Maggie's Farm

University Rejects Animal-Rights Club Over ‘Emotional Risk’ Concerns

Sheesh 

U.S. Prefers Mass Hysteria to Sound Policy on Vaping - Saving the lives of millions of smokers isn’t a priority. Protecting kids from nicotine seems to matter more.

Boston:  Renaming Dudley Square

 "I don’t want to die!" Climate Exploitation of Children

 Trump is Right, Windmills are Terrible

 The demand for white supremacists vastly exceeds the supply

Lots of Europeans want to live without chemicals 

No education, I spose. Including dihydrogen monoxide? 

 Transgender Contractor Sues Nike, Citing Personal Pronoun Abuses

Issues 2020: A Fracking Ban Would Trigger Global Recession

Voters Love the Trump Economy

 CNBC Reporter Thinks Journalists Are Being Too Fair To Republicans

 SHOCK: Inspector General Report Reveals FBI Had Informants Inside The Trump Campaign

 Crossfire Hurricane Investigation May Have Been a Joint Operation Between the FBI and CIA

Sure smells like it 

The indelible mark of impeachment. - I kept seeing that word — "indelible."

Trump learned from President Nixon's mishandling of the press: "it is not paranoia when they really are out to kill you"

 The Hague vs. Israel: Everything you need to know about the ICC Palestine probe

 Turkey Can't Handle New Refugee Explosion & Greece Will Be First To Feel Impact: Erdogan

Microsoft Removes Santa Hat Icon After a Single User Complained It Was 'Pushing Religion'

You Think You Know What Hanukkah Is All About? Think Again

How Social Work Became the Pit of Despair It Is Today

 Derailing Australia’s Campus Rape Panic

 Seeing the Light about the Pending Climate Apocalypse

 Boeing Starliner Spaceship Fails Critical Flight Test After Malfunction

Save Me from My Defenders! A protest against me, and its aftermath, at Bard College by Ruth R. Wisse

 Jobs in Joe Biden's gunsights are America's highest paid

12 Stories The Media Got Horribly Wrong In 2019 - As the year comes to a close, here are a dozen of the top stories the media majorly messed up.

 The Horowitz Report: Yes, It Gets Worse

BARR VERSUS COMEY

 Lindsey Graham Promises to Call in EVERY PERSON Who Signed Bogus Carter Page FISA Warrants …Comey, McCabe, Yates, Rosenstein… 

 Schiff: ‘It’s Hard to Be Sympathetic’ Towards Carter Page Even Though He Was a Victim of FISA Abuse

 Judicial Watch Files A Lawsuit Against Adam Schiff And The House Intelligence Committee Over Phone Records

Photo from Family shocked by “moving ornament” in Christmas tree

A memorable tree for them. Poor bird is far from home, though. 

Amusing:  Florida Man Friday: Worst Cleanup on Aisle Six Ever

CNN Anchor: Trump Should Listen When Women Tell Him We Have ’12 Years’ Until the World Ends

Shouldn't the media report how bad previous climate change predictions have been instead of participating in the indoctrination?

Yes, but... 

History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin - It’s underwater

Bipartisan Congress showers health care industry with multi-billion victory after wagging finger at it for much of 2019

Now Alcohol and Sugar Are Even Worse for the Planet Than Eating Meat

Bottom line: Don't eat or drink 

British Academic Wants To Ban The Insults "Nerd" And "Geek" As Hate Crimes

As an ex-nerd, or current nerd, can I call her an idiot a-hole, or is that hate crime too? 

Bill Gates' educational plans don't work 

 NAS Commends President Trump’s Executive Orders: No More Law by Dear Colleague Letter

 The Social-Media Decade

 The Fracking Decade

 Economic Inequality—Populism’s Rallying Cry

Make the wealthy poorer - statistical problem solved. If you have more than one house, let the gummint take the others. Then your IRA. Why not, if equality is sacred?

 Chris Hayes’ Mini-Rant About Whiteness of House GOP Ends Badly After People Point to MSNBC’s Lineup

The Vindication of Sean Hannity - A relentless pursuit of the truth.

