The Other McCain points and laughs,

The rot hasn’t proceeded as far in Britain as it sometimes seems.

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The absurd Big Brother micromanagement by social media of postings by individuals can be seen reflected in the recent labeling as “false” by Instagram of a post linking Joe Biden’s 1994 crime bill to mass incarceration.

This was highlighted by Steven Nelson in Wednesday’s New York Post in an article titled, “Instagram censors post for linking Joe Biden’s 1994 law to mass incarceration.”

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“It is my honor, on behalf of the President of the United States, to announce that, henceforth, the men and women of the United States Space Force will be known as ‘Guardians,” Pence said. “Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Guardians will be defending our nation for generations to come.”

Not, so far as I know, a parody.

UPDATE: ‘Not An Accident’: Critics Slam Space Force Guardians Over ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Connection

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Bridget Thorne and Susan Voyles say they witnessed abnormal actions taken during the election in Fulton County. They’ve spoken to news outlets and state legislators about what they saw.

In the new letters, Dwight Brower, elections consultant for the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections, informs the women that Georgia law enables officials to appoint poll managers, and managers must be reappointed for each election event.

“There are many factors (management skills, performance, actions, behavior, etc.) considered prior to making reappointments for each primary or election. Unfortunately, a decision has been made to not reappoint you in a poll management or other poll positions in Fulton County,” Brower wrote.

Biden Introduces Climate Team, Calls Climate Change An ‘Existential Threat’  I don’t feel threatened. Do you feel threatened? (Maybe by the government….)

Wrong Again: 2020’s Failed Climate Doomsaying

What the Science of Addiction Tells Us About Trump (Politico) I think it tells us more about TDS than about Trump.

Donald Trump’s New Brand Is Loser (The New Yorker)

They Hate You: MSNBC’s Reid, Panelists Celebrate Biden Aide Trashing Republicans

EXCLUSIVE: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Says She Was Doxxed During The Riots

The War on History Comes for Abraham Lincoln

VA to Give Nonwhites Higher Priority Access to Vaccine

Murders Up 28.3% This Year Across 223 Cities

Breonna Taylor: The True Story of a BLM Hero  Turns out she was involved in her boyfriend’s drug business.

Ousted Black Google Researcher: ‘They Wanted to Have My Presence, but Not Me’

MSNBC Is the Place to Go for Race Hate; Morning Joe Brings on THIS Hater

New York Police Accused Of Violating ‘The Rights Of Protesters’ During George Floyd Riots, City Authorities Say

‘Level The Playing Field A Bit’: ‘Ethics Expert’ Implies Vaccines Shouldn’t Be Prioritized For Elderly Because They’re ‘Whiter’

New York City Changing Academic Admissions Policies To Combat Segregation In Specialized Schools

REPORT: Public School District Holds Training Instructing White Teachers On How To ‘Bankrupt’ Their ‘Privilege’

Deadspin, USA Today Demand Reparations For Negro League Baseball Players

Gardening is racist

CDC: All Lives Matter Less Than Black Lives Matter

Actor Kirk Cameron Hosts Christmas Caroling Event To Oppose California Lockdown Restrictions With No Social Distancing, No Masks

Tom Patterson: The Science Is Clear: End the Lockdowns

“Who Wants To Be A Guinea Pig?”: Health Workers Balk At Vaccine; 40% Of Staff At One Chicago Hospital Refuse To Take

Seriously? Gunshot Deaths Counted Among COVID-19 Fatalities In Colorado

Are The Teachers Unions Keeping the Schools Closed?

Tennessee Nurse Passes Out On Camera Minutes After Taking COVID-19 Vaccine

UK Home Secretary Encourages Neighbors To Snitch On Each Other For Breaking COVID Rules

What you should know about allergic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine

Dr. Fauci Insists He Never Told Americans To Cancel Christmas

Plummeting NYC Real Estate Deals Crush City’s Tax Revenue 

High-Frequency Data Reveals NYC Office Towers Are Empty

Brazil’s Supreme Court Rules COVID Vaccine Can Be Mandatory

Experts Warn Further Lockdowns Could Result In More Taylor Swift Albums  Babylon Bee.

