Graham storms out of Jackson SCOTUS hearing after Durbin Gitmo clash

‘A story of social justice’: a history of racial segregation and swimming (The Guardian)s

Nikole Hannah-Jones goes off on tipping as a ‘legacy of slavery,’ deletes tweet

BLM leader who threatened ‘riots’ if plainclothes unit was brought back says Mayor Adams listened to activists

7 Big Moments From Day 2 of Judge Jackson’s Confirmation Hearing

CNN Dismisses ‘Clown’ Ted Cruz Asking Jackson About CRT as ‘Below the Line’

CNN Masturbation Expert Decries Focus on Jackson’s Child Porn Rulings

WATCH: All The Must-See Moments from Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearings

ABC, NBC Ignore Hawley Questioning Jackson’s Sympathy for Pedophiles

Joy Reid Has a MELTDOWN Over GOP Senators Questioning Judge Jackson

Here’s the Late Night Hacks Who Think It’s Racist for GOP to Question Jackson

Judge Jackson in brief

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Denies Connection to CRT. Her Past Says Otherwise.

NOW You Don’t Want to Go There? ABC Seethes Over Cruz Asking Jackson About Race

Kaepernick Publicity Stunt Draws Interest From 5 NFL Teams

Senate Hearing Delayed As Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Trouble Locating The Women’s Room  Babylon Bee.

Kentanji Brown Jackson Defends Murder Stating Your Life Shouldn’t Be Ruined By Something You Did For 15 Minutes

PolitiFact Double-Blasts GOP Senator Blackburn as ‘False’ in Defense of Ketanji

What the Confirmation Hearing Told Us About Judge Jackson’s Judicial Philosophy

Jackson To Recuse From Harvard Asian Bias Lawsuit

Leftist Pro-Court Packing Group Pushing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for SCOTUS Got Soros Money

Record-Smashing Heatwaves Are Hitting Antarctica And The Arctic at The Same Time (ScienceAlert)

Russia used ‘soft power’ to influence EU policies and anti-fossil fuel efforts (The Hill)

Arctic sea ice could hit maximum extent ‘much earlier’ than usual (The Guardian) Could!

What happened to the world’s ozone hole? (BBC)

Plant once considered extinct now flourishing in Ohio

Finding fossil fuel alternative to Russian oil and gas makes short-term sense (The Guardian)

Indiana one of most polluted states. New report says legislature gets a D+ on green bills. (Indianapolis Star)

South Korea sued to stop deep-sea gas pipeline (BBC)

Dutch bank ING ends financing for new oil and gas projects (Reuters)

“ESG” efforts to rid the world of fossil fuels will drive humanity back to medieval times

More Confirmation Of The Infeasibility Of A Fully Wind/Solar/Storage Electricity System

UN Secretary General Lashes Out at “Climate Holdout” Australia

The Renewable Energy Fail

Climate Change is About Control, Stupid – Not The Environment

Omicron variant may be sturdier than previous COVID-19 variants, study says (Deseret News)

White House officials say U.S. has exhausted funds to buy potential fourth vaccine dose for all Americans (Washington Post)

White House press secretary Jen Psaki tests positive (again) for COVID-19 (NPR) Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Early Screening Data Show New COVID Subvariant Gaining Ground In US

Testing for COVID with the sound of a cough? There’s an app for that

‘15 Days’ to 2 Years: How Power Corrupted Our Public Health Bureaucrats

Behind Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance, a revolt against the GOP unfolds (Washington Post)

Ex-Trump personal assistant appears before Jan. 6 panel (The Hill)

‘It’s a culture war that’s totally out of control’: the authors whose books are being banned in US schools (The Guardian)

Cowboys for Trump creator found guilty in second US Capitol attack trial (The Guardian)

Ted Cruz’s Latest Troll? Turning His Campaign Into a Super PAC (Daily Beast)

Progressives find a new takedown target in the House

Twitter Now Suspends Babylon Bee Editor Following ‘Joke’ About Satire Site Being Suspended

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Evergreen notes are written and organized to evolve, contribute, and accumulate over time, across projects. This is an unusual way to think about writing notes: Most people take only transient notes. That’s because these practices aren’t about writing notes; they’re about effectively developing insight: “Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”. When done well, these notes can be quite valuable: Evergreen note-writing as fundamental unit of knowledge work.

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A Somali culture-enricher got down to some serious stabbing yesterday in the German city of Mainz. The big question: jihad or not jihad? Based on what the police say, it was probably just an ordinary culturally enriched knife fight, and not jihad.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Telling the truth and keeping agreements is not a Muslim value.

Bill Barr says Joe Biden lied to Americans about Hunter Biden laptop: ‘I was very disturbed’

Kamala Harris’ national security adviser is latest VP staffer to resign

The Republican Plan To Draw Blood Over Biden’s SCOTUS Nomination

Biden Says The Quiet Part Out Loud

The Many Forms of Censorship Converge on Hunter’s Laptop

‘Morning Joe’ Furiously Flip-Flops Over Biden Being Too Weak in Ukraine Response

Florida becomes a dangerous laboratory of autocracy  (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

Ron DeSantis follows the Trump playbook ahead of 2024 (CNN) Teeing-up De Santis to be painted as The New Trump, just in case.

Bill Maher Didn’t Change. He’s Always Been a Cringe Centrist. (Daily Beast)

The real – and far scarier – reason Republicans think Biden is illegitimate (The Guardian)

The Trump Org Finds a New Way to Play Dirty With NY Investigators (Daily Beast)

Can divisive culture warriors be booted out of an extremely red state? (The Hill)

Ex-wife accuses top Missouri GOP Senate candidate of abuse (Ass0c9ated Press)

Controversial Saudi-Backed Tournament Reportedly To Be Held At Trump Golf Course (Huffington Post)

Jan. 6 Suicide Victim Was Told ‘He Would Not Receive A Fair Trial In This Town’  And he would not.

Despite reform efforts, S.F. police stop and search Black people far more than any other race (S.F. Chronicle)

Cardiff: Hundreds gather at anti-racism protest  (BBC) How many black people are there in Wales?

What’s going on with Ye — and why does it matter? (NPR)

Abrams files lawsuit to use fundraising law meant to aid Kemp (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Hawley SCHOOLS ABC’s Scott After She Peddles WH Talking Points on SCOTUS

AWOL Black Fathers

ABC Ignores GOP Criticism of Judge Jackson’s Nomination

4 Key Moments on Day 1 of Judge Jackson’s Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing

Ruhle: Hawley Questioning Jackson’s Judicial Record is ‘Dangerous’

What You Need to Know About Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

VCs: This Is Why You’re Not Investing In Black Women, And Here’s How To Change That  The arrogance of modern Wokery.

Supreme Court Nominee Admits She Gave Pedophiles Lighter Sentences Because Internet Makes It ‘So Easy’

‘History on the Horizon’; Nets Get Syrupy Over ‘Emotion’ at Jackson Hearings

CNN’s Coates Gushes Over Jackson, Accuses GOP of Trying to Educate Her

NBC Gushes Over Jackson Being ‘Like An Olympic Athlete’

Senate Pulls Out Skin Color Chart To Make Sure Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Black  Babylon Bee.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Leadership Role at School Promoting Critical Race Theory

‘Very Normal’: The View Defends Jackson Taking It Easy on Pedophiles, Child Porn Sentences  Normal for proglodytes, perhaps.

MSNBC: Judge Jackson is Victim of ‘Racism & Sexism’ in Senate Hearings Corresponding to the racism and sexism of which she was the beneficiary in her nomination.

CBS Absurdly Claims Jackson ‘Almost Sounded Like A Conservative’

America has a New York Times-doesn’t-get-the-First Amendment problem (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Workplaces are in denial over how much Americans have changed (The Guardian)

Demand for Safe Rooms Skyrockets in Los Angeles (Hollywood Reporter)

Demand for panic rooms costing up to $1MILLION in crime-ridden LA is soaring (Daily Mail)

Disney faces backlash over LGBTQ controversy: ‘It’s just pure nonsense’ (The Guardian)

California’s progressives are in retreat

The fictional world of trans activism

Censorship Takes Many Forms, Including Refusing to Cover Certain Stories

Labor Union Gives $100K to Bernie Bro Embezzler

NewsGuard Gives 100/100 Scores to Outlets Who Tried to Bury Biden Laptop Story

The takeover of America’s legal system

NBC’s Doctored Photo Makes Trans Swimmer Thomas Look More Feminine

Can We Overcome Progressive Left’s Constitution?

Pelosi’s Electric Car Windfall

DeSantis Recognizes Female NCAA Athlete, Not Lia Thomas, as Top Women’s Swimmer

Disney Unveils Exciting New ‘Sodom And Gomorrah’ Attraction  Babylon Bee.

Normal People Work at Disney Too. They’re Starting to Speak

Pro-Family Groups Urge Disney to Protect Kids, Stop Pushing LGBT Agenda

Climate change: ‘Madness’ to turn to fossil fuels because of Ukraine war (BBC)

Rich countries must stop producing oil and gas by 2034, says study (The Guardian) Must!

This school wasn’t built for the new climate reality. Yours may not be either (NPR) New climate reality!

Latinos have an air pollution crisis — we demand cleaner cars (The Hill) One Woke columnist speaks for all Latinx!

The four horsemen of the apocalypse are destroying planet Earth (The Hill)

Kuwait, among world’s hottest places, lags on climate action (NBC)

Climate change: IPCC scientists to examine carbon removal in key report (BBC)

Extremes of 40C above normal: what’s causing ‘extraordinary’ heating in polar regions? (The Guardian)

WEF Issues Ominous Warning Over Coming Food Crisis, Recommends ‘More Sustainable Diets’  Eat bugs!

UN Warns Individualistic Conservatives Threaten the Planet

“This is madness”: UN Secretary General Whining About Abandoned Climate Goals

Environmentalists Rage at Efforts To Lower Gas Prices

Morano on SEC ‘climate risk’ disclosures: ‘It’s a way for climate activists to literally get their claws into every aspect of a business’ without a vote of Congress

California could see coronavirus increase this spring due to Omicron subvariant BA.2  (L.A. Times)

Kid Rock to Tucker Carlson: ‘F— Fauci’ (The Hill)

Expert reveals why the new BA.2 variant is a test for return to normal (Deseret News)

CDC email: Let’s do better with ‘our data’  (Politico)

Biden pushes new normal amid worries about next covid surge —and who is left behind (Washington Post)

Alcohol-Related Deaths Skyrocketed During COVID-19 Pandemic, Study Finds  Alcohol is a disinfectant, right?

The Pandemic Changed How We Work. It’s Time for Labor Laws to Change, Too.

Covid and the Heart: It Spares No One – Johns Hopkins

Chicago Public Schools Is Masking Kids Again. Its Teachers’ Union Wants More Restrictions.

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A regular loaf of leavened bread has four key ingredients: flour, water, salt and yeast. But reading the wrapper on the shop-bought bread that replaced my failed loaf, I discovered not four ingredients but 27. Why?

It struck me, while rinsing off-white gunk down the sink, that the reason for this is that bread has a fifth essential ingredient: time. And the difference between my home-made ingredient list and the longer shop-bought one is mostly additives that reduce the need to treat time as an ingredient.

But this goes well beyond just bread. Much of what’s distinctively modern about modern life can also be understood as the consequence of waging war on time in the name of productivity. And if this drive for time-saving seems at first to have no downsides, the costs are growing increasingly apparent.

The reason I buy commercial bread rather than make my own is because Real Bread goes bad after about three days, and my wife and I won’t use up a whole loaf (not even a baguette) in that time; I depend on the additives to keep it viable for as long as it can.

Joel Kotkin.

With the seeming deconstruction of the Biden Administration proceeding at a rapid clip, many on the right hope for an end to the conscious stoking of class resentments that has characterized progressive politics. Yet despite the political meltdown, America’s class divides have become so wide, and so bitter, that Biden’s presidency may prove more a prelude than a denouement for the future of class warfare.

Under both parties, American society, traditionally egalitarian, at least in theory, has become ever more divided by financial class. Today, the Federal Reserve demonstrates that the top one percent have more assets than the 60 percent who occupy the middle rungs. The remarkable rise of the tech oligarchy has paced this change, creating a gusher of wealth for the chosen few, including youthful, unproven start-up CEOs turned instant billionaires—as well as an unprecedented boom on Wall Street. The pandemic has accelerated this trend, vastly enriching the elites, and raising executive salaries to the highest ever. Meanwhile much of the working and middle classes may become increasingly dependent on what Marx called “the proletarian alms bag.”

 

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Meet the new economic wreckers, same as the old economic wreckers. Putin is now being blamed for the shortage of petroleum by the Biden administration. Josef Stalin used the phrase economic wreckers to assign blame for the failure of any number of Five-Year Plans to increase production.

With the stroke of a pen, President Biden’s executive order to kill the Keystone pipeline turned the United States into a nation that has to beg Venezuela, Russia, Saudia Arabia, and Iran to increase their oil production. This decision was a strategic blunder. The Keystone pipeline was not the only project affected; new oil and natural gas production has also been stifled.

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It goes without saying that leftists have perfected the art of situational ethics. The basic operating rule for the left is: “‘Democracy’ means getting what we want; if any institution doesn’t give us what we want, that institution must be destroyed,” though they will always call it “reform.”

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From “democracy in crisis” to rule by decree faster than Vin Diesel in Fast & Furious 10. (Shouldn’t Vin Diesel change his last name in this time of the climate crisis? Maybe some other time. . .)

We now see this in the case of the Supreme Court, which is infuriating liberals because it no longer serves as a policy-making body for the left to use as an end-run around the branches of government accountable to voters.

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I infer from yesterday’s New York Times story that the FBI is working with prosecutors in in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York to nail James O’Keefe and Project Veritas. Given the bylines of Michael Schmidt and Adam Goldman on the Times’s coverage, I see the Times as the public relations arm of the operation.

The SDNY first obtained a warrant and grand jury subpoena for documents from Microsoft in November 2020, some two weeks after the election. The FBI has had Project Veritas under some form of surveillance since January 2021. The surveillance has been conducted under previously sealed search warrants and court orders prohibiting Microsoft from disclosing it to Project Veritas. Eight Project Veritas journalists (and the organization’s human resources officer) have been subject to the surveillance.

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Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton today announced the formal creation of the country’s Defense Space Command, the formal launch of a new Space Strategy, and millions of dollars of investment in an aging military base — the next wave in a flurry of announcements from the incumbent Liberal party as it gets closer to election day.

Dutton made the announcement at the Royal Australian Air Force’s Air Force and Space Power Conference in Canberra. “It works in close collaboration with the [civilian] Australian Space Agency, industry partners, and our research and scientific institutions,“ Dutton said.

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Swords and Ravens is a online adaptation of the excellent board game A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) edited by Fantasy Flight Games. You can play with players from around the world either in live or via email, for free.

 

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Vice President Harris meditated on “the significance of the passage of time” four times in less than 30 seconds during her remarks following an event in Louisiana yesterday. Harris was promoting the federal gusher of money to support high-speed Internet access in small town America. To adapt Oscar Wilde’s adage about the death of Little Nell, one must have a heart of stone to listen to Harris’s meditations without cackling. She is a walking parody of herself.

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Like a hunter/gatherer stashing their prey, the ideas and the links we stumble upon feel valuable, rare, something worth saving. We ascribe value to the time we spend discovering things online. Surely that time wasn’t in vain.

Then we’re burdened with our findings. It’s tough to focus on something new when you’re still holding the old in your mind.

So we write things down. Bookmark them. Add them to our reading list. Highlight our findings. Make long lists and check them twice. We need a cave, a storehouse, somewhere to stash our findings.

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There are now two main ways of reading the phenomenon of early modern witchcraft. One is the dogged academic research of scholars like Peter Maxwell-Stuart, Ronald Hutton and Keith Thomas. The other is an attempt to bend the reality of history to fit a modish exploration of feminine identity and the tyranny of the patriarchy down the ages. I Am Witch: Tales from the Roundhouse, recently staged in Lancaster, falls firmly into the second category.

The exhibition sets out its stall early on. It refers to “The Burning Times”, the title of a 1990 Canadian documentary which presented an unapologetically feminist reading of witchcraft in the early modern period and certainly one of the most laughably poor and ahistorical films of its generation. It goes on to state its purpose as explaining “how epigenetically inherited trauma from those times continues to affect us today, and how creativity, ceremony and sisterhood offer all of us a pathway to healing.”

