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Physician burnout has been a problem for a long time, but it’s exploded since Obamacare. So many physicians are changing careers and retiring early that our projections about how many new doctors we need to produce each year in medical schools has turned out to be way off. We’re trying to fill the gap with nurse practitioners and physician assistants because it takes less time to educate those, but we still can’t catch up. Even the famously leftist medical journals are starting to take note.

This month’s “Family Practice News” has an article entitled, “Zero-burnout practices often solo, physician-owned.” They did a survey of several hundred small to medium-sized primary care practices and found that the burnout rate in solo practices was much lower than in other practice types.

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If a frank enemy of the United States had taker over the executive branch this past January, I wonder if he would conduct himself one whit differently than have Joe Biden, his administration, and his Democratic enablers in Congress and the media. This isn’t the point that Andrew McCarthy expressly makes in his August 7 NR column “Why the Border Crisis Is Here to Stay,” but the column supports the point and it is the one I would like to make.

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How would an enemy of the United States do any differently?

Freeberg heads down a rabbit hole.

Liberals go through the motions of coming up with brand new ideas, and then the conservatives complain about them. High up on the list of these complaints the conservatives have about the liberal idea, is the observation that the idea is anything but new.

Liberals then complain about the conservatives. They ascribe all sorts of personal defects to the conservatives that are rather silly, for if they apply at all, a search for an enthused self-identifying liberal who shares such defects in equal measure, is a brief search. High up on the list of these complaints the liberals have about conservatives that apply with equal legitimacy to liberals, is the complaint that conservatives do a lot of complaining. But that one, at least, has the virtue of being true.

Subway franchisees are fed up with Megan Rapinoe’s TV ads

Jeb Bush: Weak Americans Need to Import More Immigrants to Win Olympic Medals

Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

VIDEO: Dems, Journos Keep Saying ‘Latinx’ Even Though Most Latinos Have No Idea What It Means

NY Times Crowns New Lefty Heroine Cori Bush on Eviction Moratorium: What Constitution?

One Man Killed After Homeless Crowd Attacks Couple At Seattle Encampment

FBI Officials “Widely Ignored” Rules In 2016, With Dozens In Contact With Reporters: Watchdog

Chinese City Offers $15,000 Reward For Snitching On Gatherings

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Earlier today, I wrote about an alleged ideological division in the Democratic party between the far left and the establishment. Now, I want to consider an ideological split in the Republican party about which Eliana Johnson filed this report.

That gap is related to, but not the same as, the division between hardcore Trump supporters and Republicans who would like to see the Party move on from the ex-president. It’s the divide between traditional free-market Reagan Republicans and Republicans who, in Eliana’s words, want the government “to get more, rather than less, involved in national economic policy in order to help advance a certain set of social and cultural goals.” Apparently, the emerging label for the latter group is “common good capitalism.”

As I have written before, when you stick a qualifier on the front of a term, the term no longer applies. ‘Common good capitalism’ is no longer capitalism, just an attempt to hijack the term in service to a non-capitalist political agenda.

9/11 families to President Biden: Don’t come to our memorial events  In which Democrats learn that the way they treated Trump can be dished out to them as well.

Conservative Commentator Allie Beth Stuckey Suspended From Twitter

The Society of Cultural Anthropology’s Campaign to Present American Populism as Fascism

You shouldn’t miss this massive bombshell in Trump’s ongoing election fraud lie (CNN)

Trump Nearly Enlisted the Justice Department in His Coup Scheme (New York Magazine)

Liberals Demand Kroger Boycott After Elaine Chao Joins Company’s Board (Newsweek)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Southerners May Shoot Vaccination Volunteers (Newsweek) Except that she didn’t.

Trump urges supporters to buy misspelled “membership” cards with image resembling Nazi logo (Salon)

Twitter ‘Temporarily Restricts’ Account of Trump’s Chief Spokeswoman

American Medical Association, Descending Into Wokeness, Calls for Eliminating Sex on Birth Certificates

Cori Bush Hires Mercenary Army To Arrest Anyone Who Doesn’t Want To Defund The Police   Babylon Bee.

