Maggie's Farm

Photo: FYI, Advent begins this Sunday 

Gerard sees what is left of his home in Paradise

Betsy retires from blogging. It went from a hobby to a chore 

 Payless sold its discount shoes for $600 a pair at mock luxury influencer event

How overparenting backfired on Americans - Being raised indoors might the reason young Americans struggle in the adult world.

First world war paintings go on show for first time since 1919

Wow 

Is Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer “Problematic”?

Is the US really so racist?

No. There is almost no racism in America today. 

 Chinese scientist's gene-edited babies have opened Pandora's box. Brace yourselves.

 Brazil Cancels Hosting Of 2019 UN IPCC Climate Change Conference

The ACLU Declines to Defend Civil Rights - The civil-liberties organization has taken a stand against stronger due-process protections in campus tribunals that undermines its own principles.

 Is New York's "Safety Net" A Success?

 Jerome Corsi explains the perjury trap Mueller's team sprang on him

 Why Trump will look back fondly on the Mueller probe

 Joke of the day: Obama takes credit for oil boom

 CNN’s Chris Cuomo Compares Criminal Illegal Aliens to Baby Jesus 

 Tijuana Official Slams Caravan Organizers: Not 'Coming Through' on Promises to Migrants

 The Russians and the Kerch Bridge: What Would Reagan Do?

ICC Takes Anti-Israel Bias to New Heights - A betrayal of justice.

Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag

From that Thompson piece: "I'd wager dollars to donuts they cannot identify one single aspect of their lives which has changed for the worse since January 22, 2017."

The Myths of Troy

Mass. Pot Shops Ring Up $2M-Plus in Sales in 1st Week

 Mysterious, paralyzing disease has now spread to 31 states and Canada

 Why GM CEO Mary Barra killed Chevrolet cars, approved likely plant closures

 A researcher’s claim that two CRISPR-edited baby girls have been born has been met with widespread condemnation from scientists and ethicists alike.

Different culture over there 

Lord of the Rings Slammed for Perpetuating Racism through Depiction of Orcs

We need more masculinity, not less

"Ah, another article about “strong” women. That is, women who become emotional wrecks and lose all self-control"

Unstable women are not good feminist role models. BTW, Thompson can be quite witty when he has the time. 

 ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’

Sheesh, Polly. She should be an artist? Unleash her inner Picasso?

 Twitter Has Gone Full Trans-Activist

 On November 15, I woke up to find my Twitter account locked, on account of what the company described as “hateful conduct.”

She actually said what? 

 White Liberals Dumb Themselves Down When Talking To Blacks

Dem politicians sure do 

 Berkeley prof wants to nix student evals after white male profs score higher

 OUR ROTTEN LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES

 Students at Williams College Demand Freedom from Speech

Except their own 

 Why do so many academics dislike the market?

New Orleans looks underground as parts of city slowly sink

 Martha McSally campaign says it's not, not, NOT her fault she lost to Kyrsten Sinema

Blaming others is neither attractive in adults or children 

 The Continuing Lunacy Of The Neocons

 If government unions have a choice, why shouldn’t workers have it too? Janus and the Free-Rider Myth

Sorry Lib Media: Bill Clinton Took 26 Junkets with Deviant Epstein—Trump Banned the Perv From Mar-a-Lago

 New York Times Columnist on Trump Supporters: ‘Maybe They’re Just Bad People’

 IT WAS A HOAX: Guardian Report Blows Up – Manafort Passport Shows NO UK TRIPS – Never Met with Assange

What's up with The Guardian?  The Guardian’s Desperate Attempt To Connect Assange To Russiagate Backfires

Libel time 

 Dershowitz: Number of ‘Credible’ Witnesses Mueller Has Are ‘Shrinking by the Day’

USA Today:  As American troops install razor wire in Arizona, images of the Berlin Wall resurface

The whole world wanted to move to the East German paradise 

 The problem with those in favor of ‘illegal’ immigration

 Poll: 7 Of 10 Mexicans Have Negative View Of Migrant Caravan Marching Through Their Country

Racists 

 What Hillary got right (and wrong) about Europe’s migrant mess

 A Sobering New Report on the State of US Military

 CNN poll reveals depth of anti-Semitism in Europe

 In Dramatic Reversal, Theresa May Will Allow Parliament To Change Brexit Deal

 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.

