‘Radically optimistic’: the thinktank chief who believes the US can ‘self-correct’ (The Guardian)

Chicago-area DA Kim Foxx ripped by Illinois Republican after Oak Brook mall shooting

Harvard and others nixing standardized tests reinforce privilege and harm minorities

Grandma’s Christmas Gift to Grandson’s Black Wife Has Internet Conflicted

Researchers Call For ‘Racial Justice’ In Algorithms

Kamala Celebrates Kwanzaa Again

Expiring Rappers

Crossbow-Armed Man Tried To Assassinate Queen Over ‘Racial Discrimination’

5 Things The Campus Left Decided Was Racist In 2021

Wealthy Leftists Demand Poor White Kids in Appalachia be Taught About Their White Privilege

Jan. 6 panel signals interest in whether Trump committed crime (The Hill) Or, more accurately, whether they can credibly pretend that he did.

Miami Herald op-ed suggests Florida omicron outbreak occurred because Gov. DeSantis acted ‘selfishly’

Jim Jordan Could Become House Speaker and Launch GOP ‘Vengeance Fantasy’: MSNBC Panelists

Jim Jordan ‘Very Scared’ as 1/6 Committee Seeks Info on Trump Calls, Fellow Lawmaker Says (Newsweek)

Nothing like a dame: Trump tops 2021’s cast of clowns and baddies (The Guardian)

‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Season Finale Hails ‘Hero’ Anti-Trump Impeachment Witness

Morning Joe: Don’t Applaud Pro-Vax Trump—It’s Just An Election Ploy

No Good Conservative: ABC ‘Struggling’ to Find McCain Replacement for ‘View’  I guess Lyn Chaney is busy until the next election.

Woke Mob Targets NHL With Efforts To Promote ‘Diversity And Inclusiveness’

Four environmental fights to watch in 2022 (The Hill)

Unprecedented die-offs, melting ice: Climate change is wreaking havoc in the Arctic and beyon (Anchorage Daily News)

What New York’s ban on gas-powered heat could mean for the future of clean energy (NPR)

Effects of climate change taking root in the wine industry (CBS) OH MY GOD NOT THE WINE INDUSTRY!

“Doomsday Glacier” Threat: Rapid Retreat of Antarctica’s Riskiest Glacier (SciTech Daily)

Antarctica’s “Doomsday” Glacier Could Raise Sea Level by Two Feet (The Maritime Executive)

Wildlife’s winners and losers of 2021 – and how extreme weather set the tone (BBC)

Guest column: Could burning crops reduce our pollution levels? (Florica Times-Union)

60 Minutes climate change archive: What climate impacts (CBS)

No returning to climate of the past even with CO2 reduction

A Clean Industrial Revolution Is the Only Way to Hit Net Zero  (Wired ‘Science’)

2021 Was a Huge Missed Opportunity on Climate Action  (Wired ‘Science’)

‘Humiliating’: 2004 Guardian Report Peddling Climate Doom By 2020 Frozen Out

The ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Oregonian, a New York judge and the true meaning of the First Amendment (Washington Post)

More appropriate nominees for ‘Person of The Year’ (The Hill)

‘Fake news’ can’t be fixed by more journalism, not when our democracy is broken (MSNBC) In the Narrative Media, ‘our democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

2 more college football bowl games canceled because of Covid-19 (CNN)

Story of Year No. 8: Newark voters erase Democrats from all elected positions

The O’Keefe Project: The Times restrained (3)

No Wonder People, Businesses Are Dumping California

Top 20 Media Stories CNN’s Brian Stelter ‘Overlooked’ On His Show Dedicated To Media Stories

AOC’s Grasp on American Governance Is ‘a Farce’

CBS Edits Out Own Reporter SLAMMING School Closures Causing Mental Health Crisis

Stelter Ranks U.S. Among China, Belarus as Worse Press Jailers  I have a whole list that I think ought to be in jaul. Starting with Stelter.

Why omicron variant symptoms are so similar to common cold symptoms (Deseret News) Yet another reason to PANIC!

