Biden playing a deadly game using secret flights to move migrants

‘This Story Is Not Over’: Nets Ignored Americans Finally Leaving Afghanistan

Biden Secretly Flying In Underage Migrants To NY, Spreading Border Crisis Across US

Biden’s secret flights

Nets Trashed Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy as Cruel, Silent as Biden Restarts

Biden’s Inept Economic Policies Indirectly Causing Strikes, Unionizing Efforts

Biden Admin Flies Migrant Kids to NY in Dead of Night

Biden Admin Has Released Over 16,000 COVID-Positive Migrants Into US: Whistleblower

“Look at Me”: The Latest From Our Confused Old Man in the White House

Joy Behar’s Mad at Fox’s ‘Mask Police’ Calling Out Biden’s Mask Hypocrisy

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An examination of hundreds of health departments around the country shows that the nation may be less prepared for the next pandemic than it was for the current one.

The problem is not with ‘the nation’ but with ‘health departments’ that act like the Gestapo at its worst.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Across the country, parents and concerned citizens are rising up against unresponsive left-wing school boards, most of which have been put in place without much public oversight by far-left teachers’ unions. The movement for reform has now reached as far as San Francisco.

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In previous years it was Lampedusa, the Italian island not far from the coast of North Africa, that was the preferred destination for “refugees” who wanted access to the European Union, especially Germany. In 2021, however, the focus has been on Belarus, which has been encouraging migrants to come to Minsk and cross the border into Poland or Lithuania as a geopolitical move against the EU.

California faces ‘existential’ dilemma in tackling climate change, housing crisis (NBC News)

Why neither party has a sustainable political majority (CNN)

Ex-intel official who created controversial Trump Russia dossier speaks out (CNN)

Reliably Partisan: Brian Stelter Offers Softballs to Steele-Dossier Slime Merchant

Illinois Democrats agonize over how much to gerrymander (Politico) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Walgreens is abandoning San Francisco because leftist policies created a shoplifting crisis

Texas Temporarily Forced to Recognize Women as Humans (The New Yorker)

Greenwald: Civil Liberties Are Being Trampled By Exploiting “Insurrection” Fears

Felony Subway Crime in NY Spiked 25% Last Month

Mollie Hemingway on Fox: No One Trusts the Liberal Media on Elections Anymore

10 Absurdly Wasteful Items Tucked Into Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Tax-and-Spend Monstrosity

Journalists: Fairness Is Overrated

DC Comics Announces Superman Will No Longer Protect “The American Way”  I guess the “S” stands for Socialism.

‘Just Unconscionable’: Parents Protest Outside Justice Department Against ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Label

Facebook VP Brags About Censorship, Claims ‘Hate Speech’ Dropped 50% on Platform

Support For Climate Change Skyrockets After Computer Models Show It Will Flood California

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Several years ago, while perusing material for my favorite department of “The American Spectator,” the Current Wisdom, I came across an obvious lie perpetrated by Terry McAuliffe, this season’s Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia. It was a pretty bold lie, too, and he was quite proud of it as you will see.

The Current Wisdom is a department of “The American Spectator” that includes quotations that are obviously foolish but rarely out-and-out lies. This time the quote in question was an out-and-out lie. It was also quite foolish, but more to the point it was a lie, and it was perpetrated by the future governor of the great state of Virginia who now hopes to serve yet again. His opponent is Glenn Youngkin, and he better be on his toes with this Democratic opponent who seems to be getting desperate in his race with Youngkin.

On page 58 of his 2007 memoir, “What A Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals,” McAuliffe wrote that in past issues, “The American Spectator” published articles “alleging” that Bill Clinton “ordered the murder of political opponents.” I very politely asked him during a chance encounter in the green room of MSNBC where I might find the errant quote or quotes. Which issue was it in? I then followed up with a letter to Terry. (And I think I might call him Terry. After all, he ended our correspondence calling me Bob.) Remember, I edit “The American Spectator,” and if any of our aggressive young editors are pulling a fast one on me, I would want to know. Moreover, murder is a crime even in Arkansas.

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A top California union boss with ties to prominent Democrats may still wage considerable influence in the state even after she was arrested on charges of embezzlement and tax fraud.

Alma Hernández stepped down as executive director of SEIU California last week after she and her husband were charged with multiple counts of fraud. But Hernández, under whose direction the union donated to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) and then-senator Kamala Harris, is still listed on the board for three state governing bodies, including the executive council for the California Labor Convention.

Look for … the Union label….

