At Texas rally, Trump all but promised a racially charged civil war if he’s indicted (Philadelphia Inquirer) In the Narrative Media, ‘all but’ means ‘didn’t really’.

MSNBC deletes tweet slamming conservatives for favoring affirmative action when it benefits them

SNL’s Michael Che Earns Groans Mocking Biden’s Vow to Put Black Woman on SCOTUS (Daily Beast)

CNN’s Jim Acosta Relishes Marjorie Taylor Greene Being Told Trump Lost (Newsweek)

Trump’s rally in Texas can ignore his fake electors scandal. The Jan. 6 committee won’t. (NBC) Even if they have to make it all up.

Coups are making a comeback (Axios)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Is Pushing Republicans Across the Country to the Extreme Right (Daily Beast) There is no Right but the Extreme Right.

Watch: CNN Labels Rogan’s Millions Of Listeners As “Less Enlightened” Than Their Few Thousand Viewers

Rogan Responds to Spotify Outrage, Hammers Misinfo Censorship Hypocrisy

CBS Demands ‘Dangerous’ Rogan Be Censored Despite Claiming to Support ‘Free Speech’

Georgetown Puts Ilya Shapiro on Administrative Leave for Criticizing Biden Supreme Court Promise

What’s Driving the Witch Hunt Against Joe Rogan

Warming Trends: Cooling Off Urban Heat Islands, Surviving Climate Disasters and Tracking Where Your Social Media Comes From (InsideClimate News)

Bjorn Lomborg on Climate Change Alarmism, Prolonged Energy Crisis

Amid climate crisis, California city might build a gas plant (L.A. Times)

I Spent 12 Years in the Marines. The Inaction on Climate Change Shocks Me (Newsweek)

The Smart People Have Another Way To Save The Planet: Demand That Public Companies Reduce Their Emissions  Since that works every time.

Blizzard? ‘This is global warming, actually’: Here we go again: ‘Climate change can be linked to this nor’easter’

Polar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station  Next step: Applying for government benefits.

Driverless cars won’t be good for the environment if they lead to more auto use

Facebook Spamming Climate Posts with “Climate Science Center” Propaganda

If everyone were vegan, only a quarter of current farmland would be needed (The Economist) So what? Are we running short of farmland?

Nurse Steals Lottery Tickets After Store Clerk Shot Dead by Robbers: Police  Who says black people aren’t entrepreneurial?

Fulton County district attorney asks for FBI’s help with security as Trump investigation continues (CNN) Witch-hunting is hard!

Parents struggle after monthly child tax credit payments end (CNN)  No mention of the father(s) of her children, the youngest of whom is 4 months old. Just another case of virgin birth, I guess.

Race-Based Rationing Is Real–and Dangerous

Seattle Planned on Giving Police Station to Black Lives Matter

Whoopi: ‘The Holocaust Isn’t About Race,’ Just ‘Two White Groups’ Uh, the Nazis sure thought it was about race.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Removes ‘White Supremacist’ Gesture for Husker Mascot  Dogs are racist!

Explainer: Scientists on alert over rising cases caused by Omicron cousin BA.2 (Reuters) The latest reason to PANIC!

More musicians join Neil Young in demanding Spotify remove their content over covid misinformation (Washington Post)

Rock stars vs. COVID lies: We hope Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have started a thing (Miami Herald)

White House warns that January’s omicron spike could weigh on next week’s jobs data (CNBC)

Nova Scotia outlaws support on highway for ‘freedom’ truckers days after massive protest

North Carolina man would rather ‘die free’ than get vaccine needed for life-saving transplant

‘Like sewage and rotting flesh’: Covid’s lasting impact on taste and smell (The Guardian) Yet another reason to PANIC!

Another Aging Lefty Rocker Is Attacking Joe Rogan and Spotify

UnSAGE Covid Jeremiahs

Smearing the Truckers

Acosta & Guest Compare Unvaccinated to Committing Human Sacrifices

The Revolution Has Begun

Shoot the Anti-Vaxers!

“Think Twice Before You Vaccinate Your Kids”, Dr. Robert Malone Warns Parents On COVID-19 Shots

Socialists Condemn Workers Of The World For Uniting  Babylon Bee.

