Steve Sailer.

I’m agnostic on the subject of how much the vast media publicity for certain crimes (such as Buffalo) encourages copycat mass killing shootings, but this case sure looks like one. Of course, while this one will get lots of coverage, it’s Mexican on Mexican, so it won’t be as enthralling to the media as white-on-black in Buffalo.

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Have you ever dreamed of belonging to the woke nomenklatura, of being free to harass and bully the deplorables to your heart’s content? It sounds like a wonderful life, and many of your contemporaries have chosen it. But before you join them, listen to this true tale. (Caveat: You may or may not be able to worm your way into the web site. If you can’t, the following summary furnishes all the pertinent facts.)

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Within a few minutes after she posted her heresy, Krista was expelled from Law Mamas. Another member then complained, “Hey, I don’t love that we all just kicked out this girl from our group for making the statement.” She was expelled, too.

Freedom of speech is not a Progressive value.

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The German judicial system has arrogated unto itself the unenviable task of determining what is correct and incorrect within Christian theology and scriptures. I hardly need to add that what will be deemed theologically correct is that which is politically correct.

Well, the Nazis tried it, but that didn’t last.

I’m wondering how many of those parents are wishing that they had decided to homeschool their kids?

UPDATE: Ghoulish NBC Exploits Texas Shooting by Repeating False Mass Shooting Stat

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Some years ago, when the idea of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) was first floated, the new all-electronic money was touted as an innovation that would make commercial transactions easier, more convenient, and more secure for the consumer. Then, when the “pandemic” hit, digital money was also promoted as a touch-free way to avoid contagion with the dreaded coronavirus.

There was always much more to the CBDCs, of course. The full potential of the new currencies is now being openly discussed at Davos as I write this. Once cash is abolished and all your income and payments are put through via CBDC, every transaction you make will be fully tracked by the government and financial institutions (between which there will no longer be any meaningful distinction). What you spend your money on will be known in detail. Your spending habits will be analyzed by AI systems, which will monitor your carbon credits and your use of non-sustainable resources. Since the currency will be tied to your individual digital identity, your ability to purchase certain goods and services may be limited when the State deems it appropriate.

Throw in your cell phone and the ubiquitous 5G surveillance, which includes facial recognition, and you will have no privacy whatsoever, just as the WEF promised. You’ll own nothing except for the limited personal items that you are allowed to possess. And you’ll be happy! All while you eat those delicious crickets, which can be prepared in a mouth-watering variety of culinary ways.

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As Robert LeFevre said, “Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.” The American people are witnessing a grand illustration of that truth in the form of the US Air Force airlift of baby formula from Europe to the United States. The airlift is part of the Biden administration’s response to a nationwide baby formula shortage that has desperate parents searching all over for the product and even venturing to create it themselves.

As the government credits itself for racing to the rescue, most people don’t realize the baby formula crisis is largely a creation of the government itself.

Biden praises high gas prices as part of ‘incredible transition’

Immigration Disappears From Kamala Harris’ Public Schedule

Active Shooters Are Up Under Biden

White House Coordinated With National School Boards Association On ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Letter, Report Shows

Watch: Biden Admits Skyrocketing Energy Prices Are Part Of Green “Transition”  It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

Veep thoughts with Kamala Harris

Why is climate ‘doomism’ going viral – and who’s fighting it? (BBC) Every ‘ism’ has somebody fighting it, apparently.

An oil industry consultant explains why she’s had enough (Vox)

Shell consultant quits, says company causes ‘extreme harm’ to planet (Politico)

Five Major Challenges Facing The Energy Industry

Claim: “Climate Doomism” Sweeping the Climate Activist Community

Navy brass put forward climate plan, citing threats to Parris Island, San Diego bases

Davos Oligarch Pitches “Individual Carbon Footprint” Tracker

America’s billionaire class is funding anti-democratic forces (The Guardian) I’ll bet you didn’t know that America had a ‘billionaire class’. Certainly George Soros is funding ‘anti-democratic forces’, although I wouldn’t call him American.

