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Friday, March 04, 2022
Elon Musk quickly fact checks Biden over SOTU claims on electric vehicles that ignored Tesla - TheBlaze
Nate Jackson: Marxist Envy Drives BLM Grifters | The Patriot Post
Consider Patrisse Cullors, the self-described “queer” and “abolitionist” (as in abolishing the police) cofounder of Black Lives Matter (BLM).
...Speaking of Black Liars’ Millions, we recently noted that roughly $60 million of BLM’s graft was unaccounted for.
History for March 4
- 1766 - The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, which had caused bitter and violent opposition in the U.S. colonies.
- 1794 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. The Amendment limited the jurisdiction of the federal courts to automatically hear cases brought against a state by the citizens of another state. Later interpretations expanded this to include citizens of the state being sued, as well.
- 1904 - In Korea, Russian troops retreated toward the Manchurian border as 100,000 Japanese troops advanced.
- 1908 - The New York board of education banned the act of whipping students in school.
- 1917 - Republican, Jeanette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
- 1933 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gave his inauguration speech in which he said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."
- 1954 - In Boston, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital reported the first successful kidney transplant.
- 2012 - Vladimir Putin won re-election in Russia's presidential election.
Thursday, March 03, 2022
Youngkin Poised to Withdraw Virginia From Multistate Climate Pact
Notre Dame Prof: Our Schools Are Committing ‘Civilizational Suicide’
So what’s his assessment of America’s best students?
“My students are know-nothings.”
In an extremely important essay posted to Minding the Campus titled “How a Generation Lost Its Common Culture,” Deneen further describes his students:
“They are exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy, mostly honest, well-intentioned, and utterly decent. But their brains are largely empty, devoid of any substantial knowledge that might be the fruits of an education in an inheritance and a gift of a previous generation. They are the culmination of western civilization, a civilization that has forgotten nearly everything about itself, and as a result, has achieved near-perfect indifference to its own culture.”...Read all.
Collapsing Narratives - by Peter Venetoklis
The invasion of Ukraine exposes the Left's delusions about guns and green energy...
- the delusion that carbon energy, in particular oil and gas, can be eliminated from the global stage with present-day wind, solar, and battery technology;
- and the dismissal of the premise of an armed citizenry as a necessary element of freedom and sovereignty...Good stuff here, read all!
While Ukraine fights to defend itself from one of the world's largest armies, the US Army is training its officers on gender identity - TheBlaze
Zuckerbucks at Work: 91 Nursing Homes in 5 Wisconsin Cities Had 95% to 100% Voter Turnout Rates - They Abused Disabled Seniors and Stole Their Votes
"...Justice Gableman disclosed during the hearing that the nursing homes in the Zuckerberg-funded cities had a 95% to 100% turnout.
The video that played during the hearing today was heartbreaking.
It takes a special kind of evil to abuse disabled seniors...Read all.
Washington Schools Beg for Enrollments - Louder With Crowder
It isn’t often that I get to write about public education and manage a smile, but the idea of public schools crumbling under the weight of their own massive failure is just too amazing. And as the Post Millennial reports, public schools in Washington state saw over 40,000 students leave, and projections forecast another 1,400 students leaving in the academic year 2021-2022.
Those are some brutal numbers.
Rutgers gets $60K from taxpayers for hip hop activism conference | The College Fix
- The taxpayer-funded National Endowment for the Arts doled out the money to expand an annual conference
...“The National Endowment for the Arts…has awarded Rutgers–New Brunswick Graduate School of Education a grant to expand its Hip Hop Youth Research and Activism Conference,” the public New Jersey university announced in a news release. The annual program “brings high school and college students together in a program blending art, activism and social justice.”...Read all.
"Putin has not only turned himself into an international pariah.."
"THOUGHTS FROM A SMART FRIEND:
Putin has not only turned himself into an international pariah, laughingstock and domestic failure. He is costing the oligarchs a lot of money.
That creates a lot of tension. It puts him in danger, and makes him dangerous, to any possible rivals as well as to Ukraine and the rest of us...So how does that play out?
Badly for someone.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds...Read all.
This Ad Lib During Biden's SOTU Speech Went Horribly Wrong
"...It happened shortly after Biden essentially claimed responsibility for ending the pandemic, and promised to continue to push for people to get vaccinated.
“We’ve sent 475 Million vaccine doses to 112 countries, more than any other nation. And we won’t stop,” he said. “Because you can’t build a wall high enough to keep out…a, a, a, uhh, a vaccine—the vaccine can stop the spread of these diseases.”
Well, that was awkward...Read all.
In case of nuclear attack, government advises face masks and social distancing in shelters - TheBlaze
Shocking Lessons U.S. Military Leaders Learned by Watching Putin's Invasion
- Russia's military is weak and backwards.
...Other military observers are flabbergasted that a Russian invasion force, fully prepared and operating from Russian soil, has been able to move just tens of miles into an adjoining country.