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In the Gulf of Guinea, off the Nigerian coast, piracy is becoming a major problem and shipping companies warn that this will increase maritime ship insurance and other piracy related costs that will be passed on to consumers in Nigeria and neighboring countries if something is not done. Off the Nigerian coast the pirate activity is increasing despite Nigerian efforts to curb the practice. This is not as bad as what Somalia once was but it is becoming enough of a problem to cause serious problems for shipping companies and their customers in the Gulf of Guinea.

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When Gov. Greg Abbott ended Texas’s Covid mask mandate and capacity limits, President Joe Biden called him a “neanderthal” and progressives wished death on Texans. Will hard-blue Connecticut get the same treatment?

The Late Michael Brown’s Dad Demands Millions from Now Rich BLM

Shor: Us White Democrats Could Easily Alienate Nonwhite Democrats with Our Crazy Level of Racial Resentment on Their Behalf,

Democrats Eye 3 Progressive Black Women for US Attorney Posts  The color of their skin is their most important qualification, of course.

Reid, Guests Accuse Red States of Hating Black People Unless They’re in Factories Have you ever seen a black person in a factory? I haven’t.

Reporter Robbed At Gunpoint While Filming

Two Paterson City Council Members Indicted on Voter Fraud Charges in Council Race

‘That Is A Lie!’: Leo Terrell Blasts Teachers Union President For Saying Reopening Schools Promotes ‘Structural Racism’

Michael Brown’s Dad Demands $20M From BLM

KPIX Reporter Robbed at Gunpoint While Covering Car Break-Ins at SF’s Twin Peaks

LA Teachers’ Union Under Fire For Effort To Racially Classify Critics

Race-Baiting Reid Hurls Nasty Attacks Over Botched Tanden Nomination

Kozak: Racist Babies

Equity Policy Results in 2 Veteran Educators Fired for Refusing to Do ‘Wakanda Salute’

Minneapolis Spends Nearly $650,000 On Fences To Protect City Buildings From Vandalism During Derek Chauvin Trial  You know it ain’t white people goin’ be riotin’.

Mike Pence’s Blueprint for Permanent Authoritarian Rule (New York Magazine) Imagine New York Magazine complaining about somebody else’s plan for permanent authoritarian rule.

CRAZY: MSNBC Panel Suggests Antifa Is Noble, the Right Is Worse Than Al-Qaeda

ABC Boosts Cuomo’s ‘Apology’ With 7x the Airtime Vs His Accusers’ Reactions

‘More Inclusive’: Washington Football Team Ditches Cheerleaders For Coed Dance Squad

House Democrats Vote to Nullify, Nationalize State Election Laws

ICE locks Twitter account that alerted public of illegal immigrants freed by sanctuary cities

Over 18 Million Americans Are Still On Government Jobless Benefits  Which is exactly where the Democrats want them.

‘That’s So Outrageous’: Benjamin Netanyahu Slams SNL’s Michael Che For Saying Israel Only Vaccinates Jewish People

House Passes Legislation That Would Allow Justice Department To Demand Removal Of Social Media Posts

Obscure Seattle Civil Rights Law Could Be Silver Bullet for Big Tech Censorship

Tapper Slams GOP ‘Lying and Indecency,’ Hails Dem ‘Professionals’

WATCH: Rep. Jayapal Gaslights on CNBC Host Sorkin’s Tough Criticism of Wealth Tax

Capitol Police Ask National Guard to Stay for 2 More Months

Joy Behar Smears Republicans as ‘Cheaters’ for Opposing Dem Bill That Makes Elections Less Secure  There’s sone projection for you.

Georgetown Student Bar Association Asks Students to List Pronouns ‘In Solidarity’ with Transgender Peers

U.S. Adversaries Weaponize Woke Politics

Rep. Ron Johnson Objects To Skipping Reading Of 600-Page COVID-19 Relief Bill In Senate

Right Side Broadcasting Network Says YouTube Suspended Channel for Trump CPAC Speech

Two SUVs breached US-Mexico border in California – then crashed, burned in separate accidents: reports

White House cuts virtual event feed after Biden says he’s ‘happy to take questions’ from House Democrats

‘Like Calling Harvey Weinstein A Feminist’: Sen. Kennedy Says Biden’s Stimulus Bill Has Little To Do With COVID-19

Rep. Devin Nunes Confronts Biden White House’s ‘Extreme Left-Wing Agenda’

Biden Pick for Top Pentagon Post Called GOP ‘Party of Ethnic Cleansing’

Kayleigh McEnany Knocks Jen Psaki’s Job Performance: ‘I Didn’t Have To Do A Ton Of Circling Back’

‘What A Uniter’: Josh Hawley Mocks Biden For Calling Mask Repeals ‘Neanderthal Thinking’

Child Migration Quickly Overwhelming Biden Administration’s Resources, Internal Documents Show

PHOTOS: Migrants Wearing ‘Biden Please Let Us In’ Shirts Hold Demonstration At US Border

Illegal Immigrant Kids Could Soon Overwhelm US Shelters: Report

Biden Admin to Restart Palestinian Aid as Payments to Terrorists Flow

Jen Psaki: Trump Admin Doesn’t Deserve Credit For Vaccines ‘When Half A Million People In The Country Have Died Of This Pandemic’

Arizona Sheriff Claims Biden Creating ‘Roads for the Cartels’

Biden Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Confirms Trump’s China Tariffs ‘Have Been Effective’

Biden Labor Board Blocks Construction Workers From Union Exodus

1,600 Immigrants Arrested Over 3 Days In Single Texas Border Sector: Official

Why are we ‘bailing out’ Texas’s reckless decisions on covid-19? (Washington Post)

Texas’s decision to lift coronavirus containment efforts comes at a bizarre moment (Washington Post)

Michael Moore says Texans don’t deserve vaccine

Susan Quinn: Will We Ever Escape the Circle of Fear?

‘No Skin In The Game’: Greg Gutfeld Bashes Leaders, Media For Exempting Themselves And Attacking Texas

Mike Rowe: Everyone Is Essential

‘We Should Trust Americans, Not Insult Them’: Mississippi Governor Defends Reopening After Biden Slams States For ‘Neanderthal Thinking’

Tokyo Olympics Poised To Ban Foreign Spectators On Fears Of ‘Superspreader’ Event

California High School Athletes Sue Governor Over Indoor Sports Restrictions

‘This Isn’t Hyperbole’: Beto O’Rourke Says Officials ‘Literally Want To Sacrifice’ Texans To Reopen

Miami Beach Preps For Spring Break COVID Crackdown

‘Death Cult!’ Hollywood SHRIEKS Over Texas Opening Up

Fauci Tells People In Texas And Mississippi To Continue Wearing Masks Despite Governors Lifting Orders

Ex-Surgeon General Refutes Fauci Insistence on 2-Shot COVID-19 Plan

16 States Are Now Following The Science

Texas Governor Hailed As Conservative Hero For Ending Unconstitutional Mandates He Implemented  Babylon Bee.

WHO Abandon Interim Report on Origins of Coronavirus

Mother Says She’s Being Targeted By California’s Largest Teachers Union After She Pushed For School Reopening

Here Are Some Books the Woke Left Would Replace Dr. Seuss With

Attack of the Woke Teen Career Killers

What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon

Ethics probe led to criminal referral involving Elaine Chao, Transportation Dept. inspector general says

High School Baseball Players Suspended For Maskless Photos On School Property

Venom-Spewing Hater Scarborough: Cruz, Hawley ‘Wanted’ Capitol Rioters to Beat, Kill  Mind-reader Joe cites no evidence for these calumnies, because there is none.

Chris Harrison Reveals He Plans To Return As Host Of ‘The Bachelor’ After Being Accused Of Defending Racism

Biden To Avoid Public Appearances Until They’re Done Canceling All The Sexual Harassers And Racists  Babylon Bee.

‘Put A Fork In Him’: Meghan McCain Is ‘Over Cuomo’ — Sunny Hostin Tries To Make It About Donald Trump

eBay Halts Sales Of “Offensive” Dr Seuss Books, Allows Mein Kampf

Michael Moore: Texans Are a Waste to the ‘Precious Vaccine’

The slowing down of ocean currents could have a devastating effect on our climate (CNN)

What Lies Ahead? The Grand Solar Minimum

Claim: Gender assumptions harm progress on climate adaption and resilience

Steyn Files New Motion in Perpetual Mann Case

Biden Virtue Signaling on Keystone XL Pipeline Can Actually Harm Environment

Where’s the Beach? New York Times Publishes Data-Free Story About Miami’s ‘Rising Seas’

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“Get woke, go broke”, is a conservative meme about the cost of political correctness that has it the wrong way around. Brands don’t go broke because they get woke, they go woke because they’re going broke, and don’t know how to stop the slow but steady collapse of their business.

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Santa and the polar bears reflected a Coke that was marketed to children. But fewer parents are comfortable with their children living off soda. That’s why one survey found that the number of children drinking over 3 cans of soda a day fell from 10% to 3.3%. The drop in soda consumption, once again, was heaviest among younger and wealthier urban white lefties.

The economic consequences of young white wealthy lefties dropping soda wasn’t just a sales issue. Wokes are a politically narcissistic demographic that legislates its tastes into law, pursuing the legalization of drugs, and bans on soda. Both drug legalization and soda bans were, as usual, done in the name of oppressed minorities, but had little impact on them.

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More than Senator Umbrage will ever admit.

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Democrats have twice impeached Donald Trump in the House and twice failed to convict him in the Senate. They’re angry about failing, and double angry about failing twice. That’s understandable. Nobody likes to fail.

But they’ve now fallen into the trap of letting their anger get the better of their reason and their oaths to uphold the Constitution. The result is a legislative temper tantrum in a bill dubbed the “No Glory for Hate Act.”

The act is petty and petulant, and it inspires a strong temptation to laugh and mock. It is, however, an unconstitutional abuse of power, and that transforms an amusing little fit into a worrisome precedent.

The bill targets “any former President that has been twice impeached”—excuse me while I take a moment to figure out all the presidents that it applies to—and says that no federal funds may be used to commemorate all those presidents.

This is effectively a Bill of Atrtainder, which is specifically prohibited by teh Constitution.

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Having stumbled upon an effective way to steal a Presidential election, Democrats are scurrying to lock it into law.

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A few weeks ago I asked a fire fighter friend how they extinguish electric vehicle battery fires.

He said “Oh you mean like a Tesla or something? The answer is you can’t. You cordon off the area, and spray a fine mist of water on the fire to try to keep the temperature down until it finishes burning. Takes a few days until it is safe”.

Just in case you needed a reason not to buy an electric car. And don’t get me started about Tesla….

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Now a group of physicists have put together the first proposal for a physical warp drive, based on a concept devised back in the ’90s. And they say it shouldn’t break any of laws of physics.

 

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Get woke, go broke.

CNN.

Leading US grocery chains, pharmacies, retailers and auto manufacturers, including Target (TGT), Kroger (KR), CVS (CVS), Walgreens (WBA), Best Buy (BBY), Macy’s (M) JCPenney (JCP), Toyota (TM), GM (GM) and others, say they will continue to require mask wearing at their stores and facilities by both employees and customers. There are exceptions, however, and some business advocates are concerned that the end of these states’ mask mandates will create new challenges for companies and their workers.

Keep wearing your mask, health officials say after Gov. Greg Abbott lifts mask mandate (Texas TribuneO Of course they do.

Editorial: Don’t ditch masks yet. We’re still in a pandemic. (Austin American Statesman)

Texas still needs a mask mandate, governor (Dallas Morning News)

All the Narrative Media in Texas are trying to keep the panic goin’.

Canada’s Quarantine Hotels Backfire As People Starved

Sweden Moves To Protect Academic Freedom After Prof Quits COVID Research Due To Harassment

Anthony Fauci Pleads: Don’t Declare Victory  Gotta keep the panic goin’!

Big Business Using Government-Funded Vaccine Program To Scoop Up Data On Vaccine Recipients

‘Vial Of Death’: Louis Farrakhan Pushes Vaccine Conspiracy Theories In Videos Posted On Facebook, Twitter

CDC Director Implores Texans To Keep Wearing Masks Regardless Of Governor’s Orders

108 Illegal Immigrants With Coronavirus Released in Texas

Experts Warn Lifting Mask Mandates Could Contribute To Dangerous Spread Of Freedom  Babylon Bee.

CNN, MSNBC Pretend There’s a ‘Night & Day’ Difference Between Trump & Biden on Vaccines

‘It Has Been A Year Of Kids Suffering’: Latino Parents And Students Protest For San Francisco Schools To Reopen

Big Tech Platforms Allow Farrakhan to Spread Vaccine Conspiracies

James Cook University Walks Back Extreme Global Warming Coral Extinction Claims

Earth’s Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere Will Last Only Another Billion Years Yet another reason to panic?

California City Bans New Gas Stations, Says No More Pumps

United Nations Demands an End to Silicon Solar Panels and Wind Turbines  It’s not easy being green.

Black Lives Murdered

California Reopening Plan ‘Propagates Racism,’ LA Teachers Union Says

Teachers Union Allegedly Sends Emails To Racially Profile Los Angeles Parents Speaking To Media In Favor Of School Reopening

A double-standard in colorblind casting  Colored people are encouraged to play white people, but white people aren’t allowed to play colored people.

‘You Don’t Speak For The Black Community!’: Leo Terrell Goes After College Professor Over Canceling Dr. Seuss

Black Parents Plan School Reopening Rally After Teachers Union Claims White, Rich People Are Behind Push To Reopen

Elderly Woman Planning Her Son’s Funeral Killed After Shots Were Fired Into Residence

ABC Helps Mrs. Obama Sell Kids Books and Praise Woke BLM ‘Generation’

Mike Brown’s Father And Ferguson Protesters Demand $20 Million From Black Lives Matter

Again, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Serves as Communications Director for NAACP Boss

Is your three-month-old baby racist?  I certainly hope so.

Biden Announces All Bombs Used In The Middle East Will Be Purchased From Black-Owned Businesses  Babylon Bee.

Cuomo Claims CPAC Attendees Think Up ‘Wicked’ and ‘Magical’ ‘Ways to Kill’ Dems

Moping about Muppets: Another humiliation for Disney

Smith College controversy highlights struggles schools face in making racially equitable campuses (CNN) No, it just highlights the struggle schools face in hunting for heretics and sinners.

Meyers Mocks ‘Dumb’ Conservatives, ‘Invented Culture War Grievances’

U.S. Soccer Council Expels Former Paralympic Athlete For Speech Defending the Anthem

Designer Who Created CPAC’s Stage (The One Activists Decided Was Nazi Symbolism) Is ‘Very Liberal,’ Also Did Designs For MSNBC, Biden  But, of course, what matters is not what you meant, but what they imagine you meant.

D.C. Police Issue Emergency Alert On “Possible” Militia Plot To Breach Capitol Tomorrow  Put that right next to the ‘possible’ Global Warming.

Universal Orlando ‘Evaluating’ Seuss Landing After Pulling Dr. Seuss Books From Shelves

Quotes From Kamala, Obama Praising, Celebrating Dr. Seuss Go Viral During Push To Ban The Book

‘Biden Totally Caved’: Jesse Watters Says Teachers Unions ‘Held Students Hostage’ To Jump The Line On Vaccines

ICE Launches Human Smuggling Probe After Deadly Crash

‘We Should Be Stopping This’: Mark Morgan Says Biden Border Policy Is Empowering Cartels, Child Smuggling

Biden Admin Planning For Influx Of 117,000 Illegal Youths To US This Year

Biden, Senate Deal Cuts Off Relief Checks for Those Over $80K  The objective is, after all, to buy Underclass votes.

Becerra Confirmation Delayed By Split Committee Vote As Conservatives Ramp Up Pressure On Biden Nominee

SUV in Crash Came Through Hole in Border Fence

Twitter Account for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Alerts on Criminal Aliens Locked By Biden Administration

Number of Illegal Border Crossings Is Six Times What Obama Team Considered ‘Crisis’

Biden’s next big move could deliver a crippling blow to Trumpism (Washington Post) Except that there is no such thing as ‘Trumpism’ other than in the fantasies of proglodytes.

80 House Democrats Urge Biden to Reverse Trump’s Cuba Sanctions

Congressional Democrats Want To Make Ballot Harvesting The National Standard, Regardless Of What States Want

EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Market Economist RIPS Krugman Claim That ‘Too Much Choice Is Hurting America’

Glenn Greenwald Says ‘I Consider Tucker Carlson To Be A Socialist’  Surprised me too.

Study: Academics Support Conservative Discrimination

CBS Socialist Dokoupil ‘Very Excited’ By ‘Guaranteed Basic Income’

Chinese Court Calls Homosexuality a ‘Disorder,’ Will Disney and The NBA Boycott?

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The United States should issue letters of marque to fight Chinese aggression at sea.

I like it. It has texture, and scope.

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As we continue to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, many public schools have been closed for in-person instruction for nearly a year, thanks in large part to resistance from teachers’ unions. Meanwhile, children have been falling behind academically, mentally, and physically — and their families have been scrambling to search for education alternatives because of the traditional public school system’s unwillingness, and in some cases inability, to adapt to change.

The past year has exposed one of the main problems with K-12 education in the United States: there is a long-existing massive power imbalance between the public school monopoly and individual families.

Moeny for nothin’ and your checks for free….

Sarah Hoyt is just about fed up.

Years ago, when I blogged more regularly at Classical Values than here, the blog had a post on the current war on things that work.

What things? Well….. everything: from pirex apparently no longer being made with the stuff that made it actually more or less high-temp impervious, hard to break, etc; to dishwashers that take forever to wash, where dishes must be put into already washed and which, even so, often manage a great redistribution of grease and grit all over the dishes;to toilets that are “low flush” and thus use more water than ever because you have to flush them about five times, and still they won’t work; to cars–

Never mind. it would be easier to describe the things the left has left alone, instead of going after them like Don Quixote tilting against the last functioning windmill in the land, the one needed to grind wheat for his bread. To my knowledge they have yet to interfere with– wait, wait, let me think about it…. Um…. Okay, they haven’t yet dictated that every morning I must get dressed by first putting my pants on, and then putting on my underwear. However, rest assured this is probably around the corner, and just a matter of them getting a bee in their bonnect about some virtue signaling they can do relating to “the order in which humans get dressed.”

ZMan.

In the modern age, and really just in the last generation, this relationship has flipped around the other way. We have all the data we need for any question. We know more about world than we really want or need to know. What we lack is information and more important, trustworthy sources of information. Medieval man could rely on the Church or the local lord to maintain the rules of society. The only thing modern man can know about his sources of information is they are wrong.

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The first thing you should notice is the people most responsible for the tsunami of disinformation are claiming to be at war with disinformation. Unless this results in mass suicide by media and entertainment, it means they are lying. Note also the use of the term “expert” in that piece. There is no such thing as a disinformation expert, outside of the institutions promulgating disinformation. One cannot be an expert at doing something unless you are actually doing that thing.

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For centuries prior to the invention of sealed envelopes, sensitive correspondence was protected from prying eyes through complex folding techniques called “letterlocking,” which transformed a letter into its own secure envelope. However, locked letters that survive to the present are fragile and can be opened physically only by slicing them to pieces.

The new X-ray method offers researchers a non-invasive alternative, maintaining a letterpacket’s original folded shape. For the first time, scientists applied this method to “locked” letters from the Renaissance period, kept in a trunk that had been in the collection of the Dutch postal museum in The Hague, The Netherlands, since 1926.

We have the technology.

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The Phoenix Police Department says a man called for help saying a burglar tried getting into his home, and the incident ended with the caller in handcuffs.

In a social media post on March 1, the department stated, “A man calling to report a possible break-in, finds himself in handcuffs instead. While officers were searching his home for the alleged burglar, they located: 6,000 fentanyl pills, 392 grams of meth, $4,685.”

Be careful what you wish for.

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The eye drops don’t treat the cause of presbyopia but help treat its symptoms. Instead of targeting the eyes’ lens, the drops make the eyes’ pupils smaller, creating a pinhole effect that increases the depth of focus.

 

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Senate hopeful John Fetterman often touts his role in advocating for the release of harmless and “innocent” prisoners. A review of the Democrat’s record on commutation cases, however, shows the Democrat has voted to release violent criminals jailed for their roles in brutal murders.

As Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, Fetterman leads the five-person Board of Pardons, which evaluates clemency applications in the state. Since taking on the job in 2019, the Democrat has voted to release more criminals sentenced to life in prison than any other member of the panel, state records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.

Mike Pence.

Under the Constitution, elections are governed at the state level. And each state is required to appoint presidential electors “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.”

Many of the most troubling voting irregularities took place in states that set aside laws enacted by state legislatures in favor of sweeping changes ordered by governors, secretaries of state, and courts.

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This is why Texas is flourishing, and California is tanking.

There have been a lot of complaints, but I don’t see any movement to recall Greg Abbott.

Paul Mirengoff of PowerLine.

It says a lot that Andrew Cuomo became a media darling even as his policies caused thousands of deaths in New York nursing homes, but now, suddenly, is the subject of impeachment talk because three women have accused him of mild or borderline sexual harassment. What it suggests to me is that our priorities are skewed and that our culture is becoming frivolous.

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Outgoing Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron claimed the Post has no “ideological attachment” to the Democrats. But the front of Tuesday’s Style section had a splashy article headlined “The cachet of having Jill Biden as a customer.”

The paper that now touts merchants getting thrills up their leg for a Jill Biden visit is the same paper where the “gender and society” columnist compared Melania Trump to a “garage-sale lampshade.”

Cancel Culture Comes For Dr. Seuss

Too Late: Former Cuomo-Worshiper Colbert Suddenly Finds Criticism for Scandal-Laden Governor

Ivy League ‘Wokes’ are the Biggest Domestic Violent Extremism Threat

Treating Antifa, White Supremacy Equally Is Insulting To Injured, Killed Capitol Police Officers, Durbin says

‘The View’ Uses Cuomo Accusations To Bash Donald Trump And Jim Jordan: ‘Enough Is Enough’

Amazon changes new app icon after design is compared to Hitler mustache

Public School Teachers Issue Students Their Summer Book-Burning Lists  Babylon Bee.

Penguin Random House Announces Revised Dr. Seuss Book ‘Oh, The People You’ll Cancel!’  Babylon Bee.

Laying Down the Law! Iowa Legislature Joins Fight Against Big Tech

Hollywood FREAKS: Hyatt Will Feel ‘Imminent Boycotts’ For Hosting CPAC ‘Nazis’

Majority of Academics Support Discriminating Against Conservatives, Study Shows

Incoming NYC Schools Chancellor Backs Claim That America Was ‘Built On Lies’

Tea and Racial Sympathy

Bill Clinton: ‘Vernon Jordan Was a Wonderful Friend’  Not bad for an Oppressed Person of Color.

But He Was Woke! Media ‘Shocked’ Atlanta Hawks Fire Losing Coach

Denver Teenagers Charged In Unprovoked Shooting Case Of 32-Year-Old Mother

The Price Tag for Academia’s ‘Fake Racism’

REPORT: Arizona Education Department Provides ‘Equity Toolkit’ That Shows Racism Starts At 3 Months Old

A Texas city had a bold new climate plan – until a gas company got involved (The Guardian)

Why ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Is Most Useless Number You’ve Never Heard of

CBS Cheers Biden as on the ‘Side’ of Workers in Union Battle  Forget all those union jobs he killed by cancelling the Keystone pipeline.

House Democratic Lawmakers Introduce Wide-ranging Climate Bill

Historical UK Sea Levels

Squaring the illegals circle

Progressives Fume At Biden As $15 Minimum Wage Hike Fails

Biden’s Protection of Murderous Saudi Despots Shows the Hidden Reality of U.S. Foreign Policy  Blenn Greenwald.

Ilhan Omar Calls Out Biden Administration, Introduces Bill To Sanction Mohammad Bin Salman

‘They’re Exactly So-Called Cages’: Immigration Expert Explains What’s Happening At The Border

Only ABC Discovers Illegal Immigration Surge Under Biden

States Act To Protect Rights While White House Mulls Gun Control Moves

The worst-kept secret: Conservatism has no value(s) (Washington Post)

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders propose 3% wealth tax on billionaires (CNBC) The crazy is strong today.

Trump and the Republican revolt against democracy, explained in 13 charts (Vox)

Kinzinger’s allies launch super PAC to defend Republicans who impeached Trump  (CNN)

‘A Foil Against Donald Trump’: NY Post’s Miranda Devine Warns That Cuomo Is Expendable Now That He’s ‘Served His Purpose’

WashPost Boss Cracks Us Up: We’re Not ‘Ideologically Attached’ to the Democrats!

