Space Force firing case proves touchstone for raging debate over conservatives and the military

If the GOP is now home to ‘evil lunacy,’ it’s time to leave (Washington Post)

Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera: US ‘Complicit’ in ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

The Rise of Righteous Online Bullies

Biden’s Justice Dept. Fights Order to Release Trump-Russia Probe Memo

Elizabeth Warren Bill Would Force Banks To Reveal ‘Account Flows’ To Catch Wealthy Tax Cheats, Focus On ‘Racial Inequities’  Professor Umbrage is on the warpath again.

Facebook Whistleblowers Reveal Campaign To Censor Vaccine Hesitancy

CNN Invites David Hogg to Condemn Gun Owners as Racist Bigots

CNN Uses Six-Year-Old To Push Left-Wing Fear on Race, Policing

Public School In Illinois Drops Thomas Jefferson From Name Due To Slavery Links

DC Attorney General Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon

NYT’s Op-Ed: These Attacks On Jews Are Especially Bad Because It Makes Republicans Look Right

Sagging NBA Demands Congress Crack Down On America’s Police Officers

Trump Supporters Unequivocally Support Extremism, According To Pentagon Official Overseeing Efforts To Root Out Extremism

Connecticut Confirms at Least 18 Cases of Apparent Heart Problems in Young People After COVID-19 Vaccination

Governor Gretchen Whitmer broke the rules. Nobody cares.

‘That’s A Lot Of About-Faces And A Lot Of Flip-Flops’: Kayleigh McEnany Calls Out Dr. Fauci’s Changing Positions

Facebook Attempts to Silence Users Who Doubt Covid Vaccine

Ron Paul: How Texas Killed COVID

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The deification of George Floyd, armed robber, drug addict and petty criminal, continues apace.

Severian really doesn’t care.

I’m told Hamas is firing rockets at Gaza, and that Israel is striking back. I don’t care. I used to care what happens in the Middle East, on the not-unreasonable theory that the total destabilization of the planet’s most oil-rich region, and a massive international trade hub, is the kind of thing that starts world wars. But dressing your airborne troops in red high heels, ordering strongly encouraging your embassies to fly the “black lives matter” flag*, and instructing your ambassador to publicly take a dump on his own country are also the kind of things that start world wars, so what’s the diff?

Needless to say, I also used to care about what happened in the Middle East on the theory that one should try to uphold civilization and resist barbarism, but I knew that was foolish even as I was doing it. Hamas et al might be stone-age savages, but all they want to do is commit genocide. I heard some egghead advocating five ideas more repugnant than that every day in the ivory tower. Needless to say I consider genocide bad, but at least Hamas knows which bathroom to use. From the perspective of “the long-term survival of the human race,” which is worse? We lost the “uphold civilization” battle the minute we started subsidizing student loans.

Can’t say he’s wrong.

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Yet a question infrequently answered is how, in the apparently civilised and enlightened 21st century, leaders are able to get away with such brazen acts against their own populace and with flouting international law.

The reason is, quite simply, due to fear and a sense that the West will never stand up to the world’s dictators. On the home front, Lukashenko has no need for cyber hacks or population monitoring when he has a police force ready and willing to detain or batter political opponents – and when the price of resistance is so brutally high, there is little incentive to join rallies and marches. Leonid Volkov, Alexei Navalny’s chief of staff, told me during an interview for this magazine that over a million Russians would flock to the streets to protest Vladimir Putin’s regime. In the end there were between 7,000 to 9,000 protestors in Saint Petersburg and 10,000 to 15,000 in Moscow, with over 1,700 people ultimately being arrested at the rallies. In short, few people were willing to risk being arrested.

Western sanctions never affect those who dominate politics in Minsk and Moscow.

I’ve known people like that. But not for long.

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An international, interdisciplinary team of researchers that includes engineers from The University of Austin has found a way to replicate a natural process that moves water between cells, with a goal of improving how we filter out salt and other elements and molecules to create clean water while consuming less energy.

