Saturday, August 26, 2017
One Scientist May Have Finally Figured Out the Mystery of Why the Civil War Submarine Hundley Sank
Smithsonian Magazine
Friday, August 25, 2017
Ya think?
MSNBC’s Kornacki: ‘Negative Heat’ from Hollywood, Legacy Media Pushing Voters to Side with Trump
Breitbart article
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
I thought the science was settled ...
Delingpole: Global Warming Is Almost Entirely Natural, Study Confirms
Source Article
An intellectually honest liberal,
Dershowitz: Many of Those Tearing Down Statues Want to 'Tear Down America'
Fox NewsAlan Dershowitz warned that many of those tearing down Confederate and other statues are trying to take America down with them."Antifa is a radical anti-American, anti-free market, communist, socialist, hard, hard left censorial organization that tries to stop speakers on campuses," the Harvard law professor emeritus told "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday.
Maybe because we're all made in the image of God,
American Thinker: A subversive idea - the end of race
Chief Justice John Roberts: 'The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
American ThinkerThomas Kuhn, in his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions argued that science is not a steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge. Instead, “science is a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions.” After such revolutions, “one conceptual world view is replaced by another”. It is time for another revolution and this one involves the entire concept of race.As a scientific fact, the black race doesn’t exist. Neither does the white or Asian. There is no race gene. In the year 2000, when the scientists at the National Institutes of Health announced that they had put together a draft of the entire sequence of the human genome, the researchers unanimously declared that there is only one race -- the human race.The Hispanic “race” didn’t even exist until the 1970 census -- they needed some classification for “them.” Here is a subversive idea; what if there truly isn’t any “them?” What if the whole concept of “them” is simply a creation of our classification? One can take data and classify it in a myriad of ways, but the classification doesn’t become real in any physical sense.If we treat the idea of race like any other scientific concept; old, invalid thinking must be discarded when new discoveries are made. Often this demands a profound shift in thinking. Copernicus's discovery that the earth is not the center of the universe is an example of a similar realization that demanded this type of profound shift . . .Whether we like it or not, there is no scientific basis for the concept of race and focusing on a human invention will never solve the problem of racism. Let the revolution begin.
A disgrace for a couple reasons,
Kaepernick Makes Black History Smithsonian Before Clarence Thomas
Monday, August 21, 2017
My third favorite economist,
Gary Shilling: For every buyer there is a seller and for every seller there is a buyer.
Gary Shilling Blog"I think you got to be very cautious right now on stocks. Tech stocks have had a big run. You take out a few of the high fliers out of the NASDAQ and you don't have the performance.I have been a fan on long term treasury bonds since 1981 when the yield was 15.2 percent. Now its down to 3 percent, I think it could go to 2 percent on the 30 year bond and 1 percent on the 10 year treasury note. I think that's a good area.Commodities are probably going to continue to be weak, particularly oil.Dollar has gotten beat up since the initial Trump rally. Long term I think the Dollar will probably be strong as a safe haven."
An intellectually honest liberal
Alan Dershowitz: Liberals have a special obligation to condemn bigotry of the Left
Washington ExaminerFamed lawyer Alan Dershowitz said Sunday that liberals had a special obligation to condemn bigotry on the left side of the political spectrum, just as President Trump did for those on the right who claim to speak on his behalf."I don't want to make moral equivalence," Dershowitz told AM 970's John Catsimatidis, responding to a question about the Charlottesville violence and the ensuing national conversation around race relations and Confederate monuments. "But having said that, that doesn't give a pass to the people on the hard left, who are themselves engaged in violence and also some bigotry of their own."
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Trump Diversity Coalition Head: Bannon Was ‘Catalyst’ for Trump’s Voter Outreach to African-Americans, Hispanics
Link to source articleSunday on MSNBC, Trump National Diversity Coalition executive director Bruce LeVell said Steve Bannon was a “catalyst” for voter outreach” to African-Americans and Hispanics.LeVell said, “I can judge Steve Bannon because I know him. I see a lot of guests on various shows try to articulate him that don’t know him. I will tell you, during the campaign he was a catalyst in terms of helping the National Diversity Coalition, which is in D.C.—Trump.com—in terms of how we were able to engage our voter outreach in terms of our African-American vote and Hispanic vote, which you know as well as I do was historically high since Richard Nixon and climbing. ”He added, “And I will say this, regardless of what anyone says, based on my personal experience at the Trump Towers working with him and Kellyanne Conway. I’ve never seen any of this particular, you know, the person that this mainstream media is trying to make him out to be. Honestly, if it really wasn’t for him, I don’t think we would have been as successful with the coalition with Pastor Scott and Michael Cohen as we went through the campaign. So I’m judging it based on what I’ve seen, and what I had exposure to with Steve Bannon.”
