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Here’s what never happened in the hospital during COVID:

…a doctor sat down next to a patient and said,

“You have a choice.  

We can give you Remdesivir, which killed 53% of the patients in an Ebola trial.  It was so bad the trial had to be shut down.  And you’ll notice here in Remdesivir’s fact sheet, it says, ‘Not a lot of people have used Remdesivir.  Serious and unexpected side effects may happen.’  

Or we can give you ivermectin, a safe and effective drug that’s been successfully used for decades, and send you home.  Which do you prefer?”

The reason that conversation never happened is that it would have cost the hospital too much money.  If the hospital gave you ivermectin and sent you home, the federal government paid the hospital $3,200.  If the hospital gave you Remdesivir, the federal government paid the entire hospital bill, plus a 20% bonus.  So the hospital executives’ choice was to receive $3,200 or $500,000, which was the average hospital bill.  No contest.  Patients were going to get Remdesivir — whether they wanted it or not.

The Foundry.

Want a soda? You’ll pay more for one in Philadelphia, because five years ago, local politicians decided to tax it.

They’re “protecting” people, they said. The tax would “reduce obesity” and “lower diabetes rates.”

But the politicians’ main goal was to bring in more money, which they said would “fund early childhood education” and “help a lot of families.”

The Foundry.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says he would eliminate five federal agencies if elected.

Ramaswamy, a successful entrepreneur and businessman, says he is eyeing the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Education, and the Commerce Department, Axios first reported Wednesday. The Republican hopeful also targets the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

“The CEO, the leader of the executive branch, does indeed have the authority to decide who is and is not hired in the executive branch,” Ramaswamy said Wednesday in a speech at the America First Policy Institute. “Speaking as a CEO, if somebody works for you and you can’t fire them, that means they don’t work for you. It means you work for them.”

A climate scientist wanted to start a debate in academia. He set off a bigger firestorm (L.A. Times)

Interior Department: US must update century-old mining law to meet climate goals (The Hill)

Renewed Forced-Labor Cloud Darkens Solar’s Moment In The Las Vegas Sun

Newsom announces climate-focused trip to China (Politico)

The UK’s Coming Eco-Totalitarianism

Shocking Failures of Climate and Covid Science Highlighted by Critical New Report

The Biden Administration Misleads Public On Vast Expanses Of Land Needed For ‘Net Zero’

Financial services ‘colluding’ with ‘climate activists’ to promote ESG, attorneys general say

Fox’s Jeanine Pirro Goes Quiet When Colleague Points Out She’s Vaccinated (Daily Beast)

First Case Of White Dot Syndrome Emerged After COVID-19 Vaccine And Subsequent Infection, Study Shows

Everyone should get a COVID booster this fall, CDC says (Ars Technica)

Forensic Analysis Of Deaths In Pfizer’s Early mRNA Vaccine Trial Found Significant Inconsistencies

COVID Cancellations Are Back: California High Schools Cancel Football Games

Covid may have permanently damaged people’s immunity

GOP lawyer with ties to three Trump rivals enters 14th Amendment fray (Washington Poop)

Trump Has Been Privately Encouraging G.O.P. Lawmakers to Impeach Biden (N.Y. Times) ‘Privately’?

Trump’s Agenda47: Abolish Department of Education  Jimmy Carter’s legacy under threat.

Hostin/Farah Admit to Evidence Against Biden, Argue Trump Was Worse

Court Blocks Special Counsel’s Access to Rep. Perry’s Records

White House to send letter to news execs urging outlets to ‘ramp up’ scrutiny of GOP’s Biden impeachment inquiry ‘based on lies’ (CNN)

Biden Cronies Scramble To Deny the Obvious in Big Tech Censorship Lawsuit

Impeachment Inquiry Shows Kevin McCarthy Is a Hostage In His Own House (Daily Beast)

Focus on ‘Woke’ Policies Puts US Military ‘Posture in Danger’

Playbook: What we know about the Biden impeachment push (Politico)

Inflation Accelerates to 3.7% on Gas Price Spike

Small Business Optimism Falls As Inflation Persists & Companies Struggle To Find New Workers

WATCH: Karine Jean-Pierre Struggles To Explain Biden’s Most Elderly Moments

Bidenomics: A Trainwreck for the U.S. Economy

Biden’s DHS and HHS Now a ‘Child Trafficking Delivery Service,’ Tim Ballard Says

Republicans’ unfounded impeachment inquiry of Biden, explained (Vox) Gitcher Narrative, right here.

