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Senate Minority Leader (again) Mitch McConnell and Nikki Haley badly miscalculated the American electorate, unless they are willing servants of Xi and the Thirty American Tyrants, furthering what Time proudly celebrated as a grand and good conspiracy against real, legitimate voters in their several states producing the wrong result again. To the extent the McConnell-Haley contingent succeed in clinging to control of the Republican Party, while the left asserts full control over the Democratic Party and the instruments of national power, they will hasten the end of the Republican Party, like the Whigs before them. President Trump and the portion of the real electorate that does not want a socialist America is signaling clearly that they intend to transform the Republican Party, rather than creating a new party from scratch. We are living in very interesting times.

The Paris Accords Are A Boon For China

Poll: Majority Of Trump Voters Believe In Climate Change But Question The Left’s Extreme Solutions

Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate – here’s why  So rather than solar panels, use heat exchangers.

What a 1900s Wildlife Survey Reveals About Climate Change

Environmental Justice Risks from Hyper-Local Monitoring are Exaggerated

‘The Political Version Of Money Laundering’: Greg Gutfeld Compares COVID-19 Relief Bill To ‘Breaking Bad’ Carwash

Amazon Stops Selling Book Critical of Transgender Movement

‘The Swamp Is Back’: Rep. Kevin McCarthy Hammers Democrats’ ‘Expensive’ And ‘Expansive’ Relief Bill Proposals

French City Removes Meat From School Lunches, Slammed For “Putting Ideology On Kids’ Plates”

The Return of Sue and Settle

WAR CRY: House Dems Echo CNN, Pressure TV Providers to DUMP Fox, Newsmax and OAN

Amazon Censors Book That Criticizes Transgender Ideology

Facebook Restores News Sharing As Australia Caves To Big Tech

CNN Anchor Calls It ‘Revisionism’ To Deny That Capitol Riot Was An Armed Insurrection  ‘Revisionism’ is, of course, a uniquely Communist charge.

CNN’s New Target? Moderate Dems: ‘Shameful’ for Manchin Not To Support $15 Minimum Wage

Tim Cook and Apple ask Congress to ‘come together’ and pass the Equality Act

Spain’s anarchists are rioting

California To Send $600 Stimulus Checks To Illegal Immigrants, Poor Residents

Twitter Censors Focus on the Family-Affiliated Account for Denoting Biological Fact: Report

Biden’s twisted immigration policy

Thousands Of Unaccompanied Minors Face ‘Cages’ As HHS Shelters Hit 93% Capacity

State Department Briefing Gets Heated After Reporters Accuses Biden Of Taking Credit For Trump’s Accomplishments  Time to shift from Obama to Biden.

Biden’s Child Detention Centers Are Now Bursting At The Seams

Compassionate Biden Moves Migrant Children From Cages Into Humane High-Security Metal Containment Cubes  Babylon Bee.

Biden’s Memo on LGBTQI Policies Abroad Is Ideological Colonialism

Watch: WH Press Sec Blames Pandemic After Being Asked About ‘Kids In Cages’

Stevie Wonder is moving to Ghana I predict that he will not enjoy the experience.

Liberals Know a Lot of Fake News About Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men

Why the narrative on Britain’s role in the slave trade is misleading  Notice how nobody ever talks about the Muslim participation in the slave trade….

Where do you fit on the whiteness graph?

Robin DiAngelo Diversity Course Instructing People To ‘Be Less White’ Removed From LinkedIn 

White People Aren’t Human

Defending Biden Order, Sunny Hostin Slams Sen. Cotton’s White ‘Privilege:’ ‘Equality May Feel Like Oppression’

‘We Are Turning Into A Version Of A Totalitarian State’: Liberal Author Naomi Wolf Knocks Lockdowns

Cuomo: America Has ‘Never Once Stopped to Honor’ COVID Victims  Wave those hands! Wage those hands!

What We Know About Cuomo’s COVID-19 Cover-Up

Hasbro Releases Exciting New ‘Fauci Says’ Game  Babylon Bee.