Supreme court guts lifeline for prisoners who claim wrongful convictions (The Guardian)

Inside McConnell’s bid to quash GOP ‘isolationists’ (Politico)

Jared Kushner’s follies show that ‘corruption’ has lost all meaning (Washington Post) No mention of Hunter Biden, of course.

Why you shouldn’t believe this latest Donald Trump promise (CNN)

Justice Alito’s alternate abortion ‘facts’ (The Hill)

Who’s Afraid of Elise Stefanik?

REPORT: Facebook Fact-Checker Redefines ‘Energy Independence’ to Silence Biden Critics

US Army Mulls Letting Soldiers Switch Bases If Local Laws Discriminate Against Gender Identity

Domestic Terrorism Bill Is More Partisan Politics, Bureaucracy in Pursuit of Phantom Menace

The View Cries Violation of Church and State to Deny Pelosi Communion You can’t make this shit up.

Perspective: What’s the difference between Christian nationalism and healthy patriotism? (Deseret News) Stand by for your daily dose of Narrative.

S.F. police won’t march in this year’s Pride parade. Here’s why (S.F. Chronicle) Perhaps they’re getting tired of being pissed on and told that it’s raining.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, police groups opt out of Pride parade over uniform ban

‘Curly Hair’: Pine View class president uses euphemism for gay in graduation speech (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

Washington Dem socialist congressional candidate calls for breaking into empty homes

Los Angeles Democrats finally elected their first sheriff. Four years later, they have buyer’s remorse. (Politico)

California sees record gas prices; state has done ‘everything you could do to make prices go up,’ expert says

When the Constitution was drafted, abortion was a choice left to women (Washington Post) Uh, no. It was illegal everywhere that Europeans settled.

‘The City is Not Safe’: Suspect in NYC Subway Shooting Had 19 Prior Arrests

Record Voter Turnout in Georgia Primary Elections Debunks ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Nonsense

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

In 1930 William Empson elaborated Seven Types of Ambiguity for the literary crowd. The Biden administration is adapting the concept to give us Seven Types of Confusion. We can itemize the confusion that derives from gratuitous fabrication. We also have the confusion related to the persistent assertion of the thing which is not so, as Swift puts it in Book IV of Gulliver’s Travels. We continue with the confusion that descends with advanced age.

President Biden has rendered the official American policy of strategic ambiguity regarding Taiwan into another type of confusion. Following up on the confusion we documented in “Walk right back” yesterday morning, Biden reiterated our continuing commitment to the official policy even though he himself had contradicted it in his Tokyo press conference. The White House has posted the transcript here. Unlike Professor Empson, he could not explain — deepening the confusion.

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It will help decarbonise industry, produce greener concrete and make hydrogen.

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“Before the pull of technology, we would never dream of wasting time on our phones instead of jumping straight into the pool and soaking up every minute of our vacation,” Lisa Checchio, Chief Marketing Officer for Wyndham, said at the time. “But today, adults and kids are so glued to their devices that we’ve had to add more pool chairs to accommodate all the poolside swiping.”

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The drug candidate, called CF33-hNIS (aka Vaxinia), is what’s called an oncolytic virus, a genetically modified virus designed to selectively infect and kill cancer cells while sparing healthy ones.

In the case of CF33-hNIS, the modified pox virus works by entering cells and duplicating itself. Eventually, the infected cell bursts, releasing thousands of new virus particles that act as antigens, stimulating the immune system to attack nearby cancer cells.

Previous research in animal models has shown the drug can harness the immune system in this way to hunt and destroy cancer cells, but up until now no testing has been done in humans.

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For progressives, “separation of church and state” means that religious believers must forgo all attempts to influence what the state does. Secular believers have no corresponding duty to refrain from demanding that the church submit to their preferences. Accordingly, leftists are loudly condemning the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco, the Most Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, for directing the priests in his diocese to refuse the sacrament of communion to Nancy Pelosi. Whoopi Goldberg, whose theological expertise derives from playing a nun in the movies, said of the Archbishop’s action, “This is not your job, dude.” Other progressive voices were less calm and restrained.

