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Weather and climate are perfect today. Perfect for hiking and farm work. 

15 Stats That Show Americans Are Drowning in 'Stuff'

 The War on Vaping

Why? 

 Purdue not taking any food for thought from anti-Chick-fil-A protesters

No chick fil is near me. I'd be happy to try one, but I do not love waffle fries 

The climate ‘strike’ that wasn’t one

A Leftist movement, mainly 

 IKEA Learns That Peas Are Racist

 Leftist Statue Vandals Come for Robert Burns

It's about time, right? Scottish supremacist. 

Did California Just Abolish Single-Family Zoning? The Golden State now allows homeowners to build up to two accessory dwelling units on their property by right.

That might be good. 

 Environmental apocalypse predictions have failed for half a century

 The End Of The World Is Coming According To Jerry Nadler

 Andrew Yang’s Climate Change Solution: Eliminate Cattle And Cars

 ‘Utopian authoritarianism’: Conservative British think tank director pulls the mask off the ‘hugely dangerous’ Global Climate Strike movement

 Rowdy student protest shuts down campus forum debunking climate alarmism

 Homelessness is reaching an emergency level in Los Angeles

"Homeless" is mostly a euphemism. Mostly, not entirely. Building a functional life isn't easy.

 What the Jeffrey Epstein Case Says About Elite Men

What is says about men in general. Not all men adhere to bourgeois values. Rich or poor, there are amoral hedonists. Illegal is another matter.

 Embracing Liberty in No Way Means Embracing Moral Relativism

 Trump admin. reaches asylum deal with El Salvador

Great 

Joe Biden Bragged That, With Barack Obama's Permission, He Threatened To Withhold Billions in Aid to Ukraine Unless They Fired a Prosecutor Investigating His Son's Company. And Now, The Deep State Refashions This as a Trump Scandal

An unshackled Trump finally gets the presidency he always wanted - No longer hemmed in by aides, Trump has bent the presidency into the mold of the Trump Organization.

 Katie Pavlich: The Democrats' desperate do-overs

 Why Starbucks is now on Hong Kong protesters’ business boycott list

The Vietnamization of Afghanistan - Democrats would resist fighting, even if war comes to U.S. as it did on 9-11

That's an argument, but I do not care about Afghanistan. It isn't even a country, really. Just a place. Even barbaric Russians could not pacify the place.

 Saudi oil attack was approved by Iran's supreme leader, U.S. official says

Our Skulls Are Out-Evolving Us - A motley crew of scientists argue that our ever-shrinking skulls are wreaking havoc on our well-being

 Announcement Of A Mamet Revival On Broadway Gives Wokesters The Sads

 An Obituary for the Boy Scouts of America

 The Kids Are Not All Right

98% of Cord Cutters Say They Will Never Go Back to Cable TV According to New Study From Roku

 How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork. ‘This Is Not the Way Everybody Behaves.’

 New Harvard policy may require ‘moderators’ for ‘controversial’ speakers

 Chinese Woman Pleads Guilty To Running Multi-Million Dollar ‘Birth Tourism’ Scheme In US

 Contesting the Progressives’ Takeover of Vermont

 Is Tucker Carlson the Most Important Pundit in America?

 The American Left Is Completely Insane

Millions of Americans Are Seething — a Trump Landslide Wouldn’t Surprise Me

Wargaming the Electoral College: Trump's 2020 Game Plan Preview

 UK: The Push to End Free Speech

 A Tribute to the Late Václav Havel on the 30-Year Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution

 Saudi oil attack was approved by Iran's supreme leader, U.S. official says

Amb.Crocker on Afghanistan

 What do you confess to the plants in your life?

To Help Birds This Winter, Go Easy on Fall Yard Work - A manicured lawn might look nice, but messy is better for birds and bugs.

Amish man and teen drinking in horse and buggy run after police pull them over - The buggy had a stereo system on its roof and police found "multiple open containers of alcohol."

 Newly passed California resolution blames ‘religious groups’ for LGBT suicides

 Writer Freaks Out Over People Eating Delicious Chick-fil-A: 'They’re Eating Fried Chicken SPITEFULLY!'

Social Justice Culture is Now Infiltrating the Study of Medicine

UK  Mom blames healthcare system after her son went blind from diet comprised of french fries and Pringles

Save the Robots - Bill de Blasio reveals his scrambled vision of innovation and labor.

 How We Know California's New Rent Control Law Will Make Its Housing Shortage Worse

 Compilation of Failed Ecopredictions

 Doomsdays that didn’t happen: Think tank compiles decades’ worth of dire climate predictions

 George Packer Gets Mugged by Reality

When the Culture War Comes for the Kids - Caught between a brutal meritocracy and a radical new progressivism, a parent tries to do right by his children while navigating New York City’s schools.

 Is Everyone Who Opposes a New School Zoning Plan in Brooklyn Racist?

 Do You Know What the Democrats Said at Their Debate?

 Democrats’ Red Flag Laws Meant to Take Weapons from Rural Gun Owners – But Not Gang Members Who Commit 80% of Gun Homicides

 It's All About Disarming White America

Sandy Hook Promise Ad Hypes the Danger of School Shootings, Fostering Irrational Fears and Bad Policies - Official responses to these extremely rare crimes are grossly disproportionate in light of the risk they actually pose.

