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The Ugly Christmas Sweater: Still Ugly, but No Longer Ironic

Bank of America sees $50 oil as Opec dies

Feathered Fossils Give Scaly Dinosaurs a Makeover - Plumage may have adorned even the earliest dinosaurs, long before flight.

Parking-lot-challenged Canadian BMW driver has now been watched 4 million times

Sultan: Fat people and class warfare

A Devastating Takedown of America’s Most Overrated Gay Power Couple

The Rustbelt Roars Back From the Dead

From Bill Clinton and From Fat Albert to the Rev. Al: All the enablers

Bill slanders his cops - Mayor de Blasio’s suggestion that NYPD racism killed Eric Garner – and fuels police-community tension – is baseless and odious

A nation with insane leaders:  The Gods Have Made Them Mad

Thornton:  The End of Feminism

From Why I Left Feminism (Or, How Feminism Left Me) :

 1. Current Feminism Lies to Young Women About Sex

Feminists like to tell young women many crazy lies, so it’s hard to cover them all. Most of them, however, surround sex. Here are a few:

    Sex is a purely physical act and is completely meaningless.
    Casual sex is not only a right, but it is also empowering!
    Casual sex will leave you with no emotional or psychological damage.
    There’s a “sexual double standard”: Guys get away with rampant casual sex, so why  shouldn’t we encourage the same behavior for women?

VDH:  Lying for the Cause - If myths do more for social progress than facts — then why worry?

Obama: Ferguson, Garner Protests 'Necessary' to Trigger 'Country's Conscience' with 'Some Inconvenience'

When you interfere with people getting to work, conscience is not triggered

Social Injustice Ate My Homework

The “national crisis” that has been provoked by the cases of Garner and Brown, they argue, has left them with no choice but to “stand for justice rather than sit and prepare for exams.”

What the Numbers Say on Police Use of Force - Two decades of data show police interactions with Americans of all races decreasing in number and improving in quality.

Ex-CIA Directors: Interrogations Saved Lives

Germans protest fascism; liberals complain

Among the stereotypes you are allowed to have is that all German conservatives are Nazis.
Among the stereotypes you are not allowed to have is that all Islamist terrorists are terrorists.

On Pearl Harbor Day, Boston Globe (Said) US Should ‘Hero-Worship’ Community Organizers, Not GIs

21 Photos of Pearl Harbor and a Day That Will Live in Infamy

You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth.

Song “White Christmas” Denounced as Racist

DOJ Banning Smoking in Federal Prisons - Only exemptions for ‘religious reasons’ and staff

Feeling Better at the Pump? Since 2008, America’s Oil Supply Has Grown by 50%

Columbia Law School Lets Students Postpone Exams Due to Grand Jury Decisions

Good grief

Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber: Abortion of 'Marginal Children' a 'Social Good'

Is it a moral good?

Congressional Republicans to grill Obamacare consultant at hearing

Can technology pick the perfect health plan for you?

Chicago continues assault on business with steep hike in minimum wage

The Minimum Wage and the Great Recession: Evidence of Effects on the Employment and Income Trajectories of Low-Skilled Workers

Democrats still confused as to why the South has given up on them.

Landrieu's scare tactics for LA blacks

How 19 Years Ago Today Al Sharpton Got Blood On His Hands

Atkisson:  Reflections on Rolling Stone’s Messy, Mossy UVA Rape Story

Lena Dunham Walks Back Fabricated Rape Claim

Rolling Stone and the Cult of Credulity - The mantra "I believe" pathologizes skepticism and doesn't help victim

Jewish Group Accuses New York Times of “Crossing Red Line” By Publishing American Anti-Semite Max Blumenthal

It’s Not Just Ukraine - The real problem is that Putin has the whole region cornered. And no one seems to notice.

AMERICA'S MILITARY: A force adrift

Taiwan Voters Reject China-Centric Policies

Who Will Save the People of the Donbas?

The Spiritual Shape of Political Ideas - How it is that we once again find ourselves rooting out sin, shunning heretics, and heralding the end times

Time To Take The Sippican Cottage Basic Human Decency Test

Can You Ever Exercise Too Much? Some evidence shows that intense endurance workouts can put stress on the heart—but it's probably temporary.

