https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/should_spain_apologize_to_muslims.html

Shared without comment as an antidote to false history.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/child-psychology-prof-effectively-fired-for-opposing-transgenderism-fights-back/

“Dr. Josephson has testified against the trend of treating children with gender dysphoria (the persistent condition of identifying with the gender opposite one’s birth sex) with treatments affirming a transgender identity. Drugs that block puberty or cross-sex hormones can endanger a child’s long-term psychological health, he argued.

“In his 2016 testimony in the case Carcano v. McCrory, he argued that biological sex is immutable and based on objective binary genetic facts, while gender identity involves a basic sense of oneself as male or female — a social construct. Since “children are not equipped psychologically to make many important life decisions,” pro-transgender parents “abdicate their responsibilities if they allow children to ‘decide for themselves’ regarding key life decisions.”

https://mises.org/wire/how-countries-fall-welfare-trap

“A dangerous side effect of this fall into a downward spiral is that the anti-capitalistic attitude in the population increases, since for most citizens, the causal links are difficult to recognize…The longer a country remains stuck in the trap, the harder it is to get out. To overcome the vicious cycle, the insight must take hold that an excessive welfare state erodes productivity.”

View at Medium.com

I endorse this message. In my own experience, learning to recognize propaganda tends to make it ineffective, but the main difficulty is getting people to consider the mere possibility that propaganda is common.

https://pilotonline.com/opinion/editorial/cartoons/image_2fbb0eae-5261-11e9-9e49-e38b84f0161f.html

CNN has been flogging a theme which today we see echoed in the comments attending today’s cartoon at the Pilot.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-30/it-racist-black-georgia-mayor-bans-white-reporters-press-conference

Of course it is racist. Even so, a part of me wants to defend the media prohibition in this instance, if only because denying freedom of association strikes me as a greater sin than denying press coverage.

Put another way, I can’t think of a principled reason to object to black-only meetings or, for that matter, white-only meetings.

https://apnews.com/58cfe094174b4f3abd6ef66c90cbb004

Is Joe Biden’s presidential bid over before it even began? I think so.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/aclu-sues-catholic-hospital-for-refusing-to-do-transgender-surgery/

I agree with the moral position the author of this piece stakes out: Doctors and hospitals must not be forced to perform services to which they object in their professional/philosophical judgement.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/27/why-i-dont-believe-in-science/

“[T]he way most people use it today—especially in a political context—is pretty much the opposite. They use it as a way of declaring belief in a proposition which is outside their knowledge and which they do not understand.”