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2023
Biden says Pelosi helped rescue the economy in the Great Depression; Ron DeSantis officially declared candidacyoriginal ↗
24 May 2023
Looking around: why reparations will never be implemented; illustrative video of media all parroting from the same script; Jean-Fraud Kerry says land confiscations “not off the table”original ↗
21 May 2023
19 May 2023
Is China’s true GDP 60% smaller than the official GDP?; why the French Foreign Legion has no recruitment problemsoriginal ↗
17 May 2023
Turkish presidential election headed for runoff; Gad Saad on the slippery slope of forbidden knowledge; Dianne Feinstein update; Israel local authorities strikeoriginal ↗
15 May 2023
Breaking: cease-fire between Israel and “Palestinian Islamic Jihad” to go into effect at 10pm our time [UPDATE: ceasefire holding as of 05:30am]original ↗
13 May 2023
Sabbath musical delight: Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh play Bach’s “Double Concerto” (concerto for two violins) BWV 1043original ↗
13 May 2023
11 May 2023
Lag ba-Omer updates. Israel kills Islamic Jihad commanders, braces for reprisal; VDH on whether the US is about to reach its Thermidor moment; Andrew Doyle on wokeism as a neo-puritan religion; did George Orwell predict postmodernism?original ↗
9 May 2023
8 May 2023
Peter Boghossian on metastatizing wokebaggery in academia, and whether it still can be curedoriginal ↗
2 May 2023
29 Apr 2023
Sabbath musical delight: Wilhelm Kempff, complete Beethoven piano sonatas with sheet music page displayoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2023
Israel judiciary “reform” updates: major pro-“reform” demonstration; right-wing former justice minister Ayelet Shaked says she was able to diversify the court just fine under the current systemoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2023
25 Apr 2023
Of special interest: Perun on how corruption, politics, and lies destroy armies [I would add: and republics, bureaucracies, corporations]original ↗
23 Apr 2023
Friday info dump: Soylent Green; British vice premier resigns; DARVO; Buzzfeed News shuts down; for what was Spinoza actually “excommunicated”?original ↗
21 Apr 2023
19 Apr 2023
Music for Yom HaShoah: Pavel Haas (1899-1944), “Study For Strings”; Disturbed, “Never Again” live in Tel-Avivoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2023
[Repost:] Yom HaShoah and the importance of recognizing when the rules of the game have changedoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2023
Former Los Angeles county sheriff explains who is perpetuating the homelessness problem in LA: those whose continued plum jobs depend on its existenceoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2023
Looking around: Pakistan economy on brink of collapse; Moody’s maintains Israeli credit rating, downgrades outlook to “stable”; meet your lovable AI minderoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2023
Homelessness in Santa Monica and “killing the messenger”; the end of cheap labor in China; the end of work from home ad libitumoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2023
Why is Yiddish rather different from German? And why did modern Hebrew adopt a Sephardic pronunciation?original ↗
11 Apr 2023
Bombshell poll: Likud would sink to 3rd party if elections held today, after center-left(ish) Yesh Atid and center-right(ish) National Union; Karaitesoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2023
Easter edition: Germans overwhelmingly skeptical about “Green energy” transition; Leonardo di Caprio testifies in bizarre ChiCom bribery case; Martin Kramer on real motivating behind now-suspended judicial “reform” driveoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2023
Looking around, holiday edition: rocket fire from Lebanon; Matt Taibbi on how MSNBC went even further off the deep end; Unherd interview with Jacob Siegel on “the great disinformation hoax”; musical delights for Good Friday and Passoveroriginal ↗
7 Apr 2023
ChatGPT and new horizons in libel law; Columbia facultypocrites decry Israel center while being mum on China centeroriginal ↗
6 Apr 2023
Why the Trump ham sandwich indictment is worse than you think; Finland joins NATO; is the Metaverse on the ropes?; pre-Passover musical delightoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2023
Trump ham sandwich indictment; Shas leader Aryeh Deri: “the coalition didn’t have 61 MKs for the reform”original ↗
4 Apr 2023
Manufacturing consent 2.0: the bureaucracy-NGO complex behind the “anti-“ “disinformation” industryoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2023
31 Mar 2023
Here, there, everywhere: First compromise talks in Israel; survey on patriotism, family values in USA; perpetual teenagers and the downside of “sorting by age”original ↗
29 Mar 2023
Israel: Netanyahu freezes judicial reform to allow for dialogue with opposition; President Herzog tries to broker talks, centrist Gantz eagerly respondsoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2023
Things happening fast and furiously here: Gallant’s firing was the last straw for many [UPDATED]original ↗
27 Mar 2023
Breaking: Defense Minister Gallant calls for pause in the judicial “reform” process, joined by fellow Likudniks Edelstein, Bitan, Dichteroriginal ↗
25 Mar 2023
Beethoven’s cause of death: complications of hepatitis B? Sabbath musical delight: Beethoven, Sonata in Ab major Opus 26original ↗
25 Mar 2023
Looking around, springtime edition: Greta Thunberg gets an honorary doctorate in theology?!; Insty on why it should be safe to be impopular; The lapdogification of the Likudoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2023
21 Mar 2023
21 Mar 2023
Lipstick on a pig edition: Israeli coalition “voluntarily softens” judicial takeover; how Apple is becoming an ads companyoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2023
Dutch farmer protest party: from nowhere to shared largest party in the Senate; meanwhile, France, Italyoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023
13 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023
Israel Supreme Court crisis update: “day of disruption”; economist at think tank behind proposals has second thoughts; Friedmann compromise outlineoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2023
The other Purims; Jan. 6 video footage released, journolisters hardest hit; leak or trial balloon on Israeli judicial “reform”?original ↗
7 Mar 2023
Looking around, pre-Purim edition: Jordan Peterson interviews Christopher Rufo; “judicial reform” update; Mel Brooks out of retirementoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023
Looking around: UK Lockdown Files; Netanyahu wanted to backtrack on judicial “reform”; bye, Felicia Lightfoot; a devout wishoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2023
28 Feb 2023
Here, there, everywhere: first signs of judicial compromise in Israel?; Spain’s female Ron DeSantis?; Sunak’s Brexit renegotiationoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2023
27 Feb 2023
I’m so old, I still remember when Netanyahu cared about the Israeli economy; Black physician: “unconscious bias training” is both insiduous and counterproductiveoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023
Israel update: massive protests in Jerusalem against Supreme Court “reform” plans; President Herzog trying to broker a compromise based on a 5-point plan; judicial committee passes, goes to Knesset for 1st reading; “reform” architects offer to meet with opposition heads, who set a freeze of the plans as a preconditionoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2023
Former Mossad chief (and close Netanyahu confidante) Yossi Cohen urges compromise on Supreme Court “reform”original ↗
12 Feb 2023
Jordan Peterson interviews Prof. Judith Curry about climate change: “the models are OK, the predictions are wrong”.original ↗
11 Feb 2023
Sabbath musical delight: Glenn Gould plays J. S. Bach’s Six Partitas for keyboard, BWV 825-830original ↗
11 Feb 2023
Huge: Tennessee divesting itself of federal K-12 education funding; former Israeli AG on judicial “reform”: “this is purely Netanyahu trying to bring his corruption cases to an improper end”original ↗
10 Feb 2023