 Study Finds Dogs Twitching In Sleep Are Dreaming About Tearing Owners Limb From Limb

 Dozens of dead turtles wash ashore on Cape Cod

Tyler Cowen: The best book of 2018

Visit Portland! 

 The Truth About Killer Robots: the year's most terrifying documentary

 Big Tech Is In Big Trouble

 Scientists on the Verge of Genetically Engineering Babies

 Social Justice Warriors Want Women to Ditch Their High Heels

 Experts on Climate Change Assessment: ‘Every Conclusion of This Latest Government Report Is False’

 Gov. Jerry Brown okays utilities charging Californians to pay for fires utilities may have started

 The Idea That Just Won't Die: The Right Federal Program Can Solve Any Human Problem

Are Dems the snob party? 

 Trump’s critics were dead wrong about the caravan after all

 Border Patrol Chief: From What I Saw, The Caravan Members Were Not Seeking Asylum

Hoaxed: The ‘Illegal Alien Mom with Barefoot Kids’ Photo was a Setup – Another Staged #FakeNews Production

Whoopsie – MSNBC Accidentally Airs Ground Report Showing Vast Majority of Caravan are Military Aged Males…

Tear gas used once a month at border under Obama

Asia Bibi and the First Freedom: Why hasn't she been granted asylum?

Quote via Moonbattery 

Walter WILLIAMS: Fruits Of College Indoctrination

 “It’s NOT OK To Be White” Says University Of Manitoba – “Reject White Interests”

Feminists’ Undue Process - Ideologues react hysterically to the Trump administration’s suggested reforms to campus-rape tribunals.

 My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy

 California’s forest fire tragedy……

The Anti-American Americans

 ‘We will close the Border permanently if need be’: Trump threatens decisive action if Mexico does not deport caravan migrants as hundreds storm border and guards open fire on women and children with tear gas and rubber bullets 

 How much of your personality is genetic?

 Who’s Afraid of Ludwig Wittgenstein? Explaining the Lack of Women in Philosophy

 University Dean Resigns After Being Suspended For Tweet Questioning Kavanaugh Accuser Julie Swetnick

Harvard, Yale and CNN Get Mocked Over Ridiculous Idea To Stop Global Warming

 Obama: US Failing to Handle Climate Change Challenges Because of ‘Racism,’ ‘Mommy Issues’

 AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY WOULD BE WONDERFUL, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ONE

 REPORTER ASKS TRUMP ABOUT FACEBOOK BIAS – TRUMP REMINDS THEM WHERE CHUCK SCHUMER’S DAUGHTER WORKS

 WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OCASIO-CORTEZ’S GAFFES AND SARAH PALIN’S? THE MEDIA

 It Was a Team Effort! George Papadopoulos Accuses British Embassy in DC of Illicit Spying on Trump Team!

 Joe Scarborough Gives Thanks to Hillary Clinton For ‘Trying to Make This World a Better Place’

 Kunstler Exposes "The Core Truth" Of The 2016 Russia Collusion Story

 Shoehorned into the festivity of the season is the lame-duck session in congress, and one of the main events it portends is the end of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The Sphinx-like Mueller has maintained supernatural silence about his tendings and intentions. But if he’d uncovered anything substantial in the way of “collusion” between Mr. Trump and Russia, the public would know by now, since it would represent a signal threat to national security. So it’s hard not to conclude that he has nothing except a few Mickey Mouse “process” convictions for lying to the FBI. On the other hand, it’s quite impossible to imagine him ignoring the well-documented evidence trail of Hillary Clinton colluding with Russians to influence the 2016 contest against Mr. Trump — and to defame him after he won. There’s also the Hieronymus Bosch panorama of criminal mischief around the racketeering scheme known as the Clinton Foundation to consider. Do these venal characters get a pass on all that?

