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Although not, I think, az much as Republicans would be disgusted by John McCain.

The Fossil Fuel Dilemma

Review launched into onshore impact of offshore wind farms

German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nuclear, last half as long

Extinction Rebellion Calls African Oil Leaders “Climate Criminals”

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While there’s disagreement around how different types of sugars affect our health, the irony is we might be better off thinking about it less.

11,000 Scientists? Just Kidding

Robert Redford Calls for Reversal of Climate ‘Damage’ Caused by Trump

One of the world’s thickest mountain glaciers is melting because of global warming  They think.

Texas State Geologist Scott Tinker on Solving Climate Change and Energy Poverty

How Climate Activist Arnold Schwarzenegger Became Box Office Poison

How Bad Science & Horrific Journalism Misrepresent Wildfires and Climate

‘Greta’ Uber Alles?

Audacious Epigone keeps track.

Through the first four debates of the 2020 Democrat primary election cycle, candidates have mentioned the middle class an average of 5.3 times. Through the first six debates of 2016, candidates mentioned the middle class an average of 12.5 times. Rhetorical attention paid to the middle class has been cut by more than half on the Democrat side over the last four years, this in spite of the 2020 debates being longer than the 2016 debates were.

Though Bernie Sanders gets criticized for saying the same thing every time he’s in a televised debate, his rhetorical shift on this has been remarkable. In the 2016 cycle, he mentioned the middle class 30 times in the first four debates he was in. In his first for debates in the 2020 cycle, he has only mentioned the middle class one single time.

Byron York.

One notable and little-reported conclusion emerging from the House Democratic impeachment proceedings is a consensus among some foreign policy professionals that President Trump’s Ukraine policy has been an improvement over President Barack Obama’s.

The World’s Thickest Mountain Glacier Is Finally Melting, and Climate Change Is 100% to Blame  Women and minorities hardest hit.

NY Times’s Cave Takes Side of Climate Cult ‘Extinction Rebellion,’ Disrupting Ordinary Life

On the 1998 Apparent Step-Up in UAH Land-minus-Ocean Lower Tropospheric Temperatures

Simulated sunlight reveals how 98% of plastics at sea go missing each year

It can make more sense to build new renewable capacity than run old coal plants  Or maybe not.

Arctic critters are sneezing on each other like never before  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Meet the Doomers: Climate Worriers so Extreme Other Radicals Avoid Them

Jane Fonda: Teenage Activist Greta Thunberg ‘Inspired Me’ to Protest Climate Change  Yeah, she was getting all the good press.

Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World

“The World Could Look Like This”: Weather Channel Unveils Global Warming Apocalypse Propaganda  They keep promising it but it never arrives.

Rich Residents Build Defenses Against Rising Seas; Poor Ones Leave

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Law enforcement agencies around the country have for the past few years eagerly latched onto consumer-facing DNA sites as a rich repository of information to help them close cases. Many of those sites have been allowing users to adopt privacy settings and restricting what data they allow police to access, but a first-of-its-kind search warrant may blow those users’ data banks wide open.

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I don’t even have to say anything.

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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a “reboot” button for an entire state? Because the truth is that if an entire state ever needed to completely start over it is the state of California. At this point it has become the epicenter for just about everything that is wrong with America, and each year it just keeps coming up with new ways to become an even worse cesspool of social decay and depravity. Millions of people have already left the state, and millions more are thinking of leaving. One recent survey found that 47 percent of all Californians are thinking about moving out of the state in the next five years, and a different survey discovered that 53 percent of those currently living in the state would like to leave. If about half the people in your state are seriously considering leaving, it is safe to say that things have gone horribly wrong. But instead of changing course, those running California continue taking the state down a very self-destructive path.

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Yale students, if they’re still anything like they were when I graduated a few short years ago, likely aren’t overly concerned with the college admissions scandal that dominated the news this past spring, even as Lifetime releases its TV-movie based on the events and Felicity Huffman walks free after having served her eleven days in jail. Instead, Yale students will be focused on their classes, fulfilling their language requirements, agonizing as early as November about their plans for the following summer, and scrambling to join the various clubs that, like so many activities on campuses, require a surprisingly vigorous application process. For the newly arrived freshmen, who are, by now, probably starting to feel a bit more at home on campus, there is also probably still that lingering sense in the back of their heads that they made it: that they were admitted from the record 36,829 who applied for a spot in the class of 2023 to a school considered among the most prestigious in the world.

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Soon to be a major motion picture.

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Vice President Mike Pence deserves praise for not only remembering the national horror but also personally showing up and speaking out at Fort Hood, Texas, the scene of the Nov. 5, 2009, terrorist massacre that killed 13 American soldiers and citizens.

It has been a decade since that terrorist attack on U.S. soil by a self-identified Islamic terrorist and American traitor. Ten years on and only a damnable trickle of mainstream media bother to reflect on this horror. In terms of mainstream printers, TV images and internet pixels, this savage outrage has been … briefly mentioned, barely touched.

