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Not that he knows it.

Republican governors clean up President Joe Biden’s mess in both disaster recovery and the longshoremen’s port strike; the world still doesn’t care what the unelected wife of the president thinks; and scammers are just as annoying as ever.

 

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Warning: CAIR’s Ongoing Infiltration of Key American Institutions

Hamas-linked CAIR unleashes 50,000-strong Muslim army trained to dismantle America’s institutions. America’s future is at stake! It is not just an ideological war — this is a coordinated, well-funded effort to dismantle American values, destroy our Constitution, and replace it with an Islamic regime. We can no longer afford to overlook the threat posed by CAIR and other Hamas-linked organizations.

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Fox News host Jesse Watters warned that an unprecedented favor from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to leftist billionaire George Soros could wreak havoc on the American media landscape.

During the Oct. 2 edition of Jesse Watters Primetime, Watters slammed the FCC decision to waive a mandatory review of Soros’s foreign-backed purchase of Audacy, America’s second-largest radio company. Watters reminded his audience that Soros will soon own hundreds of radio stations that reach countless Americans. “Conservative talk stations” are among those purchased by Soros, Watters affirmed.

After playing a clip of the late radio legend Rush Limbaugh discussing American freedoms, Watters said, “Voices like our good friend Rush, [Sean] Hannity, [Mark] Levin—they’re an oasis of reason in an ocean of liberal bias. But that could change very soon. The company that controls these conservative talk stations, they are falling into the hands of Soros.”

New York Post.

A young hostage kidnapped by ISIS terrorists at age 11 and then held by Hamas for a decade has been rescued by Israeli forces in Gaza after a months-long operation led by the US, officials said Thursday.

Fawzia Amin Sido, 21, was freed earlier this week, with footage showing her being embraced tightly by her emotional family soon after touching back down in her native Iraq.

“Fawzia, a Yazidi girl kidnapped by ISIS from Iraq and brought to Gaza at just 11 years old, has finally been rescued by the Israeli security forces,” tweeted David Saranga, the director of the digital diplomacy bureau at Israel’s foreign ministry.

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Two weeks ago the Teamsters Union announced that they would not endorse a presidential candidate this year for the first time since 1996, after internal polling revealed that 58% of its members back Trump vs. 31% for Harris.

You’d think that, with 58% of the membership backing Trump, they’d endorse Trump.

No. That’s not how unions work. It’s Democrats, or Shut Up.

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When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war.

So quiet was the inheritance from the prior Trump administration that nearly three years later, on September 29, 2023 – and just eight days before the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis – Biden’s national security advisor Jack Sullivan could still brag that “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”

So, what exactly happened to the inherited calm that led to the current nonstop chaos of the present?

In a word, theocratic Iran—the nexus of almost all current Middle East terrorism and conflict—was unleashed by Team Biden after having been neutered by the Trump administration.

The Biden-Harris administration adopted a 5-step revisionist protocol that appeased and encouraged Iran and its terrorist surrogates Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.

Babylon Bee.

Satire — read quickly before it comes true.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Tractor maker has only turned over shoddy tools, half-baked info, may be breaking the law, says senator.

And fewer people are more knowledgeable than Elizabeth Warren abouty breaking the law, shoddy tools, and half-baked info.

I wonder how much effort it would take to disassemble a John Deer tractor, reverse-engineer its control systems, and publish CNC milling control files for each of the parts. That would be entertaining.

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Nothing useful will result, but they’ll spend the money anyway, rake in donations from the favored firms, and forget it sooner rather than later.

For fun, ask Kemala what happened to all of those electric car charging stations they were going to build.

Note that David Turk, the bureaucrat involved, is a lawyer who has worked for politicians all his life. Who better to accomplish this major feat of engineering and project management?

Stop worrying about what other people think of you.

If you really got to know them, you’d realize that their opinions suck.

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And who could blame them?

Brett Cooper.

eams are putting their foot down and saying they will not play against biological men. Finally, women are standing up for themselves after watching their rights and protections be stripped away over the last few years.

Babylon Bee.

Satire — read quickly before it comes true.

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But they’ll try their damnedest nevertheless.

Babylon Bee.

Satire — read quickly before it comes true.

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‘Misgendering’ is one of those made-up Woke offenses slapped on those who refuse to join the delusional in their fantasy world.

