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RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel (Mitt Romney’s niece) signals that if Republicans win the House and Senate they will work together with President Biden.

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Republicans look forward to working with the president that called them “semi-fascists” and “a threat to democracy” just a few days ago.

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“Not all of the white working class struggles,” writes J.D. Vance, Ohio Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy. Across his state’s eastern border in Pennsylvania, John Fetterman epitomizes this assertion, to the extent he can be called “working-class” at all. Fetterman, with a net worth of $800,000, would have to be elegized as a kind of “Main Line,” if not exactly “Beverly” Hillbilly.

LARPing as a steelworker cum coal miner, Fetterman has been elevated by the key Democratic establishment institutions—the media, corporate world, academia, and Hollywood—to the status of demigod; one might call it the Zelensky treatment. Having ignored the white working class for so long, these institutions are dedicated to the illusion Fetterman can restore these benighted voters to the Democratic fold. Fetterman allows Democrat elites the deluded self-assurance that they still speak for the working class and align with its interests. Now, after a debate performance that will enter the annals of American political blunders, they are doubling down in support of their man.

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Despite his “working-class” posture, Fetterman did not struggle, at least financially. His tattoos and Carhartt apparel don’t conceal his graduate degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School. His family’s wealth has allowed him to maintain his hobby of the mayoralty of a minuscule municipality, which didn’t fare well under his watch. Contrast him with North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, who worked in a factory before his political career. Fetterman is a giant of a man who wears the right clothing and sports the right facial hair and tattoos, but he isn’t “blue-collar Pennsylvania” any more than Mehmet Oz.

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The following video report from Germany is the clearest evidence to date that migrant invasion is more than just a rag-tag bunch of impoverished third-worlders seeking to escape oppression, and more than just economic migrants hoping for a better life. It’s a deliberately-organized invasion of armed young men.

The orders given to the border police to hold off from interdicting the arms suppliers come from somewhere further up the chain of command. Why are such orders being issued? In order to answer that question we would have to figure out the answer to an additional question: Cui bono?

What we are seeing now is the execution of a carefully-crafted plan. I’m not privy to enough intelligence information to specify who the planners are, nor exactly what final outcome they intend. But the dénouement which will soon be arriving in Europe — and in the United States, in a slightly different form — is clearly a deliberate action.

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Country Squire readers will recall Australia’s terrifying Black Summer, 2019/20, when massive bush fires burned some 35 million acres, destroyed an estimated 3 billion vertebrates (perhaps driving a number to extinction), wrecked scores of irreplaceable rock paintings, wiped out 3000 buildings and, sadly, 47 people died. The tragedy may have cost Australia as much as A$80 billion.

Now research has revealed the cause of this catastrophe. In a work entitled “How 1970s conservation laws turned Australia into a tinderbox” a number of researchers from major academic institutions across Australia and elsewhere have published their findings in MDPI, the largest open-access, peer reviewed publication in the world. This, then, is grown-up, serious, local scientific analysis of a truly dreadful event.

The reason for the ferocity and extent of the fires is now clear. Detailed findings for one of the worst affected areas found that before the 1970s there were fewer bushfires, while after the 1970s, they became more prevalent, eventually resulting in the horror of the Black Summer. So, what changed in 1970? This new research demonstrates that the pivot point was legislation, introduced in the 1970s, based on the trendy idea that –

These are the states enacting legislation to help make daylight saving time permanent (NPR)

Dems, not democracy, at risk, Joe’s shortages socking families and other commentary (N.Y. Post)

Musk Bans ‘Impersonation’ After Parody Elons Flood Twitter (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school journalism.

Twitter suspends Kathy Griffin’s account for impersonating Elon Musk (Fox)

Pope says EU states should share responsibility for migrants (Reuters)

Former CIA Intelligence officer suggests using ‘counterterrorism’ strategies against ‘right-wing’ Americans (Fox)

‘I’m a Woman With a Beard, I Stopped Shaving to Make a Point’ (Newsweek)

The Air Force Went Woke, Its Planes Won’t Fly

Streamlining the Great Replacement in Germany

PTSD-Stricken Progressives Flee Austin Over “Too Many Republicans”

Can the FBI Be Saved?

“It’s Not Looking Good” – Martin Armstrong Warns There May Not Be A 2024 Election

Two Abortion Ballot Measures Open Floodgates for Transgender Agenda and Erosion of Parental Rights, Critics Say

How Business Giants Get Lower Interest Rates for Meeting Diversity Quotas

Scoop: Top Dems warn party is seen as extreme (Axios) This is a ‘scoop’?

CBS’ ‘FBI’ Bucks Pro-Abortion Language, Calls Unborn Child ‘Baby’

Politico: Suddenly, ‘Fears Loom Large’ of Cheating and Hacking the Midterms  For Democrats, maybe.

Beto O’Rourke’s third campaign in 6 years embodies Democrats’ unrealized gains (Washington Post) He has the perfect Democrat job–he spends his time spinning Narrative lies, and living off of the money stupid people give him. I should have such a job.

Is there a more tone-deaf politician than Hochul of New York?

Whoopi Quits Twitter: ‘All Speech Is Not Free Speech’ ‘I’m Out!’  I think that counts as a win.

Musk’s Twitter Buy Makes No Sense – Unless It’s Part of Something Bigger  Talk about conspiracy theories….

Black voters in Florida express fear, confusion as DeSantis election laws kick in (Washington Post) You mean we actually have to vote for ourselves? And show ID?