Every ‘modern witch’ (and believer in astrology) I’ve ever met was a Democrat (or to the left thereof).

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he institutionalisation of gender-neutral language is designed to change how we think, feel and act.

The Ministry of Truth has a substation in every public school, every Woke newspaper, and every activist bullpen.

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Traditionally, we think of chemistry being done in a lab with test tubes, flasks, and gas burners. But it has also benefited from developments in computing and quantum mechanics, both of which rose to prominence in the early-mid 20th century. Early applications included using computers to help solve physics-based calculations; by blending theoretical chemistry with computer programming, we were able to simulate (albeit far from perfect) chemical systems. Eventually, this vein of work grew into a subfield now called computational chemistry. The subfield started to gain momentum in the 1970s and was featured in the Nobel Prizes of 1998 and 2013. Even so, while computational chemistry has gained more and more recognition over the past few decades, its importance has been largely overshadowed by that of lab experiments – the cornerstone of chemical discovery.

However, with current advancements in AI, data-centric techniques, and ever-growing amounts of data, we might be witnessing a change where computational approaches are used not just to assist lab experiments but to guide them.

The number of possible chemical compounds is as vast as the number of possible English sentences.

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Instead of injecting themselves with a medication to prevent bone loss, astronauts on Mars may be able to eat their way to a stronger skeleton, thanks to lettuce that’s been genetically engineered to make a bone-stimulating hormone.

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A group of women and children fled the war in Ukraine for Sweden, where they have been subjected to close encounters with Somali culture-enrichers. Now they want to go back to Ukraine — compared with Africans, the bombs don’t seem so bad.

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According to the grandmother, they have opted to name their child “Stormy-Water” while the baby has also been given the middle name “Cloud.” She said what makes it worse is the story behind why they have given him such an unusual name.

“Stormy represents their life before they met, water is the continuity (infinity) of their love for each other and cloud was the ‘silver lining’ when they realized they were expecting,” she explained.

Call him ‘Drip’ for short.

Jan. 6 panel will reveal new information about attack, Cheney says (NBC)

Liz Cheney does not regret vote against Trump Ukraine impeachment (The Guardian)

Is a post-Trump media world beginning to take shape? (The Hill) All Trump! All the time!

NYT Reveals Shady New Details on How Project Veritas Got Its Hands on Ashley Biden’s Diary (Daily Beast)

Twitter Locks The Babylon Bee’s Account

Health Worker Megafund Attacks Facebook Over ‘Misinformation’

Free Speech, Ours and Theirs

Capehart: If I Wouldn’t Get Fired, I’d Curse Tucker Carlson for Wanting Jackson’s Test Score  It’s so wayciss!

Health experts predict uptick in U.S. Covid cases due to new BA.2 variant (CNBC)

These are the deltacron COVID-19 symptoms to watch for right now (Deseret News)

Twitter Blocks Links To Daily Mail Article Questioning COVID-19 Deaths

What doctors wish patients knew about long Covid

Biden’s pursuit of Venezuelan oil while shunning US energy and Keystone XL slammed: ‘climate craziness’

Sen. Johnson blasts NY Times, former intel experts over Hunter Biden laptop

FLASHBACK: MSNBC, CNN, CBS told viewers Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation

Gas prices: Diesel nears $7 per gallon in California

Great Job! TV News Spent Two ENTIRE Seconds on Hunter’s Laptop Since Thursday

Watchdog Wants Biden To Disclose Origins of $1 Million Grant Program To Demonize Israel

Biden’s Energy Crisis Separated California Family From Their Hospitalized Newborn

Democrat Compares Hunter Biden to Barron Trump, Slams GOP for ‘Harassing’ 52-Year-Old Former Crack Head

Shameful 60 Minutes Fails to Admit: Hunter Biden Laptop Story Is True

Heatwaves at both of Earth’s poles alarm climate scientists (The Guardian)

Both of the planet’s poles experience extreme heat, and Antarctica breaks records (NPR)

The U.S. may force companies to disclose climate risks, marking a historic change (NPR) Needless to say, climate change is no business of the SEC.

