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Thursday, September 21. 2017"What's amazing is that they are saying it out loud."Immigration: Tucker claims that the Dems want to replace deplorable American voters with new ones. Watch the video.
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Thursday morning linksDid Fashion Week Just Signal a Return to Classic Femininity? For the 100th time, What is Art? “The directors of the new movie don’t seem to realize that Bobby Riggs is the one viewers want to hang out with:” Why Do We Encourage Gender Specific Clothes for Transgender Kids, but Gender Neutral Clothes for Straight Kids? Why This Mom Can’t Go to the Playground With Her Kids Quackademic Medicine at UC Irvine - UC Irvine Medicine School opens a center for integrative medicine, selling out to promote quackery in medicine. Judge Reopens Market to Christian Farmers Banned Over Same-Sex Marriage Stance; City 'Disappointed' Really? A disappointed city? Monumental Ignorance — Dumbing Down America - At UVA, moronic identity politics takes precedent over knowledge and truth. Mohammed Top Baby Name In UK For Fifth Straight Year…. School Choice: Matt Damon Elevates Hypocrisy to an Art Form Scientist Smacks Down Al Gore’s Claim That Harvey Brought ‘500,000 year rains’ The Myth That Climate Change Created Harvey, Irma From the “The Stupid, It Burns” Department: “Science denial not limited to political right” "Extraordinary & Worrisome" - WSJ Demands To Know How FBI 'Meddled' In 2016 Elections Sharyl Attkisson Rages "Looks Like Obama Spied On Trump, Just Like He Did To Me" What if the Republican candidate for president was put under surveillance by a Democratic administration that was trying to elect another Democrat? "This is much worse than Watergate, folks. That was a third-rate burglary that went awry." 'Rocket Man' aside, Trump's UN speech marks another kind of shift Look who else threatened North Korea Nikki Haley: The world now calls Kim Jong Un 'Rocket Man' All in all, Trump has had a pretty good eight months Slowly learning the job The True Enemies of the Palestinians Egypt's Sisi Urges Palestinians to Unite, Co-Exist With Israelis And lose their scapegoat? Not gonna happen Austin Bay: Russia's War in Ukraine and War Games in Belarus Wednesday, September 20. 2017Wednesday morning linksTo our readers in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico: Be safe and hang in there. In Yankeeland, Apple Pie is for breakfast “The IKEA Humans: The Social Base of Contemporary Liberalism “ These handicapped New Yorkers are behind hundreds of lawsuits It's a career The challenges of driving a yellow cab in the age of Uber ‘Vietnam’ Episode 2: There’s an iceberg ahead, but the ship speeds up Be skeptical of Ken Burns’ documentary: The Vietnam War by Terry Garlock Memo to civic leaders: Don't sell out your cities for Amazon's new headquarters Amazon is trolling governments for freebies Wisconsin’s Shame: ‘I Thought It Was a Home Invasion’ Climanutters Link California Earthquake With ‘Climate Change’ Even Hobby Lobby Cotton Is Racist These Days CRITICS SLAM DEVOS FOR BEING FAIR VDH: Diversity Can Spell Trouble Powerline: THE WAGES OF BORKING Soros-Funded Activists Demand Democrats Oppose Border Security At Any Cost… We Didn't Normalize Trump. We Normalized the Left's Violence. "We"? James Woods Nails CNN With Three Story Headlines About Wiretapping Trump Team How is this different from Watergate? WaPo: The FBI wiretap on Paul Manafort is a big deal. Here’s why. ‘Freakin’ unbelievable’! Politico writer DEFENDS Kim Jong-un after Trump’s #UNGA speech Nationalism without isolationism: Trump’s UN triumph Is China’s Export Success Built on Slavery? Don't look now, but Donald Trump's strategy is beating ISIS in Syria Tuesday, September 19. 2017Trump had fun at the UNStraight talk at the UN? The MSM girls and boys were clutching their pearls: Trump at the UN: Key Quotes
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Hillary: It took a village
