As we reflect on our childhood, we may wonder how we managed to survive. Growing up in the 1970s, things were more relaxed. Our parents never forced us to wear seatbelts, we ate whatever we wanted, and were given more responsibility than we should have had. It’s a little sad that kids today won’t get to experience half the things we did, but looking back, we can appreciate the strength and resilience we developed as a result of those experiences.

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Steve Orlando, the writer of Scarlet Witch, has expressed concern over the sales of the series

Boo hoo, this poor writer is currently employed by Marvel. This is a common tactic used by specific individuals with liberal views. They misuse the power given to them by others to disseminate low-quality content to the public.  However, if he truly values his artistic integrity and independence, he should consider branching out and creating his comic series. He needs to avoid incorporating any political agendas into his work, as this could alienate potential readers. Rather than relying on established superhero characters, he should take inspiration from the success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.  At one time, they were relatively unknown before becoming a sensation. With Marvel's recent trend of altering character genders, there's an opportunity for him to establish himself without facing intense competition. It's time for him to stop complaining and take a bold step towards creative freedom.

I'm sorry to say that these companies, which were once revered, have now transformed into massive entities that seek to negatively impact and manipulate the youth.  Burn baby burn!

Read the full article at: boundingintocomics.com

Being compared to Warren Buffett is seen as a compliment, but it can also be seen as a curse.

The root of the curse may lie in the fact that Warren Buffett displays legendary patience to let his investments mature and compound for years, a trait that is hard to come by in a frenetic market full of FOMO.  When someone like Sam Bankman-Fried shows up and starts building a multi-billion dollar fortune in a short period through crypto, what can go wrong?

How the media created the myth of Sam Bankman-Fried

Over the past two years, Bankman-Fried cultivated the media lavishly, if not carefully. Drawing on what then seemed like an unlimited pool of cash, SBF (as we’ll call the mythologized version of the real person) dispersed investments, advertising dollars, sponsorships, and donations to key news outlets—including ProPublica, Vox, Semafor, and The Intercept—with extraordinary effectiveness.

Read the full article at: www.tabletmag.com

If we make sure that no one is better than anyone else at anything, then we lose the gift of genius among us.

The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

Read the full article at: chroniclesmagazine.org

A Chicago mother, Jeannette Cooper, has lost custody of her daughter Sophia for refusing to affirm her child's transgender identity.

“People who are imprisoned have more communication with their child than I do,” Cooper lamented, grieving the fact she missed her daughter’s 13th, 14th, and 15th birthdays and will soon miss her 16th.

Since 2019, Jeannette Cooper’s then-12-year-old daughter Sophia has identified as a transgender male — a decision she announced when she arrived at her father’s house, unbeknownst to her mother.

Read the full article at: www.faithwire.com

Of course, the term “colonization,” very popular in the realm of critical studies, makes it all sound much more dramatic.

“[M]ost rich white countries, including Australia, are doing little to properly address this inequity,” Fitz-Henry writes. “For the most part, they refuse to accept the climate debt they owe to poorer countries and communities […] this injustice – a type of ‘atmospheric colonization’ – is a form of deeply entrenched colonial racism that arguably represents the most pressing global equity issue of our time.”

Fitz-Henry says a global temperature increase of two degrees Celsius would threaten over 50 percent of Africa with “undernourishment” — despite the continent contributing very little to global warming.

Read the full article at: www.thecollegefix.com

The Supreme Court has sided with states’ rights, effectively overruling Roe v. Wade and returning the issue of legalized abortion to state legislatures for decision-making purposes.

The Supreme Court has finally spoken up on the much-debated topic of abortion, holding in favor of states' rights. The decision will surely affect future legislation and lawmaking across America as it returns this important issue back into state hands where they belong!

Read the full article at: www.foxnews.com

The mayor of St. Paul is desperately seeking to limit the damage of a rent control policy he supported.

When St. Paul’s rent control ballot measure passed in November, it contained a unique provision for national rent control policies: there was no exception for new housing construction. Typically, in order to make sure that new homes still get financed and built, rent control policies only apply to older apartments, either exempting buildings for a certain period of time or only including buildings built before a certain date. The policy laid out in the St. Paul referendum had no such exception.

