Fox Business.

Jeff Bezos is the latest billionaire name added to the roster of those who call Miami home in the post-pandemic era: Citadel’s Ken Griffin, venture-capitalist Peter Thiel, Goldman Sachs’ Douglas Sacks, Tiger Global Management co-founder Scott Shleifer and Third Point founder and CEO Dan Loeb are also neighbors.

“I actually wasn’t too surprised. I feel like he’s coming back home, right?” fellow billionaire and OneWorld Properties CEO Peggy Olin told FOX News Digital. “He has a place of Miami in his heart. He went to Palmetto High, his parents are in Miami. I think for him, it’s a natural move.”

“I wasn’t shocked. I guess my reaction was, of course, why not?” Ytech CMO Andrew Kraynak also told Digital. “What’s interesting about Amazon, it is a very decentralized business. And we’ve seen what they’ve been going through in terms of creating an East Coast, kind of second headquarters. And right now, it’s a very interesting organization. What that means for Amazon in South Florida, I wouldn’t hazard a guess. I’m sure there’s probably a play there.”

Not having to pay Washington state taxes probably had something to do with it.

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Cass Sunstein has a lovely New York Times essay that tries to give us back the word “Liberal.” I hope it works.

“Liberal” from “Libertas” means, at bottom, freedom. In the 19th century, “liberals” were devoted to personal, economic, and increasing social freedom from government restraint. “Conservatives” wanted to maintain aristocratic privileges, and government interventions in the traditional way of doing things. The debate was not so obvious. Conservatives defended their view of aristocratic power in a noblesse-oblige concern for little people that the unfettered free market might leave behind, in a way quite reminiscent of today’s elites who think they should run the government in the name of the downtrodden (or “nudge” them, if I can poke a little fun at Sunstein’s earlier work).

But by the 1970s, the labels had flipped. “Liberals” were advocates of big-state interventionism, in a big tent that included communists and marxists. It became a synonym of “left.” “Conservatives” became a strange alliance of free market economics and social conservatism. The word “classical liberal” or “libertarian” started to be used to refer to heirs of the enlightenment “liberal” tradition, broadly emphasizing individual liberty and limited rule of law government in both economic and social spheres.

But broadly, “liberal” came to mean more government intervention and Democrat, while “conservative” came to mean less state intervention and Republican, at least in rhetoric.

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The IDF has carefully overtaken and explored the tunnel system that converges on Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital. The IDF seeks to expose the Hamas way of war as inherently criminal — a point that has gotten lost in the media shuffle.

Shifa Hospital director Muhammad Abu Salmiya was arrested yesterday along with several other hospital staff members while attempting to evacuate southward along the humanitarian corridor — i.e., the escape route.

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There are two annual traditions that make up Thanksgiving. One is the ancient and venerable tradition of thanking the Creator for our bounty while the other is the more recent leftist tradition of turning the day into a festival of grievances, a ‘festivus’ during which they pick political arguments with family members and launch into screeds about how Thanksgiving is the product of imperialism and colonialism.

The Nation magazine recently proposed replacing it with a ‘Truthsgiving’ during which we will all confess our crimes and ponder how much better life would be if the Pilgrims had never come to America, and the Nazis and Communists had won WWII and gone on to exterminate 70% of the population of the planet.

Wrecking Thanksgiving, like the family, womens’ sports and Star Wars is just one of those things lefties do. The perpetual teenage tantrums that began with Karl Marx and ended with Cousin Jan screaming at the Thanksgiving table about how nobody understands Hamas and how inspiring she found Osama bin Laden’s letter are the essence of the movement.

Gates of Vienna.

When the story of the gang attack in France appeared in the news feed several days ago, the article was very careful not to mention ethnicity. I wondered if it might be gypsies, since it occurred in a rural area, but no, it has since emerged that it was African and/or Arab “youths” — the usual suspects.

The Spectator.

Why apologize when you can just wait and hope people forget what you did wrong? As we enter the season of goodwill and gratitude, that’s the question posed by disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who this year is thankful for the complicity of his allies as he attempts to stage a comeback.

While New York City mayor Eric Adams chokes on a different kind of Turkey, Politico writes that Cuomo has “begun in recent days to gauge the viability of a potential mayoral bid.”

Cuomo resigned as governor in ignominy back in August 2021 after an investigation by New York attorney general Leticia James claimed that he had sexually harassed as many as eleven women.

Lest we forget, Cuomo’s resignation in the light of the James investigation resulted in the New York State Assembly suspending a separate probe into his other serious transgression: his decision to direct care homes to take in Covid-positive patients and undercount nursing home Covid deaths by as much as 50 percent as a result.

The Spectator.

In public events, I’ve sometimes given an unexpectedly appreciative nod to the hard left. It’s laudable, I allow, to stick up for the disadvantaged. Young people naturally hope to revamp the creaky, hypocritical institutions they inherit, just as my generation did in the 1960s. Fairness — a more complex concept than it first appears — is inherently appealing. Thus the initial impulse to embrace identity politics is often benign.

