COLLABORATION: Joe Manchin Slams Ford For Partnering With Chinese Company To Build Batteries: I’m ‘Totally Opposed.’

ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS: Kaepernick Rips ‘Racist’ Family But Stays Silent on Nike’s Use of Slavery and Child Labor.

“EMPOWERED WOMEN” DOESN’T MEAN “UNACCOUNTABLE WOMEN:” Years after a false rape accusation, a defamation settlement.

YOU CAN’T “FOLLOW THE SCIENCE” IF IT’S NOT SCIENCE, AND IF IT’S NOT REPLICABLE IT’S NOT SCIENCE: Social science is irreproducible, drug tests nonreplicable, and stoves studies ignore confounders.

FROM STEPHANIE OSBORN:   Get Off My Lawn.

A backwoods mountain man, Ivan only wants to feed and protect his family to the best of his ability. But he is shocked when strange, hostile alien creatures crash-land on his property high in the Ural Mountains, even attacking him and his family. What should he do to keep his family safe? What can he do?

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LOOT PENSION FUNDS:   Woman charged with stealing $246K in pension payments to dead LI police detective dad, buying Benz, 7-bedroom house.

Toxic femininity.

NOT NEWS FOR THOSE WHO EXPERIENCED CHILDHOOD RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS:   Childhood lower respiratory infections could be linked to earlier adult deaths.

THE MAN WHO EMBODIED TEVYE IS GONE:  RIP Chaim Topol (1935-2023).

HE’S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT:  The media sin of reporting and debating from false premises.

IF YOU AT ALL CAN, GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL:  Arizona School Board Nixes Christian Student Teachers.

IN HIS BASEMENT:  DOCTOR Jill Talks Cancer in New Orleans. Where’s Joe?

Or as we said in Portugal, under dictatorship “He’s already in the freezer.”

#JUSTICEFORJAKE:  Chansley Gains Support From Musk And Turley.

And the rest of the January 6 patriots.

GOOD FOR THEM:  Many Students Who Finished High School During the Pandemic Are Skipping College.

AND THEN THE MAP GOES ALL ANGRY AND FULL OF ARROWS:  India, Australia Boost Defense Ties With Eye on China’s Military Buildup.

CHANCES OF ITS PASSING ARE PROBABLY ZERO:  Sen. Tom Cotton Introduces Bill to Stop Teaching CRT in the Military.

SURE. LET’S DE-NORMALIZE IT:  Stanford Law Student Shout-Down Reflects Normalization Of Intimidation Of Conservative Judges.

IN OTHER BREAKING NEWS, THE SUN SETS IN THE WEST, FIRE CAN BE DISTINGUISHED FROM WATER BY BEING HOT RATHER THAN WET, AND BEARS POOP IN THE WOODS:  China reportedly stole US military technology for its J-20 fighter jet.

Opinion is still divided on whether the Pope is Catholic, though.

WHAT STRANGE BIZARRE HELL-DIMENSION HAVE WE ENTERED WHERE JOAN COLLINS MAKES SENSE?  Joan Collins: Women’s freedoms being ‘eroded’ by political correctness.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

A MOON-SHATTERING KABOOM: Boom! Japanese astronomer catches meteorite smashing into the moon (video).

“WOKE” IS JUST A SHORT WAY OF SAYING STUPID, CRAZY, AND VICIOUS: LA Times Writer Slammed for Racist Claims that White Drivers are ‘Polluting the Air’ of ‘People of Color’: Article is a perfect amalgam of racism and pseudoscience.

THAT’S GREAT, UNLESS YOU’RE ANXIOUS ABOUT BLOOD TESTS: Scientists Have Developed a Blood Test For Anxiety.

RFK JR ON REGULATORY CAPTURE: Never thought I’d be writing this, but in a lengthy Epoch TV interview with Jan Jekeilek, Robert Kennedy Jr. lays out in stunning detail the depth and profoundly harmful consequences of regulatory capture in public health. Kennedy is best known for his contrarian stance on vaccinations, but this interview makes clear there is much, much more to this guy.

AS THEY SHOULD: Stanford President and Stanford Law School Dean Apologize to Judge Kyle Duncan.

Judge Duncan responds:

I hope a similar apology is tendered to the persons in the Stanford law school community most harmed by the mob action: the members of the Federalist Society who graciously invited me to campus. Such an apology would also be a useful step towards restoring the law school’s broader commitment to the many, many students at Stanford who, while not members of the Federalist Society, nonetheless welcome robust debate on campus.

Finally, the apology promises to take steps to make sure this kind of disruption does not occur again. Given the disturbing nature of what happened, clearly concrete and comprehensive steps are necessary. I look forward to learning what measures Stanford plans to take to restore a culture of intellectual freedom.

In other words, fire Associate Dean Tirien Steinbach. And punish the disruptive students.

I PRESCRIBE MORE AUTONOMY AND LESS BUREAUCRATIC BUSYWORK: AMA, Surgeon General Propose Ways to Prevent Doctor Burnout.