December 11, 2015 Donald Trump Understands The Fear Of Terrorism Better Than Barack Obama Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Donald Trump Understands The Fear Of Terrorism Better Than Barack Obama

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Luke Ford

John* says: “See these two articles. Adams’ post explains how Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims resonates with Latinos, and Mercer explains the reason that Obama’s cost analysis of living with terrorism while working to defeat it using the strategy as explained by Beinart, shows an essential lack of understanding of the fear of terrorism and why Trump does understand it.”

Scott Adams writes:

When polls show that Latino voters in America favor banning Muslim immigration, Trump has greased his path to a landslide.
I don’t think he planned the immigration surprise to happen this early. But he got the opening and he took it. (I predicted it would happen after the nomination.)
On a related note, I understand Trump is defending his Muslim immigration ban by telling the public they are thinking it but he said it. That’s the most powerful persuasion technique there is (literally, in my experience). The general form of it involves an educated guess about a person’s inner thoughts. When you tell people what they are thinking, while they are thinking it, and while they think their thoughts are mostly concealed, they hand you the keys to their brain. (It would take longer to explain why.)
Other candidates tell voters what they should think. Sometimes they say what voters do think, but they do so only for obvious issues such as voters preferring lower crime rates. You won’t see a vanilla politician tell you what your secret inner thoughts are, and get it right. The latter is industrial-grade persuasion. The former is just lips moving.
I think there is another immigration surprise planned for after the nomination, but this first one might be all he needed. In movies you often see the hero escape the 3rd Act problem only to fall into greater danger in the final minutes. So movies generally have a big escape followed by another clever escape in the final minutes. Trump might get to use his second immigration surprise toward the final stretch.

Ilana Mercer writes:

Mr. Trump appears genuinely outraged by this crass and cruel political calculus. Trump was not going along with the notions implicit in the strategies proposed by the administration and the colluding political duopoly. These are that we trade a few American lives, every so often, in return for getting to boast about America’s commitment to “freedom,” our “open society,” all the intangible nostrums Rome-on-the-Potomac instructs us to celebrate.
Mr. Trump was not OK with the idea that mass murder by Muslim, every now and then, was the price of “our tolerance.”
Trump’s visceral response seems odd to the political class and their media barnacles because it’s the reaction of a regular, clear-thinking individual who has yet to be housebroken by Washington.
If you’re a Jihadi who’s traveled to train abroad—American, permanent resident or anything else—“you are never-ever coming back into the US,” vowed Trump. Having suggested the same a few months back (“A Modest Libertarian Proposal: Keep Jihadis OUT, Not IN”), I would venture that immigration is a political grant of privilege; there is no natural right to immigrate into the U.S., not least if you are fixing to kill your coworkers.
Later, Trump followed up with a more radical statement; radical from a political perspective. He “called for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”:
According to Pew Research, among others, there is great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population. Most recently, a poll from the Center for Security Policy released data showing “25% of those polled agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad” and 51% of those polled, “agreed that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to Shariah.”
“Without looking at the various polling data,” stated Mr. Trump, “it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension. Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life.”
SQUANDERING VS. CONSERVING SCARCE RESOURCES
To grasp why Trump would counsel something so practical, yet so politically improper, one has to understand Trump the businessman.
Good businessmen are programmed differently than politicians. As a tremendously gifted entrepreneur, Trump is averse to squandering scarce resources, money or manpower.
By contrast, politicians do not understand the natural economic reality of scarcity. They control the production of money for their promiscuous purposes and they exert power over millions of interchangeable people in their territorial jurisdiction.
To a politician, 14 lives in 322 million is a small price to pay for “our freedoms.” Trump’s political rivals look at the price exacted by a Muslim like Syed Farouk and his bride in the aggregate. Fourteen dead is not a steep price to pay for unfettered immigration from Islamic countries, peddled politically as “our values,” “our tolerance,” “our greatness.” This callous calculus is second nature to politicians like Lindsey Graham or Darth Vader Cheney.
Not to Trump. “This must stop. We can’t have this,” he roared.
See, statistics are funny things. Insignificant probabilities, in this case an attack on each one of us, are immaterial unless they happen to YOU or ME. It is this calculus that politicians peddle. They rely on the fact that we’ll adopt their sloganeering because each one of us is unlikely to die by Muslim.
But to do nothing stateside, as Trump’s rivals imply, is to accept that lives lost are, in the grand scheme, insignificant.
The opposite is true for Trump. Taking losses offends his sensibilities. Trump, the consummate businessman, abhors and is angered by the preventable squandering of scarce assets: American lives. (Yes, Trump is an American Firster.) The death of a few Americans pains Mr. Trump, something that cannot be said about Obama, Hillary, Bernie or any of the insider GOPers.

