The Antiplanner.

Like many U.S. states, France has conducted a war on sprawl that has had economically ruinous and socially harmful consequences, yet produced no real benefits, according to a new paper from the Institut de recherches économiques et fiscales (Institute for Fiscal and Economic Research). Written by engineer Vincent Bénard, The War on Sprawl: An Irrational Political Obsession shows that anti-sprawl policies have caused a six-fold increase in land prices and significantly increased housing prices. This represents a transfer of wealth from low-income people who rent and/or have recently purchased homes to high-income people who have long owned their homes and may be landlords of rented homes.

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FDA Says Authorized COVID-19 Vaccines Still Effective, Boosters May Not Be Needed

Losing Covid-19 antibody immunity after six months after Pfizer vaccine

Biden’s team tightens grip on state use of Covid antibody treatments

McAuliffe seen on Amtrak without mask, skirting federal mask mandates; passenger calls it a ‘double standard’

Covid hospitalization numbers can be misleading  Not to mention the ones that are outright lies.

California County Sheriff: “I Will Not Enforce Vaccine Mandate”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Demands Amazon Censor COVID ‘Misinformation’

Why The Biden COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Is Unconstitutional

Unvaccinated Covid patients cost the U.S. health system billions of dollars

Massachusetts Activates National Guard To Bus School Children After Vax Mandate Staffing Shortages

NBA Won’t Impose Vaccine Requirement On Players After Union ‘Refused To Budge’

More Than Half Of US States Vow To Fight Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

Big Tech Spreads FALSE ‘Horse Dewormer’ Articles

LA County To Mandate Segregation Of Unvaccinated Or Negative Test At Outdoor Events, Bars, And Clubs

California recall lesson: Republicans believe in elections only when they win (The Arizona Republic) That’s because Republicans don’t try to steal elections, but Democrats do.

Analysis | All of this to keep Trump from getting upset (Washington Post) Since when has the WaPo ever worried about upsetting Trump?

Jim Risch’s questions to Blinken show how a Republican lie is born (Washington Post) No, the lie is born with Blinken’s answer.

Trump Calls Allies to Demand Gen. Mark Milley Be ‘Arrested’ for ‘Treason’ (Daily Beast) They say that like it was a bad thing.

FBI director faces new scrutiny over investigation of Brett Kavanaugh

Why are there so many Trump staff memoirs? The authors need to whitewash their reputations (The Guardian) Maybe it’s the money?

Anonymous says it will release massive trove of secrets from far-right web host (Daily Dot)

MSNBC contributor calls Larry Elder ‘Trumpism in blackface’ As they do.

Colbert Argues to Breyer: ‘Right-Wing’ SCOTUS Justices Illegitimate

They Are Creating The Biggest Witch Hunt In American History

Dubious climate science about the Texas cold disaster

Nature: Wind Turbine Noise Issues

Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. Here’s What’s at Stake

“Insulate Britain” Climate Activists Blamed for Motorway Crash

GM tells Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars

Biden met with protesters upon California arrival over Afghanistan, vaccinations: ‘Biden Go Home’

Biden claims ‘first job offer’ from Idaho lumber company, but it’s news to them

Lawmakers Silent on Biden Solicitor General Nom’s Financial Conflict

Despite Mandates, Biden Commerce Secretary Claims “Nobody Is Being Forced” To Take COVID Vaccine  She missed a great career as a Soviet apparatchik.

VA teacher says encouraging behaviors like ‘following directions’ is White supremacy

KINDRED SPIRITS: Pocahontas Endorses Senate Candidate Who Lied About Academic Credentials

Michigan Dem Snuck Handcuff Key Into Jail, Sheriff Says

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The brief, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, supports the Department of Justice’s request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction of the bill, which went into effect Sept. 1. and bans abortions in Texas after about six weeks of pregnancy.

“Today, virtually no one can obtain an abortion in Texas,” read the brief. “In order to obtain abortion care, patients now have to travel out-of-state, which makes abortion for many people too difficult, too time-intensive, and too costly.”

The officials said they were committed to “ensuring the safety of residents of out States who seek medical care in Texas while present as students, workers, or visitors.”

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Fentanyl seizures in 2021 have nearly doubled 2020 numbers, according to records quietly released by Customs and Border Protection.

