The anatomy of a stall

By piling on too many progressive policies once Biden created induced drag. Then with reduced power he pulled the nose up and increased the angle of attack beyond allowable limits. Conclusion:

“It’s working!”

The value of a Woke education

An “A” in Equity and an “F” everywhere else. What’s the average?

Kids will pay a steep price for this War on Merit in schools
The War on Merit in America’s schools is spreading — and threatening to take an ever-bigger toll on kids’ education. Last week, California’s Department of Education rolled out a draft framework for…

The shame weapon and Beijing

Memo to the One World Department
From the Aberdeen Hong Kong proving grounds
Re Effect of Mark 19 Super duper shame weapon on the Communist Party of China

China Targets Muslim Women in Push to Suppress Births in Xinjiang
In most of China, women are being urged to have more babies to shore up a falling birthrate. But in Xinjiang, they are being forced to have fewer.
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Selling good intentions, getting bad results

One of the things progressives are good at is selling good intentions, whether racial justice, climate justice, clean energy and/or Middle Eastern peace. However the path to these laudable goals wends through riots, resegregation, carbon taxes, gas shortages and renewed war in Israel. Why is that?

One theory is these bad things — like the depressing jobs report — are signs the progressives are on the right track. ‘Things have to get worse before they get better’.

The public will buy this contradictory experience for a while, just as some have gone along with the notion that more censorship, surveillance and gun control is needed to save democracy. But they will not go along with it forever. Sooner or later a policy becomes defined by what it does, rather than what it intends.

You are what you do. What have they done?

The color of carbon

Researchers said China was responsible for 27% of all greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, nearly three times the amount emitted by the United States and more than the entire developed world combined.

The Blaze
China’s greenhouse gas emissions exceed every developed nation combined, researchers say
China produces more greenhouse gas emissions than any other developed nation in the world combined, according to new data.What are the details?Despite climate change alarmists who claim the U.S. has a problem with greenhouse gas emissions, a new report from the Rhodium Group exposes China as the wor…
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Fossil fuels are bad — until you need them

The cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline by the Russians no less is a reminder that old fashioned national security, fuel stockpiles and working class labor still matter in the real world. When you need them you really need them.

The Fossil Fuels Must Go Through | The Pipeline
There is something surrealistically ironic about Joe Biden’s Emergency Order to mobilize tanker trucks — anything — to keep the fossil fuels going. On the one hand it is a backhanded admission of how vital the products transported by the Colonial Pipeline are. On the other it is a reminder of how …

The threat also evolves

WHO elevates Indian coronavirus strain to ‘variant of concern’
A top official at the World Health Organization on Monday announced the agency is elevating a coronavirus variant first identified in India from a ‘variant to interest,’ to a ‘variant to concern,’ citing early studies suggesting increased transmissibility.

Plus “the black fungus”.

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A post-truth society

We live in this bizarre world where Greens are praising Chernobyl for creating an environmental garden spot; where incredibly bad job figures are signs Biden has got things right; when Russians who attack US infrastructure justify their acts as merely criminal and everyone believes the covid pandemic was caused by a Species X that no one can find.

Maybe ‘post-truth’ is another name for crazy.

Russian pipeline hackers claim they are apolitical

‘We are just ordinary criminals’, Russian group claims as Biden seeks alternative ways to deliver fossil fuel after key pipeline is disrupted.

Colonial pipeline hack claimed by Russian group DarkSide spurs emergency order from White House
The federal government issued a rare emergency declaration on Sunday after a cyberattack on a major U.S. pipeline choked the transportation of oil.

UK requires voter ID, limits postal votes

The voting reforms, which will also include a limit on the number of postal votes that can be handed in on behalf of others, are being justified by ministers as a way to reduce the risk of electoral fraud.

Guardian
Queen’s speech: voters will need photo ID for general elections
Government’s legislative agenda is unlikely to include long-awaited reforms to adult social care