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China is seeking a grand bargain from the Taliban: eliminate the groups Beijing says are stirring up trouble among its Muslim Uighurs in exchange for massive aid to rebuild Afghanistan. It sounds enticing for both sides as they sit down in Doha this week, but there are numerous questions about whether either can deliver, and a good chance that China will become the next imperial power sucked into the “graveyard of empires.”

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister, and Wang Li, China’s foreign minister, are reportedly meeting in the capital of Qatar just as the Taliban faces a growing number of attacks from ISIS-K, a provincial affiliate of Islamic State. Baradar is insisting that the security situation is “under control.”

Beijing gleefully welcomed America’s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan and the Taliban seizure of power, but that has quickly been replaced by trepidation at the threat of instability on its doorstep. The humbling of the United States in Afghanistan fitted nicely into the Chinese narrative of American decline and enabled Beijing to pile pressure on Taiwan, depicting Washington as an unreliable ally.

Probably not, but I’m sure they could be rented at reasonable rates.

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Some people are born with hearing loss, while others acquire it with age, infections or long-term noise exposures. In many instances, the tiny hairs in the inner ear’s cochlea that allow the brain to recognize electrical pulses as sound are damaged. As a step toward an advanced artificial cochlea, researchers in ACS Nano report a conductive membrane, which translated sound waves into matching electrical signals when implanted inside a model ear, without requiring external power.

 

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A man was severely beaten in a culturally enriched district of Berlin for refusing to shout “Free Palestine”. The victim is reportedly a “German citizen”, which means he is probably a fellow culture-enricher who declined to engage in the Jew-hatred that Muslims consider mandatory.

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More young, activist women are choosing to be sterilized as our nation’s emerging adult generation is buying into climate-change propaganda that ”humans were a mistake,” according to an existential psychologist scholar.

This would seem to be a self-correcting problem, from an evolutionary standpoint.

Personally, I think that women who don’t want to reproduce ought to be encouraged not to do so.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

One thing about news stories that reflect badly on Democrats: they generally disappear from the news quickly, and without leaving a trace. Like our departure from Afghanistan, an epic failure on the part of the Biden administration that resulted in 13 dead Americans (that we know of), hundreds of Americans still marooned in Afghanistan–assuming they are all still alive–and many thousands of Afghans, mostly unknown, in the U.S. or on the way here.

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When Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week, he told Rep. Jim Jordan that FBI agents will not be attending school board meetings. However, an activist mother in Fairfax, Virginia says the feds did show up at a school board meeting last Thursday, the same day Garland made his statement to Jordan.

 

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As we focus on our own problems in the United States, the Russian war against Ukraine continues. There is also a cold war between a Russian proxy, Belarus, against Poland and Lithuania that involves immigration.

Belarus invites Middle East immigrants to come to Belarus. Belarus then deposits these immigrants on the Polish and Lithuanian borders and tries to force them to cross into Poland and Lithuania. The goal is to destabilize two NATO nations.

Ukraine is not a NATO nation but the United States is selling Ukraine Javelin anti-tank missiles to defend against Russian tanks in the Donbass region of Ukraine. They are also purchasing drones from Turkey, and Turkey plans to allow Ukraine to produce the Bayraktar T2B in Ukraine.

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After five years in the wilderness, Huma Abedin is finally getting Beltway buzz again. Abedin has been Hillary Clinton’s shadow since 1996, controlling access, cleaning up gaffes, and plotting Hillary’s rise to the presidency. Huma was flattered with decades of beat-sweetening puff pieces by reporters desperate for an ally in Hillary’s inner circle. In November 2016, the knives came out. Coverage since has been meager and sordid, often focused on her soap-opera marriage to Anthony Weiner.

That all changed Tuesday with Simon and Schuster’s announcement of her new autobiography. Being clever marketers, they dangled an excerpt sure to tantalize gossips in the DC media.

Dallas Mayor Tests Positive for Breakthrough Case of COVID-19 I guess getting vaccinated, getting boosters, wearing a mask, and being a Democrat really works.

‘No Mandate Monday’ takes hold at California HS

Miller: The Slippery Semantics Of Anthony Fauci

Re-Imposing COVID Restrictions Would Cost UK Up To £18 Billion

Louisiana Lifts Mask Mandate, Except in Schools, as New COVID Cases Decline

Clement and Tribe Predicted the FDA Catastrophe

Bongino Off Radio This Week Over Vaccine Mandate  Biting the hand that feeds him.

