The Other McCain notices what the Corporate Media doesn’t admit.

If you’re smart enough to understand all the statistical stuff in this lengthy report, perhaps you can explain it in the comments. Quickly skimming it, I understood that what they are saying is that, compared to expected results — based on previous elections, voter demographics, etc. — the reported results are significantly anomalous in five states that Joe Biden allegedly won. “[T]he model’s predictions match the reported results in all other states, i.e. states where no fraud has been alleged, but predicts Trump won majorities in five disputed states (AZ, GA, NV, PA and WI) and 49.68% of the vote in the sixth (MI).”

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

Some day I believe honest historians (both of them) will conclude that Trump’s administration was the most consequential and effective one-term presidency in American history, whose legacy will last for a long time. The best comparison would be Lincoln, who never got to serve his second term. Most one-term incumbents who are defeated lose because they have been abject failures, which Trump most assuredly wasn’t (which is why, unlike all past defeated incumbents who lost votes, Trump got 10 million more than his initial election).

Trump may or may not purposely dominate the political scene in the background as Teddy Roosevelt did from 1909 – 1912 and then run again in 2024, but I argue that Trumpism will dominate the scene for a long time to come, and that any successful GOP presidential nominee will need to be a Trumpist. I go further, in fact, and believe the shuffling of the issue map and the realignment of voting coalitions are as substantial as FDR and the New Deal—and it took FDR four terms to effect that change.

NIMBY’s are making more noise than wind turbines

All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth’s Organisms  (Wired ‘Science’)

Claim: Arctic Ocean–climate change is flooding the remote north with light – and new species

Climate Activist Aussie Politicians Leap to Rescue Vital Coal Power Plants

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With the COVID-19 pandemic, protests, riots and then the most rabid anti-gun platform ever introduced being pushed by the Democratic party, it’s no wonder that people have increased their demand for guns and ammunition. When a candidate for national office—even a poorly performing one—utters, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15,” what did you think was going to happen?

This is not even attributable to supply-chain problems, with the exception of the Remington ammunition plant in Arkansas. That plant was sidelined by the sale of the company by an Alabama bankruptcy court. Talk about a series of unfortunate events. One of the largest plants in the country couldn’t make ammo at full capacity because of the financial problems of its parent company. The good news is that Vista Outdoor picked up that facility, and the Vista team is very good indeed at making ammunition. I am told after the first of the year, ammunition will be flowing out of that plant, and many of its workers will be rehired.

We have been through conditions similar to this before, but nothing like this. It’s to the point that waterfowlers looking for ammo are having a hard time because people looking for defensive loads have decided that steel BBs are better than nothing.

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“Don’t ask for advice on your coronary artery disease, because she’s not actually a physician, she’s a doctor of education which means basically nothing,” Carlson said during a Monday night “Tucker Carlson Tonight” segment after playing a clip of “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg in March calling for Mrs. Biden to become Surgeon General before realizing she wasn’t a medical doctor.

King Tide on San Francisco Embarcadero Illustrates Climate Change Risk

CNN’s Tapper Declares World Needs Biden to Push Climate Agenda

UN Climate Ambition Summit Falls Flat

The moon controls the release of methane in Arctic Ocean  I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

Stealth Green New Deal language being slipped into take-it-or-leave-it House spending package

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This reality has been forgotten: the price that can be fetched for a barrel of oil depends on the demand for all the products, not just a few of the products.

Those demanding an all-electric auto-truck fleet as a “green” alternative will re-create the dilemma of what to do with the “waste” gasoline. The world will still want fuel for all those container ships bringing all the goodies of a consumerist society, all those cruise ships visiting ports of call, jet fuel for all those exotic vacations enabled by 550 mile-per-hour aircraft, and oil-based lubricants, plastics and petro-chemicals, and so oil will still be pumped and refined, and almost half of it will be gasoline.

