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It’s finally happening. After years of government subsidies, media cheerleading, and financial markets propping up a house of cards, a hedge fund manager has come forward to say what many of us have known all along: the so-called clean energy sector is “dead for now.” Nishant Gupta, founder and chief investment officer at London-based Kanou Capital LLP, didn’t mince words when describing the dire state of solar, wind, hydrogen, and fuel cell investments.

“The whole sector… is dead for now,” Gupta stated plainly?. This marks a turning point—when even those inside the financial world, who have long played along with the green energy narrative, admit that the numbers simply don’t add up.

It’s no secret that the clean energy sector has been in trouble. Over the past year, the S&P Global Clean Energy Index has plummeted by 20%, while the broader S&P 500 has gained 16%?. That’s a devastating underperformance, especially in an industry that was supposed to be on the cusp of taking over the world.

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Israeli hostages about how the terror group “was in contact and actively coordinating” with anti-Israel protesters at American colleges, according to eyewitness accounts detailed in a landmark terrorism lawsuit.

Abdallah Aljamal, a Gaza-based “journalist,” was killed last year during an Israeli raid that freed three hostages from his home: Almog Meir Jan, Shlomi Ziv, and Andrey Kozlov. They are now suing Aljamal’s former collaborator, a little-known publication called the Palestine Chronicle. The website is operated by a nonprofit group in Washington state, the People Media Project, thus giving it tax-exempt status.

The lawsuit provides the hostages’ firsthand account of their time spent in captivity, where they witnessed Aljamal file dispatches for the Palestine Chronicle and brag about Hamas’s ability to orchestrate violent campus protests across America. It is one of several lawsuits stemming from Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack. The case is scheduled for trial early next year, according to lawyers working on the lawsuit.

No surprises here.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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Organic food production is heavily regulated—forbidding genetically modified organisms as well as approximately 700 chemicals that are used in non-organic agriculture—and certification is required.

To achieve organic certification, farmers spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars annually to comply with record keeping requirements and prepare for regular document and facility inspections.

Non-organic farms do not have such overhead costs and thus have fewer expenses priced into the cost of goods sold.

Throughout the growing seasons, organic farms cost more to operate for a variety of reasons, and subsidies that disproportionately benefit chemically intensive agriculture exacerbate the price discrepancies, according to advocates for the organic industry.

As usual, when the question is “Why is [something] more expensive?”, the answer is almost invariably “the government”.

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The left-wing parties of the European Parliament have announced they want the European Commission to finance globalist NGOs whose U.S. funding has been cut by Donald Trump’s administration.

In a letter to all the members of the European Parliament, MEPs from the socialist, the liberal, and the Green groups are urging their colleagues to sign a letter to the Commission to plead for increased funding for leftist non-governmental organisations.

“They basically want Brussels to use EU taxpayers’ money to fill the gap for the agenda of these so-called ‘NGOs’, which are financed on ideological grounds and serve the political interests of the liberal elite,” Hungarian MEP Kinga Gál of the right-wing Patriots for Europe group tweeted, attaching a copy of the letter to her post on her X social media account.

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Reality rules, while socialists posture.

The American Mind.

The grotesque banalization of Hitler and Hitlerism proceeds apace. The American Left’s discourse is replete with comparisons of President Donald J. Trump to Adolf Hitler and constant evocations of a dangerous “fascist” threat to democracy supposedly coming from an altogether illiberal Right. Kamala Harris labeled Trump a fascist and Nazi sympathizer in a CNN town hall meeting in October, and she and the mainstream media continued to pile on until the November election.

When Trump held a rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on October 27, a little over a week before the election, many Democrats, and the increasingly hysterical talking heads on CNN and MSNBC, compared that rally to a meeting of the pro-Nazi German-American Bund in that same venue in 1939. Completely disregarding the impressively multiracial character of the MAGA supporters gathered to hear Trump, as well as the large contingent of Orthodox and Hassidic Jews also in attendance, the media incessantly identified Trump with Hitler and “fascism.” Not only was the deep-seated evil that was National Socialism trivialized beyond recognition, and not only was fascism crudely (and absurdly) identified with any opposition to a hard Left agenda, but crucial distinctions between fascism, National Socialism, and democratic conservatism were elided in a deeply misleading manner.

