Law barring people with domestic violence restraining orders from having guns is unconstitutional, court rules (CNN)

Pursuing economic growth will kill us all in the end (The Guardian)

Kathy Hochul wants to boost ‘atrocious’ tax credit for her Hollywood donors to $700M (N.Y. Post)

Progressive NYC Democrat Lincoln Restler thinks city should coax migrants to stay longer (N.Y Post)

What happens if the Supreme Court strikes down student loan forgiveness? Here are 3 predictions (CNBC)

Civil Rights Groups Take Aim at Oklahoma Bills to Ban Gender-Affirming Care

DC Metro Shooter Had Prior Assault Dismissed by Progressive DA

Democrat Bill Seeks to Make Minnesota ‘Trans Refuge’ State

Leftist Lunacy Means Being ‘Transgender’ Is More Important Than Being the ‘Right’ Gender

The Latest Hunter Biden Revelation Is a New Low (New York Magazine)

EU Institutions Raise Alarm Over False Asylum Claims

Friday Funny: Jane Fonda: “There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism”

Morning Joe: We Stand With Ilhan ‘All-About-The-Benjamins’ Omar!

Fla. Mom Pressing Charges Against Students who Beat her Kids on Bus

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My house in England is in what is called a church close, that is, a street built around a church. There has been a church there for hundreds of years, but the present building was heavily restored by the Victorians (it would have fallen down otherwise). But it still has a leper squint, a narrow vertical opening in the wall through which lepers could watch church services. Nowadays, we have neither lepers nor church services.

Residents’ parking spaces are at a premium around the close. As many readers will probably know, the matter of parking spaces can arouse deep and furious emotion, none stronger in fact. People have been murdered over parking disputes, and only yesterday (as I write this), The Daily Telegraph had an article about the case of a man who attacked and damaged a car that was parked in his designated parking space, despite the fact that he had no car, did not drive, and had not used the parking space for twelve years. The infringement of his rights was purely symbolic, but whole wars have been fought over trivia.

Tennessee Population Grows As Residents Leave More Liberal States

NBC Bemoans Removal of Racial & Sexual Content from Florida AP Course

EU Corruption Scandal: Socialist MEP Lived “Lifestyle Of A Movie Star”  Isn’t that what socialism is all about? The Cloud People live in luxury and the Dirt People live in squalor?

Tax-Funded Fuss: Christiane Amanpour and ‘V’ Curse ‘The Patriarchy,’ See Hope in Abortion

Inclusive or Alienating? The Language Wars Go On (N.Y. Times)

Congress is off to a spectacularly slow start, and members fear it won’t get better (NBC) I’m good with that.

Congress Boots Anti-Semitic Democrat Ilhan Omar From Foreign Affairs Committee

Indiana May Allow Non-Legal Residents to Get In-State Tuition

Efforts Renewed to Regulate Gas Stoves

Report: Harvard Cans School’s Media ‘Misinformation’ Expert

Nearly Half Of Chicago Public School Students Chronically Absent In 2022

86 House Dems Vote Against Resolution Condemning ‘Horrors of Socialism’

Gun Accounts Turn to Rumble as YouTube Takes Aim at Firearm Content

Princeton Ban On Cheating ‘Unfairly Targets’ Minorities, According To Student Op-Ed

Appellate Court Ruling Leaves Illinois Assault Weapons Ban on Hold (NBC)

‘Anti-religious bigotry’: Nebraska Dem’s amdt. would ban kids from vacation Bible schools, church youth groups (Fox)

New York university system to require social justice, DEI course for all undergrad students (Fox)

SUNY makes new racial equity class mandatory for graduation at all schools (N.Y. Post)

Estimating illegal immigration’s cost to public education (The Hill)

Gov. Gavin Newsom to announce new gun control efforts in Sacramento (KCRA)

Exposing Radical Florida Lawmaker’s Attempted Hijacking of Parental Rights

The Threat of Woke Corporations and the Response of the Red States

Chicago Crime Rises 61% In 2023, Violent Offenses Spike While Governor Insists Crime “Coming Down”

European Leaders Ponder Pro-Censorship Policies to Police So-Called Disinfo, Misinfo Online

PBS Lobbies for Blood Donation by Gay Men as an ‘Equal Rights’ Issue

Nine Republican-led states ask judge to block DACA program (CNN)

Trans Criminals Who Raped Women Are Women, Says Scottish Leader

Jane Austen Novel Gets Trigger Warning for ‘Gender Stereotyping’

‘Go on offense’: Inside Democrats’ strategy to try to undercut GOP investigations and protect Biden (CNN)

EXCLUSIVE: Medical Group Pokes Holes in ‘Fatally Flawed’ Study Claiming to Prove Kids Benefit From Transgender Hormones

New Wealth Tax Could Be California’s Nuttiest Idea Yet

“Objectivity Has Got To Go”: News Leaders Call For End Of Objective Journalism

Rep. Chip Roy Pushes to Remove Military Diversity Officer Posts

CBS Treats College Board With Kid Gloves Over Woke AP Course, Ducks DeSantis Scoring K.O.

