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The Unusual Difficulty Of Photographing Pandas

Defense Against Bears with Pistols: 97% Success rate, 37 incidents by Caliber

That's a great website 

Why the Earth Has Fewer Species Than We Think - A primer on the epigenome.

Why bigger planes mean cramped quarters. The incredible shrinking airplane.

 YDSA urges socialists to infiltrate public education

Asia Argento's Time Is Up - A tale of fame, fallacy, and the perils of good intentions

The Billion Dollar Homeless Scam

 Two officers suspended after body cam video was leaked of the Denver mayor's son berating cops

 America is experiencing a major culture war between its interpreters and the people.

 The NYT is doing an effective job at instilling revulsion for Trump.

"Every day it becomes clearer that the true object of the investigation taken over by Robert Mueller is the removal of President Trump from office."

Powerline:

We live in a schizoid time. In the world most of us inhabit, things are going extraordinarily well. We are in the midst of the longest bull market ever. Employment is at a record high, unemployment–especially among minorities, young people and women–at or near record lows. GDP is growing at a 4% clip, which liberal economists deemed impossible in the last administration. Wages are rising. We are at peace, but at the same time our government is finally taking steps to deal with long-festering problems in Iran, Russia, China and North Korea. What’s not to like?

If you listen to most journalists and pundits, none of that is important.

Just how communist is Mainland China?

E U Meeting Ends With No Deal On Migrant Redistribution

 Netherlands Prosecuting Man for Insulting Turkish President Erdogan

 At present, Muslims make up about 17% of the population of Antwerp and Brussels, 22% of Birmingham, 25% of Marseille, 11% of Amsterdam, 13% of Rotterdam, and 13% of Frankfurt. Immigration patterns and demographic trends indicate that those numbers will increase steadily in the years to come, and eventually, I repeat, all of Western Europe will be under sharia law. Or, as John puts it so prettily, “many things will be different and some things will be better.”

 Why Prosperity Has Increased But Happiness Has Not

 Venice restaurant bill outrages Japanese tourists

It's a tourist trap 

San Francisco "Poop Patrollers" Make $185,000

 The Folly of Scientism

Passing the Torch - Why the eons-old truce between humans and fire has burst into an age of megafires, and what can be done about it

 Social Media Companies the Most Dangerous Monopolies Ever

The Guardian: Men’s Fixation on Younger Women is Indicative of a Crisis in Masculinity

Says Legal Insurrection, "Longest “crisis” in human history"

 If neo-Nazis didn’t exist, the left would have to invent them. And to some extent have.

Texas School Removes 'Ladies' and 'Gentlemen' Quote After Single Twitter User Complains

 ‘Social Justice’ is Overrunning the University of Texas

Kling:  I think that the case for spending “public money” (i.e., money extracted from taxpayers) on schools is quite weak. Until I see a well-controlled experiment, I will be skeptical of the benefit of schools. 

 College bans ‘racial’ and ‘offensive’ discussions on campus network for 11 years

 52.1% of Kids Live in Households Getting Means-Tested Government Assistance

THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER’S PERFECT STORM - And why religious freedom is at stake.

 What Socialists (and Most Other People) Don't Understand About The Oil Industry

 Anti-Trump Harvard Law prof ‘has lost his mind’ over Supreme Court nominee

Steyn:  The Priorities of US Justice

 Anatomy of a Sting: Robert Mueller Likely Used FBI and Foreign Intel to Set-Up George Papadopoulos in July 2017…

Woodrow Wilson's biographer discusses the 28th president's racism and the disabling stroke he suffered in 1919

 Don’t subsidize coal; just stop trying to kill it off

Sea level rise has been average 7 inches per century for 7000 years 

 Can Sexual Orientation Change?

