Nature Retracts Study Predicting Global Economic Collapse from Climate Change

Unfortunately, the consensus among the professional hysteriacs is: global economic devastation...but not, y'know, collapse...and the authors apparently plan to resubmit a version more in line with that consensus.

   I don't believe such stuff anymore, of course.

   But my understanding of this issue is very tenuous, to say the lest.

   Mostly I'm just guessing on the basis of (a) the resemblance of this nonsense to other nonsense that I do understand and (b) the testimony of people like Judith Curry, Roger Pielke jr., and Bjorn Lomborg--who I trust.

   So don't listen to me on this, obvs.

The Truth About the Second Strike on the Drug Boat Begins to Emerge

Well, one thing we do know: you pretty much can't believe anything negative the Washington Post says about the Trump administration.

   Nevertheless, it does seem like a second drone strike was conducted, and it sounds like the intent was to kill the two survivors of the first strike. And they were out of the fight, clinging to wreckage.

   But it now sounds as if Hegseth did not specifically order that strike, and not for the reason in question.

   It still sounds like a war crime to me...or would...if this were a war...which...well...it doesn't sound like it is...

   I guess I'm going to have to--finally, reluctantly--start taking this stuff seriously.

   Let me go back to one of my very old gripes: 

   [1] Congress needs to start declaring wars again

   [2] We need to terminate the AUMF of 2001.

   Trump could still have ordered the initial strikes. But he couldn't just keep doing it without Congressional approval.

Google 'Chicxulub Crater'

 And you'll get a wee surprise.

Thunderbird F-16 Crashes Near China Lake, Pilot Ejected Safely

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Minnesota's Massive, Mostly-Somali, Welfare Fraud Scandal

Agreed.

   But it's not about people from "incompatible" cultures. It's about people from inferior, failed cultures and political systems who come here with defective beliefs, habits, sentiments and characters...and who often setting in enclaves where those things are less likely to be corrected via assimilation and more likely to generate inferior, criminal subcultures.

War Department: National Guardsmen in D.C. Now Armed

As they should have been from the beginning.

How the Formerly-Great American Political Science Review was Reduced to a Party Organ of Woketarian Feminism

This is what the left does: it takes over institutions and turns them into propaganda outlets and activist catspaws.

How many times are people going to see this happen before they all recognize that the PC left is the enemy of reason, of science, of liberalism...and, basically, of humanity.

Americans are Waking Up--Much of Higher Ed is Now a Scam

Absolutely agreed.

   The infusion of DEI into curricula is just one aspect of the problem. The bigger problem is the rampant spread of the worst parts of recent Continental philosophy through the curriculum--Foucault, Derrida, Critical Theory and all its sub-versions: critical race theory, science studies--in fact, x-studies for any value of 'x.' Radical feminism. Gender pseudoscience. "De-colonialism." And at the core of most of it: Marx and Freud. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Whatever there might be that's good in recent Continental philosophy, it's the intellectually shoddy and highly politicized stuff that spreads. Because it requires no actual thought and it's consistent with the irrationalist and leftist (but I repeat myself) sympathies of the faculty. It's the easiest thing in the world to make up a story about how something is secretly racist. It takes no actual knowledge and no actual thought. It's as easy as making up a story about your personal enemy's bad motives. Humans are very good at such bullshit. And that's basically what the infected areas of academia have been reduced to: sophomoric bullshit.

McCarthy: Hegseth Now Says He Didn't Order Drug Smugglers Who Survived Drone Strike Executed; It's A War Crime If He Did

This is something the righties don't want to talk about.

   Personally, I'm ok with striking the drug boats...but it sounds like "law" says it's "bad"...so I guess we're not "supposed" to "do it"...

   Seriously, of course: it its illegal, we shouldn't be doing it.

   Now, executing survivors who are hors de combat...that's some Nazi/Commie/Japanese-Empire shit right there. Hegseth strikes me has being in no way fit for the job anyway. If the accusation that he sent in the Seals to kill the survivors is true, he's toast. Or he should be. Though Trump would probably pardon him. 

   However: it's pretty damn unlikely that anyone ordered such a strike--and that no one in the chain of command objected to the clearly illegal order.

Geraghty: Trump's Hernandez Pardon is "Crazy"

To me, this pardon sounds absolutely batshit crazy.

The Administration has Now Canceled or Delayed Three Major Economic Reports

The jobs report, the BLS report on inflation, and now a GDP estimate.

Is there any possible justification for this?

Because, prima facie, this seems outrageous.

Carolina 19 - State 42 / 5 In A Row

The Belichick era at Carolina can't end fast enough if you ask me.