Archive for May, 2023
5th May 2023
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5th May 2023
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5th May 2023
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5th May 2023
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5th May 2023
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5th May 2023
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5th May 2023
Scott Johnson at Power Line.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is a fool. He nevertheless thinks extremely highly of himself. His vanity is only one component of his clown show. To borrow a line from Bob Dylan’s “Idiot Wind,” it’s a wonder he stills know how to breathe.
Heritage Foundation scholar Diana Furchtgott-Roth contributed the latest episode in Whitehouse’s long-running Looney Tunes saga when she testified on Wednesday before the Senate Budget Committee on “the real price of fossil fuels” (hearing posted here). As Director of Heritage’s Energy and Climate Center, Furchtgott-Roth testified on the real cost of Biden’s energy agenda.
Whitehouse posed a line of questions that sought to discredit Furchtgott-Roth on an ad hominem (or ad feminam) basis. The ad hominem attack is a logical fallacy in the context of public policy arguments. However, Furchtgott-Roth came ready to ramble. In the event, Whitehouse played Elmer Fudd to Furchtgott-Roth’s wascally wabbit. She turned Whitehouse’s shotgun blasts back on Whitehouse himself.
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5th May 2023
ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.
The war in Ukraine had dropped off the front page starting late last year with the Russians slowly grinding down the Ukrainians. Now that summer is not far away, it looks like things will start heating up. The recent drone attacks on the Kremlin have brought the war back to the front pages. The long promised Ukrainian offensive is due any week now and the Russians seem to be preparing something as well.
The drone attack on the Kremlin is another one of those times where you get a glimpse into the psyche of the people running the war for the regime. They greenlight a caper and then claim that the victim of the caper did it to himself. We saw this with the Nord Stream pipeline attack. At first, they cheered, then they made up a story about how the Russians blew up their own pipelines to make Washington look bad.
In this case, the story is the Russians attacked their own buildings so they can have an excuse to kill Zelensky. Poor Zelensky is traveling around Europe right now thinking he is about to get a polonium cocktail from room service. In his last public appearance, he looked like he was about to cry. There is now talk that he may not return to Ukraine at all and just do his job by zoom.
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5th May 2023
Quilette.
Like the rest of my generation, I have been anxious and apprehensive for as long as I can recall. The crippling anxieties of Gen-Z and younger millennials are everywhere apparent; we have a mental-health epidemic with a higher generational suicide risk, which have variously been attributed to awareness of worldly chaos, the COVID-19 pandemic, and chronic onlineness. We have grown up comfortable indoors, isolated with the computer, console, or TV, and reliant upon Instagram and disembodied voices in place of social interaction. We accept one or two posts as “news” and information we see online as “facts,” usually without further research. South Park has remodeled Cartman after the image of the doomscrolling, internally distraught Gen-Zer, and I can’t help but see myself and my peers in him. This generational affliction has hindered our ability to communicate and problem-solve, and the technology upon which we are so hopelessly dependent has only enabled an inflation of animosity and alienation, further aggravating a crisis of hyperpolarization and mental-health issues.
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5th May 2023
The American Mind.
Since Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 election, a rash of articles, surveys, and books have claimed that many—maybe even most—Americans in flyover country are “Christian nationalists.” That’s supposed to sound scary. But the term is mostly used as a smear against conservative Christians who defend the role of religion in American public life.
Sociologists Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry give the perceived threat a scholarly gloss in their recent book from Oxford University Press, Taking America Back for God. They define Christian nationalism as “an ideology that idealizes and advocates a fusion of American civic life with a particular type of Christian identity and culture.” What’s more, it “includes assumptions of nativism, white supremacy, patriarchy and heteronormativity, along with divine sanction for authoritarian control and militarism.” That’s quite a parade of horribles.
How many such people are there? In a survey conducted between 2007 and 2017, the pair found a whopping 52% support some form of Christian nationalism.
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5th May 2023
Washington Free Beacon.
Roughly 700,000 migrants are waiting in Mexico to cross the southern border upon the expiration of Title 42 next week, according to Border Patrol officials.
“Border Patrol shared with us their intelligence that there are approximately 700,000, as of three weeks ago, in the shelters in Mexico waiting to come into the United States,” Jonathan Lines, supervisor on Arizona’s Yuma County Board of Supervisors, said this week. He added that border officials said there is a 500 percent increase in migrants crossing the Darién Gap, which connects South and Central America.
Title 42, a pandemic-era rule that allows agents to immediately turn migrants away at the border, expires on May 11. Once it lapses, the Biden administration plans to expand catch and release protocols that will potentially allow hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants into the country.
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5th May 2023
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Illegal demonstrations apparently are continuing to take place at the homes of the Supreme Court justices despite federal law forbidding such activities.
Far-left activists with Our Rights DC posted video on Thursday evening showing them demonstrating at Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home, chanting, “We want ethics on the court.” Their remarks come as Democratic lawmakers call for the Supreme Court to adopt new processes for recusals and ethics allegations—essentially making the court answerable to Congress.
This protesting has frequently occurred in spite of 18 U.S. Code 1507, which forbids picketing or parading “in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer” with the intent of intimidating or influencing that person.
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5th May 2023
The Foundry.
If you search “San Francisco crime spike” on the internet, you will find countless stories—going back years—about how the city’s problems are no big deal or are due to forces beyond the control of its policymakers.
The problem isn’t crime, it’s crime rhetoric, they say.
But rhetoric didn’t cause a cascade of businesses to close and flee the city.
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It’s better to pay a few extra bucks for shipping than to wait around in a store for a clerk to open a case for shaving cream or to get sucker-punched by a deranged, drug-addled lunatic in Aisle 5.
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5th May 2023
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Stretched limos are gone for now, but luxury chauffeur services are still thriving. It’s just the mode of transport has changed. And in a country where progressive policies have sparked a nationwide crime wave in major metro areas, no one in their right mind would dare drive around in a moving target.
One of the virtues (if one can call it that) of high urban crime rates is that it persuades rich people to be less conspicuously consumptive.
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5th May 2023
Victor Davis Hanson.
How odd that those on the Left who in the past decried “American imperialism” are now proving the greatest imperialists of all.
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5th May 2023
The Foundry.
The White House wants every K-12 student to be part of the welfare system. And in its zeal to achieve that goal, pesky things like Congress or the risk of expanding already poorly performing programs pose no obstacles.
President Joe Biden’s administration is continuing the work of President Barack Obama’s team and trying to put as many students as possible on federal school meal programs. The current administration is proposing a significant expansion of school meals, turning a program meant for children from low-income families into an entitlement—akin to welfare—for all students.
Created in 1946 to help poor school-aged children who did not have food to eat at school, the National School Lunch Program has since spawned breakfast and other meal services.
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5th May 2023
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5th May 2023
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According to a report from Chicago’s WGN9, a hidden AirTag led to the arrest of two men who stole $1.1 million from an armored Brink truck. The device was hidden in one of the plastic money bins, likely placed there by the asset owner.
The men removed seven plastic bins containing about $100,000 each and ten deposit bags worth $50,000 each. After transporting the stolen money across town and through a few hiding spots, the money and the AirTag arrived at the suspect’s hideout.
They don’t make hideouts like they used to.
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4th May 2023
Joe Biden took 2011 White House campus meeting with three Hunter associates, emails show (N.Y. Post)
Mexico will continue to take migrants rejected from US after Title 42 ends as part of landmark agreement (N.Y. Post)
U.S., Mexico announce immigration agreement, but border crisis still expected to worsen (CBS News)
US, Mexico agree on tighter immigration policies at border (Associated Press)
Florida GOP Passes Bill Funding More Migrant Flights
House Oversight Panel Subpoenas FBI for Document Alleging Biden ‘Bribery Scheme’
Watchdog: IRS Has Spent $10M On Weapons, Ammo, & Combat Gear Since 2020
Dem-Controlled Senate Defies Biden in Vote to Restore Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels
Debt Ceiling, No Worries? Biden Offers $500K Grant For ‘Pakistani Transgender Youth’ To Learn English
Nets Ignore BOMBSHELL Report Implicating Biden in Bribery Scheme
US Navy Enlists Drag Queen For ‘Digital Ambassador’ Role To Attract More Recruits
Sen. Sinema: Biden Admin Border Claims ‘Not True’
IRS’s ‘Non-Partisan’ Pick to Study Tax System Isn’t So Non-Partisan
Joe Biden, bad feminist
Biden proposes 30 percent tax on cryptominers’ power bills If it moves, tax it.
