19th April 2023
Wall Street Journal.
An IRS supervisor has told lawmakers he has information that suggests the Biden administration is improperly handling the criminal investigation into President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and is seeking whistleblower protections, according to people familiar with the matter.
A letter sent to Congress on Tuesday says a career Internal Revenue Service criminal supervisory special agent has information that would contradict sworn testimony by a “senior political appointee.” The supervisor also has information about a “failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case,” according to the letter.
The supervisor has details that show “preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected,” according to the letter.
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19th April 2023
The Tablet.
The number of Jews on major Ivy League campuses has been cut in half or more over the past decade by new elite doctrines that downplay merit in favor of amorphous definitions of ‘diversity’ and ‘privilege.’ But one Ivy may be bucking the trend.
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19th April 2023
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Ticket from Miami to Port-au-Prince: $124.
Ticket from Port-au-Prince to Miami: $1,000-3,000.
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19th April 2023
Gates of Vienna.
For many years the legacy media have identified firearms as the major social problem, one that has to be dealt with by restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens to acquire and retain guns. Whenever some criminal, terrorist, or lunatic blows people away using a gun, politicians and TV talking heads belabor the populace with diatribes about “gun violence” — as if guns made the decision to kill innocent people, rather than maniacs and thugs.
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That pesky gunfire just keeps erupting! It’s like cosmic rays — it just happens. The only way to keep people safe is to take away their right to own firearms. That’ll fix it.
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19th April 2023
Ptolomy I was Greek, one of Alexander the Great’s generals.
In accord with pharoanic tradition, his descendants in the Egyptian royal family depended on brother-sister marriages to ‘keep the bloodline pure’.
Cleopatra was Greek, wholly Greek, and nothing but Greek. Black? No chance.
Apparently black people are comfortable believing six impossible things before breakfast, so long as it’s Good For Blacks.
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19th April 2023
Washington Free Beacon.
Protesters attempted to disrupt a debate on transgenderism at the University of Pittsburgh on Tuesday night, detonating a smoke bomb and burning a dummy featuring the face of one of the debate’s speakers.
Campus police released an emergency notification near the start of the debate, between commentators Michael Knowles and Brad Polumbo, after an explosion was heard on campus, the Pitt News reported. Police later identified the source of the explosion as a combination of a firework and smoke bomb. More than 250 people participated in the protest of the debate, which concerned the question of whether transgenderism should be regulated by law.
“This was not a protest like for the other ones,” said Dylan Mitchell, president of Pitt College Republicans. “This was a riot.”
But, of course, as we all know, only Republicans engage in political violence.
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19th April 2023
Jonathan Turley.
We recently discussed how Wake Forest Psychology Professor S. Mason Garrison described conservatives as “guilty, anxious, and unable to handle stress well as children.” It was indicative of the overt hostility often encountered by Republicans and conservatives on our campuses today. Now, another psychology professor is under fire for a quiz that matter-of-factly explained that white men are characterized as a group for their abuse of others and lack of remorse for their violence and deceit. Like Professor Garrison, the resulting outcry reportedly led Professor Kirsten Bradbury to rescind the quiz. However, the incident reflects both the orthodoxy and hostility that now characterizes higher education. It also follows a familiar pattern when academics are called to account for such biased attacks.
Professor Bradbury gave a quiz as part of her “Personality Psychology” class and included a question that stated “[n]either race nor gender is determinative in Antisocial Personality Disorder.” It then asked:
“However, if we must go there, which sociodemographic group is most likely to repeatedly violate the rights of others in a pattern of behavior that includes violence, deceit, irresponsibility, and a lack of remorse?”
Bradbury then added an addendum stating “Hint: They also happen to hold the most social power and because of that they can get away with the most wrongdoing.”
She gave four choices with three obviously absurd choices of middle class Latino families, female dentists and Asian men of all economic groups. The correct answer was, of course, wealthy white men.
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19th April 2023
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According to data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS, the federal tax agency), in 2019 the highest-earning 1.1% of American taxpayers—all with a taxable income of $500,000 or more—earned 21% of total taxable income. At the same time, they paid 40.4% of all personal federal income taxes. Since taxes on personal income account for 84% of all federal tax revenue, this very small segment of taxpayers pays 34.5% of all federal taxes in America.
Remember that the next time people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren bitch and moan about rich people not paying ‘their fair share’.
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19th April 2023
American Mind.
