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Whenever the Narrative Media uses the code-phrase ‘dog whistle’, prepare for them to attempt to persuade you that something means other than what it actually says. Somehow these purported ‘dog-whistles’ are perceptible only by BadWhites and the supreme intellects that write for the Narrative Media. Isn’t that amazing?

Remember: When you hear the dog-whistle, you’re the dog.

Politico is upset.

The only people who benefit from ‘swing districts’ are the Narrative Media, who need the political ‘horse race’ in other to garner the attention that is the cornerstone of their business model.

An elected representative doesn’t (popular mythology to the contrary notwithstanding) everybody in that district; he (or she) (or it) only ‘represents’ the people who voted for that representative. (Mouths make noises but we all know the truth.) So the more people vote for a winning candidate, the greater the portion of the electorate is actually ‘represented’ by that candidate.

It is therefore obvious that so-called ‘gerrymandering’ promotes effective democracy, rather than being the moral failing that the Chattering Class would have you believe. Ideally, districts ought to be arranged so that the winning candidate gets as close to 100% as possible. That’s actual democracy in action.

So the next time an outlet like Politico complains about ‘gerrymandering’, know that they are consulting their wallets rather than some abstract principle of good-government.

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Rare mass protests have hit a large central Iranian city over persisting water shortages and continued economic woes which is fast creating a humanitarian crisis as farmers are losing their crops.

Thousands gathered in central Isfahan, outraged over government mismanagement which has allowed a key river to dry up completely. “Footage broadcast by state television and dozens of videos circulating on social media on Friday showed a sea of farmers and other people standing on a huge barren strip of dirt where the major Zayandeh Rud River used to flow, near the iconic Khaju Bridge in Isfahan province,” Al Jazeera reports.

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One day, when sufficient distance has been gained from the Current Year to permit sober reflection on our own era, the recent past will no doubt be seen as a watershed in American political history. The election of Barack Obama in 2008 gave politics a religious sheen for Millennials just coming of age, and for Boomers hoping to avoid confronting the wreckage left in the wake of their rule. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 gave the new religion its devil. From Russia collusion to #MeToo, from Covington Catholic to Judge Kavanaugh, American culture and politics in the years since has been an unbroken series of witch crazes, lynch mobs, and human sacrifices (some successfully carried out, others not). The Democratic Party, the corporate press, and progressive activists openly embraced political violence as a means to achieve policy goals, block political appointments, and now, to attempt to affect court decisions.

Conservatives have compromised, cowered, negotiated, and denied in the face of the Left’s radicalization, but 2020 was the year when the Right finally began to realize it was backed up against a wall.

Paul Mirengoff at Power Line.

To leftists and the prosecutors who did their bidding, Kyle Rittenhouse’s offense wasn’t any of the things he was charged with. He clearly had an unassailable defense to all of the charges against him. But that didn’t matter because Rittenhouse was guilty of something else — showing up armed at a leftist riot or, as the left called it, “vigilantism.”

As the left and the prosecution see it, Rittenhouse never should have gone to Kenosha. Once there, he shouldn’t have defended property from the rioters. And having done that, he certainly shouldn’t have left the property and entered the street. Indeed, the prosecution saw fit to show the jury that the group defending the property was warned by the mob not to enter the street.

When those charged with ensuring public order and defending people’s lives and property, the essential first duty of a government, refuse to act, the citizenry have the right (and some would say the obligation) to act for themselves. Unless people can go about their daily business in confidence that they won’t be assaulted or robbed, society disintegrates, and we wind up with government by criminal gangs — as Mexico and other Latin American countries make clear.

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Naomi Oreskes, who believes that Climate Change is a problem, has written a dramatic expose of old Big Oil ads which actually told the truth about global warming.

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Ryan Guillen had been a Democratic member of the Texas legislature, representing a sprawling district south of San Antonio, for nearly two decades. This week he jumped ship for the Republican Party, blaming Democrats for leaving him, not the other way around.

On Belief in the Tooth Fairy: The Battle of Britain’s Climate 2021-2030

Rising Sea Levels Have Met Their Match With This $25 Million Miami Beach Spec House Never let a crisis go to waste….

Revealed: the places humanity must not destroy to avoid climate chaos (The Guardian) What’s humanity’s phone number? I’ll call them and let them know.

