Steve Sailer.

Homicides in Columbus in 2020 were up 67% over 2019.

This reminds me of an interesting epistemological question: how do you tell the difference between a man-bites-dog example and an example that shows the kind of thing that can happen when one or more bell curves are shifted to the right of the national average?

Paul Graham lectures you on morality.

When intellectuals talk about the death penalty, they talk about things like whether it’s permissible for the state to take someone’s life, whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent, and whether more death sentences are given to some groups than others. But in practice the debate about the death penalty is not about whether it’s ok to kill murderers. It’s about whether it’s ok to kill innocent people, because at least 4% of people on death row are innocent.

Or, in other words, 96& of people on death row are guilty.

Far from being rare, wrongful murder convictions are very common.

This is a use of ‘very common’ with which I am unfamiliar. Since when is 4% ‘very common’? At the very least, ‘very common’ ought to mean ‘over 50%’.

This circus of incompetence and dishonesty is the real issue with the death penalty. We don’t even reach the point where theoretical questions about the moral justification or effectiveness of capital punishment start to matter, because so many of the people sentenced to death are actually innocent. Whatever it means in theory, in practice capital punishment means killing innocent people.

Yes, it does, occasionally. Totally absent from this analysis, however, is the number of ‘innocent people’ who die because murderers are put back into circulation. Surely that matters, if we’re counting up ‘innocent people’?

This is the great flaw in all of the bleeding-heart hand-wringing about ‘killing innocent people’. No system is error-proof. But a 4% error rate would be miraculous in any other field of human endeavor. The instrumental justification for the death penalty is that when a murderer is made dead, he (or she) doesn’t go on to murder again. So the lack of potential future victims is certainly a relevant piece of information.

There is a case to be made for eliminating the death penalty, but this isn’t one of them.

I had always respected Paul Graham’s insights, until now. But apparently he’s Just Another Woke Weenie.

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Disembodied female-sounding voices echo out across cities and transitory spaces as an integral means of controlling movement. Often found in stations, shopping centres, supermarket checkouts, elevators, automated phone lines, GPS systems and the more interactive virtual assistants such as Siri, Cortana, or Alexa—an almost ubiquitous voice appears. It is a seemingly familiar, comfortable accent that speaks softly, guiding in the right direction, calling for attention and reminding us to be careful. The pitches fluctuate with some more human-sounding and others more robotic. Phonemes pieced together to sound out the right words but most commonly retaining a ‘she’ pronoun and clichéd ‘feminine’ qualities.

She is there to take care of us, to direct and gently usher us in the right direction. Her ‘well-spoken’, reassuring tone is embedded with a history of service workers and disembodied voices used in public and private spheres. It is intended to take on a specific gendered role; to politely and submissively assist.

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A mistrial occurs when 1) a jury is unable to reach a verdict and there must be a new trial with a new jury; 2) there is a serious procedural error or misconduct that would result in an unfair trial, and the judge adjourns the case without a decision on the merits and awards a new trial. See, e.g. Williamson v. United States, 512 U.S. 594 (1994).

In this case, serious error included a failure to sequester jury, leaving the jurors open to influence and intimidation, including, apparently, mob agitation by a sitting federal Congresswoman.

Noteworthy is that jury deliberation covered three days of evidence in a day, without asking the judge for instructions. Unlikely that any adequate deliberation took place is such a hasty time frame.

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Here’s the most read “news” story in the Washington Post right now, another example of upside-down article construction in which the facts are withheld until long after most readers have moved on.

Steve Sailer reports.

As I may have mentioned once or twice over the decades going back to the previous millennium, American discourse is increasingly dominated by childish good guys vs. bad guys reasoning, with determining which is which being being decided by intersectional Pokemon points.

Since the MSM knows that the white male Columbus cop who saved at least one black girl’s life with his grace under pressure on Tuesday by shooting the attacker just before she stabbed the girl in pink is the Bad Guy, all the facts about him are proof of his innate badness.

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Moving to Texas from Taxachusetts is a no-brainer.

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An excellent, in-depth analysis of how we got so deep in the … muck.

‘End Policing’: Michael Moore Celebrates Chauvin Verdict, Says Free All ‘Innocent Black And Brown’ People In Prison  And give them Michael Moore’s address.