Modern regimes are investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor and control society. From China’s surveillance state and emerging social credit systems to Russia’s disinformation campaign in Ukraine to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launching domestic cyberattacks on political opponents, dictatorships are using armies of hackers, bots, and trolls to gather data on citizens in order to manipulate algorithms and mold public opinion.
But when does focusing on data result in knowing less about a country? One answer is when it comes at the expense of what the military calls HUMINT, Human Intelligence, which is information gathered through direct interpersonal contact with human sources. Through spies and informants, HUMINT is said to be the only source of intelligence capable of revealing the group dynamics of insurgent and terrorist groups. And beyond HUMINT, person-to-person relationships connecting government and citizens are just as important for building a society as for shutting down terrorists.
Overreliance on statistical data at the expense of direct communication with citizens can lead to misperceptions and knowledge gaps. Rather than relying on feelings or hearsay, statistical data gives governments quantifiable—and therefore useful—information about society. But data is not enough; collecting statistics about citizens is not the same as knowing citizens.
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19th April 2023
ZMan jerks back the curtain.
In the money game, it is said that if you need hard money to control your ruling class, your ruling class will find a way around the limits of hard money. This is observationally true as every government in the history of man has found some way to corrupt their currency for short term advantage. For most of human history this has meant debasing the currency with cheap metal. In modern times, it means installing humanity’s worst schemers with the task of manipulating the currency.
That expression about money is a pithy way of pointing out that words on a piece of paper are never a restraint on the corrupt. The reason is the written law is just the formal expression of the unwritten law. Those words on the paper represent the spirit that organizes and limits the ruling class. If the people in the ruling class no longer abide by the spirit of the law, they will find a way around the letter of the law. This is something we can see plainly with the basics in America.
It is an eternal truth that written law is no security against evil men in charge of the government.
The most outrageous example is the recent trial of Douglas Mackey. He was arrested immediately after Biden was installed for the crime of mocking Clinton voters in 2016. Mackey operated the Ricky Vaughn account on Twitter, which was notorious for mocking the Left, especially the zombies who lined up to support Hillary Clinton. While obviously a satire account, it was comedy gold in the meme wars.
The government claimed that his jokes about the stupidity of Clinton voters denied these stupid Clinton voters the right to be stupid Clinton voters. That is not an exaggeration or a misrepresentation. The government offered no one who was denied their right to vote but managed to convince a judge and jury that these jokes tricked stupid Clinton voters out of their right to vote. The verdict is on appeal, but Mackey now faces ten years in prison.
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19th April 2023
Frosted blueberry … mmmmmmm….
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19th April 2023
Steve Sailer.
Ever since the transgender school shooter in Nashville, the mainstream media has been on the warpath to impose more point-of-sale gun control…while continuing to encourage Soros-funded prosecutors to weaken the kind of point-of-use gun control that not long ago succeeded in reducing New York City murders to Joe DiMaggio-era levels because it tends to put black criminals behind bars.
Yet, this level of flagrant effrontery requires tremendous narrative discipline. On Monday, the front page of NYTimes.com gave a master class in how it’s done across three contrasting articles.
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19th April 2023
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When Democrats are in charge, they work hard to pass legislation pushing issues further and further to the left. This is true on both the federal and state levels. We see blue states working to ban gas-powered cars, ban natural gas stoves, and even override parents when it comes to giving kids hormones and sex-change surgeries.
While that is true of Blue states, there are plenty of states that Red states out there as well. But the question is, what is the Red state equivalent to California? Are there Red states that are as conservative as CA, WA, NY, and NJ are liberal? Does a GOP majority move things to the right as much as a Democrat majority moves the state to the left? Probably not?
The thing is that Republicans aren’t committed, as Democrats are, to the politicization of every aspect of life. That’s what ‘progressive totalitarianism’ means.
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19th April 2023
NewsBusters.
The House Judiciary Committee held a field hearing in Manhattan on April 17, a brief walk from the offices of the local District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who’s prosecuting former president Donald Trump. Chairman Jim Jordan and the Republicans said it was important to hear from violent crime victims in America’s largest city. The Democrats ardently proclaimed it was a pro-Trump stunt.
ABC, CBS, and NBC also showed an opinion. They ignored it, treated it like it didn’t exist. It wasn’t “news” at all.
This wasn’t a field hearing in Albuquerque, where they might claim it’s not worth the expense of sending reporters and crews. This was in their own home town, their own home borough.
