The latest collegiate victimology crazes

In his latest video, Bill Whittle exposes “cultural appropriation,” the latest bullying tactic of progressive millennials ~
 

What about everything they’ve “appropriated” from white males?

 
And speaking of insane trends on college campuses, Walter Williams addresses another – the selective renaming craze; if history offends you, rewrite it ~

Stanford students have demanded the renaming of buildings, malls and streets bearing the name of the recently canonized Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Franciscan priest who was often unkind to American Indians. Harvard Law School is getting rid of its seal because it bears the coat of arms of the Royalls, a slave-owning family. This renaming craze is widespread and includes dozens of colleges and universities, including Amherst, Georgetown, Princeton, Yale and the University of California, Berkeley. The students have decided that some politically incorrect people from centuries ago are bad. Other politically incorrect people are not quite so bad if they were at least sometimes liberal; their names can stay.

 
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Related:
Campus Thought Control
Cornell – another collegiate reality-free zone

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Mayor de Blasio – Out of touch (with reality)

Latest Ted Cruz campaign ad takes aim at Mayor de Blasio’s warped priorities ~
 

 
Trump on the other hand – although he has since back-pedaled (what’s new?) – had this to say back in October 2013 ~

“I think pretty strongly that he’ll end up being a good mayor, maybe a very good mayor and I don’t think he’s going to want to kill the golden goose,” Trump told an Albany radio station Thursday, according to the New York Daily News […]
 
Trump’s enthusiasm might seem unlikely amid reports that the business and finance sectors of the city worry what a de Blasio tenure might mean for their industries.
 

“I think he’s a smart guy that knows what’s going on really big league and I think he is not going to want to destroy New York,” Trump said. “I think he is going to want to make New York great.”

Hmmmm… make New York great…

 

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Related (Update 4-14-16):
Levin: Here’s What Ted Cruz Means by ‘New York Values’ ~ Leftist loons like Jeffrey Toobin (CNN) and Geraldo Rivera are trying to make people believe that when Cruz speaks negatively about “New York values” he’s being anti-Semitic (?!). Mark Levin straightens them out nicely in this audio clip.

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Trump’s New York values

According to some poll The Hill is quoting, Donald Trump’s support is up to 60 percent in New York. Yippee.
 
And hardly surprising considering The Donald really does represent New York’s secular, socially liberal, nanny-state values. For the last 30 years or so the state been reliably Democrat. Since the Obama years began, it’s turned Left even sharper and faster than the rest of the country.
 

Aren’t NYC values charming?

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While trying to paint Ted Cruz as some callous bastard who was mocking the 9-11 tragedy, Trump advocates failed to point out the anti-religion New York values that were behind the attempt to remove the “cross” from the memorial display.
 
And they also neglected to mention that Governor Cuomo kicked God out of the Empire State two years ago ~
 
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Not too shocking actually; NYC has been kicking churches out of school buildings for years (Faith-based organizations thought they won this battle but the atheists are a tenacious bunch).

 
Trump defenders also forgot that many New Yorkers aren’t particularly fond of the 2nd Amendment. (Remember when the NY Journal-News published the names and addresses of gun-owners?)
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I don’t want to paint the whole state with a broad brush, many of New York’s outstate areas still lean Republican.
 
Unfortunately conservative votes are cancelled out by the Big Apple; a veritable progressive utopia since since hard-Left socialist de Blasio was elected.
 
Under the first-term mayor the city has…

Turned the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade into a gay celebration

Targeted the FDNY for “fundamental transformation”

Passed legislation allowing birth certificates to be altered to match one’s sexual identity – as opposed to reality

Declared war on the city’s horse carriages
Declared war on minority education; opposing charter schools
Legalized Public Urination
 
And let’s not forget last summer’s very bad omen: the Empire State Building tribute to “Kali” the Indian god of death (Who thought that was a good idea?!) –
 

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Yes, count me out.
Sorry Donald. New York values are not going to Make America Great Again.

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Founding Wisdom – Flouted by the Foolish

Donald Trump, please take note ~
 
It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.
 
~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, 19 August 1785 ~
 

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Saturday Shorts – 4-9-16

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Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Killing Knowledge in K-12 ~ Thanks to John Dewey and his socialist brotherhood…

Dumbed down schools were created intentionally in order to create dumbed down students. That, my research suggests, is the horrible reality […]
The schools always profess hostility to direct instruction, mastery of basics, memorization, traditional testing – in short, all the things that work. They teach as little as possible, and then they create a disconnect with what little they do teach. The result is probably the least educated general population we’ve had in a century.