Democracy Is on the Ballot. The Democrats Are the Only Choice (Newsweek) Scott Dworkin pushes the Narrative.

Kelly Loeffler Calls for Investigation Into Stacey Abrams’s Shady Voter Group

The Political Left’s Reaction To Free Speech On Twitter Confirms Their Authoritarian Intent

Report: Kathy Griffin Uses Deceased Mother’s Account to Evade Twitter Ban  Democrats are cheaters every age.

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Which advertisers, pressured by whom? Let’s start with the first half of that question, answered in part by the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, among others. Many companies aren’t trying to hide it in what they may believe is a virtue signal.

MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle confronts Gov. Hochul on NY crime: ‘We don’t feel safe’ (N.Y Post)

Kathy Hochul claims cashless bail does not impact crime, CNN host agrees: ‘No evidence’ (Fox)

Michigan’s top election official: ‘Every tactic tried in 2020 will be tried again’ (The Guardian)

Jocelyn Benson: The Big Lie Discourages Americans From ‘Believing In The Power Of Their Voice’ (MSNBC)

Haven’t received your California Middle Class Tax Refund? Here’s what’s happening (Desert Sun)

Bill Maher on 2022 midterms: ‘Democracy is on the ballot’ and ‘it’s going to lose’ (The Hill)

Is Big Tech Funding Literal Migrant “Roadmaps” To Enter The US From Central America?

Why Elites Like Greta Thunberg Hate Capitalism (Michael Shellenberger)

The Big Lie about ‘The Big Lie’

Trans criminals can use ‘loophole’ to hide previous convictions when applying for jobs (The Telegraph)

Gosh, Some People Seem Awfully Worried About Election ‘Misinformation’ Now

Why Are Fact-Checkers Ignoring False Statements On School Closures?

Why Is The Left So Afraid Of Twitter?

New York Times Front-Page Fright: Wisconsin GOP on ‘Verge of Total, Veto-Proof Power’

Why Is World War T Winning in U.S. But Starting to Lose in U.K.?

Philadelphia Home Depot Workers Vote to Reject Unionization

Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday’s Midterms (N.Y. Times) Getting the excuses ready in case of a shellacking.

Trump and other Republicans are already casting doubt on midterm results  (CNN) Anticipating another Great Steal.

‘He was chosen’: the rightwing Christian roadshow spreading the gospel of Trump (The Guardian) Hey, it’s not as if he were The Magic Negro or somebody important.

“Italy Is A Fully Sovereign Country” – Italy’s New Conservative Govt Refuses To Dock Migrants From German NGO Ships  At last, the charade unravels.

Police Refuse To Release Mugshot Of Pelosi Hammer Attack Suspect  The coverup continues.

Democrat Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s idea to combat inflation: have some Chef Boyardee (N.Y. Post) I actually like Chef Boyardee, although I agree that it isn’t at the top of my food list. Kind of like Spam that way.

Biden won on infrastructure. Democrats are struggling to get voters to care. (Politico) They don’t believe lies, yours or his.

Nate Silver Prepares For Biennial Tradition Of Screaming That His Wildly Erroneous Polls Were Somehow Right (Babylon Bee)

“When True Democracy Goes Away, People Get Hurt”: Obama Joins Mantra That Democracy Is At Risk If GOP Wins  In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Whitmer’s Running Mate Pledges To Shut Down ‘More Coal Plants’

TIME.

Jameesha Harris, a councilwoman in New Bern, N.C., bought a gun and obtained a concealed-carry license to protect herself and her children against a spate of death threats from constituents. Deanna Spikula, the top election administrator in Washoe County, Nev., resigned after receiving a battery of menacing emails, including one warning her to “count the votes correctly as if your life depends on it, because it does.” After speaking out against book bans, Amanda Jones, a librarian in Livingston Parish, La., received a death threat from a man in Texas who saw a photo of her posted in a right-wing Facebook group.

Across the U.S., there has been a surge of harassment, attacks, and violent threats targeting civic and public officials and their families. America is a nation shaped by violent acts and founded on principles that protect free speech, even when it is ugly or incendiary. Yet the specter of politically motivated violence today has become alarmingly pervasive, and the fear it engenders is upending the political landscape, according to more than two-dozen interviews with analysts and public officials.

Funny thing, there’s no mention of Antifa or BLM in this article. You might almost mistake it for a political hit job.

Kimmel on Biden’s democracy speech: ‘Like Gandalf talking about Sauron’ (The Guardian) More like Saruman talking about Sauron.

Hawley aims to reshape Senate GOP with Vance and Masters (Politico)

The Hawley caucus under construction (Politico)

Bombshell leaked emails: Trump lawyers targeted Clarence Thomas to steal election (MSNBC)

‘And on the 8th Day’: DeSantis Rolls Out Cringe Ad Saying He Was Sent by God (Daily Beast) He might be right.

Newsweek Embraces the Anti-Democracy Hard Right (Southern Poverty Law Center)

Ron Johnson fought for a tax cut as his family was amassing luxury real estate around the country (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Pranks, Parties and Politics: Ron DeSantis’s Year as a Schoolteacher (N.Y. Times) Gossip Girl ‘journalism’ is all they’ve got left.

How Zeldin’s tough talk on crime in New York could lead to more of it (Washington Post) Up is down, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and Jonathan Capehart is pushing the Narrative.

