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It is a testament to Elon Musk’s genius that it transcends how fantastically immature he is.

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Dead cow and spuds are the foundation of all true civilization.

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Oh, ya think?

After the passage of the pork-laden atrocity known as the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill passed the Senate on a party-line vote on Saturday, ABC spent part of Sunday’s Good Morning America sneering at Republicans for not going along with the package President Biden refused to negotiate with them on. They also warned that Democratic Senator Joe Manchin (WV) would also be a problem since he came from a state that voted for former President Trump.

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A mascot for the Narrative Media.

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“While a mass exodus from California clearly didn’t happen in 2020, the pandemic did change some historical patterns. For example, fewer people moved into the state to replace those who left,” Natalie Holmes, research fellow at the California Policy Lab, said in a statement. “At the county level, however, San Francisco is experiencing a unique and dramatic exodus, which is causing 50% or 100% increases in Bay Area in-migration for some counties in the Sierras.”

UPDATE: Bay Area drug kingpins lured low-level dealers, promising cheap rent (2020)

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Swiss voters decide Sunday on a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters. Polls are pointing to a close outcome.

Greenpeace Eco-Warriors ‘Greenwash’ Boeing 777 At Paris Airport 

Guardian Promotes “Global Lockdown” Every Two Years To Combat Climate Change

Biden’s New CEQ Climate Hire Wants to Make Climate Action Affordable

‘It’s Incompetence’: Former ICE Chief Says Biden Administration Has Turned Border Detention Centers Into ‘Welcoming Centers’

Iranian Dissidents Slam Nominee for Top Defense Post

Biden Hires Qatari Agent as Senior Adviser

Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out The US Dirty War On Syria That Biden & Aides Admit To

CNN, The Pro-Biden ‘Miracle’ Network, Hails ‘Safest, Most Secure Election In History’

Facebook Says Louis Farrakhan’s Anti-Vaccine Screed Violated Policy Against Misinformation, Twitter Stays Silent

Hyperinflation Pushes Venezuela to Print 1M-Bolivar Bills

CNN’s Biased ‘Facts First’ Can’t Get Its Facts Straight About HR 1 or Pence

MSNBC ‘Republican’ Slams ‘Insulting’ Dem Siding with GOP on Min. Wage Vote

Newsom COVID ‘Equity’ Plan: Vaccinate 2 Million Latinos Or California Won’t Reopen

NY Times Attempts Balance, Fails: Hispanic GOP ‘Stoked’ on BLM ‘Conspiracy Theories’

MSNBC Analyst Malcolm Nance Predicts ‘Terrorist And Paramilitary Insurgency’

Protests Spark Up Before Derek Chauvin’s Trial Starts Monday  Note: They aren’t in support of Chauvin.

Google’s Expensive Diversity Push Isn’t Uncovering Many Diamonds in the Rough Perhaps because not many People of Color have what it takes to work at Google, and those that do have more opportunities than they can deal with already.

Arizona’s Education Department Launches Internal Review After Report Reveals Its ‘Equity Toolkit’ Traces Racism To Babies

Joy Reid Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

CNN Fails to Clarify Racist Hate Mail Came From Democrats

CDC Allows Child Migrant Facilities To Operate At 100% Capacity

Japan Supercomputer Finds Double-Masking Doesn’t Work

French Health Minister Mulls Banning Vaccine Exports

Analysis: Vaccines Alone Could Bring Herd Immunity By Summer

‘Fear’ Is The New ‘Smart’

The one simple tell that reveals Fox News’s Seuss obsession for what it is  (Washington Post) Which tells you more about the obsessions of the Washington Post than about Fox News.

Here are the ‘wrong’ illustrations that got six Dr. Seuss books cancelled

How the West was lost

MSNBC Prepares Liberals for Trump Tax Returns Disappointment

Reporters Fear This Film Exposing Media’s Scandalous Treatment of Covington Kids

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Under single-party rule, the internecine battles are generally more interesting than their debates with their opposition. Partially because corruption is so easy and rampant under single-party rule. But also because, with no meaningful opposition, the ruling party can do whatever it wants. So under these circumstances, you really find out who these people are and what motivates them.

Audacious Epigone.

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

It is now leftist orthodoxy that any disparities you can measure between groups are evidence of racism and white supremacy, and that “equity” requires equal outcomes, not equal rights. One reason today’s race-mongers say it is no longer legitimate to treat people as individuals can be grasped by comparing these two news stories from earlier this week involving the educational outcomes of two black teen boys, one in Baltimore, and one in Atlanta.

