Maggie's Farm

Well, we're going to a Super Bowl party tonight but I will confess that I have only minimal interest in the game, and it will be past my bedtime.  I like to see our friends though. The thought of guacamole sickens me - and not just because of the terrible cultural appropriation. We'll have spiral-cut ham and Mrs. BD will bake 50 biscuits for it. Any excuse for a party, I suppose. An early Mardi Gras.

U.S. Streetcars Just Aren't Meeting the Standards of Good Transit

The New College Degrees: The Good News and the Bad News

Sorry, but poor kids can still eat healthy

The Liberal Fantasy of Cultural Appropriation

Gallup: We Hate to Admit It, but America Is Conservative

Single-payer collides with reality

The EEOC Wants to Know How Much Every American is Getting Paid

It’s Happening Just Like I Told You - The implosion of the Democrats has begun, and they’re nearly ready to be bought.

Madeleine Albright Tells Young Women Voters ‘There’s A Special Place In Hell’ For Them If They Don’t Support Hillary

Hillary’s Sincerity Problem

Hillary Clinton's venality will be her downfall

Marco Rubio is a new kind of Republican. Really.

Why Marco Rubio is a once-in-a-generation candidate - US election 2016: Florida Senator is only political talent who can beat
Hillary Clinton and rebrand the GOP for the 21st century

Is stretching useful?

Saying ‘No’ to ethanol in Iowa

Trader exposes sexist horrors of the Wall Street ‘frat house’

That is news?

Car dealerships:  Let Them Have Teslas

TSA: Thank God We Have Unionized Government Workers and Not Some Damn Private Company

NFL donations to brain research benefit league-linked doctors, raise worries about influence on science

Gavin McInnes:  The Cost of Prejudice

The Pirates of the Caribbean: Puerto Rico Attempts to Plunder Washington

Connecticut Town Considers Arming Teachers

Classroom discipline

Connecticut Democrats Deep-Six Democrats Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from Fundraiser

Lawmakers Introduce Bill Requiring Women to Register for Draft…

Obama Mocks Republicans, Says Immigrants Are Not Taking Paychecks

$153 million in Bill and Hillary Clinton speaking fees, documented

Clinton accused of invoking 'everybody did it' defense on email scandal

Via commenter at this Powerline post:

In 1993, I saw Hillary being interviewed on the Today Show concerning her health care bill. When told that most of America was against the bill her response was: "Oh Brian, you know that sometimes Americans don't know whats best for them and when that happens those of us in government must just make it happen". That was the day I knew Hillary was beneath contempt.

‘Pinkwashing’ and traitors to the human mind

A case of FGM is reported in England every 109 minutes

Is Facebook Biased Against Israel and Jews?

Hadar Cohen (19) – A True Israeli Hero Murdered After She Prevented Massive Attack

Vietnam’s Master Plan for the South China Sea

Is Assad's Russian-backed Offensive a Game-changer in Syria?

Obama’s Disastrous Betrayal of the Syrian Rebels - How the White House is handing victory to Bashar al-Assad, Russia, and Iran.

How Russian men deal with misbehaving immigrants

A non-profit to consider: Wild Tomorrow Fund

On the 'Tikkun Olam' Fetish - Are Jews commanded to "repair the world" or to repair the Jews?

I never asked Jews to "repair" my world for me.

What about Evangeliphobia?

Gays Indulge in Heterophobia as San Francisco Diversifies

Sheesh. The guy is upset he bought a drink for a straight guy. Waste of money.

Twenty-Four Hours at a Truck Stop - The ever-shifting landscape of truck stops, from sunrise to sunrise.

"Previously I have proved that life cannot have evolved. Today I will prove that life cannot exist."

Brown faculty vote to institute ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’

Cutting Costs Is Possible. These Schools Did It.

