MSNBC, CNN avoid liberal-penned letter against ‘cancel culture’  (e.g. ‘Cancel culture’ is not the problem. The Harper’s letter is. L. A. Times)

‘Defending a Free Society’ Requires Radically Changing This One  New York magazine.

Socialist Seattle councilwoman: Overthrow ‘racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism’

Seattle passes payroll tax targeting Amazon and other big businesses  But that trick never works.

MSNBC’s Hayes Lobbies Sanders for ‘Permanent Structures’ of Socialism

Biden Pledges New Deal-Like Economic Agenda to Counter Trump  It’s easy to make promises with other people’s money.

ABC Deceives on Unemployment, Hawks Biden’s Economic Plan as Solution

Here Are 7 Times Joy Reid, MSNBC’s New Primetime Host, Spread Misinformation

Pelosi: Rule of Law Is, Like, Canceled, by Steve Sailer

The Cancel Mob Comes For Goya Foods (Again)

CNN’s Brian Stelter Claims Fox’s Tucker Carlson Makes ‘Victims’ of ‘All of Us’

MSNBC Assists in Trying to Cancel WNBA Owner for Defending American Values

Penn State Deletes Tweet Welcoming Conservative Students After Outcry

NY Times Sleazy ‘News’ Story: Tucker Carlson ‘Targeted’ Duckworth ‘With Nativist Smears’

Facebook Cannot Separate Itself from the Hate It Spreads

Federal Reserve Official Says Economy Would Improve ‘If We All Wore A Mask’

PolitiFact Nervously Tries to Add ‘Context’ to Biden’s Old ‘Racial Jungle’ Bungle

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But of course that’s not possible because ‘election fraud’ is just a Republican myth.

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We do get good news occasionally.

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Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is throwing some of his money at a plan to provide universal basic income for Americans. Dorsey tweeted Thursday that he is donating $3 million to Mayors for a Guaranteed Income.

I’d be more in favor of this if I didn’t know that it’s just a big step toward making taxpayers pay for the greater program if the results can even possibly be spun in that direction.

African Migrant Terrorizes the Berlin S-Bahn

Spate Of ‘Random’ Explosions At Iranian Facilities Are Targeted Sabotage: Intel Sources

Third ‘Mystery’ Blast In Less Than A Week Rocks Iran Power Plant

Iran Says It Has Built Underground Missile Cities Along Gulf Coastline  Uh, sure….

Rocket Fired Toward US Embassy in Iraq Injures Child

Stuxnet 2? Iran Hints Nuclear Site Explosion Could Be A Cyberattack

Fatah Threatens Terrorist Uprising, Seeking Unity with Hamas

Erdogan Rallies Islamists Over Converting the Hagia Sophia to a Mosque

Iran Sees 6th Deadly ‘Mystery’ Explosion In Weeks At Industrial Zone Near Tehran

Bus Driver Beaten Into a Coma by Culture-Enrichers

Culture-Enriching Knife Murder on a Bus Full of School Children

180 bodies found in ‘killing field’ in Burkina Faso, rights group reports

Sahel crisis: charities warn of famine in Mali as militias leave farmers too scared to plant crops

Multiple Recidivist Culture-Enricher Rapes 83-Year-Old Woman

Are Madkhali Salafists an Islamist Trojan Horse?

Former Uber driver who plotted  tourist terror rampage jailed for life after five-month undercover operation

Fire — or Possibly an Explosion Due to a Bomb — Demolishes Iranian Nuclear Centrifuge Site

War Footing: Egypt Answers Turkish Naval Drills With Own Large Exercise On Libyan Border

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

I remember that my father habitually wore a hat until some time in the early 1960s, and then never did again. Nowadays it is very jarring to see e.g. Roger Stone wearing a hat in public; makes you wonder what he’s up to.

It seems that the only people who wear hats these days are the goobers who wear ball caps in restaurants. I hate those guys.

Steve Sailer lays out the brackets.

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As Pride month drew to a close, The New York Times was busy informing readers that after decades of progress, the gay rights movement was still not as inclusive as it needs to be.

