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 Colleges take COVID testing way too far and spread hysteria

 Experts groan: The CDC's new updated quarantine guidance is more confusing than before

Why the Jan. 6 Inquisition Is the Real Enemy of Democracy

 Democrats And The Media Are Obsessed With January 6th Because They’ve Got Nothing Else

 New Manhattan DA Claims Decriminalization ‘Will Make Us Safer’ in Memo to Staff

 The Price of Dissent - A Reuters data scientist questioned the Black Lives Matter narrative—so the company fired him.

 Emory Law Journal Refuses To Publish Scholarly Article Challenging “Systemic Racism” Finding It “Hurtful and Unnecessarily Divisive”

On visiting St. Tikhon’s monastery in South Canaan, Pennsylvania

The Met Opera's reopening 

Chronicle:  When Professors Offend Students - Classroom norms are changing. Where’s the line, and who decides?

 Glenn Greenwald: There Is An Addiction To Being Protected By The State, To Not Having A Return To Normal Life

 Can Democrats Keep Schools Open During Omicron?

 Chicago Public Schools Close as Teachers’ Union Votes to Strike against In-Person Teaching

" One merciful upside to all of this is that there is no more talk of lockdowns. At last, even the experts are saying that society must function. Lockdowns are not even being considered. The whole country is fed up with the phony baloney enterprise of virus control. It did not and cannot work. "

 Desperation among residents as China cuts off city of 13 million due to outbreak

Mass Formation Psychosis is a meme now 

 MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS or… mass hypnosis- the madness of crowds

 Trouble in paradise: The crumbling California model

 MSNBC’s The ReidOut reports that Officer Brian Sicknick ‘died from wounds inflicted on January 6’

The secrets of NYC's best bagels (video) 

 45 eerie, creepy, and often beautiful abandoned places around the world

 New England Is One Cold Snap From Energy Doom

 Viagra — is there anything it can't do?

 Panicky Would-Be COVID Victims Line Up for Hours to Find Out if They're Sick

 Infection Experts: We Will "Never" See The End Of Coronavirus

 How have we gotten here? Mass Formation Psychosis, explained

 The Covid Insanity Has to End

 How the 1960s institutionalized us - The long march of the cultural revolution has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams

 6 Basic Concepts Liberals Don't Get

 One more awkward hypocrisy emerges about incident where a police-defunding and ‘bail reform’ advocate Illinois state senator was carjacked

Taliban order beheading of shop mannequins

 Student receives praise for bogus paper on how milk is a ‘colonizer’ of coffee

VDH:  The Truths We Dared Not Speak in 2021 - At the end of this terrible year, we are left only with ironies. 

More VDH:  The Ungracious—and Their Demonization of the Past

 CNN Story Perfectly Captures The Mass Covid Neuroticism Of 2021

National Educators United demands two week pause in school re-opening

"The push to open schools is rooted in racism, sexism, and misogyny" 

 After Drumming Out Unvaxxed Servicemembers, Fully Vaccinated and Boosted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Tests Positive for COVID

 Oregon Business Owner Ordered to Remove American Flag Mural on Private Property

 Three Years Till The Guardian’s Global Climate Catastrophe

 The New Climate of Panic Among the Panic-Mongers

 White flag: EU to declare natural gas, nuclear power "green"

 Ron DeSantis accompanied wife to cancer treatment while critics claimed he was 'missing'

 2021’S MAN OF THE YEAR: Ron DeSantis

 NYC’s New Mayor Eric Adams Calls 911 on His Subway Commute Hours After Being Sworn Into Office (VIDEO)

 SHAPES OF THINGS: LAPTOP FROM HELL EDITION

 The party of "Karens": The new Democratic Party alienates nonwhite voters

The people at  the Maggie's HQ wish our readers a healthy and comfortable new year.

Good riddance to NYC’s worst mayor ever – Bill de Blasio: Goodwin

 Colorado Governor Shortens Trucker's Prison Term to 10 Years

Should be zero years. Brakes failed. 

 'The CDC Now Recommends' Is the Joke We All Needed in 2021

 Fauci Goes There: Finally Admits Kids Not Being Hospitalized From COVID

 Arctic Ocean Warming Began Already In Early 20th Century, Meaning Natural Factors Strongly At Play

 THE USELESSNESS OF SOLAR ENERGY

In Minnesota? 

