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

Trump is losing to Trumpism (Washington Post) There is no such thing as ‘Trumpism’, except in the fever dreams of the Narrative Media.

Parents Struggle to Explain to Children Who Sarah Palin Was (The New Yorker) Only parents who read the Narrative Media.

Trump lawyer ordered to respond to January 6 committee subpoena for his Chapman University emails (CNN) The Jan 6 witch-hunt continues

.Are the legal walls closing in on Donald Trump? (The Hill) Hint: No.

Kerik told Jan. 6 panel that former Army colonel came up with idea to seize voting machines (Politico)

Trump-Backed Michael McCaul Wants Truth to ‘Come Out’ Over Voting Machine Seizure Proposal (Newsweek) Sounds like a Narrative.

CNN analyst: Pompeo remarks are ‘a green light to Putin’ (CNN) ‘Pompeo has given us the green light, comrades! Start the invastion!’

Mary Trump Says Her Uncle Will ‘Stop Protecting’ Ivanka if He Feels It’s Necessary (Newsweek)

How Trump’s flirtation with an anti-insurrection law inspired Jan. 6 insurrection (Washington  Post) The mind-readers of the Narrative Media are on the case!

McConnell is battling Trump for loyalty of Senate GOP (NBC) All Trump! All the time!

Sarah Palin dined at NYC restaurant two days before testing positive for Covid (NBC) Nothing is too trivial to escape the Narrative Media!

Voice of the people: Florida is not a ‘free state’ for all residents (The Ledger)

Sorry, progressives. The criminal justice system is unlikely to save us from Trump. (Washington Post)

Trump Supporters Sending Death Threats to Election Workers Spark New Bills in These States (Newsweek)

Indicted GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s legal team is trying a new play to undercut the case: questioning the credibility of a federal prosecutor with a years-long history of donating to Democrats. (Politico) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Can Matt Gaetz survive a real world scandal?  He seems to be doing very well so far.

Laura Ingraham Mocks Just Plain Weird ‘Saturday Night Live’ Impersonation of Her

‘It’s Him Or Me’: Neil Young Throws Tantrum Over Joe Rogan, Demands Spotify Remove His Songs  You can get Neil Young songs anywhere. Joe Rogan … not so much.

Keep on Rockin in the SAFE SPACE! Neil Young Tries to Cancel Rogan: Report

CNN Host Asks Guest Why Republicans ‘Have a Soft Spot for Putin’

Stelter: Doocy Provoked Biden, Fox Worse for American than ‘SOB’ Insult

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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.

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It was, in a way, a refreshing moment of mental alacrity from President Joe Biden. Asked by Fox News’s Peter Doocy if he thought inflation was a “political liability,” the Commander-in-Chief, the man who has apparently brought dignity back to the Oval Office, replied: “No. It’s a great asset. More inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch.”

In his sarcasm — we hope it was that; we can’t be 100 percent — the president at least acknowledged that inflation was a genuine worry. His administration had spent months dismissing the issue as merely a “transient” concern.

All things are transient, I suppose. Take Joe Biden’s much-lauded decency; that quality which apparently most distinguished him from Donald Trump. This is the man, remember, who came to office telling his staff: “I’m not joking when I say this: if you’re ever working with me and I hear you treat another with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot… On the spot. No ifs, ands, or buts.”

In that case, he probably needs to fire himself after yesterday’s outburst. But he won’t. Because for all the blather about his integrity, Biden isn’t really a great guy.

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.

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Out of a desire to make voting “easier” and perhaps exaggerated fears of public gatherings during the pandemic, most U.S. jurisdictions permitted unrestricted mail-in balloting in 2020. What did Americans lose when ballot secrecy was attenuated or vanished altogether?

Make no mistake, ballot secrecy is incompatible with secure mail-in balloting. At the polls, we each go into a little booth and make our choices in private. By contrast, no one knows where a mail-in ballot was filled out, or if a party or union activist hovered over the voter or even filled in the circles. Nobody knows what inducements, whether cash or threats, were offered to ensure that the person voted “correctly.” And if the ballot was “harvested” — turned in to the vote-counters by activists instead of by voters themselves — our suspicions deepen.

Attorney General James Takes Action to Force Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump to Comply with Ongoing Investigation Into Trump Organization’s Financial Dealings

Where egos dare: Manchin and Sinema show how Senate spotlight corrupts (The Guardian)

Voting rights failed in the Senate — where do we go from here? (The Hill) Back to the Narrative!

Critics Demand Clarence Thomas Retire After Trump Documents Dissent (Newsweek) Good luck with that.

ohn Avlon criticizes Rudy Giuliani’s ‘absolutely loathsome’ T-shirts (CNN) I guess Giuliani is the new Hitler.

Donald Trump Faces ‘Dramatic Televised Hearings’ Over January 6 (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

Brian Stelter & Panel Mock Fox for Crime Epidemic Coverage

The Most UNHINGED Media Attacks Against Moderates Manchin and Sinema

Instagram to Deboost ‘Potentially Harmful Content’ Before It Spreads

How gerrymandering is further polarizing American politics (CNN) Except when Democrats do it, of course.

Virginia’s Youngkin gets the DeSantis treatment from media

Twitter has taken the place of the ancient curse-tablet

NY Times: Biden contributing to ‘own political woes’ by downplaying inflation, economic anxiety  He has no choice – if he admitted the problem, people would expect him to do something, and he won’t.

Biden plans tax-funded legal services program for ‘Remain in Mexico’ immigrants: report

Voters sound off on ‘insane’ state of economy under Biden, say he’s ‘listening to too many liberals’

The Biden Problem

Biden Already Blames Powell For The Democrats’ House And Senate Losses In November  He’s your dog, Charlie Brown.

Mark Levin Helps Expose What the Corrupt Media Is Hiding on Hunter Biden

Biden Frees Alternate 9/11 Hijacker and Military Base Truck Bomb Plotter

EXCLUSIVE: Republican Lawmakers Accuse Biden Administration of Targeting Federal Employees Seeking Religious Exemptions From COVID-19 Vaccine

Biden Under Fire for Failing To Nominate Ukraine Ambassador as Russian Invasion Looms  Hey, wait a couple of weeks and our ambassador to Russia can fill in.

Drop in Public Trust in US Military Officers Portends Danger

Biden Administration Mounts Daring Mission To Evacuate Hunter’s Remaining Cash From Ukraine  Babylon Bee.

The top 7 omicron variant symptoms for children (Deseret News) Be the first on your block to collect all seven and PANIC!

Now that science has defanged Covid, it’s time to get on with our lives (The Guardian) Flip, meet flop.

Fauci: US ‘confident’ Omicron will soon peak even as hospitals struggle (The Guardian)

Yes, you can catch the flu and Covid. No, ‘flurona’ isn’t real. (NBC)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invokes Nazi Germany in offensive anti-vaccine speech (CNN)

Game-changing Covid pills remain out of reach for some patients Your Managerial State at work.

Arizona Governor Sues Biden Administration Over Attempt To Wrest Back Federal Funds

An Adverse Effect of the Vax: Mad Cow Disease

Inside the surreal Dutch lockdown

26 of the Most Interesting Signs at ‘Defeat the Mandates’ Rally

Biden Voter Explains Her Stand Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Bird Flu Is Back in the US. No One Knows What Comes Next (Wired ‘Science’) Except that you need to PANIC!

Rodgers Torpedoes Biden Claim COVID Is Pandemic Of Unvaccinated

‘How Dare You!’ The View RAGES at Bill Maher’s Anti-Masks Jokes

Court Order Prevents Nurses from Taking New Jobs in ‘At-Will’ State

A Covid origin conspiracy?

Doctors Highlight Problems With Nation’s COVID-19 Response

Dark money fuels Michigan school privatization campaign (Detroit Free Press)

Palin Goes to Trial

Companies Linked to Putin’s Pipeline Contributed to Schumer Campaign

Liberal Virginia School Boards File Suit Against Youngkin’s Mask Order  Gee, they loved arbitrary executive action when Democrats were doing it (and still do, with Biden).

NBC Marks March for Life With Planned Parenthood Ad Selling Abortion  Guess we know what side they’re on.

How China meddles in American academia

Harvard’s discrimination against Asian-Americans in a nutshell

MSNBC Hopes Gen Z Leftists Will Lead Fight Against ‘Voter Suppression’

Humans do a poor job of calculating risk. That’s terrible for the climate crisis (CNN) No, that’s good for the ‘climate crisis’ because that way, without any evidence, you can get people to PANIC!

Environmental justice concerns loom over Kanawha County ethylene oxide cancer risk reassessment (Charleston Gazette-Mail) ‘Environmental justice’ is the new buzz-word for the Narrative.

Climate Change Could Open Up ‘Rivers in The Sky’ Over East Asia (ScienceAlert) So you’d better PANIC!

Could Florida turn off the sun? Advocates say a utility-backed bill imperils rooftop solar in the Sunshine State (CNN) Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s RON DE SANTIS!

Port in a storm: the trailblazing town welcoming climate refugees in Bangladesh (The Guardian)

How capitalism surfs the rising seas of human folly (Las Cruces Sun-News)

Scientists find there are 70% fewer pollinators, due to air pollution

Global Coal Consumption Reaches New Record High In 2021…China, India Consuming Two Thirds  Needless to say, their interest in Preventing Climate Change is less than zero.

Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors

European Green Energy Crisis is Crushing Metal, Silicon Production

Supreme Court To Hear Challenge to Race-Based Admissions at Harvard and UNC

SCOTUS to Consider Challenges to Race-Conscious Admissions at Harvard, UNC

At the George Floyd trials

Torrential Downpour: Here’s the Worst Venom of the Week From Joy Reid’s Mouth

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In 2014, the non-profit Students for Fair Admissions filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, alleging discrimination against Asian Americans in its admissions process —discrimination resulting from Harvard’s stated commitment to “a diverse class.” After defeats at the District and Court of Appeals level, the suit has arrived at the foot of the United States Supreme Court. The case will be argued in the 2022 term. Harvard’s reputation is not all that’s at stake. The case threatens to bring down the entire system of race-based affirmative action that dominates college admissions.

Looking at the numbers, it’s easy to see why Students for Fair Admissions believe they have a case. According to 90,000 pages of Harvard admissions data, an Asian-American student must score 450 points higher on the SAT to have the same chance of admission as a black student with the same qualifications. Harvard, despite being an academic institution, also scores for “personality,” and consistently gives Asian Americans the lowest ratings. Without discrimination, Asian Americans would make up 43 percent of the Harvard student body, according to Harvard’s own Office of Institutional Research. In the years before the filing of the 2014 suit, Asians were between 15 and 20 percent of the student body.

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After spending recent seasons alienating parents across America with homosexual and BLM propaganda, PBS Kids’ Arthur, the longest running animated children’s series ever on television, is officially getting the ax.

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Guess we know which side she’s on.

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For several centuries, at least since John Stuart Mill, the Left has defined itself by its commitment to freedom of speech. This was practically the sine qua non for calling oneself a liberal. Yet some time around 2019-20, in the historical blink of an eye, free speech was simply . . . dismissed. It became obligatory on the Left to support systematic control of our public discourse by a handful of massive tech companies, in cooperation with the government.

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Some good advice.

ZMan seeks lessons from history.

The news currently tells us that we are on the brink of war with Russia over Ukraine and one of the best minds on the job for the Biden team is Jake Sullivan. There is nothing in his resume that says he should be running a hot dog stand, but he has been told his whole life he is fit to rule, so he believes it. Victoria Nulland is another member of the foreign policy brain trust. Her career is best described as one disaster after another, but she was born for the role in every sense.

Look around at the elected class and you see the same pattern. There are no men who went from the middle class to elected office on their own merit. In fact, it is hard to find anyone in national politics who has ever had a job. No one in the leadership of both parties has a line for “private sector” in his resume. The reason for that is they have never done productive work. Instead, like our old friend Commodus, they were groomed from birth to take up positions in the ruling class.

