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  • FactChecking Biden’s State of the Union Address The president stretched the facts on gas prices, jobs, tax cuts and more.

    03/10/2024 2:40:06 PM PDT · by daniel1212 · 17 replies
    Factcheck.org/ ^ | March 2, 2022 | Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Robert Farley, D'Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald, Catalina Jaramillo, C
    Biden said the planned release of 60 million barrels of global oil reserves... “will help blunt gas prices here at home.” But energy experts said the emergency measures aren’t enough to have an impact. He said the economy added 369,000 manufacturing jobs last year, which is about right. But the manufacturing sector hasn’t recovered all the jobs lost during the pandemic, and manufacturing job growth (3.1%) is slower than overall job growth (4.6%). The president said “our economy created over 6.5 million new jobs just last year, more jobs in one year than ever before.” That’s true based on raw...
  • The Protestant’s Biggest Bible Problem

    03/30/2023 6:43:37 PM PDT · by ADSUM · 367 replies
    Catholic,com ^ | 3/30/23 | Casey Chalk
    It's not sola scriptura. It's not sola fide. It's a doctrine most people don't even know by name.
  • How the Destruction of Grammar and Logic Got Biden into the Oval Office

    01/27/2021 4:55:57 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 53 replies
    American Thinker ^ | Robert Oscar Lopez
    Many people snickered at the claim made in Texas v. Pennsylvania that there is only a one in a quadrillion chance that Joe Biden won all the swing states as currently claimed. The true meaning beneath the statistic is simple: the vote counts certified in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia are fake, so let's cut through all the noise and decide what to do next. "One in a quadrillion" is a rarified way of saying it just didn't happen. Texas's case was shot down because in the United States both grammar and logic have been overtaken by rhetoric. The old...
  • K-12 is a land of mystery

    02/17/2020 2:35:04 PM PST · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 17 replies
    Renew America ^ | Feb. 10, 2020 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    For those who enjoy a good puzzle, K-12 education is more intellectually entertaining than most people imagine. Classrooms are full of convoluted theories and mystifying methods. Probably the teachers themselves can't explain the reasoning behind approaches that are used almost universally in American public schools. Chat with friends who are smart and successful. Try to find even one who can explain Sight-Words, Prior Knowledge, Multiculturalism, Constructivism, Reform Math, or Common Core Math. Why are Geography, History, and Science so often slighted? What justifies the hostility toward memorization and academic content? Can anyone understand the paradox of most students getting A...
  • Why our Understanding of Reality is False

    04/18/2019 5:20:21 PM PDT · by vannrox · 81 replies
    Metallicman ^ | 18APR19 | Editorial Staff
    One of the reasons why humans are handicapped in our understanding of reality is because of our reliance on the “scientific method”. It is a system based on observation. The problem with this method is that our understanding of reality is corrupted by the limits imposed by observation. Indeed, as well well know, it is the perception of the observer that changes our reality. This is a well understood rule. If you the reader, don’t “get it”, then you need to study quantum mechanics 101. For in the last two decades the entire foundation of our understanding of reality has...
  • Who Are Public Monuments For?

    06/30/2016 3:37:46 PM PDT · by V K Lee · 11 replies
    http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/ ^ | June 28, 2016 | Evan McWilliams
    History is a lie. Or, rather, a complex galaxy of truths, half-truths, exaggerations, and downplayings that together form a narrative. We don’t write histories because we want to record what really happened; we write them in order to provide ourselves with a meaningful story. We write history because we, as humans, have a fundamental need for meaning in life. We yearn to make order out of chaos, we feel we have to derive positive significance from the hardship and the trials of the everyday. In this sense, history, far from being an accurate record of reality, is an escape from...
  • Obama and a Doctrine of Dishonesty

    09/09/2015 2:12:48 PM PDT · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 6 replies
    Right Side News ^ | August 20, 2015 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    [Summary: Obama lies casually. He says what is expedient at the moment. This tendency is disfiguring his presidency and harming the country.]-- Muslims have a provision in their religious doctrine that allows them to lie. Indeed, they are in some situations commanded to lie, for example, if a lie will help Islam. This doctrine is fully articulated in many places. Lying is thought of as part of Islam’s toolbox for conquering non-Muslims. However, this doctrine (taqiyya) is also used between Sunnis and Shias, as each may be commanded to lie to the other. It’s easy to see that taqiyya could...
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: “What do you think about X?”

