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  • The Full Charles Murray: Race and IQ, Government Welfare, and Crime

    03/20/2024 2:58:21 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 7 replies
    John Stossel ^ | 27/2/24 | John Stossel and Charles Murray
    Angry protestors fail to recognize that Murray is not a white supremacist. He’s a thoughtful researcher who has published more than a dozen scholarly books about things like the impact of welfare, the pursuit of happiness, and the meaning of libertarianism. Some of his work influenced presidents. One of his books influenced my way of thinking. The video above is my full interview with Murray. Transcript Follow along using the transcript. .....
  • Lauren Boebert's Son Made Sex Tape With Fellow Suspect: Affidavit

    02/29/2024 7:42:54 AM PST · by Callahan · 108 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 2/29/24 | Benjamin Lynch
    Tyler Boebert "supposedly made a sex tape" with a fellow suspect who was a female minor, according to an affidavit following his arrest. Boebert, the adult son of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, was arrested on February 27 by the Rifle Police Department. He is charged on 22 counts, which include vehicle tresspass, property thefts and criminal possession of ID documents. None of the charges relate to the purported sex tape, which was alluded to by another minor police quoted in the affidavit. The same minor said the tape was sent around to people they knew...
  • Shocking video shows girl, 3, shooting herself while relative watches football

    09/27/2023 10:24:01 AM PDT · by Towed_Jumper · 19 replies
    The New York Post ^ | September 27, 2023 | Yaron Steinbuch
    Shocking video captured the moment a 3-year-old Florida girl shot herself with a handgun — while a relative celebrated a football touchdown on TV. The chilling footage posted by WPLG shows Serenity picking up the pistol at her home in Miami Dade on Saturday after Orlando Young, 23, jumped up during the game. A bang is immediately heard in the footage and the toddler is hurt. “It looks as if she is getting ready to pick up the gun, the gun went off and I guess the bullet went through her finger,” Serenity’s grandmother, Robin Fuller, told the outlet. “The...
  • German tourists blamed for toppling 150-year-old Italian statue

    08/04/2023 2:08:03 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 23 replies
    Channel News Asia ^ | 03 Aug 2023
    ROME: A group of young German tourists posing for pictures to post on social media have been accused of toppling a valuable statue at a villa in northern Italy, the villa's manager said on Thursday (Aug 3). Two of the group climbed into a fountain to hug the work "Domina" by the artist Enrico Butti and another pushed it with a stick before the 1.7m statue crashed to the ground, Bruno Golferini, the manager of Villa Alceo in the town of Viggiu, said. Golferini said he had lodged a complaint with the local police against all 17 German tourists who...
  • Man flees home and hides in bush after woman threatens to cut off his genitals

    07/11/2023 5:11:19 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 36 replies
    The Villages-News Adware Farm ^ | July 7, 2023 | Staff Report
    A man fled a home and hid in a nearby bush after a woman armed with a machete threatened to cut off his genitals. A Marion County sheriff’s deputy responded at about 2 a.m. Tuesday to the couple’s home in Summerfield. The man, who was carrying his infant daughter, was out of breath and soaked in sweat. The man said he had been in bed sleeping when 44-year-old Dawn Marie Hildebrant went through his phone. She smashed the phone and began screaming at the man before grabbing a machete and “threatening to cut off his genitals,” the report said. The...
  • Four Suspects In Custody For 4-Year-Old Nashville Girl’s Murder

    06/11/2023 9:45:52 AM PDT · by airdalecheif · 25 replies
    breaking911.com ^ | June 8, 2023 | By B911
    All four are now in custody. They are identified as Trey Dennis, 23, Keimari Johnson, 20, and Kenlando Lewis, 18, and Lamarion Buchanan, 19. Yup, you guessed right.
  • Parents Send Warning After Teen Daughter Dies After Attempting Deadly Tiktok Challenge Involving Common Household Products (VIDEO)

    05/29/2023 2:13:04 PM PDT · by thegagline · 56 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | 05/29/2023 | Cullen Linebarger
    Two parents are sounding the alarm after their teenage daughter suffered a horrible death while attempting a deadly social media trend. *** Two parents are sounding the alarm after their teenage daughter suffered a horrible death while attempting a deadly social media trend. Esra had been inhaling fumes from a deodorant can, causing her body to completely shut down. She was rushed to the hospital where she remained on life support for eight days. Doctors ultimately determined her brain was “damaged beyond repair.” Haynes’ family decided to then turn off life support. Esra was participating in a deadly Tiktok challenge...
  • Machine Gun Stolen From Shooting Range in Texas

