Victor Davis Hanson.

A Democratic myth has arisen that former President Donald Trump’s denial of the accuracy of the 2020 vote was “unprecedented.”

Unfortunately, the history of U.S. elections is often a story of both legitimate and illegitimate election denialism.

The 1800, 1824, 1876, and 1960 elections were all understandably questioned. In some of these cases, a partisan House of Representatives decided the winner.

Presidential candidate Al Gore in 2000 did not accept the popular vote results in Florida. He spent five weeks futilely contesting the state’s tally—until recounts and the Supreme Court certified it.

The ensuing charge that former President George W. Bush was “selected, not elected” was the Democrats’ denialist mantra for years.

Sarah Hoyt.

While he works, in the office next to mine, my husband listens to podcasts. This is slightly surreal because it reminds me of Portuguese men doing their work to the continuous murmur of soccer reporting coming from a portable radio near them.

Yesterday he came to me, alarmed. He was listening to Mike Rowe, who had a guest on, who did the numbers beyond the official unemployment rate, the numbers as they used to be done, without the begs and the buts.

Apparently the real unemployment rate, in terms of people simply not working (And not looking for work) among young men — young, able bodied men, 18 to 55 — is eighty percent.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Miranda Devine’s New York Post column revisits the 51 intelligence officers whose letter bore all the earmarks of a dirty political intelligence operation taking advantage of their former offices. Let us not forget that Politico acted the media arm of the operation. Devine’s column — “It’s been two years since 51 intelligence agents interfered with an election — they still won’t apologize” — confines itself to the Dirty 51.

Put no trust in anyone with a shaved head and a chin-beard. *cough* Fetterman *cough*

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One of the most powerful environmental regulators in the country is set to upturn a critical part of the trucking industry—again. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has opened up a public comment period until October 27 on a new proposed rule, the Advanced Clean Fleet rule, which would ban the sale of diesel-fueled commercial vehicles in California by 2030.

No one knows exactly how this rule will play out in the years to come, least of all CARB, which does not concern itself with details like the lengths of haul run by the trucking carriers based in California, the performance characteristics of commercially available battery-electric vehicles, or indeed their affordability and total cost of ownership. As technology advances, we’re told, the logic of the Board’s decision will be revealed in the fullness of time.

The rule being considered by California regulators today bears all the hallmarks of a regulation concocted deep in the bowels of CARB, hermetically sealed off from any consideration of the operating models of California truckers. Californian carriers are crucial links in the national supply chain, because not only do they connect North America’s largest port complex at Los Angeles and Long Beach to the rest of the country, but they also keep the nation fed with Californian produce.

Teens are pouring milk out in grocery stores in new trend to raise awareness about dairy production emissions (Fox)

To romanticise or demonise – not the only ways to frame working-class lives (The Guardian)

Fast food fever: how ultra-processed meals are unhealthier than you think (The Guardian)

The mystery lurking in California’s $8 gas prices (Washington Post)

The global economy is in chaos. Nobody’s coming to the rescue. (Politico)

IMF meetings have exposed the fragmentation of the global economy (The Guardian)

Officials ‘grinding to the bone’ to prepare for cash-bail reform amid what they call misinformation, politicization (Chicago Tribune)

Democratic Party Moved From Uncomfortable To Intolerable For Members: #WalkAway Founder

The WashPost Way: ‘Badass’ Journalists ‘Afflicting the Comfortable’ for ‘Radical Change’

Report: San Francisco ‘Woke’ Policies Turned City Into Open Drug Market  Good–maybe all the druggies will move there and leave the rest of us alone.

Why Are Student Test Scores Plunging? Look At Politicized Education

National Conservatism Is New Deal Liberalism

Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on

The Invisible Crisis

Democrats Spent $2 Trillion to Save the Economy. They Don’t Want to Talk About It. (N.Y. Times) Possibly because it’s obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that they just made it worse.

Obama Calls Dems a ‘Buzzkill’ on Cancel Culture, Policy

Nancy Pelosi Claims Dems Will Win Big – Apologizes For Saying Trump’s Name Out Loud On Colbert Show

List from Trump of Voting Irregularities

Good news and bad news.

“Socialism, this is the path to save the planet, I don’t have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell,” Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez told the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference.

Rhetoric like that won the socialist dictator the admiration of socialists from Barack Obama to Noam Chomsky. But the dirty little secret of the socialist revolution in Venezuela was that it was a front for a massive drug smuggling operation. Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, gutted Venezuela’s rich oil resources and turned the country into a socialist drug cartel.

“Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of vice president Maduro,” Sean Penn promised. The population has fled or is starving, but the revolution endures.

In 2020, Maduro and top officials of his regime were indicted in the United States as leaders of the Cartel de los Soles for conspiring with FARC to smuggle tons of cocaine to the United States. Venezuela’s biggest asset was its border with Colombia. Cuba, which had backed FARC and other narcoterrorists in Colombia, scored a big win with the socialist takeover in Venezuela.

The January 6 panel makes it clear: American democracy needs accountability (The Guardian) Indeed, although not in the way he means.

Why The January 6th Committee Hearings Were Just As Riveting In The Room As They Were On TV (Deadline) Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….

Ban on guns with serial numbers removed is unconstitutional -U.S. judge (Reuters)

Mark Wahlberg is the latest wealthy person to ditch California for ‘a better life’ in a taxless state (Fortune) Taxless? Hardly.

Jamie Dimon says ‘some investors don’t give a s–t’ about woke ‘ESG’ investing (N.Y. Post)

How Kathy Hochul is ‘bribing’ her way to election — with nearly $1 billion of your money (N.Y. Post)

Woman with 40 prior arrests who stole wallet from dead crash victim is freed without bail (N.Y. Post)

Heartless homeless woman who pickpocketed dead man, 62, of ‘only $40’ after he was crushed by construction truck in NYC is FREED without bail – and claims ‘he robbed me first’ (Daily Mail)

Plans to turn parts of all Chicago expressways into tollways (WGN)

In Canada it’s illegal to call yourself software engineer

4 Myths Jon Stewart Perpetuated About Radical Gender Theory

Stacey Abrams’ group funnels thousands to director’s family and friends with no political experience (Fox) A classic case of Democrat machine politics.

