Welcome to the Climate Apocalypse. (It will get worse.) (Boston Globe)

Colorado Passes Embodied Carbon Legislation — The Most Important Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard of

How Do You Keep a Subway from Flooding in the Age of Rising Seas?

Maine Becomes First State To Charge Firms That Don’t Use Eco-Friendly Packaging Materials ???????

Arizona GOP Audit Director Barred From Recount After Sharing Data Supporting Trump Loss (Newsweek)

U.S. drops cases against five researchers accused of hiding ties to Chinese military (Washington Post)

California Is Experiencing A Crime “Tsunami”, DA Says  Gee, I wonder why?

“It Looks Like A Bazaar In Istanbul”: Without Police On The Street, Illegal Vendors And Gamblers Are Taking Over The Bronx

Argentina Establishes a Transgender Quota for Government Workers

CNN’s Darcy Promotes NAACP CEO Wishing Fox News Could Be ‘BANNED’

FBI Entrapment Claims Abound Around Jan. 6, Busted Whitmer Plot

Pelosi Plans to Add Anti-Trump GOP Rep. Kinzinger to Jan. 6 Panel  The new ‘bipartisan’: Democrats and RINOs.

Former White House physician said he believes Biden will be forced to resign over fitness (Daily Mail)

Progressive Democrats Blast ‘Reckless’ Biden Plan To Allow Evictions To Resume

Texas Begins Arresting Illegal Immigrants For Trespassing As Part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Border Security Plan

White House Shifts Messaging on Inflation as Republicans Attack

Reuters Gaslights Readers About Critical Race Theory

What’s Up with the World’s Fascination with Black People?

Philadelphia’s Murder Rate Highest Among Largest US Cities

Is the Murder Rate in St. Louis High in Absolute Terms?

‘I’m sorry, but it’s too late’ – unvaccinated patients beg for shot; new infections nearly triple in two weeks: COVID news (USA Today)

Trump supporters are a big reason why Canada and the UK are beating the US on vaccinations (CNN)

Tennessee radio host doubted and mocked vaccines – now he has Covid (The Guardian) You can almost see them rub their hands together.

Why do British experts oppose jabbing under-18s against Covid-19 (Daily Mail) Don’t they read the papers?

Here’s all the proof Biden needs to conclude COVID-19 was leaked from a lab (New York Post)

What vaccinated people should know about their risk from the delta varian (Slate) Mostly they should know that vaccination apparently won’t keep you from getting COVID, contrary to popular mythology.

Ivermectin Shows Us the Consequences of Politicized Science

Large Ivermectin Study Retracted

The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot (BBC News)

Vaccine Push Faces Political Reckoning in Deep South

Fauci Teases New Mask Mandates for Vaccinated as COVID Surges Again

Claim: Covid-19 Spread by Farting in a Confined Space

Why Is The CDC Quietly Abandoning The PCR Test For COVID?

AP FACT CHECK: Trump is relentless in election fabrications ‘Fact Check” is the new “Opinion”.

Lord Mountbatten’s Diaries May Finally Reveal the Truth About the Royal Family and the Nazis (Daily Beast) Not in the Daily Beast, they won’t.

Antifa sympathizers celebrate death of Washington state sheriff’s deputy

Joe Biden Mocking Donald Trump by Drinking Water With One Hand in Viral Video (Newsweek) At least Trump doesn’t forget what he’s saying halfway through.

