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The Woke Revolution Is Powered by the Elites

8th April 2021

Victor Davis Hanson.

Ed Bastian made $17 million in 2019 as chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines, Georgia’s largest employer. Bastian just blasted Georgia’s new voting law. He thinks it is racist to require the same sort of ID to vote that Delta requires for its passengers to check in.

Yet most Americans believe voting is a more sacred act than flying Delta and, moreover, may have noticed that Delta has partnerships with systemically racist China. Also, a recent Associated Press poll showed that 72% of Americans favor requiring photo ID to vote.

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Thank You, Donald!

8th April 2021

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

One of the dumbest of all the anti-Trump conventions was the “without evidence” trope. This was a single-use smear, analogous to an old-fashioned Derringer. The Democratic Party press fired it once, and we will never see it again. Certainly not while a Democrat is in the White House.

The concept was stupid, since politicians say things all the time for which they do not, at that moment, provide “evidence.” Over the last four years, it was even worse than that, since Democratic Party news outlets like the Washington Post ritually repeated the “without evidence” claim even though such evidence had been provided, often in copious detail, but not in the same sentence.

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Joe Biden’s No Boondoggle Left Behind Plan

7th April 2021

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“Government must be a powerful force for good in the lives of Americans,” White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese announced on March 29. This is the core principle of President Joe Biden’s promise to “change the paradigm” with his $3 trillion stimulus package which seeks to pour vast amounts of tax dollars into dozens of government programs that have dismally failed in the past. But thanks to Biden’s election, the federal government has suddenly become far more competent than ever before.

To have confidence in the American Jobs Plan, it is not enough to believe that additional spending is needed for repairing bridges, paving roads, or boosting child care. Instead, one must believe that the damning revelations from all the inspectors general and Government Accountability Office reports in recent decades are null and void. A vast increase in outlays will achieve miraculous results because there is no resemblance between federal agencies commanded by Biden appointees and the same agencies in the past half century. The notion that “government must be a powerful force for good” is premised on the notion that Biden himself is such an inexorable “force for good” that history no longer applies inside the Beltway.

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It’s Been 15 Days Since Biden Put Kamala Harris In Charge Of The Border. She Has Yet To Make A Visit

7th April 2021

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President Joe Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to oversee the administration’s response to the crisis at the border 15 days ago, but she has not yet made a visit.

Harris was appointed March 24, and as of April 7 had not announced any plans to visit the southern border. When a reporter mentioned that Harris hadn’t visited the border and asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki if Harris was still working on addressing the crisis, Psaki said that the vice president had stopped for a snack “like many Americans.”

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

7th April 2021

Sea Level Rise Is Killing Trees on the Atlantic Coast, Creating ‘Ghost Forests’ Visible From Space

Why Climate Panic Is Unfounded Hysteria

The collapse of ‘big steel’ should be a warning for climate skeptics

Black people agree: Race relations ‘worse’ under Biden

Ex Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull Dumped from a Climate Board, as a Coal District Election Looms

How climate change affects Colombia’s coffee production

Germany’s Energy Disaster

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

7th April 2021

Scientists Have Identified 9 Potential New COVID-19 Treatments – Including Several That Are Already FDA-Approved

AstraZeneca Trial Involving Minors Halted As EMA Officials Admit Link Between Jab And Deadly Blood Clots

‘If You Trust Me, You’ll Get The Vaccine’: Morgan Freeman Stars In Bizarre COVID-19 Vaccine PSA

ANDERSON: If Voter ID Is Racist, Why Is The Left Pushing Vaccine Passports?

Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment

CDC: UK Variant Now Most Common Virus Strain in US

COVID-19 Police ‘Shut Down’ Spruce Grove Church, Erect Fence Around It

‘This Is An Invasion Of My Privacy’: Joy Behar Is ‘Totally Against’ Unvaccinated People Being Allowed Near Her

Loosen These Chains!

Scientists Issue Open Letter Detailing Incorrect And Contradictory Claims In WHO Origins Report Used To Downplay Lab Leak Theory

Disneyland Charging Up To $209 For Admission To Both Parks With 28 Attractions Still Closed

A third of Covid survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders

‘We’ll Know It When We See It’: Fauci Doesn’t Know When Pandemic Will End  For this he’s being paid … how much?

