Standardized test scores soon optional for University of Michigan applicants - mlive.com"The Ann Arbor-based university has implemented a formal test-optional policy for undergraduate admissions starting with applicants for the winter 2025 term, officials said.
The move is to provide access to “high-achieving students from all backgrounds,” said Adele Brumfield, the university’s vice provost for enrollment management...
Friday, February 23, 2024
Harvard professor published study finding no racial bias in police shootings, then needed police protection as 'all hell broke loose' | Blaze Media
Harvard professor published study finding no racial bias in police shootings, then needed police protection as 'all hell broke loose' | Blaze Media - PAUL SACCA 
"...and he needed police protection.
In 2016, Harvard Economics Professor Roland Fryer published a study to explore racial differences in the use of force by police...
In 2016, Harvard Economics Professor Roland Fryer published a study to explore racial differences in the use of force by police...
- However, when it came to police-involved shootings, minorities were found to be less likely to be shot at by an officer.
- The research revealed that blacks are 23.5% less likely to be shot at by police than whites. Meanwhile, Hispanics were 8.5% less likely to be shot at by police compared to whites...
- Within four minutes of publishing the paper, Fryer received an email that read: "You're full of s**t."
- He explained, "I had colleagues take me to the side and say, 'Don't publish this. You'll ruin your career.'"
- The hostilities toward Fryer were so intense that he required police protection for about a month, including his then-7-day-old daughter...
Dems buying votes, AGAIN!-----Oakland County expresses support for water affordability legislation
Oakland County expresses support for water affordability legislation"Pontiac — The Oakland County Board of Commissioners has passed a resolution in support of state water affordability legislation Wednesday evening, marking another community in the Detroit suburbs that has weighed in on the legislation.
A package of bills now working its way through the Michigan Legislature would create statewide water shutoff protections and form a state-run affordability program for low-income water customers.
A package of bills now working its way through the Michigan Legislature would create statewide water shutoff protections and form a state-run affordability program for low-income water customers.
On Wednesday, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners adopted, in a 13-6 party line vote, a resolution in support of the legislation.
“This is a reasonable thing, at the right time, to for once and for all address this problem, fix this problem and make sure that water” isn’t deprived from people, said County Commission Chair David Woodward, a Democrat...
“This is a reasonable thing, at the right time, to for once and for all address this problem, fix this problem and make sure that water” isn’t deprived from people, said County Commission Chair David Woodward, a Democrat...
Kamala Harris at DNC During Bomb Scare: Why? | Blaze Media
Kamala Harris at DNC During Bomb Scare: Why? | Blaze Media:
Revolver News is one of the only media outlets that has been consistently investigating and reporting this story. Darren Beattie’s viral analysis of the recently released video and emerging new details led him to proclaim that the “pipe bombs are 100% a hoax and 100% a cover-up.”
DHS funded Courageous RI child brainwashing scandal just grew bigger with more insider details!
DHS funded Courageous RI child brainwashing scandal just grew bigger with more insider details!
Bad Kitty Unleashed @pepesgrandma"...This DHS sponsored program is training children that people associated with Trump, aka conservatives, are violent extremists!...
Bad Kitty Unleashed @pepesgrandma"...This DHS sponsored program is training children that people associated with Trump, aka conservatives, are violent extremists!...
“The Courageous RI facilitators often pointed to Trump as the root cause of all social media and media disinfo, they blamed Trump for influencing “MAGA republicans” to commit violence and more...
History for February 23
History for February 23 - On-This-Day.com 
William Shirer 1904 - Journalist, author ("The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", "Gandhi: A Memoir")
- 1836 - In San Antonio, TX, the siege of the Alamo began.
- 1847 - Santa Anna was defeated at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico by U.S. troops under Gen. Zachary.
- 1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum.
- 1896 - The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield.
- 1898 - In France, Emile Zola was imprisoned for his letter, "J'accuse," which accused the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus.
- 1945 - The 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division of the U.S. Marines reached the top of Mount Surabachi. A photograph of these Marines raising the American flag was taken.
- 1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio began in Pittsburgh, PA.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Stunning Footage: Mob of Illegal Immigrants Attacks NYPD Officers as Shelter Arrest Turns to Chaos
Stunning Footage: Mob of Illegal Immigrants Attacks NYPD Officers as Shelter Arrest Turns to Chaos:
A video posted to social media on Monday shows a melee inside a tent city for illegal immigrants at a once-serene New York park.
Police officers who were trying to make an arrest Thursday were surrounded by a mob of aggressive immigrants on Randall’s Island, which has been home to thousands of foreign nationals for more than a year, the New York Post reported.
