In Hoc Anno Domini

 Fauci’s War on Science: The right way to deal with this pandemic, it said, was to focus on those who could face severe outcomes from disease – a very plain point and nothing new. There was nothing to be gained by locking down the whole of society because of a pathogen with such a huge differential in its demographic impact. An interesting debate between two scholars on either side. And now, even the Wall St. Journal is joining the discussion.

In Hoc Anno Domini. This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually in the Wall Street Journal since.

Systemic Bias Against Asians. To the San Francisco school board, some minorities are more equal than others. Funny, but that sounds an awful lot like what Asian-Americans are experiencing these days, especially in education. They work hard to get into good schools—only to run up against an increasingly systemic orthodoxy on equity, which holds that Asian-Americans are taking more than their fair share. It helps explain why at Harvard Asian-Americans have both the highest average SAT scores and the lowest admissions rate of any racial group.

Giant Study Finds Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's. Usage of the medication sildenafil – better known to most as the brand-name drug Viagra – is associated with dramatically reduced incidence of Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests.

Kamala Staffers Say She’s Is A Mean, Morale-Destroying Bully. Will The Last Person Quitting Their Job Working For The Vice President Please Shut The Lights

Is it a good idea to connect everything to the Internet? These poor kitties didn't get fed because of a computer problem at Amazon.

Something different. An interesting book review about the life of George Hearst.

A week into his presidency, Joe Biden issued a memorandum declaring “the Federal Government has a responsibility to prevent racism, xenophobia, and intolerance against everyone in America, including Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.” Now he has reversed course.

Are you worried about Omicron? Don't be. Nobody dies from it. One person in England died with Omicron, which is different than from. With hundreds of thousands of people with Omicron, somebody is likely to die for some other reason.

Meet Midas, the cat with four fully functional ears.

The Salvation Army has been one of the most respected and dependable charities. This year they went woke, and it's affected my attitude toward supporting them. I'm not the only one, their revenues are down.

More on the Salvation Army. Companies Need to Learn From the Salvation Army Suffering From Their Wokeness

An interesting photo of a rocket launch. Scroll down to see the reflection.

Masks don't seem to work. More than 150 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms

By Ditching the SAT, Harvard Hurts Minority Students. How do you help young people move forward without honestly assessing where they stand?

SOCIALISM AND FREE ENTERPRISE ON TRIAL. Comparing the success of South American countries under different economic systems. Click to watch the cool animation.

Kyle Rittenhouse Is Not Guilty

Kyle Rittenhouse Is Not Guilty.  The jury decides on the facts, but politicians continue to distort the truth.

Kyle Rittenhouse and the Left’s Terrifying Assault on Due Process. They want revolutionary justice. The legal system’s verdict will be supplanted by the people’s judgment.

Another self-defense case, Andrew Coffee found not guilty on 5 counts, including murder, attempted murder. Apparently, blacks can also be found innocent.

Virginia Cop Who Lost Job for Donating to Rittenhouse Defense Demands His Job Back.

As Joe Biden Turns 79, a Panic Over Kamala Harris. He’s unlikely to run in 2024, and his VP is deeply unpopular.

Hideouts, harbours and homes: how Vikings may have owed their success to their encampments

Just annother Friday night in San Francisco: Looters and vandals strike San Francisco’s Union Square.

Here's a list of things the media got wrong. Scroll down for Brit Hume's addendum.

The same week Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty, Andrew Coffee was found not guilty of murder and attempted murder. Coffee's acquittal got virtually no coverage in the media even though he is black, and the liberals are claiming that color makes a difference.

In 1966, an organic chemist named Fred Baur employed by Procter & Gamble filed for a patent for a tubular aluminum-coated can for stacked chips that would later contain the popular Pringles brand. Some of his ashes were buried in a Pringles can, to honor his request. The Packaging Mistakes Companies Make—and Why They Make Them

I Owe My Life to the A-Bomb. I was to be part of the invasion of Kyushu in November 1945. But Hirohito surrendered.

A new study on Historically Black Colleges and Universities finds that HBCUs are an under-appreciated vehicle for upward mobility for their overwhelmingly African-American students. It even suggests that blacks profit more from an HBCU than if they go to a normal university that used racial preferences to get them in.

Have you watched any of The Chosen? Crowdfunding has raised millions for the show, an ambitious series exploring characters from the New Testament. Fans have already chipped in enough for three seasons—and are driving ticket sales for a Christmas special coming to movie theaters.

In Virginia, the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) district has announced that it will return two pornographic books, including a graphic novel, to the shelves of its schools’ libraries, after an internal investigation determined that the materials qualified as “diverse reading materials.”

One of the most trusted charities has gone woke and embraced critical race theory. "Salvation Army Embraces Critical Race Theory: White People Must ‘Sincerely Apologize’ For Racism". And now, Goodwill Industries is getting woke too.

A California Attempt to Repair the Crumbling Pillar of U.S. Education. A proposed California ballot measure would make good schools a constitutional right.

This is just not right: Male Swimmer Dominates UPenn's Women's Swim Team

Squaring Up to Defend Mathematics. America’s top scientists warn about the political erosion of education standards.

The US MSM just keeps getting it wrong

Don't miss this article: When All The Media Narratives Collapse. In case after case, the US MSM just keeps getting it wrong.

More here on the media: Social Media Companies Suppressed Claims of Kyle Rittenhouse’s Innocence. Twitter, Facebook deemed defendant guilty immediately after Wisconsin shooting

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities MSM just keeps getting it wrong

College is expensive. One reason is that the number of administrative personnel is growing. There is now one administrator for every undergrad student at Yale

Old Dominion University criminal justice professor defends pedophilia. Allyn Walker, a professor at Old Dominion University, is publicly defending pedophilia. The academic says that “Minor-Attracted Persons” ought not to face stigma because “there is no morality or immorality attached to attraction to anyone.”

From Peggy Noonan: Democrats Need to Face Down the Woke. Identity politics has become dangerous to their cause. Even the socialists at Jacobin magazine see it.