Lincoln Project in Ruins: Disgraced Super PAC Abandons Headquarters

CNN Lets Two Dem Guests Slam Pardon of Mark McCloskey

A Single USWNT Player Didn’t Kneel Before Bronze Medal Match

Google founder gets New Zealand residency, raising questions  Too all such questions, the answer is ‘Money talks’.

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Parents concerned about the leftward tilt of K-12 schools should take a close look at an international organization that is influencing education systems worldwide.

In 2018, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, announced its educational goals for the world in a document titled “The Future of Education and Skills: Education 2030.”

Among its recommendations: “Children entering school … will need to value common prosperity” above other concerns, and “curricula should continue to evolve, perhaps in radical ways” that “reflect evolving societal requirements.”

With the viral spread of critical race theory in tandem with gender theory flooding the world’s kindergarten classrooms and up, curriculum has most certainly evolved “in radical ways.”

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Historically, fire was a regular visitor to most Western forests, except moist locations like those along the Pacific Northwest coast and in British Columbia. Frequent or periodic fires from Indigenous burning and lightning strikes created patchworks of grasslands, shrublands and regenerating forests of all ages.

Past fires influence the way subsequent fires burn and what they leave behind. For example, Indigenous burning practices not only enhance cultural resources and wildlife habitat but also reduce the amount and connectedness of fuels that drive large, severe wildfires. Similarly, patchy burns from lightning ignitions create forest landscapes that are less likely to burn all at once.

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Follow the headline link, type in the name of an artist you love. Music Map offers completion if you are not certain of the spelling.

Once you find your artist, click the name and Music Map will build a tag cloud with artists related to your artist. The closer a tag is to your artist, the greater the probability that you will find their styles similar.

I’ve played with this a bit and, though it’s not perfect, I have enjoyed the rabbit hole of artists it’s led me down.

Freeberg nails it.

Rather than looking back on history to when society at large blamed Jews, poor people, rich people, blacks, whites, gays, witches, straights, women, men, etc….let’s remove the emotionalism from it and just call the scapegoated group A. The history of human beings is much easier to understand, when you look for the simpler patterns, because when you review it in this sort of context you find the patterns. And once you find them you see they’re not complicated. So the era is unspecified, but it was cool to blame A. Let’s leave the problems unspecified too. Cows gave spoiled milk, real estate & gasoline were expensive, unemployment was sky-high…whatever…everybody blamed A because it was cool to blame A.

The pattern you’re going to see as you read up on history is that an effort arose to defrock A of any influence. Lots of people from all sorts of different walks of life participated in it, and they believed in it passionately, so the effort was both intense and broad. There was little resistance against this. Resistance would have been punished, with a sneering attitude of…so what, you’re with the A? And so members of Group A became pariahs. They may or may not have been driven underground or herded into boxcars, but the one consistent thing is that they weren’t allowed to have an effect on anything.

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While much of the world has been focused on combating the global coronavirus pandemic, extremist and criminal groups have been carrying out kidnapping-for-ransom raids on Nigerian schools with the hopes of extorting local populations.

The Daily Signal has reported on those developments previously, but the situation has not improved. In early July, following six days of attacks, Nigerian authorities closed 13 schools after more than 125 students were kidnapped from a Baptist high school.

In addition to the kidnappings, 33 civilians were killed and four churches were burned.

According to Statisense, a Nigerian data company, more than 3,000 people have been kidnapped since January.

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“Honolulu native and American Army veteran with a gift to serve, he felt a duty to himself and his fellow citizens to be fully vaccinated,” reads a statement from his reps provided to People. “Although he was fully vaccinated, Ing was first diagnosed with pneumonia in mid-July then confirmed to have COVID-19 a few days later. After two weeks of battling COVID-19, Ing passed away due to cardiac arrest.”

