Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving?

 Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving? Victor Davis Hanson. Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters we now daily witness that are nearly destroying the country.

Sen. Marco Rubio: Ignore the Media. Here's the Real Reason the Border 'Deal' Collapsed

California has raised the salaries of fast food workers. Here's an article by someone who understands economics and the value of entry level jobs.

Think windmills are ugly? So do the Osage Indians. Judge orders removal of wind farm opposed by Osage.

Designing the 'perfect' meal to feed long-term space travelers.

Sports Illustrated is dying, but remember these most iconic photos of all time.

When I was a senior in high school (1959), the Kingston Trio became very popular, generating a revival of folk music. One of their popular songs was "Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley".  It turns out that this was a true story. Read about Tom Duli on Wikipedia.

Here is a pretty interesting article about the FAA's efforts to eliminate qualified white candidates for jobs as air traffic controllers to increase the number of minority workers.

Eleven years in prison for protesting outside an abortion clinic? You've got to be kidding me.

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

In Hoc Anno Domini

In Hoc Anno Domini. This editorial in the Wall Street Journal was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since. Often, the comments in the WSJ are more interesting than the article.

How Corrupt is a Corrupt Media? The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers. By Victor Davis Hanson

Senate Dem: Griner-for-Bout swap "deeply disturbing," enabling future hostage-takers

Remember Sam Brinton, the Energy Department official that likes to wear women's clothes? He stole a woman's suitcase at the Minneapolis Airport. Well, it seems he also did it in Las Vegas. I guess he just doesn't like to shop in ladies' boutiques. He doesn't seem to work at DOE anymore.

Identity politics run amok: Why does the Biden administration keep making such embarrassing hires?

JUST WHEN YOU HOPED SOUTH CAROLINA HAD MOVED PAST ITS SEGREGATIONIST HISTORY: South Carolina med school faces federal investigation for excluding men, white people.

THE TWITTER FILES, Part VII: The FBI All Up in Twitter's Business

Mom sues after police arrest her for leaving kid home alone. These are different times.

There's A Reason People Suspect Fraud. Especially when you look at some of what's been reported in Georgia alone.

Twitter files #7: the FBI sets up the scam. When the Hunter Biden laptop story broke shortly before the 2020 election, I initially experienced a brief sense of relief. It had been a tense year, to be sure: COVID, then the Floyd riots, and with the election looming I had a gut feeling that the cognitively challenged, mendacious, corrupt, newly-minted leftist Joe Biden was going to win. Now, with this laptop story, maybe enough people were going to learn about more of the family corruption, and perhaps it would change the outcome.

The Christmas Movie That Became a Classic Because of a Mistake. The role of accidents, chance and serendipity can be crucial to success. It’s the reason people still watch a black-and-white film every year.

How the Media Trains Journalists to Lie. The Ratioing of Dasha Burns

Anomie and Impunity. The unraveling of San Francisco

Guys swim faster than girls, even if they identify as female

 A Washington State high school student who, as a male, ranked 72nd in boys’ track, vaulted up to the number-one spot as a female following gender transition. Deprives other girls’ teams of the chance to compete at State

Another ‘Known Wolf’ – The Colorado Springs Shooter Should Have Been in Prison

This Is What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like From the Surface of Mars

Giant Goldfish Weighing 67 Lbs. Caught by Fisherman – See the Photos! Nicknamed "The Carrot," the goldfish was caught in the same French fishery it was released into 20 years ago

Take yourself back in time to World War II and watch this film about the manufacture of 3-inch anti-aircraft shells. The amount of effort it took to make just one bullet is amazing.

One of Biden's appointments is a man who dresses in women's clothing. He/she is in the Deprtment of Energy storage of nuclear waste. He stole a woman's suitcase in Minneapolis. Theft case against Biden nonbinary aide Sam Brinton is admittedly ‘weirder.

From the NYT: What’s the Best Book of the Past 125 Years? We Asked Readers to Decide.

Pretty good story about a trailer-dwelling poor person rose to Rule the Best-Seller List. With legions of devoted fans and a knack for high-voltage emotional drama, Hoover has sold more than 20 million books. And she’s done it her way.

Why Are Black People Still Voting for Democrats? It's Magic!

These 15 Secular Christmas Songs Deserve the Death Penalty My wife Chris used to sing O Holy Night every Christmas. She was better than the one linked in the article.

This article by Victor Davis Hanson is notable for the summary of Biden's failures. Does Trump Really Want To Be President Again?

