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Book Review: Why We’re Polarized, by Ezra Klein

10th February 2021

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.

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What’s Most Convincing

10th February 2021

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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Proposed Stock-Transfer Tax Could Send NYSE Packing

10th February 2021

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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.

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

9th February 2021

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.

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

9th February 2021

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

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

9th February 2021

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

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

9th February 2021

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

 

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Today in Black Privilege

9th February 2021

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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Dem Cheri Bustos Diverts Post Office Aid Cash to Own Campaign

9th February 2021

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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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6 Bleak Consequences from CBO’s Report on the $15 Minimum Wage

9th February 2021

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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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Pseudophilosophy Encourages Confused, Self-Indulgent Thinking

9th February 2021

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

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Thought for the Day

9th February 2021

 

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Who’s To Blame?

9th February 2021

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.

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.

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The Mad Dog Election

9th February 2021

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s you all know by now, Time magazine recently published an article entitled “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election”, which basically owns up to all the things that “conspiracy theorists” said the Left did to swing the presidential election to Joe Biden. Yes, it stops short of acknowledging all those hastily manufactured mail-in ballots that were trucked in at the last moment and run through counting machines multiple times. But it describes everything else we deplorables have been saying about what happened — the media manipulation, the alliance between the hard Left and major corporations, etc.

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Verbal Intelligence by Race and Political Orientation

9th February 2021

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.

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New York Times Meltdown Plays Out in Private Facebook Group

9th February 2021

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The “resignation” of star New York Times science writer Donald McNeil Jr. has sparked a furious back-and-forth among Times staffers, many of whom are outraged over the Gray Lady’s handling of his departure.

The Washington Free Beacon reviewed a series of postings to a Facebook group for current and former Times staffers, where a tense debate is unfolding over McNeil’s exit. One camp argues that his dismissal was justified and another asserts it set a troubling precedent, which the New York Times union should have done more to prevent.

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The Biden Family Business

8th February 2021

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Joe Biden is a corrupt politician of the old-fashioned variety. He has no fixed convictions about anything. That’s why he has been on both sides of so many important issues.

Biden has never been in the business of accumulating power in service of a policy agenda. He has always been in the business of accumulating power to feed his ego and enrich the Biden family.

 

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US Celebrates First Full Year Without Combat Death in Afghanistan

8th February 2021

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Thank you, President Trump.

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

8th February 2021

America’s Top Union Boss Nervously Slams Biden Over Keystone XL Decision

Biden Justice Department Pick Opposed Enforcing Civil Rights Laws Against Blacks

A Little-Known Emergency Health Order Has Secured Our Border. It Is Now Dismantled

US Will Rejoin UN Human Rights Council As An Observer

Democrats’ Minimum Wage Increase Would Kill 1.4 Million Jobs, Congressional Budget Office Finds

Illegal Immigrants Guilty of DUI, Assault Will Not Be Deported Under Biden Plan

‘Americans Will Not Be Safe,’ Maryland Sheriff Warns About Biden’s Immigration Policies

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

8th February 2021

Claim: Global Warming May have Started in 1825

Researchers Warn Sea Level Rise Worse Than Feared

Green Groups Object to Swedish Climate Geoengineering Experiment

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

8th February 2021

Sen. Chris Murphy: ‘No Comparison’ Between Comments Made By Maxine Waters, Other Democrats And Trump  Yeah, they’re much worse than Trump.

White House Reporter Compares Kayleigh McEnany To ‘Bad Ex-Boyfriend,’ Says Biden Has ‘Blue Wall’ Of Staffers Blocking Press

Conservatives Sit Down For A Relaxing Evening Of Being Insulted By Every Major Corporation In America  Babylon Bee.

Myanmar orders blocks of Twitter and Instagram on top of Facebook ban

National Guard And Razor Wire Everywhere: DC Gets Dystopian As Impeachment Trial Kicks Off

Want Some Championship Football with Your Race Discussion?