Durham uncovers evidence of Moscow’s attempts to influence the Steele dossier. The Clinton campaign ultimately paid a Russian to gin up the core allegations against Mr. Trump. The means by which that money flowed are convoluted, though the indictment makes the connections. It notes the Clinton campaign paid its law firm, which paid the opposition-research firm Fusion GPS, which paid Christopher Steele, who “retained Danchenko as a contractor.” Whether or not Mrs. Clinton was aware of any of this, there is no question her campaign got a Russian assist.

Who Will Get Blamed for Wasted Infrastructure Spending? Buttigieg and Harris well positioned to evade accountability.

Atheist Hate Group Demands IRS Investigation Into Church Where Attendees Chanted 'Let's Go Brandon'. Dig into the article where it includes serious discussions of theology.

The Sacramento Bee, a reliable liberal newspaper, published a list of "hate groups" operating in California. Much of the list is bogus. The list was provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which used to do good work. The Washington Examiner has taken exception to the article.

This year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, which aim to bring a lighter note to conservation-minded wildlife photography.

Just as the Congressional Budget Office looks all set to present some very bad numbers about Joe Biden's porkulus social spending plan that Joe claims is "paid for," another Obama-era Democrat economist has bailed on the Biden plan, warning it's not "paid for" and will throw fat on the fire of inflation:

The Unhappy Customers of California. Another day, another government-imposed hassle in La La Land.

'It's an epidemic': Reports of catalytic converter thefts up 1,500% in Sacramento County

Terror in the Capitol tunnel. Disturbing reports of police brutality at the riots.

Go here for legal analysis of the Rittenhouse trial aside from the media who found him guilty on day one.

Voters give Democrats a woke-up call

Voters Give Democrats a Woke-Up Call. Will the party recognize its mistake in embracing extremism? Will the GOP prove worthy of its wins?

A woman sues GEICO for $ 1 million after having a sexually transmitted disease from a man while having a relationship in the car

Durham Unravels the Russia Case. His indictments reveal facts embarrassing to former special counsel Robert Mueller and the press.  More here on the ABC special about Christopher Steele. On Russiagate, Durham Indicts the Press Too. His latest arrives just in time to expose a pathetic ABC News ‘special’ report on Christopher Steele.

California Is the Supply Chain’s Weakest Link. Environmental and antibusiness regulations in the deep blue state are backing up port traffic.

An unusual item in the blog: How to Make a Ramos Gin Fizz, the World’s Most Difficult, Supremely Delicious Cocktail. A fascinating story even for people who don't drink.

The Mainstream Media Are Lying Liars Who Win Pulitzers For Their Lies As Long As Their Lies Help Democrats

USC Pushed a $115,000 Online Degree. Graduates Got Low Salaries, Huge Debts. The prestigious private university hired a for-profit firm to recruit students to its social-work master’s program; ‘You don’t feel like you’re part of an elite school’

This week's blog

Common antidepressant slashes risk of COVID death. Fluvoxamine is both inexpensive and highly effective at preventing mild COVID-19 from turning severe.

Desperate Democrats Aren’t Making Sausage, They’re Dropping Live Pigs Into a Woodchipper. The whiff of desperation surrounding Washington Democrats trying to save Presidentish Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda has become a stench so strong that it’s impossible to mistake from my home on the Front Range.

Pro Sports without Woke Politics. Encouraging news from the NBA and Major League Baseball.

States should know prevailing wage laws benefit unions, not workers.

Is Jill Biden asking about a 'process' for removing Kamala Harris? First lady Jill Biden has been inquiring as to how to remove a sitting vice president from office, according to Human Events editor Jack Posobiec. It's been known for a while that the honeymoon between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has pretty much congealed.

Poll: Majority of Americans Say Big Tech Censorship of Hunter Laptop Story Interfered With Election. That's because it did.

Inside the Alec Baldwin Shooting: A Dysfunctional Set and a Fatal Mistake. On a low-budget movie beset by labor unrest and time pressures, an inexperienced crew member was put in charge of guns; ‘there was some complacency’

Dorian Abbot was recently invited to give an honorary lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The lecture was canceled because he openly advocated moral and philosophical views that are unpopular on university campuses. "The Views That Made Me Persona Non Grata at MIT. I believe academic hiring should be based on merit and that hurt feelings are no reason to ban opinions."

‘The Forgotten First’ Review: Scrimmage on the Color Line. In 1946, two new postwar franchises—the Los Angeles Rams and the Cleveland Browns—integrated professional football.

Get Ready for Government-Approved Child Care. Who wants to put bureaucracies in charge of kids even before they get to kindergarten?

There is a new book "Ghost Towns of Nevada County". The book is free. Read about it on Yuba Net and download it for free from You Bet Press.

Leading Like a Marine in Virginia. Immigrant Winsome Sears lives her American dream.

How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden

James Carville knows *exactly* why Democrats lost on Tuesday

Which booster shot should you get?

This article reports the science behind booster shots.  Which combinations offer the best immunity.

How ‘Diversity’ Turned Tyrannical. What began as an effort to hire more minorities has turned into a demand for ideological engagement. 

History Is on the Ballot In Virginia. Critical Race Theory presents a story of the U.S. much like the one I learned growing up in Canada.

Are Internet Services as Good as Church? They open the door to more congregants but provide an attenuated worship experience.

The kinder, gentler Taliban beheaded national girls' team volleyball player -- and posted photos online

Biden: I made all the vaccinations happen. AP fact checker: No, you didn't

Book Review: ‘Woke Racism’ by John McWhorter. For the left, antiracism is the new religion, and ‘pious, unempirical virtue signaling’ is a form of political activism.

To Gun Grabbers’ Horror, 2020 and 2021 Have Been the Perfect Storm of Arguments in Favor of Gun Rights

Tesla Is Worth $1 Trillion. Its market cap exceeds that of the next nine largest auto makers combined. Toyota is worth $237 billion, GM only $84 billion and Ford $64 billion.

The Confusing Mr. Biden. The President’s town hall performance is cause for concern.