Teachers At Public School Try To Dissuade Students From Returning To Classrooms The Day After District Votes To Reopen, Parents Say

ND House passes anti-mask mandate bill

Florida official tells offices to disregard DeSantis order to lower flags in Limbaugh’s honor | TheHill

Ag commissioner says her agencies will defy DeSantis, not lower flags for Limbaugh

Media Matters Study On Fox News ‘Misinformation’ Is Riddled With Misrepresentations, Flagged Objectively True Statements

CNN’s Zakaria: I’m Not Saying Republicans ARE Nazis, But Are LIKE Nazis

Economic Historian Gregory Clark’s Lecture on “For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls” Is Postponed for Crimethink

It’s Getting Harder Being Green

Apache foundation ousts TinkerPop project co-founder for tweeting ‘offensive humor that borders on hate speech’

Florida Dem Refusing to Lower Flags to Honor Rush Limbaugh

Southern Poverty: 160 Confederate Symbols Taken Down in 2020

Jewish Voice for Peace Fights to Preserve Anti-Zionist Hatred Online

‘If Not In Jail, He Should Certainly Be Under Investigation’: Joe Scarborough Says Sen. Hawley Is Responsible For Capitol Hill Riots

Google Fires Ethics Heads for Questioning the Global Warming Impact of AI

Ted Cruz Diagnoses ‘Media Obsession’ Over Cancun Trip As ‘Acute Trump Withdrawal’

Clarence Thomas GOP Election Challenge Dissent Sparks Calls to Investigate His Wife

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The Texas blackouts are shaping up to be the costliest disaster in state history, and the loss of life remains unknown. People are justifiably very angry. And when people are angry, politicians look around for someone to blame. Many have trotted out their favorite villains for the occasion. Many on the right have picked Don Quixote’s old enemy, the windmill, while many on the left jumped at the chance to blame deregulation. Neither explanation really holds up. While it will be some time before all the specifics are known, what we do know doesn’t support any easy political narrative.

The central fact about the chain of events that led to the blackouts is deceptively simple: It got super cold.

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He could call them the Washington Generals. It’s traditional.

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

“Death to me!” is the title of the best column I have read on the sordid ritual of public confessions following the “woke” party line. By David Mikics, the column draws on the history of false confessions by Communists caught up in the purges of the Soviet Union’s Stalin era. It is a history with which every literate American should be familiar, but it appears to be as obscure in the mind of Americans as the Peloponnesian War.

The column provides a good account of recent events at the New York Times to illustrate the phenomenon. As Mikics observes, the Times is part of the story today, in support of the “woke” party line, and yesterday as well, in support of the Communist Party line. Some things don’t change.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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I want one.

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The Indiana Senate on Tuesday voted 37-8 to pass a bill that would give the government broad powers to seize assets from people suspected of “unlawful assembly,” which, under state law, is defined as “an assembly of five (5) or more persons whose common object is to commit an unlawful act, or a lawful act by unlawful means.”

If that sounds hazy, that’s because it is—perhaps intentionally so. “The one thing we know is that vague laws are often enforced as broadly as they possibly can be,” says Sam Gedge, an attorney at the legal nonprofit Institute for Justice, “and civil forfeiture is often enforced as much as it can be because the government stands to profit.”

That practice—civil forfeiture—is similarly foggy, a fitting accompaniment to unlawful assembly. The process allows the state to steal property and/or cash from people suspected of, charged with, or convicted of a criminal offense, depending on where you live. In Indiana, prosecutors need only to furnish a preponderance of the evidence to initiate forfeiture proceedings. They don’t need a criminal charge, much less a conviction.

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

Most discussions about political reform are a way to avoid facing the reality of the people in charge of the system or the system itself. Often, it is a form of escapism where the proposed reform will magically make the people in charge into the sorts of honorable or virtuous people the system demands. Regardless of the political system, reform is an internal operation, performed by the people in charge for the benefit of the people in charge. The reformers always need elite support.