Loudoun County Threatens To Suspend Maskless Students  Tine to leave.

Social Elites, Politicians Party Maskless At NFC Championship Game  Rules are for thee but not for me.

Disturbing: NY Times Loves Principal Harassing Students Over Vaccinations

California Dems Violate Their Own Mask Mandate at NFL Playoff Game

Unmasked Students Face Immediate Suspension From Loudoun County Public Schools  Time to leave.

Shoplifting kills a Rite Aid — and maybe Manhattan’s comeback chances

Youngkin sparks Democratic backlash in Virginia (The Hill) Oh, ya think?

Composting 101: How to figure out what’s happening in your community (L.A. Times) Dealing with California’s new Food Waste Rules.

Democracy remains under threat. Here is one thing that Congress still might do. (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Just how imperiled is America’s democracy? A Q&A with the Brennan Center’s Michael Waldman. (CNN) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

MSNBC: Decrease Big City Crime Waves, But Don’t Be Like Rudy Giuliani!

Scientific tyranny has captured America

If Unrest Soars In America Will Looters Be Shot?  Sometimes the old ways are best.

Washington Dem Breaks Campaign Promise, Takes Cash From Pelosi

Waymo sues California’s DMV to block autonomous car crash data from publication

BBC censors its own archives

Big Tech SMASHED Records, Spent $55M on Lobbying Last Year

‘It Could Get a Lot Worse’: Dem Super PAC Unveils Midterm Messaging Strategy

Uyghurs Call For Viewer Boycott of ‘Genocide’ Olympics; NYT Aids China’s Propaganda

Nancy Pelosi’s Son Becomes Subject Of Sixth FBI Investigation

Federally Funded Cultural Institutions Partner With Chinese Embassy

Poll: Most Americans want Biden to consider ‘all nominees’ in Supreme Court pick

The next North Korea crisis has begun

Ridiculous New York Times Spins Biden Cursing at Doocy as ‘Heart-Warming Civic Moment’

76% Of Americans Oppose Biden’s Pledge Only To Consider Black Women For Court Vacancy; ABC/Ipsos Poll  It’s just another example of Biden being a hard-left dick.

These Are the Shocking Border Stories the Networks Don’t Want You to Know About

White House Afraid To Replace HHS Secretary Because He’s Hispanic

Biden Asks Federal Reserve To Just Print Him More Approval Points

Harris Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day by Attending Inauguration of Honduran Anti-Semite

Report: White House Rages at COVID-Cautious DNC Chair

Conservative Coalition Urges Senate To Reject Biden’s FCC Nominee Over ‘Questionable Ethics’

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Chelsea Clinton wants to talk about grifting. That’s just great.

The fruit, apparently, doesn’t fall that far from the global elitist narrative tree.

Perhaps looking to ride the coattails of those ganging up on “controversial anti-vaxx misinformation” (read: any uttered thought not handed down by Dr. Anthony Fauci from the heavens above) or perhaps looking to drum up support by her Twitter sycophants, Chelsea Clinton took to her Twitter account last week to lash out at Substack for providing a platform for free speech and for people to voluntarily subscribe to newsletters they’re interested in and willing to pay for.

Wow, sounds nefarious, Chelsea! Glad you stepped in.

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I’m curious as to why UAE aren’t just carpet-bombing Houthi areas in Yemen. They’ve got sufficient cause, and all that oil money ought to be worth something militarily.

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The Taliban is moving to cash in on Afghanistan’s stockpile of highly coveted rare earth minerals, including lithium and uranium, which can be used to power weapons.

In the latest issue of its Arabic language monthly magazine Al-Somood the Taliban details its “Campaign to build the Islamic emirate,” according to a translation of the article by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which tracks extremist groups.

Since taking control of Afghanistan following the Biden administration’s deadly evacuation from the war-torn country, the Taliban has worked to create a “jihadi army” and establish itself in the lucrative trade of rare earth minerals, which could provide the terror group with cash from countries such as China that are heavily invested in that sector.

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Concur.  I have never understood why we have separate insurance plans for dental and vision.

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

The old paleo-conservative gag about the demand for Nazis exceeding the available supply has become something of an iron law of the universe. Each generation discovers that the American Left is obsessed with fascists, white supremacists, the Klan and so on, despite these things no longer being real. Other than some cartoonish play-acting by those desperate for attention, these things are no longer real. They certainly play no role in politics or the general culture.