CA Dem Gov. Newsom Lashes Out At Trump, GOP For Not Helping Solve California’s Homeless Crisis 

That's the feds' problem? I don't think so. It's local. 

 AG Barr: James Comey is a Serial Liar

Wow. Saint Comey? 

" The Horowitz report makes clear that multiple news cycles over the past few years were dominated by reports that were either incorrect or lacking factual foundation."

True, only chumps believe the news 

 Trump-branded properties lost value since the 2016 election, study shows

Predictable. Honey Badger don't care.

When Hate Becomes an Agenda - Trump so infuriated his opponents that, rather than find arguments to convince a majority of Americans that the president’s policies were flawed, his enemies instead sought to destroy him.

Haters gotta hate on something 

 Will Washington media expose the liars who spun the Trump-Russia hoax?

 6 Reasons Pelosi’s Senate Obstruction Gambit On Impeachment Articles Is A Disaster

How Trump Won 2019 - Column: Thank his opponents

 Democrats are making a farce of impeachment

 Merry Impeachmas’ — Washington Post Reporters Appear To Celebrate Impeachment

Of course 

 Trump-Obsessed German Media Cheer Impeachment: ‘Huge Success for the Democratic Party’

 In Haiti, UN Peacekeepers Fathered Hundreds of Children and Abandoned the Mothers

They always do that 

Lots more images from Liberty Arms here - gun store wisdom 

 Robot can make 300 pizzas an hour

NY Times: Why Not Embrace Super Long Trips To Avoid Flight Shaming Or Something

"One huge drawback of nuclear energy is that it doesn't dismantle systems of oppression - it only produces clean energy." 

 America Has World’s Highest Rate Of Single-Parent Households

The UK:  A charity worker was fired because she expressed the illegal opinion that biological sex is real and not just a fantasy.

The casual misandry that masquerades as ciriticism of men 

 ‘Social Justice’ Ideology Is Damaging American Values

 Three years in prison seems like an awfully light sentence for an action that could have killed a planeload of people.

 California Energy Situation Bad and Getting Worse

 2020 census: Surge in immigrants to take 24 House seats from Trump states

Jacobin: Bernie can win 

Charter School Advocates Crash Democrat Debate, Trash Elizabeth Warren

 Trump Gets Massive Post-Impeachment Victory As USMCA Passes House

Winning for America 

 US Economy in Longest Expansion Ever

Winning for America 

 As House votes to impeach Trump, McConnell pushes 13 judge nominations through Senate

Winning for America 

 Trump Signs ‘Groundbreaking’ Legislation Supporting Historically Black Colleges And Universities

Winning for America 

Taki:

In the history of politics, there is no precedent for the media’s entire focus to be on undoing the last presidential election.

True, the left has wanted to impeach every Republican president, but at least they used to wait a decent interval between the inauguration and concocting some preposterous “impeachable offense.”

 Did anyone really think the Democrats were serious when they put on those long faces for the nightly news and cast their impeachment votes?

 Democrats impeach. America yawns

 Tucker on Democrats’ Impeachment Vote: “It Is Kind of a Jonestown Dynamic Where They All Know It’s Going to End Badly”

Kimball:  The real impeachment scandal. The Democrats are always guilty of what they accuse Trump of

 Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan Now

 Margaret Thatcher's Amazing Prophecy On The EU

 Europe's Humiliation

Photo of holly on ice. We had a nice minor ice storm the other day 

 ‘Christmas With Your Jewish Boyfriend’: A Jewish jazz guitarist recorded a dozen famous Christmas songs written by Jews

 The Highest-Paid YouTube Stars of 2019: The Kids Are Killing It

NYU students say   ‘Join Us if You Hate NYU’

 Holy Cross dean defends protestors who disrupted Heather Mac Donald lecture

I guess he didn't want to hear what Heather had to say either 

 Louis Meyers: Bending the cost curve on higher education

 Who Is Winning The Climate Wars? (2)

 Northeastern States Look To Implement Transportation Climate Initiative

We like horses 

How Marxists Invented “Hispanics”

Black Nationalist Hate Group Praised by Media Shot Up Kosher Market

 How Out Of Control Is Our Surveillance State?