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Image above: Testing dog training. Command is Sit, or Sit, Stay. My dogs were tested on squirrels. Confirmed: exercising during pregnancy is good for mother and baby Organic Marketing Is Losing A Key Government Advocate My plan for 2018 is to avoid anything labeled organic Climate change not as threatening to planet as previously thought, new research suggests No kidding! RIP Irony 2017 Unconditional love The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Radical Leftward Drift - Have some liberal politics with your cereal! Shocking idea: Getting Back To "Bourgeois Basics"? Why NYC is Spending Millions to Fill Garbage Cans with Nutritious Meals Governments turn tables by suing public records requesters Ian Buruma: A Jihad Apologist at the Helm of the New York Review of Books Nobody reads it anyway. SCENES FROM ACADEMIA: A Campus Conservative’s Year Facing Anger, Doxing and Intimidation. EU Report Characterizes Opposition to Abortion as a Crime Against Humanity Underreported: What Happened When Government Tried to Fix a Coal Town New England's Illinois: Connecticut's Budget Mess Shows That States Can't Tax Themselves to Prosperity DALLAS "INVESTIGATING" BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S "CONNECTION TO THE CONFEDERACY" Why Is Google Hiring 1,000 Journalists To Flood Newsrooms Around America? Z-man: " The sole reason for Schumer to exist in Washington is to guide troublesome Republicans through the process of committing political suicide." Tucker Carlson UNLEASHES on Illegal Alien: ‘You Don’t Have a Right to Demand Anything!’ Obama FBI Wiretapped TRUMP Campaign Manager During 2016 Election Obama update: Retiree On Pension Still Has Not Made Enough Money, Occupies Wall Street … Sort Of $400,000 per Wall St. speech. I am envious. That's a good pay day. NYT Reporter: Hillary Thought “It Was Our Job” To Get Her Elected She was right Why U.S. Can't Have Open-Ended Amnesty For Kids Who Arrive Here Illegally NYT: Is Trump a white supremacist? Is he beating his wife? Trump's Gentle-Seeming U.N. Reforms Are Really An Ultimatum: Reform Or Die Around the world in 80 days (day 16) Okinawa: Remembering who we once were London Update: West to Blame for Islamic Terrorism The London bomber was a teenage refugee Hungary Builds A Wall, Cuts Illegal Immigration By Over 99 Per Cent Palestinians Imprison Journalists for Exposing Corruption 48% of east Jerusalem parents want Israeli school curriculum Israeli Innovation Behind iPhone X – Will They Boycott Apple? Monday, September 18. 2017Europe's suicideh/t American Digest All of this saddens me deeply because I have visions of where it all ends up. Condell is your Jeremiah, people.
ColonialismIs colonialism bad for colonies? Third World Quarterly publishes “The Case for Colonialism” leading to censorship demands Worked out pretty well for the USA Somewhat related, Facebook and Google are the new colonial powers.
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Photo is a member of the Cajun Navy in Houston How to Use Body Language to Create a Dynamite First Impression How dealing with difficult people can make you a better person THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING STRUGGLE IN OUR DAILY LIVES Beijing Start-Up Now Offers Sex Dolls For Rent Think Gentrification Is Bad? The Opposite Is Worse An Experiment Gives Cash Aid To The Poor. Is That Ethical? " As I got to know my new Midwest home, I realize how living in a bubble and subscribing to the Middle America stereotypes is truly damaging to this country." Warren Buffett wins $1M bet made a decade ago that the S&P 500 stock index would outperform hedge funds Surber: Patrick Henry may be right about the Constitution Climate Change Advocate Urges Everyone To Flee The Coasts Claim: Chocolate CAUSES Climate Change EPA evaluating ‘red teams’ to challenge climate science Fun Equifax: A musician as head of security Profs: Boys are better at physics because they play ‘pee games’ MOVING THE GOAL POST ON RACISM - How has a nation that twice elected a black president suddenly become "racist"? Secretary DeVos Begins to Rectify the Title IX Mistake Evergreen State Settles Lawsuit With Bret Weinstein and Wife for $500K Wow Related, THE REVOLUTION TURNS ON ITS BASE