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Among the injured, one is hospitalized in critical condition and six suffered non-life-threatening wounds, Louisiana State Police Master Trooper Michael Reichardt said.

According to Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings, the large number of wounded and lack of fatalities suggests that the perp(s) were POCs.

In connection with the first shooting, Louisiana State Police have charged Jatavious Carroll, 18, with one count of second degree murder, one count of attempted second degree murder, and possessing a firearm on school property, according to NBC affiliate KTVE.

Introducing Jatavious Carroll:

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Damascus has accused Israel of killing a former member of Syria’s parliament with a sniper firing from across the border in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Medhat al-Saleh was gunned down in Ain al-Tinah, a Syrian village that overlooks Majdal Shams, a town on the Israeli side of the Golan. Al-Saleh was a Syrian Druze who was born on the Israeli side of the border.

After being jailed multiple times by Israeli authorities, including a 12-year sentence, al-Saleh moved to Syria and was elected to parliament in 1998.

I suppose they think the Israelis ought to have used a car bomb in the middle of a busy street, the way the Arabs do it. Really, there’s no pleasing some people.

Woman who won €1m literary prize turns out to be three men

Canadian pastor defiant as judge orders him to parrot ‘medical experts’ from pulpit: ‘I will not obey’

Williams Worries ‘The Texas Brand’ Will Spread Like Jim Crow  Oh, no!

“Foreign Is Dangerous” – China’s Censors Are Banning Hollywood Films From Domestic Market

ABC Tries to Exploit Kidnapped Americans in Haiti to Push for Open Borders

Oregon Law Handcuffs Police Ability to Control Lawlessness

Ex-NYPD Commish Bratton: NY Dems Made State ‘a Mess’ on Crime

The Pope Wants More Censorship Online  Of course he does.

CNN Touts Abortion as Vital for Underage Girls, No Reason to Regret

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I’m going to pick on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg since his “parental leave” during a period of tremendous challenges to the United States transportation systems has recently brought up his claim to being a parent.

We know virtually nothing about the two babies Pete Buttigieg and Chasten Glezman “brought home” in August. Where did they come from? How were they created? Did Mr. Buttigieg and Mr. Glezman procure one or two women with wombs in which to grow babies for their own pleasure? If you think I’m a conspiracy theorist, then please point me to specific information that the actions of Mr. Buttigieg Mr. Glezman are something other than selfish actions by privileged men.

The reason it’s so easy for wealthy Americans to hide their money — and how to stop it (CNN)

‘Sprinklegate’ sinks a U.K. bakery’s top sellers after topping is found to be illegal (NPR)

Uptight Atlantic Writer Tries to Shame Babylon Bee for Mocking Woke Left

“Why I’m Leaving My California Teachers’ Union”

California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures

Win For Virginia Parents After Loudon County School Board Member Announces Resignation

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Want proof that the Biden administration is really the second incarnation of the Carter administration? We have runaway inflation, Americans trapped overseas, a member of the first family who tried to do business with Libya and a president begging the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies (OPEC Plus) to increase oil production. It’s like the 1970s all over again.

Gas prices have risen $1 a gallon since Joe Biden’s election, while crude oil prices have doubled since November to $83 per barrel — and some analysts predict they could rise by another $10 before the end of the year. Natural gas prices have shot up more than 150 percent in the same period, which means winter heating bills for the half of American homes that use natural gas are projected to be 30 percent higher than last year — 49 percent higher in the Midwest.

This is the result of deliberate policy choices. Biden has made clear his intention to tax and regulate the fossil fuel industry out of existence. During the 2020 campaign, he declared, “I guarantee you. We’re going to end fossil fuel.”

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Europeans are looking forward to a cold, dark winter. Natural gas is scarce and expensive, and the “green” energy in which European countries have invested many billions of dollars can’t produce reliable electricity. So panic is starting to set in.

US to Restore Full Pension of FBI Deputy McCabe, Fired Under Trump  The Crust take care of their own.

YouTube Censors Popular Comedian for Suggesting ‘Trans People Pose a Rape Threat to Women’

Anti-Trump Neocons Led By Ex-CIA Operative To Back Democrats In Midterms

Justice Alito complains, but the evidence is clear: This Supreme Court was built by dark money (Salon)

Apple removes popular Quran app, reportedly at China’s request

MSNBC Fake News: Missouri Pro-Life Law Will Prevent Cancer Screenings!

