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Chatham University in Pennsylvania did away with tenure in 2005. Now the university is poised to transition to a tenure system once again.

Joseph MacNeil, interim dean of the School of Arts, Science and Business at Chatham, said two main factors are at play: faculty recruitment and faculty morale.

“We have some stories where people we’d made offers to declined us because—while they were happy to participate in the job search—when they were getting offers, the fact that we didn’t have tenure disqualified us from the conversation,” MacNeil said. “And the part that no one can quantify is the number of good faculty that never applied for a job here because it wasn’t tenure-track in first place.”

Markets work, even when you don’t want them to.

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If I were worth $100 billion, I don’t think I’d mind much.

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Billionaires that majority of Democrats approve of: an entertainment celebrity, founder of the company that was found to engage in anticompetitive practices, and trader of private information. The only one they dislike more than Republicans is the one investing in green solutions

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In response to increasing missile threats from regional terrorist groups, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that a new laser defense system will be deployed within a year to intercept incoming missile attacks. This news highlights the increasing pace of development and utility of using high-energy lasers—a directed energy weapon—for missile defense.

Hopefully our next Republican President will buy it from them.

ZMan does a critique.

One of the striking things about the Canadian trucker protest is that we have been able to get a good look at Justin Trudeau. To this point no one outside of Canada has had a reason to care about him. Sure, he is a ridiculous person who likes wearing funny outfits in public, but that is democracy. Until now few people outside of the great white north have grasped the depth of this man’s ridiculousness. The whole world now sees that Canada is ruled by a feckless airhead.

In fairness, Canadians can point out that while Trudeau is a ridiculous person, he is not wearing diapers and unsure of his own name. In the theater of the absurd that is western liberal democracy, Joe Biden has to be the headliner. The Global American Empire has a dementia patient in charge. Not only that, when Joe Biden was at his peak fifty years ago, he was considered one of the dumbest men in Washington, so he is a dunce with dementia now.

The Antiplanner takes a stand.

The usually sensible Megan McArdle writes in the Washington Post that “Downtown is in deep trouble.” Where she becomes insensible is that she thinks that is a bad thing, arguing that city governments need to take action to lure businesses back into downtowns.

When otherwise sensible people think of a city, they imagine a dense, job-filled downtown surrounded by lower-density residential areas. Yet, as Washington Post writer Joel Garreau wrote more than 30 years ago, downtowns “are relics of a time past.” In fact, he said, downtown-centered cities were the “nineteenth-century version” of a city, and that “We built cities like that for less than a century.”

The basic point is that ‘downtown’ was a solution to a problem that cities no longer have, and carries with it disadvantages that we no longer need to tolerate. Read The Whole Thing.

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Last year was a record-breaking year for robots joining the American workforce. But in China, the advent of robotic workers was equally – if not more – intense.

According to a report from Nikkei, Yum China’s network of KFC and Pizza Hut outlets has seen significant growth over the past year, even as the size of China’s workforce has remained steady.

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A mom of four children in Prince William County, Virginia, says security guards blocked parents from entering Wednesday’s school board meeting and physically removed another mother from even entering the building.

Merianne Jensen, whose Feb. 2 speech to the school board against mask mandates went viral, arrived an hour early to attend Wednesday’s meeting. But she and other parents were blocked from entering the meeting room and instructed to sit in a foyer.

“They didn’t want to hear our voice,” Jensen told The Daily Signal after leaving the meeting Wednesday night.

It was there that Jensen saw another mother being forcibly removed by school security guards. She posted the video on Twitter, where it received tens of thousands of views.

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Sealioning … is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity. It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”. The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki.

Wondermark is highly recommended. There’s a link to it in my CARTOONS list over there to the right.

The sealioner feigns ignorance and politeness, so that if the target is provoked into making an angry response, the sealioner can then act as the aggrieved party. Sealioning can be performed by a single person or by a group acting in concert. The technique of sealioning has been compared to the Gish gallop and metaphorically described as a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.

The real reason Jim Jordan is ranting against Jan. 6 committee staff (The Hill) The mind-readers of the Narrative Media are on the case!

New Records Show Trump Spoke to Jim Jordan for 10 Minutes Morning of Jan. 6 (Daily Beast) Smoking gun! Or something.

Lin Wood Goes to War With Kooky Far-Right Conference Beset by ‘Anthrax’ Rumors (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school journalism.