Omicron is here. What are your treatment options if you get Covid-19? (Vox)

3 COVID-19 vaccine shots won’t stop omicron variant, BioNTech leader says (Deseret News) So I guess it’s TIME TO PANIC!

Candace Owens Tells Fans to Take Quack Cure That Turns Skin Blue (Daily Beast)

Fauci: Removing masks on airplanes ‘not something we should even be considering’ It would undermine the PANIC!

Man sentenced to one year in prison for attacking store worker over mask

Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex

Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer vaccine neutralization

Farewell, University of California

A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccinated healthcare workers  Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccinated healthcare workers  Certainly not in the eyes of the gubmint.

Fauci Says ‘Masks Forever’ On Airplanes

Experts: DeSantis Policies So Bad He’s Now Infecting Record Numbers In California And New York  Babylon Bee.

Former Continental CEO Slams Fauci For ‘Too Much Misinformation’ And ‘Chicken Little’ Response To Omicron

Questioning the Science

“Sit Down Karen!” Woman On Delta Flight Filmed Punching Elderly Man For Briefly Removing Mask

Kamala Harris says ‘democracy’ is biggest national security threat in CBS interview

Gun control advocates express disappointment with Biden (The Hill)

NASCAR driver who unintentionally sparked ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ chant says corporations don’t want to sponsor him

“I Told You So” – Larry Summers Gloats About Being Right On Inflation

Kamala Keeps Digging

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Not so’s you’d notice.

On Christmas day, the following statement popped up on Twitter:

Just so we’re clear on the Right’s agenda – racism good, abortion bad, money good, women bad, capitalism good, sustainability bad, stupidity good, science bad, power good, equality bad, white people good, nonwhite people bad. Stench, indeed.

Who wrote this simple-minded rant? Monica Casper. Who is Casper? The dean of the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University in California.

What support did Casper provide for any of her derogatory characterizations of the views of people on the opposite side of the ideological divide from her? None.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Of all the cute things dogs do, cocking their head to one side while they look at you may be the most endearing. Yet surprisingly little research has looked into why they do it. Now, a new study of “gifted” canines—those capable of quickly memorizing multiple toy names—shows they often tilt their heads before correctly retrieving a specific toy. That suggests the behavior might be a sign of concentration and recall in our canine pals, the team suggests.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Tokamak Energy has announced the successful completion of tests of cryogenic power electronic technology for its superconducting magnets’ high-efficiency operation.

The company is working on fusion technology using a combination of spherical tokamaks and high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. According to Tokamak Energy, tests of the new power electronics showed twice the efficiency of previous systems, resulting in a substantial reduction in the power required to cool the HTS magnets, lowering the cost of future fusion power plants, a critical step toward commercializing and scaling fusion technology.

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Californians will ring in the new year with the unfurling of a groundbreaking law that will change how they dispose of their organic waste, particularly leftover food and kitchen scraps.

Senate Bill 1383 requires all residents and businesses to separate such “green” waste from other trash, but the program will be rolled out gradually for homes and businesses in the coming months, with the actual startup date varying, depending on the location of your home or business.

Fines can be levied for failing to separate organic refuse from other trash. But those charges aren’t scheduled to begin until 2024. CalRecycle, the state agency overseeing the change, has lots of information about the new requirements on its website.

Time to leave.

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The new totalitarianism that has descended over the Western world in the last two years varies in its intensity and emphases. New Zealand has one of the most repressive Corona regimes, right up there with Australia, Germany, Austria, Greece, and Canada.

Even though New Zealand has almost no COVID cases, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has imposed a draconian and finely-tuned lockdown on the populace. The government is vigorously pushing citizens to get vaxed. Ms. Ardern has stated in no uncertain terms that the populace will from now on be divided into two classes, the “vaccinated” and the “unvaccinated”, with the unvaxed having a more restricted set of rights and privileges. The prime minister’s approach makes sense, given that she was groomed by Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum as part of the “Young Global Leaders” group.

