JUST THE FACT THAT SOME SCHOOLS WANT TO IS A GREAT ARGUMENT FOR HOMESCHOOLING: Supreme Court will decide: Can schools mandate LGBT books?
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April 23, 2025
LEAD 60 MINUTES PRODUCER QUITS AFTER TURNING SHOW INTO PROPAGANDISTIC FILTH:
The lead producer for CBS’s “60 Minutes” resigned on Tuesday, saying he no longer had sufficient independence to run the program as he wanted.
“Over the past months, it has also become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it,” Bill Owens wrote in a memo to staff obtained by Fox News Digital.
“To make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience. So, having defended this show- and what we stand for – from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward.”
In other words, CBS informed Owens that he could no longer produce a weekly propaganda program on the national airwaves. So, he quit.
Owens has overseen the program since 2019. Perhaps no formerly respected news program has done more to undermine its reputation since, particularly over the past nine months.
Nine months? Not six decades? Forget it, he’s rolling.
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CNN “REPORTER” GETS A BRUTAL EXPLANATION FOR WHY NEW MEDIA IS REPLACING OLD GUARD AT THE WHITE HOUSE:
Notably, the guy asking this question is the same dude who sat down and yucked it up with Taylor Lorenz a week ago over a left-winger murdering a health insurance CEO.
The lack of self-awareness is stunning. https://t.co/7R70cLa7OH
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 23, 2025
Lack of self-awareness has long been de rigueur at CNN: Radical Chic, the Boy Band Era:
Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record:
I HAVE A NEW PIECE AT SRAH HOYT’S MAD GENIUS CLUB: Dare to be Bad.
AIN’T NO PARTY LIKE A CHIMP PARTY: Are these chimps having a fruity booze-up in the wild?
THE GREEN ERA IS ENDING:
Airbus has decided to halt the development of its hydrogen-powered “green” aircraft after spending nearly USD 2 billion on it pic.twitter.com/xThexViof8
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 22, 2025
To be fair, $2 billion is about 90% less than Airbus lost on the A380.
THE JOE BIDEN POST-PRESIDENTIAL PHOTOSHOP TOUR ROLLS ON! ‘But You Ain’t Got No Legs!’ Joe Biden Posts Earth Day Photo and We Have Many Questions.
First of all, no. The Biden administration didn’t ‘do both.’ It managed to set the American economy on fire in service of climate change boondoggles like the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’, which didn’t, in point of fact, accomplish anything for the environment. It just lined the pockets of the left’s political patrons at the expense of the American taxpayer.
But we all knew that already. The real question is: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH THIS PICTURE?
Is this another Photoshop? It sure looks that way.
Biden’s hapless Photoshop eunuch has proportioned Joe so that he looks the way Bruce Wayne was depicted in the 1990s Batman: The Animated Series cartoons:
Which seems odd, since we now know Batman’s secret identity, and it’s not Joe Biden:
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH RAHM EMANUEL IS A VOICE OF SANITY: ‘Total Bullsh*t!’: Podcaster Comes Completely Unglued When Rahm Emanuel Brushes Aside Trans Issues.
“That is such bullshit! That is total bullshit! That is buying into the right-wing media narrative and I’m so sick of Democrats like you selling out and saying this. You know who talks about trans people more than anybody? MAGA,” Welch said. “MAGA is the most genital-obsessed political party I have ever seen. [Former Vice President] Kamala Harris talked about homeownership. She talked about kitchen table issues. Trump’s over there droning on about Hannibal Lecter. Are you kidding me?”
“This is where the Democrats lose, because we’re playing the game with the rulebook — they’ve ripped the rulebook up and are cramming it down everybody’s throat. And Democrats are upset because [former President] Joe Biden pardoned his son?” she continued. “We gotta fucking fight! They’re the gender-obsessed weirdos, not us. We’re the ones who fight for Social Security. We fight for Medicare. And yeah, we’re not going to bully trans people. We’re not going to fucking do it. If you want to do it, fine.”
Emanuel touted his record as former Chicago mayor, saying in 2016 he “dealt with the bathroom issue.”
“It’s not my most important issue,” he said. “It was dealt with, and I appropriately dealt with [it], dealt with marriage equality, as I said.”
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“I have to live in a state where women rape victims can’t get an abortion because of this bullshit! And so I’m going to fight till the bitter end,” she added. “And I’m not going to let some MAGA moron define what progressive values are. And I think it’s a really dangerous precedent. Mr. Emanuel, I’m sorry, but I just — I have to push back. And I’m not some coastal elite liberal.”
Emanuel replied that she has the option to move to another state.
Heh. Federalism — it’s an idea so crazy, it just might work.
I FEEL CONFIDENT THE BIG GUY GOT HIS 10 PERCENT: Hunter Biden: Burisma’s Five Million Dollar Man.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: Scientists improve gravitational wave identification with machine learning.
CHANGE: New Poll Data Confirms the Democrats’ Worst Fears.
And that story doesn’t even mention this news:
YALE POLL…
Women, aged 18-21 (middle Gen Z):
🔴 R+4This is monumental.
This is madness for the Democrats.
Not white women. American women at-large, 18-21. All races, religions (or lack thereof), etc.
I think it might get worse.
BTW – this group was basically destroyed by…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 22, 2025
Democrats’ biggest supporters are now in the 70+ demographic.
TURNAROUND? Boeing to seek FAA approval this year to increase 737 Max production as losses narrow.
Boeing is preparing to ask for Federal Aviation Administration approval to ramp up production of its best-selling 737 Max jets to 42 a month later this year, CEO Kelly Ortberg said Wednesday, as airplane deliveries picked up this year and the company narrowed its losses.
Boeing reported a first-quarter net loss of $31 million, improvement from a loss of $355 million a year earlier, as revenue rose 18% to $19.5 billion, slightly ahead of analysts’ estimates.
The company’s cash burn of about $2.3 billion was an improvement over the nearly $4 billion it used in the first quarter of 2024, and was better than analysts expected.
“Less bad” isn’t the same as “good,” but it’s still a welcome improvement.
THEY’RE NOT UMPIRES CALLING BALLS AND STRIKES, THEY’RE BATTING FOR ONE TEAM: A Tale Of Two Shadow Dockets: The Supreme Court moves heaven and earth to block removal of alleged gang members who are almost certainly removable, but says nothing about Ohio initiative process being declared unconstitutional. “It is often said that the Supreme Court follows the headlines. To be clear, the Supreme Court follows the headlines of the mainstream media. There is a never-ending torrent of hottakes about a constitutional crisis. But most Americans will scratch their heads at this issue and wonder why the Supreme Court is giving so much attention to these alleged gang members.”
Yes, when John Roberts worries about the Court’s “legitimacy,” he means its legitimacy in the eyes of the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Washington Post, not in the eyes of the American people. Which is shortsighted, but so very on-brand.
SAVE THE EARTHLINGS FROM EARTH DAY:
Google up “Taihang mountains solar panels” to see multiple images of previously beautiful green hills in China now totally covered in black panels.
The material progress of our species is directly tied to increasing our energy density. Using much less of the Earth to get a whole lot more power from it is how we advance. Humans nearly hunted whales to extinction so we could obtain tiny trickles of oil from them, and we once deforested vast hunks of wilderness just to create fire.
Switching to land-devouring wind and solar energy would be a giant leap backward.
Nuclear power, America’s largest source of carbon-free electricity, is a functionally miraculous alternative. To get the energy embedded in 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas or 120 gallons of oil requires a uranium pellet no larger than the end of a small adult’s thumb. A nuclear power plant is almost as gentle on land use as a natural gas powerstation, but is the most reliable source of power we have and one of the safest.
But don’t attend Earth Day to hear this good news because the Earth Day Network hates nuclear power. In 2021 the nonprofit co-signed a letter sent to President Biden that made this request: “Phase out nuclear energy as an inherently dirty, dangerous and costly energy source.”
Last year’s Earth Day theme— “Planet vs Plastics”— also portrayed environmental progress as a problem. The Earth Day Network’s website for the event proclaimed they were “unwavering in our commitment to end plastics for the sake of human and planetary health.”