Economists to Cattle Ranchers: Stop Being So Emotional About the Monopolies Devouring Your Family Businesses

Instagram: Science Proving Male Athletes’ Advantages Over Women Is ‘Hate Speech’

Soros Drops $1 Million on Anti-Police Effort in Austin

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I suspect that we can presume that the perpetrator is not a Conservative.

Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web  They don’t seem all that reluctant to me.

McAuliffe boasts he’ll ‘build education’ in wake of saying parents should have little say

Mark Robinson Exposes the GOP’s Problem With Its Base (New York Magazine) And of course New York Magazine knows all about the Republican base.

San Francisco’s self-inflicted ‘organized retail crime’ problem isn’t going away

Kowtowing to Snowflakes: Facebook to Remove Content That Bullies Celebs

TV News Blacks Out Parents Confronting Lib School Board That Allowed Alleged Rapes

FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked

Transgender Bathroom Policies Open Doors for Sexual Predators

Joe Rogan Crushes CNN Over Ivermectin ‘Horse Paste’ Propaganda, Gets Gupta To Concede They Lied

Even Broadway’s ‘Hamilton’ Not Safe: Performer Accuses Play of Anti-Trans Bias

Instagram took down post with figure from paper showing male advantage in sports

Truckers Warn Federal Regulators Of Drug-Testing Bottlenecks

Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website

‘The View’ Gives Katie Couric a Pass for Protecting RBG From Woke Left  Of course they do.

Michigan Republicans OK Tougher Voting Rules; Gov to Veto  The Wicked Witch of the North is not pleased.

Leaked Border Patrol docs show mass release of illegal immigrants into US by Biden administration

Biden WH to Allow Former Taliban Civil Servants Into US

FLASHBACK: 1 Year Ago, Big Tech, Media Buried Hunter Biden Scandal

CENSORED: ABC, CBS, NBC Spent an Entire Year Hiding Hunter, Aired Only 18 Minutes On His Scandals

Biden’s Supreme Court Commission to Issue Draft Materials Ahead of Final Report

Yanking our supply chain

Over 94,000 Illegal Immigrants in Southern Texas Released Into US With Notices to Report, Documents Show  Which they won’t dol as we all know perfectly well.

Jonathan Turley: Time for Special Counsel to Probe Hunter Biden Scandal

Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Gratuitously Polarize, Impede Private Sector Labor Market

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Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and stop expecting printers to “just work” because that would make sense in a world where a touchscreen supercomputer fits in your shirt pocket. Like most things in life that you have no control over, you’ll be happier if you accept printers for the janky money pits that they really are.

Most of you are going to hate something about any printer that you buy, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Instead of fighting it, try to reframe the issue in your mind: You’re not buying a printer because you’re supposed to have one at home. You’re buying a printer because it’s (just barely) less inconvenient than going to a copy center.

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Jason Martinez, a nurse anesthetist in Nebraska, has work in two hours. It is 4 a.m. and Martinez is sifting through hundreds of pages of government documents he obtained through a public information request. His wife is worried about his sleep, that is until he starts reading aloud the messages, the snide remarks state bureaucrats and their activist allies made as they wrote a curriculum that would teach the couple’s daughters, aged 13 and 15, about transgender hormone therapy and the merits of abortion. Mrs. Martinez was no longer worried about her husband, but her children.

Ann Coulter.

This isn’t a Chicago story. It’s a Democratic Party story.

Kim Foxx, the state’s attorney for Cook County and darling of MSNBC, has managed to increase murders in Chicago to astounding levels even at a time when we’re all getting used to astounding crime figures. Nationwide in 2020, murder and non-negligent manslaughter were up 29.4%, according to the FBI. That’s more than double the previous record of 1968, when murders increased by 12.7%.

Under the careful management of Foxx, murders in Chicago were up 55%. To put this in perspective, last year, there were nearly as many murders in Chicago (population: 2.7 million) as in New York City and Los Angeles combined (total population: more than 12 million).

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Empty shelves in supermarkets and other stores are due in part to hundreds of thousands of shipping containers waiting to be unloaded at ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach, and other cities. According to market urbanist Scott Beyer, this backlog is due to a combination of labor unrest and NIMBYism.

That’s certainly true in Portland, whose container port was completely shut down by labor disputes four years ago, and now is just beginning to function again. Moreover, trucks carrying containers out of Portland face some of the worst congestion in the country, partly due to anti-highway groups that oppose congestion relief on the grounds that it might lead people to drive more.