Yeah, gonna run right out and get that vaccine.

ZMan peers behind the curtain.

Within this political structure, there is very little room for any dispute, much less disputes over consequential matters. Our political class, which includes the mass media, the commentariat and the donor class, is left to fight pitched battles over trivial issues, often invented for the purpose. In the case of the media, the selection pressure over the last thirty years has resulted in a collection of performers highly tuned to personalize trivial issues and express those emotions on the stage.

It is why the Trump years were a cacophony of hysterics. This is how everyone responds to everything. In the case of Trump, the entire dramatis personae just happened to be on one side. Note how none of the claims about his administration were rooted in policy. They never engaged in policy disputes with him. It was all highly personal and ridiculously petty.

Trump Amends Big Tech Lawsuit As 65,000 Americans Submit Censorship Stories

American democracy’s infrastructure is crumbling (CNN)

Nets Hide Massive Group of Illegals Apprehended at Border, Over 1,000

Pelosi Asks Biden to Extend Eviction Moratorium in Violation of Supreme Court Ruling

NBC Hypes U.S.-Bashing Sprinter, Ignores Belarusian Sprinter Defection

DC Police Confirm 4th Suicide Among Officers Defending Capitol Jan. 6  Perhaps they can’t live with their shameful role in these political show trials.

It’s Not All Fun and Games At The Olympics

Mitchell Touts ‘Very Special’ Jane Mayer Hit Piece on Conservatives ‘Suppressing the Vote’

Illinois Gov. Pritzker to Enforce Background Checks for Private Gun Sales

Pelosi Says She Will Arrest Any Congressperson Caught With Copy Of The Constitution Babylon Bee.

Elizabeth Warren Tells Teen Vogue ‘Access to Abortion’ is ‘About the Functioning of Our Democracy’  Apparently democracy includes killing bablies. Aristotle would be surprised.

Head of Group for Exiled Belarusians Found Hanged in Ukraine

New York County Passes Bill To Allow Cops To Sue Rioters

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The Delta variant of the novel Coronavirus has delivered a tremendous opportunity for Democratic officeholders and public health authorities to feed their will to power. The Democratic officeholders have also seized the moment to replay the freestyle stupidity that carried us through the epidemic. Here are four columns that shed light on dark corners.

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Leaving California would be an obvious first step.

Higher Gas Prices Mean Higher Taxes: Illinoisans Now Pay The Nation’s 2nd-Highest Gas Taxes

AOC Hires Heavy Security, Ex-Blackwater

Minneapolis Crime Update

Pick Your Pronouns Wisely

Culture & Conduct Risk: The Normalization of Deviance

‘The Chi:’ ‘People of Chicago Don’t Need Policing,’ Reality: 50 Shot This Weekend

Home Depot Is Selling Power Tools That Require Activation In-Store  Shoplifting has gotten pretty bad. Try Amazon.

Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen  Thank you, George Soros.

Governments reportedly used Pegasus spyware to post private photos of female journalists

NY Spent $106M on Cuomo’s Halted Bridge Lighting Plan

Hypocrite NY Times Troubled By Targeting of Left-Wing Arsonists: ‘Extreme Crackdown’

‘The Muppets’ Spin-Off Teaches Toddlers the Beauty of Transgenderism

Senate May Move on Universal Pre-K

Libertarians built a Bitcoin economy in a New Hampshire town, feds tore it down

ABC Touts Jailed Murderer Elected in DC, Lobbies for Prisoners to Vote

German High Court Rules Facebook Illegally Censored Content

Soros-Backed Virginia Prosecutors Face Recall Amid Crime Surge

David Brooks.

The creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysfunction.

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The biggest local crime story this year may be the beheading of America Thayer in broad daylight on the streets of Shakopee, Minnesota last week. America was murdered by one Alexis Saborit. Saborit was her abusive boyfriend.

