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“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

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Ask an Aussie if there is anything rare or endangered about Kangaroos, or road pests as we think of them, and most of us would collapse into helpless laughter. But for reasons which are unclear US Congress is set to consider a bipartisan Kangaroo Product ban.

And you poor schmucks are paying their salaries. Aren’t you proud?

Jens Spahn: The Common Cold Provides Immunity from COVID

‘We Need Our Lives Back’: California High School Students Protest Lockdowns I guess they don’t believe the Narrative.

AP: Over 9,000 Virus Patients Sent Into NY Nursing Homes

‘A Screeching U Turn’: Once Dismissive, Now The WHO Says Lab Leak Hypothesis Still In Play

Cuomo Coverup? Aide Admits Nursing Home Data Purposefully Concealed So Feds Wouldn’t Find Out

A ‘Roaring ’20s Of The 21st-Century’ Will Come After The Pandemic, Says Yale Professor

Doctor Destroyed for Vaccinating Patients

CNN Conceals Corrupt Cuomo Cover-Up of Nursing Home Deaths from DOJ

Reid, Guest: Republicans Are ‘Radicalized’ ‘Terrorist Cell’ That ‘Champions’ Violence

REPORT: Woman Hits A Grocery Store Employee For Asking Her To Wear A Mask In Colorado  The sheep rise up.

Rep. Stefanik Demands Cuomo Be Prosecuted After Report Says His Administration Hid Nursing Home Deaths  You know that’ll never happen.

Biden Administration Threw CDC Director Under The Bus After She Said Teachers Can Return To School

Amazon Sues New York AG Over Regulation Of Pandemic Protocols

Biden Administration Announces Review Process For Closing Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp  All you terrorists, hit the streets! Remember to vote Democrat!

Did the CDC Really Say We Need to Wear 2 Masks? Here’s What You Need to Know About Double-Masking

Pediatricians Say It’s Safe to Open Schools, With or Without Vaccine  Apparently ‘follow the science’ only applies to pro-panic scientists.

CDC: Strong Evidence In-Person Schooling Can Be Done Safely

WSJ: China Refused to Provide WHO Team With Key COVID-19 Data

‘We Are Literally Fearing For Our Lives’: Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans Reportedly Increased During Pandemic

Dems Join Push to Strip Cuomo’s Emergency Powers

China “Refuses” To Hand Over Raw Data On Early COVID Cases To WHO Team

Lockdowns Have Devastated The Global Poor

Science: Black, Latino, and Female Cops Are Lazier Than White Cops

Smithsonian’s Clarence Thomas Exhibit Guilty of ‘Irresponsible Bias,’ Black Conservatives Say  My, what a surprise.

California Restaurant Receiving Death Threats After Not Allowing Employee To Wear Black Lives Matter Mask  Mostly peaceful, though.

John Fetterman Says He Pulled A Gun On A Black Man To Stop An Elementary School Shooting. It Was A Saturday Afternoon

Stanford archive to highlight Black histories of Silicon Valley  I’ll bet you didn’t know that there were any ‘black histories of Silicon Valley’, since the percentage of black programmers is vanishingly small.

Highlighting Notable Funding To Black Founders In 2020  Whose most important qualification, of course, is that they are black.

Stray Bullet Nearly Misses 4-Year-Old, Reportedly Shatters His School Lunch Plate

‘Those Protests Were Dreadful’: Cabinet Member Slams Black Lives Matter Demonstrations In UK

Program To Take Racism Out Of Math Being Promoted By Oregon DOE  I’ll bet you didn’t know that math was racist.

NY Times Cancels Bret Stephens Column on Paper’s Bungling of N-Word Scandal

San Francisco school board halts appointment based on race

Police Search For Man Who Stole Girlfriend’s Old Engagement Ring To Propose To Another Girlfriend  Is this some sort of an African thing?

Deadspin Dope: Brady Is ‘Great White Hope,’ Not Greatest Of All Time

White Professor Resigns After Being Accused Of Pretending To Be Immigrant Woman Of Color Online And Making Racist Remarks

Biden State Dept. Scheduled ‘Racism as National Security Threat’ Event

Media Treatment of Maxine Waters Shows Their Bias

Activists Outline Their Plan to Push Black Lives Matter in Classroom

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Republicans are “radicalizing against democracy” because they rely on our constitutional process when governing. This is the essence of Chris Hayes’ recent Atlantic piece contending that the GOP is descending into authoritarianism.