Mom to Sue After Son Vaccinated at School Without Consent

Houston Texans Chairman Shamed For Calling COVID “China Virus”

Pfizer Claims Vaccine Will Reduce Average Daily Child COVID Deaths From Almost Zero To Almost Zero  Babylon Bee.

California Shuts Down Another In-N-Out Burger For Refusing To Be “Vaccine Police”

YouTube Exec BRAGS Platform Removed Over 1M Videos of So-Called ‘COVID Misinfo’

Trump Tells January 6th Panel He Has Diplomatic Immunity as Russian Official (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz thinks he’s funny but he’s not.

A Scottish Judge Could Expose Donald Trump’s Shady Golf Finances (Daily Beast) Shady!

The 10 US states with the most hate groups (The Hill) According to the SPLC, of course, which is like being called ugly by a frog.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is now trying to justify the January 6 riot (CNN)

2% of Elon Musk’s wealth could solve world hunger, says director of UN food scarcity organization (CNN) I suspect taht 2% of the U.N.’s graft would solve world hunger as well.

Why Donald Trump’s new social media venture is doomed to fail  (CNN)

NBC News: Senator Sinema Is a Disgrace to Us Bisexuals Because She Can’t Make Up Her Mind Which Team She’s Playing for,

Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill Matt Gaetz Worked For CNN, ABC, NBC  My, what a surprise.

Princeton Dresses Up a Witch for Burning

Brian Williams Touts Liberal Trashing of Sinema, ‘D***head’ Manchin

Corporate Safe Spaces: How Racial Affinity Groups Radicalize Companies

34% of white college students lied about their race to improve admission chance  Which they wouldn’t have done if it weren’t for Black Privilege.

Black and Latino students did worse in schools with ‘diversity officers’: study

Top California Democrat Celebrates Black Panther Accused of Murder

Mainstream morning news ignores massive migrant caravan heading to US border

Joint public events between Harris, Biden decline amid falling poll numbers

Biden’s Climate Agenda Dies In The Senate

Caravan of Hundreds of Migrants Press North Across Mexico “The U.S. government has put pressure on Mexico to contain migrants before reaching the U.S. border.”  Guess that didn’t work. (Allowing foreigners to cross your territory in order to invade a neighboring country is, I suspect, an act of war.)

Not a Trick: No White House Treats for Halloween This Year  Apparently the Bidens will be in Europe on Halloween and so the porch light will be off.

US Issues 1st Passport Listing Gender as ‘X’  If i were a foreign country, I would refuse to accept such a passport.

Biden Under Fire for Decision to Grant Syrian Dictator’s Cousin a US Visa

US Ends Immigration Arrests at Schools, ‘Protected’ Areas

Biden’s Approval Rating Plummets in Blue States

Janet Yellen Pops Out Of Child’s Cake To Take His Birthday Money  Babylon Bee.

There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, But Biden Says Free Community College?

One of world’s biggest pension funds to stop investing in fossil fuels (The Guardian)

Revealed: 60% of Americans say oil firms are to blame for the climate crisis (The Guardian) “according to a new YouGov poll commissioned by the Guardian, Vice News, and Covering Climate Now”. So it’s totally objective.

The Climate Denial Is Coming From Inside Facebook’s House (Gizmodo)

What L.A. County will look like with sea level rise, according to scientific projections Still waiting for the sea to actually rise.

How to talk to your grandchildren about Joe Manchin and the climate (Washington Post)

Latin America’s environmental villains dodge the COP26 (Financial Times) Villains!

‘They Need To Breed Less’: The Darkness Of Climate Zealotry

World faces disastrous 2.7C temperature rise on current climate plans, UN warns  And warns… and warns… and warns….

Decades of disinformation by fossil fuels halted US climate policy  And decades of activist disinformation is distorting US climate policy today. (And why is there such a thing as “US climate policy”? What business is climate of the government?)

Men shot by Rittenhouse can’t be called ‘victims’ during trial, but ‘rioters,’ ‘looters’ are OK, judge rules

Residents in one San Francisco neighborhood hire private cop to help fight crime

CNN’s Brian Stelter roasted for failed attempt to defend corporate media from DeSantis’ criticism

‘Environmental Injustice’: DC Residents Sue to Block Bus Depot Construction (NBC)

Chicago poised to create one of the nation’s largest ‘guaranteed basic income’ programs (Washington Post) I wonder where they’re going to get the money – they can’t even fund their public pension plans.