“Public broadcasting?” NPR offered no story in its comically mis-titled evening newscast All Things Considered, but they did have time to glory in the defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The PBS NewsHour earned some kind of paper medal for at least offering a report, and both parties were included in the soundbites.’
At least the nation’s most prestigious (translation: liberal) newspapers would have to cover it. Actually, no! The Washington Post let democracy die in darkness, instead doing a big front-page story on the House Republicans on the debt ceiling debate.
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18th April 2023
Technology Org.
According to the experienced M1A1 Abrams tank crew member, even during missions, their vehicle never looked as poorly maintained as the Russian T-90A.
A former M1A1 Abrams tank machine gunner spoke negatively about the Russian T-90A tank that was recently delivered to the United States. He wrote about it on his Twitter account.
A US soldier says he literally lived with his crew in an M1A1 Abrams tank for 20 months while in service. During that time, it never looked like the trophy T-90A does.
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18th April 2023
Check it out.
I don’t let politics determine whom I buy from, but for those who do, this is an ‘alternative to Amazon’ that appears to shun Wokery in all its forms.
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18th April 2023
‘Without the ice cap, we cannot live’: the Andes community devastated by climate crisis (The Guardian)
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so huge and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it, scientists say (CNN)
Great Pacific Garbage Patch in middle of the ocean now home to coastal species (CBS News)
This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts (NPR)
Why coastal species have been found thousands of miles out to sea (The Telegraph)
Fashion greenwashing glossary: what do ‘circular’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘zero waste’ really mean? (The Guardian)
How disappearing ice in Antarctica threatens the U.S. (NPR)
From GE to Siemens, the wind energy industry hopes billions in losses are about to end (CNBC)
Historic Asia heat breaks hundreds of records, with extremes in Thailand and China (Washington Post)
Another View: EPA wants to speed up EV switch, as it should (L.A. Times)
The EPA goes after tailpipe emissions, Elon gets an ultimatum and Careem lands $400M for its super app (Tech Crunch)
Rice Is Now Killing The Planet, Apparently I’ve had my suspicions.
WHAT? State-Affiliated BBC Champions Climate Change ‘Ninja Trollhunters’
Tesla, GM, Ford Among The Only 10 Vehicles That Will Qualify For The New $7,500 EV Tax Credit
New York Mayor Goes To War Against Meat And Dairy As Climate Agenda Escalates The key aspect of progressive totalitarianism is that it leaves no aspect of your life unstained.
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18th April 2023
Daily Signal.
Arkansas lawmakers delivered a clear message to parents of K-12 students this week: You have the right to know how your child is being treated in school.
Lawmakers in New Jersey, California, and hundreds of other school districts across the U.S. operating under policies that do the opposite and allow school officials to hide information about children from their parents should prepare to receive an influx of student-transfer requests.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday signed legislation, the Given Name Act, which says that school officials cannot call a student by a name that does not match the name listed on the student’s birth certificate without a parent’s permission. Likewise, educators cannot address a child by a pronoun that does not match the child’s sex.
The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Wayne Long, a Republican, explains that a teacher contacted him and said her conscience would not let her “affirm” a student confused about his or her sex. “This single mom was willing to lose her job rather than go against her Christian beliefs,” Long said via email.
Very sad, that it should come to this.
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18th April 2023
Dennis Prager.
A generation of Americans is being raised on half-truths and lies about the history of slavery in America.
They are given the impression that America was uniquely bad and that American slavery was uniquely bad. They learn nothing about slavery elsewhere. Among the many lies they are told are that “black slaves built America” and that America is systemically racist.
Since the only mortal enemy of the Left is truth, here are some truths about slavery.
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18th April 2023
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On Twitter Miranda Devine draws attention to newly accessed financial records showing the Biden family enterprise centered on Joe Biden’s political career and connections, with six more family members named — and then there were 9. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has posted the related press release.

VOTE DEMOCRAT — THEY NEED THE MONEY
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17th April 2023
You Have to Think of Trump’s Election as Year Zero (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue to carry water for the Left.
Revenge is not a winning election message (Washington Examiner) Oh, I don’t know–it seems pretty effective so far.
Trump’s House GOP allies take fight to Manhattan DA’s turf (Associated Press) Trump allies!
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17th April 2023
‘Outrageous and unacceptable’: Biden slams GOP for standing with NRA in wake of Alabama, Kentucky gun violence (The Hill) If we banned black teen males from carrying guns, the incidence of ‘gun violence’ would plummet. But of course you can’t say that in public.
