·       
Rolling
Stone Magazine names top 200 singers of all-time. Not even close in my opinion, but
still interesting. They have Elvis at #17. I don’t think so. And I couldn’t
even find Otis Day and the Knights.

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Who
knew? Paul Ehrlich is still alive. I remember his book from 1968
predicting famine. He’s still on the same sheet of music, despite being wrong
for 55 years. There is a market for gloom and doom.

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One
of my favorite pieces every year. Dave Barry’s 2022 Year in Review.

In other financial news, more
and more people are buying “cryptocurrencies,” which appeal to investors
because the cryptocurrency market is not controlled by the government. Instead,
it is controlled by 13-year-old Justin Weeblemonger of Teaneck, N.J., who runs
the whole shebang out of his PlayStation 5. (Justin also controls airline
fares.)

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Related
-  Riffed
From The Headlines: The 2022 Media Mayhem Honors.

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I
commented on Dec. 23^rd about the FBi’s reaction to being outed by Elon Musk for
their collusion with and use of Twitter to censor anything unfavorable to
Democrats. Professor Jonathan Turley commented on the story.

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... [Read More]

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One of the wildest pro football games
ever. As all-pro
cornerback Patrick Peterson said at halftime with the Vikings down 33-0, “All
we need is 5 touchdowns.” Maybe the greatest comeback in NFL history. Watch the
8 minute clip.

·       
Biden’s
cure for inflation? Hire more Dreamers. Really, Joe? This is what passes
for sanity in your administration? Never in our history have we had a president
more worthy of being impeached.

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You
expected something different? Congress... [Read More]

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Well,
it’s a good thing that J&B Scotch isn’t my preferred brand because it just
made my permanent restricted list. Watch the ad. I’m at a loss for words. As if that
weren’t enough, Soulless Greens Are Trying to Ruin
Scotch Whisky. Peat
is, after all, a fossil fuel, and you know what that means. If the folks at
Glenfiddich need an armed peat warden to shoot trespassers on sight, I hope
they have my number.  

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The
Year in Biden Lies. Test yourself. It only scratches the surface.

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Climax Of A Farce. I fervently hope that this proves
to be a case of these malicious politicians going a step too far and that it
will result in the kind of pushback they never considered.  

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Santa tries to straighten out
something that a lot
of folks get wrong.

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Being
a congenital liar isn’t something you can just turn off and on. Joe Biden is the perfect example.

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Good
move, Joe. Look for the condo market in Switzerland and Paris to get a shot in
the arm. Biden administration announces $55
billion gift for Africa.

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Damn!
Thank goodness he’s long gone. Boehner cries at tribute for Nancy Pelosi’s
portrait unveiling.

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Things
are looking grim at the Washington Post. The propaganda arm of the
Democratic Party has lost 500,000 subscribers and is facing massive layoffs. I
can’t seem to work up a tear for... [Read More]

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Elon Is Winning. And it is hilarious to watch. Polls
indicate that while he is enraging liberals, he has the large majority of
Americans on his side.

·       
With
the news of some success in the Nuclear Fusion process, environmentalists are
gearing up to oppose it. Why? Because. This quote from the ever wrong but never
in doubt Paul Erlich from about 33 years ago is one of his classics that hasn’t
exactly stood the test of time.

Fusion
proponents, [Paul Ehrlich] notes,... [Read More]

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Our Border Is Gone. This is due to the treasonous negligence
of our President to fulfill the duties he swore to do when he was inaugurated.
Every single Republican in the House and Senate should be screaming at the top
of their lungs and should shut down the operation of those institutions until
the problem is addressed. It would force the lamestream media to cover the
problem and I believe the hue and cry would increase as constituents began to
pressure their representatives. We need to have mass roundups and ship these
people back across the border and as far south as the roads will permit.

