Saturday, June 29, 2019

op ed review 6/30


THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Chaos and confusion at the democrat debates.
Bernie pushes plan to cancel all student loan debt.
Warren seconds:  “I’m calling for…Universal free public college and cancellation of student debt”
Bernie: Hell Yes, My Single-Payer Healthcare Plan Would Cover 11 Million Illegal Immigrants
Democrats want to move ahead on slavery reparations, could carry a $17.1 trillion price tag.
Elizabeth Warren promises reparations for gay couples.
Eric Swalwell Tells Hispanics to Fight Trump in the Streets
Beto O'Rourke: If Minor Illegal Immigrants Can't Get Abortions, We're 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Biden Likens Cultural Effects Of Trump’s 2016 Victory To RFK’s Assassination
Byron York: In debates, Democrats move toward open borders

Hawks rip Donald Trump for keeping America at work, not war
Trump slams Dems for backing health care for undocumented immigrants
President Trump Announces New Platform to raise reelection funds

After years of social engineering by the left, polls show Americans think 23.6% of population is gay.  Actual number is less than 5%.

Pelosi caves, agrees to pass Senate border funding bill after McConnell defeats House version
Syrian Muslim Refugee Plotted a Black Church Massacre.
Pelosi On Enforcing Immigration Laws: ‘What’s The Point?’
New high poll numbers say immigration most important issue facing the country.
California's Gov. Newsom puts out a video for illegals on how to obstruct ICE
Caught on camera:  African migrants raft cross Mexico border - with no National Guard in sight
Obama Built The ‘Cages’ for Illegals, Not Trump, Says Obama ICE Chief

Dalai Lama warns: “Europe is for Europeans,” EU will become “Muslim” or “African” if migrants allowed to stay

Supreme Court decisions handed Republicans a huge political victory on gerrymandering.
But “Roberts The Mind Reader” Joins Liberal Justices On The Census issue

Insider Blows Whistle On Google Plan to Prevent “Trump situation” in 2020. Guest on Tucker Carlson estimates that Google can swing 15 million votes by how they stack search engine results.
Project Veritas Exposes How Google Gives Billions of in-Kind Value to the Democrat Party
New leaked Google Document describes Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, as ‘nazis using the dogwhistles’.

Alabama car dealership offers free shotgun, Bible and American flag to customers

State Senate Republicans in Oregon successfully block climate bill, now dead.

Great-nephew of British National Health Service founder dies after blunders at two hospitals.

A U.S. bishop has issued a “prayer” card that celebrates homosexual “pride” and includes an image of a crucifix with rainbow colors coming from it.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Vijay Jayaraj   6/23

On June 29, 2017, the Dailymail in UK ran an article headlined “Four years to save the Earth: 2020 is the deadline to avert climate catastrophe, experts claim in chilling commentary.”
Two years later and halfway to deadline, the earth has not changed much. If anything, the El Niño of the 2016-17 season gave way for much cooler temperatures across the globe and the past two years have been colder than 2016.
This is just one of the many climate doomsday news articles that gets published in our mainstream news media every single day. How seriously should we treat the climate doomsday claims?

In mid-2000s “Arctic sea ice melting” became the buzz word and the star of the climate apocalypse movement. Since then, the melting of Arctic sea ice became the central theme of climate doomsday theories.

In 2007, news media across the globe warned that the Arctic would soon be ice-free because of the excessive melting from global warming. It came on the heels of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, a 2016 documentary on how global warming is melting Arctic ice and killing Polar bears.
Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013,” was a BBC headline. The article justified its claim by referring to the modelling forecasts of climate scientists. It read, “using supercomputers to crunch through possible future outcomes has become a standard part of climate science in recent years … modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.”

But instead of disappearing, the Arctic sea ice grew. The 2013 minimal sea ice extent in the Arctic outgrew the 2012 levels. The ice-free predictions have been proven to be wrong and extremely inaccurate. The minimal sea ice extent today (2018) is much higher than that of 2012.
This was not the only case where the computer models failed in their predictions.

