ZMan goes global.

A popular topic among Sinophiles since the installation of Joe Biden as president is the possibility of war with China over the status of Taiwan. The Chinese have been obsessed with Taiwan since Mao. With the American empire in sharp decline and the Biden regime unpopular at home and abroad, now could be the perfect time for the Chinese to make their move. As John Derbyshire is fond of pointing out, “Taiwan is like two feet from China … We are eight thousand miles away.”

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Whether or not the US would actually go to war to defend Taiwan is debatable, but that is the official position. Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia are also technically committed to the defense of Taiwan. An all-out assault on Taiwan could very well result in attacks on Chinese infrastructure along the coast. It would most certainly result in massive economic retaliation. The Chinese regime would be forced to explain to her people why they are suddenly poor again.

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If you want to keep your job as a politically conservative public school teacher, you learn to keep your mouth shut, a Chicago area teacher told The Daily Signal.

Morgan Foster has taught English in middle school and, later, high school in Cook County, Illinois, for about 10 years.

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The headline of this Washington Post article is “How Joe Biden tamed the left — at least for now.” The authors show, in essence, that Biden tamed the left by giving leftists what they want. One might say the left tamed Biden.

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When you think about Hunter Biden, what is the first thing that comes to mind? And please don’t crack any jokes. Come on, pipe up. What do you associate Hunter Biden with? Laptops? Perhaps but it could be another L-word, namely locomotives.

Yes, did you now that Hunter Biden is a noted locomotive expert? You don’t believe me? Well, that is how Politico’s “Transition Playbook” described him on Friday in “How high speed trains got railroaded in Biden’s infrastructure plan.”

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The following article from the Netherlands is a lucid and succinct summary of the problems caused by the importation of Muslims into the West.

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Perhaps you are amazed at the millions of people who have bought into the idea that the gradually increasing level of a trace atmospheric gas (CO2, currently about 0.04% of the atmosphere) is going to bring about world climate doom a hundred or so years from now. You may be even more amazed at the similarly large numbers of people who seem to think that the salvation from this doom is to be found in bringing lawsuits against various companies that produce fossil fuels and getting some court somewhere to order that the companies do . . . what exactly? And that is going to avert the climate doom . . . how exactly?

I can’t answer those questions. But the posing of the questions has led me, as a service to readers, to try to follow some of these ridiculous lawsuits, which I have dubbed the “stupidest litigations” in the country.

So MLB Is Fine With Games In Cuba & Training In China, But Georgia Has A Human-Rights Problem?

‘We’re All Dealing With Post Trump Stress Disorder’: Jim Acosta Weighs In On Media Coverage After Trump

CBS News Deletes Tweet Linking To Article That Gave Companies Advice On Fighting ‘Georgia’s Restrictive New Voting Law’

Here are 7 necessary ways to tax the rich (Salon)

Trump’s Campaign Bilked His Fans Out of Millions Because of Course It Did (New York Magazine)

Do the Rich Support the Tax the Rich Campaign? (The New Yorker)

Shock: This CNN Host Exposes Liberal Lies Against Georgia Voting Law

CBS Yanks ‘Straight-News’ Article Advising Companies “How To Beat” Georgia Election-Integrity Laws

Charlotte Man Arrested After Trashing Asian-Owned Store With Signpost, Yelling Racial Slurs

Charles Barkley Says The ‘System’ And Politicians Want Black And White People To Hate Each Other

The Sewell report on racial disparity is an attempt to erase progress and sow division (The Guardian)

More suspects arrested for murdering Dallas woman on vacation, police say

Is Racism Making People Sick? (Vox)

Life in Vermont

Ahmaud Arbery: the Holiness of the Long Distance Jogger

The Black Muslim Capitol Cop Killer

Russia’s Lavrov Warns Of Surging Anti-White Racism In US

George Floyd and ‘The Riot Ideology’

PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor: Georgia Law and Chauvin Trial ‘Definitely Connected’ (by Racism)

“YPCCC Helps Facebook Debunk Climate Change Myths”

Environmental Justice campaign to replace New York City peaking power plants

Will John Kerry Sell Out Chinese Human Rights to Win a Global Climate Agreement?  I bet Yes.

Biden admits tax hike could hit people earning $200K

Who Is the Phoniest of Them All?

Biden Administration And Iran: Secret Deals And Appeasement Back On The Table?