That said, thinking about how the system should be altered in order to serve the ends of society can get at what is wrong with the system. Take voting, for example. American elections are now hopelessly corrupt. The path forward for those not supportive of the ruling class is to protest the whole election. When the votes are rigged and the parties are decreasingly polite fictions, voting is a waste of time. Every vote cast, regardless of the candidate, is for the ruling party.

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We have reached a point where a fascist Democrat politician can just order people to quit doing business, without any statutory authority or court decision, and expect to have it stick.

Gee, what could have happened in 2008 to cause such a thing?

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

As millions of kids skip kindergarten, the learning gap widens – and schools may lose funding

Legal experts warn New York Gov. Cuomo’s nursing home scandal may rise to federal level of criminal offense

Fauci: ‘Possible’ Americans will be wearing masks in 2022 to protect against Covid-19

Our Descent Into Collective Madness?  Victor Davis Hanson.

Remember When Fauci Called Ebola Quarantines “Draconian”, Warned Of “Unintended Consequences”

‘Politics, Not Science’: Scientists Cast Doubt On China’s Story Of COVID-19

Cuomo-Avoiding Networks Single Out Republican Ron DeSantis on ‘Vaccine Outrage’

US COVID Deaths Near 500K, Biden Plans Candle-Lighting Ceremony To Honor Milestone

Germany, once a model, is swamped like everyone else by pandemic’s second wave

The Pandemic Will End—but Covid-19 May Be Here to Stay

‘I’m Over Dr. Fauci’: Meghan McCain Says Biden Admin Should ‘Put Someone Else In Place That Maybe Does Understand Science’

Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine

REFORM LODGING: Hotel Owners Are Being Strangled By COVID Eviction Moratoriums

Why COVID cases are falling around the world  Popular ‘Science’ so take with a grain of salt.

CNN’s Brianna Keilar Breaks Down In Tears Over COVID-19 Deaths  How did these people ever get through high school?ol

Activist Malcolm X’s Family Calls to Reopen Investigation into His Murder

‘Batwoman’ Peddles BLM Propaganda, Proclaims ‘ACAB’

Is Black Lives Matter Killing People?

Deion Sanders Says His Stuff Was Stolen During His First Game At Jackson State

Did PBS and Henry Louis Gates downplay crimes against humanity?

Coca Cola Confirms Training Employees To “Try To Be Less White”

LaCroix Tells Employees To Be More White  Babylon Bee.

When Scholarship Turns to Activism

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Calls America a ‘Criminal Enterprise

7 Ways You Can Be Less White  Babylon Bee.

Coke Conducting Employee Seminars ‘To Be Less White’

Chinese military scientist accused of obstructing DOJ investigation into her visa fraud at Stanford

Token Female Member of Men’s College Wrestling Team Used By LGBT Media to Justify Trans Rights

Pelosi, Who Claims to Oppose Gerrymandering, Funnels $300,000 to Democratic Gerrymandering Group

The United States Women’s National Soccer Team Is Done Protesting During The National Anthem  Nobody cares any more now that the Democrats are in power.

Uighurs: ‘Credible case’ China carrying out genocide

Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia

San Francisco School Board Pauses Effort To Rename 44 Schools, Says Its ‘Only Focus’ Will Shift To Reopening Classrooms  And hope that the spotlight moves on so that they can get on with the original program.

Yellen Sets The Stage For Higher Corporate Taxes, Yield Curve Control And A Digital Dollar

Big Three CENSOR News on White House-Backed ‘Dark Money’ Group Pushing Biden’s Leftist Agenda

YouTube CENSORS Testimony in Ohio Legislature, Deems It Misinformation

Anti-Gun Senators And Mayors Push Biden On Executive Gun Controls

The myth (and phony math) of ‘green’ jobs

Amazon Exposes True Colors By Silencing ‘Dissent From A New Orthodoxy,’ Author Says

Big Tech Employees Donated More To Biden’s Campaign Than Any Other Sector

NBC Rushes to Exploit Texas Crisis to Push Radical Climate Agenda

The Next Target Of Democrats’ Wokeism: American Farmers

Neera Tanden Was ‘Proud To Fight’ Against Trump Cabinet Picks, Now She’s Battling To Save Her Own Nomination  What goes around, comes around.