Donald Trump Jr. Sparks MAGA Fury With Bud Light Comments (Newsweek) In the Narrarive media, “MAGA” means anything they don’t like that has even the most nebulous connection to Trump.
Budweiser releases new pro-America ad with iconic mascot in wake of Anheuser-Busch Mulvaney controversy (Fox) Too little, too late.
Wyoming news site finds more than a third of small-town bars surveyed are experiencing Bud Light boycotts (Fox) That’s democracy in action. But the Left doesn’t like democracy that doesn’t agree with them.
The day the book banners lost in Pennsylvania’s culture wars (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch fills the Jennifer Rubin chair at the Inquirer.
Nick Fuentes was paid more than $30K by Kanye West’s presidential campaign (The Hill) That’s a definition of ‘white supremacist’ with which I am unfamiliar.
US Appeals Court Judge Rejects ProPublica Story On Justice Clarence Thomas
Rep. Mace: GOP Tone-Deaf on Abortion (NewsMax) I’m sure she’d like to believe that’s true. But it’s not.
Jeeves and Wooster stories censored to avoid offending modern readers (The Telegraph)
Del. Stacey Plaskett Exposes Rep. Jim Jordan’s Glaring Hypocrisy (Huffington Post) Jim Jordan might even notice. But proabably not.
Supreme Court Considers Christian Mail Carrier’s Refusal To Work Sundays
Rep. Paul Gosar promotes pro-Hitler and Holocaust-denying site after it praised him for attacking “Jewish warmongers” (Media Matters for America) He’s a Republican, of course; they wouldn’t say anything like that about a Democrat, even if it were true.
New York Times Sunday Front Page Pretends Transgender Fight Was Started by Right-Wingers
Shonda Rhimes’ ‘Station 19’ Hates on Pro-lifers and Guns in Yet Another Week of Leftist Propaganda
Michigan State University Language Police Warn Of Offensive Words Like ‘America’, ‘Female,’ ‘Wreaths’
‘Wealthy White Men’ Most Likely to ‘Repeatedly Violate the Rights of Others,’ University of Texas Psych Quiz States
Speaker McCarthy Is Feeling the Heat (N.Y. Times) Amazing how many in the Narrative media think they can read minds. I doubt McCarthy cares a lot what Michelle Cottle thinks.
WATCH: NYC Bodega Owner Calls Out Alvin Bragg for Charging Him in Self-Defense Killing
Killer in CBS’ ‘The Equalizer’ Is Congressman Against Open Borders
Jim Jordan Tried to Pull Some D.C. Bullshit on New Yorkers (Rolling Stone) Rules are for thee but not for me.
Crime Victims Speak Out at House Panel’s Field Hearing in NYC I guess that’s the ‘D.C. Bullshit’ of which Rolling Stone speaks.
Missouri School District to Fight Bias, Racism in Math Curriculum We all know how racist and oppressive math can be.
DeSantis’s Thuggish Threats Against Disney (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait’s bleeding heart pours out for Disney (they’re so oppressed).
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17th April 2023
Washington bill to allow medical transgender interventions on minors without parental consent (N.Y. Post) Time to leave.
Mayor Lightfoot, Mayor-Elect Johnson Issue Statements on Large Gatherings Downtown Chicago (NBC Chicago)
‘Teen Takeover’ terrorizes Chicago as hundreds of teenagers destroy property, attack tourists (Fox) I’d be interested in the ‘ethnic’ composition of this riot.
Let’s be blunt — legal weed is turning New York workers into zombies (N.Y. Post)
CVS ‘Gender Transition’ Guide Requires Use Of Preferred Pronouns, Sharing Bathrooms
Is Free Speech Killing Us? FDA Commissioner Declares “Misinformation” A Medical Risk
Italy’s Meloni Declares ‘State Of Emergency’ As Illegal Immigration Quadruples When are they going to call it what it is, an invasion?
Humorless ‘Saturday Night Live’ Lets Non-Binary Comedian Lecture on Trans Kids
How Walmart Pushed Arkansas Public Schools to Go Woke (Washington Free Beacon)
What happened when US police teargassed protesters – a visual investigation (The Guardian) Like most on the Left, The Guardian think that ‘protesters’ have a right to wander around doing whatever they want to do without interference–if they’re on the left.
