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The Real Reason Downtowns Are Declining

17th May 2023

The Antiplanner.

Crime, on-line shopping, telecommuting and exorbitant rents are all contributing to the decline of downtowns, observes an article on CNN Business. But the real reason downtowns are declining, according to the article, is that people don’t live in dense enough neighborhoods.

“To reinvent downtown retail,” asserts the article without any room for debate or citation of evidence, cities need “denser neighborhoods with a broader mix of affordable housing, experiential retail, restaurants, entertainment, parks and other amenities.” Where have I heard that before?

How are denser neighborhoods going to solve crime and homeless problems? How are they going to fill office spaces when people are working at home? How will they get people to stop shopping on line? How will they make rents more affordable when higher densitis increase land values?

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Liberals Say: Let’s Kill Half the World’s People

17th May 2023

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The global liberal movement is trying to destroy modern, scientific agriculture. Liberals want organic farming–no intensive nitrogen fertilization–along with an end to animal husbandry and banning of pretty much all effective herbicides and pesticides. All great ideas, if you don’t care about billions of people dying. Just ask anyone in Sri Lanka or the Netherlands.

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

16th May 2023

Residents, business owners fleeing Dem-run cities in droves as homeless camps wreak havoc: ‘Absolute madness’ (Fox)

NYC faces ire of residents over plan to house migrants in Brooklyn elementary school gym (Fox)

Dave Chappelle Rips San Francisco: ‘What the F— Happened to This Place?’

Rashida Tlaib Asks Supporters To ‘Chip In’ So She Can Host More Anti-Semitic Events

Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME Threatens to Flee Chicago as Myr. Johnson Takes Office

America’s Powerful Intellectual Class Finds ‘Joy In Making Us Obey And Be Compliant,’ Warns Scholar

Court order that could end US health law’s preventative care mandate put on hold (Associated Press)

WATCH: MSNBC Takes Less Than Half Hour to Declare 300-Page Durham Report a Nothingburger

Report: Mexican President Mum on Cartels During Border City Visits

WHO Pushes “Early Childhood Masturbation” For Toddlers, Encourages Questions About Gender Identity For Kids Aged 4

Billy Joel to Florida

NY Parents In Uproar As City Houses Migrants In School Gyms

How a Few Stories of Regret Fuel the Push to Restrict Gender Transition Care (N.Y. Times)

Top OBGYN Organization: Abortion Is ‘Settled Science’

Soros-Backed Prosecutor Dropped Previous Assault Charges Against Man Arrested for Attacking Dem Staffers With a Bat  What goes around, comes around.

Media Admits They Lied About That Russia Collusion Thing But Are Totally Telling The Truth About Everything Else  (Babylon Bee)

Musk says George Soros ‘hates humanity,’ compares him to Jewish supervillain (Washington Post)

Disc Golf Org. Wins Appeal To Protect Women’s Division At Tournament

Newsom Warned Migrants Could ‘Break’ California. Now Dems Want To Give Illegals Unemployment.

Dem Legislators Reintroduce Bill to Expand Supreme Court

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

16th May 2023

Study indicates that the Omicron wave and the rollout of vaccines led to almost 100% seropositivity and boosted anti-spike IgG titers in children and adolescents (News-Medical)

Fired Teachers Who Refused COVID Vaccine To Get Full Reinstatement And Back Pay

Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

16th May 2023

Greenwashing era is over, say ad agencies, as regulators get toug (The Guardian)

Newly-Launched Finnish Nuclear Plant Sees Electricity Prices Plunge By 75%

Ferrari Rejects Green Pressure to Phase Out Internal Combustion Engines

Extinction Rebellion Radicals Claim Responsibility for a Stage Invasion

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

16th May 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill banning DEI initiatives in public colleges (NPR)

DeSantis curtails diversity, equity & inclusion programs at state colleges (CBS News)

DeSantis signs bill banning funding for college diversity programs (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

DeSantis bans state funding for diversity, inclusion programs at Florida public universities (Fox)

CNN Dismayed DeSantis Would Defend NY Marine from Lefty D.A.

Rudy Giuliani made antisemitic remarks about Jews’ genitalia, mocked ‘freaking Passover’ observance, new lawsuit claims (The Forward) The Forward is an explicitly Marxist newspaper for Jewish Red Diaper babies.

Online Reviewers Are Being Absolutely Brutal About Josh Hawley’s ‘Manhood’ (Daily Beast) They mean left-wing reviewers of course–are there any other kind?–like the Daily Beast.

Woman sues Rudy Giuliani, saying he coerced her into sex, owes her $2 million in unpaid wages (Associated Press)

Haley’s financial disclosure report shows lucrative speaking engagements (CNN) Although not as lucrative as Hillary’s.

Paul Gosar’s Staffer Is a Neo-Nazi (The New Republic) Uh, not quite.

Protesting Homes of SC Justices: Free Speech or Intimidation?

