Maggie's Farm

It's getting closer to the time to begin Christmas shopping. Whether you like Bezos or not, Amazon Prime is your friend. A daughter says Macy's is her friend now, too (the big store in Manhattan).

A book: Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball 

Not out til March though. Looks cool. 

 ‘Equal Pay Day’ this year was April 10 — the next ‘Equal Occupational Fatality Day’ will be on May 3, 2029

I do not like seeing pilots so high on the list. Those are not commercial pilots, though. GA pilots. 

This year in museums - On movements within, and reactions against, art museums in 2018.

 The secret of Apple's success in selling premium tech as an affordable luxury

 Democrats Promise “Dawn Of New Era” On ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

 Appeals court rules colleges must censor and block online services if they offend someone

Everything offends somebody, but grievance-collectors are the worst 

 5 most outrageous professor statements of 2018

 University offers students contradictory instructions on sexual consent:  “One should never assume by the way a person…acts, that they [want] to have sex with you.”

What? It's pretty obvious when men want sex (most of the time). 

Radicals, left or right, are high in dogma, more resistant to evidence 

Lefties more so than conservatives 

 Get Ready for the Coming War Against Merit

I am not convinced that the SAT is a measure of merit. It's really just an IQ test. Achievements tests are better merit measures but lots of schools do not have AP courses. Grades are not very reliable measures these days. If I ran a school, I'd use an IQ test, a Curiosity test, a Talent test, and an Energy test. No straight-A drones please.

CNN's "Journalist Of The Year" Committed Journalistic Fraud "On A Grand Scale" At Der Spiegel

 US Government Announces $10.6 Billion in Aid to Mexico and Central America — But ZERO DOLLARS for Border Wall

Mexico is not a poor nation. Lots of oil This payment is a deal to make them stop the caravans, probably. 

Trump Wanted Out of Syria. It’s Finally Happening. The announcement is in stark contrast to recent remarks by senior U.S. officials on the presence of troops.

I'm with Trump on this. Not my problem, not essential to US security.

 Trump’s Syrian Retreat: A Disaster in the Making

Maybe their disaster, but not mine. Disasters are normal all over the world, due to human nature. 

 Looking for China’s spies

Of course they have tons of them. No surprise.

Russia Russia Russia. They elected Trump?

Some feckless Russians spent $4000 in Facebooks ads about masturbation. How much did Hillary spend on her Russian info? 

Related:

Who Were the 1st Americans? 11,000-Year-Old DNA Reveals Clues

 This 87-Year-Old Woman Donated Her Body So Doctors Could Slice It into 27,000 Pieces

 The Pitfalls of Too Much Security

The Babysitter's Lament

I disagree with our friend.  This is simply what happens when young males and females spend a lot of time together. Biology happens. 

 Harvard Zealots Abuse Title IX to Nail the Accused

 HOW TOTALITARIAN REGIMES WILL TAKE OVER SOCIAL MEDIA AND DESTROY THE WEST

 Is Michael Savage the latest victim of TDS and the left's 'pacification effort'?

Big corporations hate conservatives 

Liberal Media Loves Immigrants, Except for Melania Trump

Correction: Media loves illegal immigrants 

 Advertisers flee Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show as controversy grows over immigration remarks

 Officials baffled by large migrant groups at remote crossing

Two-Tiered Justice: Mike Flynn and Tony Podesta Did Same Work for Turkey, Both Filed Retroactively. Flynn’s Life Is in Tatters As Podesta Walks Free

 KLAVAN: James Comey, Sanctimonious Crapweasel

 Former FBI chief lashes out at Trump, Republicans

 Christians 'Standing in the Way' of China's Xi Jinping's Totalitarian Rule

 Brexit: How Europe does second referendums

Make the peasants vote until they vote right 

Venezuela update 

A lesson in how to destroy a wonderful country 

Why the Boston Tea Party Was Such a Great Event

Sexy:  Sensual Goddess Fresco Discovered in Ancient Pompeii Bedroom

The Biggest Junk Science of 2018

Is abortion "medical care"? 

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to. Analysis: Microsoft adopting Chromium puts the Web in a perilous place.

Poorer Than Other Generations - Millennials are less wealthy and are lower-income than previous cohorts. Here's why.

More Evidence Organic Farming is Bad

Schools Ordered to Teach Eight-Year-Olds That ‘Boys Can Have Periods Too’

Yikes 

 Is practicing yoga cultural appropriation? Students react.

 Baltimore County Spends $147 Million On School Laptops; Four Years Later Test Scores Still Terrible

HOW THE LIBERAL PRESS SHAPES THE NEWS

 Good Riddance to Obamacare

 Mueller's ‘Enterprise’ Witch Hunt

 Mueller Destroyed Messages From Peter Strzok's iPhone; OIG Recovers 19,000 New "FBI Lovebird" Texts

Europe:  "Nothing Scares The Identity Politics Left Like An Actual Working-Class Uprising"

VDH:  The Globalist Mindset: They Hate You

The common target of all these populist pushbacks is an administrative and cultural elite that shares a set of transnational and globalist values and harbors mostly contempt for the majority of their own Neanderthal citizens who are deemed hopelessly unwoken to environmental, racial, gender, and cultural inevitabilities.

In a word, the Ivy League, Oxbridge, and the Sorbonne masters of the universe assume that the world is on a predetermined trajectory. We are to follow an arc of history bending toward state-managed social justice if you will—to end up as a sort of global Menlo Park, Malibu, Upper West Side, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Schwabing, or Kensington. No wonder, it is their ethical duty of transnationals to goad the fated, but sometimes stalled, process along...

Via Insty,  It’s Not A Carry Gun If You Don’t Carry It

Daughter of India's wealthiest family marries. Video 

The Clintons were there, of course 

 Organic food worse for the climate

"You, Too, Are in Denial of Climate Change."

 Professor hired mercenaries to rescue student from ISIS in Iraq after he said he wouldn't finish his thesis

 The Left Attacked A White College Student For Saying He Loves White People. That's Wildly Hypocritical. Here's Why.

 Former FEC Chief: Actually, Those 'Hush Money' Payoffs Were Not Campaign Finance Crimes

 Mueller releases Flynn files showing FBI doubts over ‘lying,’ tensions over interview

 Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers Testify: "It Operated As An Unregistered Foreign Agent"

 New York Times photographer posted support for terrorism on Instagram

Jerry Brown Says Dems Are Becoming Too Extreme

 Trump sprang three traps on Pelosi and Schumer yesterday

Surber on Trump:  Those who complain about his style are superficial people. The real test is substance, not style.

 IF TRUMP WERE A DEMOCRAT, WE’D BE SEEING COMPARISONS TO JFK NOW

Deportations under Trump are on the rise, but still lower than Obama's, ICE report shows

Trump Releases Video Showing Hypocrites Schumer, Obama and Hillary Pushing Border Security

 Dems Voted For Border Fencing In 2006, Now Claim Oppose Wall Because ‘You Can’t See Thru It’

 Brexit falters over a faux border problem

 South African Political Leader Defends Comments to “Kill Whites” – “Kill Their Children and Women”

 NYT: ‘UNCLEAR’ WHAT MOTIVATED GUNMAN WHO YELLED ‘ALLAHU AKBAR’ BEFORE ATTACK

 Survey reveals America’s favorite Christmas song to sing in the car

She wants to be a writer

Everybody wants to be a writer, but I feel sorry for the gal.  

