op ed review 4/28
“Mice die in mousetraps because they don’t understand why
the cheese is free. The same thing
happens with socialism.”
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Joe Biden announces candidacy, starts presidential campaign
by praising Antifa, characterizing the group as “courageous”.
Joe Biden Hires Harvey Weinstein 'Damage Control' Adviser
Anita Dunn
Delusional Joe: “Obama Administration Had 'Not One Single
Whisper of Scandal'”
This guy is the Democratic frontrunner? Creepy Joe acting
strangely with children on CSPAN.
The prospect of the first openly gay commander-in-chief is
creating an unprecedented coalition of some of Hollywood’s most powerful gay producers,
writers, agents and executives who are ready to open their homes — and their
checkbooks — to support the candidacy of 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg.
Gleeful CNN: “Pete's not-so-secret weapon is his husband,
Chasten.”
House Democrats have
reintroduced a bill that would make “gender identity” a protected class under
federal civil rights law. If the measure becomes law, hospitals and insurance
companies will have to provide costly sex-reassignment therapies, employers and
workers who don’t conform to new norms will lose their businesses and jobs and
women would lose female-only facilities and sports. The only requirement to be protected
under the bill is a self-declared “gender identity.”
It’s
about time. “Criminal Indictments Are Coming For Obama/Clinton Associates”
During NRA speech, Trump drops out of another global arms
treaty. “We will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second
Amendment freedom.”
Oliver North out as NRA president after fight with Wayne
Lapierre.
In the last ten years, knife-related crimes in Germany have
increased by more than 900% — from one a day to more than ten a day. German
media do not report most knife-related violence. And when they do, they omit
references to the nationalities of the perpetrators and victims — apparently to
avoid inflaming anti-immigration sentiments.
Sign of the times in Germany: Women's Magazine Gives Tips on
Treating Stab Wounds
As Sri Lanka mourns, Islamic State claims credit for Easter
bombings
Christians
are the world's most persecuted minority worldwide. On the Left, that's less horrifying than it
is embarrassing. They don't like Christians to start with, and having to acknowledge that Christians are
in peril might just mess up some of their favored 'narratives' about white
supremacists. So
now Christians become “Easter worshippers.”
After Sri Lanka Christian Massacre, Media Deploys
"Muslims Fear Backlash" Meme
Oregon Bill Would Give Illegal Aliens Driver's Licenses,
Possible Voting Rights. Throngs of illegal aliens and their supporters rally in
front of the statehouse, proudly waving the Mexican flag, see the picture.
Record $120 billion sent home to 3 top nations flooding US
with illegal immigrants
Tax dollars at work:
American schools produce 100,000 illegal immigrant 'Dreamers' a year
Is Cher Onto Something? LA is lavishing benefits on illegal immigrants,
while its homeless die in record numbers.
Florida House passes bill that forbids ‘sanctuary cities,’
would issue fines for failing to help federal immigration authorities.
Finally! A Massachusetts state judge is indicted and charged
with cutting loose a twice-deported Dominican illegal immigrant arrested with
drugs after throwing an ICE agent out of her courtroom so that the criminal
could escape.
CBO Report: 1.4 Million Lost Health Insurance Since 2016 —
And Obamacare Is To Blame
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is receiving death threats on a
daily basis.
Half of Americans back stronger role of religion in society
Trump: “If Romney
Fought Obama as Much as He Fights Me, He Could Have Won”
Mike Huckabee to Mitt Romney: “It 'Makes Me Sick' You Could've Been
President”
Northern Kentucky BBQ business getting heat for ‘LGBTQ’
shirts. Belle’s Smoking BBQ took a play
on the acronym LGBTQ and changed it to Liberty, Guns, Bible, Trump, and BBQ.
“Some are calling the message insensitive and hateful.”
United Methodists edge toward breakup over LGBT policies.