DEFUND PBS: Alcindor Defends Maxine Waters While Other Reporters Grill Psaki

Las Vegas Raiders Send Insanely Stupid ‘I Can Breathe’ Tweet After Derek Chauvin’s Conviction

CNN Legal Analyst Floats Evidence-Free Conspiracy Theory About Governors With A Straight Face

Derek Chauvin may be guilty, but Waters and Biden made sure this will drag on in appeal

Gender ‘X’ to Be Option for New Jersey Driver’s Licenses and ID’s

Officer Surrounded, Punched In The Head During Portland Unlawful Assembly

After Chauvin Verdict, Capitol Police Suddenly Reverse Plan To Fortify Capitol

DOJ to Probe Minneapolis Police Department This is a common DOJ tactic. They know they haven’t enough evidence to charge individual officers on civil rights grounds, so they open an ‘investigation’ under a Clinton-era law that allows them to bully the police department into a ‘consent decree’ that gets racial preferences enshrined, with a Federal monitor to supervise it. This is akin to the collusive ‘sue and settle’ technique used in cahoots with eviro-Nazi NGOs.

Biden Admin Appeals To Force Religious Doctors, Hospitals To Provide Trans Surgeries Despite Conscience Objections

C-List Actor Alyssa Milano: All Cops are ‘Rotten’

Portland Protesters Vandalize Youth Charity

NPR Disclaimer Admits ‘Some Facts’ The Media Reports About Shootings May Later Be ‘Wrong’

‘When The People Get Fed Up … We Loot Y’all Franchises: Brooklyn Center Residents React To Civil Unrest

Sen. Lisa Murkowski Votes With Democrats

US Postal Service Is Secretly Monitoring And Reporting Social Media Posts

Trying to open an S.F. ice cream shop, was no match for city bureaucracy

FBI Ruled Scalise Shooting a Case of ‘Suicide By Cop’

Federal Judge Orders Los Angeles To Offer Housing To Homeless People On Skid Row By Oct. 18

‘Racial Propaganda’: Taking A Knee To Protest Will Not Be Tolerated At Tokyo Olympics

Manhattan DA Will Toss Out Prostitution Cases

Rioters in Portland Smash 2 Starbucks Stores, Assault Police Officer After Chauvin Verdict  I have no idea why anybody still lives in Portland. It’s safer to live in Baghdad.

Biden WH Promotes Critical Race Theory in New Education Proposal  Institutionalized racism is on the march.

Biden, Harris Call On Senate To Pass George Floyd Act That Combats ‘Systemic Racism’ In America

Avril Haines, Intel agencies challenge Joe Biden climate change alarmism

Arizona Gov. Ducey Declares State of Emergency, Orders National Guard to Border

Kmele Foster: ‘Absurd’ For Biden To Say Black People Are ‘Perpetually Afraid’ Of Being Murdered By Police  If anything, they’re perpetually afraid of being killed by other black people.

GOP Senators Slam Biden, Kerry For Actions That Could Raise Energy Costs Ahead Of White House Climate Summit

Police Shooting Of Knife-Wielding Teen Cuts Against Hope ‘Of A Step Forward,’ Psaki Says

The Watchdogs Nap for Biden

Official BLM Account: Black Communities ‘Terrorized’ More Under Biden ‘Than They Had Been Under Trump’  Be careful what you wish for.

Biden’s ‘Orderly’ Afghan Exit Already In Peril As Suicide Attack Rocks Kabul

White House, Lebron James Attempting to Cast Bryant Shooting as Racially Motivated  You can see the knife in the video. It’s not even close.

Global Warming? Devastating Frost Impacts 2021 French Wine Grapes

‘Green Infrastructure’ Backers Stand to Profit From Gov’t Spending Boost  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Unhinged Jane Fonda Compares Fossil Fuel Industry to Abusive Boyfriend

“Record-Shattering Cold” Hits Central US 

Kerry On!

Flying Cars Will be Racist, “Undermine Democracy” and Finish Off the Environment

Private Companies Will Have To Pay For Most Of The ‘Green Transition,’ Biden Administration Says

MSNBC Analyst Is Absolutely Outraged That He Got Exactly The Verdict He Wanted

Twitter Defends Not Censoring Hacked Content About Donors Who Gave To Kenosha Shooter’s Legal Defense

‘It’s Not Justice’: Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Jury’s Verdict In Chauvin Trial  There’s no pleasing some people.

