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When you read the work product of the academy, the thing you see right away is much of it is nonsense busy work. These are people with no useful skills and nothing to do so they fritter away their time in a game of make believe. They imagine themselves as academic and intellectuals. Their specialty is basically a hobby of their own creation, which is an offshoot of their mentor’s hobby. You could eliminate the social science and humanities and no one outside the academy would notice.

The other thing you notice about these nonsense fields is the struggle to apply these boutique theories to anything resembling reality. Queer studies makes perfect sense within the extremely narrow scope of academic queerness. Outside of that narrow scope it makes no sense whatsoever. Much of what is produced in these pseudo-intellectual fields – that is a generous description – is a desperate attempt to apply these crackpot theories to real world situations.

The Other McCain does the reporting that American media won’t do.

In October, we told you about New York City cop Yvonne Wu, accused of shooting to death her ex-girlfriend and wounding the ex’s new girlfriend. Then in November, we told you about Pennsylvania couple Marie Snyder and Echo Butler, accused of murdering Snyder’s two young daughters. The Killer Lesbian phenomenon continues this month with news from Yorkshire, England.

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You understand that I’m not implying that all lesbians are murderers, nor even that lesbians are more likely than heterosexual women to commit murder. My point is that media bias is such that journalists will never use the words “lesbian” and “murder” in the same story, unless a lesbian is a victim of murder. The belief that journalists must always act the part of publicity agents for the “LGBTQ community,” results in a one-sided portrayal of gay life — everything’s wonderful and everybody’s happy under the rainbow flag — which is just unrealistic. So when I get a story like this (and thanks to the regular reader who emailed me the tip), it’s my duty to give it an appropriate headline, for the sake of balance.

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I know quite a few retired people who are “comfortable,” maybe even have one or two million dollars to leave their kids after a LIFETIME of work, saving, and investing. I know ONE person who has several tens of millions of dollars. And not a one of those people has any real political power, despite being white and well-off.

Not a one of those people, even the multimillionaire, could afford to give half a BILLION dollars (pocket change for Zuckerberg) to distort the election returns. Even though I bet a forensic audit would turn up well over half of Zuckerberg’s donation was just stolen. Good. Who’s keeping track of five hundred million dollars without dipping in?

Setting aside the butcher paper over the windows at vote-counting time, and the sudden giant leap of late-breaking machine votes ONLY for Biden, and the “toilet malfunction” in Atlanta, just having half a billion dollars to do whatever is claimed they did legitimately to “get out the vote” is a horrendous amount of power wielded by one homely, expressionless dweeb. Not to worry about his half-billion, he has $134 billion MORE. There’s somebody firmly on the INSIDE of those elusive goldarned margins.

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Kevin ( “Viva la Resistance!”) Clinesmith is the convicted felon who radically altered a document in the Trump-Russia investigation to justify spying on an American citizen. At the time, Clinesmith was an assistant general counsel at the FBI.

In order to receive court approval for surveillance of Carter Page, Clinesmith took a document that said Page WAS a CIA source and altered it say Page WAS NOT a CIA source. He then submitted the fake document to the federal court to support obtaining a FISA warrant that would enable the FBI to spy not just on Page but quite possibly on the Trump campaign for which he had worked.

It is hard to imagine a more blatant fraud on the court. Perpetuating that fraud should have meant an end to Clinesmith’s legal career or at least a lengthy cessation of it.

However, fraud on the court in service of “La Resistance” to Donald Trump doesn’t bother the left-wing D.C. bar one bit. It has restored Clinesmith as a member in “good standing” of the District of Columbia Bar Association — this despite the fact that he has yet to finish serving out his probation as a convicted felon.

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After Black Lives Matter protesters last year demanded that cities “Defund the Police,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed held a press conference to announce that her city would be one of the first to do exactly that. Breed announced $120 million in cuts to the budgets of both San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments. A spokesperson for the police officers’ union warned the cuts “could impact our ability to respond to emergencies,” but the police chief assured the public that the cuts “will not diminish our ability to provide essential services.”

