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Special Midweek Doom — AI Won’t Save The Right Edition

The Doom is piling up faster than I can shovel it out. Item Amazon's Facial Recognition Software Found To Be Racist, Sexist ...one thing I didn't see coming was allegations…

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Insanity & Doom Update XLIII

Item Scoring 30% on a test is enough to graduate high school in NYC The bar keeps dropping on state math exams -- and critics are saying it's because officials…

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Your Most Important Choice: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Read Part I. As we consider Team 2 (Christianity) in light of the five points of interest to me, it bears noting that Christianity has a built-in advantage over Team…

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The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ

That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody…

Take Burnham’s Test To See If You’re A Progressive: <em>Suicide of the West</em> at 50

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Take Burnham’s Test To See If You’re A Progressive: Suicide of the West at 50

This classic column appeared in July 2015. Besides some editing, I would now change 'liberal' to 'progressive', which I have done in the title. I made no other change. See…

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Mainstream Global Warming Reporters Are Biased, Unteachable, Lazy, & Unethical

The left-wing Washington Post, stepping up its advocacy, issued a set of words yesterday teaching the global warming controversy and ignoring science. Typical. The somehow aptly named E Wemple gave…

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Abortion Safety: Doctors V. Nurses & Physician Assistants & Midwives—Part II

Update 4 Too late. 10 October 2013. Update 4 Moved this to top because the bill allowing non-doctors to perform abortions is on Gov. Brown's desk. He'll likely sign, but…

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Low IQ & Liberal Beliefs Linked To Poor Research?

Watch out Sam Harris, Gordon Hodson and Michael A. Busseri of Brock University are giving you competition for the worst use of statistics in an original paper. Their "Bright Minds…

hudbwu on Look Here, @elonmusk, What Mendacious Hack Or Incompetent Flack Murdered This Tweet?April 26, 2024
Elon is all for show. Bernard over at Moon of Alabama was suppressed before Elon took over. Then his subscribers…
Cary D Cotterman on Student Protests To End After Finals: TWIDApril 26, 2024
I'd buy a ticket to watch them unleash water canons on these camps.
Hun on Student Protests To End After Finals: TWIDApril 26, 2024
I am skeptical about the nose-ring girl. I suspect the whole "incident" was simply a propaganda skit to show that…
Milton Hathaway on Student Protests To End After Finals: TWIDApril 26, 2024
"Yet it is curious that in many places these woke students were rousted by Regime forces." Yes, indeed, very curious,…
John on Look Here, @elonmusk, What Mendacious Hack Or Incompetent Flack Murdered This Tweet?April 26, 2024
I once stayed at a villa in Sorrento owned by a retired pizza chef who told me that, back in…