Jake Tapper Levels Biden Over Outright ‘Rejection’ Of Army Report:

Jake Tapper Levels Biden Over Outright ‘Rejection’ Of Army Report: ‘It’s Difficult To Overstate How Insulting It Is’.  

More here: The Great Awakening. Many people stepped outside the comfort of their political beliefs and began to question everything coming out of the government.

President Biden wants credit for nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. But here is the shameful irony: As a senator, Biden warned President George W. Bush that if he nominated the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, he would filibuster and kill her nomination.

The Unbearable Lightness of Biden. The man has no firm principles, which makes the country feel sadly leaderless.

On the most recent episode of Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News, host Mark Levin blasted Democrats and the media for giving us Joe Biden and said they knew “damn well” he wasn’t capable of handling the presidency.

The High Cost of ‘Free’ Covid Testing. Insurance has to pay for it, with no limits. What could go wrong?

From today's Wall St. Journal: 

Your editorial reminded me of an incident in the mid-1970s, when I was a young university professor. I received a memo from the university’s Equal Opportunity Office concerning a promotional brochure that I had prepared. I was informed that I had omitted the statement that the university “is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.”

I asked for clarification: An equal-opportunity employer is one who will not discriminate in hiring because of race, but an affirmative-action employer is one that will discriminate on race. Could the staff member help me reconcile these conflicting statements? After some hesitation and fumbling, he told me: “Well, some people need more help than others.”

Here's an interesting film review from an earth-science magazine: Ammonite: A Missed Opportunity. Mary Anning’s story is fascinating in its own right - so why make it up.

Vetoing a Black Woman Judge. Look who’s targeting one of Biden’s possible Court nominees. The left.

The Toxic Absurdity of “Diversity Statements” As academics, we’re fond of defending ourselves against charges of radical indoctrination by claiming that we teach students “how to think, not what to think.” If that’s true, then why do we now tell job applicants—potentially, those students’ future teachers—exactly what they’re required to think…or else?

PROGRESS: Nominees for a Science Award Were All White Men—Nobody Won.

Students demand revocation of assistant professors’ honorary degree for his Christian beliefs

Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor has proven himself, almost beyond a reasonable doubt, to be the single weakest leader in American higher education.

Biden’s New Energy Department Pick Is His Most Outrageous and Appalling Yet. Brinton also noted proudly that he would “even be (to my knowledge) the first gender fluid person in federal government leadership.” He is much more than that. He is, to the best of my knowledge, the first drag queen and the first person to discuss his affinity for sex with animals to hold an office of the public trust.

Peggy Noonan's report on Biden's speech about voting rights

The president’s Tuesday speech in Atlanta, on voting rights, was a disaster for him.

There's an online game that's taking the Internet by storm. It's really fun. Everything you need to know about Wordle.

Why are Caucasians Vanishing in TV Commercials?

Remember those death rays from science fiction? The Army is putting some in the field. Army readies to deliver first set of Strykers with 50-kilowatt laser weapons

Rand Paul: Does this mean snot-nosed censors at YouTube will come to my office and kiss my … and admit I was right?

There is no way to recover national political standing once a politician becomes a popular butt of humor, a punchline in a degrading joke. Kamala Harris is now officially a joke

Maybe the anti-vaxers are on to something. These are healthy young athletes. 461 Athlete Cardiac Arrests, Serious Issues, 269 Dead, After COVID Shot

Jackie Gleason’s Insurance in a Trunk. When the star hit it big, he prepared for a reversal of fortune.

School Closures Were a Catastrophic Error. Progressives Still Haven’t Reckoned With It. Sometimes you need to own up to an error, so it’s not repeated. school closings were not only a mistake, but an error of judgment that was sufficiently consequential and foreseeable that we can’t just shrug it off. 

'Walk Away' Activist Brandon Straka Can Finally Speak About Being Under the FBI's Thumb After Jan 6

The bridge that just collapsed in the city of Pittsburgh was set to be restored in 2016. Instead of replacing the completely rusted out supports, they diverted the money to bike lanes, green energy programs and lanes for self-driving cars.