The Danchenko trial: on framing Trump, on exonerating Hunter

Wawa Calls It Quits On Its Hometown City, Shuttering Two More Philadelphia Stores Due To “Safety Challenges”

CNN Panel Does Not Like Being Reminded Democrats Also Believe Conspiracies

Daniel Greenfield.

Luftmensch meant a ‘man of air’ who lived detached from the real world, had no income or any way to pay his bills, and yet here he was. With the internet, we’re all cloud people now. Our economy is dominated by companies with unclear business plans except that they somehow involve the cloud.

Facebook, which despite its recent downturn, still has a stock price twice the value of GE, unveiled its big achievement, ‘Legs‘ which will allow its avatars to enjoy the appearance of feet in the metaverse. Netflix’s stock price is double that of IBM, even though it suffered some reverses when investors realized that its plan to continue growing forever while spending $17 billion a year on creating bad movies and TV shows was not actually sustainable. Good thing there’s solar panel and wind turbine companies to bet on.

Beyond cryptocurrencies (just imagine if your money were even more intangible, less secure and backed by even less in the way of assets than it is now) and software as a service (why own when you can rent), the effect of the luftmensch on our society has been far more devastating. The social web eliminated personal and geographic space. No longer were people kept apart by neighborhoods, communities, classes, national borders or even languages. Like a great slum housing project, we were all living on top of one another. And there was never a respite from life in this ugly, loud, noisy and dangerous neighborhood.

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Before Rodney Briones’ physicians at Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center in California treated him with Remdesivir, they allegedly did not disclose the risks to him or to his wife, Christina, and did not obtain informed consent, according to a complaint filed by the Briones family.

The couple had gone to the managed care consortium for help after Rodney developed COVID-19 symptoms and tested positive twice for SARS-CoV-2.

A five-day course of treatment with the controversial drug and other allegedly contraindicated, high-risk medications allegedly led to kidney failure for the 50-year-old Briones, who was subsequently placed on a ventilator. During this time, Kaiser Riverside reportedly refused to allow the man’s wife or family to see him. He died on Sept. 12.

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Friday will mark two years since The New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story and it’s been two full years of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks doing all they can to avoid telling their audiences about the stunning revelations that have sprung from Hunter’s hard drive.

Even their favorite liberal organ of record – The New York Times – finally acknowledging the “laptop from hell” was authentic and not a part of a Russian hoax did little to spur the networks to cover the scandal.

The networks did manage to cover The Washington Post (it was a front page story, hard for them to ignore) reporting that the FBI had collected enough evidence to charge President Hunter with tax and gun-related charges. However ABC, CBS, NBC (10/6 through 10/9) spent a total of only 15 minutes, 51 seconds on it. By October 10 the story was completely dropped.

Hunter’s laptop has been a literal treasure trove of evidence of wrongdoing, much of which can be linked to Joe Biden and proves he was lying when he claimed in 2019: “I’ve never spoken to my son [Hunter] about his overseas business dealings!”

NewsBusters has been detailing (here, here, and here) all the shocking Hunter scandals and how the networks have covered or more accurately NOT covered them.

The following are eight BRAND NEW Hunter scandals that have been censored by the networks.

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Public figures who have consistently called for more censorship online joined a new council Wednesday to “fix” social media.

The Council for Responsible Social Media, a project of Issue One, was publicly launched with their website saying it was created to address “the negative mental, civic, and public health impacts of social media in America.”

Members of the council include former Senator-turned-MSNBC pundit Claire McCaskill (D-MO), former Clinton chief of staff and Obama CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. All have called for increased online censorship in the past.

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Where did they go? To better-paying jobs stocking shelves, cleaning offices or doing anything that pays more than $15 an hour.

Low unemployment means that jobs people don’t want to do don’t get done. Employers who depend on low-wage labor whine and moan and wring their hands while paying illegal immigrants under the table.

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A 2017 YouGov survey of 2,300 US adults on issues related to free speech and tolerance on college campuses (weighted to be nationally representative) found that:

* 56 percent of men said that colleges should not protect students from offensive ideas; 64 percent of women said that they should.
* When presented with a variety of controversial claims made by speakers (e.g., men are better at math, all white people are racist, police are justified at stopping African Americans at higher rates), a majority of men supported nine of the 11 speakers’ right to speak on campus, and a majority of women opposed all 11 speakers’ right to do so.
* 51 percent of men said colleges should not disinvite speakers if students threaten violent protest; 67 percent of women said they should.
* 58 percent of men opposed a confidential reporting system at colleges which students could use to report offensive comments; 54 percent of women supported it.
* 63 percent of men thought controversial news stories in student papers should not need administrators’ approval before publication; 51 percent of women thought they should.
* 65 percent of men believed that supporting the right to make an argument is not the same as endorsing it; 51 percent of women disagreed.

Apparently women are fascists.

Pfizer Exec Admits COVID Vaccine Never Tested to Prevent Transmission

Researchers find monkeypox virus on hospital surfaces, in air (University of Minnesota)

Biden administration scrambling to get more people boosted before winter (Politico)

A winter pandemic wave is looming. Get the booster. (Washington Post)

In Newsom’s California, Big Brother is getting into the act between doctors and patients on conversations about COVID

What If The Truth Never Comes Out?

China Gives Clearest Sign Yet It Will Stick With Zero-COVID Strategy  Well, if you shoot everybody who catches COVID, bingo, zero COVID. Problem solved.

COVID-19 Nasal Spray Fails to Deliver Vaccine Protection  What ‘vaccine protection’?

Pfizer in the Hot Seat

Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Turns Negative Within Months: Study  Fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba, simply fine.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccines for Use as a Booster Dose in Younger Age Groups (FDA)

State of Texas cuts ties with Environmental and Social Governance companies (ABC)

These 7 cereals do not qualify as ‘healthy’ according to the FDA’s new criteria (CNBC)

FDA proposes new definition for ‘healthy’ food, but will it make us healthier? (Star-Tribune)

United Methodists are breaking up in a slow-motion schism (Associated Press) Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.