Nets Scream ‘No Evidence’ in Gleeful Compliance to WH Memo on Biden Impeachment

White House Says Iran Deal Is ‘Not Ransom’ 

FBI official refutes top GOP claims on Hunter Biden investigation (The Hill)

Biden WH Blaming NYC Mayor Adams for Migrant Crisis

New Mexico Gun Ban a ‘Political Gesture’ Without Legal Basis

Darcy’s Farce: CNN Backs Team Biden’s Letter Telling Media To Get Tougher On GOP!

Lauren Boebert ditches the MAGA thing in Colorado (Politico) ‘MAGA’ is the New Nigger.

RFK Jr. Telegraphs Threat To Abandon Democrat Party

College Lacrosse Coach Ousted From Position After Speaking Up Against Male Athletes Competing Against Women

So Much for Free Speech: Judge Rules YouTube Can Keep on Censoring

The Right-Wing Conspiracy-Fest Is More Openly Bloodthirsty Than Before (The New Republic)

Randi Weingarten Cites ‘Uptown Klan’ Argument to Demonize Parental Rights Movement

Russia’s Navy Port At Sevastopol On Fire After Massive Ukraine Missile Attack

Poland Will Continue To Block Ukrainian Grain Whatever The EU Commission Decides

Smuggled Russian Weapons Appear in Northern Ireland

Ukraine Attacks Shipyard as Crimea Operation Ramps Up

PACAF Head: China Risks ‘Disaster’ With Aircraft Intercepts

Taiwan Says 28 Chinese Air Force Planes Enter Defense Zone

Trans Spox Says Ukraine Will Hunt Down “Russian Propagandists” Around The World

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If Fani Willis were filing her charges against Trump, et al., in Florida, she would likely have been fired by now by Gov DeSantis. She is completely outside her jurisdiction in filing charges against Trump and his associates in Fulton County. No crime was committed under county jurisdiction. (No crime was committed, period–as with all things Trump, comments were purposefully miscontrued in order to charge him, as occured with all of these other charges in all other venues, from the Russia collusion hoax originating from a misconstrued comment by Papadopoulus by an Australian diplomat, to Trump’s comments to Zelensky, to his comments on Jan 6, etc.) Events transpired in the State House and the Governor’s office.

State jurisdiction, at a minimum, and far more appropriately federal jurisdiction (if one can call absolute disregard of the First Amendment appropriate), is the venue for such charges. And when Jim Jordan starts investigating her, and she goes ballistic, claiming interference in a criminal case. Jordan should have replied that she is patently attempting to interfere with a federal election, held her in contempt, and referred her for criminal charges. She is attempting to locally criminalize federal political speech and illegally influence an election.

ZMan turns over a rock.

Walk into any grocery store in America and the first thing you will experience is a lie. Typically, the produce section is located at the front of the store. There will be piles of fruits and vegetables labeled organic, but as a practical matter there is no such thing. Even if the fruit is grown according to the rules of the organic cult, the suppliers lose track of it long before it reaches the store, so there is no way to know what is organic and what is inorganic.

The stores know this. They put the best-looking stuff on the table marked organic and jack up the price to reinforce the lie. The suppliers know this, and the growers know it too, if you can get them to be honest about it. Everything about that organic tomato you bought is a lie, including your belief that it is better than the other tomato. You reward yourself by accepting the lie. You reward the store for lying to you and the store rewards its suppliers for lying to them. It is liars all the way down.

You have made it a few feet into the store, and you are deluged with lies. Venture further and you are swimming in an ocean of lies. The packaging of food is carefully designed to trick consumers. Tens of billions of dollars have gone into figuring out how to trick people into buying things. Of course, everything about the American diet is a lie perpetrated by the government at the behest of agribusiness. A man from Planet Candor would be horrified by the frozen food section.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Earlier today, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. released this indictment of the Democratic National Committee. Why, he asks, is the Democratic Party opposed to democracy? Why is it rigging the primary process? I am not certain whether what he says about the DNC’s machinations is correct, nor am I sure what he considers to be real democracy. (For example, it has never been true that the candidate who gets the most votes across all of the primaries wins the nomination.) But his willingness to take on the DNC, recalling how that body conspired to deny Bernie Sanders the nomination in 2016, will be a real headache for them:

Washington Free Beacon.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D., N.Y.) office says she isn’t married. But she has described her fiancé, Riley Roberts, as her “spouse” in forms filed with the House Ethics Committee in 2023, which has a strict definition of that term—”someone to whom you are legally married.”

That could become a problem for the left-wing darling, since willful misrepresentations on the documents are a no-no—they could subject her to criminal prosecution, the forms state—and members of Congress are required to disclose the financial information of their spouses, which Ocasio-Cortez has declined to do.

