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 Cannabis use does not increase actual creativity but does increase how creative you think you are, study finds

 Puberty blockers given to children 'as young as NINE' at Scotland's Tavistock Centre: Sandyford clinic under fire for giving life-changing drugs to autistic and troubled youngsters who may have been 'misdiagnosed' as trans

Legal Ins:  Affirmative Action: My Argument Against Racial Preferences Prevails at Cornell Political Union Debate

 What Does the Death of Facebook Mean? Will social media matter less?

 The Press Has Officially Lost Its Grip On Reality

 As conservative comedians the Hodgetwins tweeted: “The left went from ‘Twitter is a private company, it can do what it wants!’ to ‘Twitter is dangerous and should be shut down!’ all within a week.”

 Should Convicts Have to Earn Their Keep In Prison?

 Why Lifelong Democrats in Oregon Say They’re Ready to Vote Red

 UK Trapped In The Green Energy Cul-de-Sac

 Why 60 years of feminism has not made women any happier

 On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away. Even Greenpeace now admits the obvious: recycling doesn’t work.

 I Thought ‘Book Bans’ Were a Threat to ‘Our Democracy’?

Black Americans must stop voting Dem by default to see change in this country

 Herschel Walker's Hilarious and Honest Response to Obama Is Pure Gold

 Paul Pelosi Attack – Follow The Evidence, Not The Media Spin

 Are Socialists Taking Over? Interview With Whole Foods' John Mackey

 Juan Williams: Democracy hangs in the balance in the midterms

Economist:  Xi Jinping: the making of a dictator. The story behind the world’s most powerful man

" I Died Last Week"

 Jerry Lee Lewis, rock ’n’ roll pioneer who sang ‘Great Balls of Fire,’ dies at 87

The World Series Has the Wrong Kind of Black Players. Nothing will ever satisfy the identity politics beast.

The author is Troy Senik and the subtitle is The Turbulent Life and Improbably Presidency of Grover Cleveland. ..

 A Nuclear Meltdown At The New York Times

 The Vast Collateral Damage of Zoning. Robert C. Ellickson exposes in convincing detail the deleterious impact of restrictions on new housing.

 ‘An extraordinary medical atrocity’: surgery professor condemns transgender treatments

US Tax Money Pushes LGBT Agenda in Sri Lanka

"On Monday, May 23, 2022, I went to bed around 11 p.m. and slept more soundly than I had in nearly two years. My easy rest may seem surprising. That day, Princeton University had fired me, a decision I learned in the late afternoon when a reporter for the New York Times called my wife to ask for comment. (In a move that was either inept or malicious, Princeton had sent the official letter of dismissal to someone else’s email address. I never received an apology.)...

 Canada demographic fact of the day

Image: Many of these lady t-shirts are clever 

Lucianne Goldberg, 1935-2022

 The literary world comes out for censorship

Spectator:  Publishing staff demand axing of Amy Coney Barrett book. Whiners of the literary world, unite!

 TGIF: Let This Sink In Edition - Elon becomes king of the Twitterverse. Progressives double back Ukraine. Sacheen Littlefeather was a fraud. Plus: Kanye, John Fetterman and much more.

 The Boys Feminism Left Behind - You don’t upend a 12,000-year-old social order without experiencing cultural side effects.

 Where the Boys Aren’t. Culture wars over gender obscure the deepening educational struggles of young males.

 The Brits issue some sanity on underage transgender transition

 When will Fauci admit the ‘open schools’ parents were right? He was integral to stunting learning, and the damage has been immense

Is polygamy a thing? 

 VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Switcheroos Of The Two Parties

 What If Universities Keep Pursuing ‘Affirmative Action’?

 Limbaugh’s Right-Hand Man ‘Bo Snerdley’ Weighs in on Midterms: ‘This Has the Potential to be One of the Biggest Wave Elections in Recent Memory’

 Macron Admits Half The Crimes In Paris Are Committed By Foreigners

 The Truss Fiasco: Various Takes

 What’s at Stake? Midterms & the Markets: A Conversation With Lawrence H. Summers & Niall Ferguson

 The New Gatekeepers - How the major institutions of American society all came to sing in the woke chorus, and what can be done about it

The school lockdown catastrophe

 VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE WENT WOKE, ENROLLMENT FELL 25%

 Biden Thinks Airlines Charging for Extra Leg Room Hit ‘People of Color’ the Hardest. It’s always about race.

 Democrats: The Only Way To Save Democracy Is One-Party Rule

 MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan asks if the 2024 election will be free and fair if black people are denied the right to vote

 Gov. Hochul Not Sure Why Locking Up Criminals is Important. The kind of mistake that destroys political careers.

 The Morning Briefing: Hillary Clinton Reminds Us That She's America's Worst Drunk and a Psychopath

 EVEN RICHARD NIXON HAS GOT SOUL

 "A Paradoxical Situation": Germany Is Dismantling A Wind Farm To Make Way For A Coal Mine

Enthusiasts of “the new economy” long cherished the notion that it would be different from the unenlightened, sluggish, and piggish older one. Yet our economy seems increasingly to resemble not some hippy capitalist utopia, but the deeply concentrated economy of pre-war Japan.

 It is extremly disturbing that major scientific organizations are forbidding the publication of research that offends some political sensibilities. Indeed, roadblocks are being put into place to even investigate some questions.

 Randi Weingarten is bad for kids. The nation’s report card is out and teachers’ union bosses have a lot of explaining to do

 Just How Big Is America's 'Strategic Cheese Reserve'?

 Unique therapy that alters memory processes could reduce psychological disturbances following romantic betrayal

 COVID: Just another flu

  Who's that guy running in CT-05 and have you heard about him?

 Now Mired In Crime, The City That Kicked Off The ‘Defund The Police’ Movement Is Struggling To Recruit New Officers

 Democrats are now hostage to the transgender extremists, and it is going to cost them dearly

 The Media’s Cover-Up of John Fetterman. No amount of spin can undo what voters witnessed on the debate stage last night in Pennsylvania.

 Activist Sacheen Littlefeather exposed by sisters for reported fraudulent Native American identity: 'A lie'

 Biden Says “We Have To Pay” Other Countries To “Do What They Need To Do” On Climate Change…

 Yikes: According to a friend, there is a hit piece on Ron DeSantis in the Financial Times. But I just read it and it reads more like a pro-DeSantis ad campaign to me. Most of it anyway.

 Hillary Clinton Shamelessly Claims “Right-Wing Extremists” Plotting To “Literally Steal” 2024 Election…

 To Starve and Freeze for Zelensky

 Harvard Law students walk out on pro-life scholar before she started speaking

Plastic recycling a "failed concept," study says, with only 5% recycled in U.S. last year as production rises

 After exhaustive investigation, BYU declares Duke athlete’s racial slur claim completely fabricated

 University ‘unable to verify’ black student’s claim white students dumped water on her

There is a dire shortage of racism, so fake racism fills the gap. 

 The kids are not alright - math and reading scores declined during the pandemic at record levels

 Former Levi’s top exec reveals how woke mobs took over corporations

 Children who think they're trans are probably just going through a 'phase', NHS says

 Biden's Brain Reboots Mid-Interview

AOC Gets WRECKED By Her Own Constituents Over Ukraine War Funding: “You ARE the Establishment”

 As I predicted a year ago, the GOP will win about 46 seats in the House

 Karine Jean-Pierre Gets Called Out For Joe Biden’s Non-Stop Lies on the Economy

 A Strange and Brutal Country - Adam Curtis’s new BBC series provides a unique insight into Russia’s late-twentieth-century collapse.

Those were the days...Allen Ginsberg: The Interview

Gone hiking trip in cool places, and a good getaway from reporting the daily news insanity. No internet, no phone access. Will bring home iphone pics tho. There will be lots of boating posts for those who enjoy them. I'd rather watch the Youtube than sail alone to Hawaii in a 30-ft sailboat. Plus some random items.

 Pfizer Exec Admits Under Oath: 'We Never Tested COVID Vaccine Against Transmission'

No evidence that vac prevented transmission 

 Science Finally Winning The Day In Glyphosate Cases

That is Round Up 

 Maryland’s Largest Public School District Sees 582% INCREASE in Gender Madness Among Students

 Transgender patients reveal their regret over NHS sex change operations and why they 'detransitioned' after they were 'rushed' into life-changing procedures

WSJ: Now Even Science Grants Must Bow to ‘Equity and Inclusion’

 New Zealand taxing cattle urine, burps

 When Corporate America Pulls A PayPal, There’s No Escaping The Digital Gulag

 Democrats face a green energy fiasco

 A Top-Ranked High School Got Rid of Merit-Based Admissions. Then Students' Grades Tanked.

 Joining Battle Over The "Science" Of Global Warming

 The revenge of the material economy. The future belongs to manufacturers, energy suppliers and farmers.

NBC News Reveals Troubling facts about John Fetterman's Health

His health doesn't matter, and those people do not "work hard" 

Trump has been fentanyl to the media 

 Biden Administration Moves to 'Californize' US Labor Rules

 Oregon Spends $90M on Practically Empty Pre-K

Re Fetterman: " He is without a doubt 100 percent fit and ready to be a United States Senator."