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Ancient philosophers did not analyse political systems in terms of individual rights, distribution of powers, and legitimacy. Instead, they focused upon the kind of citizen that a specific regime-type produces, the virtues it inculcates, and the values it promotes. In the Republic, Plato speaks of “Democratic Man,” “Aristocratic Man,” and “Timocratic Man.” The very word “regime” is an English translation of politeia, a term that Plato uses to convey both a system of government and the way of life of a political community. On this view, far from a matter of procedure, politics becomes a way to shape the hearts, minds, and souls of citizens. In this sense, the ancient city-state constitutes a tutelary community that enshrines a definition of the good life, a pantheon of heroes, and a panoply of virtues. For centuries, this type of regime-analysis dominated political thought. From Polybius to Montesquieu, theorists would treat the political sphere as a nexus of laws and institutions, but also customs, habits, manners, and—most importantly—ways of life.

This kind of regime-analysis disappeared with the rise of classical liberalism, which supplied an altogether different language of politics. As an intellectual reaction against an oppressive order, classical liberalism is first and foremost a negative ideal. Most liberal theorists know what they do not want—domination, illegitimate hierarchies, dogma—but they do not know what they do want, insofar as they do not tie their political philosophy to a precise definition of the good life. Once liberated, individuals must build their sense of selfhood by and for themselves. The liberal state provides liberty and rights, not meaning and purpose.

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In a disturbing video posted on Twitter a week ago, migrant activist and leader of the massive 80,000-person caravan heading to the U.S.-Mexico border, Irineo Mujica declared that they were “ready for war” with the National Guard if they would not let them through regardless if they had the proper documentation or not. And equally disturbing, at no point in the last seven days had the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, or NBC) shared this very clear threat with their viewers.

Despite the story circulating for a week, Fox News Channel was the only major television outlet to give it considerable airtime with multiple segments throughout the weekend. And by Monday, they were still at it while ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News were gushing about Paul McCartney blaming John Lennon for the Beatles breaking up.

Joel Kotkin.

A former Facebook employee hailed by the media as a whistleblower testified this week on Capitol Hill about the social media giant’s algorithm, and how it harms children and democracy. Frances Haugen told the the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security that Facebook routinely chooses profit over safety, creating an addictive product that puts children—and American democracy—at risk by failing to adequately police its product.

But though Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is no doubt embarrassed by the brouhaha, he and his fellow big tech founders ultimately may have very little to worry about. At the end of the day, Haugen’s testimony was less an exposé and more a distraction from the far more urgent issue of big tech’s expanding monopolistic reach, and its growing political and cultural power. The real question when it comes to big tech is not the one posed by Haugen’s testimony—whether Facebook and the other tech platforms allow “misinformation” or “hate speech” on their platforms; her testimony instead conveniently missed the real problem: that a handful of mega-firms are now controlling content for much of the population.

Brian Williams Blames Biden Poll Plunge on ‘Really Crappy Reporting’

MSNBC’s Witt Frets Texas GOP Targeting Two ‘Outstanding’ House Democrats

California Orders Big Box Stores To Create ‘Gender-Neutral’ Section For Kids Products  Time to leave.

Chicago Business Leaders Concerned Crime May Drive Away Companies

Docs: Nebraska Agency Secretly Tapped Planned Parenthood Ally To Shape Radical Sex Ed Curriculum

Judge Orders Philadelphia To Remove Plywood Box Covering Columbus Statue

CNN, MSNBC Let Same Pro-Abort Guest Trash Texas Heartbeat Law

Philadelphia Fed Promotes Soros-Funded Group That Targeted Christopher Rufo

California first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation

Net Zero California Governor Just Banned Backup Generators and Fire Pumps

Georgia County Fires Two Who Allegedly Shredded Voter Registrations

Taliban Says US Will Provide Humanitarian Aid to Afghanistan

Kamala Harris mocked over science video for kids

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Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a troubling exposé on the crushing debt burdens that students accumulate while pursuing master’s degrees at elite universities in fields like drama and film, where the job prospects are limited and the chances of making enough to repay their debt are slim. Because it focused on MFA programs at Ivy League schools—one subject accumulated around $300,000 in loans pursuing screenwriting—the article rocketed around the creative class on Twitter. But it also pointed to a more fundamental, troubling development in the world of higher education: For colleges and universities, master’s degrees have essentially become an enormous moneymaking scheme, wherein the line between for-profit and nonprofit education has been utterly blurred. There are, of course, good programs as well as bad ones, but when you scope out, there is clearly a systemic problem.

NJ commuters vow to fight pending Manhattan congestion tax

‘Third World’ NYC drug store shelves empty amid shoplifting surge (NY Post)

NYC drug store shelves are left empty (Daily Mail)

Progressive Democrats draw strength from muscle-flexing in Congress (The Guardian)

Is The Small Business Sector Being Deliberately Targeted For Destruction?