The Secretive Hedge Fund That's Generating Huge Profits for Yale

This is What’s Wrong with the Humanities

Words Have Meaning: Neither Kale Nor 80 Percent Funded Public Pensions are "Healthy"

New York Times Hypocrisy On Corporate Taxes Reaches Record High

New York Times Says Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Are Not Latino

Chicago Is Falling Apart

Obamacare’s Premium Hikes Are Much Bigger Than You’ve Been Told

Who thinks the government would regulate political speech against its own interest? Show of hands??

GOP Chairman: Terrorists Are Taking Note of Lack of Border Enforcement

Border agent: 'We might as well abolish our immigration laws altogether'

Muslim Women Protest Obama's Baltimore Mosque Visit

New Hampshire prepares to cull the herd

Let’s not treat Christian faith as a requirement for being a good president.

Of course it's not. It's an affinity thing, and "politics is downstream of culture"

As Oil Puts Russia Over A Barrel, A Gutsy Move To Privatize

ISIS Ringleader Claims He Entered France with 90 Fighters Before Paris Attacks

Sweden: Death by Immigration

White House Ignores Mounting Failures in Afghanistan

Crouching Tiger: China Acts, America Dithers

China is not an enemy

Bob Elliott dead at 92

Toxic Turf? Movement Grows Against Synthetic Turf

The Amazon-Store Mystery

10 Tips for Making Long Flights (Somewhat) Bearable

Private jet, with mini-gym and bed, works best

The New Religion of Anti-Racism Can Turn Disagreement into Heresy

WHY ARE CORPORATIONS INCREASINGLY LEFTIST?

Enough With Ethanol

‘Public servants’ vs. the public: the arrogance of our political masters

‘That’s What They Offered:’ Clinton Explains Why She Took $675,000 for Three Wall Street Speeches

The Clintons have turned lying into performance art.

Hillary sends an army to New Hampshire

But not to Benghazi

For Venezuela, the End Is Near.

Merkel’s Deadly Misstep

4,500-Year-Old Boat Found Near Pyramids

It's being studied by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University. How cool is that?

How to Build a Portable Rapid-Fire Snowball Machine Gun Using a Leaf Blower

Was the Moon born in a head-on collision?

Zika is not ‘the new ebola’

Are the Social Sciences Scientific?

Post-Protest Mizzou: Adverse Consequences of the Capitulation

The Totalitarian Doctrine of ‘Social Justice Warriors’

They prey mainly on emasculated academics

Education Insanity - The most crucial input for a child's education cannot be provided by schools, politicians and government.

Tell the truth about benefit claimants and the left shuts you down - How neuro­biologist Dr Adam Perkins became a victim of the new McCarthyism

Wrong narrative

Scientist Ruthlessly Debunks One Of NOAA’s Central Climate Claims

Wrong narrative

Germany:

Last month, feminists in Cologne responded to the mass molestation by predominantly Muslim migrants that occurred on New Year’s Eve by visiting the city’s largest refugee center and handing out roses as a “gesture against xenophobia”. Another feminist group in Cologne responded to the attacks by denouncing “German born men”.

How Sicilians deal with unruly immigrants

Germany to Insist on Assimilation?

That's the opposite of multicultural

Top German Journalist Admits Live On Air National News Agenda Set By Government

How Much Consent of the Governed Has Modern American Democracy Really Got?

Are Unions Losing Their Grip in West Virginia?

Why Detroit's Teachers Are Suing Their School District

Ex-Spies Say That Clinton’s Illegal Server Triggered Widespread Devastation

Hillary Clinton is Awful - Bernie Sanders isn't the only problematic candidate on the Democratic side.

Nude statues in Rome’s Capitoline museum were covered by white boxes for the state visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Will the EPA Cause a Zika Pandemic?

What are you buying when you buy toothpaste?

Government science:

 Scientists should have known in 1980 that the recommendation to cut fat was unsound.  Large clinical trials at the time did not support the theory, according to a systematic review published last year in the cardiology journal Open Heart.  "It seem incomprehensible that dietary advice was introduced for 220 million Americans," the authors wrote, "given the contrary results."  

This Taxpayer-Funded University Is LITERALLY Building A Segregated Dorm

She? Ze? They? What’s In a Gender Pronoun

VDH: California of the Dark Ages

Guardian Declares Discussion of Immigration Off Limits

On a daily basis, I receive emails from associates in the UK and Europe that speak of the sheer madness of allowing refugees in the millions to pour into Europe.

Mead:

The European elite’s reckless disregard for the very real limits on the Continent’s political and psychological ability to receive migrants, and the shortsightedness of arrogant policymakers who charged on without an understanding of public sentiment, is going to cost Europe—and migrants—dear.

The U.S. is also heading for this kind of reckoning: Immigration and refugee policy have become detached from public sentiment and the backlash is gathering force. In both the U.S. and the EU, there is a rising sentiment in public opinion that elites are deliberately and consciously taking steps that will change the demographic and cultural balance of the countries they oversee. This is the kind of soil in which poisonous plants grow well, and one can watch them growing on both sides of the Atlantic.

European Pathology Hasn’t Changed

The European Union, which generates constant peace-and-love propaganda, is a complete and utter fraud. Nobody in the Eurocracy is actually elected by voters. European voters are completely helpless, and national parliaments are constantly yielding power to the appointed bureaucracy in Brussels. All EU propaganda consists of barefaced lies. This is a mass psychiatric problem -- self-delusion being the biggest sign of neurosis.

As Feds Plan to Cut Border Monitoring, Texas Officials Ask Why

Poll: 25% of federal employees would consider quitting if Trump becomes president

Were her last name anything other than Clinton, Hillary would be indicted today.

Want to know why voters are so mad? Mia Love has the answer: Glenn Reynolds

Rubio's Surge Is a Triumph for Trumpism

Hillary Clinton Caught in ANOTHER BIG LIE 24 Hours Before Iowa Caucus!

The Clintons’ political legacy of dishonesty

Why Is The Mainstream Press Still Coddling Clinton?

Britain’s Muslim Population Soars Past 3 Million, Several Parts Of London Are Close To 50% Islamic…

Germany's Migrant Deportation Plan: "Political Charade"

Rarely seen Stockman so relatively jocular, especially given this gloomy message about markets and the world economy. He likes cash and gold right now.

Scientists open the ‘black box’ of schizophrenia with dramatic genetic discovery

France drops hate speech charge against Bob Dylan but not because it doesn't think his speech was a crime.

University Of Kentucky Offers Course On Taco Literacy…

A Reprieve For Online Freedom? DoJ Gets Cold Feet On ADA-For-The-Web

Should the internet be in Braille?

Dawkins is a thought criminal

Blasphemer!

Bill Maher: I Wish Liberals Would Have Same Intolerance For Muslims That They Do For Christians

Nobody is afraid of Christians

Taki on Davos:

Race and immigration are two things, like sex and money used to be, that people are not allowed to talk about. Well, they can all go to hell. The EU is a dictatorship by unelected bureaucrats who wish to control our lives. Our elected representatives know this, yet are doing everything they can to perpetuate it. That’s what they should have been discussing in Davos.

300 Scientists Sign Letter Opposing Federal Data Fudging Regarding Global Warming

The Lust for Climate Catastrophes

Virtues of journalism are at stake in project by Columbia's Energy and Environment Reporting Fellowship

We Totally Need A Climate Change Anonymous Or Something

The ugly PC race to be the ‘victimiest’ victim

The Women Who Should Love Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton is the change America needs

At the Pentagon, General Chaos is in Charge

Obama bucks history, directs Pentagon to make guns safer, not more lethal

U.S. Navy Confirms ‘Abnormal and Unprofessional’ Iranian UAV Recon Flight Over Carriers Truman, Charles de Gaulle

Cuba’s Next Flood Of Immigrants Arrives

Merkel: Yeah, maybe all these refugees should go home when the war ends

What war? Most of these people are not from Syria

Europe’s tragedy: Too much Angela Merkel, too little masculinity

EU leaders insist there is 'NO LINK' between the
migrant crisis and New Year sex attacks in Cologne - and vow to bring
about an end to 'false accusations'

Italians Mock Cover-Up of Nude Statues for Iranian’s Visit

A World Where Muslim Pedophiles Roam Freely

It is culturally normal for them

Migrant Crime Soaring in Sweden

Invasion Update: 92% of Migrant Muslim Teens Entering Sweden are Male

EU Leaders’ Dangerous Delusions Regarding Migrant Crisis

David Cameron to force EU crunch meeting as migration crisis deepens

Just ignore Brussels.

Toon via Lucianne

Dentists Are Removing Too Many Wisdom Teeth

They took mine at 25, and took my wisdom with them. Claimed they didn't fit in my mouth.

Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed) - Monty Python

The Disastrous New Urban Agenda - Unable to spend their way into a progressive future, Democratic mayors have turned to regulation as a panacea

Still seeking utopia on the backs on the people

How Bad Incentives Undermine the Scientific Process

300 scientists send letter to Congress accusing NOAA of cooking the books on climate change

Should Charter Schools Be Allowed to Push Out Difficult Kids?

Catholic Guilt? The Lying, Scheming Altar Boy Behind a Lurid Rape Case

Otherkin Rights Now!

"...we live in an age where the line between reality, insanity and fantasy is arbitrary."

I am a Bird Dog

New Mandatory Diversity Training For Students At Mizzou Focuses On Taco Costumes

"First they came for our tacos..." But I hate tacos

Britain Is A Free Country — Thanks To The Queen

Students:  Liberate Yourself from ‘Safe Spaces’

Feminists go medieval

"Why do feminists, on the one hand, claim that there are no natural
differences between male and female and yet, on the other hand,
constantly criticize men for typical masculine behavior?"

Public Spaces Then and Now - After a generation of improvement, New Yorkers sense something changing— and not for the better.

Beware: Wal-Mart's Raises Are Not a Victory

Liberal Distortions of Welfare Reform

Statistically, single motherhood is as dumb as dropping out of high school. There is no cure for stupid and, shockingly, outside Lake Wobegon a full half of Americans have below-average IQs.

Union membership in Wisconsin plummets in wake of GOP measures

Given the choice, many quit the unions

Obamacare’s Cost per Beneficiary Explodes with Shrinking Enrollment

It was designed to fail, a feature not a bug

Great moments in government: HHS handed children to human traffickers

Is there still hope for Conservatism?

Why I’m Supporting Hillary Clinton, With Joy and Without Apologies - I’ve come to feel passion for Clinton herself, and for the movement that supports her.

"Passion"? "Movement"?

MSNBC: FBI’s Hillary Investigation ‘Far More Advanced’ Than Public Knows

Trump at heart is an outer borough man

Yep, the real thing. Queens. Amusingly, Bernie an outer borough guy too - Brooklyn.

Hillary: “I just can’t tell you how it feels to be in a room with so many people I
do know and have worked with and admired and appreciate to be here in
Westchester County having a chance to take a little breather from Iowa”

Donald Trump Is Shocking, Vulgar and Right - And, my dear fellow Republicans, he's all your fault.

Good stuff

It's Not the Debate. It's the Focus Group

The Insiders: The failed Obama presidency is what fuels Trump and sinks Clinton

GOP Debate Showed What the Republican Primary Looks Like Without Donald Trump - It’s not more libertarian, but it is lot more substantive.

Veiling Statues to Please the Mullahs: What the covering up of Roman art in deference to President Rouhani really means.

They don't like pretty girls? Did they cover up the naked guy statues too?

Europe’s Near Future Summed Up in One Picture

European far-right, nationalist parties meet in Milan

Why "far right"?By American standards, they seem fairly normal.

