Linus Van Pelt Banned from Community Theater For Reciting Bible Verse (Babylon Bee)

CBS’s Brennan Frets ‘Right-Wing’ Israel Will Ban Gay Pride Parades

Former Global Head Of Trust And Safety At Twitter Reveals Widespead Scientific Censorship

EU Threatens Ban If Musk’s Twitter Shirks Moderation Rules

Meet the Beijing-Aligned Group That Branded a Republican’s Tough-on-China Rhetoric ‘Racist’

Kansas Law School Silent After Diversity Committee Demonized Christian Law Firm, Spurring Top State Judge to Resign

Elon Musk: Worse Than Hitler

Catholic Ministry Center Gets Death Threat From ‘Jane’s Revenge’  But of course only Republicans engage in political violence.

“Not Funny”, “Dangerous”: Former Twitter Censor Justifies Banning Babylon Bee

Censorship Denial: CBS Uses Trump Trashing Constitution to Dismiss Twitter Files

ACLU Now Sides With Government Against First Amendment Rights

The Far-Right Attacked Drag Events in 4 States This Weekend (Vice)

“A Cautionary Tale For Everyone”: The Media Mob Turns On Taibbi

Bipartisan Group Of US Senators Warns CCP Over Quelling Of Protests

Putin Cronies Resort to Begging on Live TV Over War Failures (Daily Beast)

EU Is Erecting Russian War Crimes Tribunal: “Russia Must Pay”  Good luck with that.

PROCUREMENT: Unique Russian Production Delays

ARTILLERY: Frankenmissile For Ukraine

The G7 Cap On Russian Oil Is A Subsidy To China

Russia Will Not Go Along With Oil Price Cap, Kremlin Confirms  My, what a surprise.

House GOP Drafting Bill Banning TikTok for Federal Employees

Airbases Deep Inside Russia Rocked By Explosions; New Wave Of Airstrikes Pummel Ukraine

Putin Unleashes Missiles Across Ukraine; Drones Hit Bases Deep Inside Russia

Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post (CNN)

Trump Calls For Suspension Of Constitution, Refuses To Distance Himself From Extremists (NBC)

NBC’s Todd Pesters Netanyahu About Donald Trump & Anti-Semitism

GOP lawmakers largely silent after Trump suggests ‘termination’ of Constitution (Washington Post)

Trump’s call for suspending the Constitution is too dangerous to ignore (Washington Post) Except that he didn’t; but Ruth Marcus wants you to believe that he did.

Trump’s call to suspend Constitution not a 2024 deal-breaker, leading House Republican says (ABC) Mainly because he didn’t.

Are Utah voters ready to move on from Donald Trump? (Deseret News) All Trump! All the time!

Manhattan D.A. Hires Ex-D.O.J. Official to Help Lead Trump Investigation (N.Y. Times) The Deep State sharpens its knives.

Trump dares Republicans (again) to repudiate him (Washington P0st) According to the Narrative, anyway.

Rasmussen Reports: Most Voters Say Trump Probe Politically Motivated  Which is obvious.

Trump insists he doesn’t want to ‘terminate’ Constitution (The Hill) Of course he doesn’t. But the Narrative Media doesn’t care.

Trump denies he suggested ‘termination’ of Constitution, without deleting post (Politico) There’s no need to delete the post, because it doesn’t say what they claim it says.

FBI Ramps Up Spending to Fight MAGA Terrorism (Newsweek)

Senate GOP leaders turn on Trump over suspend-the-Constitution talk (Politico) Any excuse will do.

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Okay, just to prove I can be serious. I agree, there are a whole ton of things Republicans in office should be doing that they aren’t doing. But I’m sticking with the party because of what they don’t do.

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Move over David Deeble, J.P. Sears, and Ammo Grrrll: we have a new comic to induct into the Official Power Line Comedy Club: Tyler Fischer.

Here he neatly skewers NPR and practically every other major woke news media sensibility in just sixty seconds.

