BECAUSE THEY WORK? Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom.
February 4, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM ABC NEWS: Behar Equates Don Lemon Storming Church to Press Documenting Nazi Concentration Camps.
When the Americans liberated Dachau, after World War II during the Holocaust – after the Holocaust, Dwight D. Eisenhower said take pictures of these concentration camps because years will go by and people will not believe this happened.
So, this administration does not really like somebody like Don Lemon who has a camera, who a position – like we do in a way – to speak to the people and tell them what really is going on. So, you know, God bless Dwight D. Eisenhower and Don Lemon.
Behar never explained what she thought was happening inside the church that warranted her making that analogy.
Easy mistake to make — doesn’t everyone confuse a church service with liberating a concentration camp?
the hottest take yet is that Cities Church in St. Paul is basically another Dachau https://t.co/zcgYwNRHX8
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) February 4, 2026
NOT GOOD: The U.S. Is Not Built for War or Peace: America’s Industrial Resilience Gap.
A minor power outage in San Francisco offered a quiet preview of a strategic vulnerability hiding in plain sight. As traffic signals went dark, dozens of autonomous Waymo vehicles stalled, unable to read the roadway. With hazard lights blinking, they gridlocked intersections and slowed large parts of the city to a crawl until tow trucks arrived.
That episode is a stark warning for military logistics. The same cascading failure that paralyzed civilian mobility could halt the movement of forces from fort to port. Friction emerges not from a single event, but from interdependent systems degrading in unison. Yet, American policymakers assume the industrial base is resilient, when it is actually brittle, optimized for just-in-time supply chains and just-enough capacity. When shocks hit (e.g., pandemics, wars, political instability, cyber incidents, or weaponized supply chains), Washington responds with emergency authorities and surge funding, confusing endurance with readiness. A system that merely limps through disruption is optimized for continuity, not crisis.
Over the past decade, resilience has meant restoring services after a shock. While this approach may prevent catastrophe, it does not prepare a country to compete, deter, or fight. The U.S. economy has been engineered for peacetime efficiency and consumption, not sustained production under pressure.
Redundancy might look like an inefficiency, but only until you really need it.
EVICTION LAWYER DOES THE FUNNIEST THING POSSIBLE AFTER BILLIE EILISH’S ‘STOLEN LAND’ COMMENTS:
Multiple entries from The Book of Saul going on here: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules,” “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon,” “A good tactic is one your people enjoy,” and “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Over to you, Billie.
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SARAH ANDERSON: The Real Reasons Why Latin America Is Moving to the Right. “I’ve seen a lot of you saying this was the work of Donald Trump, but the fact is that this was happening before he was even re-elected. I can’t discount the role he’s played — endorsing and supporting candidates, for example, and, you know, removing a whole dictator from a country overnight with more to come — but, much like our own 2024 elections, the reasons why this big shift is happening are largely domestic.”
Full story at the link.
#HIMTOO? Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship.
The close friendship that Noam Chomsky maintained with Jeffrey Epstein continued being detailed extensively among millions of investigative records pertaining to the late convicted sex offender recently released by the US justice department, including Chomsky “fantasizing about the Caribbean island”.
In Friday’s tranche of documents, which built upon earlier disclosures of their close social ties, there is no specific indication that the famed academic and linguist was referring to his friend’s private Caribbean island where children were sexually abused. But the personal familiarity between the two men in that exchange is palpable, as it is in numerous other emails between Chomsky and Epstein aimed at planning more mundane social gatherings.
There additionally was an exchange in which Chomsky wrote to Steve Bannon, the rightwing chief White House strategist during Donald Trump’s first presidency, requesting an introductory meeting. “Lots to talk about,” Chomsky wrote, adding that he had been provided Bannon’s contact information by Epstein, a former friend of Trump.
Former Epstein girlfriend Karyna Shuliak at one point emailed a third party whose identity was redacted that she and her boyfriend wanted to send Chomsky and his wife two genetic testing kits.
Perhaps most strikingly, in late February 2019, Epstein represented to an associate that he had gotten advice from Chomsky over how to navigate “the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public”. That was 11 years after Epstein had pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution – and months before he would reportedly die by suicide while in federal custody awaiting sex-trafficking charges.
“The best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote, according to text signed under his first name that Epstein sent to a lawyer and publicist. “That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder.”