 Establishment Journalists Call For Big Tech To Censor Everyone Else

 Facing a 2020 drubbing, the left begins lining up its excuses

 Horowitz hits FBI 'failures' in Senate testimony after FISA court rebuke

Not "failures" - moral and maybe legal lapses 

Trump approval rating on impeachment day hits highest point since March 2017

Re the Russia hoax:  WE NOW KNOW: THE CASE OF JANE MAYER

 Dershowitz on Impeachment

Disheveled California Democrat Rep. Admits Impeachment is About Smearing Trump – ‘Impeachment Will Be a Stain on His Record Forever’ 

The Empire Strikes Back - What the effort to impeach President Trump is really about.

People capable of feeling shame would not have immediately followed up the Russiagate hoax fiasco with another transparently phony—and in “substance” nearly identical—attempt to remove President Trump from office, overturn the 2016 election, and shower deplorable-Americans with contempt and hatred. But our ruling elites have no shame.

That is not to say, however, that they are entirely cynical. The means by which they’ve so far tried to crush the Trump presidency may be nasty and illegitimate, but our overlords are 100% convinced of the righteousness of their cause, and of themselves. Hence they do not even need recourse to the cliché that the ends justify the means. The means are good because the end is sacred; they cannot countenance even the thought that the means might be suspect or (ahem) trumped up.

This simple Holiday Wrapping Hack Is Blowing People’s Minds - “HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?” one person responded to a viral instructional

Vanderleun's Mall Angel 

 America’s best colleges get even worse on due process for accused students, report finds

 It’s Spreading Like the Plague — Social Justice Education

 Does anyone trust the FBI after reading the shocking findings of the Horowitz (IG) report? Not on your life.

 Opposition To Trump’s Antisemitism Executive Order Is All About The 2020 Election

 Why The Democrats Have Shifted Left Over The Last 30 Years

IG Report Proves Adam Schiff Has Been Lying About Spygate Since The Beginning. Following the inspector general’s FISA report that proved nearly every sentence wrong in Rep. Adam Schiff’s last high-profile report, Schiff’s work should be deemed worthless.

New Evidence Shows Hunter Biden-Ukraine Payments Flagged As ‘Suspicious’ In Early 2016

 Trump tells Pelosi in blistering letter that Dems are 'declaring open war on American Democracy'

 Read Donald Trump’s Historic Impeachment Takedown Letter to Nancy Pelosi

USA TODAY Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term

Scott Adams says Schiff is the one of the worst Americans ever 

Also amusing about Comey pleading incompetence rather than malice 

 Russia to modernize Syria port, build railway across Syria to Persian Gulf

 Mike Pompeo's great letter to Democrats on settlements and peace (full text)

 Xi Jinping’s annus horribilis

 Sorry in advance — this year’s ‘best illusions’ might make your brain hurt

 The toxic rhetoric of climate change

 The Great American Cultural Revolution

 Portland State University Professor Peter Boghossian tweeted a photo of a flyer advertising a "Queer Ecologies" course.

 For Tessa Majors, ever newer and more creative ways of blaming the victim

Biden Commits To Ending “Racist” Standardized Testing In Schools

Including pilot schools, civil engineering, and medical schools? 

 As Colleges Move To Do Away With The SAT In The Name Of Diversity, Detroit High School Valedictorian Struggles With Low-Level Math

 Boris Johnson, Donald Trump’s secret to success: Take best from right, left

I don't know about Boris, but I see Trump as a bold pragmatist, non-ideological 

 Trump Job Approval And Economy Rating Hit Highs, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; On Ukraine: 52 Percent Say Trump Pursued Personal Interest

 Secret Deep State Demands: The FBI Wants Consumers' Credit Data

Evil 

 GOP Rep Will Hurd: I Don’t Know Why More People Aren’t Outraged At FBI Behavior Revealed In IG Report

Meaning the MSM? 

Image via Ace 

 The surprising benefits of caffeine for your skin and body

A book:  Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea, by Richard Brookhiser 

 The Business of Climate Change

Dalyrymple on Teddy Bears:

 The Swedes are a coldhearted people. When a 15-year-old boy was gunned down in a busy square in Malmo recently, a photograph showed that the townspeople had placed only seventeen candles and seven bouquets of flowers on the site where he had fallen. If the murder had happened in Britain, the ground on which the young victim had been shot would have been covered for yards around in candles, flowers, and teddy bears. In Sweden, by contrast, there was not a teddy bear to be seen.

