Maggie's Farm

Scientists may have solved ancient mystery of 'first computer'. Researchers claim breakthrough in study of 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical calculator found in sea

In Love with Social Isolation

Coyote:  Conversation With A Phone Company

 Why didn’t more professors oppose the Gramscian march or at least stick up for free speech?

 Italy Imposes National Lockdown As Mutant COVID Strains Spread

 Eight In Ten American Parents Want Their Kids Back In School — Now

 More California Cities Experiment With “Hero Pay” Leading To Predictable Results

Courage was the reason campus anti-Semites were beaten. A Tufts University student stood up to the mob of Israel-haters. His victory won’t necessarily prevent others from being targeted, but it showed how they, too, can prevail.

 Wall Street elites who fled to Florida amid COVID-19 want to return to NYC

 CNN: Too Few Are Vaccinated, Another COVID Surge Just Weeks Away

 FDA Postpones Inspections Delaying New Drugs and Creating Shortages of Old Drugs

 Peter Doocy embarrasses Jen Psaki for laughing at his question about migrant children at the border and closed schools

MC:  Now It’s Really Time to Disrupt Education

 In a recent Manhattan Contrarian article, my dad pointed out that, by their own admission, the worst racists in our country are academics in our elite colleges and universities. Even as they make more and more efforts to improve their “diversity and inclusion” with committees, trainings, seminars, course curriculums, and town halls — just to name a few — by their own assessment, this has only resulted in more “systemic racism,” “oppression,” and “white supremacy.” Since that’s the case, it is time to question whether the model of elite-institutions-practicing-diversity-and-inclusion can ever bring society even one step closer to racial harmony — its stated intention — or if it’s only an exercise in punishment and disunion.    

 Hate Hoax Results in Beheading

Biden Adviser Says the Border Rush Is Caused by Smugglers Spreading Disinformation

The Iran Deal’s Inevitable Sequel - Barack Obama’s plan was never about stopping Iran from obtaining a bomb. It was about realigning American interests in the Middle East in order to remake the Democratic Party at home.

 Addressing Iran’s Weaponization Work Will Fortify the Nuclear Deal

Israel Is the Arab World’s New Soft Power. Arab countries are increasingly competing to deepen ties with their former enemy.

Winter's Keeper. Meet billy barr, Gothic's reluctant mountain hermit and climate scientist.

 Why I Am Leaving a Great Career in Public Education

 Bookworm Beat 3/10/21 — the “leftist insanity is on the rise” illustrated edition

 The left has perfected the art of gaslighting in the culture wars

 Newsom To Californians: Let’s Face It, We’re Never Getting Back To Normal

Revenge of the Gods. California’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum urges students to chant to the Aztec deity of human sacrifice.

'Weekend At Biden's?' Handlers Shut Down Yet Another Q&A After Public Appearance

Biden Advisor Admits Trump’s Policies Stopped Illegal Immigration While Biden’s Caused a Historic Surge of Illegals

Here Come Trillions More: Biden Will Unveil "Next Phase" Of COVID Response On Thursday

Serious COVID occurs mostly in the overweight 

 CNN Medical Analyst: CDC Guidance For Vaccinated People Is “Overly Timid” And “Far Too Cautious”

As Scott says, pandemic is mostly done 

COVID Relief: Could This Be The Very Worst Piece Of Legislation Ever?

Paging Dr. Hayek - Free-marketeers should make their case with renewed vigor after central planners’ pandemic missteps.

The Campus as Factory - Corporatist progressivism and the crisis of American higher education

The Miseducation of America’s Elites - Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret.

 The Military Is Resuming the Diversity Training That Trump Banned

 Biden’s Executive Order on Title IX Warrants Little Practical Change for Schools

Do Complex Numbers Exist?

 Turner Classic Movies Denounces Classic Movies

NY Times Wonders If The Burger Is Nearing Extinction

The  Academic Freedom Alliance: A Welcome Addition to the Fight against Cancel Culture

 Is Compulsory Race and Bias ‘Training’ Legal?

 Victor Davis Hanson’s perfect description of why troops are in DC

 Cuomo Got $$Millions For His Book Advance — After His Cover-Up Began

CNN Medical Analyst: CDC Guidance For Vaccinated People Is “Overly Timid” And “Far Too Cautious” 

 Durham will have Russiagate indictments ready in 6–8 weeks, says John Solomon

 Biden’s Open Border Policies May Not Work Out After All

 "Not Safe To Return": Biden Offers Legal Status To Hundreds Of Thousands Of Venezuelans

 Democrat Lawmaker: Biden Admin ‘Purposely Withholding’ Number Of Migrants ‘Being Released’ Into U.S.

 Biden is rejecting the common-sense center on everything from schools to securing border

There’s No Real Reason To Eat Three Meals Per Day

Stop Saying We Can't Go Back to Normal After Vaccines. We can justifiably hope for normalcy by Independence Day.