In a new paper published today (May 20, 2021) in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers created a molecule-sized water transport channel that can carry water between cells while excluding protons and undesired molecules. These channels mimic the water transport functions of proteins in our bodies known as aquaporins. In our cells, uncontrolled transport of protons alongside water can be harmful because they can change the pH of cells, potentially disrupting or killing them.

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The Federal Reserve Bank, which is charged with setting monetary policy, appears to be going woke, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., warns.

Toomey cited the focus of the Fed’s 12 regional banks on “structural racism” as the leading cause of inequality in the United States as part of a series of virtual events titled “Racism and the Economy.”

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Some time ago I found myself in the middle of a discussion about race relations and minority experiences. When it was my chance to speak, I mentioned some statistical data that appeared to challenge the common narrative that racism is widespread and systemic. My interlocutor’s reply was that he simply did not care about the data—his own experiences as a person of color were more important and trumped any appeal to statistics. Another party to the discussion agreed, saying that people matter more than numbers.

The title of a recent article by Dawn Butler, a British MP, echoes this sentiment: “Unless you have lived experience of racism there’s no guarantee you’ll understand it.” A host of other politicians have leveraged appeals to lived experience in support of their policy goals. Elsewhere, a reporter for Time describes her lived experiences as a “source of expertise” as opposed to an “emotional bias.” Lived experiences have taken on a near-sacred status under which they cannot be questioned. Case in point: the Facebook group for the news website Vox bans “comments that invalidate the lived experiences of group members.”

But are lived experiences really that special? No. Quite simply, appeals to “lived experiences” are exercises in bad statistical reasoning.

One person’s ‘lived experience’ has no validity for anyone other than that one person, and sometimes not even then.

Matt Taibbi.

The news business just can’t stop clowning itself. The latest indignity is an international fact-checking debacle originating, of all places, at a “festival of fact-checking.”

The Poynter Institute is perhaps the most respected think tank in our business, an organization seeking to “fortify journalism’s role in a free society,” among other things through its sponsorship of the fact-checking outlet PolitiFact. A few weeks back, it held a virtual convention called the “United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking.”

The three-day event featured special guests Christiane Amanpour, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Brian Stelter, and Senator Mark Warner — a lineup of fact “stars” whose ironic energy recalled the USO’s telethon-execution of Terrance and Phillip before the invasion of Canada in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Tickets were $50, but if you wanted a “private virtual happy hour” with Stelter, you needed to pay $100 for the “VIP Experience.”

During the confab, PolitiFact’s Katie Sanders asked Fauci, “Are you still confident that [Covid-19] developed naturally?” To which the convivial doctor answered, “No, I’m not convinced of that,” going on to say “we” should continue to investigate all hypotheses about how the pandemic began.

Climate Change Alarmism as a Class War

‘War’ footing needed to correct economists’ miscalculations on climate change, says professor

Fact Checking the Wildfire-Climate Link

Ocean Surface Temperature Limit-Part 2

Lithium, Cobalt, & Rare Earths: The Post-Petroleum Resource Race

Ex-FDA Chief Gottlieb: COVID Risk Assessment Up to Individual

The Mask Regime Is Crumbling, But Hanging On

Victory Lap?

Rockin’ pneumonia or the Wuhan flu?

Return of Hack Colbert to Bring ‘Normalcy and Healing,’ Like After 9/11

SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans

Whitmer’s Administration Rescinds COVID Rule She Broke Days Earlier

CDC Introduces New Anti-Virus Hat For Concerned Liberals To Wear  Babylon Bee.

COVID origin dissent ‘suppressed’ by intelligence community, House GOP report finds

Fmr. NY Times Science Editor: Mainstream Media Chose Propaganda Over Research on COVID Origins

Here Are 9 Lame Excuses Politicians Gave For Breaking Their Own COVID Rules

BLM activist Sasha Johnson in critical condition after gunshot to the head

Dominique Wilkins accuses Atlanta restaurant of racism after being ‘turned away’ He’s so oppressed.