Beowulf is Racist

"It's For Racists!" - Academics Slam Quantum Computing Article For Using The Term 'Supremacy'

 Dems: Trump Reaching Out to Black Voters is "Voter Suppression"

Trump’s anti-Semitism order is a Rorschach test for Jews. If you are against federal action to stop anti-Semitic discrimination on college campuses just because Trump is doing it, then you’re the one with the problem.

 How the rich and famous profess sympathy for left-wing sociopaths

 New York Times puts bad light on murdered Barnard teen and exculpates the city

 As Virginia Dems Threaten Gun Bans, Sanctuary Movement Spreads

 VA Dems Threaten To Use National Guard Against Sanctuary Counties

 NY City Democrat Tells Off Corrupt Jerry Nadler on Sham Impeachment

Barr gets the word out about the Deep State

 Can We Impeach The FBI Now?

 James Comey Admits: 'I Was Wrong' About FBI's Use of FISA Process

 ‘You are in need of rehabilitation’: Devin Nunes uses the DOJ IG report to STOMP all over many of Adam Schiff’s claims

IG Report On FBI Spying Exposes "Scandal Of Historic Magnitude" For US Media

 SUPERCUT — Media to Americans: Of course the Trump dossier is true!

Leftwingers Matt Taibbi and Krystal Ball Assail Democrats, and Especially the Corporate-Owned Neoliberal Media, For Grotesque Errors and Lies in RUSSIA Collusion Hoax

Tucker Carlson: IG report documents how CNN repeatedly lied. Horowitz' investigation already revealed fake claims from Schiff, Comey

 Hillary Clinton, Chris Steele Allege Boris Johnson Is A Russian Stooge

Britain’s Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It’s Broke

 The post-WWII order is ending — and nothing has replaced it.

From a too-fancy party last night: "Guess what, Bird Dog, I have an announcement for ya." 

"OK, I am listening."

"I've gone vegetarian." 

"That's cool," I said. "You are fitting in exactly to the joke about vegetarians telling everybody. But why?"

"Mostly to feel morally superior to other people like you, secondarily for my triglycerides."  

Excellent response. I love our friends. So lucky to have them all, especially at Christmastime.  I didn't bother correcting him on his medical ignorance, because cheerful friends don't correct people at Christmas parties. 

Nobody likes a pedantic a-hole. 

 As I’ve often said, conservatives are like doctors. Ours is a noble but tragic business. We’re trying to conserve a living thing: American liberty. And like all living things, liberty will one day die. But not today. 

Father Mulcahey died 

 How Intellectuals and “Experts” Undermine Moral Agency

The Invention of Hispanics - What it says about the politics of race.

 Rep. Tlaib Blames "White Supremacy" For Shooting Carried Out By Black Supremacist Group

 Trump Shows Himself a Better Friend to the Jews Than Even Truman

 Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace Trashes Trump, Says President “Engaged in Most Direct Assault on Freedom of the Press in Our History”

 Horowitz report is damning for the FBI and unsettling for the rest of us

 The FBI didn't commit 'errors and omissions.' It abused its power

Pelosi Basically Admits They’ve Been Planning Impeachment For Years

 Dem Rep. Steve Cohen Fabricates Trump Quotes During Impeachment Hearing, Gets Leveled For It By GOP Rep…

"Only"! — "Dem leaders see only handful of defections on impeachment." The news isn't "only a handful" — it's that there are defections.

VDH:  Is Trump the Only Adult in the Room?

 Sen. Graham: 'Don't Need Any Witnesses' in Impeachment Trial

 Why Does This Impeachment Not Feel Like a Defeat for Trump?