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For background, I first came to live in Manhattan in 1992, while the crack epidemic still raged. After Rudy Giuliani became mayor in 1994, quality of life in the city improved dramatically. Conditions continued to improve on sound policies through the Michael Bloomberg era. However, after Bill de Blasio came to power, things began to deteriorate as they often do, first slowly and then suddenly.

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The example is, of course, an impact on lower Manhattan.

I like the effect on Capitol Hill.

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This is a fascinating story that lays open an obscure aspect of the financial services realm in easy-to-grasp language.

I once worked for a company that did credit monitoring. The gateway to sales for this company was the CHECK YOUR CREDIT SCORE FOR ONLY $1! scheme, which I’m sure you’ve encountered. This, in turn, made them a piñata for fraudsters checking whether the card info they had just stolen was still ‘live’. The company had an entire team of six statisticians and coders, including two PhDs, to develop automated systems to weed such people out, because the penalties for accepting charges against accounts that eventually turned out to have been hacked was eating the company alive.

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“But we don’t have blasphemy sdslaws,” I hear people say when someone protests about some perceived slur on their God or Prophet. Indeed, we do not. Essentially moribund, they were abolished in England in 2008 and in Scotland in 2021. If we did, our prisons would be overflowing with the people who blaspheme against Christianity. Appropriately, British blasphemy laws only ever protected Christianity and, even then, only the Christianity of the established churches. However, the lack of such laws did not protect the right of the public to watch a film of which some Muslims disapproved or a teacher from having to go into hiding with his family for showing a cartoon they did not like. In France, the consequences for upsetting the Islamist mob can be more serious, and even fatal. Islamic extremists require no laws to discourage blasphemy; they simply take the law into their own bloody hands.

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There’s a new kind of colonialism afoot in rich nations, and much like the old colonialism, this one, too, purports to be for the good of the colonized. Today’s colonialists are Left-wing environmentalists exporting their vision of “climate justice” as a way to deal with global inequality. But despite the high-minded morality implied by the latest green agenda, just like older forms of colonialism, it creates a relationship of dependency that undermines the true interests of the colonized.

Environmental colonialism was on full display at a recent guilt fest, the UN’s latest climate summit, known as the COP27. The idea cooked up by the billionaires of Silicon Valley, London and Wall Street and agreed upon at the November summit by born again zealots like President Biden, is to provide “loss and damage” funding for countries hit hard by climate disasters. In other words, we’ve just committed to paying climate reparations.

Of course, governments in these countries will take the loot, and perhaps send some of it to useful pursuits. But what the developing world needs most is not a handout but the very technologies—including fossil fuels—that have served to reduce poverty globally. What poor countries and poor people everywhere need is not green blood money but help increasing the electricity supply that is critical for industrialization.

House Republican calls efforts to vacate Speaker’s chair a ‘stupid idea’ (The Hill) Well, at least one House Republican. In the Narrative Media, there is no right but the far-right.

McCarthy says GOP holdouts on Speakership vote would be ‘squandering this majority’ (The Hill)

Ukraine Situation Report: Kremlin Says Putin Will ‘Eventually’ Visit Donbas

Ukraine war: Zelensky calls West’s Russian oil cap ‘weak’ (BBC)

FBI director raises national security concerns about TikTok (Associated Press)

Estonia to buy US rocket artillery system in $200M deal (Associated Press)

Hungary Says It Will Veto EU-Ukraine 18 Billion Euro Aid Package

European Commission Recommends Freezing Funds for Hungary

Armor: Why BTGs Died In Ukraine

US Intel Chief Thinking ‘Optimistically’ for Ukraine Forces

OPEC+ Oil Producers Face Uncertainty Over Russian Sanctions

Iran Rejects UN Mission

Hypersonic Weapons

NATO Exists To Solve The Problems Created By NATO’s Existence

Zelensky Seeks To Ban Russian Orthodox Church In Ukraine

China Operating Illegal Police Stations Worldwide

We’re America’s most loyal ally in Syria. Don’t forget us. (Washington Post)

Ukraine Wheat Harvest Crushed Expectations: Satellite Analysis

Immigration naturalizations in the US highest in a decade (The Hill) Needless to say, The Hill is fine with that.

