Maggie's Farm

Did the Roman military really light pigs on fire to send in the direction of their enemies? What was the purpose?

 LA Countywide Outbreak Of Whooping Cough Hits Exclusive Harvard-Westlake Hard

 How to Stop the Censoring Mobs on Campus

 So much for winning WWII

Kraft’s Sabbath - Judging a rich man’s sins, in a world that thrives on outrage, humiliation, and fake virtue

 School says workers can’t celebrate black history month with southern food

Idiots. Southern food is America's best food 

 Twitter Legal Warns Michelle Malkin Her ‘Mohammed Cartoon Tweet’ Violates “Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws” – Which Are Punishable by Prison or Death

 Why NYC pols see the ‘sharing economy’ as a threat

 WHILE NYC BATTLES CHARTER SCHOOLS, IT WASTED $773M ON FAILED PUBLIC SCHOOL EFFORT

 Health Care Is the Opposite of a Right

Medical insurance as a civic duty - to be considerate of your fellows

Atlantic:  The ‘Hidden Mechanisms’ That Help Those Born Rich to Excel in Elite Jobs. When two sociologists interviewed highly paid architects, TV producers, actors, and accountants, they encountered work cultures that favor the already affluent.

 Former Bernie Sanders Aide Calls Team Clinton ‘Biggest A**holes In American Politics’

Are the Democrats Bent on Suicide?

 America can afford a Green New Deal – here’s how

 Kamala Harris Doubles Down Claiming Costs Don’t Matter For Big Gov’t Programs: “It’s Not About Cost”…

Don’t Worry, Illinois—Be Happy. Governor Jay Pritzker’s budget avoids all the hard fiscal choices that the state must make.

Yesterday's MSM/Dem talking point: Korea is a distraction 

Michael Cohen Admits to Coordinating Scripted Testimony With Lanny Davis, Adam Schiff and Elijah Cummings…

 Trump unleashing digital juggernaut ahead of 2020

Trump has eliminated North Korea's reasons for hostility 

Tucker on hate crimes:

Are robots competing for your job?

IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon

The Cancer Personality Scandal (Part 1)

Did The Vatican’s Sexual-Abuse Summit Fail “The McCarrick Test”?

NYT:  Inside the Secret Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics

We're All Becoming Robert Kraft, But We Just Don't Realize It

 Emory University hosts ‘abortion as a moral good’ lecture

Three Democrats who voted against infanticide 

 Diversity Requirement at UCLA Threatens Academic Freedom

 Boys Will Be Boys, Except When They Are Girls

Venice, CA:  BEACH OF THE LIVING DEAD

Why the Smollett affair was a win for the Left 

Politics and civility:  “I’m done with my grandfather,” a friend confided in me after a recent family gathering. 

If political disagreements are more important than family and friends, you have a real problem 

VDH:  Yes, ‘This Is America, 2019’

 Bill Maher To Amazon: Please Move To A Red State And Save These People From Their Garbage Culture

ONCE AGAIN…  Liberal Media to Flood Airwaves with Russia Conspiracy Stories As Trump Arrives for Historic Hanoi Summit 

 Democrats Are Wrapping a Gift for Trump

 President Trump has made unthinkable progress on Korea: Rep. Babin

A book: The Vietnam War Revisited 

Is Theresa May the UK's Jimmy Carter? 

Tommy Robinson permanently banned by Facebook and Instagram

 China’s “Social Credit” System Is Already Blacklisting Many Citizens

Transsexual Activist Accused of Burning Down House

Fake hate is good

 Transgender Sprinters Finish 1st, 2nd At Connecticut Girls Indoor Track Championships

CNN:

 While the Smollett case continues to take twists and turns, it's paramount that we acknowledge that for every case such as this, there are thousands of others that are indisputable and leave a lasting impact on the targeted victims and their communities. We must make it clear, over and over again, that the bias-motivated crimes happening every day are unacceptable.

Fake hate is good

HOW TO FAKE A HATE CRIME AND GET AWAY WITH IT - Lessons for Jussie Smollett and the Left.

 College hate crime hoaxers usually don’t file police reports. If they do, it’s to the campus cops who generally do the first part of their job and discover it’s a hoax, and then do the second part of their job and cover it up. Local cops in campus towns also often shrug and the perps walk away with no charges.