This drumbeat continues to this day. The Trump/fascism/Nazism elision is commonplace in leftist discourse. An article in the Harvard Political Review from January attempts to give scholarly cover to this type of defamation: “Trump Rhetoric Echoes Hitler.” The author takes it for granted that Trump is a racist anti-Semite, and that he hates immigrants tout court. The fact he has built a large and varied multiracial political coalition is passed over in silence, as is his warm relationship with Israel. Trump, it is said, “is unfit to serve as the president of a nation founded upon the celebration of racial, ethnic, and cultural heterogeneity.” While it is true that the Founders loathed chattel slavery and declared that “all men are created equal,” dogmatic multiculturalism was not their vision of American self-government.

UPDATE: Hitler Defeated After Opposition Party Holds Up Tiny Signs On Paddles (Babylon Bee)

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Did you know that the very first gender clinic—established to pump people full of experimental drugs to make their bodies resemble those of the opposite sex—in India opened thanks to your tax dollars?

Meanwhile, “independent media outlets” in Ukraine have been forced to shut down because President Donald Trump froze U.S. foreign aid.

Don’t buy the Democratic hype—this foreign aid pause isn’t about blocking food from starving children in Africa. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed an emergency humanitarian waiver to ensure that “life-saving humanitarian assistance” continues when it comes to medical services, food, and shelter.

Unfortunately, Trump’s pause in foreign aid is essential because the leftist bureaucrats at the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development directed funds to woke priorities in the name of humanitarian aid. This makes it difficult for Rubio to determine which humanitarian assistance is truly necessary and which merely funds the Left’s ideological priorities.

Perhaps the most egregious example involves that gender clinic in India.

Newsbusters.

We thought we had seen it all with the astronomically stupid media takes surrounding Elon Musk and DOGE cutting up the federal government’s credit cards, but lefty magazine The New Republic just potentially one-upped them all.

“Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Could Kill Your Dog,” TNR staff writer Kate Aronoff grumbled in an insane March 5 screed.

Aronoff took aim at Musk’s reported cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which Aronoff railed “could have unexpectedly deadly consequences for your pets—not to mention your own health.” Aronoff was adamant that the cuts would hinder NOAA’s ability to pass information “about harmful algal growth and toxicity on to municipal water treatment plants in time for them to protect people, pets, and businesses from being poisoned.”

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China may be a serious threat. North Korea is not. They are always long on threats and short on action.

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Like the Mafia, the Deep State does not suffer competition.

California lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban private firefighters, like those who saved many buildings in the Palisades and Eaton fires, from using public hydrants, saying firefighting is a “public good.”

Assemblyman Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, introduced Assembly Bill 1075 with the support of the California Professional Firefighters Union, which claims private firefighters are not trained or equipped as well.

“They don’t train to the same standards,” said California Professional Firefighters Union President Brian Rice to Politico regarding the bill. “They’re not equipped like we are. They’re not professionals like we are.”

An assertion for which neither evidence nor argument is presented.  I suspect that ‘private firefighers are former public firefighters who are working in the private sector because the pay is better,  much like military contractors, all of whom are experienced veterans. Nobody would hire a military contractor who didn’t have military training and experience, and no ‘private firefighters’ would hire somebody who didn’t have the relevant training and experience. This is just another Statist lie: “Government employees good, everybody else bad.”

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Doing well by doing good.

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The Biden administration gave Canadian electric bus maker The Lion Electric Company $160 million in subsidies to manufacture 435 buses for schools around the U.S. The company is nearing bankruptcy and laid off almost half its employees, but $95 million of the buses have still not been provided, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

My, what a surprise.

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Has anyone ever told you to lighten up and be more genuine? The best way to connect with people is to be yourself.

Perhaps, instead of constantly railing about how President Donald Trump is “Hitler,” for example, you could enjoy a bite to eat at a local restaurant.

Rather than hoisting a rainbow flag and marching for the cause of letting men invade women’s spaces, you could go get a drink and watch the big game.

Instead of repeating the same tired talking points about how driving cars is going to bring about this ever-elusive Armageddon of climate change, you could go to church and learn that there’s nothing new under the sun.

This isn’t just good advice for life. It’s salient political strategy for a Democratic Party that seems to live on an entirely different planet from commonsense Americans.

UPDATE: Democrats File Articles Of Impeachment Against Little Black Boy With Cancer (Babylon Bee)

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Novo Nordisk is adopting a strategy similar to that of its rival Eli Lilly & Co., preparing to offer its blockbuster weight-loss drug directly to obese US consumers at a discounted rate.

