Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

I’ve had a theory for a while now, for which there is some suggestive empirical survey data, that the left began to go nuts a couple years before Trump rode down the escalator in 2015 and caused full-blown leftist insanity. The theory, first suggested to me by Charles Murray actually, is that the activist left was frustrated and angry by around 2014 that President Obama was such a huge disappointment. He was the “lightworker,” almost literally the second coming of Jesus. And from the point of view of the left, what did he actually deliver? A crappy health care plan is about it.

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Privilege, like cocaine, is a white drug. It’s important not to be caught in possession of it. If you’re caught using it, you may be ordered to check your privilege, and recognise that your views are nothing more than a defence of your position in the racial hierarchy in which you secretly believe.

The purest form is white privilege, which is the refined product of systemic racism. According to the American feminist Peggy McIntosh, white people carry racial privilege in an invisible knapsack. McIntosh is white. So is Robin DiAngelo, who coined the term white fragility in 2011 and has made a fortune as a race awareness consultant for corporations wishing to insure themselves against discrimination suits from disgruntled employees.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

What is the over/under on when the press stops blaming every damn thing that goes wrong on Trump? The coronavirus did, in fact, originate in China, likely in a Chinese laboratory. Regardless, that makes it a Chinese virus by normal standards of nomenclature. If we are looking for a scapegoat, a better candidate is Harvard University, which takes the position that Asian-Americans–not the Chinese Communist Party–are inferior to all others in personal qualities like “leadership.”

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When we think of corrupt American cities, Chicago always tops the list. However, San Francisco has long had one of the more corrupt American civic governments. However, because the City was still better managed than Chicago, nobody really commented on that fact. A Twitter thread about the City’s “stupidvisors” (as I’ve always called them), turning down free internet access highlights just how corrupt they are.

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More than 1,300 schools have become “test optional,” meaning students need not submit SAT scores. Some, like the entire University of California system, now won’t even look at scores.

There are seemingly legitimate reasons to oppose the tests. Richer kids often get tutoring that gives them an advantage.

Critics claim the tests are culturally biased and say that’s why Blacks and Latinos don’t score as well. But that doesn’t explain why Asians do so well. In fact, Asians get the best SAT scores.

I assume it’s more about culture and parenting. Kids raised in front of the TV do poorly. Those encouraged to read do better. Kids who spend time talking to adults do better.

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House Republicans say they still want to know why $35 million in taxpayer dollars went to a Democrat-aligned consulting firm to boost voting last year in California—and whether it was even legal.

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Gov.Kristi Noem has been taking a lot of flak from the conservative punditry over her “veto” of South Dakota HB 1217 intended to protect girls’ and women’s sports from transgender athletes. I use veto in quotes because there are technical and procedural rules in South Dakota that either made Gov. Noem’s rejected “form and content” revisions a veto or the legislature’s inaction on them a veto. Be that as it may, South Dakota currently has no statute in place. I say currently because Gov. Noem has announced she will call a special session of the Legislature to resolve this. In the meantime the Governor has issued two executive orders to fill the gap.

Her objections were not to the substance of the bill but rather to its mechanics. They seem well-founded, and all of the hair-on-fire antics in the news misplaced.

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

Here’s a question. If there is no border crisis, why is Joe Biden’s Department of HHS inviting federal employees in departments having nothing to do with immigration or health to travel to the border and provide assistance?

Here’s another question: Isn’t the Biden administration inviting a misappropriation of federal funds?

And finally: What are such federal employees from random agencies supposed to do when they get to the border?

Claim: Great Barrier Reef Set to Disappear Because of Global Warming

Biden Wants $10 Billion for a Climate Army. It’s Not Enough  Wired ‘Science’.

‘Immediate and drastic.’ The climate crisis is seriously spooking economists  CNN ‘Business’.

Joe Biden and the ‘fourth wave’ mania

Fire Wallensky

Study: 30% Of People Who Have Been Vaccinated Still Plan To Live The Rest Of Their Lives Hidden In A Basement Just In Case  Babylon Bee.

Fredo Whines He Struggled to Get Vax for In-Laws, ‘Tabloids’ Reported Scandal

Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduces The ‘Fire Fauci Act’

Ontario to enter four-week, province-wide Covid-19 shutdown on Saturday

COVID-19’s fourth wave is hitting the US hard  (The Hill)

Pfizer trial finds vaccine ‘100 percent effective’ against South African variant

NBC Finds Covid Upside to 2.8 Million Dead: ‘Earth Got a Break’

Dishonest Hack Joy Reid, FL Dem Hurl Lies at Ron DeSantis Over COVID

Big win for common sense: New York City Loses Appeal Seeking to Hold Oil Firms Liable “Global Warming”

Mutations could render current Covid vaccines ineffective in a year or less, epidemiologists warn  Hah! THEN you’ll be sorry!

