“The award, created in 1989, is given to a public official or group of public servants from any level of government each year “whose actions demonstrate the qualities of politically courageous leadership in the spirit of ‘Profiles in Courage,'”
Sure, if causing the Democratic Party to get destroyed at every elected level is courageous, and then to have President Trump and the Congress roll-back every single plank of your supposed legacy qualifies as ‘courage’.
At least the Americans waited until he’d done something to give him an award, unlike the Norwegians.
Because Demanding Special Treatment Is Terribly Fatiguing
Meanwhile, at Scripps College – a liberal arts college for young ladies, in Claremont, California, and where annual tuition is close to $50,000 – students with That Magic Brown Skin™ are encouraged to demand compensation from their paler peers for the “mental toll” of having to explain why everyone else is racist and should shut the hell up.
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Crows, smarter than you think.
#FakeNews
Never let the facts get in the way of a good narrative.
An immigration website that was supposedly overwhelmed by Americans wanting to flee to Canada because of a Trump presidency was more likely brought down by foreigners scrambling to get a basic travel document before a deadline.
CBC News has learned that the website for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada was already in trouble hours before Donald Trump’s victory became clear on Nov. 8, the day of the U.S. presidential election.
Steyn nails it, as usual
Of special interest it me are his comments starting around the 9:30 mark about what he wants in a conservative leader and how Liberals don’t waste opportunities to fast and real change. Speaking of which…
Trump Secretary Of Interior Zinke
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
The BBC reports (shockingly), that the journal Nature is going to begin requiring a reproducibility checklist of authors, based on a survey performed last year where at least 70% of respondents (self-selected, of course) indicated that they were unable to reproduce expected results. As the ability to replicate studies is what allows science to demonstrate meaningfulness and continue moving the body of knowledge forward, it is surprising that it has taken this long for top of the line journals to more strongly encourage replication to establish validity.
Not Creepy In The Least
Barack Obama’s close confidante Valerie Jarrett has moved into his new DC home…
Related. Obama officials spent final days purposely pushing Russia allegations
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CROWS Remote Machine Gun System In Action . Tips open.
Les Déplorables
European Union legislators have “overwhelmingly” voted to lift the EU parliamentary immunity of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen for tweeting pictures of Isis violence.
Ms Le Pen, a member of the European parliament, is under investigation in France for posting three graphic images of Isis executions on Twitter in 2015, including the beheading of the United States journalist James Foley.
Responding to a request from the French judiciary, the EU MEPs in the legal affairs committee voted to lift her immunity, EU officials said. The committee’s decision will have to be backed by the whole parliament in a second vote, possibly this week.
Ms Le Pen’s immunity shields her from prosecution and lifting it would permit legal action against her. The offence being considered is “publishing violent images,” which under certain circumstances can carry a penalty of three years in prison and a fine of €75,000 (£64,000).
Dead Rose Country
Remembering Breitbart
On the fifth anniversary of his death.
Why Aren’t You Taking Me Seriously?
Asks the feminist teaching assistant who peddles falsehoods about the alleged gender pay gap, and who also claims that women are a “gender minority.”
Trump: Joint Address to Congress (bumped)
Morning bump: Full transcript here.
Live audience reaction.
I think Nancy Pelosi must not feel well. I have this same expression when I eat too much grass. pic.twitter.com/gs6osTU2CJ
— K Dog (@thelifeofkdog) March 1, 2017
Post speech survey says: “82% called the speech ‘Presidential’, including a majority of Democrats.” But the most surprising comments of the night came from CNN’s Van Jones;
I’m no longer a Democrat (it’s been many years now), and though on the rarest of occasions I worried I’d made a mistake, Tuesday night watching the shell-shocked faces of the Democrats on the floor of Congress while Donald Trump delivered his magnificent speech, I knew I had made no error. I even wondered what was going on in my head in those isolated moments I doubted myself.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Bears
For more than ten years, we’ve endured the shrill media headlines, the hyperbole from conservation organizations, and the simplistic platitudes from scientists as summer sea ice declined dramatically while polar bear numbers rose.
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Another super photo of crows, from reader Howard.
Tips thread is open. (This was supposed to publish last night, but guess there was a glitch — sorry!)
I, Napoleon
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
The McGuinty-Wynne “world leadership on the climate change (global warming)” file is an exercise mat for flexibility training. How else could the Ontario government have mastered its current somersaults on what it hilariously refers to as its energy policy; sending rebates to citizens unable to pay to light and heat their homes, precisely because that same government went full green and put energy costs in a place where people cannot pay to light and heat their homes. The Ontario Green Dream is the world’s first genuine (taxpayer) perpetual motion machine.
“Whose Country Is America?”
“Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk.”
A Brighter, Better World
Identity politics, especially what is going on within the academic left, is strange because it is at odds with much of what we know about inter-group relations. Decades ago, psychological scientists established that dividing people into groups and highlighting group differences leads to in-group bias. It also leads to hostility if the groups perceive themselves as fighting over scarce resources… Experimental research also shows that making people feel like victims, which is common in identity politics and on college campuses, increases feelings of entitlement and reduces pro-social behaviour.