Sunday, March 14, 2021
Biracial student fails Critical Race Theory class for refusing to confess his 'white dominance,' mom claims - TheBlaze
Biracial student fails Critical Race Theory class for refusing to confess his 'white dominance,' mom claims - TheBlaze:
Gabrielle Clark says that her son, William, was forced to take a mandatory "Sociology of Change" course at his school, Democracy Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada.
A crowdfunded profile of the situation posted by the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism explains: "In the class, William, along with all the students, was asked to publicly reveal his race, gender, religious, and sexual identities, and then attach derogatory labels to those identities. Students were then asked to 'undo and unlearn' their "beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that stem from oppression."
“The left is great at using slogans..." - WSJ
"Reader Mail--Modern Media Marketing
“The left is great at using slogans that are impossible to oppose,” writes Mark Dunaway, who argues that “student debt forgiveness” is the latest such example.
“What good person can be against forgiveness?
But it’s not forgiveness!
It is taxpayer-paid student loans.”
The rest of the story!-----Wind Power Is a Disaster in Texas, No Matter What Paul Krugman Says | Mises Wire
Wind Power Is a Disaster in Texas, No Matter What Paul Krugman Says | Mises Wire
"Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article.
In the wake of February’s tragic power outages in Texas, during which 4.5 million households suffered service interruptions, partisans on both sides have been quick to interpret the events as confirmation of their preferred energy policies...
- In this article I’ll lay out the basic facts of which power sources stepped up to the plate during the crisis.
Contrary to what you would have known from reading Ron Bailey (let alone Paul Krugman), when the Texas freeze hit, electricity from natural gas skyrocketed while wind output fell off a cliff. The people arguing that wind wasn’t to blame mean it in the same way Jimmy Olson wasn’t to blame when General Zod took over: wind is so useless nobody serious ever thought it might help in a crisis.
...What Really Happened During Texas’s Power Crisis
Had I not seen the analysis from my former colleagues at the Institute for Energy Research (see their articles here and here), I might have believed the spin that the Texas crisis was really a failure of fossil fuels rather than renewables. Yet as we’ll see, the actual numbers tell a much different story from what most Americans probably “learned” from the media discussion.
The simplest way for me to communicate the relevant information is through three infographics, generated from the Energy Information Administration’s handy tool that shows the source mix for daily energy generation by state.
Before showing the numbers, I need to make an important clarification: the demand for electricity soared to unprecedented levels during the freeze...
With that context in place, here are the stats for electricity output from various sources on February 15, 2021:
Predictable Train Wrecks on Crime and Immigration | RealClearPolitics
Predictable Train Wrecks on Crime and Immigration | RealClearPolitics
The abandonment of criminal enforcement, by contrast, is a local decision, made by supine city councils and district attorneys, many of them “social justice Democrats” backed by progressive elites and Black Lives Matter.
"If you think really hard, perhaps you can imagine more disastrous policies than throwing open our country’s southern border and abandoning criminal-law enforcement in city after city.
The consequences are already emerging, and they are grim.
...Our border policies are national fiats handed down by the Biden administration.
The most consequential effect of open immigration and lax criminal enforcement is to undermine the safe, stable environment law-abiding citizens need to go about their lives, free from predation.
Providing that environment -- and signaling clearly that you intend to provide it -- is the first responsibility of government.
That means punishing crimes.
The goal is not vengeance.
...It is also to send a strong message to would-be criminals: Don’t do it. It’s not worth it.
Right now, we are sending the wrong message and, by doing so, we are encouraging law breaking on a massive scale...Read all.
Portland rioters attack federal courthouse, set fires, and bash Biden: 'New president same imperialism' - TheBlaze
Portland rioters attack federal courthouse, set fires, and bash Biden: 'New president same imperialism' - TheBlaze:
Violence erupted in Portland on Thursday night as rioters targeted the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse. Federal officers were dispatched to quell the unrest that included fires and windows smashed. There had been regular protests and riots in downtown Portland since the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Despite frequent and reoccurring unrest in the area of the federal courthouse, the protective fence surrounding the federal courthouse was taken down Thursday for the first time since last summer, KGW reported.
The Sovietization of the American Press - TK News by Matt Taibbi
The Sovietization of the American Press - TK News by Matt Taibbi
"...Reality in Soviet news was 100% binary, with all people either heroes or villains, and the villains all in league with one another...
- The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement
Other ideas were not represented, except to be attacked and deconstructed.
Also, since anything good was all good, politicians were not described as people at all but paragons of limitless virtue — 95% of most issues of Pravda or Izvestia were just names of party leaders surrounded by lists of applause-words, like “glittering,” “full-hearted,” “wise,” “mighty,” “courageous,” “in complete moral-political union with the people,” etc.
