News of the Week for Feb. 14th<\/sup>, 2021<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n White House looks at domestic travel restrictions as COVID mutation surges in Florida<\/a> What Data Shows About Impact of COVID-19 Vaccines So Far<\/a> World Health Organization: China’s Denials of a Lab Leak Resolve the Issue for Us<\/a> Is coughing a crime? Danish court hears appeal against pandemic-linked conviction<\/a> Trump Was So Sick With COVID In October, Aides Thought He Might Be Put On A Ventilator<\/a> The Biden Administration Calls Out China for Not Cooperating with WHO Investigators<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Newly Released Interview Reveals Biden’s Plan To Pass Gun Ban<\/a> Utah Eliminates Gun Permits<\/a> Carolyn Maloney unveils gun safety legislation package<\/a> Judge rules Danforth shooting victims’ families can sue gun maker<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Green Groups Object to Swedish Climate Geoengineering Experiment<\/a> Dismay at Ismay<\/a> Climate “Crisis” Update<\/a> 14 State Attorney Generals Tell Biden They\u2019re Reviewing Legal Options Regarding Keystone XL<\/a> Wind and Solar Energy Don’t Work<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CA Legislature Creating an “Office of Healthcare Affordability”: What Could Go Wrong?<\/a> California Bill to Force M.D. Participation in Assisted Suicide<\/a> Socialist ‘Lancet’ Study Says 40 Percent of COVID Deaths in U.S. ‘Unnecessary’<\/a> Fury at “do not resuscitate” notices given to Covid patients with learning disabilities<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n China’s New Type 075 Amphibious Assault Ship Could Threaten Taiwan<\/a> Bombings, Shooting In MN Health Clinic<\/a> Explosives are missing from the nation’s largest Marine Corps base and an investigation is underway<\/a> The State Department’s Bipartisan Taiwan Diplomacy<\/a> Stealth Destroyer Zumwalt Is Getting Hypersonic Missiles<\/a> China Bans the BBC in Its Territory After Report of Rape, Abuse in Uighur Concentration Camps<\/a> China is collecting the world’s DNA and the reason is sinister: Gordon Chang<\/a> With Trump Gone, Iran and India Seek to Deepen Trade, Military Ties<\/a> France wades into the South China Sea with a nuclear attack submarine<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Left-Wing Plot to Misinform Our Children<\/a> YouTuber Wins Darwin Award<\/a> California Proposed Ethnic Studies Curriculum A Subterfuge For Anti-American And Anti-Zionist Activism<\/a> No Surprise \u2014 College Essays Are Becoming Politicized<\/a> ACLU to push reparations bill, Southern expansion<\/a> When Education Becomes (Literal) Indoctrination<\/a> Cory Booker Wants to Replace Major College Football With Federally Controlled Pro Game<\/a> In Other News, Despite Promises, the Leopard Has Yet to Change Her Spots<\/a> LA Judge Rules Against DA Gascon On Some Sentencing Enhancements, Three Strikes Law<\/a> Hmmm: More Than A Quarter Of Republicans Say Those Who Voted To Impeach Are “Principled”<\/a> Van Jones, Trump Apologist?<\/a> Dershowitz: I Have No Idea What Trump’s Lawyer Is Doing In Opening Arguments<\/a> Lawyer In Zoom Meeting Tells Judge “I’m Not A Cat”<\/a> The Crazy Interview with SF School Board President on How San Francisco Renamed its Schools<\/a> White gay dad of mixed-race kids not diverse enough for all-women parent advisory group in San Francisco <\/a> Florida Metal Musician Turns Uncle’s Skeleton Into :Skelecaster: Guitar<\/a> Surprise: Marjorie Taylor Greene More Popular Within GOP After Dems Kick Her Off Committees<\/a> San Francisco School Board Ends Merit-Based Admissions To Its Top High School<\/a> Bloomberg: McConnell Declining To Whip For Acquittal In Trump Trial<\/a> Hmmm: Fulton County Prosecutors Open Criminal Probe Into Trump’s Call To Raffensperger<\/a> “Transition” Treatment Harms Kids, Veteran Psychiatrist at UK Gender Clinic Says<\/a> College offers racially segregated mental health resources<\/a> Inside the Times madhouse<\/a> Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban Cancels the National Anthem<\/a> SJW Coup of Board Game Industry in Progress!<\/a> Elon University cancels segregated ‘White caucus’ amid backlash<\/a> Berkeley student newspaper creates “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” blog<\/a> Judge Nixes L.A. County District Attorney Gasc\u00f3n’s Questionable Directives and Criminal Justice “Reforms”<\/a> 1619 Project Brainchild Hannah-Jones Doxxed Free Beacon Reporter<\/a> Einsteinium complex isolated<\/a> Wyoming Bill For Election, Recall Of State Health Officer Filed<\/a> The Belknap precedent<\/a> A look inside Spalding University’s $150 antiracism training<\/a> Pigs can be taught how to use joysticks, experiment finds<\/a> Study finds fewer older people are having strokes<\/a> Very Few Americans Believe Q Anon Conspiracy Theories<\/a> Intentions, Inadvertent<\/a> It Begins: Biden Will Allow Asylum Seekers Waiting in Mexico to Enter the U.S.