But taken at face value, four legal filings submitted to the House Ethics Committee pertaining to AOC’s overseas travels in 2022 and 2023 suggest the pair have been legally married at least since Jan. 13, 2023. If that is the case, the “Squad” member can no longer leverage the so-called boyfriend loophole to evade public disclosure of his finances. While lawmakers are required to disclose financial information about their spouses, live-in romantic partners and fiancés are exempt from the rule.

NYC shelter migrants bombarded with 24/7 blaring recording telling them to leave: ‘Legal psychological warfare’ (N.Y. Post)

Media-Wide Blackout As NM Governor Calls Her Oath to Constitution Not ‘Absolute’

Fellow Dems Call Out N.M. Gov. for Gun-rights Suspension

Sheriff Derides, Won’t Enforce New Mexico Governor’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Ban on Carrying Firearms

School Rehires Transgender Female Coach After He Used Girls’ Locker Room & Bathroom

Lack of Swift, Certain Punishment Fuels Crime Wave

Meet The Top-Flight Law Firms Running Illegal Diversity Programs

Virginia election candidate responds after leak of tapes showing her performing sex acts with husband: “It won’t silence me” (CBS)

California Passes Bills Targeting Parental Rights

California Democrats Pass Bill To Give In-State Tuition to Mexicans Who Live in Mexico

CBS, NYT Rally Behind VA Dem After WashPost Reveals She Made Porn With Husband

Pardoned Father to Fox News: Soros-Backed Prosecutor ‘One of the Most Evil People I’ve Ever Met’

Why CNN’s Claim About Americans Being ‘Wealthier’ Than Ever Is Crapola of the First Magnitude

“This Is Philadelphia”: A Shocking Video Of Yet Another Democrat City Imploding 

WH, Biden Camp Slam Trump’s Reported Tax Plan  Not even the actual plan, just the reported plan.

MSNBC Columnist: Trump ‘Must Die in Prison’

Trump files motions to dismiss charges in Georgia election case

Trump lawyers seek recusal of judge in DC presiding over federal election subversion case (Associated Press)

Aileen Cannon Is Taking Her Own Sweet Time In The Mar-a-Lago Case (Talking Points Memo)

Putin: Trump Prosecution Shows ‘Rottenness’ of US Politics

Mark Meadows lost big on Friday night. And so did Donald Trump. (Public Notice)

Trump faces another 14th Amendment candidacy challenge, this time in Minnesota (CNN)

Iowa Poll: Trump Leading DeSantis by 35 Points

Trump and his cronies underestimated Fani Willis (Washington Poop) Jennifer Rubin is back on her bash-Trump beat.

Kevin McCarthy faces a ‘perfect storm’ of demands as a shutdown looms (NBC News)

New bombshell report on payments to Ginni Thomas by ‘face of dark money’ Leonard Leo (MNSBN) Bombshell? More like a fart.

‘Necessary Evil’: The View Decries NewsBusters Calling Out Their Legal Notes

Calif. Lawmakers End Travel Ban to States With Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws

RFK Jr. Campaign: Biden, DNC Moving to Shut Us Down

Ginni Thomas and rightwing activists exploited supreme court ruling – report (The Guardian)

‘Voltron of Evil’: MSNBC Says Ginni Thomas Most Destructive Judicial Force in 30 Years

The Guardian’s McCarthyite gender politics

Ramaswamy Campaign Chairman, a 9/11 Truther, Welcomed Candidate to Granite State on Eve of Sept. 11 Anniversary

Activist Seeks Removal of Christian Bookstore From Military Mini-Mall

‘This is Iranian Money,’ CNN Attacks ‘The Right’ For Condemning Bribe

The Straitjacket of Minority Rule (N.Y. Times) Michelle Goldberg is witch-hunting Republicans.

The new aggressive politics in an age of lawfare

Elizabeth Warren Demands Probes of Elon Musk, SpaceX After Ukraine Revelations (Bloomberg) How about we have a probe of Elizabeth Warren?

New coronavirus vaccine shots are on the way. Here’s what to know. (Washington Poop)

FDA signs off on updated Covid-19 vaccines that target circulating variants (CNN)

FDA approves new Covid booster: Here’s what you need to know (MSNBC)

The Dirty Secret About How Masks Really “Work”

City Slickers Caused Rural Populations To Explode During Pandemic — Leaving A Trail Of Resent And Strained Infrastructures

Pandemic Exacerbated Already Troubling Pediatric Mental Health Crisis

Whistleblower alleges CIA offered officials money to change view of COVID origins

World Bank spent billions of dollars backing fossil fuels in 2022, study finds (The Guardian)

Faster disaster: climate change fuels ‘flash droughts’, intense downpours and storms (The Conversation)

Irate family called police on Jennifer Granholm’s team for blocking charging station spot for her electric car (Fox)

Angry family calls cops on Biden’s Energy Secretary’s staff after they blocked a charging station during a four-day road trip to promote green energy (UK Daily Mail)

‘We knew this day would come’: One of world’s most invasive species reaches Europe (CNN)

Invasive fire ants take root for first time in Europe, study finds (Washington Poop)

At home with the red fire ant – and its many potent relatives (The Guardian)

2023 severe weather: $57 billion in damage and 253 people dead so far (CNBC)

The ‘Climate Emergency’ Is A Hoax

Biden Wants To Shrink Tribal Marine Sanctuary to Accommodate Wind Energy Factory Owned by Dem Donor

Germany Passes Controversial ‘Green’ Heating Law Estimated To Cost Economy €1 Trillion

Road Trip!

32 Climate Hoaxes

Electric vehicle battery causes fire at Sydney Airport, destroys five cars

IEA Boss Says “Beginning Of End” Of Fossil Fuel Era; But Is It?

Sydney Airport EV Fire Destroys 5 Vehicles

Liberals Call NYC Mayor ‘Black Trump’ After He Raises Alarm Over Migrant Crisis

Colleges With Slavery Ties Try ‘Descendant Scholarships’

Alabama Asks Supreme Court Again to Intervene on Redistricting

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Samsung claims its new product is able provide domestic hot water of up to 75 C when the outdoor temperature is between -10 C and 35 C. It relies on an enlarged heat exchanger that the company claims is capable of transferring more heat compared to a conventional outdoor unit.

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The FDA assembled its outside advisers to take another look at phenylephrine, which became the main drug in over-the-counter decongestants when medicines with an older ingredient — pseudoephedrine — were moved behind pharmacy counters. A 2006 law had forced the move because pseudoephedrine can be illegally processed into methamphetamine.

Those original versions of Sudafed and other medicines remain available without a prescription, but they’re less popular and account for about one-fifth of the $2.2 billion market for oral decongestants. Phenylephrine versions — sometimes labeled “PE” on packaging — make up the rest.

The Spectator.

Now that truant Greta Thunberg is all grown up and aging out of her usefulness, progressive groups and our media are on the hunt, American Idol-style, for the next great Climate Teen. Just as the left puts teenagers on the frontline for gun control, and the Biden administration uses rosy-cheeked heartthrobs (much like Hamas does with human shields) to yell at people on TikTok, the media is desperately thirsty for a new batch of young climate activists with the charisma of boy band stars and the backing of thousands of lawyers and parents with political ambitions — they just won’t tell you that last part.

Take the case of Badge and Lander Busse from Montana. These plucky teens, aptly named like a couple of young Wes Anderson/Davy Crockett Boy Scouts, are leading a group of youngsters who have become the new climate choir by filing a lawsuit against their own state. The judge, in a decision that is almost certainly going to be reversed upon appeal, ruled in favor of the lawsuit, which claims as damages that the teenagers could no longer participate in their privileged white kid activities, including horseback riding, skiing, fishing and even musical theater.

The media fawned over the new Captain Planet brigade, lavishing them with national attention usually reserved for influencers and Justin Bieber, ignoring the fact that when it comes to the issue of climate, we’re supposed to listen to scientists, not high schoolers. But that doesn’t matter anymore; the climate debate is more about which kids look the coolest on Instagram. But behind these fresh-faced climate celebrities you’ll find thousands of dollars of dark money backing attorneys bringing frivolous lawsuits.

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

Whenever the downward trend in Western intelligence gets discussed, the focus is always on the right side of the curve. America is no longer able to get to the moon because NASA is full of diversity, but it also lacks the smart guys it used to have to solve the necessary problems. In other words, the West is no longer able to make these great leaps because the decline in human capital has reduced the number of geniuses that are always needed to make those leaps.

At the heart of this line of thinking is the assumption that a society can only be successful if it is moving forward toward something and expanding in terms of material prosperity and cultural progress. This may be true, but it is one of those assumptions that has been handed down so many times that no one remembers who made the original claim or why they made it. Why must the economy always expand? Why must humanity expand its domain to the stars?

One reason to ask those questions is to think about the other side of the bell curve that gets neglected in these discussions. What happens to a society when the supply of stupid people increases? The model of societal intelligence is always a smooth normal distribution, so when the number of smart people declines it means the number of stupid people must increase. The curve moves left. What is the impact on society when the curve moves beyond some critical point?