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I wonder whether their software can tell the difference between me and My Brother The Communist.

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Filling the restaurants and small venues in the beautiful outdoor weather. While Lord Governor Ducey talked out both sides of his mouth*, desperately trying to split the difference between Abbott/Desantis and Cuomo/Newsom, the bikers rolled back into downtown Mesa for bike night without permission or Mesa city hall control. Live music from an earlier rebellious era filled Main Street, punctuated by the sound of more Harleys rolling in. It was the sound of freedom.

Beyond the biker crowd, people jammed into every surviving eatery and watering hole, including new ones optimistically opened by small, true entrepreneurs. For the first time in nearly a year, you had to search for parking on a Friday night.

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As Widdowson reports in a newly published book, these efforts at Indigenization (sometimes referred to as “decolonization”) comprise a combination of symbolic gestures, ramped-up affirmative-action programs, mandatory anti-racism courses, and demands that Indigenous folklore be accorded epistemological stature on par with science. At Concordia University in Montreal, for instance, a dozen researchers are collaborating on a project called “Decolonizing Light,” whose aim is to “investigate the reproduction of colonialism in and through physics and higher physics education.” Our scientific understanding of light as constituting electromagnetic radiation perceptible to the human eye, these scholars explain, is the historical product of “a white male dominated field [i.e. physics] disconnected from social life and geopolitical history. [Its] narrative both constitutes and reproduces inequality.”

Not the Babylon Bee. I checked.

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If you’re a White person who thinks racism only hurts people of color, the story behind an empty, abandoned swimming pool in Missouri might just change your mind.

Only if you have the IQ of a carrot.

These public pools, of course, were for Whites only. But when civil rights leaders successfully pushed for them to be integrated, many cities either sold the pools to private entities or, in the case of Fairground Park, eventually drained them and closed them down for good.

These closures didn’t just hurt Black people, though — they also denied the pleasures of the pool to White people.

Uh, no, it was the efforts of those who tried to force people whom they consitered heretics and sinners to associate with others (that they didn’t want to associate with) that ‘harmed white people’. So it was proglodyte ‘anti-racism’ that harmed white people, not racism — under ‘racism’, white people were just fine.

This is what passes for thinking at CNN.

‘Science’? PolitiFact Denies the FACT That We’re Born Boys or Girls

Iowa Democrat Says $15 Wage Hike ‘Will Cause Harm’ in State, Still Supports It

‘Never Let Facts Get In The Way’: Candace Owens Calls AOC Minimum Wage Plan ‘Scary’

Panel Recommends ‘Quick Reaction Force’ for Capitol

How Democracy Dies: Big Tech Becomes Big Brother

Track Athlete Resists Being Forced to Compete Against Biological Males

So, What Happened at the Capitol on March 4?

China Abandons 24-Year Experiment With Open Hong Kong Elections  Democracy dies under Communism.

China Cuts Growth Outlook, Increases Military Spend, Shrugged Off Climate Change In Latest ‘Five-Year Plan’

NYU Study RIPS ‘Far-Right’ News on Facebook, Ignores Platform’s Liberal Bias

628-Page COVID-19 Bill Takes Senate Clerks Just Over 10 Hours To Read Out Loud

Republicans’ new strategy? Pointless obstruction. (CNN)

A liberal analyst’s warning: Liberal elites are driving minority voters from Democratic Party

Colbert Fawns Over Fonda’s Foul Activism in Re-Released Anti-War Tour Documentary

As the Insurrection Narrative Crumbles, Democrats Cling to it More Desperately Than Ever

Protesters Seeking Financial Support For Illegal Immigrants Shut Down Traffic On New York Bridges

MSNBC to GOP Senator: Here’s A Clip of a Democrat Saying You’re Wrong

Feelings First! CNN INTERN ‘Fact Checks’ Rand Paul on ‘Gender Confirmation Surgery’

LA Teachers’ Union Pushing Racial Division in Fight Over School Closures

We Were Repeatedly Warned Of March 4 Violence. Troops Were Met With Mild Weather And Joggers

Biden DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Dismiss Sanctuary City Cases  That didn’t take long.

White House Spokeswoman Refuses to Credit Operation Warp Speed for Expedited Vaccine

105 Illegal Immigrants Arrested At Texas Border

Supreme Court Dismisses “Sanctuary City” Cases At Request Of Biden’s DOJ

“Days Away From A Crisis”: 100,000 Illegal Immigrants Arrested At US Mexico Border; Most For February In 15 Years

Oregon climate activist wants to ban diesel fuel  They’d ban fire and the wheel if they could.