I was at a Walmart this week that had remarkable security measures. I wanted to buy some T-shirts. They were locked behind a glass door. I had to find a clerk to open it for me. Once selected, I couldn't put them in my cart. The clerk had to take them up to a front counter for me to retrieve later. When checking out, I located my T-shirts up front. At that point, the clerk had to take them to the self-service register and actually scanned them for me to make sure I was going to pay for them. I was incredulous, but apparently theft is a big problem in this neighborhood. I happened on this article Walmart May Hike Prices and Close Stores Due to Theft. When did T-shirts become a security problem?

Interesting back story on Twitter supressing the Hunter Biden hard disk story. Elon Musk Fires a Democrat Fox Guarding the Twitter Hen House

Will Trump ride off into the sunset, or play the broken hero?

Will Trump ride off into the sunset, or play the broken hero?

Here's a pretty good review of the new and improved Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

The Left Were the Mad Scientists--We Were Their Lab Rats. By Victor Davis Hanson

The Supreme Court Confronts the Left’s Victimhood Consensus. An analysis of race-based college admissions, the case before the Supreme Court.

Biden: The Pudding President’s Insults Continue. So much for Joe Biden and his quest to “tone down the angry rhetoric” and “unifying” our country.

I Hated Fishing. Then Fishing Changed My Life. In an excerpt from his new book, terrific writer Jason Gay talks about being drawn, despite himself, into the obsession of his 9-year-old son.

We don't live in Grass Valley CA anymore, but I regret missing this meteor.

FOUR HUNDRED private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of 'hypocrisy'

After violent camera robberies, a number of photographers plan to stay away from San Francisco. The Dallas-based photographer targeted in the attack the afternoon of on November 9, did not want to be identified but says he was pistol-whipped and was "freaked out" and tried to console the wedding party where "the bride was crying the whole time." That same day, another photographer's belongings were stolen at gunpoint at the same location...on the very same day.

SHOCKER! WaPo Sheepishly Admits the FBI Found No Nuclear Secrets, or Anything Else, in Mar-a-Lago Raid

Did you notice that there have been many stories breaking recently that are inconvenient to the left-wing narrative? They came out after the midterm elections were over — when they’d have no impact on the vote.

Paul Pelosi Seen Opening Door for Police on Body Cam Video as Originally Reported. NBC reporter Miguel Almaguer was suspended on Tuesday for including that detail in his original report, since retracted. And yet NBC Bay Area reporter Bigad Shaban claimed Wednesday that police body cam footage supports Almaguer’s initial story.

Facebook Censors Bible Verse

What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on with the Paul Pelosi story?

Ohio January 6 man gets three years after stealing a coat rack. Here's the story on the other case: The Gentry Class looks after its own, while prating about equality, the rule of law, and the dangers of “insurrection.”

The Real Dispute at Heart of Affirmative Action Cases Now Before High Court

 The Real Dispute at Heart of Affirmative Action Cases Now Before High Court.

After the Jan. 6 Committee finishes, maybe a GOP Congress can probe some actual ‘threats to democracy’. By Glenn H. Reynolds

CNN’s Attempt to Report the Truth About Guns Outrages Gun Control Zealots

A comparison between photos taken by the Hubble and the new James Webb telescopes. Take a look at bigger versions here

The Sanibel Island causeway washed out by Hurricane Ian has reopened. Republicans just do a better job.

What's Interesting About the Steve Bannon Verdict

Political Stunt? Viral Abortion Horror Story in Missouri Perfectly Timed for October Surprise

Is This the Real Reason Twitter Employees Are Afraid of Elon Musk? Take a tour of the office.

Pelosi Attacker’s Former ‘Life Partner’ Definitively Torpedoes the Media Narrative. Reuters reported a lie that an internet user with the same name as the man arrested at the scene, David Depape, expressed support for former President Donald Trump.

Biden’s Day One Actions Haunt Him Still

Biden’s Day One Actions Haunt Him Still. Column: The president blunders from one self-inflicted crisis to the next

Hunter and Joe Biden Need Trump. The press won’t keep lying about Hunter’s laptop if Trump isn’t on the ballot.

FBI undercounts number of times armed citizens have thwarted active shooting incidents: report

I don't normally post links to articles from liberal media, but here's an incredible report in Nature about some islanders winning a suit against Australia because of global warming. This is insane of course, starting with the fact that Australia doesn't contribute much to global warming compared to places line China and India.

Ukraine's victory "almost a done deal": Military expert on how Russia's invasion imploded. Pretty good analysis.

Rail company left 'dysfunctional' California amid faltering ‘bullet train’ efforts. SNCF, the French national railroad, was one of the original operators to come to California in the early 2000s to help develop the state’s “bullet train” that would run from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The rail company, however, opted to leave for the war-torn, yet “less politically dysfunctional” North African country.

