Donald Trump Accuses His Special Counsel of ‘Bullying Everyone in Sight’ (Newsweek)

Donald Trump Attempts to Save One of His Most Loyal Allies (Newsweek) My, what a surprise.

Biden’s Handling of Secret Documents Complicates the Case Against Trump (N.Y. Times) Oh, ya think?

Marjorie Taylor Greene aims to be Trump’s VP pick in 2024 (NBC) I don’t think so….

Senate Republican leaders introduce bills restricting Biden’s SPR authority as WH threatens veto (Fox)

Fact-checking 3 claims about the GOP oil bill and White House response (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘fact-checking’ means ‘gaslighting in accordance with the Narrative’.

White House stonewalls Fox News’ Peter Doocy on Biden classified documents: ‘Why did he do it?’

Jean-Pierre Dodges Doocy On Biden Docs: Not Going ‘Down A Rabbit Hole’ (Newsweek)

Lawsuit seeks FBI records on censoring Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories (N.Y. Post)

Judicial Watch files lawsuit against DOJ for docs on Big Tech censorship, Hunter Biden laptop story

After promising to expand asylum, Biden moves to limit access amid record border arrivals (CBS)

GOP lawmakers hold presser on the Biden admin prioritizing a woke agenda over border security (Fox)

White House reporter presses Granholm on racial differences in gas prices: ‘Big pinch in urban areas’ (Fox)

Biden DOJ Behind Failure to Arrest Activists Illegally Protesting at Justices’ Homes, Experts Say

Biden: I Won’t Let ‘Republicans Wreck Our Economy’  That’s my job!

VP Harris Omits Right to ‘Life’ When Referencing Declaration of Independence

Record Number Of Border Deaths During Biden’s First 2 Years

Texas AG Paxton Heads Lawsuit Over Biden’s New Migrant Program

‘Our Family’s Sick’: Why Hunter Biden Lied About Paying $50k Monthly Rent 

Why Biden’s document scandal is worse than Trump’s

ExxonMobil shows the perils of corporate science (Financial Times)

Portion of Pacific Ocean turns pink off California coast — and it will happen again (Sacramento Bee) How appropriate.

‘No miracles needed’: Prof Mark Jacobson on how wind, sun and water can power the world (The Guardian)

5 reasons why forest carbon credits are an important part of climate action (World Economic Forum)

94% of Forest-Based Carbon Offsets Certified By Leading Global Provider Are ‘Phantom Credits,’ Major Investigation Finds (EcoWatch)

Bill Gates backs start-up tackling cow burps and farts (CNN) Where would we be without Bill Gates?

Bill Gates backs new startup aiming to reduce emissions from cow burps (The Guardian)

Oil wells guzzle precious California water. Next door, residents can’t use the tap (The Guardian)

The Tests Are Vital. But Congress Decided That Regulation Is Not. (ProPublica) Leave no stone unregulated!

Cute, furry and key to the ecosystem: can sea otters save the US west coast? (The Guardian)

Uganda begins oil drilling, hopes for production by 2025 (Associated Press)

Report: Vermont not on track to meeting climate requirements (WCAX)

Xbox will force gamers to power down to fight climate change, touting the first ‘carbon aware console’ (The Blaze)

China Becomes World’s Biggest LNG Buyer With Flurry Of Long-Term Deals

EU Gas Price Cap Could Trigger Significant Changes In Markets

Saving the World from Lithium Mines

Antarctica Putting Brakes on Global Sea Level Rise! And: ‘World Climate News’ Makes Debut

Lawmakers codify abortion rights in state constitution, sending it to voters (Politico) New York.

New York legislature passes abortion, trans protections amendment (Fox)

Why US libraries are on the frontlines of the homelessness crisis (The Guardian) Hey, if I could camp out in a library, I would.

Mayor Eric Adams wimps out on fight for the good schools his core NYC voters demand (N.Y. Post)

Kari Lake Claims Discovery of 200k Failed Votes in Arizona: ‘This is Huge’ (Newsweek)

Pittsburgh declares homelessness a public health emergency, looks for solutions (TribLIVE)

Gavin Newsom swats down CBS reporter’s Second Amendment question (SFGate)

Washington Post Hit With Biden-Era Layoffs as Subscriptions Plummet

Report: Suspects Who Assaulted Fox News Weatherman Already Released

Yale Law School Bars Press From Free Speech Panel. Yes, Really.

