Biden covid case highlights confusing CDC guidance on ending isolation (Washington Post)

Biden remains positive for Covid and ‘continues to feel well,’ his doctor says (CNN)

The double toll of viruses and social injustice (Nature)

When you have covid, here’s how you know you are no longer contagious (Washington Post)

Pfizer, Moderna deals for revamped COVID shots won’t be enough without more funding, HHS says KA-CHING!

California declares a state of emergency over monkeypox outbreak, following New York and Illinois (CNBC) Don’t say gay!

CDC adds 3 places to its ‘high’ risk list for Covid-19 (CNN) Time to PANIC!

Gov. J.B. Pritzker declares monkeypox virus a statewide public health emergency (Chicago Tribune) Don’t say gay!

Apple lifts mask mandate for corporate employees  I guess the Panic is officially over.

Biden Names White House Coordinator for Monkeypox (N.Y. Times) Gotta get those gay votes! And we can do it by creating another no-show job for one of the Crust at taxpayer expense! What a win!

Watch: Fauci Complains That Americans Will Not “Adhere” To Authorities

Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis

Biden EPA plans to tackle coal industry by enacting new limits on other pollutants

Nets Ignore Tax Increase in Budget Bill, Parrot WH Talking Points Instead

Caught Red-Handed: Doocy EXPOSES Biden WH Spin Over New Big Gov’t Boondoggle

The Mind-Blowing Stupidity Behind The $280 Billion ‘Chips For America Act’

Sen. Johnson Expects ‘Deal’ To Conceal Indictment Of Hunter Biden

Cash Bonanza: Iran Has Made $44.7 Billion in Illegal Oil Sales Since Biden Took Office

Biden Promised To Restore ‘Respected Leadership on the World Stage.’ Swing Voters Say He’s Done the Opposite.

Biden administration task force reunites 400 migrant families separated under Trump (NBC News) So now we have an additional 400 families of illegal immigrants in this country. What an accomplishment!

Recession Deniers: Networks Parrot White House Redefining the Tanking Economy

Black WashPost Columnist Panics Over White Doll in His House

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Now, the LA County Board of Supervisors has unanimously decided to allow illegal immigrants to take up positions in government without ever applying for citizenship. The rule was passed under a new “inclusive hiring” program and was introduced by supervisors Hilda L. Solis and Sheila Kuehl in June 2021.

Time to leave.

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July 20 marked a year and a half into the Biden administration, but you’d never know that from Garry Trudeau, the liberal hack political cartoonist behind the long-running, but highly overrated “Doonesbury” comic strip.

Though former President Donald Trump has been out of the White House now for more than 18 months, he apparently still lives rent-free in the head of Trudeau, who clearly suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Trudeau—whose Sunday-only “Doonesbury” cartoon strips not surprisingly still lead the color comics section of the Trump-hating Washington Post—continues to savage the 45th president regularly.

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In my experience, mass transit works best in densely-populated cities. There is a lot more actual demand for mass transit, and city systems can be full at least during rush hour. Unfortunately, the Leftists who run West Coast cities are enamored of mass transit, and totally ignore the fact that they simply lack the “mass” to make it work. Seattle is in love with “light rail,” and their mostly-leftist voters voted to increase taxes on everything (sales, property, cars) to pay for a light-rail system. That system is partly running now, from north Seattle to the airport, but it really isn’t drawing many riders.

Of course, they hadn’t counted on a pandemic of respiratory disease that shut down the system for months, then had few riders when it re-opened; they had successfully persuaded citizens that they should fear all their fellow citizens, which doesn’t contribute much to the demand for packed rail cars or buses. Of course, Sound Transit bemoans its funding shortfalls, which could have been expected in any case. Then, they let kids ride free, contributing even more to the funding shortfall. And their trains have become rolling homeless shelters, making legitimate riders very uncomfortable.

