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A Japanese research team said it developed a vaccine to remove so-called zombie cells that accumulate with age and damage nearby cells, causing aging-related diseases including arterial stiffening.

The Other McCain is on the case.

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Justice Breyer pulled out a pocket constitution at his White House appearance today. Turns out it was the copy that Justice Breyer received when he entered Harvard Law School in 1964. The copy is pristine — never opened, never thumbed through. None of the cases he heard at the Supreme Court ever required him to consult it. It will make a great exhibit in his museum display someday.

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4,901 more people were murdered last year than in 2019. The 30% increase in murders during the year of Black Lives Matter and criminal justice reform was catastrophic. And it’s not over.

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U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg has boxed herself into a dilemma.

She has kept a report on a theoretical voting machine flaw—authored by a respected computer researcher—secret since last summer, citing concerns that releasing the report would fuel conspiracy theories about voting machines and the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

But her attempts at preventing conspiracy theories has fueled those theories anyway. And now, she has Georgia’s top elections official, Brad Raffensberger, urging her to make the report public.

Sister of Nina Totenberg, famous liar legal correspondent for CNN.

Vaccine Risk? What Vaccine Risk?

4 symptoms that mean you’ll likely get long COVID (Deseret News) So feel free to PANIC!

Long COVID-19: Study author explains four factors that can predict how you get it (The Hill)

Is it time for Fauci to exit the stage? (Washington Post) He’s become a liability, so it’s time to throw him off the sled.

Tucker Carlson airs his most dishonest and dangerous pandemic segment yet (Washington Post) Tucker must be getting close to home.

Florida Doctor: Families Sneak Ivermectin To Loved Ones In Hospitals With COVID-19, See Improvement

Doctor’s Organization Has Treated Over 150,000 COVID-19 Patients With 99.99% Survival

The Numbers Don’t Lie

We all broke lockdown, and we should have broken it more

How an Anonymous Reporting System Made Yale a COVID ‘Surveillance State’

Monoclonal Antibodies and FDA Emergency Use

Denmark Scraps All COVID Restrictions

Myocarditis Cases Reported After mRNA-Based Covid-19 Vaccination

FDA Asks Court To Delay First 55K Batch Of COVID Docs; Pfizer Moves To Join Case  What are they trying to hide? the SCIENCE?

Taibbi: The Folly Of Pandemic Censorship

The case against masks at school

The COVID-19 Impact of Expressive Individualism

5 Florida Teachers Removed for Refusing to Wear Masks

Nearly 40% Of All Illinois COVID Deaths In The Last Month Are Breakthroughs. What Gives?

Chinese Scientists From Wuhan Discover “Potentially Deadly” New Strain Of Coronavirus

Trudeau Slams “Unacceptable Views” Of Anti-Vaxx Truckers, GoFundMe Blocks Access To ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donations

Fact-Checkers Are Used To Confuse The Public: Sharyl Attkisson

Hall of Fame excludes Curt Schilling due to his politics

Gov. Hochul puts Manhattan DA Bragg on notice over soft-on-crime policies

MSNBC’s Joy Reid: Biden ‘has a point’ to complain about the media: Journalists obsess with ‘conflict’

Record Levels of Gun Violence and the Democrats’ Dilemma (The New Yorker) How to spin the fact that ‘gun violence’ is the direct result of Democrat policies.

Michael Rapaport films alleged shoplifter boldly robbing an NYC Rite Aid  Walked out right by a ‘security guard’, who didn’t lift a finger.

NYPD Reports Shoplifting Levels Not Seen In Nearly 30 Years As Organized Retail Crime Ramps Up Nationwide (New York Magazine)

Gov. Hochul won’t ‘cave to pressure’ as NYC Mayor Adams calls for bail changes

The $100 Million Latinx Bomb

Harm reduction vending machines are coming to New York

Sick Cities and Why Progressives Ruin Them

Meet Brian Williams’ Replacement: The Worst of Stephanie Ruhle

Poll: White Liberals 9 Times More Likely Than Hispanics To Use ‘Latinx’

Climate change is coming for our coffee (CNN)

Climate change: Key crops face major shifts as world warms (BBC)

Why we’re slow-walking the transition to clean energy and how to fix it (The Hill)

Rocketing demand for fossil fuels could deal blow to climate goals, report says (The Guardian) Gee, I wonder why?

EPA acts on environmental justice in 3 Gulf Coast states (NBC) There’s that new ‘environmental justice’ buzzword again.

Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse – it’s accelerating it (The Guardian)

In major reversal, Arizona utility regulators kill 100% clean-energy rules in the state

The climate solution in California’s compost and crops (The Verge)

Why doesn’t every big box store have rooftop solar?’ (Salon) Perhaps because it’s not cost-effective?

Baltimore Big Oil Climate Lawsuit Moves Forward

Why Environmentalists Pose a Bigger Obstacle to Effective Climate Policy than Denialists

Statistical Analysis Can Provide Evidence That the Official Australian Acornsat 2.1 Temperature Analysis Has Added Non-Climatic Warming to The Record, 1910 To 2019.

YouTube’s Trending Music List Suppresses Rappers’ Critique of Leftism

Michigan Mom Repeatedly Uses Racial Slur During School Board Meeting Turns out she was quoting, but that doesn’t matter – you use it, you lose it.  Unless you’re black, of course, in which case it’s alright.

Lemon weighs in on Joe Rogan and White guest’s definition of Black (CNN) Don Lemon looks pretty white to me.

NY Dem Councilwoman Still Wants To Abolish Police After Cop Killings in Neighborhood

Exclusive: The Babylon Bee Has Obtained Biden’s List Of Possible SCOTUS Nominees

Fact Sheet: A Year Advancing Environmental Justice (The White House)

Fewer Than 300 Asylum Seekers Enrolled in ‘Remain in Mexico’ After Biden Gutted Policy

Morning Joe Makes Excuses for Biden’s Pitiful Polling Numbers

STUDY: PolitiFact Is Almost 6 Times More Likely to Defend Biden Than Check His Facts

Biden Reminds Everyone That Black Justices Can Be Just As Smart As Rich Ones  Babylon Bee.

Biden Commits To Picking A Diversity Hire For SCOTUS Since That Worked So Well With His VP  Babylon Bee.

Chuck Todd Hails Biden’s ‘Iconic’ Unnamed SCOTUS Pick: ‘No Red Flags’

Georgetown Law School Lashes Out at Professor Critical of Biden’s Racial Supreme Court Promise

Mitchell, Dem Senators Plot SCOTUS Strategy, Blame McConnell For Polarization

The politics of replacing Breyer

Biden’s Surgeon General Wants Rogan’s Podcast Removed

On Colbert Show, Joy Reid Says Media Isn’t Tough Enough on GOP Never was anyone so egregiously mis-named.

EXCLUSIVE: Government Expands List of Unvaccinated, Now Tracking Both Medical and Religious Exemptions

Ginni Thomas would not be the first Supreme Court spouse to imperil a justice (Washington Post) Which is only a problem during a Narrative Media witch-hunt.

Millions Bummed that It Wasn’t Clarence Thomas (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz is what passes for humor in The New Yorker.

A masterclass in election-rigging: how Republicans ‘dismembered’ a Democratic stronghold (The Guardian)

Dems Storm Out of Testy Confirmation Hearing for DeSantis’ Mad Doc (Daily Beast) High-school journalism at its finest.

Florida surgeon general favorably recommended after Democrats walk out of confirmation hearing (CNN) Disrespecting a Doctor of Color.

Florida Shock Jock in Matt Gaetz Circle Pleads Guilty (Daily Beast) In other news, somebody that Goetz passed on the street one day has been indicted. The walls are closing in!

Civil war expert reacts to Trump supporter. See her warning for the US (CNN) ‘Trump supporters’ are the new COVID.

What would a 2024 Trump coup look like? A new paper offers a worrying answer. (Washington Post)

The Jan. 6 Committee Members Are Patriots Making Sure Treason is Fully Documented (Daily Beast)

Witness Can Confirm Matt Gaetz Was Told He Had Sex With a Minor (Daily Beast) I guess that proves it, then.

Lawmaker on why DeSantis’ surgeon general pick is so dangerous (CNN)

Trump didn’t sign this newly unearthed 2020 election EO. We need to know why. (MSNBC) Perhaps he thought it would be a bad idea. (All Trump! All the time!)

Blaming The Donald for Biden’s Woes

Joe Scarborough’s Violent Fantasy: Will Trump ‘Bleed Out’ Like Boris Johnson?

Anti-Free Speech Left Celebrates Dan Bongino’s YouTube Ban

‘The View’ Accuses Justice Thomas of Being a Race Traitor, ACB Not ‘a Woman’

Left Barely Masks Its Contempt for Parents’ Involvement in Education

Projection: Kimmel, Meyers Falsely Claim GOPers Are Triggered by Biden Attacking Doocy

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Hot a firearm – probably doesn’t come under firearm laws.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

When Democrats aren’t trying to keep children out of school and (not) learning online, or requiring them to wear masks when they’re (not) learning in crappy union-run public schools, they’re trying to warehouse them in government-run universal child care programs.

Universal child care is one of the centerpieces of the Democrats’ BBB Bill (better known as “Biden’s Big Blunder”). Yet the people who scream “follow the science” never seem to take in what several social science studies of early preschool have found.

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Yemen’s Houthi militants have escalated ballistic missile and drone strikes on the United Arab Emirates as part of their war against the Saudi-led coalition that supports Yemen’s internationally recognized government in Yemen’s ongoing civil war.

These continuing Houthi attacks are part of a broader Iranian-orchestrated proxy shadow war against the U.S. and its allies in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Syria, which has escalated in recent weeks.

On Monday, the UAE government announced that its armed forces had shot down two ballistic missiles targeting its capital city, Abu Dhabi, launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, a radical Shia Islamist movement backed by Iran.

Why the Saudis don’t just go into Yemen and clean it out like a gourd has always puzzled me.

(a) Neil Young.

(b) Some homeless guy interrupted pooping on the streets of San Francisco.

(c) Can’t tell the difference.

UPDATE: Report: Strong Spike In Google Searches For ‘Who Is Neil Young’  Babylon Bee.

ZMan does a deep dive.

One of the features of every societal crisis is that the elites of the society stop enforcing the rules of society, especially on themselves. Prior to the collapse of the Roman Republic, the elites started making exceptions to the rules. In the short term they seemed practical, but in the long term these exceptions undermined the moral logic of the rules entirely. Before long, a man in Gaul could decide that the rules no longer applied and he was free to do as he pleased.

This is at the core of the current crisis in the American empire. The rules have become arbitrary with regards to the elite. In turn the elites no longer enforce basic principles that are the foundation of the country. One of the principles is property. It used to be understood that you own the produce of your labor. That was the default and infringement on your ownership had to clear a high bar. Today, the powerful can steal your property without consequence.

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The following video from Italy is the latest in a series showing examples of nano-structures found in vials of experimental mRNA treatments intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus. I don’t know enough about microscopy to confirm that these objects are in fact nanotechnology, much less the self-assembling devices they are alleged to be. However, they are plainly artifacts.

Unlike previous samples shown here, not all of these can be passed off as salt crystals. The final one, in particular, has dome-like protuberances unlike anything I’ve ever seen in crystalline structures. Unless these slides are complete fakes, something weird is going on here.

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WalletHub looked at state resignation rates over the last 12 months based on numbers from the BLS to determine where people are quitting their jobs the most – and the least. Alaska and Wyoming topped the list of quit-heavy states while New York, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia saw the lowest quit rates among workers.

Companies in New York, Pennsylvania and other states with low resignation rates have embraced remote work arrangements more so than employers in rural states, which is one of the biggest factors driving quit levels, Jill Gonzalez, a senior analyst at WalletHub, tells CNBC Make It.

Workers in the food and hospitality industries have been quitting at higher rates than those in other fields – and these industries represent some of the biggest employers in Wyoming, Alaska and more states struggling to retain talent.

