Maggie's Farm

An inch further, and that would have been very bad.

The shooter was skilled. The victim was lucky.

It's too hot outside for fun.

 Dr. Ruth had been a sniper.

We are not machines - Welcome to the new, post-genomic biology: a transformative era in need of fresh metaphors to understand how life works

 How cancel culture is killing mental health

 Colleges aim to increase enrollment by admitting students who didn’t apply

Elon: EU Offered Me a Secret Deal to Censor X

Elon: The legacy media is a propaganda machine

American Farmers Are Pretty Happy With That SCOTUS Fish Decision

 Teamsters boss’ RNC speech reveals his precarious hold on members’ loyalty

More Dems Now Want Less, Not More, Immigration. 1 in 5 Democrats now want to deport all illegals.

It’s the End of the World as the Democrats Know It: And No, They aren’t Feeling Fine

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

What if the U.S. had been told to stop fighting Japan during WWII, the way Israel is being told to stop fighting Hamas?

Nothing very interesting today. (Well, that turned out to be wrong)

 Strange Motion of Neutrons Proves Nature Is Fundamentally Bizarre

 White supremacy embedded in geology

Elon:  "If somebody has lost their arms or legs, we can actually attach an Optimus arm or leg during the Neuralink implant so that the commands from their brain would go to their robot arms or legs."

  Virginia and Connecticut Slam the Brakes on Imposing California-Style EV Mandates. It turns out that the math behind EVs doesn’t compute.

The Fall of Oakland - Mob lootings. Random shootings. Elderly people beaten in the street. The city has descended into lawlessness.

TGIF: President Putin and Vice President Trump Edition

There’s Only One Reason Democrats Oppose Requiring Proof Of Citizenship To Vote

 Dems Privately Admit Trump Is No Threat to Democracy

 Biden's BFFs Knew the Cognitive Decline Was Real. The president's defenders had private concerns. But publicly? Gaslighting.

I am getting bored by the Biden stories

Francis Crick can't find evidence for free will

 Thanks to State Control, Doctors Have Become Gods

A burger repesents vour violent past

 Academics Have Contest To See How Many Times They Can Say ‘Racist’ In An Article: An IQ Story

Re Trump: We came, we sued, we did not conquer

"The entire Democrat establishment have been caught red-handed in the thick of the biggest scandal and the biggest cover up. It's a cover up, that's what it is."

 Karine Jean-Pierre admits giving false information about Biden neurology visit after outcry over health misdirection

 SAVE Act Passes House 221-198 – but almost Every Democrat Voted to ‘Protect’ the Ability of Illegals to Vote in Federal Elections

Joe Rogan Calls Out the Open Border Scam: ‘They’re Literally Importing Democratic Voters’

France 'on the brink of financial meltdown' as 'rich to flee country over 90 percent tax'

Am I the only person having trouble with Powerline?

Moms are taking ‘magic’ mushrooms to manage their parenting stress — but is it safe?

 Is It Still a Good Idea to Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Disease?

Today's Students Are Dangerously Ignorant of Our Nation's History.

Expecting people to be on time is part of ‘white supremacy culture,’ Duke Medical School claims

 Justice Sonia Sotomayor Opposes Guns. For You. Not For Her.

VDH on rural "rage"

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

Trump Made His First Misstep in Weeks

 Has Trump learned anything over the years? Will he continue to allow Biden to make mistakes, and do things like just talk about policy? Or will he do the things that drive people away? The election is 4 months away.

Who enabled Biden? A case study

Dems are running a de facto coup: Even if Biden wins, Kamala will be prez

The media’s newfound interest in Biden’s health, and the skill with which they are examining it now, exposes its complicity in a massive deception.

