“In fact, there’s no mention of ‘parents’…at all in the memo, none.” This is what Anderson Cooper said in defense of the controversial October 4 Justice Department directive to have federal agents be on the lookout for anti-schoolboard violence. He thought this was a sensible, insightful assessment of the potential trouble, as if the government expects school boards to be attacked by random childless unemployables wearing antlers. This is astonishingly--and brazenly--insincere. Or maybe these people are just on the other side of the bell curve; maybe they're just dumb.
In 1984, Charles Murray wrote Losing Ground in which he argued that the federal government’s War on Poverty had actually made matters worse for the poor, by substituting welfare dependency for self-reliance. In Coming Apart in 2012, he wrote socio-economic groups had less and less contact with each other. In his new book, Facing Reality, Murray foresees an America that is beset by an advanced, highly malignant cancer—identity politics--and different outcomes for people is explainable only through bigotry and 'white privilege.'
What if this explanation is wrong, as in the Black Plague when everyone blamed the cats?
"Until I came to the U.S., I couldn't imagine that things like gender pay gap still existed in today's world. Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there.'" This is from Saule Omarova, nominated to become Comptroller of the Currency. Virtually nobody believes this, but the nominee to run the economy does. How did she get a graduate degree?
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.--Acton
According to Thomas Friedman(!), environmentally cautious Western governments are reducing their respective carbon footprints “in totally uncoordinated ways, from the top down, and before the market has produced sufficient clean renewables like wind, solar, and hydro.” This has contributed to the current shortages. Friedman!
A new report by the Axios website claims that a number of federal law enforcement agencies in the Biden administration have purchased drones from China that have previously been labeled a potential national security threat by the Pentagon.
The government gave away computers to help disadvantaged students when COVID started.
Thousands of school districts across the United States have installed surveillance software on those school-provided devices to monitor their students’ online interactions.
People wonder at the violence and the deracination of the Left. But the Left rejects the neutral rule of law, individualism, the market economy, as well as tolerance for disagreement. These are sort of the basis of American thinking and it led to much of the thinking in the West. If you don't believe in these ideas, what do you think will happen?
What if this explanation is wrong, as in the Black Plague when everyone blamed the cats?
"Until I came to the U.S., I couldn't imagine that things like gender pay gap still existed in today's world. Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there.'" This is from Saule Omarova, nominated to become Comptroller of the Currency. Virtually nobody believes this, but the nominee to run the economy does. How did she get a graduate degree?
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.--Acton
According to Thomas Friedman(!), environmentally cautious Western governments are reducing their respective carbon footprints “in totally uncoordinated ways, from the top down, and before the market has produced sufficient clean renewables like wind, solar, and hydro.” This has contributed to the current shortages. Friedman!
A new report by the Axios website claims that a number of federal law enforcement agencies in the Biden administration have purchased drones from China that have previously been labeled a potential national security threat by the Pentagon.
The government gave away computers to help disadvantaged students when COVID started.
Thousands of school districts across the United States have installed surveillance software on those school-provided devices to monitor their students’ online interactions.
People wonder at the violence and the deracination of the Left. But the Left rejects the neutral rule of law, individualism, the market economy, as well as tolerance for disagreement. These are sort of the basis of American thinking and it led to much of the thinking in the West. If you don't believe in these ideas, what do you think will happen?
The Bee thinks their stuff is being censured. This is from an article:
The real question is not which policy or system would work best ideally, but which has in fact produced better results with far from ideal human beings. Even with the more modest task of evaluating different policies within a given system, the real question is not which policy sounds more plausible, or which would work best if people behaved ideally, but which policy, in fact, turns out to produce better results with actual people, behaving as they actually do.--Sowell
'Despite our growing audience—we have many more followers now than we did a year ago—we're seeing a drastic, steady decline in reach and engagement. It used to be that 80% of our site's traffic came from Facebook. Now, it's down to just 30%. Babylon Bee articles posted to Facebook used to go viral, generating hundreds of thousands of shares. But that just doesn't happen anymore. Facebook doesn't allow it.
In some cases, our posts aren't merely limited in reach — they're completely suppressed. Here's an example of a recent post that Facebook prevented from being seen by anyone:
We'd have reached more people if we'd printed the article and posted it on a single telephone pole in a small town.'
The real question is not which policy or system would work best ideally, but which has in fact produced better results with far from ideal human beings. Even with the more modest task of evaluating different policies within a given system, the real question is not which policy sounds more plausible, or which would work best if people behaved ideally, but which policy, in fact, turns out to produce better results with actual people, behaving as they actually do.--Sowell
The shortcomings of the original American constitution--the first written democratic constitution ever--were the result of democracy's inherent qualities. They protected the right of a minority and compromised, hoping to work the problems out. Those men were radicals. Today's radicals would have simply murdered their opponents.
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