Regular readers of this blog will know that I encourage young people to do STEM degrees or high-paying trades in order to avoid running up student loans. Many Americans don’t listen to me – they follow their hearts. They do useless degrees in English, Psychology, Music, etc. and then they can’t find work. But that doesn’t stop them from stealing the money of people who made better decisions.

Far-left Business Insider reports:

Joel Lambdin finished graduate school in 1998 — but as a professional musician, he was hardly making enough money to pay off his student loans and other bills.

So Lambdin, now 49, said his only option to make ends meet was to put his student loans in forbearance — in which he was not making payments but interest was still accumulating.

Then Joe Biden used taxpayer money – much of that from children who haven’t even started to work – to pay off this violinist’s loans:

That account adjustment led to a letter Lambdin received on January 31, reviewed by BI, from his student-loan servicer Aidvantage. It said: “Congratulations! The Biden-Harris Administration has forgiven your federal student loan(s) listed below with Aidvantage in full.”

For Lambdin, that letter meant his $249,255 outstanding student-loan balance was effectively wiped out.

[…]Beyond financial goals, Lambdin said the relief was also allowing him the freedom to pursue some of his long-term dreams, including taking a sabbatical to study with his meditation teacher in India.

Yes! This man who made so many wonderful decisions can now decide to stop working and go study meditation in India. And your children get to pay him to do that.

Do you ever get into debates about global warming? I do. And when I do, I find it useful to have all the studies I need available to counter the slogans of the secular left true believers. In this post, we will take a look at a recent study from 2024 published by the Fraser Institute in Canada. They’re using data from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Here is the link, from True North, my favorite source for Canadian news. (Bookmark them!)

Excerpt:

A Fraser Institute study found that although global temperatures have increased “moderately” since 1950, there is no evidence to suggest that extreme weather events are on the rise despite the assertions of climate activists and Canada’s government.

The study analyzed data found in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) and found that in many cases the frequency and severity of extreme weather events decreased or stayed the same rather than escalating.

The author of the study, Kenneth Green, a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute spoke to True North about his findings.

Green has a doctoral degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from UCLA, and has been studying environmental policy since before receiving his doctorate in 1984.

“When you dig into the actual underlying data on what’s happening, rather than the claims of politicians, you find that extreme weather events are pretty uncertain as to whether we’re seeing extreme weather changing or will see extreme weather changing,” said Green.

Put this link away for the next time that you get into a debate on global warming! I think you’ll have fun with it.

By the way, if you know any young Christians, remind them of the need to do well in their studies. It sure is nice to find someone who doesn’t swallow global warming propaganda, but who has a doctoral degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from UCLA. Make sure your kids or the kids at church aim high, because we can all use this kind of data.

I know that several left-wing countries have recently passed or are about to pass legislation that restricts free speech. Scotland, Ireland and Canada come to mind. All of those countries are led by secular-left fascists, so it’s not surprising. However, did you know that the secular left fascist who is leading Australia also wants to ban speech critical of his regime? Let’s take a look.

Consider this story from the radical left extremist UK Guardian, about a recent stabbing that occurred in a church in Australia:

Facebook’s parent company Meta and X/Twitter have been told to remove violent and distressing videos and imagery of the stabbing of a prominent Orthodox Christian leader in Sydney’s west on Monday evening.

The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, told reporters on Tuesday that X and Meta had been issued with notices to remove material within 24 hours that depicted “gratuitous or offensive violence with a high degree of impact or detail”, with the companies facing potential fines if they fail to comply.

The notices relate to the alleged stabbing of Emmanuel at a service at the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakeley just after 7pm on Monday. The service was being livestreamed and a recording of it has circulated online.

In Australia, the e-Safety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant is known as “eKaren”. According to her biographies online, eKaren has no earned degrees in STEM and no private sector work experience in STEM. She has nevertheless been thrust into a position of authority, leading the government’s online censorship efforts.

Now, you might be asking “I wonder what made eKaren choose this particular act of violence to be censored”. And the answer is obvious. The victim is a Christian, and the aggressor was, of course, a Muslim – a fact which the UK Guardian declined to mention for obvious reasons. The secular left does not want voters to see Christians as victims. And the secular left does not want voters to see unskilled Muslims immigrants as violent. That’s why eKaren was deployed to ban the video so that voters could not see it.

Far-left Reuters (also known as Al-Reuters) reports:

Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism, as the country reeled from a second stabbing incident in three days.

At least four people were wounded in the attack, including Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel of the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church, when a man lunged at him with a knife during a service live-streamed on Monday.

The Premier of Australia is an extreme secular leftist. He had nothing specific to say to condemn the attacker, or defend Christians. Why would he? Like most secular leftists, he is in favor of opening the border to criminals – to get more votes from people who want higher taxes and bigger government.

In response to these attempts at censorship, Australians began posting memes mocking the secular left Prime Minister, his airhead chief censor eKaren, and his entire fascist regime. If you’ve read about other secular left dictators in history, you can guess what happened next.

Reclaim the Net reports:

Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese has endorsed social media censorship of satirical memes about him.

Albanese insinuated that social media platforms are duty-bound to suppress the so-called “misinformation” present on their sites.

[…]X has initiated a legal challenge against the Australian government following an unprecedented court order mandating global content censorship. This move comes after the Australian Federal Court ordered X to block worldwide access to posts showing a violent stabbing in a Sydney church, despite X already geo-blocking the content within Australia.

Musk has openly criticized the Australian government, accusing it of attempting to impose censorship on a global scale. He argues that such court orders set a dangerous precedent, allowing any country to exert control over the entire internet. This approach threatens the foundational principles of free speech and the open internet, undermining users’ rights to access information from around the world.

Here is an example meme:

A lot of people who vote for the secular left believe that their votes won’t harm basic human rights, like free speech. But they are mistaken. Secular leftists are champions of making big promises, failing to deliver on them, and then censoring any criticisms of their failure. Communist regimes killed over 100 million people in the 21st century alone. We need to be careful about not electing uneducated, inexperienced, incompetent people to government.