With the passage of the rent control ordinance, there’s now a useful real-world experiment taking place. Was the conventional wisdom true that rent control would reduce housing construction, and if so, to what degree? Or is it possible to apply rent control to new housing without impacting the new apartments that cities like St. Paul need?

Read the full article at: www.intellectualtakeout.org

Internet trolls and white supremacy groups have tried to turn the OK sign into a symbol of white power, claiming the three fingers up form a W and the circle

Read the full article at: journalstar.com

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Over the past week, after a blog post I made about how Joe Rogan was disrupting the mainstream media, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by former Fox Houston newswoman Ivory Hecker about what the future of the mainstream media looks like.

You may remember Ivory as the woman who was fired after interrupting a live, on-air weather report this past summer to claim that Fox was “muzzling” her, before turning over her evidence to Project Veritas.

for bringing up hydroxychloroquine during an interview and that Fox 26’s Sales Coordinator “admitted on tape that the CDC is heavily influencing stations such as theirs due to the amount of money they are pouring into ad campaigns – and how that, in turn, affects the network’s coverage of major health issues.”

Suffice to say, I had no trouble seeing why Hecker took interest in my recent campaign against the mainstream media.

My interview with Ivory was prompted by an article I wrote called “The Mainstream Media Is Losing The Fight Of Its Life...All Thanks To Joe Rogan”.

In that article, I described why I was expecting one of the largest mainstream media pivots in history in 2022, catalyzed by capitalism and common sense. I wrote about why Joe Rogan leading the pack would force changes throughout the industry and why I thought the media’s narrative on Covid would have to change in 2022.

In short, I believe the legacy media must change:

1. Due to capitalism. They are going to have to adapt their business models or they will become money-losing, financially failing enterprises.

2. To respond to continued outrage from both sides of the aisle being stripped of hearing both sides of the story. All Joe Rogan does is allow the other side of the story to present their case - he rarely argues how people should think. Instead, he just gives them a chance to consider all the potential facts available.

3. If they (the mainstream media) want their candidates (Democrats) to have any chance in hell of even showing up at mid-terms this year. As I wrote in November, the recent blowout in Virginia, which quickly turned red and elected Glenn Youngkin after being in favor of Biden during the Presidential election, could wind up becoming the trend nationwide during mid-terms.

Read the full article at: www.zerohedge.com

Bucho Thoughts:  For the past two years, I've been observing people around me are being hypnotized. I've been seeing it with the public, family members, and friends. The mainstream media constantly echo the government's talking points about the pandemic to flip their point of view. And I'm tired of what the so-called authorities and the media are doing to the people. This is pure depravity. A tiny number of sociopaths run the world, and it's time people wake up and realize there are far more of us than there are of them.

The paper’s author Ross Mittaga, calls for “authoritarian environmentalism” to address the alleged climate “emergency.” : “It is ultimately an empirical question whether authoritarian governance is better able to realize desired environmental outcomes and, if so why and to what extent? Yet, it is undeniable that nearly all wealthy democratic states have failed to respond adequately to the climate crisis. By contrast, various less affluent authoritarian regimes have been successful in implementing stringent climate policies…”  

Read the full article at: www.climatedepot.com

“Most people read about Ukraine everyday in the press but don’t know that this is even happening,” Tankian says of the Nagorno-Karabagh crisis. “[Ukrainian president] Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Twitter praised Azerbaijan and their corrupt, fascist dictatorial leader Ilham Aliyev for helping Ukraine with energy supplies. So be it, but at the same time, the same dictatorial leader has put a chokehold on these people in Armenia and has invaded our proper, United Nations-recognized territories. He’s taken about 150 kilometers and his soldiers aren’t backing up. We’re being hypocritical as an international community, because we can’t sacrifice one country for another. It’s not right.”

Let us offer prayers for our Christian brothers and sisters from Armenia

It is truly heart-wrenching to witness the unfolding situation in Armenia, particularly as an American Catholic. This country holds a rich and remarkable Christian heritage dating back to ancient times.

Thaddeus, one of the apostles, journeyed to Armenia around 43 AD to spread the teachings of Christianity. Alas, he met his martyrdom in southeastern Armenia. Today, his tomb rests in the Armenian monastery of St. Thaddeus (located in Iran), where a chapel was constructed in the third century. Bartholomew, another apostle, is said to have arrived in Armenia around 66 AD before facing martyrdom in Hadamakert, southeast of Lake Van.

