School Smut Hypocrisy, Vegas Edition

Posted on May 23, 2022 by The Political Hat

     Smut in Las Vegas? Expected. Smut is public schools so smutty that it can’t even be talked about in public? If not expected, then sadly all to real.

     Some later on tried to defend the below assignment as “age appropriate”, but it is a rather strange “age appropriate” material that is suitable for younger teens but not for their parents. Nor is it the first example of a school board trying to shut parents down for inappropriateness for merely quoting actual school assignments.

     The Clark County School District did apologize… for not giving the angry parent “their full time for public comment”.

     And just what was this assignment suitable for younger teens but not their parents?

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News of the Week (May 22nd, 2022)

Posted on May 22, 2022 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for May 22nd, 2022


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Firing Line Friday: The Conservative Search for a Foreign Policy

Posted on May 20, 2022 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     As world events unfold and global paradigms change, so do the foreign policy threats and opportunities to America. William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses the quest for a conservative search for a foreign policy in just such a time of foreign flux with Henry Kissinger and Fareed Zakaria.

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Quick Takes – California Madness: Discrimination via Non-discrimination Compliance: Government Lying To Convict The Police; Outsourcing Fixing The State

Posted on May 19, 2022 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: “I didn’t do it, you’re lying about me doing it, and it’s someone else’s responsibility to fix it!”

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     In November of 2020, California voted down an attempt to legalize racial discrimination.   Unsurprisingly the Regents of the University of California (who once were on the forefront of banning racial discrimination) voted to support discrimination… all while hiring a purported non-discrimination officer.

“Despite the university system’s declared commitment to discrimination, however, one of the system’s campuses, UC-Berkeley recently named Ohio State University’s former interim Title IX coordinator Kellie Brennan as its new ‘Executive Director of Civil Rights and Whistleblower Compliance.’

“According to a job post description, ‘successful candidates’ for the position ‘should be experts in nondiscrimination compliance.’

“‘Successful candidates should possess experience working in nondiscrimination compliance or allied field including the oversight of complex investigations of discrimination allegations or institutional violations of nondiscrimination laws and policies,’ the description states.”

     If you traveled back in time and told George Orwell about this story, he wouldn’t believe you.

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A Strong But Grounded Foreign Policy

Posted on May 18, 2022 by The Political Hat

     It seems that we’ve gone in the past half century in America from the “they always blame America First” Left who urged America to not meddle in other countries’ affairs and to instead tend to troubles (and government spending), at home to the purported Right who blame domestic soyjacks and their international confederates for meddling in other counties’ affairs and instead tend to troubles (and government spending) at home. Whether this is an example of “horseshoe theory” or just an example of two sides to the same coin is an issue for another debate. The question is ought the more sane and rational people gravitate to when it comes to foreign policy.

     An intellectually informative debate was held recently, with Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) being one of the highlights.

     Sen. Cotton, in particular, laid out a “manly” foreign policy that is outward looking but firmly grounded domestically.

“The charge of policy-makers, said Cotton, is to secure ‘the blessings of liberty’ promised by the Preamble of the Constitution — namely, ‘our safety, freedom, and prosperity.’

“According to Cotton, foreign policy is the ‘realm of prudential judgment and reasoning.’ The Arkansas senator denounced ‘doctrines’ in his remarks, which he said were inconsistent with any kind of conservative foreign-policy approach.

“‘Let us discard the search for grand and abstract doctrines,’ said Cotton, who was also sure to note that a prudential approach was not inconsistent with a principled one.

“Principles, asserted Cotton, must be what guide prudential action.”