The Biden administration announced that Rachel Levine was named the “first-ever, female, four-star admiral” of the U.S. Public Health Services (USPHS) Commissioned Corps. Of course Levine spent his first 50 years as a man. Twitter Suspended a GOP Congressman for Saying Rachel Levine Is a Man.

Just a quick reminder: Alec Baldwin has no problem kicking his fellow man when he’s down. The actor was quick to amplify the establishment left’s pet narrative that law enforcement officers are murderous animals. Baldwin’s 2017 instantaneous judgment on the subject is now one of the most retweeted tweets on Twitter, and deservedly so:

The Bernie Sanders Experiment for America’s Children. Taxpayers won’t be the only ones hurt by the reconciliation bill’s pre-K program, it turns out that pre-K is bad for kids.

President Trump Responds on Pennsylvania’s 2020 Election. Donald Trump writes a letter to the editor of the WSJ. More here on WaPo's article.

“NYC’s Homeless Problem Is A Giant Scam!” Tying into my post on homelessness being a profit center for the Democratic Party, here’s a Louis Rossmann video that discusses a homeless shelter in New York City that:

Bills the government $3,500 to $4,000 a month to 

House the homeless in a literal shithole (with visible feces in one picture of the place), and

By an amazing coincidence, is run by a non-profit founded by Andrew Cuomo and now run by his sister Maria Cuomo Cole.

The Obsolete Science Behind Roe v. Wade. My youngest patients are unborn babies, and today’s ultrasounds show they are fully alive and human. 

Medicare renewal time

For my older readers, it's open enrolment time for medical insurance. We are being bombarded with TV ads and direct mail with a confusing number of options and it's difficult to sort out the right solution. The people you can talk to are all working for some company. I thought this article in the Wall Street Journal was a little helpful.

San Francisco has very lax enforcement polices towards petty theft, like none. San Francisco Has Become a Shoplifter’s Paradise. Walgreens has closed 22 stores in the city, where thefts under $950 are effectively decriminalized.

Buttigieg and Family Leave. Buttigieg’s office told West Wing Playbook that the secretary has actually been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies.

World’s Fair Offers a New View of Michelangelo’s ‘David’: Just His Head. A nearly 17-foot 3-D printed replica at Italy’s pavilion in Dubai showcases the biblical hero with its famous face visible on one floor and its body on another. This article has interesting insight on the sculpture.

Go Nukes. Outside the White House, much of the world is moving toward reliable energy. More here: Common sense to the rescue. Japan’s carbon goal is based on restarting 30 nuclear reactors.

Education Horror Show, Continued. A teacher is targeted after she described the baleful effect of critical race theory.

Dave Chappelle May Help Tame Wokeness. There are other signs, too, that our revolution may be moving past its Terror and toward its Thermidor.

On a business trip to India, I found the people incredibly entrepreneurial but unable to build a great economy because of the restrictions imposed by the Socialist government. The tech sector has taken off because it's impossible to regulate the flow of information, but the rest of the country is stagnant. Perhaps things are changing: The privatization of Air India could mark the end of a long history of bureaucrats running the country’s businesses.

Steve Jobs died 10 years ago. This computer web site collected a series of his biggest moments in a video. It is fun to watch, since you lived through those times.

This is for my Norwegian wife. Viking Artifacts Give Precise Date for Europeans’ Earliest Presence in North America. New analysis of wooden artifacts shows Viking voyagers were living in Newfoundland as far back as 1021

Cracking codices: 10 of the most mysterious ancient manuscripts

Sheer Chaos and Anarchy on the Border, by Victor Davis Hanson: Afghanistan — the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history, A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out, The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels, Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring, Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences, Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls. Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such disasters in its first nine months.

Sign of the Times. When the media’s credibility collapsed, the New York Times led the way. A long article but important to journalism. And if you got this far, be sure and read Bari Weiss' resignation letter.

Let's go Brandon

If you are mystified by references to Brandon, here is how "let's go Brandon" became a way to shout an obscenity to President Biden.

 Students in a ‘Hostile Environment’; a public school teacher challenges critical race theory.

What Are the Odds? Even Experts Get Tripped Up by Probabilities. People tend to rely on anecdotal evidence to make decisions, rather than considering the numbers

Unlearned AIDS Lessons for Covid. In the 1980s, Fauci and Redfield sowed fear about a heterosexual epidemic that never happened.

Can Manchin and Sinema Save All 50 U.S. States? Joe Biden’s massive laws will erode the state powers protected by the Constitution’s 10th Amendment.

Today in History: When Muslims Skinned Christians Alive for Refusing Islam

Follow the Science – Except When it comes to Natural Immunity. How does one achieve immunity? As the CDC explains, there are two ways. Natural immunity is acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease. Vaccine-induced immunity is acquired through the introduction of a killed or weakened form of the disease organism through vaccination.

The Police State Comes to America. An army of moms (and dads) have been asserting their parental responsibilities and their constitutional rights by showing up to school board meetings and voicing—sometimes angrily—their contempt and disgust for those school boards and teachers promoting and sanctioning ideas and ideologies opposed by the parents.

New York City will phase out its programs for gifted and talented primary-grade students in the name of “equality,” reports the New York Times. The group of kindergarten students currently enrolled in the special programs will be the last to be offered the accelerated learning courses. The reason? Not enough black and Hispanic students are able to qualify for the program. So rather than offer accelerated learning to anyone who can qualify, the city is catering to the lowest common denominator.

Robocalls. While the FCC often makes headlines for issuing “record” robocall fines, the vast majority of those fines are never collected. A 2019 Wall Street Journal investigation found that the FCC has collected just $6,790 of the $208 million in robocall fines imposed since 2015. Of the $1.5 billion in robocall fines issued by the FTC since 2004, the agency collected just $121 million.

Rodents the Size of St. Bernards Swarm an Exclusive Gated Community. The world’s largest rodents bully pets, roam tony streets and soil pristine lawns, triggering demands for them to be relocated or castrated

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster. The Historical Falsification of Columbus’ ‘Crimes’

The Varsity Blues Trial Is a Reminder of Our Corrupt Criminal Justice System. Plead guilty and get "punishments ranging from probation to nine months in prison." Insist on a trial and face decades in prison.

