Wally is my hero.

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Ralston College, which describes itself as a “new institution of higher education dedicated to free inquiry and human flourishing,” said last week that it had appointed Jordan Peterson as chancellor. Peterson, a psychologist and polarizing self-help guru, resigned from his professorship at the University of Toronto earlier this year, citing academe’s “craven” embrace of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, among other grievances. Ralston, which is located in Georgia, in an announcement called Peterson a “brilliant interpreter of Western culture and a mentor to the millions of students whom the modern university has betrayed.”

‘Out of Touch With America’: Biden’s Small Business Budget Makes No Mention of Inflation

Bipartisan deal brings cheaper broadband to tens of millions of Americans  Or that’s the Narrative. What it actually does is implement a cost-shifting arrangement (plus the money leakage to government employees that accompanies any government program) whereby the taxpayers as a group are forced to pay for a benefit delivered to some politically favored (i.e. we hope they vote Democrat) victim class. “Bipartisan deal” means neither side can predict who the bought votes will favor, but each thinks that it will be its side.

From Court-Packing To Leaking To Doxxing: White House Yields To National Rage Addiction

The Turkish drone that changed the nature of warfare

Congress Investigates Biden Admin for Granting Visa to Iranian Ally of Terror Leader Soleimani

Biden tests how much he can ratchet up the pressure on Putin (CNN)

U2’s Bono, The Edge do surprise concert for Ukrainian troops in Kyiv  “They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!” — Tom Lerer, The Folk Song Army

Duck And Cover

Megalopolis x Russia – Total War

The Anti-Narrative on Ukraine

Europe’s Mad Ban On Russian Oil

Putin Doesn’t Announce Much of Anything in His Annual Victory Day Speech

INTELLIGENCE: Hidden In Plain Sight

Is a new Navy shipyard realistic, or just a ‘tall order?’

Spring Wheat Hits 14-Year High On World War 3 & Weather Woes

Civilizationalism

Russian Forces Attempt “Storming Operations” On Azovstal Plant, Ukraine Says

Good Sign? No Nuclear Threats Or ‘Doomsday Plane’ At Toned-Down Victory Day Parade In Moscow

Latest weapons package for Ukraine includes jamming equipment

US “Running Low” On Javelin Missile Stockpiles After Supplying Ukraine, Warns Congressman

Russian Ambassador Attacked During WW2 Remembrance Ceremony In Warsaw  The Russians have never apologized for keeping the Poles in bondage for 45 years.

The lucky few to never get coronavirus could teach us more about it (Washington Post)

The CDC is investigating a Covid-19 outbreak on board a Carnival cruise ship (CNN)

Moderna expects to have Omicron booster ready by Fall 2022  Be still my heart.

Sweden Pandemic Deaths Among Lowest In Europe — All While Avoiding Strict Lockdowns

Utah Was Warned Racial Rationing of COVID Drugs Was Illegal. It Did It Anyway.

China’s Bizarre Authoritarian-Libertarian COVID Strategy

The three reasons MacBook Pro workers broke out of plant and fought with guards

White House Asks For Another $20 Billion In COVID Money To Stop Winter Wave

FDA: Americans Should Treat COVID-19 Like The Flu

COVID-19 School Closures Were Absolute Disaster for Poor and Minority Students, Study Shows

Shanghai Tightens COVID Lockdown Despite Decline In Cases

Bittersweet Victory for Doctor After Practice Unlawfully Suspended for Refusing Vaccine

Should the Study of Medieval Europe be Banned for Its Innate Whiteness?

Don’t Like Corrosive Rap? Then You Can’t Be A True Basketball Fan 

The Conservative Surge in Twitter Followers—the Elon Musk Effect?

Mine e-waste, not the Earth, say scientists (BBC)

The Coldest April in the Satellite Record over the Pacific Northwest

The Desert’s Fragile Skin Can’t Take Much More Heat (Wired ‘Science’)

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A tweet from Rumble’s official account reads, “MAJOR UPDATE: Within the last 24 hours Rumble has been under an unprecedented attack. Our engineers are working around the clock to mitigate these attacks and prepare for a smooth rollout of our 1st movie launch ‘2000 Mules’ tomorrow.”

Free speech is not a Progressive value.

