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Wednesday, November 26. 2014Wednesday morning linksI am thankful to those who contribute to Maggie's, and to all those who contribute links for our morning link dump. Besides randomly-interesting stuff, we like to link views and info which are neglected by the MSM. Also, a thanks to other sites which we frequently neglect or forget to acknowledge as link sources - sites like RCP, Hot Air, Insty, Lucianne, Drudge, Vanderleun, and others. Thanks to y'all for your work. We wish a Happy, thankful, and blessed American Thanksgiving to all of our readers and friends of all nations, creeds, colors, shapes, sizes, gender identifications, and cultures across our fruited plain and across the world. Is it now OK to have sex with animals? Taboos are so bourgeois and limiting of self-expression and self-realization Are Women More Open to Sex Than They Admit? Certainly. Everywhere I go, women try to seduce me What it felt like to fly Concorde An audio book review: Dan Stevens Reads Homer Translations Prager University – Why Bad Luck is Good for you Modern Feminism: Appalling Stupidity Backed by Hysterical Rage An article set to produce countless spells of the vapors across American campi. Never leave home without your smelling-salts. Common Core Will Fix the Nonexistent Gender Gap! Private Oncologists Being Forced Out, Leaving Patients to Face Higher Bills Believe me, you would always rather have a private doc than an employee of somebody else Obamacare Twice as Likely to Hurt Americans than Help Student mugged, says he deserved it because of his 'privilege' This beta-male kid will eventually get his well-deserved Darwin Award Read this yet at Rolling Stone? A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA Thinking too highly of higher ed California Teachers Suing Their Union Over Dues, Politics People Starting To Ask About Motive For Massive IPCC Deception Forget Ferguson, 244 Teenagers Have Been Shot In Chicago Since Michael Brown Died 13 Facts About Ferguson the Media Will Never Tell You The Bonfire of the Ferguson Kabuki No cameras, no riots. It's symbiotic. Riots sell - ask any TV network. The New York Times and Other Members of the Ferguson Hall of Shame NFL Star Reggie Bush Joins With Pro-Palestinian Activists in Co-opting Ferguson Tragedy Legal scholars praise Ferguson grand jury for fairness beyond the norm
Is Preston saying that the guy had no choice? RAW COURAGE: Papa John’s Female Manager Defends Store From Looters With Bare Hands Giuliani saved thousands of black Americans "Chuck Todd's out there... saying 'Obama nourishes me.' What are you doing? Breast-feeding?" Schumer: Despite Midterms, ‘Public Knows in Its Gut’ That Big Government is Best Williamson: Family Affairs - Political Dynasties and their discontents Williams: Elite Contempt for Ordinary Americans America, You’ve Been Grubered!
Poll: Latino voters want more, more, more How Unskilled Immigrants Hurt Our Economy Understanding the Nihilist in the White House - Obama is bent on destruction rather than creation, because destruction for its own sake is also part of the arsenal of nihilism.
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How have American foreign policies gone wrong? Have they "gone wrong"? What is America's role in the world? Profs Blame ISIS on ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘Grievances’ Blaming the victims again ISIS Blows Up Christian Church and Monastery While Muslims Cheer Tuesday, November 25. 2014Quote du jour on illegal immigrationI believe that the economy can potentially absorb five million additional gardeners and nannies. The challenge will be to create a corresponding number of rich young liberals to hire them. Lawrence Sellin, here.
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Tuesday morning linksMary has electromagnetic hypersensitivity intolerance syndrome (EHS) Of course she does...what else could it possibly be? Scaffholding for Capitol Dome restoration finished Giving Thanks at Cracker Barrel (h/t Althouse) Millennials Miss the Mark on Free Speech Parents Pepper-Sprayed and Tasered in Front of Kids - for having messy house " poverty is the normal condition of man" This is what a Feminist looks like — The university system as The Village of the Damned Renewable Energy Will Never Work, But Can Nuclear? his is what a Feminist looks like — The university system as The Village of the Damned - See more at: http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=55603#sthash.bmzpIvSS.dpuf "... the Democrats’ current Hillary problem: everyone in the party seems to be supporting her, and yet nobody can articulate exactly why." Morici: Whites Face a Government Working Against Their Interests and Their Children's So do African Americans Who Paid for Astrid Silva to Go to College? Sultan: Amnesty for Unamerica:
State Senator: This Is St Louis' Race War She wants to catch up with Detroit? Let no excuse for looting and rioting go to waste. Social justice requires burning a lady's cake shop. Memo From Middle America | Obamnesty Not Approved By Congress? No Problem, It’s Been Approved by Mexico And Central America! White House Quietly Releases Plans For 3,415 Regulations Ahead Of Thanksgiving Holiday You had better read these, citizens An economist explains what the heck is happening to the global economy 20 Ways Media Completely Misread Congress’ Weak-Sauce Benghazi Report Monday, November 24. 2014Asians get the Ivy League's Jewish treatmentMonday morning linksThe 12 Wildest Songs to be Played at the Benefit Concert for American Digest's Gerard Vanderleun Thad McCotter wrote a book Wild turkeys have made a comeback and are ruffling some suburban feathers Why Are America’s Poorest Toddlers Being Over-Prescribed ADHD Drugs?
The Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy The Unilateral Presidency - Obama may be right on the substance of immigration reform, but he's setting a dangerous precedent. Democrats bet on diversity - Rallying behind the president on immigration, the party hopes to expand Obama’s winning coalition in 2016. Ed Gillespie: An Obamacare Do-Over Colleges struggle with protecting students without being accused of victim-blaming These Gross School Lunch Pictures Are Going Viral With the Hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama Ivy League students held a mock funeral Friday afternoon mourning oppressed "black and brown bodies." Ice to close upper Mississippi from November 20, earliest on record We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Fans They are killers What Big Wind Doesn’t Want You To Know Shocker: Top Google Engineers Say Renewable Energy ‘Simply won’t work’ Duh. Economics Profs Claim Ninety Percent Income Tax Rate Would Help the Rich Penn’s gaydar admissions project goes back years: Gays are ‘blue-chip recruits’
Hillary Clinton Offers Her Own Condescending Hispanic Stereotype Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Drunk Drivers, Your Sex Abusers, Your Drug Traffickers… White House Points to Decades-old Data on Immigration Benefits - Other studies show immigration reduces wages, employment Duh. Cuban migrants head off from Caymans, bound for Honduras Black Activists Speak Out against Obama Amnesty Agenda Maine's Anti-Sanctuary Governor Blasts Obama Amnesty, Calls it ‘Very Shameful’ Salaita and The Historiography of Victimhood Philosophers Behaving Badly: Brooklyn College BDS Edition The European Parliament Threatens To Break Up Google Sunday, November 23. 2014Racist aggressions against our epistemologies.
No, that is not a quote from The Onion. Is There Any Hope For Our Civilization?
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Saturday, November 22. 2014Saturday morning linksTyler Cowan's favorite 2014 films Alpine roller coaster with no brakes The Morning Routines of 12 Women Leaders Larry the Cable Guy: ‘How come Cosby is toast and Clinton is toast of the town?’ Maryland Churches Won’t Be Charged “Rain Tax” if they Preach Global Warming Remember When Warmists Said “Climate Change” Would Reduce Lake Effect Snow? Poverty Causes Crime? Colleges struggle with protecting students without being accused of victim-blaming Lawyers Rake In Billions From Federal Disability Program Ferguson – Race Baiting for Political Power and Profit Religious Conservatives Look to Get Out of the Civil Marriage Business Meet the Washington Snobocrats Americans Don't Want Government to Guarantee Healthcare, Again - Voters used to heavily favor federal intervention to ensure coverage. What happened? This Is Why Rand Paul Is Hillary Clinton's Worst Nightmare You Have to Give It to the President - It’s a brilliant, brutally cynical near-term gambit. Despite highest poverty numbers in 50 years, Obama okays illegals to compete for jobs in US President Obama has liberated the GOP from passing an immigration bill True Should Republicans Embrace the Obama Non-Enforcement Doctrine? An utterly shattering video about the moral depravity of students at UC Berkeley TAKING ON THE SICILIAN MAFIA WITH GANDHI TACTICS Oxford cancels student-group-organized debate on abortion after the student union “voted to inform College Censors about the mental and physical security issues surrounding the debate.” Talk is Cheap: U.S. Response to Jerusalem Synagogue Attack NSA director: China can damage US power grid Israeli Police Busted A Massive Shipment Of Knives, Tasers, And Swords Bound For East Jerusalem Image below via Zero: Friday, November 21. 2014Illegal Immigration links
ICE readies 2,400 beds for new surge of illegal immigrants through Texas Obama sets off on scorched-earth rampage No, Reagan Did Not Offer An Amnesty By Lawless Executive Order Fukuyama: Immigration Unilateralism - A Bad Call After Barack I Issues His Amnesty Decree, The Ball Is In The GOP's Court Hinderaker: On Obama’s Illegal Usurpation, Jeff Sessions Speaks For Us:
Somin: A president does have this authority McArdle: "As an act of rare semantic derring-do, this was a towering achievement. As a political speech, I don't think it was very effective." How Obama got here - The president, the Homeland Security secretary and their secret 9-month project to remake American’s broken immigration system. Newbrough: "Opposing amnesty doesn’t make me heartless, selfish, or cruel, because the U.S. Constitution, our nation’s law, is not mine to give away. It’s not mine, yours, or anyone’s to simply hand over." Thursday, November 20. 2014Fun with illegal immigrationSilly me, thinking that illegal immigration was against the law rather than being rewarded. A few links: Immigration Lawyer: Obama’s Plan Is ‘Like The Golden Ticket’ Christian Adams: Obama, Our Modern John C. Calhoun I never learned in school that a president can make his own laws whenever he is frustrated by Congress, but the NYT says it's ok to do that. I can easily imagine what they would say with a Conservative pulling something like that. Anyway, what's the urgency? Krauthammer: Obama executive action on immigration is 'outside of his power'
