David Horowitz.

In a previous article, I explained that “progressivism is a criminal mentality.” By progressivism, I mean every political philosophy that regards itself as “revolutionary,” or “transformative,” that describes itself as socialist, communist, fascist or jihadist – or that believes “the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice.” The belief that history is marching towards justice is a cult ideology refuted by the mass genocides of the modern era, which were carried out by Marxists and Nazis. The belief that the world is marching towards justice, that progressives are “on the right side of history” is a delusion that will justify any atrocity and already has.

That is why today’s progressives are advancing the same genocidal agendas that the West defeated in World War II and the Cold War. Led by the 98-member “Progressive Caucus” in Congress, and its racist leaders – Jamila Prayapal, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, AOC and Ayanna Presley – progressives are in full-throated support of the 75-year genocidal campaign conducted by the terrorist dictatorships in Gaza and the West Bank.1 The stated goal of Hamas and the Palestine Authority is the destruction of the Jewish state and the expulsion of its Jews. Even Hitler hid his plans for the Final Solution. But Hamas, the PLO and the Iranian mullahs trumpet their goal of ethnically cleansing a conquered Israel and rendering it Judenrein – Jew free. Nor is the hatred of these neo-Nazis confined to the Jews. “Death to America” is the preferred chant of their Iranian missile providers as well.

There’s a growing interest in wealth taxes on the super-rich. Here’s why it hasn’t happened (CNBC)

The Age of the Strongman by Gideon Rachman review – democracy muscled out? (The Guardian)

Texas is trampling parents’ rights in its investigations of trans kids (Washington Post)

Ruhle Frets GOP ‘Nonsense’ Deprived America of Knowing Jackson Better

China Insiders Steal Billions From US Investors

College Writer Who Challenged Stelter: He Had ‘No Apology, No Remorse Whatsoever’ for CNN

Shocking Estimates Show Ukraine’s Crop Harvest Could Be Halved

In Re: The Left’s Grooming Gangs

Chinese inmates had hearts or lungs removed during executions, study says

CNN ObamaBots: Barack ‘Pivots’ to Fight Misinformation, NEVER Makes Up Fairy Tales

Longtime Disney Cast Member Speaks Out: ‘We Are Ashamed To Work For This Company’

Freeberg nails it.

I won’t forget the China Bioweapon, ever, in part because now we know China develops bioweapons. The question remains whether they release them on purpose or by accident, but it’s settled that they develop bioweapons and they lie about them.

Also, I’m not inclined to forget about the conflict I saw paraded in front of me for two solid years. We don’t all agree about how a government works or how it’s supposed to operate. I think we elect leaders who we count on to make good decisions, and when they don’t, they’re accountable for the results. I think they’re like captains obliged to go down with the ship. I think, if there are bad consequences from wrong decisions, and these consequences loom larger for the governed than for those doing the governing, something is broken and it was already broken before the decisions turned out to be bad ones.

Trump Appointees Are Undermining Jan. 6 Prosecutions — And Our Justice System (Politico) In the Narrative Media, ‘justice system’ means ‘enforcing the Narrative’.

Trump Is Backing ‘Crazy’ Candidates, Going to Lose in 2022: GOP Governor (Newsweek) For sufficiently Narrative values of ‘GOP governor’.

Trump Says Putin ‘Overplayed His Hand’ After Praising Him as ‘Genius’ (Newsweek)s

Trump Org. can keep Bronx golf course license after NYC tried to cancel it post-January 6, judge rules

The week in whoppers: NY Times’ scaremongering, Eric Adams’ anti-science and more

These laws tie law enforcement’s hands behind their backs (CNN) Minions of the Narrative object to ‘constitutional carry’ laws.

Critics blast Obama’s Russia claims; Intel operatives won’t admit they were wrong on Hunter Biden laptop

Soros family quietly bankrolls committees supporting ‘defund the police’ candidates

‘Window dressing’: Cop unions, Adams rip Hochul budget bail fixes

Disney corporate president says next generation ‘queerer,’ company must ‘get with it’

Enforcer of China’s Brutal National Security Law Poised to Rule Hong Kong

“Gary Is Just Making Up Random #s” – San Francisco Homeless Officials Caught Lying About Fabricated Data

Stop Biden and the Democrats’ War on Charter Schools

With Roe in the Balance, Blue States Push for Abortion on Demand

Disinformation, American style

NY Times Podcast Host: Twitter Doesn’t ‘Censor’ People  Sure, we believe that.

The 2020 election is still in the news

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The university bureaucracy has been hijacked for political grudge matches and personal vendettas.

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“It is the first domestic commercial unit with zero direct and indirect emissions. Currently, there are already units that use the same technology as ours, which is aerothermal energy, but they do not use a natural fluid such as propane in it. For this reason, our pump can heat homes being totally respectful with the environment, without emitting carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Furthermore, its high energy efficiency allows it to be classified as renewable energy, by pumping energy from the environment,” underlines José Gonzálvez, Director of the Thermal area at the University Institute for Research in Energy Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de València.

Among its advantages, the heat pump developed by the UPV and Saunier Duval can also generate hot water for heating at temperatures of up to 75ºC with very high energy efficiency, something that is not possible with conventional heat pumps. Additionally, it can be installed not only in newly built buildings, but also to replace gas boilers in existing buildings. And it also allows the application of anti-legionella treatment without requiring external support.

Democrats Grill Fossil Fuel Executives About Price-Gouging (Huffington Post) ‘Price gouging’ is one of those smear-phrases, like ‘black market’ and ‘windfall profits’, used by the ruling class when they’ve decided to incite the mob against a target group.

Should Philadelphia have a wealth tax? (Philadelphia Inquirer) Sure, if they want all of the ‘rich’ people to leave.

Republicans thought defining a ‘woman’ is easy. Then they tried. (Washington Post) It is easy: Two X chromosomes. Next question….

Amtrak asks TSA to start screening rail passengers against terrorist watchlist for first time

Mayor Adams breaks ground on ‘inclusive’ Brooklyn office building, local politician raises gentrification concerns Gentrification Cooties are, of course, to be avoided at all costs. Our slums must remain slums!

California math wars get ugly: Accusations of racism and harassment ignite battle between Stanford and Cal profs  Barbie voice: “Math is racist!”

Woke Disney vs. Walt’s Disney: Is political corporate model sustainable or just goofy?

Get outta town: Why majority of New Yorkers would rather be anywhere else

New Yorkers Say: Get Me Outta Here!

Bill would create ‘no-fly’ list for unruly passengers (Washington Post) Yet another reason not to fly.

LA County votes to suspend official travel to Florida, Texas over parental rights, transgender laws  Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue!

How fear consumed American theatre  David Mamet.

Huge Spike in Domestic Migration from Urban Cores

How Much Living Space Does $1,500/Mth Get You In The US?

‘Disinformation’ Conference Confronted With Hunter’s Laptop, MRC Poll

While You Were Distracted By Will Smith, The International Elitists Met At The World Government Summit

FAA, Do Your Damn Job

Oreos Gone Woke: Is Nothing Off Limits to LGBT Left?  Hint: Nope.

Democrats’ Approach To Rising Gas Prices Reveals Their Economic Illiteracy

NYT’s Top Editor Orders Reporters To “Meaningfully Reduce” Twitter Usage As Musk Joins Company’s Board

Protecting Elites? Twitter ‘Safety Mode’ Initially ‘Autoblocked’ for @TeamPelosi, Claimed ‘Error’

Prodigal Son Breaks News To Dad That He Spent His Entire Inheritance On Gender Studies Degree  Babylon Bee.

Murphy Under Fire for Pushing To Lift Sanctions on Top Iranian Terror Group

College Freshman TORCHES Stelter/CNN at ‘Disinformation’ Conference

California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software  When Wokery meets Science, Science loses.

Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Trump’s Lie-Filled Sarah Palin Endorsement (Daily Beast) Lie-filled!

New Revelations Raise Pressure on NASA to Rename the James Webb Space Telescope (‘Scientific’ American)

America’s culture wars distract from what’s happening beneath them (The Guardian) Nothing to see here, move along, move along….

These reforms might prevent the next coup attempt (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is a reliable tool for the Narrative.

SE Cupp: Matt Gaetz’s pathetic stunt falls flat (CNN) If you’ve never heard of S.E. Cupp, you’re not alone.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ugly accusation points to a dangerous trend in the GOP (CNN) Ugly!

As vile as it gets: J.D. Vance goes full ‘great replacement theory’ (Washington Post)

Stephanie Grisham: When you ‘call Republicans’ names ‘they double down and vote for radicals’ (The Hill)  Well, then. stop doing that.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid claims Trump would be prosecuted by DOJ if he was a Democrat: He’s ‘untouchable’

MSNBC silent as Joy Reid continues pattern of controversial and bizarre remarks

Morning Joe Welcomes DNC Chair Calling Tom Cotton ‘Little Maggot-Infested Man’

US Senators, Governors Call on Yale Law To Punish ‘Vitriolic Mob’ That Disrupted Free Speech Event  Prediction: Nothing much will happen, after a period of handwavium on the part of the Powers That Be. The sordid fact is that most of the faculty at YLS are Wokerati, which is why the affirmative-action admits think they can get away with this shit. The tragic fact is that in twenty years this will be the applicant pool for Supreme Court nominees. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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A renewable energy firm that conspired with former president Barack Obama to maim and murder hundreds of majestic bald eagles has finally been brought to justice.

ESI Energy, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to three criminal counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The company will serve five years probation and was ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution for its role in the deaths of at least 150 eagles that were slashed to pieces by its wind turbines.

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BLUF: Widows Just Sucks compared to Linux.

Anyone who isn’t forced to use Windows at work has no excuse. None.

I just sold all of my Microsoft stock. Take whatever action you deem appropriate.

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Former French intelligence chief Pierre Brochand warns that unless Europe and France radically change their policies on mass immigration, civil war could break out, asserting, “all multicultural societies are doomed.”

ZMan.

For the most part, generational politics are a self-defeating enterprise, because you end up attacking your allies. It is hard to attack people about whom you know little, but it is easy to find fault with those you know well. Every generation strains against its parents and every generation strains to teach its children. This is why it has been encouraged among the majority populations in the West. It is an effective way of keeping a natural majority from forming up in opposition to the ruling elite.

That said, there is something useful to thinking generationally. Oswald Spengler relied upon a form of generational politics to put forth his theory of history. Of course, we have the old adage, “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations”. This describes the inability of grandchildren to manage the wealth passed down to them from their grandparents and parents. This is Spengler’s argument in a nutshell. A civilization rises, accomplishes what it can and then falls into decline.

We are witnessing the end phase with the Global American Empire. It is not exactly a three generation cycle, but the basics are right. One theory of American history says the empire was founded at Gettysburg. That would mean the current generation of rulers is the fifth or sixth generation. On the other hand, some argue the Second World War is the founding of the empire, so that mean the third generation is in charge. The concept still works and is closer to the old adage.

The more things change, the more they’re the same thing, as the Frogs like to say.

Bill Maher: The Left-Wing Media “Buried” Hunter Biden Story Because It “Wasn’t Part Of Their Narrative”

It’s Open Season On Cops

PBS and NPR Air Unanimous Taxpayer-Funded LGBT Radicalism

State-Sponsored Discrimination: One Step Back, One Step Forward

After Amazon workers’ union victory the Fed must stop tipping the scales for bosses (The Guardian) Robert Reich thinks this is still 1933.

Adams defends NYPD crackdown on low-level offenses, rejects suggestion he’s bringing back ‘broken windows’ policing  God forbid he should adopt a policy that famously worked.

$45,000 in damages reported at Castro Theatre after two break-ins (S.F. Gate) Time to leave.

South Carolina Gamecocks Use National Anthem To Protest

18-34 Year Olds Want More Free-Money For Themselves (But Who Will Pay For It?)

‘Refunding’ police isn’t working in California or anywhere else (S.F. Chronicle)

Two years after ‘Defund the Police’ movement many places are funding the police again (Denver 7 Colorodo News)

FEC investigation found AOC campaign did not ‘properly’ disclose expenses and gives her a pass

Americans aren’t fooled by Democrats’ disastrous record (The Hill)

What really happened at Geneva’s crucial biodiversity negotiations? (The Guardian)

What the Left Keeps Getting Wrong About Free Speech (The Daily Beast)

Media embrace of free speech, illiberalism debate angers some on the Left

Mainstream Media Shocked Again by the Inevitable—This Time Government Waste (Newsweek)

Young people too entitled, says CEO worth $400m (The Guardian)

MSNBC Frets Florida Parents’ Rights Law Is ‘Terror Tactic’

WhatsApp for iOS limiting number of messages users can forward to prevent misinformation

CNN: LGBTQ Are Culture War Victims, Parent’s Rights Like Segregation

‘The House That Davos Built’ Quakes As PM Orban Takes ‘Commanding Early Lead’ In Hungary Election

Judge Ousts Five School Board Members After Pennsylvania Parent Petition

Election Watchdog Finds 137,500 Ballots Unlawfully Trafficked In Wisconsin

Nets Skip Trump Call Log Reversal, CBS Gushes for Biden’s Sister

International Journo Group to Give Andrea Mitchell for ‘Award for Excellence’

How Are Food Prices Being Covered On Television News?

