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Humans love dogs more than their fellow man.

Z-man is looking for a new car

Anti-obesity drug acts on brain's appetite control system

Chinese Scientists Create Low-Fat Pigs With CRISPR

Why?

F.D.A. Warns Companies Against Claims That Marijuana Cures Diseases

Woman, 98, Moves into Elder Facility to Care for 80-Year-Old Son

Prince William warns that there are too many people in the world

Can we just get rid of the twits and jerks first?

'BEYOND SHAMEFUL': DON'T FALL FOR THIS DECEITFUL VIETNAM FLICK- Exclusive: Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady exposes startling omissions, distorted facts in war film

This Man Could've Saved Vietnam, But The U.S. OKed His Assassination

Reed College: The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country - Activists are disrupting lectures to protest "white supremacy," but many students are taking steps to stop them.

First poison the college culture, then the broader culture

A Few More Who Think The Poor Ought To Have Access To Cheap Energy

Chris Matthews Baffled: Why Would A Muslim Uzbeki Want To Attack Us? Note the chyron on the screen as Tingles talks.

MSNBC and CNN guests look to blame Manhattan truck terror on anything but jihad

The Press Attacks WSJ for Criticizing FusionGPS -- Without Confessing That One Of Their Sources Attacking the WSJ Is... A FusionGPS Employee

Drain the swamp!

The American left is beginning to look like nothing other than a defeated army in its last weeks in the field

Wolf Blitzer: ‘Shocking’ Hillary Rigged DNC

They had to keep Biden out. They never expected the Berniemania

DID THE CLINTONS TURN THE DNC INTO A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY?

How unappealing Is Trump, as a person?

Egyptian lawyer: It's a man's 'national duty' to rape women who wear ripped jeans

Prostitution Reduces Rape

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The Press Attacks WSJ for Criticizing FusionGPS -- Without Confessing That One Of Their Sources Attacking the WSJ Is... A FusionGPS Employee

Politico has updated the article to note that Neil King currently works for Fusion GPS.

#1 Zachriel on 2017-11-03 09:42 (Reply)

So What?

#1.1 Aggie on 2017-11-03 11:34 (Reply)

They have corrected the record — as they should have.

#1.1.1 Zachriel on 2017-11-03 11:37 (Reply)

Thank You Zachriel

Trust once broken, is never mended. They should have not deceived in the first place - as they clearly meant to do.

#1.1.1.1 Aggie on 2017-11-03 13:07 (Reply)

Aggie: Trust once broken, is never mended.

If you expect perfection, you will always be disappointed. When a mistake is made, the measure of trust is making the correction as required.

#1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2017-11-03 13:41 (Reply)

Or when one gets caught misleading.

#1.1.1.1.1.1 drowningpuppies on 2017-11-03 14:37 (Reply)

I have yet to see a correction to a politically sensitive story that didn't reflect information readily available with minimal effort, and almost invariably contradictory to the Left's narrative. One posted recently on Instapundit concerned comparing Trump's tweet calling for the death penalty for the recent Islamist attacker in Manhattan to his reactions to the Las Vegas shooting, ignoring that the LV shooter is already dead.

Everybody reads the story, nobody reads the correction. At some point you have to start to suspect it's intentional.

#1.1.1.2 Christopher B on 2017-11-03 13:08 (Reply)

Can I confess that I love pig fat. I hope that isn't white supremacy or cultural appropriation or something. I like to barbecue mice fatty country ribs and cut cross hatches in the fat before cooking. Get them a little caramelized before eating. No barbecue sauce to overwhelm that great flavor and juiciness.

#2 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-11-03 10:48 (Reply)

Mice ribs? Nice, but not very filling.

#2.1 Bird Dog on 2017-11-03 10:52 (Reply)

...and you have to catch so many of the damned things.

Also, let's not go in to the utter tedium of barbecuing them.

Those tiny ribs are forever falling through onto the coals!

#2.1.1 JJM on 2017-11-03 11:35 (Reply)

JJM: Those tiny ribs are forever falling through onto the coals!

We know a lady with a mice rack.

#2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2017-11-03 11:41 (Reply)

They're great if you're a cat

https://www.google.ca/search?q="the+other+white+meat"+needlework&rlz=1C1CHMO_enCA583CA583&tbm=isch&source=iu&pf=m&ictx=1&fir=caUR2dH42SJppM%253A%252C1iPF_PW_EEP3IM%252C_&usg=__Swk2DHGD9

#2.1.1.2 Frances on 2017-11-03 17:44 (Reply)

LOL Oops. Early AM with only the light of the TV. I'm not much of a touch typist.

#2.1.2 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-11-03 19:16 (Reply)

Re: Beyond shameful

Press bias and fake news isn't new. It was certainly not initiated by Uncle Walter, but all the more striking given the respect heaped upon him. Not only did he lie about the Tet Offensive but he ushered in a practice of giving the "news" and then giving his opinion about the news.

