Category Archives: Social Commentary

Education, History, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Happy Semiquincentennial

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First, a message from a Canadian:

I saw festivities in both Tokyo and Paris. For example, this from President Macron, featuring the French gift from the 19th century:

Given recent polling, it appears that the Japanese and French are more patriotic about America than the Democrats are.

And Commie Mamdani doesn’t understand what makes America exceptional:

In fact, what is exceptional is there are some things that are fixed in place, including the limits to government in the Constitution, a document that he has apparently never read, or perhaps has, and (like Obama and other Marxists) hates. Coolidge, who on the occasion, was fortunately not “silent,” said it best a century ago.

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable [sic] rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

I think that last night’s speech by Trump on the danger of communism and collectivism was one of his best. I don’t know how he’ll top it today.

[Evening update]

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Business, Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

The College “Educated”

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They’re not educated; they’re credentialed and propagandized, and they’re the problem.

[Update a while later]

Stop “fighting anti-Semitism,” and recommit to American history.

Education, General Science, Health, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Social Commentary

“The Science” Is Broken

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I always laugh when someone demands to see a “peer reviewed” paper on a topic, as though that means anything worthwhile.

Worth noting, of course, that Michael Mann’s papers were “peer reviewed.”