Sen. John Barrasso: ‘The Easiest Way To Get Into The United States Today Is To Do It Illegally’

‘He Is Lying To Cause Racial Divisions’: Chris Christie Unloads On Joe Biden

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One of the most commonly heard debater’s challenges, online and in real life, is: “Are YOU an expert in (X)?” The obvious if generally unspoken corollary is: “If not, then shut up.” However, very often, you don’t need to. There is little evidence that a smart normal citizen, capable of effective analysis of empirical data, cannot criticize the work of academic or journalistic “experts” in most fields—or any reason that he or she should be intimidated by these title-holders.

Obviously, some professional background in a topic that one is discussing or researching is a good thing. However, no credential can substitute for a relatively unbiased and non-partisan approach to data, or for what can bluntly be called intelligence. Whether due to political motivation or plain incorrect statistical assumptions, credentialed experts have a long and entertaining history of wildly false predictions—like the recent predictions of between 1,000,000 and 10,000,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States before the end of 2020.1, 2 This sort of thing is likely to become even more common in the politicized academy of today, where essentially no statistical support appears to exist for theories of “white fragility” and univariate white privilege. When debating such questions as “How many human sexes are there?” a taxpayer who finds the experts arrayed against her need not feel a fool.

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I don’t know why anyone would want to drink that crap in the first place, since Pepsi is available.

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I attended a small Episcopal church for more than thirty years until COVID closed it down last year. Or, to be more precise, the bishop of the Diocese of Southern Virginia closed it down. After Governor Ralph “Coonman” Northam allowed places of worship to reopen (with capacity restrictions), the bishop, in her infinite wisdom, decided that Episcopal congregations would not be safe if people attended services in churches, so she issued a ukase insisting that they remain closed.

St. Paul tells us that “Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow — not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.” (Romans 8:38) But he didn’t know about COVID, which is more powerful than all those things he mentioned. It not only separates Episcopalians from God’s love, it obviously deprives them of their ability to reason.

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Biden is dishonest. His memory is shot. He’s an influence-peddler pretending to be a victim, a lifelong exploiter of his public position who hides behind the lowest forms of sentimentality.

Hunter Biden, of course. You’d have to be on the wrong end of a three-day crack binge to confuse Hunter Biden with the impeccably honest, mentally agile and profoundly principled multimillionaire career politician Joe Biden.

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Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed legislation banning sanctuary cities throughout the state earlier this week.

“We are a nation of laws, and immigration laws will be enforced in Montana,” Gianforte said in a statement,” the governor said in a statement.

‘Come On, Let’s Get Serious’: Anthony Fauci Says He Was ‘Taken Totally Out Of Context’ On Wearing Masks Into 2022

UK Bans Travel From 4 More Countries; 39 in All

More Deaths in Germany Attributed to the Experimental AstraZeneca Treatment

Sen. Lindsey Graham Tells Fauci to Witness Super Spreader Event at Border

Argentine president positive for coronavirus after vaccination early this year

Netherlands Latest To Halt AstraZeneca Jab As Australia Admits “Likely” Blood-Clot Link

Students At Florida High School Warned They Will Be “Re-Educated” If Caught Not Wearing A Mask

Aussie Government: Blood Clotting Case Likely Linked to Astra-Zeneca Covid Vaccine

Entire Plane Claps After Anti-Maskers Get Thrown off Flight

Health Care Workers Bragging About Forged Vax Cards As Fake “Passports” Hit The Street

Reports: Capitol Attack Suspect Identified Self as Farrakhan Follower

Nation of Islam’s Long History of Antisemitism, Bigotry

Dems: ‘We Will Not Legitimize Georgia’s Racist Election Law By Reading It To See What It Says’

California, New York localities push reparations through Universal Basic Income  Plenty of room in Texas, y’all.

Biden Said ‘Nobody’ Making Under 400k A Year Would Have Their Taxes Raised. He Misled

Biden Infrastructure Bill Includes $20 Billion To Destroy Highways For Being Racist

Leaked Illegal Immigration Stats Are ‘Undeniable’ Proof Biden’s Policies Caused Border Crisis, Immigration Experts Say

Buttigieg CAUGHT Faking Green Lifestyle, Rides Bike to Work After Car Drops Him Off Near Destination

Guatemala Declares Emergency As New Migrant Caravan Bound To US May Be Forming

Mohammed removed from new Dutch translation of Dante’s Inferno (French)

Why Don’t We Remind Stephen Colbert of His ‘Racist’ Asian Jokes?