Satanic Temple Opens ‘Religious’ Abortion Facility In Honor of Samuel Alito’s Mom

White Privilege Virtue-Signaling Scarborough: I Wouldn’t Have Been Beaten Like Tyre

Federal judge blocks New Jersey law that allows state to sue gun industry (Politico)

Meet the Dark Money Group Helping Democrats Undermine Republican Investigations

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A team of researchers has successfully converted methane into methanol using light and scattered transition metals such as copper in a process known as photo-oxidation. The reaction was the best achieved to date for converting methane gas into liquid fuel at ambient temperature and pressure (25 °C and 1 bar, respectively), according to a study published in the journal Chemical Communications.

The term bar as a pressure unit comes from the Greek word meaning weight (baros). One bar equals 100,000 Pascals (100 kPa), close to the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level (101,325 Pa).

The study’s findings are a crucial step toward making natural gas accessible as a source of energy for the production of alternative fuels to gasoline and diesel. Despite the fact that natural gas is a fossil fuel, its conversion into methanol produces less carbon dioxide (CO2) than other liquid fuels in the same category.

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According to Bloomberg, work is underway to refloat the LNG carrier “Grace Emilia” after it ran aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal during a northbound transit.

Otto Jervell, managing director at shipping agency Leth Agencies, said Grace Emilia could be refloated within a few hours.

The LNG carrier entered the Suez Canal early Wednesday morning. There was no explanation for why the vessel ran aground in Little Bitter Lake.

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U.T. Austin is in Travis County, and Travis County is where all of the Wokerati in Texas go to fester.

“Wokeness” is often associated with small liberal arts colleges and the Ivy League, but it’s also found a home at one of the largest public universities in one of the reddest states in the country: the University of Texas at Austin.

The state’s flagship public institution now subjects faculty to “mandatory training in anti-racist pedagogy and cultural competency.” Its medical curriculum requires students to “examine” the “intersectionality” of their “multiple identities.” Several of its programs require the completion of diversity, equity, and inclusion courses, and incorporate so-called DEI principles into faculty hiring. At UT’s Cockrell School of Engineering, for example, tenure and promotion decisions must “explicitly consider efforts related to DEI.”

These measures are summarized in a Jan. 20 report by John Sailer of the National Association of Scholars, a conservative education nonprofit. They indicate that DEI can come for any university—including in states like Texas where political leaders have sought to purge critical race theory from public classrooms.

“Red states are just as bad as anywhere else,” said Sailer, who has written extensively about DEI programs in higher education. “When I think of places that have really robust and invasive DEI bureaucracies, I could name Berkeley and University of Michigan, but I could also name UT Austin.”

Migrants’ refusal to leave New York hotel met with outrage: ‘Absolutely insane’ (Fox)

NYPD clears migrants’ tents from in front of Hell’s Kitchen hotel (ABC)

Calls for transparency from NBC News grow louder in wake of Paul Pelosi attack bodycam video (Fox)

NYC forces all city employees to undergo radical critical race theory training (Fox)

The political targeting of Ilhan Omar is inextricable from her religion (Washington Post) And its consequent anti-semitism and corruption.

Grotesque, Woke Art in Public Spaces Is Next Phase in War on History, Culture

“One Lie After The Next”: CNN Ratings Hit 9-Year Lows After Reputational Suicide

When Americans Lost Faith in the News (The New Yorker)

PBS NewsHour Special Pushes Liberal Line on Guns and American Racism

Washington D.C.’s free bus bill becomes law as zero-fare transit systems take off (NBC) it’s not ‘free’, of course; it’s being paid for by all D.C. taxpayers, including those who don’t take buses and will never take a bus–but they have to pay for it nevertheless. This also makes it easy for a gang-banger to hop a bus, go to a completely different part of the city, mug somebody, and then hop a bus to escape.

George Soros: Propaganda Powerhouse

CBS, NBC Blame Israel for Having ‘Triggered’ ‘Cycle of Violence’ Against Palestinians

California’s Female Prisoners Feel Threatened by Transgender Inmates. The State Doesn’t Care.

WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ Admittedly Uses Faulty Data to Dismiss Good Guys With Guns

EXCLUSIVE: Lessons in Preferred Pronouns Should Start in Pre-K, Largest Teachers Union Says 

Missouri AG Moves to Protect Kids From Sexual Instruction After School Takes Kids to Drag Show

Katy Hays’s involving, well-tuned debut novel takes its name from a real museum in New York, the Cloisters. Built by a Rockefeller, it resembles a medieval monastery and brims with glorious treasures. Ann, our provincial heroine (from Walla Walla, where she worked a menial job in order to fund college), would have preferred the Met, but when she’s serendipitously hired for a summer role, she finds herself swiftly pulled into the institution’s inner workings and the nefarious machinations of its well-heeled staff.

The cutthroat nature of the museum is placed under the spotlight. Although Ann is brilliant at history of art, with her lack of connections she finds it all but impossible to garner a foothold in the coveted PhD programs of the Ivy League, and views the Cloisters as a step up into a successful career. She can’t afford to get it wrong, renting a tiny apartment and avoiding phone calls from her mother to keep from being drawn back into hicksville. The irony, of course, is that in leaving a cloistered past, she’s entering somewhere even narrower.

