1619 vs. 1776, and other links

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• 1619 vs. 1776 -- “Slavery has been mankind’s standard fare throughout his entire history. Even the word, ‘slave,’ in most languages is ‘slav.’ That is because the Slavic people were among the first to be enslaved. And Africans were among the last to be enslaved. And the great thing about the Western world is that we spent many resources on eliminating slavery.”
• A Racial Slur Was Written On A High School Wall. Security Footage Shows Two Black Students Wrote It. -- “ABC 10 noted other incidents of alleged racism on campus, in one instance failing to report that it had also been a hoax. ”
• Canadian pastor who was jailed for 51 days after speaking to trucker convoy alleges mistreatment in prison -- “Pawlowski has become a prominent figure since first making international headlines during an Easter service in April 2021, when he threw armed police out of his sanctuary as they attempted to inspect it for COVID-19 compliance.”
• Couple Sues Fertility Clinic After Aborting 6-month-old Unborn Baby They Say Wasn’t Genetically Theirs -- “A healthy, normally developing unborn baby was sentenced to death due to a lab mix-up.”
• DeSantis Signs Bill Allocating $70 Million to Support Involved Fatherhood in Florida -- “DCF will create a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of fatherhood and will support nonprofit organizations to help fathers remain engaged and connected with their children.”
• How to spot ‘spear phishing’, an insidious cybercrime trend -- “Knowing that a cybersecurity expert got played, an average person has to be hypervigilant.”
• Joe Rogan Reveals Woke Agenda That School Pushed Onto His 9-Year-Old Daughter -- “Rogan made the remarks during a portion of an episode during which he and a guest were speaking about how difficult it would be to create a raunchy comedy movie in today’s politically correct environment.”
• Lockdown States Pursued a Failed Policy, Study Finds -- “States that avoided draconian lockdowns and practiced common sense fared well. States with breast-beating moralizers as governors were on the bottom of the heap even though the media celebrated their lockdowns at the time.”
• Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, organized ca. 1813, Hancock County, Georgia -- “First organized as a Presbyterian Church in 1813, this building eventually, from 1903, served a Methodist congregation until its doors closed in 1958.”
• Professor Suspended After Refusing to Grade Students Based on Race Gets a Big Win from the Judge -- “The email was asking for black students to receive special treatment, which is clearly a violation of the law...race-based preferences in public education are prohibited by the California state constitution.”
• Professor Who Questioned Student’s Request Reinstated -- “We’re happy to confirm that Gordon Klein is teaching once again, and hope that in the future UCLA will consider its constitutional obligations before throwing educators out of the classroom.”
• Progressives are wrong about Clarence Thomas. And they have been for decades. -- “Some on the left hate the idea of a Black conservative. Don’t believe me? Look at how progressives go out of their way to besmirch character, isolate and belittle prominent Black conservatives in America.”
• Scissortail Signals -- “Flamboyant scissor-tailed flycatchers signal spring’s arrival and our environs’ health.”
• Stephen Meyer: Totalitarian Dystopias and the God Hypothesis -- “Focused on the virus to the exclusion of all else, political and other leaders listened to the medical ‘experts.’ But few leaders or experts considered what the broader consequences, for what Klavan terms ‘the needs of our humanity,’ might be.”
• The Daily Wire, For The First Time, Reveals The Size Of Its Paid Subscriber Base -- “Conservatives have become very good at profiting off of failure. But with a for-profit company, you only win by winning.”
• Theological Activism & The “Perfect” Bible -- “I can’t think of a better way to describe it when somebody makes such a severe categorical error as calling somebody who does not read the KJV a ‘KJV Onlyist.’”
• William Barr Eviscerates 51 Intel Officials Who Signed Letter Calling Hunter Biden Laptop Story ‘Disinformation’ -- “Less than 24 hours they could have had a good idea whether it was authentic or not. How long did it take them?...A year and a half.”