During the past 19 years, the computer climate models used to forecast global temperatures failed to predict the temperature levels accurately. Even worse, the models failed to capture the apparent slowdown in the warming of earth. These are the very same models that are currently being used to justify climate policies like the Paris agreement. With a two-decade record of dismal failure in predicting temperatures, the model outputs can hardly be trusted as valid indicators of future climate.

Other climate gaffes include the claims about the worsening of extreme weather events due to climate change. Contrary to popular belief, there has been no observable increase in extreme weather events. In the U.S., tornado activity was at its record low in 2018 and the severity of wildfire has actually declined. Studies also indicate that the global area burned by wildfire has declined during the past few decades.

And these are just the incompetency of doomsayer’s claims with the current state of climate. If we contextualize the present-day climate in comparison to the climate during the past 10,000 years, then most of the doomsday theories lose their sting.

Arctic sea ice, for example, is at one of its highest levels in the Holocene (last 10,000 years). The temperature levels have constantly swung in the past, including the well-studied two warm periods (Roman and Medieval) and one cold period (Little Ice Age) in the past 2000 years.

More surprisingly, throughout the history, the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration levels followed the temperature levels and not vice versa. In other words, atmospheric CO2 concentration were not the primary drivers of the rise in temperatures (whenever they occurred). This was reflected in the temperature measurements between 2000 and 2018, when the exponential increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration failed to cause a rise in global temperature levels.

It is a gentle reminder that we should take the doomsday claims with a pinch of salt. Neither are they scientifically accurate nor are they put through rigorous scrutiny before being disseminated to the masses.


Vijay Jayaraj  holds a M.Sc. in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia, England
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Progressives want to create a system without risk, where students aren’t responsible for their debt and schools aren’t responsible for their costs. Once colleges know that prospective students can get any loan for any major they desire, incurring no risk whatsoever, what motivation do these institutions have to offer degrees of value? And, in the end, forgiveness does nothing to lower costs. Then again, when the state takes control of private institutions, it inevitably turns to price controls and all the usual tools that destroy industries. … The world doesn’t owe you a dream college or a dream house or a dream job. You have no right to someone else’s labor and time. If you want to attend free college, ask professors to offer you their lectures gratis or ask school administrators who run massive endowments to open their doors to everyone. Or, maybe, ask them to bring down their tuition prices.”
            -David Harsanyi
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LEFTIST WATCH
At Renton WA public library, drag queen on all fours roars, growls incoherently at library ‘pride’ event for teens. One twitter: “This is what demonic possession looks like.”

Rise of the religious left? DNC hires faith outreach director to address party's 'God problem'

Restaurant employee spits on Eric Trump.  She gets “placed on leave”, but she’s a hero with the left, GoFundMe page started for her.

UC Santa Cruz will remove 'offensive' mission bells from campus after lefties complain.

A "nonpartisan" dark money group that regularly files litigation against President Trump's administration is powered by money from the Center for American Progress (CAP), the liberal think tank founded by former Clinton campaign manager John Podesta.
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GLOBALONEY
Tampering Past The Tipping Point

Global warming?? Colorado's snowpack is 40 times normal after rare summer solstice snow dump.

Americans' plastic recycling is being dumped in landfills, investigation shows.  Doesn’t matter because it still helps liberals feel good.
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ARTICLES
Why Are Democrats So Incredibly Ignorant About ‘Medicare for All’?

Capitolism [sic]: The defining issue of the 2020 elections

Democrats point to Nordic nations as models of socialism. Here’s how they actually work.

The Middle Class Will Pay Bigly For All The Dems’ ‘Free Stuff’

California: Here Be Monsters

Here is how the LGBT movement gained legal, cultural and political supremacy over Christianity in America in just 50 years. It advanced through five stages and four Supreme Court rulings. The five stages of homofascism are: 1. Tolerance 2. Acceptance 3. Celebration 4. Forced Participation 5. Punishment of Dissenters. 

