2020 Taylor G. Lunt
. . . I don’t agree with the pro-life opinion I expressed in this essay. This was a thought exercise: take on a position I disagree with, and try to make it as strong as possible.
Category: Politics
Kamala goes full commie with video praising “equality of outcome.” Let me show how horrid this idea actually is.
2020-11-02 Joel Abbott
“Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place,” said Harris, finishing her idea of a utopia on earth.
This all sounds nice. It sounds great on the surface. It doesn’t even sound socialistic to the untrained ear. This language of “equity,” however, drives at a core idea of socialism: the uniform equality of outcome for all people.
https://notthebee.com/article/kamala-goes-full-commie-with-video-praising-equality-of-outcomes
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
2020-09-02 Raphael Satter
(Reuters) – Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
Franklin Graham reflects on ‘absence of God’ at DNC ahead of DC prayer march
2020-08-21 Caleb Parke
this year, the Democratic caucuses are taking God out of the pledge of allegiance. The Black community is a faith community … they’ve got a real problem ahead.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-god-2020-election-christians-prayer-march-dc-franklin-graham
Trump admits he ‘often’ regrets tweets, retweets get him ‘into trouble’, in interview with Barstool Sports founder
2020-07-25 Joseph A. Wulfsohn
“Do you sometimes — because I follow you on Twitter and I know I do this… do you ever tweet out and be like — you wake up and, ‘Aw man, I wish I didn’t send that one out’?” Portnoy asked.
“Often, too often,” Trump responded. “It used to be in the old days before this, you’d write a letter and you’d say this letter is very big. You put it on your desk and then you go back tomorrow and you say, ‘Oh, I’m glad I didn’t send it,’ right? But we don’t do that with Twitter, right? We put it out instantaneously, we feel great, and then you start getting phone calls — ‘Did you really say this?’ I say, ‘What’s wrong with that?’ and you find out a lot of things.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admits-often-regrets-tweets-barstool-sports-ceo
What We Believe – Black Lives Matter
2020-07-11 Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
Wayback Machine copy:
http://web.archive.org/web/20200822193504/https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
2019-12-06
When police are revealed to have killed an unarmed suspect or used excessive force during arrest, police generally defend those actions. Cops who report wrongdoing are routinely ostracized as “rats” and denied promotions, according to a 1998 Human Rights Watch study. Researchers identify this so-called “blue wall of silence” – the refusal to “snitch” on other officers – as a defining feature of U.S. cop culture today.
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U.S. military culture stresses organizational, rather than personal, loyalty.
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And the pride Marines famously feel, for instance, comes from being part of this well-respected corps. Personal relationships with other Marines are of secondary importance.
How the 1% Scrubs Its Image Online
-12-13 Rachael Levy
Prominent figures from Jacob Gottlieb to Betsy DeVos got help from a reputation management firm that can bury image-sensitive Google results by placing flattering content on websites that masquerade as news outlets
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-1-scrubs-its-image-online-11576233000
San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless
2019 Autumn, Heather Mac Donald
Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable.
‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish?
2019-08-17 Oliver Franklin-Wallis
‘Everything you own will one day become property of the £250bn global waste industry.’ Composite: Guardian Design Team
You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis.