BREAKING: House Votes to Strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of Committee Assignments.
February 4, 2021
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Why are Democrats so scared of Donald Trump when they just defeated him? “Donald Trump is washed up. A has-been. Everyone hates him, and he has no future. That’s what the press is constantly telling us. So why are the Democrats still afraid of him?”
SO WHAT’S THE POINT, THEN? COVID-19: ‘Too risky’ for special mixing rules among vaccinated people. “Allowing people who have had both doses of the coronavirus vaccine to meet up with each other without social distancing has been ruled out. During the government’s daily coronavirus briefing, the prime minister and England’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, said it remained too risky for such a prospect.”
You want to discourage people from even getting the vaccine? This is how.
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Toronto Sketch Troupe Cancels Self. “When that failed to solve racism in the Great White North, The Sketchersons took extreme measures. The long-running Canadian group canceled itself before the woke mob could do it for them.”
YOU AND I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH SCARCITY: Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Proposal is ‘Terrible Idea’ with ‘Dismal Track Record,’ Economists Say.
FACT-CHECKING THE FACT-CHECKERS: Check out the rating Snopes is giving stories that point out AOC’s lie about nearly dying at the Capitol.
ROGER SIMON: All Republican State Legislatures Should Follow Gov. DeSantis’ Lead to End Big Tech Domination.
The Big Tech giants have created the most sophisticated and seductive form of fascist mind control in human history.
In so doing, not only have they enabled and promulgated the “cancel culture,” sabotaging the freedom and liberty envisioned in our country’s founding, along with the First Amendment, they have addicted our youth, miseducated, and corrupted them.
They have also, through their dominance, which almost no one predicted, heavily and unfairly influenced elections and become the greatest threat to our democratic republic extant.
Many have complained about this, some with eloquence, but other than unfulfilled rumblings about reforming Section 230—the legalism that shields these companies from being sued for what they publish—nothing has been done. No one has really stepped up.
Until Ron DeSantis.
On Feb. 2, the Florida governor gave a speech outlining a series of concrete proposals for his state that would have a serious impact on these companies. (Details in a moment)
I am writing this column to urge all Republican state legislatures and governors to pay close attention to what DeSantis has proposed and emulate, even expand on, these new regulations and legislative solutions in their states.
This would create pronounced and consequential change, and these legislatures and governors have the power to do it. Twenty-four states are fully under Republican control, and in several more they have a majority in the legislatures.
According to Americans for Tax Reform, states with Republican-controlled legislatures have populations of nearly 186 million, Democrat-controlled only about 134 million.
That’s Republican clout, should the states choose to use it. And they should because federal action on Big Tech is somewhere between unlikely and impossible given the current situation in D.C., not to mention that these companies are the biggest political contributors in history with the deepest pockets.
Moreover, the national Republican Party cannot be relied upon, its congressional leadership being, to be kind, remarkably tepid.
Here are DeSantis’ proposals, as outlined by Breitbart.com:
- Mandatory opt-outs from big tech’s content filters, a solution to tech censorship first proposed by Breitbart News in
- A private right of action for Floridian citizens against tech companies that violate this condition.
- Fines of $100,000 per day levied on tech companies that suspend candidates for elected office in Florida from their platforms.
- Daily fines for any tech company “that uses their content and user-related algorithms to suppress or prioritize the access of any content related to a political candidate or cause on the ballot.”
- Greater transparency requirements.
- Disclosure requirements enforced by Florida’s election authorities for tech companies that favor one candidate over another.
- Power for the Florida attorney general to bring cases against tech companies that violate these conditions under the state’s Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act.
Every one of these proposals is worthy. Undoubtedly more could be added if the Republican states, working together or separately, address the problem.
Governor DeSantis shouldn’t have to do it all by himself, brave as he is.
The transparency issue especially must be delved into. It relates directly to the question of algorithms referred to immediately above it, since everything in our culture is political, not just electoral politics. Entertainment and (most importantly) education are also heavily politicized and subject to manipulation by algorithms.
