The Supreme Court’s EPA ruling says: We’ll do whatever we want (Washington Post) Which they didn’t object to when things were going their way.

The Supreme Court’s EPA ruling just carpet-bombed the Constitution (S.F. Chronicle)

Filmmaker says ‘rational conversation’ with Trump not possible after Jan. 6 (The Hill)

Tucker Carlson Unwittingly Helps to Raise $14,000 for Abortion Rights (Daily Beast)

Fulton DA pushes back against legislators fighting subpoenas (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Tucker Carlson’s bizarro-Jan. 6 hearings aim to indict the government (Washington Post)

Anthony Ornato has repeatedly disputed key White House conversations (Washington Post)

As the court forces Christianity on America, time for atheists to speak out (Washington P0st) This from a chick named Cohen.

Kinzinger ‘frustrated’ by DOJ’s pace handling Jan. 6 (The Hill)

Cassidy Hutchinson and coup’s great mystery: What if Trump went to the Capitol? (Philadelphe Inquirer)

Liz Cheney perfectly captured the choice Republicans now have to make on Donald Trump (CNN)

Ex-Trump attorney says Trump is taking tips from McCarthy-era playbook (CNN)

Colbert Compares Praying Football Coach to Satanic Goat Sacrifice

Amanpour Urges Swedish Prime Minister to Denounce Dobbs Ruling

Unlawful Searches Seizures Arrests of Political Opponents

Anti-Catholic Terrorism: Washington State Catholic Church Attacked by Leftist Pro-Abortion Vandal

‘Out of Balance’: Whoopi Demands Biden Pack the Supreme Court

Liberal Tolerance on Display After Reversal of Roe v. Wade

MSNBC Freaks Out, Claims Court Removed ‘Right to a Livable Planet’

‘Definitely Not a Free Speech Platform:’ Twitter Removes Jordan Peterson’s Elliot Page Tweet

Hayes Compares January 6 Riot To Reconstruction-Era White Massacres

Eddie Glaude Jr. On ‘Morning Joe’: Trumpist Republican Party Should ‘Literally Be Burned To The Ground’

Drunk on Power: Michigan Dem AG Threatens To Jail Opponent

CONSPIRACY ALERT: Dem Alleges Capitalist-Evangelical Plot To ‘Dumb Down’ the Youth

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“We would do thousands of jobs a year in the city, but as we got robbed more, my people operating rollers and pavers we got robbed, our equipment would get stolen in broad daylight and there would usually be a gun involved, and it got expensive and it got dangerous,” said Gary Rabine, who pulled his road paving company out of the city after his crews were repeatedly robbed.

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The shortage of pilots is a hot issue. During the pandemic airlines pushed late-career pilots to retire early, and they weren’t hiring pilots. It’s time-consuming to train pilots, and it’s expensive. And they’re also forced to retire at age 65 regardless of health.

Up until 2013 pilots were required to hold a commercial license which required 250 hours of flying (in addition to being type-rated for the specific aircraft they’re flying). The hours requirement was increased in safety legislation which followed the 2009 Colgan Air crash, even though hours of pilot training had nothing whatsoever to do with that crash.

When something bad happens, people take unrelated pet ideas off the shelf and push them – after TWA Flight 800 exploded we got ID requirements to fly because the President wanted something to announce, to show he was doing something. After 9/11, then-Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) famously said of the opportunity “It’s an open grab bag, so let’s grab.”

Ponder how much of our economic distress is self-inflicted: Stupid regulations enacted by politicians ignorant of the situation but compelled by their ‘profession’ to do something, even if it’s wrong.

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There are two types of people in this world. The first is those who have never heard of the Jones Act, the law that requires American-built and staffed ships for maritime commerce within the U.S. I imagine these folks sleep peacefully each night and live in balanced harmony.

The other type is not so lucky. They have an impassioned, unshakeable opinion of the Jones Act. They believe it is either the root of all evil in the U.S. or believe it is something to be protected unselfishly. Doing away with the Jones Act, according to them, would either spark the collapse of Western civilization or would solve all earthly ills.

If you’re outside the shipping world, you probably struggle to believe that Jones Act lovers or haters comprise a meaningful segment of the U.S. And yet they do. Politicians have tried for decades to repeal the protectionist law, only to be met with a lobbying group that late Sen. John McCain called the most powerful he ever encountered.

Ponder how much of our economic pain is self-inflicted: Special-interest legislation that either favors one select group over the rest of the population, or attempts to force reality to conform to some absurd political theory.

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Toronto Police caused confusion on Twitter after posting about a missing ‘woman’ despite the accompanying picture showing a biological male with a goatee.

Oh, Canada….

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Although this Administration has been an unqualified disaster from January 21 on, The Left cannot quite do all the dastardly things it has in mind. That, it turns out, is not because they don’t have nefarious plans for us. It is because their dozens of woke organizations are filled with lazy, fragile activists who spend all their time on internal squabbles, fiefdom fights, Victim Entitlement Olympics and the equitable division of spoils. Not to mention regular “Hate Whitey and Whiteness” mandatory workshops, HR harassment investigations, pronoun obsession and, if government employees are any example, regular perusal of porn sites. Nothing gets done. The Play-Doh and Kleenex budget alone must be enormous.

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The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation steered more than $100,000 to a charity run by its own president, in the second case of a sitting board member’s nonprofit group benefiting from the foundation’s grants.

Social Ventures Inc., a charity run by Ben & Jerry’s board member Jeff Furman, raked in around $118,000 from the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation between 2016 and 2020, according to financial disclosure records.

Doing well by doing good.

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Gee, I wonder why?

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Plant-based meat alternatives will have to come up with new terminology in France. The country adopted a measure banning plant-based products from using the same names as food from dead animals.

If it didn’t moo, it isn’t steak.

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Just when the wife of one incarcerated Jan. 6 prisoner believed things couldn’t get worse, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) informed her they are going to suspend all of her husband’s benefits. According to United States Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), “this is what you have when vindictive leftists get in charge of major parts of the government.”

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An interesting article by Ryan Grim in Intercept describes how a variety of progressive organizations in recent years have found themselves paralyzed by internal conflicts involving accusations of racism, sexism, and similar offenses. Pretty clearly, the accusations are a mix of responses to real problems, responses to imagined problems, and weapons by which one member of an organization can attack another.

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One interesting question is whether it will occur to progressives to generalize their experience. If their ideology, including the willingness to enforce it at the organizational level by attacking other members of the organization for being insufficiently progressive, makes organizations unable to accomplish anything, what happens to the country if most people became progressives?

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Here’s what struck me: “The Mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb….” Nothing says ‘Dutch’ like the name ‘Ahmed Aboutaleb’.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

We have the technology.