ZMan blows the whistle.

The paleoconservative thinker, Sam Francis, developed the concept of anarcho- tyranny, which is when the state tyrannically regulates citizens’ lives yet is unable or unwilling to perform the basics of rule. For example, the government put speed cameras and red-light cameras up, in order to catch small violations, but if your car gets stolen, the cops will not bother looking for it. The tyranny is the micromanagement of the good citizens while driving. The anarchy is ignoring the car thieves.

It is a great framing because it is both true and easily validated. It is one of those observations that reminds us that conservatism was not always a collection of toadies and flunkies validating the latest Progressive fads. The Right used to have smart and thoughtful men genuinely concerned with the direction of Western society. They also had the courage to honestly examine what was happening. In other words, the current crisis did not sneak up on us like the fog.

Look, people elect who they want to Congress. That’s the way the system is set up. There is no IQ test – would that there were! – and no education requirement – would that there were! – and, tellingly, no requirement that a doctor certify that they are sane. You get the votes, and if they can’t PROVE you broke the law, you’re in. So all this talk about policing our own or not suitable for public service is a bunch of self-righteous hand-waving. Votes count; sputtering chattering class members do not. That’s the way it works.

Democrats have been electing crooks (Alcee Hastings) and nut-cases (Sheila Jackson Lee) to Congress for decades, not to mention people who deliberately incite violence (Maxine Waters) and people who don’t openly advocate it but who are okay with it when it happens (Kamala Harris and every other member of the Congressional Black Caucus, not to mention The Squad). For them to get all up in arms about Greene is a case of the pot calling the non-stick pan black.

Unless the system changes, the results aren’t going to be any different. A look at who is now in Congress is the greatest argument against democracy as a form of government that I can imagine. The only problem is to demonstrate that some other form of government wouldn’t be as bad or worse. As Bill Buckley famously said, I’d rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2000 member of the faculty of Harvard University, and I don’t just say that because I’m a Yale man; Yale these days is just as bad.

We have to work with what we’ve got. Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin fired hundreds of members of Pentagon policy advisory boards Tuesday, resorting to a blunt method of removing last-minute Trump administration appointees, The Wall Street Journal reported.

How very retro. Welcome to the 19th century.

Would that Trump had done the same when he came in. But we live and learn.

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Most non-stick pans are so only for a limited time. Still, they’re more non-stick than non-non-stick (sorry) pans, so you’ve got that going for you. And since most people are Too Fargin Lazy to learn how to cook properly in a plain metal pan, I suppose it’s all for the best.

I use non-stick pans because I’m bone-lazy. So there it is. (Two words: Swiss Diamond.)

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With the Prius be dethroned from its Crust-carriage role?

Steve Sailer.

The reviewer doesn’t want to come out and flat out say that biographers of the Vice President should simply cover up the fact that her fabulous political career was launched in Willie Brown’s bed, but she wants to imply it.

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Chris “Fredo” Cuomo’s seething hatred for Republicans was boiling during the Tuesday edition of CNN’s PrimeTime. Between telling his viewers that they all “have to worry about the GOP” going forward because they could become the party of presidential assassins and suggesting they didn’t care about murdered Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, Cuomo was out to stoke division and animus (so the very thing he accused the GOP of doing)

Audacious Epigone runs the numbers.

epublicans are being red-pilled. Four-in-five Republican voters are white, and they understand that the influence awarded to non-Asian minorities will come at their expense.

Especially encouraging are the dual perceptions that the poor are going to lose and the wealthy are going to win under the uber-Establishment Biden. While Democrats still portray the GOP as the party of the rich–and the party leadership eagerly, desperately plays along–Republican voters realize the monied classes are against them.

Democrats have vastly outraised Republicans in corporate cash since 2004. For nearly two decades now the Democrats have been the party of the elites. It is electoral malpractice that in an increasingly populist age the GOP willingly allows itself to be portrayed as the party of fat cats and the Democrats as the party of the little guy while the fat cats stuff Democrat coffers full of cash.

