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Why I Mourn the Death of the American Mall

How Machiavelli Trolled Europe’s Princes - Machiavelli’s advice for rulers was ruthless and pragmatic—and he may have intended for it to secretly destroy them.

 Why Tesla's Solar Roof Is Just Another Giant Taxpayer Gift To Elon Musk

How Vegas rolled Tony Hsieh 

Johnny Depp: A Star in Crisis and the Insane Story of His "Missing" Millions

 U of Arizona Is Hiring Students to Tattle on Others for ‘Bias Incidents’  What kind of person wants to get a job policing ‘microaggressions’?

 Pro-Sanctuary Crowd Shocked to Learn Legal Immigrants Might Disagree

 What Democrats Won't Admit About Voters and Health Care

Nobody wants to pay for it 

 Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe Connected to Hillary Campaign

 Trump Trolls Hate-Filled Democrats — And I Can’t Stop Laughing

Trump: We finally agree on something, Rosie 

 Hungary, Slovakia take EU to court over forced migrant resettlement scheme

Re Israel,  More Lies from the UN

 Spain: "Pacifist" Imam Arrested on Terror Charges - The New York Times once praised his moderation

  Taking ibuprofen to treat pain ‘for just ONE DAY increases your risk of heart attack by half’

 How P.T. Barnum Helped the Early Days of Animal Rights

 Cosmopolitan Columnist Argues Abortion Is Good Because It Leads to Better Sex

The Feminization of Everything Fails Our Boys

 Global Quackery: Earth Has Not Warmed For Past 19 Years, New Study Finds

 Elementary school ditches Mother’s Day celebrations due to ‘non-traditional families’

 The "Trend" In Airline Incidents is Probably Just Publication Bias

 PROFESSOR LAURA KIPNIS–SHE FACED TITLE IX CHARGES FOR WRITING AN ESSAY

 Duke Professor is Reprimanded and Resigns After Criticizing ‘Racial Equity Training’

 THE FARCE AT ST. OLAF

 Oh, look, another campus hate hoax, this time in Minnesota

 Students Deal With Exam Stress by Regressing Into Early Childhood Instead of Studying

The Vexing Question of ‘Preexisting Conditions’

 Aetna completely exits Obamacare exchanges, cites massive losses

 Washington Is Never Going to Get Healthcare 'Right' - Obamacare was bad, and its replacements look like a dog's breakfast.

No confidence: Pelosi, Chuck Schumer hint that Comey must go

 The news coverage of Comey’s firing has become excellent entertainment.

As we have always said, Trump is a Honey Badger - pure balls

 Trump DESTROYS Liberal Critic and Fake Hero Sen. Blumenthal: He “Cried Like a Baby” When Caught Lying

Orwell, from  COMEY, COLBERT AND ORWELL

The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! Sabotage! It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work! There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled underfoot.

The orator, still gripping the neck of the microphone, his shoulders hunched forward, his free hand clawing at the air, had gone straight on with his speech. One minute more, and the feral roars of rage were again bursting from the crowd. The Hate continued exactly as before, except that the target had been changed. The thing that impressed Winston in looking back was that the speaker had switched from one line to the other actually in midsentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax.

Benefits Backlash - The soaring cost of perks comes back to haunt government workers.

 Emmanuel Macron’s election was something of a pyrrhic victory

The Candy Bar that Blew Barghouti's Cover - Palestinian Incitement against the Media

 Turkey doesn't quit Hamas cold turkey

 Assad’s Hollow Crown

 South Africa contemplates the abyss

 Will tiny drones become a must-have for soldiers?

 A New Addition to the Human Family Tree Is Surprisingly Young - Homo naledi was alive between 236,000 and 335,000 years ago, which complicates the story of human evolution

 ‘Settled science’ on salt may be completely wrong, says New York Times

 What the F*ck Is Up With Different Types of Salt? Here's a Breakdown

 The rise of obesity in the U.S. tracks closely with the expansion of America's primary food assistance program.

