Read it.

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.

Read it.

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

Why New York and California are losing people, power to Texas and Florida

Census confirms Texas and Florida are America’s future

DC Attorney General Offers To Seal Arrest Records For George Floyd Protesters

Liberals just cannot handle a Black conservative

House Republicans Question WH ‘Political Interference’ in Census Numbers

The Pandemic Made the Top 1% Richer. Why We Need Wealth Tax (Time Magazine)

What the back-and-forth over America being a ‘racist country’ is actually about (Washington Post)

The American Right Is The New Target Of Washington’s “War On Terror”

New York Times Bitterly Complains as Florida Republicans ‘Pass Voting Limits’

California Expands Early Release Eligibility For Up To 76,000 Inmates, Including Violent And Repeat Felons  You do the math as to what portion of these are likely to be, you know, white people.

NPR Disinformation: GOP Bills Attacking ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Protests

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Position papers by a national association for math educators that were shared by the education department argue “tracking” students — sorting advanced ones into separate classes — results in the over-representation of white and wealthy students.

“Those that have been privileged by the current system must be willing to give up that privilege for more equitable schooling,” one of the papers reads.

Equality of result never happens from getting poor performers to perform better — if they could perform better, they wouldn’t be poor performers — but invariably by hindering excellent performers from performing as well as they could.

The Other McCain just paints what he sees.

When Tucker Carlson talks about “replacement,” every liberal jumps up and starts screaming about a white supremacist conspiracy theory. But in California, “replacement” is not a theory, it’s a fact. Southern California is now just the northernmost province of Latin America. Only 14% of students in L.A. public schools are white. Sixty-six percent are Hispanic. To the south, in Orange County — which 40 years ago was the setting for Fast Times at Ridgemont High — half the public-school students are Hispanic and just 25% are white. There is no future for white people in California. They are persona non grata — an unwelcome presence in a state steadily taken over by Mexicans.

Every analysis of California’s demography always cites the high cost of housing as the reason Americans are leaving the state, but they never explain why high housing costs don’t discourage Mexicans from moving into California. About 10 years ago, I visited California a couple of times and resident explained what’s really happening. You see, Mexicans have no problem with moving eight, 10 or 12 people into a suburban three-bedroom, two-bath home. This isn’t “overcrowding” compared to what they left behind south of the border, so the Mexican immigrant can rent a 3BR/2BA house, then sublease space to another half-dozen Mexicans, and that explains something else you’d notice if you spent as much time as I do watching YouTube video of police chases. Every time TV choppers cover these pursuits in Southern California, you’ll notice that the streets in every neighborhood are lined with cars. Why is this? Don’t these houses have garages and driveways? Oh, wait a minute . . .

This has implications for Calexit. What happens once the tipping point is reached and the majority of Calivornians are ‘Latinx’ and they decide to leave the U.S. and return to Mexico? Is a Democrat Congress or a Democrat President going to be able to stop them?

Examining The Left’s War On Cops: A Look At How Many Police Officers Have Left Their Jobs

‘Abolish ICE!’: Protesters Crash Biden’s Georgia Rally

DOJ Considering New Domestic Terrorism Laws Aimed At Violent Domestic Extremism  But not Antifa or BLM, of course.

Professor Can Barely Hide Her Disdain When Student Calls Police ‘Heroes’

The Shaky Foundations Of LA’s Housing “Entitlement” For The Homeless

NBC Leans on Biden to Lecture Tim Scott About Racism in America

MSNBC Panel Defends ‘Uncle Tim’ Tag, Says Tim Scott Doesn’t Understand Racism

The Vibrant New Minneapolis

Christian Pastor Arrested In UK For Saying Marriage Is Between A Man And A Woman

Left Flips Lid as Software Company Basecamp Decides to Go Apolitical

Mother Whose Son Died In Seattle’s ‘CHOP’ Sues For Wrongful Death

Flintstones Vitamins Now Available With Puberty Blockers  Babylon Bee.