London transportation agency slammed for embracing ‘woke culture’ by banning words such as ‘accident,’ ‘bikes’ (Fox)

NYC schools struggle to cope with influx of 5,500 migrant kids (N.Y. Post) We got your Sanctuary City, right here.

Kinzinger endorses Dems in major governor, secretary of state races (Politico) My, what a surprise.

Chicago crime frustrations mount against State’s Attorney Kim Foxx as ‘mass exodus’ continues: source (Fox)

Woke Malpractice?

More Bureaucrats Than Marines Authorized to Pack Heat

Chicago’s Guaranteed Income Pilot Program Open To Illegal Immigrants  Of course!

Biden Administration Considering Humanitarian Parole Program for Venezuelans (N.Y. Times)

Catherine Cortez Masto Ditches ‘Latinx’ Just in Time for Reelection Bid

The ‘Lifelong Republican’ Featured In Latest Angie Craig Ad Actually Votes As a Democrat

Angie Craig’s fake Republican

Nobel Literature Winner Is Woke Leftist  My, what a surprise.

Planned Parenthood’s Newest ‘Profit-Grab?’ Transitioning Children

Playing the Victim: Fetterman Says Opponents Have ‘Weaponized’ Fact That He Once Pulled Shotgun on Black Jogger

PayPal Gives America an Eerie Glimpse Into a Totalitarian Future

‘It’s Not Women That Produce Eggs’: Biden Education Department Plays Host to Woke Biology Teacher on Taxpayer Dime

Steve Sailer turns over a rock.

The so-far triumphant transgender movement is a political coalition that includes two polar opposite sets of allies who are so radically different in their thought styles that they can’t even begin to understand each other: naive nice moms and smart but not-at-all nice nerdy ex-men. The incoherence of transgenderist ideology is inevitable because its proponents aren’t at all on the same wavelength.

Few of the nice white ladies who make up much of the political support for the fad of surgically altering moody teens have even noticed that a high percentage of the best-known male-to-female trans celebrities are toxically masculine jerks. The ladies presume instead that they must be bullied victims in need of maternal nurturing and protection from the cruel world because that’s who they want them to be. (I suspect, but can’t prove, that mothers were prepped to fall for World War T in the 2010s by the anti-bullying campaign of the 2000s.)

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The essence of the current year momist mindset is a pantheistic aversion to drawing distinctions: e.g., “Love is love.” In an age of Diversity, all is one and one is all. Liberal moms these days hate to compare and contrast for fear they might learn something.

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A professor of medicine is calling for the American Academy of Pediatrics to be dissolved after the group posted photos of its members unmasked after calling for masks for children as young as 2 years old.

Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and health researcher at the University of California-San Francisco, tweeted:

“Great to see so many unmasked faces at @AmerAcadPeds indoor gathering Good to document their hypocrisy. This organization pushed masks on 2 year olds with no data, in defiance of UNICEF and WHO, while they were aware that masks impede interactions Org should be dissolved”

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On September 7, Margaret Marsilla called Joshua Tepper, the doctor who planned to kill her son.

Marsilla is 46, and she lives outside Toronto with her husband and daughter, a nursing student. She had known that her 23-year-old son, Kiano Vafaeian, was depressed—he was diabetic and had lost his vision in one eye, and he didn’t have a job or girlfriend or much of a future—and Marsilla asked her daughter to log onto Kiano’s account. (Kiano had given his sister access so she could help him with his email.) He never shared anything with his mother—what he was thinking, where he was going—and Marsilla was scared.

That was when Marsilla learned that Kiano had applied and, in late July, been approved for “medical assistance in dying,” aka MAiD, aka assisted suicide.

Tulsi Gabbard Abandons ‘Elitist, Woke, Anti-White’ Democratic Party

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Gov. JB Pritzker absent from Chicago Columbus Day parade amid controversy (ABC)

Randi Weingarten takes flak on social media for Ukraine trip as US schools struggle (Fox) Look for … the Union label….

Give legal rights to animals, trees and rivers, say experts (The Guardian) There is no idea so insane that The Guardian will not print it.

How to make your bike harder to steal in Philly (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Maryland U.S. attorney establishes civil rights and special victims section (Washington Post) Whose turn is it to be the Special Victim?

French Dropped California Train Bid For Less ‘Dysfunctional’ Morocco

Virginia School Celebrates Columbus Day With A History-Erasing ‘Equity’ Lecture

The San Francisco Chronicle Calls Out the Real Bad Guys: Crime Victims Who Call 911,

The Coalition of the Fringes Comes Apart at the Seams in Los Angeles

Colonial America Is a Myth (TIME)

Politico Portrays Lincoln Project Leaders as Seedy, Greedy Grifters  Which, of course, they are.

NYC Mayor Adams Chided for Migrant Bus ‘Safety Checks’

Police Accuse Wisconsin Dem Governor of Fueling Deadly Anti-Cop Riot

State Department May Provide Gender-Transition Care for Overseas Staff

Musk Denies Vice ‘Bombshell’ Claiming He Spoke To Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan  Like most Narrative media, Vice peddles lies.

Supreme Court Invalidates Mail-In Ballot Ruling

Oregon Dem Kate Brown Is America’s Most Hated Governor for Second Consecutive Year

MSNBC Declares Good Versus Bad Christianity On The Ballot In Georgia  As if anyone at MSNBC knows anything about Christianity.

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Meet Luis Antunez, your new neighbor from (probably) Venezuela. He’s a 40-year-old trader from Tucupita. Or a policeman from Puerto Carreno, or a criminal from Caracas. We may never know for sure.

I found Antunez’s ID card the week before last on the banks of the Rio Grande here in Eagle Pass while visiting border communities with Daily Signal reporter Virginia Allen and our guide, Frank Lopez Jr.

Antunez apparently chucked the identification after wading across the river into the U.S. as one of over 200,000 illegal immigrants who entered our country in September.