Flashback: The Media Exploited Giffords’ Shooting to Slime Conservatives

How Republicans Fed a Misinformation Loop About the Pelosi Attack (N.Y. Times)

BRACE: “Hate, Harassment and Incitement” Are Coming to Twitter

‘The View’ Will Now Just Be One Hour Of Hosts Beating White Women With Sticks  (Babylon Bee)

The Unruly Heirs of Sarah Palin (N.Y. Times) Upon the Restoration in 1660, royalists dug up the corpse of Oliver Cromwell and subjected it to various indignities. The Narrative Media don’t even wait for people to be in the ground first.

Ron DeSantis, who denounced Disney, actually got married there (Washington Post) Hannah Sampson phones it in.

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Rent control policies seek to ensure affordable and stable housing for current ten- ants; however, they also increase the incentive for landlords to evict tenants since rents re-set when tenants leave.

“Rent control”,  a classic political intervention in economic markets, suffers from the same wage-and-price-control defects as other attempts to fit economic reality into political fantasy. Markets work, whether you want them to or not. When prices are fixed, markets respond in two ways: rationing, in which there are more willing buyers than willing sellers, so transactions depend on favoritism (typically political) or wait-lists; and “black markets”, a smear coined by statists who are mortally offended by the fact that people will trade in ways of which the Ruling Class do not approve. “When trade is criminalized, only criminals will trade”: Prohibition gave us organized crime, the War on Drugs gave us the Mexican cartels, and Democrats gave us the corrupt urban political machine that is the distinguishing characteristic of modern city living.

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“Celebrities should consciously practice socialist core values ??in their advertising endorsement activities, and endorsement activities should conform to social morals and traditional virtues,” the new regulations say.

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There must be a reason why some people still live in Portland, but I don’t know what it is. The city has become a hellhole, devastated by crime and overrun by homeless drug addicts. Antifa is rampant, and the city’s political leaders are–if this is possible–even more ineffectual than the leaders of San Francisco, Chicago and Minneapolis.

The Daily Mail takes note, in a story titled “‘I’m done with Portland’: Homeless people are forcing ‘terrified’ residents to sell their homes.” Sometimes you have to go to the U.K. press to get the straight story on events in the U.S. The Mail article is profusely illustrated with photographs and deserves to be read in its entirety.

Democracy Distorted by the Meathead Media

BROKEN CONNECTION: Tiffany Cross Out at MSNBC (Bye-Bye Tiffany! The Worst of Cross)

Originalism’s Charade (New York Review)

Don Lemon’s new show ‘CNN This Morning’ bombs in debut (N.Y Post)

Don Lemon’s ‘CNN This Morning’ debuts to dismal ratings, trails long-struggling ‘New Day’ (Fox)

CA mother attacked in parking lot with 1-year-old in her arms, charge against suspect dismissed: Report (Fox)

$2 million ranges, deleted job posts: NYC’s salary transparency law is off to a rocky start (CNBC)

Police back Republican candidates in U.S. midterms, even those at Jan. 6 riot (Reuters)

Homelessness has risen 70% in California’s capital. Inside the staggering emergency (The Guardian)

Shooting at NC-14 GOP candidate Pat Harrigan family home, none injured (Carolina Journal) But of course Hillary assures us that only Republicans engage in political violence.

FBI Probes Shooting That Nearly Struck Kids of N.C. GOP Candidate

Nets Ignore Bullet Shot Through Window of GOP Candidate’s Family House

Transgender Specialists Blame ‘Toxic Media’ for Fear of Child Gender Care  Biology deniers push the Narrative.

Video Report: N.Y. Man Out on Cashless Bail Allegedly Murders Wife Soon After

BATYA UNGAR-SARGON: For years, the Left has willfully ignored the kind of horrific crime the Pelosis suffered and let criminals run rampant. Now they’re finally waking up… shame about the forgotten victims! (Daily Mail)

Beauty Pageant’s Rejection Of Transgender Women Is Legal, Appeals Court Rules  The biology deniers lose one.

MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Cheers Abortion as Good for Economy, Reason to Vote Democrat

Crime Starters USA

How sustainable are fake meats?

The Quiet Way Trump and DeSantis Are Preparing for a Fight (Daily Bezst) Well, no, they’re not, although the Narrative Media are doing their best to drum up some sort of fight.

The American middle class is at the end of an era (Fortune)

Why daylight saving time is worse for your body than standard time (Washington Post)

Adams’ plush NYC tent city finally welcomes migrants as 100-plus Senegalese move in (N.Y. Post)

Prominent New York trans activist arrested for allegedly soliciting a minor (N.Y. Post)

Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable

College Removes American Flags From Dorm Window, Allows Pride Flags

Judge Stops Arizona “Mule Watchers” From Ballot Box Surveillance Tactics

Why the Legacy Media Is Panicked About Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

Comedy Dies as Colbert and Warren List Four Reasons to Vote Democrat

Elon Musk Trolls AOC After Democratic Rep’s Twitter Temper Tantrum

Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron: Prioritizing ESG Investments ‘Inconsistent’ With Law

San Francisco DA Won’t Release Police Bodycam Video, 911 Calls From Paul Pelosi Attack

CNBC is cancelling Shepard Smith’s show (Semafor) I guess being Woke doesn’t deliver the ratings that it used to.

Vice Frets Voting Is Hard for….Trans People?!?

Moms Read Explicit Library Books To School Board

UN Votes Overwhelmingly to Condemn US Embargo of Cuba  Yeah, we’ll give that all due consideration.

