"In the midst of chaos, there is opportunity ." — Sun Tzu, Art of War Translation : one is unaware of the opportunities one has missed because people are so often fixated on protecting themselves from change. Today, an “opportunity” exists to overcome the Obama racism that blocks a better economy. Obama is Affirmative Action Man. As said earlier , Obama currently leads the civil rights turn away from “all are created equal” toward special status for blacks (women and other minorities). The alternative offered to Obama by Columbia’s John McWhorter was not doing away with affirmative action. It was instead making  affirmative action about class , not race. That’s where Martin Luther King, Jr. was heading at the time of his 1968 assassination. He understood his next civil rights challenge — fighting poverty — to be harder than previous campaigns for black equality and justice. He would help those at the economic bottom, white, black, brown. Obama, like Old South segregationis...

On Thursday, the CDC’s head Rachel Walensky announced Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing. If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic. The President backed up Walensky. The vaccine is widely available to anyone 12 or over who wants it; those unvaccinated remain so mostly by choice.  More evidence the pandemic in the U.S. has mostly run its course: The 7 day average of daily new cases, which reached 255,258 on January 11, is now running at 35,000, lower than any point since its initial climb last June. For deaths, the 7 day daily average — at 3,447 in late January — is down to the low 600s, where it was early last July. Both daily cases and deaths continue to drop. Flu deaths , which unlike Covid 19 hit all age groups, averaged around 230 a day during normal flu seasons.  For the great progress in reducin...

Here’s why the left’s secular religion — affirmative action plus climate change — is so important. As with the worst of traditional religion, the left’s dogmatic believers, mostly educated whites, seem beyond reason’s reach. Just take it from  one of their own, New York Times man David Brooks. Discussing his own recent conversion away from atheism, Brooks wrote: Secular religions are really good at identifying some evils, like oppression, and building a moral system against them. Divine religions are primarily oriented to an image of pure goodness, pure loving kindness, holiness. In periodic glimpses of radical goodness — in other people, in sensations of the transcendent — I felt, as Wendell Berry put it, “knowledge crawl over my skin.” The biblical stories from Genesis all the way through Luke and John became living presences in my life. These realizations transformed my spiritual life: awareness of God’s love, participation in grace, awareness that each person is made in God’s i...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755) Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Emile (1762) Here we talk about equity (affirmative action) and environmentalism (climate change). Are they part of a single, humanist-type religion? They did join in the...

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