Friday, September 9, 2016
Guess What: Now You Can Major in “Social Justice”
Just what the world needs: another worthless college degree.
Today the University of Iowa became the latest institution of higher (so-called) learning when it made the nonsense concept “social justice” into a degree program.
In doing so it joined a growing number of universities offering such degrees, thereby giving left-wing students still greater opportunities to live in a bubble for four years, be confirmed in all their existing views, and not be troubled by dissenting voices.
(Meanwhile, outright assaults on their worldview are what libertarians and conservatives can expect to find on college campuses.)
What, pray tell, will people do with a “social justice” degree, except use their paychecks from Starbucks to pay off college debts for the rest of their lives?
In the meantime, I’m going to help teach younger folks something actually useful.
Save the date: on September 28, T.K. Coleman and I are going to run a free, live video session on entrepreneurship for teens. I’ll remind you as we get closer.
As of June, I myself am the father of a teenager. And I sure don’t want her ground up in the educational-unemployment complex. I’m sure you feel the same about your own children.
So forget the social justice degree. Head over to my live session with T.K. Coleman on September 28, and we’ll actually teach stuff that matters. (Hop onto my email list, which includes a free book, and I’ll remind you.)
In the meantime, here’s the opposite of a social justice degree, where you can learn non-p.c. history and economics that would give the social justice crowd a collective heart attack:
Decentralization For Humanity’s Sake
Via Jonathan
The Roman historian Titus Livius once called Rome “the greatest nation in the world.” He wrote those words in a time of moral and political decline, and Livy was hoping by outlining the greatness of the once proud republic, the Roman people would arrest the decline and embrace the principles that had made Rome great. Livy argued that without understanding their history, the Roman people would neither be able to “endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them.” But Livy failed to recognize the catastrophic effect empire and expansion had on the Roman spirit.
For example, by expanding north and attempting to assimilate the Germanic peoples and the Celts into Roman culture, Rome sealed its own demise. The Germans and Celts never fully embraced Rome, and those who did retained some element of their own political and cultural heritage. Romans were outnumbered by Germanic peoples in their own army, and the disintegration of the Empire seemed inevitable as the fringes of the Empire came under constant assault from groups unwilling to assimilate. There was never a Roman “nation” outside of Rome. The men, money, and material needed to build and then hold the Empire were wasted, while the vices and decadence of the ruling class in Rome wrecked the republic. The human cost of the Roman Empire was incalculable.
The Roman historian Titus Livius once called Rome “the greatest nation in the world.” He wrote those words in a time of moral and political decline, and Livy was hoping by outlining the greatness of the once proud republic, the Roman people would arrest the decline and embrace the principles that had made Rome great. Livy argued that without understanding their history, the Roman people would neither be able to “endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them.” But Livy failed to recognize the catastrophic effect empire and expansion had on the Roman spirit.
For example, by expanding north and attempting to assimilate the Germanic peoples and the Celts into Roman culture, Rome sealed its own demise. The Germans and Celts never fully embraced Rome, and those who did retained some element of their own political and cultural heritage. Romans were outnumbered by Germanic peoples in their own army, and the disintegration of the Empire seemed inevitable as the fringes of the Empire came under constant assault from groups unwilling to assimilate. There was never a Roman “nation” outside of Rome. The men, money, and material needed to build and then hold the Empire were wasted, while the vices and decadence of the ruling class in Rome wrecked the republic. The human cost of the Roman Empire was incalculable.
More @ The Abbeville Institute
Facebook Founder Gives $20mm Donation On Hillary To Defeat Trump's "Fear And Hostility" Campaign
Via John
A few weeks back we noted how Bullard had questioned the intentions of ex-Facebook founder Dustin Moskovitz in funding the Center for Popular Democracy's Fed Up campaign (see "Why Is Facebook Funding "Anti-Fed" Activists"). The "Fed Up" group has mounted an aggressive effort to convince the Fed to keep rates ultra low noting they favor central banking policies that "are aimed at making sure lower income households and minorities share in the recovery to the same degree as the well off."
Ironically, Moskovitz, and his inflated FaceBook shares, are among the key beneficiaries of "ultra low rates" and not so much the poor and struggling people of this country. A fact that was not lost on St. Louis Fed president James Bullard. Per our previous post:
A few weeks back we noted how Bullard had questioned the intentions of ex-Facebook founder Dustin Moskovitz in funding the Center for Popular Democracy's Fed Up campaign (see "Why Is Facebook Funding "Anti-Fed" Activists"). The "Fed Up" group has mounted an aggressive effort to convince the Fed to keep rates ultra low noting they favor central banking policies that "are aimed at making sure lower income households and minorities share in the recovery to the same degree as the well off."