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You don’t think such-and-such because you reasoned logically to that conclusion; you think such-and-such because you are a white, heterosexual, middle-class American female, and so forth. In this way, totalitarians do not persuade or refute their interlocutors with reasoned arguments. They merely impute bad faith to their opponents and refuse to engage in meaningful debate. They forcibly cut their adversaries off from the sphere of enlightened conversation. One does not bother arguing against such dissidents; one simply steamrolls them after placing them outside the realm of acceptable opinion.

Tom Veal.

Do true defenders of the right of the people to choose who will govern them consistently oppose measures designed to ensure that ballots are cast only by legally qualified voters, that no one votes more than once, that how individuals vote is secret from everyone but themselves, and that ballots are secured against tampering after they are cast? The absence of those precautions is the hallmark of pseudo-democratic regimes – and the gospel of an array of Democratic office holders and seekers who profess to be defending “our democracy” against the menace of “election deniers” and “mega-MAGA Republicans”.

Nothing undermines the legitimacy of an ostensible democracy more swiftly and thoroughly than a widespread belief that “what counts isn’t who votes, but who counts the votes”. What gives heft to conspiratorial claims about the 2020 Presidential election is the sloppy way that it was conducted. If it weren’t for the ease with which non-citizens and ineligible felons can register to vote, the failure of many states to keep registration lists up to date, the widespread absence of ID requirements at the polls, the “black box” nature of electronic voting machines, and mail-in ballots’ inherent lack of secrecy and security, “stop the steal” would resonate only in the most paranoidly partisan corners of Internet.

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What’s in the vax? Short answer: You don’t want to know.

The following report from Austria discusses the poisonous substances that are acknowledged to be present in the Moderna and Pfizer jabs. If they were in any other product, it would not be allowed to injected into human beings.

My sympathies go out to those who succumbed to pressure and took the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus. If I had taken the vax, I don’t know how I would cope with all this information. I would probably go into a different line of work, so I wouldn’t have to hear about it.

ZMan keeps you up to date.

Last week the people in charge of Penn State University decided to get in the way-back machine and relive the alt-right days. They invited onto campus a bogeyman so that the usual suspects could engage in performative protesting. They invited internet performers Gavin McInnis and Alex Stein to talk to a student group. A group of entitled children was then invited to throw a tantrum outside the event. Eventually, the school cancelled the event for security reasons.

The only people interested in any of it was the regime media that has yet to find a new set of bogeymen to replace those from the Trump years. McInnis went along with it because it is all he has at this point. His edgy right-wing guy act fell apart with the Proud Boys fiasco and dissidents have no interest in him. Alex Stein is trying to be the Matthew Lesko of ambush comedy, so this provided him with a chance to do his act in front of some purple faced coeds for the streaming audience.

The main takeaway from the event is that the white supremacist bogeyman act has run its course and the regime has found nothing to replace it. As a result, the usual suspects are resurrecting old villains like McInnes. The term “Proud Boys” is still something of a dog whistle for the crazies, even though the rest of the world lost interest in the whole thing years ago. It is sort of like how Nixon remained a villain for the crazies well into the 1980’s, after the world had moved onto Reagan.

2020 Census Errors Affect Elections, Aid Blue States, Hurt Red States

For Chicago schools parking deal, Board of Ed turned to Lori Lightfoot fundraiser (Chicago Sun-Times)

After Roe, abortion’s underground railroad gains steam (Politico)

Radical Gender Ideology Invades Small-Town Schools

Bitter Clingers: How Mainstream Journalists Mourn the Loss of Cultural Supremacy

Why Do Easily Replaced Women Workers Have So Much Power at Media Companies?  Perhaps because their easy replacements will be just as bad, so what’s the point? If the peasants are revolting, there is little prospect of finding less revolting peasants.

People are Taking the Robots’ Jobs

NYC Hates Its Middle-Class Homeowners

Lula Supporters Accuse Meta Of Fueling ‘Election Disinformation’ As Brazilians Head To Polls

Curioser and curioser.

Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — including the eyebrow-raising news that Pelosi referred to his assailant as a “friend” when calling police.

Here’s an updated account as it’s been reported by the Los Angeles Times and various other media outlets citing police sources — along with some perspective on popular speculation about the incident.

After reportedly breaking through a rear door in the very early hours of Friday morning, DePape entered the house and at some point confronted Pelosi.

If you look at the picture of the broken window, you’ll notice that a lot of broken glass appears to be on the outside, whereas if someone were breaking in it would be on the inside.

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Film writer Sonny Bunch once argued that radical environmentalists make great super-villains because they are unshakably convinced of the rightness of their cause, and just as unshakably determined to make everybody’s lives worse. If we take that observation and scale it down from Marvel movie to farce, we get the latest environmentalist protest trend, which feeds green fanatics’ sense of self-righteousness while alienating just about everyone else.

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John Hinderaker at Power Line.

By universal consent, the most powerful force in Minnesota politics is the teachers’ union, Education Minnesota. In my opinion, Education Minnesota is the state’s number one source of evil. My organization, Center of the American Experiment, has been fighting for years to counter the teachers’ union’s malign influence.

We are the only effective challenge to their power. Among other things, we have exposed the fact that the union spends much more money on left-wing politics than on representing its members. We have also exposed the fact that, contrary to myth, Minnesota’s public schools can fairly be described as failing their students.

So Education Minnesota hates us. Yesterday, it sent out this missive to its members and, I suppose, friends and supporters.

