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December 17, 2024

I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO A FUN FOUR YEARS:

Posted at 4:45 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Dec 17th, 2024

FAR OUT: No tripping outside: Denver proposes local psilocybin rules.

Cities can make certain decisions about the psilocybin industry, but they can’t outlaw it completely, according to the new state law.

“We can enact an ordinance, regulations, governing time, place and manner about the operation of natural medicine licenses. But where we are limited with our authority is that we cannot prohibit the establishment or operation of natural medicine licenses. We can’t prohibit the transportation of natural medicine through Denver by licensed persons,” Soisson said.

Erica Rogers, also of the excise and licensing department, said the city wanted to be careful with how it enforced the psilocybin laws.

“We acknowledge that the impacts of criminal enforcement of drug laws has historically had negative impacts on marginalized and specific communities, and so we want to be intentional about how we address risks related to natural medicine in our community,” she said.

The proposal is expected to go to the Denver City Council for approval by February, and license applications will be accepted soon after.

Once again, the Denver-Boulder Axis forces its insanity on the sane parts of the state.

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green on Dec 17th, 2024

LAST WEEK: Canada says it will respond robustly if US imposes tariffs. “In the event that the United States were to impose unjustified tariffs on Canada, of course we would respond, and the Canadian response would necessarily be robust. I am confident that it would be effective,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Friday.

This week: Canada announces new border funding after Trump tariff threat.

Freeland — “Justin Trudeau’s chief lieutenant throughout his tenure as Canada’s prime minister” — resigned yesterday, “citing differences over how to confront President-elect Donald Trump,” and, to be fair, that new border funding might eventually prove to be “robust” and “effective.”

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green on Dec 17th, 2024

MOVE YOUR MENTAL MUSCLES: Study finds lower rates of death from Alzheimer’s disease among taxi and ambulance drivers. “A new study raises the possibility that jobs that require frequent spatial processing—such as figuring out a taxi route or the best way to navigate to a hospital—could lead to lower rates of death from Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers from Mass General Brigham investigated this possibility by using national data on the occupations of people who had died to evaluate risk of death from Alzheimer’s disease across 443 professions.”

Posted at 2:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Dec 17th, 2024

14 DETAINED IN ARMED AURORA, COLORADO HOME INVASION ARE LIKELY ILLEGAL GANG MEMBERS: POLICE.

Police in Aurora, Colorado, say the overnight armed home invasion at a local apartment complex that resulted in 14 suspects being detained was “without question a gang incident.” victimized their own race and their own ethnicity.”

Just before 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, police were called to The Edge at Lowry Apartments in the 1200 block of Dallas Street for a reported armed home invasion in which victims were kidnapped and assaulted, the Aurora Police said.

Aurora Police Department Chief Todd Chamberlain said during a Tuesday news conference that 13 to 15 people, mostly males with some females, entered an apartment where two people were inside. Police say the suspects took the migrant victims to another apartment at the same location, where the victims were “threatened and bound.”

As always:

Martha Raddatz hardest hit.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Dec 17th, 2024

THIS IS THE DEEP STATE:

The DOGE boys have their work cut out for them.

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green on Dec 17th, 2024

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: While KBJ Enjoys Broadway, Her Constitution-Loving Supreme Court Colleagues Can Barely Leave Their Homes.

Still, it’s nice that Jackson can appear on Broadway to rapturous applause from left-wing audiences. It’s a notable contrast to her conservative colleagues on the court, who remain under constant threats to their physical safety from left-wing activists.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer famously took to the steps of the Supreme Court itself to threaten violence against Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh if they didn’t rule on a case the way he wanted to. During the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, mobs took over Capitol rooms and buildings and pounded on the doors to the Supreme Court shouting, “Burn it to the ground!”

