💡 Alex Epstein explains a simple but powerful truth: when evaluating any technology

Facebook - Heartland Institute
💡 Alex Epstein explains a simple but powerful truth: when evaluating any technology—whether it’s AI, medicine, or fossil fuels—you must weigh both the benefits and side effects.

• Yet, most thinkers ignore the benefits of fossil fuels entirely. 
• That’s not rational decision-making.

Contemporary Art kills memory and calls it progress.

(1) Video | Facebook - Justin Bua

Weaponized Scoops: New Russiagate Documents Expose Media/Government Collusion | RealClearInvestigations

Recently declassified documents indicate that people close to former FBI Director James Comey and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff were connected to leaks of classified information to prominent reporters designed to portray Donald Trump and his allies as being in league with Russia.  - Paul Sperry

Reporters from the New York Times and Washington Post shared a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for articles that used classified leaks to advance the Russigate hoax. - Columbia University, Photo by Eileen Barroso

• Written in 2017, the FBI documents expose how selected Washington reporters, including Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post and Michael Schmidt of the New York Times, scored a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning scoops in 2017 by repeating false and inflammatory leaks during President Trump’s first term.

Much of their reporting has been debunked...

#1 This day 1967-----The Box Tops - The Letter (Upbeat 1967)

Getting rich and powerful selling fear!-----Fearmongering predictions about climate change keep falling apart

Over the past half-century, environmentalists have predicted countless calamities.  - Bjorn Lomborg

Their extreme predictions were typically wrong, their draconian countermeasures turned out to be mostly misguided, and we should be grateful we didn’t follow their harmful advice...

• A recent peer-reviewed study counts almost a hundred environmental doomsday predictions that environmentalists have made over the past half-century.
• Two-thirds of them predicted doom before August 2025, and all of these have turned out to be false.

The first well-known environmental scare story was the 1968 book “Population Bomb.” which warned that the global population was out of control, and argued for widespread, forced sterilization. 

Given the inevitability of hundreds of millions of hunger deaths, the book also argued we should just stop food aid to basket-cases like India...

WTF??!!

 

Exclusive: GOP-run Jan. 6 subcommittee goes after trove of data deleted by Pelosi-appointed Jan. 6 committee | Blaze Media

Exclusive: GOP-run Jan. 6 subcommittee goes after trove of data deleted by Pelosi-appointed Jan. 6 committee | Blaze Media: 

The new U.S. House Jan. 6 select subcommittee is putting on a full-court press to recover the documents, videos, transcripts, and other information its predecessor Democrat-run Jan. 6 committee either discarded or otherwise failed to turn over for two successive GOP-led Jan. 6 investigations.

ILHAN OMAR ON CHARLIE KIRK

“I do believe those of you interested in rewriting this hateful man's history are full of shit." *gets a standing ovation* - Dustin Grage@GrageDustin

• ILHAN OMAR ON CHARLIE KIRK: “I do believe those of you interested in rewriting this hateful man's history are full of shit." *gets a standing ovation* 

The left hates you.

Elon Musk on X: "Fate loves irony, but hates hypocrisy"

Telling audience how excited he’d be to see Trump dead. - Elon Musk@elonmusk
Dave Rubin@RubinReport

• Tim Walz yesterday: “we have go to get back to decency.” 
• Tim Walz two weeks ago: Telling audience how excited he’d be to see Trump dead.

ChatGPT Answer: "Here are real statements or positions by Charlie Kirk that many people (on the left or elsewhere) find “awful” or deeply objectionable."

 From ChatGPT 9-20-25

You said: I've been looking for the words that Charlie Kirk has said/written that have made so many on the left applaud his murder. Everything I've seen was simply not true. He either never said it (it was made up by others) or it was taken out of context. Do you know of any REAL statements that were "awful"?

ChatGPT said:

Here are real statements or positions by Charlie Kirk that many people (on the left or elsewhere) find “awful” or deeply objectionable. Some are controversial, some decontextualized, but all have enough evidence to show they actually occurred. I’ll try to present them fairly, with context where possible.

