Maggie's Farm

 Academics called breastfeeding 'ethically problematic' because it endorses 'gender roles.' 

 TikTok Doctor Says "It's Okay To Be Fat" And Obesity Should Be "Normalized"

 The ‘Obesity Is a Disease’ Pharma Hustle

 The Misguided War on the SAT - Colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that they hurt diversity. That’s not what the research shows.

 Education Dept. investigates university for condemning Oct. 7 Hamas attack

VDH:  A Culture in Collapse - American civilization has been turned upside down, and we have a rendezvous soon with the once unthinkable and unimaginable.

Re The NYT:  Lights Out in America - The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.

 UN Demands $150 Trillion to End Bad Weather

 GAS KEEPS THE LIGHTS ON

 Apparently, houseplants now contribute to climate change

 The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time -- Part XXXI

Afrochemistry 

 Joe Biden’s ‘January 6th’ speech is nothing more than a rant against Donald Trump

People whose politics do not fit into slots 

Have the Billions Donated for ‘Racial Equity’ Made Any Difference?

 4 Ways The BLM And Antifa Riots Were Worse Than January 6

 The reparations movement is having another moment

 Mexican President Demands Joe Biden Grant at Least 10 Million Hispanics Legal Status in US and $20 Billion to Latin America in Exchange for Assistance on the US Border

The Threat of Free Speech, Yesterday and Today

Free thought is mainly a threat to governments and the power-seeking 

 Human brain is superior and more efficient than artificial intelligence, scientists say

 'To Make A Snowflake'

Bari Weiss:  Going Pantsless? An Economic Boom? World War III? Our Predictions for 2024

 The Free Press Goes to the Movies - Grab the popcorn and get ready for awards season, as our team gives you the score on Maestro, May December, Poor Things, Priscilla, Napoleon and more.

 IT’S ALWAYS JANUARY 6 SOMEWHERE

Sheesh - evil rebels 

In The New York Times, "Colonialism" Explains Everything

 The Southern Poverty Law Center’s New Enemy: Americans Who Accept Biology. A new SPLC propaganda document claims to ‘expose’ a vast ‘Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network’ that’s supposedly targeting trans people.

 Al Sharpton defense of Claudine Gay is pure race hustle

" Gay’s inexplicable rise and quite explicable fall illustrate, in a difficult-to-misinterpret fashion, the plain grift that is the DEI industry."

 Unrepentant DEI at MIT - The diversity ideology marches on at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 WaPo Reporter Who Was Schooled by Ramaswamy Does Exactly What He Said She Would

 Study Found No ‘Extremism’ Problem in the Military, Despite Biden Administration’s Narrative

 Black Chicagoans Vowing to ‘Make Chicago Red’ as Migrant Crisis Roils Windy City

 Eric Adams Suing Bus Companies Bringing Migrants From Texas to NYC. Boohoo. Cry me a river, Mayor. You wanted to be a sanctuary city. You face nothing compared to what Texas deals with on a daily basis.

Left to Rot, Bedford Springs Celebrates Regaining Its Former Glory

 "How many American cats live largely or entirely outdoors? (More than a hundred million.) What proportion of them kill birds? (More than half.)"

 We stopped taking Ozempic and Wegovy — and regained more weight than we lost

 Letting Anorexics Die, or Not

 NY Times Has Already Decided What The Stories Of Climate Doom Will Be In 2024

 The 'Risky' Business of Showing All Sides

 Biden’s Hidden Re-Election Advantage Comes Into Focus for 2024 and Should Worry the Republicans

 The Blue-State Exodus Could Have Profound Effects on GOP Power

 Dehumanizing Anti-Civilization Dogma Behind DEI’s Destruction Of Universities - It's time to build the alternative

 NY Times Moron Defends Ousted Harvard President Claudine Gay: ‘This is an Attack on Diversity’

VDH:  Harvard—Out the Frying Pan Into the Fire - Gay’s removal is not the end of Harvard’s dilemma. Rather, it is the beginning.