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As Peter Wood expertly describes in his essay, “diversity” really means exclusion, “equity” really means discrimination, and “inclusion” means segregation. In other words, our modern incarnation of affirmative action is simply a riff on old-fashioned race discrimination. And the justifications for such discrimination are not much different than the defenses offered by the segregationists in the 1950s. In the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education, attorneys supporting the segregationist cause claimed in court filings that segregation afforded blacks a better “opportunity to participate,” made blacks feel “inwardly more secure,” and actually “promote[d] cross-racial understanding.” In other words, discrimination was good, right, and salutary in their minds, and now good again in the minds of modern woke policymakers, business leaders, and educrats.

Today, as we confront the neo-segregationists and their banners of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” we must remember that there are no half-measures. The only “good” amount of racial discrimination, the only just amount, is none. Even a little bit of race discrimination, however seemingly benign or beneficial, cannot exist in an American system devoted to equality under the law, individuality, and an equal shot at the American Dream. As Justice Scalia wrote, concurring in the decision regarding the University of Texas’s affirmative action program, “I think the lesson of history is clear enough: racial discrimination is never benign.” Instead, race discrimination, even in a small dose, is pernicious and odious to notions of a free society, and, most critically, its application has no logical stopping point. Proponents of race discrimination will always have a new justification for its use to meet their righteous ends.

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YouTube get paid by the advertisers when they insert video ads. And they get paid even more when they let the advertisers insert longer video ads. On the other hand, YouTube needs to make sure their users are not too bothered by the long ads, so they created the “Skip Ad” button. However, the advertisers don’t have to pay YouTube when their ads are skipped too soon (via). This means YouTube can’t just let everyone click on the “Skip Ad” button all the time. After all, any additional click on the “Skip Ad” button is going to impact the revenue. Furthermore, if skipping ads was too easy, it would hurt the sales of YouTube’s ad-free subscription as well. So while YouTube offers the “Skip Ad” button, YouTube ultimately wants the users to stay away from clicking the “Skip Ad” button.

At present, if I go to a YouTube video and the initial image suggests that I’m going to have to wait through part of a video ad before I get to my desired content, I just leave.

Life is too short to spend even five second listening to how the American taxpayer can be forced to pay for you to install solar panels on your house with no up-front cost, or having some person who I would avoid on the street tell me about the great deal he got on life insurance.

Paul Graham.

Life is short, as everyone knows. When I was a kid I used to wonder about this. Is life actually short, or are we really complaining about its finiteness? Would we be just as likely to feel life was short if we lived 10 times as long?

Since there didn’t seem any way to answer this question, I stopped wondering about it. Then I had kids. That gave me a way to answer the question, and the answer is that life actually is short.

Having kids showed me how to convert a continuous quantity, time, into discrete quantities. You only get 52 weekends with your 2 year old. If Christmas-as-magic lasts from say ages 3 to 10, you only get to watch your child experience it 8 times. And while it’s impossible to say what is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity like time, 8 is not a lot of something. If you had a handful of 8 peanuts, or a shelf of 8 books to choose from, the quantity would definitely seem limited, no matter what your lifespan was.

Ok, so life actually is short. Does it make any difference to know that?

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine and two Post reporters seem to have discovered the benefactor who has kept Hunter Biden rolling in the style to which he has become accustomed. He is a wealthy Hollywood figure named Kevin Morris. Morris has money to burn from sources other than the royalties on White Man’s Problems, his 2014 book of short stories.

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On May 5th, the California State Assembly ‘gutted’ the contents of an unrelated bill (AB-1227) aimed at building energy efficiency, and amended it with language reviving a long-failed firearm and ammunition excise tax which, if passed, would be effective immediately as an “urgency statute.”

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On April 22nd, the University of British Columbia released its Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force report, which contains 54 recommendations aimed at confronting “systemic racism against Indigenous, Black and People of Colour (IBPOC) within the UBC community.” Though it’s two years in the making, and almost 300 pages in length, the report contains surprisingly scant evidence that UBC is a racist institution. Instead, the authors mostly indict UBC on the basis of their own “reflections of lived experiences”—an “integrative” anti-racist fact-finding method described as “truthing.”

 

Judge denies Kim Foxx’s bid to let inmate out early under new state law (Chicago Sun Times)

The Radical Life of Kathy Boudin (The New Yorker) Who by rights ought to have died in prison.

Democrats keep thumbing their noses at voters in battle over New York’s gerrymander

Corporate America buckles down for culture war on Roe v Wade (The Guardian)

The reputational cost of impartiality: How long can Corporate America stay silent? (Salon)

 Left-Wing Groups Planning on Crashing Catholic Churches

Comical WashPost Complaint: Liberal Media ‘Fell for Pro-Life Rhetoric’

New Yorker: ‘Devastated by the Abortion News? Try Primal Screaming’

Biden’s new environmental justice chief faces a tough task (Washington Post) Leaving no proglodyte buzzword unexploited.

