Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Sunday, October 27,2019

WIDE-RANGING INTERVIEW WITH CODEVILLA ONMANY SUBJECTS

ONE WORLD FRAUDS EPITOMIZED BY ALGORE

October 29, 2019

CANADA'S WONDERFUL SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.(arc)

BEAUTIFUL VOICE!

WORLD WAR II BY VDH

YES IT'S WAR FOR SURE.

DEEP STATE DANGERS VIA FEDERALIST

SLAVERY AND THE NYTIMES'S DISGRACEFUL PROJECT

THERE'S MUCH WRONG WITH THIS OPINION PIECE.  The author Hillyer, seems to be arguing that Trump attempted to bribe the president of Ukraine into investigating Biden by withholding military aid.  The assumption on the art of the author is that he knows what Trum'ps motivation is in asking Zelensky to look into the Biden affair.  He argues that an ambassador suggests this to be the case, and yet the ambassador was not in on the phone call and there is no evidence to suggest Trump's motivation was to dig up dirt on a political rival.  On the contrary an investigation of Biden's corruption was conducted and aborted before Trump arrived on the scene.  Why wouldn't Trump ask Zelensky to reopen a suspiciously aborted investigation?  Why isn't this a perfectly legitimate request or "favor", keeping in mind Zelensky felt no pressure to conform and did not know of the withholding of aid until one month later?  Since there was no quid pro quo mentioned in the conversation why is this author making assumptions about Trump's motivation??  We don't know his motivation because there's nothing in the transcript to reveal it, he hasn't told anyone, and what's more an investigation of Biden corruption is appropriate in any case.  Go figure what this guy's up to.
HERE IS A BRIEF REBUTAL WITH WHICH I AGREE

DOUBLE STANDARD EPITOMIZED Disgraceful media.

FDR AND HIS LEGACY

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT CIRCA 2009 BY M BARONE

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

WHY TRUMP WON AND WILL AGAIN

RACISM HOAZ -- CODEVILLA

SMALL BIZ OPTIMISM UP

GELERNTER UNLEASHED -- YALE'S REACTION?

WHAT'S HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES -- CALLED CORRUPTION/SOROS

ROLE OF EXPERTS IN OUR ECONOMY -- NOT!

DO NO EVIL COMPANY DOES EVIL

BOOKS TO READ.

CAMERA PRODUCT TO BUY

OMG THE FBI CORRUPTION CASE IS OBVIOUS. THANKS LOUIS GOMHERT

THE MEANING OF THE EPSTEIN SAGA BY FERNANDEZ

FROM GAIL HERIOT     REMEMBERING THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION’S RED AUGUST (ADDENDUM): Last week I did a post about August of 1966, the month in which the Red Guard student gangs started going on the rampage. But where did these students come from? And what made them so angry?
I can give you only partial answers: During this early stage of the Cultural Revolution, they were very disproportionately the sons and daughters of privileged party members.  (Surprised?  I suspect not.)
Red Guard students also tended to be the beneficiaries of preferential treatment in admissions. All during the 1950s and 1960s, the children of party members and at least in theory the children of peasants and workers received a kind of “affirmative action” in admission both to elite schools and to colleges and universities. Frequently a revolutionary pedigree was a more important credential than a good academic record. Early on, a popular meme (if not exactly a Shakespearean couplet) was “If the father is a hero [of the Revolution], the son is a good fellow; if the father is a reactionary, the son is a good-for-nothing—it is basically like this.”
Like students who receive preferential treatment here in the USA—diversity students, legacy students, and athletes—on average the Chinese recipients of preferential treatment got poorer grades than other students. Mao is reported to have acknowledged this: “The political performance of the children of revolutionary cadres in schools can only be rated as second-class, but students with bad family backgrounds [i.e. the children of alleged capitalists, landlords, rich peasants, and counter-revolutionaries] have performed very well. However, no matter how well they have performed, revolutionary tasks cannot be put on their shoulders.”
Loyal Instapundit readers know that I have written extensively about the problem of affirmative action “mismatch” in this country. (If you haven’t already read one of my essays, they are here and here. Please take a look.) Alas, large gaps in academic performance between identifiable groups tend to cause resentments. Perversely, a group that has been given preferential treatment may come to believe, against all evidence, that the system is rigged against them, when in fact the problem is that the system was rigged in their favor.
In China, the myth that the “Born-Reds” (as they sometimes called themselves) had been mistreated by the educational system prior to the Cultural Revolution was a strong one. “We Born-Reds gasped for breath under the suppression of the cow ghosts and snake demons [i.e. the teachers and school administrators], and bourgeois bastards [i.e. children with “bad” family backgrounds] in schools,” wrote several of the Red Guard crybullies. In fact, in the years leading up to Red August, school administrators were often far too inclined to indulge the “Born-Reds,” in part out of fear of their political clout.
Mao pandered to these students. For him, poor academic performance was not really a problem. He was contemptuous of the Chinese system of education anyway. And he was especially contemptuous of its examination methods: I am in favor of publishing the questions in advance and letting the students study them and answer them with the aid of books.” He seemed not to be troubled by cheating. “If you answer is good and I copy it, then mine too should be counted as good.”
Mao complained about too much emphasis on “foreign dead people much the same way that leftists today complain about about “dead white males.” And he sympathized with students who dozed off during lectures. “You don’t have to listen to nonsense, you can rest your brain instead.” He accused the schools of favoring students from “bad” family backgrounds.
No wonder the Born-Reds loved him (and weren’t too fond of their teachers).