 Apparently, ‘Activist Appropriation’ Is a Thing Now

 Gallery Cancels Art Show after Accusations of ‘Cultural Genocide’

 Choosing to Live in a Tiny House Deemed ‘Poverty Appropriation’

Too cold:  ‘Climate Change’ Clobbers French Wine Crop

 The Icecaps are [still] melting

 Fake Statistics Created 'Rape Anxiety' Among Female Students

 There Is No Easy Way to Clean Up Obama's Title IX Mess

 When The Democrats Do It, That Means That It's Not Illegal

Kling:

 When I went to college, I was on the far left. Those views began to change, in part because taking an economics course shifted my paradigm from small-community intuition to thinking about a complex society in more systemic terms. I am not sure that today’s young leftists will undergo a similar transition.

Fake News War Comes to Kentucky

 Obamacare Premiums Rise as Insurers Fret Over Law’s Shaky Future

 A grossly disproportionate number of the people making decisions about Europe’s future have no children

I got rid of the fake image. New one is real 

The Days of Big Berkshire Gains Seem Like They're Over

What squirrels teach about feminism 

 Duke really ought to be paying people to put up with this kind of crap.

 Ontario man given three tickets by ‘the smoke police’ for having a cigarette alone in his SUV

 The speed limit really is just a number on a sign, and it has very little influence on how fast people drive

 Her (now-private) Facebook post reads like an Onion parody of political correctness.

 Even After Colorado’s Teacher Evaluation ‘Revolution,’ Fewer Than One in 1,000 Rated Ineffective

Isle of Indebtedness - Washington provided Puerto Rico with all the wrong incentives; disaster ensued.

 One of the remarkable aspects of the managerial class is they don’t seem to learn much from their errors.

Adam Gopnick says Trump makes him wonder about the American Revolution 

Trump, Jackson, and the Civil War 

Hysterics over Healthcare Bill, Just Like Everything Else

Photo is the famous Magnolia Bakery, where we bought organic, naturally-sweetened gluten-free incredibly-delicious cupcakes for the whole hiking crew yesterday afternoon 

The energy generators inside our cells reach a sizzling 50°C (120 degrees F) 

 Another Arctic ice panic over as world temperatures plummet

Climate change now causing global cooling due to global warming. Now I am getting scared...and more confused.

 Two Cheers for Monarchy and Prince Philip

 Honoring a Hero Who Defied the Nazis

 Fifty years ago, they were the most famous four people in the world. Today, the Beatles are even more iconic.

We’re better off than John D. Rockefeller

 Here’s why women have no idea what to wear

 France bans extremely thin models

Europe bans anything the elite dislike or disapprove of. No freedom ethic. 

Londonistan=>Muhammed Most Popular Baby Name in London, 2nd Most Overall Across UK

 Scientific Journal Proclaims It Is “Ethically Inappropriate” to Regard Breastfeeding as Natural

 "My doctor had a picture on his wall in which he was posing with a Ferrari — one of his Ferraris. I was driving a Saturn VUE at the time."

 Stephen Hawking is a genius, when it comes to scamming people

 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CLIMATE, IN ONE CHART

 10 Incredible Things Hotcoldwetdry Will Do To Create Doom Or Something

The Washington Blob Goes After Ben Carson

 The New York Times and Upper West Side Segregation

Trump effect:  Economy added 211,000 jobs in April; unemployment dips to 10-year low

 Young women are more likely to find a job than young men

 In the Trump Era, More Americans Are Stressed Out by Political Discussions at Work

Krauthammer:  Trump: Normalized, but scary

 Every US Marine a rifleman no more?

Photo from  1945-1960 - Todd Webb's New York

My son died in 1994 but his heart only stopped beating this year

 School Evacuated after Kid Wears Darth Vader Costume to Class

 Colgate President: Possible Racial Bias Over Glue Gun Lockdown Of University

 Class focused on great Greco-Roman books may be changed after students complain it’s too hard white

 Anti-vaccine activists spark a state’s worst measles outbreak in decades

 Not From The Onion: Florida University To Award Trayvon Martin A Posthumous Honorary Degree

 UC Santa Cruz Students Occupy Building, Shout Anti-Semitic Slurs, Admin Caves In to Demands

Meanwhile, the sane students are studying in the library 

 American leftists celebrated the venerable Communist holiday of May Day in the traditional fashion. Portland grad students, who have never worked a day in their lives, marked International Workers Day by smashing the windows of local businesses.