Tucker Carlson’s ‘unmasking’ claim confirmed by NSA investigators: report (New York Post)

NSA review finds no evidence supporting Tucker Carlson’s claims NSA was spying on him, sources say (CNN)

The View’s Sunny Hostin Spews Lies and Hate About Sean Hannity

MSNBC Slams Justice Barrett as ‘Real-Life Handmaiden’

Tiffany Cross Claims Kavanaugh ‘Exhibited ‘White Man Rage’

BROKEN RECORD: Brian Stelter Puts On Carl Bernstein to Call Trump a Domestic War Criminal

Antiracism: Another Addition To The Anti-White Toolbox

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Can entire societies become more or less depressed over time? Here, we look for the historical traces of cognitive distortions, thinking patterns that are strongly associated with internalizing disorders such as depression and anxiety, in millions of books published over the course of the last two centuries in English, Spanish, and German. We find a pronounced “hockey stick” pattern: Over the past two decades the textual analogs of cognitive distortions surged well above historical levels, including those of World War I and II, after declining or stabilizing for most of the 20th century. Our results point to the possibility that recent socioeconomic changes, new technology, and social media are associated with a surge of cognitive distortions.

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Special interest donors are covering much of the cost for Texas Democratic lawmakers to stay in pricey Washington, D.C., hotel rooms, but Texas taxpayers are still losing close to $500,000 on expenses for a legislative session that isn’t happening.

Texas lawmakers who fled the legislative session in Austin for the nation’s capital ultimately will have to report all of the private money pouring in for the self-professed “fugitive” Democrats. That amount includes at least $600,000 from the political action committee of former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who ran for president in 2020.

These Democrats have raised money from other sources as well to cover lodging, meals, and other expenses.

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t backing off her plan to hold up a bipartisan infrastructure package until the Senate delivers a larger, Democratic-only plan expected later this year….

The Other McCain turns over a rock.

San Jose isn’t Alabama or Mississippi. You can talk all you want about “the system” and slave ships, but San Jose was never part of that. There were no cotton plantations in Santa Clara County, and I’m doubtful the KKK ever had much influence there. As for the current demographics of San Jose, the city’s population is less than 30% non-Hispanic white, 33% Hispanic, 32% Asian, 16% “other,” and about 3% black.

Even if we did not know the specific details of Demetrius Stanley’s death, does it make sense to jump to the conclusion that racism explains this shooting? Is San Jose a bastion of right-wing Trump voters upholding “systemic racism”?

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All of San Jose’s elected representatives are Democrats. The governor of California is a Democrat, as are both of the state’s U.S. Senators. In the 2020 election, Joe Biden got nearly 64% of the vote in California, and almost 73% of the vote in Santa Clara County. There may be more liberal places in American than San Jose, but certainly the city is not a reactionary stronghold of white supremacy.

Severian looks around.

Regarding bicycles, they, like motorcycles, have long since transformed from “a means of locomotion” to “a lifestyle.” Note that I’m only talking about AINO here. Everyone has heard that “more bicycles than people in the Netherlands” factoid, and Euros do seem to love them some bikes, but I haven’t spent enough time over there to say much about it. Here in the Former America, though, anyone who rides a bicycle past age 16 falls into one of two broad groups: 1) they’re nature lovers who want to be out in the countryside but for various reasons can’t take up hiking, or 2) they’re preening, posturing, virtue-signaling, passive-aggressive assholes. The latter outnumber the former about 5,000 to 1.

Preach it, brother.

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The specific reasons vary widely. Some families who spoke with The Associated Press have children with special educational needs; others seek a faith-based curriculum or say their local schools are flawed. The common denominator: They tried homeschooling on what they thought was a temporary basis and found it beneficial to their children.

“That’s one of the silver linings of the pandemic – I don’t think we would have chosen to homeschool otherwise,” said Danielle King of Randolph, Vermont, whose 7-year-old daughter Zoë thrived with the flexible, one-on-one instruction. Her curriculum has included literature, anatomy, even archaeology, enlivened by outdoor excursions to search for fossils.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

This country spent its first 300 years without taxpayer-supported government schools. Maybe we’re going back to the future.

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For many years it has been well-known that the bulk of hateful speech and behavior towards homosexuals in Western Europe comes from culture-enrichers. When homosexual couples get beat up on the street, the perpetrators are almost always immigrants, typically Muslim ones. Yet this is something the migrant-lovers of the left-wing parties have always denied. Their story has been that intolerant right-wingers are responsible for all the homo-hate.

