November 2, 2015: Clinton Calls for Exxon Probe After Company Cuts Off Foundation Funding Hillary Clinton is calling for a federal investigation of ExxonMobil’s climate change activities Source: Clinton Calls for Exxon Probe After Company Cuts Off Foundation Funding – Washington Free Beacon November 5, 2015: Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by…
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Protest against Trump hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ grows
NEW YORK (AP) — Pressure continued to mount on NBC to cancel Donald Trump’s guest-host appearance on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” as a coalition of advocacy groups delivered petitions to the network Wednesday calling… Source: Protest against Trump hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ grows Hell, Ace beat me to this one, which I’d put into…
Attacker identified as UC Merced freshman
Source: Attacker identified as UC Merced freshman | The Sacramento Bee So they’ve now identified the hairball who stabbed four people at UC Merced: The student has been identified as Faisal Mohammad, a freshman student from Santa Clara. Faisal Mohammed? Oh. Mohammed factor 50%. Color me stunned. And just for the record, I doubt very…
Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math
Source: Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math So 90+% of Detroit students are not proficient in math or reading? The hell you say. Cue the shopworn liberal bleat about needing more money. Yet Detroit spends $18,361 per student. That’s not enough? The average private school tuition in Michigan…
CNBC delivers a rabbit punch
College-level speaking not required at the GOP debates Trump is speaking at a fifth-grade level, according to an analysis of three GOP debates. And Cruz is the only candidate at a high school level. Source: College-level speaking not required at the GOP debates Here is a particularly illuminating insight into how liberal media bias works,…
Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity
Vanderbilt’s Women’s Center tells men how to be men at ‘Healthy Masculinities Week.’ Source: Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity – The College Fix The Women’s Center tells men how to be men? Oh. Thanks for the tips, girls. Now we need some fraternity brothers to give the distaff side some tips…
Cycles of History
From Ace of Spades book thread this morning, where OregonMuse allowed: I thought the USSR was therefore here to stay, because nobody wanted to go that route. The future was pretty grim. And then one day in 1989, poof, it was gone. Just like that. Of course it wasn’t “just like that”, the USSR was…
Ourobouros
Annie Teriba issues apology after admitting she had failed to get full consent before having sex with someone at this year’s NUS black students’ conference Source: Oxford student activist resigns from posts over non-consensual sex | Education | The Guardian I knew we shouldn’t have followed the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole, and this…
Why Iowa’s Graduation Rate Is So Much Higher Than California’s
Source: Why Iowa’s graduation rate is so much higher than California’s For the second time in as many days the LA Times has distinguished itself yet again, for some values of distinction, with this piece from the Ministry of Truth. Since it represents the confluence of the problem with the media with that of California’s…
On White House science day, Obama displays his geek-in-chief side
Sorry for the long radio silence, but life has intervened, necessitating expenditures of time and attention that precluded posting recently. But my wife drew my attention to this article, which punched through the intellectual and temporal carapace surrounding me right now, and which demanded address as one of the more egregious media tongue baths I’ve…