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

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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.

Students who pass white privilege test can win a gold star at UK university

Wikipedia Co-Founder Criticizes Site, Says It Has Slid Into “Leftist Propaganda”  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

NPR Perfection? Used ‘Pregnant People’ or ‘Person’ Seven Times In Article

US School Board Group Asks Biden for Help Against Growing ‘Threat’

David Hogg’s Anti-Gun Campaign ‘Fades Into Darkness’ As Millennials Embrace Second Amendment

NYT: There’s More Haitians Where These Came from

Apple employee activism is shifting the balance of power, suggests report  Steve would never have .put up with this shit.

Andrea Mitchell Plots Strategy With Radical Abortion Guests

National School Board Association Demands Biden Treat Fed-Up Parents as Domestic Terrorists

Infographic: How To Tell A Prison From A Public School  Babylon Bee.

California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America

CNN Terrified of ‘Angry Mobs’ aka Parents Protesting Liberal School Boards

Terrifying New Horror Movie For Liberal Audiences Shows Politicians Leaving Them Alone, Letting Them Make Own Decisions  Babylon Bee.

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Drivers heading south on U.S. Route 183 in Austin, Texas, have become familiar with a billboard urging city police officers to relocate to Spokane, Washington to become deputy sheriffs and collect a $15,000 bonus.

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office has targeted Texas’ capital city, already in a personnel crunch as the homicide rate reached a record high, along with other jurisdictions that recently slashed police budgets.

Amid the “defund the police” movement in 2020, the Austin City Council cut the police budget by about one-third and eventually lost 150 officers. In August, shortly before the city reached its all-time record for annual homicides, the council restored the funding.

“Austin is not Texas, although you can see Texas from Austin.” — Kevin Williamson

To Build Back Better, Tax Ultra-Wealthy Families Like Ours (TIME) Nothing stopping you from writing the government a check.

Milley calls war in Afghanistan a ‘strategic failure’ for US, warns Taliban ‘remain a terrorist organization’

MLB Ships Jobs to China To Build Closer Relationship With CCP

A Peek Inside Corporate America’s Ascendant Woke-Industrial Complex

FBI Statistics Show a 30% Increase in Murder in 2020. More Evidence That Defunding Police Wasn’t a Good Idea.

Who Would Hide a Jew If Nazis Took Over America?  Dennis Prager.

Are Democrats Repeating The Mistakes Of 2016?

Chuck Todd: GOP Are Being ‘Absurd,’ Trying ‘To Punish the American Economy’  Hey, they’re not the ones trying to spend $3.5 billion that we don’t have.

Liberal Hypocrisy: Chapter 12,186

Why The Globalists Hate Populism

Feminism Without Women

How Soft Was MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on AOC? Let Us Count the Ways…

Powell, Yellen Face Off Against “Mad Maxine” In House Testimony

Michael Moore Slams Bush ‘War Criminals,’ Fight Climate Change Instead

Panicked Andrea Mitchell Demands Biden Tell Dem Moderates to ‘Get in Line’

Smith & Wesson Ditches Massachusetts Over Pending Legislation, Moves Headquarters To Tennessee

“Tax The Rich” Mantra Is Rooted In Sociology, Not Economics  Yup. They just hate rich people.

Jobs for Sale: Corruption and Misallocation in Hiring

Newly Freed Britney Spears Bewildered As She Steps Out Into Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland Of California  Babylon Bee.

Texas Acquires COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies, Bypassing Biden HHS Limits: Governor

YouTube Suddenly Deletes, Then Restores Ron Paul Institute’s Channel After Backlash

US Published National Debt: $28T. The Truth: $146T. Each Taxpayer’s Share: $951k

CNN Blames Record Surge in Homicides on Police, Guns

Policing Pronouns: How “Misgendering” Is Becoming The New Battleground Over Discrimination

ZMan is not optimistic.

Way back when the government kicked off the Covid panic, smart people pointing out that shutting down the world to bend the curve was not a cost free way of addressing the problem. In fact, it was a very expensive and risky solution to a problem that was best addressed through traditional means. The world has a pandemic every 15 years and a severe one at least once a generation. Humans have figured out to tough out these naturally occurring events.

Shutting down the world and making people stay home from work is a novel invention, so there was no way to know what would happen. Human societies are tough, so it took a while for the problems to manifest. Initially, those who could work from home worked from home and those unemployed were supported with subsidies. This could never be a permanent condition, so we have been trying to transition back to normalcy for the last six months, but things are nowhere near normal.

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In the opening pages of The Genetic Lottery, Dr Kathryn Paige Harden sets out her mission: “What I am aiming to do in this book is re-envision the relationship between genetic science and equality. … I will argue that the science of individual differences is compatible with full-throated egalitarianism.” In this respect, Harden’s book bears a striking resemblance to last year’s The Cult of Smart, in which Freddie deBoer argued that “Hereditarianism [is] the best hope of a twenty-first century left” and proposed that recognising genetically based differences in academic ability was “simply taking left-wing thought to its logical conclusion.” The critical difference is that Harden is a tenured professor in the genetics of human behaviour and she is lending the full weight of her scientific credentials to this moral and political crusade. This makes The Genetic Lottery a dangerous book that threatens to make our genetic advantages and disadvantages a new front in the culture wars.

Snip Snip: ABC Edits Out Obama Opposing Biden’s ‘Open Borders’ in Interview

Brothels And Illegal Massage Parlors Outnumber Starbucks 2-To-1 Across NYC

NYT Reserves All Sympathy for Pro-Abortion Side in TX: ‘Sentenced to Being Parents’

Cuomo, Lemon Claim CNN Has ‘News Accountability’ Unlike Fox News

Who’s homeless enough for housing? In San Francisco, an algorithm decides

House Dems Propose $100 Billion Tax Hike Targeting The Poor

Democrats Suggest Giving President, Treasury Power To Raise Debt Limit

Matt Walsh, Parents Slam Virginia School District’s ‘Indoctrination and Psychological Abuse of Kids’

NY Times ‘Redesigned’ the American Flag: It’s WAY Worse Than You Imagine

Leftists Deeply Afraid Things Could Go Back To Normal Babylon Bee.

Republican Cheney Offers Strong Defense of Milley, Invokes Jan. 6 Capitol Riot  Going full RINO.

John Leguizamo Laments That Movie About Video Game Italians Is Missing ‘LatinX’ Actors  Maybe because they aren’t Italian?

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Ben John, 21, a former student, was convicted of a terror offence after downloading almost 70,000 white supremacist documents and bomb-making instructions.

He didn’t actually do anything, or plan to do anything. He just had information in his possession.

He was given a two-year suspended sentence at Leicester crown court after his conviction on 12 August of possessing a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

Just for possessing information. This is what Britain has descended to. But that’s not the worst part.

Among those who called for the sentenced to be reviewed was Hope Not Hate, the anti-racism campaign group, which said it was unduly lenient and sent a dangerous message at a time when the far right poses Britain’s fastest-growing terror threat.

They want him to go to prison for ThoughtCrime. Welcome to IngSoc.

Biden-Aiding Media Helps Him Claim His Agenda Costs ‘Zero Dollars’

Arizona Senate Hears Of Multiple Inconsistencies Found By Election Audit  Nothing to see here … move along, move along….

DCCC Chair Said Stimulus Would Fuel School Reopenings. In His District, It Hasn’t.

Crazy People Are Dangerous

NY Gov. Hochul: Unvaccinated People ‘Aren’t Listening to God’  God doesn’t speak to Democrats. At all.

RNC Suing 2 Vermont Cities for Giving Voting Rights to Noncitizens

Preschool Funding in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill Is Modeled After Failed Head Start Program

Virginia Parents Say School Board Gag Rule Stifles Criticism

CBS to Dems: Stop ‘Squabbling,’ Just ‘Reshape’ Country With Socialism!