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The Laws All Being Flat

Posted on May 17, 2022 by The Political Hat

The Unfettering Nascent

     In this age of wokeness, its pseudo-Hegelian antithesis anti-wokeness practically requires an equal and opposite response, where non-woke “cuckservatives” are labeled as being pro-woke for “fighting with one arm behind their backs” or even acknowledging the de facto article of pseudo-faith that the laws have all already been flattened, so engaging in by any means necessary—allegedly—is but turnabout being fair play. However, in reality, this is more akin to the belief that if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

     There is no better example of the the “fightin’ right” willing to toss aside the core pillars of the superficial structure they claim to protect, than the embrace of Texas’ scheme to impose its will while avoiding all legal challenges by tossing out a core Common Law precept of standing by allowing all non-governmental actors to enforce a de facto criminal law in a de jure civil action by threat of civil penalties by private citizen who so empowered by the state as de facto quasi-agents of the state.

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European Union: The Stasi Redux?

Posted on May 16, 2022 by The Political Hat

     Demonstrating that liberty and human rights are often more of a suggestion than a rule to the overlords of the European Union, a proposal has been introduced to the European Parliament to mandate full time monitoring and reporting of all messaging communications and third party hosted data storage.

“With the stated intention of fighting against ‘child pornography’, the Commission plans to oblige all providers of e-mail, chat and messaging services to search for suspicious messages in a fully automated way and disclose them to the police. This requires them to monitor and scan the communications of all citizens. End-to-end encryption would have to be undermined by ‘client-side’ scanning on all mobile phones.”

     Under the guise of protecting children from CSAM (child sexual abuse material), the proposed law could be in violation of European privacy regulations, and a lawsuit from a Member of the European Parliament, Dr. Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party), who goes on to say:

“Apart from ineffective web blocking, the proposed chat control threatens to destroy digital privacy of correspondence and secure encryption. Scanning personal cloud storage would result in the mass surveillance of private photos. Mandatory age verification would end anonymous communication. Appstore censorship would be the end of secure messenger apps and patronise young people. The proposal does not include the overdue obligation on law enforcement agencies to report and remove known abusive material on the net, nor does it provide for Europe-wide standards for effective prevention measures, victim support and counselling and effective criminal investigations. Von der Leyen continues to chart the territory of censorship, mass surveillance, anonymity bans and paternalism, while leaving the activities of child porn rings completely untouched. The proposed measures deprive the entire population of trust, self-determination and security on the net. This plan is nothing other than terrorism against our digital fundamental rights, which I will not relent to fight.

“This Big Brother attack on our mobile phones, private messages and photos with the help of error-prone algorithms is a giant step towards a Chinese-style surveillance state. Chat control is like the post office opening and scanning all letters – ineffective and illegal. Even the most intimate nude photos and sex chats can suddenly end up with company personnel or the police. Those who destroy the digital secrecy of letters destroy trust. We all depend on the security and confidentiality of private communication: People in need, victims of abuse, children, the economy and also state authorities”

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News of the Week (May 15th, 2022)

Posted on May 15, 2022 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for May 15th, 2022


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Firing Line Friday: Where Do We Go on Immigration?

Posted on May 13, 2022 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     With increasing pressure on America’s Southern border and the impending end of “Title 42”, the question of illegal immigration is as salient as ever. Decades ago, Ronald Reagan signed comprehensive immigration reform that… failed. Let us look back on that debate from over forty years ago betweem William F. Buckley, Jr. and Willian French Smith and see if we can learn more from the question of “where do we go on immigration?”

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Quick Takes – Rent Control Fail: Minnesota; Stockholm; Berlin

Posted on May 12, 2022 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine the can design.” ― F. A. Hayek

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Demonstrating, yet again, that limiting rent means limiting economic reason to provide rentals.

“Less than 24 hours after St. Paul voters approved one of the country’s most stringent rent control policies, Nicolle Goodman’s phone started to ring. Developers were calling to tell the city’s director of planning and economic development they were placing projects on hold, putting hundreds of new housing units at risk. …

“Voters’ decision Tuesday to cap annual rent increases at 3% sent developers into a frenzy, prompting some with stakes in Minnesota’s capital city to pause projects or reconsider sites for future housing.

Unlike most cities with rent control, St. Paul will not exempt new construction, which opponents argue will force lenders and developers to look outside the city for spots where they feel more confident that they will recoup investments and earn profits.”

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