Washington Post Finally Admits Trump DIDN’T Incite Riot

Washington Post Finally Admits Trump DIDN’T Incite Riot With his Speech. The riot was ‘Planned In Advance’ The original WaPo article is here.

Reflections on the Trump's final day by Ben Stein. Blessed are the peacemakers 

Nothing says, “This was a perfectly normal election, and now it’s time to come together as a united nation,” like having your swearing-in behind 12-foot-high razor wire surrounded by 25,000 troops whose loyalty you doubt.

A GUARDSMAN AT THE CAPITOL My guard unit was called up last [week] to help secure the Capitol and has been providing security since [January 16]. In 48 hours of on-duty security I have not seen a single protester

Now Biden Tells Us: ‘Nothing We Can Do to Change Trajectory of Pandemic in Coming Months’. “Many were quick to note that the comment seemed rather at odds with Biden’s pre-election rhetoric”

On his first day in office, Biden, the job-killing President, killed over 70,000 jobs and counting. By Day Two, he killed even more.

University of Dallas student denied internship for being white

The New York Times (NYT) has become a place where people are fired for running pieces written by conservatives, the newspaper’s former op-ed writer Bari Weiss told journalist Megyn Kelly on Friday.

‘You Say We’re All Liars’: Rand Paul Has Fiery Debate With George Stephanopoulos

The Assault on Greatness. We see libelous truncation against Donald Trump, one of the truly great presidents in the national pantheon.

The Morning Briefing: Joe Biden Is the Worst 5-Day President Ever

Christian university absolutely shreds claim that Christianity is a 'platform for white supremacy' in scathing rebuke

Joe Biden promised to pay attention to science. Biden Appoints Sociologist Alondra Nelson to Top Science Post. Leftists are delighted. Seems more political than science.

Former Trump Aide Stephen Miller Details How Awful Biden's Immigration Order Actually Is.  Update: Judge Blocks Biden's Deportation Moratorium

Reflecting the Authoritarian Climate, Washington Will Remain Militarized Until At Least March. The idea of troops in U.S. streets for an extended period of time -- an extreme measure even when temporary -- has now become close to a sacred consensus.

Katie Couric’s swipe at Trump supporters. “The question,” she told Bill Maher, “is how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump.” The Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson reckons the number of Americans who need to be deprogrammed is in the “millions.”

Take this quick test of heart health. You'll probably pass it. If not, go see a doctor.

WATCH: Rand Paul’s Fiery Speech Denouncing Trump Impeachment. "Democrats are wasting the nation’s time on a partisan vendetta against a man no longer in office."

Trust in media is down, but if journalists don't listen to critics anyway, why should they care?

Thanks for everything, President Trump

Thanks for everything, President Trump

President Trump’s Farewell Address: ‘I Go From This Majestic Place With A Loyal And Joyful Heart’

On the other hand, here's what Biden plans for day one.

Here’s what really happened before the incursion into the Capitol

Gaining power hasn’t made the left any less insane.

Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, DC who didn't want National Guard troops to quell BLM/Antifa's violent acts of insurrection all summer, just recently requested that the troops now stationed in her city to be issued machine guns so that they could mow down more Americans. The National Guard told her that this would be inappropriate. National Guard at Capitol Authorized to Use Lethal Force in Aftermath of Mob violence

From the Babylon Bee: Far-Right Extremist Suggests Treating People Of All Races Equally.

Biden reportedly plans to cancel the Keystone Pipeline on his first day in office, one of his anti-business actions in support of his base. Biden Promises Science Will Guide Him. So Why Is He Canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline?

These are strange times when Bill Maher is a voice of sanity

Biden’s Climate Team: ‘Systemic Racism’ Is To Blame For Climate Change

By looking at U-haul rentals, you can find which states have the most inward and outward migration.

Biden is opening the door to a mess on Day 1. Massive parades of immigrants enroute to the US because of his stated citizenship policies.

Steve Cohen Warns About White National Guard in DC--they are Trump voters.

