‘You Could Wear Him To The Beach’: Greg Gutfeld Criticizes Dr. Fauci As ‘Such A Flip-Flop’

Jesse Watters Says Mask-Shaming Shifts Blame From China To Trump Supporters

Is COVID-Derangement-Syndrome Real?

UK Health Authorities Announce Not A Single Case Of Flu Detected This Year

Coronavirus Restrictions Have Led To Virtually No US Influenza Cases This Winter  It’s hard to get the flu/When you’re fleeing Covid-2.

POLL: More Americans Are Worried About Academics Than COVID When Reopening Schools  ‘Your child is functionally illiterate but at least she didn’t get the Covid!’

‘My Income Has Dropped To Zero’: About 45% Of Small Businesses Risk Closure Within Months  TheCOVID panic  may kill half of the small businesses in America.

Bethany Mandel: COVID As Religion, Not a Fad

Health Official Comes Out Against Gwyneth Paltrow For Promoting Use Of ‘Infrared’ Saunas, Kimchi In Trying To Fight COVID-19  Obviously a sexist monster.

Daisy Ridley fires back at Ted Cruz after he defends Gina Carano over ‘Mandalorian’ firing

“Mistakes Were Made”: Plan To Rename 44 San Francisco Schools Placed On Hold

Students Demand Removal Of George Washington Statue… At University Of Washington

Cancelled by his college

Mau-Mauing at ‘The New York Times’

Capitol Rioter Was Turned In By Girlfriend After Calling Her A ‘Moron’ For Not Supporting His Participation

‘I Don’t Believe In Cancel Culture’: Rep. McCarthy Responds To Liz Cheney Questioning Trump Speaking At CPAC

Students, Lawmakers Clash On Changing Name Of ‘Dixie State’ University

REPORT: Investigation Clears Cafeteria Worker At Elite College Smeared As Racist By Student, But Now She Has Trouble Finding A Job

Franken Defender Behar: Dems Do Right Thing When It Comes to Sexual Harassment Claims

‘Mein Kampf’ and Other ‘Hate Speech’ Products You Can Still Buy on Amazon

‘Intent Does Not Matter’: Syracuse Women’s Lacrosse Team Apologizes After Member Makes ‘OK’ Sign In Instagram Post

Student was not victim of racism for ‘eating while black’ at $80k Smith College and made up details that ruined the lives of four campus workers and led to controversial anti-bias training that employee resigned over (Daily Mail) British tabloids love very long headlines.

Kyrie Irving demands NBA to change its logo: ‘BLACK KINGS BUILT THE LEAGUE’

How a pastor in South Carolina is fighting environmental racism with a sustainable water farm  I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was such a thing as ‘environmental racism’.

NYPD: Per Capita, Blacks in NYC Are 18.7 Times as Likely as Asians to be Robbery Suspects

BLM Rakes in $90 Million in 2020  Sometimes it is good to be the victim.

School Board Member Compares Reopening Schools Before Teachers Are Vaccinated To ‘Slavery’ And ‘White Supremacist Ideology’

Are Black Women Smarter Than Black Men? Results from PIAAC and AFQT

University Of Minnesota To Use Record $5 Million Gift To Start ‘Center For Antiracism Research For Health Equity’  And you can’t get much more ‘woke’ than that.

Takeo Spikes Thinks Colin Kaepernick Deserves A Statue In The Smithsonian

NYPD Chief Retiring, Will Be Replaced With First Black Chief Of Detectives  His skin color is obviously his most important qualification.

Coca-Cola Holds Training Telling Polar Bears To Be Less White  Babylon Bee.

Obama Says He Believes Reparations Are Justified, But He Didn’t Pursue Because Of ‘White Resistance And Resentment’

Stevie Wonder Leaving For Ghana Because U.S. Racism Hasn’t Changed ‘One Iota’ Since MLK  Good luck with that.

Why Wasn’t He Already in Jail?

LeBron James, Media Moaning About White Guy Getting NBA Head Coaching Job

Affirmative Action Opponents Suing Harvard Ask Supreme Court To Ban Consideration Of Race In College Admissions

‘A Pretty Interesting Way Of Reframing Your Bullying’: Sasse Calls Out Becerra’s Lawsuit Against Little Sisters Of The Poor

Tanden Pounded By Progressives Over Potential ‘Conflicts Of Interest’ After Senate Delays Votes

Why Are So Many Migrants Rushing To The Southern Border?