Probably true 

 NY TIMES SUDDENLY DISCOVERS THAT BIDEN IS A LIAR

 Biden says son Beau 'lost his life in Iraq' during Colorado speech

 Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Sandy Hook Families $965 Million for Defamation

Biden makes stuff up daily, while Jones is just an ordinary paranoid nutjob 

 Video Footage Captures Orcas Killing Great White Sharks

How California's high speed rail project became a 'loser'

Heather Mac Donald: The Marijuana Myth

 Teacher offended by Shakespeare's 'white' male perspective

Also says it's too hard to read. Yeah, a bit - but it's meant to be spoken, not read. 

 Journalist Called Child Protective Services on State Senate Candidate—for Celebrating Columbus Day with Her Daughter

Biden’s education secretary spending hundreds of millions on ‘equity’ agenda as reading scores tank catastrophically

USA not a democracy if people vote for Republicans Conservatives.

 Americans Must Permanently Marginalize the Perpetual Adolescents of the American Left

Tulsi Gabbard:  Why I'm leaving the Democratic Party

 Muhammad/Mohammed/Mohammad Still Top Baby Boy Name in UK

Image of optical illusion floor (to deter running) via Ace 

 Christian influencer gets holy water breast implants

Sheesh 

Spectator: The last of the Covidians - How should we treat those who refuse to acknowledge the pandemic is over?

 Needs More Salt. The FDA failed to conduct a peer review of its questionable scientific findings on sodium intake and did not respond to inquiries questioning the accuracy of its information.

Nothing "healthy" about restricting salt intake unless some serious medical ailment.

 California makes it illegal for doctors to disagree with politicians

 Big Veganism is coming for you. The meat industry is bankrolling the movement

WSJ: Western Democracy Is Revolting Against Itself. The paradox of liberalism: We’re free to air our faults, so we end up talking about them and nothing else.

Not me 

 NYC’s Mayor and Schools Chancellor hire each other’s girlfriends

The World According to Xi Jinping. What China’s Ideologue in Chief Really Believes

 "Back To The Old Days": Europeans Panic Buy Firewood And Stoves

Trump warned them, and they laughed at him 

WSJ:  How to Preserve Your Family History, No Awkward Interviews Required

 "She holds six of the top 10 spots on The New York Times’s paperback fiction best-seller list, a stunning number of simultaneous best sellers from a single author...."

 I Never Wanted Kids. Number Six Is Due In a Few Months. We just outgrew our Honda Odyssey.

 Telemedicine was made easy during COVID-19. Not any more

 Why do standing ovations now seem obligatory? It’s possible this phenomenon is an extension of the 'everyone gets a trophy' culture.

Euthanasia for depression? 

VDH:  Civilization is fragile. It hinges on ensuring the stuff of life.

BLM founder funnels even more cash into mansion

There's a sucker born every minute 

 After the shooting outside his home, Rep. Lee Zeldin’s fight is now clearer than ever

 The very bad reason white Democrats want to defund the police

 Did Tucker Carlson’s Bobulinski Home Run Crack the Media Protection Racket of the Bidens?

An Albania update 

 Human Monogamy Has Deep Roots. Pairing up might have been the best move our ancestors ever made

 Sex and the Academy - The inclusion of women in higher education is a great achievement for Western liberal societies. How is this changing academic culture?

 A Comprehensive Roundup Of Official Energy Madness

California will start handing out $1,050 stimulus payments to residents this week to combat inflation

 'Sanctuary City' NYC Mayor Declares State Of Emergency After Migrants Overwhelm Resources

Spectator:  Kanye West is turning into Candace Owens. His ‘White Lives Matter’ stunt is bog-standard trolling

The Nation: Supreme Court hates democracy 

Reading Doesn’t Have to Mean Keeping Your Books Forever

 121,882 Children as Young as 6 Tracked for ‘Transgender’ Treatment. Puberty blockers have been inflicted on as "at least 4,780 adolescents".

Biggest self own: New York Times edition

Media’s shock at DeSantis-Biden joint hurricane support

 FBI Won’t Provide Updates, Say Whether It Has Arrested Anyone Over Attacks on Pro-Life Organizations, Centers, Churches

 A political Epidemic of Cognitive Impairment?

 Ukraine Central Banker Hit With Embezzlement Charges After Resigning For "Health Reasons"

 Judging books by their covers (video)

Trans surgery set to become a $5 billion industry

 AMA Demands DOJ “Investigate and Prosecute” Critics of Transgender Child Mutilation Leftist child abusers turn to the police state.