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Scientists have transformed cancer cells into healthy muscle tissue in the lab using CRISPR gene-editing technology — and they hope new cancer treatments can be built on the back of this experiment.

In a study published Aug. 28 in the journal PNAS, researchers found that disabling a particular protein complex in cells of rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) — a rare cancer in skeletal muscle tissue that mainly affects children under age 10 — in the laboratory causes the tumor cells to turn into healthy muscle cells.

Although the research is still in its early days, this process of “resetting” cancer cells into healthy cells, broadly known as differentiation therapy, has already been tested in other types of cancer, such as bone and blood cancer. Four drugs have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat the latter disease and generally work by inhibiting a specific protein in the cancer cells.

Covid vaccine rollout begins early in the UK with new variant under watch (CNBC)

Covid vaccines at care homes as BA.2.86 variant spreading (BBC)

New COVID variant ‘not more severe’, expert says Sky News

New Covid-19 variant: Pirola symptoms, who is eligible for vaccine booster jab & will BA.2.86 cause another lockdown? (National World)

The COVID Crisis Response Has Driven A Global Increase In ‘Learning Poverty’

Fauci: ‘We Need to Be Prepared for’ Tough COVID Winter

The Next Crisis Is Anyone’s Guess, But the Government Is Ready to Lockdown the Nation (OffGuardian)

Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin

Another Senator Tests Positive for COVID-19

FDA Approves Updated COVID Vaccines

Doctors have been measuring blood pressure all wrong, study explains

We’re Thinking About Climate Risk All Wrong (Mother Jones)

A Polar Vortex is starting to form in the Stratosphere over the North Pole and will impact the Weather as we head closer to Winter 2023/2024 (Severe Weather Europe)

‘Culture war’ threatens to undermine green energy transition (Financial Times) Oh, ya think?

Colossal Cache Of Lithium Found In Us May Be World’s Largest

Jobs in the Woods Act addresses workforce challenges of forestry (The Hill)

Justified sinners  “Momeee! Johnny hit me back!”

Wind Energy Will Never Be Affordable

Lithium goldrush hits sleepy Oregon-Nevada border

NY Times Says DeSantis’s Lack of Green Radicalism Is ‘Flooding Coastal Cities’

Not So Easy Being Green: Jennifer Granholm Encounters Charging Woes, Angry Families on Electric Vehicle Promotion Tour

BOONDOGGLES: 7 Examples of Wasteful, Outrageous Earmarks in Senate Spending Package

The search for a church that isn’t a church (NPR)

RFK Jr. Wants His Party Back: The American People “Are Tired Of Being Lied To By The Government & The Media”  Good luck with that.

Are Emergency Powers A Test To See What Americans Will Put Up With?

Portland Nike Store Closes Due to Safety, Crime Concerns

Violent Criminals Continue To Pose as Migrant Children To Enter US; Congress Must Act Now

Childcare Now Costs $1,031 More Than Public College Tuition, On Average, In The United States

Miami School District Decides To NOT Recognize LGBTQ+ History Month

On Progressive Toleration

Twitter Worked with Saudi Arabian ‘Spy Ring’ and Tried to Cover It Up

Milwaukee Police To Withhold Gender of Crime Victims Under Pressure From LGBT Activists

EXCLUSIVE: Abortion Lawyer Accused of Perjuring Herself Before Congress

The View Insanely Claims Dems Never Backed Their Incumbent President Before Biden

‘We Will Not Comply’: Gun Owners Rally In New Mexico In Defiance Of Tyrannical Democrat Governor

Third party candidates will help Trump win (The Guardian) Robert Reich lays groundwork for the election-year witch-hunts.

Libertarians Sense Golden Opportunity to Make 2024 Breakthrough (Newsweek)

Some National Guard units haven’t followed order to ditch Confederate items: report (Fox)

Gavin Newsom Slammed Over Dianne Feinstein Comments (Daily Beast)

Passport Bros: Feminists Are Outraged At Men Going Overseas To Find Traditional Wives  Saw that coming. Eddie Murphy did a great comedy routine about this a number of years ago.

