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Hunter Biden was lying from the moment he met his future wife, Kathleen Buhle, in 1992. The less-favored son of Joe Biden, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, insisted he came from a normal middle-class background. During her first visit to the sprawling Biden estate in Delaware, Kathleen explained to Hunter that “a kid from a middle-class family does not have a ballroom.”

The only member of Buhle’s family who saw any red flags was Grandpa Dutch, who served prison time for armed robbery. “What does he want from us?” he wondered after meeting Hunter. His first impression of the Biden estate: “Who’s buried here?” Game recognize game, as the saying goes.

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Germany, like other European countries, has boxed itself in with its response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Now the government is preparing its citizens and businesses for the cold and dark winter that lies ahead. Rather than revise national policies, it is recommending the acquisition of emergency generators to get through the coming blackouts. There’s no word on how people will be able to afford the inflated prices for fuel to run those generators.

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It isn’t just the U.S.: around the world “green” fanatics are destroying livelihoods and dragging down standards of living. This instance comes from the Netherlands: “Dutch farmers protest livestock cuts to curb nitrogen.”

SF couple gets $1,500 fine for parking in their driveway despite doing so for nearly 40 years

With Roe overturned, Democrats present a patchwork of countermeasures (Washington P0st)

Prepare to pay more for gas in California starting today as tax increases (L.A. Times) ‘Gas prices are too high? Increase taxes!’

Left renounces Independence Day on Twitter: ‘Burn this country to the godd— ground’

California Gives Free Healthcare To Illegal Immigrants

NY Times Hates Court’s EPA Ruling: Can USA Be a ‘Civilized Society’ Without Regulations?

Leaked Documents Reveal Wide Scope Of China’s Human Rights Violations In Xinjiang  But nobody who can actually help actually cares.

Melissa Harris-Perry Compares Dobbs Case to Dred Scott on NPR Stations

Aussie ‘Ambassador for Women’ claims ‘climate change’ causes rape! ‘Exacerbates the risks of sexual & gender-based violence’

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What is the point of university? It used to be, when Harvard was founded in 1636, “to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity”. But in recent years the university has taken on an altogether narrower character. Learning is no longer enough. Activism is demanded. Yale and Harvard have come to resemble the mythical Ouroboros, eating their own tails to satisfy an insatiable appetite for conformity.

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Take the case of Roland Fryer. A hugely gifted and until recently celebrated black professor of economics at Harvard, he was suspended for two years without pay following the most tenuous sexual harassment claims. Many suspect the real reason for his humiliating treatment was his research showing that African Americans are not disproportionately the targets of lethal violence by the police. There were, Fryer wrote, “no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account”.

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California mom attacked in hit-and-run joins Gascon recall effort: He’s responsible for this disaster

Canceling student loan debt is just the start

Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law takes effect today. Its impact is already being felt (The Hill) Except, of course, it does not ban the use of the word ‘gay’.

Chicago police officer in serious condition after being shot by convicted felon, officials say Boy, those strict gun control laws really work, don’t they?

Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge.

New York poised to limit concealed carry guns after SCOTUS ruling (Politico)

This was the scariest moment in Arizona’s GOP governor’s debate. Be warned, America (Arizona Republic)

We were too lenient on pro-democracy politicians, says senior Hong Kong legislator Regina Ip (The Guardian)

Same-sex couples updating legal status after abortion ruling (Associated Press)

Why ending ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy is a good thing (Boston Globe)

Portland city council prepares third attempt to place limits on local fossil fuel terminals

A quarter of Americans open to taking up arms against government, poll says (The Guardian)

Most Americans, Across Party Lines, Say Government ‘Corrupt, Rigged’: Poll (Newsweek)

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Announces Department of Justice 2022-26 Strategic Plan

Ohio girl, 10, among patients going to Indiana to get abortion

The Insufferable Arrogance Of The Constantly Wrong

What If People Actually Controlled The Government?

Author Matt Palumbo Lays Out How George Soros Has Significant Control Over Media Narratives

Know Your Value! Mika Works Plug For Her Book Into Praise of Hutchinson!