Jordan Peterson is a best selling author, but not politically correct. Staffers reportedly in tears over publisher’s decision to print another Jordan Peterson book

How the AR-15 Changed the Firearms World

Biden Taps Pennsylvania’s Transgendered Health Secretary. Sure, she seriously mismanaged the COVID crisis, but her identity-politics qualifications are excellent.

Germany is shutting down in nuclear power plants (clean energy) to please environmental wackos and shutting their coal plants to solve global warming. Now it is running out of electricity. They're even limiting charging electric cars.

New York Times Says Deadly BLM Riots Were ‘Isolated Instances Of Property Destruction’ That GOP ‘Exaggerated’

Did the Democrats steal the election?

Final, fair look at Trump presidency shows abundant policy victories

Did the Democrats steal the election? Election integrity must be a priority for the next two years, and in the future.

The Viking horns guy already has a higher approval rating than Congress.

Things continue to go wrong in California; here are some. It's what happens when the state is run by liberals.

 Unexploded ordnance in La1ke Erie; a legacy of the past.

Here's an interesting roundup of election influence: "The election was stolen before the election."

Biden promises that on his first day in office he’ll require all schools receiving federal funding to let transgenders play on the sports teams and use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their gender identities. Of course this will destroy women's sports including their opportunities to scholarships.

Biden will be changing the name of Trump's "Operation Warp Speed" so Trump won't get any credit for the results.

Little Vignettes are coming out that indicate Trump was not responsible for the riots. John Sullivan, the Left-Wing 'Agitator' Arrested and Charged in the Capitol Riot. And this: Trump Was Still Speaking When the Capitol Riot Began, But the Left Blamed Him Anyway. More here: CNN’s report contradicts everything the left has alleged about the violence at the Capitol and undermines the justification for impeaching Trump.

Democrats' Relentless Pursuit of President Trump Has Eroded Key Institutions. Watch Victor Davis Hanson on Fox.

Quite possibly one of the most tone deaf tweets of all time. Jake Tapper shares a quote slamming ‘outlets that propagate lies to their audience

Irony in action: The growing inaccessibility of science.

Biden minimum wage proposal could lift more than 1 million workers out of poverty. The CBO also estimated the move would cost 1.3 million American jobs.

NYT journo shocked to discover that ‘regular humans’ use zip ties for ‘legal’ purposes

Hundreds of rioters destroyed property, set fires during Trump’s 2017 inauguration, and all charges were dropped

Remember all the trouble caused by the guy who wrote an editorial criticizing Jill Biden for calling herself "doctor"?  Here's a terrific follow up article by the author.

I was about to post a link to an article about a photographer getting a presidential medal, when I was taken to this story about the photo "Napalm Girl". It is widely reported that US fliers had sropped the napalm, but it was South Vietnamese pilots who did it. The link to the story about the photographer is here.

In my youth, I was in the National Guard; Headquarters Company, First Battalion, 184th Infantry. I am a veteran of the Peoples Park Riots in Berkeley, a peaceful event. About once a year, we would have riot control training. In the headquarters company, there were various support platoons: medics, commo, recon, heavy mortar, anti-tank. For riot training, we in the non-combat platoons (medic and commo) played the part of rioters. The combat platoons took the part of the National Guard.  The way the game worked, the guard platoons were tasked to keep their cool, and we rioters tried to get them to lose their cool. We rioters always won; taunting, throwing fire crackers, and water balloons. The guard lost their temper, chasing us around the fairgrounds threatening physical attacks.

Who ever gave the guard live ammunition at the Kent State Riots had obviously never attended one of these training exercises. That person should have been prosecuted. It will be interesting to see what happens in Washington DC during the inauguration when Antifa activists embedded with the peaceful protestors antagonize the guard.

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell "It is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday that riots are wrong -- when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on, for weeks or even months, in various cities across the country last year."