Democrats Were Stealing Overseas and Military Ballots from Michigan, Georgia and Now Arizona Too 

The United Nations has announced that they have received “credible” information that the Taliban, despite saying that there would be a “general amnesty” for those Afghans who had worked with the United States, has killed up to 100 former members of the Afghan government, armed forces, and those who worked with American and other international troops

Democrats are looking to resurrect pieces of their Build Back Better plan, and a leading candidate is President Biden’s $200 billion universal pre-K entitlement. So it’s worth digesting new evidence that low-income children who attended a state pre-K program fared worse in sixth grade than similar children who didn’t.

Operation Warp Speed Slowly Gets Its Due. The program’s premature abandonment left the country unprepared for the Delta and Omicron Covid waves.

So Long Heroes

 So long, heroes: Mayo Clinic fires 700 workers over vaccination mandate. I’m so old that I can remember when first responders and health-care workers were the Heroes of the Pandemic. More here: MAYBE FIRING HEALTH WORKERS IN A PANDEMIC WAS A MISTAKE: Hospitals recruiting international nurses to fill pandemic shortages.

Climate Crazies Are Wrong, Polar Bears Aren’t Dying Out, Arctic Ice Is Stable

The malicious, historically illiterate 1619 Project keeps rolling on

It’s not too harsh a judgment to say that Joe Biden is a man who has risen to the top of American public life without a trace of accomplishment. When you’ve been in national politics for almost 50 years, you ought to have achieved something, if only by accident. But this journeyman politician, when he wasn’t getting almost all the big issues wrong, was largely a bystander. He is now a husk of a leader, a dangerously debilitated figure, who oscillates between displays of vacuous incoherence and weird, angry outbursts, like a confused old man at the wrong bus stop.

California to 'Fight Climate Change' With Rotting Banana Peels and Fines. Beginning January 1, 2022, under Senate Bill 1383 and the penalty of stiff fines in most cases, all Californians will be required to separate their excess food waste into bins to be collected by local recycling services.

Is Fluvoxamine the Covid Drug We’ve Been Waiting For? A 10-day treatment costs only $4 and appears to greatly reduce symptoms, hospitalization and death.

It's time to stop funding the UN. The U.N.’s Israel Libel Machine Expands. Turtle Bay creates a permanent commission to attack the Jewish State.

FLASHBACK: Will the New York Times apologize for lying about Officer Sicknick’s death?

Sen. Biden’s Shrinking Presidency. Thirty-six years in the upper chamber left its mark on the man now in the Oval Office.

Kind of an interesting story: Russia-Ukraine Conflict Lies in the Bones of an 11th-Century Prince.  Yaroslav the Wise’s legacy is contested by Ukraine and Russia; a search for his remains is under way

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Debate tournament banned White students from competing.

Want to waste hours (or maybe days), visit the British Museum of the World (best on a desktop).

Hundreds of drivers were stranded on I-95 in Virginia this week due to a snowstorm and an ensuing traffic jam. Liberals on social media used the opportunity to bash Glenn Youngkin, but there’s one little problem. Youngkin isn’t the governor yet. This was Ralph Northam’s problem. More here.

The Great Epstein Cover-up

WOMEN’S SPORTS UPDATE: Penn Transgender Swimmer Lia Thomas Beaten by Yale Transgender Swimmer Iszac Henig.  

In Hoc Anno Domini

 Fauci’s War on Science: The right way to deal with this pandemic, it said, was to focus on those who could face severe outcomes from disease – a very plain point and nothing new. There was nothing to be gained by locking down the whole of society because of a pathogen with such a huge differential in its demographic impact. An interesting debate between two scholars on either side. And now, even the Wall St. Journal is joining the discussion.

In Hoc Anno Domini. This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually in the Wall Street Journal since.

Systemic Bias Against Asians. To the San Francisco school board, some minorities are more equal than others. Funny, but that sounds an awful lot like what Asian-Americans are experiencing these days, especially in education. They work hard to get into good schools—only to run up against an increasingly systemic orthodoxy on equity, which holds that Asian-Americans are taking more than their fair share. It helps explain why at Harvard Asian-Americans have both the highest average SAT scores and the lowest admissions rate of any racial group.

