TERRORISTS ARE THOSE WHO HOLD GUNS TO THE TAXPAYERS HEADS FOR NON-CONSTITUTIONAL PURPOSES: Dem Rep. Rosa DeLauro Calls Republicans ‘Terrorists’ for Targeting LGBT Related Spending in Bill.
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July 20, 2023
IT’S NOT GOING TO WORK. IT HASN’T WORKED FOR A WHILE NOW. BUT THEY DON’T GET IT: Woke Mob Targets Country Singer Jason Aldean Over ‘Try That in a Small Town’ Song.
WEIRDLY NOT WHAT YOU’VE BEEN SOLD: What the IPCC Actually Says About Extreme Weather.
July 19, 2023
YOU CAN’T DRINK HARD ALCOHOL TILL 21. WHY ALLOW ANYONE TO MAKE IRREVERSIBLE AND HEALTH-DAMAGING CHANGES TO THEMSELVES BEFORE THEN? Activists Continue to Challenge Sex Transition Bans for Minors as Tide Turns Against Them.
SCIENCE: Accidental release of data reveals how many people actually died of COVID in China. “Official data from China offered a rare, but brief, glimpse of the true toll of Covid, indicating that nearly as many people may have died from the virus in a single province earlier this year as Beijing has said died in the mainland during the entire pandemic. The data was deleted from a provincial government website just days after it was published on Thursday. But epidemiologists who reviewed a cached version of the information said it was the latest indication that the country’s official tally is a vast undercount.”
There were a lot of Covid lies.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne announces his resignation after flaws were found in his research.
OPEN THREAD: Why? Because I like you.
RASKIN PULLS A COMEY ON BIDEN PROBE: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, suggested during today’s hearing with two IRS whistleblowers that what they described as improper limits on the Hunter Biden investigation was actually just an illustration of “prosecutorial discretion.” That may remind some of a former FBI Director’s protecting a former Secretary of State.
HOW IT STARTED: Next mayor wants NYC to be even more of a ‘sanctuary’ for illegal immigrants.
Every single one of the eight Democrats running for mayor vowed to protect illegal immigrants from deportation, solidifying the Big Apple’s often infamous status as a “sanctuary city.”
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Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the son of legal Taiwanese immigrants, said, “I appreciate anyone who comes to this country or New York City for a better life.”
And Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said migrants were his neighbors growing up in Queens.
“My mother worked two jobs to provide for the six of us and we had a group of undocumented residents that lived in our community,” Adams said.
The other candidates — city comptroller Scott Stringer, former Obama housing secretary Shaun Donovan and nonprofit leader Dianne Morales — also voiced their support for the Big Apple as a sanctuary city.
—The New York Post, June 2nd, 2021.
How it’s going: New York to distribute flyers telling migrants at U.S.-Mexico border to ‘consider another city.’
New York City will distribute flyers at the U.S.-Mexico border telling newly arrived migrants to “consider another city” and limit shelter stays for adult asylum seekers to 60 days as the city’s Democratic mayor says it is straining to house them.
In an announcement on Wednesday, the office of Mayor Eric Adams said the flyers would seek to “combat misinformation at the border” and that the city would help migrants find other housing and “take the next step in their journey.”
New York City says that it has provided services to 90,000 migrants since last spring and that nearly 55,000 remain in its care. Thousands of those migrants arrived on buses sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican who has tried to shift the burden of receiving them to Democratic strongholds.
New York is bound by a decades-old consent decree in a class-action lawsuit to provide shelter for those without homes. As more migrants have arrived, Adams has tried a range of approaches to housing them, from tents to relocating them to other parts of the state.
—Reuters, today.
Mayor Adams' office is actively discouraging asylum-seekers from coming to New York City – releasing these flyers today. pic.twitter.com/xegNfGeacf
— Jeff Coltin (@JCColtin) July 19, 2023
This isn’t who we are. Adams clearly needs to reread the words on the Statue of Liberty — and his own promise that New York is a sanctuary city.
Earlier: Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive.
The surest sign that public policies are simply virtue signals is when the messages don’t cost anything. The easiest way to tell when that signal starts to fail is to watch politicians flounder as the costs start to rise and voters demand relief.
It was free—and meaningless—for progressive churches to post banners calling themselves “nuclear free zones” during the Reagan era. Their dwindling congregations loved it. It was free, after George Floyd‘s murder, to post woke catechism signs on your front lawn, proclaiming “In this house, we believe: Black Lives Matter, women’s rights are human rights, no human is illegal” and so on. Maybe the neighbors gave you high-fives. And for years it has been free for deep-blue cities to proclaim themselves “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants. That’s changing now that voters want some sanctuary for themselves.
Changes like this happen when voters realize the old virtue signals actually entail serious costs—and that they will have to pay them. That is exactly what’s happening in New York City and Washington D.C. now that Texas governor Greg Abbott is sending those cities a few busloads of illegal immigrants from his state.
