Archive for March, 2021
23rd March 2021
John Hinderaker at PowerLine.
The New York Times, which these days is the Democratic Party’s goon squad, is trying to drive the Babylon Bee out of existence. The Bee hilariously mocks liberalism, and if there is anything liberals can’t tolerate it is humor. So the Times is trying to get social media sites to shut the Bee down.
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23rd March 2021
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Former officials reuniting in the White House under President Joe Biden have gotten dramatically wealthier since the previous Democratic administration, a Sunday report shows.
Officials returning to the White House under the Biden administration have grown much richer and more intimate with the corporate world over the years, ABC News reported.
Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice is among the wealthiest in the Biden White House team. Rice has substantially increased her wealth since her previous White House job, reporting between $36 million and $149 million in various assets, according to her latest disclosure report released Saturday.
Doing well by doing good.
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22nd March 2021
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22nd March 2021
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22nd March 2021
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22nd March 2021
Germany Extends COVID Lockdown, UK Scientist Warns Summer Travel Unlikely As 3rd Wave Worsens
Colorado Governor To Lift Mask Mandate, Relax COVID-19 Restrictions
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22nd March 2021
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22nd March 2021
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22nd March 2021
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Let that be a lesson to us all.
Think of it as evolution in action.
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22nd March 2021
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22nd March 2021
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‘Olympic surfing’?
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21st March 2021
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21st March 2021
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21st March 2021
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21st March 2021
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21st March 2021
Those Who Can See.
It is in our day an undisputed fact, almost a religious dogma, that ‘diversity is our strength.’ This credo is endlessly repeated by our leaders, including the heads of state of the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., and France.
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We at TWCS propose, on the contrary, that in Western countries diversity has proven to be much more like a tax. A tax that falls, like medieval manorial dues, disproportionately on the working classes.
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21st March 2021
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The Washington Post was embarrassed when it misquoted Donald Trump in a January “scoop” using an anonymous source. Audio emerged and the Post was embarrassed. Sister Toldjah at RedState provides an opposing example, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo denied mocking a left-wing activist, and the Times found audio that proved Cuomo was lying.
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21st March 2021
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20th March 2021
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20th March 2021
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20th March 2021
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20th March 2021
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20th March 2021
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20th March 2021
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The notion of a kitchen with a built in robot chef capable of whipping up a lobster bisque at the push of a button sounds like something out of Futurama. But it technically exists — at least as a demo prototype. UK startup Moley Robotics has been working on the concept for several years now, starting off in 2014 and showing off a demo unit last year.
The Moley website is here.
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20th March 2021
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Although studying the language known as “Anglo-Saxon” helped women advance in the academy, the subject is fraught with racist associations.
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The American neo-Nazi movement that calls itself the “alt-right” is resurrecting medievally tinged celebrations of “European heritage” as part of its racist agenda.
Cancel culture comes for the Anglo-Saxons (the swine!).
This isn’t from a left-wing tabloid, but from JSTOR Daily, “where news meets its scholarly match“
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20th March 2021
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When Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagún arrived in New Spain (Mexico) in 1529, he embarked on an extraordinary project: the compilation of an encyclopedic compendium of the world of the Aztecs in the wake of the Spanish conquest a decade earlier.
Finally completed between 1576 and 1577 – essentially Sahagún’s life’s work – the result was the Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España (the General History of the Things of New Spain). Sometime between 1578 and 1584 the manuscript was taken to Spain and by 1588 Sahagún’s Historia found its way to Florence, part of the Medici family’s magnificent collections. How exactly the Historia came into Medici hands remains unclear but that is where it still resides today, in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, which explains how the Historia became more commonly known as the Florentine Codex.
When I was in graduate school, a guy in the local SCA group was a bore about Nahuatl. He wandered the town looking for brightly colored feathers from which he planned to make an Aztec feather cloak. Don’t know whether he ever succeeded.
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20th March 2021
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If only Hamlet had known Jordan Peterson. To be or not to be, Dr Peterson believes, is indeed the burning question — but it’s a question that can be resolved decisively in favor of Being with a capital B. And he’s willing to walk any modern-day Hamlet who cares to listen through the math.
This reasoned position in favor of existence is at the heart of Jordan Peterson’s latest book, Beyond Chaos: 12 More Rules for Life. It’s also, I’d argue, at the heart of his popular appeal. Sure, his undeniable charisma doesn’t hurt; and of course, he’s brilliant, well-read and articulate. But so are many other public intellectuals. What’s unique about Peterson is his insistence that we can use human observation and reason, guided by traditional wisdom (contained in ‘myths’), to determine that existence is objectively better than non-existence, and that there are demonstrably good reasons (and good ways) to engage energetically in the business of living.
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20th March 2021
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Different sorts of writers have found a home there: right-leaning commentators like Jonah Goldberg and Erick Erickson, left-wing journalists such as Judd Legum and Luke O’Neil, and a swelling pool of progressive authors who have struggled to fit in at ideologically conformist progressive publications. Among these are Matt Yglesias, Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Greenwald, who left Vox, New York magazine and the Intercept respectively to build their own platforms.
This development has not gone down especially well among progressives, with inevitable results. As The Spectator’s own Stephen L. Miller said in November, ‘It’s only a matter of time before the media tech hall monitors turn their attention to Substack.’
Well, here they come — sizing up the platform like mobsters sizing up a shop that has just opened in their neighborhood.
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20th March 2021
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A Google search for “President of the United States” showed both current President Joe Biden and Richard Grenell.
Grenell responded to the Google gaffe on Twitter, saying, “I will run up the stairs without tripping and then announce a plethora of Executive Orders.”
And that’s all you can ask for.
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20th March 2021
John Hinderaker at PowerLine.
Last September, Project Veritas released a video that suggested there has been substantial voter fraud in Minnesota elections, particularly in the Somali community, and linked that fraud to Ilhan Omar’s machine. The New York Times then published a series of articles that smeared Veritas and its video as a “coordinated disinformation campaign,” alleging that the video was “deceptive” and “false.” Project Veritas sued the Times in state court in New York, and the Times moved to dismiss the lawsuit for failure to state a claim.
On Thursday, the presiding judge denied the Times’s motion to dismiss in an opinion you can read here. Denial of the motion to dismiss does not mean that Veritas will ultimately win the case, obviously, but it means that Veritas will be able to proceed with discovery and try to prove that the newspaper’s reporters and editors acted with “actual malice.” That means they knew their stories were false, or realized they were likely false, and printed them anyway.
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20th March 2021
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A New York Supreme Court Judge last week excoriated the New York Times, ruling that they used “reckless disregard” and “acted with actual malice” when two of their reporters deceptively presented opinions as fact in several articles denigrating whistleblower organization Project Veritas.
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20th March 2021
The Other McCain.
Why has the media become so obsessed with “white nationalism” as a domestic terrorist threat? Kyle Shideler makes an interesting argument that what has happened is an indirect consequence of the refusal of national-security officials, in the post-9/11 environment, to be specific in naming the nature of the threat we faced. Because they did not wish to define the threat as Islamic terrorism, instead the national security establishment defined the problem as “extremism.”
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20th March 2021
John Derbyshire.
The message we’re getting here from the Gods of the Market Place is, that because the sinister, evil Donald Trump told us that Covid-19 was a Chinese virus, his followers—who are, of course, all gap-toothed white supremacist persecutors of nonwhites—have been attacking anyone who looks Asian: sucker-punching them, shoving them under subway train s, and so on.
The problem with that narrative is, as even the normally race-shy Tucker Carlson noted in his March 18th show (at 6m22s here), quoting figures from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, that blacks are far more likely than any other race to attack Asian Americans.
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20th March 2021
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From the New York Times news section, a particularly shameless work of fake news in collaboration with the Biden Administration.
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20th March 2021
The Hill.
Washington, D.C., Circuit Senior Judge Laurence Silberman, who was appointed by former President Reagan, argued in his opinion that the news industry at large is dominated with a “bias against the Republican Party” that he wrote was “rather shocking.”
While the case did not specifically relate to either paper, the judge used his opinion to argue that the Times and Post served largely as mouthpieces for the Democratic Party, adding “the news section of The Wall Street Journal leans in the same direction.”
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20th March 2021
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Police have warned students in the UK against using a website that they say lets users “illegally access” millions of scientific research papers.
The City of London police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit says using the Sci-Hub website could “pose a threat” to students’ personal data.
And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one. ‘These provisions are as much for your protection as for ours.’ Yeah, right.
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20th March 2021
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About 8500 years ago, hunter-gatherers living beside Eagle Lake in Wisconsin hammered out a conical, 10-centimeter-long projectile point made of pure copper. The finely crafted point, used to hunt big game, highlights a New World technological triumph—and a puzzle. A new study of that artifact and other traces of prehistoric mining concludes that what is known as the Old Copper Culture emerged, then mysteriously faded, far earlier than once thought.
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20th March 2021
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CrowdStreet, which operates an online marketplace for investing in commercial real estate, announced March 19 that it’s shifting its headquarters from Portland, Oregon, to Austin. CrowdStreet is considering office space in downtown Austin and around North Austin’s Domain complex. CrowdStreet is targeting a June 1 opening date for the new office.
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20th March 2021
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Lentz proposes that conventional energy sources could be capable of arranging the structure of spacetime in the form of a soliton – a robust singular wave. This soliton would act like a “warp bubble’”, contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind. Unlike objects within spacetime, spacetime itself can bend, expand or warp at any speed. Therefore, a spacecraft contained in a hyper-fast bubble could arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws, even Einstein’s cosmic speed limit.
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20th March 2021
Steve Sailer.
In Orwell’s Animal Farm, the smart pigs have to simplify things for the other animals: “Four legs good, two legs bad.” Perhaps the generals will need to simplify the message for the troops, something straightforward like “Black good, white bad.”
UPDATE: Instead Of Traditional Warfare, Chinese Military Will Now Be Trained To Shout Wrong Pronouns At American Troops Babylon Bee.
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20th March 2021
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As Americans reflect on the past year and how much power the federal government has taken for itself in the name of COVID-19, one of the most far-reaching power grabs came directly from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the form of a nationwide eviction moratorium order.
Under the order, private property owners are required to allow non-paying renters to live rent-free until the federal government says otherwise, costing landlords billions of dollars in unpaid rent — all while landowners remain responsible for property taxes, mortgages, and the costs of their property. And if a property owner tries to get their property back by filing an eviction case, the federal government says it can fine them up to $100,000 and even put them in jail.
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20th March 2021
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During the last four years, one of the regular complaints about President Trump was that he was too nice to our enemies. He met with them (gasp!), he spoke well of them (horrors!), he complimented them (mon dieu!). And this was why Democrats (and far too many Republicans) kept insisting he was an agent of Russia or some such nonsense.
The fact is, when you’re trying to get someone on your side, you do exactly what President Trump did. You kill them with kindness. You show an interest in them. You speak well of them. You highlight their successes. It’s all right there in How to Win Friends and Influence People, the kajillion-selling book by Dale Carnegie. (A book I recommend to everyone, but especially those who seek public office.) It’s probably found in The Art of the Deal, too, but I haven’t read that one.
It seemed as if Democrats (and far too many Republicans) wanted President Trump to enter into delicate negotiations by insulting world leaders or otherwise telling them off.
How well does that tactic work?
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19th March 2021
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19th March 2021
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19th March 2021
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19th March 2021
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19th March 2021
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Ford announced it is moving a nearly $1 billion project from Ohio to Mexico, prompting criticism from a major labor union and silence from the Biden administration, which has pledged to invest in domestic union projects.
Perhaps they decided that the easiest place to hire Mexicans is in, you know, Mexico.
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19th March 2021
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On Wednesday’s New Day show, CNN analyst John Avlon delivered a misleading “Reality Check” that promised to explain “what is really going on” at the border with Mexico, suggesting that “right-wing media” like Fox News are spreading misinformation.
In actual “reality,” regular Fox News viewers would be better informed about why the large number of illegal border crossings is happening than those of CNN. In fact, just recently, Fox News ran a report informing viewers that the overwhelming majority of asylum requests by illegal immigrants are frivolous and are rejected — the kind of critical information you’d never hear on CNN or other liberal media outlets.
CNN is turning into the Comedy Channel.
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