Nextdoor App Warns You to Never Post “All Lives Matter”

New York BLM protesters heckle taqueria diners: ‘Stay the f— out of New York’

Taxes help white people get richer in America (VOX)

NYC instructor ‘relieved of his teaching duties’ after criticizing racial ‘indoctrination’ of students

Officer Fired After Donation To Kyle Rittenhouse’s Defense Fund Was Uncovered

Simon & Schuster Rejects Petition, Will Publish Pence Book

NY Times Scorns UK Racism Report: You Didn’t Condemn Bigoted Britain!

Bloomberg Opinion Senior Columnist Attacks Fox News for Retaining Tucker Carlson

CNN Introduces Segment Where They Rant About What Trump Would Have Tweeted If He Hadn’t Gotten Kicked Off Of Twitter

Virginia Cop Fired for Donating $25 to Rittenhouse

Nextdoor Platform’s Woke ‘Anti-Racism’ Notification Aims to Censor Dissent

Brian Kemp Warns About ‘Bogus Political Fight’ Surrounding Georgia Boycotts: ‘They’re Coming For Your Small Business Next’

LeBron James Tweets Picture Of Officer Involved In Ma’Khia Bryant Shooting, Says ‘YOU’RE NEXT’

Media Ran With Early Reports On The Columbus Shooting Only To Be Wrong

Sports Teams, Athletes See Chauvin Verdict as Mandate For MORE Social Justice Activism

‘Burn The Whole City Down’: BLM Protesters At Floyd Memorial Compare Police Shootings To ‘A Genocide’  There’s no pleasing some people.

‘True Justice Requires Much More’: Barack Obama Reacts To Chauvin Guilty Verdict, Says ‘We Can Not Rest’ On Race Reforms

Ayanna Pressley Reintroduces Bill To Address Disproportionate Punishment Of Black Girls In Schools ‘Disproportionate’ to what?

Columbus police releases bodycam that shows teen attempting to stab two women

Nets Skip White Lady Pelosi Thanking Black Man Floyd for Dying

LA Times: Woke BLM Entertainment Turning Into ‘Black Trauma Porn’

MSNBC’s Joy Reid Goes to War for Maxine Waters, Decries Critics as…..Raaaaacists!

Louisville Football Player Lovie Jenkins Accused Of Attacking His Girlfriend

The Raiders Won’t Delete ‘I Can Breathe’ Tweet After Overwhelming Backlash

Celebrations Break Out In DC Following Derek Chauvin Verdict

Bodycam Footage Reveals ‘Unarmed’ Victim Of Police Shooting Was Actually Attacking Woman With A Knife

“Get The F**k Out Of New York!”: BLM Protesters Demand White Restaurant Owners Leave The City  I’d be inclined to comply. I hear Florida is very nice.

Don Lemon Promotes His Own Book As A Recommendation For White People  Black Wallets Matter.

Protesters Gather After Officer Reportedly Fatally Shoots Black Man

Senator Warnock Ran On ‘Defund The Police’ But Paid $137,000 For Armed Security

‘YOU’RE NEXT’: LeBron James Tries to Use Twitter to Sic Lynch Mob on Ohio Cop

Jason Whitlock: ‘LeBron James’ Is Using ‘Racial Division’ To ‘Reshape America’ Like ‘Communist China’

The Lockdown Paradigm Is Collapsing

Still Believe Digital Vaccine Passports Are Something Made Up By Conspiracy Theorists?

UK Refuses To Accelerate Re-Opening Despite COVID Deaths Dropping Below Road Accident Fatalities

‘It is much worse this time’: India’s devastating second wave

The ‘Party Of Science’ Can’t Seem To Bring Itself To Endorse Vaccines

FDA Finds Multiple Problems at Plant Producing J&J’s COVID-19 Vaccine

Fauci Falsehood #2316: It’s Not Republicans, It’s Millennials That Are Rejecting The Jab

Scientist Who Developed Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Says Third Shot Will Be Needed

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One crisis can conceal another. While France has been distracted by COVID, a new menace is lurking. The specter haunting the republic is le Wokisme, the mutating ideology of race and identity that has found unexpectedly fertile ground here. French elites are unsettled. Those who assumed the French possessed herd immunity against such barbaric American ideas are having their complacency tested.