Toddler Accidentally Shot His Baby Sister After Finding Gun Under Sofa Cushion

At least 6 people were injured and taken to a hospital after a shooting at a New Jersey house

‘The Chi’ Brings Back Police for Yet ANOTHER Black Lives Matter Storyline

Police Are Searching For Former Michigan State Star Keith Appling After He Allegedly Killed A Man

3-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots 2-Year-Old Sister After Gun Owner Shoved Firearm In Couch Cushions To Keep It Away From Kids

Man Arrested After Allegedly Selling High School Senior Fatal Dose Of Fentanyl

One Killed, 14 Injured In Illegal South Carolina Concert Shooting

‘BURN IT DOWN,’ 127 TV Episodes Pushed Black Lives Matter in the Year Since George Floyd’s Death

Baseball Player Elvis Lebron Attacks An Umpire With A Bat  Seems as if there are a lot of POX out there who have an impulse-control problem.

Keith Appling Arrested In Michigan After Allegedly Shooting A Man To Death

New York City Is Back: At Least 30 People Shot Over The Weekend

Police Capture Murder Suspect After Week on Run

LeBron James’s Reckless Disregard for Human Life Goes Unpunished (Just Like China’s)

48 Shot, 10 Fatally During Another Bloody Weekend In Lightfoot’s Chicago  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Support For Black Lives Matter Drops To Two Year Low

Ted Cruz Comes Back Swinging After MSNBC’s Brian Williams Called Him ‘Kremlin Cruz’

NYC Suspect Said He Would Beat Jewish Man Again

‘Evil lunacy’: GOP lawmakers slam Marjorie Taylor Greene’s mask comparison to Holocaust (NBC News)

He couldn’t take Trump’s lies anymore (CNN) Who? It doesn’t matter, so long as Trump is slimed in the headline.

Trump’s GOP is a Party of Snowflakes and Beta Males (Daily Beast) More projection from the Narrative Media.

BBC journalist: ‘Hitler was right’

Even Without Social Media, Trump Finds a Way to Shape the News

Punished For Truth Telling

Associated Press Staff Calls For ‘Clarity,’ Rallies In Open Letter After Emily Wilder Fired Over Anti-Israel Comments

Media Trample On Celtics Player For Wearing So-called ‘Racist’ Shirt

Lefties MELT DOWN Over CBS Committing Random Act of Journalism on Trans People

Media Dismissed Lab Leak Theory Because Trump Talked About It, According To Washington Post Senior Reporter

DeSantis Torches Reporter, Asks Why Iran Leader Is ‘Allowed Talk About Killing Jews’ On Social Media But Trump Is Banned

CNN SHOCKED (and Sad) Liz Cheney Won’t Say All ID Laws are Part of ‘Big Lie’

‘Happy Holocaust’: Auschwitz Survivor Targeted On TikTok

Biden’s Top Energy Regulator Lobbied for Company Behind Admin-Approved Wind Farm

Drone Captures Footage Of 40 Illegal Immigrants Being Chased By Border Patrol Agents

National Guard Finally Set To Leave Capitol After Nearly Five Months

Is Biden’s inflated presidency about to burst?

Obama’s Top Economist: Unemployment Benefits, Not Lack Of Childcare, Could Be Harming Recovery

Biden ICE Nominee Partnered With Chinese Propaganda Ministry

State AGs Threaten Legal Action Against Biden Admin Push for Taxpayer-Funded Abortion

Preference Or Prejudice? Federal Court Finds Biden Administration Is Engaged In Racial and Gender Discrimination Oh, say it ain’t so….

Republican Sen. John Kennedy Blames Biden For Turning US Into ‘Giant Sanctuary City’

‘Devout Catholic’ Biden Bails On Notre Dame Commencement After 1000s Sign Petition Demanding No Invite  Hey, it’s not as if Notre Dame was identifiably Catholic, these days.

How high taxes, rampant crime, streets littered with addicts are blamed for ruining the Golden State

‘Breyer Retire’ Campaign Is Effort to Focus Liberals on Court Picks

‘Defund’ Movement Inspires Gun Boom And Private Policing

G-7 Reportedly Nears Deal On Yellen’s Global Minimum Corporate Tax Proposal

Andrea Mitchell Pushes Anti-Israel Propaganda on Gaza Civilian Casualties

School Places Teacher On Leave After Assigning ‘Sexual Temperament’ Survey From Book On How To ‘Transform’ Sex Life

Ilhan Omar: ‘Antisemitism Wouldn’t Be A Problem If We Got Rid Of All The Jews’  Babylon Bee.