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Those who call President Joe Biden a “devout Catholic” may do so in attempts to suggest that “Catholicism is indistinguishable” from liberal ideology, a professor of theology told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“When a U.S. President cloaks himself in the outward signs of Catholic identity in order to expand access to abortion, or to use executive power to enforce a gender ideology that will inevitably threaten the freedom of the Church in this country, what you have before you is a Trojan Horse,” Dr. Chad Pecknold, an associate professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America, told the DCNF.

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In case you need another job skill on your résumé during COVID Panic times.

Steve Sailer.

There’s an ancient Wall Street joke about a visitor to the Hamptons who is shown harbors full of the yachts of stockbrokers and bond salesmen. He naively inquires, “But where are the customers’ yachts?”

We might ask the same question about the clients of diversity consultants.

These days, we are constantly lectured that hiring more diversity is the route to riches. Studies, we are assured, prove that organizations that employ more blacks, women, or whatever will make more money.

Yet the people who get paid to tell us that diversity-inclusion-equity (DIE) is good for us seldom can remember documented examples of organizations that gained an enduring competitive advantage by fighting racism or sexism.

It’s certainly a  profitable gig for the Diversity Consultant, who is typically a Fashionable Minority, but there is no evidence that increased Diversity ever helped either the company or the affirmative-action hires.

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You can lead a union member to the workplace but you can’t make her work.

Parents rebel over posh NYC school’s ‘obsessive focus on race’

Black History Month and Republican Support for Civil Rights in 1960s

America’s BLM-induced homicide spike

Racial Equity and Justice Initiative

Multiple Teachers Suspended Over ‘How Will You Punish This Slave?’ Activity Question

Race-Hustling MSNBC Host Al Sharpton Demands Abolishment of the Filibuster

High School Teacher In California Claims In Op-Ed That Bernie Sanders’ Mittens Flaunted His ‘White Privilege’

The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring

Lori Lightfoot Blames The ‘Incompetence Of The Previous Administration’ For Chicago Schools Not Being Open  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Hispanic Caucus Takes Aim at African-American Veteran’s Service on Key Panel

REPORT: Former NFL Running Back Mark Walton Arrested After Meltdown Over Failed Pizza Hut Order

San Francisco Officials Declare Acronyms Racist  Not the Babylon Bee.

Man Arrested After Allegedly Shooting 5 Children, 1 Adult To Death In Oklahoma  Not white, so no headlines.

Defunding the Police Isn’t the Answer, Say Black Mothers of Slain Children

Singer/Actor Sia Blames Casting Controversy on Listening to ‘White Men

This Legal Hurdle Could Trip Up Biden’s Cancellation of Keystone XL Pipeline

NEW: Reporters Whine (Anonymously) Team Biden Wants To Know Questions In Advance  My, what a surprise.

Forget Myanmar: Here Are 12 Other Countries Biden Should Invade RIGHT NOW  Babylon Bee.

Biden’s Climate Plans are Energizing National Secuity Problems

Biden’s climate change plan and the battle for America’s most threatened workers

SHOCKER: CNN’s Zakaria Corners John Kerry on Biden Killing Jobs

Biden’s Strategic Gift To Russia And The Gulf Regimes

Richard Epstein: Biden’s Unlawful Re-entry into Climate Accord

McConnell Hammers Biden’s DHS Pick Over ‘Unethical’ Political Favors For Democrats

Biden Justice Department Nominee Faces Ethics Minefield From Father’s Corporate Interests

Rep. Andy Biggs to Newsmax TV: Biden Border to Get ‘Overwhelmed’

Republicans Demand Hold on Biden Commerce Pick Over Huawei Concerns

Greenland is careening toward a critical tipping point for ice loss

Claim: Atmospheric river storms can drive costly flooding – and climate change is making them stronger

At New York City’s biggest power plant, a switch to clean energy will help a neighborhood breathe easier  (Popular ‘Science’)

Those Most Likely to Get Covid Are Last in Line for Vaccines  We’re from the government, and we’re here to screw things up.

Climate Model Failure

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If Republicans in Alaska and Utah would show some of that backbone, perhaps we could fix the RINO problem.

