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2022
Biden’s attempted quid-pro-quo with Saudis Arabia; the endgame of unsustainable socialized medicine; Insty and Joel Kotkin on “the revenge of the material economy”original ↗
14 Oct 2022
Jordan Peterson in Israel; PA senate race; LA city council head resigns following leaked audio of bizarre racist rant; Insty: “a disinformation expert is an expert at disinforming you”original ↗
13 Oct 2022
Kerch bridge collapse and Puttanesca response; British Medical Journal takes FB/Meta to the woodshed for “incompetent medical fact-checking”original ↗
11 Oct 2022
9 Oct 2022
Sabbath musical delight: Rosemary Brown “channels” classical composers (read: composes homages to them)original ↗
8 Oct 2022
Kremlin viceroy in Kherson calls on army chief Shoigu to “shoot himself” in atonement for botched invasion; Russians cross Bering Strait to ask asylum in Alaska; Tim Pool on OPEC reducing production and effect on upcoming US midterms; Christopher Andrew’s one-volume history of intel gatheringoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2022
Jen Psaki (!): if midterms are a referendum on Biden, D will lose; Crimea now realistic objective for Ukraine?original ↗
6 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022
2 Oct 2022
Kamala Harris claims US is an ally of North [!] Korea; Russki Anschluss following shamferendum; the antiDemocrat Party’s projection about fascismoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2022
Rosh HaShana day 2 musical delight: historical recording of Artur Schnabel playing Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata, Op. 106original ↗
27 Sept 2022
26 Sept 2022
Sabbath musical delight: Glenn Gould performs 2-part Inventions and 3-part sinfonias by J. S. Bachoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2022
Then they came for “Dilbert”…; STEM academics defending the indefensible as ‘recalibration’original ↗
23 Sept 2022
Putin calls up reserves, “out of good exit paths”; tony LA suburb becomes open-air asylum; mentally ill man kills 18-year old for being Republican, crickets from Monkeypox Mediaoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2022
Biden declares “pandemic over”; “addresses” concerns about unfitness for office; masgramondou on recent Ukraine developments; burn of the dayoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2022
Here, there, everywhere: Baghdad Bob Biden; Germany nationalizing Russian-owned refineries; the Age of Unreason; censorship to protect the narrativeoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2022
Sabbath musical delight: Edward Elgar, Enigma Variations, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein.original ↗
17 Sept 2022
Schadenfreude as TX and FL governors bus illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard and Klueless Kackling Kamala’s doorstep; Gad Saad interviews NYPost’s Karol Markowicz; Insty on why Congress has neither the power to “guarantee” nor “limit” abortionoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2022
Looking around: Russian hawks turning on Kremlin?; Looming rail transport strike in US; crime wave in Sweden causes electoral upset; remembering Battle of Britain Dayoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2022
Russian rout in progress, deputies calling for Putin ouster; hilarious scene as leftist calls cops on PragerU activists; defamation of a family business defended as academic freedom; Jen Psaki now “fact-checker” in risible MSM move; does the coulroverse exist?original ↗
13 Sept 2022
10 Sept 2022
No, Israel is not falling into China’s orbit; the days when “Palestinians” insisted they was no such thing as “Palestine”original ↗
8 Sept 2022
Looking around: Biden’s “blood red” speech polls very poorly among independents; WH hypocrisy on “election denial”; California reaps bitter harvest of Potemkin environmentalism; Liz Truss is the new British PMoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2022
Here, there, everywhere: ABC, USA Today asking hard questions about Biden regime covertly subsidizing “ultra-MAGA” candidates; an Israeli story about unintended consequences of “accessibility laws”original ↗
5 Sept 2022
Looking around: Extreme hot and cold weather in China; Peter Zeihan says Xi understands China’s crisis is much worse even than the West suspects, and is desperately creating distractions; Ron DeSantis on Biden’s g-dawful speech and his flip-flopping about itoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2022
3 Sept 2022
Today on Planet Biden: accuses half the country of being “MAGA fascists” in bizarre “Triumph of the Shill” addressoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2022
Looking around: California bans fossil fuel cars in the same week as it has to ask people not to recharge their EVs because the grid can’t handle it; PravdaMedia panicking about GOP impeaching Biden after midterms; Russia shuts gas pipeline to Europe Nordstream 1 for the second timeoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2022
31 Aug 2022
Looking around: Ukraine’s offensive on Kherson; Israeli leftist enfant terrible Aviv Geffen got slightly red-pilled; “loan forgiveness” ignores the underlying problemsoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2022
“Lying flat” in China spreading to entrepreneurs: how to write “who is John Galt” in Mandarin?original ↗
29 Aug 2022
Looking around: Basel marks 125th anniversary of the 1st Zionist Congress; VDH on elite incompetence and contempt of the middle class; Noah Smith on wokebaggery as an expression of career frustration by overproduced HSS graduatesoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2022