The GOP’s impeachment push is an attack on democracy (Public Notice)

Why So Many Conservatives Rightly Hate the GOP Establishment

Communists Burn Flags Outside Jason Aldean Concert, but the Response Shuts Them Down (RedState)

Ex-GOP Lawmaker Recalls Wild Moment Colleagues Made His Head Explode (Huffington Post)

Justice Department drops Mueller-era case against Michael Flynn ex-lobbying partner Bijan Kian (CNN)

7 Arrested for Protesting in McCarthy’s Office

Democrats Complain That Illegal Immigrants Are Destroying Their Sanctuary Cities (Babylon Bee)

MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Compares Unborn Babies to Broccoli, Lumps of Coal

Samuel Alito Is Wrong and Arrogant—and Must Be Reined In (The New Republic)

Bush institute exec pushing ‘civility’ pledge leaked Steele dossier to media outlet in 2016 (Fox)

Trump Is Really Old, Too (N.Y. Times) Yeah, but he’s not senile. Frank Bruni employs handwavium to distract from the real issue.

The key to understanding Donald Trump’s enduring appeal is Vince McMahon (Popular Information)

Pretrial-palooza underway for Trump (Washington Poop)

Prosecutors drop foreign-agent case against Trump transition adviser (Politico) Sometimes the witch-hunt works, and sometimes it don’t.

Trump is explaining exactly how wild and extreme his second term would be (CNN) I, for one, am looking forward to it.

Christie: I’ll Hound Trump if He Skips Next Debate (NewsMax) He might even notice. “Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.”

Prospect Fading for Quick Start of Trump Georgia Trial

Trump advisers plot aggressive new tax cuts for second White House term (Washington Poop) He’s got my vote.

Russians Fleeing War Ending Up in New York City

Second UK Challenger 2 Tank Reportedly Destroyed In Ukraine

NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Of NATO Expansion

Ukraine needs to do more to fight corruption, Germany’s Baerbock says (Politico)

Ukraine Regains More Territory in Counteroffensive

US Confirms It Seized Nearly 1 Million Barrels Of Iranian Oil Allegedly En Route To China

AIR DEFENSE: Israeli Air Defenses Foil Iranian Plans

MORALE: Moderating Moving Madness

Iran Can Produce 10 Nuclear Bombs in 4 Months, Watchdog Says

No point at all: Please just end the daily White House press briefing (The Hill)

Age and elected office: Concerns about performance outweigh benefits of experience (CBS News) Laying the groundwork for easing Sleepy Joe out of the top spot.

Over 75% of voters want maximum age limit for elected officials, poll shows (Axios) Laying the groundwork for easing Sleepy Joe out of the top spot.

Why Must Christiane Amanpour Complain About ‘Consistent Underestimation’ of Biden?  I believe that Biden is consistently underestimated–he’s a much bigger crook than anybody gives him credit for.

Energy Department Blasts EPA’s Proposed Chemical Ban, Alleging It Would Hurt US Ability To Detect WMDs

Biden Wraps Up G20 Conference by Announcing ‘I’m Going to Bed’ (Daily Beast) Laying the groundwork for easing Sleepy Joe out of the top spot.

CNN’s Jones Says Dems Start Biden Age Issue ‘Whispers’

Biden Bombs (in) Hanoi

CNN’s Van Jones: Democrats ‘Terrified’ Biden Running Again

Biden Poised To Send Iran $6 Billion To Initiate Prisoner Exchange

Kamala Harris Refuses To Name Single Limit on Abortion

‘I’m Going to Bed’: White House Shuts Down Rambling Biden Press Conference With President Still Speaking

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No one will argue that Sept. 11, 2001, wasn’t the worst day the United States has endured this century – an unspeakable tragedy that brought out an incredible amount of raw emotion, with images and memories forever burned into our brains.

The next day, it was like we were living in a different country. The outpouring of patriotism was off the charts, with more flags than you’d see on the Fourth of July, while people wore red, white, and blue ribbons. Emotions were still running high, but there was a sense of unity that had been missing for years. By the end of the week, a joint session of Congress made it look like we were living up to the “united” part of the United States of America, with politicians working across the aisle.

Twenty-two years later, all that togetherness is forgotten, leaving a country completely polarized. The “aisle” in Congress no longer exists, having become an impenetrable wall. And now, the wall being constructed by elites is one between conservatives and liberals in every neighborhood.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism.

“You have the watches, but we have the time,” is a phrase by the Taliban referencing the twenty-year war in Afghanistan. It also underscores the American challenge in fighting the ideological war. That challenge is a short scope, a limited range distance through which we measure either progress or failure. Meanwhile, the enemy is patient and always planning. While generational wars fueled by ideology are difficult concepts for most people to sit with, there is one man who is a symbol of the ideological war against Islamist extremism: Salman Rushdie.