<\/a> Recall Newsom Petition Hits the Required 1.5 Million Signature Mark<\/a> Virginia bill would create reparations scholarships<\/a> Elementary School In Philadelphia Instructed Students To Simulate Black Power Rally To Free “Black Communist” Angela Davis<\/a> Nikki Haley: We Shouldn’t Have Followed Trump Down This Path And He Has No Future In Office<\/a> What Is “Critical Race Theory” and Why Are So Many Colleges Teaching It?<\/a> If You Thought the 2020 Elections Were Chaotic, Just Wait<\/a> Senate ACQUITS Donald Trump of inciting MAGA storming of the Capitol<\/a> Grenell lays groundwork for California gubernatorial run<\/a> SF supervisor says lack of tourists has criminals now targeting residents<\/a> Democrats fear getting ‘caught with our pants down’ in 2022<\/a> Professor at distinguished Chinese university claims all of Western civilization, including the pyramids, were faked to “weaken the glory” of China<\/a> Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/a> Why Math Is Racist<\/a> Adding wokeness: Oregon promotes teacher program to subtract “racism in mathematics”<\/a> N.Y. Times Doxxes Scott Alexander Because They Hate Free Speech<\/a> Trump Impeachment Lawyer’s Home Vandalized, Law Practice “Under Siege”<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CBO on the Minimum Wage<\/a> Cuba to reform economy, allow more private enterprise<\/a> The NYSE Isn’t Moving\u2014Yet<\/a> Anatomy of a flop: Why Trump’s US-China phase one trade deal fell short<\/a> Poverty Is the Natural State of Mankind<\/a> Democrats Seek To Wipe Out Right-To-Work Laws Across The Nation<\/a> Deficit projected at $2.3 trillion for 2021, not counting additional stimulus, CBO says<\/a> Is The Stock Market About To Crash?<\/a> Businesses Are Fleeing City Centers In Seattle And Portland Because Of Crime, Homelessness And Vandalism<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another Example of Authoritarianism in Scotland<\/a> Burma: What Happened?<\/a> Never Say Never Again<\/a> ‘THIS HAS TO END’ Image of hundreds of homeless people queuing in snow at Glasgow soup kitchen compared to former “communist” countries<\/a> Google’s $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated<\/a> UN’s Sexual Orientation-Gender Identity “Expert” Aims to Bully Foes of LGBT Agenda<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Humiliating Art of the Woke Apology<\/a> The Neoracists<\/a> The Dangers of the Derp State<\/a> “Equity”?<\/a> Facing Reality<\/a> How I Learned to Relax and Accept That Impeachment Is Just Censure<\/a> Are the Classics Racist?<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Corona Virus<\/h1>\n
\nThe Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic.<\/p>\n
\nAre the COVID-19 vaccines effective? The early evidence is very encouraging. After the vaccine distributions began in December, we have seen a marked and sustained decline in hospitalizations in America for most of January.<\/p>\n
\nRemember two days ago, when the World Health Organization announced it will no longer be seriously considering the possibility of a laboratory accident playing a role in the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, based upon the findings of their team that visited Wuhan?<\/p>\n
\nDenmark’s top court will on Thursday begin an appeal hearing in which it will be asked to decide if coughing at someone while shouting “corona” constitutes threatening behaviour.<\/p>\n
\nI for one am shocked that we didn’t get the full medical truth from someone who once sent his bodyguard to raid his doctor’s office for his medical files and who, to this day, still hasn’t explained that mysterious impromptu “physical” he got at Walter Reed in November 2019.<\/p>\n
\nThis morning, President Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, offered an eye-opening statement of skepticism about the World Health Organization’s investigation into the start of the pandemic in Wuhan, China<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThe interview with Joe Biden is a year-old, but for some reason the Las Vegas Sun decided not to release its full conversation with the then-candidate until now. The National Rifle Association is flat-out accusing the paper of burying the interview because it would have been too damaging to the Biden campaign, and since the paper itself hasn’t explained why the editorial board waited a year to release a full transcript, that explanation is as good as any at the moment.<\/p>\n
