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Like being called ugly by a pond full of frogs.

America’s biggest environmentalists and their private planes

Why the World Can’t Trust America on Climate (New York Magazine)

Changes to giant ocean eddies could have ‘devastating effects’ globally (The Guardian)

Climate change has altered the Earth’s tilt

“Agricultural Disaster” – Frost Blast Decimates French Vineyards, May Slash Total Wine Output By Third 

John Kerry Unveils America’s Latest War… On Carbon Dioxide  Put tape over his mouth. That will lower carbon dioxide production by a bunch.

Biden’s Climate Denialism

How Global Warming Isn’t

Overshooting tipping point thresholds in a changing climate (Nature.com)

Some Climate Tipping Points May Be Reversible, If We Act Fast (Gizmodo)

Apple focuses on environmental justice and education as it celebrates Earth Day  They also make computers, sort of as a sideline.

‘After Us the Deluge’ Captures Images of a Sinking World  Wired ‘Science’.

Biden Will Open Summit With Pledge to Cut US Emissions in Half  And they won’t believe him any more than we do.

Hull University rejects the laws of physics

History Confirms Democrat’s 1988 Senate Global Warming Hearing Got Everything Wrong from Start to Finish

A Few Simple Things Elites Would Do If They Really Cared About Climate Change

Pushing Fear: Panicked CBS Touts ‘Climate Anxiety’ Among Teens for Earth Day

‘Fear Sells’: CNN Lauds ‘Climate Crisis’ Town Hall After Panic Porn Agenda Exposed

Greta Thunberg Blasts Politicians for ‘Ignoring’ Climate Crisis  Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!

‘Net Zero Is Not Enough’: John Kerry Says We Need To Remove Carbon Dioxide From The Atmosphere  Tape his mouth shut. That would be a huge step forward.

MSNBC Asks Climate Radical: Is Our Propaganda Hysterical Enough?

China Systematically Under-Reports Pollution Levels, New Study Finds

Apple’s Lisa Jackson says a green economy is better for the planet and business  As CNN is fond of saying, ‘with no evidence’.

Paul Graham lectures you on morality.

When intellectuals talk about the death penalty, they talk about things like whether it’s permissible for the state to take someone’s life, whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent, and whether more death sentences are given to some groups than others. But in practice the debate about the death penalty is not about whether it’s ok to kill murderers. It’s about whether it’s ok to kill innocent people, because at least 4% of people on death row are innocent.

Or, in other words, 96& of people on death row are guilty.

Far from being rare, wrongful murder convictions are very common.

This is a use of ‘very common’ with which I am unfamiliar. Since when is 4% ‘very common’? At the very least, ‘very common’ ought to mean ‘over 50%’.

This circus of incompetence and dishonesty is the real issue with the death penalty. We don’t even reach the point where theoretical questions about the moral justification or effectiveness of capital punishment start to matter, because so many of the people sentenced to death are actually innocent. Whatever it means in theory, in practice capital punishment means killing innocent people.

Yes, it does, occasionally. Totally absent from this analysis, however, is the number of ‘innocent people’ who die because murderers are put back into circulation. Surely that matters, if we’re counting up ‘innocent people’?

This is the great flaw in all of the bleeding-heart hand-wringing about ‘killing innocent people’. No system is error-proof. But a 4% error rate would be miraculous in any other field of human endeavor. The instrumental justification for the death penalty is that when a murderer is made dead, he (or she) doesn’t go on to murder again. So the lack of potential future victims is certainly a relevant piece of information.

There is a case to be made for eliminating the death penalty, but this isn’t one of them.

I had always respected Paul Graham’s insights, until now. But apparently he’s Just Another Woke Weenie.

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Here’s the most read “news” story in the Washington Post right now, another example of upside-down article construction in which the facts are withheld until long after most readers have moved on.

Global Warming? Devastating Frost Impacts 2021 French Wine Grapes

‘Green Infrastructure’ Backers Stand to Profit From Gov’t Spending Boost  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Unhinged Jane Fonda Compares Fossil Fuel Industry to Abusive Boyfriend

“Record-Shattering Cold” Hits Central US 

Kerry On!

Flying Cars Will be Racist, “Undermine Democracy” and Finish Off the Environment

Private Companies Will Have To Pay For Most Of The ‘Green Transition,’ Biden Administration Says

Author of ‘The Sixth Extinction’ says Earth is on verge of new mass extinction as big as dinosaur wipe-out (The Hill)

Clock’s running out on climate change. California says it’s time for giant carbon vacuums (LA Times)

Man Who Predicted the Worst Nuclear Disaster Since Chernobyl Sees Another Coming (Daily Beast) Disaster!