All that has now changed, at least in Amsterdam. A new official report has forced the lefties to acknowledge that most violence against gays is committed by culture-enrichers.

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Nowadays, fortunately, we have more scientific explanations for why the top Japanese woman tennis player is half-black than discredited eugenics ideas like fast-twitch muscles.

Now, we know it’s due to Black Girl Magic!

California court strikes down transgender pronoun law as First Amendment violation

‘Canceled in the USA’ Reveals How the Woke Mob Hurts Americans

MSNBC Regular Mystal: Pro-Lifers Treat Women ‘Like Incubators With Mouthparts’  Quite a few even fail the ‘incubators’ part.

Kimberlé “Intersectionality” Crenshaw on Why Whites Always Win in Olympic Running Races

South Africa & Tribalism

Not an Oped: the Olympics Rely On, But Don’t Support, Black Girl Magic

Japan Features Its Handful of Blacks in Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Teen charged for fatally shooting man in DeSoto in front of his family

Brothers, 13 and 17, killed in shooting at Arlington apartment complex

New Filings Allege R. Kelly Abused a 17-Year-Old Boy

Racism all the way down

Return of the Aspiring Rapper Update

WH, on Defensive, Now Insists Ethics Safeguards Are in Place for Hunter Biden’s Art Sale

Painting Over Scandal: Nets Ignore Own Reporters, Skip Hunter Biden’s Latest Art Antics

The Coming “January 6” Train Wreck

Veep Joe Biden skirted ‘no see’ mail law with private accounts

Biden Aggressively Heckled At Virginia Event: “This Is Not A Trump Rally!”

WaPo reporter sues paper for not assigning her to cover Kavanaugh matter

Meet the CDC-Backed Groups That Want To Teach Trans Ideology to Kindergartners

NPR Book Club Promotes Author Who Wants Race Riots and Looting Defined as ‘Rebellions’

CNN Ponders ‘Swearing Off Meat Completely’ To Save Planet

Psaki to Reporter: Why Do You Need Information on WH COVID Cases?

Coronavirus Skeptics Use Orthodox Data Practices to Promote Unorthodox Science  In other words, they don’t buy the Narrative. The swine!

Israel says Pfizer Covid vaccine is just 39% effective as delta spreads, but still prevents severe illness  Yeah, I’m going to rush right out and get that vaccine.

Lib Summer Havens Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard Are COVID-19 Hotspots

CNN: Segregate Unvaccinated, Make Them Pay For Tests Every Day  Maybe make them wear a big COVID virus plastic toy on their heads?

Louisiana Gov. Edwards Urges All Residents to Wear Masks

Thousands Join Anti-Lockdown Protests In Australia Amid New Restrictions

Who Watches The Watchmen? – Fauci’s “Noble Lie” Exposed

Schools opened, suicide attempts in girls skyrocketed.  Going to a government school is bad for kids’ health.

No vax, no vote? Macron’s vaccine passport plan sparks fury

Will vaccine efficacy decline over time?  Looks like it declines almost immediately.

Will Dr Fauci ever take responsibility for COVID’s emergence?

Gaining depth on gain of function: Fauci flops

US Won’t Investigate Governors Who Ordered Nursing Homes To Accept COVID-Positive Residents  Another Government Failure.

Glenn Greenwald.

A lengthy CNN article — dressed up as an investigative exposé that was little more than stenography of FBI messaging disseminated from behind a shield of anonymity — purported in the headline to take the reader “Inside the plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer.” It claimed that it all began when angry discussions about COVID restrictions “spiraled into a terrorism plot, officials say, with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer the target of a kidnapping scheme.” CNN heralded the FBI’s use of informants and agents to break up the plot but depicted them as nothing more than passive bystanders reporting what the domestic terrorists were plotting.