Forget the ‘Progressive’ Promise of Free Care for All When it Comes to Government-Controlled Health Care

There’s A Coronavirus Civil War Brewing Between Biden And Teachers Unions

VILE Kimmel Attacks Pence for Getting COVID Vaccine

The New England Journal Of Medicine Is Now Fully Woke

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Ian Harris, a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, wrote a book titled Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo. I haven’t read the book, but I watched his excellent YouTube video lecture on the subject. It is an eye-opening evaluation of commonly performed surgical operations that have been tested and shown to be no more effective (and arguably worse) than placebo, or that have never even been tested. He covers the history of sham surgery studies, talks about placebo effects, and explains why so many surgeons ignore the evidence and continue to do ineffective operations. In the process, he provides a valuable education in critical thinking.

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Committee assignments are one of the least eye-catching parts of politics, but they’re also one of the most important ways in which actual political power is wielded. Certain committees in the House, like Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Appropriations, have outsized influence and money power. (They are often called the “money” committees, not just because they’re where the action is but because members can earn lots of money in campaign contributions from industries with business before them.)

Deliberations over the next several days will be extremely important for progressives in the House, as they angle to lock down seats on these powerful committees for their members. To that end, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was expected to secure a prized position on the Energy and Commerce Committee, a seat vacated by outgoing New Yorker Eliot Engel. Among other issues, the committee has jurisdiction over health care and climate change issues, a natural for a congresswoman who has championed Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.

Ocasio-Cortez was expected to cruise comfortably to the position. She was the first to raise her hand for the seat, and she won the backing of dean of the New York delegation Rep. Jerry Nadler. But last week, as Politico reported, Long Islander Kathleen Rice made an out-of-nowhere, last-second bid for the seat, interrupting the process. Rep. Rice is a backbencher from the party’s right flank who, in 2018, refused to support Nancy Pelosi for Speaker. Without the support of Nadler, and with the famous opposition of Steering Committee leader Pelosi, Rice’s attempt didn’t seem to be serious.

You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

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It’s hard to say the word “innovation” and not think of California. Technology has paced the state’s growth in everything from agriculture and oil to housing, entertainment, and aerospace. California has always been the harbinger of the American future, the promise of ever-greater economic and social progress.

Yet increasingly, many of today’s innovators are fleeing the state. This past week, one half of the company arguably most symbolic of tech development in the state—Hewlett Packard Enterprises—one part of the now broken-up old Hewlett Packard and focused on lucrative areas like cloud computing and IT infrastructure—decided to leave for Houston. Within a week Elon Musk, the latest in the line of truly transformative California tech entrepreneurs, also announced that he would move to Texas, along with Oracle, a Fortune 100 company and global leader in database management. Other recent departures also include more traditional firms as Charles Schwab, McKesson, Bechtel, Parsons Engineering, and CB Richard Ellis.

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For me, the single most interesting finding in Righteous Mind was his account of this particular test. Subjects were given a questionnaire to ascertain where they were located on the political spectrum. Then they were then given the same questionnaire and asked to answer as if somebody with the other point of view was filling it out. Conservatives were asked to answer as a liberal would and liberals as a conservative. Conservatives correctly mimicked the likely pattern of liberals but liberals had an absurdly wrong view of likely conservative answers, erring heavily on the side of bad motives and lack of compassion, empathy, etc.

If you get the impression that the left has a caricatured view of conservatives as hate-filled, bigoted, and uncaring you aren’t wrong. There is empirical evidence that they really do think that way. They almost have to.

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Connecticut-based company LiquidPiston is developing a portable generator for the US Army that uses its X-Engine, a fresh and extremely powerful take on the rotary engine that’ll deliver as much power as the Army’s current-gen-set at one-fifth the size.

We’ve written a few times before about the fascinating LiquidPiston rotary engine. It’s not a Wankel – indeed, it’s closer to an inside-out Wankel – and with only two moving parts, it’s able to deliver extraordinary power density at up to 1.5 horsepower per pound (0.45 kg).

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Fifty-six percent of Americans believe it is likely Joe Biden was consulted and perhaps profited from his son Hunter’s overseas business deals, including at least one involving a company in mainland China, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports.

Sometimes the Big Lie doesn’t work.

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I’m tired of schools trying to play the role of surrogate parents.

Like too many parents across our nation, I’ve become increasingly concerned about the radical social and political ideas that are being forced upon our children in public schools. While I’m raising my children with biblically-based morals and values at home, schools are undermining and refuting those same lessons in the classroom. They’re striving to replace my role as parent, and that isn’t right.

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Some governing areas fall neatly under easily recognized policy umbrellas. Relations with other countries come under the auspices of “foreign policy,” and when those relations break down and things end in a shooting war, then the “defense policy” folks come to the forefront.

Not so with one of the most important areas of life today: identity politics.

In this view, America is not a country where the individual is the main agent—one who, because of his very existence possesses individual rights derived from his creator and/or his human nature.

Instead, it’s one where membership in official categories (based on sex, race, etc.) is the identity that matters when it comes to rights, responsibilities, and everything else.

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Do you find that suspicious? I do.

Matt Taibbi.

Start with the headline: Supporting the 2020 U.S. Election. YouTube in its company blog can’t even say, “Banning Election Conspiracy Theories.” They have to employ the Orwellian language of politicians — Healthy Forests, Clear Skies, “Supported” Elections — because Google and YouTube are now political actors, who can’t speak plainly any more than a drunk can walk in a straight line.

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If you want a population of people to stop thinking an election was stolen from them, it’s hard to think of a worse method than ordering a news blackout after it’s just been demonstrated that the last major blackout was a fraud. Close your eyes and imagine what would have happened if Facebook and Google had banned 9/11 Truth on the advice of intelligence officials in the Bush years, and it will start to make sense that Trump voters in Guy Fawkes masks are now roaming the continent like buffalo.

I want one.

Jesus Was Boring

U.S. Mainstream Media Siding with the Islamists

Convicted Bin Laden Accomplice Released Weeks Early From Prison Due To ‘Obesity And Somewhat Advanced Age,’ Judge Says

Suicide Bomber Injures 6 Officers In Russia

Journalist Executed For Allegedly Inspiring Nationwide Economic Protests In Iran

The Man Who Would Be Osama

Canoes Carry Migrants to the Canaries

Iran Executes Journalist Who Encouraged 2017 Protests

Second Crude Tanker Explodes Off Saudi Coast In 3 Weeks, “External Source” Blamed

Police In Indonesia Arrest Al-Qaida-Linked Terrorist Suspected Of Being Behind Bombings That Killed Over 200

Hundreds Of Boys Missing In Nigeria After Gunmen Raid School

Gunmen Reportedly Kill 27, Burn Down Hundreds Of Homes Amid Nigerien Elections

Reforming EU Imam Training Easier Said Than Done

Iran’s Global Terror Network Lurks Behind its Threats of Vengeance

French Court Finds Accomplices to Charlie Hebdo Attackers Guilty

14 Terrorists Convicted For Aiding 2015 Charlie Hebdo ISIS Attack

Federal Prosecutors Charge Kenyan Man With Plotting 9/11-Style Attack

‘Kill Them Like Killing Insects’: ISIS Fighters Encouraged To Target American And French Civilians During Holidays

US Prosecutors to Announce Charges in Lockerbie Flight Bombing

The Fate of Giulio Regeni

Axios Calls Woman Who Hijacked Two Planes For A Designated Terrorist Organization A ‘Palestinian Activist’

The Muslim Brotherhood in the Netherlands, Part Five

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The Covid pandemic this year has profoundly transformed the relationship of government to American citizens. Constitutional leashes have been obliterated as state and local politicians and officials have issued endless decrees that were vastly more effective at destroying freedom than at curbing a virus. And the Biden administration may soon take further leaps towards making our political system into a Cage Keeper Democracy where citizens’ ballots merely designate who will place them under house arrest.

‘Squad’ Member Cori Bush Wants Biden To Grant Clemency To Everybody On Death Row

‘Inappropriate Content’: PA Attorney General Tells His Kids ‘To Avert Their Eyes’ When MyPillow’s Mike Lindell Is On TV

Paris Mayor Says It’s ‘Absurd’ City Has Been Fined For Hiring Almost Exclusively Women

BIZARRO WORLD: Journalism Award Named After Dan Rather?

And now, the Dan Rather Medals

Report: Zuckerberg Money Used in Violation of Federal Election Law

Biden Names As “Climate Czar” Former EPA Chief Blamed For Flint Water Crisis

Anti-Cop Climate Sparks NYPD Exodus 

Ninth Circuit to Nevada: You can’t treat churches worse than casinos

“The State Has Provided No Evidence”: San Diego Judge Nukes Newsom’s Lockdown For Strip Clubs And Restaurants

When 2-Year-Olds Are Thrown Off Airplanes, You Know America Has Changed

GAO Asks Court to Compel New Mexico AG to Stop Stonewalling in Discovery, Provide Answers to Questions About Work with Activists and Activist AGs

DC Mayor Backs Down Following Catholic Church Lawsuit, Eases Restrictions On Churches Ahead Of Christmas

Despite Being Closed, San Diego Schools Descend Into Wokeness

Instagram is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Joe Biden’s Crime Record From Criticisms

Transgender Ohio Residents Can Change Birth Certificates, Judge Rules

Vogue Fawns: NBC Anchors ‘Won the 2020 Election Coverage’

CNN Silent on Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Andrew Cuomo

Poll: Literally The Only Political Demographic That Mostly Does Not Take Pride In Being American Is ‘Progressive Activists’

MSNBC’s Hunt Cues Ossoff to Accuse Republicans of Racism

Violent Crime Rate Doubles On Chicago Rail System, Even With Stepped-Up Police And Far Fewer Riders

MLB Announces Negro League Records Will Be Retroactively Counted As Major League

Mom Blames Atlanta Police for Her Son Getting Beaten in Massive Brawl

Early Wonder Woman Sequel Review Confirms Villain Is Based on Trump

Peter Strzok’s Declassified Messages Give Insider View Of FBI’s Trump Campaign Probe

Rhode Island Governor Tells Citizens To ‘Stay Home’ Before Heading To Wine Bar

Oliver Stone Says He’s Taken Russia’s Vaccination

‘One Punch After Another’: Baltimore Business Owner Opens Up About Impact Of COVID-19 Restrictions

California Sheriff Refuses To Release 1,800 Inmates After Judge’s Order

Education Expert Explains How Families Are ‘Getting A Bad Deal’ From Public Schools, And Are Pulling Students Out Because Of It

Luxury Restaurant Where Gov. Newsom Dined Received Over $2 Million In PPP Loans

Kiddies, Your Mayor Needs You to Snitch on the Mask-Skeptics

The End of Big Cities? The Hill Blames Coronavirus for the Exodus

Biden Names As “Climate Czar” Former EPA Chief Blamed For Flint Water Crisis

Jobless Claims Hit 3-Month High as COVID Restrictions Bite  As soon as the jobless rate heads down, some brownshirted Democrat governor imposes restrictions that drives it up again.

REPORT: ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Staff Members Quit After Tom Cruise’s Rants

Mexico’s President Slams Lockdowns As A Form Of “Dictatorship”

Houston Doctor Says Half His Nurses Refuse To Take The Vaccine For Political Reasons  Resist!

Pandemic Forced Nearly 8M Americans Into Poverty Over Last 6 Months  More accurately government panic over the pandemic forced Americans into poverty.

Fauci Wants Christmas Canceled: “Just One Of The Things You’re Going To Have To Accept”

Maine Man Allegedly Hits Grocery Store Owner With His Car Over Mask Dispute

‘We Must Follow The Science!’ Screams Actor Who Believes Xenu Dumped Frozen Aliens Into Volcanoes And Exploded Them With Bombs 75,000,000 Years Ago  Babylon Bee.

Covid-19 is 10 times deadlier for people with Down syndrome

‘We Are Breaking’: Parents Describe How Virtual Learning Has Traumatized Their Children

‘Strong Can Get Stronger’: Corporations Prosper During Pandemic As Small Businesses Struggle To Survive

Greta Thunberg Slams New Zealand’s Unambitious Climate Emergency

Modern Iceland’s Climate Is Colder With More Ice Than Any Other Time In The Last 8000 Years Except The 1800s

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If all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail – even a bruise.

Severian does some oversharing.

Fantasies of Competence: I want to say it was reader WOPR (please correct me if I’m wrong) who noted a while back that most 1990s entertainment would be impossible to “reboot” now, simply because so much of it presumes a baseline level of social and especially governmental competence. Take The X- Files, for instance. The “hot take” on the show back then was that it reflected our widespread social unease with an all-powerful government. The truth is out there!

Thirty years on, we can only dream of a government competent enough to cover up contact with extraterrestrials. As someone remarked at Z Man’s the other day, our government is now so retarded, Eric Swalwell — a high-ranking member of the House intelligence committee and putative presidential candidate — couldn’t successfully bone a hooker. Sorry, gang, the aliens won’t be stopping by; they only want to make contact with intelligent life.

I remember watching tons of secret-agent movies in which the CIA had all sorts of cutting-edge tech gear and rolling my eyes because I knew from six years of military service that government gear is always about twenty years behind what you can buy on the open market.

ZMan casts an eye backward.

Move backward through popular politics in America and you see one holy crusade after another driving the political debate. Today it is driven by Covidians. Before that it was driven by white liberals thinking Obama was Jesus. Before that it was driven by the war on terrorism. When the Baby Boomers had kids in school the crusade was to fix the schools so everyone could be educated. Go back further and we had a war on drugs and, of course, the great crusade against the evils of communism.

American history has been one crusade after another. The great battle between good whites and bad whites exists because it fills that need for a purpose. In the albescence of some external foe, the good whites keep their crusading skills sharp by going to war with the bad whites over some moral cause. This not only gives purpose to their lives, but it also reinforces those shared beliefs about who they are and why they exist. The reaction from the bad whites serves much the same purpose.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Every time I think that Minnesota’s Tim Walz must be the dumbest governor in America, I remind myself of two words: Gretchen Whitmer. Still, Walz is definitely a contender. Today he announced his most recent turning of the “dials” of his subjects’ lives. Gyms will reopen on a very limited basis, a tribute to the political clout of Bahram Akradi, the founder and CEO of Lifetime Fitness, who organized a campaign on behalf of gyms and health clubs. Bars and restaurants are to remain shut down indefinitely for indoor dining, but they can have outdoor dining on a very limited basis.

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

I’m really thinking I should rename this series “Biden Agonistes,” because no sooner do the progressive identitarians take down Mary Nichols to be head of the EPA than Black Lives Matter comes along and oppose Mayor Pete to be Secretary of Transportation.

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“He was a little bit unusual because he kept many of his promises,” the cardinal continued. “He brought some of the troops home, he didn’t enter into any wars, the economy kept rolling along.”

You’re Paying for This! PBS’s Amanpour SLIMES U.S. as ‘AWOL’ on Climate Deal

Sea-Surface Temperatures: Hadley Centre v. NOAA

Politicizing Business: From CSR to ESG

Speaker Pelosi Says Masks Required to Speak on House Floor

LGBT Activist Calls For All Children To Be Put On Puberty Blockers

Pelosi: House Members “Will Not Be Recognized Unless They Are Wearing A Mask”

Facebook Gives In, Allows Some Political Ads After Leftist Whining

Andrew Cuomo Continues His Assault on the First Amendment

Border Officials Fear Rush of Illegal Immigration

Biden’s Reported Pick For Energy Secretary Boosted ‘Pee Tape,’ Kavanaugh Gang Rape Conspiracy Theories

Ninth Circuit Rules Church Attendance Limit In Nevada Unconstitutional

Denny’s Server Quits on the Spot as Maskless Customers Cite ‘Civil Rights Act’

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan calls the vaccine ‘toxic waste’ that will cause harm

Washington Archdiocese Takes DC Mayor to Court Over 50-Person Mass Restrictions

Parents Reportedly Face Charges For Putting 60 Maskless Kids On Party Bus

Kansas Mayor Resigns Over Mask Mandate Threats

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi: The Side Effects of the Genetic Vaccine

Do These People Care About Small Biz? CNN Continues to Express Love for Lockdowns  Obviously not.

Tom Cruise Rants at ‘Mission: Impossible’ Crew in London Over COVID Safety  I’m beginning to really dislike Tom Cruise.

Women, parents and early-career faculty in ecology most impacted by COVID-19

After Weeks Of Holier Than Thou Howling, The ‘Thanksgiving Surge’ Is A No Show

Why The Number ‘3’ May Make You Rethink The COVID Hysteria

Health Care Worker In Alaska Hospitalized For Serious Allergic Reaction To Pfizer’s Coronavirus Vaccine  I will not take this vaccine.

‘Dying Slowly’: Owner Writes Obituary For His Bowling Alley Due To Pandemic Restrictions

MSNBC Huckster Steve Schmidt Compares Trump Supporters to Brown Shirts  One of the benefits of the Trump presidency is that it has flushed all of the RINOs out of the underbrush.

My church will replace our Black Lives Matter sign. Will America replace its racist myth? (Washington Post)

2-year-old boy abandoned outside Mississippi Goodwill with a note

‘Unconscious Bias’ Diversity Training Suspended In UK Government Following Study That Found It Ineffective And Harmful

Abraham Lincoln To Be Removed From Penny, Replaced With BLM Fist  Babylon Bee.

The first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death

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The incoming First Lady has been noted for years for her penchant for wanting to be called “Dr. Biden” outside the professional context. She has an Ed.D., a doctorate of Education, from the University of Delaware, which she earned in 2007. As the Vice President’s wife (I refuse to use the term “Second Lady”), she went by “Dr. Biden” all the time, and the White House press releases used this as well. But her predecessor, Lynne Cheney, went by and was always referred to as “Mrs. Cheney,” although she earned a Ph.D. in English.

This difference was occasionally remarked upon over the years, but there was nothing like the uproar after the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Joseph Epstein in which he called on Mrs. Biden to drop the “Dr.” as she takes on the role of First Lady. In response, there were howls from academics, many of whom added “Dr.” before their Twitter names in solidarity.

The only people who insist on being called ‘Doctor’ are people who don’t deserve the respect they are trying to grab.

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Cue outrage from the woke. Hope they have an unlisted phone number.

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The Student Assembly on Dec. 8 removed Annie Gleiberman for voting against a resolution to disarm the university’s police department, saying she condoned “acts of racism, physical aggression, and emotional violence” by voting against the resolution.

And when a fellow executive rep, Morgan Baker, said she wouldn’t vote for it either — becoming a procedural block because a unanimous vote was needed — members temporarily removed her to get to a unanimous tally, The Washington Free Beacon reported.

Training to be proper Inner Party apparatchiks.

ZMan looks at Brexit.

It is hard to believe, but the British government is now into the fifth year of negotiations with the EU over withdrawing from the union. The Brexit referendum passed in June of 2016 and since then there have been two new Prime Ministers and one national election, all driven by the issue. Of course, there have been lots of promises to get the deal done, but it has been one delay after another. They have just announced another delay in order to keep negotiating a deal that will never come.

To provide some perspective on all of this, consider the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years War. The war was one of the most devastating and complex events in European history. After all sides were exhausted from war, a conference was arranged for the belligerents to hash out their differences. A total of 109 delegations arrived and it took two years. In other words, one of the most complex treaties in history took less time that these Brexit negotiations.

The Other McCain notices what the Corporate Media doesn’t admit.

If you’re smart enough to understand all the statistical stuff in this lengthy report, perhaps you can explain it in the comments. Quickly skimming it, I understood that what they are saying is that, compared to expected results — based on previous elections, voter demographics, etc. — the reported results are significantly anomalous in five states that Joe Biden allegedly won. “[T]he model’s predictions match the reported results in all other states, i.e. states where no fraud has been alleged, but predicts Trump won majorities in five disputed states (AZ, GA, NV, PA and WI) and 49.68% of the vote in the sixth (MI).”

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Google-owned YouTube shut down Dilbert Comic strip creator Scott Adams on Friday, stripping a video off the platform from the podcaster’s channel without warning.

“Google (YouTube) just shut me down,” Adams wrote on Twitter featuring a screenshot of the message from YouTube. “The video they deleted is no different from all of my other content. I assume they’ll come for the other videos soon.”

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

Some day I believe honest historians (both of them) will conclude that Trump’s administration was the most consequential and effective one-term presidency in American history, whose legacy will last for a long time. The best comparison would be Lincoln, who never got to serve his second term. Most one-term incumbents who are defeated lose because they have been abject failures, which Trump most assuredly wasn’t (which is why, unlike all past defeated incumbents who lost votes, Trump got 10 million more than his initial election).

Trump may or may not purposely dominate the political scene in the background as Teddy Roosevelt did from 1909 – 1912 and then run again in 2024, but I argue that Trumpism will dominate the scene for a long time to come, and that any successful GOP presidential nominee will need to be a Trumpist. I go further, in fact, and believe the shuffling of the issue map and the realignment of voting coalitions are as substantial as FDR and the New Deal—and it took FDR four terms to effect that change.

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It may be called CNN Newsroom, but if CNN hosts spend nearly every show launching nasty tirades against Republicans, is it really still, “news?”

Afternoon host Brianna Keilar opened her 1:00 p.m. Eastern hour show on Thursday by singling out Republican senators who have not called Joe Biden, “President-Elect” in the past 24 hours, after the Electoral College made Biden’s win official. After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) congratulated Biden from the Senate floor today, Keilar took that news as license to conduct a witch hunt on other Republicans who haven’t done so yet.

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The New York Times posted an article on “The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin” on Tuesday by reporters Katherine Rosman and Jacob Bernstein. The main takeaway is that CNN executives are still “unwilling to discuss his future,” which means “he’s not fired.” A spokeswoman confirmed Toobin was still CNN’s chief legal analyst, “but would not comment further.”

Three CNN employees say that CNN boss Jeff Zucker “is a big fan of Mr. Toobin’s and a believer in second chances. But Mr. Zucker may be leaving CNN in 2021, making his opinion perhaps irrelevant.”

Democrats Have a Problem. ‘Workers, Wages, Weed’ May Be the Answer.  (New York Magazine) I guess ‘Bread and Circuses’ doesn’t cut it any more.

Michigan AG Accuses Republicans Supporting Trump Lawsuits of Violating Their Oaths of Office Like being called ugly by a frog.

Doomsday bunker firm says Covid has fuelled 2,000% rise in interest with customers terrified of government

The Proud Boys really thought they could terrorize our city. As if. (Washington Post) It was really Antifa!

Forensic auditors find shocking 68% error rate in one Michigan county’s votes

Calls for Alex Jones to be Arrested after Speech about Removing Biden (Newsweek) Gee, nobody called for the arrest of people who wanted to remove Trump.

Police say civil asset forfeiture reduces crime – new study shows they’re wrong

Wall Street firms, demonized by Cuomo, de Blasio, ramp up NYC exodus plans

Recall Gov. Newsom Campaign Gains Traction In California

N.Y. Cathedral Shooter Was Immigrant Criminal With Violent Record

Where’s Hunter? Biden Scandal Still AWOL from Network News

NY Times HATES Half of America: Friedman Slams GOP as ‘Cancer,’ ‘at War With Democracy’  But you knew that.

MSNBC: You Know What We Need? More Andrew Cuomo Leadership!

Rogue US Attorneys Coming to a City Near You?

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Colorado Church, Bars State From Restricting Worship

AOC, Omar, and Squad Want to Free 500,000 Fat Criminals

International Criminal Court Says It Won’t Investigate China For Detention Of Muslims

Chinese Spy Assigned To Date Eric Swalwell Begs To Be Sent To Labor Camp Instead  Babylon Bee.

Convicted Murderer Illegally In US Released Onto Streets Despite ICE Detainer

Vote Machine Company Threatens Legal Action Against Conservative Media

Facebook Unbans Political Ads In Georgia, But Only For ‘Authorized’ Advertisers