This concession is calculated. Being charitable carves out space for me to rip this odious ideology to shreds thereafter. Yet given that when younger I was a fervent liberal Democrat, my token peace offering has always been sincere.

I take it back. After all the identitarian left’s defense of peoples historically wronged, all their horror of the “violence” in silence or biologically correct pronouns, all their advancement of “diversity and inclusion” — which you would suppose would encompass all religions and all minorities, especially the persecuted ones — ghoulish celebrations of Hamas’s throat-slitting melee in southern Israel last month among some western “progressives” were incomprehensible at first. But on reflection, the BLM brigade joining the ghastly Muslim chant of “Glory to our martyrs” makes perfect sense.

Gates of Vienna.

Robert Fico, the new prime minister of Slovakia, has broken ranks with the New World Order in his pronouncements on the experimental mRNA treatment designed to prevent infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus, and related matters. It remains to be seen whether the actions of his government will line up with his words.

Babylon Bee.

Nailed it.

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If you were looking for a new large SUV with a hybrid option, Ford just pulled a couple of them from the market. The 2024 Ford Explorer Hybrid and Lincoln Aviator Hybrid just got the ax, because it wants to focus its hybrid production capabilities on the Explorer Police Interceptor Utility Hybrid model. It seems that police forces across the nation just can’t get enough of the 318-horsepower 322 pound-feet of torque hybrid monster.

Wall Street Journal.

A search committee seeking a professor of military history rejected one applicant “because his diversity statement demonstrated poor understanding of diversity and inclusion issues.” Another committee noted that an applicant to be a professor of nuclear physics could understand the plight of minorities in academia because he was married to “an immigrant in Texas in the Age of Trump.”

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I’m old enough to remember when Joe Scarborough spent most of his show kissing Donald Trump’s ass. Those were the days. Cast your mind back to 2015. Mika and Joe were still just “co-workers” and they would constantly yuck it up with then candidate Donald J. Trump. Don’t take my word for it — even the Washington Post wrote about their love affair with the Donald, describing the theme of these interviews as “bonhomie.” Erik Wemple explained, “Trump is often on the phone; some decent, journalistic questions get lobbed at Trump, often by Willie Geist; Trump makes more claims than the crew can possibly fact-check; and there’s a great deal of talk about polls.” When Willie Geist is asking the hard-hitting questions, you know you are in friendly territory.

Alas, that was then. If Scarborough’s most recent televised tirade against the former president tells us anything it is that the honeymoon is long over. Sitting next to the permanently nodding Mika, Joe ranted about the danger that is posed by candidate Donald Trump. “And if he is voted into office, then a lot of these people that are talking about literal, or figurative, or whatever the hell they’re saying, are going to look like idiots,” the host blustered. To be fair, if I was going to trust anyone on the subject of looking like an idiot, it would be Mr. Scarborough.

The fear-mongering wasn’t done just yet though. He continued, “Because he will do, he will get away with, he will imprison, he will execute, whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country.”

You would think that, if such were possible, he’d have done that the first time around.

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A tragedy occurred a few days ago in the small town of Crépol, in the Drôme region of southern France. During a village ball, some individuals appeared, spreading panic and terror and causing the death of Thomas, a boy of 16. Today, journalists and politicians are engaged in a veritable battle of semantics. A mere news item or a major event? Ordinary violence or savagery? A brawl or an assault? Every word used to describe this episode has far-reaching consequences. Once again, the Left shines in its denial of reality concerning both the origin of the attackers and the nature of the victims.

After a few days of uncertainty about the exact sequence of events, the facts are gradually beginning to be reconstructed with precision. On the night of November 18, 300 to 400 young people gathered in the village hall of the small village of Crépol in the department of Drôme for “a simple dance party with a sound system, organised by the village’s festivities committee,” according to Martine Lagut, the mayor of the village.

A gang of individuals broke into the party and spread terror by attacking the participants with knives. A youngster of 16, Thomas, a member of the local rugby club, was killed. He died of a stab wound during his transfer to a hospital in Lyon. Two others are still in critical condition. In all, there were 17 victims.

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The accumulation of evidence against the killers—young people from North African immigrant families—has not prevented a number of left-wing columnists from persisting in their denial. One of them, on the set of BFM TV, refused to dramatise the situation and drew a parallel between the Crépol tragedy and the children’s novel La guerre des boutons (The War of the Buttons), recounting children’s fights in the countryside in days gone by—a terrifying blindness given the seriousness of the events. Others have tried to shift the blame by accusing the bouncer in charge of security at the entrance of the ball of possible “racial profiling.” In brief, the victims “had it coming.” The accusation of “recuperation,” as in the atrocious case of the murder of little Lola, was also repeated by journalists. Again on BFM TV, they condemned the allegedly far-right scenario of “these people from the suburbs that would go all the way to the countryside to attack these peaceful French people.” “It’s a gross exaggeration,” concluded the presenter on the set.