Biden Labor Purge Sparks Legal Challenge

Appointment of Xavier Becerra Threatens Life-Saving Pregnancy Centers Nationwide

MEHLMAN: Biden Immigration Bill Includes Something For Everyone — Unless You Are A Law-Abiding US Citizen

Joe Biden, the background-noise president

Biden Relief Package Includes Money For New York’s Seaway International Bridge, A Priority For Chuck Schumer

Half a mind to be president

Attorney General Nominee Garland: Politics Won’t Influence Criminal Probes  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

Andy Biggs to Newsmax TV: ‘Massive Increase’ in Unaccompanied Child Migrants

Biden Drops Trump Citizenship Test

Biden Said He’s Returning To Science-Based Policy. So Why Is He Cancelling Pipelines?

Biden Administration Weighing How To Prevent A Humanitarian Crisis With Increasing Numbers Of Unaccompanied Children Arriving At The Border   It’s a crisis because illegal immigrants and their NGO enablers have learned how to play Democrat administrations like a guitar.

 Texas freeze shows a chilling truth – how the rich use climate change to divide us  (The Guardian)

NOAA’s Climate Disaster Claims Are A Sham

The Dangers of Climate Change Activists

Bronx educator claims she was fired after sharing Holocaust story, refusing ‘Wakanda’ salute

People Are Sharing Celebs Who Were Unfairly “Canceled” And It’s Interesting How Different Times Are (Buzzfeed)

Republican leader Steve Scalise refuses to admit Trump lost election to Biden (The Guardian) The nerve of that guy!

Nasty CNN Continues to Smear Rush Limbaugh: ‘His Views Were Pretty Ugly and Hurt a Lot of People’

Amazon Removes Book Critiquing Transgender Movement

Comedian Michael Che, SNL Accused of Anti-Semitism

On Thin Ice? De Blasio Reverses Closures Of Trump-Operated Ice Skating Rinks

YouTube CENSORS Latest Trump Interview with Newsmax

CBS Regrets ‘Big Time’ Cancel Culture… When It Impacts Democrats

Amazon Introduces ‘Kindle Bonfire’ Feature That Lets You Burn Digital Books  Babylon Bee.

House Democrats Pressure TV Broadcasters To Deplatform Conservative Networks

Mika Brzezinski Rips Ted Cruz’s Texas ‘Photo-Op,’ But Lauds AOC’s

‘I Wouldn’t Consider Even Walking Through The Door’: Sen. Dick Durbin Blasts CPAC Attendees As Conspiracy Theorists

‘We Will Not Celebrate Hate Speech’: Democratic Florida Official Refuses To Lower Flags In Limbaugh’s Honor

House Democrats Target Newsmax, Fox News for De-platforming From Cable

‘That’s My Prediction’: Following Court Loss On Tax Returns, Michael Cohen Advises Donald Trump To Get ‘A Custom-Made Jumpsuit’

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That worked out pretty well, didn’t it? Perhaps the kid won’t inherit any of his defective genes.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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In this new study, carried out by an international research team, the scientists have taken aim at what’s known at volumetric muscle loss, which can result from serious injuries such as those sustained in car crashes or tumor removal. This leaves the sufferer without much of the muscles’ natural ability to regenerate itself in the event of an injury, and current treatment options are limited.

The team set out to tackle this with the help of direct cell reprogramming, which entails turning one cell type into another without first returning it to an induced pluripotent state. This saw them enlist important structural cells in our connective tissue called fibroblasts, which were converted into induced myogenic progenitor cells (iMPCs) with the help of certain transcription factors.

We have the technology.

