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"This article is based on interviews with nearly a dozen people who have direct knowledge of how and why Mr. Trump salvaged Mr. Hegseth’s bid, at least for now." I'm reading "Power, Intimidation and the Resurrection of Trump’s Support for Hegseth/The president-elect became convinced that letting Pete Hegseth fail would set off a feeding frenzy among senators. What followed was a MAGA swarm that helped salvage his bid, at least for now," by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman in the NYT. I'm giving you a free-access link so you can judge the quality of the sources, the likelihood of a senatorial "feeding frenzy," and the meaning of "MAGA swarm." We're told that Pete Hegseth went "from dead man walking to a man with a real shot of being confirmed by the Senate" in what was "a test case of power and intimidation," where Trump demonstrated his "ability to summon an online swarm, even while spending minimal personal capital of his own." Posted by Ann Althouse https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/politics/pete-hegseth-trump-defense-secretary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g04.z2j5.8xB3nmv5E1tI&smid=url-share https://althouse.blogspot.com/2024/12/this-article-is-based-on-interviews.html

Settled ? Climate ‘scientists’ discover they’ve been underestimating a major factor, and all their climate models are in fact wrong by Olivia Murray Climate scientists recently discovered that they’ve been underestimating the impact of a particular organic compound in the atmosphere, and the oversight’s significance is so profound that it’s left existing climate models completely obsolete. As Jo Nova writes, “This is so big, it may change the sacred ‘climate sensitivity’ of the whole Earth”. Isoprene is what’s known as a volatile organic compound, or a VOC, and “has a recognized role in protecting plants against many abiotic stresses” like “heat stress…drought…[and] oxidative stress” with trees being the greatest emitters. (When the chemical isoprene interacts with other compounds in the atmosphere, the products are a number of secondary organic aerosols.) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/climate_scientists_discover_they_ve_been_underestimating_a_major_factor_and_all_their_climate_models_are_in_fact_wrong.html

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How is it we know more about Luigi Mangione than we do about Thomas Crooks? Monica Showalter Within hours of his apprehension in Pennsylvania in connection with the cold-blooded murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, scads of information rolled out about the life and times of suspect Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man who has been accused of the killing, and in a very short period of time, the Internet being a fast medium. We've seen pictures of his family, and heard their statements of shock and regret at the news. We learned he grew up wealthy, the son of the owner of two resorts near Baltimore. We learned he once worked in a nursing home owned by his family. {snip} It's in striking contrast to the last high-profile killer who came to our attention last July, Thomas Crooks, another young man with a similar background who got his name in the news for attempting to kill President Trump amid a sea of Secret Service incompetence, but did manage to murder an innocent firefighter who was nearby, and injure two others in addition to President Trump, before he was shot dead by a cop. His age was similar, his engineering background was similar, his working in a nursing home was similar But we hear nothing of the level of information Mangione got from this miserable freak -- little about his political motivations, which political party he identified with, what his political views were, who his friends were, nothing about his very strange family who threw away their silverware to prevent police from finding it in a home search after the killing and attempted assassination, nothing about the strange associated classmates who could have been involved in the attack. We know nothing about the strange ad he made for Blackrock, or the 18 burner phones in his backpack. We don't know who he was talking to on the phone, seen in a video, before he launched into his assassination bid. If he had a manifesto, we haven't seen it. And his social media accounts were quickly scrubbed and shut down. Now, some of this can be explained away by Mangione having an internet presence and being a non-misfit socially, which made more information available generally. But that doesn't explain all of it. Where are the classmates who knew him? Why is his family so silent? Why has his social media presence been suppressed? And why is the Secret Service seemingly going out of its way to obstruct Congress? There have been quite a few shouting matches at this point. (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/how_is_it_we_know_more_about_luigi_mangione_than_we_do_about_thomas_crooks.html

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Putting country first. .

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Will Democrats Allow Illegal Alien Criminals To Be Deported ? “The Law and Order issue is one that has bit Democrats on the ass again and again, from the 1988 Presidential race to the 1993 New York City mayoral race to a whole lot of 2024 DA races. Slightly saner Democrats like New York City Mayor Eric Adams have recognized and changed course on illegal alien criminal deportations. But while the radical left, Democrat/Soros-backed soft-on-crime policies are deeply unpopular with the American electorate as a whole, they’re still a key tenant of the poisonous woke ideology that animates the ideological core of the Democratic Party.” https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=61850

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Good riddance. (but again)

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Whether she 'apologizes' for being white is her business. I had hoped that she was smart enough to know that is was a fools errand. NO APOLOGY is ever enough. The Left will be just as bad towards her, if not worse. .

SHE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT, TOO, IF IT HADN’T BEEN FOR THOSE DARN KIDS: Liz Cheney Whines Over Potential Consequences to Do With J6 ‘Unselect Committee’. If Biden issues the j6 committee a blanket pardon, that opens the way for a house investigation to revisit how the committee went wrong and craft new house rules to prevent another such corrupt committee. And all testimony would be under oath without risk of criminal consequences (because of the pardon) but carrying current perjury threat. The reputational damage will hurt such as Cheney far more than any criminal penalty. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/12/10/liz-cheney-on-j6-member-arrests-n2648856 .

HOW LEFTIST NARRATIVES WORK: .

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

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Meanwhile. Standard operating procedure by the Left. Swallowed eagerly by some here.

Great story and I could not agree more with the need for as many people as possible to learn CPR and use AED's. My own experience has utilized my training with both out in the public. That having been said, it should be a local and state program, NOT a federal one. .

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