Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Self-Government in the Wilderness ~ Writing at The Stream, Rich Lowry provides a timely review of the Pilgrims’ Mayflower Compact and its significance for later generations.
Obama’s New Area Code In Rancho Mirage Is So Diverse That It’s Just 1.5 Percent Black ~
Throughout President Barack Obama’s time in office, he’s taken pains to emphasize the importance of diversity, but now the Obamas have purchased their fifth home, and it’s located in a small golf resort town near Palm Springs that’s just 1.5 percent black and 88 percent white.
This California home is in Rancho Mirage, a town with a population of only 17,218, based on figures from the 2010 census.
[Home number five. For a cool $4.25 mill. Gotta wonder where a community organizer comes up with that much green…]
Daniel Greenfield fears the worst ~ Obama Plans to Rule America Outside the White House …and he might get away with it ~
Obama isn’t going to retire. He’s not going to spend years puttering around with a presidential library. He’s not even going to set up a Clintonesque slush fund and try to make his wife president. Instead he wants to force radical change from outside the White House by using the network he’s built.
Beware the OFA (Organizing for Action) troops.
Meet The Intolerant Vulgarians Of The Dirtbag Left ~ Ugh. I feel like I need to take a shower just reading about these nihilistic reprobates. If you have to use vile, disgusting antics to make your point, you’ve lost me.
Russia to move nuclear-capable missiles closer to Europe as Vladimir Putin claims Nato expansion is threat ~ This is from the UK Telegraph; in Britain, Russia’s growing belligerence is harder to ignore, as we seem to be doing in the U.S.. But don’t we still have NATO treaty obligations?
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said on Monday he would move nuclear-capable missiles closer to Europe in response to Nato’s expansion in the Baltic states.
In a bold display of force against Western allies, Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles and a ballistic Iskander system will be deployed in Kaliningrad, which is situated between Lithuania and Poland.
Iskander missiles have a range of 450 miles, which means they could hit Berlin if launched from Kaliningrad.
Student: Here’s What The Common Core Horror Show Looks Like At My High School ~ Most of the criticism I’ve heard about Common Core has been from adults. It’s much more striking to hear how awful it really is from a student who’s directly affected ~
In the time that Common Core was implemented until now, I have personally seen its overwhelmingly negative effects on public school education, particularly in the subject of Math. Common Core Math is supposed to prepare high school students for successful careers in the STEM field; it does the opposite. Instead, the main mind behind Common Core Math, Jason Zimba, admits the most it will do is prepare students for Math at a non-selective Community College […]
It is a “system” created without the input of a single educator or parent that is heavily reliant on standardized testing to measure success. The intention to better equip us for college and beyond has backfired, as Common Core has left students clueless. Students are being taught that 77 – 3 = 74 is not a reasonable answer because 77 should’ve been rounded to 80 and 3 should’ve been rounded to 0. It is a completely preposterous progressive experiment that has done nothing but harm the way K – 12 students are being taught.
Viking Ship Stopped by Gov Regulations ~ One of these days we’ll need Big Government’s permission to cross the street ~
Can you imagine Columbus showing up today and getting hit with OSHA violations?
Woolworths in German Town Cancels Christmas ~ Guess they won’t be singing “O Tannenbaum” either; the religion-of-intolerance has taken over ~
Christians currently make up only one-third of the population of North Dortmund after thousands of migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq were settled in the industrial town in the Ruhr Valley since 2015 when Germany began accepting immigrants en masse.
The Transgender Lobby’s Demands Are Not Civil Rights ~ Nicole Russell at The Federalist reports on the latest absurdity; HHS now requires doctors to “perform gender transition procedures on children even when those procedures may be physically and emotionally harmful to the child.” This nonsense…
… directly contradicts the premise of the original civil rights movement. Imagine if we had the federal government forcing doctors to bleach kids’ skin or surgically alter their eyes or noses to look more Caucasian. In part that is so obviously preposterous and outrageous because of how demeaning it is to people’s innate genetics that alone decides physical characteristics such as skin color and sex […]
While we bang our heads against the wall attempting to reason and persuade through science or rhetoric, (the Trans-Movement is) slapping lawsuits on school boards or regulating doctors to validate dysphoria, even against doctors’ will and medical judgment.
It’s a tragic, contagious delusion ~ Psychiatry Professor: ‘Transgenderism’ Is Mass Hysteria Similar To 1980s-Era Junk Science
Hamilton: What would Alinsky Do? Doug Mainwaring presents an interesting what-if scenario that illustrates the huge gap in the civility-factor – at least traditionally – between right and left. Mike Pence is still a class act. The cast of “Hamilton” – not so much.
Be That Obnoxious Conservative Uncle At Thanksgiving ~ Too funnny! And too late for Thanksgiving – but keep it in mind for Christmas and Hanukah ~
Understand (your Nephew’s) Sensitive Feelings About The Election: Hillary Clinton’s loss was a blow to many millennials, and he is likely to be emotionally fragile. You’ll want to ruthlessly exploit his pathetic weakness. 😀
