New Study: 62 km² (+6%) Net Expansion In 100s Of Pacific-Indian Ocean Island Shorelines From 2000-2017

Biden’s gambling on another death tax to fund his budget goals

The fatal failure of Gen. Mark A. Milley over closing Bagram Air Base

Kamala Harris: The absentee VP by design

Pentagon slams leak showing US deaths in Kabul bombing could have been avoided

Tell that to the Abandoned: CBS Rips Biden Admin Spinning Afghan Crisis

‘Retired’ US SpecOps Insiders Detail Chaotic Exit From Afghanistan

Southern Border Apprehensions At Two-Decade High

Impeach Biden

Team Hillary Strikes Again: Failed Campaign Manager Robby Mook Played Role in Botched Afghanistan Evacuation

Pentagon Spox: ‘We Have Americans That Get Stranded in Countries All the Time’

House Dems Block Afghanistan Withdrawal Transparency Bill

FLASHBACK: Biden Lied to Stephanopoulos: ‘We’re Going to Stay Until We Get Them All Out’  Just write ‘Biden lied’ and leave it at that.

Morning Joe Grills Biden Flack: You Left People Behind to Taliban ‘Medieval Cult’

Joe Biden’s victory lap around Afghan defeat

Starting Sept 1 China Will Require Foreign Vessels To Report In Its “Territorial Waters” “That China’s escalation to claim contested waters happens with US international credibility and reputation – even among allies – in tatters, is hardly a coincidence.”

No, Nordics Are Not ‘Big Government’, ‘Socialist’, ‘High Corporate Tax’ Nations

QAnon, Women, and the New Age

AOC, Tlaib, Pressley “Urge” Biden To Replace Fed Chair With Someone Focused On “Climate Change” And “Racial Justice”  How do these have anything to do with the Federal Reserve?

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ contaminate indoor air at worrying levels (The Guardian) Looking for the next big panic to push.

New York AG Snooped on Pro-Life Activists

Virginia Supreme Court Backs Teacher Ousted for Rejecting Trans Policies “In its appeal, Loudoun County Public Schools claimed that Cross’s religious and speech protections are secondary to students’ rights to comfort.”

China tests new missiles in simulated Taiwan strike

Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours

CDC Director To Restart Gun Research Amid Spate Of Mass Shootings

Harvard Epidemiologist Says the Case for COVID Vaccine Passports Was Just Demolished

CDC adds 7 destinations to ‘very high’ Covid-19 travel risk list, including Puerto Rico and Switzerland

Florida Withholds Funds From Two School Districts Over Mask Mandates

Pfizer Board Member Warns Policymakers: “Natural Immunity” Needs to Be Included In COVID Mandate Plans

The Media’s Addiction To COVID ‘Fear Porn’ Is Perpetuating An Ever-Worsening Cycle Of Societal Damage Across The World

The grim rise of antivax death porn

Scientists Warn About New Hyper-Infectious South African Variant

CDC Advisory Panel Hints It Won’t Back Biden’s Booster Jab Plan

Two Senior FDA Officials Stepping Down Over Reported Disagreements With White House Over Booster Shots

Sen. Warren Accused of Violating New Mexico Mask Mandate

High Viral Load in Lungs Drives Fatal COVID-19: Study

Manhattan DA Charges 15 in Counterfeit Vaccine Card Scheme

Ireland to Drop Almost All COVID-19 Restrictions in October

Here’s Donald Trump’s most lasting, damaging legacy (CNN)

Mike Pompeo takes his own arrows over the Afghanistan collapse (Politico)

January 6 committee to ask telecommunications companies to preserve phone records of members of Congress who participated in ‘Stop the Steal’ rally  (CNN)

Former NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, a rising right-wing radio star, doesn’t care if you call her a murderer (Washington  Post)

Comedy Central Caves to Cancel Culture, Removes Episode from ‘The Office’ Line-up

SICK NY Times Columnist: DeSantis Allowing Florida ‘to Choose Death’ By Covid

Majority of US Religious Hate Crimes Target Jews

‘Mad Max’ Strikes Again! Kellerman Equates Racist Chess With 49ers Quarterback Situation

Antiquarianism Exemplified: “The Black Mortality Gap, and a Document Written in 1910”

Black Men Executed in 1951 Rape Granted Posthumous Pardons  I’m sure they’ll vote Democrat from now on.