NFL Mimics Other Left-Wing Orgs by Embracing Anti-Asian Bigotry

12 Mass Shootings Over Weekend As America Descends Into Chaotic Summer 

The Undefeated Writer Fumes Over Declining Support For BLM, Police Defunding

Associated Press Doubles Down on Left-Wing Rhetoric

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There was a huge flurry of hope in the British media over the weekend that this would be the long-dreamt of real-life example of White Supremacists attacking Black Lives Matter heroines.

But instead … it turned out to be another example of the racial reckoning correlating with black exuberance which correlates with black parties which correlate with blacks firing inaccurately into crowds of blacks.

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Following the official launch of the new iMac on Friday, iFixit has already gotten its hands on one of these redesigned 24-inch iMacs to share its traditional teardown. This gives us a better look at the internal parts of the computer, which is basically a single logic board with everything soldered there.

I love these.

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omewhere in Paris, in a white room, seated at a white table, a man wearing a headset reminiscent of those worn by VR gamers reached out with his right hand and placed his fingers on a black notebook. This simple motion, which he executed with confidence, was notable for one very important reason: The man had been blind for close to four decades.

What was different now was that as part of a clinical trial, genes had been injected into one of his eyes, causing neurons in the retina to produce a light-sensing protein normally found in the slimy bodies of green algae. When the black goggles he was wearing projected video images of his surroundings as a pulsed light beam onto those now-light-sensitive cells, the neurons fired, and the signal traveled up the optic nerve and into the visual processing center of the brain. The genetically modified neurons had become stand-ins for the photoreceptors he had lost many years before to a genetic disease called retinitis pigmentosa.

The man’s progress identifying objects inside the lab and out in the world were reported Monday in Nature Medicine. While he couldn’t see colors or fine details, the case study describes the first time optogenetic therapy successfully restored partial vision to a blind patient.

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The current scene keeps bringing back to mind the old saying attributed (incorrectly) to Mark Twain: history doesn’t repeat itself—but it rhymes. Right now the country seems to be repeating the cycle of the 1960s, when liberals in power gave us reckless spending that stoked inflation, social engineering like “model cities” and busing, degraded law enforcement with soft-on-crime policies contributing to a massive crime wave, and race riots that elicited ritual confessions of liberal guilt (i.e., the Kerner Commission report of 1968). By the time the cycle was done in the early 1970s, Richard Nixon piled up a 49-state landslide—a repudiation of liberalism that carried through Reagan’s landslides in the 1980s.

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Men wearing Palestinian keffiyas have been running around beating up Jews in the streets of America and Europe. Israel was envisioned as the safe haven for persecuted Jews living in exile, and now Jews living in the diaspora are being attacked because Israel not only exists, but dares to defend itself against Islamist terrorist aggression.

In addition, interfaith do-gooders, feminist academics, and scholars in general are issuing statements of support for Palestine, but not for Israel, which has been under the most profound siege.

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The Army’s ERAMS program will soon announce development contracts for howitzer shells capable of firing over 100 km (62 miles) to counter Russian and Chinese artillery.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

Severian has an Uncanny Valley moment.

For my lunch break yesterday, I stopped by the convenience store to grab a burger. The store is located right next door to a post office. Just as I’m getting out of my car, this guy roars up on a Harley. He looked exactly what popped into your head when you read “roared up on a Harley” — big dude, bandana over his hair, beard down to his sternum, leather vest, sleeve tattoos, earring, greasy jeans, roach-stomper boots….