Hollywood Stars Under Attack for Attending Bible-Believing Churches

 Strong Arctic sea-ice growth this year

 Ocasio-Cortez: People Maybe Shouldn’t Reproduce Due To Climate Change

 Open Borders Advocates Pitch “Food Insecurity” As Means For Asylum

 The Left’s Rage Against ‘MAGA’

A Constitution which would allow Trump to be elected must be flawed 

 Projection: Lawyer Who Served in Obama Admin Worries Trump Might Not Accept a 2020 Defeat

 Ready for Hillary one more time?

 Reconciling ‘Spygate’ With The ‘Soft Coup’ – Five Phases That Explain The Behavior…

 Danny Burch, a U.S. citizen, had been imprisoned in war torn Yemen for the past year and a half. His release marks the 20th American rescued from abroad by the Trump administration.

 Love Him Or Hate Him, Trump Is Right About North Korea

Guardian:  Say what you will about Trump, but his tactics on North Korea are working

 France President May Ban Non-PC Language Users from Internet for Life

 Current State of Free Speech at Berkeley

Freedom is slavery

 London Police Arrest Black Christian and Take His Bible for Preaching “Jesus Is On the Way”; Accuse Him of Racism and Islamophobia

 ‘Cheating’: Martina Navratilova under fire after saying trans women shouldn’t compete in women’s sports

Women May Have to Register for the Draft as Men's Group Wins Selective Service Lawsuit

 MY WOKE BOYFRIEND AND I ALMOST BROKE UP OVER JORDAN PETERSON

Now the mayor’s vendetta on horse carriages has him tearing up Central Park

The Real Problem with the Blue-State Model - It’s not just high taxes; it’s lousy services, too.

 Nevada Bill to Push Patients Off Wanted Life Support

 Loads of American workers are dropping out of unions – Now liberals have a new plan to save left's cash cow

 When did "Constitution" become a bad word?

 Border smugglers now ramming down corrugated border fences with trucks in San Diego

 Beto Tries To Trick Hispanics Into Thinking He’s One Of Them

WSJ:  Schiffting to Phase 2 of Collusion - Conspiracy theorists look for something new, anticipating a Mueller letdown

Thirty-million-page backup of humanity headed to moon aboard Israeli lander. If the apocalypse strikes, the Arch Mission Foundation wants to be sure all the knowledge we've accumulated doesn't disappear.

Central planning:  Venezuela’s Food Crisis Reaches A Breaking Point

 Life is Too Short for Envy

Bear Grylls in hot water after boiling frog

 What actually killed the dinosaurs? Volcanic clues heat up debate.

Climate change causes Moose ticks? 

Interesting about Moose, but so tendentious. Moose moving south? So Moose ticks accompany Moose.  No Moose, no Moose ticks. Reindeer have ticks too.

 Time Magazine: Illegal Immigrants are Climate Refugees

Really? Then why do so many Americans, Canadians, and Europeans love to visit Belize, Costa Rica, and Mexico?  For the pleasant weather of course.

 INSIDE ELIZABETH HOLMES’S CHILLING FINAL MONTHS AT THERANOS

A skilled con artist

Press damaging Klobuchar, touting Harris 

War on Conservatives Week in Higher Education

 What My Days as a Marxist Taught Me About Modern Political Cults

 Public Policy In Action In Progressive New York

 IT WAS A DEEP STATE SET-UP: Trump Campaign Volunteer Papadopoulos Introduced to ‘Russian’ Mifsud by FBI in London!

 Donald Trump, Gay-Rights Hero

 SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER BLAMES TRUMP FOR INCREASE IN BLACK NATIONALIST HATE GROUPS

 Man who shot at California cop previously deported, arrested but cops wouldn't honor ICE detainer, feds say

Virginia scandals evaporate 

 Fake Indian Elizabeth Warren Joins Kamala Harris – Backs Reparations for African Americans

Vote-buying is a time-honored American tradition 

 Hate Crime Hoaxes are More Common than You Think

 Smollett’s Lawyers Trash Chicago PD, Tout Actor’s ‘Impeccable Character’

Predictably:

 In the end, Stafford suggested that even if Smollett were guilty of staging a hoax "hate crime," he still highlighted a greater truth. "Jussie may have created this whole situation to highlight a reality that is happening every day," he said. "Our current administration doesn’t support people like him — that are black and queer."