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Bret Easton Ellis on James Deen Rape Claims: “A Ridiculous Witch Hunt”

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Luke Ford

The Hollywood Reporter:

What do you make of the allegations of rape and abuse being leveled against James Deen?

This whole thing is a ridiculous witch hunt. Most of the people in James’ close circle know that this is a wild distortion, a lie on Stoya’s part. And when this evidence comes out with texts and emails, it’s going to prove everyone who is #solidaritywithstoya to be ashamed of themselves. So I think that’s part of the problem.

What evidence?

Evidence that James has in terms of texts. Threats. This has been going on with Stoya for a while. I’ve known James before Stoya, I’ve known him during Stoya. I traveled to Europe with them. I have seen firsthand what was going on in that relationship — and this is a very unstable person. And the threats in texts and emails that James has is part of the reason why he’s remaining kind of cool about this. Because this is all going to come out — that she has threatened rape claims against him at other times in the relationship.

The fact that these tweets are posted on the day that James and his new girlfriend buy a house is not a coincidence. That alone — that Stoya was not happy that the relationship ended but James felt that he had to get out of it. And she has been very vocal about how much she was in love with him and has called him her “heroin” at one point. The very fact that on the day that James buys a house with his girlfriend, she tweets this, what do you think? Is that enough?

I don’t know. It’s certainly a heavy accusation to make of someone in the space of two tweets. But then it did open the floodgates to other accusations, if not of rape, of some dangerously abusive behavior.

In the porn world! And BDSM invite-only parties! What are we talking about? Is everyone nuts? Is everyone so hungry for a witch hunt — does James arouse such complicated feelings in people — that this is the endgame? I don’t know, what do you think? Does [MTV’s Teen Mom star and Deen screen partner] Farrah Abraham coming along and saying, “Yeah, I guess I was raped too” — doesn’t that kind of invalidate everything? I don’t know! I’m asking you this.

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What Mr. Trump knows is a mystery to the U.S. bipartisan elite

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Luke Ford

Michael Scheuer writes:

The current clouds of hot and noxious gas being huffed and puffed about by the U.S. governing elite, media, academy, and the immigrant-worshiping Christian churches regarding Donald Trump’s suggestion that the national government temporarily ban the entry of non-U.S.-citizen Muslims into the United States can only build the American public’s confidence in Mr. Trump.

All of America’s domestic enemies are ganging up on Trump on this issue, as are almost all the other mantra-mumbling, dwarfed-by-Trump presidential candidates in both parties. Trump has the added good fortune of being angrily abused by the spineless European media and peoples, as well as other external, money-sucking enemies of America, the UN, the EU, Human Rights groups, Arab regimes, etc. In life one must, at times, make enemies, and Mr. Trump is all aces when it comes to knowing the most vital foes to make for his purposes and for those of our wounded republic.

Suffice to say, Mr. Trump knows or senses what so many Americans are thinking, feeling, and fearing about the Muslim problem and he speaks clearly and directly to and for those people. Among the things he knows about the citizenry are:

–1.) Americans are sick unto death of Muslims of every stripe and location. The foreign, non-U.S.-citizen, American-killing Muslims for obvious reasons, and the U.S. Muslim community because, since Osama bin Laden declared war on America in August, 1996, it has in large measure done precisely nothing to help America rid this country of their lethal coreligionists. They have spent their time smiling and chanting that “Islam is a religion of peace,” while simultaneously whining about not being respected by their countrymen. Muslim community leaders also work with the academy’s social-science charlatans to take heaps of taxpayer money from the brain-dead Congress to “de-radicalize” U.S.-citizen Muslims. Not surprisingly all of these useless but lucrative programs have failed, while support for the Islamic State and al-Qaeda among U.S. Muslims grows, and more of them go overseas to fight alongside the Islamists. The obvious point here is that the national government is clueless about what the Islamists are up to in North America, and an immediate, temporary ban on the entry of non-citizen Muslims makes perfect sense, unless there are those who are eager, to paraphrase G.W. Bush, to “fight them over there and over here”.