Missing too is the increasingly dangerous area of data collection, which can lead to people being fired, blacklisted or, particularly for younger people, socially ostracized for their views.
This last has led to an epidemic of depression among the young. We have Big Tech to thank for that.
So, states, do your thing. Don’t wait. This is your time!
Related: From Stephen Kruiser: Can Ron DeSantis Teach Media Relations to Weak Republicans?
FINISHING THAT WALL SEEMS LIKE A REALLY GOOD IDEA: 11 Iranians arrested in Arizona after jumping U.S.-Mexico border.
RIOTS FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME:
● Shot: AOC questions if Capitol Police officer tried to put her in a ‘vulnerable situation.’
—Fox News, Tuesday.
● Chaser: Ocasio-Cortez dismisses proposed $1B cut: ‘Defunding police means defunding police.’
—The Hill, June 30th, 2020.
● Hangover: Why is ‘Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Smollett’ trending?
—The London Sun, today.
UPDATE: As Jim Treacher writes, “If a Capitol Police officer really did threaten Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or any other member of Congress, he needs to be identified. He needs to explain himself. If AOC is telling the truth, he should be fired. If it’s not true… why did she say it? And what should happen to a member of Congress who would lie about such a thing?”
(Classical reference in headline.)
SCIENCE: The Physics of Machine-Gun Fire.
ABOUT TIME: The GayPatriot blog has relaunched!
EVERYBODY LOVES CHICKEN AND WAFFLES: Man denied chicken and waffles for not masking leaves and returns with a gun. “He actually took chicken and before he walked out the door he took syrup for his chicken.”
LIVE NOW: VIP Gold Live Chat with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit.
Hot takes, cold drinks.
ENGLISH LIBERTY AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE: UK COVID Cops Arrest Man For Handing Out Free Soup. “Despite it being legal under volunteer exemption.”
MAKE BIG TECH PAY ROYALTIES TO USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA: Here’s a modest proposal for taming the social media giants.
SKYNET SMILES: Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robot Is Now Armed.
DOES RO KHANNA KNOW WHO HE VOTED FOR?


ANNALS OF RIGHTEST AUTOPHAGY: A statement from The Spectator. In regards to a legal complaint from the American Spectator.
LEAVE MY DOGS OUT OF YOUR ANTISOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: Critical Race Theory Is Coming for the Dogs: Katja Guenther’s ‘The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals.’
IN 2021, CAN YOU BLAME THEM? Migratory birds getting drunk on fermented berries in Texas.
I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: North Carolina’s lt. governor shows how to fight back against a corrupt media. “In 2018, Mark Robinson stood up before the city council in Greensboro, North Carolina and gave an impassioned defense of the Second Amendment. That video went viral and led to him entering politics. Last year, Robinson became North Carolina’s Republican lieutenant governor. This year, when a local paper published a cartoon calling the entire North Carolina Republican party a KKK entity, Robinson (who is black) ferociously attacked the newspaper for its dishonesty and ignorance. He needs to give master classes in handling the media.”
Impressive video at the link.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Tragic First-Person Accounts of the Effects of COVID-19 School Closures on Children.
HE MEANS ANYONE WHO DOESN’T TOE THE PARTY LINE: Biden Vowed to Fight Domestic Terrorism in Prayer Breakfast Speech. What Exactly Did He Mean?
REFILL THE SWAMP: Biden Asia Czar’s Holdings May Present Conflict of Interest. “President Joe Biden’s Asia czar owns part of a “shadow lobbying firm” that gives strategic advice to corporations doing business in Asia, a position that ethics experts say could create conflicts of interest.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE, AS BIDEN’S ENERGY PROGRAM GOES FORWARD: File:Construction of a Simplified Wood Gas Generator For Fueling Internal Combustion Engines in a Petroleum Emergency.
READINESS: Biden SecDef Issues Military-Wide Stand-Down Order to Fight ‘Extremism.’
If you thought eight years of Obama was bad for readiness and morale, wait until you see what Biden can do in eight weeks.
GOYA’S DECEMBER EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: ‘Alexandria Ocasio Smollett’ Trends As Critics Punch Holes In Her Dramatic Cap Hill Story.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Traumatized Climate Activist Greta Thunberg May Face Criminal Investigation.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is it is commendable to abuse and manipulate a teenage girl with severe emotional issues?
Answer: For decent people, never. For the Left, when doing so advanced the Party’s interests, comrades.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Meet the social justice doctor who wants to play God during a pandemic
- AOC sics her private mob on the free press
- “Why You Shouldn’t Invade America” [Corrected Edition]
Bonus Sanity: Did Slow Joe accidentally bring a China Hawk on board?
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
WHY, NO, THE GOP HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN OVER BY Q-ANON: House Democrats, as this post is being typed, are preparing to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) of her committee assignments.
Has to be done, you see, because she represents the radical extremists who control the GOP, who launched a failed coup d’tat on January 6 and who will wreak lethal havoc in every city, town and village across America if Greene isn’t punished.
John Daniel Davidson takes on this fairy tale and subjects it to a thorough dose of reality.
‘THE HORROR!’ CNBC’s Shep Smith shares ‘shocking video’ from Florida market:

Yes, it’s “shocking” to some, but it’s possible to walk up to a Florida restaurant, as I did last month, and be greeted by signs such as this:

And yet:

BLUE CITY BLUES: The Down Side to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks.
The nearly 1,400-foot tower at 432 Park Avenue, briefly the tallest residential building in the world, was the pinnacle of New York’s luxury condo boom half a decade ago, fueled largely by foreign buyers seeking discretion and big returns.
Six years later, residents of the exclusive tower are now at odds with the developers, and each other, making clear that even multimillion-dollar price tags do not guarantee problem-free living. The claims include: millions of dollars of water damage from plumbing and mechanical issues; frequent elevator malfunctions; and walls that creak like the galley of a ship — all of which may be connected to the building’s main selling point: its immense height, according to homeowners, engineers and documents obtained by The New York Times.
Less than a decade after a spate of record-breaking condo towers reached new heights in New York, the first reports of defects and complaints are beginning to emerge, raising concerns that some of the construction methods and materials used have not lived up to the engineering breakthroughs that only recently enabled 1,000-foot-high trophy apartments. Engineers privy to some of the disputes say many of the same issues are occurring quietly in other new towers.
The Taggart Tunnel disaster sequence from Atlas Shrugged comes to mind.
CHARLES LIPSON: Why Israel Leads the World in Vaccinating Its Population. “The country could afford the mass purchases thanks to decades of economic growth, grounded in high-technology, medical research, water conservation, sophisticated weapons development, cybersecurity and more. The growth was spurred by market-oriented public policies, adopted after years of sluggish European-style socialism under Labor governments.”
BLACK HAWK BOARDS A BURKE: A U.S. Army UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter lands on the flight deck aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain. The helicopter crew was conducting deck landing qualification tests. Photo taken January 30 somewhere in the Philippine Sea. This “Dirty Little Secrets” report from 2014 discusses Army helicopter operations from Navy ships. That article expanded on a Naval Air update from 2006 that mentioned “U.S. Navy protests and attempts to keep the soldiers on land.” That attitude conflicts with operational requirements — Pentagon speak for you gotta do what you gotta do and you gotta use what you got. I’d add that operations in the western Pacific’s island chains and in the Indian Ocean demand joint operations.
SOMEWHAT RELATED: A handy guide to soldier slang and Pentagonese.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: In Effort To Shake Off Abuse Allegations, Marilyn Manson Runs For Office As A Democrat.
