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When running against Donald Trump for president, Joe Biden often made the now-ironic charge that any president who has allowed so many deaths from COVID-19 should never be in the White House. Today, there are more deaths from COVID under Biden than under Trump -- and that is even with the vaccine. But it isn't just on health issues that Trump's presidency is looking so much better and competent in hindsight. Everywhere I go these days, people come up to me and say something like this: "I didn't like some of the things Trump said or the way he acted,...

Current market conditions, political pressures, and environmental compliance burdens have greatly reduced the amount of power that coal-fired plants produce annually. However, the greatest impact on coal-fired plants has been the resurgence of the American natural gas market, thus providing an abundant and cheap source of a cleaner-burning fuel. Couple this with the growing impact of renewable energy resources, such as wind and solar power, and it’s easy to understand why many coal-fired plants are struggling to stay in operation. The survival of coal-fired power plants demands that managers adapt and reinvent their industry. Units must be able to provide...

Instead, it’s the people’s cry about the failure of an entire administration. In a recent Salon article, Matthew Rozsa attempted to fold “Let’s go, Brandon,” into the long history of “insulting presidential nicknames.” Aside from telling the risible falsehood that NBC’s Kelli Stavast mistook a NASCAR’s quite clear chant of “F*** Joe Biden” for “Let’s Go, Brandon,” Rozsa would have us believe that this is just another derogatory insult directed solely at the president, irrespective of what he stood for. That seriously underestimates the broad reach of that slogan, born from a desperately unhappy year for Americans. In fact, “Let’s...

A QAnon conspiracy theorist from California who confessed to killing his two young children with a spearfishing gun in Mexico because they inherited “serpent DNA” from his wife has reportedly written a letter from jail begging for forgiveness. Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, of Santa Barbara, told federal investigators after being arrested at the border in August that he killed his 10-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son because they “were going to grow into monsters.” The surf school owner left his home without a car seat for the infant and took them to Rosarito, according to an FBI affidavit. He allegedly shot...

As this is my last column of 2021, I thought it would be worthwhile to review some of the most important observations I made over the course of an awful year. I hope you agree, and wish you -- and our country -- a happier New Year. JAN. 5: These past few years have taught me not to so quickly judge the quiet Germans, Russians, etc. Of course, I still judge Germans who helped the Nazis and Germans who in any way hurt Jews. But the Germans who did nothing? Not so fast. What has changed my thinking has been...

Central Michigan will now play Washington State in the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl on Friday, a move that allows both teams to play in a bowl game.Both teams lost opponents to COVID-19 issues. Miami withdrew from the Sun Bowl on Sunday, sending the bowl scrambling for an opponent for the Cougars. That spot was filled by the Chippewas after their scheduled opponent, Boise State, withdrew from the Barstool Arizona Bowl on Monday.

Tiangong, China's new space station, had to maneuver to avoid colliding with one Starlink satellite in July and with another in October, according to a note submitted by Beijing to the United Nations space agency this month...The note said the incidents "constituted dangers to the life or health of astronauts aboard the China Space Station."

Liberalism ruins everything, it really does. Think of something rotting with leftist smug and think about how it used to be, there’s no comparison. Movies used to be good, used to be interested in entertaining the audience. Now they beat you about the head and neck with some left-wing message, making the whole experience less appealing than self-dentistry (try watching “Don’t Look Up,” “Being the Riccardos,” or the new Matrix movie). Music isn’t about being good at writing and recording songs anymore, it’s about crap computer generated sounds, only semi-literate lyrics (emphasis on the “semi” part), and pandering to various...

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Until Omicron came along, the official response to Covid served as an instrument of class warfare against blue collar workers and small businesses, on behalf of the tech oligopolists and selected big businesses such as Target, which were deemed “essential.” Not coincidentally, blue collar workers and small businesses are the core of the GOP base, while Silicon Valley and the plutocracy are the cash cows and power base of the Democrats. But the Omicron Variant has – at least for now – turned that class dynamic on its head. Writing for the Brownstone Institute, Jeffrey A. Tucker explains: The initial...

