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Archive for 2023
November 8, 2023
THIS IS FINE AND ALSO NEVER HAPPENS: Pennsylvania Voting Machines Changing Votes Sparks Outrage.
ARAB ISRAELIS BACK ISRAEL AGAINST HAMAS: You won’t read this in the New York Times or the Washington Post, which is why Right media organizations like the Washington Free Beacon exist. Andrew Tobin has the story on the 2 million Arab citizens of Israel and their support of the war against Hamas.
MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: San Francisco’s Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape Is on Full Display in This Viral TikTok Video. “Police lights flashing, litter in the streets, and homeless encampments in doorways with sketchy individuals loitering everywhere are on full display in the video. The scene is something one would expect to see in a warzone like Gaza, not in a bastion of liberal America in the heart of one of the wealthiest regions of California.”
BECAUSE BEEF IS DELICIOUS AND HEALTHY AND NO ONE WANTS TO EAT YOUR F***ING BUGS: Why cutting back on cow consumption is so hard. Eating less beef, cheese, and ice cream would slash emissions. If only it were that easy.
GALILEO’S REPLACEMENT SPEAKER: What cancel culture does to trust and expertise.
Imagine an anachronistically modern university in 1633 Italy. Your school is hosting a debate about whether the Earth goes around the Sun or vice versa. Galileo is supposed to speak on a panel defending heliocentrism, but a different scholar enters the room instead…
THE GEORGE SOROS PARTNER WHO DISRUPTED RIGHT-WING PUBLISHING: All Seasons Press, founded by billionaire investor Scott Bessent, has a funny habit of signing big-name MAGA authors to book contracts, then suing them.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP [VIP]: Amateur Pr0n Star Goes Down in Virginia Election.“Onetime amateur pr0n star and first-time Democrat candidate Susanna Gibson underperformed for once last night, losing her swing district to Republican David Owen in an otherwise strong night for Democrats. That’s the lead crazy on today’s Insanity Wrap, an entire week’s worth of the best bad news.”
Plus:
- Come see the oppression inherent in the Ivy League.
- Hamas supporters deface Middle East history book sold on Amazon.
- TikTok goes to the make-believe dogs.
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
WOULD EXIT EXAMS FIX COLLEGE RANKINGS? It probably can’t hurt, but how do you get people from fancy colleges to take them?
SOME OF THEM MAY EVEN RUN: Russia Still Has Three Years of Tanks in Storage Based on Satellite Imagery.
WHAT OTHER CHOICE DOES ISRAEL HAVE? Netanyahu Says Israel Will Control Gaza Security Indefinitely. “Senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel will likely keep military control of Gaza, and it has no intention of creating an interim government to run civilian life. The plan, which was suggested for the first time since the start of the Oct. 7 war, raised concerns from the Biden administration.”
It’s a safe bet what they think of those “concerns” in Jerusalem.
MEGAN FOX: YouTube Sent Me to Reeducation Camp and I Didn’t Even Get a Lousy TeeShirt.
I did a bad, bad thing. What that bad thing is, I have no idea though. But I was informed by YouTube that a video I made almost three years ago contained double-plus-ungood content and that content was so threatening to the approved narrative that it had to be removed from the platform without ceremony.
It was removed so efficiently that I wasn’t allowed to see what the offensive content was. I was allowed to appeal the decision but without knowing what the content was, the appeal was useless. All they would tell me is that it was “medical misinformation.”
That’s code for “You said you don’t like vaccines” or something. The strange part was it was a family court video.
Read the whole thing.
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THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT HOW I’D HOPED: CDC sounds alarm on newborn syphilis ‘epidemic.’
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Yet another CEO goes AWOL in China. “Chen’s unexplained absence comes as China continues an anti-corruption crackdown that has ensnared top executives, particularly in the finance and tech sectors.”
Since the beginning of his tenure, Comrade Xi has used “anti-corruption” as a cover for taking out rivals and potential rivals.
A SMALL-TOWN KIND OF GUY: House Speaker Mike Johnson is from Benton, a small suburban town in Northern Louisiana, and now the most well-known member of the Cypress Baptist Church congregation. Darlene McCormick Sanchez of The Epoch Times went to Benton, talked to locals, and superbly captured the “feel” of Johnson’s roots.
RAYMOND IBRAHIM: How a Few Billionaires Manipulated the World. “From a macro-historic perspective, the West is slowly regressing, and the ultra-rich are becoming ‘the globalist version of feudal lords, as the new Western slave class emerges beneath them.'”
WHY, INDEED? Why does the ‘party of abortion’ keep winning?
Pro-life Republicans will lick their wounds, blame each other, and point to uniquely unhelpful factors in each race. But the pattern is now so obvious as to be irrefutable. Since Dobbs, in elections where abortion is on the ballot, the party of abortion keeps winning.
The pro-abortion electoral tide could be stemmed in next year’s presidential elections, when turn-out will be much higher and the highly mobilized “reproductive choice” lobby will have less sway. But for the Democrats, who are losing on the economy, on immigration and so much else, the tactic is clear. We can expect the party of abortion to add ballot “reproductive rights” measures in every state in November next year to drive up their support. And Joe Biden, a practicing Catholic whose Church teaches that abortion is an excommunicable sin, will make it a major campaign issue — assuming his re-election campaign isn’t itself terminated in the coming months.
Donald Trump saw this coming.
WELL, SO HAS ACADEME: “Judges Have Long Deferred to Academe. That’s Changing.” “Activist politicization is not the entire problem. In other recent high-profile decisions, courts have demonstrated that they do not understand the purposes of academic freedom or the norms of academic governance. All these developments threaten the relative latitude courts have long granted colleges and universities to manage their own affairs.”