More Americans Have Received At Least One Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine Than Have Tested Positive For Virus

Top NY Virus Officials Quit As Cuomo Wages “War” With His Own Health Department

Thousands Of Maskless Orthodox Jews Ignore Israeli Lockdown To Attend Funerals 

The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World’s Vulnerability

UK COVID Cops Arrest Man For Handing Out Free Soup

Fauci: CDC May Recommend Wearing 2 Masks to Fight Virus

Democrats Announce It Is Safe To Reopen Now That Federal Government Has Tested Negative For Trump  Babylon Bee.

Lots of people moved out of New York and California in 2020. Here’s where they went

New COVID-19 Strain Could Be Vaccine-Resistant Due To New Mutation, Study Finds  Head ’em up, move ’em out….

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Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has a press release announcing that she will join the Senate Finance Committee. From the release: “She also announced plans to introduce legislation implementing a wealth tax on fortunes over $50 million. The Finance Committee’s jurisdiction covers taxation and revenue policy, including oversight of the Internal Revenue Service. The senator’s legislation reflects her 2020 campaign proposal to impose a two cent tax on every dollar of individual wealth over $50 million, with an additional surtax on every dollar of wealth over $1 billion.”

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Why would Biden select someone this incompetent for such an important job? Because LeVine and her husband donate generously to Democrats. The LeVines gave more than $400,000 to the Biden campaign and other Democratic causes in 2019 and 2020, according to federal campaign records. In 2017, they were appointed as deputy national finance chairs for the Democratic National Committee.

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Trigger warning: The following contains detailed descriptions of addiction, codependency, and withdrawal.

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House Democrats prosecuting former President Donald Trump released a memorandum Tuesday laying out key points against Trump, the first president to face an impeachment trial in the Senate after leaving office.

A temper tantrum at taxpayer expense.

UPDATE: Trump Lawyers Counter Democrats With These 4 Impeachment Arguments

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There has been a steady uptick in the number of migrants along parts of the U.S.-Mexico border as they look for the possible easing of immigration restrictions by President Joe Biden.

Fox News reported that Border Patrol agents have seen increases in apprehensions among Central American families and unaccompanied children — especially in the Rio Grande Valley and Tucson, Arizona, sectors.

An agent based in Texas noted that in three out of the last seven days, there had been at least 800 arrests in his sector — an increase of 450 a day from just a few months ago. He also told Fox News that border agents encountered two separate groups of more than 100 migrants approaching the border.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Ten Senate Republicans released a $618 billion counterproposal to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package hours before they met on Monday evening in hopes of finding some common ground, but the two proposals have far more differences than similarities.

The $618 billion package only slightly resembles Biden’s, whose proposal is three times as large and includes bigger stimulus checks for a greater number of people. Despite the differences, the senators expressed willingness to work with Biden, who campaigned on unity and his ability to reach across the aisle.

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz appeared for a 10-minute interview with CBS Minnesota’s Esme Murphy over the weekend. Here if you can withstand it and if you can keep up one can observe Walz’s blizzard of verbiage and question-begging along with the media support that enables it.

If you are not subject to the Walz regime of one-man rule, you may be able to watch this video with the kind of detachment that allows for amusement. If you have followed Walz’s press conferences over the past year, however, you may find it sickening. Joe Isuzu has absolutely nothing on this guy and he was a work of advertising art.

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“Incitement of Insurrection against him as moot, and thus in violation of the Constitution, because the Senate lacks jurisdiction to remove from office a man who does not hold office,” reads the filing.

Severian applies some history.

Let’s take a closer look at yesterday’s example of “butt smuggling,” the now-hilarious contemporary term for the Mob’s cigarette racket in the late Sixties / early Seventies. This is exactly the kind of un-glamorous scam that will never make it into the movies, but which keeps Organized Crime afloat, and to which the Feds will soon be forcing us at an ever-increasing pace.