Loss of lives
"I’m an Australian embalmer and we are seeing the same clots
I have a friend who is a funeral director here in new zealand i asked him he said he was finding the same thing and i live in a small town ...
Kurt Schlichter’s "The Attack" Is A Must-Read For 2024
Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack Is A Must-Read For 2024 - SCOTT MCKAY 
This isn’t a light, breezy, fun novel. This is a gut punch. And then a head slap.
I’m not giving away anything by way of spoilers when I tell you the plot of the book – Schlichter gives it away in the first few pages.
- It’s almost like the author has a crystal ball.
This isn’t a light, breezy, fun novel. This is a gut punch. And then a head slap.
I’m not giving away anything by way of spoilers when I tell you the plot of the book – Schlichter gives it away in the first few pages.
- It’s like this: all those military-age males making their way across our southern border from the kinds of countries that set off red flags?
The ones that Donald Trump caused such consternation when he declared a moratorium on immigration early in his presidential term?
In The Attack, the bill comes due for letting them in.
That bill is paid in blood...
That bill is paid in blood...
When Can We Talk About Trans Mass Shooters? - Intellectual Takeout
When Can We Talk About Trans Mass Shooters? - Intellectual Takeout - Kurt Mahlburg"Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, home of megachurch pastor Joel Osteen, was the site of an attempted mass shooting on February 11...
As The Epoch Times reported last month, “Since 2018, five people who identified as transgender or were gender-confused have gone on killing sprees at schools and businesses.”
- Among the other details to emerge were that she had the word “Palestine” emblazoned across her weapon, had left behind her a trail of antisemitic writings, and regularly went by the name Jeffery Escalante. The latter detail sparked widespread speculation that the shooter was transgender—as well as loud condemnations, from all the usual suspects, that such a possibility might even be countenanced.
- The Federalist’s label for Moreno, in a February 14 report, as “gender-confused” seems at least reasonable, given her penchant for identifying as “Jeffery”—a name even her ex-husband used for her.
As The Epoch Times reported last month, “Since 2018, five people who identified as transgender or were gender-confused have gone on killing sprees at schools and businesses.”
Looking at the statistics in more depth, they note...
- ...Perhaps most troubling is that, while the legacy press is ever eager to highlight a person’s transgender identity if he or she falls victim to a crime,
- they willfully neglect to mention it when a trans or gender-confused person perpetrates one...
'Hey you guys!' Blinken warns State staffers to avoid words like 'father'
'Hey you guys!' Blinken warns State staffers to avoid words like 'father':
Following instructions from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to all State staffers not to use words like "father."
It is National Review that confirmed in February, just as the U.S. was dealing with dozens of strikes against Iranian-backed militants over their murders of three American soldiers, that Blinken "found time" for his dictate.
Medieval Warm Period- Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming
Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming | Facebook - John Whitefisk
Climate change is natural
Climate change is natural
- Promoters of man-made climate catastrophe state categorically that our current temperature is “unusual and unprecedented” on a scale of thousands of years.
This chart by Moberg et al is a multi-proxy paleo temperature reconstruction of the last 2,000 years using both high and low resolution data.
- The Medieval Warm Period was the most recent warming period and likely had similar or warmer temperatures than modern ones.
Bear in mind that this warming was driven by natural forces and occurred in a period of very low carbon dioxide. 
Lunch video-----Three of my most vociferous critics hatch a very cunning plan to damage ...
"The time has come to bid a sad farewell to three people who comment regularly on this channel
Why Trumps civil fraud charges should horrify every business | Blaze Media
Why Trumps civil fraud charges should horrify every business | Blaze Media:
“This has an incredibly disturbing implication for any business,” she adds. “If this is the standard, then basically, I would say every business in the United States, somebody needs to be thrown in jail and assessed hundreds of millions of dollars because this happens throughout all of business.”
“How much of an impact will this have on businesses being and locating themselves in New York?” Glenn asks Roth.
What Do You Call the Leaders of Gaza? - AFNN - John F. Di Leo
What Do You Call the Leaders of Gaza? - AFNN - John F. Di Leo
- What do you call an organization that takes billions of dollars in humanitarian aid funds, and invests it in foreign private resorts and bank accounts for its elite leaders instead of improving the lives of the rank and file people under its care?
- What do you call an organization that is given greenhouses to raise food for their refugees, and tears them down out of spite?
- What do you call an organization that spends about half a century teaching all the children under their care that the surest way to achieve paradise is to kill a bunch of innocent strangers – and hopefully oneself too in the process – as a “suicide bomber?”...
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