University of Birmingham.

In ‘Physiological responses and cognitive behaviours: Measures of heart rate variability index language knowledge’ published in the Journal of Neurolinguistics, Professors Dagmar Divjak, Professorial Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition at the University of Birmingham, and Professor Petar Milin, Professor of Psychology of Language and Language Learning, discovered a direct correlation between instances of bad grammar and subjects’ Heart Rate Variability (HRV).

France moves closer to banning gender-inclusive language (EuroNews)

French senate aims to ban ‘inclusive writing’ (The Local France)

Macron rejects gender-inclusive writing to ‘protect’ French language (UK Telegraph)

$1 trillion in unpaid corporate taxes sparks UN tussle (The Hill)

Two downtown S.F. businesses closing after three decades (S.F. Chronicle)

FiDi 24-Hour Fitness and McDonald’s Both Announce Closures Amidst Record Office Vacancy (SFist)

24 Hour Fitness in downtown SF closing (KRON 4)

After 29 years, SF McDonald’s closes permanently (SF Gate)

GOP Senators Turn on Tuberville on Approval of Biden’s Military Promotions (Daily Signal) This is why Republicans can never get anything accomplished.

Senate Republicans erupt in anger over Tuberville’s military freeze (Washington Poop) I’m sure they’d like you to believe that.

Homeschooling Trend Is More Than Passing Fad (The Foundry)

Nancy Pelosi Subpoenaed in Husband’s Calif. Attacker Case

All Your Euros Are Belong to Us

California Senate hopeful Rep. Adam Schiff claimed primary residences in Maryland and California (CNN)

What we still don’t know about Paul Pelosi attack (Politico)

New Analysis Shows Homeschooling Is Here to Stay (NewsMax)

Ilia Calderón Cites Lack of Abortions As Cause For Increase In Infant Mortality

Fans Note That Only MLB Team Not to Celebrate ‘Pride’ Just Won World Series

Student Protesters Walk Out of Hillary Clinton’s Class at Columbia (N.Y. Times)

Western Europe Pushes To Abolish EU Veto Rights

California Proposes Another Minimum Wage Increase So People Can Afford Products Made More Expensive By Previous Minimum Wage Increase (Babylon Bee)

Maine Law Author: Shooter’s Guns Could Have Been Seized

The BorderLine: New York’s ‘Right to Shelter’—a Socialist Blank Check Aliens From Around the World Are Cashing

The American Mind.

The aggressive promotion of gender ideology has coincided with a sharp rise in children identifying as transgender. As with the eugenics movement of a century ago, doctors are subjecting these young and vulnerable children to harmful drugs and irreversible surgeries that can leave them permanently sterilized.

Since most of their parents are progressives, I’d say this was a self-correcting problem.

GOP Governors Lean On NCAA To Keep ‘Biological Men’ Out Of Women’s Sports

Sen. Josh Hawley To Introduce Bill Reversing Citizens United

Bachelors Of Advocacy: The Rise Of Activism Over Academics In US Higher Education

CA Funding LGBTQ+ Group Fighting Parental Notification

Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education (Washington Poop)

Mesa high school teacher on administrative leave after students say he dressed up as devil, said ‘hail Satan’ to students (NBC)

29 Cities In Los Angeles Sue County Over Zero Bail Policy

The Evangelical Church of Germany Calls For More Cultural Enrichment

The U.N.: What Is It Good For?

Pro-Family Groups Take a Stand Against EU Parenthood Certificate

Hungary bans teens from visiting World Press Photo exhibition over LGBTQ images (NBC News)

Elon Musk: “Twitter Was Completely Controlled By The Far Left”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Bans ‘Woke Nonsense’ Language From Arkansas

Chipotle Will Be More Expensive in California Next Year as Minimum Wage Hike Takes Effect, CFO Says

Elon Musk Exposes How Soros ‘Hijacked’ US Cities Without Changing Any Laws

Zombie Wandering Capitol Hill In Search Of Brains Starves To Death (Babylon Bee)

Macron Again Proposes To Put Abortion in Constitution

Can public officials block you on social media? It’s up to the Supreme Court (NPR)

‘It’s cruel’: the last southern refuge for abortion rights might soon fall (The Guardian)

‘People just can’t pay their bills’: Oklahoma’s wild marijuana market is about to shrivel (Politico) Oh, the horror!

Soros-Backed Activist District Attorney Gets Robbed – Becomes Victim Of Her Own System

Salesforce CEO Demands Return Of ‘Law And Order’ Across Crime-Ridden San Fran  Good luck with that.

Federal Judge Blocks Calif. Law Banning Gun Shows at County Fairs (NewsMax)

Stanford Law School Taps Organizer of Shout-Down Protest To Help Find New Dean

America’s Rifle Fetish Is Destroying Its Sense of Freedom (N.Y. Times)

British Police ‘Don’t Care About Anti-White Hate Crime’

Bills On Israel, Ukraine ‘Dead On Arrival’ In Both House And Senate As Shutdown, Funding Battles Gear Up

Female Martial Arts Competitors Drop Out of Tournament in Fear of Safety Against Transgender Athletes (Hot Air)

Portland Neighborhood Terrified By Residents Dressed Up As Normal Middle-Class Family (Babylon Bee)

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Another month has passed without full release of Audrey Hale’s manifesto, which could reveal her motive for the murder of nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, daughter of Chad Scruggs, senior pastor at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville.