In the late Sixties, you’ll recall, a combination of cash-strapped state governments (places like Illinois were already feeling the pinch of a few decades’ worth of total Democratic control) and Health Nazis slapped egregious taxes on smokes. It turns out that the tax stamps are easy to forge, cigarette trucks are easy to hijack, and when all else fails, smuggling is pretty easy, too. It’s a low-margin, high-volume sort of racket, but it’s profitable — sure, you don’t make $10K per kilo (or whatever) like you do selling coke, but you don’t run coke’s ludicrous risks, either, since while some squarejohn citizen type might well rat you off to the fuzz for selling drugs, he’s much likelier to ask you for a pack when he finds you’re smuggling cigarettes…

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Last week, an official from Washington State was nominated by the Biden administration to be “Interim Assistant Secretary of the Employment and Training Administration”, a post in the Labor Department. And just what the hell is that? “Interim” “Assistant”? Someone must have searched long and hard for a suitable slot for the former Head of the Washington Employment Security Department, which handles unemployment claims.

Here in Washington State, Suzi LeVine presided over the loss to the State of $600 Million in Unemployment Fraud, during the Covid-unemployment deluge last year. The Department even today has a 40,000-claim backlog in processing 2020 claims. I wonder how much taxpayer money she will now lose for the rest of the country in her new job?

ZMan nails it.

The GameStop story, which is becoming more of a general short squeeze story, is a good example of what happens when an economy is fully financialized. Since there is little money to be made in making things or creating things, the best human resources flow into finance, where a bright person can get rich finding a slight imbalance in the marketplace for an asset or an error in the holdings of another player. The economy becomes a massive poker tournament with the central bank as the house.

If you step back and think about the transaction at the heart of this story, there is no moral or economic reason for it to exist. The practice of shorting a stock can have both moral and economic utility. In the former case, an investor seeing some corruption in a company or sector is letting the world know about it by betting against it with his own money. On the latter point, the blend of shorts and longs provides useful data about stocks and sectors for investors and planners.

When everyone at the table is using chips borrowed from the house and many of the whales at the table will never have to repay the house, both of these functions are flipped on their head. In the case of GameStop, some sharps were gaming the system in an effort to artificially deflate the value of otherwise good companies.

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A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.

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The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch filed a notice of appeal to the Supreme Court of Delaware on Monday asking for a reversal of a lower court opinion that blocked a Freedom of Information Act request for access to records from President Joe Biden’s Senate career.

The motion seeks a reversal of a ruling by the Superior Court of Delaware in early January that the 1,850 boxes and 415 gigabytes of digital records from Biden’s 36-year Senate career that he donated to the University of Delaware in 2012 are not subject to release because no public funds have been used to support the Biden library.

The lower court rejected the DCNF and Judicial Watch’s argument that some of the university’s approximately $120 million annual taxpayer appropriation could have been used to indirectly support the Biden library by funding archival space and staff salaries. The court said a statement from the university that claimed, without evidence, that no state funds supported the library was sufficient to rule against releasing the documents.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Pan-progressivism

To be a Silicon Valley executive, a prominent Wall Street player, the head of a prestigious publishing house, a university president, a network or PBS anchor, a major Hollywood actress, a retired general or admiral on a corporate board, or a NBA superstar requires either progressive fides or careful suppression of all political affinities.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, 98 percent of Big Tech political donations went to Democrats in 2020. Censorship and deplatforming on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media companies is decidedly one-way. When Mark Zuckerberg and others in Silicon Valley donate $500 million to help officials “get out the vote” in particular precincts, it is not to help candidates of both parties.

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I’m a victim
You’re a victim
He’s a victim
She’s a victim
Wouldn’t you want to be a victim too”

This isn’t about the son, it’s about the parents organizing a pity-party for themselves.

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I guess she felt she wasn’t getting enough sympathetic attention.

‘Assault’ I can believe; ‘sexual assault’, not so much.

UPDATE: AOC’s body politics

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For those of you who don’t know, law enforcement can issue various secret warrants that have some kind of gag order attached. You cannot tell anyone for any reason. You cannot even acknowledge that it exists. The workaround is to set up a warrant canary. This is some kind of flag that says “I have not received” a National Security Letter or something with a gag order. Since they cannot force you to lie, you can always remove the canary when you have received one of these legal notices. The absence of the canary informs people that something changed.