“Transgender women of color led the uprising at the Stonewall Inn 51 years ago on Sunday, but they were never put at the center of the movement they helped start: One whose very shorthand, ‘the gay rights movement,’ erases them,” began a recent Times report.

The problem is that it’s hard to erase what wasn’t there to begin with.

Are we on the verge of a ‘Democratic tsunami’?  CNN.

Trump trashes CDC school-reopening guidelines — then CDC updates them  CNN.

Trump and Republicans have become a post-policy party. Coronavirus proves it.  NBC News.

Column: Trump demands schools reopen or funds might be cut — our (expendable) kids must face the virus!  Chicago Tribune.

Joe Shapiro’s Wife Says He Never Took SATs for Trump, Pair Didn’t Meet Until College

TILT: PolitiFact Angrily Obsesses Over Trump on ‘Fact Checks,’ Goes Soft on Biden

Trolling Trump on Fifth Avenue

NY Times Smears Trump on Front Page: ‘Feeding on White Resentment’

MSNBC HATE: Smears Trump as ‘Killer’ ‘Like Hitler or Stalin’

Stephanopoulos Fumes as CDC Director Refuses to Bash Trump on Reopening Schools

Forget Fact Checking: CNN Panel Salivates Over Book Calling Trump ‘Sociopath’

Work Begins on ‘Black Lives Matter’ Mural in Front of Trump Tower

CBS Scapegoats, Blames Trump for Evil Acts of Anti-Asian Hate

NYC Mayor De Blasio Helps Paint ‘Black Lives Matter’ Outside Trump Tower  The sort of thing they would call ‘childish’ if he did it to them.

FANTASY ISLAND: Politico Thinks Trump Might Drop Out

Biden 2020: MSNBC’s Ruhle Slams Facebook for Not Censoring Trump

CNN Biden Boosters Fantasize Trump Tax Returns Will Put Trump in Jail

US Army Sends Out Email Alerting Thousands of Servicemen That “MAGA” Is “White Supremacy”

Security Guard, Wife Charged In Man’s Shooting Death After Dispute Over Not Wearing A Mask

America’s Great Racial Reckoning Comes To The Auto Industry As Some Ford Employees Call For End Of Cop Car Man

Seattle held ‘segregated’ training session on ‘undoing whiteness,’ encouraged staffers to forfeit ‘guaranteed physical safety’

CNN’s Don Lemon Offers 5 Tips To “End The Violence & Chaos” In Black Communities

‘Thug And Reprehensible Behavior’: Tucker Carlson Plays Don Lemon’s 2013 Advice For Black Communities

‘Should Know Better:’ Halle Berry Forced to Apologize for ‘Consideration’ of Trans Role

Pro-Black Lives Matter Corporations are Using Modern Day Slave Labor

Author Argues African Americans Gained Ground Under Trump’s Leadership

Planned Parenthood Responds To Kanye’s Criticism: ‘Offensive And Infantilizing’

‘All Lives Matter’: Massachusetts Mayor Apologizes For Road Sign Message, Investigation Underway  ThoughtCrime must be punished wherever found, or even suspected.

‘Gesture Of Hate’: Vancouver Police Investigate Skid Marks Left By Car On Rainbow Pride Crosswalk  ThoughtCrime must be punished wherever found, or even suspected.

Report: 96-Year-Old Chicago Woman Stabbed To Death With A Pitchfork  No white person was ever named ‘Dujuan’.

Halfrican Don Lemon: ‘Jesus Christ Admittedly Was Not Perfect When He Was Here On This Earth’  As if Don Lemon would know.

Not All Black Lives Matter to Black Lives Matter

Five People Have Been Arrested In Superstar Rapper Pop Smoke’s Murder

Another Hate Crime Hoax: Oregon Politician Admits To Mailing Himself Racist Letter

Violent Crime In Liberal Cities Spike And Here Is What The Mayors Blame

Tensions among Vox employees erupt on Twitter after journalist signs ‘cancel culture’ letter

Socialist Seattle councilwoman to Jeff Bezos: ‘We are coming for you and your rotten system’

The left goes nuts over liberals who dare to defend free speech

District attorney who filed hate crime charges for painting over Black Lives Matter mural was backed by billionaire George Soros

Our Worthless News Media

Horrified By Religious Liberty: ABC/CBS Fear SCOTUS Contraception Ruling

People At Vox Are Mad That Other People At Vox Support Free Speech

‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare’ Removes ‘OK’ Hand Gesture

Sen. Bernie Sanders Predicts Biden Will Be ‘The Most Progressive President Since FDR’  He says that like it was a good thing.