Sad but true. (Pretty much explains Bernie, Hillary, Trump…)

 
Can You Be Pro Choice and Anti-Slavery? ~ Exposing the convoluted logic of the pro-choicers, Mike Adams responds to Leonard Pitts’ progressive question with a more analogous one ~

… the abortion debate is not about preserving the feelings (sensitivities) of grown men. It’s about preserving the bodies of defenseless babies.

 
Judge bans a British father from taking his son to church… because his mother is a Muslim ~ Yes, it’s England, but thanks to growing anti-Christian sentiment, don’t think it won’t happen here in another year or two.

 
Satanic, Atheist Literature to be Distributed in Colorado Middle and High Schools ~ I’ve said it before and I’ll keep repeating it; when there’s no transcendent truth – anything goes.
 
TSA wastes $1.4 million ~ Spendthrift Feds throw away our tax dollars on redundant technology ~

Government marches on! The TSA spent $1.4 million to develop software that does the exact same thing as flipping a coin.

 
Speaking of abysmal stewardship ~
Obama Family 2015 Honolulu Christmas Vacation Cost Taxpayers $3,590,313 in Flight Expenses Alone ~ Let them eat cake…

“The American people have every right to be appalled that Barack Obama wastes their precious tax dollars on an endless stream of golf vacations, political fundraisers, and exorbitant vacations,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Obama travel issue is about abuse of office, abuse of the taxpayer, and contempt for the rule of law.”
 
To date, the known travel expenses for the Obamas and Vice President Joe Biden have exceeded $78,003,292.44.

[I suppose one of the few positives about the prospect of a “President Trump” – with his bazillions he could certainly self-fund the first family’s travel expenses.]
 
Castro’s American Victims ~ Among the many reasons for America’s icy relations with Cuba over the last several decades, one of the most righteous has been the regime’s willingness to provide a safe haven for fugitives. This post from Daniel Greenfield introduces us to several murderous thugs and terrorists who’ve lived consequence-free for years in Castro’s island paradise ~

Even though Obama illegally and falsely delisted Cuba as a state sponsor of terror, the Communist dictatorship still remains a haven and a hub for terrorists from around the world.
 
Cuba is best known for its ties to the Marxist narcoterrorists of FARC who have kidnapped and murdered Americans. But the Iran-backed Islamic terrorists of Hezbollah, who carried out the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, have a home in Cuba. As do members of the left’s former terrorist networks in America.

 
Veterans’ charities reportedly receive fraction of money raised by Trump event ~

More than two months after Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump claimed to have raised $6 million for veterans’ charities at a fundraiser held on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, most of the organizations targeted to receive the money have gotten less than half of that amount.

Yeah, Trump’ll make a great prez.. His promise-to-results ratio is right up there with Obama’s.

 
Obama Promising More Prison Releases, Paul Ryan Cheers Him On – As Obama plans to accelerate his jailbreak program,

…on an almost daily basis, Speaker Paul Ryan actually name-drops “criminal justice reform” as his top legislative priority for the remainder of the year. He provides Obama tailwinds instead of headwinds for his most dangerous agenda, which is opposed by the silent majority of the country.

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When Did It Become Controversial To Keep Men Out Of The Women’s Bathroom? ~

This is insanity and until this mental health issue is no longer falsely treated like a civil rights issue, legislatures should do their duty and protect their female citizens by passing bathroom bills.

Amen!

 

elfselfieROCK-THE-ELF/CUPID/LEPRECHAUN ~ Pix and videos from a photographer dad of six. Just can’t get enough of this cuteness 🙂 ➡

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Bernie’s latest blather

bernieSandersHoping to entice minority voters away from Clinton, on Wednesday Bernie Sanders announced that not only will he apologize for slavery if elected but he believes blacks should receive de facto slavery reparations through government redistributionism.
 
Get real Bern! As Ben Shapiro says, you should apologize for socialism!