The lack of supply, however, has been no deterrence, especially now that the internet allows people to create these reality from thin air. The intensively on-line far-left invests all of its time finding someone they can label as the bogeyman or one the many members of the bogeyman army. The Antifa subculture, for example, is organized around the hunt for fascists and white supremacists. They spend all day looking for new baddies and obsessing over the prior baddies.

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The remedy was a new type of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) called “Stanford neuromodulation therapy.” By adding imaging technology to the treatment and upping the dose of rTMS, scientists have developed an approach that’s more effective and works more than eight times faster than the current approved treatment.

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Caste-oppressed students, who mostly hail from South Asian immigrant and diaspora backgrounds, say that casteism tends to manifest in US colleges and universities through slurs, microaggressions and social exclusion. But because these dynamics play out within these minority communities, most other Americans have little understanding of how they operate — leaving these students, many of whom refer to themselves as Dalits, without recourse.

And, of course, every tender young hurt feeling MUST have a recourse.

The Antiplanner pointedly refrains from saying I Told You So.

Just when the infrastructure issue seemed to be settled for awhile, the failure of the 52-year-old Fern Hollow bridge in Pittsburgh has reawakened it, especially as the collapse took place just a few hours before President Biden was scheduled to speak in Pittsburgh. “I hope it’s a wake-up call to the nation that we need to make these infrastructure investments,” Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman told local reporters.

No one yet knows why the bridge collapsed, but numerous media reports say that it was rated to be in poor condition. Inspection reports reveal, however, that the part of the bridge in poor condition was its superstructure while its substructure was considered “satisfactory.” Bad substructure may cause a bridge to collapse, but not, generally, bad superstructure. A 2017 inspection concluded that the bridge “meets minimum tolerable limits to be left in place as is.” As a result, the bridge wasn’t scheduled to be repaired or replaced under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

The bridge collapsed between 6 am and 7 am on Friday as it was being crossed by an articulated 60-seat bus. These buses weigh a little more than 20 tons, which should not have been enough to collapse the bridge. The good new is hardly anyone rides transit anymore, so this 56-seat bus was occupied by just two passengers and the driver. Several automobiles were also on the bridge when it collapsed. A few people were hospitalized, but none with life-threatening injuries.

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Today’s cars are dumb where they should be smart, and smart where they should be dumb. Enough already. Make a car that’s pretty much all dumb and watch it sell — because what automakers are giving people is so bad, they’ll pay more to have less of it.

Cars now are like budget smartphones with wheels: loaded with bloatware, unintuitive and slow to operate. Carmakers have always struggled with user interfaces, but until recently the biggest problem we had was “too many knobs.” How I long for those days!

The proliferation of touchscreens and LCDs has made every car feel like a karaoke booth. Animations show reclaimed energy from braking, the speedometer changes color as you approach the limit, the fan speed and direction is under three menus. And besides being non-functional, these interfaces are even ugly! The type, the layouts, and animations scream “designed by committee and approved by someone who doesn’t have to use it.”

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We live in an explainer age. Pundits, bloggers, TV hosts, professors, journalists, and scientists love to explain why whatever is happening is happening.

Visit the New York Times, for example, and you’ll find articles explaining who Boris Johnson really is, why kids are behind in school (no great mystery there) and how to help them, and why the Omicron variant of COVID-19 really isn’t milder. The Atlantic, which loves to explain things, too, also has an article on why “Calling Omicron ‘Mild’ Is Wishful Thinking.” Wondering “Why Making Friends in Midlife Is So Hard”? The Atlantic has an answer for you. Curious about “The Real Reason Americans Aren’t Isolating”? The Atlantic can explain that, too, and answer pretty much any question you might have, including how to ask better questions.

Trump teases a presidential run and dangles pardons for January 6 rioters at Texas rally (CNN) I suspect that Trump is just yanking their chains.

Trump says he’ll treat Jan. 6 rioters ‘fairly’ if reelected: ‘If it requires pardons, we will give them pardons’ (The Hill) Recognizing that this is a witch-hunt and promising justice.

Inside the Truly Warped World of Texas Lt. Gov’s Radio Station (Daily Beast)

Michigan Trump Supporter Bound for Court, Charged in Attempt to Tamper With Voting Machine (Newsweek)

Youngkin’s ‘tip line’ to snitch on teachers suffers from this, too (Washington Post)

Youngkin’s CRT tip line in Virginia triggering Dems, teachers: ‘It’s scaring people to death’  Guess they don’t like being treated the way they treat others.

Do Republicans love Donald Trump as they once did? (Washington Post)

Trump facing legal, political headwinds as he eyes comeback (Associated Press)

Donald Trump Arrives for Texas Rally as Jan. 6 Probe Closes in on Family, Inner Circle (Newsweek) Closes in!

Trump Tower Lawyer Veselnitskaya Accused of Brand New Crime in Leaked Docs (Daily Beast)

Hysterical NY Times Frets Over Country Star Morgan Wallen, Bigoted Fans

The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship  Glenn Greenwald.

Mother Jones: the Whole World Is Hating on Joe Manchin

Washington State Bill Causes 1A Concerns

How the fossil fuel industry is pushing plastics on the world (CNBC)

Can we sue our way to climate action? (The Hill)

How to Win More Global Warming Lawsuits (Washington Post)

How cold is it in Miami? It’s so cold that ‘falling iguanas’ are forecast (CNN)

What Indigenous people can teach us about fighting climate change (CNBC)

How our environment is making us sick – and what we can do about it (New Scientist)

These are the worst foods for your health, experts say Everything you like is bad for you.

“The Elites Don’t Care About The Temperature Rising, They Care About Usurping Control”: George Gammon

Greens Demonizing Greenhouse Gas Emitting Gas Cookers  Better you should use electricity generated by coal-fired plants.

Border agents slam Biden migrant flights during visit from Raul Ortiz, Alejandro Mayorkas

Border Patrol agents get into heated exchange with leadership during Mayorkas visit, leaked video shows

Progressive Dems Distance Themselves As Biden Turns Radioactive

Biden Promises To Replace Retiring Quarterback Tom Brady With A Woman Of Color  Babylon Bee.

Trouble in Paradise: ABC Leads with Poll Showing Disastrous Numbers for Biden Agenda

‘Air Biden’: Midnight Flights Bring Illegals From Border, and It’s ‘Racist’ to Notice

Here’s Why US Truckers Staging Convoy To DC Will Face Soaring Diesel Prices

Biden’s Bad Bet on Race

Here’s when omicron antibodies from the Moderna booster shot start to disappear (Deseret News)

Studies Show Boosted Immunity Against Omicron with Booster Doses (FactCheck.org)

What is NeoCoV? This mysterious virus is spreading (again) among bats in South Africa (Deseret News) Yet another reason to PANIC!

A new COVID-19 variant surge ‘will happen again,’ experts say (Deseret News) I think that’s a safe bet.

New Yorkers refuse to let go of COVID restrictions — even as Omicron wanes

The shadow pandemic: Antibiotic resistance is growing (Washington Post)

Former CDC Director: Fauci-Shaped Paper On Origins Of COVID-19 ‘Antithetical To Science’

NY Nurses Arrested After Selling $1.5 Million In Fake Vaccine Cards  Hey, it’s New York.

With Luck, Covid Will Soon No Longer be a Chronic Crisis But Might Still Revert to an Acute One

Elites Vs. Blue collar, or Maybe Canada’s Yellow Vest Day: Here’s What the Media Won’t Say About the Truckers Convoy

Denmark Is First EU Country To Scrap All COVID Restrictions

Corporate Media And Big Tech Align Against #FreedomConvoy

T-Mobile To Fire All Unvaccinated Corporate Staff By April

Speech Therapist: 364% Surge In Baby And Toddler Referrals Thanks To Mask Wearing

Do Lockdowns Work? The Numbers Say No

How we ended up with the ‘Pregnant Man’ Emoji

California city named for Confederate general declines to change name

LA area city council member pushes to ditch liberal DA because he’s ‘not doing his job’

Less Than Half Of Americans Trust Business “To Do The Right Thing”  Gee, I wonder why?

