UVA PROF PRAISES ‘AUTHORITARIAN ENVIRONMENTALISM:’ Believe the Leftists when they say they will enslave you because they will.

GOTTA WATCH RAND PAUL FILET FAUCI, AGAIN: Dr. Faux Chi’s studied outrage just doesn’t stand up well at all to Sen. Rand Paul’s thoroughly documented cross-examination.

WHY ARE THESE RIGHT FIGURES BACKING DRIVE TO ABOLISH ELECTORAL COLLEGE? If you think only Left-wingers man the continuing effort to abolish the Electoral College so the popular vote in a few Blue States like New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Jersey can dominate presidential elections, think again.

Hayden Ludwig of the Capital Research Center has a lengthy, detailed and documented analysis in The American Conservative that puts the spotlight on Saul Anuzis and others from the ranks of the Conservative side of American politics who are working with the Left on this campaign that is only a handful of states away from ensuring no Republican ever again is elected President.

‘The Chosen’ Producer Answers Critics: Dallas Jenkins responds to critics of the most successful-ever, audience-funded digital entertainment series, about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Seems there have been some questions about his faith, whether the series is adding to or taking away from Scripture, and if non-Christians are involved in the production.

MAYBE THE HIGH COURT SHOULD BE REDUCED: Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court, increasing its number to 13 justices. But listening to the questions from the liberal justices during Friday’s oral arguments on President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates may suggest there should be fewer, not more, justices.

DID THEY MISS THESE YESTERDAY? Eight times Leftists busted into government buildings and assaulted democracy, as compiled by Kylee Zempel of The Federalist.

TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME DEFINES JAN6 MEMORIALS: Hard to see how it could be more obvious.

THIS IS WHERE DEMS ARE TAKING JANUARY 6: This quote in The Hill today from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) captures it succinctly: “The point is that the constitutional purpose is clear, to keep people exactly like Donald Trump and other traitors to the union from holding public office.”

Raskin is referring to Section Three of the 14th Amendment, which was approved as a means of preventing former Confederates of any rank from holding elected office after the Civil War. The provision bans any individual who “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies” of the Constitution.

There are presently only a dozen or so in Congress who agree with Raskin, according to The Hill, and a few as well in the academic world. But don’t think there won’t be more after today’s hyper-partisan January 6 “memorials.”

Since the constitutional penalty for treason is death, what the Raskins of the Democratic Party want is to return politics to the blood sport it was for centuries before 1789 in which losing meant a trip to the gallows, the chopping block or a firing squad.

THE BEST JANUARY 6 ANALYSIS YOU’LL FIND ANYWHERE TODAY: Joseph Hanneman is a veteran Wisconsin-based journalist, now working for The Epoch Times. His analysis of what really/may have/certainly didn’t happened a year ago today is copiously documented, rigorously detailed and penetrating, especially with regard to the credible evidence that the role of federal agents in the day’s events very much needs to be publicly, objectively and thoroughly investigated in order for the American people to know the full truth.

YES, JANUARY 6 IS A BIG DEAL: This was the day in history, just to pick one momentous example of the many cited by Issues & Insights, that George Washington married Mary Dandridge Custis in 1759. And January 6, 1540, was also the day Henry VIII married wife number four, Ann of Cleves.

Other notable January 6 milestones include, from the entertainment world, the debut in 1973 on ABC of “Schoolhouse Rock” and in 1975 on NBC of “Wheel of Fortune” with Vanna White and that other person, Slapjack, or whatever.

And yes, a year ago today, a large crowd of thoughtless fools waving signs and shouting slogans a few of whom may actually have believed, overcame a clearly unprepared, untrained U.S. Capitol Police force, penetrated the U.S. Capitol, forced a temporary suspension of Congress certifying the 2020 presidential election results, and did an estimated $1.5 million worth of damage in an historic building full of priceless paintings, statutes, architecture and memories.

By the evening, order was restored, Congress resumed its business and democracy survived. As a noted advocacy group endlessly said some years ago on behalf of a president facing impeachment, participants in today’s political theatricals should realize that it’s past time to “Move On.”

UPDATE: My goodness, I have stirred up a hornet’s nest here. Just to be clear, here’s why I linked to the I & I editorial – Today’s “memorials” will be non-stop lying by Schumer/Pelosi/Biden/MSM talking heads claiming that January 6, 2021, was an attempted coup staged to install a fascist junta run by a bunch of Far-Right Extremists bent on keeping Donald Trump in the Oval Office. If that’s what you think was the aim of the protestors at the Capitol that day, I can assure you that Schumer/Pelosi/Biden/MSM are eagerly cheering you on. Maybe you should think about that.

WHAT DID PELOSI DECIDE AND WHEN ON JAN6: That’s the question House Republicans are asking with increasing intensity these days as the Speaker refuses to cough up requested documents about her role in the days leading up to and including January 6.

DON’T WEEP FOR THE POLAR BEARS: Jeff Dunetz at The Lid kept seeing a World Wildlife Foundation saying the big white beasts of the North face a grim future because the Artic Iceshelf is melting. But that’s not what Jeff found when he investigated the claim.