Cultural appropriation update 

 New Jersey governor bans black bear hunting on state grounds, but not without backlash

 Asia Argento: I Deny Everything — And The Payoff To My Accuser Was Anthony Bourdain’s Idea

Do People Really Think Earth Might Be Flat? A poll says lots of Millennials evidently do

 Not The Onion: PETA Frees Animal Crackers From Cages

At UCLA, 20 paid diversity advocates isn’t enough

Is Democracy Really Dying? Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate

When the Left admits they hate America and Americans 

 Pulling Their Clearances Is Only The Start — It’s Time To Stamp Out Elite Privilege

Vanderleun:

 The monsters from the id that seized control the Democrat Party have transformed that party into a mob of undead extras from The Walking Dead (Season 285). From “the friend of the working man” this party has become an indecent and disgusting spectacle of crazed cultists and prevaricating perverts claiming they are “normal”.

Above: Perry's Venn Diagram related to MacDonald's Gender is a construct - except when it's not

Tyler Cowen is visiting Baku 

 Most wildfires are started by humans, we can do a lot to prevent them too

Ethanol Is Terrible for Health and the Environment, but Government Keeps Backing It. The US federal government still strongly pushes corn- and soy-based ethanol despite the EPA's new study showing its harmful effects.

US military having trouble finding good recruits 

 California Dems Pass Bill Banning Sale Of Soda And Juice To Kids…

Public Housing’s Most Notorious Failure - Revisionist history notwithstanding, Cabrini-Green more than deserved its reputation for crime and squalor.

Dalrymple on bureacratese 

The Pernicious Impact of Government Intervention in Healthcare, Captured in a Chart. This “third-party payer” system basically means market forces are absent.

 Weinstein accuser Asia Argento made deal to pay her own sexual assault accuser, bombshell report says

 Asia Argento Paid Off Sexual Assault Accuser (Report)

ANDREW CUOMO: TRUMP’S AMERICA CONSISTS OF ‘SEXISM, RACISM, BIGOTRY, AND INTOLERANCE’

"...conservatives also cave in large numbers even when their most sacred cows are in danger."

 Chelsea Clinton Now Calls Running for Office a ‘Definite Maybe’

David Horowitz:  Trump’s Character and Trump’s Presidency

This is why all Americans should support President Trump on immigration

Trump is gaining black support because his policies are improving the lives of all Americans

Dino:

...  this was never about Russia at all, although if they caught some Russia this or that, they’d scream to the high heavens. (Expect that in the Mueller report.)

No, this was about getting a gangster, Don Trumpeone, by getting people like Fredo Manafort and Clemenza Cohen on some tax thing or other, and having them turn on the Dogfather. And if there’s no tax thing, there’s always perjury, simply manufactured by Mueller’s preferring some statement from Party X over one from the mouth of Fredo or Clemenza (truth isn’t truth as you know — cue screaming).

The left made multiculturalism and the multinational order unviable as a power play. But the play went awry. Instead of the left’s plans moving forward, they’ve been set back. And instead of taking responsibility, the left is blaming everyone else for its own crimes against liberalism. 

Trump didn’t break the old order. The left did. 

What Are Red Tides and Why Are They Getting Worse? When algae get a surplus of nutrients, they grow at ridiculous rates.

The cheese of ancient Egypt 

Roundup and junk science 

 The internet has transformed the search for love and partnership

First They Came for Alex Jones

In Stunning Admission, Jack Dorsey Acknowledges Twitter's "Left-Leaning" Bias

 SO, YOU WANT TO BE A POLICE OFFICER?

 Editorial Collusion By Dozens Of Newspapers Proves Trump's Point: The Media Are Biased

 Poll: Government Back On Top As Nation’s Leading Problem

 Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything

 ICE BUSTS ILLEGAL ALIEN WANTED FOR MURDER IN MEXICO, MEDIA OUTRAGED

 ANOTHER TRUMP MIRACLE: President Brings Hope and Investment Back to Gary, Indiana – A Democrat Dead Zone

  Black Business Ownership Under Trump Jumps 400% in ONE YEAR

 WHAT TO MAKE OF THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL’S COOPERATION WITH MUELLER

 Progressive Cities Go To Work On The Problem of "Homelessness"

RAHM EMANUEL ACCUSED OF RACISM FOR SUGGESTING SHOOTINGS COULD BE FIXED WITH FAMILY VALUES - "Our kids need that moral structure in their lives. And we cannot be scared to have this conversation.”