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Germany’s social welfare bureaucracy is currently overwhelmed due the huge numbers of migrants — from Ukraine and elsewhere — burdening the system. Who could have foreseen that a situation such as this might ever arise?

MSNBC Portrays Midterms As Democracy Versus Fascism

John Fetterman’s ‘Trump-Voting Republican’ Parents Are Card-Carrying Democrats  Imagine that.

American Jews start to think the unthinkable (Washington Post) Dana Milbank’s desperate search for Republican anti-semitism.

The War Over ‘Transgender’ Kids: A Pre-Election Battlefield Update

Gabbard Stumps for Laxalt in Nevada: Democratic Party Hates Freedom

Democrats Race To Save A Blue State Gone Purple

GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover (CNBC)

Including Noncitizens in Census Devalues Votes of Citizens, Unjustly Alters House Representation

The Supreme Court Could Overturn Another Major Precedent. This Time, Americans Might Agree. (FiveThirtyEight)

Race in college admissions is back in front of the Supreme Court. Here’s what to know (NPR)

Russian lawmakers give early approval for ban on LGBTQ ‘propaganda’ for all adults (EuroNews)

America is now a tyranny of the minority (Washington Post) Fareed Zakaria must have been asleep since his undergraduate years.

‘Raise the challenge’: Eastman exhorts poll watchers to build a record (Politico)

The $2 million encampment: How a California yacht town became a homeless battleground (S.F. Chronicle)

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Fetterman praised Philly DA Krasner for eliminating cash bail in 2018 (Fox)

Berkeley law school fails at education, let’s free-speech opponents embrace leftist anti-Semitism (Fox)

MTA’s private security guards watch and do nothing as fare-beaters stream past turnstiles (N.Y. Post)

NYC mayor’s office claims less than 2% of Big Apple streets are filthy, prompting disbelief (Fox)

Arizona AG Agrees Not to Enforce Near Total Ban on Abortion Until at Least 2023

UH OH: CNN Boss Set to Enact LAYOFFS, Slash Costs to Save Struggling Network

Meacham Tells MSNBC Midterms ‘The Gravest Test’ Since The Civil War

Record-High 56% in U.S. Perceive Local Crime Has Increased (Gallup)

San Francisco Crime Wave Reaches Pelosi Household

Virginia Public Library Dropped $40K on Speech From 1619 Project Creator

Soros Gave Another $32 Million to 28 Groups in Coalition Calling for Censorship Before Midterms

Dear Media: Who Are the Real ‘Extremists’ on Abortion?

‘Save Our Democracy’ Is the New ‘Russia Collusion’

Meet The Consortium Imposing The Growing Censorship Regime

Democrats Already Blaming Voters for Midterm Loss

Soros Tops The List Of Midterm Election Mega-Donors

Judge Rejects Motion to Bar Group From Monitoring Arizona Ballot Drop Boxes

NYT Terrified by Tiny Changes in Twitter Follower Counts

Meta fined record-breaking $24.6m for deliberately ignoring political ad law

30 Years Ago: The Media’s Shameless Coverage of the ’92 Campaign

Nearly 20% Of Seattle Shootings Happened Near Homeless Encampments

Nearly 250K Ballots Sent to Pa. Voters With Unverified IDs

Florida Officials Looking Into Allegations Of Widespread Ballot Harvesting Operation In Black Neighborhoods

Ballot harvesting in Florida

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A Vermont middle school soccer coach and his daughter were suspended allegedly for complaining about a trans female in the girls’ locker room.

Reading the story is very confusing, as the reader has to continually do mental gymnastics to keep in mind what the writer means by “trans female.”* The reader would have a much easier time understanding the story and its background controversy if the writers had just used clear, concise language: “A Vermont middle school soccer coach and his daughter were suspended allegedly for complaining about a boy in the girls’ locker room.”

The article writer could then explain that the school thinks the boy should be allowed in the girls’ locker room because the boy thinks he’s a girl; that the school believes the boy deserves for everyone to agree with his thinking that he’s a girl; and that the girl and her father need to be punished for their bigotry in objecting to allowing the boy who thinks he’s a girl to enter the girls’ locker room. Simple. Clear. The writer later summarizes the father soccer coach pointing out that the person coming into the girls’ locker room to change clothes is male, but until then a reader who is not up on the latest trendy lingo is left in confusion about why there’s a problem.

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An examination of the “gatekeeping” that has taken place in the American conservative movement will bring me sooner or later to the subject of purges. This theme has engaged my interest as an historian of the conservative movement because it is key for understanding the vicissitudes of American conservatism. Purging unwanted dissenters has often been presented as the movement’s sensible reaction to extremism. It has supposedly allowed conservatism to become respectable—or at least so it seemed before the American media ceased to recognize anything as being respectable that was not recognizably part of the Left.

As late as October 27, 2005, on the fiftieth anniversary of National Review, Jonah Goldberg praised his magazine’s founder, William F. Buckley, Jr., for “throwing friends and allies off the bus from time to time.” Further: “The Randians, the Rothbardian anarchists and isolationists, the Birchers, the anti-Semites, the me-too-Republicans: all of these groups in various combinations were purged from the movement and masthead, sometimes painfully, sometimes easily, but always with the ideal of keeping the cause honest and pointed north to the ideal in his compass.”