Rail workers speak out after Biden forces unions to accept deal: ‘He turned his back’

‘Immigrant communities are welcome here’: Philly stands strong on sanctuary as Gov. Abbott sends buses from Texas (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Pentagon officials tout new office aimed at linking defense startups with private funds

“Damning”: The Twitter Files And The FBI

Biden’s 2024 primary calendar gives Kamala Harris an edge in a future White House bid (NBC) Imagine that.

Hunter Biden’s Laptop Repairman ‘Vindicated’ by Twitter Exposé

New York cannabis launch turning into bad trip, social justice critics claim (N.Y. Post)

Trump grasps the importance of the National Archives to democracy. Why don’t Democrats? (The Hill)

Harvard musical reimagines Jesus, Judas relationship as ‘Gaysian love story’

Central Coast business owners respond to hateful messages over drag events (S.F. Gate)

“Highly Experimental And Unproven”: Scientist Tells Judge Transgender Treatments For Minors Fraught With Risk

San Francisco Is The Canary In The Coal Mine For Where Wokeism Is Headed

WashPost Arrives on Twitter Files on Hunter Biden: Not Even Close to a ‘Bombshell’!

Paralympian claims Canada offered to euthanise her when she asked for stairlift

Iowa caucuses, built on myth, lose place at head of the line (Associated Press) Watch the new Democrat Narrative being constructed in front of your very own eyes.

How Democrats’ New Primary Calendar Changes the Chessboard (N.Y. Times) Watch the new Democrat Narrative being constructed in front of your very own eyes.

Democrats Vow To Find New Social Platform That Will Censor The News About What They Did On Twitter (Babylon Bee)

Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet” (The Intercept) More Narrative: Humans suck!

Why wind energy isn’t living up to its pollution-preventing potential (The Verge)

Wind Power Is Bringing Americans Real Health Benefits (U.S. News & World Report)

Arizona thinks ocean desalination will bring it the water it needs. It won’t (AZCentral)

Parking lots are becoming as important as cars in climate change efforts (CNBC)

Fact checking Maine’s first in the nation fossil fuel divestment law

A Murder in the Amazon Reveals What the Fight Over the Rainforest Is All About (TIME)

Study: Corn cob cheap, effective way to clean water

Fonda retakes the Hill: ‘Cancer is scary, but the climate crisis is scarier’ (Wasington Post) Hanoi Jane is at it again.

King Coal: Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Wrong, The Conversation, Evidence Shows People Are NOT Under Greater Threat from Hurricanes

France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel

The Texas Group Waging a National Crusade Against Climate Action (N.Y. Times) Dunh duhn DUNHHHHH.

Oxfordshire Council to Trial a Climate Lockdown Starting 2024

NY Times Spent Two Years Boasting How China Beat Covid by Squashing Freedom

Trump calls for ‘termination’ of election rules in Constitution to overturn 2020 election (The Hill)

Trump is still the go-to guy for GOP hate (The Hill) Certainly for those who want to hate the GOP.

White House rebukes Trump’s suggestion to suspend Constitution over 2020 election (Washington Post)

Trump Is Finished

Anti-Trump Republicans Ready to Part with Conservatives  Part with? When were they ever not ‘parted’?

Trump Owed Hidden Debt While In Office (Forbes) Dunh duhn DUNHHHHH. Really, who cares?

GOP Strategist: If we nominate Trump, Biden will probably win re-election (CNN) Time for the Narrative Media to swing into action scraping the barrel for anti-Trump RINOs.

Top Republicans stay silent on Trump’s call to terminate the Constitution (NBC) Time for the witch-hunt to swing into action against those who are insufficiently quick to Denounce The Witch.

zRacist rhetoric greets increasing population of Latino students in this Tennessee county (CNN) Most of the ‘racist rhetoric’ seems to be on the part of CNN. ‘Latino’ isn’t a race.

