University free speech?

A great talk from Jonathan Haidt regarding why Universities have changed from free speech and truth to social justice. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oiu8_kNw3tqe3WYdcuBDaSwQRK6x8k4t/view?usp=drivesdk

This was one talk from the Academic Freedom Conference recently hosted at the Stanford Business School addressing the growing concern, that truth and free speech, is being replaced by social justice at our major Universities. 

“ Academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech are under threat as they have not been for decades. Visibly, academics are “canceled,” fired, or subject to lengthy disciplinary proceedings in response to academic writing or public engagement. Less visibly, funding agencies, university bureaucracies, hiring procedures, promotion committees, professional organizations, and journals censor some kinds of research or demand adherence to political causes. Many parts of universities have become politicized or have turned into ideological monocultures, excluding people, ideas, or kinds of work that challenge their orthodoxy. Younger researchers are afraid to speak and write and don’t investigate promising ideas that they fear will endanger their careers. 

The two-day Academic Freedom Conference, arranged by the organizing committee, aims to identify ways to restore academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech and expression on campus and in the larger culture and restore the open debate required for new knowledge to flourish. The conference will focus on the organizational structures leading to censorship and stifling debate and how to repair them.”

For anyone interested in learning more about what may be happening to free speech as relates to universities, all of the talks are available at: https://cli.stanford.edu/events/conference-symposium/academic-freedom-conference

Joe and Jobs - not so much

 Why are so many people still not working?

Does anybody else feel poorer?

 

Why My Vote Doesn't Count

It's funny (not really) how Democrat's concern over fair voting really works.  Below is the politically gerrymandered voting district that I get to vote in. 

Hyperbole

 hy·per·bo·le /hīˈpərbəlē/ noun / def: if you elect Republicans, it will be the end of democracy; if you elect Republicans, they may kill your children; if you elect Republicans, it will be the end of the world.

Deaths of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which overall will not reduce inflation, may reduce the cost of some drugs, but it will also reduce the number of new cures and treatments developed. 

De­moc­rats claim their In­fla­tion Re­duc­tion Act will Control prices by giving Medicare the power to “ne­go­ti­ate”, i.e. control, drug prices, through com­plex and ill-con­ceived price-set­ting scheme. 

As predicted these Democratic price controls are already causing harm by reducing the incentive to develop new drugs. 

Al­ny­lam an­nounced it is sus­pend­ing de­vel­op­ment of a treat­ment for Star­gardt dis­ease, a rare eye dis­or­der, be­cause of the com­pa­ny’s need “to eval­u­ate im­pact of the In­fla­tion Re­duc­tion Act.” Al­ny­lam’s de­ci­sion turns on a pro­vi­sion in the De­moc­rats’ bill that ex­empts from price-set­ting ne­go­ti­a­tions drugs that treat only one rare dis­ease.

On Tues­day, Eli Lilly an­nounced it is can­cel­ing work on a drug that had been un­der­go­ing stud­ies for cer­tain blood can­cers. “In light of the In­fla­tion Re­duc­tion Act,” the com­pany wrote to End­points News, “this pro­gram no longer met our thresh­old for con­tin­ued in­vest­ment.”

Many more new treatments and cures will be stymied and/or delayed. 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-inflation-reduction-act-killing-potential-cures-pharmaceutical-companies-treatment-patients-drugs-prescriptions-ira-manufacturers-11667508291

A Real Threat to Democracy

She has now thrown her weight behind defeating the West’s “oppressive” capitalist system. Calling for a “system-wide transformation” she claimed that the world’s current “normal” - dictated by the people in power - has caused the climate breakdown  “We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet. It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/02/greta-thunberg-time-overthrow-wests-oppressive-racist-capitalist/

Hmmm. And the NBA?

We should be a country of equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

Sotomayor, not so much: “I thought part of what it meant to be an American is that our institutions are reflective of who we are as a people….These are the pipelines to leadership on our society. military, business, law. If universities aren't racially diverse, then all of those institutions won't be  diverse either.”

Who is immoral?

Well the Biden administration is actively supporting and promoting gender conversion of children, other parts of the developed world have reversed course from this approach (UK, Sweden, France, Finland)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/23/children-who-think-transgender-just-going-phase-says-nhs/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/24/joe-biden-says-immoral-ban-gender-reassignment-surgery-children/

Another month of broken border

Biden’s immigration policies are a mess, put many innocents at risk AND allow Mexican cartels to get rich.