The Unnatural Herstory Museum

Noisy In Boise: NPR Airs Badly Disguised Abortion Infomercial from Idaho

Tolerance for Risk May Contribute to Gender Pay Gap

WaPo: the Next Normal: States Will Recognize Multiparent Families

One Georgia school system will hand MacBook Air or iPad to every student  Many of whom will sell them and then claim that they were lost or stolen so as to receive a new one. (Doughtery County in Georgia is 69% black.) Rinse, repeat.

BLM transferred millions to Canadian charity to buy mansion formerly owned by Communist Party: report

MSNBC Regular on Biden SCOTUS Pick: ‘I’m For Everybody Black’

Google Is Powered by Racist, Misogynist Algorithms, Says MacArthur Fellow

Capehart: Unnamed SCOTUS Pick Will Be ‘More Brilliant’ Than the Rest, Because, Racism!

Yes, Black Lives Matters Was a Scam

Stelter: Fox is Starting a Fight Over SCOTUS ‘Rooted in White Identity Politics’  I can’t think of anybody whiter than Pudge Stelter.

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If your wallet gets stolen, this facilitates identity fraud like you wouldn’t believe.

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The reason rural America had a lot of small towns is because rural America had a lot of small farms. That is no longer the case.

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Not with the shitty rail network we have today.

For the last 200 years, freight trains haven’t changed much; massive locomotives still move relatively dumb freight cars. Certainly, rail fans could argue that plenty has changed—they’re not wrong!—but from a distance, trains work pretty much the same today as they did in the 1800s.

Guess how heavily the rail networks are regulated.

Whether their bet pays off will hinge on whether freight railroads and their customers will buy into a new way of operating. Parallel Systems isn’t just taking an existing freight train and swapping its diesel-electric locomotive for a battery version. Instead, it’s taking the traction motors and distributing them to every car on the train. It’s how many electric passenger trains operate, but it’s a system that has been slow to migrate to the freight world.

Guess why. (Guess how heavily the rail networks are regulated.)

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The continuing saga of the piece of shit that is the F-35.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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An autonomous surgery robot is now one step closer to hospital operating rooms, having performed a tricky medical procedure on live pigs — and done it even better than a human surgeon could.

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Not to be confused with the One True Roy.

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Nebraska state Sen. Steve Halloran (R), the resolution’s sponsor, said in an email to Newsweek he pushed it because “it is evident that Congress cannot control its runaway spending,” noting the significant increase of the national debt under presidencies of both political parties.

“Additionally, over time the federal government has exceeded its constitutional authority, taking too much authority from the States,” Halloran, of Hastings, said. “The States need to exercise their constitutional authority by proposing amendments through an Article V Convention of States to restrain the federal government from driving our country into insolvency.”

CDC director says mild COVID symptoms doesn’t mean they’re mild (Deseret News) You still need to PANIC!

Omicron Drives US Deaths Higher Than In Fall’s Delta Wave (Huffington Post) So you’d still better PANIC!

11 Things To Know About Where To Get Free N95 Masks And How To Use Them (BuzzFeed) ‘Free’ of course, only for certain Democrat values of ‘free’.

No more boosters? How an Army pan-coronavirus vaccine could wipe out COVID pandemics (CNET)

Africa may have reached the pandemic’s holy grail (NPR)

Omicron subtype has apparent transmission advantage – UKHSA (Reuters) So it would be best to PANIC!

‘So broken down’: Teachers, students and families caught in the middle of Youngkin’s mask order (Washington Post)

Truckers Across Planet Unite In Convoys Against Medical Tyranny

Minor League Baseball Teams Follow Trend of Relaxing COVID Protocols

Vitamin D supplementation reduces autoimmune disease risk in trial findings

Pension Agency Latest to Track Exemptions From COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Marines Reject COVID Vaccine Exemptions, Potentially Forcing Thousands Out of Service

Public Health ‘Experts’ Have A New COVID Boogeyman Called “Stealth” Omicron

Vaccine Mandate ‘Feels Like Coercion,’ Says Boston Teacher Who Fears Being Fired

Florida Trucker In Canada Convoy: “We’re Here To Join A Movement”

“It’s 70km Long!” – World’s Largest Truck Convoy Arrives In Ottawa To Challenge Trudeau’s Vaxx-Mandate