The San Francisco Examiner forthrightly demanded that Pope Francis sack the archbishop for holding and propagating opinions that deviate from progressive orthodoxy. The church, it declares, ought to be “a place that welcomes people of all political backgrounds and all faiths” (emphasis added).

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The New York Times ran a hit piece on former CBS journalist Lara Logan by Jeremy Peters, who is the paper’s go-to reporter for criticism of conservative media figures: “Former Star At CBS News Follows Path To Far Right.”

After introducing Logan as someone who had “reached the heights of American journalism….as the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News,” he lamented “today Ms. Logan cuts a far different figure in American media. Instead of on national news broadcasts, she can be found as a guest on right-wing podcasts or speaking at a rally for fringe causes, promoting falsehoods about deaths from Covid vaccines and conspiracy theories about voter fraud.”

Peters characterized her supposed decline as “one of the most puzzling in the modern history of television news.” But more interesting than what Peters had to say about Logan was his assumptions about what a mainstream journalist is allowed to believe.

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The honesty gap—the difference between Virginia students’ proficiency on Virginia’s Standards of Learning tests and their documented proficiency on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which assesses student performance across the country in math, reading, science, and civics—is stark.

For example, although the state boasts a whopping 76% of eighth graders who were proficient in reading in 2019, just 33% of Virginia eighth graders scored as proficient in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Similarly, whereas 77% of Virginia’s eighth graders scored proficient in mathematics on the Standards of Learning in 2019, that figure drops precipitously to just 38% of eighth graders as assessed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The same honesty gap exists for younger students, too.

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Most on the Right know that as the Woke have driven the knuckle-dragging wrong-thinkers from their precious institutions, eventually they would turn on the only ones remaining to harangue — themselves.

To whit, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) this past week turned on one of the most reliably liberal and accepting members, who had just received the prestigious award of Grand Master status at their Nebulas convention, and kicked her, and her husband who wasn’t even present, out of the convention.

Joel Kotkin.

It’s been a week since a mentally ill racist murdered 10 people, most of them Black Americans, in a Buffalo supermarket. In the intervening days since this horrific tragedy, many have noted how often liberal journalists and politicians have tried to pin the blame for the mass shooting not just on the shooter and his far-right racist ideology, but anyone outside their progressive circles. In what was perhaps the most extreme example of this widespread trend, the cultural warriors of Rolling Stone insisted that the isolated and largely unhinged shooter was no outlier but “a mainstream Republican.”

Of course, one finds no such blame game when a shooter comes from the far Left, or when he is an Islamic militant or a Black nationalist; the same people blaming all Republicans for the Buffalo shooter can somehow clearly see that killers like the Waukesha murderer or the Jersey City shooter are crazed outliers rather than some kind of politically charged weapon. But the minute they can blame their political opponents for murderous extremists, they lose sight of this reality.

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UPDATE: Seven Teslas have caught fire in the last four days

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Despite the doomsayers who claim Georgia’s Republicans are suppressing black voters, the record turnout has effectively blown the myth to pieces. But MSNBC crackpot Nicolle Wallace and lying PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor teamed up during Monday’s Deadline: White House to put words in the mouths of Georgia Republicans and falsely assert they think that black Americans are too dumb to know how to vote or understand “the weight of American democracy.”

Unwavering from her false narrative despite how facts were actively proving her a liar, Wallace recalled how Georgia Republican Governor “Brian Kemp’s role in voter suppression in the state of Georgia was so reprehensible” that Major League Baseball moved the All-Star game. “[They] thought that voter suppression law was so offensive, they moved the All-Star game.”

Missing from this point is the fact that the MLB was essentially bullied by the left into moving the game when, in fact, there was no voter suppression going on.

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Missing the days of 2020, when angry mobs were fixtures on America’s streets? If you’re nostalgic for the arson, destruction, and looting, abortion activists are promising more of it. Back by unpopular demand, the left’s riots are set to return once the final Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade is handed down.

“This will be a Summer of Rage across America,” the Women’s March vowed after protests earlier this month. “We will be ungovernable,” the radicals threatened, until the violence they bring to our cities can be replicated in every mother’s womb.