Hale, a woman who thought she was a man, also shot dead schoolmaster Katherine Koonce, 59; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and custodian Mike Hill, 61. On March 29, 2023, two days after the murders, the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit took custody of the manifesto. While release awaits, a movie offers insight into motive, the primary question in any murder case.

CNN Cheers Maine Democrat Finding ‘Moral Courage’ for Gun Control After Shooting What kind of ‘courage’ does it take for a Democrat to embrace gun control? Minimal at best.

CVS Stores In DC Resort To Framed Photos Of Toilet Paper

School Board Member Sues for Right to Recite Bible Verses

Americans Traveling To Europe Now Forced To Take A New Step

Men Are Taking Over Women’s Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

They Just Keep Coming

The Continuity of the Old and New Left

EU ‘Superstate’: European Parliament Proposes Treaty Change

Tuberville says he will keep blocking military promotions despite Israel’s war (CNN)

David “Camera” Hogg Now Blames “White Woman In Suburbs” For Gun Violence

ABC’s ‘This Week’ Rips Speaker Mike Johnson, Reruns Dismissal of Election-Denier Quiz

Vexed Over X! New York Times Weeps for Lost Blue Checks, Musk’s ‘Free-For-All Hellscape’

Harvard ‘Doxxing’ Truck

Mike Johnson’s first big test (Washington Poop) Can he successfully demonstrate that he is a Servant of  the Crust? Only time will tell…

Speaker Mike Johnson’s corporate backers (Popular Information) Corporate backers for Democrats: Good! Corporate backers for Republicans: Bad!

New York AG Considered Investigating Giuliani Over Ukraine (Daily Beast)

The Christofascism of Mike Johnson (Public Notice) (While Hamas Supporters Terrorize Jews, Can You Guess What Noah Berlatsky Considers a More Important Menace?)

The Critic.

Do you believe in cancel culture? I apologise for asking — it’s a trick question. Just as complaining about the use of Karen makes you a Karen, thinking cancel culture exists makes you deserving of being cancelled. Not that this is a problem; if anyone were really being silenced, we’d hear them complaining about it, which would then mean they weren’t actually being silenced.

Such are the logical contortions outlined in Umut Özkirimli’s Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke. It explores how certain self-styled goodies — those who identify with being on the right side of history — promote a version of leftism which rivals the right in “its disdain for dissent, its bunker mentality, and Manichean simplicity”.

Read it.

Mrs Rodin and I watched Dinesh D’Souza’s Police State on Rumble yesterday. I hope this review, summary, or whatever will not cause you to not watch it yourself.

First, is “police state” the correct description of America, today? My initial inclination is to believe that it is true for some and not true for many. That America is now a “surveillance state” is beyond question. It shifts into a police state whenever the apparatus of the state using the surveillance data at hand picks and chooses to harass/destroy “disfavored” persons and cower the remainder into submission.

If one looks at history, the existence of a police state does not require the full quiescence of a people. There will always be dissenters within a police state. We tend to regard dissent’s failure to “move the needle” in such places as evidence of the existence of the police state. And so it is, when viewing an historically free and democratic society, it can be difficult to judge when a police state might exist because there is always some level of sturm und drang reflecting political debate within that society, some level of criminality associated with political belief, and a desire to characterize any failure to gain ideological purchase within the larger society as the result of state machinations.

Read it.

It’s the accusatory nature of a great deal of progressive commentary that makes it so obnoxious. On the face of it, it sounds absurd to take offence at an article which maintains that Britons from ethnic minorities can feel uncomfortable in rural areas. Yet an article in The Lead with the headline “Black and brown hikers are taking back Britain’s countryside” is so fiercely combative that one can do nothing else. It stands in your face daring you to react.

First, what’s with that headline? “Taking back”? Did it belong to them? Have I missed a giant chunk of British history? Why must it be “taken” at all? Is this some sort of weird game of “capture the flag”?

CNN Oozes at Democrat Senator Who’s ‘Worked Tirelessly’ for Gun Control

Joy Behar Reminds America She’s A Moron With AR-15 Misinformation

FBI Raids Baltimore City Taxpayer-Funded ‘Safe Streets’ Program For Possible Gang Infiltration

Politico: Nikki Haley ‘Breaking Through at the Right Moment’  Promoting the Establishment’s favorite counter-Trump.

Sedition Hunters: how ordinary Americans helped track down the Capitol rioters (The Guardian) ‘Good Germans’ are everywhere you look.

Indians Are Entering the U.S. Illegally in Record Numbers  I have no problem with that.

Cocky Runner Sprints From 172nd To 5th Place After Competing As A Girl

Notre Dame President Defends Drag Queen Show

South Carolina Teachers Union Out to Deprive Students of Learning Options

Migrant Hot-Potato: NYC Offers Illegals Plane Tickets To Anywhere But The Big Apple

The Decline of Modern Shopping

Read it.

There was a time, in the bad old days of ALF, when animal rights terrorists were considered the second greatest terror threat to the UK behind the IRA. While various Islamist groups have overtaken them now, animal rights terrorism still abounds, carried out by a small but active crew of extremist cadres who still resort to violence to pursue their political aims. The animal rights movement is a product of just the past 50 years, so these individuals are relative newcomers to spreading terror as a form of direct action.