Global Warming is Causing More Severe Winters

Bloomberg: “600% Gain in Carbon Prices Vital to Rein in Global Warming”

The New Pause lengthens by another month to 5 years 7 months

Gas stoves are bad for the environment—but what if the power goes out?  Popular ‘Science’ plays around with the Narrative.

“Earth’s Oxygen is Rapidly Running Out…” We’re Doomed!

Friday Funny: The Folly of Mann

Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf blowers and trimmers

Michael Strahan Slams Chris Harrison’s Apology For Defending Racism As ‘Weak’

House Democrats Vote to Aid Criminals

Science News: Whites Are Most Likely to Volunteer Their DNA for Science, So Nonwhites Are Victimized by Whites’ Altruism, or Something

‘Clarice’ Introduces BLM Narrative to ‘Silence of the Lambs’

The Richest Black Girl in America

Kim Klacik Shows The Daily Caller How Baltimore Became One Of The Most Dangerous Cities In America

Joy Reid Says More Police Mean ‘More Violence’

DNA databases are too white, so genetics doesn’t help everyone. How do we fix that?

Baltimore HS student fails all but 3 classes over 4 years, ranks near top half of class

Joy Reid Says Conservatives Would ‘Trade Tax Cuts’ To ‘Openly Say The N-Word’  They actually pay her to say this nonsense. Does any rational adult think that she would have a job if it weren’t for her skin color?

James, BLM Activists Exploiting NBA All-Star Weekend With Attack on ‘Voter Suppression’

Newsom Urges Double-Masking For All Californians, Will Not Make “Terrible Mistake” Like Texas  And that’s why he’s getting recalled.

Pittsburgh Penguins Caught Photoshopping Masks Onto Pictures Of Barefaced Fans

Here’s Why Teachers Can Avoid In-Person Classes While Grocery Store Workers Must Show Up For Work

Virus experts demand new probe into origins of COVID-19

Chief Of World-Renowned Medical Journal Has Repeatedly Bashed US, Praised China For Coronavirus Response

Nets Hide Blue CT Reopening Businesses, Smear GOP as Against COVID Relief

NIH will invest $1B to investigate ‘long Covid’  Ka-ching!

You’re Vaccinated and People Want to Visit. Now What?  Wired ‘Science’ propagates the Narrative.

Cuomo Aides Rewrote July Nursing Home Report To Conceal COVID Death Toll

Gov. Cuomo ‘Needs To Go To Jail’: Janice Dean Reacts To Report That 15,000 People Actually Died In NY Nursing Homes  I agree.

Don’t worry about COVID super strains

Detroit Mayor Declines New Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Doses Because It Isn’t ‘The Best’

Progressive Surprised To Learn He Can Still Wear Mask Even Without Government Forcing Him To  Babylon Bee.

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Be prepared.

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

All things considered, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis looks to be the most successful governor in the United States. The Florida contingent of the garbage media is therefore determined to destroy him one way or another.

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Of course, the fact that he’s incompetent and a socialist has nothing to do with it.

Apparently those who base their judgments on appearance (like, say, skin color) seem to think that everybody else does that too.

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Backed by $20 million in venture capital funding and building off recent advances in robotics and precision manufacturing, the Culver City company is developing a device the size of a breadcrumb that doctors can insert into the spine or skull and magnetically steer to a target to deliver a precise dose of drugs. The plan is to move to clinical trials by 2023.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds (“Instapundit”).

In America, class warfare is often disguised as culture war, and culture war is often cloaked by talk of race. But underneath it all, the class warfare is still there. Whether accidentally or intentionally, America’s upper classes seem to wind up harming the working class and small businesses, always in the name of some high-minded cause.

 

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The addition of just a touch of graphene could make the world’s most ubiquitous building material stronger, more durable and even a touch greener.

Jonathan Chait.

Glenn Greenwald’s long intellectual journey from center left to far left to, well, somewhere is a subject of fascination in elite circles. Greenwald comes out of a tradition of progressive journalism that focused primarily on attacking liberals and the Democratic Party from the left. Like many progressives, he latched on to Bernie Sanders’s two presidential campaigns as a righteous crusade to liberate the Democratic Party from the nefarious grip of its corporate, neoliberal masters.

After that, things got weird.

If Tucker Carlson is a ‘true socialist’, then I’m more comfortable with socialism than I ever expected to be.

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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.