Sinema the Mastermind Behind Biden’s Key Victories
Biden Troop Surge Just ‘Smoke and Mirrors’
‘I can’t believe I fought for this bulls**t’: Navy SEAL who helped kill Osama Bin Laden fumes over Navy’s decision to use drag queen for their recruitment program (UK Daily Mail)
US Fentanyl-Related Deaths More Than Tripled Over 5 Years
Senator Britt: Biden Admin ‘Willfully Chose Not to Enforce’ Law Protecting Supreme Court Justices
Biden’s Latest Dim-Bulb Idea: Military Electric Vehicles
New Footage Shows El Paso Engulfed In ‘Mass Migration Dumpster Fire’ As State Of Emergency Declared
Trade Group Says Biden Aims ‘Death Blow’ at New England Fishing Industry With Sharp Catch Limit, Wind Farms
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4th May 2023
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4th May 2023
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4th May 2023
Bud Light is facing an ‘unmitigated disaster’ that is only getting worse, says Clay Travis (Fox)
Bud Light to give a FREE case of beer to every wholesale employee as it begs for forgiveness after Dylan Mulvaney fiasco, as expert warns firm’s ‘compass is broken’ (UK Daily Mail)
Jim Jordan to Probe Response to SCOTUS Protests
Red States Ban Destructive Transgender Treatments as K-12 Schools Funnel Children to Dangerous Path
Kavanaugh Wasn’t the Only Justice Endangered by the Dobbs Leak
North Carolina GOP Rushes New Abortion Ban After Democrat Suddenly Switched Parties (Huffington Post)
Two-Thirds of Murders in Dem Stronghold of Chicago Go Unsolved
Nordstrom, Saks OFF 5th Become Latest High-End Companies To Flee Crime-Ridden San Francisco
Gun Sales Surge in States Suppressing Firearms
Gov. Newsom Activates National Guard And Highway Patrol To Combat San Francisco’s Drug Crisis
Supreme Court Intervenes After Gun Rights Advocates Challenge “Assault Weapons” Bans In Illinois City
Out With A Whimper: House Democrat Plot To Kill Debt Ceiling Measure Flops
8th Graders’ US History Scores at All-Time Low
Rep. Frankel Sold Stock in Bank Before Collapse
N.Y., Calif. See $92B Income Outflow During COVID
EXCLUSIVE: 16 Attorneys General Back Florida Rule Blocking Medicaid Funds for ‘Experimental’ Transgender Interventions
Michelle Obama Starts Kids’ Food Brand to Fight Obesity And make a little money, of course.
Google Bans UK Staff From Saying ‘Man Hours’
About a dozen protesters arrested while singing in DeSantis’ office during sit-in (Tallahassee Democrat–at least they’re honest about it)
5 Insane Democrat Bills That Broadcast Networks Are Ignoring
Pro-Abortion Site Vox Worries That Embryos May Feel Pain. Just Not Human Embryos.
Chicago Mayor Begs Texas Governor To Stop Busing Illegal Immigrants
Worse Than Google: 83% of News Outlets on Bing Homepage Lean Left, ZERO Lean Right
Bud Light to Triple Ad Spend to Counter Sales Slide
California’s population declines, again, as state grapples with housing crisis
AOC Slams NY Mayor Over Death of Homeless Man Caught on Video He was a threat, and he was subdued. Unfortunate that he died, but he was still a threat.
