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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
AI will create 'useless class' of human, predicts bestselling historian
Post Date: 2016-05-20 12:59:55 by tpaine
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AI will create 'useless class' of human, predicts bestselling historian Smarter artificial intelligence is one of 21st century’s most dire threats, writes Yuval Noah Harari in follow-up to Sapiens It is hard to miss the warnings. In the race to make computers more intelligent than us, humanity will summon a demon, bring forth the end of days, and code itself into oblivion. Instead of silicon assistants we’ll build silicon assassins. The doomsday story of an evil AI has been told a thousand times. But our fate at the hand of clever cloggs robots may in fact be worse - to summon a class of eternally useless human beings. At least that is the future predicted by Yuval ...
Justice Clarence Thomas’ spring 2008 commencement address
Post Date: 2016-05-16 17:28:32 by tpaine
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The University of Georgia Division of Marketing & Communications News Service Thursday, May 29, 2008 Justice Clarence Thomas’ spring 2008 commencement address Thank you, thank you all. Well, I can finally say that I have been between the hedges. Friends, family, faculty and staff, and, most importantly, graduates, I am honored to be here this morning. And I thank you, President Adams, for your kind introduction, and Deep, for your wonderful representation of your class. I must say, however, that it is easy to develop an inferiority complex sitting next to you. I would also like to be indulged for one second to congratulate Demiko Goodman, whom I met last year. This is ...
The Incomparable Trump
Post Date: 2016-05-16 03:49:31 by Gatlin
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The Incomparable Trump - Trump became the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for US president by dominating media coverage and defying political correctness. He appeals to American voters because he calls a spade a spade and is an outsider in Washington. He is a spot-on truth-teller. Donald Trump is the most important man in America. Go with Trump for wisdom, prudence and truth The evangelicals LOVE Donald Trump … we are known by the company we keep. Win with Trump. “Male America Great Again.”
Would Hillary Be Worse Than Trump? Who Knows?
Post Date: 2016-05-14 17:58:31 by Hondo68
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It's automatically assumed that Hillary would be ten times worse than Donald Trump as President. But is this assumption true? Who knows? We really don't know what to expect from a President Trump.However, we do know what Hillary is all about, and Congress would at least be able to put some breaks on her.Another very important thing to consider is Hillary's positions. They're really not a whole lot different than Trump's. In fact, I believe that if Hillary had exactly the same views and ran as a Republican, she would actually do quite well! I discuss this, as well as other facets of the presidential race, on Newsmax TV below: (NOTE: I join the program at 2min ...
Ann Coulter: Every Rape Victim Deserves to Be Heard — Except by Hillary Clinton
Post Date: 2016-05-11 19:03:25 by cranky
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In a campaign built on lies, it should not be a surprise that the central theme of Hillary’s campaign is the biggest lie of all. Someday, it will be the subject for a graduate thesis whether reporters who were in diapers when Bill Clinton was president simply don’t know the truth or, in their zeal to see Hillary elected, are obscuring the truth. The media portray Bill Clinton as a lovable scamp, a good ol’ Southern boy who just liked to have sex in the back of his pickup. In fact, according to numerous independent accounts, he was a sexual abuser and, the overwhelming evidence shows, a violent rapist. While we would normally extend our sympathy to his wife, Hillary has ...
Governments That Live in Glass Houses
Post Date: 2016-05-10 09:24:09 by Deckard
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The United States body count for drug overdoses in 2014 was 47,000 people. Gosh, folks, that’s almost as high as the KIA from the Vietnam War and that took about ten years to rack up! Gee, now do ya think we really live in “the greatest nation on Earth” when so many people are seeking to escape it using drugs that result in the ultimate check-out time? Have a peek at this article. The safe-injection site argument has been going on for over two decades now that I am personally aware of. Let’s say that the debate has been going on twenty years and use the death toll in 2014 as our control group. Thus, we can hypothesize that around 940,000 people have ...
Socialism is the creed of ignorance
Post Date: 2016-05-09 19:37:37 by tpaine
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Socialism is the creed of ignorance by DON WEST “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” – Winston Churchill The platform of some of those campaigning for the office of President of the United States leans heavily on the belief that America would be better off economically under socialism than we are under capitalism. “The trouble with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money” has been attributed to Margaret Thatcher. Lenin stated that the goal of socialism is communism and Karl Marx quipped that democracy is the road to socialism. One would ...
NATE SILVER: 'We basically got the Republican race wrong'
Post Date: 2016-05-05 22:32:43 by cranky
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Donald TrumpIn September 2015, writer and statistician Nate Silver urged people to "calm down" about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the Republican presidential nomination. Two months later, he wrote that the media should "stop freaking out about Donald Trump's polls" and that Trump's odds were "higher than 0 but (considerably) less than 20 percent." Six months after that, after Ted Cruz had dropped out of the race but before John Kasich had done so, Silver wrote: "Donald Trump is going to win the Republican nomination." "Other than being early skeptics of Jeb Bush, we basically got the Republican race wrong," Silver wrote. ...