The insanity of Biden’s NATO support for Ukraine

 The Hippos of South America

University ‘decolonizes’ art collection due to ‘problematic’ paintings, sculptures

 The evidence is mounting: humans were responsible for the extinction of large mammals

 ‘They’ shrieked about ‘global warming’ — but now they admit we were ‘accidentally cooling’

 Dr. Turban's Transmania

Can you get electrocuted in water? Yes

Liberalism and the West’s ‘Crisis of Meaning’ - Many liberals are strangely eager to concede that liberal societies are morally and spiritually bankrupt without religion to give life meaning.

 Biden Title IX overhaul blocked from being enforced in four more states

 Joe Biden Is A Good Man?

TDS hysteria crescendoes

 Maxine Waters: Trump Capable of the ‘Kind of Violence’ That Will Destroy Democracy

TNR:  OK, Democrats, This Is the Week to Say What You Really Believe. Want to replace Biden atop the Democratic ticket? It’s now or never.

Nate Silver:  Blaming the media is what got Democrats into this mess. Reality comes for everyone — and now it's come for Joe BIden.

Is It ‘Undemocratic’ to Replace Biden? Plus. . .

Europe Doesn't Want to Be Saved

 France Just Committed Suicide

UK's New Leftist PM Kills Illegal Immigrant Deportation Scheme On Day One

Why Cats Meow at Humans More Than Each Other

 Biden Admin to Kill 470,000 Owls to Save the Owls. A government bureaucracy will kill half a million owls

 A genius psychiatrist taught me the seven secrets of happiness, says GYLES BRANDRETH.

 Mount Everest’s highest camp is littered with frozen garbage, and cleanup is likely to take years

 How Did Such A Smart Guy Get So Stupid: Bill Gates & Cow Farts

The Great Barrier Reef has never been better

Dems All In Against GOP 'Citizens Only' Voting Act

 Mexican nationals can fly visa-free to Canada from Mexico before illegally crossing into America.

Who Is The Greater "Threat To Democracy"?

The Courtier Game - When Presidential aides are intoxicated with the thrill of being close to power

Mika really dislikes Trump

Whew

 White House Gave Radio Host Questions She Was Allowed to Ask Biden — and He Still Gaffed It Up

Biden's Dementia: What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?

Biden’s Cognitive Collapse: Greatest Media Scandal We’ve Ever Seen

Joe Biden’s Upcoming Fundraiser in Wisconsin Cancelled – Donors Who Committed to Giving Large Sums Withdrew After First Debate

Communists and Islamists Take France

Labour’s Net Zero Mandate Presages Economic Failure

 The Life of the Original Little Girl on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder

 Phoenix Police Pull-Over Driverless Waymo For 'Freaking Out' & Driving Into Oncoming Traffic

Washington State Abolishes Residency Requirement for Voter Registration

 A Nation of Free People or Free Things - You can have one or the other, but you can’t have both.

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

 'The President Has Lost All Independence'

 Americans Want to Know Who is Really in Charge in the White House

" It is worth noting that Biden has spent more than 40 percent of his presidency on vacation and his days are similar to someone who works a cushiony 9-5."

 Good News: Dementia Joe Finally Has A Plan For Food Inflation

 Carville to Donors: Cut Off Anyone Supporting Biden -- And Maybe Kamala Too

 Let the great Democratic civil war begin.

 Hezbollah Fires Over 200 Rockets Into Israel After Top Terror Commander Killed

Who is Keir Starmer, the new U.K. prime minister?

Theodore Dalrymple: Labour’s Unfortunate Winning Recipe - With the wealthy fleeing Britain, eternal electoral victory for the party beckons.

What You Need to Know About the Global Rise in Penis Cancer

  Building the Bell System

Yes, you should be a little freaked out about Hurricane Beryl

Not what hurricane data shows 

 What’s at stake for the climate if Trump wins? ‘A catastrophic outcome’

Chevron is a big, big deal

 Oh No! The Supreme Court's Overturning of the Chevron Doctrine Is "Hitting Regulators from Multiple Angles"

 Supreme Court’s Immunity Decision Has Democrats in Hysterics, Again

  Former Obama/Biden Official Says the Quiet Part Out Loud in Op-Ed- ‘The First Amendment Is Out of Control’

"Today I signed the National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act – a law that will help prevent, treat, and cure Parkinson’s disease and similar disorders."