The Senate should eliminate these global warming super-culprits (Washington Post) Not just culprits, but super-culprits.

How nuclear power plants could help solve the climate crisis (CNET) Cue lawsuits by eco-Nazis.

Here’s what the world will look like 4°C warmer  The best thing in science fiction I’ve seen today.

Sea Level Alarmism Unravels As Earth’s Coastlines Are Observed Expanding Since 1984

Why are Americans so unhappy with Joe Biden? (The Guardian) Yeah, that’s a head-scratcher, all right. It certainly has Robert Reich buffaloed.

Migrants Are Setting Up Camps Across Mexico, Hoping to Be Allowed Into US

CBO Confirms Biden Spending Bill Not Fully Paid For, Would Cost $367 Billion Over A Decade

Government Supports Would Grow to $76,400 per Poor Family

Nursing homes warn Build Back Better could have ‘devastating impact’ on labor shortages and force closures

How Biden’ Massive Government Spending Package Could Hurt Social Security

Garland’s Lawsuit Against Texas Election Integrity Law Is Partisan and Political

40% Of TSA Workers Still Unvaxx’d As Thanksgiving Deadline Looms

Kyle Rittenhouse trial: Identity of mysterious ‘jump kick man’ revealed “Wisconsin arrest records show that Freeland has a lengthy criminal history, including charges for battery, disorderly conduct, possession of marijuana and other offenses this year.” Just a Concerned Citizen, then.

Four teens murdered 60-year-old in Dallas Costco parking lot, affidavit says

Prosecutor’s question triggers firestorm in Arbery death trial (CNN)

Joy Reid and White Male Tears

Joy Reid Spews Hate at America: Racist U.S. Designed to Acquit Rittenhouse

CNNer Blames White Privilege and ‘Infantilization’ for Rittenhouse Not Guilty Verdict

Why Is The Media Suddenly No Longer Interested In Blaming COVID Waves On Red States

Austria’s Salzburg And Upper Austria Expand Lockdown To Include Entire Population

The Rapid Spread of Delta’s New, Even More Infectious Cousin Could Actually Be Good News (Daily Beast)

Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022  Time to leave.

New Covid Drugs Are Here—and They Could Change the Pandemic  But it won’t reduce the Panic, of course.

Austria Re-Imposes Full Lockdown, Vow “Penalties” For Those Who Resist

Pfizer, Moderna Jump After FDA Clears Covid Booster Shot For Adults KA-CHING!

Official Public Health England Data Says COVID Infection Rates Higher In Vaxx’d Than Unvaxx’d

Dachau on the Danube

It’s not ‘polarization.’ We suffer from Republican radicalization. (Washington Post) Well, Jennifer Rubin suffers, anyway.

MELTDOWN: Hateful, Racist Joy Reid Freaks Over a GOP House as ONLY She Can

Trump’s thirst for revenge is causing chaos in the Georgia governor’s race (CNN) All Trump! All the time!

DeSantis Lets Death Spread While Using Kids as Props (Daily Beast) Progressives would never do that, of course.

In Charlottesville trial, jurors learn to decode the secret slang of white supremacists (Washington Post) They’re too stupid to figure it out for themselves, of course, so the Woke have to do it for them.

MSNBC Analyst: Rittenhouse Like A Bank Robber Shooting His Way Out

“F**k This Murderer”: Left Becomes Unhinged After Rittenhouse Acquitted

NBC Freaks Over Rittenhouse Verdict, Warns of Rise in ‘Vigilantism’

Dem Nadler Calls on DOJ to Review Rittenhouse Verdict

Chuck Todd on Rittenhouse Acquittal: ‘We’re In No Man’s Land Here as a Society’

Senators Slam ‘Sexist’ New York Times Coverage of Kyrsten Sinema

New York Times columnist torches Comey amid Steele dossier revelations: Trump was right to fire him after all

International Olympic Committee Says Biological Male Trans Athletes Should Not Have to Lower Testosterone to Compete in Women’s Events

Oregon Middle School Halts In-Person Classes Due To Students “Struggling With Socialization Skills”

NBC Fails to Disclose They’re Banned from Kenosha Courthouse, Stalked Jurors

Scientific American Goes Woke  Uh, S.A. has been thoroughly Woke for quite a while.