Some of the headlines in the U.S. press lately sound suspiciously like this kind of work:
— Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty
— Champion of the middle class comes to the aid of the poor
— Biden's historic victory for America
...Forget that the “impregnable to parody” pol spent the last campaign year
- jamming fingers in the sternums of voters,
- challenging them to pushup contests,
- calling them “lying dog-faced pony soldiers,” and
- forgetting what state he was in.
- Biden, on the day Zoglin ran his piece, couldn’t remember the name of his Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin,
- and referred to the Department of Defense as “that outfit over there”...Read all.
History for March 14
History for March 14 - On-This-Day.com
Albert Einstein 1879
- 1629 - A Royal charter was granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
- 1891 - The submarine Monarch laid telephone cable along the bottom of the English Channel to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.
- 1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Hay-Herran Treaty that guaranteed the U.S. the right to build a canal at Panama. The Columbian Senate rejected the treaty. A deal was signed on November 6, 1903 with the newly independent Panama.
- 1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12― hours to 93 minutes.
- 1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
- 1979 - The Census Bureau reported that 95% of all Americans were married or would get married.
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Reporter confronts Jen Psaki over whether Biden admin's spin is making border crisis worse - TheBlaze
Reporter confronts Jen Psaki over whether Biden admin's spin is making border crisis worse - TheBlaze:
As thousands of unaccompanied migrants have entered to the U.S., the Biden administration has been forced to deal with its first major crisis.
Migrant children are reportedly being housed in detention facilities "akin to jails" and are being separated from their families.
Unfortunately for President Joe Biden, the problem is only expected to grow. In fact, according to Homeland Security estimates, immigration officials expect a record 117,000 unaccompanied minors to travel to the U.S. this year alone, Axios reported.
"I'm In A Cult!" - The Miseducation Of America's Elites | ZeroHedge
"I'm In A Cult!" - The Miseducation Of America's Elites | ZeroHedge
- Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret...
"The dissidents use pseudonyms...these are the rebels: well-off Los Angeles parents who send their children to Harvard-Westlake, the most prestigious private school in the city.
By normal American standards, they are quite wealthy.
...So it strikes them as something more than ironic that a school that costs more than $40,000 a year—a school with Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s right hand, and Sarah Murdoch, wife of Lachlan and Rupert’s daughter-in-law, on its board—is teaching students that capitalism is evil.
For most parents, the demonization of capitalism is the least of it.
They say that their children tell them they’re afraid to speak up in class.
Most of all, they worry that the school’s new plan to become an “anti-racist institution”—unveiled this July, in a 20-page document—is making their kids fixate on race and attach importance to it in ways that strike them as grotesque...Read all!
And our media covers this up-----Fauci and the Communists
Fauci and the Communists
Chinese state media, on the other hand, could not get enough of it, because Fauci delivered a propaganda coup for the communist regime in Beijing.
"This past week, Dr. Anthony Fauci shared a platform with a Chinese Communist Party “health expert,” and it went largely unreported by any Western media outlets.
Countless state media outlets and CCP official praised the co-panelists for endorsing the endless amounts of anti-American propaganda shared during the event, which included demanding more devastating draconian restrictions in order to “combat” COVID-19.
...comes following the revelation last week that Fauci and his deputies were directly coordinating with the Chinese government over COVID-19 messaging during the early outbreak in Wuhan, China.
The transparency watchdog organization Judicial Watch has released new government emails acquired via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which show U.S. government health institutions signed off on COVID-19 related non disclosure agreements requested by Chinese Communist Party officials.
It’s important to recall that the United States and over 100 countries initiated lockdowns exclusively because of the “data” that was being transmitted out of Wuhan.
It was faulty, unchallenged Chinese data, repeated by authoritative figures like Fauci and his colleagues, that convinced the world to undergo lockdowns and embrace early, aggressive ventilation of COVID-19 patients, among other botched, unscientific treatment and mitigation measures...Read all.
Integrity Report ranks Michigan worst in nation for government transparency, accountability - mlive.com
Integrity Report ranks Michigan worst in nation for government transparency, accountability - mlive.com:
Michigan has the worst government transparency and accountability laws and practices in the country, according a new corruptibility report card from the Center for Public Integrity.
Michigan received a failing grade -- and the lowest overall score -- from CPI, which measured each state on 250 specific "indicators" related to ethics enforcement, lobbying disclosure, political financing, legislative accountability and more.
Poll: Banning Biological Males from Girls' Sports, - Louder With Crowder
Poll: Banning Biological Males from Girls' Sports, - Louder With Crowder:
The issue of allowing transgender males to compete in girls' sports is contentious. There are lawsuits on behalf of biologically female athletes. States are trying to level the playing field. Bipartisan bills are being proposed in Congress to allegedly save women's sports. The issue was even discussed during a hearing for Joe Biden's education secretary. Like with a lot of things, it gets framed as a left vs. right issue. Where do most Americans stand? According to a recent Politico poll, with the biologically female athletes.