 Why Is the DNC Holding an Early Nomination?

 Destroying the Antichrist Trump

 Huffington Post says the Biden campaign should deceive the American public into thinking Biden is healthy by using AI.

 New Zealand also is shifting toward the Right

 Australia’s great leap backwards

 Labour Set For Crushing 170 Seat Majority In UK General Election, As Conservative Party Suffers Worst Result In Its History

 Globalist Front Man Klaus Schwab Tells Elitist Followers They Must ‘Force’ Humanity into a World Ruled by AI 

 UK Labour Party sweeps to power in historic election win

NY Times Wants You To Stop Using Fireworks On Independence Day

Actually, Presidents Still Can’t Murder People with Impunity

Chevron:  Oh, sad, sad, sad for Experts. They now have to worry about being right!

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri 

 The Supreme Court Didn't Destroy the Regulatory State. It Stood Up for Due Process.

 Poetic Justice - Ancient philosophers and tragedians would have understood the human folly—from the media, the president, and his party—that led to last week’s debate debacle.

Biden becomes Orange Man too 

 POLITICO Dumps Cold Water All Over Biden's 'Nice Old Man' Image in Yet Another Damning Report

 "Unlike Biden and many others, I refuse to participate in a campaign to scare voters with the idea that Trump will end our democratic system."

Best Trump ad ever?

 The NatCons in Europe and America - The movement that frightens the left

 How DEI is coming for lawyers

 DEI efforts in US Armed Forces ineffective, run ‘opposite of the military ethos’

 Teachers don't have time to be therapists, cops, nurses and social workers

 Dear elite apocalyptic teeth-gnashers: The end of the world is just a matter of where you stand

Long Live Judicial Review -Overturning Chevron is the story of this Supreme Court term.

Supreme Court: Trump Entitled To “At Least Presumptive Immunity From Prosecution For All His Official Acts

 Niall Ferguson on the Democrats’ Choice. Trump’s Immunity. Plus. . .

Biden Flying Illegal Aliens, Deported Under Trump, Back to U.S.

 Meet the Latest Batch of Illegal Migrants

 Biden’s Border Chief Claims Power to Admit More Illegals

 Biden Can Only Function Until 4 PM. Do we have a backup president who can work evenings?

 Why the Democrats lied about Joe Biden’s frailty

Ukraine Begins Sending Prisoners to the Front Lines

Where it all went wrong for Macron: How France turned to the right after president failed to tackle migration, Islamic terror attacks, cost of living crisis - and infuriated the public with his arrogant image

France update

The Big Bang was not the beginning. The universe is cyclical

The universe is a simulation, isn't it?

 “It is right and just that Foucault should be posthumously crowned the citation king.”

Swimming with gators

Amazon Health Announces $49 Telehealth Service

That's interesting, but how?

 Bill Maher Goes Scorched Earth on Progressives at Academic Conference

 Two Federal Courts Halt Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness End-Run Around SCOTUS Ruling

Just vote-buying, isn't it?

 SCOTUS Rules In Favor Of 7th Amendment, Fans Of Administrative State Unhappy

That's a big deal:  SCOTUS Delivers a Kill Shot to Big Government

The Chevron case: Lawyers are the victims

 SUPREME COURT INVALIDATES THE TORTURED INTERPRETATION OF THE LAW USED TO CHARGE 350 OF THE JANUARY 6 PROTESTERS

Joe Biden is not the problem

"... it is the moral infirmity of the Democratic establishment that is truly chilling."

Alexander Vindman Wants to Know Why Trump As President Did Nothing to End the Russia/Ukraine War

Queers for Palestine?