In a 2017 Carver County proceeding against him for abusing America (Thayer, that is), Judge Kevin Eide indicated in the court’s release order/bail hearing document that “Defendant has ICE hold.” At his initial appearance on the murder charge on Friday, Saborit asked to be deported to his own country rather than stand trial in Scott County.

Saborit was on his way to court with Thayer on a 2020 arson charge when he murdered her. In the arson case Saborit is described as a Puerto Rican male. If so, he would be an American citizen.

What is Saborit’s immigration status? So far as I can tell, Alpha News editor Anthony Gockowski is the only reporter pursuing an answer to the question. He reports: “[N]either the Shakopee Police Department nor ICE responded when Alpha News asked for clarification.” One way or another we intend to achieve clarity.

A lawyer hoped history books would help her Capitol riot clients grow. She was called a traitor — and worse. (Washington Post)

California Parents Are Pulling Children From Public Schools

American Medical Association: Remove Sex from Public Birth Certificates

TikTok Star Shot Dead at US Cinema

Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect

NPR Allows Its Reporters to Engage in Direct Activism

Belarus Runner Alleges Olympic Team Tried to Send Her Home

California Fighting Federal ‘Let It Burn’ Policies, Annual Wildfires

San Fran DA Chesa Boudin Stands Up For Shoplifters And Drug Dealers

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During the campaign I thought the over/under on the decline of Biden’s faculties should be set at 40 percent. Since then I have upped it to 50 percent. Until he takes a cognitive test, we are stuck with guesses based on our observations and inferences. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Michael Goodwin notes in the New York Post today the visible “evidence he is not up to the job. His frailty and mannerisms hardly inspire confidence, and the obvious attempts to hide him from extended questioning fuels more doubts about his fitness.”

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The Telegraph reports that documents from Britain’s National Health Service, dated 2017 and 2018, indicate that the NHS contemplated denying medical care to those over 70 in case of a “serious flu epidemic.”

Gotta love that government-provided health care!

Narrowing the U.S. wealth gap is important. Narrowing the racial wealth gap is urgent. (Washington Post) Why? Why is it ‘urgent’? Why is it even ‘importnt’? (The fact that they write so many articles about it suggests that nobody outside the Hive thinks it either important or urgent.)

OOOPS: Unfortunate PolitiFact Job Tweet Says ‘Come Join Our Misinformation Team’

The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure

With Dem-Loving Press, Science Is Whatever Biden Says It Is at the Time

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But some exceptions have cropped up. In 1977, for instance, researchers in the Soviet Union found something peculiar while looking at a virus that infects photosynthetic bacteria: All the A’s in the genome had been replaced with an alternative base, 2-aminoadenine, which was later dubbed Z. Usually, C pairs with G and T pairs with A to form double-stranded DNA. But in this virus, with no A’s to be found, T paired with Z. (During gene transcription, T-Z was still treated as though it were T-A.)

The Z base looks like a chemical modification of A; it’s an adenine nucleotide with an extra attachment. But that modest change allows Z to form a triple hydrogen bond with T, which is more stable than the double bond that holds together A-T.

BLM gives senator ultimatum to cut ties with ‘all white’ country club

Black Lives Matter Rhode Island to protest Sheldon Whitehouse over exclusive club ties

Suspects accused of murdering 60-year-old woman in Garland arrested

Why Is Nobody, Other Than My Commenters, Suggesting That Simone Biles Was Stressed by Her Brother’s Recent Triple Murder Trial?

Morning Joe Pundit Compares GOP Voting Laws to Emmett Till Murder

Job applicants with black names less likely to get interviews  Gee, I wonder why?

Gaetz, Greene and Gohmert turned away from jail to visit Jan. 6 defendants | TheHill

‘I Thought I Was Going To Die’, Says Capitol Police Officer Who Held Door Open For Protestors On Jan. 6

‘Converse’ Unveils New Occult Shoe Line

NPR Ethics Striptease on Protests: Let Your Progressive Flag Fly, Reporters!