Sanders thinks he has a shot at the nomination if he can just pry enough black support away from Hillary. So he’ll say anything, including imputing pro-slavery motivations to his opponents. In reality, of course, the president apologizing for slavery 150 years after its conclusion only exacerbates racial tensions by reinforcing the notion that America is irredeemably racist; Sanders’ protestations that he wants to “wipe the slate clean” are nonsense. Teaching yet another generation of young black people that America was born in sin and raised in evil and bears a stain that will never be washed away – all of that will do nothing to empower individuals to take responsibility for their own lives.

 

But like any ardent socialist worth his hammer and sickle…

Sanders doesn’t want individuals taking responsibility for their own lives. It’s government’s job to take responsibility for everybody’s life – to seize from them their property and their labor for its own ends. Which, come to think of it, sounds a lot more like involuntary servitude than freedom.

 
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Gary Kasparov, born and raised in the Soviet Union (and arguably the best chess player in the world), helpfully provides a reality-check for millennials or any other dupes who happen to be feelin’ the Bern: “Hey, Bernie, don’t lecture me about socialism. I lived through it” ~

I’m enjoying the irony of American Sanders’ supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means!
 
Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please keep it there. In practice, it corrodes not only the economy but the human spirit itself, and the ambition and achievement that made modern capitalism possible and brought billions of people out of poverty.
 
Talking about Socialism is a huge luxury, a luxury that was paid for by the successes of capitalism. Income inequality is a huge problem, absolutely. But the idea that the solution is more government, more regulation, more debt, and less risk is dangerously absurd […]

 
Kasparov must have been psychic when he wrote this last month because it’s the perfect comeback to Sanders’ latest utopian ramblings ~

A society that relies too heavily on redistributing wealth eventually runs out of wealth to redistribute. The historical record is clear. It’s capitalism that brought billions of people out of poverty in the 20th century. It’s socialism that enslaved them and impoverished them…

 

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Related:
Socialism ALWAYS fails…
How Bernie Sanders Sold his Soul to the Left ~ Daniel Greenfield examines Bernie pandering politics ~

There was never really an authentic Bernie Sanders. Bernie was always a politician who reshaped his views when he needed to. Bernie’s supporters like to claim that he isn’t for sale. But Bernie Sanders sold his soul long ago. Now he’s auctioning off the used pieces of it a second and a third time for a few bucks.

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CA A.G. Harris sics Goon Squad on Daleiden

You may remember David Daleiden as the intrepid producer of the Planned Parenthood videos, the guy who California officials – rather than thank for exposing the illegal sale of fetal body parts – decided to prosecute for his valiant efforts…?
 
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Unfortunately it seems the Orwellian circus is just getting started; Daleiden’s home was actually raided by California officials on Tuesday ~

Daleiden said that California Attorney General Kamala Harris ordered her agents to enter his Orange County apartment on the afternoon of April 5 and seize all the material he collected during the 30-month-long investigation he conducted on behalf of the Center for Medical Progress.
 
They “invaded my home the other day,” Daleiden told Fox News host Sean Hannity last night, removing everything dealing with the abortion industry’s potentially illegal practices related to organ and tissue harvesting and sale.

 

The clearly unprincipled Harris is running for Barbara Boxer’s senate seat, and this intimidating raid appears to be an attempt to prove her aggressive pro-abort bona fides. At least that’s how Operation Rescue sees it: CA AG’s Office Ransacks Daleiden’s Apartment to Defend Campaign Contributor Planned Parenthood ~

Harris, a pro-abortion Democrat, chose to focus her investigation on Daleiden and his associates rather than Planned Parenthood, even though the video footage so far released by Daleiden’s Center for Medical Progress shows clear evidence that Planned Parenthood was illegally altering abortion procedures to endure intact organs targeted for harvesting then selling the organs for profit.

 
And there appears to be a huge conflict of interest – since Planned Parenthood is financially supporting Harris’ candidacy ~

Operation Rescue has obtained evidence that supports accusations that Harris’ investigation was politically retaliation, and that the raid on Daleiden’s home represents a frightening attack on free speech, freedom of the press, and our precious guarantee of equal (not biased) protection under the law […]
 
In total, over $81,000 has flowed into Harris’ campaign coffers from PLanned Parenthood and other abortion promoters. She owes these people for her political livelihood […]
 
… if large amounts of campaign financing from Planned Parenthood, the NAF, and abortion promoters isn’t enough to see that Harris is working to protect Planned Parenthood and punish those who are calling attention to their misconduct, one need only look at Harris’ own website.