 Surprise: Yet Another Hate Crime Blamed On Trump Turns Out To Be A Hoax

 In Meeting with Ivanka, Cecile Richards Shows Her Hand on Abortion

Modern liberalism and the technocracy 

Hubris is the problem 

 Hillary-Voting NY Daily News Writer Tells Her: 'Shut The F**k Up And Go Away'

 Saying good riddance to Obamacare

 Obamacare? Trumpcare? Get Rid of it All

It might be too late for that 

Z-man has a dislike for Kevin Williamson 

The Resistance changes its attack from “Russian Puppet” to “Trump is Crazy” - Which Works Best?

Lefty greed: Hillary’s ‘Onward Together’ Resistance Group Smells Like Scandal

It's the Jesse Jackson business model 

Continetti:

None of us, no voter or official or institution, has yet to fully assimilate the fact that Donald Trump is president, that this unpopular and unpredictable man holds what has become the primary office of our constitutional system. He certainly doesn't make our jobs any easier: It is hard to read or watch his recent interviews without holding one's head in one's hands. And yet there he is. His daily presence is an accusation, a rebuke, an admonishment, a reminder that the country we thought we lived in might not have actually existed. The shocks of deindustrialization and the financial crisis, of unchecked immigration, multiculturalism, and the transgender revolution, of digital and social media, of inconclusive decades-long wars, of rampant heroin addiction seem to have made large parts of the country unrecognizable to those of us living in coastal cities and their affluent suburbs. Is our country really this divided, our politics this polarized, and our culture this degraded? Was 2016 not a fluke but a warning? What of?

No one wants to answer that last question; no one knows the answer.

 An Honest Question to Progressives: When Does the Proportion of Tax Money Claimed By Government Workers Get Too Large?

 In Venezuela, food is so scarce people padlock the refrigerator

 What Caused Venezuela's Collapse Is No Mystery — Except To Economically Illiterate Journalists

French people adjusting to Muslim terror 

Italy update:  CAUGHT ON VIDEO=> Female Reporter Is Sent Out to Cover Poor ‘Refugees’ – Gets Assaulted

Photo from  The Taco Wall of Cinco de Mayo

Related, Cultural Appropriation: A Modest Proposal

I enjoy this site: Hunter-Angler-Gardener-Cook 

 “Exercise-in-a-pill” boosts athletic endurance by 70 percent (h/t Insty) 

 Apple Is Now The World's Largest Bond Fund

California plans to tax space travel by the mile

 8 Lessons to Learn From the Failure of Common Core

 Puerto Rico Declares a Form of Bankruptcy

 Connecticut Laughs Ruefully As Its Tax Haul Collapses  25 Years After Income Levy

Driving business and the prosperous from their state 

 Hillary Clinton Warns of a 'Handmaid's Tale' Future

 Here we go: Hillary launching “Onward Together” PAC next week to rebuild her political influence

Charles Krauthammer: We’re Now ‘Less Than Seven Years’ Away From Single-Payer Health Care

Trump is  Realigning the parties

 Young Donald Trump Walks Out On CNN Crank: “You’re Very Negative… Do It With Somebody Else” 

 President Trump Realigning Geo-Political Alliances, and Few Paying Attention…

From Roger Simon's   Colbert, Trump, and the Roots of Liberal/Progressive Rage

 If you were a visitor from a distant solar system come to our nation or even a time traveler from our own nineteenth century, I submit you would be perplexed. This Trump person (being?) doesn't seem to be all that different from many leaders who have come before him. I mean, what has he done exactly? Enforced some immigration laws that were enacted by the Congress over several administrations? Tried to fix a mediocre healthcare plan with another plan that may or may not be as mediocre? Called for a tax reduction similar to those enacted by previous Republican and Democratic administrations? Cut back on some regulations that became overly burdensome? Called for a temporary halt to immigration from a half-dozen countries his predecessor had already cited as dangerous hotbeds of terrorism? Shot off a few dozen cruise missiles at the airfield of a dictator who was gassing his own people, but didn't harm a single person in the process?

I could go on, but you get the point.

 Why Sled Dogs Never Get Tired (video)

 One million bucks just isn’t what it used to be

Harvard Poll Finds that Millennials Basically Live in Bubbles

 Trump boots Michelle Obama lunch standards — finally

What good is food if nobody will eat it? 

