FLASHBACK: “I’d like to propose a ‘waiting period’ for legislation. No bill should be voted on without hearings, debate and a final text that’s available online for at least a week. (A month would be better. How many bills really couldn’t wait a month?). And if the bill is advertised as addressing a ‘tragedy’ or named after a dead child, this period should double.”

WHY IS ELITE HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATRED AND BIGOTRY? Lawsuit accuses UC Berkeley of not protecting Jewish students.

LOL, COLBY COLLEGE: Maine college pushes anti-white narrative in host of courses, including CRT-based tap dance class.

JOSH BLACKMAN & SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Professor Akhil Reed Amar and Professor Vikram Amar Retreat From Their “Global” Rule for the “Offices” and “Officers” of the Constitution: Their amicus brief endorses the view that members of state legislatures are officers. They took the exact opposite position in 1995 and in subsequent publications.

ROGER KIMBALL: Our Democracy™: The Democratic Weaponization of Government and the Need for Decentralization. “The Constitution aimed to limit the power and reach of government; its rival aims to make government triumph everywhere.”

BIDEN REPORT CARD: Even Obama is worried about beating Trump.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: MIT Parents Press School To Address ‘Threatening’ Anti-Israel Disruptions.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth hasn’t been forced to resign yet, but she doesn’t look happy in this picture.

HAHA: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Showed Up at John Fetterman’s House. His Reaction Was Priceless. “The pro-terrorist lunatics we’ve seen hold rallies nationwide, shut down roads and bridges, and attempt to close airports have been well-documented. So, given that he’s now become an enemy of the state in the eyes of progressive America, it’s only fitting that they target the Pennsylvania Democrat at his home, which they did. And Mr. Fetterman precisely knew how to respond: by going onto the roof and waving the Israeli flag. . . . He did the same last fall when he waved the Israeli flag at a bunch of pro-terrorist supporters getting arrested on Capitol Grounds.”

Them: “You can’t hide”

Him: Here I am, bitches 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 https://t.co/Vx9XvA26n5

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 27, 2024

MAKE THEM PAY: Canada’s Laurentian Elite Cry Uncle.

And just like that, Canada’s storied Liberal Party, in power for one hundred years, the country’s self-described “natural governing party,” is done. Before the ruling this week, Pierre Polievre’s Conservatives were projected to win 222 seats, according to Angus Reid’s January 21st poll, with the Liberals at 53 seats. Trudeau’s partner-in-crime, the fetching champagne socialist Jagmeet Singh, he of the mauve headwraps and Rolex watch? Twenty-five seats. With the decision, handed down by a federal judge, that Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act illegally, to end the truckers’ protest in Ottawa and at border crossings in Ontario and Alberta, Canada’s ruling elite has given up. They cannot continue the fiction any longer.

To illustrate how ridiculous Canada’s public life is, the findings by the RCMP and government were entirely driven by a government-funded Non-Governmental Organization, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, or CAHN. The group was used in a perfect illustration of the Iron Triangle of government and bureaucratic action. The government funds an anti-hate group, which immediately identifies opposition to the government, labels it as hate, feeds it to the police which proceeds to investigate.

The astroturfed outfit accused a podcaster of being a “white supremacist” and an “accelerationist.” The RCMP then provided CAHN’s “evidence” to legislators who then fed it to the subsidized media. Like a very, very good little girl, Canadian senator Paula Simons said he (the podcaster) wanted to “accelerate racial conflict to lead to the eventual creation of a White ethnostate,” during a debate in the house. None of this was found in any of the hundreds of hours of said podcast. Nevertheless, it was reported widely across the media as cold hard fact.

As in every single western democracy now staggering under unsustainable government-caused debt, the “natural ruling party” stood up for the thousands upon thousands of activist groups who besiege citizens with scare- and sob-stories meant only to increase the tax base for the Liberal elite. In recent years, to combat growing anti-government populism, elites in every western democracy have also supported political action groups meant to drive its enemies into the dirt. As reported by Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, these are coordinated through the Five Eyes and gamed at the World Economic Forum, in a cross-cultural assault by the elites on the people.

In short, CAHN drove virtually 100 percent of the evidence used to invoke the Emergencies Act. All of its accusations were found to be fake, fictionalized or exaggerated, as the attached FOIA documentation demonstrated. The outfit is a typical attack dog, staffed by members of the hard left, like this character, its face: Sue Gardner. These people are sent around the Stations of the Activist Cross, acquiring credits, awards and citations, to give themselves credibility, without having creating anything of value in the real world. The marshalling of the greedy hard left by corporatists to force ideological purity upon the middle and working classes was a masterful strategy. It, and its international cadres, are entirely focused on destroying the political power of the middle and working classes by accusing them of “racism” and “hate.”

