4 rappers shot in Texas after one killed on highway in Dallas

Thirsty Small Children Must Go to the Back of the Bus

Defund the Referees

Biden Hires Economic Team With Focus On Systemic Racism

20 Shot, 1 Dead In Bloody Chicago Weekend Where Children Were Hit By Gunfire

Man Charged With Murder After 1 Dies During Hostage Situation At North Carolina Tire Store

There’s no “i” in “team,” but there are plenty in Rice

Reparations Advocate Mehrsa Baradaran Joins Biden Transition Team

‘You Are Not Helping Us’: Black Leaders Rebuke Portland Anarchists For Hijacking Racial Justice Movement

Berkeley Professor Urges Followers To Steal, Burn Book On Trans ‘Craze Seducing Our Daughters’  Ever notice how the fascist urges comes from the Left?

BLM/Antifa Attack Trump Supporters

YET AGAIN: Univision Hides Antifa Violence Against Trump Supporters

Austria’s New Hate Speech Law

Washington State Restricts Indoor Gatherings Ahead Of Thanksgiving, Limits On Weddings, Funerals And Dining

IRS Under Biden Could Hand Trump’s Tax Returns to Democrats

Eventbrite Removes ‘March For Trump’ Event, Allows Left-Wing Events

Washington Post Editorial Board Says The Electoral College Is ‘No Longer Tenable For American Democracy’

Vince Vaughn Defends Himself From Twitter Mob Still Mad at His Meeting With Trump

California Gov. Gavin Newsom Pushes Dozens Of Counties Into Most Restrictive Coronavirus Phase

Pushback: ‘Your House Is Your Castle’: Sheriff Refuses To Enforce Cuomo’s COVID-19 Restrictions On Home Gatherings

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #431

Uncertain Certainty: Germany’s Potsdam Climate Institute Humiliated After One-Year El Nino Forecast Model Flops

Why Scientists Are So Worried About Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

Democracy Dies on Climate: PBS, NPR Stick to Chatting Up Obama Alums, No Time for GOP

The Conversation: How do we Protect Venice from Flooding and Sea Level Rise?

After COVID-19: The Next Crackdown, or at Least a ‘Reset’ (Spoiler: Climate Change)

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Omar’s campaign was the largest known client of Tim Mynett’s firm, E Street Group, having paid the firm $2.78 million since July 2019, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show. Mynett co-owns the firm with Will Hailer, a former staffer for Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. E Street Group’s second-largest client that reports to the FEC was the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which has reported payments of $128,000 to the firm.

Omar said in an email Sunday to her supporters that she did not cut ties with her husband’s firm sooner because of the spending her primary and general election opponents put up against her.

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THEY ARE FINALLY LEARNING! HALLELUJAH!

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The dysfunction of the Congress is the core problem confronting the American system of government today. The first branch is first for a reason, and when it fails to do its essential work, nothing else works either.

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… a strongly held noble-savage belief system within progressive circles. Various formulations of this mythology have become encoded in public land acknowledgments, college courses, and even journalism. The overall theme is that Indigenous peoples traditionally lived their lives in harmony with the land and its creatures, and so their land-use demands transcend the realm of politics, and represent quasi-oracular revealed truths. As has been pointed out by others, this mythology now has a severe, and likely negative, distorting effect on public policy, one that hurts Indigenous peoples themselves. In recent years, Indigenous groups have finally gotten a fair cut of the proceeds of industrial-development and commodity-extraction revenues originating on their lands. And increasingly, they are telling white policy makers to stop listening to those activists who seek to portray them as perpetual children of the forest. It is for their benefit, as much as anyone else’s, to explore the truth about the myth of harmonious Indigenous conservationism.

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Even though the votes are still being counted, Joe Biden declared that he is the President-Elect, a shadow government office invented by Obama and invested with a pseudo-government seal, and he has been holding fake briefings and taking phone calls with foreign leaders.

The United States only has one president at a time. Maintaining a fake shadow presidency undermines the sitting administration to the American people and to foreign governments.

It’s illegal and inappropriate. So the Democrats are doing it anyway.

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President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign restructured their Pennsylvania lawsuit Sunday to narrowly tailor their arguments in a bid to prevent the state from certifying the election results.

Originally, the lawsuit sought to invalidate nearly 700,000 mail-in ballots because the campaign alleged they were counted without poll watchers present, according to the Associated Press (AP).

While the campaign is still arguing that those ballots were improperly processed, lawyers have restructured their lawsuit, arguing Republican voters were not given the chance to cure their ballots while Democratic voters were.

“We are still arguing that 682,479 ballots were counted illegally, in secret,” Trump 2020 communications director Tim Murtaugh said in a statement. “Our poll watchers were denied meaningful access to watch the vote counting and we still incorporate that claim in our complaint.”

Paragraph 4 of the amended filing still seeks to have those ballots from Allegheny and Philadelphia Counties invalidated for allegedly not allowing poll watchers to observe.

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Like the obedient lap dogs they are, MSNBC immediately took up Barack Obama’s call for the mainstream media to fight conservative media misinformation when Joe Biden is in the White House. That directive came not only from the former president’s new book but also a series of interviews this week where he warned our democracy was in peril because many Americans reject the mainstream media’s “set of facts.”

On Monday, MSNBC Live host Hallie Jackson gushed over Obama’s warning about the conservative media and movement with one of his former press secretaries, Robert Gibbs at the end of the 10am EST hour. She quoted from an Atlantic interview but didn’t include the more blatant parts where Obama essentially called for social media platforms to censor conservatives.

Joel Kotkin.

In the aftermath of Trump’s narrow defeat, the media will likely push “respectable” anti-Trump front groups, like the Democratic funded AstroTurf Lincoln Project and others who backed President-elect Joe Biden. But given Trump’s extraordinary support among Republicans, these onetime GOP media and political operatives have a stronger affinity with today’s Democrats who, increasingly, resemble the old Republicans, with lockstep support from the upper class, notably on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, as well as law and professional service firms.

Certainly, the “party of the people” is where the money is: Overall Democratic campaign spending has more than tripled since 2008, running this year about two times that for Republicans. The upcoming cataclysmic battle to win the Georgia Senate seats already started with a big Silicon Valley fundraiser. As the Democrats have gathered in the .01 percent, Trump won three-quarters of the white working-class vote, down slightly from 2016, but made significant gains with racial minorities.

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Last January, a small but telling exchange took place at an Elizabeth Warren campaign event in Grimes, Iowa. At the time, Warren was attracting support from the Democratic Party’s left flank, with her bulging portfolio of progressive proposals. “Warren Has a Plan for That” read her campaign T-shirts. The biggest buzz surrounded her $1.25 trillion plan to pay off student-loan debt for most Americans.

A man approached Warren with a question. “My daughter is getting out of school. I’ve saved all my money [so that] she doesn’t have any student loans. Am I going to get my money back?”

“Of course not,” Warren replied.

“So you’re going to pay for people who didn’t save any money, and those of us who did the right thing get screwed?”

Yup. That’s how it works.

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The fanatic, of course, has been in the middle of every man-made social disaster since the French Revolution. It was fanatics who brought on the Reign of Terror and it was fanatics who brought on The Great Terror. Fanatics let loose by Mao in the Cultural Revolution terrorized the Chinese population. Man’s greatest invention turns out to be man’s most terrible invention. Once it is let loose, it is not easily put back on the leash, at least not until it runs out of things to smash.

This year has seen the fanatic set free to run wild in our streets. They were deliberately agitated and let loose by the petty men of the ruling class, frustrated that the people’s champion had not been vanquished. It’s hard for modern people to understand how the French radicals, for example, could have killed so many in the name of the revolution, but current events make this much easier to comprehend, even if we have not reached the bloodbath stage yet.

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Wood stoves equipped with thermoelectric generators can produce electricity that is more sustainable, more reliable, and less costly than power from solar PV panels.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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According to Paul Murphy in his article “Medieval Rabbit Farming and Bannow Island” in Medieval Wexford: Essays in Memory of Billy Colfer, rabbits were brought to Britain by the Normans following their conquest, with rabbit farming becoming established in Ireland by the late twelfth century. Rabbit fur, being soft, durable, and warm, was a desirable material for lining clothing, and their meat was elite eating, as well.

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Confronted with a shrunken majority, House leaders are discouraging fellow Democrats from taking jobs with the incoming Biden administration — out of concern that Republicans could nab any vacated seats, sources told The Post on Sunday.

Insiders variously accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., of urging Dems to stay put to preserve their fragile majority.