 A WORD FROM DAN RATHER

 Poll: 90% of Chicago Public School Teachers Would Go Back to Virtual Learning. The union is preparing to strike if its demands are not met.

 A Compendium Of Hate Crime Hoaxes: Jussie Smollett’s Was Just The Tip Of The Iceberg

Greenfield:  America’s wealthiest leftist elites demand that poor white kids be taught they’re racist. Maybe they can drive by in their hybrid limos and teach the hungry kids of Sullivan County about their white privilege.

 Be careful driving around tonight. Lots of idiots out there

 A Neuroscientist Prepares for Death - Lessons my terminal cancer have taught me about the mind

 ‘What Is a Woman?’ Jeopardy! Contestant Crowned Highest-Earning “Female” In Show’s 57-Year History, Is Actually A Man

 Professor of color denied funding for cutting-edge laser research due to ‘insufficient’ equity, diversity and inclusion enthusiasm

Book: Debunking Howard Zinn 

 Pulitzer Center Helps 1619 Project Teachers Subvert Laws Banning Racism

 The American Psychological Association No Longer Represents Good Science or Clinical Practice: An Open Letter on My Resignation from the APA

 COVID Deaths Fall as Omicron Wave Fails to Deliver

Washington state looks to reduce sentences for drive-by shootings for "racial equity"

 NYPD Kicks Out Mom, Upset Child From Applebee’s Over Vaccine Cards, Arrest Others

 COVID testing has become ridiculous and even counterproductive

 Chris Hayes: We shouldn't reorient our lives around something that looks like the flu

 The mainstream media's top 10 missteps in 2021. Media pundits and publications spun on inflation, critical race theory, and more

 IRS reminds thieves, drug dealers to report their illegal income

 Patients with depression show increases in neuroplasticity and fewer clinical symptoms after a physical activity intervention

 West Coast Sees Record Snow, Climate Cult Does Their Normal Blame Game

Re Didion:  Right At the Beginning. Joan Didion’s obituarists largely ignore her early journalism for National Review under the stewardship of Frank Meyer.

 Campus cancel culture: Here are 135 higher education cancelations in 2021

 How We Changed Our Minds in 2021 - Enes Kanter Freedom on his name. Ayaan Hirsi Ali on liberalism. Tim Urban on religion. Plus: Nellie Bowles, Ross Douthat, Chloé Valdary, Karol Markowicz, and Balaji Srinivasan.

 Never say die: Trump-Russia collusion theorists strike again

U.S. shatters daily record for COVID cases, but...

 Traders Start Freaking Out Over Fresh Supply Chain Collapse As Covid Sweeps Across China

Dalrymple:  The Unavoidable Necessity to Make Judgments

 Axelrod: Can't anyone in this party do math?

 Erik Prince calls for upgrade of US hybrid conflict capabilities. Blackwater founder argues for the primacy of low-visibility, localized, deniable forces, backed by private sector efficiencies

 State Department ‘Actively Impeding’ Rescue Efforts as Afghanistan Fades from Spotlight, Vets Say

 US records 151,915 new COVID infections thanks to Omicron surge - just 39,000 fewer than Christmas Day 2020 - but deaths have dropped by 72%

 Why are some people with Omicron testing negative for COVID?

 Unspeakable truths about racial inequality in America - GLENN LOURY

 The Year of Living Unreasonably- Ben Shapiro

 ‘Medicaid for All’ is rapidly becoming a reality in New York

 The Left (Unwittingly?) Spoofs Itself in Don’t Look Up

 Feminism Demolishes a Family

The hunt for a GOP punching bag to succeed Meghan McCain 'The View' isn't going well

 China's disastrous one-child policy is finally starting to kick in

 Why China Got Away With It. It gave the world a deadly virus and took no responsibility for it — and the world shrugged it off.

Photo stolen from Ace 

E. O. Wilson dead at 92 

A great scientist 

 TikTok Moderators Sue After Being "Traumatized" By Content

So change jobs 

NYC:  Everywhere you look, it’s more and more spending and no positive results of any kind.    

