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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

2nd May 2021

Why New York and California are losing people, power to Texas and Florida

Census confirms Texas and Florida are America’s future

DC Attorney General Offers To Seal Arrest Records For George Floyd Protesters

 

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Today in Black Privilege

1st May 2021

Liberals just cannot handle a Black conservative

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

1st May 2021

House Republicans Question WH ‘Political Interference’ in Census Numbers

The Pandemic Made the Top 1% Richer. Why We Need Wealth Tax (Time Magazine)

What the back-and-forth over America being a ‘racist country’ is actually about (Washington Post)

The American Right Is The New Target Of Washington’s “War On Terror”

New York Times Bitterly Complains as Florida Republicans ‘Pass Voting Limits’

California Expands Early Release Eligibility For Up To 76,000 Inmates, Including Violent And Repeat Felons  You do the math as to what portion of these are likely to be, you know, white people.

NPR Disinformation: GOP Bills Attacking ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Protests

 

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From ‘No Child Left Behind’ to ‘No Child Gets Ahead’

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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Good-Bye, California

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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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

30th April 2021

Examining The Left’s War On Cops: A Look At How Many Police Officers Have Left Their Jobs

‘Abolish ICE!’: Protesters Crash Biden’s Georgia Rally

DOJ Considering New Domestic Terrorism Laws Aimed At Violent Domestic Extremism  But not Antifa or BLM, of course.

Professor Can Barely Hide Her Disdain When Student Calls Police ‘Heroes’

The Shaky Foundations Of LA’s Housing “Entitlement” For The Homeless

NBC Leans on Biden to Lecture Tim Scott About Racism in America

MSNBC Panel Defends ‘Uncle Tim’ Tag, Says Tim Scott Doesn’t Understand Racism

The Vibrant New Minneapolis

Christian Pastor Arrested In UK For Saying Marriage Is Between A Man And A Woman

Left Flips Lid as Software Company Basecamp Decides to Go Apolitical

Mother Whose Son Died In Seattle’s ‘CHOP’ Sues For Wrongful Death

Flintstones Vitamins Now Available With Puberty Blockers  Babylon Bee.

Group Of High School Students Walk Out For ‘Back The Blue’ Protest In Minnesota

Poll: 69% Of Parents In California Would Not Choose Traditional Public School For Their Children

Media Promotes Fake Narrative That Biden a Moderate

Virginia Teacher Is Assigning Antigun Homework

“Let’s Kill Some Cops”: Antifa Infiltrated By Undercover Trump Supporter, Recorded Plotting Attacks

 

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Andrew Cuomo will get away with it all

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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The Decline of American Universities

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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More Information Is Available About Which College Majors Pay Off, but Students Aren’t Using It

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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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

29th April 2021

Chinese National Illegally Exported Goods From America To People’s Liberation Army-Affiliated University

Giuliani Shocker: FBI Refused to Take Hunter’s Hard Drive 

California Dreaming? Not These Days

Viewpoint: ‘The Dirty 8’ — Which are most notorious advocacy groups spreading disinformation about food, farming, biotechnology and agricultural sustainability

Slate: We Must Protect the Right of Moody Teens to be Spayed

Media Enamored with Biden’s Speech, Disgusted by Tim Scott’s  But you knew that.

Teachers Unions’ Donations To Democrats Increased Amid Pandemic, School Closures

Over 200 Seattle Police Officers Quit In The Last Year, Citing Anti-Police Climate

Government Pre-K, Because Government Schools Are Working Out Great

‘Overrun By Disinformation’: Liberal Groups Urge Biden To Crack Down On Free Speech

Virginia Flunks Math

‘You’re On The Mic In The Auditorium’: Teacher Caught Saying She Teaches ‘Social Justice … All Day, Every Day’

Biden DOJ “Actively Considering” Domestic Terrorism Law To Target White Supremacists

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

28th April 2021

Idaho moves to ban critical race theory instruction in all public schools, including universities (CNN)

The gun-control effort that almost stopped our addiction to ‘weapons of war’  (Washington Post)

CNN Business Launches Investigation Focused On Company’s Treatment Of Female Employees

NYC Progressives Fight the Culture War As Andrew Yang Wins the Class War

‘There’s No Liberal Bias’: Joy Behar Claims News Outlets Are ‘Basically Balanced’ Except For Fox And MSNBC

American Medical Association CEO Calls Laws Banning Kids Trans Surgeries ‘Dangerous Governmental Intrusion’

LAPD Union Slams Hollywood’s ‘Glorification’ Of ‘Drugs And Crime’ Following The Oscars Awards Show

Coca-Cola Under Fire for Legally Questionable Racial Quota System

CNN Turns to This Gun Grabbing Foreign Leader to Push Gun Bans in U.S.

