Biden Administration Drops Lawsuit Protecting Pro-Life Nurses

Well Then: Doocy Gets Psaki to Admit Parents Shouldn’t Have Say in Masks at Schools

Politico’s U-Turn: ‘Biden’s Vision for the Border has Gone Bust’

DeSantis Hits Biden’s ‘Governor Who?’ Zing: ‘What Else Has He Forgotten?’

Report: Something Bad Must Be Happening With Democrats As CNN Homepage Is Filled With Trump Articles  Babylon Bee.

Subway franchisees are fed up with Megan Rapinoe’s TV ads

Jeb Bush: Weak Americans Need to Import More Immigrants to Win Olympic Medals

Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

VIDEO: Dems, Journos Keep Saying ‘Latinx’ Even Though Most Latinos Have No Idea What It Means

NY Times Crowns New Lefty Heroine Cori Bush on Eviction Moratorium: What Constitution?

One Man Killed After Homeless Crowd Attacks Couple At Seattle Encampment

FBI Officials “Widely Ignored” Rules In 2016, With Dozens In Contact With Reporters: Watchdog

Chinese City Offers $15,000 Reward For Snitching On Gatherings

Black real estate agent and his client arrested while touring Michigan house (Washington Post) Of course, if this had happened in a Red State, the Post would be all up in arms about systemic racism, the evils of Republicans, and totally have their hair on fire.

Execution-Style Murder in Brooklyn

Officials split on masking up children in schools as pediatric hospitals fill up with Covid-19 patients (CNN) Hint, hint.

Evidence mounts that delta variant is dangerous for kids (The Hill)

South Florida 100: For yourself, for your family, for all of us, get vaccinated (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

I’m a PhD & RD: I Want You To Stop Making This Vitamin D Mistake ASAP  Bow before my credentials, peasant!

North Texas pediatricians being overwhelmed with sick children

GOP Representative Suing Nancy Pelosi Over House Mask Mandate Gets COVID (New York Magazine) That’ll learn ‘im!

The Unvaccinated: The New COVID Scapegoats

“He’s A Pathological Liar”: Cornell Chemistry Professor Dave Collum Unloads On Dr. Fauci And Covid Hysteria

You Can Take That Needle And…

The Astonishing Hubris Of A Global Experimental Vaccine

Ivermectin: A multifaceted drug with indicated efficacy against Covid-19

With Covid-19, World Health Organisation’s Fall from Grace Is Complete

Swedish Professor Says 5 Shots Of COVID Vaccine May Be Necessary

The panic pandemic

UK Transport Minister Says Vaccines Will Be Needed For Travel “Forevermore”  And this is with a ‘conservative’ government.

“No Vaccine Passports” – Thousands Protest Across France Over New COVID Rules

Baden-Württemberg Government Announces Plans To Clear Cut State Forest, Build 1000 Turbines

World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast

Scientists make discovery of dead zones where nothing can live on two US coasts  Blue states have that effect.

‘Massive melting event’ sinks billions of tons of Greenland ice amid heat wave

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There were maybe 15 or 20 specialty labs that were doing really cool work in those days, and all of them were in California. Today, they’re all in Texas. The best lab in the world that studies cardiovascular genetics now is in Waco, Texas. There are several other examples of this phenomenon. This seems odd, to me. But whatever, right? So I was in San Francisco, around the year 2000 or so, working with one of the leaders in this field, who is a personal friend, so I will keep his identity discreet at this point. He was trying to figure out how to earn a living financially, while pursuing cutting-edge technology in this growing field. And he finally realized that he would have to leave California.

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A beach-cleaning robot called BeBot is sifting through sand in South Florida, extracting cigarette butts, plastic debris, and other trash too small for traditional systems to collect.

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Earlier today, I wrote about an alleged ideological division in the Democratic party between the far left and the establishment. Now, I want to consider an ideological split in the Republican party about which Eliana Johnson filed this report.

That gap is related to, but not the same as, the division between hardcore Trump supporters and Republicans who would like to see the Party move on from the ex-president. It’s the divide between traditional free-market Reagan Republicans and Republicans who, in Eliana’s words, want the government “to get more, rather than less, involved in national economic policy in order to help advance a certain set of social and cultural goals.” Apparently, the emerging label for the latter group is “common good capitalism.”

As I have written before, when you stick a qualifier on the front of a term, the term no longer applies. ‘Common good capitalism’ is no longer capitalism, just an attempt to hijack the term in service to a non-capitalist political agenda.

