Charles Murray's Two Uncomfortable Truths and His Not Bad Advice - Rasmussen Reports

Charles Murray's Two Uncomfortable Truths and His Not Bad Advice - Rasmussen Reports
"Give Charles Murray, longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, credit for courage. 

Again and again, despite outrageously unfair attacks, he has returned to the public arena and persisted in telling unwelcome truths. 

...It will be interesting to see whether there is a similar reaction to his latest and much shorter book, "Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America."

• His first truth is that "American Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians, as groups, have different means and distributions of cognitive abilities." Murray makes mincemeat of arguments against IQ tests and shows that they're highly correlated with achievement in schools and in later life. Asians have the highest average scores, followed by Whites, Latinos and Blacks.
• Murray's second truth is that "American Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians, as groups, have different rates of violent crime."...Read all.

No American could disagree!

 

Toyota tramples cancel mob after being targeted over donations to GOP 'election objectors' - TheBlaze

Toyota tramples cancel mob after being targeted over donations to GOP 'election objectors' - TheBlaze: 

Over the weekend, Toyota became the latest company to be targeted for donating to Republican "election objectors." But the automaker isn't taking the heat lying down.

On top of a 12% AND a 50% increase THIS YEAR!-----Consumers Energy’s proposed rate boost is ‘excessive and unnecessary,’ AG says

Consumers Energy’s proposed rate boost is ‘excessive and unnecessary,’ AG says

"Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is seeking to stop a rate increase requested by Consumers Energy that would raise residential electric bills.

The Michigan Public Service Commission is considering an annual increase in revenues of $225 million, which would result in an 8.8% percent increase for residential ratepayers and a 5.5% increase overall when considering all ratepayer classes - residential, commercial and industrial, according to the Attorney General’s office...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for July 1

History for July 1 - On-This-Day.com

Wally Amos, Jr. 1936 - Entrepreneur, created Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies

• 1862 - The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
• 1863 - During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at Gettysburg began.
• 1867 - Canada became an independent dominion.
• 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.
• 1943 - The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks.
• 1963 - The U.S. postmaster introduced the five-digit ZIP (Zoning Improvement Plan) code.
• 1966 - The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.
• 1997 - The sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred from Great Britain to China. Britain had controlled Hong Kong as a colony for 156 years.
• 2003 - In Hong Kong, thousands of protesters marched to show their opposition to anti-subversion legislation.

California bans state travel to Florida and four other states over Fairness in Women's Sports laws - TheBlaze

California bans state travel to Florida and four other states over Fairness in Women's Sports laws - TheBlaze: 

Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta restricted state-funded travel to Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia, adding these states to a list that now includes 17 states where state-sponsored travel is prohibited.

The way we were-----Ep. 20 The Malaise Era Part I: The Downfall of the American Automotive I...

SCOTUS rebuffs bathroom appeal in transgender case

"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a major transgender rights case, leaving in place a lower court's ruling that a Virginia public school board acted unlawfully in preventing a transgender student from using a bathroom at his high school that corresponded with his gender identity."

"Sometimes you wonder if people are ignorant by choice."

Facebook--Michael Smith
"Just saw where Fake Jake Tapper's CNN show has lost 75% of its audience since January. 

...Probably not a real surprise, without a Republican in the White House, the audience doesn't need to be told what to be mad about every day because they swallow every WH press release as if it were real news.

• When you are living in an information society bifurcated by politics, the genetic fallacy (accepting or rejecting information based on where it comes from) is more pronounced and especially pernicious.
• I've also noticed another fallacy rising, especially when discussing things like Critical Race Theory. It is called the "normalcy bias" - if it hasn't happened to me, or I haven't heard about it, it hasn't happened at all. I've presented direct documentary evidence of teachers being indoctrinated in CRT (training materials) and students being taught it (assigned books and class syllabus) in our local schools, only to be greeted with "Well, that's not what I heard" and "I don't know any teachers who are using it in their classrooms".

Sometimes you wonder if people are ignorant by choice...Read all.

The scam explained. Partially.-----12 Years to Disaster? How Climate Activists Distort the Evidence

12 Years to Disaster? How Climate Activists Distort the Evidence
"Many officials and climate activists claim we have only 12 years to act on global warming. 

Where does this figure come from? 

A 2018 Special Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 

The second sentence of that document reads, "Global warming is likely to reach 1.5 degrees C between 2030 and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate." 

The 12-year figure comes from subtracting the year of the report, 2018, from the earliest possible date of 1.5 degrees C warming, 2030.
The problem is that this was a statement about the past, dressed up to suggest that it's about the future. 

It's not about what will happen; it's extrapolating from what has already happened. 