Beschloss Absurdly Warns We May Have Seen ‘Our Last Fair and Free’ Election

Velshi Hails Abortion Laws in China, North Korea, Other Dictatorships

Woman Starting To Think Company Offering To Kill Her Kid Doesn’t Have Her Best Interests At Heart  (Babylon Bee)

Over 400,000 High-Priority Incidents In Chicago In 2021 Had ‘No Police Available To Send’, New Data Shows

Several NYC Election Sites Had ‘No Republican Ballots’ During Last Week’s Primary

Dick Cheney Thrilled To No Longer Be Least Likable Cheney  (Babylon Bee)

The Supreme Court embraces originalism — and all its flaws (Washington Post)

House passes sweeping reproductive rights bill

Communist Surveillance Tool: FCC Commish Asks Apple And Google To Remove TikTok App

Celebrities’ Wildest Reactions to SCOTUS Rejection of Roe v. Wade

Disney+ Kid Cartoon ‘Baymax!’ Pushes More LGBT Content with Two Men Dating

MSNBC Meltdown Over Latest Conservative Supreme Court Win: ‘Scary,’ ‘Extreme’

Gavin Newsom Just Dumped a Gallon of Kerosene on the Inflation Fire

WATCH: Woman Who Can’t Define Woman Celebrated as First Black Woman on Supreme Court

The Cry-Baby Leftist Mind  Victor Davis Hanson.

Top Three Worst-Run US Cities Are Controlled By Democrats 

‘They Should Do It’ Lemon Supports Dems Voting for Cheney in Primary  If you can’t get a Real Democrat, a RINO will do.

Day Camp Makes Children Protest Overturning of Roe v. Wade

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“We would do thousands of jobs a year in the city, but as we got robbed more, my people operating rollers and pavers we got robbed, our equipment would get stolen in broad daylight and there would usually be a gun involved, and it got expensive and it got dangerous,” said Gary Rabine, who pulled his road paving company out of the city after his crews were repeatedly robbed.

Democrats Have Forgotten the Working Class. It Will Cost Them in November (Newsweek)

Democrats snubbed the working class and other commentary

Stacey Abrams donor, foundation president wants to ‘abolish the police’ and prisons

WaPo opinion links abortion, voting rights as rulings that have ‘hobbled the infrastructure of democracy’

The big contributors to inflation you’re not hearing about: profiteering corporations (L.A. Times) He must not be reading his own paper.

Why are we feeding crops to our cars when people are starving? (The Guardian)

Teachers Slam DeSantis’ ‘Disturbing’ New School Civics Initiative (Daily Beast)

American patriotism hits a new low (CNN) And whose fault is that?

NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls for ‘exemptions’ to Manhattan congestion fees  Fees are fine, except for the favored few.

‘I’m Not Going Easy on Them Because They’re Kids’: 29-Year-Old Trans Skateboarder Defends Competing Against 13-Year-Old Girls

‘Morning Joe’: ‘Dramatic’ January 6 Hearings Showed Meadows Was Like Pilate as Christ Was Crucified

Concerned Graduates Of West Point Challenge Leadership Of Military Academy: Letter

Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results

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Calls have rung out across the nation demanding gun control laws in a bid to curb violent crimes such as the recent series of mass shootings. Data, however, show that in states with higher percentages of households with at least one gun, crimes are not higher than in states with strict gun laws.

“Gun ownership is higher in states with fewer restrictions, and homicide rates in these states are lower. People can protect themselves,” George Mason University Professor Emerita Joyce Lee Malcolm told Fox News Digital of what she’s found through her research. Malcolm pointed to a study on burglars from 1986 that found 34% of burglars interviewed reported “to having been scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim.”

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This year is the 20th anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA, and I think it’s safe to say that nobody enjoys waiting in the airport security line. And in the post-9/11 world, things like PreCheck are the great innovation of the department.

At least according to Dan McCoy, who is the TSA’s chief innovation officer, who told me that PreCheck is “a hallmark government innovation program.”

But what do programs like PreCheck and the larger surveillance apparatus that theoretically keep us safe mean for the choices we make? What do we give up to get into the shorter security line, and how comfortable should we be about that?

Government favoring one class of people over another is the very definition of ‘privilege’.

Pelosi has the right idea on abortion. The Senate must follow. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin pushes the Narrative.

Florida Dept of Health slams Rachel Levine for ‘character assassination’ over trans youth comments

California law requiring property owners to pay one month’s rent to legally evicted tenants is upheld

West Hollywood votes to cut Los Angeles County sheriff funding amid crime wave

Chesa Boudin says he won’t rule out running for San Francisco D.A., in first interview since recall (S.F. Chronicle)

Drug traffickers arrested in California with 150,000 fentanyl pills released after just days in jail

Nobelist Maria Ressa: Social media is corroding U.S. democracy (Axios)

Atlanta suburb pushes to secede from city due to surging crime: ‘This is a war zone’

San Francisco plans to end single-family zoning. Here’s why housing advocates aren’t happy with the law (S.F. Chronicle)

Over 100 Georgia Sheriffs Condemn Democratic Gubernatorial Challenger Over ‘Defund The Police’

New Disney Plus Show ‘Baymax’ Promotes Idea That Men Can Have Periods

That’ll Help in November: House Progs Introduce ‘Trans Bill of Rights’

White House Forced To Dismiss Idea Of Abortion Tents In National Parks

Catholic Confusion: Pelosi Takes Communion at Papal Mass Despite Bishop’s Ban

Woke Military: Pentagon Will Keep Performing Abortions

China’s Productive Capacity Is Starting To Slip Away To India And Southeast Asia

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Two illegal immigrants have been arrested for their alleged role in the deaths of more than 50 migrants in San Antonio.

Prosecutors filed criminal complaints against two Mexican nationals on Tuesday evening in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, charging the men with illegal possession of a firearm “by an alien illegally in the United States.” The two men first entered the country on a travel visa but never returned to Mexico following its expiration.

Police arrested the men following an investigation into the registration of the semi-truck containing dozens of migrants, most of whom died from dehydration and exhaustion and were found by a nearby pedestrian. At least 51 of the migrants found in the truck have died—the worst migrant death incident ever recorded in the United States.

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Sure looks like a war to me.

Majority of Americans disapprove of SCOTUS Roe v. Wade reversal, poll shows (CNN) A CNN poll, of course. Presumably a Fox poll would show different numbers.

We Americans are dancing on the Titanic. Our iceberg is not far away (The Guardian)

The Supreme Court has chipped away at the Voting Rights Act for 9 years. This case could be the next blow. (Politico)

The Supreme Court’s Faux ‘Originalism’ (Politico)

Eric Adams patrols subways with NYPD cops amid surge in transit crime

Inflation Eats Infrastructure Bill

“More Money In Your Pocket” – Newsom To Helicopter Drop $17 Billion In “Inflation Relief” Stimmy Checks   Too much money in circulation? Print more and pass it out!

Abortion Overruled, Media Hardest Hit

The Times Misrepresents Abortion and the Court

Transgender Skater Shreds Competition At NYC Skating Competition

Netflix Cancels LGBTQ-Themed Cartoon

Major City to Pay for Travel Costs When Its Employees Seek Out-of-State Abortions

Meyers Uses Show To Hype Abortion, Noah Calls Justices ‘Full of S***’

The View on Prayer Ruling: Animal Sacrifices Coming to High School Football

The Political Polarization of Corporate America

Meet the ‘Nonpartisan’ Health Care Group Behind Democrats’ Latest Costly Proposal

Facebook Mum on Dead Migrants After Greenlighting Solicitation of Human Trafficking

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Lies, damned lies, and proglodyte propaganda.

“I’m always interested when the police are, like, I don’t know, nervous about stuff,” Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson said at the forum, because “the community is not—we’re not attacking the police. That literally is just not happening.”

Protesters, many with ties to the BLM movement, injured more than 2,000 police officers in summer 2020 alone, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Mckesson’s claim about attacks on police is not the only false assertion he made at the forum.

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How an exhausted liberalism killed sci-fi’s sunniest franchise

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Buzz Lightyear (voiced by the great Tim Allen, one of the few right-leaning stars in Hollywood) became an iconic character in the Toy Story series of films, but the new standalone Buzz Lightyear movie, with Buzz voiced by Chris Pratt instead of Allen, has bombed at the box office, perhaps because it decided to go fully woke by prominently featuring a lesbian relationship. As Kyle Smith puts it, “today Hollywood’s message is, ‘Let us entertain you! But first, a brief lecture on what’s wrong with you, the audience . . .’”

The three largest grossing movies of the last 20 years are The Passion of the Christ, American Sniper, and, by the time it is done with its theatrical run, Top Gun: Maverick. Notice something in common with these films? The first celebrates straight-up Christian piety, and not some tormented clergyman or a revisionist gay Palestinian Jesus. The latter two depict Americans as unabashed heroes, fighting for a just cause.

CNN Ghouls: Kids in Foster Care, Disabled Relatives Should’ve Been Aborted

Liz Cheney, fighting for political survival, seeks crossover support from Wyoming Democrats (CNN) The RINO comes home to roost.

This bank wants to track suspect credit card sales of guns and ammo. Why can’t it? (CBS) How dare those pesky privacy laws get in the way of our totalitarianism!

Sunak urges banks to keep funding oil and gas firms after windfall tax (The Guardian)

UK oil and gas producers warn Sunak over windfall tax (Financial Times)

Woke LA DA George Gascon says his policies ‘WORK’ despite career criminal on probation killing two cops (Daily Mail)

Fulton DA won’t use ‘precious tax dollars’ prosecuting abortion cases (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

The US supreme court voted in favour of … people getting shot (The Guardian)

Vancouver Apologizes To Homeless For Trauma Caused By Street Cleanings

Democrats Call for Expanding Supreme Court After String of Losses

Reporters Insist: We Don’t Have Bias or Double Standards  And if you believe that one,  they’ll tell you another one.

