Archive for 2022
December 28, 2022
FIRST LIBERTY AND JEFFERSON’S WALL OF SEPARATION: That phrase from Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists is among the most often quoted and misunderstood from the founding era.
Fortunately, First Liberty Institute President, CEO and Chief Counsel Kelly Shackelford and his rowdy crew based in Plano, Texas, put together a great animated video that clarifies what Jefferson actually wrote and meant. The video works well for adults and kids, so watch it and share it far and wide.
RATIONIERUNG: Bundle Up, Germany. 2024 Could be a Long Winter. “The cryptically-named Federal Network Agency has announced plans to empower German power grid operators to remotely limit home heat pumps and EV chargers. And this can be done without the customer’s permission. And lest German citizens think that they have the spring, summer, and fall to make adjustments, this policy is set to take effect next month.”
Decline is a choice and one that Germany has made.
SPENDING MORE, GETTING LESS: Holiday Sales up 7.6% in 2022 — but Outpaced by 8.5% Inflation.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGRATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Dartmouth $100,000,000 STEM program appears to exclude white men. Various civil rights groups stand ready to file complaints for race and sex discrimination.
YET MORE MAGICAL THINKING FROM THE REALITY-BASED COMMUNITY: LGBTQ+++™ Pinocchios Now Claim Male-to-Female Transgenders Can Get Periods: ‘I’m a Real Girl’!
DEMOCRATS PREACH HATE, INCITE TERROR: Pro-life students threatened with gun violence.
On the morning of December 3, Students for Life Action (SFLA) members were greeted with a note from pro-aboriton activists that read, “We will shoot up your Newman Center with our new AR14 rifles.”
The entire note read, “If our right to abortion in Bellevue is taken away due to the attempt to pass an abortion ban and it gets passed we will shoot up your Newman Center with our new AR14 rifles.”
Students for Life Action was meeting at the Newman Center, located between the University of Nebraska-Omaha & the College of St. Mary, to host a political workshop.
I’d like one of them there AR-14 rifles. That’d be a collector’s item for sure.
MAN OF THE YEAR 2022: The Washington Free Beacon has multiple awards in the category but this particular one seems to capture the essence of 2022 Newsroom Wokeism.
HIGHER ED’S TOP LOBBYIST IS RETIRING. But, as Rich Vedder points out, while colleges are awash in federal dollars, problems and scandals in accreditation, athletics, and research spending are looming larger than ever. Ask yourself this: would you take the job as his successor? (I’d run away as fast as I could…)
BIOGENESIS, CONSCIOUSNESS AND ORIGINS: Some questions that seem reasonable to me. But that’s just me. And HillFaith. Play nice, please.
ALL BUBBLES POP: Tesla Stock Keeps Falling, Logging Seventh Straight Decline. “Tesla’s shares continued their retreat Tuesday, with the electric automaker’s stock marking its lowest close since August 2020 and falling out of the top 10 list of U.S. companies by market capitalization.”
FREE SPEECH, REALLY? Excellent roundup by Nick Givas of Just the News of the recent revelations from the Twitter Files of the multiple ways in which Big Government and Big Tech cooperated in suppressing unapproved speech.
And Givas quotes this from former New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli:
“We’ve entered into this period of American history where the range of permissible thought and speech has so narrowed that if you depart from it at all you are, you’re labeled, you are censored, and you are silenced. It’s incredibly dangerous.
“And the odd thing about it is the very institutions which have been the safeguard of American free thought and speech — American universities, think tanks, the media — are the worst offenders.”
Instapunditeers will recall that Torricelli’s departure from the Senate was not a happy one, dropping his re-election bid in 2002 amid accusations of corruption. Perhaps with time has come new wisdom?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Title 42 Is a Band-Aid on a Border Wound That Will Soon Bleed Out. “They’ve been working overtime since Biden was installed in the Oval Office to create a fictional account of what’s happening. Avoiding the word ‘crisis’ is the only policy they seem to have.”
DAN MARKEL UPDATE: Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story Of Dan Markel’s Murder.
CUE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN: For Some in Congress, Proxy Voting Was a Game Changer. It’s About to Go Away.
The article is in Time magazine, which now serves as the official mouthpiece — well, one of many — of our poor, put-upon criminal class.
OTHER THAN A STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO RACE BANNON, HE BRINGS NOTHING TO THE TABLE: Mike Pence would be a candidate without a constituency.
And let’s be honest, Race Bannon was always cut out to be a #2.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY, CHAIRMAN XI: Xi regime has entirely disappeared in its zero-COVID U-turn. “In its single-minded pursuit of the “zero Covid” strategy, the Chinese government was omnipresent and omnipotent, using its unlimited resources and unchecked power to control the nation. After having nearly exhausted its resources and the good will of the public, the government has now simply disappeared, just as many Chinese are getting very ill with the virus or dying from it. . . . For a powerful government that likes to brag about its command of the country and has published a four-volume compilation of speeches and articles by its top leader titled ‘Xi Jinping: The Governance of China,’ the absence of direction at a moment of crisis has made the public question the legitimacy and the credibility of the Chinese Communist Party.”
THE MOST HONEST MAN IN CONGRESS: His name is Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and every word of this impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives is true, especially these – “There are consequences to this”:
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Alone at the End Of History. “Perhaps the biggest underreported story of the 2020s is the widespread collapse of institutional trust and the loss of confidence in the inevitability of progress, even among the Western elite. Like frightened children in the dark, we find that we can’t trust the science and can’t trust each other. When a society finds it can’t control the future, what does it do?”
DEMOCRATS PREACH HATE, REAP VIOLENCE: 2022 ‘One of the Most Dangerous Years’ for Police Amid Nationwide Crime Spike, Says Law Enforcement Group.
THE NEW YEAR SALE is here. #CommissionEarned
THE META-ANALYSIS: Ivermectin Is Safe and Effective.
In a meta-analysis of 63 studies of ivermectin versus COVID-19 in humans, 100% of these have shown positive results. Studies were from all continents except Antarctica. Considered individually, 29 of those studies were found to be statistically significant regarding use of ivermectin alone. Over the 63 studies in meta-analysis, pooled effects showed 69% improvement in early treatment, and prophylactic use showed 86% improvement. Of those studies in the meta-analysis that were peer-reviewed, overall improvement in early treatment was found to be 70% (64% in randomized controlled trials), and 86% of those in which ivermectin was used prophylactically showed improvement (84% in randomized controlled trials).
Mortality from COVID-19 over all time periods of delay in treatment was 76% improved over controls (69% in randomized controlled trials), whereas mortality was improved 84% in early treatment of COVID-19 (82% in randomized controlled trials). Forty studies were excluded from the meta-analysis for complicating factors or insufficient detail reported, and these also showed 100% positive results.
It is estimated that the likelihood of an ineffective treatment showing such positive results as the above results in the 63 studies in the meta-analysis to date is exceedingly small. That probability is estimated to be one in one trillion.
The narrative: Horse dewormer dangerous for humans, ineffective COVID-19 treatment.