Hillary Tells Europe to ‘Get a Handle’ on Migrant Influx to Stop Right-Wing ‘Populists’ - Hillary: “If we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politic”

 Tijuana Mayor Declares Crisis At Border; DHS Warns Of Criminals, Gang Members Among Caravan

“Migrants” Defy Trump At Border Or Something

John Kerry warns against mass migration 

Donald Trump's Middle Eastern Realpolitik

Re the Saudis, Scott Adams explains the difference between the child's view of the world and the leader view 

 For Reasons Good and Sad, Thanksgiving Is Now Our Greatest Holiday

Best thing about it? No darn presents. Nobody needs presents, unless they are edible. Mrs. BD is threatening to get me an iphone XS for Christmas. Do I need that gadget? My life is pretty good right now as it is.

Much Ado About Free Speech: A Canadian Professor Responds

Also, "Of late, the Left has again become rather taken with the notion that marginalised groups suffer under unfettered speech. Ergo, it is argued, “Social Justice Warriors are the true defenders of free speech,” because selective censorship helps to compensate for power differentials and open public discourse to a diverse range of voices."

 Elizabeth Yore on FGM: ‘Silence from Feminists Has Been Deafening on This Issue’

Coyote: Transpartisan Plan #2: A Better Approach to Government Health Care: Focus the Government on the One Thing It Does Best

Makes sense to me, not to politicians

Clinton Foundation Donations Plummet 90% Over Three-Year Period Following

Hillary’s Departure From State Department

Florida Investigating State’s Democratic Party for Fraud

 John Kelly Signs “Cabinet Order” Authorizing Troops At Border To Use Force, Perform Some Law Enforcement Functions

Good. Uninvited guests not welcome. Angry disrepectful invaders less so.

 Vote Or Get This: Trump Appears On French Election Posters

 The Fall of the House of Saud

Substitutes for victory in Afghanistan 

Photo from  The Great Thanksgiving Accord of 2018: How I Made Peace With My Over-Educated, Under-Achieving, Functionally Worthless, Left-Wing Dorkwad Nephew

 Giving thanks for the magic of the marketplace, the invisible hand of strangers, and no turkey czars

Thanksgiving warning:  Romaine lettuce is not safe to eat, CDC warns U.S. consumers

The harvesters are pooping in the fields again 

 Pope Francis Contra Property Rights, Borders

So get rid of those Vatican guards, and the Vatican wall. 

 Environmentalists Knock Themselves Out On The Keystone XL Pipeline

Break up the internet monopolies? 

Self-driving cars work about as well as central planning bureaucrats do

 Megyn Kelly Will Get $30 Million To Leave NBC

It can be fun to get fired especially if you have legs like hers

College Students Felt Depressed, ‘Rejected’ After 2016 Election

Grow up, babies

Lecturers at university told not to use capital letters in communications with students

 Syracuse U: Mandatory diversity course 'didn't hit the mark'

 New York and Virginia won Amazon, but low-tax states keep winning more and more jobs

Midterms: Saddest election ever? 

" From my time in both the military and healthcare I can say that the biggest problem are the compliance costs."

Kirsten Powers: If you support Trump's agenda, you are racist 

What? 

 The GOP Agenda for the Next Two Years

 Rush’s Epic Answer to a 13-Year-Old: Why Becoming an American Shouldn’t Be Easy

 MEXICANS DON'T WANT ILLEGAL ALIENS IN THEIR COUNTRY, NO ONE DOES

 German Think Tank: Trump Winning in Trade War with China

 Brussels Unveils EU Army Plans for Spy School, Missile Development

Their bureaucrats want an empire 

Give thanks: The world has actually gotten a lot better

 Why the Enlightenment was not the age of reason

Cannibalism in South Africa

Thinking about moral licensing 

A mini ice age could be on the way and it’s going to get very, very cold

Is discussion of gender differences sexual harassment? 

