"...Feb. 16, 1999, when Charlton Heston, movie star and president of the National Rifle Association, addressed a standing-room-only crowd at Harvard Law School.
...Referencing Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Heston declared, “I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war that’s about to hijack your birthright to think and say what lives in your heart.”
...He then speaks boldly and directly to his young audience: “You are the best and the brightest. You, here in this fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River. You are the cream.”
...“But I submit that you and your counterparts across the land are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that and abide it, you are, by your grandfathers' standards, cowards.”
“But, what can you do?”...
The answer?
Stand your ground..
“You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.”
He then provides some specific means of resistance:
“When a mugger sues his elderly victim for defending herself, jam the switchboard of the district attorney's office.
When your university is pressured—your university—is pressured to lower standards until 80% of the students graduate with honors, choke the halls of the Board of Regents.
When an 8-year-old boy pecks a girl's cheek on the playground and then gets hauled into court for sexual harassment, march on that school and block its doorways.
When someone you elected is seduced by political power and betrays you—petition them, oust them, banish them.
When Time magazine's cover portrays millennium nuts as deranged, crazy Christians holding a cross as it did last month, boycott their magazine and the products it advertises...Read all!
When Chinese Communist Party Secretary Xi Jinping got ready to begin his presidency in 2013, United States intelligence services began struggling to piece together what was going on in China, according to a Dec. 22 report from Foreign Policy. Meanwhile, Chinese intelligence grew more powerful as they collected data from individuals in the United States.
The House of Representatives on Sunday is slated to vote on whether to pass a series of changes that would eliminate all gendered words from its rules.
The proposal put forth by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rules Committee Chair James McGovern swaps gendered words like "chairman" for gender-inclusive ones like "chair."
The "bold reforms," if passed, would be "advancing inclusion," Pelosi said in a press release.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called the proposal "stupid."
The House of Representatives on Sunday is set to vote on a series of changes that would eliminate all gendered words like "mother," "father," "he," and "she" from its rules.
In addition to these specific words, the proposal outlines dozens of other shifts to gender-neutral language, as well as the establishment of an "Office of Diversity and Inclusion."
The proposal was put forth by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rules Committee Chair James McGovern.
In a press release, McGovern said the proposal "promotes inclusion and diversity" and is a way to "honor all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender-neutral."...Read all.
Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer (R) has signed a recall petition aimed at California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), the latest sign that the campaign is gaining momentum — and that, if successful, Newsom could face a formidable opponent.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Saturday he is joining a block of about a dozen Republican senators that will raise objections Jan 6 to Joe Biden's Nov. 3 victory, according to a joint statement from the lawmakers.
No more using reason and real science when debunking climate alarmist voodoo.
No more articles appealing to reason, facts, and no more debunking of a fake consensus.
That means, instead, ridiculing the warped gospel of the Church of Climate Change.
Q: What’s the difference between the Church of Scientology and the Church of Climate Change?
A: It’s not rationally measurable.
Both belief systems claim a superior, infallible moral authority. Both impose severe penalties on apostates.
In the case of Climatism, the penalties include public vilification and career damage, whether in science, academe, politics, most of the media, and in many corporations who have signed up to it.
In the case of Scientology dissent provokes intense long-term harassment.
Both try to enforce their belief system aggressively in any society that allows them to thrive. Both of them threaten their critics with derogatory excess. Neither of them tolerates satire and generally lack a sense of humor.
Q: What’s the difference between L Ron Hubbard, the High Priest of Scientology, and Al Gore, the High Priest of Climatism?
'Toxic Individualism': Pandemic Politics Driving Health Care Workers From Small Towns
"...according to Chris Merrett, director of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs.
...Merrett says towns that let pandemic politics drive medical professionals away are choosing what he calls "toxic individualism" over the common good...Read all.
Remember back during the early days of the pandemic, when massive hand sanitizer shortages gripped the nation, and distilleries stepped up to fill the void by manufacturing hand sanitizer? According to Reason, those distilleries are receiving a rude surprise to end the year: a letter from the FDA informing them that they owe over $14,000 in fees, thus proving the adage that no good deed goes unpunished, especially by the regulatory state.
"The Overton Window is a concept that politicians are limited in what policy ideas they can support. They will generally only consider initiatives that are accepted by a critical mass of society as viable options.
Such policies are said to lie inside the Overton Window.
