Amy Wax Is the Rock in the Current!

Heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart

By Rich Kozlovich / Tags:  

For years I've stated the two groups mostly considered to be leaders are Ph.D.'s and military officers.  But the fact is both got to the top by being part of the go along to get along crowd, and to the vast majority of them rowing against the tide, or being a rock in the current is totally alien to their thinking, or their character.  But there are exceptions, and they pay a price.  I've added her to the John Boyd Legion of Honor.

In 2019 I posted a link to this article, In Defense of Penn Law Professor Amy Wax, and to my surprise I got thousands of hits on this piece, saying:

The hard left doesn’t want to nominate another white male for president in 2020, or in the words of Politico, “a candidate that looks like Bernie or Joe.” In fact, according to most liberals, police departments would be better off with more nonwhites and fewer whites, as would fire departments, school districts, small businesses, Hollywood,Major League Baseball, U.S. Congress, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, to name a few places.

Whether this is ultimately true is debatable. What’s not is the fact that it’s perfectly okay to call for more diversity in America -- to publicly state things would be better off with more nonwhites and less whites.    

Then back in 2022 this article appeared, Edunomics, which I thought was a great article with a really dumb title, discussing how academia has been totally corrupted with leftist dogma totally destroying free speech.  Amy Wax is at the heart of that discussion saying:

The law school currently has her under review with the hope, it would appear, of taking away her tenure and then her job. Why is this occurring? Dr. Wax is doing what lawyers are taught to do: ask simple but hard questions, relying on facts that result in hard truths and more difficult questions. Dr. Wax has had the audacity to ask if bourgeois culture, which includes hard work, studiousness, delayed gratification, work, marriage, and having children in, rather than out of wedlock might be a good thing. 

She has questioned if it is problematic that most black students in the Penn law school are at the bottom of their classes. She has had the nerve to suggest that some cultures might be superior to others. For asking these impertinent questions, the dean of the law school has her under review.  Apparently, the principle of freedom of expression at Penn is good for me but not for thee. Wax has apparently crossed a “line,” transgressed “appropriate expression,” is a “racist” and a “white supremacist,” and she has yet to receive a “comprehensive and complete statement of all the charges lodged against her.” One can only describe the situation as Kafkaesque. 

I published that piece and tagged these articles thinking her plight wouldn't be much of an issue down the road.  That was a serious error in judgement, and since I had so many hits on the first piece, I should have known better! 

Here we are again, The Amy Wax Inflection Point for 'Elite' Higher Education, saying:

Higher education has been a cesspool of anti-Americanism, censorious leftism and cultural radicalism for longer than I have been alive. The moral rot is, and always has been, particularly acute at Ivy League or otherwise putatively "elite" institutions. The pro-Hamas "protests" that have rocked university campuses since Oct. 7 are indicative.....

......there was the triumvirate of "elite" university presidents who testified before Congress last December that the permissibility of campus calls for the genocide of the Jewish people "depends on the context."......But perhaps the single biggest disgrace to rock academia in recent years has been the University of Pennsylvania's years long crusade against its own tenured law professor, Amy Wax.

It appears it's perfectly acceptable to promote the genocide of Jews in Academia, but to declare mass immigration and multiculturalism is destructive to America and state factually that "black students rarely finish in the top half of graduating law school classes" is totally unacceptable.  Facts and history are anathema to leftists.   

When you consider that in one New York university it's been claimed about 90% of the student freshmen needed remedial reading classes, it's clear questions need to be raised.   How does someone graduate from high school and be incapable of reading?  That alone justifies questioning a lot about what's going on in education in America, including academia, and make no mistake, culture is king, and if that's true, and it was when Herodotus said it 2500 years ago, and it's still true today, then the culture that molded these kid's performance, activity, and attitude, must also be brought into question.

There's one thing abundantly clear, America's schools are failing to teach students fundamental skills.  They can't read, they can't write, they can't work basic math.  Then it must also be clear no matter how much money we're told to keep throwing at the teachers - teachers are failing to do their jobs.  Ergo-----they're overpaid, underworked and need to be fired, starting at the administration level!   If kids never learn to read why in the world would we think they're learning how to think? The socialist goal of making sure the apple falls as far away from the tree as possible is now a leftist success story - students are now too stupid to resist any stupidity the leftists promote. 

In Chicago teachers are being told to pass migrant children irrespective of their performance.  That's an outrageous abuse of these children.  If they can't do the basics how are they be expected to succeed in society?  Turn to crime?  That's not a long term success story.  

Here's what's acceptable to this corrupt cabal of so-called educators these days:

• Democrats are intentionally dumbing down the kids - For decades, most of the media and other Democrats have lied to the public, insisting that they, and not Republicans, care about our children… but their actions and policies show that this propaganda is clearly not true. They only care about money and power, a fact clearly seen when you look at the results in the public education sector. According to a report from US News, the Los Angeles school district spends over $18,000 per student; yet after thirteen years of schooling, only 46% of high school students could read at grade level, and a measly 18% were at grade level in math......
  
• Arizona State University prof claims current abortion policies could lead to forced breeding camps and cannibalism - Arizona State University professor of English Jennifer Irish recently used a school workshop called “A Speculative Future for Reproductive Rights” to express her concern that the country’s current abortion policies could somehow lead to “forced breeding camps” and “cannibalism,” according to a story in The College Fix.  Our abortion policies will lead to cannibalism?! WTH?! Ms. Irish, is it not enough to kill your kids, do you want to eat them, too? English professor Irish, (not to be confused with Irish professor English) stated: “So much of our reality points toward those futures.” Say again. Like what, precisely?......
•  Major Medical School Claims Timeliness, Individualism, And Professionalism Are Part Of White Supremacy  Radical leftism is a disease that, if left unchecked, will destroy our medical system.   Imagine a medical school that believes being on time, acting professionally, and displaying individualism is a display of white supremacy. Duke Medical School claims it is "White supremacy culture" to expect people of color to be on time in a strategic plan for creating an "Anti-Racist Workforce.".....
• The Double Standard on Campus Speech -  After weeks in which college students at campuses from Columbia to Harvard to UCLA celebrated murders and rapes, waved the flags of Islamic terrorist organizations and assaulted Jewish people, one student has finally been held accountable........While no amount of calls for the destruction of America or assaults on Jewish students led to any outrage in the media or actual consequences.....Knocking a Jewish female UCLA student unconscious didn’t do it. Barring Jewish students from being able to go to their classes didn’t do it. Assaulting staff members and faculty at universities didn’t do it. But call a fat black female activist Lizzo” and it’s an instant nationwide outrage.......