PROPAGANDA: Latino Nets Deploy Caravan Kids As Human Shields

Nets Skip Loudoun Students Protesting School Board that Covered Up Rape

NYT’s 10K-Word Kenosha Riot Story Obsesses Over Kyle Rittenhouse, Scary ‘Paramilitaries’

More on the Election Fraud

Former Soros Activist Explains How Progressive Policies Ruined San Francisco

‘The truth is out’: inside a Loudoun County school board meeting “Residents who wish to speak at meetings are not even allowed in the building until they are in the next group of ten scheduled to appear, and they are not allowed to bring in bags or purses.”

‘Spun Out of Control’: CNN Tries to Excuse Damaging McAuliffe Gaffe in Final Week

Over 50% of Voters in New Poll Say Big Tech Interfered in 2020 Election

Loudoun County Parents Must Sign Nondisclosure Agreement to View CRT Curriculum  Sounds as if they think they’ve got something to hide. (All it takes is one person willing to be sued for them to lose control of the Narrative.)

Smith College Student Wants Tampon, Sanitary Pad Dispensers in Men’s Bathrooms

Annoyed MSNBC on VA School Rape Cover-Up: ‘Aren’t Even Major Issues’

Media Falsely Claim Texas Law Bans Transgenders From Competing In Sports

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Politico is reporting that Congressional Democrats are pondering major cuts to Medicare Advantage, a system of competing private health plans, to help pay for their massive multitrillion dollar spending bill.

This would be a bad policy. Compared to traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage provides better benefits, lower costs, and higher quality care.

Medicare Advantage is a popular alternative to traditional Medicare. From 2011 to 2020 alone, private plan enrollment grew by 103% compared to overall Medicare growth of 28%. This year, private plans are projected to enroll over 27 million senior and disabled Americans or an estimated 43% of the total Medicare population.

The program’s rapid growth is not hard to explain. It works.

And because it works, Democrats hate it.

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Andrew Breitbart’s axiom has been repeated so often in right-wing commentary that it has become something of a cliché: politics is downstream of culture, and culture is downstream of religion. But an essential feature is missing from this exercise in hydro-political cartography. Near the source of the river, just across from the church, there is a farm.

It may seem outlandish to claim that the way we farm and the way we pray are comparable in their influence on culture and therefore on politics. But it only seems that way from the vantage point of deracinated modernity. Indeed, agriculture has always preceded and underpinned culture. It takes no intellectual leap of faith to trace our obesity and other health crises back to what we grow, and how we grow it. Likewise, if we are what we eat, then our national (and civilizational) identity crisis should come as no surprise: we no longer know who we are because we no longer know what we are eating, or by what means it has arrived on our plates.

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Hammer tech.

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Evolution. It’s not just for breakfast any more.

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A federal jury in Charlotte awarded a former top executive with Novant Health Inc. $10 million on Tuesday after he claimed in a lawsuit that he was fired from his job because he is a white male, court records show.

David Duvall, who lives in Michigan, said in his 2019 lawsuit that he lost his job as senior vice president of marketing and communication in July 2018 at Novant Health because of the company’s efforts to diversify many of its top leadership positions.

The jury said that Duvall proved that his race and gender were motivating factors in Novant Health’s decision to terminate him, according to the jury’s verdict form. The jury also indicated that Novant Health failed to prove that it would have dismissed Duvall regardless of his race.

ZMan takes a broad view.

One way to measure the health of a society is to look at how the ruling elite of that society protects the things that are important to the society. Just as the management of a company cannot micromanage every aspect of the firm, the ruling class cannot make sure every rule and custom is strictly enforced. It has to focus its energy on the big items that make the society possible. From there this attitude will flow down to the lower levels who will enforce the smaller rules.

What the ruling elite of a society does by enforcing the big rules, especially those that manage the affairs of the ruling class, is set the tone. A disciplined ruling class reinforces the idea that the rules matter, and they must be respected. This attitude becomes a habit of mind for the people. On the other hand, a ruling class that has no respect for its own rules helps foster a culture of cheating. If it is okay for the bosses to cheat, then only a sucker follows the rules.