All of these people wished that they lived in New York City, or maybe Chicago, where buildings are piled higher and deeper, everybody works in the center and lives in the periphery (because they can’t afford to live in the center), and everybody’s ‘neighborhood’ is full of strangers who don’t speak English but are willing to sell you foreign food that you pretend to like because that’s Hip And Trendy.

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The Phillips neighborhood just south of downtown Minneapolis should not be the hellhole it has become. It has proved a popular area for homeless encampments that have plagued the neighborhood, but it wasn’t always like this and there is no good reason it should be this way now.

Liz Collin reports for Alpha News here and in the video below. My friend Howard Root writes that “the images of the homeless encampments and destruction are unlike anything I’ve ever seen in Minneapolis.” There seems to be no bottom to the crime and chaos and filth that the authorities in Minneapolis will tolerate or the Star Tribune paper over.

Quotable quote: “Alpha News also contacted Gov. Tim Walz for comment on the ongoing situation and did not receive a response.”

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The normally innocuous workplace comic strip is arguably trying to get itself cancelled after three decades in syndication. But why?

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Considering the prolonged the death spiral of the newspaper industry as a whole, you might suspect that now would be as good a time as any for Adams to fade into obscurity to enjoy a quiet retirement funded by his Dilbert-generated fortune. Instead, he’s been landing himself as the internet’s villain du jour at a shocking rate.

The Woke have awakened to the fact that Scott Adams is quite possibly not their friend.

Those of us who follow his daily podcast Coffee With Scott Adams already knew that, of course.

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Looking out the window of a plane flying over Boulder, Colorado, recently, I was reminded how much American universities stick out from their surroundings.

I’d never been to Boulder, or visited the University of Colorado’s flagship campus there, but even from 30,000 feet, I could tell exactly where it started and ended. The red-tile roofs and quadrangles of the campus formed a little self-contained world, totally distinct from the grid of single-family homes that surrounded it.

In urban universities, the dividing line between the campus and the community can be even starker. At the University of Southern California, for example, students must check in with security officers when entering the gates of the university at night. At Yale, castle-like architecture makes the campus feel like a fortified enclave.

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Bearing Arms reported several firearm-related companies had their corporate accounts canceled by UPS. Not only that, but some of these companies also have had packages damaged or lost while in transit to customers.

One ammunition distribution company called “The Gun Food” reported out of a recent 18,000 rounds of ammunition shipped with UPS, only 6,000 made it to the end destination.

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What goes around, comes around….

MSNBC guest says Herschel Walker is ‘what Republicans want from their Negroes’  Democrats have never been happy since Republicans freed their slaves.

Statement of President Joe Biden on the Passing of Nichelle Nichols

Pet Project: BLM Activist Shaun King Used Donor Funds To Buy $40k Thoroughbred Show Dog  He looks pretty white to me.

Sports Illustrated Drop-Kicks NFL For Going Easy On Deshaun Watson

Far-Left Commentator Slurs Black Republican Senate Candidate

Racist Mystal: Herschel Walker is ‘What GOP Wants From Their Negroes’

CNN Chief’s Republican Apology Tour

Manchin says Republicans in ‘normal times’ would be supporting energy, health care bill (CNN) That’s because ‘in normal times’ Republicans are just as much Big Spenders as Democrats. That’s how Trump got nominated and elected, because people don’t want ‘normal times’ any more.

Manchin admits ‘mistake’ saying past spending bill wouldn’t cause inflation, hopes he isn’t wrong again  The formula for success: If you make a mistake, why, repeat it!

Congress on “high alert” amid security threats (Axios)

US faces new era of political violence as threats against lawmakers rise (The Guardian) Perhaps because the ‘laws’ these ‘lawmakers’ make only make things worse.