    06/20/2014 11:34:47 AM PDT · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 8 replies
    RantRave.com ^ | June 3, 2014 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    Sixty years ago, Benjamin Bloom came up with what he said was a superior way to categorize educational goals and activities. The Taxonomy was famous for reducing everything to six steps: remembering; understanding; applying; analyzing; evaluating; creating. Note that "remembering" (or "knowing") is the first and LOWEST step. Bloom concocted this taxonomy to describe education at the college level. College professors, however, ignored the Taxonomy. Meanwhile, the people in charge of our public schools put this thing on a pedestal. Why? Because the Taxonomy scorned what had always been considered the most important step: knowing information. Bloom and his Taxonomy...
  • Education as Covert Op

    04/25/2014 4:18:45 PM PDT · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 7 replies
    Right Side News ^ | March 31, 2014 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    [SUMMARY: The Education Establishment wanted to use the schools for social engineering. The US didn’t want this. So the top educators turned to covert approaches.]----- If you say to someone, “Your life can be improved, here is a set of rules, follow them and you will be a better and happier person,” that’s a legitimate approach. That’s Buddhism with its Eightfold Path, Christianity with its Ten Commandments, the Boy Scouts with their Code. That’s the way all religions and philosophies have operated since the beginning of time. They candidly state what they think you should do. Then they say, the...
  • The Jehovah’s Witness New Testament

    12/11/2013 8:35:11 AM PST · by GonzoII · 15 replies
    Tim Staples' Blog ^ | November 27, 2013 | Tim Staples
    The Jehovah’s Witness New Testament An ex-Jehovah’s Witness, now Catholic, who we at Catholic Answers helped to come to Christ in his Church, gave me some wonderful gifts by way of old books, many of them first edition, published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the publishing arm of the Jehovah’s Witnesses run by the leaders of their sect. Of note among these great gifts is a first edition copy of The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, the official Jehovah’s Witness translation of the New Testament, first published by the Watchtower in 1950.It is not the...
  • How can newspapers be saved? First, fire the journalists.

    12/07/2013 7:50:52 PM PST · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 27 replies
    Examiner.com ^ | Nov 22, 2013 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    Newspapers are losing circulation and advertising revenue. Many old-time publications are going out of business. There’s no question that selling newspapers has gotten more difficult because of the Internet. Fifty years ago people settled down for an hour every day with their newspapers. That pattern is disappearing. Equally, there is no question that newspapers have made their situation worse. They insist on being politically correct, liberal, progressive, or whatever you want to say. What they don’t insist on doing is telling the facts and letting readers think for themselves. Perish that thought The problem across America is that the so-called...
  • Presidential Sophistry

    01/17/2013 10:38:00 AM PST · by marktwain · 2 replies
    libertylawsite.org ^ | 17 January, 2012 | Nicholas J. Johnson
    The President has held two news conferences in three days commenting on the coming wave of gun control initiatives. His presentation has been emotional and properly reflects the anguish that we all feel for the victims of gun crime. It also has been a dazzling display of sophistry. I say that because the President is smart. And if he were not smart, I would say that, so far as his gun ban proposals, his comments were a profound display of ignorance. Responding to the run on guns precipitated by the preliminary proposals floated by his team, the President said that...
  • Occupy Harvard's Graduate School of Education

    10/24/2011 6:27:56 PM PDT · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 9 replies
    EdFrontier.blogspot.com ^ | Oct. 24, 2011 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    In a recent Times column entitled “Occupy the Classroom,” Nicholas Kristof went to bat for the idea of “early childhood education.” He quotes the dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, as she forcefully states what we already know: there are significant performance gaps between rich and poor students; and those gaps widen in later years. Question is, what does our Education Establishment intend to do about these gaps? Nicholas Kristof is sure that we should do something. And that something, apparently, is to do more and more of what we are already doing but force it on younger and...
  • B.O.'s jobs plan stinks.