MLB’s Chinese Media Partner Has Targeted An NBA Exec For Supporting Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Protesters

Delta Airlines Now Requiring Republicans To Ride In The Overhead Bin  Babylon Bee.

‘White Sheet’ Time: Baseball Writing Legend Likens Georgia Gov To KKK Member

Inside the Church of Climate

UAH Global Temperature Update for March 2021: -0.01 deg. C

Once climate change deniers, the agriculture industry positions itself as part of the solution  Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

CNN Lets Guest Smear GOP as a ‘Cult’ Over Voting Laws

MSNBC Hypes Biden’s Jim Crow Lies, Pushes Fake ‘Nonpartisan’ Experts

PolitiFact Boasts ‘Fact-Checking Festival’ in May Starring…Brian Stelter!?

MSNBC Guest: Sorry I’m Not ‘Woke’ Enough To Approve Attacking Cops

Why Lester Holt’s Declaration That ‘Fairness Is Overrated’ Is So Dangerous

Running a Factory Under Soviet Socialism

Egalitarians are more aware of inequality  Perhaps because they obsess over it.

Report: Facebook, Twitter Employees Donated Almost Exclusively to Dems  My, what a surprise.

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StemExpress, a Sacramento-based biotech company, and PayCertify, a financial tech services company in the San Jose area, are expected to combine to create more than 200 jobs in Reno over the next few years, the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada said Wednesday.

“Northern Nevada’s tech ecosystem is thriving and high-growth companies, like Stem Express and PayCertify, are increasingly vital to our region’s economic recovery and future,” EDAWN CEO Mike Kazmierski said.

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Apparently one kind are assholes, and the other kind are insecure assholes.

Now you know.

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Chinese submarine, identified as the Type-100 Class is reportedly contesting Russian Navy’s mighty Pr.941 Typhoon Class submarine as the largest ever built.

he new submarine is reportedly armed with 48 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs). It can also carry massive nuclear-powered nuclear-armed autonomous torpedoes.

I like big subs, and I cannot lie….

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Dr. Matthew Sullivan and his colleagues from Griffith University found that guaA, a specialized gene that encodes guanosine monophosphate synthetase, allows it to exploit natural chemicals found in urine as a way to produce new DNA.

So watch it.

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We research Brands and Products confirmed to be made in the USA, Canada or Europe.

In case you’re interested in joining the China Boycott.

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When travelers go online to find out whether it is legal to fly with cash, the government tells them that there are no restrictions on traveling with any amount of money on domestic flights. What it does not tell flyers is that, upon seeing cash, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners will detain them and turn them over to law enforcement, who will take their money without any cause for suspicion and without filing any criminal charges. Now, a Fourth Amendment, class action lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice (IJ) to end these unconstitutional practices by the TSA and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will move forward in federal court after a judge rejected the government’s motion to dismiss.

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For decades, the EPA relied on unreviewable studies to impose draconian restrictions on businesses and industries, and thus on the U.S. economy. Trump wanted to bring true transparency to the process. Opponents claimed the Trump secret science” rule would block the use of critical public health studies kept secret supposedly to protect the identities of trial participants – which of course was not the case.

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Need to go where no man has gone before? We have the technology.

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A few days ahead of last year’s presidential election, Kamala Harris tweeted: “There’s a big difference between equality and equity”. In an accompanying video, Harris effectively argued that equality of opportunity was a sham and that “equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.”

You could interpret Harris’s words as a Marxist argument for equality of outcome (a bold move just before polling day). Thankfully, however, the Vice President of the United States is not a full-bore Communist. Instead, she is a Democratic politician eager to keep up with the left’s ever-changing orthodoxies. According to those rules, “equality” is out and “equity” is in, a rhetorical change that is about more than words. Rather, it represents a profound shift in thinking — a shift that the Biden administration has so far embraced wholeheartedly.

The white distribution approximates a normal one. The non-white distributions display various levels of Lake Wobegon effect.

We’re told society pedestalizes whites while causing people of color to feel bad about themselves. The data say otherwise.

Steve Sailer does the fisking.

As I’ve often mentioned, if you read New York Times articles very carefully all the way to the end, you can usually find the facts you need to know to deduce what actually happened. But happy NYT subscribers seldom have their worldviews’ challenged with inconvenient facts up front.

