"The mood was jittery. No one knew what was coming, except that it seemed to be coming from two directions. The early days after Pearl were not a smoothly-run affair, an effortless tooling up...
I felt that same mood in youth, after Vietnam, when the country was seized by the idea that it couldn’t do anything, couldn’t make anything — and what we did make was bad, like our lousy cars...
This malaise feels different. Before, it seemed as if there were forces both vague and specific that caused our ills. History had turned against us.
Now, it feels entirely self-imposed by a class of managerial technocrats whose indifference is matched only by their incompetence, and a disconnected, destructive, frivolous intellectual class that looks daft and mad to the unwoke.
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UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The answer is purges. Our institutions need to be cleansed of the woke, the crazy, and the inept — but I repeat myself. This would have been gentler by far if Trump had been re-elected in 2020. It will be much less so whenever it comes now. And it will come.--Posted byEd Driscoll"
"After Joe Rogan announced that he'd kicked Covid in just a few days using a cocktail of drugs, including Ivermectin - an anti-parasitic prescribed for humans for over 35 years, with over 4 billion doses administered (and most recently as a Covid-19 treatment), the left quickly started mocking Rogan for having taken a 'horse dewormer' due to its dual use in livestock. Rolling Stone's Jon Blistein led the charge:
On Friday, Rolling Stone's Peter Wade took another stab - publishing a hit piece claiming that Oklahoma ERs were overflowing with people 'overdosing on horse dewormer.' It was suspect from the beginning. The report, sourced to local Oaklahoma outlet KFOR's Katelyn Ogle, cites Oklahoma ER doctor Dr. Jason McElyea - who claimed that people overdosing on ivermectin horse dewormer are causing emergency rooms to be "so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting" access to health facilities.
As people take the drug, McElyea said patients have arrived at hospitals with negative reactions like nausea, vomiting, muscle aches, and cramping — or even loss of sight.
“The scariest one that I’ve heard of and seen is people coming in with vision loss,” the doctor said. -Rolling Stone
Except, the article provided zero evidencefor McElyea's claims, causing people to start asking questions.
“Science is not supposed to be about intimidating, countering interpretation of data, or abusing, or censoring data,” Atlas said. “Science is not supposed to have a view. Science is only about data and the scientific process. There is never supposed to be ‘an accepted view’ of science.”
"...Now, back to Dr. Ioannidis's point that early intervention can help save even more lives. Right now, the medical establishment is doing the equivalent of a doctor who, when he concludes that you are in the early stages of a sinus infection, sends you home without any antibiotics and, instead, tells you to return when you're septic.
When it comes to COVID, we're all told to go home and get back to the doctor when we're on the verge of dying and interventional medicines will no longer work.
Meanwhile, almost the entire American establishment (Democrats, doctors, Hollywood stars) hectors everyone to get vaccinated. The bias against early intervention is so strong that the same people lecturing people about vaccines are also assuring them that ivermectin, which has been touted as a possible treatment, is in fact an incredibly dangerous horse de-worming medicine.
When word got out that Joe Rogan treated his COVID with ivermectin (as well as hydroxychloroquine), the condescending sneering began:
...In fact, the CDC, beloved of the American left, strongly recommends ivermectin for third-world refugees heading to America carrying inside of them a host of parasites (and yes, the image is horrible but the highlights will give you an insight into how often ivermectin is mentioned)...
Just remember: Ivermectin is such a miracle drug that it won the Nobel Prize...Read all.
Stop me if you heard this one before. The president of the United States had a phone call with a foreign world leader. The transcript was leaked to the press. In that transcript, the president of the United States pressured the world leader into saying something regardless of whether it was true or not. That president is ... Joe "I Just Pooped" Biden? Maybe. According to his spokesoulessginger Jen Psaki, it was a private conversation.
"What if Trump did it?" is an implied question in most of what we say about Biden. This is the first time we KNOW FOR A FACT what would happen.
"I learned two facts today, one about COVID's survival rate and the other about eye-opening medical information hidden within the bowels of the CDC.
...Seeing those suspicions confirmed, however, with hard data from a Stanford professor and the CDC was both shocking and satisfying.
...At PJMedia, there's a neat little chart summarizing the bottom-line survivability numbers, along with a more detailed discussion of Dr. Ioannidis's conclusions: (Read all!)
Richard Trask waived his preliminary examination Aug. 31 before Kalamazoo County District Court Judge Christopher Haenicke. Trask is charged with one felony charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.
"....Trask is accused of assaulting his wife by smashing her head into a nightstand and choking her.
When police arrived on scene, she had blood running down her head, according to a probable cause affidavit. Trask joined the FBI in 2011 as a special agent, according to his LinkedIn page.
"After the Supreme Court declined the ACLU’s request to block SB8, the new Texas law, which bans abortion after a baby’s heartbeat is detected, went into effect in the state immediately. Almost predictably, the left went into a total meltdown, suggesting that this was an all-out ban on abortions, which it very much isn’t.