Shocking Video Shows 2 Men Beaten & Robbed While Women Twerk Over Unconscious Bodies

HHS Opens Office to Deal With Climate Change

Heimdal pulls CO2 and cement-making materials out of seawater using renewable energy

Read it.

A good deal of the current discussion of vaccination takes it for granted that it is in almost everyone’s interest to get vaccinated, hence that failure to get vaccinated is evidence of false beliefs or irrational behavior. To see why this is not true for everyone, it is worth looking at some numbers.

According to the CDC, the estimated infection fatality rate is 0.05 percent for 18-to-49-year-olds. I start my calculations with someone who is certain to get infected and has a life expectancy of thirty years. Thirty years is 262,800 hours, so the reduction in life expectancy is .0005×262,800=131 hours.

If you believe your chance of getting infected is only .1, not unreasonable if you regard the current wave as the last of the epidemic, that reduces it to 13 hours. If you are 25, which according to one source gives an IFR of .01, that takes it down to less than three hours. Saving that may not be worth the time and trouble of two injections, a likely few days of not very serious side effects and some small risk of more substantial side effects. The same is more true for younger ages or people in particularly good health.

Read it.

Boy, did they.

Read it.

A Bernie Sanders-backing 29-year-old won a coveted position to redraw Michigan’s political districts as part of a self-described “independent” bloc of redistricting commissioners that could redefine the state’s electoral landscape for the next decade.

Medical student Anthony Eid applied to serve on the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission as an independent in May 2020, stating that he does not “affiliate with either the Republican or Democratic Party.” A Washington Free Beacon review of his social media presence, however, shows that Eid has long supported members of the Democratic Party’s liberal wing.

Eid now holds a crucial vote on the 13-member commission, which consists of four Democrats, four Republicans, and five independents. In order to enact a proposed map, at least seven members—including two Democrats, two Republicans, and two independents—must vote for it. The boundaries will stay in place until the next census in 2030.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Read it.

A lot of us no doubt have been wondering what act, by whom, will catalyze an uprising against the increasingly oppressive regime? I remember years ago an ABC program that demonstrated that good people will remain frozen in the face of wrongness until someone moves, someone acts, and then all of a sudden everyone moves to confront evil. So it is that many of us are watching and calculating and simply need to see the flow start and then we, too, will add out weight to the change that must come.

As many of you may recall I attended my first protests in 2020 in Sacramento against Covid restrictions that were trashing the livelihoods of small businesses, running over the rights to religious practice and assembly, and generally oppressing the people. The protests had little, if any, effect. Covid fear was high then, and as it waned in the latter part of the summer California calculatedly eased restrictions just enough to stave off dangerous discontent. When California started ramping oppression up again toward the end of the year is when I moved to East Tennessee.

And now our national oppression is in full force. Well, not actually full force if you have read Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. But certainly at unprecedented levels in this country that for so long embraced individual rights and freedoms. As we have been watching this regime take control and promote destructive policies, we have wondered how long will the people stand for it? What will cause the people, whom the regime sees as an existential threat, to see the regime as an existential threat to them? When will they make demands for change that cannot be ignored?

Read it.

Nanosatellite startup Spire Global didn’t set out to become a provider of signals intelligence (SIGINT). But with the accidental discovery that its antennas for weather forecasting were also picking up signals being used to jam the Global Positioning System, the pivot just made sense, according to Spire’s new-ish head of US government sales, Conor Brown.

“We actually first, sort of, serendipitously discovered this capability when we were calibrating our first reflectometry satellites,” he told Breaking Defense in advance of last week’s annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.

“It’s been really interesting to repurpose our weather satellites, and apply them to a completely different mission set,” he added. “And so we’re looking at a lot of future architectures — more purpose built solutions, but also maximizing the capability of our satellites on orbit.”

Read it.

“Diversity”—or more properly, ethnopolitics—has long been championed by the Democratic party. So why are California’s 15.6 million Latinos suddenly making liberals nervous? Recent polls suggest that over 54 percent of Latinos support the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom. Highly paid political consultants across the nation are scrambling to come up with an explanation. Why would La Raza suddenly turn on Newsom and the Democratic Party, which has claimed the Latino vote for decades?