Kanye West Associate Nick Fuentes Gets Into Food Fight In An In-N-Out Burger Joint (Daily Beast) All the most important news of the day.

Immigrant rights groups sue DeSantis over migrant flights (The Hill)

Legislation funding DeSantis’ migrant transports unconstitutional, lawsuit alleges (Axios)

Republicans Deploy The Buddy System To Save Herschel Walker (Huffington Post)

Lookism is everywhere, and mostly undetected

Chris Christie’s Niece Kicked Off Plane for Accusing Latino Family of ‘Smuggling Cocaine’ (Jezebel) Which, of course, she didn’t do. (Not saying she wasn’t rude, but she made no such accusation–Jezebel is just, how you say, ‘lying’ here.)

House Republican won’t denounce Trump over call to terminate Constitution’s election rules (The Hill) Oh, no! Not the Deadly Crime of Failure To Denounce!

Antifa Aims To Disrupt Florida Rally Opposing The Sexualization Of Children  But of course only Republicans engage in political violence.

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I’m sure we are all tired of hearing about David French.  But this is ridiculous.  This isn’t a legal issue (as French knows full well).  It isn’t just about Twitter either; Facebook also suppressed the story.  Nor was the government totally uninvolved; Congressional Democrats applied pressure behind the scenes.  But this idea that there is something wrong about making a political issue out of an entire sector of industry conspiring to secretly manipulate an election.  That is obscene.  French should be ashamed of himself.

But he’s not. Which is the problem with David French.

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It isn’t ghost- or football-related. And it isn’t some grand conspiracy, though lots of people saw in the synthetic twilight the effects of 5G radiation or government surveillance, a sign of the times. There’s nothing shady going on here. But still: Streetlights aren’t supposed to spontaneously change color.

So I did a little digging. The mystery of the purple lights appears to be both more mundane and more worrisome than anyone has realized — a mood-indigo check-engine light on the entire infrastructure of modernity. When LED streetlights start changing color for no apparent reason, it’s a visual cue that we might need to rethink, just a bit, how we build the future.

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The relentless attacks on Elon Musk since he purchased Twitter should be familiar to most Americans. It’s exactly what Democrats and their media and corporate allies did to demonize Donald Trump.

The McCarthyite formula is simple: Claim you are defending high-minded principles (Democracy! The rule of law! Civil discourse!) to justify efforts to delegitimize someone you’ve identified as a political opponent.

Democrats denied Trump’s presidency from day one; Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden themselves declared for years that he had stolen the 2016 election. In the name of election integrity, Democrats turned a bogus conspiracy theory cooked up by Clinton’s campaign about Russian collusion into years of official investigations that undermined and tainted Trump. When Special Counsel Robert Mueller proved that a lie, Democrats immediately seized on a few innocuous sentences in a Trump phone call with a foreign leader to launch just the third presidential impeachment in U.S. history.

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Construct Tweet: [Say formerly respected or once great, etc.] Matt Taibbi [call it PR or comms or like that] for the [world’s richest man, the richest person in the world, so on]. Quote tweet thread. [hashtag optional].

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America’s National Institutes of Health funded a group called EcoHealth Alliance, on multiple occasions, to collaborate on research done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. At least one project consisted of gain of function research on bat coronaviruses. Because of concerns about the dangers of such research, NIH shut it off in 2014, but re-started funding gain of function in 2017, largely at the instance of Anthony Fauci.

From 2014 to 2016, Dr. Andrew Huff worked for EcoHeath Alliance, the latter two years as vice president. He has written a book, which comes out on Monday, titled The Truth about Wuhan: How I Uncovered the Biggest Lie in History. Dr. Huff is not given to understatement.

Omaha man sentenced for civil rights charge after placing noose on Black coworker’s chair (ABC)

California panel estimates $569 billion in reparations is owed to black residents (N.Y. Post) Even though California was never a slave state. (Time to leave.)