Lemon, Toobin Flunk Civics, Decry Lack of Pro-Abortion Republicans

MSNBC Historian Declares Court Threw ‘Scalding Acid Into The Face’  Another Wokerato loses his shit.

Self-Styled Catholic MSNBC Host Accuses Court of Imposing Catholicism

Twitter slams Gov. Hochul’s anger over SCOTUS gun ruling: ‘Sorry the Constitution happened to you’

How journalists can spot the signs of autocracy — and help ward it off (Washington Post)

Encore: Keystone XL Pipeline gets renewed interest, but the company has moved on (NPR)

Caterpillar, Boeing, Raytheon revive high-tax state exodus

Senate passes first major federal gun safety legislation in decades (CNN)

Supreme Court ignored the Constitution in ruling in favor of religious schools, says Boston Globe columnist

Supreme Court’s religious school ruling signals ‘dangerous road’ for LGBTQ rights, advocates say (NBC)

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp calls on Stacey Abrams to resign from radical ‘defund the police’ foundation

Whoopi Goldberg calls for lower taxes on ‘The View’: ‘We need to change these tax laws’ Sounds very Republican.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says Chicago cops have ‘incredible amount’ of time off, disputes criticism they’re overworked (Chicago Tribune) BRAAAAAAAINS!

Not Safe For School: NY District Defends X-Rated Sex Ed

Ignorant CNN Tells Conservative NYT Columnist, Film Critic: ‘Stop Writing About Movies’

Beware Arrogance on the ‘Democracy Beat’

NewsGuard Leaves USA Today’s Perfect Score Unchanged — Even After Source Fabrication Scandal

New York Times Worries That Big Tech Won’t Censor Hard Enough During Midterm Elections

NBC MELTDOWN: ‘Devastating’ End of Roe Means Supreme Court Is ‘Rigged’

Milano & Reiner & Midler, Oh My! Leftists Spontaneously Combust Following Overturning of Roe v. Wade

‘Dissolve the Supreme Court’: Liberals Go Ballistic Over High Court Upholding Gun Rights

Emotional Chuck Todd Connects End of Roe to ‘Shattering’ of Democracy, ‘Tinder Box’

Crying for Roe: CNN Claims Women Will Be Barred from Tracking Their Cycle

Media Meltdown Compilation: Roe Overturned, Journalist Hardest Hit

SHOCKER: The People Behind China’s One-Child Policy Love Abortion

Soros-Funded Groups Lose Their Minds Over Abortion Defeat

Dems Pause January 6 Hearings To Call For Insurrection (Babylon Bee)

Tense Trump meeting with DOJ leaders to take center stage at Jan. 6 hearing (NBC)

5 takeaways from the fifth day of January 6 hearingss (CNN)

Suspicious powder found in envelopes at ‘Recall Gascón’ office in West LA (KABC)

Is It Last Call for Lauren Boebert’s Gun Restaurant? (Daily Beast)

Federal authorities searched former Justice official Jeff Clark’s home (NPR)

Amid high-profile hearings, some January 6 committee members beef up security (CNN)

New documentary footage reveals Pence reacting on the night House pushed for him to invoke 25th Amendment (CNN)

The Jan. 6 hearings and the spectacle of competence (Washington Post)

Book bombs: Trump aide tell-alls fail to sell (Politico)

Patriot Front members could face overlapping federal, state prosecution (KTVB)

The Jan. 6th Committee is More Dangerous to Democracy Than Jan. 6th (Newsweek)

The subtle stagecraft behind the Jan. 6 hearings (Washington Post) Lavrenti Beria would certainly be pleased.

GOP Lawmaker Can Run for Re-Election Despite Oath Keepers Membership (Daily Beast)

Firm splits with lawyers who won gun rights case at Supreme Court (Politico)

FBI Seizes Nevada GOP Chairman’s Phone in Fake-Elector Investigation: Report (Daily Beast)

The Federal Bureau Of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring An Alarming Number Of FBI Agents

‘It Is Their Fault’! MSNBC’s Mystal Blames Supreme Court for Mass Shootings

Inside the Investigation of Axed Princeton Prof Joshua Katz

Chicago cops barred from chasing people on foot who run away

Chicago police will no longer be allowed to chase people on foot (NPR)

Democrats are losing ground with the fastest-growing political bloc: Asian Americans (CNN) Well, they can’t hate black people any more, so they’re hating Asians instead.

Networks Ignore Former DeSantis Opponent Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges

This Ohio Dem Loves Taking Big Oil’s Money. Now She Needs a High Gas Price Scapegoat.