HMM: Josh Hawley proposes “preemptive” ban on Big Tech mergers. “Hawley’s idea mirrors a recommendation made last fall by Democrats on the House antitrust subcommittee, suggesting there could be bipartisan support.”
FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: University of Illinois settles speech code lawsuit before Supreme Court can review case.
CURTAILING INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: Tulane gave ‘priority’ to ‘Black’ and ‘People of Color’ job applicants. It doesn’t anymore.
A recent listing for a teaching-assistant position at Tulane University appeared to prioritize certain applicants explicitly on the basis of their race or ethnicity.
The job description for “Teaching Assistant for ‘The Arts and Social Impact’” originally stated that “priority will be given to BIPOC applicants.” The acronym “BIPOC” refers to “Black, Indigenous, (and) People of Color.”
When contacted by Campus Reform, Tulane University backtracked and removed the language stating that priority for the position “will be given to BIPOC applicants.”
The Executive Director of Public Relations for Tulane University, Michael Strecker, told Campus Reform, “We have removed the phrase from the advertisement for the teaching assistant position you referenced below.”
“As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Tulane University does not discriminate on the basis of protected classifications (such as race, color, or any other classification protected by applicable law) in its programs, activities, or employment.”
The description states that the job is intended for “somebody who has interest in arts practices, community organizing/engagement, education, policy, and activism.”
Next question: Why does this position exist at all?
NOTHING SAYS FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY LIKE A MINISTRY OF TRUTH HEADED BY A “REALITY CZAR.” Liberalism’s Ministry of Truth: Academics and the progressive press mull state media controls.
The academic establishment and progressive press want you to know two things: First, conservative claims of social-media bias are bogus. As Silicon Valley firms police content, their decisions are, miraculously, wholly uninfluenced by ideological preference.
Second, there is an urgent need for a much wider crackdown on political speech, perhaps led by the Biden Administration and requiring the creation of new government agencies. In other words, all that conservative suppression that’s, er, not happening? We need more of it.
New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights released a brief this week that is being amplified in the press entitled, “False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives.” It argues that “some conservatives believe their content is suppressed on partisan grounds when, in fact, it’s being singled out because it violates neutral platform rules.”
That is sometimes true, but the report doesn’t remotely prove that it always is. What about when Twitter and Facebook tried to suppress a New York Post story about Hunter Biden before the 2020 election? Even the report concedes that “the question of whether social media companies harbor an anti-conservative bias can’t be answered conclusively.”
That doesn’t stop the authors from unabashedly asserting that “the claim of anti-conservative animus is itself a form of disinformation.” It is perpetuated partly because “it appeals to the same conspiratorial mindset that has fostered the QAnon movement.”
Got it? Anyone who argues social-media moderation has a progressive slant is spreading disinformation, and possibly drawn to a bizarre cult. And remember that disinformation is against the rules—which, once again, are neutral.
Among the solutions to the non-problem of progressive bias is, naturally, government control. The NYU report recommends that “the federal government . . . press Facebook, Google, and Twitter to improve content policies” and “cooperate with these companies” on enforcement. This political suppression—er, neutral government-backed content policy—“could be enforced by a new Digital Regulatory Agency.”
Since we’re devising new entities for speech control, the New York Times offers another idea. Experts recommend “that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a ‘reality czar,’” the beacon of progressive tolerance avers.
1984 wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual, you know.
SINCE WE’RE BARELY ALLOWED TO GO OUT TO DRINK, THIS SEEMS LIKE A SAFE BET: Uber is betting $1.1 billion on alcohol deliveries.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Can Ron DeSantis Teach Media Relations to Weak Republicans? “That’s precisely what the Republican party needs — leaders who don’t fall for the false promise of respect from the mainstream media. It was bad enough before Trump won in 2016. The MSM hacks would dangle carrots for witless Republicans. If the Republicans in question did what they were told — like back stab other Republicans — they’d be treated slightly less awfully in the press. As soon as their service was no longer required, it was back to crap treatment as usual.”
