How do we hold the traitors to democracy accountable? (Washington Post) I didn’t know Democracy was a country.

Trump’s Approval Rating Is Higher Than Only Three Presidents at the Same Point in Term (Newsweek) And he supposedly lost to a cardboard cutout like Biden? I think not.

SOUR CELEBRITIES: ‘Maniac’ Trump Should Be ‘Charged with Murder’  Oh, like Governor Cuomo?

What Unity Looks Like: Debra Messing Defends Wishing Prison Rape on Trump

CNN’s Jim Acosta Yells At McEnany As She Leaves Press Briefing, Accuses Her Of Spreading Disinformation ‘Every Day’

Twitter Confirms They Will Be Able To Ban Trump Starting January

Nation Of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan Calls The Vaccine ‘Toxic Waste,’ Refers To White People As ‘Crackers’

CBS’s ‘All Rise’ Pretends BLM Protests Aren’t to Blame for Destruction

Minnesota Could Free Man Serving Life in Child’s 2002 Death

Halfrican Obama Mocks Trump About Birther Conspiracy

NIMBY’s are making more noise than wind turbines

All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth’s Organisms  (Wired ‘Science’)

Claim: Arctic Ocean–climate change is flooding the remote north with light – and new species

Climate Activist Aussie Politicians Leap to Rescue Vital Coal Power Plants

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The San Francisco United School District’s School Names Advisory Committee has recommended stripping the name of former President Abraham Lincoln from a high school because he allegedly “did not show” that “black lives ever mattered” to him.

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What did they think would happen?

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With the COVID-19 pandemic, protests, riots and then the most rabid anti-gun platform ever introduced being pushed by the Democratic party, it’s no wonder that people have increased their demand for guns and ammunition. When a candidate for national office—even a poorly performing one—utters, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15,” what did you think was going to happen?

This is not even attributable to supply-chain problems, with the exception of the Remington ammunition plant in Arkansas. That plant was sidelined by the sale of the company by an Alabama bankruptcy court. Talk about a series of unfortunate events. One of the largest plants in the country couldn’t make ammo at full capacity because of the financial problems of its parent company. The good news is that Vista Outdoor picked up that facility, and the Vista team is very good indeed at making ammunition. I am told after the first of the year, ammunition will be flowing out of that plant, and many of its workers will be rehired.

We have been through conditions similar to this before, but nothing like this. It’s to the point that waterfowlers looking for ammo are having a hard time because people looking for defensive loads have decided that steel BBs are better than nothing.

Zman explains it all to you.

Dissidents tend to think of politics as the driver of social change. Elections have consequences, as the winners get to shape public policy, which guides the cultural evolution of society. There is some truth to it, but in reality, politics, as in elections and campaigns, are the product of social change. The real action is upstream where attitudes are formed and morality is structured. Convince people that something is morally wrong and this belief will turn up at the ballot box.

This is why the ruling class maintains a death grip on mass media. This is their primary vehicle for shaping public attitudes. Convince 70% of the public that wearing a rag over their face is a good idea and suddenly they are open to a wide range of claims by the politicians in the next election. They will support the side pushing for more restrictions and mandatory vaccines. It is the art of the nudge, which is the primary weapon in a modern liberal democracy. It’s rule by suggestion.

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The Amistad Project of the non-partisan Thomas More Society is announcing Monday it is demanding the preservation of evidence in five key swing states in response to a bombshell report detailing the results of a forensic audit of Dominion voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan, which was approved for release by 13th Circuit Judge Kevin Elsenheimer.

“We’re filing in all swing states a demand that judges step in and preserve evidence to avoid it from being destroyed or spoiled by the intentional or reckless acts of executive officials,” said Phill Kline, director of the Amistad Project, which has previously filed election litigation in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

The report claims the “tabulation log for the forensic examination of the server for Antrim County from Dec. 6, 2020 consists of 15,676 individual events, of which 10,667 or 68.05% of the events were recorded errors.”

The Federal Election Commission allows a maximum error rate of just 0.0008%.

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“Don’t ask for advice on your coronary artery disease, because she’s not actually a physician, she’s a doctor of education which means basically nothing,” Carlson said during a Monday night “Tucker Carlson Tonight” segment after playing a clip of “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg in March calling for Mrs. Biden to become Surgeon General before realizing she wasn’t a medical doctor.

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I’m sure they do.

King Tide on San Francisco Embarcadero Illustrates Climate Change Risk

CNN’s Tapper Declares World Needs Biden to Push Climate Agenda

UN Climate Ambition Summit Falls Flat

The moon controls the release of methane in Arctic Ocean  I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

Stealth Green New Deal language being slipped into take-it-or-leave-it House spending package

Cornell Offers “Person Of Color”-Exemption For Flu Vaccine Requirement

“Reformed” Criminal Hired To Curb Violence In DC Charged With Murder

‘Too Cute to Die:’ ‘NCIS: New Orleans’ Misleads on Real Threat to Young Black Lives

Bryan Cranston’s ‘Your Honor’ Pats Itself on Back for ‘Tackling White Privilege’

Sharpton Under Fire for Going Maskless at Luxury Building

New York Nurse Gets COVID-19 Vaccine as US Rollout Begins

United Airlines Kicks 2-Year-Old Off Flight For Refusing To Say Black Lives Matter

Stacey Abrams Continued To Not Wear A Mask Inside The Georgia Capitol As Presiding Officer

DC Police Investigating Proud Boys Burning Black Lives Matter Banner As A Hate Crime

Timnit Gebru: Google and big tech are ‘institutionally racist’

After 105 Years, Cleveland Will Drop ‘Indians’ From Baseball Team Name

Stacey Abrams Brags She Has 1.2 Million Absentee Ballots for Ga. Runoff

Human Rights Campaign Wants Christian Schools to Abandon Beliefs or Lose Accreditation

Portland Autonomous Zone Removing Barricades After Mayor, Police Chief Apologize

Pennsylvania Sheriff Switches Party Loyalty To GOP Over Democratic Lockdowns, ‘Socialist Agenda’

Crucial Logs Missing From Some Michigan Dominion Voting Machines: Forensics Report

More, Please! Facebook Staff Quit Over Lack of Censorship: Report

WSJ Editor Defends Op-Ed On Dr. Jill Biden After Receiving ‘Coordinated’ Backlash From Media, Democrats

CBS Analyst Jamelle Bouie: More Dems Should Compare GOP to Child-Killing King Herod

NBC Rushes to Defend Jill Biden, After Years of Cheap Shots at Melania

This Is How it Works on CBS: Democrat Interviews Democrat About Democrats Winning Senate

Four Trump Supporters Stabbed as Antifa/BLM Thugs Attack Rally in D.C.

The Washington Post throws a mindless fit

Twitter Censors Trump and Campaign 486 Times, Leaves Biden Alone

DERANGED: Journalists Want Trump Arrested But Toss Bouquets at Biden

Deplorable Scarborough to Trump: ‘Heard You Had Mein Kampf By Bedside’

Leftists Are Upset with the Ongoing Presidential Transition. Let’s Look Back at How They Behaved in 2016

Project Lincoln’s Steve Schmidt Compares Trump Supporters To ’20s Or 30s’ Nazi Germany

Where Are the Outbreaks?

China Tells Cabin Crews To Wear Diapers And Avoid Using Bathrooms On Risky Covid Flights

Sweden Seeing “Unprecedented” Resignations In Healthcare Amid Second Wave Surge

California Dems Shut Down State Over Lack of ICU Beds, After Adding Only 7% More ICU Beds in 8 Months

Watch: Bill Gates Says Lockdowns Should Carry On Into 2022

Mayor: NYC Should Prepare for Possibility of Full Shutdown

COVID-Fueled Economic Slowdown Likely To Starve Millions Of Children, New Study Claims

FLASHBACK: Media Mocked Vaccine by December as Impossible ‘Happy Talk’

New Jersey Gym Owner Fined $1.2 Million For Defying COVID-19 Lockdowns Vows Not To Pay

Man With Bullhorn Takes Stand Against Newsom’s Lockdowns In California Costco

Fire From Heaven Consumes Man Who Wandered Off Social Distancing ‘X’ On Floor Of Grocery Store  Babylon Bee.

Data Shows Fears Of Overwhelmed Medical System Overblown, Ample Hospital Capacity Nationwide

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This reality has been forgotten: the price that can be fetched for a barrel of oil depends on the demand for all the products, not just a few of the products.

Those demanding an all-electric auto-truck fleet as a “green” alternative will re-create the dilemma of what to do with the “waste” gasoline. The world will still want fuel for all those container ships bringing all the goodies of a consumerist society, all those cruise ships visiting ports of call, jet fuel for all those exotic vacations enabled by 550 mile-per-hour aircraft, and oil-based lubricants, plastics and petro-chemicals, and so oil will still be pumped and refined, and almost half of it will be gasoline.

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And about time.

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A surge in illegal immigration due to COVID-19 and economic hardship is expected to be the first major challenge of President-elect Joe Biden’s plans for more relaxed immigration policies concerning the U.S.’s southern border, the New York Times reported Sunday.

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The Wall Street Journal reported that “Facebook fears” violent retribution if it kicks Hindu extremist groups off the platform.

Facebook is famous for censoring peaceful conservatives, but has been slow to censor anti-Christian extremists. “Dozens of religious extremists burst into a Pentecostal church outside New Delhi in June, claiming it was built atop a Hindu temple,” The Wall Street Journal (The Journal) reported Dec 13. The group allegedly attacked the pastor and “installed a Hindu idol in protest,” an attack for which Hindu organization Bajrang Dal reportedly claimed responsibility. The Bajrang Dal video that summarized and took responsibility for the incident has been reportedly “viewed almost 250,000 times on Facebook.” The logic for why Facebook would allow such content to remain sadly gives extremist groups a clear message that violence will help them get their way.

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There is no longer a Southern gentry with values and lifestyles and dialect that are distinct from those of the old Northeastern patrician elite. The former regional oligarchies have fused into a single homogeneous national overclass, mostly hereditary but partly meritocratic. Its geographically mobile, careerist members attend the same selective private and public universities, speak the same homogenized non-regional elite dialect, read the same newspapers and ‘zines, watch the same TV shows and movies, follow the same fashions and have the same diets.

There are no red and blue states. The most accurate maps of voting are county maps, not state maps. And the county maps show that the major partisan division, in every region of the U.S., is between urban cores and everywhere else. Outside of densely populated metro areas, California is red. Most metro areas in Texas are blue. Because cities and counties are mere creations of state governments, the moment that politicians representing a slight majority of statewide voters capture power in state government they can use that power to overrule local governments everywhere in the state. This means that, once a majority of voters in a few large metropolitan areas capture a state legislature and governor’s office, there may be no way for their exurban and small-town rivals to fight back.

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I’m surprised that there aren’t more such suits.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

I am anything but a fan of New York’s Governor Andy Cuomo, but this story is a classic of hit and run feminism: “Former aide Lindsey Boylan alleges Cuomo ‘sexually harassed’ her about looks.”

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A string of high profile tech investors and executives are leaving San Francisco, too: Last week, Elon Musk said he has moved to Texas after selling his Bel Air homes earlier this year.

Such moves are to be expected during the pandemic, when people are working from home anyway. Several tech firms have said they’ll give employees the option to permanently work from home even after the pandemic ends.

But the relocation of corporate headquarters, company founders and big-name VC investors points to a corporate diaspora of the tech industry — and what some have called a “tech exodus” from the Bay Area.

Did Climate Change Cause World Heritage Listed Fraser Island to Burn?

Where is the Outrage Over Climate and Energy Policy?

Climate change: Have countries kept their promises?

If you Thought Climate Grief was Strange, Meet the Climate Grief Therapists  This sounds like the sort of profitable scam I’d like to get in on.

Trucks With First COVID-19 Vaccine in US Are on the Road

Why Did The WHO Bury This Damning Report On Italy’s COVID-19 Response?

48% Of US Small Businesses Fear That They May Be Forced To “Shut Down Permanently” Soon

NIH Director Begs Americans To Swallow Vaccine Skepticism As Bill Gates Eyes Unofficial Role

1 Shot in Violent Protests in Washington State

Lamar Alexander Spars With Chuck Todd On Trump Concession: ‘What About Stacey Abrams’ Concession Speech?’

MSNBC’s Deutsch: Trump Supporters May ‘Really Suck as Human Beings’

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Who doesn’t know that?

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On Fox & Friends Saturday, the show devoted a segment to the liberal media ignoring Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden’s, questionable business dealings that are currently under federal investigation.

After a succession of clips of various media personalities from October denying that there was a Biden scandal, New York Post columnist Sohrab Ahmari was allowed on as a guest to call out the fact that liberal journalists ignored his reporting and instead covered for their preferred presidential candidate.

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Whether I agreed, disagreed, liked, or not so much, regardless of party, I always respected the office of the Presidency of the United States; thus, I addressed its occupant as President or Mr. (maybe Ms. one day before I die).

Excerpts from Mr. Obama’s latest soon-to-be-released memoir motivate me to exclude him from that courtesy. As a Trump supporter, I’m white (guilty!), I’m privileged (I’m not, never have been), deplorable (don’t believe so), a clinger to guns (don’t own one), and religious (Buddhist). I weary of reciting all the other egregious epithets lobbed at me. Impolite adds small weight to the pile.

Per Barry, I am lumped into a sack of approximately 73-plus million Americans of myriad backgrounds, beliefs, races, and religions, stapled and labeled “racist!” It appears that Barry has acquired not one whit of intellect, wisdom, grace, class, or character since he published his first two memoirs purportedly ghostwritten.

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Following the Op-Ed, former NPR/NBC journalist David Gura noted that Northwestern had scrubbed Epstein’s profile from its website, which previously listed him as an “emeritus lecturer.” In a statement to Gura, Northwestern and its English Department said that the university disagrees with Epstein’s “misogynistic views” – despite the fact that gender had nothing to do with his op-ed.

Would they have done that if her name had been Trump? I think not….

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Some authors append “Ph.D.” to their name in their tagline and sometimes even in their byline. Editors routinely delete it. Likewise with “Dr. Jones” in running text. It’s Ms. Jones, if the publication is old school. If not, Firstname Jones on first mention and just Jones after that. Granted, some publications are generous with the honorific “Dr.” and “Professor.” They’re not the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times.

Some people think that calling someone who has a doctorate “Doctor” is gauche. Others think that not to call the person “Doctor” is disrespectful. I’m with the former group. I always felt that “Dr. Kissinger,” for example, was somewhat cringey. How often have you read or heard “Dr. Daniel Patrick Moynihan”? Once, just now?

That, more or less, was Joseph Epstein’s argument in this opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. Or so I thought. To judge from the tsunami of reaction against it, most people disagree with his position.

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ABC’s This Week was on a roll Sunday during their so-called “Powerhouse Roundtable” as they showed off just how much of a propaganda outlet for the Democratic Party they were. Between news analyst Matthew Dowd suggesting the Republican Party was “team autocracy” and fill-in host Martha Raddatz claiming there was no evidence of wrongdoing from Hunter Biden, the panel discussion was packed with nonsense.

After Dowd had whined about the Trump administration stepping all over the good news of the Pfizer COVID vaccine getting approved by the Food and Drug Administration and getting shipped out, Raddatz wanted to “really, truly,” know, “what happens now to those Republicans who support[ed]” President Trump’s legal challenges to the 2020 election. “How dramatically has the Republican Party changed?”

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Of course they do. BLM and Antifa are justly famous for being law-abiding and peaceful.

Biden Resisting a Cabinet of the Fringes

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

Forget Varsity Blues. (Both the movie and the college admissions scandal.) Right now the putative Biden Administration is suffering from what might be called the “diversity blues.” Democrats have brought this upon themselves with their opportunistic embrace of identity politics.

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There are many companies that bring us knife steel, from steel manufacturers to a whole array of suppliers to individual custom knife makers. So I have written a bit about how the supply chain works and some information on individual steel suppliers.

Do you know the difference  between 440A stainless and 440C stainless?

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The pandemic hasn’t just brought with it economic turmoil; it has also highlighted a trend of people fleeing U.S. cities in favor of the suburbs. The exodus has been helped along by liberal politicians embracing a “defund the police” message in the cities where policing is needed the most – like Chicago, which we have documented – making the decision to leave cities much easier for many people.

But surprisingly, the wheels were already in motion for this trend prior to the pandemic, a new report from Bloomberg notes.

DC Archbishop Sues Mayor Muriel Bowser For ‘Arbitrary, Unscientific And Discriminatory’ Restrictions Ahead Of Christmas

Cuomo Charges Up To $10,000 For Tickets To Celebrity-Packed ‘Virtual Birthday’ Party  Sometimes it is good to be of the Crust.

Ric Grenell to Newsmax TV: CMU Students, Faculty Tried to ‘Cancel Me’

Not Identifying Sex on Birth Certificates Pushed in New England Journal of Medicine

‘Unhinged’ Dem Rep. Urges Pelosi To Block 126 Republicans From Congress For Supporting “Insurrection Or Rebellion”

Harwood: Republicans ‘Would Smack Their Moms in the Face’ for Trump

Jake Tapper Unloads On Donald Trump: ‘I Don’t Think We As A Nation Have Ever Seen Someone Lose So Spectacularly’  Two words: Fritz Mondale. Two more: George McGovern.

CNN Anchor Displays Cheesy ‘Facts First’ Sweater While Trashing GOP with Kasich

Twitter Blocks Users From Liking, Replying-To Trump Tweets As President Rages Over SCOTUS, Barr, & ‘RINO’ Governors

DOJ Joins Mich. Faith-Based Schools’ Challenge to Pandemic Remote Learning

How the novel coronavirus has evolved

Dallas Teen Indicted for Murder of Well-Known Marketing Executive

Why Do So Many Places In Texas Have ‘Negro’ In Their Name, Despite A Law Against It? (NPR)

BLM Calls Out Biden And Harris For Ignoring Their Requests To Meet  Welcome to the Democrat plantation.

21-Year-Old Man Arrested For Killing Nashville Nurse Driving To Work

Ben & Jerry’s Unveils Super-Woke Kaepernick Ice Cream “To Dismantle Systems Of Oppression”  Yeah, ice cream is a key tool in smashing systemic racism.

CNN’s Rye Invokes Slavery, Police Trained to ‘Shoot to Kill’ Some

New MSNBC Weekend Show: All About Identity Politics

The Latest Crisis: English Gardeners Who Are Racist Against Immigrant Plants

500 Years of Global SST Variations from a 1D Forcing-Feedback Model

Finding: Mass Extinctions of Land-Dwelling Animals Occur in 27-Million-Year Cycle

Canada’s Trudeau Promises $170 / Ton Carbon Tax by 2030

‘Uighur Alarms’ Just The Latest In Long List Of China’s Worst Human Rights Abuses

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One of the great voices in country music has been silenced.

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My current favorite conspiracy theory is that, now that it appears Biden will actually be inaugurated, the Swamp will use Hunter’s messes to get rid of him and install Jambalaya as President.

UPDATE: The Media’s Hidin’ of Hunter Biden: Self Sabotage or Cover-Up?

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A drone converted into a flamethrower is being used on a mission to eliminate more than 100 wasp nests in central China, The Associated Press reported Saturday.

Blue Sky Rescue and Zhong county residents joined forces to annihilate the wasps, the AP reported. Blue Sky Rescue is composed of volunteers dedicated to emergency work, including search and rescue operations.

Video footage from Blue Sky Rescue shows the drone hovering over a wasp’s nest before turning igniting fuel through a nozzle affixed to the drone to incinerate a nest in a treetop.

I wonder whether this would work against AntiFa?