New York Times Finally Acknowledges That Steele Dossier
Might Not Be That Factual
How Salem Radio is quietly becoming a conservative media
giant.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Paul Driessen 4/27
The
multi-colored placard in front of a $2-million home in North Center Chicago
proudly proclaimed, “In this house we believe: No human is illegal” – and
“Science is real”.
I
knew right away where the owners stood on climate change, and other hot-button
political issues. They would likely tolerate no dissension or debate on
“settled” climate science or any of the other topics. But they have it exactly backward
on the science issue. Real science is not belief – or consensus, 97% or
otherwise. Real science constantly asks questions, expresses skepticism,
reexamines hypotheses and evidence. If debate, skepticism and empirical
evidence are prohibited – it’s pseudo-science, at best.
Real
science – and real scientists – seek to understand natural phenomena and
processes. They pose hypotheses that they think best explain what they have
witnessed, then test them against actual evidence, observations and
experimental data. If the hypotheses (and predictions based on them) are borne
out by their subsequent findings, the hypotheses become theories, rules, laws
of nature – at least until someone finds new evidence that pokes holes in their
assessments, or devises better explanations.
Real
science does not involve simply declaring that you “believe” something, It’s
not immutable doctrine. It doesn’t claim “science is real” – or demand that a
particular scientific explanation be carved in stone. Earth-centric concepts
gave way to a sun-centered solar system. Miasma disease beliefs surrendered to
the germ theory. The certainty that continents are locked in place was replaced
by plate tectonics (and the realization that you can’t stop continental drift,
any more than you stop climate change).
Real
scientists often employ computers to analyze data more quickly and accurately,
depict or model complex natural systems, or forecast future events or
conditions. But they test their models against real-world evidence.
If the models, observations and predictions don’t match up, real scientists
modify or discard the models, and the hypotheses behind them. They engage in
robust discussion and debate. They don’t let models or hypotheses become
substitutes for real-world evidence and observations. They don’t alter or
“homogenize” raw or historic data to make it look like the models actually
work. They don’t hide their data and computer algorithms (AlGoreRythms?),
restrict peer review to closed circles of like-minded colleagues who protect
one another’s reputations and funding, claim “the debate is over,” or try to
silence anyone who dares to ask inconvenient questions or find fault with their
claims and models. They don’t concoct hockey stick temperature graphs
that can be replicated by plugging in random numbers.
In
the realm contemplated by the Chicago yard sign, we ought to be doing
all we can to understand Earth’s highly complex, largely chaotic,
frequently changing climate system – all we can to figure out how the sun and other powerful
forces interact with each other. Only in that way can we accurately predict
future climate changes, prepare for them, and not waste money and resources
chasing goblins.
But
instead, we have people in white lab coats masquerading as real scientists.
They’re doing what I just explained actual scientists don’t do. Just as bad,
they’re ignoring fluctuations in solar energy output and numerous other
powerful, interconnected natural forces that have driven climate change
throughout Earth’s history. they’re looking only (or 97% of the time) at carbon
dioxide as the principle or sole driving force behind current and future
climate changes. Even more outrageous, they’re using their pseudo-science to
justify demands that we eliminate all fossil fuel use, and all carbon dioxide
and methane emissions, by little more than a decade from now – or we will bring
unprecedented cataclysms to people and planet.
Not
surprisingly, their bad behavior is applauded, funded and employed by
politicians, environmentalists, journalists, celebrities, corporate executives,
billionaires and others who have their own axes to grind, their own egos to
inflate – or an intense desire to profit from climate alarmism and pseudo-science. Worst of all, while
they get rich and famous, their immoral actions impoverish billions and
kill millions, by depriving them of the affordable, reliable fossil fuel energy that powers modern societies. And
still these slippery characters endlessly repeat the tired trope that they
“believe in science” – and anyone who doesn’t agree to “keep fossil fuels in
the ground” is a “science denier.”
When
these folks and the yard sign crowd whip out the term “science,” political analyst
Robert Tracinski suggests, it is primarily to “provide a badge of tribal
identity” – while ironically
demonstrating that they have no real understanding of or interest in “the
guiding principles of actual science.”