ALEXANDRA OCASIO SMOLLETT: AOC faces backlash as critics point out she wasn’t in Capitol building during riot.
CIRCLING BACK TO NEVER: Reporter to Psaki: When will Biden make an effort to reach out to pro-life Americans?
GOOD NEWS, IF TRUE: Biden’s team faces the ugly facts on China.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent rebukes of China give hope that the Biden administration recognizes the truth about this vicious regime.
On NBC’s “Today,” Blinken called Beijing’s coronavirus coverup a “profound problem” that continues “even today,” accusing the Communist country of failing to live up to international obligations since the first cases popped up in 2019.
Before that, he said during confirmation hearings that China’s mass detention of Uighur Muslims qualifies as “genocide.” He even admitted that Team Trump was right to take a tougher stance against China.
Beijing is already whining that these words amount to “interfering in its domestic affairs and undermining its interests.”
The good news is that the Bidenites have also offered more than words, by rushing a US Navy group to support Taiwan during the mainland’s latest effort to intimidate the free, democratic island nation.
Let’s hope this attitude continues.
THERE ARE SOME PARTS OF AMERICA I WOULD NOT ADVISE YOU TO OPPRESS: Biden readies showdown on guns.
Former CIA Director John O. Brennan is an angry man, and his anger mismanagement issues emerge not in the preface to his memoir but in its title, which reads Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad. The CIA is an executive branch organization focused on foreign intelligence, intentionally headquartered across the Potomac in McLean, Virginia, separated from the White House, State Department, Congress, and all the other policy and partisan bodies. So, who are a CIA director’s domestic enemies—terrorist sleeper cells? Russian illegals? Shady companies aiding Iran’s nuclear procurement efforts? These would be valid targets for joint FBI-CIA attention, and probably anger too.
Four hundred pages later, the reader finds that Brennan’s list contains none of these but it is long, and he exhausts his thesaurus of abusive language against them: Arlen Specter, Richard Grenell, Devin Nunes, Lindsey Graham, Donald Rumsfeld, Michael Pompeo, Trey Gowdy, Michael Scheuer, and Gina Haspel (on and off; she didn’t invite him to CIA holiday parties), and the CIA’s Directorate of Operations generally. Pride of place goes, of course, to Donald Trump. Before Brennan has even met the newly elected Trump, but is en route to brief him in early January 2017, he records that the “mere thought” of the meeting “jarred my very soul.” Brennan’s meetings with, say, Yasser Arafat evince no such dread, and in fact are recounted pretty jauntily.
Brennan’s outbursts are a consistent theme in this memoir. They are often blamed on his “Irish temper,” as if his rage is something external, like an unruly Irish setter that jumps on strangers. Trump is “evil despicable, and vile,” with bad qualities—“incompetence, dishonesty, and cravenness,” especially when Andrew McCabe was fired from the FBI, on St. Patrick’s Day no less, when “my Irish dander was more easily ruffled.”
They often come at a cost: In late 2006, a hot-tempered draft op-ed piece attacking President Bush, while never published, found its way to the White House and would cost Brennan the job of deputy DNI a year later. His famous anti-Trump meltdown when McCabe was fired cost him a gig at Booz Allen Hamilton, and his implausible threat of a lawsuit when his clearances were pulled cost him a consultancy contract with Kissinger Associates.
Sod off, Swamp Thing.
WHY IS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SO FULL OF HATE? Biden Press Sec Used Insult Condemned by Dem Officials as ‘Homophobic.’
THE EXPERTS’ TRACK RECORD WAS BETTER A HALF-CENTURY AGO, BUT STILL A LOT WORSE THAN THEY PRETENDED: “Of the countless lies the American people are meant to believe, perhaps the greatest is the myth of expertise.”
Related: The Suicide of Expertise.
SQUAD GOALS: ‘Squad’ member Cori Bush defended Antifa during summer riots.