 CNN anchor assures viewers that Claudine Gay did not plagiarize, she’s only accused of ‘copying other people’s writings without attribution’

 Bill Ackman: How to Fix Harvard. Claudine Gay’s ouster won’t change things. The college needs a complete overhaul, starting with a resignation of the board and the removal of DEI from every corner of the institution…

 Ramaswamy Destroys WaPo Reporter Over Dumb Gotcha Question About ‘White Supremacy'

 The Day The Dollar Dies?

 Ukraine's Leopard 2 Tanks Are Nearly All Destroyed Or Broken

 Psychologists Were Wrong About the Science of Self Control

Electric Vehicles Have Become Solyndra on Steroids

Not taught good manners:  Anti-Israel Girl Who Attacked Teenager in IDF Sweatshirt Graduated From Barack Obama School for Social Justice. “Free Palestine! F*cking die, b*tch!”

 The price of failure: Outgoing Harvard President Claudine Gay is still set to earn $900,000-a-year by returning to professor's job at embattled college's political sciences department

Contra NPR, this was not a "Right Wing scalp". 

 Fortunately or unfortunately, Harvard matters a lot.

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri 

 Destroying Democracy to Save It: Maine Shows the Danger of Zealots in our Legal System

VDH:  The Utter Insanity of Joe Biden’s Open Border - If the amorality of illegal immigration were not so deleterious to Americans, its absurdity would be laughable.

 Across the globe, millions of people are on the move, defying borders and violating laws to escape poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and break into rich countries.  The United States is their No. 1 destination.

 Thank You, But… Virtually without exception, the United States has always opposed Israel’s decision to go to war

Gift the tiny Gaza Strip to Egypt, please. They can build some beach hotels with umbrella drinks on the Med shore.

C&H toon via Briggs

 Why Did So Many Climbers Die on Mount Everest This Year?

 Elon Musk is presently the richest man in the world. He may also be the smartest.

 Toxic positivity at work: Why too much optimism can hurt employee productivity, experts say

 Inside ‘digusting’ Florida prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is serving 20 years: moldy bread, bug-infested cereal, leaks plugged with feminine pads

Sowell:  "I don’t need some half-white woman from Martha’s Vineyard telling me about being black,”

 Tens of Thousands of Career “Civil Service” Administrators in Washington, DC, Apoplectic That Trump Might Fire Them

 Jack Smith Rings in New Year by Asserting That Trump Threatens the ‘Constitutional Foundations of Our Republic’

 Bill Barr: I Oppose Trump—and Any Efforts to Ban Him From the Ballot

 Wait, There's More: Harvard's Claudine Gay Hit With New Plagiarism Allegations

Sheesh

Hey - a new year. Time to join a gym and make a nutrition plan? (That's joking - such resolutions never work)

 How exercise really is the antidote for ALL that ails you: The definitive evidence that shows just 20 minutes a day can help prevent almost every disease

Pure illogic 

2023 -  The Year Reheated

Stuart:  Good-bye, 2023

 'Incompetence Has Consequences' & Other Lessons From 2023

  How to Think for Yourself in 2024

 Has Feminism And 'Hoeflation' Destroyed Dating In The West?

 Conservatives are disappearing from the professions

 Mental health problems not reduced after obesity surgery in young people

 'Interior Race Theory': Your Home Is Likely 'Racist,' White People

The Element of Crime, Part One - Reflections on the impact that lawlessness—and an inescapable awareness of it—has on society and the psyche

 Andrea Bocelli: Breaking the barriers of victim mentality

 Portland Poop Crisis Triggers Bacteria Outbreak Normally Found In Third World

'The Good Men Project’ Denounces Whites as Racist For Being Anti-Racist

Gaza: The Girl With Six Identities

Never believe anything in war or politics