–2.) Americans are sick unto death of hearing about how careful they must be not offend the ” valuable Arab allies” of the United States, and particularly Saudi Arabia, even though Riyadh was the father and is still the driving religious and monetary patron of the Islamist movement. Americans know that these regimes — like the U.S. Muslim community — have done almost nothing to defeat or slow the growth of the Islamist movement. Indeed, entities within the Arab tyrannies — especially those in the Gulf — appear to still be funding IS, AQ, and other Islamist groups; publishing school books that inculcate hatred for America and non-Muslims generally; and have refused to use their own militaries against the Islamists in any meaningful way. Indeed, the Arab tyrannies almost certainly are following their traditional, tried-and-true policy of passing huge tranches of money and guns to the Islamists so as to keep them from attacking the tyrants’ lands and keeping them pointed toward murdering Westerners and Shias.

–3.) Americans ought to be sick unto death — and would be if fully informed — of the Committee on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Thanks to the disloyal sympathy and patronage of Obama and his administration for CAIR, the best and brightest in the U.S. military and intelligence communities babble as if they are fools or, to be redundant, academics, speaking of “violent extremists” and “radicalized youth”, rather than Islamist fighters or mujahedin. CAIR has similarly perverted discussion and debate within and among law-enforcement agencies by being permitted to block the appointment of training instructors or the use of curricula if either dares to tell the truth, which is that most of the mujahedin are by Koranic definition “good Muslims”. In degrading and even falsifying the training courses meant to provide the police officers who will risk their lives to defeat the domestic Islamists, CAIR further abets the mujahedin. The CAIR organization — just as much as AIPAC and Israel First — is the enemy of the United States and Americans, and to pretend otherwise is to deceive ourselves and assist in our own demise.

So pour it on, Mr. Trump. Teach the self-righteous anti-American bastards who oppose and hate you that the U.S. Constitution is meant to protect only Americans, not to entitle, pamper, and discriminate in favor of foreigners; that hatred and abuse from Europeans, Muslims at home and abroad, and the UN are vote-garnering badges of honor; and that the only motto that ought to be easy for all loyal Americans to espouse is “America First”.

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THE VIEW FROM OLYMPUS: REGISTER MOSLEMS? GOOD IDEA.

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Luke Ford

William S. Lind writes:

Donald Trump apparently was misquoted when he reportedly called for registering all Moslems in the U.S., but the idea is a good one. We are going to have to do it eventually, so we might as well get started now.

Moslems will not be the only non-state element fighting Fourth Generation war on American soil. Other entities, such as gangs, are already doing so. But the spread of puritanism within the world of Islam, which continues to gather strength, means Moslems will increasingly be a source of 4GW, here and abroad. At some point politically correct Washington will be forced by events to acknowledge reality and act.

A registry of all Moslems in America, if properly done, could benefit both the state and American Islamics. How? It would allow the sate to focus on those Moslems most likely to be violent, leaving others alone. For example, any Moslems registered as Sufis could and should be left undisturbed. Why? Because alone among major Islamic sects, the Sufis present no threat of violence. For that sin (the Koran commands violence against “unbelievers”), the Sufis are persecuted by both Sunnis and Shiites.

As is the case with violent crime, most Islamic Fourth Generation fighters are young men. A registry would allow security efforts to focus on them, assuming it asked for both age and sex. Children, women, and older men could be ignored, although many young Islamic women are now acting as suicide bombers.

A registry should indicate what mosque an American Moslem regularly attends. Presumably, the FBI is keeping watch on mosques where Islamic 4GW “jihad” is preached. People who attend such mosques should be prime suspects. On first thought, such mosques should be closed and their imams deported. But second thought suggest we might want to leave them open to serve as candle flames to draw the jihadis so they can be identified.

While political correctness gasps in horror at the idea of registering all American Islamics, the spread of Islamic puritanism suggests that may not be sufficient. The reason the state came into existence was to provide order–safety of persons and property–and if it is to retain legitimacy, it must do whatever is required to that end. If a registry and other security measures are not sufficient to prevent Islamic 4GW on American soil–from the state’s perspective prevention is everything; all first response is too late, because the peace has been broken and the state has therefore failed–stronger measures will be needed, including the option of exile.