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The article never once hinted at let alone described the highly active role of these informants and agents themselves in encouraging and designing the plot.

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Reminder: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology, masquerading as a religion, with which no co-existence is possible.

Severian is unhappey.

There’s definitely a lot of that going around, but it doesn’t describe the behavior of the apple polishers, or the people who have issued themselves the Asshole License. You know the ones I mean: SJWs, of course, but also CrossFitters, vegans, cyclists… basically, anyone who takes up a certain cause or lifestyle seemingly for the sole purpose of being an enormous douchebag about it in every possible social situation. Neither I nor anyone else would have a problem with vegans, say, if they really were doing it for their health, as they so often claim, because if they really were doing it for their health, they’d bring it up once, and then forever shut the fuck up about it.

I’m pretty sure that nobody in Ranger School or BUD/S ever asked, ‘Is this going to be on the test?’

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A patriotic restaurant owner in northern Illinois is facing fines of $200 – all because he decided to fly an American flag outside his business, according to a report.

Terry Trobiani, who runs Gianelli’s, a hot dog and beef spot along Highway 176 in Prairie Grove, McHenry County, says he was ticketed for “improper display” after a village administrator recently stopped by, according to FOX 32 of Chicago.

“He says, ‘You might want to read this,’” Trobiani recalled the official saying as he was handed a printout of the local rules.

“The American flag is a symbol of patriotism,” Trobiani said. “It’s not a sign. They’re equating it with open/closed. Dine in, sign out.”

 

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In a pattern similar to what other industrialized nations have already experienced, China not only has a labor shortage because of a low middle class birth rate, they are now experiencing the side effects of too many university graduates. Currently about 54 percent of young (18-22) Chinese will obtain university degrees and a growing percentage of them cannot find jobs that justify the effort and expense that went into obtaining a diploma. In 2021 over nine million recent university graduates went looking for a job. That was four percent more than 2020 and most will not find a job that requires a university degree. Even grads with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) degrees are not guaranteed a job and, even if they get an offer, it is not as attractive (well-paid and in their field) as a decade ago. Many have to settle for low-level (high school) teaching jobs. The military is always seeking STEM grads but this is considered second-best because pay and benefits are not great and working conditions are often very unattractive, especially in the navy where ships spend more and more time at sea. Another problem with the military is that you have to qualify to be an officer and that excludes many STEM grads who cannot meet the physical or gender (males preferred) requirements.

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Other than drunks on skid row downtown, Los Angeles didn’t have many homeless people in the postwar era. That was largely because of the immense Camarillo State Mental Hospital, which had 7,000 residents/inmates/patients or whatever you want to call them in 1957. For example, Charlie Parker recorded “Relaxin’ at Camarillo” after his six restful months there in 1946 following a series of unfortunate events such as setting his hotel room on fire and playing his saxophone naked in the lobby.

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Two mischievous young high-spirited “Swedes” have been convicted of gang-raping a 14-year-old mentally retarded girl. The Luleå District Court threw the book at them: five years in prison, followed by deportation. As for the deportation part, I’ll believe it when I see it. They were already supposed to have been deported prior to the crime, and refugees-welcome volunteer lawyers pull out all the stops to make sure that nobody, no matter how vile, can ever be deported from Sweden. So we’ll see.

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Hah! Coffee drinkers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your brains!

NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims

Alabama Gov. Ivey: ‘Start Blaming the Unvaccinated Folks’

Confederate Bust Moved From Tennessee Capitol Building

View Slimes Gun Owners: Second Amendment ‘Designed to Protect Slavery’

Three Years Later, MSNBC and CNN Still Trying to SMEAR Kavanaugh

Afghan interpreter for US Army was beheaded by Taliban. Others fear they will be hunted down too (CNN) America: No worse friend, no better enemy.