As you can see in the photos above and below, Antunez likely cut the ID card to obscure his last name and other details.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Millions of illegal immigrants have streamed across our Southern border over the last year and a half, coming from places like Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, and various countries in the Middle East. But our northern border–the longest unguarded border in the world, as I learned in elementary school–has never seen many illegal crossings.

So this story, which appeared originally on Patch and was picked up by my colleague Bill Glahn, is curious.

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Over the past few years a massive flood of illegal migrants from the African continent has arrived in the Canary Islands, and now there is a large backlog of culture-enrichers living on the islands who have neither been repatriated nor moved on to the Land of Milk and Honey, a.k.a. the European Union. Efforts to deport refused asylum seekers to their home countries have come to naught — the entire repatriation program is just a sham.

Tyson Foods latest large business to flee Chicago, what sparked the exodus? (Fox)

Tyson foods joins Caterpillar and Boeing in ditching Chicago amid huge crime wave under woke Mayor Lori Lightfoot (Daily Mail) BRAAAAAAAINS!

California man kidnapped in broad daylight, remains missing (Fox)

How the Supreme Court put gun control laws in jeopardy nationwide (CNN) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Why is trickle-down economics still with us? (The Guardian) Because Robert Reich can’t let go of the Narrative. In fact, there is no such thing as ‘trickle-down economics’, a smear invented as a stick with which to beat Ronald Reagan.

Republicans ought to be doing better than they are (The Hill) Pushing the Narrative ahead of the mid-terms.

Jagmeet Singh Gaslights Canadians On “Greedflation”

Shooting Near N.Y. Gubernatorial Candidate Zeldin’s Home

Our Deluded Leaders Ignore Reality And Ensure Disaster

Majority Of GOP Nominees Doubt Legitimacy Of 2020 Election: WaPo

West Virginians Sour on Joe Manchin After He Delivers a Big Win for Democrats

CNN’s Jake Tapper Maligns ‘Cynical’ GOP Saying Big Tech ‘Rigged’ 2020 Election

Poll Shows GOP’s Dixon Closing In On Whitmer In Michigan Governor’s Race

Nutty New York Times Repeats ‘Biden Warns’ GOP Congress Will ‘Worsen’ Inflation

Colorado: 30,000 Noncitizens Got Vote Registration Mailer

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A Bloods gang beef may have prompted the shooting outside the Long Island home of gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin, police sources said Monday — as troubling new details about the broad-daylight gunplay surfaced.

Neighbors described the pandemonium that broke out — including how one of the victims cried and screamed, “Oh, my God!’ as bullets flew on the typically bucolic Shirley street around 2:20 p.m. Sunday, injuring two teens.

A third teen targeted in the gang-related drive-by shooting, a local high-school sophomore, escaped unharmed, running home in a panic after his near-miss, his brother said.

Time to leave.

UPDATE: CRIME WAVE: Nets Bury Shooting Outside NY GOP Governor Candidate’s House

UPDATE: Chilling New Details of Shooting Outside Zeldin’s Home

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Foreign ownership of American farmland has raised bipartisan concern from all levels of government, from governors like Ron DeSantis of Florida to senators such as Iowa’s Chuck Grassley and Michigan’s Debbie Stabenow. Foreign ownership of American farmland went from 1 percent in 2000 to 2.9 percent in 2020, a 290 percent increase over the past twenty years.

With the rise in foreign ownership in American cropland come new security risks. Recently, Chinese companies have been buying agricultural land close to American military bases, raising concerns about their intentions.

How a High School Production of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Erupted Into an Ugly Culture War (Daily Beast)

Parents Still Unhappy With Handling Of Local High School Musical Production (WCCB)

PayPal user agreement fining users up to $2,500 for promoting ‘misinformation’ was sent ‘in error,’ spox says (Fox)

The broken US economy breeds inequality and insecurity. Here’s how to fix it (The Guardian) More socialism!

Conservative frustration with fact checkers grows after several dubious PolitiFact articles in one week (Fox)

A town employee quietly lowered the fluoride in water for years (NPR)

2nd Trump-appointed judge publicly says she will not hire Yale clerks (Reuters)

Judge: Facebook intentionally violated WA campaign finance law 822 times (Seattle Times)

California Begins Fighting Inflation With Stimulus Checks This Week

New California Law Forces Taxpayers to Pay for Union Members’ Dues

Delaware Supreme Court Declares Mail-In Voting Unconstitutional

Biology Teacher Reinstated After Refusing To Use Trans Student Pronouns

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When Emmi Conley first heard in September about a rash of hoax calls reporting active shooters in schools, she dismissed it. Conley, an extremism researcher who studies groups and people behind public displays of violence, said she found no indication that these calls were connected to fringe online spaces where these pranks often originate.

But as the number of these reports swelled over time, Conley said she began to discern some very strange patterns — including the possibility that the calls may have come from overseas, and perhaps specifically from Africa.

“The scale and the timeline of the events is highly, highly unusual,” she said. “The calls are consistent. They are coordinated. They are grouped state-by-state and district-by-district, and they’re also sustained. So somebody is putting significant effort to keep these going.”

Gee, maybe it’s an organization wanting to make people think that there are more ‘active shooter’ situations than are really happening. I wonder what sort of an organization would want to do that….

Pro-Trump Rally-Goers Blame Mysterious Bogeymen for Latest Event Flop (Daily Beast)

How Oath Keepers Leader Stewart Rhodes Became a ‘Brownshirt for Trump’ (Daily Beast)

Analysis: The Mainstream Media Think You’re Stupid

NYC Mayor Eric Adams declares state of emergency over influx of migrants (CNN)

Adams declares emergency over migrant crisis (CBS)

Young people earning $100,000 or more are fleeing California and New York—here’s where they’re going (CNBC)

Wealthy young people flee California, New York and flock to Texas, Florida (CalCoast News)

China’s secret police have invaded American shores: human rights advocate (Fox)

Delaware Supreme Court finds vote by mail, same-day registration unconstitutional (Delaware Online)

GOP dives deep on crime debate ahead of midterm elections (Fox)

Norwegian Cruise deal for migrants unlikely, city seeks cheaper options (N.Y. Post)

Yes, Democrats, Sometimes a ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Does ‘Stop the Bad Guys.’ Here’s Proof.