“Children thrown from frightened horses while out for a weekend ride, vehicles vandalised, businesses threatened, fieldsports participants physically attacked, horses and hounds injured, incessant trolling by sab dross online and groups of aggressive hunt saboteurs hiding behind balaclavas … need I go on? These unhinged and violent individuals are a danger to the public, as the jailing of Paul Allman underlined this week.”
_{Ben McCarthy Terrorists Among Us, CSM Aug 19th 2023}

Mayor Offers Migrants One-Way Flights to Leave NYC

Watch: Gen-Zers Melt Down Over 9-5 Jobs Amid Criticism About ‘Bidenomics’

California Gubernatorial Candidate Oversees Decline in Reading and Math Scores as Education Chief

Senate Voted to Let Vets With Mental Issues Keep Guns Hours Before Maine Shooting (Rolling Stone)

Maine’s loose gun laws come under scrutiny after deadly shootings (Washington Poop) And yet there is no ‘scrutiny’ of Democrat-run cities where young black gang members shoot people every day despite strict gun control laws.

Massachusetts Lawmakers Pass Sweeping Gun Bill Months After 6–3 Supreme Court Decision

Oregon Schools Eliminate Proficiency Requirements In Math & English For Students

Deep Partisan Divide Over Trust In Media

Liberal Cities Roll Back Anti-cop Rules as Crime Rates Soar (NewsMax)

New Law Seeks to ‘Replace’ Parents With Government, Critics Say (NewsMax)

Tlaib is the very threat to democracy Democrats warned about (Washington Examiner)

Amy Klobuchar, Censor

The Amy Klobuchar experience

Pro-Lifer Ticketed For Praying Outside Abortion Clinic

Apple Drama ‘The Morning Show’ Promotes Planned Parenthood, Disparages Pro-Lifers

Axios Reports on Pro-Abort Attempts To Rebrand Pro-Life/Choice Vocab

Clemson Removes Menstrual Items From Men’s Bathrooms After Backlash

The Antiplanner.

Early this week, Grassroot Institute executive director Keli’i Akina interviewed the Antiplanner about affordable housing, why it costs more than regular housing, and why the Hawaii Housing Finance & Development agency refuses to release records that would help the public understand where their money is going. The interview was posted on YouTube late Wednesday evening.

Affordable housing is a nationwide scam and Hawaii is far from the worst offender. As the state with the second-least-affordable housing in the nation, however, local politicians are prone to promoting affordable housing subsidies as the solution to housing affordability problems, which doesn’t work as they are two different issues. The Antiplanner suggests that affordable housing subsidies should solely be in the form of vouchers directly to low-income people, not subsidies to developers who build costly projects at taxpayers’ expense.

Smoke Rises Over Capitol Indicating Congress Has Resumed Setting Taxpayers’ Money On Fire (Babylon Bee) Celebrating the new Speaker of the House.

Gavin Newsom Visits Xi Jinping To Get More Ideas On How To Run California (Babylon Bee) Go right to the head and ask the Red….

NYC Weighs Tent Shelters to Address Migrant Surge

Watch: Hillary Clinton Snaps At Heckler Who Blasts Her Support For “War-Mongering” Joe Biden

The sad, slow death of state schooling

Record Number of Chinese, Russian Foreign Nationals Encountered on Border ‘Should Not Shock Anyone,’ Arizona Lawmaker Says

FLASHBACK: Once Upon A Time, The Media Thought That Airing Nazi Propaganda Was A Bad Thing

Cuomo Admits ABC Had BANNED Them Wearing American Flag Pins After 9/11

N.Y. Gov. Hochul Dodges Paying for Israel Trip

Woman Wishes There Were Some Kind Of Job That Would Let Her Work From Home And Do Stuff She Enjoys Like Baking, Sewing, Hanging Out With Her Kids (Babylon Bee)

76 Sacrificial Goats Delivered To Pizza Parlor For Hillary Clinton’s Birthday Party (Babylon Bee)

LAPD releases video of officers who ignored robbery to play Pokémon Go

Apple store in California hit with $100,000 grand theft, suspects still at large

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Really bad policies lead to really bad consequences, and our leaders have been making absolutely disastrous decisions for decades.

As a result, the streets of America are now teeming with thieves, drug addicts, prostitutes, violent criminals and sexual predators. We have raised an entire generation of young Americans that has no moral foundation whatsoever, and every day we are adding even more immigrants from third world countries to the mix. Many of those immigrants have no intention of following our laws, and they are fueling the explosive growth of criminal gangs all over the nation. On top of everything else, the war in the Middle East threatens to spark an unprecedented wave of domestic terror attacks here in the United States. Millions of radical Muslims now live in this country, and when the time comes many of them will not hesitate to commit acts of violence.

The Atlantic.

Dark Triads counted for about one in 14 people in an international population sample, a proportion that means all of us will meet them on a regular basis in love, in work, in politics, and—most obviously—on social media. For the sake of our happiness, well-being, and wallets, we need to understand them, learn how to identify them, and steer clear of them whenever we can—so that we can find better companions instead.

Narcissism is the egotistical admiration of oneself. Machiavellianism is a duplicitous interpersonal style and disregard for morality. These characteristics are bad enough, but the element of psychopathy adds in an absence of empathy and remorse to complete the Dark Triad: It’s all about me, I am willing to hurt you for my gain, and I don’t care how you feel.

For example, your typical Woke Democrat–celebrities, ‘journalists’, academics, and politicians.

