Big bureaucracy fumbled COVID

Big bureaucracy fumbled COVID and our faith in institutions. Americans will never again trust what our health agencies tell us

Turning Down the Climate-Change Heat

Did you ever think you’d hear people as nasty as Bill Maher and Trevor Noah praise Donald Trump, but that’s what’s happening? Faced with the grim reality that Joe Biden has a head full of pudding and commands no respect from any corner of a dangerous world, these two are finally missing the 45th president of the United States.

A Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times reporter has been caught in a video by the conservative group Project Veritas admitting his colleagues vastly exaggerated the danger of the election integrity protest on Jan. 6.

How Mollie Hemingway Time-Traveled to Stymie the New York Times and Save Our Timeline

On Saturday night an unnamed bidder purchased the ball from Tom Brady’s final touchdown pass for $518K, according to auction site Lelands. Not even 24 hours later it turned into an ordinary touchdown ball. It has to be one of the most hilarious, precipitous drops in the value of a piece of sporting memorabilia of all time.

Democrats haunted by calls to defund the police. Voters aren’t buying President Joe Biden’s claim that Democrats want to fund police around the nation, which could be an election-crushing problem that threatens the party’s hold on Congress.

Today it was revealed that Amazon is closing its downtown Seattle office, with 1,800 employees, because of out-of-control crime. Among other recent victims of downtown crime was an Amazon engineer who was assaulted with a baseball bat near the office in late January. To learn this story you had to go to the Daily Mail in London. As of this writing, the Seattle Times has nothing on the story at their home page or business page.

Russian forces are killing civilians and looting stores and homes across occupied parts of southern Ukraine. The last sentence has an important message for the anti-gun lobby: “Every time they see Ukrainians in a car, they demand to be given food and cigarettes, and then they let you through,” she said. “Our people can’t refuse because the Russian soldiers point guns at them. Our people have no guns.”

Putin’s War Tax Crushes Russian Investors. His invasion has been a disappointment on the battlefield and a disaster for bondholders.

A rapid Russian advance into the strategic southern town of 35,000 people, a gateway to a Ukrainian nuclear power station and pathway to attack Odessa from the back, would have showcased the Russian military’s abilities and severed Ukraine’s key communications lines. Instead, the two-day battle of Voznesensk, turned decisively against the Russians. Judging from the destroyed and abandoned armor, Ukrainian forces, which comprised local volunteers and the professional military, eliminated most of a Russian battalion tactical group on March 2 and 3.

There has been a vast and historic transformation in Europe, and especially in its largest nation, Germany, that will continue reverberating no matter what happens in Ukraine. Old policies have been cast aside as readily as last week's garbage.

The Javelin Is Wrecking Putin's Army. Here's How the Anti-Tank Weapon Works.

'Full of Sh**!': Border Patrol Agents Blast Biden over Immigration Claims

 Joe Biden is in denial: Americans have lost faith in his leadership. But he shows no desire to win them back. “This is what happens when you order a President through the mail.”

Biden White House on the Verge of Making Disastrous Move with Kamala Harris, the White House wants to send her to Poland? Biden can’t go on this trip because he can’t do it. He’s too old, slow, and stupid. He might fall down the stairs for all to see. He could have a diarrhea of the mouth incident in front of the foreign press there, which could lead to missiles being launched. He already struggles with the softball questions from the White House press corps here. 

Trudeau's inexplicable use of the Emergencies Act must not be forgotten

Is Peggy Noonan Missing Donald Trump Yet?

First it was Murder Hornets, now giant flying spiders are invading the East Coast

Top female scientist canceled over 13-year-old ‘Michael Jackson’ Halloween costume. Highly decorated virologist Julie Overbaugh has been forced out of a position of leadership at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and resigned her faculty affiliate position at the University of Washington School of Medicine due to accusations of racism and investigations involving her decision to wear a Michael Jackson costume to a Halloween party in 2009.

Social Media’s Front-Row Seat to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. Students discuss how seeing the violence and chaos caused by Putin’s aggression has changed their understanding of war.