But for Amy Wax who calls into "question the academic ability of Black students" question the culture they represent, and invite Jared Taylor to speak in her classroom, who is being classified as a "white supremacist" saying, .... the country would be better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration, is unacceptable, and she must be punished.  

Whether you agree with his views or not, that's not the issue.  If academia can spew out all kinds of vile speech about Jews, whites, Christians, and traditional values in America, why should this be prohibited?  Why should she be punished and none of these other academics vile views be found acceptable?  Well, it's simple.  Statistics are racist, and so for "two and a half years, a period spanning successive Penn Law deanships, Wax has been subject to a probe into her alleged wrongthink and misdeeds.", which as "made Penn a pariah among academic freedom advocates."

The judgment finally came this week: Penn Law suspended Wax for a year, reduced her pay for that year by 50%, permanently stripped her of her endowed chair and summer pay, and publicly reprimanded her. Interestingly.......Penn Law had previously offered Wax a settlement that would have lessened her penalty on the condition that she not "disparage the University," not sue Penn and not publicly disclose the exculpatory evidence she had presented during the years long probe. Translation: Shut your mouth and this problem will go away quickly.

One thing is clear, Amy Wax is one tough cookie, and I've no doubt there will be an lawsuit in the near future, and I've no doubt she will win, and there will be another article about this here in P&D.  

Update 11:15 AM:  This College Just Got an Anonymous $100 Million for Defending Free Speech. - A whopping $100 million donation from an anonymous benefactor found its way into the coffers of the University of Chicago this week, intended to help the university bolster free speech on campus following a case in which a student claims an academic tried to get him expelled over controversial remarks..........The gift comes after a high-profile case involving student Daniel Schmidt, who stated last year that a professor at the University of Chicago was trying to get him expelled for highlighting an anti-white class called “the problem of whiteness.” The professor claimed the student, who has tens of thousands of social media followers, was bullying her. Earlier this week, the president of the university said Schmidt was free to talk about controversial topics like race and IQ, as Schmidt has previously claimed low IQs are the reason  "black people are murdering and mugging my classmates."

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P&D Geopolitics Edition

The Israel/Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran War, the Russo/Ukraine War, and More

By Rich Kozlovich

For years I've been busy explaining to the world what they're doing wrong, and they just refuse listen to the bugman. Imagine that!   Let's start with:

 

The Israel/Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran War.

 

The reality of Islam is unending conflict, within and outside of Islam.  The current open war with Israel is an example.  Iranians are Shiite Muslims as are Hezbollah and Hamas are Sunni Muslims, and they hate each other.  Which is why some claim that explains why no one came to Hamas' support at the initial onslaught of this war, which seems clear they expected.  Who knows, but Muslims operate on a different set of values than the rest of the world, including their dealings with each other.  

 

When others stab their friends in the back, they know that's what they're doing, no matter what excuses and justifications they may offer.  When Muslims stab others in the back, they recognize no moral ambiguity, as in some way they'll claim what their doing is based on the Koran, and they're gaining merit with Allah. 

Israel is now more united behind Netanyahu, but given Israel's political and social structure that can change overnight, but it's clear Israel is fighting on seven fronts.  That's a war of survival, and Israel will have to destroy these groups, and at some point attack Iran, and make clear any nation that harbors and abets these monsters are at war with Israel, and may be attacked.  I find it interesting the media, the Democrats, all leftists, and Iran condemn Israel as "terrorists" for using exploding pagers to take out a lot of terrorists, but these are the same people who danced at the vile disgusting crimes Hamas committed against innocent Israeli civilians, as Daniel Greenfield notes: Rape is Resistance and Beepers are Genocide. 

 

All of a sudden they're decrying the "breakdown of international law", which never seemed to bother them when all these terrorists rained down missiles on Israeli civilians, which actually has gone on for decades. 

 

It doesn't seem to bother them that Iran has declared a war against Israel but they've declared war without officially declaring war, and the UN, that "vile wretched hive of scum and villainy", says nothing about it, making it clear they want Israel destroyed and are now demanding Jews must leave Jerusalem.   Since there's no appeasing them, other than committing suicide, Israel will now openly ignore them, and rightly so, attacking all their adversaries on all fronts, with no holds barred.

 

"U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council Wednesday. "An all-out war must be avoided at all costs. It would surely be an all-out catastrophe."    Okay, and that catastrophe will be for whom?   It's clear these cease fire nitwits know the catastrophe will be for the terrorist movements and Iran.  And that's bad why?

 

Israel has picked up the gauntlet, but they're not going to duel on their adversaries terms, but on their terms, and that will be with the understanding there can be no peace with Islam....ever.  Any Abraham Accord style agreements that may come into being if Trump is elected are mere respites, and Israel should embrace them, all the while undermining any adversaries, and preparing for the next assault.

 

Israel must become less dependent on the US since one of the political parties is an antisemitic ogre. This is a forever war, and it's high time that was emphasized, and state clearly Israel is not the real target. Western civilization is the target, Israel is the canary in the coal mine.  Muslims have been murdering innocent people for almost 1500 years, and it's time we stopped excusing them.

