Dem Party Platform Calls For Prosecuting Global Warming Skeptics

How the Democrats envision this working out:

​The appropriate response:

​Cathartic!

Democrats launch a toddler-ocracy: Column

All while the murder's accomplice wife escapes.

​More after the break.

California's state religion

We have written about this cancer in the California body politic before.

The Official Religion of California is about to round up Witches, er,  Heretics

More below the break.

Some Gay Voters Say It's 'Dangerous' to Come Out for Trump

It's not about The Donald, it's about leaving the plantation.

London's Muslim Mayor Hosts EU 'Remain' Rally With Hijab-Clad Women Forced To Stand At The Back

Of course! Dear Brit women, you might as well get fitted for your burka now.

2015 Updated NOAA Tide Gauge Data Shows No Coastal Sea Level Rise Acceleration

Oops! Well, if imminent means, over the next 20,000 years.

​More below!

Read this first:

Oberlin Is An Insane Asylum

Then read these to understand the level of insanity:

The New Activism of Campus Life

How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus

I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe

Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say

University has become a dangerous place for young people who do not have a solid grounding in reason, and common sense. It is increasingly a sewer where good people go to be destroyed.

Great care must be taken when helping a young person chose a university, a college, and a major. 

If you have one heading off next year, good luck, you will need it.

A reading list to combat the problem:

http://www.sjc.edu/files/6514/4553/9725/AN_Reading_List_Fall_2015_St._Johns_College.pdf
http://www.sjc.edu/files/4014/6230/7207/Annapolis_Reading_List_Spring_2016_St._Johns_College.pdf​

and Theocracy In 21st-century USA - Cafe Hayek

. . . but we all should, environmentalism, and progressivism are becoming a metastasizing evil religion, which can only end in something ugly, and deadly.

Read more below the fold!

LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2016

. . . with photos, and video!

Lilek's is brilliant. How Americans fell for this tripe back in the 1960s-1970s is unfathomable, but it happened.

Thanks to Ed Driscoll  Instapundit JAMES LILEKS ON HOW TO MURDER A CITY

Another city murdered by progressives.

​The shot:

The chaser:

The hangover:

The solution:

Get rid of progressive government, reform the economic model to allow businesses to thrive. 

Small Business Should Be Priority Number One

The Stockman, The Donald, The Noonan all in one place!

Student Loan Excesses Harm the Most Vulnerable

It looks more like the goal of these schemes is to impoverish the poor.

This article is written about student loans, and points out how these loans actually hurt the people the Boomer progressives are attempting to help.

"The real losers in the student loan merry-go-round are precisely kinds of students—marginal, little family experience in college, low income—that the Obama administration most wants to help. The Wall Street Journal:

'The conventional wisdom among student activists and and elected leaders is that high levels of student debt are causing young Americans to delay key milestones like buying a home, getting married and having kids.

New research paints a more complicated picture. It suggests student debt is indeed a barrier for a significant minority—college dropouts—but that it’s generally not holding back those who earned degrees […]'

College dropouts … typically owe small amounts of student debt—under $10,000—but don’t have the degrees that provide an earnings boost that would position them to buy a home."

But this problem is much deeper than just student loans. The prior post on the minimum wage is another area where the Boomer progressives have created policies disastrous to the poor, 

The list is endless, public transit, the minimum wage, higher education, and higher education loans, occupational licensing, unionization, and myriad other Boomer progressive government policies damage the poor, while benefiting the upper middle class the most, and while still offering some benefit to the middle class.

Most of the benefit comes from the upper middle class being able to navigate the rules, so upper middle class parents help their children navigate the college by ensuring they take a major which will result in a job as well as an education.

"Well-intentioned but harebrained social engineering is a menace to the poor. Instead of idealistic social schemes, policy elites should go back to the basics: expand vocational education and training programs, limit competition from illegal unskilled immigrants, reduce paperwork and regulatory restrictions that make it hard to start businesses in the cities where so many poor people live, and put an end to the war on low-wage jobs that is forcing employers to replace tellers, checkout clerks and other unskilled and semiskilled jobs with machines.

These are policies that would actually help, but they violate treasured liberal myths, so we earnestly saddle poor kids with debt they can’t afford for degrees they can’t get—after making them waste 12 years in lousy schools that we can’t seem to operate effectively."

Mead gets much wrong here. Yes, the idealistic social schemes are terrible, but his prescriptions for solving the problems won't work. It is not competition from illegal unskilled immigrants which are causing problems. And while reducing paperwork and making it easier to start businesses would be a benefit, it is not as important as eliminating occupational licensing, eliminating the minimum wage, eliminating all federal and state employer/employee regulations, implementing a federal right to work law, eliminating all Davis-Bacon and related work laws, among many others. These would have immediate, direct, and positive results on employment, and create the underlying pressures necessary to create jobs which would allow people to build job skills, and begin to rise up the wage ladder.