Google Earth’s New Timelapse Feature Shows the Effects of Climate Change Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?

Climate Fear Propaganda: New TIME Cover Story Exploits Pandemic to Cry ‘Climate Is Everything’

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Blames ‘The Trampling Of Indigenous Rights’ And Racial Injustice For Climate Change

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If you’re the sort of person who buys and reads books about human behavior, then it is likely you have recently encountered an exciting, counterintuitive new psychological idea that seems as if it could help solve a pressing societal problem like educational inequality, race relations, or misogyny. Maybe you came across it in a TED Talk. Or, if not there, in an op-ed or blog post or book.

It is, after all, a golden age for popular behavioral science. As the University of Virginia law professor Gregory Mitchell, a keen critic and observer of the field, wrote in 2017, ‘With press releases from journals and universities feeding a content-hungry media, publishing houses looking for the next Gladwellian bestseller, governments embracing behavioral science, and courts increasingly open to evidence from social scientists, psychologists have more opportunities than ever to educate the public on what they have learned about why people behave as they do.’

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Bias? What bias?

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President Joe Biden waited longer to hold his first press conference than any other president in the past 100 years. After waiting 64 days, the media had a chance on March 25 to ask the president about his agenda.

Tim Murtaugh, communications director for President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, was disappointed by what he saw.

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On Friday’s NBC Nightly News, they focused on recent political violence against the Capitol Police, but they were obviously more interesting in tagging the “far right” for recent violence, and not the “far left.” When the April 2 Capitol cop killing came up, the assailant Noah Green was not named, and his love for Louis Farrakhan was also spiked.

Lester Holt touted “a milestone today in the investigation of the deadly riot at the US Capitol, the first guilty plea.” He turned to NBC Justice Department correspondent Pete Williams, and they were naming names and applying labels.

Al Jazeera Video Exposes the 30 Year Climate Denier Conspiracy

Deconstructing Wilde and Mulholland’s Analysis of Earth’s Energy Budget

Obama’s Chief Energy Scientist Disputes The Climate-Change Propaganda-Peddlers

What climate science tells us, what it doesn’t & why it matters

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Notice that there is no mention of the race of either the shooter or the victims.

Under the Coulter Rule, this suggests that the shooter, and maybe he victims, are black.

‘Obscene’ windfarm subsidies revealed

Rolling Stone: “Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis”

The Dawn Of The E-Vehicle Battery Environmental Disaster …Discarded Even Sooner Than Expected

Google Earth’s new Timelapse feature shows chilling effect of climate change (CNN)

New feature on Google Earth shows you the astonishing effects of climate change (The Hill)

Serious about climate change? Get serious about agriculture (The Hill)

Whitest-ever paint could help cool heating Earth, study shows  OH NOES! MORE WHITE SUPREMACY!

Remembering Solyndra – A $524 Million Green Energy Failure  Your tax dollars at work.

Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

Claim: Global Warming is Causing Strawberries to Shrink

The EU’s Stunning Green Hypocrisy (At Least Trump Was Honest About Targets)

Interior Head Haaland Revokes Trump-Era Orders on Energy  Well, boys, looks like Political Correctness is back on the menu….

Cape Cod Climate Research Station Abandoned Because It’s About to Fall Into the Sea (Daily Beast) Normal erosion, not ‘rising sea levels’, but the Narrative says ‘climate change’ so ‘climate change’ it is.

Alaskan glacier is moving 100 TIMES faster than normal (Daily Mail) ‘Undergoing a rare surge’.

US climate research outpost abandoned over fears it will fall into sea (The Guardian)

Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ close to tipping point, unmanned sub reveals

Senate Democrats Want To Make Climate Change A Pillar Of US Diplomacy

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If you have the misfortune to follow the dreary climate change business, you’ll know that one of the fine points is which long-term emissions forecast to plug into your model. Never mind the accuracy of the models for now—even a good model is vulnerable to the age-old GIGO problem—”garbage in, garbage out.” In climate model forecasting, if you have an absurd emissions forecast, you’ll get absurd (but headline-grabbing) results.

People who follow this subject have long known that the emissions forecast that generates most of the scary headlines of the last few years is known as RCP 8.5 (short for “Representative Concentration Pathways”—never use plain language when you can use forbidding jargon), and most experts agree that its very high emissions forecast is bunk.

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While reporting on the funeral for slain Capitol police officer Billy Evans on Tuesday, the media skirted around the fact that his killer was an avid Nation of Islam supporter

CNN is sore afraid.

