Why Are Polar Bears Going Extinct? (Spoiler Alert: They’re Not!)

State of the Polar Bear Report 2019: Are polar bear researchers hiding good news?

NYT: White Supremacy Goes Green

Extinction Rebellion Accused of Faking a Miners Protest

Greta Thunberg tells 20,000-strong UK climate march: ‘The world is on fire’

When classical beauty is in the eye of the rightwing beholder  The Guardian. Oooh, ‘sinister reactionary fixation’! I’m scared. (Pravda would like its style manual back.)

NY Times Mocks Pence, ‘No Training or Expertise,’ vs. Obama’s Confident Ebola Czar  Who had no medical training either.

CNN’s Avlon Cites Pence’s Climate Skepticism Against Him on Coronavirus  As if the two were related.

‘I Didn’t Ask You About President Trump’: Martha MacCallum Grills Biden Surrogate On Arrest Claim

Meacham, NY Times Get Religion: ‘Jesus May Be the Best Hope Against an Amoral President’

CARAFANO: Five Myths About Trump’s Foreign Policy

Jemele Hill Warns VP Pence Dooming ‘Y’all’ to Coronavirus

CELEBRITY RAGE! Screaming About State of the Union and ‘Mass Murderer’ Trump

Is Coronavirus a Hoax?  No, but Democrats will lie about it anyway.

Trump Slams Media For Coronavirus ‘Hoax’ Disinfo

Hot Temper! MSNBC Goads Congressman to Threaten to Fight Donald Trump Jr.  Democrats! Always with the violence!

Paranoia: Bill Maher Predicts When Coronavirus Gets Bad, Trump Will ‘Declare Martial Law’

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Doing well by doing good.

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As George Carlin famously said, ‘If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it.’

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They’re shocked, shocked I tell you….

Steve Sailer reads this stuff so you don’t have to.

Here’s the umpty-umpth New York Times op-ed by a Woman of Color rehearing how oppressed she was by mean whites (i.e., girls) in, yes, middle school. But his one takes the anti-white cliches to a weird new level of sounding like she resents her own 3-year-old daughter for looking white.

A problem, dare I say it, that she wouldn’t have had she married a ‘black’ man.

Bet the kid still plays the race card later on in life, tho….

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Well, compared to most Democrats, that’s a prime credential.

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Shocking video out of Ontario, Canada shows left-wing environmentalist protesters attempt to derail and then set fire to a train.

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I guess we’ll soon see the violence  inherent in the system.

The U.S. is stuck in this imbroglio because both Greece and Turkey are members of NATO (which has no purpose now that the Soviet Union is dead) and also long-standing enemies. This will not end well.

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Do recyclers focus on people? Obviously not. Everything about recycling lacks any attempt to make it understandable and easy for people to obey the proper rules. We find it difficult to find the rules that apply to where we live. The rules are continually changing. The rules that are applied where we live are often different from those where we work—or wherever we might be. And even when we find the rules, we cannot always understand them.

Recycling is only one small part of the entire system. It starts with the mining and drilling that allows us to extract raw materials from the earth. Then it includes the complex mechanical and chemical processing to make raw materials usable. To lower costs and enhance performance, new materials are invented as well as clever combinations of existing materials. We meld wood and leather, paper, plastic, metal, and cloth. When the manufactured goods are shipped, they are often placed in complex boxes and packaging made from material that may not be recyclable. The system is not designed to solve the problem: The system is the problem.

New York Times ripped for column saying coronavirus should be called ‘Trumpvirus’

Anderson Cooper blasts WH response to coronavirus: Ignorance doesn’t kill viruses  Since when is Anderson Cooper an expert on handling medical emergencies?

Playing Politics With Coronavirus: ABC, NBC Try to Stoke Fears of Trump’s Response

NY Times Lead Story: Lying Trump Has Already Squandered Credibility on Coronavirus

Chuck Todd Taunts Trump On Coronavirus: ‘Reap What You Sow’  I’m sure Trump really worries about what Chuck Todd thinks.