Why the statue-smashers will never stop Coyote: Today, I Am Pissed At Black Lives Matter. They Aren't Doing The Hard Detailed Work Change Requires NY Times Reporter Sends Out Most Idiotic Tweet Ever Reminder: Susan Rice Lied About Her Role In The Obama Admin Unmasking Scandal Trump vs. Psychiatrists: Who's Crazier? Klavan: The Surreal Blessings of Donald Trump Trump Is Ready to Sell Out His Base. Quelle surprise. (As a liberal elite might say.) To make their tax plan work, Republicans eye a favorite blue-state break The lefty attorneys general’s obsessive war on Trump Latest Google scandal exposes hypocrisy of liberal Attorneys General Europe – Time to Say Goodbye England: "How to do your makeup after an acid attack" You're kidding, right? What about..."How to pretend you have a leg when it's blown off"? Stunning poll reveals widespread backlash against refugee immigration in developed countries Is China using NK as a pawn? Sunday, September 17. 2017Is Donald Trump nuts?Renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton on the Goldwater Rule: We have a duty to warn if someone may be dangerous to others. Lifton is not alone in that view, by any means. However, Lifton's career has been about expanding his professional role from his office to the larger world. Big mistake. The truth is that we in the shrinkology fields have a terrible time just trying to understand one person in our office. When it comes to strangers, or the larger world, we are as much amateur opinion-vendors as anybody else. Maybe it's Lifton's grandiosity (but I am doing the same thing to him now) but, more likely, it's pure political animosity from disappointed Hillary fans. About half the country voted for The Donald so maybe we (I include myself, voted for him with a mix of disgust and delight, choosing Buffoon over Wicked Witch, but few of my colleagues have admitted to doing so) are all nuts. After all, Trump is just a messenger. Using diagnoses as projectiles is simply rotten behavior. If you hate somebody, just say so in plain English. Recent history shows that ploys like Lifton's have been most obviously directed towards Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan. Any pattern?
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Idiots React to London Underground Attack
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Saturday, September 16. 2017Saturday morning linksWho Can Afford to Write Like John McPhee? Why Doctors (And Everybody Else) Should Read Books by Nassim Taleb If You Think Everyone Else Has More Friends, You’re Not Alone Elite skier shows off his absurdly difficult workout course. Video Cassini: Probe incinerates on entry to Saturn I will gladly sow gender confusion in kids. It’s my duty to. Becoming a man is a tough job Lloyd Marcus on real racism A state demands grade inflation Berkeley, home of the No Free Speech Movement Half of Americans Don’t Know Free Speech is a Guaranteed Right Half of Americans have below-average intelligence too. Government needs to fix that. Unsurprisingly, “Free” Healthcare from Government Is Very Expensive SANDERS ADMITS HIS HEALTH PLAN WILL BANKRUPT THE US Dream Act Inexplicably Excludes Legal Immigrant Dreamers, Requires Applicants Violate the Law Crazy and unfair Trump Administration Takes First Baby Steps Pushing Back Against The Dependency State Australia’s discoverer James Cook: another racist to be erased. North Korea Experiencing One Of The Worst Famines In Country’s History… Friday, September 15. 2017The evil, evil Ben Shapiro speaks at Berkeley
OK, maybe he is a snotty know-it-all but he is a Harvard Law deplorable and they can be like that. The Q&A is fun. A quick thinker.
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Harvard Shows How It Should Be DoneFriday morning linksWhy are viruses considered to be non-living? The seven oldest cities in the world What Is the World's Oldest Photograph? Pope (Again) Shills For Islam On 9/11 Anniversary… Bummer: Monster Storms (Which Have Always Happened) Aren’t Changing Minds On ‘Climate Change’ How Obama's EPA Nearly Bankrupted John Duarte's Farm (New at Reason) A controversial rule on water pollution allowed the agency to micromanage private land use. Connecticut: How to drive jobs out of your state CT is writing the manual on that Folsom School Warns ‘USA’ Chant Could Send ‘Unintended Message’ Berkeley Receives Grant To “Honor The Legacy” Of Marxist Terrorist Group UC-Berkeley profs urge campus boycott, shutdown during upcoming ‘Free Speech Week’ How is that for juxtaposition? Et Tu, Boise State? Professor Explains the Culture Wars, Campus Erupts The illiberal arts Does The California State Bar Have A Race Problem? Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy Federal Judge Deals Major Blow to Gore and #ExxonKnew Crusaders 50% of Millennials would give up their right to vote to get student loans erased They would give up their vote for free education, that is. Interesting.