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The elephant in the room on this topic is Covid. The idea of science has been so corrupted that it is now warping the language. Because the vaccines do not actually work as promised, the language is being changed to fit the crime. It used to be that vaccines provided immunity from infection by a specific virus. Now immunity means a sense of happiness that comes from compliance. You may still die from Covid, or you could become immortal. Who can tell anymore?

 

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A former Weather Underground militant has been granted parole 40 years after taking part in the infamous Brink’s armored car robbery that left two policemen and a security guard dead, it was announced Tuesday.

David Gilbert, 77, will be released by Nov. 30, the New York Department of Corrections said. He had been convicted of taking part in the ambush, which was planned by the Black Liberation Army.

Gilbert was granted a parole hearing after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., commuted his 75-years-to-life sentence, The New York Times reported.

The disgraced Cuomo did so in one of his final acts as governor before leaving office amid numerous sexual harassment allegations. Gilbert otherwise would not have been eligible for parole until 2056.

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Lithium is prized because it is lightweight and can store lots of energy, making it an important component in batteries for electric vehicles and as reservoirs for excess energy generated by wind turbines and solar panels. Demand for lithium-ion batteries is expected to grow between five- and 10-fold by the end of the decade, and the world must ramp up production quickly to move away from fossil fuels.

This find could contribute to that. But under Maine’s recently enacted mining laws, it’s unclear whether it will ever be extracted.

As always, government is the problem, not the solution.

Black Actress Cut Out From Chinese Version of ‘Dune’ Poster  Since she was replacing a white male in the book, perhaps the Chinese are just being literary purists.

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The controversy stems from the News Tab. Facebook’s News Tab aggregates news articles from various outlets and presents them to users within the app and on desktop. Internal chats indicate that Facebook employees worked to control the narrative on controversial political issues like the Jan. 6 riot.

Some employees targeted Breibart, a right-wing media platform. “Get Breitbart out of News Tab,” one message read.

“My argument is that allowing Breibart to monetize through us is, in fact, a political statement,” another message added. “It is an acceptance of extreme, hateful and often false news used to propagate fear, racism and bigotry. On a daily basis, it publishes articles that I believe insult our values as a company.”

“The fact that we have a partner manager program for misinformation escalations at all is disheartening to me,” yet another message continued.

Anarchy Reigns in Portland

Democrats’ latest terrible idea — taxing profits that don’t exist

San Francisco families no longer ‘feel safe,’ hire private security amid crime spree

California Decriminalized Shoplifting For Amounts Under $950, Guess What Happened Next.

Nets Skip Judge Finding Loudoun Rapist Guilty, AP Claims ‘Murky Case’

WashPost Stealth Edited Loudoun Rape Story, ‘Gender-Fluid’ Attacker

No Library Story Hour, But You Can Have Some Drag Queens Read to Your Kids

The Curious Role of the Washington Post in Virginia’s Governor’s Race

Apple’s Privacy Rules to Blame for Facebook’s Lower Than Expected Quarterly Growth, Says Zuckerberg

Terry McAuliffe Does Not Send His Kids to Virginia Public Schools Of course not. No Crustian does.

‘Loudoun County Protects Rapists’: Students Walk Out Over Trans Bathroom Rape Coverup

Sen. Bernie Sanders: Medicare Expansion a Must-Have in Spending Bill  Bringing socialism one baby step at a time.

Obsessive: Politico Sweats Through 17 Stories in One Day on Manchin’s Budget Moves

Public Schools In Boston Suburb Sued For Excluding White Students From Events

CW’s Woke ‘4400’ Reboot: No Civil Rights ‘Progress’ Since 1950s, ‘Feels Same’  Sorry, dude, I was there for the 50s, and it’s way different.

‘Woke Racism’—A Review

Test Scores by Ethnicity in Canada

Civil Rights Pioneer Seeks Expungement of ’55 Arrest Record  Because arresting black people is raaaaaaacist.

Olympian Berry Trashes America In Bitter Blog Post on The Players Tribune

Afrofuturism and the decline of our art museums

Obama Tells Girl Raped In School Restroom To Stop Peddling Fake Outrage

CBS Touts Netflix Kaepernick Series Comparing NFL Draft to ‘Slave Auction’  Enhanced by the visual evidence that football is almost entirely a black game.

