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We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult. This must come as a bit of a shock. Your first instinct will no doubt be to recoil in denial. “Me? In a cult? Absolutely not!” We must unfortunately insist. It’s okay though, you had no choice. You were born to parents who started your indoctrination from day one. And, perhaps even more insidious, the cult has been watered-down from its original form, in order to retain members. Thus, the signs and scars created by your cult are subtler than those one might otherwise expect.

There are very few entrepreneurial projects more profitable than starting a cult. Ask L. Ron Hubbard.

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Downtown Dallas continues to creep away from the original Central Business District on Main Street and towards our residential anchor neighborhoods. This is not because the occupancy has outgrown the Central Business District. In fact, many buildings are empty or are being repurposed.

The real reason for this movement of the Central Business District away from the original heart of downtown Dallas lies in human preferences.

People like the vibrancy of big cities. But they are not particularly attracted to cold, canyonlike streets of tall buildings with few traces of humanity. People love the combination of nature alongside stores, restaurants and lower-density inner-city neighborhoods. There have been many more popular bars and restaurants in uptown residential neighborhoods than downtown Dallas.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

The post-1945 Great Nazi Shortage has driven the team (James Mangold and the Butterworth brothers) making the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones movie set in 1969 to the stratagem of finding Nazis behind America’s moon landing. Mads Mikkelsen plays the villain based on Werner von Braun.

At least 5 people killed, 18 injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs (CNN) White supremacists! Oh, wait….

Brutal Nickname For Elon Musk Goes Mega-Viral On His Twitter (Huffington P0st)

German Public TV Compares Elon Musk To Goebbels  Goebbells could speak the language.

MSNBC: GOP a ‘Narco-Cartel,’ Trying to Turn DeSantis into ‘New Jesus’ (MSNBC) Well, they hate the old one, so it’s probable they’ll hate the new one.

Schiff bemoans growth of ‘crazy caucus’ in House GOP (ABC) As a senior member of the ‘sleazy caucus’, he has little room to talk.

How the Pelosi Attack Suspect Plunged Into Online Hatred (N.Y. Times) Another roundabout attempt to pin it on Republicans.

Press Petulant Over ‘Transphobic,’ ‘Right-Wing’ Satire Site Babylon Bee’s Free-Speech Win

OUCH: CNN’s Tapper Throws Cold Water on Dems’ Midterm Gloating

Twitter lifts Donald Trump ban after Elon Musk’s poll (The Guardian)

Elon Musk says Trump will be reinstated to Twitter after more than 15 million users voted in poll (Fox) A narrow win–as narrow as some of the Democrat victories in the mid-terms.

The perils for Trump, Garland and special counsel Smith in Washington’s new legal arms race (The Hill)

Trump’s response to DOJ announcement makes former prosecutor chuckle (CNN) Laugh while you can, monkey boy.

Trump campaign announcement deepens Republicans’ civil war (The Guardian) They hope.

Bill Barr: ‘It’s becoming increasingly more likely’ Trump is indicted (N.Y. Post)

Orange Man (Still) Bad: Anti-Trump Witch Hunt Must Continue, Says Garland

POLITICO Playbook: A new special counsel sets Washington ablaze  The desire by some to light their farts is never outgrown.

For experts, the evidence in two probes compels charging Trump (The Hill)

Pence Defends Trump, Warns About AG Garland, Partisan DOJ

Trump’s growing GOP challengers revive fears of 2016 repeat (Associated Press) I guess it’s no secret which side the AP is on.

Student debtors refuse to pay back loans: ‘I’m not gonna feed this monster anymore’ (N.Y Post)

Massive group of migrants hits Texas border as end of Title 42 looms (Fox)

Immigration attorney receives hundreds of calls, migrants asking if they can cross after Title 42 ruling (KTSM)

‘Slow-walked justice’: FBI insists it is prosecuting attacks on pro-life centers amid claims of politicization (Fox)

Texas to send military armored personnel carriers to the border to escalate enforcement: Report (Fox)

‘It’s like living in an igloo’ People are turning off their heat as prices surge

Watch: FBI Director, DHS Secretary Grilled On Tech Censorship Collusion, Targeting Everyday Americans As Terrorists

Foreign Students May Have Overstayed Visas via Employment at Possible Shell Cos

Jake Tapper Destroys Biden For Determining ‘Thug’ Mohammed Bin Salman Has Immunity: You’re Letting Him ‘Get Away With Murder’ (MEDIAite)

Arizona AG Launches Investigation Into Maricopa County ‘Election Irregularities’

Layoffs mount, and Main Street still can’t find any workers to hire for open jobs (CNBC) Why work,  when the government will give you money?