Grey’s Anatomy: Thanksgiving ‘Isn’t Really a Holiday We Should Celebrate’

Why Mexico is not prepared for the migrant caravan (BBC) Why would they be? It’s not their problem. They’re just a highway to the Land of Free Stuff.

Cruz, Braun slam Library of Congress for forgoing term ‘illegal aliens’ to suit ‘progressive preference’  I can’t imagine that this would have come as a surprise.

Pelosi defends SALT deduction in Dems’ spending bill, insists it won’t benefit the rich  Although it certainly will – anybody who pays more than $10k in state and local taxes is rich by anybody’s definition. Still, she has to stick to the Narrative.

Democrats battle CBO over whether the rich will be spooked into tax compliance  (Politico) Unless they renounce their citizenship and move to Malta or someplace that isn’t trying to pick their pockets.

New Hampshire mom breaks silence after son suspended for saying there are ‘only two genders’

Proof that AG Garland misled Congress about silencing parents who dissent  Not that anybody cares.

Garland ‘running interference for teachers unions’ while FBI creates education threat tag

Jan. 6 Riot “An Attack” On NATO: Jens Stoltenberg

UK to ban all in-hand mobile phone use while driving in 2022

Woman discovers AirTag on her vehicle after receiving iPhone alert

Seething Scarborough: Dems Must Overturn Filibuster for ‘Voting Rights’—’No Excuses!’

Reconciliation Bill Gives Special Tax Handout To Big Media

YouTube Strips Ad Revenue From Channel for Video on Disappeared Chinese Tennis Star

Ex-NY Times Reporter: My Kenosha ‘Debacle’ Piece Was Held Until After 2020 Election

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Moving from the subtle, at worst, to the gross, at best, we learn from former University of Pennsylvania trustee Peter Levy writing in the Wall Street Journal that after Biden left the vice presidency in 2017, Penn created the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and appointed Biden to the bespoke position of Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor. Penn paid Professor Biden $371,159 in 2017 and $540,484 in 2018 and early 2019 before Professor Biden retired from teaching and launched his presidential campaign.

In short, Penn paid Biden nearly a cool million over two years for the privilege of associating his name with Benjamin Franklin and the university. Professor Biden served “a vaguely defined role that involved no regular classes and around a dozen public appearances on campus, mostly in big, ticketed events” (here Levy was quoting the Philadelphia Inquirer story reporting the arrangement).

In other words, it was pretty much the same sort of ‘n0-show’ job that Michelle Obama got when her hubby was elected to the state legislature.

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Maryland Democrats are under fire for a proposed redistricting plan that could oust the state’s lone Republican in Congress, a move one Democratic representative called “overreach.”

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On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that a lawsuit filed by a Texas woman whose home was destroyed by a SWAT team may move forward. This is a first step toward holding the city of McKinney accountable for destroying Vicki Baker’s home.

“The court recognized that the city of McKinney is not exempt from the Constitution,” said IJ Attorney Jeffrey Redfern. “This is the first step towards Vicki getting her due, but it’s a big one. The government must compensate individuals when it deliberately destroys their property.”

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In July 2020, police were pursuing a fugitive who decided to hide out in a home that was listed for sale in the Dallas suburb of McKinney. That home belonged to Vicki Baker. After a lengthy standoff, the SWAT team stormed the home, shattering windows, setting off tear-gas grenades, tearing down doors and destroying the fence. The home was in ruins and Vicki’s daughter’s dog was left deaf and blind from the explosions.

Vicki had renovated the house and it was under contract to be sold. The SWAT team left it uninhabitable; every window was destroyed, and she had to hire a hazmat team to dispose of what was left inside. All in all, it was over $50,000 worth of damage. Upon seeing the destruction that occurred, the potential buyer backed out, Vicki’s insurance company did not cover most of the expenses and the city offered no remedy to her.

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While he is there, the President will undergo a routine colonoscopy.

The Hunt for Biden’s Brain? Good luck with that.

I want one.

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Before HTML/XML, database design and informatics were necessary skills to have or understand to work in libraries, there was a crucial requirement to obtain a job: mastery of library hand. Library hand, a specific style of handwriting, was once a highly-sought and praised manner of lettering and spacing and a requirement for many eager to enter the field.

As a young lad I remember encountering library hand on card catalog entries at our local Carnegie library.

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I suppose that makes them White Supremacists. But surely it’s all Trump’s fault?