Superficially a modern country, with iPhones, Amazon and electric cars, France is still often introspective and late to understand what’s happening in the wider — especially Anglophone — world, which is how wokeness has somewhat taken it by surprise. Woke had been happening in America for many years before the French noticed.

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Left-wing magazine Slate took the stunning and brave step Saturday of publishing an article outlining the case for no longer wearing masks outside.

‘As we’ve come to know more about the virus, as vaccinations are ramping up, and as we’re trying to figure out how to live with some level of COVID in a sustainable way, masking up outside when you’re at most briefly crossing paths with people is starting to feel barely understandable,’ the author reasoned.

Mask enthusiasts melted down in response, insisting that Slate‘s article was ‘irresponsible‘, ‘going to get people killed‘ and ‘misleading‘. Others celebrated the article as ‘a good sign of progress‘. A Harvard infectious disease specialist asserted, ‘I am generally a hawk about maintaining rules with a clear benefit. Outdoor masking has notable costs and really no evidence of benefits.’

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Ashli Babbitt is, as far as we know, the only person to die as a direct consequence of a deliberate act of violence during the riot of January 6 in Washington D.C. She’s the young woman who was shot by an unnamed Capitol employee while climbing through a window in the Capitol Building.

Ms. Babbitt was able to climb through a window because the window had been broken by rioters. Rioters broke the window in plain view of armed Capitol Police, who made no visible effort to stop them. (This can be observed in the short video made in the minutes leading up to and culminating in the shooting.)

Johnathan Turley

Below is my column in the Hill on two issues that arose on the final day of the trial of Derek Chauvin that could now feature prominently in any appeal. There will likely be an array of conventional appellate issues from the elements of the murder counts to the sufficiency of the evidence. Obviously, any appeal will wait until after sentencing, which will take many weeks. However, two issues were highlighted on the final day which could play a role in the appeal.

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Or, in his case, waddle.

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And always has been.

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Today, the Democratic Party seems more united, still glowing in the aftermath of the defeat of Trump. But that is just an illusion: Joe Biden’s first hundred days in office are almost up — and the internal conflicts of his party are bound to surface soon.

These divisions are not petty, or merely personal, but based on demands from a number of incompatible constituencies and ideologies. Take the Democrats’s newest supporters: America’s tech oligarchs, Wall Street financiers and urban real estate speculators. They may act “woke” on issues surrounding gender, race and the environment. But such “virtue signalling” is no substitute for the drastic policies pushed by the party’s Left: the confiscation of vast wealth, the break-up of monopolies and the introduction of ever-higher taxes. Big business, after all, is the clear winner in the status quo that the Left, with good reason, despises.

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But you knew that.

Biden Labor Nominee Failed To Enforce Law Combatting Pedophilia In Hollywood

PBS Reporter Asks Why White House Isn’t Defending Maxine Waters From ‘Onslaught Of Attacks’

Class warfare? Biden prepares tax hikes on high-income Americans (Politico)

The Media Lied Repeatedly About Officer Brian Sicknick’s Death. And They Just Got Caught

The Bulwark

Germany’s Greens Poised To Seize Power From Merkel’s CDU In Upcoming Vote, Poll Shows

Planned Parenthood Disavows Margaret Sanger, Continues Racist, Eugenicist Ways‘

White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems, Study Shows My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself

Ohio Medical Researcher Sentenced To 33 Months For Stealing Trade Secrets To China

CNN’s Don Lemon: ‘People with half a brain’ know Maxine Waters wasn’t inciting violence Except that she was.

Judge slams Maxine Waters’s remarks on Chauvin trial

Minnesota College Sparks Backlash With Anti-Racist ‘Struggle Sessions’ Segregated by Race

Black Lives Matter fence at center of row in Minnesota city on edge

Fact check: Missing context in claim about Black Lives Matter co-founder’s property purchases (USA Today) Gee, they never tried to provide ‘context’ for their absurd claims about Trump.

‘Broke The Law, Incited Violence’—McCarthy To Introduce Resolution Censuring Maxine Waters For ‘Dangerous Comments’

Dershowitz to Newsmax TV: Maxine Waters Putting Not Thumb but “Elbow on the Scales of Justice’

Steve Scalise Wants Accountability For Maxine Waters: ‘I Was Shot Because Of This Kind Of Dangerous Rhetoric’

Cuomo Lashes Out at ‘Rabid Right,’ Doubles Down on Killing White Kids

Arrest Warrant Issued For Seahawks Player Aldon Smith In Louisiana

Judge Asks Jurors To Disregard Maxine Waters As She Pours Gasoline On Their Heads  Babylon Bee.

