Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
New Data Show California Kids’ Math Achievement Took A Nosedive After Common Core ~ Before the Core, Golden State parents, faculty, and officials spent years developing some of the best-ranked K-12 math requirements in the nation ~
By 2014, California was the top state in eighth-grade algebra enrollment. Common Core erased all those gains almost immediately, shows a new Hoover Institution analysis.
By design?
Canada: Muslims threaten to “destroy your beaches” — “We do this because you reject Islam” ~ Here’s a new twist on hijrah (cultural jihad). At least three small-town beaches in Ontario received threatening letters from an alleged Islamic group ~
On May 11, 2018 Huntsville OPP were made aware of a suspicious letter that took credit for contaminating beaches in the Muskoka area and threatened other small town beaches and their tourism industry. “We have started with the Muskoka’s and other tourist destinations. Your Northern towns are extremely easy targets, unlike cities.”
“We do this because you reject Islam and follow the Great Satan. Infidels you allow your women to disgracefully, shamelessly parade around your beaches all but naked!”
Do you ever ask yourself, if they hate everything about Western culture – why are they here?
Nine Times President Donald Trump Has Referred to MS-13 Gang Members as ‘Animals’ ~ Discrediting lefties’ Trump-outrage-of-the-week ~ Breitbart’s listing includes only incidents sine the inauguration – not those on the campaign trail.
Speaking of animals ~ Pray for Mali: Albino Child Ritually Murdered for Magic Body Parts ~ It’s stories like this that expose the Left’s irrational cultural relativism. Their smug “who are we to judge” is the coward’s way out of standing up to such barbarous behavior ~
The hunting and ritual killing of albino people is a common practice not only in Mali, but also in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, and West Africa. Kidnappers will abduct albino individuals in their home towns, traffic them to one of the aforementioned countries, slaughter them, and will often remove their bones to then sell to witch-doctors as items of supernatural power believed to bring fortune and good luck, according to CNN.
Bombshell: FEC Records Indicate Hillary Campaign Illegally Laundered $84 Million ~ This news is almost a month old. Why haven’t the mainstreams been all over it?
A federal court ruling in late April exposed illegal funding by the DNC and the Clinton campaign ~
There was “extensive evidence in the Democrats’ own FEC reports, when coupled with their own public statements that demonstrated massive straw man contributions papered through the state parties, to the DNC, and then directly to Clinton’s campaign—in clear violation of federal campaign-finance law.”
But, but — Russia-Trump! Or something.
LGBT Persuasive Strategy At Its Most Insidiously Effective: Tweaking Your ‘Aww, So Cute’ Sensor ~ Beware the aggressive, progressive propaganda aimed at altering you view of reality. Appealing to emotion worked with the gay agenda. Now they’re pushing gender-free bathrooms in Texas with the same deceitful tactic.
Study: Climate skeptics engage in more eco-friendly behavior than climate alarmists ~ Given the hypocrisy we so often find on the Left, this really isn’t too surprising is it?
University of Michigan psychology graduate student Michael Hall‘s study looked at 600 Americans who “regularly reported their climate change beliefs, pro-environmental behavior, and other climate-change related measures.”
The results, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, divided subjects into three categories: the “Skeptical,” the “Cautiously Worried,” and the “Highly Concerned.” As you might expect, the “Skeptical” were most opposed to government climate policies; however, they were also “most likely to report engaging in individual-level pro-environmentalbehaviors” (emphasis added).
On the other hand, the “Highly Concerned,” while very supportive of government action on climate, were the least likely to behave in eco-friendly ways.
Minnesota: Muslims defraud taxpayers of over $100 million, use it to fund jihad terror group al-Shabaab ~ Doing work Americans won’t do?
This story begins at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where mysterious suitcases filled with cash have become a common carry-on.
On the morning of March 15, Fox 9 chased a tip about a man who was leaving the country. Sources said he took a carry-on bag through security that was packed with $1 million in cash. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms.
Fox 9 learned that these cloak-and-dagger scenarios now happen almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. Sources said last year alone, more than $100 million in cash left MSP in carry-on luggage.
I was at the Gaza border, we did all we could to avoid killing ~ Reality-check ~
I want to testify that what I saw and heard was a tremendous, supreme effort from our side to prevent, in every possible way, Palestinian deaths and injuries […]
A situation where thousands of people rush you is frightening, even terrifying. It is extremely difficult to show restraint, and it requires calm, mature professionalism. Sixty-two dead is an enormous number. But I can testify from my first-hand experience, that every bullet and every hit is carefully reported, documented and investigated, in Excel spreadsheets. Literally. I was there and I saw it with my own eyes.
Congress to Consider Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty Over Golan Heights ~This would be pretty amazing. But in light of our embassy moving to Jerusalem, who knows? ~
Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981 following the Six Day War in the late 60s with Arab nations in the region. The United States has declined for decades to take a position on the status of this territory, but following President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, (Rep. Ron DeSantis [R-FL]) and others see an opportunity for the United States to recognize another territorial reality—that the Golan Heights will not be given back to Syria, particularly in light of the strife gripping the country.
Jerusalem the Beautiful, Jerusalem the Ugly ~ Dr. Michael Brown offers a realistic view of Israel’s capital city ~
Israel is yet to be redeemed, and Jerusalem is yet to welcome her Redeemer. That’s why we must continue to pray for the day when the “Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression” (Isaiah 59:20; see also Romans 11:25-29).
How pro-lifers scored a ‘remarkable’ victory at UN meeting on ‘population and development’ ~ Arrogant western globablists have been pushing birth control and abortion on African nations for years. Under this nefarious, new ideological colonialism, “comprehensive sexuality education” is used to promote abortion, homosexuality, gender ideology, and more to children. Their U.N. agenda been thwarted – at least for this year ~
When the Commission on Population and Development concluded (for 2018), “the most remarkable thing happened,” Ruse recalled. “We ended the negotiations without a document,” which is one of the “biggest victories ever.”