The Purpose Of The Jan. 6 Select Committee Is To Suppress Free Speech. The message is clear: if you exercise your First Amendment rights for a cause that those in power have not approved, you will be targeted.

Art Institute of Chicago fires docents because there are too many white women in their ranks. Replacements will be properly inclusive, based on “an income equity-focused lens.”

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, has recently written an essay in which he considers whether human beings have free will and how long the human race will survive. Loeb is a prolific and often quite thoughtful scientist who has a refreshing propensity to think outside the mainstream. However, his recent essay in Scientific American, titled “How Much Time Does Humanity Have Left?”, is well off the mark. I think he profoundly misunderstands human nature and human destiny.

Katie Couric: Ginsburg disparaged activists who kneel during the anthem -- and I cut the quotes from our interview

Vindication Over Hunter’s Emails

Vindication Over Hunter’s Emails. Politico confirms the New York Post story the Bidens never denied.

Ancient Footprints Yield Surprising New Clues About the First Americans. Unearthed in New Mexico along what was once a lakefront, the tracks show generations living in the area thousands of years before many scientists believed

The ACLU did its bizarre impersonation of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Ministry of Truth on Twitter. Just as that dystopian ministry exists to rewrite history to ensure that it corresponds with the Party’s current view of the world, so the ACLU now seems to think its job is to mangle old quotations so that they don’t offend 21st-century woke sensibilities.

Biden evacuated a lot of people he shouldn’t have and left behind a lot of people who should have been evacuated. Just 3 Percent of Afghan Evacuees in U.S. Are Special Immigrant Visa Holders

The media told you that the audit of the Arizona ballots confirmed that Joe Biden won. Ignore the MSM: Here’s What the 2020 Maricopa County Election Audit Actually Says

Biden Promises Border Patrol Agents 'Will Pay' for Doing Something They Didn't Do

Rochelle Walensky, the CDC chief, made the right call on Covid booster shots.

Latest Media Lie: Border Patrol Agents "Charged at" Those Poor Illegal Aliens

Mayorkas Admits At Least 12K Out Of 17K Illegals From Del Rio Bridge Have Been Released Into U.S.

Former Defense Dept. Chief of Staff Shoots Down Biden’s ‘No Afghanistan Plan’ Lie

Worldwide, dead and decaying wood releases roughly 10.9 gigatons of carbon every year. More than fossil fuel emissions, a new study shows. The research, published in Nature, is the first time that researchers have been able to quantify the contribution of deadwood to the global carbon cycle.

...Finally, this poll finds that the college-educated are more likely to approve of Biden (56%/43%) than the non-college educated (38%/59%). This is more evidence that college makes you stupid.

A Kansas Homecoming. This Medal of Honor recipient was armed only with faith, love and courage.

Coverage of the testimony disputing Biden's claims about withdrawal. Dem Senator's Assessment of Biden Admin's Senate Testimony Is Searing: 'No One in Charge'

Everybody hates the Jews

Where liberty thrives, Jews thrive. Where difference is celebrated, Jews are celebrated. Where freedom of thought and faith and speech are protected, Jews tend to be, too. Everybody hates the Jews

The ‘Tax the Rich’ dress designer whom AOC went to the Met Gala with:

• Owes $103,220 in back taxes
• Received $41,666 in PPP
• Has ‘legions’ of unpaid interns
• Owes $62,722 in workers comp
• Still found $250,000 for a table at the Met Gala

Transgender fighter Alana McLaughlin wins MMA debut. So guys get to fight girls now. Just another example of political correctness ruining girls athletics.

Not only has Biden given the worst presidential speeches of my lifetime, he has cemented his place as the worst, most destructive president of my lifetime, supplanting–by a mile–the loathsome LBJ.

Party Of Love And Progress Rejoices Over Death Of Political Opponent.

So Navy fires offensive coordinator after losing to Air Force and starting season 0-2, meanwhile nobody has been fired over losing Afghanistan

If instead of picking ears of corn for humans, you can grind up the whole plant with the cobs and leaves. The result is called "silage" and is used as cattle feed. Kinnard Farms produced this pretty neat video of the harvesting process. It's a big deal.

What Super Bowls teach us about capitalism. On Feb. 3, 2002, Tom Brady appeared in his first Super Bowl. The New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams. U2 played at halftime. St. Louis no longer has a football team, and see if you can spot a trend from some of the companies that each paid $2.2 million to run 30-second Super Bowl ads in 2002: Blockbuster, Circuit City, AOL, CompUSA, HotJobs, RadioShack, Yahoo! and Gateway. Yes, they are the ghosts of Super Bowls past.

Everything You’ve Learned From Movies About Fire Sprinklers Is Wrong (Except ‘Die Hard’)

The Hunter Biden Email Cover-Up Is a Scandal

The FBI’s Incurable Rot. The bureau is an institution with no shame, no remorse, and no accountability. There’s no fix for that.

There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders in America. Here's Why You Rarely Hear of Them.

Someone Orchestrated the Border Crisis. This, as in the growing crisis on our Southern border. Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Joshua Trevino has a lengthy but incredibly revealing and disturbing report from the border. It is quite likely much worse than you imagined.

Democrats Pull Funding For Israel’s Iron Dome Defensive System. Iron Dome is not an offensive system.  It shoots down rockets aimed at Israel. Since the system was first implemented in 2011, it has shot down thousands of rockets heading toward Israel and saved countless civilian lives.

Marcia Lucas Was 'Furious' Over Star Wars Sequel Trilogy: 'They Don't Get It'. The Academy Award-winning editor doesn't mince words about the sequel trilogy.

So you've been drinking low-fat milk? New research amongst the world's biggest consumers of dairy foods has shown that those with higher intakes of dairy fat—measured by levels of fatty acids in the blood—had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those with low intakes. Higher intakes of dairy fat were not associated with an increased risk of death.