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The European Parliament will most likely approve a report on Wednesday, November 22nd, that seeks to amend the treaties of the European Union, liquidating member states’ veto rights, and giving more power to EU institutions in what conservative forces are describing as a dangerous power grab.

As we previously reported, the proposals were put forward by the so-called ‘Verhofstadt Group’, a circle of MEPs led by the Eurofederalist Guy Verhofstadt from the liberal Renew group. The plans would see a massive transfer of competences from a national to an EU level, and the unanimity voting system—veto rights of member states—would almost completely be abolished, to be replaced by majority or qualified majority voting.

The EU would be exclusively responsible for issues concerning the environment, public health, industry, and education. There would be shared competences with member states in the areas of energy, foreign affairs, external security and defence, and external border policy.

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In the movies, safe deposit boxes are magic: Located in bank vaults, they’re depicted as the most secure things in the universe. Thieves targeting safe deposit boxes must plan for decades and bring in dozens of experts. If a character wants to keep something absolutely safe (whether it’s jewels or important documents), they stick it in a safe deposit box and no force in the universe can disturb it.

Unfortunately, that isn’t actually true. Safe deposit boxes aren’t very safe; banks increasingly regard them as more trouble than they’re worth, and they’re not well-regulated. There are exactly zero federal laws covering safe deposit boxes, and they largely operate in the murky world of lease agreements. And if you actually read the (probably very brief) rental agreement you sign with the bank, you’d likely discover that the bank has restricted its liability to a ridiculous level.

Most surprisingly, according to the Office of Comptroller of Currency (OCC) your bank can “drill” your safe deposit box open (removing the contents) under a wide range of conditions, including court orders and search warrants, failure to pay fees, because of branch closure—or because the bank messes up their records. So if you have a safe deposit box and it gets drilled, what can you do?

Notice the question on your Federal tax return about whether you have a safety deposit box, which (if you answer honestly) tells them that there is something there to drill for.

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Over the last week we have seen an all-out mainstream media assault on Elon Musk and X, formerly known as Twitter. We are told that Musk is embroiled in an antisemitism scandal. We are informed that Musk liked a post which said that Jews deliberately flood white majority Western nations with immigration, and that this is a vile, far right conspiracy theory.

At the same time as Musk was personally smeared by comments on a post he had liked, a Media Matters investigation declared that X had been featuring Neo Nazi and far right material alongside adverts purchased by top companies. In other words, people who had paid for positive advertising of their own choice were actually being tainted with extremist far right content, since extremist far right content is what Elon Musk loves and has allowed to flourish.

In response to this scandal and the Media Matters ‘revelations’, key advertisers using X/Twitter, like Apple, Disney and a few other very well-known companies, have withdrawn from advertising on Musk’s platform.

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Most of the time, single posts on Twitter/X aren’t worth rebuking with an entire piece, but Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi laid out an absolute banger this weekend when he lamented the idea of “citizen journalists” not being as professional, trained or equipped as he or his colleagues at major news outlets like the Post, New York Times or CNN. The idea that citizen journalists are not every bit as capable as journalists employed by these outlets (and others) is ridiculous and should be rebuffed.

Farhi posted, “Someone invented the phrase ‘citizen journalism’ a few years ago to describe amateurs doing the work of pros. Yes, it occasionally works, but probably no more often than ‘citizen cop,’ ‘citizen attorney’ or ‘citizen soldier.’”

There’s a lot to unpack here, starting with the idea of citizen versus professional journalist. When professional journalists at Newsweek sat on the Monica Lewinsky story, trying to figure out how to minimize the damage to their great white hope then-president Bill Clinton, a citizen journalist broke the story — perhaps the biggest of the decade. When professional journalists attempted to kill the John Edwards story, the National Enquirer ran with it and effectively ended any political ambitions Edwards may have had.

Blogging will be light and variable until they are resolved. My apologies.

Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (WIRED)

How the U.S. Violates Its Own Trade Laws to Buy Seafood from China (Politico)

Report: Senate Dems Ask Biden Critics to Zip Lips

Biden Doesn’t Seem to Be Having Any Success Fooling Voters

JCNF Poll: Small Business Backs Trump 2-1 Over Biden

Biden is the real turkey this Thanksgiving

3 in 5 believe Biden knew of son’s business dealings: Poll (The Hill)

AN OLD TRICK: Networks Try to Hide News of Joe Biden’s 81st Birthday

Report: GOP’s Biden Impeachment Inquiry Nears End

Morning Consult Poll: Trump Up 53 on GOP, 3 on Biden

Smoke Rises From White House Indicating Biden Has Survived Another Year (Babylon Bee)

Hunter Biden Disappointed To Learn White Powder All Over White House Just Fake Snow (Babylon Bee)

Trump’s Georgia Co-Defendant Harrison Floyd Fights Back on Fani Willis’ Bid to Revoke His Bail (The Messenger)

X Sues Media Matters After Report of Ads Next to Antisemitic Content

Hamadeh Slams Arizona AG for Threatening Election Officials

Pro-Nazi posts next to Apple ads: Elon Musk’s X sues watchdog for its damning report (CNN) Damning but false report.