California Law Requires Gender-Neutral Area in Some Stores

Yellen Confident Congress Will Pass Global Minimum Tax  Because why wouldn’t they?

Facebook Using Incorrect AP ‘Fact-Check’ To Censor Posts: Report

California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers

Toobin Goes Off On ‘Complete Outrage’ Abortion Court Ruling

PBS Uses Misleading Poll to Make Abortion Seem Popular

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Late last month, several Orthodox Jewish residents of a New Jersey apartment building—all elderly, some handicapped—filed a federal lawsuit because their co-op board would not let doormen press the elevator button for them on the Jewish Sabbath.

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Yet though the solutions are easy, some are unwilling to make space for religious practice. In the present case, Kurlansky v. 1530 Owners Corp., the plaintiffs have alleged building policies and comments from co-op board members that, if proven true, can only be described as discriminatory. Some of the plaintiffs have alleged hearing co-op board members say that they did not want “too many of those types of Jews” in the building. The building—referred to as the Colony—provides, according to its website, a wide range of amenities, including concierge and delivery service. Yet service doormen are, allegedly, expressly prohibited from pressing elevator buttons for Orthodox Jews on the Sabbath.

The totalitarian impulse arises naturally.

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For years, advocates of ending American support for the government of Afghanistan pontificated that withdrawal would have no adverse consequences: That fractious country had no geopolitical significance. If the Taliban took it over, that would mean not much more than a jihadi conquest of Pluto.

In one sense, they were right. It has been a mere 40 days since Joe Biden ordered our soldiers to scuttle away like frightened rabbits, leaving billions of dollars of weaponry behind. Thousands of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, along with tens of thousands of Afghans who aided our armed forces, are trapped inside the Taliban’s domain. And already attention has drifted elsewhere. As I type this post, the “Latest Headlines” page on the Wall Street Journal’s web site lists 50 stories. Not one is about Afghanistan.

Pandora Papers: Stop the enablers that help billionaires dodge taxes (The Hill)

Progressives may hate it, but Manchin just saved the financial health of every American and showed Democrats how to beat McConnell (Boston Globe)

Nature: Researchers Voice Dismay at All-Male Science Nobels

Can’t Say That? NPR Morning Host Triggered by Utterance of the Word ‘Abortionist’

Hungary Backs Poland In Sovereignty Clash With EU

New York Times Writer Bruni on Oppressive, Mean-Spirited Texas ‘Seething With Rage’  Time for proglodytes to ask ‘Why do they hate us?’

Iceland Bans Moderna Vaccine Use Due To Heart Inflammation Risk

FLASHBACK: Barbara Walters Cheering Cuba as ‘One of the Freest Nations on Earth’

Social Media Permits? No, Thanks!

Amazon Looks At Leaving Seattle Over City Council Hostility

Here are the 11 Senate Republicans who joined Democrats to break the debt limit deal filibuster (CNN) Makes you wonder why we even bother.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Relocate HQ to Austin Amid Abortion Ban Fallout

Florida mom gets standing ovation in Virginia after calling for ‘mass exodus’ from public schools  And she’s a Person of Color so they can’t cancel her.

PolitiFact Face-Plants As Grassley Notes Polls Show Voters Favor Voter ID Laws

‘Arrest Me!’: Mom Challenges Attorney General’s Call for Probing Threats to School Boards

Terry McAuliffe Taps Election Denier Stacey Abrams to Lecture Opponent on ‘Democracy’

Journalists Who Took on Putin and Duterte Win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize  Note that the prize is given, not for actually promoting Peace, but for pissing off the appropriate witch-hunt culture targets. Actually working toward peace (as Trump did with North Korea and the Middle East) gets ignored.

Google to Ban Ads Appearing Next to Climate Denial Content  Time to leave.

NYC Mayor de Blasio Refuses to Pay Back City $320K for Presidential Detail

Shadowy Liberal Donor Network Stands By Activists Who Harassed Sinema in Bathroom  I surely hope that the NRA is sending the good Senator some literature.

Nearly 140 Countries Reach Deal on Corporate Minimum Tax  Governments know what economists know, that corporations don’t pay taxes, they merely collect them from their customers and pass the money on to the government. So this is a general tax hike on EVERYBODY in the Clever Plastic Disguise of Class Warfare Virtue Signaling.