NYC workers vaccine mandate protest shuts down Brooklyn Bridge traffic into Manhattan

Doctors are often unaware of the only treatment for early Covid-19

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom Struggling to Enforce Vaccine Mandate as Workers Ignore It

Empty Beds When Rhode Island Hospitals Were “Overwhelmed”

Rand Paul: Fauci Will Never Stop Lying; Fire Him Now

California Man Drives Into Protest Against COVID-19 Mandates

Striking Workers Decry “Suicide Shifts” As Pandemic Burnout Takes Toll

UK Faces ‘Plan B’ Peril: COVID Multiplies The Economic Threat

CDC Director: Unvaccinated Police, Government Workers To Be Sent For “Education And Counseling”

Info on Religious Accommodation

Alabama Gov. Ivey’s Order Bars State Agencies From Enforcing Vaccine Mandates

Congress Didn’t Give OSHA Authority to Impose Vaccine Mandates

NIH Director Shredded Over Risky Research In Wuhan After CNN Interview Goes Sideways

No Significant Change In COVID-19 Hospitalization Outcomes During Delta Surge: CDC Study  So all the handwringing was pointless.

SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies  Nature magazine spreads the FUD.

Novak Djokovic Stands Up To Australia’s Vaccine Tyranny

The slippery semantics of Anthony Fauci

FDA Panel Votes In Favor Of Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine For Children Aged 5 – 11

FDA Advisers Back Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Children

NYPD’s Largest Police Union Sues Mayor Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Biden Eyeing GOP Trump Critic to Oversee Election Security at DHS

Biden Pick Becerra’s Indecent, Indefensible Legal Assault on Nuns, Human Life

CNN’s Smerconish Highlights Illegal Immigrant Caravan Other CNNers Ignore

“Tell Biden We Are Coming”: ‘Mother Of All Caravans’ Headed Towards Texas

Biden Administration Blocks This Sheriff From Detaining Illegal Immigrants

Democrats Use Accounting Gimmicks to Conceal Spending in Bloated ‘Build Back Better’ Bill

Eco-friendly sex: What is it and how does it impact on climate change? (BBC)

‘Natural infrastructure’ could save billions a year in climate crisis response (The Guardian)

Shun fossil fuel firms by treating them like tobacco industry, EU urged (The Guardian)

Have You Seen The Guardian’s Climate Disaster? It Appears To Have Gone Missing!

Majority in US Concerned About Climate: AP-NORC/EPIC Poll

This Groundbreaking Simulator Generates a Huge Indoor Ocean  Why? Because CLIMATE CHANGE!

SEC Obsesses Over “Climate” Risk Disclosures More compliance paperwork coming your way, your tax dollars at work.

Geothermal’s Path to Relevance: Cheap Drilling

Hate on trial in Virginia, four years after deadly extremist rally (NPR) Still pushing the ‘fine people’ hoax

Editor from The Atlantic claims Glenn Youngkin supports threats of violence against school board members

Far-Right Congressman Tricked Jan. 6 Planners With ‘Blanket Pardon’ Promise, Says Report (Daily Beast)

Founder of ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Finally Realizes Ex-President Is a Massive Grifter (Daily Beast)

Networks Mentioned Trump’s Low Polls Almost Twice as Much as Cratering Biden

Rep. Tlaib Slams Israel as ‘Apartheid Regime’  No mention of the fact that every Muslim regime is an ‘apartheid regime’.

Surgeon Fired After Telling School Board Parents Should Make Children’s Healthcare Choices

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

I am proud of the friends we at Power Line have made over the years, but I am also proud that we have made enemies of some truly hateful individuals and organizations. For me, Exhibit A is Education Minnesota, the National Education Association’s affiliate in my state.

Education Minnesota is by far the number one political force in Minnesota. The teachers’ union dominates our state legislature and gets pretty much whatever it wants. Its influence is malign: for decades, it has opposed every effort to reform and improve Minnesota’s public schools, almost always successfully.

UPDATE: Defund the Education “Deep State”

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“When your father dies, your accounting degree is not going to help you at all to process that experience. Homer will help you.”

Homer’s poems, the Illiad and the Odyssey, were the Bible of Greek civilization: Everybody knew them, everybody quoted them, everybody internalized them as the foundation of their culture.

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A former Bernie Sanders adviser indicted for embezzling money from a labor union is now leading the progressive push to unseat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.).

Chuck Rocha, the founder of Nuestro PAC, launched the “Run Ruben Run” campaign to encourage Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) to primary Sinema in 2024. Rocha’s criminal past surfaced during the 2016 presidential campaign after he joined the Sanders campaign. The longtime labor activist was sentenced to 24 months probation and fined $2,000 after he was convicted of embezzling funds from the United Steelworkers International Union, where he served as political director. Rocha admitted to misusing a union credit card in 2008 and 2009 to pay for golf outings and Stanley Cup tickets.

