Friday, December 24, 2021

In Hoc Anno Domini

 Fauci’s War on Science: The right way to deal with this pandemic, it said, was to focus on those who could face severe outcomes from disease – a very plain point and nothing new. There was nothing to be gained by locking down the whole of society because of a pathogen with such a huge differential in its demographic impact. An interesting debate between two scholars on either side. And now, even the Wall St. Journal is joining the discussion.

In Hoc Anno Domini. This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually in the Wall Street Journal since.

Systemic Bias Against Asians. To the San Francisco school board, some minorities are more equal than others. Funny, but that sounds an awful lot like what Asian-Americans are experiencing these days, especially in education. They work hard to get into good schools—only to run up against an increasingly systemic orthodoxy on equity, which holds that Asian-Americans are taking more than their fair share. It helps explain why at Harvard Asian-Americans have both the highest average SAT scores and the lowest admissions rate of any racial group.

Giant Study Finds Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's. Usage of the medication sildenafil – better known to most as the brand-name drug Viagra – is associated with dramatically reduced incidence of Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests.

Kamala Staffers Say She’s Is A Mean, Morale-Destroying Bully. Will The Last Person Quitting Their Job Working For The Vice President Please Shut The Lights

Is it a good idea to connect everything to the Internet? These poor kitties didn't get fed because of a computer problem at Amazon.

Something different. An interesting book review about the life of George Hearst.

A week into his presidency, Joe Biden issued a memorandum declaring “the Federal Government has a responsibility to prevent racism, xenophobia, and intolerance against everyone in America, including Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.” Now he has reversed course.

Are you worried about Omicron? Don't be. Nobody dies from it. One person in England died with Omicron, which is different than from. With hundreds of thousands of people with Omicron, somebody is likely to die for some other reason.

Meet Midas, the cat with four fully functional ears.

The Salvation Army has been one of the most respected and dependable charities. This year they went woke, and it's affected my attitude toward supporting them. I'm not the only one, their revenues are down.

More on the Salvation Army. Companies Need to Learn From the Salvation Army Suffering From Their Wokeness

An interesting photo of a rocket launch. Scroll down to see the reflection.

Masks don't seem to work. More than 150 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms

By Ditching the SAT, Harvard Hurts Minority Students. How do you help young people move forward without honestly assessing where they stand?

SOCIALISM AND FREE ENTERPRISE ON TRIAL. Comparing the success of South American countries under different economic systems. Click to watch the cool animation.

Monday, December 6, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse Is Not Guilty

Kyle Rittenhouse Is Not Guilty.  The jury decides on the facts, but politicians continue to distort the truth.

Kyle Rittenhouse and the Left’s Terrifying Assault on Due Process. They want revolutionary justice. The legal system’s verdict will be supplanted by the people’s judgment.

Another self-defense case, Andrew Coffee found not guilty on 5 counts, including murder, attempted murder. Apparently, blacks can also be found innocent.

Virginia Cop Who Lost Job for Donating to Rittenhouse Defense Demands His Job Back.

As Joe Biden Turns 79, a Panic Over Kamala Harris. He’s unlikely to run in 2024, and his VP is deeply unpopular.

Hideouts, harbours and homes: how Vikings may have owed their success to their encampments

Just annother Friday night in San Francisco: Looters and vandals strike San Francisco’s Union Square.

Here's a list of things the media got wrong. Scroll down for Brit Hume's addendum.

The same week Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty, Andrew Coffee was found not guilty of murder and attempted murder. Coffee's acquittal got virtually no coverage in the media even though he is black, and the liberals are claiming that color makes a difference.

In 1966, an organic chemist named Fred Baur employed by Procter & Gamble filed for a patent for a tubular aluminum-coated can for stacked chips that would later contain the popular Pringles brand. Some of his ashes were buried in a Pringles can, to honor his request. The Packaging Mistakes Companies Make—and Why They Make Them

I Owe My Life to the A-Bomb. I was to be part of the invasion of Kyushu in November 1945. But Hirohito surrendered.

A new study on Historically Black Colleges and Universities finds that HBCUs are an under-appreciated vehicle for upward mobility for their overwhelmingly African-American students. It even suggests that blacks profit more from an HBCU than if they go to a normal university that used racial preferences to get them in.

Have you watched any of The Chosen? Crowdfunding has raised millions for the show, an ambitious series exploring characters from the New Testament. Fans have already chipped in enough for three seasons—and are driving ticket sales for a Christmas special coming to movie theaters.

In Virginia, the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) district has announced that it will return two pornographic books, including a graphic novel, to the shelves of its schools’ libraries, after an internal investigation determined that the materials qualified as “diverse reading materials.”

One of the most trusted charities has gone woke and embraced critical race theory. "Salvation Army Embraces Critical Race Theory: White People Must ‘Sincerely Apologize’ For Racism". And now, Goodwill Industries is getting woke too.

A California Attempt to Repair the Crumbling Pillar of U.S. Education. A proposed California ballot measure would make good schools a constitutional right.

This is just not right: Male Swimmer Dominates UPenn's Women's Swim Team

Squaring Up to Defend Mathematics. America’s top scientists warn about the political erosion of education standards.