“The Enemies Of The State”: The New York Times And The Fluidity of Advocacy Journalism

Colorado web designer who refused to make same-sex wedding websites loses appeal

NYT: There Is No Good Reason You Should Have to be a Citizen to Vote

CAUGHT: CNN En Español Openly Pushing Communist Cuba’s Propaganda

Critics Concerned About Canada’s New Speech Legislation  This is why it’s handy to have the First Amendment.

Cuomo pushes employers to force their employees return to NYC

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Hammer tech.

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The transit industry is terrible at accurately predicting future costs and ridership. It is terrible at cost-effectively moving people. But it is very good at one thing: spin.

When the pandemic dropped ridership by more than 80 percent, did the industry say, “I guess we aren’t needed right now; you can cut our subsidies”? No! It said, “We are carrying essential workers to their jobs, therefore you must increase our subsidies.”

Now that ridership is slowly recovering, is the industry saying, “we are now carrying only 42 percent of pre-pandemic levels, so you can cut our subsidies”? No! Instead it is saying, “Ridership of some agencies has increased by as much as 80 percent, so you must increase our subsidies!”

“Transit” never means “going from where you are to where you want to be as quickly as possible”. It always means “going from where you aren’t to someplace not where you want to be on somebody else’s schedule that incidentally eats up at least twice as much time as driving”.

Scientists Model “True Prevalence” of COVID-19 in the United States Throughout Pandemic

CDC mask advisory gets tepid Montana response

“Not Grounded In Reality”: Many Republican Governors Make Clear They Will Not Be Mandating Masks Or Vaccines

BUSTED: Habitual Parking Violator AOC Shuns Pelosi’s Mask Mandate, Puts Lives at Risk

The CDC’s Hysterical Delta Flip-Flop Might Be Its Final Undoing Don’t hold your breath.

Biden’s Border Patrol Dumping COVID-Positive Illegals In Texas Town Via Local Charity

California Restaurant Requires “Proof Of Being UNvaccinated” For Service  Except that you can’t prove a negative.

California One-Ups CDC With More Restrictive Mask Mandate

America’s Covid policy remains largely a train wreck

The Vaccine Karens

Sydney Sends In Military To Help Enforce Lockdown Amid Record Jump In COVID Cases

The Pointless Drive To Make Masks Great Again

France Calls UK Quarantine Rules Discriminatory, Excessive

CBS Leaps to Defense of ‘Target’ Newsom in Recall, Spins History of Mask Hypocrisy

Fall in Line: Big Tech Companies Implement New COVID-19 Policies to Control Employees

Police Ordered to Arrest Visitors, Staff Refusing to Wear Masks on House Side

American Postal Workers Union Opposes Mandatory Vaccinations “At This Time”

Face Masks Found To Be Effective At Making You Look Like A Giant Dummy Who Doesn’t Know How Vaccines Work Babylon Bee.

Besides Lost Jobs, 3 More Ways Minimum Wage Laws Hurt Workers They’re Meant to Help

Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan: Stop ‘Fair-Minded’ Coverage of January 6 Hearings

Tweets Show Capitol Officer Dunn as Critical of Trump, Praising BLM Protests

Tim Cook, other CEOs urge Congress to pass citizenship path for Dreamers  They have a ‘citizenship path’ – it’s called Obey The Law. (In passing, they might want to give their parents a smack for putting them in this position.)

Infrastructure Agreement Filled With Billions for Green Energy, Racial Justice Projects  My, what a surprise.

Air Force report: China ‘weaponizing’ economic clout to coerce U.S. allies

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When I was a kid, scientists in the movies were either good guys who used their knowledge and skills to solve the problem and kill the monster or the aliens or they were bad guys (“mad scientists”) whose ego caused them to misuse science in an attempt to rule the world. Those movies never had incompetent scientists trying to fake science and skill to gain power and influence; that would be the movie we are seeing now.

We could start working the script with a long look at the execrable Neil Ferguson who became famous by persuading British authorities that millions of Britons would die from Mad Cow Disease. He made equally stupid predictions about swine flu and bird flu. There is nothing in this man’s professional record that would suggest he has any credibility, but damn if the U.K. and the U.S. didn’t base their initial response on his preposterous COVID model which was followed by his even sillier prediction of mass deaths if any nation dared let up on lockdown or closure interventions.

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Why would anyone have faith in the government’s telling the truth? It’s clear that if the facts get in the way of their agenda, they aren’t interested in “complicating” their message. We always knew that government, and especially politicians, “mishandled” the truth, but we figured that behavior went with the job. After all, they desperately wanted to fool as many people as possible. But now the lying is so ubiquitous that the word “truth” has lost its meaning. I’d like to think the lying happens less on the Right, but I simply don’t know if that’s true anymore. Even more disappointing is that more than ever, the media has decided that its mission is to defend the Leftist agenda, so they are happy to collude in the lying.

MSNBC’s McCaskill Fears Americans Won’t Watch Partisan Dem Hearing  Well, shucks.

Where the fight to build a better democracy starts (CNN) At CNN, of course.

CNN Republican Margaret Hoover Longs for a More Liberal GOP  She could always dig up the corpse of Teddy Roosevelt.

Politico: Georgia Democrats Say ‘We’re F***ed’ With Voter ID Required, a ‘Turnout Catastrophe’

Your Kids Are Next: Facebook Continues Development of Instagram for Kids Despite Backlash  What better venue for Drag Queen Story Hour?

Catholic Bishops Rebuke Self-Described ‘Strong Catholic’ Terry McAuliffe

MSNBC Hails Leftist Media Mogul Lear Demanding Dem Election Takeover

CUNY Professors Leave Union in Droves Following Anti-Israel Statement

New ‘Oregon Trail’ Game Has You Try To Survive A Trip Through Portland  Babylon Bee. Prepare to die.

Chinese Defense University Conceals Partnerships With U.S. Schools

Police Reform Passed in Washington State

The Post-Dirtbag Left (The New Yorker)

San Francisco considering congestion tax on high-earning drivers

UK Labour Councillor Ridiculed For Bragging About Wearing A Mask On An Empty Train  If you virtue-signal and there’s nobody there to see it, did it really happen?

First Pro-Democracy Protester Convicted Under Hong Kong National Security Law

Arizona Senate Subpoenas Maricopa County Routers

Progressive Christian Offers New, More Open, Less Judgmental Christianity — No, Wait, It’s Just Satan Again Babylon Bee. Any resemblance to Pete ButtPlug is purely coincidental, I’m sure.

Arrest Warrant Signed for Texas Dem Who Fled State

China Building Massive Nuclear Missile Base, Satellite Images Reveal

American Women’s Soccer Team Defeated After Opponents Play U.S. National Anthem During Game Forcing Them To Kneel The Whole Time  Babylon Bee.

GOP Lawmakers Join Pro-Cuban Marchers at DC Rally of Support

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“Treating healthy people like biohazards over an illness that has killed two dozen personnel in a force of millions is insane. Those preventative policies have consequences, too; the surge in depression and suicide among the young is real. . . .”

I am healthy, but our governor in California regards me as a biohazard because I am not vaccinated. He supports, “My body. My choice.” Except when he doesn’t.

Maybe if you were going to kill one of his children ….

Texas Democrat fears ‘rural cop’ retaliation for fleeing state Well, maybe if you’d do your job….

MSNBC Allows TX Dem to Float Unhinged Conspiracy Theory: ‘Rural Cops’ Are After Us!

Chicago Chamber Of Commerce Rages As Average Unemployed Illinoisan Parent Earns $35/Hour Sitting On The Couch

China Blasts US Seeing It As “Imaginary Enemy” Leading To “Stalemate”, Gives Biden A “To Do” List

Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence from Gunshot-Detecting AI

Inside a Chinese Internment Camp

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After over a quarter century mostly lived in the Golden State, my family left it all this year for Texas—and we haven’t looked back.

It turns out that when you have kids, you don’t want to be in Venezuela when it collapses. Old friends now ask us about the hot Texas summer. But, like so many others, I’m not at a stage in life where I give a damn about refined weather. As you may have noticed, we have some work to do to save America. And weather and geography do not matter when you are ruled by people who hate you and your family and everything you stand for—when the rule of law is routinely bent for one side and not the other.

Arizona GOP Audit Director Barred From Recount After Sharing Data Supporting Trump Loss (Newsweek)

U.S. drops cases against five researchers accused of hiding ties to Chinese military (Washington Post)

California Is Experiencing A Crime “Tsunami”, DA Says  Gee, I wonder why?

“It Looks Like A Bazaar In Istanbul”: Without Police On The Street, Illegal Vendors And Gamblers Are Taking Over The Bronx

Argentina Establishes a Transgender Quota for Government Workers

CNN’s Darcy Promotes NAACP CEO Wishing Fox News Could Be ‘BANNED’

FBI Entrapment Claims Abound Around Jan. 6, Busted Whitmer Plot

Pelosi Plans to Add Anti-Trump GOP Rep. Kinzinger to Jan. 6 Panel  The new ‘bipartisan’: Democrats and RINOs.

The Other McCain turns over a rock.

San Jose isn’t Alabama or Mississippi. You can talk all you want about “the system” and slave ships, but San Jose was never part of that. There were no cotton plantations in Santa Clara County, and I’m doubtful the KKK ever had much influence there. As for the current demographics of San Jose, the city’s population is less than 30% non-Hispanic white, 33% Hispanic, 32% Asian, 16% “other,” and about 3% black.

Even if we did not know the specific details of Demetrius Stanley’s death, does it make sense to jump to the conclusion that racism explains this shooting? Is San Jose a bastion of right-wing Trump voters upholding “systemic racism”?

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All of San Jose’s elected representatives are Democrats. The governor of California is a Democrat, as are both of the state’s U.S. Senators. In the 2020 election, Joe Biden got nearly 64% of the vote in California, and almost 73% of the vote in Santa Clara County. There may be more liberal places in American than San Jose, but certainly the city is not a reactionary stronghold of white supremacy.

WaPo reporter sues paper for not assigning her to cover Kavanaugh matter

Meet the CDC-Backed Groups That Want To Teach Trans Ideology to Kindergartners

NPR Book Club Promotes Author Who Wants Race Riots and Looting Defined as ‘Rebellions’

CNN Ponders ‘Swearing Off Meat Completely’ To Save Planet

Severian is unhappey.

There’s definitely a lot of that going around, but it doesn’t describe the behavior of the apple polishers, or the people who have issued themselves the Asshole License. You know the ones I mean: SJWs, of course, but also CrossFitters, vegans, cyclists… basically, anyone who takes up a certain cause or lifestyle seemingly for the sole purpose of being an enormous douchebag about it in every possible social situation. Neither I nor anyone else would have a problem with vegans, say, if they really were doing it for their health, as they so often claim, because if they really were doing it for their health, they’d bring it up once, and then forever shut the fuck up about it.

I’m pretty sure that nobody in Ranger School or BUD/S ever asked, ‘Is this going to be on the test?’

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A patriotic restaurant owner in northern Illinois is facing fines of $200 – all because he decided to fly an American flag outside his business, according to a report.

Terry Trobiani, who runs Gianelli’s, a hot dog and beef spot along Highway 176 in Prairie Grove, McHenry County, says he was ticketed for “improper display” after a village administrator recently stopped by, according to FOX 32 of Chicago.

“He says, ‘You might want to read this,’” Trobiani recalled the official saying as he was handed a printout of the local rules.