9/11 families to President Biden: Don’t come to our memorial events  In which Democrats learn that the way they treated Trump can be dished out to them as well.

Teachers Union Sues Rhode Island Mom for Seeking Records About School’s Critical Race Theory Curriculum

Dallas convenience store clerk charged with murder after shooting suspected beer thief

Why are African American residents of this small town determined to block a Wegmans warehouse? (Washington Post)

‘Black-ish’ Spinoff: ‘Racist-A** Cops’ ‘Determined to Destroy’ and ‘Murder’ Innocent Black People

Wind and Solar Energy Are Environmental Disasters

Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse (The Guardian)

Study warns of ‘irreversible transition’ in ocean currents that could rapidly freeze parts of North America (USA Today)

As climate change disrupts supply chains, American life is poised to change drastically (Salon)

Debate: Is Global Warming an Emergency

Scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream (Washington Post)

EVs Cost 1.6 To 2.3 Times More To Service Than Internal Combustion Vehicles, New Study Shows

Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Polar bear attack in Greenland gratuitously blamed on recent ‘heat wave’

Pfizer has manufactured the first batch of Delta variant vaccines

Man Getting Evicted Wishes There Were Some Way He Could Go Out And Exchange His Labor For Money To Pay Rent Babylon Bee.

Vaccinations ‘No Silver Bullet’ – Aussie Senator Admits Restrictions Would Remain For Long Time

Biden administration considers withholding funds and other measures to spur vaccinations

Dr. Fauci: ‘Things are going to get worse’ — here’s what that could look like (CNBC)

CNN Fires Three Employees for Coming to Work Unvaccinated (Daily Beast)

California to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for Health Workers

Ivermectin Systematic Study: Inconclusive

When Does the COVID-19 Panic End?

Recovered COVID Patients Suffering ‘Significant Cognitive Deficits’ According To Large-Scale UK Study

J&J Vaccine Effective Against Delta in South Africa Trial

United Airlines Will Require Employees to Be Vaccinated

CNN’s ‘Centrist’ Dem: Republicans Want to Turn Florida Into a MORGUE

Commerce Secretary: COVID Shot Resistance ‘Incredibly Frustrating’

New WOKE Yelp Feature Tells Users Which Businesses Require Proof of Vax  Actually, that sounds like a very useful feature.

CNN Employees Fired For Being Unvaccinated Wishing They’d Have Just Exposed Themselves On A Zoom Call Instead  Babylon Bee.

Conservative Commentator Allie Beth Stuckey Suspended From Twitter

The Society of Cultural Anthropology’s Campaign to Present American Populism as Fascism

You shouldn’t miss this massive bombshell in Trump’s ongoing election fraud lie (CNN)

Trump Nearly Enlisted the Justice Department in His Coup Scheme (New York Magazine)

Liberals Demand Kroger Boycott After Elaine Chao Joins Company’s Board (Newsweek)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Southerners May Shoot Vaccination Volunteers (Newsweek) Except that she didn’t.

Trump urges supporters to buy misspelled “membership” cards with image resembling Nazi logo (Salon)

Twitter ‘Temporarily Restricts’ Account of Trump’s Chief Spokeswoman

American Medical Association, Descending Into Wokeness, Calls for Eliminating Sex on Birth Certificates

Cori Bush Hires Mercenary Army To Arrest Anyone Who Doesn’t Want To Defund The Police   Babylon Bee.

Lincoln Project in Ruins: Disgraced Super PAC Abandons Headquarters

CNN Lets Two Dem Guests Slam Pardon of Mark McCloskey

A Single USWNT Player Didn’t Kneel Before Bronze Medal Match

Google founder gets New Zealand residency, raising questions  Too all such questions, the answer is ‘Money talks’.

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Parents concerned about the leftward tilt of K-12 schools should take a close look at an international organization that is influencing education systems worldwide.

In 2018, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, announced its educational goals for the world in a document titled “The Future of Education and Skills: Education 2030.”

Among its recommendations: “Children entering school … will need to value common prosperity” above other concerns, and “curricula should continue to evolve, perhaps in radical ways” that “reflect evolving societal requirements.”

With the viral spread of critical race theory in tandem with gender theory flooding the world’s kindergarten classrooms and up, curriculum has most certainly evolved “in radical ways.”

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Technicolor film was not color film, and it did not produce anything like lifelike colors. But how did it produce color movies? And why did those colors glow? And why did all of it lead to Dorothy getting ruby slippers?

