Friday, March 04, 2022
If this "logic" prevails...------California Supreme Court Orders UC-Berkeley to Freeze Enrollment, Siding With Neighborhood Activists
California Supreme Court Orders UC-Berkeley to Freeze Enrollment, Siding With Neighborhood Activists
At the heart of the issue is a lack of adequate housing.
- “the result of a legal battle with a residents group called Save Berkeley Neighborhoods that sued the university for failing to address the effect of increased student enrollment on housing, homelessness, traffic and noise”
At the heart of the issue is a lack of adequate housing.
Residents of the area argued that the school has not expanded enough to take on thousands of new students and have also complained about noise, traffic, homelessness, and crime.
We touched on this in a recent quick take but the ruling from the CA Supreme Court makes it a much bigger story...Read all!
We touched on this in a recent quick take but the ruling from the CA Supreme Court makes it a much bigger story...Read all!
Bidenflation: Businesses Tell the Fed That Rising Costs Are Getting Easier to Pass On to Customers
Bidenflation: Businesses Tell the Fed That Rising Costs Are Getting Easier to Pass On to Customers:
U.S. businesses are finding it easier to pass on increased costs to their customers and expect to keep raising prices in the months ahead, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.
The Fed, in its latest Beige Book report that collects business anecdotes from around the country, said that prices charged to customers increased at a “robust pace” across the United States. A few districts even reported an acceleration of prices.
Biden White House on the Verge of Making Disastrous Move with Kamala Harris
Biden White House on the Verge of Making Disastrous Move with Kamala Harris
"What are they doing?
"What are they doing?
The Biden White House is going to ask Kamala Harris to back into the game again?
Bench this woman, please.
For the sake of our intelligence and human civilization, just put her back into the cardboard box from whence she came.
- She has failed on the border.
- She failed in boosting COVID vaccination rates.
- Harris is a walking failure, who bleeds staff and fosters a toxic work environment.
- She doesn’t do the work and she doesn’t read the briefings her staff prepare for her, so she doesn’t look like an idiot.
- She botched the talking points about the sanctions slapped against Russia in the aftermath of their invasion of Ukraine.
- And now, the White House wants to send her to Poland? Does she even know where that is on the map (via The Hill)...Read all.
NRA Scores Court Victory Against AG Letitia James In New York | The Daily Caller
NRA Scores Court Victory Against AG Letitia James In New York | The Daily Caller:
New York Supreme Court Judge Joel Cohen ruled that Attorney General Letitia James could not seek to dissolve the National Rifle Association in a ruling issued Wednesday.
Evidence Suggests COVID Vaccines May Not Save More Lives Than They Take | Intellectual Takeout
Evidence Suggests COVID Vaccines May Not Save More Lives Than They Take | Intellectual Takeout
"Medical journals and textbooks are clear that the only way to accurately determine the life-or-death impacts of medical treatments is by measuring “all-cause mortality” in “randomized controlled trials.”
...Beyond the fact that death is the most severe and clearest health outcome, the reason why this measure is more vital than any other is because RCTs control for every possible confounding factor, including those that are not obvious.
...The results reveal that 70 people died during the Moderna and Pfizer trials, including 37 who received Covid vaccines and 33 who did not.
Combined with the fact that half of the study participants were given vaccinations and the other half were given placebos, these crucial results provide no indication that the vaccines save more lives than they take...Read all.
...Beyond the fact that death is the most severe and clearest health outcome, the reason why this measure is more vital than any other is because RCTs control for every possible confounding factor, including those that are not obvious.
...The results reveal that 70 people died during the Moderna and Pfizer trials, including 37 who received Covid vaccines and 33 who did not.
Combined with the fact that half of the study participants were given vaccinations and the other half were given placebos, these crucial results provide no indication that the vaccines save more lives than they take...Read all.
What If Russia Loses? - Noah Rothman, Commentary Magazine
What If Russia Loses? - Noah Rothman, Commentary Magazine
"...How does Putin deescalate the crisis he inaugurated?
Such an outcome is hard to envision now...
- Vladimir Putin’s decision to announce the activation of Russia’s strategic nuclear arsenal is a clear signal to the West that it must pare back its support for Ukraine.