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Thursday morning linksImmigration: Obama’s royal scam Obama Is About to Commit an Act of Constitutional Infamy And his f- you to the voters Stories from around the world illustrate how immigration is a very difficult moral issue for liberal democracies today. I hear from an expert friend that this is the best show the Met has ever put on Why It's So Hard for Millennials to Find a Place to Live and Work Colossal Mistake: Trivializing the Past I disagree with the article. Old Roman constructions are used for modern activities with much success Polar Bear update If you go Black Friday shopping on Thanksgiving, you should be deported How the War on Poverty Has Hurt American Marriage Rates Mel Watt: Fannie and Freddie to Remain Under Federal Control That's a mistake This Gruber-gate supercut video is positively enraging Cato: Grass-Roots Tobacco Bans? Not Quite Purity politics, Democrat-style Purity politics, regardless of viewpoint, is not politics My Company Is Officially Required to Buy a Product That Does Not Exist For Us NYT (!):As Sharpton Rose, So Did His Unpaid Taxes StL U Law School Posts #Ferguson Solidarity Page Sultan's Life Under the Victimocracy
HERE’S WHY WOMEN IN COMBAT UNITS IS A BAD IDEA Admiral Greenert Speaks: What Should the U.S. Navy’s New Maritime Strategy Look Like? Germany Abandons CO2 Targets Is NATO obsolete? Egypt takes aim at Hamas' terror tunnels Murder of 4 Jews praised by Abbas' advisor and Fatah Being Jewish in Turkey South Sudan, Samantha Power, and the Failure of Liberal Internationalism Is Palestine a State That the US Can Recognize? Wednesday, November 19. 2014Is atheism a protected religion?Apparently, it is a protected opinion against religion and thus religious in some sense: Atheists and Secular Humanists are protected by the First Amendment regardless of whether their belief systems are “religions” or not. It is legally interesting, but in my experience most atheists have faith in some thing or some things as a life foundation, mainly pagan or materialist sorts of things. In the US, most atheists live on a Christian foundation.
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Wednesday morning linksMasters of Love - Science says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity. The Modern Supermarket Is a Miracle - Finding euphoria in the bread aisle. Weather Channel Co-Founder Predicting Snowier, Bitterly Colder Winter Ahead Is New York the New Model for Startup Cities? Its rise has been remarkable. But should aspiring tech hubs really emulate the Big Apple? Roadblock on Main Street - How federal housing policies run downtowns out of business Promises Made, Promises Broken 2014: Unfunded Liabilities Hit $4.7 Trillion Calling on the Brooklyn College Administration - Academic and administrative bias have, in the last few years, spread like a virus throughout the CUNY system. Stop the lies! ‘It’s Time To Push Back Against Feminist Bullies’ Under Obama, U.S. personal freedom ranking slips below France Canada: How free market ideas went from marginal to mainstream in our neighbor to the north Too-Big-To-Manage Emerges As New Concern In the Financial Crisis Why Does Washington Want to Hide Science Data From the Public? Gruber: Obama personally asked me to help disguise unhelpful Obamacare facts Why Dems Lack Working Class Appeal: It’s Immigration, Stupid How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico Matthews: Obama Will Negotiate with Iran, But Not GOP on Immigration Two U.S. Islamic Groups Called Terrorist by U.A.E. Roger Simon: Oh, Jerusalem Israel to ease self-defense gun restrictions after Jerusalem synagogue attack Hamas, Inc.Gazans suffer, while their leaders continue to pile up the loot America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder Conrad Black: How the Mideast Plunged Into the Current Abyss — And the Opportunity Ahead Tuesday, November 18. 2014Carbon dioxide: It's all good.Asian students and diversity
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Tuesday morning links Nearly 36 million people are slaves, Qatar in focus: global index Number of Foreign Students in US Hits Record High Letter to a Manhattan Resident - A view from that big country outside New York Once Thought Extinct, North America's Rarest Mammal May Bounce Back Autopsy: Robin Williams had Lewy body dementia Article makes no sense to me: The Pipeline From Hell: There’s No Good Reason to Build Keystone XL Ice Visible on Lake Superior Weeks Ahead of Schedule What the mainstream media wont tell you about global warming Climatologist: 30-Year Cold Spell Strikes Earth Obama: ’Like Your Plan, Keep Your Plan.’ Gruber, 2009: ‘Five Million People Will Lose Their Plan’ Gruber has exposed what liberals really think of the American people.
