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The world is rapidly going downhill. Unfortunately, we can’t get off.
2nd May 2021
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1st May 2021
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1st May 2021
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1st May 2021
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Position papers by a national association for math educators that were shared by the education department argue “tracking” students — sorting advanced ones into separate classes — results in the over-representation of white and wealthy students.
“Those that have been privileged by the current system must be willing to give up that privilege for more equitable schooling,” one of the papers reads.
Equality of result never happens from getting poor performers to perform better — if they could perform better, they wouldn’t be poor performers — but invariably by hindering excellent performers from performing as well as they could.
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1st May 2021
The Other McCain just paints what he sees.

When Tucker Carlson talks about “replacement,” every liberal jumps up and starts screaming about a white supremacist conspiracy theory. But in California, “replacement” is not a theory, it’s a fact. Southern California is now just the northernmost province of Latin America. Only 14% of students in L.A. public schools are white. Sixty-six percent are Hispanic. To the south, in Orange County — which 40 years ago was the setting for Fast Times at Ridgemont High — half the public-school students are Hispanic and just 25% are white. There is no future for white people in California. They are persona non grata — an unwelcome presence in a state steadily taken over by Mexicans.
Every analysis of California’s demography always cites the high cost of housing as the reason Americans are leaving the state, but they never explain why high housing costs don’t discourage Mexicans from moving into California. About 10 years ago, I visited California a couple of times and resident explained what’s really happening. You see, Mexicans have no problem with moving eight, 10 or 12 people into a suburban three-bedroom, two-bath home. This isn’t “overcrowding” compared to what they left behind south of the border, so the Mexican immigrant can rent a 3BR/2BA house, then sublease space to another half-dozen Mexicans, and that explains something else you’d notice if you spent as much time as I do watching YouTube video of police chases. Every time TV choppers cover these pursuits in Southern California, you’ll notice that the streets in every neighborhood are lined with cars. Why is this? Don’t these houses have garages and driveways? Oh, wait a minute . . .
This has implications for Calexit. What happens once the tipping point is reached and the majority of Calivornians are ‘Latinx’ and they decide to leave the U.S. and return to Mexico? Is a Democrat Congress or a Democrat President going to be able to stop them?
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30th April 2021
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30th April 2021
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Andrew Cuomo could murder thousands of senior citizens in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose a single supporter. Earlier this week the New York governor got up in front of local TV cameras for the first time in several months since his non-apology apology to respond to more allegations of sexual harassment. (The national media has apparently checked out.) Instead of feigning regret or acting contrite, Cuomo did a complete 180, saying his accusers were ‘jealous’ and digging in by defiantly declaring ‘I didn’t do anything wrong.’
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30th April 2021
Victor Davis Hanson.
Even during the tumultuous 1960s, when campuses were plagued by radical protests and periodic violence, there was still institutionalized free speech. An empirical college curriculum mostly survived the chaos of the ’60s.
But it is gone now.
Instead, imagine a place where the certification of educational excellence, the Bachelor of Arts degree, is no guarantee that a graduate can speak, write, or communicate coherently or think inductively.
Imagine a place that requires applicants to submit high school grade-point averages and standardized test results but doesn’t require its own graduates to pass a basic uniform competency test.
Imagine a place where after an initial trial period, a minority of elite employees receive lifetime job guarantees.
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30th April 2021
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People that stupid probably ought not to be in college to begin with.
Not really news, but a useful reminder.
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29th April 2021
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28th April 2021
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28th April 2021
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27th April 2021
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Florida-based attorney Benjamin Crump has a pattern of making inflammatory and false statements about deaths that were later protested by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Crump has represented Jacob Blake and the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Breonna Taylor. Here are some examples of false or unfounded claims the lawyer has spread.
That’s what lawyers do. Especially, that’s what lawyers hired by alleged victims do. They don’t want justice. They want revenge. And they want money. The lawyer wants fame. And he wants money.
No surprises here.
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26th April 2021
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The United Methodist Church (UMC) is facing a schism as conservative Methodists are attempting to break away from the Church over their beliefs about homosexuality, according to The Christian Post.