As anyone who has seen an old Technicolor film knows, it looks weird. Blue eyes look like they glow. Pink faces look like they’ve been painted peach. Red looks scary. It all looks dyed, not recorded — and that’s because it was. There wasn’t any color film at the time that Technicolor was making its big splash. No one had figured out how to create a film stock that would record color. They had, however, found a way to make film stock that would filter out all the color that shouldn’t get through. And they had dyes. By putting them together, they made Technicolor glorious.

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‘Activists’ find out who’s actually in charge by getting their noses rubbed in it.

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Zaranj, the capital city of Nimruz province which lies in the southwest near the border with Iran, and with a population of an estimated 160,000, was taken by the Taliban on Friday, according to The Washington Post. A statement by Nimroz’s police force described the Taliban rapidly and easily captured the city due to “a lack of reinforcements from the government.” And The New York Times is also calling it a significant “symbolic victory” wherein the advancing Islamists “faced little resistance”. Some reports are suggesting not so much as a single shot was fired.

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What people really want, deep down, is drama within limits. Ideally, you have the sense that something better is possible — and that something worse is possible — but, most importantly, the sense that if you follow the rules, and make sure everyone else follows the rules, neither of them will happen.

If you reach what appears to be an end state — that is, there’s no realistic possibility of anyone going higher or lower — you see nasty Karen-ish behavior. From everyone, everywhere, always. The Z Man did a piece the other day on Sayre’s Law, which anyone who has ever dealt with eggheads instinctively understands: “The fighting is so vicious because the stakes are so small.” If you read the bios of the real lunatics — the insane-by-egghead-standards, I’m talking — you almost always see that they’re tenured at some second rate academy. They’re topped out, and they know it. Hang around the faculty lounge long enough, and you learn to spot it in their eyes — that precise moment when they realize that Harvard won’t be calling, so they’re stuck here at Flyover State. They can’t move up, and thanks to tenure there’s no realistic (in their minds) possibility of falling down. The only drama left, then, is interpersonal drama, which is why they’re such vicious, obnoxious bitches to everyone, everywhere, always.

I love this guy….

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He is out of jail again, the Dutch-Moroccan terror suspect Samir Azzouz, who has been repeatedly arrested, acquitted, rearrested, convicted, imprisoned, and released since he was first caught on a train to Chechnya in 2003. Then 17, he was planning to join the jihad against Russian forces. In the time since, he has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack on the Dutch Parliament and Schiphol airport; amassing materials to make a bomb; possession of illegal weapons; and membership in a terror cell, for which he was sentenced to eight years in 2006 and an additional nine years in 2008 – only to be released in 2013, not having fully served even the initial sentence.

Azzouz was arrested again in June, this time on charges of raising funds to free former ISIS members – now being held in Kurdish-run prison camps in Syria. A month later, a court set him free to await his December trial.

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A police officer “ambushed” Ashli Babbitt and fatally shot her during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to the Babbitt family attorney.

The lawyer, Terry Roberts, is preparing a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than $10 million in damages against the Capitol Police and the officer who fired the shot that killed Babbitt, RealClear Investigations reported.

Roberts told RealClear Investigations he has gathered evidence indicating the Capitol Police plainclothes lieutenant remained silent before shooting Babbitt. That, despite the officer’s attorney saying his client screamed warnings for Babbitt to stop before opening fire as she attempted to breach a barricaded door inside the Capitol Building.

Roberts said the police officer not only failed to warn Babbitt, he “ambushed” her from the side where she could not see he had taken up position in a hall doorway and had drawn his weapon.

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

The title of the show this week is taken from the title of a book by the guy most consider to be the founder of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol. He was one of the first far-left intellectuals to break with the Left and migrate to the new Right. He embraced the term neocon, in an “own the insult” way, which is probably why the term has remained with us, despite it originally being an insult. The Left used it as a way to criticize their former colleagues for their break with them over various issues.

Today, of course, our side uses the term as an insult. Even within what is left of mainstream conservatism, the term and the people associated with it is falling out of favor, especially as the neocons get nastier in their critiques of populism. David French now sounds like a less masculine version of Robin DiAngelo. That is not an exaggeration, as he sounds like Mickey Mouse, and she sounds like she has had one too many Pall Mall’s with her boiler makers.