 One of the most touching of the #Walkaway stories

 EITHER OHR

 Will South Africa Follow the Path of Zimbabwe?

 VIETNAM’S CATHOLICS: CROSS WITH CHINA, AND ALL COMMUNISTS

 Peru And Ecuador Demand Passports From Venezuelans Migrants

Photo is a big slice in Yonkers 

Yum

 Your Carbon Pollution Infused Beer Is Killing Off Bloody Mary’s Which Help With Your Beer Hangovers

How US Sugar Subsidies Bring A 'Red Tide' Of Algae To Florida's Shores

Sugar and corn subsidies are abominations 

 Women At War

Related,  Why statistical discrimination is higher than is either socially optimal or Bayesian rational

How does diversity strengthen us? 

When digital platforms censor 

GAY ANTI-TRUMP LEFTY UNDER FIRE FOR SAYING NOT ALL REPUBLICANS ARE RACIST

John Brennan’s Trumpian Turn

 "Deeply Troubling" - Wall Street Journal Implores "What Was Bruce Ohr Doing?"

 Bruce Ohr Docs Show Christopher Steele “Very Concerned” About Comey’s Firing – “Afraid They Will be Exposed”

NY Times Columnist: Trump ‘Would Certainly Like to’ Murder People Without Due Process

Iranian-Backed ‘Sleeper Cell’ Militants Hibernating in U.S., Positioned for Attack

 Google employees demand more oversight of China search engine plan

 Shark attack victim suffers puncture wounds to torso, legs

Just down the beach from where we were last week 

A Weird-But-True Story Takes Flight In 'The Feather Thief'

NYC's  Gowanus Canal cleanup has unearthed historic treasures — covered in toxic goo

 Prof Claims 'Responsible Fatherhood' Reinforces 'Patriarchy'

 COLORADO IS GOING AFTER JACK PHILLIPS OF MASTERPIECE CAKESHOP AGAIN

 K-12: Creating the 'Ideal' School

 Obama Foundation’s monumental rip-off

We are not Rome. I detest these self-aggrandizing presidential monuments 

 Democrats are out to sabotage the middle class on health care

Dems against choice, just one-size-fits-all government medical care 

 Not a joke: The New York Times has an advice column about how to 'cure' white skin privilege

 Trump Slams NY Gov Cuomo's "Total Meltdown" After "America Was Never That Great" Comment

"The narratives that painted Black Lives Matter activists as 'violent' have turned into legislation that targets black people, leftists, and other marginalized groups."

Washington Post: Trump’s Guilty Till He Proves Himself Innocent

 Michael Barone: Either Trump is delivering on his economic promises, or he's very lucky

 Mainstream media ignores Trump’s success on world stage

 A Journalist Reflects On His Profession’s Anti-Trump Collusion

 Laws of Armed Conflict in Gaza

The Nastiest Feud in Science - A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate.

 Good News: Climatruther Computer Model Predicts End Of Civilization By 2040

Al Gore says Trump undoing environmental regs has done less ´damage´ than he once feared

 Pennsylvania priests 'abused thousands of children'

  How To Identify Racist And Sexist Remarks And Slurs

NY Times Advice Column Tackles White Guilt

 Antifa, Democratic Socialists, & New World Order All Want Same Thing: "No Borders, No Wall, No USA At All"

 Forbes Slammed for Wilbur Ross 'Grifting' Report

 Feinstein, Strzok, and the Sinister Russia Probe

Prof: Free speech could normalize Trump 

Re Kavanaugh:  DEM DESPERATION DIALED TO 11

 Boycotting Sam Adams Beer Over Trump Support?