Politico’s Sam Stein Hypes January 6 Poll While Admitting Inflation Dominates

Corrupt Networks Refuse to Say the Name of Radical Pro-Abortion Terrorists ‘Jane’s Revenge’

In Historic Win For Gun Rights, SCOTUS Rules NY Draconian Restrictions Are Unconstitutional

DMCA can’t be used to sidestep First Amendment, court rules

Ken Griffin Is Moving Citadel To Miami, Leaving Chicago Crime Cesspool Forever Behind  (Here’s How Much Tax Revenue Illinois Will Lose From Citadel’s Decision To Cut Bait)

Not in Kansas Anymore: Dem Rep Skips Votes To Attend Ritzy Fundraisers

MSNBC Warns of More Shootings, Dead Children After SCOTUS Ruling  Oddly enough, though, most of such shootings and dead children occur in Democrat-governed areas with strict gun control, like L.A., S.F., N.Y., D.C., etc.

House-Passed ‘Woke Mandate’ Would Force Federal Reserve To Prioritize Racial Equity

Dems Kill Bill To Stop Military From Teaching Critical Race Theory

The Other McCain is on the case.

Most people don’t pay attention to school board elections, but the teachers and administrators do. Employees of the school system constitute an organized special interest, who can usually succeed in electing their chosen slate of board members — and, perhaps more importantly, they can prevent the election of any school board candidate who might disrupt the system. Thus, by controlling the school board, teachers and administrators can evade any effort to make them accountable to the public. Any parent who has ever complained about the policies and curricula of public schools knows how this works. In fact, it is largely erroneous to call them “public schools,” since they do not really belong to the public, but are rather controlled by the administrative bureaucracy, operating for the benefit of the employees, without regard to what parents actually want.

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The U.S. oil and natural gas industry long fought for and in the last decade finally won release from federal restrictions that limited exports. The ostensible reason was that because of the so-called “shale revolution” in the country’s oil and gas fields, the United States would have plenty of oil and gas to spare for export.

The real reason behind the push was that the oil and gas industry wanted what almost every other industry in America already had: The right to sell their products to the highest bidders no matter where they lived on the globe.

This made it almost certain that as U.S. prices rose to match world prices, U.S. consumers would feel the pain. And, since energy prices affect everyone who votes, they are always politically consequential.

CNN SINKS to Smallest Weekday Audience Among Key 25-to-54 Demo in 22 Years

Election workers describe ‘hateful’ threats after Trump’s false claims (Washington Post)

Supreme Court says Maine cannot deny tuition aid to religious schools (Washington Post)

School vouchers would be bad for Texas, no matter what the Supreme Court just said (Houston Chronicle)

Sotomayor accuses supreme court conservatives of dismantling church-state separation (The Guardian)

Harris Teeter, Kroger face backlash for pulling pro-America items after complaints: ‘Get woke, go broke’

Supreme Court sides with Minneapolis residents suing over depleted police force, minimum 731 officers required

NBC Bemoans ‘Another Brick Out of The Wall Separating Church & State’ Over SCOTUS Case

US Investors Continue To Fund The Chinese Military

AP Warns of Violence Against Abortion Providers, Buries Violence Against Pro-Lifers

Republicans Ask Capitol Police For Materials On Arrest Of Colbert Show Staffers

Here Is What Biden Actually Could Do To Lower Gas Prices… But Is Blocked By Environmentalists

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German cruise-industry magazine An Bord reports the 9,000-passenger Global Dream II is about 80% finished. Its shipbuilder MV Werften filed for bankruptcy in January 2022, and bankruptcy administrators can’t find a buyer.

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The EV, shaped something like the head of a golf club, aims to combine the agility, convenience, and lower price of a scooter or motorcycle with more of the safety and security people find in a car. Its US “auto-cycle” classification is “the best of both worlds,” Nimbus founder Lihang Nong told TechCrunch.

Operating on three wheels, the Nimbus One is small enough to slip easily into parking spaces, including those made for motorcycles, and tilts like a scooter or bike.

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Tucker Carlson spent much of his episode Friday discussing Ashley Biden’s diary. About six months ago, he mentioned it in passing but I think he said no one was sure if it was authentic. And he never mentioned what it said other than to say that it was horrible if true.

Tonight he never even addressed that question, speaking matter of factly as if it was authentic and detailing the most disturbing allegations as true. His guest did too. This is the first time it’s been mentioned in this way in the MSM.

So now, either…

Ashley Biden comes to her dad’s defense and claims the diary is a fake, or…

Joe Biden throws his daughter under the bus, or…

Joe and the MSM attempt to ignore the story.

Transgender Activists Manipulate Parents With Suicide Threats

Do we need a better understanding of ‘progress’? (BBC)

Youngkin’s 3-month gas tax holiday fails in Virginia Senate  Democrats want high gas prices.