Genuine
climate scientist (and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric
Sciences at Georgia Tech) Dr. Judith Curry echoes Tracinski. Politicians like Senator Elizabeth Warren use
“science” as a way of “declaring belief in a proposition which is outside their
knowledge and which they do not understand…. The purpose of the trope is to
bypass any meaningful discussion of these separate questions, rolling them all
into one package deal – and one political party ticket,” she explains.
The
ultimate purpose of all this, of course, is to silence the dissenting voices of
evidence- and reality-based climate science, block creation of a Presidential
Committee on Climate Science,
and ensure that the only debate is over which actions to take first to end
fossil fuel use and upend modern economies.
The
last thing fake/alarmist climate scientists want is a full-throated debate with
real climate scientists – a debate that forces them to defend their doomsday
assertions, methodologies, data manipulation … and claims that solar and other
powerful natural forces are minuscule or irrelevant compared to manmade carbon
dioxide that constitutes less than 0.02% of Earth’s atmosphere (natural CO2
adds another 0.02%).
Thankfully,
there are many reasons for hope. For recognizing that we do not face a
climate crisis, much less threats to our very existence. For realizing there is
no need to subject ourselves to punitive carbon taxes or the misery, poverty, deprivation, disease and death that
banning fossil fuels would cause.
Between
the peak of the great global cooling scare in 1975 until around 1998,
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and temperatures did rise in rough
conjunction. But then temperatures mostly flat-lined, while CO2 levels kept
climbing. Actual average global temperatures are now 1 degree F below
model predictions.
Instead
of fearing it, we should thank rising CO2 for making crop, forest and grassland
plants grow faster and better, benefitting nature and humanity – especially in conjunction
with slightly warmer temperatures that extend growing seasons, expand arable
land and increase crop production.
The
rate of sea level rise has not changed for over a century – and much of what
alarmists attribute to climate change and rising seas is actually due to land
subsidence.
Weather
is not becoming more extreme. In fact, Harvey was the first Category 3-5
hurricane to make US landfall in a record 12 years – and the number of violent
F3 to F5 tornadoes has fallen from an average of 56 per year from 1950 to 1985
to only 34 per year since then.
Human
ingenuity and adaptability have enabled humans to survive and thrive in all
sorts of climates, even during our far more primitive past. Allowed to use our
brains, fossil fuels and technologies, we will deal just fine with whatever
climate changes might confront us in the future. So if NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio and other
egotistical grand-standing politicians and fake climate scientists want to ban
fossil fuels,
glass-and-steel buildings, cows and even hotdogs– in the name of preventing “dangerous manmade climate
change” – let them impose their schemes on themselves and their own families.
The
rest of us are tired of being made guinea pigs in their totalitarian
experiments.
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2019/04/27/fake-climate-science-and-scientists-n2545464
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Bernie Sanders is taking flak for his crazy idea to let
convicted felons, including terrorists and rapists, vote in our elections. But
he’s not the only one. Kamala Harris seemed open to the idea, saying, ‘I think
we should have that conversation.’ Well, let’s have that conversation. America
is a narrowly divided country. Donald Trump won the presidency due to 77,000
votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump won Michigan by fewer than
11,000 votes. Last year, the state had nearly 40,000 people behind bars. Do we
really want convicted felons, who are likely to be very supportive of left-wing
candidates who are soft on crime, deciding our elections? Here’s something else
to think about: The victims of the Boston Marathon bomber were not only denied
their right to vote, they were also denied their right to life. It would make
more sense to give the surviving spouses of those victims two votes than to let
the bomber vote!”
-Gary
Bauer
“I think there are two big reasons why this country is so
great. The first is our Constitution, which guarantees our freedom of speech
and expression. The second is our free-market system. … It pains me to see
people in this country glorifying socialism. Young people especially have been
indoctrinated into believing that free enterprise is immoral because it
enriches the greedy and depresses the poor.”