Many things are complicated—but not everything. If you condemned the Antifa/Black Lives Matter violence that took place around the country in 2020, as all conservatives did, then you must condemn the Trumpist riot at the U.S. Capitol in 2021. Period. About “Whataboutism”. What about if you didn't condemn the summer riots? When turnabout is never fair play

Matt Gaetz Goes Nuclear On the House Floor and Dems Lose It as He Calls Out Their Hypocrisy for Months of Riots

TRUMP’S SPEECH WAS NOT INCITEMENT TO IMMINENT LAWLESS ACTION. Not if words and precedent have any meaning. You don’t need to be a lawyer to figure this out – read it for yourself. 

Introduced on January 11th and referred to the House Judiciary Committee, the resolution proposes an “amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish the electoral college and to provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States.”

This article, if accurate, suggests that the invasion of the Capitol was preplanned and that Trump had nothing to do with it. Was the Capitol raid an "inside job"? Some Democrats think so — and evidence is mounting

Why do Zebras have stripes when a nice uniform grey would provide better protection?  Play the game

Supreme Court May Finally Reverse Kamala Harris's Attack on Free Speech

Tom Cotton says, in a statement: "The Founders designed the impeachment process as a way to remove officeholders from public office—not an inquest against private citizens. The Constitution presupposes an office from which an impeached officeholder can be removed.

Everybody, except the people who work at PBS, knows that PBS is liberal on their news coverage. One of their lawyers got caught by Project Veritas. PBS Lawyer Caught on Tape 

Teachers Unions Fail Science; say that reopening would “put their health and safety at risk.”

The Spurning of Old Books: The Devaluation of the Past Threatens Higher Ed

The Death of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. A big problem that the Biden administration suddenly won’t have to deal with

Indonesia: Archaeologists find world's oldest animal cave painting

Every 8 years, billions of millipedes hatch out in numbers sufficient to stop trains.

California Is Worse Than You Think. Read the whole thing.

This picture of Pluto looks remarkedly like Earth. It even has an atmosphere.

I rather enjoy Stilton Jarlsberg's web site with political cartoons and commentary. You might want to visit it every few days.

The CIA released its entire collection of UFO-related documents.

Trump Impeachment Was The Revenge Of The Political Establishment. The Establisment Won And The American People Lost

UPitt faces repercussions after prof is silenced for expressing unpopular view

At the bottom of the page is a link to "Doug's Blog". Clicking on it will take you to the earlier entries.

Ann Althouse looks at Trump’s speech and wonders where’s the actual incitement? “I read the entire speech — which was over an hour — looking for the sentences that are most subject to the interpretation that he was inciting the crowd to break into the Capitol building or commit any sort of act of violence. I’m doing this because I realized I wasn’t seeing quotes from Trump, just assertions that the speech was an incitement and cause-and-effect inferences based on the sequence of events: He spoke and then they acted.” More here: Exactly Where and How Did Trump Incite the Mob?

Rush Limbaugh deactivates his Twitter account after President Trump permanently banned

The really liberal Washington Post writes about Betsy DeVos, Education Secretary. Despite the WaPo effort to spin things negatively, what comes through is that most of the things she wanted, I agree with: school choice, due process in Title IX, funding for private schools, and downsizing the Department of Education.

"The shocking images of Mr. Barnett with his boots up on a desk in the Speaker of the House’s office on Wednesday was repulsive." - Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. Seriously? As repulsive as sight of Pelosi occupying it?!?

Worth watching: a Santa Cruz surfer rides a big wave at Maverick. Use full screen.

Rage at Capitol assault makes excuses for summer riots all the more disgraceful

Remember when BLM rioters were burning down cities and Colin Kaepernick literally called for more violence? And then, instead of banning him, @Jack gave him $3M?

Paul Forrest has a terrific blog.  I don't know how he manages to put it together daily. Today's was particularly interesting; a list of all the California agencies. Remarkable. Sign up for his email.

Biden Iran Policy Takes Shape as He Names Former Iranian Negotiator CIA Chief

Satire from Scott Adams: 'I Pledge Allegiance to the Official Narrative' on how to keep your platform.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

Thomas Jefferson

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on, would save one-half the wars of the world."