Giant Study Finds Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's. Usage of the medication sildenafil – better known to most as the brand-name drug Viagra – is associated with dramatically reduced incidence of Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests.

Kamala Staffers Say She’s Is A Mean, Morale-Destroying Bully. Will The Last Person Quitting Their Job Working For The Vice President Please Shut The Lights

Is it a good idea to connect everything to the Internet? These poor kitties didn't get fed because of a computer problem at Amazon.

Something different. An interesting book review about the life of George Hearst.

A week into his presidency, Joe Biden issued a memorandum declaring “the Federal Government has a responsibility to prevent racism, xenophobia, and intolerance against everyone in America, including Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.” Now he has reversed course.

Are you worried about Omicron? Don't be. Nobody dies from it. One person in England died with Omicron, which is different than from. With hundreds of thousands of people with Omicron, somebody is likely to die for some other reason.

Meet Midas, the cat with four fully functional ears.

The Salvation Army has been one of the most respected and dependable charities. This year they went woke, and it's affected my attitude toward supporting them. I'm not the only one, their revenues are down.

More on the Salvation Army. Companies Need to Learn From the Salvation Army Suffering From Their Wokeness

An interesting photo of a rocket launch. Scroll down to see the reflection.

Masks don't seem to work. More than 150 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms

By Ditching the SAT, Harvard Hurts Minority Students. How do you help young people move forward without honestly assessing where they stand?

SOCIALISM AND FREE ENTERPRISE ON TRIAL. Comparing the success of South American countries under different economic systems. Click to watch the cool animation.

Kyle Rittenhouse Is Not Guilty

Kyle Rittenhouse Is Not Guilty.  The jury decides on the facts, but politicians continue to distort the truth.

Kyle Rittenhouse and the Left’s Terrifying Assault on Due Process. They want revolutionary justice. The legal system’s verdict will be supplanted by the people’s judgment.

Another self-defense case, Andrew Coffee found not guilty on 5 counts, including murder, attempted murder. Apparently, blacks can also be found innocent.

Virginia Cop Who Lost Job for Donating to Rittenhouse Defense Demands His Job Back.

As Joe Biden Turns 79, a Panic Over Kamala Harris. He’s unlikely to run in 2024, and his VP is deeply unpopular.

Hideouts, harbours and homes: how Vikings may have owed their success to their encampments

Just annother Friday night in San Francisco: Looters and vandals strike San Francisco’s Union Square.

Here's a list of things the media got wrong. Scroll down for Brit Hume's addendum.

The same week Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty, Andrew Coffee was found not guilty of murder and attempted murder. Coffee's acquittal got virtually no coverage in the media even though he is black, and the liberals are claiming that color makes a difference.

In 1966, an organic chemist named Fred Baur employed by Procter & Gamble filed for a patent for a tubular aluminum-coated can for stacked chips that would later contain the popular Pringles brand. Some of his ashes were buried in a Pringles can, to honor his request. The Packaging Mistakes Companies Make—and Why They Make Them

I Owe My Life to the A-Bomb. I was to be part of the invasion of Kyushu in November 1945. But Hirohito surrendered.

A new study on Historically Black Colleges and Universities finds that HBCUs are an under-appreciated vehicle for upward mobility for their overwhelmingly African-American students. It even suggests that blacks profit more from an HBCU than if they go to a normal university that used racial preferences to get them in.

Have you watched any of The Chosen? Crowdfunding has raised millions for the show, an ambitious series exploring characters from the New Testament. Fans have already chipped in enough for three seasons—and are driving ticket sales for a Christmas special coming to movie theaters.

In Virginia, the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) district has announced that it will return two pornographic books, including a graphic novel, to the shelves of its schools’ libraries, after an internal investigation determined that the materials qualified as “diverse reading materials.”

One of the most trusted charities has gone woke and embraced critical race theory. "Salvation Army Embraces Critical Race Theory: White People Must ‘Sincerely Apologize’ For Racism". And now, Goodwill Industries is getting woke too.

