Twitter censored a number of accounts ahead of the January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., including Arizona State Rep Mark Finchem (R), who is now drafting legislation to fine big tech companies that engage in censorship.
Monday, January 04, 2021
Arizona State Rep Drafts Legislation to Fine Big Tech After 'Stop the Steal' Censorship
Arizona State Rep Drafts Legislation to Fine Big Tech After 'Stop the Steal' Censorship:
No wonder learnin' ain't happenin at amerikan kolleges-----Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles: What a Stalin Quote About Rigging Elections Reveals About the 2020 Election
Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles: What a Stalin Quote About Rigging Elections Reveals About the 2020 Election
"As Republicans began pushing back against the rigged election, a quote about voting from Joseph Stalin began circulating on social media.
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything," is how variations of it went.
As soon as the quote went viral, the media’s fact checkers tried to suppress it.
USA Today's fact checker rated it as false, claiming that Stalin had never said it based on speaking with two history professors at Vanderbilt University who vowed that they never heard of it.
As soon as the quote went viral, the media’s fact checkers tried to suppress it.
USA Today's fact checker rated it as false, claiming that Stalin had never said it based on speaking with two history professors at Vanderbilt University who vowed that they never heard of it.
One of the professors, who serves as the Director of Undergraduate Russian and East European Studies, ranted that it was, "an example of American right-wing paranoia, active manipulation of public opinion, or outright and fascism".
Truly a quote worthy of Stalin.
But had the ‘fact checker’ and the professors just checked Oxford's Essential Quotations, they would have found it.
But had the ‘fact checker’ and the professors just checked Oxford's Essential Quotations, they would have found it.
You don’t need a PhD or a fact checker title: just a modicum of integrity...Fascinating journey through lies and more lies. Read all!
"Linked". The new word to confuse, not inform.-----Michigan adds 3,239 cases, 60 deaths linked to COVID-19
Michigan adds 3,239 cases, 60 deaths linked to COVID-19
"Michigan confirmed 3,239 new cases of the coronavirus and 60 deaths linked to COVID-19 on Monday, including cases from Sunday...Read all.
Chicago teachers union leader vacations in Puerto Rico, while calling for lockdowns - TheBlaze
Chicago teachers union leader vacations in Puerto Rico, while calling for lockdowns - TheBlaze:
A Chicago Teachers Union leader is facing a wave of backlash after bragging about being on a Caribbean vacation, while at the same time demanding that schools remain closed because it is too dangerous.
Don't like Trump's handling of this pandemic?-----Europeans chafe at wait for approval of COVID-19 vaccine - Los Angeles Times
"BERLIN — As the U.S. starts its mass-inoculation drive and Britain continues its vaccine rollout, some in Europe are chafing at their wait for approval of a COVID-19 shot, which Germany is now demanding happen sooner than planned.
That may indeed come to pass following Tuesday’s announcement by the European Medicines Agency that it was moving its previously scheduled Dec. 29 meeting on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Monday.
...But the date change also came after Berlin and other European capitals increasingly expressed impatience with the EMA’s timetable.
...The EMA said its human medicines committee would “conclude its assessment” of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as early as possible “once the data on the quality, safety and effectiveness of the vaccine are sufficiently robust and complete to determine whether the vaccine’s benefits outweigh its risks.”...Read all.
2020 WAS THE POINT OF NO RETURN FOR ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA
Instapundit--2020 WAS THE POINT OF NO RETURN FOR ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA
2020 WAS THE POINT OF NO RETURN FOR ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA:
After 2020, it will be hard to see corporate media as anything but a public relations arm of the Democratic Party following the former’s attempts to bury not one, not two, but three major allegations leveled against left-wing politicians.
Axios, one of the more aggressive and fairer online news outlets, revealed in December that failed presidential candidate and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California developed a relationship with a suspected Chinese spy who worked on behalf of the Communist Chinese government as part of a far-reaching espionage operation...
ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored the story entirely when it broke.
...What a change of pace for the newsrooms that have spent the past four years hunting relentlessly for some connection between the Trump administration and Russian intelligence operations!
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense. Speaking of which, their Strange New Respect for President Trump is beginning surprisingly fast:
Every Republican president or presidential candidate is Hitler, until his reputation is rehabilitated by old media to bash the next (potential) Republican presidential candidate.--Posted by
Charlton Heston’s Prophetic Words on Political Correctness
Charlton Heston’s Prophetic Words on Political Correctness
"...Feb. 16, 1999, when Charlton Heston, movie star and president of the National Rifle Association, addressed a standing-room-only crowd at Harvard Law School.