Great Horned Owl Takes Relaxing Swim in Lake Michigan

How stoned is too stoned to drive?

Where to Move If You Want a Job, More Money, or Lots of Single People

What the Fate of The New Republic Reveals

Hiya, Big Spender! For good or ill, Nelson Rockefeller’s legacy lives on.

Explaining Hillary’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil’

The Democrats have been reduced to the party of the rich elite (George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood, Jonathan Gruber-types, edit al.) and the party of the poor exploited by those elites — a lethal combination that takes society exactly nowhere. In essence, they are the party of racism and sexism — that’s about it.

Eric Holder believes all cops are racists, targets ‘unconscious bias’

Obama: Racism ‘deeply rooted’ in U.S.

Is this right?  Here’s Jackie Coakley “Rape Obsessed”

Via Driscoll:

[Erdely was] going from campus to campus auditioning rape victims, contacting advocacy groups and asking for introductions. But the rapes she found at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Penn didn’t have the right narrative feel. They were just rapes, and she needed a cover-worthy rape. So she kept shopping until she found someone who would tell her a version of the story she had already decided to tell. She needed a big rape — something splashy, something with wild details and a frat house. She needed a rape that would go viral. You can’t do that with just some regular boring rape.

Holy Russia, Holy Everybody Else

Britain Unveils World's "Toughest" Counter-Terrorism Law

Iconic Mideast Photo Is a Fake — and Heartbreaking One at That

Toon via Lucianne

Key elements of Rolling Stone’s U-Va. gang rape allegations in doubt

Rolling Stone Retracts Key Part of UVA Rape Story

Sorry Piketty, Wealth Isn't What's Driving Inequality

Zenefits in Utah: A classic case of regulatory
capture causing government to protect producers at the expense of the
public interest

Ultimately, “the State” is a synonym for “organized violence.”

Red Cross Misrepresented How Donors’ Dollars Are Spent

Obama Administration REFUSES To Release Documents About White House Role in IRS Scandal

Streisand v. Inhofe

Obama’s Climate Deal with China Backfires - Emboldened China Plays $100 Billion Trump Card

New York Times: Cold Is Caused By Warming

Hillary Clinton Proclaims That America Should Empathize With and Respect ISIS, Al Qaeda

Hillary in 2016? Not so Fast

Krauthammer:  The Real Civil War - While Republicans debate tactics, Democrats are trying to figure out who they are.

Mark Levin Wows State Legislators: 'Take Your Power Back'

'Islamophobia' Joins the Rainbow Coalition

Pic is the 35,000 year-old Lion Man

Bee Apocalypse Science Scandal Update and An Apparent Threat of Legal Action

William Fouts House: he helped the deaf hear

Images of  The Temple Mount in the Herodian period (37 BC-70 AD)

For docs, more biology info means less empathy for mental health patients

Did Feminism Save Marriage?

Student sex columnist reveals affair with prof.

It’s official: America is now No. 2

Germany’s Environment Minister Calls On Citizens To Turn Off Lights During Sex – To Protect Climate!

Nothing on Terry Bean

Democrat Mayor Don Cravins Openly Calls for Voter Fraud in Louisiana

DHS Already Hiring 1,000 Employees, Building New Operational Center To Implement Obama’s Executive Amnesty…

"I warn you all this this video can induce projectile vomiting..."

Black People the Media Hate (and Rand Paul Isn’t Wild About)

Why Democrats should treat Republicans like their mortal enemy

Anatomy of a Lie, According to Ferguson Witnesses - How the hands-up meme began

How to Deal with Chinese Assertiveness: It's Time to Impose Costs

Why?

