Sunday, January 26, 2025
Public schools collapsing!-----Michigan school district enrollment, mapped | Most Michigan school districts are losing students. See where yours ranks. - Crain's Detroit Business
Enrollment has dropped in 80% of Michigan school districts over the past 15 years. 
Between 2009 and 2023, 80% of Michigan’s traditional school districts experienced enrollment declines.
To see how headcount has changed in an individual Michigan school district,
- tap the interactive map or
- use the sortable table that follows.
Christians, Trump and the healing and renewing of America * WorldNetDaily * by David Kupelian
Christians, Trump and the healing and renewing of America * WorldNetDaily * by David Kupelian:
What's up, of course, is that despite Trump's stunning re-election victory, America remains engaged in what amounts to an ongoing civilizational war. A war not merely political in nature, but cultural, ideological, psychological and ultimately spiritual – a long-term struggle between forces of decency, morality and sanity on one side and astonishing deception and evil on the other. And logically, one of evil's key targets would have to be the Christian church.
Trump admin drops charges against whistleblower who exposed transgender operations at Children's Hospital in Texas | Blaze Media
Trump admin drops charges against whistleblower who exposed transgender operations at Children's Hospital in Texas | Blaze Media:
The Biden administration was accused of unfairly targeting the whistleblower.
The Trump administration moved to dismiss charges against a doctor whistleblower who exposed transgender surgeries being performed in secret at a Texas children's hospital.
Texas surgeon Dr. Eithan Haim obtained documents proving that Texas Children’s Hospital was providing gender transition services in secret and passed them on to conservative journalist Christopher Rufo in order to stop the illegal procedures.
‘Politicized Science’--Legacy Media Falsely Blame Record Cold And Snowfall On Climate Change - Climate Change Dispatch
Lately, a series of mainstream news outlets, including USA Today, AP News, BBC Future, and Fast Company, have churned out articles claiming that January 2025’s record cold and heavy snowfall across the United States are to greater or lesser degrees due to climate change, or at least that such a connection can’t be ruled out. - Anthony Watts This is false.
Their arguments hinge on the increasingly popular yet scientifically dubious idea that climate change is disrupting the polar vortex, causing frigid Arctic air to dip southward into mid-latitude regions like the United States.
Their arguments hinge on the increasingly popular yet scientifically dubious idea that climate change is disrupting the polar vortex, causing frigid Arctic air to dip southward into mid-latitude regions like the United States.
- While this explanation is neatly packaged to fit the narrative that “everything bad is caused by climate change,” the science backing these claims is weak, unsubstantiated, and riddled with contradictions...
- As outlined below, there is no solid evidence to support these claims.
- Instead, the mainstream media’s claims rely on flashy headlines and alarmist language, leaving out inconvenient facts that undermine their sensationalist conclusions.
Let’s start by summarizing the claims made in these articles:
USA Today describes the recent Arctic blast as being caused by a disrupted polar vortex, which it links to melting Arctic ice supposedly induced by human-caused climate change...A close examination of these claims, that of a link between variations in the polar vortex and climate change, reveals glaring problems with the logic and science behind these claims.
- The polar vortex is a long-established well-documented feature of the upper atmosphere—known decades before politicized climate scientists and media mavens began talking about climate change.
- The polar vortex was first described in 1853, but the term became popular with the media in 2014 after a cold snap in North America...
History for January 26
History for January 26 - On-This-Day.com 
Douglas MacArthur 1880
- 1784 - In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the eagle as the symbol of America. He wanted the symbol to be the turkey.
- 1837 - Michigan became the 26th state to join the United States.
- 1875 - George F. Green patented the electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth.
- 1965 - Hindi was made the official language of India.
- 1969 - California was declared a disaster area two days of flooding and mudslides.
- 1998 - U.S. President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
- 2009 - The Icelandic government and banking system collapsed. Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Federal court rules warrantless 'back door' digital searches unconstitutional in victory for privacy rights | Blaze Media
Federal court rules warrantless 'back door' digital searches unconstitutional in victory for privacy rights | Blaze Media:
"In light of this ruling, we ask Congress to uphold its responsibility to protect civil rights and civil liberties by refusing to renew Section 702 absent a number of necessary reforms, including an official warrant requirement for querying U.S. persons' data and increased transparency," the organization said.
"We expect any lawmaker worthy of that title to listen to what this federal court is saying and create a legislative warrant requirement so that the intelligence community does not continue to trample on the constitutionally protected rights to private communications," they added.
Will Any Federal Officials Pay for What They Did? - James Bovard
The biggest scientific con of the century is finally being exposed.
But will any politicians or government officials ever be held responsible for the carnage they unleashed on Americans? 
- In early 2020, when the Covid pandemic was starting to ravage America, federal bureaucrats and politicians rushed to suppress any suggestion that the pandemic originated from a Chinese government lab bankrolled by US government agencies...
- The FBI’s top expert concluded that the virus leaked from the lab but he was derailed by the Biden administration, blocked from presenting his evidence at a key White House meeting in August 2021.
- Three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, part of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, concluded that Covid leaked from a lab but they were muzzled.
- The Inspector General is conducting an investigation to determine why those experts were silenced.
- The Department of Energy also concluded that Covid originated in a lab. In September 2023, a senior CIA analyst told a Congressional committee that six key CIA analysts had been bribed by the agency to abandon their conclusion that Covid originated in a lab leak...
How Trump Is Quickly Dismantling The Climate-Industrial Complex - Climate Change Dispatch
A flurry of executive orders signals the end of climate ideology in policy. - Dr. Matthew Wielicki 
Compared to his predecessors, including President Biden, Trump’s use of executive orders has always been unapologetically direct.
1. Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
This order lays the groundwork by rescinding a wide range of Biden-era executive actions that prioritized climate change over economic and energy concerns.
These include rollbacks on regulations for fossil fuel projects, emissions standards, and the federal government’s expansive climate-related spending.
- While Biden used executive actions to accelerate climate regulations and embed climate priorities into every federal agency, Trump’s latest orders aim to undo these efforts, exposing what he described as the “weaponization of science and policy.”
1. Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
This order lays the groundwork by rescinding a wide range of Biden-era executive actions that prioritized climate change over economic and energy concerns.
These include rollbacks on regulations for fossil fuel projects, emissions standards, and the federal government’s expansive climate-related spending.
2. Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government...
Comer Tells Schweizer: How AG Pam Bondi Could Still Nail the Biden Crime Family
Comer Tells Schweizer: How AG Pam Bondi Could Still Nail the Biden Crime Family:
One very disappointed man joined The Drill Down podcast this week – Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the chairman of the House government oversight committee, which last year gathered all sorts of evidence linking the Biden family to the influence-peddling scheme that got Hunter Biden prosecuted for tax evasion, among other crimes. He just published a best-selling book, All the President’s Money, detailing all of what his committee learned from testimony, subpoenaed bank records, and the previous work of Peter Schweizer and the Government Accountability Institute in the books Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Does Comer think there is anything that can still be done?
Trump State Department reportedly tells embassies: Scrap the LGBT and BLM activist flags. Only Old Glory flies. | Blaze Media
Trump State Department reportedly tells embassies: Scrap the LGBT and BLM activist flags. Only Old Glory flies. | Blaze Media:
Under the Biden administration, the non-straight activist flag and the colors of the identitarian leftist group Black Lives Matter were routinely hoisted above American embassies and consulates, both suggesting Old Glory needed the banner equivalent of addendums and insinuating the nation was torn between competing allegiances.
The Trump State Department reportedly issued a "One Flag" policy on Monday, bringing this shameful practice to an end.
Javier Milei Breaks Out VERBAL Chainsaws on WEF Over Trans Indoctrination and DAMN It's Glorious (Watch)
Remember when all we could do was watch Javie Milei being a total bada*s while our own president was busy eating ice cream on the beach? - Sam J.
How we could only wish our president was as freedom-loving and fearless as Milei?
Welp, we've got that now with Trump (who, incidentally also whooped up on the WEF) but that doesn't mean we can't still enjoy watching Milei eviscerating the World Economic Forum for their woke push for the trans indoctrination of our kids.
Translated portion of his speech:
Welp, we've got that now with Trump (who, incidentally also whooped up on the WEF) but that doesn't mean we can't still enjoy watching Milei eviscerating the World Economic Forum for their woke push for the trans indoctrination of our kids.