The “Drug Seizure Statistics” tool run by the agency disclosed on Monday that agents already seized 9,337 pounds of fentanyl by the end of July, a 94 percent increase from the 4,791 pounds seized in the entirety of 2020. In 2019, the agency seized just 2,804 pounds. CBP did not publicly announce the updated statistics.

According to CBP’s data, the vast majority of fentanyl seizures—1,110—have taken place at the southwest border, highlighting how the migrant crisis creates opportunities for cartels and other criminal organizations as law enforcement finds its resources strained. The influx of fentanyl also comes at a time when overdoses from the drug are set to break all-time records this year.

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Leaders of New York City’s business community were heartened this week when Democratic mayoral nominee and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams came before them to promise that, under his administration, New York would “welcome business.” In keeping with his primary campaign rhetoric, Adams insisted that he would prevent the city from becoming “dysfunctional,” with a renewed focus on public safety.

These are welcome words. But a closer look at Adams’s campaign platform and long public record reveals a worrisome pattern of reversals, empty promises, and unfulfilled expectations that should at least temper voter optimism that New York City is turning a corner into sunshine.

For instance, while Adams vows to make New York City friendly to commerce, last year he co-authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed proposing a radical new corporate tax on information. “Years of chronic underinvestment in education, health care, housing and transit,” he wrote, challenge the city “to find new revenue sources.” The obvious place to impose new taxes, according to Adams, “is the data economy.”

As long as New Yorkers keep electing Democrats, they’re going to keep crapping in their own lunch pail.

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To be chosen as one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people is usually an accolade worth fighting for. Yet this year, it seems to be the celebrity equivalent of the booby prize. Cockburn imagines that it was put together by various subversive elements within the publication who hoped to see the mass ridicule that its various choices, both of subjects and of writers, have led to. They will not be disappointed.

That an airbrushed photograph of Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, takes pride of place in the ‘Icons’ section says all that you need to know. He, poor boy, looks as if he has been captured by a militant group and is being made to put out a hostage video, while she — quite literally — is wearing the pants. But it is the text about them by a celebrity chef named José Andrés beggars belief. ‘They turn compassion into boots on the ground…they give voice to the voiceless through media production.’ Dear God. Chef Andrés would be best advised to remain in the kitchen, sharpening his knives, if this is the level of his insight.

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The English language as written today is often nearly incomprehensible on first reading, and as spoken almost unintelligible and unpleasant to the point where the civilized listener disengages himself in frustration and disgust from the speaker and his speech. The problem in the first instance is the readiness of people who know better to embrace demotic usage in semi-formal literary venues, such as respectable journalism; the second, the bizarre combination of pretension and illiteracy and its results, the jargon and barbarisms ubiquitous in the 21st century.

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Most remarkable, however, is the impression one has from watching the evening news shows that nearly everyone on camera is speaking English as a second language. The majority of anchors and their guests seem particularly ignorant of the most ordinary usage and long-familiar colloquialisms and idioms — always and everywhere the sure sign of persons for whom the language is not their native tongue. In recent weeks, I have heard on FOX News programs alone ‘isolated to’ for ‘limited to’; ‘placating to’ for ‘placating’; ‘from every political stripe’ for ‘of every…[etc.]’; ‘you’ll be discriminated’ for ‘you’ll be discriminated against’; ‘to the president’s point of view’ for ‘in the president’s point of view’; and ‘you’ll be trained into’ for ‘you’ll be trained to’. ‘Take a listen’ is a linguistic abomination unheard of outside a television studio; it does not seem to exist in the vernacular. The use of an adjective bereft of its following noun — e.g. ‘a hypothetical’ — goes unquestioned. So does ‘fraught’ minus a specified prepositional object. But what is the editor of a prominent American newspaper thinking when he allows a contributor to write of ‘a Trump return to the White House’? Often writers and editors seem determined to reduce the number of words they use in a sentence to a minimum while breaking every recognized rule to do so, but here the difference is one of a single letter. And how, and why, has ‘to advocate’ been replaced by ‘to advocate for’? — an obvious barbarism if there ever was one. Does the second really sound that much better to the postmodern ear ‘untrained into’ Latin?

Tru dat.