Hmmm. True or not?-----The Dimming, Full Length Climate Engineering Documentary
The Dimming, Full Length Climate Engineering Documentary
"GeoeongineeringWatch.org is excited to announce the release of our groundbreaking documentary that conclusively exposes the existence of global climate engineering operations.
Global climate engineering operations are a reality.
Atmospheric particle testing conducted by GeoengineeringWatch.org has now proven that the lingering, spreading jet aircraft trails, so commonly visible in our skies, are not just condensation as we have officially been told.
"GeoeongineeringWatch.org is excited to announce the release of our groundbreaking documentary that conclusively exposes the existence of global climate engineering operations.
Global climate engineering operations are a reality.
Atmospheric particle testing conducted by GeoengineeringWatch.org has now proven that the lingering, spreading jet aircraft trails, so commonly visible in our skies, are not just condensation as we have officially been told.
Over 75 years ago global powers committed the planet and populations to a climate engineering experiment from which there is no return.
The intentional dimming of direct sunlight by aircraft dispersed particles, a form of global warming mitigation known as “Solar Radiation Management”, has and is causing catastrophic damage to the planet's life support systems.
All are needed in the critical battle to wake populations to what is coming, we must make every day count. Share credible data from a credible source, make your voice heard. Awareness raising efforts can be carried out from your own home computer...Read all.
No More Cakes and Ale | The Pipeline
No More Cakes and Ale | The Pipeline
...It is perhaps even more alarming that many people don’t seem to care that their world is collapsing, an attitude that only hastens the collapse.
"The world we once regarded as normal no longer exists.
If certain powerful figures in the political and medical communities have their will, we will never return to the way things were.
As Klaus Schwab states in his book, COVID-19: The Great Reset, “Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal.
The short response is: never.”
...And people are buying into it.
One detects a certain frivolity of mind, the readiness and even eagerness to capitulate to a prevailing orthodoxy, in effect, a superficiality of thought, a dwindling of intellectual range, a loathing for the things we ignorantly take for granted and a perverse desire to see them taken from us.
...We have been educated to hate our culture.
As the student chant has it, “Hey hey, ho ho, Western civ has got to go.”
...When a free society collectively agrees to the surrender of its freedoms, undertakes to hasten its demise—Western civ has got to go—and concentrates on the relatively trivial in the process of its dismemberment, we are witnessing a failure of intelligence and a sapping of character, the besetting vices of the modern West, as they were, according to Bryant, the mortal defects of the Roman Empire....Read all.
Horowitz: Wall construction under Biden? Red states can complete border wall in Texas and Arizona - TheBlaze
Horowitz: Wall construction under Biden? Red states can complete border wall in Texas and Arizona - TheBlaze:
What can states do when the federal government not only keeps its border open, but directly invites the cartels and smugglers to bring in potentially millions of new migrants, along with cartel members, gangsters, and previously deported criminals? That is a question we never thought we'd have to grapple with, but it is of vital importance for our national security and communities.
Liars are more likely to believe other lies: study
Liars are more likely to believe other lies: study
"Turns out you absolutely can bulls- -t a bulls- -tter.
Canadian researchers who studied the psychological effects of lying have revealed that those who tend to exaggerate or distort statements may also be more gullible and likely to believe the lies of others.
“It probably seems intuitive to believe that you can’t ‘bulls- -t a bulls- -tter,’ but our research suggests that this isn’t actually the case,” said Shane Littrell, lead author and psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
“In fact, it appears that the biggest purveyors of persuasive bulls- -t are ironically some of the ones most likely to fall for it.”
...Researchers hope their study may contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms behind misinformation, and why so many are susceptible to “fake news” headlines...Read all.
A Litany of Useless Laws Have Been Exposed By the Coronavirus - Foundation for Economic Education
A Litany of Useless Laws Have Been Exposed By the Coronavirus - Foundation for Economic Education
"From the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, state and local governments responded in various ways from issuing emergency orders—citywide shutdowns to school closures and beyond—but it’s the suspension of various laws and regulations that is exposing the unnecessary regulatory web that burdens businesses...
- In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott waived oversize and overweight restrictions for commercial trucks and suspended requirements to register under the International Registration Plan or to obtain temporary registration, as long as the truck is registered in one US state. Gov. Abbott also waived regulations allowing doctors to receive the same payment for over-the-phone telemedicine visits that they would for in-person visits for patients on state-regulated insurance plans. Most notably, he waived state laws that prohibit alcohol industry trucks from delivering supplies to grocery stores...
- In Boston, restaurants typically need a specific permit to provide carry-out service, but Mayor Marty Walsh lifted that requirement to allow for every restaurant to offer the service.
- Even New York City suspended its enforcement of illegal e-bikes during the crisis to accommodate for the influx of delivery orders, the state also moved to allow liquor-to-go...Read all.
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