...Referencing Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Heston declared, “I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war that’s about to hijack your birthright to think and say what lives in your heart.”
...He then speaks boldly and directly to his young audience: “You are the best and the brightest. You, here in this fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River. You are the cream.”
...“But I submit that you and your counterparts across the land are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that and abide it, you are, by your grandfathers' standards, cowards.” 
“But, what can you do?”...
The answer?
Stand your ground..
“You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.”
He then provides some specific means of resistance:
- “When a mugger sues his elderly victim for defending herself, jam the switchboard of the district attorney's office.
- When your university is pressured—your university—is pressured to lower standards until 80% of the students graduate with honors, choke the halls of the Board of Regents.
- When an 8-year-old boy pecks a girl's cheek on the playground and then gets hauled into court for sexual harassment, march on that school and block its doorways.
- When someone you elected is seduced by political power and betrays you—petition them, oust them, banish them.
- When Time magazine's cover portrays millennium nuts as deranged, crazy Christians holding a cross as it did last month, boycott their magazine and the products it advertises...Read all!
REPORT: China Collected Data While US Intelligence Fell Behind | The Daily Caller
REPORT: China Collected Data While US Intelligence Fell Behind | The Daily Caller:
When Chinese Communist Party Secretary Xi Jinping got ready to begin his presidency in 2013, United States intelligence services began struggling to piece together what was going on in China, according to a Dec. 22 report from Foreign Policy. Meanwhile, Chinese intelligence grew more powerful as they collected data from individuals in the United States.
A new proposal in the House of Representatives could eliminate gendered language from its rules
A new proposal in the House of Representatives could eliminate gendered language from its rules
- The House of Representatives on Sunday is slated to vote on whether to pass a series of changes that would eliminate all gendered words from its rules.
- The proposal put forth by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rules Committee Chair James McGovern swaps gendered words like "chairman" for gender-inclusive ones like "chair."
- The "bold reforms," if passed, would be "advancing inclusion," Pelosi said in a press release.
- House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called the proposal "stupid."
- The House of Representatives on Sunday is set to vote on a series of changes that would eliminate all gendered words like "mother," "father," "he," and "she" from its rules.
In addition to these specific words, the proposal outlines dozens of other shifts to gender-neutral language, as well as the establishment of an "Office of Diversity and Inclusion."
The proposal was put forth by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rules Committee Chair James McGovern.
In a press release, McGovern said the proposal "promotes inclusion and diversity" and is a way to "honor all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender-neutral."...Read all.
History for January 4
History for January 4 - On-This-Day.com
Jakob Grimm 1785
- 1884 - The socialist Fabian Society was founded in London.
- 1944 - The attack on Monte Cassino was launched by the British Fifth Army in Italy.
- 1951 - During the Korean conflict, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.
- 1965 - In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Johnson proclaimed the building of the "Great Society."
- 1997 - The Greek Cypriot government signed an agreement to buy S-300 surface-to-air missiles from Russia.
- 1999 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as Minnesota's 37th governor.
- 2007 - Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman to hold the position.
Sunday, January 03, 2021
Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer Signs Recall Petition for Gavin Newsom
Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer Signs Recall Petition for Gavin Newsom:
Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer (R) has signed a recall petition aimed at California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), the latest sign that the campaign is gaining momentum — and that, if successful, Newsom could face a formidable opponent.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Saturday:
Cruz Set to Lead Group of GOP Senators in Opposing Certification | Newsmax.com
Cruz Set to Lead Group of GOP Senators in Opposing Certification | Newsmax.com:
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Saturday he is joining a block of about a dozen Republican senators that will raise objections Jan 6 to Joe Biden's Nov. 3 victory, according to a joint statement from the lawmakers.
New Year’s Resolution: No More Mr. Science Guy
"No more Mr. Science Guy.
No more using reason and real science when debunking climate alarmist voodoo.
No more articles appealing to reason, facts, and no more debunking of a fake consensus.
That means, instead, ridiculing the warped gospel of the Church of Climate Change.
Q: What’s the difference between the Church of Scientology and the Church of Climate Change?
A: It’s not rationally measurable.
Both belief systems claim a superior, infallible moral authority. Both impose severe penalties on apostates.
- In the case of Climatism, the penalties include public vilification and career damage, whether in science, academe, politics, most of the media, and in many corporations who have signed up to it.
- In the case of Scientology dissent provokes intense long-term harassment.