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Two Swedish teenagers were jailed Thursday in pre-trial detention in connection with two predawn explosions in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen a day earlier. Prosecutors said investigators were establishing “whether the motive could be a terror attack.”

No one was injured in the blasts on early Wednesday in a neighborhood with several foreign diplomatic missions, though the nearby Jewish school was closed following the explosions.

The pair, who cannot be identified under a court order, were ordered held for 27 days. They faced preliminary charges of possessing illegal weapons and carrying five hand grenades. Two of the grenades blew up when the suspects threw them at a house near the embassy, prosecutor Søren Harbo said.

“This was pretty close to the Israeli Embassy,” Harbo said before Thursday’s court hearing. The explosions caused damage to a roof terrace of a nearby house. The diplomatic mission was not harmed.

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In Colorado, now seen as a blue state, an average of 52.3% of voters have supported the Democratic candidate across the last four presidential elections. In fact, Colorado has gone to the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 2004, when the GOP candidate George W. Bush defeated John Kerry, a Democrat. Barring any unforeseen shakeup, Colorado is expected to align with historical voting patterns once again in 2024 and go to Harris. (Here is a look at the 15 least popular presidents, according to Millennials.)

Despite its status as a Democratic stronghold, there are several parts of the state that have consistently broken with the prevailing political ideology in recent elections. According to voting records, there are 37 counties in Colorado where an average of at least 50% of voters have supported the Republican candidate across the last four presidential elections. In four of these counties, more than 80% of voters cast ballots for the Republican candidate over the same four general elections.

Republicans get outvoted by the major metropolitan areas, which are (as always) dominated by Democrats — Californians moving to Denver, college students in Boulder, and God alone knows what is going on in Colorado Springs.

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Large staffing companies that thrived during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars under the Bush-Obama years retooled their business models as the US involvement and war funding in the Middle East wound down. Now, these staffing firms seem to be profiting off the Biden-Harris administration’s open-border migrant invasion by providing essential services, such as private security, transportation, and many other services, to ensure the fed’s migrant network nationwide operates smoothly.

These companies are likely awarded handsome federal contracts, paid for by the US taxpayer.

Bussing and housing millions of illegal and legal aliens is big business for staffing companies and non-profits. Americans have to realize their tax dollars are paying for all of this while the migrants displace and replace blue-collar workers in small-town factories nationwide. The folks in Springfield, Ohio, and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, know firsthand just how devastating globalist open border policies can be for them.

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The underwater caves of the Yucatán Peninsula are a window to the distant past. Through two million years and over multiple glaciation cycles, these caves have been transformed. When the sea level was high, the caves flooded, and their reach expanded.

During the ice ages, the caves dried out as the sea level dropped, and the seeping water from the surface decorated the caverns with deposits such as stalagmites and stalactites, collectively known as speleothems. Then, with the next cycle came higher sea levels again, flooding the caves and preserving in time the speleothems and everything else with them.

I have been diving the unique submerged landscapes of Mexican cenotes, or sinkholes, for almost ten years, exploring their dark, flooded tunnels and capturing their secrets. The last time the shallow caves on the Yucatán Peninsula flooded was around 8,000 years ago, which means that every diver in these caves travels back in time to a prehistoric age. The paleontological and archaeological remains preserved within them would disintegrate at the surface, which makes these caves a perfect time capsule.

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Over the past several years, I’ve watched with sadness as the reputation of medical science has taken it on the chin. The pandemic polluted the public’s opinion of the purity of science and nobility of medicine.

Worst of all, science was taken hostage as much as truth was.

True scientists and honest doctors, asking important questions, were ignored, or worse, canceled. It was replaced by political grandstanding and pharmaceutical profit-taking, and our fellow citizens took note.

Scientific journals of the highest regard were strongarmed into publishing articles generated by lawyers and PR firms, only to then have those papers exposed as lies and retracted. Recent admissions by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg have revealed that government bureaucrats exerted pressure on social media companies to dress up opinions as facts to serve an agenda.

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Every Dime. Online. In Real Time.

At OpenTheBooks.com, we work hard to capture and post all disclosed spending at every level of government – federal, state, and local. In 2022, we filed 50,000 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and captured 25 million public employee pension and salary records. We also broke open the California state checkbook for the first time in American history. We are rapidly growing our data in all 50 states down to the municipal level. We won’t stop until we capture every dime taxed and spent by our government.

As a government watchdog organization, we accept no government funding.

