“Liberal appropriation of the parental choice narrative might lead conservatives to wonder whether fights over critical race theory and transgenderism amount to overplaying their hand. I’m inclined to say no. Those liberal activist parents who think their kids are transgender represent a small, if vocal minority. Most American parents, I’d wager, still know that little boys claiming to be girls doesn’t make them so. Like Chesterton, I’m holding onto my confidence in the relative reasonableness of the common man…at least for now.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/left-appropriate-parents-rights-movement/
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“It is simply unreasonable to expect that those holding the reins over those who teach facts and geography and world events to America’s youth have a basic grasp of such things. You wouldn’t expect the CEO of Ford Motor Company to be able to identify the engine in a Mustang, would you? And just because Ms. Weingarten is a former teacher who taught AP Political Science and US history and government doesn’t mean she should be expected to know when the flag of a different country is upside-down. US history, you hear? This last week has proven yet again that Ms. Weingarten has the exact level of diligence, competence and knowledge about the world that you would expect from someone with so much influence over America’s teaching profession. Just imagine where America’s students would be without her.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/randi-weingarten-aft-ukriane-flag/
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“The underlying premise of all these formats is the conviction that the ordinary schlub media consumer will make the wrong decision if the correct message isn’t hammered out everywhere for him or her in all caps by mental superiors. This idea isn’t just insulting but usually incorrect, like thinking Lord Haw Haw broadcasts would make English soldiers bayonet each other rather than laugh or fight harder. Even just on the level of commercial self-preservation, one would think media people would eventually realize there’s a limit to how many times you can tell people they’re too dumb to be trusted with controversial ideas, and still keep any audience. But they never do.”
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“The reality, however, is that Thomas is more likely an extreme outlier rather than harbinger of a new reality. Few, if any, female transgender swimmers are likely to follow in her wake. That’s because Thomas’s success is the product of an extraordinary combination of circumstances—including a pandemic—that are unlikely to repeat. Rule changes implemented in response to her will make it much more difficult for future Lia Thomases to even compete, much less dominate.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lia-thomas-transgender-swimmer-ncaa-11647488571?mod=sports_major_pos7
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“After “several inquiries from The New York Times,” CDC unexpectedly decided to publish its data on the risks of hospitalization and death from both unvaccinated and vaccinated Americans, with or without booster dosing. But it did so in a manner that obscures younger individuals’ overall Covid risks, which is very low, instead attempting to force a comparison between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals’ hospitalization. The exact data about Covid risks by specific age has not been released in any graphical or easily viewable form anywhere. This rationale for deliberately hiding government-collected effectiveness data was even confirmed by the CDC’s spokeswoman, Kristen Nordlund. This taxpayer-funded agency didn’t want to give taxpayers the full picture of vaccine effectiveness—for their own good. “The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public,” according to the Times, “because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.””
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“Another driving force behind the growth of the fact-checking complex is the necessity of enforcing loyalty to progressive ideas that can’t survive on their own. Stripped of their specialized language and social and bureaucratic context, key articles of Progressive Church faith are repulsive to most ordinary voters, regardless of gender or race….That’s where the fact-checkers come in with their tin badges and unearned air of authority. They can declare that a story is not merely mistaken or overwrought but dangerously defective—because we, the fact-checkers, paid by the tech giants and NGOs that are in turn funded by a seemingly endless tide of dark money from billionaires who want to be woke, or at least buy a woke insurance policy, said so.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/invasion-fact-checkers
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“Russiagate. Alfa Bank. The laptop. All coordinated disinformation campaigns run by the Democrats involving the MSM and intelligence communities, all aimed at defeating Donald Trump. You see how it works now. Watch for the same pattern as we approach the midterms, and in 2024.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-hunter-biden-disinformation-campaign/
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"It’s time to drop the act that Lia Thomas is as much of a victim as the women being bumped off the podium. His decision to continue to swim on the women’s team, despite his obvious biological advantage, is contemptible. His invasion of the women’s locker room is downright disturbing. It is OK to feel bad for people who suffer from gender dysphoria, but that shouldn’t render us incapable of criticizing their actions. If we really want to save women’s sports, that means speaking out against everyone involved in their destruction."