How Texas’ Heartbeat Act Is Still Protecting Life After Judge Suspended Law

NY Times Hates Covert Righties Who ‘Spy’ and ‘Lie,’ But Embrace Lib’s ‘MAGA Masquerade’

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Anyone on the right can look back at the last 50 years and see the long string of losses to the left. They have set the agenda and they have set the direction. A Republican made nice with China and took us off the gold standard. While Reagan won the Cold War and cut taxes, everything else on the domestic front went the Left’s way. Bush and Clinton both raised taxes. Deficit spending has been the way of the nation in almost every year I have been alive. We no longer need any sort of war to spend and spend. Each President of the last generation more than doubled the previous president’s debt.

The Left controls all the big companies, all the universities, and thanks to the administrative state, they write all the new rules that are effectively laws. From Sea to Shining Sea, the Left has moved from victory to victory, and the Right goes from defeat to defeat. I will admit we have made progress on guns, but that looks to be a lot less safe a win for the Right, than say Obamacare was for the Left.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Kevin Roche has posted striking data on relative death risks in the matter of Covid-19. While the Star Tribune continues to wage a campaign of fear consistent with the Democrats’ agenda, I asked Kevin for a set of bullet points drawing inferences with public policy implications from the data — “broader commentary on where we are with the epidemic, in light of my relative death risk tables,” as he put it in his message responding to my request. As always, we take Minnesota data, trends, and public policy issues as representative. Kevin comments in the form of 10 bullet points.

The bottom line is, our elites are panicking and JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND why the Dirt People aren’t panicking, too; totally oblivious to the fact that the government and media have consistently lied to everybody (a) how bad it was to start with and (b) how bad it isn’t now. The Pandemic Panic shares exactly the same Usual Suspects as the Global Warming Hysteria, the same dependence on one-size-fits-all coercive solutions, and the same Shut Up And Do What You’re Told attitude on the part of people who see themselves as On The Right Side Of History.

Scott Alexander.

You tried Carol Dweck’s Growth Mindset, but the replication crisis crushed your faith. You tried Mike Cernovich’s Gorilla Mindset, but your neighbors all took out restraining orders against you. And yet, without a mindset, what separates you from the beasts? Just in time, Julia Galef brings us The Scout Mindset (subtitle: “Why Some People See Things Clearly And Others Don’t).

I have read this book, and it has a lot of useful stuff.

Reading between the lines, I think she learned pretty much the same thing a lot of the rest of us learned during the grim years of the last decade. Of the fifty-odd biases discovered by Kahneman, Tversky, and their successors, forty-nine are cute quirks, and one is destroying civilization. This last one is confirmation bias – our tendency to interpret evidence as confirming our pre-existing beliefs instead of changing our minds. This is the bias that explains why your political opponents continue to be your political opponents, instead of converting to your obviously superior beliefs. And so on to religion, pseudoscience, and all the other scourges of the intellectual world.

But she also learned that just telling people “Hey, avoid confirmation bias!” doesn’t work, even if you explain things very well and give lots of examples. What does work? Research is still ongoing, but the book concentrates on emotional and identity-related thought processes. Above, I made fun of everyone and their brother having a “mindset”, but this book uses the term deliberately: thinking clearly is about installing an entirely new mindset in yourself in a bunch of different ways.

Conflict Of Interest? AG Garland’s Family Getting Rich Selling Critical Race Theory Materials To Schools

Axios Cheers Fidel’s Communist Indoctrination As ‘Hispanic Heritage’

Caught on Video: Rashida Tlaib Admits She Only Wears Mask for Cameras

Biden Banking Nominee Scrubs Karl Marx Paper From Résumé

Australians Being Mandated To Provide Police With Geo-Trackable Selfies To Prove They’re Quarantining  I know what Texans would say to such a thing.

Klobuchar Staffer Announces Apple Gig Hours After Senator Slams Big Tech Revolving Door

7 States Push Noncitizen Voting, 4 States Say No

CBS Pesters Texas Tourists on Climate Change, Hopes for ‘Revolution’

Famed Billionaire Who Called for National Guard Threatens to Leave Chicago

‘Working In Fast Food Would Be Humiliating,’ Says Man Living On Government Handouts In Parents’ Basement Babylon Bee.

No Surprise: The AP Got School Board Fact-Check Wrong

Wokeness kills

Down With South Dakota!

Academia’s ableist culture laid bare  Nature magazine is upset that defective people can’t do everything that the rest of us can.

Badges of obedience

Experts Predict LGBTQ Acronym Could Circle The Earth 3 Times By 2022  Babylon Bee

ZMan points out how there is nothing new under the sun.

One of the things you can count on, one of the universal constants of American politics, is the Republicans will always find a way to save the Democrats from whatever mess they have created for themselves. It is the reason the Republican party exists. They are the guys at the back of the circus parade with shovels. They scoop up what gets plopped onto the streets by the Left. The main job of the GOP is making sure the suckers in the suburbs never lose faith in the system.

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A new class conflict is emerging across the world. You can see its face in the mass protests over COVID-19 restrictions from Paris, Berlin and London to southern California and Melbourne. The protestors are often cast as a death cult of ignorant rubes, but they are exposing a new class conflict that’s pitting two increasingly irreconcilable populations against each other: those who wish to obey and those who refuse restraints.

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Lockdowns in particular have sparked an incipient civil war between rival classes, not just in the U.S. but across Europe. “There are people who can work in the virtual world, which tells them how to act and think, and they can stay safe,” Laure Mandeville-Tostain of the Paris-based Le Figaro noted astutely. “Then there are those who object to the rules—people who have to go to work and see this as another way in which the elite is telling them how to live.”

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Like any regime, Woke Communism is built on a particular understanding of justice. For the woke comms justice is outcome equality. That is, all identity groups proportionately represented in all aspects of American life. So for example, the woke communists believe that blacks, who count for about 13% of the population, should have 13% of the nation’s chief executive officers, prisoners, heart attacks, wealth, top test scores, homes, corporate board seats, school suspensions, and everything else you can think of.

These are the countries historically responsible for the climate emergency (CNBC) Responsible! (for progress) Historically! (so we can avoid mentioning China).

A hotter and drier climate is set to hurt agriculture in the West and help farmers in Asia

China Folds, Unloads Australian Coal Despite Import Ban Amid Power Crunch

“Climate Emergency” – Nothing But Politics And Propaganda Unsupported By Scientific Data

Climate change is a big problem for farmers in Hawaii

The Grid Isn’t Ready for the Renewable Revolution

“Insulate Britain” Compares Climate Protest Deaths to WW2 Collateral Damage

Top State Department official resigns, assails Biden’s use of Title 42 to remove migrants

Foreign money secretly floods U.S. tax havens. Some of it is tainted. (Washington Post) Foreign! Tainted!

Tensions erupt between environmental justice leaders and White House (Politivo) Sticking an adjective on front of a term is always an attempt to hijack that term in service of a political agenda. ‘Environmental’ justice isn’t justice.

Billie Eilish stops mid-performance at Texas music festival: ‘My f**king choice!’ (CNN) Keepin’ it classy.

Facebook Apologizes for January 6th: “We Put the Lives of Politicians We Own at Risk” (The New Yorker) And they’re the best politicians money can buy, too.

Medical Tyranny and Climate Tyranny

Dark Money Dems Use Fake Newspaper To Influence Virginia Election

Canada’s gender ideology obsession

AG Garland “Weaponizes” DoJ Against Dissenting Parents After School Board Association Pleas

Chinese Detective Details Torture Campaign Against Uyghurs

Nets Yawn at GROSS Bathroom Harassment of Kyrsten Sinema

Merrick Garland threatens America’s parents

UN Silences Watchdog for Calling Out Anti-Semitism at Relief Agency

Shocker: Study Shows Transgendered Female Athletes Have Edge On Real Female Athletes

Sarah Hoyt (who grew up under socialism) is delightfully dyspeptic today.

But at least FDR and his successors IMAGINED themselves benevolent. They imagined a better future for humanity, even while they f*cked us over. They thought humanity could become, of its own volition, collectivist and non-greedy and– and it’s a case of their not having any introspection, yes — but they wanted to gift humanity things like electricity and better/faster industrial production and such.

The current progressives have soured. We broke their little RedMarxist wagon. The USSR was not as wonderful as they knew it was, because humans refused to play along. And here in the US we hold onto the constitution, which prevents them doing all their wonderful stuff.

They not only disdain us, they hate us. All humans. Every single man jack and woman jill of us. They want us reduced, destroyed, diminished, humiliated; forced to grovel in the dirt for their favor.

That’s the progress in their minds.

It’s important to remember that progressivism has always been wrong. Always been evil. It’s the imposition of a vision of the future by people who think of themselves as anointed. I don’t see any way it wasn’t always wasteful, evil and wrong, and forcing humanity into paths better left untrod.

Can’t add anything to that.