 Stung by President Trump’s repeated charges of “fake news,” last week The Boston Globe announced an alliance of more than 70 newspapers planning to run editorials protesting a ‘‘dirty war against the free press.”

 America’s Newspapers Just Played Right Into Trump’s Hands

THE COORDINATED 'WAR OF WORDS' AGAINST TRUMP - The latest surge of fake news from the establishment media axis.

 Kurt Schlichter: NeverTrumpers Don't Hate Trump. Primarily They Hate You.

 The Media Are Hiding Their Knowledge and Duplicity – Buzzfeed, WaPo and New York Times Had Unredacted FISA Application For Over A Year

Brennan, the Spooks, and Russian Collusion

 No time limits, no 'public circus': Bruce Ohr to testify behind closed doors, Trey Gowdy says

 How Were Bruce and Nellie Ohr, Christopher Steele, and Fusion GPS Plotting?

Jews:  The Middle East’s Other Refugees

THE CONFERENCE THAT PAVED THE WAY TO THE MURDER OF MILLIONS - In one fateful day, 200,000 Austrian Jews were caught in the jaws of the power-hungry, Jew-hating monsters to whom nothing was sweeter than Jewish blood.

 "Furious" Swedish PM Rages At Violent Gang Rampage: "What The Hell Are You Doing?"

 London Declares TERROR ATTACK After Man Mows Down Bicyclists In SUV

 British Prime Minister's Comment On Terror Attack Makes CNN Look Stupid

 Paris baulks at 'horrible' eco-friendly public urinals

 Residents of the small French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon saved thousands of Jews during World War II 

Demonizing Ride Hailing

 The pros and cons of NYC's ban on new Uber and Lyft cars

 Professors allow students to pick their own grade

 Without Free Speech, Everything You Say Is Meaningless

 Most of us are familiar with the Stepford Wives, but how many of us realize that the men involved in the so-called Deep State have wives that are anything but Stepford-type women?

 Alex Jones doesn’t represent anything new in this country. We’ve always had our share of paranoid crackpots

 Democratic Socialism: Who Knew That 'Free' Could Cost So Much?

Howie Carr:  If I ever get jammed up, I ask for no special treatment — just treat me like an illegal immigrant.

  The Trump economy is destroying the Obama coalition. 

 An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida's Presidential Vote At A Hacker Convention.

 SARA CARTER: House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte Preparing to Depose Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr and Glenn Simpson

 That Time Omarosa Was Fired from the Clinton White House

A democratic revolution has just begun in Vietnam. Massive but orderly protests across the country hint at the beginning of the end of Communist Party rule

 China's state firms cementing lucrative role in South China Sea, new research shows

Painting by John Grillo. We have met him on many occasions and have some of his pictures. Always wanted one of his big oils but too much $. No wall space anyway.Yes, Wellfleet had a secret ocean nude beach for the free-love bohemians, artists, architects, and Harvard intellectuals. Not easy to find.  Not much nude there now.

What Is War Good for? Ask a Chimpanzee. What apes and monkeys can teach us about the roots of human aggression.

Now another poet gets in trouble with the Red Guard 

Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition. Where are the grown-ups?

 The troubled 29-year-old helped to die by Dutch doctors

 Canada To Chronically Ill Man: How About A Little Euthanasia Instead Of Home Care?

 Apple Vows iPhones Do Not Listen In On Users... But Its Apps Are Another Story

Ethanol Is Destroying the Environment

We had corn on the cob with steak last nite. Corn is good food. And ethanol is for cocktails. 

 How Do You Tell If The Earth's Climate System "Is Warming"?

Steyn: MS-13 are nice kids

Why California Cities Are Becoming Unlivable. California has the highest poverty rate in the U.S. and is rated dead last in quality of life.