Although other policy ideas exist, politicians risk losing popular support (and elections) if they pursue them.
These policies lie outside the Overton Window.
To open the Overton Window means to let in ideas that were previously toxic to politicians.
In other word, ideas that heretofore were verboten are now considered respectable for debate in the political world.
...Donald Trump is the exception.
He opened the Overton Window wide to let in a whole host of issues that the ruling class had long kept out of the public dialogue.
These issues can be grouped under an umbrella called America First or Make America Great Again (MAGA). This is Donald Trump's major accomplishment...On foreign affairs, putting America First was on the outside of the Overton Window before Trump came to town...
...For all of this, Trump drew the hatred of the establishment.
...Hopefully enough conservative Republicans will step up to the plate and build on what President Trump has made possible...Read all.
"George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four describes a dystopian future dominated by a totalitarian government that uses surveillance, language, and propaganda to subdue its citizens.
Leftists on American college campuses took its precepts for a test drive in 2020.
While George Orwell's famous dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a work of fiction, it is widely regarded as a warning against totalitarian regimes, especially those that seek to quash freedom of expression.
This year, some of the most prevalent themes in the novel presented themselves on America's college campuses.
Thought Police
...The student newspaper at Princeton University published an editorial in November encouraging the university’s administration to “act against racist speech.”
“For too long, white people, and particularly white men, in this country and on this campus, have held the power to decide what constitutes acceptable speech and action,” reads the piece. “They have consistently deemed racist, and particularly anti-Black, fictions acceptable.”...
Ministry of Truth
...A student newspaper at Johns Hopkins University removed an article featuring a university study claiming that COVID-19 did not significantly increase the United States death rate.
Using publicly available data from the CDC, a university employee found that “the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19.” She also noted that “the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same” between 2019 and 2020.
Regardless, the newspaper pulled down the article after it had allegedly been used to spread “dangerous inaccuracies” online.
2 + 2 = 5
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the citizens of Oceania were forced to accept irrational ideas — “doublethink” — in order to signal their submission to the Party. "...
...In August, professors at Brooklyn College and other universities asserted that “2 + 2 = 5” on social media. Many alleged that Western concepts of mathematics are rooted in racism and “white supremacist patriarchy.” Another professor said that the United States “colonizes” math...Much here, read all!
According to a report from CBS News, 42 people who believed they were being administered a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine were mistakenly instead injected with Regneron, an antibody cocktail that is often used to treat people who have already contracted the disease.
Department of Justice Files Nationwide Lawsuit Against Walmart Inc. for Controlled Substances Act Violations | OPA | Department of Justice:
"In a civil complaint filed today, the Department of Justice has alleged that Walmart Inc. unlawfully dispensed controlled substances from pharmacies it operated across the country and unlawfully distributed controlled substances to those pharmacies throughout the height of the prescription opioid crisis...Read all.
"Richmond, Virginia School Superintendent Jason Kamras accepted the “heartfelt” apology by 2019 National Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson for calling for the beating of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
“Who are Mitch McConnell’s neighbors? I’m just saying Rand Paul’s neighbor did what a true Kentucky hero should do. It’s your turn to step up.”
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...Kamras has not responded to a question by this writer about arecent racistcomment by Robinson in which he warned parents of Black and brown students about white women teachers,“Parents of black and brown children really need to pay closer attention this week to their kids’ classes. Remember 55% of white women voted for Trump and they are nearly 80% of the teaching profession.”
New Mexico's Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham fined two churches $10,000 apiece for violating the state's social distancing requirements, and her communications director released a statement accompanying the fine implying that the pastors involved were "pro-virus," according to a report from Daily Wire.
“This is not about finding a guilty country or a guilty authority,” Fabian Leendertz, a scientist at the Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s infectious disease agency, told the French media outlet Agence France-Presse.
“This is about understanding what happened to avoid that in the future, to reduce the risk,” Leendertz said.
This is like trying to understand math while ignoring the existence of numbers.
Just to be clear: The Wuhan Virus is called that because it originated in Wuhan, a city in Communist China, and was allowed to spread internationally by the Chinese Communist Party.
If it seems like Insanity Wrap is pointing a finger at a guilty Party, that’s because we are doing exactly that...Read all!
"The Overton Window is a concept that politicians are limited in what policy ideas they can support. They will generally only consider initiatives that are accepted by a critical mass of society as viable options.
