Maggie's Farm

White, Male Writers Need Not Apply

Two Christians Made a Show about Jews. It’s Phenomenal.

Education Department Closure Will Hurt – But Not Kids

 Border Czar Homan Delivers on Promise to Clean Up Boston-370 Illegals Arrested Including Child Sexual Predators

Colorado Democrats Make It Unmistakable: They Hate the Constitution

Republicans' Next Target—California

Anti-Trump Judge Makes Another Outrageous Ruling

The Kennedy Assassination And The Persistence Of Conspiracy Theories

The Democratic Party’s Identity Crisis is Far Worse Than Most of the Media is Reporting

The Democrats' Manliness Problem

Dismantling USAID Services in Africa

Have you heard about the so-called Argentinian economic miracle? I have news: there is no miracle. This is a lie.

Thanks, reader. Ernest Hemingway liked food and drink, but he was finicky.

His burger seems too complicated: Hemingway's Burger.

Good advice: 12 Plants You Should Never Prune in Spring

Antarctica was once a lush and thriving land, teeming with prehistoric
life. It's hard to believe now, but tucked away, hidden underneath a
layer of ice kilometers thick, that ancient landscape still lies buried,
never seen by human eyes.

We’ll Never Have an Energy Transition. Despite a tenacious narrative, history shows the Green New Deal vision is not inevitable—it’s impossible.

Things Worth Remembering: America Is an Invention

The death of the American (paper) magazine

Jacob Savage on the evaporation of opportunities for young white men writing fiction

 Former Utah Rep. Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to the US House, has died

Think USAID was bad? You ain't seen nothin' yet.

 USAID Censorship Scheme Exposed; Global Engagement Center Worked With UK Government And Media Firms To Deploy AI Tools

Where Have All the Pussyhats Gone?

Kid Rock Brokers Rare Trump Sit-Down with Bill Maher

NYT just casually confirming that much of the left’s apparatus was funded with your tax dollars.

Trump’s DOJ Speech: A Reckoning for the Deep State and a Media Meltdown - Trump’s
DOJ speech called out corruption, promised justice reform, and sent the
media into a frenzy over his bold rebuke of the establishment.

The point of all the injunctions and restraining orders is to preserve
the supreme rule of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats.

The Lengths Democrats Are Willing to Go to Stop Trump

‘Never Seen Anything Like This’: Crucial Voter Groups Fleeing Democrats, Says Stunned Fmr Clinton Pollster

Politico Very Worried About D.C. Area With The Job Cuts

After White House Visit, Irish Looking to Indict McGregor for Incitement in 2023 Riot

The Führer Of Germany: Friedrich Merz In A War & Spending Frenzy

Australian Universities Demand 'Emergency Meeting' After Trump Cancels Their Funding

Trump vs. the World: Still Undefeated?

Isaiah 55:1-9 - Come to the water

55:1  Hear, everyone who
thirsts; come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and
eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

55:2
  Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your
earnings for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and
eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

55:3 
Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will
make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for
David.

55:4  See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.

55:5 
Now you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do
not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy
One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

55:6  Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

55:7 
let the wicked forsake their way and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them, and to our
God, for he will abundantly pardon.

55:8  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.

55:9  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

The history and dramatic extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, once the most numerous bird on Earth.

Legacy of the angels = When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics

New York Takes A Stab At A Green New Deal Demonstration Project: The Case Of Ithaca

Greenpeace Verdict Is a Wake-Up Call for Progressive NGOs. For nonprofits that conduct or fund illegal behavior, an era may be coming to an end.

Saturday Miscellany

Bluesky: The Online Cone of Silence

‘I’m a Liberal at a ‘Conservative’ University. How Did I End Up Here?

Trump is working overtime to restore the rule of law. In the long term, his masculine policies will function less as a punitive expedient

Panic Hits Democrats As Trump Goes After Their Money and Infrastructure

Everybody has their own method. I like a hard crust and rare inside.

What's your method?

Who Will Miss the Department of Education? No one.

Psychiatry Today

FEMA Fraud: 20 Times More Applicants than Homes in Los Angeles Fires

TGIF: Passed Peak Intelligence - Trump’s
economy is less than golden. Dem polls hit rock bottom. The Teslas are
being torched. We’re getting dumber. Harvard offers remedial math. And
more.

