NYT: Angry Black Woman Is Angry

CNN: “Ibram X. Kendi Says a Backlash Has ‘crushed’ the Nation’s Racial Reckoning.”

Knee to the Grindstone: How Colin Kaepernick Overcame a Privileged Upbringing and Found Success as a Professional Activist

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Japan’s decision to reignite its nuclear power industry is facing serious setbacks: 11 years of prohibition has led to a shortage of engineers, a lack of students training to fill vacant positions and a dearth of domestic nuclear manufacturing capability.

Something the U.S. and European defense establishments are discovering to their chagrin.

Vox.

For liberal politicians like Moore, Shapiro, and Biden, promoting policies to help the more than 70 million American workers who never graduated from college is rooted partly in politics, as Democrats have struggled recently to earn support from non-college-educated voters, especially men. After decades of prioritizing college attendance, the Democratic Party has been scrambling to figure out how to change the widespread perception that its leaders are out of touch with the struggles of average people.

Unfortunately, with the disintegration of the formerly-high-quality public education system in the U.S., business owners have learned (to their sorrow) that the need to insist on a college degree if they want to get employees who have at least what we used to think of as a high-school education. I remember when I was younger and went to some sort of local job fair where one company insisted that applicants had a four-year degree–it didn’t matter what the degree was in, just that you had a four-year degree.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

When you see something as facially absurd as San Francisco’s proposal to pay $5 million in reparations to every black person whether they were descendants of slaves or not, which is only a down payment since the proposal also calls for a guaranteed income of $97,000 per year thereafter, one question to ask is: What would Rush Limbaugh say about this? I think he’d say: conservatives should support San Francisco in this endeavor, and hope it spreads to every other liberal Democrat run city in the country.

The logic here is simple. Almost ten years ago, after Ta-Nehisi Coates floated reparartions at The Atlantic, I wrote here that if we are to consider reparations seriously, Democrats should be made to pay them.

The sooner the Blue states go broke and have all of their productive people go someplace else, the sooner they can be re-organized into something more sensible.

The time for cheap virtue signaling is over. It is long past time for Democrats to pay up, and San Francisco voters should learn a harsh lesson about what kind of government they keep voting for. As H.L. Mencken once said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Hear, hear.

Read it. And watch the video.

Robotics are helping make minimally invasive surgeries even less invasive. Case in point: single-port robotic surgery, a relatively new type of approach where a robotic system controlled by a human surgeon executes the procedure by making only one incision into the patient.

Although still relatively uncommon, single-port surgery has been gaining momentum in recent years. The benefits are noticeable. Compared to traditional surgery, single-port surgery might leave patients with shorter recovery times, less scarring, and overall better outcomes.

Amazing stuff. Knowledge advances, but comes with a price: All of this equipment is really really expensive.

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

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Germany and other European NATO members that agreed to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine are running into logistical problems. Germany finally relented and allowed NATO nations that had purchased Leopard 2 tanks from Germany to send them to Ukraine whereupon the real problems started. Most contributors found that their Leopard 2s needed remedial work because they never expected another recurrence of European military tension, let alone another war, and failed to complete, or never started, planned or recommend upgrades.

Delaying these upgrades seemed reasonable because the Americans were still an active NATO member and their M1 tanks were known to be up-to-date. There are still about 2,000 Leopard 2s in service with European nations. Unlike the Americans, the Europeans saw no need to complete needed upgrades to their tanks or even keep most of them operational. So the Ukrainians will have to wait until the Europeans get enough of their Leopard 2s operational or the Americans change their minds on how quickly they will deliver M-1s. There are already over 200 operational M-1s in Europe with American armored brigades. The Ukrainians don’t need American soldiers but they could use their M-1 tanks.

No, they couldn’t. Like the F-16s that everyone is talking about, it would take Ukranians about a year to get enough expertise with the M-1 to survive, much less prosper, in actual combat.

Watch it, but only if you want to be hungry afterward.

I am a big fan of KFC, and this appears to be a good way to do that at home. (I’m too lazy, so I prefer to buy it, but I’m sure there are foodies out there who would be willing to put in the work.)