Curiously, Goldberg’s praise was echoed in the New York Times and elsewhere in the national press, which depicted the by-then venerated WFB as a high-minded conservative who had dealt heroically with right-wing extremism among conservatives. Only a handful of commentators, either libertarians or on the far Left, bothered to notice that Buckley’s targets in the 1950s and 1960s were hardly neo-Nazis. Most of them were Jewish isolationists who differed with his view of foreign policy.

As ZMan never tires of pointing out, Buckley and his merry men were chiefly engaged in a desperate attempt to prove to the Liberal Establishment that they were Highly Respectable–conservatives, yes, but of the Nicer Sort, not in any way a threat to progressive cultural hegemony, just a sort of Loyal Opposition. (Trump has, of course, thoroughly upset their applecart.)

‘Save Our Democracy’ Is the New ‘Russia Collusion’

In S.F.’s Hayes Valley, merchants are arming themselves with Tasers amid fear over break-ins (S.F. Chronicle)

I’m an heiress ‘annoyed’ by my multibillion-dollar inheritance and want nearly all of it taxed away (N.Y. Post) So just write a check.

Top House Republican Condemns ‘Political Violence’ After Second Arrest in Attack on Rubio Volunteer

Judge Fines Meta Nearly $25 Million For Campaign Finance Law Violations

Parents Lose Appeal for Custody of Teen Identifying as Transgender

Fla. Parent Sues Palm Beach Schools for Displaying Gay Pride Flags

Violent Crime Is Driving A Red Wave

Dozens of subpoenas issued in investigation involving Sen. Bob Menendez

CBS News Gushes Over Actresses for Abortion  Having seen them, I would encourage them not to reproduce.

Macron Admits Half The Crimes In Paris Are Committed By Foreigners

Meet the Anti-Israel, Anti-Police LA City Attorney Candidate

Mika Brzezinski Spins Furiously for Fetterman: ‘Some Might Be Surprised, How Well He Did’!

Paul Pelosi, House Speaker’s Husband, Attacked at San Francisco Home  But of course crime is no problem in San Francisco.

MSNBC Doesn’t Get Why Voters Prefer GOP On Economy, Insists It’s Great

Apparently October 28 is “National First Responders Day”.

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In addition to tragic occupational hazards and line-of-duty deaths, law enforcement officers and other first responders are regularly intentionally injured, attacked, and targeted during their day-to-day duties.

I think I’ll wait for National Second Responders Day (surely there is such a thing?), honoring those who have to clean up the mess caused when the explosive device timed to take out the first responders goes off.

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On Thursday morning, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released the third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) numbers which reportedly showed that the United States economy grew 2.6 percent in the third quarter. Predictably the three evening news networks hyped the supposedly good news for their friends in the Biden administration and ignored the real reason for the positive economic growth despite the two past quarters being negative. The 3rd quarter numbers were almost entirely due to U.S. trade exports, not due to the health of the economy at large.

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Don’t use PayPal. Just … don’t.

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Why didn’t anyone say school closures would be bad?

That’s the question some of our enlightened media experts are asking right now. Yes, really.

“I have to say I’m surprised that there hasn’t been a national conversation about the damage done to kids because of these school closures and the virtual learning and everything,” CNN host Jake Tapper said Friday.

Plenty of Americans quietly and not so quietly had their figurative hands up in class on this issue when the COVID-19 pandemic started. They not only were ignored by Tapper and his media cohorts, but in many cases were ridiculed and demonized.

Now Tapper is calling for a “bipartisan movement” to address the problem. The implication is that a national conversation in America really counts only if Democrats and the Left are conducting it, not those icky conservative types.

The reality is that deferring to public health officials, school administrators, and teachers unions over school closures took a perhaps incalculable toll on the education of young people in America. Dissenters were shoved aside and dismissed.

It’s clear that was a massive mistake that we are paying for now.

The plain fact is that there is a ‘ruling establishment’ in this country, call it what you will, and they absolutely don’t want ‘self-government’ in any meaningful sense.

Ann Coulter.

All in all, New York’s no-bail law is working great! The law is called “no bail” but really means “no jail, not ever, no matter how many times you’re arrested.”

How did such a dangerous policy become law? It seems that in 2020, Democrats finally gained total control of state government, the first time that’s happened since World War II, except for a single year in 1964.

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Although sometimes you’d be forgiven for thinking so.

Just Stop Oil has continued its disruptive protest over the last few weeks, promising to escalate its action as long as the government grants licences for fossil fuel exploration. On 14 October, two protesters hurled soup at Van Gogh’s painting The Sunflowers in the National Gallery and glued their hands to the wall. Thankfully, the painting was protected by Perspex, but the frame itself was reportedly damaged. Elsewhere, protesters have been obstructing roads across the capital, graffitiing the Scotland Yard sign and the shopfront of an Aston Martin dealership, climbing onto the Dartford Crossing bridge, stopping traffic and covering the front of Harrods with paint. Other groups protested too, with Animal Extinction pouring milk on supermarket floors and End Private Jets pouring urine and faeces on a memorial to Sir Captain Tom Moore.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Whenever I get depressed over the steep decline suffered by the city of Minneapolis, I console myself with the thought that it could be worse: we could be Portland. Portland, home of Antifa; site of a skyrocketing violent crime rate; abandoned by one business after another; beset with homelessness.

But now, maybe Portlanders–those who are left–have had enough.