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As the Egyptian-born child of a Yemeni diplomat, Elham Manea and her family traveled widely. But their move from Morocco to Yemen, when Elham was a young teenager, stands out. She compares it to time travel, leaving a free and modern life for a place where women are veiled and public life is gender segregated. She was told that art, music, poetry, and philosophy were forbidden, and that her new, true family of “sisters” and “brothers” were other Muslims who believed all this.

She was taught to “hate,” Jews in particular, and that it was right to deceive infidels. When she was told that a husband is God to his wife, that she would have to sacrifice her blood family in favor of other true believers, she backed away.

She has been backing away ever since.

In The Perils of NonViolent Islamism, her fourth book in English, the University of Zurich political scientist, author, activist, and consultant offers a warning to the West.

Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology in the guise of a religion with which no co-existence is possible. The fact that any particular Muslim is not engaging in violence at any particular time is no guarantee for the future.

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Kamala Harris was always going to be a most prominent Vice President. When Joe Biden’s campaign called a midmorning ‘lid’ — ending his working day before it really began — Harris would stay out on the trail, addressing car rallies in Pontiac, Michigan; going viral on social media by dancing in the Florida rain. She is significantly younger and more energetic — traits the Biden campaign capitalized on in the campaign. Her fanbase considers her to be a political celebrity: when she’s getting bad press, they rally the #KHive on social media — an online community ready and willing to defend the VP — a spin-off of the #BeyHive hashtag used by Beyoncé’s loyal fans worldwide.

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If even the Narrative Media are admitting it, it must be a big deal.

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Once or twice a year, a company called Griddy makes headlines for the insanely high electricity bills incurred by consumers in ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. This traditionally happens during the hottest days of the Texan summer, when the world of wholesale energy traders and grid operators are biting their fingernails around near-miss blackouts — days which usually come and go with most consumers remaining blissfully unaware of the creaking and straining grid powering their air conditioners. During the week of Valentine’s Day 2021, the headlines were caused by an extreme cold snap instead of an extreme heat wave, but the market dynamics remain the same: too much demand and not enough supply, with prices held constant at the artificially imposed price cap of $9000 per megawatt hour (MWh) for days on end. This particular consequence of the ERCOT blackouts has predictably caused politicians and pundits from both sides of the aisle to scream foul, but the reality is that the “bad guys” in this situation are not so clear cut. As an entrepreneur and CTO in the wholesale energy space who’s worked with major ERCOT players (as well as in several other global RTOs) for over three years, I’d like to offer some nuance and context for consideration.

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

The political reactionary is an essential component of left-wing mythology, going back to the French Revolution. In fact, most reactionaries are an invention of Left, so they always have an enemy. It is why they tend to go on murder sprees once they gain control of the institutions. The hunt for counter revolutionaries and running dog reactionaries provides fuel for permanent revolution. Once the revolution runs out of enemies, the revolution loses energy and collapses in on itself.

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

The Yale Law Journal has been accused of racial bias by some Black students. And it does appear that the Journal is biased — in favor of Blacks.

Audacious Epigone boils it down.

You are walking through the woods when you come upon a grizzly bear. It sees you and draws near. Whatever you’re able to do in the next few moments constitute the full the extent of your “natural rights” in this world. Everything else is a privilege.

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Appearing at a friendly CNN town hall event this week, President Joe Biden dropped a string of untruths on issues both large and small.

One of the president’s most egregious falsehoods was the claim that “we didn’t have [the vaccine] when we came into office.” The first shot was administered back on Dec. 14, 2020.

Glenn Kessler, lead fact-checker for The Washington Post, quickly jumped into action on Twitter, explaining that this was merely a “verbal stumble, a typical Biden gaffe, as he had already mentioned 50 million doses being available when he took office. Former Trump officials should especially cool the outrage meter, as it just looks silly.”

Castigating those who pointed out the lie is a weird thing for someone charged with verifying factual information to do.

