The FBI has transformed itself from one of the most trusted law-enforcement agencies of this country into one that is becoming one of the of the most powerful tools of the Democratic Party.
No wonder people are losing trust in them
December 26, 2022
December 25, 2022
Sweden protects kids, Biden- not so much
Sweden gets another thing right.
Just as Sweden managed COVID better by keeping schools open and avoiding lockdowns they seem to be better at managing children’s mental health issues.
Unfortunately, this is opposite of Biden’s woke policies that are pressuring health care to quickly promote non-reversible treatments to children with mental health issues regarding their gender.
And, by the way, I felt the need to include a short lesson on what cis and trans mean, as over the holidays I learned that teachers, at least 2 liberal ones related to me, are actively “learning” and teaching their students woke material that are factually incorrect. For anyone interested:
What is the difference between cis and trans?
December 21, 2022
Biden butchers women’s rights
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We are seeing how well Biden’s botched withdrawal from Miss Janice. Dan is affecting women in Afghanistan |
December 20, 2022
Colorblind not Racist
“But color-blindness is neither racist nor backwards. Properly understood, it is the belief that we should strive to treat people without regard to race in our personal lives and in our public policy.”
December 17, 2022
December 13, 2022
Weingarten a risk to America?
Spring 2022 California Test Scores are in. Looking at overall Math and English scores compared to the scores in 2015 we see that there was a dramatic drop (loss of learning?) especially among black and Hispanic students.
We know that countries like Sweden and health experts in the US like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya recognized early on that COVID was not a significant threat to/through children and that remote schooling would have a significant harmful effect (Great Barrington Declaration).
We know that teachers' unions and Democrats worked to keep schools remote.
Maybe Randi Weingarten was (is) a significant risk to America.
Consumer Price Increases Still High
CPI, Consumer Price Index, released today, shows that while the rate of price increases has slowed down, we are still seeing significantly higher price increases than were seen in the previous two administrations.
December 9, 2022
Producer Price Increases still a problem
PPIFIS - Producer Price Index by Commodity: Final Demand was released today by FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).
An increase of 0.3% from previous month.
Inflation is still a problem.deral Reserve Bank of St. Louis
December 8, 2022
December 7, 2022
My read: Moore v Harper December 7, 2020
Liberal SCOTUS judges don’t want legislators, at least Republican ones, to determine the manner (districting) of choosing electors.
The alternative being political, appointed and/or elected, state courts deciding election maps?
The US Constitution says legislatures.
State constitutions may be able to define their state legislatures, but they are not given the right to determine the manner of elections.
Article I Legislative Branch
- Clause 1 Elections Clause
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
Section 4 Congress
December 6, 2022
Where are you?
There is an interesting test you can take to see where you fall on the spectrum of left or right, and libertarian or authoritarian.
December 5, 2022
Question-Boosters for 18-29?
Boosters for adults aged 18-29 - expected harms are not outweighed by public health benefits given the modest and transient effectiveness of vaccines against transmission
Kevin Bardosh
University of Washington; University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Medical School
Allison Krug
Artemis Biomedical Communications LLC
Euzebiusz Jamrozik
University of Oxford
Trudo Lemmens
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Salmaan Keshavjee
Harvard University - Harvard Medical School
Vinay Prasad
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Martin A. Makary
Johns Hopkins University - Department of Surgery
Stefan Baral
John Hopkins University
Tracy Beth Høeg
Florida Department of Health; Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
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December 2, 2022
November 30, 2022
Broken Border
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)
Why don’t these black lives matter?
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.)
November 27, 2022
Biden helps dictator. Ukraine-not so much
Biden still limits aid to Ukraine and now happy to help a dictator.
The U.S. Treasury on Saturday granted Chevron a license for a limited expansion of energy operations in Venezuela https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/world/americas/venezuela-chevron-oil-us.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
While the US has provided more military assistance to Ukraine than any other country, Biden continues to dither by worrying more about provoking Putin and ignoring the 10's of thousands of deaths, the rubbling of Ukraine and the consequences of letting Russia invade and stay in Ukraine.
From the beginning of Russia's threats to continue their 2014 invasion of Ukraine Biden has dithered. He actually stopped providing Javelins to prevent provoking Russia until the weeks before the actual invasion. He took military option off the table. He encouraged Zelensky to leave Ukraine. Rather ineffective sanctions were imposed. It was only after the heroically brave fighting and sacrifice of the Ukraine army and people and the discovery of the inept capabilities of the Russian army that Biden began increasing military aid. But he has done it in a slow incremental way and still continues to limit the capabilities and range of weapons assistance.
Biden needs to LEAD the world to stop Putin.
November 26, 2022
Disparity not equal to racism
Roland G. Fryer (Harvard) one of the most prominent economists has a great article discussing disparities versus racism.
Some excerpts below:
“Taken together, an honest review of the evidence suggests that current racial inequities are more a result of differences in skill than differences in treatment of those with the same skill.”
“Disparity doesn’t necessarily imply racism.”
“A black kid who believes he will face daunting societal obstacles is likely to underinvest in trying to climb society’s rungs. Every black student in the country needs to know that his return on investment in education is, if anything, higher than for white students.”
November 17, 2022
What would really help? (Not 2 deg climate target)
For everyone focused on fixing the existential threat of climate change note the importance of the current 2 degree target relative to other ideas. 
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