China Conducts Third Flight Test of Hypersonic Strike Vehicle

Israel is the only state favoring one religious tradition…except for all the others

US Congress passes Israel strategic partnership bill

What I learned about fear, sex, desire and dread from the peculiar pleasures of diving with great white sharks

Gotham’s Tourism Boom

Move over Kim Kardashian, Indianara Carvalho crowned Miss BumBum 2014

Minnesota Plans To Eliminate Gender Distinctions For High School Sports

Old Tactic Gets New Use: Public Schools Separate Girls and Boys

5 Reasons Why Fewer Americans Are Working

The Middle Class Spending Crash Explained

The Rolling Stone Saga: Everything That’s Wrong with How We Deal with Campus Rape

The New York Times reports that the Kremlin bankrolled protests against fracking in Europe.

Putin's Kemlin Losing the Oil Price War -- And That's Good

Shale Pioneer Billionaire Harold Hamm Loses $12 Billion

Is Obamacare Destroying the Democratic Party?

The Mind of a Looting Apologist

Black Crime Claims Life of Apologist for Black Crime

Hate Crime Hoax Exposed as Fraud, Students Still Demand Justice

Attorney General Eric Holder Suggests US Police Are an “Occupying Force”

Hillary Speaks To Empty Seats At Georgetown

A Letter To Vietnam Veterans.........a confession and seeking forgiveness...

Mixed race: The Major Demographic Shift That's Upending How We Think About Race

A long list of sex acts often associated with female pleasure can no longer be featured in porn shot in the UK

They want clean porn?

350-Pound Woman: I’m Obese Because I Don’t Get Enough Taxpayer Money

Feed the pig!

NY Times: Law Schools Engage in 'Hand-to-Hand Combat' Over Declining Applicant Pool

Americans Are Spending 42 Percent More on Health Insurance Than They Did in 2007

That was easily predicted

The Many Failures of Single Payer - From Vermont to Britain, it’s not working out.

In a sane world, Sharyl Attkisson would be recognized with the highest commendations in journalism—the Peabody, the Pulitzer

Does Anyone Know the Democratic Plan for Creating a More Dynamic American Economy?

New York's Plot to Gut the Second Amendment

Congress’ Sneaky Tactic to Grab More Land for the Government

Homeland Chief Unable to Explain How Executive Amnesty Helps Americans

Guess he didn't want to say "cheaper yard workers"

Chris Rock Stopped Performing for Students Because Everything Offends Them

Where sensitivity to offence leads:  Pakistani Actress Veena Malik Sentenced to 26 Years in Prison for "Malicious Acts of Blasphemy"

Cook:  Democrats Paved the Way for Their Own Decline - They have subordinated their traditional focus on
helping working-class Americans move up the economic ladder in favor of
other priorities.

The secret list of requirements to get a Hillary speech (Not counting the $300K)

America Should Avoid Germany’s Failed Energy Policy

Thugs, Clergy, Lawyers Justify Riots in USA Today Report

How to understand your local rioters:  How to Make Your Own Race Riot

St. Louis’ Bosnian community sees hammer murder as hate crime

THE COLD WAR IN RETROSPECT: HOW HISTORIANS STILL GET IT WRONG - Time and again Russia is let off the hook.

Pluralism in Turkey: A Fairy Tale

“Bringing down Israel will really benefit everyone in the world and everyone in society, particularly workers.”

Killing Christians: A State-Sponsored Crime in Pakistan

Driving the Seam of Hispaniola

P. D. James, An Appreciation - The treasure that was Phyllis Dorothy James.

Meet the professor every conservative student should know about

Harvard’s Asian-American Problem Has a Solution, Chapel Hill’s Does Not

Fear of vaccinations

Via Carpe:

Economic Fact of the Day. For every $100 in sales, the average discount retailer like Walmart and Target earns $3.10 in profits, while the average take for the states with state and local sales taxes is more than twice that amount — almost $7

FDA Plan to Make Americans Slimmer Will Reduce Fresh Food Options - Mandate for more nutritional labeling comes with a hefty price tag.

iCass Sunstein thinks the FDA's new requirement that food sellers post calorie counts "could turn out to be a game-changer.