Another Appalling Biden Nominee

Democrats play the race care on behalf of Tanden and Becerra, Part Two

Potential Biden NASA Pick Invested in Chinese Telecom Giant Blacklisted by Pentagon

Biden Administration Gears Up to Impose Double Jeopardy Upon Officer Chauvin

Biden’s Chief Of Staff: ‘We Will Find Some Other Place For Her’ If Neera Tanden Isn’t Confirmed

Did Joe Forget The State of the Union?

Thursday Afternoon Dispatch: Biden Brings Back Ugly Buildings

Biden’s COVID-19 Bill Would Squander Hundreds of Billions on Bailouts of Pension Funds, Blue States

Google Translate Adds Biden Option  Babylon Bee.

Joe Biden is a China patsy

Meghan McCain Shames Psaki on Biden’s Kids in Cages, Before Joy Behar Comes to Her Rescue

Lawmaker Demands Biden Admin Disclose Secret Iran Talks with China

‘That’s Not What’s Happening’: Jen Psaki Gets Testy With NBC Reporter Over Migrant Children In Detention Facilities

Biden’s Corporate Tax Hike Would Cut Jobs, Reduce Wages, Depress Growth: Think Tank

What Mitt Romney gets *exactly* right about Donald Trump (CNN) As if either Mitt Romney or CNN had a clue about Trump.

This is a sign of how much trouble the GOP brand is in (CNN) At least on the Left, and that’s all that matters, right?

Anti-Trump sentiment, not science, may be behind Dems’ school closures, liberal NY Times columnist writes

Website Tracks Which Colleges Embrace Training in Critical Race Theory

3 Highlights From House Hearing on ‘Disinformation and Extremism’ in News Media

Ohio Public School Orders Teachers And Students To Lobby For LGBT Legislation Don’t ever send your child to a government school. Just don’t.

Elite Panic Over The California Recall Shows What They Think Of Democracy

How ‘Equality Act’ Would Impose Transgender Ideology on Everyone

Twitter Says It Purged Dozens Of Accounts For “Undermining Faith In NATO”

NY Times, Other Outlets Snooze on Sundays Under ‘Tranquil’ Biden

Newsom Holds Indoor Event at Restaurant Barred From Offering Indoor Dining Rules are for thee but not for me.

14 House Republicans Want Briefing From FBI on Swalwell Ties to Alleged Chinese Spy  Good luck with that.

Apple donating $1M to group providing resources to LGBTQ+ youth

‘Fact-Checking’ Powers Leave Biden and Cuomo Unchecked

$1.9 Trillion ‘COVID-19’ Bill Would Pay for Abortions and Intersectional ‘Art’

Leftist Activist Launches $65M Effort to Fight Conservative Media, Push Progessive News

Mitchell’s Line on Radical HHS Nominee: ‘Since When is Being a Doctor the Requirement?’

That’s Potato Head to You! Hasbro Drops the ‘Mister’ From Mister Potato Head

Demi Lovato Calls For End Of ‘Transphobic’ Gender Reveal Parties

Democratic Shill Kimmel’s Jokes Are So Awful, You Almost Feel Bad for Him

Illinois’ Latest Use Of Taxpayer Money As Anti-Republican Political Club

Project Veritas Leaks Salesforce Vow to Purge Messaging from Trump or Election Skeptics

G.I. Joe To Be Replaced With Genderless G.I. Pat  Babylon Bee.

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They certainly will if they think they can get away with it.

COVID! Is there anything it can’t do?

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Ponder al-Jazeera claiming that something ‘tarnishes the brand’.

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Thank you, minimum wage.

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Two and a half years ago, when Alex Jones of Infowars was kicked off a series of tech platforms in a clearly coordinated decision, I knew this was not going to be an isolated thing.

Given that people like Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy were saying the ouster of Jones was just a “good first step,” it seemed obvious the tactic was not going to be confined to a few actors. But corporate media critics insisted the precedent would not be applied more broadly.

