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Wednesday, November 28. 2018

Wednesday morning links



Image via Powerline's Why We Hate the Media 


 Newsrooms continue to cut jobs, struggle with diversity


America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches - Religious communities often face a choice: Sell off the buildings they can no longer afford, or find a way to fill them with new uses.


 Legalize Pay Toilets!


Boston-area scientists criticize Chinese researcher who changed embryonic DNA - Use of reproductive cells could create unseen woes for future generations


Mom Dresses Six-Year-Old Son As Girl, Threatens Dad With Losing His Son For Disagreeing - A Texas custody case splits a 6-year-old child’s gender identity in two.


 5 colleges you're probably thankful your kids don't attend


 Loyalty Oaths, Diversity Mandates, Faculty ‘Training’ at San Diego State


 School alters whiteness workshop description following College Fix inquiry


 University of Michigan violated professor’s right to cross-examine accusers, judge says


 How the ‘new McCarthyism’ took down a female professor exonerated of Title IX claims


 LANDOWNERS HAIL PROPERTY RIGHTS VICTORY AT SUPREME COURT IN FROG HABITAT DISPUTE


 NYT: Climate Deniers are Depraved and Corrupt


Washington’s Newest Gun Control Initiative Is Just A Step Towards Getting Rid Of Privately Owned Firearms


 Google employees push to halt creation of censored search engine for China


VDH on presidential candor:





 Predictably, Donald Trump was attacked both by the establishment and the media as “crude,” “unpresidential,” and “gratuitous” for a recent series of blunt and graphic statements on a variety of current policies. Oddly, the implied charge this time around was not that Trump makes up stuff, but that he said things that were factual but should not be spoken.





 WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Columbia vs Columbia: A Tale of Two Americas


What’s the matter with Portland? The prosperous city has become the epicenter of antifa and political violence 


The Bill and Hillary show! Power couple kick off 13-city paid speaking tour in CANADA where bank executive lobbed questions at them in half-empty room


 Trump holds all the cards in caravan Mexico dealings


 Rep. Cummings: 'They Should Be Allowed to Come In, Seek Asylum. That's the Law'


 Winning: Caravan migrants packing up and going home


 Trump’s Crucial Test at San Ysidro


 Border Clash Leaves Caravan Migrants Dejected, Worried Asylum Claims Will Be Rejected


 Short History of the Ruin of Venezuela


 Residents of London To Become Skinny ASAP


 Macron talks about a unified Europe but presides over a divided France


The French to their government: We are not your milk cows 


 In Boycotting the West Bank, Airbnb Boycotts Jews


Sweden Is On The Verge Of Going Completely Cashless: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?


Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:20 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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Experiencing long loading times now for Maggie's website - also when trying to view comments. Anyone else experiencing this phenomenon? Been occurring at least the last 5 days. Thanks!
#1 Bob in Stafford on 2018-11-28 11:52 (Reply)
Bob in Stafford: Experiencing long loading times now for Maggie's website - also when trying to view comments.

We've noticed a long delay in loading something in the background. Try pressing the stop button.
#1.1 Zachriel on 2018-11-28 12:24 (Reply)
Nope!
#1.2 Sam L. on 2018-11-28 12:54 (Reply)
Might be a little slower, but not much.
#2 feeblemind on 2018-11-28 13:18 (Reply)
"Image via Powerline's Why We Hate the Media"

In truth, that image up there only served to reinforce my conviction that the media just grasps at whatever copy it can to suit the needs of the moment, today's headline story obliterating any conscious thought about yesterday's.

Say what you like about National Enquirer and Midnight Globe but at least they make no pompous and pretentious claims about their cheerful hokum.
#3 JJM on 2018-11-28 13:46 (Reply)
That image is a keeper though!
#3.1 JJM on 2018-11-28 13:55 (Reply)
NYT: Climate Deniers are Depraved and Corrupt--I love the picture of Paullie "The Beard" Krugman at the top.

What's the matter with Portland: Democrats and crazed "progressives".

Macron is forcing "the frogs" to jump, and they're angry, with reason.
#4 Sam L. on 2018-11-28 14:10 (Reply)
Sorry to be off topic: The video of Steve Bannon at Oxford is on the Althouse blog. I'd love to hear what others think.

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2018/11/steve-bannon-at-oxford-on-november-16th.html
#5 FromtheAlthouseblog on 2018-11-28 14:28 (Reply)
Again, Bannon gives them and their adolescent preconceptions, pardon the pun, a schoolin'. 😉
#5.1 Zzzatemypuppy on 2018-11-28 17:21 (Reply)
I was disappointed with the caliber of the challengers. The questions were so predictable, ineffectual, trite even.
#5.1.1 FromtheAlthouseblog on 2018-11-28 20:58 (Reply)
Yep, but aren't most liberal arguments basically "predictable, ineffectual, and trite even"? 😉
#5.1.1.1 Zzzatemypuppy on 2018-11-29 02:24 (Reply)
re: Empty Churches

That is Not the America I know. In OK there are churches everywhere and they are filled up. Even the Catholic churches, which are a very small minority here, are growing. We have more local seminary students this year than in the history of the diocese. My parish has two priests, and the previous priest, who are native Okies.
#6 Jack Walter on 2018-11-29 07:17 (Reply)

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