The Future Of America? – More Than Half Of All U.S. Adults Under Age 30 Now Reject Capitalism [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-04-28 21:27:43 by U don't know me
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The Future Of America? – More Than Half Of All U.S. Adults Under Age 30 Now Reject Capitalism By Michael Snyder, on April 27th, 2016 Young People Abstract - Public DomainA shocking new survey has found that support for capitalism is dying in America. In fact, more than half of all adults in the United States under the age of 30 say that they do not support capitalism at this point. You might be tempted to dismiss them as “foolish young people”, but the truth is that they are the future of America. As older generations die off, they will eventually become the leaders of this country. And of course our nation has not resembled anything close to a capitalist society for quite ...
Anti-White Racism: The Hate That Dares Not Speak Its Name
Post Date: 2016-04-26 18:50:53 by cranky
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It is a strange election cycle when Republicans go to war with each other with a ferocity rarely manifest when they are confronting Democrats and their progressive agendas. It is especially puzzling because a general consensus has formed on the right that the Democratic Party is moving so far left that its agendas threaten the very foundations of America’s social contract. These include a frontal assault on the system of individual rights that the Founders set in place. The left envisions a fundamentally transformed America where individual rights are secondary to the collective rights of races, ethnicities, genders and classes. That is why the particular circumstances of individual ...
Charles Koch: 'Possible' That Clinton Would Be Better President Than GOP Rivals
Post Date: 2016-04-24 16:32:21 by Hondo68
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Charles Koch not ruling out Hillary Clinton 3:19 Conservative billionaire Charles Koch said in an interview that aired Sunday that Hillary Clinton could possibly be preferable to a Republican for president. The influential donor, who, along with his brother David and their larger network, has been consistently criticized by the left for large contributions to conservative political campaigns, was asked on ABC if he thought that Bill Clinton was a better president than George W. Bush. Koch responded that he preferred Bill Clinton in certain respects. "In some ways," Koch told the network. "In other ways, I mean he wasn't an exemplar. But as far as the growth of ...
Curt Schilling: ‘Men’s Room Was Designed for the Penis, Women’s Not So Much’
Post Date: 2016-04-20 18:53:19 by cranky
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ESPN commentator Curt Schilling has once again stirred controversy with his comments, this time by posting an anti-transgender meme to his Facebook page criticizing policies that allow men who claim to be women to use a woman’s bathroom. On his Facebook page, the former Major League Baseball pitcher posted an image of an overweight man dressed as a woman with a harsh caption. “Let him in!” the caption says, “to the restroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow minded, judgmental, unloving, racist bigot who needs to die!!!” Schilling added a message of his own to the post in an effort to clarify what he meant by posting the image. Schilling wrote, “A ...
Scientific Regress
Post Date: 2016-04-18 09:08:19 by cranky
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The problem with science is that so much of it simply isn’t. Last summer, the Open Science Collaboration announced that it had tried to replicate one hundred published psychology experiments sampled from three of the most prestigious journals in the field. Scientific claims rest on the idea that experiments repeated under nearly identical conditions ought to yield approximately the same results, but until very recently, very few had bothered to check in a systematic way whether this was actually the case. The OSC was the biggest attempt yet to check a field’s results, and the most shocking. In many cases, they had used original experimental materials, and sometimes even ...
Fleecing the American Taxpayer: The Profit Incentives Driving the Police State
Post Date: 2016-04-12 07:38:07 by Deckard
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“The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.” ― Ron Paul If there is an absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off. This is true whether you’re talking about taxpayers being forced to fund high-priced weaponry that will be used against us, endless wars that do little for our safety or our freedoms, or bloated government agencies such as the National Security Agency with its secret budgets, covert agendas, and clandestine activities. Rubbing salt in the wound, even monetary awards in lawsuits against government ...
All-Out Assault on All Life on Earth
Post Date: 2016-04-10 16:37:51 by U don't know me
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All-Out Assault on All Life on Earth-Dane Wigington By Greg Hunter On April 10, 2016 In Political Analysis Dane Wigington, founder of the global climate engineering informational website, GeoengineeringWatch.org, says climate manipulation, commonly referred to as chemtrails, is the number one factor in destroying the planet and much of humanity. Wigington contends, “We have now enough data to prove that the greatest destructive factor, by far, on the ozone layer is geoengineering (chemtrails). It’s disrupting the hydrological cycle and disrupting the planet. We have governmental agencies that are set up to hide this fact from the population or to mask it. . . . We are seeing UVB ...
I hope the establishment do not turn a peaceful revolution into a bloody one.
Post Date: 2016-04-09 23:03:46 by A K A Stone
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I hope the establishment do not turn a peaceful revolution into a bloody one.
Krauthammer: GOP split 'guaranteed' if Trump loses nomination
Post Date: 2016-04-08 16:47:12 by A K A Stone
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Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer predicted that the Republican Party would most certainly collapse if Donald Trump is denied a presidential nomination at the convention in July. In his latest column for the Washington Post, Krauthammer said if Trump does not lock up the nomination before the convention — he has the most delegates but needs a majority — it is possible the party will coalesce around an alternative and the billionaire's supporters will walk away, leaving the party in shambles. "And if Trump loses out, a split is guaranteed," wrote Krauthammer. "In Trump's mind, he is a winner. Always. If he loses, it can only be because he was ...