Armenia, despite its significant historical and cultural contributions, is often overlooked due to its small size. Yet, the struggles endured by this nation must not be ignored.

The devastation of this ancient Armenian territory, encompassing some of the oldest Christian monuments in existence, should ignite the fury of the entire Christian world. The League of Nations formally recognized Artsakh as part of Armenia in 1920, and it was included within the borders of Wilsonian Armenia. However, the influence of Russia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan's Western culture led to their combined invasion of Artsakh in 1920, with the intention of dividing its lands. As a result, Artsakh was forcibly separated from Armenia and assigned to SSR Azerbaijan. In defiant response to this injustice, Artsakh declared independence in 1991. It is imperative that America and other Western nations take immediate action to prevent this ongoing genocide and halt further encroachment upon Armenian territories.

The suffering that has been endured in the Nagorno-Karabagh Humanitarian Crisis is unprecedented and it is our duty as Christians of the world to stand together and support those affected by the conflict. Though it may seem an insurmountable task, we can make a difference with concerted action. Every little bit counts when it comes to providing aid and comfort to a community dealing with such immense loss. Our airwaves are filled with news of reports of pandemic food shortages, displaced civilians, and violence. The Christian people of Armenia are especially vulnerable given their religion alone.  More must be done to end the blockade that separates the humanitarian aid from getting to those that need it most desperately. So take a moment and pray for all those affected by this horrific conflict; pray for their healing and restoration for their lives Intercede on their behalf with whatever means possible. Offer up your voice and compassion, collectively speaking up for peace resolution in Armenia.

It is disheartening to know that the government of Armenia has not officially recognized the sovereignty of Artsakh, and their recent suggestions of recognizing the region as part of Azerbaijan have caused outrage among the people of Nagorno-Karabakh. However, amidst all the political issues, it is the innocent people who are suffering the most, and unfortunately, there seems to be no one coming forward to help them. It is perplexing to see billions of funds being given to Ukraine, but what about the people of Artsakh? It is high time that we address this issue and extend our support to those who are in dire need of it.

Read the full article at: www.spin.com

Teenage Girl Tearfully Recounts Trauma of Witnessing Trans Woman’s Penis in Women’s Changing Room at California YMCA, Claims Staff Discouraged Her from Speaking Out

Looking for a safe place to change? Not at a YMCA in California, apparently!

A teenage girl in California has recounted her traumatic experience of seeing a trans woman's penis while using the women's changing room at the YMCA. Despite showing tears, she says staff attempted to discourage any attempts to speak out about it. It is yet another heart-breaking reminder that transgender people can face dehumanizing experiences even when they are just trying to be themselves and use basic facilities with dignity intact.

Read the full article at: frischreport.com

Chemist describes 'an atmosphere of ideological control, omnipresence of ideology.'

Self-censorship, which Krylov (pictured) defines as “the refusal to produce, distribute, circulate or express something for fear of punishment,” is a second pandemic in American universities, she wrote.

“When I choose not to say in a faculty meeting that considering only diversity candidates for a faculty search is discriminatory because I am afraid of being ostracized, or worse — that is self-censorship,” Krylov wrote.

“This fear is experienced at all career stages from graduate student to emeritus faculty,” and it is rational, she continued. The stories of Dorian Abbot and many other canceled professors who refused to self-censor demonstrate that academics have good reason to fear dissent on diversity issues.

Even more, polls and surveys indicate high levels of self-censorship, even when the topic is not specified, Krylov wrote.

Read the full article at: www.thecollegefix.com

In separate – and far more provocative -comments made earlier in the day during a JPMorgan investor seminar where he led a fireside chat moderated by JPMorgan’s Gergana Thiel, Dimon made some extremely outspoken comments which, however, you won’t hear on the mainstream media, telling a small group of listeners that was closed to the press that the “President of the United States needs to stand up and say we may not meet our 2050 climate objectives because this is a fucking war”.

He also said “time to stop going hat in hand to Venezuela and Saudi and start pumping more oil & gas in the USA”

Read the full article at: www.oilandgas360.com

The 'conscious capitalism' innovator on overregulation, COVID mandates, and why he will be speaking his mind much more freely when he retires.

