Trump first: U.S. foreign policy is now in the service of one man – NY Daily News

By Garry Kasparov 

Trump
not only doesn’t care about the next generation, he doesn’t seem to
care about anything other than his personal image in the present day.
President Obama fulfilled his mandate to begin America’s retreat from
the world after the costly overreach of his predecessor. Both George W.
Bush and Obama are decent men who loved their country, even if they had
very different views of what America’s role in the world should be.

It
is fair to say we are paying the price of both of their views going too
far — Bush’s interventionism causing chaos and Obama’s hurried
retrenchment creating power vacuums filled by the likes of Russia,
China, Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Mistakes
were made. They were mistakes, however, made with the best interests of
the country and the world in mind. Today we are seeing all too well
what happens when the world’s most powerful nation is instead led by a
man who cares only for his personal interests. Instead of being guided
by the values of the Founding Fathers, Trump has the moral compass of a
YouTube comments section. America First is bad enough, Trump First is a
catastrophe.

thought he might some one to lead a revolt against Putin, alas no.

Bush and Obama believe in a progressive America, not exactly same but close enough.

Kasparov seems to see it in the same European dem socialism light as Bush and Obama.

the socialistic haze our leaders can’t see to understand is choking west civ

and they still don’t get Trump as distasteful as he might be

Trump first: U.S. foreign policy is now in the service of one man – NY Daily News

Roberts Is Wrong About Federal Judges and Here Is the Plan to Fix It

The biggest problem is that there are 673 district federal judge
positions, though not all are currently filled.  Many of them now
believe they are the chief judge for the entire country and can make
rulings that determine the law for everyone.  Because this attitude is
rampant, the people who wish to get a proper ruling for their cause go
to a courtroom which will be friendly to them.  They then can sit on a
victory until it goes to an appeals panel, the entire court of appeals
and then maybe the Supreme Court.  This process can take a couple years
or more.

If a federal judge decides they can omnipotently make decisions for the
country and reverse or put on hold a presidential executive order or
congressional law, the ruling must be reviewed by an appellate panel
within a week.  If the appellate panel decides to ride with the federal
judge’s opinion, then the full appellate court must issue an opinion
within two weeks.  That would then go to the U.S. Supreme Court which
would have a month to hand down a ruling or they could stay the action
of the lower court and get to the full opinion at a further time.

Roberts Is Wrong About Federal Judges and Here Is the Plan to Fix It

Hearing this one thing was a lightbulb moment in terms of my opinion on feminism | Her.ie

Careers are not the only barometer of success and women have already
proven that we are well capable of achieving pretty much anything we set
our minds to, so maybe it’s time to relax the “us versus them”
mentality some feminists have because it’s a senseless position to hold.

Hearing this one thing was a lightbulb moment in terms of my opinion on feminism | Her.ie

The Education Issue for 2020: Get Off the Path of Least Resistance

cultml:

We
need a revolution.  This is basically too much work, too costly, and
too shocking for conservatives, so instead, the right wing returns to
its vomit like the dog of Proverbs.  One
conservative panacea is to issue vouchers, which will prove fruitless
due to the pervasiveness of the left’s moral rot in all
schools.  Parents will take their children out of an urban school full
of sexual perversion and place them into a suburban school full of
sexual perversion where classmates have more money to spend on drugs and
lax parents are more approving of social decadence.  School “choice”
presents the same conundrum. 

The
emphasis on conservative guest speakers backfires.  After these
firebrands leave campus, the faculty become more ferocious against
conservative colleagues (wherever they may hide).  The whole affair
swells the already outrageous student activities budgets with the high
price of honoraria and security.  We need to force colleges to strip
away their godless involvement in people’s social lives, political
engagement, and cultural development, not add a frivolous layer of
conservative expenses to make the bloat worse.

Think of the tasks that faced kings like Hezekiah and Josiah.

One
task is an electoral one, and the other an ecclesiastical one.  They
both require a frightening amount of work, steel nerves, and unflinching
discernment in the wake of massive propaganda.  The churches are a more
tragic case but just as much of a problem for conservatives.  More on
that another day.

In the meantime, let’s get to our war rooms.

repair is all but impossible now

another case 4 need of black swan

The Education Issue for 2020: Get Off the Path of Least Resistance

A New Book Argues DNA Makes Us Who We Are | National Review

Blueprint retells the story that Judith Rich Harris unfolded in The Nurture Assumption
20 years ago: The impact of parental intervention on the outcomes of
their children is minimal. The “shared environment” — the home and
hearth — typically is shown to have very limited effect in studies of
characteristics such as personality, intelligence, and social pathology.
(If the shared environment had as big of an effect on a trait that
genes have on height, for example, both identical and fraternal twins
would be incredibly similar to each other. That is essentially never
what we see.) Often the largest factor is “non-shared environment,”
which is the dark matter of behavior genetics: the parts of the
environment that make people different even when they’re raised in the
same home. Influential, but unseen.

In Blueprint there is discussion about estimating a child’s
final height or intelligence. These are interesting questions for the
future, but worries about eugenics coming out of this research are both
premature and too late. Parents may make decisions about their future
offspring based on probabilities about behavior, but the reality is that
this is probably less of a concern than the inevitabilities, which is
the domain of medical rather than behavioral genetics. Meanwhile, the
reality is that biological technology is already affecting our lives a
great deal, and that this is happening with little discussion or worry.

A New Book Argues DNA Makes Us Who We Are | National Review