The End of ‘Macronism’ in France sends Globalist Media Into a Panic

How Very Happy People Get That Way

 Lockdown Nostalgia - I miss only caring about what really matters.

 11 Signs That The US Economy Is In Far Worse Shape Than Most People Think

 ELON: I LIVED IN THE FACTORY FOR 3 YEARS STRAIGHT

 ‘Momentum undeniably growing’: More elite colleges look to end DEI hiring mandates

 You Have No Idea How Soviet We Really Are. If anything, Niall Ferguson understates the case.

An erroneous prediction?

Dems teeing up for change of candidate

Can Democrats Replace Biden? It’s Complicated.

The Gaza Famine That Never Was - US officials and media claimed Israel is using starvation as a weapon. New evidence shows this was a lie.

 Move Over, Genghis Khan. Many Other Men Left Huge Genetic Legacies. A 2015 study showed that ten other men have a lot of descendants. The paper is just one of several genetic studies revealing the secrets of descent

The top 10 big ‘lies’ the medical community is telling patients, revealed by a doctor

 Is This The Dumbest Science study Ever?

 Washington Post: We’ve Been Cooling The Planet While Also Heating It

 New Panic: Slowing the Burning of Fossil Fuels Will Cause Global Warming

 Can Pollution Save the Planet? Plus. . .

"Saving the planet" - sheesh

 Biggest Non-Secret Out of Secret Recording Leak Ever: Labour's NetZero Plans to Cost Britain Bigly

 Biden’s high-stakes gamble risks everything – including his nomination – as he prepares for Trump debate

Amy Walter: 18% Of Biden Voters In Battleground States Are Not Supporting Him In 2024

In Latest Blow to Military Effectiveness, U.S. Navy Will No Longer Require Sailors to Pass Physical Fitness Tests

Fitness depends on the job, doesn't it?

Trump’s Return Would Transform Europe. Without Washington’s embrace, the continent could revert to an anarchic and illiberal past.

Is Europe an American colony?

SUBURBIA’S IRREDEEMABLE REPUTATION IN THE AMERICAN CANON

 The Enduring American Car - What’s driving the new economy? The old economy’s gas-powered vehicles.

 It’s Been 6 Years Since Greta Thunberg Warned We Have 5 Years to Stop the Extinction of Humanity

 This Energy Transition Thing Really Is Not Happening

Stuart's Potpourri

Somebody's not a fan of Gavin Newsom

What’s the Least Amount of Exercise I Can Get Away With?

Hmmm, doubt it

Americans Losing Confidence in Ivy League Universities after Anti-Israel Protests

VDH:  The Logic in All the Madness - The Biden administration's agendas may have fundamentally changed the country for decades, if not longer—and will require tough remedies that may be almost as unpopular as the wreckage they wrought.

Biden's student loan forgiveness plan suffers huge blow as two federal judges block key measure that would cost nation $160 BILLION

 CNN proves anti-Trump bias days before debate

France's Macron makes threats

 Can Israel Actually Win This War? Plus.

 Narcissism and Self-Esteem Are Very Different - Narcissism and self-esteem have very different developmental pathways and outcomes.

 Heat Wave Sets Off New Round Of ‘Climate Crisis’ Lies

 Do you remember the days when everyone was drooling over multiculturalism?

 Public Educators Defying Parents as 50% of Students Can't Read at Grade Level

 I Was Homeschooled and Became a School Teacher. Here Are Honest Pros and Cons of Learning at Home.

 Snopes has finally gotten around to debunking the ‘very fine people’ hoax

Whoo Boy: There's a New Associate Communications Director at the White House

 Biden’s RADICAL judicial nominee just busted lying under oath

 ‘Cheap fakes’? Biden’s defenders are getting desperate - The liberal media are going out of their way to silence concerns about his health.

 Astronomers May Have Found Life Beyond Earth. As I spoke to NASA’s chief scientist about a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from our own, I found myself thinking about my father and his telescope.

