The masses can’t be properly indoctrinated if they don’t attend government schools.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Here‘s the full story from Reason.
Category Archives: Education
Cheese
It’s good for you, and full-fat is the best. This would have been heresy for much of the past half century.
Europeans Are Terrible
A new paper claims that the die-off of indigenous Americans in the sixteenth century after colonization caused the Little Ice Age.
I’m skeptical.
[Update a while later]
A response to a query to Judith Curry.
Just spotted this. Its an interesting hypothesis, but a global impact seems a bit far fetched
— Judith Curry (@curryja) January 31, 2019
Differential Equations
An entertaining disquisition on teaching them.
The Climate Debate
CEI pushes back on Chuck Todd’s fantasy that it is over.
Fauxcahontas’s Wealth Tax
Thoughts from Tom Maguire.
It seems unconstitutional to me on its face. We had to amend the Constitution to get an income tax, and I’m pretty confident that it would be required here as well. Anyway, as Jim Bennett noted on Facebook, we should reserve comment until we can properly understand the proposal by reading it in the original Cherokee.
[Update a while later]
Want to soak the rich and help poor people? Tax fringe benefits. Yes, this would help a lot with decoupling health insurance from employment, which is how the mess got started.
Buzzfeed
No, like Al Gore, it did not create the Internet. It didn’t even create Facebook.
Climate Models
When are they useful?
Venezuela
So God was Venezuelan. But the ruling class became corrupt, and wrecked the place. This was part of a disappointing global pattern, as many social democrats, many of whom had been active in the late Cold War fight against Communism, were corrupted, both in Latin America and Europe. The list of such leaders includes Nicaragua’s Carlos Andres Perez and European socialist anti-Communists such as Mario Soares (Portugal), Felipe Gonzalez (Spain), and Bettino Craxi (Italy), as well as Czech followers of Vaclav Havel.
Most of those countries have long since voted out the corrupt governments with which they were afflicted, but Venezuelans were not so fortunate. Not only was the economy ruined, but their rulers joined the ranks of a world-wide alliance aimed against the United States, Israel, and the West European democracies. Just look at the global lineup for and against Maduro today, and you can see it, just as General Mike Flynn and I wrote in our best-seller, The Field of Fight. Here is Maduro’s team: Cuba, Turkey, Russia, Iran, China, Nicaragua, and Hezbollah, Iran’s terror proxy. One will get you ten that North Korea is in there too.
That is the correct way to look at the turmoil in Venezuela. It isn’t just an internal affair; it’s part of a world war. You have surely noticed the reports of aircraft arriving in Caracas from Russia and other friendly countries. And you can bet that the Iranians and Russians are telling Maduro how to cope. You know what they’re saying: kill the ringleaders and arrest everyone else.
Yes, the war against communism never really ended with the fall of the wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. It just took on a new form. And now much (more) of the Democrat Party are on the other side.
[Saturday-morning update]
The Covington “Scandal”
What happened to the Covington kids is a signpost on how rapidly the Left, weaponized by social media, can come up with its latest Goldstein. Unfortunately, the face generated a lot more than two minutes of hate.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 21, 2019
Going on well over 20,000 days without advocating the punching of anyone. And this is another example of how when Leftists accuse sane people of being "hateful" and "violent" it's nothing but projection. https://t.co/omlC2l9jGh
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 21, 2019
Let us all celebrate the life of the man who dreamed of a day that we judge people by not the color of their skin, but the content of their character, by hating young white males.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 21, 2019
[Mid-afternoon update]
More from Treacher.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Mark Steyn: The drumbeat of the mob.
[Update a few minutes later]
Robby Soave has viewed all of the video, and discovered who the real (ignorant) racist is:
The Native American man says, “Go back to Europe where you came from. This is not your land, you have been here two, three generations compared to us. We’ve been here a million fucking years.” The MAGA teen responds, “That’s not true. Let’s go all the way back to Africa,” and proceeds to tell the story of the land bridge that once connected Asia to North America, which allowed humans to settle these lands some thousands of years ago. (His opponent counters that this a “bullshit theory.”)
Keep in mind, the teen saying that all human beings originally came from Africa is a member of the group of young people initially described by countless pundits as obviously, undeniably racist.
Leftists have to have had their sense of irony excised at birth.
[Wednesday-morning update]
The 48-hour rule. Maybe it should be 72.
[Bumped]
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What’s happening to those kids is vile.
It is. I was just listening to Glenn Beck on the way back dropping Patricia off at the bus stop. He was playing the audio of the horrific things that the “black Israelites” (or whatever the hell those monsters are) were saying about killing white people and raping women and making them their concubines, that no one in the media seems to think is a big deal. He made the point that Social Justice Warriors don’t give a damn about justice. They’re Social Vengeance Warriors.
[Update a while later]
Lawyer for Covington Catholic gives the media a 48-hour ultimatum.
And “Dear Covington boys: Everyone failed you.” Well, not everyone, but most.
Plus, Ross Douthat debates Ross Douthat.