The MSNBC host notes, without any suggestion of self-awareness, that “the Constitution puts a wind at the backs of Republicans and makes them more competitive than they would be otherwise.”

What does “otherwise” mean here, exactly? A return to the British Empire? Or does it mean functioning as the centralized direct democracy that progressives covet, but that’s never existed in this country? There is no “otherwise.”

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They used to call it “retail therapy.” But for conservatives, there’s nothing therapeutic about walking the aisles of stores that want to shut down your speech, cancel your bank accounts, or send cents on every dollar to Marxist groups who despise America.

In an age when conservatives can’t turn on the TV, send their kids to school, check their Facebook feeds, or watch sports without being reminded about the wokeness of corporate extremists, it’s no wonder they’re fed up. And fed up—Gallup warns—is exactly what they are.

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A Panorama With High Resolution Images

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

The Bayeux Tapestry was done in a form of embroidery called corpus anglicanum or ‘English work’. Having done such embroidery myself I can say that it’s tedious but not particularly difficult, and gives a very nice-looking close color coverage without big floats wandering around to get snagged on objects that the wearer brushes up against.

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Or you could just NOT EAT SO MUCH.

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Impeachment managers led by Rep. Raskin charged that following the Capitol storming on January 6, Trump called Senator Mike Lee by accident when he really meant to speak to Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville.

Impeachment manager David Cicilline said “He dialed Senator Lee by accident, and Senator Lee describes it that he had just ended a prayer in the Senate chamber.”

Cicilline then charged that Trump asked Tuberville to “make further objections” to Biden’s election vote count, while Senator Lee “stood by.”

It soon emerged that then entire claim was bullshit, when Senator Lee confirmed it never happened.

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

This being that dull spot in the calendar, this week the show is about some more contemplative topics. One of the things that is striking is just how open the new ruling regime is about their hatred of white people. Those over the age of fifty, maybe over forty, remember when such talk was used as satire. It was ridiculous to think that white people would be treated like second class citizens. Here we are though, and most people are still struggling to process it.

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I’d sooner ride in a Tesla than fly on United.

Indonesia bans forced religious attire in schools

Mother of 2 Girls Killed in Honor Killing Speaks Out

Migrants Break Into Hungary

12 Killed By Bomb Attack Targeting Officials Meeting Over Presidency In Somalia

5 Detained For Death Threats To French Teen Who Criticized Islam As ‘Religion Of Hate’  Which, of course, it is.

Houthis Bomb Civilian Airport Days After Biden Removes Terrorist Designation  That didn’t take long.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s New Book: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights

Indonesia’s mandatory hijab ban is a triumph for women

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They don’t care who they hurt; they only care who they help (UNIONS).

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Dr Peter Ridd, a professor of physics at JCU, was sacked by the university for serious misconduct for questioning the climate change science in the IPA’s publication Climate Change: The Facts 2017 around the Great Barrier Reef, and for public statements made on the Jones & Co program on Sky News Australia.

“James Cook University has engaged some of the most expensive legal representation in the country to stifle the free speech of one of its own staff, despite crying poor about university funding in the wake of coronavirus. It creates a massive chilling effect for any academic engaging in public debate in Australia,” said Mr Rozner

Racial Disparities in Arrests and Police Shootings Are Highest in Liberal Cities

Sprinting Ability, Crime, and Race

Blacks Stick It to Asians in San Francisco Again, This Time Non-Violently,

Superstar Musician Jason Isbell Says He’s Donating Royalties Off Morgan Wallen’s Song To NAACP Following N-Word Video

Guardian Reader: the Ecological Term “Invasive Species” Is Racist

London Mayor Appoints Woke Activist Brigade To “Review” Statues For “Diversity”

After Mavericks Controversy, ABC’s GMA Declares National Anthem Racist

We Read Too app developer Kaya Thomas explores trends in Black literature

UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders  Leaders? Say rather ‘criminals’.

Making the Profane Sacred

House Dem Mocks Republican Colleague’s Impoverished Upbringing  What is it with ugly black women and politics?