650 Illegal Immigrants Make It to Spain in Single Week
As Walmart shuts down four stores in crime-ridden Dem-led Chicago, DailyMail.com lists all the big box shops – from Macy’s to Target – which have closed due to millions in losses from rampant theft (UK Daily Mail)
OMITTED: CNN Segment on Boston Marathon Bombing Skips Jihadi Terrorist Brothers
‘Teen Takeover’; Liberal Networks Refuse to Cover Latest Lawlessness in Chicago
We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage (The Guardian) And thereby increase unemployment among the unskilled. Great idea, Bernie.
Watch First ‘Nonbinary’ SNL Cast Member Hang From the Ceiling and Shout About Trans Kids (Washington Free Beacon) Or don’t.
Illinois Supreme Court Justices Received Massive Donations From Dem Gov Pritzker. They Won’t Recuse Themselves From Case Against Pritzker’s Gun Ban. Hey, they aren’t Clarence Thomas, so it doesn’t matter, right?
Indiana Public School Officials Admit Lying to Parents About Critical Race Theory Don’t send your kid to a government school.
CBS Slobbers Over Conservative-Hating Jordan Klepper, Omits Failed Show
Disney announces LGBTQ event night at its California resort immediately after DeSantis threats (Raw Story)
Non-Binary SNL Cast Member Also Comes Out As Non-Funny (Babylon Bee)
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17th April 2023
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Sheriff’s deputies in Compton are returning to their patrol duties Monday following a chaotic weekend that involved a series of street takeovers and a mob of looters that left a trail of destruction at local stores.
Video captured a wild scene at an Arco gas station near Alondra Boulevard and Central Avenue early Sunday morning where a large group was caught on video bum-rushing an Arco gas station and stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise, all while the clerk on duty hid inside.
The video shows one man breaking the glass door while dozens of looters crowd behind him. Moments later, the group was seen grabbing everything from drinks, snacks, alcohol and even condoms.
Straight Outa Compton.
Deputies with LASD’s Compton station had been responding to several illegal street takeovers earlier in the night, LASD said.
Investigators said the two largest takeovers took place at the intersections of Long Beach Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue and near the gas station looting incident.
Time to leave.
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17th April 2023
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The StarChase Guardian-HX uses the lower receiver from an AR-15 rifle and launches adhesive-tipped GPS trackers to allow cops to track a vehicle remotely.
I’m surprised that it took them this long to think of something like this.
Of course, a 40mm grenade launcher would take care of it immediately.
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17th April 2023
Lifehacker.
The new law, called the FASTER Act, took effect as of Jan. 1, 2023. Shortly before that, an industry publication called Food Manufacturing reported that many manufacturers see the new requirements as “not simple or practical.” If the ingredients of a product don’t include sesame, the maker is required to take steps to make sure that sesame stays away from the product.
Labels that indicate the item is processed in the same facility as sesame-containing foods aren’t enough to protect the company from recalls if some sesame were to find its way into the product.
Quite naturally, rather than undergo the tedious and expensive required process to clean machinery of any possible trace of sesame before using it for food that normally doesn’t contain sesame, they just added trace amounts of sesame to all of their foods, therefore saving themselves a lot of government-mandated trouble and expense. The government, of course, didn’t see this coming.
So now people who are allergic to sesame face an incredibly constricted selection of foods, compared to before. “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.” Thanks a lot, guys.
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17th April 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
Chicago continues its descent into an unlivable dystopia. Last night, mobs rioted, taking over portions of the city and wreaking devastation of various kinds.
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Everyone knows about Chicago’s sky-high murder rate, but this kind of wanton lawlessness, apparently beyond the power of the police and normal citizens to control, is more devastating to the life of a city. Who in his right mind wants to be anywhere near Chicago?
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17th April 2023
Steve Sailer.
From the New York Times news section, an in-depth analysis of how conservatives hold the whip hand in modern American culture and thus started the divisive debate over the time-honored American custom of poisoning, sterilizing, and mutilating moody children due to the transgender mania….
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17th April 2023
Steve Sailer.
Thank goodness those heroic gay men saved us so heroically from some obscure disease called Mpox that they didn’t even let become common enough that you or I had ever heard of it.
Oh, wait, Mpox is what they now call Monkeypox because Monkeypox was too memorable and the Authorities were worried that you’d remember it. And if I remember correctly, although who can remember back that far, gay men didn’t save us from monkeypox. Instead, they inflicted it on each other.
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17th April 2023
Read it.
There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It’s an exposé of how educators came to believe in something that isn’t true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended.
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