The Tempering Effect of the Oceans on Global Warming

Muslims Discovered Earth is Round, says Religion That Believes It’s Flat

 “I only deemed it lawful to kill whoever claims that the sun is static and refuses to repent of this after clarification. This is because denying the circulation of the sun constitutes a denial of Allah (Glorified be He), His Great Book, and His Honorable Messenger. It is well established in the Din (religion of Islam) by way of decisive evidence and Ijma` (consensus) of scholars that whoever denies Allah, His Messenger or His Book is a Kafir (disbeliever) and their blood and wealth become violable. It is the duty of the responsible authority to ask them to repent of this; either they repent or be executed. Thanks to Allah that this issue is not debatable among scholars.”

The key to Obama's struggle with white working class voters is not 'white,' but 'working.'

VDH:  When the Law Is a Drag

Surber:  Do not rebuild in Ferguson

NY Times Propagandist Who Publicized Whereabouts of Darren Wilson’s Home Discovers Karma

'Morning Joe' Panel: Michael Brown Was A 'Thug,' Protests Are Based On 'Lies'

Ferguson Shooting: Why did the officer not shoot Brown in the legs?

Advent began yesterday. I thought it was still Thanksgiving Season.

Gulfstream’s Latest

Me want one

The First Bar Code Was Round - The tagging system was invented years before it became practical.

’Tis the Season for Toy Soldiers

Retail Disaster: Holiday Sales Crater by 11%, Online Spend Declines

A documentary captures the life of civil libertarian and music critic Nat Hentoff.

Feds spend $466,642 to study why fat girls have less sex

Hinderaker: My New AR-15

Self-control and temptation

When Your Church Becomes a Place of Statist Worship - The churches in America are frighteningly infected with unthinking nationalism

Our Futile Efforts to Boost Children's IQ

Get the hell out of my food, government. You know nothing about food.

Gentry Liberals Are Going to Force Your Town to Buy Billion-Dollar Toy Trains and There's Nothing You Can Do About It

Toy trains are fun

Pope Francis: Fighting Poverty & Hunger Key to Defeating Islamist Killers

Really?

EPA Proposes Its Most Expensive Regulation to Date

Andrew Cuomo Slams Nat'l Weather Service Over His Own Ignorance

Are you ready and willing to bail out the unions?

What happens when 100 million Americans are not in the labor force?

Executive Order Makes Immigrants Eligible for Medicare, Social Security

A tough political ad

Who Boycotts Wal-Mart? Social-justice warriors who are too enlightened to let their poor neighbors pay lower prices.

Can Social Justice Build a Bridge?

CNN author: You’re all racists now, whether you’re a racist or not

White UCLA Student to Black Cop: “You Are Kept Down by Your Race”

Obama WH to Promote #Ferguson Indoctrination – Including Classroom Memorials to Mike Brown

Driscoll:  Allan Bloom, Call Your Office

NY Times: Say, Where Do We Go After Ferguson?

What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel - The news tells us less about Israel than about the people writing the news, a former AP reporter says.

Always interesting: The History Blog

Teaching Men to Bleed

Private property and the Pilgrims

PJ O'Rourke:  Up to a Point: Thanks to the Biggest Turkey, Uncle Sam

Physics at the Universe’s Limits

Christmastime:  Bargain hunters punch cops and fight over Barbies in Black Friday chaos as 96 MILLION head to the shops

The hideous Black Friday is spreading around the world

Here Comes The Ultimate Keynesian Scam: Helicopter Money For The People, Not Just Banks

November 30 marks the 140th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s birth,
and his thoughts on strength, deterrence, and the great world powers are
as insightful today as they were in his own time.

The answer from Clinton's representatives: $300,000 is the "special university rate."

What Did Obama Do As A Community Organizer?

Time to Shuck the Big Corn Giveaway - If we can’t get rid of farm subsidies, we can at least enforce the rules on them:

... it ought to outrage taxpayers that the government’s crop “insurance” program — originally intended as a safety net for family farms — is going to pay out $10 billion this year to these same hugely successful corn growers. Largely because of the success of the harvest, corn prices per bushel have declined, thus triggering automatic payments.