Warnock Voter-Registration Group Under Investigation for Election Law Violations

REPORT: Elementary School In Philadelphia Instructed Students To Simulate Black Power Rally To Free ‘Black Communist’ Angela Davis

Archbishop Naumann to Newsmax TV: Biden’s Abortion Actions Go Against Catholic Teaching Duh.

14 State Attorneys Say Keystone Cancellation Delivers “Crippling Economic Injuries”, Threaten Legal Action  Don’t threaten, just do it.

New Mexico Democrats Struggling with Biden’s Climate Action Fossil Fuel Bans

How Biden is allowing Chinese govt. to quietly creep onto U.S. college campuses

Tom Patterson: Biden’s EOs Are Out of Control

Call Transportation Bailouts What They Are: More Welfare for Labor Unions

Fully vaccinated people can skip Covid quarantines, CDC says The maskholes will still jump in your shit for not wearing a face-diaper, though.

The coronavirus is airborne. Here’s how to know if you’re breathing other people’s breath. (Washington Post) Gotta keep that panic goin’!

Biden Mulls Domestic Travel Restrictions Despite Improving COVID Backdrop  Gotta keep that panic goin’!

Visualizing Global Attitudes Towards The COVID-19 Vaccines

UK COVID Police State: Travelers Must Quarantine In Hotel, Have 3 Tests, Face 10 Years Jail For Avoiding “The Law”

Teaching Students how to Cheat During the Pandemic

CDC to Issue New School Reopening Guidelines Friday  I imagine that the CDC is enjoying all of the attention.

The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired

The CDC says COVID-19 is no match for two masks  (Popular ‘Science’)

Pelosi Banned Congresswoman’s Military Officer Son From Attending Her Swearing-In

Pelosi Interrupts Reporter, Says She Won’t Answer Questions About Impeachment  ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’.

Instagram Bans Robert F. Kennedy Jr For Anti-Vaccine Views

What the Data Shows About the Impact of the COVID-19 Vaccine So Far

More Than $1 Trillion In Coronavirus Aid Hasn’t Been Spent, Includes $120 Billion For Small Businesses

Per New Health Guidelines Mandalorian Will Wear Three Masks Next Season  Babylon Bee.

Berkeley’s Draconian COVID-19 Restrictions Look More Like Prison Than College

Climate crisis pushing great white sharks into new waters Pushing!

Guardian Reader: the Ecological Term “Invasive Species” Is Racist

Environmentalism is the New War on the Working Class

Biden & Democrats conceal U.S. CO2 decreases of 3.4 billion tons from natural gas

Major Aussie Refinery Closing, Due to Hostile Government Policy

Progressive Pleased To Discover That Hell Has No Climate Change  Babylon Bee.

Environmentalists Sue EPA to Improve Air-Quality Standards

You can’t hear that officer’s scream and acquit the man who caused it (Washington  Post) Except that he didn’t; that’s the whole point.

Jeff Bezos would owe $2B a year under proposed Washington wealth tax  If he sticks around for it, which he won’t.

Rights Groups Outraged After Twitter Purges Accounts Of Saudi Political Prisoners

‘A Personalized Power Like We Haven’t Seen’: ABC Reporter Says Trump Is A ‘Caesar’ And ‘Fuhrer’ To The Republican Party  And Barack Obama wasn’t, of course.

Nets Hide Biden Looking at ‘Authoritarian’ Travel Restrictions for Florida

Rioters Tried To Break Down Portland Police Association Door  Needless to say, that film won’t be shown on the Senate floor any time soon.

Biden Administration Expects To Rely On Trump-Era Private Detention Facility To Hold Migrant Teenagers At The Border

Lucasfilm Fires ‘Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano for ‘Unacceptable’ Social Media Posts  The hunt for heretics and sinners proceeds apace.

Scarborough Slimes Hawley: You’re ‘Most Responsible’ for Cop Who Died After Riot  I wish I had a job where I got paid to be insane on the air.

UH-OH: NY Times In ‘Unprecedented’ Turmoil Over N-Word Firing Scandal

Instead of Comedy, Unfunny Hack Meyers Blames Trump on Obama Not Prosecuting Bush?

To Prove Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist, Disney Fires Actress Who Condemned Cancel Culture  Babylon Bee.