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Some of Charlie Kirk’s controversial / criticized statements

1. “Huge mistake” passing the Civil Rights Act

   • Kirk has said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “huge mistake,” claiming it “created a permanent DEI‐type bureaucracy.” Delaware Black+3FactCheck.org+3Adrian Cruce's Blog+3

   • He also called Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “an awful person,” saying King is only revered because of “[one thing] he didn’t actually believe.” FactCheck.org+2The Standard+2

2. Jewish donors / Jewish money statements

   • After Oct 7, 2023 (the Hamas attack), Kirk said: “Jewish donors are finally realizing that they've spent decades subsidizing Jew hatred on campus.” He also argued that those donors had been “the No. 1 funding mechanism of radical, open border neoliberal quasi‐Marxist policies … secular Jews” etc. Delaware Black+3FactCheck.org+3Adrian Cruce's Blog+3

   • Note: the exact phrase “Jewish money is ruining U.S. culture” might be a paraphrase, not a precise quote, but the views described are close to what he has said. Adrian Cruce's Blog+2FactCheck.org+2

3. Gun deaths “worth it” for protecting the Second Amendment

   • Kirk has said: “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” Many criticize this as morally insensitive, because it appears to accept loss of life as collateral damage. The Standard+2Delaware Black+2

4. Transgender / LGBTQ+ remarks

   • He said about Imane Khelif (an Algerian athlete) in the 2024 Olympics: “This entire ideology is pure evil,” after Khelif -- who identifies as a woman -- defeated a female boxer. Kirk argued that a “biological man” was competing unfairly. Advocate.com

   • On more general transgender issues, he has said things like: “The one issue I think that is so against our senses, so against the natural law … is the transgender thing happening in America right now.” Asianet Newsable

5. Denial or strong criticism of “white privilege” and DEI

   • He frequently dismisses white privilege, calling it a “racist lie,” and argues that DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) programs are unfair, reverse discriminatory, or ideological tools that undermine merit. Delaware Black+1

6. “Great Replacement” rhetoric

   • Kirk has been reported to express that the “Great Replacement” is not a theory but a reality, in the context of immigration and demographic change.

AM Fruitcake

History for September 20

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

Upton Sinclair 1878

• 1519 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan was killed during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.
• 1881 - Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. President James A. Garfield had died the day before.
• 1984 - "The Cosby Show" premiered on NBC-TV.
• 1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.

FCC chairman threatens action against ABC over Jimmy Kimmel assassin claim * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff

FCC chairman threatens action against ABC over Jimmy Kimmel assassin claim * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff: 

"They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest. There are calls for Kimmel to be fired. I think you could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this." Continued Carr, "The FCC could make a strong argument that this is sort of an intentional effort to mislead the American people about a very core fundamental fact, a very important matter.

The way we were-----The Mary Tyler Moore Show Season 1, Episode 1: Love Is All Around

Substantial threat

Democrats, the party of censorship & speech police.

They LOVED the power, and used it, when they were the Kings! - Libertarian Party

Mentally Weak People Often Have These 3 Habits - Intellectual Takeout

Mentally Weak People Often Have These 3 Habits - Intellectual Takeout - Jon

Despite the tragedy she suffered, Morin has gone on to become a psychotherapist, columnist, and author. 

Her most recent book is 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do...
Here are three things mentally weak people tend to do, according to Morin:

1. They Feel Sorry for Themselves...
2. They Give Their Power to Others...
3. They Think the World Owes Them Something...

U.S. Muslim mayor to Christian citizen: You are not welcome here. Move away * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

U.S. Muslim mayor to Christian citizen: You are not welcome here. Move away * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

He then turned to a personal attack on his city's resident, accusing Barham of being "a bigot, and you are racist, and you're an Islamophobe. Although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of this city."

Why is Donald Trump so hated by some people in Britain?

The simple truth is that something has to be done before the American people get fed up and start hunting violent criminals. - by Tom Knighton

We may have made the wrong call - by Tom Knighton - Tom Knighton - Sep 10, 2025

I’m sure that you’ve all seen what happened with the murder of a Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, recently...

The problem is that the accused killer, who said, “I got that white girl,” after stabbing the young woman, was someone whom police call a “frequent flier.”... 

He and Iryna are both symbols, now, but of very different things.

• Iryna is a symbol of the horrors that can befall someone. 
• The accused killer? A symbol of everything wrong with our system, and the truth is that the government will either step up and address the problem, or regular people will...

He was walking around despite his mental health issues being well-known to the authorities.

• And he was just released from his previous arrest a short time before this brutal murder, with a written promise to show up to court. 
• No bail, no requirement to seek mental health treatment. 
• Nope, just a pinky swear that he’d be in court at the appointed time...

Lunch video-----‘Grossly exaggerated’: Media gives ‘little attention’ to new bombshell c...

Noon-toon

 

'That's why he was shot': College students caught on camera destroying Charlie Kirk memorial | Blaze Media

'That's why he was shot': College students caught on camera destroying Charlie Kirk memorial | Blaze Media: 

One of the major subjects of the video can be heard arguing with a gathering crowd: "Charlie Kirk is definitely not the morals I support or the religion I support where you're taught to love your neighbor."

We need more TERM LIMITS! At EVERY level!