On MSNBC, House Democrat Trashes Trump’s Right Against Self-Incrimination

Uighurs: ‘Credible case’ China carrying out genocide

Maxine Waters tries walking back violent rhetoric against Trump  Oops.

Calls for Pelosi to pay fine she imposed after bypassing metal detector intensify  Rules are for thee but not for me.

BRAZEN SF ATTACKS: San Franciscans question their safety after brazen daily attacks

‘Drag All Of These People Into Prison’: Joe Scarborough Wants 20-Year Sentence For Everyone Who Got Inside Capitol

And so it begins: UK Government mulls emergency measures that would enable networks to switch off your electricity without warning or compensation

Obsessed: The Media Have Never Stopped Lobbying for Trump’s Impeachment

CNN’s Trump-Hating Fantasy: A Witness That Trump Told to Storm the Capitol

Texas To Vote On Whether To Force All Other States To Secede  Babylon Bee.

SINKING SHIP: Just 3 of 8 Founding Members Remain at Scandal-Plagued Lincoln Project

AP Foresees GOP Doom in Virginia: ‘Pro-Trump Extremists’ vs. ‘Mainstream Moderates’

New Twitter App Blocks Over 800 New York Times Journos In “Fight Against Disinformation”

‘How Long Until We Start Trashing Her?’: Meghan McCain Says Media Will Turn On Liz Cheney

Rep. Waters Claims She Didn’t Encourage Violence As Trump Lawyer Plans To Show Video

Nets Swoon Over Leftist Divider Springsteen Preaching Unity in Super Bowl Ad

Texas Follows Florida, Preps Own Bill Against Big Tech Censorship

Majority Of GOP Voters Would Join A New Trump-Led Political Party, Poll Shows

 

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Today in Black Privilege

8th February 2021

“We Cannot Mince Words”: San Francisco Education Official Denounces Meritocracy As Racist

USA Today: Tom Brady Epitomizes White Privilege

‘Family Demands Answers’

Morgan Wallen’s Album Sales Triple After Video Surfaces Of Him Using N-Word

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

8th February 2021

‘Why Should Non-Citizens Be Treated Better?’: Texas AG Blasts Biden Decision To Vaccinate Illegals

Even ‘Scientist’ Models Now Forecast The COVID Scourge Ending By The Summer

The mystery of the flu-Covid ‘twindemic’ that never happened  (CNN) It’s a Mystery!

South Africa Halts Vaccine Rollout As AstraZeneca Jab Ineffective At Combating Mutant COVID  MUTANT COVID! AAAAUGH!

Leftists on Twitter Have Collective Meltdown Over Tom Brady Not Wearing A Mask

Vaccines Or Not, Scientists Now Believe COVID Is Here To Stay  It’s just too handy for the ruling class.

CDC: ‘Just Because You Got The Vaccine Doesn’t Mean You Should Go Outside Or Ever Experience Joy Again’  Babylon Bee.

‘Florida Is Going To Kill All Of Us’: Sunny Hostin Blasts Ron DeSantis After Super Bowl Partiers Ditch Masks

San Francisco Teachers Union Agrees To Return For In-Person Learning After City Threatened To Sue School District

Beyond Parody: CNN Reporter Brags about Calling Cops on Maskless Floridians

 

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Baby Shower Cannon Explosion Kills Michigan Man

8th February 2021

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The ‘gender reveal’ trend appears to be counter-evolutionary. The kid will discover the challenges of being an orphan.

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YouTuber Wins Darwin Award

8th February 2021

The Other McCain points and laughs.

Timothy Wilks had a great idea for a YouTube prank — fake a robbery by charging at people with a giant knife. The result wasn’t funny.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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The Computers Rejecting Your Job Application

8th February 2021

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I suspect that removing the humans from the process is designed to insulate against charges of racism.

If it has the added benefit of selecting intelligent over unintelligent people, that’s gravy.