Press: Time for Merrick Garland to flush Donald Trump  (The Hill) Yeah, MG, show us what ya got.

New York AG Letitia James really, really wants Donald Trump to unlock his two-dozen file cabinets in Trump Tower (Insider) I’m sure she does.

What sort of ‘comeuppance’ is in store for Trump? (Washington Post) You can almost hear the drool.

‘Guilty as Sin’: Jamie Raskin Promises Trump Will Answer for ‘Crime Wave’ (Newsweek)

What the GOP meant when it called Jan. 6 ‘legitimate political discourse’ (Politico) As if Politico had any clue as to what ‘the GOP meant’.

Super Bowl Viewers Troll Trump With Lots Of Versions Of The Same Scathing Joke (Huffington Post) Scathing!

Reid, Lemon Cry ‘Insurrectionist Grift’ Over Hawley Selling Coffee Mugs

Sea level to rise one foot along U.S. coastlines by 2050, government report finds (Washington Post) And they’ve always been right before….

US sea levels will rise rapidly in the next 30 years, new report shows (CNN) Call me when property prices in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard start decreasing.

Major banks pledging net zero are pouring money into the dirtiest fossil fuel (CNN) Gasp!

Earth is heating up too quickly for these tiny organisms to adapt (CNN)

This fuel plant will use agricultural waste to combat climate change (MIT Technology Review)

Climate change will harm Maine’s coastal infrastructure without revamp, EPA chief says (Bangor Daily News)

Sea Level Alarm.

Fact Checkers Defend Activist Scientists Because They Agree with Them Not Because They Are Right

Serious, Salty Trouble Is Brewing Under Antarctic Glaciers  (Wired ‘Science’)

Ireland, Sweden Show No January Warming Since 1988. Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Now More Than 40 Years Stable!

Slimy, Yet Satisfying? NYT Opinion Celebrates ‘Joy’ of Eating Bugs to Fight Climate Change  You first.

You’re going to feel this, Biden tells Americans, as Ukraine war looms (The Guardian) No, I won’t.

Russia-Ukraine: Biden warns of ‘bloody, destructive war’ if Russia invades Ukraine  For Biden, maybe.

It’s 11:59 in Ukraine, and Joe Biden needs to ascend the bully pulpit (Chicago Tribune) Step back, nonbelievers, or the rain may never come.

Inside the White House preparations for a Russian invasion (Washington Post)

An American Fight In Ukraine Brings Big Costs, No Benefits

“A Recurring Fountain Of Revenue”: FDA Exec Admits Biden Planning Annual Shots, Including Toddlers

Russia Mocks US, Requests ‘Full List Of Ukraine Invasion Dates’ For Year Ahead  Not the Babylon Bee.

Biden Energy Policies Added $1,000 To Typical Household’s Costs In 2021: Report

5 New Numbers That Prove That America’s Horrifying Inflation Crisis Is Getting Even Worse

The Truth About Biden’s Fake War With Russia

#Mooseolini!

Child Covid-19 hospitalizations rose amid Omicron, especially among children too young to be vaccinated (CNN) So obviously it’s time to PANIC!

Omicron wave was brutal on kids; hospitalization rates 4X higher than delta’s (Ars Technica) So we sure ought to PANIC!

The military vaccine mandate’s unforeseen costs

As state medical boards try to stamp out COVID misinformation, some in GOP push back (NPR)

CDC expected to update mask guidance as early as next week (NBC) Let’s pretend anybody cares.

‘We have a place for you’: California county recruits unvaccinated deputies (The Guardian)

Americans Support Trucker Protests

How The CDC Abandoned Science

What Corporate Media, Health ‘Experts’ Don’t Want You to Know About COVID-19 Mask Mandates

DHS Official Defends Monitoring Trucker Protests, Linking Terrorism To Misinfo

Inhaled vaccine for coronavirus moves to human trials

Ottawa’s “Freedom Convoy” Protesters Dig In As Canadian Government Suffers ‘Alex Jones’ Moment

Is The Omicron Wave Finally Over? US Cases Fall To One-Fifth Of Holiday Peak

WATCH: White House Still Wants Kids in Masks at Schools

Nation Prepares To Celebrate 2nd Anniversary Of Two Weeks To Flatten The Curve  Babylon Bee.

CensorTrack with TR: Big Tech Censors 808 COVID-19-Related Posts

Blood Money: Woman Used Federal Loan To Hire Hitman

Levi’s Brand President Was Offered $1 Million To Shut Up About Being Fired Over Criticizing COVID Restrictions

Ocasio-Cortez asked if US will be a democracy in 10 years. Hear her answer. (CNN)

Some of Neil Young’s music quietly stays at Spotify amid Joe Rogan protest  Virtue-signaling is one thing, but let’s not get in the way of the money.

Tulsi Gabbard: Durham findings shows mainstream media worked ‘to undermine democracy’

Pelosi, other stock-trading pols could avoid capital gains taxes under Warren proposal  Senator Umbrage only hates rich people who aren’t Democrats.

The conservative case for nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court (The Hill) As if The Hill would have a clue about what ‘the conservative case’ was for anything.

Nets Ignore Leftist Gun Control Advocate Charged with Attempted Murder.

North Korean Authorities Arrest Dance Tutor, Students For Practicing “Capitalist” Dance Moves: Report

Democrats Ask YouTube To Ban Ghost Gun Instructional Videos.

Zucker Lover Resigns from CNN as New Details of Alleged Cuomo Assault Surface

Detroit to Blow $1.9 Million on Electric Road

Rich CNN Host: ‘Economy Is Doing Well,’ Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes

Even San Francisco Is Giving the Boot to Liberal School Board Members

Kimmel Mocks Fox Viewers’ ‘Soft, Oatmeal-like Brains’ For Caring About Durham Story  I was about to say the same thing about Kimmel. With more reason, I suspect.

Canada Goes Tyrannical

Unemployed San Francisco School Board Member Takes To Street With ‘Will Abuse Children 4 Food’ Sign  Babylon Bee.

Nets Refuse to Cover EMBARRASSING Recall Landslide Against Woke S.F. School Board

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Curious how acceptable veganism has become. George Orwell scathingly described vegetarians as “that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come flocking to the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat.” Somehow, via Linda McCartney’s textured soya sausages, veganism has become a mainstream path, not just to health, but to a bright future. As George Monbiot, the high priest of British veganism, exhorted his Guardian readers, “The best way to save the planet? Drop meat and dairy.” It’s the cows. They belch methane.

The UK is a world leader in veganism, the first country to have a Vegan Society. Here, more than a million people will stop eating animal products this month as part of Veganuary, of which Monbiot is an “Ambassador”. After that, who knows? You may want — and the Ambassadors certainly desire — that you embrace the whole vegan testament, and deny yourself not just meat, fish, eggs and dairy, but all animal products. The wool jumper on your back. The leather shoes on your feet.

Of course, the success of veganism is no mystery at all. Vegans are absolutely correct in maintaining that plant-based food can be healthy, and that the welfare conditions of much of the globe’s livestock are pitiful. (On ethical grounds alone, I wouldn’t touch an intensively-reared pig with a bargepole, let alone with a knife and fork. And I’ve farmed for 20 years.) True too: Daisy the cow is implicated in climate-change. No sane or caring human could disagree.

Such is lower case veganism. Sensible, and sensitive. The problem comes with majuscule Veganism, which rages beyond animal ethics, diet and environmental concerns into a fundamentalist crusade untroubled by science, untouched by rationality. When humans killed God, they needed a replacement for religion. Upper-case Veganism is the latest faith for the lost middle classes.

Q: How can you tell a vegan?

A: You don’t tell a vegan. The vegan tells you.

The refutation of vegetarianism is simple: The smell of applewood-smoked bacon. Try it.

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For the last half-century or more, Democrats have jealously guarded and taken advantage of their Great Society political coalition, trading in the white working class that was once its primary base of support in favor of those who felt—or could be made to feel—as if they are marginalized racially. Even before the advent of the social media-fueled woke world, Democrats saw advantage in heightening racial strife and grievance. But, over the last decade and a half, the Left’s toxic racial politics swallowed American life whole.

With America’s most important cultural power centers now fully digested by woke racialism, the act of making otherwise normal observations about life and reality itself is greeted with hysteria and demands of stake-burning. The ever-present catch-all villains from the last century, Nazis and Fascists, are conjured ubiquitously. Their invocation has at this point no real connection to historical reality—as Orwell already observed in 1946, words like “Fascist” quickly become mere stand-ins for “bad” and “evil,” or, in our day, “racist,” and “hateful.” Because everyone occasionally needs a rhetorical change of scenery, the Left has recently sprinkled in a few other calorie-free buzzwords, such “anti-democratic” and “authoritarian.”

ZMan looks at the weather.

If you are over a certain age, something you will remember is that the economy used to be a central part of the daily news feed. People talked about the economy because it was always in the mass media. Of course, you had lots of news about finance, especially the stock market. This dovetailed with the stories about the federal budget and the resulting deficits. People used to talk about the federal debt because it was a number that was easy to conceptualize.

All of this has been pushed aside in favor of other topics now. Look at the front page of the New York Times on any day and the one thing you are not going to see is news about the debt or even the economy. Instead it is foreign affairs or perhaps a long story on the fight against Trumpism. The Washington Post is pretty much just a copy and paste operation, relying on press releases from government agencies. It is as if the economy and related topics no longer exist.

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He will be sorely missed.

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Binyamin Appelbaum, the lead writer on economics and business for the New York Times editorial board, is by all accounts a union man. In his recent essay on “The Power in Numbers”, he concluded with a rousing demand: the Government must “protect the rights of Americans and ensure every worker is free to seek strength in numbers”.

On paper, his piece had all the hallmarks of an inspiring call to arms: it was illustrated with a photo gallery of smiling workers; it took a swipe at Amazon and Starbucks; it celebrated how the “movement retains pockets of strength”. It was inspiring, that is, until we remind ourselves that the NYT is one of the most the aggressively anti-union newspapers in the media — an attitude that trickles all the way down from the dynasty that still controls the paper to this day.

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I wrote here about what I called “a Princeton-Morgan Stanley joint venture in discrimination.” My reference was to Morgan Stanley’s Freshman Enhancement Program, which is available only to Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and/or LGBTQ college freshmen. All other freshmen need not apply. Princeton participates in the program.

Today, former White House Counsel Boyden Gray sent a letter on behalf of the Project on Fair Representation to Morgan Stanley and Princeton University. It warns them that the Freshman Enhancement Program is illegal. The Project on Fair Representation is led by Edward Blum who also leads Students for Fair Admissions, the plaintiff in the discrimination suit by Asian-Americans against Harvard.

Gray’s letter is here. It states that “while the program proclaims to serve laudable goals. . .the use of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation discrimination to advance these goals is blatantly illegal and immoral.”

As it undoubtedly is.

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In some ways Japan and South Korea might be at least partially to blame for the multiyear long obsession with masking in most of the Western world.

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A lawyer for French teacher Peter Vlaming asked Tuesday that the Virginia Supreme Court take up the case, Vlaming v. West Point School Board.

“No government can force any Virginian to express messages that violate their core beliefs,” Chris Schandevel told The Daily Signal after arguing for Vlaming before Virginia’s highest court.

Schandevel, a lawyer with the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, asked the court “to reinstate the lawsuit that [Vlaming] filed in state trial court,” which dismissed the case without explanation last August.

As previously reported by The Daily Signal, the West Point School Board fired Vlaming in December 2018 after he declined to use male pronouns to refer to a female student who identified as a transgender male.

21-Year-Old Activist and Local Candidate Charged in ‘Attempted Assassination’ of Louisville Mayoral Candidate

Adams’ unlikely alliance with the head of New York’s teachers union (Politico) Unlikely? I think not.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid slams the NFL for trying to ‘sanitize’ Blackness

White supremacist flyers litter 3 Austin neighborhoods (KXAN)

Two Oregon colleges say affirmative action is vital to racial equity in admissions

AOC claims ‘very real risk’ America won’t be democracy in 10 years, will ‘return to Jim Crow’

“I Really Hate My Color Because I Look Like You”

Freeform’s ‘grown-ish:’ Okay to Lie on Resume Because ‘System is Designed to Work Against POC’

Wisconsin Dem Takes Far-Left Group’s Money But Claims He Doesn’t Support Their Policies

Maryland Public School District Announces ‘Antiracist System Audit’

Black Female Politician Overcomes Racist, Sexist Prank To Preside Over Virginia Senate

Don’t Worry, BLM Founders Aren’t Corrupt. They’re Capitalists.

