7th March 2021
Majority Of Germans Favor Easing COVID-19 Restrictions
COVID-19 Travel Insurance Becoming a Vacation Staple
As 5th Woman Accuses Cuomo Of Harassment, Let’s Review Media Fawning During Nursing Home Quagmire
Russian Disinformation Targets Vaccine Efficacy, Safety
Greyhound CEO Tells DHS Head Migrants Must Test Negative For COVID-19 Before Boarding Buses
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7th March 2021
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An excellent introduction to the writing of Jordan Peterson, whom you all ought to study.
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That’s what happens when Democrats run your state.
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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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7th March 2021
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Dead cow and spuds are the foundation of all true civilization.
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7th March 2021
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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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7th March 2021
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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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7th March 2021
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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.
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6th March 2021
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
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6th March 2021
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’
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6th March 2021
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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.
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6th March 2021
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6th March 2021
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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6th March 2021
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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.
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5th March 2021
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5th March 2021
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.
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5th March 2021
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.
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5th March 2021
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?
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4th March 2021
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4th March 2021
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4th March 2021
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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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4th March 2021
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More than Senator Umbrage will ever admit.
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4th March 2021
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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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