    09/26/2011 9:00:24 AM PDT · by Neville Chamberlain · 1 replies
    Just how many jobs will be lost by the new Stimulus bill? We run the numbers and discover; B.O.'s plan stinks.
  • Education: A Walk On The Wild Side

    09/22/2011 1:32:26 PM PDT · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 3 replies
    RightSideNews ^ | Sept. 15 2011 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    [SUMMARY: Public schools are bad because the Education Establishment, for 75 years, has made them that way.] Feeling brave? Got a cast-iron stomach? Not offended by decadence? Well, come with me and we’ll go for a stroll in the dangerous part of town, where society’s bad boys hang out. Yes, I’m talking about education. One metaphor works best for this whole disturbing field, and that’s CSI. Imagine a really big crime scene, chaotic and messy, filled with walking wounded, people who can’t read or count, their brains empty, their thoughts incoherent.  What happened here? We need to figure out whodunit...
  • When is paranoia a good idea? All about Richard Hofstadter

    06/15/2011 1:51:19 PM PDT · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 9 replies
    RightSideNews ^ | June 13, 2011 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    I remember, when I was in college, hearing other students discuss “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” a famous speech (1963) and essay (1964) by Richard Hofstadter. I was not interested in politics then and paid little attention; but I can testify to the respect these smart students gave Hofstadter’s thoughts. I just assumed they had substance. This essay, over the years, became a drumbeat in the culture wars. The message was steady and smug: only dumb hayseeds from the South and American primitives from whatever region could possibly be so stupid as to be fearful -- that is, paranoid...
  • Abbas's Fable

    05/20/2011 5:31:05 PM PDT · by forty_years · 1 replies
    NETWMD ^ | May 20, 2011 | Efraim Karsh
    ... But was he expelled? Hardly. Not only did Abbas reveal a couple of years ago, in an Arabic interview, that his family had not been forcefully expelled and that his father was affluent enough to provide for them for a year after their flight (so no canvas tent), but none of the 170,000- 180,000 Palestinian Arabs fleeing urban centers, in the five-and-a-half months from the passing of the UN resolution to Israel's proclamation on May 14, 1948, were expelled by the Jews. Quite the reverse in fact, huge numbers of these refugees were driven from their homes by their...
  • The scariest defense for ObamaCare

    03/05/2011 3:30:28 AM PST · by Scanian · 18 replies
    NY Post ^ | March 4, 2011 | Rich Lowry
    'I can take care of my enemies all right," Warren Harding once said. "But my friends, my damn friends, they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!" In the sense that so irked Harding, Judge Gladys Kessler is a great good friend of ObamaCare. The US district-court judge in Washington, DC, delivered a more telling blow against the law in the course of ruling it constitutional than critics have in assailing it as a travesty. At issue is the individual mandate. Two other district-court judges have struck it down on grounds that Congress doesn't have the power under...
  • Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's Dumbest Decision

    01/22/2011 3:18:06 AM PST · by Scanian · 10 replies
    The American Thinker ^ | January 22, 2011 | Michael Filozof
    Imagine for a moment that you were ticketed for speeding by the state police. Suppose that you lied to the cop about why you were driving so fast. Then imagine that a group of special-interest lawyers contacted you and told you they wanted to appeal your ticket to the Supreme Court, and they gave you a legal pseudonym to hide your identity. Now imagine that the Court ruled that the ancient Romans had no speed limit on the Appian Way, that the Germans have no speed limits on the autobahn, and that speed limits are a violation of the Constitution...
  • Volunteer To Help Educate America About Education

    01/10/2011 2:40:44 PM PST · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 3 replies · 1+ views
    RepublicansHelpingRepublicans ^ | Nov. 30, 2010 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    The big problem is that even the country's leaders-- the best and brightest, the movers and shakers in business, politics and the community-- do NOT grasp what is happening inside the public schools. The urgent need is to educate Americans about American education, so the country can stop being the victims of bad policies. Why are there so many methods that don't work as promised? Can anyone answer that basic question? Try to find even one doctor, lawyer, stock broker, mayor, or business exec who can explain why sight-words are kid-killers; why New Math and Reform Math are so harmful;...