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“Here’s the thing: in order for fees to work, there needs be something worth paying to avoid. That necessitates, at some level, a strategy that can be described as “calculated misery.” Basic service, without fees, must be sufficiently degraded in order to make people want to pay to escape it,” Wu writes. “And that’s where the suffering begins.”

Wu explains that under calculated misery, services or features that were once expected (think of leg room) are made worsened (leg room is reduced as rows are moved closer together). Want a little more leg room? You’ll likely need to upgrade your airfare to business or first class or even ordinary coach seats with added leg room.

Yet another reason not to fly–unless you can afford your own plane.

City Planner Carefully Places ‘No U-Turn’ Sign At Every Possible Intersection Where It’d Be Convenient To Make A U-Turn  (Babylon Bee)

Tories Vow To Close 100 Migrant Hotels

Siena Poll: Most NY Voters Say Migrants Destroying NYC

California DMV Halts Cruise Robotaxi Service Due To ‘Public Safety Concerns’

Abbott Enlists Parents to Get School Choice for Every Texas Student ‘Across the Finish Line’

Awkward: DC Mayor U-Turns ‘Defund Police’ With New Crime Bill After Murder Chaos Spreads

Krugman CRUD: Biden Economy ‘Remarkably Successful, Even If Nobody Will Believe It’

Capital Crime Wave Prompts DC Mayor’s Major Reversal on Police Restraints

Seattle Kicks Off Anti-Drug Push With Dozens Of Arrests As Portland Business Owners Beg For Help

What Can You Do If A Mob Of Far-Left Antifa-Style Rioters Surround Your Car?

Which States Californians Moved To Most

How Penn’s Anti-Semitism Controversy Could Make It Harder To Fire a Controversial Professor

UK Scraps Cap On Banker Bonuses In Post-Brexit Bid To Make London More Competitive

Fico Government’s Anti-NATO Stance Worries Eurocrats

America First Legal Sues Soros-Funded Org for Censorship Collusion

NHL Lifts Ban on Rainbow-Colored Pride Tape

Warfare by Immigration

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According to a survey done by the Harvard Crimson in 2022, 80% of the faculty at Harvard University self-identified as “liberal,” and 37% self-identified as “very liberal.”

Only 1% self-identified as conservative.

This snapshot of the politics of the faculty at the nation’s oldest and leading university is not exceptional. Surveys of most university faculties show them overwhelmingly on the Left.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for it.

Read it.

Several years ago, I watched a rage-fuelled protest unfold outside the Toronto Public Library. The feminist gender-critical advocate Megan Murphy had been invited to speak, and Canadian transgender activists treated this as an active threat to their very existence. Watching the mob shriek and threaten those attending an event featuring a speaker who holds progressive views on virtually every issue was deeply unsettling, and I wondered: If this is how much they hate someone who shares most of their worldview, how much do they hate the rest of us?

CDC updates RSV shot recommendations due to drug shortages (Washington Poop)

COVID Is Ramping Up for a Year of Deadly Surges (Daily Beast)

Experts Warn of Potential Yellow Fever Resurgence (NewsMax)

FDA to Review First Self-Administered Flu Vaccine (NewsMax)

WHO chief scientist warns of endemic dengue in Europe, US (Politico)

‘On track’: Three percent of Americans have gotten the new Covid shot, but the CDC director remains confident (Politico)

Sen. Menendez to Be Arraigned on Foreign Agent Charge (NewsMax)

REVOLT: SPLC Union Speaks Out on Hamas-Israel War as Southern Poverty Law Center Remains Silent (Daily Signal) More proglodyte than thou….

Turnover has plagued local election offices since 2020. One swing state county is trying to recover (Associated Press) Apparently ‘turnover’ in local election offices is a Bad Thing.

6,800 UAW Workers Walk Out at Key Stellantis Plant

New York Poll: Voters Oppose Re-Districting Effort

What a Palestinian State Would Look Like

Achtung! US Travel To Europe Will Require Prior Approval, Biometric Scanning

Detransitioner Who Struggled With Multiple Personalities, Sues Doctors Who Ruined Her Life

Dem Senator Menendez Pleads Not Guilty to Foreign Agent Charge

NewsGuard & US Govt. Sued By Consortium News; Musk Slams ‘Scam’

Liz Cheney Not Ruling Out 2024 White House Bid

MSNBC Host TRIGGERED When Confronted for Using FAKE Casualty Numbers

GROUNDBREAKING: Glamour’s ‘Women of the Year’ Are All Women

Victor Davis Hanson: The Sickness Of Our Universities… And The Cure

Huge San Fran Apartment Building Reportedly Loses 50% Of Value As CRE Market Tanks

Why Is Google Protecting Harvard Defenders of Hamas Terrorism?

Activists Slam Newsom’s Hong Kong Visit for Focus on Climate Instead of Human Rights

Trust In Mass Media Craters To Record Low As Americans ‘Wake-Up’ From Matrix

Illinois Hands Out $536 Million In Tax Credits For 2,600 Jobs, Beneficiary Is China

Larry Hogan Withdraws From Harvard Programs Over Antisemitism

NY Times Takes Sides in Aussie Indigenous Vote: ‘Divisive’ Since Woke Side Lost

Switzerland’s Right-Wing Surge: SVP’s Electoral Triumph Reflects Concerns Over Immigration

STUDY: ABC, CBS, and NBC Are Shielding Pro-Hamas Democrats from the Public

Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations: Oregon Joins List of States Dumbing Down Education

Here’s an App That Predicts Consumer Backlashes Over Woke Business Moves

How Dumb Is CNN?