These progressive bastions were silent when the Biden administration flew planeloads of illegal immigrants to suburban airports in the middle of the night. TV coverage was prohibited, and the arrivals were secretly dispersed. Abbott’s buses, by contrast, arrive downtown greeted by local TV crews. Now you can hear the politicians screech.
Saul Alinsky smiles.
FOX EXECS ARE ‘PANICKED’ OVER THE POST-TUCKER PRIMETIME LINEUP RATINGS:
With grand fanfare, Fox News rolled out its first night of the post-Tucker Carlson permanent primetime lineup Monday night. The ratings were released Tuesday, showing a freefall in viewership. Even Sean Hannity lost the ratings battle to MSNBC. Let’s just say that at this point, the guys in the executive suites might need some smelling salts.
As Robert Conquest’s Third Law of Politics states, “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Venezuela signs up to China’s moon base initiative.
LAS VEGAS POLICE SEARCH HOME IN CONNECTION WITH TUPAC SHAKUR MURDER:
Las Vegas Metro police searched a home Monday as part of the ongoing investigation into the death of Tupac Shakur, police confirmed to the 8 News Now Investigators.
Shakur, 25, was shot and killed one block off the Las Vegas Strip in September 1996. His murder remains unsolved.
The warrant, approved by a judge, reportedly involved Duane Davis, 60, who is also known as “Keffe D,” sources said.
Detectives served the search warrant at a home in Henderson near Interstate 11 and Wagon Wheel Drive on Monday, sources told the 8 News Now Investigators. It was unclear how Davis was connected to the address.
Flashback:
When Bing died, most Americans knew he was the guy who sang “White Christmas”. Elvis? “Heartbreak Hotel”. Lennon? “Imagine”. But 2Pac is a model of contemporary shortcut celebrity: he became a household name without ever having had a household song. First, he was famous for sexual assault; next, he was famous for being shot; now, he’s famous for being dead. His latest album, the prophetically titled All Eyez On Me shot (as we say) from 69 on the Billboard album chart to 18. Twenty years ago in Britain, a guy called Pete Wingfield had a hit single called “Eighteen With a Bullet” — a reference to Billboard’s practice of highlighting fast-selling records with the aforementioned ammunition. Poor old Tupac is the first guy on the Hit Parade to be literally 18 with a bullet.
—Mark Steyn from Mark Steyn’s Passing Parade: Obituaries & Appreciations expanded edition, 2014.
UPDATE: America’s Newspaper of Record has finally cracked the case: Trump Indicted For Murder Of Tupac.
IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ UNMASKS, TELLS CONGRESS POLITICOS RAN BIDEN TAX PROBE: The evidence keeps growing of how Biden political allies at the Department of Justice kept IRS investigators away from Hunter and the Big Guy.
A BLOW AGAINST RACISM AND BIGOTRY: District Court Strikes Down Race Preference in USDA’s and SBA’s Contracting Schemes.
SCIENCE: Does Exercise Actually Help You Lose Weight? Here’s What The Evidence Says.
Your metabolism responds to regular exercise by decreasing the number of calories you burn when you’re not exercising. That’s according to the constrained total energy expenditure hypothesis that spurred the current debate.
Researchers recently tested the hypothesis by measuring the nonexercise calorie burn of 29 obese adults over a nearly 24-hour period, both before and after a six-month exercise program.
They found that the calories they burned when they weren’t working out did decrease after months of regular exercise – but only in those who were prescribed the higher of two different exercise doses.
Moderation is key.
MARK JUDGE: The Hollywood strike is a golden opportunity for conservative filmmakers. “The Sound of Freedom , the anti-human trafficking film, was made for $14 million and is approaching the $100 million mark in revenue. Meanwhile, Hollywood blockbusters such as Indiana Jones are collapsing. America is tired of superheroes and preaching leftists. They want some good pro-America content. Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick, for example, was a smash.”
TYLER O’NEIL: Here’s the Real Reason Obama Went Out of His Way to Defend Librarians in a ‘Banned Books’ Letter. “Obama’s letter emphasized a core American value; namely, the idea that the solution to bad speech is more speech, not censorship. Yet, as with so much of Obama’s soaring rhetoric, the real message appears between the lines. Behind the effusive praise for librarians—who help “us understand each other and embrace our shared humanity”—Obama’s letter rebukes the concerned parents who dare to question why school librarians defend sexually explicit books.”
Maybe Obama is losing his touch. He’s usually much more surreptitious about pushing his subversive agenda.
GENERAL BUCK TURGIDSON TAKES NOTE: Toothpaste with hydroxyapatite rivals fluoride in study. “New research shows that toothpaste containing hydroxyapatite, one of the main mineral components in teeth, can prevent cavities as effectively as fluoride, which has been used in toothpaste since 1956.”
MORE GENIUS FROM GM: 2024 Chevrolet Traverse First Look Review: It Has Red Tow Hooks! Who could resist that?
IT’S WHAT HE DOES: Well, Biden Screwed Us Forever On Another Damn Thing. “Most days I manage to laugh or at least just shrug at the short-sighted, destructive, vindictive, petty, and ham-fisted preening morons in the Biden White House, but today they have me seething.”