When you stop looking at California politics strictly in terms of ethnic allegiances, and consider economics, growth, and opportunity, the answer is obvious: Latinos embody traditional middle-class values of work and success. In short, they still believe in and cherish the California Dream.

With their near-total control of California politics, Democrats have enacted high tax and anti-upward mobility policies. The state’s leadership has attacked middle class virtues such as home ownership, free enterprise, educational advancement, savings, and safety.?California’s historically white middle class is in flight to other states, creating a void which Latinos now fill. As the newest inductees into the American middle class, Latinos remember our roots and remember that we have the most to lose.

Read it.

A heavily armed group of bank robbers wreaked havoc across a southeastern Brazilian city early Monday, striking several banks, setting fire to vehicles and tying hostages to their getaway cars, in an assault that left at least three people dead, officials say.

The group stormed Araçatuba, a city of 200,000 in São Paulo state, around midnight to rob several banks. Gunshots punctured the early-morning quiet. Authorities asked residents to stay inside.

Images on social media and local news reports showed at least 10 people clinging to getaway cars, apparently strapped there to deter fire from police.

Read it.

Pigs are smarter than you might think.

Read it.

Facebook has reportedly backtracked after it deleted the account of Shana Chappell, the grieving mother of Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, who was killed in Afghanistan last week. Like so many other censorship instances before, the Big Tech platform claimed the removal was a mistake, according to the New York Post.

Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui was killed in the recent Kabul attack.

Chappell reportedly posted on Instagram that President Joe Biden was disrespectful when they met after the death of her son. She added that she told the president that her son’s blood was “on [his] hands,” according to Reclaim The Net.

Chappell reportedly posted on Facebook that her Instagram account had been deleted, and her Facebook account was subsequently restricted.

Read it.

They have the technology.

Read it.

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a synthetic chemistry approach to polymerize proteins inside of engineered microbes. This enabled the microbes to produce the high molecular weight muscle protein, titin, which was then spun into fibers. In the future, such material could be used for clothing, or even for protective gear.

Biden refuses to take Afghanistan question, walks away after offering to take questions at FEMA

Multiple Rockets Fired At Kabul Airport, Operations “Uninterrupted” After US Intercept

Rockets Target US Troops at Kabul Airport

ISIS Claims Rocket Attack on Kabul Airport, as US Troops Pull Out

What we left behind

Top Al Qaeda Member Returns to Afghanistan

Family of Fallen Marine Says Meeting With Biden Was ‘Scripted and Shallow’

Taliban Executes Afghan Folk Singer

US Intercepts Rockets Fired at Kabul Airport

Obama Education Secretary Loses His Mind, Compares Anti-Maskers To Kabul Suicide Bombers

Wait! The Taliban Offered Control Of Kabul To US Forces… And We Turned Them Down?

Media Uninterested in Fallen Marine’s Family Blaming Biden  Everywhere Biden goes, from now until the day he dies, there ought to be protesters carrying placards with pictures of those dead Marines in the audience.

90 Retired Generals and Admirals Call for Milley and Austin to Resign Immediately

No Doocy, No Problem: WH Journos Step Up, Hammer Psaki on Afghanistan

Al Sharpton to Biden: Black community is being stabbed ‘in the back’

Chicago Attack on 2 Men Shocks Twitter

Bearing Witness to Racism in America Today “Today” in Woke-speak apparently means 65 years ago, because that’s when Emmet Till died.

ESPN Fires Rachel Nichols For Comments Made A Year Ago

Report: White Child Put Strap on Black Child’s Neck at Camp

Female journalist flees Afghanistan following groundbreaking TV interview with Taliban spokesman (CNN)  And of course she wore a hijab. Just once I’d like them to wear that getup from The Handmaid’s Tale, like what they accuse Republicans of wanting all women to wear. That would be entertaining.

Hochul breaks with new lieutenant governor over calls to ‘defund the police’

Liberals used the courts to block Trump’s agenda. Republicans are using the same playbook against Biden. (CNN) Amazing how that works.