#3 mudbug on 2017-11-03 10:56 (Reply)

General Brady had some very interesting statistics on combat in Vietnam. I wish he would have citations for them, not that I don't believe them. I tend not to get to carried away with what I read on WND. That said, I have nothing but respect and admiration for veterans of Vietnam. They have been drug threw the mud enough, it is more than past time for thier heroism and dedication to duty, and country, to be told honestly.

#3.1 B. Hammer on 2017-11-03 11:33 (Reply)

" I wish he would have citations for them, not that I don't believe them."

Statistics About The Vietnam War

http://www.vhfcn.org/stat.html

#3.1.1 drowningpuppies on 2017-11-03 14:11 (Reply)

Another good source is a book titled "Stolen Valor". I think the authors name is Burnett? I have a copy stashed from a couple of decades past. I'm sure many skeptics would not believe the content but the information is all from government/military records. Library may have a copy. It was good to hear that Burns narrative was not that well received. He pretty much put together a narrative to justify the treason and abandonment of SVN. The Cronkite liberal narrative is the only one to ever be covered by NPR/PBS or the MSM. I wouldn't be one bit surprised to see Hollywood promote it for an award even though Hollywood is getting a rather tarnished image of late.

#3.1.2 indyjonesouthere on 2017-11-03 20:10 (Reply)

CBS's "Decades" is doing a self-congratulatory feature on Cronkite. which I can't bring myself to watch as the guy irritated me then and any reminder of his egoism would just send my blood pressure soaring.

#3.1.2.1 jma on 2017-11-03 22:42 (Reply)

No, it's not new, but Sharyn Attkisson's book The Smear will convince you that it got worse twenty years ago, and much worse ten years ago. In the old days, politicians or journalists who had a sense of how to spin things had an advantage, but it was pretty much ad hoc. Now there are literally thousands of people who get paid good money to spin, bury, and fabricate news. David Brock figures prominently.

#3.2 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2017-11-03 19:14 (Reply)

"Prince William warns that there are too many people in the world"

Meanwhile, he and his wife are expecting their third child, reminding me of PJ O'Rourke's line about those who go on about overpopulation (I think he had the famous crank Paul Ehrlich in mind):

"Just enough of me; far too much of you."

(I do wish the Royals would just butt out sometimes.)

#4 JJM on 2017-11-03 11:32 (Reply)

LOL. Excellent point JJM.

OTOH the Caucasian race is working on the 'problem' . . . quite successfully. Prince William should have noticed the decline in white birth rates.

Perhaps Prince William actually meant there are too many of "the wrong kind of people" in the world?

#4.1 feeblemind on 2017-11-03 11:55 (Reply)

Many years ago Scientific American had an article about great plagues and how they related to population. Their theory was that certain communicable diseases needed a large population to become pandemic. They had some charts to show past pandemics related to population and a clear implication that as populations continue to grow new pandemics would occur. There was also a correlation between the size of the world population and the numbers killed in a pandemic. So this "problem" may be self correcting.

#4.1.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-11-03 19:22 (Reply)

Prostitution reduces rape by offering up the most vulnerable to be paid victims. Yikes. That is just a sick thing to say.

No thanks.

Let's just press forward with sex robots...I'd prefer that option.

#5 MissT on 2017-11-03 12:05 (Reply)

Re: Egyptian lawyer

Maybe Egypt can mandate that the robots wear torn jeans!

Seriously, I think rape is not merely a sexual act and there is an element of domination over a victim. If that's the case then neither prostitutes nor robots will make much difference. Now an armed female population on the other hand...

#5.1 mudbug on 2017-11-03 12:38 (Reply)

I think mostly sexual but can't say for sure, as I am not a rapist. Talk to Harvey to find out.

#5.1.1 Bird Dog on 2017-11-03 13:52 (Reply)

I agree! Consult the man with experience!

#5.1.1.1 mudbug on 2017-11-03 18:48 (Reply)

The left as a defeated army.

Yeah? That's the feel good story, but since we don't treat them like POWs or a defeated army, they'll get another leader and rally again.

There are a lot of useful idiots in this world, and leftists take full advantage of that. The political right doesn't even try to re-educate them.

#6 DrTorch on 2017-11-03 13:46 (Reply)

As long as the left pursues its rearguard sniping and yammering strategy, it will continue to look like a defeated army. I don't think it will attract many useful idiots with this strategy, idiots maybe, but not useful idiots.

#6.1 BillH on 2017-11-03 16:19 (Reply)

There's still a lot of lefty and burn-it-all-down faction folks with money out there.
Money can bring forth a thousand blooms of death-wishers.

#6.1.1 OldFert on 2017-11-03 22:24 (Reply)

I used to read Z-Man, but when he insisted that Ayn Rand was a communist, I sorta' eased toward the exit door...

#7 snopercod on 2017-11-04 15:41 (Reply)

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