Maggie's Farm

I don't know how doctors can actually participate in these things. But, putting legalities aside, I don't know how doctors can do abortions either - much less "late-term" abortions. 

My libertarian side bumps into a cement wall when it comes to kids.

 Transurrection? Protestors Storm State Legislators Over Ban On Child 'Gender Transition' Surgery

 The treatment for transsexualism is sex reassignment

 Hogs Are Running Wild in the U.S.

 The New Climate Pause lengthens again: 101 months and counting …

Forbes 'Fat Activist' Claims 'Tightening the Belt' Is Fatphobic Hate Speech

 White female scholars keep pretending to be Native American

What is a school "silent lunch"? 

 US school marks Black History Month with fried chicken and watermelon

 HS Student Suspended For Rest Of The Year For Saying There Are Only Two Sexes…

 Once again, Jordan Peterson has just been canceled—I think it’s basically his job now. 

 Majority of MIT students support shouting down speakers or even physically blocking access to them

 SUNY to require DEI and social justice courses in fall 2023

 Colonialism and Its Discontents - Oxford ethicist Nigel Biggar’s controversial reassessment of Britain’s imperial record has reignited an important academic quarrel over the meaning and legacy of empire.

 Miami black leaders apologize to DeSantis for calling the governor a racist

 Manhattan Prosecutor Called Out for Mortgaging His Ethics to Get Trump

 Here’s How Much US Farmland Has Been Bought Up By China

VDH:  Ukrainian Paradoxes - Are the borders of country 5,000 miles away more sacrosanct and more worth taking existential risks than our own airspace and southern border?

 Harvard Medical School adds climate change to its curriculum

 Healing the blind is "ableism"

 Ag Sec Vilsack announces new nutrition standards for school meals

 American Students -- Dumber and More Woke

Award-Winning Journalist Compares Donald Trump, Republicans to Ku Klux Klan

 Canada’s government poised to move closer to ending free speech

 Revealing the New York Times’ Deceitful Russiagate Coverage

 Bill Maher to the Progressive Left: You Think You Want A Revolution? Study What Happens When They “Spin Out of Control”

Memphis: It looked like gang violence to me 

 How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Psychiatrist Became a Key Player at Crypto Exchange FTX

 New FBI HQ Slated to Be Twice the Size of the Pentagon, Larger Than the Kremlin

 NYC residents are just about fed up with the migrants

 MELONI ASCENDANT

More physicists are questioning reality

"It's Time For The Scientific Community To Admit We Were Wrong About COVID & It Cost Lives"

 Massive Peer-Reviewed Mask Study Shows 'Little To No Difference' In Preventing COVID, Flu Infection

 Welcome to Neom, Saudi Arabia’s desert dystopia in the making

 ‘De-Extinction’ Company Will Try to Bring Back the Dodo. Colossal Biosciences also intends to resurrect the thylacine and woolly mammoth—an ambitious agenda, considering no extinct species has ever been brought back.

 GAO going after school dress codes

 Washington Post editorial board: Migrants are gaming the asylum system

 Inside New York's migrant hotel

Heather at Spectator:  Racism has become an unfalsifiable proposition. 

 We may have just celebrated MLK Day, but he lost...

Re Memphis:  Kicks to the head are especially damning. It’s what street thugs do. That’s a beatdown. And it looks very different than the restraint attempts that were at issue in other cases, like the George Floyd drug overdose.

 "Objectivity Has Got To Go": News Leaders Call For End Of Objective Journalism

 Progressives Label Bill Maher ‘Right Wing’ After CNN Adds Him to Friday Night Programming

 The Many Nicknames of the American Woodcock

However tasty these little birds are, I decided to never shoot another one 

 Reading Doesn’t Have to Mean Keeping Your Books Forever

 California's fake water crisis

 Now the Left Is Coming for Your Pickup Trucks, America

London School of Economics cancels words ‘Lent’ and ‘Easter’

Spectator:  The university fighting back against the diversocrats - A professor was fired after a single student complained. Then came the backlash

 University of California Considering Cuts to Grad Student Enrollment Just Weeks After Strike. “Just weeks after the University of California and academic workers heralded historic wage gains in new labor contracts, the question of how to pay for them is roiling campuses”

 Victor Davis Hanson: The Radical Left Is The Establishment

 Prestigious Liberal Watchdog Condemns New York Times' Russiagate Coverage

 The fake think tank that fueled the Russiagate narrative

 Your Taxes Paid Thousands Of Government Staff Covid Unemployment While They Worked From Home

 George Santos: Legend

 Zelensky Sent Out Government Decree to Destroy ALL INFORMATION on Hunter Biden’s Metabiota Company on Same Day as Russian Invasion – Then Fire Spotted Outside Intel Headquarters

Bear Hibernating Under Deck In Connecticut Gets To Stay

 Whale Corpses Are Stacking Up But the Libs Won't Talk About What Might Be Killing Them

 1 in 8 Americans over 50 show signs of food addiction

 After Killing Abel, Cain Reminds God The True Culprit Is White Supremacy

 Are the COVID Yarns Slowly Beginning to Unravel?

