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The top 10 Christmas songs written by Jews
Wyoming wind project may get permit to kill eagles
Kill the village to save it
A book by Scott Adams: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
This telltale tail shows dinosaur feathers in ‘exquisite detail’ after 99 million years
Birds are dinosaurs
Psychologist: Lying to Your Kids About Santa Gives Them Trust Issues
What a jerk
The Phasing Out Of Physical Money Has Begun
A GRIM TALLY SOARS: MORE THAN 50,000 OVERDOSE DEATHS IN US
Cheaper, stronger drugs.
The inquisition of the pharma industry
How Chicago politics works: Madiganistan
Fake News/TDS: Trump Has Blocked Women From Protesting Day After Inauguration
Hillary Clinton: Censor the Internet or People Will Die
Glad she lost the election
Mika Brzezinski Says Clinton Camp Tried To Pull Her Off The Air
Student Threatened for Recording Teacher Who Called Trump’s Election an “Act of Terror”
Pruitt to Dismantle EPA Climate Agenda
NYT anti-Trump headlines are getting pretty funny.
Salon: Donald Trump’s lazy, slipshod transition: No ideology, only cynicism and corruption
Trump Appoints Most Female Members to Cabinet in History
Goldberg explains things:
Federalism, as enshrined in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, is an essential bulwark against despotism. In America, we don’t usually talk about “collective rights” and for good reason. But it’s important to understand that we have them. Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, gays, or whites (sorry alt-right), etc. don’t have collective rights — but communities do.
Specifically, the states. Vermonters have the right to live the way they want to live, so long as they don’t violate the constitutional rights of the Americans who live there. So, no slavery or Jim Crow (again, sorry alt-right). But that still leaves an enormous amount of wiggle room for Vermont to do things the people running the federal government at any given time may or may not like. And that’s good, because states, and the communities that make them up, have a better idea of how they want to live — and what will work for them — than people in Washington do. This is why federalism, within constitutional restraints, is the greatest system ever conceived of for maximizing human happiness.
Most readers can probably surmise that I think liberals have good reason to worry that Donald Trump’s fidelity to the Constitution is at best rhetorical. And even here the commitment is flimsy. Trump prefers to think in Nietzschean terms — Strength! Winning! — than in Lockean terms. But it’s worth bearing in mind that if the Constitution is an afterthought for Trump, it is a dangerous relic for most Democratic politicians.
Greenfield on Immigration Can Kill the Democrat Party:
The specter of identity politics is haunting the left. It shows up at teary-eyed election parties in Berkeley, debates over craft beers in Williamsburg and the editorial pages of the big opinion shaper papers.
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Democrats have to choose between identity politics and the working class. Abandoning identity politics would be a painful process while abandoning the working class has proven to be painless and disastrous. But identity politics without mass migration and social transformation is unworkable. Immigration determines the future of the Democrats. This election is forcing Democrats to make a choice.
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