\nThere’s a big change coming for residents of Utah on May 5th. The Governor is preparing to sign a new bill into law allowing most residents to carry firearms concealed on their persons without having to obtain a permit from the state. Anti-Second Amendment groups, including Moms Demand Action, had been fighting the passage of this law in the courts, but their efforts eventually failed. Utah now joins 16 other states in granting permitless carry rights to all citizens of legal age who have not otherwise disqualified themselves from gun ownership. <\/p>\n
\nHouse Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday unveiled a legislative package of five bills focused on gun safety. <\/p>\n
\nPlaintiffs must now seek approval of other aspects to certify the class-action<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nIf geoengineering was ever attempted on a significant scale, it would likely lead to crop failure and global famine. As a 2018 study discovered, plants need sunlight. But despite this rather disturbing drawback, scientists are pushing ahead with their experiments.<\/p>\n
\nDavid Ismay, the Undersecretary for Climate Change for Massachusetts, told a group of environmental activists in Vermont in late January that most emissions in his state “come from residential heating and passenger vehicles.” They “come from you, the person across the street, the senior on fixed income, right. . . . There is no bad guy left, at least in Massachusetts to point the finger at, to turn the screws on, and you know, break their will, so they stop emitting. That’s you, we have to break your will, right? I can’t even say that publicly.”<\/p>\n
\nThe climatistas are urging President Biden to declare climate change to be a national emergency, thereby tripping enhanced presidential powers under the profligate National Emergencies Act. Trump employed the NEA to divert defense funds to build some of the border wall that Congress refused to fund, and Biden might well raid the defense budget for more windmills or something. My guess is Biden is holding back this step in case Congress doesn\u2019t give him a big down payment on the “Green New Deal” in the stimulus bill\u2014a down payment that Biden’s own people are apparently struggling to figure out how to spend.<\/p>\n
\n“We cannot ‘Build Back Better’ by reflexively tearing down.”<\/p>\n
\nLeftists fantasize that before long, we can dispense with all reliable energy sources\u2013coal, natural gas, nuclear, even hydro\u2013and run our society entirely on wind and solar, two forms of energy that have been obsolete for 150 years.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nGov. Gavin Newsom proposed the establishment of an Office of Health Care Affordability<\/p>\n
\nWhen activists successfully legalized assisted suicide in California, they persuaded the California Medical Association to shift from opposition to neutrality with the promise that no doctor would be forced to participate. But here’s the thing with assisted suicide: Such promises are made to be broken.<\/p>\n
\nA socialist critique of American society, American politics, American social policy, American wealth inequalities, American racial disparities, and most of all, the American health care system in The Lancet theorizes that 40 percent of deaths related to COVID-19 were “unnecessary.”<\/p>\n
\nVulnerable people have encountered “shocking discrimination” during pandemic, says Mencap charity<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nBeijing is copying American warships by building and fielding their own versions for amphibious operations.<\/p>\n
\nA shocking attack on a clinic in Buffalo, Minnesota involved multiple bombs and at least one active shooter. Police have one suspect in custody, but no one knows quite yet whether more were involved or what the motive might be. \u201cThis is a major, critical incident,\u201d reports Paul Blume for the local Fox News affiliate, with multiple casualties, including victims in critical conditions:<\/p>\n
\nExplosives are missing from the nation’s largest US Marine Corps base, according to military officials who said Tuesday an investigation is underway. <\/p>\n
\nWhen outgoing secretary of state Mike Pompeo announced a decision to rescind the State Department’s guidelines on diplomatic contact with Taiwan last month, one of the complaints was that the move would constrain his successor’s foreign policy. The problem with that argument was that Joe Biden has long been a supporter of Taiwan’s security and that his team would likely hold onto the Pompeo move.<\/p>\n