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I
kind of expected this. Scam Bankman-Fraud Sam Bankman-Fried is planning to testify remotely at the Congressional hearing today.
Apparently, he’s not quite ready to check into the hoosegow. Oops. Breaking
News: SBF has been arrested in the Bahamas, and, I assume, will be extradited.
Just for the record, he does not intend to commit suicide.

·       
Well,
I guess when you’re known for being on the wrong side of every foreign policy
decision for your whole career you have a reputation to maintain.

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Sen Kyrsten Sinema leaves Democratic
Party to become Independent. Now, if she will caucus with the Republicans, it will throw a real
wrench into the works for Chuck Schumer. If Manchin should join her, it would
be a real sea change. Sinema’s Sayonara post on Powerline.

·       
Twitter Busted Wide Open. No mention in New York Times.
I’m shocked, just shocked! Clear collusion between government and big tech to
skew an election. There should be a remedy. Prager: The Numerous (and Sweeping) Anomalies
Regarding the 2020 Election That Cannot Be Ignored.

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Twitter
release part two. Yes, it is every bit as bad as we thought.

·       
Liking
this buy more and more. Elon Musk channels Ronald Reagan. Janitors’ Union
Went on Strike Outside Twitter, So Musk Gave Them the Reagan Treatment.

·       
Could
this be the early sign of a return of common sense? Vanguard Group quits ESG-oriented
‘Net Zero’ group.

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Remember
the “Creepy Porn Lawyer” Michael Avenatti? He just got another 14-year prison
sentence added to the one he is already serving. From darling of the media and
potential Democratic presidential candidate to prison is quite a fall. Here is
a reminder of just how pathetic our mainstream media is. “The savior of the
Republic?” Yea. This should be shown over and over. Perhaps the best quote is from
Michael himself, ‘All of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs.” Well, he got
his wish.

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Battery Storage Is A Fantasy.

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I’m
sure he has no doubt that this is true. “Trump knows the worst the Democrats
can conjure up is coming straight at him. I don’t care what you think of Donald
Trump, the dude’s got guts. We need guts like that in public life. I wish more
had that gift.” – Victoria Taft.

·       
Are We Completely Crazy? Not Yet. There is, however, a segment of our
population that is. 11% think that Drag Queen Story Hours are very appropriate
for children and another 10% are “not sure.” That’s 21% who need to be confined
somewhere like an island that was a... [Read More]

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The next two
years are likely to be interesting. Congress appears headed for gridlock, which
the market historically likes, and with former President Trump’s announcement
last night that he is running, the Democrats and Media will continue to suffer
from severe TDS. It will be interesting to see who comes out in support and who
he has lost. I though his
speech was extremely Presidential sounding and made the points I wanted to
hear. There is a lot of grass between now and November 2024, though. One thing
is clear, and that is that several states need to fix their voting problems. Mass
absentee mailouts and ballot harvesting are rife with opportunities for
malfeasance.

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Quote
of the Day from H.L. Mencken: Democracy is the theory that the common people
know what they want – and deserve to get it good and hard.

·       
Are
you kidding me? Is Slow Joe wearing a Mao jacket? Unbelievable. Talk about cultural
appropriation. Maybe it was a costume party.

·       
“Journalist” taunted for warning Elon
Musk against offending Senate Democrats.

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A
former Progressive, Joel Kotkin, has some interesting thoughts on the
midterm elections
and what effect, or lack of effect, it might have on the Democrats. He is
essentially saying that a Progressive bloodbath has merely been postponed.

For all their
cautious optimism yesterday, a mild Midterms victory may prove the last thing
the Democrats need. If they had performed as predicted, the Democrats and their
media adjuncts would now be busily dissecting their defeat.

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Ammo
Grrrll writes every Friday on Powerline.... [Read More]

·       
MSNBC
has truly gone over the edge of sanity. Fetterman For President. Really?

·       
Prominent
pollster Scott Rasmussen says it’s time for America to mandate all ballots be counted on Election
Day. Hear Hear! Here
is how Florida gets voting results fast.

