Indiana bill targets banks that divest from fossil fuels, says they can’t do business here (Indianapolis Star)

Climate change may be supercharging Northeast snowstorms (Axios)

Ethical carbon offsetting has a role to play in tackling the climate crisis (The Guardian) You certainly wouldn’t want UNethical carbon offsetting….

The US government should end its war on natural gas (The Hill)

Mayor Adams Announces Appointments of Climate Leadership Team No leadership team is complete without a morbidly obese black woman.

105 More Non-Global Warming/Non-Hockey Stick Temperature Records Added To The Database In 2021

WUWT New York State Net Zero Plan Summary

Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy

UK Gas Production Could Plunge 75% By 2030 With No New Investment

New Mexico Climate Activists Fighting to Kill Hydrogen Economy Bill

Extreme Heat in the Oceans Is Out of Control  (Wired ‘Science’)

Critics say Ginni Thomas’s activism is a Supreme Court conflict. Under court rules, only her husband can decide if that’s true. (Washington Post)  But we’ll insinuate that it does nevertheless.

Some records sent to Jan. 6 committee were torn up, taped back together — mirroring a Trump habit (Washington Post) We have no evidence that he did it, but we’re going to insinuate that he did.

Some Trump White House records handed over to January 6 committee had been ripped up (CNN) And you know what THAT means.

‘Burn it down’: This deep-red California county is now a recall warzone (S.F.Gate)

Trump’s rally in Texas shows exactly why he’s so dangerous (CNN)

Trump’s Texas trip illustrates his upsides and downsides for Republicans and their midterm hopes (Washington Post)

CBS hosts say Joe Rogan doesn’t have ‘First Amendment right’ to be on Spotify: ‘It seems so dangerous’

Joe Rogan Shares Incorrect Coronavirus Story Just 24 Hours After Apology (Huffington Post) Incorrect!

A GOP proposal targeting ‘negative’ U.S. history is cause for renewed alarm (Washington Post)

The second best thing about getting doxed by white supremacists (Washington Post)

‘Free to do as you are told’: Florida Republicans advance wave of draconian bills (The Guardian) A bad case of projection.

Kavanaugh Fears Biden’s Supreme Court Pick Will “Hog the Keg” (The New Yorker) The best of high-school journalism.

Exclusive: Trump advisers drafted more than one executive order to seize voting machines, sources tell CNN (CNN) Sources!

Second draft order by Trump advisers sought to ask DHS to seize voting machines: report (The Hill) Two drafts! A smoking gun!

Trump’s Mega-Fans in Moscow Declare They’re ‘Ready to Elect Him Again’ (Daily Beast)

NBC Historian Beschloss: I’m Not Saying Trump Is Hitler—But He’s Hitler

Globe and Mail: Calling the Ottawa Protests ‘peaceful’ Plays Down Non-violent Dangers, Critics Say

Joe Scarborough Says ‘Nobody Here Comparing Trump to Hitler’ 

Groundhog Refuses To Emerge To See Shadow Until Rogan Banned  Babylon Bee.

2 new omicron symptoms you won’t realize are from COVID (Deseret News) So don’t forget to PANIC!

If Newsom and Breed aren’t afraid of omicron, why should we be?

Moderna’s vaccine receives full FDA approval (Washington Post)

Even some on the left have had it with lockdowns

Pregnant Reporter Forced To Stay In Kabul After Home Country Of New Zealand Denies Her Entry Due To COVID Protocols

Protesters Gather In Front Of Australian Parliament In Solidarity With Ottawa Truck Convoy

CBS, NBC Ignore Newsom Flouting Own Mask Mandates at Rams Game

Smearing the Truckers

Ivermectin Has ‘Antiviral Effect’ Against Omicron And All Other ‘Mutant Strains’ Of Covid-19

Austrian Bioethicist: Mandatory Vaccines Should Also Be Imposed For Measles And Flu

Watch: CBS News Tells Viewers Joe Rogan Is Killing People

CDC’s COVID-19 Mask Guidelines For Children Challenged By House Republicans

Fauci Knew About Likely Lab-Leak From Secret Teleconference, Pushed Alternate Narrative Instead

Trudeau Demands Truckers Get Vaccinated Like He Did So They Don’t Catch COVID Like He Did

Boston Mayor Hints at Keeping Mask, Vaccine Mandates Through Next Winter

Jorge Ramos: Vaccine Skeptics Are a Danger to Democracy  Hey, all those dead Democrat voters weren’t vaccinated – smoking gun!

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Transfers from parents—either in the form of gifts or inheritances—have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows available to an individual (defined as the capitalized sum of net labor income, government transfers, and gifts and inheritances received over the period) accounted for by capitalized gifts and inheritances. Perhaps surprisingly, we find that gifts and inheritances represent a small share of Total Inflows; this is true across the distribution of Total Inflows, as well as at all levels of net wealth at a point in time. Gifts and inheritances are only an important source of income flows among those who have very wealthy parents. Additionally, gifts and inheritances have very little effect on the distribution of Total Inflows – when we do a counterfactual Total Inflows distribution with zero gifts and inheritances, it is not much different from the actual distribution. Our findings suggest that inheritance taxes may do little to mitigate the extreme wealth inequality in society.