Maher: Hunter Laptop Cover Up is ‘Why People Don’t Trust the Media’

L.A. Judge Rules LGBT Corporate Diversity Law Unconstitutional

The Media’s Hunter Biden Embarrassment Continues

Chicago Fed’s Woke Enemy Of Free Speech Heading For Promotion To Federal Reserve Board

Illinois’ Pritzker Ranks 4th-Worst Governor For Economic Freedom

Demonizing Disney: Fox and right-wing media attack the entertainment giant as ‘woke’ company indoctrinating kids (CNN) Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Americans are ‘wasting too much money on housing,’ says top economist—here are 4 ways to get ‘house rich’ (CNBC) No matter what the Dirt People do, it’s wrong – according to the Cloud People.

DeSantis broaches repeal of Disney World’s special self-governing status in Florida

Bay Area residents are growing even more dissatisfied, poll says (S.F. Gate)

TSA implementing new gender-neutral screening process at checkpoints  Everybody Groped the Same.

Would-be star witness Michael Cohen slams unraveling of Manhattan criminal probe into Trump (CNN) This is what happens when you sell out and the check bounces.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sued by LGBTQ students, parents over new law (NBC News) Of course.

Arizona will require voters to prove citizenship and residency, angering activists

Republicans Say ‘Groomer’ to Put a Nice Face on Homophobia (Daily Beast) They say that like it was a bad thing.

How this S.F. retailer went out of business after a robbery and $30,000 in monthly security costs

Washington Post: Pregnant Women Are No Longer Pregnant Women, They Are “Pregnant People”

New Hearing In Sussman-Russiagate Case Reveals Why Clinton Emails Will Likely Come Out

The NHS is a failed institution

Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK

Truly Foolish: Top 5 Most Ridiculous Cases of Big Tech Censorship

Judge Throws Out New York Dems’ Gerrymandered Redistricting Map

Ruhle: Biden’s a Bystander, Raise Taxes to Lower Gas Prices

17 MONTHS LATER: Univision Admits Existence of Hunter Biden Laptop

An Unwelcome Campus Renaissance for the Heckler’s Veto

Yale Law Professor Takes on Dean, Calls Disruption of Free Speech Event a ‘Blatant Violation’ of School Policy

‘A Fundamental Dignity to the Man’: Morning Joe’s Sudden Respect For Richard Nixon

X-Men Cross Out Divinity of Christ- Refer to Him as ‘Mutant’

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Fertilizer prices are at record highs following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine puts massive pressure on American farmers to transition to crops that need less fertilizer.

A Bloomberg survey found that farmers will plant 2 million more acres of soybeans and about 2 million fewer of corn. That’s because soybeans require very little fertilizer versus corn.

I’m opening a book to take bets on how long before soy products will be required by law to be added to gasoline For The Environment.

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Oregon’s Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) is writing new climate rules aimed at helping Oregon reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050. The rules won’t do that, but they will impose even higher housing and transportation costs on Oregonians.

Welcome to the Left Coast! Hand over your wallet.

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Conspiracy theories aren’t dangerous when they get things wrong: they’re dangerous when they get things right.

QAnon—the online game of interdimensional chess in which Donald Trump does covert battle with a hyper-powerful cabal of monied pedophiles—is factually false in almost every particular. Justin Bieber is not sending a coded message about being sex trafficked because he touched his hat on Instagram. Donald Trump was not reinstated as president on August 13. And Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor does not have children locked up in its basement awaiting molestation by Hillary Clinton, for the simple reason that it does not have a basement.

But there are still people out there who believe, and this, according to CNN’s Oliver Darcy, has helped “to mainline the notion…that elites are sexual deviants seeking to exploit kids.” So the real threat of the Q mythos is its portrayal of American high society as a corrupt network of deranged predators. This is a problem, because it’s basically true.

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Recently Victor created a post titled “What Republican do you most regret voting for?“. I did not respond for a few reasons, I was tired, busy, and frustrated. There were so many equally foul Republicans that I voted for in a “lessor of two evil” options that I only scanned the post, and read none of the responses. But was reminded of it today when I read this article about Mitt Romney, and ask, was he ever a Republican?

He’s as much of a Republican as Michael Bloomberg.

Joel Kotkin.

Twenty-first-century America may be dominated by oligarchic elites, but arguably the biggest threat to our economic and political system might be located further down the food chain. This most dangerous class comes from the growing number of underemployed, overeducated people. They’re what has been described in Britain as the lumpenintelligensia: alienated, angry, and potentially agents of our social and political deconstruction.

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American readers of a certain age will remember when Z stood for “Zorro”. Some years after that it stood for “He lives”, at least in Greece. In Germany today, however, Z represents something so doubleplus ungood that the letter must be completely extirpated, and those who use it must be prosecuted.

Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls (Washington Post)

Gerald Ford tried to impeach a Supreme Court justice — and failed (Washington Post) This is in relation to the current witch-hunt against Clarence Thomas.