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26th April 2021
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For centuries, using a sextant, a sailor could mark a ship’s location by making a few calculations to determine a star’s position relative to the horizon. Now a high-tech version of this maritime tradition is finding its way back into practice.
GPS is indispensable these days—but it’s still incredibly fragile. It can be spoofed with a fake satellite signal, hacked by an adversary, or simply destroyed. Spoofing, hacking, or destroying the stars? Not happening.
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25th April 2021
Portland Police Declare Riot After Vandals Attack Businesses
Former US Soccer Player Lori Lindsey Says Banning Transgender Athletes ‘Upholds White Supremacy’ I guess there aren’t any white ‘transgender’ people. Good to know.
What we can learn from Canada on gun control (CNN)
Washington state kicks off major tax fight with new capital gains levy (The Hill)
Portland Mayor Belatedly Urges Residents To Help “Unmask” Rioters, Stops Short Of Condemning Antifa
Why Illinois Is In Trouble: 122,258 Public Employees Earned $100,000+ Costing Taxpayers $15.8 Billion
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24th April 2021
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A recent study conducted at the Naval Academy showed that students learn less from easy teachers. As the researchers state, “Instructors who tend to give out easier subjective grades… dramatically hurt subsequent student performance.” While a generalization, these claims support the intuitions of anyone who has ever been to school or met a human. When students can give less effort, they do. So, why have schools been moving toward easier grading?
In a decade working in high schools, I’ve seen a consistent push to reduce writing, reading, and note-taking, expand late work windows, lighten workloads, dilute the weight of assessments, and, most fundamentally, to eliminate failures. The same can be seen at the university level. According to an article in the 2020 Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, the amount of time college students have spent on academic work has gone from 40 hours per week in 1960, to 27 in 2003, to just 15 hours in 2008. During that time, the average grade has risen in both public and private universities, while national SAT scores continue to decline. Today’s graduates are not smarter or more prepared for their future, but at least they think they are.
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24th April 2021
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23rd April 2021
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Whether their leaders realize or admit it or not, American colleges and universities are on the verge of a crisis. And it’s a crisis, by and large, of their own making.
The National Association of Scholars last month published a report by Neetu Arnold, “Priced Out: What College Costs America,” which finds, among other things, that an undergraduate degree is now prohibitively expensive for many Americans, who have turned to the federal government to subsidize their education.
“The average price of college,” writes Arnold, “has more than doubled since 1980.” She adds that “[n]early 44 million Americans now owe more than $1.5 trillion in student debt.”
And eventually those people will have to depend on government assistance, through handouts or debt cancellation. Students are the original sub-prime lendees.
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23rd April 2021
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23rd April 2021
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Or at least think they do.
Sixty-two percent of Whites who classify themselves as “very liberal” or “liberal” have been told by a doctor they have a mental health condition, as compared to 26% of conservatives and 20% of moderates, the study found.
Young White people who identified as “very liberal” were almost one and a half times more likely to report mental health problems than those who considered themselves “liberal.”
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22nd April 2021
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22nd April 2021
The Other McCain is on the case.
We have talked before about this case (“Nika Holbert and the BLM Myth”), but I must again address the death of Nika Holbert because one of the YouTube channels I watch regularly has featured it.
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22nd April 2021
Steve Sailer.
Homicides in Columbus in 2020 were up 67% over 2019.
This reminds me of an interesting epistemological question: how do you tell the difference between a man-bites-dog example and an example that shows the kind of thing that can happen when one or more bell curves are shifted to the right of the national average?
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21st April 2021
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21st April 2021
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One crisis can conceal another. While France has been distracted by COVID, a new menace is lurking. The specter haunting the republic is le Wokisme, the mutating ideology of race and identity that has found unexpectedly fertile ground here. French elites are unsettled. Those who assumed the French possessed herd immunity against such barbaric American ideas are having their complacency tested.
Superficially a modern country, with iPhones, Amazon and electric cars, France is still often introspective and late to understand what’s happening in the wider — especially Anglophone — world, which is how wokeness has somewhat taken it by surprise. Woke had been happening in America for many years before the French noticed.
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21st April 2021
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Ashli Babbitt is, as far as we know, the only person to die as a direct consequence of a deliberate act of violence during the riot of January 6 in Washington D.C. She’s the young woman who was shot by an unnamed Capitol employee while climbing through a window in the Capitol Building.