Yesterday, Breed reversed herself in dramatic fashion, announcing that she was making an emergency request to the city’s Board of Supervisors for more money for the police to support a crackdown on crime, including open air drug dealing, car break-ins, and retail theft. The plan contains much of what the California Peace Coalition, which Environmental Progress and I cofounded last spring, has been demanding, including in a series of protests by parents of homeless addicts, parents of children killed by fentanyl, and recovering addicts.

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Four people were arrested in NYC for burning and looting an Applebee’s restaurant.

Just kidding. We know that sort of thing is tolerated under the New Justice System. Heck, the Vice President of the United States contributed to a bail fund for violent rioters and that wasn’t a deal-breaker, even for people who work within the Justice System. No, the actual crime they were arrested for was protesting the city’s Vaccine Passport requirement.

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Elizabeth Warren calls for expansion of Supreme Court, saying current court is a threat to democracy (CNN) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’

.How millions of jobless Americans can afford to ditch work (CNN) Can you say ‘welfare’?

San Francisco car owners take drastic measures as break-ins skyrocket: ‘I’m shocked’

Progressive District Attorneys Radically Change Rule Of Law In California Cities

Jay Rosen’s dishonest double game

12 Worst Cases of Big Tech Censorship in 2021

The Real Disinformation Agents: Watch as NBC News Tells Four Blatant Lies in a Two-Minute Clip

Democrat Senator Who Blocked China Forced-Labor Bill Received $60K From Nike Execs In September

CNN Adopts Positive Spin on Gas Prices After White House Pressure

Paul Krugman Eats Crow: ‘Warnings About Inflation Have Proved Right’

ABC, the Cuomo Protection Network, Hides Andrew’s Latest Corruption Debacle

Study: Defunding Police Leads To Increased Funding Of Police

Fed-Up Statue Of Liberty Moves To Florida  Babylon Bee.

How the January 6 committee finally exposed Trump’s empire of lies (CNN) All Trump! All the time!

Jan. 6 hearings lay out how Trumpers undermine America at home and abroad. Beware election coup in 2024 (Philadelphia Inquirer) ‘Election coup’?

Kyrsten Sinema Won’t Let Dems Kill a Favorite Tax Break for the Rich (Daily Beast) Not that they’re trying all that hard, but they talk a good fight.

Ties that bind: the itsy-bitsy strips that make a gerrymandered Texas congressional map (Dallas Morning News) Because, as you know, only Republicans gerrymander Congressional districts.

Stephen Colbert Destroys Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Over Capitol Riot Texts (Daily Beast Uh, not exactly.

Seth Meyers Rips Into Don Jr.’s ‘Embarrassing’ Insurrection Texts (Daily Beast) Except that there’s no there, there.

Mary Trump Mocks Uncle’s Rally as ‘Miserable Failure’ After Empty Seats in Florida (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

Alcindor Ready for NBC Gig: GOP Voting Reform ‘A Slow January 6th

A tantalizing clue to why omicron is spreading so quickly (NPR)

Cruz lambasts United CEO at hearing over employee mandate (CNN)

California allows San Francisco to maintain existing COVID-19 masking rules (NPR)

Omicron evades Moderna vaccine too, study suggests, but boosters help (NPR)

UK reports highest number of daily Covid cases since the pandemic began (CNBC)

Doctor Who Discovered Omicron Covid-19 Variant Says UK ‘Panicking Unnecessarily’

13 New York Counties Refuse to Enforce New Mask Mandate

LA District Postpones Vaccine Mandate As Thousands Of Students Remain Unvaxx’d

You Will Never Be “Fully Vaccinated”

UK Suffers Record Jump In Daily COVID Cases As EU Warns Pandemic Could Last 2-3 More Years  And then two or three more years after that….

Needle-free COVID-19 vaccine is in human trials

CEOs Of Southwest, American Airlines Question Need For Masks On Planes  Yet another reason not to fly.

YouTube Censors Bombshell Joe Rogan Interview With Cardiologist Peter McCullough

SARS-Cov-2 Lab Leak in Taiwan Confirmed

CDC Advisory Panel To Meet On Severe Condition Linked To J&J’s COVID Vaccine

It’s Holiday Season. Time for Another COVID-19 Pandemic Panic?