FLASHBACK: Maxine Waters Called LA Riots ‘Acceptable,’ Defended Some Looting

BLM Activists Cancel Protest For Police Shooting After Learning Suspect Was A White Guy

‘Hell to Pay’: Facebook Allows Activists to Organize 9-Day Protest of Chauvin Verdict

Man Fatally Shot After Hitting Deputy In The Head With Metal Pipe, Video Shows

Democrats Vote Not to Censure Maxine Waters  Some inciters are more equal than others.

‘Don’t Test Us’: Lori Lightfoot Says The City Is Prepared To Use Arm Of Law Enforcement Against Rioters  But that trick never works. (BRAAAAAAAINS!)

Kamala Harris’ Sister Says A ‘Just Verdict’ Not The Same ‘As Justice’ After Chauvin Found Guilty On All Counts

No 10 race report tries to normalise white supremacy, say UN experts (The Guardian)

Utah reporter condemned for tracking down paramedic who donated $10 to Kyle Rittenhouse defense

Colorado judge used the n-word and proclaimed that ‘all lives matter.’ Now she’s resigning. (Washington Post) Under pressure, no doubt.

Judge resigns after admitting to using n-word and saying all lives matter while at work (CNN) AT WORK! Can you believe it?!

Huge plastics plant faces calls for environmental justice, stiff economic headwinds (Washington Post)

Top Oath Keeper Says Active-Duty Cops Are Training Militia Members for Civil War (Daily Beast) Ever notice how the Narrative Media don’t do these sort of ‘exposés’ on AntiFa?

“60 Minutes” faces pushback for giving Oath Keepers a platform to push lies (Salon) LIES!

Britney Spears Praised for Supporting BLM As Derek Chauvin Verdict Imminent (Newsweek)

Amnesty International has culture of white privilege, report finds (The Guardian) Every mob eventually turns on its own.

The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea (The Guardian)

Church of England clergy ‘paid off to keep quiet about racism (The Guardian)

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a problem Republicans want (Salon)

Jesse Watters Melts Down After Black Co-Host’s Reality Check (Daily Beast) Black good, white bad.

Prosecution Demands Jury Convict Derek Chauvin of First-Degree Grinchism

China Launches New App Allowing Citizens To Report Others For Expressing “Mistaken Opinions”  We’ve got that – it’s called Twitter.

‘Abhorrent’: Chauvin Trial Judge Slams Maxine Waters’s Call for Civil Unrest

CBS Attacks Trial Judge for Rebuking Maxine Waters’ Call to Violence

In Closing Argument, Prosecutor Tearfully Addresses Each Juror By Name, Phone Number, And Street Address  Babylon Bee.

Far-right internet haven Parler to be allowed back onto Apple’s App Store with added content moderation  (The Register) How far-right is it? It’s so far-right….

Condemning ‘Racist’ GOP for Bringing Back ‘Jim Crow’

CNN Mocks GOP Guest: Second Amendment ‘Liberty’ Depriving Us of ‘Right Not to be Shot’ Well, when you consider that the shooting is mostly being done by black criminals….

‘Rot In Hell’: Meghan McCain Says ‘Cold-Blooded Murderer’ Derek Chauvin Deserves ‘Jail Or Worse’  Good thing McCain doesn’t pretend to be a Republican – unlike her old man.

NBC Mentions Biden Border Crisis to Bush, Then Bashes GOP Instead

Head Of NYC School Allegedly Recorded Saying Curriculum Demonizes White People Claims He Was ‘Misquoted’  Hard to do that with a recording….?

MSNBC’s Hateful New Host Justifies Hillary Clinton’s ‘Deplorable’ Smear

Former Golden Globes President Under Fire For Calling BLM ‘Racist Hate Movement’

Author of ‘The Sixth Extinction’ says Earth is on verge of new mass extinction as big as dinosaur wipe-out (The Hill)

Clock’s running out on climate change. California says it’s time for giant carbon vacuums (LA Times)

Man Who Predicted the Worst Nuclear Disaster Since Chernobyl Sees Another Coming (Daily Beast) Disaster!

Google Earth’s New Timelapse Feature Shows the Effects of Climate Change Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?