The Paper that Blew it Up

Atmospheric rivers help create massive holes in Antarctic sea ice

UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT

The Government Corruption of Science

MSNBC Host Fantasizes Over Trump ‘Dragged Out of White House Like ‘Cops’ Show

Colorado Professor Compares Questioning Voting Results To Holocaust Denial

Does Racism Explain Black Underperformance?

Collateral Damage? CDC Admits COVID Lockdowns Sparked Surge In Children’s Mental Health Issues

Fauci’s New ‘COVID-Crushing’ Guidance To Americans: “Do What You’re Told!”

Lori Lightfoot Tells Chicago: Cancel Thanksgiving, Avoid Family, Days After Hosting Crowded Biden Street Party  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Chicago Mayor Limits Gatherings To Ten People Unless You’re Involved In A Drive-By  Babylon Bee.

Lockdowns Haven’t Brought Down COVID Mortality, But They Have Killed Millions Of Jobs

Ezekiel Emanuel: the US Government Should Let Americans Die in Order to Give Scarce COVID Vaccines to Countries Where People Die Young Anyway

Are Vaccines Really Going to Happen on a Mass Scale in 2020?

The Orwellian Pandemic

NYC Schools Won’t Close Monday; Austria 2nd European Country To Adopt Mandatory COVID Testing: Live Updates

French Catholics Protest for End to Lockdown on Mass

Eric Garcetti On COVID Spike: ‘Cancel Those Vacation Plans’ And ‘Get A Chicken Instead Of A Turkey’

Dr. Fauci Suggests Masks, Social Distancing Measures Should Continue Even After Vaccine

Biden Coronavirus Adviser Calls National Lockdown ‘Measure Of Last Resort’

COVID-19 is distracting us from another medical emergency

Biden Task Force Co-Chair: National Lockdown Would ‘Exacerbate The Pandemic Fatigue’  Will they take the hint? Only time can tell.

Biden Advisers Urge Immediate COVID-19 Action as US Infections Near 11M  ‘Do something, even if it’s wrong!’

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On Saturday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom, host Ana Cabrera conspired with radical leftist Yale professor of history Timothy Snyder to spout insane conspiracy theories about President Trump. Cabrera proclaimed that she was “unsettled” by a tweet from Snyder in which he claimed that Trump “has attempted” a “coup d’état” and Snyder responded by crazily insisting that Trump is “going for it.”

Cabrera began the segment by hyping Snyder’s book, On Tyranny, in which he compared Trump to Hitler and claimed that Trump will take over the U.S. government through a Reichstag Fire type scheme. Snyder seems to be obsessed with making psychotic accusations towards Trump, as he also told Cabrera earlier this year that U.S. Democracy is in a “precarious situation” due to Trump nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

Broadly speaking, there are three ways an administration that’s on its way out can treat an incoming administration. It can cooperate, it can largely decline to cooperate, or it can subvert.

In 2016, the Obama administration, of which Joe Biden was a part, chose to subvert Team Trump. Therefore, Team Biden should not be heard to complain if the Trump administration chooses the less malignant approach of not cooperating.

The Clinton people did the same to the incoming George W. Bush team, even going so far as to remove the ‘W’ keys from the computer keyboards.

Steve Sailer.

Since the 1990s, “stereotype threat” — the assertion that the reason politically privileged groups score worse on high stakes tests is because they perversely make themselves live down to pernicious stereotypes — has been far more popular than vindicated by evidence from low stakes tests. It’s easy to get papers upholding stereotype threat published, while the many failed replications tend to be tossed into the circular file.

Black people could ace the SATs but doing so would be ‘acting white’.

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There is good reason to believe that the 2020 election was a repudiation of far-left social and economic policy in the United States. This interpretation at the very least has been taken to heart by many Democrats who lost seats in the US House and who now fear—with good reason—greater losses during the midterm 2022 elections. Many blame the factions who represent the most far-left elements within the party. Moreover, when we look at the US’s center-right party—i.e., the GOP—we find it made gains nationwide when both federal and state level offices are considered.

What is less clear, however is whether or not the usual center-left elements of the American political scene have been repudiated at all. One would be very hard pressed to make the case that this election illustrated any widespread appetite among Americans to embrace an agenda of lower government spending, cuts to social welfare, or restrained monetary policy. Although the media likes to portray Trump as a right-wing troglodyte, the fact is that Trump in 2020 did not run on a platform of overturning to any significant extent any of the Left’s victories solidified during the Obama years, including new gay marriage provisions, Obamacare, or increased social spending. Indeed, Trump increased government spending to unprecedented levels, imposed new gun controls, and did little to rein in a CDC bent on destroying the economic well-being of countless American families.