Consider this scenario: A suitcase nuke goes off in, say, Seattle. It was brought in on an ordinary sailboat that came up from Mexico, where some of the drug gangs may have a relationship with Islamic 4GW entities. One of those entities–al Qaeda, ISIS, take your pick–credibly takes responsibility for the strike. An American city lies destroyed and casualties are in the tens or hundreds of thousands.

The little stage play that routinely accompanies Islamic massacres on Western soil–empty bluster from politicians, a few more useless airstrikes, blaming guns, women weeping and lighting candles–will not satisfy public anger. Across the country, mosques are being burned and Moslems strung up from lampposts.

At that point a Moslem registry might save Moslems’ lives, because it would allow the government to move quickly to send them into exile. For good reason, the age-old punishment of exile has been considered less severe than its alternative, death. Given the choice, American Moslems would probably rather leave than die. With Seattle still glowing, the public would probably not accept any lesser action.

Islam wants to have it both ways: at the same time it condemns civil society, demanding Sharia replace it, it seeks all the benefits civil society provides. The public, both here and in Europe, is beginning to perceive the contradiction. Each new incident of Islamic violence on Western soil will make that contradiction more clear. At some point, the state will have to resolve it or lose its legitimacy. A registry is a good, and rather moderate, place to start.

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Donald Trump’s views on Islam consistent with the warnings of Rabbi Meir Kahane

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Luke Ford

Blog: Rabbi Meir Kahane was murdered by Muslims while giving a speech in New York many years ago. Kahane would have to be one of the best experts on Middle Eastern policy ever heard. Kahane was a legitimate right wing conservative politician in Israel who believed it was impossible for Jews to live with Muslims in Israel. Kahane predicted most of the terrorism and civil war which dramatically increased in Israel after his death.

Rabbi Meir Kahane is a former member of the Israeli Knesset and founder and president of the Jewish Defense League (JTF). He was well known as an activist for Jewish rights in the US before immigrating to Israel where he served in the army and became a politician.

Kahane documented how the Muslims were murdering Jews in Israel daily, and it was impossible for Jews to live in peace in Israel. Kahane also reported how many Jews were leaving Israel because it was not safe. Kahane also identified how both the alleged right wing Israeli parties and left wing Israeli parties were all left wing progressives. In the end it was the Israeli political establishment who banned Kahane from political office even though his support was growing very large. Kahane wanted to relocate all Arabs from Israel and even give them money to establish a home somewhere outside of Israel; this would have been more humane than allowing the civil war to go on in the land, which was killing thousands of Jews and Arabs. If Kahane was allowed to become a politician he probably would have become Prime Minister or President and Israel would be a much safer place, as Islam is a very ignitable ideology and it can become radicalized very easily. Most Islamic nations have large populations of violent radicals and even whole Islamic nations are completely radical and dangerous (Saudi Arabia).

Kahane spoke common sense and logic. In order for Jews to live in peace and safety they could not co-exist in Israel with Islam. Kahane wanted Muslims out of the nation to prevent further bloodshed. However the left wing progressive political elite in Israel conspired with the Israeli Supreme court to ban Kahane for alleged racism, and Kahane was banned from being a politician (even though he was democratically elected) and he was put in jail for a number of years. This is the same thing being done to Donald Trump, however due to the constitution in the USA they cannot put Trump in jail but believe me, they probably want to jail him. The left wing progressive government in Israel is the same as all of them around the world and they are the global political elite who are working towards a one world government, they do not want peace but they want war and that is why they allow radical Islam in Israel and in the West. The left wing political elite want a civil war between Islam and other cultures to cause chaos which will help them implement their agenda. What exactly is that agenda I cannot say, but it seems to be related to a one world government and control.

Rabbi Kahane had this to say about the left wing political establishment.

“The left liberal axis destroys from within. They are not prepared to accept any democratically elected government whose policies they consider to be racist, Nazi or fascist. And it is they who define all the above and it is they who label and set the ground rules.”

The left can name anyone they want as a Nazi and just ban them and we are seeing this happen to Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and it’s something they are trying to do to Donald Trump as well.
In 1986 Rabbi Kahane was interviewed on CNN by Sonya Friedman and made the below quotes about the problems in Israel with Jews and Muslims.

“What do you mean they (Palestinians) want the West Bank? Gaza? They had the West Bank and Gaza in 1967. They went to war then, what did they want then? They wanted to wipe out Israel. They wanted to wipe out Israel, they wanted it then and they wanted it now.”