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That sounds pretty Trumpian to me.

Lionel Shriver.

Pre-internet, august dictionaries such as Webster’s and the OED functioned as linguistic anchors. Beneficially slow to adapt and resistant to vernacular fashion, print editions that were expensive to reissue acted as drags on popular misunderstandings (no, ‘notorious’ does not mean ‘famous’). By calling us to shared agreement on what words did and didn’t mean, hard-copy dictionaries helped facilitate clear, precise communication. But online dictionaries have jettisoned this conservative purpose. Capable of being updated daily, digital definitions change with the wind, and are eternally playing catch-up with galloping popular ignorance. The hoi polloi, not the fuddy-duddies, are in charge.

This leaves English susceptible to witlessness, yet also to deliberate manipulation. We’re not talking merely about rapidly evolving slang, but about the meaning of staple, commonplace vocabulary, revised definitions of which can slyly import partisan ideological baggage to everyday discourse.

Wikipedia is serving the Left toward the same end.

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Olivia Hartley speaks to Laura Dodsworth about face masks, religious faith, and how public health has become a criminal justice matter.

ZMan does some analysis.

An axiom from the drug game that applies equally well to the political game is “Never get high from your own supply.” Drug dealers who start using their product usually end up dead, in jail or just another client for a smarter drug dealer. In the case of politics, the product they move is propaganda and rhetoric. In office, they peddle propaganda to convince or confuse the people into going along with policy. Out of office, politicians use rhetoric to trick people into supporting them in their efforts.

The product of politics is the lie. Maybe the lie is just an exaggeration, like the old line about two cars in every garage and chicken in every pot. Sometimes the lie is a fabrication to distract from something else. The Russian collusion hoax is an example of a lie to distract from the FBI corruption. Then, of course, you have the Big Lie, the lie so colossal that no one thinks it possible to tell such a lie. The usual suspects used this against Trump, declaring him a white nationalist.

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Stop the COVID-19 madness. Just stop the friggin’ COVID-19 madness.

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes this disease, is a nasty little pathogen, and everyone should take it seriously. But encouraging a moral panic rarely helps anyone with anything.

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Republicans of Cass County, Michigan, censured Republican Rep. Fred Upton Tuesday for his vote to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia from the House Education Committee.

Upton voted to remove Greene from the committee for spreading QAnon conspiracy theories and for comments on school shootings, Upton said in a tweet. Republicans from his district condemned Upton’s decision calling his vote a “betrayal.”

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

Up to now, the coveted title of “Worst College President in America” belonged without question to George Bridges of Evergreen State College in Washington, as we noted here back in 2018. But a new challenger has arisen, and has wrested the title from Bridges: Kathleen McCartney of Smith College.

We wrote here last week (in “The Disgrace of Smith College“) about the case of Jodi Shaw, the Smith College staff member hounded out of Smith because she dared to challenge the blatantly racist so-called ideology of “anti-racism” that is rampant on campuses everywhere. McCartney responded with a public letter disputing Shaw, but without rebutting any of the substantive claims Shaw made—a classic “non-denial-denial.”

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If you’re woke, you believe that:

• Saying that people should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin is racist.
• White people who perform African-American spirituals or sing the “Black National Anthem” are engaging in cultural appropriation, and are racists.
• When a black man who commits a crime is arrested by a white cop, that cop is a racist. The white prosecutor who prosecutes him is a racist. White members of the jury who vote to convict him are racists.
• The fact that the number of black nuclear physicists in America is lower than the proportion of blacks in the general population is proof that STEM teachers are racists, university administrators are racists, and companies in the nuclear tech industry are systemically racist.

And so on. Readers can supply additional examples — we all know the drill.

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The periodic debate regarding raising the minimum wage has resurfaced once again, only this time the argument is connected to the larger discussion surrounding a sprawling, $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill; for some inexplicable reason. In the bill unveiled by House Democrats last Friday, if passed, the minimum wage would increase incrementally from the current $7.25 per hour to $9.50 per hour this year, and eventually escalate to $15 per hour by 2025. Prominent Democrats across the board have supported the idea, including President Joe Biden.