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Oklo, a California-based energy startup, has submitted its licensing project plan for a commercial-scale nuclear fuel recycling facility to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The fuel recycling facility will be the first of its kind and is meant to make use of nuclear waste, which still has up to 90% of its energy content that could be used to meet energy needs in the U.S.

The submitted licensing project plan outlines the company’s “pre-application engagement activities” ahead of licensing for the fuel recycling facility. The engagement activities are meant for Oklo to identify and reconcile regulatory requirements, “enabling efficient and effective NRC license application review through a process which is equivalent to a staged licensing approach with the benefits of flexibility and customization,” the company said in a press release.

The company’s fuel recycling facility would be capable of recycling used nuclear fuel from its own reactors as well as reactors from other companies. According to Oklo, the spent fuel is about 95% recyclable, and the energy available in nuclear waste could meet U.S. energy needs for over 150 years.

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Minimum wage advocates somehow think that their wishful thinking can override basic economics. But no matter how much they tell you otherwise, supply and demand are a thing. Raising the cost of labor will mean less labor employed, all other things being equal.

But every so often, we get an economic study that claims basic economics has been overturned.

But as André Marques explains, no matter what these studies purport to show, the minimum wage creates unemployment and a lack of opportunity for people with little or no work experience or skills.

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Corridors of hotels – even pricey ones – have become more and more dimly lit with more and more disturbing design elements.

While people scoping out their honeymoon stay will be shown photos of the lavish entryways, lobbies and the suites themselves, rarely are the hallways ever mentioned. Ditto for the casual traveler, or the monthly corporate commuter.

Some of us have physical situations where it is easy to be put off balance by the latest in decor. Those people who suffer from Meniere’s disease, have had a stroke, or taken a bad fall have enough to deal with without the latest in decor bad choices: rugs that look like their center opens into a vortex to hell right there in your close friend’s living room.

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Entropy is master of us all.

Christian Nationalism’s Popularity Should Be a Wake Up Call (TIME)

‘There Is a Real Sense That the Apocalypse Is Coming’ (Politico)

Twitter Files #15: More glimpses behind the Potemkin village the left built

Taibbi Shreds Hamilton 68 ‘Laughable And Damning’ Response To Being Exposed As Frauds

Let’s go crazy, taxes edition

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Several years ago, I saw a cartoon that went something like this: a liberal college administrator tells a conservative speaker that his event is being canceled because there have been threats of violence. The conservative asks, who are the threats coming from? and the liberal administrator answers, “Us.”

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Learning is intertwined with memory to the extent that they are almost the same thing. Learning cannot happen without a change to your memory. Everything we know about learning efficiently is directly related to memory – “good” teachers, “good” explanations, images, diagrams, maths problems, essays, practical assignments all are good for learning because they help move things into your long-term memory.

Parents say ‘dream’ school district has become a ‘woke’ nightmare: ‘The joke’s on us’ (Fox)

Randi Weingarten flamed for tweet claiming most parents don’t like ‘school culture wars’: ‘You started this’ (Fox)

Idaho governor wins lawsuit against illegal encampment outside Capitol: ‘We are not Portland’ (Fox)

Federal judge blocks California misinformation law (The Hill)

It will take more than wealth taxes to tackle this gross inequality (The Guardian)

Kennedy on GOP wanting to cut Social Security: ‘Not even George Santos would make up a whopper like that’ (The Hill)

Alliance of Big Tech, Dark Money Groups Partners With Counties in State That Bans ‘Zuckerbucks’ for Elections

Democrats Hate Being Held To Their Own Standards: Committee Assignments Edition

Dem-Controlled Michigan Senate Changes ’24 Presidential Primary Date

Canada’s Bill C-26: Yet Another Government Power Grab

“Tragedy… Might Be Triggering”: British Universities Add Warnings For Greek And Shakespearean Plays

FLASHBACK: The Media Lovefest That Kicked Off Hillary’s 2016 Campaign

Federal Food Stamps Program Hits Record Costs In 2022

‘Twitter Files’ 15: MSM’s Partitioning of Political Discourse

Latest Dispatch from the Cesspool that Is Seattle

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A Big Tech-aligned group funded through liberal dark money is moving to expand “nationwide,” even though about half the states have banned using private money to run elections.

The Center for Tech and Civic Life launched the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence in partnership with organizations funded by the liberal Arabella Advisors and Democracy Fund, as The Daily Signal previously reported. The tech center is the same group that distributed $350 million in election-administration grants in 2020 from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife.

AOC mocked for saying she’s ‘here in NY’ — while speaking in front of US Capitol (N.Y. Post)

NYC parents give Mayor Eric Adams an ‘F’ for handling of new charter schools (N.Y. Post)

Video Report: Rep. Rashida Tlaib Flies Palestinian Flag at Capitol

Chinese Communist Party Targets American Kids by Infiltrating K-12 Schools

House Dems Push For Taxpayer Funded Abortions

House Democrats Move to Force Pro-Life Taxpayers to Fund Abortions

In Victory for Religious Freedom, Student Will Be Allowed to Wear ‘Jesus Loves Me’ Mask at School

Ivy League Lawyer Who Firebombed Cop Car Will Spend a Year and a Day in Prison

PBS NewsHour Frets Second Amendment Prevents More Gun Control in California

The Daily Chart: Harvard’s Lack of Diversity

NBA’s Bucks Mark ‘Pride Night’ With Halftime Drag Show

CNN Declares Banning Critical Race Theory Isn’t Conservative  And of course CNN is the expert on what is and is not conservative.