Welcoming ‘Refreshing’ Biden White House, Still Cursing ‘Horrible’ Republicans

‘You Didn’t Answer Me!’: CNBC Host Clashes With Sen. Elizabeth Warren Over ‘Ultra-Millionaire Tax’ Proposal  No Democrat has ever seen a pocket that she didn’t want to pick.

COVID-19 Relief Package Could Send Up To $50 Million To Abortion Providers

FBI Director: Capitol Riot Was Domestic Terrorism  Funny how he doesn’t seem worried about BLM and AntiFa.

91% of COVID-19 Bill Is Just ‘Democrat Wish List,’ Rep. Ted Budd Says  My, what a surprise.

POLL: 71% Of Americans Believe Antifa Is A Domestic Terrorist Organization  I’m worried about the other 29%.

Indian Nations University Student Paper Editor Sues School For Restricting Speech

ICE’s Twitter Account Warning Public Of Fugitive Immigrants With Criminal Backgrounds Locked

YouTube Suspends Rudy Giuliani For False Election Claims  It’s all about the Narrative.

Amazon Sued for Alleged Race, Gender Bias in Corporate Hires  What goes around, comes around.

Dems Jumpstart Gun-Control Efforts

Welsh Man Arrested, Claims He Was Strip-Searched For Going For A Walk Too Far From Home

Japanese Woman Dies After Taking COVID-19 Vaccine

Who killed Chicago?

“Freedom Bracelet” Tracking Device Launched As Alternative To Quarantine  ‘Your papers, please!’

These Three Nightly News Programs Worked Overtime To Ignore Cuomo’s Nursing Home Scandal In 2020

California Reopening Plan ‘Propagates Racism,’ LA Teachers Union Says

School parents are mad as hell and they’re not going to take this anymore

COVID-19 cases aren’t dropping anymore (Popular ‘Science’) Gotta keep that panic goin’!

What kids know—and don’t know—about COVID-19  I’d be more interested in what they know that ain’t so.

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Of course, to a writer for The Atlantic, this would be a disaster.

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If you are like most economists—until a couple of years ago, it was virtually all economists—you are not greatly troubled by this story, which is, with some variation, the consensus long-arc view of economic history. The machinery of innovation, after all, is now more organized and sophisticated than it has ever been, human intelligence is more efficiently marshaled by spreading education and expanding global connectedness, and the examples of the Internet, and perhaps artificial intelligence, suggest that progress continues to be rapid.

But if you are prone to a more radical sense of what is possible, you might begin to follow a different line of thought. If nothing like the first and second industrial revolutions had ever happened before, what is to say that anything similar will happen again? Then, perhaps, the global economic slump that we have endured since 2008 might not merely be the consequence of the burst housing bubble, or financial entanglement and overreach, or the coming generational trauma of the retiring baby boomers, but instead a glimpse at a far broader change, the slow expiration of a historically singular event. Perhaps our fitful post-crisis recovery is no aberration. This line of thinking would make you an acolyte of a 72-year-old economist at Northwestern named Robert Gordon, and you would probably share his view that it would be crazy to expect something on the scale of the second industrial revolution to ever take place again.

The essence of Progressivism is that progress in the modern world is inevitable — that’s the Right Side of History they keep nattering about — as long as we change enough stuff to allow progress to happen. Since progress is inevitable and progress requires change, then any change will ultimately produce progress, and it doesn’t really matter what change it is. Conservatives, on the other hand, see that history teaches us that change can be either good or bbad, so we have to be careful about what changes we make.

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Presumably it will have a dependable supply of electricity — until it catches on fire.

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The NYT wrote that the beer aging situation was a “first-of-its-kind monthslong experiment in deep-water beermaking,” and it’s not really clear right now how the thieves managed to locate the beer and break it loose.

I am not making this up.

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It seems obvious, once you think about it.

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eff McAdam was giving a report from the street about Comic-Con’s in-person events being canceled during the coronavirus pandemic, and a gunfight involving the police started right behind him.

Didn’t know comic fans were that feisty.

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Q: Why is it that only Democrats want D.C. and Puerto Rico to be states?

A; Because they want four more guaranteed Senators.

If they could revoke Alaska’s statehood, I’m sure they would.