 Experts warn tick-borne virus worse than Lyme disease is on the rise

McArdle is wrong about the estate tax 

How Bret Stephens energized climate debate 

Dialing back the 10 foot hype – NOAA Tide Gauge Data shows no coastal sea level rise acceleration

 Obamacare Implosion: Last Major Healthcare Provider Pulls Out Of Iowa Leaving No Options In 2018

 Courage and Cowardice in the Vietnam War’s Final Hours

 How about the 78% percent reduction in extreme world poverty from 1981 to 2015.

Berkeley op-ed: ‘safety of marginalized’ more important than free speech

How did the word "marginal" become the term "marginalized"? 

CT update:  Income tax revenue collapses; Malloy says taxing the rich doesn’t work

 Is “contemporary liberalism” dying?

No. It moved to the Republican Party

 THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED WE’D SEE OPEN RACISM RETURN TO AMERICA. AND THEY WERE RIGHT!

 Colbert, Trump, and the Roots of Liberal/Progressive Rage

Trump’s Presidency Is Reviving Jacksonianism

 Antifa Chick Goes to Turkey With Muslim Loverboy, Gets Raped and Beaten

A multicultural experience 

 The Truth About the Palestinian Hunger Strike

 The Shipping and Handling of a Gigantic Space Telescope

 Is protein powder safe? What every athlete should know  (h/t Insty)

I use them after every weight workout, in a banana smoothie. I can't eat solid food in the morning.

 Tiny Robot Can Fly and, Amazingly, Rest

 Schwab Sector Views: Is Retail Really Dead?

Affordable Housing is a Supply Problem

 Numbers don’t lie: Germany’s Energiewende has had zero impact on emissions – at best

 New York City Public School Throws Out Its Books

 Have you hugged a fracker today?

 Colorado Climate March Postponed Due to Heavy Snow

 Annals of Academic Fatuousness, Yale Edition, Part 9876

 The Disease of the ‘New York Times’ Mind

 The Know-Nothing Campus ‘Protest’ Movement - This is not pouting; it is fury and menace.

 Conservative Student Speaks Up About Campus Intimidation

 Living in a Progressive theocracy means the framework of civic debate is always going to be a Progressive framework.

 Thomas Sowell: Tax Lies For The Gullible

 ILLEGAL ALIEN DAY - The Left used May Day to push its open-borders agenda this year.

 Can gender-fluid non-binary poetry slams help Democrats take back the Rust Belt?

 Hillary Clinton: "I Was On The Way To Winning Until Comey And 'Russian' WikiLeaks"

 COULD TRUMP DESTROY THE DEMOCRATS FOR A GENERATION?

 Germany: Migrant Crime Spiked in 2016

5 common American gestures that might insult the locals

Tyler Cowen's favorite book this year: Dreaming the Beatles 

 Hilarious Customer Reviews for the Sigma 200-500mm Lens on Amazon

 The Path to Higher Education With an Intellectual Disability - The number of degree-granting institutions with options for these students is growing.

 Would an intelligent person pay a penny more for 'organic' food?

 School takes unusual (and heartbreaking) step to protect illegal immigrant students

 Immigrant Workers Stunned To Be Fired After Skipping Work For Protest

KKK spotted in East Lansing 

 Inner California Will Soon Be Beachfront

" What’s surprising is that operations like ESPN have an audience at all. Their “news” converge is mostly jock-sniffing and their created content is so out there on the Progressive fringe, it borders on madness." 

 New Frontiers in Microaggression: It's Unethical to Call Breastfeeding Your Infant "Natural" Because It Reinforces the Cultural Stereotype That Only Women Have Breasts 

 Aussie not happy after transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard achieves New Zealand sporting first

 Bret Stephens just trolled the left with his supposed climate change denialism

 Trump haters may think they've got him this time, but look ahead a few moves for once. Your smug arrogance is blinding.

 Author Reveals How CIA's Enhanced Interrogations Helped Find Bin Laden

 The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower

 Victims of Communism Day 2017

Just a few links this morning - thanks a lot United Airlines. Do you guys have any flights without 6-hour delays? 

Bob Dylan's Early Days in New York: 17 Intimate Photos

Why clapping is now deemed offensive

 Why Aren’t People Rushing To Buy My Art?

Holding elections is not freedom 

 California Squashes Its Young - The Golden State’s suffocating economic policies are driving out a new generation.

Here’s Some Evidence ESPN’s Politics Are Impacting Its Audience

Eight False Pretenses Liberals Use to Frame an Argument

The Arrogance of Blue America - If you want to see the worst impacts of blue policies, go to those red regions—like upstate New York or inland California—in states they control.