Despite ban on lobbyists’ campaign money, Lightfoot took $68K from lobbyist’s companies. Now, she’s giving much of it back. (Chicago Sun-Times) BRAAAAAINS!

CBS Swoons Over Obama Stumping for Warnock, Bringing ‘Zingers’ Against Walker  Let’s hear it for the Magic Negro.

Systemic Racism: Students Downplay Stereotypically Asian Hobbies To Boost College Admissions Odds

Man Arrested in Fatal Shooting of Migos Rapper Takeoff

Teenage brains aged faster during the pandemic from stress, anxiety: study (Fox)

Ending China’s zero-covid policy could unleash chaos (The Economist)

AFA mask meeting update

Education Department Says Virginia School District’s COVID Closures Hurt Disabled Students  And everybody else.

Why have there been low COVID death rates in Africa?

Los Angeles Poised To Reinstate Indoor Mask Mandate

Vaccinated People Make Up Majority Of COVID-19 Deaths: CDC Data

Apple Accelerating Supply Chain Retreat From China After iPhone Factory Chaos  Xi is going to regret rattling the sabers.

Should you not have kids because of climate change? It’s complicated. (Washington Post) No, it’s not–people who buy into the ‘climate change’ hype ought to be encouraged not to reproduce.

#ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried (The Guardian)

Climate-sceptic tweets surge after Musk’s Twitter takeover (The Times)

Canada accused of putting its timber trade ahead of global environment (The Guardian)

Vermont’s dairy farms recede, giving way to shrimp, saffron and new ideas (Washington Post)

A new kind of climate refugee is emerging (NPR)

First Tesla Semis delivered with new tech and some mystery

Oil giant TotalEnergies to cut North Sea investment over windfall tax (BBC) My, what a surprise.

Earthshot fund gives £1m to UK scientists fighting climate crisis (The Guardian) KA-CHING!

Tesla Semi’s Enormous Battery Might Weigh 11,000 Pounds on Its Own  Imagine if it were to spontaneously catch on fire, as Tesla batteries sometimes do.

Colorado Pitcher An Ultra Fanatic About Preserving The Planet

Switzerland Considers Electric Vehicle Ban To Avoid Blackouts

Aussie Road Block Climate Protestor Sentenced to Actual Jail Time  Astonishing.

How the Dutch used technology and vertical farming to became a major food exporter  If ‘vertical farming’ is going to have a future, this is the sort of comprehensive endeavor that will be needed, not just ‘racks and racks of kale’.

Oil industry exec rips Biden’s ‘willy-nilly’ energy policy, warns of another ‘major’ crisis in next few weeks (Fox)

Daily border crossings have stayed near record highs, and the end of a Covid ban this month could mean a new surge (NBC)

Biden administration considering migrant proposal mirroring Trump-era policy (CNN) Maybe Trump wasn’t such a dummy after all.

DOJ Tried to Hide Report Warning That Private Border Wall in Texas Could Collapse (ProPublica)

Biden says Walker doesn’t deserve to be in the Senate (The Hill) So what? Biden doesn’t deserve to be in the White House.

Hunter Biden’s former law firm received $10M in forgiven COVID loans while donating $1M to Dems (N.Y. Post)

Europe Shows A Clear Link Between Immigration And Crime

US chip group: $52b is not enough, we need an extra $30b in federal funding

US Military Halts Patrols Against Islamic State in Syria

Biden Recounts Time He Faced Down Hitler While Working As A Lifeguard At The Pool (Babylon Bee)

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 21

Staff Exodus: Another Kamala Aide Heads for the Exit

The GOP’s bet on Kanye West has gone very bad (Washington Post) Exccept that there is no ‘GOP bet on Kanye West’ except in the dreams of the Narrative Media.