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

Yes, that is a ridiculous headline. And yet, as we noted here last week, what does it tell us about the present condition of America that the president of France, Emanuel Macron, has a better grasp of perversity and danger of our “woke” culture than the President of the United States?

 

ABC’s Karl Refuses to Admit Biden Is Beholden to Uncaring Teachers’ Unions

Jen Psaki Dodges Question From ABC’s Jon Karl About Whether Cuomo Represents ‘Gold Standard For Leadership’

Gordon Chang: Chinese ‘Don’t Respect’ President Biden Can’t hardly blame them.

Chris Wallace Questions Fauci About Biden Administration’s ‘Garbled Messages’ On Schools Reopening

Kentucky police officer fired for allegedly sharing information with Black Lives Matter protesters What would have happened if he were white and shared information with, oh, say, the Proud Boys?

Meet The Columbia Professor Who Says He Does Heroin For “Work-Life Balance”  From the look of him, I’d say it isn’t working.

Are Whites a Protected Class from a Hostile Work Environment?

Organic Food as a Racist Plot

Harvard study: reparations for slavery would reduce COVID-19 infections

Philadelphia: Carjack City, U.S.A.

Baltimore Activist Urges City To Pay Criminals Not To Murder  Guess the whole police thing wasn’t working out for them.

To Fight White Supremacy, Coca-Cola Discontinues Vanilla Coke  Babylon Bee.

Barbarians at the Mall Entrance

The World’s Shortest Seminar: Tolkien and Diversity

Just Why Are Post, NY Times Obits Nicer to Terrorists Than Conservatives?

CNN or DNC? Don Lemon Trashes Ted Cruz, Hails AOC and Beto, But It’s ‘Not About Politics’

‘A Lot Of Blame To Go Around’: Rep. Steve Scalise Refuses To Blame Trump For Capitol Riot When Pressed By Jon Karl

Media Immediately Stops Covering Ted Cruz Story After He Puts On Andrew Cuomo Mask  Babylon Bee.

Youtube Blocks Its Most Popular Chess Expert for Saying Things Like “Black Threat” and “White Must Attack”  NOT the Babylon Bee.

CNN’s Daniel Dale Says He Has Time To Fact Check Other People Now That Trump Is Gone

CNN Analyst Says Florida Shouldn’t Have Lowered Flags For Rush Limbaugh: ‘He Wasn’t A Heroic Figure’  I’m sure the Philistines felt the same way about Daniel.

‘I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death my right to silence you.’ Another case of LGBT persecution of its opponents

NY Times Opinion Editor Hosts Limbaugh Debate, Slimes Rush and ‘Trollish’ Ben Shapiro

Sen. Ron Johnson: Dems Have Double Standard on Protest Violence  Well, duh.

Yale Law Students Said a Top Journal Was Racist. Admissions Data Suggest Otherwise.

Disney+ Puts Warning Label Ahead Of ‘The Muppet Show’ Episodes, Cites ‘Negative Depictions’

‘Meet the governor we’ve known all along’: how Cuomo fell from grace

Is Covid Almost Over?

Supermarket Calls Cops On Disabled Man For Not Wearing Mask, Tries to Make Him Wear Yellow Sticker

‘It’s Possible’: Fauci Says Masks Could Still Be Around In 2022

Just As COVID Vaccine Found To Be 99% Effective In Preventing Death, Japan Discovers New, More Contagious Strain

Biden Admin “Working Directly” With Big Tech To Crush Vaccine Dissent

WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ Only Nudges Kamala with ‘2 Pinocchios’ for Wild Vaccine Claims

Newsweek ‘Fact Check’ Claims India Vaccine Ban “Mostly False” While Admitting De Facto Ban

‘I Don’t Really Think We’re Ever Going To Reach True Herd Immunity,’ Dr Scott Gottlieb Says

Trump National Security Official Says Evidence For Wuhan Lab Error ‘Far Outweighs’ Other Theories

PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Pushes Cuomo’s Nursing Home Lies, ‘Really Complicated’

An Ex-KGB Agent Says Trump Was a Russian Asset Since 1987. Does it Matter? (New York Magazine) Honestly, these people with believe anything.