Maybe oxytocin isn't what we thought 

Is anesthesia a risk to the climate? 

Sheesh 

 University Removes Slave-Owning Benefactor's Name, His Family Demands Their $51 Million Back

But the university once owned slaves too 

 Federal Judge Blocks Gavin Newsom’s War Against the Freedom of Speech

(Illegal)  Migrants Refuse to Leave NYC Hotel, Demand Taxpayers Give Them ‘Permanent Homes’

 Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is having a rough time squaring trans ideology with reality

Our friend Gerard Vanderleun has died

 What Progressive Educators Get Wrong About Creativity - Originality requires both knowledge and technical mastery.

Originality is rare, probably overrated. Most of us are lucky just to master the basics.

 Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids, Ages 7 and 9, Walk to Dunkin' Donuts. "I have never felt threatened by a single person in this town until meeting those officers and the social worker."

 A “mania has taken over academia where every issue, including math, revolves around race and the patriarchy”

 Everyone wants to check a box that doesn’t say “white.”

 AT&T's DirecTV Cancels NEWSMAX in Censorship Move

 History class takes a holiday at The Washington Post

 Removing Congressman Who Slept With Chinese Spy Hurts National Security. "That makes us a less safe country.”

 NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay Appears on MSNBC and Melts Down Over Trump Being Reinstated on Social Media

 The Flu-ification of COVID Policy Is Almost Complete

 White people need to ‘work’ on their ‘whiteness’: sociologist

 Don’t Know Much About History

What's wrong with "French"? 

 Some Suggestions For Christopher Rufo And Company To Fix New College Of Florida

 TGIF: 90 Seconds to Midnight - Even more classified docs, this week care of Mike Pence. All the news you need from the week that was.

Antifa is on the job 

 Disney Closes Iconic Ride Splash Mountian For Being Racist…

"Madness": France, Croatia Deny 'West At War With Russia' After German Foreign Minister Sparks Outrage

She spoke the truth 

 EU Ministers Seek Trump-Style Border Walls Amid Spike In Illegal Border Crossings

Venison: Free the meat 

Lunch Atop A Skyscraper: The Story Behind The 1932 Photo

 Vermont Supreme Court Upholds Measure That Allows Non-Citizens To Vote

 Deborah Birx Openly Admits to Lying About the COVID Vaccines to Manipulate the American People

 The Crypto Token Economy Is Second-Order Fraud. The entire industry is artifice built atop artifice.

  If everyone in North America dropped dead, it would do no measurable good for the world’s climate, if you believe the Leftists’ numbers.

 The Problematic Arrival of Anti-Obesity DrugsFat activists say they’re tools of coercion. Celebrities are taking them to get slim. Is this really the road people want to go down?

  Exhibit #1 in why it’s so hard to build housing in New York City

 Pete Buttigieg: “Every Transportation Decision We Make is a Climate Decision” 

 Biden And Trump Classified Documents Scandals: Progressive Talking Point Falls Apart

 How America's Abrams, Germany's Leopard 2 and Britain's Challenger compare to Russia's outdated T-72 tanks as they are sent to help defend Ukraine

The Sullivan brothers - the real story

 Whatever Happened to Light Verse? A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition.

 The Vindication of Cheese, Butter, and Full-Fat Milk. A new study exonerates dairy fats as a cause of early death, even as low-fat products continue to be misperceived as healthier.

Dr. William Beaumont and the human gut 

 The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly - Why is the public turning to ominous explanations for tragedies like Damar Hamlin’s collapse? Two doctors explain.

Real Climate data 

 Formerly Respected Organizations; Now Just Foot Soldiers Of Leftist Orthodoxy Enforcement

Is It Time to Unleash Herpes on Invasive Carp?

 Plague trackers: Researchers cover thousands of years to understand the elusive origins of the Black Death

 EU Technocrat Threatens Musk With "Sanctions" Unless He Stamps Out Free Speech On Twitter

 THE DAILY CHART: THE SUICIDE OF ACADEMIC HISTORY

 Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT Passes Elite Business School Exam…

 University requires photos of applicants for ‘Diversity In Surgery’ internship

 “Rape the White Girls” Poet Included in Florida’s Black AP Course. “We are all beautiful (except white people, they are full of, and made of s__t),”

 Des Plaines, Ill., Councilwoman Goes Off on Censor-Happy Leftists, and It's Glorious

 Ending the Stranglehold of Public Employee Unions

 Machu Picchu closed indefinitely, tourists stranded again

 LET THEM EAT BUGS!

 Scientific American Has Newspeak Dictionary Updates

 The Opponents of Free Speech Are Gaining Ground. 

 “Re-imagining Undergraduate Mathematics…with Structural Disruptions”: Vanderbilt Professor Denounces the Math Field as Racist

 George Soros spent $40M getting lefty district attorneys, officials elected all over the country

 Corporate suicide watch: Harley-Davidson plans to go all-electric

Why was Biden allowed to visit the crime scene before the search for evidence was complete in the classified documents scandal?

