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In the new study, published Oct. 14 in the journal Science, researchers uncovered a previously unknown repair mechanism that kicks in after a run on the treadmill. Striking images show how, shortly after the exercise concludes, nuclei scuttle toward tears in the muscle fibers and issue commands for new proteins to be built, in order to seal the wounds. That same process likely unfolds in your own cells in the hours after you return home from the gym.

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With President Biden’s massive spending agenda falling apart in Congress (his own party’s infighting was seeing to its failure), former Reagan speechwriter, New York Post columnist and Commentary editor, John Podhoretz dropped some inconvenient truth bombs on Meet the Press’s liberal panel of mostly media types. Meanwhile, the panel spent much of their Sunday discussion on NBC lamenting how Democrats just couldn’t get things together.

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In The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good?, which was published to national and international acclaim last year and issued this year in paperback with a new prologue, the distinguished Harvard professor argues that the antagonism in America between equality, community, the common good, and justice, on the one side, and freedom on the other has reached catastrophic proportions. Amid the bitter divide in the United States between progressive elites and conservative-leaning middle-class and working-class voters, Sandel elaborates the sensational claim that it is meritocracy—the view, central to the modern tradition of freedom, that a “just society” provides all individuals “an equal chance to rise as far as their talent and hard work will take them”—that is tearing the United States apart. It turns out, however, that Sandel is not opposed to the rule of every form of merit. The thrust of his argument indicates that he wishes to replace the allegedly despotic rule of technocrats, economists, and financiers with the ostensibly refined and compassionate rule of experts in moral reasoning capable of leading national conversations about a common good in America that, in his telling, has been and remains elusive.

A reminder that librarians are still government employees.

Ground-Level Ozone Is a Creeping Threat to Biodiversity

California Democrats promote climate propaganda supporting Biden’s flawed “extreme heat” campaign

UN Climate Change Conference Reportedly Using Diesel Generators To Charge Teslas Being Used As Shuttles

Failed Serial Doomcasters

China Says It’s Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor

Trump’s stolen election lie is on the ballot in 2022, thanks to these candidates (NBC News)

MAGA Supporters Left Confused by Donald Trump’s Call Not to Vote in Midterms, 2024  (Newsweek) Except that he didn’t, he merely warned that they might not.

Historian on the potential threat former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” presents (CBS News)

This senator accidentally told the truth about why he wanted Donald Trump’s endorsement (CNN)

Just-released satellite photos allegedly show Trump’s destruction of sensitive sand dunes despite promises to preserve them  (The Hill)

Joy Reid, Friends Falsely Paint Youngkin as a Domestic Terrorist Who’ll Steal 2024

Virginia Sheriff Denies Colluding With School Board to Arrest Irate Parent

How the Media Make Cancel Culture Worse

The reason it’s so easy for wealthy Americans to hide their money — and how to stop it (CNN)

‘Sprinklegate’ sinks a U.K. bakery’s top sellers after topping is found to be illegal (NPR)

Uptight Atlantic Writer Tries to Shame Babylon Bee for Mocking Woke Left

“Why I’m Leaving My California Teachers’ Union”

California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures

Win For Virginia Parents After Loudon County School Board Member Announces Resignation

Seattle School Cancels Halloween “Pumpkin Parade”; Says It “Marginalizes Students Of Color”

#EmptyShelvesJoe Trends On Twitter Amid Supply Chain Snarls 

Here’s The Truth Behind Biden’s 24/7 Port Operations Pledge

Aluminum Shortages Next As “Magnesium Supply Dries Up”

Blame Government, Not COVID-19, for Supply Chain Collapse

Cities, Police Unions Clash as Vaccine Mandates Take Effect

4 In 10 TSA Employees Remain Unvaccinated As Deadline Looms

Baltimore Police Union Head: ‘Don’t Give City Your Vaccine Status’

Huge Dock Worker Protests In Italy, Fears Of Disruption, As Covid ‘Green Pass’ Takes Effect

German State Allows Food Stores To Ban The Unvaccinated

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Want proof that the Biden administration is really the second incarnation of the Carter administration? We have runaway inflation, Americans trapped overseas, a member of the first family who tried to do business with Libya and a president begging the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies (OPEC Plus) to increase oil production. It’s like the 1970s all over again.