CNN’s Avlon Mocks Pence: ‘Prayer Didn’t Work’

Mulvaney Warns Coronavirus Could Lead To School Closures; Blames Press For Peddling ‘False Narrative’ To Take Down Trump

TRICKS! PBS and NPR Isolated Latino Voters in Trump Polls — Until He Started to Succeed

CNN’s Angela Rye Bullies Blacks Voting for Trump: ‘Shame on You’

Federal Court Blocks Trump’s ‘Remain In Mexico’ Program

Donald Trump vs corona hysteria

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Claims, Without Evidence, That Trump’s Mental Health Is ‘Declining’  Seems to me as if O’Donnelll’s mental health is declining.

Angry About Trump’s Acquittal, Redoing the Russia Hoax and Pushing Dems to the Left

Insane Podcast Host Tweets About Spreading Coronavirus to Trump Supporters

Recycled Nuclear Waste Will Power a New Reactor

La Nina may form in the equatorial Pacific Ocean later this year and, if so, it could have wide-ranging ramifications

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Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz sparred with New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over several unanswered science questions.

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The health commissioner for Lagos, Africa’s largest city with more than 20 million people, said an Italian citizen who entered Nigeria from Milan on Tuesday on a business trip became ill the next day, the Associated Press reported. The Commissioner said officials were working to identify all of the man’s contacts in Nigeria because he was infected with the contagious coronavirus, and a doctor at the hospital caring for the individual told the Associated Press that he is “doing well and we expect that he will continue to do well.”

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The ongoing coronavirus outbreak in China has led to popular game “Plague Inc” to be pulled from the country’s App Store after China decided it was illegal — despite having been available for eight years.

Repeat after me: COM. U.NIST. COUN. TRY.

“You People Will Never Be Safe” — Jihad Killings in Islam

Palestinian Islamic Jihad Provoking Israel to Spark an Armed Conflict

US & Taliban Truce To Start Saturday Ahead Of Final Peace Deal

United States To Sign Peace Deal With Taliban By End Of February, Ending America’s Longest War

This Actually Happened: NY Times Publishes Op-Ed By the Taliban

How No-Go Zones Are Created And Maintained, Part 1

How No-Go Zones Are Created And Maintained, Part 2

How No-Go Zones Are Created And Maintained, Part 3

How No-Go Zones Are Created And Maintained, Part 4`

“Biggest Humanitarian Horror Story Of The 21st Century”: Up To A Million Refugees Trying To Flee Idlib

Macron Vows Crackdown On Political Islam In France Yeah. Right.

Libya Asks US To Establish Military Base To Combat Russian Presence

Watch: Turkish-Backed Jihadists Attempt To Down Russian Jet Over Idlib With MANPADS

Iran’s Hardliners Win Landslide Victory In Low Turn-Out Parliamentary Elections  My, what a surprise.

Viktor Orbán: “This is a Well-Organized Invasion”

How The “Interpreter” Scam Brought 75,000 Iraqis And Afghans To America

Coronavirus hits Iran, mullahs put it to use

Iranian Lawmaker Says 50 Have Died From Coronavirus Outbreak In Qom

Al Jazeera Anchor’s Call for Assassinating Arab Leaders Goes Unpunished

Can Macron halt the rise of Islamic extremism?  Hint: No.

Fight Over Militant’s Body Leads To Israeli Airstrike Against Jihad In Gaza

Israel Takes Out Islamic Jihad Militants In Damascus & Gaza In Rare Simultaneous Air Strikes

More Turkish Troop Deaths In Idlib Bring Russia & Turkey To Breaking Point

Netanyahu Threatens All-Out War After 90 Rockets Fired From Gaza

Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Infected With Coronavirus As The Country Becomes An Epicenter Of The Outbreak

Mullahs Moving More Menacing Munitions to Yemen

Call for curfew in Indian capital after 20 die in sectarian clashes

President Rouhani Blames America For “Spreading Fear” About Iranian Coronavirus Outbreak

Hate Imam Testifies in Dutch Parliament

Russia, Turkey Ignore US Call for Ceasefire in Northern Syria

Attacks Prompt Swift UK Legislation Blocking Terrorists From Early Prison Release

Faith Leaders Warn Nigeria a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ for Christians

At Least 22 Turkish Soldiers Killed In Russian Airstrike; Erdogan Holds Emergency Meeting

Church In Swedish “No-Go Zone” Set On Fire

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The Milwaukee man who killed five co-workers at a beer company’s corporate office is a black Elizabeth Warren supporter, providing a clue as to why the mass shooting disappeared from the discussion so quickly.