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In his canonical 1993 book The Invisible Dragon, art critic Dave Hickey prophesied that the “therapeutic institutions”—art schools, museums, and fund-granting bodies—will eventually jettison any art that does not fit the bureaucratic precepts du jour. Over the next three decades, as the art world’s priorities shifted from aesthetics to ostentatious displays of political virtue, Hickey’s prediction that puritanical intellectuals and activists would conquer culture in the name of social justice has been conclusively vindicated.

‘It’s a medieval vision’: fears for LGBTQ+ rights in Meloni’s Italy (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘medieval’ refers to any time before 1964.

Is European politics beginning another lurch to the right? (Euronews) Lurch!

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx says office making strides in hiring (Chicago Tribune)

Cannabis Users Experience More Pain After Surgery (SciTech Daily)

Universal access to safe drinking water requires increased investment backed by strong government institutions – WHO, UNICEF, World Bank (WHO)

Val Demings Says It’s Harder To Be a Politician Than a Police Officer

Murkowski, Peltola cross party lines to endorse each other in tight Alaska races (Washington P0st) That RINO Murkowski would do this comes as no surprise.

Fighting Woke Agenda, Tampon-Maker Says ‘Only Women Can Have Periods’ 

Convicted Murderer Freed by Philly DA Larry Krasner in Custody After Deadly Shooting

Now Mired in Crime, City That Kick-Started ‘Defund the Police’ Movement Struggles to Recruit New Officers

Cheney Says She’ll Do “Whatever It Takes”, Including Presidential Run, To Stop Trump In 2024 The problem is that there is literally nothing she can do, aside from assassination, to ‘stop Trump’ in 2024. All she will succeed in doing is making herself look even more meretricious than she is now.

Video Report: Lawmakers Question US Funding for Drag Shows Abroad

ABC’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Targets SCOTUS Over Roe v. Wade Decision, Pushes Pro-Abortion Propaganda

Markets Are Finally Grasping That China Is A Marxist State

Blinders On: Nancy Pelosi Can’t Believe Americans Will Vote Against Party That Brought Record Inflation and Spiking Crime

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And rightly so.

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For millions of Americans, these ingredients are a recipe for an upset stomach, hives, swelling, or even a trip to the emergency room — all because of allergies to food.

Food allergies are becoming increasingly common, in children and in adults. Yet it’s surprisingly difficult to get a handle on even the basics. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates about 2 percent of adults and 4 to 8 percent of children suffer from food allergies, but some scientists think the number is as high as 10 percent across the board, around 33 million people in the US. Some have even described food allergies as an epidemic.

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The narrative to attack any tax cut and defend any increase in government size is reaching feverish levels. However, we must continue to remind citizens that constantly bloating government spending and increasing the size of monetary interventions are some of the causes of the widespread impoverishment of the middle class. Constantly increasing taxes and diminishing the purchasing power of the currency is wiping out the middle class in most developed nations.

Currency printing is not neutral, and it never is. It disproportionately benefits government and massively hurts real salaries and deposit savings. It is a massive transfer of wealth from savers to the indebted.

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That’s why I never do … especially any channel Joe Biden would watch.

Why take a chance?

‘I’m deadly serious’: why film-maker Michael Moore is confident of a Democratic midterm win (The Guardian)

Examining Income Inequality In The U.S. Amid Rising Prices Due To Inflation (NBC)

Why New Jersey doesn’t let people pump their own gas (CNBC)

Socialist Seattle Dem who pushed police defunding fumes at cops for not protecting her from feces thrower (Fox)

Anti-police Seattle pol claims cops ignored poop-tossing attacks on her home (N.Y. Post)

Dems’ illegal Hochulmander conspiracy was even slimier than we knew — and isn’t over yet (N.Y. Post)

Colleges that ditched admission tests find it harder to fairly choose students  Gee, I wonder why?

Let’s Say Gay (N.Y. Times)

California court rules in favor of Christian baker who refused to bake cake for lesbian wedding

Fears Over Fate of Democracy Leave Many Voters Frustrated and Resigned (N.Y. Times)

Watch: Pelosi Admits Democrats Need To ‘Change The Subject’ From Inflation

NY Judge Declares ‘Vote By Mail’ Law Unconstitutional

“There Is Too Much Debt In The World, So They Must Inflate It Away, Which They Will. That’s The Only Thing You Need To Know”

Hyperpartisan ‘local news’ sites are dangerous to democracy (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Musk on Twitter Purchase: Less Uproar When Bezos Bought WashPo

Why The Censors Fear Information Freedom

New California Laws Will Create ‘Ideological Purity Test’ for Police by Banning Ties to ‘Hate’ and ‘Bias,’ Critics Say

Polls Show January 6 Probe Flunked with the Public, Media Are Terribly Out of Touch

Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated. (N.Y. Times) I’d say they’ve got a good case–like Trump.

Most Americans think money comes before mission at U.S. news organizations  Of course it does.

Florida’s Hispanic voters back DeSantis over Crist, support Martha’s Vineyard migrant flights

UK Newspaper Takes Pro-Abortion Deception to Next Level

New NAEP Test Scores Are a Disaster. Blame Teachers Unions.