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There is no longer a Southern gentry with values and lifestyles and dialect that are distinct from those of the old Northeastern patrician elite. The former regional oligarchies have fused into a single homogeneous national overclass, mostly hereditary but partly meritocratic. Its geographically mobile, careerist members attend the same selective private and public universities, speak the same homogenized non-regional elite dialect, read the same newspapers and ‘zines, watch the same TV shows and movies, follow the same fashions and have the same diets.

There are no red and blue states. The most accurate maps of voting are county maps, not state maps. And the county maps show that the major partisan division, in every region of the U.S., is between urban cores and everywhere else. Outside of densely populated metro areas, California is red. Most metro areas in Texas are blue. Because cities and counties are mere creations of state governments, the moment that politicians representing a slight majority of statewide voters capture power in state government they can use that power to overrule local governments everywhere in the state. This means that, once a majority of voters in a few large metropolitan areas capture a state legislature and governor’s office, there may be no way for their exurban and small-town rivals to fight back.

Did Climate Change Cause World Heritage Listed Fraser Island to Burn?

Where is the Outrage Over Climate and Energy Policy?

Climate change: Have countries kept their promises?

If you Thought Climate Grief was Strange, Meet the Climate Grief Therapists  This sounds like the sort of profitable scam I’d like to get in on.

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Who doesn’t know that?

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On Fox & Friends Saturday, the show devoted a segment to the liberal media ignoring Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden’s, questionable business dealings that are currently under federal investigation.

After a succession of clips of various media personalities from October denying that there was a Biden scandal, New York Post columnist Sohrab Ahmari was allowed on as a guest to call out the fact that liberal journalists ignored his reporting and instead covered for their preferred presidential candidate.

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Some authors append “Ph.D.” to their name in their tagline and sometimes even in their byline. Editors routinely delete it. Likewise with “Dr. Jones” in running text. It’s Ms. Jones, if the publication is old school. If not, Firstname Jones on first mention and just Jones after that. Granted, some publications are generous with the honorific “Dr.” and “Professor.” They’re not the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times.

Some people think that calling someone who has a doctorate “Doctor” is gauche. Others think that not to call the person “Doctor” is disrespectful. I’m with the former group. I always felt that “Dr. Kissinger,” for example, was somewhat cringey. How often have you read or heard “Dr. Daniel Patrick Moynihan”? Once, just now?

That, more or less, was Joseph Epstein’s argument in this opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. Or so I thought. To judge from the tsunami of reaction against it, most people disagree with his position.

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There are many companies that bring us knife steel, from steel manufacturers to a whole array of suppliers to individual custom knife makers. So I have written a bit about how the supply chain works and some information on individual steel suppliers.

Do you know the difference  between 440A stainless and 440C stainless?

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The pandemic hasn’t just brought with it economic turmoil; it has also highlighted a trend of people fleeing U.S. cities in favor of the suburbs. The exodus has been helped along by liberal politicians embracing a “defund the police” message in the cities where policing is needed the most – like Chicago, which we have documented – making the decision to leave cities much easier for many people.

But surprisingly, the wheels were already in motion for this trend prior to the pandemic, a new report from Bloomberg notes.

500 Years of Global SST Variations from a 1D Forcing-Feedback Model

Finding: Mass Extinctions of Land-Dwelling Animals Occur in 27-Million-Year Cycle

Canada’s Trudeau Promises $170 / Ton Carbon Tax by 2030

‘Uighur Alarms’ Just The Latest In Long List Of China’s Worst Human Rights Abuses

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My current favorite conspiracy theory is that, now that it appears Biden will actually be inaugurated, the Swamp will use Hunter’s messes to get rid of him and install Jambalaya as President.

UPDATE: The Media’s Hidin’ of Hunter Biden: Self Sabotage or Cover-Up?

Australia Not Invited to a Big International Climate Summit

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Channels UN’s ‘Apocalyptic Climate Report’ of ‘Horrifying Records’

NPR Reverts to State-Run Radio with Socialist Softballs for Climate Czar John Kerry

Claim: The greening of the earth is approaching its limit

Electric vehicle shock treatment

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(Otherwise known as ‘California on the Colorado.)

Time to leave.