(Or rather look at the screen-shot in Operation Rescue’s article; it seems to have disappeared from Harris’ site.)

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Scary stuff.
Anyone who doesn’t find this self-serving, thuggish intimidation extremely troubling is either oblivious – or part of the authoritarian enforcement brigade itself.

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On Vacation

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Socialism ALWAYS fails…

… because it’s a philosophy that runs contrary to human nature.
 
Here’s a brief history lesson for the young and the misguided who happen to be “feelin’ the Bern” ~
 

 
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Related:
Socialism’s Bloody History Shows Millennials Should Think Twice Before Supporting It ~ Enlightening article from Stella Morabito at The Federalist – for extra credit ~

Socialism and communism both involve ceding to the state control over the distribution of goods and services for the masses. This involves giving up individual rights, and giving the state a good measure of control over our personal lives. This road always leads to tyranny, no matter what you pave it with, and no matter what you name it.

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Latest success with adult stem cells; restoring sight to the blind

According to a recent UK Telegraph article there’s been an amazing breakthrough in adult stem cell research – Cure for cataracts: scientists use stem cells to grow ‘living lens’ in eye.

 
adultstemcells2As I mentioned back in November, Michael Cook at MercatorNet unofficially declared a quiet end to the stem cell wars ~

Foes of embryo research were called troglodytes and religious fundamentalists; they were frauds waging war on genuine science. Their scientific credentials were questioned. They were accused of being callous and indifferent to the suffering of patients with chronic illness.
 
And yet they were right. Not one person has been cured with embryonic stem cells. Not one.

 

With adult stem cells on the other hand… it’s been one wonderful discovery after another. Like curing blindness ~

Cataracts can be cured by using a patient’s own stem cells to regrow a ‘living lens’ in their eye, restoring sight in just three months, scientists have shown.
 
In research described as ‘remarkable,’ surgeons reversed blindness in 12 infants born with congenital cataracts by removing the damaged lens and coaxing nearby cells to repair the damage.
 
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It could pave the way for millions of older people in Britain having their sight restored using their own cells.[…]

 
Dr Kang Zhang, chief of Ophthalmic Genetics and founding director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at UC San Diego, speaks to the promising future that his research portends for further advances ~

“An ultimate goal of stem cell research is to turn on the regenerative potential of one’s own stem cells for tissue and organ repair and disease therapy,” said Dr Kang Zhang […]
 
“The success of this work represents a new approach in how new human tissue or organ can be regenerated and human disease can be treated, and may have a broad impact on regenerative therapies by harnessing the regenerative power of our own body.
 
“We believe that our new approach will result in a paradigm shift in cataract surgery and may offer patients a safer and better treatment option in the future.”

 
Not only does this exciting discovery highlight yet again the superiority of adult vs. embryonic stem cells, it points to the genius of a creator who designed a self-contained healing mechanism into human beings at a cellular level.
 
Don’t we have an awesome God?!

 
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Related:
When adult stem cells do the job, why are some scientists tinkering with human embryos?
Smart Money’s on ADULT Stem Cells
ADULT Stem Cells Still Winning the Race – by a Mile

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Dear CoExisters …

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This Good Friday tragedy last week in the UK could be why we never seem to hear from too many “moderate” Muslims ➡ Muslim Shopkeeper Posted Easter Greeting to ‘My Beloved’ Christians. Hours Later, Police Say He Was Murdered by a Fellow Muslim ~

Glasgow, Scotland ~ 3-25-16: A popular shopkeeper was stabbed to death by another Muslim in a “religiously prejudiced” attack hours after posting an Easter message on Facebook to “my beloved Christian nation”.
 
Asad Shah, 40, a devout Muslim originally from the Pakistani city of Rabwah, had his head stamped on during a savage attack, according to one eyewitness.
 
Around four hours earlier the victim wrote online: “Good Friday and a very Happy Easter, especially to my beloved Christian nation.”

 
Sounds like the shop owner was a warm, friendly man, well-regarded by the community ~

Resident Isabella Graham, 64, said Mr Shah had previously employed her daughter at the shop. She said: “He was an amazing, wonderful man, he couldn’t do enough for you. He wouldn’t hurt anybody. Nobody in Shawlands would have a bad word to say about him. I can’t believe he’s gone.”

