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.

Failures up at school after merit-based admissions ended. The San Francisco School Board decided that the merit-based system of admissions for the gifted and talented student programs was “racist” (?) and they adopted a lottery system for admissions.

Here's a collection of incredible mountain adventure images from a photo contest.

It was a small trial, just 18 rectal cancer patients, every one of whom took the same drug. But the results were astonishing. The cancer vanished in every single patient, undetectable by physical exam, endoscopy, PET scans or M.R.I. scans.

Here's an odd story. A guy jumps into a lake in front of some policemen and starts swimming. He starts to drown and asks the police to jump in and save him. The policeman refuses to jump in after him. He drowns. What would you have done?

A book review in the Wall St. Journal: ‘The Apocryphal Gospels’ Review: Good News and Fake News. Reading the non-canonical accounts of Jesus gives us some idea of why Matthew, Mark, Luke and John get all the attention.

A wall of rock collapsed into Lake Power. See the video.

This is not to underplay the former president's very real contributions to the Republic, including most notably saving it from Hillary Clinton and her flying-monkey media squadrons and black ops practitioners. Trump was the only one who could beat her, and he was the only Republican candidate she could have lost to. And there's no question that the 2020 was "stolen" fair and square by the Democrats

Jan. 6 Committee Called Out for Altering Evidence and Lying About It

STEPHEN HUNTER: THE MASSACRE SPREE THAT NEVER WAS

Betsy DeVos’s Mission to Rescue Teachers Unions’ ‘Hostages’. That “system” is the subject of Mrs. DeVos’s new book, “Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child.”

The media bubble is real: Study shows massive disconnect between journalists, public.

How Mark Cuban's New Drug Company Sells Medications With Huge Discounts

Roe v. Wade was overturned. Here's what you need to know.

The Russian Military’s People Problem

 It’s Hard for Moscow to Win While Mistreating Its Soldiers

San Francisco paper complains that people want criminals put in jail

Seen on Facebook: If the left wrote The Emperor's New Clothes, the kid who correctly pointed out that the Emperor was naked would be the bad guy.
If they wrote The Grasshopper and the Ants, the ants would be the bad guys.
If they wrote The Three Little Pigs, the pig who worked hard and built the sturdy brick house would be the bad guy.
If they wrote The Little Red Hen, the hen would be the villain.
Added from a Twitter response : 
If the left wrote Chicken Little, Chicken Little would be lauded as a scientist.

Who knew scallops could swim? Accidental discovery that scallops love ‘disco’ lights leads to new fishing technique. Scientists hail breakthrough that could maximize catches while reducing damage caused by fishing. Watch the video.

President Joe Biden’s decision on whether to forgive student debt will be personal for many of his aides, who are among the millions of Americans carrying loans for college and graduate school. The documents show one legislative aide who reported owing between $500,000 and $1 million.

The Roe v. Wade ‘Aberration’ and America’s Civic Crisis. Judge Douglas Ginsburg was Reagan’s second choice after Robert Bork’s nomination failed. He says criticism of Justice Alito’s draft opinion reflects constitutional ignorance. If you read this, maybe you wondering if you could pass the test. Here's a practice test.

Once again, the FDA screws up. One Bad Choice and a Baby Formula Shortage. A blinkered view of the risks led to a blinkered decision that endangers thousands of families.

How to Sink a $3 Billion Dollar Submarine: Forgetting to Close a Hatch

New York City Removes Last Public Pay Phone in End of an Era. From roughly 8,000 to zero, the last pay phone will find its next home at the Museum of the City of New York

A Financier Tells Some Climate-Change Truths. And for doing so, Stuart Kirk was suspended by HSBC.

Hundreds of thousands of parents in the U.S. are scrambling to find formula. Yet the Food and Drug Administration has been enforcing an effective ban on formula from Europe, the world’s largest producer and exporter.

FBI leaders, including then-Director James Comey, were “fired up” about a potential connection between the Trump campaign and Russia — which ultimately was proven false, text messages and court testimony revealed Tuesday.

Putin Is Going to Lose His War. And the World Should Prepare for Instability in Russia

For Memorial Day. One Tough Dentist. A story of courage all Americans should know. Bonus story: Douglas MacArthur on Duty, Honor, Country

The Overlooked Reason Russia’s Invasion Is Floundering

The Overlooked Reason Russia’s Invasion Is Floundering. Russia has failed to understand the importance of airpower.

Even Bill Maher Is Telling the Left to Chillax on Abortion. While the radical left is treating us to the usual apocalyptic predictions about what will happen if Roe v. Wade is overturned, Bill Maher, the host of HBO’s Real Time, is telling them to calm down and relax because things aren’t nearly as bad as they’re making them out to be.

When Joe Biden announced Karine Jean-Pierre would soon replace Jen Psaki as his press secretary, he naturally assumed the media would collectively swoon over the fact that he had picked a Black Lesbian Woman™ for such a high-profile position. Which, of course, they did.

Camps Discovered in Russia House Thousands of Ukrainians Forcibly Removed from Home

A Christian children’s book publisher says that Facebook has disabled its ad account, severely limiting its ability to reach new customers.

You know how you tape a GPS to the dashboard of your car to find your way? Wrecked Russian fighter jets are being found with rudimentary GPS receivers "taped to the dashboards" in Ukraine because their inbuilt navigation systems are so bad, the UK defense minister said.

Three Friends Chatting: How the Steele Dossier Was Created. Report that rattled the political world often echoed talk among three acquaintances, including the main investigator and an old schoolmate

The Working-Class Alternative to the Westminster Dog Show. The Farm Dog of the Year contest features the kind of dog you want to have a beer with.

Can Michael Shellenberger Beat Gavin Newsom? The Democrat turned independent candidate for California governor thinks a little common sense can go a long way in the Golden State.

A handful of years ago, an internet phenomenon known as "36 Questions" suggested two people could find love by sharing the answers to this set of 36 questions with each other. This article features expert insights as to whether such an exercise is conducive to finding true love. The questions are here.

Apple Killed the iPod. Here’s Why It Should Live On. Streaming, schmeaming! As Apple phases out its last iPod, these die-hards cling to their old-school music players because…well, they have their reasons!

103 bits of wisdom I wish I had known when I was young.

The event was the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, in which the U.S., Great Britain and Russia offered security assurances to the nation that had won independence when the Soviet Union dissolved.

Maskaholics. Wearing a mask may still give some people a sense of security, but they could breathe more easily if they’d face the facts. And don't miss this article fact checking the fact checkers.