“Arab’s cannot live together in their own countries. Sunnies, Shiites and other factions are constantly at war with each other. They cannot live together as they are constantly in civil war. How are Muslims going to live with Jews if they can’t even live with each other?”

On a personal note I have spent time in Israel and there are armed guards with machine guns everywhere. If you go to the beach there is a military base post overlooking the beach so citizens and tourists can enjoy it safely. I remember walking across the road in Tel Aviv to visit a shop and I saw a battalion of men with machine guns crossing the road, and when I visited a shopping mall I was searched for bombs and other weapons as I entered. Israel is in a constant state of civil war and I was even warned by Israeli officials, that it would be too dangerous for me to visit villages in Israel with large populations of Muslims.

Islam is taught to physically fight against any host country who have a culture that is different from Islam. If Israel had of allowed Rabbi Kahane to remain a politician in Israel he probably would have become President or Prime Minister and Israel would be a much better place than it is today. Jews are constantly the victims of bombings, stabbings, shootings and other violence, and even the Muslims would probably suffer less if they no longer lived in Israel, because the Muslims leaders are constantly preaching hate and violence against Jews, and these fights kill people on both sides. This is what the left wing international political elite want, they want constant chaos and violence so they can have more control over nations, and lead them toward a one world government under the United Nations. The political parties who claim to be right wing conservative in Israel and in the West are actually left wing political parties in disguising themselves as conservatives. Consider the Illuminati George Bush playing card below, as this clearly explains how the political elite place left wing liberals in government who pretend to be conservative.

George W Bush himself brought multitudes of Muslims into the United States and was also weak on immigration and borders. Two of the 911 hijackers were on expired visas from Saudi Arabia; it is these types of liberal left wing policies that cause terrorism and civil war in Western countries. It should also be noted that Japan has a very right wing conservative government that is very tough on Islam, and they have never suffered an Islamic terror attack. George W Bush is clearly an example of a left wing liberal pretending to be a conservative. The US Republican party are left wing progressives pretending to be conservatives, and you can see these false conservatives trying to alienate and ban Trump from running and this is the same thing that happened to Rabbi Meir Kahane in Israel.
Rabbi Kahane was one of the most knowledgeable people about Israel and Middle Eastern affairs, and you can watch an outstanding interview he gave on C-Span about Middle Eastern politics below. Those wishing to understand the reality of whats happening in Israel and the Middle East should watch the below video.

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Islamic Rape & Violence In Rotherham

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Luke Ford

The Guardian: A teenage girl abused by the Rotherham grooming ring was forced into daily sexual relations with men for years and used as a commodity to settle her abuser’s debts, a court has heard.

The girl, who was in and out of care from the age of 12, was allegedly taken around the country and made to perform sexual acts up to three times a day on different men, becoming pregnant twice, once when she was only 14.

She had just turned 16, and was still in local authority care, when her abuse became a daily occurrence, the jury was told. She terminated the first pregnancy but later gave birth to a boy who was looked after by her mother.

The girl is one of 12 allegedly groomed in a child sexual exploitation ring led by seven people, including two sets of brothers and two women, who between them are accused of 51 counts of abuse including rape, indecent assault, false imprisonment, abduction and procurement of girls for prostitution or for sex with another.

All of the girls were vulnerable to grooming and predatory behaviour, with unstable family backgrounds. “Some had unsettled home lives, had suffered previous ill treatment or abuse and some were in local authority care,” said prosecutor Michelle Colborne QC.

They were deliberately “targeted, sexualised and in some instances subjected to acts of a degrading and violent nature”, she said, adding that one girl was so terrified of her alleged abuser, Basharat Hussain, she feared for her life.

The jury heard on Thursday that one of the girls was 12 when she was first abused, while the grooming of another alleged victim started with treats of “sweets and pop” and progressed to gifts of perfume and a mobile phone.

The catalogue of alleged abuse, which spanned more than a decade from 1990 to 2003, was said to have been masterminded by Basharat’s brother, Arshid Hussain, 40, who is facing 29 counts relating to nine girls. The court heard that he passed the lead victim to his brother and friends and arranged her abuse in flats, garages and houses in the Rotherham area and in London.

The violence against her allegedly became regular and no one in the victim’s care home expressed concern when she returned bloodied or shaken from encounters, the jury was told. On one occasion, it is alleged she was bundled into the boot of a car and taken to a house in Tottenham, north London, where she was abused by five men, all in their 20s.

