Democrats in Decline: Poll Finds 14 Point Swing in Party ID Since Biden Took Office

The Mysterious Motive

CNN ‘Reliable Sources’ guest says press covering Biden ‘unfairly’ with ‘snarky attitude’

The Unorthodox Weapon We Need to Defend Democracy (Politico) Sounds like a Narrative.

Progressive new Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s practices are almost textbook anti-Democratic: Trey Gowdy

Look around you. The way we live explains why we are increasingly polarized (The Guardian)

Thousands of churches raise alarm about scope of new Canadian ‘conversion therapy’ ban

Canada Officially Outlaws Gay Conversion Therapy (Daily Beast)

Want true equity? California should force parents to give away their children (S.F. Chronicle)

Martin Luther King, Jr. did not give up. Those fighting for democracy must follow his example. (Washington Post) Sounds like a Narrative.

CBS’s Dickerson Interviews Three LIBS to Grade Biden on His First Year in Office

NYTimes Lead Pities Dems: ‘Costly Fight to Overcome GOP Curbs,’ Suppression

Glenn Greenwald Exposes Deep State Effort To Stop Trump Pardoning Edward Snowden And Julian Assange

STUDY: NBC, CBS Bury Phrase ‘Islamic Extremist’ After Synagogue Attack

Dem Megadonor: I Don’t Care About the Uyghurs

Union Pacific Bashes LA’s Social Justice Reform, Threatens To Leave City Amid Soaring Train Thefts

CBS Swoons Over Radical DOJ Official, Ignores Extreme Ideology

Convicted Pedophile Funneled Millions In Foreign Cash Into Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign

CNN Suggests Dems Should Push ‘Voting Rights’ Every 30 Days for Six Months

CBS, NBC Floored by ‘Shocking,’ ‘Unbelievable’ Looting in LA, Refuse to Blame Lefty DA

Don’t Underestimate How Badly The Powerful Need Control Of Online Speech

Great Moments in Media Probity

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Hey, you know how some people refer to public schools as “government schools” and say that their mission isn’t really education, but social indoctrination and enforcing social conformity? And how other people say, “That’s kook talk. Get away from me, you kook! With your crazy kook talk.” Well, the Democrat Party of Michigan has firmly weighed in on the side of the kooks.

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‘‘No group is more dangerous,” growled Theodore Dalrymple in 2014, “than the disgruntled literate.” Two years later, in Ages of Discord, the political scientist Peter Turchin made the same point, stating famously that “one of the most reliable predictors of state collapse and high political instability is elite overproduction”.

The problem, as Dalrymple and Turchin both see it, is that the sharp elbowed bourgeoisie makes often considerable sacrifices to obtain an education, with the aim of then securing employment that affords status and compensation commensurate with that sacrifice. And when there are more sharp elbowed strivers than juicy jobs, the also-rans become restive.

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This step-by-step guide explains how to protect yourself from online stalkers, why it is important, and what to do if you are targeted for “doxxing”—the publishing of your private information. In a era of universal surveillance, when livestreamers broadcast every major demonstration while fascists, FBI agents, and police officers comb through social media posts to gather intelligence with which to harass activists, there has never been a better time to take steps to secure your privacy. Here’s how.s

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Tamiflu’s story would become more complicated as a multiyear effort spearheaded by the British Medical Journal would highlight many problems with clinical transparency that still resonate today. Approval of Tamiflu and subsequent billions spent by world governments stockpiling it for a potential swine flu pandemic was all based upon recommendations by the CDC, WHO, and EMA. None of which ever actually vetted the primary data and took it at face value. A Cochrane review would conclude after a four-year legal fight to obtain the primary data that there was no clear evidence to support the claims that Tamiflu improved influenza complications or infections but did raise concerns about side effects like nausea, vomiting, headaches, hallucinations, and depression.

Boy, that sure sounds familiar.

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Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three others were held at gunpoint for hours on Saturday at Congregation Beth Israel by Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old foreign national. At around 9:15 p.m., with the synagogue surrounded by heavily armed police and FBI agents, Cytron-Walker saw an opportunity to make an escape.

In the last hour of the standoff, the gunman “wasn’t getting what he wanted. It didn’t look good, it didn’t sound good,” Cytron-Walker told CBS News. When the rabbi saw Akram “wasn’t in a good position,” he told his fellow hostages to rush for the exit.

“I told them to go, I threw a chair at the gunman, and I headed for the door,” Cytron-Walker said. “And all three of us were able to get out without even a shot being fired.”

After the hostages ran out of the synagogue, police swept the building and Akram was shot dead.

Texas Jews are the best Jews in the world.

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Well. There it is. Go get a cat and do your bit for Climate Change.

ZMan dispels some illusions.

Marilyn Mosby has been the State’s Attorney for Baltimore since 2015, despite the fact she has been under federal investigation for years. A federal grand jury indicted her last week on two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements on loan applications for two Florida vacation homes. Mosby applied for loans against her retirement account, exploiting a CARES Act provision for those hurt financially by the Covid-19 panic, despite never having been affected.

These may seem like petty charges, but as is often the case with public corruption investigations, this is the opening gambit in a broader investigation. Mosby’s husband has also been living under a dark cloud for years. He is the current President of the Baltimore City Council. The two of them owe the IRS over $45,000 in back taxes, despite making close to half a million a year from the city. Their lifestyle does not comport with what their financials indicate.

What passes for ‘meritocracy’ is merely Cronyism With Credentials.  As with the old British Civil Service exams, the educational credentials demanded for entry into the Crust bear very little relationship to the skills actually needed to succeed or to govern.

My answer is always ‘Yes. I’m calling you a liar. I’m also calling you an ignorant moron.’  They never have a response to that.

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Drone wars in the Middle East intensified Monday when Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement claimed to have flown drones into an oil storage facility in Abu Dhabi, reported Al Arabiya.

Abu Dhabi police said three tanker trucks exploded in an oil storage facility owned by the state-owned oil company Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in the industrial Musaffah area. Another explosion was reported at an extension of Abu Dhabi’s airport.

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Iran is still suffering from reimposed (in 2018) economic sanctions but, as expected, the new (in January 2021) U.S. government has provided some relief. The Americans have been helpful in several ways, not all of them very visible. For example, the Americans quietly reduced their sanctions enforcement on illegal Iranian oil exports during 2021. This enabled Iranian oil smugglers to ship and sell 40 percent more oil than in 2020. That’s 123 million more barrels of oil sold at a discount, from the world price for legal oil, to countries like China, Syria, Russia and Venezuela. In 2021 the U.S. halted enforcement of the oil export sanctions in the Persian Gulf, which made it possible for smugglers to sell discounted Iranian oil to Arab Persian Gulf countries, mainly the UAE, where that oil could then be exported as Arab oil to distant customers. Iran has a fleet of tankers, most not owned by Iran, that handle the smuggling and American efforts to track and sanction these tankers declined as did the number of times smuggling tankers were detected but not intercepted. Because of this Iran had several hundred million dollars of oil income that was apparently used mainly to sustain Iran-sponsored violence overseas.

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The Council on American Islamic Relations denied any connection between the terror attack at a Texas synagogue and its campaign to free imprisoned terrorist Aafia Siddiqui, one day after a fanatical gunman took Jewish congregants hostage to demand Siddiqui’s release.

CAIR has been a longtime advocate for clemency for Siddiqui, a terror operative who was dubbed “Lady al Qaeda” and sentenced to 86 years in prison in 2010 for trying to gun down U.S. FBI and military officials. During a joint press conference with Siddiqui’s attorney on Sunday, CAIR’s Dallas director Faizan Syed said it had no prior relationship to the the assailant, British national Malik Faisal Akram, and that his actions should not detract from efforts to seek clemency for Siddiqui.

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It’s been a while since Isis staged a major attack on the West. Occasionally the group’s degraded propaganda organs will try and claim one, but even that is less common nowadays. Still, just because Isis central isn’t orchestrating mass murder in Europe, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t still people killing in the name of jihad — if anything, the Islamist terror threat is still claiming many more lives and much more frequently than we realise.

The overwhelming focus from authorities, political leaders and the press has become the personal and psychological dramas of the perpetrators. After every incident, the attackers’ pasts are combed and every twist and turn in their tangled biographies is retrospectively injected with significance and relevance to their (often much later) decision to kill.

Of course, the personal profiles of perpetrators are important, but the resultant disconnection of the spate of stabbings, vehicular attacks and, less frequently, shootings and bombings across Europe leaves us in danger of prematurely writing off the lingering jihadist threat.

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In his press briefing last night FBI SAC Matthew DeSarno went out of his way to assert that the “hostage taker” who seized the rabbi and three others at Congregation Beth Israel during Shabbat services yesterday “was specifically focused on an issue not directly connected to the Jewish community…” The AP took this talking point and ran with it, as though Lady AQ might be a nonsectarian cause and jihadism only indirectly targets the Jewish community. Perhaps the hostage rabbi’s call to his colleague in New York at the direction of the “hostage taker” was only coincidentally “connected to the Jewish community.” How do you say “let’s call the whole thing off” in Urdu?

Vaguely referring to the man who must not be named, the AP story adds that “an angry man could be heard ranting and talking about religion at times during the livestream…” Might it have been the “hostage taker”? The FBI and the press treat the American public like children and idiots.

How the Refrigerator Became an Agent of Climate Catastrophe (The New Yorker)

California is poised to kill rooftop solar, damaging climate and health (The Hill) The proglodyte urge to tax is master of them all.

Global heating linked to early birth and damage to babies’ health, scientists find (The Guardian)

Earth’s climate went off the rails in 2021, reports show (Axios)

Tiny Reactors Could Spark a ‘Nuclear Revolution’ to Fight Climate Change (Newsweek) Not if the government has anything to say about it. (Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators)

Energy Department to announce Clean Energy Corps, hire 1,000 staffers to work on climate change (Washington Post) Because vastly expanding the bureaucracy has been so effective in the past.

Dirty greenwashing: watchdog targets fashion brands over misleading claims (The Guardian)

Nearly 140 Scientific Papers Detail The Minuscule Effect CO2 Has On Earth’s Temperature

Why Democrats Make Energy Expensive (And Dirty)

False Alarm: Today–and Back in the 1970s

Aussie Climate Activists Still Rejecting Nuclear Power

How to Prepare for Climate Change’s Most Immediate Impacts  Eat enough peanuts and it will keep the elephants away.

We need to be able to talk about trans athletes and women’s sports (Megan McArdle)

NYT: This Isn’t Your Old Toxic Masculinity. It Has Taken an Insidious New Form

Corporate sedition is more damaging to America than the Capitol attack (The Guardian) Robert Reich has been a witch-hunter from wayback.

Trump officials interfered with the 2020 census beyond cutting it short, email shows (NPR)

Census memo cites ‘unprecedented’ meddling by Trump administration (Seattle Times) Sounds like a Narrative.

SNL’s Michael Che Brutally Mocks Oath Keeper Boss’ Eyepatch (Daily Beast) When these guys graduate from high school they’re going to be totally awesome.

The Justice Dept. alleged Jan. 6 was a seditious conspiracy. Now will it investigate Trump? (Washington Post) No, because they haven’t got a case.

DeSantis’ Democrat challenger compares him to Hitler: ‘In a lot of ways’ I guess that’s why everybody is moving to Florida.