‘Anti-Homophobia’ Event Disrupted by Muslim Students

Study: Taxpayer-Subsidized PBS Whacks GOP with 85% Negative News

DeSantis’s celebration of vigilantism is a new low in MAGA extremism (Washington Post) MAGA is the New Nigger. Greg Sargent feels Philip Bump encroaching on his turf.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Media Malpractice: Russian Hoax Confirmed by the Durham Report

Inside Tucker Carlson’s Battle to Trade His $20 Million Fox News Salary for a Twitter Show (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety) Yeah, as if Variety has any clue as to what Tucker is doing. (In the Narrative media, EXCLUSIVE means they just made it up.)

After breaking itself, Congress tries to break the rest of government, too (Washington Post) By ‘Congress’ they mean House Republicans, and by ‘breaking the government’ they mean ‘trying to put the brakes on Democrat attempts to buy votes with taxpayer money’.

The Republican Embrace of Vigilantism Is No Accident (N.Y. Times) There is, of course, no ‘Republican embrace of vigilantism’, merely Republican defense of citizens who act in self-defense and defense of their fellow citizens; which is what all this hand-waving is attempting to obscure.

Who Is Leonard Leo’s Mysterious Dark Money King? (The New Republic) I’m guessing it isn’t George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, or any of the billionaire Hollywood moguls and tech bros that fund Democrat PACs.

Conservative pundits are increasingly open about who they think should be killed (Media Matters for America) Proglodytes, by contrast, have never hidden their hit lists.

John Durham Owes the American People an Apology for Wasting Their Money (Daily Beast) Yeah, only Democrats are allowed to waste the American people’s money.

GOP Highlights Attacks on Pregnancy Centers, Pro-Lifers Under Biden Admin

House Democrat introduces resolution to expel Santos (CNN) I’m surprised it took this long.

 

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Today in the BIden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

16th May 2023

How Garland’s release of Trump-Russia probe report differed from Barr’s (Washington Post)

Migrants to be housed in 6 more NYC school gyms — outraged parents say plan is ‘just insane’ (N.Y. Post)

NYC housing migrants in public school gyms (Fox)

Tony Blinken Could Become First Secretary of State Held in Contempt of Congress  Which doesn’t matter a damn, because they won’t do anything about it (like impeachment).

Biden administration may halt plans to move Space Command to Alabama over state’s abortion law, officials say (NBC News)

The Media Is Normalizing Debt-Ceiling Extortion (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait pushes the Narrative. Funny how all of the Narrative media think that the other Narrative media are somehow right-wing.

House GOP Lawmaker Readies Contempt Charge for Blinken

IRS removes investigative team from Hunter Biden probe in move whistleblower claims is ‘clearly retaliatory’ (N.Y. Post)

IRS removes ‘entire investigative team’ in Hunter Biden probe, whistleblower claims retaliation: report (Fox)

Karine Jean-Pierre’s 10 Biggest Gaffes as Press Secretary

Yellen: US Default Would Cause ‘Worldwide Panic, Runs’  Well, I can certainly see why it would give Janet Yellen the runs….

Mayorkas impeachment pressure builds inside the House GOP (CNN)

EXCLUSIVE: 3,000 Military Veterans Reject Pentagon’s ‘Left-Wing Social Agenda,’ Support Tuberville’s Fight

25 Governors Petition Biden To Protect Women’s Sports

US Now Spends More Servicing Its Debt Than On National Defense

Biden, NYC Mayor Adams Break Caused by Migrants, Crime

MTG Introduces Impeachment Articles Against FBI’s Wray

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

16th May 2023

Watch this GOP lawmaker fail the ‘Ivanka question’ (MSNBC)

Poll: Trump Widens Lead on DeSantis Amid Legal Battles

Durham finds DOJ, FBI ‘failed to uphold’ mission of ‘strict fidelity to the law’ in Trump-Russia probe (Fox) But it doesn’t matter a damn–nobody will get fired, nobody will go to jail.

Judge Blocks Trump Deposition In Peter Strzok And Lisa Page Lawsuits

ABC/NBC Still Insist the Trump-Russia Probe Was Needed, Despite Durham Report

Rudy Giuliani said he and Trump were selling pardons for $2m apiece, ex-aide claims (UK Independent) Sure, I believe that….

Durham report on Trump-Russia investigation: What led to it and what happens next (Associated Press)

Giuliani accused of offering to sell Trump pardons for $2 million each in new lawsuit (NBC News)

Trump’s Call-In to Far-Right Roadshow Is Red Meat for Christian Nationalists (Daily Beast)

Emerson Poll: Trump Getting Strong Backing From Women

‘Absolutely Nothing New’; CNN, MSNBC’s Initial Durham Reactions Distort Report

E. Jean Carroll ‘thrilled’ to finally hold Donald Trump to account for his lies (MSNBC)

With a Softball Interview of Trump, “The Messenger” Launches by Legitimizing Extremism (Mother Jones) Although not the extremism legitimized by Mother Jones.

Schiff Aide Threatened Researchers Who Refused to Investigate False Trump–Russia Links

Journos Huddle Around PBS Roundtable to Discuss Avoiding Trump Live Appearances

Durham proves that Hillary and the FBI tried to rig the 2016 election (N.Y. Post)

The Lessons of Watching Donald Trump With the Sound Off (Washington Monthly)

Donald Trump’s Election Lies Are His Superpower in the GOP Primary (Vanity Fair)

John Durham exposes the whole anti-Trump caper

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

16th May 2023

Netflix’s ‘Cleopatra’ Is a Historical Revisionist Queen of Denial

Federal prosecutors seek to drop charges against Florida’s Gillum (Politico) The Crust takes care of its own.