The troubled paradox of U.S. democracy (Washington Post)

7 arrested in House office building linked to Colbert show (Associated Press)

Stephen Colbert Crew Let Into US Capitol by Adam Schiff Staffer: Rep. Davis

How Transgenderism Moved From Sideshow to the Main Stage

New Reuters Survey Finds That Trust In Mainstream News Is Rapidly Declining  Gee, I wonder why.

Maher Mocks Washington Post as an ‘Unlicensed Daycare Center’

For Father’s Day Weekend, MSNBC Urges Men to Support Abortion

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Empowering stupidity is always a bad idea.

Steve Sailer says the quiet part out loud.

The Great Awokening of the last decade has been, if effect, Loser Liberation. Take everybody that, say, Aristotle would have considered less admirable and center them. Not surprisingly, Loser Lib is wreaking havoc within leftist institutions by elevating losers to leadership and make their complaints the central subject of endless office politics.

Funny how that works.

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With periods of extended dryness and water curtailments occurring more frequently due to climate change, growers in California’s Central Valley — one of the most productive agricultural regions on the planet — are increasingly looking to fallow fields or uproot orchards and vineyards for lack of irrigation. Once gathered into towering pyres, the vegetation is then set ablaze, sending lung- and heart-aggravating haze across the valley.

San Joaquin Valley air regulators have struggled for nearly 20 years to outlaw the practice of agricultural burning, encouraging farmers instead to grind up forsaken crops in wood chippers and spread them as mulch. But amid a third year of drought, some fear a resurgence in large-scale burning because it’s cheaper than grinding, and because so many acres are being abandoned due to drought.

Already, 395,000 acres of farmland have been fallowed across California because of the drought, according to UC Merced research. Industry groups estimate 60,000 acres of almond trees and 15,000 acres of vineyards will be removed statewide this year as well.

“If you’re not able to get water, then you’re gonna have a lot of dry stuff that’s potentially going to die. And then what’s gonna happen with that waste?” asked Catherine Garoupa White, executive director of the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition. “It’s easier to just strike a match and light it on fire.”

Starbucks May End Open-to-All Bathroom Policy Due to Safety Concerns, CEO says

Watergate happened 50 years ago. Its legacies are still with us. (Washington Post) Such as the Narrative Media.

Amazon is flying internet influencers to luxurious resorts in bid for social media clout (CNBC)

With gravitas and grace, Liz Cheney ‘anchored’ Jan. 6 Committee hearing (The Hill) Lining her up for her payday.

Alabama man convicted of littering after placing flowers on fiancee’s grave

I’m a New Yorker who moved to the South for 2 years. Here are 6 reasons I’m ready to leave. (Insider) I suspect it’s the ‘strict marijuana laws’ that really pinch.

How Christian home-schoolers laid the groundwork for ‘parental rights’ (Washington Post)

Communist Party Inserts Police Officers as School Vice Principals Across China

Microsoft’s Bing Censors Politically-Sensitive Chinese Names in US Searches: Report

West Virginia Notifies Six Banks They May Be Breaking State’s Fossil Fuel Anti-Boycott Law

Smithfield Foods, Citing “Escalating Costs,” To Shutter California Meat-Packing Plant

Beyond ‘Rage Giving’: AP Promotes the Need for ‘Abortion Funds’ to Pay for More Abortions

Green Energy Victim? Large California Meat Processing Plant to Close, Cites Utility Bills

The lucrative economics of expert witnesses

University Toxicity: America Should Stop Nursing the Viper

‘Old white guy’ can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&T

Study Connects Jump in Youth Suicide With Transgender Treatments, Lack of Parental Consent

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Lied About CRT Content Collaboration: Watchdog Group  Of course they did.

Liberty-Lovers Find Home In ‘Live Free or Die’ New Hampshire

Re-Imagine Actual Policing

Primary Underdogs: Nevada ‘Establishment RINOs’ Don’t Want Red Wave Newcomers in Their Tent

Virginia Judge Kicks Soros Prosecutor Off Case for Concealing Criminal Records

Left-wing Prosecutor Soft on Alien Drug Dealers So They Weren’t Deported

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Although this is a British story, the U.S. is infected with the same disease.

the same: a minor politician, surrounded by half a dozen beaming activists, thrilled at spending 5 minutes in the company of the Junior Minister for Potholes and Verges. “Residents agreed it was time to get on with the job,” they tweet, in a giddy flurry — wisely skirting over the twenty doors slammed in their faces, and the woman who set her Dobermann on them. Can having the seat of your trousers sewn back on be claimed on expenses?

Regardless of party, the image is universal. The gauchely held placards, the rictus grins. One or two people looking very serious indeed: elect Fleur de Rozarieux, your Lib Dem candidate for Abbyvale Ward — stop Brexit now. (Fleur will make herself available to help residents at all times, in between completing her A-Levels.) Labour activists follow the same blueprint, but with more colourful hair. And the promise of far greater influence over the Gaza Strip.

It’s hard not to wonder, as the various machines splutter into campaign mode for yet another election, what possesses a subsection of our fellow citizens to devote so much time to pushing leaflets through letterboxes — in exchange for little more than a selfie with Oliver Dowden, or a brief, stolen glimpse of Angela Rayner uncrossing her legs.

Maybe AOC will make you a cup of coffee and demonstrate her qualifications for being in Congress.

The young people who fall into party politics are not joining something, therefore, but escaping. They are on the run: from school or university; from their home lives; from personal disappointment; from themselves. They insert themselves into an esoteric and largely hidden fraternity, where nutty proclamations and whacky behaviour are met not just with acceptance but prestige. I asked a friend, who spent much of their youth submersed in left-wing politics, what they thought motivated their young comrades. “Oh mental illness,” came the response.

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I was chatting with a horrified Swedish visitor who described a visit to Nevada.

“There was this grandmother, an elderly lady, and she took out a gun from her purse,” he told me, shaking his head.

We were having this conversation in a city which had racked up 77 shootings in just one month.

When seconds count, police respond in minutes … when they respond at all. “Well, we had to wait for protective gear, otherwise it would be too dangerous”.

As far as Sweden is concerned, Google ‘Malmo riots’ and see what lack of gun rights + a flood of Muslim immigrants gets you. I’ll bet there are a lot of Swedes who wish they could carry a gun right now.

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The group tweeted an infographic with the name of Barrett’s church. It also identified the school that Barrett’s children attend, and encouraged protesters to “voice your anger” by demonstrating there.

The graphic also stated that a protest would be organized there every Thursday evening. The tweet was posted in response to another tweet by ‘Duty to Warn,’ an anti-Trump group, which quoted Barrett as saying that “a legal career is but a means to an end and that end is building the Kingdom of God.”

This is despicable.

They have a web site. It ought not to be too difficult to track them down and discourage this sort of thing.

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Authorities on the Gulf coast of Mexico said the bodies of seven men have been found dumped on a roadway in the Huasteca region, long popular among tourists. Prosecutors in San Luis Potosi state said late Thursday the bodies did not appear to be from the township of Aquismon, and may have been killed elsewhere and dumped in the rural area. Photos of the bodies showed extensive bruising on the corpses, suggesting they had been beaten. Writing scrawled in markers on the corpses said “this is what happened to me for working with the Gulf,” an apparent reference to the Gulf cartel, which operates mainly along the U.S. border to the north.

Sure, open the border! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

Of course they’re doing it on purpose.

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It’s the inflation you’re not supposed to see.

From toilet paper to yogurt and coffee to corn chips, manufacturers are quietly shrinking package sizes without lowering prices. It’s dubbed “shrinkflation,” and it’s accelerating worldwide.

In the United States, a small box of Kleenex now has 60 tissues; a few months ago, it had 65. Chobani Flips yogurts have shrunk from 5.3 ounces to 4.5 ounces. In the UK, Nestle slimmed down its Nescafe Azera Americano coffee tins from 100 grams to 90 grams. In India, a bar of Vim dish soap has shrunk from 155 grams to 135 grams.

Sarah Hoyt.

Our would be overlords believe in magic words. They’ll decree it, and it will be so.

They have a plan, proclaimed by great international thinkers (who have no idea where food comes from, but that’s something else) and by gum, they’re going to herd us all into mega cities, and make us live the way they want, owing nothing, being happy, eating bugs.

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You may have heard brief mention of a massacre in a Catholic Church a few days ago in Nigeria that killed more than 50 people at latest count. It’s the latest terror attack in Nigeria that appears to have been committed by adherents of that well-known “religion of peace.”

The president of Ireland, Michael Higgins, issued a statement deploring the massacre, which he attributed to . . . climate change.

Ireland was subject to one of the most prolonged ‘brain-drain’ processes in history. As a result, those Left Behind have degenerated to a genuine Turd World population.

Oakland declares racism a public health crisis (S.F. Chronicle)

BYU’s Black Menaces are expanding across the country (Axios)

Joy Reid accuses Republicans of thriving on ‘demographic panic,’ says GOP wants no one to feel ‘safe’  I wonder how much time she spends every day straightening and lightening her hair?

