Archive for 2022
March 31, 2022
OLDTIME BLOGGER SHANNON LOVE’S DAUGHTER, Ripleigh Degenhardt, writes with a request:
I am working on a project, and my mother suggested I reach out to you for help. I’m collecting stories from across the U.S. related to COVID hospital stays and deaths. Unsurprisingly, I have reached a roadblock on prominent social media platforms. Would you be willing to ask your readers if they have a story they would like to share? My father’s experience was quite awful, and I think this deserves to be told. Thank you again. I appreciate you taking the time to remember him.
If you have a story to share, you can email her at .
LIVE WEBCAST: Blue Origin launch, schduled for 9:10 am. “The mission is known as NS-20, because it will be the 20th spaceflight of a New Shepard vehicle. But it will be just the fourth human spaceflight by Blue Origin, following three crewed New Shepard flights in 2021.”
CRISIS BY DESIGN: DHS preparing for unprecedented Title 42 border rush of up to 18,000 migrants per day.
In other words, our border resources are stretched with the number of daily encounters near the peaks we saw last summer, but a CDC announcement that Title 42 is ending could send 2 1/2 times as many migrants to the border in any given day. The border patrol doesn’t have the manpower, transportation capability or holding facilities to deal with all those people.
Of course there are all sorts of caveats here. For one, DHS is saying this is just a worst case scenario not a prediction. Also, there are probably tens of thousands of people waiting on the other side of the border who would try to cross if Title 42 were to end but there may not be enough to sustain levels as high as 18,000 per day (540,000 per month!) for very long. At that rate, maybe the surge would only last a couple weeks before the backlog dies down.
On the other hand, what we’ve seen in the past several years, since at least the Obama administration, is that anytime word goes out that crossing the border has become easier, there is a fresh surge of migrants.
Incentives matter.
DID YOU GET A TEXT FROM YOURSELF PROMISING A ‘GIFT?’ DON’T CLICK ON IT, VERIZON WARNS: “The main reaction on Twitter is confusion and ‘how?!’ Again, this is all spoofing and technological impersonation. It’s trivially easy for spammers to camouflage as any number they choose. My Verizon account is secure, and my number hasn’t been hijacked. If you’ve gotten the same message, there’s no cause for panic. I’d advise against clicking the link included with the message, though I did exactly that for investigative purposes. The link I received forwarded me to the website of Channel One Russia, a state TV network. Others have reported similar results and say they’re redirected to Russian websites when they click the link. I’ve asked Verizon for comment, as many companies are currently on high alert for cyber attacks amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
YES, WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S A LIE: People Are Getting Tired of One-Way Tolerance. “People feel betrayed. They really expected tolerance to go both ways. Normal folks extended tolerance to all manner of different people and it never occurred to them that they would experience bigotry in return.”
HATRED OF THE OPPOSITION IS AN OLD DEMOCRATIC TRAIT: Memo reveals how much FDR ‘hated’ foe Thomas Dewey.
SO MANY RACISTS IN THE BLUE ZONES: Pressure Mounts on Sheldon Whitehouse To Resign in Shame Over Ties to Racist Beach Club.
ALEX EPSTEIN: The Washington Post’s plan to “cancel” Fossil Future—and me.
Tomorrow The Washington Post plans to “cancel” me and my new book Fossil Future by publishing a 100% slanderous hit-piece labeling me as “racist.” Please join me in calling for the Post to spike the piece, fire the “journalist,” and publicly apologize. Video
- The @washingtonpost‘s smear campaign against me has 4 main steps:
1. Refuse to engage my arguments.
2. Hunt down things I wrote at 18 that seem controversial.
3. Falsely portray those *individualist* writings as “racist.”
4. Use “racism” to discredit my work.Despicable.
Read the whole thing.
JILL FILIPOVIC: The true cost of Biden’s budget: a red wave in November.
Typically, Democrats-with-bylines like Filipovic wait until after the lost election to blame Democrat politicians for not having gone far enough to the Left.
Read into that what you will.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Joe Biden Smeared Kyle Rittenhouse As a White Supremacist But Is Now Hiding from Him.
KAROL MARKOWICZ: I’m quitting Disney after seeing it boast about pushing ‘gender theory.’ “There’s nothing controversial about limiting instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for small children. Now it’s clear that Disney’s commitment to exposing children to inappropriate indoctrination on transgenderism goes far deeper than its opposition to the Florida law. . . . And why should Disney be in the business of sexualizing kids in any direction?”
I’M GLAD TO SEE LEFTY ACADEMICS FINALLY STANDING UP ON THIS: Chemerinsky & Gillman: Free Speech Doesn’t Mean Hecklers Get To Shut Down Campus Debate. “It is profoundly disturbing that some students [at UC-Hastings and Yale law schools] assert a right to determine what messages are acceptable on a campus and try to deprive others within the community of their right to invite or listen to speakers of their choice. . . . It is especially problematic when the students attempting to silence other viewpoints are lawyers in training. How are legal professionals to argue cases if they are unwilling to hear from, and learn to respond to, the opposing side of current debates?”
At this point, I think you’d have to think twice before hiring Yale Law or Hastings graduates.
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Athena Thorne: Tragic Kingdom: Disney Enters End Stage of Terminal Wokeness Infection. “To my many family and friends who loved the Disney company, I am so sorry for your loss. But your friend is already dead.”
Robert Spencer: Trump Reveals His Plan to Reverse the Damage of the Biden Years. “Trump did not, however, simply assess our current predicament; he also offered hope for the future.”
Yours Truly: PAIN: Inflation Will Cost You $5,200 This Year. “A $5,200 “inflation tax” means the average U.S. household is going to be 10% poorer this year. Essentially, the average American household will have its 2022 tax burden increased by a painful 33%.”
Bonus: Florida Man Friday: Trapped in Port-a-Potty, Caught With More Than His Pants Down.
HAVE WOMEN BEEN POSITIONED FOR SUCCESS? Positioned for Success.
WHO CAN SAY WHAT A WOMAN IS, REALLY? Celebrating Women?
IF WE’RE GOING TO NAME EVERYTHING THEY HAVE NO CLUE OF, THIS WILL BE A VERY LONG POST: The People Promising Us “Net Zero” Have No Clue About the Energy Storage Problem.
THEY’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT, AND THEY’RE HERE TO DESTROY AMERICA: How CDC Colluded With Teachers’ Unions to Devastate America’s Children.
YEAH. AND THAT’S THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG: A Peer-Reviewed Statistical Analysis of the 2020 Election.
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: Climate Past Far From Settled: 7 Major Temperature Reconstructions Find No Agreement.