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I am a professor who just had a prestigious public science lecture at MIT cancelled because of an outrage mob on Twitter. My crime? Arguing for academic evaluations based on academic merit. This is the story of how a cancellation is carried out, why it should worry all of us, and what we can do to stop this dangerous trend.

90,000 Educators Beg Biden: We Need FBI Protection From “Mobs” Of Parents Irate Over Mask Mandates  Good luck with that.

Rockefellers have a message for Joe Manchin (CNN) Advice on how to be a Democrat from people whose first car was a limousine.

Conservative Activist Calls Out Facebook for Suppressing His Posts  The Narrative, the whole Narrative, and nothing but the Narrative.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends

Brutal Domestic Homicide Sparks Backlash Against Soros Prosecutor

WashPost Style Guide Updated to Curtail the Exclusionary Use of ‘Pregnant Women’

Huge Hack Outs NYPD Officers Moonlighting as ‘Oath Keeper’ Militiamen

Taiwan Informs Australia It’s ‘Preparing For War’ As China Sends Record 52 PLA Jets Toward Island 

Nets Hide OUTRAGE of Harris Nodding Along to ‘Truth’ of Israel ‘Genocide’ Smear

WashPost Thinks Dems Spending Trillions = ‘Grueling Cuts’

Government Orders Google to Identify Anyone Who Searched Name, Address & Phone N

A Non-Binary Performer Walks Into a Bar: LA Times Hypes Socialist Comedy

Andrew Yang ‘Breaking Up With Democratic Party’

China Threatens Taiwan on Twitter as Warplanes Swarm Island

China sharply escalates warplane provocations near Taiwan

Biologically Male Athletes Have Competitive Advantage Over Women, Sports Group’s Study Finds

71.5% of Voters Reject Stephanie Ruhle’s $3.5T ‘Barbie DreamHouse’ Budget Fantasy

Dowd Gets Surprise Grilling from CNN’s Keilar for Deleting Tweets

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The available evidence certainly suggests so.

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Noncitizens will be able to vote in two Vermont cities as part of a growing national trend, unless lawsuits prevent new laws from taking effect.

The cities of Montpelier, with about 7,375 residents, and Winooski, with about 7,335, both will allow noncitizens to vote in local elections for offices such as mayor, city council, and school board.

Related changes to the two city charters required the approval of voters as well as the state’s Democrat-controlled Legislature, which in June overrode a veto by Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican.

“These are very liberal cities with progressive Democrats,” Rob Roper, president of the Ethan Allen Institute, a free-market think tank based in Montpelier, told The Daily Signal.

“Throughout much of the state, there is a general distaste for allowing anyone other than citizens over the age of 18 to vote,” Roper said. “Many oppose the idea [of noncitizen voting] and worry about the precedent.”

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The picture is confusing: California is closing its last operating nuclear power plant, which is a source of clean power, as it faces an energy emergency and a mandate to eliminate carbon emissions.

Why?

The explanations vary depending on which of the stakeholders you ask. But underlying the statewide diplomatic chess is a deeply held anti-nuclear agenda in the state.

Tucker Carlson: The latest case of mass hysteria – the belief men can get pregnant

France rejects American ‘woke’ culture that is ‘racializing’ country

School Boards Group Asks Feds to Invoke Patriot Act, FBI Against Protesters

Biden Rule Would Hand Caregiver Funds to Unions

Andrea Mitchell Lauds Democrat Politician as ‘Pioneer’ for Recalling Her Abortion  We ought to encourage all Democrat politicians not to reproduce. Think of it as evolution in action.

Judge Hands Down Probation In Capitol Case, Questions Prosecutors’ “Credibility” Over Leniency Toward BLM.

‘All Things Considered’ Promotes Abortion March, Spiked ‘March for Life’ in January  All Progressive Things Considered.

Klain Coaches Progressives On Playing Chicken With Manchin, Sinema; Biden Handlers Quash Another Q&A

After Defunding Police, Portland To Give Firefighters Bulletproof Vests Amid Surging Gun Violence

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“I’ll make them as many Intel 16 [nanometer] chips as they want,” Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger told Fortune last week during his visit to an auto industry trade show in Germany.

Carmakers have bombarded him with requests to invest in brand-new production capacity for semiconductors featuring designs that, at best, were state of the art when the first Apple iPhone launched.

“It just makes no economic or strategic sense,” said Gelsinger, who came to the auto show to convince carmakers they need to let go of the distant past. “Rather than spending billions on new ‘old’ fabs, let’s spend millions to help migrate designs to modern ones.”

And, unlike the government, they can’t just charge the taxpayers for the added expense.