California Nurses Sponsor Bill Mandating Free Healthcare For Everyone  And lots of jobs for nurses, of course, all at taxpayer expense. Ka-ching! (Actually, this is not a bad idea — once implemented in California, all of the deadbeats and illegal aliens will move there, hastening their collapse.)

Dem Rep. Ro Khanna: ‘We Don’t Want’ Small Businesses That Can’t Pay $15 Minimum Wage  Welcome to WalMart, Congresswoman. Let’s hear no more whining about the lack of Vibrant Small Shops.

White House Says HFT Tax “Worth Studying” After GameStop Debacle  Look, money going by! Let’s slap a tax on it before it gets away!

The Activists Who Embrace Nuclear Power

Fact: polar bears are thriving despite sea ice loss according to the scientific literature

HadCRUT5 shows 14% more global warming since 1850 than HadCRUT4

Munging The Sea Level Data

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Trump  Derangement Syndrome can have such a powerful effect on people that it can cause them to inadvertently praise their targets while simultaneously slamming their TDS allies without them even being aware of it. This can produce quite a comical effect as was the case of the Friday article in Washingtonian magazine in which Jessica Sidman attempts to slam President Donald Trump and his friends but, due to the TDS boomerang effect, does just the opposite.

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Former Republican Texas Rep. Will Hurd explained Sunday that “the Democratic Party has some real problems” and that the Republicans have an opportunity to take back the House of Representatives in the 2022 elections.

In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Hurd was asked by host Chuck Todd about the future of the Republican Party and if “the messaging of constantly berating government” and saying “government is the problem” is part of an overall party messaging problem.

It’s not that they’re pond-scum-sucking assholes, oh no; it’s a ‘messaging problem’.

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Needless to say, they are not happy — they’re losing the Washington Generals and possibly getting a real opponent for the first time in my lifetime.

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CSEM, a Swiss non-profit technology company, has come up with a technology that lets solar panels do just that. Researchers with CSEM have developed solar panels that can come in different colors and have no visible connections, which gives architects a lot of room to incorporate solar power into buildings without having to give up any aesthetic goals.

The researchers have focused on white solar panels, not just because of the versatility of the color, but because white solar panels would stay cooler, which boosts their efficiency, and using them over large sections like the roof would keep the buildings themselves cooler, which would reduce the energy demand of cooling buildings.

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Scott Adams refers to Cialdini as “Godzilla” in the field of persuasion.

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ON A list of cutting-edge materials for high-tech applications, you might not expect to see wood near the top. But an experiment by Teng Li and Liangbing Hu of the University of Maryland may soon put it there. For Dr Li and Dr Hu, writing in Nano Letters, have just described how wood might be used to make one class of batteries cheaper by permitting the lithium now employed in them to be replaced with sodium.

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ONE of sport’s most controversial categories, Mixed Martial Arts, could get an entirely new outlook if a competition based on Australian technology takes off.

UWM — Unified Weapons Master — plans to run competitions later this year between world-calibre martial artists, with a difference. That difference would be that unlike current MMA bouts, weapon use would be encouraged, because combatants would be clad in high tech armour designed not only to protect but also to register the real force behind each strike.

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The university was once a unity per se that carried its end in its very practices of education and inquiry. It is now a unity per accidens, a contingent conglomeration of means that serve changing extrinsic ends, a knowledge corporation that sells goods of “know-how” in the service of ends determined by advanced techno-capitalist societies. The philosopher Benedict Ashley, educated in the early years of the University of Chicago’s remarkable undergraduate program, writes in his magnum opus, The Way toward Wisdom: “The very term ‘university’ means many-looking-toward-one, and is related to the term ‘universe,’ the whole of reality. Thus, the name no longer seems appropriate to such a fragmented modern institution whose unity is provided only by a financial administration and perhaps a sports team.”