‘s the latest — and best-funded, with an initial budget of $20 million — example of how the 45th President and his supporters are building out a constellation of groups (political, legal and policy) that parallel the structure of the national Republican Party.

And yet more evidence that not only does Donald Trump have no plans to step away from politics, but that he is also constructing what amounts to a shadow version of the GOP.

Lessons In Woke “Science”: Covid-19 And Climate

Aussie ABC: Deal with Climate Guilt by Shifting Blame to Everyone Else

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While the media is constantly accusing the right of being domestic terrorists, left-wing extremism is routinely ignored by the media. A Democrat congresswoman’s cry for policing and prisons to be abolished should make the news but as often is the case, it was ignored by ABC, NBC and CBS.

Following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright, “squad” member Rashida Tlaib didn’t try to quell the unrest with responsible calls for peace and justice, even as riots erupted in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota and elsewhere. Instead, she threw gasoline on the fire by accusing every police department in the country of being “inherently racist” and demanded they be abolished, despite “defunding” being linked to rising crime.

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For years, activists have demanded stricter gun control in America, on the cogent (though perhaps unconstitutional grounds) that fewer guns will save the lives of young people in American cities.

Cockburn has an alternative proposal: instead of gun control, America needs celebrity control. Lacking any skin in the game and let loose on Twitter, famous people are saying extremely insane things that are going to get people killed.

Current climate model simulations overestimate future sea-level rise

Major News Outlets Pledge to Begin Calling ‘Climate Change’ a ‘Climate Emergency’

Energy Charade Update

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Without Trump, they’re really scrambling.

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It would certainly be appropriate for somebody to shoot Chelsea Handler. Not that I would ever advocate that, of course. Just sayin’.

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“If you looked up ‘bipartisan’ in the dictionary, I think it would say support from Republicans and Democrats,” Senior Biden Adviser Anita Dunn told the Washington Post on Monday. “It doesn’t say the Republicans have to be in Congress.”

Indeed, they could be on the payroll of the New York Times.

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The left’s Orwellian redefining of words took a dangerous step Monday as all three of the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) started to refer to the riots of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota as “protests,” effectively dropping the “mostly peaceful” label they were mocked for using in the summer of 2020. All of this followed an apparently accidental shooting where a police officer seemingly went to use her Taser but discharged her duty pistol instead.

The first showing of the media’s dangerous rebranding of riots came earlier in the day when an activist journalist screamed at Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon, saying “there was no riot” as he described how his officers were attacked with projectiles. “The officers that were putting themselves in harm’s way were being pelted with frozen cans of pop, they were being pelted with concrete blocks,” he told the press.

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Riots and protests broke out across the city of Minneapolis on Sunday following the police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Several local businesses have been “completely destroyed” by looters, according to the Star Tribune, and police were forced to use tear gas to disperse protesters who were throwing rocks at law enforcement.

When police chief Tim Gannon described the unrest as a “riot” during a press conference on Monday, several reporters responded that “there was no riot.”

Scientists Warn 4°C World Would Unleash ‘Unimaginable Amounts of Water’ as Ice Shelves Collapse (EcoWatch) Except that they never do.

France declares ‘calamité agricole’ after record cold

A campaign to make environmental destruction an international crime

Mann, Rudd, Turnbull: Climate Denying Murdoch Media is a Threat to Democracy

Media Never Holds Climate Alarmists Accountable for Dire Predictions

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Many of whom are Persons of Color. What are the odds?

It is oftentimes hard to tell the difference between YouTube conspiracy theory channels and the alleged journalists in the liberal media. On Sunday morning’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, host Jonathan Capehart brought on FiveThirtyEight.com senior political editor Perry Bacon Jr. to spin wild conspiracy theories about the Republican Party. Bacon went on a rant where he declared that the Republican Party “is pretty organized and actually has some policies which are basically, how do we maintain the existing racial and economic status quo?”

A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms (CNN) Note that they aren’t predicting collapse any more, just handwaving about ‘risk’.

Third of Antarctic ice shelves ‘will collapse amid 4C global heating’ (The Guardian) I’ll give you $5 if that ever happens.

‘Green Fraud’ and the Climate Lockdown

Climate Change Will Undermine World Stability, ‘Exacerbate’ Security Risks, US Intelligence Agencies Say

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Posts on social media are considered to have historical significance. But Twitter put its anti-conservative bias and outright disdain for former President Donald Trump on full display when it declared it would not allow his archived tweets to remain on the platform.