The Guardian.

Never thought I’d see The Guardian have a good thing to say about ‘medieval days’.

Border crossings from Canada into New York, Vermont and N.H. are up tenfold. Local cops want help. (NBC News)

New York sheriff calls for more border patrol agents as crossings in Northeast rise tenfold over last year (The Hill)

Republican senators move to overturn Biden’s $400 billion student debt relief ‘gambit’ (N.Y. Post)

Senate GOP to target Biden student loan forgiveness (The Hill)

What’s at stake — by the numbers — as Supreme Court weighs student loan forgiveness (CNBC)

Biden administration quietly resumes deportations to Russia (The Guardian)

Biden Admin Official ‘Optimistic’ Child Sex-Change Procedures Will Soon Be Normalized

Military Recruitment Flatlines As American ‘Propensity To Serve’ Fades  Today’s American military has all the charm of a North Korean labor camp. Who would volunteer for that?

The prosecutor, the ex-president and the ‘zombie’ case that came back to life (Washington Post) Maybe if you beat a dead horse long enough….

ATF Gains Financial Information On Potential Gun Buyers For Warrantless Tracking, Documents Show

Costs of the U.S.-Led War in Iraq Since 2003

Here Are the Tech Companies, Liberal Media Outlets, and Prominent Democrats Saved by Biden’s Bank Bailout

What Did China Get for Its Money?

Navy secretary cited climate change as top priority as Biden proposes shrinking the fleet

Biden denies $1M in payments to family from Hunter associate, despite bank records: ‘Not true’

Manhattan DA’s office ‘asked for a meeting’ with law enforcement ahead of possible Trump indictment (Fox)

Manhattan district attorney looks into Trump alleged “hush money” payment (CBS) Which is not illegal, no matter how much hand-wringing the Usual Suspects may do.

Law enforcement preparing for possible Trump indictment next week (NBC) A blatantly political move intended to knock him out of the election.

The risks of indicting Trump in the N.Y. hush money case (MSNBC)

Alvin Bragg May Not Be As Close To Trump Indictment As Thought (Newsweek)

“I’m Back” – Trump Posts On Facebook For First Time Since 2021

Federal Judge Hands Over Trump’s Lawyer’s Notes to DOJ (Daily Beast) Such notes are in theory privileged, but I guess not if you’re the New Hitler.

Trump Says He’ll Be Arrested Tuesday as DA Eyes Charges (NewsMax)

Trump says ‘illegal leaks’ indicate he will be arrested Tuesday in N.Y. hush money probe (NBC)

Trump will surrender to face charges if indicted, defense lawyer says (CNBC)

Reaction Suggests Trump Arrest Will Make Him Stronger

Get ready for Manhattan DA’s made-for-TV Trump prosecution: high on ratings, but short on the law (The Hill) Jonathan Turley looks at possible trumped-up charges.

Manhattan DA Announces Plan To Get Trump Elected In 2024

‘Let’s make these folks famous’: the leftwing push to raise 18 Republicans’ profiles (The Guardian)

The election-fraud crew loves polls now (Washington Post) Philip Bump appears to be the go-to guy for pushing the Narrative in the WaPo.

Journalists Against Journalism: Reporter in Crime-Ridden Philadelphia Criticized for Reporting About City’s Crime Wave

Ohio becomes latest Republican state to leave a key voting data partnership (NPR)

Mike Flynn and MAGA Activists Wage War Against a Florida Hospital (Mother Jones)

These Republicans Want Drone Strikes on Mexico (Daily Beast) Count me in.

Weaponization of the legal system reaches a new level

Joy Reid’s Latest DeSantis Controversy: He ‘Is Short’

More on the persecution of the January 6th protestors

COVID-19 could become ‘just like flu’ says World Health Organization chief (EuroNews)

After 3 years, what COVID-19 pandemic lessons have Floridians learned for next time? (Tampa Bay Times) Don’t trust the government.