Ben Stein: America the Beautiful

 Training Actors for War Games

 Elizabeth Warren Says Men Have A Right To Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

 How Oregon Built A Transgender Medical-Industrial Complex On Junk Science

 John Hopkins Psychiatrist: ‘Gender Confusions Are Mostly Driven by Psychological and Psychosocial Problems’

 ‘SOLD OUT’: Arizona Gun Store Offers ‘Beto Specials’ on AR15s and AK47s

 Aussie Greens: Nuclear Power is a “Dangerous Distraction” from Real Climate Action

GWU is shrinking itself 

 Fmr NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls out college campus 'intolerance' in blistering op-ed

 Feminist Author Taught NYU Students To Start A Revolution, They Rebelled Against Her Class

 Warren and Harris Demand Impeachment of Justice Kavanaugh Over Freshman Allegation Denied by "Victim"

 MSNBC, CNN rip House Dems over 'failure' Lewandowski hearing: 'They don't know what they're doing'

3 mental blocks that keep you from doing what you say you want to do

 Do the data support the idea that porn can have negative influences? 

 Ban on Eating Dogs and Cats Blocked in UK — It Might Offend Asian Migrants

 LA Times Says We Must Get Rid Of All Fossil Fuels, And Prepare For Sacrifice

Duke student senate denies Christian org recognition over traditional beliefs

 MSNBC: ‘There Are People In Power Who Want … [Blacks] To Drink From Certain Water Fountains’

Would You Pay $4,200 to Listen to Michelle Obama Scold You?

The Democrat debate was terrifying. Who are these people?

MC:  Evaluation Of Elizabeth Warren As Potential Democratic Candidate For President

VDH:  Trumped Out? After nearly four years of ceaseless attacks by Democrats and the press, the strange thing is not that Trump can be occasionally wearisome, but that he is even still breathing.

 The media has officially lost its damn mind

Althouse: Scott Adams: The Democrats are pushing "the stalest old stories" — Kavanaugh, impeachment, Stormy Daniels, Russian collusion — "are ya frickin' kiddin' me?"

 ‘They are CORRUPT’: Brit Hume rakes NYT over the coals for attempting to revive their smear campaign against Kavanaugh

 Washington Post says it passed on New York Times’ now-revised Kavanaugh story

 The Real Reason for That Kavanaugh Smear

 Ex-MSNBC host Krystal Ball says former network has 'done real damage to the left' during Trump era by 'conspiracy theorizing'

 Democrats Call For Kavanaugh’s Impeachment. Lindsey Graham Wrecks Them.

Journalistic malpractice? 

 Brett Kavanaugh is getting the Title IX treatment

Dem  McCarthy promises accountability as Barr reviews IG’s FISA report: ‘The closest we’ve ever seen to a coup’

The End of Western Hegemony

 Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing

 Soldiers without a country: We're finally honoring South Vietnamese who fought with us

 Four Cheers for Incandescent Light Bulbs

Autism:  The children of Donor H898

 BBC Tells Kids 'People Can Go to Prison' For Disrespecting 'More Than 100' Gender Identities

Your kids do not belong to you 

 Rage has free speech under siege on the American campus

It's not "rage."  It's cry-bullying. Probably fun, but not dignified.

Powerline:  WHAT IS SOCIALISM?

 Yes, They Are Coming for Your Guns

Beto: Texans Told Me They Don’t Need Their AR-15s And Would Give Them Up

 Chris Coons: Beto O’Rourke’s Call For Gun Confiscation Last Night Will Be Used Against Our Party For Years

 OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma Files For Bankruptcy As Dozens Of States Decline Proposed Settlement

Scapegoats 

 Bernie Sanders Doubles Down On Promise Of ‘Free’ Healthcare And College For The ‘Undocumented’

Is there any way to become de-documented? 

 Michelle Malkin: End to Refugee Resettlement ‘Long Overdue’ After Americans Have Gotten No Say

 Dopey Former Bartender Says “Miami Will Not Exist” in Few Years if We Don’t Obliterate Economy with Her Green New Deal

 New Book: Christine Blasey Ford’s Friend Leland Keyser Doesn’t Believe Her

Ford's lawyer thinks she was a faker 

An Interview with The Trayvon Hoax Director Joel Gilbert

Fake stories 

Another Smollett-style fake hate crime blaming MAGA busted

More fakery 

 DEMOCRATS HAVEN’T GIVEN UP ON SMEARING KAVANAUGH

More fakery 

 That’s Weird: Fake News Is Pushing Already Debunked Story by Drunk Kavanaugh Accuser – They Must be VERY WORRIED About Ginsburg’s Prognosis

 Sorry, The Air Force Deal To Refuel Near Trump's Scottish Resort Was Made Under Obama

More MSNBC fakery 

 Back Off from the ‘Resist’ Nonsense

 DOJ Files A Devastating Brief Exposing Jerry Nadler’s Impeachment Inquiry Scam

2020 Democrats hate Trump’s China trade war. Too bad they don’t have any better ideas.

Poll: Majority of Hispanics Support Ending Welfare-Dependent Immigration

Migrants Won’t Solve Europe’s Demographic Problem

  To make my case, I next show how the EU evolved from a constructive European community to an overbearing, undemocratic force that acts as if people have ceased to identify with their national communities and are already loyal citizens of the EU.