Climate Fear Propaganda: New TIME Cover Story Exploits Pandemic to Cry ‘Climate Is Everything’

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Blames ‘The Trampling Of Indigenous Rights’ And Racial Injustice For Climate Change

Yale requiring coronavirus vaccines for students to return (The Hill)

New vaccine side effect? In Israel, six people develop herpes zoster (Jerusalem Post)

A Handful Of Liberal Outlets Said No To Outdoor Masks. They Were Accused Of Trying To Get People Killed

UK Labour Leader Kicked Out Of Pub By Anti-Lockdown Landlord

Fighting Covid? It Just Didn’t Matter

Woke Medicine Comes to New York City

Herd Immunity Against COVID-19 Unlikely, Say Experts  Guess we’re the wrong herd.

We need to know the origin of Covid-19

Greta Thunberg Speaks Out Against Vaccine Inequality

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Hammer tech.

Matt Ridley.

In search of wisdom about how an officious government reluctantly relaxes its grip after an emergency, I stumbled on a 1948 newsreel clip of Harold Wilson when he was president of the Board of Trade. It’s a glimpse of long-forgotten and brain-boggling complexity in the rationing system. ‘We have taken some clothing off the ration altogether,’ he boasts, posing as a munificent liberator. ‘From shoes to bathing costumes, and from oilskins to body belts and children’s raincoats. Then we’ve reduced the points on such things as women’s coats and woollen garments generally and… on men’s suits.’

Does this remind you of anything? One day in November, George Eustice, the environment secretary, uttered the immortal words that a Scotch egg ‘probably would count as a substantial meal if there were table service’, only for Michael Gove to say the next day that ‘a couple of Scotch eggs is a starter, as far as I’m concerned’, later correcting himself to concede that ‘a Scotch egg is a substantial meal’. This is the sort of tangled descent into detail that central planning always causes. We have seen it again and again over the past year. What is essential travel? Is a picnic exercise? Can you go inside a pub to get to its outside space? Ask the man from the ministry.

Rationing persisted in Britain after the War because they had a socialist government who had absolutely no problem with the government micro-managing consumer decisions, any more than the Soviet Union did.

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Tal Kopan, Washington correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle, popped up on Twitter to say: ‘This is fascinating — Biden goes to church every week and is known to be a devout Catholic.’ The word ‘devout’ is the sticking point here. It has always clung to the word ‘Catholic’ in media parlance; as ‘staunch’ does ‘Protestant’.

Since Biden took office, however, ‘devout Catholic’ has become a political shibboleth. For liberal media commentators, it’s a vocal genuflection to the President. But for many Republicans and traditional Catholics — and the overlap between the two is huge — it’s accompanied by eye-rolling or a snicker. Devout Joe Biden? Give me a break.

“Devout Catholic” is (apparently) a Good Thing when Joe Biden does it but a Bad Thing when a Republican Supreme Court nominee (such as Amy Barrett) does it.

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A large new global study published in the Lancet has confirmed previous research which has shown that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption.

The researchers admit moderate drinking may protect against heart disease but found that the risk of cancer and other diseases outweighs these protections.

A study author said its findings were the most significant to date because of the range of factors considered.

I guess the Baptists and Mormons were right after all.

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Richard Dawkins has had his 1996 Humanist [i.e., atheist] of the Year award canceled for his shocking lack of true faith in the intersectional verities. How dare he ask unholy questions like this to puzzle the faithful?

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At the heart of the bizarre Twin Cities hellworld is Minnesota Governor Tim “tear down this” Walz. Today Tim is tearful. He called a press conference this afternoon to display his emotions and offer his characteristic deference to the mob throwing its weight around in the Twin Cities.

Walz mouths the obligatory platitudes about “systemic racism.” He asserts that Daunte Wright died “for a simple traffic violation.” He even calls this a “simple truth,” even though it is a blatant lie. He yammers on at painful length in his characteristic Joe Isuzu style demanding that citizens defer to the demands of the mob.

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The murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin is wrapping up today with closing arguments and jury instructions. The National Guard is standing by to deal with the expected riots when the jury returns its verdict later this week, along with law enforcement from several local agencies as well as other states. Downtown Minneapolis resembles a fortress, only with fewer people. Both Scott and I have questioned whether Chauvin can possibly get a fair trial in the current atmosphere. Jurors cannot fail to understand the consequences of a “not guilty” verdict.

