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“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”

 Martin Luther King Jr.

 Martin Luther King Jr.: The best of America

 How Failing To Butcher Your Child Became “Child Abuse”

 Where Now for Nuclear Power? Despite some major setbacks, the technology remains vital to the nation’s energy future—but the U.S. needs to enact major regulatory and permitting reforms.

 Updates On The March To The Great Green Energy Future

 Massachusetts Officials Pleading with Private Homeowners to Take in Illegal Aliens

 Democrat Jerry Nadler Slammed After Claiming ‘Many Illegal Immigrants’ Needed To Pick Vegetables

 Biden: “If My Republican Colleagues Don’t Fund Ukraine, They’re Gonna Have an Awful Lot to Pay For”

 Lawfare Against Trump Is Running Out of Gas. Prosecutors are discovering that the more they seek to rush to judgment before the election and gag Trump from speaking publicly about these proceedings, the more he rises in the polls.

 Is ‘Trump is Hitler’ the best Biden’s got? Three years into his presidency, Joe Biden has nothing to offer voters apart from anti-Trump hysteria.

 Porch Pirates Are a Big Security Problem in Canada, so the Police Are Acting Swiftly… To Protect the Privacy of the Thieves!

 Taiwan’s political future is uncertain. Voters can’t escape the psychodrama between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China

Taiwan will be China one day

Nathan:  How could I not tell you about Be'eri's buried?

 Finnish Politician Räsänen Again Facing Demands For Prosecution Over Quoting Bible

Stuart quotes a bunch from Bret Stephens, a seemingly "moderate" who dislikes Donald Trump.  Lots of people dislike Trump's adolescent, hyperbolic blowhard side. At the same time, he did a darn good job.

Ad hominem sets in when policy discussions fail to persuade. I am old enuf to remember Nixon/Hitler, Reagan/Hitler, and Bush/Hitler.

One quote:

 Public services paid by taxes exist for people who live here, not just anyone who makes his way into the country by violating its laws. A job market is structured by rules and regulations, not just an endless supply of desperate laborers prepared to work longer for less. A national culture is sustained by common memories, ideals, laws and a language — which newcomers should honor, adopt and learn as a requirement of entry. It isn’t just a giant arrival gate for anyone and everyone who wants to take advantage of American abundance and generosity.

 It said something about the self-deluded state of Western politics when Trump came on the scene that his assertion of the obvious was treated as a moral scandal, at least by the stratum of society that had the least to lose from mass migration. To millions of other Americans, his message, however crudely he may have expressed it, sounded like plain common sense.

Why are American pedestrians getting run over so much more often than a decade and a half ago?

A few simple tips: Look both ways, assume drivers are distracted or drunk, and quit crossing a road at night wearing black. 

Florida Man fun 

 Social Distancing ‘Sort of Just Appeared’

 The Orwellian Assault On The Past Continues

 Among the most shocking aspects of the current political scene is the fact that the American and the British left has been exposed as misogynistic, anti-Semitic and homophobic. 

 One of the few remaining Sears stores is closing

 This Is San Francisco

 Democrats: We Need Illegals to Do Menial Tasks

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

 How Democrats Sold Out The Working Class - The Democratic Party is being gentrified into oblivion

Fanigate Goes Full Jerry Springer

The Root Cause Of Academic Groupthink

 Former Stanford President Retracts "Ground-Breaking" Alzheimer's Paper

 Why DEI Regime Cries Victim in Harvard-Claudine Gay Scandal

" It looks to me as though colleges are doing a lot to discourage young people from learning. The mission of lifelong learning is a higher mission than social justice activism. Colleges took a wrong turn when they focused on social justice activism."

 National Public Radio is a sandbox for the Left. The "news" there is manufactured by leftists, for leftists

 Dr. Anthony Fauci Cannot ‘Recall’ Much About COVID Origins, Pandemic Responses. Fauci, who can’t remember the origins of the “6 feet” rule of social distancing, now says the lab leak origin is credible.