Amazon Chose DC And NYC Because That’s Where The Childless Workaholics Live - The retail conglomerate has a notoriously brutal reputation for what it expects from its employees.

 PRESCHOOL: MUCH MORE THAN YOU WANTED TO KNOW

 Texas university: 'Toxic masculinity' 'plagues' society

 Ohio State student group: Ben Shapiro's words can 'threaten' 'mental safety'

From 1989:  U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

 Audit Cites Flaws In Costly California Bullet Train Project

Duh 

 THE RICH TURN TO THE DEMOCRATS

"During the Cold War, being a conservative was a moral cause. You were fighting Communist tyranny — aligned with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Lech Walesa..." "But you were somewhat marginalized in your own society. Liberals controlled the universities, the news media, the cultural high ground, so the right attracted many people with outsider personalities....

 FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE SENDS DEM VOTER FRAUD CHARGES TO FEDS

 MARCO RUBIO BOMBSHELL: Democrats Planned Voter Fraud Day After Midterm Election — And There’s Proof

 Dems in Florida Will Keep Counting Votes Until They Get the Result They Want

 Why the Brexit chaos has only just begun

 60% Of Italians Think EU Is Bad For Italy

Whitetail hunting in 1810

A brief Art History Timeline: Western Art Movements and Their Impact

Fashions come and go. All fun to look at. 

 Widow's and widower's Social Security Benefits in the US

 Mercury Intelligent Heated Jacket

Good grief 

 Homeless man and N.J. couple concocted story for GoFundMe fundraiser, prosecutor says

What Chico is doing for Paradise 

The Free Speech Crisis on Campus Is Worse than People Think

 Mountain of evidence shows the Department of Education’s prior approach to campus sexual assault was ‘widely criticized’ and ‘failing’

Not from The Onion: Can we "decolonize" space exploration? 

 Filmmaker Ami Horowitz: The Caravan is ‘Highly Organized,’ ‘Paid for by a Number of Organizations’

 Melania to Michelle Obama: Don’t Need Your Advice, I’m an ‘Independent Woman’

 Hillary Clinton Is History

 FEDERAL COURT SAYS CLINTON MUST ANSWER MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT HER EMAILS

It's all about her yoga sched, but can you image her in yoga? Or in yoga pants?

 France Has Neither Nationalism nor Patriotism

 College library: Thanksgiving a '#NationalDayofMourning'

Why can't people see that the Pilgrims were immigrants fleeing oppression?

 D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together

What UK Parents Are Doing About Today’s ‘Oppressive’ School System

 Anonymous professors attack colleague behind ‘grievance studies’ hoax as threat to university

 Men behind ‘Conceptual Penis’ hoax say academe trades respectability for ideological crusades

Humans Are Genetically Predisposed to Kill Each Other

Humans: Unusually Murderous Mammals, Typically Murderous Primates

Tourism pressures: Five places tackling too many visitors

"Scientists behind a major study that claimed the Earth's oceans are warming faster than previously thought now say their work contained inadvertent errors..."

 Coldest Temperature On Earth Recorded In Antarctica

 Amazon HQ2 Decision Provides Yet More Insights Into The Progressive Brain

Atlantic: Amazon’s HQ2 Will Only Worsen America’s ‘Great Divergence’ - In today’s economy, well-off people live in big cities, while everyone else gets pushed out. Bringing new Amazon offices to Virginia and New York could hasten the process.

So good jobs are a bad thing? 

 HOW GOOGLE AND AMAZON GOT AWAY WITH NOT BEING REGULATED

Is There a Charity “Crisis”? No—liberals would just prefer that the rich gave less and were taxed more.

Trump’s Trade Warrior - Meet Peter Navarro, the madman behind the president’s “madman theory” of global trade negotiation.

Hardball is working 

 It’s true that on the House side, Democratic gains were almost exclusively in the suburbs. But that’s no small thing. 

