I have long been an advocate of intelligent design theory because it has always seemed to me that the “God hypothesis” is rational.
Continue reading “Stephen Meyer on Intelligent Design and The Return of the God Hypothesis”“Hey, Cleveland? Why Do You Hate Your Children??” — Part 2
More discussion of our illiteracy problem.
Most memorable paragraph:
“Probably the most revealing event in American education occurred in 1928. That’s when Dr. Samuel Orton, a neurologist working with a Rockefeller grant, concluded that Whole Word (often called sight-words) did not work. He got the grant because his sponsors assumed he would endorse Sight-words. Instead, he trashed this method, adding that it would damage children’s minds for a lifetime. But our Education Establishment, convinced by the stock market crash of ’29 that Karl Marx was right after all, moved aggressively to expel phonics from all American schools. This expulsion has been quietly but ruthlessly sustained to this day. Point is, all the top people in the field of education always knew, thanks to Dr. Orton, that they were selling snake oil.”
Concluding paragraph:
“When the schools don’t do a good job, parents and community leaders must step up their game. Oppose the bad stuff. When feasible, create alternatives. Millions of young Americans have been effectively kept from reaching their potential. This is a national scandal. Children don’t under-educate themselves. You need adults to do the dirty work.”
https://lobbyistsforcitizens.com/2021/04/08/hey-cleveland-why-do-you-hate-your-children-part-2/
The Democrats Are Stuck in 1964
Source: The Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).
You can just say No to the myth of systemic racism in America.
Continue reading “The Democrats Are Stuck in 1964”Local cops demonstrate what BLM is all about . . .
If this citizen was “scary looking” instead of a clean-cut soldier in uniform how much worse would this have been?
If You Had Covid, Do You Need the Vaccine?
Source: American Institute for Economic Research.
Like all living things, viruses evolve in response to selection pressures. The immune response of the host is one of the selection pressures that drive viral evolution. Accordingly, one outcome of viral evolution can be to “escape” the immune response of its host.
Continue reading “If You Had Covid, Do You Need the Vaccine?”The Big Winner of Biden’s Green Energy Plan is His Energy Secretary’s Old Company
Stumble Joe wants the federal government to install 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations costing as much as $260,000 each. Putting cost and environmental issues aside, it is a dubious boondoggle.
Continue reading “The Big Winner of Biden’s Green Energy Plan is His Energy Secretary’s Old Company”Another of King Donald’s edicts tossed out in court.
In a nutshell, Trump tried to exclude a range of industries from pollution regulations by XO based on the theory that their individual share of pollution is below an arbitrary threshold that HE set. I guess not enforcing the law is – well – not enforcing the law. Enforcing the law AS WRITTEN is the President’s job even if he is not crazy about the law to be enforced.
I would add that even though the individual contributions to pollution of the industries he wanted to de-regulate were relatively small, the combined contribution of these industries is substantial.
How the GOP became the GQP
Offered without comment except to say that the author has unblemished credentials as an actual conservative.
How to Answer the ‘Trap Question’
Source: The Wall Street Jornal (behind paywall).
The writer shares a brief anecdote that reveals the social responsibility of business:
Continue reading “How to Answer the ‘Trap Question’”We Cannot Afford to Censor Dissenting Voices During a Pandemic – Prof Martin Kulldorff
One of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, Martin Kulldorff, got in trouble for tweeting:
“Thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should. Covid vaccines are important for older high-risk people and their care-takes. Those with prior natural infection do not need it. Nor children.”
I challenge anyone to explain what is wrong with this statement.
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