A groom shot 2 people on his wedding night while he was still wearing his tuxedo, reports say

Dr Dre’s eldest daughter reveals she’s homeless and living out of her car

NYC butcher Fleisher’s closed after staff walks out over BLM sign removal

‘Central Park Karen’ says black bird watcher THREATENED her before she called police

Jewish Groups Slam Nina Turner’s Anti-Semitic ‘Evil Money’ Remark

Biking while Black: Racial bias in Oakland policing

Hard-Charger Makes a Fortune Staging Morality Plays About Hateful Karens and Other Racists

1619 Project, Touted As Racial Reckoning, Ignores Democratic Party Racism

Does the Tuskegee experiment explain black vaccination rates?

Government-Funded Researchers Sought Aborted Minorities for Organ Harvesting

Liberals Praise DeBlasio For Barring 65% Of Black NYC Residents From Society

Wrestler Stripped Of Gold Medal After Pro-USA Comments Surface  Babylon Bee.

Joe Biden is having the worst week of his presidency so far (CNN)

Biden Wants to Cut Funding for ‘Border Security Assets and Infrastructure’ by 96%

Landlord Group Sues Biden’s CDC Over Eviction Ban Extension

At Least 10 Dead as Van Carrying Migrants Crashes in Texas

It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Damage (The New Yorker)

Save the Penguins!  Question: What have penguins ever done for us?

Facebook let fossil-fuel industry push climate misinformation, report finds

Guardian’s Hamilton Nolan Blames Capitalism for the G20 Climate Negotiation Fail  People who write for The Guardian blame everything on capitalism, and have for a hundred years.

Climate Czar Kerry’s Family Jet has Taken 16 Flights This Year

Second Hottest July in Europe on Record, Third Warmest July on Record Globally

Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream

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“The present Democratic Party has left me,” Gaston County sheriff Alan Cloninger said in a Wednesday statement. Cloninger, who calls himself a “conservative Democrat, as my father and family have always been,” said the party he grew up in “no longer exists.”

Cloninger, who announced he is retiring at the end of his term, specifically criticized the national Democratic Party for demeaning police officers, who “protect the people and in return are given no respect,” which he called “wrong and unjustified.”

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Iran is like a little kid. It can’t help poling the growling dog.

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Historically, fire was a regular visitor to most Western forests, except moist locations like those along the Pacific Northwest coast and in British Columbia. Frequent or periodic fires from Indigenous burning and lightning strikes created patchworks of grasslands, shrublands and regenerating forests of all ages.

Past fires influence the way subsequent fires burn and what they leave behind. For example, Indigenous burning practices not only enhance cultural resources and wildlife habitat but also reduce the amount and connectedness of fuels that drive large, severe wildfires. Similarly, patchy burns from lightning ignitions create forest landscapes that are less likely to burn all at once.

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Follow the headline link, type in the name of an artist you love. Music Map offers completion if you are not certain of the spelling.

Once you find your artist, click the name and Music Map will build a tag cloud with artists related to your artist. The closer a tag is to your artist, the greater the probability that you will find their styles similar.

I’ve played with this a bit and, though it’s not perfect, I have enjoyed the rabbit hole of artists it’s led me down.

Toby Young.

In one of his memoirs, Clive James said that weight gain isn’t a gradual process: you just wake up one day and discover you’re fat.

True dat. All of the thin people (or, well, fit people) I knew 20 years ago are now porkers. (Including me.)

Freeberg nails it.

Rather than looking back on history to when society at large blamed Jews, poor people, rich people, blacks, whites, gays, witches, straights, women, men, etc….let’s remove the emotionalism from it and just call the scapegoated group A. The history of human beings is much easier to understand, when you look for the simpler patterns, because when you review it in this sort of context you find the patterns. And once you find them you see they’re not complicated. So the era is unspecified, but it was cool to blame A. Let’s leave the problems unspecified too. Cows gave spoiled milk, real estate & gasoline were expensive, unemployment was sky-high…whatever…everybody blamed A because it was cool to blame A.

The pattern you’re going to see as you read up on history is that an effort arose to defrock A of any influence. Lots of people from all sorts of different walks of life participated in it, and they believed in it passionately, so the effort was both intense and broad. There was little resistance against this. Resistance would have been punished, with a sneering attitude of…so what, you’re with the A? And so members of Group A became pariahs. They may or may not have been driven underground or herded into boxcars, but the one consistent thing is that they weren’t allowed to have an effect on anything.

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The real mystery of Andrew Cuomo is why he couldn’t seem to get any tail when the entire press corp constantly kissed his ass.