What to know about Karine Jean-Pierre, the first Black and first openly gay White House press secretary (CNBC) She’s black, she’s female, and she’s gay — what else could you possibly need to know?

Former AG Bill Barr ‘appalled’ by White House response to Supreme Court doxxing  Poor guy, still living in the past.

Biden disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz’s book says she won’t be ‘silenced’ by ‘harassment’ from men online  She’s so oppressed she actually had to try to get a book deal.

From court packing to leaking to doxing: White House yields to a national rage addiction (The Hill)

Taliban Orders All Afghan Women To Cover Faces In Public, Taking Country Back To Pre-2001

The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future (The Guardian)

Utilities push back against growth of rooftop solar panels (NBC News)

The good times are rolling for Big Oil. 3 things to know about their surging profits (NPR) Another thumb-sucker from NPR.

Deadly ‘wet-bulb temperatures’ are being stoked by climate change and heat waves (NBC News) Deadly dim-bulb reporters are being stoked by the Narrative.

Antarctica’s majestic underwater world is trying to adapt to a warmer planet (CNN)

To fight climate change, California approves seaweed that cuts methane emissions in cow burps (S.F. Chronicle)

International Socialists Accuse Greta Thunberg of Supporting the Establishment

Claim: World’s Ocean Is Losing Its Memory Under Global Warming  I’ll bet you didn’t know that the ocean had a memory.

The Newest Climate Criminals: Oncologists?

Russia-Ukraine war: dozens feared dead after bombing of Luhansk school; Kyiv claims sinking of second Russian ship (The Guardian)

Fox News deals in Kremlin propaganda. So why not freeze Rupert Murdoch’s assets? (The Guardian) Never let a crisis go to waste!

Italy orders seizure of yacht linked to Putin (BBC) It’s all about the oligharchs.

When is a ‘tank’ not a tank?  When it’s seen by a ‘journalist’.

Ukraine Grain Strain: Almost 25 Million Tonnes Blocked From Export

Russia’s Victory Day Could Be A Crucial Moment For Oil

Western Banks Brace For $10 Billion Hit Over Russia Exit

SARS-CoV-2 variants are not evolving to escape from T cell-mediated immunity (NewsMedical.net)

Researchers Track COVID-19 Infection Dynamics in the Saliva and Nasal Cavities (SciTechDaily) Up your nose with a rubber hose.

Seven Massachusetts counties ranked with high COVID-19 levels, says CDC; masks recommended (BostonGlobe)

16 Virginia localities rank as medium, updated CDC COVID Community Levels map shows (CBS News)

My Body, My Choice: Did the Media Support for COVID Mandates Hurt Support for Roe v. Wade?

FDA Investigating Reports Of COVID Relapses Following Use Of Pfizer’s Pill  Fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

The Vax in Germany: 40 Times Deadlier Than Previously Known

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People are fed up with the urban utopian socialist experiment in California. One business owner barricaded a public street in Sacramento to prevent a further spillover in crime from other areas.

“The game is over. We’re taking back our streets,” business owner Rich Eaton told FOX40. He barricaded part of Railroad Drive to prevent the commercial area from additional car burglaries, rampant building theft, prostitution, and homeless encampments.

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Sacramento responded to Eaton’s barricade with an order to stop blocking the street.

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Research has shown that people in non-industrial societies — the closest thing to the kind of setting our species evolved in — average less than seven hours a night, says evolutionary anthropologist David Samson at the University of Toronto Mississauga. That’s a surprising number when you consider our closest animal relatives. Humans sleep less than any ape, monkey or lemur that scientists have studied. Chimps sleep around 9.5 hours out of every 24. Cotton-top tamarins sleep around 13. Three-striped night monkeys are technically nocturnal, though really, they’re hardly ever awake — they sleep for 17 hours a day.

Samson calls this discrepancy the human sleep paradox. “How is this possible, that we’re sleeping the least out of any primate?” he says. Sleep is known to be important for our memory, immune function and other aspects of health. A predictive model of primate sleep based on factors such as body mass, brain size and diet concluded that humans ought to sleep about 9.5 hours out of every 24, not seven. “Something weird is going on,” Samson says.

