Ann Coulter.

New York City public school teachers recently revealed that they have been instructed to reject “objectivity,” “written documentation” and “perfectionism” by Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, as part of his effort to “dismantle racism.” Carranza identified these values as tools of the “white-supremacy culture.”

Our cultural overlords are way ahead of Carranza. With lightning speed, we’ve abandoned old, hidebound, Anglo-Saxon facts-and-evidence standards in deference to new, fresh African folk tale standards. (According to J. Bekunuru Kubayanda, writing in the Afro-Hispanic Review, even Latin America and the Caribbean got their oral history traditions from Africa.)

I’m willing to believe it.

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Sometimes the system works.

The Grauniad, of course, thinks this is a bad thing.

New Policy Brief Shows No Evidence of Accelerated Sea-Level Rise

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Funny how that works.

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The worm has started to turn.

Steve Sailer.

The term “Gell-Man Amnesia effect” was coined by the late novelist Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) in honor of the famous physicist who died last month. Murray Gell-Man had pointed out to Crichton that he had noticed that journalists aren’t very accurate at writing about his own specialty, physics, nor about Crichton’s, showbiz, so why do we trust them to write reliably about everything else?

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I guess not everybody is on board with the confiscation choo-choo.

There Is No Evidence Weather Is Increasingly Threatening to Human Lives

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #362

Reporting the fraudulent practices behind global warming science

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Say what you will about Trump, he gets results.

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Not really news but a useful reminder.

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The degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being.

I’m doing my bit.

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The Washington Post reports that Colorado’s former governor and current presidential candidate John Hickenlooper, appearing at the California Democratic Party state convention this weekend, criticized socialism—imagine that!—and was promptly booed by the audience….

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Most of us can rant endlessly about the evils of the academy, and a cursory reading of any newspaper will reveal some absolutely batshit crazy event on some college campus. In spite of the ocassional flash of rational thought, the trend in American universities is clear; they are descending into madness. No thoughts of education, just a mad rush to the next mile marker on the road to a perfect idea-free hive of rigid orthodoxy.

Democrats’ Curious Disdain for Nuclear Power

Aussie Government Report: Green Energy Incentives are Failing to Keep the Lights On

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Software giant Salesforce will no longer allow retailers who sell some types of firearms to use its software, the Washington Post reports.

Well, that ought to make the decision about what CRM software to use a bit easier. Speaking as someone who has had to attempt to connect to SalesForce data for reporting purposes, I’v e never been impressed with the quality of their software.

This is the principle defect in the whole ‘software as a service’ concept. If you buy the software, you can use it or not, as you please. If you are merely renting the software, then the vendor can cut you off for any damned reason it pleases, including political correctness. This is why I don’t pay for streaming music services — the convenience doesn’t compensate for the insecurity. Never base your life on a service provided by someone else if you can avoid it; and, if you must, make sure that there are alternatives.

UPDATE: Eric S Raymond agrees – The dangerous folly of “Software as a Service”

You will note that the higher the component of human labor, the higher the real price increases. Fields that have experienced low automation and therefore low increased productivity are the worst culprits; people are less efficient than machines. Once the logjam breaks and somebody figures out how to apply automation effectively to education and health care, things will get much better very quickly. Until then, we’re stuck doing it The Old Way, which sucks.

Extinction Rebellion threatens 10-day Heathrow protest if government doesn’t drop airport expansion plans

Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing

Snow might be the next clean energy source

Trump’s Latest Attack on Federal Climate Science May Backfire

Madrid set to become first European city to scrap low-emissions zone

Inherent unreliable renewables dictate GND “100% renewable electricity” mandate yields unavoidable GHG emissions

Trump Admin Steps Up Pace On First Oil Lease Sale In Alaskan Arctic, Enviros Cry Foul

Why the Bloom is Off the Environmental Rose for Tesla and Other Electric Vehicles

Bill Nye: There’s a ‘Pearl Harbor’ Moment Every Week on Climate  Pretty soon the Japanese will run out of Global Warming.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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That confirms what I’ve always thought about John McCain.

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It costs three times more to build a subway station here than in London or Paris. What if we could change that?

Proximate cause: Unions and their cozy relationship with corrupt Democrat politicians.

Long term cause: Corrupt Democrat politicians. New York City is historically the poster child for corrupt machine politics; the advent and flourishing of public-employee unions merely makes it worse.

Steve Sailer.

The only countries that don’t believe in the concept of the moral and aesthetic validity of white supremacy are white countries.

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Consistency is not a proglodyte value.

I have always been astonished by the proglodyte embrace of Islam, since Islam is based on a lot of behavior that proglodytes profess to abhor. The only explanation I can find is ‘the people who hate the people I hate must be awesome’.

Steve Sailer.

A website called Media Analytics lets you graph the New York Times’ usage of words and phrases from 1970-2017. For example, for years the New York Times used “whiteness” in articles about polar exploration, laundry bleach, and interior decorating. But suddenly, around 2015, “whiteness” became the Times‘ go-to racial slur.

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North Korea executed Kim Hyok Chol, its special envoy to the United States, and foreign ministry officials who carried out working-level negotiations for the second U.S.-North Korea summit in February, holding them responsible for its collapse, a South Korean newspaper reported on Friday.

And people complained about Steve Jobs….

UPDATE: Kim Jong-Un Executes Four Officials Over Failed Trump Summit

‘No pressure, but I’ve got a gun here.’