If we deep-dive the issue in trying to understand its full impact, we can learn a great deal about the pros and cons of increasing the minimum wage; particularly with the cons. But there are two pieces of information that are difficult to come by. How, specifically, did we arrive at the number of $15? And, based on the Democrats’ reluctance to acknowledge the negative impacts of a minimum wage increase, why don’t we just add a zero to the number and increase the minimum wage to $150 per hour?

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A Washington appeals court struck down an onerous local gun storage ordinance in a victory for Second Amendment activists, who pushed a state law designed to stop strict gun laws from popping up in liberal localities.

‘Black Lives Matter’ Foundation Took In Over $90 Million Last Year

New Domestic Terror Laws Will Harm Minority Communities, ACLU Says

REPORT: Public School Requires Kindergarteners To Watch Video Of Dead Black Children To Warn Against ‘State-Sanctioned Violence’

Kentucky Police Officer Fired For Allegedly Giving Officers’ Information To BLM Protesters

Protesters Take To The Street After Grand Jury Votes Not To Charge Officers Involved In Daniel Prude’s Death

ABC’s ‘Mixed-ish’ Loves ‘Disappointing White People’

Democrats play the race card on behalf of Tanden and Becerra

Coca-Cola says ‘Be Less White’ learning plan was about workplace inclusion  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

‘Asian Getting Beat The F**k Up Today’: Former Gang Member Arrested For Threats Against Asian-Americans On Social Media

Chicago Faces 135% Increase In Carjackings… So Dem Lawmakers Plan To Ban “Grand Theft Auto”

Obama: ‘White Resistance and Resentment’ Prevented Reparations Push

Don’t blame white supremacy for attacks on Asians

‘Extraordinary Individual’: DCCC Chair Maloney Praises Ex-Con Adviser Who Wants To Defund The Police  Be a thug, joi n a gang, get caught, do time, utter the politically correct racist anti-white boilerplate, get a cushy political job. There’s a career path for you. (Not for you, of course; only for black people.)

Tufts Student Government Attacks Jewish Member for Defending Israel

Biden Press Shop Passes On Calls To Smear Neera Tanden Opponents As Sexist Or Racist

Democrats Move to Silence Non-Liberal Speech

MSNBC Compares GOP Congresswoman to Osama Because She Posed With Guns

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Compares Gun Posing Lawmakers To Terrorists, Says They Are ‘Committed’ To The ‘Violent Overthrow Of The Government’

Are Fact Checkers Hammering Biden, Cuomo? NO

Excl: New York Democratic Assemblyman says ‘Cuomo must share blame with Trump’ for pandemic response

The Ugliest Rush Limbaugh Obits by Lefty Journalists and Celebrities

Late Night ‘Comedians’ Smear Limbaugh, Josh Hawley, CPAC as White Supremacists, Neo-Nazis

Democrats Accuse Facebook Of ‘Knowingly’ Facilitating Extremists, Call Platform ‘Breeding Ground’ For ‘Discord’

Bette Midler Tweet Slimes Rush Limbaugh

FCC Chair Stays Mum on Efforts to Deplatform Conservative Networks

Trump Will ‘Spend The Rest Of His Years In Civil And Criminal Courts,’ Eric Swalwell Says

Palm Beach County Refuses to Lower Flags for Rush Limbaugh

W. Va. Attorney General Rejects Lawmakers’ Call to Censor News Programming

MSNBC’s Reid, Panelists Lash Out at Manchin as a Racist, Sexist for Opposing Tanden

GOP Senator Grills Biden Interior Nominee On Oil And Natural Gas Industry: ‘Why Not Just Let These Workers Keep Their Jobs?’

WashPost Cheers Biden’s ‘Low Key’ Response to Texas Storm

In Disappointing Debut by Biden, G-7 Barely Mentions Bad Actor China

Nets Ignore Biden’s New Kiddie Kennels for Migrant Children at the Border

Party Time With Hunter Biden in the House of Sweden

Anti-Israel Activists Defend Biden State Dept. Nominee

Biden To Sign Executive Order On Alarming Computer Chip Shortage That’s Thrashed Carmakers

Biden Administration Is Lying About The Reason For A New Migrant Child Detention Center, Former Border Official Says

Democrats Ask Biden To Surrender Keys On Nuclear Launches

6 Ways AOC Is Already Being A Pain In Joe Biden’s Ass

Biden ‘Disappointed’ With Slow Cabinet Confirmations, Blames Trump Administration  Which is apparently still ongoing … somehow….