Meet the Progressive Frontrunners To Replace Justice Stephen Breyer

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Much of the gentrification has been due to an exodus of people from California and Northeast states, attracted by new jobs and the economic prosperity of a thriving city due to Apple, Amazon, IBM, AT&T, Tesla, and Samsung opening new campuses or expanding operations.

The flurry of high-paying tech jobs in the city has unleashed inflationary forces on the metro area, boosting the cost of living from one of the cheapest in the US to the most expensive in under a decade. Rob Gordon, the manager and real estate agent with the realty company, JBGoodwin, said the city expanded by 160,000 people in the last decade.

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In September 2020, Democratic Senators were unified: No President should nominate a Supreme Court Justice during an election year. With the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, they now face a similar dilemma. Let’s see their positions just 16 months ago.

The fun part is watching then dance around trying to argue that That Was Then This Is Now.

This Silicon Valley city just voted to institute first-in-the-nation gun ownership requirements (CNN) And CNN couldn’t be more delighted.

San Jose approves gun owners liability insurance  It’s going to be difficult checking the liability insurance for carjackers and drive-by shooters.

Reforming the Electoral Count Act is crucial to our democracy. And it must be done on a bipartisan basis. (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’, and ‘bipartisan’ means ‘Republicans knuckle under’.

Watch: Mass Release Of ‘Single Adult Migrants’ Into Small Texas Town

CNN’s Acosta Says New Anti-CRT Law is Making Virginia a ‘Soviet-Style Police State’

Teachers’ Union Taps Liberal Watchdog To Help Students Identify Misinformation
8 Cities That Help Explain National Crime Wave

BREAKING: MSNBC Bizarrely Pretends Retiring Stephen Breyer Is ‘Conservative or Moderate’

Biased NewsGuard Partners With Teachers’ Union to Bring Information War to K-12 Kids

AP Chief Takes Part in Olympic Promo Hosted by CCP Propaganda Department

Vegans are Killing the Planet

Lawsuit alleging oil companies misled public about climate change moves forward

Lawsuit alleging oil companies misled public about climate change moves forward (NPR)

Oil firms accused of scare tactics after claiming climate lawsuits ‘a threat to US’ (The Guardian)

Rising sea levels could submerge major Northern California highway, Caltrans report says (Sacramento Bee) And when it doesn’t happen it will be buried forevermore.

Life in the Arctic: how climate change is killing a culture (The Guardian) Yeah – ours.

Agents of Change in Environmental Justice program accepting applications (Environmental Health News) More money for the Crust.

Activist investors and a ‘greenwashing’ backlash: Change is coming to the corporate world (CNBC)

Giant iceberg releases 152 billion tons of fresh water around remote Atlantic island (The Verge)  And yet the sea hasn’t risen any, or they would have mentioned it.

Lawmaker asks ex-EPA chief why he couldn’t convince Trump climate change is real (The Hill)

Green gaslighting: Another face of climate denialism (Al-Jezeera)

Good Housekeeping: Don’t Have Kids, Because Climate Change  We encourage people who buy into ‘climate change’ not to reproduce.

Southern Ocean storms cause outgassing of carbon dioxide

Australia’s Broken Temperature Record (Part 1)

Washington state school board removes classic novel from curriculum after complaints of racial insensitivity To Kill a Mockingbird is just so RACIST!

Isn’t “Systemic Racism” Particularly Non-Systemic?

Toronto Star: A Hate Crime Has Been Committed by What Must Have Been a White Supremacist with Deep, Scholarly Love of Black History

Pfizer Board Member Suggests End To Mask, Vaccine Mandates We’ve squeezed all of the juice out of this lemon that we’re going to get.

Which pharmacies will have free N-95 masks and when? (Today) And how much will YOU have to  pay for THEIR ‘free’ masks? Ask Joe Biden.

The omicron variant doesn’t lead to ‘classic three’ COVID-19 symptoms (Deseret News) So you’d better PANIC!

The next Covid variant will be more contagious than omicron, but the question is whether it will be more deadly, WHO says (CNBC) But the WHO will be there to help you PANIC!

There’s a new version of omicron but so far it doesn’t appear to be more dangerous (Washington Post) But you’d still better PANIC!

DeSantis Blasts ‘Sudden and Reckless’ Halt on Antibody Drugs Found to Be Ineffective (Daily Beast) They had to put ‘ineffective’ in the headline so you’d know what the Narrative is.

Rand Paul continues pressing Fauci for answers on NIH gain-of-function funding

Unvaccinated man denied heart transplant by Boston hospital (BBC)

The Corona Gestapo in Harpstedt

Masks Today, Masks Tomorrow, Masks Forever!

Amid COVID-19’s Toll on Schools, Now More Than Ever, Students Need More Education Options

Welsh Businesses Demand Vaccine Passport Exemptions After Government Fails To Prove They Work

PBS Guest Claims Lifting COVID Restrictions Is A Form of ‘Ableism’

Fake vaccine cards are everywhere. It’s a public health nightmare  And so easily predictable that a child could have done it.

Quebec bans unvaccinated from buying groceries at Walmart, Costco

Boston Man Kicked Off Heart Transplant List For Not Being Vaccinated

Biden Puts 8,000 Troops On Alert In Case Peter Doocy Retaliates (Babylon Bee)

Biden Proves Mental Sharpness by Accurately Identifying Peter Doocy (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz keeps trying to be the Left’s Babylon Bee and keeps failing.

Federal prosecutors looking at 2020 fake elector certifications, deputy attorney general tells CNN

Kid Rock releases anti-Biden, anti-Fauci single with a ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ chorus (The Hill)

Nugget Of Truth Emerges On CNN As Guest Rips Biden Apart

Is Ukraine A Distraction From Biden’s Terrible Approval Rating?

Biden’s covid “setbacks”

Biden’s Year 1 Foreign Policy Blunders

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Just one day after President Joe Biden nominated Gigi Sohn to the federal agency that oversees television networks, her nonprofit secured a favorable legal settlement with those same networks that reduced her financial liability by more than $30 million.

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I tend to do what I do best, procrastinate. Well, to feel better about myself, I like to think I am prioritizing. Either way, I have felt compelled to write about this supply chain crisis since White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed President Joe Biden saved Christmas on Dec. 22. Nothing gets my blood boiling more than utter lies thrown in my face. How can someone say something so stupid, and how can so many people actually believe it? We have all seen the empty shelves for randomly illogical items, starting with toilet paper and now cat food.

With a very small engineering firm, there is a larger supply chain crisis that will be coming to a head in three to six months. We can’t get parts. I could go off on tangents, but let’s focus on just one major device. A PLC, or programmable logic controller, is a computer that runs actual stuff. Not things like a washer and dryer but how about the water that comes into your house, the water that leaves, the drawbridge that needs to go up, the MRI you desperately need. Almost everything you touch that is manmade uses one of these controllers at some point in the process.

ZMan is delightfully dyspeptic today.

What the philosopher John Locke bequeathed to the world was the notion that we could not only figure out the rules of nature, we could discover the rules of society that best comported with man’s nature. If we can figure out those rules and implement them, we will have a society that allows for the full blossoming of man. The debate since the 18th century has been about the nature of man. Communism, fascism, capitalism, libertarianism and so on are all based on this assumption.

Fast forward to this age and we appear to be in another one of those great transitions in how we look at the rules of society. You can see it in the language. Hardly anyone in power speaks of rights anymore. The term civil rights has morphed into a dog whistle by the race hustlers, stripped of any connection to natural rights. Of course, the systemic assaults on basic rights like assembly and speech are so common now, the repression of these rights and the people exercising them is now normal.

The reason for this is we are transitioning from a society based on rights codified in the law to a society based on privileges based on a terms of service. You get to do things promised in the terms of services, as long as you are compliant with the terms of service, which can change at any time. What we used to think of as rights are now privileges, no different from access to Twitter. You get to do things based on your level of compliance to the current set of rules.

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Those Ukranians are so excitable.

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Democrats pin a lot of hopes on pre-K as part of their long term push to spend more money on childcare up to but not earlier than 8 months and 29 days before birth.