Flashback: Bush tweeted in December that her goal was to “defund the police:”

But not all police: When asked by MSNBC’s Joy Reid after the Capitol Hill riot if the Capitol Police made her feel safe, “I did until today.”
HERE COMES $2 TRILLION WORTH OF PAIN: Hans Bader at Liberty Unyielding explains why the national response to the vastly more lethal Spanish Flu of 1918 was superior to the current lockdowns and multi-Trillion-dollar relief packages.
Or, to put it another way, when government says the solution to a problem is A, you know it’s almost invariably actually the precise opposite of A.
BACK TO THE FUTURE: Daimler to spin off trucks, change name to Mercedes-Benz.
From Mercedes-Benz to DaimlerChrysler to Daimler to Mercedes-Benz.
SO MUCH FOR BIDEN’S ERA OF NORMALCY: Nation buys guns at blistering pace.
SALENA ZITO: Billy Carter may have been ‘small beer’ in comparison with Frank Biden.
The same can be said of Biden himself: Our Biggest Liar? Joe Biden.
AGAIN, I’VE BEEN PUTTING UP THE IP THAT REVERTED:
FROM SARAH A. HOYT: Noah’s Boy.
Tom Ormson and Kyrie Smith are suffering the growing pains of young romance and young business people. Tom worries obsessively about the new fryer in the diner exploding.
As though he didn’t have enough on his mind, though, life decides it’s time for a sabretooth with vengeance on her mind to come to town, and for the Great Sky Dragon to try to arrange a marriage for Tom.
Meanwhile, out at the old amusement park, the one with the really good wooden roller-coaster, a series of bizarre murders is taking place.
And, as if that were not enough, Conan Lung, dragon shifter, ex-triad member and waiter extraordinaire starts his country singing career with an original song “If I Could Fly to You.”
When Kyrie is kidnapped, it’s all Tom can do to make sure he protects her while not eating anyone.
NOBODY WANTS TO KNOW. OR FOR YOU TO KNOW. Joanne Jacobs: How Badly Are Students Doing?
ARE THE OLD GODS RETURNING? Humongous wave appears to bear face of Greek sea god Poseidon.
THANK YOU MUCHLY, BUT WE ALREADY KNEW: A data maven says fraud affected the election outcome.
1) We remember the impossible numbers in the middle of the night (those of us who were awake.)
2) Even if we didn’t, the courts’ refusal to let anyone present a case often on bizarre, spurious “standing” grounds, would be a red flag.
3) The democrats trying to shut up anyone who even mentions fraud is as good as an admission of guilt. What the innocent do, like say the Republicans after 2016, is make sure the opposition gets all possible opportunities to show what they think is evidence.
4) The military-occupied capital is totally what people who didn’t steal the election would do.
AFTER THEY BLACKLIST EVERYONE, THEY’LL BE THE ONES ISOLATED: Today’s blacklisted American: Professor fired from journal he founded.
We’re the majority.
COMMIES GOTTA COMMIE: John Brennan and the Aging Radicals
OF COURSE HE DOES: George Gascon Supports Parole For Charles Manson Cult Member.
OH, DEAR LORD: Leftist Pushing For Biden To Appoint ‘Reality Czar’.
a) stop with the Czars already. b) leftists couldn’t find reality with two hands and a seeing eye dog. That’s why they think they can remake reality with words.
SAME AS IT EVER WAS: Violence Policy Center Seems To Have A Problem With Black Gun Owners.
THESE PEOPLE WOULD BE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO AMERICA: Biden State Dept. Spox Calls Cops ‘Blue Klux Klan,’ and Largest Threat to U.S. National Security’.
That is, they would be if it were even remotely plausible we elected this junta, and if any of them could find America on a map given three tries.
MY GUESS IS SOON: When (or If) Comes the Pushback?
WELL, THAT COULD BE BECAUSE WE ARE AN OCCUPIED COUNTRY: Start By Boycotting The House.