Whoomp!  There It Is

 

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Today in Black Privilege

7th April 2021

Lawyer Says Key Witness Who Allegedly Sold Floyd Drugs Could Implicate Himself In Third-Degree Murder Charges If He Testifies

Democratic Lt. Gov. Compares Himself To George Floyd, Emmett Till Over Sexual Assault Allegations

Rep. Alcee Hastings, RIP

Oprah Network Drama Practically Gleeful ‘We’re in the Middle of a Racial Reckoning’

Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir

‘New Amsterdam’ Trashes White, Male Doctors to End ‘Systemic Racism’

Handcuffed Inmate Stabs Deputy To Death During Transfer Attempt

Facebook did not hire Black employees because they were not a culture fit

REPORT: Former Florida State Receiver Travis Rudolph Arrested On Murder Charge

MSNBC Host Apologizes After Network Confused 2 Black Congressmen  Hey, their skin color is the important part, other than that they’re interchangeable.

‘Antiracist Agenda’: Boston Hospital Will Offer ‘Preferential Care Based On Race’

Corporate Blackmail Fails to Relocate Masters Golf; Deadspin Race-baiter Fumes

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

7th April 2021

S.F. isn’t the only city seeing a major exodus, according to Zillow’s Mover Report

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Promotes Radical Resources to Kill ‘Extremism in Ranks’

Here’s The Far-Left’s Plan To Take Over Every Federal Court

NY State To Give Up To $2.1 Billion To Illegal Immigrants

United Airlines plans to use race and gender-based quotas to select pilots

Teachers’ Union Head Rips Jews in Interview on School Reopening

Solar Industry’s Reliance on Chinese Forced Labor Threatens Biden’s Green Economy

‘Stoking The Flames Of Conspiracy’: Boehner Rips Into Trump In Upcoming Book, Says He ‘Incited That Bloody Insurrection’  RINOs ASSEMBLE!

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Swamp Creature’ — Trump’s Senior Adviser Accuses John Boehner Of Selling Out Americans By Doing Lobbyist Work For China

Hack Comedian Sam Bee Just Admitted It: We Don’t Want to Mock Biden

‘Wokeness As A Geopolitical Tool’: Author Says China Is Using Social Justice To Manipulate Americans

City In California Pays Homeless People Gift Cards To Clean Their Tents

Cuomo To Hit Richest New Yorkers With Top Tax Rate Over 50%, More Than Most Europeans Pay

San Francisco School Board Reverses Decision to Rename Schools

Tourist On Vacation In New York City Hit By Stray Bullet Near Times Square

Parents Outraged Homeless Encampments Have Popped Up Around Seattle Schools  Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

7th April 2021

Bumbling Biden THANKS immigrants ‘for choosing the US’ as border crisis slams his approval rating

Richard Epstein: Giveaways Disguised as Infrastructure

CBP Won’t Say How Many Illegal Migrants Are Released Without Scheduled Court Dates

Georgia Smear Blowing Up In Biden’s Face

Abandoned 10-Year-Old Migrant Pleads With Border Officials For Help

‘What Scares Me’: Former ICE Director Questions How Many Terrorists Have Crossed The Border Without Getting Apprehended

Biden To Solve Poverty With One Trillion Doller Per Hour Minimum Wage  Babylon Bee.

2 Children Dropped Over ‘Large Boulders,’ Abandoned At Border  They’re your problem now, gringo.

Biden Yet to Reunite Illegal Immigrants Separated During Trump’s Term, Axios Says

Israel Objects as Biden Reverses Trump Policy, Restores Aid to UNRWA

A California Dream Is America’s Nightmare

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

7th April 2021

Taibbi: On The Miserable Necessity Of Doing Censorship Stories In Pairs

‘Literal Carnage’: Nicolle Wallace Claims Outsiders Might See Republicans As The Most Destructive Force On The Planet

Portland High School Fears Potential New Tree Mascot Could Be Racist

CBS, NBC Cheer Denver All-Star Game With Lies About Georgia, Tout Biden’s Threat

Policing the far Left

Florida’s Democratic Emergency Management Director Says He Told ’60 Minutes’ Its Hit On DeSantis Was ‘Bulls**t’