Virginia county poised to take unusual step to preserve Confederate statue (Washington Post)

Impeach Aileen Cannon Calls Grow as Trump Judge ‘Eviscerated’ by Court (Newsweek)

Elon Musk’s promised Twitter exposé on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people (The Verge)

Sunny Demands ‘Limitation’ on Free Speech, Hints Jerry Jones Could Be KKK

Far-Left Protesters Disrupt Pro-Life Banquet for DC Pregnancy Center Attacked by Vandals

Hillary Clinton: Overturning Roe v. Wade Puts US in Company of Sudan, Afghanistan

The GOP Can’t Hide From Extremism (The Atlantic) One supposes that they ought to embrace it, as the Democrats have.

Gun-Toting WV Judge Was an Even Bigger Asshole Than We Knew (Daily Beast) Not quite enough to write for the Daily Beast, but it was close.

Politico DROPPED Obsession with Paul Pelosi Attack After Election Was Over

Flashback: The Media’s Clown Show Coverage of 2015 Terrorist Attack

Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson Don’t Understand the First Amendment (The Atlantic) Nor does David French, apparently. Like most Harvard JDs, French confuses his own opinions for the law.

James Woods To Sue Twitter Over DNC-Ordered Censorship

Surging Twitter antisemitism unites fringe, encourages violence, officials say (Washington Post) Officials say! That proves it!

From haute cuisine to hate cuisine: Why Republicans are finally taking aim at Trump (The Hill)

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s taxes: ‘Six years of “I didn’t pay any tax” returns’ (The Guardian) I guess Trump is smarter than Jimmy Kimmel.

Pelosi Says Democrats Might Release Trump’s Tax Returns  Which is against the law–not that Democrats care about the law.

Trump’s legal woes just keep piling up (Politico)

Antifa Defendants Arrested In Attack On Trump Supporters Take Plea Deals

David Deeble: Wealthy Floridian Condemned For Feeding Mentally Disturbed Black Man

‘MAGA’ Fund Outperforming Biden-Endorsed ESG Investments by Wide Margin

POLITICO Playbook: Trump’s pre-runoff message: Terminate the Constitution (Politico) More lies from the Left.

Donald Trump ought to face the same charges the Oath Keepers did (MSNBC) But he won’t, because the DoJ won’t be able to railroad Trump the way they did the Oath Keepers.

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If you’re really using your computer, your desktop should almost never be visible. Your screen should be covered with information, with whatever data you’re working on. I can’t imagine why you’d willingly stare at a static background image– or even a background image covered with a sea of icons. Unless you consider your computer a really expensive digital picture frame, I suppose.

The desktop background, as I see it, is completely superfluous. My desktop “background” right now is plain black. And that doesn’t bother me in the least, because none of it is visible. I have browser windows and programs– the things I’m actually doing — covering all three monitors. When I’m using a computer, I make it my goal to never see the desktop background. Every time the desktop background is visible, that means I’m making poor use of my monitor pixels. Whenever the desktop background peeks through, I treat it like a reprimand.

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First World problem.

If you take deliberate steps to create a problem, you don’t get to complain about having a problem.

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I wonder how Newsom is going to react to the news that the commission he set in motion to study whether California should pay reparations for slavery has reported in with a recommendation that all descendants of slaves in California should be granted $223,200 per person, at an estimated total cost of $569 billion. This at a time when California is suddenly facing a $25 billion budget deficit (though I predict it will double to $50 billion or more by next spring). I wonder how Newsom will distance himself from this recommendation. And how will California hispanics, Vietnamese refugees, and other minority groups feel about being made to pay for reparations for one single class of people who have faced racial hostility in America’s past? I can think of few things that will drive more hispanic voters to Republicans than this proposal.

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Michel Houellebecq—one of France’s preeminent writers known mainly for his novels, poems, and essays, but who is also an occasional actor, filmmaker, singer, and rapper—has said that the Great Replacement, a term used to describe the gradual replacement of people native to France by foreign populations, is a fact.

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A sociology professor and expert on migration and integration has claimed that the riots in Brussels which saw cars flipped over and set alight, shops looted, and police attacked following Sunday’s World Cup match between Morocco and Belgium were largely motivated by a “hatred of the West,” echoing statements made by AfD MEP Joachim Kuhs earlier this week at the European parliament.