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When we think of oppressive regimes, we immediately think of the Stalinist model portrayed in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the heavy-handed thought control associated with Hitler’s Reich or Mao’s China. But where the old propaganda was loud, crude and often lethal, the contemporary style of thought control takes the form of a gentle nudging towards orthodoxy – a gentle push that gradually closes off one’s critical faculties and leads one to comply with gently given directives. Governments around the world, including in the UK, notes the Guardian, have been embracing this approach with growing enthusiasm.

Nudging grew out of research into behavioural economics, and was popularised in Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler’s 2008 book, Nudge. It now has widespread public support and has influenced everything from health warnings for cigarettes to calorie counts for fast food. Yet nudging also has an authoritarian edge, employing techniques and technologies that the Gestapo or NKVD could only dream about to promote the ‘right behaviour’.

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The search for sustainable alternatives to common plastics has researchers investigating how their building blocks can be sourced from places other than petroleum, and for scientists behind a promising new study, this has led them straight to the sweet stuff. The team has produced a new form of plastic with “unprecedented” mechanical properties that are maintained throughout standard recycling processes, and managed to do so using sugar-derived materials as the starting point.

The breakthrough comes from scientists at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Duke University in the US, who in their pursuit of more sustainable plastics turned to sugar alcohols. These organic compounds carry a similar chemical structure to the sugars they’re derived from, which the scientists found can bring some unique benefits to the production of plastic.

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Humans have a sugar sense. Animals and humans prefer sugar over artificial sweeteners in experiments, and that could be because a specific gut sensor cell triggers one of two separate neural pathways depending on which it detects, researchers suggest in a January 13 study in Nature Neuroscience.

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Sweden has deported an alleged recruiter for the Islamic State. The culture-enriching gentleman, who was allegedly active in jihad circles in Örebro, has a surfeit of Ahmeds in his name: Ahmed Abdulkarim Ahmed Ahmed. How Swedish can you get?

San Francisco tested a $1,000 guaranteed income pilot program. Here’s how it went for two artists.  (S.F. Gate) Not two plumbers. Not two mechanics. Two artistes.

‘We are weakening democracy’: fears over lack of lessons in how government works (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

University language guide says ‘grandfather,’ ‘housekeeping,’ ‘spirit animal’ are ‘problematic’ words

Pennsylvania school board member tells parents ‘I don’t work for you’

Manhattan Rite Aid pharmacy closing after rash of thefts, customers and workers say

The Constitution expects that the federal government will set standards for democracy in every state. (Salt Lake Tribune) No, it doesn’t. It says ‘republican form of government’, and doesn’t mention democracy at all.

Immigrant couple returns to Mexico to retire after 3 decades of working in Chicago: ‘It’s a dream of many undocumented people.’ (Chicago Tribune) I have no doubt.

Why shoplifting is soaring across the US — and will only get worse

California judge OKs earlier releases for repeat offenders Time to leave.

A single word sparks a crossfire between the Supreme Court, NPR and its star reporter Nina Totenberg (Washington  Post) Let me guess: ‘Liar’.

he Gorsuch-Sotomayor kerfuffle shows how the Supreme Court will close ranks amid controversy (CNN) It also shows that CNN reporters will lie like a rug.

Golden State tarnished: Ex-pats reveal ‘why we left California for good’

Social Justice Slams Into Europe, Part 2: In Scotland, They’ll Take the Woke Road

Wisconsin Judge Prevents Nurses from Going to New Employer

‘Smart’ Gun Mocked After Demonstration Fail

Non-Citizen Voting Push Is Part Of Agenda To Rid America Of Citizenship: Election Expert

America is now in fascism’s legal phase  (The Guardian)

China’s Censors Ban Hollywood Films As Beijing Builds Its Own “Movie Empire”

Anonymous Officials Claim There’s An Evil Russian Plot Again But The Evidence Is Secret Again

California School District Faces Legal Action Over LGBTQ+ Activist Teachers

“Take Only What You Need:” DC Asks People To Limit Supermarket Purchases As Empty Shelves Persist  Plenty of stuff on the shelves here in Texas.

Ron DeSantis’s election police squad would poison democracy (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Would Trump Throw His Own Kids Under the Bus to Save Himself? We May Soon Find Out. (Daily Beast)

What CEOs are really saying when they lash out against ‘woke’ America (CNN) The mind-readers at CNN are on the case.