Meghan McCain: Who knew Biden would turn out to be this awful?

We need to talk about Joe Biden. The President’s White House meeting with Boris Johnson was an embarrassment.

Here's How to Tell Within 5 Minutes If Someone Isn't as Smart as They Think. Maybe they're a journalist. Science says people who do one thing tend to be less intelligent.

Evil, crazy, or just plain stupid? Top 10 quotes from Middle East studies professors

Cone of Silence

It looks as if with the official departure of the US military from Kabul, a media cone of silence perpetuated by the National Establishment Media has descended over the whole ghastly mess, leaving a good many of us who have been following the chaotic and bloody disaster that it was with unanswered questions 

Biden droned the wrong guy, innocent aid worker killed in Kabul strike, not the ISIS bombers: NYT

It’s nice that Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten posted a pic of their new children, but why from a hospital bed?

CA Church Defied Gavin Newsom and Remained Open. Here's How That Turned Out.

A cool photo of the Milky Way over Russia.

American Education Is Rotten from Top to Bottom

900 pages of government documents definitively proving that Fauci used his position to fund gain-of-function research into bat viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (“WIV”)—and then lied to Congress about it. 

More on Paul vs. Fauci. Rand Paul Has Won Every Single Round Against Fauci

Our military’s civilian leadership is corrupt and incompetent. The brass commands respect neither among the citizenry nor the forces it commands. Mid-level officers are in a rage — a dangerous phenomenon that in many other nations triggers insurrections and coups.

Today, as our country experiences the disintegration of one emergency into a full-fledged crisis of epic proportions, the Democrats, as partners in running the government, have no policy ideas to contribute or sense of doing what is right for the country. The Dems have abandoned America in favor of an illusory doomed fantasy of a socialist/communist world with no understanding of its true future implications of less freedom, less happiness, more censorship, increased inflation with a lower standard of living, and more State control with a "free" economy where nothing is "free."

Door-to-door canvas of voters in Arizona finds extensive evidence of vote tampering

A Pilot Spent 17 Years Building a 1:3 Scale Replica of the B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber—and Yes, It Flies

Evicting Donald Trump was clearly a catastrophe

If the federal government can’t win a war, can’t preserve law and order, can’t secure its own seat of governance, can’t control the border, and can’t defend the idea of America, then what can it do? Well, it can collect taxes. It can also guarantee lucrative employment for a class of elite mediocrities who will never endure consequences for their growing list of failures.

Evicting Donald Trump was clearly a catastrophe. Despite the frenzied, wall-to-wall, linked-armed international effort to present Trump as a brutal, crooked, moron, he almost eliminated unemployment and illegal immigration, did eliminate energy imports, and by identifying and incentivizing “enterprise zones,” he created conditions in which the lowest 20 per cent of American income earners were gaining income in percentage terms compared to the top 10 per cent on the income scale. Read the whole thing.

The general officer U.S. military ranks have a big problem: The field grade officer and noncommissioned officer ranks have had enough of the double standards applied to leadership. Whereas those out in the field are held strictly accountable for any failure, real or imagined, general officer ranks are rarely held accountable for far worse leadership failures that have a far greater impact.

Look around, at the $5 gas and the hobos pooping in our parks. Look at the flag-draped caskets coming off the planes at Dover. You did that, non-dead Biden voters. 

The Taliban executed an Afghan folk singer; "music is forbidden in Islam." The militant group killed Fawad Andarabi on Friday at his family's farm about 60 miles north of Kabul. Andarabi's son said his father played a bowed lute called a ghaychak and sang traditional songs about Afghanistan.

President Joe Biden waived a mandate in June that would have forced the Pentagon to provide a detailed report to Congress about the risks of leaving Afghanistan. Under the federal statute, the administration was barred from reducing troops in Afghanistan below 2,000 without first briefing Congress about the expected impact on U.S. counterterrorism operations and the risk to American personnel.

Pentagon strategy chief Colin Kahl is in the hot seat over his role in the Biden administration's bungled Afghanistan withdrawal, four months after Senate Republicans unanimously opposed his nomination and warned that his appointment would be disastrous for national defense policy. Kahl, the civilian head of policy planning at the Department of Defense and third highest ranking department official, has been a key player in planning for the Afghanistan withdrawal and the day-to-day policy decisions on the ground.

Last week, Fox News Host Rachel Campos-Duffy had the gumption to say out loud that Emperor Joe was wearing no metaphorical clothes. In addressing the collapse of leadership in Washington, Campos-Duffy asked, “Who are the people responsible for putting someone this incompetent and frankly this, you know, mentally frail in this position?” Having dared to ask the obvious question, Campos-Duffy gave the obvious answer. “No one knew better his state of mind than Dr. Jill Biden,” 

According to an admission obtained from the State Department, Biden officials recently directed federal agencies to scrub their websites of official reports detailing the $82.9 billion in military equipment and training provided to the Afghan security forces since 2001. In case the list disappears, here it is. Maybe this blog will disappear.

Biden is not fit to be president

Joe Biden Is Who We Said He Was. Nobody should, any longer, pretend that Joe Biden is fit to lead this nation.  More here: Something Is Wrong with the President

Biden Scrapped Trump Afghanistan Rescue Plan. under President Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo’s State Department had ordered the creation of a “Contingency and Crisis Response” office whose job would be avoiding “a future Benghazi-style situation for Americans overseas.” 

Mark Milley Deserves To Be Fired And Court-Martialed For His Afghanistan Lies. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley is an utter disgrace to his uniform, to our Constitution, and to the great United States and its amazing people.

Remembering What Was Done to Trump. Everyone who pays attention to politics knows what happened in the administration of Donald Trump.

