The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 70)

July 9, 2024

*I’ll be back a week today with an essay titled “Private Property and the Birth of a Free Society.”

THE GOOD

WHO WILL BE THE AMERICAN MILEI? Argentinian conservative silences critics by whipping inflation in mere months

CONFIRMING WHAT SOME HAVE KNOWN ALL ALONG: Climate Change is Driven by Changes in Orientation of Earth to Sun, Not Carbon Emissions, New Analysis of Berkeley Earth Data Shows

FINALLY, THE LAW CAUSE AND EFFECT GOES INTO EFFECT: 13 Federal Judges Say They Will No Longer Hire Law Clerks From Columbia University, Citing ‘Virulent Spread of Antisemitism’ and ‘Explosion of Student Disruptions’.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Will an Open Bottle of Fine Bourbon Ever Go Bad?

MEDICINE/HEALTH ROUNDUP:

• US patient ‘happy again’ after brain implant treats epilepsy and OCD.

• Unlocking Bacterial Self-Destruction to Combat Infections.

• Ban of ineffective phenylephrine could affect access to other remedies.

• Scientists Engineer Human T Cells 100x More Potent at Killing Cancer Cells.

• Clinical trial shows rheumatoid arthritis drug could prevent disease.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, I SUPPOSE: The reckoning over puberty blockers has arrived. 

SCIENCE ROUNDUP:

• Top Astronomers Gather to Confront Possibility They Were Very Wrong About the Universe.

• Scientists create programmable artificial cells that mimic living cells

THE RETURN OF SANITY: Gender clinic in major nation stops prescribing puberty blockers for minors

LAWSUITS TOTALING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WILL HELP TO BRING THIS INSANITY TO AN END PRETTY QUICKLY: Detransitioner wants punitive damages from pushers of transgenderism

• Related: Medical Associations Silent After Review Finds Weak Evidence For Recommending Puberty Blockers To Kids

ARCHEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY ROUNDUP

• Trove of ancient coins found in Christian grave, raising more questions than answers

• Scientists Find Chapter Of Bible Hidden For More Than 1,000 Years

• Scientists may have solved mystery behind Egypt's pyramids

• Plato’s final resting place revealed after researchers restore ancient scroll

ONLY AT THE BABYLON BEE: Columbia Protestors Clarify They Only Want Death To America After America Is Done Paying Their Student Loans.

IF THIS IS TRUE, THEN WHY DO PEOPLE SEEM TO BE GETTING DUMMER? Are We Evolving? New Research Reveals That Human Brains Are Getting Larger.

THE BAD

THIS IS WHAT WEAPONIZED IMMIGRATION POLICY LOOKS LIKE: Immigration, Islam and the deliberate crashing of the welfare system.

THEY LIED AND PEOPLE DIED:

• New Research Reveals That Wearing Face Masks Did Not Reduce Risk of COVID Infection After First Omicron Wave.

• The vast scale of vaccine damage America tried (and failed) to hide.

• Massive cancer deaths study vindicates my warnings over covid boosters.

WHAT THE LOCKDOWNS DID TO SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY WAS A MORAL CRIME: Older Americans are still feeling the effects of pandemic isolation.

CHINA’S WEAPONIZED FOREIGN POLICY:

• China gives TAX BREAKS to the fentanyl-making firms behind some 80,000 US overdose deaths each year: House report says Beijing sows 'chaos and devastation'

• Chinese-Backed Charity Registering Democrats To Flip Virginia

• Chinese Scientists Create Mutant COVID Strain That Has 100% Kill Rate In Mice

• Chinese Nationals Fastest Growing Group of Border Crossers.

• EXCLUSIVE: China’s Military Could Be Reaping The Benefits Of Takeover Of US Ag Giant

THE LEFT SPECIALIZES IN MAKING YOUNG PEOPLE ANXIOUS ABOUT BASICALLY EVERYTHING: A Generation Lost to Climate Anxiety

STOP THE LIES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, PLEASE:  ‘There’s Been No Increase’: Scientists Debunk Climate Change Claims About Hurricanes.

WHAT BIDENOMICS IS DOING FOR YOU:

• Bidenomics: Food Stamp Costs For A Family’s Meal Jump 31% Over Last Three Years

• Bidenomics Versus the American Family

• 86% Of Small Business Hurt By Bidenflation: Poll

• #Bidenflation 1: Home Prices Rise At Fastest Rate In More Than A Year

• #Bidenomics: Joe Pushing Trillions In Election-Year Tax Hikes

AND WHAT, MAY I ASK, ARE YOU DOING TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING? The United States of America is doomed.

HOLD YOUR BREATH WHEN YOU READ THIS ARTICLE: The world’s troubles all lead back to America.

SADLY, THIS SEEMS TO BE TRUER WITH EVERY PASSING DAY: NOT A ‘FREE COUNTRY’

IF EVEN HALF OF THIS IS TRUE, IT’S UNSETTLING: Is the CIA America's
'1984'-style 'Big Brother'? Assassination, stealing elections, manipulating media, trafficking drugs, spying on Americans

HATE TRUMP OR LIKE TRUMP IS NOT THE ISSUE. The issue is Biden: The 16 top ways Biden is 'WAAAY worse' for democracy than Trump

AT WHAT POINT DO YOU WAKE UP AND SAY TO YOURSELF, “GEE, I’VE BEEN PLAYED!”: Ontario Man Demands Gov’t Pay for Surgery to Make Him Appear Both Male and Female.

CHINA WATCH:

• China's timetable for invading Taiwan now being debated

• Chinese media warning about 'World War' with NATO countries

• ‘Blinking Red’: US Is Scrambling To Prep For A China Invasion Of Taiwan, Defense Officials Say

• China Is Engaged in a Massive Nuclear Missile Buildup. 

• China allegedly dispatches ‘world first’ in-orbit AI commercial hypersatellite: The hypersatellite is allegedly an integrated sensing network satellite that contains a sixth-generation ‘brain system.’

DEMOCRACY IS JUST A CODE WORD FOR SOCIALISM, AT LEAST AS IT’S USED BY THE RULING ELITE: ‘Democracy’ has a peculiar aftertaste

MARXISM (AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF SOCIALISM) IS THE WORST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO THE HUMAN RACE. Do you dispute that claim? Survivor’s Recollections of Genocidal Khmer Rouge Civil War.