·       
The
Horns of a Dilemma. Nation unsure whether to support
party that runs brain-damaged candidates or party that loses to brain-damaged
candidates. Related:
Fetterman prepares for Senate job... [Read More]

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Scott
Johnson of Powerline has a good piece on the election. After Last Night.

What happened
to the red wave? It was buried in an open grave. It began and ended in Florida.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had a great night romping over Charlie Crist, an
opponent who has distinguished himself by losing statewide races as a
Republican, an independent, and a Democrat. Andrew Stiles gives him his due in
the Free Beacon column “Charlie Crist
Defends Historic... [Read More]

·       
Worried
about high gas prices? AAA says that properly inflated tires can save 3 cents
per gallon. Properly counted ballots can save $3/gallon. Vote Tuesday.

·       
Is
the New York Times channeling Powerline? Biden Verbally Fumbles, Twice,
During Campaign Trip in Florida. Looks like the “Dump Biden” campaign is back
on. Two years too late. His appearance for lagging gubernatorial candidate
Charlie Crist was a “nonstop flood of lies of the disgusting and demagogic
variety.”

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Think
about this... [Read More]

·       
A great line from Chief Justice
Roberts in the
Harvard/Univ. of North Carolina Affirmative Action Case currently being argued
before the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Roberts: Yeah. We did not fight a
Civil War about oboe players.

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Say
what? LOL. The World is Transitioning to Fossil
Fuels. I have been
writing for a long time that the alleged transition from fossil fuels to
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·       
The
Week in Pictures starts off a little slow but pick up nicely.

·       
Earth
to Joe. Come in, Joe? If you saw this, it can only be described as
bizarre. We’re fast approaching 25^th Amendment time.

·       
Even
for Joe, this is a remarkable case of gaslighting. Do the Democrats really
think we are that stupid? Answer: Obviously, yes. The
Unmitigated Gall of Joe Biden Claiming That He “Lowered” Debt.

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A Star Is Born. Kari Lake schools interviewer. This
woman is likely destined to be on the national stage at some point.

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Florida
is about as red as it gets right now. Robert Cahaly, who runs the Trafalgar
polling operation, has said that he isn’t polling in Florida because he doesn’t think there are
any serious races there. Charlie Crist has become a walking, talking joke and
Val Demings, the far leftwinger who is challenging Rubio, doesn’t have a prayer.

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I
voted yesterday on the first day for early voting. Traffic was steady, but not
heavy at my polling place.        

 S   Sen. Grasley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has requested documents from the FBI that a whistleblower alerted him to.
They apparently concern a $5 million interest free loan from China that may
have been forgiven. The more that is revealed, the more it appears that we may
have the makings of a... [Read More]

·       
Get Woke, Be Downgraded? BlackRock, Inc. is getting some well
deserved pushback as a result of their leadership of the ESG movement. Any
company espousing this is automatically on my restricted list.

·       
Wonder
if Joe bothered to step out of his hotel while he was in Portland? He might
reconsider endorsing the governor if he had. What a disaster!

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Hitting the Panic Button. If the Black vote hits 20% it’s
lights out for... [Read More]

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Kind
of sounds like someone may have had about enough. Jamie Dimon on “woke”
corporations: “Investors don’t’ give a s**t.” You got that one right, Jamie.

·       
The libs are having a tough time with
Kari Lake and I’m
loving it.

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Love J.K. Rowling’s reply to a troll trying to cancel her.

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The Week in Pictures: Effing-Biden
Edition

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A
quote from Slow Joe that clearly confirms his senility, “Whatever Maxime Says, I Agree With.”

·       
Head-On Crash At The Intersection.

[W]hen hundreds
of Muslim parents, upset at gay porn in the school libraries, showed up to a
school board meeting in Dearborn,... [Read More]

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I
know a lot of you wonder how our elected representatives and civil servants
manage to get rick while working for the government. A Wall Street Journal investigation of corruption in
the federal government sheds some light on it. Insider trading is rife. Blatant insider trading
that you or I would go to jail over.

