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“A conviction would have also set the stage for a vote to bar him from serving in public office again.” The outcome leaves the populist forces in the field and the old GOP party in the dust.

Up next: the battle to define conservative politics as Biden faces a new world.

Donald Trump acquitted of incitement of insurrection in second Senate impeachment trial

The US Senate votes to acquit former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, with less than two thirds of senators finding him guilty of incitement of insurrection.

It’s abandon ship at the Lincoln Project. The worst lies are those we make up and come to believe ourselves.

Cuomo And The Lincoln Project Are Media-Created Monsters

A culture of impunity led media to celebrate a governor who presided over a cover-up of nursing-home carnage and boost a GOP group now engulfed in scandal.

The mutating virus is in an evolutionary race with politicians and public health authorities. How long did it take them to win the Cold War or War on Terror again?

Biden tells Americans to wear masks for COVID-19 until at least 2022

President Biden on Thursday stressed the importance of wearing masks until at least 2022 to save lives — despite declaring the US will have enough supply of vaccines by the summer to inoculate 300 …

Ben Shapiro expresses disappointment at all the bombshell scoops — Cuomo, Hunter Biden, the Lincoln Project — that the press just missed exposing presumably due to bad luck.

The reason people hang on is they still have hope. Do you think hope will get you anywhere?

Cuomo aide apologizes to lawmakers for withholding COVID-19 death toll in New York nursing homes

A senior aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo apologized to state lawmakers this week for the governor’s office withholding requested data showing the death toll in nursing homes from COVID-19, according to transcripts of the conversation published by local media.

As it would undermine their moral standing.

Cuomo aide admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn’t find out

Governor Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fea…

Canceling people in Woke outrage is a big fad now. Often the canceled — their careers gone, exile affirmed — complain it isn’t fair. But fair’s got nothing to do with it. It isn’t reasonable to expect ‘fairness’, ‘reciprocity’ or ‘tolerance’ from left wing or Woke media outlets or platform. One cannot count on the kindness of an avowed foe. To rely upon it is a confession of mental weakness.

Probe ground rules stipulated in advance China would not be blamed. Imported frozen food or wildlife or undetected previous disease may be to blame.

The rise of the global China class.

The Thirty Tyrants

The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta

China is waging a subtle war against an island neighbour, deploying a rather unusual tactic as it looks to expand its regional empire.

Its latest weapon? Sand…

Satellite images reveal China’s unusual weapon amid Taiwan tensions

China is waging a subtle war against its island neighbour – deploying an unusual tactic as it looks to expand its regional empire.

Although China is a formidable geopolitical rival it is not ten feet tall. It’s birthrate continues to fall to record levels despite the Party’s reversal of the One Child policy. Compared to the Quad alliance …

Chinese birth rate falls to lowest in seven decades

At the same time, China’s population hit 1.4 billion in 2019 – but the gender imbalance remains.

I was interviewed by Steve Bannon on War Room on my recent piece Bandwagon of Perdition. My segment starts at about 26:50

Episode 715 – A Serious Joke (w/ Jack Posobiec, Boris Epshteyn, Dr. Peter Navarro, Richard Fernandez, Amanda Shea)

“They are using scientism against you.” Our guests are: Jack Posobiec, Boris Epshteyn, Dr. Peter Navarro, Richard Fernandez, Amanda Shea Stay ahead of the

Charles de Gaulle when asked by a journalist if ‘he was happy’ retorted “What do you take me for, an idiot?” For some people neighborliness is just plain irksome.

Do you really want to help people or just enjoy sitting in judgment of others? This is the dilemma of the virtuous. Nothing is more ensnaring than the temptation of knowing you are better than others for it is the key to power. The churches were meant to be full of sinners while the halls of authority are reserved for those without need of forgiveness. The secret to modern virtue is knowing that no one can forgive.

LA Times Editor Has a Real Problem With Her Nice, Helpful Trump-Supporting Neighbors

What does an editor at one of the nation’s largest newspapers really think about fellow Americans who happen to disagree with her politics? One LA Times opinion editor helpfully tells all in a p…

Is war making a comeback in the Middle East? What about the Pacific? One of the two things the pandemic did was weaken great powers across the board. The other was it destabilized countries and power blocs internally. The former lessens the danger of deliberate conflict; the latter increases it. The question is whether and to what extent this internal disquiet will overflow into external miscalculation.

We spent 4 years of the Trump administration listening to media warnings of a war that never came. One never knows what tomorrow brings, especially in the middle of a paradigm shift, especially under an administration using yesterday’s calculus. The intifada was once dead — then it came back to life.

Biden’s Drive to War in the Middle East – CarolineGlick.com

President Joe Biden’s Iran policy was conceived and is being implemented by the same people who negotiated the JCPOA under Obama, who argued in favor of empowering Iran.

“China’s record aluminium output last year emitted more C02 than some entire countries, including Indonesia and Brazil,” says Reuters. Maybe the West should shut more of their economies down in order to shame China into compliance. Or it could develop cheap nuclear power and outcompete their “inefficient coal plants”.

China aluminium sector must shut inefficient coal power to meet climate goals – report

China’s aluminium sector must shut dedicated power capacity equivalent to more than Germany’s entire coal fleet over the next decade to keep Beijing on track to meet its carbon pledges, climate think tank Ember says.

Politics ought to be decided on policy and performance. Virtue signaling was always a pretty phoney basis for choosing public positions.

Lincoln Project co-founder Jennifer Horn quits anti-Trump super PAC

Jennifer Horn (left), ex-head of the New Hampshire Republican Party, quit the Lincoln Project on Friday citing allegations against ex-GOP political adviser John Weaver (right).

The Bandwagon of Perdition

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” ― Mark Twain

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