He ‘can resume his life’: Federal prosecutors move to dismiss Andrew Gillum indictment (Talahassee Democrat)

16 Crucial Words That Went Missing From a Landmark Civil Rights Law (N.Y. Times)

Watch: Meleé Erupts At Minneapolis Dems’ Nominating Convention

Netflix Race-Swapped Cleopatra Show Receives Lowest Rating In Rotten Tomatoes History

Ignorant Ron DeSantis and Other Republicans Are Calling The Man Who Killed Jordan Neely ‘A Good Samaritan’ (The Root)

I, For One, Welcome Our New Anti-White Racist Asian Academic Overlords  (The Other McCain)

Affordable Housing Is a Black Hole

What Possibly Could Have Happened in Minneapolis in 2020 That Could Have Caused Traffic Fatalities to Skyrocket?

IRS Admits to Targeting Black Americans More Than Others Despite Biden’s ‘Racial Equity’ Pledge

13-Year-Olds Charged With Taxi Driver’s Murder (Daily Beast)

Bush, Tlaib vote against resolution honoring police: ‘Intended to advance Republicans’ false narrative’

‘Squad’ Dems vote against honoring police officers killed in line of duty

New research documents 1.6 million excess deaths among Black Americans in past 20 years (The Hill) Many at the hands of young black men with guns–although you won’t see any mention of that in any report.

 

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World-Famous Chef May Leave Palo Alto Over Natural Gas Ban

16th May 2023

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A California city may lose out on a new restaurant from world-famous chef José Andrés because of its ban on natural gas.

The owner of the mall where Andrés was set to open his Mediterranean restaurant Zaytinya is threatening to sue Palo Alto over the ban, which starting this year prevents new buildings from having natural gas connections.

The restaurant relies on “traditional cooking methods that require gas appliances to achieve its signature, complex flavors,” said Anna Shimko, a lawyer representing the group that owns the Stanford Shopping Center where Andrés leased space for the restaurant. Palo Alto city council members discussed the letter behind closed doors on May 8 but took no public action.

Shimko said the building’s plans were approved by the city in 2019, years before the gas ban was imposed. She added that some of the appliances the restaurant staff needs “do not have electrically powered equivalents.”

“Without a gas connection and appliances, Zaytinya would be forced to alter its signature five-star reputation,” Shimko said, adding that if the ban is enforced, “Zaytinya will likely choose not to locate within the city.”

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Dems Are Coming for Kids’ Lunch Meat and Chocolate Milk

16th May 2023

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U.S. agencies under President Joe Biden have proposed restrictions on deli meats and are considering a ban on chocolate milk in school cafeterias.

The Department of Agriculture is “considering a ban on flavored milk—including chocolate, strawberry, and other varieties—in elementary and middle schools when it adopts new standards for school meals,” the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. While supporters say flavored milk contributes to childhood obesity, opponents say the ban “will lead to children drinking less milk.”

“We want to take a product that most kids like and that has nine essential nutrients in it and say, ‘You can’t drink this, you have to drink plain’?” asked Urban School Food Alliance executive director Katie Wilson.

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From New Hampshire to Oklahoma, Drive for School Choice Hits Accelerator

16th May 2023

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Eight states have enacted new education choice policies or have expanded existing ones so far this year, including Indiana, Montana, and South Carolina earlier this month alone.

Of the eight, four states—Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, and Utah—enacted school choice policies that will be available to all K-12 students, joining Arizona and West Virginia in making every child eligible for education savings accounts or ESA-like policies that allow families to choose the learning environments that align with their values and work best for their children.

Indiana came close by expanding eligibility for its voucher and tax-credit scholarship policies to about 97% of K-12 students statewide. South Carolina’s new ESA is limited to low- and middle-income families, while Montana’s new ESA will expand education options for students with special needs.

More states have adopted robust education choice policies this year than ever before—and several state legislatures are still in session. This week, three state legislatures are making progress toward adopting new education choice policies or significantly expanding existing ones.

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Satanist Will Give Invocation at Texas City Council Meeting

16th May 2023

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The head of the Satanic Temple in Austin, Texas, is set to give an invocation before Tuesday night’s city council meeting in San Marcos, Hays County.

No surprises here. San Marcos is one of the blue urban pustules on the otherwise rosy red cheeck of Texas.

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Cell Block

16th May 2023

The American Mind.

According to a recent report in the New York Post, many members of Gen Z (Zoomers) are lousy employees. A majority (65 percent) of employers say that they’ve had to fire them more often; one out of eight Zoomers were fired from their jobs in the first week; and three out of four employers “say Gen Z is hardest to work with.” Most of the challenges of working with Zoomers are attributed to their general lack of professionalism, excessive sense of entitlement, and most of all, their addiction to smartphones. Apparently, the Zoomers struggle more than the millennials (my generation), who are usually the subject of such generational criticisms: “even Millennials and prior generations understood that you come to work and you do what your employer asks of you.”