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Part of what makes the Regime Media the Regime Media is their propensity to hide stories that cast the Regime in an unfavorable light. One such story is the announcement, made by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that, with a month remaining, FEMA lacks the funds to make through hurricane season.

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You can tell what the Regime Media thinks about a debate or other candidate reaction by what they report afterwards. To their credit, NBC Nightly News was the only network evening newscast to report on Democrat vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz’s (MN) struggle to explain his misrepresentations (lies, actually) with regard to being in China during the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

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Peter Vlaming, a longtime high school French teacher in Virginia, was fired in 2018 for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns. On Monday, after years of litigation and a win for Vlaming at the Virginia Supreme Court, the school board finally capitulated and agreed to settle the case for $575,000.

But the West Point School Board’s refusal for five years to protect Vlaming’s free speech and religious freedom rights came with an exorbitant price tag.

In 2018, one of Vlaming’s female students at West Point High School began identifying as a transgender male. Although Vlaming consistently used the student’s preferred name, the French teacher carefully avoided using third-person pronouns so as not to violate his own religious beliefs.

None of this would be possible without the guarantees embodied in the U.S. Constitution. See what’s happening in Europe and the U.K. if you don’t believe me.

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The growing female athletes’ revolution against “inclusion” gone mad has escalated, with the Boise State Bronco and Wyoming Cowgirl volleyball teams forfeiting games against conference rival San Jose State, in apparent objection to the Spartans roster including an alleged male-to-female trans player.

The Spartans rolled into the weekend with a sparkling 9-0 record — and controversy over the squad’s senior outside/right side hitter Blaire Fleming, who is one of the team’s top players in terms of kills and points. The buzz was killed, however, when Boise State announced it would take a conference loss rather than play the Spartans. The school did not give a reason for the decision, but the motive seems clear to all observers.

Eventually, athletic competitions allowing ‘trans’ people into women’s sports will drive Real Women out.

Once that happens, Real Women who really want to do sports will form parallel organizations limited to Real Women.

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In the Netherlands, there is much unrest in the cultural sector over the Dutch government’s intention to increase VAT on culture, books, and sports, raising the rate from 9% to 21% effective 1 January 2026. The VAT increase in question is indeed a problem for the cultural sector, which has experienced significant pressure in the wake of COVID-19. Yet, all in all, it is a relatively minor problem; and, in fact, the fuss being made about it serves to divert attention from a much bigger problem within the Dutch cultural sector. For what is destroying the cultural sector from within is woke ideology, which is ultimately aimed not at the reformation of the sector, but at the complete demise of all heritage institutions.

Are such assessments overblown? I am afraid not. After all, wokeism argues that Western cultural heritage is an expression of colonialism, racism, and abuse of power. In other words, that cultural heritage is a legacy of the privileged white man and his ‘evil’ historical deeds. It is therefore perfectly logical that the adherents of the woke ideology want to bring about a new world, “unburdened by what has been” (to put it in the words of Kamala Harris). But, by definition, the notion of tabula rasa is incompatible with a desire to possess a meaningful and enduring cultural heritage.

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Colleges and universities are considering new ways to incorporate generative AI into teaching and learning, but not every student is on board with the tech yet. Experts weigh in on the necessity of AI in career preparation and higher education’s role in preparing students for jobs of the future.

Students don’t want jobs in the future. Students want paychecks in the future. Jobs are merely a tedious inconvenience.

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Some people will actually pay to get lied to. Astonishing.

Reed it. And watch the video.

Heh. A fool and his money are soon parted.

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The mysterious Chinese submarine that apparently sunk in a shipyard earlier this year was the first of a new class featuring a hybrid nuclear/conventional propulsion system, according to a new report. The latest development in the saga of the Type 041 Zhou class submarine would seem to clear up some of the previous uncertainty about the boat as well as signal that China is working on novel solutions for its fast-growing underwater fleet.

In a recent report citing unnamed defense officials, the Washington Times notes that the Type 041 “employs both conventional and nuclear propulsion,” specifically, “a small nuclear reactor” in addition to a conventional powerplant.

When the Type 041 was first identified in Wuchang Shipyard, it was assessed as being one of the Type 039A series boats, also known in the West as the Yuan class or a variant of it. The Type 039A is the first Chinese submarine with an air-independent propulsion (AIP) system, which greatly increases the time that it can remain submerged and makes it harder to detect, compared with traditional conventionally powered subs.