 

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Biden’s Proposed Education Spending Spree Is Untenable, Unaffordable

28th April 2021

XKCD.

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This Lawyer Regularly Makes False and Unfounded Claims About Deaths That Inspired Riots

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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‘Unwillingness to Uphold Its Teachings’: Third Largest Christian Denomination in US Set to Break Over Homosexuality

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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The U.S. Navy’s New Unhackable GPS Alternative: The Stars

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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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

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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Grade Inflation Is Ruining Education

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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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

24th April 2021

Gun control is a lost cause. Come despair with me. (USA Today)

‘Murderers And Abusers Are Victims’: Socialist Candidate Blames Brazen Daylight Shooting On ‘Intergenerational Trauma’

A former Navy commander could become the most senior openly transgender Pentagon official (Washington Post)

‘Tucker Carlson Originals’ exposes the truth about far-left Chicago prosecutor

Disney World superfan says company’s ‘woke’ decisions ruining guest experience

I am Shocked, Shocked to Find That the U. of Michigan’s Professor of Rock ‘n’ Roll Made Passes at Coeds

St. George Floyd and Biden’s Anti-White Regime—Enabled By Ethnomasochism

Race to the bottom

This Week in Campus Insanity, Vol. 41

Twitter takes down tweets criticising handling of pandemic at government request

 

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Woke but Broke: How US Colleges Are Pricing Students, Themselves Out of Business

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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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

23rd April 2021

Is rising income inequality just an illusion? (The Hill)

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman suggests ‘rampaging mobs’ that looted cities were GOP make-believe

Activists Hunker Down at George Floyd Square, Post List of Demands

‘You Are Traitors’: BLM Protesters Storm Into State Capitol To Protest Law Protecting Motorists From Rioters

Democrats Sue to Block “Audit” of 2020 Arizona Election

Virginia Department Of Education Eliminating Accelerated Math Courses In The Name Of Equity

Every Senate Democrat Voted Against Amendment To Prohibit Federal Funds For Colleges That Discriminate Against Asians  Some minorities are more equal than others.

Subversive German Violently Arrested for Reading the Constitution Out Loud

Protesters Deface Monument in New York City’s Central Park

Antifa-Crusader Chris Cuomo Rages at Anti-Riot Bills

REPORT: Ohio Board Of Education Prohibited Freedom Of Speech On The 1619 Project, Suit Alleges

Democrats Vote to Continue Discriminating Against Asians

UK Joins America In Calling China’s Treatment Of Uyghurs A Genocide

‘I’m Sorry If Anybody Was Upset,’ Says Joy Behar After Repeatedly Referring To Caitlyn Jenner As ‘He’

NBC Hypes Left-Wing Fantasy of D.C. Statehood, Dem Power Grab

Wokeness Reaches The Final Frontier: NASA Shifts Focus To Space ‘Diversity’

Indiana School District Uses Chauvin Verdict to Push Antiracism on Students

 

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White Liberals More Likely to Have a Mental Health Condition

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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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

22nd April 2021

Texas high school caves to ‘woke’ culture over dress-code controversy

Virginia explores plan to end advanced diplomas: ‘Equitably serving the needs…of all of Virginia learners’

Germany Grapples With Racism After Threats Derail Refugee’s Candidacy For Parliament I guess Muslim is officially a race these days.

Washington State Mulls Bill To Ban New Gas Vehicle Sales By 2030

Decarbonization and California’s 2020 Rolling Blackouts

Hidden Agenda in Left’s New Hate Crime Bill

Bias on Display: AP Fact Check Says MRC Graphic Shares ‘Incomplete Information’

Where’s the Rest of the Press? Fox Highlights NY Releasing Attempted Cop Killer

Dungeons And Dragons Introduces New 100-Sided Die For Determining Your Character’s Gender  Babylon Bee.