Is A One Million Dollar Nonprofit CEO Salary As Bad As It Sounds?
Post Date: 2016-04-05 12:54:37 by U don't know me
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Is A One Million Dollar Nonprofit CEO Salary As Bad As It Sounds? Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network ... American Cancer Society CEO John Seffrin Your hard-earned money may be going toward a CEO’s multi-million dollar pay package. If you donate to the American Cancer Society, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, or one of at least 18 others that the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported as having CEOs making one million dollars or more, then that’s exactly what you’re doing. It’s easy to argue that this is outrageous, but is it really? As you might imagine, there are two very different perspectives on ...
Coming Out of the Drug War Haze?
Post Date: 2016-04-04 16:00:43 by Deckard
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President Obama's recent speech on the opioid overdose epidemic offers a ray of hope that the country's approach to drugs might one day adopt what has been called the first rule of American business: When all else fails, try doing it right.Noting with considerable understatement that "treatment is underfunded," the president proposed $1.1 billion for expanded opioid-addiction treatment. This is a good step in the right direction. But it is still $50 billion less than the U.S. will spend this year alone on its current, fatally flawed policy of the war on drugs, and only one-third of what the federal government allocates to lock up drug criminals— whose incarceration ...
It Is Clear That “Free Trade” Only Benefits the Plutocrats
Post Date: 2016-04-01 08:15:08 by A K A Stone
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The United States used to be a nation whose population, through hard work and sound policy, grew wealthier over time. Now, we are a nation whose middle class has nearly disappeared, whose workers’ wages have stagnated, and whose plutocrats become greedier and wealthier with each passing year. A quick look at the facts reveals why this has happened and continues to happen. America has become a less productive nation over time. Unfortunately, only the rich are enjoying any increase in wealth. The rest of us, though we work harder than Americans did in the past, enjoy no more wealth than the previous generation of workers did decades ago. CEOs make hundreds of times what their workers ...
Supreme Court Issues for the Next President
Post Date: 2016-03-29 10:27:25 by Vicomte13
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This is it folks: the big enchilada. For 46 years, since 1969, the Republican Party had controlled the Supreme Court. With Justice Scalia's death, today nobody controls the Supreme Court. There are 4 Democrats and 4 Republicans. 2 of the Democrats (Ginsburg and Breayer) and one of the Republicans (Kennedy) are old (80+). Thomas is getting up there (about 70). With a 4-4 time, the Supreme Court is currently near deadlock. Justice Kennedy sometimes votes with the liberal wing on some issues, so there is a slight liberal advantage in the current court, but not much on most issues. What this means is that, if the Supreme Court hears a case and splits on party line, there will be no ...
Don't widen the plate
Post Date: 2016-03-27 11:54:31 by sneakypete
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I don't often repeat verbatim an internet story, or any of the countless viral emails that we all get in our inboxes. But every once in awhile, there appears one that penetrates my heart and soul, and is so insightful, that I feel it is to your benefit to share it. The post today is just such a jewel. If you have read it before, then pass it on and share it with someone who needs to be inspired. Enjoy! Belle Ringer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In Nashville, Tennessee, during the first week of January, 1996, more than 4,000 baseball coaches descended upon the Opryland Hotel for the 52nd annual American Baseball Coaches Association ...
Dirty tricks? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-03-26 23:31:18 by Justified
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I have been thinking about the wife bashing and cheating accusations. This has all the ear marks of the gop elites trying to bring down both the leaders at the same time. I was wondering if anyone else had the same thoughts?
The Nuclear Option — Trump Proves He Has Wisdom and Temperament to Lead Free World, Terrifies Naysayers
Post Date: 2016-03-25 13:34:50 by cranky
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The race is over. Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. History will record the moment the tough-talking media and marketing genius sealed the deal as the evening of Monday and the dawn of Tuesday during this Holy Week. Over a short, intense few hours of momentous world events, Donald Trump revealed that not only does he understand the grave threats that free and civilized people face, but also that he has the wisdom and temperament to be leader of the free world. Mr. Trump’s address to American Israel Public Affairs Committee Monday night was thoughtful and considered. It was not one of his rambling ad-lib campaign speeches, which are enormously entertaining ...
Enough With The Teddy Bears And Tears: It’s Time To Take Our Civilization Back
Post Date: 2016-03-24 07:45:41 by cranky
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Teddy bears, tears, candles, cartoons, murals, mosaics, flowers, flags, projections, hashtags, balloons, wreaths, lights, vigils, scarves, and more. These are the best solutions the Western world seems to come up with every few months when we are slammed by another Islamist terrorist attack. We are our own sickness. Since the world learned of the dozens dead, hundreds injured, and hundreds of thousands affected by Monday’s attack on the NATO and European Union capital, we have seen an outpouring of what is commonly known as “solidarity”. This word – most commonly associated with hard-left politics, trades union activism, socialism, and poseur indie rock bands – has ...
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