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 The Tipping Point: The Subtle Psychology and Economics of Taxi Fares

 GREG GUTFELD FILLS THE COMEDY VACUUM

 Which mask? What test? COVID's latest surge spreads an epidemic of confusion

 AP instructs editors: Start downplaying case counts in our stories about COVID

 The media do an about-face on the CDC as they finally face COVID restrictions

 We’re All Going to Get Omicron

 Incest to be banned in France 

 Hollywood's New Rules. The old boys club is dead. But a new one—with its own litmus tests and landmines—is rapidly replacing it. 'This is all going to end in a giant class-action lawsuit.'

Critical race theory-related ideas found in mandatory programs at more than 230 colleges, universities

 CANADA - Tenured Professor Critical of Identity Politics Fired by University

$58,000 for a drug without demonstrated results

 Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab - but feared debate could hurt ‘international harmony’

 Two Years Is Long Enough

Commentary:  Don’t Let Teachers’ Unions Off the Hook

Bari Weiss: ... two weeks and some 650 days into “flattening the curve,” I’m done. I don’t care what cable news is blaring on about these days: In this house, Covid is over. 

 Education Secretary Cardona solicited NSBA letter comparing protesting parents to domestic terrorists: email NSBA official said controversial letter followed 'a request by Secretary Cardona'

 Deere Goes Autonomous With Its Farmer-Free Tractor

 The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps'

 NYT: Omicron Presents a Danger That's No Different Than the Seasonal Flu

 Amazon Cuts COVID-19 Paid-Leave To 40 Hours For US Employees, Following Walmart

 Why I Soured on the Democrats - COVID school policies set me adrift from my tribe.

 Omicron Makes Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Obsolete. There is no evidence so far that vaccines are reducing infections from the fast-spreading variant.

 End Stage Covid Craziness in New York

Yes, our pal did sing in Carnegie Hall this weekend 

 In wake of controversy, superintendent defends elementary school’s dropping of ‘Jingle Bells’

 NBC Suggests There May Be ‘Very Little Evidence’ of a Gender Performance Gap in Swimming

Democrats are trying to scare America over a civil war they're trying to start

 America’s Asymmetric Civil War - It’s within metro areas, not between the states

 Updated and Reposted: RealClearInvestigations' Jan. 6-BLM Riots Comparison

 "When we fail to recognize the moral legitimacy of a range of positions on controversial topics, disagreements about these issues inevitably become judgments about other people’s character."

 Democrats’ Top Priority Before Fall Elections Is Rigging U.S. Voting Rules

 "Retiring Early" Is The New American Dream: Why This Is A Problem

" I believe many people fail to recognize how intertwined is the lust for power and the enabling forces of stupidity. "

Movie:  The Edge of Appeasement

 Penn’s Transgender Swimmer Loses to Yale’s Transgender Swimmer in Women’s 100 Meter Race

Dumb and Dumber (Nos. 22 & 23) - Watching the Education Apocalypse in Slow Motion

 As Even the Leftwing Media and Political Figures Demand that Teachers Go Back to Work, Teachers Say F*** You -- It's Summer Vacation For Us, Forever

Kotkin:  Is this the end of progressive America? Multiple fronts of resistance are taking shape

 Media Now Described by Matt Taibbi: “Our target reader now is a rage addict”

" Reveling in the anniversary of the Capitol riot, Democrats and the media dubiously brand it a right-wing “insurrection”—while ignoring the urban anarchy that began in May 2020."

There’s A Reason No One Likes Kamala Harris

 CDC Director Sheepishly Admits Justice Sotomayor Issued COVID Misinformation On Hospitalized Kids

 Making Manhattan a crook’s paradise

 Adams caves, won't oppose bill to let non-citizens vote in NYC elections after 30 days' residence

 California Is Not an Island, So its New Economic Laws Could Backfire

 American Slavery in the Global Context

 How Elizabeth Holmes fleeced the elites - Big investors were all too willing to believe the Theranos hype.

The more liberal the church, the emptier the pews. 

People do not go to church for politics. 

 Inside Florida, the state that forgot COVID-19 is a national emergency

 Flexing Their Muscle - The Chicago Teachers Union–imposed school shutdown is about politics, not the pandemic.

 China takes over as West cowers over climate change fears

 Maxwell May Get A Second Trial, But What About the Rest of Epstein’s “Significant Others”?

 The Great Epstein Cover-Up, Part 1

Blind recruitment trial to boost gender equality making things worse, study reveals

 Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

 The Case Against the Case Against AI

 Climate Change Sanity

MASK DELUSION: A FOOTNOTE

 Supreme Court Justice Exhibits Shocking Lack of Basic COVID Knowledge During Hearing

 “Preserve the Narrative”: The Public Rejects the “Insurrection” Claim in New Polling

 The Democrats’ Hispanic Voter Problem - It's Not As Bad As You Think—It’s Worse

Cull of 150,000 deer aims to save Scottish forests

Restoring forests can be difficult 

 For the First Time Ever, the Best-Selling Carmaker in America Isn't an American Carmaker

 Mike Pompeo tells The Post how he lost 90 pounds in six months

 Why the Science of Teaching Is Often Ignored. There’s a whole literature on what works. But it’s not making its way into the classroom.

The combination works best: A lecture plus small groups to work it out 

 'Go Get Another Job': Democrats and Republicans Lambaste Teachers' Unions

 Sorry, but online teaching is of limited value in many subjects

 NYT wonders: Why is highly vaccinated China locking down again?

 So long, heroes: Mayo Clinic fires 700 workers over vaccination mandate

 Professor Gets Mad After People Notice Rather Significant Error About Rittenhouse in Her Book

No, he did not shoot 3 black guys 

 Unions shut record 4,783 schools across US this week despite assurances classrooms are safe: Arizona Governor offers long-suffering parents up to $7,000 to send kids to private schools or pay for tuition

Sullivan: The Woke: On The Wrong Side Of History - We need a racial politics for 2119, not 1619. Latinos will lead the way.

...  in the 21st Century, it’s been hopelessly compounded by layer upon layer of mass immigration from every conceivable corner of the planet. The Latino population in the US is now larger than the African-American one; and Asians, of many different varieties, are now immigrating in higher numbers than Latinos. Before too long, the black/white dynamic may disappear into the multi-colored, multi-hued background entirely.

"as the Big Tech giants continue to push the envelope to see how far they can get in suppressing conservative dissent, at some point they could start to lose market share very quickly."

In that,  MC linked this:  Disrobing the Aboriginal Stalinists on a Canadian Campus

 Kachelman: I Am Beyond Disgusted at Just How Quickly We’ve Been Gaslighted into a Narrative That Is. Just. Not. True.

DeSantis Derangement Syndrome a Boon for Florida GOP

Turley: Destroying a Democracy to Save it: Democrats Call for the Disqualification of Dozens of Republican Members

 What’s behind unrest rocking oil-rich Kazakhstan

 Why President Biden Will End Up Giving Putin What He Wants In Ukraine

How can the US "give" something it doesn't own? 

 What Joe Biden can learn from Trump’s Iran policy

 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