OVER AT MY SUBSTACK, I interview Karol Markowicz and Bethany Mandel about their new book, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation. And Helen joins in with some questions of her own.
Archive for 2023
March 9, 2023
WHY ARE PROGRESSIVE INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPOOLS OF BIGOTRY?: ‘Antisemitic Invective’ Goes Mainstream at the University of Michigan Law School.
NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME: CNN Adds Another Major Failure to the Books as Jill Biden’s Primetime Special Bombs Spectacularly. “Not only did Biden not attract viewers to the CNN primetime slot, she chased a good deal of them away. In fact, as Fox News added, Biden’s appearance on CNN was outwatched by reruns of shows like ‘Friends’ on TBS and ‘Gunsmoke’ on TV Land Classics.”
OF COURSE THEY WERE: FBI Whistleblowers: Threat Tags Were Used to Target Conservatives. “In the latest stunning testimony from whistleblowers at the FBI, it has been alleged that the bureau actively used intelligence threat tags to label multiple groups of conservative activists as potential domestic terror threats. According to Just The News, one such whistleblower told the House Judiciary Committee over the weekend that a terrorist threat tag originally created to target far-left activists who threatened conservative Supreme Court justices after the overturning of Roe v. Wade was ultimately flipped to the opposite purpose, and instead became a marker for pro-life activists that the FBI considered dangerous for simply protesting at abortion clinics.”
HOW COULD I FORGET OUR ANNIVERSARY?: Yesterday was the anniversary of the Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) decision, in which the Supreme Court adopted disparate impact liability under Title VII. If you want to understand just how awful this decision was (and is), read “Title VII Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal.” Griggs brought us to where we are today–where the desire for equal outcomes rather than equal opportunity drives federal policy.
RELEASE EVERYTHING AND LET THE CARDS FALL WHERE THEY MAY: Former CDC Director Drops Truth Bombs About COVID’s Origins at Hearing.
AMY PEIKOFF: YouTube Saved You By Censoring My Super Dangerous Content. “What was the content? A somewhat geeky episode in which Benjamin and I explored the epistemological implications of an analogy between a specific aspect of the Dominion v. Fox News defamation case, and an accusation commonly leveled at COVID-19 mRNA ‘vaccine skeptics.’ Apparently, during the course of this long-form discussion on the contextual nature of the onus of proof, Benjamin or I shared Super Dangerous Medical Misinformation. Watch it if you dare on Rumble.”
THE AFGHANISTAN DEBACLE: Marine Sniper: I Was Denied Permission to Take Out Kabul Airport Suicide Bomber.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Nationwide shortage of asthma medication albuterol could worsen.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Minnesota Dems Want $100 Million for Reparations, Apologies for George Floyd and Dred Scott.
A RATIONAL CONCERN: Poll: Inflation has Americans worried about covering expenses after job loss.
AND SOME OF US ARE VERY BAD AT TEAMWORK, BUT WITH THE RIGHT TEAM IT’S MAGICAL: Teamwork.
Imposing it everywhere and on everything is a disaster. Same for Lean Manufacturing. And really, anything else.
RAISING PEOPLE’S SELF ESTEEM HAS BEEN AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER FOR EVERYONE: Stop Lying To People. They’re Not Perfect Just As They Are.
So, tell the truth. You should also, probably, clean your room. Just saying.
DO.NOT. MESS. WITH. PEOPLE’S. WORDS: Goosebumps Books Getting Woke Edits Without Author Approval.
Do you want a pen through the eye? Because this is how you get a pen through the eye. We authors might be soft as pillows. Until you touch our words. And the readers are no slouches, either.
IF THE INJURY WERE ONLY MORAL: Moral Injury Of Afghanistan Withdrawal Noted In Hearing.
UH. THEY DON’T THINK THEIR CITY IS TRASHED ENOUGH? Los Angeles City Council Looking to Make City a Sanctuary City.
OOH, BOY, THERE’S MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN: Report: DHS Running a Secret Program Gathering Domestic Intelligence.
YES, BUT DOES IT HAVE TEETH? Federal Court “Vacates” Biden’s Policy Of Mass Paroling of Illegal Border Crossers into the USA.
OF COURSE THEY DID. PATRIARCHY MEANS MEN MAKE BETTER WOMEN. OR SOMETHING: Jill Biden, Sec. Blinken Give Biological Male an ‘International Women of Courage Award’’
BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE: National Archives Hasn’t Reviewed the Nine Boxes of Biden Documents From Attorney’s Boston Office.
HE VIEWS THIS AS A SIGN HOPE IS GONE: America’s blacklist culture: Survey finds almost half of America’s major corporations are eagerly willing to blacklist others.
He’s wrong. The same and far worse was going on under Woodrow Wilson and FDR. The difference is now we have the means to hear about it. And that’s why things are actually getting better. They just look worse. And that’s good, because you can’t fix what you don’t see.
SURE, BUT IT’S TOUGH TO PASS. FEWER OPPORTUNITIES FOR CORRUPTION AND GRAFT: Why school choice won’t get here fast enough.