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Consistency is not a proglodyte value.

Kevin Williamson.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is in possession of an undergraduate degree in economics, does not know what “scarcity” means.

Or at least innumerate. The fact that this twit has a degree in economics demonstrates, as nothing else has, that education in America is seriously broken.

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I guess they know I like to buy a lot of books. I’m good with it.

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It’s not so much a ‘castle’ as a fortified city, like Carcassonne in France.

However, the citadel is more than just a significant historical and architectural landmark: more than 800 years after it was built, some 2,000 to 4,000 descendants of the castle’s earliest inhabitants continue to live inside its fortified walls, rent-free, as their ancestors were given the land by local kings in return for their services to the kingdom.

Today, not only is Jaisalmer the last inhabited ancient fortress in India, but it serves as something of a living monument, where life goes on among the narrow lanes and crowded courtyards in much the same manner as it did in the 12th Century.

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Political Correctness to the contrary notwithstanding, many cultures (including African-Americans) consider lighter skin to be higher in status than darker.

Joe Bob Briggs is here to tell you the truth.

If it doesn’t come from an animal—or, I guess, if you wanna get technical and include Soylent Green in our definition, an animal or a human—then it’s not meat.

I’m surprised I have to explain this.

Preach it, brother.

Evn The Atlantic realizes it.

I have taught evolution and genetics at Williams College for about a decade. For most of that time, the only complaints I got from students were about grades. But that all changed after Donald Trump’s election as president. At that moment, political tensions were running high on our campus. And well-established scientific ideas that I’d been teaching for years suddenly met with stiff ideological resistance.

Proglodytes are quick to label their opponents ‘science deniers’ but don’t seem to realize when they do the same thing.

In class, though, some students argued instead that it is impossible to measure IQ in the first place, that IQ tests were invented to ostracize minority groups, or that IQ is not heritable at all. None of these arguments is true. In fact, IQ can certainly be measured, and it has some predictive value. While the score may not reflect satisfaction in life, it does correlate with academic success. And while IQ is very highly influenced by environmental differences, it also has a substantial heritable component; about 50 percent of the variation in measured intelligence among individuals in a population is based on variation in their genes. Even so, some students, without any evidence, started to deny the existence of heritability as a biological phenomenon.

Welcome to our world.

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f he’s the heir to the Clinton Crime Family.

All that’s needed now is for his wife to run for President.

2020 Democratic Hopefuls Blame Iowa’s Floods, Tornadoes On Climate Change. What Do Scientists Say?

Tornadoes & climate change — how strong is the evidence?

“This Is Not “Normal”: US Suffers More Than 500 Tornadoes In The Last 30 Days

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Hey, it’s not as if they were interrupting Star Trek.

Of course, anybody who wants to know about the weather can do so from the Internet or The Weather Channel. Once you’ve interrupted to issue the warning, shut up and go back to what the watchers chose to watch.

To paraphrase Tom Friedman: What’s wrong with women?

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Think of it as evolution in action.

The wage of sin is death.

Environmentalism: Evidence Suggests it Was Always and Only About Achieving World Government

The Military Is Locked in a Power Struggle With Wind Farms

Environmentalists Say Imprisoned Felons Should Be Able To Vote Because Of Global Warming  As if they cared.

The polar ice melt myth

Europe’s first eco-mosque invokes God to fight climate change  ‘Eco-mosque’? You can’t make this stuff up….

Guardian Smears Morano, GOP as ‘Extinction Deniers’  You could just say ‘Guardian smears _____’ and fill in the blank.

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Rush Limbaugh mentioned this article on his show today.

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I’ll bet she does, I’ll bet she does, nudge nudge wink wink say no more….

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In a different era, obtaining a diploma from an Ivy League school required hard work and real educational attainment for almost any major. The kinds of students admitted through money or connections would often struggle to make it through—hence the so-called “gentleman’s C.” But the vast majority of those who completed a degree could take pride in their accomplishments and rest easy knowing they were well-prepared to succeed in life.

Not so anymore. Since the late 1960s, universities have increasingly suffered from grade inflation and an emphasis on ensuring that all admitted students graduate. At the same time, schools have become more liberal about accepting applicants based on unorthodox qualifications, from athletic ability to nonacademic accomplishments, disadvantageous backgrounds, and demonstrated social “awareness.”

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At last, we are on the verge of getting to the bottom of the weaponization of the nation’s top law enforcement and spy agencies to spy on political opponents, and it is far bigger than obtaining bogus FISA Court warrants to spy on Carter Page.  Barack Obama’s minions have been spying on his political opponents since before his 2012 re-election, and the entire Russiagate hoax was an effort to cover up that ongoing spying.

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Anthony Peacock’s effort to vindicate the commercial republic, as it is explained in The Federalist, is both refreshing and disturbing. By calling our attention to Publius’s case for a well-constructed Union, the spirit of enterprise, and the enormous extent to which The Federalist is about war and strategy, Peacock rediscovers an almost lost continent neglected by scholars who take the survival of the Union for granted, disdain commercial society, and are more concerned with controlling power than generating it. In that way, such scholars have not been true to the spirit of the work, for as James Madison explained in Federalist 51, in framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the first task is to enable the government to control the governed; the next task is to oblige it to control itself.

Pretty pricey at $105, but maybe you could get it through InterLibrary Loan.

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And there was much rejoicing.