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Being woke is very exhausting. Mining everything for racial and social justice outrages means making dumb mistakes and then having to invent even dumber new premises to justify them. Like black blackface. This week, an ASU instructor, and a librarian, who hold themselves out as being Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) gurus, falsely accused a…

An important piece of subtext for the radical COVID control policies we’re seeing on display in Shanghai and elsewhere in Communist China. China’s leaders have said that the country, unlike most of the rest of the world, cannot afford to live with the virus because it has a large and vulnerable aging population.  I’ve explored…

The debate about the homeless crisis is really a debate about the nature of homelessness which, as facts have repeatedly shown, is a case of mentally ill and drug-addicted vagrants whose presence on the streets has been enabled by the homeless-industrial complex. Despite that most of the LA mayoral candidates promise to fix the homeless…

It’s sad when friends fight. Also entirely deserved. Pakistan’s intel people and regime are the major backers of the Taliban. They also helped shield Al Qaeda and other Taliban allies. But there are the “good Taliban” in Afghanistan and the “bad Taliban” in Afghanistan. Like most Islamist regimes, the Pakis are enthusiastic about Jihad… somewhere…

Deep thoughts. America has inflated away $2.7 trillion of its national debt in the 14 months since President Biden took office. Why it matters: If you want to find a silver lining in the latest inflation data, look to that fact that despite all his new spending programs, Biden has presided over a national debt that…

Remember the VA waiting list scandals under Obama. They’re back under his veep. Or more accurately they never really left.  Biden decided to appoint Denis McDonough, an Obama aide, to head Veteran Affairs and things are going well. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough acknowledged that he is “frustrated” with inconsistency in how medical appointment wait time data is…