Two Mandalorian Actors Make Nazi, Holocaust Analogies Months Apart; Lucasfilm Fires The Conservative One

Democratic Congressional Candidate Praises Hitler’s Courage And Economic Prowess Compared To Trump

Leo Terrell: Violence Won’t Stop In Portland Because Democrats ‘Will Not Put Their Base In Jail’

‘Really Comparable’: Meghan McCain Pushes Impeachment, Says Capitol Riot Is Like 9/11 Terrorist Attack  No, they’re not. Only a moron would think that they are.

Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against $15 Minimum Wage After Finding Out It Requires At Least An Hour’s Work  Babylon Bee. ‘I have a job that pays well and doesn’t require any work – why can’t poor people do the same?’

James O’Keefe And Project Veritas Suspended From Twitter, Forced To Delete Tweets

“Chestfeeding” Makes a Comeback, New “Inclusive” Maternity Language

Chicago Teachers Buck Union, Vote to Reopen Schools  Confirming that the idiots aren’t the teachers but the union.

Yahoo Journalist Compares Covering Trump Administration To Storming Omaha Beach In WWII  ‘Yeah, it was really loud!’

HITLER? ABC Reporter Says Trump Owns GOP Like ‘a Caudillo, a Caesar, a Fuhrer’  If that were true, there wouldn’t be so many RINOs in Congress.

Hillary Clinton Calls GOP Lawmakers Voting To Acquit Trump ‘Co-Conspirators’  Well, she knows all about being  co-conspirator.

HFT Giant Virtu Threatens To Leave NY If “Foolish” Transaction Tax Passed

Schumer Leaves 14th Amendment On The Table If Trump Is Not Convicted In Senate

Project Veritas Permanently Banned From Twitter Even After Deleting Tweets

Facebook Helped US Identify Capitol Rioters From Photos

Scott Alexander.

To what degree are psychiatric conditions more like diseases (always bad) vs. diverse neurotypes (potentially good)?

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Website: https://www.buildcover.com

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After stating last week it would “not tolerate racist language regardless of intent,” the New York Times reversed course Thursday and said “intent matters” in speech and writing.

“In our zeal to make a powerful statement about our workplace culture, we hamhandedly said something that some of you saw as threatening to our journalism,” executive editor Dean Baquet said in a meeting. “Of course intent matters when we are talking about language in journalism.” NBC News’s Dylan Byers originally reported the remarks.

Ben Shapiro.

This week, Virginia Heffernan, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, unleashed the most perverse column in recent memory. The title: “What can you do about the Trumpites next door?”

Heffernan wasn’t lamenting neighbors who had tagged her house with pro-Trump graffiti, or who had participated in the Jan. 6 riots, or who had even held an election watch party and turned the music up too loud.

No, Heffernan was lamenting the travails of living next door to Trump supporters … who had cleared her driveway of snow.

The swine.

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The mandarins of Qing China claimed the Mandate of Heaven. The French noblesse d’épée tied their privileges to a thousand years of military service to the kings of France. The nobles of Spain touted their cleanliness of blood, untainted by Jewish or Moorish ancestry.

In America, no such backwards justifications are needed. Our elites claim their supremacy on intellectual merit, the power of their brains and the breadth of their knowledge. And to everyone’s misfortune, they really believe it.

But how do you prove intellectual superiority past the age of 22, when it can no longer be measured with letter grades and test scores? Warren Buffett and Bill Gates can at least point to their enormous piles of wealth as evidence of intellectual horsepower. But what can journalists do? In the past, they might write brilliant critiques of those in power. But NBC’s Andrea Mitchell has no criticisms to offer for America’s rulers, so instead her best option is making ‘ackshually’ posts on Twitter.

Zman has an idea.

One reason we have become an outrage culture is outrage is the only way to get attention from others. In a world where people are linked to a constant stream of images and bursts of text, getting noticed means being outlandish of outrageous within those data streams. On the other hand, being glued to the data stream leaves little room for real human interaction and even less room for real emotion. Large swaths of the population only feel human when they are outraged by the stream.

Well, what else is it good for? It’s not as if he’s going to eat it.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

How can this be, since wind turbines only produce electricity when the wind is blowing sufficiently, which is around 40% of the time, and solar only works when the sun is shining and the panels are not covered in ice and snow–in a northern climate, something like 18% of the time? Obviously the Greenies have a problem. Today, their problem is solved by building natural gas plants that carry the load when wind and solar are AWOL–which is to say, a large majority of the time. Of course, the natural gas plants are dispatchable, which means they can produce energy reliably, at will, 24/7. Which raises the obvious question: if we have to build fully-capable natural gas plants to make wind and solar sort-of work, some of the time, what the heck to we need the wind and solar for?