CNN Downplays Study Showing Hydroxychloroquine Lowers COVID-19 Death Rate

Biden Says He Would Rescind Exemption for Little Sisters of the Poor

179 NYPD Officers Reportedly Retire In One Week Amid Crime Surge And Tension With Mayor De Blasio

Biden Proposing Largest Tax Hike in History

AP Wonders What Could Be Causing This Surge In Shootings in Democrat Run Cities That Have Given the Streets Over to Lawless Criminals  That’s a real head-scratcher, all right.

Security Guard Charged With Murder For Allegedly Shooting Customer Who Wasn’t Wearing A Mask

One Day After Mocking ‘Right-Wing’ Media For Reporting On Crime, CNN’s Cuomo Admits Homicides Are Rising – But Blames It On States Reopening

NYPD limits retirement applications amid 400 percent surge this week

These Politicians Used To Be Proud Of America. What Changed?

REPORT: Denver Suburb Shields Officers From Aspects Of Police Reform Law  Not everybody hates the police.

Fearing Cancelation, Public Figures Withdraw Support For Open Letter Decrying Cancel Culture

Ford CEO Resists Employees’ Push to End Sales of Police Vehicles

Stocks Slide As Biden Vows To “End Shareholder Capitalism”, Raise Corporate Tax Rate To 28%

Facebook Accused of Allowing Climate Deniers to Promote Their Views

House “Climate Crisis Committee” issues massive meaningless wish list

2020: A Rough Year For Greta?

10 fallacies about Arctic sea ice & polar bear survival refute misleading ‘facts’

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While the old adage says that money can’t buy happiness, several studies have determined that the more your income increases, the happier you are, up until US$75,000 a year. After hitting that threshold, more income doesn’t make a difference.

But in a new analysis of more than 40,000 U.S. adults aged 30 and over, my colleague and I found an even deeper relationship between money and happiness.

Because the survey data spanned five decades, from 1972 to 2016, we were also able to see if the link between money and happiness changed over the years. That’s where things got interesting: Today, money and happiness are more strongly related than they were in the past. It seems money buys more happiness than it used to.

The toys have gotten a lot nicer.

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She’s still looking for the perfect Clinton Crustian no-show job.

Steve takes the long view.

A .17 HMR varmint round is pretty gross. It goes into an animal and blows up immediately. It’s not great for going deeply into a big creature like a human being. Most experts claim deep penetration is crucial for incapacitation, but anything that goes in a couple of inches and then wrecks a baseball-sized region of flesh is likely to discourage a 20-year-old racist snowflake who thought it would be easy to enter your home, cleanse it of scary genocidal pancake syrup, kill or enslave you and your family, and set up housekeeping.

Life is so much easier if you just RTFM.

Victor Davis Hanson.

A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said “all lives matter.” In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics.

She won a huge audience as she intended. But her video also came to the attention of the company that was going to give her an internship later this summer, Deloitte, which decided it didn’t want to add an intern who threatened to kill strangers who said something she didn’t like.

This wouldn’t have been much of a story. But then the narcissistic Harvard alum posted a very different video—one that showed her weeping in a near-fetal position.

She fought back tears while complaining how unfair the world had been to her. Her initial TikTok post had earned cruel pushback from the social media jungle she had courted. Deloitte, she sobbed, was mean and hurtful. And she wanted the world to share her pain.

Two Californians Charged With Hate Crime For Painting Over Black Lives Matter Mural

Black Lives Matter Protesters Charged Under Iowa Leak Law  Oops.

How the Left Exploits Anti-Racism to Attack Capitalism  And not just ‘capitalism’….