….and a mask. A bright blue disposable one, the kind they used to hand out at doc-in-the-box if you came in with the real flu. This tiny little patch of corrugated blue fabric looked so incongruous on that big hairy face that I almost burst out laughing — “yo, big kahuna, that little bitty bit of cloth surrounded by beard makes you look like a centerfold from the 1970s.” But I didn’t, of course, because this guy would kick my ass…

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Try as I might, I could only come up with two explanations. The first was that this guy really believed the Kung Flu Kraziness. I know, I know, but people believe lots of shit, in all apparent seriousness, that runs directly counter to their lifestyles. In my academic career, for instance, I was surrounded by people who would run screaming in terror if you offered them a cigarette — so unhealthy!! — but smoked unfiltered ditch weed daily. So maybe Billy Badass, though trying his damnedest to give the impression that he’s the kind of guy with a knife in his boot, really was worried about catching The Coof.

The other, of course, was that he’s faking, and all that shit — the custom-painted Harley, the sleeve tats, the boots, the beard, all of it — is just cosplay.

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Earlier this year, we learned of the Chinese Communist Party’s intention to undertake its own, state-approved “translation” of the Bible. Evidently, the Christian Scriptures are not as amenable to CCP orthodoxy as the Politburo would like.

According to the state-run Xinhua News Agency, the Party assembled a group of obedient and pliable “scholars” late last year and charged them with “making accurate and authoritative interpretations of classical doctrines to keep pace with the times.” In other words, the CCP plans to turn the Scriptures into another piece of regime propaganda by rewriting them beyond all recognition.

We don’t yet have access to the full “Chairman Xi Version” of the Bible, but the first fruits of this sordid endeavor were made public last week, when a government-run press published a textbook for high-school students. The textbook, which is used to teach “professional ethics and law,” includes a passage from the eighth chapter of the Gospel According to St. John. The passage recounts the famous story of the woman caught in adultery by Jesus’ enemies and brought before him for judgment. This story is used by the authors of the textbook as a Party-approved moral example of how obedience to the law at all costs is absolutely necessary — an important principle to instill in schoolchildren for a government that brooks no disobedience to its own laws.

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Oh, I hope he does. His nose cannot be too often rubbed into the dirt.

Today is the day
That the masks go away
In Texas.

The gas station on the corner by my house has taken down its plexiglas shields and no longer pleads with you to wear a mask and maintain ‘social distancing’. (Their staff quit wearing masks a while ago.)

My local public library no longer has its WEAR A MASK YOU FARGIN SCIENCE DENIER signs, although the library staff (being Servants of the State) still wear theres.

I think that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

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Activist government’s dysfunction is not only a pervasive problem, but a worsening one. Things used to work better. It took “two decades, with huge cost overruns,” Walters observes, “to replace one-third of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge [after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake], even though building the entire bridge originally took just four years in the 1930s.” Similarly, economists Leah Brooks and Zachary Liscow found that, even after adjusting for inflation, the cost to build one mile of interstate highway tripled between the 1960s and the 1980s.

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Progressives like to think of themselves as forward-looking—thinking about tomorrow, candidate Clinton said in 1992, by way of Fleetwood Mac. Or, as Clinton’s hero John F. Kennedy declared in 1960, the modern liberal “welcomes new ideas” because he is “someone who looks ahead and not behind.”

But yesterday is not gone, Kennedy, Clinton, and Fleetwood Mac to the contrary notwithstanding. William Faulkner was closer to the truth when he said that the past isn’t even past. Its continuing, pervasive effects frustrate progressives’ desire to confine retrospection to criticizing our ancestors’ misdeeds or surpassing their achievements.

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Start helping your own local economy and stop sending your money to Communist China!

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Police in the U.K. are searching for thieves who stole a set of gold rosary beads that Mary Queen of Scots had carried to her execution in 1587, police announced Sunday.

Sussex Police said the rosary beads were stolen Friday night, when thieves set off an alarm after breaking into a window at Arundel Castle in West Sussex, located roughly 65 miles southwest of London.

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Touchscreens, kiosks, headless commerce, drones and even robots delivering pizza are the present and the future of the retail and restaurant industries as those sectors grapple with continued labor shortages, experts say, and that spells growth for startups focused on automation technologies.

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A coordinated effort giving Facebook one-star reviews on the App Store, and elsewhere, is being treated as severe by the social media giant.

Facebook’s average rating on the App Store is reportedly going down.