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George Gascón is the far-left district attorney in Los Angeles. He’s among those prosecutors who, with the backing of George Soros, have gained power and are using it to let criminals walk, or at least to treat them leniently.

To the latter end, Gascón issued a directive to his attorneys forbidding them from seeking longer sentences for repeat offenders under the state’s Three Strikes Law, as well as in several other types of cases where the law mandates sentencing enhancements for those convicted of serious crimes who have prior convictions.

Gascón’s willful refusal to follow California law didn’t sit well with his prosecutors. The Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles County (ADDA) brought a lawsuit against Gascón.

Now, a local judge, James Chalfant, has granted a preliminary injunction against Gascón’s directive.

Universities: No place for the White Man

‘America Is Broken!’ TV Critic Whines Super Bowl Looked Too ‘Normal’

San Francisco Board Of Education Votes To End Merit-Based Admissions At One Of The Country’s Most Prestigious Public Schools  We want no racist merit around here!

Fear and Favor at the New York Times

John Fetterman, A Democratic Senate Candidate, Pulled A Shotgun On An Unarmed Black Jogger In 2013

North Carolina College Hosts ‘White Caucus’ for Students to Talk About ‘Guilt,’ ‘Fragility’

A Gay Father Of Mixed-Race Children Was Too White For The San Francisco School Board

Southern Poverty Law Center Eliminates Black Hate Groups Category Because That’s Racist

Democrats’ Newest Political Crush Is ‘Privileged’ Harvard Grad Who Pointed Gun at Unarmed Black Man

Chad Johnson Says He Prioritizes Athletic Ability When Picking Women To Have Kids With

PBS Documentary Explains That We Need More Overweight Women of Color Cops

Kamala Harris Joked About Killing Trump, Pence

Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America  Glenn Loury.

Dangerous Bicycle Criminal Stopped by Berlin Police

Florida’s governor was spotted mask-less at the Super Bowl. His reason is, uh, not great. (CNN)

AP-NORC Poll: A Third of US Adults Skeptical of COVID-19 Shots

Disney Considers Relocating Some HQ Operations From California to Florida  Gee I Wonder Why.

Johnson & Johnson CEO Predicts Annual COVID-19 Vaccines Will Be Necessary For Foreseeable Future  KA-CHING!

DISHONEST NY Times Pretends All Anti-Vaxxers Are ‘Far-Right’  Au contraire – most of rhem are Far-Left.

Safety Concerns Make A Third Of Americans Hesitant To Receive The Coronavirus Vaccine, Poll Shows  After screaming WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! for nine months,  what do they expect.

CDC Begins Recommending Wearing Two Masks

Seattle Officials Rebuke Preferential Treatment In COVID Vaccine Rollout

University Of California, Berkeley Bans Solitary Outdoor Exercise As Part Of New COVID-19 Restrictions  You don’t want to give Gaia the virus.

CDC Endorses ‘Double Masking’

Poll Shows Yang With A Double-Digit Lead In NYC Mayor’s Race

SARS-CoV-2 infection is effectively treated and prevented by EIDD-2801

Government Investigating Massive Counterfeit N95 Mask Scam

California to Overtake New York in Coronavirus Deaths

AOC And Schumer Want Taxpayer Funding For COVID-19 Funerals And YOU get Free Stuff! And YOU get Free Stuff! And YOU get Free Stuff!

Jake Tapper Believes Nothing ‘Would Be Different’ In The Senate If Pence Was Killed In Riot

Insurrection In Washington

CNN: Panda Bear Hunting Attacks on Elderly Asians Are Trump’s Fault

CNN’s Cooper Compares Trump, Supporters to Hutus in Rwandan Genocide

Louisiana GOP Rebukes Sen. Bill Cassidy For Voting Impeachment Trial Is Constitutional

Unhinged Joy Reid: Trump Responsible for Violence Against Asian Americans 

A liberal’s shocking inhumanity toward a kind Trump supporter  H8ers gotta H8.