Black Sports Writer Says Kaepernick’s ‘Systemically Racist’ America Detrimental to Society

‘The Street Is Closed!’: Protesters Block Off Street Near DC’s BLM Plaza, Force Locals To Turn Around

The Black Lives Matter Effect is Killing Black Children

DISGUSTING: Cuomo, Lemon Dismiss, Mock Rising Murders, Shootings in Major Cities

Kanye Wests Says White Supremacists Doing ‘Devil’s Work’ Brought Planned Parenthoods In Cities Kanye is pretty sound these days.

Kanye West Calls Assumption That The Black Vote Is Democratic ‘A Form Of Racism And White Supremacy’

Partisan CNN’s Solution to Mount Rushmore Problem? Add Obama!

Church Hangs ‘Black Lives Matter’ Banner To Prevent Spread Of Coronavirus  Babylon Bee.

23 People Have Died Since Violence Erupted Following George Floyd’s Death  How many of them were black is left as an exercise for the reader.

AG Keith Ellison Faces Lawsuit Accusing Him Of Coordinating With Bloomberg On Anti-Exxon Crusade  What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

Woman Armed With Hockey Stick Charges Black Lives Matter Protester Who Was Laying Down In The Road  Left over from Global Warming, no doubt.

Victim In Central Park ‘Karen’ Case Unwilling To Cooperate In Investigation  Guess he’s not really black.

Far-Left CNN Endorses BLM Radicalism, Reparations

Man Drives Through Black Lives Matter March After Protesters Slash His Tires

‘The movement’s been hijacked’; BLM leader quits

Overt Hatred: CNN ‘Analyst’ Goes On Insane Rant Bashing DeSantis

FBI chief says China threatens families to coerce overseas critics to return

When ‘Boundary Policing’ Becomes Intimidation: How the Media Protect Their Turf

‘Crime Is Rising!’: Lemon, Cuomo Mock ‘Ring-Wing’ Media For Reporting On Crime

Crime Surges At Minneapolis Homeless Encampments, Multiple Sexual Assaults Investigated

Judge Jeanine Says NYC DA Wants To ‘Dismiss’ Charges Against City Rioters And Investigate Police

SCOTUS Rules In Favor Of Catholic Nuns, Upholds Conscience Exemptions For Birth Control Mandate

Supreme Court Shields Religious Schools From Employment Lawsuits

Hack: Camerota Refuses to Grill Whitmer on Nursing Home Deaths, Blames Others for Michigan COVID Struggles

Study Creates New Anti-Gun Catch Phrase: Excess Firearms  ‘Excess firearms’ is when you have more than you can physically carry.

‘Makes Me Feel Less Safe’: Vox Writer Complains After Colleague Signs Freedom Of Expression Letter  Really, you can’t make this shit up.

Panicky MSNBC: Conservative Win at Supreme Court Could Endanger Women’s Lives!

Noam Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, and Dozens More Attacked for Calling for an End to Cancel Culture

NYC, State, Cuomo, de Blasio Sued over New York Riots  Typically such suits don’t go anywhere because of the doctrine of sovereign immunity. But it’s good that somebody is at least trying.

Houston Mayor Cancels Texas GOP In-Person Convention, Defends George Floyd Protests

Facebook To Require Masks In All Profile Pictures  Babylon Bee.

US withdrawal from WHO could trigger a wider exodus, health experts fear  A serious setback for the New World Order.

Trump ‘going with his gut’ in fanning racism, frustrating some White House aides  Although that’s not what he’s doing, merely what some ‘journalist’ misinterprets it as.

Trump is destroying the Republican party. It’s up to conservatives to stop him.  Hey, Mitt Romney can’t do it all by himself.

‘They whisper about you’: Devastating anti-Trump Republican ad tells president his entire inner circle is against him  The Indpendent. At least they’d like him to believe that.

Trump is in deep trouble. His own allies are privately admitting why.  Washington Post.

Trump Supporter Slapped In The Face At Black Lives Matter Plaza  SJWs bring the hate….

MSNBC Scolds Media: Stop Giving Trump ‘Unfair Attention,’ Help Biden!  Unfortunately they’re not capable of ignoring the red dot.