Democrats dissing Mayor Adams could lead to next Rudy Giuliani, Al Sharpton says (N.Y. Post) That would certainly solve the crime problem.

‘You do not have the right to ban books’: Meridian library officials respond to threats (Idaho Statesman) Except that they’re not ‘banning’ books; they’re merely saying don’t have them in the public library.

France brands Italy’s refusal of migrant rescue ship a ‘nasty gesture’ (EuroNews)

The Backlash To Losing Roe v. Wade Is Just Getting Started (Huffington Post)

Empty Classrooms, Abandoned Kids: Inside America’s Great Teacher Resignation (N.Y. Times) Kids, Schmids: It’s all about the benefits.

FedCoin: It Starts With A Trial Run

Not So Fast Elon: Europe Warns Musk He Must Hire Hundreds Of Moderators To Limit Free Speech

Gun Sales Skyrocket After Oregon Passes Measure Restricting Gun Rights

ZERO Dissent: NPR, PBS Air Totally One-Sided Interviews with New Trans Legislators

House GOP Leader: ‘Anti-Semitic’ Rep. Omar to Be Off Committees

Just Kidding! CBS News Resumes Twitter Posts After 40-Hour Tantrum

COP27 summit agrees on landmark climate ‘loss and damage’ fund, but does little to encourage rapid cuts to fossil fuel use (CNN) GIVE US MONEY!

The road to low-carbon concrete (Ars Technica)

Environmental groups oppose pipeline expansion in Pacific NW (Seattle Times)

Triggered by Musk, CBS News announces it’s suspending all Twitter activity out of ‘abundance of caution’ (Fox)

Did climate change really kill billions of snow crabs in Alaska? Here’s what experts say (Tacoma News-Tribune)

Analysis: India power binges on coal, outpaces Asia (Reuters)

Five crucial issues in fight to save planet – and what Cop27 did about them (The Guardian) Not a f—g thing.

US shamed as the ‘colossal fossil’ of Cop27 climate summit by campaigners (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Beware the false hope of recycling (Nature)

‘Shameful’ UN silencing Indigenous voices, say banned Cop27 activists (The Guardian)

Indigenous activists “seen, not heard” at COP27 (Axios)

Hoover Dam Brings Electricity to 1.3 Million—It’s At Risk of Shutting Down (Newsweek)

How to build a net-zero chalet (Financial Times) And of course we can all afford a ‘net zero chalet’.

Energy requirements and carbon emissions for a low-carbon energy transition (Nature)

‘No safe place’: Kiribati seeks donors to raise islands from encroaching seas (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

AP COP 27 Article Grossly Misrepresents Global Energy and Emissions Reality

Methane: Much Ado About Nothing

As Green Policies Cause Energy Prices To Explode, Deforestation In Europe Accelerates

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama review – a guide for life from the former first lady (The Guardian) Play the victim all your life and marry a Magic Negro.

Democrat Rep. Claims Slavery Reparations Could Have Saved Black Americans From COVID  GIVE US MONEY!

NAACP Calls On Twitter Advertisers To Take Action After Trump’s Reinstatement (Huffington Post)

RFK’s daughter reveals Harry and Meghan will accept honor at NYC gala for their ‘heroic’ stance against ‘structural RACISM’ of royal family (Daily Mail)

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After spending the past year cheering on Congressional Democrats in their seemingly never ending quest to investigate former President Donald Trump and his actions on and leading up to the January 6 riots, including the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and presumably prosecute Trump, suddenly investigations and oversight are bad since it’s the GOP’s turn to conduct them.

The leftist media’s blatant and shameless hypocrisy was on full display during Sunday’s This Week on ABC when fill-in host Jon Karl interviewed former Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan about his take on politics and his new book which outlines solutions to America’s fiscal problems.