Ironically, Moskovitz, and his inflated FaceBook shares, are among the key beneficiaries of "ultra low rates" and not so much the poor and struggling people of this country. A fact that was not lost on St. Louis Fed president James Bullard. Per our previous post:
More @ Zero Hedge
The Appalachian Messenger September 9, 2016
This week’s edition of the Appalachian Messenger has articles by:
Samuel Culper
SHTF Intelligence – Getting Started – Part Three
T.L. Davis
When Black Lives Don’t Matter
Robert Gore
The Choice, Part Two: The Biggest Challenge
Click here for the September 9, 2016 edition.
Tim Kaine: Obama Better Than Putin! :)
Via Billy
...Trump does not have respect for President Barack Obama. Naw, who would have thunk'..........
You ought to respect the office and anyone who would suggest that Vladimir Putin is a better leader than the guy who got bin Laden ... to me, is just irrational hostility," Kaine said.
More irrational blathering @ AL
Washington State AG Proposes Semi Automatic Rifle And Standard Capacity Magazine Ban
Via Phil
Here we go.
Please spread this far and wide.
There is a video at the link I can't embed but you have seen the same scenario before, the tearful parents asking why anyone needs an assault weapon, the AG saying he is going to "Do Something" but no freaking specifics, yadda yadda yadda. According to the video they are targeting the AR 15 specifically but that will expand as sure as I am sitting here.
Anything that has Evil Black Rifle written on it will be banned because these people can't be bothered to educate themselves.
Here we go.
Please spread this far and wide.
There is a video at the link I can't embed but you have seen the same scenario before, the tearful parents asking why anyone needs an assault weapon, the AG saying he is going to "Do Something" but no freaking specifics, yadda yadda yadda. According to the video they are targeting the AR 15 specifically but that will expand as sure as I am sitting here.
Anything that has Evil Black Rifle written on it will be banned because these people can't be bothered to educate themselves.
More @ The Vulgar Curmudgeon
Israeli military expects Islamic State attack on its southern border 'within six months'
Via Billy
Israel is bracing for an Islamic State (Isil) terror attack along its southern border with Egypt within the next six months, a senior Israeli military officer has warned.
Wilayat Sinai, the jihadist group’s affiliate in the Sinai desert, has been stealing armored vehicles and anti-tank missiles from Egypt’s military and Israeli expects the weapons will soon be turned against its forces on the Egyptian border.
The Israeli officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Telegraph that Wilayat Sinai had stolen at least one Egyptian M60 battle tank and had amassed a supply of Russian-made Kornet missiles, which can strike targets more than three miles away.
“It could happen today, tomorrow, in a month but within the next six months we will come into an engagement with Wilayat Sinai,” the officer said. “In the next six months they will try to carry out an attack and try to do something against Israel.”
Israel is bracing for an Islamic State (Isil) terror attack along its southern border with Egypt within the next six months, a senior Israeli military officer has warned.
Wilayat Sinai, the jihadist group’s affiliate in the Sinai desert, has been stealing armored vehicles and anti-tank missiles from Egypt’s military and Israeli expects the weapons will soon be turned against its forces on the Egyptian border.
The Israeli officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Telegraph that Wilayat Sinai had stolen at least one Egyptian M60 battle tank and had amassed a supply of Russian-made Kornet missiles, which can strike targets more than three miles away.
“It could happen today, tomorrow, in a month but within the next six months we will come into an engagement with Wilayat Sinai,” the officer said. “In the next six months they will try to carry out an attack and try to do something against Israel.”
More @ The Telegraph
Liberal meltdown blames media for Trump's positive polling
Via Billy
According to the liberal elite, you're just not getting it. You're literally too stupid to see that Clinton, a career politician, is the right choice for President. Donald Trump is the devil—with apologies to the dark lord.
They're also unwittingly making a compelling case for Trump to many Americans.
Jonathan Chait of the Daily Intelligencer captured the liberal meltdown with startling clarity:
Chait and countless other Clinton acolytes are arguing that the media
is to blame for the fact that so many average voters aren't ready to
crown Clinton.
Excuse me.
According to the liberal elite, you're just not getting it. You're literally too stupid to see that Clinton, a career politician, is the right choice for President. Donald Trump is the devil—with apologies to the dark lord.
They're also unwittingly making a compelling case for Trump to many Americans.
Jonathan Chait of the Daily Intelligencer captured the liberal meltdown with startling clarity:
The average undecided voter is getting
snippets of news from television personalities like [Matt] Lauer, who
are failing to convey the fact that the election pits a normal
politician with normal political failings against an ignorant, bigoted,
pathologically dishonest authoritarian.
Excuse me.
More @ AL
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