Former Hunter Biden business partner snagged jobs in Trump, Biden administrations (N.Y. Post)

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act makes green hydrogen profitable at scale, Goldman Sachs says (CNBC) At taxpayer expense, of course.

WH ripped over ‘bold-faced lie’ on Biden border visit: President avoided border ‘like the plague’

‘Last thing we need’: Pols want NYers to pay $300M so illegal migrants can stay (N.Y. Post)

78% of woke ESG funds that Biden wants 401(k)s to invest in UNDERPERFORMED by 15% (Daily Mail)

4 Charts Expose Feds’ Hypocrisy: Cracking Down on Taxpayers While Own Improper Payments Go Unchecked

Welcome, Bibi: Blinken To Headline Anti-Israel J Street Conference

Shale pioneer Harold Hamm slams US-Venezuela oil deal as ‘desperation’ (Financial Times)

Hawley Releases Internal E-Mails on Biden Admin’s Disinformation Governance Board

Dem Rep. Slams Biden for Lobster Dinner While Punishing US Fishermen

Inflation May Be Peaking, but Doubts Emerge About Its Decline

We still need a nuclear deal with Tehran. Protests don’t change that. (Washington Post) The globalist tyranny-appeasers at the Council on Foreign Relations are certainly consistent.

Don Lemon Draws Ire of Female Co-Hosts by Crapping on Women’s Soccer (Daily Beast)

Don Lemon takes heat for defending men’s sports earning more money (N.Y. Post)

Europe warns Musk he’s top of their watch list (Politico) Most Eurocrats could profit from closely watching Musk.

Jen Psaki rips Walker ad standing up for female athletes as ‘attacking transgender people’

Parler “Terminates” Kanye West’s Deal To Buy Social Media Company

CNN Stokes Rage at SCOTUS for Student Loan Scheme Hold-Up

Musk’s Beloved Twitter Polls Are Bot-Driven Bullsh!t, Ex-Employees Say (Rolling Stone) But of course they would say that, wouldn’t they?

Shooting the Starting Pistol at Ron DeSantis

The GOP’s bet on Kanye West has gone very bad (Washington Post) What ‘GOP bet on Kanye West’? There is no ‘GOP bet on Kanye West’. (Nor can there be–Republicans are all raaaaaaascists! Didn’t this guy get the memo?)

Alex Jones Files for Bankruptcy Following Sandy Hook Verdict  Of course he did–and that was the entire objective of this witch-hunt. Nobody ever believed that he had a billion dollars to pay out on this verdict; the whole point was to make him liable for an amount that he did not have and could never raise. The victims aren’t going to get anything out of this case except the satisfaction of having revenge on somebody that they were taught to hate by the Narrative Media.

Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find (N.Y. Times) The witch-hunt against Musk heats up.

Hillary, PBS Claim Pro-Lifers Are Similar to Iran, Taliban, Russian Rapists in Ukraine

Tucker Carlson made Ye a right-wing hero. Now he’s praising Hitler and Nazis. (Media Matters) First of all, despite Tucker’s alleged efforts, Kanye West is not and never has been a ‘right-wing hero’. (Aren’t all right-wingers supposed to be raaaaaacists? How does that allow for Kanye West to be their hero?) Yet another step in the attempt to smear by ‘connection’.

Herschel Walker is a very bad candidate. Could he still win? (Washington Post) He can if the Democrats don’t succeed in stealing the election. (Warnock is also a very bad candidate, but nobody in the Washington Post seems to care.) My Negro good, your Negro bad.

Collins Declares GOP Podcasters Agree With Kanye’s Anti-Semitism

Elon Musk gives Kanye West the boot from Twitter over offensive posts: ‘I tried my best’

California Task Force: Pay Slavery Descendants $223,200 Each  Major outflux of white people moving out; major influx of black people moving in. Time to leave.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid: Democrats Nominate Better Quality Black People  It’s not enough just to be black; it is necessary to be the right kind of black.

Obama Castigates Herschel Walker at Warnock Rally  It’s not enough to be black; it is necessary to be the right kind of black.

$223,000 Here, $223,000 There …

Ngozi Fulani Is Actually Marlene Headley

Tim Burton’s New Netflix Show Deemed ‘Racist’ for Casting Black Actors as Bullies

Congressional Black Caucus Elects Dem Who Had Years-Long Affair With Intern as Chair  Yet another corrupt black Democrat (but I repeat myself)

Welcome to Texas.

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The chief appeal of cashier-less tech is that one no longer needs to hire and pay cashiers.

Thank you, minimum wage!

Thank you, Union label!

Thank you, OSHA! (Thank you, Richard Nixon!)