"They're marching through the institutions. They're…taking over education. It looks like they've taken over a lot of the corporations. It looks like they've taken over the military. And it's just continuing. You know, I'm a capitalist at heart, and I believe in liberty and capitalism. Those are my twin values. And I feel like, you know, with the way freedom of speech is today, the movement on gun control, a lot of the liberties that I've taken for granted most of my life, I think, are under threat."

Read the full article at: reason.com

A few days ago, I penned an irritated tweet in response to one of the latest happenings on the increasingly heated culture war front in response to the decision of an actress (actor) named Ellen (Elliot) Page. I am employing this awkward and impossible multiple-naming style because it is now apparently mandatory — and probably doing it wrong, nonetheless, as “you’re doing it wrong” is the whole point of what has been made mandatory — but also to make a point.

I have essentially been banned from Twitter as a consequence. I say banned, although technically I have been suspended. But the suspension will not be lifted unless I delete the “hateful” tweet in question, and I would rather die than do that. And hopefully it will not come to that, although who the hell knows in these increasingly strange days?

Read the full article at: www.dailywire.com

A Norwegian feminist could be facing up to three years in prison for allegedly “hateful” tweets directed at a male who claims to be a lesbian woman. Christina Ellingsen, a representative of feminist organization Women’s Declaration International (WDI) is being investigated under hate crime charges for tweets she made between February 2021 and January 2022. […]

Read the full article at: reduxx.info

A development in the infamous laptop story further proves the "Russian Disinformation" tale was itself disinformation, shaming a herd of craven media stenographers

Burying the lede just a bit, the New York Times on March 16th published a long, spirited piece about the federal tax investigation of Hunter Biden. This is the 24th paragraph:

People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.

In confirming that federal prosecutors are treating as “authenticated” the Biden emails, the Times story applies the final dollop of clown makeup to Wolf Blitzer, Lesley Stahl, Christiane Amanpour, Brian Stelter, and countless other hapless media stooges, many starring in Matt Orfalea’s damning montage above (the Hunter half-laugh is classic, by the way). All cooperated with intelligence officials to dismiss a damaging story about Biden’s abandoned laptop and his dealings with the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma as “Russian disinformation.” They tossed in terms thought up for them by spooks as if they were their own thoughts, using words like “obviously” and “classic” and “textbook” to describe “the playbook of Russian disinformation,” in what itself was and still is a wildly successful disinformation campaign, one begun well before the much-derided (and initially censored) New York Post exposé on the topic from October of 2020.

Not to be petty, but — well, yes, let’s be petty, just a little, and point out that many of the people who were the most pompous about this story turned out to be the most wrong, including the conga line of Intercept editors and staffers who essentially knocked Glenn Greenwald all the way to Substack over the issue. 

Read the full article at: taibbi.substack.com

Ethanol is worse than gasoline for climate

A new study could deliver a death blow to E85 ethanol fuels. It estimates corn-based ethanol actually is at least 24% more carbon-intensive than gasoline. Find out more at TheDetroitBureau.com.

Missing the mark

They also invested in alternative sources, such as cellulosic, which were intended to produce ethanol from waste products ranging from agricultural scraps to recycled paper.

“This is absolutely critical to our future,” said then-GM President Fritz Henderson in 2008, following the automaker’s investment in Coskata, an Illinois cellulosic alcohol startup. “It is in our economic self-interest for these companies to succeed.”

But that technology never lived up to its billing and dependence upon corn-based ethanol grew rapidly. Between 2008 and 2016, the new study noted, the farmland in the U.S. devoted to providing corn for alcohol grew by 6.9 million acres.

I remember all the talk about biofuels and how they were better for the climate and would ease fuel costs. It was also assumed that biofuels would be coming from agricultural waste and other woody material.  Not so much.  Corn, soybeans and wheat account for around 70% of the dollar value of US agriculture each year.  When the mandates for biofuel became more prominent in 2011, costs for cattle feed, bread and cake flour increased. So food costs went up.  And....gas prices went up.  And, we were using 40% of our corn production for biofuel.  Using our crops to power our cars rather than feeding our children and the millions of starving populations around the world remains another stain on the "green" sycophants.