Actual temperatures in 2030 will depend on whether warming speeds up or slows down, and also on whether the year is warmer or colder than the long-term trend.
Why the 22-year range?...Read all and watch the video.

WaPo nails Biden with four Pinocchios on 2nd Amendment: 'Everything in that statement is wrong' - TheBlaze

WaPo nails Biden with four Pinocchios on 2nd Amendment: 'Everything in that statement is wrong' - TheBlaze: 

The president made the claim last week in a speech advocating for more gun control in the U.S. Biden was calling for an increase in background checks to prevent guns from getting in the hands of violent criminals when he made an odd digression about the Constitution. "And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own," Biden interjected. "You couldn't buy a cannon!" Fact-checkers disagreed.

"We Can't Say For Certain"

"Toto discusses the heatwave superstition and propaganda flooding the airwaves today."

Destroying America!-----Why Was $66 Billion Spent on Renewables Before the Texas Blackouts? Because Big Wind and Big Solar Got $22 Billion in Subsidies | RealClearEnergy

Why Was $66 Billion Spent on Renewables Before the Texas Blackouts? Because Big Wind and Big Solar Got $22 Billion in Subsidies | RealClearEnergy

• The oldest maxim in politics is “follow the money.” That maxim also applies to electric grids.

"Following the billions of dollars that have been spent on the Texas grid

explains why the state continues to have electricity shortages. 

On Monday, ERCOT, the state’s troubled grid operator, asked Texans to reduce their electricity use. 

That request came exactly four months after Texas residents were asked to conserve electricity due to a massive winter storm.
Before going further, I’ll give you the punchline: As I explained in these pages in April, about $66 billion was spent on wind and solar in Texas in the years before the deadly February storm that left millions of Texans without electricity. 

In return for that $66 billion, the wind and solar sectors collected about $21.7 billion in local, state, and federal subsidies and incentives.
...Thus for every dollar spent by the wind and solar sectors in Texas, they got roughly 33 cents from taxpayers. 

By any measure, this is an outrageous level of subsidization...Read all. 

Lunch video-----Official 2011 Chinese government submission discusses ‘weaponising specific viruses to target races’

Noon-toon

 

Professors say proper grammar is racist, perpetuates whiteness - TheBlaze

Professors say proper grammar is racist, perpetuates whiteness - TheBlaze: 

Towson University recently hosted a virtual "Antiracist Pedagogy Symposium," according to Campus Reform, which "criticized university writing curriculum and programs for being racist and perpetuating whiteness."

You DO know whose money is paying for this, right?

 

Lisbon court rules only 0.9% of 'verified cases' died of COVID, numbering 152, not 17,000 claimed - America's Frontline Doctors

Lisbon court rules only 0.9% of 'verified cases' died of COVID, numbering 152, not 17,000 claimed - America's Frontline Doctors

• Following a citizen’s petition, a Lisbon court was forced to provide verified COVID-19 mortality data, reports AndreDias.net.
  

According to the ruling, the number of verified COVID-19 deaths from January 2020 to April 2021 is only 152, not about 17,000 as claimed by government ministries.

All the “others” died for various reasons, although their PCR test was positive.

“We live in a fraud of unprecedented dimensions,” wrote Dias...Read all.

"...trust me..."

 

The New CRT: 'Human Sexuality' Program Teaches Kids About Oral Sex, Claims Boys Can Wear Dresses.

The New CRT: 'Human Sexuality' Program Teaches Kids About Oral Sex, Claims Boys Can Wear Dresses.

"Texas’ updated Human Sexuality and Responsibility (HSR) curriculum exposes children to explicit sexual concepts and LGBTQ+ narratives at young ages, The National Pulse can reveal.

...The rules blend more traditional sex education with far-left ideas of transgenderism, abortion normalization, and promiscuity.

The standards state that by the end of second grade (ages 7 and 8), students should be able to “identify different kinds of family structures,” and know the names for body parts “including male and female anatomy.”...Read all.

#1 This day 1964-----The Beach Boys "I Get Around" on The Ed Sullivan Show

"Green-energy" creates energy outages and giant price increases for all of us!-----Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’

Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’
"Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability – and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.
Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, issued a “flex alert” that asked the state’s consumers to reduce their power use “to reduce stress on the grid and avoid power outages.” 

• CAISO’s warning of impending electricity shortages heralds another blackout-riddled summer at the same time California’s electricity prices are skyrocketing.

...According to data from the Energy Information Administration, the all-sector price of electricity in California last year jumped to 18.15 cents per kilowatt-hour, which means that Californians are now paying about 70% more for their electricity than the U.S. average all-sector rate of 10.66 cents per kWh. 

Even more worrisome: California’s electricity rates are expected to soar over the next decade. 

(More on that in a moment.)...Read all.

This isn't a joke.