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The Navy’s Optical Dazzling Interdictor, or ODIN laser weapon, was installed on the USS Dewey guided missile destroyer recently, a report from Naval Sea Systems Command said.

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Last year yielded a bumper crop of narco-submarines, and it looks set to continue. These purpose-built vessels are one way Colombian cartels smuggle drugs towards the United States. The number discovered by authorities are at an all-time high. Based on open source intelligence there were 36 reported incidents in 2019. This compares to just two a decade earlier.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

We used to learn this stuff in the Boy Scouts, before they went all Diversity on us.

The Left Is Thwarting Trump’s Efforts to Secure Border

Omar Slanders a Much Better Person

ABC, CBS Boost Dem Suggestions Trump Not Taking Virus Seriously

Over 20 Killed, 200 Wounded In Sectarian Riots Which Coincided With Trump’s India Visit

Democrats And Media Politicize Coronavirus To Score Cheap Points

Labor Union Launches $150M Campaign Against Trump  Revolt of the Drones.

Kimmel Mocks Mike Pence’s Faith: ‘What’s His Plan to Stop the Virus, Abstinence?’

Don Lemon Panics: Pence Will Pray, ‘Allow People to Die’ Rather Than ‘Look at Science’ on Virus

AOC Blasts Trump for Pence Leading Coronavirus Response

SO TRIGGERED: NYT Op-ed Calls Coronavirus ‘Trumpvirus’

Protester Dressed Like Trump Escorted Out Of Pence’s CPAC Speech

“Let’s Call It ‘Trumpvirus'”: Hillary-Loving NYT Columnist Blames Coronavirus Outbreak On Trump

The Left Will Keep Trying to Oust Trump, House Conservatives Predict

‘Pray’ the Plague Away: Rosie O’Donnell & Co. Mock Trump’s Disease Response

Time’s Alter: Millennial Resistance to Trump is Just Like Harry Potter!  Unfortunately, Professor Umbrage is running for the Democrat nomination.

CNN: This President Is Not Speaking Enough About the Threat of Coronavirus; He’s Putting the Republic in Peril Also CNN: We’re Cutting Away from Trump’s Coronovirus Presser to Get Back to Our Pre-Planned Advertisement for Michael Bloomberg

There’s a Simple Way to Store Renewable Energy, And We Already Have The Technology

Hypocrites Preaching Green

MSNBC Food Series Hits ‘Criminal’ Behavior of Climate ‘Deniers’  We all ought to be eating fat people because their farts are destroying the planet.

Heathrow third runway ruled illegal over climate change

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Where is Lord Palmerston when you really need him?

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The Bernie influence.

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Ahoy, suckers! Conservative, Inc., is back at it again, trading in its classic cruise ship motif for a figurative dinghy in its never-ending quest to separate you from your money and themselves from the shredded tatters of their ruined dignity.

Woke Rule No. 1 is that anything with “Principles” in its name is a grift. Now, something called “Principles First” – ugh – is trying to shoehorn into CPAC’s spotlight with its “National Summit on Principled Conservatism” to be held in D.C. on February 29th, and for the low, low, almost certainly lib tech tycoon-subsidized price of $10, you can attend this sexless Never Trump Freaknik.

It’s an opportunity to get one-on-one with all your favorite relevancy-challenged B-list MSNBCNN guests for a full day of complaining about Donald Trump and having them show you on the doll exactly where Trump hurt them. Brace yourselves for impassioned pleas by impotent weirdos to vote for the crusty commie curmudgeon because Trump sends mean tweets, plus plenty of “Oh well I nevers” and “We’re better than thats” as Pearl Clutchfest 2020 gets well and truly lit.

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Rather late to the party, seems like.

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Dean Koontz for Coronavirus Czar.

Dean used to be a very respected SF author until he decided that there was more money along the Stephen King road. Perhaps this will boost his career … or Hillary Clinton’s dacoits will take him out. One never knows.

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Yet Another Crooked Black Democrat Politician winds up in the slammer.

She could always run for Congress once she gets out — it worked for Alcee Hastings.

Looking at the news recently, I see a very ugly picture forming: The Democrat ruling class, along with their propaganda wing in the DemLegHump Media, are trying (a) to panic everybody about the Coming Coronavirus Apocalypse (‘Pull your kids out of school! Don’t go to work! Stay home and shiver in the dark!) and (b) undercut so far as they can public confidence in the Trump administration’s ability to handle the coronavirus problem while attempting to superglue Trump to Bush’s problems with Hurricane Katrina.

I suspect that they’re trying, insofar as they can, to tank the economy before the election in order to blacken one of Trumps chief accomplishments. The Wall Street clerisy has been dooming & glooming ever since Trump got elected — WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! THE STOCK MARKET WILL EVAPORATE! POLAR BEARS WILL BE WANDERING BROADWAY LOOKING FOR NEW HOMES! — and now they can say See I Told You So until their throats get hoarse.

I suspect it’s going to get uglier before we see the sun again.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Given approximately a whopping quarter of world’s population identifies as Muslim, and each adherent is supposed to make the trip as a “religious duty” at least once in their lives, the latest coronavirus news out of the Middle East is almost unprecedented and hugely disruptive to travel patterns into the gulf region.

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The sample’s overall case-fatality rate was 2.3%, higher than World Health Organization official 0.7% rate. No deaths occurred in those aged 9 years and younger, but cases in those aged 70 to 79 years had an 8% fatality rate and those aged 80 years and older had a fatality rate of 14.8%.

No deaths were reported among mild and severe cases. The fatality rate was 49% among critical cases, and elevated among those with preexisting conditions: 10.5% for people with cardiovascular disease, 7.3% for diabetes, 6.3% for chronic respiratory disease, 6% for hypertension, and 5.6% for cancer.

A very evolutionary disease.

“COVID-19 rapidly spread from a single city to the entire country in just 30 days,” the JAMA paper added. “The sheer speed of both the geographical expansion and the sudden increase in numbers of cases surprised and quickly overwhelmed health and public-health services in China.”

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After confirming on Thursday that its ‘official’ death toll from the outbreak had reached 22 with 141 cases confirmed (lawmakers have claimed that the death toll as of Monday was up to 50 in Qom alone), Iranian state media reported that the country’s vice president for women and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar has tested positive for the virus.

Turd-world nations just aren’t up to handling a crisis of this nature.

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Bill Kristol has announced (tweeted actually) that he is a Democrat, and, somewhat presumptuously, that you are too: “We are all Democrats now” was his claim, to which people brought up on black-and-white television might reply, “Whaddya mean ‘we’ kemosabe?”

Kristol hasn’t liked Donald Trump from the beginning. But Donald Trump hasn’t changed much from the beginning either, so Kristol’s change of parties must have more to do with the allure of the current Democrat candidates for that party’s nomination for president than with the performance or behavior of the current president.

And one has to admit that the behavior, and the statements, of those candidates are … remarkable.

… and good riddance.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a case in which Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 when he took part in the deadly 2002 “D.C. Sniper” shooting spree in the Washington area, was challenging his life without parole sentence.

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I think it was Tom Bethell, back when he wrote the must-read Washington column for The American Spectator, who asked the pertinent question when Bernie Sanders was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives under the Socialist Party affiliation in 1990: How will we be able to tell the difference between Bernie’s socialism and the “mainstream” Democratic Party in Washington?