Thomas Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them."

Thomas Jefferson

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

Thomas Jefferson

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms"

Thomas Jefferson

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Thomas Jefferson

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes, the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."

Thomas Jefferson

Media Finally Finds a Mob It Doesn't Like

2021 Miracle—Media Finally Finds a Mob It Doesn't Like. More here: If Only the Left and Right Had Come Together to Condemn Violence When It Counted

Adam Baldwin Puts the 2020 Election Debacle in Perspective

John Hinderaker:  Like pretty much all conservatives, I have consistently criticized riots and other forms of political violence for many years. That includes yesterday’s Washington, D.C. riot. You can’t say the same about liberals, however. Until yesterday, one might have thought that liberals consider rioting and other forms of political violence to be as American as apple pie.

Every City Needs a 'New York Post. The mainstream media knows which team it’s on and what it’s doing. What we need are counterweights at the local level.

Bullying in the Name of Social Justice: A Sign of the Times

Ted DeLaney began his career at Washington and Lee University as a custodian and accumulated enough credits to graduate at 41. He returned a decade later as a history professor and later helped lead a reckoning over the Confederate general the school’s name honors. DeLaney died at 77.

To Continue Thriving, California Needs New Politicians

Charmin-soft Portland mayor admits he's been conquered by Antifa neckbeards and finally asks for federal help.

Atheists on Reddit are freaking out about VeggieTales.

Joseph Epstein wrote a kind of funny editorial about "Dr. Jill Biden". He has disappeared from his university website. Dr. Biden's dissertation was pretty bad, with a typo that changed the whole meaning and misunderstanding of math. Scroll down to my December 20 blog for details.

2020 was the year nobody died from the flu or a host of other causes. Are the COVID statistics bogus?

More proof that California has dysfunctional politicians: Calif. Requires Insurers to Pay for Breast Mutilation for Gender-Confused Teens.

Apparently, similar things are happening in Minnesota. Radical Democrats Are Turning Minneapolis Into A Violent Wasteland.

In Praise of Trump Administration Transactional Diplomacy. Read the whole thing.

In Smithsonian Magazine: The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872.

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

It turns out that some cities can handle homelessness: In January, 2020, Bakersfield, California, had housed nearly everyone who had been homeless for more than a year. Then they sustained it during the pandemic.

A Simple Test for the Extent of Vote Fraud with Absentee Ballots in the 2020 Presidential Election: Georgia and Pennsylvania Data. John R. Lott, US Department of Justice

Charter Schools Work. No Wonder Democrats Want To Kill Them.

This is an older paper, but it discusses why the governments attempt to reduce disparate impact on black students is ill advised. 

The Worst Parts of Congress’ Nearly 6,000 Page Spending Bill

 The Worst Parts of Congress’ Nearly 6,000 Page Spending Bill

Worst Governor In America Prioritizes Drug Addicts Over Seniors For Vaccines

I want one of these really stylish electric cars.

Here are 74 fun facts that appeared in The Times this year.

The Fight to Keep Schools Closed Has Proven Thomas Sowell Right About Teachers’ Unions. Studies have consistently shown that school reopenings are not a major contributor to outbreaks of COVID-19. So, if 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we never should have underestimated the sheer power of teachers’ unions. In New York City, it takes an average of 830 days and $313,000 to fire a single incompetent teacher, largely due to policy negotiated by teachers’ unions.

Elon Musk is gone. He is selling all his personal real estate in the state. He is now a resident of the state of Texas. He has moved his philanthropic foundation to Texas, too. California politicians are biting the hands that feed them.

Mark Levin’s list: 15 ways Democrats stole the election

5 Reasons Why You're Not Crazy to Question the Election Results

Biggest Horse-Race Fixer of All Time Says Democrats Stole Election. Here's How.

Charlton Heston’s Prophetic Words on Political Correctness

2020 was the point of no return for establishment media burying stories critical of Democrats.

Twilight Zone: Has Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Realized That Antifa Violence Is Bad?