I’m so old I can remember when the wacky Democrats self described as the “reality-based community.” Heh!

Every Senate Democrat votes against defining pregnancy as unique to biological females

The confusion between science and political science. Separately, both are fine. They cannot be mixed. They cannot be replaced one for the other.

‘Poor quality science’: Top epidemiologist rips CDC study on kids and long COVID

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky

Democrats, bureaucrats, and media have confused political science for science and replaced science. They identify a preferred outcome and then go searching for a scientific support. And search selectively until they find one.

Has any organization fallen farther and faster than the CDC?

Mark Robinson: “I don’t care what these communists say. I don’t care what these socialists say. I don’t care what these blue hair freaks say. America is still the greatest nation on Earth and it’s thanks to God.”

Mark Robinson: “We do not come from a weak, ineffective, jellyback people that when trouble happens we find a safe space. Americans stand up and fight for what they believe in.”

Trump dominates CPAC poll

“…President Trump won a comfortable majority of the vote in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) straw poll, maintaining his position as the favorite for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Organizers announced at CPAC’s convention in Texas that Trump won 69 percent of the vote, followed by Ron DeSantis with 24 percent. Trump expanded his lead from the last CPAC straw poll in February, when he received the support of 59 percent of voting attendees to DeSantis’ 28 percent.

Ted Cruz came in third place with 2 percent, while other choices received 1 percent support or less.

In a hypothetical poll without Trump in the race, DeSantis held the lead with 65 percent. Donald Trump Jr. came in second place with 8 percent, Cruz came in third with 6 percent…”

Actuarial data: U.S. life insurance companies see 40% death increase. What could that be about? Can you remember any big national thing in the last year or two?

Employment, teasing out the meaning…

EMPLOYMENT

“…The most obvious weirdness factor going into this recession is the still-strong employment data. Employers are hiring people faster than they are firing them, and many wish they could hire more. That doesn’t square with recessionary conditions.

This may be because the recession is still young. A reader sent me this chart in response to last week’s letter. It shows the unemployment rate with arrows pointing out a bottom just ahead of each recession (the shaded areas). . . .

The BLS switched to OER after the last inflationary surge in 1979–81; indeed, if inflation was calculated today like it was in 1981, we would already be solidly into double digits. Similarly, the BLS estimate of rental prices, rent of primary residence (RPR), is up a near-identical 7.1% in the last two years, while the CoreLogic Single-Family Rent Index is up twice that in the last year alone (and an astounding 41% in Miami!). The BLS uses survey data to gauge shelter inflation. Homeowners’ perceptions of their property rental values anchor on the past and only respond to soaring home prices slowly, gradually, and over several years. The one-third of CPI for shelter will be playing catch-up for some years to come. Empirically, most of that catch-up occurs over the subsequent two to three years. Note that this inflation has already happened; it simply hasn’t made its way into CPI quite yet…”

Peak woke stupidity? Do deeper levels of stupid exist? Is stupid specially concentrated in the Bay Area?

Protesters demand housing for homeless, block low-income housing project because it will displace homeless from the street

You will be made to pay…

Dems Poised To Make IRS Larger Than Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol Combined: Manchin-backed Inflation Reduction Act would more than double agency’s size

We need enforcement!

Current Border patrol agents: 19,536

Current IRS agents: 78,661

We need to double IRS agents!

Contrary to open records response, CDC pointed to myocarditis risk from vaccines as early as June 2021. Has any agency or institution fallen farther or faster than the CDC?

CDC admits goof on COVID vax link to heart inflammation in feds’ second recent FOIA botch

“…Federal public health bureaucracies are having a bad stretch in response to Freedom of Information Act requests related to COVID-19, first accidentally unmasking a National Institutes of Health official who deleted Chinese-submitted coronavirus data and now providing false information about the CDC’s knowledge of heart inflammation following vaccination.

The CDC admitted its goof after The Epoch Times reported that its FOIA response denied the agency had any reports from the “Myopericarditis abstraction team” in the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System between April 2 and Oct. 2, 2021.

During that period, “no abstractions were performed for myocarditis: an association between myocarditis and mRNA COVID-19 vaccination was not known at that time,” FOIA Officer Roger Andoh told reporter Zachary Stieber July 29. “Likewise, we have no reports during that period.”

CDC researchers highlighted the vaccine-heart inflammation link in a June 2021 “editorial” in the Journal of the American Medical Association Cardiology, citing the journal’s new published studies from Duke University Medical Center and the U.S. Military Health System and an earlier Pediatrics study led by Oregon Health and Science University researchers.

“During the clinical evaluations of these patients, alternative etiologies [causes] for myocarditis were not detected,” including COVID infection itself, the CDC researchers wrote. The typical presentation was “[a]cute onset of chest pain 3 to 5 days after vaccine administration, usually after a second dose,” a rare occurrence with other vaccines and “causally linked only with smallpox immunization.”

The editorial noted the CDC advisory committee met days earlier to discuss the observed post-vaccination myocarditis and discuss “a benefit-risk assessment of COVID-19 mRNA vaccination programs in adolescents and young adults.” The American Medical Association came out against mandates earlier that month, saying COVID vaccines should first receive “full approval.”

An agency spokeswoman conceded it needed to correct the FOIA response. “Additional data accumulated in subsequent months, ultimately leading to the conclusion that a causative association did indeed exist,” she told the Times. “However, such a conclusion required time to accumulate and analyze data.”

The agency didn’t respond to Just the News queries asking how common such errors are and whether they illustrate overworked FOIA officers or an understaffed operation…”

All of a sudden Covid rules change to help Democrats. Who could have predicted that would happen?

Tar, feathers, and run these green freaks out on rails

Radical Dutch farmers pledge ‘hardest action ever’ after nitrogen talks

“…Nevertheless, the government is sticking to its target of a 50% reduction in nitrogen-based emissions by 2030 in order to meet European environmental rules. Farming, mainly livestock, accounts for some 40% of nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands. Finance ministry calculations suggest 11,200 livestock farmers would have to close down and a further 17,600 would need to reduce the number of animals they keep in order to meet the targets. The Netherlands has some 54,000 farms…”

Stupidity.

The FBI has sounded the alarm about white supremacists and far-right extremists, but the bureau’s own Top 10 “most wanted domestic terrorists” list includes at least two Communists, three black nationalists, one anti-war activist, and a vegan eco-terrorist

Leftists Dominate FBI Top 10 Domestic Terror List, Despite Warnings About Far Right

Many on list are associated with a leftist group that bombed the Capitol in 1983. Democrats pardoned or commuted the sentences of non-fugitives tied to that group.

MAGA gown…

Another Covid dictator double vaxxed, double boosted, positive for Covid. Remind me again how important the vaccines are.

German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach tests positive

Doug Santo