Western Europe is lost.  In Lyon the Muslim population is 30% and now the French are so afraid to offend them they're bending to Sharia law and rules.  Israel is where America has skin in the game, not Europe.  It's my hope if Trump is elected he will stop funding the UN, and that's long over due.  

 

At this point there are only three European nations immune to a Muslim conversion.  Poland, Hungary, and Russia.  Three traditional historical enemies who may have to converge in order to survive the conversion of the rest of Europe.Think about that.  Poland may save Europe again.

 

But Europe is a spent force, and can only survive as Europeans if they abandon the UN, seriously restructure the EU, declare the WEF a criminal organization, and that Islam isn't a religion but a criminal political movement masquerading as a religion, and have mass deportations, and if necessary, revoking citizenship of Muslims.  In short, they will have to do what Spain did after the Reconquista.  That's history, and that history is incontestable.

 

History is everything as the patterns of life play out over and over again, and I've often wondered if any of these highly educated nitwits in leadership roles ever read a history book. As for those who have, like Henry Kissinger, the Tallyrand of the 20th century, did they care?  "Ideology makes smart people stupid."

 

Let's Review the Russo/Ukrainian War. 

 

I read a lot of clabber about the Russo/Ukraine War, and often times I see insane claims Putin didn't have a choice, it was the fault of America, Ukraine, Europe, and it never seems to end the number of people they point their fingers at in order to justify Putin's aggression. 

Let's try and get this right, no matter how many side bars are presented, this falls on Putin!  He chose to attack.  Having said that, while having compassion for the Ukrainian people, I don't care what happens to Ukraine as a nation.

This is a failure of Biden and his energy policies that funded this invasion, the stupidity of European leaders and their energy policies, and the stunning corruption of Ukrainian leadership who failed to proper fund arming themselves instead of funding their own bank accounts.  But it was Putin who chose to make this a shooting war. 

Ukraine's government was and is corrupt, and perhaps if they were allowed to have the election Zelenskyy prevented things might be different. Who knows, but either way, none of this is our fault, nor is it our responsibility.

We're throwing away billions on Ukraine, none of which the Biden administration tracked, nor would they allow it to be tracked, in order to support Europe.  All of which is wasted money as Europe is a doomed spent force, and we no longer have skin in that game, and yet they're quibbling over millions for Israel where we really do have skin in that game. There's where the real enemy of western civilization is in play.

Will Putin use nukes? I put this in a 60/40 "no" category as he has a lot of dissent behind the scenes, and I'm still convinced there's a von Stauffenberg contingent in his military. If he attempts to use nukes, he could be out, and survival is his primary goal now, but he still can't let loose of this insane war HE started. When Caesar fails or appears weak, he's not Caesar much longer.

However, if he does use nukes will there be a European nuclear response? I'm 100 % convinced the answer is no. Does anyone really believe Europe is willing to sacrifice Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, and London in a nuclear exchange over Ukraine?

How will this end? I've been convinced Ukraine can't win simply because they don't have enough boots on the ground. Many have fled, and many resent Zelenskyy and his coterie. But Putin's coterie is so blatantly incompetent this has gone on shockingly long, and what we're seeing is the break out for the wars of the future.  Drones and lasers. 

Putin and Zelenskyy should both hope Trump is elected, as I think he will find a way to resolve this, with no one being happy, which should be the goal. 

Long term consequences? 

Russia is toast as a world shaker.   They can't even manufacture the military hardware they need as they're buying military hardware from Iran and N. Korea.  The EU will collapse, Russia and China will go broke, and the world will be facing what historians call a historical end cycle, which always involved massive economic downturns and violence before a new cycle begins.

Based on history, I'm not optimistic.

Definition Leads to Clarity

Let's take a minute to review terms that are thrown around that actually end up confusing the world about who and what these politicos are, and why they make the decisions that make. 

Left, right, conservatives, liberals, and socialists, all are being used a lot to define characters around the world, and that's especially true of Europe after the recent elections, which has "the left" fearing "the right" is taking over.  Well, that's not exactly the way things are. 

When talking about classical liberals it should be realized they no longer exist, and in fact, Republicans come closest.

Leftists in the late 19th and early 20th century didn't dare call themselves socialists in America because socialism is foundationally atheistic, and that didn't play well in America. So, they called themselves progressives, then liberals, then back to progressives. But now they so deeply entrenched in America's institutions, they're boldly calling themselves socialists, and that justifies their antisemitism, violence, lies, corruption, and what can hardly be called anything less than treason. 

 

Having said all that, it's important to understand conservatism is cultural and the differences in different cultures. Currently, our concern is understanding what it means in America, so we can understand what it means in Europe. Their newly embraced "rightist" views isn't conservatism as we know it, but, is in my opinion a mixed bag of mild socialism and nationalism. They remind me of libertarians. No one knows what they really believe, including libertarians.

Truth be told, the only political party in America that knows what it believes are the Democrats. They know they hate America, Americans, capitalism, and the Constitution.  Which explains why they support terrorists, criminals, illegal migration, high taxes, burdensome regulations, and the murder of the innocent unborn. 

That's the world as I see it, and it ain't pretty.  

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Interview With Kamala Harris

By Rich Kozlovich

I thought a little satire was in order over Kamala's performance at the debate, versus her interviews where she's like Alice lost in Wonderland.  All of which gives a lot of credibility to the idea she was fed the questions and coached on the answers at the debate.  So, here it is. 

P&D - What do you say to those who  accuse you of spouting rambling incomprehensible word salads. 

Kamala - My thoughts aren't just lies, platitudes, and nonsense, they're points for voters to ponder.  Right side up isn't right side down you know.  And right side down isn't the same as right side up!  That's why I love America, because everybody's up or down.  I take pride in that, as it makes it easier to come together.  The freedom to just be. 

P&D - So, what they're calling "word salads" is in reality "projections of depth and sincerity".  Is that correct?