Monday, November 17. 2014Monday morning linksToshiba enters high-tech food game with lettuce you don’t have to wash Five-year-old passes Microsoft exam Shale Oil: Expensive, Over-Hyped, & Short-Lived? The Ways Climate Change Is Already Killing Us Good grief, it's killing me already Will Republican Know-Nothings Torpedo Climate Progress? I guess I'm a know-nothing, but I am more Conservative-Libertarian than Republican and I do know a teeny bit about science. "...the oceans have been rising for around 12,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age. The rise was rapid during the first few millennia, then tapered off to where it has continued at a modest rate, with the usual fluctuations, for many centuries" Who are the real know-nothings? Warm is good. Don't these people know that we are still in an Ice Age? It's just a momentary interglacial in a lengthy Ice Age. Ask Maine's Sippican about that. The government is clueless as to what is nutritious because the science is nowhere near being settled in our lifetime. Well, We The People know that mashed taters are nutritious. Fat is harmless, but you can live on taters forever. More than holy, healthy and halal, Big Kosher is big money New CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay a ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share Black prof.: GOP using Mia Love to advance ‘white interests’ What is a "white interest"? Mashed potatoes? Douthat: The Great Immigration Betrayal The Next Border Crisis - Executive amnesty would incentivize the next wave of families Via In Oregon Illegal Immigrant Referendum, a Warning for Obama:
Police state? More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations The lies that are central to Obama’s agenda Administration Tries to Distance Itself from Gruber’s Comments Gruber: “Seniors Do A Terrible Job Choosing” Health Plans Mr. Gruber, we Americans are all too stupid to chose our medical insurance, so do it for us. Please? It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves. Obama Says Gruber “Never Worked on Our Staff” …But There’s Proof He Met With Gruber in White House Under the bus with Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, et al. It's getting crowded under that bus. Republicans have made it clear that if Obama goes forward, it would be the equivalent of giving the middle finger to their incoming majority You betcha U.S. Navy Deploys Laser Weapon in Persian Gulf 1939 Palestinian Flag. What does it look like? Surprised? Russian bombers to fly over the Gulf of Mexico. This is what happened last year in Central America. Sunday, November 16. 2014Explaining GruberThe Liberal Arrogance at the Core of Obamacare: ...paternalism is warranted, they argue, because without the government, people would fall prey to big, bad corporate interests and their efforts to relentlessly maximize shareholder value. I don't think that I am unique in preferring big bad business interests to big, bad crony government and political interests. If you don't like a business, you can quit it. Not so easy to quit an armed government. Being American is not supposed to be being a US subject. Related: Gruber is an honest Liberal because he admits to grubering. Seems to me that his confessions are just bragging. A new word: "Grubering." Lying your ass off to make a better world for you pathetic idiots.