‘Do your job’: Jan. 6 committee presses DOJ as push for Meadows contempt charge languishes (Politico)

Democrats push Garland to come down on uncooperative Trump allies (Axios) Can’t have a witch-hunt without actually hunting the witches.

Pelosi: ‘I fear for our democracy’ if Republicans win House (The Hill) In the Narrative, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Donald Trump just released the most Donald Trump statement ever (Washington Post) Yanking their chains since 2014.

CIA Officer Who Signed Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Claims Credit For Trump Loss

Jake Tapper Raises Hunter Biden — as Trump’s Crazy Request to Vicious Vladimir Putin

Idiots Ruhle: MSNBC Lies About FL Anti-Grooming Law, Smear DeSantis Spox

Kimmel Laments Florida Teachers Can’t Explain ‘Their Governor is a D**khead’

Toobin Blames GOP For Increased SCOTUS Confirmation Partisanship  Tell that to Robert Bork.

FEC Fines Clinton, Dems for Debunked Dossier

FEC Fines Hillary Clinton, DNC Over Steele Dossier Hoax

Finnish Court Clears Christian Politician, Bishop of ‘Hate Speech’ Charges

Putin Loyalist Threatens Nuclear Strike on Europe If NATO Force Deploys

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Uchronia: The Alternate History List is a bibliography of more than 3400 novels, stories, essays, collections, and other printed material involving the “what ifs” of history. The genre has a variety of names, but it is best known as alternate history.

In an alternate history, one or more past events are changed and the subsequent effects on history somehow described. This description may comprise the entire plotline of a novel, or it may just provide a brief background to a short story. Perhaps the most common themes in alternate history are “What if the Nazis won World War II?” and “What if the Confederacy won the American Civil War?”

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Woodrow Wilson was not only the Worst American President Ever but also the worst person ever to be the American President.

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Restaurant employees are under more pressure than ever in a competitive market with razor-thin margins, Struck said. “You also have a massive sort of restaurant labor shortage. So people are trying to use core technology innovation to just streamline operations.”

In an industry where many kitchens run on paper orders and recipes printed from Word documents, restaurant tech companies are seeing more opportunities in the back of the house. By digitizing the kitchen, a restaurant can not only store recipes, track orders and manage inventory, but also reduce food waste, cut costs and tap new revenue streams.

In our favorite restaurant, the Red Truck Café, servers take orders on an electronic device that transmits the details of the order, identified by table, back to the kitchen automatically. When the food is ready, whoever is on hand brings it out to your table. It’s very efficient.

Trump likely committed felony obstruction, federal judge rules (Politico)

January 6 Committee will seek interview with Ginni Thomas, sources say (CNN)

Judiciary chair calls on Justice Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases (The Hill)

Federalist Editor Locked Out of Twitter For Levine Comments

Big Tech Let SEVEN Dictators Post, Including Vladimir Putin — Still Ban Donald Trump

Sex Harassment Allegations Upend Los Angeles Mayor’s Bid for Ambassador to India

NBC’s Brokaw Blames Fox News, ‘Poisonous Right-Wing’ for Putin Invading Ukraine

The View: Did ‘Insane’ GOP Prove How Racist They Are With Jackson Questions?

Biden keeping his promise to ‘end fossil fuel’ increased gas prices, RSC memo shows

Democrats Need a Better Message Than ‘Putin’s Gas Hike’

Hunter Biden’s $142K Fisker sports car scrutinized in tax probe: report  Fortunate son….

Prosecutors gathering evidence about Hunter Biden’s foreign income: report (The Hill)

Shutting Canadian Pipeline Would Cost US Consumers $23.7 Billion More In Fuel Costs: Report

Nets Skip Biden Claiming Gaffes Didn’t Happen, ABC Props Up Outbursts

MSNBC’s Ruhle: Why Isn’t Biden Getting Credit for His ‘Big Wins’?

‘He Only Gets Better’: Morning Joe’s Ongoing Tongue-Bath of Biden’s Regime-Change Gaffe

Joe Scarborough’s 2020 Hunter Biden Rant Aged Like a Carton of Milk

Psaki Reminds Reporters That Biden Doesn’t Speak For The President Of The United States  Babylon Bee.

Biden Still Falling

Gas Tax Rebates, Suspensions Are Gimmicky ‘Solutions’ to Problem Government Caused

Biden’s Dumbest Idea Yet?

Yale Mob Illustrates Larger Free Speech Problem at America’s Universities (Newsweek)

Hunter Biden’s laptop shows mainstream media’s own information problem Megan McArdle.