 13 Copycat Recipes Inspired by the Royal Family

 *The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us*

 Western Couple Travel to Middle East to Prove It ‘Gets a Bad Rap’ — End Up in Iranian Prison

Survey: 1 in 5 Americans Can't Name a Branch of Government

New York City's 1% Solution

 Banks Seek Lower Credit Score Requirements, Targeting Over 50 Million New Subprime Borrowers

 Cuomo’s war on pipelines means pain for little people

 Osama Bin Laden's Son Killed In US Operation: White House

' Texodus’: Why the Lone Star State might turn blue for real this time

 In debate, Democrats steer clear of economy

 Trump’s starting to win big on controlling the southern border

 Trump’s Only Real Weakness Is His Style

 Trump Trolls Media Saying Efficient Light Bulbs Make Him Look Orange; Mainstream News and Leftists Take Bait

Photo: A handsome Osprey in Long Island Sound, preparing for his flight to Florida or the Caribbean. Ospreys go south in Sept. 

Harold Lloyd’s Death-Defying Comedy - “With comedy, trouble  is one of the greatest ingredients because there are so many variations to it,” the silent film actor told one scholar.

 Hubble telescope spies water raining on distant world

 It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Party Doll

Dispersing the clouds of the vape panic myth - Illicit THC products are the problem

Vaping: A Moral Panic - The hysteria must end.

 Indoctrination: Greta Thunberg Wants You To “Feel The Fear” She Feels About Climate Change

Sheesh, no thanks 

Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas

Average U.S. FICO Score Hits All-Time High Thanks To Trump Economy

 Teaching That America Is Hopelessly Racist

Welfare Reform’s Payoff - New data from the Census Bureau shows that female-headed households are lifting themselves out of poverty through work.

 ARE BLACKS MOVING TOWARDS THE CENTER AS THEIR PARTY LURCHES TO THE LEFT?

Blue State Blues: Trump Proves Growth, Not Redistribution, Helps Black Americans

Not blacks - everybody 

 How One Journalist Covered Robert Mugabe’s Rise to Power: Cue the Carrier Pigeon

 Whatever happens in the world, the answer is always mass migration to the US

 El Salvador sends hundreds of police to border to thwart migrants

 Christine Blasey Ford’s Father Told Brett Kavanaugh’s Father He Was Glad He Was Confirmed

 TIME Editor, MSNBC Host Agree: Don’t Give Voice To Climate Change Dissenters, ‘There’s No Debate’….

 CNN vs. What the Science Says

 CNN’s big ‘mistakes’ all run in one direction: anti-Trump

Trump's Trade War Is a Loser for America - The president’s economic agenda is harming U.S. businesses and consumers.

Not if some good comes of it 

 Trade War a Weapon Against China's Spy War

 Trump “Becoming Presidential” Would Be His Doom

Bill Maher Laments The ‘Cancer On Progressivism’ As Democrats ‘Race To The Far Left’ - "I don’t think you’re gonna win this election."

Joe Biden’s Platform Illustrates The Breakneck Speed Democrats Are Lurching Left 

US attorney recommends proceeding with charges against McCabe, as DOJ rejects last-ditch appeal

 The Air Force Just Dropped 80,000 Pounds of Bombs on Island 'Infested' with ISIS Fighters

Is England Still Part of Europe?

Image via Ace 

Cool ways to serve eggs

 What does 'living fully' mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense

From a 46er friend, Adirondack hiking 

 Taking the Ham Out of Hamburger

 Those Plant-Based “Burgers” Aren’t Better For You, So Why Are You Eating Them?

How Conservatives Can Protect the Environment and Win Voters, Too. Making America beautiful is part of making America great.

Environmental Playacting - Today’s youth will fight climate change, we’re told—but they’re no more willing to give up luxuries than anyone else.

 Oh To Be a Democrat in New Jersey

Dems Secretly Trained Thousands of Activists to Manipulate Media, Clinton Library Docs Show - DNC coordinated with activists to 'infiltrate' talk radio

A book:  The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs

Target: New York. Eighteen years after the 9/11 attacks, Islamist extremism doesn’t make much news—but it’s not for lack of trying.

 CNN Anchor John Avlon Uses 9/11 To Argue ‘Right-Wing Terrorists’ Represent Biggest Threat To U.S.

Commemorating a lie 

MSNBC Anchor Asks Condoleezza Rice If Russia’s Interference Elected Trump; Rice Leaves Her Speechless

 Buzz: IG Report Is ‘Being Circulated Inside And Outside’ Of The DOJ And Finds That FISA Warrants Were Illegally Obtained

 Trump Caves to Lindsey Graham; U.S. Troops To Stay the Neverending Course in Afghanistan

 EU Accused Of Fascism After "Protecting Our European Way Of Life" Commissioner Announced