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If the English Channel can’t keep illegal migrants out, what use is a wall?

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Richard Ayvazyan and his wife, Marietta Terabelian, were facing prison for their role in a massive covid relief fraud scheme when they cut off their electronic tracking bracelets and fled their California home, abandoning their three teenage children.

They left a typewritten note for the kids, ages 13, 15 and 16. “We will be together again one day,” it read, according to Ayvazyan’s attorney. “This is not a goodbye but a brief break from each other.”

This was late August. Almost three months later — and five months after their convictions in June — the couple still have not been found. The FBI is searching for them.

Too busy looking for January 6 ‘insurrectionists’, I guess.

Missouri AG sues Springfield for allegedly hiding critical race theory training for teachers

NY Times Lies: GOP ‘Mainstreaming Menace…Increasingly Tolerant of Violent Statements’

NBC Edits Rittenhouse Judge Slamming Media Coverage, Deflects to Public

Rep. Boebert Rips ‘Jihad Squad’ Omar For ‘Paying Husband’ And Eric Swalwell For ‘Sleeping With The Enemy’

Liberal ‘dark-money’ behemoth funneled more than $400M in 2020 (Politico) Even P0litico is starting to notice.

FBI Raids Home of Elections Official Tied to QAnon Voter Fraud Scheme (Daily Beats) And of course it must be true because it’s in the Narrative Media.

San Francisco Target theft suspect arrested for alleged thefts of more than $40G from store  I guess that finally got somebody’s attention.

Nicolle Wallace to Christie: How Dare You Attack Media Bias When Fox News Exists!

The Terrifying Future of the American Right (The Atlantic) Crustian sock-puppet David Brooks feels the approach of a foot toward his rice bowl.

Soros-Funded Dark Money Group Spent $410M to Defeat Trump, GOP in 2020

New York AG Quits Spy Campaign Against Pro-Life Activists

Woke Media Hypes Trans Awareness Week By Slamming Laws Protecting Women’s Sports

CNN & NY Times Agree: Gun Ownership to Blame in Rittenhouse Case

Today Wokeness, Tomorrow Antinatalism

Supreme Court Takes Up Challenges to Near Limitless Power of EPA  The EPA is one of the reasons that Richard Nixon will burn in Hell for all eternity.

The Left’s Appalling Efforts to ‘Normalize’ Pedophilia

Lying MSNBC Lies: Pretends Radical Biden Nominee Isn’t Radical

The Facts: Reporters Exploit Normal Weather To Fan Climate Fear

Keeping carbon in check: Carbon farming to address a changing climate (Washington Post) ‘Carbon farming’? ‘Fine crop of carbon you got there, Zeke….’

EPA chief travels south Louisiana to learn more about pollution, environmental justice  Shouldn’t the ‘EPA chief’ know about pollution before traveling to Lousiana? (‘Environmental justice’?)

COP26: The truth behind the new climate change denial (BBC) As opposed to the Old Climate Change Denial, I suppose.

EU to Restrict Coffee Imports to Combat Climate Change  Sillier and sillier.

FDA asks federal judge to wait until 2076 to fully release Covid vaccine data  Hm. What are they trying to hide?

Media Declares ‘Climate Lockdowns’ A “Conspiracy Theory” As India Prepares To Impose Climate Lockdown

Days Into Lockdown For The Unvaccinated, Austria COVID Cases Hit Record High

Germany Preparing To Impose Austria-Style Lockdown On The Unvaxx’d

Coronavirus spreads in deer and other animals. Scientists worry about what that means for people (CNN) Mask mandates for deer!

93%-Vaccinated Ireland Has Gone Back Into ‘Partial Lockdown’, Including Midnight Curfew  Fine vaccines ya got there, bubba.

Italian Governors Call For Unvaccinated To Be Put Under Lockdown

NFL Tries To Sack Holidays By Increasing COVID Protocols

Biden Nom Saule Omarova Stole Hundreds of Dollars of Merchandise From a T.J. Maxx  Of course she did. She’s a Communist. Private property rights mean nothing to her.

DOJ Inspector General Says Department Must Address Concerns About Politicization

President Biden Orders a FTC Investigation into Gasoline Prices  Turns out that when you cancel pipelines, frighten investors with climate extremism, threaten carbon taxes, and ban new oil leases on federal land, the price of gas goes up. Who knew?