How Blue State Election Official Responds to DACA Recipient Proclaiming, ‘We Are Voting’

Hawley Brings Back Bill to Prevent Lawmaker Trading as PELOSI Act

DOJ Indicts Radical Activists for Attacking Florida Pro-Life Facilities

The State Of Global Trade Union Membership

Beto O’Rourke Is Holding On to $100K In Tainted Crypto Cash

Microsoft’s Changes to Xbox Console Leave Republicans Outraged (Newsweek)

Tucker Carlson’s Confusion Over Vagina-Shaped Cloud Sparks Wave of Jokes (Newsweek) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

Proud Boys ‘Rule Book’ Revealed in Trial Sparks Flurry of Jokes, Mockery (Newsweek)

Tucker Carlson’s war on M&M’s (NPR)

CBS Giddy Over News Mike Pence Stored Classified Docs at His Home

How Southern California helped birth white Christian nationalism

NPR Drops Bombs on the ‘Hard Right Republicans In Congress’  To NPR, there is no right but the Hard Right.

Dems mobilize to defend Omar in face of GOP defections (Politico)

Pizzeria Owner Who Said Nancy Pelosi Needed to ‘Hang’ Convicted of Jan. 6 Charges (Law & Crime)

AT&T’s DirecTV Cancels NEWSMAX in Censorship Move

McCarthy Formally Rejects Schiff, Swalwell From House Intel Committee

Immigration is Harming American Agricultural Workers—Especially Black Ones (Newsweek)

Judge tosses lawsuit against Whole Foods after workers fired for wearing Black Lives Matter masks

Joy Reid Compares DeSantis Banning CRT & Grooming to ‘Cultural Genocide’

Washington Post: It’s Racist to Point Out the Elderly Asian Shooters Aren’t White

Bivalent BA.4-5 or BA.1 mRNA-booster given as a fourth dose associated with increased protection against COVID-19 hospitalization and death (News-Medical)

U.S. FDA proposes shift to annual COVID vaccine shots (Reuters) Because that worked so very well with influenza. KA-CHING!

CDC flags possible safety issue with updated Pfizer COVID-19 booster (KATU)

FDA leaves out Pfizer COVID vaccine ‘stroke signal,’ myocarditis study from advisers’ next meeting (Just The News)

N.J. still fears COVID, but says please, no more mask mandates, poll finds (NJ.com)

Why Are Millennials Having So Many Strokes?

Australia Sees Heart Attacks Increase By 17% In 2022 – “Experts” Blame Pandemic

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The wrongful death suit claims that Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) evidence has “emerged proving that TWA 800’s explosion was not caused by any defect in the airplane, but instead by an errant United States missile fired at aerial target drones flying nearby. “

The suit, brought by the survivors of those onboard, explains that TWA 800 took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport at around 8:20 p.m. on July 17, 1996 bound for Paris. “Within twelve minutes of takeoff, the plane exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York,” the suit says.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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Everyone knows about the egg problem, which is being chalked up to a bird flu, just as Putin was responsible for the gas price and greedy meat processors caused beef prices to soar. Sorry but this is ridiculous. The price of eggs is up dramatically because all the costs associated with making them available to consumers are up.

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Following the spiral of violence witnessed since Christmas which so far has seen some 20 shootings and explosive detonations across Sweden—mainly in the Stockholm area—that have resulted in at least two people losing their lives, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) called this past weekend’s wave of violence as “among the worst” to hit the country in a “very long time.”

While speaking to the Swedish state-run broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) on Monday, January 24th, the center-Right prime minister, who only assumed high office several months ago, did not mince his words, referring to those responsible for the violence, namely gang-related groups, “the domestic terrorists of our time.”

A report from the Stockholm-based newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) stated that since Friday evening, alone, “there has been a detonation in a stairwell, three shootings at homes, and a murder of a 40-year-old man in Solna.”

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

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Jan. 22 to Jan. 28 is National School Choice Week, and what better way to highlight the fact that parents today have more choices for their children’s education than ever before than by celebrating Iowa’s Students First Act being signed into law on Tuesday?

The year 2011 was deemed “the year of school choice” after 12 states enacted new—or expanded existing—school choice programs, including Arizona establishing the nation’s first education savings accounts program.

A decade later, 2021 was named “the year of education choice,” in which 18 states enacted seven new education choice programs and expanded 21 existing ones—primarily education savings accounts.

Blank Check? Democrats Want To Totally Eliminate Debt Ceiling With New Bill

M&M’s Ends Woke “Spokescandies” After Pushback, Replacing Them With Actress Maya Rudolph

MSNBC: No Legitimate Reason to Keep Eric Swalwell Off Intel Committee  Except that whole sleeping with a Chinese spy thing.

