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How can mathematics learning in primary school be facilitated? A recent study conducted by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, had shown that our everyday knowledge strongly influences our ability to solve problems, sometimes leading us into making errors. This is why UNIGE, in collaboration with four research teams in France, has now developed an intervention to promote the learning of maths in school. Named ACE-ArithmEcole, the programme is designed to help schoolchildren surpass their intuition and informal knowledge, and rely instead on the use of arithmetic principles.

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Hammer tech.

David Horowitz to Newsmax TV: Dems Fuel Hate, Not Trump

Trump The Terrible: The Left’s Boogeyman

Fired Anti-Trump Agent Strzok Claims FBI, DOJ Violated His Free Speech, Privacy Rights

MSNBC Dubs Pompeo’s Ukraine Trip ‘Peak Awkwardness’ and ‘Tone Deaf’

CNN’s Poppy Harlow Slips Snide Merrick Garland Shot Into Impeachment Trial Talk  I find it hard to take seriously anybody who goes by “Poppy”.

Tulsi Gabbard Defends ‘Present’ Vote; Warns Impeachment Will Backfire

‘Active Threats On The House Floor’: Matt Gaetz Says Democrats Were Forced To Get In Line On Impeachment

Surprise: John Durham Is Investigating Deep State Coup Plotter John Brennan, and Other Deep State Coup Supporters Are “Concerned”

New Poll Shows Trump Leading Top Democrats In Solid Blue State

New Zogby Poll Shows Trump Beating All Dem Candidates

Poll Confirms What You Already Suspected: The Fake Impeachment Is Electoral Poison

NYT Claims ‘2019 The Darkest Yet For Journalists’ Under The Trump Administration  Perhaps if they stopped being shitheads it would get better for them.

Climate Prediction Swings & Misses: A Decade Of Alarmist Strike-Outs, 2010-2019

Prince William launches The Earthshot Prize – the ‘most prestigious environmental prize in history’

It’s Not Just You—Wild Swings in Extreme Weather Are Rising  Wired ‘Science’

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Cancer helplines are facing a surge in calls from patients because overstretched NHS doctors and nurses do not have time to care for them, a charity has warned.

Macmillan Cancer Support said it had received more than 240,000 inquiries to its support line in 2019, with staff reporting that many patients were left distressed because they felt they could not question the health workers in charge of their care.

How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

Bernie and Lieawatha sure do.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Of course, you have to put up with Bernie Sanders.

Just sayin’….

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A few days ago, Steve wrote an important and insightful piece called “The Genealogy of Free Stuff.” Citing a Wall Street Journal editorial, Steve stated that Elizabeth Warren’s agenda is so far beyond extravagant that “socialism” seems an inadequate adjective.

Steve offered two explanations for the leftward lurch he described. First, hard-left Democrats are convinced that anyone can beat President Trump, and thus see this as the time to go for broke (no pun originally intended). Second, Trump has abandoned fiscal restraint, and therefore Democrats need to offer ever more goodies to remain ahead in this department.

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Forty-two homeless people in Los Angeles were the victims of homicide in 2019, the third consecutive year in which the number has risen, NPR reported on Tuesday.

This increase is happening even as the number of homicides overall has fallen in recent years. This has led to a reality that while only 1% of the city’s residents are homeless, that segment of the population makes up approximately 17% of the homicide victims in Los Angeles during 2019.

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Police Commissioner Michael Harrison announced during a news conference at City Hall with Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young that of the 347 homicide cases that have been reported in the city this year as of Tuesday morning, only 32.1% have been cleared, meaning that a suspect or suspects were arrested or died before trial, among other factors. In 2010, the clearance rate was 56%, the national average for a city the size of Baltimore. However, that rate dropped to 30.5% in 2015. The national clearance rate for cities with more than 500,000 residents remains at 57%, according to data compiled by the FBI.

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Illinois’ population decreased in 2019 by an estimated 51,250 people, or 0.4%, marking the sixth consecutive year the state has lost residents, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Since the turn of the decade, Illinois has lost more residents than any other state, with a drop of about 159,700 people, or 1.2% of its population. Only three other states have shrunk since 2010: Connecticut, Vermont and West Virginia — with West Virginia losing the largest share of its residents, a 3.3% decline.

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New York was one of only 10 states to suffer a total population decline in 2018-19 — its fourth consecutive annual decrease after five years of growth, and the largest population drop of any state.

Only West Virginia, Alaska and Illinois saw their populations fall at a faster percentage clip.

