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Joe Biden’s Punch Line Presidency

Posted on | February 11, 2024 | Comments Off on Joe Biden’s Punch Line Presidency

It’s hard not to laugh at the reaction to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s final report about Joe Biden’s classified document case. The main finding of Hur’s investigation is briefly summarized:

Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. These materials included (1) marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and (2) notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods. FBI agents recovered these materials from the garage, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home.

In other words, Biden is GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

As several commentators have noted, this finding — and the fact that Hur recommended no criminal charges, despite the clear evidence of Biden’s guilt — raises questions about the federal effort to prosecute former President Donald Trump for very similar offenses. When you consider the extent to which “get Trump” has been the organizing principle of the Biden administration since Day One, this is a significant setback to that aspect of their agenda. But that wasn’t the worst of it:

The report’s summation of Biden’s mental fitness will likely be highly damaging to an electorate that overwhelmingly — 76% — has concerns about the 81-year-old’s mental and physical health.
“Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017 [with whom he shared classified materials], and in his interview with our office in 2023,” the report said in its executive summary. “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Prosecutors said that based on the way that Biden presents, jurors will “want to identify reasonable doubt” and that it would be “difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Recordings from when Biden was interviewed by the ghostwriter in 2017 showed that even then, he was “struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries,” the special counsel said, adding that even back then he was showing signs of “diminished faculties and faulty memory.”
“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse,” Hur said. “He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”).”
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” the report continued. “And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.”

That Biden has “diminished faculties and faulty memory” is not really news to anyone who’s been paying attention, but having it stated so clearly in a Special Counsel’s report? “Republicans pounce!”

President Dimished Faculties yells at a reporter

But the way the White House reacted — sending out Biden to “rebut” the Special Counsel’s report — was ill-considered, and even the docile sheep in the White House press corps weren’t playing along:

Journalists pressed Biden on what the report and questions about his mental fitness mean for the November election in which he faces a likely rematch against Trump.
“Many American people have been watching and they have expressed concerns about your age,” a female reporter began, citing “public polling.”
“That is your judgment. That is your judgment,” Biden barked, raising his voice and pointing at the woman, adding, “That is not the judgment of the press.”
The journalist continued, “In December, you told me you believed there were many other Democrats who could defeat Donald Trump. So why does it have to be you now?”
“Because I am the most qualified person in this country to be president of the United States,” Biden shot back, “and finish the job I started.”

Even though most of the media continue trying to defend Biden, the past three days of coverage — even on CNN (I watch, so you don’t have to) — has been more negative toward Biden than at any time in the past three years. Many of these “Democratic operatives with bylines” now realize that Biden’s cognitive decline makes his reelection impossible. No matter what else happens, no matter what Trump does, Biden can’t win because his brain’s gone soft and everybody can see it now. Sure, he’ll get the 40% or so of voters who would vote for a turnip if the turnip had a (D) beside it on the ballot, but there’s no way he gets to a majority on that basis. Democrats can’t even steal enough votes to overcome the problem of trying to reelect President Diminished Faculties.

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FMJRA 2.0: The Giant Wombats of Gor

Posted on | February 11, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Giant Wombats of Gor

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the lack of posting yesterday; after a week in the tax mines, I was pretty wiped out after getting home from the office and went straight to bed.
Alas, the title is a lie; I thought I had a pic of said wombats from the epic Gorean parody Numismatist of Gor, but you’ll have to make do with Dante Rossetti’s appreciation of Oz’s favorite burrowing marsupial, and this link to another Gor parody, “Houseplants of Gor”.
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Foxes, Henhouses, Crime and Oakland

Posted on | February 9, 2024 | Comments Off on Foxes, Henhouses, Crime and Oakland

The first thing you have to know about Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price is that the first time she ran for the office, she got $130,000 for her campaign from George Soros. Price lost that 2018 race to the incumbent, who chose not to seek reelection in 2022. Price ran again and won with 53% of the vote, “defeating a veteran local prosecutor and making history as the first Black person to hold the office.”

