Monday, February 25, 2019
PRAGER: Explaining The Left, Part VI: Do Leftists Believe What They Say? | Daily Wire
PRAGER: Explaining The Left, Part VI: Do Leftists Believe What They Say? | Daily Wire:
I first discovered this as a graduate student studying the Soviet Union and left-wing ideologies at the Russian Institute of Columbia University School of International Affairs. Everything I have learned since has confirmed this view.
Individuals on both the left and right lie. Individuals on both the left and right tell the truth. And liberalism, unlike leftism, does value truth. But the further left one goes, the more one enters the world of the lie.
Why does the left lie?
There are two main reasons.
Individuals on both the left and right lie. Individuals on both the left and right tell the truth. And liberalism, unlike leftism, does value truth. But the further left one goes, the more one enters the world of the lie.
Why does the left lie?
There are two main reasons.
Association of Cannabis Use in Adolescence and Risk of Depression, Anxiety, and Suicidality in Young Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | JAMA Psychiatry | JAMA Network
Association of Cannabis Use in Adolescence and Risk of Depression, Anxiety, and Suicidality in Young Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | JAMA Psychiatry | JAMA Network
Key Points
Key Points
- Question Is adolescent cannabis consumption associated with risk of depression, anxiety, and suicidality in young adulthood?
- Findings In this systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 studies and 23,317 individuals, adolescent cannabis consumption was associated with increased risk of developing depression and suicidal behavior later in life, even in the absence of a premorbid condition. There was no association with anxiety.
- Meaning Preadolescents and adolescents should avoid using cannabis as use is associated with a significant increased risk of developing depression or suicidality in young adulthood; these findings should inform public health policy and governments to apply preventive strategies to reduce the use of cannabis among youth.
Hate Crime Hoaxes are More Common than You Think - Quillette
Hate Crime Hoaxes are More Common than You Think - Quillette
"...Other reports implied he was also a suspect in a federal investigation of threatening letters mailed to Smollett the week before the attack.
This was all baffling to many people unfamiliar with hate crime hoaxes.
The author Roxane Gay tweeted that she “genuinely thought no one, and especially no one that famous, could make something like that up.”
"But people make all sorts of things up, even things like that.
That hate crime hoaxes seem strange or the motives unclear might simply be due to a lack of familiarity with them and with their social context.
If you want to understand them better, here are three things to know.
"...Other reports implied he was also a suspect in a federal investigation of threatening letters mailed to Smollett the week before the attack.
This was all baffling to many people unfamiliar with hate crime hoaxes.
The author Roxane Gay tweeted that she “genuinely thought no one, and especially no one that famous, could make something like that up.”
"But people make all sorts of things up, even things like that.
More baffling to us than a hate crime hoax is that people would find such hoaxes baffling.
Lying is hardly uncommon in our species, and false claims of victimhood, like other lies, become more common when they provide some advantage to the liar and when they’re likely to be believed. That hate crime hoaxes seem strange or the motives unclear might simply be due to a lack of familiarity with them and with their social context.
If you want to understand them better, here are three things to know.
- First of all, hate crime hoaxes aren’t new or unusual.
- Even fairly incompetent hoaxes might therefore succeed, which brings us to our second point: Hate crime hoaxes aren’t hard to pull off. Long term cultural trends matter, too, and the third thing to know is that hate crime hoaxes thrive in a culture of victimhood. .."
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Let’s do follow the climate money! - CFACT
Let’s do follow the climate money! - CFACT
"The climate crisis industry incessantly claims that fossil fuel emissions are causing unprecedented temperature, climate and weather changes that pose existential threats to human civilization and our planet.
The only solution, Climate Crisis, Inc. insists, is to eliminate the oil, coal and natural gas that provide 80% of the energy that makes US and global economies, health and living standards possible.
Chesapeake Energy gave the Club $26 million in three years to promote natural gas and attack coal.
It paid the American Lung Association $20 million to support its regulations.
During the Obama years, the EPA, Interior Department and other federal agencies paid environmental pressure groups tens of millions in collusive, secretive sue-and-settle lawsuit payoffs on dozens of issues.
"The climate crisis industry incessantly claims that fossil fuel emissions are causing unprecedented temperature, climate and weather changes that pose existential threats to human civilization and our planet. The only solution, Climate Crisis, Inc. insists, is to eliminate the oil, coal and natural gas that provide 80% of the energy that makes US and global economies, health and living standards possible.
...There is no evidence to support claims that the slight temperature, climate and weather changes we’ve experienced are dangerous, unprecedented or caused by humans, instead of by the powerful solar, oceanic and other natural forces that have driven similar or far more serious changes throughout history.
More importantly, the CCI “solutions” would cause unprecedented disruption of modern industrialized societies; permanent poverty and disease in poor countries; and serious ecological damage worldwide.
...Where do they get their money, and how much do they get?
Billionaire and potential presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg gave the Sierra Club $110 million in a six-year period to fund its campaign against coal-generated electricity. Chesapeake Energy gave the Club $26 million in three years to promote natural gas and attack coal.
Ten wealthy liberal foundations gave another $51 million over eight years to the Club and other environmentalist groups to battle coal.
Over a 12-year period, the (EPA) Environmental Protection Agency gave its 15 Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee members $181 million in grants – and in exchange received quick rubberstamp approvals of various air quality rules. It paid the American Lung Association $20 million to support its regulations.
During the Obama years, the EPA, Interior Department and other federal agencies paid environmental pressure groups tens of millions in collusive, secretive sue-and-settle lawsuit payoffs on dozens of issues.
Then we get to the really big money: taxpayer funds that government agencies hand out to scientists, computer modelers and pressure groups – to promote global warming and climate change alarmism.
As Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore noted recently, citing government and other reports:
* Federal funding for climate change research, technology, international assistance, and adaptation has increased from $2.4 billion in 1993 to $11.6 billion in 2014, with an additional $26.1 billion for climate change programs and activities provided by the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
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How Tech Giants Are Banning Truth and Undermining Freedom | The Heritage Foundation
How Tech Giants Are Banning Truth and Undermining Freedom | The Heritage Foundation:
Twitter, Facebook, and Apple are among 107 major companies that have endorsed federal legislation that would make “misgendering” a punishable offense. Named the “Equality Act,” this bill is anything but.
State and local bureaucrats have already used similar laws and policies to derail the careers of people like high school teacher Peter Vlaming and professor Nicholas Meriwether at Shawnee State University because they referred to students according to biology and not gender ideology.
These laws give government control over our freedom to speak and think according to the truth. The Equality Act would extend that to all 50 states.
Twitter, Facebook, and Apple are among 107 major companies that have endorsed federal legislation that would make “misgendering” a punishable offense. Named the “Equality Act,” this bill is anything but.State and local bureaucrats have already used similar laws and policies to derail the careers of people like high school teacher Peter Vlaming and professor Nicholas Meriwether at Shawnee State University because they referred to students according to biology and not gender ideology.
These laws give government control over our freedom to speak and think according to the truth. The Equality Act would extend that to all 50 states.
"Identifies..."-----Terry Miller, Andraya Yearwood, transgender sprinters, finish 1st, 2nd at Connecticut championships - Washington Times
Terry Miller, Andraya Yearwood, transgender sprinters, finish 1st, 2nd at Connecticut championships - Washington TimesNEW HAVEN, Conn. — Andraya Yearwood hears the comments, usually from adults and usually not to her face.
She shouldn’t be running, they say, not against girls.
Yearwood, a 17-year-old junior at Cromwell High School, is one of two transgender high school sprinters in Connecticut, transitioning to female.
She recently finished second in the 55-meter dash at the state open indoor track championships.
The winner, Terry Miller of Bloomfield High, is also transgender and set a girls state indoor record of 6.95 seconds.
Yearwood finished in 7.01 seconds and the third-place competitor, who is not transgender, finished in 7.23 seconds.
...the state organization is not in a position to perform hormone testing of athletes and simply relies on the schools to tell them who identifies as male or female..."
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History for February 25
History for February 25 - On-This-Day.com
Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841 - Impressionist artist, Jim Backus 1913 - Actor (voice of Mr. Magoo, "Gilligan's Island", "Rebel Without a Cause"), Bobby Riggs 1918 - Tennis player
Téa Leoni 1966 - Actress ("Jurassic Park III", "Deep Impact"), Carrot Top 1967 - Comedian, Sean Astin 1971 - Actor ("The Goonies", "The War of the Roses", "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring")
1836 - Samuel Colt received U.S. Patent No. 138 (later 9430X) for a "revolving-cylinder pistol." It was his first patent.
1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized a graduated income tax.
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Border smugglers now ramming down corrugated border fences with trucks in San Diego
Border smugglers now ramming down corrugated border fences with trucks in San Diego:
So Trump is the bad guy for wanting to construct an industrial-durable concrete and steel wall that truck terrorists, whether they're carrying human smuggling cargo --or bombs, wouldn't be able to ram through by force. And Newsom wants to stop that wall construction, even as this junk fence shows that these cartel networks are getting some expertise in doing the maneuvers.
So Trump is the bad guy for wanting to construct an industrial-durable concrete and steel wall that truck terrorists, whether they're carrying human smuggling cargo --or bombs, wouldn't be able to ram through by force. And Newsom wants to stop that wall construction, even as this junk fence shows that these cartel networks are getting some expertise in doing the maneuvers.
BREAKING: Trump admin cuts $60 million from Planned Parenthood | News | Lifesitenews
BREAKING: Trump admin cuts $60 million from Planned Parenthood | News | Lifesitenews:
“The Protect Life Rule does not cut family planning funding by a single dime, and instead directs tax dollars to entities that provide healthcare to women but do not perform abortions. The Title X program was not intended to be a slush fund for abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood, which violently ends the lives of more than 332,000 unborn babies a year and receives almost $60 million a year in Title X taxpayer dollars.”
“The Protect Life Rule does not cut family planning funding by a single dime, and instead directs tax dollars to entities that provide healthcare to women but do not perform abortions. The Title X program was not intended to be a slush fund for abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood, which violently ends the lives of more than 332,000 unborn babies a year and receives almost $60 million a year in Title X taxpayer dollars.”
Merciless Sympathy | National Review
Merciless Sympathy | National Review"Join the mob and support the ‘victim.’
Or the mob will come for you.
Jussie Smollett’s phony hate-crime story could have been taken apart in 24 hours, except for one thing: Nobody wanted to be the first to call bullsh**.
Who will bell the cat?
Not the police, and I don’t blame them.
Smollett is a vocal critic of President Donald Trump who checks two protected-category boxes: He is gay and he is black.
No police officer comes out ahead in any encounter in which he has to explain that he isn’t a racist or a gay-basher.
There isn’t much evidence that racist or homophobic attacks have increased in the Age of MAGA — partly because such episodes are so vanishingly rare in the United States that they are difficult to measure — but this is one of those things that everybody knows with such unshakable certainty that nobody really ever bothers to check.
Imagine being the first cop to catch a whiff of baloney on Smollett’s tale of martyrdom.
Saying as much — especially in a city such as Chicago — would be to put one’s career on the line..."
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Vintage Bernie footage shows now-presidential candidate praising breadlines, communist nations | Fox News
Vintage Bernie footage shows now-presidential candidate praising breadlines, communist nations | Fox News:
Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has never shied away from his embrace of a hard-left agenda, but the democratic socialist is facing renewed scrutiny over a catalog of comments he made in the 1980s praising the Soviet Union, offering advice to Nicaragua's socialist government -- and even saying breadlines in communist countries are a "good thing."
Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has never shied away from his embrace of a hard-left agenda, but the democratic socialist is facing renewed scrutiny over a catalog of comments he made in the 1980s praising the Soviet Union, offering advice to Nicaragua's socialist government -- and even saying breadlines in communist countries are a "good thing."
An American Epidemic: Toxic Imbecility – American Greatness
"...I can scroll Web, M.D. as well as anyone, so believe you me—forget all the other scourges ravaging our free republic, even if (nay, especially if) they are afflicting you.
Those scourges are mere distractions from the root cause of our impending doom.
No, I’m not talking about climate change/global warming/new Ice Age or whatever current false alarm the Left is sounding, for that false alarm is itself is a symptom of the new scourge; and, at the risk of sounding alarmist, our demise may well occur within the next twelve years.
For, as President Abraham Lincoln ominously noted, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
And Mr. Lincoln wasn’t just talking about Jussie Smollett paying for his hoax hate crime with a check.
What is this postmodern plague consuming our nation?
Toxic imbecility.
And where is the hot zone where this imbecilic chicken first came home to roost and now appears ready to cook our goose?
What is this postmodern plague consuming our nation?
Toxic imbecility.
And where is the hot zone where this imbecilic chicken first came home to roost and now appears ready to cook our goose?
An educated guess is that it’s wherever educators first devolved into indoctrinators, turning young people’s brains into carriers of leftist bumper sticker tropes..."
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Cold not caused by global warming - CFACT
Cold not caused by global warming - CFACT
"What do heat waves, floods, droughts, rising sea levels, forest fires, hurricanes, African wars, mass extinctions, disease outbreaks, and human and animal migrations from South America and the Middle East have in common?
According to climate activists, they are all caused by dangerous man-made global warming.
And this, in turn, is supposedly caused by rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels resulting from our use of fossil fuels.
They might as well add alien invasions to the list, because it is all nonsense.
Indeed, the climate scare industry has achieved such a level of absurdity that, on February 1, journalist Andrew Revkin reported in a National Geographic article that, “Many stories in recent days highlighted studies concluding that global warming is boosting the odds of cold [weather] outbreaks.”
(As we delve into the realm of absurdity, however, let us not forget that, in 2011, scientists from NASA’s Planetary Science Division and Michael Mann’s Penn State University actually presented a report speculating that extraterrestrial environmentalists could be so appalled by our planet-polluting, climate-changing ways that they could view humans as a threat to the entire intergalactic ecosystem and decide to destroy humanity!)..."
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"What do heat waves, floods, droughts, rising sea levels, forest fires, hurricanes, African wars, mass extinctions, disease outbreaks, and human and animal migrations from South America and the Middle East have in common?According to climate activists, they are all caused by dangerous man-made global warming.
And this, in turn, is supposedly caused by rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels resulting from our use of fossil fuels.
They might as well add alien invasions to the list, because it is all nonsense.
Indeed, the climate scare industry has achieved such a level of absurdity that, on February 1, journalist Andrew Revkin reported in a National Geographic article that, “Many stories in recent days highlighted studies concluding that global warming is boosting the odds of cold [weather] outbreaks.”
(As we delve into the realm of absurdity, however, let us not forget that, in 2011, scientists from NASA’s Planetary Science Division and Michael Mann’s Penn State University actually presented a report speculating that extraterrestrial environmentalists could be so appalled by our planet-polluting, climate-changing ways that they could view humans as a threat to the entire intergalactic ecosystem and decide to destroy humanity!)..."
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Psychotherapist told he can't interview transgenders who regret 'transition' - WND
Psychotherapist told he can't interview transgenders who regret 'transition' - WND:
A judge in the United Kingdom has ruled that a university can reject a psychotherapist’s proposal to research why so many of his transgender patients regretted their transitions.
James Caspian contested in court Bath Spa University’s decision to block a research proposal for his Master’s degree, reported Premier, a Christian radio network in the U.K.
Lawyer Paul Diamond said Caspian had appealed a lower court’s refusal to grant judicial review of the dispute. But Judge Michael Kent in High Court agreed with the ruling.
Premier reported Caspian has worked with transgender patients for eight years and “wanted to investigate why some came to regret their transition.”
However, university staff blocked him, claiming the issue was “ethically complex” and that activists could target the university.
Caspian said “people have been telling me they’ve been harmed.”
James Caspian contested in court Bath Spa University’s decision to block a research proposal for his Master’s degree, reported Premier, a Christian radio network in the U.K.
Lawyer Paul Diamond said Caspian had appealed a lower court’s refusal to grant judicial review of the dispute. But Judge Michael Kent in High Court agreed with the ruling.
Premier reported Caspian has worked with transgender patients for eight years and “wanted to investigate why some came to regret their transition.”
However, university staff blocked him, claiming the issue was “ethically complex” and that activists could target the university.
Caspian said “people have been telling me they’ve been harmed.”
THE playbook for election theft, via "ballot-harvesting", AND non-citizen vote fraud!-----No-reason absentee voting begins for Michigan residents | mlive.com
No-reason absentee voting begins for Michigan residents | mlive.comFLINT TOWNSHIP, MI – Michigan voters now do not need a reason for requesting and filling out an absentee ballot for future elections.
...This beginning of no-reason absentee voting also expects to help bring up voter turnout across the state as well in places where it can be low.
“So we did a study already of looking where the lowest turnout areas are in our state,” Benson said, “and while there are some parts of Flint, Genesee County, that do vote in significant numbers there are many that do not and the same holds true in parts of Wayne County and rural counties in our state.”...
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How to Register to Vote Step 3
If you hand-deliver your application, the staff person helping you will take your form and you don't need to do anything else.
If you have never registered to vote in Michigan and choose to mail in your application, you will need to meet an identification requirement.
This means you must:
- Enter your driver's license number or personal identification card number where requested on the form. OR
- Send a copy of ONE of the following forms of identification with your application:
- A photocopy of your driver's license or personal ID card, or
- A photocopy of a paycheck stub, utility bill, bank document or government document that lists both your name and your address..."
"...When you go to the polls on Election Day, you will be asked to present voter identification.
If you don't have acceptable photo ID, you can vote by signing an affidavit.
The affidavit can be used by 1) voters who don't have acceptable photo ID or 2) voters who have photo ID - but didn't bring it to the polls.."
A playbook for vote theft!
The Chilling Timeline of the ISIS Bride Who Wants to Return to America | The Rosett Report
The Chilling Timeline of the ISIS Bride Who Wants to Return to America | The Rosett Report
"...So, in the interest of seeing the fuller picture, let's take a look at the timeline on which ISIS and Hoda Muthana converged.
"...So, in the interest of seeing the fuller picture, let's take a look at the timeline on which ISIS and Hoda Muthana converged.
Hoda's interest in ISIS began in November 2013, a year before she left Alabama for Syria, according to an interview she gave online to BuzzFeed in April 2015, from what was then her new home in Raqqa, Syria, via a messaging app called Kik.
During the year in which she was preparing to travel to Syria, ISIS was on the rise, and its character was plain to see.
It was so grotesque, so sadistic, so sickening, so bloodthirsty that it was all over the headlines and the internet -- which is how she was communicating with ISIS.
During the year in which she was preparing to travel to Syria, ISIS was on the rise, and its character was plain to see. It was so grotesque, so sadistic, so sickening, so bloodthirsty that it was all over the headlines and the internet -- which is how she was communicating with ISIS.
A full roster of ISIS atrocities would take volumes.
...Notes on Hoda are in italics. Information sourced to court documents filed under her father's lawsuit is marked with an asterisk.
...Notes on Hoda are in italics. Information sourced to court documents filed under her father's lawsuit is marked with an asterisk.
2014
For most of this year, Hoda was still in Alabama, using pseudonyms to communicate with and about ISIS on social media.
If she was aware of ISIS atrocities before she left the U.S. -- and it's hard to believe she knew nothing about them -- they did not deter her from going to Syria to join ISIS.- February — From Alabama, Hoda Muthana renews the U.S. passport initially issued for her at her father's behest in 2005.*
- May — ISIS displays crucified bodies in Raqqa, Syria. Here's CNN coverage from the time, with a warning about the graphic photos.
- June — ISIS declares its "caliphate" with Raqqa as its capital.
- August — ISIS releases video of captured American journalist James Foley, on his knees in an orange jumpsuit, and beheads him on camera.
- ISIS launches a genocidal attack on the Yazidis in Iraq, besieging tens of thousands of men, woman, and children who have fled to the upper reaches of Mount Sinjar, denying them access to food and water in temperatures rising above 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The horrors go on and on, sickening to read about (see this 2016 UN report, "They came to destroy: ISIS Crimes Against the Yazidis,"based on interviews with survivors). Hundreds of Yazidis die on Mount Sinjar before the siege is broken. ISIS captures thousands of Yazidis, separates families, kills the men and older boys who refuse to convert to Islam, and enslaves the women and girls, starving and raping them, setting up a slave market in Raqqa where Yazidi girls as young as five are sold at auction.
- September — ISIS releases video of the beheading of American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff
- ISIS releases video of the beheading of British aid worker, David Haines.
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