Australia and New Zealand remind us that, even in the Angl0-Sphere, fascism is only a ‘crisis’ away.

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Texas high school shooting suspect granted bond arrested for violating terms of release

Killadelphia Update

Why I Dislike Kwanzaa  Kwanzaa is just another race-hustler scam.

There Is Such a Thing as a Bad Boy

Nikole Hannah-Jones: I Don’t Understand This Idea That Parents Should Decide What Is Taught

Diversity Grinch: PBS Indicts Movies, TV Shows Pushing ‘White Fantasy of Christmas’

‘Don’t Look Up’ is a star-studded scream against the climate apocalypse (Engadget) People aren’t buying the fake news so maybe they’ll believe a movie.

Don’t Look Up Review #2: An Important Failure (MovieWeb)

Miserly Manchin stole Christmas and hope from American families (The Hill)

Physicist Dr. Ed Berry rips UN IPCC’s ‘climate fiction’ – Explains ‘why the IPCC is wrong’

New York City chain saws down 1,000 trees to raise park 8-10 feet to address panic over 3mm sea level rise – Protesters ‘watched in horror’  Well, this is what happens when government PANICS!

Claim: Japan McDonalds Reducing Food Portions because Climate Change

The child tax credit: The gift that keeps on giving (The Hill) Welfare by any other name still smells as sweet to the left.

The Worst Political Predictions of 2021 (Politico)

San Francisco restaurant says it was vandalized twice in one week over support of police

This Is What Happened When College Students Were Asked If “Frosty The Snowman” Is Inclusive Enough…

TikTok Moderators Sue After Being “Traumatized” By Content  Whine, little snowflake/quiver, quiver….

MSNBC Guest: ‘My Favorite Thing Is Hating on Christmas’

WORST OF 2021: The Media Heroes Award

CNN Tries to Bust ‘Media Misconceptions’ Like Political Bias, ‘Malicious Intent’  Push! That! Narrative!

Liberals Are Miserable People

Biden Admin Rejected October Proposal For “Free Rapid Tests For The Holidays”

Omicron symptoms: What we know about illness caused by the new variant (NBC) We know it’s TIME TO PANIC!

Why you should upgrade your mask as the Omicron variant spreads (CNN) Because it’s TIME TO PANIC!

Do masks protect you from the omicron variant? Here’s what we know

21 Masks That Capture the Politics of 2021 (Politico) Highlighting the fact that masks are all about virtue signaling, not safety.

US Warship Stuck In Port After COVID-19 Outbreak Among “100 Percent Immunized” Crew  Great ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Marines Have Now Booted 169 For Vaccine Refusal – All Religious Exemptions Denied

How can Moderna and Pfizer adjust vaccines for omicron? A microbiologist answers 5 questions  Everything will be okay if you just PANIC!

CNN Cries ‘Fake News’ to Accurately Say Biden Has More Covid Deaths Than Trump

Carefully Cultivated Delusional Hysteria: A Tool that must be Continuously Exercised

Anger over mask mandates, other covid rules, spurs states to curb power of public health officials

UK Mulls Door-To-Door Vaccination Squads

Covid Common Sense

Marjorie Taylor Greene Accuses Jewish Space Lasers of Trying to Shoot Down Santa (New Yorker) Andy Borowitz tries to be the left-wing Babylon Bee and fails miserably.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants To ‘Restore’ America to Christian Principles (Newsweek) No, she wants to restore Christian principles to America. Trust Newsweek to get it wrong.

Edward Snowden Takes Aim at Donald Trump for Not Pardoning Him (Newsweek) Well, Creepy Joe hasn’t pardoned him either.

Jan. 6 committee subpoenas for sitting lawmakers could enter ‘dangerous Constitutional territory’

ABC’s ‘This Week’ Panel Attacks Manchin ‘He Represents Plutocrats’  I hate to let the cat out of the bag, but all legislators represent plutocrats, because plutocrats have money, and politicians need money to get re-elected in order to preserve their grasp on power. A depressing number of people in the Narrative Media appear unfamiliar with the way the world works. Perhaps it’s going to college that does it.

