Stop Asking Kids if They're Depressed - by Abigail Shrier

Mandatory Mental Health Screening for Kids is a Disaster - Abigail Shrier

Last week, Illinois governor JB Pritzker signed into law mandatory annual mental-health screenings for all public school children in third through twelfth grades. 

“Illinois is now the first state in the nation to require mental health screenings in its public schools,” the governor trumpeted on X. 

“Our schools should be inclusive places where students are not just comfortable asking for help—they’re empowered to do it.”

Empowered to “ask” for help by submitting to mandatory and invasive mental-health surveys, that is. 

• If basic literacy hadn’t already collapsed in Illinois, kids might pose spirited objections to Pritzker’s sales pitch...

Not playing games!

 

Members of Congress order 'FireAid' fundraisers to answer for the cash they handed out * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Members of Congress order 'FireAid' fundraisers to answer for the cash they handed out * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

The organizers of what became known as "FireAid," a campaign to raise money for the victims of the massive Los Angeles wildfires of a few months ago, have been ordered by members of Congress to account for the cash they handed out – none of which apparently has gone directly to any of the thousands of victims.

Army Falls Short of 155mm Production Goal

“For a lot of this equipment that we need to rapidly expand capacity, it’s not sitting on a shelf somewhere,” and the Army has had to depend on international suppliers, he said.

The Army — in response to diminishing stockpiles as it supported Ukraine’s defense against Russia — set a goal to produce 100,000 155mm artillery rounds per month by this October...
The service is currently producing 40,000 rounds per month, Warren said — the same amount it was producing as of September 2024, according to a Defense Department release...

• “We stopped making TNT in the U.S. in 1986, and we were buying from the Russians. We were buying from the Ukrainians,” Reim said. “Obviously, the Russians aren’t a source anymore,” while a Ukrainian production facility was destroyed early on in the war.
• The Army is dependent today on Polish TNT and has also sourced it from Australia, South America and Asia, he said. “So, we’re excited … to bring that back to the U.S.”

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 20

History for August 20 - On-This-Day.com 

Don King 1931

• 1741 - Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovered Alaska.
• 1866 - It was formally declared by U.S. President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over. The fighting had stopped months earlier.
• 1939 - The National Bowling Association was founded in Detroit, MI. It was the first bowling association in the U.S. for African-Americans.
• 1940 - France fell to the Germans during World War II.
• 1964 - A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• 1968 - The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization.
• 1997 - Britain began voluntary evacuation of its Caribbean island of Montserrat due to the volcanic activity of the Soufriere Hills.

Ford shifts gears, leaves EVs in the rear view | Blaze Media

Ford shifts gears, leaves EVs in the rear view | Blaze Media: 

Ford’s pivot underscores a fundamental truth: markets thrive when they reflect consumer preferences, not government mandates. The EV push forced automakers to prioritize unprofitable products, raising prices and limiting choice. Its rollback lets Ford invest in what Americans want — affordable, dependable vehicles. This could spark a revival for the U.S. automotive industry, with Ford at the forefront.

The way we were-----Afghanistan’s Independence: How It Defied the British Empire in 1919

Pritzker’s $1 Trillion Problem—And You’re Paying for It

Former AG Bill Barr testified under oath today that President Trump is not connected to the Epstein files, and if he were, Biden would have already leaked it:

“He said that he had never seen anything that would implicate President Trump in any of this, and that he believed if there had been anything pertaining to President Trump with respect to the Epstein list, that he felt like the Biden administration would probably have leaked it out.” - Benny Johnson
READ HERE https://www.foxnews.com/.../bill-barr-testifies-he-didnt...


FOXNEWS.COM - Bill Barr testifies he didn't see info that would 'implicate' Trump in Epstein case, Comer says

Reply - David Baugh

• Hey Bill! Say you're on the list without saying you're on the list!
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This needs to be fixed!!

 

Trump's DOJ Hammers California Climate Madness with Two New Lawsuits

Trump's DOJ Hammers California Climate Madness with Two New Lawsuits: 

Justice Department attorneys filed two new lawsuits against the California Air Resources Board, the group responsible for making “preempted emissions standards” for heavy-duty trucks.

