[Daily Caller] A South Carolina woman brought everyone to tears on Twitter after she wrote a heartwarming obituary for her dog, Charlie.
Charlie was 7 years old at the time of his death and died from canine lymphoma, according to a Sept. 22 tweet shared by Sallie Hammett. The tweet recently went viral, and rightfully so.
"I wrote my dog an obituary because of course I did," Hammett captioned a photo of the obituary on Twitter. "He was the best boy."
[American Thinker] For over 180 years, the Senate has relied on the filibuster to prevent the tyranny of the majority. This forced Senators to work things out rather than to ride roughshod over each other. Democrats should be especially aware of the filibuster’s virtues, given that their decision to do away with the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations means they cannot stop Amy Coney Barrett nomination. Despite that, Democrats still want to do away with the filibuster entirely. Ezra Klein, at Vox, explains why: Democrats have a long list of hard-left initiatives that they can achieve only by bulldozing them through with the smallest possible majority.
To his credit, Klein is open about the Democrats’ need to end the filibuster if Biden gets the White House and a Democrat Congress:
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Maybe, but, if the Dems win, moderate Dems -- and there are a bunch of them, at least in the sense of Dems who would not get reelected if they vote with the crazies -- will be scrambling for cover, and the filibuster gives them some. "Gosh, I'd really like to vote for your $100 trillion reparations plan, but we just can't get it past the evil Thuglicans in the Senate."
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But if I'm wrong about that, we could have a situation in which (1) the traditionally big-spending party has control and (2) we have all abandoned any pretense that the national debt should be controlled. If that happens we had better hope that Modern Monetary Theory (as I crudely understand it) is correct.
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Yes, or Argentina without the tango. Think $250 hamburgers.
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Ezra Klein, at Vox, explains why: Democrats have a long list of hard-left initiatives that they can achieve only by bulldozing them through with the smallest possible majority.
A psychology professor at Duke University has written a piece arguing that identity politics is a threat to science. "John Staddon is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and a professor of biology and neurobiology" his bio reads. Staddon’s focus is a petition which is currently circulating which claims there isn’t enough diversity in STEM fields because of systemic racism.
The first sentence of the petition...blurs the distinction between systemic racism and racial disparities, as well as raising the emotional temperature with distracting and irrelevant allusions to the BLM protests and the COVID-19 pandemic:
The nexus of Black Lives Matter protests and a pandemic that disproportionately kills Black and Brown people highlights the need to end systemic racism, including in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), where diversity has not meaningfully changed for decades.
Systemic racism is the problem, and the petition knows the cause:
Everyone in academia must acknowledge the role that universities—faculty, staff, and students—play in perpetuating structural racism by subjecting students of color to unwelcoming academic cultures.
That passage is alarming for two reasons: Apparently, we "must acknowledge;" we must admit our collective sin. This is the language not of science, but of the Middle Ages. And just what is meant by "unwelcoming academic cultures?" Are science faculties mean to students of color? Not in my experience. Or are some subjects too difficult for unprepared students, many of whom are "of color?"...
The petition further urges STEM faculty to "abandon the perception of ’fixed’ student ability." That sounds nice but assumes an equality that does not exist. Some students are simply smarter than others, and the range is especially great in mathematical ability. An educational system that ignores these vast individual differences will soon fall into mediocrity...
The petitioners also want to change the way STEM faculty are evaluated: "[Our proposal] will require making tenure dependent not only on excellence in research, teaching, and service, but also meaningful contributions to promote equity and inclusion".
Staddon concludes that, if implemented, these changes would reduce the emphasis on science and increase the emphasis on a kind of promotion based on unrelated social merit. The support for this idea offered in the petition is a study titled The Diversity—Innovation Paradox in Science. The gist of the study is that diversity yields more innovation in science which sounds like it might be a good thing. But Staddon argues the claims of the study aren’t very credible because the design of the way the study defines innovation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Caller] A South Carolina woman brought everyone to tears on Twitter after she wrote a heartwarming obituary for her dog, Charlie.