NYC Mayor Declares Emergency, Says Migrant Surge Could Cost $1 Billion  Welcome to Texas.

Texas Gov. Will Ship Migrants to NYC Despite Emergency Declaration

Oath Keepers leader was in touch with US Secret Service in late 2020, former Oath Keeper testifies (CNN)

How expanding web of license plate readers could be ‘weaponized’ against abortion (The Guardian)

Proud Boys member is first to plead guilty to seditious conspiracy (CNN)

What is the Insurrection Act? (The Hill)

U.S. military to stop honoring Confederate history — finally (Boston Globe)

Pentagon chief gives go ahead to change military bases named after Confederate generals (The Hill) Which is approximately all of them.

CREEPY: Twitter Activates New ‘Fact-Checking’ Program

Elon Musk buying Twitter ‘puts our democracy at stake,’ civil-rights advocates say (Market Watch)

Google Earth Walkthrough Further Exposes FBI’s Jan 6 Pipe Bomb Hoax

Top ally in Trump’s 2020 election plot fights professional sanctions (Politico) The witch-hunt continues.

MSNBC: Herschel Walker Should Be in Therapy, Not Running For Senate  MSNBC ought to be in therapy, not running witch-hunts.

UK Mother-of-5 Arrested For “Offensive” Online Posts

The 2022 House Republican midterm candidates give ‘crazy’ new meaning (Washington Post) Dana Milbank pushes the Narrative.

NY Times Beclowns Self: Election ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Becomes Inconvenient Fact Next Day

The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US supreme court (The Guardian)

Dr. Phil spars with ‘body positivity’ activist who rejects science from ‘middle-aged white’ doctors (Fox)

Louisiana divests from BlackRock over ESG policies: ‘Would destroy Louisiana’s economy’ (Fox)

UN body rejects discussion on China human rights abuses: ‘Failed the test to uphold its core mission’ (Fox)

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot sings TikTok karaoke amid 37% increase in violent crime (Fox) BRAAAAAAAINS!

As NYC rents soar, dysfunction in Adams administration fuels housing crisis (N.Y. Post)

ESG investing has damaged credibility of asset managers like BlackRock (Fox)

GOP’s war on ESG could come back to bite it (TechCrunch)

Media Spin On Gun Control Doesn’t Match Voters’ Opinions

Number Of Trans Youth in 2021 Up 70% From 2020, 9 Reasons Why Media Is At Fault

Global Elites Brag About Big Tech Partnerships to Control Speech

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In an interview accorded to a newspaper, she delivered herself further of her political opinions, including the more or less standard one that there are people in the world with far more money than they need. Usually when people say this they mean, there are people in the world with far more money than I. Curiously enough, they do not include themselves in their strictures, their own inessential expenditure, on such things as holidays abroad, being deemed only appropriate to their needs, though they would almost certainly seem extravagant and unnecessary to a Congolese or Bangladeshi peasant. By definition, it is only others who have too much money.

Despite her disavowals, the nurse’s outburst was not completely at random. It is a cliché that many a true word is said in jest, and likewise, I suppose that many a true word is said in anger (though one mustn’t make the logical mistake of thinking that therefore what is said in anger is true). Anger is sometimes truthful, at least in the sense that it reveals the speaker’s attitudes that he or she normally keeps hidden.

Tom Veal.

Nothing that happens in the U.N. Human Rights Council is of much significance, which is good, because the Council is rotten to the core. It’s basically a pack of wolves charged with watching out for the welfare of lambs. Nonetheless, because Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of that snake pit, the Bidenites rushed to get back in. They assured us that American “engagement” with the likes of Red China, Cuba and Venezuela would do something to promote the Rights of Man.

Yesterday, the U.S. delegation moved to open a debate on communist atrocities in Sinkiang (Xinjiang). The motion failed: 17 yea, 19 nay, 11 abstentions.

ZMan jerks back the curtain.

The golden rule states that the man with the gold makes the rules. In this age, gold is energy in its various forms. The world as we understand it runs on electricity, which comes from fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal. If you happen to sit upon a lot of these things, you get to be important and have a lot of money. If you do not have these things, then you are dependent upon others for your welfare. There simply is no way to have a modern society without cheap energy.

In case the West forgot this reality, OPEC+ sent a gentle reminder this week by committing to a large cut in production. Over the next two months they will reduce supplies of crude to the market by two million barrels per day. The stated reason is to bring market prices back in line with the target of $100 per barrel. The unstated reason was to remind Washington that they are not the only voice in the room. The Saudis were sending a message to Washington.

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More and more women are not getting married for some reason. Numerous reasons are posited, from feminism to the fact that young men seem uninterested—or unable—to get married themselves, which may be the reciprocal of feminism. It is a long subject we won’t try to explain here, but this chart is not good news.

Biden, doctors say new abortion laws have chilling impact (Reuters) As they were intended to do.

Lightfoot’s election-year budget aims to boost spending on police and progressive measures without raising property taxes (Chicago Tribune) BRAAAAAAAINS! (So much for ‘defund the police’.)

Rick Caruso pledged $1 million to support abortion rights proposition but has yet to donate (L.A. Times)

San Francisco crime is not getting better, data says (S.F. Gate)

Vast majority of Oregonians view Portland negatively, The Oregonian/OregonLive poll finds

Mayor Eric Adams blasted over NYC migrant tent city move, won’t say what it costs (N.Y. Post)

Professor fired for making organic chemistry course too difficult

‘Burn Down The System’: Another Leftist Teacher Caught By Project Veritas Indoctrinating Students

Cuomo Warns Colleges ‘Dumbing Down’ America With Lower Grading Standards  Gee, he sounds almost like a Republican.