Biden's Bungle: U.S. General Tells British Special Forces Commander in Kabul to Stop Rescuing Your Citizens, You're Making the U.S. Look Bad

Why Trump Was Driven from Office

No American Military Leader Should Ever Say What Lloyd Austin Said. There are an estimated 10,000–15,000 Americans in Afghanistan now who need to be evacuated as the Taliban seize control of the country. Anyone left behind could find themselves reliving the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis or the hostage crisis in Lebanon shortly thereafter. The Taliban are undoubtedly well aware of the leverage they could obtain by holding Americans hostage. Evacuation is therefore not just a pressing humanitarian matter; it is essential to preventing a bunch of Stone Age barbarians from dictating terms to the United States of America.

The FBI has uncovered little evidence that the January 6 Capitol riot was organized beforehand, four current and former law-enforcement officials told Reuters on Friday.

The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan on Saturday warned Americans looking to evacuate not to head to Kabul airport unless directed to do so, citing “potential security threats.” The alert came one day after President Biden claimed that the U.S. had not received reports of American citizens being unable to enter Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

The most common explanations for the botched the American scuttle from Afghanistan are (i) Joe Biden lacks the capacity to make competent decisions and (ii) Joe Biden stubbornly rammed through his decisions against the advice of our armed forces and intelligence agencies. Most commentators on the Right side of the blogosphere seem to believe both, reminding me of the left-wing denunciations of George W. Bush for being both too stupid to eat a pretzel safely and a war criminal mastermind.

Where are the fastest growing cities in the United States? None are in Arizona.

U.S. Leaving Behind 75,000 Vehicles, 600,000 Weapons, 208 Aircraft In Afghanistan

Now that we have moved, I am testing the limits of “cutting the cord”; eliminating expensive services thought essential to modern life.  It is working very well, though you do still have to have decent Internet service.

On your smart TV or device like ROKU or Amazon Fire, search for a streaming channel called “Locast”. You can try it for free. Locast will give you all the local TV stations plus about 35 more extra channels in real time including a TV guide. The extra channels will give you old programs with things like a teenage Clint Eastwood in Rawhide. Locast has annoying commercials, but you can eliminate them for $5/month. You will lose the DVR’s ability to save shows for later, but you can find your favorites on the Internet in a day or so. 

For the telephone, we are using VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) which gives me all the services and more than I got from AT&T for $75/month. Your prices may vary, but I am paying ooma.com about $5/month. You can buy their widget from Best Buy, try it out, and return it if you don’t like it. My experience is that it works better than AT&T. 

Revisiting the Right to Bear Arms

Revisiting the Right to Bear Arms after Summer 2020 Rioting

Crime is way up in Minneapolis, once considered one of the safest cities. State and Twin Cities leaders dither while vulnerable residents live in fear and increasing danger.

Shocking Photos Show the Horrifying, Inhumane Conditions of Biden's Border Crisis

Why Our Use Of Nuclear Weapons 76 Years Ago Was A Moral And Strategic Imperative

Fun reading: what Cuomo had to say about Brett Kavanaugh.

California may be on the verge of making bacon a contraband substance, or at least a scarce luxury good. 

Enjoy what Mike Rowe has to say about COVID vaccination.

Diversity Fail: U.S. Military May Go Back to Including Photos for Promotion Boards. It seems without the photos, promotions were based on qualifications. Not enough minorities were getting promoted.

For those of us who lived through it, this is a great perspective on Silicon Valley: Can Silicon Valley Find Its Way Back?

The Media Produces Derangement: Proof From New York Times Readers

Woke Politics Destroyed The Marine Corps

An American Story: Tennessee Girl Discards Christianity, Becomes Climate Change Activist, Joins ISIS

DOJ January 6 evidence that has not yet been produced to the criminal defendants: "We possess some information that . . . law enforcement authorized [people] to enter the restricted grounds..."

Take a look at this actual video from inside the White House. After you watch the video, read about it here

Dinesh D'Souza on the upcoming Supreme Court hearing on abortion restrictions.

OPINION: California liberals flunking first duty of government. Even low-income voters are less interested in economic redistribution than in the maintenance of order.

YouTube suspends Rand Paul for misleading claims about masks

‘SMACKS OF HYPOCRISY:’ Alberta officials slam White House for demanding more OPEC oil after cancelling Keystone XL. Why is Joe Biden supporting conflict oil instead of ethical oil?

This cartoon has become out of date, but I'm leaving it here anyway.

National Public Radio is liberal. This isn't a surprise.

NPR is liberal. I suspect they don't even know they are liberal. The thin veil over National Public Radio’s commitment to objective journalism has been lifted. NPR has announced a new ethics policy that allows its journalists to “participate in activities that advocate for ‘the freedom and dignity of human beings’ on both social media and in real life.”

 The Battle of Jaffa: When King Richard and 2,000 Knights Defeated 20,000 Muslims

GOP Reps Try to Check on Jan. 6 Detainees, Get Locked Out

From the Babylon Bee, America's newspaper of record: Dems Promise To Do A Better Job Of Hiding Their Support For Infanticide

Watch Fleebagger Texas Democrat Get Destroyed by Simple Questions On Voter ID and Voting Rates

Imagine If They Hadn’t Lied to Us for the Last 18 Months

Get Ready for the 'No-Buy' List. First Big Tech censored speech. Now they want to shut deplorables out of the financial system.

FBI Seized $900,000 From Safe Deposit Box on 'Pure Conjecture,' Federal Judge Says.

The Democrats’ Appalling Vote to Kill the Hyde Amendment. House Democrats voted this week to kill longstanding measures that prevent federal funding of elective abortions, and they did so with an appalling unanimity.

A Day in the Life of a Low-Information Voter, content with a faux understanding of the way things are, is a pawn in the game. While there is such a thing as a Republican LIV, Democrat LIVs round out the base of the Democrat Party. Lose them, and Democrats would never win again.

Here's an interactive map of all the World Heritage Sites.  Zoom and scroll and click on the individual points to read about the sites.

Here's a fun video of a meteor from the Perseid group. Go to full screen.

The Absurdly Misleading Attacks on Anti-CRT Rules

My Jewish friend Barry Leff has this interesting essay on the Ark of the Covenant. Expanding on the information in the Bible with other Hebrew sources.