Who would’ve guessed that a culture that abhors character development, celebrates mediocrity, and encourages screen addiction from an early age would produce a generation of incompetent young adults who can’t function in the workplace? Who could believe that indoctrinating them with identity politics would make them overly sensitive and impossible to work with? How is it possible that so many people who grew up in broken homes, never had a father, lost their innocence at an early age, had poor mental health, and never practiced religion could be so moody, flaky, and inconsistent?

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12-Year-Old Charged With Murder, Accused of Killing Sonic Employee

16th May 2023

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A 12-year-old and a 20-year-old are both facing a murder charge after a restaurant employee was gunned down during an altercation with a customer Saturday night in Keene.

Flowers and a cross now stand outside the Sonic Drive-In on Old Betsy Road in Keene. It’s a growing memorial to Matthew Davis, a 32-year-old employee and father who was shot and killed while on the job Saturday night.

According to a statement from Keene Police, the shooting happened at about 9:40 p.m. Angel Gomez, 20, went to the Sonic with several passengers and was acting “disorderly” in the parking lot when Davis confronted him for urinating in the parking lot, Keene Police Chief James Kidd said.

The confrontation turned physical and a 12-year-old who was in Gomez’s car pulled out an assault rifle and fired six rounds at Davis, Kidd said.

Gomez? Obviously a Neo-Nazi white supremacist.

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Thought for the Day

16th May 2023

Infographic: Where the Internet Has Been Restricted | Statista

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Inside the Academic Publishing Grift

16th May 2023

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Last week witnessed the first tremors of what could be a welcome revolution: the resignation en masse of the forty-strong editorial board of NeuroImage magazine — regarded as the leading publication for brain-imaging research in the world. The board, whose members include very senior figures in the world of brain science, is protesting what it sees as the publisher Elsevier’s greedy and unethical behavior.

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A Fascinating Retrospective

16th May 2023

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I’ve been interested in comments made by various public health officials reflecting total amnesia about events during Covid. The canard, actively promoted by the officials and known to be fictitious, that the vaccines prevented transmission, was a dagger in the heart of an already fragile social cohesion. And now these officials are pretending to be mystified by the suggestion that they had anything to do with lockdowns, mandates, contact tracing, school closures, etc.

The people at Grabien have compiled a helpful retrospective to keep actual events and media perspectives from being memory-holed. Worth watching.

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7 Takeaways From Release of Durham Report on Origin of Trump-Russia Probe

16th May 2023

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Special counsel John Durham, in a widely anticipated report Monday, condemned the Justice Department and FBI for their conduct in the “Russian collusion” investigation of Donald Trump.

Durham’s investigation looked at the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the name of the FBI probe of whether Trump or his 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russians to win the election.

The investigation was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, after Trump was elected president. Mueller’s team concluded there was no evidence of conspiracy or collusion between Trump or his campaign and Russia.

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

15th May 2023

Judge Orders FDA To Speed Up Release Of COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data From 23.5 Years To Just 2

A Colossal Failure Around The World

DeSantis Critic JB Pritzker Sent His Family to This $18M Florida Horse Farm During the Pandemic

Farewell Questions For Rochelle Walensky

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

15th May 2023

What Congress can do, right now, about Justice Thomas (Washington Post) The witch-hunt continues.

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Hill Staffer Is A Prominent Follower Of Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes (Talking Points Memo)

How Kyrsten Sinema Uses Campaign Cash for Her Marathon Habit (Daily Beast)

Teacher Sacked After Refusing To Use 8 Year-Old’s Trans Pronouns

Nearly $2M Raised for Ex-marine on Manslaughter Charge

Inside the Tennessee legislature, where a GOP supermajority reigns (Washington Post) Adventures in Flyover Country with gun & camera….

Rick Wilson hands Democrats their top talking point to turn 2024 GOP candidates ‘radioactive’ (Raw Story) RINOs gotta RINO.

GOP state lawmakers try to restrict ballot initiatives, partly to thwart abortion protections (Associated Press) Who knew that the AP could read minds?

Hostin Decries ‘Dangerous’ DeSantis Raising Money for NY Marine Vet

Sen. Murphy Warns Supreme Court of ‘Popular Revolt’ on Guns

Mexican ambassador lashes out at Kennedy for ‘racist and xenophobic insults’

After school shooting, Tennessee governor signs bill to shield gun firms further against lawsuits  (Associated Press) Because those guns just shoot themselves!

Connecticut high court nominee regrets signing 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett (Associated Press) Duck and cover!

POLL: Two-Thirds of Americans Agree Journalists Are Mostly Advocates, Not Unbiased

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

15th May 2023

On PBS, Liberal Journalists Trade Tips on Deplatforming Trump for ‘24

Scoop: How Trump’s team egged him on during CNN town hall (Axios) ‘Scoop’?

Supreme Court to Review Dem Lawsuit Over Trump Hotel Lease

Trump Is Wrong on Abortion: Super-Majority of GOP Primary Voters Support Six-Week Limit (National Review) NR turns into Yet Another Anti-Trump RINO rag.