Trump’s quest for more powerful shower heads is over (Washiogton Post) All Trump! All the time!

Janet Yellen Falsely Advertises Build Back Better in Memo to Senate

WOW: CNN Forced to Admit Joe Biden’s Crumbling Approval Ratings

Hiding the Body: Nets Ignore Death of Build Back Better Agenda

TSA Is Allowing Illegal Migrants To Board Commercial Flights Without Proper Identification, Texas Rep. Alleges

Biden Administration Offers Bonuses to Doctors Who Implement ‘Anti-Racism Plans’

Biden Agenda Crumbles After Manchin Nukes Child Tax Credit; Will Try Again In 2022

Dana Milbank’s ‘Study’ of Anti-Biden Bias Is Hot Garbage

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At Dimensional Energy, the method involves a reactor that houses a proprietary nanocatalyst material that effectively replaces the plant components that facilitate natural photosynthesis. Inside the reactor, the nanocatalyst and CO2 are exposed to sunlight and water, allowing the CO2 and water to break apart and reform into organic compounds called hydrocarbons, which can be used to make jet fuel.

The 60-day trial was a success, demonstrating not only that the technology works, but also that it could soon be cost competitive with traditional fuels.

We’ll find out.

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We are currently on version 6 of the tractor. This is an articulated-steering, hydraulic drive tractor. It has a modular Power Unit and modular wheel units, and features a Bobcat standard quick attach.

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During the pandemic, millions of upper middle class white parents experienced for the first time the high quality education that minority public students had been receiving for generations.

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The Left smears this as systemic racism, but the only systemic thing is the sheer amount of money and effort that suburban parents put into maintaining schools that fail to meet the basic educational standards of virtually every previous generation, but still give their children a future.

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A professor who doesn’t understand what the term ‘tax’ means ought to be fired.

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Democrats generally gain support by imagining what would happen if hypothetical conservatives were to win hypothetical control. They don’t talk about real conservatives or real elections. For good reason. “The Handmaid’s Tale” may seem a bit over the top, but there are people who believe that the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination led us inexorably to such a fate. The governing principle of modern American conservatism is individual liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But still, Democrats believe that what Sen. Mitch McConnell really wants is a return to slavery, like Alabama in 1825. Why do Democrats promote such absurd fears?

Because the real ones are less scary: “A Trump presidency is an extinction-level event for democracy. Imagine the agony of being happy, healthy, wealthy, and free. My God. Vote Democrat, and you won’t have to screw up your life — we’ll do it for you!” Absolutely no one (who does not have a Ph.D.) will vote for that. So Democrats are forced to make stuff up, based on hypothetical possibilities that have never happened and make no sense. Which seems silly. But what else can they do?

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis introduced legislation Wednesday in an effort to crack down on the teaching of Critical Race Theory and other ‘woke’ ideology in schools and places of employment, urging that his state will not tolerate the “elite-driven phenomenon.” of “cultural Marxism”.

I wasn’t aware that governors could introduce legislation – or do they mean he had an ally in the legislature do it?

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All at once, progressives are wailing that an “anti-democratic” movement poses a serious threat to the United States. David Leonhardt of the New York Times averred last Monday that, “An anti-democratic movement, inspired by Donald Trump but much larger than him, is making significant progress” and “has encountered surprisingly little opposition”. A writer in The Atlantic informs his readers that “Trump has built the first American mass political movement in the past century that is ready to fight by any means necessary, including bloodshed, for its cause.”

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On Tuesday, the State Department and the White House drew scrutiny after they disclosed that there were still Americans and legal residents trapped in Afghanistan over three months after President Biden abandoned them there. Yet on Wednesday, when ABC was the only network to cover the ongoing humanitarian crisis there, they failed to mention those Americans.

ABC originally ignored the Tuesday discloser. And as NewsBusters reported, World News Tonight, along with CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, spent a combined four minutes and six seconds covering holiday shipping and carrier deadlines.

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U.S. drug agents are expanding operations in China – six years after America’s largest trading partner and global rival emerged as the main source of chemicals used to make highly lethal fentanyl. It’s now claiming 65,000 American lives a year.

The small crew of about a dozen Drug Enforcement Administration agents, including those in new outposts in Shanghai and Guangzhou, is nearly double the number in 2018. They face what seems like mission impossible: collaborating with Chinese agents to try to bust traffickers hidden somewhere in a sprawling export supply chain that’s linked to 160,000 companies.

“It’s such a massive chemical industry, and then there are layer upon layer of traders, brokers and freight forwarders,” says Russ Holske, the DEA’s director for the Far East, who set up the new offices in China before he retired. “It’s a daunting challenge.”

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President Biden continues to do everything possible within his executive powers to restrict the domestic supply of crude oil, even though it’s inconceivable that we would divest away from crude oil, just because 2 of the products manufactured from crude oil are gasoline and diesel fuels for the short-range and light-weight equipment like cars and trucks.

As environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors climb up the agenda there is a lost reality that the primary usage of crude oil is NOT for the generation of electricity, but to manufacture derivatives and fuels which are the ingredients of everything needed by economies and lifestyles to exist and prosper.

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Russia continues its military modernization and massive buildup of forces on the border with Ukraine, and China’s military only grows larger, more sophisticated, and increasingly belligerent to its neighbors. Countries like Iran and North Korea have robust missile programs that threaten the United States and regional allies. North Korea continues to manufacture nuclear weapons and Iran hopes to do so soon.

This Christmas season, Heritage’s defense team put together a slightly unorthodox Christmas wish list of things we would like to see in the new year to make America a safer place in the world. Here is part two.

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The two companies announced jointly a “breakthrough in semiconductor design utilizing a new vertical transistor architecture that demonstrates a path to scaling beyond nanosheet, and has the potential to reduce energy usage by 85 percent compared to a scaled fin field-effect transistor”.

Failing Black history

CNN: Outdoor Activities Are Steeped In Institutional Racism

FURIOUS! Lib Gaming Outlet Calls Twitch Crackdown on Anti-White Slur ‘Bizarre’  After all, a white man has no rights that a black man needs to respect.

The Darwinian Roots of World War Hair

Festival of Whites: CNN Sweater Contest Reveals Stunning Lack of Racial Diversity

Eric Adams Names NYPD Commissioner in Front of Cop Killer Mural

Covid postponements begin hitting American sports

California Imposes Statewide Mask Mandate On Your Mom Because She Ugly Babylon Bee.

Will I inhale coronavirus at this restaurant? There’s an app for that

Norway Bans Booze To ‘Slow The Spread’ Of Omicron

Senior Cardinal Warns Elites Ushering In “Total Control Surveillance State” Through COVID

Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines

COVID: Suspension of the 15-minute wait after vaccination with mRNA vaccine

Watch: Third Pro Soccer Player In A Week Experiences Severe Chest Pain During Game

UK Lawmakers Told COVID Likely “Engineered” In Wuhan Lab

YouTube CENSORS Joe Rogan Interview with Consultant Cardiologist on COVID-19 Narrative

Fauci Says “No Need” For Omicron-Specific Vaccine

Impeach Fauci

Google to Fire All Unvaccinated Employees  “Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Party Line; Oh I never will desert you, for I love this life of mine.”

Twitter To Punish Users Who Correctly Claim That Vaccinated Individuals Can Still Spread COVID-19  “Truth is what the Party says it is, comrade, no more, no less.”

CDC: Healthy Lifestyle No Substitute For Booster Shot  Well, we shall see.

Apple closing multiple retail stores across U.S. and Canada due to COVID-19 spread

On CNN, David Frum Defends Proposal to Push Unvaccinated To Back of Emergency-Care Line

Top Cardiologist Tells Joe Rogan Of “Intentional Plot” To Suppress Early COVID Treatments

New AUTHORITARIAN Twitter Policy to Ban Users for COVID-19 Wrongthink

“Hero” Judge Holds Hospital In Contempt: Give Ivermectin To Dying Woman Or Pay $10,000-A-Day Fine

Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril (Washington Post)

Nature Conservation Groups Demand More Renewable Energy Transmission Lines

Can sponge cities help us prepare for more floods?