Yes, Traditional Media Helped Fuel the Latest Capitol Attack

Trump Says Gaetz Never Asked for Pardon, NY Times Wrong

Former CNN Anchor Brooke Baldwin Exits Company By Accusing The Network Of Being Male-Dominated

Law Student’s Instagram Posting Triggers Debate Over Anti-White Speech

 

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Georgia Lawmaker Won’t Face Charges for Voting Bill Protest

7th April 2021

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The Georgia lawmaker who was arrested after knocking on the door of the governor’s office as he made televised comments in support of the sweeping, controversial new election law he’d just signed will not be charged, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Rep. Park Cannon, an Atlanta Democrat, was arrested March 25 and charged with obstruction of law enforcement and disruption of the General Assembly. She was released from jail later that evening.

“While some of Representative Cannon’s colleagues and the police officers involved may have found her behavior annoying, such sentiment does not justify a presentment to a grand jury of the allegations in the arrest warrants or any other felony charges,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said in an emailed statement.

And so she’ll keep doing it , and doing it, and doing it, until she actually gets charged with something.

This is why we see so many violent protests — the protesters, even when they are arrested, are held for a while and then sent on their way. So they internalize the belief that breaking the law for political purposes is free. And they’ll continue to do it.

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Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery

7th April 2021

A review.

In the 2019 British general election, the Labour Party was eviscerated, losing 60 seats and handing the Conservative Party a massive 80-seat majority. The most dramatic repudiation came in the Midlands and the North, where seats that had never voted Conservative fell to the Tories. It was an electoral catastrophe, and Paul Embery’s book Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class is intended to provide an autopsy and an analysis of the Left’s deeper ideological and cultural errors.

Embery comes from within the left-conservative, Blue Labour tradition of Tory Socialists like John Ruskin—a left-wing form of post-liberal politics that leans left on economics and right on culture. Cultural distinction without exclusion; relationality over autonomy; community self-help over government centralisation. In clean, clear prose over 200 pages, he mourns the destruction of his party as a serious political force, and sets out what he thinks it must do if it is to be able to fight again effectively.

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This Japanese Shop Is 1,020 Years Old.

7th April 2021

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Naomi Hasegawa’s family sells toasted mochi out of a small, cedar-timbered shop next to a rambling old shrine in Kyoto. The family started the business to provide refreshments to weary travelers coming from across Japan to pray for pandemic relief — in the year 1000.

Now, more than a millennium later, a new disease has devastated the economy in the ancient capital, as its once reliable stream of tourists has evaporated. But Ms. Hasegawa is not concerned about her enterprise’s finances.

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Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe

7th April 2021

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Numerically, the fine-structure constant, denoted by the Greek letter ? (alpha), comes very close to the ratio 1/137. It commonly appears in formulas governing light and matter. “It’s like in architecture, there’s the golden ratio,” said Eric Cornell, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. “In the physics of low-energy matter — atoms, molecules, chemistry, biology — there’s always a ratio” of bigger things to smaller things, he said. “Those ratios tend to be powers of the fine-structure constant.”

The constant is everywhere because it characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic force affecting charged particles such as electrons and protons. “In our everyday world, everything is either gravity or electromagnetism. And that’s why alpha is so important,” said Holger Müller, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley. Because 1/137 is small, electromagnetism is weak; as a consequence, charged particles form airy atoms whose electrons orbit at a distance and easily hop away, enabling chemical bonds. On the other hand, the constant is also just big enough: Physicists have argued that if it were something like 1/138, stars would not be able to create carbon, and life as we know it wouldn’t exist.

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The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand

7th April 2021

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One of the dominant themes of the last few years is that nothing makes sense. Donald Trump is president, QAnon has mainstreamed fringe conspiracy theories, and hundreds of thousands are dead from a pandemic and climate change while many Americans do not believe that the pandemic or climate change are deadly. It’s incomprehensible.

I am here to tell you that the reason so much of the world seems incomprehensible is that it is incomprehensible. From social media to the global economy to supply chains, our lives rest precariously on systems that have become so complex, and we have yielded so much of it to technologies and autonomous actors that no one totally comprehends it all.