- This is of course pretty damn epic.
"From these forums, the LGBT agenda is promoted, wanting to impose on us that women are men and men are women, just if they self-perceive as such, and nothing is said when a man disguises himself as a woman and kills his rival in a boxing ring, or when a prisoner claims to be a woman and ends up raping every woman he comes across in prison. Not long ago, the case of two homosexual Americans made headlines worldwide; they raised the flag of sexual diversity and were sentenced to 100 years in prison for abusing and filming their adoptive children for over two years. I want to be clear that when I say abuse, it is not a euphemism, because in its most extreme versions, gender ideology is outright child abuse—they are pedophiles. Therefore, I want to know who endorses these behaviors.
Michigan's public schools are in BIG trouble! (and more money won't fix it!)
Hit these links in order:
Here's MI DOE's "By golly we're doin' great" link: https://www.michigan.gov/mde/news-and-information/press-releases/2023/08/31/2023-mstep
Here's the handy, "helpful" MI DOE link to the specific info for your child's schools: https://www.michigan.gov/mde/services/student-assessment/m-step
Here's the only worthwhile link, from the FREEP: https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2024/08/28/m-step-results-2024-database/74964999007/
Here's the link where elected officials, school board members, the MEA, PTA, employers, parents express disappointment in the scores and demand to see plans to educate their children!: https://tinyurl.com/4t78mxka
Must read!-----Government by Hysteria: The Climate and Covid Hobgoblins Begin to Fade
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary - From THE DAILY SCEPTIC - by Tilak Doshi 
In serving those needs for safety, governments are more likely to get re-elected.
Government by hysteria in other words, where fear and alarm are cultivated, then weaponised, for political ends...
The Climate Hobgoblins...
The threatening features of this genre of hobgoblins went through several permutations.
The Climate Hobgoblins...
The threatening features of this genre of hobgoblins went through several permutations.
- It started with Paul Ehrlich’s famine and war through over-population and the Club of Rome’s prediction of inevitable resource scarcity.
- It then morphed into global cooling during the 1970s,
- before finally settling for global warming (now called ‘climate change’) due to effects of greenhouse gases. The focus is on the trace gas carbon dioxide mainly emitted by humans combusting fuels for industry, cooking, heating, cooling and transport...
The story is that the CO2 hobgoblins are the control knob of climate and, by extension, our cataclysmic future, a theory spread via the panic of a Swedish school drop-out who deleted her predictive tweet about the end of the world by 2023...
Tom Homan reveals how many illegal immigrants were picked up by ICE on first day of Trump administration | Blaze Media
Tom Homan reveals how many illegal immigrants were picked up by ICE on first day of Trump administration | Blaze Media:
Homan went on to repeat that while all illegal immigrants are once again subject to deportation, the Trump administration is going to direct the current resources on hand to go after public safety threats.
"And just yesterday, in the last 24 hours, ICE arrested over 308 serious criminals. Some of them were murderers. Some of them were rapists. Some of them raped a child. Some were a sexual assault of a child. So ICE is doing their job, and they’re prioritizing just as the president said they would. So ICE is performing excellent right now out in the field. And they’re going to continue every day," he continued.
Trump can fix biased, bloated bureaucracy — by abolishing the civil service By Glenn H. Reynolds
A new broom sweeps clean, goes the old saying, but President Trump needs to approach the federal bureaucracy with more than just a broom. -Glenn H. ReynoldsMaybe something like a bulldozer.
- With an imminent budget crisis — on her way out the door, Biden Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen informed us that, oh by the way, the federal government was out of cash...
- Under our “professional” civil service, though, no one is really in charge.
- Presidents can’t fire the government’s many middle, and even fairly senior, managers without a lot of hassle.
- They’re not neutral, for one thing; they’re Democratic apparatchiks who can’t be fired by a Republican president — or a Democratic one, for that matter...
- A recent poll by Scott Rasmussen’s Napolitan Institute found that huge numbers of federal managers — 42% — would do their best to resist the Trump administration’s initiatives, something we saw occurring during Trump’s first term.
- Not only that, they’re not experts, either: I defy anyone to examine the record of the federal bureaucracy over the past decade and suggest that it reeks of expertise.
- It just plain reeks...
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