DeSantis signs controversial bill restricting certain LGBTQ topics in the classroom (CNN)

Gender Ideologues’ Alarming Campaign to Get Kids While They’re Young

California State University Drops SAT Test As ‘Too Stressful’

Nets Find ‘Controversy’ in Banning Sex Talk With Kindergarteners

How One Progressive Prosecutor Paved the Way for an East Coast Shooting Spree

I no longer grade my students’ work, and I wish I had stopped sooner

A Million Big Agendas: ABC Primetime Drama Annoys Viewers with Excessively Political Propaganda

Paul Krugman Still Doesn’t ‘Understand What the Hell Has Been Going on’ With Inflation

MSNBC Rips Florida’s ‘Unadulterated Bigotry’ on Sexual Orientation, Gender

Dean Gerken’s gabble

Teachers Who Insist They’re Not Teaching Your Kid About Sex Also Weirdly Outraged By Ban On Teaching Your Kid About Sex  Babylon Bee.

Diversity Overkill: NFL Teams Must Hire Ethnic Minorities Or Women

Adam Schiff Says “Kremlin” A Lot

Statistical Analysis Suggests 2020 Election May Not Have Been the Cleanest and Fairest in History

Illinois Governor Invested In Company With $2.6 Billion In State Contracts  Yet another rich Democrat crook.

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William F. Buckley was famous for saying, among other things, that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard. This was an understandable thing to say given the intransigent ideologues who tend to inhabit Ivy League faculties. A random collection of Americans are likely to be far more congenial.

I was sitting at my desk this morning pondering the weekend events, which amounted to a continuous stream of Biden faux pas culminating in an ad-lib announcement of his view that Putin had to go. This set off a flurry of nervous disavowals from all across Europe, the US State Department, and eventually from the White House itself. It should be obvious by now, to anyone who is paying even a modicum of attention, that the President of the United States is a buffoon. He may be an inveterate grifter. He may even have dementia. But he is definitely as dumb as a bag of hair.

It’s a weird world we live in, where any random person plucked off the street of any town in America, would almost certainly be more intelligent and more competent to perform the actual presidential duties than the man who was voted for by millions of those same Americans. I offer no opinion about whether he actually won the election. I just marvel at how stupid he is, and the irrelevance of his manifest stupidity to the voting behavior of millions of his constituents.

Yet another California city becomes unaffordable

People’s Convoy Gives Up, Will Leave Washington, D.C., Area After Three Weeks of Doing Nothing (Daily Beast)

Law enforcement focus on quality-of-life offenses renews old debate over ‘broken windows’ policing (CNN)

Trump backers push election change that would make counting slower, costlier and less accurate (Politico)

Disney has been outspoken on DeSantis’ parental rights bill but silent on Uyghur genocide

The Guardian view on public interest: democracy rests on a free press (The Guardian)  Too bad they encourage censorship.

#OscarSoWoke: Hosts Attack ‘Unbearable White Women’ and ‘Toxic Masculinity’

Without Notifying Parents, New Jersey Middle School Forces Students To Learn About Transgender Hormone Therapy

Analysis: Fact-Checkers Fail to React to New Facts on Hunter Biden Emails

Republicans Investigate VOA for Biased Coverage of Iran, Advocacy for Biden

‘Political Weapon’: NYT Warns Rumble Helping Right Dodge Censorship  Well, yeah, that’s kinda the point.

Joel Kotkin.

As the centers of media and political discourse, large cities, notably New York, have a unique ability to promote themselves, asserting that dense, core urban areas own the future. Yet in reality, even during good times, and well before the pandemic, Americans have been headed, in increasing numbers, to suburbs, exurbs and to smaller cities. Romantic illusions to past urban recoveries may make people feel better, but they ignore both long-lasting trends and new realities.

Steve Sailer.

College admission notifications are going out this week, and there are rumors that the University of California public colleges are actually taking seriously all their Racial Reckoning rhetoric, at the expense of the white and Asian applicants who keep their prestige up.

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PhD dissertation.

Time To End The Grievance-Industrial Complex

What Quantum Mechanics Can Teach Us about Abortion (“Scientific” American)

Court Rules Democrats Engaged In “Extreme Partisan Gerrymander” In Maryland

‘A Huge Red Flag’: Chuck Todd Panics Over GOP Lead in NBC Midterm Poll

Utah Lawmakers Enact Ban On Transgender Youth In Girls’ Sports, Overriding Governor’s Veto

Who Are The Russian Oligarchs  Under the Alinsky Rules, any Enemy of the People has to be personalized, which is why the Narrative Media are so tightly focused on Putin and Oligarchs.