HILLARY’S ANTI-PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN - Her malicious book reveals why she should never have been president. Clintonian corruption: Laureate CEO Who Paid Bill Clinton $17M For Part-Time Work Steps Down 'Pay-to-play' at Clinton State Department exposed in new emails, watchdog says Scott Adams: I Explain the Persuasion Techniques President Trump is using on The Wall and DACA Who wants to deport “dreamers”? Not many people, it turns out. So more illegal immigrant should have broken the law for their kids. Honest foreign parents applied for immigration status and never got here. Nationalism: Tribalism Marches On! Sweden's New Instability Rewarding Terrorists in the Baltic Countries North Korea’s Destabilizing Role in the Middle East Trump can improve the Iran deal Fix or nix the Iran nuclear deal, Netanyahu demands ahead of Trump meeting Thursday, September 14. 2017"You've learned nothing!"
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Best hurricane photoFrom here. "Sister Margaret Ann holds a chainsaw near Miami, Florida, on September 12, 2017. Police said the nun was cutting trees to clear the roadways around Archbishop Coleman Carrol High School in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma." Bless her, but those are not safe tree-cutting garments.
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Thursday morning linksSee Inside David Rockefeller's Westchester Country House - Known as Hudson Pines, the 75-acre estate is on the market for $22 million. It is relatively modest. Rockefellers aren't showy. Proof that red wine IS good for you - Expert says it can improve memory, decrease your chance of stroke and reduce risk of heart disease Watch This Burger Flipping Robot Do Everything But Demand A Minimum Wage Hike Laura Ingraham set for 10 pm slot as Fox News Channel moves to secure ratings dominance Mrs. BD thinks I am in love with Laura
California’s poverty rate remains nation’s highest SPLC Labels Former Professor 'Apologist' for White Supremacists Protesters Cover Statue Of Jefferson At UVA, Label Him ‘A Racist And A Rapist’ UC Berkeley Professor Cancels Class After Students Complain About 'Militarized Campus' For Shapiro Speech MILO To Bring Navy SEAL Squad To Berkeley “Free Speech Week” As Security Fears Mount HAVE COLLEGES COMPLETELY LOST THEIR MINDS? Not enough Americans know what their government is for to make sensible demands of it. Has The NYT Gone Collectively Mad? Liberals sick of the alt-left are taking 'the red pill' Amazon deletes one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton's new book Hillary Clinton's Alternative Take On What "1984" Was All About Unbelievable, really Some Choice Quotes from Hillary Clinton's Book About Collapsing In the Street (And Also, Losing a Presidential Election) Clinton State Department silenced them on Benghazi security lapses, contractors say Democrats too politically correct to see their problem Politico: Teflon Don confounds Democrats - Democrats have attacked the president every which way, but polling and focus groups show none of it's working. ‘A new strategy’ for Trump? Democrats cautious but encouraged by fresh outreach. Is Trump getting rolled? New book by Chesler: Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing a Veiled War Against Women It’s time to update America’s important anti-boycott law for Israel Wednesday, September 13. 2017Wednesday morning linksElk Noises & a Party Crasher Having a beer might help get your creative juices flowing. Famous Viking Warrior Was a Woman, DNA Reveals Or a trannie? Silent heart attacks They are common U.S. middle-class incomes reached highest-ever level in 2016 Good news The Left’s Tidal Wave of Hate Keeps Flowing The secret of Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy College Dean: Turn In Students of Concern to the Behavior Assessment Team Menton: How To Deal With Equifax Pope Francis: Climate Change Deniers 'Stupid' After Hurricanes He's been studying paleoclimatology, statistics, and mathematical modeling in his spare time Also, Tropical cyclones at 45-year low I blame climate change Another VICTIM OF THE SPLC Hurricane Hillary: Was Irma Over-Hyped? Hillary Clinton: Deplorable book, deplorable person Related: The failed candidate’s awkward book misfires on all fronts, obsesses over sexism, and even drags David Foster Wallace into the whole mess. Merkel: Hungary Can’t Disobey EU On Immigration Policy Trump to consider more aggressive policy towards Iran Tuesday, September 12. 2017Why do we never get the optimistic news about "climate change"?Another perfect late summer/early fall day in New York today, probably due to climate change: Did Climate Change Cause Hurricane Irma To Fizzle?