Texas AG Paxton Opens Fraud Investigation Into Media Matters

America’s most unhinged, unelected official (Popular Information)

Ben Shapiro Sets Record Straight, RIPS Media for Linking Musk with Radical Anti-Semitism

Twitter Files Journalist Drops BOMBSHELL Report on Anti-‘Digital Hate’ Group

Senate Republicans Say Supreme Court Probe Biased

Tux-Wearing Christian Nationalists Laugh About Their Influence, Live From Mar-a-Lago (Rolling Stone)

Johnson Pays Trump Visit as He Faces Mounting Criticism from the Right (N.Y. Times)

New Documentary Tells Story of Space Force Commander Who Spoke Out on CRT, Wokeness in Military

Mike Johnson’s America: Revisit landmark SCOTUS decisions and use government to ‘restrain evil’ (CNN) Whenever you see a headline on the order of ‘So-and-so’s America’, you know it’s a hit piece, and almost always a lie.

Wisconsin supreme court appears poised to strike down legislative maps and end Republican dominance (The Guardian)

Eighth Circuit’s Holding that Private Plaintiffs Do Not Have Right to Sue to Enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Would Decimate the Rights of Minority Voters; Supreme Court Review Almost Certain

FBI Arrests Miami Police Officer Accused Of Stealing Cash, Drugs During Traffic Stops

Cornel West sets his sights on a key battleground state (Politico)

Guardian: The Black Death of 1348 Was Really the Sexist White Racist Death

Black Voters Challenge North Carolina Senate Map

Cornel West Sees Opportunity for Support in Michigan

NSA Promotes Anti-White Racism Among Employees, Leak Reveals

Female Boxer Refuses Bout Against Transgender (Fake Woman) Opponent

The Root Cause of the Insanity on College Campuses Is Older Than You May Think

3 Conservative Justices Dissent As Supreme Court Refuses To Reinstate Florida Drag Show Law

Virginia Dems Seek to Establish Abortion as Right

Up In Smoke: California’s Largest Pot Distributor Collapses Amid $17 Million In Unpaid Taxes

EU’s Digital Identity Wallet Is An Electronic Leash With Which Brussels Wants To Control Its Citizens

Democratic machine looms large in race to unseat Menendez (Washington Poop)

Transgender woman footballer quits and threatens to sue for discrimination because rivals refuse to compete against her after she left opponents ‘terrified’ and broke knee of a player ‘blocking her shot’ (UK Daily Mail)

Stop Funding University Programs Contrary to US Interests

Winsom Newsom’s Kamala Word Salad Recipe

‘Decolonisation’: A Polite Word for Ethnic Cleansing

Trans Swimmer Sets NJ Women’s School Record

NYC Mayor Cuts Migrant Funds to Spare NYPD, FDNY, Sani. Dept.

Thousands Sign Petition to Boycott Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Over Trans Agenda

Trump: Dems’ Opposition to Voter ID Exposes Them

NBC Poll: Gun Ownership at Record High  Gee, I wonder why.

Federal appeals court strikes Maryland handgun rule (The Hill)

Federal Court Rules Against Maryland’s Gun License Law

Supplying 65% Of Our Energy, America Must Lead On Oil and Gas

World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28 (The Guardian) Do you believe that ‘scientists’ can measure the temperature of the earth with any accuracy? I don’t.

A Look at California’s Landmark Climate Reporting Laws

Maria Bartiromo Floats Bonkers New COVID Conspiracy About Trump and China (Daily Beast)

Longer COVID School Closures Linked To Youth Suicide Rates

IRS Says Some People Can Still Get COVID Stimulus Cash… Here’s How

Americans More Polarized Than Ever Over Ivermectin

Homeschooling Trend Accelerates Even After COVID Lockdowns

Vanity Fair: ‘Secret Warnings’ About Wuhan Before COVID

The mRNAs Didn’t End COVID, Omicron Did: Berenson

Trump’s Dire Words Raise New Fears About His Authoritarian Bent (N.Y. Times) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH…. I don’t see the NYT worried about Biden’s ‘authoritarian bent’.

Did Trump Change, or Did You?’: We Asked a Pro-Impeachment Republican Why He’d Back Trump (Politico)

Appeals court suggests it may pare back Trump’s D.C. gag order (Washington Poop)

After the Civil War, Robert E. Lee Couldn’t Run for President, but Trump Can? (Washington Monthly) Well, yeah.

Playbook: Why the Trump gag order fight matters (Politico)

America Needs a Pro-Democracy Conservative Legal Establishment (N.Y. Times) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Billionaires are lining up to fund Donald Trump’s anti-democratic agenda (The Guardian) Robert Reich is dependable, pull the string and watch his mouth move. (What billionaires? George Soros? Bill Gates? Jeff Bezos? Tim Cook?)

Trump Lawyer Accuses AG James of ‘Extortion’ in NY Case

Scarborough: If Elected, Trump Will ‘Execute’ As Many People As He Can Get Away With!