NY Times’ Kakutani: 2010s a ‘Dark and Divisive New Era’ Because of Dangerous Trump

The Genealogy of Free Stuff: The Trump Card

Trump’s pardon of Gallagher just got even more appalling Washington Post.

WashPost’s Ignatius Spins Biden Subpoena Flip-Flop as a ‘Positive’ Compared to Trump  Yeah, who wants a politician who doesn’t respond to pressure?

Democrats Rush To Blame Trump For Anti-Semitic New York Attacks

Bill DeBlasio: Trump Is Responsible For All These Attacks on Jews Committed by White Supremacists of Color (WSOCs)

Donald Trump And Barack Obama Tie For America’s Most Admired Man

MSNBC Host Prods Governor Cuomo to Blame TRUMP for Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes

NYT Journo Implies Conservative Media Made Black Man Stab Hasidic Jews  Anther NPC.

Fat Media Liberal Chuck Todd: Christians Believe In Fairy Tales So Of Course They’d Support Trump

Trump’s Impeachment and the Varieties of Presidential Corruption  National Review is now part of the Resistance.

Here’s How Impeachment Obsession Is Allowing Big Tech To Build A China-Like Surveillance State

Poll: More Black Voters Look to Election to Defeat Trump

Joe Biden Suggests Coal Miners Should Learn To Code

The Cartoonish Climate Crusade

Alan Titchmarsh: Eco-warriors should not preach while block-paving gardens and eating avocados

‘You have utterly no clue’: why ‘climate emergency’ is Australia’s ultimate outrage trigger

Columbia University’s Ten Climate Change Exaggerations

Greta Thunberg’s Parents Went Green to ‘Save’ Their Daughter  Save her for what? Mental disorder?

Study: Climate change lessons are rare at medical schools A shame because, of course, that’s the most important thing for them to learn in med school.

Worst Scenario for Climate Change Doesn’t Look ‘Realistic,’ Says Bloomberg News

A Wind Turbine’s Blades Fly Off In New York City, Crushing A Billboard And Vehicle

Biden Proposes Putting Fossil Fuel Execs ‘In Jail’ Over The Climate

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Hammer tech.

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Hint: Of course.

ZMan lifts his lamp beside the golden door.

The first rule of organizing is to develop as many on-ramps as possible for people to come into your thing. The reason outsider politics remains fringe is it tends to have just one entry point and that door is guarded by weirdos. The libertarian movement never got out of the valley of weirdos, because it deliberately disconnected itself from the mainstream, despite so much help from Conservative Inc. The key is offering many paths to entry and not being ideological about those paths.

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Funny how Democrats don’t appreciate being treated the way Republicans are usually treated by Democrats.

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This short video is suddenly everywhere. It comes from a livestream of the service at the church near Fort Worth where someone opened fire on parishioners with what looks like a shotgun. He was immediately shot by two legally armed persons, one of whom reportedly was a security guard. It appears that altogether, there were six people who immediately pulled guns in response to the shooter.

UPDATE: This Firearms Instructor Is Reportedly The Hero Who Killed Texas Church Gunman With Single Head Shot

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And don’t get us started on what they have to say about men who haven’t read the New York Times….

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Voices of the Crust like The New Yorker love this kind of story. What they don’t tell you (and maybe are too dim to figure out) is that these people could ‘pay higher taxes’ at any moment just by writing a check to the Treasury. So what’s with the push for higher taxes? They want to raise tax rates to levels that wouldn’t pinch them at all but would leave the rest of us rubes very poor indeed, then we wouldn’t compete with the ultra-wealthy for things like New York apartments or seats in popular restaurants or the other things that wealthy people like to do but don’t want to compete with the lower orders for.

(The reason Warren Buffet pays a lower tax rate than his secretary is because she pays taxes on her wages, which are taxed as ‘ordinary income’; Warren Buffet doesn’t have any ‘ordinary income’ because he doesn’t work for wages. His money comes from selling stock for capital gains, which are taxed at a lower rate for very good reasons, to encourage people to invest their money rather than just spending it.)

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Dulwich College and Winchester College turned down Professor Sir Bryan Thwaites’ offer to leave the funds in his will because they feared breaching anti-discrimination laws, The Times said.

Sir Byran, 96, attended both schools on scholarships and wanted to help disadvantaged white British boys because they perform worse at school than nearly every other ethnic group.

Scientific American: Even Believers Must be Compelled to Live Low Carbon Lifestyles

Awkward: BBC Crew Flew to Interview Climate Brat Greta Thunberg  Cue finger wag.