Related: Ben Sixsmith on “The very strange downfall of Noam Chomsky.” “If you’re younger than 35, you might have no idea how much of the internet used to be occupied by people arguing about Noam Chomsky. Left-wingers used to fight with liberals and conservatives at insane length over the merits — or lack thereof — of the ageing linguist and anti-war commentator.” As for Chomsky’s numerous enemies on the right, “These poor souls would have had no idea that all their work undermining Chomsky’s political reputation would become unnecessary when, at a grand old age, the man himself formed a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.”
CHANGE: Utah formally expands its Supreme Court by two justices.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signed legislation expanding the state’s Supreme Court from five justices to seven.
The bill passed the Legislature with more than a two-thirds majority, allowing it to take effect immediately and bypass the usual waiting period for appointing new justices. Cox signed the bill on Saturday.
The Republican governor will now nominate the two new justices, who must be confirmed by the state Senate. Once those seats are filled, Cox will have appointed five of the court’s seven sitting justices.
Republicans largely supported the expansion, arguing it will improve the court’s efficiency. Democrats united in opposition to the measure, suggesting the move was designed to give Republicans a political advantage in upcoming cases.
It’s only unfair court-packing when Republicans do it.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: DOJ Aims to Revoke Citizenship From Two Predators.
HOW TO SUCCEED IN DEMOCRACY WITHOUT ACTUALLY WINNING: Election Fraud 101. “It has come to my attention that, even though election fraud has been in the news regularly both at the end of 2020/beginning of 2021 and for the last six months, many people seem unaware of the methods by which election fraud is being perpetrated. So, here, are some basics for those who new to the subject.”
19 different varieties.
“PALESTINIANS” AREN’T A RACE. Scholars question University of California ‘anti-Palestinian racism’ study.
JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED: An L.A. Eviction Lawyer Has a Message for Billie Eilish and I Can’t Stop Laughing.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professors say Gen Z students can’t read, forcing colleges to lower academic standards.
UNEXPECTEDLY! Mayor Mamdani is failing at his core job: keeping NYC functioning.
The snow and frigid temps have tested Gotham’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani and, alas, he has not risen to the occasion. Rather, he’s left the city a mess.
Everest-size mountains of garbage have popped up. Unremoved snow, ice and road salt have damaged Con Edison electrical equipment, contributing to power outages.
Most horrifically, 16 people have died on the street — 13 from hypothermia.
Chalk that up to a perverse ideology on the homeless or simple mismanagement, but either way, it represents tragic, unforgivable failure.
There’s more: Mamdani’s Upper East Side neighbors were beyond livid that his Gracie Mansion home was somehow trash-free while snowy, 8-foot garbage heaps went untouched on their streets.
It’s good to be the nomenklatura, as any good socialist could tell you.
Anyway, this is a New York Post editorial, so at least the rest of the country has four-to-eight years of great NYP headlines and front pages to look forward to.
DON SURBER: Antifa, a wholly owned subsidiary of a billionaire: Bernie Sanders in 2019: “Billionaires should not exist.” “I am not surprised to learn the CCP—Red China—is behind this effort to stop the U.S. government from kicking illegal aliens out. After all, Tim Walz was its Manchurian vice presidential candidate, chosen by the Democrat Party because of his ability to milk social justice programs to fund Democrats. Come on. Do you really believe the DNC (Obama) would let a goofball like Kamala pick her running mate? They wouldn’t trust her to pick her nose. So just who is this Singham dude?”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: There’s Gotta Be a Lot of Beard Sweat in the Iranian Regime Right Now. “For the last several years that I was in Los Angeles, I lived in a neighborhood that had a lot of Persian Jews who fled Ayatollah Khomeini in the ’70s. I heard a lot of stories about what a magnificent country Iran was before the dark cloud of Islamic rule permanently descended up on it. The young people of Iran who are rising up don’t have any direct memories of the glory days, but they’re probably carrying around stories in their hearts about them. An imagined ideal can be a powerful motivator for the downtrodden.”
LEFTISTS LIE BECAUSE THE TRUTH DOESN’T SUPPORT THEIR PROGRAM: Jonathan Turley: The Remaking of Alex Pretti. “MS NOW has admitted that it used an AI-enhanced photo of Pretti that made him look more handsome. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was criticized for bringing to the Senate floor an altered image, featuring a headless immigration agent, that made it look like officers executed a kneeling Pretti with a shot to the head. Pretti needs to be be inviolate to make the government seem vile in the eyes of the public. He is being described as the combination of Florence Nightingale and Crispus Attucks.”
He is being described falsely. He was a nasty, dangerous kook.