 Bob Woodward Is Right: The Press Is 'Emotionally Unhinged' About Trump

 No blue wave, but a tsunami of hate

 Arizona Illustrates the RINO Revenge

 Trump to nominate Neomi Rao to replace Brett Kavanaugh on D.C. Circuit

Judge Rao and  Regulating the Regulators

Trump Endorses 'First Step Act' Criminal Justice Reform Measure

What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.

GE Is Now Trading Like Junk

I blame Immelt 

America Fails at Fitness

One British Company Wants To Implant Microchips Into "Hundreds Of Thousands" Of Global Workers

Into themselves, too?  You go first.

Do you struggle to control your sexual urges? 

The Aussie gal who started the site Quillette 

 Dutch doctor faces first euthanasia prosecution

 Migrant Caravans Are the Tip of an Iceberg

 They’re Here!!! Caravan Migrants Reach US Border at San Diego, Climb Fence

 Ocasio-Cortez Is Upset World's Most Valuable Company Is Investing In NYC

What??? 

 NYC shouldn’t be begging for Amazon’s new jobs

Well, every city in the country wanted the Amazon HQ - but Amazon probably wanted to be in NYC anyway. So they had an auction of sorts.

 Democrats: ‘Cruel and Unscientific’ to Define Legal Sex by Biology

 Camille Paglia: It’s Time for a New Map of the Gender World

"But on a trip to Europe, the president hardly said a word — and he still managed to outrage at almost every turn."

Maybe it's time to rebrand the Democrats as the party of the rich.

 Great minds think alike: Pope Francis Asks to See Michael Moore in Private and Tells Him that "Capitalism is a sin"

 Marco Rubio Reveals Broward and Palm Beach Counties’ Strategy to Steal the Election

 GOOD NEWS: House Democrats have readied more than 84 subpoenas to gridlock government and attack your President

An opportunity to throw a few coins to the now-homeless Gerard Vanderleun 

How five pals turned ‘Sex Island’ into a raunchy tourism empire for the rich

 Thought Crime at Victoria’s Secret

 Like explaining colors to a blind man - A color-blind one, that is.

Sudden illumination. We can all use those experiences.

 Less than a third of Americans, and only one in five teenagers, meet new physical fitness guidelines issued by the federal government 

 Fish, omega-3 may lower heart attack risk, studies find

Or this:  Vitamin D And Fish Oil Supplements Mostly Disappoint In Long-Awaited Research Results

 Lack of sunspots to bring record cold, warns NASA scientist

 Warmists Are Suddenly Coming Out In Favor Of Nuclear Power

 Surprise: Camp Fire Wildfire Not Caused By Your Use Of A Fossil Fueled Vehicle

 FACEBOOK FIRED VIRTUAL REALITY PIONEER FOR SUPPORTING TRUMP

 University of Texas says ‘meritocratic’ hiring is a ‘problem’

 FAKE RACIST HATE CRIMES NOW AN ANNUAL TRADITION AT KANSAS STATE

 UW mandates diversity training after professor pens article on 'sex differences'

 For Army Infantry’s 1st Women, Heavy Packs and the Weight of History

 What Does It Mean That There Is "No Evidence" To Support An Accusation?

PAGLIA:

 Wives returning from work to an apartment or house are expecting their husbands to fulfill all the emotional and conversational needs that were once fulfilled by other women of multiple generations throughout the agrarian workday in the fields or at home (where the burdens of childcare and eldercare were group shared). 

"If you are over the age of forty, one of the remarkable things to happen in your lifetime is the collapse of Buckley Conservatism. " 

Will Trump be the Last Republican President?

 Carlson Details Ugly Encounter With Avenatti's Latest Client, So Avenatti Posts Statement Attacking Carlson And His Kids

 THE WASHINGTON POST IS A PARTISAN RAG, CRITICS SAY

  1,282 out of 1,762 New Votes That Magically Appeared This Weekend in Georgia Went to Stacey Abrams

Provisional Ballot Boxes Discovered Inside AVIS Rental Car At Ft. Lauderdale Airport

 What Macron got wrong while lecturing Trump