Gas prices have risen $1 a gallon since Joe Biden’s election, while crude oil prices have doubled since November to $83 per barrel — and some analysts predict they could rise by another $10 before the end of the year. Natural gas prices have shot up more than 150 percent in the same period, which means winter heating bills for the half of American homes that use natural gas are projected to be 30 percent higher than last year — 49 percent higher in the Midwest.

This is the result of deliberate policy choices. Biden has made clear his intention to tax and regulate the fossil fuel industry out of existence. During the 2020 campaign, he declared, “I guarantee you. We’re going to end fossil fuel.”

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Europeans are looking forward to a cold, dark winter. Natural gas is scarce and expensive, and the “green” energy in which European countries have invested many billions of dollars can’t produce reliable electricity. So panic is starting to set in.

Joel Kotkin.

For a generation, the Long Beach and Los Angeles harbors in California handled more than 40 percent of all container cargo headed into the US and epitomized the power of a globalizing economy. Today, the ships—mostly from Asia—still dock, but they must wait in a seemingly endless conga line of as many as 60 vessels, sometimes for as long as three weeks. These are the worst delays in modern history, and the price per container has risen to as much as 10 times its cost before the pandemic. The shipping crisis is now projected to last through 2023.

A pandemic-driven shortage of parts and labor has combined with a congested transport system to create an inflationary spike, with shipping rates doubling on some routes. Prices for everything from soybeans to natural gas have soared as supplies take longer to produce and arrive, and this high inflation is wiping out wage gains in the US, the UK, and Germany. The chaos on the ground may not disturb the lifestyles of the tech and financial elites, but it is hurting the middle and working classes, the groups most threatened by surging inflation.

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Let’s hear it for The Religion of Peace.

Ohio Schools Freak Over Critical Race Theory, Dump Anti-Racism Reforms (Daily Beast)

Nike boss says he murdered 18-year-old while in teen gang He won’t get fired, and he won’t go to jail.

US to Restore Full Pension of FBI Deputy McCabe, Fired Under Trump  The Crust take care of their own.

YouTube Censors Popular Comedian for Suggesting ‘Trans People Pose a Rape Threat to Women’

Anti-Trump Neocons Led By Ex-CIA Operative To Back Democrats In Midterms

Justice Alito complains, but the evidence is clear: This Supreme Court was built by dark money (Salon)

Apple removes popular Quran app, reportedly at China’s request

MSNBC Fake News: Missouri Pro-Life Law Will Prevent Cancer Screenings!

Economists to Cattle Ranchers: Stop Being So Emotional About the Monopolies Devouring Your Family Businesses

Instagram: Science Proving Male Athletes’ Advantages Over Women Is ‘Hate Speech’

Soros Drops $1 Million on Anti-Police Effort in Austin

Biden continues newfound presidential tradition, turns back on reporters and exits without taking questions

US Rejoins UN Rights Council Days After Council Endorsed Anti-Semitic Hate Fest

As Border Crisis Mounts, First Lady Boosts Group That Helps Illegals Avoid Arrest  After all, she’s a doctor.

Biden Admin Blocks Bipartisan Lawmakers From Accessing Afghan Evacuee Holding Site

The climate disaster is here (The Guardian)

Startling images show how sea level rise could flood U.S. cities if world fails to reduce carbon emissions (CBS News)

4 More New Reconstructions Affirm The Medieval Warm Period Was ‘Warmer Than Today’

This Republican candidate just got caught between Trump and a hard place (CNN)

Jimmy Kimmel Laughs at Trump for Telling Republicans Not to Vote (Daily Beast) Except that he didn’t; he merely warned that they might not. Guess Jimmy doesn’t read so well.