AOC And NYC Mayor Adams In Giant Spat Over Death Of Michael Jackson Impersonator In Subway Choking Incident
Mayor Eric Adams: AOC’s Subway Killing Tweets Irresponsible We knew that.
Liberal Fact Check of Teachers’ Union Boss Randi Weingarten Gets Fact-Checked
Left’s Scorched-Earth Strategy to Retake Supreme Court Is Sign of Just How Desperate It Is to Hold Onto Institutional Power
Drag Queen ‘Shangela’ Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Former Production Assistant
Florida mayors pledge support for LGBTQ community amid passage of restrictive bills (ABC News) All Democrats, of course.
Florida Election Reforms Upheld by 11th Circuit, Overruling Error-Filled Decision by Biased Judge
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4th May 2023
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4th May 2023
New video reveals Tucker Carlson’s coarse remark about Dominion lawyer (The Guardian) Coarse!
The other thing that Tucker Carlson’s text message makes undeniable (Washington Post) Philip Bump is undeniable. Undeniable!
See the text that may have gotten Tucker Carlson fired (CNN) ThoughtCrime!
“How White Men Fight” (Mother Jones) White men aren’t allowed to fight!
Newly revealed text confirms Tucker Carlson is also privately racist (MSNBC) As opposed to MSNBC, which is publicly racist.
Uh, Oh! NPR Gets Triggered Over Elon Musk — Again
Poll: 36 Percent Would Watch Carlson Online
Dem Senator: Scalia accepted over 70 undisclosed gifts similar to Clarence Thomas (AlterNet)
Emails Reveal ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Herschel Walker Money Scandal (Daily Beast) Jaw-dropping!
Calif. Teacher Fired Over Gender Policies Sues
Attempt To Remove Soros-Backed Prosecutor Moves Forward; She Vows To Fight ‘Witch Hunt’
‘He’s Wrong,’ Expert Says as Education Secretary Implies Book Banning Responsible for Falling Civics, History Scores
Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition. (ProPublica) Think of it as reparations in action. Crow still has no business before the Supreme Court.
Daughter of Representative Katherine Clark sentenced to probation for assault on Boston police officer (Boston Globe) Good thing she wasn’t a Republican or she’d be in prison for years.
Scarborough Ignores Sotomayor News To Ask What If Thomas ‘Were Justice Sotomayor’
Liberal SCOTUS Justice Took $3M From Book Publisher, Didn’t Recuse From Its Cases (Daily Wire)
CNN Welcomes Back Toobin To Attack Clarence Thomas As Unethical
Hate-Filled KC Star Smears Pro-Women Group as ‘Anti-Trans,’ Refuses to Run Op-Ed
The GOP megadonors with buyer’s remorse (MSNBC) Charlie Sykes goes full prog.
Media Matters Accidentally Makes Tucker Carlson Look Awesome With ‘Leaked’ Videos
ABC, NBC Buzzards Circle Justice Thomas, Ignore NEW Sotomayor Book Scandal
MSNBC Admits No Evidence Of Corruption, Still Demands Thomas Resign Or Be Impeached
Top Senate Democrats push for new ethics rules in wake of Clarence Thomas report as Republicans defend justice (CNN)
GOP frontrunner for NC governor mocked school shooting survivors and once justified shooting protesters (CNN)
Lauren Boebert hit with new campaign finance complaint for ‘illegally spending $60,000’ (Raw Story)
In defense of Justice Thomas
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4th May 2023
Ben Shapiro.
This week, the media found its latest iteration of its favorite narrative: white man harms black man.
That iteration featured a 24-year-old white Marine from Queens attempting to suppress a 30-year-old homeless, psychotic black man, Jordan Neely, via use of a suppression hold. Neely was apparently threatening people on the subway when the Marine took him down from behind, keeping him in the suppression hold for 15 minutes; Neely died shortly thereafter.
The extraordinarily inflammatory and insipid Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., immediately rushed to Twitter in order to gin up outrage: “Jordan Neely was murdered. But bc Jordan was houseless and crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services to militarize itself while many in power demonize the poor, the murderer gets protected w/ passive headlines + no charges. It’s disgusting.”
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4th May 2023
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A freshman Democratic congressman who just happens to represent Wall Street made a perfectly timed sale of his ownership stake in a troubled California bank, exiting his position just days before it saw its stock price enter freefall.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D., N.Y.), who represents the Financial District in Lower Manhattan, sold upwards of $15,000 worth of stocks of PacWest Bancorp on March 6, his financial disclosures show. The timing of Goldman’s sale couldn’t have been more fortuitous—its stock plummeted in value just two days later as investors fled from small and mid-sized banks amid news of Silicon Valley Bank’s pending failure. PacWest’s stock was valued at $27.40 the day Goldman exited his position in the bank. It’s now worth just $3.42, a staggering decline of more than 87 percent.
Such trades are standard fare for Goldman, who is giving former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) a run for her money as Congress’s most prolific stock trader. In his first four months in office, Goldman has made over 500 stock trades valuing between $10 million and $30 million, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of his financial disclosures.
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4th May 2023
The American Mind.
In an incident sadly familiar to many New Yorkers, a man living on the streets with a long history of mental illness started screaming, acting erratically, and threatening the people sharing his subway car earlier this week. “I don’t mind going to jail and getting life in prison,” screamed the 30-year-old Jordan Neely, who had 44 arrests under his belt and an outstanding warrant for felony assault, as he flailed around throwing items of his clothing. “I’m ready to die!”
In response, a 24-year-old Marine Corps veteran put Neely in a chokehold, incapacitating him and releasing him after he stopped struggling and passed out. A freelance reporter who took video of the incident, Juan Alberto Vazquez, told news outlets that no one on the train initially thought Neely was in any worse shape than being unconscious, but by the time the police who met the train at the station took him to a nearby hospital, Neely was pronounced dead.
Police questioned the young man, whose name they did not make public, but released him without charges pending an investigation. In the next 36 hours, the usual suspects began to gin up the outrage machine. Readers online lambasted The New York Times for not immediately declaring Neely a murder victim and characterized the incident as having racist implications; Neely is black, and the Marine is white. Governor Kathy Hochul declared the case “troubling.” AOC tweeted, “Jordan Neely was murdered” and declared that funding the police is “militarized” and “disgusting.” By the end of the week, it’s likely Jordan Neely will be on the front of every paper, forcing the country to consider whether erratic and threatening behavior from someone clearly out of his mind justifies the application of force in self-defense.
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4th May 2023
Ann Coulter.
Having failed to destroy Clarence Thomas 32 years ago with preposterous sexual harassment charges (disbelieved at the time by 60% of Americans), now the left is resorting to attacking the ethics of a man vastly more honorable than the collection of degenerates reviling him.
The sole purpose of the media’s sudden fixation on the Supreme Court’s “ethics” is to morally intimidate conservative justices by reminding them that the left controls the culture. Since they lost abortion, liberals have been in a panic that the court will junk other liberal sacraments, like gay marriage and affirmative action, too. That’s the reason for the stream of calumnies directed at the justices.
As usual, the main target of the left’s rage is Thomas. We’re supposed to be appalled that Thomas’ billionaire friend Harlan Crow took the justice and his wife on a vacation that (the media claim) would have cost Thomas more than $500,000!!!
Well, yeah, but Thomas and his wife, Ginny, weren’t going alone. They hadn’t just won a cruise sweepstakes. They were joining Crow on a vacation he was taking anyway. Cost to donor: a few extra chicken cutlets and string beans.
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The media want us to believe that generosity from personal friends is an ethical issue, but that’s because that’s not how liberals bribe government officials. They bombard their targets with the sort of public adoration that money can’t buy — or the sort of public hate that money can’t block. Your choice: Be beloved from every corner of society or be subjected to nonstop ridicule.
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4th May 2023
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4th May 2023
Associated Press.
Republican state senators in Oregon didn’t show up to work on Wednesday, denying the Democrats who control the chamber a quorum and casting doubt on planned votes later this week on legislation pertaining to gun safety, abortion rights and gender-affirming health care.