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Data through sixth grade from state education records showed that the children randomly assigned to attend pre-K had lower state achievement test scores in third through sixth grades than control children, with the strongest negative effects in sixth grade. A negative effect was also found for disciplinary infractions, attendance, and receipt of special education services, with null effects on retention.

Steve Sailer

A curious example of the power of social trends on thought is that two years into the Covid pandemic, nobody of any influence has yet bothered to launch a campaign to persuade Americans to do the one obvious non-pharmaceutical intervention that would make Americans healthier whether the virus stays or goes: lose some weight.

Instead, 2022 has seen new gains in the long, grinding campaign to make the fat another of those privileged classes whose self-image cannot be affronted.

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Joe Biden last week said the American response in Ukraine would be proportional to Vladimir Putin’s actions. “It depends,” the president posited, thoughts drifting like blobs in a lava lamp. “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion…”

Alarms sounded all over Washington. The rip in the national political illusion was so severe, Republicans and Democrats were forced to come out agreeing, leaping into each other’s arms in panic. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who increasingly looks like a man about to miss a historically important free throw, said of a potential Russian invasion, “We can make crystal clear the stark consequences of that choice.” Republican Senator Ted Cruz said Biden “shocked the world by giving Putin a green light to invade Ukraine.” The National Security Council issued a statement through Jen Psaki that any Russian move into Ukraine would be “met with a swift, severe, and united response.”

In a later press conference, Biden explained he had to cut things short because, “You guys will ask me all about Russia.” He appears days from pulling his pants down to show reporters the electrodes White House chief of staff Ron Klain has probably attached to his testicles by now.

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In a June run-off election, Compton City Council member Isaac Galvan, was reelected to the seat representing District 2, beating fellow Democrat Andre Spicer by 855 votes to 854 in the nonpartisan contest.

In August, prosecutors charged Galvan, 34, with election fraud and bribery.

Democrats cheat. They can’t helpit. Then even cheat each other.

It’s up to America’s state courts to rescue democracy (The Hill) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Voting rights fight moves to state ballots (Axios)

Congresswoman in hot water over job offer to get rival not to run Corruption is what Democrats do.

Youngkin urges calm on his call for a ban on mask mandates but also stokes division (Washington Post)

Tom Friedman and Israel will save US democracy and blow your mind (Al-Jezeera)

Chesa Boudin recall supporters want stiffer punishments for Union Square looters

‘Free Speech Advocates’ Panic Over Parents’ Push for More Curriculum Transparency

The M&M’s changes aren’t progressive. Give Green her boots back. (Washington Post)

How “Workless” Men Are Driving America’s Labor Crisis

Here Are The Dumbest Moments From Jim Acosta’s ‘Democracy in Peril’ Debut.

How the Feds Handcuff States to Medicaid

Crime: CNN Buys Into Liberal Pols’ Focus on Guns, Not Criminals

Virginia Scraps Critical Race Theory Program Critics Said Would Have Destroyed Math Education

Behar Predicts Doocy to Be ‘Fired’ By Fox for Acting Like the Adult to Biden’s Insult  They actually pay her money to be this stupid.

NY Attorney General Taps ‘Abolish ICE’ Activist as Special Adviser  Jobs for the Crust.

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross urges liberals to ‘pick up a weapon and get involved’ in ‘war’ for democracy

Jussie Smollett gets March sentencing date in hate crime hoax case

Good News From New York

How potholders got me thinking about racism, my father and the whitewashing of US history

Who’s Carjacking?  White supremacists! Uh, no….

Nets PANIC Over Supreme Court Taking Up Affirmative Action Case

Why Are There 22% More Black Homicide Victims in Summer Than Winter?  Probably Climate Change.

Straight Shooters

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I’m still constantly receiving these little reports from across the US (and Canada!) detailing the petty indignities and absurdities to which people are subjected in the name of this-or-that overheated COVID concern.

Does every last report amount to full-blown authoritarian tyranny? Not really — most probably wouldn’t even register as particularly attention-getting on their own. But the thing I keep coming back to is the cumulative pettiness — how corrosive the sheer quantity of snippets like ones I’ll list in this post, taken in aggregate, must be to the social order.