https://spectatorworld.com/life/lia-thomas-compassion-swimming-transgender-upenn/
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“[O]ne of President Putin’s oldest allies, Anatoly Chubais, today announced his resignation and decamped his country. Officially Moscow’s “climate envoy,” Mr. Chubais has been a far more important member of Mr. Putin’s inner circle than that title suggests. As the man who initially recruited Mr. Putin to the Kremlin, Mr. Chubais was until today’s defection one of the president’s darlings. Mr. Chubais is, moreover, but the latest in a growing list of top players in Moscow who have either expressed skepticism about the war or were forced out by Mr. Putin, who blames them for failures in Ukraine. As is often the case with closed societies, there could be more fire than the smoke might suggest.”
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“[A]s America bends over backward to accommodate Tehran, a coalition of Iranian neighbors is frantically making its disapproval known. Meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh, President al-Sisi of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates’ crown prince, Mohamed bin Zayed, and Prime Minister Bennett of Israel discussed strategies to deal with an Iran agreement. All, as well as Saudi Arabia, have made their opposition known to the public. Perhaps more substantially, another party increasingly questions the fundamentals of the Iran deal. Notably, that group, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, will be charged with verifying compliance with the deal once it’s completed. “It is hard to imagine that anyone can reach a comprehensive agreement like the current JCPOA when talks with the IAEA … are deadlocked,” the agency’s director, Rafael Grossi, told the Tel Aviv-based Israel Hayom newspaper this week. This is a new standard for the IAEA: in reports and public appearances Mr. Grossi is challenging the agency’s board members: “How can you have a nuclear deal in which Iran is non-transparent?””
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“If there is one person who should just keep quiet until the end of time, it’s Liz Cheney. … She’s now relying on Wyoming Democrats to save her because Republican voters are finished with this woman. She’s one of the loudest anti-Trump voices on the Hill—and she could be one of the last. She was removed from leadership over these antics. She’s never back home. She would rather meet with Wyoming voters in the most liberal parts of the state. She’s declared base GOP voters are crazy people…”
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“…whatever disagreements presently exist within the fold when it comes to foreign policy, most Republican voters are on the same page when it comes to their view of how the party should confront the Left's destructive cultural agenda. At a time when the militant Left seeks to let biological men run roughshod over the very notion of femininity and to indoctrinate the younger generation in the civilizational arson that is critical race theory, Republican voters want their party to dive headfirst into the so-called culture war issues. It is past time for Republican leaders to ditch their misplaced fixation on their dog-eared, cocktail party-friendly supply-side economics playbook and to prudentially shift to a culture war-centric footing.”
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“Blackburn asked, "Can you provide a definition for the word woman?" Jackson responded, "No. I can't...I'm not a biologist." That last addendum, "I'm not a biologist," was a gratuitous little insight into a nasty little attitude that Jackson holds for the likes of Blackburn, who would dare to presuppose that such a thing as defining a woman could be glibly achieved in such a vulgar setting as this… The exchange reflects a level of intellectual stupidity that only can be attained at America's leading graduate schools... in this case, Harvard.”
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryoconnor/2022/03/23/biologists-determine-biology-so-n2604949
“The Texas Department of Public Safety is drafting a creative approach which would bring in the National Guard to arrest migrants passing through private land and charge them with trespassing. Prosecution of migrant trespassers will make it difficult for them in any asylum claim they may raise in the future. Bensman said that while the Biden administration has "Border Patrol ... transferred to 'Walmart welcoming duty,'" the actual "levers of power on the immigration policy" reside mainly in the White House. Under current circumstances, with Republicans in the minority in both the House and Senate, there will be little legislative action. If there are to be hearings on executive branch shortcomings in immigration policy, they will occur only if there are Republican advances in the midterm elections.”
https://www.meforum.org/63072/todd-bensman-jihadis-infiltrate-texas
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“The propaganda is stark. By now, the Palestinian MO should be widely known. Yet most people remain ignorant of both the history and the documented ambitions of the Palestinians (who are, of course, fully supported by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation). Many others do know, but they ignore it all and perpetuate their own Jew-hatred. What kind of an anthropologist would condone looting of Jewish antiquities? A Palestinian one at Columbia.”