The O’Keefe Project: The Times restrained (2)

David Friedman.

The figure shows temperature, CO2 concentration and insolation for the past 350,000 years, a period that covers four interglacials, shown as yellow columns, of which ours is the most recent. When I first saw it, as described in the previous post, I noticed something odd. In the first three interglacials, temperature follows the same pattern, rising steeply at the beginning then falling until the end. CO2 concentration follows a similar pattern except in the third interglacial, where it oscillates about a constant or slightly rising level.

The pattern in the fourth interglacial is quite different. For the first few thousand years it looks similar to the previous three but then the pattern reverses, with temperature and CO2 rising instead of falling through the rest of the interglacial.

What was different this time? The obvious guess was us. The reversal in the pattern happens at about the time that humans adopted agriculture, resulting in both a large increase in human population and a change in how humans affected the world around them.

If it weren’t for Global Warming, we’d be up to our assholes in glaciers

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Nuclear power is going mini. Former SpaceX engineers are creating a portable microreactor that is lightweight and cost-effective, calling it the “world’s first portable, zero-emissions power source.”

It was originally a project imagined for Mars, but the team decided Earth needed it more (or, at least, sooner). So, they formed a company called Radiant to continue to develop the microreactor. Once ready, it could provide instant power to hard-to-reach places and quick installation in populated areas.

I’d buy one.

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China’s one-child policy suppressed the birth rate with forced abortions and political terror for a generation. Only allowed one child, many Chinese families chose to abort their baby girls.

The deficit of 40 million female babies is now the specter stalking Communist China.

China’s aggressive military moves against Taiwan and India are a desperate gambit by a corrupt Communist elite facing domestic social instability and millions of men who can never marry.

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Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates new ones.

Writing forces you to think. It’s nature’s way of telling you how sloppy your thinking is. The ultimate test of how well you understand something is how clearly you can explain it in writing — clear writers are clear thinkers. As a wise” man once said: “everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise.”

“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” — Francis Bacon

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Hammer tech.

UPDATE: Tesla: Nothing Says Customer Satisfaction Like 30Kg of Dynamite

Donald Trump’s influence is fading (CNNO They hope, they hope, they hope….

Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich sues Jan. 6 committee to block access to his financial records

Judge blocks New York Times on Project Veritas coverage (Politico)

Parents outraged after teacher mocks ‘bigots,’ ‘evangelicals’ in Dr. Seuss-style poem at school board meeting

Right-Wing Social Media Site Bans Controversial Term, Sparking Fury Among User Base (Newsweek)

The Bar for Charging Trump with Obstructing Congress Is Higher Than Many Realize (Politico)

State legislators, voters sue Maryland over allegedly gerrymandered congressional map helping Democrats

ACLU, NAACP sue SC over newly drawn state House districts

Major corporations had ‘woke’ trainings exposed in 2021

MLB, ACLU make watchdog’s ‘Worst of the Woke’ list

Santa Claus Sleighjacked While Delivering Toys In Philly  Babylon Bee.

Hollywood Ignores Woke Bombs, Keeps Pushing Activist Agenda

Four suspects arrested in connection with killing during ‘follow-home’ robbery, LAPD says

Washington defensive back Deshazor Everett was driver in fatal car crash: cops

“I’m Not F***King Around” – Pickaxe-Weilding Woman Robs LA Rite Aid

Climate change: Melting Antarctic ice sheets may cause sea levels to rise by 17 FEET by 3000 AD (Daily Mail) Time to start worrying, I guess. I find it ludicrous that the people who can’t predict the weather a week ahead of time think they can predict what the climate will be in 3000 AD.

“Regenerative Meat” — The meaning behind a new food label  It don’t mean shit.

Addressing the housing and climate crises — together (Seattle Times) Make everyone live in caves?

