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Last Thursday, the Biden administration launched what its calling a Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council to help implement strategy for diversity, equity, and inclusion training across the federal government. While researching my book, So You’ve Been Sent to Diversity Training: Smiling Through the DEI Apocalypse, I was plagued by the question: what kind of person aspires to become a diversity czar?

Unfortunately, no czars would speak to me, perhaps suspecting I may not have their best interests in mind. Instead, I talked to workers from across the economy about their experiences with DEI training on the job. From our conversations, I drew up a taxonomy of the DEI consultant. If, like most Americans, you’ve been forced in the workplace to sit through a tedious haranguing on race and gender, it likely came from one of four types of detestable reject, now sitting on an Executive Council at the White House: the Masochists, the Parasites, the Saviors and the Born Losers.

Providing nice comfy government jobs for people who would otherwise starve in the streets.

Any resemblance to the sub-species that congregates in HR is probably not coincidental.

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Islamic law is very strict concerning sexual intercourse: it must not under any circumstances occur outside of marriage. Shi’ite Muslims, however, have devised an ingenious workaround: the “temporary marriage”. A man who is feeling sexually deprived simply pays an imam to perform a marriage between himself and a woman who agrees to the arrangement in return for a (small) cut of the fee. Afterwards, as soon as his caftan is covering his ankles again, he intones Talaq! Talaq! Talaq!, and the divorce is finalized.

Shi’ites in Sweden were recently discovered to be engaging extensively in such temporary marriages, and the Swedish authorities were shocked — shocked! — to learn that such an egregious exploitative practice was occurring in their beloved Folkhemmet.

The following report from the Swedish state broadcaster SVT discusses all this pimping for Allah. The general thrust, as it were, is: Don’t worry — the imams now have an action plan, and everything is under control.

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The Associated Press added an entry to its style guide directing journalists to put the term “crisis pregnancy center” in scare-quotes, and to use “anti-abortion center” instead, to convey that “the centers’ general aim is to prevent abortions.”

The AP added this entry between Nov. 20 and Nov. 27, 2022, according to The Daily Signal’s search of the Wayback Machine. The guide describes the centers as “set up to divert or discourage women from having abortions” and warns writers against “potentially misleading terms” like “pregnancy resource centers or pregnancy counseling centers.”

“If using the term anti-abortion center, explain later that these often are known as ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ (with quotation marks) and that their aim is to dissuade people from getting an abortion,” the style guide entry states.

Law barring people with domestic violence restraining orders from having guns is unconstitutional, court rules (CNN)

Pursuing economic growth will kill us all in the end (The Guardian)

Kathy Hochul wants to boost ‘atrocious’ tax credit for her Hollywood donors to $700M (N.Y. Post)

Progressive NYC Democrat Lincoln Restler thinks city should coax migrants to stay longer (N.Y Post)

What happens if the Supreme Court strikes down student loan forgiveness? Here are 3 predictions (CNBC)

Civil Rights Groups Take Aim at Oklahoma Bills to Ban Gender-Affirming Care

DC Metro Shooter Had Prior Assault Dismissed by Progressive DA

Democrat Bill Seeks to Make Minnesota ‘Trans Refuge’ State

Leftist Lunacy Means Being ‘Transgender’ Is More Important Than Being the ‘Right’ Gender

The Latest Hunter Biden Revelation Is a New Low (New York Magazine)

EU Institutions Raise Alarm Over False Asylum Claims

Friday Funny: Jane Fonda: “There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism”

Morning Joe: We Stand With Ilhan ‘All-About-The-Benjamins’ Omar!

Fla. Mom Pressing Charges Against Students who Beat her Kids on Bus

Exxon reports record profits, doubles down on fossil fuels (Salon)

Palm oil is actually not that bad (anymore) (Vox)

Carbon capture is here—it just isn’t evenly distributed (Ars Technica)

Aim for the Stomach (Mother Jones)

Energy experts share how the U.S. can reach Biden’s renewable energy goals (NPR)

‘Hypocritical’: environmental groups blocking union efforts, US workers say (The Guardian)

Americans’ Climate Migration Has Begun (The American Prospect)

Large glacier near Seattle has ‘completely disappeared,’ says researcher who has tracked it for years (CNN)

Fuel dealers, customers balk at clean heat proposal (WCAX)

The ocean twilight zone could store vast amounts of carbon captured from the atmosphere – but first we need an internet of deep ocean sensors to track the effects (The Conversation) With a plentiful contingent of highly-paid government bureaucrats to man the whole system.

U.S. Permian Basin oil production — and profits — have surged (Axios)

Environmental advocates push feds to investigate Texas’ enforcement of water quality (Texas Tribune)

Seawater split to produce green hydrogen with nearly 100% efficiency

Seawater electrolysis by adjusting the local reaction environment of a catalyst

The New Pause lengthens again: 101 months and counting …

Climate Envoy John Kerry Faces Congressional Investigation Over ‘Secret’ Dealings With China

Lying and Denying: Left Is Still Out to Take Away Your Gas Stove

BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear energy more safely

Biden’s Ending of the Covid Emergency Is a Public Health Disaster (The Nation)

Breakthrough Omicron BA.1/BA.2 infections in the triple-vaccinated linked to broad-based immunity (News-Medical)

Severe SARS-Cov2 pneumonia in vaccinated patients: a multicenter cohort study (Nature)

Researchers looking for long COVID symptoms find only 7

Growing Number Of Doctors Say They Won’t Get COVID-19 Booster Shots  The witch-hunt is losing its effectiveness.