Our tax dollars subsidized corn growers and ethanol refiners to produce a product we were forced to purchase. That delivers less energy for our money, adds water to our gas tanks, increases food prices, and degrades the environment.  Meanwhile, politicians and special interests still won.

Read the full article at: www.thedetroitbureau.com

My daughter was an ultrafeminine girl since birth. She insisted that her room be painted pink, and she refused to wear anything but dresses until third grade. She avoided her older brother’s toys and sports, choosing tea sets and Shopkins, a series of tiny, collectible toys.

Her favorite activity was to slip into my closet and don my few sparkly clothes and shiniest of heels. She rejected sports in favor of art and sewing.

That all abruptly changed when she turned 12. As her body matured into young womanhood, she stopped begging for a bikini and avoided any clothing that accentuated her figure. She hid her breasts under men’s extra-large sweatshirts.

I remembered doing similar things as my body changed, so I didn’t worry at first.

Then, my daughter immersed herself into anime art and cosplaying, the hobby of dressing like fantastical characters. I supported her creative side.

I didn’t know that anime and cosplaying can overwhelm a young mind. I didn’t know that anime and cosplaying involved gender-bending themes and that the community crosses into pedophilic and sexual themes.

I also didn’t know that the older cosplay community groomed the younger cohorts. 

Read the full article at: www.dailysignal.com

When I saw the left give up everything I believe in, I changed politically. You can too.

or many years—most of my politically cognizant life, in fact—I felt secure in my politics. Truth and justice, I believed, leaned leftward. If you were some version of a decent human being, you cared about those less fortunate than you, which meant that you supported a whole host of measures designed to even the playing field a little. Sometimes, these measures had unintended consequences (see under: Stalin, Josef), but that wasn’t reason enough to despair of the long march to equality. Besides, there was hardly an alternative: On the other end of the political transom lurked despicable creeps, right-wing orcs who either cared for nothing but their own petty financial interests or, worse, pined for benighted isms that preached prejudice and hate. We were on the right side of history. We were the people. We were the ones giving peace a chance. And, no matter the present, we were always the future.

This belief carried me through high school, and a brief stint in a socialist youth movement. It accelerated me in college, sending me anywhere from joint marches with Palestinians to a two-week hunger strike in Jerusalem trying (and failing) to lower tuition for underprivileged students. It pulled me to New York, to Columbia University, to more left-wing politics and activism and raging against Republicans whose agenda, especially in the 2000s, seemed like nothing more than greed and war.

And it wasn’t just an ideology, some abstract set of convictions that were accessible only through cracking open dusty old books. It was the animating spirit of life itself: The dinner parties I attended on the Upper West Side required dismissive comments on President Bush just as much as they did a bit of wine to make the evening bright, and there was no faster or surer way to signal to a new acquaintance that you were a kindred spirit than praising the latest Times editorial. It wasn’t performative, exactly. At least, it felt real enough, the reverent rites of a good group of people protecting itself against the bad guys.

I embraced my people, and my people embraced me. They gave me everything I had always imagined I wanted: a Ph.D. from an Ivy League university; a professorship at NYU, complete with a roomy office overlooking Washington Square Park; book deals; columns in smart little publications; invitations to the sort of soirees where you could find yourself seated next to Salman Rushdie or Susan Sontag or any number of the men and women you grew up reading and admiring. The list goes on. Life was good. I was grateful.

And then came The Turn. If you’ve lived through it yourself, you know that The Turn doesn’t happen overnight, that it isn’t easily distilled into one dramatic breakdown moment, that it happens hazily and over time—first a twitch, then a few more, stretching into a gnawing discomfort and then, eventually, a sense of panic.

You may be among the increasing numbers of people going through The Turn right now. Having lived through the turmoil of the last half decade—through the years of MAGA and antifa and rampant identity politics and, most dramatically, the global turmoil caused by COVID-19—more and more of us feel absolutely and irreparably politically homeless. Instinctively, we looked to the Democratic Party, the only home we and our parents and their parents before them had ever known or seriously considered. But what we saw there—and in the newspapers we used to read, and in the schools whose admission letters once made us so proud—was terrifying. However we tried to explain what was happening on “the left,” it was hard to convince ourselves that it was right, or that it was something we still truly believed in. That is what The Turn is about.

Read the full article at: www.tabletmag.com