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As waves of migrants continue to pour into France and are welcomed into the country, an Iranian couple that converted to Christianity has been refused asylum for the fourth time by the French authorities. Yet the couple risks death for apostasy if they return to their country.

Carl Bernstein, known to all as the “Worse Than Watergate” guy, seems to be conspicuous by his absence (and his silence) with respect to the Hunter laptop situation.

I hope he’s alright.

Victor Davis Hanson.

First, you would surrender our prior energy independence.

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Two words: Democrat megadonor.

UPDATE: Rep. Waters: ‘We Want’ FTX Founder at Hearing on Crypto Exchange Collapse

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Cancer cells delete DNA when they go to the dark side, so a team of doctors and engineers targeted the ‘backup plans’ that run essential cell functions.

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Indiana University have discovered a cancer weakness. They found that the way that tumor cells enable their uncontrolled growth is also a weakness that can be harnessed to treat cancer.

Their machine-learning algorithm can identify backup genes that only tumor cells use, allowing drugs to precisely target cancer.

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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) is demanding an investigation into the “repeated, targeted theft” of campaign donation checks while in transit through the United States Postal Service.

“It is unacceptable that USPS has repeatedly allowed these targeted thefts to occur,” Stefanik’s attorneys wrote in a letter Thursday to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. They allege packages were “ripped open” and checks “stolen” totaling nearly $20,000.

The attorneys claim the postal service’s Office of the Inspector General said it would be hard to find guilty employees “unless and until” a donor “becomes the victim” of identity theft or fraud.

“In each case, the evidence indicates that Elise for Congress’s packages were plundered by a USPS employee or contractor while the packages were in transit,” the letter said, adding there were four separate incidents between June and November.

Stefanik’s campaign released pictures Friday showing ripped envelopes with apology letters from the USPS.

Scott Adams says that he had to quit mailing his cartoon art to his syndicate because postal employees would open his packages and steal the artwork before it got to its destination.

I always use UPS now.

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I’m thinking of two well-known financial analysts who are unsurpassed in their analytical brilliance and knowledge of markets and who rightly regard the bureaucratic Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) as the father of bubbles, busts, stagnation, and market privilege. In their articles, Peter Schiff and David Stockman hammer the Fed relentlessly and rightfully for its cluelessness, corruption, and threat to our material and spiritual well-being. They have authored engaging bestsellers on the state of the economy and place blame where it belongs, on the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve.

Yet, strangely, their recommendations stop short of eradicating the cancer altogether.

A distinction too often ignored in real life.

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But amidst all the liberal revelry lies an uncomfortable, little-reported fact: Democrats lost the House popular vote by three points.

Remember the popular vote? The popular vote!

My goodness, Hillary Clinton still probably mutters about winning the popular vote in her sleep. The left has been in love with the popular vote since 2016, and it’s easy to see why: 2022 was the first time the Democrats lost the House popular vote since Hillary’s 2016 loss, when the GOP prevailed by one point. The Democrats won the House popular vote by three points in 2020 and by nearly nine points in 2018.

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In what appears to be the first reported use of Emergency SOS via Satellite, a snowmobiler in Alaska was successfully rescued when he became stranded in an extremely isolated area.

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One of the most astonishing things about the woke is their high boredom threshold. They seem to have the same thoughts about the same subjects, expressed in the same language, all their waking lives. They never tire or let their vigilance down. They look at Raphael or Botticelli and see only social injustice. They are terrible bores.

The explanation of their persistence, which resembles that of flies on a corpse, is that truth, which holds no interest for them, is not their object, but power, the cynosure of every ambitious mediocrity’s eyes. To change the metaphor slightly, the lunatics have taken over the asylum or, in the case of the museums, the philistines.

