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Archive for 2023
August 24, 2023
THE SOVIETS LOST THE COLD WAR BUT COMMUNISM IS MAKING A BIG COMEBACK: Australia’s Misinfo Bill Paves Way for Soviet-Style Censorship. “Controversially, the government will be exempt from the proposed laws, as will professional news outlets, meaning that ACMA will not compel platforms to police misinformation and disinformation disseminated by official government or news sources.”
Those organizations are already on board with Canberra’s daily pravda.
LINCOLN BROWN: Giuliani’s Warning. “Giuliani was partly expressing his hope that when and if conservatives regain power, they will not engage in the tactics of their predecessors in the name of justice. But moreover, he was issuing a warning to you and me. One way or another, they will come for you.”
HMM: NYC will spend billions to cut class sizes: Who’ll get the good teachers? “This is what happened when California spent billions to reduce class sizes in 1996. In affluent communities, students learned more. In low-income communities, the decline in teacher quality erased the benefits.”
COFFEE: IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? “Genetically predicted higher plasma caffeine concentrations were associated with lower BMI and whole body fat mass. . . . Furthermore, genetically predicted higher plasma caffeine concentrations were associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes. Approximately half of the effect of caffeine on type 2 diabetes liability was estimated to be mediated through BMI reduction.”
HUGE? YES. BUT AS HUGE AS X/TWITTER CLAIMS? NO. Did Trump’s Interview With Tucker Carlson Really Get Huge Numbers? “The number of views attributed to a video includes those who watch the entire video, just a portion of it, or even scroll past it on their feed without even looking at it. Multiple views by the same user are also counted as unique views. You don’t have to take my word for it, either. That’s information coming straight from X.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Lower-middle class Americans near retirement are worse off than 20 years ago, new study shows.
UNEXPECTEDLY! MSNBC: Woke is the new n-word.
But of course. MSNBC is gonna MSNBC during an election cycle. Flashback to 2012: Words like “golf” and “Chicago” are racist dog whistles from the GOP.
NEWS YOU CAN USE? So Now We Need the CDC to Tell Us Not to Make Out with Turtles.
THIS IS (MOSTLY) A GOOD THING: Bolstered by the pandemic, telemedicine takes hold in U.S.
ANDREW MCCARTHY: The Fani Willis case is the J6 Commission of indictments. “Willis is an elected Democrat who seeks reelection next year, and her indictment is the progressive fever dream: the Trump-orchestrated insurrection with all the villains the Left loves to hate — Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeff Clark, et al. But because Willis, like Smith, lacks proof of violence and hence proof of an actual insurrection, she is left groping for a unifying crime that would tie them all to the same conspiracy.”
Related: Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime.
Also: George Will: Prosecutors And Our ‘Ham Sandwich Nation.’
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Massachusetts judge: Second Amendment rights cross state lines.
CHANGE: To Tackle Highest Housing Costs in the Country, Hawaii’s Governor Declares YIMBY Martial Law.
Weeks before the fires, Democratic Gov. Josh Green had already proclaimed a statewide housing emergency with the purpose of slashing through all that regulation to get thousands of new homes built.
“We don’t have enough houses for our people. It’s really that simple,” said the governor at a press conference last month, where he promised “bold action to streamline processes for creating thousands of affordable housing units.”
Green is in fact taking bold action by suspending whole sections of state and local laws and regulations that relate to homebuilding.
Local governments are given far more flexibility to expedite housing approvals, while developers will have the chance to route around basically all existing regulations on home building to get housing projects approved.
It’s a radically deregulatory approach that’s received praise from across the political spectrum.
As it should.
BOMBER PILOTS HAPPILY RETURN HOME AFTER BLOCKBUSTER RAID OF ENEMY TARGET: The hangover! San Fran ad agency behind disastrous Dylan Mulvaney-Bud Light tie-up returns from boozy Cannes trip and CUTS 5% of staff after ‘performance reviews.’
Unfortunately, the squadron commander was placed on indefinite leave of absence: Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Light Marketing Vice President, on a ‘leave of absence’ following Dylan Mulvaney controversy.
Exit quote:
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ONLY THOSE WHO DISOBEYED, SURVIVED: “As flames tore through a West Maui neighborhood, car after car of fleeing residents headed for the only paved road out of town in a desperate race for safety. And car after car was turned back toward the rapidly spreading wildfire by a barricade blocking access to Highway 30. One family swerved around the barricade and was safe in a nearby town 48 minutes later, another drove their four-wheel-drive car down a dirt road to escape.”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Look How Google Shoos You Away From The Biden Family Biz And Other Big News.
While fact-checking a Federalist article early Monday morning, I did a quick Google search for “hunter biden joe biden ‘an absolute wall.’”
It’s the language now-President Joe Biden used during the 2020 campaign to allege a separation between his vice-presidential duties and his son’s overseas work for the family business. It’s back in the news after the House Oversight Committee on Thursday asked the National Archives and Records Administration for unredacted communications containing three of Joe Biden’s vice presidential pseudonyms: Robert Peters, Robin Ware, and JRB Ware.
Google, however, apparently didn’t want me to find too much information — at least not from certain sources.
“It looks like the results below are changing quickly. If this topic is new, it can sometimes take time for reliable sources to publish information,” Google alerted me, prompting me to make sure the source is “trusted on this topic” and maybe just to “come back later.”
Google is no longer a search engine. It’s a propaganda and narrative-maintenance tool of the Left.
THE SOVIETIZATION OF CANADA CONTINUES APACE: Jordan Peterson Ordered by Canadian Court to Undergo Reeducation.
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AND SO IT BEGINS: Mugshots: 9 co-defendants in Trump Georgia election interference case.
The prosecutions aren’t about justice, the law, or “protecting democracy.” They’re about having those mugshots to run from now until election day.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: ChatGPT has ‘systematic political bias’ towards the left: study.
Whenever it has offered answers that lean right, it has quickly been “adjusted” to lean the other way.