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30th November 2021
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30th November 2021
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30th November 2021
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For a long time, I sympathized with Dr. Anthony Fauci. There he was, trying to deal with a pandemic caused by a virus no one knew much about. Sure, he was often wrong about pandemic-related matters, but so were plenty of others, on both sides of the political spectrum and in between, who opined on these subjects. Everyone was shooting in the dark.
But at some point — possibly because of all the attacks on him, some of which were over-the-top, possibly because of a personality flaw or maybe old age — Fauci decided to cast himself as Mr. Science. Criticize him, and you’re anti-science.
In fact, Fauci is a career bureaucrat, not a scientist in any strong sense. Indeed, a true scientist would never view himself as science’s representative and try to win arguments based on such a claim.
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29th November 2021
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29th November 2021
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Follow the money.
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28th November 2021
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27th November 2021

Racist Joe Biden Bans Travel From Africa Babylon Bee.
Texas bishop on Catholic HHS Sec. Becerra’s religious liberty changes: ‘Maybe we should send him a catechism’
Biden ‘Forgets’ To Close The Southern Border Against ‘Omicron’ Variant
The ‘Devil You Know’ Is Still A Devil
Mexican Authorities List Conditions To Reboot “Remain In Mexico” Program How about we put Army units on the border and machine-gun the invaders as they cross the border?
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27th November 2021
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Rather than use off-the-shelf models, San Francisco has engaged in a years-long process to design cans that’ll cost thousands of dollars apiece. And it’s not nearly done.
When all your money belongs to the government, there is no limit to the amount of spending you can achieve.
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27th November 2021
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I’ve been leaving CovidLand every weekend now for about eight weeks. It started with my vacation in western New York, then continued as I started the “restoration” of the dining room (i.e., removing the old wallpaper and painting) in the family’s western Pennsylvania home. Mom has set the deadline as Thanksgiving, when we expect about a dozen or more family to come to dinner. A far cry from the 30 or more that was a regular feature of my childhood, but a vast improvement over last year’s six.
Funny thing about that. We never asked if we should limit it to six last year. It was before any vaccine, and the family is aging to the point it just seemed prudent not to expose a lot of the older members of the extended family to the risk. Another funny thing. This year mom was shooting for 20, and we didn’t ask anyone about that either. You see, we don’t live in CovidLand.
Somewhere outside the DC Metro area, maybe by Frederick, certainly by Hagerstown where I often stop, I’ve left CovidLand behind. The masks, aside from those working for some sort of corporate affiliate like Dunkin’ Donuts or Wendy’s, are gone. There may be a sign on the door, but nobody is wearing them anymore. And it doesn’t seem to freak anyone out. It’s a wonderful feeling and just serves to highlight how much I hate life in CovidLand.
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25th November 2021
Biden’s HHS revokes certain faith-based exemptions, rolls back religious liberty enforcement
Kamala Harris Is on Her Way to Becoming the Next Dan Quayle (Daily Beast) Quayle was a better Senator than Harris could ever dream of being.
Wealthiest 1% get richer under Dems’ reckless tax-and-spend package Specifically, the 1% living in Blue States.
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25th November 2021
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25th November 2021
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While the supply chain crisis left American store shelves bare, Biden went to a UN climate conference to save the world. Saving the world is a whole lot easier than stocking shelves. Ask any teenager.
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25th November 2021
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At a time when President Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing to expand the breadth of entitlements to include free preschool and subsidized child care, little attention is given to the fact that the country’s biggest existing entitlement program—Social Security—is a financial wreck.
The program’s payouts have exceeded revenue since 2010, but the recent past is nowhere near as grim as the future. According to the latest annual report by Social Security’s trustees, the gap between promised benefits and future payroll tax revenue has reached a staggering $59.8 trillion. That gap is $6.8 trillion larger than it was just one year earlier. The biggest driver of that move wasn’t Covid-19, but rather a lowering of expected fertility over the coming decades.
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24th November 2021
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24th November 2021
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24th November 2021
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control, garnered much attention a couple of weeks ago when she declared, “Masks can help reduce your chance of #COVID19 infection by more than 80%.” That would be remarkable, if true. As one commentator noted, Dr. Walensky evidently believes that wearing masks is more effective than Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine and not vastly less effective than Pfizer’s or Moderna’s. If that’s really the case, is it wise to spend billions of dollars on a mass vaccination program and to threaten those who aren’t vaccinated with the loss of their livelihood? No one has brought forward a scintilla of evidence supporting Dr. Walensky’s statement. She apparently just pulled it out of the air, knowing that the “fact checkers” would nod and go back to scrutinizing satires posted by the Babylon Bee.