Anti-Police Activist Charged With Unspeakable Act of Political Violence

Rams Win the ‘White Supremacy’ Bowl

Morgan Stanley Under Fire for Minority-Only Intern Program

Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021 (Nature)

West megadrought worsens to driest in at least 1,200 years (Associated Press)

Flourishing plants show warming Antarctica undergoing ‘major change’ (The Guardian)

Flower growth in Antarctica is accelerating due to warming climate (New Scientist)

25-Year-Old New Hampshire Event Ended; Climate Change Blamed (The Weather Channel)

Michigan’s poor and minority communities most impacted by environmental racism (WWMT) Ah, now we’ve moved from ‘environmental justice’ to ‘environmental racism’.

U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds (Reuters) I guess that’s why it’s mandated by law.

Living in a woman’s body: like Earth, we are changing quickly through the violence of climate collapse (The Guardian)

Everyone Should Pay a “Solar Tax” (Energy Institute)

Gigantic Expanse of Sea Ice Breaks Free From Antarctica and Disintegrates (Discover Magazine)

As Ordinary People Struggle, Net Zero Policies are Killing Britain’s Gas Industry

Megadrought Alarm

Why No Environmental Impact Reports on Immigration?

What are the costs of the megadrought in the Southwest?

EPA promotes U.S. heatwave increase since 1960s while downplaying HUGE DECREASE in U.S. heatwaves since 1930s

Federal District Court Enjoins Use of the “Social Cost of Carbon”

Green steel without green hydrogen – can it work?

Citizen sleuths exposed pollution from a century-old Michigan factory  And don’t they look smug about it.

UK School Bans Meat Products Because Climate Change

Montage: President Biden snaps at reporters  I know the feeling.

Black voters are fleeing Biden in droves. Here’s why (The Hill)

US Producer Price Inflation Unexpectedly Remains Near Record Highs In Jan

US Producer Prices Surged in January

One in Four Democrats Say Their Party Failed To Take Advantage of Majority Under Biden

Democrats Mull “Goofy, Gimmicky” Gas-Tax Holiday To Alleviate Americans’ Pain At The Pump

Duck & Cover: WH’s Jean-Pierre Rebuffs Durham Questions From FNC’s Heinrich

Poll Shows Just How Unhappy Americans Are With Immigration Under Biden

When Will Jake Sullivan – Biden’s National Security Advisor – Be Indicted For Russiagate Lies?

74% Of Americans Think They Will Be Involved In A War Within 12 Months

Canadian officials move to block funding of protests against Covid-19 rules with sweeping new financial measures (CNN)  The fascism is strong in this one.

‘Don’t take the damn thing’: how Spotify playlists push dangerous anti-vaccine tunes (The Guardian)

Battling hecklers, Bill Maher urges end to masks at Bay Area show (S.F. Gate)

A group of conservatives says they won’t allow quick passage of a government funding patch unless they get a vote to block vaccine mandates. (Politico)

‘The only logical choice’: anti-vaxxers who changed their minds on Covid vaccines (The Guardian)

Hackers Shut Down GiveSendGo, Call Canadian Freedom Convoy ‘Extremists’  My, what a coincidence.

Watch: Canadian Media Still Pushing Crackpot Theory That Truckers Are Russian Agents

Austria is Having Second Thoughts About the Mandatory Vax

Djokovic: I Will Not Get Vaccine Just To Pursue Titles

Outraged LA Parents React To Garcetti, Others Maskless At Super Bowl Game

Forbes Contributor Fired Over Investigative Stories On Fauci

New York City Fires Nearly 1,500 Workers For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine: Mayor  Still a Democrat, still a fascist.

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In November, the Biden Administration released the President’s Management Agenda Vision, outlining its agenda to overhaul the federal workforce and its operations. At the top level are some goals all Americans should like, such as improving how citizens interact with the federal bureaucracy and rebuilding domestic industrial capacity. Other goals, as well as the methods of achieving them, reflect an expressly progressive ideology. If fully implemented, this risks further entrenching partisan politics into the machinery of the federal bureaucracy, undermining the ideals of a meritocratic and nonpartisan civil service, and misdirecting agency funding and activity away from their fundamental missions and toward costly ideological goals such as eliminating climate change. If we stay on this course, we will soon find it impossible to reform wasteful programs and inefficient institutions, even when principled advocates of limited government are elected.

ZMan does a deep dive.

Many people have noted the similarities, as far as practical application, between 20th century fascism and modern managerialism. The starting place for the comparison is the marriage of corporate power and state power. Instead of harnessing the two in the name of socialism and nationalism, the two sides exist within the managerial state in the furtherance of technological and financial capitalism. The system is also decorated with the language of Western liberalism.