Can we get back to “normal”? That would require addressing structural wealth inequality (Salon)

University cancels event for Whites to ‘process’ their ‘complicity in unjust systems’ after backlash

Media Love for Menacing Maxine Waters

Trump Will Never Be Allowed Back On Twitter, CFO Confirms

Twitter Mocked For Refusing Indian Government’s Orders To Suspend Accounts Due To “Free Expression”

Fellow Parkland Survivor Responds To David Hogg Over ‘Pillow Grift’

NBA Team Stops Playing National Anthem Before Games

REPORT: The Mavericks Stopped Playing The National Anthem Because Team Feels It Doesn’t Represent Them

Pelosi Preemptively Announces Articles Of Impeachment Against Candace Owens Babylon Bee.

‘Human Milk’: Midwives Given New Trans-Inclusive Vocabulary Including ‘Chestfeeding’ And ‘Birthing Parent’

Los Angeles Times Review of Andy Ngo’s Antifa Book Compares Him to Nazi Josef Goebbels

Rep. Greene’s Popularity Among Republicans Surges

Twitter CFO: Trump’s Ban Will Continue Even If He’s Reelected

In Mail-In Impeachment Vote, Senate Convicts Trump 8275 To 3  Babylon Bee.

Hillary Clinton On Republicans Who Don’t Support Trump’s Conviction: ‘Co-Conspirators’  This, from the Crookedest Woman in the World.

Climate “Crisis” Update

Environmentalism Is the New War on the Working Class

Achtung Baby! (It’s Cold Outside) – Germany’s “Green” Energy Fail Rescued By Coal And Gas

INSANITY: NYT’s Ezra Klein Ponders Having to ‘Dim the Sun’ to Fight Climate Change

Could a Nuclear Reactor Actually Last for Hundreds of Years?

Roderic: ‘The More Electric Vehicles We Build, the Worse CO2 Gets’

Biden’s climate ‘fix’ is fantastically expensive and perfectly useless

‘People Will Die. People Will Be Raped’: Former Acting ICE Chief Says Biden Has Declared America ‘A Sanctuary Jurisdiction’

Fourteen Republican Attorneys General Reviewing Legal Options Over Biden Keystone Pipeline Action

‘An Administration Trying To Crush Your Future’: Laid-Off Keystone Workers Express Anger Over Biden’s Executive Order

George P. Bush: Legal Remedies Will Be Sought on Biden’s Energy Moves

Biden Cabinet Pick Defended Unconstitutional Religious Restrictions

Joe Biden ends Confucius Institute disclosures

Houthis Bomb Civilian Airport Days After Biden Removes Terrorist Designation  That didn’t take long.

President Biden To Speak With China’s Xi Jinping Wednesday Night  “What is thy bidding, my master?”

Chilton Williamson.

I sure am.

What, after all, is a professional politician if he is not a supposed expert, first in the business of getting himself elected to office, and second in the art of statecraft that competent governance requires? Before 2016, expertise in politics was expected and admired by the American electorate, as Americans admired expertness in every other occupation. In electing Trump voters were expressing their distrust — indeed, their contempt and positive dislike — for the professional political wizards who had transformed their country beyond recognition over the past half-century, in the process half-destroying it. But because political expertise has been merged in modern activist-progressive democracies with techno-scientific-bureaucratic expertise, expertise as a concept — even as a word — has been discredited along with expertness of the political kind, to the point where this overworked nine-letter word is close to becoming the popular equivalent of a four-letter one.

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

We are rarely given a glimpse inside the struggle sessions at the New York Times. Last week New York Times science reporter Donald McNeil exited the newspaper as a result of an incident that occurred outside the Times two years ago. The Times made up a rule after the fact to justify McNeil’s exit. Aaron Sibarium recounts the background in the Washington Free Beacon story “New York Times Meltdown Plays Out in Private Facebook Group.”

Scott Alexander.