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Since the data details only when 11 or more forwarding requests were made to a particular county outside NYC, the number of moves is actually higher. And a single address change could represent an entire household, which means far more than 300,000 New Yorkers fled the five boroughs.

Whatever the exact number, the exodus — which began when COVID-19 hit the city in early spring — is much greater than in prior years. From just March through July, there were 244,895 change of address requests to destinations outside of the city, more than double the 101,342 during the same period in 2019.

The escape from New York is fueled not only by coronavirus concerns, but economic worries, school chaos and rising crime, experts say.

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The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife Jill Biden to “develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research and care and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes,” according to its IRS mission statement. But it gave out no grants in its first two years, and spent millions on the salaries of former Washington DC aides it hired.

Environmental Groups Appeal Illinois Order Allowing Dakota Pipeline Expansion

Climate Sensitivity Estimates: Declining or Not?

sStates Aren’t Prepared To Distribute Coronavirus Vaccine, Investigation Finds

Pelosi Hosts Welcome Dinner For New Democrats As Cities Lock Down Due To Pandemic  Rules for thee but not for me, that’s what the Crust stands for.

Totally Under Control—A Review

“Lockdowns For Thee, But Not For Me” – Newsom, Pelosi Attend Dinner Parties While US COVID Cases Explode

Pelosi Extends Proxy Vote Rule Until Dec. 31

Fauci: Do As You’re Told!

Coronavirus in one state (125)

US Tops 170k New COVID Cases For First Time As 11 Million-Mark Nears: Live Updates

‘Not The Way The Economy Works’: Mississippi Governor Refuses To Participate In Possible Nationwide COVID-19 Lockdown

How Trump’s Voter Fraud War Room Became a Fart-Infused ‘Room From Hell’ (The Daily Beast)

This is no conventional coup. Trump is paving the way for a ‘virtual Confederacy’ (The Guardian)

Prediction: Trump will resign, Pence will pardon him (The Hill) For what?

A war among Trump’s kids shows this family won’t let us move on (Washington Post)

CNN Touts Claim Trump ‘Wants to Lose,’ ‘Worried About Getting Arrested’ For what?

ABC’s Dan Abrams Worries that Trump Could Still ‘Steal This Election’

Pelosi Apologizes, Cancels Dem Dinner Party As She And Newsom Skewered As Hypocrites  Catch a Crustian and watch it wiggle.

Twitter Bans Bannon, Allows Griffin to Re-Post Bloody Trump Head

The Racial-Justice War On Merit-Based Schools: It’s an Injustice Against Excellence, Critics Say

Is Carjacking Back?

Carjackings Up 120% in Chicago and 93% in D.C.

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I love good cartoons.

The Other McCain is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, anyone concerned about the integrity of the 2020 election is part of a “cluster of far-right extremists including neo-fascists, white nationalists and militia members.” Thus do they describe the #StopTheSteal rally planned for noon Saturday at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. Among the featured guests at the D.C. rally are Michelle Malkin. Amy Kremer, Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec and many other pro-Trump personalities.

So now the SPLC is defining support for the President of the United States as “hate.”

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Tensions ran high Friday at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C. as a crowd of Trump supporters clashed with a group of anti-Trump protesters.

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

The renewable energy fanatics like to point out that the cost of solar power has been falling dramatically over the past decade, the result of technological and manufacturing improvements. This is true, but raises the question: why does the solar industry continue to demand subsidies then?

‘Dejected’ Trump waffles over waging baseless election fight (CNN) Baseless!

Biden defeated Trump, but Democrats didn’t win a mandate. They ignore that at their peril. (NBC)

Sore loser Donald Trump claims he was cheated out of reelection. Where’s the proof? (USA Today) Well, you could look at the court filings. But I guess that would be, you know, work.

End of Trump era deals heavy blow to rightwing populist leaders worldwide (The Guardian) Kind of jumping the gun, I suspect.

Disgusting NY Times Compares Trump’s ‘Anti-Democratic Tactics’ to Mugabe, Pinochet

MSNBC’s Manic Joe Fancies Himself a Psychic, Knew Trump ‘Shock Opera’ Would End Badly

TAX $ AT WORK: Amanpour Viciously Compares Trump Not Conceding to Nazi Genocide

People Who Work from Home Should Pay a New Tax, Economists Suggest

Official Overseeing Arizona Vote-Count Process Previously Tweeted About Trump’s “Neo-Nazi Base”

Twitter Labels 300K Election-Related Posts as Disputed, Misleading

MSNBC Frets Trump Will Be National Security Threat as Ex-President  Like Joe and Hunter Biden?

Overwhelming Majority of Voters Think Fraud Occurred

Senior Administration Officials Lied To Trump About Troop Levels So He Wouldn’t Pull Out Of Syria

Portland Mayor Amends City Charter To Be ‘More Inclusive Of All Gender Identities’

Trump Law Firm Quits Pennsylvania Case After Project Lincoln ‘Cancel’ Campaign  Apparently intimidation works.

1 Country, 1 System: How The Chinese Communist Party Ended Hong Kong’s Democracy

More Election Fraud Found

REPORT: Economist Being Floated For Biden Cabinet Position Appeared On Chinese Propaganda Outlets

‘I Really Want Some Of What They’re Smoking’: Whoopi Says Trump Admin Missed The Memo That Biden Won

Washington University To Bar Students From Campus That Travel Too Far For Thanksgiving

FEC Chairman Says He Believes ‘There Is Voter Fraud’ In Key States

Outgoing Syria Envoy Boasts He Hid True Troop Levels & Stymied Trump Withdrawal Efforts  The Deep State: IT’S EVERYWHERE! IT’S EVERYWHERE!

Billionaire Philanthropy Organization Wants To Know What Is In Your Gun Safe

Get an Intimate Look at How Tiny Nuclear Reactors Are Changing Energy

‘Past a point of no return’: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero still won’t stop global warming, study says  (USA Today)

Building for a flooded future: Architects are designing for the new climate reality  (CNN) Still waiting for property prices to drop in Malibu and Palm Beach.

Modern Climate Change Science

MSNBC’s Tur Eager for Economy-Killing Climate Regulation

Friday Funny BONUS: Funniest Things Blamed on Climate Change?  Plus there are numerous Dilbert cartoons blaming unlikely outcomes on ‘climate change’.

Common SARS-CoV-2 mutation may make coronavirus more susceptible to a vaccine

Disinfected by the Sun: New Cotton Face Mask Kills Up to 99.9999% of Bacteria and Viruses in Daylight

Live updates: U.S. sets another record with over 153,000 new coronavirus cases as states threaten lockdowns

Megyn Kelly mocks Chris Cuomo and accuses his brother of killing 6,000 care home residents

Measles Is Back With a Vengeance, Killed 200,000 in 2019

Fired Amazon Worker Files Discrimination Lawsuit Over Pandemic Conditions

Beijing Faces Extreme Pressure To Publish Promising COVID-19 Vaccine Data

Delta Has Banned 550 Passengers for Not Wearing Masks

Chicago Mayor Tells People To ‘Cancel Traditional Thanksgiving Plans’ After Celebrating Biden Victory In Large Crowd  BRAAAAAAAINS!

California Second State to Top 1M COVID-19 Cases

Mississippi Gov.: State Won’t Participate in National Lockdown

In Defense of Pfizer: the Growing Democratic Anti-Vaxxer Movement

Robert Bridge: How The Democrats Weaponized A Pandemic To Beat Donald Trump

Covid-19 orthodoxy and awkward looks

Golden State Warriors Planning On 50% Capacity, Will Spend Roughly $30 Million On Coronavirus Testing

Cleveland Browns Close Their Facility After A Player Tests Positive For Coronavirus

The Global Economy Is Rolling Over As Lockdowns Return

Here’s An Update On America’s Coronavirus Tyrants

Time to Recognize Data Uncertainty in COVID Debates

Super-spreading wedding demonstrates COV-19 risk posed by holiday gatherings

John Legend: People Need Democrat Covid-19 Policies More than Food

Justice Alito Slammed By Left After Questioning Constitutionality Of COVID Crackdowns

Northam Restricts Large Groups, Night Drinking, Expands Mask Mandate Ahead Of Thanksgiving

Fauci Tells Americans ‘Now Is The Time To Do What You’re Told’ During Discussion On Coronavirus Pandemic

Here’s A Running List Of How Well Our Leaders Follow Their Own Coronavirus Restriction Rules

New Mexico to Reimpose Stay-At-Home Order for Two Weeks

Stacey Abrams Expected to Run Again for Georgia Governor

National Park Service Faces $270M Wrongful Death Claim

Cornell English Department: Calling the English Dept. the English Dept. Is Racist

Tucker Carlson Reviews Latest Obama Memoir: ‘Barack Obama Is a Genius; You Are A Racist’

THRILLS and TINGLES: Media’s Long History of Adoring Barack Obama

Michigan AG: Trump’s Voter Fraud Lawsuits Are Racist

Two Arrested After 6 Shot Including 2 Cops In North Carolina Nightclub Gunfight

Not Journalism: Obama Vacation Pal Gayle King Spends Interview Whining About GOP

Cop Shot And Killed Near Arkansas Motel, Suspect Fled Scene

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I have returned with some regularity over the years to compare what is going on in our country today to what was going on in the 1850s, the years preceding the Civil War.

America has always been about freedom of expression. And that freedom has often led to protests and tension. Generally, we’ve gotten through these tough and challenging times and moved on.

But what caused everything to break down in the 1850s, leading to a horrible Civil War?

The answer, I think, is to understand the distinction between plurality of opinions and plurality of values.

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And stop being the toast of the Upper West Side and the Hamptons? Imperil domestic tranquility with Democrat wife and co-host Mika Brzezinski? Maybe even get “canceled” by a liberal establishment baying for Republican political blood?

One of the benefits of having Donald Trump as President is that it has flushed the RINOs out of the underbrush.

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he Showtime pay cable channel, owned by ViacomCBS, has become the latest media outlet to promote specious leftist attacks meant to destroy the credibility and respect for a political leader admired by conservatives.

On Sunday night at 8 PM EST (repeating at 11:30 PM and 1:30 AM EST, matching times in the West coast feed) Showtime will debut a four-part documentary series, The Reagans, devoted to smearing President Ronald Reagan as an anti-civil rights user of racist “dog whistles” who, in the words of its director, served as a tool of “plutocrats” who “in many ways paved the way for Trump.”

Remember, if you hear the dog whistle, then you’re the dog.

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Peter Turchin, one of the world’s experts on pine beetles and possibly also on human beings, met me reluctantly this summer on the campus of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he teaches. Like many people during the pandemic, he preferred to limit his human contact. He also doubted whether human contact would have much value anyway, when his mathematical models could already tell me everything I needed to know.

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The year 2020 has been kind to Turchin, for many of the same reasons it has been hell for the rest of us. Cities on fire, elected leaders endorsing violence, homicides surging—­­to a normal American, these are apocalyptic signs. To Turchin, they indicate that his models, which incorporate thousands of years of data about human history, are working. (“Not all of human history,” he corrected me once. “Just the last 10,000 years.”) He has been warning for a decade that a few key social and political trends portend an “age of discord,” civil unrest and carnage worse than most Americans have experienced. In 2010, he predicted that the unrest would get serious around 2020, and that it wouldn’t let up until those social and political trends reversed. Havoc at the level of the late 1960s and early ’70s is the best-case scenario; all-out civil war is the worst.

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Materials stay cooler when water evaporates off of them, but once all the water is gone, the cooling effect stops. Bearing this in mind, MIT scientists have developed a camel fur-inspired material that could keep items cool without using electricity.

Although it might initially seem like a bare-skinned camel would stay cooler overall than one covered with fur, that isn’t the case. The fur acts as a gas-permeable insulating layer, shading the animal’s skin from external heat while still allowing sweat to evaporate off of it. As a result, the evaporative cooling effect lasts longer – the camel still sweats, but not as much as the hypothetical bare-skinned one would before becoming dehydrated.

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

The dismal performance of FOX News on election night put an exclamation point on the descent of the network into the trough of antipathy and distrust conservatives relegate its competitors. One can infer that FOX News is disturbed by the reaction of conservative media outside the network’s circle to the network’s election night pratfalls (to put it charitably).

Consider the number of respectable conservative pundits who are tongue-tied by virtue of their contractual relationship with FOX News as contributors. Their public silence is inherent in their relationship, but is there any conservative outlet or pundit not on the payroll who hasn’t spoken up to observe the miasma at the network?

Fox fumbled the election coverage pretty thoroughly.