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Saturday, November 15. 2014Saturday morning links The kids are going to the NYBG Holiday Train show today. A field trip. 1/4 miles of track. Very cool for any age. Best to get tickets online. Is It Time to Ditch Your Dining Room? We only use ours about 20 times per year, but it is quite an attractive space with a nice old fireplace. With good friends, we tend to dine in the kitchen unless it's a special occasion. Grown-Up Flourless Chocolate Espresso Cake Killer Shrimp, Flying Fish as Big as Teenagers: Great Lakes States Battle Invasive Species Only women are supposed to be able to talk about gender issues. Vodkapundit: Climate Change Made Simple U.S. and China Are Blowing Smoke on Climate Change Amazing to me that the NYT won't see through the BS Surber: The first 2016 Electoral College Map looks bad for Democrats They will find a way to blow it Liberal Utopia: Boston Dumps Young Black Males into Special Ed Senate to take up bill to stop mass NSA snooping In Scathing Letter to Obama, Former FBI Assistant Director Slams Holder as "Chief Among Antagonists" in Ferguson "And you think it's possible for the State to navigate between not enough minority members in the district and too many minority members in the district without taking race into account." Grubered Again! Fifth Video of Liberal Mastermind Surfaces The good story of the amateur Gruber sleuth: A word with the man who… Also, Obamacare -- the Truth is Out:
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Yes, that is the game. Used car sales. Noonan: The Loneliest President Since Nixon - Facing adversity, Obama has no idea how to respond. Oh yes he does: Obama Taunts Republicans: Immigration Action Is “Going To Happen” In 2014 Whether You Like It Or Not… Good news from NYT: Rogue executive feeling “liberated” by gigantic midterm landslide Working for ICE 'is hell right now,' as Obama plans amnesty for illegals The Next Border Crisis - Column: How Congress can fight Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty Obama's executive amnesty, gateway to Obamacare for illegal aliens Sultan's Super-Amnesty Will Turn Every City into Detroit:
Immigrants, legal or otherwise, are doing the jobs I did as a youth Elizabeth Warren gets rock-star reception at liberal donors confab Friday, November 14. 2014Common Core: The Elites Did ItCommon Core–The Elites Did It:
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Combine arrogance, money, fancy degrees, and a top-down attitude, and this is what you get: a one-size-fits-all central plan designed for the masses by our moral and intellectual superiors whether you want it or not. Same general philosophy as Obamacare. Or this: Liberal Masterminds Demand National Food Policy. No, that's not from The Onion.
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Friday morning linksA book (h/t reader) - Dining on the Shore Line Route: New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad South American Catholics Turning Protestant It's time to abolish the Interstate Highway System The Rudy Giuliani guide to beating Hillary Clinton Rush: Amnesty is Irreversible Geo. Will: Six Things GOP-Led Congress Should Do Right Away Climate Change’ in the Land of Gruber/Obama Obamacare's Foundation of Lies - There is only one kind of lie, it's apolitical, and it cripples the best of intentions. Krauthammer on Obamacare:
Krauthammer on Pelosi: “If You’re Going to Lie Make Sure There Isn’t a Video” Warren to the rescue - Democrats are reeling. So they're calling on their biggest star. Hamas second-richest terror group in world, Forbes says Forcing females into combat is real ‘war on women’ Thursday, November 13. 2014What is the Biggest Barrier to Innovation in US?
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Thursday morning linksWhen apples were for cider Wal-Mart 'urgent' memo urges improvement at U.S. stores Why is NYC's nickname "Gotham"? Disgruntled U. North Carolina Student Upset That University Won’t “Guarantee Academic Success” African immigrant fact of the day Feds Spent $10 Million on a Video Game About Escaping a Fat Town ‘Too Stupid’: Second Video Shows Obamacare Architect Insulting Public Again, In a Third Video, Obamacare Architect Brags About ‘Exploiting’ the American Voter
New York: The Union That Devoured Education Reform - The UFT’s relentless pursuit of its own interests has damaged Gotham schools for decades. Explaining income inequality by household demographics 42 Percent of New Medicaid Recipients in the Last Two Years Were Immigrants U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency Analysts: China Energy Pact Has High Costs With Few Benefits The rise of Christianity in China Dem Think Tank Secret Email: ‘All Hands On Deck’ to Sell Iran Deal to Public African immigrant fact of the day
Wednesday, November 12. 2014Wednesday morning linksAn interesting life even if he had not located King Tut's tomb: Howard Carter the artist America’s Oldest Living Veteran, 108, Still Enjoys a Whiskey and a Cigar Student photos of skimpy Michelle O lunches raise ire of parents Let them eat crap You can’t say ‘crazy’ at Smith College: Student paper replaces with ‘ableist slur’ Those people aren't crazy - they are batshit crazy. They ought to get out of Northhampton occasionally and experience reality unless they are too fragile to handle it. Marijuana Arrests Continue to Fall As Decriminalization and Legalization Spread Bad News for Long-Term Pot Smokers But isn't the whole point to make you a little stupid? That's the good part. Surber: Say Nyet to net neutrality Mia Love isn't really black "Real black" politicians are all about victimhood and special goodies. In my experience, real black Americans are not. The coming climate onslaught - President Obama readies a sweeping list of executive actions. South and East: Get ready for the icebox Proposed Water Rule Could Put ‘Property Rights of Every American Entirely at the Mercy’ of EPA Why Obamacare Architect's Admission of Dishonesty Should Matter to Every American Thomas Sowell: Obama's Weakness, Ineptitude Are By Design, Part Of The Plan Donor Data Show Overwhelming Leftist Bias of News, Entertainment, and Academia Chart below via Carpe
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