Becerra Falsely Claims He ‘Never Sued Any Nuns’

Former Clinton Adviser Admits America Becoming “Totalitarian State” Under Biden

Top Texas Republicans on the ropes after tone-deaf storm response (Politico) I’m sure they wish that were true.

Propaganda Minister Colbert: Green New Deal ‘Bold,’ ‘Swinging for the Fences’

Quincy Institute Fellow Denies China’s Genocide of Uighur Muslims

Canada Gun Confiscation ‘In The Coming Months’

Here’s What The Swamp Stuck In The Stimulus

Media Institute Hits Democrats for ‘Chilling Speech, Intimidating Distributors’

Germany: Far-Left Extremists Viciously Attack Political Candidate In The Street  Gee, just like the Good Old Days.

‘Gran Torino’ Actor Claims Eastwood Film Exacerbated Current Anti-Asian Racism

Can we have unity when Republicans thrive on alienation? (Washington Post)

How the effort to deny the reality of the Jan. 6 attack is evolving (Washington Post) Defending the Narrative is a full-time job.

Clueless WashPost Columnist: ‘We Need Much More’ Abortion Propaganda on TV

Lincoln Project Received $32 Million in Free Media from CNN, MSNBC Since Weaver Scandal Broke

Hong Kong Market Tumbles After “Shock” Transaction Tax Hike To Pay For Government Handouts

CNN: Support Biden Cabinet Picks or You’re Sexist!

‘What A Joke’: Morning Joe Knocks GOP Resistance To Biden Nominees, Says ‘They’ve Surrendered Their Right To Be Outraged’

New Bill Would Eliminate Single-Sex Spaces on College Campuses

Teachers Unions Say Schools Cannot Reopen Until We Are Safe From Our Kids Ever Having A Future  Babylon Bee.

How Corporate America Bankrolled Neera Tanden’s Left-Wing Agenda

Amazon Created New ‘Hate Speech’ Policy Before Banning Bestselling Book on Transgenderism

Verizon Cut Off Donations to Republicans, Partnered With Antisemitic Farrakhan Pal

COMPLICIT MSNBC Doesn’t Want Violent Left-Wing Rioters Prosecuted

Hatefest: ‘View’ Hosts Smear DeSantis, Threaten Tucker Carlson

House Republicans SLAM Left’s Attack on Free Speech During Hearing

Even “Scientific Models” Now Forecast COVID Ending By June

Maryland Teachers Held Parade To Protest Going Back To Work

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Blasts COVID-19 Bill: Rewards States ‘For Their Bad Actions’

Dr. Fauci’s baffling advice

California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous

FDA: Johnson & Johnson’s One-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine Effective, Safe

Johnson & Johnson’s Coronavirus Vaccine Offers Strong Protection, Reduces Spread, FDA Analysis Finds

Should we be forcing children to wear masks?

Media Criticizes Governor DeSantis For Vaccinating Republican Seniors Instead Of Killing Them

More people are dying of COVID under Biden

A Year Later, There’s Still No Evidence Showing Governments Can Control The Spread Of COVID-19

John Kerry Disappointed Australia Wants to Keep Exporting Coal

‘Problem of missing ice’ finally solved by movement of the earth’s crust

Cloud-Making Aerosol Could Devastate Polar Sea Ice

Attenborough twisted the truth about dying walrus: why believe him on climate change?

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How stupid does a politician have to be to try to shut down their state’s main source of home heating fuel right before winter? They would have to be doubly stupid to do this in a state with real winters, like Michigan. As bad as the Texas energy disaster was, the freezing weather that triggered it only lasted about 10 days.

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When the House impeached Donald Trump in late 2019 on ambiguous charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, many legal experts expressed concern about normalizing impeachment–previously a very rare procedure.

“Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump,” my 2020 book, outlines how Trump was the first president impeached on noncriminal allegations. Unlike the charges in the first impeachment, federal statutes cover both incitement and insurrection–the basis of the charge in the House’s second impeachment of Trump.