More on “student loan forgiveness”, the Biden regime’s shameless handout to the most [anti-]Democrat industryoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2022
“Student loan forgiveness”, Biden regime’s latest reverse-Robin Hood scheme; San Francisco “LGB for Palestine” shocked when exposed to “Palestinian” attitudes on homosexuality; documentary on alleged forgery of bombshell Biblical-era artifactsoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2022
BBC journalistic “ethics”, Royal Family edition; daughter of “Putin’s Brain” Alexander Dugin killed in assassination attempt on her father?; longtime China watcher “serpentza” pours cold water on rumors of the imminent collapse of the CCP state; major changes coming at CNN?original ↗
21 Aug 2022
Times a-changing: Bye, Felicia, Liz Cheney and Brian Stelter edition; China’s economic crisis continued; Israel and Turkey restore full diplomatic relationoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2022
17 Aug 2022
16 Aug 2022
Looking around: New map of the US revealed (satire); China’s banking system near collapse?; children of CCP officials brag on social media about how rich daddy gets from corruption; Russian airline Aeroflot cannibalizing almost-new Airbus A350 for spare partsoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2022
China fired missiles into… Japanese maritime territory; Garland disowning Mar A Lago raid; “Islamophobic” attack turns out to be internecine violenceoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022
Sabbath musical delight: a brief musical biography of Joseph Haydn; Haydn’s masterpiece, Die Schöpfung/The Creationoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2022
The times, they are a-changing: Workplace amenities at apex hi-tech companies on the way out; Gen-Z embracing “dumb phones”?!original ↗
5 Aug 2022
Ted Cruz rips Schumer-Manchin bill; WH spokestool calls Supreme Court overruling its own decision “unconstitutional”; Burisma-Hunter Biden smoking gun emails; New York magazine [!] turning on Klueless Kackling Kamalaoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2022
Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan: brinkmanship, courageous support for a democracy, or just for show?original ↗
3 Aug 2022
Looking around: first ship leaves Odessa under Turkey-brokered agreement; Biden regime quietly resumes construction of Trump’s “racist border wall”; the untold side of the Hollywood “Red Scare” story; rich Chinese trying to exfiltrate their money and themselves; unintended consequences at the BBCoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022
Biden polls worst in modern history of polling; Eminem parody, “Sniff Sleepy”; great interview with Victor Davis Hanson: “threat to democracy”=left code-speak for “we’re not getting our way”; Chinese real estate collapse spreading to its steel industryoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2022
29 Jul 2022
Two stories about shameless lying liars: (1) a recession is “no recession”; (2) Arafat is seeking peaceoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2022
Looking around: Trump sues CNN for defamation; Goodfellows on whether a China-Russia-Iran axis is emerging?; disaffected moderate D and R form third partyoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2022
27 Jul 2022
Here, there, everywhere: UK reduced to begging Belgium for electricity; natural vs. vaccine vs. hybrid COVID immunityoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2022
The “Vulcan hypothesis”: Walter Russell Mead’s metaphor for conspiracy theories about “the Jewish lobby”original ↗
24 Jul 2022
The times, they are a-changing: Former 0bama DOE official Steven Koonin: “climate is a problem, but not an existential crisis”; surprisingly fair article in Saudi papers about Israeli Arabs serving in the IDForiginal ↗
22 Jul 2022
COVID of the brain and Joe Biden; Russia-Iran alliance; “Palestinian intellectual” claims Jews actually Aryans, not semites; the woke purity spiraloriginal ↗
21 Jul 2022
20 Jul 2022
Looking around: Zelensky fires security chief?!; Michael Shellenberger on farmer pushback against eco-lunacy; Walter Russell Mead’s new book on the US-Israel relationshiporiginal ↗
19 Jul 2022
Looking around: how the European Commission “rules” the world; media’s attempted “killing with silence”of global populist protests; meanwhile in China…original ↗
18 Jul 2022
17 Jul 2022
Sabbath musical delight: Tommy Emmanuel and Mike Dawes playing acoustic cover of John Mayer’s classic “Slow dancing in a burning room”original ↗
16 Jul 2022
(1) Corporate American tech as adult day care?!; (2) Black metal without distortion=surf rock?! (3) The amazing story of Qantas flight 32original ↗
15 Jul 2022
The I2U2 forum: India, Israel, UAE, and USA. BONUS: podcast interview with crime novelist Faye Kellermanoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2022
Looking around: Economics of YouTube creation; an inside look at airline pilot and staff shortagesoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2022
The times, they are a’changing: maverick Greens embracing emissions-free nuclear energy; 1st ever picture from the Webb Space Telescopeoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2022
Looking around: Dutch farmers protest; Juliet Samuel on the tyranny of HR; who will succeed Boris?original ↗
11 Jul 2022
Sabbath musical delight: Stranger Things sent “Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush to the top of the charts. Rick Beato analyzes itoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2022
6 Jul 2022