How Trump is revolutionizing Washington - He’ll lose some battles in the courts, perhaps a great many. But what counts is how many he wins

Democrats’ silence is damning as leftist violence explodes

The Democratic Party Is Ripe for a Hostile Takeover. These Two People Will Do It.

Finish This Party Off’: Former Clinton Pollster Warns AOC Challenging Chuck Schumer Could Be Final Blow For Democrats

Miranda Devine: Trump is fighting a cartel of vile, corrupt and far-left judges trying to kill his campaign promises

"... this is an attempt by the judiciary to prevent the duly elected
president from reclaiming control of the Executive Branch from the
federal bureaucracy"

Zelensky Demands Russia Return All Territory Gained Since 2014 – Continues to Push His Forever War with Russia

Zelensky’s Popularity Plunges - Americans see through the media pro-war narrative.

Net zero could CRASH Britain's economy with poorest in society hit hardest, leaked document admits

What nine months in space does to the human body

SpaceX Could Have Rescued NASA Astronauts Months Earlier, Musk Says

Leading a Movement Away From Psychiatric Medication - Laura Delano
walked away from the treatments that defined her teens and 20s. Now,
she’s hoping to create a road map for others to follow.

10 Signs That A Significant Portion Of Our Population Has Gone Nuts

Musk Derangement Syndrome

Elon Musk Levels Tim Walz After He Cheers for Tesla's Falling Stock Prices

 Inside the Cult of Luigi Mangione. Plus. . Eli
Lake on the history of bourgeois terrorism. Rupa Subramanya on the
Canadians prepping for invasion. Peter Savodnik on the JFK files. And
more.

Morgan Stanley Prepares To Cut 2,000 Jobs & "Water Down" DEI Initiatives

Lib Outlet Reviewed What Led to Kamala Harris' Defeat, and Found Something Interesting About Trump

Trump and the Lower Courts - Some thoughts about what he's doing and what he might do

Trump Threatens Houthis With 'Complete Annihilation' As US In 'Continuous' Bombing

Our pal Sippican seems to like life in Mexico thus far.

The NPSP categorizes your personality style. It's not about diagnosis.

I'm not sure what personality style I have, if any at all, so I'm going to take the test with max honesty. $25.

OK, I took the test. Not sure what to make of the profile. I didn't rate very high on anything at all, but my highest points were devotion and conscientiousness. Boring...

Mia Love: My Living Wish for the America I Know

hakespeare Slated for Decolonization

The Limitations Of AI: General Or Real Intelligence Is Not Possible

Trump to The Atlantic: When You Have a Writer With Intelligence, Let Me Know

A Nation, Not A Side Quest - Redoing America so that we don't need another savior - GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS

Wednesday Potpourri

Democrats are cratering and waiting for Godot

Alan Dershowitz Describes How Trump, Congress Could Rein In Judge Blocking Deportation Of Terrorists

Trump Advisor Alina Habba Sounds Alarm On 'Human Extortion'

Sadly, Trump is right on Ukraine

Trump and Putin agree to an immediate ceasefire for energy infrastructure in Ukraine conflict

Ghosts among the philosophers - Cambridge, home of analytic philosophy, was also a hotbed of psychical research. How did this spooky subject take root?

When You Can Tell Someone Isn’t Listening to You

The Junk Science that Gets Parents Convicted of Murder

The Gender Conundrum

Federal Investigation Launched Into NYC Migrant Shelter Hotels

How The Feds Destroyed Equality For D.E.I.

Minnesota Republicans to introduce bill defining 'Trump derangement syndrome' as mental illness

Soros-Linked Network Behind Lawsuit Attempting to Stop Trump from Deporting Illegal Alien Gang Members

Things Worth Remembering: Death Is a Friend

What It Feels Like To Die

Is Organic Really The Safer Choice For Your Diet?

“15 Days to Slow the Spread.”

Why Is The NYT Admitting the Covid Lab-Leak Theory Now?

The End of Climate Change Hysteria

Trial of Mann v. Steyn: Post-Trial Motions Edition

‘Being female is not an accomplishment,’ Heather Mac Donald tells UW-Madison

‘Completely Crazy’: NJ Hospitals Ask Parents to Identify Newborns’ Sexual Orientation

Did you know that Hunter Biden has Secret Service agents?

Can Trump Justify His Trade War? Plus. . .Gov. JB Pritzker memory-holes DEI. Christopher
Caldwell on economics. An exclusive report from the ground in Syria. And
much more.