How electric vehicles have helped labor and climate groups team up (The Guardian)

Feds OK huge new solar farms on public California desert lands; critics cry foul on one

A New Wind Power Wall Could Produce Over 10,000 KWh a Year  When the wind blows.

BBC’s Fake Climate Check

Can You Solve Climate Change Better Than World Leaders?  (Wired ‘Science’) Could you possibly do any worse?

New Greta On The Shelf Doll Will Track Your Climate Sins  Babylon Bee.

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The U.S. Justice Department announced this week that thousands of federal prison inmates who were sent home due to the pandemic will not be required to return to prison to serve their sentences. The DOJ reversed an opinion by the Trump administration’s Department of Legal Counsel stating that the Bureau of Prisons “must recall prisoners in home confinement to correctional facilities” if they do not meet the normal home-arrest criteria.

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This week the US Navy announced that it seized some 1,400 AK-47 assault rifles and 226,600 rounds of ammunition from a “stateless” fishing vessel after it was intercepted in the North Arabian Sea based on suspicious activity, which led to a “flag verification boarding”.

The illicit weapons and ammunition were then transferred to the guided-missile destroyer USS O’Kane. The five passengers were reportedly Yemeni nationals. Subsequent reports suggested it may have been an Iranian smuggling operation into war-torn Yemen, where Tehran-backed Shia Houthi rebels have for a half-decade been battling the Saudi-UAE coalition which has also long enjoyed the support of the Pentagon.

Steve says what we all know to be true.

Earlier today, I wrote a lot of material about Biden’s dementia being “discovered” suddenly by CNN’s Jeff Zeleny, but I decided not to publish it. A video took the wind out of my sails. Biden and his wife made the mistake of taking Christmas phone calls on camera. They were pretending to track Santa’s sleigh. One caller said, “Let’s go, Brandon!” Biden said, “Let’s go Brandon. I agree.”

He had no idea what was going on.

If you watch the video, you will also see Jill Biden coaching her husband. Even Jimmy Carter didn’t need that.

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For around a decade, scientists researching Parkinson’s disease have been probing a pathway involved in the way brain cells process energy, and now a mystery around the role of a particular protein has been solved. The team has produced an unprecedented “live action” view that shows how this protein is activated, providing researchers with a blueprint for therapies that help prevent cell death associated with the condition.

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Microorganisms can convert oil into natural gas, i.e. methane. Until recently, it was thought that this conversion was only possible through the cooperation of different organisms. In 2019, Rafael Laso-Pérez and Gunter Wegener from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology suggested that a special archaeon can do this all by itself, as indicated by their genome analyses. Now, in collaboration with a team from China, the researchers have succeeded in cultivating this “miracle microbe” in the laboratory. This enabled them to describe exactly how the microbe achieves the transformation. They also discovered that it prefers to eat rather bulky chunks of food.

History shows only a new Voting Rights Act can preserve our fragile democracy (The Hill) In the Narrative Media, ‘our democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Man arrested for alleged kidnapping, sex with minor, Gascon’s office recommended $0 bail: California police

Could Chile show the United States how to rebuild its democracy? (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Americans Don’t Buy the Democrats’ Line on Election Integrity

“A Woman Is A Woman, Man Is A Man”: Putin Vows To Protect Russia From West’s “Gender Obscurantism”

Ironic Justice: Two Anti-Police Lawmakers Get Carjacked

Exiled from the Metaverse before it even started: Facebook bans are for life

Liberal democracy may not be ended with a gun, but on a Zoom call

Veteran Swimming Official Quits In Protest Over Penn’s Trans Swimmer

After years of doubts, hopes grow that nuclear fusion is finally for real and could help address climate change

2021 Has to Be the Beginning of the End for Big Oil (Gizmodo) It just HAS to be!

The world could consume more oil in 2022 than ever before (CNN) Yeah – so what?

How 2021’s floods and heat waves are signs of what’s to come (NPR)

From floods and wildfires to inaction and urgency: These are the top climate and weather stories of 2021 (NPR)

Belgium to close all existing nuclear power plants

The world is addicted to natural gas. Fossil fuel companies are lobbying hard to keep it that way (CNN)

Government inaction on climate change linked to psychological distress in young people

Aussie Energy Minister: China Escaping Responsibility for Climate Change  Well, duh.

