MARTYR? HE DIED OF OLD AGE, THE DICTATOR OF A SLAVE STATE. High School Holds Candlelight Vigil for ‘Martyr’ Fidel Castro. “Cuba is a mess from which people flee on cobbled-together floating deathtraps, and if these kids had gotten a decent education, they would know that.”
Public schooling isn’t working out.
TAKE A LONG MARCH OFF A SHORT PIER: Jamaal Bowman Says He Takes ‘Marching Orders’ From Activist Group Working To Defund Police.
“THE WEAPONIZATION OF BALLOT ACCESS CONTINUES”: Oregon Supreme Court Bars 10 Republicans From Running for Reelection, but Not for the Reason You Think.
If the elections are one-sided, there’s no reason for the other side to abide by them.
PRIORITIES: Two-thirds of House Dems vote against bill passed to deport illegal immigrants with DUI convictions. “The vote tally was 215 Republicans and 59 Democrats in favor of the bill and 150 Democrats, including House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, voting against it. The bill passed 274-150.”
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THEY’VE BEEN TAUGHT TO: Why Do So Many Young Americans Hate Israel? Of course, college students have a history of idiocy on foreign affairs: “In 1934, 25,000 American college students took part in a one-hour walkout from classes to demonstrate their opposition to U.S. involvement in any war. The strike mushroomed to 175,000 participants in 1935, then 500,000 in 1936— nearly half the national college student population. The student antiwar movement began to crack when communist-aligned students changed their position—again and again—not as a result of studying the facts but out of obedience to their party. For them, ignorance was indeed bliss.”
FDR had the guts to call them idiots. Biden doesn’t, but then, his brain isn’t hitting on all cylinders either.
WHERE LEFTISTS RULE, SO DOES HATE: Britain’s Jews Are Being Terrorized.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE? Missouri Student Pleads Guilty for Damaging Display Supporting Israeli Hostages.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: You’ll Never Believe What This Squad Member Just Said About Walgreens.
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: At least 37 publications affiliated with Harvard Medical flagged for alleged manipulated results in the first month of 2024.
When most science is funded by government, you get good enough for government work.
TO BE FAIR, IT’S MEANT TO: Joe Biden’s war on fossil fuels is hurting America.
When Joe Biden assumed office in 2021, the progressive press hoped, as the LA Times crowed, that he would “turn America into California again”. To the great loss of America, the West and, of course, Californians, he is living up to this credo in spectacular fashion.
California’s last two large oil producers, ExxonMobil and Chevron, this week announced a combined $5 billion in write-offs of their assets in the state.
The Golden State once boasted a giant fossil fuel industry, but climate hysteria has been the state religion for almost two decades. Not long ago, California was home to a host of top 10 energy firms — in 1970 ARCO, Getty Oil, Union Oil, Oxy and Chevron constituted the five largest industrial companies in the state. Now only Chevron, which has been reducing its headcount in northern California and is clearly shifting its emphasis to Texas, remains.
This predicament can’t be blamed on California running out of oil and gas; some estimates of the state’s oil and gas reserves are considerably larger than those of Texas. Monterey shale, located under the state’s economically struggling midsection, holds almost two-thirds of the nation’s total supply of shale oil. Tapping this source, one USC study notes, could bring as many as 500,000 new jobs to the state in a matter of years.
But such palatable returns do not mean much to the state’s powerful environmental lobby. California regulations have managed to cut production by more than half in less than 30 years. In the Golden State, this ban threatens to eliminate an industry that, according to a 2019 report from the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, amounted to 152,000 direct jobs, as well as an additional 213,000 related jobs. Nearly half those jobs comprise black, Asian, or Latino workers.
California reflects the kind of mindset that has captured the Biden administration. Just two years ago the bond firm Pimco predicted that America was about to seize “energy dominance”. But White House officials are so soaked in green ideology that they have abandoned the basic logic of geopolitics, according to which energy is power.
The other possibility is that they intend the likely and foreseeable consequences of their actions.
THIS IS NOT OUR GOVERNMENT. THIS IS A MARXIST OCCUPATION FORCE: U.S. Immigration Officials Met With Activist “Abolish ICE” Organization Amidst Worst Border Crisis in Country’s History.
APPARENTLY THE LINK ON THIS DIDN’T SHOW UP THE OTHER DAY: Running the Numbers on Rape and Pregnancy.
It’s not math, it’s fiction. And not plausible fiction, at that.
I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN JUDGES WERE JUST WORKING JOES, NOT PHILOSOPHER KING BEACONS OF ENLIGHTENED THOUGHT: Leniency By Judicial Decree.
AS A FRIEND PUT IT, THIS IS THE LIVES OF A LOT OF NEUROTICS, NOW: The mask maniacs rave on .
HE’S TALKING ABOUT THE BRITS BUT IS AMERICA’S MUCH BETTER? Face it, our Army isn’t fit to fight.
To be fair, both are still better than the third world armies, or China’s little emperors. Culture matters.
IT’S NOT LIKE THEY’RE WAFFLE HOUSE: Denny’s Closing Only Restaurant in Oakland Due to Crime.
THE VIEW IS LOOKING IN A MIRROR AGAIN: The View accuses black voters turning their backs on the Democrats of being ‘grifters’ in a ‘downward spiral’.
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