“No, Teen Vogue, you should not promote prostitution as a career choice”
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WISE WORDS
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
            -Thomas Jefferson

Saturday, June 22, 2019

op ed review 6/22


THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Joe Biden has 85 at big Iowa rally -- Trump has 100,000 sign up in Florida -- Line Starts 42 Hours Early, Outdoor Jumbo Screens Ordered
Trump's Orlando Speech: Unprecedented and Remarkable

Democrat Leaders Pelosi and Schumer Caught on Camera Doing Victory Dance After They Thought They Goaded Trump into War with Iran

5.8 Million Individuals Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump
Appeals court clears way for Trump administration rule targeting Planned Parenthood
Mexico to target human traffickers in immigration crackdown
Democrats fear Trump’s wooing of Hispanic voters in Florida

Poll: Support for Florida Gov. DeSantis Surges After Sanctuary City Ban
“Washington man” (illegal alien) assaults woman days after being released from King County Jail for raping her last year.

Rjode Island Democrat Gov. Raimondo Signs Bill to Allow Abortion Through Birth

Black intellectuals surprise Democrats by telling them who owes the tab on reparations.
Democrats’ talk of reparations inspires things like this:  Man arrested for rape in NYC allegedly told witnesses ‘she deserved it’ … ‘for slavery’

Supreme Court upholds cross on public land in Maryland
But Alaska government meeting opens with 'Hail Satan' prayer

Fox News beats CNN, MSNBC combined in ratings, tops all of cable

Poll: AOC disliked, distrusted, unwanted in her own NY district

'I don't see why not': Pete Buttigieg open to “having kids” with husband in White House

The first two states to legalize recreational marijuana are starting to grapple with teenagers’ growing use of highly potent pot…. “Horrible things are happening to kids,” said psychiatrist Libby Stuyt, who treats teens in southwestern Colorado and has studied the health impacts of high-potency marijuana. “I see increased problems with psychosis, with addiction, with suicide, with depression and anxiety.” Says the Chair of pediatrics at Seattle Children’s Hospital “I hope we don’t lose a generation of people before we become clear we need to protect our kids’ brains”
Marijuana damages adolescent brains, two prominent health professionals write in NYT op-ed.
Testing of sewage from the City of Tacoma confirms marijuana use doubled in three years.

Only thing sadder than Swalwell's gun control proposal? His anti-gun 'rally' numbers outside NRA's headquarters (18 people)
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Abraham Miller is emeritus professor of political science, distinguished fellow with the Haym Salomon Center, 6/19

“Multiculturalism Is a Nation Killer”  6/19 Politics is about power, how to get it and how to keep it. Politics is about mobilizing votes.

It should come as no surprise that candidates can say one thing on one day and another on another day because they will say whatever needs to be said to appeal to the electorate. Joe Biden instantaneously flip flops on abortion. Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were as much against illegal immigration as is Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton was once against gay marriage…..

Politics in America is about the competition of interest groups for political power. Once victorious an interest group does not go away; it escalates its demands. The civil rights movement started out with demands for basic human dignity. Once those were met, it legitimately demanded equality of opportunity, and once that was achieved, it demanded preferential treatment where equality of opportunity was redefined, in Orwellian fashion, as equality of result. Flush with success, it now demands reparations where those who never were enslaved will receive compensation from those who never owned slaves, all in the name of virtue and justice.

By nature, humans are tribal. Tribalism is the easiest way to organize people and mobilize them politically. Until very recently, America was a multi-ethnic society with a dominant culture. That culture is breaking apart as we become more tribal, and we begin to think of ourselves in terms of tribal loyalties, as reinforced by political elites.

Multiculturalism is the great myth of our time. The cliché is, “Our strength is our diversity.” But is it? Military officers sent to Vietnam learned that the enemy’s strength was a homogeneous culture, language, and identity.

There is no real multicultural society on the planet that has not tumbled into barbarism or devolution. Whether Lebanon, which institutionalized multiculturalism in its constitution and exploded into ethnic warfare, or Rwanda, where tribalism descended into barbarism, multiculturalism does not work.

Switzerland is not a multicultural society. It has different language groups with one strong, unshakeable identity. The Swiss know who they are. Something we seem to be forgetting. Ask the white farmers who are being hunted in South Africa like animals, with the eager justification of some black political elites, if Nelson Mandela’s vision of the rainbow society is working.

Minorities will support the idea of multiculturalism as long as it advances their own interests. Consequently, tribalism ironically finds its justification in multiculturalism. In the name of multiculturalism, Muslims want public schools closed on Muslim holidays and halal food in the school cafeterias. Somehow the tribal aspirations of all cultures are legitimate, unless those tribes are white or Christian. In the name of multiculturalism, schools have segregated dormitories, student unions, and even graduations. But imagine if whites wanted to segregate the student union, to have white-only dormitories and graduations? The virtue signalers would descend on the campus in outrage.

Muslims in Seattle wanted their public-school students greeted with a Koranic blessing during Ramadan but let a dozen Christians stand beneath the flag and silently pray in the name of Jesus, and one would think the Constitution was being eviscerated.

The advocates of affirmative action hiring in the name of diversity almost never seek to hire whites where there is a preponderance of minority employees. Diversity is only good when it means hiring minorities in white-dominated situations, not the other way around.

No man or woman wants to be a stranger in their own land, told their culture is illegitimate, or the aspirations of their children must be sidelined because of historic injustices of which they had no part, save that someone with similar skin color was advantaged by them.

We are told it is the essence of bigotry to see the disproportions of black crime and not look beyond race to social and economic factors, but when it comes to the evils of enslavement, all whites are guilty, even those whose ancestors never owned slaves or had not stepped foot in America until slavery was long gone.

The mobilization of tribal instincts is the means for elites — especially the identity-obsessed left — to advance their quest for political power. But in politics, as in physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton’s Third Law embraces the political world. Do not expect whites to sit by idly and be told their culture is illegitimate, and they are responsible for all the evils in the world. Expect that they too will be mobilized on the basis of identity.

In the end, if we devolve into a multicultural society, we will have the same political instability as other multicultural societies. The mobilization of people by identity will create a society that is inherently not viable. It is what the left’s myopic obsession with phony multiculturalism and identity politics will bring.

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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Most of the best parts of our constitutional order are undemocratic and act as counters to the popular passions of democracy, which our Founding Fathers understood, feared, and held in contempt for good reason.”
              -Kevin Williamson

“This is your daily reminder the Attorney General of Minnesota is someone who is accused of multiple incidents of domestic abuse with 911 calls and bruises as evidence. His name: Keith Ellison (also former DNC Deputy Chair). Democrats pretend to ‘believe women’ until real abuse happens within their own party.”
              -Charlie Kirk
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TUCKER CARLSON
Clarimont:  “….why Tucker Carlson has become the de facto leader of the conservative movement—assuming any such thing can still be said to exist. He didn’t seek the position. I doubt he wants it. He’d probably disclaim it, in fact. But the mantle settled on him nonetheless, partly by default, though it’s more than that. First, there’s the show. Carlson is something of a Rush Limbaugh for the Trump era….. Second, Carlson’s message is in tune with the times. Limbaugh became famous in part by grasping, early, where conservatism was headed in the immediate post-Reagan era. Carlson is similarly more in tune than anyone else with the mix of populism, economic centrism, immigration restrictionism, and war fatigue that motivates today’s disaffected Right.
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LEFTIST WATCH
Lefty cop haters celebrate murder of young female Sacramento rookie cop.

‘Socialist’ Countries’ Retreat From Bernie’s Socialist Health Care Solution

Venezuela: A Humanitarian Crisis The Left Couldn’t Care Less About

Oberlin’s cultural rot went far beyond SJW politics into a ‘culture of theft’

Pandering to the Left, Joe Biden Suggests Starting ‘Physical Revolution’ To Deal With Republicans
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GLOBALONEY
Lomberg:  Sorry, banning plastic bags won’t save our planet
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ISLAM
Two Chicago-area men convicted of providing support to Islamic State
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ARTICLES
VDH:  “California: America’s First Third-World State”

How the GOP Will Retake the House in 2020

Oberlin's Racial Hucksterism Comes Home to Roost

Does anyone doubt that Trump is the Rocky of American politics?

Trump Just Revolutionized Health Care — And Nobody Noticed

We Must Reject LGBTQ Craziness Becoming America's Accepted Norm
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SATIRE
Babylon Bee  “House Democrats Draft Legislation That Would Make It A Hate Crime To Eat At Chick-Fil-A”
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WISE WORDS
“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.”
                    -Thomas Paine