Ethics experts see Ginni Thomas’s texts as a problem for Supreme Court (Washington Post)

Democrats rip Justice Clarence Thomas over his wife’s ‘deranged’ push to overturn election (N.Y. Daily News)

‘I get a chill’: Bertie Carvel on exploring the human side of Donald Trump (The Guardian)

Four GOP senators who should go back to law school (The Hill)

White House Unveils 20% “Billionaire Minimum Tax” Proposal In 2023 Budget

The Shaming-Industrial Complex

Italian Authorities Seek To Seize Megayacht Allegedly Belonging To Vladimir Putin  We don’t know for sure so we’ll steal it just in case.

Legal correspondent doubles down on claim US Constitution is ‘actually trash’

Did Tipping Come from Slavery? The 1619 Project Lies Again

Questions remain as resentencing initiative championed by Kim Foxx is slow out of the gate in Cook County

Big population drops in Los Angeles, San Francisco transforming urban California

Pittsburgh metro area loses population, leads nation in natural population decline

Democrats propose bills to send gas payments to Americans, some funded by taxing oil companies  Buying votes with other people’s money – it’s what Democrats do best.

Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show (Washington Post) Guess she didn’t believe the Narrative.

Toobin: Why Ginni Thomas’ texts around 1/6 are problematic (CNN) Thoughts from the Narrative’s official wanker.

‘They are the ones paying the consequences’: Jan. 6 rioters mimic Trump’s misinformation playbook but see different results (CNN) They’re not billionaires and so the Deep State can crush them.

YouTube Removed CPAC Videos About 2020 Election

NYPD revives ‘broken windows’ policies as Adams fumes over weekend shootings

DOJ Accused Of Assault On Free Speech And Press In Project Veritas Case

Hayes: GOP ‘Over Inflated’ Al-Qaeda Threat, Should Fight Trump Instead

Disney’s Sex-Ed-for-Kindergarteners Crusade

Big Oil Is No Longer “Unbankable” Good news for a change.

PBS Runs Puff Piece on Cori Bush’s ‘Activism,’ Radical Agenda

MSNBC Piece Claims ‘Health & Fitness’ Is New Gateway Drug To The Far-Right

The View Fantasizes About Secretly Drugging Men With Infertility Pills

USA Today: There Is ‘No Simple Answer’ for Defining What Is a Woman There is if you’re not a left-wing nutter.

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I had always thought that if a left-wing revolution were to undo the American Experiment, it would be about some charismatic, competent leader taking advantage of a serious economic disaster; like an economic collapse followed by a movement led by an American version of Mao, Castro, Lenin, or Ho Chi Minh. It never occurred to me that we could be undone by grossly incompetent experts, third-rate journalists, self-satirizing academics, and by the deformed sensibilities of a majority wealthy enough to survive on Amazon, DoorDash, and Uber Eats for two years. Marx and Engels never contemplated a role for narcissism, intellectual lethargy, idle comforts, and an appetite for media-distorted fear.

In what bizarro world can a ridiculous cupcake like Justin Trudeau mutate into a lawless tyrant? How can milquetoast western governments suddenly, lawlessly arrest peaceful persons and even erect internment camps to enforce mandates that we know don’t work to combat a disease which presents a minuscule risk to all but a small, identifiable subset of the population?

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Methanotrophic bacteria consume 30 million metric tons of methane per year and have captivated researchers for their natural ability to convert the potent greenhouse gas into usable fuel. Yet we know very little about how the complex reaction occurs, limiting our ability to use the double benefit to our advantage.

By studying the enzyme the bacteria use to catalyze the reaction, a team at Northwestern University now has discovered key structures that may drive the process.

Joel Kotkin.

The depression-era comedian Will Rogers once famously said he did not belong to an organised political party because he was a Democrat. Yet today the traditional factiousness of the Democratic coalition has been engulfed by an almost Stalinist attitude that brooks no dissent on its most treasured policies – even though these do not resonate well with the bulk of the electorate.

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Is it really too much to ask those who struggle to define the word “woman” to refrain from running for public office? Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe’s Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, was asked to provide the dreaded definition during her confirmation hearing on Tuesday. “No I can’t,” she replied. “I’m not a biologist.”

Jackson hadn’t been asked to explain how blood is deoxygenated, or to offer an intricate overview of the molecular mechanisms by which protein function is regulated in cells. The question “what is a woman?” is hardly the riddle of the sphinx; a reasonably intelligent six-year-old would be able to give an adequate answer.

Well, when your primary qualifications are your gender and skin color….