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There are fillers for jawlines and there is Botox for foreheads, but height — a major source of anxiety for men — seems unsolvable. The struggles for short men in the dating world are well documented. To improve their odds of matching with people, men have taken to lying about their height on dating apps. This happens so frequently that the dating app Tinder once rolled out an April Fools joke about verifying height, and men got very upset. Just last week, a TikTok went viral for devising a plan to “fact-check” guys who say they’re 6 feet tall. Height is even an advantage in the workplace, where taller men are more likely to end up CEOs and shorter men are less likely to get access to career opportunities. Short men are mocked on social media. Some research suggests shorter men are more likely to be depressed.

The male equivalent of fake boobs? Natural selection is really taking it in the shorts from modern technology.

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It is the simplicity of Seinfeld that makes it so appropriate for use in economics courses. Using these clips (as well as clips from other television shows or movies) makes economic concepts come alive, making them more real for students. Ultimately, students will start seeing economics everywhere – in other TV shows, in popular music, and most importantly, in their own lives.

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Right now, tech companies who appreciate the effects Blue state policies have on their businesses and employees are oozing their way around such policies by tranferring activities to Red states with better attitudes toward business and taxes — Austin TX is a blatant beneficiary of this process; a Blue pustule on the rosy Red butt of Texas, proglodytes in Travis county try their best to turn Austin into a little bitty corner of California on the prairie, but are constrained by the sanity of the state as a whole so that their Wokeness can’t get out of hand (Texas taxes aren’t going to jump to California levels, and Texas social policies aren’t going to reach California levels of weird). So they can signal their virtue like fidget-spinners without any danger of having to suffer from the results.

But abortion is the keystone of the Woke edifice, and if that goes away, well, they’re between a rock and a hard place. AWFLs are going to shun Texas, and Wokerati already in Austin will probably decamp precipitously of Texas moves to restrict or ban abortion (as I expect it will). The squeeze will be on, and the Austin (and San Antonio, it’s little sister) economy could quite possibly crash into rubble. This next year will be very interesting.

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Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software?

We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.

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Khan World School at ASU Prep will unleash the potential of a new generation of students that will change the world we live in for the better. We do this by maximizing opportunities for student mastery, agency, collaboration and passion. A LOT of the thought went into translating the vision from my book The One World Schoolhouse into a comprehensive and engaging high school model. I encourage you to explore this website and attend a virtual info session to decide whether you might be a fit.

I would refuse to let my children associate with any group friendly to girls with unnaturally-colored hair. Exposure to such a narcissistic ‘peer group’ is the very definition of a Bad Influence.

Joel Kotkin.

How we reverted to a feudalistic state is a complex and infuriating story. Critical to this change has been a planning theology that holds density itself as intrinsically good and that purposely seeks to block housing on the periphery for societal, and environmental reasons. Where implemented, this approach has driven up prices, as evident in places like Sydney, Vancouver, San Francisco, London, and Paris. This has been a boon to speculators and well-heeled developers, but makes middle-class housing unaffordable to the middle class and intensifies the poverty of poorer residents.

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A trans-identified male convicted of torturing and killing a 4 year-old boy has been quietly transferred to a women’s prison in New York state. Christopher “Kryzie” King was serving a sentence of 22 years to life in Clinton Correctional Facility until April 20, when he was relocated to the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women.

King pleaded guilty to abusing and murdering 4-year-old Myls Dobson in 2014. The child had been left in his care after his father, Okee Wade, was arrested.

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Coming to your iPhone? Or maybe your Apple Watch.

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Every few days, Professor Kim Rich looks through new student registrations for the Los Angeles Community College District, including at Pierce College where she teaches criminal justice, and sees hundreds of newly created fake student enrollments.

In our conversations with Rich, she told us that It’s been going on for months.

Hackers enroll the fake students and collect up to $900 million in financial aid and Covid-19 aid each semester. However, no one seems to know for sure the sheer scale of the fraud.

These fake students, usually created by bots, open new accounts using easy-to-spot fake names like Barack Obama, Donald Trump or duplicate first names — Clifford Clifford, Jordan Jordan, Sidney Sidney, Kamara All of the above and fivethousandonehundredseven — names with questions marks or names with numbers.

New fake accounts are created, the fake students enroll in classes, taking seats away from actual students hoping to enroll in those classes. The fake accounts also “qualify” for financial aid.

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The number of wealthy Americans buying “golden passports” has skyrocketed over the past three years.
The top programs grant citizenship to foreigners who invest millions of dollars in the country.