Ex-College Soccer Star Sues Coach for Forcing Her Out Over Refusal to Kneel

Democrat Mayor Joins GOP, Saying Former Party About ‘Socialist, Extremist Agenda’

Politico Becomes Pravda: Use Of Word “Crisis” Banned When Describing Border Crisis

Politico Orders Staff to Quit Referring to Surge in Border Crossings as a ‘Crisis’

California Colleges Violate Anti-Terrorism Laws by Hosting Palestinian Terrorist, Lawmaker Warns

Taylor Lorenz, Other New York Times Employees to Get Special Days Off for ‘Exhaustion’  Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Chinese Coca-Cola Scientist Stole Trade Secrets, Committed ‘Economic Espionage’

PA Paper Thanks NFL Prospect’s Mother for Choosing Life, Enraging Sports Journo

 

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Nika Holbert, the ‘Drug War’ and the Importance of Penalizing Stupidity

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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Knife Girl: Is She a Man-Bites-Dog Story or the Result of Bell Curves?

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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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

21st April 2021

‘End Policing’: Michael Moore Celebrates Chauvin Verdict, Says Free All ‘Innocent Black And Brown’ People In Prison  And give them Michael Moore’s address.

DEFUND PBS: Alcindor Defends Maxine Waters While Other Reporters Grill Psaki

Las Vegas Raiders Send Insanely Stupid ‘I Can Breathe’ Tweet After Derek Chauvin’s Conviction

CNN Legal Analyst Floats Evidence-Free Conspiracy Theory About Governors With A Straight Face

Derek Chauvin may be guilty, but Waters and Biden made sure this will drag on in appeal

Gender ‘X’ to Be Option for New Jersey Driver’s Licenses and ID’s

Officer Surrounded, Punched In The Head During Portland Unlawful Assembly

After Chauvin Verdict, Capitol Police Suddenly Reverse Plan To Fortify Capitol

DOJ to Probe Minneapolis Police Department This is a common DOJ tactic. They know they haven’t enough evidence to charge individual officers on civil rights grounds, so they open an ‘investigation’ under a Clinton-era law that allows them to bully the police department into a ‘consent decree’ that gets racial preferences enshrined, with a Federal monitor to supervise it. This is akin to the collusive ‘sue and settle’ technique used in cahoots with eviro-Nazi NGOs.

Biden Admin Appeals To Force Religious Doctors, Hospitals To Provide Trans Surgeries Despite Conscience Objections

C-List Actor Alyssa Milano: All Cops are ‘Rotten’

Portland Protesters Vandalize Youth Charity

NPR Disclaimer Admits ‘Some Facts’ The Media Reports About Shootings May Later Be ‘Wrong’

‘When The People Get Fed Up … We Loot Y’all Franchises: Brooklyn Center Residents React To Civil Unrest

Sen. Lisa Murkowski Votes With Democrats

US Postal Service Is Secretly Monitoring And Reporting Social Media Posts

Trying to open an S.F. ice cream shop, was no match for city bureaucracy

FBI Ruled Scalise Shooting a Case of ‘Suicide By Cop’

Federal Judge Orders Los Angeles To Offer Housing To Homeless People On Skid Row By Oct. 18

‘Racial Propaganda’: Taking A Knee To Protest Will Not Be Tolerated At Tokyo Olympics

Manhattan DA Will Toss Out Prostitution Cases

Rioters in Portland Smash 2 Starbucks Stores, Assault Police Officer After Chauvin Verdict  I have no idea why anybody still lives in Portland. It’s safer to live in Baghdad.

 

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France Wakes Up to Woke

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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Ashli Babbitt and Broken Windows

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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Dershowitz: Chauvin Guilty Verdict Product of Jury Fear, Not Due Process

21st April 2021

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But you knew that.