California teacher boasts not having American flag, tells students to pledge allegiance to gay pride flag Time to leave.

Newsom Praised Chinese Foreign Agent for ‘Journalistic Integrity’

NY Times Reporter: ‘Imaginative Contrarians’ Needed for Crazy Christians on COVID

A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself  Well, no, they’re just hijacking it to their own benefit.

Leading Boston Mayoral Candidate Backs Paid Family Leave For Abortions

Stelter: Shouldn’t Press Cover Climate Change More Than Afghanistan?

Instagram to Require Users to Provide Their Date of Birth

Hollywood Dumps Tons of Cash Into Keeping Governor Newsom In Charge of California

FBI Allegedly Funded White Supremacist Publisher: Court Documents

Colonial Williamsburg to Showcase Gay and Transgender Reenactments  Gays and transgenders in colonial Williamsburg would have been jailed, if not hanged.

LA Teachers’ Union President: ‘There Is No Such Thing as Learning Loss’

Sharpton Show Lets Guest Compare Pro-Lifers to ‘Suicide Bombers’

Former NYT Writer Banned From Twitter for Criticizing Vaccines

China Is “Cleansing” Online Content Of Anyone Critical Of The Country’s Economy

Jim Jordan Admits to Multiple Calls With Trump on 1/6, Spurring Renewed Calls for Subpoenas Multiple calls! With Trump!

Queen accused of ‘not taking full ownership of Meghan Markles racism allegations (Geo News) I’m looking for a reason for her to do that and I’m not finding one.

House panel tees up Trump executive privilege fight in Jan. 6 probe (The Hill)

I Am Seething With Rage After Reading These Messages From The World’s Most Entitled Parents (Buzzfeed) And ‘seething with rage’ is what Buzzfeed does best.

Netanyahu Accused of Not Returning State Gifts

Biden Blasted for Looking at Watch During Ceremony for Fallen Soldiers   Jeez, he’s the President, he has a tight schedule.

Chase Bank Cancels General Mike Flynn’s Credit Cards

Sen. Rand Paul: Hatred of Trump Preventing Potential COVID Drug Research

CBS Revives Kook Conspiracy Theory That Conservatives Got Ed Asner’s Show Cancelled

Teacher Fired After Speaking Against Gender Identity, Critical Race Theory, and Mask Mandates

Scandal As Newsom Campaign Produces Old Yearbook Photo Showing Larry Elder In Blackface  Babylon Bee.

Lefty Journos FREAK OUT After Washington Post Refuses to Slime Dana Loesch

Democrats face big decision on agriculture in climate change fight

New Generation of Climate Models: Increased Snowfall Will Offset Sea Level Rise From Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet

How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets  Note: An ‘education scholarship’ of $50,000 will last one and a half semesters at one of the Ivy League schools.

A program that pays farmers not to farm isn’t saving the planet (Politico) If the government would quit subsidizing food prices, the price would drop to where half of the people now farming couldn’t afford it and would have to do something else, thereby producing the same effect as paying people not to farm. Most government programs are merely expensive (to the taxpayer) ways of trying to fix the bad effects of earlier stupid government programs.

County Supervisors Blame Bad Policies – Not Climate Change – For California Wildfires

Update On The International Efforts To Save The Planet Through Climate Litigation

Vaccine Mandates Work—but Only If They’re Done Right  It helps to start with a vaccine that actually works.

What’s the risk of indoor dining if you’re fully vaccinated? Here’s what one expert says

The big difference between this pandemic and the one that killed 50 million people

88-Year-Old Professor Resigns Mid-Class When Student Refuses to Wear Mask Sounds like a win.

Delta Variant Is 60% More Contagious Than Original COVID Virus and Can Escape Immunity (SciTech Daily) OH NO WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Australian Truckers Protest Mandatory Vaccines And Lockdowns, Block Major Highway  The sheep push back.

The Delta Variant Is Making Covid a Pandemic of the Young

EU Set to Recommend Reinstating Restrictions on US Travelers

Restaurant Reservation App OpenTable To Integrate Vaccination Status Into Service

Israel Warns COVID ‘Green Pass’ Will Expire If Residents Don’t Get Third Jab

McDonald’s, Others Consider Closing Indoor Seating Amid Delta Surge in US  Well, it’s not as if McD’s had an exquisite indoor dining experience.

Protest Against Mandatory Vaxxing Turns Violent In Greece, 47 Detained

Natural Immunities’ Genetic Suspects

Texas, Florida Stress Antibody Treatment to Combat COVID Surge

Aussie’s rules: COVID is becoming Australia’s state religion

EU Tells Member States To Reimpose Travel Restrictions On Americans As Delta Wave Peaks

Ohio Judge Orders Ivermectin Treatment for COVID Patient Despite Warnings

State Mask Bans Face Federal Civil Rights Inquiries

FDA: Stop Using Certain Chinese N95 Masks

FDA Issues Warning About Increased Risk Of Heart Inflammation Caused By Moderna Jab

Jab Or Else: NBA Referees Stuck With Vaccine Mandate

Costco Introduces New 5-Gallon Family Size Pfizer Vaccine  Babylon Bee.

San Diego Proposal On Combatting COVID “Misinformation” Triggers Free Speech Concerns

School Board Members Quitting Over “Toxic” Parents Who Oppose Mask Mandates, Vaccines, And CRT  Good.

Why So Many Americans Reject Legal Due Process In The Age Of COVID

The FDA’s Credibility Problem

Read it.

Imagine you bought a book with the title How to Talk to A Contemptible Idiot Who Is Kind of Evil. You open the book, and read the author earnestly telling you how important it is that you listen, and show empathy, and acknowledge why the people you’re talking to might believe the things they believe. If you want to persuade them, he says, you need to treat them with respect! But all the way through the book, the author continues to refer to the people he wants to persuade as “contemptible idiots who are kind of evil”.

At one stage he even says: “When speaking to a contemptible idiot who is kind of evil, don’t call them a contemptible idiot who is kind of evil! Many contemptible idiots find that language insulting.” But he continues to do it, and frequently segues into lengthy digressions about how stupid and harmful the idiots’ beliefs are. Presumably you would not feel that the author had really taken his own advice on board

This is very much how I feel about How to Talk to A Science Denier, by the Harvard philosopher Lee McIntyre.

Joel Kotkin.

California’s leaders might see themselves as a vanguard of progressive and eco-friendly values. But in reality, their draconian climate policies have created a racially segregated state more akin to the pre-Civil Rights era South. As Attorney Jennifer Hernandez puts in a startling new report for the environmentalist Breakthrough Institute, California has been plunged into “a new Green Jim Crow era”.

The “soaring environmental rhetoric of the state’s affluent, largely white technocratic leadership”, she concludes, is “deepening the state’s shameful legacy of racial injustice”. Certainly, the impact is stark. California now suffers the nation’s worst cost-adjusted poverty rate; and according to the United Way of California, more than 30% of California residents lack sufficient income to meet basic costs of living, even after accounting for public assistance programmes. Those struggling families include half of Latino and 40% of black residents.

Read it.

The Biden administration fired a stern warning to five states on Monday afternoon, warning them that forcing all students to wear masks every day might violate the students’ civil rights.

Just kidding! That’s what would happen in a country with health policies that weren’t stupid. In America, we have Anthony Fauci. Too bad.

No, the Biden administration’s letter to state officials in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah is health policy as a bureaucratic Matruschka doll: the administration seeks to ban states from banning school districts from banning unmasked faces.

Read it.

Over the past 18 months, a number of significant events have occurred that were interpreted through two entirely different worldviews: COVID–19 lockdowns; rise of the BLM movement; the riots and violence in major cities; the US election process and its aftermath; and vaccine safety. Many influential commentators believe that these divergent perspectives arise from an epistemic collapse: that we have ceased to value facts, science, and truth, partly because trust in the institutions that adjudicate knowledge claims (universities, media, science, government) has eroded.

Many researchers in my own discipline, psychology, have rushed to the front lines, hoping to provide a remedy. But is it even plausible that we could help? Psychology, and most social science disciplines, are currently contributing more to the problem than to the solution. While psychology has studied phenomena such as myside bias that drive these worrisome epistemic trends, when it attempts to tackle social issues itself, psychology is fraught with bias.

The Guardian.