\nCould this upgrade give the troubled class of expensive warships a new lease on life?<\/p>\n
\nBBC interviewed the Uighur woman in the featured image. She spent eight months in a camp where she claims men raped, abused, and tortured women.<\/p>\n
\nGordon Chang warns next disease could be far more deadly than COVID-19<\/p>\n
\nIranian Defense Minister: Tehran wants “to take forward the relationship between India and Iran, in terms of military trade.”<\/p>\n
\nThe French nuclear attack submarine SNA Emeraude recently conducted a patrol in the South China Sea, Defence Minister Florence Parly announced this week, sparking questions over the timing and tensions in Asia’s hotly contested waters.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nI wrote here and here about the promulgation of new Social Studies standards for K-12 public education in Minnesota. Under the direction of far-left Governor Tim Walz, a committee representing various left-wing pressure groups is trying to completely revamp what we teach our children about, among other things, world and U.S. history. My organization has taken the lead in opposing this effort, and you can read the basics here.<\/p>\n
\nTimothy Wilks had a great idea for a YouTube prank \u2014 fake a robbery by charging at people with a giant knife. The result wasn’t funny<\/p>\n
\nThe model curriculum has (once again) inspired public outrage for its reliance on the neo-Marxist academic framework known as “Critical Theory”<\/p>\n
\nFor a long time, students who wanted to get into a college or university had to write an essay to accompany their application. The essay gave students an opportunity to shine, to explain more about themselves than their grades and SAT scores showed.<\/p>\n
\nThe American Civil Liberties Union will announce Monday it’s embarking on an aggressive racial justice agenda that includes support for a reparations bill, expanding resources into southern states, and pushing for rural post offices to adopt basic banking services.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s not as if this is going to come as any sort of shock to the system for most conservatives, but the nation’s public school systems and colleges have turned into a breeding ground for woke thinking and the spreading of the most progressive theories of social evolution. This evolution of groupthink has been going on for quite some time now, but for the most part, it’s been an unofficial policy. But as columnist George Will points out in his latest essay, even that trend has begun to change. In Illinois, legislators are poised to codify a State Board of Education proposal that would make it official government policy that all public schools “embrace and encourage progressive viewpoints and perspectives.” Yes, you read that correctly. No insufficiently woke viewpoints will be allowed to see the light of day in the state’s public schools and any wrongheaded mavericks exposing children to the “wrong” sort of thinking may find their careers cut short after having been found guilty of thought crimes. <\/p>\n
\nTwo young men grow up in the same neighborhood and spend four years together at the same high school taking the same classes from the same teachers and playing on the same winning football team.<\/p>\n
\nFebruary 4: Freshman representative Marjorie Taylor Greene told her Republican colleagues she “believes school shootings are real and called them ‘awful,’ and apologized for her past support for QAnon conspiracy theories, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.”<\/p>\n
\nIn December the union representing Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorneys sued the incoming DA over the issue of sentencing enhancements. Yesterday a judge ruled in their favor, issuing a preliminary injunction that prevents DA Gascon from dismissing sentencing enhancements in existing cases. Gascon will also be required to follow the three strikes law.<\/p>\n
\nYou can look at this poll in one of two ways. Obviously, it affirms everyone’s suspicion that most of the party is still extreeeeemely Trumpy and is apt to punish members of Congress who aren’t as extreme in their affection.<\/p>\n
\nI don’t watch The View, but it must have been a bizarre spectacle when Van Jones went on the program and found himself treated like Jeffrey Lord.<\/p>\n