“The Virus Stops With Every Vaccinated Person” – Eight Quotes From The ‘Experts’ That Aged Horribly

Committee investigating Jan. 6 attack issues subpoenas to 14 bogus Trump electors in states Biden won (Washington Post)

‘How can this not be a crime?’ Blackwell on fake electors plot (CNN)

Trump WH spokesman is sent subpoena by January 6 committee (CNN)

Sarah Palin gets assist from ex-NHL star Ron Duguay after pestered at NYC restaurant

Twitter says it has quit taking action against lies about the 2020 election (CNN)

In J.D. Vance’s primary, nonstop Trump-worship shows the perils of populism (Washington Post)

South Carolina university admissions counselor says Republican applicants are part of an ‘oppressive group’

Kimmel Jokes Trump Jr. Is Crack Addict as He’d ‘Snort…Powdered Sugar’ at Dunkin’  Apparently he has Trump confused with Hunter Biden.

Behar Responds to Criticism of Bigotry Against Justices Thomas, Barrett

Pucker Up, Bette: West Virginia Governor Tells Haters To Kiss His Dog’s Heinie

Louisville Police Department Pays $75K to Pro-Life Cop

Surprise! Hollywood Awards Finally Recognize Non-Woke ‘Yellowstone’

Bill Maher Fires Back At Those Who Say His Politics Have Changed, Blames Looney Left Policies

‘Be thankful you don’t have our poison’: US pollster Frank Luntz’s warning to UK (The Guardian)

Why are so many San Franciscans moving to Montana? (San Francisco Chronicle)

Jim Acosta’s foray into CNN’s primetime lineup struggles to attract viewers

Democrats Clarify They’re Only Pro-Choice About Killing Kids, Not About Where They Attend School  Babylon Bee.

‘Life’s a Mitch,’ Acosta Whines About ‘Hard-Right’ Supreme Court

Soros Dark Money Helps Fund 23 Leftist DAs to the Tune of $29M

It’s Not Government’s Job to ‘Root Out’ Misinformation

Trudeau Claims Truckers Only Hate Him Because He’s Black  Babylon Bee.

PolitiFact Bungles ‘Mostly False’ Claim on Winsome Sears and CRT, Refuses to Budge

Meet Alvin Bragg, Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in Manhattan

Lax Prosecution Contributing To LA Cargo Theft Surge, Experts Say

George Soros Pledges ‘Unprecedented’ $125 Million To Help Democrats Win In November

The Fight Over What Children Learn

Signs of Dystopia in the Seattle area

Instagram Bans Healthy Eating Ads for Promoting ‘Negative Self-Perception’

New Jersey And New York Ranked ‘Worst States To Retire’

Rep. McCaul calls out Biden admin over migrant flights, border cover-up: ‘Enough is enough’

Biden Seen Looking At Paint Color Swatches To Choose Next Supreme Court Justice  Babylon Bee.

Elon Musk Calls Biden “Damp Sock Puppet”, Says He Is “Treating The American Public Like Fools”  So far, successfully.

Traveler Having Trouble Finding Luggage Among Scores Of Illegal Immigrants On Baggage Claim Carousel  Babylon Bee.

Joe Biden Beats Out Brussels Sprouts For America’s Least Favorite Vegetable  Babylon Bee.

Plano Police Arrest Adrien Javon Grant, 29, Accused Of Shooting Jesaias Hiram Nieves

Race-Baiting Media Blast NFL Teams For Not Hiring KC Assistant Coach

New York Releases Rapper Arrested for Shooting Cop

Climate Change Is Waycist!

The Snow Hits the Fan on Saturday: Global Warming Alarmism to Follow

How California’s rooftop solar program became a victim of its own spectacular success (L.A. Times)

Environmental justice in the balance (The Economist) There’s that new buzzword ‘environmental justice’ again.