Climate alarmist banks go carbon-colonialist

The Guardian: “Climate Denial was Defeated in 2019”

French cheeses at risk of falling foul of global warming as cows lack fresh grass

‘Former Trump Voter’ Spotlighted In Democratic Ad Campaign Caught Lying; Didn’t Actually Vote In 2016

Cohen: How Impeachment Is Escalating The New US-Russian Cold War

On NPR, David Brooks Says Democrats Are ‘Crazy’ to Think Trump Can Win in 2020

Four-Star U.S. Army General Slams Trump’s Behavior in Navy SEAL Controversy

Trump attacks whistleblower in tweetstorm full of rants and conspiracies  CNN.

NBC Reporter on MSNBC: ‘Cruel’ & ‘Disturbing’ That Mexico Keeps Illegals Out of U.S.

CNN’s Wajahat Ali: GOP Will Popularize ‘White Supremacist Conspiracy Theories’ in 2020

‘They Had A Weak Case’: Steve Scalise Rips House Democrats’ Impeachment Effort

Twitter Scrubs Viral Trump Retweet Of Alleged Hoaxblower’s Name; Blames Glitch Before Banning User  Bias? What bias?

Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work  Scientific researchers have an inalienable right to have the taxpayers fund their research (and careers), and Trump (the swine) is standing in the way. Burn the witch!

Chuck Todd Cites Letter That Compares Supporting Trump To Believing In ‘Fairy Tales’ Like ‘Noah’s Ark’

Chuck Todd Finds All the Disinformation In ‘Ecosystem Problem’ on the Right

CBS Reporter Says Trump’s Record With Minorities Is One ‘Any President After 3 Years Would Want To Claim’

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Blames Anti-Semitic Attacks On Hate ‘Emanating From Washington’ Yeah, New York haz to import hate from Washington because they don’t have any of their own.

Desperately Seeking Regretful Trump Voters

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historic motion has been passed in Spain by the city council in León demanding the separation of the province from the region of Castilla y León, which was formed in 1983 shortly after Spain returned to democracy after the death of General Franco.

“We’ve never felt ourselves to be part of Castilla y León. It’s a fictitious region; León has nothing to do with Castile,” said the Leonese mayor, José Antonio Díez.

After Friday’s vote in León city hall, several other towns across the province followed suit, demanding that what they consider a historic region comprising León, Salamanca and Zamora split away from Castilla y León.

And the seams start coming apart.

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While it is a truism that in many respects some form of taxation is needed to provide necessities to a society, in practice many government and social detriments arise as either a consequence to or are derivative of tax policy. I’ve found for myself that fostering a personal goal of avoiding specific taxation or in many cases excessive taxation generally comports with a greater advocacy of morality in several beneficial forms.

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Did you give or receive any books for Christmas? If so, were they physical books, or electronic ones? I suspect that, while many of us have exchanged real, printed books as presents, eBooks were far less popular, and unless you give a voucher, they’re almost impossible to give as presents anyway. So why have eBooks failed so miserably, when other media such as movies and music now sell and rent so well online?

The answer is, of course, their publishers. And in the last week or so, eBook publishers have delivered yet another blow to their own businesses, by proving in the CJEU – Europe’s highest court of justice – that the eBooks they sell are truly worthless.

Be the first on your block to run round in circles, jump up and down, scream, and shout.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

I would however suggest that if you see one coming you’d better step aside.

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Fire is extremely versatile: it’s hard to say which of its functions were most valued by our ancestors. Therefore, if we measure the energy use of a household fire and compare it to modern technology, we should not compare it to the energy use of a heating system or a cooking stove alone, but to the energy use of the entire household.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Hammer tech.

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On Friday, former Vice President Joe Biden vowed to not comply with any subpoena to testify in the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Trump. Such an action could be classified as obstruction of Congress, the same thing Trump was being impeached for. Biden began to backpedal over the weekend and he was aided in that effort by ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Sunday Today. Both used Biden’s “promise” to appoint former President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court as a smokescreen.

The Crust takes care of its own.

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Ripping New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as “apathetic” amid a spate of anti-Semitic attacks, Curtis Sliwa’s Guardian Angels is starting patrols in Brooklyn on Sunday, according to NBC News.

“These attacks are taking place, and the cops have not been proactive at all,” Sliwa, who founded his private, unarmed crime-prevention group in 1979, told NBC News. “It comes from City Hall and the mayor. He’s been just apathetic.

“We’re a visual deterrence in our red berets and our red satin jackets,” Sliwa told NBC News. “Nobody’s going to commit an attack when we’re around.