Group Of High School Students Walk Out For ‘Back The Blue’ Protest In Minnesota

Poll: 69% Of Parents In California Would Not Choose Traditional Public School For Their Children

Media Promotes Fake Narrative That Biden a Moderate

Virginia Teacher Is Assigning Antigun Homework

“Let’s Kill Some Cops”: Antifa Infiltrated By Undercover Trump Supporter, Recorded Plotting Attacks

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Andrew Cuomo could murder thousands of senior citizens in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose a single supporter. Earlier this week the New York governor got up in front of local TV cameras for the first time in several months since his non-apology apology to respond to more allegations of sexual harassment. (The national media has apparently checked out.) Instead of feigning regret or acting contrite, Cuomo did a complete 180, saying his accusers were ‘jealous’ and digging in by defiantly declaring ‘I didn’t do anything wrong.’

Victor Davis Hanson.

Even during the tumultuous 1960s, when campuses were plagued by radical protests and periodic violence, there was still institutionalized free speech. An empirical college curriculum mostly survived the chaos of the ’60s.

But it is gone now.

Instead, imagine a place where the certification of educational excellence, the Bachelor of Arts degree, is no guarantee that a graduate can speak, write, or communicate coherently or think inductively.

Imagine a place that requires applicants to submit high school grade-point averages and standardized test results but doesn’t require its own graduates to pass a basic uniform competency test.

Imagine a place where after an initial trial period, a minority of elite employees receive lifetime job guarantees.

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People that stupid probably ought not to be in college to begin with.

Not really news,  but a useful reminder.

Chinese National Illegally Exported Goods From America To People’s Liberation Army-Affiliated University

Giuliani Shocker: FBI Refused to Take Hunter’s Hard Drive 

California Dreaming? Not These Days

Viewpoint: ‘The Dirty 8’ — Which are most notorious advocacy groups spreading disinformation about food, farming, biotechnology and agricultural sustainability

Slate: We Must Protect the Right of Moody Teens to be Spayed

Media Enamored with Biden’s Speech, Disgusted by Tim Scott’s  But you knew that.

Teachers Unions’ Donations To Democrats Increased Amid Pandemic, School Closures

Over 200 Seattle Police Officers Quit In The Last Year, Citing Anti-Police Climate

Government Pre-K, Because Government Schools Are Working Out Great

‘Overrun By Disinformation’: Liberal Groups Urge Biden To Crack Down On Free Speech

Virginia Flunks Math

‘You’re On The Mic In The Auditorium’: Teacher Caught Saying She Teaches ‘Social Justice … All Day, Every Day’

Biden DOJ “Actively Considering” Domestic Terrorism Law To Target White Supremacists

Idaho moves to ban critical race theory instruction in all public schools, including universities (CNN)

The gun-control effort that almost stopped our addiction to ‘weapons of war’  (Washington Post)

CNN Business Launches Investigation Focused On Company’s Treatment Of Female Employees

NYC Progressives Fight the Culture War As Andrew Yang Wins the Class War

‘There’s No Liberal Bias’: Joy Behar Claims News Outlets Are ‘Basically Balanced’ Except For Fox And MSNBC

American Medical Association CEO Calls Laws Banning Kids Trans Surgeries ‘Dangerous Governmental Intrusion’

LAPD Union Slams Hollywood’s ‘Glorification’ Of ‘Drugs And Crime’ Following The Oscars Awards Show

Coca-Cola Under Fire for Legally Questionable Racial Quota System

CNN Turns to This Gun Grabbing Foreign Leader to Push Gun Bans in U.S.

XKCD.

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Florida-based attorney Benjamin Crump has a pattern of making inflammatory and false statements about deaths that were later protested by the Black Lives Matter movement.

Crump has represented Jacob Blake and the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Breonna Taylor. Here are some examples of false or unfounded claims the lawyer has spread.

That’s what lawyers do. Especially, that’s what lawyers hired by alleged victims do.  They don’t want justice. They want revenge. And they want money. The lawyer wants fame. And he wants money.

No surprises here.

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The United Methodist Church (UMC) is facing a schism as conservative Methodists are attempting to break away from the Church over their beliefs about homosexuality, according to The Christian Post.

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For centuries, using a sextant, a sailor could mark a ship’s location by making a few calculations to determine a star’s position relative to the horizon. Now a high-tech version of this maritime tradition is finding its way back into practice.