ABC panel criticizes Democrats meddling in GOP primaries: ‘Embarrassingly hypocritical’

How the media is falling short covering the economic rollercoaster (CNN) Paul Krugman, who has never been right yet in his economic predictions, is CNN’s go-to guy. (Stelter Brings on Economic Dunce Krugman to Say US Not in Recession)

Sting warns during Warsaw concert of threats to democracy (Associated Press)

Overturning Roe v. Wade isn’t the end for abortion opponents (Associated Press)

Major legal fights loom over abortion pills, travel out of state (Washington Post)

Alabama Constitution of 2022 removes repealed laws, racist language

CNN panelist says legislative victories won’t be enough for Dems in the midterms: ‘Downtowns are still empty’

Corporate Media Have ‘Gosnelled’ The Ohio Child Rape Story

Who Is the Psychiatrist Behind the Antidepressant Study Taking Over Right-Wing Media? (Rolling Stone)

PolitiFact Lets Al Gore Smear Away, But Rushes to Defend AOC ‘Arrest’ Publicity Stunt

The creation of the trans child

Wikipedia has blocked editing ‘recession’ as people change definition

These Colorado Dems Say They’re Running To Help ‘Working Families.’ They Voted for New Taxes Amid Rising Inflation.  To proglodytes, any tax is a good tax.

States may revive abortion laws from a time when women couldn’t vote (Washington Post) dunh-dunh- DUNHH!  Or even from a time when nobody could vote! OH NOES!!!

TikTok Permanently Removes MRCTV Account Without Explanation  Ye shall know the truth … except on Tik-Tok, Twitter, and Facebook.

LA Landlords Call For End To Eviction Moratorium  Who would be so foolish as to be a landlord in a Blue state?

England RFU Bans Transgender Women From Playing Female Rugby

Episcopal Church Invites Drag Queen to Pride ‘Chapel’

The View: Drag Shows Are Fine for Kids, No One Killed By Them Like Guns

Lena Dunham Is Totally Triggered About Abortion Rights (Even Though She Had a Hysterectomy More Than Four Years Ago)

Manchin Reconciliation Package Includes Policy He Once Called ‘Ludicrous’  When all is said and done, Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

Should You Take a Test Before Leaving Isolation After COVID? Here’s What Doctors and the CDC Say (NBC Chicago)

How long should I isolate after I test positive for COVID? UChicago’s Dr. Landon gives us a timeline. (Chicago Tribune)

Gottlieb predicts monkeypox will become public health failure (The Hill)

Millions of Americans have long COVID. Many of them are no longer working (NPR)

For pioneering AIDS activists, monkeypox outbreak evokes déjà vu (NBC News) Don’t say gay….

Omicron BA.5: Symptoms, At-Home Testing and Everything Else to Know (CNET)

Not So Easy To Kill: Will This Lawsuit Settlement End Employers’ Denial of Religious Exemptions for Vaccine Mandates?

The First Time as AIDS, the Second as Monkeypox

D.C. schools expand covid vaccine mandate, unlike most other districts

Biden’s Military Vaccine Mandate is a Political Test

There’s a Monkeypox Testing Bottleneck  OH NOES!!!

How Some Parents Changed Their Politics in the Pandemic (N.Y. Times)

Biden: ‘We Are In A Pandemic Of The Quadruple Vaccinated’  Mighty fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

FBI, Director Christopher Wray are in for a rude wake-up call over Hunter Biden investigation

Conservative groups slam President Biden for attempting to ‘gaslight’ Americans on recession

Hunter Biden scandal may lead right back to Joe

Miranda Devine on ‘the Big Guy’ texts: ‘Overwhelming’ evidence Joe Biden knew of Hunter’s business deals

Biden’s success story (Axios)

FBI Let Off the Hook—Again

MSNBC Touts ‘Biden’s Success Story,’ Compares Him to REAGAN, Not Jimmy Carter

The Kamala Conundrum

Did Biden Just Boost U.S. Tech — or Fund a Bunch of Solyndras?

Will The Inflation Reduction Act Of 2022 Do Anything At All?  Yes, it will increase inflation. Democrat legislation always does the opposite of what it claims to do.

A clown-car administration

Econ Prof. WARNS Biden ‘Inflation Reduction’ Bill Will Make Inflation Worse  But you knew that.