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How a Small Lawsuit Could Have Massive Ripple EffectsA $586.56 lawsuit in San Francisco could radically alter the 'gig economy' which much of the current tech growth depends upon. I doubt the plaintiff will win. But if he does, the effects are potentially damaging to several firms worth billions of dollars. Tuesday morning linksWhy Chesterton Matters More Than Ever Ancient Egyptian treasures uncovered in tomb near Valley of the Kings Watching Hurricanes Irma, Jose and Katia From 22,000 Miles Above Earth Equifax's instructions are confusing. What to do now Why George Bernard Shaw had a crush on Stalin Globe and Mail Tells Government to Back Off and Let Parents Free-Range! Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio Dives Deeper Into the ‘Principles’ of Tough Love On 9/11, ‘the United States became the State of Israel,’ says US ambassador Hey England - Try that with the mosques first Students Shut Down ‘Cops And Robbers’ Party For Making ‘A Joke’ Of A System That Kills Minorities A member of Lafayette College's student government recently resigned because it included "conservative students" in a report on "inclusive dialogue." If so, you are a) Unemployed b) A drunk c) A pitiful person with no life John Kelly fires back at Democrat who called him 'disgrace to the uniform' The Inconvenient Truth About Obamacare's Premium Spiral AMERICA: WE’RE NOT WHO OBAMA THINKS WE ARE Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of travel ban — at least for a day Mr. President, They’re Never Going To Like You Iron Dome poised for first US-based intercept test in SHORAD demo Helping North Koreans Escape Could Be Win-Win Strategy Against Communist Regime Israeli Singer Protects Family from Violent Arab Mob New North Korea Sanctions Get the UN Go Ahead, NY Times Spins as Trump Failure Iranian Spy Service Threatening, Blackmailing Global Media Outlets - Iran regime threatening reporters, families to ensure positive coverage Monday, September 11. 2017Who Does This Guy Think He Is?Neil DeGrasse Tyson has opened up science to a whole new generation, and has expanded interest in communities which previously hadn't shown much. For that, we're eternally grateful. But there are limits to intelligence, and he, like many others, crosses that limit when he wades into climate science. Having studied Economics, I compare climate science, as a science, to Economics. The level of predictability, due to the number of unknowns and variables, is very low. You can model all you want, and you can know how different parts of the economy impact to a very large degree, but still be far off. The same is true with climate. The various elements involved in developing climate models are fairly well known, but it's the stuff they don't know that's causing problems. I have yet to see a model that is remotely close to predicting anything. This doesn't make climate science less scientific. Science is about explaining, not predicting. Predicting is a nice benefit in constrained systems. But Tyson's tweet is lauded as "destroying" a key claim of "deniers" (we aren't deniers, we are SKEPTICS, which is what most good scientists are whenever there is a lack of evidence or an inability to replicate results). Problem is, it destroys nothing. No skeptic ever complains about scientists agreeing. That, in itself, isn't even an issue. The question is why are they agreeing? In fact, Tyson's tweet opens more questions than it answers. If a standard scientific conference is indicative of the amount of disagreement that takes place, then clearly the wide level of agreement on this particular issue is an anomaly and you should wonder why this is taking place? Well, of course, the answer is politics. But Tyson, in crafting his guilt bomb, realizes if he doesn't support the massive Appeal to Authority which is the entire Manmade Climate Change argument, then he loses the game. So he pours it on hot and heavy, because he is the authority!
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Weather pornPeople get off on it. For a couple of weeks, it has replaced Trump porn on the teevee. Funniest thing I saw was some valiant reporter in the wind and rain talking about how terrible it was, how hard it was to stand up in this danger, when a guy went walking his three-legged dog on the sidewalk behind him. Maybe it was Tampa, where the Mayor says that it's not so bad, we're fine. Not what the reporter wanted to hear, because it wasn't Weather Porn. I am thankful that the people of Florida were not hit very hard. If you live there, you are used to this sort of thing with flooding and no power for a while. It's a predictable part of life.
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Let no weather go to ideological waste: This Weather Is Not Normal. And It Will Only Get Worse. It's the most beautiful day of the year here in NYC, abnormally so. Put that in the record books too. Being so lovely, it can only get worse. If every storm (and every storm and every Hot-cold-wet-dry day) is proof of global warmening, then what does every beautiful day prove? Miami Herald says today is a beautiful day in Miami
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