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Climate watch: Gore’s ‘Truth’ Aged Badly
Al Gore’s alarmist documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” 20 years in the past triggered the “inculcation” in “millions of Americans” of the assumption that “climate change poses an existential crisis” to humanity, fumes Juan Davis Rojas at UnHerd. Yet his “alarmist claims” of “imminent apocalypse” had been all the time “wildly inaccurate.” Climate change is actual, however with no actual menace of a “terminal risk to humanity.” “Rational, commonsense measures” can “mitigate the negative consequences” of warming, together with the “expansion” of “wind, solar, geothermal, and nuclear power.” “Climate fundamentalists” might shrug at “progress,” the world’s made “great strides” in emission discount since 2006. “Anthropogenic climate change is quite real,” however Al Gore’s “fundamentalist successors” had best notice how their obstinacy has “contributed to their own discredit.”
Education beat: A Disastrous Discipline ‘Reform’
Claims in 2003 that “suspensions and expulsions” had been “disproportionately” focusing on college students with disabilities and boys from Black and Latino communities, successfully pushing them “into the justice system” (known as “the “school-to-prison pipeline”) modified “how schools discipline children”— with horrible outcomes, clarify Jennifer Weber & Carolyn D. Gorman at City Journal. Districts started “reducing suspensions and replacing them with mental health-oriented approaches like ‘restorative justice,’ social-emotional learning, and ‘trauma-informed’ practices” — of which solely encourages “acting out.” No! Effective discipline that’s tied to “behavior is the only approach that keeps a student in school engaged — and engagement is what keeps him out of the justice system.” The best method to keep youngsters out of jail “is a school that teaches rules, expectations, and how to belong.”
2028 watch: DSA’s Big Hurdle in Dem Primaries
The Democratic National Committee simply “set up a challenge for the DSA” with its schedule of the primary six 2028 primaries, notes Jim Geraghty at The Washington Post: South Carolina’s black voters had been key to Joe Biden heading off Bernie Sanders in 2020; Virginia isn’t “natural territory for a socialist upstart” and New Mexico “hasn’t been particularly fertile territory for the DSA.” For all far lefty Abdul El-Sayed’s hopes in Michigan this month, Biden additionally beat Sanders in that 2020 main. Nevada and New Hampshire look “more friendly” for socialist candidates; each went to Bernie in 2020, although that’s no guarantee for a “DSA-affiliated candidate” like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It’s not “impossible for a socialist candidate to win the 2028 Democratic nomination,” however the DNC “stacked the deck in favor of an establishment nominee.”
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Modern warfare: Drones — Adapt & Survive
At The Hill, Mark Toth & Jonathan Sweet reiterate Gen. David Petraeus’ argument “that Ukraine’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles represents ‘a whole new concept of warfare.’” The melding of “surveillance, targeting and strike capabilities into a unified platform,” plus “the advent of artificial intelligence,” appears to be like to additional revolutionize “how modern warfare is fought.” Petraeus can also be “worried about the US military’s capacity to defend against drones,” particularly autonomous “drone swarms.” Congress wants a sense of urgency to handle “AI-driven drone warfare and the need for more defensive assets to defend U.S. fixed positions against them.” The identical applies to “underwater and space-based drones.” Beware: “The nature of the war will soon get away from us if we don’t adapt quickly.”
LGBT: Denounce the Hierarchy of Oppression
An Islamist drove his vehicle into final weekend’s Berlin Pride parade, “killing a woman and injuring 29 others,” however activists are “looking for someone else to blame,” laments Seán Atkinson at Spiked. After the assault, “an Antifa flag lying soaked in blood” embodied the “irony”: The very people “who wave that flag,” have “spent years dismissing concerns about Islamism — and its violent homophobia.” They’ve even blamed “white conservatives” and “gender-critical feminists” for comparable assaults. Stop treating gays as “mascots . . . brought out for endorsement season”: “If a homophobic attack is motivated by Islamism, say so.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