 

But radical Islam simply can NOT coexist with peaceful sentiments like that expressed by the unfortunate Mr. Shah ~

“Let’s follow the real footstep of beloved holy Jesus Christ and get the real success in both worlds.”

 
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Saving Grace

babyWilWe got some good news on the pro-life front last week: Indiana Becomes Second State to Ban Abortions Based on Down Syndrome ~

(Governor Mike) Pence signed House Bill 1337, which would ban abortion doctors from knowingly aborting an unborn baby solely because of a genetic disability such as Down syndrome, the unborn baby’s race or sex.

 
Back when the Christian worldview was more ubiquitous in western society, each human life was presumed to have value (in God’s eyes – and subsequently in ours). Because “playing God” by weeding out “undesirables” would have been almost unthinkable, legislation of this sort would have been totally unnecessary.
 
How times have changed. Two years ago in England, 92% of babies with Down Syndrome were killed in abortions according to a report from the British Department of Health. 92 percent!
 
Even in the U.S. it’s estimated that “Abortion after Prenatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome Reduces Down Syndrome Community by 30%.”
 
What a tragedy.

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I titled this post “Saving Grace” after a phrase Ann Barnhardt used in reference to those among us with an extra chromosome; …many people with Down Syndrome are especially profound channels of God’s Grace.
 
That seems to be so very true.
babyAce&momOver and over we hear from families with Down Syndrome kids who can only describe how wonderfully blessed they are to have these children in their lives. I had tears in my eyes the entire time I was reading this article from Micha Boyett: “The day I won the lottery.” What a moving testimony ~

Ace is the dreamiest baby. He is gentler than any person I know, old or young. He lives for his brothers, who surround him with dances and songs, or who blow past him and his tummy time on the quilt, always on their way to snack time or homework, sometimes laughing, sometimes fighting or crying, sometimes talking back to me. Ace watches while I break up wild wrestling matches, or lecture the little boy with the attitude, or dish out consequences. And he waits for our eyes to catch one another. And when they do, I sometimes gasp at the purity of his love for us. We the undeserving ones.

 
babyWil&dadThe fierce love and devotion that families have for these kids is returned in spades by the children themselves. Most parents with a Down Syndrome child couldn’t imagine life without them. Alan Lawrence shares the joy of Wil at thatdadblog ~

Today (March 21st) is World Down Syndrome day! This day ranks up there with Christmas and National Pancake Day in our house. Do you know anyone with DS? If you do, you should give them a big hug today and #shouttheirworth to all the world. A lot of us will be using the hashtag #shouttheirworth today so if you don’t know someone with Down Syndrome its a perfect day to change that.

 

(Lawrence is a professional photographer. His pictures of Wil and the rest of the family will put a huge smile on your face!)

 
All of which is to say what a damn shame it is that people selfishly choose to literally throw these blessings from God away. In June 2014, commenting on the horrid 92% abortion rate of DS babies in England, Dr. Ruth Cullen said:

“This story highlights in a very stark way the total disregard for human life that exists once abortion becomes legal. Abortion is legal in Britain, up to birth, in situations where a baby is diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome.”
 
Dr Cullen said: “It is rank hypocrisy for Governments that tolerate such laws to be parading themselves as defenders of human rights while at the same time justifying the killing of unborn children with special needs instead of creating a more welcoming society for children and families in these situations.”

 
So let’s be very grateful for Indiana’s legislature and Governor Pence. And let’s pray that other states follow their principled lead. Let’s help save this grace.

 
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Related:
Why This Father Says Having a Child With Down Syndrome is the “Best Thing to Ever Happen to Me” ~ Very touching video from a Downs dad
Photographer dad and his fantastic flying son

It is no surprise that satan and his minions hate Down Syndrome people ~ More of Ann Barnhardt’s pull-no-punches rant ~

As many of you know, people with Down Syndrome are known for being joyful, loving, caring, and empathetic. I think it can be safely said that no person with Down Syndrome has ever descended into Diabolical Narcissism. People with Down Syndrome almost universally make the people around them better – whereas Diabolical Narcissists are soul-killing vectors of destruction, scandalizing and wringing every bit of joy and love out of their chosen victims. Whereas Diabolical Narcissists are Hell’s Mercenaries, many people with Down Syndrome are especially profound channels of God’s Grace.

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