 TGIF: This Means War - The pope comes out against surrogacy. Harvard dismisses its own extension school. Florida cuts the dictionary. Palestine activists object to your morning commute. Plus: Iraq!

  16K Chinese Migrants Apprehended by Border Patrol Since October

 "Futile Waste Of Human Resources & Money" - EU PM Says West Got Ukraine All Wrong

Canada: Who is Paul Poilievre? 

Watch his quick interview while he munches an apple

" English-speaking readers around the world were meant to understand that Zionists were genocidal and racist settler-colonialists who deployed Nazi methods in the service of global imperialism, while suppressing the anti-colonial national-liberation struggle of the Palestinian people." 

 Why Apology Matters

DNA from ancient Europeans reveals surprising multiple sclerosis origins

 Scottish Parents Who Refuse To Let Their Kids Go Trans Could Face 7 Years In Prison

TNR: The Right Is Winning Its War on Schools - Using bogus scandals and funding crunches, Republicans across the country are decimating public education.

The "right," or parents? 

 A new analysis of studies casts doubt on the systemic-racism narrative in criminal sentencing. the systemic-racism narrative in criminal sentencing.

 Mandating Too Many Women In Science?

 Elon Musk Calls for Greater Election Security and Voter ID: ‘This is Insane’

 Michelle Obama ‘Terrified’ Over 2024 Presidential Election

 Hunter’s Art Dealer Contradicts White House Claims Over Art Sales

Duh 

About That Red Sea Deterrence - Largest, Most Complex Houthi Attack to Date Launched Last Night

Biden's Refusal to Designate Houthis As Terrorists Sparks Blowback From Military Leaders

Why Does No One Protest The Ongoing Slaughter Of Christians By Muslims In Nigeria?

The deafening, disgusting silence of women’s groups on Hamas rapes continues

 How the right amount of caffeine unlocks lifelong benefits for your body and mind

 ‘The Sopranos,’ now 25, is the ultimate TV series about America — not the Italian mob

Was one if not the only TV series I've watched. Amazing series 

 Authentic rehabilitation of criminals: A psychiatrist’s view

 'Plant-Based Peanut Butter' Is a Thing People Buy, and I Can't Stop Laughing

 Survey Finds Only a Tiny Fraction of Voters in Swing States Care About Biden’s Signature Issue of Climate Change

 A Professor Quits MIT. China’s Bullying Goes Global. Haley Surges.

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

 The real reason people are flocking to red states - State and local Republicans actually do a pretty good job of what those at the national level promise

 Why and Where the Working Class Turned Right - A new book documents the lost (and pro-Democratic) world of Pennsylvania steelworkers and how it became Republican.

Turned "right"?  What is "right"?

 "I don’t quite understand all of these Democrats who say Trump is an existential threat to decency, democracy and maybe life on the planet and then..."

 Biden Lashes Out at the Half of the Country That Refuses to Vote for Him. His speech on Jan. 5 left no room for doubt. It’s your choice: Democrats or chaos.

 Ray Epps Dodges Prison Sentence - Gets Probation, Community Service For Telling J6ers To Go "Into The Capitol"

Agent provocateur?

 African Migrants: 'Getting into the United States is certain'

 ‘This Is Not Normal’: Tens Of Thousands Of Chinese Nationals Cross Border Illegally In Matter Of Months

 NYC High School Students Go Remote Tomorrow as Their School is Used to House Migrants Overnight

Jacobin:  The Reactionary Jargon of Decoloniality

How Justin Trudeau lost his grip - The prime minister’s bleak reality: Canadians don’t like him anymore.

 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 

Their name sounds like some people in Star Wars. Who are the Houthis?

Hidden from Public: Q Shaman Stands Outside Doors of US Capitol and Tells Everyone to Go Home – Reads Trump Tweet to Stay Peaceful and Go Home #Insurrection

Whoever came up with the term "insurrection" for a protest was a good propagandizer.

Related:  Yuval Levin on the attempts to defeat Trump with litigation

I've seen smear campaigns, but this one takes the cake. 