GPS is indispensable these days—but it’s still incredibly fragile. It can be spoofed with a fake satellite signal, hacked by an adversary, or simply destroyed. Spoofing, hacking, or destroying the stars? Not happening.

Portland Police Declare Riot After Vandals Attack Businesses

Former US Soccer Player Lori Lindsey Says Banning Transgender Athletes ‘Upholds White Supremacy’  I guess there aren’t any white ‘transgender’ people. Good to know.

What we can learn from Canada on gun control (CNN)

Washington state kicks off major tax fight with new capital gains levy (The Hill)

Portland Mayor Belatedly Urges Residents To Help “Unmask” Rioters, Stops Short Of Condemning Antifa

Why Illinois Is In Trouble: 122,258 Public Employees Earned $100,000+ Costing Taxpayers $15.8 Billion

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A recent study conducted at the Naval Academy showed that students learn less from easy teachers. As the researchers state, “Instructors who tend to give out easier subjective grades… dramatically hurt subsequent student performance.” While a generalization, these claims support the intuitions of anyone who has ever been to school or met a human. When students can give less effort, they do. So, why have schools been moving toward easier grading?

In a decade working in high schools, I’ve seen a consistent push to reduce writing, reading, and note-taking, expand late work windows, lighten workloads, dilute the weight of assessments, and, most fundamentally, to eliminate failures. The same can be seen at the university level. According to an article in the 2020 Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, the amount of time college students have spent on academic work has gone from 40 hours per week in 1960, to 27 in 2003, to just 15 hours in 2008. During that time, the average grade has risen in both public and private universities, while national SAT scores continue to decline. Today’s graduates are not smarter or more prepared for their future, but at least they think they are.

Gun control is a lost cause. Come despair with me. (USA Today)

‘Murderers And Abusers Are Victims’: Socialist Candidate Blames Brazen Daylight Shooting On ‘Intergenerational Trauma’

A former Navy commander could become the most senior openly transgender Pentagon official (Washington Post)

‘Tucker Carlson Originals’ exposes the truth about far-left Chicago prosecutor

Disney World superfan says company’s ‘woke’ decisions ruining guest experience

I am Shocked, Shocked to Find That the U. of Michigan’s Professor of Rock ‘n’ Roll Made Passes at Coeds

St. George Floyd and Biden’s Anti-White Regime—Enabled By Ethnomasochism

Race to the bottom

This Week in Campus Insanity, Vol. 41

Twitter takes down tweets criticising handling of pandemic at government request

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Whether their leaders realize or admit it or not, American colleges and universities are on the verge of a crisis. And it’s a crisis, by and large, of their own making.

The National Association of Scholars last month published a report by Neetu Arnold, “Priced Out: What College Costs America,” which finds, among other things, that an undergraduate degree is now prohibitively expensive for many Americans, who have turned to the federal government to subsidize their education.

“The average price of college,” writes Arnold, “has more than doubled since 1980.” She adds that “[n]early 44 million Americans now owe more than $1.5 trillion in student debt.”

And eventually those people will have to depend on government assistance, through handouts or debt cancellation. Students are the original sub-prime lendees.

Is rising income inequality just an illusion? (The Hill)

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman suggests ‘rampaging mobs’ that looted cities were GOP make-believe

Activists Hunker Down at George Floyd Square, Post List of Demands

‘You Are Traitors’: BLM Protesters Storm Into State Capitol To Protest Law Protecting Motorists From Rioters

Democrats Sue to Block “Audit” of 2020 Arizona Election

Virginia Department Of Education Eliminating Accelerated Math Courses In The Name Of Equity

Every Senate Democrat Voted Against Amendment To Prohibit Federal Funds For Colleges That Discriminate Against Asians  Some minorities are more equal than others.

Subversive German Violently Arrested for Reading the Constitution Out Loud

Protesters Deface Monument in New York City’s Central Park

Antifa-Crusader Chris Cuomo Rages at Anti-Riot Bills

REPORT: Ohio Board Of Education Prohibited Freedom Of Speech On The 1619 Project, Suit Alleges

Democrats Vote to Continue Discriminating Against Asians

UK Joins America In Calling China’s Treatment Of Uyghurs A Genocide

‘I’m Sorry If Anybody Was Upset,’ Says Joy Behar After Repeatedly Referring To Caitlyn Jenner As ‘He’

NBC Hypes Left-Wing Fantasy of D.C. Statehood, Dem Power Grab

Wokeness Reaches The Final Frontier: NASA Shifts Focus To Space ‘Diversity’

Indiana School District Uses Chauvin Verdict to Push Antiracism on Students

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Or at least think they do.