If you find this disturbing, welcome to the club.

Read it. I wasn’t able to get the video to play but the concept is still entertaining.

Don’t ever say we don’t have useful stuff here.

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Yes, I would consider getting an Apple car, if it ever sees the light of day. (Not an electric but maybe a hybrid.)

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A New York bill aimed at confiscating body armor would also force parents to hand over safety products designed for school shootings.

Democrat assemblymember Jonathan G. Jacobson wants to make New York the first state to outlaw bulletproof vests, but his far-reaching legislation would also end up seizing protective backpacks from students and parents. Two bulletproof backpack makers and one local retailer said the bill damages an industry created to protect children from school shootings.

Democrat politicians keep stepping on their base.

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In November, the previously unknown Marjorie Taylor Greene was elected to Georgia’s open 14th Congressional District seat in a landslide. Now, after being in office less than a month, she is the object of a hate campaign by the Democrats, who are demanding that she be stripped of all committee assignments, and preferably kicked out of the House. It is reported that the Democrats’ press arm is trying to make Greene the face of the Republican Party.

What exactly has she done? Greene’s Facebook page apparently is a disaster. Even before the election, Politico investigated Greene on behalf of the Democratic Party and found Facebook videos that expressed “racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views.” That was Kevin McCarthy’s characterization, not Nancy Pelosi’s, and Greene was denounced last June by the Republicans’ House leadership. But Georgia’s voters apparently were unimpressed.

Obviously Emmanuel Goldstein got to her at some point.

The Other McCain blows the whistle.

Earlier today, I took note of how the “extremist” label is being used by the media to smear all opposition to the Biden administration, as a pretext for silencing all criticism of the Biden administration. And as I noted, this accusation of “extremism” is a Kafkatrap — a sort of circular argument, whereby denying guilt is taken as proof of guilt.

Liberals argue this way habitually, and never get called out for it. They will claim that a certain policy proposal is intended to help a certain category of (allegedly) oppressed people and, if you dare criticize or oppose their policy for any reason, you will be accused of Thoughtcrime, i.e., some sort of hate toward the oppressed victim group. Anyone who objects that such accusations are unfair — “I’ve known Tom for years, there’s not a prejudiced bone in his body” — will be accused of sympathizing with the haters. You are just like a “good German,” complicit in the Nazi murder six million Jews. No protest of innocence can save you, once you are so accused.

In cancel culture, allegation is as good as proof.

Why Phoenix may be uninhabitable by the end of this century (Salon) I’d guess because of Democrats moving in from California.

Who Will Tell the Greens There Is No Battery Fairy?

Claim: Important climate change mystery solved by scientists

Claim: Marine heatwaves becoming more intense, more frequent

One year later: The path to carbon negative – a report on our climate ‘moonshot’  Think of a polar bear showing you his butt.

How Will Climate Regulations Impact The Economy? Experts Are Divided  But normal people are not: ‘negatively’.

Unexpected ice

The So-Called Climate “Health Emergency”

New York Times Reviews Book Advocating Blowing Up Pipelines to Combat Climate Change

Disproportionate number of current and former military personnel arrested in Capitol attack, CNN analysis shows Just in case you were wondering why they used National Guard rather than regular troops for Biden’s Nuremberg rally inauguration.

Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi detained as military seizes control (Yawn) What, again? How many is it this time?

Republicans should police their own. Then we can talk about unity. (Washington Post)

SNL skewers Marjorie Taylor Greene, the vaccine rollout and GameStop, reminding us that things are still very bad (Washington Post) For Democrats.

UN WHO Asks Rich Nations to Pause Covid Vaccination, so Others can Catch Up

Why Hasn’t The House Held Hearings To Establish “Incitement To Insurrection”?  Because it’s not about facts, it’s about punishment of the heretic and sinner Trump.

US Corruption Hits Highest Since 2012 Amid COVID Bailouts & Democracy Doubts

America’s Trust In The Mainstream Media Hits An All-Time-Low (And “Journalists” Are Shocked)

Stelter: Trying to Crush Fox News Isn’t ‘Censorship,’ It’s ‘Harm Reduction’  Harm to whom? Why, the Narrative Media, of course.

