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California Has Gay-Certification Program To Tap Into $633 Million For "LGBT" Businesses
California Has Gay-Certification Program To Tap Into $633 Million For "LGBT" Businesses
Authored by Christopher F. Rufo & Austen Hufford via City Journal,
Americans are used to handouts for favored groups. Affirmative action in university admissions, corporate “diversity” initiatives, and minority-owned contracting requirements direct opportunities, resources, and contracts to supposedly “oppressed” groups, such as women, Native Americans, blacks, and Hispanics.
In California, state Democrats have embraced another kind of favoritism: contracts for state-certified gay-owned businesses.
The scheme operates through the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which regulates privately owned utility companies. California utilities...
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Jan 18, 2023 / James Vincent
Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas is now tossing tool bags around a (fake) construction site
Is Boston Dynamics slowly preparing to put its bipedal robots to work?
In a glossy new video, the company has shown off its prototype Atlas robot tossing planks and tool bags around in a fake construction site. In a second, behind-the-scenes video, Boston Dynamics’ team lead on Atlas, Scott Kuindersma, explained that the video is “meant to communicate an expansion of the research we’re doing on Atlas.” As ever, it’s important to note that these videos are rigorously planned and structured, with falls and mistakes edited out. But, as Kuindersma notes, it’s still a change of pace for Atlas.
Aug 21, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling The Family's Will To Reproduce
The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling The Family's Will To Reproduce
Authored by Felix Yang via the Mises Institute,
The total fertility rate needed to sustain a population is 2.1. Averaged over 2020-2024, South Korea's stands at 0.78, Taiwan's at 0.89, and Hong Kong's at 0.79. Mainstream demography still treats these as cultural anomalies, when they are in fact the terminal readings of a century-long experiment in administrative intervention.
The standard explanation blames housing costs, changing values, or the burden of raising children in a modern economy. Examined through the lens...
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Apr 29, 2026 / Jason Ditz
Israeli Commanders Say Lebanon Mission Is to Destroy Shi’ite Villages
While Israel’s public narrative on its war in Lebanon centers around the idea of defending northern Israel from Hezbollah rocket fire, commanders on the ground have told Israeli media that in practice the sole objective is to destroy Shi’ite villages in the occupied southern part of Lebanon. “The only mission is to continue the destruction,” […]
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