Facebook’s app on both Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store have reportedly been targeted by activists protesting against the company’s alleged censorship of Palestinian posts. The campaign has been sparked by claims that existing censorship has increased during May’s conflict between Israel and Hamas.

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A drug dealer was tracked down after sharing a photo of Stilton cheese.

Carl Stewart, 39, was identified through his fingerprints after police analysed the image he posted in an online chat.

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Stewart posted the photo on the encrypted messaging service EncroChat, which had been cracked by police.

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Michael O’Leary says the forced diversion of a Ryanair flight to Belarus was a “state-sponsored hijacking”.

The airline’s CEO says it appears authorities removed a journalist and his travelling companion from the plane, while the company also believes there were some KGB agents on board the flight.

The plane – which was flying from Greece to Lithuania – was escorted by a Belarusian fighter jet after reports it had explosives on board, but none were found.

It was forced to divert from Minsk, where an opposition blogger – Roman Protasevich – was arrested.

European leaders will discuss a response to the incident today, after several officials called it “utterly unacceptable”.

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has described it as “aviation piracy that’s state-sponsored”.

UPDATE: EU Threatens Sanctions After One Country Diverts Flight, Orders Fighter Jet To Escort Plane With Journalist To Its Capital City

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In a now-deleted tweet, California Assemblyman David Chiu dramatically posted: “Finding the discarded packaging of a semi-automatic on a leisurely weekend walk was disturbing, particularly during this month’s surge of gun violence in San Francisco.”

Except… if David had maybe looked at the packaging, he would have noticed it’s for a .177 caliber C02 powered BB gun.

I remember the Eddie Murphy movie THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN that tried to take a shot at ‘gun nuts’ by having Congressmen being hosted by corporate lobbyists on a duck hunt — using AR-15s. I suppose they were trying to point out that semi-auto rifles were not genuine hunting weapons and therefore weren’t legitimate for civilian ownership, but they just pointed out how clueless they were about hunting and gun use in general.

Personally, if I knew of anybody who could down duck on the wing with an AR-15, I’d treat him with the greatest of respect.

Former Director Of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe Attacks Biden, Says He’s A Softy On China

Sec. Blinken Won’t Say Whether He Believes Iran Is Funding Hamas Even After The Terror Group Admitted It

Convicted Climate Criminals Saddened They Are Not Above the Law

Climate Change Is Erasing Humanity’s Oldest Art  (Wired ‘Science’)

CO2 Cyclone Doomsday Flat Out Refuted: 170 Years “Absolutely No Trend” In Hurricane Intensity/Frequency

Ocean Surface Temperature Limit-Part 1

Conservative group says California school ‘digitally assassinated’ photo in move ‘straight out of Orwell’ Perhaps they were just trying to keep the kids from being Kavanaughed later on in life.

Republicans might just be clueless (Washington Post) Or maybe it’s just the Washington Post.

The N-Word: a volcano kept active by the flickering embers of racism (Salon)

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith says Tim Tebow NFL comeback is ‘white privilege’

Guess Who Noticed a Certain Autistic Swedish Teenager Is Getting Kind of Fat?

Media Mogul Files $10 Billion Lawsuit Against McDonald’s, Alleges Racial Bias

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Accuses Conservatives of Trying to Silence 1619 Project Writer  Well, yeah – what’s your point?

Jim Acosta Mocks Trump As ‘Mussolini Of Mar-A-Lago,’ Claims GOP Fears Jan. 6 Commission  Bur Mussolini was a socialist — like Jim Acosta.

CNNer Admits CNN Is Intolerant of Conservatives, Panel Smears GOP

Kim Jong Un Reportedly Introduces Ban Against ‘Non-Socialist’ Haircuts  He’d fit right in the Democrat party.