Bloomberg reports that Novo’s Wegovy will be offered directly to cash-paying consumers for $499 per month—significantly lower than the uninsured cost of about $1,350 per month.

Lilly began selling its obesity drug Zepbound directly to patients last year. At the same time, Wegovy’s limited supply drove some customers to compounded versions sold by telehealth companies like Hims & Hers Health Inc., which locked overweight Americans into a monthly subscription model.’

From what I’ve seen, the Eli Lilly drug has fewer side effects.

You still need a prescription.

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Mexico’s government may look for other trade partners besides the U.S., the nation’s president said Wednesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on the U.S.’ southern neighbor.

Other nations to which to send illegal immigrants, cartel criminals, and drugs? Knock yourselves out.

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The United States has charged Mohammad Sharifullah with helping to plan an attack that killed 13 U.S. service members during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice said, adding that a hearing is scheduled at a federal court in Virginia later on Wednesday.

They were leaving. All he had to do was wait. This is not Afghani nationalism, but Muslim terrorism straight up.

Unfortunately our government is full of weaklings so they probably won’t execute him, but they ought to. The Israelis wouldn’t hesitate.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland:

Five hundred million Europeans begging 300 million Americans to defend them from 140 million Russians. If you can count, count on yourself. Not in isolation, but with full awareness of your potential. Today, in Europe, we do not lack economic strength, people, but the belief that we are a global power.

UnHerd.

The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is one of the most forthright individuals in Silicon Valley. Yet even this billionaire maintains that his fellow elites have been muzzled. Interviewed by Joe Rogan last November, Marc Andreessen said that many of his fellow tech entrepreneurs had been debanked by the Biden administration. The Obama administration, he said, had taken such action against marijuana businesses, escorts and gun shops; Biden’s, he said, pursued tech founders, preventing them from receiving payments, making them, or buying insurance. “This is one of the reasons why we ended up supporting Trump,” he told Rogan.

Debanking is when a bank closes an account in order to censor or punish the customer for political or religious views. The banks, in these cases, are typically responding to ideological pressure or to perceived reputational risk. As you might imagine, anger over debanking rapidly merged with concerns shared by crypto companies, which have also contended with access issues to traditional banking. One CEO shared a letter in which the bank Chase said it was closing his company’s account.

The complaints about debanking were echoed and amplified by Donald Trump. His wife, Melania, claims that she herself was debanked. More broadly, the MAGA movement has ample experience of being booted off social media platforms. The matter of tech debanking, therefore, has been rolled into existing MAGA complaints. By this account, the US government has restricted freedom of expression via several coercive means.

ZMan looks back in anger.

Over the last thirty years, many people have noticed that all moral claims within the public policy sphere can be reduced to a few time periods. In the realm of foreign policy, it is always about 1938 and the events around that time. If it is a domestic issue in the United States, then it is always 1968. Perhaps the slow Progressives will try to make it about the 1980’s when their hero was president. For Americans, public policy is trapped in one of three historical frameworks.

On the foreign policy side, it is easy to see how this works. There have been so many new Hitlers on the stage, no one can keep count. Every foolish and destructive misadventure by Washington involves a Hitler figure. They are not just a generic bad guy in the propaganda sense of it, but they represent the re-emergence of the timeless enemy and the timeless struggle. Everything about American foreign policy since the Cold War is about preventing an imaginary past.

This cognitive defect has made its way across the ocean to Europe. Whenever there is a meeting of the local satraps of the American empire, they take turns looking worried in front of the cameras, talking about the possible reemergence of you know who and the danger of resembling Neville Chamberlain. This moral framework is so powerful that they were unable to notice the irony of the Ukrainians using German tanks to attack the Russians in the Kursk region.

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Democrats are upset about President Donald Trump renaming the former Gulf of Mexico but want to replace the word “mother” with “inseminated person.” You can’t make this up.

The Left’s war on language has reached a new level of insanity, and this time, they’ve set their sights on one of the most sacred and fundamental institutions in human existence: motherhood.

In Wisconsin, Democrat Gov. Tony Evers and his administration are pushing to erase the word “mother” from official documents, replacing it with the sterile and dehumanizing term “inseminated person.”

If that sounds absurd to you, that’s because it is.