Border Patrol agents apprehend nearly 200 migrants at the border, more than half unaccompanied children

Biden Adopted Vague ‘30 by 30’ Conservation Plan From ‘Radical Environmental Groups,’ Nebraska Governor Says

McAllen City Manager Warns Migrants Maxing Out Bus System

Justice Dept. Won’t Probe Michigan Gov. Whitmer’s Nursing Home Policies If she were a Republican, of course, they’d be all over it.

Tony Podesta Hired By Huawei To ‘Warm Relations With Biden Administration’

Whistleblower Docs: NASA Held Microaggressions Training

North Carolina State Board Of Election Denies Audit Request

“Hundreds Of Thousands Have Disappeared” – Inside China’s Largest Detention Center

Inside the new gender critical research network

It’s Almost as if Spending More on the Homeless Invites in More Homeless…

German TV News Reporter Suspended After Video Shows Her Smearing Herself With Mud In Flood-Hit Town

Scaled-Back Olympics Opening Ceremony Marred By Protests As Sponsors Flee

China Hits US Entities With Retaliatory Sanctions, Including Wilbur Ross, Over Hong Kong Warnings

Pelosi’s Archbishop Rebukes Her for Saying She Supports Abortion as ‘Devout Catholic’

Social Justice Warriors Demand Unrestricted Rights To Olympic Protest

Spree of church burnings in Canada continues

As Predicted, Court-Packing Looms Large in Supreme Court Commission’s Second Public Meeting

Massive Immigrant-Led Protest Shuts Down Manhattan Bridge

Biological Male May Join Middle School Girls Cross Country Team, Judge Rules

Teen AirDrops images of airsoft gun to passengers on United flight, plane evacuated

Disney’s Jungle Cruise Reveals the Totem Pole of Diversity Pokemon Points

DC crime wave: At least 2 injured on busy street, sending pedestrians running for their lives

Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson arrested by Capitol Police during protest Laws are for thee but not for me.

33% of Black Men in 2010 Had a Felony Record  Gotta love that Diversity1

BLM & KKK—Today’s Bootleggers and Baptists Coalition?

“I’m In Shock” – 3 Women Attacked In The Middle Of The Day In NYC Park

Judge: St. Louis Chief Prosecutor’s Office ‘Abandoned Its Duty’

Mass Shootings On Course For Record Year As US Transforms Into Violent Mess

What the hell is going on in DC?

Eric Clapton refuses to play venues requiring vaccines for concertgoers

Here We Go Again: Toyota Shutters Factory In Thailand Due To COVID ‘Delta’ Variant

SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccinated Guiana gold miners  Yeah, I’m gonna rush right out and get that vaccine.

The surreal lives of Arkansas nurses fighting Covid-19 inside the hospital and denial on the outside (CNN) Pushing the Narrative is what they do best.

Pfizer vaccine 88% effective against delta variant Yeah, I’m gonna run right out and get that vaccine.

CDC Director Says Delta Variant Of COVID-19 Among ‘Most Transmissible’ Viruses Known (Huffington Post) Push that Narrative!

List Of UK Venues That Could Mandate “Vaccine Passports” Already Expanding

Israel Finds Pfizer Jab Only 39% Effective At Stopping Delta Variant

Chicago Schools Will Require Masks

How to Lie While Telling the Truth: This Time on Vaccination Effectiveness

More Republicans Are Urging Supporters To Get Vaccinated

Federal Appeals Court Finds CDC Eviction Moratorium Unlawful

Life And Death In The Age Of Fear

Dangerous New Freedom Variant Causing People To Ignore Government And Live Their Lives  Babylon Bee.

Two Parent Advocacy Groups Sue California Gov. Over COVID-19 Mask Mandate for School Children

House Dems Reject GOP Effort To Compel Probe Into COVID Origins  Nothing to see here — move along, move along….