For the record, the terrorist who perpetrated the massacre is still alive, on death row in the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, military prison.

More than 11,000 scientists from around the world declare a ‘climate emergency’

GPS – An Unconventional Tidal Gauge  If you don’t like the data you find, find some data you like.

Johan Norberg’s Message to St. Greta

HuffPost: Cancel Thanksgiving to Save the Planet

Extinction Rebellion protesters set for million pound pay out as they plot general election disruption, after High Court rules ban illegal

Green New Deal Dems Toss Their Support Behind Report Pushing To Fast-Track Population Control

Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, And The End Of The World

Georgetown: How a Texan Town’s Green Energy Dream Turned into a Nightmare

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if, of course, that’s what you want to do.

MSNBC Connects Fires to ‘Climate Denial,’ Obama-Era Rollbacks

Claim: Climate Change will Break the Housing Market

U.S. Starts withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord.

Polar bears precipitated Netflix walrus deaths, new Attenborough TV special shows

Lawsuit Says Obama Entered Paris Climate Agreement Illegally, Cites Mysterious Legal Memo

Inconvenient Truth: Best Way To Help The Environment Is To Avoid Green “Eco-Friendly” Products

Liberal ‘Climate Mayors’ Are Proving Trump Right On Paris Climate Accord

Babylon Bee.

Local socialist millennial man Matthew Hatter lamented Monday that there are no concrete examples of socialism he can point to in order to have some kind of idea how it would turn out.

We feel his pain.

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Concur.

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Sounds as if somebody thinks we have too many Africans.

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Via Tyler Cowen we learn there’s a new paper from Duke’s Peter Arcidiacono — the economist who served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the recent lawsuit against Harvard. (I’ve written about Arcidiacono’s work before here and here.) In this one, Arcidiacono and his coauthors detail a rather bizarre pattern in the school’s admissions data.

Basically, starting about ten years ago — in the wake of some Supreme Court activity that mildly limited affirmative action — the school began seeking out lots more applications from black students, leading the black share of the applicant pool to grow from about 6 percent to about 10 percent. Some of this effort seems to have taken the form of recruitment letters sent out on the basis of test scores, with far lower cutoffs for members of underrepresented groups.

Yet the new applicants apparently had little prayer of getting in. “The share of admits who were African American remained unchanged,” the authors write. “At the same time, the average SAT score of African American applicants fell by 33 points (on an 800-point scale)” between 2008 and 2012, something that did not happen for other racial groups.

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They pretty much had to cave on this one. Once he buys the donuts they’re his to do with as he pleases; if he wants to re-sell them, he can.

Netflix Show: Penguins Are Gay and Climate Change Kills Them

Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming

Time: China is Bankrolling Renewable Projects Around the World because they are Climate Leaders

The Giga And Terra Scam Of Offshore Wind Energy

Babylon Bee.

Archaeologists working near the ancient Fertile Crescent made a stunning discovery Friday morning: the AR-15 Cain used to kill Abel as recorded in the Bible.

Ace of Spades has fun with that.

Revisit? That implies that the media visited it before. It didn’t. It embargoed the story. NBC (culture of rape!) forbade a reporter from even talking about her interview with Juanita Broaddrick.

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This is an attempt by the Heritage Foundation to update the classic Sharon Statement formulated 60 years ago at Bill Buckley’s place in Sharon CT as a cornerstone document for the Young Americans for Freedom.

Across the years there have been many attempts, of which this is only the latest, to convert the conservative perspective into an ‘ism’, i.e. an ideology with a doctrine of faith, a political program, and a desired end-state toward which all adherents are supposed to work.

The problem with such attempts is that ‘conservatism’ isn’t an ideology, like socialism or fascism, but rather an aspect of ones personality, a way of looking at the world and its activities; hence any search for the ‘unchanging principles’ of ‘conservatism’ is doomed to failure, and such laundry-lists as these are anything but — they devolve into time-and-location-dependent opinions that certainly arise out of the reactions of conservative people to current events but cannot legitimately be termed ‘unchanging principles’.

So why do they thrive? Because conservatives, consciously or not, realize that ‘conservative principles’ are time-and-location-dependent and hence give rise to different appreciations of what is or is not ‘conservative at any particular time or place. Hence these ‘definitions’ are (a) a pre-emptive defense against criticism by other putative ‘conservatives’ that the defining group Aren’t Really Conservative and (b) a stick with which to beat other purportedly ‘conservative’ groups that the defining group think have strayed from the True Faith.

This has certainly happened historically — the defenestration of the John Birch Society and the Ayn Rand Objectivists from The Conservative Movement by Bill Buckley and the National Review crowd are famous examples.  Fringe groups are cut off from the desired core of True Believers because unbelievers might think that the Faithful are actually tainted by beliefs that might be derogatory. This is the basis of the impulse for everybody and his dog to call their enemies ‘Nazis’, which they rarely are but which is a useful tarbrush to use in modern political discourse. So, like the poor, definitions of what is or is not True Conservatism will always be with us.

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In a move likely to attract criticism, a peer-reviewed journal has agreed to publish an Italian physicist’s highly contested analysis of publications, which concludes that female physicists don’t face more career obstacles than their male colleagues. The journal says it will also simultaneously publish critiques of the paper, which one member of the journal’s editorial board says is “flawed” and contains “unsubstantiated claims.”

Go against the Narrative, and you’re in for a rough ride.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

How nuclear power will drive our energy future’

California NOT “fighting climate change”, climate change NOT driving wildfires – claims are propaganda

Are wind turbines killing whales?

Here’s How State Regulators Played A Role In California’s Rolling Blackouts, Wildfires

Nigel Farage Exposes Extinction Rebellion’s Plan to Topple Representative Democracy

Germany’s Giant Windmills Are Wildly Unpopular

Sea Level Rise ‘Alarmist Agitprop’

Exposing The Bogus “97% Consensus” Claim Over Climate Change ‘Science’

Steve Sailer.

But of course Race Does Not Exist so whatever these scientists may think they have found is some sort of illusion, probably triggered by White Privilege or something.

ZMan takes a long view.

As a practical matter, Rubin is correct. America is a propositional nation, in that citizenship is now entirely meaningless to the native born. It has value to the millions pouring over the border every year, but to the people who hold US citizenship, it is a stock certificate for a company that no longer exists. Stock certificate is really not the right way to put it, as it is more like a debt certificate. Every year that tax on people holding citizenship goes up, as the land gets enriched with the dregs of the earth.

Steve Sailer.

This is all about Daylight Saving Time, believe it or not.

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Sheryl Sandberg, once the human face of Facebook, the would-be feminist warrior whose “Lean In” philosophy was meant not just to reshape Big Tech but the American workplace and feminism itself, has been revealed as just another digital overlord.

The façade began crumbling last November, when The New York Times published a devastating exposé depicting Sandberg as the likely architect of an anti-Semitic smear campaign against George Soros in the wake of his attack on Facebook and Google at the 2018 World Economic Forum.

That story, of course, followed the revelations of rampant and promiscuous data sharing, the turgid response to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar — largely incited by false posts on the platform — and, of course, the company’s role in allowing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Yet Sandberg is still COO of Facebook. Why?

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The concern is that AI has gotten so good that we’ll be able to create videos of important people saying all sorts of nutty things, which will lead to a total breakdown in our ability to trust important institutions. The problem here is that world leaders already say incredibly nutty things. Making a fake video of Donald Trump saying something outrageous is superfluous, like photoshopping a picture of Jeff Bezos so he’s holding a twenty dollar bill.

The other problem is that the media suffer from an intellectual autoimmune disorder, and relentlessly hype up minor misstatements into full-blown hysteria. If you’re at all partisan, you can think of examples of The Other Guys doing this. Every educated person knows that “cling to guns and religion” was a sympathetic remark from a churchgoer, except of course for the educated people who know that Mitt Romney’s “47%” line was a rhetorical flourish about people who pay no Federal income taxes.

Academics Demand More Time Off From Work to Save Planet From Climate Change

Climategate: Nearly ten years later

Climate change will break the housing market, says David Burt, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis

Activists sail four weeks across Atlantic for climate change summit — then learn it is canceled

Desperate Efforts to Drag the Climate Change Drought Narrative Back on Track

Greta Thunberg Begs For Help After Traveling Halfway Around The World ‘The Wrong Way’

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Like the ethanol-in-the-gas mandate, an illuminating example of special interests hijacking government power to help themselves and screw everybody else.

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Change would particularly affect children, say signatories, who want permanent standard time

The Other McCain lays it out.

Why did Hillary Clinton lose in 2016? It wasn’t just because working-class white men didn’t vote for her — a majority (53%) of white women also voted for Trump — but also because Hillary failed to generate the level of turnout among black voters that Obama got in the two previous elections. In other words, after Obama, some black voters have decided they won’t vote for white Democrats any more. That’s why candidates like Beto O’Rourke and Kirsten Gillibrand never caught on this cycle, and it’s why the likely nomination of Elizabeth Warren in 2020 will almost certainly be a disaster for Democrats. Does anyone think black voters are going to be excited about the fake Cherokee Harvard professor? In a desperate (and misguided) effort to win in 2020, Democrats and their media allies have doubled-down on identity politics, with feminists promoting an angry anti-male message and LGBTQ activists promoting insulting and offensive rhetoric against heterosexuals. Democrats are now the “Drag Queen Story Hour” party and the Angry Fat Woman party, and I don’t think that message will resonate with Middle America.

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The study published earlier this week ignores most of the archaeological record.

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Bill Walton recently welcomed Star Parker and Winsome Sears to his video podcast for a discussion of why so many black Americans continue to vote for the failed liberal agenda. Here is a transcript of their conversation, edited mostly only for style and clarity.