Embattled Biden Nom Omarova Wants To Put Feds on Boards of Banks  That’s the way we did it in the Soviet UnionQ! What could go wrong?

NBC’s CRT Attacks on Texas School District Spark Federal Investigation

Why Boston will need to wait longer for its 1st elected Black mayor (NPR) Stupid elections….

1619 Genuflect: NPR ‘Fresh Air’ Offers Fawning Tongue Bath to Nikole-Hannah Jones

Apple, Travis Scott, others sued for $2B by attendees injured at Astroworld

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These illegal immigrants are mostly young men, women, and children coming from war-torn countries in the Middle East and Africa, who are lured by the false promise by Belarus that they can start a new life in the European Union. Some of the countries they hail from include Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Libya, and Syria.

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The fact the Navy can extend some of its submarine fleet’s life by several years is likely due in part to the time some of those boats have sat in docks awaiting maintenance.

Pretty sad.

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A federal indictment was unsealed on Thursday charging two Iranians “for their involvement in a cyber-enabled campaign to intimidate and influence American voters, and otherwise undermine voter confidence and sow discord, in connection with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,” according to a Department of Justice press release.

Iranian nationals Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi, 24, and Sajjad Kashian, 27, are accused of obtaining “U.S. voter information from at least one state election website” and sending “threatening email messages to intimidate and interfere with voters,” according to the indictment. The pair also attempted to gain unauthorized access to state voting sites and accessed an unnamed U.S. media company’s computer network.

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Ok. So President Biden, the Democrat Party, and major media outlets all agree that the greatest threat of domestic terrorism comes from right-wing militias and white supremacists. That’s what they say. Well, ok.

As the Rittenhouse jury deliberates, the National Guard has moved several hundred troops nearby, to handle possibly violent riots after the verdict is released. Well, ok.

So I presume that the leaders of the National Guard are thinking, “Ok, if Rittenhouse is found innocent, Black Lives Matter and Antifa will be upset, but they’ll use peaceful and legitimate means to air their grievances. No problem. But if he’s found guilty, the right-wing whackos out there are going to start burning down fast food joints and attacking bystanders. We’d better be ready.”

Ok. Maybe. But I really, really, really doubt that.

Me, too.

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New York City’s outgoing Democratic mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled an education plan on Thursday for all-expenses-paid, all-day, year-round education in New York state.

Year-round day-care at taxpayer expense. The Party of Free Stuff is on the roll.

I suspect that there are a lot of people who, at this point, are willing to take De Blasio’s support for an idea to be proof positive that it is stupid. He’s got an impressive track record.

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I would neither buy nor ride in such a car.

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As day three of jury deliberations in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial began, Judge Bruce Schroeder banned MSNBC from his courtroom for the duration of the trial, after an employee claiming to be a producer with the outlet reportedly followed the van taking jurors home on Wednesday evening and was pulled over after running a red light.

“No one from MSNBC news will be permitted in this building … this is an extremely serious matter and will be referred to the proper authorities,” said Schroeder.

Apparently ‘journalists’ think that the rules don’t apply to them.

Earlier this month, a self-described ‘honorary nephew of George Floyd’ identified as Cortez Rice posted a disturbing video threatening to doxx Rittenhouse jurors if they don’t return a guilty verdict.

Totally unrelated, I’m sure.

Mobs have gotten away with threats and coercion so regularly that they feel entitled.

ZMan lays it out.

It seems that some of the empire’s rich people have noticed that the walls are down, so they are coming up with solutions. One is a new university in Texas that will gather up various exiles from the establishment into something of a think tank. Their stated claim is they will challenge the orthodoxy of the academy. The money for this is coming from a guy calling himself Joe Lonsdale. He is part of the Peter Thiel network, so it is safe to assume that Thiel money is involved too.

When you look at the list of people involved, it is basically civic nationalism gathering the remaining troops for one last stand. The “left-wing” people involved are the old liberals who never embraced cultural Marxism. The “right-wing” types are mostly people who never had a chance to work at AEI or Heritage. The one thing all of these people have in common is they are exiles from the establishment foundations. This project is an effort to create their own version of Heritage.

The Other McCain does not mince words.