Climate change causes more animal bites 

 10 YEARS AGO TODAY – Al Gore Predicted North Pole Would Be COMPLETELY ICE FREE in Five Years

 Gary Sinise Flew 1,000 Children of Fallen Soldiers to Disney World for Christmas

Google CEO Exposes Shocking "Full Extent" Of Russian Meddling In 2016

 DOJ investigation turns up thousands of missing texts from Peter Strzok and Lisa Page

Being conservative is more stigmatizing than being gay 

Conservatives are the only "marginalized group" left 

 Cowardly Republicans defend due process for Kavanaugh but not accused students

 A sea change for sexual conduct on campus

 GETTING IT WRONG ON DEMOCRACY, PART TWO

University of California First to Issue Academic Boycott Condemnation

'If you go to another country, you must abide by its culture. If not, don't go': Egypt's president decries migrants heading to Europe and refusing to integrate instead of fixing their own countries

He is right

 Members Of Congress Will Now Have To Pay Out Of Pocket To Settle Sexual Harassment Claims

Scientific American: If you like Trump, you suffer from 'antagonism'

Seems like plenty of "antagonism" from the Trump haters 

 That Oval Office sit-down? Pelosi and Schumer got skunked.

Border Patrol chief urges senators to support border wall

 Nikki Haley: Trump's 'unpredictable' behavior was advantageous at UN

 China readying plan to widen foreign access to its economy: WSJ

Thank you, Pres. Trump. Crazy dumb guy wins again 

And this:  Trump Gets Win as Xi Makes Good on Pledge to Buy U.S. Soy

 Mexico announces crackdown on illegal immigration: 'Get in line and you can enter our country'

Their new pres. doesn't want to piss off Trump. The contrast with Obama shows what a pussy he was. 

Christmas Image: Looks like she's going postal with her gift. Annoyed with her brats, or pissed there were not enough carats in her diamond necklace?

The Central Dogma of Mitochondrial Genetics Needs Rewriting

 Pope Francis Enacting Change to Lord’s Prayer: ‘Lead Us Not Into Temptation’

I never imagined that God would lead me into temptation. Always knew that life would/does. Daily. 

Our Nation’s Health: Obesity Rate at All-Time High

It's become normal to be overweight in the US.

6 slices of bread daily?

Are you kidding? I view bread and crackers, etc., mainly as food delivery vehicles. Other than the rare sandwich, in an Italian restaurant I like hard-crust white bread soaked in olive oil with roasted garlic schmeared on top. I dislike other than white bread because other breads interfere with the flavors of the real food.  Exception: Pastrami on rye.

Boy Scouts of America may declare bankruptcy

Me Too:  Remember, they don’t actually care. This all just manipulative bullshit.

 Sports Illustrated’s Choice To Present Its Inspiration Of The Year Award: Christine Blasey Ford

 Students oppose new multicultural space because it’s too welcoming

Not from The Onion:  US colleges handing out colouring books to students to reduce stress - A growing number of student welfare bodies are picking up on the adult colouring trend as a form of therapy for stressed students

YGBKM: TIL California Wants To Tax … Text Messages

Powerline:  GETTING IT WRONG ON DEMOCRACY

Yes. There is a rebellion against the elites who claim to know what is best for us peons 

Why Dems Changed on Mass Immigration

 SUSPECTED TERRORIST LEADING MIGRANT GROUP DEMANDING ENTRY INTO US

 Flynn says FBI pushed him not to have lawyer present during interview

When they want a friendly conversation, stay away.  

New York AG Announces Plans to Weaponize Office to Target Political Opposition….

 Incoming New York AG Plans Political Witch Hunt Against Trump, Family, And Associates

 In the Image of Joseph Stalin — Incoming NY AG Promises to Target and Destroy Trump and Family — Will Find a Crime Later!

Oh, they will find them.  You can find them in anybody if you look hard enuf. 

 Robert Mueller’s case against Michael Cohen has very little to do with Trump or campaign finance violations

 On top of the world: Incredible new shots show 'free solo' climber on top of El Capitan as he became the first to climb it WITHOUT ropes, as National Geographic documentary about his exploits is released

 VICTORY: Radio Station Lifts Ban On 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' After Overwhelmingly Positive Poll

 9 Secret Costco Tips From Frequent Shoppers

 Researchers find promise in new treatment for peanut allergy

 Mike Bloomberg Flew Ice From Greenland For Art Project About Global Warming From Carbon Emissions

The Hoax of 'Climate Change'

NAS:  Comments On The Proposed Title IX Regulations

 ‘Gender gap in STEM’? Women are majority of STEM grad students and they earn a majority of STEM bachelor’s degrees

 Four Reasons Deplatforming Controversial Figures Is a Terrible Idea

 WALSH: Republicans Didn't Defund Planned Parenthood And Never Will. Here's Why.