NY Times Now Wants To Cancel A Cartoon Skunk Because It Perpetuates Rape Culture…

 ‘Space Jam’ Reboot Director Says He’s Shocked At How Politically Incorrect ‘Lola Bunny’ Was In Original Movie, Vows To Make Her More Plain Looking…

Dr. Seuss shows leftists again blurring fantasy and reality

At Instapundit:

 We aren’t supposed to care anymore about how the FBI ginned up the conspiracy theory about Donald Trump and “Russian collusion.” The damage is done, and there are thousands of people who unthinkingly take as a given that Trump was a Putin puppet. They’re impossible to talk to. I’m reminded of the old saying about never trying to teach a pig to sing. (It wastes your time and annoys the pig).

Powerline: The Cuomo Chronicles 

Thousands of migrants crossing US border overwhelm government agents

Biden's Solution to the Border Crisis: Let Them All Go

Arizona Hospital Worker Says Nearly All of New COVID Cases are Illegal Aliens

Uh-oh! They let Biden get in front of a microphone again

 Since when does big government spending 'alleviate poverty'?

Movie trailer: Operation Finale 

FAIR: A worthy non-profit 

A website which is new to me:  NOTES ON LIBERTY

The self-silencing majority. In red America and blue America, an epidemic of self-censorship is threatening democracy By Bari Weiss 

The Capitalists Who Sell Ethnic Studies by Lee Ohanian

WSJ:  'Equity’ Is a Mandate to Discriminate. The new buzzword tries to hide the aim of throwing out the American principle of equality under the law.

 Boston Public Schools suspends advanced academic program due to racial ‘equity’ concerns

Cuomo Aides Rewrote July Nursing Home Report To Conceal COVID Death Toll

 Operation Warp Speed Is Trump’s Triumph

Let's see what's in this poisonous, 800-page long "For the People" bill, H.R. 1, the House Democrats have succeeded in passing.

Biden's border chaos 

We aren't important enough to bother with, alas.

MC covers the phenomenon: One imagines at each Big Tech company a group a several twenty-somethings, just out of college, sitting around the conference room filled with open pizza boxes, rubbing their hands together and giggling and saying things like “Let’s see who we can get away with canceling next!”

Oceans have been rising for 18,000 years. A cool story

 National Mental Health Data Shows the Lockdown 'Cure' Was Worse Than COVID-19 for Children

Good for Texas 

 ‘Neanderthal Thinking’

 Decolonising Math is Rooted in a Decades-Old Conflict

eBay removing all listings of six canceled Dr. Seuss books

Moping about Muppets: Another humiliation for Disney - The Muppet Show’s widened appeal has become Disney’s Achilles’ heel as the puppet show becomes the latest victim of cancel culture

YouTube Blacklists Donald Trump’s CPAC Speech, Suspends RSBN Channel

 Majority Of Academics Support Discriminating Against Conservatives

Migrants Wearing Biden* Shirts Walking Towards Border…

 Why do Biden’s handlers have him back in the basement?

Image via  Bookworm Beat 3/1/21: The Cuomo, COVID, and Coca-Cola illustrated edition

 The wolves of Wisconsin

 So, Who Were the Khazars?

How the Woke Stole Childhood - The campaign against Theodor Geisel takes cancel culture to new lows

 The Latest In Official "Antiracist" Ideology: Black Kids Are Too Stupid To Learn Math

Canceled: Conservative comic strip 'Mallard Fillmore' dropped in 'unprecedented' move

Why Did Republicans Outperform The Polls Again? Two Theories

 America’s Last Machine Boss Goes Down

 Judge Makes Huge Discovery: 78% of Mail-In Ballots Fraudulent, Election Re-Do Ordered

 108 Illegal Immigrants Released by Border Patrol in Texas Tested Positive for COVID-19: Officials

 13 Killed in California Crash Allegedly Entered US Illegally via Border Fence Hole

Should We Fear A German Ministry Of Social Cohesion?

Jordan Peterson's new book: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

Baylor students tried to cancel professor over transgender comments. They failed miserably.

 Academics called breastfeeding 'ethically problematic' because it endorses 'gender roles.' Their view is gaining traction.

 Has Everyone Gone Insane?

 If You Liked Common Core, You’re Going To Love Joe Biden’s Anti-American Civics Project

 Boris Johnson faces calls to bring back WW2 meat rationing to save the planet

 Supreme Court To Hear Landmark Ballot Harvesting, Polling Location Case

 Unsurprisingly, another woman is accusing Cuomo of harassment

The guy touches pretty women.

Gavin Newsom's Reaction to Texas Reopening Is a Sight to Behold

 Forty Days of Biden: Not so Centrist, Not so Competent

 Sweden Moves To Protect Academic Freedom After Prof Quits COVID Research Due To Harassment

 In The Last Decade, 89% Of New CO2 Output Came From China And India

 Vermont wants sales taxes for groceries

Could The Attacks On Dr. Seuss Be The Tipping Point For Cancel Culture?

 WAKE UP TO WOKE, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

There Is No Such Thing as "White" Math. I naively believed that STEM would be spared from the ideological takeover. I was wrong, says Princeton professor Sergiu Klainerman.

 Former NY Times Reporter Donald McNeil Slams the Paper in Four-Part Post About His Departure Following Racism Allegations

CA Teachers’ Union Head Seen Taking Daughter to In-person Preschool Amid School Closures

 Byron York's Daily Memo: Reassessing Trump and Covid

 Biden’s Presidency Seems Ready to End

 World Economic Forum commits a ‘Kinsley gaffe’ and then deletes Twitter video revealing its real agenda

 Former President Donald Trump repeatedly tore into President Joe Biden during his CPAC speech on Sunday over a variety of issues ranging from the crisis on the southern border to the millions of American children who are not in school learning.“Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history, that’s true,” Trump said. “Already the Biden administration has proven that they are anti-jobs, anti-family, anti-borders, anti-energy, anti-women, and anti-science. In just one short month, we have gone from America first to America last.”Trump slammed the Biden administration for their “callous indifference toward working families” by not prioritizing getting America’s children back

Today's funnies:  Story Time With Titania McGrath

Banding ducks in Calif (brief vid)

Erasing history: Oklahoma 

 An Unthinking Effort at Dismissing Florida’s Success

 Washington State School Forces Kids Into “Band Pods” Over COVID Fear…

Good grief 

 Teacher’s Unions Are The Obstacle To Reopening Schools

 'Fire Fauci' Trends on Twitter as His Mixed Messages and Inconsistencies Finally Get Called Out

 European Court Demands EU Governments Prove They’re Doing Something About Climate Crisis

 Why Are Whites Being Blamed For Attacks On Asians Carried Out By Minorities?

 Federal Judge Rules Nationwide Eviction Ban Is Unconstitutional

Surge of 13,000 Central American minors to US border expected in May

 The Worst Racists Are The Left-Wing Academics

The Morning Briefing: 'Equality Act' Is Proof Democrats Are Clinically Insane

 New York Times Reports on a Black Student Who Lied About Being Racially Targeted at Smith College, Claims A Lie Is Just Someone's "Deeply-Felt Sense of Personal Truth"

Crazy:  Why is Neera Tanden so important that Democrats would smear Joe Manchin to save her doomed nomination?

 Why Are Whites Being Blamed For Attacks On Asians Carried Out By Minorities?

Capitol Police chief warns extremists 'want to blow up the Capitol' when Biden addresses Congress. The acting chief said members of militia groups want to "kill as many members as possible" in an attack during Biden's coming address.

 China Rushes to Crush Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong

 China Emits More Carbon In 2 Weeks Than Australia Does In One Year

Revising the Canon: How Andy Warhol Became the Most Important American Modern Artist

I thought he was a con-man, but I wish I had bought some. 

High-speed rail update:

The California High Speed Rail, its formal name, was a hobby-ego project for former governor Jerry Brown that was supposed to move passengers between Los Angeles and San Francisco at 220 mph by 2020. Instead, the project is moving at the speed of the museum piece it sometimes appears destined to be. Not a single train has run, with train testing still six to seven years away, amid seemingly never-ending delays.

...The news regarding the project is, as usual, dismal... 

First They Came For Milo. The business model switched from a free exchange of ideas to a protection racket so fast we never even noticed.

 NY Times Opinion: School Closures Have Been An Epic Disaster For Children (And Democrats Are To Blame)

 With COVID vaccine rolling and cases receding, open up all classrooms!

 California board member compares reopening schools to 'White supremacist ideology' and 'slavery'

The Atlantic: You have been vaccinated. It doesn't matter 

What??? 

 Travel Restrictions Have No End In Sight As European Leaders Worry About New Variants

Student was not victim of racism for 'eating while black' at $80k Smith College and made up details that ruined the lives of four campus workers and led to controversial anti-bias training that employee resigned over

 Cornell Daily Sun Interviews Professor William Jacobson Re Critical Race Training Database

 "You Have Permanently Changed Them": Rand Paul Grills HHS Nominee Rachel Divine Over Parental Consent For Trans Minors

 New California Bill Would Fine Retailers With Separate "Girls" & "Boys" Sections

 Psaki On Biden Keeping Migrant Kids In ‘Containers’ Versus ‘Cages’: ‘We Only Have A Couple Of Choices’

 Trump's tax returns and related records turned over to Manhattan district attorney

Trust me, they will find mistakes

 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed

The Grease Gun in Vietnam 

 Fauci: For The Good Of Society, You Can’t Dine Indoors Or Go To Theaters — Even After Being Vaccinated