Nevertheless, the second impeachment, just more than a year later, may have exacerbated such concerns of making impeachment a routine process.

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Republican leaders in the House and Senate say a proposed plan for an independent commission to study the Capitol insurrection is overly tilted toward Democrats, arguing that the panel should have an even party split like the one formed to study the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that a legitimate commission would be comprised of an equal number of Republicans and Democrats. A draft proposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would create an 11-member commission with four Republicans and seven Democrats, three of whom would be chosen by President Joe Biden, according to one of multiple aides who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the details under negotiation.

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A 27-year-old former Trump Administration staffer officially announced her congressional campaign to unseat Republican Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger following his impeachment vote.

Catalina Lauf, who previously served as a top advisor to the United States Department of Commerce under the Trump Administration, released a statement Tuesday announcing her Congressional run in the 16th District of Illinois.

Additionally, Lauf took to Twitter to announce her campaign, taking several shots at Kinzinger over his voting record against former President Donald Trump.

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This week, Reps. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., sent out a series of letters to America’s largest communications corporations: AT&T, Alphabet Inc., Cox Communications, Dish Network, Comcast, Apple, Amazon, and others.

Their letters demanded answers from these corporations on one simple topic: Why would these platforms continue to allow the dissemination of “misinformation” from conservative outlets?

“Our country’s public discourse is plagued by misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and lies,” the House Democrats wrote. “These phenomena undergird the radicalization of seditious individuals who committed acts of insurrection on January 6th, and it contributes to a growing distrust of public health measures necessary to crush the pandemic. … Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN?”

The overt move by members of the government to cudgel private corporations into silencing unpopular viewpoints was clearly violative of First Amendment principles.

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If you have followed our rogue prosecutor series, no doubt you were disturbed by Boston’s Rachael Rollins and her list of “15 crimes” you can now commit there, appalled at the anti-police policies of Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner, disgusted by the actions of Baltimore’s Marilyn Mosby, nauseated by the weekly death tolls caused by the apathy of Chicago’s Kim Foxx, and disconcerted by the predictable anti-victim policies of Fairfax’s Steve Descano.

The goal of each of these Soros-backed rogue prosecutors, as we wrote in our research paper on the topic, is to “fundamentally reverse engineer” the role of the prosecutor and to fundamentally transform our criminal justice system.

To that end, they have enacted policies that favor defendants, ignore drug laws, prohibit prosecutors from filing certain misdemeanors, and require prosecutors to cut sweetheart deals with many offenders. All of these actions have contributed to spikes in crime (including homicides) in many of their cities and have damaged their relationships with local police and victims’ rights groups. In the end, their policies push them further away from their supposed goal of seeking justice.

Thank you, George Soros.

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

The fantasy view of politics is most obvious on the Left, of course. Much of what constitutes our current politics would best be described as a paranoid delusion or maybe even a psychotic break. Six weeks on and official Washington is still playing the game of make-believe over the January protests. For five years they were convinced that invisible Russians using mind control rigged the 2016 election. Left-wing politics, which means mainstream politics, is just a long conspiracy theory.

Satan’s breaking out all over….

Scott Johnson at PwerLine.

Hoover Institution fellows Scott Atlas, Niall Ferguson, and Victor Davis Hanson were the subject of diatribes in a recent meeting of the Stanford Faculty Senate. The four professors who disparaged them (Joshua Landy, Stephen Monismith, David Palumbo-Liu and David Spiegel) “then subsequently published a farrago of falsehoods directed against various fellows of the Hoover Institution:

Their complaint was, first, that the Hoover fellows’ views were unapologetically conservative and, second, that they appeared antithetical to the majority of those of the Stanford community—and were therefore properly subject to some sort of institutional and personal censure.

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I’m not convinced, but it’s an interesting thought.

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Whales, dolphins and porpoises are much better at fighting cancer than we are, and now we might be closer to understanding why cetaceans can do this.

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Something is amiss with Canadian butter, according to local foodies, who have been arguing for weeks that their blocks are harder to spread than usual.

These so-called “buttergate” anecdotes have been spreading online, with many Canadians complaining that their butter does not soften at room temperature.