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A Colorado Court of Appeals judge ruled against Christian baker Jack Phillips Thursday after he appealed an earlier court decision requiring him to bake a cake for an individual’s gender transition.

Phillips won a previous case at the Supreme Court in 2018 after he declined to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, but was sued again in March 2021 after a transgender individual wanted Phillips, who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop, to make a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside.

Lawmakers codify abortion rights in state constitution, sending it to voters (Politico) New York.

New York legislature passes abortion, trans protections amendment (Fox)

Why US libraries are on the frontlines of the homelessness crisis (The Guardian) Hey, if I could camp out in a library, I would.

Mayor Eric Adams wimps out on fight for the good schools his core NYC voters demand (N.Y. Post)

Kari Lake Claims Discovery of 200k Failed Votes in Arizona: ‘This is Huge’ (Newsweek)

Pittsburgh declares homelessness a public health emergency, looks for solutions (TribLIVE)

Gavin Newsom swats down CBS reporter’s Second Amendment question (SFGate)

Washington Post Hit With Biden-Era Layoffs as Subscriptions Plummet

Report: Suspects Who Assaulted Fox News Weatherman Already Released

Yale Law School Bars Press From Free Speech Panel. Yes, Really.

How Blue State Election Official Responds to DACA Recipient Proclaiming, ‘We Are Voting’

Hawley Brings Back Bill to Prevent Lawmaker Trading as PELOSI Act

DOJ Indicts Radical Activists for Attacking Florida Pro-Life Facilities

The State Of Global Trade Union Membership

Beto O’Rourke Is Holding On to $100K In Tainted Crypto Cash

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Everyone knows about the egg problem, which is being chalked up to a bird flu, just as Putin was responsible for the gas price and greedy meat processors caused beef prices to soar. Sorry but this is ridiculous. The price of eggs is up dramatically because all the costs associated with making them available to consumers are up.

Blank Check? Democrats Want To Totally Eliminate Debt Ceiling With New Bill

M&M’s Ends Woke “Spokescandies” After Pushback, Replacing Them With Actress Maya Rudolph

MSNBC: No Legitimate Reason to Keep Eric Swalwell Off Intel Committee  Except that whole sleeping with a Chinese spy thing.

NYPD finds AirTag tracking its patrol car

New York Times Oozes Over Pelosi, ‘Liberated and Loving It,’ A ‘Washington Monument’

Broadcast Networks Silent as Top Democrat’s Kid is Arrested for Assaulting a Police Officer

Looking To Tamp Down Controversy, Yale Law School Restricts Access to Free Speech Panel

Dem Lawmaker’s Child Released on $500 Bail After Assaulting Cop  If he had put his feet on Nancy Pelosi’s desk on Jan. 6, he’d (they’d?) still be rotting in jail.

Dem Lawmaker Whose Child Assaulted Cop Deletes ‘Defund the Police’ Post

After Priest Exorcises All Demons From Her Home, Pelosi Becomes A Republican (Babylon Bee)

Welcome To Hotel California: Lawmakers Move To Tax People Who Have Left The State

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But it won’t.

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Seven people were shot to death on Monday afternoon in San Mateo County, Calif., the sheriff’s office said, the second mass shooting in the state in three days.

The shooting happened around 2:20 p.m. local time at two separate locations near Highway 92 and the Half Moon Bay city limits, about 30 miles south of San Francisco, the authorities said. An eighth person was transported to Stanford Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

Boy, those strict gun control laws in California really work, don’t they? Funny how this sort of thing doesn’t happen so often in Texas.

U.S. lawmakers preparing plan to avert debt-ceiling crisis (Reuters)

Unpacking the Debt Ceiling Showdown (MSNBC)

With dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric, history risks repeating itself (The Guardian)

Davos is a Swiss ‘miss’ at solving world problems (N.Y. Post)

What we learned at Davos: signs of hope emerge from the pessimism (The Guardian)

Access to abortion pills is sliding out of reach in dozens of states (The Hill)

Retail pharmacies may now dispense abortion pills but not in Arizona (AZCentral)

A Florida Supreme Court decision on guns defies reason (Sun-Sentinel)

Adult child of top House Democrat charged with assaulting officer during protest (Washington Times) The turd doesn’t fall far from the anus.

The Left’s Largest Nonprofits Funneled $39 Million to China in 2021, Filings Show

THE ATLANTA RIOT: Out-of-State Anarchists Torch Police Vehicle

How the Freedom Caucus Hopes to Defund the Police (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues their crypto-Democrat gaslighting.

WashPost Rushes to ‘Fact Check’ on Schiff, Swalwell — Their Anonymous Sources?