Tucker Carlson Whines He’s No Longer Attracted to the Brown M&M (Daily Beast) What a racist!

Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn to see honorary university degrees revoked (The Guardian) No retaliation is too petty.

Jim Jordan Described as Trump ‘Sycophant’ in Op-Ed in Ohio’s Largest Newspaper (Newsweek) And Newsweek, of course.

There is a new champion in the ‘what if the left did it’ competition (Washington Post) The continuing witch-hunt after Clarence Thomas’ wife.

MSNBC & New Yorker Smear Ginni Thomas as ‘Threat’ to SCOTUS

Why pay TV operators are dropping Trump-loving cable networks (L.A. Times) It’s all part of the witch-hunt.

Joe Manchin’s take on why he and other Democrats often seem to be speaking a different language: “The base they have is a different base than I have.” (Politico) That’s pretty obvious.

Seth Meyers on failed voting rights bill: ‘Republicans are waging war on democracy’ (The Guardian) Sounds like a Narrative.

Warming Trends: Winterless Olympics, a Disaster Novel Shows the Importance of Storytelling in Climate Conversations and a New Lab Studies Parks and Warming (Inside Climate News)

New pro-DeWine dark-money group launches ad barrage in Ohio (Cleveland.com)

SNL’s Ted Cruz Begs Trump to ‘Hit Me, Choke Me, Spit in My Face’ (Daily Beast) High-school never ends for some people.

Kathy Griffin Whining She’s Not Been Canceled, but ‘Erased’ — In Splashy NY Times Story

MSNBC’s Capehart Loves Howard Dean Scolding Dems For Failing to Fight ‘Neo-Fascist’ Republicans

Coronavirus FAQ: What’s the risk of catching omicron outdoors? (NPR) Zer0. But you still need to PANIC!

FDA considers limiting authorization of certain monoclonal antibody treatments (CNN) After all, we wouldn’t want anybody actually to be cured of COVID – that would get in the way of the PANIC!

Two years since Covid was first confirmed in U.S., the pandemic is worse than anyone imagined (CNBC) No, the government and Establishment exacerbation is worse than anyone imagined.

Minneapolis restaurants sue mayor over vaccine mandates

Booster shots in U.S. have strongly protected against severe disease from omicron variant, CDC studies show (Washington Post) As of course they would.

Coronavirus booster shots are standing up to omicron, new studies show (Dallas Morning News) Sounds like a Narrative.

I did everything wrong and still haven’t caught Covid  Me, too.

British Medical Journal Demands Immediate Release of All COVID-19 Vaccine, Treatment Data

Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of ‘Omicron storm’

US To Close Borders To Unvaccinated Canadian, Mexican Truckers On Saturday  What new way to trash the economy can we think up?

Wife Stands Off With Hospital To Keep Her Husband Alive, And Wins

Researchers Worry COVID Will Quickly Develop Resistance To New Pills From Pfizer And Merck

German Government “Concerned” About Massive Anti-COVID Restriction Protests

American Megabanks Including Citi & JPM Order Workers Back To The Office In London & NYC

What A Homeschooling Surge Means For Our Future

Where do (Covid) mutants come from?

“A Catastrophic Moral Crime” – Bari Weiss & Bill Maher ‘Say The Quiet Part Out Loud’ On Leftist COVID Policies

New Hampshire Pharmacies Could Soon Begin Dispensing Ivermectin Without Doctor’s Prescription

Bidenflation Comes For DC’s Favorite Restaurants

Another US president, time for another big Intel factory promise by another CEO

Biden Says Russia Can Invade Ukraine So Long As They Avoid Hunter’s Gas Company  Babylon Bee.

Biden Admin Withholds Secret Iran Agreement From Congress

The Fed has a clear mandate to mitigate climate risks (The Hill) No, it doesn’t. It’s mandates are inflation and employment, and that’s all. You can look it up,

Day/Night temperature spread fails to confirm IPCC prediction

European silicon output shrinking, metal smelters closing as electricity prices quadruple, trade body warns

Eugene, Oregon: “We need some climate change”

Global Warming Driven By Pacific Warm Pool, La Nina & ITCZ: An Alternative Climate Change Theory

A Tale of Two Media Perspectives: New Pristine Reef Discovery a Marvel for Most, A Chance to Promote Unwarranted Climate Alarmism for CNN

CBS: Climate Change CAUSED the Tonga Volcanic Eruption Oh, I think not.