3 years later: COVID-19 pandemic (WBIR)

Older Americans reject more vaccines, opt instead for ‘natural healing,’ says report (Fox)

America Has Decided It Went Overboard on Covid-19 (N.Y. Times) Late to the party, as usual.

A Haunting Anniversary – ’15 Days To Slow The Spread’

‘You Can’t Handle the Truth’: The Twitter Files & ‘The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine’

COVID-19 Vaccines Can Cause ‘Permanent Disabilities,’ Says German Health Minister

The Atlantic’s raccoon dog Covid origin story fails to clear the first hurdle

As bird flu spreads in the US and worldwide, what’s the risk that it could start a human pandemic?  Don’t hang out with birds.

The Willow Project and the Race to Pump the “Last Barrel” of Oil (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

A Controversial Technology Is Creating an Unprecedented Rift Among Climate Scientists (TIME)

The real (and sometimes controversial) science behind Apple’s Extrapolations (The Verge)

Apple’s ‘Extrapolations’ shows how hard it is to make climate must-watch TV (Washington Post) Of course, to the Woke, anything having to do with ‘climate change’ is ‘must-watch TV’.

‘Extrapolations’ star-studded cast and creator talk urgency of climate change: ‘This is the biggest existential story of our time’ (AOL)

‘Climate Alarmism’ Is New Form of ‘Colonialism’ That Infringes on Sovereignty, Researcher Says   Let’s have the Wokerati fight each other.

Please Stop With The Raccoon Dogs

Colorado Shooting Victim’s Son Sues Gun Maker Ruger

Ad Slams Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Nominee for Releasing Child Rapist

LA Teachers Making Six Figures Would See Pay Hike Under Socialist-Backed ‘Green New Deal’

Lawmakers Aim to Purge ‘Zuckerbucks’ From Electoral Landscape

Michigan Is Becoming The Anti-Florida On LGBTQ Rights ? And A Lot More (Huffington Post) Which is why people are moving from Michigan to Florida, and not from Florida to Michigan.

As crucial legal test for Antifa ideology heads to trial, right-wing media also scrutinized (USA Today) We must not lose sight of who the real witches are.

Minnesota Is In the News–For Craziness

The Transgender Bite Is Louder Than its Bark

Maher Stumps Dem. Congresswoman With San Francisco’s Woke ‘Madness’

Trans Women: The Patriarchy’s Ultimate Victory

Florida textbook altered to remove references to Rosa Parks’s race: report (The Hill) Report! That proves it!

#Florida textbook doesn’t mention #RosaParks’ race (MSNBC) Well, since race doesn’t exist, why should it?

Publisher Deletes Race From Rosa Parks Story for Florida (Rolling Stone)

Textbook Cuts Race from Rosa Parks Story Amid ‘Anti-Woke’ Florida Push: NYT (Deaily Beast) So they’re all parroting something in the New York Times, that bastion of accuracy and dependability.

Can the surge of Black shopping directories actually help Black businesses? (The Guardian)

‘Stockholm Syndrome’? SVB, BLM and the Toxic Plague of Liberal White Guilt

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It gives new meaning to the phrase “trumped-up charges.”

Democrats, the left, NeverTrumpers on the right, and the MSM have had this as their goal for a long, long time. And they were going to get there if they had to turn the legal system into a pretzel and the US into a high-tech banana republic. Well, congratulations; mission nearly accomplished.

Foreign Affairs.

Over two decades, Americans have stubbornly refused to move on from Iraq. That is partly because the U.S. military is still fighting there and many other places besides. More profoundly, the country cannot “turn the page” without reading and comprehending it—without truly reckoning with the causes of the war. It may be painful to revisit what drove American leaders, on a bipartisan basis, to want to invade a country that had not attacked the United States and had no plans to do so, facts widely appreciated at the time. Yet without looking back, the country will not move forward with confidence and unity.

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If you’ve read this blog over the years you know that I’ve increasingly written about a general staleness in urbanist discourse. I’ve characterized it as seeing a need for new ideas in urbanism discourse, superstar cities becoming the victims of their own success, or the needs of interior cities being glossed over in favor of the coasts. They’re all valid. But it comes down to the fact that the urbanism of the 2000s and early 2010s, when the rise of cities gave so many urbanists hope that a new urban era was dawning, is not the urbanism we talk about anymore.