A tale of 3 ctiies: In 1960, Detroit had the US's highest average income 

 Sarah Jeong Is a Boring, Typical Product of the American Academy

She is predictable: Hates the US, hates whites including Jews, loves Palis. illegals, and loves all self-anointed victims, hates the New York Times (yeah). I doubt she ever met a roofer or a hunt dog trainer. 

 Twitter Explodes After Ocasio-Cortez Attacks Shapiro In Response To Debate Offer

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy: Big Tech ‘Must Do More Than Take Down’ InfoWars

Who next? Is Maggie on his little list? We feel he is a deplorable punk. 

Court denies preliminary injunction in U. Michigan Bias Response Team lawsuit

The Red Guards win one 

Watch Ivy League Students Try To Explain First Amendment

Berkeley:  In addition to higher wages, the union workers are demanding that the school guarantee them free tuition and childcare, subsidize their housing costs, disarm the campus police, and provide financial support to illegal immigrants.

No free lollipops?

 With the possible exception of Baltimore, there is no city where the consequences of leftist policies in terms of law and order are more dire than Chicago.

Democratic Socialism Threatens Minorities. Nothing better protects victims of bigotry than a system where they can pursue their needs and wants outside the realm of popular control.

 Dear LeBron: Democrats, Not Trump, Ran Cities Like Akron Into The Ground

NAACP's own poll reveals surge in black support for Trump – and they react badly

 Blacks' approval of Trump reaches a high of 21% and NAACP charges 'racism'

 Here We Go… Far Left Actress Alyssa Milano Blames Russia for Republican Win in Ohio Special Election

I blame climate change 

 Michael Moore: ‘F—k Hope, Seriously, F---k Hope;’ Trump Will Be ‘Last President of the U.S.’

VDH:  How can Americans now trust the intelligence agencies shown to be corrupt in the very recent past?

 Dianne Feinstein was an easy mark for China’s spy

 Byron York: What Was Hillary Clinton's Cut-Out Christopher Steele Doing Pallin' Around With a Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch Who Wasn't Allowed in the United States But Really Wanted that Prohibition Lifted?

Is there any doubt about a spy-FBI- Russia-Clinton nexus? 

 "The Outlook Has Become Grim": Trump Trade War Causing "Rare Cracks" Within China's Communist Party

 Why the EU Won't Comply with Trump

There has never been free speech in China 

Who Really Stands Up for America?

 Trump Wins: Germany’s Central Bank Stops $400 Million Cash Delivery To Iran

Richard Jarecki, Doctor Who Conquered Roulette, Dies at 86

 CAL POLY TO REQUIRE PROFS TO SUBMIT ‘DIVERSITY STATEMENT’ AMID CRACKDOWN ON WHITE STUDENTS

Surprise: Warmists Admit Carbon Taxes Are Jobs Killers

Poetry:  The progressive heretic-hunters turn their eyes to The Nation, and the nation.

American Jews: oppressed minority or privileged ?

Rabbi Sacks: On not being a victim 

 Meet America's Elite Farm Subsidy Club

 Hall of Famer Jim Brown says he'd never kneel during anthem

 Why Chicago can’t get a handle on deadly shootings

Drug gangs killing eachother. Maybe Chicago doesn't care about that 

"Heavily Armed" Muslim Extremists Arrested In NM; Trained 11 Children To Commit School Shootings

 The Great White Culture War

Never will you hear the Progressive say “this is good enough, we can stop now.”

 The Elite Freaks Out When Trump Puts Americans First

 Trump May Lose Star on Walk of Fame, But Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey Won't

  Americans Give Trump An 'A' For Economy

 STEELE, SIMPSON, AND OHR LINKED WITH RUSSIAN OLIGARCH

Via Ace:

 Hundreds of pages of previously undisclosed FBI emails and memos show that the Democrat opposition research firm Fusion GPS, through former British spy Christopher Steele, worked closely with the FBI, and DOJ official Bruce Ohr, to take down Donald Trump before, during, and after the 2016 presidential election.