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Is there any force more powerful in America today than white guilt? That is the question that springs to mind reading Regina Jackson and Saira Rao’s new book, White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better. Jackson and Rao, who get invited and paid to ruin perfectly lovely dinner parties by lecturing attendees about their “complicity in upholding white supremacy,” have found the white guilt—the soft spot in the skull of earnest liberals—and just keep poking their thumbs into it.

COP27 is leaving huge loopholes for greenwashing (Quartz)

House GOP expected to eliminate climate crisis committee (The Hill)

Cop27 live: ‘deeply worrying’ climate talks may be close to breaking down, campaigners warn (The Guardian)

Climate talks grow tense as U.S. resists Europe’s plan for aid (Politico)

Fashion brands grapple with greenwashing: ‘It’s not a human right to say something is sustainable’ (The Guardian)

Achieving a swift reduction in global coal emissions is the central challenge for reaching international climate targets (IEA)

Charts: How much will coal’s transition cost? (Mining.com)

Monterey Bay desalination project is approved despite environmental injustice concerns (L.A. Times)

COP27 Fail: John Kerry MIA as Delegates Demand the USA Pay for “Loss and Damage” GIVE US MONEY!

King Charles: Foie gras banned at royal residences (BBC) The monarchy goes Woke.

Climate Change Weekly #453: Climate Catastrophism Is Worse Than Climate Change

Sacrifice: U.S. So Racist Michelle Obama Couldn’t Wear Braids in the White House  She’s so oppressed.

The Blank Slate Monument: Honest, That’s What It’s Called,

‘Tis the Season to Adore the Obamas

Supreme Court Justice KBJ

Ukraine Situation Report: Possible Drone Boat Attack On Russian Port

Is Russia Now Firing Denuclearized Cruise Missiles At Ukraine?

It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia (Center for European Policy Analysis)

Celebrating War as Climate Win Makes Red True Color of “Greens”

Sweden Says Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion Confirmed as Sabotage

Fearing Ukrainian Forces, Russians Abandoning Crimea

Russia Secretly Moves 100 Missiles From Belarus

Pfizer/BioNTech’s updated COVID shot shows strong response against BQ.1.1 (Reuters)

Pfizer says omicron booster is better against new subvariants like BQ.1.1 than old shots (CNBC)

Flu variant that hits kids and seniors harder than other strains is dominant in U.S. right now (CNBC)

Never Forget! Here’s Some Of The Dumbest COVID Restrictions

Group Calls On Authorities To Investigate CDC Over Misinformation About Child COVID Deaths

Lawsuit Claims Massachusetts Installed COVID-19 ‘Spyware’ On 1 Million Devices

The Maskparade Charade

Jesus Accused Of Being A Christian Nationalist After Saying He’s Going To Establish His Kingdom Over The Whole Earth (Babylon Bee)

Twitter Lifts Bans on The Babylon Bee, Jordan Peterson, and Kathy Griffin

N.Y. Schools Ordered to Change Native American Team Names, Logos

UN Secretary-General Again Calls for Crackdown on ‘Disinformation’

“Election Denial” for Me, But Not for Thee: YouTube Censors TK-Produced Videos, Again, Despite Factual Accuracy

House Republicans announce plans to produce content for Fox News (Washington Post)

What it means that a special counsel is running the Trump investigations (CNN)

DOJ announces special counsel for Trump-related Mar-a-Lago and January 6 criminal investigations (CNN)

The new Trump probe special counsel should move quickly (Washington Post) If they actually had any evidence of a crime, they’d have a regular U.S. Attorney empanel a grand jury. This is just another fishing expedition.

Special counsel in U.S. Justice Department’s Trump probes: I will be independent (Reuters) Sure, we believe that.