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4th May 2023
The Spectator.
Cockburn spotted a news story this morning that had him spitting out his breakfast cocktail of bourbon and vicodin (difficult to do these days). He read that the US Navy has appointed a nonbinary drag queen, “Harpy Daniels” as a “digital ambassador” charged with recruiting new members to the military. Cockburn’s brief time in Navy Yard means that he knows sailors have unorthodox tastes, but come on.
Surely, this must be the handiwork of some rogue underling with access to the Navy’s TikTok password — although isn’t TikTok banned on official military devices? In the wake of the Dylan Mulvaney backlash, which has seen Bud Light stock plummet 17 percent since partnering with the trans activist, could this really have been an edict from the Navy’s top brass?
Yet apparently, Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, known on stage as “Harpy Daniels” (not to be confused with Stormy), has indeed been a digital ambassador for the Navy since November 2022. A Navy spokesman told the Mail Online that “the digital ambassador program was a pilot that ended in March 2023.” In the time since, Daniels has been, appropriately enough, cosplaying as Sailor Moon (not an official rank within the US Navy).
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4th May 2023
The American Mind.
It might not matter whom Republicans run for president in 2024.
America’s propaganda press traffics in disinformation. Its Big Tech oligarchs censor news and information helpful to conservatives, while elevating biased news and information that helps the Left. And its election systems have been overrun by privately funded groups that run Democratic “get out the vote” campaigns to traffic ballots into ballot boxes. We catalogued this particularly complex problem in Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.
Instead of election day, we now have an “election season”—during which, over a period of months, we flood homes across the country with tens of millions of mail-in ballots, regardless of whether secretaries of state or local registrars have any idea if those ballots are being sent to the correct addresses. This in a country where 11% of residents move every year. We then wait for sophisticated partisan turnout operations funded by activist billionaires and run by ideological statisticians to round up those ballots in entirely selective ways.
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3rd May 2023
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3rd May 2023
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3rd May 2023
Judge Rejects Zooey Zephyr Effort to Return to Montana House
House Democrats prepare long shot plan to try to force debt ceiling increase (ABC News)
California Bill Would Require Books on ‘All Gender Expressions’ in Every Elementary School
Congress Failed to Hold DOJ, FBI, ATF Accountable for 1993 Waco Disaster. Something Like It Could Happen Again.
Democrat Cities Have Highest Homicide Rates, Report Finds
Oregon ‘Gender-Affirming,’ Abortion Access Bill Advances to State Senate
Ireland Government’s Hate Speech Bill Promotes ‘Thought Crime Legislation’
Lina Khan: We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How. (N.Y. Times) “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” — Benito Mussolini.
Switzerland Wants Children to Eat Less Chocolate, More Insects (Wall Street Journal)
Pro-Life? Leftists Accidentally Acknowledge Serena Williams Is Pregnant With a Baby, Not a Clump of Cells
‘They Worked Together,’ CNN Relitigates And Denies The 2000 Election
Nordstrom Closing 2 San Francisco Stores, Cites Crime
It’s Not Just Math and Reading: U.S. History Scores for 8th Graders Plunge
European Green War on Agriculture: Farmers Banned for Life if they Want Compensation
The View Denies Existence of Antifa, ‘Thought it Was a Kitty Cat’ Name
Germany: Trans Women Will Be Drafted as Men Heh.
Calling A Bluff: Florida Man Shows Fallacies Of Inclusivity By Winning Women’s Poker Event
Dem Rep Katie Porter’s Hand-Picked Replacement Just Got a DUI
Nashville Police Block Release of Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto Every public employee every day: “We can’t tell people that!”
Caught Off Base: Illinois Lobbyists’ Bribery Convictions Stop Political Softball Game Put on by Lobbyists
Footage Found Of Gas Stove Participating In Jan 6 Riot (Babylon Bee)
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3rd May 2023
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3rd May 2023
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3rd May 2023
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3rd May 2023
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3rd May 2023
ZeroHedge.
Following Tucker Carlson’s ouster from Fox News, the network has experienced a precipitous decline in ratings, while Carlson has been receiving offers left and right from other networks.