‘The Scandal Would Be Enormous’: Pfizer Director Worried About Vax-Induced Menstrual Irregularities

Inside The Secret Government Meeting On COVID-19 Natural Immunity

Merck’s COVID Pill Linked to New Virus Mutations  Thanks a bunch.

New Book Reveals What a Trump Indictment Would Look Like (Daily Beast)

Looks like they are moving closer to bringing charges’: Reporter on grand jury (MSNBC)

Trump Insults Stormy Daniels in Predictably Desperate Rant on Grand Jury Proceedings (Daily Beast)

SE Cupp: America has pulled back the curtain on Trump’s political wizardry (CNN) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Former Trump Executive, Already Jailed, Could Face More Fraud Charges (N.Y. Times)

Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents (Reuters)

Trump campaign staff on 2020 election lies: ‘fan the flame’ (Associated Press)

Trump Org Pays $1.6 Million Fine for Tax Fraud Conviction (Daily Beast)

Trump Likened to Mob Boss John Gotti in Ex-Prosecutor’s New Book (N.Y. Times)

George Santos falsely listed ‘dumbfounded’ relative as campaign donor: report (N.Y. Post)

Calls for federal monitor to oversee Santos’ campaign funds (CBS)

Leaked Audio And Staff Dispute Show Chaos Inside George Santos’ Office (Talking Points Memo)

Tucker Carlson Ignores Virtually Every George Santos Lie to Say the Media Covers Him for Lying About Playing Volleyball (MEDIAite) Smearing two Republicans with one headline! Win-win!

George Santos Produced Broadway’s Ill-Fated Spider-Man Musical. At Least, He Claims He Did (Bloomberg)

Randi Weingarten lambasts DeSantis over AP African-American Studies course ban: ‘Stop the race baiting’ (Fox)

Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t done challenging the story of America (Washington Post) Ever notice how black women don’t seem to like the hair they were born with?

Republican New Jersey Councilwoman Killed by Gunman

Republican Councilwoman Shot Dead Outside NJ Residence

AOC Rips GOP Over Rep. Omar’s Committee Ouster, Calls It Racist  Of course she does.

Senate Panel Warns Ticketmaster About Potential Fraud With Beyoncé Tickets  Just from the picture, you’d never think she was ‘black’.

MSNBC’s Johnson: Republicans Like Seeing Black Americans Murdered

Don Lemon ‘screamed’ at ‘CNN This Morning’ co-host, left crew ‘rattled’: sources (N.Y. Post) Halfricans are very high-strung.

How the Left Still Managed to Racialize Tyre Nichols’ Death

Race Everywhere in Today’s America  (Victor Davis Hanson)

William Barr shifts from defending Trump’s actions to defending his own (Washington Post)

‘Bill Barr’s Sin’: Trump AG’s abuse of power defense shredded by Mueller vet (MSNBC)

Patrons of NYC gay bar incapacitated and robbed of thousands via facial recognition on their phones (MSNBC) This is why I don’t use a phone with facial recognition.

Three Men Incapacitated and Robbed After Visiting New York Gay Bar, Police Say (NBC)

‘She should blame herself’: Newsom responds to Fresno County DA’s comments over slain Selma officer (KCRA)

Newsom can’t see that California’s soft-on-crime laws are deadly (Washington Examiner)

Reporters face jail for interviewing Christian who left LGBT lifestyle, warn of assault on free speech (Fox)

Big tobacco is lighting the law on fire to peddle addiction (The Hill)

Univision Shamelessly Airs Anti-DeSantis Propaganda

The GOP Can’t Remember Why It Took the Debt Ceiling Hostage (New York Magazine)

Anti-Semitic MSNBC Claims Israel Turned West Bank Into An Apartheid

NHL’s commitment to diversity, inclusion under microscope again at All-Star game

On PBS, Amanpour In Sync With Radical Palestinian on ‘Fascist’ Israel Government

Do They Not Know He’ll Betray Them? (The Atlantic) David Frum continues the witch-hunt.

DeSantis Faces CNN Smears of Racism in Education

The Powerful Lobbyist Behind Kevin McCarthy (N.Y. Times) Hmmm … no mention of George Soros here….

Republicans rally around conservatives who lost their elections (Washington Post)

The State Where the GOP Would Rather Lose Than Change (Politico)

Matt Gaetz wants to make poor Americans work for their health care (Semafor) The Horror! (Semafor is the newest Narrative Media barking seal.)

Sinema Faces Ethics Complaint Over Use of Staff

CNN Invites AOC To Accuse Republicans Of ‘Stochastic Terrorism’

GOP Rep. Clyde hands out assault-rifle lapel pins to House colleagues (Washington Post) The Horror! (They are not, of course, ‘assault rifle’ pins.)

Freeform’s Racist, Woke Sitcom ‘Grown-ish’: ‘Straight People are a Disease’

Republicans like DeSantis and Boebert are pushing guns — and banning books (MSNBC)

American College of Physicians ‘Committed’ to Fight So-Called Health ‘Disinformation’ Online

Joy Behar CONFRONTS Sunny Hostin for Defending Ilhan Omar’s Antisemitism

City opens temporary shelter for asylum seekers in Woodlawn despite effort to block bus moving them (Chicago Sun-Times)

Migrants move into vacant Chicago school despite local concerns (CBS)

Republicans introduce second impeachment article for Mayorkas (The Hill)

DHS Will Allow Border Agents To Testify On Border Crisis After Subpoena Threats

Joe Biden’s new squad (Politico)

Comer Probing Kerry’s Role as Climate Envoy, Negotiations With China

Planned New FBI HQ Is Twice the Size of the Pentagon

Republicans Go After Biden Sanction Waivers That Allow Iran and Russia To Build Nuclear Infrastructure

Hunter Biden: More Depraved Than You Knew

Biden’s Afghan Weapons in Hands of Terror Group That Plotted U.S. Attacks  Thank you, Joe Biden.

Nearly 600,000 migrants who crossed the border since March 2021 were released in the U.S. with no immigration court dates (NBC)

Nearly 600,000 Migrants Released Into US Without Court Date

Biden Admin Releases ‘High-Value’ Al Qaeda Terrorist From Gitmo

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 28)

Watch: Biden Says “More Than Half The Women In My Administration Are Women”  Good to know.

New Student Loan Rule To Cost $361 Billion; Study Shows Debt Forgiveness Benefits The Wealthy  Biden’s natural constituency.

The ever-shifting excuses about Hunter Biden’s laptop

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Many commenters on the Left have situated the arrest of Tyre Nichols—the black man who was evidently beaten to death by five Memphis police officers, also black—as a racial issue. White supremacy, they say, does not require the presence of white people to effect its ugliness, because black people—especially those working in a structurally racist institution such as policing—internalize the racist attitudes of whites. There is, according to these pundits, a close parallel between the Nichols case and other abuse cases involving white cops and black victims, because many blacks absorb racist views about blacks and enact them against their own race as enforcers of white supremacy.

It makes more sense to interpret the beatings that resulted in this young man’s death as another case of black-on-black crime. Those five black police officers constituted a gang of thugs which unleashed its viciousness against an innocent victim. This is the trauma many blacks in inner cities suffer every day from the gang members who prey on their neighborhoods.

Blacks targeting other blacks for murder is the most systemic form of racial profiling that exists in the U.S. today. Black-on-black crime is a national security disaster and risk. It betrays a deep current of black self-hatred that expresses itself in homicidal rage turned largely against black people.

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Isn’t science wonderful?

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Whilst social media promises us unrestricted access to an individual’s innermost thoughts and whims, the culture in which it operates is diametrically opposed to freedom of expression. Despite rare victories, such as the Elon Musk exposé of Twitter censorship (“Elon Musk reveals motivation for Twitter Files, says ‘almost every conspiracy theory’ about the social network is true”), the range of ‘acceptable speech’ is only moving in one direction: less.

Free speech is in a dark place right now—with the punishment for those foolish enough to believe in such an antiquated concept becoming quite extreme. Try being Tonje Gjevjon, threatened with a three-year jail term for the crime of saying ‘Men cannot be lesbians.’ How about Darren Brady, an army veteran arrested for ‘sharing an anti-woke meme’? Or my personal favourite: the UK Constabulary, which allows male rapists to record their gender as female, and then threatens female inmates with should they ‘misgender’ their unwelcome cellmates.

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My house in England is in what is called a church close, that is, a street built around a church. There has been a church there for hundreds of years, but the present building was heavily restored by the Victorians (it would have fallen down otherwise). But it still has a leper squint, a narrow vertical opening in the wall through which lepers could watch church services. Nowadays, we have neither lepers nor church services.

Residents’ parking spaces are at a premium around the close. As many readers will probably know, the matter of parking spaces can arouse deep and furious emotion, none stronger in fact. People have been murdered over parking disputes, and only yesterday (as I write this), The Daily Telegraph had an article about the case of a man who attacked and damaged a car that was parked in his designated parking space, despite the fact that he had no car, did not drive, and had not used the parking space for twelve years. The infringement of his rights was purely symbolic, but whole wars have been fought over trivia.

Steve Sailer.

The success of the OpenAI verbiage engine has depended in large part on the politically correct humans keeping the racist robots under their thumb. That let’s analysts reverse engineer the human thumb on the scale.

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Oregon’s new governor, Tina Kotek, has made housing her top priority and has proposed a number of unrealistic and idiotic remedies to high housing costs and homelessness. For one, she wants spend $54 million to house 1,200 people for one year. That’s $4,000 a month per person. Of course, a lot of that is probably going to go into various housing bureaucracies.

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In ritzy Dana Point, CA an emergency room doctor was riding his bicycle on Pacific Coast Highway. He was stopped at a red light in the bike lane when the driver of a Lexus hit him at high speed, sending the doctor flying perhaps 40 feet through the air. The PoC driver then did a u-turn, got out, yelled about “white privilege,” and attacked the prostrate white doctor with a knife and a BB gun. Brave onlookers apprehended the maniac, but the poor doctor died in his own emergency room.

David Horowitz.

The stench of fascism and betrayal is suffocating our democracy, but nobody wants to talk about it. We sanitize our language so that classified documents strewn over unsecured garages and centers of Chinese influence are talked about as though it’s a matter of carelessness and not design. The indisputable brute fact is this: our commander-in-chief and his family have made themselves wealthy by taking bribes from foreign powers, chief among them our mortal enemy Communist China. Nobody seems to be asking, but how exactly were the inexplicable decisions to turn Afghanistan over to China and the Taliban made, and what American interest was served by this?

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On Monday night a culture-enricher went on a stabbing rampage at a Metro station in Brussels. (Jihad Watch has a useful report on the incident.)

During his attack the unfortunate youth is alleged by some witnesses to have cried “Allahu Akhbar”, which is Arabic for “I am known to the police and the medical profession as having a history of mental health issues.”

There has been no official announcement of the perpetrator’s name, but based on various media reports, his name is “Anwar H.”, so the attack evidently has a Mohammed Coefficient of 0%.

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

Biden needs ‘firewall’ between him and Hunter Biden’s legal defense, former White House ethics chief says (Fox)

Hunter Biden’s China business ties in spotlight at hearing next week (Nikkei Asia)

NYC hotel standoff continues after migrants’ representatives agree to tour ‘relief center’ (Gothamist)

Migrants rounded up outside NYC hotel (Fox)

Border Patrol applicants say aggressive, humiliating polygraphs blocked them from joining understaffed agency (Fox)

Hunter Biden asks for criminal probe into Trump allies for ‘theft’ of data from laptop (NBC)

Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in newly aggressive strategy, target his critics (Washington Post)

Hunter Biden finally admits infamous laptop is his as he pleads for criminal probe (N.Y. Post

Biden Admin Floats New Strategy To ‘Address the Climate Crisis’: Don’t Leave Your House  I’m in.

Spin Cycle: KJP Receives Assist in Building Brick Walls from WH Counsel Spokesman

US Catholic Bishops Contradict Biden’s Claims About Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

Taxpayer-Funded VOA Reporter Claims to KJP Droves Are Asking If America’s ‘A Racist Society’

Georgia Voters Show Just How Wrong Joe Biden and His Sycophants Are

Friends in High Places: Hunter Biden Pressures Delaware AG to Investigate Computer Store Owner

Inside George Santos’ transformation from Anthony Devolder into a political figure (CNN)

George Santos’ Brazil Lawyer Did Time for Gang Execution: Report (Daily Beast)

George Santos: We’ve been secretly recorded

Report: FBI Investigating Santos Fundraiser for Veteran’s Sick Dog

Lightfoot, Green blast Wilson for ‘rabbits’ remark at forum — but Wilson stands by his take on suspects (Chicago Sun-Times)

Dancing Lori Lightfoot ‘would make Nero jealous,’ alderman says amid Chicago crime crisis (Fox)

Wall Street’s Most Connected Black Woman Has An Ingenious Idea To Narrow The Wealth Gap (Forbes) First, explain why that’s necessarily a good thing.

America is already more diverse than you may realize (Washington Post)

Viewers blast controversial Hulu special ‘1619 Project’: ‘Fan fiction history’ (Fox)

California District Accused of ‘Segregation’ in Teacher Program

Colbert Kicks Off Black History Month By Lamenting CRT Bans  They ought to be honest and call it Black Privilege Month.

New Jersey Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour shot dead outside home in ‘despicable criminal act’ (Fox)

New Jersey Councilwoman Is Fatally Shot, Officials Say (N.Y. Times)

Is Tyre Nichols the Ron Goldman of Memphis?

Tyre Nichols’ Rumored Connection to Cop’s Ex-Wife Under Investigation (Newsweek)

CNN Claims ‘White Supremacy’ Is Why DeSantis Opposes AP Class

Hey! Where’d All the Browns Go?

An Important Bit of Black History  “Most people are unaware that the first 21 black US Congressmen and the first 3 black US Senators, were all, entirely, Republicans.”

‘Squad’ Member Rashida Tlaib Breaks Down in Tears as Republicans Vote To Demote Ilhan Omar  What goes around, comes around.

Ilhan Omar gets a taste of the Democrats’ own medicine

Report: Dem Maxine Waters Funnels Tens of Thousands in Campaign Funds to Daughter’s Business  What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

Report: AOC Funnels Campaign Cash to Chinese Foreign Agent

Woman Charged With Stealing $1.5 Million In Chicken Wings From Chicago Suburb School District  Well, you know, sometimes you just gotta have some wings….

The GOP Attack on Ilhan Omar Trivializes Antisemitism (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait employs handwavium to divert attention from one of the most corrupt haters in Congress.

A Short Guide to MAGA “Conservatism” (The Bulwark) The scare quotes around ‘conservatism’ tag this as a Kristol Krew hit piece (as if Charlie Sykes would write anything else….).

MSNBC: Election Integrity Based on Election Lies, GOP Needs Exorcism

The Cold Calculus Behind the Shrinking GOP Presidential Field (Politico) Cold!

Lawsuit can proceed against Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse (Associated Press)

Inside the GOP’s “Save the kids” strategy (Axios) More mind-reading from Narrative Media NPCs.

How Rod Dreher Caused an International Scandal in Eastern Europe (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue their witch-hunt against figures on the right.

The View Denounces Pledge of Allegiance, American Exceptionalism

Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin’ Donuts

Leftist Anti-Trump ‘Doonesbury’ Cartoonist Finally Takes on a Biden—But Only Very Gently

Tennessee Population Grows As Residents Leave More Liberal States

NBC Bemoans Removal of Racial & Sexual Content from Florida AP Course

EU Corruption Scandal: Socialist MEP Lived “Lifestyle Of A Movie Star”  Isn’t that what socialism is all about? The Cloud People live in luxury and the Dirt People live in squalor?

Tax-Funded Fuss: Christiane Amanpour and ‘V’ Curse ‘The Patriarchy,’ See Hope in Abortion

Inclusive or Alienating? The Language Wars Go On (N.Y. Times)

Congress is off to a spectacularly slow start, and members fear it won’t get better (NBC) I’m good with that.