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MEPs, bored between negotiations on arms deliveries to Ukraine, have found a new enemy: the wooden boxes used for Camembert. These little wooden rounds that contain one of the jewels of French gastronomy are under threat from the zeal of Brussels officials, who accuse them of a crime that is unforgivable these days: they cannot be recycled.

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As Steve notes, the New York Times has finally gone after Robert F. Kennedy Jr., member of a family that has been “ersatz American royalty” for 60 years. The great Paul Johnson, who died at 94 back in January, had some thoughts on the Kennedys in A History of the American People, published in 1998.

Patriarch Joe Kennedy, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt to run the Securities and Exchange Commission, was “a crook and known to be such,” and FDR called him “a very dangerous man.” Joe was a big booster of son John Fitzgerald Kennedy, better known as “Jack” but with key realities carefully concealed.

“Strictly speaking Jack was never fit to hold any important public office,” Johnson explains, “and the list of lies told about his body by the Kennedy camp over the years is formidable.” That was also true of his alleged body of work.

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The CIA was created after World War II to prevent another Pearl Harbor attack, writes Charles S. Faddis, a former CIA operations officer and Middle East station chief. Faddis believes the agency “no longer works,” an easy case to make but not exactly news.

Al Qaeda was well known but “we had not a single source inside that organization capable of warning us of the 9/11 attacks that would kill almost 3,000 Americans.” It took a decade to take out bin Laden, and one doubts it went down as portrayed in Zero Dark Thirty.

As with 9/11 “we received no warning prior to the outbreak of the pandemic,” and the CIA could “apparently provide no useful information regarding the origins of the disease,” still true years later. The CIA has “no sources inside China’s top bio lab,” which is probably true of most, if not all, of China. Faddis blames bureaucratization and politicization but may underestimate the problem in both cases.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Of course, Americans had long known that something had gone wrong at their colleges. They had increasingly encountered college graduates who were poorly educated in basic skills and lacked general knowledge—and yet highly politicized, and intolerant of different views and opinions. Ignorant but arrogant is a sad way to start an adult life.

College, the public knew, has certainly eroded from our cherished idea of a four-year idealized respite from adult employment. It once was intended to be a place where youth learned to be open-minded, tolerant, skilled, and eager to learn the nature and traditions of Western civilization, art, literature, languages, philosophy, and history.

Instead, all too often “college” has now descended into a six-to-seven-year misadventure that nationwide often results in only half those enrolled ever receiving degrees. Nearly all sink deeply in student debt. And yet for all the borrowed tuition money, few prove capable of writing analytically, speaking articulately, or knowing the general referents, past and present, of their very civilization.

Rotten apple: New York dubbed ‘least free state’ in country in new study (Fox News) Worse than California? There’s an accomplishment.

New York continues to be ranked one of the ‘least free’ states, new survey shows (Fox Business)

How Free Is Your State? (Cato Institute) Not very, I’m guessing.

NY ranked ‘Least Free State,’ with high taxes, debt, regulation: study (N.Y. Post)

NBC News Loves Deep State: Laments GOP Halting ‘Coordination’ Between FBI, Social Media

Newsom Ad Targets DeSantis’ Six-Week Abortion Ban  I guess he’s running for President.

Conservative Think Tank Reveals Best, Worst States For Freedom In Education

Senate Dems stake their 2024 hopes on last 2 red-state incumbents (Politico)

D.C. Combating Car Thefts, Carjackings With Dashcams, AirTags

¡Afuera! WashPost TRIGGERED ‘Far-Right’ Javier Milei Won Argentina Presidency

Obama’s Diversity Push in Air Traffic Controllers Is Eventually Going to Get People Killed

Do Or DEI? Federal Judge Finds Policies Are Mandatory And Unconstitutional In California Case

Wisconsin Governor Vetoes $2 Billion Republican Tax Cut

Even Census Bureau Is Pushing Radical Gender Ideology

Why TSA’s Implementation of Facial Recognition Is More Dangerous Than You Think

The New American Credo: When The Truth Hurts, Lie

Cardi B Turns On Democrats: “B**ch, We’re Going To Be Drowning In F**king Rats” 

Outside APEC, Complaints Of Intimidation & Assaults

Should Biden Redesignate Houthi Rebels as a Terror Group?

Meet the Panic! Kornacki Shows ‘Stunning’ New NBC Poll Finding Trump Leading Biden

Biden turns 81 as questions about age continue to dominate 2024 race (ABC News) The question is not age, the question is competence.

Michigan Poll: Trump Leads Biden in Key Battleground State

Forget Our NBC Poll! Scarborough Yawns Past Biden’s Bad Polling Graveyard

Terror Threat Is “Real” While Border Remains Open, Says Former CBP Chief

Harvard/Harris Poll: Trump Tops GOP by 58, Biden by 6

Biden FCC Moves to Put New DEI Controls Over Internet

Angry Over Israel Policy, Young Voters Break Sharply From Biden – Trump Leads NBC Poll For First Time

ExxonMobil Vs. Google: Profits, Taxes, & Perceptions Explained

Report: Biden Sends Screening, Deportation Team to Panama

EXCLUSIVE: FCC Commissioner Paints Harrowing Picture of Biden’s New Power Grab

Cardi B declines to endorse Biden, pointing to spending on wars (The Hill) OH NOES! (What’s she going to do–vote for Trump?)