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

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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Britain Is in Danger of Repeating Its Post-War Mistakes

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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No Alcohol Safe to Drink, Global Study Confirms

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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Mob Rule In Minnesota

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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Today in Globla Warming Hysteria

19th April 2021

Africans reject demands to end fossil fuel use

India may build new coal plants due to low cost despite climate change

So Far Germany Seeing Coldest April In 104 Years, Second Coldest Since 1881, Snowiest Since 1986

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

19th April 2021

Wealthy Should Act Now to Prepare for Bernie Sanders’ Estate Tax Proposal

CNN Reporter Left Speechless When Bystander Asks About Project Veritas

Antifa “Panicking” About Police Informant Inside Network: Andy Ngo

Fla. Court Tells Coral Gables, Cities They Can’t Ban Guns

Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism’s Deadly Blind Spot

ESPN Corrects Article Claiming Jacob Blake Was ‘Unarmed’ After Getting Ripped For ‘Indefensible’ Error

Black Pro-Life Leaders Condemn Planned Parenthood’s ‘Hollow’ Denunciation Of Margaret Sanger

Hunter Biden Memoir Among Mounting Evidence Of Federal Gun Law Violations

Homeland Security Must ‘Immediately Stop’ Using Facial-Recognition AI, Civil Liberties Groups Say

Amazon Workers Were Threatened, Intimidated, Union Says As It Demands New Election

Roker Touts Biden EPA Driving Internal Combustion Cars Off the Road

You’re Kidding Me, Right? CNN Whines Fox News Chyrons Are Too Mean to Biden

LA Sheriff Blames “Defund The Police”-Progressive-Policies For Spike In Violent Crime

Facebook To Remove Content That ‘Praises, Celebrates Or Mocks George Floyd’s Death’ In Preparation For Chauvin Verdict

Website Will Allow Parents and Teachers to Expose Classroom Radicalism

Canada’s Freeland Unveils “Feminist” Budget: Slaps New Tax On Non-Residents & Big-Tech

‘The Squad’ Pushes To ‘Defund The Police’ While Spending Thousands On Private Security To Protect Themselves

False Alarm: Evil Nazi Facility That Murders And Sells Baby Parts Turns Out To Just Be A Planned Parenthood

Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

 

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Why I Regret Buying an Electric Car

19th April 2021

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Perhaps we might profit from the European experience….

Nah.

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From the Bizarre Twin Cities Hellworld

19th April 2021

Read it. Watch the video if you care to.

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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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

18th April 2021

Can the Democrat Party Survive Without Identity Politics?

Biden and Xi Think the Constitution Is Racist

Cuomo and Schmidt push to cap price of internet to $15 for low-income NewYorkers

New Bill Seeks To Convince Biden To Implement ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Policy

China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan for a New Internet

Man Arrested for Hurling ‘Molotov Cocktail,’ Bleach at NYPD

‘I Cannot Blame Them’: CNN Finally Covers BLM Battering Crew, Defends Violence

From the bizarre Twin Cities hellworld

‘The Affordable City’ Offers Solutions for the U.S. Housing Affordability Crisis  All based on the proglodyte slogan Housing Is A Human Right.

Novel hydrogels can safely remove graffiti from vandalized street art  ‘Street art’ being the proglodyte neologism for ‘vandalized private property’. But I guess some vandalism is more equal than others.

Hedge Funds Are Getting The Hell Out Of New York In Favor Of Florida

 

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If You Were Trying to Start a Race War…..

18th April 2021

Read it.

…. 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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At Least 3 Dead in Austin, Texas; Shooter on the Loose

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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Stephen Miller: Radical Left Changing ‘Conversation About Violent Crime’

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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“You See, ….”

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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Woke Mayoral Candidates Want to Use Covid to Turn NYC Into Communist ‘Utopia’

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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Chuck Todd: Wanting to Stop Shootings a ‘Problem on the Republican Side of the Aisle’

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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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

17th April 2021

Democrats Finally Find a Free Speech Issue They Favor: Defending the 1st Amendment Right to Riot

4 Myths About the Election Integrity Law in Georgia

Minneapolis Cancels School for Chauvin Riots

Someone Tell 2021 MSNBC About 2013 Conservative-Sounding Scarborough on Voter ID!