 Here's How Long It Takes for Instagram to Start Grooming Children Who Join

Spectator: The American Ornithological Society’s war on the past Birding has become a battleground — far from the broad sunny uplands it was before 2020

Disney  VP Admits On Hidden Camera That Company Refuses To Hire 'White Males'

 RIP Washington Post?

 Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson warns that the US is facing the same decline from dominance that affected Spain, France and Britain before it

 How rising anti-American axis sees US weakness, and is ready to pounce

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

Why Does Joe Biden Keep Nominating Monsters Like This to the Federal Bench?

Oakland Mayor Claims Crime Down Before Being Raided by FBI. "Thank you for your support, Governor Newsom."

Mexican Cartel ‘Travel Agencies’ Selling $15,000 Packages to Illegal Aliens for Help to Cross Border. People from the local police to the higher echelons of the government play a part in the operation.

Presidential debate?

Trump’s policies have uplifted Black families. Give him another term to finish the job

 NASA Predicts Rare Nova Explosion This Summer. It is about 3,000 light-years from Earth, but it can be witnessed with the naked eye.

 Heavy strength training at retirement age helps keep you mobile

 What Is Life Coaching?

 The Daily Chart: The Baby-Makers

3 in 10 campus 'pro-Palestine' protesters had job offer rescinded in past six months

VDH:  How California’s Paradise Become our Purgatory

 Ecuadorian illegal alien is surprised to find he can't get away with rape in Queens, New York

 China Offers Step-by-Step Guide to Crossing US Border

 'No Tax On Tips' Reveals the Chasm Between Left and Right

Biden’s Multi-Billion Dollar Plan to Connect Rural Americans to High Speed Internet Has Connected ZERO People

Biden’s Gaza Pier Is Failing

 Argentina’s ‘Milei Miracle’ is exposing its failing socialist neighbors

Murray gives Uighur a talking-to

"We have the most expensive military on earth, they say. That may be true, but it is also irrelevant."

 Willie Mays, RIP

Saw him play with the NY Mets as an older guy

New psychology research shows acts of kindness predict seven types of well-being

 Brain scans identify 6 types of depression in new study

 The Girlification of America

 Germany Passes Gender Self-Identification Law Allowing INFANTS To Transition, Imposes Massive Fine For “Deadnaming”

How Progressive

 The Murky Business of Transgender Medicine

 The College Fix’s 20 most outrageous campus stories of spring 2024 semester

 Chicago Teachers Demands $145K Salaries After 80% of Students Can’t Do Math

 President of Chicago Teachers Union says conservatives take an ‘oath’ to prevent black children from learning to read

 The Misinformation Dis(mis)course Revisited : The Losing Battle of The Academic Expertocracy

 "Scientific American" calls for federal homeschooling regulations.

 ‘I’m Stuck Between the Woke Left and the Nativist Right.’

Not me. I like legal immigration

Jihadists Brutalize Non-Muslim Women, Feminists in West Remain Silent

 Senate Passes Legislation to Accelerate Development of Nuclear Energy Power Plants

Good news

Kotkin: The Road to Neo-Feudalism - Western societies stand on the brink of a great reversion towards a demographically and economically stagnant society reminiscent of the Dark Ages.

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

How many Americans have been assaulted, raped, maimed or murdered by illegals who have streamed into our country at the invitation of Joe Biden’s open border policies?

All Roads in the Muslim World Lead to Beijing. Israel Will Have to Engage China

I'll be AWOL on salt water for a few days, back with morning links Thurs, time and weather permitting.

 How Hadrian’s Wall is revealing a hidden side of Roman history

 America’s Loneliest Workers, According to Research

 What City Kids Learn on My Farm - ‘Hens don’t lay on demand. Tomatoes aren’t ripe in June. And animals don’t care about your feelings.’

 How much can you really learn about a country from visiting it? Not as much as people think.