The second thing you need to know about Price is that Alameda County is one of the most left-wing places in the country. Biden got 80% of the vote there. Whites are less than a third of the county’s population, which is about 32% Asian, 23% Hispanic and 10% black. Whatever is wrong in Alameda County, you can’t blame it on white people or Republicans, who have no meaningful political influence in the county. And, even by the low standards of California, there are an awful lot of things wrong in Alameda County, which is why District Attorney Pamela Price is already facing a recall effort, and the governor had to step in:

California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) will dispatch state prosecutors to go after criminals in Oakland and the surrounding area, as local momentum builds to oust the county’s George Soros-backed prosecutor for her lenient policies.
“An arrest isn’t enough,” Newsom said in a Thursday statement announcing the deployment. “Justice demands that suspects are appropriately prosecuted.”
Oakland-area district attorney Pamela Price, who is trying to fend off a voter-backed recall after just a year in office, said she welcomed the support “in this fight against organized retail crime and the scourge of Fentanyl in our community.”
The governor’s move comes as Oakland deals with a skyrocketing crime crisis. On Tuesday, Newsom sent 120 state troopers to Oakland and the surrounding county. The crime surge is driving the recall effort against Price — who ran on an anti-incarceration platform and a pledge to “evaluate unfair prosecutions and excessive sentencing practices.” As DA, she gave a teen linked to three murders just seven years in prison and made the gang members who murdered a toddler eligible for parole. A poll from last fall showed that a majority of Oakland residents would vote to replace her as DA and that just 28 percent have a favorable view of her — while 92 percent listed reducing crime as a top priority.
According to the governor’s office, the state attorneys’ job will be “increasing the prosecutions” of criminals who have committed violence, property crimes, and “serious” drug-related felonies. Last year, Oakland saw its violent crime rate increase by 21 percent, while robberies rose 38 percent and vehicle theft spiked 44 percent.
Meanwhile, a local voter coalition called Save Alameda for Everyone is gathering signatures to recall Price. Its lead organizers are a mother whose son was shot and killed in Oakland in 2010 and the former president of the local Chinatown Chamber of Commerce. The group, which needs to collect more than 73,000 signatures by mid-March to qualify the recall for the November ballot, says Price “is failing us in her responsibility to enforce the law, prosecute criminals and keep violent offenders off our streets.”

Did you catch that? Price “ran on an anti-incarceration platform,” which is to say, she is against putting criminals in jail, and she got 53% of the vote based on that platform. What did voters in Alameda County think would happen with a Soros-funded fox guarding the local henhouse?

Basically any place where Democrats get 80% of the vote is going to be the kind of crime-ridden hellhole that most people would prefer to avoid, and did I mention that California has basically legalized theft?

Prop 47 made drug possession a misdemeanor, raised the threshold for prosecuting shoplifting, grand theft and other property crimes as a felony from $400 to $950 in value stolen, and allowed resentencing for those already serving sentences under the tougher penalties.

Limit your thefts to $949 per outing and it’s a slap on the wrist in California. If you’re stealing five days a week, that’s a weekly income of $4,745 from your (misdemeanor) criminal activity.

Between this insane “criminal justice reform” and the fact that the local prosecutor is a Soros-funded leftist who got elected on “an anti-incarceration platform,” it has become practically impossible to operate any kind of retail business in Alameda County. Denny’s and In-and-Out both closed their Oakland locations in recent weeks, citing the out-of-control crime that jeopardized the safety of restaurant employees.

Think about that. Here you have a community so dangerous that they don’t even have burger joints and diners because the city is overrun by criminals stealing everything they can get their hands on. And this is the kind of place where Joe Biden got 80% of the vote.