Lunatic Maddow Loses It: Trump Officials to ‘Spend Eternity’ in ‘Damnation’

Harvard, MIT Sue Trump Administration Over New ICE Rules On Foreign Student Visas

Professor: Trump Has 91 Percent Chance of Winning Reelection  Science!

Trump Derangement: A Twitter Case Study

Prefab apartment proposal wants to make city living more sustainable  What does ‘sustainable’ mean for an apartment? It won’t fall down?

Remember when we were told: “The Arctic Is On Fire, and We Should all Be Terrified”? It’s SNOWING there now.

Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World

Climate Activists Step Up Calls for Imprisoning Climate Realists

Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air  If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

How carbon-sucking machines could cut aviation emissions

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Energy Transfer LP said it’s not making any moves to empty its Dakota Access oil pipeline after a judge on Monday ordered the conduit shut while a more robust environmental review is conducted.

The Dallas-based company run by billionaire Kelcy Warren said it’s also accepting requests for space on the pipeline in August. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia had ordered the pipeline to be drained by Aug. 5.

“We are not shutting in the line,” Energy Transfer spokeswoman Vicki Granado said in an email when asked if the company had begun emptying the pipeline. Judge James E. Boasberg “we believe exceeded his authority and does not have the jurisdiction to shut down the pipeline or stop the flow of crude oil.”

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This ‘wrong side of history’ is almost (TM)Proglodyte. Like Marxists (where I think they got it), they believe that there is this irresistible wave going from NOW to FUTURE and that they are riding it.

And when reality reaches out and bites them on the ass , they ignore it because It Just Can’t Be Happening That Way … until everything goes to shit, and then they wonder what happened.

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The Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies (CAREN) Act would make it “illegal for people to contact law enforcement solely to discriminate on the basis of a person’s race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity,” according to USA Today. Individuals who are victimized by the calls would reportedly be allowed to sue the caller for damages up to $1,000 dollars.

I wonder whether it would apply to ‘noose’ and other race hoaxes.

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Hey, he forgot, alright? It could happen to anybody.

Veronique de Rugy has some news.

I give you the CARES Act news headline equivalent of “dog bites man” or “water still wet”: “Small Business Loans Helped the Well-Heeled and Connected, Too.”

Seriously, is there anyone who has studied government programs, any government programs, for at least five minutes that is surprised by this news? It reminds me of its cousin headline: “big firms gets small business loans, too.”

Steve Sailer deals with some pretty blatant cultural appropriation.

Before I finally watched Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s colossally popular Broadway musical depicting the Founding Fathers as rapping Men of Color, I had never heard that it’s so childish. I don’t know how to judge hip-hop, but after a while the endless rhymes about the Constitutional Convention started sounding less like Eminem and more like Dr. Seuss. Hamilton is like if The Butter Battle Book took two hours and 45 minutes to recite.

Steve Sailer has an idea.

What America needs is an annual Homicide Awards show where cities compete over their Achievement in the Field of Homicide. Winning mayors would receive from celebrity presenters like O.J., Phil Spector, and Ramzan Kadyrov 2-foot-tall figurines of a criminal firing a Hi-Point held sideways, the Homie.

Lizzo has a message for the man who kicked her out of her summer rental 3 days early

The murder pandemic

Spending Bill: No Building at Bases With Confederate Names

MSNBC’s Sharpton Condemns Mount Rushmore as ‘Love Letter to White Supremacy’

Eagles Star DeSean Jackson Promotes Louis Farrakhan, Conspiracies About Jews And Coronavirus Vaccine

Violent Crime Explodes Across American Cities Following Nationwide Protests

16 Children Have Been Shot, Some Killed, In Cities Across The US As Violence Spikes

Slavery Rampant In Africa, Middle East; The West Wrongly Accuses Itself

Frederick Douglass Statue Toppling Is About ‘Creating Chaos’

Scientific Study of Police Shootings Is Retracted Because Bad People Like Heather Mac Donald Cite It, by Steve Sailer

Halle Berry apologises for comments on transgender role  Don’t be fooled by appearances! She may look white,  but she identifies as black.