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24th November 2021
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California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law Assembly Bill 101, making California the first state to require ethnic studies for all high school students. Though cloaked in soothing language about freedom from bias and bigotry, the bill’s history, purpose, and implementing regulations give cause for concern.
The law, which will go into effect on January 1, requires all public high schools and charter schools to offer a one semester course in ethnic studies by the 2025-2026 school year and establishes it as a prerequisite to graduation in 2030.
Prior to statewide adoption, the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Oakland school boards voted to impose ethnic studies as a high school graduation requirement. Ethnic studies is also a graduation requisite at California community colleges, the California State University system, and some University of California campuses. In 2017, Oregon passed a law ordering that ethnic studies concepts be integrated into existing social studies courses for K-12 students. The California law differs by requiring a dedicated course.
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22nd November 2021
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22nd November 2021
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22nd November 2021
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For the first time in the study’s 50-year history, the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ 2020 Long-Term Trend Assessment revealed that U.S. 13-year-olds’ scores in both reading and math experienced statistically significant declines over the past eight years.
Despite record-high education spending, these declines are the latest evidence casting significant doubt on the Common Core’s learning standards and approach to student improvement.
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21st November 2021
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21st November 2021
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The more you read about our tax code, the more one point becomes absolutely clear: The American tax code was not written to generate revenue for our government. If you wanted to raise money to fund government activities, this is not at all how you would do it. In fact, our tax code is impossible to understand – it makes no sense. Well, it makes no sense unless you look at it as a means of controlling American citizens, businesses, and industry. Unless viewed through the lens of control, our tax code makes no sense whatsoever. Some conspiracy theorists go so far as to suggest that it’s not about taxes or revenue at all, it’s all about control.
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20th November 2021
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20th November 2021
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19th November 2021
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19th November 2021
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19th November 2021
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Maryland Democrats are under fire for a proposed redistricting plan that could oust the state’s lone Republican in Congress, a move one Democratic representative called “overreach.”
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19th November 2021
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On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that a lawsuit filed by a Texas woman whose home was destroyed by a SWAT team may move forward. This is a first step toward holding the city of McKinney accountable for destroying Vicki Baker’s home.
“The court recognized that the city of McKinney is not exempt from the Constitution,” said IJ Attorney Jeffrey Redfern. “This is the first step towards Vicki getting her due, but it’s a big one. The government must compensate individuals when it deliberately destroys their property.”
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In July 2020, police were pursuing a fugitive who decided to hide out in a home that was listed for sale in the Dallas suburb of McKinney. That home belonged to Vicki Baker. After a lengthy standoff, the SWAT team stormed the home, shattering windows, setting off tear-gas grenades, tearing down doors and destroying the fence. The home was in ruins and Vicki’s daughter’s dog was left deaf and blind from the explosions.
Vicki had renovated the house and it was under contract to be sold. The SWAT team left it uninhabitable; every window was destroyed, and she had to hire a hazmat team to dispose of what was left inside. All in all, it was over $50,000 worth of damage. Upon seeing the destruction that occurred, the potential buyer backed out, Vicki’s insurance company did not cover most of the expenses and the city offered no remedy to her.
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18th November 2021
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18th November 2021
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18th November 2021
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The fact the Navy can extend some of its submarine fleet’s life by several years is likely due in part to the time some of those boats have sat in docks awaiting maintenance.
Pretty sad.
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18th November 2021
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
It takes an epic level of chutzpah for a president to do his best to suppress production of oil and gas by blocking pipelines and putting federal lands off limits, and then complain when the prices of oil and gas rise. President Biden achieved the ultimate absurdity by blocking production of petroleum products in the U.S, and then begging Russia and Saudi Arabia to increase their production to bring prices down. This is a level of cosmic stupidity that we may not see again in our lifetimes.
There is more going on than sheer incompetence, however. The truth is that the Democrats want oil and gas to be more expensive. They have been admitting as much, in their more candid moments, for the last twenty years. This is a key part of their grand design to force the rest of us to depend on expensive, unreliable and environmentally damaging “green” energy.