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Thought for the Day

8th February 2021

Unshelved comic strip for 2/6/2021

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A Global Leader in Obsolete Technology

8th February 2021

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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wants to make the United States the “global leader” in high-speed rail. That’s like wanting to be the world leader in electric typewriters, rotary telephones, or steam locomotives, all technologies that were once revolutionary but are functionally obsolete today.

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

7th February 2021

Michigan GOP Rep. Meijer tries to defend anti-Trump impeachment vote, angers voters

PAC pressures GOP senators to convict Trump in upcoming impeachment trial

Trump impeachment lawyer says he’ll use video of Dems’ own remarks at trial

Why has Donald Trump not faced charges for criminal incitement? (The Hill)

Sen. Rand Paul is wrong. The Trump impeachment trial is constitutional, and here’s why (Louisville Courier-Journal)

It’s Time to Talk About Violent Christian Extremism (Politico)

Republicans can run from accountability, but they can’t hide (Washington Post)

Marjorie Taylor Greene is just the latest radical White woman poisoning politics (Washington Post)

Raskin: Trump’s Decision Not To Testify May Be Cited As Evidence Of His Guilt

CNN’s Lemon Sugarcoats Omar’s Anti-Semitism While Bashing GOP

Twitter Permanently Bans Gateway Pundit For Violating “Civic Integrity Policy”  I.e. ‘undermining the Narrative’.

Catch-and-Release: How Liberals Destroyed Law and Order in California

Alcindor Links ‘White Supremacy’ to Trump ‘Torturing’ Illegal Immigrants

China Rights Activist Missing After Being Stopped at Airport

BBC: China Using Rape Squads to Destroy Uighur Minority

Mob Threatens Arson During ‘F*ck The Police’ March In DC  I wonder whether they will be pursued with the relentless focus that the Capital protestors were?

ABC Praises Biden’s ‘More Aggressive Use of Executive Action’  Even though it made Trump Literally Hitler.

Cheney Refuses to Concede To State Republicans Call For Her Resignation  Dead woman talking.

Rand Paul: ‘You Can’t Just Criminalize Republican Speech And Ignore All The Democrats Who Have Incited Violence’

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

7th February 2021

Biden To Reverse Trump’s Terror Designation Of Yemen’s Houthis

Biden Ending Deals with Central America Restricting Asylum  Acting quickly to re-break everything that Trump fixed.

Border Agents Release Migrants Into US in Shift From Trump

Professor Who Made Barron Trump Joke At Impeachment Hearing Is Joining The Biden DOJ  Top Men.

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

7th February 2021

Climate change “may have played a key role” in coronavirus pandemic, study says May have!

Study: Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID Shot Less Effective Against S.African Variant  But don’t you dare call it the ‘Wuhan virus’, that’s racist.

Did the Covid-19 virus really escape from a Wuhan lab?

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

7th February 2021

Climate change may have driven the emergence of SARS-CoV-2  Climate Change – is there anything it can’t do?

 

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Today in Black Privilege

7th February 2021

Do Pharmacy Deserts Represent Systemic Racism or Resistance to Gentrification?

Biden Is Employing Kamala as a Token, Not Trusting Her with Responsibility

‘A Metaphor For America’: Rep. Ayanna Pressley ‘Haunted’ By Black Custodial Staff ‘Cleaning Up After White Supremacist Mobs’  No mention of non-black owners cleaning up after BLM rioters.

 

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FarmBot

7th February 2021

Check it out.

I like it, but I can’t see it handling tomatoes or beans or corn.

For hipster staples like kale or arugula it’s probably just the thing.

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Governor Mark Gordon Throws Support Behind Colorado County That Wants to Secede, Join Wyoming

7th February 2021

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Maybe this is a trend. I’m sure that there are a number of California, Oregon, and Washington counties that would rather be a part of, say, Nevada or Idaho. Indeed, I rather suspect that the non-coastal counties of California would rather be their own state.