NYPD finds AirTag tracking its patrol car

New York Times Oozes Over Pelosi, ‘Liberated and Loving It,’ A ‘Washington Monument’

Broadcast Networks Silent as Top Democrat’s Kid is Arrested for Assaulting a Police Officer

Looking To Tamp Down Controversy, Yale Law School Restricts Access to Free Speech Panel

Dem Lawmaker’s Child Released on $500 Bail After Assaulting Cop  If he had put his feet on Nancy Pelosi’s desk on Jan. 6, he’d (they’d?) still be rotting in jail.

Dem Lawmaker Whose Child Assaulted Cop Deletes ‘Defund the Police’ Post

After Priest Exorcises All Demons From Her Home, Pelosi Becomes A Republican (Babylon Bee)

Welcome To Hotel California: Lawmakers Move To Tax People Who Have Left The State

Why the new game ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ is roiling the LGBTQ community (Washington Post)

4 Oath Keepers Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy for Jan. 6

Ron DeSantis Believes in Free Speech as Long as You Only Speak About the Awesomeness of Straight White People (Vanity Fair)

Inside a Modern-Day Heresy Trial

Fox News’ defense in defamation suit invokes debunked election-fraud claims (NPR) Debunked!

Fox News Lawyers Seem to Justify False Election Fraud Claims in Dominion Case (Daily Beast) False claims!

Ex-prosecutor calls for new investigation into Brett Kavanaugh over bombshell documentary revelation (Salon) Bombshell!

The never-ending war on Brett Kavanaugh (Washington Examiner)

Pronoun fines and jail time for librarians: Republicans target LGBTQ+ rights with new laws (The Guardian)

Reading is precious. But the cult of book ownership can be smug and middle-class (The Guardian) And God knows you don’t want to be smug and middle-class. Pew!

EU Technocrat Threatens Musk With “Sanctions” Unless He Stamps Out Free Speech On Twitter

Ron DeSantis Likes His Culture Wars for a Reason (N.Y. Times) Narrative Media ‘journalists’ love to pretend that they can read minds, especially of those they hate.

Daily Show Goes to Britain to Trash Gun Rights Advocates’ Genital Size  Amazing how many women see themselves as remote experts on penis size. One suspects that they’ve never actually seen one ‘in the flesh’. (And don’t get me started on Greta Thunberg….)

First on CNN: Classified documents found at Pence’s Indiana home

Dishonest Don Lemon: DeSantis Making It ‘Illegal To Teach Slavery’ in Florida Schools

Director of Movie Co-Starring Sex Predator Smears Justice Kavanaugh

Paul Krugman Calls GOP ‘Economic Terrorists’  From The Man Who’s Always Wrong, that’s a great endorsement.

CRT Pioneer Enjoys Success at Top Level of Academia

Final report of Ga. grand jury investigating Trump may be released soon (Washington Post)

Details of Trump’s Attempt to Overturn Defeat in Georgia Could Be Released  Walls are closing in etc.

Georgia DA investigating Trump for 2020 election interference says charging ‘decisions are imminent’ after grand jury report (CNBC) This tease is just to keep her name in the headlines. If she actually had anything, she would have announced it, to great fanfare.

Georgia Election Probe Report to Remain Secret for Now  Which means they’ve got nothin’.

California City Gives Up On 100% Renewable Plan

Depleted Under Trump, a ‘Traumatized’ E.P.A. Struggles With Its Mission (N.Y. Times)

EU to Allow Cricket Powder in Flour-Based Food Products

Netherlands To Shut Down Europe’s Largest Gas Field

Evidence says offshore wind development is killing lots of whales

“Demand Management” In Britain

Eric Adams bucks Hochul’s planned gas stove ban, says electric ‘just doesn’t cook’ (N.Y. Post)

Antarctic: Giant iceberg breaks away in front of UK station (BBC)

Is It Time to Call Time on the Doomsday Clock? (Wired ‘Science’)

Lawns Are Dumb. But Ripping Them Out May Come With a Catch (Wired ‘Science’)

A Plan for Blowing Up U.S. Climate Politics (Politico)

NPR Morning Show Mocks Fox-Driven Gas Stove Panic, Ignores Their Own Anti-Gas Story

Biden Administration Still Pushing For Forced Masking

Australians Were Once Prosecuted For Claiming Face Masks Worked Against Viruses

China Says Over 80% Of Population Infected With COVID, No Risk Of Virus Rebound

Why Some People Never Become Infected With COVID-19 (Epoch Times)

NY GOP House Members Demand End to Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

THE FACEBOOK FILES: It Wasn’t Just Twitter — How CDC Pressured Facebook to Censor

House Freshmen Turn Down WH Reception Invite Over COVID Rules

Seattle Morgue Overrun With Fentanyl Corpses

Biden Nominates North Korea Human Rights Envoy, First Since 2017  Sure, let’s piss off the North Koreans along with Russia and China.