It has been reported that Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman sold his Minneapolis home at a loss and moved out of the city after “protesters” besieged his house, and his office received “millions of e-mails and thousands of phone calls” about the George Floyd case. I have it on good authority that he is not the only public official who has sold his house and moved out of Minneapolis for reasons of personal safety.

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Democrats, of course, are all for them. Nothing they like better than to spend other people’s money.

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Hear, hear.

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Robin Argenti cannot yet envision a future in which she doesn’t wear a mask. “We don’t know if it is going to ever be over,” the 57-year-old resident of upstate New York said of the pandemic. She’s in poor health, and concerned that with the emergence of new variants and the “millions of people who refuse to get vaccinated,” the country will never actually overcome the coronavirus. “I will be masked up for many, many years,” she said. “There are too many unknowns.”

As more and more Americans get vaccinated, the end of the pandemic feels palpable. Most people probably cannot wait to cut out the social distancing and take their masks off. I can’t wait for the day when I can walk down the street and look at a sea of strangers’ naked faces. But there are some people like Argenti who say they plan to make mask-wearing a part of daily life, even after the authorities give the thumbs-up to bare your entire face.

ICE, CBP Reportedly Told To Drop Terms Like ‘Alien,’ ‘Illegal Alien’ As Biden Administration Seeks Compassion

Voters Skeptical of Joe Biden’s Cognitive Health, Poll Finds

Biden Administration Wants Schools to Teach Prejudice. Here’s What Parents Should Know.

Cancel Mob Comes for QB Mac Jones

Whiteness

Jewish Coalition May Expel ZOA Over Black Lives Matter, Liberal Slams  What’s a liberal to do?

No Objection on MSNBC as Guest Insanely Rants: GOP Wants ‘Americans Murdered’

‘Let Her Go’: Detroit Police Chief Rips Rashida Tlaib On Anti-Police Comments

44% Of New York Voters Believe Cuomo Is Guilty Of Sexual Harassment As His Favorability Hits All-Time Low, Poll Shows

Watch Live: Chauvin Closing Arguments Begin As Black Leaders Warn Of More Riots If Acquittal Reached

Facebook Censors BLM Criticism After Company Co-founder Donated Millions to Activist Group

Beyond Parody: Movement for Black Lives, Greenpeace Team Up on ‘Fossil Fuel Racism’

Top US Nature Society Proposes Renaming Birds Named After Slave Owners, Colonialists

Watch: ‘Non-Political’ Fauci Calls Gun Control “A Public Health Issue”

Saving Those Targeted by Outrage Mobs

Bloody Mess: Chauvin Trial Defense Witness’ Former Home Vandalized With Blood, Slaughtered Pig’s Head

Another Leftist Narrative Collapses As Chief M.E. Confirms Sicknick Had 2 Strokes, Died Of Natural Causes

Police Officer, Paramedic Among Range Of Normal People Caught In Media Witch Hunt Over Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund

The Media Lied Repeatedly About Officer Brian Sicknick’s Death. And They Just Got Caught.

College Student Aces Final By Just Answering ‘Racism!’ To Every Question  Babylon Bee.

Africans reject demands to end fossil fuel use

India may build new coal plants due to low cost despite climate change

So Far Germany Seeing Coldest April In 104 Years, Second Coldest Since 1881, Snowiest Since 1986

Study: South African Variant May ‘Break Through’ Pfizer Vaccine Protection

COVID Theatre Across the Atlantic

What The CDC’s VAERS Database Reveals About “Adverse” Post-Vaccine Reactions  My reaction is : Nope, not gonna do it.

On the Epidemiology of Influenza (2008)

Plot twist! South Korean telco uses 5G to fight coronavirus via hospital-patrolling robot

“No Medical Science” Behind Michigan Mandate To Mask 2-Year-Olds, Doctor Warns

If Lockdowns Are Needed, Why Did More People Die In States That Locked Down Than Those That Didn’t?