Recently I realized it wasn’t staleness at all that I was reacting to, but a subtle shift that eventually replaced all previous urban discourse. The affordable housing crisis has hijacked urbanism.

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Fascinating. I want to know what is the mechanical analog of Kirchhoff’s laws.

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The most recent exercise of this quest came in the form of filling up an unmodified MX-5 Miata with a synthetic fossil-free fuel, and testing it across a 1000-mile road trip. Throughout the trip, the MX-5 was also thrashed at various tracks to see how the fuel would deal with the abuse.
Simply put, the synthetic fuel operated much like normal gasoline would have, without the emission drawbacks of the latter.

Well, if you’re burning something for fuel, you will have emissions–the only question is what kind. The article, perhaps significantly, doesn’t say what kind of emissions this synthetic fuel produces, although they do confess that it’s made from agricultural waste and is composed of hydrocarbons. I suspect that this was just a setup to bash it in favor of the Holy Electric Vehicle, which occupies almost half of the article.

The Guardian.

A chunky grey staircase thrusts out from the side of a new office tower in Los Angeles, lunging towards a rail line before jerking back on itself and lurching up the building in jagged twists and turns. It crashes into a warped lattice of bands that wrap around the glassy hulk, swooping past corner windows that jut in and out like broken teeth. This is (W)rapper, “an outrageous creative office tower”, in the words of its leasing agents, set to “reawaken the Los Angeles skyline”. It is also the bombastic tombstone of a bygone era, a carbon-guzzling monument to a time when architectural ego trumped the interests of people and planet.

It is, of course, endemic to writers for proglodyte publications that they equate their preferences with ‘the interests of the people and planet’. That arrogance is their signature characteristic. Kind of like vegans.

Newsweek.

The question is, will people be working fewer hours? I am dubious. If the choice is between five days of eight hours versus four days of ten hours, a lot of salaried folk (who are now working fifty or sixty hours in in a nominal 40-hour week) will jump at it. It’s not clear how blue-collar workers (like policemen, firefighters, and factory workers) who depend on overtime to achieve a middle-class lifestyle will react.

“Arresting Trump makes him the GOP nominee. A rich guy willing to risk his freedom for his politics cannot be beaten in a primary.” — ZMan

If these clowns actually go through this this, it will blow up in their faces and they will regret it forevermore.

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Focus.

That’s the one thing that too many American institutions cannot do these days. Companies, government agencies, and professional groups neglect their basic duties.

Instead, they chase the shiny objects of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, and search relentlessly for racism under every rock. Yesterday’s managers have become today’s magpies.

What could go wrong?

Everything.

Stormy Daniels meeting adds new wrinkle to Trump’s hush money case (MSNBC)

Michael Cohen believes Trump indictment is imminent (CNN) And he’s always been right before!

Former NATO Chief: Trump Could Sabotage the War (Politico) Can’t have that!

Tom Nichols: We’ve had a ‘national shrug’ to Pence’s warnings about Trump (MSNBC) Gee, I wonder why.

Dozens Of Mar-a-Lago’s Staff Slapped With Subpoenas (Rolling Stone)

Feds’ Foreign-Corruption Double Standard: They Protected Bidens While Bearing Down On Trumpworld

‘Donald Trump Hates America!’ Joe Scarborough Disgusted by Trump Calling the US ‘Greatest Threat to Western Civilization Today’ (MEDIAite)

Trump-commissioned report undercut his claims of dead and double voters (Washington Post) Really?

New chief judge in Washington to oversee secret Trump proceedings (NBC)

This sleeper race could wreck MAGA’s 2024 dreams (Washington Post) Greg Sargent takes a break from backstopping Jennifer Rubin to push the Narrative.

Trump’s ultra-MAGA crew needs a reality check 

Two gifts to Trump family from foreign nations are missing, report says (Washington Post) Quick! We need a distraction from the Biden-China-cash situation!