Trump explodes at special counsel appointment: ‘I am not going to partake in it’ (The Hill)

Trump faces potential fundraising problem as megadonors jump ship (The Hill)

Eric and Donald Trump Jr. Signed Checks at the Center of Criminal Tax Fraud Trial: Longtime Trump Org CFO (Vanity Fair)

Key Evangelical Figures Turn On Trump: ‘He Used Us’ (Huffington P0st)

CNN Chief Regrets Network Covered Trump 24/7

AG Garland Names Hague War Crimes Prosecutor As Special Counsel To Investigate Trump

Trump 2024 rivals court his donors at big Las Vegas meeting (Associated Press)

New York Post Takes Aim at Trump, and Hits a Nerve (N.Y. Times)

Trump on National Review: ‘Let It Die’

Allen Weisselberg says he got $200K raise after Trump kids discovered his tax fraud (N.Y. Post)

Legal Experts Defend Trump Over Special Counsel Pick

Gov. Noem Calls NY Times ‘Liars’ for Out of Context Trump Quote

Merrick Garland was right to appoint a special counsel (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is apparently back from vacation and ready to resume her anti-Trump duties.

If our political and legal systems worked, there wouldn’t be a Donald Trump 2024 campaign (USA Today)  Nope–he’d be finishing his second term, and wouldn’t need a campaign.

Is Donald Trump the Jeb Bush of 2024? (Spectator)

The Trumpists have gone full Nagasaki (Spectator) Andrew Sullivan goes full MSNBC.

Why misinformation didn’t wreck the midterms

Gov. Hochul faces backlash by calling Buffalo ‘thundersnow’ storm a ‘major disaster,’ but shuns migrant crisis (New York Post)

Moms Clean House in SC

Dem Senator and Wife Under Scrutiny in Federal Corruption Investigation  Again.

Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Cronies Gave $300k to House Committee Members Investigating Him

Workers Bolting Twitter After Musk Takeover

Twitter Reinstates Banned Users Griffin, Peterson; No Decision on Trump Yet

Don Lemon Doubts There’s Any ‘There, There’ In House’s Probe of Hunter Biden

CNNers Annoyed Jeopardy! Contestants Don’t Know Who Justice KBJ Is

Bill Would Block Taxpayer Funding of Teachers Unions

Election denier Hakeem Jeffries could replace Pelosi as House Dem leader

Court awards $6 billion in student loan relief to borrowers (The Hill)

Judge rejects former White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s effort to quash subpoena (CBS)

US farmer worried Biden’s policies put industry in jeopardy (Fox)

House Judiciary Republicans Setting Sights on DHS’ Mayorkas

Wealthier Shoppers Flocking To Walmart As Inflation Bites

Washington Post Publisher Hits Biden Over MBS Immunity

House Republicans Introduce Resolution To Audit Ukraine Aid

Border Crisis Likely to Worsen After Federal Judge Orders End to Title 42 Expulsion of Illegal Aliens

House GOP Will Subpoena Hunter Biden but Not President

FBI Director Wray Defends Using Bureau Jet To Go On Vacation

Lawyer who firebombed NYPD cruiser sentenced to only 15 months after Biden admin intervention

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 20

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A Republican lawmaker on the House Financial Services Committee says the panel will look into a committee Democrat’s hiring three years ago of the brother of Samuel Bankman-Fried, whose cryptocurrency empire collapsed last week.

“While there is still much to be learned and investigated, it appears FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and his family had no shortage of influence within the Democrat Party,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., told The Daily Signal on Thursday evening.

In an email, Loudermilk said that influence “could amount to conflicts of interest, especially if individuals within the Democrat Party accepted money with knowledge of potential criminal activity occurring at FTX.”

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Naomi Biden, the oldest legitimate daughter of amateur adult film star Hunter Biden, lives at the White House with her fiancé and elderly grandfather, according to the New York Times.

The newsworthy revelation was included as an aside in a fawning piece about Naomi’s plans to marry her fiancé, former Hillary Clinton intern Peter Neal, at a White House ceremony on Saturday, which happens to be President Joe Biden’s last day as a mere septuagenarian. The hard-hitting journalists at CNN report that the wedding will offer a “youthful spin” for the president on his 80th birthday.

The news that one of Hunter’s legitimate daughters is living at the White House comes after House Republicans announced plans to investigate “all avenues” of Hunter’s shady foreign business arrangements, and the extent to which President Biden was aware of and helped facilitate his troubled son’s money-making ventures. It is not entirely clear why Naomi and Peter—both lawyers who could certainly afford their own apartment—are living in a taxpayer-funded mansion, and why it is just now being reported in a mainstream news outlet.