 New York surrenders to the woke revolution

 Fresh evidence the White House put teachers unions ahead of science on school COVID safety

Duh 

 The "Transgender Moment" Jumps the Shark. New York magazine elevates a journalist with a deeply troubled—and troubling—history to trans icon status

This person has issues 

 Dr. Fauci: Steer Clear of Large, Crowded New Year's Eve Parties

I got no invitation this year 

 Joe Biden's Surrender on COVID Gets More Embarrassing After the Receipts Emerge

 NASCAR driver Brandon Brown who inadvertently sparked 'Let's Go Brandon!' anti-Biden chant says he has been CANCELLED: Phrase has made it 'extremely difficult' for him to get sponsorship

Poor guy never said it 

 AMERICANS ARE VOTING WITH THEIR FEET—AGAINST BLUE STATES

And bringing blue votes with them 

Former Boston College Student Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter After Encouraging Boyfriend To Commit Suicide

 Atlantic Senior Editor 'Let's Go Brandon' Analysis Is Hilariously Predictable

 Kamala: Our Democracy Is Doomed Without Federal Takeover Over Voting System

 KAMALA KEEPS DIGGING

 Nikole Hannah-Jones beclowns herself on Meet the Press

 Sorry, Hannah-Jones: Parents DO deserve a say in what their kids are taught

Blasphemy in Pakistan is a bad idea

How Venezuela pulled its oil production out of a tailspin

 Millipedes Have Been Living a Lie. No known creature actually had 1,000 legs—until now.

Lady is ashamed she caught COVID

 Omicron Accounts for 90 Percent of COVID-19 Cases in Some Parts of US

Everybody will get it 

 Green energy firms the biggest corporate welfare recipients ever. No other industry in American history has ever received this lucrative a paycheck

 More Than $100 Billion Was Stolen From Pandemic Relief Funds, Secret Service Says

Hinderaker on the Kim Potter verdict:

  The first degree manslaughter count requires that Potter caused another’s death “in committing or attempting to commit a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor offense with such force and violence that death of or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable…” But Potter was not committing or attempting to commit a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor, she was executing a lawful arrest of a criminal. 

 Illinois state senator supports defund the police efforts, then karma struck

 I've Worked with People Like Bette Midler... Yes, They Think You're Stupid

 The Biden White House’s Energy Incompetence

VP Harris complains that her job is too hard 

Sheesh. Not a good thing to say 

 A Rift in the Conservative Foreign-Policy World

 Israel’s Christian community is growing, 84% satisfied with life here – report

 Statement on Improving the Potential for a Diplomatic Resolution to the Iran Nuclear Challenge

Should the US defend Taiwan? 

Of course not

 Wall Street and Silicon Valley must stop bankrolling communist China. We need a regulatory framework to protect our nation and its people from China’s ambitions

 Two more Tiananmen monuments removed from Hong Kong university campuses

 The Gift of the WalMagi

 Nick Bloom: ‘It is becoming pretty clear now that hybrid working is here to stay’

 New York Will Conduct Spot Checks On Mask Compliance

Ontario Schools Will No Longer Require Teachers to Pass Math Proficiency Test Due to ‘Racial Disparities’

 It Starts: Advice To Climate Cultists On Bringing Up ‘Climate Change’ At The Dinner Table

Seventy-five years of It’s a Wonderful Life - In George Bailey, we see our own fathers, our own brothers and husbands and sons

 Why Does Kenny G Drive Critics Crazy?

WSJ:  Well-Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg. The rare specimen suggests that a two-legged dinosaur known as an oviraptorid hatched the way birds do

CNN expert: Cloth masks are useless "face decorations" at this point

Boston Globe: What if we never go back to the office?

 20 years before the Holocaust, pogroms killed 100,000 Jews – then were forgotten

 WHO REALLY CHOOSES TO BECOME A SUICIDE BOMBER?