The most egregious finding of the court was that the RCMP faked intelligence that identified the protestors as being funded by MAGA in the U.S., because they wanted to “take over” Canada. Documents obtained under FOIA discovered the following, from Michael Schellenberger’s Public substack.

So the consequences for this misbehavior need to be biblical. If the ruling class faces no consequences, it will do it again. And no, losing an election isn’t enough. There need to be crushing personal consequences for the individuals involved in this.

It’s not as if their misrule hasn’t already imposed consequences on their citizenry: “Let’s put it this way, if Canada were a state, it would be poorer than West Virginia or Mississippi, despite being the second-largest country, with abundant natural resources, in the world, blessed with a highly educated populace. The courts decision may mean that Canada is emerging from its half- century stasis and its massive grifting class on its way to the abattoir.”

#JOURNALISM:

You could cure cancer while simultaneously saving a baby from a burning building and you will never get the boundless love, devotion, and compassion a journalist will show to a murderer. https://t.co/mxqWTIL59h

— James Kirkpatrick (@VDAREJamesK) January 27, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Party like it’s Saturday night.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Northrop charges on lunar Gateway module program reach $100 million.

THE CRITICS CAN LUMP IT: People Are Paying Big For Moon Burials And It Could Be Crossing a Concerning Line. “Legal and ethical maze?” Maybe a manufactured one.

THE SUPERMODELS OF MY YOUTH ARE NOT IMMUNE TO THE YEARS: Paulina Porizkova to get hip replacement.

ALSO, TRY FEEDING THEM LESS. Probiotics might help dogs lose weight, study finds.

PRAISE THE LORD, AND PASS THE AMMUNITION: Determined Would-Be Murderer Meets the Power of Prayer… and a Pistol.

YESTERDAY: Andrew Cuomo plots comeback with border attacks on Biden.

Also yesterday: DOJ says Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women.

Cuomo’s a scumbag, sure, but still, I question the timing.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Buying a new or used car is still shockingly expensive.

HMM: Border Patrol Says Agents Will Not Remove Texas Razor Wire Barriers. “In defiance of the Biden Administration’s wishes, senior figures within Customs and Border Protection have stated that there are no plans to have Border Patrol agents remove razor wire barriers erected along sections of the border by the Texas National Guard.”

LONGEVITY: Biohacker spending $2m a year to reverse his age beaten by man paying just $30,000 a year.

THE PERILS OF OVERHYPE: COVID-19 pandemic perceived as less serious than other health problems, suggests 7-country survey.

HMM: Strange vision problems may indicate Alzheimer’s disease. “The condition is called posterior cortical atrophy (PCA). It involves a sudden difficulty in performing vision-related tasks — for example writing, judging whether an object is moving or stationary, or easily picking up a dropped item. Everyday tasks like these become difficult despite the fact that a person’s eye exam comes out fine.”

TRUE: No Task Force Can Save Harvard.

Harvard is the Boeing. 737 MAX of higher education. A great American brand is squandering the public’s trust. Failures of quality control are damaging its market dominance. Like any corporation, Harvard is looking for new management and working to burnish its image. Unlike most corporations, Harvard has no idea what it is doing. Boeing still has engineers; Harvard has only professors. When the wheels came off at Chrysler in 1978, the company brought in Lee Iacocca. Harvard has brought in Derek Penslar.

Mr. Penslar is a professor of Jewish history. He calls Israel a “settler colonial” state and compares the Jewish state’s establishment to France’s colonial takeover of Algeria. In August he signed an academic petition called “The Elephant in the Room.” It endorsed the conspiracy theory that the Netanyahu government’s proposals for judicial reform mask a plan to “ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population.” It asserted that Israel imposes a “regime of apartheid” on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and accused the country of “Jewish supremacism.”

“Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question” is the name of a book by white supremacist David Duke. If you go far enough left, you go far right without knowing it. Mr. Penslar leads Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies and has been named a co-chairman of the university’s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism. The latter appointment was an “unforced error,” Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism, told the Journal Wednesday.

The spontaneous campus celebrations after Hamas’s massacre, rape and kidnapping of Israelis on Oct. 7 meant that Harvard could no longer ignore its problem with Jews, and especially the Jewish state. Prodded by donors and shamed by the media, the university’s then-president, Claudine Gay, commissioned a committee.

Then Ms. Gay told lawmakers that calling for the genocide of Jews was sometimes acceptable at Harvard, depending on the “context.”

It’s a toxic member of a toxic industry.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professors rip Haley’s, Ramaswamy’s ‘colorblindness’: gives credence to white supremacy.

HOW’S THAT RECRUITMENT CRISIS GOING? No diploma? No problem! Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals.