Transfigurations: A Reckoning Approaches: Goodbye, 2023; Hello, 2024; The Corruption of Everything...more

A Reckoning Approaches: Goodbye, 2023; Hello, 2024. How to sum up 2023? Pondering the year gone by, I’m aware of having frequently experienced a sense that America, and to some extent the world, was approaching a day of reckoning – a sense that events on a wide variety of fronts were advancing toward a decisive climax of a yet indeterminate nature. Another way to put this is to say that it was the year in which the enemies of freedom began to practice their perfidy with unprecedented aggressiveness and to purvey their preposterous narrative with a new degree of reckless abandon – even as that perfidy became more transparent to the average American citizen and the narrative seemed to take significant steps toward collapsing.

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The Pitfalls of Benevolence: Unpacking the Toxic Mix of Universal Good Intentions and Political Correctness in the New Year Alas, the result is not paradise but a campaign to legislate virtue, to curtail eccentricity, to smother individuality, and to barter truth for the current moral or political enthusiasm. For centuries, political philosophers have understood that the lust for equality is the enemy of freedom. That species of benevolence underwrote the tragedy of Communist tyranny. The rise of political correctness has redistributed that lust over a new roster of issues: not the proletariat, but the environment, not the struggling masses, but “reproductive freedom,” gay rights, the welfare state, the Third World, diversity training, and an end to racism and xenophobia.

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The Corruption of Everything As we survey the American landscape, we cannot help but notice that just about everything has been corrupted by the left.

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M7.6 quake rocks central Japan, triggers major tsunami alert and fire An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 rocked a wide area on the Sea of Japan coast Monday, triggering a major tsunami alert and fire in the central prefecture of Ishikawa, with at least two people feared dead and crimping the festive mood of New Year celebrations nationwide.

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The One Simple Reason Electric Vehicles Are Doomed To Fail So, all cars will eventually cost you or your insurance company big money to repair — no one is saying that’s unique to EVs. But where EVs are concerned, it’s the magnitude of the price for replacing a damaged or worn-out battery that is often quite eye-popping.

I wrote a story in September about a fellow in the U.S. deciding to junk his paid-off EV when he got an estimate of $30k to replace his battery. We now see frequent reports that auto insurance companies are charging higher rates for EVs than for comparable ICE cars due in large part to this extravagant battery replacement cost.

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Fauci’s COVID Boss, NIH Chief Francis Collins, Confesses Lockdown Damage Was ‘Another Mistake We Made’ “Doesn’t matter what else happens. You attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never might quite recover from. Collateral damage. This is a public health mindset. And I think a lot of us involved in trying to make those recommendations had that mindset – and that was really unfortunate. It’s another mistake we made.”

A beginners’ guide to the Great Covid Con: Continuing Paul Weston’s series of articles intended for those who have not yet heard the truth about the disaster caused by the response to the Covid non-pandemic.

Part 1: Could It happen again?

Part 2: The fraudulent excess deaths of 2020

Part 3: Manufacturing Excess Deaths

Part 4: The Great Care Home Cull

Part 5: Matt Hancock's Role

Part 6: Manipulating the death rate data

Part 7: Flu deaths v Covid-19 deaths in 2020

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