Democrats’ Bad Month Keeps Getting Worse

Michael Goodwin: Trump is putting on a master class in power politics

VDH Explains: Trump Tariff Diplomacy Is Working

Trump Makes Huge Announcement About FBI's Future, and It's a Fantastic Gut Punch to the Old Guard

" It’s ridiculous that a Democratic president can import violent gang members, but a Republican president can’t deport them."

The Media's Shameful Support for Mahmoud Khalil Ignores His Pro-Hamas Advocacy

Why Won’t Europe Step Up and Help Ukraine?

How Barack Obama Built An Omnipotent Thought-Control Machine... And How It Was Destroyed

Read it.

Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a) - Jesus is transfigured on the mountain

9:28  Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

9:29  And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning.

9:30  Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him.

9:31 They appeared in glory and were speaking about his exodus, which he was about to fulfill in Jerusalem.

9:32  Now Peter and his companions were weighed down with sleep, but as they
awoke they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.

9:33 
Just as they were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good
for us to be here; let us set up three tents, one for you, one for
Moses, and one for Elijah," not realizing what he was saying.

9:34 While he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were terrified as they entered the cloud.

9:35 Then from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!"

9:36
   When the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent
and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen.

9:37  On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him.

9:38  Just then a man from the crowd shouted, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son; he is my only child.

9:39  Suddenly a spirit seizes him, and all at once he shrieks. It convulses
him until he foams at the mouth; it mauls him and will scarcely leave
him.

9:40  I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

9:41  Jesus answered, "You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer
must I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here."

9:42  
While he was being brought forward, the demon dashed him to the ground
in convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy,
and gave him back to his father.

9:43a  And all were astounded at the greatness of God.

This is an annual reposting:

Just a couple of weeks left to get your new Wood Duck houses up, and, if you want to place your boxes in water, it's easier to do if you can walk on the ice and punch a hole to hammer a post into the shallows. That is, if you have any sturdy ice on your pond or marsh.

The males arrive to their breeding grounds in March, and hunt for nesting boxes and holes and crevices in trees before the gals arrive later in April. 

If you have a stream or fresh water pond or marsh nearby, they will welcome your effort. Remember, there is no limit to the number of boxes you can place in or near a marsh - these birds are not territorial. I try to add one each year.

I place them on dead trees in the shallows of the beaver marsh, and nail a 3' aluminum flashing on the tree to deter coons and Blacksnakes. Some I put on a post in about 3-6' of water with a strong cement base. I always add a few inches of wood shavings on the bottom.

You can also put them in trees near ponds and marshes,

Our piece on Wood Duck here. I won't shoot a Wood Duck unless by mistake. They are highly edible, but too small. My joy is just to see them around, and my worry is just how many Snapping Turtles and egrets eat the young ones.

The best wood duck houses: http://www.bestnest.com/bestnest/duck_houses.asp (fixed). I had planned to build a few more this winter, but I never got to it.

Here's the Ducks Unlimited site on building and situating Wood Duck houses.

What's the difference between a chronometer and a watch?

I am a Timex guy, but I appreciate these crazy expensive machines. This guy started as a hobby. Need good eyes.Kids do not use watches anymore.

Reminder: No watch is waterproof.

How to Keep Chickens in the City - As egg prices rise, the agricultural secretary told Americans: Get some hens! It’s not a bad idea.

Well egg prices are going down but it's a good experience for kids

My partner works at JP Morgan and is being forced back into the office. I'm terrified of what this means for our relationship.

Genes and environment

Medical Schools’ Botched Pass-Fail Experiment - The early results of the United States Medical Licensing Exam’s new grading process are worrisome.

An arbitrator has barred Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her explosive new book. We got one of the only interviews, By Bari Weiss

Saturday Miscellany

Mass Cases Of EDS Reported All Over The World...

Musk Gets Access to USPS, Reforms Could Solve $9 billion Annual Deficit, but Proposed Leftist Reforms would Lead to Fiscal Ruin

They are plankton feeders.

They are more difficult to find these days, but they are still around.

In my local area, I think the high deer population and the coyotes. And habitat destruction of course.

What we need for rebalancing are pumas and wolves. Why not? They used to be here, and they eat deer and coyotes.

What’s Limiting Eastern Ruffed Grouse Populations?