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What Is the “Protein Folding Problem”? A Brief Explanation

7th April 2021

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Tell the truth: I’ll bet you didn’t even know that there was a ‘protein folding problem’.

UPDATE: Protein folding: Much more intricate than we thought

 

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When Specialty Cheesemaking Becomes a Quarantine Pastime

7th April 2021

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Until recently, Antoine Ricardou was, in no way, a cheesemaker. An architect and co-founder of the branding and design firm Be-poles, Ricardou spent his days jetting between the firm’s Paris and New York City offices, overseeing projects for such clients as Eleven Madison Park in Manhattan and Les Roches Rouges on the Côte d’Azur.

Then, this past March—well, you know what happened this past March. So, the 47-year-old, along with his wife and their three children, left a pandemic-stricken Paris for the relative isolation of France’s Haute-Savoie region, where the family owns an early-1800s chalet. Ricardou, who chuckles at the word “chalet,” is quick to dispel any notions of grandeur: “It’s simple and traditional, and did not have heat or hot water when we bought it last year.”

CHEEEEEEESE!

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Climate Change, Housing, Schools: Here’s Where Much Of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Will Be Spent

7th April 2021

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Apparently child care is ‘infrastructure’. Who knew?

UPDATE: 9 Things You Need to Know About Biden’s ‘Infrastructure’ Spending Plan

 

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Fighting Fascism Through Mass Immigration

7th April 2021

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Nothing says “anti-fascist” like taking George Soros’ money to work with people-traffickers and bring illegal immigrants across the Mediterranean to Europe.

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Who Is Behind This?

7th April 2021

ZMan peers behind the curtain.

When you stop and think about it, the way in which politics and the media are presented in movies and television is a masterful bit of propaganda. On the one hand, it fully acknowledges the corruption of all democratic politics. The people in the system are always bad people. On the other hand, the bad guys always lose to the good guys, the voters, so it is proof that the system works. In other words, political corruption is turned into proof that the system works. That is some real 4-D chess.

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Thought for the Day

7th April 2021

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Jeff Bezos Comes Out in Support Oo Increased Corporate Taxes

7th April 2021

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And why not? Corporate taxes aren’t paid by corporations but merely passed on to their customers. And they’re taxed only on ‘profits’ which Bezos has carefully arranged Amazon to have little of.

Of course, it’s too much to expect dimwist like ‘journalists’ and politicians either to understand such things or to be able to explain them to others. So we get simpleton government.

UPDATE: Jeff Bezos supports US tax rise after not paying it for two years – and paying tiny amount in 2019

UPDATE: Amazon, Which Routinely Avoids Taxes, Supports Biden’s Corporate Tax Rate Hike  And why not? It’s not as if Amazon is going to pay any of it. And if they can raise taxes on their smaller competitors, who do need to make a (taxable) profit, they’re good with that.

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Hunter Biden, Media-Pampered (Scam) Artist

7th April 2021

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It doesn’t take a particularly impressive imagination to predict how the liberal media would cover one of Donald Trump’s sons if he had a major crack and alcohol addiction. Stories would begin with the notion that Trump was a terrible father, obviously too self-absorbed and absent to raise his children right.

CNN would certainly strike that pose. But on Sunday’s Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter was deeply impressed with the “extraordinary” and “breathtaking” Hunter Biden memoir. Stelter gleefully promoted every tabloidish Trump-trashing book — from Omarosa to Scaramucci — but he’s doing the exact opposite now.

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Maglev to Destroy Habitat & Climate

7th April 2021

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A proposed maglev line between Washington and Baltimore will disrupt 1,000 acres of “parks, recreational facilities and wetlands,” according to a recently released draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the project. That’s a lot of land considering that all but nine miles of the project would be underground. While 180 acres are for a maintenance facility, the remaining acres represent a right-of-way that is an average of 750 feet wide.

This potential disruption has raised the ire of the local chapter of the Audubon Society, which is opposing the plan. As the Antiplanner recently noted, such land disruptions will be an issue for all high-speed rail lines, and in that analysis I was clearly being conservative in assuming a mere 80-foot right-of-way. By contrast, airlines don’t need any right-of-way once they leave the airports.

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Sharp rise in parents seeking to ban anti-racist books in US schools

7th April 2021

The Guardian.