Klein calls this “the Democratic party more successfully resisting polarization”, and thinks of this as related to structural differences between the two parties. He says that the Republican Party represents the modal American on various characteristics, eg Christian (the most common religion), white (the most common race), straight (the most common sexual orientation), etc, whereas the Democrats represent everyone else (eg Muslims, Jews, atheists, and every minority religion; blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and every minority race; etc). That means the Republicans are more ideologically uniform – Christians are genuinely similar to other Christians, but Jews are only superficially similar to Muslims by virtue of their non-Christianness. That means ideology can’t really capture the Democratic Party in the same way it captures the Republican Party. One point kind of in support of this – ask Democrats their favorite news source, and you get a long tail of stuff (most popular is CNN at 15%, then NPR at 13%, and so on). But ask conservatives and it’s dominated by FOX (47%). Does this lack of news-source diversity reflect a lack of ideological diversity? Could be.

Freeberg nails it.

Leftists who want to have all the election fraud evidence lined up so they can knock it over item by item by item, are just adorable. It looks like they want to debunk just three to five items — to their own satisfaction, not to anybody else’s — announce their check-mate, and if they don’t get immediate capitulation, announce to everyone in earshot something like “See? Nothing will ever convince this guy.”

They don’t understand. There are five big bundles of evidence.

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wo professional football teams left New York for another state – but the New York Stock Exchange? That is a possibility if the Empire State imposes a transfer tax on stock sales, according to the exchange’s president.

In a Tuesday op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, NYSE President Stacey Cunningham said she and 25 other representatives of New York’s securities industry sent a letter to state legislative leaders warning against the unintended consequences of imposing such a tax.

CO Dems Move to Censure Hickenlooper for Voting to Block Stimulus Checks to Illegal Immigrants

Here Is The Chicago Teachers Union’s List Of 9 Demands Before They Return To Teaching

Canada Gun Confiscation Costs Millions Of Dollars And Makes No Sense

DC Security Costs To Total Nearly $1 Billion By March 15, Pentagon Estimates

Court Ends Manhattan DA’s Effort to Prosecute Pardoned Paul Manafort

Los Angeles Times Political Columnist Compares Nice ‘Trumpite’ Neighbors to Hezbollah

Spiking CBO Report, CBS Boosts Bernie’s Plan to Ram Through Wage Hike

Catholic University Pro-Life Leader Resigns After Being ‘Pressured Against’ Her ‘Conscience’ To Cancel Abby Johnson Speech  Catholics are apparently not as Catholic as they used to be.

Social Media Platforms Need Community Policing To Eliminate False Content, Misinformation Experts Say

Joy Reid Launches On A Republican Name-Calling Spree During Impeachment Segment

Friedman: China Better Because of Fast Trains, America ‘Unserious’ Country

Purdue Backs Down on Mandatory Antiracist Training for Music Students

With a Star Science Reporter’s Purging, Mob Culture at The New York Times Enters a Strange New Phase

Modus Or Media Operandi? CNN Runs Statement Of Anonymous “Senior Aide” Who Said Trump Loved Watching The Riot

What’s in a Name? Lefties Want the KC Chiefs Cancelled

Twitter PURGE: Platform Censors The Gateway Pundit, Pamela Geller and Wayne Allyn Root

WashPost’s Obit Headline for NFL Legend Is Nastier Than Paper’s Take on Dead Terrorist

AOC ‘Will Not Apologize’ for Lie about Ted Cruz; Twitter Still Silent

Spanish nets HIDE Biden’s EO allowing transgender people in school sports

Cory Booker Wants to Replace Major College Football With Federally Controlled Pro Game

Sarah Silverman Calls On Hollywood Pals To Buy Historic Theater From ‘Anti-LGBT Church’

Yikes: Biden Beat Reporter Reveals She’s Been Dating Top White House Aide  I guess the media really are in bed with the Democrats.

Hollywood Revels in Trump Impeachment: GOP Would Defend ‘Cancer’

150 People Were Shot in Chicago Since Illinois Sent the National Guard to D.C.

Jen Psaki mocks reporter when asked about Keystone pipeline job losses

Biden’s ban on oil and gas leases on federal lands a ‘direct attack’ on Wyoming, says governor

Biden Appears To Be Expanding The US Occupation Of Syria

‘Irreparable Harm’: Texas Sheriff Says Biden’s No Deportation Order Is Creating ‘Lawlessness’ At The Southern Border

Report: Justice Department To Ask US Attorneys Appointed By Trump To Resign  Remember when Republican Presidents were savaged by the press for doing this?