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Thank God they didn’t give in to pressures to ‘modernize’ it.

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Fox News footage shows several federally contracted buses dropping off dozens of mostly male migrants at a parking garage in Brownsville, Texas. Black tarps were set up with a makeshift sign said “Border Patrol drop-off” above it.

Fox witnessed men go into a small, unmarked office, then re-emerge moments later as multiple taxi cabs then showed up to collect the migrants — who were then shuttled off to nearby Harlingen Airport. There were no children or migrant families among the groups.

Several of the migrants told Fox that they had crossed illegally that morning, paying approximately $2,000 per person to cartel smugglers. They also said they were flying to destinations including Miami, Houston and Atlanta.

This is what we mean when we say that Biden has an open borders policy.

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If you want to change the world to a better place, the best way to do it is a for-profit because for-profits have to take feedback from reality. Ironically, for-profit entities are more sustainable than non-profit entities. They’re self-sustainable. You’re not out there with a begging bowl all the time.

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Solanum jamesii, aka the Four Corners potato, has sustained Indigenous people in the American Southwest for 11,000 years; USDA is now studying its 8-year shelf life, and its resistance to disease, heat, and drought. The future of this remarkable little potato remains unwritten.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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It’s a compelling vision in some ways, but right now it looks dystopic. The ranks of what Marx called the “reserve army of the unemployed” are simply disengaging. A decade ago, Gallup’s Jim Clifton wrote about The Coming Jobs War, in which he predicted a global struggle for diminishing employment. Now there is plenty of work but people are not interested. In the US, labor participation rates have fallen from 80 percent in 1950 to 61 percent now, down from 64.4 percent in 2010. Nearly one-third of American working-age males are not in the labor force, suffering high rates of incarceration, or drug, alcohol, and other health issues.

And, to be sure, opportunities may be further reduced by technology, which could accelerate the loss of many kinds of jobs that once provided a means of upward mobility: postal workers, switchboard operators, machinists, computer operators, bank tellers, travel agents. For the 90 million Americans who work in such jobs—and their counterparts elsewhere—the future could be bleak. By 2030, Oxford Economics predicts that 20 million factory jobs worldwide will fall to automation—1.5 million in the US, 2.5 million in the EU, and 12.5 million in China.

The pandemic clearly accelerated this process, notably in the service sector. With the shift to online and takeout food, chains like McDonald’s are perfecting electronic delivery systems that reduce the need for human labor. Large capital investments are necessary for such adaptations, which—as France’s Thomas Piketty has noted—favors larger corporations as opposed to smaller family businesses.

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We are rapidly becoming two very different nations with two very different cultures. At one time we truly were the “United” States of America, but now we have been split into two opposing camps that deeply hate one another. As a result, in recent years we have watched millions of Americans relocate for ideological reasons. This has caused “red states” to become even redder and “blue states” to become even bluer. At this point, there are just a handful of “purple states”, and it is in those states where our presidential elections are determined. It is really not healthy for just a few states like Pennsylvania and Michigan to have such power, but that is a topic for another article. In this article, I want to discuss why the mass exodus from blue states to red states is actually going to accelerate in 2022.

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Call me when I can buy them on Amazon.

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And about time, too.

ZMan does the culture.

A popular bit of wish-casting among conventional conservatives has been the line “Go Woke, go broke”. This is the unfounded belief that the companies embracing the latest cultural Marxist fads are being punished by the marketplace. It has become a Pavlovian chant among the sorts of people who comment at sites like Breitbart, whenever they do a story on a major brand jumping on the identity train. The fact that no one has gone broke does not seem to register with them.

This is why Hollywood, which should be the most sensitive to the marketplace, proudly embraces the latest cultural Marxist fads. Contrary to the claims in this post at the Daily Mail, Hollywood knows they have no fears of going broke. They have been siding with the cultural commissars since the dawn of the mass media age. Watch an old Chaplin film and his communism jumps out, even without sound. Watch a film like the Manchurian Candidate and the politics are plain.

Those are the easiest to monetize.

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Scientists have a new understanding of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism that challenges assumptions about ancient technology.