Authorities Are Prepping for a Possible Trump Indictment

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot slammed at meeting: ‘Get the hell out of my city’ (N.Y. Post)

NYC Catholic School Allegedly Ignored Racist Bullying Against 11-Year-Old Black Girl (Daily Beast)

Irony: Woke Soros-Tied Group Settles ‘Racial Bias’ Lawsuit

Migrant crisis ready to explode again, border congressman says (Border Report)

Biden Cancels Trump-Era Road Proposal in Wildlife Refuge

‘An All-Out Assault On The Second Amendment’: Gun Rights Groups Respond To Biden’s New Executive Order

Nets Ignore Biden’s Daughter-In-Law Receiving Chinese Wire Transfer

Biden DOJ Stands Accused Of Hiding This Evidence Of Biden-China Corruption: Sperry

Border Patrol Is 20 Percent Smaller Than White House Claims, Admin Official Testifies

VP Harris Booed at NCAA Tournament Game

Report: FBI, Secret Service Sought to Strip Gun Rights

Hallie Biden in family business

Biden Gets It Wrong Again: Sleepy Joe Humiliated by Premature Withdrawal

This Action Moves Biden’s Heat on Natural Gas to Front Burner

CNN Claims GOP Has No ‘Evidence Of Wrongdoing’ On Joe And Hunter Biden  Other than the videos of Hunter doing crack?

Crowd Boos Kamala at Alma Mater’s Basketball Game

Latest Border Encounter Numbers Expose Biden’s Ports of Entry Bait-and-Switch

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: Three questions that remain after three years of covid (Washington Post)

Looking back at three years of COVID-19 (KGW News)

3 years after COVID arrived in Virginia, case numbers continue to fall (Virginian-Pilot)

Public health opinions in Alberta entrenched during COVID-19 pandemic, study says (Global News)

Statement on the update of WHO’s working definitions and tracking system for SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants of interest (WHO)

Twitter Files: Feds, Stanford Censored Vaccine Claims

America is abandoning rationality to justify illegal immigration (The Hill)

Kentucky Lawmakers Pass Gun Sanctuary Bill

Stephen Colbert Finally Gets Someone To Laugh At His Show (Babylon Bee)

N. Dakota Supreme Court Blocks Abortion Ban; Says Constitution Protects Procedure (N.Y. Times)

Macron Raises France’s Retirement Age Without Parliament  This is Europe; we don’t need no stinkin’ democracy.

CME CEO Terry Duffy Says Employees Too Scared To Return To Office Due To Chicago’s Crime Surge

Reid Holds Therapy Session With Journo Fired for Attacking DeSantis

The Soulless Lingo of the Pro-Abortion Media

ABC’s ‘Abbott Elementary’ Attacks Charter Schools

Senate Democrats’ Double Standard on Judicial Nominee ‘Blue Slips’

If Barney Frank Were a Republican, He’d Be the Media’s Banking-Crisis Villain  But he’s not, so he’s not.

Silent Scrub: Netflix Cancels Kids Show About ‘Non-Binary’ Bison Amid Backlash

Unborn Children Who Might Face Challenges Are Better Off Dead, Abortion Advocates Say  Actually, abortion activists are better off dead.

New York Set to Become First State to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings  Time to leave.

Will Teachers Unions’ Political Contributions Prevent School Choice in Pennsylvania?

Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, say experts (The Guardian) Experts!

The plastic water bottle industry is booming. Here’s why that’s a huge problem (CNN) Because it’s contrary to the Narrative, of  course.

Rising bottled water consumption signals safe drinking water goal is under threat, says U.N. think tank (Reuters)

TUCKER CARLSON: Climate change experts’ bullying is not about helping the Earth, it is about controlling us

Activists spread misleading information to fight solar (NPR)

Rich Nations Are Burying the Developing World in Plastic Waste (Mother Jones)

Serious Climate Misinformation In Seattle Time Headline Article

Confirmed: climate czar John Kerry is finally flying commercial

Federal prosecutors warn court of potential deluge of January 6 charges – report (The Guardian)

DOJ warned courts to expect a new wave of January 6 prosecutions in ‘next few months’ They can’t let it go.

Ron DeSantis Eating Pudding With His Fingers Will End His 2024 Bid (New York Magazine) Really, you can’t make this shit up.

DeSantis Will Betray Ukraine for MAGA Votes (The Atlantic)

Once a darling of defense hawks, Ron DeSantis retreats (NBC) A tendentious mischaracterization in pursuit of the Narrative.

Steve Bannon Is Neck-Deep in Guo Wengui’s Allegedly Fraudulent Business Empire (Mother Jones) Or so the progs would have you believe.

The Federalist Society Isn’t Quite Sure About Democracy Anymore (Politico) A bare-faced smear job.

Pence’s Joke About Buttigieg Turns The Daily Show Into The Joke Police

Former Guantanamo prisoner: Ron DeSantis watched me being tortured (UK Independent) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

The ‘Dallas Express’: Your Go-To Source For Right-Wing, Astroturf News (Texas Tribune) As opposed to the Texas Tribune, which is your go-to source for Left-Wing Astroturf News.

The Ousted Reporter Was Right to Call Out Ron DeSantis’ Propaganda (Politico) Except that it obviously wasn’t ‘propaganda’, and this is just one proglodyte hand washing another.

The View Dings Conservatives for Book Banned By Leftists Schools

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It seems that Progressives have a harder time having personal relationships with people with whom they disagree than do conservatives. Why?

In this post, I am using “Progressive” as shorthand for a broad range of left-ish people and policies on ideological, political, and cultural issues because that seems to be the term the people with those views prefer, even though the true definition may be narrower. And I’m using “conservative” as shorthand for a broad range of right-ish people and policies even though there is lots of debate about who and what is properly covered by that word.

Surveys and anecdotal stories seem to show that if a friendship or interaction with a family member is ended over ideological, political, or cultural differences, the ending is more likely because the Progressive (or leftist or modern liberal or Democrat) does the ending. Democrats say they are less likely than Republicans to be willing to initiate a friendship or to date a person of the other political party.

Are “Progressives” really quicker to sever personal ties over ideological differences than do “conservatives”? If so, why?

Progressives are generally fascist assholes, that’s why. That’s my guess.

CNN

Which of them gets to play Ukraine?

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

Like so much from the 20th century, The Troubles has largely been forgotten, despite the fact it loomed large in the last half the century. It is a good example of how the cultural shadow of the Global American Empire warped everything. Meddling by important people in the empire played a huge role in the conflict. It was also one of the justifications for flinging open our borders.

Then all of a sudden, the conflict ended. Right around when the Cold War ended, the two sides decided it was time to get on with making peace. Just like that this generational event disappeared from our consciousness. Ireland quickly moved to the “Celtic Tiger” stage and then to the bust-out stage. Now Ireland is just another node on the Global American Empire trying to commit suicide.

Interestingly, The Troubles are a good example for dissidents trying to figure out how to combat the metastasizing blob that is the managerial state. It is not a perfect analogy, but it is a good example of a long running revolt against a cultural force. The British were not in it for the money. They were motivated by cultural factors and the Irish, for their part, rallied to their cultural banners in resistance.

New York Times.

The corporate culture wars have reached a turning point: A number of companies that once championed social justice and equity seem to be beating a hasty retreat.

You’d think thry’d learn.

Walgreens is trapped in a political firestorm. The pharmacy chain, which had sought certification so its stores could fill prescriptions for the abortion medication mifepristone, announced last week that it will not dispense the pill in the 21 states where Republican attorneys general have threatened legal action. Walgreens, which said it came to this conclusion before the threats began, won’t dispense the drug in several G.O.P.-controlled states where abortion remains legal. There was a swift backlash, with Gov. Gavin Newsom announcing that California would not renew a multimillion-dollar contract with Walgreens and others calling for a nationwide boycott. The hashtag #boycottwalgreens has taken off on Twitter.

