A newspaper article warning that climate change was melting Arctic ice and disrupting wildlife was published nearly a century ago. DAVID MIKKELSON PUBLISHED 1 JULY 2013 Claim A 1922 newspaper article reported that “radical change in climatic conditions” was melting Arctic ice and disrupting wildlife. Rating True Origin One of the key issues in the global warming debate is whether modern scientists have sufficient data and tools to determine that current warming trends are indicative of long-term climatic changes rather than relatively short-term weather pattern variability. A text widely shared online seemingly provides an example of the pitfalls of mistaking the
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Addressing educrats’ college monopoly next for Trump By Ron Hart Posted Jan 26, 2018 at 12:00 PMUpdated Jan 26, 2018 at 1:29 PM Because it is largely government-funded, higher education has become an overpriced failure full of left-leaning political cronies. Bloated colleges with tenured professors who seek to indoctrinate, rather than educate, diminish our country. Kids leave college under-educated and frustrated, espousing illogical social causes that cause them to be humorless and angry. If being perpetually offended paid, they would be able to pay off their massive student loans. These wrongly educated folks show up to a Confederate statue protest in a Volkswagen, shouting “Resist the Nazi extremists!” —
Read more ... →Between 1980 and 2014 the number of public school students increased by 22.6%. Over the same period, total staff headcount increased by 50.1%, led by an 88.1% increase in school district administrative staff and followed by a 54.1% increase in instructional staff, which included a 63.1% increase in school principals and assistant principals. Find out what the numbers are in your school district. Then ask yourself: What are all those administrators actually doing? Why? Posted by Terry Kirkpatrick at 11:00 AM
Read more ... →by DINESH D’SOUZA July 18, 2016 4:00 AM @DINESHDSOUZA It filtered money through Haiti and back to itself. EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article is excerpted from Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. In January 2015 a group of Haitians surrounded the New York offices of the Clinton Foundation. They chanted slogans, accusing Bill and Hillary Clinton of having robbed them of “billions of dollars.” Two months later, the Haitians were at it again, accusing the Clintons of duplicity, malfeasance, and theft. And in May 2015, they were back, this time outside New York’s Cipriani,
Read more ... →By Malcolm Berko August 9, 2017 Dear Mr. Berko: In 2008, you referred me to a congressman who solved a problem I had with a stupid bureaucrat at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. It took several phone calls and letters, but two months later, it was fixed. I felt obligated to make annual contributions to his political action committee. We have become friendly and have lunch occasionally. At our most recent lunch, I asked why Congress can’t put a health care bill together. His surprising answer was: “Ask Berko!” — CS, no state Dear CS: All members of Congress and their
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