Durham Report: FBI Had No ‘Actual Evidence,’ Relied on Trump Opponents

In Final Report, Trump-Era Special Counsel Denounces Russia Investigation (N.Y. Times)

Ga. Prosecutor Fights Trump Bid to Cut Her From Election Probe

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

15th May 2023

NBA: Grizzlies Suspend Morant After 2nd Alleged Gun Video

Supreme Court to review South Carolina congressional map for discrimination against Black voters (Associated Press)

In Black-led Compton, a Latino majority fights for political power (Washington Post)

Supreme Court to consider South Carolina plan that ‘exiled’ Black voters (Washington Post)

Biden stirs up racial fears – again

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

15th May 2023

‘I declared myself not woke’: What happened when a critic of anti-racism ‘ideology’ led DEI at a Bay Area college (S.F. Chronicle) She’s fat, has blue hair, and undoubtedly ‘identifies’ as black. I don’t believe her.

Vice and Motherboard owner files for bankruptcy (BBC)

Here’s what could happen to the military if the US defaults on its debt (The Hill)

NYC May Start Charging Fines That Vary With Offender’s Income

NYC Converts Hotels To Shelters To Accommodate Expected Influx Of Illegal Immigrants

Toronto ‘Anti-Capitalist’ Pay-When-You-Can Cafe Shuts Down After Just One Year  Markets work, even when you don’t want them to.

“It’s Just Not Safe”: Decades-Old Baltimore Business Closes Shop Because Of Crime, Blames Democrats

Head of Planned Parenthood: Expand SCOTUS  Pack the court!

Planned Parenthood vs. The Supreme Court

How A Left-Wing Activist Group Teamed Up With Big Pharma To Push Radical Gender Ideology on American Hospitals

Dems’ great hope to hold the Senate: GOP primary implosions (Politico) Be careful what you wish for….

Hospitals create police forces to stem growing violence against staff (NPR)

Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving

Planned Parenthood Backs Court-Packing, Term Limits for Justices

San Francisco Announces Plan To Release Monkeys Onto The Streets To Fling Away All The Poo  (Babylon Bee)

The Next Bud Light? Miller Lite Under Fire for Feminist Commercial

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

15th May 2023

Oceans have been absorbing the world’s extra heat. But there’s a huge payback (The Guardian)

Ohio Environmentalists, Oil Companies Battle State Over Dumping of Fracking Wastewater (Inside Climate News)

Lomborg: ‘Organic agriculture’ could optimistically support 4.7 billion people – ‘Industrial agriculture’ could optimistically support 12 billion – Current global population is 8 billion

Nuclear energy: Not a Faustian bargain, but a near-perfect providential gift

The EPA issues a death warrant for fossil fuel plants

Latest Appliance Energy-Efficiency Mandate Equals Fewer Consumer Choices, Dirtier Dishes

The Energy Transition Has A Metals Problem

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

15th May 2023

Biden expected to meet with Hill leaders Tuesday following ‘productive’ debt limit meetings among staff (CNN)

GOP Oversight Chair Says He’s Lost Track of His Biden Corruption Informant (Daily Beast)

Rep. James Comer: House Oversight Dems are acting as criminal defense attorneys for the Biden family (Fox)

Watch: Did CNN Accidentally Admit The Truth About Illegal Migrants And Title 42?

How the Supreme Court might view the debt limit fight (Politico)

Judge Gets Nashville Shooter’s Unredacted Manifesto

Report: Busload of Migrants Arrives Near VP Harris’ Home

U.S.: Record-Setting Migrant Surge as Title 42 Ends

Border Patrol Braces For Surge As Migrants Celebrate End of Title 42

Biden And DHS Secretary Claim ‘White Supremacy’ Is The Greatest US Terror Threat

Politico: VP Harris Could Harm Biden’s Reelection Bid  Oh, ya think?

What Happens if President Biden Caves on the Debt Ceiling? (The American Prospect)

Biden Awarded Honorary Doctorate For Work As Honorary President  (Babylon Bee)

Packers O-Lineman Calls Out Biden For Scripted Interviews

Kamala Said Border Crisis Is ‘Going Rather Smoothly.’ Then a Busload of Migrants Showed Up at Her House.

US “Plans” To Buy 3 Million Barrels For SPR Days After It Drained 2.9 Million In One Week

 

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Going Native: Is Ancestral Eating the Answer to Our Dietary Woes?

15th May 2023

The Spectator.

Never before has a generation of males been solely responsible for the gathering and preparation of their own food. Historically, women played a crucial role in deciding what families would eat. And since many women now (especially those on the leading edge of nutrition influencing) gravitate more toward “plant-based” diets, it makes sense that men would look for alternatives to meal plans primarily comprised of soy and beans. With no sensible women to help them, it is unsurprising that men on a mission to eat meat might go a little crazy and avoid eating any plants at all.

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A Conservative Classical College Board

15th May 2023

The American Mind.

As a conservative AP English teacher and AP Exam reader, I have something of a love-hate relationship with College Board.

On one hand, I love the rigor and standards of Advanced Placement classes. For students willing to work hard and make the most of their time in high school, AP classes are a great option that will challenge them and offer them a chance at earning college credit. Moreover, they find their community in AP, something especially critical in otherwise rundown public schools where the world outside the AP bubble is mired in crime and mediocrity—for all its cheesiness today, the eighties film “Stand and Deliver” actually captures this reality pretty well. Both as a student and teacher, I’ll always be grateful that AP was there for the kids who needed it.