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63085/palestinian-columbia-university-professor
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“Socially libertarian-ish is where I land, though I don't take on a moral superiority complex like most in this area. These are just low-grade issues for me, but then education becomes infiltrated with those who just want to turn all the kids transgender and not tell their parents, which is beyond disturbing. I guess in the end, the one thing the left will do is make you care. They will make you care.”
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“Some former police officials and business owners blame Mr. Boudin’s focus on keeping people who commit small-scale crimes out of prison. His office, for example, discourages filing charges in cases where suspects are pulled over for traffic infractions and officers find small amounts of drugs. Others point the finger at the police, who cleared just 6% of the city’s property crimes in 2020, more than 8 percentage points lower than the national average. A case is considered cleared if a suspect is arrested, charged and turned over to a court for prosecution, or is identified with sufficient evidence for a charge but can’t be taken into custody for circumstances beyond police control.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/crime-san-francisco-petty-thieves-small-businesses-11647797642
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““In this day and age, news organizations should know better,” said Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center. “My first reaction to this was it harkened back to CBS altering Katie Couric’s appearance so she appeared slimmed down or perhaps the most infamous and egregious example of Time magazine altering O.J. Simpson’s skin color.”
“Abigail Shrier, an author who has written critically on trans issues, accused the network of trying to “pull the wool over the eyes of the public” by pushing the misleading image.
““NBC is protecting a cheater by cheating. Doctoring photographs is a violation of everything journalism stands for,” she said.”
https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/nbc-takes-heat-for-airbrush-of-lia-thomas/
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“It’s no socialist party anymore. The Democratic Socialists of America have officially moved to dissolve its anti-Israel Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Working Group because of ongoing protests from the group over the DSA decision not to expel Rep. Jamaal Bowman for visiting Israel and meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennet last year.
““On February 18 the [National Political Committee] … asked the BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group to take down a thread on Twitter. The reason for asking the thread to be taken down was that it contained misinformation about what Bowman’s office told DSA in an an off-the-record meeting,” the DSA said in a March 18 statement explaining the decision. “It is not appropriate — especially for an official DSA body — to violate agreements to respect the confidentiality of sensitive information, misrepresent those facts and make accusations,” they added.
“The BDS working group Twitter account was subsequently suspended.”
https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/dsa-faces-rupture-over-not-expelling-jamaal-bowman/
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“Mr. Kinzinger has become a darling of Washington Democrats and a frequent guest on television shows after becoming, following the January 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Hill, one of the few Republicans to vote to impeach President Trump…Last fall Mr. Kinzinger announced he would not seek re-election after his Chicago suburban voting district was redrawn by the Democratic-dominated Illinois legislature. By now he seems ready to join the Squad, a group of six progressive House members that finds ways to attach all world evils to Israel.”
https://www.nysun.com/article/kinzinger-rounds-on-israel-over-its-policy-on-ukraine
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“President Biden wants credit for nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. But here is the shameful irony: As a senator, Biden warned President George W. Bush that if he nominated the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, he would filibuster and kill her nomination.
“She was highly qualified, having served for seven years as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court — the first Black woman to do so. She was the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers, and grew up in rural Alabama during the dark days of segregation, when her family refused to enter restaurants or theaters with separate entrances for Black customers. She rose from poverty and put herself through college and UCLA law school as a working single mother. She was a self-made African American legal star. But she was an outspoken conservative — so Biden set out to destroy her.”
“…the entire episode was utterly typical of how the American Left views African-Americans. They must — must! — be political liberals — and if not, and they have any prominent role in American life or law, the Left and its allies will seek to destroy them because, yes indeed, they have had the nerve to walk off the liberal plantation.”
https://spectator.org/if-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-were-judge-candace-owens/
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“"I consider Usama bin Laden as one of the people that I admire. To me, he is in the category of Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro," Kochiyama said after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "I thank Islam for bin Laden. America's greed, aggressiveness and self-righteous arrogance must be stopped. War and weaponry must be abolished.””
https://apple.news/AuQZ6ecWaQ6CYurbFHbbAXw