Kamala -  Right, did I mention I was raised dirt poor, worked my way through college by working at McDonald's.  There are so many burdens, including time and distance.

P&D - Kamala there's a lot of talk that you are clueless, how do you respond to that?

Kamala - I don't worry about facts, my only concern is how everything feels.  If I want facts, I just repeat whatever those brilliant journalists on CNN, ABC, and MSNBC have to say, as was told to them by our party's department of truth.   

P&D - Tell us, how do you handle all this criticism? 

Kamala - First of all, I'm easily offended and I will be as obnoxious as I need to be, which is why I run through a lot of staff.  They try to blame me for my failures, so I treat them with contempt.  They're so thin skinned.  But normally I just cackle to cover up my rage, and I do so because I know anyone who disagrees with anything I say, anything I do, or any position I take, is a racist, misogynist, Islamophobic, xenophobic homophobe.  So there! And I will shoot anyone who breaks into my house.

P&D - Tell us your views on the cost of living?

Kamala - I hear a lot about that and it impacts the aspirations and dreams of Americans, even for generations past and future.  The answer is far more elusive than ever, and we need to deal with that.  But if we come together I believe what is possible, what we believe in, and what we believe in is worth fighting for.  Did I mention time and distance? 

P&D - Thank you Vice President Kamala Harris, I'm sure all this helps to clarify America's views of you on your run for President of the United. 

Kamala - Is that wine I see over there?

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Mexico Has No Fix, and We Can't Fix Them!

By Rich Kozlovich

As my regular readers know I subscribe to a number of geopolitical sites, and some of them are tiresome with their canned comments in harmony with the leftist thinking, especially dealing with the Israel/Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran War.  It's always the Jews fault, it's always the Jews who have to stop fighting, and the unending meme the only sane solution to end the fighting is a two state solution.  All stupid, all tiresome, and entirely too long.  As if they think saying "stupid" in a lot of different ways it will make it sound like "smart".

However, my go to geopolitical site is Geopolitical Futures, who have some really excellent writers.  Good research, and usually good conclusions.  Not always, but in their case their conclusions aren't canned nonsense, they at least have a rational logic behind their conclusions. 

Recently one of my favorite writers for GPF, Allison Fedirka, who really offers some great insights on Latin and South America, posted an article on Mexico's Audacious Judicial Overhaul, and then outlined the history of Mexico's judicial changes, and how it may impact trade relations with the U.S. regarding the "renewal in 2026 of the USMCA trade pact".  

Editor's Note: This is a subscription article so you must subscribe to GPF, which I recommend, in order to open the article. RK

I was an exterminator for 40 years, and as I read this I thought of an old saying (paraphrased here) about failing to address destructive issues in society:

Putting a new coat of paint on a termite ridden house won’t fix the termites. It just hides the damage until the damage is so great the house can't be saved.

What I see going in Mexico is in my view a good reason to totally shut down the border, and end all economic relations with them. 

What's going in Mexico is a kind of insanity can only go on if it can be funded, and the corruption is massive.   Just as the true solution to major recessions/depressions in a capitalist society is to let it hit bottom.  That identifies the problems, and that allows them to be fixed.  The same is true for corrupt societies.  It will get ugly, but at some point what's necessary to fix the problems will emerge.  And no one can fix another’s societies problems because each society has its foundational social paradigms that mold the actions and thinking of that society. 

If a fix doesn’t emerge, then so be it, don't then foolishly believe we can fix if for them.

Also, we need to differentiate between what’s good for multinational American companies, and what’s good for America, and multinational companies have corrupted values.  On their best day they’re leaky vessels, and would sell the nation down the river for a good quarterly report.   

Other than to send tens of millions of illegal immigrants back over the border, and then sealing it up, we need to server relations with them until they get their society under control and stabilized.

Most importantly, their collapse is a result of massive corruption and criminal activity the government has not only tolerated, they’ve been a part of it.  Their collapse isn’t our fault, nor is it our responsibility, and now Mexico's President is blaming the Biden-Harris  administration for the Sinaloa Cartel turf war claiming, "if U.S. authorities had not worked to arrest one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s top leaders, the country would be at peace."  Imagine that! 

 This is the same corrupt nitwit that praised the Castro Regime "for it's dignity, all the while denouncing America.  How can you do credible business with such people? Why would you want to?

Here's more on that story, and as you read that you have to ask, how did these gangs become so big and so powerful in the first place? Answer?  One can only conclude Mexico's politicians, police, military are totally corrupt, and so too must be the judiciary. 

I suppose it's also America's fault a Renowned Mexican Journalist Forced to Retire After Leaks, Threats, Attacks.  Note, he and his family were targeted not just by criminals, he's also "been the target of government hostilities after Mexican prosecutors leaked his personal information to drug traffickers", hostility by the Mexican government over his exposure of all the criminal activity going on in Mexico. 

As a personal note, I don’t care what happens to these people.  If you’re moral person what’s happening in Mexico should disturb you.  If you’re a rational person, you should recognize, it’s their problem, let them fix it or not, and I have serious misgivings anything will be fixed as the new President Claudia Sheinbaum is defined in one word: Leftist!

Here's really the thrust of this commentary.  It's clear Mexico is now unfixable, and the same kind of corruption and crime is being tolerated, and even promoted by government officials in America.  Why would we believe the end result won't be the same here in America as it is in Mexico?

Here are some articles from my files:

1. Another Violent Election in Mexico
2. When 'A Little Corruption' in Mexico Goes Too Far 
3. Cartels fight a round with Mexican army...and win
4. AMLO confirms that fentanyl is coming from China
5. China-Supplied Mexican Drug Cartels Kill Americans

 

 

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Ohio Senate Race, Part IV

By Rich Kozlovich

This is the last in this series, here is Part I, Part II, Part III, and this piece by Sean Moran with updates.   I've been saving articles for Part IV since March for an October article, but, this is close enough.

Brown's campaign is much like the Democrat campaigns all over the nation, hatred for Republicans, conservatives and abject and unrestricted support for murdering the innocent unborn.... abortion, which Brown focuses on with ads, irritating ads.  

He was also focusing on claims about reducing medical costs, and that must not have carried much weight, so now he's claiming Moreno is so corrupt he can't be trusted.  Moreno claims these attacks are a last resort to avoid having to deal with Browns record which is abysmal, as his voted 98% in support of Biden's programs. 

Now that last part's all true.

It's also been reported Brown accepted donations from dead woman.  Was that a one off that could have easily gone unnoticed by Brown and his staff, or is that a pattern?  There are other fund raising issues and claims that have come to the fore giving credence to the claim his campaign is built on lies. 

Is Moreno as corrupt as Brown claims?  I've tried to look up all the claims regarding lawsuits, and judgements, and I can't tell how valid any of that is.  But how can someone be as  corrupt as Brown claims and not end up in jail?  Unless of course that person's a Democrat.  And as we've seen, the courts have been corrupted and are part of the leftist strategy of destroying the rule of law and making the courts political catspaws of the leftist tyranny.  Is that what happened with Moreno?  I have no idea!

Brown never mentions his support of climate change, gender changing issues for children, unbridled illegal immigration, outrageous spending and borrowing, crime, and pushing America into another pointless ground war. 

So, where does that leave us?  There are only two candidates, and one of them has a record that really is a far left, radical, destructive mess making him totally unacceptable, not to mention scary.  

Discover the Networks, for those who aren't aware of it, is an amazing source and here's what they have to say about Sherrod Brown.

The other stands for America first, border security, ending lawfare, prevent court stacking, purge the deep state, and attacking the drug cartels, and typically conservative.   Perhaps Ohio needs to give the new guy a shot, since the old guy really is rotten.

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Race Mongers Are Consistent Liars. So Why Are We Shocked When They Race Monger and Lie?

By Rich Kozlovich

Recently we're once again seeing accusations of "racism" by a spoiled black athlete, Tyreek Hill, because he was pulled over for speeding, and now according to Hill:

 ‘He Gotta Go, Man',..... “because in that instance right there, like not only did he treat me bad — you know what I’m saying — he also treated my teammates with disrespect. He had some crazy words towards them, and they ain’t even do nothing! Like, what did they do to you? They’re just walking on the sidewalk. So, I don’t know, bro. He gotta go, man, and [there are] not too many times that ‘Cheetah’ say people gotta go, but you? … Gone.”....(more here)...

Yessir, he was only pulled over because he was black, except the body cam footage tells a different tale.  He was pulled over for speeding, and he was cuffed because he acted like a privileged jerk. As  NBA star Jonathan Issac states, Tyreek Hill’s behavior showed black Americans how not to act. 

Here's the fact of the matter. When pulled over by the police, you do as your told, your shut your mouth and move on.  Can cops be jerks? Oh yeah...you bet, and a lot of people have been confronted by jerk cops, of all races, but they're the cops, and if there's an issue, then there are procedures on how to handle it.  This unending claim of racism by miscreant blacks has worn out, except for race mongering jerks.

According to NAACP chapter President, blue lives don’t matter, promoting this kind of uncooperative behavior.  Behavior that's led to more tragic outcomes than being handcuffed.  

As the NAACP chapter president in Springfield, you deliver exactly the wrong message and as such you sir are part of the problem. After the shooting of two officers in Compton who were just sitting in their police car doing their job, I have had enough.

Remember four years ago when that study came out claiming white doctors were effectively killing black babies. It was a lie.  As the author points out:

Scientists finally re-analyzed the study and found that it was riddled with errors—but that didn’t matter then because it furthered the narrative.............Just because leftists say it’s a scientific study, that doesn’t mean it is. The funding goes to people who come out with results that advance the goals of pharmaceutical manufacturers and political activists. As the Free Black Thought warns, we owe it to ourselves and to society as a whole not to accept any study at face value unless we have an assurance that it’s passed replication and, if at all possible, reproducibility.

The racist lies are ubiquitous.   Science is riddled with revoked studies.  What to do about woke science journals that are filled with junk science, and worse yet, work to destroy valid science via censorship.  

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Ricky Pearsall was murdered by a 17-year-old black.  However, it wasn't really murder, he was defending himself and I guess the gun he just happened to be carrying just accidentally went off during his act of thievery.  How do I know he was black.  Because his race was never mentioned in the articles, and generally that's a tell, because the media works to hide the crime rate in black America.  If it turns out I'm wrong, I'll apologize.  

These race mongering liars are fostering an uncontrollable society among black youth, and it's impacting everything in America, as student behavior is the real reason for teacher burnout.  As for low pay, that's a joke.

So what's the race mongering left wanting? Laws ‘specifically’ for black people, because they deserve it, and they want more, and forever.   America has devoted billions to black America over the last 60 years and for the most part, it's been wasted.  Start first by fixing black legitimacy, then there won't be a need to "help" these people, oh  but that's racist, and homophobic, because..... and get this....“Ideas about the superiority of the nuclear family are deeply connected to the origins of white supremacy . . . .”   White racism isn't the problem for black America, it's black racism, black culture, and leftist corruption of our culture. 

REVIEW: ‘Am I Racist?’ September 12, 2024 by Andrea Widburg A brilliant, laugh-out-loud exposé of the race hustling industry by a talented provocateur who never misses a beat and is delighted to embarrass those who deserve it......

There are three words that are among the most misused in America. Racism, discrimination, and prejudice.  

First, racism means hating, or at the very least, disliking people simply because they belong to a certain race.  Prejudice means to prejudge.  Discrimination means to decide what you like and dislike.   

I don't dislike people for their race, I dislike them for the way they act, and that obviates the idea of prejudgement.  Evaluation isn't prejudgement, and there's absolutely nothing wrong by discriminatorily saying, "I don't like that!"    

The response from the left?    

David Jolly: Scaring White America Is the ‘Ethos of Today’s Republican Party’..... “I can draw a direct thread to the words of Katie Britt in her response to the State of the Union. They were essentially black and brown people are coming into your white communities and you should be scared. She gave this speech about how terrifying it is to be a white woman because black and brown people might come into your neighborhood. This is not just this campaign strategy, the ethos of today’s Republican Party.”

Well, perhaps based on what we're seeing going on in Springfield Ohio, and the crime statistics of America as a whole, white people need to be scared, and if that's the ethos of the Republican party, I say thank you.   If any group represents all the things I dislike, I will happily make that judgement, and I don't care if they're black, it's about how they act. 

We call any bias against a race, racism.  Any bias against women is sexism.  But for some odd reason any expressed bias against white people is called humor.  Paraphrased quote by Warren Farrell

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P&D and The Week That Was

Truth is the Sublime Convergence of History and Reality

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De Omnibus Dubitandum, (Everything is to be questioned!)

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This Link will take you to My Commentaries.  This Link will take you to My Commentaries by topic.  This Link will take you to My Global Warming Commentaries 

By Rich Kozlovich

 

I, like so many others have stated there's no depth to which the left will stoop to get and hold power, but after two, and possibly three assassination attempts on Trump's life, that has to make one wonder if this is more far ranging than we've thought.  

 

First there was Thomas Matthew Crooks, and it was mind boggling how nitwits from the left in an attempt to disparage Trump tried to claim it was all staged.  

 

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Then we had a second attempt with Ryan Wesley Routh laying in wait in the bushes of Trump's golf course.  Of course that was "mostly a peaceful assassination", which the leftists intone about the violence they perpetrate, and the left says Trump deserves it and brought this on himself with his rhetoric.  

Then we had  a third possible attempt, and this one is really strange, where a bunch of people at a Trump rally were sickened and it's been suggested they were covertly attacked with either  "chemicals or a high-power laser" , and chemicals have now been ruled out.  How do ordinary people acquire high powered lasers?  How could anyone use such a weapon and the Secret Service not see it?  That story needs following, especially since now Rep. Matt Gaetz Claims  there are 5 known assassination teams in U.S., and we know both Crooks and Routh had foreign contacts.  So how deep does this go?  Iran, China, Russia, the Deep State, Left wing billionaires, Democrats? 

 

At this point, I'm open to almost any speculation on this.  However, the House is so upset over all this they've unanimously passed a bill to upgrade the Secret Service, which will take effect....... after the election.  In the meanwhile it seems clear, Donald Trump has a target on his back.  The left screams conservatives are dangerous, then why is it all  the nutjobs trying to kill political opponents are all left wingers?  I'll have more on this in coming days. 

The world is in an uproar, whether it's in the Caucuses, South East Asia, Latin America, Russia, the Middle East, and Europe.  Riots, murders, wars, rebellions, crime on such massive intentional scale it's mind numbing.  In America this week's news has been about criminal migrants in Springfield, Ohio and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, where the Biden administration dumped thousands of Haitians illegally giving them a "temporary" protected status. Then there's Aurora Colorado, where an illegal migrant gang has taken over apartment buildings, and not much is being done about it, and they're even in NYC.   

Putin can no longer walk away from Ukraine, his future is invested in it, but will he use nukes?  I've put this as 60/40 no because he now has a lot of internal issues and if he does that he might find there a von Stauffenberg component in his military, and he'd be out, and that's Putin's real goal. Surviving!  

 

However if he did use nukes would the west retaliate?  I say no, and I'm 100 percent convinced of that.  Does anyone really think the European power would be willing to lose Warsaw, Berlin, London, or Paris in a nuclear exchange over Ukraine?   

 

What would happen is they'd be forced to impose massive worldwide economic restriction on Russia, with no loopholes this time.  

China's in trouble, big time, so ignore everything you're seeing in the news that says otherwise, and Iran is moving it's capital.  Why?  Well they have an answer, but I believe it's a security issue for their government as the unrest in Iran is getting bigger all the time, and when the The Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei croaks, that may be the end of their Islamic regime, not to mention all the other Muslim nations hate them due to their support and promotion of all these radical murdering monsters. 

South America is as usual a mess with the exception of Argentina and El Salvador, both of which elected conservative Presidents who believe in capitalism and the rule of law.  They're putting to shame Europe, America, and the rest of Latin and South America.  

 

This week I've posted six articles of my own, and thirty two by others, and there are the four permanent links.  So, let's start with John Droz, Jr's. Media Balance Newsletter September 16, 2024.  Followed by this Cartoon Roundup of Exploding Pagers, and this Thought for the Day

 

Have a good weekend, create some warm memories, and take warm some memories with you.  Warm memories will never wear out the welcome in your life.

My Commentaries

1. What is the Proper Definition for "Opportunity Economics"? Capitalism!
2. So, This Represent the Biden Administration's Definition of Economic Success?
3. China's Economy is All Smoke and Mirrors
4. Five "W's" and an "H". Kamala Harris and the Media
5. The World's Nine Orders
6. Paths to God and Pope Francis

Commentaries

1. Minimum wage amendment backers pulled bait-and-switch By Robert Alt
2. Oprah and Kamala: The Saddest Spectacle of the 2024 Election By Mark Angelides
3. Independent Convention: Dangerously Overlooked By Sarah Cowgill
4. Assassination Attacks Against Trump Started with Obama By Susan Daniels
5. Hakeem Jeffries Needs to go—Not the Trump MAGA Supporters By Susan Daniels
6. Harris-Walz: Joy and Freedom – or Misery and Tyranny? By Paul Driessen
7. ‘Middle-Class’ Kamala Harris and Her ‘Opportunity Economy’ By Tim Donner
8. How to Really End ESG By Russell Greene
9. Taliban Blame Afghanistan’s Problems on Global Warming  By Daniel Greenfield
10. Israel is Settling America’s Scores With Islamic Terrorists  By Daniel Greenfield
11. A Deal With Hamas Means Israel’s Defeat By Daniel Greenfield
12. How California’s Bar Stole $95M From Client Trust Accounts to Fund Open Borders  By Daniel Greenfield
13. Kamala’s Culture of Corruption  By Daniel Greenfield
14. Hispanics For Trump By Robin Itzler
15. An Antisemitic Dose of Reality By Robin Itzler
16. Trump Sentencing Delayed But..... By Robin Itzler
17. Jobs Down, Economy Down By Robin Itzler
18. A Debate With Donald Trump and The Three Amigos  By Robin Itzler
19. Are We Now A Radical Socialist Nation? By Robin Itzler
20. The Economic Record Of Socialism -- China By Francis Menton
21. The Economic Record Of Socialism -- Cuba And Latin America By Francis Menton
22. Where Does Kamala Stand? By Francis Menton
23. Which New York Leftist Embraces these Dirigiste Policies? By Dan Mitchell
24. Demographic Change and Fiscal Crisis By Dan Mitchell
25. Colombia’s Fiscal Woes and the 19th Theorem of Government By Dan Mitchell
26. Bad Spending Policy Leads to Bad Tax Policy: The Case of Brazil By Dan Mitchell
27. Tax-Motivated International Migration By Dan Mitchell
28. Welfare is a Jealous Polygamist By Michael Munger
29. Another Trump Assassination Attempt and More Shame for the Media By Graham J. Noble
30. That’s Fine, If That’s What You Believe By Rob Pue
31. Hillary, Newsom, and Free Speech Under Fire By Joe Schaeffer
32. Election Integrity Is on the Ballot By Corey Smith

Permanent Links

1. 45 Communist Goals to Destroy America as Listed in the 1963 Congressional Record
2. My Seven Rules of Geopolitics
3. The John Boyd Legion of Honor
   
4. An Analysis: Senate Race 2024 and More

Constant as the North Star

You know that voice in your head that keeps you from saying the things you shouldn't say?  Yeah, I don't have that!    We need to question everything because everything we're told should bear some resemblance to what we see going on in reality!  Much of what we're told does not!

So, This Represent the Biden Administration's Definiton of Economic Success?

If you look up clueless in the dictionary Kamala's picture should be right beside it.

By Rich Kozlovich 

My Friend Robin Itzler publishes a weekly e-mail newsletter called Patriot Neighbors, and allows me to take what she sends and publish the information, and this commentary is a mixture of many of her offerings. 

E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free.  

For some time she's tracked the "success".... actually the right word would be consequences... of the Biden/Harris administration's economic polices grounded in outrageous spending, borrowing, DEI, ESG, and all the other leftist acronyms used to disguise their true intent. 

She asks: "Can’t anyone in the Harris-Biden administration issue a report that does not have to be revised?"

Once again, the Labor Department revised DOWN a previous report.  July payrolls were revised down to 89,000 from 114,000.  June payrolls were revised down to 118,000 from 179,000

In August, firms announced 75,891 layoffs, which was TRIPLE the announced layoffs in July. In July, there were 25,885 job cuts. Tech companies laid off 27,000 workers in August. According to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas:  August 2024 layoffs were the largest month-to-month increase in a year.  August 2024 layoffs hit their highest total for the month in 15 years.  Year-to-date hiring reached a historic low.

Let’s look at some “successes” in the Harris-Biden administration. Remember, this is just a small sampling:

1. Apple (technology) – Laid off 100 employees. While small, it sent shock-waves since the company is known for NOT laying off employees. Per Ayushi Jain at digit.in website: “This move is particularly significant because it signals that even the most financially secure tech companies are feeling the heat from the current economic climate.”
2. Axios – (left-leaning media) – Plans to lay off 50 people.
3. BioMarin (rare disease biotech) – Reported in its latest securities filing that it will cut about 225 employees (7 percent of its global workforce).
4. GoldmanSachs (finance) – Will be laying off 1,800 employees as part of its annual review process.
5. BurgerFi International (restaurant) – Owner of Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza & Wings has filed for bankruptcy.
6. GoPro (action camera) – Is laying off 15 percent of its staff, to be completed by the end of this year.
7. Intel (technology) – Announced it would lay off 15,000 employees, representing 15 percent of its workforce.
8. Mastercard (finance) – Plans to lay off 3 percent of its global workforce, about 1,000 employees.
9. Merit Street Media (media) – Dr. Phil’s North Texas-based
   
10.  Coors Beer: DEI can drown its sorrows in the beer Canadian-American multinational drink and brewing company Molson Coors, makers of popular Coors beers, announced they are abandoning DEI trainings and getting rid of defined supplier diversity goals. 
    
11.  Axios (media) – The left-left-left media site announced on August 6 that 50 staff members would be laid off. CEO Jim VandeHei belched, “We’re making some difficult changes to adapt fast to a rapidly changing media landscape.” 
12. Broadcasting & Cable (TV trade publication) – shutting down.
13. Big Lots (retail) – In June, Big Lots announced it would be closing 150 stores; however that number has since grown to 315. In California, 75 stores will be closing (30 in southern California). When all the closures are completed, there will only be 34 Big Lots stores in California.
14. Cisco (technology) – In February, the company laid off an estimated 4,000 employees. Last week, Reuters reported that thousands more (possibly another 4,000) might be let go soon.
15. Dell (technology) – In 2023, Dell cut 13,000 jobs. Due to a drop in personal computer sales, Dell just announced there will be another 12,500 in layoffs that started last week. 
16. Geodis (global freight transport and logistics operator) – Recently announced facilities closing in Texas, Georgia and New York; along with job reductions at an Illinois operation, the company will be laying off 384 workers.
17. Intel (technology) – CEO Pat Gelsinger announced in early August that it would be reducing its workforce by 15 percent (15,000 employee positions). Layoffs are starting now and will be completed by the end of the year.
18. Multichannel News (TV trade publication) – Shutting down.
19. Optum (healthcare) – The United HealthGroup company is closing clinics in multiple states and laying off 524 employees across California.
20. Paramount Global (media entertainment) – Will cut its workforce by 15 percent in another round of layoffs focusing on communications, legal and technology.
21. Stellantis (automotive) – Is laying off 2,450 plant workers at its Warren, Michigan plant as it discontinues the popular Ram pickup truck (more economical version). The announcement came one day AFTER radicals Kamala Harris and Tim Walz spoke to United Auto Workers members. (Polls show that while the auto leadership is endorsing the Marxist duo, the rank-and-file membership will be voting for Trump.)
22. Stop & Shop (food retail) – This regional chain (mostly in the northeast) that started in 1892 will close 32 of its 400+ outlets by early November.
23. Texas Children’s Hospital (healthcare) – Reduced its staff by 5 percent, roughly 1,000 employees.
24. Willamette Falls Paper Company (paper) – announced on August 6 that it would be laying 158 out of the company's 223 total employees. The West Linn, Oregon company is one of the city’s largest employers. 
    
25. Big Lots (retail) – The company, which operates 1,300+ stores in 48 states, announced in its SEC filing that it will be closing 40 stores and might declare bankruptcy.
26. Bob’s Stores (retail) – With 21 locations throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island, the 70-year-old chain will be closing its doors for good on July 14. The chain sells footwear, workwear, teamwear and everyday clothing” for families. One New York location just opened its doors in December 2023. CVS Health (pharmacy) – Plans to close 300 locations this year.
27. Dollar Tree (retail) – In March, the low-price chain announced during the first half of 2024 it would close about 600 Family Dollar stores across the United States. It also stated that 370 Family Dollar and 30 Dollar Tree locations will close over the next several years.
28. Macy’s (retail) – In February, announced plans to close 150 “under-productive” stores in the United States. Fifty stores will close before the year is over and the rest over the next two years.
29. Mailchimp (marketing automation) – Has laid off 1,800 employees to consolidate tech jobs in Atlanta and other cities. Rite-Aid Pharmacy (pharmacy) – Will close 77 stores this year.
30. Salesforce (cloud software) – Has cut about 300 positions as part of a broader effort to streamline operations. 

That's just the tip of the iceberg, what about the tens of thousands of small business that ended up closing permanently as a result of imposing their insane covid schemes?   

"While Comrade Kamala is bringing us joy, the MarketWatch August 14 headline says it all: Layoff Anxiety Survey: 7 in 10 Workers Are Bracing for Job Cuts."

70% of employees are bracing for layoffs in some way. About 40% are saving up for a possible layoff, and 32% said they regularly browse job listings.  Gen Z workers rate their job security the lowest of any generation, with 57% reporting layoff anxiety, compared to just 16% of baby boomers

If laid off today, 40% of workers said they would run out of money within one month based on their current spending, 24% said they would run out within two weeks.  63% of workers said they would take a pay cut to avoid being laid off, and 37% would accept a demotion to stay employed. Among fully remote workers, 51% would give up working from home to keep their job.

In August, Kamala Harris (with Tim Walz babysitting) recently appeared on the Sherri Shepherd Show saying:   “It is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.”  Well, now Kamala and I finally have something in common. Neither of us knows what that means.  What we do know is her economic schemes have history, and history is everything.  History, not rhetoric, tells the story!

On August 16, Kamala Harris endorsed price controls to reduce inflation, not any thoughts of dealing with the true causes; taxes, spending, huge out of control government.  Oh no, it's price controls that are needed.  That will not fix inflation.  So, since history is everything, let’s see who else embraced price controls.

Venezuela became third richest nation in Hemisphere in 1997 and now.... it isn't.  In 2004 Venezuela voted in socialist, Hugo Chavez, with huge crowds giving him support based on his position regarding "income equality".  Where have we heard that before?  By 2007 their healthcare system was totally socialized, and the consequences were nightmarish.  The hospitals were filled with filth and vermin, no medical supplies, and worse. 

Venezuela's hospital hell Blood, flies, agony:  "Plumber Freddy Herrera broke his leg in four places when he crashed his motorbike nine months ago. But his real troubles started when he got to hospital.   The doctors fixed the leg. Then they had to operate 13 times more to cut out infections caught in the stinking hospital where he languishes.  With open rubbish bins, flies in the corridors and rotting corpses stacked in the morgue, this public hospital in the Coche district of Caracas could be the set of a horror film.  But it is all too real: the dirty, miserable human face of Venezuela's economic and political crisis."

By 2017 the lack of food and medical care was nationwide.  Free higher education for all in 2009 did nothing to fix that, banned the private ownership of guns in 2012, opposition leaders were imprisoned in 2016.  The corrupt government suspended their Constitution, and their elections in 2019, and murdered unarmed citizens protesting Maduro's stolen election in July, and just as in Stalin's Soviet Union, Fidel Castro's Cuba, Mao's China, all of whom starved millions of their people to death, in Maduro's Venezuela millions are starving to death.  And in 2014, Vermont’s Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders praised Venezuela’s version of the “American Dream”.  

JPMorgan believes America has a 35% chance of being in a recession in the United States by the end of the year.  And what planet are they from?  We're in a recession, what we need to be concerned about is a total economic collapse, and if Kamala is elected, that will seal the deal.

Here's what Kamala Harris really supports, defund the police,  wants to ban fracking, Medicare for all, compared ICE to the KKK, and believes in gun confiscation.  What could possibly go wrong? 

 If Kamala, Joe and the Democrats created this mess, why in the world would anyone think Kamala can fix it? If Kamala can fix it now, that must mean she knows what's wrong, and if she knows what's wrong, why didn't she prevent it all in the first place?

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