Nation Correspondent Praises ‘Martyrs’ of Palestinian Violence

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Hammer tech.

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And all of them have lead in their butts. Tell me I’m wrong.

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It is a particular fantasy of the western left that the abject failure of the Cuban economy is somehow the fault of the USA. For example, some 58 British Corbynista and SNP MPs have recently signed a motion attacking what they call the US “blockade” of Cuba.

Of course there is no blockade, only a partial embargo. The two are absolutely different. A blockade would require the US to prevent the movement of goods and people to and from Cuba. The US laws that constitute the embargo only limit what US citizens and companies can do in relation to Cuba. They don’t prohibit Cuba from doing anything.

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Ending the US embargo wouldn’t make much difference to Cuba. Its essential problem is the failure of its economic model. The regime is not only unable to breed chickens. Prior to the communist takeover the largest Cuban export to the US was sugar, and the second largest export was coffee. Both sectors have been largely destroyed as a consequence of nationalisation and under-investment.

Liz Cheney: ‘I Was Wrong’ in Opposing Gay Marriage in Past  RINO conversion almost complete….

Yale’s failed Singapore venture: More American arrogance in Asia (Salon) Singapore refused to put up with Yale’s Woke bullshit, and Salon is NOT happy.

Biden’s multi-trillion bet to change America is in peril as Trump waits to pounce (CNN) And nobody can pounce like Trump.

Texas governor to Border Patrol agents under investigation: ‘I will hire you’ (Politico)

These tiny homes in Los Angeles offer the city’s homeless a new lease on life (CNN) Needless to say, none of them meet the city’s present building code.

UK Labour Leader Says It’s ‘Wrong’ To Say That Only Women Have A Cervix

Activists want Apple import ban over forced labor

Stelter Math? Somehow, Spending $3.5 Trillion Isn’t Really Spending $3.5 Trillion  I guess he forgot to take his shoes off.

Dem Inflates Résumé Ahead of Crucial Iowa House Run  As they do.

Sandy’s crying game explained

Senior Fed Economist Slams Economics As “Arrant Nonsense”, Hints It Perpetuates “Criminally Oppressive, Unjust Social Order”

Boss Warns All New Employees He Will Fire Them Immediately If People On Twitter Tell Him To  Babylon Bee.

Speech Police! Twitter Explores Filter to Squash ‘Potentially Harmful or Offensive’ Replies

California to Mail Every Voter a Ballot in Future Elections For convenience, rhe Democrat candidates will already be marked.

Pritzker Goes To Bat For What The Wall Street Journal Calls “One Of The Greatest Fiscal Cons In History”

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An irony of the modern age is the growing absence of reason and the growing predominance of mysticism among the atheists.

Witchcraft is popular among the Woke.

Every ‘modern pagan’ I’ve ever met, every believer in palmistry or astrology or magic healing crystals, is a liberal Democrat. Guess why that is.

The Problem Is Not Just Xi Jinping; It Is Communism

When a national park erodes environmental justice (The Hill) What distinguishes ‘environmental justice’ from just, you know, justice? (The political agenda!)

New CA law allows to pull identifying info of gun owners from state registry

Judge rejects leftist Fairfax prosecutor’s deal of three years for child rape

Free Parking Is Killing Cities  That’s right! We need to make parking expensive so people won’t go there! That will save them!

Noam Chomsky on the cruelty of American imperialism  His bread-and-butter since his academic career stalled.

Inaccuracies, irresponsible coverage, & conflicts of interest in The New Yorker

Iceland elects its first female-majority parliament

Stelter: ‘Assignment’ for Journos Is to ‘Prevent’ GOP from ‘Undemocratic’ Power in 2024

NYC Fast Resembling San Fran & Vancouver ‘Cities Of The Walking Dead’ As Junkies, Dealers Take Over Midtown Streets With Impunity  Time to leave.

NY Times Excuses Australia’s Authoritarianism in Failing Fight Against Covid