St. Louis Reimposes Mask Mandate

Biden Gaffe Renews Questions About COVID Transparency

Hunter Biden to Meet Art Shoppers, Despite WH Claim of Anonymity

Sea Level Model Fail

Nuclear Energy: Systemic Risk Or Climate Change Cure

Proterra Bus Fire Prompts California Agency to Consider Shelving Electric Bus Fleet

Evidence of RWP In Florida

MSNBC Kooks: Earth May Become Uninhabitable Unless Biden Saves Us!

Another Climate Alarm Loses Its Mojo

Tropical Rainforest Index  Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know….

“Mirrored” fabric may be de rigueur for a warming world

A 3°C world has no safe place  Still waiting for prices to drop in Miami and Malibu.

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Do you ever get the sense that no one in legacy media knows any weirdos? And, given how deeply strange our world has gotten lately, how that might be a problem? From the New York Times’s inability to find any Trump voters to talk to until they were literally storming the Capitol to the widespread media panic about incels, to the total ignorance of QAnon until the conspiracy theory movement had gobbled up thousands of people’s brains, it just feels like if our reporters were in touch with the malcontents and drifters and losers, they would understand the world a bit better.

Nowhere does the gap between coverage and reality seem bigger than in the field of technology and the internet. Every conman who finds funding gets heralded as an innovator and disrupter right up until the point when someone notices companies like Uber and Airbnb have hemorrhaged money for years. Meanwhile gamers who post jokes journalists don’t get on social media are labeled as a national threat.

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Last November, voters in California, one of the most reliably Democratic states in the Union, defeated a ballot initiative that would have restored the state’s ability to use race as a factor in government hiring and employment. Affirmative action, a supposedly positive form of discrimination, could not win over the public even in a deep blue majority-minority state. Over 57 percent of California’s voters opposed it.

Actually, the way you win a cultural war is the same way you win any war – kill more of their side than they kill of yours.

But if you’re unwilling to do that, then this guy has some ideas. Don’t blame me if they don’t work; you’ve heard my idea.

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There is a wrathfulness of the political left, stemming from visceral hatred of Trump and his supporters. But as the left is ascendant in the seats of power, it can pursue its effort to extinguish its opposition via the instruments of state. The wrathfulness on the political right is another story. Wrath reaches its zenith when people feel not just abused but hopeless in the pursuit of any redress. American wrath right now is the white-hot anger of the millions of people who have concluded the country is being destroyed and they have no legal redress.

‘I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more!’ Except that you do….

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The January 6th mythology is merely one aspect of the way the Narrative drips conspiracy like an ice cream cone in the hot sun, all while hair-on-fire finger-pointing at ‘right-wing extremists’. As we find with the Governor Whitmer Kidnapping Scheme, often government agents are behind these supposed ‘right-wing’ activities.

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Developers are finding interesting ways to respond to latent demand for walkable neighbourhoods. As a result, the future of cities, at least in the south, may look like a Texas Doughnut. At least until cities start mandating more rational parking policies.

I think the Texas Doughnut is a great idea. The major problem with high-density housing in the modern world is that everybody wants a car and needs a place to park, and modern apartment buildings either force people away from having a car, or make large swathes of land into parking lots, which are pretty much useless for any other purpose. The parking area in a Texas Doughnut can be restricted to residents and visitors and hence is more secure than an outside parking lot, is less amenable to being taken over by homeless slums (where that could be a problem), and often have recreational spaces like playgrounds and gardens on their top level where people can send their kids to play without worrying about their safety. If the bottom level of the outside is available for businesses, the result is reminiscent of the ‘vibrant, walkable, full of amenities’ neighborhoods that urban planners cream their jeans over.

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Clausewitz famously drew the parallel between war and politics when he said, “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” Therefore, is makes sense for those engaged in politics to study the tactics of war and the warrior. It is not an accident that many of the great political figures in our history were also military men. Twelve U.S. presidents were generals. For a country founded on the principle of civilian rule, having a quarter of the executives come from the military is telling.