Richard Florida Is Sorry
For years, Richard Florida preached the gospel of the creative class. His new book is a mea culpa.
From the leftist magazine JacobinRichard Florida, one of the most influential thinkers about cities in postwar America, wants you to know that he got almost everything about cities wrong.If you live in an urban center in North America, the United Kingdom, or Australia, you are living in Richard Florida’s world. Fifteen years ago, he argued that an influx of what he called the “creative classes” — artists, hipsters, tech workers — were sparking economic growth in places like the Bay Area. Their tolerance, flexibility, and eccentricity dissolved the rigid structures of industrial production and replaced them with the kinds of workplaces and neighborhoods that attracted more young people and, importantly, more investment.His observations quickly formed the basis of a set of breezy technical solutions. If decaying cities wanted to survive, they had to open cool bars, shabby-chic coffee shops, and art venues that attract young, educated, and tolerant residents. Eventually, the mysterious alchemy of the creative economy would build a new and prosperous urban core.Today, even Florida recognizes that he was wrong. The rise of the creative class in places like New York, London, and San Francisco created economic growth only for the already rich, displacing the poor and working classes. The problems that once plagued inner cities have moved to the suburbs.
I think I'll sit this one out.
Larry Elder Says Obama Should Use Book Royalties to Pay Reparations for His Family's Slaver History
Larry Elder on Sunday took to Twitter to suggest President Barack Obama use the money from his book deal to pay African Americans reparation for their ancestors being slaves. Elder made the suggestion because Obama’s mom’s side were slave owners and his dad’s side were slave sellers.Elder's suggestion met with a vigorous reaction: Article via The Blaze
One of the dumbest decisions ever
D'Amato: 26 years later, UW still without varsity baseball
Full article Milwaukee UrinalWhen the University of Wisconsin dropped varsity baseball in 1991, there were valid reasons. The athletic department faced a $2.1 million budget shortfall, spending was outpacing revenue and the financial outlook was bleak.Surely, it pained then-athletic director Pat Richter, an all-Big Ten, power-hitting first baseman for the Badgers in the early 1960s, to lop baseball (along with men’s and women’s fencing and gymnastics), but he had little choice.Twenty-six years later, the climate has changed dramatically.The football and men’s basketball programs, with annual bowl game and NCAA tournament appearances, are cash cows. The Big Ten’s TV contracts are worth a reported $2.64 billion over six years; Wisconsin budgeted for $41.5 million in media rights revenue in 2017-’18.The athletic department’s facilities master plan for the next decade calls for more premium-level seating at Camp Randall Stadium – which underwent a major renovation 15 years ago – and an addition to the Kohl Center.Still, Wisconsin remains the only Big Ten school without baseball. And the subject of bringing it back is dead on arrival at athletic director Barry Alvarez’s doorstep.“As we look forward and anticipate, our costs are going to continue to rise,” Alvarez told me. “Right now, we’re able to allow all 23 varsity sports to operate and be competitive. The cost of adding baseball is much higher than people think.“Plus, you’d have to add another sport (to remain compliant with Title IX). It’s not feasible for us to add two sports. I was charged to run 23 varsity sports and that’s what we do. If it made sense to add baseball, I would do it. I like baseball.”
Dilbert Wants to Know: How are You Doing Today Without Trump's Moral Leadership?
It's tough, isn't it?
Scott Adams Blog
An intellectually honest liberal
The BlazeDershowitz: Left’s Russia-Trump obsession is like Stalin and KGB
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz explained in a radio interview Sunday morning that the obsession over Russia, and the left’s determination to pin President Donald Trump of wrongdoing in last year’s election, is a similar attitude that Russian dictator Joseph Stalin and the KBG had with opposition.Since Trump won election last November, his political opponents have tried to accuse him and his campaign of colluding with Russian operatives to undermine Hillary Clinton’s campaign. However, no concrete evidence has surfaced to suggest either collusion or a crime.According to Dershowitz, who is an ardent liberal and has been nearly his entire life, the left’s obsession over Trump-Russia “endangers democracy.”Dershowitz explained: “The idea of trying to create crimes just because we disagree with [Trump] politically, and target him, really endangers democracy. It reminds me of what Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the KGB, said to Stalin: ‘Show me the man, and I will find you the crime.'”
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