As Biden Admin Requests Mass Resignations, Trump-Era Media Hysterics Suddenly Stop

Joe Biden creates a crisis at the border

The Royal Decrees Of King George III Now Are The Executive Orders Of President Biden

Biden Firing Nearly All Trump-Appointed US Attorneys, but Keeping 2 Key Prosecutors in Place  As they do.

Biden’s Halt On Drilling Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences For New Mexico’s Kids  Not that he cares.

14 AGs Reviewing Legal Options on Biden Canceling Keystone Pipeline

Jill Biden Promises Free Community College And Training Schools  And YOU get Free Stuff! And YOU get Free Stuff! And YOU get Free Stuff!

Biden’s appeasement of Iran begins

Massachusetts climate official proposes targeting regular people who heat their homes: ‘We have to break your will’

WVU biologists uncover forests’ unexpected role in climate change

Experts Blame Global Warming for Cold Weather in Thailand and Singapore

Biden to Kill 200,000 More Jobs Because… Climate Change

Government Fail: “We’ve Turned Teens Into Lockdown Lab Rats”

Facebook Will Remove Posts Connecting COVID-19 Vaccine To Autism

Fauci Says Masks Can Come Off When Virus ‘Is Not A Threat At All’  Which, according to the CDC, will be never.

Tampa Bay Mayor Jane Castor Said Super Bowl Celebrators Not Wearing Masks Would Be ‘Identified’ And Handled By Police

WHO Expert in Wuhan Says Lab Leak ‘Very Unlikely’ as COVID Source

Nation Prepares To Celebrate 1st Anniversary Of Two Weeks To Flatten The Curve  Babylon Bee.

So Never Then? CNN Doctor: Reopening ‘Makes Zero Sense  As with lawyers, you can always find a doctor to say what you want if you pay enough.

Mike Pompeo Says ‘Not A Thing’ Has Changed His View That Coronavirus Came From A Chinese Lab

At Least 5 People Wounded at Minnesota Health Clinic

Pressley: ‘We have been cleaning up after violent, White supremacist mobs for generations and it must end’

Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Surprise Online Class For Black History Month  Jump aboard the bandwagon!

No Escape Allowed from Black History Month

Black QB vs. White QB

Anthony Sowell, Ohio Man Who Killed 11 Women, Dies in Prison

Riot-Inciting Al Sharpton Can’t Imagine Why Anyone Would Call Out Violent Leftists

Dishonest MSNBC: ‘Not Actually the Case’ to Say Maxine Waters Incited People  Yes, actually, it is.

North Carolina College Hosts ‘White Caucus’ For Students To Talk About ‘Guilt,’ ‘Fragility’

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The latest fundraising plea from Democratic congresswoman Cheri Bustos tells potential donors their money is desperately needed to fund struggling post offices—but every dollar raised is going straight to her campaign.

A Sunday email from Bustos, an Illinois lawmaker who was chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last cycle, painted a dire picture of operations at the USPS, and begged recipients to chip in. “We need EVERYONE reading this email to do their part to help us raise $3,420 TODAY and save USPS,” Bustos wrote in the fundraising email, pointing to an NPR report on mail delivery delays. “Please chip in $5 or whatever you can afford right now.”

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Politicians are congenitally susceptible to Magical Thinking: Oh, we’ll just pass a law and everything will turn out better! Well, the Real World has other ideas. And when the Real World comes into conflict with Political Handwavium, the unexpected consequences can be a stone-cold bitch.

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Why don’t they just day ‘Democrats’ and get it over with?

ZMan points a finger.

In the case of the ongoing pogroms against white people, there is not much talk about who is responsible for it. Part of that is due to the prohibitions against white people talking about being white. One of the great ironies of this crisis is that the media is filled with invective about white people, but you will never see a white person start a sentence with “as a white person.” Whiteness is a thing that is only allowed to be a hobgoblin in the minds and mouths of the anti-whites.

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This is why the anti-white pogroms have met so little resistance thus far. On the one hand you have the taboo against white people taking their own side. On the other hand, you have the face of the anti-white program being white or white presenting. If all of the anti-whites were black, then the problem of assigning blame would be simpler, but the leading anti-whites are almost always a pale face. The chief racketeer in the grievance rackets is a white woman named Robin DiAngelo.

Audacious Epigone runs the numbers.

Apropos a discussion in a recent comment thread regarding political orientation, race, and intelligence, let’s take a look at what the GSS offers us.