Brooklyn Center Police Arrest 100 After Daunte Wright Protest Turns Violent

Democrats Propose Taxing Treasures Laid Up In Heaven  Babylon Bee.

CNN Pushes Disputed Claim U.S. Leads World in Mass Shootings

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

16th April 2021

Don’t wait for billionaires to sell their stock. Tax their riches now. (Washington Post) Except that they don’t have any ‘riches’ until the stock is sold.

The Biden Boom Has Begun Yeah, now that Trump is out they can let people go back to work again.

Facebook Prevents Sharing New York Post Story on Black Lives Matter Founder Patrisse Cullors’ Real Estate

FLASHBACK: Biden Called Packing The Court A ‘Bonehead’ Idea

CBS Obfuscates Dems Scheme to Pack SCOTUS, ABC Downplays Controversy

A Progress Report on the Great Replacement in Europe

Boston Eliminates Library Late Fees in Name of Equity I guess they don’t need books in their library.

Apple’s Lisa Jackson joins Time 2030: ‘Equity should be the bedrock of environmental progress’

UK Councils Bring Back “COVID Marshal” To Report People For Not Social-Distancing

Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved

Hull University thinks white man’s spelling is elitist and should be abandoned.

Protests Largely Peaceful In Minneapolis After Secondary Fence Erects Outside Brooklyn Center Police Department

‘Not All Police Shootings Are Equal’: Don Lemon Defends Officer In Adam Toledo Shooting

Beijing-Backed Student Group Pressuring Cornell on China Partnership

“Terror By White Supremacists”: BLM Denounces Coverage Of Co-Founder’s Real Estate Buys While Facebook Censors Story

From the bizarre Twin Cities hellworld

Hong Kong Sentences Pro-Democracy Activists to Prison

Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists Sentenced To Prison As Beijing Cracks Down On Protests

California Weighs ‘Equitable Math’: Goal of Obtaining Correct Answer Is Racist

Congressman Jamie Raskin Wants To Tax Your Guns If He Can’t Ban Them

 

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Vatican’s Health Conference Features Pro-Abortion Chelsea Clinton

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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Teacher Trying to Steal From Vicious Drug Cartel Gunned Down

16th April 2021

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You’d think a teacher would be smarter than that.

Oh, wait….

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MSNBC Discovers People Prefer Government Checks, Not Paychecks

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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Is the Goal of World War T to Pry Apart the Legal Relationship Between Parent and Child?

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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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

15th April 2021

Tucker Carlson: America is now one nation with two very different justice systems

Woke Asian American Elites Do Not Speak for All Asian Americans

The New York Times Did A Big 180 In Favor Of Absentee Voting

Brooklyn Center Responds To Riots With Study Group That Will Look Into Violence From A ‘Community Lens’  It’s an emergency! Form a committee!

Rep. Jerry Nadler to Introduce a Court-Packing Bill to Give Biden 4 Extra Supreme Court Nominations  Gee, just the right number to give Biden enough to turn the majority proglodyte again.

Woke Capital and the Triumph of Corporate Democrats

Big Tech bans people who discuss election fraud. That’s a bad idea

Pelosi Won’t Allow Vote On Dems Court-Packing Bill, Says Issue Must Be “Studied Further”

Police Stop Using Tear Gas, Drench Demonstrators In Pepper Spray On Fourth Consecutive Night Of Unrest In Minnesota

Tomi Lahren Talks Getting Heckled At A Campus ‘Back The Blue’ Event

24 Arrested In 4th Night Of Unrest In Minnesota City Following Police Shooting

Police Department In Los Angeles Will Arrest People With Pink Handcuffs To Raise Breast Cancer Awareness  Not the Babylon Bee.

NBC & ABC Justify Left-Wing Court Packing, Cite Dem ‘Fury’ Over ‘Conservative’ Court

Rep. Nunes Blasts Intel Leaders for Politicizing, Weaponizing Intelligence

Absurd CNN Falsely Claims ‘Icon’ Ginsburg Was ‘Not Political’ on Supreme Court

‘You’ve Spent 60 Years Being A Professional Liar’: Ted Cruz Comes At Dan Rather For His ‘Sensitive Soul’ Getting ‘Triggered’

 

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