“The American flag is a symbol of patriotism,” Trobiani said. “It’s not a sign. They’re equating it with open/closed. Dine in, sign out.”

 

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In a pattern similar to what other industrialized nations have already experienced, China not only has a labor shortage because of a low middle class birth rate, they are now experiencing the side effects of too many university graduates. Currently about 54 percent of young (18-22) Chinese will obtain university degrees and a growing percentage of them cannot find jobs that justify the effort and expense that went into obtaining a diploma. In 2021 over nine million recent university graduates went looking for a job. That was four percent more than 2020 and most will not find a job that requires a university degree. Even grads with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) degrees are not guaranteed a job and, even if they get an offer, it is not as attractive (well-paid and in their field) as a decade ago. Many have to settle for low-level (high school) teaching jobs. The military is always seeking STEM grads but this is considered second-best because pay and benefits are not great and working conditions are often very unattractive, especially in the navy where ships spend more and more time at sea. Another problem with the military is that you have to qualify to be an officer and that excludes many STEM grads who cannot meet the physical or gender (males preferred) requirements.

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Other than drunks on skid row downtown, Los Angeles didn’t have many homeless people in the postwar era. That was largely because of the immense Camarillo State Mental Hospital, which had 7,000 residents/inmates/patients or whatever you want to call them in 1957. For example, Charlie Parker recorded “Relaxin’ at Camarillo” after his six restful months there in 1946 following a series of unfortunate events such as setting his hotel room on fire and playing his saxophone naked in the lobby.

Whistleblower Docs: NASA Held Microaggressions Training

North Carolina State Board Of Election Denies Audit Request

“Hundreds Of Thousands Have Disappeared” – Inside China’s Largest Detention Center

Inside the new gender critical research network

It’s Almost as if Spending More on the Homeless Invites in More Homeless…

German TV News Reporter Suspended After Video Shows Her Smearing Herself With Mud In Flood-Hit Town

Scaled-Back Olympics Opening Ceremony Marred By Protests As Sponsors Flee

China Hits US Entities With Retaliatory Sanctions, Including Wilbur Ross, Over Hong Kong Warnings

Pelosi’s Archbishop Rebukes Her for Saying She Supports Abortion as ‘Devout Catholic’

Social Justice Warriors Demand Unrestricted Rights To Olympic Protest

Spree of church burnings in Canada continues

As Predicted, Court-Packing Looms Large in Supreme Court Commission’s Second Public Meeting

Massive Immigrant-Led Protest Shuts Down Manhattan Bridge

Biological Male May Join Middle School Girls Cross Country Team, Judge Rules

Teen AirDrops images of airsoft gun to passengers on United flight, plane evacuated

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Clausewitz famously drew the parallel between war and politics when he said, “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” Therefore, is makes sense for those engaged in politics to study the tactics of war and the warrior. It is not an accident that many of the great political figures in our history were also military men. Twelve U.S. presidents were generals. For a country founded on the principle of civilian rule, having a quarter of the executives come from the military is telling.

The Book of Five Rings is a book on martial arts written by a legendary Japanese swordsman named Miyamoto Musashi. He was also a philosopher, strategist and luckily for us, a writer. He became famous in 17th century Japan for his unique fighting style and his undefeated record in his 61 duels. He is known to westerners through his book on strategy, but in Japan he is still remembered for his great deeds. There is a shrine named after him, which is supposed to be his burial site.

Read it.

Sociopaths are people who “have no regard for others’ rights or feelings, lack empathy and remorse for wrongdoings, and have the need to exploit and manipulate others.” That definition perfectly fits New Urban planners and the environmentalists who support them.

And Democrats – don’t forget the Democrats.

I could be referring to planners eager to inflict congestion on commuters in order to persuade a few of them to take transit. But today I’m referring to planners eager to drive up housing prices in order to force more people to live in multifamily housing.

Yeah, those are Democrats, alright.