India plans national digital currency plus a ban on ‘private’ crypto-cash  Statism thrives in the Turd World.

Lincoln Project: ‘Sunk in a Swamp of Complete Moral and Personal Cowardice’

Hollywood whinge-fests undermine contemporary feminism  As if that weren’t what ‘contemporary feminism’ is all about.

Left Wing Media Is Gearing Up For An All Out War On Fox News Now That Biden Is In Office

Mika Coddles George Conway on Lincoln Project/Weaver Sex Scandal

Forget Unity: CBS Hacks Tout Biden as ‘Not Interested’ in ‘Watered Down’ Bill  ‘Unity’ for Democrats means ‘Republicans surrender’.

Voting Rights Activist Stacey Abrams Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize  After all, we can’t have some filthy Jew like Kushner or the Literal Hitler Trump win, can we?

TSA Set To Fine Travelers Who Refuse To Wear A Mask Following White House Executive Order  An excellent excuse not to subject yourself to the Gestapo TSA.

Homeless Activists Wielding Knives And Hatchets Arrested After Attempting To Take Over Hotel

Screed: CNN Host Blames Fox, Newt, Palin, and Trump for Ruining American Unity

Google Deletes 100,000 Negative Reviews Of Planned Parenthood From Unborn Babies  Babylon Bee.

Veritas Leak: Facebook Execs Discuss Crushing Free Speech Under Biden

Lincoln Distances Self From Lincoln Project  Babylon Bee.

Never Enough: New Zealand Set For Second Gun Confiscation  New Zealand isn’t Middle Earth; it’s the Shire under Saruman.

GOP Officials Ask FEC For Permission to Use Donations for Bodyguards

Frank Sinatra’s Daughter will ‘Never Forgive’ Trump Voters and Worries it may ‘Kill Her’  Poor snowflake.

13 Members Of Congress Join Chip Roy In Demanding Ocasio-Cortez Apologize To Cruz For Saying He Almost Had Her Murdered

House Dems Seek to Strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Committee Assignments

CNN’s Gloria Borger, Who Hates Reagan Comparisons, Compares Biden to Reagan

Bountiful Briefing: Journos Urge Dems to Be ‘Ruthless,’ Psaki Mocks ‘Conservative Twitter’

CRT Is Sacrosanct and May Not Be Questioned

A Tale of Two Car Thieves  But they were Mostly Peaceful.

Apple Inches Ahead of Google in Their Race to be Most Obsequious About Black History Month

Fewer Blacks Getting Vaccinated

How Much Blood Does Black Lives Matter Have on Its Hands?

What Twitter Rules? Rapper Cardi B Tweets It’s ‘Ok’ to ‘Choose Violence’  As long as it’s Mostly Peaceful.

ACLU Elects Organization’s First Black President  So it will be All Black Privilege All The Time from now on.

REPORT: Man Shoots Father In Head After Argument Over Hair Clippers  But it was Mostly Peaceful.

Washington Team President Confirms Nation Guilty Of ‘Systemic Racism’

Apple Says ‘We Have an Urgent Responsibility to Dismantle Systemic Racism’  And if we can sell come computers while we’re doing it, that’s okay too.

White Skin Privilege: Modern Myth, Forgotten Past

CBS Still Selling Books for Race-Baiter Kendi After His VILE Attack on Justice Barrett

Vaccinate NBA Stars First, Says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

What to expect from Biden’s envoy to Iran

SNL’s No Joe Zone

US Calls on Myanmar’s Military to End Coup ‘Immediately’  Oh, yeah, they’ll listen to that.

Devout Catholic? The Media vs. Biden’s Real Record

BARR: Biden’s Executive Actions Will Raise Nanny State To New Heights

Biden’s Big City Elite Agenda Will Harm Poor And Rural People

Some Of Biden’s Top White House Economic Advisers Are Reportedly Pushing Back On His Stimulus Package  He must have gotten some real economists by mistake.

Biden Cancels ‘Major’ Foreign Policy Speech Due to Two Inches of Snow  Pity party….