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Once a fundamental part of the American dream, the ability to own a home is drifting farther and farther away for many Americans.

But, as Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao details below, between skyrocketing prices, stagnating wages, and now rising interest rates, the deck seems to be increasingly stacked against home ownership.

Using May 2023 data tabulated by Home Sweet Home, we map out the annual salary needed to afford a 30-year mortgage (at 6.37%) to buy a home in America’s 50 most populous metropolitan areas.

Needless to say, all of these cities are run by Democrats. Of course, if you don’t insist on living in a (Democrat-run) city, prices are much more ‘affordable’ (whatever that means).

Washington Free Beacon.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund touts its commitment to advancing “social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.” It also bankrolls an Israeli-designated Palestinian terror group and has given millions more to groups that fund Hamas or have justified the terrorist group’s attacks against Israel.

Established by the heirs of John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has since 2018 funneled more than $3.4 million to Hamas-friendly groups including Defense for Children International-Palestine, which serves as a critical cog in the terror group’s propaganda machinery.

In fact, the Israeli government declared Defense for Children International-Palestine a terror organization in October 2021, arguing that it effectively operates as an extension of the terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and employs senior PFLP members.

A conservative publisher once said “Every organization that is not explicitly right-wing will eventually become left-wing” in these degenerate modern times.

The Foundry.

Home ownership was supposed to be the American dream, the thing to which the entire middle class could not only aspire but also achieve. That dream has turned into a nightmare, thanks in large part to the Biden administration and the big spenders in Congress. Now home ownership is increasingly out of reach for Americans.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta began maintaining a Home Ownership Affordability Monitor Index in 2006 because homes were so unaffordable at that time. The latest reading from that index, which has plunged 36% since President Joe Biden took office, is the lowest in its history and indicates record unaffordability. It now takes 44% of median income—before taxes—to afford a median-price home.

It’s even worse in several major metropolitan areas across the country. The cost of a median-price home is 50% of median income in Boston, 55% in Miami, 63% in New York, 84% in San Francisco, and 85% in Los Angeles. But these are percentages of before-tax income, which means the cost of home ownership in some of those places exceeds 100% of net income. “No joke,” as Biden would say.

Zeihan.

The third piece of the shale revolution is all about timing. As the world shifts from globalized supply chains to more localized and secure means of production, utilizing cheaper energy sources and products will be essential.

The US has become the lowest-cost-highest-quality producer of intermediate materials, meaning much of the leg work to reshore supply chains and manufacturing has already been done. So what do we have to show for it?

Between agriculture, wiring, textiles and refined products, the US has shaken up dozens of industries and ramped up reshoring efforts. While industrial construction spending has grown significantly, we must maintain that growth to retain this newly added competitive advantage.

Pharmacy Closures Leave Millions Without Access (NewsMax) The new Narrative: First we had ‘grocery deserts’, now we have ‘pharmacy deserts’ – all to justify more interference by government.

Man cleared of charges in ransom plot to turn Confederate chair into a toilet (The Guardian)

Study: Global Billionaire Tax Could Yield $250B  Whose money can we steal today?

First Reported Case of Locally Transmitted Dengue Virus in Calif.  Well, open up the borders and you never know who (or what) will come flooding in.

Chicago Faces Migrant Crisis Ahead of Democratic Convention (NewsMax)

Hamburg Migrant Costs Exceed €1 Billion in 2023

Texas employment tops 14M as state job growth tops U.S.

Fewer Californians are moving to Texas, but more are going to FL and AZ

Children of married parents do better, but America is moving the other way

‘Facts First’ My Foot: CNN MANGLES Map of Israel on Jake Tapper’s Show

EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income  Whose money can we steal today?

The Antiplanner.

The Mineta Institute — named after a San Jose congressman who was Secretary of Transportation in 2001 through 2006 — has a new report claiming that high-speed rail will produce huge economic and environmental benefits. Rather than being based on any careful analyses, it basically repeats old claims that are even less valid today than when they were first made.

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“This pivots of when is learning through practice learning and when is it work.”

No, you haven’t had a stroke, and no, that line was not intended to make any sense. Rather, it is an excerpt of feedback provided for my Master’s thesis. Such is the contempt of the University I attended, that spell-checked exam materials and feedback were luxuries seldom afforded to most students. As graduation approaches, I am left to ponder the previous four years, asking all the while — was it really worth it?

The opening up of higher education to the masses has surely been beneficial to some for whom, like me, going to university 50 years ago would have been little more than a pipe dream. Yet, expanding student numbers to record levels has led many to the bitter understanding that quality education does not scale.

Census Data Shows 871,000 Californians Left The Imploding State In 2022

Bloomberg Terrified At The Prospect Of America Exporting Its Gun Culture

Bill Maher Touts Nikki Haley as Viable Trump Alt

New California Housing Laws Include Building in Church Parking Lots

Split-screen: Biden speaks to the world, Republicans can’t pick a speaker (Washington Poop)

No Fact Checking: NBC, People Magazine Stick to the Legend on Matthew Shepard

Scientific American: “The Inequity Between Male and Female Athletes Is a Result Not of Inherent Biological Differences Between the Sexes But of Biases in How They Are Treated in Sports.”