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Washington, D.C., congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.) wrote to the USPS this month to communicate her constituents’ complaints about mail delivery problems. A postal service administrator responded last week, telling Norton that the American Rescue Plan Act, which Democrats passed in March, is to blame for staff shortages that have contributed to the agency’s ineffectiveness.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased employee absences and reduced employee availability, which continue to impact our delivery operations,” executive postmaster Sherry Harper wrote. “The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provides postal employees with up to 600 hours of Emergency Federal Employee Leave in response to the ongoing pandemic. Congress enacted the law with the understandable consequence that employee availability would be affected, particularly for federal agencies.”

Gee, if you give people ‘free’ money, they may decide not to work. Who could have predicted that?

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I’m somewhat surprised that it isn’t already labelled such.

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Better yet, have a deep pocket and an open hand … and soakable taxpayers.

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Energetic but impoverished citizens of the Republic of Moldova have found it worth their while to become “asylum seekers” and make regular trips to Berlin to receive the cash and free goodies handed out by the Berlin state government to all and sundry.

As Newsom leads California recall polls, Larry Elder pushes baseless fraud claims (NBC News) Baseless!

California recall pits Newsom against Trump and GOP’s election lies (NBC News) Lies!

Tucker Carlson Admits ‘I Lie if I’m Really Cornered or Something’ (Daily Beast) Unlike the Daily Beast, which lies just for the hell of it.

Trump’s White House chief of staff is target of Capitol attack records request  (The Guardian)

George W. Bush just threw a whole lot of shade at Donald Trump (CNN) And CNN is there to celebrate.

Former teacher tells Tucker he ‘was separated’ from school after objecting to CRT, split Zoom sessions by race

Biden: California Gubernatorial Candidate Larry Elder a Trump ‘Clone’  Well, we can hope.

Famous California Ski Resort Renamed to Remove Native American Slur

Senators Condemn Protest Outside Brett Kavanaugh’s Home

UK: E-car chargers will turn off to prevent blackouts

“Personal Carbon Allowances” Pushed To Fight Global Warming

Sorry, World Bank and Mainstream Media, Climate Change Not Driving Immigration

Old People Are Preventing the World from Addressing Climate Change The swine!

Poll: 39% of Young Adults May Remain Childless Because of Climate Fears  And they are precisely the ones we ought to encourage not to breed.

Climate Change Is Not a Crisis

Newt Gingrich: Angry Biden blames Americans for his failures

Top Immunologist Dr. Hooman Noorchashm Regrets Voting for Joe Biden After Vaccine Mandate

White House Cuts Biden’s Feed During Briefing

Rep. McCaul: Interpreters in Afghanistan Being Executed

UNICEF Director: 1M Afghan Children at Risk of Starvation

Obama CIA Director Says Biden Afghanistan Calamity Has “Absolutely Inspired Jihadists All Over The World” U.S. Constitution: ‘Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.’

Man hit by stray bullet during Uptown Dallas shooting

Syracuse assistant professor ‘disturbed’ by how many ‘white pundits’ still talk about 9/11

Charlottesville’s BLM mayor to step down after city has buyer’s remorse

Democrats: The ‘Free Money’ Party

AI Recognises Race in Medical Images  Pretty good for something that doesn’t exist.

Today’s Big Racism Problem: Not Enough Black Women in Volleyball

Ex-Cops Accused of Violating Floyd’s Rights Plead Not Guilty

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An Iranian national convicted by a federal jury was sentenced Tuesday for sending the Islamic republic advanced military components used in nuclear weapons and missile guidance systems.

Mehrdad Ansari, a resident of the United Arab Emirates who is originally from Iran, was sentenced to 63 months in prison for circumventing U.S. sanctions on Iran through his distribution of sensitive military matériel. Ansari, who worked alongside Taiwanese citizen Susan Yip and Iranian citizen Mehrdad Foomanie to evade the American sanctions, over a four-year period obtained or tried to obtain more than 105,000 parts valued at more than $2.6 million.

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Fadel Alkilani, the vice president of finance for the school’s student union, removed nearly all of the 2,977 flags that the school’s College Republicans had placed on campus. Each flag represented an American killed by Islamic extremists on Sept. 11, 2001. Alkilani was caught stuffing flags in trash bags twice on Saturday morning. In a statement criticizing the U.S. military posted to Instagram, he claimed including American flags in the memorial was “insidious.”

Guess we don’t have to wonder which side he’s on.

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How do you fund a $3.5 trillion budget? The honest answer is, you don’t. Joe Biden knows this, but he thinks he can find some additional revenue by snooping through your bank statements.