This heatwave is a reminder that grass lawns are terrible for the environment (The Guardian)

Climate change, drought signal time to go against the green (Sentinel Colorado)

Facebook’s former CTO Mike Schroepfer explains why he’s turning his attention to climate change (CNBC)

California not counting methane leaks from idle wells

Australia sets sights on clean energy jobs created by ‘climate emergency’ (Reuters)

Labor’s climate bill is mostly symbolic – the big questions are about what comes next (The Guardian)

This nation is scorching in a heat wave and wildfires, yet it’s returning to planet-baking coal (CNN)

Global citizens: We may have to sue our way out of the climate crisis (The Hill)

Climate change and the Supreme Court’s version of police abolitionism (The Hill)

Are This Summer’s Heat Waves Extraordinary?

We’ve Got to Beat the Meat

Why the Sun, Not CO2, Heats the Oceans Revisiting the Debate: Does Greenhouse Back-radiation Warm the Oceans?

The Valley of Greta

Punish Companies Who Downplay Climate Risk!

“Give Up Your Yacht Before Lecturing”: Bolsonaro Sinks DiCaprio In Titanic Twitter Thread

WSJ: Why Pretend Green Pork Will Stop Climate Change?

Green Nightmare: Aussie Power Prices Rising Out of Control

First Ukraine grain ship since start of war leaves Odesa (Reuters)

Ukrainian grain tycoon killed in Mykolaiv shelling as Putin threatens ‘lightning speed’ response to interference (CNN) Well, at least he’s only a ‘tycoon’, not an ‘oligarch’.

Vladimir Putin targets US in new Russian navy doctrine, warns of using hypersonic weapons

Europe has lost the energy war

Iran says it will ‘build nuclear warheads’ and turn NY into ‘hellish ruins’ (Jerusalem Post) Too late….

Iran Threatens New York City?

China To Pelosi: You Will ‘Perish’ Over Taiwan  If only that were true….

Europe Hypnotized Into War Economy

UN Chief & Putin In Rare Moment Of Agreement: World Is “One Miscalculation Away” From Nuclear Annihilation

North Korea Preparing 1st Nuclear Test In 5 Years, Blinken Informs UN  Gee, this never happened under Trunp.

EU, UK Fold? Delay Cutting Off Russia From Oil Insurance Market

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The vessel in question is the Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS), a crucial piece of technology packaged as part of the Navy’s suite of systems designed for mine countermeasures. The ship, small enough to deployed from a Littoral Combat Ship, reached “initial operational capability,” or IOC, on July 22, the Navy said late last week.

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A Senate hearing on “diversity and equity” in American diplomacy proved to be a wasted opportunity to tackle a core question in our politics: Do we want equality or “equity?”

Instead, the hearing kicked off with mostly old white men bemoaning that the senior ranks of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International development are dominated by old white men.

In essence, they complained that the agencies don’t do enough to discriminate against their own grandchildren in hiring.

Michael Shellengerger

Of course it will.

When Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” yesterday he said that the $700 billion climate change, energy, and health care proposal he announced last week with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would not raise taxes. “We should not increase taxes, and we did not increase taxes,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

But a new study by the U.S. Congress’s nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation has found that not only would the legislation increase taxes, it would increase taxes by $11 billion more on Americans earning below $200,000 per year than on Americans earning between $500,000 and $1 million, in 2023.

And the legislation would increase taxes by $3 billion more on Americans earning below $200,000 per year than on Americans earning between $200,000 and $500,000 per year.

I hope it doesn’t come as a surprise to him that Democrats lie.

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The man who authorities say planned to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh in a bid to impact the Roe v Wade decision identified as a transgender female called Sophie, according to court documents.

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The chief executive of the world’s largest industrial landlord was robbed outside his San Francisco mansion last month and called on the mayor to address the “absolutely unacceptable” rise in violent crime in the city.

Hamid Moghadam, CEO of San Francisco-based Prologis, told the San Francisco Business Times that several men robbed him at gunpoint outside his home on June 26, taking his Patek Philippe watch. The robbery happened in the Pacific Heights neighborhood where tech investor Peter Thiel, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have homes.