UPDATE: Texas Republicans endorse legislation to allow vote on secession from US  That didn’t work out so well the last time.

 

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Estate Tax Hike May Help Fund Cory Booker, Ayanna Presley Plan to Give $1,000 to Each Newborn

7th February 2021

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Rather than leaving your money to your kids (or, God forbid, charity), Democrats will force you to leave it to somebody (anybody) else’s kid. What’s not to like?

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Time to Close Public Schools Forever?

7th February 2021

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Works for me.

Roger Scruton liked to say the the core of the contemporary left is a “culture of repudiation,” in which the inheritances of our civilization must be denied and rubbished precisely because it is our civilization, rather than the imaginary one of the left’s making.

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How Not To Be a Press Secretary

7th February 2021

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“How To” books are a dime a dozen and cover every imaginable topic, or so it seems. But one might think another genre would also be popular, even important: “How Not To” publications. That advice can often prove more valuable. It can at least help one avoid missteps.

Take the role of White House Press Secretary, filled since January 20th by former Obama Administration Communications Director Jennifer Psaki. I’ve never seen so many rookie mistakes in a spokesperson in a relatively short time, even while granting her some grace for being “in the arena” in one of the toughest White House jobs, even while performing before a friendly, even fawning audience.

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Media Man

7th February 2021

ZMan nails it.

There are many things that one can point to in the current age as the cause of what we are experiencing. Social crisis is always the result of many factors. There is never one single cause. Even so, examining the individual causes has some utility. It helps provide a little sanity for those living through it. If nothing else, it is like the band playing on the Titanic in that if provides those who are condemned to live through the crisis with a bit of dignity as they sink into the abyss.

Anyway, one of the things that has made modern life such a mess is the vast chorus of nitwits who fill our lives with their voices. They repeat whatever has been placed in their hymnals by people with agendas. One person says something that gets them some attention and then everyone repeats it. The thing is, these people position themselves as authorities on various topics, so when they repeat what they hear, they inevitably lend authority to it. The fact is, they know not what they say

Few people in any type of media job have ever worked in the dreaded private sector.

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The Missing Stakeholders

7th February 2021

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The coming wave of digital regulation may claim to target “Big Tech” but will inevitably end up harming citizen-innovators most because regulators have forgotten to include them in their process.

No government has yet succeeded in writing a law that manages to hit the assholes and miss the heroes.

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Henry Ford Cardiologists Find iPhone 12 Deactivates Implantable Cardiac Devices

7th February 2021

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That’s what you get for putting your new high-tech toy in your shirt pocket.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks

7th February 2021

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Not to mention vulnerability to any jihadist with an airplane. Yeah, it attracts attention, but the military has a technical term for ‘attracting attention’: It’s called ‘drawing fire’ and that’s not a good thing.

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Journalism and Legible Expertise

7th February 2021

Scott Alexander.

In most journalistic settings, you can’t just write “here’s what I think”. You have to write “here’s what my source, a recognized expert, said when I interviewed them”. And the experts are pretty sparing with their interviews for contrarian stories.

The way my correspondent described it: sources don’t usually get to approve the way they’re quoted in an article, or to see it before it gets published. So they’re really cagey about saying anything that might get misinterpreted. Maybe their real opinion is that X is a hard question, there are good points on both sides, but overall they think it probably isn’t true. But if a reporter wants to write “X Is Dumb And All Epidemiologists Are Idiots For Believing It”, they can slice and dice your interview until your cautiously-skeptical-of-X statement sounds like you’re backing them up. So experts end up paranoid about saying potentially-controversial-sounding things to reporters. And since reporters can’t write without sources, it’s hard for them to write anything controversial about epidemiology.