I was the fastest girl in Connecticut. But transgender athletes made it an unfair fight. (USA Today)

Australia’s Defense Chief Bans All “Woke” Events Which “Distract” From Military’s Mission

PBS Loses Video Link of David Brooks Just When He’s Going to Gush Over Biden

We’ll be Lucky if Murders Are Only “Spiking”

Belarus ‘diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist’

Belarus Sends MiG Fighters To Divert Foreign Airliner, Arrests Anti-Lukashenko Journalist On Board

2 Jewish Boys Beaten After Refusing To Repeat ‘Anti-Jewish Statements,’ Police Say, Before Rescue By Anonymous Driver

LA Forms Neighborhood Watch for Jewish Safety Amid Attacks

San Francisco fact of the day

UK Travellers Barred From Germany Amid COVID-19 Variant Spread

Letter from Washington: The great lab leak U-turn

Fauci Admits He’s ‘Not Convinced’ COVID-19 Is Natural  The answer, my friend,/Is blowin’ in the wind….

Facebook Blocks Doctor’s Message on COVID’s Low Infant Mortality Rate

19-year-old accused of killing 1, wounding another with 5-year-old in car in DeSoto tracked to Arizona

DOJ Seizes $90K, Charges BLM Agitator Who ‘Stormed Capitol’ And Sold The Footage

India Demands Social Media Networks Remove References To “Indian Variant” Of COVID

Hypocritical CNN Fires Rick Santorum, But Still Refusing to Punish Chris Cuomo

Former NFL Player Called ‘Not The Right Minority’ By Team When Applying For Coaching Job

Chicago Cops Issue No-Confidence Vote In Mayor After Anti-White Racism  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Charles Barkley Says The NBA Doesn’t Have ‘The Balls To Suspend LeBron James’  Got it in one.

Massive Brawl Breaks Out On A Plane In Wild Viral Video  They’re so oppressed.

Quote of the Day: White Guilt

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n St. Louis, Mo., the worst-in-country murder rate is at a 50-year high, the police department has nearly 100 unfilled jobs, and the mayor wants to defund the department and shut down a city jail.

St. Louis’ Tishaura Jones, who became the city’s first Black female mayor last month, had campaigned on a promise to enact progressive criminal justice reforms.

Time to leave.

Jean-Louis Gassée.

Ordinarily I find Gassée’s comments illuminating, and he does some of that here, but I was disappointed to learn that he has sipped the KoolAid of wokeness, in his apparent belief that uttering a negative opinion about some women somewhere means that one hates all women everywhere. I found Garcia Martinez’s comments about women in Silicon Vally harsh but by no means ‘misogynistic’; he just painted what he saw, and (from what I’ve seen with respect to Silicon Valley) I have no trouble believing that he saw what was actually there. In any event, his opinion is based on experience, not prejudice, and calling it ‘misogynist’ is a stretch too far. But go read his book.

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I’d really like to have one of these. If you can only have one chair, this is the one to have.

Listen to it.

When I was working, I would listen to Mike Gallagher every morning on the way to work.

I’ll read anything written by Victor Davis Hanson that I can.

Highly recommended.

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Black Hammer, a small, “anti-colonial communist” organization based largely in Chicago, blends an off-beat Marxist ideology with explicit racial hatred. Despite their limited numbers, recurring Facebook bans, and general disconnection with the rest of the hard left, their commitment to creating a colonized people’s paradise in the Rockies appears unshaken. Although they’re not taken seriously by other activist groups on the left, they take themselves seriously. It’s unclear whether that self-belief will be enough to sustain them in their latest project.

Hammer City, which was announced to widespread mockery on Twitter, will be situated on an undisclosed 200-acre plot in Colorado. The compound will last thousands of years, say the Black Hammers: “After 600 years of struggle against colonialism, genocide, torture, and ecocide, the land is in the hands of The Colonized Working Class.”

Better than anything on TV.

Human Antibodies Target Many Parts of Coronavirus Spike Protein

Watch: Rep. Jordan Exposes Democrats’ Efforts To Stifle COVID Origin Investigation

Caught Red-Handed: CDC Changes Test Thresholds To Virtually Eliminate New COVID Cases Among Vaxx’d

Pelosi ditches mask at White House while doubling down on House floor rules

No, Science Clearly Shows That Covid-19 Wasn’t Leaked from a Wuhan Lab (Forbes)

Labor Board Swats Down Biden Appointee

Utilities Are Building New Gas Plants Despite Biden’s Promise Of ‘Zero-Emission’ Electric Grid  The swine!