Sunday, July 14, 2019

Sunday, July 14, 2019


GOOD DISCUSSION OF CONSTITUTION

MULVANEY WAS A GOOD LIBERTARIAN MOVE BY TRUMP

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AOC

ABOUT RACE RELATIONS AND RAAACISM IN AMERICA

CONRAD BLACK EXAMINES TRUMP PRESIDENCY

ALARMING SPREAD OF ISLAMISM IN GERMANY

LIZ CHENEY REBUTS THE "SQUAD"

ON HOW TO COMBAT RACISM BY MORGAN FREEMAN:  But don't believe me. Believe Morgan Freeman. Let's roll back to the Early Paleolithic Age (2005), when the great black actor was on 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace:
MIKE WALLACE, CBS`s "60 MINUTES": Black History Month, you find...
MORGAN FREEMAN, ACTOR: Ridiculous.
WALLACE: Why?
FREEMAN: You`re going to relegate my history to a month?
WALLACE: Come on.
FREEMAN: What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month? Come on, tell me.
WALLACE: I'm Jewish.
FREEMAN: OK. Which month is Jewish History Month?
WALLACE: There isn`t one.
FREEMAN: Why not? Do you want one?
WALLACE: No, no.
FREEMAN: I don`t either. I don`t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
WALLACE: How are we going to get rid of racism until...?
FREEMAN: Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man. And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You`re not going to say, "I know this white guy named Mike Wallace." Hear what I'm saying?
Stop talking about it. Interesting idea, isn't it? I doubt Cory Booker would approve. 'The Squad" would doubtless go apoplectic. Nevertheless, it's the only way to end racism—stop talking about it. We already have laws against it, for a long time now, as we should. And they should be strictly enforced. But the rest of the blah-blah has got to go. It only makes people hate each other. It creates racism rather than solves it.

WHY THE GOVERNMENT WILL END UP REGULATING FACEBOOK, ETCOne of the interesting things about all this is found in Bettinelli's conclusion, in which he confesses:
As a conservative, I’m biased against government intervention into free enterprise. But I also recognize that sometimes regulation and legislation are necessary to protect the rights of citizens against the agendas of certain groups of people or corporations. I’m starting to lean toward the necessity of the US government regulating social media firms as public utilities. Because Big Brother isn’t just from the government any more.
That conclusion is where I'm at. It's becoming harder to ignore the evidence that Facebook is deliberately shutting conservative Christian voices out of the public dialogue. The banning of the St. Augustine quote as hate speech further drives me to conclude that it's time for the U.S. government to regulate social media.

IMMIGRATION HISTORY

2014 PRESCIENT POST ON RULE BY ELITES


Thursday, April 18, 2019

Thursday, April 18, 2019

DETOCQUEVILLE HAS WONDERFUL INSIGHTS INTO DEMOCRAcy

GENESIS OF TODAYS RADICALISM/MARXISM/SOCIALISM

AMY WHITE DISCUSSES EDUCATION AND CULTURE ISSUES.