New Energy Regulations Will Make Every Room In Your House More Expensive

Detroit man accused of setting pregnant girlfriend on fire released on 10% bond

East Texas county official pleads guilty to misdemeanor election fraud

Aspiring Rapper Update: Lawsuit Accuses Seattle CHOP ‘Warlord’ of Pimping Hoes

Black Lives Matter’s Bloody Toll on Black People

The Racial Experience of a White Working Class American Boy

Dem Congressman Arrested After Defying Orders From Capitol Police

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But rubber tires help grip the ground and cushion bumps. How could a steel tire even come close to a smooth, safe ride? Built into the mechanical wheel is a pneumatic suspension system — an air suspension system powered by a pump or compressor that floods air into flexible bellows. That will allow the steel wheel to grip the road on tight turns and keep the passengers from bouncing out of their seats.

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I’m waiting for the first company to convert it into a motor home or camper.

I’d buy one.

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Although some of her wording was strange, the break itself isn’t the real story. It’s her doubling down in the face of two denials by the court, including one by the Chief Justice. She’s basically calling them liars. Worse was the Washington Democratic media’s echo chamber piling on, well documented by independent journalist Drew Holden on Twitter. Here’s how he started.

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“It’s a radically different way to accelerate projectiles and launch vehicles to hypersonic speeds using a ground-based system,” Jonathan Yaney, CEO of SpinLaunch, a California-based spaceflight technology company that has been involved in the development of the system, told CNBC. According to its website, the company aims to build “the world’s lowest-cost space launch system.”

Wonder whether that would work for ICBMs…?

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And far from being a peculiarity of the Middle Ages, Ekirch began to suspect that the method had been the dominant way of sleeping for millennia – an ancient default that we inherited from our prehistoric ancestors. The first record Ekirch found was from the 8th Century BC, in the 12,109-line Greek epic The Odyssey, while the last hints of its existence dated to the early 20th Century, before it somehow slipped into oblivion.

How did it work? Why did people do it? And how could something that was once so completely normal, have been forgotten so completely?

Now that I’m retired I find myself doing this — I’ll go to sleep at 10:00, what I think of as my Normal Bed Time, and wake up around 1:00 or 2:00 and have a hard time getting back to sleep. At first I put it down to a habit formed from over twenty years of production support — if a data warehouse load is going to break, it will do so around 2:30 a.m. — but maybe there’s something else going on. Hm….

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It’s become clear over the past few months that one of the key strategies for hiding the deadly adverse effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” is the use of the official definition of “unvaccinated”. A patient who is injected with the experimental mRNA treatment is considered “unvaccinated” until fifteen days have passed since his second jab. Some of the most severe reactions to the vax — including those resulting in death — occur within two weeks, so those serious adverse effects are conveniently being recorded as occurring among the “unvaccinated”. Those who experience adverse reactions to the vax often show symptoms that resemble those of Corona, so that deaths among the recently “vaccinated” are sometimes reported as “unvaccinated patients who died of Covid”.

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I am less disturbed about autonomous vehicles on rail roads than on highways.

Steve Sailer.

Handel’s Messiah is a rare work of high art that most people enjoy and a large number have actually performed in. Not surprisingly, Canadians are worked up over what Handel’s Messiah has to do with George Floyd in the same way that Canadians decided that the topic of “Rembrandt in Amsterdam” required repeated references to Turtle Island.

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A woke City Council member who has called the NYPD the Big Apple’s “biggest gang” is under fire for tweeting about a community garden instead of showing sympathy following Friday night’s ambush shooting in her Harlem district that left a rookie cop dead and another officer clinging for life.

Newly elected Kristin Richardson Jordan, a Democratic socialist, tweeted two hours after the shooting about her concerns over a neighborhood community garden being shut down.