Archive for 2025

RULING CLASS HATE HAS WRECKED AMERICA:

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Doctors “Astounded”: Long-Held Belief About Coffee and Heart Rhythm Was Wrong. “Although people with heart conditions such as A-Fib are often told to avoid caffeine because it might worsen symptoms, new research suggests the opposite may be true. . . . The research team titled their project DECAF, short for Does Eliminating Coffee Avoid Fibrillation? It is the first randomized clinical trial designed to examine the relationship between caffeinated coffee and A-Fib. The study received support from the National Institutes of Health.”

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK:

REICH SHOWS, AGAIN, WHY NOBODY LISTENS TO HIM ANYMORE: There was a time when Robert Reich was actually somebody who had something relevant to tell the nation. But it’s been all irrelevance since being Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary. That said, according to Issues & Insights, Reich’s latest Substack mutterings about the sh-tty Trump economy merit a response. And it’s a doozy!

YES, PREMIUMS ARE EXPLODING: But those huge Obamacare hikes are more proof — as if more were needed — that the health insurance program is a rotting failure. More here from The Washington Stand.

MORE CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN:

UGH: Idiocratic education.

The University of California system went “test-free” five years ago. SAT and ACT scores aren’t considered in admissions. The percentage of new students who can’t meet high school — or middle school — standards soared.

At UC San Diego, where remedial math enrollment went from 30 in 2020 to 900 this year, a tutor said students can’t think their way through a word problem.

“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is going up,” Janine Wilson, the chair of the undergraduate economics program at UC Davis, told Horowitch. “We are just seeing many folks without that capability.”

Students seem to think they don’t need to learn math, said Maria Emelianenko, chair of George Mason University’s math department. AI will do it for them.

“Who is going to trust somebody who got a degree in airline engineering who doesn’t know how to think through a problem without a computer telling them the answer?” Brian Conrad, a Stanford math professor, said. “The premise that foundational ideas don’t need to be learned anymore is a recipe for idiocracy.”

Horowitch points to several culprits for the decline in achievement, starting with the distractions caused by smartphones in schools, and the federal government’s weakening of accountability measures.

Get the Feds out and let local communities demand accountability.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT: NY DoorDash driver arrested after sharing video of naked customer passed out in his own home. “She had been the one to contact cops, claiming she had been deliberately lured by the man, even though he appeared to be passed out in his own home. . . . However, Ring camera footage appears to show Henderson let herself into the man’s house, and police have said there is no indication she was encouraged to go in, let alone film.”

RED DEAD REDEMPTION: