Read it.

No indication of whether it will be dragged into orbit by horses.

Read it.

Guess which state has been more successful fighting back COVID-19—Florida or New York? According to the media, the answer is obvious: New York, on account of its totally awesome Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In fact the death rate per 100,000 people in Florida is about half that of New York (96 per 100K for Florida, versus 188 per 100K in New York).

Over on Twitter, DC communications pro Drew Holden has put together a terrific thread showing the appalling press favoritism for Cuomo alongside the obvious media hostility for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Here are a few of the samples he has juxtaposed.

To Promote Climate Alarm, Good News Is Regularly Portrayed as a Disaster

AGW Skeptic Marc Morano Receives DEATH THREAT From Sorbonne University Professor’s Email Account

10 Failed Predictions

“I’m Choosing The Risk Of Getting COVID”: Over Half Of Health Care Workers At California Hospitals Refuse Vaccinations

US COVID Cases Top 20MM As California Deaths Hit New Record

Fauci Floats Possibility That COVID-19 Vaccine Will Be Mandatory For School And Travel

2 Minnesota Lawmakers Say State’s COVID-19 Deaths Inaccurate, Demand Nationwide Audit

Volunteer Vaccinators in UK Must Document They Have Been Trained in Conflict Resolution, Equality, Diversity and Human Rights, Fire Safety, and Preventing Radicalisation

Got COVID? No Problem, Come On In!

Covid-1984? British Anti-Lockdown Activist Arrested for Filming Empty Hospital Wards

USA Today Demands High Schools Change Racially Insensitive Nicknames

Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple

LA Deputies File Suit Against New DA As Judge Defies “Sweetheart” Deal In Gang Murder Case

Gordon Chang: ‘China Has Been Harming Americans’ for Long Time

Vandals Damage Federal Buildings in Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve; 7 Arrested

Proposed House Rules Eliminate Gendered Terms Like ‘Father’ And ‘Daughter’

NYT: Covering the Elites, Or Covering *for* the Elites?

No Mocking CNN on Facebook! Humorless USA Today Fact-Check INTERN Squashes It

Facebook Shuts Down Ad Account For Republican Fundraising Committee 4 Days Before Georgia Runoffs  Bias? What bias?

Black Bloc Protestors Arrested With Molotov Cocktails After Vandalizing Federal Buildings

Seattle Bill Could ‘Legalize Crime’ For Those In Poverty Or With Behavioral Issues

Pelosi’s San Francisco Home Vandalized  The biter bit.

What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die

Who Do New Yorkers Dislike More, Gov. Cuomo Or Mayor De Blasio?

AP Warns of ‘Hard-Line, ‘Hard-Right’ Georgia Republicans and Their Socialist ‘Caricatures’

The Other McCain blows the whistle.

One of the things that separates 21st-century Americans from previous generations is a loss of liberty that few acknowledge. In particular, Americans have abandoned their First Amendment right to express their opinions, due to fear of what has become known as “cancel culture.”

Read it.

Modern farming tries as hard as it can to make food production into an ‘outdoor factory floor’, but is critically dependent on uncontrollable outside factors such as how much sunshine, rainfall, and organic material are available. Putting everything together into an actual factory — stacking them deep and (hopefully) selling them cheap — has obvious attractions, but providing the sunshine, water, and organic material that God gives you for free raises costs, in most cases sufficiently to make the process not cost-effective. If these guys can solve those problems, then this just might work.

Read it.

The Canadian company Bone Structure can produce zero net energy homes months faster than a traditional builder. But its challenges highlight the difficulty of disrupting the entrenched construction industry.

Audacious Epigone peeks behind the curtain.

The corporate media permitting Joe Biden to use a teleprompter for interviews. The most common reaction to these revelations was, well, yuk yuk, there’s even more evidence Biden is a senescent, doddering old codger!

What they actually revealed is that the putatively independent media was working directly for a presidential candidate. Think about what this entails. The campaign writes a script for Biden and the interviewer. The media professionally produces the result.

That sounds like a campaign ad because it is a campaign ad, except campaign ads cost political campaigns donor money to produce and put on the airwaves, and they come with disclaimers about who paid for the ads (“I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message”).

At least they are supposed to. This degree of collusion makes whatever Russia was accused of doing look like child’s play. The media is not a watch dog, it’s a lapdog, staffed with bootlickers and ring-kissers whose sole purpose is to speak power to truth. That includes the bogus fact checking sites that claim everything is on the up and up because Biden was looking at something innocuous that we always use that is always there for everyone that no one has ever noticed before and no one has seen since. Right, of course.

Steve Sailer.

It’s New Year’s Day, when we gather round to read local newspaper accounts of their murderously record-setting 2020.

Urban murder is a booming business.

Read it.

Try your luck telling the difference.

It’s a puzzler.

Read it.

Ilhan Omar called the shooting of an armed suspect who shot at police “murder” in a Thursday tweet.

I suggest that Ilhan Omar is the joke. Unfortunately, it’s at the expense of the rest of us.

Surprise: Blacks Resist Arrest More

The Real Racist Robot Menace

A “Police Shooting” In Minneapolis

CNN, CBS Highlight Black Police Shooting Victims, Ignore Other Races

NHS Requires “Diversity Training” For Recently Retired Doctors Before They’re Allowed To Administer Vaccines

White House wins ruling on disclosing health care prices

Spate of Suicides in Eastern Colorado Sparks Protest

NY Restaurant Owners Slam Gov. Cuomo

New York Restaurant’s Liquor License Revoked After Hosting Republican Club’s ‘COVID Conga Line’ Party

Florida Becomes Third State To Report Case Of New Coronavirus Strand

42 People In West Virginia Mistakenly Given Regeneron Antibodies Instead Of Vaccines

Chicago Teachers Union Big Shot Says Unsafe To Teach Live… From Her Pool Side In Puerto Rico

Officials Hold Emergency Meeting, Waive Fee That Would Have Devastated Distillers Trying To Help During The Pandemic

Massachusetts to Ban Sale of New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035

Preventing Ecosystem Collapse 3: Seagrass

MIT Technology Review: Pandemic Denial Shows Rising Climate Deaths Might Not Lead to Action

CNN’s Zakaria: ‘Dirty Little Secret’—Trump Was Tough on Russia!

Portland Rioters Attack Federal Courthouse With Molotovs On New Year’s Eve

De Blasio Dances With Wife In Times Square After Shutting It Down To The Public For New Years

A Broken Glass Rerun

‘Everyone Hates You’: Meghan McCain Flames Bill De Blasio Over ‘Private Party’ In Times Square

ZMan gives it a shot.

Despite the uncertainty of the age, it is worth the time to think about what monsters are waiting for us in the new year. With The Pretender being installed in the White House, there will be new challenges on the political front. The people in charge will have a new bag of tricks to distract people from what they are doing. The media will now have to transform from their Trump hating to making Biden sound good. The world will look a lot different in just a few months.

That was then, this is now — Pakistan edition

Each Year 1,000 Pakistani Christian Girls Forcibly Converted to Islam

Al-Arian Renews Calls for Israel’s Destruction at Turkish Conference

US-Backed Forces Raiding ISIS Cells In Syria

Iran Vows “Massive Response” If Israel Crosses ‘Red Lines’ With Sub Presence In Gulf

Sneaking the “Refugees” Into Spain

European Union Seeks Stricter Measures Against Islamism

At Least 5 People Killed In Multiple Suspected Terror Attacks In Afghanistan

Report: Forced Conversions Of Pakistani Girls To Islam Has Accelerated During Pandemic

‘Today We Are United’: Islamic Jihad, Hamas, PFLP Hold First Joint Drill In Gaza To Prepare For Confronting Israel

AG: US ‘Stands Ready’ to Try Daniel Pearl Murder Mastermind in US

Explosion Rips Through Yemen Airport As New Government Arrives, Killing 16 & Wounding 60

REPORT: At Least 22 Dead, 50 Wounded After Unknown Explosion At Yemen Airport

Yemeni Officials: Blast at Aden Airport Kills 22, Wounds 50

REPORT: Angry Mob Of Pakistani Muslims Burns Historic Temple To The Ground

Erdo?an’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe

Possible Mine Reportedly Found On Hull Of Oil Tanker Off Iraqi Coast

Indian State Bans Islamic Schools, Opposition Says The Move Aims To ‘Wipe Out Muslims’

Iran Says US B-52 Flyover Part Of Trump’s “Plot To Fabricate Pretext For War”

ISIS Kills 28 Syrian Troops Near Palmyra In Most Devastating Ambush In Years