“Afterwards she was driven back to Rotherham and ‘Mad Ash’ [Arshid Hussein] told her he loved her,” said Colborne. She tried to say no to the abuse, but eventually knew that to resist was to invite more violence and “protracted” attacks, the court heard.

“She was beaten, had a cigarette stubbed out on her chest, she was tied up, she was raped from a very young age, often by numerous men, one after the other, at the say-so of Arshid Hussain. She was insecure and vulnerable and believed he was her boyfriend,” said Colborne. “He passed her to his brother and friends, and over time gave her as payment to men for debts he owed.”

Also in the dock were brothers Sajid Bostan, 38, and Majid Bostan, 37, associates of the Hussain brothers, and two women, Karen MacGregor, 58, and Shelley Davies, 40, who associated with one another and with Ali and Arshid Hussain. All seven deny the charges.

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California’s Bleak Trajectory

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Luke Ford

From American Thinker:

Victor Davis Hanson, whose family has lived in California for generations, has written a new book. Jarrett Stepman of Breitbart reviewed The Decline and Fall of California: From Decadence to Destruction, where Hanson paints a stark picture of California’s decline from a state that exemplified the American Dream to one crushed under the weight of its utopian vision.

“… Clearly modeled on famous British historian Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Hanson’s book makes it clear that the increasingly dystopian California has been the author of its own decline. A half-century of bad policy and failed ideology has reduced the Golden State to a shell of its former glory.

Hanson — a college professor, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and an expert in the classics — is a product of many generations of Californians who made their home in the state’s mostly agricultural central valley. Few come closer to Thomas Jefferson’s idealized philosopher-farmer than Hanson, who is highly educated in history, warfare, and philosophy, yet runs a working farm like his forefathers.

Unfortunately, Hanson’s prognosis for California is bleak– especially for conservatives and middle-class Americans. “The old blue/red war for California is over,” Hanson writes. “Conservatives lost. Liberals won– by a combination of flooding the state with government-supplied stuff, and welcoming millions in while showing the exit to others.”….

…The Republican Party’s power in the state is relegated to a few holdouts from the less populated, red interior. Most of the California GOP’s leadership embraces the most watered-down “me-too” liberalism. The feeble resistance to the left’s big government designs mostly comes from moderate Democrats if it comes at all. It is clear that Hanson is mostly attempting to warn fellow Americans about a future that looks like California, rather than preach to his native state which is intent to keep the wheels of history turning in a militantly progressive direction.”

The last paragraph, above, sounds an alarm that all should heed. As the expression warns: as California goes, so goes the nation. And, indeed, are we not seeing the California effect across the country?

Hanson writes about a state that is over-taxed and over-regulated, with an infrastructure that has been misappropriated by environmentalists. He writes: “Those who had stopped the building of more unnatural dams – a green movement birthed among the opulence of Northern California that sought exemption from the ramifications of its own ideology – now wanted infrastructure to store the water necessary for its own dreams of replenishing salmon in the rivers.”

Hanson also addresses the mass exodus from California. I see this as an enormous problem, as people from California (and other high-tax blue states) move into red or purple states, shifting the political balance and making it increasingly difficult for conservatives to overcome a Democratic electoral college advantage that just keeps growing.

“The impact of these policies has been enormous. The agricultural heart of the state has dried up, the middle-class has fled to more favorable tax environments, and new, mostly illegal immigrants – who come in droves due to the open borders policies of the state’s elites — find fewer and fewer opportunities to rise out of their condition. However, the elites are mostly ensconced in affluent corridors and immune to the negative effects of their ideas.”

Hanson paints a picture that is bleak while perceiving a small shred of hope in California’s newest residents from Mexico and Latin America. He hopes they would be able to climb the economic ladder and ultimately throw out the leftists (who live in high concentrations along the thin western coast of the state). The Breitbart review continues:

“Is there hope? Can there be honesty about our crises and courage to address them?” Hanson writes. “I sometimes fantasize that a new conservative movement of second- and third-generation upper middle-class, over-taxed Mexican-Americans will demand competitive schools for their children without the fantasies of Chicano studies and coastal global warming indoctrination.”