Did Climate Change Make That Freak Weather Even Worse?  Wired ‘Science’ thinks so.

Columbia Climate School: “Every Year will Bring New Converts”  “The camps are full, Comrade!”

Defense bill bans funding for EcoHealth Alliance

Does the CCP Control Extinction Rebellion?

A federal court has ruled that obstructing the electoral vote count is illegal. Trump should panic. (Washington Post) Unlike Jennifer Rubin, Trump isn’t a panickier.

What crime might Trump have committed on Jan. 6? Liz Cheney points to one. (Washington Post)

New NBC Show Character Refuses to Date ‘Black Republican:’ ‘Nope!’

Misinforming NY Times Reporter Finds ‘Misinformation…Lies’ in GOP Campaign Emails

MSNBC Promotes NYT Claim That GOP Emails Are Often FALSE, Much Worse Than Dems

Derek Chauvin Pleads Guilty In Federal Civil Rights Case To Avoid Life In Prison

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Amid the fear, I’m surprised that we haven’t heard more about two drugs that could make COVID-19 much less of a threat.

In blind tests, Pfizer’s Paxlovid was found to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by 89%! It was so effective that Pfizer was advised to stop the tests.

“They halted the clinical trials!” exclaims Michael Cannon, director of health policy at the Cato Institute in my new video.

“They decided it would be unethical (not to give the drug to people in the control group.) But if it’s unethical to deny them the drug, it’s unethical to deny the American public that drug!”

Excellent point. Yet that’s what the Food and Drug Administration is doing. They force us to wait until they’re sure all drugs “meet the agency’s rigorous standards.”

How long might they delay?

“If the FDA is following its current practice,” says Cannon, “it’ll be a matter of months.”

Months is an improvement over the 10 years it usually takes the FDA. During the pandemic, the FDA loosened regulations to get some medicines to people faster.

“(But) we’re still losing thousands of lives unnecessarily,” complains Cannon.

What’s a life or two lost, compared to Following The Rules?

Your tax dollars at work.

ZMan does some sociology.

Walk around in public and it is increasingly obvious that Americans now live in at least two parallel worlds. For the bare-faced, the masked are a strange and alien people who are starting to fade into the scenery. The weirdness of these people strapping amulets to their faces has faded and it is now just something to be ignored, along with the person wearing the amulet. In fact, the weird collection of beliefs that lie behind the bizarre face-gear are also fading into obscurity.

The mask is no longer about following directions, complying with authority, concerns over public health and so on. It is about membership in a parallel universe that occupies the same physical space as this universe. If you want to know what segregation in the South was really like, go to a grocery store. Jim Crow was mostly two groups of people operating under mostly the same rules but living psychologically apart from one another in the same public spaces.

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Not quite as much fun as a couple ounces of Semtex, but I suppose it will have to do.

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A Virginia Democrat who railed against school choice on the campaign trail failed to report that she once was president of a private high school or that her daughter attends a private middle school.

Rep. Elaine Luria (D., Va.) slammed charter schools and voucher programs during her 2018 campaign, saying they pull funding from public schools. But Virginia corporation filings show Luria served as the president of Tidewater Montessori High School, Inc. in Norfolk, Va., from at least 2015 to 2019. Luria did not list her position on her 2018 and 2019 financial disclosure forms, a violation of House Ethics rules. Her daughter attends a Montessori school in Norfolk that can cost more than $12,000 per year.

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And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Joel Kotkin.

If ignorance is bliss, the Western world should be ecstatic. Even as colleges churn out degrees and collect fees, and technology makes information instantly accessible, the basic level of literacy, as measured by such things as reading books and acquainting oneself with the past, is in a precipitous decline. Rather than building a vital world with our technological culture, we are repeating the memes of feudal times, driven by illiteracy, bias and a rejection of the West’s past.

Over half of American adults have a reading level below the equivalent of sixth-grade level (11- to 12-year-olds), and book reading outside of school or work among the young in particular has declined markedly. A survey conducted in 2014 found slightly over half of American children saying they liked to read books ‘for fun’, down from 60 per cent in 2010. This is not just an American trend. A landmark study by University College London tracked 11,000 children born in 2000 up to age 14 and found that only one in 10 ever did any reading in their spare time as teenagers. The Covid-related lockdowns, notes one recent UN study, raised the number of children experiencing reading difficulties from 460million to 584million.

