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  • ["Relocation firm moveBuddha looked at searches for 100,000 moves just this year, and five of the top ten were people looking to get out of the Golden State for almost anywhere else. "5 of the top 10 exit metros are in California, the firm reported on Monday. 'Los Angeles has the highest interest in outbound moves, with…

  • [A Clarion Call for Rearmament – “Sen. Wicker, ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, rolled out a report detailing why America’s military budget is inadequate for the “world in which we find ourselves.” America’s military isn’t equipped to deal with potential wars on two continents at once, much less the new threats in space and from…

  • [Islamophobia?  Actually, for non-Islamists there is no such thing when we recall that the definition of ‘phobia’ is an unreasonable fear.  A correspondent sent a revealing video (here) of British Islamic scholar Anjem Chaudary calmly describing a Europe that will soon succumb to Islam and sharia law.  “Democracy will most likely be replaced by Islamic…

  • [Hard to say what hasn't been said?  Have at it.  gjr]

  • [Been contemplating soliciting reader submissions of the most stupid and/or unreasonable thing that prominent leaders/spokespeople for the Republicans and Democrats have done during a given week.  Candidates would NOT include some dumb thing someone in the party’s fringe has said or done.  I’m talking about nationally recognized people and proposed/passed public policies.  An example candidate…

  • [What a bunch of journalistic wimps are the lamestream media.  Already famous for their selective censoring of news which conflicts with their fragile ideology, they now show that they cannot even tolerate a smidgeon of balanced views with NBC hiring and then firing former RNC head Ronna McDaniel when their vaunted cadres of woke talking…

  • [Happy Saint Paddy’s Day!  Putin won this Sunday’s election in Russia, giving him another six years (at least) in power with a mandate to insure the resurgence of the Russian Empire.  He will now be the longest ruling Russian leader.  The west trembles.  gjr]

  • [Dear Readers, place your bets.  Before the sun sets on Wednesday 6 March, Nikki Haley will 1) suspend her campaign, 2) keep running in hopes of hope that … .  gjr]

  • [Not sure why the pundits (save Gerard Baker here) conclude that Trump may lose to Biden because he’s not able to attract independent/undeclared voters as well as Haley.  They seem to think that the South Carolina percentages of these voters for Haley(65%) and Trump(34%) are cast in concrete.  The primary vote presents voters a different…

  • [Check out the next advance in AI generated video as demonstrated by Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video model.  The technology has now advanced to where the machine can create a realistic and natural looking video from a textual description as its only input.  Take a look at some samples here.  So, during this election year what would…