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“Their billionaires can’t own the Panama Canal ports. Only our billionaires can own the Panama Canal ports.”

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Would you ever expect to see a piece in the NYT saying ‘Here’s How Republicans Are Protesting [insert Democrat President’s name here] Speech to Congress’?

No, of course not.

UPDATE: Democratic Rep. Al Green removed after disrupting Trump’s speech (Henry J. Gomez/NBC News)

UPDATE: House Speaker Johnson Orders Democratic Congressman Removed From Trump Speech

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A research scholar at Yale Law School also moonlights as a member of a U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity, according to web postings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Those postings reveal that Helyeh Doutaghi, the deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, is a member of Samidoun, an organization sanctioned by the U.S. government in October in an announcement that described it as a “sham charity” and a “front organization” for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a foreign-designated terrorist organization.

Samidoun’s website indicates that Doutaghi, whom it describes as “a doctoral student of international law and a member of the international Samidoun Network,” delivered a speech in Iran at a Samidoun-sponsored screening of the film Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight. Abdallah, the founder of the Lebanese Armed Military Forces, was sentenced by a French court to life in prison in 1987, convicted of complicity in the 1982 murders of U.S. military attaché Charles Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov, as well as involvement in the attempted 1984 assassination of the then-American consul general in Strasbourg, Robert Homme.

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AstroTurf and rent-a-mobs were always a Democrat specialty.

The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

It was never about principle; it’s always about the money.

Not tired of winning yet….

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Let’s hope that some day these people graduate from high school and get a job.

James Madison:

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?

Sound familiar?

We have too many Federal laws, and the reason for that is that the Federal government has been trying to micromanage American society since FDR (who when he wasn’t working for the government, dabbled in being a lawyer).

I’m sure I’ve told this story before, but I’ll tell it again: On the first day of my Tax class in law school, the professor walked in carrying a stack of paper about two feet high and set it on his desk. He picked up the top sheet and showed it to us. “This tells you what you have to pay taxes on.” He put his hand on the remainder of the stack. “This tells you how to avoid paying those taxes.” He patted the stack and said, “This is what we teach here.”

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On Tuesday, X user ‘Western Lensman’ posted a video of 22 Democrat Senators releasing identical propaganda videos in response to claims by President Trump, prompting conservatives to ask who was behind the astroturf’d campaign.

When people began asking questions, Elon Musk offered to ‘buy a Cybertruck for anyone [who] can provide proof of who wrote this particular piece of propaganda.”

Which X user and deep-dive researcher @CodeMonkeyZ quickly uncovered as – Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)….

Incentives work.

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As Elon Musk and his tech team urge their fellow Americans to become “domestic auditors” to help rein in federal spending, people have been encouraged to use the Treasury Department’s usaspending.gov website to identify and track government finance.

But usaspending.gov is wrong on the biggest picture, RealClearInvestigations found.

The total amount of spending across “all agencies,” as recorded at usaspending.gov, appears to be 50% higher than most experts interviewed for this article think it actually was.

In Fiscal Year 2024, for instance, the website pegs total spending at $9.7 trillion, when several experts said it was probably around $6.5 trillion. No one could explain the much bigger figure. Officials with usaspending.gov conceded to RCI that their totals were wrong and said the error, which shows up in similar fashion for the last five fiscal years would be fixed soon. They offered neither an explanation for their higher total nor an estimate of what it should be. Two weeks later, the erroneous figures remain.

Budget experts say the website’s seeming multi-trillion-dollar error illustrates a core challenge Musk and his colleagues at the Department of Government Efficiency face as they try to reduce Washington’s spending. In a twist on the classic Washington line, the problem is not just following the money but finding it in the first place. The federal government has become so big and so expensive that even experts have trouble navigating the morass of contracts, awards, grants, loans, and other items that have transformed the U.S. spreadsheet into a labyrinth pitted with dead ends and rabbit holes.

Accountability and transparency is the thing that the Deep State fears most. This is what the Democrats are fighting so hard to prevent.

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

Scientists have known for years that measles can alter the immune system – but the latest evidence suggests it’s less of a mild tweaking, and more of a total reset.

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While our genes are not changed by life experiences, they can be tuned through a system known as epigenetics. In response to stress or other events, our cells can add small chemical flags to genes that may quiet them down or alter their behavior. These changes may help us adapt to stressful environments, although the effects aren’t well understood.

