Category: links

According to the experts, any day now a civil war will break out in California.

Click on over to Townhall to consider the mother of all attribution errors! Then come back here for context:

• Politifact: Fact-checking the link between climate change and ISIS
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought
• National Geographic: Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian War, Study Says
• National Observer: This is what a climate refugee looks like
• Washington Post Wonkblog: Drought helped cause Syria’s war. Will climate change bring more like it?
• National Geographic: Wars, Murders to Rise Due to Global Warming?
• National Geographic: Global Warming Making People More Aggressive?
• BBC: Sunnis and Shia: Islam’s ancient schism
• Vanity Fair: Documenting Evil – Inside Assad’s Hospitals of Horror
• Huffington Post: Assad’s War Crimes
• Common Sense: Scientists for Censorship

This weekend at Townhall, a strange matter of diversity and . . . missing the story. It makes you wonder, how often does major media (the infamous Mainstream Media) “bury the lede”?

Click  on over, then come back here for context.

• Washington Post: Black teachers flee schools, leading to concerns about diversity
• Common Sense: Another Leaf Out of Gov’t’s Playbook
• Common Sense: Money (for Us) Good, Profit (for Them) Bad
• Common Sense: Nixing Success
• Common Sense: A More Civilizing Education

Ah, the establishment fights back. But citizens aren’t giving up. At least, not in the Show-Me State. Click on over to Townhall.com. Then come back here for more reading:

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Activist must register as lobbyist”
• MoFirst: A Message from Ron Calzone
• Ron Calzone: Motion to Dismiss Complaint
• Missouri Ethics Commission: Proposed Joint Stipulation
• Missouri Ethics Commission: Lobbyist FAQ
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Diehl’s hiring by law firm creates conflict of interest,” letter by Ron Calzone
• Missourian (Columbia): Petition calls for legislator to resign as House Speaker-in-Waiting
• Politico: Sexting Missouri House speaker resigns
• Missouri Leadership Project
• Center for Competitive Politics
• Freedom Center of Missouri
• Citizens in Charge

Over at Townhall, I expand on Friday’s analysis of Bernie Sanders. Click on over, then back here for the linked reading:

• “A Fresh Dark Horse,” Common Sense by Paul Jacob
• “Are Democrats Socialists?” Common Sense by Paul Jacob
• Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You, by Greg Gutfeld
• Socialist Fallacies, by Yves Guyot

Ah, when insiders let their hair down! The biases become apparent. Click on over to Townhall.com, for this weekend’s Common Sense barbering. Then come back here for more reading:

• The article in question
• The original Common Sense treatment
• The event on video
• The studies
• What the New York Times admitted

The final leg of the persecution/prosecution of Dr. Annette Bosworth is coming up quickly. The state medical advisory board has spoken.

And it is of a piece with the rest of the prosecution: the state insiders are arrayed against her.

Click on over to Townhall, then come back here for more background.

• “SDBMOE Hearing Examiners Findings”: Aug. 20, 2015
• South Dakota State Medical Board Punishing Dr. Annette Bosworth for Having Opinion on Licensure Policy,” CNN iReport
• “That Evil Annette Bosworth,” Right Side Blog
• “Indiana Dem official sentenced to prison for ’08 ballot fraud in Obama-Clinton Primary,” Fox News
• “Report on the Prosecution of Dr. Annette Bosworth,” Citizens in Charge Foundation
• “An Egyptian Crackdown in South Dakota,” Paul Jacob, Townhall.com: January 11, 2015
• “Minor Infraction, Felony Prosecution,” Paul Jacob, Townhall.com: May 10, 2015
• “No Part Justice,” Paul Jacob, Townhall.com: June 2, 2015
• “Bosworth Sentenced,” Paul Jacob, Common Sense: July 8, 2015
• “First, Do No Harm,” Paul Jacob, Townhall.com: July 31, 2015