Well, well, what do we have here? Another story of the drawbacks of electric cars.

This article appears on the Web Site HotAir.com. Its subject is the fact that car-shipping companies are increasingly avoiding ocean shipping of electric vehicles. I have written about this multiple times in the past, emphasizing that electric vehicles, with immense Lithium-ion batteries, are extreme fire hazards. Electrical fires are notoriously difficult to extinguish, and a …

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The Wall Street Journal earns derision. President Trump responds. RushBabe49 looks prescient.

I was a bit late to the breaking story of the report in the Wall Street Journal about a letter that they “reviewed”. The alleged letter that the Journal allegedly reviewed was an alleged birthday missive allegedly written by Donald Trump to the late, unlamented Jeffrey Epstein. The alleged letter was allegedly written in 2003, …

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Whoa!! Human Ingenuity at work!

I continually marvel at the products of the human mind, when presented with a seemingly intractable problem. Don’t count out the resourcefulness of NASA engineers! https://twitter.com/mastronomers/status/1943762001026855055?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Further details: https://twitter.com/mastronomers/status/1943763631079829943?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Extraordinary! The USA provides and encourages the most innovation of any country in the world, mostly due to its capitalist economic system. I am in awe …

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Links to Jewels and Catturd Podcast

Hello, readers! I will be posting the links to the daily podcast here. You have got to tune in live, but if you can’t, the recordings are posted immediately after each day’s show. https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1943384871436455966?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Thursday show https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1943022569076003157?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Wednesday show https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1942660221467296200?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Tuesday show (none Monday this week) Listen every day. They are fantastic!

Once again, time for a dispatch from the Western Washington Dystopia

As is becoming normal, the news lately is full of tales of filth, trash, murder, miscarriages of justice, and censorship. First up, the new "Hate Crime Snitch Line" is now up and running. Citizens can use it to report "bias incidents" about their neighbors and just random citizens they encounter. The all-seeing, all-knowing State will …

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An interesting DEI story

The Feds started it with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. They attempted to right all the wrongs of Jim Crow by injecting bias into federal hiring and contracting. Companies doing work for the government were required to hire minority employees, and contractors were required to testify that they have some of their business …

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Guest Author: Dr. Ahmad Malik on what’s in store for the world

His post from X is copied in its entirety, for those of my readers who are not members of X. But they should be, because X is now the best and most-accurate source of news on the planet. This is not an exaggeration either. As some legacy media used to say, "You heard it here …

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A thought on the price of gasoline

Think of it this way. They (the government) tax motor fuel, which society needs second only to water, the way they price alcohol and tobacco. They load it up with multiple different taxes (sales taxes, cap-and-trade taxes, energy taxes, weight taxes, road-use taxes), and in some places the tax burden is higher than the price …

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Guest Author: Travis Couture, WA Legislator, on the impact of all the new taxes on small businesses

This excellent essay was posted on X yesterday, and I think it deserves posting in its entirety. This is what we are experiencing here in Washington State. [emphasis mine] Tariffs aren’t affecting my small business, we manufacture custom cabinetry right here in Washington. What’s hurting us is Democrat tax increases. Everything we create is made …

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Welcome to the State of Taxington

With a DemocRat super-majority in the state legislature, and every state agency staffed by far-left radicals, the citizens had a pretty good idea what was in store for them. That has been amply confirmed this week. Here is what went down in Olympia, with commentary. https://twitter.com/letsgowa/status/1924895940869329257?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Home school your kids https://twitter.com/washingtonsrc/status/1924827450762035450?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ https://twitter.com/future42org/status/1924925596645392882?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Companies pay into …

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