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.