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Here we go again. The latest scheduled round of minimum-wage increases, to $15 per hour ($14 for small companies), starts Jan. 1. It hasn’t even gone into effect, yet calls are going out for a $18 wage. Why not $28? Or $58? Or $118?

Joe Sanberg, identified by the Sacramento Bee as a “Los Angeles anti-poverty activist and entrepreneur,” is working to put on the November 2022 ballot an initiative that would boost the minimum wage to $18 by 2025. Actually, a real, “anti-poverty activist” is anyone who favors America’s free-market system that has produced all the wealth in this country, including that used to help the poor.

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A group of House Republican leaders raised concerns Tuesday about the new climate office created by the Department of Health and Human Services.

It remains unclear what statutory authority, if any, the Department of Health and Human Services’ climate office has and if its mission is “duplicative” of other government programs, two top GOP members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote in a letter to Health Secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday.

Salvation Army Should Apologize by Christmas for Racially Divisive Training, Watchdog Demands ‘Kenny Xu, president of Color Us United….’ What makes this dweeb a ‘watchdog’? Say rather a yap-dog.

Automation: More Doctors Being Replaced By Kiosks That Just Play Pfizer Commercials Babylon Bee.

Supreme Court declines to block New York vaccine mandate

Omicron can hit fully vaccinated, Oxford study says, as UK prepares for tidal wave of cases  Really fine ‘vaccines’ you got there, bubba.

California Orders Statewide Indoor Mask Mandate

South Korea To Use Facial Recognition Cameras To Track COVID Cases, Ensure Mask Compliance

Nets Skip Dem Gov. Declaring Covid ‘Emergency Is Over’, Won’t Enforce Masks

Elites Double Down On COVID Quagmire Despite Obvious Signs Of Failure

Pfizer Jab Prevents 70% Of Hospitalizations In South Africa

Pfizer’s COVID Pill Stops Hospitalizations, But Not Milder Symptoms

The Lancet Scolds Those Claiming “Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated”

They’ll Use The Welfare State To Get Compliance On Vaccine Mandates

Pentagon stops implementing vaccine mandate for defense contractors

Old Bathos: Should David Frum Be Denied Medical Care?

Despite Almost 100% Vaxx-Rate, Cornell University Shuts Down Campus As Omicron Case Detected

NFL: Get Booster Shot Or You’re Fired  Wouldn’t it be amusing if the NFL had to return to using white players?

Omicron On Track To ‘Massively Disrupt’ Pro Sports

LA Times flamed for advocating closure of California nuclear power plant, citing climate change fight

A major Antarctic ice shelf could shatter within five years (CNBC)

Thwaites: Antarctic glacier heading for dramatic change (BBC)

Climate change likely played a role in this weekend’s deadly tornadoes. The question is how. (CNN)

FEMA administrator blames climate change for deadly tornado outbreak  Of course he does.

Environmental protests rock Serbia (Axios)

Russia vetoes UN resolution linking climate change, security (Associated Press)

US tornadoes: Is climate change to blame? (BBC)

A Politicized Tornado

California’s Wild Weather, Wet or Dry, is Nothing New

The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of the World  I want to see the coasts under water.

Government To Replace Tornado Sirens With Climate Change Alarms  Babylon Bee.

Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ could meet its doom within 3 years

Mark Meadows has already established a coup plot. Do we care enough to save the republic? (Washington Post)

I Got Stopped by a NY Cop: ‘It’s Always a Good Day When You Can Bag a Sand N****r!’ (Daily Beast)

Jared Kushner Shrieked ‘Get Out’ at Israeli Ambassador, Book Claims (Daily Beast)

Juan Williams: The GOP is an anti-America party (The Hill) Makes you wonder what America he lives in.

America witnessed a coup attempt. Now it’s sleep-walking into another disaster (The Guardian) I gather that ‘coup attempt’ is the latest Party Line.