Both try to enforce their belief system aggressively in any society that allows them to thrive. Both of them threaten their critics with derogatory excess. Neither of them tolerates satire and generally lack a sense of humor.
Q: What’s the difference between L Ron Hubbard, the High Priest of Scientology, and Al Gore, the High Priest of Climatism?
A: Hubbard is dead...Read all.
The war against YOU ramps up. Read a bit of this NPR drivel-----'Toxic Individualism': Pandemic Politics Driving Health Care Workers From Small Towns: NPR
'Toxic Individualism': Pandemic Politics Driving Health Care Workers From Small Towns
"...according to Chris Merrett, director of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs.
...Merrett says towns that let pandemic politics drive medical professionals away are choosing what he calls "toxic individualism" over the common good...Read all.
Distilleries who tried to help during the pandemic by manufacturing hand sanitizer are now facing over $14,000 in fees from the FDA - TheBlaze
Distilleries who tried to help during the pandemic by manufacturing hand sanitizer are now facing over $14,000 in fees from the FDA - TheBlaze:
Remember back during the early days of the pandemic, when massive hand sanitizer shortages gripped the nation, and distilleries stepped up to fill the void by manufacturing hand sanitizer? According to Reason, those distilleries are receiving a rude surprise to end the year: a letter from the FDA informing them that they owe over $14,000 in fees, thus proving the adage that no good deed goes unpunished, especially by the regulatory state.
Trump opened the Overton Window on a host of issues - American Thinker
Trump opened the Overton Window on a host of issues - American Thinker
"The Overton Window is a concept that politicians are limited in what policy ideas they can support. They will generally only consider initiatives that are accepted by a critical mass of society as viable options.
Such policies are said to lie inside the Overton Window.
Although other policy ideas exist, politicians risk losing popular support (and elections) if they pursue them.
These policies lie outside the Overton Window.
To open the Overton Window means to let in ideas that were previously toxic to politicians.
In other word, ideas that heretofore were verboten are now considered respectable for debate in the political world.
...Donald Trump is the exception.
He opened the Overton Window wide to let in a whole host of issues that the ruling class had long kept out of the public dialogue.
- These issues can be grouped under an umbrella called America First or Make America Great Again (MAGA). This is Donald Trump's major accomplishment...On foreign affairs, putting America First was on the outside of the Overton Window before Trump came to town...
...For all of this, Trump drew the hatred of the establishment.
...Hopefully enough conservative Republicans will step up to the plate and build on what President Trump has made possible...Read all.
A look at how the novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ played out on college campuses in 2020
A look at how the novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ played out on college campuses in 2020
"George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four describes a dystopian future dominated by a totalitarian government that uses surveillance, language, and propaganda to subdue its citizens.
Leftists on American college campuses took its precepts for a test drive in 2020.
While George Orwell's famous dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a work of fiction, it is widely regarded as a warning against totalitarian regimes, especially those that seek to quash freedom of expression.
This year, some of the most prevalent themes in the novel presented themselves on America's college campuses.
- Thought Police
...The student newspaper at Princeton University published an editorial in November encouraging the university’s administration to “act against racist speech.”
“For too long, white people, and particularly white men, in this country and on this campus, have held the power to decide what constitutes acceptable speech and action,” reads the piece. “They have consistently deemed racist, and particularly anti-Black, fictions acceptable.”...
- Ministry of Truth
...A student newspaper at Johns Hopkins University removed an article featuring a university study claiming that COVID-19 did not significantly increase the United States death rate.
Using publicly available data from the CDC, a university employee found that “the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19.” She also noted that “the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same” between 2019 and 2020.
Regardless, the newspaper pulled down the article after it had allegedly been used to spread “dangerous inaccuracies” online.
- 2 + 2 = 5
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the citizens of Oceania were forced to accept irrational ideas — “doublethink” — in order to signal their submission to the Party. "...
...In August, professors at Brooklyn College and other universities asserted that “2 + 2 = 5” on social media. Many alleged that Western concepts of mathematics are rooted in racism and “white supremacist patriarchy.” Another professor said that the United States “colonizes” math...Much here, read all!
Dozens of West Virginia patients mistakenly administered the wrong shot instead of the coronavirus vaccine - TheBlaze
Dozens of West Virginia patients mistakenly administered the wrong shot instead of the coronavirus vaccine - TheBlaze:
According to a report from CBS News, 42 people who believed they were being administered a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine were mistakenly instead injected with Regneron, an antibody cocktail that is often used to treat people who have already contracted the disease.
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