Food experts have churned up palm fat in cow feed as a likely culprit.

The dairy industry insists the claims are unfounded, but has created a working group to seek answers.

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Toyota on Tuesday broke ground on “Woven City”, a smart city project in Japan that doesn’t permit private cars and where your robot might stock your fridge.

The master-planned community, named as a reminder of Toyota’s origins as a maker of looms, sits on 700,000 square meters of retired manufacturing plant at the base of Mount Fuji. The repurposed plant is marketed as a “living laboratory” for mobility-related technologies, robotics, artificial intelligence, smart homes, and sustainability. The city’s design includes energy-efficient wooden buildings partly made by robots, plus power from solar energy, geothermal energy, and hydrogen fuel cells in a nod to Japan’s carbon-neutrality ambitions.

Woven City features three sets of “interwoven” streets to form a repeatable grid of nine blocks, each framing a local park or courtyard. The design attempts to remove the typical transport hierarchy experienced in city traffic by allotting individual streets to automated driving, pedestrians and personal mobility devices.

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A Chambers County resident filed a class-action lawsuit against electricity retailer Griddy on Monday, accusing the provider of price gouging customers during last week’s freeze. She is seeking $1 billion in relief for affected customers.

Attorneys for Lisa Khoury said in the lawsuit that her bill spiked to $9,340 the week of the storm, compared to her average monthly bills that range from $200 to $250. Griddy drafted payments from Khoury’s bank account several times, according to the lawsuit, pulling $1,200 before she blocked further charges from her bank. She still owes thousands.

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There’s a new administration in town. On Monday, House Democrats Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney, both members of the House Energy and Commerce committee, sent letters to twelve grand poobahs of television to make sure they were properly updating their ideological software.

‘Some purported news outlets have long been misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm,’ the letter says. ‘Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN… now and beyond any contract renewal date? If so, why?’

Sadly, America’s government grows less transparent by the day, so the letter conceals half its content beneath a layer of subtext. That’s a nice TV company you have there, it says. Would be so very sad if something happened to it. TV companies that want to avoid a regulatory stink-eye are encouraged to make the bad voices disappear from the television.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

This is the stupidity to which we have all grown accustomed, although carried to an absurd degree here. But I think this comment is worth making: if you believe this is really about statues, you are sadly mistaken. These far-left students have their training wheels on now, but they are being groomed for their real task: not just changing the names of the University of Washington and Washington State, which flows inexorably from the destruction of Washington’s statue, but, far more important, the discrediting and hence abandonment of our Constitution.

Steve Sailer.

Raj Chetty ran the numbers.

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They’re making a list. They’ve been telling us they intend to make a list. When your enemy (I use the term advisedly) tells you he intends to harm you, you should believe him. We’re down to the nut-cracking now, and the plan on the left, now that they have their claws on the levers of power, is to identify as many Trump voters as they can, label them as “domestic terrorists,” and to disenfranchise the lot of them.

No access to the automated communication platforms or financial systems of the world.

They’re already doing it. How far they are able to succeed remains to be seen, but my own intuition is that they will be able to do a great deal of damage to real human beings before anyone rises up to stop them.

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State legislatures, take note: Americans have legitimate concerns over election integrity, as amply demonstrated by the many proven instances of voter fraud that we continue to add to The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database.

These vulnerabilities within the electoral process need to be addressed as soon as possible.

The right to self-government depends on free and fair elections. We should have zero toleration for actions that interfere with the choices of voters at the ballot box.

Heritage’s database catalogs 1,311 cases of voter fraud, one of the most recent occurring during the 2020 election.

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Not really a surprise. They’ve been losing ground for a decade.

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The Crust takes care of its own. If she’d been wearing a MAGA shirt she’d still be in jail.

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God forbid there should be some objective way of detecting how bad their teaching is.

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The chief of the Cherokee Nation has asked Jeep to stop using the tribe’s name on its SUVs. In a statement to Car and Driver, Chuck Hoskin, Jr., principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, said it’s about time.

I suspect that this is a ploy to try to squeeze some money out of Jeep for the use of the name. I would be delighted to be wrong, but I doubt it.