It’s either going to be an acquittal or a hung jury, as I see it, because the evidence so clearly shows Rittenhouse fired in self-defense in each of the three cases — killing the deranged criminal JoJo Rosenbaum, killing skateboard punk Anthony Huber, and wounding Gaige Grosskreutz, who was pointing a Glock pistol at Rittenhouse. By the way, they have identified “Jump Kick Man,” the mystery figure who attacked Rittenhouse right before Huber got shot. “Jump Kick Man” is a convicted felon with a lengthy rap sheet. Rittenhouse fired two shots at him but unfortunately missed, and it was this incident that may have encouraged Huber’s subsequent attack on Rittenhouse. “Jump Kick Man” is reportedly behind bars now, because of a probation violation, but his involvement in the case indicates what I’ve said all along — these rioting mobs weren’t composed of “social justice” idealists, but rather criminal scum looking to engage in mayhem. Democrats, in other words.

Alex Tabarrok, a Real Economist.

Notice how often the words “opportunity”, “freedom” and “choice” appear. Indeed the testimony from the Urban Institute refers to “the freedom to choose.” Excellent.

I agree with these conclusions. Now here is what is strange. Exactly the same arguments apply to school vouchers and school choice. School vouchers give students the freedom to choose the kinds of schooling and locations that best meet their needs. Yet, while many on the left agree that vouchers are superior to public housing, which tends to freeze the poor into low-quality, poorly maintained housing in poor neighborhoods with a host of cognate problems, they are more reluctant to support education vouchers as superior to public schooling. But all the arguments against public housing also apply to public schooling. Public Housing=Public Schooling. (The right are also strangely reluctant to take credit for housing vouchers even though they have mostly worked in just the way that Milton Friedman would have predicted!)

I suggest that the  key is the fact that realtors don’t have a union that is a key Democrat constituency. Getting reliable votes trumps helping poor people every time.

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Local officials in the northwest (Niger state) claim that more Boko Haram gunmen have been arriving and have taken control of five villages. A security task force is being organized to eliminate that Boko Haram problem. For over a decade Niger State has seen increasing tribal violence and banditry. Both usually involve Fulani tribesmen, who have been active in raiding throughout northern and central Nigeria for generations. The violence is mainly about land use disputes between the nomadic Fulani herders and local farmers. The banditry and raiding are often opportunistic, with locals taking advantage of the chaos, which keeps the security forces occupied, to steal cattle to raid a remote village of another tribe and carry off anything portable of value.

In the last five years the fatalities from this tribal violence have exceeded those caused by Boko Haram, which suffered obvious and massive defeats between 2015 and 2017. That eliminated Boko Haram control of any territory and the group has been surviving through banditry ever since. Boko Haram suffered even greater losses from internal battles. In 2015 a large portion of Boko Haram declared itself part of ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) as ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa Province). In 2018 a smaller ISIL group ISGS (Islamic State in Greater Sahara) occasionally showed up in Borno.

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‘Allegations of bigotry’ and ‘calls for impeachment’? Sounds as if they’re practicing to be Democrats.

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Jeff Bezos, the world’s second-richest man, gave a donation at a star-studded Hollywood charity gala Saturday night—and reportedly got some ribbing for it. The Amazon billionaire, accompanied by girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, still gifted a substantial sum to the Baby 2 Baby charity—$500,000. In all, the event reportedly raised $8.5 million, honoring Kobe Bryant’s widow, Vanessa, with its “Giving Tree” award. An insider who attended the socially conscious bash told Page Six, “Everyone was waiting for him to donate something, but he didn’t. Then someone donated a million dollars. And then a little later, [Bezos] donated $500,000. There was an audible groan from the room. If someone else can donate a million, Jeff Bezos can donate more than a million.”

Update: On Wednesday, a source close to the event clarified that no one donated $1 million. The amount was input incorrectly due to a clerical error.

Looks as if the Daily Beast can’t get anything right.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

It takes an epic level of chutzpah for a president to do his best to suppress production of oil and gas by blocking pipelines and putting federal lands off limits, and then complain when the prices of oil and gas rise. President Biden achieved the ultimate absurdity by blocking production of petroleum products in the U.S, and then begging Russia and Saudi Arabia to increase their production to bring prices down. This is a level of cosmic stupidity that we may not see again in our lifetimes.