WY Union Says Court Ruling in Kroger–Albertson’s Merger Favors “Ultra-Wealthy”  I guess they check your bank balance before they let you in the store?

NYT Says Upcoming SCOTUS Decisions Could Overhaul Online Censorship

TikTok Employees Arbitrarily Decide What Goes Viral: Report  My, what a surprise.

Democrats name Schiff and Swalwell to Intelligence panel despite McCarthy’s threats (NBC)

Pro-Abortion Protestors: ‘Give It Anesthesia and Suck It Out’ | MRCTV on the Street

‘Nonbinary’ Child of Dem Minority Whip Arrested for Assaulting Police

NIMBY: Liberal Elites Lose It Over Proposed Nantucket Low-Income Housing Project

Vermont Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Noncitizen Voting  This is why the Wokerati love working through the courts.

Street Justice: Los Angeles Has Become Wild West Under Soft-on-Crime Prosecutor

“Domestic Terrorism” – Atlanta Mayor Disputes Claims That Anti-Police Riots Weren’t Violent

Even after New Mexico shootings, little GOP reckoning over election denialism (Washington Post) Denialism!

Top CBS Morning, Evening Shows Ignore Anti-Cop Riot in Atlanta

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I friend recently sold his company and asked me if there was a list out there of what he can now buy with his newfound money. Why isn’t a list of items you can consider now that you are rich? Nobody pats you on the back and says welcome to the rich club.

I have several friends now who had 7 and 8 figure exits so I decided to just ask them as well as look at my own spending since I had a little extra cash. They all seem to have a few ideas but no one had a really comprehensive list.

Have people whacked. I have a list….

Joel Kotkin.

For Americans, California once looked like the future. It was a state defined by risk-taking and utopian dreaming. Yet for most Californians today, the upward mobility so central to the state’s ethos is rapidly disappearing. For decades, California was the primary destination for both other Americans and for foreign immigrants. Now, this trend has gone into reverse, with people and companies leaving the state. Population growth, already slowing over the past decade, has turned negative for the first time in modern California’s history, largely due to the state’s shrinking middle and working classes and its loss of families.

California’s difficulties undermine the notion, so fashionable today, that with the right mixture of technology and utopian dreaming, societies can forge a future that is both green and widely prosperous. In reality, California now has America’s worst rates of cost-of-living-adjusted poverty and functional illiteracy, the worst housing affordability in the continental US and a devastating shortage of mid-skilled jobs. What’s more, in 2022, California suffered some of the lowest personal-income growth rates in the country, and its GDP grew at less than half the pace of its arch-rival, Texas.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

One of Stan Evans‘s many great quips was that it was fortunate Republican politicians were pro-life, since they spend so much time in the fetal position. The lack of fight in congressional Republicans was a source of endless frustration for Stan, and despite some indications the new House GOP majority may pick some worthy fights, in some areas they are already proving to be a colossal failure.

Tom Veal.

Transportation is much on the minds of the Davos dystopians. Their yearning to replace private automobiles with mass transit is well known. A talk at this year’s World Economic Forum (a/k/a “Rent Girls’ Paradise”) offers a new twist and leads me to think that monorails may soon be yesteryear’s fad.

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No major American city has failed at the same level as Detroit, whose population dropped from 1.85 million people in 1950 to about 630,000 today. Move over Detroit, here comes San Francisco, which lost 6.3 percent of its population between 2019 and 2021, a rate of decline larger than any two year-period in Detroit’s history and unprecedented among any major US city.

Detroit’s fall was primarily driven by the relocation of the US auto industry to southern, right-to-work states, where auto producers, including foreign firms who build autos here, have avoided the union conflict that was endemic in Detroit. San Francisco’s decline is driven by absurdly bad local economic policies. How bad? As some city blocks have been taken over by drug gangs selling fentanyl in open-air superstores (think of an opioid version of Costco, without the membership card), city supervisors have spent their time talking about defunding police, abolishing rent, abolishing prisons, and demanding that if Whole Foods is to be allowed to develop a grocery store in a vacant building in the city, it must include affordable housing.

‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’ (The Guardian)

Atlanta police arrest 6 in night of chaos after violent protesters lit cop car ablaze, smashed windows (Fox)

Davos: Foreign Minister Of Slovenia Demands That Nations “Respect The Rules Of The World Order”

Schools Face Pressure as Liberal Discipline Methods Fail

The Mainstream Media Admits That We Are Facing “The Worst Food Crisis In Modern History”

FLASHBACK: 50 Years of the Liberal Media’s Pro-Abortion Zealotry

Woke Agenda Survives: These House Republicans Are Sticking With ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

Velshi Mourns The Demise Of ‘Useful Committees’ As GOP Takes Control

Go Woke, Get Broke: Vox Fires 7% Of Staff; Vice’s Valuation Plunges

Newsom Twosome: Siebel Newsom’s Films – Shown In Middle Schools – Feature Porn, Radical Gender Ideologies, And Her Husband Gavin