The Real Reason Why Biden Shouldn’t Drop Out (The New Republic) Winning is the only thing.

Sleepy Joe Turns 81: America’s Oldest President Just Got Even Older

Javier Milei: Argentina’s far-right outsider wins presidential election (BBC) He’s a libertarian–when did that become ‘far-right’? (Although, I suppose, it is, to the BBC…)

Trump-admiring populist Milei wins in Argentina, edging the country closer to a dollarized economy (CNBC)

Is Argentina’s new president too divisive to fix a broken economy? (The Economist) In the Narrative media, ‘divisive’ means ‘not suffiently Leftist’.

Jeff Bezos wore a cowboy hat again. Real cowboys are rolling their eyes (The Guardian) I’m glad they have nothing more important to report on. (Nobody at The Guardian would recognize a ‘reaal cowboy’ of one pissed on their legs.)

Yaccarino On Hot Seat As Ad Execs Urge Twitter CEO To Resign (Forbes) Surely she doesn’t want to get Musk Cooties?

X CEO Yaccarino: Data Will Show Efforts to Fight Hate

McCarthy: Gaetz to Meet Similar Fate as Santos

ABC’s Raddatz Chastises San Francisco Mayor Breed For ‘Reagan-Era Policies’

What Happens When the Super Rich Are This Selfish? (It Isn’t Pretty.) (N.Y. Times) The Narrative media are just full of Karens ready to tell other people what they ought to be doing.

With a new speaker, the old MTG is back (Washington Poop) Let not the new witch-hunts divert attention from the old witch-hunts.

How SCOTUS’s “ethics code” provides cover for corruption (Public Notice) Let not the new witch-huntrs divert attention from the old witch-hunts.

Democrat Dark Money Funded Supreme Court Watchdogs

Supreme Court Rejects Chauvin Appeal in George Floyd Killing

Family Guy Mocks Republican Politicians as Being Worse than the Unabomber

Michigan Takes Step To Punish Salon Owner Who Said She’ll Only Serve Men And Women

Fiery right-wing populist Javier Milei wins Argentina’s presidency and promises ‘drastic’ changes

Greene calls for new Jan. 6 select committee (The Hill) Let not the new witch-hunts divert attention from the old witch-hunts.

The lion, the wig and the warrior. Who is Javier Milei, Argentina’s president-elect? (Associated Press)

Trump congratulates Javier Milei on win in Argentina presidential race (The Hill) Oops–he now has Trump Cooties, so the Narrative media is obliged to attempt to destroy him.

CBS Reporters Lose Their Feeble Little Minds at Argentina’s ‘Far Right’ President-Elect

Sen. Mike Lee promotes a debunked conspiracy theory about a Jan. 6 rioter (NBC News)

RFK Jr. leads 2024 candidates in favorability poll

Don’t Cry for Newsrooms, Argentina

FBI Releases Special Edition Jan 6 Footage DVD With Director’s Commentary (Babylon Bee)

X CEO says Apple and others ‘temporarily paused’ ads over ‘misleading and manipulated article’

IBM-led advertising X-odus gains steam as more flee Musk’s platform

NewsGuard Paid by Gov’t to Crush Online Speech: Twitter Files

‘Hate Group’ Hackdom: NPR Rushes to Proclaim ‘The Waning Influence of Moms for Liberty’

Ron Paul: We Must Demand Justice For The January 6th Protesters!

Biden says he’s an optimist. But his dire warnings about Trump have become central to his campaign (Associated Press)

US Appeals Court to Consider Trump Gag Order in Election Case

Judge Aileen Cannon’s Games in Florida May Delay Other Trump Trials (Daily Beast)

Poll: Trump Takes 39-Point Lead Over DeSantis in Fla.

Many former Trump aides say he shouldn’t be president. Will it matter? (Washington Poop) Every time a newspaper headline asks a question, the correct answer is always ‘No’.

Trump “Has To Be Eliminated”: Another Dan Goldman Gaffe, Or Call For Assassination?

FBI Miami Field Office Chief ‘Vocally Anti-Trump’  Your tax dollars at work.

Appeals Court Weighs Reinstating Gag Order on Trump in D.C. Election Case

6 in 10 Trump voters say there’s a ‘chance’ they choose another candidate: Poll (The Hill)

Rep. Dan Goldman on MSNBC: Trump ‘MUST BE ELIMINATED’

Study Reveals Most Common Chronic Symptoms After COVID-19 Vaccination

“Tranhausen By Proxy?” Parents’ Personality Disorders Driving Surge In Trans Kids: Psychiatrists

4 more free COVID tests will be available to each household ahead of the holidays (ABC News)

US to Offer More Free COVID Tests Nationwide  For all the people out there still wearing masks.