A California Attempt to Repair the Crumbling Pillar of U.S. Education. A proposed California ballot measure would make good schools a constitutional right.

This is just not right: Male Swimmer Dominates UPenn's Women's Swim Team

Squaring Up to Defend Mathematics. America’s top scientists warn about the political erosion of education standards.

The US MSM just keeps getting it wrong

Don't miss this article: When All The Media Narratives Collapse. In case after case, the US MSM just keeps getting it wrong.

More here on the media: Social Media Companies Suppressed Claims of Kyle Rittenhouse’s Innocence. Twitter, Facebook deemed defendant guilty immediately after Wisconsin shooting

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities MSM just keeps getting it wrong

College is expensive. One reason is that the number of administrative personnel is growing. There is now one administrator for every undergrad student at Yale

Old Dominion University criminal justice professor defends pedophilia. Allyn Walker, a professor at Old Dominion University, is publicly defending pedophilia. The academic says that “Minor-Attracted Persons” ought not to face stigma because “there is no morality or immorality attached to attraction to anyone.”

From Peggy Noonan: Democrats Need to Face Down the Woke. Identity politics has become dangerous to their cause. Even the socialists at Jacobin magazine see it.

Durham uncovers evidence of Moscow’s attempts to influence the Steele dossier. The Clinton campaign ultimately paid a Russian to gin up the core allegations against Mr. Trump. The means by which that money flowed are convoluted, though the indictment makes the connections. It notes the Clinton campaign paid its law firm, which paid the opposition-research firm Fusion GPS, which paid Christopher Steele, who “retained Danchenko as a contractor.” Whether or not Mrs. Clinton was aware of any of this, there is no question her campaign got a Russian assist.

Who Will Get Blamed for Wasted Infrastructure Spending? Buttigieg and Harris well positioned to evade accountability.

Atheist Hate Group Demands IRS Investigation Into Church Where Attendees Chanted 'Let's Go Brandon'. Dig into the article where it includes serious discussions of theology.

The Sacramento Bee, a reliable liberal newspaper, published a list of "hate groups" operating in California. Much of the list is bogus. The list was provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which used to do good work. The Washington Examiner has taken exception to the article.

This year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, which aim to bring a lighter note to conservation-minded wildlife photography.

Just as the Congressional Budget Office looks all set to present some very bad numbers about Joe Biden's porkulus social spending plan that Joe claims is "paid for," another Obama-era Democrat economist has bailed on the Biden plan, warning it's not "paid for" and will throw fat on the fire of inflation:

The Unhappy Customers of California. Another day, another government-imposed hassle in La La Land.

'It's an epidemic': Reports of catalytic converter thefts up 1,500% in Sacramento County

Terror in the Capitol tunnel. Disturbing reports of police brutality at the riots.

Go here for legal analysis of the Rittenhouse trial aside from the media who found him guilty on day one.

Voters give Democrats a woke-up call

Voters Give Democrats a Woke-Up Call. Will the party recognize its mistake in embracing extremism? Will the GOP prove worthy of its wins?

A woman sues GEICO for $ 1 million after having a sexually transmitted disease from a man while having a relationship in the car

Durham Unravels the Russia Case. His indictments reveal facts embarrassing to former special counsel Robert Mueller and the press.  More here on the ABC special about Christopher Steele. On Russiagate, Durham Indicts the Press Too. His latest arrives just in time to expose a pathetic ABC News ‘special’ report on Christopher Steele.

California Is the Supply Chain’s Weakest Link. Environmental and antibusiness regulations in the deep blue state are backing up port traffic.

An unusual item in the blog: How to Make a Ramos Gin Fizz, the World’s Most Difficult, Supremely Delicious Cocktail. A fascinating story even for people who don't drink.

The Mainstream Media Are Lying Liars Who Win Pulitzers For Their Lies As Long As Their Lies Help Democrats

USC Pushed a $115,000 Online Degree. Graduates Got Low Salaries, Huge Debts. The prestigious private university hired a for-profit firm to recruit students to its social-work master’s program; ‘You don’t feel like you’re part of an elite school’