UPDATE: Oracle Moves To Texas As Silicon Valley Exodus Accelerates

UPDATE: Oracle will move headquarters to Texas from California

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A host of Democratic politicians said the execution of a man convicted of burning two youth ministers in 1999 was an injustice in Friday social media posts.

Brandon Bernard, 40, was killed by lethal injection following a two-decade old conviction lighting a vehicle on fire after an accomplice robbed, shot and dumped two youth ministers in the trunk in 1999, according to CBS News. Bernard, who became the ninth federal inmate to be executed in 2020, was the subject of pleas to commute his sentence from numerous celebrities and advocates, CBS reported.

Sounds like justice to me.

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In the world of Democrat politics, there are no coincidences. With that principle in mind, it’s possible to understand why Democrat media outlets are suddenly reporting about Hunter Biden’s corruption, a story that spills over onto his father. The first is to get ahead of potential breaking news about Hunter’s imminent arrest. The second theory is the one Monica Showalter advanced: The leftists used Biden to attain the White House (or so they believe) and are now ready to get rid of him. Having a criminal son may be just what the Obama/Harris camp needs to make that happen. And if there’s any doubt about this theory, an article in The New York Times seems to lay it to rest.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

NBC’s Bennett Sucks Up to Kerry, Wonders What Americans Must ‘Sacrifice’ to Save the Earth

Bombshell finding: Automobile tires, not climate change – is killing west coast salmon

The natural ‘Himalayan aerosol factory’ can affect climate

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In past presidential election years, the day the Electoral College convenes to vote goes largely ignored, as most of the public stops paying attention after Election Day.

This year is different. Amid allegations of voter fraud, litigation in key states, and state legislative hearings, the public is more focused on the electors’ voting set for Monday.

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Executive board member of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors and CEO of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya has said “fuck you” to every rich millennial on a trust fund attacking capitalism and claiming they’re socialists.

Appearing on the All-In Podcast alongside Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, the quartet got to discussing trust fund kids claiming to be socialists, specifically naming a recent New York Times article titled ‘The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism’ as highly misguided since capitalism is exactly how those rich kids got to where they are now.

I can hear it plotting….

Glenn Greenwald.

Hunter Biden acknowledged today that he has been notified of an active criminal investigation into his tax affairs by the U.S. Attorney for Delaware. Among the numerous prongs of the inquiry, CNN reports, investigators are examining “whether Hunter Biden and his associates violated tax and money laundering laws in business dealings in foreign countries, principally China.”

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Seventeen states whose elections were won by President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that they support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bid to file a lawsuit that could effectively reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s projected Electoral College victory.

The filing backing Paxton by those states came a day after he asked the Supreme Court for permission to sue Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all of which Biden won, over their voting processes.

Steve Sailer.

I’m coming around to the notion that a Polygamy Push is fairly likely to follow Transmania the way it followed gay marriage.

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

What we get is a Hollywood melodrama. It’s not really a bad movie in my opinion, but it’s not a worthwhile one. If you read the book, there’s not much reason to see the movie unless you like to grumble. If you haven’t read the book, you might enjoy the movie, depending on your tastes, but you won’t get much out of it.

The film has not received favorable reviews from critics — far from it — although the audience reviews are pretty good. Glenn Reynolds thinks the critics’ negativity is politically based.

Victor Davis Hanson.

America traditionally has not reinvented reality after an election, although prior presidential winners have often tried, as in the fashion of our politics. But the new powers of social media, Silicon Valley, and a woke media have made reality-changing now a reality.

Suddenly Antifa and BLM have all but disappeared from their heroic barricades. Where and why did they go? Did they ever really exist?

Apparently the cucks at National Review have instituted a paywall — which is good, because that means that their me-tooism will be restricted to those who already buy into the Establishment party line and they will no longer be leading innocents astray.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Yesterday the State of Texas filed pleadings in the U.S. Supreme Court alleging that the electoral processes followed by Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin in this year’s election were unconstitutional and the results in those states should be negated. Because this is a lawsuit between states, the Supreme Court has original and exclusive jurisdiction. Texas’s pleadings are embedded below.