Graham storms out of Jackson SCOTUS hearing after Durbin Gitmo clash

‘A story of social justice’: a history of racial segregation and swimming (The Guardian)s

Nikole Hannah-Jones goes off on tipping as a ‘legacy of slavery,’ deletes tweet

BLM leader who threatened ‘riots’ if plainclothes unit was brought back says Mayor Adams listened to activists

7 Big Moments From Day 2 of Judge Jackson’s Confirmation Hearing

CNN Dismisses ‘Clown’ Ted Cruz Asking Jackson About CRT as ‘Below the Line’

CNN Masturbation Expert Decries Focus on Jackson’s Child Porn Rulings

WATCH: All The Must-See Moments from Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearings

ABC, NBC Ignore Hawley Questioning Jackson’s Sympathy for Pedophiles

Joy Reid Has a MELTDOWN Over GOP Senators Questioning Judge Jackson

Here’s the Late Night Hacks Who Think It’s Racist for GOP to Question Jackson

Judge Jackson in brief

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Denies Connection to CRT. Her Past Says Otherwise.

NOW You Don’t Want to Go There? ABC Seethes Over Cruz Asking Jackson About Race

Kaepernick Publicity Stunt Draws Interest From 5 NFL Teams

Senate Hearing Delayed As Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Trouble Locating The Women’s Room  Babylon Bee.

Kentanji Brown Jackson Defends Murder Stating Your Life Shouldn’t Be Ruined By Something You Did For 15 Minutes

PolitiFact Double-Blasts GOP Senator Blackburn as ‘False’ in Defense of Ketanji

What the Confirmation Hearing Told Us About Judge Jackson’s Judicial Philosophy

Jackson To Recuse From Harvard Asian Bias Lawsuit

Leftist Pro-Court Packing Group Pushing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for SCOTUS Got Soros Money

Despite reform efforts, S.F. police stop and search Black people far more than any other race (S.F. Chronicle)

Cardiff: Hundreds gather at anti-racism protest  (BBC) How many black people are there in Wales?

What’s going on with Ye — and why does it matter? (NPR)

Abrams files lawsuit to use fundraising law meant to aid Kemp (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Hawley SCHOOLS ABC’s Scott After She Peddles WH Talking Points on SCOTUS

AWOL Black Fathers

ABC Ignores GOP Criticism of Judge Jackson’s Nomination

4 Key Moments on Day 1 of Judge Jackson’s Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing

Ruhle: Hawley Questioning Jackson’s Judicial Record is ‘Dangerous’

What You Need to Know About Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

VCs: This Is Why You’re Not Investing In Black Women, And Here’s How To Change That  The arrogance of modern Wokery.

Supreme Court Nominee Admits She Gave Pedophiles Lighter Sentences Because Internet Makes It ‘So Easy’

‘History on the Horizon’; Nets Get Syrupy Over ‘Emotion’ at Jackson Hearings

CNN’s Coates Gushes Over Jackson, Accuses GOP of Trying to Educate Her

NBC Gushes Over Jackson Being ‘Like An Olympic Athlete’

Senate Pulls Out Skin Color Chart To Make Sure Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Black  Babylon Bee.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Leadership Role at School Promoting Critical Race Theory

‘Very Normal’: The View Defends Jackson Taking It Easy on Pedophiles, Child Porn Sentences  Normal for proglodytes, perhaps.

MSNBC: Judge Jackson is Victim of ‘Racism & Sexism’ in Senate Hearings Corresponding to the racism and sexism of which she was the beneficiary in her nomination.

CBS Absurdly Claims Jackson ‘Almost Sounded Like A Conservative’

America has a New York Times-doesn’t-get-the-First Amendment problem (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Workplaces are in denial over how much Americans have changed (The Guardian)

Demand for Safe Rooms Skyrockets in Los Angeles (Hollywood Reporter)

Demand for panic rooms costing up to $1MILLION in crime-ridden LA is soaring (Daily Mail)

Disney faces backlash over LGBTQ controversy: ‘It’s just pure nonsense’ (The Guardian)

California’s progressives are in retreat

The fictional world of trans activism

Censorship Takes Many Forms, Including Refusing to Cover Certain Stories

Labor Union Gives $100K to Bernie Bro Embezzler

NewsGuard Gives 100/100 Scores to Outlets Who Tried to Bury Biden Laptop Story

The takeover of America’s legal system

NBC’s Doctored Photo Makes Trans Swimmer Thomas Look More Feminine

Can We Overcome Progressive Left’s Constitution?

Pelosi’s Electric Car Windfall

DeSantis Recognizes Female NCAA Athlete, Not Lia Thomas, as Top Women’s Swimmer

Disney Unveils Exciting New ‘Sodom And Gomorrah’ Attraction  Babylon Bee.

Normal People Work at Disney Too. They’re Starting to Speak

Pro-Family Groups Urge Disney to Protect Kids, Stop Pushing LGBT Agenda