 

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In The Mailbox: 02.08.24

Posted on | February 9, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.08.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Gina Carano Suit Against Disney Lucasfilm, also, An Action Movie Without a DEI Message?
EBL: Mark Steyn Found Liable For $1 Million In Damages, also, Death & Other Details
Twitchy: John Harwood Vouches For Biden’s Mental Acuity, Biden’s Attempt To Clean Up After The Special Counsel’s Report Made Things WAY Worse, and Trans “Woman” Who Raped Baby Gets Plea Deal With ZERO Jail Time
Louder With Crowder: Aaron Rodgers declares himself two-time COVID MVP as he roasts Jimmy Kimmel over feud, Joe Biden saw dead people for second time this month, claims he had conversation with German Chancellor four years after his death, and Democrat official says the quiet part out loud, wants illegals given priority over our veterans
Vox Popoli: Trust Not in Libertarians, Heroes of History, No. Just No, Communism > Clown World, and A Call to Preserve Civilization
Flappr: Flappr’s Big TDs Football Blog – Big Game Bets

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Special Counsel Says Biden is too Senile to Prosecute
American Greatness: Migrants Tell Journalist They Intend to Vote For Biden in the 2024 Election, also, The Absurd Democrat Border Con
American Thinker: Islam: Theory vs Experience, also, Resettle the Gazans to End the Endless War
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship denies parole for prisoner of conscience Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, Cuba blames the weather for food shortages, and Cuban dissidents physically attacked in Italy by Castro dictatorship diplomatic officials
BattleSwarm: New Army Leader In Ukraine
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches NASA ocean research satellite, Vibration testing of Sierra Space’s Tenacity mini-shuttle completed, Solar-orbiting asteroid that is a quasi-moon of Venus gets a name, India’s proposed space station now has a name: Bharatiya Antariksh Station, A galaxy with a tail of star-forming clusters, and Pushback: Parents of 9-year-old slandered by Deadspin reporter sue
Cafe Hayek: Actions Speak Louder Than Words, also, Worry Not About So-Called “Trade Deficits”
CDR Salamander: The Wages Of Taking Your MBA To War
Chicago Boyz: Floating in the Trope-Sphere
Da Tech Guy: The Same Old Grift And Dance, also, Pro-Life protestors are being sentenced to prison for over a decade thanks to the FACE Act
Don Surber: Do your job, DC
Gates Of Vienna: Corrupt Governments Partnered With Corrupt Corporations — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Geller Report: Supreme Court Roasts Trump Ballot Challengers – TOTAL HUMILIATION, “President Trump HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED with insurrection.”
Hollywood In Toto: Bob Marley: One Love Can’t Find Man Behind the Legend, also, Is the Left Trying to Re-Cancel Shane Gillis on SNL?
Legal Insurrection: Farmers’ Protests Lead EU Commission to Nix Damaging Green Plans, Grand Jury Indicts Seven Illegal Immigrants Connected to Beatings of NYPD Cops, UNC Chapel Hill Struggles to Condemn Offensive Remarks About October 7th Attacks on Israel, ‘Uncle Leo Defense’ Works For Biden in Special Counsel Report, Columbia Law School Rejects Club Formed to Combat Antisemitism, and Education Sec. Cardona Faces Calls to Resign Since He Won’t Condemn ‘From the River to the Sea’
Michele Catalano: A true tale of rival gangs & growing up
Nebraska Energy Observer: I said before
Outkick: Dustin Johnson’s Level Of Not Caring Has Officially Hit An All-Time High, And It’s Honestly Pretty Awesome, Christian McCaffrey Says He Nixed Olivia Culpo Buying Super Bowl Suite, NFL And Players Union Disagree On Multiple Safety Issues And It Makes No Sense, Zach Wilson’s Trade Value Is Hilariously Low, Wisconsin Basketball Entering A State Of Crisis, Fans Should Be Very Nervous, Dan Le Batard Defended Deadspin, Now Has No Comment After Outlet Incited Death Threats Toward Chiefs Fan, and German Princess Lands Playboy Cover, Becomes The First Aristocrat To Pose Topless For The Magazine
Power Line: Illegals are Already Voting, No way to treat a friend, and Hur’s report: Biden ready for Memory Care
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In The Mailbox: 02.07.24

Posted on | February 8, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.07.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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OVER THE TRANSOM
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Blue Whales Are Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | February 7, 2024 | Comments Off on Blue Whales Are Decadent and Depraved

Today I was just innocently scrolling through the news on my phone when I encountered this disturbing headline:

Hidden DNA found in blue whales reveals
they’ve been mating with other species
— and their hybrid offspring

What kind of twisted West Virginia hillbilly freak show is this? “Mating with other specias” and — AND! — “their hybrid offspring”?