German woman prefers rapists

Sheesh

The anti-oxidant scam

Famous British desserts in pictures

Boa vs. Coyote

Before Europe’s Intrusion - A 17th-century map reinforces what few other
than historians of China have known: It was an open and diverse world
with a long tradition of maritime commerce.

If Your Church Makes Christianity ‘Cool’ And Comfortable, You Should Find A New Church

Who do we blame for fat people?

National Association of Scholars calls for restoration of intellectual freedom to higher education

“Personality is a capitalist construct”

HuffPo: Christians ‘Can View Muhammad as a Prophet,’ Brought ‘Love, Peace’

Rolling Stone Rape Fabulist Ordered to Release Communications

US:  48.9% of Union Members Worked for Government in 2015

How To Get Revenge With A Football by Marco Rubio (video)

What is at Stake for America in Bernie vs. Hillary - The revolution will either destroy America or the Left.

With Hillary Floundering, Democrat Media Machine Goes After Bernie

A good point: Trump and Bernie are 3rd party candidates inside parties

It's 12 O'Clock High for the Traditional Conservative Establishment - The Traditional Conservative Establishment's Obsolescence

The EU wants to tax food

Europe’s Moral Bankruptcy

Sweden announces it may expel up to 80,000 ‘asylum seekers’

Police In German City Allegedly Let Refugees Shoplift

Online anti-refugee posts lead to offline visits by Dutch police

Danish Teen to Be Punished for Using Pepper Spray to Hold Off Rapist

Muslim migrants not as stupid and simple as politically-correct Europeans seem to believe:

 It’s almost funny seeing Europeans trying politely to teach their conquerors how not to treat those whom they have conquered. I wonder how long it will take before the Europeans figure out that they’re no longer in the driver’s seat. And then I wonder whether they’ll be able or willing to mount a counter-strike, or whether the twelve-hundred year-long Islamic jihad against Europe will finally have succeeded.

Image via Moonbattery

Beatrix Potter story Kitty-in-Boots discovered after 100 years

They Cut Lund's Brain

Work imitates life - The utopian workplace is here, complete with roof gardens, therapists and time to nap. Can the employee ever escape?

How Detroit is reinventing itself for a driverless age

Fetal fur

Mizzou Madness

Academia UK: A Dictatorship of the Righteous

Another Environmentalist Doomsday Clock Expires, When Can We Laugh?

Feds Propose Removing ‘He’ and ‘She’ from Regulation to ‘Avoid the Gender Binary’

When can we laugh?

Wounded Warrior Project accused of wasting donation money

Malanga: Scary Pension Math - Even after six years of a bull market, state and local governments owe at least $1 trillion.

How the National Teachers Union Usurped a Local Election

Camille Paglia: Hillary’s “blame-men-first” feminism may prove costly in 2016

Trende: The meaning of Trump

Ted Cruz’s American restoration

NYT  Publishes Lengthy Correction on Article Slamming Israel

Photo from here.

How Iowa Hijacked Our Democracy

... it turns out that if you dare to question the premise of microaggressions, you will be called names and there will be shoving and punching.

Shoveling snow in The Multi-Culti Wonderland

Turning Clutter Into Joy

Old stuff is interesting

To be happier, start thinking more about your death

Want to Avoid Another ‘Big Short’? Try Some Personal Responsibility

7 Reasons to Rethink Sending Your Child to Public School

As Population Ages, Where Are the Geriatricians?

Every Internist is mainly a geriatrician

Downton Abbey’s Dowager Countess scorches big government

Decades of Big Government Result in Massive Doubts It Fixes Anything - So why is more big government on the menu for the election?

People want big government, more "services," more "help" - but unintrusive big government with less tax. Can't have both

12 signs America is on the decline

No measures of personal freedom from government?

When Americans have more faith in the military than the political class, democracy is in trouble.

Climatism is a foreign assault on America - The aggressor is not another nation-state, but an alliance of UN agencies and environmental NGOs.