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Lin Robinson-Young isn’t a well-known figure. On social media, the Victoria, B.C.-based social-justice activist self-describes as an “autistic thembo nerd” who seeks to “free Palestine”; but otherwise provides scant biographical information, and attracts few followers. But such is the radicalised political climate in British Columbia’s capital, at the heart of what is sometimes called Canada’s “left coast,” that a single local obscurity such as this can pose a real threat to the free speech rights of everyone else.

On September 15, Robinson-Young posted to a Facebook group called Victoria BC Protests (Activism & Demonstrations), denouncing the local Royal Canadian Legion hall for hosting a group of women that I’d helped bring together for a speaking tour. Our organisation, Vancouver Island Speaks, stands for the propositions that biology is real; that women deserve the right to establish protected spaces that are free of men (no matter what pronouns they care to use); that parents of gender-distressed children should be informed by educators if their children seek to adopt a new identity; and that minors should not be treated with life- and body-altering hormones and surgeries as a means to cope with gender stereotypes and the stresses of puberty. According to Robinson-Young, these positions mark us as a “far-right anti-transgender hate group.”

Babylon Bee.

Satire — read it quickly before it comes true.

ZMan covers the debate.

Political debates in America are rarely worth the effort to watch mostly because they are not genuine debates. Instead, they are something like a joint press conference where the candidates also get to shout at one another. In a general election, the candidate of the stupid party always agrees to allow the candidate of the evil party to invite his friends to be the moderators. The resulting show, and it is mostly just a show, is about the stupid party candidate fending off the others.

The Other McCain.

America wanted the answers to two crucial questions: Is there any politician in America less qualified for high public office than Kamala Harris? and Is it possible for debate moderators to be worse than ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis? The answer to both questions is a surprising “yes.”

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A culture-enricher in Germany didn’t like it when his hosts told him he had to move out of their house, so out came the knife. Plenty of screaming invective accompanied the asylum seeker’s expressed disappointment with the Kartoffeln who had been accommodating him.

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Just what Germany needs: culture-enrichers sitting in judgment against the despised German “potatoes” (Kartoffeln).

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Last week, Amy Wax, the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania (“Penn”) and three-time recipient of awards for excellence in teaching, was stripped her of her chaired professorship, suspended for a year at half pay, and denied summer pay in perpetuity. Why? As far as I can tell, for telling her students the truth in the classroom and exercising her constitutional right to express her private opinions outside the classroom.

Babylon Bee.

Satire — read it quickly before it comes true.

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I am the father of two young daughters. They are more precious to me than everything else in the universe combined. I would die for them without a moment’s hesitation, and consider myself honoured to have been given the opportunity. Right now, they are being stolen from me before my eyes, and it is not obvious what I can do about it.

I shall refrain from sharing the details of my unhappy marriage, except to say this: I have done everything in my power to avoid a divorce. Coming from a psychology background, I am only too aware of the deleterious effects that would have on my children, no matter how civil the split. Fatherless children in particular perform poorly on almost every metric, including education, poverty, child pregnancy, drug use, abuse, and prison. This coupled with the excruciating realisation that I would not be there for them when they most needed me, and instead would find themselves at the mercy of whatever third-rate surrogate I am supplanted by. My plan therefore for years has been to hold on until my daughters were adults, and then get the hell out.

That option has been taken off the table now, because my wife has filed for divorce herself. The demands made are interesting: 100% of the family assets (despite my wife having never worked throughout the marriage), a large compensation payment for ‘damages’ (ludicrous, if you knew the circumstances), a healthy alimony cheque and worst of all, sole custody of the children. Seeing as there is zero chance of this being awarded (even in the misandrist hell of the divorce court), manoeuvres were necessary. And they have been deployed exhaustively.

This is why men aren’t getting married any more. Women have no one to blame but themselves.

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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is following in the footsteps of other leftist-liberal politicians who wish to crack down on “disinformation,” i.e., censor free speech on social media in order to “protect democracy.”

On Monday, September 30th, Baerbock called on the European Commission to adopt new rules for dealing with disinformation on social networks. Once again, “disinformation” is being used as the official label for news or views that the European establishment doesn’t want its citizens to see or hear.

The foreign minister cited targeted attacks on democracy as her motive, saying fake news, hatred and agitation were “disintegrating our democratic reality.” As examples of the supposed threat, she cited election influence by Russia and the actions of Islamist groups on the internet. Young people in particular are influenced by fake news, while women are often victims of hate and fake news, she warned.