Of the many narratives that surface about Islamic extremism, the one that most captures public attention is the controversy around Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. Any creative work on Islam, like The Satanic Verses, will struggle to be understood given that Islam itself often isn’t understood even by followers of the faith. Absent that, Islam is a belief system vulnerable to a mercurial nature of politics and culture that flanks the faith — a characteristic that is ironically also fast defining the American sociopolitical landscape.

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

Sarah Hoyt.

The first time I heard of Rick Rescorla, was on 9/11. I was an Austen fan group at the time, and was on the chat board. One of the women on the board was one of Rescorla’s co-workers, and he’d just saved her.

Since then, I’ve tried to remember him on 9/11.

And 22 years, on, I remember 9/11. while our “leadership” tries to leave us wide open to be hurt and destroyed by anyone who decides they don’t like us, it’s important to remember 9/11, and most of all the heroes of 9/11.

Quillette.

The voyage of discovery that science offers can take us furthest when it is open to the best and brightest, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Great scientific minds often emerge from unexpected backgrounds. Many scientific disciplines remained effectively closed to ethnic minorities and to women for far too long. But over the past 50 years at least, science has opened up and a host of affirmative action programs have been created to encourage women and minorities to consider careers in the field.

For some activists, however, these efforts have not gone far enough. In response, universities, industries, and research institutions have instituted a vast bureaucracy designed to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: a behemoth that is growing at a rate far exceeding that of investment in new faculty and facilities.

This has resulted in some disturbing new trends in academia and scientific institutions more broadly. In a desire to include women and minorities, white males are often excluded, and too often women and members of minority groups are tokenized by being promoted primarily for their gender or skin color.

Gates of Vienna.

Michael Copeland has compiled an eclectic set of references concerning the ninth surah of the Koran, whose violent commands abrogate all of the earlier peaceful verses.

The American Mind.

Instead of attending the commemorative observances at any of the three sites where the 9/11 terror attacks took place, President Joe Biden will be in Alaska on September 11 this year. It is the first time an American president will not appear at the locations of the largest terrorist assault in American history.

This is of a piece with the forgetting of 9/11, about which I have written previously. Ultimately, the retreat of the attacks into the mists of history is inevitable, and it will certainly mean that future generations will think differently, or not at all, about that day.

But as I noted a year ago, it’s not the forgetting per se that is of interest. It’s the rapidity and the completeness of that forgetting, and the fact that a large portion of the country never forgot. They still see the day as yet another marker of the U.S.’s moral depravity, which has never been the case previously with any foreign attack.

Reuters.

A Dutch court sentenced a Pakistani former cricketer to 12 years in prison on Monday after he was tried in absentia for urging people to murder Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders.
The court ruled that statements by 37-year-old Khalid Latif should be regarded as incitement to murder, sedition and threat.
Latif lives in Pakistan and has not attended any stage of the trial or been detained in the Netherlands.

Needless to say, Geert Wilders is not a ‘far-right politician’ except in the eyes of the Narrative media.

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

Hint: These are not being committed by Presbyterians or Baptists.

ICC Lead Prosecutor: We Will Prosecute Cyber ‘War Crimes’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wants His Party Back

The DEI Dieback

RFK Jr. Calls Democrat Primary ‘Rigged’

Twilight Of The Democrats

Turley: N.M. Gov. Gun Order ‘Flagrantly Unconstitutional’

Soros-Aligned Texas DA Sidesteps Removal Trial By Resigning, Announces Senate Run Against Ted Cruz

Pardon Issued For Dad Who “Exploded With Rage” Over Daughter’s Transgender Bathroom Rape, School Coverup

Austrian Economics Vs. CBDC, ESG, UBI, And Other Newfangled Socioeconomic Gimmicks

Children Being Used to Steal From NYC Businesses  NYC joins the Turd World.

I don’t write about polls. You shouldn’t bother with them, either. (Washington Poop) Jennifer Rubin takes a break from bashing Trump to point out that she just makes shit up.

L.A. Times Poll: Calif. Voters Oppose Slave Reparations 2-to-1

Poll: Iowa Caucusgoers Say Trump No. 1 Choice

Trump as martyr (The New Neo)

Trump’s Rosebud: New Documentary Draws Comparison Between Trump, Citizen Kane

Ignore Jack Smith’s Critics (The Atlantic)

Colorado secretary of state calls Trump a ‘liar,’ vows to see ballot lawsuit through (The Hill)

7 state flags still have designs with ties to the Confederacy (Washington Post)

The New York Times Vladimir Putin Op-Ed, 10 Years Later

How “Fact Checking” Obliterates Truth

Pastor Says It Was a Mistake to Let DeSantis Speak at Shooting Vigil (Daily Beast)

Giuliani Files to Get Georgia Charges Against Him Tossed

Triggered: Woke Alabama School Suspends 6-Year-Old Over ‘Finger Guns’ During Cops And Robbers Game

What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement (Politico) The witch-hunts continue.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin Pardons Father Who Protested School Board After Daughter’s Sexual Assault (The Messenger)

As GOP investigates prosecutors, experts worry about judicial independence (Washington Poop) Prosecutors are not judges and have nothing to do with ‘judicial independence’.