Demands by parents to remove books from library shelves addressing racism soared in the US in 2020, the American Library Association has revealed.

An annual list that is regularly dominated by titles covering LGBTQ+ issues, the ALA’s Top 10 most challenged books contains a number of anti-racism titles for the first time in 2020. Although the list was topped for the third year running by Alex Gino’s George, the story of a fourth-grade transgender girl, Ibram X Kendi and Jason Reynolds’ Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, a history of racism for children and teens, was the year’s second most challenged title. In their complaints, parents claimed that Stamped contained “selective storytelling incidents” and “does not encompass racism against all people”, said the ALA.

In response, Kendi, a historian of race, said that he was proud of the work he and Reynolds had done on the book, and “not at all surprised” to hear it made the Top 10.

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Today in Black Privilege

6th April 2021

SNL Criticized for Skit About Black Doctor Convincing Family Members to Get Vaccines

Chicago Shootings In March Top Four Year High As Mayor Lightfoot’s Plan To Combat Crime Fails  BRAAAAAAAINS!

The Radicalization of Black America

REPORT: Kodak Black Ambushed In Florida Pat Boone never had to worry about this sort of thing.

MLB Moves All-Star Game From Atlanta To One Of The Whitest Cities In America

Colbert Slimes Georgia Law: White People Are ‘Terrified of Stacey Abrams’

Baltimore’s Rogue Prosecutor Mosby Facing 3 Probes of Official Duties, Travel, Gifts

‘Gun Control Has Been Racist’: ‘Black Guns Matter’ Activist Explains Why There’s A Surge In Firearm Sales To Black Americans

Nation of Islam Calls Member Who Assaulted U.S. Capitol ‘Brother With Such Great Potential’

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

6th April 2021

Mea Culpa: Oregon’s Largest Newspaper Admits Defunding Police Was A Terrible Idea As Homicides Skyrocket

Senate Parliamentarian Sets Dangerous Precedent, Grants Schumer Permission For Second Reconciliation Vote

Spending Free For All: Paid Family And Medical Leave Is Infrastructure According To House Democrats

MLB All-Star Game Reportedly Moved To Colorado, A State With Voter ID Laws Similar To Georgia  But it’s a safely Blue state, so that’s all right then.

In The Name Of Social Justice, MLB Moved All-Star Game From Mostly Black City To Mostly White City

Leaked Docs Show UK Government Has Planned For Vaccine Passports All Along

Portland, Oregon Police to City: We Quit

The IMF And World Bank, Who Pay No Taxes, Are About To Talk About Tax Hikes And Inequality

CBS WHORES Out for Crony Capitalism, Backs Biden Billions to Electric Cars in ‘Infrastructure’

North Las Vegas Mayor, Lifelong Democrat, Switches Parties, Citing ‘Socialist Takeover’ In Nevada

Biden Administration Told Senator To ‘Delete The Pictures’ From Border Visit

Key Democratic Vendors Still Doing Business with Lincoln Project After Sex Scandal

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

6th April 2021

j‘Double mutant’ coronavirus variant surfaces in Bay Area. Here’s what we know

Contaminated surface has under 1 in 10k chance of causing an infection

New Zealand to open quarantine-free “travel bubble” with Australia

Why are we continuing to imprison our population at the say so of virological water diviners ?

‘I’m Not Really Quite Sure’: Fauci Can’t Explain Why Texas COVID Cases Are Dropping Despite The State Lifting All Restrictions

Dr. Fauci Predicts At Least 3 More COVID Variants May Be Required To Completely Break America’s Spirit  Babylon Bee.

Carnival: “We May Have No Choice” But To Move Cruise Ships Outside US To Resume Operations

Democrats Come to Defense of Gov. Rick DeSantis After ‘60 Minutes’ Segment on COVID-19 Vaccine

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

6th April 2021

Fact check: Biden administration officials falsely describe infrastructure jobs estimate (CNN) Yeah, surprised me too.

Wall Street will leave NY if tax and spend continues: Steve Moore

Biden Said He Would ‘Strongly Support’ The MLB Boycott Of Georgia, What Is He Going To Do About The Beijing Olympics?