 Mass grave containing 3,500 victims of ISIS - which could 'hold the answers' to the fate of executed US hostages - discovered in the 'caliphate capital' Raqqa in Syria

IDF: Gaza children being promised NIS 300 ($83) if injured at border protests. Israeli army says troops see Hamas sending kids as young as 8 to front lines of violent demonstrations

Typical. Golda Meir said there will be peace when these people love their kids more than they hate Jews 

 Nude Beaches: Europe vs. the Caribbean

Are our readers ready?  If not, why not?

 Pompeo slams Huawei: US won't partner with countries that use its technology

 Radically Transforming the Nation: Our Politicized Schools of Education

It’s Getting Done: 30-Foot Border Wall Project Begins In California

 New migrant caravan forms as Mexican cities that border US keep swelling with asylum seekers

 British Warmists Want To Ban All New Homes From Using Natural Gas

 Media Hysteria: Climate Change ‘Heat Records’ Are a Huge Data Manipulation

 Where to Go on Health Insurance?

 Universal, Government-Funded Pre-K May Do More Harm Than Good

 Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules

 GOP-ENDORSED CANDIDATE FOR PHILADELPHIA MAYOR SAYS ‘MENTAL ILLNESS’ HAS KEPT HER FROM WORKING FOR EIGHT YEARS

 Viewers Starting To Doubt Objectivity Of Reporter With 'KAMALA 2020' Face Tattoo

 Ocasio-Cortez rips media for reporting on her new luxury high-rise

 Lifestyles of the rich and socialist: Bernie Sanders has 3 houses, makes millions

Good for him. It always confuses me, tho, how "public servants" get rich

Bernie Already Won. So Why Run Again? The Vermont independent has yanked Democrats so far to the left that his competitors are becoming mini-mes.

Hating America 

 How President Trump Broke the Left

 Forget About Jussie Smollett's Fake Noose Lynching, the NYT Has Just Gotten Word of Stunning Late-Breaking News: Emmett Till Has Been Lynched!

Jussie's lynching is Trump's fault 

Good quote going around: "The demand for racism has outrun its supply." 

 Chicago Police Commissioner Calls Out Media, Stars and Politicians for Pushing Smollett Hoax

 FBI Official Admits To Infiltrating Trump Campaign - Just Don't Call It Spying

WHO WILL FILL THE VACUUM LEFT BY ISIS? A very interesting phenomenon has taken place in the Idlib area of Syria: the presence of the Islamic State has almost completely disappeared.

 GERMAN PRESIDENT LAUDS IRAN ON REVOLUTION THAT SEEKS ISRAEL'S DESTRUCTION

Germany has an excess of whorehouses 

 US steps up winter-warfare training 

Down on the farm — with robots

The Man Who Wasn’t Gershwin - Oscar Levant…classical musician?

With 2 shots from her pistol, and prayer, 79-year-old woman holds off burglar

Chick-fil-A just did something incredible that has liberals losing their minds

Without Amazon HQ2, What Happens to Housing in Queens?

 New York officials face backlash over 'congestion' tax push

Erasing history 

 Catholic cardinals urge end of 'homosexual agenda'

 Colleges are now dominated by women, creating an ‘education gap’ afflicting men

Accused College Students Deserve the Presumption of Innocence. Nineteen attorneys general are lobbying against extending that right in Title IX cases on campus.

 Most Americans Can’t Pass a Basic Citizenship Test. Here’s Why We Should Be Worried.

The ‘Times’ and Israel: A Review of 2018. The bottom line: Not good.

 Gillibrand To Activist: You’re Right, The Border Wall Would Cut Off “Indigenous” People From The U.S.

 25 MS-13 gang members deported from migrant caravan in Mexico, officials say

Census: Highest immigrant population in 100 years, over half Latinos

Governing by National Emergency - What norms?

Get ready for the 'Free Jussie' protests. You can be sure CNN will be there!

 Jussie Smollett Wrote The Racist Letter That Led To The Alleged Fake Hate Crime Against Him

 CNN Staffers Angry at Network’s Decision to Hire GOP Operative as Political Editor

The Media ‘Think They’re Living in a Cartoon and White Men Are the Villains’

 Bruce Ohr Says He Ferried Another Hillary Clinton-Financed Dossier to the FBI, This One Written By His Fusion GPS Employed Wife

 John Solomon’s Revelation Of A Third Dossier Is The Latest Sign The Assault Against Trump Has Reached A Tipping Point

 Majority of Voters Want a Special Prosecutor to Investigate Attempted Coup Against Trump

 Trump signs bill blocking transfer of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey

Erdogan Recommits to Buying Russian Missiles Despite US Warnings

China's new roads are remarkable:

Photo from a reader: Ice castle in Dillon, Colorado, this week 

Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787 Dreamliner Hits 801 MPH Over Pennsylvania, Thanks to Jet Stream

 Facebook Still Championing Blasphemy Laws

Scared of Muslims, but nobody else 

 The opioid epidemic keeps killing my friends

Wrong way to say it. The issue is the popularity of opioids

 Understanding The Dueling Lawsuits Against Yale And Harvard Over Fraternities And Sororities

 Dept. of Ed. to investigate Title IX violation accusations at U of M, Wayne State

 The Trump Administration’s recent proposal on Title IX would bolster due process rights of students.

 Trump administration to cancel $929 million in California high-speed rail funding

Good

Most See Crime in Justice, FBI ‘Coup’ Against Trump, Want Special Prosecutor

Elizabeth Warren Urges Universal Child Care, 'Ultra-Millionaire' Tax

The return of "cradle to grave" 

 Get Woke, Get Fired

 Barack Obama Might Not Get His Hideous Library in the Public Park

Ban presidential libraries. Disgusting fad.

 Grenell Launches Trump Admin Effort Towards Global Decriminalization Of Homosexuality

How NY loses its population due to taxes 

 WALSH: Jussie Smollett Should Be Charged With A Hate Crime

MacDonald:  The Frenzied Search for Racism. Elites bought Jussie Smollett’s story because it confirmed their cherished narrative about a hateful America.

The only hate I see in the US is from the Left. Consumed and blinded by hate.  

 Why Does the MSM Keep Falling for Obvious Hoaxes?

They do not "fall for them".

Jussie Smollett and the Information Warfare of the Left

Covington student's lawyer to file defamation lawsuits after client cleared in investigation, Says no one should feel safe even after initial round

 Rape Survivor Lara Logan Gets Cold Shoulder from Media

 Federal grand jury reportedly already convened, issued multiple subpoenas on Jussie Smollett fake mail threat sent to Fox 1/18/19

"The president is not well at all mentally. I think he’s an extreme narcissist... he is having a hissy fit... He does need to be removed under the 25th Amendment." Said Richard Painter, just last night on MSNBC.

 Government 'makes Isis bride stateless' by stripping her British citizenship

Reckless foolish youth destroy their lives all the time. A shame. 

 Russian Bears Need Less Than 20 Minutes To Hack Your Data

 ISIS fighters have been fleeing from Syria into Iraq, perhaps with millions of dollars in tow

 Palestinian official throws wrench into Israeli plan for railway link to Gulf

Haters gotta hate, even when it hurts them 

Scott is a skilled bullshit detector. Entertaining podcast about persuasion, not science. 

“W.E.B. Griffin” — November 10, 1929 – February 12, 2019

 Pat Caddell: The Pollster Who Foresaw and Helped Shape Trump’s Victory

Green New Deal Looks To Control What You Eat

 MILLER: The Current Democratic Party Has No Use For Jews

 It’s Time For America To Break Up With Liberals

Scott Adams podcast: Never believe the news 

 Protesters take over Border Patrol museum, deface pictures of fallen agents

VDH: Autopsy of a Dead Coup

 NY Times Frets Over Socialists And Baby Killers Being Called Socialists And Baby Killers

BRIT HUME TAKES ON NBC REPORTER AND OBAMA ADVISER OVER KAMALA HARRIS COVERAGE

The MSM has selected Harris 

 Joe Biden Embarrasses Himself and Embarrasses America

 THE FEELING IS MUTUAL, JOE

 Cory Booker, Who Called Smollett Incident An Attempted “Lynching”: I’ll Withhold Judgment Until More Information Comes Out

 Pelosi Quietly Deletes Tweet Slamming "Racist, Homophobic" Attack On Jussie Smollett

 Al Sharpton: Hold Jussie Smollett accountable if he staged attack

Says the man who invented fake hate crimes 

 Spreading The Fake Smollett "MAGA Country" Hate Crime: A Mainstream Media Montage

 Don’t expect apologies from the left over Jussie Smollett ‘attack’ fraud

 The List Of Fake Hate Crimes Is Pretty Long (Update)

Media following same script against MAGA as it did against Tea Party - From Bill Sparkman to Jussie Smollett, the media still creates false narratives that ordinary law-abiding Americans who oppose liberals are dangerous and prone to violence.

 SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN CALLS FOR COUP AGAINST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

 'I made a big mistake': American ISIS bride who called for terror attacks at Memorial Day parades and has married three jihadi fighters begs the US to let her go back to Alabama

The Cholesterol Controversy -  Why is cholesterol so much more controversial than the other cardiac risk factors? A review of cholesterol’s troubled and contentious history might help us understand where many of the cholesterol controversies originated… and why it’s time to let them pass into history.

Social Justice Warriors in the knitting world 

 A campus infected with hostility: A professor says he's been targeted for being a conservative Jew

 Fifteen Devastating Quotes That Show How Dangerous Social Media Has Become to Society

 Gavin Newsom decides to destroy the planet

Maloney (D) Slams Ocasio-Cortez’s Opposition to Amazon: ‘Now We Are Protesting Jobs?’

 Democrats are tearing themselves apart over Amazon

 Morning Joe worried Ocasio-Cortez’s economic ignorance could hand Trump a 2020 win

People get her wrong. She's not dumb exactly- she's just trying to move the Overton Window. Already has, in fact.  Not dumb, but wrong about everything. Being wrong doesn't matter for the purpose.

 Massive East Coast solar project generates fury from neighbors

Rightly so 

American Legion:  The definition of Americanism

 What Is and Isn’t a Big Deal in Trump’s Executive Actions Related to the Border

 Why Trump will win the wall fight

 Democrats reject push to alert ICE when illegal immigrants fail firearm background checks

 Outsiders should regard purported hate crimes that sound like crafted narratives with skepticism until they're proven true.

 Spreading The Fake Smollett "MAGA Country" Hate Crime: A Mainstream Media Montage

 ANOTHER FAKE HATE CRIME? OF COURSE IT IS

The MSM requires fake hate. There is darn little real hate these days - except for the fake hate haters. The fake hate haters are consumed by hate. Lots of Trump haters and America-haters out there, but darn few gay-haters or Black-haters other than crazies.

 Ex-FBI Lawyer James Baker Testified Two Cabinet Members “Ready to Support” 25th Amendment Coup Against Trump

McCarthy:  Andrew McCarthy: McCabe, Rosenstein and the real truth about the 25th Amendment coup attempt

 Collusion: The Criminalization Of Policy Disputes

 Comments On Andrew McCabe And The FBI's Coup Plotters

McCabe told Scott Pelley that he was concerned Donald Trump was a “national security threat” which was his reasoning for opening a counterintel investigation into Trump. Again, McCabe says this based on ZERO evidence.

 Trump, Erections, And A Lack Thereof

 The political culture that is China

Creepy 

 Henan, Kaifeng Jews persecuted along with other religions

Trump calls on U.S. allies in Europe to take back 800 captured ISIS fighters. "The U.S. does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go," Trump warned.

 Nowhere to Hide: The Logic of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria

‘Taking their last breath’: IS hides among Syrian civilians

 New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators. The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuse

 Proposed Title IX rules don’t go far enough for professor group, Harvard law scholars

VDH's  The Case for Trump: You can order the New VDH Book Today

Blame Amazon’s retreat from NYC on the humiliating ‘Dance, monkey’ competition

 The Amazon-slayers are only getting started

 Amazon invites Ocasio-Cortez for tour, calls worker claims untrue

 With Amazon NYC 'second HQ' deal canceled, Ocasio-Cortez now officially is a huge problem for Dems

 Two Nigerian actor brothers are arrested over Jussie Smollett attack, as it’s revealed they are FRIENDS with the Empire star amid claims the assault was staged to save his career

 ‘Can’t make this stuff up’! Jussie Smollett case takes another weird turn — and it ‘doesn’t look good’ 

 How To Spot A Hoax

 When the story is just too perfect, when it fits the stereotype that the perpetrator wants to believe, that's a big clue.

 California’s Gov. Newsom plans to shower illegal immigrants with millions in “humanitarian aid”

 Networks: 2,202 Minutes on Russia Scandal, Zero for No Collusion Report

 IT’S A TWO-WORD ANALYSIS: “BECAUSE TRUMP.”

 How the Democrats Went Nuts in Three Months

 If Socialism Is So Good, Why Are People Moving Away?

 7 Big Takeaways From Andrew McCabe’s Planned Coup

 Judicial Watch: Docs Reveal FBI Cover Up of ‘Chart’ of Potential Violations of Law by Hillary Clinton

Trump: Worst warmonger ever! 

 Palestinians: "Journalism" Hamas Style