Study Uncovers Psychological Effects of Medication Abortions on Women

Dan Kildee Pays Wealthy Donor Nearly $200K in Taxpayer Funds

Vicente Gonzalez Has Funneled Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Campaign Cash to His Own Company, Records Show

Nina Totenberg Shreds Media Ethics at NPR

Soros-Tied Treasury Dept Official Supports Defunding Police and ‘Racial Equity’

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The team started with the most widely produced plastic in the world, namely polyethylene (PE), which accounts for around 29% of the world’s plastic consumption. A catalyst was then used to remove hydrogen from the material and create a reactive location in the chain of molecules, and then another catalyst to split the molecules at this location and cap the exposed ends. A third catalyst then shifts this reactive location along the chain so the process can be repeated. This leaves behind molecules of propylene, which serve as the building blocks for the world’s second most widely used plastic, polypropylene (PP).

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The American intellectual Rob Henderson coined the term “luxury beliefs” to describe the status-conferring ideas and opinions of wealthy elites. Examples of these beliefs include “defund the police,” “dismantle the patriarchy,” and “net zero carbon now.”

Luxury beliefs have the attractive quality that those most likely to promote them rarely face their consequences. For example, the “defund the police” crowd tends not to live in crime-ridden inner-city neighborhoods that count on the police to maintain order. Statistically, those who rage against the patriarchy and traditional marriage eventually marry but divorce at much lower rates than other Americans.

Nowhere is this trend more clear than in the disastrous realm of climate policy. Climate activists who call for a ban on fossil fuel consumption and a phase-out of the combustion engine almost always live in metro areas where they don’t need a car. If they drive, they can afford $5-a-gallon gasoline or can buy a $66,000 electric vehicle. Meanwhile, their luxury beliefs become public policy and hurt the rest of us.

Faceplant: Politico Calls Taxpayer Money Biden’s ‘Wallet’ While Trying to Smack DeSantis

‘Extermination Camp Run By Jews’: On Yom Kippur, Cornell Set to Host Professor Who Compared Jews to Nazis

5 women who should have won a Nobel Prize (CNN)

The UN Demands All Central Banks Stop Rate Hikes And Switch To Price Controls Instead

Five cases to watch as a conservative Supreme Court begins its new term (The Hill) I guess the Right Side of History is being a disappointment.

Supreme Court leaves ban on bump stocks in place – again (CNN)

Labor Without Love (The Nation)

Cheney on having liberal Democrats as supporters: ‘I’m not choosy these days’ (The Hill) Nor are they, it would appear.

Time to Reinvent Florida Once Again (Politico) Whether you like it or not…. (Never let a crisis go to waste!)

Social Justice Board Games (Boing Boing)

Jonathan Haidt set to resign from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Guardian of Biologically Male Trans Student: School Closed Locker Room ‘to Protect My Child’

Planned Parenthood Opening First Mobile Abortion Clinic

NYC Mayor Adams Blames ‘Far Left’ for Inaction on Border Crisis

Judge Denies GOP Appeal for Signature Checks on Mail Ballots

Arizona Clinic Has Workaround for Abortion Pill Ban

Britain Celebrates Climate Assistance and Gender Studies for Mexican Coffee Growers

Cuomo Kick-Starts New Show With Dan Rather and Promise to Be Biased

Irony Meter Explodes as Migrants Lured TO Florida for Hurricane Ian Cleanup (Daily Beast)

Gov. Newsom To Lower Gas-Prices With Gas Tax-Hikes

High School Girl’s Volleyball Team Banned From Own Locker Room After Complaining About Trans Athlete

Man 3D-Prints Guns For New York Buyback Event, Makes A Whopping $21,000

Election officials confront a new problem: Whether they can trust their own poll workers (Politico) Certainly not, if they’re Democrats.

All Aboard The Abortion Bus: Planned Parenthood Announces Mobile Clinic

Four Leftist, Soros-Backed DAs the Media Are Hiding From You

‘Experts’ Now Say Don’t Send Kids With Head Lice Home From School – It’s ‘Stigmatizing’

University of Washington Wokies Working to Banish Bias from Botanical Gardens

New York Judge: The ‘Time Has Arrived’ to Legalize Polygamy

MSNBC Asks: Is It Shocking People Don’t Accept Our ‘Voting Rights’ Narrative?

Citing Concern for Free Speech, 12 Federal Judges Say They Won’t Take Clerks from Yale Law School

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Princeton University’s endowment totaled $37.7 billion in 2021 — $4.5 million per student. The school’s entire annual operating expense was $1.86 billion, less than 5% of the value of the endowment.

The Ivy League university is apparently so rich that it can operate with no outside financial support, according to a claim made by author Malcolm Gladwell in a recent newsletter, and disputed by Harvard economics professor John Campbell in a letter to The Browser, Axios reported.

The university is capable of funding itself in perpetuity, even without research grants or tuition income. The endowment will probably decline in value in 2022, but over the long term, it’s reasonable to expect the endowment to continue to grow more quickly than the university’s expenses, Axios said.

It’ll never happen, of course. The logic behind outrageous tuition costs is so that you can, by offering ‘financial aid’ to Politically Correct groups, you can adjust your student body to reflect Wokeness without actually (legally) discriminating.

ZMan peeks behind the curtain.

For the last couple of weeks, there have been whispers that some large banks may be in trouble due to the rising dollar. The strength of the dollar is due, in part, to the Federal Reserve’s effort to fight inflation. It is also due to the decline in both the Euro and the British pound. Economic conditions in Europe are deteriorating quickly because of poor management at every level. The relative strength of a currency is the relative strength of the managerial elite that issues it.

Recently, the gossip has turned to Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, both of which have seen their share prices collapse. The former has lost about 60% since the start of the year and the latter is down around 50% off its recent high. Credit Suisse could be at risk of imminent collapse, due to its deteriorating credit condition. Banks need credit to function and right now, no one is excited about extending credit to a bank whose CEO is telling employees that the bank is not about to fail.

Some are calling the Credit Suisse crisis the Lehman moment. This refers to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, which triggered the financial crisis. Banks are dependent upon one another, so if one fails, it can set off a chain reaction where the next weak bank fails, then the next weakest bank. Get enough banks unable to make payments to other banks and the whole system crashes. This is why everyone is worried about the banks all of a sudden.