Nuestro PAC is one of several groups working to unseat Sinema because of her opposition to President Joe Biden’s massive $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” initiative. Way to Win, a group funded by liberal donor George Soros, formed the Primary Sinema PAC, though it has not endorsed a specific candidate. The primary efforts highlight growing disunity within the Democratic Party over the Biden spending plan.

ZMan looks at the proposed wealth tax.

Legend has it that the Persian King Xerxes was confident in his ability to crush the Greeks because he saw them as dishonest men. They lied to one another in their marketplace and in their debates over politics and law. From the perspective of the Persians, a people who allegedly viewed lying as the worst crime possible, this defect would undermine their efforts to resist the Persians. Men who cannot trust one another cannot defend one another when under attack.

We know Xerxes was wrong, if he indeed thought these things. Much of our history of the time comes from Herodotus, who was not afraid to gild the lily when rerecording the history of the Greeks and her enemies. It is a useful insight, however, as the market-based society is, when you think about it, a system where the rewards go to those who are best at deceiving their fellow citizens. More accurately, status comes from deceiving people into thinking you are being honest with them.

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Democratic politics is just taking the marketplace idea and applying it to the governance of the society. The sellers are the people with ideas for how to solve problems in society and the buyers are the majority who vote on it. The game is to convince the mob there is a problem and that you have the solution. Being right about the problem or the solution is unimportant. What gets rewarded is convincing fifty percent plus one to go along with your scheme, which makes you the winner.

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The Times reports that “Under the proposal, people with $1 billion in assets or $100 million in income for three consecutive years would be brought into a new tax system. Initially, they would have to assess the current value of their tradable assets — like cash, stocks and bonds — and their value when they were purchased, then pay a one-time tax on them.”

The Washington Post reports that “The plan would also set up a system for taxing assets that are not easily tradable, such as real estate,” and also that “Billionaires would also be able to take deductions for any annual loss in value of those assets.”

The constitutional challenges that such a plan would face are considerable.

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Trent Colbert is the self-possessed second-year student behind the exposure of the diversity regime at Yale Law School/Yale University. They owe Colbert for what they have done to him, including lying about what they have done to him. Yet the authorities are keeping their heads down and waiting for the controversy to blow over.

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Science is a process. It’s a good process, the best we have for ferreting out objective truths about nature. It’s a good process, but scientists are people, and people, even good people who want to do what’s right, are imperfect. So science, as good as it is, isn’t perfect. Even when the people are careful and the science is good, science is never the only consideration. (That’s why letting one thing — say, health care policy — dictate a nation’s response to a crisis is generally a bad idea.)

But it seems that the loudest accusations of “science denier!” are made when the science is sketchy and, frankly, probably in need of some serious denial. That’s when the technocrats really up their game, censoring competing views, exaggerating their claims of certainty, and encouraging panic and the immediate action that comes with it. We’re seeing that today with the Wuhan coronavirus, where ambiguous and conflicting information and a lack of accountability leave petty authoritarians free to craft arbitrary and capricious public policy.

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Foreign intervention has been a major problem for Libya because not all the foreign supporters agree on what a united Libya should be like and are unwilling to withdraw unless their local faction prevails. Russia and several Arab nations have been involved in the Libyan civil war since 2015. Russia joined Egypt and some other Arab states in backing the LNA (Libyan National Army) that had the support of most Libyans because of LNA efforts to suppress Islamic terrorism and restore order to the country. Neighboring Egypt was the first to witness the effectiveness of the LNA approach as Islamic terrorist activity and weapons smuggling declined as the LNA operations increased in eastern Libya. Egypt already had contacts with some Libyan tribes there and there were also a lot of Egyptians who still had jobs in Libya, mainly to support oil production. The news was enough to get other Arab nations as well as Russia and some Western nations willing to quietly support the LNA, which meant these nations could send some of their special operations troops in to get a better look from a ground level up-front-and-personal look at the situation.

That worked until Turkey intervened in 2019 to support the unpopular, but UN-backed, GNA (Government of National Accord) opposition. Now the major obstacles to peace in Libya are the continued presence of Turkish and Russian forces.

