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Lost a bunch of my saved links this morning, doggone it. Here's what I have:

 Is Your Sex Drive Normal? Probably.

 Hundreds of racist plant names will change after historic vote by botanists

 NASA Continues Its 15 Year Mission Of Failing At Big Science

Our ageing rockers

Kotkin:  Downtowns Don’t Matter Anymore

 Ford's Latest Pivot Shows That the EV Craze Has Fizzled Out

 Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or liberals—who is ‘extreme?’

Chicago’s mayor blames Richard Nixon for the city’s gun violence

Heather Mac Donald - Edge of the Abyss: Our divides are as much epistemological as political.

Zuck Praises Trump As An American "Badass"

Was Covering Up Biden’s Condition a Quarter Billion Dollar Fraud?

It’s Shocking How Many Democrats Think the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

 Jill Biden Drops Out Of Presidential Race

New York Times Board Wants Kamala Harris Out of the Race

Dems Go Full Throttle On Kamala After Biden Drops Out Of 2024 Race

 “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.” 

Klavan:  The Appalling Display Of Christian White Nationalism At The RNC

Hillary Clinton being promoted as the way out of the Biden mess

Ready for Round 2: Why we Need Hillary more than ever

 The Nation: After Trump’s Speech, It’s Absurd to Suggest He Can’t Be Beaten

German State Cuts Benefits For 'Lazy' Migrants

Watch this skier outrun an avalanche

 Drowning Deaths Continue Post-Pandemic Rise

 On the Appalachian Trail, I Fell in Love With America. Plus…

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

University DEI plan says individualism, timeliness, part of white supremacy culture

NYC schools will have universal dress code for first time

1 in 3 Dems Believe Trump Assassination Was Staged. Is this really any crazier than the media claiming Putin rigged the 2016 election?

VDH:  Never in modern presidential history has a political party staged a veritable inside coup to remove their current president from his ongoing candidacy for his party’s nomination and reelection.

Hillbilly Elegy Blowing Up After Vance Pick

 Congrats, JD Vance! The New York Times Has Slimed You!

DEBUNKING THE TOP 10 FALSEHOODS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP WITH FACTS

A Kotkin review of the socioeconomic changes in the US

Great Moments in Maine Real Estate

The Ammo Grrrll meets retirement

What Would It Take To Recreate Bell Labs?

 DEI in Academia

 Abigail Shrier: California’s New Law Lets Schools Keep Secrets from Parents. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that keeps parents in the dark if their kids change gender identity at school.

 They're Beating Up on Opie for Creating a 'Monster'

Carnegie Mellon University prof says Trump assassination attempt was 'staged' like 'stupid Tubi movie set'

 Ear Trutherism Is Being Mainstreamed By AP, PBS, and Now WaPo's Jen Rubin

 Soft-Spoken Trump Appeals for Unity, Gives Personal Account of Shooting in Lengthy Convention Address

 The Next Four Months Will Be A Political War Without Limits

Xi Jinping and China: Running Out of Time, Ready to Strike

I missed it last night

Math is running out of problems

A history of Africa

Death from oysters?

The difficulty with forced mental health treatment (and any forced medical treatment)

More offshore wind?

NY Times Seems Upset That GOP Convention Isn’t All About Climate Doom

 The Real Reason Trump Chose JD Vance

 Donald Trump and the GOP are shifting to a party for the working class

 Biden Now ‘Receptive’ to Ending Presidential Campaign

 Biden Seeks Supreme Court Term Limits, Medical Debt Cancellation, Rent Controls

Really?

 Make Democrats tell you what their party stands for

Hamas wants the Benjamins

Environmentalists Killed Logging to Protect Owls. Now They Want to Kill the Owls.

Solzhenitsyn Warned Us.The great Russian writer understood the West and predicted its future with frightening precision.

 Microsoft lays off its DEI team as fired staff complain diversity ideals were 'no longer business-critical'

 The Brainwashing of a Nation

Napoleon in a Golf Cart. Plus. . .Martin Gurri on Biden. Silicon Valley goes MAGA. An Iranian assassination plot. The Taliban v. climate change. And much more.

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

Oh no - a sloped roof

Former Snipers Agree: It's A Miracle Trump Is Still Alive

HuffPo:  JD Vance Is The GOP’s Next-Gen Authoritarian

Yes, Vance is Hitler too

 Mea Culpa: Turns Out the Dems Can Go Right Back to 'Trump Is Literally Hitler!'

 Why they hate JD Vance - Donald Trump’s vice-president is the future of American populism.

What is populism?

 Effort to restore NY Harbor's oyster population encounters problem: They keep dying

Giving advice to your boss

 Congress 'Can Regulate Virtually Anything' - How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause

 Sharply More Americans Want to Curb Immigration to U.S. 55% want immigration levels reduced, highest since 2001

 Niall Ferguson: A Shot at the President—And the Turn of History - Assassinations have often changed the course of a country. Would that have happened if the shooter had slightly better aim?

Academics seize on Trump assassination attempt

Taibbi: The Slow Motion Assassination

 Ready for Biden's Counterattack?

Climate predictions have all been wrong

 No, your parents are probably not to blame for all your problems

Well, your genes do matter

Ageing and fertility rates

 Pamela Paul on Transmania

Meta reinstates Trump on Facebook and Instagram for political expression

Behind the Curtain: The boys vs. girls election

VDH: Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left

Maybe, but looking for larger meaning in one idiot's actions is foolish. Yes, everybody knew it was possible. TDS exists.

Biden insists ‘we are not enemies’ as he addresses nation in brief Oval Office speech after Trump assassination attempt

 How the Trump Assassination Attempt Changes the Presidential Campaign

 A Message From Former First Lady Melania Trump

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