·       
In
anticipation of what is getting ready to take place in November, Democrats begin to blame GOP fraud if
they lose. Good luck
on that one. If I am right, and we are about to see the biggest electoral
rebuke in our history, you can bet the... [Read More]

·       
Tulsi
Gabbard’s conscience finally moved her to leave the Democratic Party. I can think
of a few more like her that should take the same step, and she invited them to
join her. Her
statement was concise and pointed.

I can no longer
remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an
elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by
racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to
undermine our God-given freedoms, are…

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Quote
of the Week: A free market is a naturally sustainable ecosystem that
utilizes resources in very efficient ways. Government is the opposite, with
incentives encouraging waste. Government failure is the most dangerous threat
to our environment and economy. – Brian Wesbury.

·       
Real Clear Politics now has the
Republicans taking the Senate with a 52-48 majority by picking up Nevada and Arizona. I
think it could be 53-47. We’ll see. They currently have the House at 220-180 with 35 toss ups. 218 are needed for a majority.

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A
particularly good Week In Pictures: Puerto Rican
Edition

·       
When
the Washington Free Beacon initiated its popular weekly series depicting
“Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week” they were worried about having
material every week. That hasn’t turned out to be a problem.

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Toddlers In Charge. Good description.

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Quote
of the Week:

I have found from many observations
that our liberals are incapable of allowing anyone to have his own convictions
and immediately answer their opponent with abuse or something worse. – Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

·       
Think
we’ve gotten our money’s worth? We’ve spent $3.8 trillion on
renewable energy.
Ten years ago fossil fuels represented 82% of energy consumption. Now it
represents 81%.

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Update on Biden’s night flights of illegal aliens. Meanwhile,... [Read More]

·       
Classic
Kamala. She loves Venn Diagrams. Just shoot me.

·       
Shipping
rates have declined 75% from a year ago. Cargo Shipowners Cancel Sailings as
Global Trade Flips From Backlogs to Empty Containers. And Fedex is parking planes.

·       
Concealed
carry insurance business booming as more Americans pack heat. Poll show a
clear inverse relationship between crime rates and increased carry permits.  

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The
high school football rivalry that Sports Illustrated
has called the top one in the U.S. took place Friday evening on a cool, clear
perfect night for football at Red Etter Stadium on the Baylor campus to an SRO
crowd. The Baylor Red Raiders, ranked number two in the state, snatched victory in the fourth quarter from the McCallie
Blue Tornado, ranked number three in the state. McCallie led the whole game and
was up 27-17 going into the fourth quarter. With 11:33 to go, Baylor picked up
a McCallie fumble and ran it in for a 35-yard touchdown. Another turnover on
what looked like a sure touchdown for McCallie, and a Baylor 65 yard touchdown pass/run,
and the final score was 31-27 Baylor. GBR. ’66. Ranking
Baylor/McCallie Among the... [Read More]

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A
new Rasmussen poll finds that 57% of Americans believe
it is likely that we will have a 1930’s type depression at some time over the
next few years. If that is the case, I find it hard to believe that any of them
will vote Democrat in the midterms, making a red tsunami more and more likely.

·       
Hopefully,
by the time he has to run for reelection in 2024 a viable alternative will
appear. GOP Senators baffled by Mitt Romney’s ploy to oust Mike
Lee – and maybe thwart a majority.  