It’s Open Season On Chicago Police: Shootings At Cops Up Fourfold In 2020, 2021

DA Seeking Death Penalty in Georgia Country Club Slayings

Prosecutors Ask for More Than 25 Years in Federal Prison for R. Kelly on New York Racketeering Conviction

LA officials warn DA George Gascon after Chesa Boudin recall: ‘You’re next’

Why aren’t there more Republicans like Liz Cheney? (Washington Post)

After the leak, the Supreme Court seethes with resentment and fear behind the scenes (NPR)

No, California didn’t just send a message on crime — only voter apathy (S.F. Chronicle)

Progressive backlash in California fuels Democratic debate over crime (Seattle Times) Apparently the Seattle Times didn’t get the memo.

Is It Time to Set the First Amendment on FIRE? (Newsweek)

America should worry about lost democracy at home (The Hill)

Conservative Wyoming senator rethinking gun legislation after constituents flood her office with calls urging action (CNN) They hope, they hope, they hope….

The U.S. having territories perpetuates inequality and colonialism (Washington Post)

FLASHBACK: WashPost Once Claimed Conservative ‘Fears’ of Gas Price Spike Under Biden ‘Overblown’

Michigan Voters Sue Democratic Secretary of State Over Use of $17 Million in ‘Zuckbucks’ to Tilt Elections

Former Congressman Pleads Guilty to Election Fraud, Ballot Stuffing, Bribing Election Officials

Disney Isn’t Finished with You and Your Kids

NY Times Brooks No Dissent From MLB ‘Gay Pride’: ‘How Far Movement Still Has To Go’

PBS Runs Short 50 Second Story on Kavanaugh Assassin Attempt, PBS Website Ignores

Colorado Bishops Call for Pro-Abortion Officials Not to Receive Communion

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According to the following report, the man in Berlin who deliberately drove his car into pedestrians at high speed, killing at least one of them, is an Armenian-German. His ethnicity makes it unlikely that the motive for his crime was jihad, although we’ll need to wait for definitive information on that issue.

CNN’s Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta singled out as liberal hosts who could be ‘ousted’ by new regime

Scoop: CNN evaluating partisan talent (Axios)

How Harmful Is Social Media? (New Yorker)

California’s Urban Revolt Boosts Rick Caruso, Fires San Francisco DA (Newsweek)

NYC mayor’s sister dials 911 over potential shooting; Adams decries ‘laughingstock’ criminal justice system

More women than ever own guns. Could that change gun laws? (Washington Post)

New York Times’ ‘Ezra Klein Show’ promotes mandatory wealth redistribution with socialist professor

California crime wave: Beverly Hills ‘has turned into Gotham City’ under Gascon, Caitlyn Jenner says

Business owners say weak enforcement is emboldening the violence on Philly’s South Street (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Nets Gush Over McConaughey Gun Control Pleas at The White House

Louisiana Transgender Sports Ban to Become Law

Predictable Commencement Addresses Cap Off College Indoctrination

How San Francisco became a failed city

Watch: EV-Driving Dem Senator Says It “Doesn’t Matter How High Gas Prices Are”

The Washington Post Is a Model for Media Malfeasance

Team Zuckerberg Masks Heavily Pro-Democrat Tilt of 2020 Election ‘Zuckerbucks,’ Study Finds

CNN Denies Attempted Kavanaugh Assassin Was Armed, Cries ‘Both Sides’

Boston’s Brown Says Boycotting NBA Finals An Effective Strategy For Gun Control

Nonsense: British ‘Experts’ Say ‘Morbid Obesity’ is Offensive

Welsh Government Announces Plan to Become an ‘Anti-Racist Nation’

First Your Guns; Then Your Words: NY Law Targets Free Speech

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But despite this, Philadelphia seems to be trying to restrict one important form of defending life and liberty (and protecting property): bulletproof barriers that help shield employees from robbers or other attackers.

The just-enacted Bill 170963 would have originally banned them outright in eating and drinking establishments that seat at least 30 customers. (These restaurants are also the ones that, under Pennsylvania law, can get licenses to serve beer, though not all such large restaurants do sell beer; the law seems aimed at “beer & delis,” but apparently some local KFCs and Popeyes also have bulletproof barriers.) The bill was ultimately amended to call on the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections to “promulgate regulations to provide for the use or removal” of such barriers — but that Department seems to support broadly restricting them them; it thus seems likely that the regulations will provide for more removal than use.

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On Saturday around 10:10 p.m. in the area of the Karlsruhe Palace Park, a rainbow flag was snatched away and burned by a group of people. This apparently developed into a brawl in which there were several minor injuries. Several had their hair pulled and were forced to the ground, where they continued to be beaten and kicked. A 27-year-old was taken to hospital by ambulance as a precaution; others were examined on-site by rescue teams.