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On Wednesday night, MSNBC displayed the leftist media’s denial of reality as MSNBC contributor Eugene Robinson insisted that Georgia’s new voting law is almost a “total verbatim repeat” of the “Jim Crow” era even after such hyperbole has been thoroughly debunked.

Ali Velshi — filling in on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour — set up his guest by posing: “I guess part of the issue is that people need to see these things in black and white, and Governor Brian Kemp says there’s nothing Jim Crow about this law. Of course, the President himself said these feel like Jim Crow laws. What’s your take on whether it is or isn’t?”

Robinson — who serves as associate editor for the Washington Post where he is also a columnist — doubled down on the left’s over the top claims of racism….

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No one expects transit agencies to work very hard to provide safe, efficient services taking people where they need to go. But sometimes urban residents need a reminder that it is their job to rearrange their lives and risk their health and safety to insure that transit has enough riders to justify the huge subsidies it receives.

At least, that’s the opinion of Chicago Sun-Time columnist Laura Washington, who urges Chicago residents to “get on the L or bus. Or both.” After all, she reasons, “If riders don’t return to the CTA [Chicago Transit Authority], Metra [commuter trains] and Pace [suburban buses], look for layoffs, service cuts and hefty fare hikes.” Her view is enthusiastically endorsed by Streetsblog Chicago.

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Scandal-plagued First Family member Hunter Biden continued his book tour late Thursday with a softball-laden interview with ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who assisted him in not only dismissing the infamous laptop as “a red herring” because it came from Rudy Giuliani, but declare that he was eminently qualified to served on the board of Burisma.

Unsurprisingly, Kimmel and Biden did not address the breaking news from hours earlier when the Daily Mail published more of what they said were contents of Biden’s laptop, including naked photos of Biden with prostitutes.

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Vogue Magazine is re-affirming once again that its days of being a fashion magazine are over and that it’s a full on far left political propaganda outfit. The publication’s latest cover features the young 20-something Amanda Gorman, the “poet” who puts far left political punditry to a meter and calls it art.

Yeah, she’s the kind of once-in-a-generation artist that makes lyrics out of Planned Parenthood slogans. Who wouldn’t want a young woman who rhymes about a woman’s right to kill their unborn children to be the “first ever” poet on the cover of Vogue Magazine?

When ‘poet’ means ‘black person hating on whites’, does it really matter?

How small of all that human hearts endure
The part that laws or kings can cause or cure.

Let’s see Maya Angelou come even close to touching real poetry.

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Does the name Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa ring a bell? What about Noah Green? Only the true news junkies, with a gift for remembering trivia, will recall their names at this point. Which is remarkable, because Mr. Alissa killed ten people in a Boulder grocery store two weeks ago, and Mr. Green killed a police officer at the U.S. Capitol one week ago. Both crimes led to ubiquitous headlines, across all media platforms, as soon as they happened, as you might expect. But then, the strangest thing happened. They disappeared. Poof! They just vanished.

Both killers were Muslim, which prevents the stories from being covered. Leftist news sources like CNN ignored the stories, because they are unhelpful to our mass media’s stated goals of promoting the Democrat party. Right-wing news sources like Fox News ignored the stories, to avoid the appearance of discriminating against Muslims or other minorities. So guess what that means? That means that nobody can cover stories like this. So poof! They’re gone!

Victor Davis Hanson.

Ed Bastian made $17 million in 2019 as chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines, Georgia’s largest employer. Bastian just blasted Georgia’s new voting law. He thinks it is racist to require the same sort of ID to vote that Delta requires for its passengers to check in.

Yet most Americans believe voting is a more sacred act than flying Delta and, moreover, may have noticed that Delta has partnerships with systemically racist China. Also, a recent Associated Press poll showed that 72% of Americans favor requiring photo ID to vote.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

One of the dumbest of all the anti-Trump conventions was the “without evidence” trope. This was a single-use smear, analogous to an old-fashioned Derringer. The Democratic Party press fired it once, and we will never see it again. Certainly not while a Democrat is in the White House.

The concept was stupid, since politicians say things all the time for which they do not, at that moment, provide “evidence.” Over the last four years, it was even worse than that, since Democratic Party news outlets like the Washington Post ritually repeated the “without evidence” claim even though such evidence had been provided, often in copious detail, but not in the same sentence.

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It doesn’t take a particularly impressive imagination to predict how the liberal media would cover one of Donald Trump’s sons if he had a major crack and alcohol addiction. Stories would begin with the notion that Trump was a terrible father, obviously too self-absorbed and absent to raise his children right.