Share These 8 Reasons Tulsi Gabbard Left The Democrat Party With Your Democrat-Voting Friends And Family

Special Counsel John Durham and the Press’s Battle With Truth. To the media, ignorance is bliss when it comes to the true 2016 election story.

The man who said Ukraine would win. ‘The real reason Putin has not succeeded,’ says Bernard-Henri Lévy, is that his opponents ‘know why they fight.’

A More Diverse America Turns Against Racial Preferences. California voters backed the 1996 ban by a 9-point margin. By 2020 the gap had widened to 16 points.

Anything the U.S. does to reduce emissions won’t matter much to global temperatures

 Anything the U.S. does to reduce emissions won’t matter much to global temperatures. U.S. cuts will be swamped by the increases in India, Africa and especially China. Look no further than China’s boom in new coal-fired electricity.

How the Media Fell for A Racism Sham. A Brigham Young University paper scooped the New York Times. All the students did was practice basic journalism

The Sordid Saga of Hunter Biden’s Laptop. Imagine that, in the middle of all of this, you lose control of 217 gigabytes of your personal data: videos in which you have sex; videos in which you smoke crack; bleary-eyed selfies; selfies that document your in-progress dental work; your bank statements; your Venmo transactions; your business emails; your toxic rants at family members; analysis from your psychiatrist; your porn searches; your Social Security number; explicit photos of the many women passing through your bedrooms, photos of your kids, of your father, of life and death, despair and boredom.

Special Victor Davis Hanson Edition: How Democracy Dies in Darkness in Five Easy Steps.

Why has fact-checking disappeared under Biden? Fact-checking under President Trump was a bustling business. Seemingly every day, and sometimes by the hour, the 45th president’s every word was scrutinized, which all comes with the job. 

What Russia’s Failure in Ukraine Means for Putin and the World The exposure of his country’s weaknesses by a smaller adversary could threaten the Russian president’s influence abroad and even his hold on power.

Sweden was very welcoming to Muslim immigrants from the Middle East. Crime is mushrooming and nobody wants to talk about the root cause. Two Bombings in One Night? That’s Normal Now in Sweden. My country just voted in a right-wing government. The almost 500 bombings since 2018 may have something to do with it.

Another Surge of Greed in the Biden Era? Rising gas prices bring back a favorite Beltway excuse.

California Warns: Here Come the Blackouts

California Warns: Here Come the Blackouts, Don't Charge Your Car

Jim Harbaugh on his unique quarterback plan: 'It's Biblical'. Michigan's head coach cited King Solomon and the Book of Ecclesiastes to explain his decision to start Cade McNamara against Colorado State and JJ McCarthy versus Hawaii.

Hidden Dinosaur Tracks Emerge in Texas Drought. Visitors to Dinosaur Valley State Park have been treated to a rare sight of 113-million-year-old dinosaur footprints.

Climate change: A Russian plant near Finland is burning off some 4.34 million cubic meters of gas every day that it would previously have sold to Germany, the BBC reported.

'Shoot. Me. Now!' What Obama told an aide about Joe Biden's 'annoying' rambling, as new book reveals tensions in the 'bromance' that got so bad Barack wanted to replace his VP with Hillary Clinton in 2012

A bakery was destroyed by Oberlin College and its students. Read the story. They sued the college and won. Will they get their money?

Liberal Principal Admits Discriminating against Religious Teachers. An undercover video has captured a public school administrator admitting that he quietly refuses to hire “brainwashed” religious teachers and older people, so he can impose his own liberal views on the district’s schoolchildren.

Gun violence is up in Portland. While there were more shootings last weekend than usual, it’s just the latest example of an upward trend in gun violence in Portland and the state since 2020. There have been 788 shootings in Portland as of July 31 this year, which is 67 more than last year and 415 more than in 2020 during the same time frame.

The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors. Almost half of humanities and arts majors regret their choice — and enrollment in those disciplines is shrinking rapidly

Woke Ideologues Are Taking Over American Art Museums. When connoisseurs yield to commissars, the result is as ugly as you’d expect.

A Russian Soldier’s Inside View of Moscow’s War in Ukraine. Demoralized troops, poor logistics undercut performance of Russian military, says paratrooper who fought

The Cynical Exploitation of Brittney Griner. Who benefits from America's infighting?

Why the Afghanistan Withdrawal Was the Perfect Storm of Bureaucratic Incompetence

Why the Afghanistan Withdrawal Was the Perfect Storm of Bureaucratic Incompetence. The botched withdrawal wasn’t a mistake or a one-time bad call. The catastrophe occurred due to consistent and specific inept leadership failures at the Department of Defense, Department of State, the White House, and the Intelligence Community. Failure to plan. Failure to be realistic about the strength and capabilities of the Taliban. Failure to adequately prepare and vet people to get them out of the country before the U.S. military departed. 