The Book of Five Rings is a book on martial arts written by a legendary Japanese swordsman named Miyamoto Musashi. He was also a philosopher, strategist and luckily for us, a writer. He became famous in 17th century Japan for his unique fighting style and his undefeated record in his 61 duels. He is known to westerners through his book on strategy, but in Japan he is still remembered for his great deeds. There is a shrine named after him, which is supposed to be his burial site.

Fully qualified for a job at CNN or MSNBC.

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An interesting question is whether the women professors who are demanding to be called “Professor” are in hard fields where tech culture is influential and it’s common for professors to become founders or highly paid consultant, or whether they are professors in fields like gender studies that nobody in their right mind who wants to get something hard accomplished would have anything to do with.

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CNN became apoplectic whenever Donald Trump called them “fake news,” but on July 21, they offered President Biden a nationally televised boost that can accurately be described as a “fake town hall.”

A real town hall would sell tickets in a city like Cincinnati and let the locals mix it up with the president, ask them whatever was on their mind. That’s not what CNN does. It’s an “invitation only” audience, which means nobody boos or laughs at inappropriate times. CNN was talking over the video, but when Biden waved goodbye at the limited crowd, they gave him a standing ovation.

The questioners were typically tilted: eight Democrats and three Republicans, plus a mother who lost a son to opioids. Questions are clearly pre-scripted. The network knows exactly what’s going to be asked on what topic. CNN.com had a preview article telling viewers the night’s topics in advance. Airing it live doesn’t mean it’s lively.

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Sociopaths are people who “have no regard for others’ rights or feelings, lack empathy and remorse for wrongdoings, and have the need to exploit and manipulate others.” That definition perfectly fits New Urban planners and the environmentalists who support them.

And Democrats – don’t forget the Democrats.

I could be referring to planners eager to inflict congestion on commuters in order to persuade a few of them to take transit. But today I’m referring to planners eager to drive up housing prices in order to force more people to live in multifamily housing.

Yeah, those are Democrats, alright.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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The spread of the Wuhan coronavirus in the U.S. has accelerated, apparently due mainly to the delta variant. Last month, reported new cases were averaging around 17,000 per day, according to Worldometer. Now, they are averaging around 40,000 per day.

The good news is that deaths attributed to the virus aren’t increasing. A month ago, the daily death count was said to be around 350-400 per day. Now it’s slightly lower — more like 300 per day. Both totals represent a decrease from May, when the daily death count was coming in at more than 600.

I’d like to see some comparison with the number of deaths annually from ordinary influenza. But of course that wouldn’t stoke the panic, so nobody is going to do that.

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America’s crime problem is a father problem. This is one of our country’s deepest and most denied family secrets. Everybody knows it, and everybody has known it for a very long time. Never mind anecdotes. Social science has confirmed as much at least since the fabled Moynihan Report of 1965, whose ignominious fate proves the rule that a document will be publicly reviled in exact proportion to the truths it tells. As the Minnesota Psychological Association lately summarized just a bit of the massive research on fatherless homes and crime: ‘Family structure and the lack of paternal involvement are predictive of juvenile delinquency. The more opportunities a child has to interact with his or her biological father, the less likely he or she is to commit a crime or have contact with the juvenile justice system…Youths who never had a father living with them have the highest incarceration rates … while youths in father-only households display no difference in the rate of incarceration from that of children coming from two-parent households.’

Lefty Democrats hit Jeff Bezos over space trip, want him to pay ‘fair share’ of taxes

What Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t know about HIPAA is, well, a lot (CNN)

The smartest way to make the rich pay is not a wealth tax (Washington Post)

Lying About ‘Misinformation’ to Justify Tyranny

AP ‘Reporter’ Lemire Blasts ‘Deeply Cynical’ Republicans, Praises ‘Good-Faith’ Dems

Vile Colbert Jokes About This GOP Senator Dying (Skips Real Violence Against Him)

MSNBC Regular Dreams Up ‘Brown, Gay’ ‘Sims’ Utopia ‘Without Republicans’