For starters, Patrick Bet-David, CEO of online content company Valuetainment, offered former Fox News host Tucker Carlson a $100 million deal over five years, plus a board seat at the company, in a high-profile courting attempt on Tuesday.
“Dear Tucker, I’ll get right to the point. We want you to partner with us in what we feel is a noble and necessary effort to define the future of media,” wrote David, who also hosts the Valuetainment brand’s podcast, in the opening of the letter of intent posted on Twitter on May 2 according to the Epoch Times.
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3rd May 2023
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A Heritage Foundation economist called out Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., for his membership in a whites-only club in response to the senator’s attack on the conservative think tank.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center For Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, also made clear fossil fuels played a larger role in Whitehouse’s personal wealth than the budget of Heritage. (The Daily Signal is the multi-media news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
“I don’t have the benefit of being able to rely on a family fortune made in the Minnesota gas business, or having my spouse’s family fortune come from United Gas,” Furchtgott-Roth said. “And The Heritage Foundation is a club that anyone can join, not just white people. During 2021, it had hundreds of thousands of individual, foundation and corporate supporters representing every state in the United States.”
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3rd May 2023
ZMan peers through the bars.
One of the interesting elements to the Tucker Carlson story is that no one knows why he was fired, but lots of people are sure they know why he was fired. The only thing from Fox so far has been a brief statement in which they announced his departure and thanked him for his service to the company. Carlson made a short video from his home studio telling his fans that everything is going to be fine. Otherwise, there is nothing solid on which to base a theory.
The best reason so far was the first reason. The timing suggested it had something to do with the lawsuit Fox was forced to settle with Dominion over their coverage of the election shenanigans. Facing a rigged trial, Fox agreed to pay Dominion an absurd amount of money for hurting their feelings and the feelings of the crazies who demand we believe Joe Biden is more popular than Jesus. Right after they made the deal, Tucker and Dan Bongino get fired.
Given the nastiness of the people who chant “election denier” it is perfectly reasonable to think they would demand a pound of flesh from Fox. Many of the crazies jumped on this idea because it made them feel like winners. On the other hand, the Murdoch clan may have decided that they were dragged into this mess by people like Carlson, so they were going to purge the ranks of these people. Again, the timing of this is what lends support to the claim Carlson was fired over the lawsuit.
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3rd May 2023
UnHerd.
The loss of faith across the West in our institutions, leaders and representatives in recent years has been radical. When, I wonder, did that contract expire? Maybe in 2003, when the lies with which the Iraq war was launched were so blatant that even those telling them seemed unconvinced. Or maybe later, in 2016, when Brexit happened and Donald Trump happened and European “populism” happened, and suddenly any opposition to liberal globalism became fascism or bigotry or the work of Russian bots.
But it was the pandemic — or rather, the response to it — that changed everything for me. I hadn’t been prepared see, in my allegedly free and democratic country, a merger of corporate power, state power and media power in the service of constructing a favoured narrative, of the kind which had previously only characterised totalitarian regimes. What the Covid regime brought home to me was that I had not, despite what I believed, really understood the real nature of power until I saw it exercised in its raw form over my life. Specifically, I had not understood the power of the state.
Nothing has the power or reach of a modern state. Its sheer scale and strength gives it the ability to corral, organise, define, measure and control its population in a manner that is unmatched in human history, and that power only grows and deepens. The momentum of a state is always towards the centre, always towards the agglomeration of more power. A state is like a black hole: at a certain point, it begins to suck in everything around it. As it grows, it will tell stories that justify its existence. Democracy, liberty and progress are some of the more recent banners beneath which state power has gathered, but there have been others: racial or ethnic homogeneity, human equality, religious purity. All of these stories have the potential to unite a people around a state core.
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3rd May 2023
Read it.
That the West is synonymous with the idea of liberal democracy is common thinking nowadays. That sentiment is amplified and strengthened with the pretty unanimous backing of Ukraine against Russian aggression by the countries considered to be part of the West.