Watch: The 1970s Cooling Scare Was Real

Climate Insanity: “… No individual in Florida should own their own home …”

When will Democrats do their job and protect Black people’s right to vote? (The Guardian) Apparently black people are too stupid to get a photo ID, which every state offers.

NY Times: Kamala Harris gripes her media coverage would be better if she was White man  Or if she were competent. I don’t suppose she has any influence over either of those.

Disparate Impact Law Reigns Over Canada

Haitians Sue Biden Admin Over “Racist Treatment” In Del Rio Border Encampment  I didn’t know that ‘Haitian’ was a race.

Get Back! NPR Finds Racism in the Beatles

What Jim Jordan knows about Trump’s coup attempt — and what he may cover up (Washhington Post) All Trump! All the time!

Federal prosecutors question legal fee arrangement in case against former Trump adviser (CNN) All Trump! All the time!

Joe Manchin has all the power — and a catastrophic lack of imagination (Washington Post)

US conservative parents push for book bans – and unintentionally make reading cool again (The Guardian)

The Obscure Charge Jan. 6 Investigators Are Looking at for Trump (Daily Beast) All Trump! All the time!

Victor Davis Hanson: Please, Stop The ‘Coup’ Porn!

Merry Christmas? Reid Tells Viewers to FEAR the Military, Unvaxxed, GOP ‘Enemies’

WORST OF 2021: The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants

Buzzfeed Writer: ‘De-platform’ White Parents

Should Americans ditch their holiday plans? Maybe that’s the wrong question (The Guardian) Few people have more experience with wrong questions than Robert Reich.

Omicron up to 70% less likely to need hospital care (BBC)

Fauci warns Americans not to invite unvaccinated relatives for the holidays

7 Staffers In Top Pentagon Delegation Test Positive For Covid, Despite All Being Vaxxed  That’s some fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

Pregnancy App Censoring COVID Vaccine Discussions

an Francisco Cracks Down On Maskless Shoplifting

Australia’s Chief Pharmacist Says Public Needs To Accept Boosters & Mask Mandates For “Many Years” To Come

70% Of London’s COVID Hospitalisations Diagnosed AFTER Being Admitted For Other Ailments

Christmas Eve Travel Chaos: Hundreds Of Flights Canceled Due To Staffing Shortages

The Collins crock: China edition

Watch: MSNBC ‘Doctor’ Calls For Denying Medical Care To The Unvaccinated

White House Abandons Southern African Travel Ban As Okinawa Outbreak Strains Ties With Japan

This Will Really Ruin Anthony Fauci’s Xmas

Vaccines Do Not Stop COVID-19 Spread As Governments Claim: Legal Advocacy Group

Alarming New Study Finds That Everyone Who Gets COVID Will Die At Some Point

South Africa Eases COVID Restrictions After Omicron Peaks

Media Falsely Reports Texas Man Died From Omicron While Government Officials Refuse To Say

Just in Time for Christmas, NY Times Stirs Up Omicron Panic: ‘Reconsider’ Family Visits

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It seems that driving a vehicle into pedestrians has become a new Christmas tradition in the last few years. The custom in Europe is to target shoppers in Christmas markets, while Christmas parades are the favored venue in the USA.

The incident in Marseille described below is unusual in two respects: the driver who was targeting pedestrians and other vehicles was a woman, and she embarked on her Christmas revel on the open road.

Oh, and she’s mentally ill. What a surprise!

Muslims are Muslims all year ’round.

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With the conviction on manslaughter charges of former police officer Kim Potter we seem to pursuing a pattern in “Blue” prosecutions. By “Blue” I am not just referring to prosecutions of the men and women in blue (although it includes them) but the pressure in Blue states to prosecute and convict persons of crimes when there a perceived political advantage to do so; where the “wrong” person has been injured or killed by what ordinarily would have been seen as a legal, if tragic, shooting

Steve Sailer.