There is more going on than sheer incompetence, however. The truth is that the Democrats want oil and gas to be more expensive. They have been admitting as much, in their more candid moments, for the last twenty years. This is a key part of their grand design to force the rest of us to depend on expensive, unreliable and environmentally damaging “green” energy.

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I just watched several hours of testimony from big shots at the NIH and the CDC. It might as well have been a paid advertisement from Moderna and Pfizer. Nearly every word out of the bureaucrats’ mouths was structured to push the vaccines that most everyone knows by now have failed to live up to their promise.

Indeed, if they were as good and safe as they say, government would not need to mandate them. The mandates, ironically, undermine public confidence. It’s hard to imagine that public confidence in everything could fall further, but it will.

To top it off, making all the above much worse, the vaccination is now coming for the kids.

Mandates will surely follow. You want revolution in this country? This is a good way to foment one. The current regime has another year of unchecked power. It seems unfathomable. So far, they have not been deterred by anything, not the courts, not public opinion, not even sinking election prospects.

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Families, and the lack of them, are emerging as one of the great political dividing lines in America, and much of the high-income world. The familial ideal was once embraced by all political factions, except on the extremes, but that is no longer the case.

This is among the biggest lessons from the Republicans’ big electoral wins earlier this month. Areas close to Washington DC, where singles predominate and birth rates are negligible, remained Democratic, but in the suburbs, from Northern Virginia to Dallas to Long Island, where the families roam, voters shifted to the centre-right. It’s a poor omen for Democrats, who made strong gains in these areas in 2018.

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The dean of Yale Law School expressed “regret” Wednesday for her administration’s role in the now-infamous “trap house” incident but stopped short of apologizing to second-year law student Trent Colbert or the Federalist Society for their treatment at the hands of university administrators.

6 people arrested for murder of Plano 18-year-old

Mystery Deepens in Malcolm X Assassination Conspiracy

White Dolls From American Girl Now Come With Fun Book Saying How Terrible They Are  Babylon Bee.

Americans were horrified to be told to live like Europeans. Is it longer life expectancy they mind? (The Guardian) No, it’s the totalitarianism. Understandable that someone named Arwa Mahdawi doesn’t see that.

Democrats are on course to lose in 2022 and 2024. If they do, we may lose our democracy. (Washinton Post) Max Boot lives up to his name.

Yale Law students ‘blackballed’ for refusing to lie about professor, lawsuit says (Reuters) My, what a surprise.

What Happened to Gun Culture (The New Yorker) I’m sure the New Yorker knows all about it.

China Imprisoned More Journalists In 2020 Than Any Other Nation

Threats of More Lawlessness in New York

Networks Refuse to Cover NEW Development in Fake Whips Border Tale

Wisconsin School District Used Male Name, Pronouns For 12-Year-Old Girl Against Parental Objections, Lawsuit Alleges

Paul Krugman Admits He “Got Inflation Wrong” But Stands By “Transitory” Narrative

Rittenhouse: On CNN, Lawyer Absurdly Claims Skateboard Can’t Be A Lethal Weapon

U.S. Corporations Aim To Please China’s Communist Party By Sponsoring ’22 Olympics

NPR Deletes Tweet (But Not Story) on Bitter Black Tears Over Asian Mayor Win

California Forces Transgender ‘Belief System’ on Female Prisoners Housed With Biological Males, Lawsuit Says

Boebert Lets Loose on Swalwell, ‘Jihad Squad Member’ Omar

Antifa Forced To Postpone Riot As Brick Supply Still Stuck On Cargo Ship  Babylon Bee.

Death to the Unvaxed!

Worldwide Search Trend For “Died Suddenly” Spikes To Record Highs

Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Why This Lawsuit Over Vaccine Mandate Has ‘Good Chance’ of Reaching Supreme Court

Austrian Police Patrol Shops, Highways Hunting For The Unvaxx’d  To make things easier, they could just make them wear a badge on their clothes. A yellow six-pointed star, perhaps.

Waterford has Ireland’s 2nd highest Covid incidence with 99.7% fully vaccinated  The Irish are a social people; a ‘vaccine’ that doesn’t prevent spreading the disease isn’t going to help a lot.

SAFETY LAST: Dem Senators Celebrate Infrastructure Bill on Maskless Bus Ride

8 Dead, 80 Infected In Fully-Vaccinated Connecticut Nursing Home  Really fine vaccine ya got there.

Austria Goes Full Retard