FDA pulls Covid antibody treatment because it’s not effective against dominant omicron variants (CNBC)

FDA pauses US authorization for Eli Lilly’s COVID treatment drug (Fox)

Why China’s ‘zero COVID’ policy is finally faltering (NPR)

Monkeypox Vaccine Modeling Study Results Provide Road Map for Vaccination (Pharmacy Times)

The Lying Liars of Pfizer

Rand Paul: Fauci Caused 7 Million People To Die; “We’ve Caught Him Red-Handed, He Won’t Get Away”

Appeals court halts special master review of documents seized at Mar-a-Lago in major defeat for Trump (CNN)

Trump’s special master case gets slapped down by his appointees (MSNBC)

The MAGA cult should face facts: America will never be theirs ‘again’ (Washington Post0 Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

How much will sea levels rise? Trump vastly understated what experts think (Tampa Bay Tiems) Depends on which ‘experts’ you believe.

Lawrence: Capitol rioter’s sentencing memo perfectly describes Trump (MSNBC)

Trump company tax fraud trial nears end in battle over who to blame (Reuters)

Trump expresses solidarity with Jan. 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol (Washington Post) The eternal effort to connect Trump somehow with ‘insurrection’.

Trump Embraces Extremism as He Seeks to Reclaim Office (N. Y. Times) The witch-hunt heats up.

Chris Cillizza Headlines Massive Round of CNN Layoffs (Daily Beast) There is no joy in Muddville.

Florida pulls $2 bln from BlackRock in largest anti-ESG divestment (Reuters)

U.S. Senate panel deadlocks on abortion rights lawyer’s judicial nomination (Reuters)

A Billionaire Got the Chicago Mayor’s Support to Lease Public Land. Then He Wrote Her Campaign a $25,000 Check. (ProPublica) BRAAAAAAAINS!

The cost of health care: how to make it affordable (The Economist) Make it ‘free’, of course.

CNN Starts Layoffs And WaPo Ends Sunday Magazine Amid “Economic Headwinds”

Gun Rights Groups Challenge Restrictive Oregon Law

Democrats’ ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Myth Debunked Again as Early Voting in Georgia Runoff Tops 1 Million

California Senator Accused Of Faking Anti-LGBTQ Threat  Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Ruhle, Lefty Journo Panic Over Rise of Authoritarianism in US

Lila Rose Shares Why Abortion Supporters Want a Culture of Consequence-Free Sex

At Canadian Universities, Race and Gender Quotas Have Become a Way of Life

Democrats Tried to Enlist IRS to Attack Conservative Nonprofits

Marauding Bands Of Looters Are Stealing Billions Of Dollars Worth Of Merchandise As America Descends Into Lawlessness  But only in blue states. (And blue cities in red states, which is almost all of them.)

We looked at 1,200 possibilities for the planet’s future. These are our best hope. (Washington Post)

Endless debates about soup and paintings serve those who’d prefer we ignore the climate crisis (The Guardian) And endless stunts involving soup and paintings serve those who believe they have a right to disrupt the lives of people who aren’t paying enough attention to them.

How capitalism crushed the environment, according to historian Douglas Brinkley (Boston Globe) How even historians misuse terms like ‘capitalism’ when they’re actually talking about industrialism.

Netherlands reportedly set to forcibly close 3,000 farms to comply with EU mandate

The green tech tussle where America has cash and Europe has rules (Financial Times)

Our US$10 trillion global energy bill dwarfs what’s needed to limit global heating (The Conversation) Shiver in the dark! It’s a moral imperative!

Want to solve climate change? Open more land to solar, industry leader says (L.A. Times) I’m sure he does.

The hidden ocean pollution killing marine mammals (BBC)

Five key ways winter has changed in Washington (Washington Post)

Officials fear ‘complete doomsday scenario’ for drought-stricken Colorado River (Washington Post)

EU strikes deal to make ships pay for their carbon emissions (Reuterss) Pay whom? Why, the bureaucracy, of course! How will that help ‘climate change’? It won’t! But we’ll get money!

This California city asked where its recycling went. The answer wasn’t pretty. (NBC)

Rising Cost Of European Energy Makes EV Battery Plants “Unfeasible”, VW Exec Says