Biden’s focus on environmental justice led to a year of progress — and burnout (Washington Post)

How Biden Can Use the Ocean to Fight Climate Change (Politico)

West accused of ‘climate hypocrisy’ as emissions dwarf those of poor countries (The Guardian)

Here’s why EV charging infrastructure is an opportunity for utilities – and how sticking with fossil fuels could make them obsolete (Electrek)

Obama Judge Throws Out GOM Lease Sale

“Pulling The Plug”: After Multiple Recalls, GM May Be On The Verge Of Ending Production Of Its Chevy Bolt

No Change in Precipitation in Austria in 140 Years

Inside the International Effort to Save One Tiny Mexican Fish

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An Israeli arms firm, Smart Shooter, has developed SMASH Dragon, an armed hexacopter that carries a stabilized gun platform that can be armed with a 5.56mm assault rifle or a 7.62mm sniper rifle. SMASH Dragon uses the same SMASH 2000 computerized rifle scope Smart Shooter introduced in 2018, but with addition of a new digital camera with zoom that enables the operator to search for and identify targets at longer ranges day or night, or set the system to automatically scan for certain types of targets. Armed with the 7.62mm rifle, SMASH Dragon can hit stationary targets over 300 meters distant with the first shot. Against moving quadcopters or fixed wing UAVs that range is closer to 200 meters. The hexacopter (six rotor motors instead of four on a quadcopter) can carry a payload of up to 10 kg (22 pounds). The rifles are equipped with larger magazines to reduce the frequency of landing the hexacopter to reload. Both the weapons system and hexacopter are battery operated, which limits flight time to under 60 minutes before a recharge is needed. There is also SMASH Hopper, a 15 kg (33 pound) version that can be mounted on vehicles or stationary platforms.

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Green mechanical climate salvation schemes have killed whales, paralysed crabs, murdered entire forests and incinerated and smashed who knows how many birds from the sky. Now its time to finish the job, by sucking all the life giving CO2 from the atmosphere.

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The latest improbable Democratic champion, Representative Liz Cheney, just about said the quiet part out loud: her January 6 Committee has the singular goal of pre-defeating Trump ahead of any voting in 2024.

As it becomes clearer that the Committee is failing in its propaganda campaign to get Republican power brokers to dump Trump, and as it is near crystalline that the Committee will not find evidence leading to formal prosecution of Trump for sedition, treason, or insurrection, they are getting desperate. The latest? Purposefully misinterpreting an obscure phrase from a post-Civil War constitutional amendment.

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A new court filing by special counsel John Durham reveals that Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz concealed crucial information from Durham in connection with the ongoing prosecution of Michael Sussmann, a former attorney to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The Crust takes care of its own.

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A Pennsylvania court ruled on Friday that the state’s two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, siding with Republicans who challenged the law following the 2020 election.

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The discovery may actually signal good news for both species, experts say.

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Two people-watching episodes this past week brought into focus the real crisis in public health. WuFlu is not a public health crisis, in itself. Rather the grossly politicized exploitation of this novel respiratory disease virus, in service of the lab coat left system, advocated by Woodrow Wilson in the late 1890s and starkly warned of in President Eisenhower’s farewell address, has corrupted and effectively silenced real public health advocacy. Consider two real public health perennial campaigns, largely lost in the noise of COVID exploitation.

I was in my local veteran’s organization canteen (bar) last weekend, having counted the money and updated the bookkeeping. A woman in her 40s had a cough. Her comment: “it is just a smoker’s cough.” That statement called to mind a much younger veteran, a man in his late 20s, coming in after the previous night’s partying with a heavy cough as he went to the cigarette machine for another pack. We have known, since at least the late 1950s, that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and a host of other very unpleasant long-term ailments. COPD, anyone? Listen to old-time radio and you will hear the cigarette companies in the late 1940s, early 1950s, assuring you that doctors attested that their customers experienced no throat irritation from smoking their product.

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Dr. Ben Carson said Thursday that he feels “sorry” for Anthony Fauci, who the former neurosurgeon says is being forced to take scientific positions that he knows are false.

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Not a parady, so far as I can tell. (But who knows these days?)

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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute is irrationally hostile towards China and has unprecedented influence over Australian defence policy.

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While doing homework on the Army – McCarthy hearings, I was reminded of two things that seem to come up regularly. One is that the people causing the mayhem in our society are lacking in self-awareness. The term McCarthyism has dropped out of use of late, I cover this in the show, but most people are old enough to remember when it was popular and what it meant. The new McCarthyites are totally unaware of that rather easy comparison between themselves and McCarthy.