The latest irrational response to the shooting in Florida is a proposal to ban possession of rifles by those under 21.
If we are truly concerned with the threat posed by the young and stupid, why do we allow them to vote?… Read the rest
Government Schools: The Place You Send Your Children When You Hate Them
I always laugh when people ask me about the ‘socialization’ of our homeschooled children. Compared to what? The illiterate, debauched, statist-serving, entitled brainwashed zombies produced by government schools?
The correlation between public school environments and the deteriorating mental health of children has been intensifying for decades. We ought to consider how these settings serve as incubators for the social alienation that can fuel such horrors.
First, consider how common it is for a public high school today to house thousands of teenagers for most of their waking hours for four solid years. (More than 3,000 students attend the Florida school where the most recent shooting took place.) During their time in that maze, kids learn to “socialize,” basically by finding their place in a school’s hierarchy of cliques.
This sort of pecking order dynamic tends to breed resentment, status anxiety, and social dysfunction. Combine that with the toxic effects of social media and family breakdown, and you’ve got a deadly brew. Public schooling is increasingly unhealthy for kids’ emotional stability. Let us count the ways.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/21/13-ways-public-schools-incubate-mental-instability-kids… Read the rest
This Is Why Democracy Fails
I got a lot of criticism in 2016 for claiming the Democrats cheat by 1-3% each election. Then there came the discovery of the fraud in NJ in 2017. Now this. I’m shocked. Shocked!
As reported by the National Review’s Deroy Murdock, who did some numbers-crunching of his own, “some 3.5 million more people are registered to vote in the U.S. than are alive among America’s adult citizens. Such staggering inaccuracy is an engraved invitation to voter fraud.”
Murdock counted Judicial Watch’s state-by-state tally and found that 462 U.S. counties had a registration rate exceeding 100% of all eligible voters. That’s 3.552 million people, who Murdock calls “ghost voters.” And how many people is that? There are 21 states that don’t have that many people.
Nor are these tiny, rural counties or places that don’t have the wherewithal to police their voter rolls.
California, for instance, has 11 counties with more registered voters than actual voters. Perhaps not surprisingly — it is deep-Blue State California, after all — 10 of those counties voted heavily for Hillary Clinton.
Los Angeles County, whose more than 10 million people make it the nation’s most populous county, had 12% more registered voters than live ones, some 707,475 votes. That’s a huge number of possible votes in an election.
But, Murdock notes, “California’s San Diego County earns the enchilada grande. Its 138% registration translates into 810,966 ghost voters.”
… Read the restU.S. Has 3.5 Million More Registered Voters Than Live Adults — A Red Flag For Electoral
Socialism Has a Perfect Failure Rate; Why Do Intellectuals Love It So?
In 1970, S. Korea and Venezuela had a similar GDP. Venezuela had a huge advantage: the largest oil reserves in the world. But while S. Korea embraced capitalism, Venezuela embraced socialism. Korea is an economic miracle and Venezuelans are literally starving to death.… Read the rest
Political Activism Has Failed to Overturn Roe; Do Pro-Lifers Care?
Okay pro-lifers, after four decades of marching, endorsements and raising money, you’ve made no progress at all; less than half of “Catholic” Senators voted with you yesterday.
When do you consider an alternative plan? ⠀
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/29/senate-trump-20-week-abortion-ban-316002?utm_content=buffer87f31&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer… Read the rest