Sixty-two percent of Whites who classify themselves as “very liberal” or “liberal” have been told by a doctor they have a mental health condition, as compared to 26% of conservatives and 20% of moderates, the study found.

Young White people who identified as “very liberal” were almost one and a half times more likely to report mental health problems than those who considered themselves “liberal.”

Texas high school caves to ‘woke’ culture over dress-code controversy

Virginia explores plan to end advanced diplomas: ‘Equitably serving the needs…of all of Virginia learners’

Germany Grapples With Racism After Threats Derail Refugee’s Candidacy For Parliament I guess Muslim is officially a race these days.

Washington State Mulls Bill To Ban New Gas Vehicle Sales By 2030

Decarbonization and California’s 2020 Rolling Blackouts

Hidden Agenda in Left’s New Hate Crime Bill

Bias on Display: AP Fact Check Says MRC Graphic Shares ‘Incomplete Information’

Where’s the Rest of the Press? Fox Highlights NY Releasing Attempted Cop Killer

Dungeons And Dragons Introduces New 100-Sided Die For Determining Your Character’s Gender  Babylon Bee.

Ex-College Soccer Star Sues Coach for Forcing Her Out Over Refusal to Kneel

Democrat Mayor Joins GOP, Saying Former Party About ‘Socialist, Extremist Agenda’

Politico Becomes Pravda: Use Of Word “Crisis” Banned When Describing Border Crisis

Politico Orders Staff to Quit Referring to Surge in Border Crossings as a ‘Crisis’

California Colleges Violate Anti-Terrorism Laws by Hosting Palestinian Terrorist, Lawmaker Warns

Taylor Lorenz, Other New York Times Employees to Get Special Days Off for ‘Exhaustion’  Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Chinese Coca-Cola Scientist Stole Trade Secrets, Committed ‘Economic Espionage’

PA Paper Thanks NFL Prospect’s Mother for Choosing Life, Enraging Sports Journo

The Other McCain is on the case.

We have talked before about this case (“Nika Holbert and the BLM Myth”), but I must again address the death of Nika Holbert because one of the YouTube channels I watch regularly has featured it.

Steve Sailer.

Homicides in Columbus in 2020 were up 67% over 2019.

This reminds me of an interesting epistemological question: how do you tell the difference between a man-bites-dog example and an example that shows the kind of thing that can happen when one or more bell curves are shifted to the right of the national average?

‘End Policing’: Michael Moore Celebrates Chauvin Verdict, Says Free All ‘Innocent Black And Brown’ People In Prison  And give them Michael Moore’s address.

DEFUND PBS: Alcindor Defends Maxine Waters While Other Reporters Grill Psaki

Las Vegas Raiders Send Insanely Stupid ‘I Can Breathe’ Tweet After Derek Chauvin’s Conviction

CNN Legal Analyst Floats Evidence-Free Conspiracy Theory About Governors With A Straight Face

Derek Chauvin may be guilty, but Waters and Biden made sure this will drag on in appeal

Gender ‘X’ to Be Option for New Jersey Driver’s Licenses and ID’s

Officer Surrounded, Punched In The Head During Portland Unlawful Assembly

After Chauvin Verdict, Capitol Police Suddenly Reverse Plan To Fortify Capitol

DOJ to Probe Minneapolis Police Department This is a common DOJ tactic. They know they haven’t enough evidence to charge individual officers on civil rights grounds, so they open an ‘investigation’ under a Clinton-era law that allows them to bully the police department into a ‘consent decree’ that gets racial preferences enshrined, with a Federal monitor to supervise it. This is akin to the collusive ‘sue and settle’ technique used in cahoots with eviro-Nazi NGOs.