Blah, blah, blah. (Sorry anyone who really believes this, can click on the link) Waiting for a Chinese version. Really.

Wuhan Flu COVID-19, Beta Variant, Delta Variant, Lambda Variant, Mu Variant, Omicron Variant…had enough yet? They just keep coming. And now “experts” are warning that a massive bird flu outbreak could be 2022’s deadly pandemic. Yes, scientists are now saying that a significant outbreak of bird flu in Israel’s Galilee could become a “mass disaster” for human beings, a global emergency. Though most strains of avian flu (H5N1) are not easily transmitted to people, the World Health Organization says the virus is deadly to those it does infect, killing over half of those who contract it. Israeli ornithologist Yossi Leshem...

There's an accident in the Oval Office. Not the kind of accident left on the rug in front of the Resolute Desk on a regular basis by the untrained, rowdy dogs the Biden's sicced on the unwitting White House staff and Secret Service. I'm talking about the man who sits behind the resolute desk for his daily naps. Joe Biden is the accidental president. He is the result of an accident of American politics. His presidency will not be remembered with an asterisk, as my friend and fellow Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter would say. No, it will be remembered... reviled......

The House of Representatives has passed a bill which seeks to eradicate blasphemy against Islam. The bill, H.R. 5665, is truly remarkable as it amounts to Congress making a law respecting the establishment of Islam and reducing the United States government into a tool of the world’s ayatollahs. The actual text of the bill not only seeks to eradicate blasphemy against Islam around the world – and solely against Islam at that – but even requires the federal government to reorganize some portions of the State Department along the lines of an Islamic religious institution which will be responsible for...

I'm signed up with a worldwide questions-and-answers board named Quora, which sends me daily digests of its content in the categories I've chosen: history, culture, and languages. Most of the time, the posts are informative and a pleasure to read, but once in a while, they seem to be designed by trolls with an agenda to sow discord in society, just like what the active measures were designed to do in the pre-internet era. That pretty much describes today's social media anyway — one has to take it or leave it. Today's digest contained just such a leading question with...

Late last week I wrote a nice moderate blog post on education, that included a roster of all the brilliant minds that have held forth on education from Aristotle to Mr. “Common School” Horace Mann to our own beloved Bill Gates. The very next day Curtis Yarvin wrote a similarly moderate post on his Gray Mirror Substack about “Retiring the university.” Said he: To a substantial extent, America is the university. A nation is its government; and America’s government is its university system. Sorry if this comes as news to you.If we are going to have regime change, he writes,...

The rumor that the Netflix film, Don’t Look Up, is an allegory about climate change is true. Writer/director Adam McKay, a self-declared democratic socialist and Bernie fan, has admitted as much. In fact, McKay calls climate change “the biggest story in 66 million years. It’s the biggest story in the history of upright apes.” That much acknowledged, my skeptical friends on the right have found the film much more amusing than those on the left. My only question is whether McKay is Bernie Bro’ enough to have intended that outcome. Spoiler alert: Don’t Look Up tells the story of a...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. "What commandment is the foremost of all?" Jesus answered, "The foremost is, ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; and you...

housands of flights were delayed or canceled on multiple airlines across the United States over the holiday weekend, leaving thousands of travelers frustrated and stranded, according to FlightAware. Sunday saw a total of 5,936 delays and 1,387 cancellations of flights within, or out of the United States on Sunday. United, Delta, and JetBlue blamed the flight disruptions on staff shortages due the highly transmissible Omicron variant, US News reported. United had a particularly bad weekend, cancelling “201 flights on Friday, representing 10 percent of its total schedule, and 238 flights on Saturday, representing 12 percent of its schedule,” according to...

The NFL reported 106 players going on the COVID list across the league Monday, roughly doubling the previous single-day league record. According to NFL Network, all were from positive tests, with 96 of those positives coming Monday.... ....The Jets are among many teams that have been hit hard, with more than 20 players on the list. Two more were added Monday: cornerback Bryce Hall and tight end Tyler Kroft. Big names across the league were added to the COVID list Monday, including Titans receiver Julio Jones and Patriots....