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THE GOOD
SOMEBODY HAD TO SAY IT: The West Is a Superior Civilization (And I Don’t Care If That Offends You).
MORE AND BETTER ENERGY IS BOTH NECESSARY AND GOOD FOR CIVILIZATION: The real foundation and future of human progress
I’ll TAKE A HARD WORKING IMMIGRANT OVER THESE PEOPLE ANY DAY OF THE WEEK: The luxury of self-destruction.
ARCHEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY ROUND UP
Nearly 80 Headless Human Skeletons Discovered At A Spooky Stone Age Site.
Stonehenge breakthrough reveals surprising path behind ancient stone’s 450-mile trek
5,300-year-old mummy reveals eerie ‘signs of life’ in discovery that stuns researchers
FROM THE ALWAYS GREAT ROGER KIMBALL: The Madness of the Anti-AI Crowd.
MEDICINE/HEALTH ROUND UP
People with more muscle mass and less visceral fat have younger brains, study finds.
Scientists Reveal Turning Point When Your Body’s Aging Accelerates.
A Fasting-Style Diet Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes to Human Brains.
FIGHT THE MAN: 82-year-old’s ‘outrageous’ fight against the gov’t could have long-lasting ramifications
NEWTON’S THIRD LAW OF MOTION APPLIED TO POLITICS (or something like that): If object A exerts a force on object B, then object B exerts a force on object A that is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction (F₁₂ = −F₂₁):
SCIENCE ROUND UP
Scientists Cracked Open a Mars Meteorite And Found a Big Surprise.
Can Time Flow in Reverse? A Quantum Breakthrough Challenges Our Assumptions.
Scientists May Have Detected The First Signature of a Black Hole’s Event Horizon.
Could we actually terraform Mars? Scientists are trying to find out.
THIS IS WHY HUMANS INVENTED MARRIAGE: Chimpanzees mate promiscuously, but fathers still favor and care for their own young.
WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF THIS? What sets women’s friendships apart and keeps them strong
THIS IS BECAUSE BABY BOOMERS ARE SUPERIOR TO GEN X, MILLENNIALS, AND GEN Z: Baby Boomer executives aren’t leaving the C-suite, setting up a succession crisis for corporate America
IN CASE YOU’VE BEEN WONDERING: On the Origins of Peanut Allergy. Before 1980, peanut allergy was so rare that the idea of someone dying from it was preposterous. So what changed?
MUST READ ON A VERY BAD TOPIC: What Mohamed Atta Was Trying to Tell Us. After 25 years, it is time for the West to face the true cause of 9/11.
MORE OF THIS AND FASTER, PLEASE: A 3-Year-Old’s Metastatic Cancer Disappeared After Two Doses of Experimental Therapy.
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE: Coffee Drinkers May Have More Muscle, Less Body Fat and Unexpected Hormone Differences, According to a New Study.
AND IT’S A GOOD THING, TOO: Bari Weiss is Destroying CBS News.
THE BAD
CHOOSE WELL, MY FRIENDS: 10-year cost of democratic socialist policies could hit $350,000 per household, White House says
SOCIALISM IS IMMORAL—PERIOD.
DIFFERENT MEANS TO THE SAME END: What’s different about ‘democratic’ socialism and what isn’t
BECAUSE IT’S A FORM OF FABULISM. It bears no relationship to reality: QotD: Why the revolution envisioned by Marx didn’t happen.
WAKE UP, AMERICA: ‘You Better Get Ready for … War’: Socialists Convene to Plan Next Phase of Revolution.
IT’S A PITY THEY BOTH CAN’T LOSE, . . . OR CAN THEY? Who Do We Root for to Win the DSA Civil War? The Commies or the Crazies?
“WOKENESS” IS THE CULTURAL VERSION OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, WHICH MEANS IT SHARES THE SAME END, WHICH IS . . . ? On the cutting edge of wokeness
THOUGHTS, COMMENTS, REACTION: Marxist billionaire accused of bankrolling anti-America protests: ‘Subversive activities’
NOTE TO GEN Z: WHEN THE LEFT TELLS YOU THAT YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO BUY A HOME BECAUSE OF CAPITALISM, THAT’S YOUR FIRST CLUE THAT THE REAL CAUSE IS SOCIALISM:
THESE PEOPLE WANT TO DESTROY YOUR WAY OF LIFE: Like Being on Another Planet: Socialism 2026 Chicago Conference.