In fact, the vast majority of abortions occur within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, and a plurality within the first six weeks...
CREDIT: Abort73.com
Instead of the left informing women of their “rights” within the bounds of the new law, the left’s disingenuous talking point makes it seem like they have none at all – even while, sadly, it appears that the majority of abortions will be able to legally continue...Read all!
In a pro-life victory, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 on Wednesday not to block the new Texas law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy while legal challenges to that law proceed in lower courts.
A narrow majority of justices held that the abortion-provider plaintiffs had failed to meet the high standard required for the Supreme Court to issue an injunction blocking a law before it goes into effect.
1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.
1774 - The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association, and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress.
1793 - In France, the "Reign of Terror" began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities.
1836 - Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1914 - The Battle of the Marne began. The Germans, British and French fought for six days killing half a million people.
1939 - The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.
Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma defended his "rogue" mission to try to help American citizens leave Afghanistan and accused the Biden administration of standing in the way.
"When I say that blood is on his hands, that means the President Biden's hands, I mean that with everything in my heart," said Mullin in an interview Friday with Bret Baier of Fox News.
More than 30 California children likely remain stranded in Afghanistan, days after President Joe Biden evacuated U.S. forces from the country while abandoning billions of dollars worth of military equipment to the Taliban terrorists.
According to California school board officials in three districts, which confirmed the U.S. legal status of the children to the Associated Press (AP), 30 children “have been forgotten by the U.S. government.”
"Students lagged in nearly every grade and category on state tests taken in the spring of 2021, according to scores released Tuesday by the Michigan Department of Education. Those scores, and separate data also released from benchmark assessments of students across the state from the previous school year, illustrate just how much learning was interrupted through the pandemic. ...“These new data demonstrate what national research predicted: Michigan’s students have experienced significant unfinished learning during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Amber Arellano, executive director of the Education Trust-Midwest, a nonprofit education advocacy group. ...While the results show more than a quarter of students falling behind grade level, Katharine Strunk, a researcher with EPIC and a professor at MSU's College of Education, said the results don't mean students learned nothing at all last year.
"Students learned through the year in Michigan," she said. "And I think that that's a really critical piece of it. ... But they did not grow in their learning as much as might have been predicted in a typical year." Find the full benchmark report here...Read all!!!
He slept on friends’ couches for months until he was rescued by an unlikely source: his high school. But Pathways in Technology Early College High School did much more than provide him with a place to stay at a counselor’s home.
Its accelerated program, including college courses, gave Landsbaum the drive to get through the tough times and the hope for better days. “My goal was to get my associate’s degree, and when I got that, things got a whole lot easier,” he says. Landsbaum, 20, is finishing his bachelor’s in computer science at the University of North Texas – a turnaround that’s typical of the school, part of a growing movement better known by its acronym P-TECH. Founded in 2011 by IBM and the Bloomberg administration in New York City, P-TECH has spread to 10 states with 127 schools as of last year, achieving remarkable results for the low-income, black and Latino students they serve.
In Dallas, for example, 72% of students graduated with a high school diploma and an associate’s degree in about four years.
...P-TECH's success offers a counterpoint to critical race theory, a controversial academic movement increasingly adopted in schools that casts “systemic racism” and white supremacy as pervasive problems that students can counteract through racial awareness.
P-TECH is showing that underperforming students from poor communities can master a race-neutral mainstream STEM curriculum, especially when they see a brighter future, in the form of a well-paying job, within their grasp.
...That’s about eight times the national average for on-time community college graduation by students of color...Read all!
Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) on Wednesday will introduce an amendment to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act to ban the military from promoting ideas affiliated with Critical Race Theory.
My 19 yo son ran his own pressure washing/handyman business this summer. One day he stopping into Popeyes for a chicken sandwich and the manager offered him a job on the spot. $23/hr starting. The manager said, “my people don’t know how to work and you look like you do.” Apparently they wanted some perfectionism and punctuality at Popeyes.
If you believe that minorities are capable of progress, you are a nazi. If you believe that minorities can't find a location to cast a vote, are incapable of passing in high school, just need to express themselves by rioting, and should be allowed to have a good old knife fight, you are woke. LOL wut?
...In fact, the CDC, beloved of the American left, strongly recommends ivermectin for third-world refugees heading to America carrying inside of them a host of parasites (and yes, the image is horrible but the highlights will give you an insight into how often ivermectin is mentioned)...
"After the Supreme Court declined the ACLU’s request to block SB8, the new Texas law, which bans abortion after a baby’s heartbeat is detected, went into effect in the state immediately. 
He slept on friends’ couches for months until he was rescued by an unlikely source: his high school.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: So to be authentically of color, you have to be lazy and sloppy?
