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.