Trees, turtles, and elephants are just the start of a long list of creatures and resources that were once consumed with reckless abandon but are now conserved because we use plastic instead. Innumerable plastic health and safety devices save and prolong human lives every day. We waste less food, and pay less for it, because low-cost plastic keeps it fresh. Most household consumer products, from toothbrushes to televisions, are made with plastic.
More: Earth Day 2025: Our Power, Our Planet, Our Propaganda.
The leftist opposition to fossil fuels has nothing to do with environmental quality or climate issues or any of the other rationalizations repeated ad nauseam. It is instead a central component of the fundamental anti-human core of left-wing environmentalism, a stance that studiously ignores the relationship between fossil fuel use and human flourishing. In 1990, the late Alexander King, cofounder of the Club of Rome in 1968, argued in the context of the use of DDT to control malaria:
My own doubts came when DDT was introduced for civilian use. In Guyana, within two years it had almost eliminated malaria, but at the same time, the birth rate had doubled. … My chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it has greatly added to the population problem.
Tens or hundreds of millions of the world’s poor have died from malaria as a direct result of the multination ban on the use of DDT, driven by false assertions about its harmful effects on various bird species, promulgated from the very first Earth Day in 1970. Then there was the observation made in 1971 by Michael McClosky, the former executive director of the Sierra Club, during an Ethiopian famine:
The worst thing we could do is give aid…. the best thing would be to just let nature seek its own balance and to let the people there just starve.
For left-wing environmental ideologues, humans are nothing more than environmentally destructive mouths to feed without moral standing. (The Nazi term was “useless eaters.”) Nor, implicitly, do humans have the intelligence, inventiveness, and ingenuity to solve problems. Au contraire: Simply because of the laws of large numbers, some substantial numbers of people are and will be geniuses.
I return, as I have so many times, to the wisdom of Dogbert: “You can’t save the earth unless you’re willing to make other people sacrifice.” That is the true theme of all Earth Days, yesterday, today, tomorrow, and forever.
Related: Over 30 items here: Evidence that the climate scam is collapsing.
TURBIN TURNED IN: Dick Durbin, No. 2 Senate Democrat, Won’t Seek Reelection.
WELL, CERTAIN WHITE PEOPLE SPEND MORE TIME ON THAT THAN OTHERS: How White People Decide What’s Racist Or Sexist: An interview with sociologist Jessi Streib, who simply asked them. “It’s not just virtue signaling about their group, but because they know they’re part of this group, they know what they’re supposed to believe, and then they also come to actually believe it, often.”
DEAD PARTY WALKING: New Poll Data Confirms the Democrats’ Worst Fears.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Gov. Polis signs new restrictions on gun shows, ammunition sales into law.
Polis gave his pen to House Bill 25-1133, Requirements for Sales of Firearms Ammunition, and House Bill 25-1238, Gun Show Requirements.
Polis previously signed Senate Bill 25-003, creating a lengthy and expensive licensing system in order to purchase a wide-range of semi-automatic weapons.
HB 1133 would mandate retailers lock up all ammunition, meaning customers cannot serve themselves off the shelves, and prohibits the retail sale of ammunition to a person who is younger than 21 years of age, while HB 1238 would place onerous new barriers on federal firearms licensees (FFLs) that would drastically change the way vendors do business at Colorado gun shows, as well as who can access the events, respectively.
Ray Elliott, president of the Colorado State Shooting Association called it an escalation of the assault on Second Amendment rights.
“This legislative session, Democrats have unleashed a brazen attack on our freedoms, and the Colorado State Shooting Association (CSSA) is fighting back,” Elliott said in a news release “We will not stand for this betrayal of our constitutional protections, and we call on every patriot to join us in this battle for justice, and retribution.”
Over at Reason, Nick Gillespie is all-too-belatedly catching on to Polis’s scam self-ID as a “libertarian Democrat.”
‘THE CANCELING OF THE AMERICAN MIND’ PAPERBACK HITS SHELVES APRIL 29, AND AVAIL FOR PRE-ORDER TODAY: “A powerful and prescient book that is more relevant than ever.” — Steven Pinker.
BEFORE THAT, THEY FAWNED OVER STALIN AND MUSSOLINI: Larry David Mocks Trump As Hitler in the New York Times Now, but the Paper Fawned Over Adolf in 1933.
