January 6 Insurrection

Watch this disturbing video of the Capitol police fighting for their lifes as the mob enters the capitol. It will chill you.

 University Presidents Flunk Out. What six-syllable word describes the testimony of Claudine Gay and Liz Magill? Answer: Pusillanimity. Read further for the meaning.

Elon Musk goes after Biden Administration following $900 million SpaceX loss.

From Which River to Which Sea? College students don’t know, yet they agree with the slogan. College students are remarkably ignorant.

Biden/Buttigieg DEI Policies Endanger the Country.  The FAA is seeking people suffering from "severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities" to be air traffic controllers.

When I was a young person inclined toward technical things, I subscribed to Popular Science. First published in 1872, the magazine had closed up shop. It's a sad day for budding scientists and engineers who I guess don't read it anymore anyway.

The modern university, like the Third Reich, runs like a well-oiled machine, cranking out technocrats so embedded in the system it's hard to tell if they are cogs or architects. Nothing 'Contextual' About Cultural Marxism, Genocide

Winners of the Red Bull photo contest. Worth looking at.

Donors, Alumni Helped Take Down an Ivy League President. Is This a Moment or a Movement? Conservatives try to remake campuses as long-simmering tensions over speech and diversity boil over with the Israel-Hamas war.

 This is one of many humorous posts from The Babylon Bee.  It purports to be a list of all the stories that CNN got wrong. It is deadly serious. Take a look for an appraisal of the problems with the mainstream media.

"The work on the border wall, we didn't like the messenger, so, we killed the message... Issuing long-term debt to refinance when rates were at zero. We didn't like the messenger, so we killed the message... A structural peace deal in the Middle East. We didn't like the messenger, so we killed the message." Chamath Palihapitiya of the "All-In Podcast"

A really interesting house for sale in Oregon. The hippie house on the beach.

There are two clusters of stars in the Southern Hemisphere names after Ferdinand Magellan: The Magellanic Clouds are so dense they look like clouds in the sky. Turns out that Magellan wasn't a nice person, and was killed before he made it around the world, so there's a movement to rename the star clusters.

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Read the article. People who think Socialism or Communism are the answer to the world's problems should remember the excitement of the people who were finally free.

Want to know why there are so many near misses in air traffic control?

Want to know why there are so many near misses in air traffic control? Obama forced the FAA to move away from merit-based hiring to hiring based on affirmative action and the chickens have come home to roost.

NBC is reporting — with a supposed sense of shock — the results of a Monmouth poll that nearly one-third of Americans think the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Biden Admin Reportedly Set to Buy Back Five U.S. Hostages From Iran for $6 Billion

The Clarence Thomas Stories That PBS Refused to Tell. I gave an interview about the Supreme Court justice that ended up on the cutting room floor. Here’s what the network didn’t air.

Maui’s Fires and the Electric Grid. Utilities are spending more on the green energy transition than on resilience.

Maui Mother Finds Son’s Dead Body Clutching Dog.  In Area Cops Prevented Her from Searching.

Denali National Park in Alaska has a massive rock wall covered with dinosaur tracks.

CNN Fact Check Hilariously Proves Case for Biden Impeachment Inquiry

Academic Whose Work Was Cited As Proof Of ‘Systemic Racism’ Is Fired For Falsifying Research. The narrative of police genocide of African Americans turned out … to be complete nonsense

And just like that, Biden was too old. My favorite line about Hunter's crimes "Every time someone in the media says there’s no evidence, they mean the allegation is true, you just haven’t proved it to them"

Do politicians like to tax things? You know the answer, but to really appreciate their enthusiasm for taxes, scroll down on this page and read the list of special taxes.

Bears, birds and kangaroos. Comedy wildlife photo awards.

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Harvard economist Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”. It is one of the most famous social-science papers of all time. Carried out in the 1990s, the “blind audition” study attempted to document sexist bias in orchestra hiring. The study showed that when orchestras auditioned musicians “blindly,” behind a screen, women’s success rates soared. Or did they? 

Should we have dropped the bomb?

 With the movie Oppenheimer out, it's worth reviewing this lecture on whether the bomb should have been dropped.

This is a terrific article on the movie How Accurate is Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer'?

The Root Causes of San Francisco’s Disorder. And read the comments, often the best part of any WSJ editorial.

Beautiful bird photos. Audubon Announces 2023 Audubon Photography Awards Winners. Premiere North American bird photography competition features stunning photos and videos from professionals, amateurs, and young people.

