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Rough south of the border

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/20/2024 5:00:00 AM
Rough south of the border: Mexicans will be voting in a couple of weeks. It looks like Claudia Sheibaum of President Andres Lopez-Obradors party will win. She will make history as Mexicos first woman president and then try to govern a country overwhelmed by.  Click to read:          Rough south of the border - American Thinker https://t.co/6Pa2TUsKZC— Silvio Canto. Jr. (silvio_canto) May 20, 2024

Happy # 84 Jill Jackson (Paul & Paula)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/20/2024 9:35:42 AM

                  "Hey Paula" was one of the greatest "teen love" pop songs ever recorded.  They were Ray Hilderbrand and Jill Jackson who met in college in Brownwood, TX.    Ray was born in Joshua, TX, on December 12, 1940 and died in 2023.   Jill was born in McCarney, TX, on May 20, 1940.Eventually, they recorded the song and it was #1 in the US for the entire month of February 1963......a real pop classic  They broke up a few years later and went on their separate ways.  However, they do get together once in a while to sing "Hey Paula".        P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like[...]

Tolerance Is The Virtue Of The Man Without Convictions

K T Cat
5/19/2024 5:28:03 AM

... is a quote from G. K. Chesterton.Dig this.  This is Aayden Gallagher. Hes a boy who thinks hes a girl and just came in 1st place in the womens 200m Oregon State Championship.Listen to the audiences loud BOOs as they announce him as the winner People are sick of this madness pic.twitter.com/wke0CTHFl6 Libs of TikTok (libsoftiktok) May 19, 2024   Online, people are losing their minds over this as well they should. However, most of the anger is misplaced. Yes, he was a middling athlete in the boy's division who "transitioned" into a girl and then stomped his competition, stealing victory from a deserving girl. However, he didn't offer the chance to change his sex to himself. That was done to him. He was promised a[...]

AI, Classical Greek Philosophy And Sex

K T Cat
5/18/2024 10:11:34 AM

So I posed yesterday's problem - use Spencer Klavan's summary of classic Greek philosophy to analyze an essay on the failures of the Sexual Revolution - to #ChatGPT and got some stunning replies.ChatGPT is not intelligent in the human sense. It doesn't know what it's saying. However, you couldn't tell from its replies. It did a spectacular job analyzing the essay given Spencer's excellent work. It took only one round to get it to go in the direction I wanted and then it hit line drive after line drive. Here was my original prompt.I want you to analyze one essay in terms of another. First, I will give you the essay the establishes ground truth, written by Spencer Klavan with great wisdom. Afterwards, I will give you an essay[...]

CalPERS Fail

W.C. Varones
8/4/2023 5:59:23 AM
Despite the awesome bull market this year, CalPERS again missed its return target, earning only 5.8% vs. its required 6.8%.CalPERS has missed its return targets for the trailing 1-, 3-, 5-, 15-, and 20-year periods.When CalPERS fails to make its' required returns, California taxpayers are liable for making up the difference for California's uber-generous public pensions.

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

'I Don't Like This, Honestly' - Islam Makhachev Reveals The One Aspect Of Training With Khabib Nurmagomedov That He Dislikes

When he rose through the lightweight ranks, Islam Makhachev was undoubtedly in the shadow of his close friend and training partner, Khabib Nurmagomedov. When ...

Anthony Smith Explains Why Islam Makhachev Is A Better Matchup For Dustin Poirier Than Khabib Was

UFC light heavyweight contender Anthony Smith believes the upcoming lightweight title joust between Islam Makhachev and Dustin Poirier will be closer than most ...

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []The post College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults first appeared on College Insurrection.

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []The post You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online? first appeared on College Insurrection.

Texas Judge Issues Temporarily Restraining Order Against DOJ Rule Expanding Gun Background Checks 

Mary Chastain

However, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Utah failed to meet the standards to receive the temporary restraining order.The post Texas Judge Issues Temporarily Restraining Order Against DOJ Rule Expanding Gun Background Checks first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Michael Cohen Admits He Stole Tens of Thousands of Dollars From Trump Organization 

Mary Chastain

Cohen stole $60,000 from the Trump Organization.The post Michael Cohen Admits He Stole Tens of Thousands of Dollars From Trump Organization first appeared on Legal Insurrection.