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Kurt Westergaard was a renowned Danish cartoonist who drew the world’s most iconic Mohammed cartoon, the “Turban Bomb”. Mr. Westergaard was a target for mujahideen for the last sixteen years of his life, and had to live in hiding under the protection of the PET, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service.

Now it has emerged that Mr. Westergaard is being harassed by culture-enrichers even after his death. He died on July 14, but his death wasn’t announced until four days later, after the funeral. The location of his grave is a secret, because it is thought that Muslims would vandalize it if they were to find out where it is. Even the owner of the gallery where his work is displayed does not know where it is.

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Truth matters. Words matter. What is objectively the case matters. And insofar as our words and concepts can be about the objective world at all, then the shared set of words and meanings that we collectively use and are permitted to use to describe, navigate, and refer to that objective world matters. Such is the case for any society worth defending. The growing rash of instances of threats, intimidation, social cancelling, and violence in the name of creeping gender ideology within academia and beyond drastically threatens this shared set of goods and values and marks the beginning of what will be a steep and rapid descent into institutionalized tyranny if left unopposed.

‘For $1/Day’… Double-Blind Ivermectin Study Reveals COVID Patients Recover More Quickly, Are Less Infectious

UK Covid cases are now falling rapidly despite the easing of lockdowns, and it’s surprising the experts (CNN) Perhaps that’s because they were WRONG.

Ghoulish WH Reporters Demand Biden, Psaki Claim Abbott, DeSantis Are Spreading COVID

Jennifer Aniston: Moral, Professional Obligation to Reveal Vax Status

“Don’t Go Anywhere Near Your Grandkids”: Australian Health Official Warns Grandparents

Scientific Paper Suggests Criticizing Fauci Be Deemed a ‘Federal Hate Crime’

Japanese Government Starts “Naming And Shaming” Quarantine Rulebreakers

“I Know It Seems Weird”: NIH Director Suggests Parents Wear Masks At Home Around Children

Biden Plays Politics on Covid

Israel Revives COVID Restrictions As Cases Soar, Warns Of Possible Lockdown In September

A New State Of Segregation: Vaccine Cards Are Just The Beginning

Editor-In-Chief Of Germany’s Top Newspaper Apologizes For Fear-Driven COVID Coverage

Sweden: Despite Variants, No Lockdowns, No Daily COVID Deaths

Study Indicates Possible Long-Term Brain Issues for COVID-19 Patients

Exactly How Many People Have Long Covid?

NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings  Time to leave.

When Does COVID-19 Panic End?

Twitter Suspends Journalist Who Repeated CDC Fact On Vaccines

I’m an ICU Doctor and I Can’t Believe What Unvaccinated Patients Are Saying  (Huffington Post) They don’t understand the Dialectic at all!

Fauci: U.S. in Danger of  200,000 Daily COVID-19 Cases in a Few Weeks  STOKE THAT FEAR!

White House Ready To Lift Ban On Foreign Travel But Only For The Vaccinated

Doubts Surround Legality of New Temporary Eviction Ban

A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all (The Guardian)

The dirty little secret about Trump’s endorsements (CNN) Can’t be much of a secret if CNN knows about it.

Jason Miller Slams POLITICO ‘Hit-Piece’

Virtue Signaling: What Is It And Why Is It So Dangerous?

Albany County DA Investigating Cuomo  PILE ON!

Ghoulish WH Reporters Demand Biden, Psaki Claim Abbott, DeSantis Are Spreading COVID

British Chaplain Reported to Counterterrorism Agency After Questioning School’s ‘LGBT Stuff’

Nunes Sues MSNBC, Saying Rachel Maddow Defamed Him

CNN Salivates Over Impeachment Witness’s Deranged Claim 600,000 Americans Died Because Trump Acquitted

Twitter Partners with Liberal Media Outlets to Openly Censor Users

Here’s Exactly How Much Drinking Bottled Water Impacts The Environment And Our Health

Democrats Seek $500B in Climate Damages from Big Polluting Companies

How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch With Reality

Watch: Biden Confronted On Allowing “Untested And Unvaccinated” Illegals Into US

Military Discovers That Stripping Photos from Promotion Evaluations Hurts Blacks

BlackRock Is Looking for the Black Elizabeth Holmes

Boston’s Dem Mayor Says Vaccine Passports Are Racist  Because EVERYTHING IS RACIST!