Biden Admin Appeals To Force Religious Doctors, Hospitals To Provide Trans Surgeries Despite Conscience Objections

C-List Actor Alyssa Milano: All Cops are ‘Rotten’

Portland Protesters Vandalize Youth Charity

NPR Disclaimer Admits ‘Some Facts’ The Media Reports About Shootings May Later Be ‘Wrong’

‘When The People Get Fed Up … We Loot Y’all Franchises: Brooklyn Center Residents React To Civil Unrest

Sen. Lisa Murkowski Votes With Democrats

US Postal Service Is Secretly Monitoring And Reporting Social Media Posts

Trying to open an S.F. ice cream shop, was no match for city bureaucracy

FBI Ruled Scalise Shooting a Case of ‘Suicide By Cop’

Federal Judge Orders Los Angeles To Offer Housing To Homeless People On Skid Row By Oct. 18

‘Racial Propaganda’: Taking A Knee To Protest Will Not Be Tolerated At Tokyo Olympics

Manhattan DA Will Toss Out Prostitution Cases

Rioters in Portland Smash 2 Starbucks Stores, Assault Police Officer After Chauvin Verdict  I have no idea why anybody still lives in Portland. It’s safer to live in Baghdad.

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One crisis can conceal another. While France has been distracted by COVID, a new menace is lurking. The specter haunting the republic is le Wokisme, the mutating ideology of race and identity that has found unexpectedly fertile ground here. French elites are unsettled. Those who assumed the French possessed herd immunity against such barbaric American ideas are having their complacency tested.

Superficially a modern country, with iPhones, Amazon and electric cars, France is still often introspective and late to understand what’s happening in the wider — especially Anglophone — world, which is how wokeness has somewhat taken it by surprise. Woke had been happening in America for many years before the French noticed.

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Ashli Babbitt is, as far as we know, the only person to die as a direct consequence of a deliberate act of violence during the riot of January 6 in Washington D.C. She’s the young woman who was shot by an unnamed Capitol employee while climbing through a window in the Capitol Building.

Ms. Babbitt was able to climb through a window because the window had been broken by rioters. Rioters broke the window in plain view of armed Capitol Police, who made no visible effort to stop them. (This can be observed in the short video made in the minutes leading up to and culminating in the shooting.)

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But you knew that.

Class warfare? Biden prepares tax hikes on high-income Americans (Politico)

The Media Lied Repeatedly About Officer Brian Sicknick’s Death. And They Just Got Caught

The Bulwark

Germany’s Greens Poised To Seize Power From Merkel’s CDU In Upcoming Vote, Poll Shows

Planned Parenthood Disavows Margaret Sanger, Continues Racist, Eugenicist Ways‘

White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems, Study Shows My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself

Ohio Medical Researcher Sentenced To 33 Months For Stealing Trade Secrets To China

Matt Ridley.

In search of wisdom about how an officious government reluctantly relaxes its grip after an emergency, I stumbled on a 1948 newsreel clip of Harold Wilson when he was president of the Board of Trade. It’s a glimpse of long-forgotten and brain-boggling complexity in the rationing system. ‘We have taken some clothing off the ration altogether,’ he boasts, posing as a munificent liberator. ‘From shoes to bathing costumes, and from oilskins to body belts and children’s raincoats. Then we’ve reduced the points on such things as women’s coats and woollen garments generally and… on men’s suits.’

Does this remind you of anything? One day in November, George Eustice, the environment secretary, uttered the immortal words that a Scotch egg ‘probably would count as a substantial meal if there were table service’, only for Michael Gove to say the next day that ‘a couple of Scotch eggs is a starter, as far as I’m concerned’, later correcting himself to concede that ‘a Scotch egg is a substantial meal’. This is the sort of tangled descent into detail that central planning always causes. We have seen it again and again over the past year. What is essential travel? Is a picnic exercise? Can you go inside a pub to get to its outside space? Ask the man from the ministry.

Rationing persisted in Britain after the War because they had a socialist government who had absolutely no problem with the government micro-managing consumer decisions, any more than the Soviet Union did.

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A large new global study published in the Lancet has confirmed previous research which has shown that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption.

The researchers admit moderate drinking may protect against heart disease but found that the risk of cancer and other diseases outweighs these protections.

A study author said its findings were the most significant to date because of the range of factors considered.

I guess the Baptists and Mormons were right after all.