A return from a week's long absentia.

Apologies for the lack of PCT over the past week, but moving three states away, shitty cell phone service (i.e. no hot-spot availability), no internet, no furniture, starting a new job, and the holiday season now being upon us have complicated blogging...lol.  So...since most of the problems indicated above have been remedied, it is time to resume our regularly scheduled programming.&nb...

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Things that Matter: Vegan Dessert, a Starry Night Bike Path, and Moral Character makes you, you.

Things that matter today... Vegan Desserts? I am not a vegan, have never been a vegan, and don't ever plan on becoming one but this vegan dessert sounds absolutely delicious!! And easy to make I might add. This is an important aspect if like me, you can be cooking challenged at times, and is helpful considering the holidays are right around the corner. Source: One Green Planet. CALORIES  200  INGREDIENTS  3...

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Obama's Immigration Executive Order

Tonight the President let the cat out of the bag, or at least he let five million illegal immigrants out of it. Here are the generalities of what Mr. Obama is proposing...courtesy of the Hill. The president will also announce plans to shift enforcement efforts, ordering federal law enforcement officers to narrow their focus to those illegal immigrants with criminal records, gang affiliations or ties to terrorism.  [...]  The biggest change to the immigration system will be a new...

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Guns and Crime: Correlation does not equal Causation

Many of the social sciences provide useful insights to problems, trends, provide metrics and measurable data for humanity as a group (social) or on an individual basis. Over the decades, they have gotten more sophisticated and advanced in study methodology, data collection techniques, and interpretive approaches. However, and despite all of these advancements, they are still circumspect to some,...

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Politics and Critical Thinking now on Facebook

Politics and Critical Thinking is now moving more into the 21st Century. We have taken the liberty of creating a Facebook page where will not only share posts from the blog but also anecdotal pieces that catch our interests.  Just hit up the Facebook button on the top right of the blog page which will take you to our FB page, and then please like it.   In the near future please...

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Things that matter: Bilingual Brain Bodybuilders, Adolescent Adults, and US Ponce gets a laser induced make-over.

Things that matter today... Brain Bodybuilders Only speak one language? Maybe you should get out and purchase a copy of Rosetta Stone and learn another...it might make you a brain bodybuilder according to Live Science. Brain bodybuilders In previous studies of people's eye movements, Marian and her colleagues found that when bilingual people heard a word in one language, they often looked at objects whose names sounded similar to that word in their second language. In the new study,...

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Liberal Bullshit: Sorry I am allergic.

William Voegeli--senior editor for the Claremont Review of Books--has a rather humorous but accurate article at National Review Online aptly titled "Liberal Bulllshit," where he breaks down why Liberals are more interested in personal aggrandizing their efforts, rather than "making statements that correspond scrupulously to empirical or causal reality." A bullshit prescription, by the same...

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Things that matter: Satellite goes fishing and catches comet, Alaska goes red, and Cell Phones and brain tumors.

European Satellite went fishing and it caught something. In the annals of fishing today was a doozie, a small European Space Agency satellite/robot went fishing for a comet and guess what....it caught one!!! Very cool stuff!! Wait, we're landing on a comet? Yes! Which comet? It's called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; it was discovered in 1969 (and named, as you may have guessed, for its discoverers). And it's small. Its nucleus—the solid...

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Progressives Lost the Election and Their Ideas Caused It.

Throughout my years of political investigation I have come across puff pieces, produced by both Republicans and Democrats, that stretch, bend, and twist data in order to illustrate the positive impact of their policies on the lives of Americans. Unfortunately, honestly scrutinizing hard data and exploring the consequence of policies, positive or negative, seems to be a practice lost on political...

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Things that Matter: Jonathan Gruber, HR 10-Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act, and Russia

Things that might matter to you today... A video, brought to us via the Daily Signal, just surfaced of Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of Obamacare, and his comments about how the bill was written, passed, and why the American electorate might be, in his words, "stupid." Considering the sordid history of how this bill was crafted, presented, passed, and implemented these comments should be of very little surprise to anyone who is familiar with the nuances of the ACA (aka Obamacare). H.R....

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In 2014 the "War on Women" was a Fluke...a Sandra Fluke

Historically speaking, minority participation in mid-terms is usually low. This fact is usually troubling for Democratic operatives who now, like in mid-terms past, have opted to target the female demographic, in order to make-up the lost share of votes that are otherwise cast by racial minorities. So...if you are targeting women then it only seems reasonable that you would dig into...

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Republican Victory...Republican Governance

Ok...the GOP won BIG TIME in the 2014 mid-terms! Fifty-two seats on election night alone, Louisiana hangs in the balance until December, and Landrieu will lose, Alaska looks like a another lock for the GOP as votes are still being counted, and a small possibility in Virginia that a recount could unseat incumbent Democrat, Mark Warner. This makes their control of the Senate reach upwards of 55 seats. Then there is possibility of snagging up two wayward members of the political herd--Senator Angus...

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Freeman Dyson, possibly the best and wisest view on "anthropogenic global warming."

Who is Freeman Dyson? Glad you asked. Mr. Dyson--born in Britain in 1923--is a theoretical physicist and mathematician who is known for his work in "quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy, and nuclear engineering." Dyson, spending most of his career at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the same place where other notable physicists and researchers such as Oppenheimer...

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