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China lashed out at New Zealand on Monday for backing efforts to include Taiwan in an upcoming global health meeting, with a government spokesman saying Beijing "deplores and opposes" efforts to include Taipei in the annual gathering.

President Biden on Sunday issued a call for tougher gun laws on the anniversary of the Parkland school shooting massacre that left 17 dead, insisting the “time to act is now.” “In secon…

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In a video released to social media, former President Trump took aim at President Biden's "Marxist equity" plan for the federal government, and detailed how ...

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen joined George Stephanopoulos on Friday morning in his first interview since his sentencing earlier this week. The former attorney who was sentenced to three years in prison is now trashing his former boss. He will be sent to prison in March so we can look forward to three months of …

Why the Supreme Court can rule in favor of Congress in the Trump financial records cases without thereby giving Congress any unlimited power.

Hasbro has scrapped its plans to make Cara Dune action figures after “The Mandalorian” actress Gina Carano was fired last week over her controversial social media posts, according to a …

Greg Gutfeld criticized President Biden's Georgia speech for splitting America into two camps.

“[Trump] could have ended Affirmative Action with the stroke of a pen. He didn’t,” Ramaswamy, 37 told The Post during a wide-ranging interview at the Conservative Political Action…

‘David Gelernter, fiercely anti-intellectual computer scientist, is being eyed for Trump’s science adviser.” — Washington Post, January 18 Um. Well, huh. For those unfamiliar with David Gelernter, he essentially created parallel computing, which sounds like witchcraft to me, but I’m told it’s a really big deal. He was also one of the first people to see the Internet coming, in his 1991 book Mirror Worlds. Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, described Gelernter as “one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time.” Ted Kaczynski — aka “the Unabomber” — agreed, which is why he maimed Gelernter with a letter bomb in a 1993 assassination attempt. Gelernter, who teaches computer science at Yale and has degrees in classical Hebrew, has written books and articles on history, culture, religion, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. His acclaimed paintings don’t do too much for me, but that’s probably because I’m a bit of Philistine about these things. Regardless, saying that Gelernter is “fiercely anti-intellectual” is a bit like saying Tiger Woods is fiercely anti-golf. So what on earth could the Washington Post mean with that headline? Science reporter Sarah Kaplan gives a few clues. First, Gelernter is a fierce detractor of Barack Obama and has “made a name for himself as a vehement critic of modern academia.” True enough, I guess. Also, he has “expressed doubt about the reality of man-made climate change.” The evidence provided for this assertion is a bit tendentious, but we’ll let it pass because I don’t think this is primarily about climate change. It has to do more with two things: liberal tribalism and the guild mentality of a certain subset of the scientific community. There’s a long progressive tradition in America to think that intellectuals must be liberal, and therefore intellectualism equals liberalism. Indeed, Kaplan seems a bit bedeviled by this point. The headline of her story says Gelernter is anti-intellectual. The first sentence notes that Gelernter has “decried the influence of liberal intellectuals on college campuses.” A few paragraphs later, Kaplan suddenly informs us that his “anti-intellectualism makes him an outlier among scientists.” If you believe that intellectualism requires being loyal to a certain political agenda, this all makes some sense. The problem is that decrying the influence of liberal intellectuals is hardly synonymous with rejecting intellectualism itself. What Kaplan really seems to be getting at is that Gelernter is one of the few major intellectuals out there today who is critical of the intellectual establishment, which acts as a class or guild. She reports that “Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said he hadn’t heard of Gelernter until Tuesday.” The horror! Rosenberg adds that Gelernter is “certainly not mainstream in the science community or particularly well known. . . . His views even on most of the key science questions aren’t known. Considering the huge range of issues the White House needs to consider, I don’t know if he has that kind of capability.” Translation: If I don’t know him, he just can’t be that important — or smart. Decrying the influence of liberal intellectuals is hardly synonymous with rejecting intellectualism itself. There are scientists whom science reporters know and go to for quotes. The Union of Concerned Scientists, historically a very politicized outfit, is a rich source of such pithy scientists. More broadly, the world of scientists involved in public policy is a very small subset of the world of science, and — as with almost every other profession and industry — a certain guild mentality develops among its members. As a result, they become inclined to say, in effect, “Back off, this is our turf.” It was this phenomenon that my old boss (and thoroughgoing intellectual) William F. Buckley had in mind when he said he’d rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard Law School. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a polymath and best-selling author, is another maverick intellectual who has little use for what he calls the “Intellectual Yet Idiot” class that trades on its elite credentials to impose a kind of groupthink on what is permissible to say or believe. It takes a lot of intellectual firepower and self-confidence to declare that the intellectual emperors have no clothes, so it’s no surprise that neither Gelernter nor Taleb has been accused of being excessively humble. Their brashness can be off-putting to some and threatening to those invested in the monopoly of authority held by certain groups. But that doesn’t make them wrong — or anti-intellectual. — Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review. © 2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.  

A unanimous vote by Vancouver's city council has renewed hopes that the requirement of national citizenship to vote in municipal elections is about to change.

Well, that’s interesting, I thought, as I noted that the RealClearPolitics homepage stated that President Trump was tied for his all-time high in CNN polling. Then I went over to the CNN homepage for confirmation. Guess what I found?The main story was about a church that lost 44 parishioners to COVID

A city public school principal is asking parents to “reflect” on their “whiteness” — passing out literature that extols “white traitors’’ who “dismantle institutions,” education officials confirmed to The Post on Tuesday.

Trump at CPAC called for the federal government completely taking over Washington, D.C., as Biden appears poised to block the district’s divisive crime bill.

The Federal Reserve announced that the Fed will raise interest rates a quarter of a point, from 2.25 to 2.50 percent. 

How much liberty are Americans prepared to renounce, or defer, in this moment?

President Joe Biden unveiled a massive new immigration bill on Thursday morning that advances the goals of the Democrat Party, ranging from altering legal terms to providing a pathway to citizen for illegal aliens.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), now a CNN contributor, said Tuesday on "The Lead" that Fox News host Tucker Carlson programmed his "tribal" viewers to "suspend disbelief." | Clips

They come from a country that now resembles a war zone –their lives have been ripped apart by displacement, starvation, disease, desperation, torment and fear life – and while that war zone sentiment too has permeated the Colombian side of the border, there is at least a sense that survival is possible.

The model used by governments in the US and UK to determine policy has been criticized for its coding.

Documents obtained by NR show the unions have engaged in an intense pressure campaign to influence Democratic state lawmakers.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that former President Donald Trump and those who "showed up" at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 were "domestic enemies." | Clips

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Matt Uhrin, a FedEx driver, intervened twice during a in Iowa City, Iowa where the group set the stars and stripes alight. A petition urging FedEx to let him keep his job reached more than 3,000 signatures.