Florida Dem Gov. candidate compares Ron DeSantis to Hitler in interview

Gillibrand vows to ‘do better’ after restaurant says she ignored mask mandate

Trump’s ‘Crimes Flow Through’ Oath Keepers’ Sedition Indictment: Former Prosecutor (Newsweek)

“We’re Breaking Her, Keep Going”: ACLU Strategist Issues Chilling Tweet Against Sinema

NYT Embraces Disgraced Avenatti’s Jail Claims, Dismissed Those of Capitol Defendants

Steve Schmidt Fantasizes Handcuffed Kevin McCarthy Locked in Basement

Iran Promotes Video Depicting Assassination Of Trump At Mar-a-Lago

Djokovic Deported After Losing Visa Appeal, Faces 3-Year Ban From Australia

Utah’s Largest Newspaper Calls For Unvaxxed To Endure Draconian Lockdowns Enforced By National Guard

‘Fact-Checkers’ Fall Silent on Biden’s ‘Voting Rights’ Speech Smears

Doctors Demand: First, Do Some Harm to Confused Adolescents, Such as Permanently Sterilizing Them

Train Burglaries in L.A.  California turns into a Turd World state.

The Not-So-Great Train Robbery  California turns into a Turd World state.

Looters Raid Union Pacific Trains In Los Angeles, Searching For Amazon And UPS Packages  California turns into a Turd World state.

‘It’s ugly out there’: Rail thefts leave tracks littered with pilfered packages  California turns into a Turd World state.

Crimefighter exodus: Manhattan prosecutors flee DA office after Bragg takes helm

Manhattan DA Bragg won’t address recall petition pushed by Sliwa, Giuliani

Most Americans believe US democracy ‘at risk of extinction’: poll  Since that’s all they’re reading in the ‘news’.

How Central Planners Corrupted The World

70th Anniversary of NBC’s Today: Where In the World is Matt Lauer?

Gov. Blackface Pardons Perv: Northam Absolves Democrat Jailed for Underage Sex Crimes in Final Act as Governor

RINO ALERT: Romney rips RNC’s stance on presidential debates commission

The Shameful Decline of Scientific American

Kooky Columnist: Parents Must ‘Give Away Their Children’ to Achieve Equity

Black Female Judge Defends GOP’s Blackburn From NAACP’s Racism Charge

RACIST? CNN Trashes GOP Senator for ‘Humiliating’ Court-Skipping Judicial Pick

Racist Karen WHIPS Black Boys for Playing Basketball, What Happens Next Is Shocking

Deranged man pushes Asian woman to death at Times Square subway station

Truths, Ideals of MLK’s Message Have Been Lost to Wokeism

Baltimore prosecutor Mosby charged by feds

Hospital System Backs Off Race-Based Treatment Policy After Legal Threat

Soros-Backed Baltimore State’s Attorney Indicted On Federal Perjury Charges  Just looking at her, I’d say she’s maybe 1/8 black, at the most.

Variety: It’s a Sad Reflection of the State of the World That White Men Composed So Many Songs People Like

Michigan’s Dana Nessel Speculates ‘White Supremacy’ to Blame for Texas Synagogue Terrorist Attack

It’s time for an inequality index for cryptocurrencies distribution

Race and the Pandemic

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The company said the feature was first created in March 2020 and reportedly flags “insensitive phrases,” according to Gizmodo:

“Some examples include changing “blacklist” and “whitelist” to “accepted” or “allowed list,” or swapping the gender-specific “postman” with “postal worker.” Similarly, “humanity” or “humankind” is recommended over “mankind,” and “expert” is suggested when the software flags “master,” a term linked with slavery.”

The feature is reportedly turned off by default, but users can customize settings to flag some inclusive features while leaving others turned off. The “offending” terms are underlined in purple and inclusive alternatives are suggested.

Libre Office is free and non-Communist.

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Within hours of taking office, Virginia’s newly sworn-in Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) cleaned house – firing dozens of lawyers, including those in the Civil Rights division – and announcing investigations into the Virginia Parole Board and Loudon County Public Schools.

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You want policies? We’ve got policies….

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Government-provided health care! Yeah yeah yeah!

The problem is – when Canadians who can afford it get stuck in the Single-Payer Trap, they can come to the U.S. and get treated … if they can afford it.

But if this scheme comes to America – where can we go?

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Hammer tech.

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Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall plans to introduce legislation named after the nation’s top doctor after he made headlines for name-calling on a hot mic.