Congress Boots Anti-Semitic Democrat Ilhan Omar From Foreign Affairs Committee

Indiana May Allow Non-Legal Residents to Get In-State Tuition

Efforts Renewed to Regulate Gas Stoves

Report: Harvard Cans School’s Media ‘Misinformation’ Expert

Nearly Half Of Chicago Public School Students Chronically Absent In 2022

86 House Dems Vote Against Resolution Condemning ‘Horrors of Socialism’

Gun Accounts Turn to Rumble as YouTube Takes Aim at Firearm Content

Princeton Ban On Cheating ‘Unfairly Targets’ Minorities, According To Student Op-Ed

‘Greenwashing’ is a good thing, according to one renewable energy tycoon (CNBC)

What is greenhushing? How to spot the sophisticated greenwashing tactics being used in 2023 (EuroNews)

Jordan Peterson’s ‘zombie’ climate contrarianism follows a well-worn path (The Guardian) As does The Guardian’s pushing the Narrative.

Cow Burps Have a Big Climate Impact. Solving That is Harder than You’d Think (TIME)

House Republicans blast environmental rules in first Energy meeting (The Hill)

US Emissions of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Are 56 Percent Higher Than EPA Estimates, a New Study Shows (Inside Climate News)

Oil giant Shell accused of ‘greenwashing’ and misleading investors (Washington Post)

Artificial light harms our bodies and souls. It doesn’t have to be this way. (Washington Post) Yeah,  we can freeze in the dark.

Light Pollution Is Dimming Our View of the Sky, and It’s Getting Worse (‘Scientific’ American)

Is this the beginning of the end for Big Oil’s windfall? (CNN)

Pete Buttigieg: EV incentives needed or ‘warming happens just a little quicker and a few more people die’ (Fox)

Atlanta shooting part of alarming US crackdown on environmental defenders (The Guardian)

Drive to protect world’s wetlands gains momentum (UNEP) Nothing says diversity like a swamp.

The healing of the ozone layer gives hope, but addressing climate change will be harder (L.A. Times)

India Set To Crank Up Coal Power To Meet Soaring Demand

The gas industry is under fire. It’s hiring Democratic politicians to help. (Washington Post) And they don’t come cheap.

Gas Stoves Are Back Under Scrutiny With New US Limits Proposed (Bloomberg)

Those Attacks on Gas Stoves Aren’t Really about Health

Heartland Institute Ships ‘Climate at a Glance’ Book to Thousands of Teachers Across America

Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it’s built.

FDA axes requirement for positive Covid test before Paxlovid use

WHO tries to broker new pandemic deal, calls COVID response ‘catastrophic failure’ (Fox)

5 COVID mistakes Biden’s new chief of staff must admit (Fox)

Consider COVID vaccines and myocarditis

Ending COVID-19 Emergency Raises Questions About Biden Power Grabs

CDC Aware Of Reports Of ‘Debilitating Illnesses’ After COVID-19 Vaccination: Official

Pfizer CEO Made ‘Misleading’ Statements On Vaccinating Children Against COVID-19: UK Watchdog

Massive Peer-Reviewed Mask Study Shows ‘Little To No Difference’ In Preventing COVID, Flu Infection

UN Initiative Targets And Doxxes Doctors And Nurses Who Don’t Follow COVID-19 Narrative

Anthony Fauci Symbolizes ‘Weaponization of Loneliness,’ Former CIA Analyst Says

Why Is There A COVID Vaccine Mandate For Students?

MSNBC Anchor Hospitalized With Severe Myocarditis, Pericarditis

Fauci Chose Dogma over Science

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

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There’s a consultant-driven playbook for candidates: Ditch the khakis for jeans, roll up your sleeves, and start talking like your constituents. Missouri Democrat Lucas Kunce, who recently announced a Senate bid, may have taken that last piece of advice a little too far.

Since launching his campaign on Jan. 6, Kunce speaks with a soft Southern drawl. The accent was on full display in his campaign launch video, with one scene featuring a meditative Kunce sitting on a porch ripping Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) for his “banker daddy.”

That campaign ad was followed up by appearances on MSNBC where Kunce, sitting in front of his collection of vintage Magic: The Gathering trading cards, he said “Missourians don’t tolerate cowards and frauds.” Listeners familiar with Kunce, who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate last cycle, will observe that he sounds notably different from his time as a staffer for the left-wing American Economic Liberties Project just two years ago.

Arizona’s elections chief seeks investigation into Kari Lake tweet (MSNBC)

Recent tweet could mean felony charge for Kari Lake (NBC)

‘It can be scary’: how corporate America is hitting back against unions (The Guardian) The Guardian, of course, loves unions.

‘We will figure out how to fire you’: Report shows how major corporations are fighting unionization (AlterNet)

DeSantis wants to dismantle diversity programs at Fla. colleges, target tenure (Washington Post)

DeSantis proposes banning diversity and inclusion initiatives at Florida universities (CNN)

The Junkification of Amazon (N.Y. Magazine)

Chief Justice Roberts’ Wife Is Latest Supreme Court Spouse To Spark Ethics Concerns (Forbes) Among the Woke.

Kanye’s ‘Campaign’ Has Been More of a Disaster Than We Knew (Daily Beast)

DeSantis Evades Verbal Spat With Trump, Instead Touts Florida’s Success

Top Jan. 6 investigator says FBI, other agencies could have done more to repel Capitol mob had they acted on intel (NBC)

The House GOP’s sham hearings are fizzling before they even begin (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

NY Post Editorial Board Calls George Soros ‘The Most Dangerous Man in America’  More dangerous than Joe Biden? Hmmm.

DeSantis largely ignores Trump barbs amid attacks (The Hill) More mind-reading from the Narrative Media.