Needless to say, this is not ‘the end of phone calls’, merely the end of phones ringing in public and disturbing the peace. I’ve kept my phone on vibrate for the last 20 years because disturbing other people when I get a call isn’t one of my values.

Read it.

Scheller said in a video released on Sunday that he is resigning his commission effective immediately after he was dismissed from his command over the initial video. He says in the second video that he is not currently being investigated and that he could probably remain in the Marines for the remaining three years of his commission and retire if he were to remain silent.

Read it.

Perennial Democratic White House aide, congressman, Chicago mayor, and ambassador-in-waiting Rahm Emmanuel’s sole memorable utterance—his only candidate for Bartlett’s—is his cynical 2008 maxim that the good guys (i.e., his team) must “never let a serious crisis go to waste.” He was speaking of using the financial crisis to usher in sweeping changes to law, policy, the economy, and society that would otherwise not have been possible through ordinary democratic processes.

The same logic applies now to the Democrats’—and many Republicans’—insistence that America be flooded with Afghan “refugees.” Importing as many immigrants as possible, from cultures as alien to traditional America as possible, is the ruling class’s top priority, after protecting its own wealth and power. But since importing millions upon millions of foreigners is the primary tool by which the ruling class maintains that wealth and power—by suppressing wage growth and dividing the population—it can be hard to disaggregate these two priorities.

Read it.

Not sure I believe this, but Kuo has been right more often than not before.

Read it.

Business lobbying groups hope to divide moderate and progressive Democrats over the $3.5 trillion spending bill that is opposed by American corporations over a planned corporate tax hike, The Hill reports.

Perhaps that’s the key, then – put a business tax hike into every stupid government spending bill. (Democrats love tax hikes.)

Dennis Prager.

Imagine if some of the biggest cities in America seceded from their states. Imagine Illinois without Chicago, Pennsylvania without Philadelphia, California without Los Angeles or San Francisco, New York state without New York City, or Texas without Houston, Dallas or San Antonio.

Those states would lose a major tax base and some of their best orchestras and other artistic institutions. But the gains in quality of life would completely offset any financial or artistic losses.

That’s the way Britain does it. Major urban areas are separated out from their surrounding rural areas.

Big cities have been and continue to be centers of destructive ideas, and the people living in them are generally coarser and often just plain meaner. Of course, there are decent individuals in big cities and obnoxious people outside of big cities. But having a greater proportion of nice to obnoxious is more likely in smaller cities and other nonurban areas. Everyone reading this knows that one is more likely to be treated warmly when entering a store or dining in a restaurant in Cooperstown, New York, than in Brooklyn, New York; in Laramie, Wyoming, than in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

As regards bad and destructive ideas, big cities almost hold a monopoly.

Tru Dat. Where did the crooked Democrat political machine originate? (Bingo!)

ZMan rips the mask off of a degenerate nation.

Inside the microwave oven there is a microwave generator, which takes electricity and converts it into high-powered radio waves. The magnetron blasts these waves into the food compartment. The microwaves bounce back and forth off the reflective metal walls of the box, just like light bounces off a mirror. As these waves travel through the food item, they make the molecules inside it vibrate more quickly, which generates heat and that is what causes the food to get hot.

It is not only a brilliant way to quickly heat food in the home, but it is also a good way to think about what is happening inside modern America. Instead of a magnetron generating microwaves, we have the mass media which generates lies, fabrications, and propaganda. These waves of false information bounce around within society causing people to act. Since these waves of data are at odds with reality, this causes friction within society and the people inside get increasingly agitated.

Read it.

Iraq wants 12 T-129 ATAK helicopters, six Koral electronic warfare systems, and an unspecified number of TB2 Bayraktar armed drones as part of the deal, which would tie the two countries closer.

Read it.

It’s an odd reflex when you think about it: most non-Western societies don’t spend much of their headspace finding oppressed categories of people and elevating them into sainthood before seeking to re-engineer society for their benefit in the name of cosmic completion. It’s an odd religion that makes a tortured criminal their symbol of divinity and plasters the cross he was murdered on everywhere, from the tops of their temples to (formerly) classrooms. The physical cross might be less common now than it once was, but the Christ symbol has never been more ubiquitous in our public discourse. We’re inventing new versions of Christ all the time.

Read it.

It is now three years since James Stevens Curl’s Making Dystopia was first published. Professor Curl’s book revised the history of architecture in the 20th century, exposing the standard curriculum taught to students as a poorly-conceived fabrication. The truth, backed by the mountains of evidence he cited, was frightening.

Curl’s critique of the theory and practice of modernism demolished the economical-ethical-political arguments put forward for decades that justified forcing people to live in inhuman environments. It was all a power-play, to drive humane architecture and its practitioners into the ground so that a new group of not very competent architects and academics could take over.

Read it.

The following video from Italy reports on the latest migrants arriving at the Italian island of Lampedusa, which is being overwhelmed this summer, exceeding the carrying capacity of its reception center.

John Derbyshire.

You’ve been hearing a lot recently about how Afghanistan has been America’s Longest War. No: Immigration has been our Longest War, ours and Britain’s. From the Hart-Celler Immigration Act to today: 56 years. From Enoch Powell’s famous speech urging immigration restriction to today: 53 years. There have been some small victories for common sense this month. But also bad news. The whole experience has been a complete, and possibly terminal, failure of Democracy.

Enoch Powell was the first guy ever Cancelled for ThoughtCrime.

Read it.

I’m curious how it got there in the first place.

Eric Clapton Releases Pandemic Protest Song ‘This Has Gotta Stop’

Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns  OH NO WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! If we live in California.

Packed with virus patients, Louisiana hospitals await Ida  Packed!

CDC warns against using anti-parasite drug to treat or prevent COVID-19

Pastor Fired for Promoting COVID Vaccine on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ (Daily Beast)

‘It’s a war call’: Thousands flood New York City streets to protest the vaccine mandate

Taiwan Reports Zero COVID Cases For First Time Since Outbreak Began In May

Foreign Syndicates May Have Stolen Up To $400 Billion In COVID Benefits

Judge Suspends Health Passports for Haut-Rhin

CDC Issues the New Newspeak

Green Card Applicants Will Soon Need COVID-19 Vaccine To Be Eligible: CDC

Japan finds more contaminated Moderna vaccines

A five-day course of ivermectin may reduce the duration of Covid-19 But you’ll get banned from Twitter for suggesting it.

Vaccinated Australians To Be Granted New “Freedom”; Government-Sanctioned “Hour Of Recreation”

Americans Have Traded Their Freedoms For Safety From COVID, And Now We Have Neither

Moderna Vaccine Halted In Okinawa After Contamination From “Black Substances”

As Australia’s Politicians Enforce Yet Another Lockdown, Small Businesses Keep Suffering

Why the COVID Vaccines Aren’t Dangerous  The New Yorker pushes the Narrative.

“Backdoor Gun Control” – How Biden Banning Russian Ammo Will Make Range Ammo “Hard To Come By”

Mother Of Fallen Marine Rages At “Dementia-Ridden Piece Of Crap” Biden For “Sending Son To Die” In Kabul

The SNAP Boost Will Make The Poor Appear Poorer

Who lost Afghanistan?

Gov. DeSantis Demands Biden Administration Cease Resettlement Of Illegals In Florida

Hipster Climate Change Protesters Left Behind 120 Tons Of Trash In London

EENews: Climate Denial Flourishes on Facebook

The Most Inconvenient Region On The Planet For Global Warming Alarmists: Antarctica Sees Growing Sea Ice

Vertical turbines far more efficient in large-scale wind farms

Reflections on Crown Heights, 30 Years Later

“But in Stockholm, the average waiting time for a rent-controlled property is now nine years, says the city’s housing agency Bostadsförmedlingen, up from around five years a decade ago.”

COMICAL New York Magazine Hot Takes: ‘The Media Are Worse for Biden Than Trump’?

Donald Trump’s recounting of his 2020 conversation with a Taliban leader is something else (CNN) You can almost see the eyes roll. I guess that’s their idea of news coverage.

Matt Dowd on Afghanistan: GOP Spurns ‘The Principles of the Constitution’

NYT: Still Crazy About Trump

Read it.

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, a 17-year veteran just three years from full pension, is also garnering some support from fellow Marines for his “real courage” for speaking out, the New York Post reported.