When Facebook says you’re not a good ‘culture fit’, it means you’re not White or Asian enough – complaint  That’s what it means, does it?

Brian Williams Hears a Whiff (of Racist COVID Victim-Shaming)

Rasir Bolton Says He Left Penn State Over A Noose Reference From Pat Chambers

$1.2 Million Bail For Man Who Struck Protesters Blocking Highway

‘Black Lives Matter’ Has Been Explicit About Its Goals. These Are Their Demands  Notice that they are always ‘demands’, when they aren’t ‘nonnegotiable demands’.

BLACKWELL: Black Lives Don’t Matter To Black Lives Matter

Now presenting Black Panthers of Minneapolis

Erdogan Rallies Islamists Over Converting the Hagia Sophia to a Mosque

Justin Timberlake Takes A Stance On Confederate Monuments  Signal! That! Virtue! Signal! That! Virtue!

Black-on-Black Crime Explodes in the Wake of #BlackLivesMatter Protests

Here’s What To Expect In 2021 If Biden Wins: Race-Based Policies Surge Big Time

BLM Teacher Says 2+2 Only Equals 4 Because Of “Western Imperialism”  This is not a teacher but a witch doctor.

Atlanta Mayor: COVID, Police Brutality ‘Perfect Storm of Distress’  Perfect storm of Democrat incompetence.

Juan Williams Calls On NAACP, Black Lives Matter To Put ‘Same Emphasis’ On Stopping Black-On-Black Crime  He’d better talk to his fellow Halfricans Don Lemon and Trevor Noah.

JONES: I Am Black And I Am A Democrat. But ‘I Ain’t’ Voting For Joe Biden This November  He may be crazy but he’s not stupid.

California State University Faculty Union Demands Free Tuition For Minority Students, Police Abolition

These 18 Corporations Gave Money to Radical Black Lives Matter Group  Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

The Agenda of Black Lives Matter Is Far Different From the Slogan

Oregon Politician Said He Received Racist Letter. He Wrote It Himself, Police Say

Pro Football Player on Hot Seat For Quoting Hitler, Praising Farrakhan

150+ Lefties Including Gloria Steinem, Margaret Atwood, Admit BLM Has Gone Too Far

Shocker: Minneapolis Neighborhood That Took a White Guilt Pledge Not to Call the Cops Suffers Its Third Sexual Assault in a Month

Reporter And Cameraman Chased Out Of Black Lives Matter Plaza  Ask not for whom the mob bays; it bays for thee.

CNBC Talking Head And Tesla Mega-Bull, Ross Gerber Received PPP Loan Days After He Called Program “Another Trump Scam”

Lincoln Project Retweets Anti-Trump ‘Manipulated’ Video

Repulsive Liberal Media Spin Trump’s Hope Speech into Hate Speech

MSNBC Reruns Philip Rucker’s Dishonest Historical Hate-Summary of Trump’s Speeches

Newspaper Cartoon of Trump Wearing Swastika Draws Heavy Fire…from a Surprising Source

Race-Baiting MSNBC Accuses Trump of ‘Stoking a Race War’

Disgusting: CNN’s Berman Mocks Members of Trump Team Contracting COVID

Mary Trump’s Book Offers Negative Portrayal of President  No shit?

Hateful CNN: ‘Abysmal,’ ‘Appalling,’ ‘Divisive’ Trump Speeches Promoted ‘Racism’

The Arctic Is On Fire, and We Should all Be Terrified  Terrified!

A heat wave thawed Siberia’s tundra. Now, it’s on fire.  On fire!

The law that could make climate change illegal  BBC.

Bushfire Royal Commission: Climate Change has “Gone Nuclear”

*False Alarm*, the new book by Bjorn Lomborg

Litigation Against Fossil Fuel Producers Is An Obnoxious Money Chase

Arctic Siberia saw exceptionally high temperatures as global warmth matched last year’s record levels for June

Activists have shut down two major fossil fuel pipelines—at least for now

It’s time to grieve the world we’ve lost to climate change—and start to move on  And for God’s sake shut up about it already.