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“This is about keeping Canadians safe, protecting people’s jobs,” Mr Trudeau told a news conference on Monday.
He said the police would be given “more tools” to imprison or fine protesters and protect critical infrastructure.
Mr Trudeau told reporters the legislation would be applied temporarily and in a highly specific manner.
Critics have noted that the prime minister voiced support for farmers in India who blocked major highways to New Delhi for a year in 2021, saying at the time: “Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest.”
Mr Trudeau’s invoking of the Emergencies Act comes as demonstrations across Canada enter their third week.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

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A simple technology that enables 911 livestreaming is proving invaluable in letting emergency services see for themselves the nature of an emergency when someone calls them …

When you use your smartphone to make an emergency call, operators can text you a link. When you tap on that, you will grant access to your phone’s cameras, so that they can see the emergency situation for themselves.

This allows emergency services to instantly assess everything from the size of a fire to the severity of a car crash.

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Here’s something Californians can look forward to as urban planners force higher densities on existing neighborhoods and urban areas: buses for sleeping. A company in Hong Kong, one of the densest cities in the world, is offering “bus sleeping tours” of the city, 51-mile trips aimed at allowing residents to get a little shut-eye.

Hong Kong is one of the most sleep-deprived cities in the world, with 70 percent of residents saying they have trouble sleeping. Obstacles to sleep include light pollution, noise pollution, and the presence of so many attractive bars and restaurants within walking distance of everyone’s homes. That’s exactly what planners want for California cities, and anyone who objects is called a racist.

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I must have missed where in the Constitution it says that this is the business of the Federal government.

Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ inspires protests around the world (CNN)

New Zealand weaponizes Barry Manilow, James Blunt and the ‘Macarena’ against ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests (CNN)

Former FDA Scott Gottlieb head urges CDC to change indoor mask guidance

New Zealand authorities deploy Barry Manilow against Covid protesters (The Guardian)

‘Follow the science’: As the third year of the pandemic begins, a simple slogan becomes a political weapon (Washington Post) Aaaaand who’s fault is that, hmmmm?

This week: Confirmation fight over Biden’s FDA nominee comes to a head (The Hill)

NYC protesters fight vaccine mandate as mayor doubles down on ‘the rule’

Fired Brooklyn teacher calls City Hall vaccine mandate ‘shameful’

City of Boston apologizes for ‘accidentally’ emailing out names of unvaccinated employees: Report

FDA plan to fast-track Pfizer vaccine for kids under 5 fails to deliver, leaving parents waiting until April

For German Doctors and Nurses, There’s No Escaping the Vax

NPR Fawned Over BLM, Now Warns of ‘Extremist Core’ of Canadian Trucker Protests

Trudeau To Unleash Never-Before-Used ‘Emergency Powers Act’ To Counter Protests As US-Canada Bridge Reopens

Celebrities Assure Nation They Were Wearing Hi-Tech Invisible Masks Only Rich People Know About  Babylon Bee.

Super Bowl of Hypocrisy: Maskless Celebs Party at Big Game

ROAD BLOCK! Facebook Locks Freedom Convoy Admin Out of Platform: Report

NY Times Now Wants Cops to Shut Down Protests: Canadians ‘Feel Terrorized by Pickup Trucks’

Brilliant: L.A. Schoolchildren Dress Up As Super Bowl Celebs So They Won’t Have To Wear Masks  Babylon Bee.

The Mask Is Off: Illinois Has No Science Behind Its School Masking Mandate

DC Keeps School Mask Mandates Despite Dropping COVID Vaxx Passes

U.S. joins France in push for global treaty to cut ocean plastic pollution (CBS)

Effects of climate change taking root in the wine industry (CBS)

Bering Sea ice is the farthest south it’s been in nearly a decade

Drastic cooldown in store for California, West Coast

We Desperately Need to Modernize Climate Change Emissions Tracking (‘Scientific’ American)

The Hill goes Full Climate Hysteria

Green hypocrisy hurts the poorest

Leading Climate Skeptic Dr. Steve Koonin on The Joe Rogan Experience

Western megadrought is worst in 1,200 years, intensified by climate change

CNN’s Jake Tapper calls Biden’s rejection of Army’s after-action report on Afghanistan ‘insulting’

Americans think Biden’s presidency is a failure — Democrats can fix that (The Hill) Good luck.

