""...Penguin Random House...At a packed ‘town hall’ meeting, staff were said to be in tears that Penguin were publishing the book, and over 70 have submitted anonymous complaints to the company’s ‘diversity and inclusion committee’.
...But considering that PRH employees are now in the business of pulling books they object to..."
"Not all of them mind you, just the ones that meet a wholly arbitrary standard that the governor plucked out of thin air because power is fun!
So quit complaining, or they just might give that dial another turn.
"A public health order from the governor's office shut down more than 25 essential businesses Monday with four or more rapid responses of COVID-19 cases reported within a 14-day period. The order requires the businesses to close for two weeks."...Read all.
"An acquaintance, someone who knows my political alignments, asked, somewhat sarcastically if “you and your Ayn Rand buddies expect the Biden administration to be like Orwell’s “1984”.
I said, “No. I’m not thinking 1984, I’m thinking more like 1978.”
...I’m old enough to remember the Carter administration,” I said.
...One of the jokes about the Obama years was that a replay of the Carter years was about the best that could be expected, but Obama was a far greater global interventionist than Carter.
...But Biden is not Obama.
He may well be the anti-Obama.
Biden has no outward appearance of authority.
He is like an elderly Beto O’Rourke, a transparent wisp of a man with so little energy, drive, mental acuity, and independent thought, I think the next four years will be pretty much guaranteed to be Carter II, with cardigan and all.
...The Iran Deal is one example, the “red-line” mess another and the disaster in Ukraine yet another.
You might point out that Biden wasn’t directly responsible for these, that they were mostly Obama’s idiocy, aided by Hillary and the long-faced John F. Kerry (who served in Vietnam), but the fact is that Biden is promoting Obama, Hillary and Kerry’s bench-warming JV players to varsity starters in his administration...Read all.
Michigan Taxpayers Still On Hook For $5.3 Billion To Corporations In Next 10 Years
"One of the state of Michigan’s primary methods of delivering taxpayer-funded subsidies to select private businesses was a law and program called the Michigan Economic Growth Authority.
...the program has been suspended since 2011..
Yet state officials anticipate they will be handing out refundable tax credits to businesses as far out as 2031, according to the its most recent report.
"Refundable" means a good portion of the benefits will go to recipients in the form of cash, not just reduced tax bills.
The exact amount is a government secret, however.
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation is the state agency that manages all this, and it projects the state still has $5.3 billion more in previously promised MEGA tax credits to give out over the next 10 years...Read all.
The Vatican's 2020 nativity scene. Image from Twitter.
Under Pope Francis, we can count on the Vatican saying and doing odd things.
Take the Vatican’s 2020 nativity scene. Please…
Raymond Arroyo, host of The World Over on EWTN (which is one of the most-watched programs on the entire planet) and executive producer and frequent co-host on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, gives us our first look at this year’s Vatican take on the birth of our savior...Read all.
The True Story of Thanksgiving - The Rush Limbaugh Show "...What the History Books Never Told You: The True Story of Thanksgiving.” ...“On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims,” now known as Pilgrims, “led by William Bradford. ...During the first winter, half the Pilgrims — including Bradford’s own wife — died of either starvation, sickness or exposure.” They endured that first winter. “When spring finally came,” they had, by that time, met the indigenous people, the Indians, and indeed the “Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers” and other animals “for coats.” But there wasn’t any prosperity. ...“This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than what it really was. ...That all happened, but that’s not — according to William Bradford’s journal — what they ultimately gave thanks for. ...“All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well.” Everything belonged to everybody and everybody had one share in it. They were going to distribute it equally.” That was considered to be the epitome of fairness, sharing the hardship burdens and everything like that. ...“Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that” it wasn’t working. It “was as costly and destructive…” His own journals chronicle the reasons it didn’t work. ...“What Bradford and his community found,” and I’m going to use basically his own words, “was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else… “For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense,'” without any payment, “‘that was thought injustice.’ ...“So what did Bradford’s community try next? ...Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? ‘ This had very good success,’ wrote Bradford, ‘for it made all hands [everybody] industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.’ … ...The first Thanksgiving was William Bradford and Plymouth Colony thanking God for their blessings. That’s the first Thanksgiving. Nothing wrong with being grateful to the Indians; don’t misunderstand. But the true meaning of Thanksgiving — and this is what George Washington recognized in his first Thanksgiving proclamation."
