DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Bill would prohibit Nebraska colleges from denying money to groups based on beliefs.
Archive for 2022
February 15, 2022
THEY’LL DO IT, TOO, IF THE BUREAUCRACY DOESN’T BRING THEM DOWN: SpaceX plans new private spaceflight missions, first private spacewalk.
Spoiler: It’s trying to.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Moon should be privatised to help wipe out poverty on Earth, economists say.
Here’s the actual paper.
VLADIMIR POUTINE: Justin Trudeau: Prettiest Fascist Ever?
YES, I’M READY: Get Ready for More: The Durham Probe Has ‘Accelerated.’
WELL, GOOD: Erectile dysfunction drugs may help cognitive decline.
Send some to the President, stat. Sorry, Jill.
MY SHAMELESS BLEGGING: As some of you may know, I was a photojournalist in the late 70’s to mid 80’s before becoming a media lawyer.
I recently discovered a trove of negatives that are a real time capsule of a violent and yet charming time and place, both long gone. I’m crowdfunding the cost of scanning more than 200 rolls of black and white film, and of course, printing a high quality photobook.
The link to the Indiegogo campaign is here.
The campaign page shows a few samples of what the book will be like. (Having trouble upload photos to Instapundit at the moment.)
BIDENFLATION: Wholesale prices jump 9.7% in January, further evidence of red-hot inflation. “The Labor Department said Tuesday that its producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level before it reaches consumers, surged 9.7% in January from the year-ago period, slightly below the 12-year high of 9.8% notched in November and December. But in an unexpected turn, prices rose 1% in January on a monthly basis – well above the revised gain of 0.4% in December.”
THE #RESISTANCE IS EVERYWHERE: A reader sends this from Ann Arbor:
ROGER KIMBALL: A plague of phony experts and elites.
The tweet links to an article in which we read that “freedom is a malleable term — one that’s open to interpretation.” Well, OK. But after a bit of throat-clearing we come to the nub of the argument. Freedom can mean this, it can mean that, experts say, but “It’s also a term that has thrived among far-right groups,” whose population, “a number of experts [say] is… growing in Canada.”
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One of the interesting developments over the last several years is the extent to which totalitarian ideas that, until quite recently, would have been expressed only in veiled, euphemistic form are now out in the open. If you don’t wear a mask, refuse to be vaccinated, express unpopular ideas, dissent from this week’s reigning narrative, you should be locked up and terrorized. And of course, it is not just totalitarian ideas that are out in the open, spreading their wings. It is also totalitarian behavior, as we see on city streets wherever people congregate, peacefully, to demand their rights and the police apparatus of the state, egged on by disgusting media megaphones like the CBC, are out there in force in their fancy black SWAT gear to put those peons in their place.
Read the whole thing.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Joe Biden Just Got Advice So Crazy You Won’t Believe It.
Plus:
- The Canadian flag is literally domestic terrorism
- The video flashback that tells you everything you need to know about Fidel Trudeau
- The Russian tail didn’t wag Biden’s dog — so now what?
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
WHO IS THIS WE, KEMOSABE? Clinton’s Crimes: Worse Than We Thought.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Seattle’s Soda Tax Goes Horribly Wrong. “A study, comparing Seattle to Portland, the latter of which shockingly didn’t sign on to this dumb idea, finds that Seattleites have responded by switching from sugary sodas to beer. With alacrity. And why not? Sure, beer and wine are taxed, but not to the extent of sugary drinks are at 28 cents per 16 ounces. Greedy bastards.”
STEP AWAY FROM MY RIBEYE: ‘Meat Supremacy’? Eating Meat Is Part of ‘White Supremacist Patriarchal Worldview.’
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: My parents fled communism decades ago. But at my elite D.C. university, the ideology is alive and well. “As a junior at Georgetown University, I have been cyberbullied by my peers in such a menacing way that I am now afraid to engage online, or even during class, with my left-leaning peers.”
Sounds like a hostile educational environment to me.
CAPTURED BY THE LEFT: ABA Approves Mandatory Bias Training Beginning In Fall 2022 By 95%–5% Vote.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Department of Education investigates alleged anti-Semitism in ‘class lectures and course materials’ at Brooklyn College.
NEWS ON 2020 ELECTION FRAUD: New evidence suggests Pennsylvania was even worse than already known, according to Margot Cleveland of The Federalist. She also has an important update on the Russiagate fraud.
CNN POLL: Majority of Dems reject Biden 2024.
ARE YOU BETTER OFF UNDER JOE? Issues & Insights surveys Joe Biden’s year in the Oval Office and then asks the famous Reagan question during his debate with President Jimmy Carter. The answer can’t be comforting to Democrats hoping to somehow keep control of Congress:
“The economy is growing more slowly than expected. Incomes are being eaten up by rising inflation. Optimism is below where it was during the height of the pandemic in 2020. The nation’s finances are in far worse shape, with the national debt up $1.8 trillion since Biden took office. We’re still nearly 3 million jobs shy of the previous peak. Oh, and COVID deaths under Biden now top 430,000 – more deaths than happened while Donald Trump was president.”
OH: NIH Spent a Shockingly Small Part of Its Budget on COVID Research in 2020.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Flashback: CDC, You Had One Job. But NIH spent significantly more on “social determinants of health” than on Covid.