Fumble Proof: Holt Tosses Softballs at Biden in Super Bowl Interview

Hunter Biden Mocked Over ‘Dumpster Gun’ After ATF Asks People To Snitch On Ex-Lovers

Watch: Biden Declares “Personal Freedom” Comes Second To COVID Mandates

rump’s unorthodox phone habits complicate January 6 investigation (CNN) The swine!

MTG Should Be an Embarrassment, Not a GOP Superstar (Daily Beast)

Trump Reportedly ‘Terrified’ of Accusations He ‘Flushed’ Official Documents (Newsweek) Uh, sure….

Flushed or just lost to history? Trump leaves hole in the record (NBC) Who doesn’t know that every document that enters the White House has an electronic copy somewhere?

Kanye West Targets Pete Davidson, Kid Cudi, Billie Eilish, and Taylor Swift With Childish Instagram Memes (Daily Beast) Speaking of childish….

Hogan Rips GOP Attacks on Republicans Who Don’t Show ‘100% Fealty’ to Trump (Newsweek)

Kinzinger Slams Pro-Putin Republicans, ‘Affection for Authoritarianism’ (Newsweek) Russia! Russia! Russia!

Trump Suggests Clinton Operatives Deserve Death for ‘Spying Operation’ (Newsweek) Except that he didn’t.

The Weird Law Prosecutors Could Use to Bar Trump From the White House (Daily Beast) You want an insurrection, that would certainly do it.

Every Republican has to answer about Jan. 6, Kinzinger says (Politico) Including you, RINO.

CNN Takes January 6 Obsession to New Level of Stupid

Fake Conservative PAC Attacks President Trump Endorsed Kari Lake

You can’t spell Mayor Adams without the ‘I’: How Hizzoner makes (almost) everything about him

Eric Adams endorses Letitia James in reelection bid after dining with Cuomo

I’m suing to block New York City’s racist foreign-citizen-voting bill

Adrian Peterson arrested on felony domestic violence charge at LAX

NPR Declares Using Wrong Color Emojis Is Probably Racist

Light skin preference in Malaysia

Rapper Kodak Black, three others shot in West Hollywood  I guess nobody cares enough about M&M to shoot him. Or maybe that’s another case of White Privilege.

Mark Ruffalo pledges support for illegal immigrants pledging not to work on Valentine’s Day

Climate crisis and systemic inequities drive push to reform California water laws (L.A. Times)

Eminem kneels during Super Bowl 2022 halftime show after rumors of NFL controversy Never too old to posture.

Palin v. The New York Times trial highlights the ‘worst possible scenario’ for journalists (CNN) Yup – being held accountable for their lies.

Gov. Kathy Hochul repeats ugly Cuomo-esque history with dark money

Chicago woman is carjacking victim for second time BRAAAAAAAINS!

Clinton Campaign Lawyer Gave ‘Sensitive’ Trump Data to CIA, Special Counsel Claims

“Large, Violent, Destructive” Crowds Take To The Streets Following Super Bowl: LAPD

The Same Krugman Who Said He Was ‘Wrong’ on Inflation Now Says 40-Year High Inflation ‘Not a Crisis’

Shameless CBS Strategizes on How to Help Biden Plot Midterms Comeback

Violence Descends on Los Angeles During Post-Super Bowl Rioting, Looting

We’re Still Waiting, Washington Post, for Your Story on Clinton Spying

5 Things to Know About Special Counsel’s Finding That Clinton Campaign Spied on Trump, White House

GW Students Debate Campus Censorship After Removal of Posters Critical of Chinese Communist Party

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Imagine you were planning a conspiracy to limit the number of doctors in America. Certainly, you’d make sure to have a costly, lengthy credentialing system. You would also tell politicians that America has too many doctors already. That way, you could purposefully constrain the number of medical-school students. You might freeze or slash funding for residencies and medical scholarships. You’d fight proposals to allow nurses to do the work of physicians. And because none of this would stop foreign-trained doctors from slipping into the country and committing the crime of helping sick people get better, you’d throw in some rules that made it onerous for immigrant doctors, especially from neighboring countries Mexico and Canada, to do their job.

Okay, I think you’ve caught on by this point. America has already done all of this.

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On the Hugh Hewitt radio broadcast not long ago, I heard a guest summing up his plans to save the West which aligned so nicely with the goals of the Last Crusade, that I regret being unable to recall his name or find him by looking up the published guest lists of the show. Would that I could give credit where credit is due.