Beijing demands Christians infuse faith with 'Chinese characteristics' amid crackdown on religion

 Saudi Arabia crucified a man in Mecca while aggressively calling out Canada over human rights

 China has had a strategy to supplant the United States as the dominant military and economic power since 1949. 

How to Combat the Left’s ‘Alternative’ Israel Brainwashing - My time among the propagandists

The real story behind the ‘Little House on the Prairie’ controversy

UCLA students forced to pay for ‘Toxic Masculinity Committee’

 THE LEFT’S WAR ON WHITENESS

 Should Christians Vote for Muslim Candidates?

Why not? It depends 

 The Latest “Trump The Tyrant” Article From The WaPo Is A Real Gem

HOW THE MEDIA EMBRACED EN MASSE FAKE NEWS ABOUT TRUMP TOWER MEETING

 CNN’S OWN LEGAL ANALYST DASHES PANEL’S COLLUSION NARRATIVE

Obviously. And unlike Clinton, there was no payment for Russian dirt 

 The Big Tech censorship storm has landed

 Socialist ‘Future of the Democrat Party’ Just Had a VERY Bad Night

 Beyond family separation: Trump’s ongoing war on asylum, explained

But if you get arrested, you can't be with your kids 

How a senior DOJ official helped Dem researchers on Trump-Russia case

 Why Doesn’t President Trump Get More Credit?

 German Spy Chief Warns, Islamist Children "Pose Real Threat" To Nation

Asylum seeker who raped 17-year-old student in a cemetery replies ´Yes, I did that. Why not?´ as he is jailed for 16 years for attacking her and another woman five months apart

We have to be more multiculturally understanding, right?

 China may have to resume U.S. soybean purchases in weeks

Trump drives tough deals 

Trump Insults Anybody Who Angers Him, Regardless of Color

 Elderly Men Escape Nursing Home To Attend World's Biggest Heavy Metal Festival

 Amish man starts "Uber" ride service with his horse and buggy

Air Force silent after 2-kiloton meteor hits Earth near base

I blame climate change

 EPA: Maybe adding ethanol to gasoline wasn’t smart after all!

 Kudos to Netflix For Dropping Farrakhan ‘Documentary’

Apple’s Stock Market Scam - The tech giant just became America's first trillion-dollar company, but it wasn't thanks to the iPhone.

Free the carmakers from government regs 

 We’ve Got To Stop Letting ‘Outrage Mobs’ Get People Fired

 CHINA Murdered or Imprisoned 20 CIA Operatives and Sources While Feinstein Had a Chinese Spy as Office Manager

 Mayor Blames Trump For Black Doll Hung In Playground. Reverend: Here's Who Actually Did It.

California government official:  “Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.”

Unfunded US state and local government pensions totals $5 trillion 

AVI: My thought has been that while nationalism has dangers and can be a false god, internationalism is a worse one.

 FAR LEFT MOBS RIOT In 3 Major US Cities — NOT ONE Mainstream Outlet Reports on the Widespread Leftist Violence

 The New Underground Railroad… To Canada

Bees are not in Danger

 An extensive report from the Environmental Protection Agency found that including ethanol into the U.S. gas supply is wreaking havoc on the atmosphere and soil

 New York Bill Mandates Three Months Paid Bereavement Leave

That is crazy on so many levels 

California fires and sprawl into fire zones 

NRA Sues New York Officials Over 'Blacklisting' Campaign

Scott Adams discusses his visit with Trump 

A delightful report 

 CBS News Tries To Blame Portland Violence On Trump Supporters

 This will not stand: Judge orders DACA fully reinstated

 Fact Check: Trump Says 3.5 Million People Have Been Lifted off Food Stamps

The Fate of the Atlantic Alliance

 South Africa Moves Forward with Expropriation of White Land Without Compensation