Woke activists try and fail to cancel Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood for decades-old Academy Awards quip

Shell CEO Roasted at TED Climate Conference He Was Foolishly Invited to Speak At

U.S. Supreme Court rejects case involving Trump-aligned lawyer Eastman (Reuters) Trump-aligned!

Republicans Are Rehabilitating the Participants in Trump’s Attempted Coup (Salon) Attempted coup!

Why Do Fetishists in Frocks Have Even a Fighting Chance of Cancelling the World’s Most Popular Entertainers?

Politico Attempts Hit Piece on ‘American Sheriff’ Mark Lamb

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A large explosion tore through a Shi’ite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar killing at least 35 people, the second week in a row that militants bombed Friday prayers and killed dozens of worshippers from the minority sect.

Let’s hear it for The Religion of Peace.

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I suspect that we can presume that the perpetrator is not a Conservative.

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French schools on Friday were paying tribute to a teacher beheaded by a radical Islamist last year after he showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class.

Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was murdered on Oct. 16 last year near his school in a northwest Paris suburb by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalized. The attacker was in turn shot dead by police.

I love that phrase ‘beome radicalized’, as if he had caught some virus going ’round. “He became radicalized, nothing he or anybody else could have done about it.”

I notice that nobody ever converts to Christianity and then starts killing random people. I guess there’s nothing about Christianity any more that ‘radicalizes’ people.

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If we sat in a boardroom and tried to decide the kind of story that the liberal media are the most hostile to covering – hostile to the point of wishing it had never existed – it might be this: teenage boy describing himself as “gender fluid” accused of raping a girl in a high-school bathroom.

This is a story that any liberal media outlet would want to spike, censor, ignore, squelch, and bury six feet underground. It’s a vivid illustration of what liberals consider a false stereotype. They assume automatically, ideologically, this could never happen — that a sexual predator would proclaim himself gender-fluid and enter a bathroom or locker room to commit a sex crime.

It’s a right-wing “lie” that suddenly became real.

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A single exchange may decide the Virginia governor’s race. At one point during a September 28 debate, Republican Glenn Youngkin slammed his opponent, former Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe, for vetoing a 2017 bill that would have allowed parents to remove their children from courses studying sexually explicit material. McAuliffe shrugged off the criticism. “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” he said.

Former California state lawmaker indicted on federal bribery charges

Is NASA Going Back to the Moon to Erase Stain of Only White Men Having Walked There?

During Great Awokening, White-Black NAEP Test Score Gap Grew by 20%

A Different Approach to Anti-Racism

Chicago Art Museum Fires Unpaid Volunteers For Being White

Grading for Equity

Seattle School Nixes Halloween Parade for Fear It ‘Marginalizes Students of Color’

Shareholder alert focuses on reverse discrimination by Lowe’s

Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web  They don’t seem all that reluctant to me.

McAuliffe boasts he’ll ‘build education’ in wake of saying parents should have little say

Mark Robinson Exposes the GOP’s Problem With Its Base (New York Magazine) And of course New York Magazine knows all about the Republican base.

San Francisco’s self-inflicted ‘organized retail crime’ problem isn’t going away

Kowtowing to Snowflakes: Facebook to Remove Content That Bullies Celebs

TV News Blacks Out Parents Confronting Lib School Board That Allowed Alleged Rapes

FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked

Transgender Bathroom Policies Open Doors for Sexual Predators

Joe Rogan Crushes CNN Over Ivermectin ‘Horse Paste’ Propaganda, Gets Gupta To Concede They Lied

Even Broadway’s ‘Hamilton’ Not Safe: Performer Accuses Play of Anti-Trans Bias

Instagram took down post with figure from paper showing male advantage in sports

Truckers Warn Federal Regulators Of Drug-Testing Bottlenecks

Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website

‘The View’ Gives Katie Couric a Pass for Protecting RBG From Woke Left  Of course they do.

Michigan Republicans OK Tougher Voting Rules; Gov to Veto  The Wicked Witch of the North is not pleased.

Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect (The Guadian) Don’t you just love that term ‘vaccine hesitant’?

TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State

Chaos In Texas As Employees Fired For Refusing To Get Vaxxed Demand Their Jobs Back

For poor countries, lockdowns cost more lives than they save

Paradigm Shift? Aussie Cop Quits, Refuses To Enforce COVID Tyranny, Says “Majority” Of Cops Feel The Same

Dem Lawmakers Demand Moderna Share Vaccine Recipe To “Expand Global Access”

YouTube censors David Davis MP’s speech against vaccine passports

Chicago Police Union Head Urges Members To Defy Vaccine Mandate, Warns Force To Shrink 50% This Weekend

Harnessing the benefits of UVA light treatment in Covid-19 patients

Rep. Hartzler to Newsmax: ‘Tragic’ for Military Members to Quit Over Vaccines

Watch: Fauci Claims No “True Basis” In Concerns Over Long-Term COVID Vax Side Effects

Front Runners in COVID-19 Antibody Drug Race

A Question for Mandated-Vaccination Advocates

Joe Rogan Presses Sanjay Gupta on CNN Lying About Him Taking ‘Horse Dewormer’

911 System In Jeopardy Amid “Crippling Labor Shortages”: Association President  You will have noticed that none of these labor problems occurred before politicians went Full Fascist with vaccine mandates.

Pandemic Wiped Out Entire Savings Of 20% Of US Households  No, the panic wiped them out.

Italy’s Mandatory Health Pass Not Boosting Jabs as Hoped, Data Show

FDA Endorses Lower-Dose Moderna COVID Booster

Navy Sets Dates to Discharge Sailors Who Refuse Vaccine

New antibodies may lead to a norovirus vaccine

Republicans would “rather end democracy” than turn away from Trump, says Harvard professor (Salon) And of course a Harvard Professor knows everything there is to know about Republicans.

Is Trump’s power over Republicans starting to slip?  (BBC) All Trump! All the time!

Capitol Rioter Decides to Represent Himself in Court, Accidentally Admits to Two New Felonies (Daily Beast)

Candace Cameron Bure Reveals How Donald Trump Made Her Time on ‘The View’ Stressful (Newsweek) Poor baby.

Federal judge holds DC jail in contempt and says it violated US Capitol rioter’s civil rights (CNN)

Trans Netflix staff to stage walkout over Chappelle special (LA Times) A significant part of its workforce, I’m sure.

NASA Advisor Quits Over Space Telescope Named for Homophobic Administrator (Gizmodo)

25 years of Fox ‘News’ is nothing to celebrate. No company has done more to inflame partisanship and the pandemic. (Washington Post) Oddly enough, I would have said the same thing about the WP.

Capitol Riot Panel Subpoenas DOJ Deputy Who Pushed Trump’s Election Lies (Daily Beast)

New Database Documents Campus Cancel Culture

PolitiFact POUNCES on Rick Scott Over Merrick Garland’s Angry Parents Probe

UK Judge Says Ring Doorbell ‘Violated’ Woman’s Privacy

‘There have to be consequences:’ Judge ups sentences for Capitol rioters  But not Antifa or BLM.

Instagram Censors Evolutionary Biologist For Post Pointing Out Men Are Physically Stronger Than Women

The Amazon rainforest is losing 200,000 acres a day. Soon it will be too late (The Guardian)

A recipe for fighting climate change and feeding the world (Washington Post) The phrase “My DC apartment” tells you everything you need to know.

Growing Climate Solutions: Climate-Smart Agriculture

Energy crisis is a ‘wake up call’ for Europe to ditch fossil fuels (CNN) I suspect most people would say the exact opposite.

Coal is ‘king’ as gas prices soar, Total CEO says — and it’s backfiring on cleaner energy goals (CNBC)

USDA needs to put climate solutions before industry profits (The Hill)

Coal Shortages Threaten Blackouts for 2.7 Billion Chinese and Indians

Macron Says Small Nuclear Reactors Will Be A Part Of His “France 2030” Energy Plan

Inconvenient Tornado Data Disappears

Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse

IRS Agents Bust 7-Year-Old For Getting More Than $600 Worth Of Birthday Presents  Babylon Bee.