Totalitarianism pads in on little soft feet.

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A new law forcing the British owners of one or more chickens (and pigeons and birds of prey) to register each bird individually has met with resistance.

Not everyone thinks the government should be counting their chickens (even after they’ve hatched). It was reported on X, formerly Twitter, that enough scamps have successfully registered their store-bought roast chickens to crash the government website.

While the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) enjoys some support for its anti-bird flu measures, poultry owners are concerned about the excessive bureaucracy the new system now involves (and no doubt also concerned about the threat of fines and even imprisonment for non-compliance).

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Just a week after the murder of young Philippine in the Bois de Boulogne near Paris, involving a Moroccan migrant facing deportation, another murder has stirred up French public opinion: that of a 17-year-old man, Kilian Binard, who was stabbed to death on Sunday, September 29th in Normandy. This time, the suspect is of Algerian nationality.

According to the initial findings of the investigation, the stabbing occurred in the early hours of Sunday, September 29th, as the young man was leaving a nightclub near Bayeux. The victim, a 17-year-old boxer, became involved in a fight involving around twenty people in the nightclub car park. The suspect allegedly hit Kilian in the back and neck with a knife recovered from his car.

The suspect, an Algerian national, was in possession of a ten-year residence permit that had recently been renewed. The permit was withdrawn after Kilian’s murder. The man initially denied all charges against him, before admitting that he had picked up a knife during the fight, “unfolded the blade and used it to strike the first person in front of him, which he said had no intention of killing,” according to the prosecutor in charge of the investigation.

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Swedes and Danes are progressive, sure, but home-grown Swedes and Danes aren’t doing these attacks.

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The USS Bulkeley and USS Cole fired “approximately a dozen interceptors against the incoming Iranian missiles,” which were captured on video streaking across the night sky above Israel.

The Cole has a history with Muslim terrorists.

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The other day I saw a meme that went something like this:

Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities like singing, dancing, and making art have been turned into skills instead of being recognized as behaviors? The point of doing these things has become to get good at them. But they should be recognized as things humans do innately, like how birds sing or bees make hives.

I thought about that for a minute, then decided: making websites should be the same!

The original vision for the web, according to Tim Berners-Lee, was to make it a collaborate medium where everyone could read and write.

Social media sort of achieved this, but the incentives are off. And it’s not just about ownership of the content you produce and who can monetize it, but the context in which you produce it.

Everyone ought to have a personal website. That way they can make public anything that they think ought to be made public, and other people have the ability to consume it or not, as they choose. As an added bonus, the type of people who require attention/validation to feel good about themselves increase their chances of becoming so despondent and lonely that they self-delete, thus improving the gene pool for the rest of us.

I’m all about improving the gene pool for the rest of us. Just sayin’.

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The Nobel Prize in Economics does not exist. UChicago should stop pretending otherwise—hinging our university’s reputation on an outright fraud is not a good look. And UChicago Booth students and staff should be more skeptical of our economics faculty, whose work relies heavily on arbitrary neoliberal assumptions and overly technical methods that cannot be explained in plain English.

When Alfred Nobel died in 1896, he established five Nobel Prizes in his will: physics, chemistry, “physiology and medicine,” literature, and peace. Not economics. The Nobel family’s descendants have protested the economics prize, with one of them calling it a “PR coup by economists to improve their reputation” and a “cuckoo’s egg in the Nobel nest.”

The award most people today call the “Nobel Prize in Economics” is more properly called the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.” It was established in 1968 by the economists running Sweden’s central bank, partly to shield the bank from democratic accountability and support their push to make it “independent.” To do this, those economists needed to market their discipline to the world as a “science” with technical, correct answers that only experts could fully understand and that lowly voters did not get to question.

Any prize that Paul Krugman can win is not a real prize.

Economics is not a science because it is not predictive; it is merely suggestive.

Like medicine, it deals with humans, and (as with medicine, which isn’t a science either) humans are too complex to predict. Oh, it has scientific aspects — anything you can measure is, after all, scientific — but to be a science means to be able to make predictions that come true and do so invariably.

Like all pseudosciences, economics depends on statistical correlation rather than actual causation (like a real science, such as physics) for it’s ‘predictions’, which quite often don’t come true; anybody would be a fool to depend on such a ‘science’.