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Two Democratic senators have been banned from visiting the Phillippines by its president, Rodrigo Duterte, for their support of a prominent critic.

Duterte also has warned any Americans who want to enter the Philippines will be required to get a visa if the United States refuses entry to those involved in the jailing of Philippines Senator Leila de Lima, who has harshly criticized Duterte’s bloody drug crackdowns.

The only reason I can think of for an American to go to the Philippines is by being assigned there by the military.

Steve Sailer.

Steve loves pointing out when supposed adults in the ‘mainstream press’ think and write like adolescents. In most cases it is enough merely to quote what they say, from which any rational adult can sniff out the problems.

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Research led by MIT earlier this year found strobe lights and a low pitched buzz can be used to recreate brain waves lost in the disease, which in turn remove plaque and improve cognitive function in mice engineered to display Alzheimer’s-like behaviour.

Washington Examiner.

Maybe Democrats have decided that, in the era of President Trump, honesty is no longer required. Or maybe Elizabeth Warren is just too insecure to tell the truth about her own life.

Whatever the reason, the Massachusetts senator has built her campaign on a foundation of exaggerations and misrepresentations.

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A decade ago, Time Magazine unveiled an in-depth article on the death of Detroit. One of the politicians whom the article blamed for Detroit’s woes was Rep. John Dingell.

The Dingell clan has held a congressional seat outside Detroit since 1932. Their 87-year tenure has not coincidentally coincided with the decline of a thriving industrial city into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

But it’s been good for the Dingells, three of whom have sat in their congressional seat since the days of Herbert Hoover, the rise of Hitler, and the radio age, and fattened their pockets on its sinecures.

It is the power of incumbency that commands you.

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At least 5 people have been stabbed after a black male entered Rabbi Rottenburg’s Shul, located in the Forshay neighborhood in Monsey, New York, and pulled out a machete.

Audacious Epigone reports.

Though I have no illusions about where Stephens stands, his column is a tremendous conversation starter. As such, it was immediately subject to relentless attack in corporate and social media. The contemporary meaning of “conversation” is not a form of interactive communication. It is instead a novel blend of the traditional definitions of the words “monologue”, “lecture”, and “sermon”.

Steve Sailer.

Why are minority children increasingly being denied their basic human right to go to a nice school with a majority from America’s majority white population? The prestige press wants to know!

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Federal authorities arrested Fidel Alejandro Villegas, the police chief of Janos, a small town in the state of Chihuahua, earlier this week, Mexico’s Public Security Ministry announced Friday. Villegas is suspected of not only being involved in local organized crime, but of also having a hand in the killings that took place in November.

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Well, this is awkward.

Your electric car and vegetarian diet are pointless virtue signaling in the fight against climate change

Climate Change Protesters’ Traffic Tie-Ups Are No Way to Win Friends or Influence People

FT: Low Interest Rates are an Opportunity to Spend Big on Renewable Energy

Report Hyped By Climate Alarmists Warned: Millions Dead, Nuclear War, & Sunken Major Cities By 2020

What Can You See, Indicating Sea Levels are Rising?

Mozambique Is Racing to Adapt to Climate Change. The Weather Is Winning

Yale College Students Rebut Trump Campaign Website With ‘Snowflakes Fight Back’ Site of Their Own

‘New Yorker’ Editor: Evangelicals Back Trump Due to ‘Xenophobia’ and ‘Nativism’  Loserthink: Mind-reading.

Chris Cuomo Presses Democratic Rep On Biden Refusal To Testify: ‘Exactly What You Just Impeached The President For’

CNN Guest: McConnell Like a Judge Making ‘All-White Jury for a Klansman Trial’

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Earlier this week, on Christmas Eve, an order from the city of Cleveland was posted on the door of the Denison Avenue United Church of Christ, demanding that they kick out the homeless people that they had been allowing to sleep on their property or face losing their status with the city as a religious organization.

The Other McCain has the scoop.

Remember the deadly Dec. 10 attack just across the river in Jersey City, which was connected to the Black Hebrew Israelites cult. This followed months of reports of anti-Semitic harassment in New York perpetrated by black teenagers. Because the suspects were “people of color” (POC), these hate crimes were an embarrassment to the Left, which wants to blame Trump for increasing anti-Semitism. This is why the national news media, which goes into 24/7 coverage mode over any “hate crime” that can be blamed on right-wingers, politely ignored the increasing reports of black hoodlums harassing Jews in New York City. The progressive SJW backlash against De Blasio’s announcement was predictable.

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

Steve Sailer.

That’s what happens when Democrats run your city.