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In Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?, Richard Landes, a historian of apocalyptic movements in medieval Europe, re-examines the reporting of Palestinian attacks on Israel, starting with the Second Intifada that began in September 2000. Principally, he looks at the ways in which postcolonial ideology and the intimidation of journalists have been used to obscure the links between Islamist ideology and terrorist practice, and how this process disfigures public discourse and understanding.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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In Analyzing the proposed rule, which was released June 2021, it appears that ATF has intentionally designed its Factoring Criteria for Rifled Barrel Weapons with Accessories Commonly Referred to as “Stabilizing Braces” to effect a complete ban of every pistol-braced firearm currently on the market.

Masquerading as a helpful rulemaking “to assist” gun owners and the firearms industry in complying with the law, in reality the proposed rule is designed with the obvious and specific intent to largely outlaw the use of stabilizing braces on firearms, threatening millions of current owners with imprisonment and putting a large segment of the gun industry out of business entirely.

To accomplish this goal, the proposed rule creates “Worksheet 4999,” which contains three sections of analysis, each more restrictive than the last, designed to ensure that virtually no stabilizing brace is eligible for use on a non-rifle firearm, and thereafter ensuring that most firearms do not qualify to even use an allowed stabilizing brace.

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One hundred motor vehicle thefts a day.

That’s the recent daily count in Chicago in October as motor vehicle thefts spiked dramatically in the last three months. Compare that to the first half of the year when Chicago was averaging “just” 35 thefts a day.

It’s just one part of the Great Unraveling of Chicago’s justice system that stems from emboldened criminals, a demoralized police force and a leadership class obsessed with soft-on-crime legislation like the SAFE-T Act. Late amendments to the Act under consideration today in the final day of the fall veto session could lessen the damage somewhat but key flaws and a lawsuit challenging the Act will remain.

Moral: Avoid Chicago. (Hell, avoid any city run by Democrats.)

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When in doubt, sue!
That’s what Americans do!
Find that deep pocket!
Rear back and sock it!  [Apologies to Mason Williams.]

Giving up on 1.5C climate target would be gift to carbon boosters, says IEA head (The Guardian)

Spending cuts threaten global net zero push, economists warn (Australian Financial Review)

From the Amazon to Australia, why is your money funding Earth’s destruction? (The Guardian)

Biden administration paying $75 million to move three tribes affected by climate change

But for the Blizzards, a Climate Utopia? (The American Prospect)

U.S. EPA to propose boost in biofuel blending volumes, EV program -sources (Reuters) Let’s do more of what doesn’t work.

US to raise biofuel mandates for oil refiners (Gulf News)

Forecasting Our Future: Climate change impacting North Carolina’s coast (WXII)

Fossil fuel recruiters banned from three more UK universities (The Guardian)

COP27 Greenwishing: Progressive Discontent

Switzerland Contemplates a Partial Ban on the Use of Electric Vehicles

Venezuela Is Bizarre Piece of Biden’s Incoherent Energy Policy Puzzle

How Inflation Changes Culture

IMF Chief Says US Must Keep Raising Interest Rates Because “They Owe It” To The World

U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Biden’s Bid to Revive Student Debt Plan  No, Joe, you can’t just do anything you want.

Inflation Gauge Slows to Still-High 6%

Biden’s November gaffe average: the president hits .500

A Hard Winter Looms for Americans’ Energy Bills and Wallets. Blame Biden.

7 Bizarre Initiatives From Biden’s $45 Billion Tribal Spending Spree

Is the Supreme Court turning the Constitution into a homicide pact? (The Hill)

Prince William Says Racism Has ‘No Place in Society.’ What About His Own Family? (Daily Beast) Pushing the Narrative that any criticism of Megan is ‘racist’.

Garland praises Oath Keepers verdict, won’t say where Jan. 6 probe goes (Washington P0st)

Bibi Is Putting Israel on a Collision Course With U.S. (Daily Beast)

Elizabeth Warren Slams Elon Musk’s Pro-Free Speech Changes At Twitter  She’s never been a free speech fan.

MSNBC’s Ruhle Shocked to Discover Jan. 6 Committee Is Political

Georgia Run-Off: Walker 88% Negative News, 71% POSITIVE for Warnock  My, what a surprise.

Stuck With Ronna: How does such a loser become the longest-serving RNC chair in modern history? (The Bulwark) Amanda Carpenter is apparently the designated Republican-basher for the Kristol Krew.

A Pathetic Ron DeSantis Hit Piece

Terrorism Advisory Issued as Jan. 6 Anniversary Nears

Scarborough Suggests DeSantis Attacking The Media Proves He Is Sexist

Matt Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg gets 11 years as probe into congressman stalls, sources say (ABC) Perhaps because Gaetz hasn’t done anything illegal.