GOP senators rally to defend DeSantis from Trump attacks (The Hill) Continuing the Narrative Media effort to pick a fight between Trump and DeSantis.

The Gop Is Just Obnoxious (The Atlantic) David Frum loses his shit.

Unhinged CNN Attacks DeSantis’s ‘White Nationalist Agenda’

‘God Supports’ Abortion? Planned Parenthood Vermont Erases ‘Women,’ Blasts ‘White Women’

Fireworks in House after Democrat says ‘insurrectionists’ should be banned from leading Pledge of Allegiance (NBC)

Without Evusheld, Immunocompromised People Are on Their Own Against COVID-19 (TIME)

Alberta shelves preventative COVID-19 therapy, Evusheld, as resistant variants take hold (CBC)

How the pandemic changed the rules of personal finance (NPR)

Valley fever could be spreading across the U.S. Here are the symptoms and what you need to know (Fortune)

Stock Up on Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests While You Can (TIME)

House ignores White House objections, votes to end COVID health emergency (Fox)

Pfizer and Moderna Quadrupling Price of COVID Vaccine Raises Concerns (Newsweek)

House Votes to End Covid Precautions as G.O.P. Uses Pandemic in Political Attacks (N.Y. Times)

Ivermectin: Could Population-Wide Distribution Have Prevented China’s Recent Mass COVID Outbreak?

What Happens When the COVID-19 Emergency Ends  The recriminations begin.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams pleads with White House for more help on migrant crisis (Fox)

Migrants refuse to leave Hell’s Kitchen hotel (Fox)

White House calls Exxon record profit ‘outrageous’ (BBC)

EPA stops Alaska’s Pebble mine with rarely used power (Alaska Public Media)

Following criticism, FDA proposes redesign of its human food program (CNN)

World’s tallest Holiday Inn could earn $93K daily to house NYC migrants (N.Y. Post)

US dairy policies drive small farms to ‘get big or get out’ as monopolies get rich (The Guardian)

Veterans in Texas, Wisconsin sue Biden administration over new gun restrictions (The Hill)

McConnell mocks Biden judicial nominee for flubbing basic legal questions (The Hill)

NBC Shock Report: Feds Could’ve Stopped Jan. 6 Riots From Happening

Biden Promotes EV Hummer That Pollutes More Than Gas-Powered Sedan

Meet the Liberal Climate Scientist Biden Tapped to Serve on His Intelligence Advisory Board

Stefanik: Subpoenas Could Expose DOJ’s Targeting of Parents

Democrats Quietly Panic Over Kamala Harris’ 2024 Ambitions

Just Make it Up: Job Openings Unexpectedly Soar As Labor Department Now Guessing What The Number Is

As Refugees Flood Into US, Chinese Christians Told to Wait

CNN To Consult With Biden On Getting Away With Completely Fabricated Stories (Babylon Bee)

Trump Moving to Mar-a-Lago May Have Given Prosecutors an Opening (Newsweek)

Donald Trump’s 2024 Chances Slashed by Bookmaker After South Carolina Rally (Newsweek) SCRAAAAAPE that barrel….

Press: New year, new campaign, same old Trump (The Hill)

Trump big money machine prepares for battle with DeSantis, other rivals (Politico)

Prestigious Liberal Watchdog Condemns New York Times’ Russiagate Coverage

N.Y. AG Calls for New Sanctions Against Donald Trump

Trump pleaded the fifth more than 400 times in fraud deposition, video shows (The GuardianO Which he is allowed to do, in a witch-hunt.

Election officials ready themselves for the next wave of Trump followers (Politico) Getting ready to steal another one.

Michigan Republicans are in turmoil as their leaders navigate tricky Trump terrain (NBC)

Cohen says DA took phones for renewed Trump hush-money probe (Associated Press)

‘SNL’ cold opens satirize Trump more than Biden despite being out of office for two years

What is the point of another Trump campaign?

Are Republicans Ready to Move On from Donald Trump? (The New Yorker)

Trump’s Attacks on Early Voting Worry Some in GOP Over Turnout (Bloomberg)

Early poll: DeSantis beating Trump among Alabama Republicans  SCRAAAAAPE that barrel….

Investor group bans carbon removal from CO2 reduction plans (Reuters)

Scientists Discover a New Cause of Melting Antarctic Ice Shelves (SciTech Daily)

Climate protesters who squashed cake into King Charles waxwork told to pay damages (The Guardian)

This Experiment Could Help Restore Eroding Coastlines (Mother Jones)

“The Deluge” is a climate nightmare — and it’s based on reality (Salon)

With carbon capture on an industrial scale, Norway plans for a greener future (Microsoft)

Norway Is Planning to Profit From Climate Change (Foreign Policy)

CNN climate correspondent touts study predicting global ‘doom’ and ‘death sentence’ for island nations (Fox)

Net-zero aviation needs up to $1 trillion in carbon offsets by 2050 (New Scientist)

We can’t afford to offset our aviation emissions (The Verge)

Nuclear Fusion Isn’t the Silver Bullet We Want It to Be

A dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected (CNN)

The Inconvenient Truth About Solyndra

If wishes were horses, we’d all get ponies for Christmas: Geothermal Edition

Biden Admin Greenlights Alaska Oil Drilling Project

George Santos Relative Says They Never Gave $5,800 Reported by the Campaign: “I’m Dumbfounded” (Mother Jones)

George Santos’ campaign spent more than $26,000 at an Italian restaurant in Queens. That’s enough to buy 1,131 orders of the rigatoni bolognese. (Business Insider)