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Let’s
call a spade a spade. The Green New Deal, or as I prefer, the Green Nude Eel,
is not going to happen in our or our children’s lifetimes. It is a scam designed
to line the pockets of politicians and their supporters and promoted by people
who haven’t the slightest grasp of what is involved. Ever wonder why you don’t
see any real debates on the subject between supporters and deniers? It is
because the narrative would be quickly destroyed. Does anyone with more than a
room temperature IQ believe California can support a populace forced to drive
EV’s that they can’t even recharge without crashing the grid? Ask one of those
dolts where the power comes from to charge the vehicles. Can you spell C-o-a-l-?
One of my favorite memes is the picture... [Read More]

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The
pendulum seems to have begun its swing, beginning in Europe with Poland and
Hungary and now Sweden and Italy. Liberals are Freaking Out Over Italy (love that picture of Orban and
Meloni). As Steven Hayward points out, “Populism” means whenever the wrong
person or cause wins a free election. The corollary is that every Republican
candidate for president is Hitler, and now we learn that every Italian
conservative is Mussolini.” My new wish is to see a summit meeting in 2024
that includes either President Trump or DeSantis and British Prime Minister
Truss, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, Italian Prime Minister Meloni and Polish
Prime Minister Morawiecki. Perhaps by then either Le Pen or Zemmour from France
can join in. Can you even imagine the head spinning that would take place?

·       
I
continue to believe that the midterm elections are going to be probably the
largest electoral rebuke of a ruling party in our history. The ABC
News/Washington Post poll indicates that only 35% of Democrats want Joe to run
in 2024. That’s
probably overstated by those who tell pollsters they will
vote for Joe in
order to try and hold up their party as still a viable alternative. As John
Hinderaker says, it probably means his realistic approval rate is around 30%.

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To
paraphrase Johnny Paycheck, Take That Shot And Shove it. Only about 1.5% of eligible
citizens have gotten... [Read More]

·       
The Week In Pictures: Martha’s
Vineyard Sequel

·       
More
reason why November 8 can’t come soon enough and more reason to hope that a red
tsunami engulfs Washington, D.C. The DOJ and FBI have to be
dismembered and rebuilt.

·       
This big-time L.A. attorney was apparently Avenatti’s role
model. So far, it appears that the Democrats who benefitted intend to keep the
money. They include Biden, Obama, Hillary, Eric Swalwell and several others.

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Someone
finally has the guts to say
out loud what everyone knows. Black racism is a poisonous growth in our
society. The criminal element in the black community, estimated to be about 4%,
is also estimated to be responsible for about half the violent crime in the
United States. Should they venture too far away from their protected turf, they
might eventually run into a terminal 3-S solution,
a classic rural solution known as Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up.

·       
The
hint of things to come? GOP
eyes Biden family business dealings as president insists there’s nothing to
see. Joe isn’t exactly the source I would trust... [Read More]

·       
Too
good a comment of the reaction of locals in Martha’s Vineyard not to pass on. Footage
from South Beach.

·       
Bordering
On Incoherence. That’s an understatement. As someone has said, he has half
a mind to be president. What he has allowed to take place at our southern
border is nothing short of treasonous. Solving the problems he has created won’t
be easy, and rounding up and expelling a few million illegal immigrants is
going to cause some real top of the lungs screaming by the liberals. It's
unfortunate that there are just too many to take a case-by-case approach. As
the old saying goes, when... [Read More]

·       
A fair review of Slow Joe’s 60 Minutes
appearance. The NewsBusters headline
was a great description. State-Run TV: 60 Minutes Drools Over Biden in Syrupy
Interview.

This is quintessential Biden. Lying, gaslighting,
emphatic, nasty, denying reality while in the same breath denying he's denying
reality. It is so out of the bounds of normal behaviour that people discount it
or blame their own perception https://t.co/xkkaKV6JqA

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This should be
bold headlines on every newspaper and mainstream media news show. Vaccine
Narrative Collapses as Harvard Study Shows Jab
More Dangerous than COVID. More and more will continue to come out
showing just how duplicitous the government bureaucracies, politicians and the
pharmaceutical industry has been. Think about this fact. In Europe: “The
country with the lowest vaccination rate has the lowest excess mortality rate
and the country with the highest vaccination rate has the highest excess
mortality”…

·       
Who in the world
though that turning
Mr. 10% loose on 60 Minutes was a good idea? What a mess! Even with
a softball interviewer who failed to... [Read More]