What the Pope really thinks about frociaggine in the Vatican

 University of Florida offers ‘Data Feminisms’ class, won’t provide syllabus

 The benefits of immigrant workers

 What Americans Really Think About Immigration

Seems like Americans like it legal

 Top ex-spies who (still) lie about Hunter Biden’s laptop are anything but ‘patriots’

Also,  They stand by their operation

 If Trump wins in November, watch out

 Election Interference: Facebook Blocks Post About Biden Campaign Disinformation

Pennsylavania Gov. Josh Shapiro Calls Trump Supporters ‘Profoundly and Pathetically Weak People’

Democrat Left Speechless When Asked to Name Trump’s Crimes

 Explorer Shackleton's last ship found on ocean floor

Wells Fargo Fires Employees Over "Mouse Jigglers"

 How is France dodging the global obesity trend?

Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Released Despite FBI Resistance

The Merry Divorcee who got tired of cooking

TGIF: This Establishment Accepts Presidential Prison Coins, Hunter gets convicted, Republicans stake it all on IVF, and Bill Gates goes nuclear. Plus: The Brooklyn Museum director gets measured feedback from community stakeholders.

 Case Study In Making Science Propaganda: Cooking Becomes Pollution

Chicago Doubles Education Spending, Tragedy Ensues.

George Stephanopoulos Rips the Mask Off, Gives CNN Advice on How to ‘Get’ Trump in the Debate

Biden, Zelensky hail $50 billion G7 loan for Ukraine

 The West Is Sick of the New Woke Jihadism

COVID: This insanity should never have happened

Is Wellness A Gateway To Right-Wing "Fascism"?

 Columbia is about to be in a world of Title VI hurt it can’t even yet imagine.

Protesters are harassing Jews every day in NYC, when will pols protect them?

 New York is about to make its high school diplomas worse than useless

American Education’s Dirty Little Secret. Plus. . .

Bias at the NY Times? Who Knew?

Labour’s Century - The party that once sought to improve life chances in the U.K. now strives mostly to improve the lives of opportunists.

 Europe Not Allowed To Lean Conservative? Warnings Of "Crisis" Abound After Shocking Elections

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele: Western Civilization Is Reaching A Tipping Point

The bottom line is that the UN is increasingly irrelevant in solving major world crises

 New neuroscience research reveals the remarkable impact of exercise on brain cells

 Americans are lonelier than ever - and 'Netflix and chill' homes are to blame, say experts

 Kevin Spacey Says He's Losing His Home Due to Debt from Legal Bills

 Muller on Capitalism

Millions fewer people may need statins, a new study suggests. But guidelines have yet to agree

 Starbucks founder says Steve Jobs told him to fire executive team: 'He was right'

 Immigration Fueled America's Stunning Cricket Upset Over Pakistan

 Climate Science is About to Make a Huge Mistake

 Despite climate-change hysterics, weather disasters have decreased

 Three Washington State Teens Face Ten Years In Prison For Vandalizing Pride Mural

 Judge Dismisses Riot Charges Against Illegal Aliens in Texas

 MSNBC’s Joy Reid Says Justice Samuel Alito Wants an American ‘Ethno-State,’ Wants to Bring Back Segregation

Does she believe that?

 Sleeping MAGA Giant Of Europe Finally Awakens

Far-Left Extremism Enabled Right-Wing Victories. The backlash to radical energy, migration, and security policies in Europe, North America, and Latin America isn't irrational

 How California became a warning to the world - A new dominant class of oligarchs and woke bureaucrats has bled the Golden State dry.

 Argentina's Milei To Cut 50,000 State Jobs Amid Legislative Challenges. The move is part of the president's ongoing strategy to cut public spending and reduce the national deficit.

 Israel Killed 31 of My Family Members in Gaza. The Pro-Palestine Movement Isn’t Helping. Over the last two decades, Western activists have only made things worse for my people.