Of the 56 patriots who signed the Declaration of Independence, 17 men lost property due to British raids and 12 had homes destroyed. Five lost their fortunes in helping fund the Continental Army and state militias battle the redcoats. Five were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died. One had two sons imprisoned on a British starving ship, one had a son killed in battle, one had his wife die from harsh prison treatment, and nine signers died in the Revolutionary War.

American Exceptionalism. Or How Americans Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Gridlock. "What do you think is the reason that America is such a free country? What is it in our Constitution that makes us what we are?" asked the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia during his opening statement on ‘American Exceptionalism’ to the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 5th, 2011.

Nature is a magazine about science. It turns out they don't understand the science of the damage affirmative action does to potential black scholars. They are running non-scientific editorials.

Check out these amazing videos of an ongoing volcanic eruption on Iceland. 

A surprisingly interesting article about Tequila and Mezcal.

I Lost My Temper. San Francisco Has Lost Its Mind.

So where did COVID come from. The seminal paper was a lie; scientists caught red-handed.

Biden corruption

9 Questions Corporate Media Should Ask Biden About Latest Corruption Evidence But Won’t

The Man Who Kept the Secrets. Eighty years ago, a U.S. Navy captain chose to go down with the ship.

“That Is the Definition of Election Rigging” – Kash Patel: CIA Broke Federal Law by Organizing, Sponsoring and Pushing the Bogus Hunter Biden Laptop Petition During 2020 Presidential Election

Goodbye, Minnesota. I was born in Minneapolis, graduated from the University of Minnesota and have lived in the Twin Cities essentially my entire life. So when I sold my business and took early retirement in 2017, planning to get away from the Minnesota winters, I always thought I'd remain a resident of the state I love that had provided me so much.

Meet the Green Energy Group Behind the Study That's Driving Calls To Ban Gas Stoves. Rocky Mountain Institute partnered with China to implement 'economy-wide transformation' away from oil and gas

In Idaho, of all places, a high school student was barred from graduating for saying "Guys Are Guys and Girls Are Girls".

A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin.

Another bit of bad news for downtown San Francisco arrived Monday morning with the revelation that the investment firm that owns the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 hotels is walking away from its debts and giving up hope on a return of SF's convention market.

An interesting article about a UFO crash in 1897.

Daniel Penny, the Marine Who Subdued Jordan Neely, Speaks Out

Starbucks manager who ran Philly store where two black men were refused access to bathroom gets $25M. Interesting article, but juries are going insane.

Covid's Patient Zero Was... One of the Chinese Lab Workers Playing With Covid, Say... Chinese Government Officials

Over the last few years, the establishment, including government agencies like the FBI, the hegemonic tech companies that control social media, and the press generally, has tried hard to suppress information on several topics. These topics include, among others, the effectiveness of anti-covid measures and treatments, the safety of covid vaccines, Joe Biden’s corruption, and the existence and prevalence of voter fraud. Wrongspeak on any of these topics has been branded as disinformation, and has been likely to result in a ban from Twitter, Facebook and so on. Despite these efforts at censorship, Rasmussen finds that most Americans have no illusions about the integrity of our elections:

Remember that there was a controversy about whether COVID 19 came from the Wuhan virology lab or from bats in the live animal market. Social media censored any suggestion it came from the lab, and of course Dr. Fauci said there was no way it came from the lab. Now of course most people assume it came from the lab. Do Wuhan Institute of Virology Scientists Often Fall from the Building’s Roof?

Hang All the Members of the Liars’ Club?

Hang All the Members of the Liars’ Club. What about the rest? Federal prosecutors last week announced the indictment of U.S. Representative George Santos (R-N.Y.) on a host of charges, including misuse of federal campaign funds and wire fraud, almost all of them resulting from his pathological lies. Hang All the Members of the Liars’ Club?

Wondering where your tithes go? Mormon church has $100bn ‘clandestine hedge fund’, says whistleblower. Former church investment manager claims funds were intended for charity work but spent on for-profit initiatives as a tax dodge.

Here's a short movie on how to survive a mass shooting.

University of Southern California social work students just sued the school, accusing the school of falsely advertising the online program and claiming it had the same offerings as USC's in-person program on campus, charging the same $100,000 tuition for both of the programs.

Teachers and other government employees will have to write monthly checks if they want to stay in their union after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Tuesday banning automatic dues deductions from public employees' paychecks. The anti-union bill also gives employees the right to immediately quit a union for no reason and requires unions to recertify if the number of dues-paying members drops below 60% of those eligible to join.

