Five items indicating the direction of the world: Links 1, January 10, 2021

1. So this is interesting:

Fact: House Judiciary Committee Chairman @RepJerryNadler got President Clinton to pardon terrorist Susan Rosenberg, who planted a bomb outside the US Senate chamber in 1983 to try to assassinate Republican senators. pic.twitter.com/5AaKYao5FK

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) January 9, 2021

2. Anyone considering opening a Gab account, as I did here, may want to look at their newsletter. They have quite a conscientious attitude about their site, and are aware of the subterfuge being used against them. Sample:

Over the past several weeks I have been openly warning the Gab community to be on the lookout for fedposters and threats or encouragement of violence on Gab. This PSYOP campaign started back in early December with newly created accounts popping up out of nowhere and making threats of violence. We have zero tolerance for this behavior and it is absolutely not free speech.

3. Why We Can’t Trust Anything ‘The Science’ Says Any More

Despite standing behind their data and method used to conclude there is “no evidence of anti-Black [sic] or anti-Hispanic disparities across [fatal police] shootings,” a study’s authors want to retract their work because it contradicts left-wing politics.

“Although our data and statistical approach were valid to estimate the question we actually tested (the race of civilians fatally shot by police), given continued misuse of the article (e.g., MacDonald, 2020) we felt the right decision was to retract the article,” Michigan State University’s Joseph Cesario and the University of Maryland at College Park’s David Johnson wrote in their retraction request, according to the blog Retraction Watch.

Cesario and Johnson link to work by the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald, who is often viciously protested for publicizing data indicating that racial disparities in policing and crime are typically due not to racism but to higher rates of criminal behavior among blacks and Hispanics as compared to whites and Asians.

4. Short video explaining how the anti-state needed to eliminate President Trump.

5. …and Biden isn’t even sworn in yet

IDF intelligence sees pro-#Iran militias replacing Hezbollah forces in southern Syria in effort to set up new military front against #Israel; @NzivNet reports.

— Israel Radar (@IsraelRadar_com) January 10, 2021

Thank you all for your tremendous support and input this weekend.