- It’s quite possible that Moscow could label Western nations providing material support to Kyiv co-belligerents in an active war against Russia.
- It could violently interdict weapons shipments into Ukraine, or conduct cyberattacks on vital elements of Western civilian infrastructure...
- Whether by accident or as a shot across NATO’s bow, it’s not hard to imagine a Russian strike on a Western asset that cannot be ignored.
At the moment, there is precisely no appetite in the West for allowing Russia a face-saving way out of this crisis.
- Moscow misjudged its adversaries.
- The West misjudged Russia.
- And Ukraine couldn’t possibly have imagined the outpouring of support for its efforts to sustain the fight. Everyone’s assumptions about how this conflict would play out proved inaccurate.
Those assumptions will need to be replaced with new assumptions...Read all!
Government "delivering" on the "important" needs of America!-----Department of Interior to Change Names of Over 600 Sites to Remove the Word ‘Squaw’
Department of Interior to Change Names of Over 600 Sites to Remove the Word ‘Squaw’
On Tuesday, the United States Department of Interior (DOI) announced that it would be declaring the term “squaw” to be derogatory, and would rename over 600 historical sites that feature the term.
As reported by CNN, DOI Secretary Deb Haaland first wrote an order back in November declaring that the longtime term “squaw,” which often referred to female Native Americans, was racist and sexist.
On Tuesday, the United States Department of Interior (DOI) announced that it would be declaring the term “squaw” to be derogatory, and would rename over 600 historical sites that feature the term.
As reported by CNN, DOI Secretary Deb Haaland first wrote an order back in November declaring that the longtime term “squaw,” which often referred to female Native Americans, was racist and sexist.
To this end, Haaland announced the creation of the Names Task Force, consisting of 13 members, for the purpose of coming up with new names for the over 600 sites that included the term in their names...Read all.
House Democrats Block Bill to Approve Keystone XL Pipeline, Promote ‘American Energy Independence From Russia’
House Democrats Block Bill to Approve Keystone XL Pipeline, Promote ‘American Energy Independence From Russia’"House Republicans introduced the “American Independence from Russian Energy Act” on Feb. 28, a measure meant to authorize the Keystone XL pipeline, boost domestic oil and gas production, and prevent President Joe Biden’s executive branch agencies from halting energy leasing on federal land and water, among other provisions.
Yet on March 1, the legislation was shot down in a 221–202 vote, almost entirely along partisan lines...Read all.
Elon Musk quickly fact checks Biden over SOTU claims on electric vehicles that ignored Tesla - TheBlaze
Elon Musk quickly fact checks Biden over SOTU claims on electric vehicles that ignored Tesla - TheBlaze:
Musk has good reason to be upset with Biden.
Not only has Tesla created tens of thousands of jobs in the U.S. and generated billions of dollars in revenue, but Tesla is also the most productive automotive manufacturer in North America, producing 8,550 cars per week on average at its Fremont, California, plant, Bloomberg reported.
Nate Jackson: Marxist Envy Drives BLM Grifters | The Patriot Post
Nate Jackson: Marxist Envy Drives BLM Grifters | The Patriot Post
"Black lives matter, and that’s why the organization that coopted that phrase as its name deserves utter condemnation for being little more than a bunch of Marxist grifters.
Consider Patrisse Cullors, the self-described “queer” and “abolitionist” (as in abolishing the police) cofounder of Black Lives Matter (BLM).
Consider Patrisse Cullors, the self-described “queer” and “abolitionist” (as in abolishing the police) cofounder of Black Lives Matter (BLM).
If you doubt that she’s a Marxist, don’t just take our word for it; take hers: “We are trained Marxists,” she said.
But she’s also a wildly successful capitalist because she managed to peddle her divisive tripe all the way to the bank, raking in millions of dollars and buying multiple mansions before “retiring” from BLM last year at age 37.
...Speaking of Black Liars’ Millions, we recently noted that roughly $60 million of BLM’s graft was unaccounted for.
...Speaking of Black Liars’ Millions, we recently noted that roughly $60 million of BLM’s graft was unaccounted for.