March Border Crossings Surge to 15-Year High: Report

Biden Admin Massively Overstated How Many Jobs His Infrastructure Plan Will Create — By Roughly 600%

Iran Claims Victory Over United States as New Nuke Talks Begin

2 Men on Terror Watchlist Caught Crossing Southern Border

Hunter Biden Admits His Name Was ‘Gold’ to Burisma

Nets Cheered ‘Important New Job’ for Kamala at Border, Crickets as She’s MIA Now

Biden Disapproval Soars As Over 170,000 Illegal Immigrants Flood The US In March, Most In A Decade

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

6th April 2021

NY Times Laments Liberal BBC’s ‘War on Woke,’ Lets Far-Left Host Cry Racism

San Francisco School Board Set To Walk Back On Efforts To Change ‘Racist’ School Names

Google Removes Entire State Of Georgia From Google Maps  Babylon Bee.

‘What The Hell?’ New ‘Capt America’ Nazi Villain Modeled On Dr. Jordan Peterson?

Uh-Oh! Does New Platform’s Partnership with Left-Wing Stripe Signal Future Censorship?

MSNBC Hate Sermon: ReidOut Rages Against ‘Racist’ ‘Selfish’ Christian Right

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

6th April 2021

Japan just recorded its earliest cherry blossom bloom in 1,200 years. Scientists warn it’s a symptom of the larger climate crisis (CNN)

Belong To The Climate Club Or Get Penalized: The EU’s New Trade Protectionism

Reforestation Is Great! But We’re Running Out of Seeds  Wired ‘Science’.

Dangerously Stupid Science: Solar Geoengineering Hey, a nuclear war would cool everything down. Guaranteed.

 

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Today’s Theological Heresies on Race and Climate

6th April 2021

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

If you have a Wall Street Journal subscription, don’t miss today’s Gerard Baker column, “The C-Suite Converts to the New Political Religion.” If you don’t have a subscription, here’s the key part:

The modern secularists who deride the hagridden mysticism of traditional religion are now the most devoted congregants in the First Church of Antiracism. Penitents line up to be shriven for their white privilege, bending the knee before the altar of justice and equity. They present pendants of the martyred St. George of Minneapolis for blessing from Hollywood prelates and Ivy League divines, solemnly chanting canticles from the Black Lives Matter breviary.

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Doctor Who Helped Cuomo Family Jump the Line for COVID-19 Tests Worked for Health Commissioner’s State Funded Nonprofit

6th April 2021

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Dr. Eleanor Adams made multiple trips to the homes of various Cuomo family members, including Cuomo’s brother CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s Hamptons home and his mother, Matilda Cuomo’s personal residence, according to the Post.

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Thought for the Day

6th April 2021

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Truth Versus Justice

6th April 2021

ZMan waxes philosophica.

In his essay Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote that “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Ever since it has been a useful dismissal of the pedant, but it is also a useful way of understanding American politics. One side in the political fight spends all of its time fussing about inconsistencies of the other side, while the winning side is happy to dismiss their own hypocrisies. As Emerson understood, it is the latter who always has the edge over the former.

It is the Right, of course, that spends all of its time fussing about inconsistencies on the Left, while the Left just wins every fight. The American Left, unlike the European Left, grew out of that peculiar form of American Christianity that has informed its worldview since the 19th century. Filled with self-righteous fury over the inequity of the world, the righteous are free to do as they please to right the wrongs of the world. Even their own past statements are no impediment to them.

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Thought for the Day

6th April 2021

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Palm Sunday in Ireland

6th April 2021

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Father P.J. Hughes is the parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Mullahoran, a township in rural County Cavan, Ireland. He recently earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first Irish priest for centuries to find himself on the wrong side of the law for saying Mass in public.

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The March to Appeasement

6th April 2021

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Elections have consequences, and one consequence of the 2020 election will be a return to the foreign policy of the Obama era that seeks to punish Israel, isolate the Arabs, elevate Iran as a regional power, and assure friend and foe alike that tough talk from American leaders is just that: talk.

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Winchester Gets a Statue of St. Greta

6th April 2021

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A life-sized likeness of the Swedish climate-rescue maiden Greta Thunberg is coming to the University of Winchester in England. Despite severe economic hardship, a bronze simulacrum of Greta the Great that cost about $31,000 (£24,000) will be erected in front of the “climate-smart” West Downs Centre at the University.

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A Short History of Wokery

6th April 2021

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Wokery burst onto the scene much like covid or, more appropriately, the Black Death. Or World War II. Has so much stupidity been promulgated so quickly and so broadly at any time in human history? Maybe not. Previous stupid phenomena like the witchcraft scare and phrenology took longer to take root.

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Why Does 60 Minutes Still Exist?

6th April 2021

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

It is remarkable that, nearly 17 years after Rathergate, 60 Minutes still exists and apparently has an audience. 60 Minutes has never been truthful or reliable. Not long before Rathergate, we wrote about another instance of blatant misuse of documents by that program to support a false narrative. It hasn’t gotten any better since then.

Last night, 60 Minutes contributed to the Democratic Party’s smear campaign against Governor Ron DeSantis by airing a heavily edited exchange between CBS “reporter” Sharyn Alfonsi and DeSantis. Alfonsi accused DeSantis of rewarding Publix, a contributor to his campaign, by giving Publix a role in covid vaccine distribution in Florida. DeSantis thoroughly rebutted Alfonsi’s accusation, so 60 Minutes simply deleted almost everything he said to make it look as though he had no real answer to Alfonsi.

Watched it once back in the day. Wasn’t impressed.

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House Candidate Takes Aim at Newspaper for Calling Her Comments ‘Racist,’ Requests $10 Million in Damages

5th April 2021

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A candidate in the special election for Texas’ 6th Congressional District filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against a local newspaper.

Sery Kim, an official in both the Donald Trump and George W. Bush administrations, filed a lawsuit against the Texas Tribune over its characterization of comments she made at a March 31 candidate forum as “racist.” Kim, a Republican, is running to replace Republican Rep. Ron Wright, who died on Feb. 7 after battles with lung cancer and COVID-19.

The Texas Tribune is the Texas equivalent of The Guardian in Britain, a dependably left-wing publication that does it’s best attempting to turn Texas into California.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

5th April 2021

The New Pause lengthens by three months to 5 years 10 months

Evidence of Antarctic glacier’s tipping point confirmed for first time  Except that the article doesn’t say that, it says that it ‘could’ reach a tipping point.

 

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Today in Black Privilege

5th April 2021

Buccaneers Player Carlton Davis Tweets Racial Slur, Says ‘Gotta Stop Letting G**ks In Miami’

Police Data Shows Chicago Shootings For March At Highest Level In 4 Years

Black-Owned Businesses Bound To Take Major Hit From Biden’s MLB Pressure Campaign

30 Shots Fired At Park On Easter Leaves 1 Dead, 4 Injured

Prosecutors Ask Jurors To Dismiss George Floyd Autopsy Findings

DC Carjack Killers May Be Back On The Streets Within Years

Doesn’t Fit the Narrative: Morning Shows Omit Capitol Attacker Was a Farrakhan Follower

REPORT: Girls Accused Of Killing Uber Eats Driver Reach Plea Deal To Not Be Held Past 21 Years Old

Parents Outraged After Teacher Reportedly Instructed Students At Texas School To Watch Video Of George Floyd’s Death And Keep It Secret

Permanent Racism

You Knew We’d Get There! WashPost Hits Racist Appropriation of Phrase ‘Cancel Culture’

Charles Barkley To Undergo Racial Sensitivity Training To Be Less White  Babylon Bee.

 

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Today in The Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

5th April 2021

‘Like Making El Chapo The Drug Czar’: Sen. John Kennedy Questions Choice Of Kamala Harris As Illegal Immigration Head

ANALYSIS: The Least Important Thing About Biden’s Federal Judges Is Apparently Their Most Important Quality

March Border Crossings Jump to 15-Year High

Biden’s Infrastructure Plan a Boon for Unions

Leaked Numbers on Illegal Immigration Called ‘Undeniable’ Proof That Biden Policies Sparked Border Crisis

The Swamp Desperately Fights For A Piece Of Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

5th April 2021

Celebs Rant Against ‘Lying, Cheating,’ Vote-Suppressing GOP ‘Bullies’

Twitter Again Suspends Rep. Taylor Greene’s Account ‘In Error’

Sen. Warnock Deletes Easter Tweet Amid Cries of ‘Heresy’

Big Tech Exodus: Lara Trump Moves Show to CloutHub After Facebook Censors Interview

NASA Ends Mars Mission After Finding Out Planet Has No Early Voting  Babylon Bee.