Prior to the release of the Dobbs decision, which returned abortion law to the people and their legislatures, an anonymous affiliate of the court leaked the decision, creating an incentive for assassination. Had any of the justices who signed onto the decision been killed before it was officially released, it would have prevented the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Left-wing activist groups posted the private addresses of justices’ homes and offered financial incentives for sightings of the justices in public. If the information were given to the mobs in time for them to show up and harass the justice, the financial incentive quadrupled. Although federal law prohibits demonstrating in front of a justice’s home in order to influence a decision, President Biden and his Attorney General Merrick Garland gave the protests a green light and claimed there was nothing they could do.

Some justices had to wear bulletproof vests to protect themselves from assassination attempts by left-wing activists. One such attempted assassin used the information posted online by pro-abortion activists to fly across the country and locate the home where Kavanaugh lives with his wife and children. He was stopped before he could kill the Kavanaugh family.

At the Free Press, Charles Fain Lehman of the Manhattan Institute explores the history of political violence in America and writes: Political Violence Happens Because We Let It.

As the political scientist and gadfly Edward Banfield observed, the riots of the ’60s and ’70s eventually went away, even without massive social reform. Banfield argued that rioting—or any goal-directed violence—is a product of opportunity, as much or more than structural conditions. In other words, if people can get away with it, they will do it. Excusing political violence turns it into a bargaining tactic, making it a more attractive option.

Even if fewer people want to do it, and those who do fear getting caught, they can still be motivated by a sense that the violence’s message will be taken seriously, even respected.

All of this suggests that political violence is downstream of public support, and that political violence happens because we let it. Conversely, it implies that every time someone utters the line “violence is never justified, but. . . ” they are increasing the rewards for engaging in exactly the violence they are nominally condemning.

Such a situation is unsustainable, because political violence cannot coexist with a functioning democracy. Democracy depends on peaceful liberation, allowing each person to have her say, while violence replaces the ballot box with the bullet. If we want the former, we must be unambiguous in our condemnation of the latter.

Which isn’t something to be expected from Chuck Schumer.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Dec 17th, 2024

JAMES O’KEEFE RELEASES SHOCKING VIDEO OF NSC ADVISOR ADMITTING BIDEN IS FAR WORSE OFF THAN WE KNOW:

James O’Keefe dropped an undercover video on Monday in which one of President Joe Biden’s National Security Council advisors explains that the cognitively declining president is far worse off than the public knows.

The video should not be shocking — given the countless number of times we’ve seen Biden’s brain malfunction, the confused president shake hands with the air or wander around aimless on a stage after he finishes speaking, and other clear signs that his dementia is rapidly progressing — but it is.

National Security Council (NSC) advisor Henry Appel spoke frankly about the current state of Biden’s deteriorating state, unaware that he was being filmed. Appel began with a shocking statement (emphasis, mine).

“Joe Biden is, like, dead. Not literally. Like, he, like, can’t say a sentence,” admits Henry Appel, advisor at the National Security Council (NSC), about the current state of the President’s health. Appel, who works in the Intelligence Programs Directorate, noted his team’s responsibility for providing senior policymakers with top secrets, stating, “We give all of the senior policymakers all of the secrets.”

He went on to describe Biden’s deteriorating communication skills as a concern, adding, “[Biden] can’t say a sentence.” Recalling a phone call in which the President struggled to understand the simple phrase, “novel phenomenon,” Appel shared “He [Biden] was just like, ‘What do you mean, like a book?’ when my boss [Jake Sullivan] used the word ‘novel.’”

It gets worse.

Looking back upon an election year in which the White House and its party operatives with bylines did everything they could to hide Biden’s decline until his disastrous presidential debate and then afterward staged a Sunday afternoon coup-by-Twitter to remove a sitting president from his reelection bid, Democrat opinion site “PolitiFact” finally rose to the occasion to condemn not just this year’s gaslighting by the administration, but Biden’s entire term in office.

Nah, just kidding, but you probably knew that as soon as I uttered the P-word:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Dec 17th, 2024
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