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Immune responses to pathogens involve many cells and proteins of the immune system. Early during an infection, these responses are non-specific, meaning that although they are directed at the pathogen, they are not specific to it. This is called innate immunity. Within a few days, adaptive immunity takes over; this immunity is specific to the invading pathogen. Adaptive immune responses include antibodies. A major goal of antibodies is to bind to the pathogen and prevent it from infecting, or entering, a cell. Antibodies that prevent entry into cells are called neutralizing antibodies. Many vaccines work by inducing neutralizing antibodies. However, not all antibody responses are created equal. Sometimes antibodies do not prevent cell entry and, on rare occasions, they may actually increase the ability of a virus to enter cells and cause a worsening of disease through a mechanism called antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE).

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Theodore Dalrymple has observed that there are few feelings more congenial than a sense of moral superiority. It’s both easy and pleasing to feel superior to people from the past. It’s especially easy, in part, because the dead can’t defend themselves. The old admonition not to speak ill of the dead came about for a reason.

All of this came to mind recently on the heels of David French’s johnny-come-lately embrace of hereditary racial moral culpability. In short: he has decided that the majority of Americans are complicit in the racial sins of the past primarily on the basis of sharing the same skin color as some of the perpetrators from days gone by. If that rationale comes across to you as flimsy and outrageously unjust, well, you would not be David French.

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This March, a study published in JAMA put the egg back on the hot seat. It found that the amount of cholesterol in a bit less than two large eggs a day was associated with an increase in a person’s risk of cardiovascular disease and death by 17 percent and 18 percent, respectively. The risks grow with every additional half egg. It was a really large study, too — with nearly 30,000 participants — which suggests it should be fairly reliable.

So which is it? Is the egg good or bad? And, while we are on the subject, when so much of what we are told about diet, health, and weight loss is inconsistent and contradictory, can we believe any of it?

Quite frankly, probably not. Nutrition research tends to be unreliable because nearly all of it is based on observational studies, which are imprecise, have no controls, and don’t follow an experimental method. As nutrition-research critics Edward Archer and Carl Lavie have put it, “’Nutrition’ is now a degenerating research paradigm in which scientifically illiterate methods, meaningless data, and consensus-driven censorship dominate the empirical landscape.”

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While much of the world has been focused on combating the global coronavirus pandemic, extremist and criminal groups have been carrying out kidnapping-for-ransom raids on Nigerian schools with the hopes of extorting local populations.

The Daily Signal has reported on those developments previously, but the situation has not improved. In early July, following six days of attacks, Nigerian authorities closed 13 schools after more than 125 students were kidnapped from a Baptist high school.

In addition to the kidnappings, 33 civilians were killed and four churches were burned.

According to Statisense, a Nigerian data company, more than 3,000 people have been kidnapped since January.

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If government ministers are living in ‘compounds’, then no wonder the Taliban are winning.

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The situation is so dismal that governments everywhere are now pouring billions of dollars each year into myriad efforts designed to boost the ranks of STEM workers. President Obama has called for government and industry to train 10 000 new U.S. engineers every year as well as 100 000 additional STEM teachers by 2020. And until those new recruits enter the workforce, tech companies like Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft are lobbying to boost the number of H-1B visas—temporary immigration permits for skilled workers—from 65 000 per year to as many as 180 000. The European Union is similarly introducing the new Blue Card visa to bring in skilled workers from outside the EU. The government of India has said it needs to add 800 new universities, in part to avoid a shortfall of 1.6 million university-educated engineers by the end of the decade.

And yet, alongside such dire projections, you’ll also find reports suggesting just the opposite—that there are more STEM workers than suitable jobs. One study found, for example, that wages for U.S. workers in computer and math fields have largely stagnated since 2000. Even as the Great Recession slowly recedes, STEM workers at every stage of the career pipeline, from freshly minted grads to mid- and late-career Ph.D.s, still struggle to find employment as many companies, including Boeing, IBM, and Symantec, continue to lay off thousands of STEM workers.

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Last year the Washington Free Beacon reported that the New York Times had quietly deleted hundreds of “advertorials” that the Chinese Communist Party paid to publish on its website. This week the Spectator published Dominic Green’s column reporting that the Times suppressed any inquiry into the origins of the Covid epidemic.

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Andrew Cuomo signifies the privilege that Democrats enjoy to suppress news of their their own misconduct and ineptitude while basking in the esteem of the media (video below). He won an Emmy for his “masterful” daily Covid spiels. He took home a $5 million dollar deal on a book touting his “leadership lessons” from the epidemic — “leadership” that he displayed most prominently in policies that fostered New York’s wave of nursing home deaths.