\nYeah, it was, uh, it was something special. When Newsmax lined up a Trump-friendly expert like Dersh for commentary on the trial, they were obviously expecting glowing praise for Team MAGA. That’s not what they got because Trump lawyer Bruce Castor didn’t allow for an alternative. Instead of honing in on the question of whether it’s constitutional to try a public official who\u2019s been impeached after he leaves office, Castor just sort of \u2026 talked. Dersh was boxed in and had to tell the truth: It sucked.<\/p>\n
\nIf you’re having a bad day at work today, just remember it’s not nearly as bad as the one this lawyer from Texas is having.<\/p>\n
\n“Lincoln is not someone that I typically tend to admire or see as a hero”<\/p>\n
\nLOL San Francisco, you’re so broken. From San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight<\/p>\n
\nTampa musician Prince Midnight made the ghoulish guitar to honor his Uncle Filip, “the biggest metal head I\u2019ve ever known.”<\/p>\n
\nA predictable \u2014 and intended \u2014 consequence of the Democrats doing what they did. They wanted to make Greene the face of the GOP and they’re on their way, according to Morning Consult.<\/p>\n
\nSan Francisco’s top high school will no longer admit students based on grades and test scores. Yesterday the SF School Board voted 5-2 to eliminate merit-based admission and instead set up a lottery system to determine who will attend.<\/p>\n
\nThe conscience argument does not bode well for Donald Trump, at least when coming from Mitch McConnell. But potentially even worse is the other argument that Bloomberg reports the Senate Minority Leader is making to his caucus. The constitutional argument has been settled, Bloomberg’s sources say McConnell is now arguing, and that should have no bearing on the decision to convict or acquit.<\/p>\n
\nNot unexpected, especially given the drama taking place in Washington, but certainly unwelcome news in Mar-a-Lago. Prosecutors at various levels in Georgia have investigated complaints filed over Donald Trump’s January 2nd phone call to Brad Raffensperger, in which the outgoing president pressured the secretary of state to find the votes that would reverse the election results in the state. Fulton County DA Fani Willis has decided to start the process of opening a criminal investigation on that basis<\/p>\n
\nChildren “have been very seriously damaged” in receiving treatment at the United Kingdom’s premier gender identity facility, a former psychiatrist there says in a bombshell interview.<\/p>\n
\nClaremont McKenna College resources include options for black, Latino students<\/p>\n
\nWe are rarely given a glimpse inside the struggle sessions at the New York Times. Last week New York Times science reporter Donald McNeil exited the newspaper as a result of an incident that occurred outside the Times two years ago. The Times made up a rule after the fact to justify McNeil’s exit. Aaron Sibarium recounts the background in the Washington Free Beacon story \u201cNew York Times Meltdown Plays Out in Private Facebook Group.”<\/p>\n
\nThe Athletic reports that billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has canceled the National Anthem at the NBA team’s home games.<\/p>\n
\nGamers are a touchy bunch. I’ve covered several SJW mob events within the gaming and comics community over the years, but this one might be the dumbest. Cancel culture is that term we use when rabid mobs of social-justice keyboard warriors band together to bully someone out of their life because the mob’s feelings got hurt or because its members were faced with an opinion they found repulsive. Dissent is not tolerated in our new world order.<\/p>\n
\nElon University promoted a “White caucus” for “White-identifying” students.<\/p>\n
\nThe University of California-Berkeley student newspaper introduced a new diversity and inclusion blog.<\/p>\n
\n“The District Attorney’s disregard of the Three Strikes law ‘plead and prove’ requirement is unlawful.”<\/p>\n
\nWhat does Hannah-Jones have to do for anyone to hold her accountable?<\/p>\n
\nExperiments using scant nanograms of element 99 lead to first measurement of an einsteinium bond length<\/p>\n
\nA bill that would make the position of Wyoming State Health Officer an elected office has been filed for the 2021 session of the Wyoming Legislature.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the good things about the impeachment of Donald Trump \u2014 maybe the only good thing \u2014 is that it has brought William Belknap into the spotlight. And that’s a good thing only for history buffs.<\/p>\n
\nSpalding University launched a new professional development program centered on “antiracism.”<\/p>\n
\nThe intelligence of pigs has long been renowned — and scientists in the US have now found that they are clever enough to be able to use computer joysticks. <\/p>\n