THEIR LEGAL EXPERTS ARE AS GOOD AS THEIR JOURNALISTS: CNN Legal Analyst: ‘You Don’t Have A First Amendment Right To Lie’.
First, who determines if you’re lying, or mis-remembering or misinformed?
Second, what about telling your kid there is Santa Claus?
What about not revealing your politics in the age of cancel culture?
What about fiction?
WHO is in charge of saying this lie is allowed and that one isn’t?
Also, why shouldn’t I lie to people who have no business knowing the truth?
When it comes to the busybodies of the left, I stand with Leonard Cohen:”Bless the statement by whoever it’s made: “Sir, I didn’t see nothing, I was just getting laid””
ME? I YEARN TO BREATHE FREE: Masking the Science
February 3, 2021
BUT HE’S NOT SMART, AND THERE’S NO CHANCE HE’LL DO THIS: Biden’s smartest play: Go bipartisan and watch GOP destroy itself.
KNOW YOUR PLACE, PEASANTS: John Kerry flew on private jet to accept climate award: ‘Only choice for somebody like me.’
IT’S INCREASINGLY APPARENT THAT “ANTI-RACISM” IS RACIST GARBAGE:

WHEN THE DEMOCRATS REMOVE ILHAN OMAR AND AOC, WE CAN TALK: Republicans refuse to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from panels.
OPEN THREAD: Share some good news.
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: How to watch Space Settlement 2021 from the National Space Society this week.
The focus is the people, organizations and technology that are thinking ahead to settlement options in space, NSS said in a statement. A big focus lately in the space industry has been moon missions, as NASA continues to shoot for a 2024 astronaut landing along with a plethora of commercial vehicles through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. . . .
Invited speakers cover a span of space settlement options, ranging from astrophysicists who examine potentially habitable exoplanets to engineers working on planetary exploration. A few of the speakers include Janet Ivey (president of Explore Mars, Inc.), Alan Stern (principal investigator of the New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto) and Karlton Johnson (chair of the National Space Society’s board of governors.)
It’s tomorrow.
WELL, FOR ONE THING I’M TOLD THAT IVERMECTIN AND HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE ARE AVAILABLE OVER THE COUNTER THERE: The Mystery Of India’s Plummeting COVID-19 Cases. “I mean, hospital ICU utilization has gone down. Every indicator says the numbers are down.”
No mention of those drugs in this NPR story, though.
HIRING LITIGATORS AT THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE.
SPOILING THE NARRARIVE: AOC Wasn’t Even in the Capitol Building During Her ‘Near Death’ Experience.


Plus:


DELIBERATELY, AND WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT: Brittany Hunter: How did unelected bureaucrats hijack the role of legislators?
CANCEL CULTURE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND: Your Job From Now on Is to Stay Silent and Follow Orders.
JOHN KASS: ERASING CLASSIC LITERATURE FOR KIDS:
Classic Western literature, from Homer to Shakespeare, Mark Twain and even Harper Lee, is now being canceled, much in the same way that the Islamic State group and early Christians destroyed ancient statues that offended them.
There is something quite barbarous about it all.
Just a few days ago, zealots in San Francisco began stripping “offensive names” from public schools. Names such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and even Democratic U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein, who is a living witness to her own cancellation.
The stripping of names are public events. They pit aging, worried traditional liberals against a radical leftist movement that will devour them as surely as the relentless Bolsheviks devoured the more moderate Mensheviks.
But the purging of great literature often takes place quietly, among woke teachers and librarians. If the classics aren’t exactly banned outright or burned, they have another way:
To place offending literature on the back shelf, out of the reach of the young, where they’re lost to gather dust in the shadows.
Author Padma Venkatraman wrote an essay titled “Weeding Out Racism’s Invisible Roots: Rethinking Children’s Classics” in the School Library Journal. She supports this purge.
The woke are barbarians, and libraries — already facing obsolescence — are killing themselves.