Kanye West Tells Alex Jones: ‘I Like Hitler’ (Daily Beast) Yet another lie from the Narrative Media.

China signals slight Covid policy easing — but don’t expect sweeping changes yet (CNBC)

China signals ease in Covid policy after mass protests (BBC)

China set to loosen COVID curbs after week of historic protests (Reuters)

What’s happening in China after zero-Covid protests? Here’s what you need to know (CNN) “Here’s what you need to know” is a classic CNN formula, as if you’re too stupid to understand the news.

China eases some virus controls, searches pedestrians (Washington Post)

Long Covid may be ‘the next public health disaster’ — with a $3.7 trillion economic impact rivaling the Great Recession (CNBC) I guess it’s time to PANIC!

‘I never really got better’ — long Covid patients share their struggle with ongoing symptoms and the health-care system  (CNBC) Oops, we’d better PANIC!

The impact of Pfizer?BioNTech’s BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine booster on the maximum oxygen uptake capacity among recreational endurance athletes (News-Medical)

Biden administration prepares to end monkeypox emergency declaration (Politico)

New Zealand government tries to seize guardianship of baby after parents demand unvaccinated blood for surgery (Fox)

China’s ‘Zero-COVID’ Repression Is What Happens When You Give All Power to the Scientific-Technocratic Elite

How to fight Covid with light

Executives at ‘fintechs’ made hundreds of millions handing out PPP Covid cash, report says

GOP Senators Say They Will Block Military Funding Unless Vaccine Mandate Scrapped

Salon Admits Pandemic Profoundly Impacted Children – With Caveats, Of Course

Black Turnout in Midterms Was One of the Low Points for Democrats

James, WashPost Assassinate Character Of Dallas Cowboys Owner

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nitially, I started with the idea that climate was an attractive industry for “doomer” types, and I painted their motivations monolithically. I was searching for the one weird reason that was causing hordes of people to drop what they were doing and march, hypnotically, towards the same problem space.

What I found instead is that while the media still portrays climate as a simple question of beliefs, the climate field has long moved on to diversified solutions. Whether one believes in climate change is no longer the interesting question; now it’s “What do you think is the right approach?”

Pass through the asteroid belt of climate doomerism, and the universe expands into a rich panoply of different climate tribes. People who work in and around climate don’t all believe the same things. Instead, they inhabit a parallel, mirror world that looks a lot like the non-climate world. Just like in the regular world, there are factions, politics, and competing belief systems.

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Contrary to popular belief, the United States is no longer home to the best education system in the world. According to the World Top 20 Project, an international organization that gathers educational data from more than 200 countries, the U.S. lags well behind countries like Finland, Denmark, and South Korea. From elementary schools to colleges and universities, the U.S. education system is in crisis. Academic standards have drastically slipped, with a woke madness gripping classrooms across the country. And no school is immune—not even the most prestigious medical schools in America.

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For close to half a century, Western elites have been trying to reverse many aspects of the industrial revolution that made the West possible. It started in the United States with the off-shoring of whole industries to the third world. Around the same time, the environmental movement shifted from conservation to proselytizing against the things that modern people take for granted. The fictional concept of climate change was invented as an authority to justify the great deindustrialization.

At the heart of it all is energy. You cannot watch a television program or view a YouTube clip without being hit on the head about good energy. They have lots of ways of saying good energy, like renewable energy, clean energy and green energy, but all of these slogans are just ways of saying good energy. Of course, that means there is bad energy and that is always the cheap energy. Gasoline is bad. Coal is bad. They may be efficient and cheap, but they are bad, very bad.

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Moral distance is at the heart of the long running scheme by Western elites to remove from their sight the things they find immoral. They inherited from Marxism the notion that industrial work in dehumanizing. They do not want to see big dirty factories full of working class men sweating away to make their stuff. They do not want to give up the stuff, so the solution was to move the plant to Mexico or China. Replace the plant with a dog park and voila! The world is a better place.

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Democrats think the perennial battle over gun control has now swung in their favor. They are vowing to enact new gun control measures, allegedly in response to recent high-profile mass shooting incidents. Of course, we already have hundreds of statutes and regulations on the books relating to firearms. When someone engages in a mass shooting (or any shooting) he violates multiple statutes of the most serious kind.

An obvious question is, if the hundreds of statutes and regulations already in place didn’t stop the latest outrage, why would adding one more make a difference? In reality, we have plenty of laws that make it illegal to shoot someone, or to acquire or use firearms in various ways. Unfortunately, enforcement of those laws is generally pathetic. Which is why we see the same criminals committing one crime after another.