Marshall’s bill, called the Financial Accountability for Uniquely Compensated Individuals – or FAUCI Act – will require that the Office of Government Ethics provide a list of all confidential filers within the government whose financial disclosures are not public, per Fox News.

The Other McCain lets it rip.

CNN has lost 90% of its audience since Donald Trump left the White House, a predictable consequence of Jeff Zucker’s decision to go all-in on anti-Trump programming.

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It is difficult to explain, and impossible to exaggerate, just how far CNN has fallen. In October, it was noted that CNN’s Reliable Sources program with Brian Stelter attracted only 85,000 viewers ages 25-54 (the so-called “demo” on which advertising rates are based), which was lower than re-runs on other cable networks of Friends, Golden Girls and Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and even lower than the cartoons Paw Patrol and Spongebob Squarepants. In a nation of 325 million people, a demo audience of 85,000 is microscopic; Stelter is irrelevant, an asterisk in the ratings.

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I was two days ago at Hereticon, and wondering which views actually should be considered heretical. It seems there are some distinct categories, for instance here are a few categories of the “partially heretical”.

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A modified consumer drone was used in a bombing raid on a rival drug cartel in Mexico on Monday. Video from the cartel-operated drone shows several bombs were dropped on a rival camp in a new turf war.

According to the Spanish-language daily newspaper El Pais, the drone was operated by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and bombed a rival cartel in the state of Michoacan. At least one person was injured in the attack. The entire incident was caught on video.

There are two governments in Mexico: The formal government in Mexico City and the narco-state that extends along the border with the U.S.  Back in the Good Old Days the U.S. government would move into that area and straighten it out. Nowadays … not so much.

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Smart guns, or firearms that can identify the correct user, sound an awful lot like the solution to a lot of problems. It’s something anti-gun forces have wanted to see a long time and, frankly, it seems like something a lot of pro-gun people should be all about, too.

However, we’re not.

Don’t get me wrong, most of us like the idea of guns that really can’t be used if they’re stolen. The issue is…well, there are a ton of issues, really.

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Included in last night’s news feed was a report from Spain about a vicious machete attack against a man by two culture-enrichers. The German-language piece below discusses the same incident.

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A site full of suggested explanations for words that don’t exactly translate into other languages.

I like verschlimmbessern·To make something worse in an attempt to improve it.

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If you were to ask any of the 1 million Americans living with multiple sclerosis, they’d probably say their disease started with changes so small they almost didn’t notice them: a wobbly step, a weakening grip, sight going soft around the edges. But MRI scans of their brains — dotted with ghostly white scars — would tell a different story.

Those scars are signs of inflammation dating back multiple years. Each spot represents a dead zone filled with mangled remains of thousands, sometimes millions, of neurons. Like city blocks going dark during a power outage, these cells blinked out one by one after an immune storm stripped off the insulating myelin sheath that helps them send and receive electrical signals. But what triggers the immune system to turn on itself is still a mystery.

Los Angeles train thefts: Union Pacific urges DA Gascon to ‘reconsider’ directive dismissing misdemeanors

California Provides Millions in Loans for Illegal Alien Business Owners

Notes on Religion Today

Will Left’s Gender Agenda Fall Flat With Minorities and Working Americans?

Priorities: CNN Spends Almost 3x More on January 6 Hype Than Bad Economic News

Supreme Court Sets Dangerous Precedent Of Letting The American People Make Medical Decisions For Themselves  Babylon Bee.

Everything You Love Is Cancelled Now

California Nightmare: What to Know About Left’s Next Run at Single-Payer Health Care

Labor Leaders Say Illinois Firefighters Can’t Vote To Leave Union

Illinois Public School Advertises ‘After School Satan Club’ to Kids

NY’s Schumer Shows Contempt for His Own State’s Voters

Teen Convicted In Loudoun School Sex Assaults Sentenced, Must Register As Sex Offender

Virginia School Board Members Acknowledged Anti-Asian Bias in Admissions, Texts Show

New York District Attorney Calls for End to Prosecuting Serious Crimes. It’s Every Criminal’s Lucky Day in Gotham.  The people hav emade their choice, and deserve to get it good and hard.