Earth passed a feared global warming milestone Friday, at least briefly (Washington Poop) Apparently they have a big thermometer stuck up the Earth’s butt, giving them the temperature from minute to minute. Sure, I believe that….

The world briefly smashed through the 2-degree warming limit for the first time (CNN) You heard the sound of the smash, of course, didn’t you? After all, it was a ‘limit’.

Earth likely briefly passed critical warming threshold on Friday (Axios)

Global Temperatures Briefly Crossed Critical Threshold For The First Time Last Week (Forbes)

One Greenwich school has a geothermal heating system. It’s ‘failed across the board,’ officials say.

Family Businesses Can’t Afford To Lose Access To Reliable Electricity

The Fifth National Climate Assessment Report is Driven by Government Deception & Climate Alarmist Politics

Federal Energy Efficiency Requirements Are Outdated and Should Be Repealed

Tuvaluan’s May ‘Escape’ to Australia, but if They Do, Associated Press, It Won’t Be Because of Climate Change

Federal appeals court ruling threatens enforcement of the Voting Rights Act (Politico) Anti-white racism may be under threat.

US Appeals Court Strikes at Core of Voting Rights Law

Israel claims footage shows hostages at al-Shifa; Hamas says video is ‘in our favor’ (Washington Poop) As if Israel and Hamas were equally credible sources.

Israel-Hamas war rages as humanitarian crisis spirals in Gaza (CNN)

Why does Israel target Palestinian hospitals? Psyops, say analysts (Al Jazeera) ‘That’s where the terrorists are’ say people who have been paying attention.

Gunfire kills, wounds dozens in Gaza hospital encircled by Israeli tanks – health ministry (Reuters)

Media Worst: Some Pro-Palestinian Protesters Did Something

The Rise Of Socialists In Latin America Is Giving Terror Groups A Home

Dictator Xi’s American Cleanup Tour

Israel Admits It Killed Some Of Its Own At Nova Music Festival Whenever did a Muslim terrorist organization (like Hamas) ever admit that it made a mistake and killed some on its own side?

France: A Tale Of Two Demos

Austin Visits Kyiv to Signal US Support as Battles Rage (Bloomberg)

‘This Was In Fact a Victory’: Inside an Ivy League Student Group’s Private Response to Hamas’s October Attack

Congressional Efforts Grow To Deport Visa Holders Who Support Hamas

Conflict, Recruitment Woes Could Drive Draft Reinstatement  Good luck with that.

Zelensky Confirms Artillery Shell Deliveries Decreased Since Outbreak Of Gaza War

South Korea Reconsiders ’18 Peace Deal in Warning to North Korea on Spy Satellite

California Democrat Convention Shut Down By Pro-Palestine Protesters

Iran Unveils Hypersonic Fattah-2 Ballistic Missile

The Era of Total U.S. Submarine Dominance Over China Is Ending (Wall Street Journal)

Musk Takes Heat For Banning Palestinian ‘River To The Sea’ Slogan On X

Glick: Palestinians Overwhelmingly Back Hamas Terrorism There are no ‘innocent Palestinians’.

Israeli Tanks Surround Another Gaza Hospital, As WHO Team Inspects “Death Zone” At Al-Shifa

The Deadly Logic of Decolonization

LOGISTICS: France Mobilizes Industry for War

INDIA-PAKISTAN: India-Pakistan Debts and Rebels

Hamas and retaking higher education

CIA’s Burns & SecDef Austin In Separate ‘Urgent’ Trips To Ukraine As War Effort Implodes.

The propaganda war: no matter how strong the evidence the IDF offers, much of the world rejects it

Hamas Took Their Brother Hostage

Jewish Lawmakers Slam ‘Unsafe’ California Dem Convention After Anti-Israel Protesters Shut Down Events

PA Denies Hamas Responsibility for Oct. 7 Massacre as Biden Pushes for Group To Govern Gaza

Xi Celebrates ‘Firm’ Ties With Russia After US Trip Marred By Biden’s Dictator Remark

Journalist Arrested in Israel for Pro-Hamas Comments

US Says Israel Has ‘Right’ To Expand Military Offensive To South Gaza

Japan: North Korea Signals Plan to Launch Satellite Rocket

Rasmussen Poll: Less Than Third Say Muslims Are Treated Unfairly in US

Fresh Off Anti-Semitism Censure, Tlaib Speaks at Pro-Hamas Ceasefire Rally  She’s still an Arab and a Muslim.

At al-Shifa Hospital

The ‘Two-State Solution’ is Terrorism

Indian Exodus: the Jewish population exits after 2,000 years

Islamist ‘Morality Guardians’ Surging in Vienna Schools

Palestinian Authority Warns That Gaza Hospitals Running Dangerously Low On Ammunition  (Babylon Bee)

Illegal Biolab In California Received $1.3 Million From Chinese Banks: House Committee

US Has Highest-Ever Childhood Vaccine Exemption Rate In History  Gee, I wonder why?