Memo To Hillary And Bernie: The Public Doesn’t Care About Your Priorities

Hillary and the Law of the Jungle

Jeb Bush's attacks on Rubio are pissing everybody off

Not being a gentleman

Police officers flee angry mob in Swedish refugee center through back door

15 Year-Old Migrant Stabs Swedish Refugee Center Worker to Death

"Gangs" Of "All-Male" Moroccan Migrant Children “Take Over” Stockholm Train Station; Steal, Grope, Beat Women

France Declares Permanent Police State - Prime Minister envisions war that will last generations

Holocaust Remembrance: Dugo Does it with Falafel

The Madness of Frau Merkel

In Europe and at home, Angela Merkel’s refugee policy is being blown away

UN Chief Calls Palestinian Terror Attacks Just 'Human Nature' Reacting to 'Occupation'

TEN YEARS OF HAMAS RULE: THE PALESTINIANS MUST SOLVE THEIR DIVIDE BEFORE PEACE WITH ISRAEL

The fall of the Ottoman Empire

Snow Is An Indicator Of Global Warming Or Something

The Fight Against Global Warming, in One Picture

WSJ:  The Climate Snow Job - A blizzard! The hottest year ever! More signs that global warming and its extreme effects are beyond debate, right?

The incandescent light bulb. Gone, but not forgotten

The Big Fat Surprise": How Science Is Corrupted By Government Money And Government Process

CLINT EASTWOOD:  HEY OSCAR PROTESTERS ... MOST PEOPLE DON'T WIN

Jewish Academics Turn Against Hillel

The UK: Men with more than one wife will get extra benefits under new rules

The single most important election issue in 2016:  The Constitution!

Byron York: GOP fear and loathing in New Hampshire

A Conservative Case for Donald Trump

Why neoneo is no Trump fan

Trump is giving wedgies to the nerds

Steyn on the Repubs: The World They Made

A book: Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America’s Postwar Political Order

What Donald Rumsfeld Knew We Didn’t Know About Iraq

Islam’s Sexual Abuses in Sweden and the “Cultural Challenge” - Sweden and Europe will soon learn, the hard way, why women do not go out alone on the streets of Kabul.

Where Does All That Aid for Palestinians Go?

French Officials: ISIS Fake Passport Industry is Booming

Pakistan: "Christian Girls Are Only Meant for the Pleasure of Muslim Men"

ISIS'S BARBARITY AND LEFTIST FEMINISTS' CALLOUS HEART

The Preposterous Nonsense Known as Homoeopathy

A book: Is He Worth It?: How to Spot the Hidden Traits of Good Men

The rash of glass-bottomed suspension bridges that have popped up across China is raising safety concerns,

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST.

It's Easy To Prove Your Hypothesis If You Just Pretend That The Adverse Evidence Does Not Exist

The Geography of Genius: Why Some Places are Better at Fostering Creativity (video)

New York City Set To Stop Enforcing Law Against Peeing On Sidewalks Because…RACISM!

Oscar-Winning Producer Denounces "Spoiled Brats" Crying "Racism"

A Win for Sanity at Oberlin

Anti-Semitic Incidents on U.S. College Campuses Spike

The Biofuel Scam Is Worse than Solyndra

Why the Koch brothers drive liberals nuts

Williamson not a Trump fan

The Voters’ Trump Love Affair Explained

It's a pretty sad day when Joy Reid of MSNBC makes more sense to me than National Review.

The Real Ted Cruz

Hillary: Big Banks Paid Me 2.9 Million In Speaking Fees Since 2013 Because They Wanted To Hear About My Role In Bin Laden Raid

Why the Justice Department Won’t Work with the FBI on Clinton’s E-mail Case

Migrants Storm Calais Ferry

Horror as gangs of migrants 'assault female swimmers and masturbate in hot tub'

ISIL is Erasing the Past

The  Eclipse of the Caliphate

Paris Terrorists Introduced, Warn West in New ISIS Beheading Video

Iran's leader says never trusted the West, seeks closer ties with China

How it could have turned out different in Vietnam