Alice Weidel to Angela Merkel: You Have Exploited the Corona Crisis to Create a Police State

Wealthy Should Act Now to Prepare for Bernie Sanders’ Estate Tax Proposal

CNN Reporter Left Speechless When Bystander Asks About Project Veritas

Antifa “Panicking” About Police Informant Inside Network: Andy Ngo

Fla. Court Tells Coral Gables, Cities They Can’t Ban Guns

Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism’s Deadly Blind Spot

ESPN Corrects Article Claiming Jacob Blake Was ‘Unarmed’ After Getting Ripped For ‘Indefensible’ Error

Black Pro-Life Leaders Condemn Planned Parenthood’s ‘Hollow’ Denunciation Of Margaret Sanger

Hunter Biden Memoir Among Mounting Evidence Of Federal Gun Law Violations

Homeland Security Must ‘Immediately Stop’ Using Facial-Recognition AI, Civil Liberties Groups Say

Amazon Workers Were Threatened, Intimidated, Union Says As It Demands New Election

Roker Touts Biden EPA Driving Internal Combustion Cars Off the Road

You’re Kidding Me, Right? CNN Whines Fox News Chyrons Are Too Mean to Biden

LA Sheriff Blames “Defund The Police”-Progressive-Policies For Spike In Violent Crime

Facebook To Remove Content That ‘Praises, Celebrates Or Mocks George Floyd’s Death’ In Preparation For Chauvin Verdict

Website Will Allow Parents and Teachers to Expose Classroom Radicalism

Canada’s Freeland Unveils “Feminist” Budget: Slaps New Tax On Non-Residents & Big-Tech

‘The Squad’ Pushes To ‘Defund The Police’ While Spending Thousands On Private Security To Protect Themselves

False Alarm: Evil Nazi Facility That Murders And Sells Baby Parts Turns Out To Just Be A Planned Parenthood

Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

Chicago McDonald’s drive-thru turns into horror scene after 7-year-old girl shot, father injured

Marjorie Taylor Greene to introduce resolution to expel Maxine Waters (The Hill)

WaPo: Being Black in America Is Exhausting

Coach Barney Harris: Doing a Job Americans Will Do “Detectives said Harris and Stewart broke into a trailer and Lara showed up while they were inside. Deputies said the men questioned Lara about the stash and when he didn’t give them the answers they wanted, they shot him in the head.”

Well, It’s Been a Quiet Week in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Out There on the Edge of the Prairie

‘Cancel Rent’ Champion Ayanna Pressley Raked in Thousands as Landlord

Two National Guard Members Injured During Drive-By Shooting In Minneapolis

CNN Actually Defends Maxine Waters For ‘Inciting’ Anti-Police Violence

Former Texas Detective Wanted in Austin Triple Fatal Shooting Caught

DC Mayor Says City Has Requested Help From National Guard Ahead Of Chauvin Ruling  Why DC? Because that’s where the black rioters are.

As Chauvin Verdict Draws Near, Facebook Clamps Down With Heavy Moderation

Maxine Waters Leaps Into Victim Mode After Inciting Mob; May Become Witness In Her Own Lawsuit

Pelosi Defends Maxine Waters’ Call For Protesters To ‘Get More Confrontational’

Facebook, Twitter Do Not Censor Video Of Maxine Waters Encouraging Protesters ‘To Get More Confrontational’

Arkansas Felon Launches Bid To Be Democratic Senate Nominee  Hey, if Alcee Hastings can do it….

The race to riot

R. Kelly Associate Pleads Guilty To Setting Alleged Victim’s Car On Fire

FLASHBACK: Maxine Waters Said Trump Could Start A ‘Civil War,’ Should Be Charged With ‘Murder’ After Capitol Riot

Chauvin Trial Judge To Defense: Maxine Waters May Have Given You ‘Something On Appeal That Results In This Whole Trial Being Overturned’

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If you’re the sort of person who buys and reads books about human behavior, then it is likely you have recently encountered an exciting, counterintuitive new psychological idea that seems as if it could help solve a pressing societal problem like educational inequality, race relations, or misogyny. Maybe you came across it in a TED Talk. Or, if not there, in an op-ed or blog post or book.

It is, after all, a golden age for popular behavioral science. As the University of Virginia law professor Gregory Mitchell, a keen critic and observer of the field, wrote in 2017, ‘With press releases from journals and universities feeding a content-hungry media, publishing houses looking for the next Gladwellian bestseller, governments embracing behavioral science, and courts increasingly open to evidence from social scientists, psychologists have more opportunities than ever to educate the public on what they have learned about why people behave as they do.’

Modern America.

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Perhaps we might profit from the European experience….

Nah.