Tidewater News and Opinion Forum
A place for civil discussion of the events of the day for Tidewater residents without the limitations imposed by media forums.
https://pilotonline.com/news/government/nation/article_cb90cc2e-3e9d-11e9-98e4-cf017be42586.html
This WAPO piece at The Pilot makes it sound as if the Congressional investigations are both legitimate and appropriate. They may well be, but left out of the reporting is any good reason for undertaking them.
Remember the Soldiers of Odin next time you are tempted to think that cultural diversity is inherently a good thing. They are a sober warning that multiculturalism is also an open invitation to vigilantism.
It takes the coercive powers of the state to suppress such things, as well as to avoid them altogether.
This is good news, depending on your perspective. Mine is that envelope-pushing technology is almost always desirable, regardless of cost. The value of money, after all, is what you can get for it.
https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/03/trump-executive-order-campus-free-speech
I am sympathetic with the writer’s conclusion: “The education system must do more to uphold the First Amendment, and to encourage students to cherish the principles of a free society. But a top-down, unilateral imposition on colleges and universities does not strike me as the best idea.”
But I don’t share it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/what_does_it_take_to_start_a_civil_war.html
Nothing more than an irreconcilable difference of opinion, it would seem.
I’m all for this. Scientists are certainly correct to be skeptical, but the puzzle is a matter of engineering, not science. Until it is attempted we won’t know whether the obvious benefits can be delivered safely or not.
I find this piece interesting because it is reasonable to be skeptical of globalists’ motives whether you paint them as conspiracy or as merely an aggregate effect of the pursuit of self-interest. A lot of conspiracy theories these days are just like that. Dismissing them as irrational because you don’t like the label is to miss the point.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/03/mailvox-dealing-with-sjws.html
ISJW = Social Justice Warrior
I was an SJW once. I, too, had to be expelled for a time from my family. In my experience, SJW is more disease than behavior.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2019/03/01/13-scary-things-in-democrats-medicare-for-all/
Socialism doesn’t necessarily mean governement ownership of the means of production, although that is certainly a valid technical description. It can also mean the simple abolition of private property, as in the ownership of our own lives.
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