There’s no hiding Biden’s fright over classified document scandal (N.Y. Post)

Garland Tries to Deflect Stinging Criticisms of DOJ’s Biden Doc Efforts

6 Failures of Biden’s Presidency in Year 2

Not Letting Up: Doocy, Bruce, Wegmann PUMMEL KJP Over Classified Docs

Four migrants bused to NYC arrested for shoplifting $12K from Macy’s (N.Y. Post) They’re not sending us their best.

DoDEA sources speak out about woke ‘Marxist’ indoctrination: ‘I’m not a… sexual realignment engineer’ (Fox)

Biden Admin Gives National Security Grants to Think Tank Backed by CCP Front Group

US Gasoline Prices Continue To Rise

Biden Brings World Closer Than Ever to Nuclear Annihilation, Scientists Say  There’s no pleasing some people.

Texas leads 20 Republican states in suing Biden admin over migrant parole program

ZMan isn’t buying it.

One of Shakespeare’s most famous lines is from Henry VI. The pretenders to the throne are plotting and a character named Dick the Butcher says, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”. The line has been interpreted many ways within the context of the play, but most people remember it at face value. In order to get anything done, you must first get rid of the hairsplitters, gainsayers and schemers that have always defined the legal profession. It is a lovely thought.

Like all humor, it is funny because it contains a kernel of truth. Lawyers, given enough time, can fashion an argument for or against anything. You see this in the recurring debate about the trillion dollar coin. This is the claim that the executive can get around Congressional spending and borrowing limits by minting a trillion dollar coin. The mint would strike a coin whose value would result in one trillion in seigniorage . This is the difference between the value of the coin and its cost.

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But it won’t.

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Following the exposure of a hidden “Gender Support Plan” and policy to conceal student transgender procedures from parents, the whistleblower, counselor Kathy McCord, has been placed on immediate and indefinite leave, and could be facing termination.

McCord, a counselor at Pendleton Heights High School in the South Madison Community School Corporation in Indiana, confirmed documents unearthed by parents in Madison County showing that counselors were asking teachers not to reveal a student’s new name and pronouns to parents.

Madison County is north and east of Indianapolis.

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In 2013, an activist holiday called “World Hijab Day” was foisted upon us, urging “women of all religions and backgrounds to wear and experience the hijab for a day and to educate and spread awareness on why hijab is worn.” In the past 10 years World Hijab Day has steadily grown from a minor social media event into the World Hijab Day Organization, a well-connected 501(c)(3) non-profit, “committed to dismantling bigotry, discrimination and prejudice against Muslim women,” as its mission statement proclaims.

Don’t hold your breath.

Washington Post.

Tru dat.

The only way to balance the budget is to spend less. Even if the Democrats allowed them to do that, which won’t happen with them in control of the Senate and the Presidency, there is no practical incentive for them to do that–you can’t by votes by spending less, and our entire electoral system is set up to encourage legislators to get re-elected by providing taxpayer-funded Free Stuff to their constituents.

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Didn’t know these guys were even a thing any more.

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For decades, a family of crystals has stumped physicists with its baffling ability to superconduct — that is, carry an electric current without any resistance — at far warmer temperatures than other materials.

Now, an experiment years in the making has directly visualized superconductivity on the atomic scale in one of these crystals, finally revealing the cause of the phenomenon to nearly everyone’s satisfaction. Electrons appear to nudge each other into a frictionless flow in a manner first suggested by a venerable theory nearly as old as the mystery itself.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees….

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The latest Congressional Budget Office report released earlier this month calculated that the federal government collected $4.9 trillion of federal revenue last year. This was up — ready for this? — almost $1.5 trillion since 2017, the year before the tax cuts became law.

In other words, revenues were up 40% in five years. The evidence through the first three years of the tax cut finds that the share of taxes paid by the wealthiest 1% rose as well. So much for this being a tax giveaway for the rich.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The City of Minneapolis was in decline before covid, and before George Floyd. Abysmal governance and high costs had closed or driven away many businesses. Then came the covid shutdowns, riots and skyrocketing violence, and the city has turned into a disaster area. Who would want to try to run a business in Minneapolis? Not many people, it turns out. So the city’s streets are lined with closed or abandoned storefronts.

This gave Minneapolis’s City Council a great idea: a tax on vacancy! That will force whoever owns the buildings to put businesses in them whether they like it or not, and regardless of whether they make money. Brilliant.

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Seven people were shot to death on Monday afternoon in San Mateo County, Calif., the sheriff’s office said, the second mass shooting in the state in three days.

The shooting happened around 2:20 p.m. local time at two separate locations near Highway 92 and the Half Moon Bay city limits, about 30 miles south of San Francisco, the authorities said. An eighth person was transported to Stanford Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

Boy, those strict gun control laws in California really work, don’t they? Funny how this sort of thing doesn’t happen so often in Texas.

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Setting aside how credible any data released by the BLS now is – considering that not just this website but even the Philly Fed has challenged the accuracy of the Payroll reports’ Establishment survey, while Goldman recent found that actual layoffs as indicated by state WARN notices are far higher than those seasonally adjusted by the Department of Labor, there was one data point that prompted quite a few commentators to scratch their heads. Recall that one of the reasons stocks were pleasantly surprised by the jobs report is that not only did payrolls dip again (if printing as usual above average), but average hourly earnings slumped. But there was more: alongside the decline in wages, average hours worked also declined (which had a material impact on the average wages, and had hours been flat, the decline in average wages would have been even more pronounced).

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(CBO) projects that two major Social Security funds in the United States will dry out in the coming decades, with one of them running out within the next 10 years as younger members in the programs are set to lose more than older members.

Donald Trump ‘Caught in Repeated Lies’ During Deposition—Attorney (Newsweek) If that were true, he’d be indicted for perjury. But it’s not, so he won’t.

Trump Backs Failed AG Candidate to Lead Michigan GOP (Daily Beast)

Trump Looks to Ditch His Own Social Media Site (Rolling Stone)

FDA to Simplify COVID Vaccine Strategy (Philadelphia Inquirer) Mob boss! Trump cooties!

A 23-Year-Old Mayor Tried Trump’s Stolen Election Playbook. Only It Worked. (Daily Beast)

Archives Silent on Biden Docs After Public Complaints of ‘Torn-Up’ Trump Docs and ‘False’ Reports on Obama-era Docs

Dems ask watchdog to investigate IRS’s tardy audit of Trump (Politico) Look over there! Trump!

Minister: Germany won’t block Poland giving Ukraine tanks (Associated Press)

What Western armour gives Ukraine in the next round of the war (The Economist)

Russia Holds Drills Focused On “Repelling Air Attacks” On Moscow

Russia’s Lavrov: Conflict With West ‘Almost a Real War’  Yeah, it’s kinda close.

AIR WEAPONS: Switchblade 600 In Lithuania

SURFACE FORCES : Prefab Constellation-Class

Poland Signals Intent to Send Leopard Tanks to Ukraine

China’s Tax-Deductible Operation to Influence American Students

Ships With No Purpose

Report: US Weapons Industry Unprepared for China Conflict (Newsmax)

U.S. Weapons Industry Unprepared for a China Conflict, Report Says (WSJ)

Carbon offsets are flawed but we are now in a climate emergency (The Guardian)

Velshi: Despite ALL the warnings about fossil fuel, we’re going the wrong way (MSNBC)

Volunteers plant mini-forests in Paris to slow climate change, tackle heatwaves (France24)

Al Gore has history of climate predictions, statements proven false (Fox) He sure does.

Environmental groups sue U.S. to stop deepwater oil-export facility (Reuters)

How an Alaska village’s switch to renewable energy helps local Native economies (PBS)

Scientists believe they’ve found a way to recycle solar panels (ABC)

Why the ground under Colorado solar panels is ripe for growing food (Colorado Sun)

What we know about natural gas cooktops in WA (Seattle Times)

Climate crisis and neglect threaten Spain’s saffron crop (The Guadian)

Canada’s energy jobs transition bill sparks discord in oil heartland (Reuters)

Ageing planet: the new demographic timebomb (The Guardian) What happened to the ‘Don’t Have Kids to Save the Planet’ meme?

What is a superbloom—and how can you see one responsibly? (National Geographic)

Pompous PBS: ‘Why Are So Many Americans and [GOP] Lawmakers Still Enthralled With Gas?’

China To Accelerate The Construction Of Coal-Fired Power Plants  Guess they didn’t get the memo from Davos.

Carbon Credits Are The Biggest Scam Since Indulgences… How You Can Avoid Being Fleeced

Climate Activists Receive Funding for Cultural Destruction

Why Not Cover Ugly Parking Lots With Solar Panels?  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$, that’s why.

How Biden can meet his 100% clean electricity goal (Washington Post) Make everybody ride bicycles?

