The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The War on Insensitivity CJ Hopkins So, here’s a “conspiracy theory” for you. This one is about the global-capitalist thoughtpolice and their ongoing efforts to purge society of “insensitivity.” Yes, that’s right, insensitivity. If there is anything the global-capitalist thoughtpolice can’t stand, it is insensitivity. You know, like making fun of ethnic or religious minorities, and the physically or cognitively challenged, and alternatively gendered persons, and hideously ugly persons, and monstrously fat persons, and midgets, and so on. The global-capitalist thoughtpolice are terribly concerned about the feelings of such persons. And the feelings of other sensitive persons who are also concerned about the feelings of such persons. And everybody’s feelings, generally. So they’re purging society of any and all forms of literary content, and every other form of content, that might possibly irreparably offend such persons, and persons concerned about the feelings of such persons, an...

Clarkson’s Farm: Another Front in the War on Food   Tom Luongo While I’ve been a big fan of Jeremy Clarkson over the years, I’ve never been proud of him before. Hero worship and celebrity go hand in hand and it’s a dangerous game to ascribe motives beyond self-interest to any celebrity. But in Clarkson’s case he may have just done something worthy of that. Clarkson is now on the other side of another cancellation campaign against him for a dig at Queen Narcissist herself, Meghan Markle, in one of his recent columns. And, normally, I would just pass the whole thing off as another of Clarkson’s attempts at controversy because if anyone lives by the adage that controversy is good for ratings it’s Jeremy Clarkson. The guy is a six-foot-four-inch Streisand Effect with bad teeth. But in this dustup with Queen Meghan, Clarkson did something completely out of the ordinary for him. He apologized. Twice. James Delingpole and I roasted Clarkson for apologizing  on a recent podcast we did...

Global Oil Demand Hit  Record High In  December In December, global crude oil demand jumped to 1.3 million barrels per day, the highest level on record. While global demand soared in December, production fell to a five-month low due to lower supply from the U.S. and UK. The growth in demand in December was mainly driven by higher consumption in Japan, Indonesia, and South Korea. Global oil demand surged by 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd) to a new record high in December, with total demand at 102% above the pre-Covid levels in December 2019 , data from the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI)  showed  on Monday.