George Santos takes dig at ‘career pathological liar’ Biden in new interview apology: ‘I’ve learned my lesson’ (MSN)

He lost to George Santos. Now he’s trying to make up for it. (Yahoo News)

Promised green cards, catfishing, threats: How George Santos’ ex-boyfriends say they were left feeling trapped, manipulated (ABC)

George Santos Mocked for Old Karaoke Recordings of Disney, Leonard Cohen (Newsweek)

George Santos loses his cool with OAN reporter after being questioned about the sincerity of his apology for campaign lies (Business Insider)

Rep. George Santos dismisses poll showing 78% of constituents want him to resign (MSNBC)

George Santos’s Treasurer Has Resigned. So Who’s Handling the Money? (N.Y. Times)

Rep. George Santos steps aside from committee assignments amid investigations (NBC)

A letter from George Santos: ‘I am recusing myself from committees. Also, I am Batman.’ (Indianapolis Star)

Feds probing Santos’ role in service dog charity scheme (Politico)

Appellate Court Ruling Leaves Illinois Assault Weapons Ban on Hold (NBC)

‘Anti-religious bigotry’: Nebraska Dem’s amdt. would ban kids from vacation Bible schools, church youth groups (Fox)

New York university system to require social justice, DEI course for all undergrad students (Fox)

SUNY makes new racial equity class mandatory for graduation at all schools (N.Y. Post)

Estimating illegal immigration’s cost to public education (The Hill)

Gov. Gavin Newsom to announce new gun control efforts in Sacramento (KCRA)

Exposing Radical Florida Lawmaker’s Attempted Hijacking of Parental Rights

The Threat of Woke Corporations and the Response of the Red States

Chicago Crime Rises 61% In 2023, Violent Offenses Spike While Governor Insists Crime “Coming Down”

European Leaders Ponder Pro-Censorship Policies to Police So-Called Disinfo, Misinfo Online

PBS Lobbies for Blood Donation by Gay Men as an ‘Equal Rights’ Issue

Nine Republican-led states ask judge to block DACA program (CNN)

Trans Criminals Who Raped Women Are Women, Says Scottish Leader

Jane Austen Novel Gets Trigger Warning for ‘Gender Stereotyping’

‘Go on offense’: Inside Democrats’ strategy to try to undercut GOP investigations and protect Biden (CNN)

EXCLUSIVE: Medical Group Pokes Holes in ‘Fatally Flawed’ Study Claiming to Prove Kids Benefit From Transgender Hormones

New Wealth Tax Could Be California’s Nuttiest Idea Yet

“Objectivity Has Got To Go”: News Leaders Call For End Of Objective Journalism

Rep. Chip Roy Pushes to Remove Military Diversity Officer Posts

CBS Treats College Board With Kid Gloves Over Woke AP Course, Ducks DeSantis Scoring K.O.

Satanic Temple Opens ‘Religious’ Abortion Facility In Honor of Samuel Alito’s Mom

White Privilege Virtue-Signaling Scarborough: I Wouldn’t Have Been Beaten Like Tyre

Federal judge blocks New Jersey law that allows state to sue gun industry (Politico)

Meet the Dark Money Group Helping Democrats Undermine Republican Investigations

The Emancipation Proclamation sparked fierce resistance. That matters today. (Washington Post)

Disney’s insane embrace of toxic ‘1619’ lies (N.Y. Post)

Tyre Nichols and the new black-cop white supremacy

America’s Most Racist Poet is Taught in Colleges Across America

When Black Police Officers Kill a Black Man, That’s White Supremacy

The View Kicks Off Black History Month By Spewing Poisonous Racism

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You’re probably familiar with the four main blood types—A, B, O, and AB. But this isn’t the only blood classification system. There are many ways of grouping red blood cells based on differences in the sugars or proteins that coat their surface, known as antigens. The grouping systems run concurrently, so your blood can be classified in each—it might, for instance, be type O in the ABO system, positive (rather than negative) under the Rhesus system, and so on.

Thanks to differences in antigens, if someone receives incompatible blood from a donor, for example, the recipient’s immune system may detect those antigens as foreign and react against them. This can be highly dangerous, and is why donated blood needs to be a suitable match if someone is having a transfusion.

On average, one new blood classification system has been described by researchers each year during the past decade. These newer systems tend to involve blood types that are mind-bogglingly rare but, for those touched by them, just knowing that they have such blood could be lifesaving. This is the story of how scientists unraveled the mystery of the latest blood system—and why it matters.

Like most modern ‘journalism’, you have to wade through a tear-jerking anecdote before you get to the actual reporting.

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Thank you, minimum wage.

Thank you, Union label.

Thank you, National Labor Relations Board.

Thank you, Department of Labor.

Thank you, Democrat Party.

We couldn’t have done it without you.

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A team of researchers has successfully converted methane into methanol using light and scattered transition metals such as copper in a process known as photo-oxidation. The reaction was the best achieved to date for converting methane gas into liquid fuel at ambient temperature and pressure (25 °C and 1 bar, respectively), according to a study published in the journal Chemical Communications.

The term bar as a pressure unit comes from the Greek word meaning weight (baros). One bar equals 100,000 Pascals (100 kPa), close to the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level (101,325 Pa).

The study’s findings are a crucial step toward making natural gas accessible as a source of energy for the production of alternative fuels to gasoline and diesel. Despite the fact that natural gas is a fossil fuel, its conversion into methanol produces less carbon dioxide (CO2) than other liquid fuels in the same category.