According to a news release from the Justice Department, the complaints align with a vow from President Donald Trump to end the electric vehicle mandate in California.

Skipped $4 Toll Leads to Worst Escape Attempt Ever

It's too easy to cheat in Michigan!-----MI Dem Caught Stuffing Ballot Box, Proving That Thing They Say NEVER Happens ... Happened Again

A Michigan city council member was caught on camera stuffing an election drop-box with apparent absentee ballots just days before he won his re-election bid in a local primary. - justmindy

Hamtramck City Council member Abu Musa was seen in the passenger seat of a car on Aug. 1 handing stacks of paper to the car’s driver, who then dumped them into a nearby ballot box, footage obtained by Local 4 appears to show.
Musa held onto his re-election spot in the primary four days later on Aug. 5, beating out 11 other candidates with 1,129 votes.
But only 286 of those votes were cast on election day — with 843 being cast by absentee ballot..

Lunch video-----Lefties Losing It: This is what civilisational decline looks like

Noon-toon

 

'Whole thing is falling apart': Top official in Trump DOJ says Deep State weaponization will finally be exposed * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'Whole thing is falling apart': Top official in Trump DOJ says Deep State weaponization will finally be exposed * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

Ed Martin, the director of the U.S. Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group, said Sunday probes into Democrats' targeting of American citizens in recent years are "going like crazy," and he says there could be indictments of major players who did not receive a pardon by Joe Biden.

"Grammar" is their BIG THING??!!

 

Blame Canada: How Trump can help us from being smoked out of our summer

Canada has not put in an ounce of prevention — the smoke from its wildfires has invaded Michigan and other American skies for three straight summers -
James David Dickson 

• Either Canada puts out the wildfires ASAP. 
• Or the US military will, perhaps en route to Canada’s annexation as the 51st state...

With Canada not working to prevent wildfires, America’s friend to the north has become a bad neighbor...
Canada can’t be trusted to put out the wildfires.

• The provinces Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have banned camping and hiking rather than fight fire with water.
• Canada has taken an active disinterest in managing its problem.

And now its problem has become our problem.
When Trump gets involved, there won’t be a problem...

I was there!

 

Worth reading. Wonder why we constantly hear the lie "all scientists agree..."?-----‘Orwellian’ firing at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology for publishing a climate skeptic paper

Well, it is official, Marty Rowland PhD has been fired from his position as Special Issue Editor at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES).  - Andy May

The reason he was given for being fired was his publication of our paper, Carbon Dioxide and a Warming Climate are not problems. 

• The paper has been cited 23 times according to google scholar. It was first published online May 29, 2024, and is already in the top 1% of all 29 million papers followed by Wiley’s Altmetric tracker. 
• It is the #2 paper published in the 83-year history of the AJES...

Science is never only one opinion, science is never settled, and science dies when all views are not aired in the open and freely discussed and debated. 

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. 

• Dr. Rowland’s idea to publish all well-documented views on climate change in one issue is a good one, that is real science. 
• Firing him for doing this is unscientific in the extreme and a crime against free expression everywhere...

#1 This day 1984-----Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters (Official Video)

Opinion: The Biden Price Hike and the Trump Comeback - Illinois Review

The nation suffered under the Biden-Harris regime.  - John F. Di Leo

Even their acolytes, the hyper-partisan leftists who sing their praises and would never willingly admit that anything was the Biden-Harris regime’s fault, must admit (without assigning blame) that those four years were a nightmare for affordability.
Inflation skyrocketed...

• President Trump, in running for reelection, committed to bring down inflation right away, and his team has kept that promise; inflation in 2025 is a mere fraction of what it was before. 
• Inflation – the rate of growth in the cost of living, year over year – has plummeted from about ten percent to less than two...

The problem is, no matter how stable it is going forward, we still have the past four years to deal with. With prices having grown by leaps and bounds for four years, merely halting that growth isn’t enough for most people to recover...

Bogus models and selective data!