OUT ON A LIMB: Jake Tapper Admits There Is A ‘Very Ugly Side Of The Left’ That Shows Up When Nikki Haley Runs For Office. “The attack that went unmentioned during the panel discussion came from Tapper’s own colleague, ‘CNN This Morning’ host Don Lemon, 56 — who sparked outrage when he claimed during a recent broadcast that Haley, 51, was ‘past her prime.'”
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February 23, 2023
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: When I Covered Climate Change for Reuters I Thought CO2 Was Certainly to Blame for Rising Temperatures. I Was Wrong. Once upon a time, science correspondents at Reuters considered the evidence before parroting activists’ claims. Today the news agency works with the activists — and even funds them.
VIDEO: Your Heating Bill Is Going Down, Lied Kamala Harris. “While Americans everywhere struggle with their heating bills, grocery bills, and the cost of nearly everything else that’s gone nowhere but up since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris assumed office, there’s one thing we can still take comfort in: Our Vice President is a terrible and obvious liar.”
CLAYTON CRAMER REPORTS ON Media sensationalism as cause of copycat mass shootings. “Research shows that these incidents usually occur in clusters and tend to be contagious. Intensive media coverage seems to drive the contagion, the researchers say.”
See also: The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow’s Headlines.
THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND: Fashion designer finds photos of Sam Brinton wearing custom dress from her ‘lost’ luggage.
Needless to say, if the parties were reversed, this story would be playing on a loop on the cable and nightly news.
GET IN SHAPE: Strength Training Over 40. #CommissionEarned
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: House Oversight Committee Demands Full Accounting of All Aid to Ukraine.
YOU DON’T SAY: We’re in danger of falling into 1970s-style inflation without aggressive interest rate hikes, according to a top Fed official. “While Bullard expressed confidence in the Fed’s ability to ultimately defeat inflation, he also argued that officials should raise rates aggressively now, or the U.S. economy could see a repeat of the 1970s—when year-over-year inflation rose as high as 12%, destroying Americans’ purchasing power.”
BELT AND ROAD TO NOWHERE? China’s Checkbook Diplomacy Has Bounced.
In the span of a decade, China has emerged as the developing world’s bank of choice, pouring hundreds of billions of dollars in loans into global infrastructure projects as part of its sprawling Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
But as its borrowers fail to pay up, China is finding that its newfound authority is coming at a price. Eager to recoup its money, Beijing is transitioning from generous investor to tough enforcer—and jeopardizing the very goodwill that it tried to build with initiatives such as the BRI. China has broken a few bones in Sri Lanka, whose financial turmoil allowed Beijing to seize control of a strategic port, and is hassling Pakistan, Zambia, and Suriname for repayment.
For two decades, countries “were getting to know China as the kind of benevolent financier of big-ticket infrastructure,” said Bradley Parks, the executive director of the AidData research group at William & Mary. Now, he said, “the developing world is getting to know China in a very new role—and that new role is as the world’s largest official debt collector.”
The third world leaders who took the money were either suckers or on the take — and there probably weren’t any suckers.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Florida—Come for the Sunshine, Stay for the Rejection of Trans Fascism. “What laws like this will really accomplish is pumping the brakes on a runaway social trend that will probably see a lot of buyer’s remorse in the none-too-distant future.”
UNSURPRISING: Trump brought goodwill to East Palestine, Ohio while the Biden administration sniped at him. “Whether you are a Trump supporter or not, this is something that Trump does well – he gets out there and mingles with those who feel forgotten by their government, especially in crises. In contrast, Scranton Joe who campaigned as a friend to the working man is nowhere to be found.”
HIS “SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION” ISN’T SO SPECIAL ANYMORE: Putin has decided to normalize his war. “The real news was an implicit message that the war in Ukraine is not ending anytime soon and that Russians must get used to living with it – especially as, in Putin’s telling, it presents an economic opportunity that’s greater than the sacrifice it requires. That Putin chose to deliver this message a year into the Russian invasion of Ukraine means he has no idea how Russia wins – and that, for want of better options, he’s decided to semaphore that he doesn’t really mind a long war.”
Others see it ending this year but no one really knows — not even Putin.
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION: Tanzanian Fashion Designer Accuses Sam Brinton, Biden’s Ex-Nuclear Waste Chief, of Stealing Her Luggage — and She Has Proof.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Didn’t this guy have to pass a security clearance? Someone should be asking hard questions of whoever performed it. Or did identity politics trump all?
VEGAN, MUSLIM,QUEER: If that sounds like an extremely unlikely combination, it is, but “Raquel Evita Saraswati,” AKA Rachel Elizabeth Seidel, used such a fake persona to get next to a bunch of prominent Democrats, including members of “The Squad” and former President Barack Obama, according to the Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Kerr.
Seidel passed herself off among the prominent as an activist on behalf of the world’s oppressed minorities, but, Kerr reports, her Mom described her as “white as the driven snow.” One wonders if black and blue might be added to Seidel’s color wheel after some of the folks she deceived get through with her.
THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED, UNTIL IT WASN’T: Webb telescope discovery was so shocking astronomers thought it was a mistake.
The Pennsylvania State University’s Joel Leja, who took part in the study, calls them “universe breakers.”
“The revelation that massive galaxy formation began extremely early in the history of the universe upends what many of us had thought was settled science,” Leja said in a statement. “It turns out we found something so unexpected it actually creates problems for science. It calls the whole picture of early galaxy formation into question.”
Science advances by observation, not by proclamation.
THE CALIFORNICATION OF COLORADO CONTINUES APACE: Democrat-sponsored bill would prohibit arrest for most petty offenses in Colorado.
“Law enforcement doesn’t typically arrest on petty offenses unless it’s to get them the help they may need,” Reams said, adding sometimes if the party is strung out on drugs or homeless, they may be arrested to give them a place to sober up or get out of the elements. “Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is some time in jail. It’s a rare circumstance any crime under this bill you would arrest someone on already.”
Reams said the bill seems harmless on the outside but suspects it will lead to a much larger expansion in future sessions.
“So, they are saying, limit under these circumstances, but then they will broaden it further and begin to limit people going to jail for crimes that they actually should,” Reams said. “It goes after the same issue but from a different increment. I just don’t understand why the legislature is so anti-victim. There is a victim for every (crime), even if it’s a petty offense.”
Democrats went back to believing that criminals are the real victims, or at least legislating as though they believe it.
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