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Cartels are groups of organizations that collude with each other to drive up prices, crush competition, and ultimately extort huge amounts of money to redistribute to the cartel members. While the word is often associated with drugs, oil-producing countries, or anti-competitive business practices, politicians from nine blue states are attempting something new in the U.S.—a tax cartel.

State legislators from California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, and Washington announced a coordinated set of bills to hike taxes on wealthy individuals, families, and businesses. The purpose of coordinating is to try to keep these taxpayers in their respective states by making it seem like crushing taxes are inevitable wherever they move.

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Former president Donald Trump and the Republican Party are driven by “the exact same things that drove the [Ku Klux] Klan movement of the 1920s,” according to Wesley Lowery, the former Washington Post reporter best known for winning the Pulitzer Prize after being arrested at a McDonald’s restaurant during a riot in Ferguson, Mo., and spending several minutes in jail.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Minneapolis’s Star Tribune illustrates how the major daily newspaper of a metropolitan area can contribute to its decline. The owner of the newspaper has a high tolerance for mediocrity and the local news reads like public relations for Minnesota’s DFL. Today’s case in point is Briana Bierschbach’s page-one story on the new abortion law Democrats rammed through the legislature in record time: “Gov. Tim Walz signs law strengthening abortion rights in Minnesota.” Subhead: “It’s the first in a series of bills that Democrats say will help guarantee access to the procedure for decades to come.” This is today’s page one above the fold, just beneath the Star Tribune logo.

The text of Bierschbach’s story reminds me of Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration.” Here is how the song goes: “This is your celebration / Celebrate good times, come on / Let’s celebrate /Celebrate good times, come on / Let’s celebrate / There’s a party going on right here / A celebration to last throughout the years.” It’s the unmistakable subtext of Bierschbach’s story.

One problem with the story is its failure to explain what the bill actually accomplishes. Even readers who are inclined to agree, as most undoubtedly do, won’t get it.

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A controversial Islamic conference set to be held in the southeastern French town of Grenoble has been called off under the orders of municipal authorities, citing extremist links of planned speakers. As The European Conservative previously reported, the event was originally planned near the city of Avignon in November of last year before being cancelled due to security concerns and a public outcry around the Islamist links of organisers and statements by the two scheduled speakers.

Grenoble’s Mayor Renzo Sulli issued the decree to ban the gathering Saturday, describing both the speakers and organisers as having established links to both Salafist movements and the Muslim Brotherhood. In addition, the mayor voiced concerns over the risk of violence and substantial risk to public order. The event was set to occur at an undisclosed location to be revealed only on the day due to fear of violence or cancellation.

The originally planned conference drew negative attention due to the logo of the recently proscribed Salafist organisation Barakacity being featured on posters advertising the event.

ZMan looks at electric cars.

Recently, whoever owns the Dodge car brand announced that the brand would stop making sports cars in the near future. They will discontinue their line of muscle cars in favor of electric cars. Many other car makers have promised that they will soon cease making cars with internal combustion engines. Reminiscent of the Soviet five year plans, they are promising to be right with Gaia in five years. Like those five year plans this is unlikely to happen, barring societal collapse.

The main reason this will never happen is that electric cars are and always have been a stupid lie against practical reality. The stupidity lies in the fact that at the end of every green scheme lies a smokestack. There is no such thing as renewable energy so that leaves the only way we know to get usable energy, breaking atoms. The lie is that these new cars are better in some way. They are not. In fact, electric cars are inferior at all of the things that make normal cars useful.

This short post summarizes the more obvious problems with eclectic vehicles, but you could write a book on the topic. The cost of ownership is significantly higher to the user and even higher for society, if one thinks mountains of old batteries is a problem that society should mitigate against. Then there is the fact that they will forever be impractical for most people. The biggest problem is they will require trillions in infrastructure changes that will never happen.

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According to Bloomberg, work is underway to refloat the LNG carrier “Grace Emilia” after it ran aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal during a northbound transit.

Otto Jervell, managing director at shipping agency Leth Agencies, said Grace Emilia could be refloated within a few hours.

The LNG carrier entered the Suez Canal early Wednesday morning. There was no explanation for why the vessel ran aground in Little Bitter Lake.

Joel Kotkin.

We will soon be leaving the first quarter of the 21st century behind us. But in the minds of our transportation planners, the punditry, and some real estate interests, the way forward is actually to step back to the glories of the 19th century. At the state level, and most significantly in Washington, we are about to pour an unprecedented $20 billion more into transit, especially subways and other trains. This is folly: changing demographics and geography, as well as new technologies, suggest a very different future for how most of us get around. We are simply not going to become a nation of train travelers, and it would be pointless—not to say destructive—to try.

There’s nothing new here. Much of the national media, in chorus with urban political and economic leaders, have been pushing these train-focused approaches since the days of Jimmy Carter. The stated aim is usually to move Americans away from their supposedly evil and pernicious love of the private automobile. Americans drive not because they irrationally love cars—although some do—but because it is simply by far the best way to get around.

We know this because for the most part, train-heavy investments have reaped little in terms of riders and virtually no reduction in auto usage. Indeed, even before the pandemic, transit ridership, despite the creation of new lines, was sagging. Since then transit has continued and accelerated its decline. By the end of 2022, the transit market share had fallen 50%. Today, despite the end of the pandemic, that number has barely moved at all. It is into this fading market share that the current administration and much of the political class now wants to throw its money. This even includes a $6.7 billion one-mile extension of the Caltrain commuter rail service to San Francisco’s moribund downtown, which has been characterized as “among the world’s most expensive projects.”