US applicants are citing COVID, climate change, and political division, multiple firms told Insider.

One of the ugliest right-wing lies about Jan. 6 is imploding (Washington Post)

Top Trump Lawyer Is a Longtime Tax Deadbeat (Daily Beast) In the Narrative Media, a ‘tax deadbeat’ is somebody who pays less in taxes than the arrested adolescent writing the article thinks that person ought to be paying.

Christian nationalism is surging. It wasn’t inevitable. (Washington Post)

Mystery solved? Florida reveals why it rejected math books over critical race theory (Politico)

Trump justices accused of going back on their word on Roe – but did they? (The Guardian)

Herschel Walker’s insulting campaign is the worst kind of sports idolatry (Washington Post)

80 ‘Suspicious Actors’ And ‘Material Witnesses’ Under Scrutiny By Jan. 6 Defense Attorneys

Amanpour Cues Ex-Conservative to Trash Pro-Lifers as Like Nazis, Iran, and Saudi Arabia

Twitter Locks Concerned Women For America CEO’s Account: Report

Charlottesville Assistant Principal Emily Mais—Fired for Saying “Colored” Instead of “Of Color”

Race Gap in Bar Exam Passage Rates Widens, So Let’s Get Rid of LSAT!

UK Train Worker Sues After Being Fired For Questioning “White Privilege” Training

How millions of Russians are tearing holes in the Digital Iron Curtain (Washington Post)

Can Denmark’s ‘energy islands’ help it escape Russian fossil fuels? (Euronews)

Superyacht allegedly linked to Putin blocked from leaving Italian shipyard (The Guardian) Putin cooties! Oh no!

Financial War Takes A Nasty Turn

China Has ‘Financial Nuclear Bombs’ If West Levies Russia-Style Sanctions, Beijing Warns

Adam Kinzinger Executes Neocon Vision For Ukraine

The Dangerous American Game Of Helping Kill Russian Generals

Ukraine’s Kharkiv Counter-Offensive Could Threaten Russians in Izyum

Italy Seizes $700 Million Superyacht Linked To Putin   Mammas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Linked To Putin.

Embassy Alerts Americans To “Avoid Large Public Gatherings” On Russia’s Victory Day

Biden Signs New $150 Million Military Aid Package For Ukraine

Biden makes head-scratching remark about American students learning Spanish

Disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz: Parents’ anger at CRT ‘weaponized’ for profit

Repeal the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906

Transparency Group Sues Biden White House Over “Climate Disinformation” Records

Bipartisan climate talks pick up steam (The Hill)s

European Leaders Gathering in Esbjerg to Speed Up Offshore Wind Buildout (Offshore WIND)

World Food Prize goes to former farmer who answers climate change question: ‘So what?’ (NPR)

Brazil sets another Amazon deforestation record, prompting alarm (Al Jezeera)

Fossil-Fuel Industry Workers Say Green Economy Could Leave Them in Dust (The City)

Making New Climate Data from Old Timber (The New Yorker)

How much does eating meat affect nations’ greenhouse gas emissions? (Science News)

John Kerry vs. Natural Gas

Claim: Cancer Surgery Causes Climate Change

How overturning Roe v Wade could supercharge the 2022 midterm campaigns (The Guardian)

UNC professor slams board as journalism school accreditation downgraded after Nikole Hannah-Jones controversy

Attorney General Garland launches office focused on environmental justice (NBC News) What exactly is ‘environmental justice’? Nobody will say. But it sure sounds great, doesn’t it?

Psaki disturbs Twitter with her ‘disgusting’ response to leftists doxxing Supreme Court justices

TikTok users are planning a Mother’s Day strike in support of abortion rights. Not everyone’s on board. (NBC News)

UNC Journalism School Has Accreditation Downgraded for Not Instantly Offering Tenure to a Crank Amateur Historian

NPR Editor Whines Fox, RNC ‘Contorted’ Democrat Backing of Abortion on Demand

CNN Upset Thomas Tells People To Accept SCOTUS Rulings They Don’t Like

GMA Hypes California’s Efforts to Protect Abortion

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Take this as yet another sign of Democratic paranoia. It’s a memo to Gavin Newsom: have someone ready to go at a moment’s notice, because the Senate calendar is counting down, and Democrats need every vote—if they can even get things to the floor. Also, California already has one appointed Senator (quick—can you name him?), and going into the 2024 it would be best to have another appointed Senator with time to build up political capital. The longer Feinstein waits to leave the scene, the more vulnerable the seat becomes, even in deep blue California.