I’d be astonished if they don’t already have them.

Washington Free Beacon.

After more than two and a half years of watching and listening to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) cosplay as a professional celeb and fashion icon moonlighting as a serious politician, we have decided we won’t report on her antics as part of the Washington Free Beacon‘s political coverage.

Instead, we will continue to cover AOC’s parking habits and other aspects of her social life as part of our Entertainment, Fashion, Fantasy, and Young Adult sections. Our reason is simple: AOC’s seat in Congress is a sideshow. We won’t take the bait by pretending otherwise in an effort to appear “objective.”

Like many of her Democratic colleagues elected during the Trump era, AOC is less interested in representing her constituents as a legislator than she is in relishing the trappings of power and celebrity. She just wants to be photographed wearing a “Tax the Rich” dress at the Met Gala, whereas Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) just wants to sleep with consultants and break up other people’s marriages, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.) just wants to abuse her subordinates.

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More than a dozen former staffers to Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., have accused the progressive congresswoman of overseeing “a dysfunctional and volatile workplace,” and mistreating staffers, according to a report from BuzzFeed News.

Staffers, who were not named, claim that Jayapal’s office was “harsh,” and described her treatment as contrary to her public persona. The former staffers said that the congresswoman would berate members of staff in front of others, would demand that they work long hours, and said that the office culture involved frequently changing expectations and almost no allowance for failure.

“I’ve worked in bad environments before, and I have worked in some awful environments before for some awful people. I’ve been colleagues with some awful people,” said one former Jayapal staffer. “I have never worked in a place that has made me so miserable and so not excited for public service as Pramila Jayapal’s office.”

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It’s been nearly a week since a former field organizer for the Washington State Democrats was found guilty of terrorist attacks and violence against a railroad carrier; and so far, the liberal TV networks have not given the story a solitary second of airtime.

In December of 2020, antifa “activists” Samantha Frances Brooks and Ellen Brennan Reiche were indicted on terror charges after placing disrupting cables (or shunts) on train tracks near Bellingham, Washington. This caused a train carrying hazardous materials to decouple from some of its cars, which, according to authorities, could have led to a dangerous derailment in a residential area.

Yet despite the media’s professed interest in domestic terrorism stories, they refuse to give this one any coverage whatsoever. None of the liberal cable (CNN, MSNBC) or broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have breathed so much as a word about this story as of September 14.

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The FBI has fired an agent who played a major role in the prosecution of more than a dozen far-right members who made plans to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer over her strict coronavirus mandates, the Daily Mail has reported.

The dismissal of Richard Trask from the FBI comes two months after he was arrested for allegedly beating his wife.

Trask at first became the public face of the investigation into the kidnapping plot, as he testified in court, according to The Epoch Times.

But the FBI later dropped him as a witness after Trask’s social media posts were revealed that called former President Donald Trump a “douchebag” and other expletives.

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The American withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s declaration of victory have inspired Islamists across the world. The Taliban announced its intent to enforce strict Islamic sharia law on Afghans.

But the joy of seeing Afghanistan fall back into the grasp of Taliban rule hasn’t yet led Western Islamists to express any intention of moving there.

Funny how that works.

ZMan knows which way the wind blows.

Depending upon where you live, the news could be full of dire warnings about how the virus is still raging and you must remain vigilant. Alternatively, the news may be about how those heretics somewhere else are being visited by an extra wave of the virus for mocking blessed Covid. It did not take long for the panic to become a racket. The Covid industrial complex is like a public works project. Everyone involved is committed to one thing and that is never ending the job.

Of course, there is always time for a reminder that the secret invisible army of Hitlers is out there in the shadows. Everyone needs to be on the lookout for white supremacy and all its manifestations. Every once in a while someone utters a discouraging word in the earshot of a minority, so the local news team rushes into investigate. Sometimes the national scandal monger chopper in a team to investigate something, which gives the locals a reason to put on a show about it too.

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The key, of course, is figuring out how to monetize it.

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As a professor of Classics at the University of Oxford, I had quite forgotten the thrill of understanding spoken Latin when, in 2016, a group of students from the Accademia Vivarium, an institution based in the beautiful Villa Falconieri just outside Rome, paid a visit to the UK with their professor Luigi Miraglia. Among them were students of Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish and South American origin; but one could hardly tell their nationalities apart because, in addition to using Latin names (Julianus, Edmundus), they spoke in fluent and elegant Latin and in one case, Attic Greek.