 Talking Heads Strangely Quiet on Biden After More Classified Docs Found at Delaware Home

 FBI is weighing up 'whether to seek searches' of Biden's other homes after DOJ finds six MORE classified documents at his Wilmington house: House Oversight Committee promises to probe President's finances in 'next phase' of its investigation

 Where is everybody? A new hope for solving the Fermi Paradox

 Naive Realism - When you're certain that you possess the real truth

California’s Green Debacle = The Golden State’s energy policies impose ruinous costs on residents but make no measurable impact on global climate.

 Debt, Not the Debt Limit, Is the Real Fiscal Crisis in the US

 Dems propose overturning the First Amendment

Spectator: The Pink Tide Returns to South America

 In China Things Head South Quickly

 "It is with great sadness after a long illness, that our beloved David (Croz) Crosby has passed away."

The latest Boston Dynamics robot video is amazing and a bit scary

 DUMBING DOWN COLLEGE

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Related,  College math a ‘white, cisheteropatriarchal space,’ Vanderbilt professor says at major conference

 Woman, Defined

 Repressive Tolerance: “Once they get you to change your language, you have now complied with their ideology”

White People Can't Criticize Ugly New MLK Statue

 TGIF: I Love Davos - Reparations in San Francisco. Madonna back in the saddle. And a very odd sculpture in Boston. Plus: Alec Baldwin, Jacinda Arden and much more.

 America’s Police Exodus - The fallout of 'defund the police' is still unfolding.

Spectator:  The beautiful people turn their private jets towards Davos. It’s that time of year again!

 Al Gore Attempts Own 'Greta Moment' In Unhinged Davos Rant: "Equivalent Of 600,000 Hiroshima Bombs Daily"

WEF:  Insanity On Display?

 Classified Documents Were At Joe Biden Residence While Hunter Biden Took Millions For “Representing The F**king Spy Chief Of China”

Gerard Vanderleun is hospitalized 

The UK proposes no cake in offices

 For decades we’ve been told recycling helps the Earth. It really doesn’t.

 WEF Promotes Scientist Behind False "Billions Will Die" From Climate Change Claim

 Norwegian government funds research to find out if white paint is racist

 College upholds firing of whistleblower who shared ‘antiracism’ training with media

 John Kerry Pontificates About the Extraordinary Ability of a “Select Group of Humans” at the World Economic Forum, Who Will Save The Planet for the Eaters and Serfs

 FBI Decided Not To Monitor Biden Document Search

 Biden Admin Clashes with Conservation Groups, Native American Tribes Over Lithium Mines

No More Fun of Any Kind! Don’t Send Your Kids to Syracuse

 ‘Massive shortage’ in trade professionals was inevitable

 "If diversity trainings have no impact whatsoever, that would mean that perhaps billions of dollars are being wasted annually.... But there’s a darker possibility..."

 It’s Time to Get Serious. Prevailing wisdom insists that your twenties are for extreme exploration—collecting memories, friends, partners, identities. It’s BS.

 America doesn't do well in helping people peacefully pass on

 America ‘Most Permissive Country’ For Sex Change Surgeries, Study Shows

 How to Regulate Pediatric Gender Medicine - Pursuing bans on drugs and surgeries may not be the most pragmatic approach—lawmakers hoping to reverse the medicalization of youth should instead consider these eight avenues.

First They Came For My Showerhead And I Did Nothing, Then They Came For My Light Bulbs And I Did Nothing, Now They Want My Gas Stove And …

 FDA’s Medical Interference

 OUR INSANE RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS

 A World Without Affirmative Action - We need creative thinking and real problem solving to address inequality in education.

 Youngkin goes ballistic on equity and what schools do to achieve it vice excellence

Facebook Admits To Suppressing “Often-True Content” At WH Request

All The President's Men: Biden's Use Of Lawyers Raises Additional Concerns Over Handling Classified Material

 NYC Mayor Says His City Has “No Room” For Illegal Immigrants During Border Visit…

Over half of the world's shrimp crop is farmed 

 NEW GOVERNMENT FUNDED “FOOD-PYRAMID” SAYS LUCKY CHARMS ARE HEALTHIER THAN STEAK

Misreading Others' Minds: Asymmetric Insight

 Coverage Of Biden & Trump's Mishandled Classified Documents Reveals Media Double Standard. Most everything the media reported last week turned out to be wrong

 Democrats fear Biden's classified documents will be his 'Hillary emails moment'

 MSNBC: Releasing January 6 Capitol Footage Is 'Dangerous'

 7th dead whale washed up on Jersey Shore ‘bad news on top of bad news’'

 Knowledge and Verve - Remembering Paul Johnson

"Is it relative that “morality is relative”? 

 Rural school choice is more common than you think

 Democrats Overwhelmingly Support Killing Newborns

Kamala Harris Explains Caribbean Geography to World, World Stares Slack-Jawed

 It Looks Like There's More Fallout for Adam Schiff Following Last Week's Twitter Files Reveal

 America Runs On... Bottled Water

Rufo:  Recapturing Higher Education - On the plan to transform New College of Florida into a classical liberal arts institution