CNN would certainly strike that pose. But on Sunday’s Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter was deeply impressed with the “extraordinary” and “breathtaking” Hunter Biden memoir. Stelter gleefully promoted every tabloidish Trump-trashing book — from Omarosa to Scaramucci — but he’s doing the exact opposite now.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

It is remarkable that, nearly 17 years after Rathergate, 60 Minutes still exists and apparently has an audience. 60 Minutes has never been truthful or reliable. Not long before Rathergate, we wrote about another instance of blatant misuse of documents by that program to support a false narrative. It hasn’t gotten any better since then.

Last night, 60 Minutes contributed to the Democratic Party’s smear campaign against Governor Ron DeSantis by airing a heavily edited exchange between CBS “reporter” Sharyn Alfonsi and DeSantis. Alfonsi accused DeSantis of rewarding Publix, a contributor to his campaign, by giving Publix a role in covid vaccine distribution in Florida. DeSantis thoroughly rebutted Alfonsi’s accusation, so 60 Minutes simply deleted almost everything he said to make it look as though he had no real answer to Alfonsi.

Watched it once back in the day. Wasn’t impressed.

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A candidate in the special election for Texas’ 6th Congressional District filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against a local newspaper.

Sery Kim, an official in both the Donald Trump and George W. Bush administrations, filed a lawsuit against the Texas Tribune over its characterization of comments she made at a March 31 candidate forum as “racist.” Kim, a Republican, is running to replace Republican Rep. Ron Wright, who died on Feb. 7 after battles with lung cancer and COVID-19.

The Texas Tribune is the Texas equivalent of The Guardian in Britain, a dependably left-wing publication that does it’s best attempting to turn Texas into California.

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Biden is dishonest. His memory is shot. He’s an influence-peddler pretending to be a victim, a lifelong exploiter of his public position who hides behind the lowest forms of sentimentality.

Hunter Biden, of course. You’d have to be on the wrong end of a three-day crack binge to confuse Hunter Biden with the impeccably honest, mentally agile and profoundly principled multimillionaire career politician Joe Biden.

Steve Sailer does the fisking.

As I’ve often mentioned, if you read New York Times articles very carefully all the way to the end, you can usually find the facts you need to know to deduce what actually happened. But happy NYT subscribers seldom have their worldviews’ challenged with inconvenient facts up front.

Toby Young.

Anyone even vaguely familiar with the controversy over the ‘OK’ symbol will knowhow ridiculous this is. For one thing, the identification of that gesture with white supremacy was originally a hoax perpetrated by 4chan, the image board website, to troll social-justice warriors and liberal journalists. For another, Isidorou was photographed committing this sin in February 2017, before the hoax had gained any traction. It wasn’t listed as a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League until 2019, the same year as the New Zealand massacre referred to by the reporter. To accuse someone of a hate crime made up by a bunch of sophomoric pranksters is one thing. But to accuse them of it before the prank had landed must be some kind of record as the most feeble grounds for canceling someone in the history of cancel culture.

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What makes a tragic death a major news story? The races of the perpetrators and the victims, of course. As the media goes all in on critical race theory, many journalists have decided to only provide obsessive coverage of horrific crimes when they can be used to advance the idea — as so eloquently explained by NBA star LeBron James — that minorities are being ‘literally hunted’ by evil white people.

Proof of this phenomenon has never been so clear as in the past several weeks.

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ABC News was obviously working as an arm of the Biden administration during Sunday’s Good Morning America, as they spewed lies and misinformation about Republican efforts to increase the integrity of our elections. Despite claiming the GOP were targeting “black voters who helped him win there in Georgia,” the network refused to explain exactly how the law and other proposed bills would do that. Instead, they used broad stroke fear-mongering in an attempt to poison the GOP to viewers.

Salon magazine explains to conservatives what they ought to believe.

It’s not just the bedraggled band of “never Trump” Republican refugees on MSNBC and elsewhere who are endlessly vexed. For four long years, the whole mainstream media sphere has been laced with talk about the need for a healthy GOP, a vibrant two-party system, and a return to true conservative values. Critiques of that system, like Lee Drutman’s “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop,” only get a fraction of the attention devoted to these themes. But even more absent is any discussion of what a responsible conservatism might actually look like.

As you might expect, a ‘responsible conservatism’ looks just like … liberalism! My, what a surprise.

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

The fact checkers at the Washington Post are biased, but not corrupt. They will fact check and correct false statements by Democrats.

But when it comes to rating the false statements — a highly subjective exercise — they are more forgiving of Democrats. They tend to go light on the number of “Pinocchios” they award Dems, compared to Republicans. And it’s my impression that they are more inclined to fact check statements by Republicans than those of Democrats.