Back at the Supreme Court justices’ houses, the five conservatives (and Chief Justice John Roberts) are getting a preview of what’s to come, as crowds of abortion extremists stake out their neighborhoods with bullhorns and signs.

U.S. needs to tax Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the Billionaire Boys Club out of their misery (Philadelphia Inquirer)

How Donald Trump’s Fear of Getting Pied May Come Back to Cream Him (Daily Beast) The best of America’s high-school journalism.

This working mom is Republicans’ best shot at unseating Marjorie Taylor Greene — if they want to (CNN) Republicans are just waiting around for political advice from CNN.

STUDY: When There’s a Slaughter, the Press Loves to Blame Conservatives

Washington Post columnist warns Biden is about to make a blunder with China

Cotton: Biden trip to Asia more than a year too late (The Hill)

WH press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘I don’t have a timeline’ on when baby formula will return to shelves

Latest Hunter Biden stories show the media finally ‘has the long knives out for Joe’: ‘Clay & Buck’

Gun-Parts Dealer Sues ATF Over ‘Secret And Unannounced Policy Changes’

Senators Demand Biden Pull Taxpayer Funding for Anti-Israel Initiative

Biden Vows US To Respond Militarily If China Attacks Taiwan, White House Walks Back

Terrorists Surf-in Atop Biden Democrats’ Illegal Alien Tsunami

HSBC suspends banker over climate change comments (Financial Times)

Billie Eilish, Shawn Mendes, Coldplay & More Sign Global Citizen Letter Urging Action Against Poverty & Climate Change (Billboard) Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue!

Claim: How a Cognitive Bias is Blocking the Rise of Electric Cars

Climate Risk and Wall Street Meet Cancel Culture

HSBC Suspends Head Of Responsible Investing Over ‘Nut Job’ Climate-Alarmist Comments 

Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power

Durbin’s Catholic faith is a ‘conflict of interest’ for holding Supreme Court accountable: pro-choice group It’s not as if he’s ever acted like a Catholic.

How Did Mueller’s $40 Million Trump-Russia Investigation ‘Miss’ Hillary’s Hoax?  Perhaps because he was instructed to do so.

Only the Woke Need Apply

Male Wins Aussie Women’s Surfing Title; Uprising Against Trans Frauds Growing

New Jersey Sued For Illegally Concealing Election Records Policy

‘The Simpsons’: Leftist Robert Reich Sings ‘Greedy Rich Men Kicked Our Ass’ and Destroyed the Middle Class

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

I took the occasion of the testimony in the Sussman trial last week to weigh “Watergate in the balance.” John reviewed what we already knew in “Hillary did it.” On Saturday, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal — I think this is Kim Strassel’s beat as a member of the board — played it straight in the editorial “Hillary Clinton did it.”

The Journal editorial lays out the template of the Russia hoax, minus the active participation of the FBI in pursuing the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, promoting the Steele Dossier in the FISA court and the Comey briefing of Trump as well as the conditions that led to the crippling Mueller investigation.

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During the 2016 Democratic primary Hillary Clinton began to enthusiastically deploy identitarian arguments against Bernie Sanders. Her media surrogates derided his supporters as straight white “brocialists”. Bernie Bros were guilty of “mansplaining” anti-capitalism to the nation’s minorities and aspiring young girlbosses. “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow, would that end racism?”, Clinton asked on the stump.

In turn, Bernie supporters came to regard identity politics as a tool wielded by Democratic elites to deflect from their critiques of American capitalism and empire. One often heard variations of the joke that what the DNC really wanted was Cruise missiles painted with rainbow flags. Years later, that joke was made grimly literal in the viral “woke CIA” ad, in which an agency analyst announced “I am a woman of colour, I am a mom, I am a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder”. By that point, the only people around to laugh at it were conservatives and various marginal Twitter anons.

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“F’s” and “v’s” belong to a group of sounds known as labiodentals. They happen when you raise your bottom lip to touch your top teeth and are used in more than half of today’s human language. But science suggests we didn’t always have this linguistic ability.