Biden’s Next Climate Hurdle: Enticing Americans to Buy Green

Wind Turbines Collapsing, Malfunctioning in US, Europe

UK Coal Plants Fired Up AGAIN as Renewable Energy Output Fails

A Black professor defies DeSantis law restricting lessons on race (Washington Post)

Eric Adams joins other black mayors to decry ‘Defund the Police,’ White House handling of border (N.Y. Post)

Racial Reparations Solve Nothing

Shooting at Baton Rouge Nightclub; 12 Injured

Tech Companies Are Quietly Defunding Diversity Pledges And Industry Layoffs Are Hitting Black And Brown Workers Hardest—Experts Say The Message Is Clear (Essence) Companies are discovering that ‘diversity’ doesn’t imply either competence or productivity.

Shooting at Baton Rouge Nightclub; 12 Injured

‘Love to See It’: Racist Sitcom ‘grown-ish’ Celebrates ‘Cash(ing) Out on Corporate White Guilt’

Video Report: Florida Responds to White House Criticism Over Black Studies

AP Teacher’s Guide Proves DeSantis Right in African-American Studies Clash

Bloody Weekend: 7 Killed by Gunfire in Chicago

Judge Dismisses Whole Foods Workers’ ‘BLM’ Lawsuit

Raphael Warnock Buys Million-Dollar Townhouse As His Church’s Tenants Live In Squalor  Hey–the Crust is the Crust, and the dust is the dust….

WNBA Player Demands Private Jets for Entire League

U.S. lawmakers preparing plan to avert debt-ceiling crisis (Reuters)

Unpacking the Debt Ceiling Showdown (MSNBC)

With dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric, history risks repeating itself (The Guardian)

Davos is a Swiss ‘miss’ at solving world problems (N.Y. Post)

What we learned at Davos: signs of hope emerge from the pessimism (The Guardian)

Access to abortion pills is sliding out of reach in dozens of states (The Hill)

Retail pharmacies may now dispense abortion pills but not in Arizona (AZCentral)

A Florida Supreme Court decision on guns defies reason (Sun-Sentinel)

Adult child of top House Democrat charged with assaulting officer during protest (Washington Times) The turd doesn’t fall far from the anus.

The Left’s Largest Nonprofits Funneled $39 Million to China in 2021, Filings Show

THE ATLANTA RIOT: Out-of-State Anarchists Torch Police Vehicle

How the Freedom Caucus Hopes to Defund the Police (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues their crypto-Democrat gaslighting.

WashPost Rushes to ‘Fact Check’ on Schiff, Swalwell — Their Anonymous Sources?

WY Union Says Court Ruling in Kroger–Albertson’s Merger Favors “Ultra-Wealthy”  I guess they check your bank balance before they let you in the store?

NYT Says Upcoming SCOTUS Decisions Could Overhaul Online Censorship

TikTok Employees Arbitrarily Decide What Goes Viral: Report  My, what a surprise.

Democrats name Schiff and Swalwell to Intelligence panel despite McCarthy’s threats (NBC)

Pro-Abortion Protestors: ‘Give It Anesthesia and Suck It Out’ | MRCTV on the Street

‘Nonbinary’ Child of Dem Minority Whip Arrested for Assaulting Police

NIMBY: Liberal Elites Lose It Over Proposed Nantucket Low-Income Housing Project

Vermont Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Noncitizen Voting  This is why the Wokerati love working through the courts.

Street Justice: Los Angeles Has Become Wild West Under Soft-on-Crime Prosecutor

“Domestic Terrorism” – Atlanta Mayor Disputes Claims That Anti-Police Riots Weren’t Violent

Even after New Mexico shootings, little GOP reckoning over election denialism (Washington Post) Denialism!

Top CBS Morning, Evening Shows Ignore Anti-Cop Riot in Atlanta

‘I’m not the Speaker’: McCaul sidesteps questions on Marjorie Taylor Greene committee posts (The Hill)

House GOP rewards hard-liners, Santos with committee seats (MSNBC)

Joseph Stiglitz: tax high earners at 70% to tackle widening inequality (The Guardian)

“They’re going to make this into a circus.” Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) reacts to far-right House Republicans securing high profile committee assignments (MSNBC)

Kevin McCarthy’s biggest foe in the debt ceiling fight? Math. (MSNBC) Well, Narrative Media math, anyway.

Republican rule returning smoking to the U.S. Capitol really stinks (MSNBC) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

The U.K.’s deploying a familiar GOP tactic to suppress trans rights (MSNBC)

‘SNL’ mocks George Santos in late night skits (N.Y. Post) Of course they do.