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Protesters in Iran have set fire to the ancestral home of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Images posted on social media show part of the structure in the city of Khomein being set ablaze.

News agencies have verified the videos’ location, but regional authorities denied there had been an arson attack.

In the global meme wars, it’s time to side with the elves against the trolls (Washington Post)

The Mid-Terms: The Hunger Gaming Of America

January 6 subcommittee to examine criminal referrals it might make to DoJ (The Guardian) Better hurry up.

Attacks on Candace Cameron Bure Expose Ruthlessness of LGBT Activists Against Christians

MSNBC’s Joy Reid & Virginia Dem Lie About Youngkin’s Education Reforms

Here’s hoping Trump doesn’t get the last laugh (The Hill)

GOP operative convicted in scheme to funnel Russian money into Trump campaign (Axios)

Scoop: Stephen Schwarzman comes out against Trump in major defection (Axios)

NC Republicans aren’t rushing to endorse Trump (Axios)

Mary Trump appeals ruling nixing suit against Donald Trump

Trump’s ‘Extremely Bad Luck’ Could Doom Lawsuit Against His Biggest Enemy (Newsweek)

Trump would act ‘like a little elementary schoolchild,’ former spiritual adviser says (Washington Post)

Chinese Propaganda Newspaper Calls Trump’s WH Pursuit a ‘Tragedy’

Writer Who Accused Trump of Rape to File New Defamation Lawsuit (N.Y. Times)

Nuclear Secrets? Never Mind

The electoral mediocrity of Donald Trump (Spectator)

After Midterms, WashPost Finds Trump Took Classified Documents for Ego, Not Profit

‘A Crazy Old Man Fighting With Himself’: Can Trump Do to DeSantis What He Did to Bush? (Politico)

House Republicans vow to investigate Biden and his family’s business dealings (CNN)

After midterms, the return of the ‘pen and phone’ (The Hill)

Majority of Hispanic Voters Want Government to Do More to Enforce Immigration Laws, Exit Poll Finds

Biden Admin Warns Of Bankruptcy Surge As It Asks Supreme Court To Resume Student Debt Forgiveness Plan

Wray wriggles

Watch: Thermal Drone Footage Shows Army Of Illegals Entering US

The Case for Conservative Faculty (Harvard Crimson)

California county to look at ending zero-tolerance policy for illegal drug activity in taxpayer-funded housing (Fox)

NYC Council to probe Mayor Adams’ handling of migrant crisis, tent city (N.Y. Post)

US Catholic bishops worry about abortion views in the pews (Associated Press)

GOP civil war spreads to Georgia runoff (Politico)

The Democrats Remembered How Politics Works Again (New York Magazine) Yeah, if you want something, steal it.

Fact-Checking 7 Claims by Defenders of Democrats’ Marriage Bill

Using Military Wokeness to Justify Affirmative Action

Probe Opened Into Election Conduct in Harris County, Texas

Man Suspected of Running Down Sheriff’s Recruits Out of Jail California justice.

Man Who Allegedly Drove Over 75 Police Recruits Released, ‘Insufficient Evidence’

Classic Leftism: Ye and Irving Face Annihilation While Worse Antisemite Has MSNBC Job

Washington Boy Sets School Record … On Girls’ Cross-Country Team

‘Who Raised You?’ Mika Demands GOP ‘Make Your Mother Proud’ And Praise Pelosi

Left-Wing Lawyer Who Firebombed Police Car Dodges Five-Year Sentence, Will Spend Just 15 Months in Prison

Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research

Wikipedia Is a Source of Political Propaganda

Michelle Obama says Americans ‘weren’t ready’ for her natural hair (The Guardian) She’s so oppressed.

Michelle Obama says Americans weren’t ready for her natural Black hair (Washington Post) She’s so oppressed.

Black Alumni Reflect on if Harvard was ‘Worth It’ at Radcliffe Institute Event (Harvard Crimson) They’re so oppressed.

4 largest cities in America will be led by Black mayors (CNN) They’re so oppressed..

Conservative Think Tank Report Urges Congressional Investigation On Black Lives Matter Organizations

How the world turns a blind eye to African slavery

Pelosi’s Replacement Hakeem Jeffries Is Nephew of Black Supremacist HBD Theorist Leonard Jeffries

Amid Financial Chaos, Stacey Abrams’s Nonprofit Flouts Federal Law  She’s so oppressed.

