I’ll take this for a lede ‘graph, trusting you will too:
On climate change, Democrats believe they know to the 10th decimal place that Earth is on the brink of an apocalypse. But by their own admission this week, they don’t have a clue about which way the wind is blowing with the American voter.
Not for lack of trying, mind you . . .
Why did we lose, why did we ever lose????
And now he is the ruler — not of the queen’s nigh-vee — but of the Amazon Washington Post!
Just over two decades ago, Jeff Bezos started selling books online from his garage. Today, the Amazon CEO is the richest person on Earth.
Bezos’ net worth topped $90 billion on Thursday, allowing the Amazon founder and CEO to narrowly dethrone Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the richest person in the world, according to Forbes and Bloomberg.
If Amazon stock holds steady through trading Thursday, Bezos will officially bump Gates, who has been No. 1 since 2013, from the the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
You too can be a Bezos, thanks to at least partially unfettered CAPITALISM!
Academics are bringing it on themselves, argues an academic.
As an academic, I am increasingly convinced that a mass defunding of public higher education is coming to an unprecedented degree and at an unprecedented scale. People enjoy telling me that this has already occurred — that state support of our public universities has already declined precipitously. But things can always get worse, much worse.
And given the endless controversies on college campuses in which conservative speakers get shut out and conservative students feel silenced, the public relations work is being done for the enemies of public education by those within the institutions themselves.
Who’s to blame for the fact that so few Republicans see the value in universities? The conservative media must accept some responsibility for encouraging its audiences to doubt expertise; so must those in the mainstream media who amplify every leftist kerfuffle on campus and make it seem as though trigger warnings are now at the center of college life.
But academics are at fault, too, because we’ve pushed mainstream conservatism out of our institutions. Sociologists Neil Gross and Solon Simmons have found that about half of professors identify as liberal, versus only 14% who identify as Republican. (At the time of their study, in 2006, only a fifth of American adults described themselves as liberal.)
Etc. etc. Thoughtful piece. Read on . . .
“Better tell that mayor to get tough,” Trump had said.
To which our doughty mayor, no, no, no, no:
. . . fighting violence [is] “not about being tough but being smart and strategic.”
And it’s working! Why can’t Trump see that?
Besides, programs are in place:
Emanuel said he is working to create jobs, expand after school programs and curtail access to guns as part of a comprehensive strategy that includes an increasing reliance on high-tech crime fighting tools, like the Shotspotter program that uses high-powered microphones to detect gunshots.
Fine, for the last named, which is crime-fighting. The others are social services. Why always the preference for social service?
Source: Rahm To Trump: Smarts, Not Strength Needed To Stop Chicago Violence
Brought here thanks to Steve Bartin’s News Alert.
FreedomFest 2017: O’Keefe Moderates Saul Alinsky Panel FULL
Includes head of Alinsky foundation and David Alinsky, Saul’s son. Dinesh d’Sousa supplying a probably counter argument, James O’Keefe moderating.
Have only just set it up for viewing. Looks good.
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Thereby pretty much destroying the concepts.
Beautiful.
It’s the newsroom atmosphere: all those think-alikes going for the headline. It’s natural.
From Catholic World Report, an analysis of the recent article by an Italian Jesuit and a Presbyterian Argentinian, both working under the approving eye of the Vatican (and Pope Francis):
No doubt, Evangelical scholars and others will highlight the many problems characterizing the article’s grasp of the history of Evangelical Christianity and fundamentalism in America.
One agnostic friend of mine who happens to be a leading historian of American Evangelicalism at a prestigious secular university described the article’s take on this subject to me as “laughably ignorant.”
I also suspect Rev. Figueroa and Father Spadaro are oblivious, for instance, to many Evangelicals’ embrace of natural law thinking in recent decades: something that, by definition, immunizes any serious Christian from fideist tendencies [that undersell reason drastically].