    05/09/2023 1:41:14 PM PDT · by CFW · 60 replies
    Truth About Guns ^ | 5/8/23 | Jeremy S.
    Last Friday, an HK MP5 machine gun was stolen from LoneStar Handgun, a shooting range in Bexar (that’s pronounced “bear,” like the furry animal that poops in the woods and flies space ships with Han Solo in Star Wars) County, Texas. According to the KENS5 news video below, “the [shooting range] owner fears it could end up in the wrong hands.” Um, yes, I think that ship has sailed with the person who knowingly stole the gun when the range employee’s back was turned. The female shooting range customer rented a handgun, did a little shooting, then came back to...
  • 2 teens arrested in shooting death of Pittsburgh high school student

    04/21/2023 1:12:00 PM PDT · by grundle · 24 replies
    Tribune Review ^ | April 21, 2023 | Justin Vellucci
    Pittsburgh Police have arrested two teens in the fatal shooting of an Oliver Citywide Academy student last year. Police charged Eugene Watson, 18, and his brother, Brandon Watson, 17, both of the city’s Crafton Heights neighborhood, with criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy, and two firearms violations. They are both charged as adults. The Watsons were both in the Allegheny County Jail without bond on Friday, court records show. They are charged in connection with the Jan. 19, 2022 shooting death of Marquis Campbell, 15. Campbell was shot as he sat in a van outside the school in the city’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood....
  • Will Goliath Blink? Charles Murray’s Continuing Assault on the Orthodoxy

    03/10/2023 7:48:16 AM PST · by karpov · 9 replies
    Ideas Sleep Furiously (blog) ^ | February 21, 2023 | Bo Winegard
    The proverbial Martian would find contemporary discourse about race in the West peculiar, even paradoxical. On the one hand, many modern intellectuals insist that race is a pernicious reification of superficial human differences that has been decisively refuted by modern science. On the other hand, many of these same intellectuals obsess about racial disparities and injustices and actively promote policies that treat people of different races differently (e.g., affirmative action). Thus, mainstream discourse simultaneously contends that belief in race is an anachronistic superstition and that racial equality is an ethical imperative that can only be achieved through racially conscious policy...
  • South Carolina wife, mother shot to death in front of young children in Kroger parking lot

    02/19/2023 4:01:16 AM PST · by Red in Blue PA · 158 replies
    Tyler Borys said his wife, 26-year-old Alexandria Cress Borys, was loading groceries into her car at the Kroger in Irmo, South Carolina, when she got into an argument with a woman she didn't know, according to FOX 57 Columbia. After the argument was over, the stranger, later identified by Irmo police as 23-year-old Christina Harrison, allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Borys in the back. The couple's children, a 2-year-old and an infant, were in the car when she was shot.
  • To Increase Equity, School Districts Eliminate Honors Classes. Supporters say uniform classes create rigor for all students but critics say cuts hurt faster learners

    02/17/2023 10:54:30 AM PST · by karpov · 74 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | February 17, 2023 | Sara Randazzo
    CULVER CITY, Calif.—A group of parents stepped to the lectern Tuesday night at a school board meeting in this middle-class, Los Angeles-area city to push back against a racial-equity initiative. The high school, they argued, should reinstate honors English classes that were eliminated because they didn’t enroll enough Black and Latino students. The district earlier this school year replaced the honors classes at Culver City High School with uniform courses that officials say will ensure students of all races receive an equal, rigorous education. These parents disagreed. “We really feel equity means offering opportunities to students of diverse backgrounds, not...
  • Expert surveys on biological group differences

    12/03/2022 7:32:28 AM PST · by karpov · 30 replies
    Substack ^ | December 2, 2022 | Noah Carl
    In the debate over the causes of group differences in IQ, it is often claimed that no serious scientist believes genes play a significant role. The only people who believe this, it is said, are assorted cranks and amateurs. We can quickly dispense with this claim by consulting the various expert surveys that have been conducted over the years. Both Sean Last and Emil Kirkegaard have covered these before, but for several reasons I thought I do my own write-up: to correct a minor error in Sean’s post; to add results from the most recent study; and to present a...
  • American Bar Association under fire for proposal to abandon LSAT after study shows minorities score lower: Recommendation follows a study that found black test-takers score 11 points lower than the average for white and Asian test-takers.

    11/27/2022 8:46:54 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 59 replies
    Just The News ^ | 11/27/2022 | Madeleine Hubbard
    The American Bar Association is under fire after taking steps to abandon LSAT entrance exam scores as a law school admissions requirement after a study showed that minority applicants score lower. The Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar approved the proposed standards revision earlier this month.The proposed change now goes to the association's policy-making body, the House of Delegates, for review in February. "But final approval to change ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools rests with the council, which serves as an independent arm of the ABA for...
  • Disparity Doesn’t Necessarily Imply Racism. Today it’s more often the result of skills gaps than discrimination. That’s something every black student needs to know.

    11/25/2022 6:37:25 PM PST · by karpov · 37 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | November 25, 2022 | Roland Fryer
    ... [I]n graduate school, I read a 1995 paper titled “The Role of Premarket Factors in Black-White Wage Differences.” Using a nationally representative sample of more than 12,000 14- to 17-year-olds from 1979, Derek A. Neal and William R. Johnson estimated that blacks earned between 35% to 45% less than whites on average. They examined how much of the wage gap could be attributed to present-day discrimination in the workplace versus differences in skill as measured by the Armed Forces Qualification Test, a cousin of the ACT and SAT. Importantly, they weren’t trying to measure the effect of America’s racist...
  • Firefighters: Massachusetts canceling civil-service exams following court case

    11/11/2022 10:58:22 AM PST · by massmike · 40 replies
    (Bostonherald.com ^ | 11/11/2022 | Sean Philip Cotter
    The state has canceled the upcoming fire civil-service promotional exam and “will not score” the recent statewide exam for police in light of a recent Boston-based court case. The court case in question is Tatum et al v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a suit from several Black or Hispanic police officers filed back in 2009 as they claimed that the civil-service sergeants’ promotional exam disadvantaged minority test takers, leading to lower scores and therefore delayed or missed promotions through the centralized and highly regimented process used by many police and fire departments.
  • My “debunked” views. A response to an attempted cancellation

    11/03/2022 12:11:00 PM PDT · by karpov · 18 replies
    The Critic ^ | November 2, 2022 | Nathan Cofnas
    Stop the press! Cambridge hired someone who said something that was debunked — debunked by experts, no less. How could this have happened? Well, here’s the story from the perspective of the one who was supposedly “debunked”. I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Cambridge. (I feel like Jason Stanley when I say that.) My research areas are the philosophy of biology and ethics. Three years ago, when I was a PhD student at Oxford, I published a paper in a highly respected philosophy and psychology journal calling for free inquiry...
  • In Sweden, talking about race and intelligence will get you a fine

    10/12/2022 5:36:16 AM PDT · by karpov · 58 replies
    Clear Language, Clear Mind (blog) ^ | September 24, 2022 | Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
    I have somehow not heard of this case, but there’s an ongoing case in Sweden where a 80-ish year old man, Bertil Malmberg, talked about the intelligence of nations, specifically mentioning that South Sudan’s recorded mean intelligence is one of the lowest in the world (Mankind Quarterly has no less than 15 recent studies from Sudan). In his words (Google translated from Swedish): It is relevant that the population there is among the peoples with the lowest intelligence in the entire world, which is well documented in research. According to the UN, the country has a very low HDI (Human...
  • Memphis, Tenn. police warn community after gunman is reportedly shooting people at random on Facebook Live

    09/07/2022 5:37:04 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 100 replies
    BREAKING: Memphis, Tenn. police warn community after gunman is reportedly shooting people at random on Facebook Live
  • Ezekiel Kelly, Memphis Shooting Suspect: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    09/08/2022 5:37:51 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 59 replies
    HEAVY ^ | 8 SEPTEMBER 2022 7:00 AM | Staff
    Facebook Photo from the Zeek Huncho Facebook page Ezekiel Kelly was named by Memphis police as the active shooter who randomly gunned down seven people, killing four of them, in public places throughout the Tennessee city. Kelly, 19, who is now in custody, according to Memphis police, was streaming live on Facebook during the shootings. He is also known as Ezekiel Dejuan Kelly and Ezekiel D. Kelly. “This has been a horrific week for the City of Memphis,” the Memphis police chief, C.J. Davis, said in a news conference. She said that four people were shot to death (two men...