No one knows what “nature-based solutions” are (Vox)

‘Vast’ mass of microbes being released by melting glaciers (The Guardian)

The energy transition will fail unless industry fixes wind power issues, Siemens Energy CEO says (CNBC)

Kicking our growth addiction is the way out of the climate crisis. This is how to do it (The Guardian)

How Religion Intersects With Americans’ Views on the Environment (Pew Research Center)

Texas Activists Sit-In at DOT in Washington Over Offshore Oil Export Plans (Inside Climate News) Yes, even Texas has Woke morons.

It’s Time We Burn the UN Climate Conference to the Ground (Daily Beast)

How climate stress contributed to collapse of ancient Egypt (Washington Post)

Rep. Westerman: Climate Change Not Top Concern of House Panel

The Daily Chart: Greenies Need to Take More Lithium

Plastic Recycling Is a Dead-End Street

Prevent British Tax Rises, by Abandoning Climate Change Goals

‘Staggering Disconnect’: Climate Summit Boasts Opulent Beef, Seafood Menu Despite Spearheading Anti-Meat Initiatives

Hudson Bay Sea Ice Freeze-Up in 2022 Like the 1980s for the 5th Time Since 2015

UK Hikes Windfall Taxes On Oil And Gas To 35%

Diverse Teams Are Needed to Save the Planet (Wired ‘Science’)

Ohio vandals release 10k carnivorous mink into the wild  Weasels freeing weasels.

As bivalent booster uptake crawls, Pfizer and BioNTech start early-stage pan-variant trial (Endpoints Newz)

Why Did Flu Season Start So Early This Year? (‘Scientific’ American) What started early was the PANIC!

Big Pharma may have to reveal government deals in WHO’s draft pandemic rules (Reuters)

G20 Pushes Vaccine Passports For All Future International Travel

Association between Vitamin D supplementation and Covid infection and mortality “Among VA patients, vitamin D₃ and vitamin D₂ supplementation reduced the associated risk of COVID-19 infection by 20% and 28%, and COVID-19 infection ending in death within 30-days by 33% and 25%.”

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A group of researchers may have figured out how. Mice paralyzed by severe SCI regained the ability to walk three weeks after a single injection of their new therapeutic, according to a recent study published in Science.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

Last January, I posted on the endemic burglaries of freight trains in East Los Angeles. A huge fraction of merchandise imported from China comes in through the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and then is loaded onto trucks or trains. At a slow point in the tracks, the goods get looted in vast numbers.

There was some discussion in the comments of the likely ethnicity of the crooks.

Turns out they’re all ‘Latinx’.

Insider.

I’m afraid we’d get more like Hunter Biden or Chelsea Clinton. But hey–not my circus, not my monkeys.

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I have my doubts. (It is, after all, NPR.) But the only way to find out is to try it, and if actual companies want to do so, good on them.

Diesel hits record premium over gas, oil (Fox)

How Much Diesel Is Left? Shortage Fears as East Coast Supplies ‘Very Low’ (Newsweek)

U.S. will begin deporting Cubans by plane in ‘coming weeks,’ U.S. officials say (NBC)

Justice Department Announces Director of the Office of Environmental Justice (DOJ)  What’s next? An office of Black Lives Matter?

DHS blocked vital research on domestic threats, say terrorism experts (Washington Post)

Wray Refuses To Say If FBI Had Sources ‘Dressed As Trump Supporters’ On January 6

Congress Eyes Investigation Into Anti-Israel Bias at Biden Justice Department

Inside the White House’s months of prep-work for a GOP investigative onslaught (CNN) Shredders overheating, cellphones being smashed, etc. etc.

High Inflation: The Gift That (Unfortunately) Keeps on Giving This Thanksgiving

Poll: Majority of Hispanic Voters Want Tougher Border Enforcement

San Francisco launches guaranteed income program for transgender people (Fox)

Prominent Democrat voices support for border wall as Philadelphia rages at Abbott over migrant bus

Chuck Schumer Calls For Amnesty For Illegals Because Americans Are ‘Not Reproducing’

Sheriffs Refuse To Enforce Democrat-Controlled State’s New Gun Law

STUDY: Broadcast Networks Bury FTX CEO’s Massive Donations to Dems  Gee, I wonder why?