Kamala has reached her level of incompetence

NPR's Brilliant Self-Own. National Public Radio complains about a media figure who tells people "what their opinions should be" and uses political "buzzwords"

There is a management theory called the "Peter Principle", which says that people are promoted until they reach a level beyond their level of competence, where they stop advancing.  This article says that Kamala Harris has reached that level and will not advance further.

The Search for the Elusive White Nationalists and Supremacists in the Church. The church, we’re being told, is being overrun with white, Christian nationalists and white supremacists! And, these nationalists and supremacists are demanding fealty to – you knew it was coming – Donald J. Trump! Some claim that “It’s a “war” for the faith, tearing the universal church apart!”

Court Packing is Unconstitutional. A law changing the number of justices to affect the Court's decisions is neither necessary nor proper

The Panic Pandemic. Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus.

With Steven Weinberg’s death, physics loses a titan. He advanced the theory of particles and forces, and wrote insightfully for a wider public

Actor Tom Hanks is selling his Airstream trailer.

James Webb is likely to be cancelled. NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims. The evidence seems sketchy and lacking historical context. Here's some interesting history on the persecution of homosexuals in government service called "The Lavender Scare"

There is a lot to learn from this piece that outlines the swashbuckling ways of pirates during their high times on the high seas. It turns out the leadership norms that governed most pirate ships were surprisingly progressive and bred leaders whose skills and commitment were valued over their pedigree. 

A restaurant in New York, Serendipity 3, offers a plate of French fries for $200. There is an eight- to 10-week wait list. 

A South Dakota Woman Drank a 50-Year-Old Can of Coors to Honor Her Late Husband's Wish. Apparently the beer held up well.

More election issues

Audit Team Reports 74,000-Ballot Discrepancy In Arizona Mail-In Votes. Of course the reliably liberal Washington Post disputes this information.  More here: Arizona state Senate hearing on audit underway reveals substantial evidence of electoral fraud in 2020 presidential vote

The U.S. Navy's Leadership Crisis

Former Fox News Host Told the Truth About the January 6 Riot...And It Probably Infuriated Liberals

Booksellers Association Says It's 'Inexcusable' and 'Violent' to Promote This Book...the noxious tome: a copy of Wall Street Journal columnist Abigail Shrier’s updated book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.

Hey Chick-fil-A, You Might as Well Actually Fund 'Anti-LGBT Hate Groups', since you get blamed for it anyway.

Federal Prosecutor Deliberately Delayed Hunter Biden Probe To Shield 2020 Election

California drops new ‘social justice' math curriculum after critics say it would ‘de-mathematize math'

Why do American liberals love Cuba’s Communist dictatorship. By any sane reckoning, Fidel Castro was an utter disgrace. And yet American liberals, as well as some Europeans, have never been able to let go

American Booksellers Association: ‘We’re Book Banners — But For The Left’. The book is a best seller. This kind of reaction is just going to sell more books. They apparently don't know about the Barbara Streisand Effect.

There was a time-bomb quietly ticking away in Biden’s GHQ, and how much damage it would do upon detonation largely depended upon the success of this third presidential quest. His media sycophants employed their best suppressive talents to delay the explosion until after his election, but now that Joe has reached the pinnacle of his political career, it appears they can no longer prevent it from finally blowing.

While no other “carbon free” method of producing electricity comes even close to nuclear energy, climate change alarmists refuse to even consider the option

A professor became a police officer — and learned what’s really broken about policing

MIT Study: Vaccine Hesitancy Is 'Highly Informed, Scientifically Literate,' and 'Sophisticated'

Why liberals target Chick-fil-A. How exactly did a chicken sandwich restaurant become such a lightning rod of political division?

EPA squeeze on aftermarket car part sellers hurts classic car industry

Did you know that black people are not going to be allowed to vote in America anymore? At least in states controlled by Republicans. Sounds a bit unlikely, but that’s a conclusion you might have come to if you took seriously what President Joe Biden was saying in Philadelphia Tuesday.

The Undergrad Who Found China's Nuclear Arsenal. A couple of weeks ago, word arrived that 120 new missile silos had been discovered in the desert of Northern China. While the press made much of this evidence that China is busy expanding its nuclear weapons program, they did not look at who found the silos and how he did it.

July 16th was the anniversary of The Epic Battle That Freed Christian Spain of Islam

Why so many people believe the election was rigged

Why so many people believe the election was rigged: watch the whole video

New Study Delivers a Kill Shot to Another Anti-Gun Narrative

Democrats Are Quietly Admitting That Going 'Woke' Was a Very Bad Idea

The Democrats are stuck with Kamala Harris, like it or not

Who killed Ashley Babbitt in the Capitol insurgence and why?

An interesting story about Betsy Ross

3,000-year-old inscription bearing name of biblical judge found in Israel

Democrats Say California Is Model For Climate Action But Its Blackouts Say Otherwise. "People wonder how we made it through the heat wave of 2006,” “The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020.... We had San Onofre [nuclear plant] of 2,200 MW, and a number of other plants, totaling thousands of MW not there today."

Surprising from the reliably liberal Washington Post. Why are unions and Democrats so opposed to giving poor children a choice in schooling?

Now everyone’s coming back in to the office, we’ve upgraded our lanyards so we all know where we’re comfortable.

Not only did he win Georgia, he won Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania as well. Pennsylvania’s forensic audit will confirm much of what we knew in November and December.

All of Biden's stated reasons for running for president have turned to dust.

Cool nature photographs

Kyrsten Sinema Has the Guts to Keep Annoying Her Fellow Democrats

Media Ratcheted Up Jan. 6 Riot Coverage, Making It 'Worse Than It Actually Was'

One Year after Riots, Twin Cities Marked by Lawlessness, Racial Division

The Real Story of Males in Women’s Sports

‘Complete Shithole’: Biden’s Namesake Rest Stop in Disarray

Biden Admin Waives Sanctions on Iranian Oil Trade As DOJ Announces Charges On Spy Network. This will help the economy of Iran and give them extra case to subsidize terrorism. 

Energy company seeking $15 billion in damages over President Joe Biden’s canceling the Keystone XL pipeline project.