Ms. Babbitt was able to climb through a window because the window had been broken by rioters. Rioters broke the window in plain view of armed Capitol Police, who made no visible effort to stop them. (This can be observed in the short video made in the minutes leading up to and culminating in the shooting.)
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21st April 2021
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But you knew that.
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20th April 2021
Class warfare? Biden prepares tax hikes on high-income Americans (Politico)
The Media Lied Repeatedly About Officer Brian Sicknick’s Death. And They Just Got Caught
The Bulwark
Germany’s Greens Poised To Seize Power From Merkel’s CDU In Upcoming Vote, Poll Shows
Planned Parenthood Disavows Margaret Sanger, Continues Racist, Eugenicist Ways‘
White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems, Study Shows My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself
Ohio Medical Researcher Sentenced To 33 Months For Stealing Trade Secrets To China
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20th April 2021
Matt Ridley.
In search of wisdom about how an officious government reluctantly relaxes its grip after an emergency, I stumbled on a 1948 newsreel clip of Harold Wilson when he was president of the Board of Trade. It’s a glimpse of long-forgotten and brain-boggling complexity in the rationing system. ‘We have taken some clothing off the ration altogether,’ he boasts, posing as a munificent liberator. ‘From shoes to bathing costumes, and from oilskins to body belts and children’s raincoats. Then we’ve reduced the points on such things as women’s coats and woollen garments generally and… on men’s suits.’
Does this remind you of anything? One day in November, George Eustice, the environment secretary, uttered the immortal words that a Scotch egg ‘probably would count as a substantial meal if there were table service’, only for Michael Gove to say the next day that ‘a couple of Scotch eggs is a starter, as far as I’m concerned’, later correcting himself to concede that ‘a Scotch egg is a substantial meal’. This is the sort of tangled descent into detail that central planning always causes. We have seen it again and again over the past year. What is essential travel? Is a picnic exercise? Can you go inside a pub to get to its outside space? Ask the man from the ministry.
Rationing persisted in Britain after the War because they had a socialist government who had absolutely no problem with the government micro-managing consumer decisions, any more than the Soviet Union did.
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20th April 2021
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A large new global study published in the Lancet has confirmed previous research which has shown that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption.
The researchers admit moderate drinking may protect against heart disease but found that the risk of cancer and other diseases outweighs these protections.
A study author said its findings were the most significant to date because of the range of factors considered.
I guess the Baptists and Mormons were right after all.
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20th April 2021
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The murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin is wrapping up today with closing arguments and jury instructions. The National Guard is standing by to deal with the expected riots when the jury returns its verdict later this week, along with law enforcement from several local agencies as well as other states. Downtown Minneapolis resembles a fortress, only with fewer people. Both Scott and I have questioned whether Chauvin can possibly get a fair trial in the current atmosphere. Jurors cannot fail to understand the consequences of a “not guilty” verdict.
It has been reported that Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman sold his Minneapolis home at a loss and moved out of the city after “protesters” besieged his house, and his office received “millions of e-mails and thousands of phone calls” about the George Floyd case. I have it on good authority that he is not the only public official who has sold his house and moved out of Minneapolis for reasons of personal safety.
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19th April 2021
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19th April 2021
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19th April 2021
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Perhaps we might profit from the European experience….
Nah.
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19th April 2021
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A little while ago, a man carjacked a vehicle on a major road in a suburb adjacent to mine. Police gave chase, and he fired at them out of a window of the vehicle. With the police closing in, he rolled out of the moving car and ran onto an adjoining highway, trying to carjack a second vehicle. At some point he was shot by police officers.
The criminal was wounded but apparently alive at last word. The all-important question is, what is the race of the criminal? If he is black, like most carjackers, it means another week of riots. If he is white, no one cares. I can’t tell from the video, but it looks like he might be white. Let’s hope so.
UPDATE: From the bizarre Twin Cities hellworld (6) Apparently the victim was black.
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18th April 2021
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18th April 2021
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…. would you change a single thing from what the far-left of America is doing now?
I know the title may seem provocative to some as this idea is but a subset of a universe of things we proles are not supposed to even think about, much less say out loud. If it seems provocative, good, because it seems to me to be high time more people started talking openly about what is happening all around us every day.