CBS Teams Up With Atlanta Mayor to Blame GOP for Economic Damage of Left-Wing Georgia Boycotts

“It Was Intentionally False”: 60 Minutes Slammed For Fabricating “Pay-For-Play” Narrative Against Gov. DeSantis

Democratic Florida Mayor: 60 Minutes Hit On DeSantis ‘Not Just Based On Bad Information — It Was Intentionally False’

When Hyperbole Becomes Reality

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

5th April 2021

US Grant To Wuhan Lab To Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized By HHS Review Board, NIH Says

Texas COVID Cases, Deaths Plummet After Gov. Abbott Repeals Mask Mandate  Isn’t that amazing.

Fauci Blames Coronavirus on Our Failure to Live in ‘Harmony With Nature’

A Bus Driver’s Life Is Worth $16,200

DeSantis: ’60 Minutes’ Report on Vaccine Rollout a ‘Fake Narrative’

‘Get Out! Get Out!’: Diners Heckle Health Inspectors Out Of Restaurant, City Vows Revenge

‘I’m Sorry If Politicians Are Scared Of Teacher’s Unions’: Joe Scarborough Goes Off On School Re-Opening Pushback

’60 Minutes’ Flamed Over ‘Hit Job’ Against Gov. DeSantis, Publix On Vaccine Distribution

CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Now Punch Unvaccinated People In The Face  Babylon Bee.

Candace Owens: Twitter ‘Sticking Bulls**t Labels on Tweets’ Won’t Make Me Get Vaccinated

‘We Have Lost Our Ever-Loving Minds’: Megyn Kelly Tweets About Family Kicked Off Plane Over Child Not Wearing Mask

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

5th April 2021

Watch CNN’s Jim Acosta Justify $2 Trillion ‘Infrastructure’ Deal By Bellyaching About Wifi On His Trips Between DC And NYC

CNN’s Brown Frets Biden Not Moving Fast Enough on Gun Control

REPORT: Twitter Spins Sensitive Content Filter To Abuse Conservatives

‘I Guess I Am’: St. Louis Sheriff Responds As Inmates Trash City Jail And Reporters Ask ‘Who’s In Charge?’

DeSantis Smashes CBS Reporter’s Fake Vaccine Narrative, So CBS Takes Him Out of Context

NFL Writer Peter King Is Using His Weekly Column To Push For Gun Control

CASH DUMP! George Soros Pledges $20 Million to Push Biden’s Multitrillion-Dollar Spending Agenda

Hunter Biden Incident Shows That Gun Laws Are For The Little People

YouTube pulls Spectator editor interview with Trump lawyer John Eastman

As violence surges, some question Portland axing police unit

Murder up 35.7% YTD relative to 2019

All-Star Game Moved From Atlanta To Uyghur Prison Camp Yard  Babylon Bee.

The Left’s War on Free Speech

 

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Portland Activists Say Evergreen Is a ‘Tree of Death’

5th April 2021

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Portland Public Schools’ Board of Education delayed a vote to approve an evergreen mascot over concerns that the symbol is connected to lynching and could be misperceived as “a tree of death.”

Students and faculty at Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School overwhelmingly selected an evergreen tree to replace its former Trojans mascot in a recent survey. Board director Michelle DePass delayed the board’s approval vote on the mascot over concerns that evergreens could evoke ties to lynchings, the Portland Tribune reported.

Uh, guys? Nobody was ever lynched from an evergreen tree. The branches aren’t strong enough.

You’d think that somebody in Portland would know that.

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New Poll Spells Big Trouble For Lisa Murkowski

5th April 2021

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A recent poll made public Monday reveals that Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is facing a significant threat from a new Republican challenger.

The new Cygnal poll shows Murkowski trailing Republican Commissioner of Administration Kelly Tshibaka by 15 points in the 2022 all-party Alaska Senate primary. The poll found Murkowski to have just a 33% favorability rating among all Alaskans, compared to 63% unfavorable.

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving RINO.

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