Detectives Find Cause of Tiger Woods Crash but Won’t Reveal

Congressman Who Lived In The Jim Crow South Says It’s ‘Demeaning’ To Compare Voter ID Laws With Actual Racism

No, the Derek Chauvin Trial Isn’t a Referendum on American Racism

On Race, Britain Leads the Way

When Black Mass Shooters Kill Asians, It’s Not a Hate Crime

Slate: Your White Daughter Had It Coming

Most Senior Black Adviser To Boris Johnson Resigns After Report Claims Britain Doesn’t Have Systemic Racism Problem  How’s that for a job? ‘Who are you?’ ‘I’m the Black Advisor.’

Brian Williams Jeers: Georgia GOP Should ‘Embrace Rich Heritage’ of Suppressing Black Voters

ESPN’s Mark Jones Lies During Live Broadcast By Saying Jacob Blake Was Unarmed When He Was Shot By Police

French left tears itself apart over ‘non-white’ meetings

LAPD Opens Investigation Into Saweetie, Quavo After Elevator Footage Leaks

REPORT: Father High On Acid Stepped On 1-Month-Old Daughter’s Head, Bit Her, Police Say

Reparations Repackaged: Oakland Adopts Racist Guaranteed Income Scheme

‘A Lifelong Struggle’: George Floyd’s Girlfriend Testifies About Their Shared History Of Opioid Addiction

Montana Gov. Gianforte Signs Legislation To Ban Sanctuary Cities In The State

YouTube Unveils Hide Feature After Americans Mass-‘Dislike’ Biden Videos

Hillary Attacks “Shameless Gun Worshipers” Who Are Against “Sensible” Control Legislation

Sore Loser Dem Trying to Steal Seat Calls It Quits, Nets Skip Whole Scheme

Joy Reid: You Can’t Oppose China, Transgenderism Because That Encourages Violence

LGBTQ Holy Days

How ‘Defund the Police’ Killed Police Reform

Joe Biden Says It’s Not ‘Right’ Or ‘Fair’ Female Soccer Players Make Less Money Than Men

7 Hong Kong Democracy Leaders Convicted as China Clamps Down

Sweeping Bill Limiting Mail-In, Drive Thru Voting Advances In Texas

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Demands ‘Reparations’ For Families Separated At The Border Under Trump

NBC’s Lester Holt says we don’t need to hear both sides to define truth: ‘Fairness is overrated’

‘Ideological Poison’: Tom Cotton Slams Military’s Promotion Of Critical Race Theory

‘Fertilizer Taxes’ Will Hurt Farmers and Likely Drive Up Food Prices

CNN Clarifies Gender/Sex Claim with More Activist Doublespeak

White House Wedges Pro-Union Provisions Into Infrastructure Plan

Marxist Angela Davis Calls on Students at Pricey California School to ‘Dismantle Capitalism’

Weaponizing Social Justice to Protect School Administrators and Discredit Whistle-blowers: A Canadian Case Study

REPORT: School Committee Chair Says Teachers Against Critical Race Theory ‘Cannot And Should Not Be Tolerated’

And Then the Diverse Came for Ken Burns

Only the Good Get Canceled

NY Times: ‘Sen. Mazie Hirono Wonders How Some Republicans Live With Themselves’  I wonder how the people of Hawaii live with themselves.

Interior Chief Of Staff Reassigned After Scheduling Party Without Social Distancing

‘An Open Conspiracy’: GoFundMe Terminates Fundraiser For Unwoke Parents Targeted By Loudoun County Schools

Over 5,000 Christians Condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene for ‘Blasphemous’ and ‘Evil’ Rhetoric  According to Newsweek, anyway.

A Black Lives Matter activist exposed the role two local police officers played in the Capitol insurrection. Their small town rapidly took sides.

New York Times Outsources Research to Media Matters

Colorado Is Latest to Weigh Ban on Native American Mascots

‘Inclusive’ Star Wars: Hyping Trans and Firing Conservatives

YouTube Intensifies Attack on Religion, Removes ANOTHER Faith-Based Channel

 USA Today Writer Backs Crowdfunding Only Lefty Protest

Gay Twitter is MAD at ‘Fugly B***H’ Sarah Paulson For Not Specifying Pronouns

Top Chef Host Condemns Parents Who Don’t Believe Their Kids Are Trans

Biden Formally Unveils $2T Infrastructure Plan That’s Already Under Fire

Authorities: Smugglers Drop 2 Children over US Border Wall

CBP Won’t Allow Journalists To Record Border Agents’ Encounters With Illegal Migrants

PHOTOS: Groups Of Illegal Migrants Wait On The Side Of A Road Overnight For Border Agents To Take Them Into Custody

The Biden Pork-Barrel Plan

Smugglers Drop Toddlers Over Border Wall, Leaving Them To Fend For Themselves

‘Divorced From … Reality’: Arizona Governor Says Biden Admin Emboldens Drug Cartels At Border, Demands Action

REPORT: Biden Quietly Hands Over At Least $60 Million To Palestinians

Biden’s Border HORROR: NBC Allows a Scant 41 Seconds to Toddlers Heaved Over Wall

13 States Sue Biden Administration, Demand Ability To Cut Taxes

Psaki grilled on teachers giving in-person instruction to migrant kids before own students

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Say what you want about the sickness of cancel culture, it can be great for business. Nothing rallies paying readers to a writer quite like the news that somebody wants him or her silenced.