GOOGLE EMPLOYEES SOUGHT TO BLOCK BREITBART FROM ADS, EMAILS SHOW

  NPR Was Taken To The Woodshed For Peddling Straight Fake News About Donald Trump Jr.

Stormy Daniels ordered to pay Trump $293,052.33 in attorneys’ fees, costs, and sanctions

 Stormy Weather for Campaign-Finance Laws

 House Dem Unity Falling Apart Already Over Medicare For All?

China Moves to Address U.S. Economic Concerns - Beijing agrees to reduce auto tariffs and buy more American products, but key differences remain

Trump: Let's Debate the Wall in Public, Now - Pelosi and Schumer: No Let's Hide the Debate and Stage-Manage It - Leftwing Media: This is Terrible, Why Won't Trump Agree to Stage-Manage the Democratic Process?

 The Gilets Jaunes Have Cowed Macron. But For Them, That’s Just The Start.

 Iran significantly expands missile testing

Photo: 4 faiths celebrate in Haifa: Bahai, Christian, Jewish Muslim 

 Despite the devastation all around him, Camp fire dog waited for his owners to return home

Amount of deep life on Earth quantified

 As FDA Contemplates Strict Vaping Regulations, Lives Hang In the Balance

 How to Stop Apps From Tracking Your Location

 Princeton’s new polyamory group advocates ‘ethical non-monogamy’

Let the kids have their fun

 I Was Kicked Off Stage by College Students. Did I Deserve It?

 UMass Amherst students, faculty rally for ‘more to be done’ about campus racism

UMass is a hotbed of racism 

The Counterrevolution on Campus - The backlash to the backlash.

 Anti-Semitism A Part Of The Women’s March Almost From The Start

 Harvard Study: Gender Pay Gap Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women

Are they allowed to say that? 

Study exposes political bias in shaping ‘newsworthiness’

Duh. Too obvious 

 Trump Is Right — Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewable Energy Must End

 Judge rules Trump administration justified in ending Obama-era immigration program

 Asylum claims soar 67 percent at U.S. border

It's the new scam 

Questions Of Massive Regulatory And Taxation Schemes Are Burning Up At UN Climate Meeting

Ocasio-Cortes is Jewish 

 Conservatives and urban dwellers

Naked partisan: James Comey's mask comes off

James Comey's hubris has done irreparable damage to the FBI he claims to love

MUELLER’S THEORY: TRUMP DEFRAUDED VOTERS

 A college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago Way

 South African MP: “Your Time Is Up, White People”

 Meanwhile In Brexit... Total Chaos

The Latest: EU official: Bloc won’t renegotiate Brexit deal

 European Court of Human Rights Blasphemy Laws: Where a Word out of Place Can Cost Your Life

 Vive La French Revolution 2.0 – And Our Own!

Schlicter points out that Trump is the American riot 

Image: That was me. 

POPE TO GAY PRIESTS: TAKE A HIKE

 Progressive scolds are obsessed with destroying our holiday classics

 MN Prof: Mary 'did not consent' to God impregnating her with Jesus

She most certainly did. See The Magnificat, idiot. 

 How the Principal Stole Christmas: 'I MUST Stop this Christmas from Coming! But HOW?'

 NJ Doesn’t Say How It Will Enforce Magazine Confiscation After Court Upholds Law

Confiscate my Field and Stream? 

 What Happened When We Tried to Debate Immigration

It's not allowed 

Higher Ed:  The Diversity Mania Forges Ahead

Jordan Peterson update: The more they hate him, the more popular he becomes 

Strand Bookstore:  Wife of a Liberal Senator Gets ‘Mugged by Reality’

Definitely the most fun store in NYC

 Student government demands NYU divest from any company ‘involved’ in violating human rights

Does that leave out any countries? 

Political correctness itself can be politically incorrect.

From a Liberal:  Ten Signs Your Movement Is Evil

 Dominique Sharpton Gets $95,000 for Spraining Her Ankle

 Unions bosses fight losing battle to protect dues

 Bill and Hillary Clinton Using Groupon to Boost Sagging Ticket Sales

What is Groupon? 

 Feds Discover Largest Oil, Natural-Gas Reserve in History

 Change! U.S. transforms into net oil exporter for first time in 75 years

Incoming House Judiciary Chair Planning To End Probe Into FBI, DOJ

'Presidential harassment': Trump under unprecedented attack on multiple fronts

 Comey’s confession: dossier not verified before, or after, FISA warrant

Just an excuse to spy on Americans 

 WILL TRUMP BE INDICTED FOR ALLEGED CAMPAIGN FINANCE VIOLATIONS?

 Andrew C. McCarthy: Why Trump is likely to be indicted by Manhattan US Attorney

 FREXIT? French protesters call for EU EXIT as Macron fails to control DEADLY Paris riots

 New Cuba law that artists say amounts to state censorship will be implemented gradually

Palestine: Social justice activist tortured and punished for going on hunger strike

 Jamaica resorts covered up sexual assaults, silenced victims for years

They paid them off 

 Anti-Semitism: The Fast Track in Turkey to a Government Career?

 Survey: 38 percent of Jews in Europe may leave

In Latin America, Awash in Crime, Citizens Impose Their Own Brutal Justice. Mobs routinely kill suspected lawbreakers in Latin America, home of the world’s highest murder rate

More People Experience Severe Food Allergies Than Ever Before

 A shot-in-the-dark email leads to a century-old family treasure — and hope of cracking a deadly flu’s secret

Sleeping Beauty After #MeToo

India Sweeps Top Ten in List of World's Fastest-Growing Cities

Foie gras off Amazon’s offerings in California in settlement

 One month of abstinence from cannabis improves memory in adolescents, young adults

A Case for Dropping out of College

 OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: It’s Now Racist To Ask Students To ‘Be Respectful In Class.’

A victim of an academic witch hunt 

I’m a Democrat and a Feminist. And I Support Betsy DeVos’s Title IX Reforms. There is an uncomfortable truth in the current system. No one wants to talk about it.

 Electric-Vehicle Subsidies: Kill the Tax Credits and Let Consumers Decide

80% using Obamacare's Medicaid expansion are ineligible, Louisiana report finds

VDH:  The Rise of the New Old Left

´No collusion´ by Trump with Russia shown in new Cohen and Manafort court filings

Some sleaze though, unsurprisingly 

 Revealed: Clinton Foundation whistleblowers have been working with FBI and IRS since last year

 Comey NOT Cooperating with GOP Lawmakers, Refuses to Answer Questions in Closed-Door Interview

Whose government is this? 

 Democrats Are Just Too Darned Smart

 IRAN'S LEBANESE CONTROL DEMANDS REEVALUATION OF WEST'S SUPPORT FOR BEIRUT

 Europeans Realizing Trump Was Right About The Iran Deal

 EU in Disarray Over Global Migration Pact

Insane UN 

77 years ago, a date that still lives in infamy

 From Canoes, Fishermen Guard Africa's Famous Shoebills Against Poachers

 Sugar Taxes Haven't Proved Effective in Tackling Obesity

Duh. Just another tax 

Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore - A lack of personal savings, competition from abroad, and the threat of another economic downturn make it harder for Millennials to thrive as entrepreneurs.

Why  Louisville Bridges Project Is the Biggest Transportation Boondoggle of the 21st Century

Mother Forcing Transgenderism on 6-Year-Old Son May Suffer From a Mental Disorder, Pediatrician Says

Principal Suspended For Banning Most Things Christmas

 When they go after ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside,’ you know #MeToo has gone mad

A Giant List Of Questions The House Needs To Ask James Comey In His Deposition - These are a lot of questions, but if handled by a skillful attorney, James Comey can be led through the details efficiently.

 "He's Barack Obama, But White" – The Manufacturing Of Beto O'Rourke

 MSNBC’s Katy Tur: Life Is Pointless If We’re Not Focused On Climate Change

Airhead discovers the meaning of life 

 University suspends fraternity members over constitutionally protected speech

 Student cooperative stays silent on no-whites-allowed student housing

 DEMOCRAT RESIGNS AFTER FREQUENTING WOMEN’S BATHROOM: WHY?

 Against Federal Law: Obama OK’d $310 Million In Free Legal Advice To Illegal Aliens

Illegal immigrant families shatter records in November

 Tucker Carlson says Trump is ‘not capable’ and hasn’t kept his promises

 TUCKER GETS ACCUSED OF DISLIKING OPINIONATED WOMEN IN SPICY CLIMATE CHANGE SPAT

 OCASIO-CORTEZ: ‘INEVITABLE’ GLOBAL WARMING GOVERNANCE WILL CREATE ‘ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND RACIAL JUSTICE’

 Climate Crusaders Weigh In On The Cost Of Energy From Renewables

 France scraps fuel tax, weighs wealth tax in response to massive protests

Proving it's about the other kind of green 

 Justin Trudeau’s Canada Embraces a World Without Borders

 ITALY Reduces Migrant Landings by 96% in Only Two Years

 UN fails to adopt US resolution condemning Hamas terrorism

 'We were gonna die together’: Trial testimony lays out years of work by Iran that led to deadly attacks on US troops in Iraq

Vanderleun:  On Advent: “We Are All Lying in the Mud, But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars”

 What Is Channukka?

"Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein reaches last-minute settlement ahead of jury selection for civil trial, avoiding testimony from his sex assault victims."

 Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost

What’s Really Happening to Retail? Manhattan’s shuttered storefronts tell a larger American story: Only Amazon-proof businesses can now survive in brick and mortar.

 Minimum Wage Creates Robot Janitors

 UN climate chief has solution to ‘urgent’ climate threat: ‘We require deep transformations of our economies and societies’

 Wind Power Lunacy in Virginia

 The left’s nauseating love affair with “Beto.”

POP CULTURE CLOBBERED CONSERVATIVES IN 2018

Return to civility means surrender to the Democrats and media

 The Guardian’s Reputation In Tatters After Forger Revealed To Have Co-Authored Assange Smear

 On Losing the Thread -- Update on What Actually Remains of the Russia Collusion Tale

The view from PMSNBC:  Mueller Could Ensnare Trump And Family In Conspiracy Case

The Ideology of Corbynism

 THE DANES HAVE HAD IT WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS

 Mattis calls for help in ending war in Afghanistan: ‘40 years is enough’

 Dan Hannan: The open conspiracy to foil Brexit is having its day, but it will fail

 The method in the Russian madness

Image via Pirate 

The War On Advent - Death, judgment, Heaven, and Hell

 UC Berkeley settles landmark free speech lawsuit, will pay $70,000 to conservative group

 UMass: Qualified faculty candidates must be 'appropriately diverse'

How college campus bureaucracy makes ‘snowflakes’

A site keeps tack of hoax hate crimes (h/t reader) 

AVI:  Justice, and Other Words

Understanding the Data: The American Working-Class and the Economy

63% of Non-Citizen Households Access Welfare Programs Compared to 35% of native households

35% of native households get welfare money? That sounds crazy, but maybe it includes Medicaid 

 Rutgers Profs Outraged After Illegal Arrested for DUI, 'Reckless Endangerment'

 Mueller's Perjury Traps

 The Only Good Republican Is A Dead Republican

People in the White House listen to Scott Adams re China's Fenanyl (pod) 

 EU Mulls Making Criticism Of Migration Policy A Criminal Offense

Brilliant solution