 COMING SOON: POLYGAMY

 Good News: UN Working With Google To Silence Skeptics

 The UN now claims to "own the science"

 How to fix NYC’s broken mental health system

NYC Public schools are losing white, middle-class students

Guardian:  How whiteness poses the greatest threat to US democracy

 Is Trump the Democrats' Stooge?

What does "far right" mesn? 

"Being gender-creative parents, we deliberately use names with all three grammatical genders. This comes with the advantage that they can experience what feels best for them before deciding on a preferred pronoun..."

 A Vermont high school bans girls from their own locker room

 NYT Sends Reporter to Herschel Walker’s Hometown to Argue He Is ‘Not Part of the Black Community’

 Wake me when the woke is over

 BAN ALL AIR TRAVEL FOR HARVARD FACULTY AND STAFF

 Without Any Demonstration Project Or Feasibility Study

 Researchers wanted to look into the association between vegetarianism and depression among adults.

Autism, Bettelheim, and Covid - How she lost trust in the experts: I Have Been Through This Before

Don’t wear a mask; you must wear a mask. Buy a pulse oximeter. Stock up on Tylenol, vitamin D, Pepcid. Whisper so you don’t spit. Stand six feet from others—no, 10. Wear gloves. Wear two masks! Open the windows. Close the schools. The dizzying madness of COVID, and the reliance on gurulike experts, has been eerily familiar...

Commenter on a piece on California youth:

This is the new Utopia, full of fear and despair. Instead of fads and pretend matters, can this generation look to things that are eternal - service, kindness and loving your neighbor? We've taken many of these things out of the public square. I hope people will begin to miss them.

Then they came for “Dilbert”…; STEM academics defending the indefensible as ‘recalibration’

Victor Davis Hanson: The Thinnest Veneer Of Civilization Remains

 Here come the Hispanic Republicans. Latinos are voting exactly like an earlier wave of immigrants

 Cue hankie clutchers: Gov DeSantis reminds looters FL is a 2d Amendment state

 Lessons learned from Ian

 HOW’S Fetterman Doing?

His health doesn't matter 

Climate Activists Attacking Fertiliser Use, Mass Produced Food

 The grotesque politicization of Hurricane Ian

Kos:  GOP hypocrisy: When DeSantis sought the very relief post-Ian he denied Hurricane Sandy victims

 King's College in London doing study on menopause in "trans-women"

 Arizona Teachers’ Union Push to Overturn School-Choice Expansion Fails

 Horse Tranquilizer Now Being Mixed with Street Drugs, with Deadly Results Injection of xylazine, a muscle relaxant intended for large animals, can cause ulcerating wounds that spread across the body.

 Bill Clinton: There’s A Limit To How Many Illegals We Can Take In Without Disrupting Our Country…

 Why the left keeps smearing its political rivals as Hitlers or Mussolinis

Sen. Sinema:

 “When Republicans are in control, they pass a little bit of crazy legislation,” she argued. “When Democrats are in control, they pass a little bit of crazy legislation. And the job of the Senate is to cool that passion.”

 Biden Puts Italy’s New PM Giorgi Meloni on the Same Level as Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping

 Looking Through Binoculars, Kamala Harris Reacts To Seeing The DMZ In Person: “It’s So Close!”… Because you’re looking through binoculars.

A secure border, too 

Stockman on Ukraine 

 New York Times Admits That Hundreds of ‘Top Surgeries’ Are Being Performed on Children

 Disc Golf’s Lia Thomas Moment - As a biologically male player continues a meteoric rise on the female circuit, women are starting to speak out.

A somewhat senile President. Does it matter?

 The Silent Price You’ll Pay for Our Mounting National Debt

 Do Republicans Cause Hurricanes?

Of course 

 UPenn doctor: ‘Anti-racist’ policies are wrecking American medicine

 YouTube May Have Yanked New Italian PM’s Viral Speech, but This One's Just as Good

 The People Rise Up: Iranian Revolutionaries Take up Arms Against the Regime

 The Women Burning Their Hijabs Want the Iranian Regime to Fall. Does Joe Biden?

 Today's mystery: Where's Khamenei

 Bring Back Risk. Our increasing aversion to taking chances creates dangers of its own

 NOAA official to Lemon: No, "climate change" is not responsible for Hurricane Ian

 Experts alarmed by COVID vaccination rates among America's youngest kids

Is the Transgender Fad a Triumph of Marketing?

 The Next Pandemic: Anxiety Over Life Itself. Advisory panels to the federal government say everyone age 8 to 65 should now be screened for anxiety

 The Left Is Hoping DeSantis Botches Hurricane Response. Here's What They Didn't Count On.

 Rachel Vindman vows to harass Gov. Ron DeSantis again and again because he deserves it

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 Giorgia Meloni will turn down PM’s palace to stay in the family home, says partner