Severian is down on academic ‘research’.

If you’ve done any academic work at all, in any field — scratch that, if you’ve done any competent, diligent work in any field — you’ve experienced the frustration of the “phantom cite.” This is where you see a startling assertion in Jones. You check his footnote — see Smith. You go pull Smith off the shelves, and his footnote says “see Williams.” Williams cites Parker, Parker cites Adams, Adams cites Rogers, until finally, you pull Rogers and… nothing. Not the “oh gosh, I’d have to travel to the British Museum to check this, and it’s in Medieval High Bulgarian anyway” kind of nothing, but the bald-ass assertion kind of nothing.

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Times propagandist Nicholas Kristof is at it again.

Are Palo Alto’s public schools, such as the former Terman Middle School in Palo Alto, which has the highest test scores in the United States, so superb more because of their budget or because of the IQs of the parents of its students? What would the Termans, both father (Louis Terman, the Father of American IQ Testing) and son (Fred Terman, the Father of Silicon Valley) say? Well, we know what they would say, so Terman Middle School was cancelled and renamed after a city councilwoman who introduced bike lanes to Palo Alto. After all, what did the Termans ever do for Palo Alto property values?

In reality, this question has been studied endlessly, and, it turns out, black students have more spent on them per capita than white students.

Nancy Pelosi Seen On Video Hugging, Chatting While Maskless In Crowded White House Room

Despite Her Own Policy

Lego Unveils New Genderless Bricks With No Male/Female Connectors Babylon Bee.

Lawyer Preparing Lawsuit Over Fatal Jan. 6 Ashli Babbitt Shooting

The Rise of Corporate–State Tyranny

American democracy is in even worse shape than you think (Washington Post) Mostly because of Narrative Media like the Washington Post.

Dems Successfully Moved the Goal Posts

POUNCED! The Hill Cries ‘Republicans Have Pounced’ on High Inflation & Abysmal Jobs Growth  Republicans are always ‘pouncing’ on something (maybe because Democrats are always giving them something to pounce on…)

‘Tax Me More’ Millionaires Don’t Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are

Jews Attacked In Broad Daylight In Times Square As Anti-Semitic Attacks Spike Nationwide

Women’s Group Demands CNN Suspend Chris Cuomo, Investigate How He Advised His Brother On #METOO Allegations  Good luck with that.

Don Lemon: ‘I’m Not Partisan’ But Dems Must Save America From Insane, Obsolete GOP  He’s not racist either but he hates white people.

CNN Freaks at Gun Rights Defender McCloskey Running for Senate

Why Did Former FBI Director Freeh Give $100k To A Trust For VP Biden’s Grandkids In 2016?

Hollywood Mogul Gives $3 Million To Help Shield Gavin Newsom From Recall

Democrats Worry Of Dark Future Where They Can’t Murder Children For Being Inconvenient  Babylon Bee.

Undefeated Comes Unhinged: Race-Baiting ESPN Blog Condemns America

School Might Backpedal On ‘Equity Statement’ Calling To Dismantle ‘White Advantage’ After Parents Say ‘It Incites Racism’

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All the candidates want “more affordable housing” in the city, and one is in favor of eliminating single-family zoning all over the city, which would completely change the character of the city. No one is in favor of changing the rules that make the city one of the most expensive to live in (no gas heating in new buildings, mandatory “clean energy sources”).

The choices presented to Seattle voters are: Left, hard-left, Socialist, and Communist. No wonder the city is turning into a cesspool.

This is a reflection of the electorate. People get the government that they deserve.

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A Jewish family was leaving a synagogue when a group of men drove by and insulted the family until an armed bystander got between them, a local CBS affiliate reported Thursday.

Eric Orgen said he was walking with his wife and daughter when the men yelled and threw garbage at the family, according to CBS12 News.

“They just started screaming some derogatory things towards Jewish people out the window,” Orgen told CBS12 News. The men said, “free Palestine, die Jew, F you Jew, I’m gonna rape your wife,” according to Orgen.

Severian makes my point.

The Puritans were something new. Translate their elaborate, Latinate prose into the parlance of our times, and they sound exactly like SJWs — at once unbearably self-righteous and cripplingly insecure. They were almost certain that they, personally, were among the Elect… but since the only infallible sign of being Saved was “an irresistible attraction to Puritanism,” they were caught in exactly the same vicious purity spiral as our modern SJWs. Who, truly, can say xzhey are #woke, when there’s always the possibility of someone, somewhere, being #woker? If you want a slightly easier passport to their heads, try Perry Miller’s The New England Mind. It was written in the 1930s, so be prepared — surprisingly little untranslated Latin, since the Puritans wrote mostly for themselves, but still fairly ornate prose.

Nearly 20% Of Seattle Cops Quit Amid National Protests, Budget Cuts

POLL: Majority Of Portland Residents Think City Is ‘Very Unsafe’ After Dark, Want More Cops  Well, you’re not gonna get ’em. Time to leave.

Biologically Male Sexual Predators Housed In Washington Female Prisons, Court Documents Show

Walgreens Closes 17 San Francisco Stores Due To “Out Of Control” Shoplifting  Time to leave.

Everything is Racist: ‘View’ Plugs Academic Pushing to Reform Systemically Racist Taxes

Networks Censor Palestinian Extremists HUNTING Jews on U.S. Streets

‘Repeating Hamas Propaganda’: Katie Pavlich Blasts Geraldo Rivera Over Claim US Is ‘Complicit’ In ‘Crime Against Humanity’

Destroying Institutions: Nets Skip First Meeting of Court-Packing Panel

ABC’s Drama: History Book ‘Whitewashes’ US, Ignores ‘Terrible Things It’s Responsible For’

UNHINGED MSNBC Guest: Israelis Are Like a Jim Crow Mob Who Killed Black Americans

House Democrats introduce bill to close existing gun loopholes and prevent mass shootings  I’m sure that will fix EVERYTHING.

Quick, hide your Bibles!

CCP or Democratic Party Line? Who Can Tell?

The challenges of being a chief diversity officer

MSNBC Host INSANELY Suggests U.S. Give Missile Defense to Terrorist Hamas

Federal Judge Sides With Biden, Rules Christian College Must Allow Biological Men To Share Showers With Women

Portland Resumes Homeless Camp Removal As Needles And Trash Pile Up

New Yorker Magazine Union Posts Anti-Semitic Tweet in Solidarity With Palestinians

Democrat Congresswoman Appears To Claim Israel Should Be Blamed For Hamas Firing Rockets

In Solidarity With Hamas, AOC Straps Some Palistinean Children On To Defend Herself From Attacks  Babylon Bee.

Sen. Tim Scott Says Democrats’ Voting Bill ‘Would Actually Make It Easier To Cheat And Harder To Vote’

Fines Dropped Against Two Lawmakers Over Metal Detectors

Apple employees circulate internal letter calling on the company to support Palestinians

Steve Sailer.

In the past, many examples of language reform tended to come from the “euphemism treadmill,” where a term has become associated with empirical tendencies toward bad things, so a new term is invented to make people forget the statistical correlations. But then they notice them anyway, so a yet another new term has to be invented.

In contrast, not using “schizophrenic” to mean “multiple personalities” would be language reform to make language more empirically realistic. Perhaps there isn’t much of a constituency for that?

AP Hires Anti-Israel Activist as News Associate

‘Adopt-A-Gang-Banger’: Greg Gutfeld Has A Solution For Democrats Who Don’t Want Gang Members Deported

Janet Yellen makes an idiot of Pete Buttigeig Granted, not a high bar.

CNN’s Brian Stelter hits another yearly low in key demo as Fox News thrives Who wants to get their news from a Seinfeld character?

Trump Says Jan. 6 Commission Is ‘Democrat Trap’ Unless Portland, Minneapolis Riots Also Studied  Well, yeah.

Police recruiting suffers as morale hits new lows  Gee, I wonder why?

Google employees demand Palestine support in letter to CEO

Liberal TV Touts GOP ‘Civil War’ Over Biden’s Policy Debacles

Space Force Refuses To Specify Why Commander Was Fired Over Podcast Appearance  BECAUSE WE SAID SO, DAMMIT!

The Left’s Misplaced “Compassion” Destroying Seattle  Time to leave.

CRICKETS: ABC Silent After Biden’s Joking Threat to Murder Its Reporter

WATCH: Dems Abandon Israel

Police Recruiting Plummets While Crime Surges In Major US Cities

Progressive Philly DA Larry Krasner Wins Primary Despite Record High Homicide Rates

Men Give Birth. America Was Founded in 1619. And Israel Is the Aggressor.

Rep. Massie ‘Files’ Threat Of No-Mask Fine From Pelosi Into Trash Can

Anti-Semitic Bias? Facebook Admits to Deplatforming Pro-Israel Page after “Islamic” Attack

MSNBC Founder’s Scheme to Swamp Swing States With Dem Voters

23 House Republicans Demand Reinstatement Of Space Force Commander Fired For Criticizing Marxism

Existing, And 6 Other Things You Didn’t Know Were Actually Microaggressions  Babylon Bee.

Texas Pro-Life Victory Scares Desperate Blue-Check Abortion Fans

Historic Church Carvings Will be Replaced With Feminist Figures

Obama Bros Urge Donation to Terror-Linked Charity

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The U.S. military is having trouble finding recruits that aren’t too heavy to meet guidelines because of the growing childhood obesity rates across the country, so Army recruiters are working to identify potential soldiers who need to lose dozens of pounds before they can qualify to join the military.

“You’re even recruiting in a population that is obese,” retired Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost, who served for 35 years in the Army and works with the nonprofit group “Mission Readiness” to prepare potential recruits, told NPR. “That’s what our recruiters around the nation are dealing with.”

According to the Department of Defense, a full third of young adults ages 17-24, the optimal age for recruits, are simply too heavy to sign up.

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According to video accounts of the incident posted on Twitter, the pro-Palestinian mob approached a group of men dining at a sushi restaurant in West Hollywood and asked if they were Jewish. When the men replied, “Yes,” they attacked them. The mob hurled bottles and yelled anti-Semitic slurs. One bystander said they repeatedly struck one of the Jewish men “with a pole.” Police are investigating whether the incident was a hate crime.

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When Americans think of failed cities, places like Portland, Seattle, Detroit and Baltimore come to mind. But Minneapolis is, at a minimum, flirting with a similar status. The problem is out-of-control crime. Last Saturday night, six people were shot in Minneapolis, including a nine-year-old girl.

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Israelis have long since realized that Democrat politicians are lying sacks of shit and slimy weasels who would sell their own grandmothers for votes.

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‘The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology,’ noted Wired magazine in 1999. In 2013, an NPR reporter observed that the ‘Amish community [is] not anti-technology, just more thoughtful’. Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of Wired, spent time geeking out with ‘Amish hackers’ and peeking into workshops whose modern machines are powered by compressed air for his book What Technology Wants (2010). He concluded that: ‘In any discussion about the merits of avoiding the addictive grip of technology, the Amish stand out as offering an honourable alternative.’

The foundation of this ‘honourable alternative’ is to not adopt every single new technology, or use cars, phones and social media as soon as they become the norm. Instead, the Amish make slow and deliberate decisions as a collective. Rather than rushing optimistically or blindly into the future, they move forward cautiously, open but sceptical.

Sorry about the ‘we have to tell a story before getting to the point’ article — that’s the way ‘journalists’ are learning to write these days. I blame the Narrative Media.

Activist Groups That Support Terrorists Organize Anti-Israel Protests Across US

A New History Curriculum or Anti-American Propaganda?

The Deep Unpopularity of Kamala Harris

‘Advocate For Throwing Jews Into The Sea’: Israel Slams Bella Hadid For Attending Pro-Palestinian March

Rashida Talib Says Palestinians Are Experiencing ‘Their January 6’  By randomly firing rockets into civilian areas? I don’t see it.

Joy Reid Compares Mississippi Law Banning Abortions After 15 Weeks To ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’  Joy Behar saves Joy Reid from being the ugliest person on television. (Who named these people ‘Joy’?)

Newsom Turns To Bribery, Opens Up Big Bag Of Goodies To Californians In Bid To Head-Off Recall

If AP really didn’t know it shared space with Hamas, why trust its reporting?

Millionaires who support taxing the rich protest in front of Jeff Bezos’s homes (The Guardian) No sign that he was there, or even noticed. But of course it’s not about Bezos but about Them.

Liberal Media Scream: Chuck Todd doesn’t like to be called liberal, ‘Don’t start that!’

There are no Marjorie Taylor Greenes in the Democratic Party (Washington Post) Max Boot apparently doesn’t know any real Democrats, nor does he read the Washington Post. Maxine Waters. Alexandria Occasional Cortex. Joy Behar. Joy Reid. Whoopi Goldberg. Rachel Madow. Any member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Etc. Etc. Etc.

How the AP Slanted Border Coverage to Hide the Crisis

The Devil Must be Laughing at the Church of England

Associated Press, Hamas propagandists

DMV Employees In California Allegedly Accepted Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars In Bribes To Skip License Tests, Officials Say  Well, that’s what you get when crooks Democrats run your state.

CBS Hypes McConaughey for Texas Governor as New Reagan, Hides Gun Control Support

Penn State To Stop Using “Freshman”, “Sophomore”, Other Terms Because Of “Male-Centric” History

‘Your Influence In The Republican Party Is Almost Zero’: Meghan McCain Unloads On Joy Behar In Testy Spat Over Matt Gaetz  I hate to spill the beans, but so is Meghn McCain’s.

REPORT: Registered Sex Offender Charged With Allegedly Murdering 10-Year-Old Girl Was Granted Early Prison Release 

Anti-Gun Activist Says The Quiet Part Out Loud

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For our latest hit of “just feels right,” we turn to road printers. I.e. machines that lay unfurling tongues of brick perfectly.

I don’t think I’ve ever been that hard up.

(How long before they get rid of the humans stacking the bricks?)

CNN Contributor Calls for a New ‘Hitler’ to Kill All the Jews in Israel

Former Professor Sentenced To 37 Months In Prison For Using Federal Grants To Aid China’s Medical Research

Police Across America Brace For Another Violent Summer

China increases spending 500% to influence America

Mounting Violence Casts Doubt Over the Project of Progressive “Reform” Prosecutors  Glenn Greenwald.

America’s Housing Future Remains Murky At Best

White House Working To Roll Back Trump’s EU Metals Tariffs Despite Admitting They Saved Jobs

Larry Summers Pulls The Inflation Alarm

39 Million Households Including Most U.S. Children To Get Up To $3,600 Stimulus In Monthly Payments

Biden Admin Diverts $2 Billion From Healthcare Programs To Help Illegal Migrant Children

NYT Makes Pathetic Attempt to Save Biden’s Disastrous Economic Image

Biden Revokes Trump Executive Order Targeting Online Censorship  Democrats LOVE online censorship.

19 States Urge Biden To Reinstate Keystone After Colonial Pipeline Hack Caused Mass Gas Shortages

Marriage doesn’t work (just ask Bill and Melinda) – so let me present some alternatives (The Guardian) Well, it works if you do it right.

Portland Police Union President Says City Is “On The Precipice Of A Gang War”

In photos: Protesters rally across U.S. and the world over Israeli–Palestinian conflict  Needless to say, none of them were supporting the victim, Israel.

SF schools ‘re-open’ for just 1 day so the district can get $12M in funding

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross Show Pushes Abolition of Police …and Capitalism

Minneapolis Suburb OKs Plans to Limit Police in Making Arrests  Time to leave.

‘I’m Not Going To Let Donald Trump Win’: Adam Kinzinger Says He Won’t Let Trump Continue To ‘Hijack’ His Party  RINOs Assemble!

University Of California System Will No Longer Consider SAT And ACT Scores For Admissions  When you’re admitting by skin color, who cares about test scores?

Todd Suggests Israel ‘Targeted’ Press, Not Hamas With Tower Airstrike

No, the SALT deduction does not benefit only the wealthy. It makes sense to raise it. (Washington Post)

American Medical Association Embraces Critical Race Theory, Rejects Meritocracy

This Week in Campus Insanity Vol. 44

On CNN, Friedman Frets ‘Disaster for the Country’ if GOP Wins in 2022

Minnesota Black School Choice Movement “Explicitly Rejects” Narrative That America Is Racist

‘Sexist And Classist’: State School Votes To Ditch ‘Male-Centric’ Language And Traditional Pronouns

How Biden Aims to Take Critical Race Theory to the Next Level in Your School

Right-of-Center Books Hidden from Amazon Search Results

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A professor in Ohio was sentenced to 37 months in prison Friday for failing to disclose work for China funded by federal grants in what prosecutors say was an immunology research fraud scheme.

Texas Passes Bill That Would Create Anti-Abortion Vigilantes (Daily Beast) Would they be as bad as the pro-abortion vigilantes?

Governor Of Oklahoma Flipped Some Burgers Under PETA Billboard That Called Him A ‘Meathead’  Always proud to say I’m always mighty proud to say it….

“This Is The Ministry Of Truth”: Merriam-Webster Edits Definition For “Anti-Vaxxer” To Include Opponents Of Mandatory Jabs

ABC’s ‘A Million Little Things:’ Police ‘Just Looking For a Reason’ to Take Black Lives

NBC’s ‘Law and Order: Organized Crime’ Portrays Cops as Sadists Targeting Innocents

Not Your Childhood Classics: ‘Nancy Drew’ Focuses on Race and Homosexuality  What next, a trans Hardy Boy?

Alabama Federal Judge Upholds Anti-Riot Statute

Identity politics is ruining children’s books

Instagram Offers Users 41 Pronouns – Woke Mob Complains There Aren’t Enough

 Democrats Have Decided Every Part Of Their Big Government Agenda Counts As Infrastructure

Nag Much? Facebook Releases New Pop-Up to Prevent So-Called Misinformation

Immigrant Bought Land Where He Crossed The Border Illegally And Allows Others To Do The Same

‘A Woman That’s Deeply Unwell’: Ocasio-Cortez Says Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘Perceptions Of Reality’ Are Questionable  Like being called ugly by a frog.

‘View’ Libs Shower Adam Kinzinger With Praise: You’re the ‘Voice of Reason’ in the GOP!  I.e. a RINO.

Colbert Cues Up Warren to Say She’s ‘Delighted’ by Biden’s Socialist Agenda

Pathetic: Vaccinated Feminists Still Masking To Avoid ‘Male Gaze’  Works for me. I sure wish Joy Behar would wear a mask, the larger the better. And don’t get me started on Stacy Abrams.

Bernie Sanders: The U.S. must recognize that “Palestinian rights matter”  Not while they’re murdering people. Unless that makes them honorary BIPOC?

REPORT: University Of California System Will No Longer Consider Test Scores In Admissions Process

Amid Gasoline Shortage, Antifa Switches To Molotov Mocktails  Babylon Bee.

FAKERY: CNN Edits Dick Cheney, Blames Him for GOP ‘Purging’ Colin Powell

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Violent crimes soared in most areas where police agencies are working under federally court-ordered reform agreements.

The finding comes from an Axios review of FBI and Justice Department data on all 12 agencies operating under consent decrees since 2012. The outlet found that seven of the areas where police agencies are under consent decrees experienced increases in violent crime rates in two years compared to the two years before they entered into the agreement.

Consent decrees are court-approved legal agreements reached without litigation. With it, a judge can keep tabs on a police department to make sure it is complying with court orders.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

Samantha Bee Breaks Down Just How Crazy America’s Gun Laws Are (Daily Beast) Or maybe just how crazy Samantha Bee is.

The new CNN is more opinionated and emotional. Can it still be ‘the most trusted name in news’? (Washington Post)

Why Is the Government Hiding January 6 Video Footage?  Maybe because it doesn’t fit The Narrative?

‘See Who In The Hell He Calls’: Former Officer Wonders What Colin Kaepernick Would Do If Criminals Converged On His House

Seth Meyers Lauds Stacey Abrams for Fighting GOP ‘Tide of Voter Suppression Laws’

Politico Hypes Leftist Letter Begging Biden to Ignore GOP and Pass Trillions in New Spending

Republican Coalition Threatens To Leave GOP If It Doesn’t Reject ‘Despotism’ And ‘Forces Of Conspiracy’

Biden-Trump Election Polling Most Inaccurate in 40 Years: Research Group Says Maybe because they didn’t account for massive vote fraud.

Minneapolis Officers Charged In Floyd’s Death Allege Witness Coercion

‘Beyond The Pale’: Nancy Pelosi Wants Ethics Committee To Look Into Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘Verbal Assault’ On Ocasio-Cortez

Army Dog Tags Will Now List Soldier’s Pronouns  Babylon Bee.

Penn State Faculty Committee Moves to Remove ‘Gendered’ Terms

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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Canadians pride themselves on their ultra-progressive reputation. In contrast to the gun-loving, war-mongering, big government-hating, get-off-my-lawn-you-commie reputation of Americans, Canadians see themselves as North America’s kinder, gentler half. But that smug politeness has seen us sleepwalk into an Orwellian nightmare.

We have never felt much of an affinity to free speech in Canada — saying what you really think is mean and individual rights are for people who don’t have a feminist drama teacher as prime minister. So it’s perhaps unsurprising that a new bill proposing to regulate speech on the internet is being pushed by our politically center-left Liberal party.

The Other McCain is not happy.

Falling Down is a classic — some of the scenes are funny as hell, in a dark way — and what is the message? It’s about incentives.

Why should we play by the rules, if the rules don’t work? What is the incentive to be a good citizen — an honest, hard-working taxpayer — if the system does not reward you for compliance with the rules?

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Partly because COVID led many graduating high school students to defer applying to college last year, this year’s college application numbers set a record. This may turn out to be a last hurrah for the old college model, however, as colleges are on the brink of a demographic cliff. The decline in the U.S. birth rate that accelerated during the housing finance crash of 2008 is expected to diminish the pool of college-bound students starting in the next few years. And if Democrats succeed in making community colleges and state colleges cheaper or free, how will private tuition-dependent colleges fare? Likely not well.

Chelsea Clinton Calls For Global Crackdown On “Anti-Vax” Social Media Posts  The turd doesn’t fall far from the anus.

Welcome To The Socialist Paradise Of California

China Demands Cancellation of UN Meeting on Uyghurs

CBS Gives Away the Game: Hey Stacey Abrams, How Does Voting Bill Help Dems in 2022?

‘Shift In Narratives’: China Boosting Twitter Support With Bot Accounts Cheering On Their Officials

MEHLMAN: Senate Democrats Ponder Back Door Tactic To Gain Amnesty For Illegal Aliens

Top Cardinal Warns Bishops About Rebuking Pro-Abortion Biden

Univision Goes All-Out To Save Gavin Newsom

‘I Plan To Ignore It’: Tennessee Teachers Criticize Critical Race Theory Ban At Public Schools, Say It Will Harm Students  This may be the final nail in the coffin of public education – the only kids in public schools will be those too poor to afford an alternative.

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Ireland nowadays seems filled with people who are content to ignore, forget, or step around what’s left of Catholicism, including the actual church buildings themselves. Don’t be fooled by the shaky residual attachment to things like First Holy Communion. As I write, almost uniquely in Europe under COVID, Ireland has made offering or attending Mass a criminal offense. Even outdoor confession is illegal. This is the true measure of how things stand.

To quote my grandmother Brennan: ‘All of the people worth anything left. There’s nobody there but losers and the descendants of losers.’

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Pretty sad.

Why the toughest capitalists should root for a wealth tax (Financial Times) I can think of several reasons, not one of which would ever be published.

Union Leadership Evaded Pay Cuts as Pandemic Devastated Membership

Biden’s chief of staff says infrastructure proposal isn’t “big government”  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

MSNBC’s Ruhle: Jobs Numbers Show U.S. Needs to Spend an Additional $4 Trillion  Unclear on the concept.

Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China

Ex-Weightlifter: Women Told To ‘Be Quiet’ About Transgender Athlete’s Inclusion On Olympic Team

Oh, Look: It’s Time for Another 18 Minute CBS Donation to the Obamas

‘Inclusive’ Math Dumbs Down Curriculum, Fails Students Who Need Help Most  California used to have one of the best education systems in the country. They appear determined to achieve the worst.

“This Must Stop!” One Father’s Fight Against Pervasive Entrenchment Of Critical Race Theory In America’s Schools

I know people like this. I wish I didn’t.

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For the uninitiated, nudging is the idea of using psychological principles to give people a gentle bump in the right direction, rather than forcing compliance. For example, we tend to stick with the status quo, since it is easy, and this is why the government has had so much success with auto-enrolment for pensions and organ donation.

AZ Senate Ditches Insane Election Audit Measure After DOJ Steps In (Daily Beast)

Elizabeth Warren’s Book Shows She Has No Idea Why Her Campaign Failed (New York Magazine)

‘No one wants to work anymore’: the truth behind this unemployment benefits myth (The Guardian)

Woman taking her ’emotional support’ PIG for a walk is accosted by FURIOUS Karen (Daily Mail)

Beef Control! NPR Promotes New York Times Food Writer’s ‘War on Meat’

Even Elon Musk couldn’t make SNL funny

SNL Cast Getting Stage Fright As They’re Not Used To Having People Tune In To Watch Them  Babylon Bee.

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi: It’s a LIE to Say Democrats Will ‘Turn America Into a Socialist Country’  But it’s not a lie to say that they want to.

School board races enter crucible of partisan politics  Parents are finally waking up to what teachers’ unions are doing to their children.

Disney Caught Indoctrinating Employees With Critical Race Theory, “White Privilege” Checklist

GLAAD finds top social media sites “categorically unsafe” for LGBTQ people

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Another Blue State atrocity.

Under the Sailer Rule, the high death count suggests that the perp was white, although we may never know because ‘journalists’ aren’t allowed to mention race any more unless there’s a Fashionable Minority victim.

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The cyberextortion attempt that has forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline was carried out by a criminal gang known as DarkSide that cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity, a person close to the investigation said Sunday.

I’m sure that they think of themselves as Social Justice Warriors.

UPDATE: The dark side of DarkSide

The decline of the humanist movement

This Week in Campus Insanity Vol. 43

California Population Declined in 2020 as Thousands Fled Newsom-Boudin Axis of Terror

Disney Employees Undergo Critical Race Theory Training

Woke  Science Gives Gender Neutral Name to New Ant Species

TBS’s Sam Bee Just Says It: I ‘Want to Take your Guns’

Why Californians Have Sky-High Electricity Bills

CNN, Don Lemon and the Cancer of Identity Politics

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After the left’s anti-police agitation went into hyperdrive following the death of George Floyd, the easiest prediction in the world to make was that the chief victims of this ideologically-driven rage would be the very people liberals claim to champion—low income minorities. Heather Mac Donald called it “the Ferguson effect,” after the anti-police riots in Ferguson, Missouri in 2015. Told that they are the enemy, the police are curtailing their presence and enforcement activity in minority neighborhoods.

Twitter Is Suspending Accounts That Post Donald Trump’s Statements From His Website

America’s Race Toward Two Cultures

NFL Hires Woke Former Obama Official Katie Hill

Univision DOUBLES DOWN on Its Fake Reporting of Florida’s Election Law

To Whom Have We Outsourced Our Freedom of Speech?

America already has a realistic solution to Republican authoritarianism (Washington Post)

Why Republicans won’t walk away from the ‘Big Lie’ (CNN)

Woke Racism Is a Systemic Problem in America (Newsweek)

NPR at 50 Years — Still a Liberal Sandbox  Tim Graham.

Maricopa County Officials Refusing to Turn Over Routers to Auditors

Ocasio-Cortez Requests Earmarks For Two Hospitals That Perform Abortions

GMA Predicts ‘Blockbuster Jobs Report,’ Then Silent on Abysmal Numbers

California Reports First Ever Yearly Population Decline  People voting with their feet.

witter Censors Accounts for Sharing Trump Statements from His New Site

Liz Cheney: The GOP is at a turning point. History is watching us. (Washington Post) Boy, she sure talks like a proglodyte.

A Giant Organic Farm Faces Criticism That It’s Harming The Environment (NPR)

“The” Science Is Coming For You Again!

YouTube deletes links to Russian anti-government voting project

Holder Gets Swiss Billionaire’s Backing for Partisan Gerrymandering Group

Don’t worry, the Central Intersectional Agency is watching you

Congresswoman Cori Bush Refers To Women As ‘Birthing People’

Due Process Is the Opposite of Social Justice  Ben Shapiro.

Ocasio-Cortez Praises Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider For Saving Babies  You can’t make this shit up.

So It Looks Like Nationalizing Student Loans Has Simply Turned Into One Giant Ponzi Scheme

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

Rep. Liz Cheney seems destined to lose her position in the GOP House leadership. One could almost infer from her actions that she’s determined to lose it.

The mainstream media is playing Cheney’s likely ouster for all its worth. Cheney is now portrayed as a hero who is too good for the current, Trump-dominated Republican Party. (These are some of the same lefty media stalwarts who portrayed Cheney’s father as evil, the way they now depict Donald Trump.)

Some conservatives are advancing a similar view of Liz Cheney’s situation. They acknowledge that her vote to impeach Trump and her subsequent anti-Trump screeds make her less than suitable for a leadership position in this GOP caucus. However, they contend that this reality damns the caucus.

Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru puncture that narrative. Lowry points out that Cheney survived her vote to impeach Trump, a fact that can’t easily be reconciled with claims that the caucus is in the thrall of Donald Trump.

It’s not the impeachment vote that will likely cost Cheney her position, it’s her constant stream of anti-Trump pronouncements. As Lowry puts it, “all [Cheney] had to do was be a little politic — something often required of politicians — and she wouldn’t be on the verge of getting dumped from leadership.” I would add that being “a little politic” is almost always a requirement for members of leadership.

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A liberal Swiss billionaire known for meddling in U.S. elections has funneled millions of dollars to former attorney general Eric Holder’s effort to redraw electoral maps in favor of Democrats, newly obtained documents reveal.

The Berger Action Fund, the advocacy arm of Swiss megadonor Hansjörg Wyss’s Wyss Foundation, passed $3 million to the National Redistricting Action Fund (NRAF) between 2018 and 2020. The NRAF is the 501(c)(4) lobbying arm of Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a self-described “centralized hub for executing a comprehensive redistricting strategy” to give Democrats an edge in congressional races.

Diner in Louisville draws handgun as armed BLM protesters swarm restaurant

Group That Previously Let Out Soon-To-Be Criminals In Efforts To End Cash Bail Heads For The Deep South

Female Athletes Ask Court to Allow Idaho Law Banning Males From Women’s Sports to Go Into Effect

Dick Wolf FBI Show Portrays Cop Killer as ‘Folk Hero,’ ‘Righteous’

Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur ‘genocide’ debate after DDoS smashes ISP offline

60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent

Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook

To Promote Equality, California Proposes A Ban On Advanced Math Classes

CIA Replaces Waterboarding With 12-Hour Lectures On Intersectional Feminism  Babylon Bee.

Zoo Cancels Police Event Because Of Concerns It Could Be ‘Unintentionally Divisive’

CIA Breaks Up ISIS Plot To Use Incorrect Pronouns  Babylon Bee.

Soros-Backed Prosecutor Faces Disciplinary Hearings, Could Lose Law License

Psaki Show Is Back: Fisher Asks Press Secretary If Teacher’s Union Runs the CDC

Latino Nets to Biden: Time for PAYBACK   Or ‘payDAY’….

Biden Versus Biden On “Is America A Racist Country?”

Biden Admin Drops Dozens Of Charges Against Violent Protesters In Portland  As predicted.

REPORT: Biden, DOJ Plan To Challenge Laws Banning Biological Boys From Girls’ Sports

NBC Admits ‘Frantic’ and ‘Relentless’ Border Crisis Not Stopping

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For over 2 million family farms and ranches across the country and the tens of millions of small businesses, the threat of losing generations of their family’s work is a very real possibility. Every day family-owned farms and small businesses are forced to take out loans or sell off land, equipment, property, or — in the worst-case scenario — the entire business operation to pay the federal estate tax and cover attorney fees.