THIS IS HOW GREAT CIVILIZATIONS FAIL, WHICH MEANS DECLINE AND FALL. The welfare State was never about the poor; it was always about the moral psychologies of upper-middle-class, white, college educated liberals who were motivated by guilt and power-lust: Sixty-two years and $22 trillion later, the U.S. poverty rate sits at roughly 11 percent, almost identical to where Lyndon Johnson found it in 1964. The government ran the most expensive social experiment in human history and produced nothing measurable. Bureaucracies perpetuate themselves, and this policy worked exactly as designed. Or found here at: X-cancel.
AND YET THERE ARE REPUBLICANS WHO SUPPORT THE WELFARE-ENTITLEMENT STATE. How exactly does that work? $1.3 Billion In Attempted Medicare Fraud. “An illegal alien from the country of Georgia allegedly spent five months running a Pennsylvania medical equipment company that filed $1.3 billion in fraudulent claims against Medicare and private insurers, then funneled the proceeds to a Russia-based criminal network.”
WHERE THERE IS A WELFARE STATE, THERE WILL BE FRAUD. That’s an iron law of politics: How Did This Nigerian Chief Make Million From Medicaid?“
DID YOU KNOW THAT MANY SO-CALLED “NEOCONSERVATIVES” ARE NOW VOTING FOR THE POLITICAL PARTY THAT SUPPORTS ANTIFA? U.S. Cuts Off Antifa’s Global Leftist Lifeline.
THE ROCKET SCIENCE PARTY GOES ALL IN: 39% of Democratic Voters Think Restaurant Industry “Should Be Publicly Owned and Operated.”
ONLY IN CANADA, YOU SAY? Government Admits Trans-Identified Male Prisoners Have Raped Female Inmates, Denies Infringing Women’s Rights.
THE ONLY DEFINITION OF “MODERATE” ISLAM THAT I ACCEPT SAYS THAT ALL MUSLIMS MUST OPENLY AND PUBLICLY DECLARE OPPOSITION TO ISIS, AL QAEDA, HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH, ETC.: ‘Moderate Islam’ Shows Its True Colors.
NEVER LIKED THE SHOES: The Death of Nike. At the hands of Colin Kaepernick, Dylan Mulvaney, and moronic hipster marketing execs.
ROLL THE DICE: Anthropic researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of ‘killing all humans’ after colleague quits over safety concerns
WE NEED POLITICIANS WHO ARE WILLING TO CUT THE NATIONAL DEBT IN HALF WITHIN THE NEXT DECADE. The problem is, of course, that 0% of Democrats want to cut the national debt and only about 50% of Republicans are willing to cut the debt by 50%: US national debt surpasses $40 trillion, adds $2.67 trillion in one year
CHINA WATCH:
THE ONLY TIME THE BBC FEATURES WHITE MALES IN ANYTHING IS WHEN THEY WANT THEM TO SERVE THE INTERESTS OF THE RULING ELITE OR WHEN THEY WANT THEM TO DIE: Uh-Oh: BBC features white male soldier in warning about impending war.
IT’S WHAT THEY DO: SOCIALISTS GOTTA SOCIALIZE: The Far-Left Wins Berlin’s Election on the Promise of Seizing Private Apartments.
THE COLLAPSE OF THE CCP WOULD NO DOUBT BE A GOOD THING, BUT THERE WOULD BE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Why We Must Prepare for the Chinese Communist Party’s Collapse.
THE LONG, CLOWN SHOW MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS: Episcopal Priest Claims ‘God Is Trans,’ Mary ‘Assigned’ Jesus the Wrong Gender.
NOT GOOD! I repeat, not good: One Dead, Nearly 200 Hospitalized in Siberian Pneumonic Plague Outbreak