\nA new study has found that people age 70 and older are having fewer strokes, and fewer people of all ages are dying from the disease. The study, which examined the population of Denmark, is published in the February 10, 2021, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. In older people, researchers found declines in both ischemic stroke, caused by a blockage of blood flow to the brain, and intracerebral hemorrhage, when a blood vessel bursts inside the brain. <\/p>\n
\nAt least some of the people who rioted at the Capitol last month were motivated or at least associated themselves with Q Anon conspiracy theories. The so-called Q Anon Shaman who entered the Capitol wearing a horned helmet is just one example. Another man named Doug Jensen, who has since been charged, was wearing a Q Anon t-shirt when he became one of the first people to breach the Capitol.<\/p>\n
\nSo, the New York Times has reversed itself and declared that intent does matter when uttering racial slurs like the n-word.<\/p>\n
\nThe Biden administration announced on Friday that, starting on February 19, thousands of migrants waiting in Mexico who have open asylum cases will be allowed into the United States. The announcement comes as the administration opened a new tent city in Texas to handle part of the expected crush of illegal immigrants now moving toward the border expecting succor from the Biden administration.<\/p>\n
\nOrganizers going for 2 million signatures total as Newsom begins talking about reopening the schools.<\/p>\n
\nA Virginia bill proposed a new scholarship exclusively for descendants of slaves.<\/p>\n
\nA public elementary school in Philadelphia recently had students participate in activities celebrating “black communist” Angela Davis, which included a Black Power rally simulation, Discovery Institute scholar Christopher Rufo reported.<\/p>\n
\n“This is an incident of Nikki Haley breaking with Nikki Haley,” said House Dem James Clyburn about the quotes from Haley that are circulating this morning. \u201cJust two or three weeks ago she was admonishing us to ‘leave the man alone,’ now she\u2019s saying we shouldn’t have followed him.”<\/p>\n
\nAmerica is suffering from two pandemics \u2014 the actual disease of COVID-19 and the intellectual disease of a bunch of toxic ideas called Critical Race Theory. The latter is the subject of today’s Martin Center article by Cornell University law professor William Jacobson.<\/p>\n
\nH.R.1 packs into one 791-page bill every bad idea about how to run elections and mandates that the states must adopt the very things that made the election of 2020 such a mess. It includes all of the greatest hits of 2020: Mandatory mail ballots, ballots without postmarks, late ballots, voting in precincts where you do not live…. The Senate companion bill, S.1, might be even worse.<\/p>\n
\n57 senators voting to convict, not enough to meet 67-vote supermajority after his defense launches fiery attack on case against him<\/p>\n
\nThe Trump ally could reorganize the Republican field in a recall campaign.<\/p>\n
\nA San Francisco neighborhood is shaken after a close call with a would-be theft was captured on surveillance cameras appearing to case vehicles outside a home in Bernal Heights.<\/p>\n
\nHouse Republicans are already feeling confident of taking back the majority in 2022, and some key Democrats are focused on the warning signs.<\/p>\n
\nProfessor Huang Heqing of Zhejiang University, one of the most eminent schools in China, is teaching his students that all of Western history is a hoax and that everything, from the pyramids to Shakespeare to the Mona Lisa, are modern fakes meant to belittle China.<\/p>\n
\nCrooked judges, learned intermediaries, and laundering lawyers.<\/p>\n
\nThis is actually a claim that is being made often these days: the sciences in general, and math in particular, are racist.<\/p>\n
\nThe Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages “ethnomathematics” and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.<\/p>\n
\nOnce upon a time \u2014 young people may imagine that I\u2019m speaking of an antique, mythical era \u2014 liberals believed in the First Amendment. Or at least, that’s what liberals said at the time.<\/p>\n
\n“My home was attacked last night \u2014 windows broken, spray paint, really bad words spray-painted everywhere.”<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nThe agency has a new analysis of the Democrats’ $15 plan. <\/p>\n
\nCuba, the Communist dictatorship in the Caribbean, is to reform its economy to allow greater private sector activity.<\/p>\n
\nA revived stock-transfer tax that is moving in Albany could force us to find a new home.<\/p>\n
\nThe Biden administration plans to review the phase one trade agreement President Donald Trump forged with China in late 2019. Good. Much of the deal was a failure. Its centerpiece was China’s pledge to buy $200 billion more of US goods and services split over 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n
\nToday, rapper and actor Common quoted Representative Ayanna Pressley as saying: “Poverty is not naturally occurring; it is a policy choice.”<\/p>\n
\nYou knew (or at least should have known) that they were going to be coming for you the moment the Democrats took over both chambers of Congress and the White House. If we’re to be surprised at anything in this announcement, it’s that they waited an entire three weeks before doing it. House and Senate Democrats have reintroduced the PRO ACT, legislation designed to eradicate right-to-work laws in the more than half of the states that have enacted such legislation over the years. The bill, which has virtually no bipartisan support, would bring back mandatory unionization for pretty much every person who wants to be employed, impose mandatory wage confiscation for “dues” and eliminate an untold number of jobs. Small businesses would be hit the hardest, with many of them likely being forced to close after their labor costs are driven through the roof.<\/p>\n
\nThat’s smaller than 2020 shortfall of $3.13 trillion but larger than anything the nation had seen prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
\n“Very, very concerning” echoes of the 90s dot-com bubble are being heard loud and clear by nervous market experts.<\/p>\n
\nA chemical distribution company called TR International has decided it’s time to leave downtown Seattle. The company’s CEO told King 5 that because of ongoing safety issues, they were moving the company to Edmonds.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nIn a YouTube video from April 2018, “Ruth Davidson and the fatherless children,” Richard Lucas, a Scottish private-school teacher, said of the former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party and lesbian that she “wishes to normalize the production of fatherless children, does not value marriage, and follows the ABM childcare philosophy.”<\/p>\n
\nIn 2015, Burma held open elections, for the first time since 1990. The country held such elections again on November 8, 2020. The National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, won 83 percent of the available seats in parliament. The Union Solidarity and Development Party \u2014 the military’s instrument \u2014 won 7 percent.<\/p>\n
\nA horrifying report released last week by the BBC describes the “mass rape, sexual abuse, and torture” that have become commonplace in China’s “transformation through re-education” camps in Xinjiang province. <\/p>\n
\nTHE sight of hundreds of people standing waiting in heavy snowfall at a Glasgow soup kitchen has been compared to ‘decimated’ former communist countries.<\/p>\n
\nAlphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show, a deal one news publishers’ lobby deemed unfair.<\/p>\n
\nA U.N. expert is shining a spotlight on those who dare oppose the world body’s ubiquitous LGBT agenda, singling out “actors” who resist the promotion of “gender ideology.”<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nThere is one factor that undergirds every aspect of these confessions \u2014 fear.<\/p>\n
\nA new religion is preached across America. It’s nonsense posing as wisdom. <\/p>\n
\nHow we became a nation of so many dupes and fools is a matter at least as complicated as the causes of Donald Trump’s presidency.<\/p>\n
\nWho is that masked man, sitting alone at his desk signing “a flurry of executive orders”? There is dispute over whether he comes as a peacemaker promoting unity or as a progressive tool extirpating conservatism, but there is near-universal agreement that the thirty executive orders President Biden signed in his first days in office were aimed at reversing as many of President Trump’s policies as possible<\/p>\n
\nCharles Murray must be the bravest man in America. His new book, to be published in June, is titled Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America.<\/p>\n
\nIn my young and na\u00efve days \u2014 about a couple of weeks ago \u2014 I thought a snap impeachment and trial was absurd. What about the fact-finding? The committee hearings? The right of the president to present a defense? Etc., etc.<\/p>\n
\nTo look at the marvels of Greece and Rome and see only “whiteness” speaks to an obsession with race that is destructive and self-defeating.<\/p>\n