Big-box stores could help slash emissions and save millions by putting solar panels on roofs. Why aren’t more of them doing it? (CNN) Because ‘save millions’ is a lie.

A global warming event of the ancient world previews our future

Prolonging the Climate Crisis

Underwater Permafrost Is a Big, Gassy Wild Card for the Climate (Wired ‘Science’)

Guardian: Nine Cattle Killed in One Strike Proves Climate Change

MSNBC guest on Sen. Josh Hawley bringing up Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record: ‘Trying to get her killed’

Republican Hawley’s attack on supreme court nominee Jackson is wrong, says senator

Disney said it regrets racist cheer by high school team (CNN)

In Chicago, Whites Prefer to Gentrify Latino Rather Than Black Neighborhoods

Daily Mail vs. New York Times Coverage of a Sailer’s Law Mass Shooting

Read the Letter Biden’s SCOTUS Pick Wrote Calling a Journalist ‘Irredeemably Evil’

CBS’s ‘The Equalizer’: Racist Cops Afraid of BLM, Al Sharpton & Don Lemon

The hunt for Nigerians who can change into cats

Networks Spoonfeed Viewers White House Spin for Jackson, Screech at GOP Pushback

‘Hard on Injustice’: CNN Defends Jackson’s Alleged Leniency with Child Sex Crimes

Nets Swoon Over Jackson, Declare Her Immune From GOP Criticism

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Here are just a few examples of what was in the bill:

• $1 million for a “farm-to-refrigerator training facility” in Pennsylvania
• $2 million for George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change
• $2.5 million for a museum in Vermont.
• $3 million for a fisherman’s coop facility in Guam

These examples represent only four of 4,400 earmarks in the bill.

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As the Biden administration has overseen record numbers of illegal immigrant crossings on the southern border, vulnerable Democrats are paying the price on the campaign trail.

A new TV ad released Monday hits Sen. Mark Kelly (D., Ariz.) as a “bald-faced liar” for professing support for border security while enabling lax border protection.

“Mark Kelly claims he’s improving border security,” the ad, paid for by Republican candidate Jim Lamon, says. “But Kelly voted against border security funding three times. On his watch, illegal border crossings exploded­­—including sex predators, murderers, even a suspected terrorist—and deportations dropped 70 percent.”

Kelly leveraged his status as an astronaut and his marriage to crime victim Gabby Giffords to gain a Senate seat. Arizona may learn that issues matter and voting by emotionalism always ends badly.

Freeberg nails it.

Conservatives, all over the place, confess that Donald Trump might not be a good role model for boys. It isn’t even a concession. A lot of them are eager to agree to this, in fact will advance it, waiting for others to agree. I can’t find any liberals wiling to concede HIllary Clinton or Kamala Harris make poor role models for girls.

Being a liberal, I’ve concluded, must have a lot to do with never conceding anything, anywhere, at any time. Never admit to having been wrong. Never make a single U-turn. That’s for lesser people.

It isn’t that liberals have a frayed or worn-down tethering to truth, or that they have their own truth, the problem is that they don’t have any. Liberalism is its own “truth.”

A financial analyst or economist who is a liberal, is a liberal first.

A lawyer who is a liberal, is a liberal first.

A scientist who is a liberal, is a liberal first.

It’s a cult.

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A new startup hopes to bring video games to the forefront of mental health care by developing games that are as therapeutic as they are engaging. They’re also looking at how to make it easier for developers to test the medical benefits of existing games.

I am not making this up.

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Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with a bit of synthetic polymer. The organic crystals take up about 60 to 90 percent of the material — the highest fraction of CNCs achieved in a composite to date.

The researchers found the cellulose-based composite is stronger and tougher than some types of bone, and harder than typical aluminum alloys. The material has a brick-and-mortar microstructure that resembles nacre, the hard inner shell lining of some molluscs.

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The new (since late 2021) Taliban IEA (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) government is forming an army. This force won’t be as large as the former IRA (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) force, which had a paper strength of 300,000 and was subsidized by the Americans. The Taliban defeated the IRA force via bribes or threats to key commanders and government officials in charge of supplying the troops with food, fuel and other supplies. American aid supplied over a billion dollars a year for this and over the years more and more of it was stolen.