 The War on Gas Stoves Has Basically Failed

 Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in The Lab Using Vibrating Molecules

 AI can already diagnose depression better than a doctor and tell you which treatment is best

I doubt it 

 New study highlights the psychological power of minimal social interactions

Seems true 

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

Elements of Crime:

 In 2022, a mere 327 people accounted for nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in New York; apprehended and sprung from custody ad nauseam, like Batman villains, in total they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times.

Kimball:  When will Harvard give Claudine Gay the boot?

 MAINE GOES CRAZY

 The Left had a difficult year. Its internal splits were pronounced

 Millions Of People Of Color Endure Grueling Thousand Mile Trek In Effort To Enter Systemically Racist White Supremacist Hellhole

Socialist Protests Erupt In Argentina As Milei Implements "Austerity" Cuts

 Massive Russian Air Raid – Industrial, Military and Infrastructure Facilities Hit in Ukraine – 122 Missiles and 24 Drones Used – Was It the Largest of the War?

 America is unprepared to fight a war on three fronts. The democratic world is sleepwalking once again towards military disaster

Ford Slashing EV Production in Half Next Year

 Trigger warnings do not work, according to recent meta-analysis

Duh 

 Nation's White Liberals Wish Each Other Happy Kwanza

 Mayor Eric Adams: Illegal Immigration Spurring ‘Erosion of Quality of Life’ in New York City

 The migrant crisis isn’t just socking New York’s budget but its economy, too

Mrs. BD and 2 of the grandkids had a great time in NYC yesterday 

 Another tragic victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome

 Maine Secretary of State Gets Destroyed After Removing Trump From the Ballot

 A Reckoning for a Wrecked America

 What Detransitioners Taught Me About the Risks of Therapy - The Bad Feelings Experts Can Exacerbate Teens' Bad Feelings

 The Racism, Revenge, and Ruin of Claudine Gay

 TGIF: Take Me to Our Leaders - Nikki Haley’s slavery slip-up. Maine bans Trump from the ballot. Elizabeth Warren has a yen for YIMBYs. Plus, Casey DeSantis for president.

Haley was technically correct, but it's politics

 Who Supports Hamas?

 ‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7

War tends to include sexual violence. American soldiers an exception. 

 Leftist Politician in Germany Says Migrants Are “Entitled” to Mass Loot Grocery Stores

Our Last Ford F-150 Lightning EV Pickup Road Trip Was a Nightmare

 Remember When Public Buildings Were Beautiful?

 Men Can Get Free Tampons in Canadian Government Building Bathrooms Now

By now, everyone, including its proponents, knows that DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) means nothing of the sort. It isn’t diverse, it isn’t equitable, and it certainly isn’t inclusive.

 Funding for Failure - Even as its black students lag disastrously behind, the Los Angeles Unified School District pours more taxpayer dollars into racial and ideological indoctrination.

 HOW LEFT-WING IS THE PRESS?

 Hundreds of California Pizza Hut locations announce ‘no more delivery’

 Delta Employee Puts Whiny Transgender Actor in His Place For Complaining About Being “Misgendered”

 Like Bud Light, Harvard discovers backlash. Claudine Gay shows why you shouldn't hire a person based solely on sex and race

 Jonathan Turley Inserts Trump Into Die Hard Storyline

 ‘Even Latinxs are Cringing’: CO Gov. Jared Polis Blasted Over Awkward ‘Feliz Navidad’ Video

 "Mass Migration Blueprints" Reveal NGOs "Carefully Planned" US Migrant Invasion, Report Says

 Your new neighbors are on the way. This caravan is heading for the U.S. border

 Texas Intensifies Strategy, Plans to Send More Flights of Illegal Immigrants to Chicago in Response to City’s Efforts to Slow the Arrival of Buses from Texas

 The Dublin Riot: A Harbinger of Things to Come?

 Matti Friedman: The Wisdom of Hamas- They understand the war they’re fighting. Many in the West still don’t.

 Israel Updates: Amb. Ido Aharoni Aronoff Addressing the JNF-USA Daily Briefing (video)

Dalrymple: " One of the great pleasures of retirement is that one can lie abed in the morning and read Agatha Christie without any feeling of guilt..."