Greta Climate Case Thrown Out by the United Nations

Leaked Border Patrol docs show mass release of illegal immigrants into US by Biden administration

Biden WH to Allow Former Taliban Civil Servants Into US

FLASHBACK: 1 Year Ago, Big Tech, Media Buried Hunter Biden Scandal

CENSORED: ABC, CBS, NBC Spent an Entire Year Hiding Hunter, Aired Only 18 Minutes On His Scandals

Biden’s Supreme Court Commission to Issue Draft Materials Ahead of Final Report

Yanking our supply chain

Over 94,000 Illegal Immigrants in Southern Texas Released Into US With Notices to Report, Documents Show  Which they won’t dol as we all know perfectly well.

Jonathan Turley: Time for Special Counsel to Probe Hunter Biden Scandal

Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Gratuitously Polarize, Impede Private Sector Labor Market

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While other water generators based on similar technology require high ambient humidity and low temperatures to function effectively, Veiga’s machines work in temperatures of up to 40 Celsius (104F) and can handle humidity of between 10% and 15%.

A small machine can produce 50-75 litres a day, and be easily carried on a trolley, but bigger versions can produce up to 5,000 litres a day.

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Created by Brazilian developer Alan Pégoli, ‘Laundry Lens’ launched a year ago and it’s really simple to use. Just point your camera to the tag on the clothes you want to wash and it will say whether you should take some caution when using the washing machine, iron, or drying it clean.

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Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and stop expecting printers to “just work” because that would make sense in a world where a touchscreen supercomputer fits in your shirt pocket. Like most things in life that you have no control over, you’ll be happier if you accept printers for the janky money pits that they really are.

Most of you are going to hate something about any printer that you buy, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Instead of fighting it, try to reframe the issue in your mind: You’re not buying a printer because you’re supposed to have one at home. You’re buying a printer because it’s (just barely) less inconvenient than going to a copy center.

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Because why not?

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If you purchase a Framework Laptop, you’re buying both a capable computer right now and a promise of something remarkable in the future. Cracking the Framework Laptop open for the first time, you’ll find a well-organized and well-labeled set of parts, every one replaceable. If the promise works out, you have an heirloom laptop that’s repairable and upgradable for a decade. If Framework—the company making the Framework Laptop—fails, you might replace it in a few years, as you would any other laptop.

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A vehicle was stolen on Tuesday in broad daylight in Albuquerque outside a venue where a progressive prosecutor backed by left-wing financier George Soros was speaking about rising crime in the area.

Bernalillo County district attorney Raúl Torrez (D.) is struggling to reverse a prolonged spike in murders and non-fatal shootings in Albuquerque. Torrez is also a candidate for New Mexico attorney general, with a campaign keyed to a left-wing “smart on crime” approach that advocates harsher gun control measures with greater investment in diversionary programs and consumer protection.

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(I detest people who use ‘should’ in place of ‘ought’. Just sayin’.)

It seemed like double the work—to write 80,000 ish words by hand and then have to type it—am I right? Wrong. In fact, those who swear by it say you end up revising less since you write more carefully with a pen, so although you do have to transfer it to the computer, the work you’ve already done likely puts you a step, or perhaps a draft, ahead.

There’s other benefits too such as an increase of creativity in how using the pen stimulates your brain. (I worry today’s students miss out on this when they take notes on their computer instead of in a notebook.) You also remember what you write down better than you do when you type it. (This is another reason students should drop the computer.) Writing your novel longhand helps you to keep moving down the page too. It’s more aggravating to cross through words than to delete words with the push of a button. And when you cross through a word, it’s still there for you to see. Perhaps when you revise, you’ll like your first instinct better, but when you delete a word on the computer, it’s gone forever. Writing longhand helps you to choose words more carefully and move down the page at a better pace.

Matt Continetti.

Vance is a leader within that faction of the right which says the conservative movement’s emphasis on individual freedom, and its commitment to the classical liberal procedures and “norms” of constitutional government, is responsible for its apparent failure to preserve the nuclear family, and for its exclusion from mainstream institutions. He is a pacesetter for this trend, which drew energy from Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. And because Vance represents one possible future for the American right, I was eager to read the transcript of a speech he gave last weekend to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s “Future of American Political Economy” conference in Alexandria, Va. There is no doubting Vance’s smarts—he graduated from Yale Law School in 2013—or his communication skills. But his text left me with questions.

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Now that Trump has made it profitable, they’ll give it to one of de Blasio’s cronies.

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A Florida man who is accused of shooting down a federal drone that was being used to search for a burglar has been indicted on charges of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and destruction of aircraft.

Wendell Doyle Goney was formally charged after admitting to authorities that he had used a .22 caliber rifle to shoot down the Lake County Sheriff’s Office drone, which he said was “harassing” him, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.

The incident took place on July 11. Deputies from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office were alerted to a burglary at a 10-acre business property. A law enforcement drone was deployed to assist with the outdoor search but it was soon shot down from the sky by Goney, who resides at a neighboring property, according to the release.

Boy, he sure showed them!

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But I thought all of the Filthy Rich were Slimy Republicans…?

Maybe Democrats are … lying to us? They wouldn’t do that, would they?

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

A law student at Yale is informed by Yale Diversicrats that associating with the Federalist Society is ThoughtCrime. Cleverly, he recorded his conversation with the Powers That Be and shared it with us. Massive backpedaling ensues.

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The quick fix of coal gasification and CO2 storage is all but dead. Projects will continue, and the subsidies will flow if Biden gets his way. But it is greenwashing and greenwasting.

The shiny star to be, Plant Ratcliffe, better known as the Kemper Project, a $6.7 billion integrated gasification power plant, was an experimental boondoggle from the start (mid-2010).

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Jason Martinez, a nurse anesthetist in Nebraska, has work in two hours. It is 4 a.m. and Martinez is sifting through hundreds of pages of government documents he obtained through a public information request. His wife is worried about his sleep, that is until he starts reading aloud the messages, the snide remarks state bureaucrats and their activist allies made as they wrote a curriculum that would teach the couple’s daughters, aged 13 and 15, about transgender hormone therapy and the merits of abortion. Mrs. Martinez was no longer worried about her husband, but her children.

Ann Coulter.

This isn’t a Chicago story. It’s a Democratic Party story.

Kim Foxx, the state’s attorney for Cook County and darling of MSNBC, has managed to increase murders in Chicago to astounding levels even at a time when we’re all getting used to astounding crime figures. Nationwide in 2020, murder and non-negligent manslaughter were up 29.4%, according to the FBI. That’s more than double the previous record of 1968, when murders increased by 12.7%.

Under the careful management of Foxx, murders in Chicago were up 55%. To put this in perspective, last year, there were nearly as many murders in Chicago (population: 2.7 million) as in New York City and Los Angeles combined (total population: more than 12 million).

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Empty shelves in supermarkets and other stores are due in part to hundreds of thousands of shipping containers waiting to be unloaded at ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach, and other cities. According to market urbanist Scott Beyer, this backlog is due to a combination of labor unrest and NIMBYism.

That’s certainly true in Portland, whose container port was completely shut down by labor disputes four years ago, and now is just beginning to function again. Moreover, trucks carrying containers out of Portland face some of the worst congestion in the country, partly due to anti-highway groups that oppose congestion relief on the grounds that it might lead people to drive more.

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A report released Tuesday by the U.S. Air Force paints a chilling picture of evacuation efforts at Hamid Karzai International Airport, including a revelation that a group was planning on hijacking one of the evacuation flights.

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In the report, Lt. Col. Brian Desautels, of the 71st Rescue Squadron, said they had received a tip that a group of five people planned to hijack a commercial plane used in the evacuation during those chaotic two weeks.