Victor Davis Hanson lists Bidens efforts to make the US dependent on foreign oil. The Biden Administration stopped all gas and oil production in the ANWR region of Alaska. It ended all new federal leases for drilling. It is canceling major new pipelines. It is leveraging lending agencies not to finance oil and gas drilling.

Welcome Ukrainians. Whether or not Kamala Harris finds it amusing, she should seize the opportunity to find new Americans. Andy Grove was a refugee from a war zone.

Bear Hugs for a Basketball Coach. A former law partner and private equity executive takes a team to the NCAA tournament. A real-life Hoosiers.

Were you aware that the "Don't Say Gay" bill applied to grades K-3? Kids that age don't even know what sexuality is. The media certainly didn't tell you about the actual content when reporting how bad the law was.

The earmarks are back

The San Francisco school board election

 San Francisco Schools the Left. The landslide recall of three Board of Education members will have major national repercussions.

More here: the portent of things to come. The San Francisco earthquake.

KAMALA HARRIS EXPLAINS HOW SANCTIONS WILL DETER RUSSIA FROM AN INVASION THEY’VE ALREADY DECIDED ON: “Abso – we strongly believe – and remember also that the sanctions are a product not only of our perspective as the United States, but a shared perspective among our allies, and the allied relationship is such that we have agreed that the deterrence effect of these sanctions is still a meaningful one, especially because remember also, we still sincerely hope that there is a diplomatic path out of this moment. And within the context, then, of the fact that that window is still opening – open, although it is absolutely narrowing, but within the context of a diplomatic path still being open, the deterrence effect we believe has merit.”

Joe Rogan said he didn’t vote for Joe Biden in 2020 and that the former vice president is “basically a shell” cognitively and “can’t talk right anymore.” You guys don’t see that this guy can’t, he can’t talk right anymore?’ Go watch videos of him from twenty years ago. He was a dummy, he said a lot of silly shit, he lied about a bunch of things, but at least he was articulate.”

How Ukraine Was Betrayed in Budapest. Kyiv gave up its nuclear weapons in return for security assurances. So much for that. The most important was to “reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine.” They also pledged to “refrain from economic coercion” against Ukraine and to “seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine” in the event of an “act of aggression” against the country. Ukraine had returned all of the nuclear weapons to Russia by 1996.

Eighteen-year-old free ski champion Eileen Gu gave China its first women’s gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics on Tuesday, becoming the breakout star of the least-watched Games in TV history. Why did a top American athlete who claims to be socially conscious, who benefited tremendously from growing up in the United States, choose to play for a brutal totalitarian government with one of the worst human rights records on the planet?

Biden’s war on fossil fuels has strengthened Putin and weakened America. And a list of the many great things Trump did. President Donald Trump opened 100 million acres of public land and water, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to exploration. He withdrew from the Paris climate accord, approved the Keystone XL pipeline between the United States and Canada, and rolled back Obama-era regulations such as the Clean Power Plan that held back domestic exploration and production. Trump’s policy was “drill, baby drill.” The result? On his watch, the United States supplanted Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer.

Earthrise, the historic image remastered.

This commercial for the Mercedes electric car is amazing

Recent events have proven Biden wrong about yet another thing: Biden mocked gun-rights advocates who say they need assault weapons to fight the government: 'You need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons'

Slow Joe digs in against opening up US energy production to checkmate Russia.

This story needs to be told again and again. The New York Times Hasn’t Always Cared About Ukrainians. The Times is pushing this Russia-love narrative both to salvage some political gain from Biden’s catastrophic foreign policy and to cover for its own historic indifference to the Ukrainian people.

Who Is Responsible for the Death of Matthew Perna? For the first time in over a year, Joe Biden’s Justice Department has nothing to say about a January 6 defendant.

New York state officials found the effectiveness of Pfizer's vaccine against Covid infection plummeted from 68% to 12% for children aged 5 to 11 during the omicron surge.

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.