In addition, the death tax forces family businesses to waste money on expensive insurance policies and estate planning. These burdensome compliance costs make it even harder for and deter business owners from expanding their businesses and creating more jobs.

Ideally, the purpose of a tax is to raise revenue for the government. To0 often, it is used as a stick to beat politically unfashionable groups to satisfy the envy of the underclass clients of the ruling class.

In bitterly divided election in Southlake, Texas, opponents of anti-racism education win big (NBC News) It wasn’t ‘bitterly divided’ at all – the critical race theory bigots got spanked, 70-30. Any ‘bitterness’ was on the part of the losers. Party of Fear – Party of Hate – Party of Death.

Wealthy may face up to 61% tax rate on inherited wealth under Biden plan

Social Media explodes over ‘woke’ CIA recruitment video: ‘Truly embarrassing for our entire country’

NYC judge orders accused Jewish center vandal to be cut loose

New Jersey Could Soon Require Ammo to Be Micro Stamped

STUDY: PolitiFact’s 8 Times as Likely to Defend Biden Than Check His Facts

Indiana City’s Sanctuary Policies Struck Down by Court

Arrogant CNN Jerk: ‘Better Educated’ People Oppose GOP on Voting Laws

Evangelical Flips Through Book Of Revelation To Figure Out When Trump Will Be Back Babylon Bee.

“Content Modification” – Facebook’s New Campaign Should Have Free Speech Advocates Freaking Out

Pompeo Throws Shade At CIA, Says National Security Shouldn’t Be Risked To ‘Appease Some Liberal, Woke Agenda’

Kenosha Residents Demand to Know Why Outsiders Helped Run Wisconsin Election  All the better to cheat you, my dear.

Cornell Students Defend Racially Segregated Rock Climbing Course

Politico Admits Real Purpose of ‘Voting Rights’ Bill Is to Elect Democrats

American schools’ phone apps send children’s info to ad networks, analytics firms

Philadelphia Police Union Offers Mr. Softee’s Ice Cream Outside ‘Soft On Crime’ District Attorney’s Office

“Enough Looting My People”: Peru’s Marxist Presidential Frontrunner Pledges To Seize Offshore Company Profits

Freeform Show Introduces Crazy New LGBT Term for Best Friends: ‘Homo-romantic Asexual’

NYC Judge Releases Hate Crime Suspect, Says Bail Reform Law Leaves No Choice

Biden Praises ‘Fierce Bravery Of Journalists,’ Says They Are ‘Indispensable’ To Democracy

Pelosi’s Archbishop: Unwavering Pro-Abortion Catholics Must Be Denied Communion

CIA Recruitment Ad Ridiculed For Overdosing On “Woke” Talking Points

Professor Who Rejected Student’s View That Cops Are Heroes Takes Leave Of Absence

CNN Bible Scholar Berman: Kevin McCarthy Denied Liz Cheney Three Times

Female Cuomo Fans Flooding Hotline Created For Sexual Harassment Tipsters  Electronic mob rule.

NBC News Laments ‘Bitterly Divided’ School Board Election After Woke Activists Lose in Landslide  The bitterness was all on the part of the losers.

Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt On Jan. 6 Didn’t Issue Warning First: Lawyer

Peruvian Presidential Front-Runner Says He’ll Seize 70% Of Profits From Overseas Businesses

Former Union Official Sentenced For Beating, Extorting Non-Union Workers Over ‘Territory’ Dispute

‘From Cotton To Congress To Clown’: MSNBC Host Trashes Tim Scott, Says He’s ‘Thirsty For White Approval’  When news organizations go looking for their Token Black People, do they have to settle for the craziest, stupidest, most hate-fulled candidates they can find?

Safe Spaces Are Creating A Generation Of “Snowflake Tyrants”

Don’t let the GOP’s buffoonery distract you from its sinister intentions  (Washington Post) Sinister!

Black Republicans who don’t believe racism is systemic subject to vicious attacks, slurs

‘Made Up, Convoluted Crap’: Jake Tapper Says For Republicans, Telling The Truth Is ‘Hazardous To Your Political Health’  And Jake Tapper is certainly an expert in made-up convoluted crap.

NYT, Washington Post, NBC Retract Incorrect Reporting On Giuliani’s Contact With FBI

Chuck Todd Slimes Tim Scott: Is He Wrecking Police Reform by Saying America’s Not Racist?  The tag ‘Chuck Todd Slimes…’ is a useful introduction to a broad range of actual reporting.

Boeing Fires 65 Employees, Disciplines 53 More For ‘Racist And Hateful Conduct’ Following George Floyd Death