Allow me, nonetheless, to summarize his remarks:

He started, first, by saying it was the duty of every man to recognize that we were at war, and to rouse both public and political leaders to that fact.

At war with whom? He color coded the enemy for ease of discussion: Green is the Jihad of Islam, their traditional hue; Blue is the color of the United Nations flag and helmet, and stands for the Globalists; White, the flag of surrender, stands for Isolationists and Uniparty GOP; Red are the Socialists.

The Narrative Media, of course, are Black & White & Red All Over. Rather appropriate.

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If you google the words “Great Replacement,” your first hit will likely be a Wikipedia article which identifies the term as “a white nationalist conspiracy theory.” The article is part of two series, one on Islamophobia and one on discrimination. According to Wikipedia, the theory, “disseminated by French author Renaud Camus…states that, with the complicity or cooperation of ‘replacist’ elites, the ethnic French population—as well as white European populations at large—is being demographically and culturally replaced with non-European peoples.”

U.S. outlets repeat this account of Camus’s theory when they raise concerns that Great Replacement talk is being transposed into an American context. A CNN politics report claims that “far right White supremacist groups, conservative media personalities and some Republicans in Congress are trying to inflame nativist feelings among conservative Whites by warning that liberals want immigrants to ‘replace’ native-born Americans.” The Anti-Defamation League published a Great Replacement explainer which announced that “the racist conspiracy theory has well and truly arrived.” Other examples abound.

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The outlets which publish this kind of analysis are extremely diverse in tone and character, so it is striking that they all present almost exactly the same account of things, sometimes in identical language. From Wikipedia to ADL to Teen Vogue, the story is the same: a dangerous white supremacist conspiracy theory has made its way from the ugly chat rooms of the far Right to the very center of conservative punditry and political leadership. The elision between fringe anti-Semites and popular media personalities serves to underscore the theme that all conservatives, however ostensibly “mainstream,” have succumbed to radical extremism.

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I’m holding out for titanium.

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Radically transparent, low cost versions of high cost generic drugs.

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Pennsylvania Senate race: Dave McCormick to air ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ ad during Super Bowl

On voting rights, Biden’s power to act on his own is limited (Associated Press) Which is not to say that he won’t try.

Who’s Afraid of President Crackpipe?

Biden Admin Urges Court Not To Allow Release Of ‘Secret Report’ On Dominion Voting Machines

US Taxpayer Dollars Are Flooding Back Into Afghanistan

“Something Isn’t Right” – 38 Lawmakers Demand Biden Undergo Cognitive Testing As Soon As Possible

In Surreal Plot Twist, Ukraine’s President Demands Proof From US Over Alarmist Russian Invasion Claims  Hey, if the Ukrainians aren’t worried about it, I don’t see why we ought to.  (Except that Biden needs to get his poll numbers up somehow.)

Pentagon Docs Shed New Disturbing Light On Biden’s Afghan Evacuation Disaster

On the ice, a question: Where are the Black figure skaters? In the same place as the white football and basketball players.

NYT: Accepting Applications for a Black Boyfriend

NYT: This DIE Consultancy Is So Flush with Cash It’s Taking Black History Month Off to Drink Champagne in the Bathtub

World Economic Forum ‘Insane Pro-CRT Propaganda’ Video Draws Sharp Rebuke

Retired 3-Star General: Critical Race Theory Leading To Military ‘Failure’

Russia has surrounded Ukraine on three sides. Here’s where an invasion could be launched (CNN)

Newspaper headlines: Russia’s ‘false flag’ plot, and a ‘whiff of Munich’ (BBC)

A police reform can’t wait any longer (CNN)

Minneapolis rioters vandalize buildings, block traffic after Amir Locke death

Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill is cruel and dangerous (CNN)

Washington Post’s Fairy Tale on Pennsylvania Voter Fraud

Shoplifting Reaches Crisis Proportions

Oakland Truckers Overwhelmed By Looming CARB Rule, Supply Chain Obstacles

An Instance of Fraud In the Public Schools

Another Day in the (War-zone) Neighborhood: More Seattle-area Chaos

Free Speech In The UK?

Stephanopoulos Ignores Pelosi’s Reluctance for Congressional Stock Trading Ban

Sunday Shows Despicably Ignore Report That Clinton Spied on Trump

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