Barack Obama accuses Republicans of creating 'sense that white males are victims' | Daily Mail Online
"Obama accuses Republicans of creating 'sense that white males are victims' and says Trump benefited from 'evangelical Hispanics' who liked anti-abortion policies, in Breakfast Club interview
Former president tells The Breakfast Club that Republicans have 'created a sense that white males are the victims'
Narrative 'doesn't jive with both history and data, and economics' and will be difficult to unwind he says
Obama also said that evangelical Hispanic voters who backed him for 'fact that he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion'...Read all.
Lots of misinformation from the people who are charged with giving the public information….as usual. And Senators who don’t know what they are talking about, and the constitutional ramifications of what is going on right now in our nation.Here, Mark Levin explains the civil litigation process, hat tip to YouTuber Mike Mickevicius:
“They were the worst of conquerors. Inordinate pride, the lust of blood and dominion, were the mainsprings of their warfare; and their victories were strained with every excess of savage passion.”
..that’s not a description of the Pilgrims’ treatment of Indigenous peoples.
It’s a description of some Indigenous people’s treatment of other Indigenous peoples, written by the late Francis Parkman, Harvard professor and the world’s foremost Indian scholar.
The Wampanoag, who joined the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving, had a lot to celebrate.
Contrary to Hollywood’s American-hating rendition of “Pocahontas,” in which the Indians feared the “White Demons,” the Wampanoag were thrilled with their well-armed white allies, who helped them repel the hated Iroquois and Narragansett.
The whole reason the Wampanoag were clustered so close to the coast where the Pilgrims encountered them was that the Iroquois had “pursued them with an inveterate enmity...Read all.
Bat Masterson 1853 - U.S. Army scout, lawman, gambler, journalist
1789 - U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
1825 - The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, NY.
1867 - J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car.
1917 - The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.
1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter peered into the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939 Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November.
1975 - Lynette"Squeaky" Fromme was found guilty by a federal jury in Sacramento, CA, for trying to assassinate U.S. President Ford on September 5.
Law enforcement will be “out in-force” as the holidays approach, stopping vehicles at certain New York City checkpoints, and there will be “consequences” for violating quarantine requirements, Sheriff Joseph Fucito said on Tuesday.“Sheriff teams will be out in-force as the holidays approach. There will be vehicle checkpoints at key bridges and crossings throughout New York City,” Fucito announced during a Tuesday press conference alongside Mayor Bill de Blasio (D).
"When a different viewpoint offends you, try to deplatform it. If that doesn’t work, heckle until the person gives up. This tried-and-true tactic of campus leftists was adopted by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association at Brandeis University in response to a Nov. 13 event promoted by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Titled “Cultural Genocide: An Overview of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China,” the panel discussion was sponsored by the university’s Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies Program and International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life. ...According to The Brandeis Hoot, which interviewed participants after the event but didn’t view it live, the event was “Zoombombed multiple times with unknown attendees writing [‘FAKE NEWS’ and ‘Bullshit’] on slides and playing the [Chinese national] anthem.”
Most participants had their video turned off, making it impossible to identify the virtual vandals.Evidence suggests students involved with the Chinese Students and Scholars Association played a role in the disruption...Read all.
"With all of the intolerance of “offensive” speech and ideas, it’s worth considering what could be happening.
Is it all just to create a better society or are we being coerced into a certain mindset?
...And who today dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use?
Usually, those that matter originate in our universities and institutions of higher learning.
They then trickle down through society as those who were embedded with the new words and phrases make their way through society and eventually into positions of leadership.
“Such is the Pavlovian device: repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity of communicating dissent and opposition. This is the simple formula for conditioning the masses. This is also the actual ideal of some of our public relation machines…”
And the goal of political conditioning?
“Political conditioning should not be confused with training or persuasion or even indoctrination.
It is more than that.
It is taming.
It is taking possession of both the simplest and the most complicated nervous patterns of man.
It is the battle for the possession of the nerve cells.
It is coercion and enforced conversion.
Instead of conditioning man to an unbiased facing of reality, the seducer conditions him to catchwords, verbal stereotypes, slogans, formulas, symbols.
Pavlovian strategy in the totalitarian sense means imprinting prescribed reflexes on a mind that has been broken down.”
If political conditioning is the goal, how is it achieved?...Read all.
...“On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims,” now known as Pilgrims, “led by William Bradford.
...The first Thanksgiving was William Bradford and Plymouth Colony thanking God for their blessings. 
...The first Thanksgiving was William Bradford and Plymouth Colony thanking God for their blessings. 