What Joe Manchin told Steve Clemons at dinner  (Politico) HARD news!

Trump Calls NPR the Worst TV Network in America (The New Yorker) I suspect MSNBC is worse.

The brutal creation of a billionaire’s pleasure garden (The Guardian) Brutal! Rich person bad!

We Found the One Group of Americans Who Are Most Likely to Spread Fake News (Politico) Go ahead, see whether you can guess.

Donald Trump’s tattle-tale niece Mary buys decadent $7M NYC condo  Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

WATCH: Media Blamed Trump, Absolve Biden for Soaring COVID Deaths

Doctors Pressure Spotify to Crack Down on ‘Misinformation’ After Joe Rogan Podcast

Liberal Restaurant Cancels Event With Pro-Life Democrats After Learning They Oppose Abortion  Not even being a Democrat will save you.

Did Chicago Punish Car Dealership Rocked By $1 Million Theft After Lightfoot Called Owner An “Idiot”?  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Novak Djokovic’s Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration

Watch: MSNBC’s Reid Again Calls For Denying Medical Care To The Unvaxx’d

Ethics Watchdog Calls For Investigation Into Luria’s Private School Ties

The world’s insatiable appetite for electricity is setting up a climate disaster (CNN)

White House departures send tremors through environmental community (Politico) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was an ‘environmental community’.

New chief scientist wants NASA to be about climate science, not just space (NBC) Because there’s no way to leverage this job into a lucrative political career if it’s ‘just about space’.

Is California About to “Stumble” in its Fight Against Climate Change?

The World Was Cooler in 2021 Than 2020. That’s Not Good News  (Wired ‘Science’)

“Hansen vs. The World” (Richard Kerr on uncertain climate science in 1989)

Biden-Backed Solar Company Lied About Effectiveness of Solar Modules, Lawsuit Says

Yachts To Be Exempt From EU’s Carbon Pricing Plan

Climate Change Weekly #422: Being a Climate Alarmist Means Never Having to Admit You’re Wrong

London Breed criticizes white San Francisco progressives again

More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. (Washington Post) Count how many of them were Democrats.

VP Harris was ‘inspiration’ for indicted Baltimore official: ‘No Marilyn Mosby without Kamala Harris’

THIS AGAIN?! CNN’s Lemon Says Those Against Him Are With Nazis, U.S. Traitors

Is The Filibuster Racist? A Handy Flowchart

Minnesota Backs Off On Race Discrimination

Pro Publica: Racist Radar Robocop Cameras Keep Noticing Blacks Speeding

Fighting Back Against Critical Race Theory in American Schools

Minnesota Backtracks on Racial Rationing of COVID Drugs

50+2: Lemon Doesn’t Understand Senate Majority, ‘Minority Ruling’ Us

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And about fucking time, too.

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Virtually every generation spawns a new crop of young people who believe that Socialism is a really good idea. The vast majority of those historically-ignorant young people eventually grow up and their Utopian ideas are dashed on the Hard Rocks of Reality. Or as the brilliant Thomas Sowell replied when asked what made him abandon the Marxism of his youth: “Facts.”

Most of them – at least in my generation of socialist advocates – were not even close to “working class,” and even further from “oppressed.” Many were spoiled children of the very rich, so they already were accustomed to getting everything free without the inconvenience of having to work for it. They were big-hearted and small-brained enough to think that all we had to do was substitute Big Daddy Government’s beneficence for their own Daddies’ generosity in a seamless transition from spoiled brat to grownup layabout.

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When people hear the word “Marxism” or “communism” they immediately think of a set of economic arrangements. They may not know much about Marx or Marxism, but they know that it means the end of property and the rule by a party of ideologues. It is a simple and effective label. The same is true of communism or socialism. These words have connotations that make for effective shorthand. Even capitalism, a thing that may not actually exist, carries meaning for people.