Democrats Propose Constitutional Amendment To Overturn First Amendment Decision

Judge Grants Restraining Order Against Illinois “Assault Weapon” Ban

Violent Protest in Downtown Atlanta Over Killing of Activist

Police Arrest 6 After Fiery Atlanta Riots, Mayor Confirms Antifa Used Explosives

Fiery But Peaceful In Atlanta? CNN Once Again Suggests That Leftist Riots Are Not Violent

When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know (N.Y. Times)

Don’t Call It Capitalism: The Fed’s $8 Trillion Hoard Of Financial Assets

Unions Faltering: Nationwide Membership Rate Hits Record Low

Antifa Rioters Rampage Through Atlanta, Torch Police Vehicle

Election Integrity Watchdog Finds California Lost 10.9 Million Mail-In Ballots in 2022 Midterms

Turkey could be on the brink of dictatorship (The Economist)

Biden, McCarthy to meet on debt limit as Yellen warns of consequences (Reuters)

New Yorkers abandoning their state in record numbers for sunny climates, low taxes of Florida: report (Fox)

More New Yorkers moved to Florida in 2022 than any year in history in staggering exodus (N.Y. Post)

Top U.N. women’s visit to pressure Afghanistan’s Taliban on rights marred by security team’s poorly planned photo op (CBS)

Backlash against anti-abortion laws produces new legal strategies, more secure rights (MSNBC)

Thieves are breaking into Bay Area garages using this novel technique, police warn (S.F. Chronicle)

The facts and strategy behind the outrage over rumors of a ban on gas stoves (NPR)

Facebook And Instagram Could Soon Allow Transgender And Non-Binary People To Show Their Breasts  Their fake breasts.

“It’s Shocking”: California’s Early Release Of Convicted Pedophiles Will Lead To More Victims: Former DA

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Seven militants have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism following a deadly shootout with law enforcement at their “autonomous zone” in a wooded area south of Atlanta. They are all from out of state.

On Wednesday morning, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies conducted a raid on the so-called autonomous zone at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Since June 2021, Antifa and other far-left extremists from across the US have occupied the area to prevent the construction of what they call a “cop city.” The GBI says a Georgia State Patrol trooper was shot and severely injured during Wednesday’s raid by a man camped in the area. Officers returned fire and killed the gunman, who allegedly used a pistol.

Illinois’ Newest Suicide Attempt: Wealth-Tax Legislation To Be Introduced This Week

U.S. launching pilot program to allow private sponsorship of refugees from around the world (CBS) Wonder how much Federal taxpayer money that will eventually soak up.

Newsom says 95% of Texans pay more than Californians in taxes. But is he correct? (Sacramento Bee) No, of course not.

Prostitutes charge Davos attendees $2,500 a night as sex work demand booms (N.Y. Post)

Bank of America CEO says new ESG rules are needed to reboot capitalism (CNBC)

Lemire Declares Biden Document Scandal to Be ‘A Partisan Story’

Make Birth Free (Compact Magazine) Birth is already free. What they want is somebody else to pay for their pre-natal care.

Philadelphia Flyers Player Boycotts His Woke Team’s “Pride Night,” Refuses To Wear Their LGBTQ Warmup Jersey

House Dems Prepare for Denials on Three Key Committee Seats

Christian Philadelphia Flyers Player Refuses to Wear LGBT Pride Jersey, Citing His Faith

Outrage Ensues As DeSantis Engineers Conservative Overhaul Of Progressive College

Colorado Democrats Want to Take Away Taxpayers’ Refunds, Give the Money to Public Schools

WEF Davos Panel Pushes ‘Pre-Bunking’ Content, ‘Amplifying’ Selected Sources Online

10 Million 2022 California Ballots Unaccounted For, Report Finds

‘Absolutely Insane’: Connecticut Law Would Axe Fitness Requirements for Female Firefighters

NYC’s Top Prosecutor Lets Violent Jew-Haters Off Easy

Billionaires in blue states face coordinated wealth-tax bills (Washington Post) Serves ’em right.

CNN Feigns Ignorance Why Swalwell Shouldn’t Be on Intel Committee

Minnesota Dem Pushes for Tampons in Boys Room: ‘Not All Who Menstruate Are Female’

British Food Tsar Hints At Cake Ban At The Office, Compares Health Harms To Passive Smoking

Ten People Died Because of Pro-Crime ‘Bail Funds’

DOJ Adds Everyone Who Pre-Ordered ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ To Anti-Trans Watchlist (Babylon Bee)

It’s time to put cancer warning labels on alcohol, experts say (CBC) Experts! That proves it!

Yes, Baby Girls Who Are ‘Unwanted’ Because of Their Sex Are Aborted in America  Although not to the extent that they are in Asia and Africa.

Whoopi Demands Texas Send New York ‘Cash’ to Deal With Illegals

Atlanta Antifa Promotes ‘Night of Rage’ After Deadly Encounter With Police

UK Army Veteran Fined for Silent Prayer Near Abortion Facility: ‘What Is the Nature of Your Prayer Today?’ Cops Ask

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Gee, I wonder why?

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Many active volcanoes can be found on the seabed within Norway’s maritime borders. Some are now only a few metres below sea level.