-Home
Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus
Blind squirrel finds a nut: “You gotta control the border.
When you have an increase of apprehensions of illegal entries by 374% since
October, you’ve got a situation where border security is not sufficient.”
-New York
Times columnist Thomas Friedman
“There’s no
collusion, says the special counsel. That takes one sentence. It doesn’t take
200 damn pages. It doesn’t take $35 million dollars.”
-Mark
Levin
“If you find yourself blaming President Trump for
almost-sort-of-maybe intending to obstruct a witch hunt you have a mental health
crisis, not a political opinion.”
-Scott
Adams (“Dilbert”)
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LEFTIST WATCH
AP U.S. History textbook calls Trump “racist,” questions his
mental stability.
Cal State campus ditching 'Prospector Pete' mascot after
complaints that Gold Rush hurt indigenous people
Many University Campuses Are Playgrounds for Insanity
Maybe the above is the reason for this: “Poll finds young
voters siding more with Democrats”
“The biggest problem America faces are lost adults whose
bizarre beliefs are saturating an entire generation of impressionable young
minds.” —Rebecca Hagelin
Joe McCarthy Wasn't Wrong, Just Early
“As Liberalism Sinks, Socialism Rises”
University hosts no-whites-allowed faculty and staff
listening sessions — “to promote inclusivity.”
“I’m a leftist because I’m pro-choice…except for schools,
guns, trade, healthcare, union membership, lightbulbs, soda sizes, etc.”
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ISLAM
Iran: Grand Ayatollah says Allah has given the worldwide
Muslim community “dignity as a result of jihad”
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GLOBALONEY
Electric vehicles result in more net CO2 emissions than
diesel ones, German study shows.
When Earth Day Predictions Go Predictably Wrong
NYC to Start 'Phasing Out' Hot Dogs as Part of Their Green
New Deal
De Blasio's 'green' skyscraper idea is pure stupidity
This Earth Day, thank America: The world leader in clean air
Washington governor and presidential hopeful Jay Inslee
calls on the country to “attack climate change” as a means of helping the many
“climate refugees” who are busily pouring across America’s borders. In other
words: The weather is driving people from other countries to flee, and it’s America’s
job to open border doors to help them.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/19/pete-buttigieg-just-another-climate-alarmist-extra/
Going Green and Socialism
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ARTICLES
Ignorance
is a powerfully destructive thing. Facts won't bring down President Trump; the
facts are on his side. But the media is against him and the media wants to keep
America ignorant of the facts. If
anything takes Trump down it will be because of public ignorance.
Four Reasons Why the Dems Will Lose in 2020
Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing: J'accuse: Donald
Trump is Alfred Dreyfus
Forget Trump, Here Are Five Reasons Why Obama Should Have
Been Impeached
“The real reason there are so many children living in
poverty in the U.S. has nothing to do with the fact that there are
“millionaires and billionaires.” Instead, the high rate of childhood poverty
can be attributed almost entirely to the irresponsible behavior of their
parents. Let’s consider two groups of people in the U.S. The first group has a
poverty rate of 2%. The second group has a poverty rate of 76%. The first group
consists of people who followed all three of these steps: 1) Finish high
school. 2) Get a full-time job. 3) Wait until age 21 and get married before
having children. The second group consists of people who followed zero of those
three steps. Among people who follow all three of these steps, the poverty rate
is 2%. Among people who follow zero of these steps, the poverty rate is 76%.”
Living in Leftlandia
Should we shutter the Department of Education?
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INTERESTING
What a wonderful progressive city! San Francisco ‘human
feces spotted on the sidewalk map’ shows waste blanketing the California city.
Medieval Diseases Infecting California’s Homeless
Joe Biden’s Greatest Gaffes
Must see: “He Used To
Be Trans—Here’s What He Wants Everyone To Know”
Google tracks you everywhere. Here’s how to stop Google from storing your
location history.
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WISE
WORDS
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
-George
Washington
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