Hanson hopes that this new middle class “will push for energy development, beefed-up law enforcement, and reasonable taxes and power rates, and so lock horns with the coastal elites, well apart from abortion, the death penalty, and the constant alternative lifestyle agenda. Some already are heading that way; more would if the borders were closed and the old forces of the melting pot were not impeded.”

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Where’s The Outrage?

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Luke Ford

Countries refusing Israelis:

Algeria
Bangladesh
Brunei
Iran
Iraq (except Iraqi Kurdistan)
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Malaysia
Oman
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Syria
United Arab Emirates
Yemen

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Intelligence & The Class Room

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Luke Ford

Linda Gottfredson writes:

As James A. Kulik of the University of Michigan reported in the
Handbook of Gifted Education (2003), “On the basis of site visits, experts have concluded that untracking brings no guarantee of high-quality instruction for everyone but may instead lead all to a common level of educational mediocrity.”

Multiple intelligence theory is only the latest rationale for acting as if most children don’t differ much in learning ability. An older approach, still widely embraced, is to accept IQ as a concept but act as if differences in IQ don’t make much difference in the classroom. Education textbooks and journals in this vein speak only of “exceptional” versus “regular” students. So-called regular students are those who score between the upper threshold for mental retardation (IQ 70) and the lower threshold for giftedness (IQ 130). That continuum includes 95 percent of students. A closer look at differences in intellectual functioning across the 60-point range illustrates how different educability actually is, even among the supposedly average.

For example, individuals with IQs between 70 and 80 (but still above the threshold for mild retardation) require instruction that is highly structured, detailed, concrete, well sequenced, omits no intermediate steps, and links to what the individuals already know. They often need one-to-one supervision and hands-on practice to learn even simple procedures. As specialists in adult education explain, the material to be learned must be stripped of all nonessentials, including theoretical principles, and require only simple inferences. Any information, written or spoken, must be presented in small pieces with clear introductions and simple vocabulary.

Because people with IQs below 80 (the 10th percentile) are difficult to train, federal law bars their induction into the military.

Successively higher IQs are associated with better odds of learning readily from more demanding forms of instruction, learning more independently, and mastering increasingly abstract and multifaceted material.

Individuals of average IQ (100) can master relatively large bodies of written and spoken knowledge and procedure, especially when it is presented to them in an organized manner that allows them practice and provides feedback. By IQ 120, individuals are more self-instructing and better able to develop and organize knowledge on their own. The “complete” instruction that is most helpful for low-g learners is dysfunctional for these high-g individuals. The
latter easily fill in gaps in instruction on their own and benefit most from abstract, self-directed, incomplete instruction that allows them to assemble new knowledge and reassemble old knowledge in idiosyncratic ways. But such forms of instruction are dysfunctional for low-g learners, who are more likely to be confused than stimulated by its incompleteness, abstractness, and
requirements for self-direction.

As any teacher will attest, many other things besides g-level affect children’s learning—illness, incentives, peer pressure, conscientiousness, parental support, familiarity with the language of instruction, and more. For these and other reasons, high g does not guarantee success—or low g guarantee failure. There’s no
question, however, that higher levels of g constitute a constant tailwind and lower levels a persistent headwind in cognitively demanding settings such as schools.

Perhaps most important, g level affects what students are likely to learn with a reasonable expenditure of time and effort. Textbooks on instructional strategies rightly treat time as a precious commodity to be jealously guarded and wisely spent, and they note that “slow” students often need much more of it than others to learn the same material. Instruction must therefore be more tightly focused on what is most essential for them to learn.

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Donald Trump’s Shock & Awe Campaign

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* The liberal reaction to this is either 1) feigning surprise that so many “racists” are lurking in the GOP, or 2) acting like they knew the GOP was full of “racists” all along.

Of course it couldn’t be that white Americans have finally found a candidate who will fight for their interests, heavens no.

I can’t wait to watch their minds explode when he gets the nomination and regular people start openly supporting him without becoming social outcasts.

* NPR this morning ran a piece on how Trump has energized “white supremacist” groups, driving up their website traffic to where they’re installing more servers. I was disappointed, though, that iSteve wasn’t mentioned.

* Terrorists are proportionately just a very small fraction of Muslim immigrants. We need Steve’s immigration screw-up analysis board because in my experience all too many are closer to this or this or this (Pakistani fraud ring).

* A recent poll showed that 30% of Democrats support Trump’s temporary Muslim immigration moratorium.

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