It is these tell-tale chemical flags that Mulligan and her team were looking for in the genes of Syrian families. While lab experiments have shown that animals can pass along epigenetic signatures of stress to future generations, proving the same in people has been nearly impossible.

Trofim Lysenko, call your office….

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The migration crisis in Europe has become a lucrative business for human traffickers who operate with total impunity, thanks to the European Union’s lax immigration policies. A clear example is the story of Ely, a Mauritanian who has turned the illegal transportation of migrants into a profitable business with minimal legal risks. His testimony highlights the failure of migration control policies and the ineffectiveness of repatriation agreements between Spain and the countries of origin.

Ely has built a reputation on the Atlantic coast of Mauritania as the “captain” who has completed four crossings to the Canary Islands without casualties or shipwrecks. However, the core issue is not his skill as a navigator but rather the ease with which this business thrives without real consequences for those responsible.

“I better cover myself up well. I don’t want to end up in jail next time,” Ely says in an interview with a Spanish media outlet. However, the reality is that, despite being detained multiple times in the Canary Islands, he has been repeatedly repatriated to Mauritania without significant repercussions. This situation raises a key question: How is it possible that someone actively involved in human trafficking has been sent back time and again without facing serious legal consequences?

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Today, we raise a cheer for reason, justice, and the unyielding spirit of free expression! Today, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia delivered a resounding blow to overreach in the long-running defamation lawsuit brought by climate scientist Michael Mann against conservative commentator Mark Steyn. In a Final Judgment Order, Judge Alfred S. Irving, Jr. reduced Steyn’s punitive damages from an astronomical $1 million to a modest $5,000—vindicating Steyn, protecting open debate, and sending a powerful message about the limits of legal bullying.

It ought to have been zero.

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The more juvenile they act, the more support Trump has for stomping on them.

Bloomberg, a Voice of the Crust.

Bullshit. Trump doesn’t want Canada, and would refuse it if offered. All we need is another hundred million socialists ruining our country.

What Trump wants is trade concessions and for the Canadian government to stop acting like a bunch of prodlodyte dicks.

The New York Time, a Voice of the Crust.

The Supreme Court sided with San Francisco on Tuesday in a challenge to water quality regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in a ruling that could have sweeping implications for the agency’s ability to limit offshore pollution.
The 5-to-4 decision dealt another blow to the agency, which has recently sustained several losses before the court over its efforts to protect the environment.

The case was notable because it created unusual alliances. Liberal San Francisco found itself on the same side as mining and petroleum trade groups like the National Mining Association, American Farm Bureau Federation, and American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers in opposing the E.P.A.

The dispute fundamentally focused on human waste and how San Francisco disposes of it. The question before the court was whether the Clean Water Act of 1972 allowed the E.P.A. to impose prohibitions on wastewater released into the Pacific Ocean and to penalize the city for violating them.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said the E.P.A. was entitled to impose specific requirements to prevent pollution but not to make polluters responsible whenever water quality generally falls below the agency’s standards.

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An Obama-era housing rule that was terminated by the first Trump administration and revived by the Biden administration has again been canceled. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said the regulation has led to excessive bureaucracy and created affordability challenges.

Democrats started this shit, they have no grounds to whine about it happening to them. From now on, every Presidential candidate will have in his back pocket a list of his predecessor’s E.O.s to rescind on day 1 of his (or her) administration.

The AFFH rule, introduced by the Obama administration in 2015, implemented reporting requirements for local and state governments as well as public housing agencies that received federal funds from the HUD.

For instance, it required local officials to provide answers to 92 questions on topics such as disparities in housing opportunities, according to a commentary by The Heritage Foundation. Local officials had to report data on issues such as environmental health hazards, which had little to do with affordable housing. Besides that, HUD fund recipients had to ensure that their policies and practices did not promote racial segregation.

“[The AFFH rule was] designed to give unelected, anonymous bureaucrats in Washington the power to pick and choose who your new next-door neighbor will be,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wrote in a 2016 op-ed.

A keystone of the Deep State agenda is being able to second-guess every choice made by every individual in the country (to the extent that they can), and get paid for it.

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In the case-control study, individual-level analysis resulted in a hazard of skin cancer (of any type except basal cell carcinoma) that was 1.62 times higher among tattooed individuals (95% CI: 1.08–2.41). Twin-matched analysis of 14 twin pairs discordant for tattoo ink exposure and skin cancer showed HR?=?1.33 (95% CI: 0.46–3.84). For skin cancer and lymphoma, increased hazards were found for tattoos larger than the palm of a hand: HR?=?2.37 (95% CI: 1.11–5.06) and HR?=?2.73 (95% CI: 1.33–5.60), respectively. In the cohort study design, individual-level analysis resulted in a hazard ratio of 3.91 (95% CI: 1.42–10.8) for skin cancer and 2.83 (95% CI: 1.30–6.16) for basal cell carcinoma.

As with most such studies, this documents correlation, not causation, and therefore isn’t worth as much as it pretends to be.

Nevertheless, it’s comforting to know that, like tobacco and alcohol and opiates, this tends to be a self-correcting problem. Think of it as evolution in action.

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While we think of today’s metric system (SI) as mostly a modern invention (1960), we have been led to believe for many years now that its most fundamental base unit, the metre, originated in France in 1793, and represented one ten-millionth of the earth’s quadrant (the distance from the earth’s equator to the North Pole, as measured at sea level) . Yet just a few years ago, the late Pat Naughtin discovered that the proposal for a universal standard of length very close to the metre may in fact have originated much earlier, via Bishop John Wilkins, an English cleric and philosopher, and a member of the Royal Society, in the mid-1600s. Recent comments on Metric Views now bring even that assertion into doubt, with the discovery of a measuring device called the wand having been around much longer still.

It is known that the wand, divided into ten segments, was almost exactly, to within a few millimetres, the same length as today’s metre, and that it was used as long as 1000 years ago. But what if all these versions of the metre were simply the rediscovery (or the handing down over time) of a standard measure, equating to the metre, that was invented in Egypt over 4500 years ago?

When we think of units of measure used in Biblical times, the cubit usually springs to mind. In fact, opponents of metric conversion have often referred to the cubit, in jest at least, as having as much validity as the metre. Such people should be careful for what they wish for, for, as we shall see, the cubit and the metre may in fact be directly related – and remarkably both are directly traceable to the Great Pyramid at Giza.

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On February 13th, Islamic militants rounded up 70 Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), took them to a church, and then beheaded all 70 of them.

The militants are suspected to be members of the Islamist “Allied Democratic Forces.”.

I fail to see why this comes as news to anybody.

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In their quest for answers, researchers pinpointed a specific protein, AP2A1 (Adaptor Protein Complex 2, Alpha 1 Subunit), which seems crucial to this cellular phenomenon.

Found predominantly in senescent cells, particularly within the structural stress fibers, AP2A1 could be the key to understanding cellular aging.

To explore AP2A1’s function, researchers manipulated its presence in cells, observing significant effects.

“The results were very intriguing,” said Shinji Deguchi, senior author of the study. “Suppressing AP2A1 in older cells reversed senescence and promoted cellular rejuvenation, while AP2A1 overexpression in young cells advanced senescence.”

Alex Tabarrok.

Robert Higgs coined the term regime uncertainty to illustrate the challenge faced by business under Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, when a flurry of unpredictable legislation such as the expansive and often unclear mandates of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), attempts at court packing, abrupt tax increases, and shifting labor policies, meant businesses couldn’t reliably forecast returns or risks. Uncertainty magnified bad policy causing investment to collapse and remain unprecedently low.

For the eleven-year period of 1930 to 1940, net private investment totaled minus $3.1 billion. Only in 1941 did net private investment ($9.7 billion) exceed the 1929 amount.

The data leave little doubt. During the 1930s, private investment remained at depths never plumbed in any other decade for which data exist.

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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all federal funding will stop for colleges and schools that allow “illegal” protests and that agitators will be imprisoned or sent back to the country they came from.

What the article doesn’t come out and say, because it doesn’t need to, is that this is a Crime Against Humanity and a Threat To Our Democracy. The Deep State has forgotten that when you live by the imperial presidency you can also die by the imperial presidency.

ZMan does some history.

The 19th century was a wild time in America. Prior to the Civil War, it became increasingly clear to the industrializing North that the Constitutional framework was not working for them. The Hartford Conventions, largely erased from the history books now, were a series of conferences in the North to debate leaving the Union. This process was short-circuited by the War of 1812, but the sentiment merely found a new home in abolitionism and finally flowered in the Civil War.

The post-Civil War period was no less tumultuous. Reconstruction was a failure, but a foreshadowing of what would be a feature of the progressive ideology. That is the belief that societies can be reordered in such a way that the people in those societies change how they think about themselves, their neighbors, and the state. The abolitionist fanatics did not abandon these beliefs after the failure of reconstruction. They continued to refine this belief as progressivism flowered in the 20th century.

Of course, progressivism itself is a 19th century phenomenon. It emerged out of American Protestantism as a belief that human society can only advance through relentless social reform. The same people who were sure they could reinvent society to accommodate the freed slaves as equals were now sure they could use the lessons from industrialization to reorder America and the world. Religious social reform became a secular political movement.

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Billionaires don’t mind because it’s all political posturing; they know that nothing that would seriously cramp their operations would ever be done.

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Last Wednesday, student radicals at Columbia stormed a campus building at Barnard, sending a security guard to the hospital in the process. A day later, a Columbia instructor canceled class so his students could attend an anti-Israel demonstration, a blatant violation of university policy.

That instructor, our Alana Goodman and Jessica Costescu report, who wasn’t named by the university, was Conor Cullen, who teaches philosophy at Columbia and who has been a vocal supporter of anti-Israel encampments on campus. He dismissed his contemporary civilization class after students asked for time off to “support the student protest movement” and attend an anti-Israel rally. Even Columbia’s administrators described the move as inappropriate and launched an investigation.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Nobody knows exactly how long ago a marbled and tender boneless short-loin steak came to be known across the United States as a New York strip. Everybody agrees, though, that the nomenclature wasn’t the least bit controversial until last Friday, when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas proposed a new name: the Texas strip.

Which will go the way of other political fads like ‘freedom fries’ and ‘liberty steak’.

Noting that Texas leads the nation in heads of cattle, Mr. Patrick announced in a post on X that he was working with the State Senate on a resolution that would officially rebrand the cut.

What business is it of the fucking state government what a cut of meat is called? Talk about unclear on the concept….

Mr. Patrick was clear in his post that he hoped the Texas-centric name would give a boost to his state’s cattle ranchers. At the same time, the way he framed the issue carried more than a whiff of red-meat politics.

Say rather stink, to be accurate.

“Liberal New York shouldn’t get the credit for our hard-working ranchers,” he wrote.

Dan Patrick, despite his nominal political affiliation, is by temperament a Democrat, since hs spends most of his time doing performative political posturing rather than any actual work for the people who elected him. (To be fair, a Lieutenant Governor’s main job is waiting around for the Governor to die, so one can’t blame him for spending time with his hobbies.)

The only thing more ridiculous than the Lieutenant Governor of Texas spending time on this bullshit is the New York Times spending time writing about it. Seriously, guys, don’t you have anything more important to cover? Are you tired of bashing Trump 24/7 already?

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

A Democratic boycott is developing ahead of President Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday, Axios has learned.

Why Democrats are so convinced that Trump gives a shit about whether they show up for his speech escapes me. Apparently they think that the world revolves around them.

Why it matters: Democratic leaders have asked lawmakers to show up to the speech with people affected by DOGE and Trump’s federal funding freeze.

• Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), one of the most senior Democrats in the Senate, will not attend Trump’s speech on Tuesday, Axios has learned
• Neither will Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who will instead host an online town hall.

Well, that’s ‘why it matters’ to Democrats, apparently, but no reason is given for ‘why it matters’ to the rest of us … or, indeed, any of the remainder of humanity.

Seriously, these people need to get over themselves. I am reminded of Tom Lerer’s song about The Folk Song Army:

They may have won all the battles,
But we had all the good songs!

UPDATE: Scoop: Some Dems plot to disrupt Trump’s speech to Congress (Axios)  Temper tantrums are all they have left.

UPDATE: Trump To Address Congress As Dems Plot Disruptions With ‘Eggs, Noisemakers & Props’  Just little children on the playground.

A ‘boycott’ is where people refuse to buy from, sell to, or deal with a person or company of which they disapprove. Democrats can’t ‘boycott’ Trump because they have no leverage; if they refuse to show up to do their Congressional jobs, Trump (with majorities in both the House and the Senate) will happily implement his programs without them. This is a classic case of ‘cutting off your nose to spite your face. If they engagein disruption, they can be expelled, which removes them as players. They really have no hand on the levers of power here.

UPDATE: Jeffries cracks down on Trump speech disruptions (Andrew Solender/Axios)