Tom Veal.

Blonde is a biopic about Marilyn Monroe. (One critic insists that it shouldn’t be called a “biopic”, because it is based on a novel, but the number of historically accurate Hollywood biopics can be counted on the fingers of a man whose hands have been amputated, so I think the term is good enough here.) In the course of the movie, the protagonist has two abortions, each coerced. Before the second, she has a vision of her unborn child, who begs, “You won’t hurt me this time, will you?”

Planned Parenthood is outraged by the scene, declaring, “As film and TV shapes many people’s understanding of sexual and reproductive health, it’s critical these depictions accurately portray women’s real decisions and experiences.” In the eyes of the organization’s “national director of arts and entertainment engagement”, there is evidently nothing “real” about a woman’s anguish at being forced to end her child’s life.

This is but one small aperçu into the contemporary pro-abortion mentality: Abortion is no longer presented as a difficult personal choice to which women turn only as a last resort but as something so benign that nothing ill can be said concerning it.

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The Great Replacement in Europe obviously requires the importation of millions of third-world immigrants to supplant the natives. However, another crucial aspect of the program is the relentless propaganda discouraging Europeans from having children, as well as the incentives offered to people who remain childless.

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Human history has largely been a struggle to get enough to eat. Starvation was an ever-present threat, almost everywhere, until very recently. Only in the last century or two has even part of the world learned how to produce an abundant and reliable supply of food. It requires a scientific approach to hybridization, crop rotation, intensive fertilization, pest control, and more. As a result of these modern farming methods, for the first time ever the vast majority of the world’s population is not imminently threatened by starvation.

But that could change. The international “environmentalist” movement is determined to outlaw modern farming practices, ostensibly for the sake of our climate. Places like Sri Lanka, the Netherlands and Canada have been forced to confront the anti-agriculture movement, and it is already making itself felt in the U.S. Banning fertilizers and prohibiting animal husbandry are two of the planks in this “green” platform.

The US ultra-rich justify their low tax rates with three myths – all of them rubbish (The Guardian) Robert Reich is The Guardian’s favorite America-basher.

Former Dem Rep gets 30-month prison sentence in ballot-stuffing election fraud case

UC Berkeley Law School’s ‘Jew Free Zones’: the Latest Progressive Trend (Newsweek)

Vermont High School Under Fire as Girls, Parents Push Back Against Biologically Male Trans Student Using Female Locker Room

The Story Behind DeSantis’s Migrant Flights to Martha’s Vineyard (N.Y. Times) According to the Narrative, that is.

NY Times vs. Science: Critic Hess TRIGGERED by Realistic Images of the Fetus

California High School Bans ‘Thin Blue Line’ Flag From Football Games

ENTER SCOTUS: High Court Agrees to Hear Case Threatening Big Tech’s Section 230 Protections

Railroad Strike Threat Shows How Unions’ Rigid Rules Often Hurt Workers

Hillary 2024?

Trans Student Walkout Group Admits Most Just Wanted To Skip School, Boasts About Tricking Media

New York judge rules in favor of polyamorous relationships  And Muslims flock to New York….

Judge Rules in Favor of Polygamy as Being Mandated by the Logic of Gay Marriage

Four Female Track Athletes Who Lost To Men Sue Connecticut Over Transgender Policy

WORRY: After Roe, Press Fret at What ‘Conservative Super Majority’ Will Do Next

Planned Parenthood mobile clinic will take abortion to red-state borders (NPR)

Montana Judge Knocks Down Republicans’ Tighter Voting Laws

Why Right-Wing Traditionalism Is So Appealing to So Many (Daily Beast) Because it’s not evil?

Washington, DC police officers under investigation after confiscating guns without making arrests

7 DC police officers accused of letting suspects found with illegal guns go without arrest (WTOP)

Gimmicks won’t solve the humanitarian crisis at the border (The Hill) Nor will Democrats.

Meta board approves personal security for outgoing executive Sheryl Sandberg

California Gasoline Is Now More Than Double The Price In Texas

Remember Back When Journalists CARED About the Politicization of the FBI?

CNN Misleads, Ignores Poll Supporting Busing Illegals to Blue Cities

FBI Singles Out Conservative Agents In ‘Purge,’ Retaliates Against Whistleblowers: GOP Lawmakers

George Soros’s Open Society Foundation Puts Millions Behind Pro-Amnesty, Pro-Illegal Immigration Groups

Firearm Background-Checks Now Report Home Addresses Of Gun Owners

Snowden Didn’t “Flee to Russia”: Obama Trapped Him There

Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society

Election officials brace for confrontational poll watchers (Associated Press) Blatantly stealing an election will have that effect.

Bloomberg and NewsBusters Show ESG Is Neither Virtuous Nor Profitable

Apocalypse now: Democrats embrace a dark midterm message (Washington Post) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Once Known for Vaccine Skeptics, Marin Now Tells Them ‘You’re Not Welcome’ (N.Y. Times) Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with the ever-changing Narrative.

Survey: Bay Area Residents’ Exodus Plans Above 50 Percent for Second Straight Year  Time to leave.

Most registered voters say Trump shouldn’t be allowed to serve a second term, says new poll (The Hill)

The Memo: Michigan appears set to deliver a blow to Trump (The Hill)

Silicon Valley billionaires square off over support for Trump and the MAGA movement (CNBC)

Jared Kushner Allegedly Tried to ‘Inflate’ 2020 Poll Numbers to Avoid Trump’s Tantrums, Book Says (Rolling Stone) Maggie Haberman’s fairy tales keep dribbling out of the underwear of the Usual Suspects.

A PayPal Ultimatum to Customers: Go Woke or Go Broke?

Once-swanky Tenderloin is S.F.’s ultimate riches-to-rags story (S.F. Chronicle)

Party like it’s 1789! My weird, enlightening month living strictly by the US constitution (The Guardian) Proglodytes think that cosplay constitutes deep thought.

Defund the police push, liberal policies driving Chicago business exodus, hurting poor the most: experts (Fox) Experts! That proves it!