That illuminating question has become suddenly urgent now that Bernie may be the Democrats’ presidential nominee this year. Bethell’s astute point, 30 years ago, is being borne out today: Bernie is the telos of the modern Democratic Party. This can be proven with Euclidian precision with the simple observation that all of Bernie’s rivals essentially say they are for the same things as Bernie, only a little less costly and intrusive, etc. In other words, all of Bernie’s rivals stand for the proposition that they desire Socialism-Lite. It is great fun watching them tie themselves in knows dealing with him in the so-called Democratic “debates.” Message to Bernie: Shut up, they explained. No wonder things are not going well for Democrats at the moment.

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Discrimination against China and Chinese people have erupted since the Covid-19 outbreak in January. Anxieties are high as many are avoiding Chinatowns across the world for fear, they might contract the deadly virus.

From Australia to New York City to Toronto to England to San Francisco, Chinatowns in many regions of the world have transformed into ghost towns. We noted this phenomenon last week.

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Recall that at the end of January, a team of Indian scientists wrote in a now-retracted, scandalous paper claiming that the coronavirus may have been genetically engineered to incorporate parts of the HIV genome, writing “This uncanny similarity of novel inserts in the 2019- nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature,” meaning – it was unlikely to have occurred naturally.

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If they know what’s good for them, they do.

What are the chances that, even if they had found the opposite, they would be allowed to publish it?

Under Trump, America is less prepared for a coronavirus outbreak

Income Growth Slowed Across the US Under Donald Trump

Yahoo ‘News’ Pushes Silly Story: The Trumps Won’t Eat Their Vegetables In India!

The Real Meaning Of Red Scare 3.0

Our Wacky News Media

‘The Truth Suffers’: New Project Veritas Video Shows Since-Suspended ABC News Correspondent Alleging Network Has Trump Bias

Schumer Calls for Grenell Probe

Coronavirus could be ‘black swan event’ that costs Trump the presidency  No, not unless the Democrats can find an adult to be their candidate.

Berkeley Professor Emerita of Public Health: “MAGAts” Are Going to Die Because They Don’t Believe in the #Science of Coronavirus, Then Tweets “HashtagLetThemGetSickAndDie”  Liberals crowded in cities are more likely to die from coronavirus than us rednecks out in the country.

Trump Campaign Sues New York Times For Libel

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Anti-Greta’ teen activist to speak at biggest US conservatives conference

Conservative group hires German teen Naomi Seibt to rival Greta Thunberg’s climate views

Why are polar bears going extinct? (Spoiler: They’re not)

We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech

Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech

Hollywood’s Carbon Footprint

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This sort of thing is why Trump was right to focus on filling judgeships and why most previous Republican administrations were seriously foolish not to do so.

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A new unit within the Justice Department is being established to deal with the process of stripping citizenship from foreign-born individuals who fraudulently obtained citizenship by not revealing past convictions for serious crimes, Fox News is reporting.

I’m disappointed that they didn’t already have one.

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Any excuse to spend more money. “Never let a crisis go to waste.”

How about we give that money to the Navy and buy some more ships?

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders are flagging an internal audit that found the rise of sanctuary jurisdictions is negatively affecting how the agency apprehends and deports criminal illegal aliens.

Babylon Bee.

Hey, it could happen.

ZMan does a deep dive.

Whether or not movies can rise to the level of art is debatable, as the medium is superficial by design. Another aspect of art is it tempts the person experiencing it to think about things they may not be naturally inclined to consider. Motion pictures are a passive medium, encouraging the viewer to relax and let the images flashing past him do all the heavy lifting. Citizen Kane is considered the best film ever made, but it does not rival literature in terms of artistic impact.

That said, maybe movies should be judged on a narrower artistic standard, in that maybe the best they can do is reflect attitudes of the age. The science fiction shows on the later-50’s and early-60’s, for example, reveal the optimism of the age with regards to scientific progress. Fast forward a generation and science fiction films reveal the fear and disappointment in science. Today, science fiction is mostly multicultural personal drama in space, revealing the feminization of our age.