The Winner of Our Senior Essay Contest: A Love Song for Deborah. After my wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, I nearly gave in to despair. Until I found the one thing that awakened her.

Inside Disney’s disastrous year of box office flops

 This year, Canadian patients faced a median wait of 27.7 weeks for medically necessary treatment from a specialist after being referred by a general practitioner. 

 New Headwind For 'Gender-Affirming Care' For Children: Soaring Malpractice Insurance Costs

 Another Major US Chip Plant Delays Mass Production Until After 2024 Election

VDH:  2024—the Year of our Reckoning. Will we meet the challenges or ensure the ongoing decline?

 California Unexpectedly Hit by Bad Luck As Top Wealth Producers Flee the State

 Is Britain 'Erasing the Right to Protest?'

 Britain's Net Zero Disaster & The Wind Power Scam

 Claudine Gay Update -- Now It's Allegations Of Data Falsification

 The “Exhilaration” of Massacre: Russell Rickford and the Radical Chic of Higher Education

 Joe and Jill Biden Celebrate Kwanzaa – A Phony Holiday Created by a Violent Felon Who Tortured Two Naked Women

 Professors: U.S. a genocidal ‘settler colonial state’ that needs to be ‘dismantled’

 DEI Comes to Jasper, Indiana

 The 'Functional Collapse' at the Southern Border Is Central Planning

Boxing Day is the traditional day to tip your helpers of the past year. Besides househeld help like Butler, Ladies' Maids, cook, sucllery maids, Housemaids, footmen, doormen, etc., best to include the early morning Dunkin Donuts crew, the garbagemen, postman, and other people who routinely make your life go better. At 5:30 AM on Christmas Eve, en route to my gym, I noticed the Dunkin tip jar filled with $10 bills. You bet, because everybody depends on them.

 The year of Ozempic bodies and Barbie Botox - Corporate feminism will not save us.

 The Cross and the Machine - After years of atheism, I went searching for the truth. I found Buddhism, then witchcraft, and eventually, Christianity.

 "Christmas Is Canceled": Scuffles, Arrests In NYC As Pro-Palestinian Protesters Storm Manhattan

 The Latest Billionaire Bails on Harvard

Harvard does not need $

An Ex-Democrat's Case for Trump

 By Trying To Keep Trump Off The Ballot, Democrats Are Staging A Coup In Broad Daylight

 Jack (Smith) Not So Nimble

 Of Course Hamas Supporters Wanted to "Disrupt Christmas"

 Hamas fires on Gaza civilians seeking humanitarian aid

 This will be the saddest Christmas in Bethlehem. All celebrations have been canceled. There will be no Christmas tree, no visitors, no parades

New York Times sparks outrage over running op-ed by Hamas mayor: ‘You have no shame or dignity’

I disagree. We should hear all propaganda

We've been posting too many menus. OK, Christmas Eve here, after church, is usually poached salmon with yoghurt/dill sauce. I like that sauce more than I like salmon. Christmas Eve is sposta be a "fasting" thing.

Christmas morning? I make breakfast for Mrs. BD: Scrambled eggs with good caviar on top, and a stinky French cheese. We aren't much into the presents thing, but I do put the caviar in her stocking. Yum.

Christmas Day with some family? Made it easy for us: Spiral ham, roast carrots, roast brussel sprouts, mashed taters, and Grandma's Corn Pudding. Then a Santa cake. 

What about you? 

The student loan scam 

 It’s Almost 2024 And Doctors Are Still Misleading The Public About Youth Gender Medicine

A Week in Education 

 ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Doctors Without Borders Needs To Be Investigated For Acting Like A Hamas Front Group

 The Progressive Approach To Homelessness Comes To Madison, Wisconsin

Kimball:  Will The Guardians of The Narrative Win? We watch the unfolding of an unedifying spectacle

Stuart's Miscellany 

 If Rumors About Who's Running the Show Are True, It'll Be a Very Houthi Christmas

 Biden Might Lose, So Screw the Constitution