Mapping Out All The Key Revelations From The ‘Twitter Files’ So Far…

DeSantis prohibits Florida state-run fund managers from considering ESG factors (The Hill)

This 22-year-old is trying to save us from ChatGPT before it changes writing forever (NPR) Save us! Oh, save us!

Meta’s Nudity Policies Discriminate Against Trans People, Oversight Board Says (Gizmodo)

Hundreds in Massachusetts town fuming over massive property tax increase (ABC)

Eric Adams says it’s time to candidly talk about women’s health with NYC clinics to soon have abortion pills (N.Y. Post)

17 cars broken into on a single night in this San Francisco neighborhood (S.F. Chronicle)

Sesame allergy moms sound off about shortcuts on FDA guidelines: ‘Threatening the lives of our kids’ (Fox)

Under fire: State’s assault weapons ban challenged by two lawsuits — with others on the way (Chicago Sun-Times)

Activists criticise insurance industry’s first attempt to measure carbon emissions (Financial Times)

Why won’t NY’s heavy hitters in DC — Schumer, Jeffries, Gillibrand — do anything to help Mayor Adams? (N.Y. Post)

Firestorm! NCAA, Incoming Prez Facing Fury Of Transgender Opponents

GMA Praises Drag Queen ‘Shangela’: ‘We Need That Right Now’

Maryland’s Larry Hogan Leaves Office More Popular With Democrats Than Republicans  Don’ think of it as selling out–think of it as buying in.

D.C. Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto, Lightens Sentencing for Carjackings and Gun Crimes

Port Authority Volunteers Enticing Migrants to Exit NYC With Free Bus Trips

Propaganda Acolytes: 54 Soros-Tied Figures Linked to Major Media

LOCK HER UP: These Photos of Greta Thunberg Being Carried Away by German Police Will Brighten Your Day

Networks Ignore D.C. Softening Penalties for Violent Criminals

Is New Zealand A Beta Test For Western Governments Micromanaging The Populace?

Why health-care services are in chaos everywhere (The Economist) Socialist meddling.

Are gas stoves really dangerous? What we know about the science (The Guardian) According to the Narrative.

Ron Paul: Isn’t It Time For Adam Schiff To Be Expelled From Congress?

Secret Video Reveals Twitter Team Warned of ‘Shooting in the Streets’ Ahead of Jan. 6 (Rolling Stone) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

New York Times Sneers ‘No, Biden Is Not Trying to Ban Gas Stoves’ (But Maybe He Should?)

CNN, MSNBC Fret Over Missouri Dress Code for Women Legislators

UK Leader Linked to Bill Gates Wants Church of England to Allow Gay Marriages  This woman is allegedly a member of the Conservative Party and in that party’s leadership. I think we can safely say that they so-called Conservative Party isn’t any more.

The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database Tops 1,400 Cases

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Six people including a six-month-old baby cradled in the arms of her 17-year-old mother were shot dead at a home in California’s main agricultural valley on Monday in what authorities called a targeted attack and “horrific massacre.”

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The bodies of the infant and 17-year-old mother were located in a ditch outside the home, Boudreaux later told the Los Angeles Times. Both had gunshot wounds to the head.

I get the impression that the cartels more or less run the Mexican provinces on the U.S. border.

Scott Adams is of opinion that sooner or later the U.S. is going to have to send in the military to clean the place up, whether Mexico likes it or not, including drone strikes and more or less treat the place like Afghanistan.

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Newly released data from Germany’s federal government, controlled by the three-party, left-liberal ‘traffic light’ coalition, has revealed that the number of migrants seeking asylum in the country—excluding Ukrainian refugees—has climbed to levels not previously seen since the 2016 European migrant crisis.

The figures, released on Wednesday, January 11th, in a report by Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), indicated that the Federal Republic of Germany registered 217,774 first-time asylum applications in the year 2022, the most of any European Union member state. The number represents a 46.9% uptick compared to the previous year, and the highest number of applicants since 2016, the Hamburg-based newspaper Die Zeit reports.

The figure does not include the approximately one million Ukrainian refugees who have traveled to Germany following the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian war in February 2022.

“Here we are! We want to live in your country! Give us money!”

On Martin Luther King Day, everybody loves Martin Luther King … except me.

The reason I dislike Martin Luther King is because he was a totalitarian fascist.

King was a fascist in that he thought it perfectly appropriate for the government to dictate to businessmen how they conduct their business: Whom they can buy from, whom they can sell to, whom they must admit to their premises, even what sort of products they can carry.

People get all hot and bothered by King’s statements about what ought to matter is the content of one’s character rather than the color of one’s skin. But actions speak louder than words. It doesn’t matter so much what King said as what he did: His entire program was based on forcing people to deal with others based entirely on the color of their skin. If person X has a black or brown skin, you have to deal with him; his (or her) character has nothing to do with it. Is he a petty criminal who is intending to rob you, like Michael Brown? Too bad; you have to let him in your store. Is he a drug addict hopped up on fentanyl and God knows what else, like George Floyd? Too bad; you have to deal with him.

King’s whole program, and that of the Social Justice Wokery that arose out of it, is essentially totalitarian. The fundamental characteristic of a totalitarian is that he (or she) believes that he (or she) is entitled to dictate how you live your life, whether you like it or not, whether you agree or not. You may not choose what you do, you may not choose what you say, you may not choose what you think, but those choices are made by the totalitarian.