New York Times DEFENDS Its Decision To Publish Name Of Darren Wilson’s Home Street

St. Louis Bomb Plot Fails Because of Maxed Out EBT Card

UN Accuses American Police Of Torture And Killing Unarmed Black Youths…

Germany Desperate For More Coal Power To Keep Lights On

Israel's ambassador to the UN delivers a brilliant and VERY blunt message

"Speaking as a person who went and got a degree in creative writing for some fool reason..."

Is Atheism a Specifically Western Phenomenon? Peter Berger - We know atheism in its Jewish or
Christian context, as a rejection of the Biblical God. What would
atheism mean in a Muslim, or Hindu, or Buddhist context?

The Great Thanksgiving Hoax

How do you know someone is a vegetarian? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you within 30 seconds of meeting them

Early-bird shoppers turn out on Thanksgiving

The Long War Between Highbrow and Lowbrow

Shakespeare is pop culture. So is Verdi

Meet the New Warm Fuzzy Payday Lenders

A Feminist Look at Men

A bunch of great greenie quotes - here's one:

 "In Nature organic growth proceeds according to a Master Plan, a Blueprint. Such a ‘master plan’ is missing from the process of growth and development of the world system. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system. Ten or twenty years form today it will probably be too late."
- Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point

SCOTUS tackles free speech vs. true threats in Facebook posts

How immigration killed the tax deal - GOP didn't want to aid new class of immigrants; Obama balked.

Obama Offers $3,000 Bonus to Hire Amnestied Illegals Rather Than Americans

Obama to Amnesty Hecklers: 'Sit Down... Nobody's Removing You... I Just Took an Action to Change the Law'

Obama’s Immigration Plan Misses Chance to Increase  A Crucial Group of Visas

Samuelson:  America's Giant Welfare State

Plans for UCLA visit give rare glimpse into Hillary Clinton’s paid speaking career

A cake shop we recommend

The media doesn’t want to avoid another Ferguson.

University Bureaucrat Won’t Let Ferguson Crisis Go to Waste in Trying to Look Busy

 Students can call Counseling and Psychological Services at 993-2380 and speak to a counselor.

Good grief

Most Balanced And Fair-Minded Comment on Ferguson Comes From NFL Player

‘HANDS UP, DON’T SHOOT’ WAS A LIE: Testimony, Evidence Suggests Textbook Self-Defense Shooting

How Far Down Do You Define Deviancy in Ferguson?

Where's the Coverage? Israeli Arabs Prefer Israel to Palestinian Authority

I 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.

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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

Preston:

The fact is, broken families and a culture that produces feral children are at the root of the vast majority of the crime and poverty and violence that plagues our nation. Not racism. Not the militarization or the overreaction of police. Not any of that. Broken families. A valueless culture. A vacuum of values, into which anything can move and take hold.

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!

 You truly can’t fool all of the people all of the time, and thanks to Gruber, the time of trusting liberals is drawing to a close. This is wonderful. Look, we conservatives always knew these clowns were pushing Marxy snake oil on a gullible electorate. Now, the truth is impossible to hide. It’s right there on video, and it’s Gruberiffic.

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.

(Peggy Noonan) often gets to a certain point in understanding someone or something and then stops, refusing to open the door of the room she stands before, afraid to look inside. Or she opens it a crack, takes a tiny peek, and then slams it shut.

Can't take the truth

Schneiderman:

Showing respect for Islam, speaking reverentially of Islam, calling Islam a religion of peace is precisely the wrong tactic.

One does better to respond to terrorism with contempt and derision, with force where need be, but without respect. If Islamic terrorism degrades the character and reputation of all Muslims, then it is for Muslims to restore their good name and the good name of their religion.

How have American foreign policies gone wrong?

Have they "gone wrong"? What is America's role in the world?

The making of a Gaza fighter

Profs Blame ISIS on ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘Grievances’

Blaming the victims again

ISIS Blows Up Christian Church and Monastery While Muslims Cheer

Mary 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?

"... 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:

 According to Obama our immigration system is broken because it doesn’t allow illegal aliens who illegally crossed the border to take American jobs. That’s not a broken system, that’s what the system is supposed to do.

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