Sunday Reads...
- Greg McNeilly
- Mar 29
- 5 min read
An irregular roundup of thought-provoking reads. Most made me go “hmm…”
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.”
— Justice Anthony Kennedy in International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee (1992)
Work is indeed essential - work harder, work more!
There is literally two diets in America - half of U.S. media chooses to ignore certain tragedies.
WSJ: A high-level overview of quantum computing.
Visualizing crude oil production by source:
Thoughts on why websites are getting worse.
Ideas have consequences: A study in contrasts of two states taking different approaches in reading with two predictable and demonstrable outcomes, here.
Yes please! Self-cleaning fabric under development.
Yellowstone: Dutton Ranch spin-off underway.
The debate continues: Lark versus Owl.
Hey batter, batter! Check out the MLB park new food line up!
Outstanding! Statute of Columbus erected.
Tracking Trump’s approval rating by state.
Aside from being an alleged serial rapist, Cesar Chavez had other crimes.
Tall ships returning for America’s 250th!
Bravo: Delta Airlines suspended special Congressional flying privileges until Democrats fix the TSA budget.
Is Catholicism on the rise in America? Look here. And even the NYT can’t avoid the conclusion.
Oy! “Flying viper” species newly discovered in a cave.
Evaluating 1,700 companies to launch a career.
Ranking the best US cities for young professionals.
Smart: Banning non-US routers. At a minimum educating people on the risks of non-domestically sourced infrastructure is key.
Hubris: The lack of humility harms the “climate change” narrative - well that and a lack of falseafiable theories.
Taxes: Newsom’s billionaire tax is crushing a state already in decline.
Voter ID: Simply the smart way.
Transexual women are barred from the global Olympics per new rules.
Straight-talk on Israel and anti-semitism from Dr. Phil and Bibi.
A reflection: The Age of America.
Warning: Gambling is an increasing danger to American culture.
STUDIES:
New research suggests a slight nudge from genetics that drives a person’s political engagement.
The coronation of team touching and winning gets noticed.
Yet another study notes that supporting higher minimum wages only hastens the AI-automation of jobs.
Research suggests that Mendicant Orders impacted how community relationships developed in the West.
Study notes religion per se does not impact your view of death, but your view of religion itself is the driving factor.
More evidence that “pre school” investments are short lived or have little lasting returns.
Sleep, not surprisingly, coorolates to student outcomes.
Changing a neighborhood by increasing its status, impacts the generation being raised there, but not the original population.
Yes! An entire town goes phone-free for its children.
Another k12 government school teacher caught abusing children. Remember 10% (up to 17%, per newer studies) of students in government schools are sexually assaulted by staff per DOE research.
Movie script: UFO scientists go missing. The conspiracy script literally writes itself.
Spain is now killing depressed 25 years olds. They are existing Western Civilization.
American Dream! Rich but not famous - the way to roll!
Sad. English-speaking countries have a sadness issue. Bad ideas have consequences. Ideas truly matter. Choose what you believe carefully.
GLP-1 positive side effect indications are reviewed.
CHINA & RUSSIA, IRAN & TERROR:
Islamic Cleric makes it clear who is better than non-believers.
And another cleric says the not-so-quiet part out loud (again).
And another notes they (Islamists) are here to wipe us out.
And this gem. When 1.5 billion people believe this, entire continents become an Epstein island.
Islamista target civilian ambulances - well, because they represent evil.
BTW, this is in an American city - and it is ok to condemn it, it’s evil: here.
Iranian terrorists are leveraging social media to recruit teenagers.
Barksdale bomber base came under drone attack on US soil.
But ignoring burning teenage girls alive, nothing to see here!
Even CNN cannot ignore how the child-bride abuse of 1.5 billion Islamic adherents.
Ukraine scores a power move against Russia.
America’s enemies are stirring up the “online” USA.
Ukraine has noticed America continues to try and work out a peace deal.
China has a new population suppression tool.
COURTS:
ECONOMY:
POLS BEHAVING BADLY:
Dems
AOC uses donor cash for her shrink.
Another victim of heartless Democrat immigration policies.
41 Senate Democrats voted against women and protected men playing in women’s sports.
“Bostonian of the Year” required to pay back stolen money.
Priorities matter.
Jack Smith’s “Arctic Frost” is outed for its abundant abuse of power.
Democrats double-down on being anti-Rule of Law.
A tattooed Nazi is leading the Democrat primary for U.S. Senate in Maine.
Trump delusional syndrome is so bad some Democrats are rooting for the failure of the U.S. against the evil Iran regime.
Retarded: California Democrats cancel debate because the candidate line-up is not diverse enough. Meanwhile, “strategists” are trying to recruit “hot” candidates to lead Dem races - because American politics isn’t shallow enough!
Democrat elected official gaslighting a murder victim killed by an illegal alien who broke into our nation during the Biden’s boarder failure.
McCormick has some explaining to do!
Reps
Election denier turned election fraudster, going to jail.
Kristi Noem has some explaining to do.
TRAVEL:
Tech Heck: NYT reflects on how we can pull out of technology hell.
Purpose: Men without purpose = bad outcomes, notes a new piece.
Remembering why there are 60-minutes in an hour.
PEW: What Americans find moral and immoral, here.
Remembering “Bloody Sunday,” here.
An excellent premier on the filibuster versus the Byrd-Rule (Byrd as in former KKK member and WV Democrat Senator Robert Byrd).