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Since 1932, Congress has passed dozens of laws aimed at making rental housing and homeownership more affordable. Many of these laws created new programs while few of the older programs were abolished. As a result, more than two dozen programs remain active today, including programs targeted for specific groups such as seniors, people with disabilities, Native Americans, veterans, and people with HIV.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

California unemployment claims are one-third of nation’s total while Texas cranks up its job creation

Dealers openly peddle pot in NYC park teeming with families, tourists As long as they have masks! That’s what’s important.

Facebook’s Political Maelstrom Exposed

Pelosi Confirms Wealth Tax On Billionaires’ Unrealized Gains Is On The Way  Which is unconstitutional.

‘Fed-Protected’ Man Identified As Mystery Instigator Of J6 Capitol Breach

CNN Hails Massive Democrat Spending Bill: Our ‘New Deal!’  Maybe it will crash the economy as the first New Deal did.

Judge: Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos Legally ‘People’

California Drove Truckers Out of Business. Now Store Shelves Are Empty

Sunny Hostin Scoffs, Inflation Is a ‘Republican’ Issue

How Can 84% Of Chicago Public Schools Students Graduate When Only 26% Of 11th-Graders Are Proficient In Reading, Math?

2 San Francisco Prosecutors Resign to Join District Attorney Recall Effort

ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC Refuse to Cover New Migrant Caravan Careening Toward U.S.

Woke School District Accused of Mishandling Vicious Bullying, Beating of 15-Year-Old

How Fox News gave birth to a false narrative (CNN) Like being called ugly by a frog.

Youngkin banishes Trump, but he can’t clean the stench of Trumpism (Washington Post) Trump stench!

MSNBC Demonizes Concerned Parents As ‘Radicalized’ ‘Far Right Threat’

Conspiracy at the Willard hotel, a fantasy

WashPost’s Wemple Calls Out CNN’s Trashing of Joe Rogan

Former NY Times Econ Reporter Hails IRS Powers, Attacks ‘Rotten Core’ of GOP

Travis Tritt And Atlanta Braves Stand Up To Cancel Mob

Lawmaker Locked Out of Twitter Account for Calling Transgender Government Official a Man

Have You No Decency?! Acosta, Stelter Decry ‘Transphobic’ Congressman Jim Banks

The Washington Post’s selective outrage harassment of public officials

Climate change: The environmental disasters we’ve almost fixed (BBC)

How environmental damage can lead to new diseases

UN Warns World ‘Way Off Track’ as Greenhouse Gases Soar

Harvard Crimson: Miasma Theory of White Supremacy

The Hunt for the Great White Woman Racist Grinds on

FBI Releases Updated 2020 Hate Crime Statistics  Unfortunately, they don’t keep statistics on hate hoaxes.

Free Speech: Company That Fired NBA Broadcaster for ‘All Lives Matter’ Tweet Facing Legal Challenge

Migrants push past southern Mexican border city en route to US Mexico doesn’t appear to have tried very hard to prevent this.

Why is Biden so unpopular?

Biden Abandoned Critical Mineral Reserves In Afghanistan While Thwarting Mining At Home

GOP Senator Pressing Biden Admin To Disclose Number of Illegal Immigrants Released into US

2,000 Migrants Continue Trek Through Southern Mexico  And Mexico isn’t doing a damned thing to stop it – and Biden isn’t doing a damned thing to Mexico,

Biden Admin Taps School Board Association Honcho For Post In Wake Of Infamous Letter

#ArrestFauci trends on Twitter as doctor faces criticism for controversial virus research, testing on dogs

Virus Gonna Virus (And China Gonna China)!

Sen. Paul Calls for Fauci’s Firing: Americans ‘Very Disturbed at How Much He’s Lied’

Major US Cities Risk Losing One-Third Of Their Police Forces Due To Vaccine Mandates

Firefighters Say Florida County’s Vaccine Mandate Causing Rifts Among First Responders That Compromise Public Safety

Georgia Man Bought $57K Pokemon Card With COVID Relief Money

Parts of Northern China in Lockdown as COVID Spreads

Florida Surgeon General Refuses to Wear Mask at State Senate Office

Jacinda Ardern turns New Zealand into a two-tier society

Whitmer Parties Maskless at DC Hotspot Before Bailing on McAuliffe Event

Thousands of Workers March Across Brooklyn Bridge Protesting Vaccine Mandates

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These nine items are just a sampling of the “green” insanity in the bill.