported a worrisome decline in IQ scores in Western nations over the last decades, a reversal of the once-hopeful Flynn Effect (named after the late philosopher and psychologist James R. Flynn) which posited a growth in cognitive abilities for much of the 20th Century. 

Now the Flynn Effect seems to have reversed, leading to predictions of a general dumbing down of selective populations. 

Other studies report that IQ erosion is not confined to this century but that IQ has dropped by an average of 14.1 percent over the last century. 

As Evan Horowitz writes for NBC News, “A range of studies using a variety of well-established IQ tests and metrics have found declining scores across Scandinavia, Britain, Germany, France and Australia.”

#1 This day 1960-----Percy Faith - Theme From A Summer Place

US mom found SOS in box of decorations—and exposed China’s re-education camps

US mom found SOS in box of decorations—and exposed China’s re-education camps
"In 2012, Oregon mother Julie Keith opened a package of Halloween decorations from her local Kmart. 

Inside, she found something far more unsettling than a bunch of plastic skeletons and gravestones: an SOS letter from the prisoner who made them.
Written neatly in a blue pen, it read:
"Please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right[s] Organization. Thousands [of] people here who are under the persecution of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever."
Julie froze.
“Is this a prank?” she thought.
The 42-year-old read on as the note detailed inhumane work conditions and the fact that many workers were imprisoned despite having committed no crimes.

 She Googled the name of the labor camp mentioned in the note: Masanjia. 

It was real. 

She tried contacting various human rights organizations and finally went to the Oregonian newspaper, which published a story about the SOS.
Then she waited...Read all.

Always believe the experts!

 

Trump Impeachment Lawyer Hits CBSN Host with a Truth Bomb: 'It's Not OK to Doctor a Little Bit of Evidence'

Trump Impeachment Lawyer Hits CBSN Host with a Truth Bomb: 'It's Not OK to Doctor a Little Bit of Evidence': 

“It’s not OK to doctor a little bit of evidence,” van der Veen said. “The media has to start telling the right story in this country. The media is trying to divide this country. You are bloodthirsty for ratings, and as such, you’re asking questions now that are already set up with a fact pattern. I can’t believe you would ask me a question indicating that it’s all right just to doctor a little bit of evidence. There’s more stuff that we uncovered that they doctored, to be frank with you, and perhaps that will come out one day.”

Noting that his side had won the case, van der Veen told Zak there should be more that comes out of the trial than just that result.

“Somebody should look at the conduct of these House managers,” he tells Zak.

The Intellectuals' Assault on Intelligence - American Thinker

The Intellectuals' Assault on Intelligence - American Thinker
"When I went to college in the 1980s, I recall how inscrutable the politics of many of my professors was.
...The students could never figure out where the professor stood. 
...That was a time when there was assumed to be a shared human experience that the brilliant masters of the humanities were able to capture, before multiculturalism or university departments whose names ended in studies or microaggressions or safe spaces. 

This truly was a safe space, for thought. 

That was a time when universities were sanctuaries for free thought rather than the arsenals against free thought that they have now become.
The current class of intellectuals...now flout the principles of logic and reason far more than their relentlessly mocked uneducated rubes ever did. 

Complex issues requiring thoughtful analysis of probabilistic tradeoffs and consequences are replaced with simplistic models that would have left the intellectuals of yesteryear aghast. 

• Where complicated continuums are warranted, binary scales are substituted in which anything besides absolute purity is considered evil. 
• False analogies, poor pattern recognition, hasty conclusions, misjudging the whole by a part, ascribing false motives and meanings have become the artisan bread and butter of the pontificating patricians. 
• Double standards abound in which moving goalposts of unethical or even criminal behavior are applied to capture political opponents, while flexible extenders are granted to liberate supporters. 
• Political opponents, along with groups they may be associated with, are defined by their worst moments or qualities or members, regardless of how insignificant. 
• Conversely, supporters and their associated groups will be defined by their best moments and qualities and members, no matter how meager. 
• Finally all the abuses of logic and reason are wrapped up in shiny packages called science-data-facts with great big bows called decency so that those who refuse such offerings are taunted, censored, blacklisted, and ultimately criminalized...Read all!

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