We don’t have a label like that for the current political regime. Liberal democracy is probably accurate, but it has positive connotations. Democracy is supposed to be a good thing and liberal government is peaceful and accommodating. There are examples of things that are good separately but horrible together, like fish ice cream, but that is not really the same thing. When people in the public square use the term liberal democracy, they tend to use it in a positive way.

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During the 2016 primary and general election seasons, “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams offered a useful heuristic for understanding America’s partisan and psychological bipolarity on Donald Trump. The two Americas were watching “two different movies”: one featuring a dangerous authoritarian and proto-fascist and the other a brash and plain-talking tribune sticking it to the corrupt uniparty establishment.

The actual phrase Scott uses – and he uses it a lot – is ‘two different movies on the same screen.

I’m sure you’ve all seen this:

Asked what it is, people will say either ‘a vase’ or ‘two faces’. And yet it’s just one thing.

That’s what Scott is talking about.

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The culture-enrichers of Milan must have been jealous of their cousins in Cologne: on New Year’s Eve they decided embark upon some gropin’ and rapin’ in the good old taharrush tradition. Due to the surge of the Omicron variant, severe restrictions were in effect in the public spaces of Milan. But that didn’t stop the “New Italians”, who are no respecters of lockdowns, and are not generally held to account for flouting the rules. They proceeded to terrorize a number of young women in the square of the Duomo (Cathedral) with their violent and unwanted attentions.

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Well, there you go.

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In an attempt to clear the winter roads (and make deicing easier on the environment, vehicles, and infrastructure), cities across the U.S. are exploring rock salt alternatives — and beet juice is one of the most promising.

Gotta use ’em for something….

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The Solar System floats in the middle of a peculiarly empty region of space.

This region of low-density, high-temperature plasma, about 1,000 light-years across, is surrounded by a shell of cooler, denser neutral gas and dust. It’s called the Local Bubble, and precisely how and why it came to exist, with the Solar System floating in the middle, has been a challenge to explain.

A team of astronomers led by the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has now mapped the Local Bubble with the highest precision yet – and found that the Local Bubble was likely carved out of the interstellar medium by a series of supernova explosions millions of years ago.

CNN’s Jake Tapper ignores guest’s comparisons of moderate Democrats to segregationists  As he does.

Former Lincoln Project advisor Tom Nichols mocks Americans concerned about inflation, high gas prices

S.F. police chief slams D.A.’s office for dropping charges against suspect accused of assaulting officers (S.F. Chronicle)

Woman Gives up Child, Sues Sperm Donor She Met Online for Lying About Education, Ethnicity (Newsweek)

This old commercial for SF depicts a wildly different city (S.F. Gate) Thank you, Democrats.

Nets Skip Pelosi Opposing Bipartisan Push to End Stock Trading for Congress

White House climate and environment adviser scrutinized for possible ethics violations

Convicted murderer arrested after crossing US-Mexico border illegally

Inflation surges 7% in December, highest rate in 40 years

NBC Calls Out Biden’s Wrong Inflation Predictions, ABC & CBS Ignore

Joe Biden, Civil Rights Warrior?

How This Labor Department Nominee Threatens 59 Million Workers

World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded (Axios) Sounds like a theme.

U.S. aims to double cover crop planting to address climate change (Reuters) The government will just wave its magic wand and everything will be fine.

Climate crisis is greatest global risk in 2022: World Economic Forum (The Hill) Worse than COVID! Worse than Muslim terrorism! Worse than Russia! Worse than China!

Regenerative Ranching Is Better for the Environment, but Can It Be Profitable?

Newly discovered rainfrog species named in honor of climate activist Greta Thunberg (The Hill) I can see the resemblance.  Both are croakers.

How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world (The Guardian)

Climate Poses Challenges — and Chances — for Flyover Country

Drought No More: Climate Change Now Causes Too Much Rain

Polar Bear Panic: CBS Hypes Alarmist Report on Arctic Melting