Such thinking is well conveyed in the last interview of the famous American historian Stephen Kotkin, conducted by Peter Robinson. For Kotkin, the West is characterized by strong independent institutions, a free judiciary, the rule of law, etc. Or more broadly speaking, by liberal democracy. Thus, it is quite logical that he included “North America, Europe, the first island chain in Asia, and many other partners, Israel, in the Middle East” in the West. He added that the West “needs to be expanded and needs to be cultivated like a garden.” This is different from the “civilizational” definition of the West in Samuel Huntington’s famous book The Clash of Civilizations, according to which the Catholic and Protestant countries in Europe, along with the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, constitute Western civilization.
Does Kotkin’s trans-geographical and transcultural understanding of the West imply that the U.S., Great Britain, or France cease to be part of the West if they become autocratic? Given that Kotkin defined “Western” countries as liberal democratic ones, it is interesting that India is not included in the West, although it has never ceased to be a democracy since its independence from the British Empire in late 1940s. The exclusion of India makes sense when we consider the rest of Kotkin’s narrative in which the democratic West is fighting autocratic Russia.
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3rd May 2023
Steve Sailer.
A central conundrum of the 2020s is why respectable opinion has gotten so out of touch with reality on questions touching race, such as crime. Are mainstream pundits lying, intimidated, deluded, hate-filled, or just stupid?
It’s an important and difficult question.
I ponder this because I’ve developed a reputation as the go-to guy on Twitter when celebrities say something smugly stupid about crime statistics. Most every day I see a tweet summoning me by showing Batman staring up at the Bat-Signal of my avatar, the 18th hole at Cypress Point Golf Club. (Yeah, it’s pretty cool.)
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3rd May 2023
John Stossel.
Why don’t people in Latin America learn from the mistakes of the past? Gloria Alvarez, a social media star from Guatemala, is running for president of her country to try to educate people about the damage socialism does.
People do need educating.
“It’s like Stockholm syndrome,” says Alvarez in my new video. “When you ask people, ‘Who should take care of health, education, football, arts, whatever?’ They always answer, ‘government.’ How are you going to not have corruption if you leave everything in the hands of the government?”
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3rd May 2023
Cal Thomas.
The very term “debt limit” makes a mockery of any kind of responsible budgeting. Each time the government reaches the “limit” it gets raised with the familiar scenarios that include threats of a government shutdown (an idea that increasingly appeals to some conservatives) and the claim that the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. is at stake. We have faith and credit? Who knew?
Republicans usually cave, or in the case of a shutdown, succumb to media pressure and the Democrats and allow the spending and debt to grow, along with trillions in interest on our $31.4 trillion debt.
And Republicans are no different. President Ronald Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. President Obama halved that to $600 billion. Trump jumped it back to 3.3 trillion.
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3rd May 2023
The Foundry.
Following an 18-part investigative series in The New York Times alleging various forms of maleducation and malfeasance in New York City yeshivas, the city began implementing regulations targeting these Hasidic Jewish day schools.
These included requiring certain classes (currently not taught at yeshivas) to be taught for a specified length, allowing the New York City Public School System to declare yeshivas “non-compliant” and send parents to jail for truancy for sending children there, and allowing New York to investigate any private school after a complaint from any individual (not just from parents, teachers, or students of yeshivas).
Last month, a New York district court struck down these regulations, but the state has filed a notice that it is appealing the decision.
Hasidic community leaders have complained that the Times reporters, who are now under consideration for a Pulitzer Prize, presented a profoundly biased and inaccurate portrait of their schools.
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3rd May 2023
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3rd May 2023
Steven Hayward at Power Line.
Keeping up with the insane manifestations of wokery could be a full time job, and it is becoming repetitious and boring, like climate change. But wokesters, in apparent competition for peak clownery, keep saying, “Hold my Bud Light—watch this!”
So behold the Essex Wexford School District in Vermont, which will cease referring to fifth graders as boys or girls:
Glenn Reynolds has been saying for years now that sending your kids to public school is child abuse. And no wonder home schooling is soaring.
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