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Thought for the Day

7th February 2021

Speed Bump Comic Strip for February 06, 2021

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

6th February 2021

Scarborough Slams Evangelicals For ‘Bizarre, Bizarre, Bizarre’ Concern About Abortion

NBC Hails 50 Years of Doonesbury Comic’s Left-Wing Hackery

What Ulysses Grant Can Teach Joe Biden About Putting Down Violent Insurrections  (Politico)

Crowdfunding hate: How white supremacists and other extremists raise money from legions of online followers (USA Today)

College Scales Back ‘Bias Response’ Teams After Legal Challenge

French President ‘Very Upset’ Big Tech Undemocratically Censored Trump, His Supporters

Man Convicted Of Double-Murder Approved For Parole Eligibility, Prosecutors Barred From Hearing Under LA’s New Laws

Minnesota Governor Signs Executive Order To Activate National Guard A Month Ahead Of Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin’s Trial

NYT Reporter Originally Given ‘Another Chance’ Forced Out After Co-Workers Express Outrage To Managers When the Mob comes for you, you don’t get another chance.

Fox News Cancels Host Lou Dobbs’ Show

House Republicans Say Pelosi Broke Her Own Rules And Bypassed Metal Detectors, Demand She Be Fined

House Impeachment Brief Against Trump Threatens Freedom Of Speech Of All Americans: Dershowitz

PolitiFact Warps Reality About Left-Wing Activist Inciting Capitol Riot

David Hogg To Release Line Of Extra-Absorbent Pillows For Liberal Tears  Babylon Bee.

PolitiFact, AP, WashPost Leap to Defend AOC’s Riot Claims; CNN’s Alone in Flagging Her a Bit

Two House Republicans Introduce Bill Named After Ilhan Omar, Whose Campaign Paid Millions To Her Husband’s Firm

Super Bowl Halftime Show To Feature Robin DiAngelo Reading ‘White Fragility’  Not the Babylon Bee.

Romney’s Child Tax-Credit Plan Hailed as Ambitious, Innovative Romney cements his membership in the vote-buying government-dependent-creating ruling class. Next up: Universal Basic Income.

 

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Today in Black Privilege

6th February 2021

Seriously? ‘View’ Hosts Accuse Van Jones of Providing ‘Racial Cover’ for Trump

Nick Cannon “Uncancelled” After Brief Timeout

None Dare Call It Anti-White Racism

Apple TV+ picks up 11 NAACP Image Award nominations

Inmates at St. Louis Jail Set Fires, Break Windows

Catch-and-Release: Career Criminal Arrested in Deadly San Francisco Crash

NYT: Tipping Is a Legacy of Slavery

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

6th February 2021

TSA Says Mask Violators Could Get Hit With Fines Of $1,500 Or More

Shorter quarantines with careful testing may be more effective than two-week isolation, Yale study finds

Rural community in shock after Georgia raids clinic vaccinating teachers

Parents Slam School District After Kids Seen On Campus For Apple TV Commercial Shoot

Canada single-handedly destroys the Alaska cruise industry

Get the Vax, or Mutti Will Ground You!

CDC And TSA Form Federal Mask Police… And Enforcement Is Up To Officer Discretion

US Customs: China Flooded the USA with Counterfeit Covid Tests and Masks in 2020

Rep. Issa: Newsom Recall Bigger Than Gray Davis

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

6th February 2021

UN Climate Envoy Bloomberg’s Private Jets Emitted More Than 500 Times The Carbon Footprint Of A Typical Car

Climate Researcher’s New E-Book: IPCC Significantly Overstates CO2, “The Sorry State Of Climate Science”

The problem with climate models

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

6th February 2021

Biden Bars “Erratic” Trump From Receiving Intel Briefings Customary For Former Presidents

US Reversing Iran-Backed Houthi Movement’s Terrorist Group Designation

 

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Facebook Oversight Board Member Joins Biden DOJ

6th February 2021

Read it.

One of Facebook’s original Oversight Board members tasked with handing down binding rulings on content moderation is leaving to join the Justice Department. The move marks a growing pattern of Facebook employees adding to the ranks of the Biden administration.

“Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.”  Luke 16:9

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