Nothing, that is, apart being called ‘odd’ by the New York Times. On Monday, the paper produced an article about Harper’s magazine by its ultra-successful media columnist Ben Smith. Under the headline, ‘Inside America’s Most Interesting Magazine, and Media’s Oddest Workplace’, Smith was generous about Harper’s but quite rude about its president, John R. MacArthur, whom he made out to be an eccentrically dressed crank.

The result? Harper’s had its best week ever for subscriptions.

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His black and white range of clothes, which include hoodies, T-shirts, shorts, tank tops, leggings, caps and bike shorts, has been called out online for its use of a Gothic-style font that is close to the one used by white nationalists. It’s also similar to the Fraktur fonts, which were used in Nazi Germany most prominently on the cover of Hitler’s Mein Kampf book.

“Hmm unfortunately the merch looks aggressively racist,” wrote one commentator on Twitter, while another wrote: “Jesus. When I think of typefaces white people should avoid, anything remotely calligraphic/blackletter looking pops immediately to mind, especially if it’s going to include the word ‘White’.” While on Hanks’s official Instagram a user said: “Proud Boys are gonna buy these tf up.” The Proud Boys are a far-right US group and in September fashion line Fred Perry withdrew their polo shirts which had been adopted by them.

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We have the technology.

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“When you experience racism, you can feel shame,” the website read. “You may wish that you weren’t Asian, but remember that your ancestors likely went through similar or even worse incidents.”

One Harvard student, Matteo Wong, took to Twitter to express his frustration with the school’s response to the increase in racism against Asian Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic and the mass shooting that took place in Atlanta earlier this month, which left eight dead—among them six Asian women.

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The mother of Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse claims attorney Lin Wood kept him in jail for months in order to protect him from what he feared would be a post-election breakdown of society.

Wendy Rittenhouse, whose 18-year-old son is charged with two counts of murder in connection to the shootings at a Black Lives Matter protest in August 2020, claimed Wood thought he would be safer at an Illinois youth facility because “Armageddon” was approaching.

Can’t say he’s wrong.

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It’s powered by nuclear waste, but still safe for humans.

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Like in the US, the debate on whether hydroponic grown vegetables can be classified as organic is ongoing in Europe. That’s partly because of the surcharges organically certified produce yields, but there’s more. Growing hydroponically is truly sustainable, industry suppliers and growers say. “There are wonderful sustainable initiatives, they are just not organic,” is the answer of the organic industry.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was an ‘organic industry’.

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A father-to-be was killed in February after a gender reveal device exploded as he was assembling it. A “smoke generating pyrotechnic device” used for a gender reveal party in 2020 caused a wildfire in California.

‘What gender is your child’?

‘Orphan.’

ZMan counts the beans.

The lesson of the last half century is one the monetarists learned from the battles over the gold standard. If the ruler is so corrupt you need hard money to control him, your ruler is corrupt enough to find a way around the limits of hard money. It turns out our rulers are more than capable of conniving around every limit put before them. They have reached levels of corruption that were though impossible half a century ago. The display being put on now suggest they are just getting warmed up.

This rather shabby track record should raise a question. That is, is the field of economics just pseudoscientific nonsense? It has lots of complexity and lots of very clever solutions to the complex problems it unearths, but outside of the most basic of concepts like supply and demand, economics is not very useful. In all of the important things, it turns out to be wrong. Astrologers have a better record than economists, because they know they are grifters, not scientists.

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I was raised Christian and the more I’ve thought about it, the more curious something about my upbringing seems. My church was constantly denying it was ‘religious’. By any objective social-scientific measures, the community was decidedly religious. Maybe we weren’t that organized (there was no website), but we recited historic creeds, we submitted to the authority of a sacred text and we practiced ancient rituals. We identified with the worldwide institutional expression of the body of Christ, yet we still liked to say we weren’t ‘religious’. Throughout my childhood I was reminded in sermon after sermon that we were ‘Spiritual but not Religious’.

Salad-bar Christianity in all its apathy.

Toby Young.

Anyone even vaguely familiar with the controversy over the ‘OK’ symbol will knowhow ridiculous this is. For one thing, the identification of that gesture with white supremacy was originally a hoax perpetrated by 4chan, the image board website, to troll social-justice warriors and liberal journalists. For another, Isidorou was photographed committing this sin in February 2017, before the hoax had gained any traction. It wasn’t listed as a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League until 2019, the same year as the New Zealand massacre referred to by the reporter. To accuse someone of a hate crime made up by a bunch of sophomoric pranksters is one thing. But to accuse them of it before the prank had landed must be some kind of record as the most feeble grounds for canceling someone in the history of cancel culture.

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The United States Government has taken note of the ongoing slaughter in the jihad that is currently being waged in northern Mozambique. It appears the East African country can expect a bout of nation-building, courtesy of Uncle Sam.