Leftists Blame Everything on So-Called ‘Misinformation’: Midterm Election Edition!

WSJ: Meta Insiders Caught Selling Account Access to Hackers

Crypto Fraud Exposes Woke Capitalism As A Scam

This Is What’s Going to Happen If Candidate Trump Gets Indicted (Politico)

Trump criminal probes will proceed — even as he’s candidate (Associated Press)

The New York Post just brutally trolled Donald Trump (CNN)

Trump’s 2024 Announcement Was So ‘Low Energy’ Even Fox News Cut Away (MSNBC)

Mr. Attorney General, the time to indict Trump is now (N.Y. Daily News)

Has Donald Trump finally in fact become boring? (N.Y. Daily News)

Democrats Fundraise on Trump’s 2024 Announcement

Facebook Will Stop Fact-Checking Presidential Candidate Trump  Apparently they don’t want a Musk in their future.

Why DeSantis Is A Major Threat To Trump’s Reelection (FiveThirtyEight)

Key Allies Are Inching Away From Trump (N.Y. Times)

Second GOP Mega-Donor Talks Greasy About Trump

At long last, Trump gives his concession speech (Washington Post)

Covid Lockdowns Disqualify Trump in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)

The Leech Dismount  Ann Coulter really doesn’t like Donald Trump.

Trump Faces Five Major Investigations. He Has Dozens of Ways Out. (N.Y. Times)

Trump’s running for president again. Does that get him off the legal hook? (CNN) What ‘legal hook’? You mean the witch-hunt?

Trump Candidacy Will Complicate, But Not End, DOJ Investigations of Him (Bloomberg)

Murdoch, Fox Ramp Up Attacks on Trump

Trump sets off GOP identity crisis heading into 2024 (CNN)

SHOCKER! WaPo Update About Mar-A-Lago Raid Doesn’t Fit the Narrative  Never mind!

Dough! Lightfoot lambasted after guards park in bike lane while she buys doughnuts (Chicago Sun-Times) BRAAAAAAAINS! Or not.

Darrell Brooks Jr., Wisconsin Christmas parade killer, sentenced to six consecutive life sentences

Mayor Lori Lightfoot Accuses 75% of Chicago of Being Sexist Racists  I guess that’s how she got elected. BRAAAAAAAINS!

Covid-19 rebound may be more common in people who take Paxlovid, early study suggests (CNN)

Support for Paxlovid Treatment in Older Patients; the Silver Lining to Amoxicillin Shortage; and an App Eases Cancer Fear (Medscape)

Tyson Foods ends COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all employees (Fox)

Fauci’s Pandemic Leadership Needs To Be Investigated: Dr. Scott Atlas

Before FTX collapse, founder poured millions into pandemic prevention (Washington Post) Nothing is easier than spending other people’s money.

The Road To Totalitarianism (Revisited)

Fired For Declining Vaccination, Ex-Washington State Coach Files Suit

NYC Halts Monkeypox Vaccine Van Program

U.N. publishes draft COP27 climate deal (Reuters)

Fight over aid for climate losses divides UN talks (Associated Press) GIVE US MONEY!

Can the world feed 8bn people sustainably? (The Guardian)

The world’s population has reached 8bn. Don’t panic (The Economist) Don’t take off your shoes!

Overhyping hydrogen as a fuel risks endangering net-zero goals (Nature)

What happened at Cop27 on day nine? (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds

Pols who push electric cars ignore basic math and physics (N.Y. Post)

Climate Change Conference Walks Back 1.5-Degree Limit Goal

COP27 — Colombia Claims an Absurd $800 Billion a Year “Loss and Damage”  GIVE US MONEY!

“Green” Energy Circles the Drain

Extinction Rebellion Activists Have Worn Out Their Welcome And The Public Is Angry

Bureaucracy Is Blocking the Green Energy Revolution  (Wired ‘Science’) All in on ‘climate change’.

COP27 Climate Virtue-Signaling Boondoggle Ends In Failure, Leaves Out Fossil Fuel Pledge

UN Climate Summit Wants Climate Green Indoctrination in Schools

FLASHBACK: Founder of Climate Group Vandalizing Famous Paintings Said Holocaust was ‘Normal Event’

Investigating the investigators: Dem strategists to launch counterpunch to House GOP (Politico)

Pence Says He Will Not Testify Before House Jan. 6 Panel

GOP Authoritarianism Isn’t Going Anywhere After the Midterms (Daily Beast)

‘Defund NPR’ Tweets Break Out After NPR Spins Trump’s 2024 Announcement Speech

Meyers Wonders Which ‘A******’ Will Win 2024 GOP Primary

House of Horrors: The Marjorie Taylor Greene Congress Is Upon Us (Vanity Fair) No, we entered the House of Horrors when Biden became President. MTG is the response to the House of Horrors. And you’ve nobody but yourselves to blame.

CBS Sneers at Pence for Not Sharing Their Virulent Hatred of the GOP, Trump

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Patients at North Carolina-based Atrium Health get what looks like an enticing pitch when they go to the nonprofit hospital system’s website: a payment plan from lender AccessOne. The plans offer “easy ways to make monthly payments” on medical bills, the website says. You don’t need good credit to get a loan. Everyone is approved. Nothing is reported to credit agencies.

In Minnesota, Allina Health encourages its patients to sign up for an account with MedCredit Financial Services to “consolidate your health expenses.” In Southern California, Chino Valley Medical Center, part of the Prime Healthcare chain, touts “promotional financing options with the CareCredit credit card to help you get the care you need, when you need it.”

As Americans are overwhelmed with medical bills, patient financing is now a multibillion-dollar business, with private equity and big banks lined up to cash in when patients and their families can’t pay for care. By one estimate from research firm IBISWorld, profit margins top 29% in the patient financing industry, seven times what is considered a solid hospital margin.

Funny thing how people who work at NPR seem to think that certain class of people ought to work for free. In the old days that was called ‘slavery’; I suppose it’s no surprise that Democrats are in favor of it.

ZMan turns over a rock.

The thing that has been lost in all of the censorship and cancellation campaigns is the panic that motivates these things. The people trying to purge the public square of normal debate are doing so out of fear. That fear comes from a lack of confidence and that is driven by a sharp decline in intellect. The Great Fear we are experiencing is mostly due to a growing intellectual darkness that is consuming the liberal class that controls the institutions of cultural production.

You can get a sense of it from the Twitter drama. Musk bought a company that had 7,500 fulltime employees and 5,500 contractors. He summarily fired half of the staff and ninety percent of the contractors. Twitter has not gone dark or failed to work properly since the mass layoffs. It appears there were sabotage efforts, but those have either failed or were found out before they could be executed. In other words, half of the people working at the firm contributed nothing.

Slowly we are getting some insider accounts of what life was like for the people inside this company and it offers an insight into the rest of the hive. Most of the “workers” did no actual work, even people employed as programmers. Instead, they spent their days playing make believe, creating things like workers co-ops and support groups for increasingly exotic identities. Twitter had become an adult daycare center that catered to the needs of the increasingly unfit.

I really don’t give a @*#@. Ask anybody.

Joel Kotkin.

In earlier times, even with a soaring population, Americans knew how to accommodate housing demand. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries we built cities from scratch along the frontier. The existing major urban centers—Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia—all expanded rapidly, both by density and expansion into land on the periphery.

After the Second World War, mass suburbia and its expansion in homeownership ushered in a period of sustained prosperity that lasted until the 1970s. After 1940, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. homeownership rates grew rapidly, from 44 percent to 63 percent over the next three decades.

But now, in many places, it is exceedingly difficult, even impossible, to build the kind of family-friendly housing long sought by most Americans. Instead we are being left with two negative trends: increasingly low housing affordability for many, and the forced march of a whole new generation into the kind of small, crowded spaces they generally eschew, particularly after they enter their thirties.

Read it.

Because he is the sole political figure in living memory who kept each and every campaign promise made previously, and moreso, it may be wise to list the specific campaign promises made in his stump speech, and, if he wins, note if and when and how they are kept. Some are vague and aspirational, others specific.

This also will serve to silence those who mock him for having no plans or no vision, or for dwelling on past deeds and misdeeds.