My heart breaks for him.

New York Times.

There simply aren’t enough places to live, a crisis decades in the making and one that poses a threat to the city’s continuing recovery.

I must confess that the difficulty of finding an affordable apartment in New York City doesn’t loom large in my life.

The Dallas metro area, by contrast, has plenty of ‘affordable’ apartments at New York price levels, although certainly fewer than there used to be before the Pandemic Panic.

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On the other hand, maybe they’re right … at least about the ‘disorder’ part.

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I guess Muqtada al-Sadr is the New Trump. Or maybe the New Putin? It’s hard to keep track.

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Tomorrow I’m facing off against John Gibbs in the Republican primary for Michigan’s Third Congressional District. The race is close. Internal polling has us within single digits of one another. But Gibbs and I couldn’t be more different.

I am a staunch defender of the Constitution and the rule of law. Accordingly, I became the first incoming freshman to recognize former Vice President Biden’s presidential victory. Then, three days after I was sworn into office in January 2021, I was in the House chamber when rioters overran the Capitol. A week later, I joined nine other Republicans, including Liz Cheney, to impeach then-President Donald Trump with a heavy but resolute conscience. I am the only freshman in history to impeach a president of his own party.

He says that like it was a good thing.

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For the second time since 2014 the United States is supporting efforts that help Russians to bypass government censorship to reach the outside world and search for information that will clarify what is going on in Ukraine. The official Russian version about what is going on in Ukraine is contradicted by what surviving Russian veterans of the fighting are reporting. The information provided by soldiers who have been there, or parents seeking to find out what happened to their sons in the army, has caused growing reluctance to support the Russian operations in Ukraine. More Russians are refusing to report when they receive a conscription notice. Calls for volunteers to serve in Ukraine are being ignored, even at higher pay, as in three to ten times the average monthly income of civilians. The government refuses to provide any clarification, pointing out that such information is a state secret.

Remember when Democrat meant somebody in favor of democracy?

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Under normal circumstances, it would be perfectly appropriate for the Supreme Pontiff to express shame for the persecution of pupils at the Residential Schools operated by the Church in Canada between the 1870s and 1990s. Last year, it was reported that the graves of 200 children had been found near one of these schools in British Columbia. That may be fake news. Some experts believe that the “graves” were soil disturbances and point out that they have not been excavated. No one disputes, however, that children suffered monstrously. Former pupils have talked of savage beatings and being forbidden to speak their native languages. Hundreds of sexual predators were protected.

But this pope has little moral authority to apologise for anyone else’s crimes. To understand why, we need to travel 6,500 miles from the scene of Francis’s meticulously staged expression of remorse in Edmonton to a dusty city in the subtropical north-west of Argentina. Although Orán has only 73,000 inhabitants, it does have a cathedral — a spiky concrete tent that embarrasses even the local tourist board.

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For many conservatives who for years looked forward to the arrival of William Kristol’s Weekly Standard, expecting to devour cover-to-cover the excellent articles, analysis, and commentary, Kristol’s descent into near-fatal Trump Derangement Syndrome has been distressing, to say the least.

The rabid anti-Trump posture adopted by the Weekly Standard proved to be its undoing (I cancelled my subscription in December, 2016), but the cadre of NeverTrumpers doubled-down on their failure. Some still pretended to be conservatives, wanting to “save” the Republican Party and conservatism from Trump; others, like Kristol, aligned themselves clearly with the left in opposition not only to Trump but to any conservative so misguided and corrupt as to continue to support Trump populism or the Republican Party Trump dominates.

Kristol nowadays calls himself a well-wisher of the Democratic Party despite the “sub-optimal performances of it leaders,” writes a wistful column in the laughable, “no tribal prejudices” Bulwark. The Democratic Party faces challenges: the party needs to defend (urgently!) democracy, moderation, and the rule of law; and the party needs to advance (urgently!) major reforms in our broken or damaged institutions.