Biden Threatens Sanctions Against Burma Following Military Coup — Press Secretary Says It’s A ‘Message’ To China, Other Countries Ooooooo, I’ll bet they’re all scared….

‘I Hate To Disappoint Conservative Twitter’: Jen Psaki Continues To ‘Circle Back’ To Unanswered Press Questions

Biden’s Middle East Policy Might Stumble, And Beijing Smells Blood

American Petroleum Institute: Biden Admin ‘Heading In The Wrong Direction’ With Recent Energy Order

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They still make you look like a refugee from an LGBTQRSTUVWZYZ convention.

I’ll do anything for comfort, but I won’t do that.

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A study released by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights decided that the argument that conservatives are being censored by Big Tech is “not legitimate.”

“False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives,” levied the accusation that conservative censorship is a myth. Deputy Director Paul M. Barrett and Law + Research Fellow J. Grant Sims wrote that “the claim of anti-conservative animus is itself a form of disinformation: a falsehood with no reliable evidence to support it.” The study referred to the overall bans of former President Donald Trump on Facebook and Twitter as “reasonable responses to Trump’s repeated violation of platform rules.”

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The study relied on NewsGuard’s classification of “manipulators.” It noted, “All of the top five manipulators, in terms of their engagement levels on Facebook, were right-leaning: Fox News, The Daily Wire, Breitbart, The Blaze, and Western Journal.”

Furthermore, Barrett and Sims relied on the leftist Oxford Internet Institute’s report on “junk news.” That report had classified several conservative websites as “junk news,” including Drudge Report, NewsBusters, CNSNews.com, MRCTV, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Washington Free Beacon, LifeNews, National Review, the Red State, and The Federalist. These sites were smeared as “unprofessional,” “counterfeit,” “biased” and “emotionally driven.”

The study, coming from the center currently run by former Obama administration Assistant Secretary Mike Posner, had several recommendations for the new President Joe Biden administration.

I’m sure they did. I’m sure they did.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

(With Trump gone, apparently the News Just Stopped.)

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If the Nobel Peace Prize really followed Alfred Nobel’s wishes, the next winners should be Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Mohammed bin Zayed of the UAE. In reality, this is comically impossible. The mock-outrage elicited by Alan Dershowitz’s nomination of Kushner and his aide Avi Berkowitz shows how far the Nobel has drifted into a partisan theater in which every entrance and exit comes from stage-left.

A few weeks ago, the London Spectator published my review of Betraying the Nobel, Unni Turrettini’s exposé of the Nobel’s institutional rot. A member of the Nobel Committee took a break from patronizing the world and sent an outraged complaint to the editor. He accused me of misinformation, disinformation and unspecified yet unforgivable malice towards his high-status, free-lunch side-gig. In other words, he accused me of telling truths that he didn’t like, and expected them to be altered accordingly.

Bear in mind that Barack The Magic Negro got the Nobel Peace Prize just for being black and winning the Presidential election, not for, you know, actually doing anything — the ultimate participation trophy.

The Other McCain is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

A few recent headlines:

Republican extremists could doom party
to endless defeats
— CNN, Jan. 26

Rachel Maddow: GOP has become party of a
‘fringe, violent, extremist criminal movement’
— The Hill, Jan. 27

“This Is War”: Inside the Secret Chat
Where Far-Right Extremists Devised
Their Post-Capitol Plans
— Pro Publica, Jan. 28

Extremists Emboldened by Capitol Attack
Pose Growing Threat, Homeland Security Says
— New York Times, Jan. 29

Republican Ties to Extremist Groups
Are Under Scrutiny
— New York Times, Jan. 29

Domestic violent extremists will be harder
to combat than homegrown jihadists
— The Hill, Jan. 31

‘It’s endemic’: state-level Republican groups
lead party’s drift to extremism
— The Guardian, Jan. 31

Perhaps you notice the similar theme and you might wonder if all these journalists are operating in collusion to promote the idea of a dangerous “extremist” GOP threat. However, if you don’t trust the media, that’s a “conspiracy theory,” which means you’re an “extremist.”