I support immigration. A lot of immigration. But legal immigration, with a mix of merit based  (engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, doctors, mathematicians, etc.) and opportunity-based (people who want to work hard, adopt American values, and get ahead). 

(Note-The numbers are the apprehensions. We do not know how many people get through without being apprehended)

Where is BLM? Oct 24, 2022

Where’s the outrage? Where’s BLM? Where’s Lebron?

Another week and more lives lost. Until the Democrats stop propagating the false narrative nothing will I change.

Black lives matter - I support the words but cannot support the organization because it propagates the false narrative that systemic racism is the primary cause of the disparities(murders, incarceration, teen mothers, fatherless households, income, wealth, etc.) between blacks and whites.

Racism exists (though not widespread), it’s bad, and we should continue to work to reduce it. Excess police force exists (though rare), it's  bad and we should continue to work to reduce it.

BLM organization’s positions and policies do not address the problems (murders, fatherless households, teen pregnancy, lack of agency) and do not address the key root causes (it’s not excessive police force or systemic racism.) 

https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2021/10/wheres-biden-lebron-blm-102521.html

 

Will Biden investigate/prosecute this hate crime

A black man blindsides and shoves a white man onto the subway tracks in Brooklyn for no reason. I wonder if Biden and or Merrick Garland will investigate this hate crime. 

What kind of society and/or  culture isn’t outraged by this?

https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/nyc-subway-shove-victims-mother-120914606.html

Restoration vs Annihilation

Democrats aren’t “pro­gressives” caught up in “woke” agen­das. They are power-seek­ing lovers of big gov­ern­ment, spending and creating dependency tied to ex­trem­ist views, who have wrought infla­tion and eco­nomic chaos, adopted a di­vi­sive, left­ist agenda, and given us a laugh­ingstock of a bor­der. They created a rot that eats at Amer­i­ca’s great cities with crip­pling price in­creases, crime, lag­ging schools, deadly drug use, home­less­ness, and are destroying meritocracy, the foundation of America’s greatness.

Restore American Exceptionalism

Biden. Stop dithering. Lead. Stop Putin.

 

https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2022/09/biden-stop-dithering-lead-stop-putin.html

Dems can raise children better than parents?

Elizabeth Guzman - Virginia Democrat thinks Democrats can raise children better than their parents. 

Her bill would expand the state’s definition of child abuse and neglect to include parents who do not affirm their child’s gender identity or sexual orientation.

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classroom/lgbtq-students-parents-schools-education-child-protective-services-felony-glenn-youngkin-jason-miyares-lesbian-gay-transgender-charges-virginia-sexual-orientation-gender-identity

Politicizing justice- not good

 https://www.dailywire.com/news/nonviolent-pro-life-activist-facing-11-years-over-federal-face-act-charges-slams-biden-admin-defends-unborn

https://www.commonsense.news/p/if-abortions-arent-safe-neither-are

DEI - is a false narrative

You can run but you can’t hide (or lie)

You can run but you can’t hide (or lie)

Where’re BLM/Lebron/Biden?

Where’s the outrage? Where’s BLM? Where’s Lebron?

Another week and more lives lost. Until the Democrats stop propagating the false narrative nothing will change.

Black lives matter - I support the words but cannot support the organization because it propagates the false narrative that systemic racism is the primary cause of the disparities(murders, incarceration, teen mothers, fatherless households, income, wealth, etc.) between blacks and whites.

Racism exists (though not widespread), it’s bad, and we should continue to work to reduce it. Excess police force exists (though rare), it's  bad and we should continue to work to reduce it.

BLM organization’s positions and policies do not address the problems (murders, fatherless households, teen pregnancy, lack of agency) and do not address the key root causes (it’s not excessive police force or systemic racism.) 

https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2021/10/wheres-biden-lebron-blm-102521.html

 

Biden Breaking Piggy Bank

Biden is discouraging US oil production, hurting US oil producers and helping Putin.

Maybe worse, he is taking oil out of the Strategic Oil Reserve in a desperate attempt to reduce inflation and help Democrats win elections, but increasing the risk to the US economy if there's an oil disruption.