“See You In Court”: Gun Owners of America Sues Tyrannical New Mexico Governor

New Covid vaccines are coming out. Should you get one? (Vox)

New COVID boosters could roll out in the coming days. Here’s what to know (NBC 5 Chicago)

Health expert weighs in on new COVID strains, booster shots (NBC 9 News)

COVID Quickie: XBB Monovalent Booster for the Fall – FDA Approval Imminent (Daily Kos)

Fired NYC Teachers Who Refused Vaccine To Be Reinstated With Back Pay: Judge

Trump Explains Why He Didn’t Fire Fauci

Megyn Kelly Reveals Possible Vaccine Injury, Regrets Getting COVID Shot

Americans Divided As Mask Mandates Make Comeback Amid COVID-19 Surge

Pfizer, J&J Pressured South Africa Into Shielding Companies From COVID Vaccine Injury Claims

“That Simply Doesn’t Make Sense”: Lead Author Of Cochrane Mask Review Responds To Fauci’s Dismissal Of Evidence

German Health Minister Admits Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Shot Made No Difference in Mortality

How do we Reach the Brainwashed?

ABC Brings Back Fauci to Advocate for Effectiveness of Masks & COVID Boosters

Mom Takes Kid To Doctor’s Office To Pick Up Twelve New Diseases (Babylon Bee)

Those who say that money can’t buy happiness are shopping in the wrong places.

Vanity Fair.

In a new book, former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, largely silent for 60 years, says he found a bullet in Kennedy’s limo. A sometime presidential historian explains why that’s so significant, if true.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

‘Trump allies have to be a little worried’: Trump picks up endorsement at South Dakota rally (MSNBC)

Trump Inflated His Assets Up to $3.6 Billion, New York AG Claims (The Messenger) Since when is this illegal?

Trump: DA Willis Wanted to Indict Anybody ‘Breathing’

“Outrageously Wrong” – Turley Trounces Harvard Prof Over 14th Amendment “Nonsense” Comments  Tribe has been senile for years now. But, like Biden, his delusions serve the Narrative and so he is supported.

NBC’s Chuck Todd Frets Trump Trying to ‘Muddy the Waters’ With Hunter Biden ‘Questions’

Jim Jordan Announces Probe Into Jack Smith’s “Abusive Tactics”

Trumpophobes Seek to Keep Him Off ’24 Ballot for Crimes He Never Committed

Seeking Link to Trump, Prosecutors Questioned Proud Boys Leader (N.Y. Times)

Take a load off Fani: Stuck inside of Fulton County

The right’s Project 2025 wants to make faith the government’s job (MSNBC)

Samuel Alito refuses to step aside from case involving lawyer who interviewed him on ethics for WSJ (NBC News)

Florida Poised To Authorize Conservative-Favored College Entrance Exam

Supreme Court’s Alito Rejects Recusal in Tax Case

Fla. Supreme Court justices question longstanding abortion protections

Greenwald Exposes “Fraudulent” WaPo Disinformation Study, David Frum, And ADL Propaganda To Silence Dissent

DeSantis, Leading a State Menaced by Climate Change, Shrugs Off the Threat (N.Y. Times)

Left Dodging Pentagon’s Abortion Extremism in Attacks on Tuberville

How ‘Free Speech’ Warrior RFK Tried to Bully a DailyKos Blogger (Daily Beast) The witch-hunt continues.

Biden Links Trump to National Abortion Ban Push in Ad Buy

TIME Champions ‘Mary Poppins’ of Censorship in TIME 100 List

How Lindsey Graham escaped charges in Georgia (The Hill)

Danish Actor Roasts Reporter Over Diversity Question

Why Does NPR Hate Democracy? Can’t Stand One Parent Started ‘Book Ban’ of Ibram X. Kendi

Why does Harvard rank last on free speech?

Is Lindsey Graham a Ham Sandwich?  Well, maybe not a sandwich….

Farewell to the counterculture

Full Authoritarian: New Mexico Governor Suspends Constitutional Gun Rights For Law-Abiding Citizens In Albuquerque

Wisconsin GOP’s impeachment plan: Another MAGA coup against democracy (Salon) MAGA is the New Nigger.