5 EXAMPLES OF CAMPUS VICTIMHOOD GONE MAD - HEATHER MACDONALD

RYSZARD LEGUTKO on his new book, The Demons In Democracy. “The book is about how liberal democracy tends to develop the qualities that were characteristic of communism: pervasive politicization, ideological zeal, aggressive social engineering, vulgarity, a belief in inevitability of progress, destruction of family, the omnipresent rule of ideological correctness, severe restriction of intellectual inquiry, etc. All of these I remember from my young days in communism, and all these I have been observing, with a growing sense of alarm, in today’s liberal democracy. In the heyday of the communist rule it was customary that the communist students disrupted the lectures of old ‘bourgeois’ professors, accusing them of having reactionary views, of trying to corrupt the young minds with idealist philosophy, and of being at the service of imperialist forces.”
Well, to be fair, it’s basically communists who are behind it now, too.

GOOD ECON IDEAS FROM ALBERTA'S NEW PREMIER

FROM STEVEN HAWARD -- A MUST BUY HISTORY BOOK

PLEASE, DRAIN THE SWAMP,STARTWITH MUELLER,ROSENSTEIN,COMEY.

THE NOOSE IS TIGHTENING VIA JOHN SOLOMON

BIDEN FAIRLY REPRESENTS DEMS: DISHONEST, VILE,WITHOUTNCONSCIOUS/

UNFORTUNATELY THIS FROM CODEVILLA IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH.

HIGER ED BLOAT:SO TRUE

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

IMPORTANT DESCRIPTION OF SHARIA LAW AND HEADWAIR FOR WOMEN

MUSLIM REFORMER TALKS ABOUT US REP ILHAN OMAR  A very worthwhile article on Islam and Islamist and Muslims of various stripes..

WHY BIDEN WINS IN 2020 BY JOSEPH CURL OF WT

INTERESTING OUTLOOK FOR 2020 ELECTION
NORWAY AND THE CLINTONS -- HAPPY COUPLE

GENESIS OF KEYNES' INFLUENCE, PAST TO PRESENT

ABOUT BOEING 737

JORDAN PETERSON STRIKES AGAIN.

SALOVEY EMBARRASSES ALL ALUMNI  PLUS THIS FOLLOW UP: Plus, note this letter to the editor in the WSJ, responding to Salovey:
I agree with Mr. Salovey that free speech and inclusion aren’t mutually exclusive, but I think he misrepresents some of the events that unfolded last year. In particular, he claims that the “Yale Daily News, the oldest daily student newspaper in the country, filled its pages and opinion columns with voices that diverged in every conceivable way.”
What Mr. Salovey doesn’t realize is how difficult it was to find such voices. Many students privately expressed their dismay at the protests, yet very few of these students were willing to express these views in the pages of the YDN when I reached out to them. They told me they were worried about being ostracized by their peers, and they were perplexed that the administration had refused to take any disciplinary action against the protesters who cursed out Nicholas Christakis in the Silliman College courtyard. In other words, many students were worried that there wasn’t a respectful climate of reasoned debate on campus, not that Yale was making any kind of institutional effort to suppress free speech. Mr. Salovey’s argument, well-intentioned though it may be, ignores this crucial distinction.
Aaron Sibarium
Chevy Chase, Md.
Mr. Sibarium was the opinion editor of the Yale Daily News for the past academic year.
A mob that represented, almost certainly, a fraction of the student body was allowed — even encouraged — by the Yale administration to intimidate and bully those who disagreed, and faced no consequences (except rewards) for doing so. Is Salovey the worst university president in America? Well, there’s stiff competition for that slot, but he’s got to be in the top 3. But the fact that he’s weaseling on this now suggests that the tide may be turning.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:
AN EMAIL FROM YALE PRESIDENT PETER SALOVEY:

To the Yale Community,
I am writing about the actions I have taken in the wake of revelations regarding an ongoing FBI investigation into an admissions fraud scheme that targeted universities nationwide, including Yale. Dozens of people have been charged with federal crimes. These individuals allegedly bribed athletic coaches and standardized testing officials, or accepted the bribes, to deceive the admissions offices of universities. These dishonest and criminal actions are an affront to our community’s deeply held values of fairness, inclusion, and honesty. I am therefore initiating a number of actions to make sure we understand the full impact of this criminal scheme on our university and to protect our admissions processes in the future.
The FBI investigation has revealed that a Yale coach gave bogus athletic endorsements to two students, one of whom was admitted to Yale College. (For more information, please see this FAQ.) When applicants sign their applications, they attest that the contents are true and complete. Although I do not comment on specific disciplinary actions taken with respect to an individual student, our longstanding policy is to rescind the admission of students who falsified their Yale College applications.
The ongoing federal investigation has publicized wrongdoing by one Yale coach who participated in this scheme; however, I have decided that we must conduct our own searching review in order to learn whether others have been involved in activities that have corrupted the athletic recruitment and admissions process. We will retain external advisors to assist us. They will be asked to recommend changes that will help us detect and prevent efforts to defraud our admissions process. As part of this review, we will specifically examine the practices of commercial admissions consultants, whose work is conducted out of the view of admissions officers.
Since her arrival on July 1, 2018, and before we knew of the federal investigation or its findings, Director of Athletics Victoria Chun independently had begun to put in place new policies and procedures regarding the oversight and assessment of our coaching staff. The goals of her initiatives are to ensure that student-athletes receive an excellent education at Yale and to enhance the quality of our athletic programs. In addition, going forward, Ms. Chun will conduct a review of coaches’ proposed rosters of recruits before they are sent to the admissions office, and situations in which a recruited athlete fails to make a team will receive close scrutiny. These measures will help prevent opportunities for undermining the fairness and integrity of the Yale College admissions process.
Ms. Chun is working with Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan to implement a code of conduct for athletic recruitment. They also will design even more robust training for all coaches to ensure they understand our recruitment procedures and the ethical expectations involved in supporting student-athletes in our admissions process.
Athletics is part of the educational mission of Yale College. Under the Ivy League model, those who play on our varsity teams are student-athletes, and “student” comes first. Our sports teams engender pride among our whole community, and I have often said that we bask in their reflected glory, bringing the Yale College community closer together. The athletics program, including the varsity teams, is also an important part of the Yale College educational experience; students better themselves by playing their sport. They learn self-discipline, how to work as part of a team, how to subordinate individual ambition to a group accomplishment, and how to be resilient in the face of failure. These skills are important in every area of life, including academics.
As we proceed with these first steps, we may find that more actions are necessary. I will not spare our university any scrutiny that will help us to be better and bolster the integrity of our community.

C.S.LEWIS AND UNIVERSITIES.  

Monday, February 18, 2019

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2019

JOE BIDEN HAS LEACHED OFF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HIS ENTIRE ADULT LIFE. ENOUGH!

Response to the question of the state of society today:

You miss the main point: The system has been rigged against boys/young men. It isn't a matter of the "blame game," and wondering why boys make bad choices in bad environments is a waste of time. They are kids; nothing magical happens when they turn 18. (And opportunities to get "straight" are evaporating, especially in the military where they can't meet enlistment standards.) Girls attend the same schools as boys, but those schools have been turned into bastions of female empowerment over decades. It doesn't matter why the majority of K-8 teachers are female; they are and the system they support is geared to the female (and liberal) mind. That's where it starts, and boys learn to tune out. That men are different than woman should not be controversial to you or your readers. Look at the best, most steady, pension- and health insurance-friendly employment opportunities in many rural communities: entry- and mid-level healthcare, teaching, admin (especially in education, heath fields, and state government). Look at the layers of admin/compliance jobs added to businesses over the past few decades - all appeal more to women than men. Don't fall into the Kevin D. Williamson trap. Re-read Murray's "Coming Apart: The State of White America." Expecting today's 10-year-old boys growing up in poor, single-headed female households, attending public schools, and without community connections like church, to mature into productive men is foolish. 
This is a systemic failure - very much like the failures of Detroit. Personal responsibility is learned behavior -- one we haven't been teaching for along time.

VDH SUMMARIZES THE DEEP STATE'S PERFIDY

THE FUTURE IS GRIM BECAUSE OF "REDFORED" ORGANIZING.

GREAT DEFINITION OF HEGELIANISM AND MARXISM

TOM COBURN'S RIGHT ABOUT WASHINGTONN AND FREEDOM

MUSLIM TERRORIST NOW IN CONGRESS

HAYWARD AT YALE VIA LECTURE