Cops Are Suing a Teen for Invasion of Privacy After False Arrest Vid Goes Viral

EU Commissioner as double agent of foreign interference

Gates of Vienna.

Threats and bullying against Jewish schoolchildren in the Netherlands have increased since the war between Hamas and Israel began earlier this month, to the point that some parents are transferring their kids to Jewish schools.

Randi Weingarten gets slapped with another fact check for claiming she ‘always’ supported reopening schools (Fox News)

Massachusetts House Passes ‘Ghost Gun’ Crackdown Bill

United Federation of Teachers Subsidiary Will Rally With Pro-Hamas Socialist Groups

‘Heartbreaking’: Maine Parents Resent Daughters Losing to Trans Cross-Country Runner

Smuggler in Jail After Helping Thousands Cross the Channel

CNN Blames Fog Of War For Errant Reporting On Gaza Bombing, Russian Collusion, Jussie Smollett, Covington Catholic, Hunter’s Laptop, The Steele Dossier, Kyle Rittenhouse, Origins Of Covid (Continued In Article Please Click For More) (Babylon Bee)

Thiel’s Unicorn Success Is Awkward for Colleges

These Are America’s 10 Most Dangerous Cities  Democrat mayors at work.

Networks Give ‘The Squad’ a Pass on Palestine Hospital Disinformation

NYC Democrat Sponsors Bill Requiring Background Checks For 3D Printers

Bill Browder: The So-Called “Human Rights Activist” Got Rich Himself With Shady Deals

Major Companies Ditch College Degree as Job Requirement  Now that a college degree only indicates a prog troublemaker.

California Senator’s Group Pledged to Return FTX Cash. It Funneled Millions to Pro-Abortion Group Instead

Woman Arrested at Trump Trial Identified

Morning Joe Rips MSM Support of Hamas Hospital Lie, But Gives Rashida Tlaib a Pass

Reid: U.S. Untrustworthy on Hospital Because Of Beheaded Babies Claim

Marriott To Host Anti-Israel Group’s Annual Conference

WATCH: The Democrats Who Won’t Denounce Hamas Terrorists

NYU Law Students Say Classmate Losing Job Offer Over Pro-Hamas Statement Is ‘Violence’

WATCH: CBS’s Margaret Brennan Gives New Meaning to the Word ‘Anti-Semitic’

Tender Loving CAIR: PBS Coddles Hamas-Linked Group, Hints GOP Rhetoric Deadly

Transgender female fencer scores world title over 14-time champion (Fox News)

Mike Pence Town Hall: Media Quick to Abandon Israel Except Newsmax

Pro-Hamas Groups Push Critical Race Theory, Socialism In US

UPenn in Crisis

Cosmetics Tycoon Ron Lauder May Pull UPenn Support

When the Media’s Humility Died in Darkness

Pritzker launches abortion rights group Think Big America (Politico) Well, when I think big,  I certainly think Pritzker.

School vouchers are even worse than you think (Public Notice) They give parents freedom, and that’s a Bad Thing.

Soros-Backed Activist Group Pushes High School ‘Walk Out for Gaza’

The “Exhilaration” Of Massacre: Russell Rickford & The Radical Chic Of Higher Education

About That Time SBF Accidentally Gave Beto O’Rourke $1 Million In Stolen Customer Funds…

Cornel West draws max donation from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow (NBC News)

Justin Trudeau Opens Canada’s Borders Wide

Paul Krugman Claims Far Left ‘Has No Significant Influence on the Democratic Party’  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

‘Expect Escalation’ in Left’s Desire to Control American Kids and Institutions

Chicago Leaders Want Disaster Declared on Migration

Self-Checkout Is a Failed Experiment

National Suicide In Plain View: Open Border And Sanctuary Policies Continue Unabated

Biden Admin Orders Banks Not To Reject Illegal Immigrants’ Loan Applications

Biden Health Department Forces All Employees To Use ‘Preferred Pronouns’

Emerson Poll: Trump Beating Biden by 21 in Montana

5 False Claims Jill Biden Made While Speaking to LGBT Activist Group

Biden Plans to Ask Congress for $100 Billion in Ukraine, Israel Aid (Bloomberg) Betcha most of it goes to Ukraine.

Wexner Foundation says it’s terminating Harvard University relationship (Fox Business)

Is crime going up in America? Some types are, new FBI data shows (Axios)

With the House GOP in full meltdown, Democrats could offer a way out (Washington Poop) Greg Sargent loses his shit. Jennifer Rubin must be on vacation or something.

How Discriminatory DEI Ideology Spreads in Federal Bureaucracy (The Foundry)

ABC’s Salinas Shamelessly Shills For Woke National ‘Latinx Museum’

House Democratic Lawmaker Floats George W. Bush For Speaker Of The House (Forbes) You can’t make this shit up.

Trans Access to Girls’ Restrooms and Related Legal Claims Fail in Federal Court

Supreme Court Orders ‘Ghost Gun’ Makers To Comply With Biden’s Rule 

Nets Skip Shocking Number of Illegals from Middle East Crossing Border

Woke Antisemitism: A Reckoning

Lampedusa 2: Canary Islands See 550 Illegal Arrivals Daily

SBF Used Customer Funds To Donate To Democrats Through “Straw Donor” Scheme, Former FTX Engineer Testifies

India’s top court declines to legalize same-sex marriage in landmark LGBTQ ruling (CNN)

Government Unions Call the Shots

Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value

Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police

Texans Put Up Billboards In California Telling Everyone How Terrible Texas Is And How You Probably Shouldn’t Move There (Babylon Bee)

How About Hunter? Justice Department Adds FARA Charge To Menendez Prosecution

Anti-Gunners About To Meltdown After Elon Musk Says ‘Armed Citizens Vital For Democracy’s Defense’

Shouting Your Pronouns In A Crowded Theater

California Freelancer Says She Questioned How She Would ‘Survive’ Under This State Law

A Gender-Ideology True Believer, Mugged by Reality

Father Whose Son Had Transgender Surgery Despite Court Order Issues Dire Warning About Parental Rights

YouTube Takes Down Hamas Anti-Semitic Video After MRC Inquiry

A Universal Basic Income Is Being Considered by Canada’s Government

NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers

Indigenous Australians call for ‘week of silence’ after referendum failure

Baseless Gender Ideology Cartoon Now Part Of 4th Grade Curriculum In Wisconsin

Rent Control Is A Disaster – Don’t Let It Spread Across The Nation

Nadler: supporting innocent Palestinians doesn’t make you anti-Israel (The Hill) There are no ‘innocent Palestinians’.

New Zealand Elects Its Most Conservative Government in Decades (N.Y. Times)

Progressives call for US to take in some of the expected 1 million Gaza refugees (N.Y. Post)

PBS’s Frontline Laments Musk’s Twitter Takeover, But Exposes Ridiculous Yoel Roth

It’s All About Provoking Your Reaction

George Soros Once Blasted US, Israel For Not Embracing Hamas

Chicago Giving Migrants $9,000 In Rental Assistance

School Choice Is Better for Democracy Than Government Schooling (The Foundry)

SCOTUS Adds New Case to Chevron Doctrine Battle (NewsMax)

Dennis Kucinich Leaves Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Presidential Campaign (N.Y. Times)

Lawmakers Slam Alma Mater Harvard Over ‘Dangerous Antisemitism’ (Washington Free Beacon)

California Bans Student Suspensions For Defying Teachers, Disrupting Classes

A New “Brave New World”

Bret Baier STUNNED Democrat Panetta Has Zero Regrets of Hunter Biden Laptop Fraud in 2020

Newsom to Raise Health Care Workers’ Min. Wage to $25 Per Hour  As if health care wasn’t expensive enough already. Apparently Democrats don’t realize that wages don’t just come out of some magic bag of holding.

Migrant Surge in US Sparks Anguish in Democrat Cities

‘No Regrets’: Former CIA Director Repeats Debunked Russian Disinfo Claims About Hunter’s Laptop

Media Ignores Tlaib’s Two Contradictory Flags – Palestine and LGBTQ

Dozens of protesters demanding Israel-Hamas ceasefire arrested outside Schumer’s NYC home (N.Y. Post)

GOP Rep. Tells MSNBC Host to Stop Minimizing Hamas Killing Babies

What It Would Mean to Treat Hamas Like ISIS (N.Y. Times) David French does his signature Cuck Dance.

Woman of The Year Award Goes To Biological Male Dylan Mulvaney

Meet Rashida Tlaib’s Rogue’s Gallery of Israel-Hating, Terrorist-Loving Friends

Israel-Hamas ‘War’ – Another Excuse To Shutdown Free Speech

YouTube Allows Hamas Terrorists to Call on Muslims to Rise Up Against Israel

Elon Musk’s X Spars With EU Over Censorship of ‘Disinformation’

Pirates in California? In 2023? The Coast Guard to the Rescue!

NYPD Orders Entire Force on Duty Ahead of Pro-Hamas Rallies

Organizers of Anti-Semitic Times Square Protest Have No Regrets

ABC, NBC Omit Party Label in Report on New Menendez Indictment

RFK Jr. Sees Surge In Fundraising After Declaring Independent Run

Dumbocracy Achieved: ACT Test Scores For US Students Drop To 30-Year Low

The Incredibles: Roughly 80% Of Grades Given At Harvard Are In The ‘A’ Range

Corporate America, Outspoken on Black Lives Matter and Ukraine, Offers Muted Response to Terror in Israel 

Snopes: Talk Of Hamas Atrocities Might ‘Echo Islamophobic Rhetoric’

Nine Times Media Sympathized with Hamas Terrorists

Biological Men Take Gold & Silver At Chicago Women’s Cycle Races

Michelle Goldberg, After Lying Down With Jew-Hating Dogs, Expresses Chagrin About Waking Up With Jew-Hating Fleas  (The Other McCain)

The EU Says Mark Zuckerberg Has 24 Hours to Respond to Censorship Demands

Steve Graham points out the insanity.

Hamas Should Send The Knesset a Fruit Basket

I have been reading about the Israeli government’s sorry response to the problem of unarmed citizens being murdered by imbeciles from Gaza.

I lived in Israel for 4 months, and back then, guns were everywhere, mainly in the hands of the omnipresent soldiers. I saw soldiers with M16’s on buses and city streets. I also knew a kibbutznik who had a rifle for hunting, and I was with him when he took it to an almond grove. I can’t find information on the history of Israel’s gun laws, but I know that prior to the Gaza ambush, it was very hard for Israelis to get guns. At best, you could get one pistol (pathetic) and 50 rounds of ammunition (enough to last a few minutes at best).