 Elizabeth Warren Thinks You’re Stupid

 Three Retired Generals Loudly Demand A Military Coup In 2024

 Reviving U.S. heavy industry would build a safer, more sustainable world

 The Russian Treaty Proposal

Covid panic as progressive virtue signaling

An amusing obituary 

Mitch Daniels is a voice in the wilderness 

 Fury From The Left After George Will Calls 1619 Project “Historical Illiteracy” and “Not Innocent Ignorance”. And he did it at WaPo, leftists’ safe space. Race card played: “Will should’ve just written Hannah-Jones was ‘uppity'”

 Abigail Shrier on Freedom in an Age of Fear. A warning—and a rallying cry.

 Orthodox rabbis call on US universities to suspend diversity programs

It's Official: Durham Is Investigating The Clinton Campaign

 Biden's Appeasement of Moscow Threatens NATO

 Latest Palestinian Attacks Are Motivated by Incitement Combined with Hamas’ Interest to Increase Terror

 Louis Prang, Father of the American Christmas Card, Santa Claus of American Art

Sexual Assault Is Already Happening in Meta’s Virtual Reality World

 Former Harvard Chemistry Chair Admits to Taking Tens of Thousands of Dollars From China

That's peanuts 

 Prof: Outdoor recreation a ‘white-dominated space,’ has ‘roots in systemic racism’

Elon Musk's taxes 

 Which Country Or U.S. State Will Be The First To Hit The Renewable Energy Wall?

CJ:  Two Statues of Jefferson - The New York city council has evicted Thomas Jefferson from its chamber. Should Paris now follow suit?

 People who get breakthrough COVID-19 infections after being fully vaccinated have 'super immunity' with antibody levels rising as much as 2,000%, study finds

 Covid is no excuse to dress like a slob. Time to get rid of the ‘athleisure’ wear and start caring about our appearances again

 Nick Sandmann reaches settlement with NBC

 THE JOE MANCHIN EXPERIENCE

  Manchin Exposes Dems' Ignorance of Flyover America

 Trump’s attacks on McConnell are wildly off-base

China and American business 

 Poll: 93 percent of eastern Jerusalem Arabs prefer Israeli rule

Why jeans have that tiny pocket 

From Reading Franklin:

  Long before he was a Founding Father, Ben Franklin was one of the most successful “influencers” (as we’d say now) in the American colonies. His Poor Richard’s Almanack was a multi-decade bestseller. In 1758 he summarized a quarter-century of Poor Dick’s wisdom in The Way to Wealth—a book that gave birth to the “self-help” genre and that remains in print today.

Frat house cannot hang its own Christmas wreath, university insists

Harvard Won't Require SAT Or ACT For 5 More Years

The Strange Career of Paul Krugman

The ACLU's Push To 'Cancel' Student Debt Shows How Far It Has Strayed From Defending Civil Liberties

Noble lies are a public health hazard

 The New York Times still hasn’t apologized for its Russia Hoax coverage

Bay Area:  6 Black Men Were Responsible for 70 Attacks on Asian Women

 San Francisco Mayor Declares ‘State of Emergency’ in Tenderloin District

 On the BLM Crimewave: Has any movement been so throughly discredited more quickly by reality than “Black Lives Matter”?

 December Sees Antifa Thugs (Finally) Going to Prison!

The Washington Post is looking for a hitman 

Chevy Christmas ad:

 Via Insty,  Uncovered: Key to how exercise protects against consequences of ageing

 Elite Winsor Girls School In Boston Moving Away From Calling Girls “Girls”

Elizabeth Warren Is Really Cranking Up the Commie Stupidity This Week

Democrat Senator Under Fire After Speaking at Communist Group’s Gala

 The Sanctimonious, Insufferable and Clownish Liz Cheney Seeks Revenge for Republican Ridicule

 How George Soros funded progressive ‘legal arsonist’ DAs behind US crime surge

The Salvation Army pays a big price for its foray into wokedom

 Airline CEOs Testified Before The Senate On Taxpayer Bailouts – But You’re The One Getting Fleeced

 Now that Build Back Better looks dead in the water, weird things are coming out of the mouths of Delusional Dems

 Senate parliamentarian deals Democrats blow on immigration

 New IRS Disclosures Confirm Flood of Private Money to Elections Offices from Zuckerberg Grantee

 Biden administration scraps $450,000 payments to migrant families separated under Trump

 93% of Polled Arab Residents of Jerusalem Prefer Israeli Rule to Palestinian Authority