Very "scientific" 

 Babylon Bee Nails Disney to the Wall on Their Woke Warning Label for "The Muppet Show"

 Ben Franklin’s Name Scrubbed From Tacoma City Park

 Democrats Send Insane Letter to Cable Carriers and Big Tech, Demanding a Ban on Conservative Media

Tucker Carlson Strikes Gold, Triggers CNN Into Proving His Point After Segment on Disinformation

 “Systemic Racism,” “Equity,” and the End of Civil Rights

 Tucker Carlson's plan to end systemic racism and income inequality in America

WSJ:  The Equality Act Makes Women Unequal. H.R. 5 erases ‘sex’ as a legal category, with dire consequences.

 Why public employee unions don't serve the public's best interests

 Democrats’ cynical ‘Jan. 6’ politics: Goodwin

 As illegal border crossings surge, Psaki and media redefine 'kids in cages' as 'migrant facility for children'

Pro-Family News Outlet Censored By Twitter for Stating Biden Admin Official’s Biological Sex

 Judge Blocks Enforcement of Biden’s Moratorium on Most Deportations

 The most mentally tough people apply the 1% ‘marginal gains’ rule, says performance expert—here’s how it works

 Virtual 'Celebration of Life' Being Planned for Rush Limbaugh

NYT:  Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101

 Fauci Is Not Your God

DR. FAUCI’S BAFFLING ADVICE 

Smith College disputes Jodi Shaw exposé: Our “equity and inclusion training” has not created “a racially hostile environment for white people”

 Biden Energy Dept Allegedly Blocked Texas From Increasing Power Generation Because It Would Violate Green Energy Policy…

NY Times Notices That All These Companies Proclaiming They’re Doing Something On ‘Climate Change’ Mostly Aren’t

 Interior Secretary Nominee Deb Haaland: ‘It’s Time To Stop All New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure In America’…

 New York, a Dying City in a Dying State

 Big Tech "Deplatforming" Becomes Ever More Audacious

Julie Kelly: Feds Keep Claiming It Was an "Armed Insurrection." And They Keep Failing to Produce the Actual "Arms" Carried During It.

 Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick’s Mother: ‘He Wasn’t Hit on the Head’ by Trump Supporter

 Ex-Clinton adviser Naomi Wolf warns US becoming 'totalitarian state before our eyes' under Biden

 Biden’s ‘Kids In Cages’ Moment: Carrizo Springs Facility Re-Opens

Juan Williams: The GOP is a party without ideas

 How Does the West Factor in Africa's Problems?

 Trudeau Dithers as Canadian Parliament Recognizes Uyghur Genocide

NYT:  On Horseback Among the Eagle Hunters and Herders of the Mongolian Altai

Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate – here’s why

 "Butterfly Effect". 

Quillette: Remembering Karl Popper

Hypotheses must be falsifiable 

 New Studies Suggest One COVID Vaccine Shot May Be Enough for Some Patients

 Why We Can’t Make Vaccine Doses Any Faster

 Malevolent Elf and Undercover Bug-Chaser Anthony Fauci: We May Be Returning to "Normality" by... 2022, and Even Then, "Normality" Will Vary By User Experience

Despite Successful Vaccine Rollout, Jen Psaki Threatens 'Months and Months' of 'Sacrifice' and 'Suffering'

Hey Jen - enough optimism? 

 White People, Europeans Obsessed With Time, WA State Official Says

White people (only white people) believe that "On time means 5 minutes late." 

 Today’s blacklisted American: Amazon blacklists book for criticizing transgender movement

Democrats take first steps to censor conservative TV channels OANN, Newsmax and Fox News

 The "Muppet Show" disclaimer "This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures."

Mainly Scandinavians. I am 10% Scandinavian and I resent their stereotyping. In fact, it diminishes my sense of personhood...

 90% White Man Disproves White Supremacy by Insisting He's Black and Qualifies for Affirmative Action

 After Democrats Destroyed the Restaurant Business in New York with Insane COVID Policies, Democrat Senator Schumer Is Pushing for $25B in Relief from the Federal Government

Who does that $ come from? 

ANDREW CUOMO’S LEGAL WOES

 Biden AG Pick Merrick Garland: Far-Left Rioters Attacking Federal Courthouse Not Domestic Terrorism Because It’s At Night When Court Is Closed

Yes, these idiots are "threatening the USA":

 Merrick Garland Won’t Promise to Protect Durham Investigation

What Durham investigation? 

 Joe Biden brings America back to bad Obama days: Goodwin

 Ex-DHS Chief: ‘Far-Left’ Biden Immigration Bill Signals To Traffickers ‘It’s Okay To Come,’ ‘Extreme Incentive’ For Future Illegal Immigration

Duh. Can we focus on Legal Immigration?