As hunter gatherers, our ancestors ate a diet that was minimally processed and required more effort to chew. As a result, by adolescence their teeth would develop what’s called an edge-to-edge bite, where the jaw is elongated so that both the bottom and top teeth are completely flush with one another.

Cue the Neolithic period, where widespread agriculture meant more soft foods like stew and bread and less laborious chewing. Over time, the slight overbite that most people are born with stayed preserved, because chewing was less of an arduous process.

Except, of course, that you can do the same thing by touching your top lip to your bottom teeth, the human lower jaw being quite versatile. Yeah, you’ll feel like Mongo The Cave Man, but you can do it.

Steve Sailer checks his scorecard.

Who will rule June 2022? Those long time favorites of Corporate America, the People of Pride, or the righteous and wrathful Juneteenths?

There can only be one Supreme Victim Group at a time.

Russian officer reveals why he risked it all to quit Putin’s war (CNN)

U.S. Preparing Plan To Destroy Russia’s Black Sea Fleet—Ukraine (Newsweek)

Pentagon Denies Ukrainian Claims of ‘Plan to Destroy’ Russia’s Black Sea Fleet (U.S. News & World Report)

Putin Leaving Meetings to Get Medical Treatment, Christopher Steele Says (Newsweek)

Ukraine rules out ceasefire deal that gives land to Russia (BBC)

Erdogan Tells Finnish & Swedish Leaders To Get “Serious” About Terrorism In Tense Call

China Launches Military Exercises In South China Sea As Biden Arrives In Asia

ARTILLERY: British Boxed Brimstones In Ukraine

Russia Rewrites The Art Of (Hybrid) War

Eric Adams eyeing White House run in 2024: sources

Monica Cannon-Grant may face fresh indictment in Violence in Boston charity fraud case, filing shows

BLM activist leader of Boston nonprofit faces fraud charges for allegedly laundering 2020 charity donations

Liberal Media Silent on Left’s Long History of Racism: Laughably Blames Tucker Carlson and Fox

Are Republicans a Bunch of Racists?  You’d think so from the Narrative Media.

Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Ariz. lawmakers to help reverse Trump’s loss, emails show (Washington Post)

Elon Musk blasts Biden administration, Democrats on Twitter over ‘hate,’ sidelining of Tesla (CNBC)

Why academia is a breeding ground of cancel culture

John Eastman’s election-fraud evidence is as weak as you’d expect (Washington Post)

Proposed Central Bucks library policy targeting ‘sexualized content’ spurs worries about sweeping book removal (Philadelphia Inquirer)

The unbearable weight of defining disinformation and misinformation on the internet (The Hill)

NY Mag: ‘Disinformation’ a ‘fantasy’ that lets liberals ‘lie to themselves,’ avoid ‘agony of self-reflection’

‘This is ‘The Twilight Zone”: Acosta reacts to Orban plugging Tucker Carlson in speech (CNN)

Hillary Clinton’s Trump/Russia Media Strategy Revealed In Day 4 Of Sussmann Trial

What We Learned From Hating the Unvaccinated

Do not assume you will contract COVID-19, says Ben Weston as Milwaukee County moves to the ‘high’ transmission category

Independent group of scientists recommend Pfizer booster for children 5-11

CDC: 18 Wisconsin counties have high COVID-19 levels

WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases top 100 in Europe (Reuters) Another panic coming our way?

Two weeks, one map, two COVID landscapes: Where Pa. and N.J. stand (Philadelphia Inquirer)

COVID transmission risk rises to ‘high’ in Peoria and Tazewell counties, according to CDC (Peoria Journal Star)

Eight Illinois counties hit high risk level for COVID-19 — and Cook County’s not far behind (Chicago Sun Times) Funny how it’s only Blue states having Covid problems.

The FDA’s War on Children

Belgium Begins Monkeypox Quarantines, Biden Warns “Everybody Should Be Concerned”

Will new vaccines be better at fighting coronavirus variants?