 What Democrats won't admit about Trump's first 100 days

How Hungary Managed To Erase Illegal Immigration In Just A Few Months

Why Teaching Proper Manners to Kids is More Important Today Than Ever

That airborne slide to home plate 

Rebellion in Vermont 

 A famous 'ancestor' may be ousted from the human family

So many past species of hominids 

 An eight-year project at Teotihuacán, once the western hemisphere’s largest city, failed to locate its rulers’ tomb but findings offered tantalising clues to its origins

The UK:  This Government Will Decide How Rare Your Burger Is

 Cruel And Unusual — Delta Airlines Passengers Forced To Endure Kenny G Live Performance…

Reposted: No links found yet for diet and heart disease or cancer 

Hard exercise and cognitive decline 

 Increasing number of Americans are willing to drive farther, pay more for ethanol-free fuel

 Man Refuses To Accept He’s No Longer Black After DNA Test Results

What about the old "one drop" rule? 

 WARNING: THIS VIDEO WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT

Guilt lasts a lifetime 

As it should. Jesus washes, but I must still be on the wash cycle.

After great pain, where is God? 

That's a teenage question 

McArdle:  Berkeley Once Stood for Free Speech. Now It Rolls Over.

 TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD ACCUSES JUSTICE GORSUCH OF MURDER

NY Gov Cuomo tells the truth:  "Today, college is what high school was..."

March for Science:  Comments On The March For Poverty

 Bernie Sanders Defends Ann Coulter, Slams ‘Intellectually Weak’ Student Activists

What if John Bogle is right about 4% stock returns?

 Subway Sandwiches: Death by a Thousand Cold Cuts

I'll always pick Subway over McDonalds 

Kling:  Financial Policy if I were in charge

 I sexually identify as an Attack Tyronecopter.

 New York Times refuses To Use Term 'Female Genital Mutilation' Because It's 'Culturally Loaded"

And that decision is not culturally-loaded?  As in loaded with dhimmitude?

 Pelosi: Trump’s Border Wall Will Take Food from Babies and Cause Dirty Air and Water

 Nuclear Power Subsidies Threaten Wind and Solar Power… Proof That Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Politicians are welfare queens

Why the Clintons Won’t Go Away 

It's their money machine 

The FBI and the Clinton Way 

Looking back at Clinton's Samantha Bee problem 

 When will Obama have made enough money?

 IMPEACH MAXINE WATERS

Scott Adams:  President Trump’s First 100 Days

I still can hardly believe he was elected. People really disliked Hillary 

How Trump Can Destroy Democrats and Keep Congress 

 German crowd hisses, boos at Ivanka when she defends her dad

 Migrant crime in Germany rises by 50 per cent, new figures show

ISIS fighters killed by wild boars

The whole story of the Desert One debacle 

 Politically Correct Wusses Fail To Ban Dodgeball In Louisiana Public Schools…

What the heck is wrong with dodgeball? 

 America’s manliest industries are all competing for women

Ayn Rand's counter-revolution 

 Why cultivating passion on campus is at odds with cultivating the mind

THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE ELECTED WE’D SEE OPEN RACISM ON CAMPUS. AND THEY WERE RIGHT!

 AT WOMEN’S COLLEGE, A STUDENT STRIKE FOR MORE MONEY AND FREE THERAPY SUCCEEDS

 It's official: Berkeley hit with lawsuit over Coulter lecture

 Hate speech is free speech, Gov. Dean: Glenn Reynolds

 Sorry, College Kids, There’s No Such Thing As Hate Speech

 The Russians Hacked Democrats’ Plans to Cheat in the General Election

 Obama To Receive $400,000 Speaking Fee At Cantor Fitzgerald Conference

 In 2017, Americans Spending More on Taxes Than Food, Clothing, and Housing Combined

Not serfdom, but similar 

 Horowitz: Democrats 'Consumed by Their Hatred'

 Judd Gregg: Trump gets his sea legs

 Venezuela cannot wake up from its socialist nightmare.

UN secretary-general: Denial of Israel’s right to exist is ‘modern form of anti-Semitism’

 Terrorist accused of killing a British student will be paid £800 a month by the Palestinian government which receives £25m-a-year UK foreign aid

 End the US taxpayer subsidy for Palestinian terror