On the other hand, the leftist bias in the curricula, along with progressive pedagogy that emphasizes skills over content, has tarnished the luster of College Board. In history courses, which seem to receive a makeover every few years, these problems are especially pronounced. In English, there’s been a noticeable shift toward diverse ethnic or racial voices, and there’s certainly a relativistic approach to texts featured in these courses (for example, students were asked to analyze a portion of Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir to demonstrate their knowledge of rhetoric). I do encounter teachers, usually from very progressive states, who take a progressive approach in their classes and score exam essays with this prejudice, but indoctrination isn’t implicit in the course curriculum itself.

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Crony Baloney

15th May 2023

The American Mind.

With the recent irresponsible bank bailouts by the U.S. government and culture war over Bud Light, American capitalism seems to have gone off the rails. However, there’s a method to the madness. These shenanigans are symptoms of an underlying malady. It goes by various names—crony capitalism, ESG, woke capital—but its essence is simple: cool, calculating deals between elites to maximize wealth and power.

Standard economics provides the interpretive key. All we must do is take the toolkit economists use to analyze “private” choice, such as exchange in markets, and apply it to “public” choice, namely politics. Collective action is absolutely a forum for exchange. Representatives from Podunk and Decadentapolis logroll to get each other’s bills passed. Bureaucrats from the Department of Mission Creep and the Micromanagement Agency trade influence and favors to acquire larger budgets. It’s exchange all the way down. Crony-wokeism is no exception.

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How to Make Your Murder Matter

15th May 2023

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If you want your murder to matter, you need to be shot, not stabbed. How much coverage did the four University of Idaho students stabbed to death in their apartment last year get? Even though theirs was the first murder in Moscow, Idaho in 7 years, you probably didn’t hear about it.

Mass stabbings don’t have the same sexy cachet as mass shootings. Unlike the UK, no one responds to mass stabbings by proposing to ban chef’s knives. (Yet.)

But not all guns are equal.

If you really want people to notice your murder, you had better arrange to be shot by an AR-15 or some mean-looking gun that Democrats want to ban as a “weapon of war”. Handguns are used in 78% of mass shootings. Like the kind that happen every weekend all over Chicago. And you don’t want to be just another statistic among the “15 shot over a bloody Sunday afternoon”.

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Why Do Americans Want Guns? It Comes Down to One Word.

15th May 2023

Washington Post.

At the Nation’s Gun Show in Chantilly, spirits seemed high. People wandered from booth to booth, and the scent of popcorn filled the air. It could have been mistaken for a state fair or weekend flea market were it not for the rows of weapons and accessories — gun parts, AR build kits and body armor — laid out on every surface. It was easy to overlook the one common emotion underlying the event: fear.

Here were weekend shoppers intently inspecting tools of death: moms testing the heft of handguns and fathers stocking up on ammo. When I asked attendees and sellers what gun ownership meant to them, most replied with the same word: “protection.”

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A 25 Percent Biden Wealth Tax?

15th May 2023

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Buried long into an interminable New York Times thumbsucker about intergenerational wealth transfer and racial inequality comes this sentence: “The president’s latest budget proposes largely offsetting spending on social programs with revenue from a minimum 25 percent annual wealth tax on households with a net worth of $100 million or more.”

I follow this stuff pretty closely and somehow I missed Biden proposing a “25 percent annual wealth tax.”

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One Secret to a Latin American Party’s Dominance: Buying Votes

15th May 2023

New York Times.

In Paraguay, the Colorado Party has held power for seven decades. On Election Day, it rounds up Indigenous people and pays them for their votes.

Much the same way Democrats do ‘ballot harvesting’ in urban slums.

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Daniel Penny’s Mistake Was to Resist Mayhem

15th May 2023

The Spectator.

New York City seems like a gag that’s gone too far. “First, we’ll release all the criminals because too many black bodies are in prison! Then we’ll denounce the police as Nazis and refuse to prosecute any suspects they arrest. The city will be overrun with violent criminals — raping robbing, assaulting and killing at will… But if anyone steps up to protect the citizenry from the mayhem that’s been intentionally inflicted on them, well, gentleman, then we’ll prosecute the hell out of that douchebag.”

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Guess Who Stood For The National Anthem?

15th May 2023

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Guess who stood for the national anthem? Starting in 2020, WNBA start Brittney Griner said she and her teammates would protest the national anthem. Previously, “During a game between the Phoenix Mercury and the Los Angeles Sparks, the two teams walked off the court while the National Anthem played. Interestingly enough, Griner mentioned that this will not be the last time she would walk off the court.”

Fast-forward to her return to freedom in the United States and her first competitive game since her release, in a preseason Phoenix Mercury against the Los Angeles Sparks game, which took place Friday…

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Thought for the Day

15th May 2023

Infographic: The Cases Against Trump | Statista

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The Great Train Robbery

15th May 2023

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.

Trains take you from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be. That was fine when the alternative was horses or bicycles, but we have moved beyond that now.