Feinstein’s Health Crisis Goes Back Farther than We Knew. Staff for the high-ranking Democrat have for years had a system to keep her from walking the halls of Congress alone, sources tell Rolling Stone

Before you Ddntate to the caller supporting the police or firemen, read this. A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using pro-police and pro-veteran messages. But instead of using the money to promote issues and candidates, an analysis by The New York Times shows, nearly all the money went to pay the firms making the calls and the operatives themselves, highlighting a flaw in the regulation of political nonprofits. Notice how the liberal NYT spins the article against Republicans, though mose of these callers are not so affiliated.

Disney Cancels $1 Billion Project in Florida, but Not for the Reason the Media Wants You to Believe

The Parents Saying No to Smartphones. ‘How you help them learn to be present, in a task or with a relationship, is one of the top challenges of our generation. Part of that is going to be saying no.’

The January 6 tapes

The Chair of the January 6 Select Committee Just Made a Damning Admission. Tucker Carlson is locked in shredding the nonsense surrounding the January 6 riot, which has been sold to the public as a violent insurrection. The hyperbole knows no bounds as others have said that day was worse than Pearl Harbor or the 9/11 attacks, once again showing that liberals have no sense of history. Trump supporters killed Capitol Police officers; people took that seriously. And it’s all a lie. It’s also a lie that those arrested, indicted, and convicted are domestic terrorists. I’m not referring to the ones who attacked police officers; they deserve whatever comes to them. But folks like Jacob Chansley, the ‘QAnon Shaman,’ are decidedly not domestic threats. 

Victor Davis Hanson. The Price of Eliminating Consequences. What is common to the pandemic of smash-and-grab, carjacking, fighting on airliners while in flight, and deadly Saturday night shoot-outs is this same apparent assurance there will be no consequences.

Former CDC Director Drops Truth Bombs About COVID's Origins at Hearing, he explained why the global pandemic most likely resulted from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology rather than a natural spread to humans from animals.

Walmart will close its last two stores in crime-plagued Portland, Ore., as the city contends with a relentless wave of shoplifting that has hammered retailers. The closures, set for March 24, come months after CEO Doug McMillon warned the discount retailer was seeing a spike in “shrink” — a term the retail industry uses to address losses related to in-store theft or fraud.

There Is No Try, Only Do: Man Arrested 10 Times in One Month. Guess Where?

How Will Biden Judges Rule? The Senate Judiciary Committee holds another disturbing hearing.

Times are tough for recent college graduates.  Some of them chose the wrong major. I posted this just to include this quote from the article. Jim Fish, chief executive of Waste Management Inc., described the situation this way: “We can’t hire a truck driver to drive a trash truck for $90,000 in Houston, Texas, but I can hire an M.B.A. from a small school for $60,000, and I can get them all day long.”

Riley Gaines and crowd laugh after anthropologist can't admit bones show sex differences.

IF YOU DON’T FOLLOW THE NEWS YOU ARE UNINFORMED. IF YOU DO FOLLOW THE NEWS YOU ARE MISINFORMED. The more you trust the media, the less accurate you are.

VDH: Are We the Byzantines? When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had up to that point survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome.

The Monks Who Make Chartreuse Don’t Care About Your Fancy Cocktails. Their decision to cap production to focus more on prayer has enthusiasts stockpiling bottles of the French liqueur

Bud Light has a new advertising campaign based on a transexual man becoming a woman. That inspired a meme with the theme "Here's a man pretending to be a woman selling a drink pretending to be beer" 

As anyone with any sense would know, it's costing them a lot of business.

Teen Employment Isn’t Exploitation, But It Might Keep You From Becoming A Helpless Adult

Lawrence Summers on Twitter: I heard a comment from somebody in a developing country who said, “Look, I like your values better than I like China’s. But the truth is, when we’re engaged with the Chinese, we get an airport. And when we’re engaged with you guys, we get a lecture.”

Oops. That climate science isn't quite as settled. Methane warms the Earth when the gas absorbs longwave radiation. But it also cancels out some of that effect, counterintuitively, by absorbing shortwave radiation.

'Brides Today' Features Hairy 'Transfeminine' Man in Ultra-Cringe Cover Story. See the cover photo.

The Real Science on Masks: They Make No Difference

The news recently has been covering the slew of close calls among aircraft. Is it because of the Disastrous Initiative to Hire Air Traffic Controllers Based on Diversity, Not Talent.  In an effort to recruit more minorities as air traffic controllers, the FAA discarded its longtime use of the difficult cognitive assessment test and implemented instead a new, unmonitored take-home personality test—a biographical questionnaire. Among the questions asked are: “The number of high school sports I participated in was … ” “How would you describe your ideal job?” “What has been the major cause of your failures?” 