Ron Paul: Wreck The Economy, Win A Nobel Prize

Anti-Semitic, Socialist Dem Candidate: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping Are ‘Two of the Best Leaders in the World Today’

Paul Krugman Claims ‘Gas Prices’ Could ‘Doom Democracy’ by Throwing Election to GOP

GOP Sues Google Over Routing Donation Emails To Spam

American University Requires Students to Take ‘AUx1,’ ‘AUx2’—aka Leftism 101, 102

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There was a violent incident between new Russian recruits on October. Men recently mobilized were on a firing range when two Moslem recruits opened fire on the Slavic (ethnic Russians) recruits and killed eleven and wounded fifteen before they were killed. The two shooters were Moslem and sought to avoid hitting other Moslem troops. About ten percent of the men “mobilized” for army service during late September were Moslem. Currently about 20 percent of the Russian population consists of ethnic minorities, most of them Moslem. These “Russians” do not want to die for Russia or even live in Russia. Many Moslems were conquered and incorporated in the Russian empire over the last few centuries. Most of them formed their own nations when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. There was still a significant minority of Moslems remaining and most would prefer to be anywhere but Russia. During World War II the percentage of Moslems in combat units was low early in the war because Russia did not trust large groups of armed Moslems. In the closing months of the war, most Moslem, and often non-Slavic, troops were found in combat units. Slavic troops had made up most of the combat troops until then but by the end of 1944 the army had to replace losses with Moslem troops. The loyalty of these non-Slav troops was assured by the fact the Russians were winning and about to enter Germany, where all the troops were allowed to loot and rape civilians when they weren’t killing the few remaining German troops. After 1945 the Russian army returned to its policy of keeping most non-Slav men out of combat units. There were plenty of support units where Moslem recruits could safely (for Slavic troops) serve out their conscription service. This discrimination against non-Slav soldiers continued after the Soviet Union dissolve but there were some changes.

The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees (The Guardian)

Top US court to hear cases seeking to hold social media firms responsible for terror (Times of Israel)

Cannabis must be removed from the Controlled Substances Act (The Hill)

City Where George Floyd Was Killed Struggles to Recruit Cops  Gee, I wonder why?

Velshi: ‘Especially Foolish’ To Blame Biden, Democrats For Inflation

Transgender Volleyball Player Severely Injures Female High Schooler With Spike To The Face

Flashback: Back When Beto O’Rourke Was a Media Star

NYPD’s Losing Cops, Struggling to Secure Subways: PBA  Gee, I wonder why?

Report: Experts Worry About Presidential Succession With 90-Year-olds in Line

Weaponized Governmental Failure: A Primer

Illinois Now Has The Worst Unemployment Rate In The Nation

Politico Accidentally Admits Ranked Choice Voting Helps Democrats

Democrats predict an ‘extremely busy’ lame duck. Here’s what’s on the agenda (CNN) Spend! Spend! Spend!

NYPD on Pace for Over 4,000 Quits: ‘Full-Blown Staffing Emergency’

The Continuing Descent of Canada into a Police State

NY Times: Failed Mueller Probe Was Noble, Durham’s Mere ‘Fodder for Grievances’

Rally Against ‘Child Mutilation’ Draws Thousands Of Supporters

Gunfire During Illegal Racing on Chicago Street Kills 3

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A few Alaska researchers are working to create insulation that removes carbon from the atmosphere and stores it for the life of a building and beyond. When a structure is at the end of its life, the insulation between the walls makes a fine soil.

A universe of biodiversity and saved by migration: Books in brief (Nature)

The weather over the Lower 48 is pulling a radical switcheroo (Washington Post)

Upper-Air Pattern Flipping Next Week: What’s the Cause? (Progressive Farmer)

The energy crisis is distracting us from the real emergency (Financial Times)

The Energy Crisis, Explained (Gizmodo)

Why Africa is central to the climate change conundrum (Financial Times)

‘Greenhushing’ Emerges as New Problem for Sustainably-Minded Companies (EcoWatch)

Once Cheap, Wind and Solar Prices Are Up 34%. What’s the Outlook? (Inside Climate News)

Concern about climate change shrinks globally as threat grows – study (Reuters)

INTERVIEW: Connection between human rights and climate change ‘must not be denied’ (UN News)

Climate crisis: how beetles and fire are devouring European forests (EuroNews)

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In my Substack piece a few weeks ago about leaving New York, I made the claim that the city is no longer a place to raise a family. Sadly, this is true of all communities dominated by progressives, which of course is pretty much all of America’s cities. I want to write briefly about why it is that progressives have turned against families, and what this means for our system of two-party politics.

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Millions of babies are born and named in the U.S. each year, but certain names or naming conventions are reportedly banned by state governments.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and singer Grimes reportedly learned this fact in 2020 when they tried to name their firstborn son X Æ A-12 in the state of California.

The pair modified the name’s numeric 12 to the Roman numeral XII, which is acceptable and in accordance with California state law, Fox News Digital previously reported.

The Durham probe has been a giant bust (CNN)

Appeals court says financial watchdog agency CFPB’s structure is unconstitutional (NPR)

Elizabeth Warren’s Controversial Financial Agency Unconstitutional, Court Rules

NRC Wants Hobbs Out as Elections Chief Over Faulty Ballots

Two democracies are forming in the U.S. Zip code determines which one you’re in (L.A. Times)

Protestors Glue Themselves To Floor, Get Mad When Company Doesn’t Give Them “A Bowl To Urinate And Defecate In”

Public Schools in DC Suburb Tout Pride Month, ‘LGBTQ Stories’

Texas Roofer Arrested in Florida for Helping Hurricane Victims

Starbucks Closes More Than 20 Stores Nationwide Due to Safety Concerns

GA Smashes Turnout Record – Abrams Says “Voter Suppression Alive And Well”

CNBC Airs 10 Minute-Long Bill Gates Rant on Climate Change and Woke ESG