The Industrial Age assumed that the future would be Centralized and have Economies of Scale. Little did they know that progress meant pushing stuff down to the locality.

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Austria, one of the most repressive European countries during the coronavirus pandemic, has recently overtaken Sweden in terms of total covid mortality, showing that almost all government interventions have been ineffective and unjustified.

Early studies suggest a reduced risk of Covid-19 hospitalization when infected with Omicron compared to Delta

Omicron wave appears milder, but concern remains (BBC)

Omicron variant less severe than delta, early UKstudies suggest (Washington Post)

The latest on the coronavirus pandemic and the Omicron variant (CNN)

Omicron less likely to put you in the hospital, studies say (AP)

While omicron explodes around the world, covid cases in Japan keep plummeting and no one knows exactly why (Washington Post)

24 States Sue Biden Admin Over COVID-19 Mandates For Children, Staff In ‘Head Start’ Education Program

University Of California Fires Director Of Ethics Program for Defying COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

New York Lawmaker Pulls Public Health Detainment Bill, Blames ‘Conspiracy Theorists’

Vaccination and the Contemptible Dr. Fauci

“No Country Can Boost Its Way Out” – WHO Warns Biden Plan Could “Prolong” Pandemic

Sports Anchors Disgusted Unvaxed Kyrie Irving Will Play For Nets Again

Germany Confirms First Omicron Death While Italy Revives Outdoor Mask Mandate

Fauci: If Your Family Member Is Unvaxx’d, Tell Them Not To Show Up

More Than $100 Billion Was Stolen From Pandemic Relief Funds, Secret Service Says

Steve Bannon: “War On The Unvaxx’d Is About To Commence”

Democrats Insist That True Vaccines Haven’t Been Tried Yet  Babylon Bee.

The Big Government COVID-19 Lie

Lab Leak ‘Is Now the Most Likely Origin of Covid’ – MIT Scientist Tells UK MPs

Early district reports crush media’s fears of GOP gerrymandering  Turns out it’s the Democrats who are doing most of the ‘gerrymandering’.

Long before embracing Trump’s false election claims, Rep. Scott Perry promoted groundless theories (Washington Post)

Conservative dark-money group bankrolled almost every major Republican effort in Colorado last year, tax docs show (Colorado Sun)

QAnon-Friendly Event Attendees Are Coming Down Sick—They Think It’s Anthrax (Newsweek)

Far-Right Group Fantasizes They’ve Been Attacked With Anthrax (Daily Beast) There is no right but the far-right.

US army veteran wore wire for FBI to expose KKK members (The Guardian)

Delusional: Hannah-Jones Complains Media Aren’t Biased Enough Against Republicans

Atlantic Writer: ‘Manchin Has Virtually Sealed the Planet’s Fate’

WORST OF 2021: The GOP Wants to Bring Back Jim Crow Award

Former Cop Scores Big Free Speech Win with U.K. Court of Appeal

Facebook Censors Catholic Group for Fighting Abuse of Christian Women

Facebook mistakenly auto-bans Merry Christmas message from Canadian MP

After weeks walking, Mexico migrant caravan splits up on buses headed north (Reuters) The photo op is over. Looks as if the Mexican government is facilitating this new invasion. Of course, nothing will be done about that.

Thousands of Haitians Have Been Admitted Into the U.S. This Week, Report Says

ABC Grills Biden on Covid ‘Failure’: ‘How Did You Get It Wrong?’

Biden EPA Mandates New Regulations To Force Electric Vehicle Transition

Biden Emerges as Progressive Government’s Mr. Bad Example

LIE OF THE YEAR: ‘I Will Shut Down The Virus’

Sen. Paul Details $52 Billion Federal “Waste” In Annual ‘Festivus Report’

The Obsession With the Black/White Wealth Gap Protects the Elites

The Daunte Wright NYT Readers Don’t Know!

Racial Differences in Time at Work Not Working