The Real Science on Masks: They Make No Difference. Face coverings do nothing to reduce the spread of Covid, according to a new, gold standard scientific review.

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline. The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

Watch this silent one-minute commercial by Food City

A terrific article: American Colleges Are Committing Suicide. Self-inflicted wounds, not changing demographics, are undermining the higher-ed sector.

'Why Would You Want Some Lady's Dirty Clothes?': Biden’s ‘Non-Binary’ Ex-Nuclear Waste Chief’s Rough Day in Court

Why Is the Left Pushing Straight Men to Date Trans Dudes?

Herds of wild pigs – dubbed “super pigs” for their size, intelligence, and hardiness – have been spotted within 10 miles of the US border and North Dakota. The invaders from the north are big (think around 500 pounds), omnivorous and speedy.

Ukrainian refugee girl flees unsafe San Francisco school. Yana and her mother fled Ukraine and found a new home with an aunt in San Francisco -- until the 13-year-old girl started Marina Middle School in January. Bullied and robbed, she's quit school, reports Jill Tucker in the San Francisco Chronicle. Students interrupted classes, jumped on desks, cursed at teachers," Yana told her mother and aunt. "Nothing happened." 

Archeologists Discover “Sistine Chapel of the Ancients” With Thousands of Ice Age Rock Paintings. Deep within the dense Amazon rainforest in modern-day Colombia, an 8-mile-long “canvas” filled with ice age drawings of giant sloths, mastodons and other extinct beasts has been discovered.

I am tight with spending.  Here's a fellow tht shares my philosophy. Keep it simple, take only what you need, and skip Starbucks.

JHU Professor Names the 'Greatest Perpetrator of Misinformation' During Pandemic

Donald Trump’s Accomplishments as President

Donald Trump’s Accomplishments as President, Part One

Donald Trump’s Accomplishments as President, Part Two

Donald Trump’s Accomplishments as President, Part Three

Absurdities of the McConnell-Schumer Omnibus Spending Bill. Congressional leaders have dropped 6,825 pages of text for their “omnibus” spending bill, plus explanatory materials that include a list of at least 4,000 earmarks, on the doorstep of every American family.

A Quiet Refutation of ‘Net Zero’ Carbon Emissions. Two energy reports show the U.S. is burdening and dismantling its grid to achieve an impossible goal.

Pretty interesting article on DNA: a collection of stories.

Five Teens Charged With Murder In Christmas Weekend Shooting At ‘Gun-Free’ Mall of America

Are Universities Doomed? Victor Davis Hanson on the decline of universities. Left-wing indoctrination, administrative bloat, obsessions with racial preferences, arcane, jargon-filled research, and campus-wide intolerance of diverse thought short-changed students, further alienated the public—and often enraged alumni. In a new low/high, Stanford recently enrolled 16,937 undergraduate and graduate students, but lists 15,750 administrative staff—in near one-to-one fashion.

Want to Be a Doctor? A Scientist? An Engineer? An Affirmative Action Leg Up May Hurt Your Chances

Torrent of Taxes Sends New Yorkers Fleeing on Southbound Expressway. In March 2021, a study of New York found that its already staggeringly high tax burden had worsened due to an increase in the top marginal tax rate to almost 15% for those in New York City. The study projected that the flood of people leaving would only accelerate—and it did. And what do New Yorkers get for all these taxes? Roads smooth as glass? The best airports in the world? Trains running on time? Bulletproof electric grid and water infrastructure? Ample police to maintain safety and order? Not even close.

More Proof That Nancy Pelosi Was More Responsible for J6 Riot Than Trump

A Professor Showed a Painting of Muhammad in Class and Lost Her Job

Jeff Bezo's former wife, MacKenzie Scott is shaking up philanthropy's traditions. Is that a good thing?Donald Trump’s Accomplishments as President, Part OneDonald Trump’s Accomplishments as President, Part TwoDonald Trump’s Accomplishments as President, Part Three

Gina Lollobrigida, Italian film legend dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world," dies at 95. Best line: "I knew right away that Rock Hudson was gay, when he did not fall in love with me," she told one reporter.the most beautiful woman in the world

The New Structural Racism. In Northern Virginia, affirmative action has hardened into a war on high achievers.The New Structural Racism

Recant? Intel signatory on Hunter laptop now says they knew much of it was realthey knew much of it was real