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The voting machines America is currently using need to go. They breed mistrust, and there’s a reason for that: They are not trustworthy. They are also inherently undemocratic.

No, I’m not talking about 2020–well, not as such. I’m talking about all the past elections since we started using these machines, as well as all the future ones until we come to our senses.

The recent Presidential election in Argentina had 30,000,000 paper ballots, and they were all counted (and the result reported) within one day. But no American county can do that.

The use of insecure, un-auditable voting machines appears to be designed to encourage fraud.

ZMan is not optimistic.

The war in Ukraine is heading into the winter with the great counter-offensive all but officially declared a great failure. After six months of attacks, the Ukrainians gained a small sliver of ground in the south and lost a large swath of territory in the north, along with billions in Western equipment. Outside of small ventures to keep up appearances, Ukraine is no longer conducting offensive operations. The big question that looms over all of it is what comes next for Ukraine?

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The Kennedy family has been ersatz American royalty starting almost immediately after John F. Kennedy’s assassination 60 years ago this week, the deliberate product of the relentless “Camelot” PR campaign. And certainly it has worked better for the extended Kennedy clan than for any other political dynasty in American history. It was enough for a Kennedy to attach himself or herself to a cause or charity for it to gain outsize media attention and elite legitimacy.

Certainly this has long been true especially of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has attached himself to an endless series of loony left-wing causes over the years, always evading any serious criticism because of his illustrious name. But now that his independent bid for the presidency threatens to derail a second term for Joe Biden, the mainstream media is suddenly saying—hey, wait a minute! RFK Jr. may be a grasping, self-serving, money-grubbing celebrity! Who knew?

FreeThink.

The Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) use of its new robot police dog to resolve a situation with an armed man illustrates how the machines can keep both officers and suspects out of harm’s way — but the potential for the tech to be used in more troubling ways in the future remains.

How Major Environmental Groups Ended Up on the Wrong Side of California’s Housing Crisis (Mother Jones)

“Reduce Your Emissions Within Two Months Or Face The Consequences”, Brussels Tells 12 Member States

Are EVs a Doomed Technology?

How Green Billionaires Groom the Public into Accepting Unworkable Net Zero Policies

Recycling Eco-Myths Is The Existential Threat

Climate Enron May Be Heading for a Crash

Memphis Police: 3 Women and Girl Killed in Shootings

GOP Sen. Mike Lee Calls for Probe of Jan. 6 Panel After Tapes Released

Wisconsin Gov. Evers says ‘Neo-Nazis, antisemitism, white supremacy have no home in Wisconsin’ after demonstration (Journal Sentinel) A bunch of ‘neo-Nazis’ marched on the state capitol of Wisconsin and no leftists showed up? No Antifa? No BLM? Seriously? I suggest that this was a put-up job by local Democrats, who need some scary press to rebuild their image.

New J6 Footage Shows Capitol Police May Have Incited Riot By Firing Munitions Into Peaceful Crowd

Taxpayer-Funded PBS, NPR Lovingly Push Sales of Brian Stelter’s New Fox-Trashing Book

Cheney, Kinzinger, And “Sham” J6 Committee Under Fire After Friday Footage Dump; GOP Senator Calls For Investigation

I Read Mike Johnson’s Legal Filings. They Reveal a Distinctive Pattern. (Politico) Let not the new witch-hunts distract us from the old witch-hunts.

Rep. Jordan Subpoenas Bank Of America Over Allegedly Sharing Jan. 6 Info With FBI

Ron DeSantis refuses to condemn Elon Musk’s endorsement of antisemitic conspiracy theory (USA Today) Probably because that never happened.

More advertisers halt spending on X in growing backlash against Musk  Panic among the chickens.

You shouldn’t be driving over 100 MPH-and your car shouldn’t let you  The world is full of people who are convinced that they have a right to tell you what to do.

Tucker Carlson spreads antisemitic message in interview with Candace Owens (CNN) I guess they figure if it works on Elom Musk they’ll try it on Tucker Carlson.

Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it. (Washington Poop) No, he didn’t. But that’s the lie they want you to believe.

Elon Musk’s X Intervenes For Student In Trouble With College Over Social Media Posts

How Many Are Feds?’ Sen. Mike Lee Pushes Jan. 6 Disinformation (Rolling Stone) In the Narrative media, ‘disinformation’ means anything inconsistent with the Narrative.

Trump Reminds Iowa: ‘My Attitude Is What Gets Us There’

British Magazine The Economist: Trump’s the ‘Biggest Danger to the World in 2024’  Bigger than Russia? Bigger than China? Bigger than North Korea? Bigger than jihadist Islam?

Trump Returning to Texas Border for Immigration Speech

Sideswiped by the Judge

Touting Colorado Court Win, Blasting Biden: 6 Takeaways From Trump’s Iowa Rally

Turley: Don’t Count On A Trump Conviction – None Of These Cases Are Slam-Dunks

Vulgarities, insults, baseless attacks: Trump backers follow his lead (Washington Poop) And how does that differ from the Narrative media, hmmm?