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Just two days after a nonpartisan watchdog group filed a complaint showing congresswoman Cindy Axne failed to disclose up to $645,000 in stock trades, the Iowa Democrat used thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds to hire liberal fixer Marc Elias.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Also more proof that if you want improve your chances to be “Woman of the Year,” the best strategy is to be born a biological male, and then switch teams. It appears that men are better at being women than women are. Once upon a time this might have been called chauvinist piggery; now it is called enlightenment. (See: Kaitlyn Jenner, everyone’s “Woman of the Year” four or five years ago now. NB: Jenner has opposed Lia Thomas’s swimming stunt.)

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A starling new development reveals South American criminal tourists are on home invasion sprees targeting wealthy neighborhoods across the US, according to Daily Mail.

South American thieves exploit the US’ immigration system for travel as they target multi-million dollar homes in liberal-controlled areas with relaxed criminal justice laws.

Serial rapist who killed Plano, Fort Worth women is sentenced to life in prison

Kanye West Barred From Performing at Grammys Due to ‘Concerning Online Behavior,’ Rep Confirms

AP FACT CHECK: Republicans twist Jackson’s judicial record

MSNBC LOON: Hawley Getting Jackson Killed by Questioning Judicial Record

Can You Say ‘Hate Hoax,’ Boys and Girls?

Under Trump, DHS directed to probe bogus claims about voter fraud (Associated Press)

Even the Department of Homeland Security Was Used to Look for Bogus Voter Fraud (Daily Beast) Bogus!

Trump’s violent political rhetoric is metastasizing in the Republican Party (Washington Post) Forget Putin – Trump is the real problem.

The Jan. 6 Witch Hunt Committee

Twitter Flags Texas AG’s Tweets As ‘Hateful’

Big oil could bring US gas prices down but won’t – so hit it with a windfall tax (The Guardian) Robert Reich never met a tax — or a lie — that he didn’t like.

Here are 3 reasons why Big Oil can’t just drill more to ease the pain at the gas pump (NPR)

Federal judge rules Kim Davis violated rights when she refused to marry same-sex couples in 2015 (CNN)

Progressive leader Jayapal blames corporate America for rising gas prices, not Biden

Feminists protesting Lia Thomas say they are politically homeless: ‘Democrats don’t care about women’

How a San Francisco remodel turned into an epic nightmare involving city red tape, squatters and cops shrugging off crime

The Senate accidentally agreed to move our clocks forward. Blame Putin. Dana Milbank.

Teachers’ Union Teams Up With Steven Brill’s NewsGuard To Flag “Misinformation” For Children

A better way to divide the pie

Juan Williams Lies on Hunter Biden Laptop Reaction: ‘Nobody Said It Wasn’t True’

Petty Thieves Plague San Francisco. ‘These Last Two Years Have Been Insane.’

Woke ESPN Broadcasters Blast Florida Education Bill, Go Silent

COVID-19 pandemic is ‘far from over’ -WHO official (Reuters)

U.K. COVID cases are rising. Health officials are watching to see if the U.S. is next (NPR)

California to drop proof of vaccination or negative test for large indoor events (S.F. Chronicle)

‘Stealth omicron’ cases on the rise in Minnesota (St.Paul Pioneer Press)

Hydropower eyes bigger energy role, less environmental harm (Associated Press)

This Ancient Fertilizer Is a Skeleton Key for Saving Earth (Daily Beast)

These cattle ranchers are raising better beef, spending less — and reducing carbon emissions (CNBC)

A growing battle over carbon capture and climate change riles Iowa (NBC)

Meet the sailing robots trying to solve climate change (The Hill)

Both of the planet’s poles experience extreme heat, and Antarctica breaks records (NPR)

Intl Energy Agency report urges ENERGY LOCKDOWNS: ‘Banning use of private cars on Sundays…Reducing highway speed limits…more working from home…cutting business air travel’ & SUV ‘tax’

NYC allows citizens to report idling vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines

SUV Tire Deflating Eco-Terrorists Claim Public Support

Big-box Stores could slash Emissions, save Millions – Put solar-panels on Roofs

What Our Betters Have In Mind For Us In The Era Of Fossil Fuel Suppression