Maggie's Farm

 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

Attention Please, COVID Is Not Over. We Repeat, COVID Is Not Over.

 Under White House Pressure, Facebook Censored Accurate Covid Vaccine Information

Harvard med students learn how to care for LGBTQIA+ infants

 Dem Sen. Murphy: ‘Many in My Party’ ‘Don’t Want to Admit’ We Can’t Take ‘Unlimited Number of Asylum Seekers’

 Trump Responds To Biden Classified Document Fiasco

 Democracy’s Trenches - The idea that the war in Ukraine is not our business is seductive but dangerously mistaken.

More about concrete, ancient and modern 

 THE CLIMATE IS IN GREAT SHAPE

 Biden administration gas stove ban idea

 Got (Raw) Milk? How the Cow Became a Culture Warrior

How not to build urban housing 

Chronicle: How Mitch Daniels Made Purdue a University Conservatives Can Love

 Hillary Clinton Lands Professor And “Presidential Fellow” Gig At Columbia University…

 Why are we only finding out now about the classified docs Biden took?

 Former Top CIA Analyst Condemns FBI For Censorship & Misinformation

Mission creep, or do they want to be the SS? 

 MAINSTREAM MEDIA CONFESSES RUSSIA HOAX AT LAST

 USC Bans “Field Work” Because It’s Racist. "Phrases such as 'going into the field' and 'field work' may have connotations for descendants of slavery.

The Problem Artificial Intelligence Poses for Colleges

 Biden’s New Border Strategy: Blame Republicans First

Prigozhin praises Ukrainians as Russians leave their own soldiers to die

 New Medical Advice for Fat Kids Urges Drugs and Surgery Over Diet and Exercise

 We Have a Tripledemic. Not of Disease, But of Fear. Getting sick sometimes is the price of returning to normal. Dr. Vinay Prasad thinks it’s more than worth it

 ‘We don’t want to be Yale’: new University of Austin constructing a different model of excellence

Classified Documents Found At President Biden's Think Tank

 Media Silent as Latest Twitter Files Expose Flagrant Misconduct in Govt. & Journalism

 Biden’s Insult at the Border

 Jordan Peterson’s License Fiasco Highlights Why Government Licensing Should Be Abolished

 Mystery of why Roman buildings have survived so long has been unraveled, scientists say

MacDonald: Strategic Charitable Giving - A guide to supporting the classical music organizations that hold true to their missions amid the relentless DEI tide

 Minnesota Art Professor Fired For Showing Depiction Of Prophet Muhammad

That is Moslem art 

 Will Jordan Peterson Lose His License for Wrongthink? The Canadian psychologist is right to resist re-education.

 A Puritanical Assault on the English Language. Social justice zealots think they can save the world by inventing absurd new ways to describe it.

It does work... 

Is there enough electricity for electric cars? 

 A Powerful Case Against Deinstitutionalization

 How many people before we have enough?

No strong proof yet that diversity trainings ‘work’: Princeton psychologist

 Did Someone or Something Seize Control of the United States?

Can feel like that 

 Trump is his own worst enemy

This is a naive article: The Reason There’s Been No Cure for Alzheimer’s. Medicine had nothing to offer my father and millions of other Americans. I set out to find out why.

 Pope Benedict: Defender of sacred tradition

 DECEMBER 31, 1912

Can Greenies Do Math?

 Fauci Fibbed on the Day Everything Changed

 CDC Wants Teachers To Rate Students On Level Of “LGBTQ Inclusivity”…

 Detransitioners Are Blasphemers Against The Left's Gospel Of Normalizing The Mental Illness Of Transexuals

 Virginia school district pays almost $500k for ‘equal outcomes’ consultant

 In the name of ‘equity,’ companies are now ignoring educational achievement

 U.S. Senator: 'Hate Speech' Not Protected Under First Amendment

 THE TRUMP TAX RETURNS

 The incredible weirdness of the Ray Epps saga

 Revisiting The Rationale For Pouring Money Into Ukraine

 After 100,000 Migrants Arrive In 2022, Italy Set To Take Action Against NGO Ferry Boats

Photo: I hate NY Eve parties, (but I understand that it can be a reasonable excuse to throw a party); Champagne gives me a headache; I hate excess booze (for myself anyway); and there is no way I will willingly stay up until midnight. Call me grumpy.

All the same, I wish all a healthy, loving, prosperous and contented 2023. 

Singing lessons give threatened birds a chance of survival

 Are These 7 Movies on the Woke Mob’s Chopping Block? From comedies to inconvenient dramas, the following films could be 'Gone' next

 The Making of Norman Mailer - The young man went to war and became a novelist. But did he ever really come back?

WSJ:  Jonathan Haidt on the ‘National Crisis’ of Gen Z. Warped by social media and a victimhood culture, today’s young people will imperil American culture and capitalism, the social psychologist warns.

 Rebalancing the Gender Narrative - Richard Reeves’s new book is a valuable contribution to a gender debate stuck on outdated axioms.

 The Falsehood of White Privilege

 Democrats Abandon Free Speech

Free speech is reactionary 

 MIT Adopts Free Speech Resolution: "We Cannot Prohibit Speech As Offensive Or Injurious"

Powerline:  WHY FREE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT

 Spectator: Do Biden’s words even matter anymore? As his staff once again rushes in to clarify, it isn’t clear who’s running the country

 NIALL FERGUSON: 2022 was the year we realised we're now fighting Cold War II against China... and this time our opponent is far more fearsome than Russia

 Cardinal Dolan reminded us yesterday that Christmas is 12 days or until Epiphany.

 St. Francis of Assisi and the First Nativity Scene

 Bob Dylan on Music’s Golden Era vs. Streaming: ‘Everything’s Too Easy’

33 good news stories you (probably) didn’t hear about in 2022. This year may have felt like a permacrisis you couldn’t stop doomscrolling through, but take heart: there is strong evidence the world is getting better all the time, say analysts at Future Crunch

 School hides National Merit awards for students to promote "equity"

 The woke university implosion — and what comes next

 WaPo Discovers That School Closures Pose Significant Problems—After Relentlessly Advocating for Them

GUESS WHAT: ELECTRICITY ISN’T FREE

 A federal judge essentially says parents have no rights over their children

 Twitter Files 9 Shows CIA, Other Security State Involvement in Censorship

 Matt Taibbi Reflects On "Repulsive, Horrifying, Dystopian" World Run By 'Anti-People'

 ‘The Nutcracker’: how a Russian composer turned out a highlight of American Christmas

The Gift of the WalMagi

 Christmas would be nice if it weren’t for all the icky Christian stuff

 Shoplifting has reportedly become a $94.5B problem for US retailers

 “Experts” Say Not To Joke About Cold Weather And Global Warming

They are no fun 

" Shouldn’t “less time developing technical skills” matter on an exam focused on, you know, technical skills?"

Turley: It is not clear what is more chilling: the menacing role played by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Twitter’s censorship program or its mendacious response to the disclosure of that role. 

 Bari Weiss happy to ‘debate’ FBI over accusation that 'Twitter Files' are 'misinformation'

 Of Course The Feds Were All Over Twitter

 About those Trump tax returns

 DeSantis Democrats