HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor fails student for refusing to condemn her Christian faith. “A professor at Polk State College has allegedly failed a humanities student after she refused to concede that Jesus is a ‘myth’ or that Christianity oppresses women during a series of mandatory assignments at the Florida college.”
Yawn. A bold professor would make a similar assignment about Mohammed and Islam.
HEALTH: The Entire Transgender Craze Leads Back To One Group, And They’re Playing Hardball.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is stonewalling a judge’s subpoena of internal documents related to how the medical organization came up with its guidelines for gender confused minors.
WPATH, a leading advocate for child sex changes, was subpoenaed in March by a federal judge in Alabama after the organization’s guidelines were repeatedly referenced to argue against the state’s restrictions on sex changes for minors during a lawsuit. WPATH has attempted to quash the subpoena, which a judge denied in March. The court case challenges Alabama’s law banning sex changes for individuals under 19. While WPATH argued it was a non-party to the case, the U.S. District Court Judge Liles Burke said in a March ruling that the nature of its guidelines was of “crucial import in this litigation.”
“They’re just doing everything they possibly can to not release them,” Jay Richards, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller.
Read the whole thing.
CHANGE:
This slow pivot on Covid, the shocked realization there might be practical limits on debt, the sullen admission that nuclear power could be useful after all, are encouraging signs that reality — remember reality? — might actually exist after all.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 29, 2023
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Latest GOP Debt Deal Fizzle. “In the end, the debt ceiling gets raised, and the United States government continues to spend taxpayer money like a drunk Kennedy cousin in Rio for Carnival.”
JOANNE JACOBS: High school debate’s decline: No arguing allowed. “Lila Lavender, the 2019 national debate champion, is now a judge whose paradigm reads: ‘Before anything else, including being a debate judge, I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. . . . I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I’m judging. . . . I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions/arguments. . . . Examples of arguments of this nature are as follows: fascism good, capitalism good, imperialist war good, neoliberalism good, defenses of US or otherwise bourgeois nationalism, Zionism or normalizing Israel, colonialism good, US white fascist policing good, etc.'”
RED ON RED: Oregon Republican Party Embarks on Embarrassing Recall of Its RNC Representative. “A meeting will take place on June 3 to decide whether the members of the ORP will allow Yue to continue to represent Oregon at the Republican National Committee (RNC), or whether they will replace him. This follows the circulation of a recall petition that reads long on accusations, short on proof, and devoid of sanity.”
DON SURBER: George Bush, MIA. “As Durham’s Report exposes the lies about RussiaGate and the truth about Obama using the FBI as his personal police unfolds, there is one silence that roars above the white noise of denial. George Walker Bush has not said a word. Not one darned word. He has been one silent lamb while the Democrat Party ran roughshod over our political institutions — weaponizing the IRS, the FBI, FISA, the media, the courts and the border.”
He knows what team he’s on.
JAPAN’S OLD AGE CRISIS, AND OURS:
But even if the government succeeds in goosing the birth rate, the effects will be felt decades from now. Japan has an immediate problem that dates back to policies adopted in 1948. People over 75 now make up 15 percent of the population, and they don’t have a lot of kids to take care of them. Japan’s postwar baby boom lasted only about two years. By contrast, the U.S. experienced high birth rates from 1946 to 1964.
In 1948, the Diet passed the Eugenic Protection Law. It made abortions legal and cheap, about $10. “Critics assert that it is easier for a woman to avoid an unwanted child in this way than to have her tonsils removed,” The New York Times reported in 1964. “One result of the practice has been the virtual elimination of illegitimate births.”
The bill also promoted contraception, establishing “eugenic protection consultation offices” throughout the country. They provided marriage counseling and gave couples “guidance in adequate methods of contraception.” Local governments trained midwives and nurses to encourage family planning. Employers, unions, and nonprofits pushed the idea of smaller families and helped spread information about how to achieve them.
Children are a lot of trouble. Successful societies tend to have a lot of cultural institutions and pressures to ensure that people have them. When my brother was doing research in northern Nigeria in the early 90s, one of his colleagues was studying a group of traditional cross-dressers, who had been around for centuries and played various ceremonial roles. They were gay, but pretty much all of them had wives and children, because that was what a man did, regardless of sexual preferences. The idea of not having kids was vaguely revolting to them. That’s how strong the cultural pressure to have kids was.
Without such pressures, even many straight people will decide they don’t want kids. This may or may not make their lives better overall, but a low birth rate society is generally not a healthy society.
ICYMI: MICHAEL P. SENGER: Thread – The Great COVID Ventilator Death Cover-up. “Tens of thousands of Americans died after being placed on mechanical ventilators in spring 2020. It’s long past time we got real answers as to how many were killed this way.”
WE ALL KNOW WHAT SOCIALISTS USE AFTER ELECTRICITY, AND WHILE THEY HOLD THE LEVERS, WE’RE AT RISK, SO… Lamplight Farms Ellipse.
BUT THE JANUARY 6TH GUIDED TOUR WAS TRULY DANGEROUS. YOU SEE, THEY PERSIST IN SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IN THEIR CELLS. SURELY A SIGN OF SEDITION: Three Years Later, No Justice for BLM Insurrection in D.C.
BEHOLD, MY PROFOUNDLY SHOCKED FACE: Biden DHS Funded Program That Highlighted Video Conflating Conservatives And Nazis In Its Grant Application: Report.
WHILE ON THIS SUBJECT: REPRODUCTION IS SIMPLE: Debunking Pseudoscience: ‘Multimodal Models of Animal Sex’.
And reality is a harsh mistress.
THE MADNESS OF THE LEFT IS BELIEVING WORDS CAN REMAKE REALITY: Mulvaney Is Even Sicker Than We Thought.
WE REMEMBER: Memorial Day 2023: Burial At The Battle Of Camden.
THE SECOND MOST UNLIKABLE WOMAN IN AMERICA? Democrats: Save Us Michelle!
Why not go for Hilary? She’s #1. Oh, wait, Michelle is unlikable and as vapid as Commie La Whorish*. Sounds like a winning combination for the left.
*Please! Before you start the defense dance, I read her essay written in college. I’d have been ashamed to write that load of whining disguised as a rational argument in elementary.
FORGETTING WHO YOUR BUYERS ARE: Woke War on Women: P&G’s ‘Always’ Feminine Products Geared To “Bodies With Female Sex Organs”.
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