The Texas motion and supporting brief are well-drafted and make a plausible case–importantly, one that, if accepted, does not require extensive fact-finding into alleged voter fraud. Reduced to its essentials, the motion alleges 1) that under the Constitution’s Electors Clause, state legislatures have plenary authority over appointment of each state’s electors; 2) that in each of the defendant states, non-legislative actors (e.g., the Secretary of State) unconstitutionally changed the rules governing this year’s election without legislative approval or ratification; 3) that these changes favored some voters over others, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause; and 4) in each state, the number of ballots that were counted pursuant to unconstitutional changes in election procedures exceeds the margin of Joe Biden’s alleged victory.

UPDATE: Number Of States Joining Texas Suit Against PaGaWiMi Hits 7

Newly discovered Greenland (mantle) plume drives thermal activities in the Arctic

Fauci: “We have entered the Pandemic Era” because of Climate Change

The blame game

Just trying to help….

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #434

Fearmongering CNN Talks Up Biden Fighting off ‘Climate Crisis’  If he can remember.

Claim: The climate changed rapidly alongside sea ice decline in the north

The Danish climate minister closing down the oil industry for good

California To Require All Rockets To Run On Wind Power By 2030  Babylon Bee.

In rare show of solidarity, 14 key nations commit to protect oceans  More accurately, in a common show of virtue-signaling.

Pennsylvania Governor’s Climate Regulations Draw Bipartisan Opposition as Hearings Begin

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Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue says sales spiked so dramatically after her calls for a boycott that he named Democratic New York Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “employee of the month.”

Unanue told Michael Berry that his sales spiked 1000% after Ocasio-Cortez supported calls to boycott Goya Foods in mid-July.

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The group shouted with bullhorns and held signs during the evening protest, where individuals contested the results of the race between President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, according to video. Genevieve Peters, who took the footage while donning a “Trump 2020” snow hat, called the election “bullshit,” before police eventually arrived at the scene, the video showed.

“We are over here in the fricking dead of night, man,” Peters said, according to the Washington Examiner. “We are letting her know that we’re not taking this bullshit election, we are not standing down, we are not giving up. You are not going to take this election from a man that has earned it completely 100% by a freaking landslide. Let me tell you: This ain’t over.”

Claim: The Great Barrier Reef is “Critical” because of Climate Change

Biden’s Coming China Headache: Climate Change And “Developing Countries”

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The first presidential election in which the District of Columbia participated was in 1964. Before that, DC was excluded from presidential elections. It was designed as a neutral site, for Americans to meet to discuss their differences and to establish our government. The Democrat Party pushed hard, for years, to add DC to presidential elections. And you can certainly understand why. Those who prefer big government, like Democrats, tend to gravitate to DC.

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I think this illustrates why the Republican Party needs someone with the personality of Donald Trump. Who else can be effective in a town in which 95% of the people hate you? I couldn’t work there. Could you? But he seems to thrive on the combat. So not only can I understand why he was elected, but perhaps that is the only realistic option that Republicans have, for the foreseeable future.

The genial Reagan/Bush types may no longer be an option. Not if we want to get anything done. It appears that we need Donald Trump, or somebody like him. I’m not saying that’s good or bad. I’m just saying that’s the way it is.

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Whenever a Democrat gets elected it results in booming gun sales. Think about it.

Bill Gates Urges $35 Billion per Year for Renewable Energy Research  Send us a check, Bill.

New Climate Theory – Jupiter Herding Micrometeors Towards Earth?

Lancing the Lancet’s global-warming pustule

Climate Report: $100-150 Trillion over 30 Years to Fix Global Warming

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Wonder why comedy feels like it’s on life support these days?

Just give the latest edition of “SmartLess” a listen. You’ll figure at least part of it out.

The podcast, hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett, is described as a show that “connects and unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared experiences through thoughtful dialogue and organic hilarity.”

The hosts’ idea of “shared experiences,” sadly, is bowing to Cancel Culture and slamming anyone who doesn’t self identify as “liberal.”