Voter preference for Trump linked to bullying in middle schools — ScienceDaily

 

The study — conducted by Francis Huang, an associate professor of statistics, measurement, and evaluation in education at the University of Missouri, and Dewey Cornell, a professor of education at the University of Virginia — used school climate survey data collected in 2013, 2015, and 2017. Researchers used a standard definition of bullying to ask students if they personally had been bullied at school, but also asked more general questions about bullying and teasing they had observed happening to others in their school.

Survey results were then mapped onto presidential election results for each school district’s locality. The study controlled for several locality-wide variables, including prior bullying and teasing rates, socioeconomic status, population density, and the percentage of white student enrollment.

Huang and Cornell found that a 10 percentage point increase in voters supporting the Republican candidate in 2016 was associated with a 5 percent jump in middle school teasing because of race or ethnicity and an 8-percent increase in middle school bullying.

Voter preference for Trump linked to bullying in middle schools — ScienceDaily

 

“Survey results were then mapped onto presidential election results for each school district’s locality.” –  BUT, you can’t make any kind of “presidential election results” comparisons because there was no survey in any prior presidential elections!  You have no idea how things played out after the 2012 or 2008 or 2004 elections, so you can’t say that it was the election of a Republican that had anything to do with the reports of bullying.  For all you know, there were higher incidents of bullying after other elections, also.  I cry foul.

You claim there’s a jump in bullying, BUT you don’t actually say who’s being bullied OR who’s doing the bullying.  (It could even be teachers.)  My guess, if social media is any indication, that it’s the children who are inclined to be more Republican-centered than Democrat-centered who are actually being bullied here.  I suspect it’s your “Voter preference for Trump” kids who are BEING bullied, not doing the bullying, as you imply.  Again, I cry foul on this “study.”  [Like this story, for example: Bullying Jerks Drive Kid To Breaking Point Because His Name is Trump]

Last but not least, middle school kids can’t vote!   So it’s really a stretch to try to link “voter preference” to middle-schoolers.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders & Red Hen: What the Talmud Can Tell Us | National Review

Good article by Ben Shapiro.  ~Vanessa

The Talmud provides a useful parable.

Source: Sarah Huckabee Sanders & Red Hen: What the Talmud Can Tell Us | National Review

The FBI’s fractured fairytale | TheHill

Please click the link below and read the whole thing!

The FBI’s fractured fairytale

By Sharyl Attkisson, opinion contributor — 06/10/18 03:10 PM EDT

Once upon a time, the FBI said some thugs planned to rob a bank in town. Thugs are always looking to rob banks. They try all the time. But at this particular time, the FBI was hyper-focused on potential bank robberies in this particular town.

The best way to prevent the robbery — which is the goal, after all — would be for the FBI to alert all the banks in town. “Be on high alert for suspicious activity,” the FBI could tell the banks. “Report anything suspicious to us. We don’t want you to get robbed.”

Instead, in this fractured fairytale, the FBI followed an oddly less effective, more time-consuming, costlier approach.

[…]

The moral of the story: It’s a weird way to prevent a bank robbery.

On the other hand, if the FBI’s real goal — in this fractured fairytale — was to frame the hated owner of the bank and his employees, it all makes sense.

The FBI’s fractured fairytale | TheHill

Women’s March towards Islam? – Cheri Berens

You really need to read this.  I mean, you REALLY need to read this.

Public Service

A very good read.

David Harsanyi: Sorry, Liberals, ‘Public Service’ Is Not A Sacrifice – Liberal Logic 101

John F. Kennedy’s silly “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” has been religiously repeated by politicians my entire life, including at the recent Democratic National Convention. But Americans are free to demand all kinds of things of their country — that it uphold the law or put up a new stop sign, for instance — without any obligation to do public service or volunteer to help save the sage grouse. They certainly have no duty to ask politicians, “Hey, what can I do for you?”

Glorifying the public sector — a practice found nowhere in the Founding documents — has transformed mere work into the great sacrifice of “public service.”