Some business owners on Pittsburgh’s North Side moving neighborhoods due to violence (WPXI)

US public education systems facing a crisis point (The Hill)

AOC says companies favor abortion bans ‘to force poor people to work more’ (N.Y. Post)

Watch: Yet Another Democrat Witness Claims Biological Men Can Have Pregnancies

Memory Holed, Part II: The “Rigged” Election

US Judge Dismisses Mexico’s $10B Lawsuit Against Gunmakers

Newsom Signs Bill That Restricts Use of Rap Lyrics in Court

Progressive ‘De-Prosecutors’ Disrupt Criminal Justice System, Experts Say

Girls Volleyball Team Banned From Own Locker Room in Transgender Dispute

Macron vs. Meloni

Newsom signs bill to allow minors from other states to receive medical gender transitions without parental consent

Boston Police Turn Blind Eye to Drug Use Outside Government ‘Harm Reduction’ Facility

NPR Is Not Your Friend

A Prominent Federal Judge Declares He Will No Longer Hire Clerks From Yale Law School

What Happens When A Fact-Checker Doesn’t Get The Facts Right?

Victor Shi: We don’t need a third party. We need ranked choice voting. (Chicago Tribune)

Minnesota Counties Sued For Duplicate Voter Registrations

How Democrats can flip the crime issue against the GOP (Washington Post)

Planned Parenthood doctor tells Congress men can get pregnant: ‘This is medicine’

There’s an ESG backlash inside the executive ranks at top corporations (CNBC)

It’s Official: America Is an Oligarchy (The Nation) Of course it’s nothing of the kind.

Why almost 2 million Californians may need to switch health insurance plans (S.F. Chronicle)

‘Reason to worry’: Italy’s Meloni holds a mirror to Trump’s GOP (Politico)

U.S. farmers urge Washington to challenge Mexico’s looming ban on GM corn (Reuters)

They were turned away from urgent care. The reason? Their car insurance (NPR)

NYC changes controversial high school admissions process (N.Y. Post)

Chevron to help move 200 workers to Houston as it downsizes in California

Atlantic: A Woke Army Is a Smarter, More Diverse and Intellectually Flexible Army

The NYT Goes Transphobic Over Pronouns Due to a Higher Calling: Covering Up the Gender Identity of an Alleged Pro-Russian Traitor

NY Times Alarmed By GOP Spreading ‘Racist Fears’ About Soft-on-Crime Democrats

How 1 Small European Study Changed Transgender Medicine in US

California Gov. Newsom Signs Refuge Bill for Trans Youths, Families  I guess trans are the New Jews.

Federal Court: Critical Race Theory Is a ‘Resource’ To ‘Transform’ Judiciary

Convention of States President Torches ‘America-Hating’ Soros Groups

Gun Owners, Rights Groups Challenge Connecticut Firearms Ban

CNN, MSNBC avoid Biden’s ‘Where’s Jackie?’ snafu after obsessing over Trump’s ‘Tim Apple’ gaffe

First Openly Transgender Army Officer Indicted for Trying to Give Soldiers’ Medical Info to Russia

U.S. says ex-Army major and wife tried to leak military health data to Russia

Transgender Media Hero Indicted for Plotting to Give Secrets to Russia

Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria Is the New Recovered Memories of Satanist Abuse Mania

US population stability requires immigration — just not too much (The Hill)

Mayor Eric Adams roasted for claiming ‘Kansas doesn’t have a brand’ (N.Y. Post)

Virgin Atlantic says men can wear skirts, updates gender policy (Fox)

Virgin Atlantic launches new gender-neutral uniform policy (CNN)

States appeal dismissal of suit against U.S. archivist for refusing to certify ERA ratification (Politico)

Appeals court debates whether Equal Rights Amendment is really dead (Washington Post)

Lame duck spending bill is a Democrat-designed democracy detour (The Hill)

Why is fiscal responsibility not discussed anymore? (The Hill)

Bay Area high-speed rail will displace hundreds of residents, businesses (S.F. Gate) And be a total waste of money.

The story of one US governor’s historic use of clemency: ‘We are a nation of second chances’ (The Guardian) Putting criminals back on the street.

New California abortion laws set up clash with other states (Associated Press)

Philadelphia PD Seeks To Identify 100 Juveniles In “Riot” At Wawa Convenience Store Last Weekend  Maybe the FBI could help with that.

Western liberalism is still skating on thin ice (Financial Times)

Meta Disrupts Chinese Social Media Campaign To Stoke Division Ahead Of U.S. Mid-Term Elections

Rohingya Seek Reparations From Facebook for Role in Massacre

Record Number Of New York Residents Changing Driver’s Licenses To Florida

Firebombing Attorney Begs for Light Sentence, Citing Inebriation and ‘Unprocessed Trauma’

Princeton University Marks Constitution Day With Event Deeming Founding Document ‘A Form of Geopolitical Gaslighting’

Florida Congressional Hopeful Illegally Omitted Stock Holdings From Her Financial Disclosure, Watchdog Says

Snopes Cries ‘False’ at PJ Media for Accurate Obama Foundation Story

UK Police Department Savaged For Defending Convicted Serial Pedophile Against ‘Hate’

Philadelphia Sets Record for Carjackings “Defund the Police” they said….

Is This the Beginning of the End of the Internet? (The Atlantic)

Message to Parents: Stay Out of Your Kids’ Education and Trust Teachers to Indoctrinate Them

Kevin McCarthy: The Gimp Who Thinks He’s a Master (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew push the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Paging Babylon Bee? WashPost Columnist Rants ‘7 Ways a Recession Could Be Good for You’

“We’re Horrified”: Major Brands Pull Twitter Ad Campaigns Over Child Porn

Does Anyone Still Care about the Lincoln Project?

Amy Schumer Pitches Colorado As ‘Premier Destination’ … For What? ABORTIONS

M&M’s New Addition: Purple ‘Spokescandy’ For ‘Acceptance and Inclusivity’

DC Council Bill Would Permit Noncitizen Voting in City Elections