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Why, you might ask, disrupt Catholic church services, and not Baptists or other pro-life Protestant denominations? Because hatred of the Catholic Church has become a core principle of the left, full stop. The reasons for this go beyond the coincidence that that the five Supreme Court justices who (may) form the majority to overturn Roe are Catholics. To quote Whittaker Chambers (a Quaker), “the Catholic Church is the only fully consistent conservative position.” That’s why.

I can think of few things that will alienate moderate voters than shrieking leftists disrupting church services. Though it is fitting that they might do so on Birthing Person’s Day Mother’s Day.

It says something about the Left that their mob actions aren’t intended to persuade anybody but just to inconvenience the targets of the current Two Minute Hate. I believe that the technical term for that is ‘tantrum’.

“A big part of the incentive problem is that future people don’t have the vote. Future residents don’t have the vote, so we prevent building which placates the fears of current homeowners but prevents future residents from moving in. Future patients don’t have the vote, so we regulate drug prices at the expense of future new drug innovations and so forth. This has always been true, of course, but culture can be a solution to otherwise tough-to-solve incentive problems. America’s forward looking, pro-innovation, pro-science culture meant that in the past we were more likely to protect the future.

“We could solve many more of our problem if both sides stowed some of their cultural agendas to focus on areas of agreement. I think, for example, that we could solve the climate change problem with a combination of a revenue neutral carbon tax and American ingenuity. Nuclear, geo-thermal, hydrogen–these aren’t just clean fuels they are better fuels! Unfortunately, instead of focusing on innovation we get a lot of nonsense about paper straws and low-flow showers. I hate paper straws and low-flow showers! There is a wing of the environmental movement that wants to punish consumerism, individualism, and America more than they want to solve environmental problems so they see an innovation agenda as a kind of cheating. Retribution is the goal of their practice.”

— Alex Tabarrok

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The New York Post debuts an excerpt of John Paul Mac Isaac’s memoir American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth. The Post has published the excerpt under the headline “The night I met Hunter Biden: Mac Shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac recounts fateful encounter in exclusive excerpt.” It is the story the Post reported before the 2020 presidential election, but it is the story that could not be told. It has to be suppressed. Isaac had to be defamed. The story had to be trashed. President Biden himself reiterated the blatant propaganda of retired intelligence officials asserting that it was Russian misinformation.

Among the laptops turned over to him by Hunter Biden, Isaac found the revelations with which we have become familiar, no thanks to the Democrats’ media adjunct. It is an incredible story. Isaac himself was a walk-on whose role was to serve as roadkill.

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The IRS may have the ability to automate nearly half of tax returns, according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The agency could correctly auto-fill an estimated 62 million to 73 million returns with information it already has, covering 41% to 48% of taxpayers, researchers from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Minneapolis Federal Reserve and Dartmouth College found.

“Our results suggest that pre-populated returns would be accurate for a substantial share of U.S. taxpayers,” the authors wrote.

Can you spell T-U-R-B-O-T-A-X? Can you spell H-&-R-B-L-O-C-K? I’m sure you can….

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But, of course, as we all know, there was no vote fraud in the 2020 election. Perish the thought!

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The emergency request includes $1.2 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services with a nod to the Department of Homeland Security’s Uniting for Ukraine program. This portion of the funding request includes robust and increased blanket immigration provisions for Ukrainians, Afghans, and Russians in the science, technology, engineering, and math—or STEM—fields.

One of the most curious categories mentioned is the Russian STEM professionals. With the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, it is surprising that the administration believes it will “benefit” U.S. national security interests to peel back employer-sponsor requirements and expedite an unlimited number of applications from this foreign adversary.

Normally, these Russian nationals would be subject to visa caps that would limit the number allowed to enter the U.S. each year. This certainly seems like the Biden administration’s latest radical, opportunistic attempt to get around those caps one country at a time. And to start with Russia is just national security incompetence.

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The Biden administration’s nuclear policies and budget are too ambiguous or otherwise wide reaching to provide the type of conflict deterrence that is expected of them, according to several experts.

“How are you going to contain Russia and China?” said Harlan Ullman, a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank. “The policy statements don’t tell you. They’re aspirational.”

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You will perhaps not be surprised to learn that, because this happened in George Gascón’s district, the attacker will not be charged with a felony. Basically nothing is a felony in L.A. anymore, except voting Republican.