Totalitarianism violates one of the most fundamental of human freedoms: The freedom of association. This was considered one of the ‘rights reserved to the people’ in the Constitution until the rise of the modern corporate state. If I don’t want to associate with person X, that ought to be my right, regardless of my reason for doing so (that’s what a RIGHT is all about). This is why American culture has been on the downward slope ever since the so-called Civil Rights Movement of the sixties.

If we’re going to have a holiday to celebrate Martin Luther King, then why not one to celebrate Benito Mussolini? It’s only fair. The only substantial difference between them is … the color of their skin.

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A disturbing interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB.

And here I’ll bet you just thought it was bad luck. Nope. Satan exists, and he has a plan.

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Yet another reason not to fly.

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We will also need a lot more electrons, which at present we are making no effort to get.

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The online tip jar. The after-show bucket. The YouTube donations drive. We are in a golden age of crowdfunding art, and you can’t move online for a creator panhandling you for a donation for their content. In a celebrated 2013 TedTalk, “The Art of Asking”, Amanda Palmer posited this crowdfunding model as a path forward for artists to live directly from audience support. That audience would pay for the artist’s work, not out of compulsion, but out of a desire to help someone they felt connected to.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Amanda Palmer, you realize that most people give her money just so she will go away. One of the worst days of my life was when I found out that Neil Gaiman had dumped the mother of his teenaged daughter in order to go running after this chick.

Steve Sailer.

The Economics Job Market Rumors discussion board is particularly disrespectful of their betters, since economics requires math skills and attracts less politically correct academics. Not surprisingly, powerful economists, especially ones who are members of privileged groups who benefit from affirmative action, want to silence this forum.

Eric Adams says NYC can’t cater to migrants’ ‘cultural taste’ on food (N.Y. Post)

Migrants Say NYC Provided Raw, Rotten Foods – And Mayor Says It’s a Matter of Taste (NBC)

New Jersey wants to be the state of disinformation and indoctrinate its students (Fox)

‘Unprecedented pressure’ as EU’s borders face rising migrant numbers (Euronews)

Judge rules against LGBTQ students in Title IX college discrimination suit (NBC)

Has American Culture Ever Been More Violent Than It Is Right Now?  Well, yeah, during the 20s and 30s – you know, Bonnie & Clyde, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, etc.?

Yes, Virginia, There Is A Deep State… And It’s Worse Than You Think

What to Know About Gas Stove Alternatives  (N.Y. Times) Biden doesn’t want to ban your gas stove, heaven forbid, but if he did, what else could you do? (Part of the proglodyte attempt to cancel the industrial revolution.)

POLITICO Playbook: Return of the default deniers (Politico) Hey, a new ‘DENIER’ tag! Get on the bandwagon!

Adam Carolla: Rob Reiner Is a ‘Useful Idiot’  Actually, he isn’t really all that useful.

Navy Swats ‘Wokeness’ Claims in Bid to Reach Older Americans Who Could Influence Recruiting  Except that ‘older Americans’ aren’t that gullible.

Hochul’s myopic migrant view could bankrupt NY city and state (N.Y. Post)

Biden pays tribute to Ash Carter, defense secretary who made military more inclusive (Washington Post) I.e. more Woke.

Eric Adams pitches record $102.7B NYC budget — without money for migrants (N.Y. Post)

Pritzker threatens to fire police for not enforcing Illinois gun ban

Illinois sheriff explains why they won’t enforce assault weapons ban

Anti-ESG drive in U.S. could have cost taxpayers up to $708 mln – study (Reuters)

What to do about Sotomayor (Politico)

Virginia Progressive Prosecutor Won’t Prosecute Misdemeanors Including Hit-and-Runs  Time to leave.

‘California Is The State Of Freedom,’ Says Man Who Locked Everyone In Their Homes For 2 Years (Babylon Bee)

Up to 5,000 Soldiers to be Deployed To Secure Upcoming WEF Meeting in Davos

‘Woke’ Now Dictating Western Foreign Policy

With All The Female M&M’s Off In Their Own Bag, Male M&M’s Finally Enjoying Some Peace And Quiet (Babylon Bee)

Scotland’s Self-Determination of Gender Could Fuel Independence Movement

Democratic Women’s Caucus Wears Matching White Butcher Coats In Support Of Abortion (Babylon Bee)

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When I’m asked why I never had kids, my standard answer is, I’ve spent my life in mortal fear of being tethered to another human in a manner from which I can’t legally walk away if I choose.
That’s an honest answer, but it’s not the complete one. The second part, which I always leave out, is that I was petrified of having a tard. There’s no history of tardiness in my family. But no matter your family history, having kids is always a roll of the DNA dice, and I couldn’t face the possibility of having a child who would be, shall we say, more work and less payoff.
Yes, that’s a terribly unflattering thing to admit. But it’s true.

My younger brother is a  proglodyte. That’s not officially a tard, but the ultimate effect is the same. That’s one out of three of my parents’ kids. Not a chance I’m willing to take.