‘Saturday Night Live’ sketches aside, George Santos is no joke (CNN)

George Santos Was Inevitable (The Dispatch) David French provides us with a thumb-sucker.

How the White House plans to target 18 House Republicans from districts Biden won (CNN) First, you have to get rid of Biden.

‘Cut His Time Short’: Far-Left Activists Continue Demonstrations at Kavanaugh’s Home  And, despite the law, D.C. law enforcement continues to fail to act.

Fox News’ defense in defamation suit invokes debunked election-fraud claims (NPR) Debunked!

Pennsylvania Republicans Quietly Plot Their Revenge After 2022 Wipeout (Daily Beast)

George Santos’ lies are casting a harsh spotlight on a powerful Republican who endorsed and raised money for him (CNN) Apparently Santos is developing his own strain of cooties.

Man Who Propped Feet on Pelosi Desk Guilty in Jan. 6 Case

Aretha Franklin song ‘A Natural Woman’ blasted by transgender ‘activists’ (N.Y. Post)

In blocking an AP Black studies course, DeSantis tells us who he is (Washington Post) Or at least Jennifer Rubin thinks it does, which is not the same thing. (I guess she’s taking a break from hating on Trump.)

UK Civilian Arrested For Praying Outside Abortion Clinic…AGAIN

What the ‘Weaponization’ Committee Is Really After (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue their Republican-bashing ways.

Utah doctor charged with destroying COVID-19 vaccines, giving fake shots to children at their parents’ request (Fox)

Utah plastic surgeon sold fake COVID vaccine cards for $97,000: feds (N.Y. Post)

Novavax NVX-COV2373 triggers neutralization of Omicron sub-lineages (Nature)

New trial evaluates Omicron BA.1–adapted BNT162b2 vaccine in older adults (News-Medical.net)

WSJ Shreds Vaccine Makers, Biden Admin Over “Deceptive” Booster Campaign

Africa Is Starkly Unvaccinated, And Starkly Unvanquished By COVID  According to the Narrative, Africa ought to be piled high with corpses–which it is, of course, but not because of COVID.

FDA to Simplify COVID Vaccine Strategy

COSA Poll: Majority Want Fauci Investigated for Pandemic Mismanagement

Incoming WH Chief of Staff Jeff Zients Was Biden’s COVID Czar. Here’s How Many Americans Died on His Watch.

No. 2 Senate Democrat agrees Biden has lost ‘high ground’ in criticism over classified documents (CNN)

Eric Adams to house NYC migrants inside Brooklyn Cruise Terminal (N.Y. Post)

Mayor Adams pushes back against critics of his Brooklyn migrant housing plan (CBS)

A major border city is on the brink of collapse because of Biden’s immigration policies, local official says (Fox)

Want to understand Joe Biden and his family? Just watch ‘The Sopranos’ (Fox)

What Washington Can Learn From Mayors (TIME)

Real Joe Biden Goofs On ‘SNL’ Monologue That Aubrey Plaza Is More Popular Than He Is (Huffington P0st) A dog turd on the street is more popular than he is.

Gasoline demand in the U.S. has peaked. Drivers will benefit in the long run—but experience some short-term pain first (Fortune)

Biden’s Document Deluge and America Becoming a Banana Republic

Harris: Florida Republicans Are ‘Extremist So-Called Leaders’

Paul Craig Roberts: How Troublesome Presidents Are Disposed Of

“Migrant” Melee at New York Hotel

Lib Networks Reward Biden Ploy to Bury Absolutely Awful Border News

Former Special Agent In Charge Of The New York FBI Counterintelligence Division Charged With Violating U.S. Sanctions On Russia (DoJ)

Former top FBI official Charles McGonigal arrested over ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska (ABC)

Former Top F.B.I. Official in New York Charged in Money Laundering (N.Y. Times)

Plot Twist: Ex-FBI Agent Involved in Trump-Russia Probe Indicted For Violating Russia Sanctions

Trump, DeSantis Beat Biden In Hypothetical 2024 Matchup: Poll  A tree stump ought to be able to beat Biden.

Kamala Harris Omits ‘Right to Life’ Referencing Declaration of Independence, Swipes at DeSantis

Whoopi Claims Biden Declassified All the Documents in His House  And of course she knows all about it.

Report: Feds Mull Search of Other Biden-Owned Properties

‘Making a Mockery of the Military’: Senate to Vote on Green Activist Nominated for Energy Post in Defense Department

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I friend recently sold his company and asked me if there was a list out there of what he can now buy with his newfound money. Why isn’t a list of items you can consider now that you are rich? Nobody pats you on the back and says welcome to the rich club.