But apparently not.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Washington is not alone. Most of the nation’s major cities face a daunting future as middle-class taxpayers join an exodus to the suburbs, opting to work remotely as they exit downtowns marred by empty offices, vacant retail space and a deteriorating tax base.

Joel Kotkin & Hügo Krüger

The Western response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is widely seen as a sign of a reinvigorated alliance of democracies against authoritarianism. Even historically anti-war publications like the Guardian speak volubly about the West’s heroic “defense of liberty.” Raising concerns about petty issues like a potential nuclear war over Ukraine leads one now to be dismissed as a Putinist stooge, both by those who habitually back wars, like neoconservatives and defense contractors, and those who almost always oppose them, or used to, anyway.

Amidst the relentless virtue signaling, there has been little consideration of how the Russo-Ukrainian War will change the world order, and not necessarily for the benefit of the West. Rather than join in a joint jihad for “democracy” aimed at destroying Vladimir Putin and his detestable authoritarian allies, notably China, there’s actually little support for sanctions, much less military aid, from the largest non-western democracies such as India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Brazil in their attitude to the war.

New York Times.

David Brooks does his bit as the Other Left Coast’s pet ‘conservative’ in pushing the Narrative.

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Yesterday police and the military were put on heightened alert in Vienna due to a threat of possible Islamic terrorist attacks directed at churches. Coptic and Syrian Orthodox churches in the city were thought to be particular targets.

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

Steve Sailer.

It’s a been big day for the good guys in the growing struggle over academic freedom. While the New York Times is still trying to get tenured law professor Amy Wax fired for telling the truth at the Penn Law School, tenured business professor Bryan J. Pesta filed suit today against Cleveland State for in effect firing him for co-authoring one of the most important DNA-race-IQ studies of this century (see post below).

And University of Central Florida tenured psychology professor Charles Negy, who was fired in effect for retweeting my best stuff during the first week of the Mostly Peaceful Protests….

The New Republic.

Specifically, librarians are fighting to expose children to Woke ideology despite the preferences of local parents and community standards.

All books are not created equal, popular proglodyte tropes to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Justin Trudeau’s government has been compromised by the Chinese Communist Party and Canada’s democracy is in jeopardy. This is a startling claim, all the more so for the fact that Canadian intelligence officials are the ones making it.

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President Biden has been clear: he’s itching to attack Republicans for “wanting to cut Medicare.” But he’s running into a problem: his own administration rolled out a little-noticed rules change that’s poised to slash benefits for millions of retirees across the country. The change could jeopardize his own standing with a crucial voting bloc and could put down-ballot Democrats in electoral peril.

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When the history books look back on 2023, the biggest American news story may be something that’s getting little attention right now: the school choice revolution.

This year, Iowa, Utah, and Arkansas have passed massive school choice bills, giving parents access to state education funding for their children and letting them decide if they want to use it at public or private schools.

dCrushing rocks could capture CO2 equivalent to the size of Germany (Interesteing Engineering) If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

New process gives CO2 conversion more “bang for buck” (University of Sydney)

Scientists aim to take carbon from lab to shop shelves (The Standard)

How to meet the climate crisis? Redefine ‘abundance.’ (Washington Post)

Greta Thunberg reportedly deletes 2018 tweet claiming ‘climate change will wipe out all of humanity’ by 2023 (N.Y. Post)

Brazilian researchers find ‘terrifying’ plastic rocks on remote island (Reuters)

People and the planet are facing unprecedented challenges. Nature is the solution (EuroNews)

Newsom gives up call for lawmakers to cap oil industry profits (L.A. Times)

California regulators could decide oil profits penalty (Associated Press)

Cradle-to-grave emissions from food loss and waste represent half of total greenhouse gas emissions from food systems (Nature)

Russell Brand is the latest to platform climate conservative Bjørn Lomborg’s ‘reckless’ net-zero cost claims (The Guardian)

License to Disrupt: Australia Goes Soft on Climate Protestors

Washington Post: We Must Change the Meaning of Wealth to Appreciate Climate Action

San Francisco Bay Area to phase out natural gas heating appliances

Sen. Cruz Pressures Group for Role in Gas Stove Effort