This, in a country where nearly everyone is forced to join the military for two years. It is no exaggeration to say Israel chooses not to trust millions of trained, patriotic soldiers with guns.

Compare and contrast Switzerland.

Read it.

The Koran was written by Mohammed about 1,400 years ago. Actually, Mohammed was illiterate, so he dictated it to a scribe. Whatever. Then Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto and other works around 150 years ago. Recent events in Israel, and the responses to them by various groups, have gotten me thinking about both of these books.

Followers of Marx killed over 100 million people just in the 1900s. How many people have been raped, tortured, and killed by followers of Mohammed over the past 1,400 years? It’s hard to imagine. I really have no idea, but it’s millions and millions. And they’re not done, as Israelis will attest.

13,000 migrants released onto streets of San Diego after shelter space runs out (N.Y. Post)

San Diego County nonprofits continue to work tirelessly as border officials drop migrants off at rec (CBS 8 San Diego)

Border Patrol releases thousands of migrants on San Diego streets (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)

Transgender 9-Year-Old Sues State For Access to Medical Care (Newsweek)

North Carolina family, doctor sue to block state’s gender-affirming health care ban (The Hill)

Transgender residents in North Carolina, Montana file lawsuits challenging new state restrictions (WBRC)

When Big Names Drown Out Big Ideas (Harvard Crimson)

FLASHBACK: Dozens of Dems Wrote Letters of Support to Anti-Israel Group That’s Now Defending Hamas

Public School District Tells Its Teachers ‘Israeli Terrorism’ Has Been ‘Significantly Worse’ Than Hamas

SPLC Silent as Leftists Appear to Celebrate Hamas Terrorist Attacks Against Israel

Nets Ignore Tlaib’s Refusal to Condemn Hamas’s Slaughter of Babies

NOT NOW: NBC Gives Voice to Palestinian Grievances Against Israel

Meet the LA Times Reporter Who Doesn’t Want You To Know Hamas Beheads Babies

Hamas’s Ideology Infects the Public Schools

Amanpour Says Hamas to Blame for War…Why Was That on CNN, But Edited Out from PBS?

The data and puzzling history behind California’s new red food dye ban

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Democrats Are About ‘Ruining Cities’

Yale American Studies professor justifies Hamas attacks (Hot Air)

The Siege of Gaza and the Starvation War Crime (Just Security) Yet another little proglodyte mushroom of hate.

‘Charade’: CAIR Doubles Down on Claims About Israeli ‘War Crimes’ After Hamas Terrorist Attacks

Harvard Student Organizations Backtrack On Letter Blaming Israel For Hamas Attack

Here Comes the Pivot: Nets Begin to Turn on Israel Due to ‘Apocalyptic Scenes in Gaza’

Powerful: ‘Justice For Palestine’ Spray-Painted On Freshly Looted Nike Store (Babylon Bee)

What the ‘Hamas Holocaust’ Reveals About the West’s Corruption

Waahmbulance time: When your water pipes become rockets, it’s Israel’s fault there’s no water (Hot Air)

These 5 Big Tech Platforms Warned Not to Tilt Scales in Election

Read it.

Reading a book one night, you decide to turn on the lights. And suddenly it’s obvious. Hauling your body across the room just to flip a switch is absurd. So you decide to get smart lights. Two hours later, your world is pain….

Gaza Neighborhood Turned To Rubble, Rockets Rain On Tel Aviv

Israel-Hamas war: List of key events, day 5 (Al Jezeera)

Israel intensifies retaliation after massive Hamas terror attack (NBC News)

‘Where do we go?’ – Nowhere safe in Gaza as Israeli strikes intensify (BBC)

Israel-Palestine war: As bombs fall, children of Gaza ask: Why do they kill us? (Middle East News)

First US weapons shipment arrives in Israel after deadly Hamas attacks: IDF (N.Y. Post)

U.S. may send second aircraft carrier toward Israel (Politico)

US Sends Hostage Rescue Experts to Israel and Puts Special Ops ‘Door Kickers’ on Alert (The Messenger)

Hamas’ Terrorist War Against Israel: There Is No “On The Other Hand”

Lindsey Graham Says “Only Way” To Keep Hamas-Israel From Escalating Is To Attack Iran’s Oil  That’s the first intelligent thing I’ve ever seen Graham say.

Focus on Israel-Gaza war raises fears of China attack on Taiwan

Turkey’s Erdogan Calls Israeli Response to Hamas in Gaza a ‘Massacre’

Israel Actively Fighting A Secondary Front On Northern Border With Hezbollah: IDF

9 UN staffers killed in airstrikes in Gaza (The Hill)

Fact-Checkers Throttle Posts Claiming Iran Chanted ‘Death to America’ (NewsBustersO)

WATCH: MSNBC Caught Following Hamas’s Script After Terror Attacks on Israel

At least 40 babies, some beheaded, found by Israel soldiers in Hamas-attacked village (Fox News)

NYC On “High Alert” For “Lone Wolves” After Hamas Attack On Israel

‘THERE WILL BE BLOOD’: Hamas Issues ‘Unambiguous Call to Arms’ in ‘Support of Jihad-Waging Gaza’

WATCH: Anti-Israel Students Host DC Vigil for Hamas ‘Martyrs’

Gaza Doctors Issue ‘SOS To Whole World’ As US Proposes Evacuation Corridor To Egypt