Not that much new, mostly more of the same, except that it turns out that the Jan 6th committee falsified evidence, adding screams and other sound effects to CCTV video that had no sound track.

The truth is just not in them.

In other news, from the Dominion suit, it turns out that Carlson hates Trump “passionately” and looks forward to the day we never have to discuss him again. The issue isn’t Trump, it’s the dishonesty of the Jan 6 Committee.

Source: Bacon’s Rebellion.

“Virginia’s Air Pollution Control Board is continuing through the necessary steps to repeal Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a regional compact that imposes an allowance cost (carbon tax) on fossil fuels used in generating electricity.”

I support withdrawal from RGGI. I believe the benefits are illusory and my electricity bill will go up.

https://tinyurl.com/yckfuvsh

“The passing of these laws signals the dawn of a new authoritarian age in the United States, where the state uses laws restricting speech to intimidate, bully and punish educators, forcing them to submit to the ideology of the dominant majority or lose their livelihoods, and even their freedom.” – Jason Stanley

The author puts CRT, Intersectionality, and Structural Racism – bugaboos for the “anti-woke” – into their actual and very valid context.

Source: Mises Institute.

A little scholarship on slavery for those who say the truth must be told.

It can be difficult to convey the notion that humanity or human nature tends to be persistent. It seems at present to be fashionable to assume that slavery made humanity nonexistent, as if the disgraceful institution were so thick and total that it completely pushed out friendship, love, family and community. The reality is more nuanced, both for the owners and the owned.

Carleson Jan 6 video shows the Committee lied

Nothing Carleson revealed makes the riot totally OK, but he has shown that the Jan 6 Committee grossly misrepresented what really happened.

Among other things, video shows the Shaman being escorted to the Senate chamber by Capitol police. It ss clear he is a performance artist, not the leader of an insurrection.

Other video shows Officer Sicknick well after the time he was supposedly gravely injured walking around clearly unharmed and unafraid. Electronic bookmarks show that the Committee staff had reviewed those videos, so they knew full well that attributing his death to the riot was a lie, they just hoped the videos would never get out.

Nothing in the videos indicates that the protestors did not break in and interfere in the proceedings, but the videos clearly show a protest that went too far and not an attempt at a violent insurrection.

Expect a lot of people who were bullied into plea bargains to appeal as it is very clear that exculpatory evidence was unlawfully and knowingly withheld.

Merchants and Customers Rejoice as EU Reduces Swipe Fees

This is sort of like pharmaceuticals. Credit card companies hit Americans hard because they can. EU now pays a fraction of what our merchants and ultimately customers pay to use a credit card. Do we really have a sign on our backs that say “kick me”?

https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/cpac-taste-the-sadness

THAT was fun!

https://tinyurl.com/3vb8bn4c

Isn’t it just terrible how Russia is under attack and has no choice but to invade its neighbors. They are such peace-loving peaceful. Look how peaceful it is in Chechnya. And, gosh, people even laugh when Foreign Secretary Lavrov tells the simple truth of how the war in the Ukraine was “launched against us.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/04/russia-sergei-lavrov-ukraine-war-india-conference

Donald Trump – who is still way ahead of Governor DeSantis in MAGA Presidential prefrence polling – took the opportunity of his speech as CPAC to promise martial law in DC and most other cities. Maybe those of you who balk at recognizing the fascist tendencies destroying the Republican Party will wake and smell the coffee. Probably not.

https://time.com/6260388/trump-cpac-cities-crime-washington/

It is sobering to contemplate that the effects of transgenderism can be seen statistically:

• Here, Reuters reports that new gender dysphoria diagnoses in U.S. patients ages 6-17 nearly tripled from 2017 to 2021
• Here, the CDC reports that “In 2021, 42% of high school students felt so sad or hopeless almost every day for at least two weeks in a row that they stopped doing their usual activities” (page 60)

To be clear, these two data points are used here to propose a hypothesis that transgenderism correlates with observed rates of mental illness in children. The correlation is not proved, nor if it were would we know the underlying cause.

But these caveats aside, one can understand why adults, especially parents, are concerned that media and academic attention to transgenderism may be harming children.