Wealth inequality (and it’s red-headed stepchild, income inequality) is a problem only to people who think that they ought to have as much wealth as anybody else.

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Can Godzilla be far behind?

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Taylor Lorenz is leaving the New York Times. The adult reporter best known for attending an internet celeb’s 16th birthday party for “work” announced Tuesday she was joining the Washington Post as a columnist covering “technology, online life, influencers, memes, business, culture, & more!”

Lorenz, who is probably 37 years old (her true age remains a source of controversy), rose to prominence in 2018 by posting about the $22 avocado toast she ordered online. Since then, she has been the subject of more media profiles than any journalist in American history. Her latest career announcement, for example, was accompanied by an interview with Vanity Fair in which Lorenz threw shade at the Times for not taking her work “seriously” and struggling to “deal with talent” such as herself.

“I think that people do not understand my beat. They don’t take it seriously,” Lorenz told the magazine. “I think the Times is an incredible institution but mainstream media organizations have kind of struggled to figure out how they deal with talent.” The celebrity journalist went on to suggest the Times was not comfortable with the way she uses “the internet as a modern internet person.” (Whatever that means.)

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If asked, most Americans probably believe the U.S. and Russia are pretty evenly matched on nuclear weapons due to arms control treaties such as the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty—aka New START.

That’s not exactly correct.

Indeed, with Russia threatening a large-scale invasion of Ukraine at any moment, now is a good time to take note of a little-spoken-of, but glaring, imbalance in our nuclear arsenals—and how it could affect our interests in Europe.

While the U.S. and Russia have a similar number of deployed strategic (i.e., high-yield) nuclear weapons as limited under New START, Russia has a 10:1 advantage over us in non-strategic (i.e., low-yield) nuclear weapons—aka tactical or battlefield nukes.

Yes, you read that right: A 10:1 advantage.

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Apple is continuing to develop technology that could allow virtually invisible input areas that can display information to a user while replacing physical buttons or controls on its products.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Apple covering a “concealable input region for an electronic device.” The patent, U.S. Patent No. 11,237,655, describes technology that uses microperforations to sense input.

Apple says the point of the patent is to do away with the “large buttons, keys, or other mechanically-actuated structures” used to sense inputs on a device. That’s because traditional input elements “may lack flexibility or adaptability and may permanently indicate the presence of the input device.”

As a Apple stockholder, I encourage them to do so.

ZMan is not optimistic.

In January, The New Criterion organized a symposium around the topic of the changes in the conservative movement. They invited several writers to respond to the main essay written by Kim R. Holmes, the former Executive Vice President of The Heritage Foundation and former Assistant Secretary of State in the G. W. Bush Administration. The respondents are Ryan T. Anderson, Josh Hammer, Charles R. Kesler, Daniel J. Mahoney, James Piereson, Robert R. Reilly, and R. R. Reno.

Now, if this were a boxing match, it would have been called in the second response to Holmes, written by Josh Hammer, a member of Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism movement. Hammer offers a lengthy critique of conservatism but the subtext is a bit of inescapable reality. The conservative movement, whatever its intensions, was a complete failure. It conserved nothing. In fact, it may be the biggest failure in the history of political movements.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

I made a disparaging comment here the other day about how I never watch “The View,” because, based on the 10-second clips I’ve seen from time to time by accident, it seems obvious that if you actually attempt to sit through an entire episode you’ll feel your IQ dropping by the minute.

Today “View” stalwart Whoopi Goldberg said “the Holocaust wasn’t about race,” and you can see the other panelists desperately trying to figure out how to go into damage-control mode, before the director, no doubt shouting in the control room “Shut it down! Go to commercial!”, brought up the bumper music quite abruptly and loudly to stop Whoopi’s big whoops!

Her thesis would certainly come as news to Hitler. Maybe even to Joe Biden.

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Anyone who had a reaction short of anaphylaxis that caused throat swelling (and only that), is guided by the CDC to receive the vaccine.

Cardiomyopathy? Get the booster.

Venous Sinus Thrombus? Get the booster.

Deep vein thrombosis? Get the booster.

Total body rash? Get the booster.

The CDC’s guidelines do not take into account the unique nature of people and their strange immune systems. The State of California’s Department of Public Health also does not take into account people’s conditions and previous reactions. California’s Board of Medicine is still creating an environment of fear for doctors who are willing to treat their patients as individuals. BoM is still coercing doctors to deny appropriate care and guidance to their patients for fear of losing their own careers.

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I must confess that I was shocked — shocked! — to learn that there are hoaxters among those who promote the experimental mRNA treatments for the Wuhan Coronavirus. What happened to the incorruptible physicians of the utmost probity who previously inhabited the profession?

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against police officers, no lootings of businesses, no arsonist fires, no destruction of police stations … all of which were well-represented in 2020 riots corporate media labeled mostly peaceful. This has been a source of frustration to the corporate media. Disappointed by the lack of real violence in the trucker protest, leftists have resorted to the “McAuliffe Maneuver” of sending activists to discredit the movement through white supremacist cosplay.

The Washington Post published an editorial cartoon bizarrely equating a working-class protest against authoritarian Government as “fascism.” But still, the truckers have persisted in remaining nonviolent. According to the Toronto Globe and Mail, the mere presence of truckers who could potentially hold the wrong opinions is traumatizing to the sort of people who are perpetually traumatized.