"I would never, ever say that I regret supporting the first Black woman vice president, ever. But the disappointment is real." "I was obsessed with the idea of this person who could undo the systemic, the systematic racism and sexism and heterosexism in government with one fell swoop, and now I’m thinking to myself, did I just make up a person in my head who could do those things?"

The thing about UFO photographs is that they are never clear. Experts and enthusiasts have been disappointed for decades by bad-quality photos and videos of unidentified flying objects. World's clearest UFO photo revealed after 30 years; it's called 'The Calvine Photo'

A look at the world’s skinniest skyscraper: Steinway Tower. The 60 apartments in the tower range in cost from $18 million to $66 million per unit and offer 360-degree views of the city. It’s located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street known as “Billionaires’ Row.”

From the Babylon Bee: I wish that we could leave California Now

WHY CAN’T LIBERALS DO MATH?

I suppose the answer is, if they could do math they wouldn’t be liberals.

It is a familiar pattern: the Left sees an organization or institution that is widely respected and takes it over. It then politicizes, degrades and misuses that institution. The predictable result is that the public regard formerly enjoyed by the institution is lost.

"Another proud moment for women's sports": This trans golfer is shellacking female opponents left and right in the LPGA qualifiers

An excellent article on the attack on Salman Rushdie. We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning

He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He's Collecting Unemployment.

Behind the fall of David Sabatini, 'one of the greatest scientists' of his generation.

Censorship at a Top College for Free Speech. Claremont McKenna threatened to bar me from teaching required classes for quoting ‘Huck Finn.’

Did you know you could spend $40,000 for a dog?

 Did you know you could spend $40,000 for a dog? BLM Activist Shaun King Used Donor Funds To Buy $40k Thoroughbred Show Dog

August 6 is the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.  Millions of lives were saved.

Also worth watching, Bill Whittle's timeless lecture on the issues

New York Times guest essay trashes the south: 'Awful,' 'fury-soaked,' 'gun-littered'

Less Than Half of San Francisco Students Are High-School Ready. More Than a Fourth Are Chronically Absent.

Want to take a road trip? Here are the seven longest Interstate Highways in the U.S.

Pretty entertaining article about owning a Tesla.

Has Biden Lost It? He Never Had It. His presidency’s failure rests on a longstanding character flaw: He follows the Democratic Party wherever it goes.

How the Climate Elite Spread Misery. Most people are more worried about high gas and food prices, which green policies make worse.

How Jesus' apostles died.

Cross-Examining the Climate Change Cultists.  I was told that in the context of climate change the science is settled, that there is only one possible answer and that anything else is at least quackery and possibly felony denial.

Reports of the Choco Taco’s Death Are Possibly Exaggerated. It turns out killing the Choco Taco was what it took for the wacky ice cream treat to get its due. And it may not be frozen out for long.

A new study, Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed, finds approximately 96 percent of U.S. temperature stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) considers to be “acceptable” and  uncorrupted placement by its own published standards.

"Cover up Your Bumps": California State Senator Encourages Gay Orgies During Monkeypox Outbreak. We report 528 infections diagnosed between April 27 and June 24, 2022, at 43 sites in 16 countries. Overall, 98% of the persons with infection were gay or bisexual men

Why does anyone need an AR-15?

An Expert Answers Democrats' Most Burning Question: Why Does Anyone Need an AR-15?

Lincoln gets cancelled. Cornell library removes Gettysburg Address and bust of Lincoln.

Is America in the process of breaking up? I don’t know. It might be. These poll data from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics are sobering, to say the least.

You probably heard that California is banning gasoline powered lawnmowers and weed whackers. Now they are making plans to replace the forklifts with electric ones. That's going to cost a bit. Sacramento is a subset of California. They are banning food garbage.  You have to save your organic food waste in a separate container that gets picked up occasionally and turned into compost or something.

How to find the least dishonest politician to vote for.

Biden will be remembered for wrecking the country. All he had to do was leave things alone. Instead, he blundered into the office and wrecked the country.

Build a Charter School, Get Sued by the Teachers Union. Vertex Academies is set to open next month on the old Blessed Sacrament campus in the Bronx.

A Wild Gathering of Sorrow Over the Death of Christ. It is nearly impossible to remain immune to the visceral emotions of the mourning figures in Niccolò dell’Arca’s lifesize terracotta sculptures

The Supreme Court Saves Politics. The West Virginia and Dobbs decisions free Americans from rule by experts and judges.

‘Strong Progressives Clearly Live in a Different World’. Democrats are very popular these days among college-educated whites. The bad news for the party is that such voters constitute a large part of the progressive left, which seems to have less and less in common with the rest of the country. Read past the good news story for the poll results.