For years, we’ve been subjected to environmentalist propaganda portraying the blue whales as being “endangered,” i.e., victims, for whom we’re supposed to feel sympathy, and now scientists have discovered that they’re a slutty bunch of disgusting sea-mammal perverts!

Blue whales in the Atlantic Ocean are harboring a previously unknown and potentially alarming level of hybrid DNA, a new study shows. The findings hint that whale hybrids are much more reproductively viable than previously realized. . . .

(“Potentially alarming”!)

Around 3.5% of the group’s DNA came from fin whales on average. . . .
Scientists have long known that blue whales and fin whales can reproduce to create hybrids of the two species, despite blue whales being around 85 tons (77 metric tons) heavier on average, according to The New York Times. These hybrids are sometimes referred to as “flue” whales and often look like unusually large fin whales with the coloration and jaw structure of blue whales, according to a 2021 study.

(Damned mongrelized freak whales, is what they are.)

Until recently, it was assumed that these hybrids were infertile and could not have offspring of their own, similar to most other hybrid animals. However, a 2018 study revealed that at least some of these hybrids could successfully reproduce with blue whales.
Researchers believe hybrid whales have been reproducing with blue whales, resulting in “backcrossed” offspring with mostly blue whale DNA and some fin whale DNA. This type of DNA transfer from one species to another via interbreeding is known as introgression. . . .

(Yeah, lots of “introgression” in West Virginia, too.)

Similar studies on fin whales have found no evidence that the species have inherited any blue whale DNA via introgression, Engstrom said. So it seems that only blue whales are capable, or perhaps willing, to reproduce with these hybrids.
“We don’t know why introgression appears unidirectional,” Engstrom said. . . .

(Because blue whales are just horny sluts, that’s why.)

There is also little evidence that introgression between fin whales and blue whales happens in any other part of the world. “As far as we know, this is a phenomenon in the North Atlantic only,” Engstrom said.

The North Atlantic is the Appalachia of the oceans. After this shocking news report, I’ve got a whole new perspective on sea mammals. Never trust a blue whale, especially one from the North Atlantic.



 

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In The Mailbox: 02.06.24

Posted on | February 7, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.06.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Memento mori

OVER THE TRANSOM
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EBL: Fort Apache The Bronx, also, Toby Keith RIP
Twitchy: Trump Loses In DC Circuit Court But Prof. Turley Explains Why He Might Have Already Won, Dem Rep Whines It’s Not OK For Congress To Say It’s Only Concerned About Christian Persecution, and Trans TikTok Star Pleads Guilty To Child Abuse Charges
Louder With Crowder: Toby Keith, patriot and county music icon, loses his battle with cancer at age 62
Vox Popoli: Castalia Library Stacks, Ethnic Cleansing in the EU, The Fatal Stress of Freshman Year, Maxxing the Vaxx, All Crusaders Now, and Attack of the Cat Ladies
Postcards From Barsoom: The Zetetic Blade