Extreme weather plagues U.S., from Colorado snowstorm to East Coast heat (Axios)

6 books about the climate crisis that offer hope (The Conversation)

The quiet of a country walk is nature’s silent scream (The Hill)

World’s First Ocean-Assisted Carbon Removal Plant Launched in Hawaii

UN chief says Ukraine a ‘wake-up call’ to ditch fossil fuels as WMO releases damning climate report (CNN)

Environmental groups look to halt Tesla’s battery plant permits at Gigafactory Texas

FERC to monitor gas, power markets for manipulation as forward summer electricity prices jump up to 233%

Decarbonizing diesel trucks may be next step in clean energy goals

More than $1bn of Coalition’s climate funding could go to fossil fuel projects, analysis finds  (The Guardian)

Study Identifies Outdoor Air Pollution as the ‘Largest Existential Threat to Human and Planetary Health’ (Inside Climate News)

Low-cost, battery-like device absorbs CO2 emissions while it charges

Amazon’s Mega-Yacht Owner Funds $10 Billion “Great Reset” to Save Planet

Climate Change at Bottom Of List Of Worries For German Households, Comprehensive 8-Year Survey Shows

Weather-Dependent Power Generation

Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries?

Australia Has Finally Caught the ‘Net Zero’ Bus

IRS destroys 30 million tax documents, insists ‘no negative taxpayer consequences’

Biden’s executive order on forests fails on climate and environmental justice (The Hill)

Hunter Biden corruption allegations turning off Hispanic voters, warns Daniel Garza

Economic Indicators, Led By Mortgage Rates, Are Flashing Red

Biden’s Job Disapproval Rate Among Hispanics Soars To 60%: Poll

Clinton Supporter Who Led Disinformation Board Until Resignation Says She Wasn’t A Partisan Actor

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The guys at MIT are on a roll.

According to the International Desalination Association, more than 300 million people around the world now get their drinking water from the sea. With climate change exacerbating water scarcity globally, seawater desalination is stepping in to fill the void. But whereas commercial desalination plants are designed to meet large-scale demand, there is also a need for portable systems that can be carried into remote regions or set up as stand-ins for municipal water works in the wake of a disaster.

A group of scientists from MIT has developed just such a portable desalination unit; it’s the size of a medium suitcase and weighs less than 10 kilograms. The unit’s one-button operation requires no technical knowledge. What’s more, it has a completely filter-free design. Unlike existing portable desalination systems based on reverse osmosis, the MIT team’s prototype does not need any high-pressure pumping or maintenance by technicians.

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What did they think would happen?

Of course, this is the New York Times, so “No overriding explanation has emerged yet for the widespread drop-off. ”  How about parents getting tired of the Woke bullshit being fed to their children by quasi-Marxist apparatchiks?

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We investigate this by using as a natural experiment the effect of the online publication of the names and addresses of holders of handgun carry permits on criminals’ propensity to commit burglaries. In December 2008, a Memphis, TN newspaper published a searchable online database of names, zip codes, and ages of Tennessee handgun carry permit holders. We use detailed crime and handgun carry permit data for the city of Memphis to estimate the impact of publicity about the database on burglaries. We find that burglaries increased in zip codes with fewer gun permits, and decreased in those with more gun permits, after the database was publicized.

Imagine that.

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And you’ll be amazed at what it will do to your electronic devices.

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Background: The left loves to caterwaul about how Republicans have an advantage in House elections because of gerrymandering, and how this is not merely unfair, but a “threat to democracy.” I observe merely that you never heard this when Democrats enjoyed the fruits of gerrymandering for decades when the New Deal coalition was riding high. This 230 year-old practice only became a scandal and a “threat to democracy” when Republicans got good at it. (Come to think of it, for the left, a “threat to democracy” really just means, “Whenever Republicans win elections.”)

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In the ongoing Sussman trial, campaign manager Robby Mook testified that Hillary Clinton personally approved spreading the lie about Donald Trump and Alfa Bank. This has been treated by some as a revelation.

Left’s Obsession With Race Coverage Fosters More Racism

FBI failing to address white supremacist violence, warns former special agent (The Guardian) As much as it fails to address black separatist violence?