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An Allahu Akhbar Moment in Mornas

15th May 2023

Gates of Vienna.

A culture-enricher attacked gendarmes with an iron bar and a knife in the town of Mornas in southeastern France. He shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during his close encounter with law enforcement, but the authorities say they have no clue as to his motive.

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

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

14th May 2023

Ron DeSantis tiptoes around Iowa as Trump cancels visit amid tornado threat

White Christian nationalism emerges from shadows of GOP politics (MSNBC)

San Francisco Democrat Pushes To Restrict Gun Use By Security Guards 

Clarence Thomas Is What He Wrongly Accuses Black Folks of Being (The Nation)

Defending white nationalists, Tommy Tuberville fears a military that is ‘going wrong’ (Washington Post) He’s not ‘defending white nationalists’, of course; that’s just the twist put on it by the WaPo.

How Women’s Swimming Got So Transphobic (The Nation)

MSNBC Host Katie Phang Accuses Daniel Penny of ‘Murder’ In Subway Death of Jordan Neely

Why Some Companies Are Saying ‘Diversity and Belonging’ Instead of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ (N.Y. Times)

DeSantis gets millions in taxpayer money to fight lawsuits over hard-right policies (Tallahassee Democrat)

How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations — And Make It Disappear (N.Y. Times) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Daniel Penny’s Supporters ‘Disgusted’ by Manslaughter Charge

Free speech or federal crime? Protesters are still marching outside conservative Supreme Court justices’ homes (NBC News) Federal crime–the law is clear, the Attorney General is partisan, and the Narrative media are biased.

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

14th May 2023

Recession Odds Rise To Highest In 40 Years: Fed

German newspaper cancels corruption report on Biden’s Albanian buddy

‘All We Want Is to Be Safe’: Migrants Push North After End of Title 42

The Disinformation Governance Board Is Out; The “Foreign Malign Influence Center” Is In…

Why Must the Washington Post Fact Checker Discount the Hunter Laptop Factor?  Because it’s contrary to the Narrative. Duh.

US Homeland Security Chief Says Border Crossings Are Down 50%

Comer: Key Informant in Biden Probe Is Missing  Apparently Biden has Hillary on speed-dial.

Chuck Todd Suggests GOP More to Blame for Border Crisis Than Biden  The Law of Liberal Projection strikes again.

McCaul: Will Pursue Contempt Charges on Blinken  How about ‘impeachment’?

The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense (N.Y. Times) NYT, Democrat mouthpiece.

7 doomsday scenarios if the U.S. crashes through the debt ceiling (Washington Post) WaP0, Democrat mouthpiece.

Biden Heads To Beach House To Recuperate After Grueling 5-Hour Work Week  (Babylon Bee)

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

14th May 2023

Trump Iowa Rally Rescheduled Over Weather

The 2024 election isn’t about normal things. It’s about Trump. (Washington Post)

Chris Christie: Trump a ‘Puppet of Putin’ With Ukraine Remark

Sketchy funding for Trump’s Truth Social was hidden from SEC and investors: report (Raw Story)

DeSantis Impresses in Iowa, Showing Up an Absent Trump (N.Y. Times) The only time you’ll see the NYT say something even vaguely positive about DeSantis is when it means they can bash Trump.

CORROBORATION: More women come forward about Trump’s sexual predation during presidency (Washington Presss) Let’s see … nope, nothing about Biden’s practice of grabbing women ans sniffing their hair.

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

14th May 2023

Biden previews 2024 election pitch to young Black voters in Howard University commencement speech (CNN)

Biden Warns of ‘Sinister Forces’ Trying to Reverse Racial Progress (N.Y. Times)

California Reparations Committee Calls for Ending Cash Bail

White Supremacy Is The ‘Most Dangerous Terrorist Threat,’ Biden Tells Howard Grads (Huffington Post)

Next Chairman of Joint Chiefs Wants White Male Officers to be a Minority

Biden calls white supremacy greatest terrorism threat as 2024 race heats up (Washington Post)O Count the number of people blown up by ‘white supremacists’ and by, say, Muslims.

Eric Adams Says He’s a Progressive. Democrats Beg to Differ. (N.Y. Times) Apparently he’s Not Black Enough.

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

14th May 2023

NYC’s ‘lack of communication’ on migrant dump ‘unacceptable,’ Mayor Mike Spano says (N.Y. Post)

New York City plans to temporarily house migrants in hotels in other counties. Two counties are suing to stop it (CNN)

Migrants have arrived in the Hudson Valley. What happens next? (Times-Untion)

The real reasons stores such as Walmart and Starbucks are closing in big cities (CNN)

This is the REAL reason for the retail apocalypse! Chains such as Walmart, Nordstrom and Walgreens are shuttering due to crime, work from home, online shopping and rising rents, experts say (UK Daily Mail)

Interview with a gender clinic whistleblower

Oregon GOP Walkout Targets Bills On Abortions For Children, Gun Control

After-School Satan Clubs Are Hot, Hot, Hot!

Alarming Surge In Gun Shop Robberies As Democrats Fail To Enforce Law And Order 

Election Group With Ties To Soros, Zuckerberg Meets In Washington For Conference Closed To Public

PBS, NPR Act Like Democrat Team Members in Live Coverage AND Bias By Omission

Heap Big Trouble For Fauxcahontas?

Oxford Union To Set Up “Welfare Spaces” For Students To Cope With Gender Debate

NYC Hotel Kicking Wedding Parties to Curb to Take in Migrants

Sen. Feinstein’s Stock Trades Get Aaron Rodgers’ Attention

Wedding Parties, Homeless Vets Booted From NY Hotels To Make Room For Migrants

Never Forget: A Retrospective On The Media Lies Surrounding COVID

WashPost Writer Philip Bump Lets Cat Out of the Bag on Zuckerbucks for Democrat Turnout

 

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George Floyd 2.0?

14th May 2023

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

The following question ought to be put publicly: If the person who died as the result of Daniel Penny’s brave act of self-defense had been white or Asian, would Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg have indicted Penny? Everyone knows the answer to this.

The left is clearly trying to re-run the George Floyd drill. In the aftermath of Floyd’s death, the nation’s ruling elite had a nervous breakdown. One good indicator of this is the database our friends at the Claremont Institute produced of contributions to Black Lives Matter and associated leftist race-related organizations in the aftermath of L’Affaire Floyd. The total comes to a staggering $97 billion (mostly from corporate sources indulging their liberal guilt and buying off their internal DEI faction lodged securely in their HR departments)—more than the GDP of 46 African countries. See more in Josh Hammer’s commentary in Newsweek.

Are we going to see a re-run of the Floyd/1619 Project riots again this summer, especially if—as I think possible—Daniel Penny’s indictment is dismissed at the first preliminary hearing? Will we see corporations rushing to open their checkbooks again to pay off the race-hustlers? Will there be shrines erected and public squares renamed in memory of Jordan Neely? I doubt it.

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“Gentlemen, there is no fighting in here…”

14th May 2023

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Minneapolis’s Ward 10 bisects Lake Bde Maka Spa, formerly known as Lake Calhoun. It includes the Uptown neighborhood running up to the lake as well as the Whittier neighborhood running from Lake Street to Franklin Avenue. It is, you might say in the current lingo, “diverse,” insofar as such diversity is understood to be consistent with one-party rule.

Minneapolis’s one party called a convention to endorse a candidate for the Ward 10 city council at Ella Baker Global Studies & Humanities Magnet School yesterday. Incumbent Aisha Chugtai (the council’s first Pakistani Muslim woman) is opposed by Nasri Warsame (a Somali Muslim man). As I say, it’s a “diverse” ward.

When Chugtai’s supporters took the stage for Chugtai’s speech, Warsame’s supporters advanced towards the stage and began pushing and shoving. It turned into a brawl and Chughtai was prevented from addressing the convention.

The problem with Normal Democrat Tactics is that their Subject Races think it applies to fellow Democrats.

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Thought for the Day

14th May 2023

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Berlin: Two Antisemitic Attacks Per Day in 2022

14th May 2023

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Newly published figures from the Research and Information Center on Antisemitism (RIAS) in Berlin have revealed that in Germany’s capital city, which percentage-wise hosts one of the largest Muslim populations of any major European capital, more than two antisemitic attacks per day were recorded in 2022.

In its report titled “Antisemitic Incidents in Berlin in 2022,” published on Wednesday, May 10th, RIAS Berlin, which kept track of all antisemitic incidents across all districts, social classes, and political orientations, recorded 848 anti-Jewish incidents of physical and verbal nature, a total which amounts to 2.3 incidents per day, the daily Berliner Zeitung reports.

One incident of extreme violence, 21 assaults, 31 targeted property damage, 24 threats, and 751 incidents of abusive behavior involving, among other things, 36 gatherings and 20 mass mailings were among the 848 antisemitic incidents that were recorded last year, the organization states in its report.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
Especially if
You might be a Jew.

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First Thing, Let’s Fire All the Teachers

14th May 2023

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Well, probably not all. But when did public school education become, on net, a force for evil? At some time after public sector unions were legalized in, as I recall, the 1960s. One of the worst mistakes in the history of our democracy. Now, the teachers’ unions have mobilized teachers as left-wing activists, and a great many of those who were not comfortable with that politicization have left the profession.

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Somehow, the Truth Gets Out

14th May 2023

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Democratic Party press has done its best to suppress the Joe Biden corruption story, beginning with the “Dirty 51” letter that successfully blocked the story during the 2020 presidential campaign, and continuing up to the present day. Moreover, when the issue has been discussed, it has far too often been framed as relating to Hunter Biden, as though Hunter, an unemployable and degenerate crackhead, had anything to sell to a foreign power. As I have written many times, no one has ever bribed Hunter Biden.

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Saman’s Dad Gets to Stay in Pakistan

14th May 2023

Gates of Vienna.

Saman Abbas was a young Pakistani woman living in Italy who was murdered in April of 2021, and is believed to have been honor-killed by her family. Saman’s father fled to Pakistan shortly after her death, and Italian prosecutors have been trying to extradite him for many months. The Pakistani government seems to be deliberately obstructing the process.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
And they don’t mind
If you’re Muslim too.

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