Well, it seems that’s an underestimate...Read all.
History for March 4
History for March 4 - On-This-Day.com
Knute Rockne 1888
- 1766 - The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, which had caused bitter and violent opposition in the U.S. colonies.
- 1794 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. The Amendment limited the jurisdiction of the federal courts to automatically hear cases brought against a state by the citizens of another state. Later interpretations expanded this to include citizens of the state being sued, as well.
- 1904 - In Korea, Russian troops retreated toward the Manchurian border as 100,000 Japanese troops advanced.
- 1908 - The New York board of education banned the act of whipping students in school.
- 1917 - Republican, Jeanette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
- 1933 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gave his inauguration speech in which he said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."
- 1954 - In Boston, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital reported the first successful kidney transplant.
- 2012 - Vladimir Putin won re-election in Russia's presidential election.
Thursday, March 03, 2022
Youngkin Poised to Withdraw Virginia From Multistate Climate Pact
Youngkin Poised to Withdraw Virginia From Multistate Climate Pact:
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is pursuing a multipronged strategy to dismantle climate change regulations and hold down energy costs, his press secretary told The Daily Signal.
Government records indicate that Youngkin will rely on a mix of executive action, budget changes, and legislation to withdraw from the 11-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Notre Dame Prof: Our Schools Are Committing ‘Civilizational Suicide’
Notre Dame Prof: Our Schools Are Committing ‘Civilizational Suicide’
Dr. Patrick Deneen has taught in some of America’s finest universities. He has been a professor at Princeton, Georgetown, and is now in the political science department at Notre Dame.
So what’s his assessment of America’s best students?
“My students are know-nothings.”
In an extremely important essay posted to Minding the Campus titled “How a Generation Lost Its Common Culture,” Deneen further describes his students:
“They are exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy, mostly honest, well-intentioned, and utterly decent. But their brains are largely empty, devoid of any substantial knowledge that might be the fruits of an education in an inheritance and a gift of a previous generation. They are the culmination of western civilization, a civilization that has forgotten nearly everything about itself, and as a result, has achieved near-perfect indifference to its own culture.”...Read all.
Collapsing Narratives - by Peter Venetoklis
Collapsing Narratives - by Peter Venetoklis
The invasion of Ukraine exposes the Left's delusions about guns and green energy...
- the delusion that carbon energy, in particular oil and gas, can be eliminated from the global stage with present-day wind, solar, and battery technology;
- and the dismissal of the premise of an armed citizenry as a necessary element of freedom and sovereignty...Good stuff here, read all!
While Ukraine fights to defend itself from one of the world's largest armies, the US Army is training its officers on gender identity - TheBlaze
While Ukraine fights to defend itself from one of the world's largest armies, the US Army is training its officers on gender identity - TheBlaze:
An official Army presentation on the subject, purportedly obtained by the outlet through a military whistleblower, was titled "Policy on the Military Service of Transgender Persons and Persons with Gender Dysphoria" and aimed to help train officers on how to teach subordinates materials related to gender dysphoria and transgenderism in the U.S. Army.
The unnamed whistleblower, the outlet reported, was a "high-ranking officer in the Army Special Forces."
Zuckerbucks at Work: 91 Nursing Homes in 5 Wisconsin Cities Had 95% to 100% Voter Turnout Rates - They Abused Disabled Seniors and Stole Their Votes
Zuckerbucks at Work: 91 Nursing Homes in 5 Wisconsin Cities Had 95% to 100% Voter Turnout Rates - They Abused Disabled Seniors and Stole Their Votes
"...Justice Gableman disclosed during the hearing that the nursing homes in the Zuckerberg-funded cities had a 95% to 100% turnout.
"...Justice Gableman disclosed during the hearing that the nursing homes in the Zuckerberg-funded cities had a 95% to 100% turnout.
This is clear voter fraud they discovered.
The video that played during the hearing today was heartbreaking.
It takes a special kind of evil to abuse disabled seniors...Read all.
The video that played during the hearing today was heartbreaking.
It takes a special kind of evil to abuse disabled seniors...Read all.
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