George Rebane
When I speak of the notion that ‘the Left is evil’, I am not talking about some outlier faction representing a minuscule fraction of that population. Invoking that notion for me requires showing that a large fraction, which includes the Left’s thought leaders and intellects, is practicing a given evil policy. Here is an example today rampant on the nation’s campuses.
Among the several types of thought police colleges have now instituted to detect and corral wrong thinking by students, the Bias Response Teams (BRTs) on many campuses today are perhaps the most prevalent and insidious. These outfits are set up to surreptitiously monitor students’ speech “and to encourage others to report if they have been the target or witness of a bias incident.” To identify a bias incident, BRTs apply the gold standard that states "the most important indication of bias is your own feelings”. What happens then varies, but all such BRT ‘investigations’ of bias and subsequent recommendations to administration, which often invoke draconian retributions, are nothing but unabashed violations of the students’ First Amendment rights. (more here)
National Propaganda Radio took the lead this morning in fashioning a narrative to counter Trump’s latest foreign policy success in getting the fat kid to release three American hostages he’s held for the last few years. They’re coming home with SecState Pompeo returning from his second trip there to set up the upcoming summit, another first for our President. NPR spun the story as a potential disaster in the making since it wasn’t clear to them whether Trump had prepared any response to the fat kid’s presumed demand for some quid pro quo. And Trump’s lack of preparation (according to their mavens) will torpedo the talks. The desperation of the Left in these whole cloth fabrications has become a reliable source of political humor for at least half the country.
That AI creates or destroys jobs debate is getting pretty lame. Of course, the advent of more AI is destroying jobs in BOTH the number of job types and the absolute number of jobs, each employing one full-time-equivalent (FTE) human. But there is a contingent of elites out there whose message is ‘Not to worry, AI will continue to create more jobs.’ That message is beyond vague, and overwhelmingly misleading. The 30apr18 WSJ’s special section on AI featured ‘Seven Jobs Robots Will Create – or Expand’ containing the list of job types to be created/expanded. It was meant to be a comforting article for the great unwashed and discomfited. All the jobs listed 1) required workers on the high end of the IQ scale, and 2) in toto would require many times fewer FTE workers than those losing their jobs to AI. Sooner or later this bamboozle will be known to all.
The Dems are doing their best to apply double, triple, quadruple standards manufactured on the spot to suit their attempt to torpedo another Trump nomination – currently of Gina Haspel as the new CIA director. The lady was undercover for 30+ years laying her ass on the line for our country, in a position that had nothing to do with making policy, and the liberal lamebrains are insinuating that she was the mother of waterboarding. The progressives are putting her through a kabuki dance – ‘torture doesn’t work’ – trying to trip her up about the future use of ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques. She is holding up well, promising to uphold the moral high ground of the law and not to torture captives for information. Most of the country hopes that when push comes to shove, our intelligence agencies will do whatever straddling of the line is necessary to get timely information from enemy hostiles when national security or American lives are on the line. If our enemies ever become convinced that the US will not squeeze, say, the raghead leaders that we capture, we will be in deep pucky.
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