Richard Dawkins, whose God is Science.

Safe spaces, diversity quotas, gender-neutral pronouns, culturally relative facts, heteronormative hegemony. Are my right-on credentials right on enough? Am I sufficiently penitent for being white, cis and male? Will I be canceled or de-platformed by the Pronoun Police? What is my woke-quotient? At least as far as science is concerned, it’s a satisfactory zero. Science is not a patriarchal instrument of colonial oppression. Nor is it a social construct. It’s simply true. Or at least truth is real and science is the best way we have of finding it. ‘Alternative ways of knowing’ may be consoling, they may be sincere, they may be quaint, they may have a poetic or mythic beauty, but the one thing they are not is true. As well as being real, moreover, science has a crystalline, poetic beauty of its own.

I’ve just joined a new initiative set up to oppose postmodern metabaloney and bossy woke bullying. Look up ‘Counterweight’ + ‘Helen Pluckrose’, its founder. She’s also co-author of Cynical Theories, an excellent history and analysis of Francophoney postmodernism and the pernicious influence of ‘theory’, driveling out of the universities into the culture at large. The book’s only fault is that, bending over backwards to be scrupulously fair to its subject matter — queer theory, social justice theory etc, chapter by thorough chapter — it can’t help inheriting some of the subject matter’s obscurantist style. The result is not as stupefyingly boring as the original. Nevertheless, busy readers might prefer to skip to the concluding pages of each chapter, where the pretentious original is decisively skewered.

ZMan.

One of the most important things the Left in America does in the culture war is convince their opponents to play the role of devil for them. The American Left operates like a religious movement, but one without an inherent purpose. That purpose must be supplied from outside the movement. It is like a beehive without a queen, always searching for a queen that will define the threat for them, so they can act on their nature and attack the enemy in what they believe is defense of the hive.

That is what these causes are for the American Left. The cause itself is meaningless, because that is just a plot device in the story. It is why they can be so callous to the people they claim to be championing. The Left is now attacking feminists who oppose allowing men in dresses to play girls’ sports. Progressives used to talk about girls playing sports like it was the most important thing ever, but men in dresses are now providing the devil, so trannies are what matter most.

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The USA is the least communalistic and most individualistic nation of any on Earth. It is written into their Declaration of Independence that an individual’s right to the pursuit of happiness trumps, if I can use the word, every other consideration. It is all a little alien to us over here in Britain, which is one reason why we tend to find Meghan Markle a repulsive creature. What the ghastly Oprah Winfrey and indeed Hillary Clinton do not understand is that if there was any resentment towards Meghan in the UK, it was not because she is of mixed race, but because she is American and behaves like a caricature of a particularly stupid American. The color of her skin matters not a jot: it is the noisome ordure which spews out of her mouth on a daily basis that grates. Again, the narcissism and self-obsession and the acquired victimhood, the vapid and banal attempts at self-justification.

Can’t say he’s wrong.

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Ann Coulter.

A governing principle of the Democratic Party is to ask, “Who is in the dock?” before deciding whether to enforce the law.

As we have seen throughout the last year of antifa/BLM riots, in blue states, it’s now legal to commit arson, attempted murder, assault on a law enforcement officer and destruction of property — provided the perp is antifa or antifa-friendly. Andy Ngo’s smash bestseller “Unmasked” gives chapter and verse on antifa’s shocking violence untouched by criminal penalty.

On the other hand, if you’re a conservative, don’t commit a misdemeanor in a blue state. Proud Boys, Capitol Hill protesters, police and other presumed Trump supporters are getting more prison time than actual murderers for minor infractions. Even a couple of personal injury lawyers (liberals) are being criminally prosecuted in St. Louis for brandishing guns at violent looters coming toward their home. The rioters, you see, were BLM protesters.

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Humanity had a vaccine that prevented COVID-19 in January last year. What we did not have was a regulatory system to facilitate rapid assessment of its safety and efficacy or the capacity to manufacture and inoculate at scale.

COVID-19 subsequently caused immense human suffering: over 2.5 million deaths and lockdowns upending the lives of billions. It will be years before most of the world is vaccinated and the global economy recovers.

The problem, as always, is not developing a solution – that is easily done – but in getting the heavy hand of government out of the way of using that development.

Steve Sailer.

The Woke are canceling ever more of the great minds of English history….

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Airlines in the US are already in the process of leveraging apps and smartphones to allow travelers to offer proof that they have been vaccinated, or recently tested negative for COVID-19, and they’re not alone: Across Europe, a growing number of airlines and countries are adopting, or leaning toward adopting, so-called “vaccine passports”.

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

I was sure that, after canceling Dr. Seuss last week, this week would cancel Peanuts. Do they need a reason? Of course not.

But instead, it seems the left wants to cancel . . . Adam Smith. The only question is, what took them so long….

Steve Sailer.

As we all know in the United States, conspiracies couldn’t possibly happen because of Reasons, so anybody accused of being a conspiracy theorist must be low class (unless you are black, such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose conspiracy theory about why his having been beaten up so much by the other black boys was actually the fault of “those who think they are white” made him a MacArthur Genius).

‘A Mockery Of The American Dream’: John Kennedy Says Biden Nominees Are ‘Obsessed With Race, Gender And Sexuality’

Biden fires EEOC general counsel for protecting religious rights

Arizona Rancher Warns Biden’s Immigration Policy Has ‘Overwhelmed’ Communities

US Eyes Free Transgender Surgery for Military

House Passes $1.9T Spending Bill in Biden’s First Signature Win  How is this ‘Biden’s win’? He had nothing to do with it other than be not-Trump.

Record 3,200 Migrant Children Stuck in Border Patrol Custody, Past Legal Limit  Things you won’t hear in the Narrative Media.

Biden’s COVID-19 Plan: Force Taxpayers to Pay for Abortions

‘It’s Not Funny’: Peter Doocy Presses Jen Psaki For Laughing At Question On Border Crisis And Schools

Ambassador Roberta Jacobson Accidentally Tells Reporters Border Is Open After Press Briefing Switches To Spanish

Colin Kahl, Pentagon nominee, under fire for Twitter posts

Who Is The President? Kamala Harris Takes Yet Another Call With A Foreign Leader

Shameless Hack Kimmel Downplays Dangerous Caravans to Protect Biden

Mexico Sees Biden Fueling Illegal Immigrants, Creating Opportunities for Gangs

Study: Global Warming is Raising the Tropical Wet Bulb Maximum Temperature

Keeping Your Cool on the Climate Debate with Bjorn Lomborg  Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson. Highly recommended.

India Ignores John Kerry  Can’t say that I blame them. This appears to be a sinecure job for Old Democrat Pol Kerry.

Why Aren’t You Scared?! CNN Rails Against Americans Having ‘False Sense of Security’ on COVID

Michigan Governor Whitmer Faces Possible Criminal Charges For Nursing Home Deaths

Families Who Lost Seniors in NY Nursing Homes Want Cuomo to Pay

A comprehensive guide to coronavirus symptoms  Feel bad? You’ve got the virus. So die, already.

What’s ‘The Science’ For Why Vaccinated Americans Shouldn’t Travel? Fauci Can’t Find An Answer

Fauci Says States Lifting Mask Mandates Are Inviting Another Surge

You’re vaccinated. Now what?  Popular ‘Science’.

Kevin McCarthy Calls $1.9 Trillion Bill ‘The Pelosi Payoff,’ Says To Stop Calling It ‘COVID Relief’

Everything’s Coming Up COVID For Much Public Spending… Even As Virus Fades  ‘Never let a crisis go to waste.’

CDC Recommends Double-Caging Children At Border For Extra Safety  Babylon Bee.

Longterm COVID-19 symptoms are even more common than we thought  Popular ‘Science’. Gotta keep the panic goin’.

US Could Avoid COVID-19 Winter Surge ‘If We Can Get To 80% Population Immunity’, Top Doctor Says

Stanford Medical Professor Insists COVID Lockdowns “Worst Public Health Mistake In Last 100 Years”

Republicans, Pro-Lifers Condemn ‘Unconscionable’ Abortion Funding In COVID Bill

What’s Safer at Reducing Murders: Having Richer Neighbors or Fewer Black Neighbors?

Jameela Jamil Celebrates Piers Morgan Exit From Show, Says He Almost Made Her Kill Herself

Goldman Sachs Commits $10 Billion For ‘One Million Black Women’ Initiative

Law School Deans Chastise Student Body as Too White

Juror Dismissed Over Fear His Family Would Be Targeted During Chauvin Trial

Bloomberg Businessweek Cover Story Questions If Tax Code Is ‘Racist’

Affluent Prep School Told Students To Stop Saying ‘Newton’s Laws’ To ‘Decenter Whiteness’: REPORT

How the Media Distorts Debate and Details of HR 1

Democrat Panel Recommends Permanent Military “Quick Reaction Force” For Capitol

‘Absolute And Arbitrary Power’: Bars, Restaurants Sue Gov. Beshear Over COVID-19 Lockdowns

Disney CEO Hits Back At Claims Over Why Gina Carano Was Fired, Says Company Is Neither ‘Left-Leaning Or Right-Leaning’  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

‘This Is An Absolute Emergency’: Feminist Activist Blasts Democrats’ Equality Act As Harmful To Women And Girls

The Weaponization Of The Term “Far Right”

In Dick Wolf’s Latest Spin-off on CBS, Pedophiles Are ‘Old Testament’ Christians

Robin DiAngelo Balked at $10k Fee From Public University, Insisted on $13k for Prerecorded Speech

San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin recall campaign approved

Soap Manufacturer To Remove The Word ‘Normal’ From Products Because It ‘Excluded’ People  You can’t make this shit up.

Venezuelan Children Pick through Garbage for Food, Valuables

Trump Position Against Transgender Athletes Draws Broad Support Which, of course, the Wokerati will ignore, because it just Can’t Be True.

Steven Crowder Says Twitter Suspended Account Without Providing ‘ANY Reason’

Facebook Says ‘Unprecedented’ Antitrust Lawsuit ‘Attempts To Rewrite History’  The history that they no doubt think they’re on the right side of.

3 Examples of How Pervasive Transgender Ideology Has Become

Pelosi ‘Excited’ To Pass COVID Bill With $600 Million Bailout For San Francisco: ‘I Just Can’t Hide It’

Parent Group Fights Asian Discrimination At Nation’s Top High School

Tulsi Gabbard: ‘You See The Final Expression Of Cancel Culture In Islamist Terrorist Groups’

ABC Pummels Psaki for Dodging on Immigration, But Claims Crisis Is Trump’s Fault

‘No Longer Southern Baptist’: Preacher Beth Moore Splits With Church Over Trump, Sexual Abuse  This probably comes as a relief to Southern Baptists.

‘Trump Buddha’ Statues Are Trending In Chinese Online Marketplaces

‘I Wouldn’t Be Surprised’: Meghan McCain Says She Could See Piers Morgan Heading Up A New Right-Wing Outlet  Except that Morgan is to the left of Bernie. But he’s a Heretic and a Sinner, so me must be right-wing.

Mumford Member Caves, Apologizes for Praising Anti-Antifa Book

‘What Do We Do To Own The Libs?’: Joe Scarborough Explains His Take On The New Republican ‘Philosophy’  Joe Scarborough has a sweet gig: Come up with some irrational fantasy and get paid big bucks for talking about it. I should have such a job.

Michelle Obama Thinking of Retirement  From what? She hasn’t had an actual job since she married the Magic Negro.

Former Lincoln Project Official Kurt Bardella Admits To Posting Private DMs To Smear Journalist, Project’s Co-Founder

Apple denied Parler re-entry to the App Store despite guideline revision

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A popular Twitter account known as Brooklyn Dad has been paid nearly $60,000 by a progressive super PAC to post liberal talking points on the social media platform, users revealed Wednesday.

When the Ruling Class goes Woke, the Woke turn pro (with apologies to Hunter Thompson).

If somebody offered to pay me $60,000 to post liberal talking points on a social media platform, I’d grab it with both hands, although I’d try to get a competing offer from somebody on the right.

Glenn Greenwald.

The world is full of Special Snowflakes, many of whom appear in the Narrative Media, and all of whom are aching to play the Victim Card.

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Of course, to modern hipsters ‘vibrant’ is an attribute of Urban Heaven. When observed closely, however, ‘vibrant’ is typically a veil over conditions that only young singles who haven’t yet graduated from adolescence (and their Lost Boy seniors) appreciate, including huge helpings of people and food from Turd World nations. The fact that crime rates in ‘vibrant’ communities are typically higher than a  normal adult would like is rarely mentioned.

I associate ‘vibrant’ with people who are hooked on meth and can’t function without constant pointless nervous fidgeting.

Steve Hayward at PowerLine.

Steve fisks a paragraph from Harry Jaffa, author of a radical history of the U.S. much used in government schools.

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Ivy League universities and medical schools are partnering with institutions backed by the Chinese military or Communist Party considered to be national security risks, The Washington Free Beacon reported on Wednesday.

Anti-Americans of a feather flock together.

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The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 would only apply to states who currently participate in DST by getting rid of Standard Time, which lasts between November and March when clocks are turned back one hour. If passed, Americans wouldn’t be forced to change their clocks twice a year.

Well, to begin with, there’s no such thing as a ‘group of bipartisan senators’. There may be a ‘bipartisan group of senators’, but that’s not the same thing. (When did ‘journalists’ stop knowing how to write English?)

Why not get rid of ‘daylight saving’ time and return to the Good Old Days when noon meant that the sun was straight overhead? Why do these people always have to pee in the soup just so that they can say they Made A Difference?

Better yet, get the law out of the time business entirely.

Severian points out some strange stuff.

One of my favorite under-reported stories of the Kung Flu panic — by which I mean “completely unreported, because it might make people think” — is the fact that these idiotic, ever-changing mask requirements must be causing huge spikes in other kinds of disease. For one thing:

You want to know why masks are and always have been bullshit? If the virus survives on surfaces for days, weeks, months, as I’ve heard some “experts” hyperventilating — and not just the Twitter MDs either — then the fag rags should all be considered major biohazards. The very suggestion of a “washable” COVID mask should be enough to land you in public health jail. They should be disposable-only, and guys in full MOPP-4 gear should be waiting near the entrance of every store, waiting to burn the disposables in secure incinerators.

ZMan.

The reality is religion in liberal democracy is nothing like this. The people in charge of society are closer to fanatics on the belief scale, while the people embracing traditional religion are somewhere in the middle of the scale. Christianity no longer draws the fanatic like it used to. Instead, the fanatics are drawn to the secular faiths like the various forms of environmentalism or biological denialism. As a result, the managerial class functions more like a theocracy than a bureaucracy.

You see this in the Megan Markle – Prince Harry drama that has been foisted on us by the media -entertainment complex this week. There is no reason for Americans to care much about this story. Markle is an American, so the tabloids have a reason to cover her, as the Cinderella story still sells to women, especially feminist women. On the other hand, she is boring, and her prince is the booby prize of the family. There was never a lot to sell here on the fairytale front with Megan Merkle.

That was until she played the religion card. Megan Markle is an octoroon, apparently, so she gets to carry on as an oppressed woman of color, despite coming from a rich family and marrying into the British royal family. In the new American religion, all blacks, no matter how fortunate, are noble oppressed people. The big interview that set this drama in motion was conducted by Oprah Winfrey, a woman worth over a billion dollars, who regularly claims to be the victim of racism.

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On March 8, President Biden seemed to forget the name of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and where he worked in a White House event to announce the nomination of two female generals to lead combatant commands.  Since the theme of Biden’s mental acuity is still considered a Trump meme, the media desperately wanted to forget this happened.

Indoor Weed Farms Are Hotboxing the Planet

The Revolutionary Weather Observers

Michael Mann Urges OECD to Reject “Climate Inactivist” Mathias Cormann’s Leadership Bid

EV subsidies, fantasies and realities

“Not Nearly Enough”: Greta Barks At Biden For Slacking On Climate Action

Mutant COVID Strains In Florida, New York Threaten To Derail US Recovery, BofA Warns

CNN Medical Analyst Calls CDC Travel Guidelines For Vaccinated ‘Over Cautious In A Way That Defies Common Sense’

NYT: Men Get Only 38.8% of Vaccinations, Women Hit Hardest

Ex-NYC Health Chief: ‘Panic’ in de Blasio’s Office at Start of Pandemic

Publisher Stops Promotion Of Andrew Cuomo’s COVID ‘Leadership’ Book Amid Nursing Home, Sexual Misconduct Scandals

The New Normal (Phase 2)

Japan to Bar Foreign Spectators From Tokyo Olympics

Study: Instagram Suggested Vaccine Misinformation in Posts

Pfizer Vaccine Is Effective Against Fast-Spreading Brazilian Coronavirus Variant, Study Shows

Propaganda: Slimy Seth Meyers Uses Comedy Show to Prop Up Dems’ COVID Bill

Doctors Say CDC Misinterpreted Their COVID-19 Research, Should Loosen School Restrictions

Airlines Resist CDC Ruling That Vaccinated People Avoid Travel

Why AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Is Not Yet Available in US

Experts: Reopen Schools Now

COVID Outbreak Confirmed At Nursing Home Despite Staff, Patients Being Vaccinated

State Dept. Won’t Say If China Currently Committing Genocide on Uighurs

Report: Biden’s Dog Bit WH Staffer, Dogs Sent Back To Delaware

Gas Prices Climb for 27 Straight Days in Los Angeles

‘No Wonder They Hide Him’: Kayleigh McEnany Cites Biden Gaffes As Reason To Not Hold Press Conference

Big Problems With Biden’s Border and Immigration Policies

Kamala Harris, Who Called For Kavanaugh Impeachment, Silent On #MeToo Allegations Against Cuomo

Arizona Border Chief Warns Illegal Immigration On Track To Surpass Past 3 Years Combined

Arizona And Montana Sue Biden Administration For Limiting Illegal Immigrant Arrests And Deportations

Lawmaker Probes Biden Admin’s Role in $1 Billion Ransom Payment to Iran

Rasmussen Poll: Half of US Sees Biden as Unfit to Be President

‘I Sure Am Glad I Don’t Live In One Of Those Banana Republics,’ Says Man As He Walks By Wall Indefinitely Surrounding Capitol  Babylon Bee.

Florida Attorney General Suing Biden Administration Over Immigration Policies

Record Number Of Migrant Children Sitting In Biden’s Border Patrol ‘Cages’

‘Weekend At Biden’s?’ Handlers Shut Down Yet Another Q&A After Public Appearance

Biden Admin Won’t Consider Limiting Immigration For Migrants Who Will Depend On Government Benefits

Biden Admin Refuses To Give Data On Unaccompanied Children Detained At Border

Melinda Gates calls on Congress to pass paid family medical leave to bolster economic recovery (CNBC) Ever notice how rich leftists are just full of ideas for how the government ought to spend YOUR money?

WaPo: Professional Comics Just Can’t Find Anything Funny About Joe Biden

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Says She Watched ‘Mob Movies’ During Trump Presidency To ‘Familiarize’ Herself With Terms Like ‘Racketeering’

ABC Done With Cuomo’s Deaths and Harassment, All-In on Royals Drama

‘Tired Of Being Treated Like Toddlers’: Candace Owens Blames NYT’s ‘Bigotry’ For Hispanics ‘Fleeing The Democratic Party’

Fredo Spews HATE: GOP ‘Opposed to Cutting Child Poverty,’ Helping Poor

Venezuela Issues Million-Bolivar-Bill Worth 50 Cents As Hyperinflation Rages

Bunny Huggers Target Golf Clubs

Independent Report: ‘Clear’ Evidence of Genocide Against Uyghurs

REPORT: Teachers Union Member Warns Colleagues About Posting Spring Break Vacation Photos While Refusing To Return To Schools

REPORT: Entire Staff Of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Socialists Win Key Leadership Positions

Taxpayer-Funded Philadelphia Attorney Consulted Illegal Immigrants Facing Charges Of Child Rape, Murder

Los Angeles District Attorney ‘Is Pro-Criminal, Anti-Victim,’ Says His Deputy, Who Wants Him Recalled

LA Teachers Told Not to Ruin Union’s Argument By Posting Vacation Pics

Sixth Woman Accuses Cuomo Of Sexual Harassment  And the hits just keep on comin’….

Greene and Freedom Caucus members force delay on votes for non-controversial legislation (CNN) Non-controversial on the left, they mean.

Teen Vogue Staffers Revolt Over Hiring Of Axios Reporter Who Dated White House Aide Due To ‘Racist’ And ‘Homophobic Tweets’

Some Liberals Are Getting Sick of Cancel Culture

Lemon to Markle, Kaepernick Critics: Clam Up, ‘You’re Not Relevant Anymore’

Twitter Sues Texas AG Paxton Over Probe After Trump Ban

New York Times Talks to Sen. Hawley’s ‘Aghast’ PROM DATE in Long Hit Piece  It’s not enough to reveal a Heretic and a Sinner, he must be revealed to be corrupt from his childhood.

Teen Vogue Owner Stands By Decision To Hire Editor In Chief Despite Staffers’ Public Revolt Over Her Old Tweets  This would appear to be an effective method to shed all of the Special Snowflakes on the staff.

Joy Behar Defends Throwing Hissy Fit in 2010 Over O’Reilly’s ‘Bigoted’ 9/11 Comments

ACLU Editor Defends Tweet Saying She Was ‘Angry’ Grassley Survived COVID

‘I Don’t Know Why You Gotta Erase Everything’: Whoopi Goldberg Slams Decision To Cancel Pepe Le Pew  It’s people like you doing it, Whoopi.

‘Teen Vogue’ Staff Mob Seeks to Destroy Editor-In-Chief 5 Days Into Her Job

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Says He’s Launching A New Social Media Company After Being Kicked Off Twitter

Chicago Public Library Will Remove Six Dr. Seuss Books Deemed ‘Racist’ From Shelves

Top Pentagon Nominee Ignored Warnings from Colleagues About His Twitter Snark. It’s Coming Back to Bite Him.

Family, friends grieve after McKinney man struck and killed in his home by stray bullet

White supremacists are trying to join law enforcement and military ‘to terrorize minorities’ (Daily Mail) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Arizona teaching material suggests babies need anti-racism guidance You know how racist babies can be.

‘Systemic Racism’ a Red Herring in Evictions

Judge Dismisses Criminal Charges Against Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend

Serving the regime: The case of Deloitte’s Dimple Agarwal

President of Taxpayer-Funded Antiracist Group Funneled Nearly $300K to Husband’s Law Firm  What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

Michelle Obama to Be Inducted Into US National Women’s HOF  Apparently marrying somebody important is sufficient.

ReidOut Guest: GOP Is ‘Cocktail’ of ‘Fascism’ and ‘White Supremacy’

Apple News partners with National Association of Black Journalists for editorial fellowship program  There is, of course, no National Association of White Journalists — nor would there allowed to be any.

New York Lawsuit Demands ‘Anti-Racist Education’

The Case Against Reparations: Part 2

Biden’s Nominee For Top Civil Rights Post Hyped The Jussie Smollett Hoax, Criticized Police For Seeking Actor’s Cell Phone

Professor Compiles Ranking Of ‘The Whitest Law Schools’ And Recommends Eliminating ‘Excess Whiteness’ By Ending Standardized Testing   Because only white people can pass standardized tests, apparently.

Coke demands that its law firms engage in unlawful discrimination

‘How Dare She Go After Him’: Harris Faulkner Flames MSNBC Host For Mocking Tim Scott As ‘Patina Of Diversity’

EXCLUSIVE: New DCCC Chief Technology Officer Called On Followers To ‘Burn Every Cop Precinct To The Ground’ If Police Killed Her

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Nations are pledging to plant billions of trees. But a new study shows that we’ve underestimated the power of natural forest regrowth to fight climate change.

Chilton Williamson.

I suspect that were Mencken alive today having attained the respectable age of 140 years, he would be busy preparing The American Language: Fifth Edition and contemplating titling the book ‘The New American Language’ in recognition of the media-speak developed over the past couple of decades by news broadcasters and commentators, chiefly those belonging to the television industry.

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A pressure campaign from left-wing labor activists is paying dividends: Oregon Democrat Kurt Schrader, who conceded that a labor-backed bill would hurt small businesses, nonetheless announced his support for the measure.

Dennis Prager.

I have been telling parents for decades that sending a child to almost any college is playing Russian roulette with his or her values.

But it is a different version of Russian roulette. In the traditional version, only one of the gun’s six chambers contains a bullet. In the college version of Russian roulette, five of the six chambers contain a bullet.

If your child attends almost any university in America (or Canada or anywhere else in the English-speaking world), the odds are that your child’s decency, intellectual acuity, faculty of reason, character, and moral compass will be damaged, perhaps permanently.

The worse news is that sending your child to almost any elementary school or high school—public or private—is fast becoming equally toxic. More and more schools are being taken over by left-wing ideologues and by nonideologues who lack the courage to confront the ideologues.

As I have been saying for years.

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Apparently vegans get uglier scars from surgery than normal people.

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T-Mobile is planning to automatically opt its customers into an advertising program that will see user web and mobile app usage shared with advertisers, reports The Wall Street Journal.

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Mindfulness makes you smug. And not just mindfulness; a whole raft of alternative spiritual practices such as chakra cleansing and past life regressions feed a sense of superiority over normal mortals. That’s the finding of research from Radboud University in Nijmegen in the Netherlands involving some 3,700 people. The leader of the research, Professor Roos Vonk, first engaged in this field of study when she found that a boyfriend who went on a quasi-Buddhist spiritual retreat for clinical psychology students came back with ‘an enlightened, elevated look in his eyes’ and became really tiresome.

Yeah, that often happens.

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This report is the first independent expert application of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of the Uyghurs in China. It was undertaken by the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, in cooperation with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, in response to emerging accounts of serious and systematic atrocities in Xinjiang province, particularly directed against the Uyghurs, an ethnic minority, to ascertain whether the People’s Republic of China is in breach of the Genocide Convention under international law.

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Things are pretty bad when criticizing your company gets its own Wikipedia page.

They just ought to call it ‘Hammer Tech At Tesla’ and be done with it.

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Who needs on-screen superheroes when you’ve got real live lefty crusaders behind the camera? According to its co-directors, the millions of viewers who saw Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War were taking in anti-Trump propaganda.

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

The New York Post’s Steven Nelson gives a straight news account of President Biden blanking out even as he is reading remarks from a teleprompter stationed in front of him (the Post’s account is accompanied by the video below).

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First, the video clip that horrified the world was heavily edited. We see Floyd, pinned to the ground by Chauvin, piteously crying ‘I can’t breathe.’ Conclusion? That he can’t breathe because Chauvin is pressing on his windpipe. But a look at the police bodycam footage shows that Floyd was complaining that he couldn’t breathe before he was restrained by the police. Why? Because, as the FBI’s interview with the local medical examiner on July 8, 2020 revealed, Floyd was suffering from pulmonary edema, i.e., his lungs were full of fluid. And why was that? Partly because of an underlying heart condition, partly because Floyd was full to the gills with fentanyl, a drug known to affect respiration and cause pulmonary edema.

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Here’s something else. Although Chauvin’s restraint looks brutal, it was actually part of the standard Minneapolis police protocol for dealing with persons exhibiting ‘excited delirium,’ a dangerous, often fatal, condition brought about by too much fentanyl with one’s afternoon tea. According to the medical examiner, Chauvin did not appear to have obstructed Floyd’s airway — Floyd would not have been able to speak if he had — and Floyd did not die from strangulation. Bottom line, George Floyd died from the effects of a self-administered drug overdose, effects that might have been exacerbated by his interactions with the police, i.e., his exertions in resisting arrest. For their part, the police were trying to help Floyd. It was they who called the ambulance because they recognized that Floyd was in extremis.

ZMan looks behind the curtain.

The false dichotomy, sometimes called the false choice, is one of the most popular rhetoric tricks used in liberal democracy. The point is to frame the debate in such a way as to either avoid some unpleasant topic or narrow the scope to the benefit of one party in the debate. “We either do X or we allow this terrible thing to continue” is an effective way to compel action. After all, everyone knows that doing nothing in never an acceptable action. Only monsters choose that option.

It is fair to say that our political system is built upon the false choice. Every election we are asked to choose between the two offerings put forward by the parties. In most cases, one option is ridiculous. That is why over 90% of incumbents win reelection. In races with real competition, the options put forward are nearly identical. Both parties offer up a plank of wood spouting whatever slogans are popular at the moment. The voters select between two robots programmed by the same people.

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The government denied any connection with a bombing that occurred January 29 th near the Israeli embassy in Delhi (the Indian capital). Iran has been using this denial tactic for decades. In the case of the Delhi bombing Iran may well have not been directly responsible, but the denial was seen as normal for Iran. These denials are still effective at slowing down sanctions or designation as an international terrorist. What Iran is admitting or claiming is progress in developing nuclear weapons. The purpose of all these attacks and threats is to persuade Western nations to lift sanctions on Iran. Iran appears confident that this is working because they are illegally exporting more oil to India and China. This is risky because the tankers carrying these shipments can be intercepted and seized. As soon as the new American government took power in January Iran told current and past customers for discounted smuggled oil that Iranian oil would be more easily available in 2021, either free of sanctions or less vigorously enforced sanctions. Iran was betting that the new U.S. government would ease off on the oil export sanctions. So far this has not happened but the Iranian leaders insist it will happen and soon.

NY Times Rips GOP for Opposing Enormous Spending, Despite ‘Mr. Biden’s Good Intentions’

The radical feminist campaigner who has ‘nothing left to lose’

Murders Are Up 1,600% in Portland Year-to-Date

Book Banning in an Age of Amazon

NeverTrumpers back radical DOJ nominee

CBS ‘Journalists’ Vent Over GOP With Stacey Abrams: Why Won’t Republicans ‘Evolve’ on Voting Laws?

Stimulus Package Includes $86 Billion Bailout For Union Pensions

Google And Urban Dictionary Team Up To Censor ‘Blue Anon,’ A Term Describing Liberal Conspiracy Theories

ActBlue Fined for Facilitating Nearly $44,000 in Illegal Contributions

2 Major Reports Conclude Excessive Government Spending Threatens American Prosperity

Psaki Gets Into Dust-Up With Reporter Over Lack Of Media Access To Child Migrant Detention Facilities

Stimulus Package Includes $86 Billion Bailout for Union Pensions

Oregon Dem Sens. Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley Refuse To Condemn Anti-ICE Riots In Portland

New Declassified Texts Expose FBI’s “Media Leak Strategy” Used To Influence Election, Trump Presidency

TILT! PolitiFact Hammers Mike Pence on Critique of Voting Bill, VP Harris Gets Free Pass

Gaming Platform Teaches Children It’s ‘Womxn,’ Not Women

These Are The ‘Greenest’ Countries In The World

Why Africa Hasn’t Kickstarted Its Renewable Energy Boom

The Tide Is High–and Getting Higher  (Wired ‘Science’)

Learning About The AMO

Humans Have Destroyed Or Degraded Two-Thirds Of The World’s Rainforests, Study Claims

12 States Sue Biden Administration Over Climate Policies, ‘Massive Expansion’ Of Regulations