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17th November 2021
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17th November 2021
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17th November 2021
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In keeping with the track record of complete and total inaction related to Tesla from U.S. safety regulators, the NTSB closed an investigation into a fatal August 2020 Tesla crash without taking any action.
Ya cain’t fix stupid.
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16th November 2021
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16th November 2021
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16th November 2021
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In theory.
What are they going to do when massive numbers of the Oklahoma National Guard don’t show up for drills? Nominally they could be prosecuted for desertion, but that never happens.
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15th November 2021
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President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee $1.2 trillion in infrastructure spending is a top adviser to a trade organization that seeks Chinese investment in American infrastructure.
Mitch Landrieu serves as strategic adviser to the United States China Heartland Association, which supports cultural and business exchange between China and 20 states in the American heartland. The association frequently partners with Chinese Communist Party front groups that operate abroad.
Landrieu’s position with the Heartland Association could raise eyebrows given the organization’s promotion of Chinese investment in domestic infrastructure projects. American officials have expressed concern that the Chinese government and state-linked companies use infrastructure investments in foreign countries to influence policy abroad. Heartland Association chairman Bob Holden, the former Democratic governor of Missouri, this year urged Chinese investment in U.S. infrastructure, saying it presents a “win-win” for both sides.
Landrieu is an old-time well-connected Louisiana Democrat politician, former Mayor of New Orleans and Lieutenant Governor of the state.
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15th November 2021
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14th November 2021
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14th November 2021
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For those who don’t know, Eric Clapton is merely the most celebrated guitarist in rock history, but did you know what the Covid injections did to him? Have you heard about the song he and Van Morrison recorded in 2020 protesting the lockdowns?
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13th November 2021
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13th November 2021
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13th November 2021
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We used to have lots of semiconductor fabs all over the country that could produce different kinds of chips, but these were gradually sold off or closed. It’s gotten so bad that the Pentagon relied on one production line for key chips, and that production line, owned by Abu Dhabi-controlled Global Foundries, just sold it off to a firm that will shut it down. The Pentagon is stockpiling extra chips, but in a war, these kinds of things get used very quicktly.
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12th November 2021
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11th November 2021
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10th November 2021
Kamala Harris Is Most Unpopular VP Ever (Even More Disliked Than Dick Cheney) And Dick Cheney, being Literally Hitler, was very unpopular … with the Narrative Media.
Oh my, Omarova
Inflation Surges to Highest Level in 30 Years
Biden’s ‘Unhinged Socialist’ Banking Nominee Wants Oil, Coal, & Gas Industries To ‘Go Bankrupt’
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10th November 2021
Pelosi slammed for attending lavish wedding maskless while California children are forced to mask up
Three shots and 1 booster later, this man has little protection against Covid-19 Fine vaccine ya got there, just fine.
Matthew McConaughey says he wants to ‘find out more information’ before mandating vaccines for his children
Surgeon general on Matthew McConaughey’s opposition to vaccine mandates for kids: ‘Covid is not harmless in our children’ (CNN)
The Parental Revolution Is Bigger Than Critical Race Theory (Politico)
Boston Anti-Mandates Rally Disrupted By ‘Anti-Fascism’ Protesters, Clashes Break Out I love the way they put that: ‘Claches break out’, as if the clashes were a disease that people just catch through no fault of their own.
French Health Authority Warns Men Under 30 To Avoid Moderna Jab
How Near Are COVID Vaccine Mandates for Children?
NFL Softer On Sex Abusers, Drunk Drivers Than Mask Protocol Violators
Surgeon General Rebuts Matthew McConaughey Over Vaccinating Kids; Warns Americans Not To Share ‘Misleading Memes’ About COVID
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10th November 2021
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Some of the $1.2 trillion to be spent pursuant to the bipartisan infrastructure bill will be devoted to true infrastructure. That portion of the money presumably would have been appropriated had Donald Trump ever gotten around to presenting, and been able to enact, an infrastructure bill.
But a goodly portion of the $1.2 trillion is pork. That money will be directed to groups favored by Democrats and in many cases will have little to do with actual infrastructure.
John Fund identifies one aspect of this problem in an article called “Pete Buttigieg’s new slush fund.”
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