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American Conservative: After Immunity Defeat, Trump Plunges Ahead in Legal Farrago
American Greatness: House Vote to Impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Fails
American Thinker: Leftists Disconnected From How Things Work Are Destroying Everything
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Alone In The Cosmos News
Babalu Blog: Cancer patients in Cuba go without treatment due to collapsing healthcare system, Russia holds back on its involvement in Cuba’s economic reform while stepping up military ties, and Reports from Cuba: Even if the ration books arrive, there’s nothing to buy in the bodegas
BattleSwarm: Texas Statistics Roundup, also, Zeihan on Evergrande: 1.5 BILLION Unsold Condos?
Behind The Black: Weather stops everything by SpaceX in the last 24 hours, Juno completes its closest approach of the Jupiter moon Io, Curiosity’s damaged wheels continue to appear stable despite the rough Martian terrain, Perseverance snaps its first picture of grounded Ingenuity, SpaceX’s revenue estimate for 2024 is $13.3 billion, and Pushback: Help send 9-year-old KC Chiefs fan, slandered as bigot by media, to Super Bowl
Cafe Hayek: Phil Gramm and I Respond to Robert Lighthizer
Da Tech Guy: Jews in Hollywood, It’s History, not Some Vast Conspiracy or Something we Can’t Mention, Extinction vs. hope, and The Immigration Solution: ENFORCE THE LAW
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Hurry Up & Wait Edition
Don Surber: An invasion repelled
Gates Of Vienna: “I Hate All French People”, Strengthening Democracy Means Crushing the Right Wing, and This Time the 13-Year-Old Victim Survived
The Geller Report: President Javier Miley Arrives in Israel, Announces Argentina Will Move Embassy to Jerusalem
Hollywood In Toto: ‘SNL’ Needs Shane Gillis More Than He Needs Them, Two Great New TV Shows to Watch (And One to Skip for Now), Is The Way Way Back the Best Coming of Age Movie in Years?, and Bill Maher Hearts Gov. Newsom But Can’t List One Accomplishment
The Lid: Colorado Democrats Want State Wide ‘Pet Registration’ Tax on ALL Pets– Even Fish!
Legal Insurrection: University of California Medical Prof Calls for Investigation of ‘Zionist Doctors’, United Nations Foundation Funding Climate Activism in 12 State Governments, “Take Our Border Back” Convoy Reaches Destination in 3 States, Highlights Biden’s Border Crisis, Brown University President Refuses Demands of Students Staging Hunger Strike for Palestine, and Appeals Court Affirms the Denial of Trump’s Presidential Immunity Claim in D.C. Election Interference Case
Nebraska Energy Observer: Eye roll!
Outkick: Travis Kelce’s Fade Haircut Is Not Cultural Appropriation, Nick Saban Will Be First Of Many Coaches To Retire If Congress Doesn’t Address NIL , Roger Goodell Offers Curious Defense Of Patriots Ignoring The Rooney Rule, LIV Golf Maykoba Sees Uptick In Ratings With PGA Tour’s Final Round At Pebble Beach Canceled Due To Weather, Caitlin Clark Is About To Face A Whole Lot of Racial Resentment, and Travis Kelce Engulfed With Boos At Super Bowl Media Opening Night
Power Line: Who’s Banning Books, The Daily Chart – Our Anti-Semitic Universities, and A border bill footnote
Shark Tank: FL Legislature Moves To Regulate State’s Use Of Digital Currency
Shot In The Dark: Happy Reagan’s Birthday, also, The Real Villains
The Political Hat: Is Kyriarchy The Root Cause of Violence?
This Ain’t Hell: Throwing dollars at quality of life, also, State Contradicts White House- Denies Iraq Informed of Strikes
Transterrestrial Musings: Open Borders And Closed Courts, also, The Latest SPS Study From NASA
Victory Girls: Not All Immigrants Make America Stronger And Richer
Watts Up With That: Quote of the Week: Manntastic Claims, also, On Climate: “The Elites Have Flipped Worldviews”
The Federalist: No, That Stupid NYT Piece On Travis Kelce’s Hair Isn’t Cultural Appropriation, Elon Musk Helps Gina Carano Sue Disney For Firing Her After Internet Smear Campaign, A Real Border Solution Would Punish Mexican Cartels, Not Bribe Them, Top McConnell Ally: Mike Lee Only Cares About Protecting Hamas, WaPo Columnist Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Democrats’ Campaign Strategy Is Jailing Trump, Court Says Democrat Secretary Of State Can’t Hide Maine’s Voter Rolls From Watchdog Group, and Toby Keith Paid Tribute To The American Soldier In Word And Deed
Mark Steyn: Best Laid Plans

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In The Mailbox: 02.05.24

Posted on | February 6, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.05.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The destruction of IJN Akagi by USS Enterprise at the Battle of Midway, 1942 (colorized)
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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

ugh, again?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Seven Egyptian Migrants Rape Thirteen-Year-Old Girl, also, Concealed Carry & Self-Defense In Chicago
EBL: Sheila White and I, Claudius
Twitchy: Biden Calls Netanyahu A “Bad F*****g Guy” But Special K Denies It, We Have More Info On “Woke Kindergarten” & It’s Worse Than We Thought, and Jennifer Van Laar Goes Straight-Up FAFO – Breaks Out ALL The Receipts In Thread Torching The RNC
Louder With Crowder: Another USWNT Star Bashes Americans, Claims Soccer Fans “Aren’t Smart”, Democrat Senator exposes the truth about Biden’s border bill while DEFENDING it: “The border never closes”, and CNN Flack Left Speechless When Told Why Illegal Migrants Don’t Stay In Florida
Vox Popoli: Identity > Ideology, Boomer Trigger, The Russian Art of War, NATO’s Sicilian Expedition, and A Babylonian Ticket Taker
L’ Ombre de L’Olivier: Japan vs. San Francisco
Stoic Observations: What Kind of Disaster Are You Prepared For?, also, The Kings of Black History Month
Upstream Reviews: Chasing Freedom
Draw & Talk Comics: What Happens When You Leave The Drama In 2024?
Tessellations: What’s Up With Data Science?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Jon Stewart Hasn’t Been Funny Since the Iraq War, also, To Bomb or Not to Bomb Iran: That Is the Question
American Greatness: Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving? Democracy in Decline: The Subversion of Rule of Law, and House Republican Leaders Declare Senate Immigration Bill ‘Dead on Arrival’
American Thinker: The FBI Again Tries To Block Seth Rich’s Laptop From Public View, Is America Already A Dead Country? The Democrats Create an Alice in the Looking Glass World, and Hell Must Be Empty
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship is sending 89 slave doctors to Honduras, Hagiographer of Stalinist, mass-murderer Che Guevara Jon Lee Anderson ‘very worried’ by Trump’s ‘authoritarianism’, and Reports from Cuba: ‘The problem is not the ministers, it is a failed model,’ a Cuban economist summarizes
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For February 2, French Farmers: “Jeremy Clarkson Was Right”, and Ukraine Switching To A War Of Attrition Against Russia?
Behind The Black: Texas state court rules in favor of activist lawsuit against SpaceX, One last engineering test planned for Ingenuity, Japan’s lunar lander shuts down for long lunar night, Red China completes two launches yesterday, A spot where the surface of Mars cracked, and The failure of the COVID jab and the people who pushed it
Cafe Hayek: The Infantilism of Some “Intellectuals”[UPDATE], Summer Institute on the History of Economics, and A Note on Oren Cass’s Account of the Change in Trade Policy
CDR Salamander: VLS Reloads At Sea – Now More Than Ever
Chicago Boyz: DIE, Quiet Quitting, And the Exit of Competence
Da Tech Guy: February Indulgence Calendar (plus Dynasty Baseball League Openings!), Rules for the 1972 Dynasty Draft Baseball League, The future is cheap drones, Journalism’s “extinction event” will lead to new and better choices for news, and Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: Second Amendment Casewatch – Dexter Taylor vs, New York
Don Surber: Other history months we need
First Street Journal: Clearly, I should be watched, perhaps even arrested for Wrongthink, The 15-Minute City: Another exercise in Soviet economic planning! and Killadelphia: A public service homicide?
Gates Of Vienna: “A Coup Against the Sovereignty of the Polish People”, Éric Zemmour: “Wherever There is a Mosque, That’s Islamic Land”, German Money Printer Go Brrr, The Final Solution to the German Question, and Get ’Em While They’re Young
The Geller Report: FBI and DOJ Were Alerted to Election Fraud Being Committed in Detroit, Michigan, During 2020 Election, Fired Democrat staffer will not be charged for shooting gay porn in Senate hearing room, Former Trump Administration Official Shot to Death During Violent Carjacking in Washington DC, and Under The Senate’s Treasonous Border Bill, Everybody Gets Asylum
Glenn Reynolds: Biden and the Border
Hollywood In Toto: Fox’s Jimmy Failla: ‘Comedy Is the Punk Rock of This Decade’, Will ‘Scream VI’ Star Melissa Barrera Be Canceled for Good? Gina Carano Mourns Carl Weathers: ‘He Was One of the Greats’, Wait … They Already Made a ‘Road House’ Sequel? and Meet Joe Rogan’s Secret Weapon: Women
The Lid: Target Pulls Black History Month Merch after Mixing Up Names of Civil Rights Icons
Legal Insurrection: WSJ Op-Ed: Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan Celebrated the Events of October 7th, Kansas State Univ “Scholarship has eliminated the preference based on race, color, or national origin” After Equal Protection Project Legal Challenge, “Woke Kindergarten” Founded by Anti-Israel and Anti-American Activist Resulted In Lower Test Scores ‘Unexpectedly’, The Tide is Turning in Favor of Saner Energy Policies, Red Chinese Nationals Fastest Growing Group of Border Crossers, and Massachusetts Drops College Degree Requirement for 90% of Govt. Jobs
Michele Catalano: Here comes the sun
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Sexagesima, and Monday, again
Outkick: LSU Heisman QB Jayden Daniels Is A Top 3 Draft Pick, But Still Should Be At Senior Bowl, SEC, Big Ten Leaders Join For Better ‘Future Of Sports’ – Translation: Move Over NCAA?, NCAA Bundles Past Violations In Other Sports Against Tennessee As Heavyweight Fight Brews, Maxx Crosby Explains Why He Went To Bat For Antonio Pierce, Christian McCaffrey’s Mom Is Boycotting Taylor Swift, Which Ruins Colin Cowherd’s Theory, 49ers Embrace ‘Against All Odds’ Mantra Despite Being The Favorite In Every Game This Season, and Patrick Mahomes’ Dad Can Still Go To Super Bowl Despite Arrest
Power Line: Steal From the Poor, Give to the Rich, When Morgan Met Mike, and “Fast Car” revisited
Shark Tank: Sweeping Defamation Bill Makes It Easier To Sue Journalists
Shot In The Dark: Disappeared, Pretty Vacant, Better Late Than Never, and The Thing About Trump
STUMP: RIP Adele Groyer – A Tribute to an Actuary, World Cancer Day 2024, 
The Political Hat: Busy February, Light Posting
This Ain’t Hell: Stolen Valor Posts and FOIA Results, Soros turf updates, Jon Vigue – Another Phony Beirut Bombing Survivor, and Stolen Military Grave Markers Recovered
Transterrestrial Musings: Ashli Babbit
Victory Girls: Superintendent Infant-Bully Gets Booted, Why Is Nikki Haley Still Hanging On? and Border Bill Baloney: Why It Will Be DOA In The House
Volokh Conspiracy: Fighting the Meaning of Section Three
Watts Up With That: You’ll Never Guess Who Biden Just Picked to Replace John Kerry as Top Climate Diplomat, Urban Heat Island Studies – Do Pristine Weather Stations Even Exist? Part Two, ExxonMobil Just Set The Climate Alarm Lobby on Fire Again, World Cereal Production Set To Hit Record High In 2023, and Wood Pellets Aren’t CO2 Neutral, Emit More Than Coal…Double Natural Gas
The Federalist: Joe Biden Can’t Ignore East Palestine Anymore Now That His Job Is On The Line, Democrat Border Deal: Ukraine Gets More Money, Americans Get More Poor Illegal Immigrants, Democrats Work To Strip All Opponents Of Representation In Court, On CNN, Nikki Haley Regurgitates McConnell’s ‘But Trump’ Talking Points On Border Invasion Bill, Carl Weathers Wasn’t A Great Fighter, But He Was A Great Actor, Thanks To The State Freedom Caucus Network, GOP Legislatures Are Getting More Conservative, and Virginia Democrats Behind ‘Harassment’ Bill Really Want To Make Election Oversight A ‘Hate Crime’
Mark Steyn: An “Expert” in Investigations, Work to Rule: Doris Day and The Pajama Game, Almost Like Being in Love, A Fraud Upon the Court, and The Best Defense is a Good Offense

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