Seems right. Energy company TC Energy has said it’s seeking $15 billion in damages from the United States government over President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline project. In a statement on July 2, the Canada-based company said it had filed a notice of intent with the State Department to begin a legacy North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) claim under the U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement. 

Indian Point Energy Center was a three-unit nuclear power plant station located in Buchanan, New York, just south of Peekskill. The facility has permanently ceased power operations as of April 30, 2021. Before its closure, the station's two operating reactors generated about 2,000 megawatts (MWe) of electrical power. As a result of the shutdown and closure of the plant, the carbon-free power generated by the plant was replaced by power generated by carbon-producing fossil fuels.

Kamala Harris’ office rife with dissent

Charles Murray is pretty much hated by liberals. He became famous some years ago for a book called "The Bell Curve" that suggested blacks had lower IQs than whites.  Now he can be reviled again for his new book: Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America. 

Old news, but disgusting bit of political correctness. The Racist Statue of Theodore Roosevelt Will No Longer Loom Over the American Museum of Natural History

Christian America’s Must-See TV Show. The Chosen is as well made and entertaining as many network dramas. But its relative invisibility to secular audiences is no surprise.

It's the Fourth of July. Here's a fun oral history (transcribed) about the making of the movie "Independence Day".

Shopping in San Francisco Gets a Lot More Difficult Thanks to Far-Left Criminal Justice Policies

Young Americans need to appreciate the good fortune they take for granted.

Back in 2010, a wind-powered car was clocked by U.S. researchers as traveling down a runway nearly three times faster than the wind pushing it, seemingly breaking the laws of physics.

You'll enjoy reading what Dr. Ben Carson (who you may recall, happens to be black) has to say about critical race theory.

BMW's CE04 electric scooter looks like it's coming from the future to save the planet.

This lady really doesn't like Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton Invokes “Jim Crow past” To Blast Republicans

The steady erosion of Trump-hate is a growing problem for Team Biden

Recent Columbia University film graduates had the biggest debt burden in relation to earnings among alumni of master’s programs at major U.S. universities, a WSJ analysis found. Those who took out federal student loans had a median debt of $181,000—and two years after earning their degrees, a median annual income of $30,000. 

Breakfast with J.D. Vance, Anti-Trump Author Turned Pro-Trump Candidate

Donald Trump became the political vehicle for the American people’s resentment of an overweening, corrupt ruling class. Trump’s invaluable contribution to the Republic was to lead Americans publicly to disrespect that class. Americans elected Trump to preserve freedoms and prosperity against the encroachments of that class.

No Relief for Lego Man or Other January 6 Detainees. Prospects look dim for those caught up in Merrick Garland’s Capitol protest witch hunt. 

The infrastructure bill is putting money in the wrong places

The infrastructure bill is putting money in the wrong places. Biden has proposed a policy that, by some estimates, would allocate $165 billion for public transit (including urban rail — subways, light rail, and commuter rail) against only $115 billion to fix and modernize roads and bridges. Transit, which accounts for about 1 percent of overall urban and rural ground transportation, would receive nearly 60 percent of the money.

Vice President Kamala Harris made her first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border Friday. She briefly left the El Paso airport to tour a Border Patrol station but did not make her way to the actual border. 

A Quick, Compelling Bible Study Vol. 67: Common Sayings Rooted in the Bible

White Progressives Shocked To Learn Black And Latino Voters Don’t Share Their Radical ‘Defund The Police’ Views.

Study: Lockdowns ‘Single Biggest Public Health Mistake, Possibly Of All History’. More evidence to confirm what many Republican lawmakers and free-market advocates such as Americans for Limited Government were saying from the start of the Covid pandemic. More here: Lockdowns were not effective in slowing COVID spread, engineering professor concludes

Who Killed Ashli Babbitt?

The Maricopa County Audit Completed Paper Ballot Examination. Here's What Happens Next

You get out of control robocalls, but that could change after June 30

Crenshaw Calls for Olympic Qualifier Who Snubbed the National Anthem to Be Removed

One of the most elementary lessons of economics is that incentives matter. You’d hardly think this needs demonstrating, but apparently even the Wall Street Journal‘s news pages struggle with basic economics. Today the Journal reports that—lo and behold!—job growth is rising faster in states that have ended lavish unemployment bonus payments.

The president of the Champlain South Towers condo association told residents in April their building was in desperate disrepair and urged them to pay the $15 million in assessments needed to fix structural problems, in a letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Paul the Apostle made four major missionary journeys around the ancient Mediterranean world sharing the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who he claimed to have seen and talked to during that famous encounter on the road to Damascus a year or so after the crucifixion. In the decades thereafter in the course of his travels, Paul was in constant danger, from man, beast and the elements. And yet he kept going, overcoming every obstacle and being the main missionary catalyst of a spiritual movement that literally changed the world. Would You Suffer Years of Extreme Pain, Hardship For A Lie?

57% of Republicans say the pandemic is now over -- while just 4% of Democrats agree.

The New York Times reports that crime is starting to worry “progressives” — not the phenomenon, but the politics of it. I don’t know whether progressives in general are worried, but the ones at the Times sure are.

President Joe Biden delivered an infamous gun control speech last week, claiming that Americans “need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons” if they want to restrain government tyranny. Yet he also used a flat-out lie to justify his gun control agenda — a lie that led even The Washington Post to deliver Biden a scathing rebuke. The Washington Post‘s Glenn Kessler fact-checked this statement, giving Biden a whopping Four Pinocchios.

Several hundred thousand votes that were counted in Maricopa County, Arizona are associated with missing ballots, according to an audit organizer who is speaking regularly with people on the audit floor. “We found a ballot shortage, anywhere from 5 to 10 percent of the votes,”

The Food Stamp Program , administered by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, is proud to distribute the greatest amount of free meals & food stamps ever - 46 million people .

Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, asks us to “ Please Do Not Feed the Animals .”The reason for this policy is becaus, the animals will grow dependent on handouts & will not learn to take care of themselves !”