Here are some of the billionaires who got PPP loans while small businesses went bankrupt

Trump administration releases list of companies that received most money from small business bailout loans

Nancy Pelosi’s husband among lawmaker-linked PPP loan recipients

McConnell’s Wife’s Family Business Appears on Trump Admin’s List of Companies That Received Most PPP Money

Anarchists Attack Cops With Fireworks Over July 4 Weekend

After Weekend of Gun Violence, CNN Is Going Soft on Democrat Big-City Mayors

French bus driver attacked over face mask stance is declared brain dead

Facebook Folds: Will Now Police Speech After Advertiser Exodus

Effete NY Times Film Critic Sees Sun Setting on Fear-Driven, ‘Fascist’ Superhero Movies

Violent Crime Is Surging Dramatically In Major Cities All Over America  And these ‘major cities’ are all run by … wait for it … Democrats!

Noam Chomsky, JK Rowling, And Dozens More Criticized After Calling For An End To Cancel Culture

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Why subject yourself to a Democrat dystopia if you can escape?

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Wharton, being a graduate business school, doesn’t require the SAT, but rather the GMAT. (Been there, done that.) If she can’t get the basics right, I doubt that she got anything else right.

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Losing your legs doesn’t increase your brain any, Tammy. This is John McCain Syndrome carried into its natural home, the proglodyte Left.

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Progressive obsessive-compulsive disorder can apparently be traded for valuable prizes in the ‘journalism’ field.

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There are so many recent examples of prestigious establishment media outlets publishing absolutely bonkers essays that could only have been produced by people so impacted by toxic ideologies that they are not properly oriented toward reality and actually belong in mental hospitals that it’s become impossible to link, and marvel at, them all. So I’m simply going to try to pick the occasional particularly exceptionally deranged example.

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

One of the sports leagues announced recently that they intend to get rid of the white national anthem before games and play the black national anthem. Most white people, of course, were surprised to learn there is a black national anthem. Racists were momentarily excited, thinking that maybe blacks now had their own homeland, but that was not the case. Instead, it turns out that the black national anthem is a poem written a century ago by black civil rights activists.

It is an interesting bit of history that is worth considering. The poem itself reads like a call to black unity. The celebration of their new found freedom does not indicate what they hope to do with it, but there is a prayer to God that they will keep on the righteous path to victory, whatever that means. A cynic cannot help but notice that the poem and the musical performance was really aimed at the white Progressives that saw black abolition as their Christian duty.

The only time I think about race is when the news intrudes into my consciousness. I think it safe to say that black people think about it every waking minute. That is not a formula for happiness.

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Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students enroll at U.S. colleges and universities each year, and right now, a lot of them are freaking out.

As schools try to figure out how to start the fall semester amid the coronavirus pandemic, some — including Harvard University and the University of Southern California — are opting for online-only instruction. And that means their foreign students will have to leave or transfer, according to new rules issued Monday by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency.

In order to keep their student visas, foreign nationals have to take in-person classes, according to ICE. The new guidelines quickly sparked rage and anxiety in China, which sends more students to U.S. schools than any other country.

Not to mention rage and anxiety amongst college administrators — typically, foreign students pay full freight, and colleges depend on that cash flow to keep in the black.

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That’s going to chap some buns.

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Straight outa 1988.  Ah, those were the days….

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Harvard will be teaching solely on-line this fall (with some students in residence), yet charging full tuition rates. Many commentators are thus suggesting this supplies evidence for the signaling theory of education.

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The swine!

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Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post calls out three governors (all Republicans, natch) who acted so dastardly during the pandemic. Oh, and Trump, too, of course.

Funny, no mention of Andrew Cuomo, who killed all of those old people, and Gavin Newsome, who destroyed California’s economy. I guess Democrats don’t count.

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Not just ‘rich’, not just ‘super-rich’, but MEGA-RICH! So if you’re one of the merely rich, you can forget about it.

(Journalism 101: It’s never ‘the right’ but always ‘the ultra-right’; it’s never ‘the rich’ but always ‘the mega-rich’.)

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Let’s hope to God it works better than their cars.