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18th April 2021
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Since race is not mentioned, unconscionable when the suspect has yet to be caught, under the Coulter Rule the presumption is that the suspect is black.
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18th April 2021
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“What you see is an attempt on the part of the left to change the conversation about violent crime,” he said. “Let’s be very clear… it’s the war on ICE and law enforcement that is causing the debate [on] surging violent crime in America’s major cities.”
“If you want to save thousands of lives in this country every single year, take the strategy and tactics that New York’s [former] mayor Rudy Giuliani deployed in the ’90s and apply those nationwide. Support … long prison sentences, take violent offenders off the streets. In the case of criminal illegal immigrants, send them home.”
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18th April 2021
Freeberg nails it.
There is a bloated “new world” subclass of these that begin with, or could begin with, the words: “You see, what we’re trying to do is make a new world in which…”
“You see, we’re trying to make a world in which everyone uses the Metric System.” “You see, we want a new world in which men and boys are not so attracted to fit girls, or who are attracted to girls who are not so fit.” “You see, what we’re trying to do is make a new world in which money is not what motivates people.” “You see, we want a better environment in which bullying is a thing of the past.” “You see, we want to rid the world of bigotry forever.” It has not been lost on me that when such activists win at everything and reform everything exactly the way they want it, the things they wanted relegated to the past are not relegated to the past. They “celebrate” these past vices and plagues as if they were present things. Sometimes they even bring them back again so they have something they can continue vanquishing. And the new world they’re building, far from being a dream world, is the stuff of nightmares. No one with a choice would actually live in it…but people who don’t have choices, are compelled to do so, and suffering on a large scale is the unavoidable result.
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18th April 2021
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An “agrarian” future for New York City? A “people’s bank” to redistribute wealth? Our mayoral hopefuls have harnessed the old liberal battle cry, “Never let a crisis go to waste,” to saddle up a jolly Trojan horse of far-left wish lists masquerading as remedies to the worst economic and social crisis the city has ever seen.
Instead of legitimately debating how City Hall should tackle genuine issues once COVID-19 abates — like reining in mentally-ill pushers on the subway — our mayoral wannabes prefer to toss around the Marxist-Leninist lingo of “the people,” “revolution” and “redistribution.”
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18th April 2021
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Note the implicit admission that ‘the Republican side of the aisle’ is not the side of the aisle he is on. CNN has apparently given up even the pretense of reporting news rather than spreading propaganda.
The liberal hackery was strong on NBC’s Sunday Today as political director Chuck Todd claimed that the debate on how to stop gun violence in America was not a discussion on the method, but a refusal by Republicans to want to stop the killing of innocent people at all. His ridiculous smear came a few days after multiple people were killed at an Indiana FedEx facility by a 19-year-old who was known to the FBI and had a shotgun confiscated from him previously.
Ignoring the fact that the state’s red flag law had failed to keep the troubled teen from purchased two rifles last year, despite the FBI monitoring him, host Willie Geist lamented to Todd about how President Biden was relying on Congress to pass legislation.
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17th April 2021
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16th April 2021
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16th April 2021
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I remember when the Vatican was run by Catholics.
Ah, those were the days….
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16th April 2021
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You’d think a teacher would be smarter than that.
Oh, wait….
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16th April 2021
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After over a year of Democrats and their allies in the liberal media repeatedly demanding trillions of taxpayer dollars be spent on COVID relief and expanding unemployment benefits, on Friday, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle discovered people were deciding to rely on government checks rather than return to work. She even confronted a top economic advisor for the Biden White House about the troubling trend.
“We know people who’ve been out of work are getting the much-needed enhanced jobless benefits from now until September,” Ruhle remarked to White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein during her 9:00 a.m. ET hour show. However, she then revealed the downside of the government doling out that money: “But I want to share with you part of my conversation with a local florist….She is trying to hire some seasonal part-time workers and here’s what she’s up against.”
Let’s hear it for that Biden Boom.
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16th April 2021
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A friend of mine already has his soon-to-be ex-wife bringing in the county’s Child Protective Services every time he refers to their adolescent daughters as “she.”
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15th April 2021
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