I have several friends now who had 7 and 8 figure exits so I decided to just ask them as well as look at my own spending since I had a little extra cash. They all seem to have a few ideas but no one had a really comprehensive list.

Have people whacked. I have a list….

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We live in a new age of enforced uniformity, prosecuted in the name of preserving “our democracy” and keeping “disinformation” and “far right lies” at bay. The Harvard intellectual historian James Hankins has aptly spoken of an “information oligarchy” that is committed to maintaining and enforcing its monopoly on the truth. In this surreal world of “democratic” uniformity, certain “truths” are beyond challenge or question. To challenge them with evidence, logic, and a more faithful regard for the truth is to risk being dismissed as an extremist or conspiracy theorist. The independent-minded, those who refuse to bow before what George Orwell so memorably called “smelly little orthodoxies,” are candidates to be cancelled and confined to the category of those beyond the pale. The Left has a preferred name for this: those who resist the pressure of intellectual conformity, of stifling political correctness, are “enemies of democracy.”

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Minnesota Democrats are pressing on offense since Governor Walz won reelection and they took charge of the legislature last month. “Let’s go crazy” seems to be their motto.

Last month five contributors signed off on an op-ed column to the Star Tribune supporting their push for menstrual equity. Two of the five are DFL legislators — Senator Steve Cwodzinski and Rep. Sandra Feist. They were joined by “menstrual educator” Carolyn Handke, National Council of Jewish Women Minnesota executive director Erica Solomon, and Hopkins High School Student Elif Ozturk.

They support passage of the Menstrual Equity Bill (HF44/SF50). According to the column: “This bill will require all Minnesota district and charter schools to provide free menstrual products in all bathrooms, grades four through 12, ensuring access for all students who menstruate.” Their column concluded on this appropriately insane note: “In 2023 we must show our commitment to our women, girls and all menstruators in Minnesota schools….” All menstruators are created equal, or something.

San Francisco Chronicle.

A New York consultant who reportedly published false news articles about political figures has created a website called the San Francisco Inquirer, which is designed as a local news site but appears to be an effort to pressure federal lawmakers into supporting the consultant’s client, a Bay Area-based tribe.

The website has so riled California lawmakers that it was recently the subject of a tense meeting in Washington, D.C., between the tribe’s chair and five members of Congress, according to audio of the meeting obtained by The Chronicle.

Apparently Democrats don’t like being treated the way they usually treat Republicans.

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New scans revealed unprecedented details about the internal structure of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The so-called Big Void inside the Pyramid is now measured at 40 meters in length. Its contents remain a profound mystery.

NPR.

Some watchers of the U.S. Supreme Court breathed a sigh of relief last month after most of the justices sounded skeptical during oral arguments about a once-fringe legal theory that could upend elections across the United States.

Still, many legal scholars and voting rights advocates remain on alert for a court ruling by this summer on what’s known as the “independent state legislature theory.” It claims that under the U.S. Constitution, state legislatures have the power to determine how federal elections are run, without any checks or balances from state constitutions or state courts.

Which is, literally, what the Constitution says. The reason this has Wokerati panties in a wedge is because it is through the courts that the manipulation of election rules (that have profited Democrats since 2020) has been accomplished.

Joel Kotkin.

For Americans, California once looked like the future. It was a state defined by risk-taking and utopian dreaming. Yet for most Californians today, the upward mobility so central to the state’s ethos is rapidly disappearing. For decades, California was the primary destination for both other Americans and for foreign immigrants. Now, this trend has gone into reverse, with people and companies leaving the state. Population growth, already slowing over the past decade, has turned negative for the first time in modern California’s history, largely due to the state’s shrinking middle and working classes and its loss of families.

California’s difficulties undermine the notion, so fashionable today, that with the right mixture of technology and utopian dreaming, societies can forge a future that is both green and widely prosperous. In reality, California now has America’s worst rates of cost-of-living-adjusted poverty and functional illiteracy, the worst housing affordability in the continental US and a devastating shortage of mid-skilled jobs. What’s more, in 2022, California suffered some of the lowest personal-income growth rates in the country, and its GDP grew at less than half the pace of its arch-rival, Texas.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

One of Stan Evans‘s many great quips was that it was fortunate Republican politicians were pro-life, since they spend so much time in the fetal position. The lack of fight in congressional Republicans was a source of endless frustration for Stan, and despite some indications the new House GOP majority may pick some worthy fights, in some areas they are already proving to be a colossal failure.