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Today’s at the Capitol, a car crashed into a barrier, injuring two officers.  The driver of the car got out with a knife, and was shot by authorities.  I think.  So I went to the Fox News website, to see what they know about all this.  Not much, as it turns out, which is understandable – this just happened a couple hours ago.  The news article did not identify the shooter, except to refer to him as “a lone wolf” which is generally media-speak for a devoted member of al-Qaeda or some other Muslim terrorist group.  But perhaps not this time.  Hard to say.  I have no idea, of course.  There are very few facts to be had, this early on.

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Can’t say that I blame them. I play the same game.

Is America Burning?

Further estimates on the cost of climate change and global warming

Thicker-leaved tropical plants may flourish as CO2 rises, which could be good for climate

Big Oil Beats NYC Appeal On Climate Change Lawsuit

Order Fulfillment Of Lil Nas X ‘Satan Shoes’ Paused

State Rep Potentially Facing Eight Years Behind Bars For Criminal Charges Calls Georgia Election Bill ‘A Far More Serious Crime’

Chicago Suburb Residents Balk at Renaming School for the Obamas

Czech, Polish Soccer Players Defy Kneeling Trend Before Games

Diversity-Inclusion-Equity for You Too (DIE YT): In Vermont, Whites Must be at Least 50 to Get the Vaccine, BIPOCs Need Only be 16

Fight Left-Wing Lies With … Facts  Larry Elder.

NBA Star Draymond Green Says He’s ‘Tired’ Of Hearing Female Athletes Complain About Money

Vermont Opens Vaccine Availability To All Who ‘Identify’ As Minorities

Vt .Gov. Tries Setting Up Vaccines by Race

“C’mon Man!”: Biden Again Misrepresents Georgia Election Law While Supporting State Boycott

Psaki Doubles Down On Biden’s ‘Four Pinocchio’ Claim That Georgia Election Bill Ends Voting Hours Early

Podium of LIES: Psaki Misleads Doocy, FBN’s Lawrence on Immigration, Georgia, Roads

Biden’s bait-and-switch presidency

Biden Administration Takes First Big Step To Re-Join Iran Nuclear Deal

In Ghostly Border Video, Dangers for Migrant Kids Revealed

Around 1,000 Illegal Migrants Evading Overwhelmed Border Officials Daily

Too Little, Too Late: NPR Posts Paltry Correction After Lying About Hunter Laptop Story

REPORT: Authorities Apprehended 171,000 Migrants At The Border In March

‘National Security Crisis’: Former ICE Director Says Border Guards Too Busy With Migrant Kids To Stop Drug Smugglers

CNN ‘Medical Expert’ & CDC Suggest Americans’ “Freedoms” Be Restricted Until They Are Vaccinated

White House ‘Assured’ Vaccine Supply Won’t Be Interrupted By Johnson & Johnson Factory Debacle

Chicago Mayor Refuses To Follow Rest Of Illinois, Will Not Open COVID-19 Vaccines To All Due To ‘Quantum Leap’ In Cases

A Step-By-Step Look At How COVID Passport Propaganda Works

There Are A Lot Of Reasons To Be Skeptical Of WHO’s Report On COVID-19 Origins

Texas COVID-Positivity-Rate Plunges To Record Low After Mask-Mandate Lifted, Restaurants Back To Pre-Crisis Levels

UK Reports 25 New Cases Of Rare Blood Clots Linked To AstraZeneca Jab

Spanish Tourism Industry Rebels Against Outdoor Mask Decree As Drones Used To Spy On Beachgoers

Man Who Carries Smartphone Everywhere He Goes Worried Government Might Track Him Through Vaccine  Babylon Bee. (Hey, it could happen….)

There Are Anthony Fauci Pillows Now, And Gov. Whitmer Really Wants You To Know She Has One

Vaccine passports and the recalibration of social ethics

Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months  How ’bout that government-provided health care?

CDC Says Travel Is Low Risk for Vaccinated People With Masks

DeSantis Issues Executive Order, Bans Vaccine Passports

The CDC Proves Incapable Of Putting Together A Coherent Message On COVID-19 Guidelines

Trump Was Right: Sunlight Destroys COVID 8x Faster Than Scientists Believed, Study Shows

Chris Cuomo: White People Take ‘Comfort’ in Racism

The Media Desperately Wants To Blame Attacks Against Asian-Americans On White Supremacy. But Where’s The Evidence?

Gaslighting: How Leftists Demonize And Demoralize Their Opposition

Facebook bans ‘voice of Trump’ from platform

MSNBC Never-Trumper: GOP Will Receive ‘Judgment from God’ If They Pick Trump in 2024

Smearing Conservatives: Shootings ‘Acceptable,’ Want Jim Crow Back

SHUT DOWN! GoFundMe Destroys Fundraiser for Parents Against Critical Race Theory

You’ve GOT to be Kidding: New California Bill Incentivizes MORE Censorship

Peak Woke? The Rabid Left Comes For “Oppressor” Obama

Liberals Shriek Over ‘Appalling,’ ‘Insidious,’ ‘Trumpian’ New ‘Roe v. Wade’ Movie

MLB Moving All-Star Game, Draft Out of Ga. Amid Outcry Over Voting Law

MSNBC Analyst John Heilemann Predicts ‘Florida Bro’ Matt Gaetz Is Politically Finished

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Reminds me of an old Monty Python skit; ‘We don’t make moral judgments, we just want the money.’

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There was a running gag in Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back about the “Miramax backlot”. There was no such thing. When Miramax made a movie, they rented facilities at the lowest price wherever they could get them, like every other small-time producer, and not a few larger ones. Make no mistake about it, though, Miramax was a real studio, because Bob Weinstein could pick up one telephone and get a substantial line of bank credit to make a film, then his odious brother Harvey could pick up the other phone and get a binding financial commitment to release that same film in theaters and on TV networks in Europe and India.

That’s all it takes. It can be a single individual, or a small risk-taking group, with no more than a minimal office staff, if it has the established connections to make those global distribution deals and a seriously strong checkbook. This has always been the case. United Artists was a major studio for sixty years without ever owning a physical studio to make the films in. When it launched James Bond or made The Great Escape and Midnight Cowboy, it didn’t own so much as a single movie camera, or so much as one square foot of backlot property. When billionaire Philip Anschutz decided to buy and make a Narnia series, Walden Media didn’t need any of that either.

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How does an organziation get to be a ‘media watchdog’? Is there a form to be filled out? Or it just a matter of what you ‘idenify’ as?

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Completely by coincidence, of course. No connection at all.

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There are lots of libertarians at the end of a pandemic — and for good reason. For more than a year now Americans have watched the actions of dysfunctional government officials play out like the worst reality show of all time.

If the ineptitude wasn’t so infuriating, it might make for entertaining TV. There was the episode when the smug governor who asked his constituents to stay home got caught dining at French Laundry. Or what about the one when the White House coronavirus response coordinator broke her own travel restrictions to winterize her vacation home — and got ratted out by members of her own family?

Change of Command Brings Focus to IDF’s Gaza Defense Plans

Teacher Faces Threats After Suspension For Showing Students Prophet Muhammad Cartoon In UK

DOD Linguist Pleads Guilty To Feeding Top Secret Government Information To Hizballah After Falling In Love

Suicide Bomb Hits Palm Sunday Mass in Indonesia, 14 Wounded

Church In Indonesia Rocked By Twin Suicide Bombing On Palm Sunday

NIGERIA: Kidnapping, Corruption and Catastrophe

Money From Spain Intended for Syrian Orphans Diverted to Support Al Qaeda

Great Success! US-Backed Fighters Seize US-Made Missiles Heading To Other US-Backed Fighters In Syria

Police Reportedly Suspect Suicide Bombers Who Attacked Indonesian Church Were Newlywed Couple With Terrorist Links

Saudi Air Defense Stops Most Houthi Strikes

Islam: Western Leaders Are Well Deceived

Turkey Prosecutes French Journalists For Cartoon Mocking Erdogan

Bangladesh could pay for failing to crack down on its Islamist threat

USAID Failed to Ensure Palestinian Aid Dollars Kept from Terrorists, GAO Says

Does a Third Lebanon-Israel War Lie Ahead?

Not Just a News Story About a Culture-Enriching Rape

COUNTER-TERRORISM: Rocks Of Doom

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Thursday’s episode of A Million Little Things was so heavy-handed in pushing the latest cause-de-jour (“Stop APPI Hate”) that the entire episode played out more like one giant PSA on a supposed “epidemic” of hate and violence towards Asian Americans, with whites and Trump to blame, of course, despite strong evidence to the contrary.