‘The View’ Asks: Is Fox Now the ‘Tucker Carlson Fake News Network’ After Wallace Exit? (Daily Beast)

NY Times Uses Chris Wallace to Take a Front-Page Swipe at ‘Conspiratorial’ Fox News

J.K. Rowling Mocks Absurdity of Orwellian Transgender Rape Policy

Titleist Rejects ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ on Golf Balls, Allows Trump Insults

Again? New York Times Can’t Quit Scary ‘Hard Right’ Texas Republicans

Elon Musk Rips Into Liz Warren As “Senator Karen” After Freeloading Accusations

Woke Mob Comes for Professor Who Opposes Left-Wing Social Values

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George Cove, a forgotten solar power pioneer, may have built a highly efficient photovoltaic panel 40 years before Bell Labs engineers invented silicon cells. If proven to work, his design could lead to less complex and more sustainable solar panels.

Tyler Cowen.

Why are the most attractive urban residential areas the ones that were built decades or even centuries ago?

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Imagine this scenario: In response to rising crime, retail gang theft, and outbreaks of violence at concerts and sporting events; a Government decree went out declaring that entry to shopping centers and public events would be denied to anyone who did not have a Government-issued “Crime Passport” confirming that they had no criminal history. Air travel would also be denied to those who did not have a “Crime Passport,” in the interest of protecting the safety of air travelers.

Explain to me why this would be wrong, but the “Vaccine Passports” being mandated in urban areas like Philadelphia are OK.

I like it. It has texture, and scope.

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Dozens of fragile libs have canceled their subscriptions to the Atlantic after the storied media outlet published a guest column by Washington Free Beacon alum Matthew Walther.

The libs were triggered by Walther’s suggestion that “outside the world inhabited by the professional and managerial classes in a handful of major metropolitan areas, many, if not most, Americans are leading their lives as if COVID is over.” As anticipated, the professional and managerial classes seethed with rage on Twitter, aghast at the Atlantic for daring to publish Walther’s “nihilistic, genocidal” opinion.

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The moose was visible because the car’s high-beam assist feature, which determines when it’s safe to use high beam without dazzling oncoming traffic, had decided to activate high beam.

But the system suddenly disengaged high beam and switched to low beam, for no obvious reason. There was no oncoming traffic and the system shouldn’t react to the reflective markings since they’ve been visible by the side of the road all along.

Right when high beam is needed the most, the car switches to low beam. And it keeps switching, as you can see in the clip.

Hammer tech.

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t is often said that life imitates art, and these days that is particularly true on the mean streets of our major cities. Violent criminals just keep getting more brazen, and murder rates are soaring all over the nation. As you will see below, one official in Los Angeles is actually comparing what is now happening to a horror movie that came out a number of years ago called “The Purge”.

But in that movie, violent criminals only had one night each year to run wild. Unfortunately, in America today they are running wild every single night.

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Flying cars are still the stuff of Jetsonian dreams, but self-driving cars are already here. But these semi-autonomous vehicles come with a host of issues. For instance, they must be able to deal with the erratic driving behaviors of humans, as well as unexpected obstacles on the road, such as a wild deer crossing the highway. But a critical though lesser discussed problem associated with self-driving cars involves surveillance. These vehicles look likely to be used as surveillance tools, closely monitoring our every move. Worse still, China, a country that has expanded mass surveillance and integrated it into every part of Chinese life, is leading the self-driving revolution.

“Self-driving cars will represent a new mode for surveillance,” says Luis F. Alvarez León, an assistant professor of geography at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. “Through a self-driving car’s global positioning, system, navigational tools, and other data collection mechanisms, companies will be able to gain access to highly contextual data about passengers’ habits, routines, movements, and preferences.” According to León, whose research interests center around “the geographic, political, and regulatory dimensions of the informational and digital economy,” driverless vehicles provide companies with veritable treasure chests of “personal, locational, and financial data.” In turn, such data can be instantly leveraged and mercilessly monetized.

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Georgia ranks at the top among states for the strongest laws in the nation to guarantee honest elections, while Hawaii ranks at the bottom, according to a new Election Integrity Scorecard from The Heritage Foundation.

Heritage’s scorecard measures all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on a dozen election-related categories.