Black Lives Matter’s National Organization Opens Its Books (New York Magazine)

Downtown again rocked by violence; Mayor Lightfoot calls mass shooting on Near North Side a ‘horrible tragedy’ (Chicago Tribune) BRAAAAAAAINS! The race of no victim is given, so that means it wasn’t a white supremacist. The race of the suspect is not given, which means he was black.

How can we protect our kids from racism? Author Ibram X. Kendi has this advice (L. A. Times) Apparently the advice is “Be racist first.”

Texas Armed Robber Killed by Delicious Fried Chicken and Well-Aimed Gunfire

FLASHBACK: PBS’s Tavis Smiley Sneered That Christians Slaughter People ‘Every Day’

Dem Rep. Joyce Beatty Blames “White Supremacy Replacement Theorist” For Shooting Carried Out By Black Suspect

Democrats in Midterm Meltdown as DCCC Chairman Makes ‘Racist’ District Move

Georgia Breaks Records Using Law Media Decried as Voter Suppression

Religious backers of abortion rights say God’s on their side (Associated Press)

Here’s why tech giants want the Supreme Court to freeze Texas’ social media law (NPR)

This may be the most dangerous idea in American politics (CNN) A little too near the truth, is it?

This Florida teacher married a woman. Now she’s not a teacher anymore. (Washington Post)

How our system of primary elections could destroy democracy (Washington Post) Gee, all of a sudden this is a problem?

Is The Woke Corporate ‘Worm’ Finally Turning?

Networks Ignore MASSIVE Durham Trial Bombshell on Fake Trump-Russia Collusion

The Worst of Sean Patrick Maloney

Inconvenient Fact About Mass Killings  Larry Elder.

The truth about the Buffalo shooting

FBI Lawyer Admits Knowing Clinton Was Behind Trump Allegations Would Have Changed Things

What I Saw at Third Protest at Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Home

Fiona Hill says Putin ‘had to keep explaining things’ to Trump (The Hill) They said the same thing about Socrates.

Doug Mastriano race to decide if Pennsylvanians want their votes counted or cheaper bacon (Philadelphia Inquirer)

D.C. Attorney General Lets the Trump Swamp Win Again (Daily Beast)

‘This virus is here to stay’: Omicron subvariant causing COVID-19 wave in Colorado

Health Officials Consider Mask Mandates As Covid Cases & Hospitalizations Surge

Conservatives fume over tech industry’s ‘shadow docket’ play (Politico)

Oprah needs to denounce Oz (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Does Texas’ Idiot Attorney General Have a Point About Chrome’s Incognito Mode? (Gizmodo) Don’t hold it in, guys, tell us how you really feel.

Joe Manchin’s trail of destruction is about to get much worse (Washington Post)

Switching PGA courses after mob rampage a success for all bar Trump (The Guardian)

Elon Musk Completes Transition to Supervillain With Bolsonaro Meeting in Brazil (Gizmodo) Gizmodo is allegedly a tech pub but you’d never know it by reading it.

AP Paints Jankowicz As Victim of a Torrent of Sexist ‘Online Abuse’  Sauce for the goose….

MSNBC Calls GOP Rep. an Idiot For Opposition to Near Birth Abortion

Federal Judge Dismisses Fraud And Defamation Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Amid Week Of Controversy

Disinformation Board Paused, ‘Mary Poppins’ Director Out, but Biden Suppression of Free Speech Continues

WATCH: Big Three Largely Ignore Gas Prices Spiking Above $4 in EVERY STATE for First Time Ever

Senators Urge Biden to End Delays on Offshore Oil, Gas Lease Permits

Biden’s approval dips to lowest of presidency: AP-NORC poll (Associated Press)

Biden approval rating plummets to 39%, down 24 points from last year: AP poll

Washington state gas stations run out of fuel, prep for $10 a gallon

Record gas prices for this long ‘unprecedented’: AAA

Oklahoma abortion bill is ‘extreme,’ ‘absurd,’ ‘ultra MAGA,’ White House says