Japan Syndrome: An affliction that befalls foreign visitors who realize in sudden horror the dysfunction, squalor and chaos they live in is a choice

People ask me why I'm so passionate about sheep. Here's why. A sheep wakes up on a hillside nothing else will live on. 32-degree slopes. Acidic soil. Wind off the Atlantic. Rain in quantities most European crops would consider insulting. She walks out, eats grass nobody asked her to grow, and turns it into meat, milk, wool, lanolin, and the maintained landscape beneath her feet. She requires no pesticides. No irrigation. No imported feed. No lab. No patent. She takes the sun, the rain, the soil, and the specific botanical composition of a particular upland, and produces the leanest, most nutritionally complete meat in the British food supply. Every gram of lamb contains complete protein, zinc, iron, B12, selenium, and the conjugated linoleic acid your metabolism actually asked for. She also produces, as a side effect, the landscape the tourists photograph. The wildflowers the campaigners claim to care about. The birdlife the charities fundraise on. The stone walls the poets write about. The curlew, the skylark, the golden plover, the red grouse, the hen harrier. None of it exists without her. And we have spent the last fifty years being told this animal is wrecking the countryside. The audacity. I'll take my chances with the creature that has been shaping these hills for ten thousand years over the pea protein isolate that was patented in 2017.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

We just won Missouri v. Biden. As Missouri’s Attorney General, I sued the Biden regime for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to silence Missouri families — censoring the truth about COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, the open border, and the 2020 election. They tried to turn Facebook, X, YouTube, and the rest into their private speech police, labeling dissent “misinformation” while they pushed their narrative on the American people. Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech. Missouri struck first—and Missouri won big. This is the first real, operational restraint on the federal censorship machine. It locks in the First Amendment principle we fought for: modern technology doesn’t erase your rights, and government labels don’t strip speech of protection. The deep state just got checked. For every working Missouri family tired of being silenced by their own government: this victory is yours. The heartland fought back, and the heartland delivered.

Yes. The economy is a thermodynamic thing: it makes useful order out of stuff by harnessing energy. Britain could easily have had cheap energy if it had exploited its shale gas rather than building wind and 'solar farms' to enrich crony capitalists. We still can.

Many people are commenting that this will produce a capital flight and cause the most productive Dutch citizens to emigrate. This is true. However, the reality is much worse, far more perfidious. Virtually every Dutch citizen is going to be a criminal from here on. A specter of arbitrary enforcement will hang over each of their heads. Why? Two reasons. One -- the tax is both severe and hard to administer. Remember, without a sale, there's no financial trail. Lots of people are just going to chance it and not pay the tax. (They may even forget!) Second, people own so many different assets, and it's hard to mark those assets to the market without a sale actually occurring. If you own a painting that you once bought, is it still worth the same? The state says it's worth more, you say it's worth less. Who wins? This kind of policy is the worst kind, where it opens a door wide to abuse by arbitrary enforcement. Have an enemy? Start investigating them for unpaid unrealized capital gains taxes. You'll always find something, and then you can put them in prison. Dangerous tools.

6 yrs ago today, on Feb 1, 2020, a group that included Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, Jeremy Farrar, Eddie Holmes, Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, Andrew Rambaut, Ron Fouchier, Marion Koopmans, and Christian Drosten came together to discuss how to mislead the public about the origin of SARS-CoV-2.

Unprecedented ferocious weather model output: The model shows 2 consecutive mega blizzards that would completely bury Washington, NYC, and Boston in 3-5 feet of snowfall into end of January.

Friday: Coldest airmass on Earth will be centered over Ontario with mid-level temperatures of -50°C rarely observed except with most extreme Siberian cold. And we'll be given (almost) the "whole load" Polar Vortex -- until it comes back for Round 2 in another week.

The Next 10-days and it's not over yet. Buckle up! This will likely be the coldest weather experienced by half of all Americans (or more) in their lifetime. How many cold records will be set? How much snow and ice?