BIDEN TO PUT MEN IN WOMEN’S JAILS: And so the insanity marches on, with His Fraudulency preparing an executive order that, according to The Federalist, which obtained a draft copy, will enable men who claim to feel like women to transfer to women’s jails.

WHEN THEY PRY MY COLD, DEAD HANDS: Off the steering wheel of my pickup, though the same will apply when they come after my 1911 R1 and my 1873 Springfield 45-70 U.S. Calvary Carbine. If you recall the Anti-Destination League, you know exactly what I mean.

READY TO ROLL THE DICE ON THE NEW YEAR? Speaking of it being 2022 and all, Justin Brierley of UnBelievable does some rolling of the dice and a little calculating of the odds and concludes the little white squares with the funny black dots point to the existence of you know Who!

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME GOOD NEWS? Issues & Insights takes a look at the latest Covid data and notices something VIP that isn’t being reported much elsewhere. So, no more fear porn, okay Mainstream Media???

HOW ESTABLISHMENT GOP MONEY FUNDED ABORTION PILL EFFORT: The Washington Free Beacon headline this morning on Collin Anderson’s illuminating story on how the recent abortion pill approval by the FDA came about emphasizes the link to population control. But there’s much more to this story.

At the center of the beaucoup money that fueled the successful campaign by the usual assortment of liberal foundations and activists was the fortune left behind by David Packard, once a giant of the Republican Establishment. Packard viewed population control as Job #1 for his foundation. His kids and grandkids took that mandate as a justification for spending huge chunks of the Packard fortune on abortion.

“Those expenditures have allowed Packard’s successors to deliver significant victories in furthering the late billionaire’s anti-natalist agenda. Take, for example, the Food and Drug Administration’s December decision to ease the process for getting a chemical abortion pill,” Anderson writes.

“The Packard Foundation played a central role in the deregulation fight, funneling millions to liberal advocacy groups that spearheaded the legal and political push to remove the FDA’s abortion pill barriers. The foundation meanwhile invested millions of dollars into GenBioPro, the only company that makes a generic form of the abortion drug.”

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: The Daily Gouge Thom McKee’s conclusion to a bracing assessment of how the U.S. government’s response to Covid has been flawed from the beginning ends on a slightly upbeat note:

“After two years of this exhausting disaster, it does finally seem as if the light is appearing through the dark fog. We are slouching our way to endemicity. Over time, too, the wisdom and reasonableness of the Great Barrington Declaration will be widely granted. Not yet but in time.

“It’s too bad that we aren’t hearing apologies. We aren’t hearing people admit that they were wrong. We are seeing none of these experts who said they would give us a Covid-free world if we just let them control our lives and take our liberties. I do think such apologies right now would take the country and the world a long way down the path to healing.

“What we have instead is a traumatized people who wonder what the heck hit them for the last two years. It’s bad enough to deal with a nasty virus. It’s far worse to deal with the sudden end of the stream of life as we know it and then have nothing to show for it.

“Trust is gone and will stay that way for a very long time. The longer the experts who did this to the world refuse to acknowledge and admit their failure, the longer the healing will take.”

Well worth reading McKee’s analysis from start to finish.

NEW YORK NOW A COMPLETELY CONSTITUTION-FREE ZONE: How else to explain that officials in Gotham and Albany are using ethnicity as a key factor in determining who gets certain Coronavirus treatments and who doesn’t. Hans Bader has more.

BEST COVID QUESTION EVER: Christopher Bedford asks it at The Federalist and his answer holds the key to ending the “New Normal” of Covid Mandates/Dr.FaucChi/Where’s Your Mask?

Bedford observes:

“It’s like we’re not experiencing this bug ourselves; like we’re incapable of observing it in our friends and families, and seeing what it does. It’s like we trust the ‘experts’ more than we trust ourselves; damn our eyes.

“But if we dare take a step back and process the very thing we’re told we’re living through, we might recognize – more than ever – the increasingly obvious truth that COVID is a construct: a word we’ve been trained to fear more than the disease itself.”

BRILLIANT SCIENTIST, PROLIFIC INVENTOR, THRIVING ENTREPRENEUR: But, as admirable as are those three characteristics of Dr. James Tour of Rice University, there is something else, something totally unexpected, that marks him as someone uniquely worth listening to. Check it out here on HillFaith today.

TWITTER PERMANENTLY BANS M.D. WHO IS MANDATE CRITIC: Twitter’s censorship axe fell on Dr. Robert Malone today. “The thought police said ‘looks like you have too much to think.'”

WHY IS COVID RAGING IN BLUE STATES? That is a great question and Eddie Scarry of The Federalist is quite prepared to offer some sensible answers.

FIVE BRAVEST JOURNALISTS OF 2021: Wait a minute! Before you get your panties in a wad because “journalists” and “bravest” are two words that for good reason are rarely are seen together in a serious sentence, understand that Rich Cromwell has his tongue firmly lodged in his cheek.

FAUCI’S BIG, FAT PENSION WILL MAKE HISTORY: Leave it to Adam Andrzejewski and OpenTheBooks.com to expose the fact that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s annual pension would reach nearly $350,000 if he retires at the end of 2021 after 56 years of bureaucratic service. And that doesn’t include an annuity he would also get worth more than $8,000 annually.