When I signed up for Greek my sophomore year at Yale, the professor went around the room (all eight of us) and asked us why we were in the class. Smart-ass that I was, I said ‘To be civilized.’ He looked at me for a second and responded, ‘No, you learn Latin to be civilized. You learn Greek to be educated.’

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Afghan refugee resettlement is a major domestic political issue in Turkey. Economic stress from hosting Syrian refugees is a major reason. Afghan refugees would bring more violence, from cultural differences and the threat of Islamic terrorists using refugee status as a cover. Turkey currently assists over four million refugees. An estimated 3.7 million are Syrian refugees. Over 200,000 Afghans are living in Turkey. Many of them have been in Turkey since mid-2011. A recent UN report noted over 500,000 Syrian school children attend Turkish schools. Some smaller Turkish provinces are particularly strained. In the south, on the Syrian border, Kilis province has a population of 140,000 Turks and it provides refuge for 105,000 Syrians. Fear of Islamic terrorism is another reason Turks are concerned about an Afghan refugee influx. Al Qaeda and ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) have launched attacks within Turkey. There is worry that terrorists in the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) separatist movement might ally with “sleeper cell” Afghan militants mixing with Afghan refugees. Domestic political angle by opponents of president Erdogan and his strong presidency suspect a domestic political angle. Erdogan might try to give the refugees a quick pathway to citizenship, with the object of creating new pro-Erdogan voters. (Austin Bay)

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Citing FBI statistics, Tevi Troy informs us that hate crimes in 2020 reached their highest level in 12 years. Of religion-based hate crimes, 57.5 percent of them were targeted at Jews, even though Jews make up only 2 percent of the U.S. population.

That’s what I call disparate impact. Yet, nearly everything I read in the mainstream media about hate crimes focuses on other minority groups.

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Below is a view of the 9-11 anniversary as reflected in local political events in Sweden.

What A ‘Mild’ Breakthrough COVID Case Feels Like : Shots – Health News

3 states have fully vaccinated more than 2/3 of residents. Elsewhere, hospitals are overwhelmed with unvaccinated Covid-19 patients (CNN) Pushing the Narrative.

New York hospital to ‘pause’ delivering babies after staffers quit rather than get vaccinated

Why There Are Fears That Nipah Virus Could One Day Cause A Deadly Pandemic : Goats and Soda (NPR) Hunting for the new pandemic panic.

Thousands Protest In Turkey Against COVID-19 Vaccine Passports

Doctors, Ethicists Blast Colleagues Who Threaten To Withhold Treatment From Unvaxxed

Why It’s So Hard to Predict Where the Pandemic Is Headed Next

School Starts for 1M NYC Kids Amid New Vaccine Rules

Panel Of Scientists Determines Most People Don’t Need Boosters; Moderna Plummets

Homo homini lupus est.

Hot Mic Catches Israeli Health Minister Admitting Vaccine Passports Are About Coercion

Biden Unveils Innovative ‘Make Black People Lose Their Jobs’ Plan  Babylon Bee.

Tensions mount between CDC and Biden health team over boosters

Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as Covid packs ICUs (Washington Post) Scott Adams noticed this practice by the Narrative Media: One article a day with an anecdote pushing vaccination ‘or you’ll be sorry!’. He finds the one from CNN every day in his Coffee With Scott Adams podcast, but evidently the WaPo has gotten the memo.

CDC Says Unvaccinated Americans 11 Times More Likely to Die From COVID-19  Does this surprise anybody? The fact that it isn’t 1000 times more likely suggests that the vaccine sucks.

Judicial Watch: CDC Records Show Teachers Unions Gave Guidance to CDC Director on School COVID Restrictions  One hand washes the other.

Commerce Sec Gina Raimondo: ‘Nobody Is Being Forced’ to Get Vaccinated’  Liar liar pants on fire….

College students chant ‘F— Joe Biden’ at football games

US Military Equipment Left Behind In Afghanistan Spotted In Iran: Report

Rednecks Dress Up As Taliban So Biden Will Give Them Billions Of Dollars In Firearms  Babylon Bee.

Kamala Harris Instructed To Stop Answering All Her Phone Calls With ‘Did He Die?’  Babylon Bee.

Crowds Gather to Protest Biden’s Idaho Visit

Biden Declares We Must Spray Sunscreen On Everyone To Protect Those Already Wearing Sunscreen  Babylon Bee.

Retreat From Afghanistan Makes Taliban Best Armed Islamist Group on Earth

The Media Is Lying About Greenland and Climate Change

Texas Right to Life gets barrage of disturbing threats and messages after abortion law’s passage Haters gotta hate.

Democrats try to put Trump on the ballot in California, Virginia and New Jersey races. (Washington Post)

Fashion designer called out for cultural appropriation over its $1,190 pants (CNN)

Murdered Trump Supporter’s Estate Sues Portland, Mayor and DA

WashPost Attempts Hit Piece on Pro-Life High-Risk OB/GYN

Foul John Oliver Melts Down Over Abortion Law, Demands TX ‘Face Consequences’  Yeah, a lot of Wokies will leave the state, and others will refrain from moving here. Sounds like a win to me.

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Microsoft poured cold water on hopes that its Windows on ARM solution will one day support Apple Silicon, saying that running ARM versions of Windows 11 on M1 Macs is not “a supported scenario.”

The software giant confirmed its plans to The Register last week, noting Windows 11 will not offer official support for M1 Macs through virtualization or on bare hardware.For months, users have relied on Windows Insider builds, specifically those developed for ARM architectures, to run Windows 10 and 11 virtual machines on M1 silicon, but that practice might soon be nearing an end.

A disappointment.

Steve Sailer.

Fighting climate change via green energy is the most important thing in the world, except, of course, for hiring more black women to climb up hundreds of feet in the air to repair windmill turbines in the name of equity.

C’mon, people, priorities!

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Hammer tech.

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NOT the Babylon Bee.

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Everything Joe Biden and his team are doing right now depends on the American people despising one another. I don’t mean that Biden & Co. want us to have partisan differences or occasionally get mad at each other online. I mean they are counting on us to burn with vengeful fury toward each other, to seethe in even our private moments with bitter resentment that our fellow Americans are out there somewhere, daring to exist when they are so wrong about everything.

The Left is banking on our mutual loathing because it’s all they’ve got. They have no achievements, no plan, not even a basic understanding of the challenges that face the country and the world. They are a mob of bloated mediocrities whose every governing theory has been proven fatally wrong again and again for decades. All they can do is distract from failure with oppression, hoping as they do that oppression will find grateful welcome among those whom they are not currently characterizing as subhuman undesirables. And so they need us to hate each other.

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In this edition of The Stakes, Michael Anton, lecturer in politics and research fellow at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center, and a Claremont senior fellow, is joined by Matt Peterson, founding editor of The American Mind. The two discuss the massive and widening rift between California and Texas, both as individual states and as standard-bearers for their respective sides of the aisle. In the coming “big sort,” the question will be: which state is better for everyday Americans?

Bryan Caplan, a Real Economist.

Six years ago, I began homeschooling my elder sons, Aidan and Tristan. They attended Fairfax County Public Schools for K-6, becoming more disgruntled with every passing year. Even though they went to an alleged “honors” school for grades 4-6, they were bored out of their minds. The academic material was too easy and moved far too slowly. The non-academic material was humiliatingly infantile. And non-academics – music, dance, chorus, art, poster projects – consumed a majority of their day. As elementary school graduation approached, my sons were hungry for a change.

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I doubt that it will be the ‘biggest in history’, but it will certainly be as big as they think they can get away with. Nothing irritates Democrats more than leaving people with money to spend.

ZMan follows life imitating art.

At some point in the future, the ape historians may look back at this time and call it the Bush – Clinton period of the American empire. The period started with the first Bush presidency in 1989, roughly corresponding with the end of the Cold War and concluding sometime around now. It is hard to know if this period is at an end or if it will stagger on for a while longer. It would surprise no one if Hillary Clinton or one of the Bush clan takes one last stab at the presidency in 2024.

The rivalry between the Bush family and the Clinton family mirrors the rivalry between the Compson and Snopes family in the William Faulkner novels. The Compson family represented the old Southern order that emerged from the wreckage of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The Snopes family represented the new, white trash culture that was slowly overtaking the old order. It was order and dignity at the end of its time versus an emergent disorder and lack of dignity.