 “Trump is Really Decoupling the US Economy from China”

Johnson, Conservatives Win UK Election Dominated by Brexit Plans

Conservatives Celebrate Historic 'Working-Class' Mandate As Corbyn Quits

 American Leftists Believed Corbyn’s Inevitable Victory Would Be Their Model

Image via Vanderleun's photo collage 

 How Wine Bricks Saved The U.S. Wine Industry During Prohibition

Disney Promotes “Transitioning” Children

Seattle: Radical Fems vs Trans Activists 

 Don’t Call Them Homeless Encampments. They’re “Curbside Communities”

Food Stamp update 

 A Professor Tried To End a Flirty Email Exchange With a Young Woman. Then She Threatened to Blackmail Him.

 Mega-Rich Environmentalists Respond To Questions About Their Use Of Private Jets

Jewish groups divided on Trump order targeting college anti-Semitism - Legislation welcomed by some as a necessary measure, while others condemn it as anti-Semitic and a stifling of the freedom to criticize Israel

 Wider Definition of Judaism Is Likely to Aid Crackdown on Colleges

Ace on social media:

I don't think people should have strident opinions about trivialities. Children have strident opinions about trivialities.

Men don't. Men are supposed to be wise enough to know which things are trifling, and which things deserve their concern, and express themselves accordingly.

If it's important, you say something.

If it's not important, you practice the most ancient of all manly arts, the Manly Art of Shutting the F*** Up Once in a While and Giving Your C***slappers a Rest.

Trump is cute about Greta Thunberg 

Pirate:  Let’s try an experiment: take everything away from St. Greta and her 15 disciples that has any link to fossil fuels.

Peter Navarro: USMCA is Trump's vision (not Pelosi's) -- and a shining example of promises made, promises kept

 The Inspector General Report Is a Huge Blow to the FBI's Credibility. Why Is It Being Treated Like Vindication?

 Horowitz: FBI Should Have Pumped The Brakes On Surveillance Of Trump Campaign Aide

 Attorney General Barr: FBI Ignored Exculpatory Evidence, Hid Information to Continue Trump Investigation

 IG Horowitz Takes a Direct Shot At James Comey In His Senate Testimony

 The Inspector General's Report on FISA abuse makes it crystal clear that John Brennan lied. To Congress, blatantly. A bald-faced lie

THE PRESS PILED ON NUNES; WILL IT NOW APOLOGIZE? 

 Watchdog: 'Basic and Fundamental Errors' in Russia Probe

Horowitz: DNC Funded Dossier Used To Justify Sending “Confidential Human Sources” To Trump Campaign. This is what should be infuriating to all Americans.

 Democratic Rep. Karen Bass Says House Would Impeach Trump Again If He Wins In 2020

Impeachment markup heats up as Dems invoke MLK, Nadler says 'we cannot rely on an election' to oust Trump

True that is 

 “One of the Biggest Rallies I’ve Ever Seen!” – NBC’s Far Left Reporter Katy Tur Caught on Video at Trump Rally in Hershey, PA

 Senator Hawley: FBI ‘Effectively Meddled’ In 2016 Presidential Election

No kidding

 Cruz To Horowitz: Did An FBI Attorney Defraud The FISA Court? Horowitz: Yup

 Report Shows Crossfire Hurricane Akin To Resurrecting J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI; Horowitz Rebukes Comey: What We Found Vindicates No One; Update: “Don’t Know” If Political Bias Played A Role

IG Report Confirms Schiff FISA Memo Media Praised Was Riddled With Lies. Nearly two years later, the inspector general's report vindicates the Nunes memo while showing that the Schiff memo was riddled with lies and false statements.

Slate: Trump most corrupt Pres in history 

 Eric Holder Sends Warning to John Durham, Says William Barr ‘Unfit’ to be Attorney General, in WaPo Op-Ed

Stuart S:

 The Afghanistan fiasco reads like a systematic failure of leadership. The people in charge did not know what they were doing. They did not know what victory would look like. They did not set the agenda and define the policy. As a result, every junior officer and every junior bureaucrat could project his or her own priorities. 

NATO Secretary General Targets "Rising China": Why Cold War Newspeak Never Went Away

 Spain's 'Migrant Friendly' Border Fences

 Desperate woman punches mountain lion as it attacks, later eats dog: 'She could hear her baby dying'

 ‘Girls Need Female Role Models’ and Other Bromides

Yale's diversity is 0%

 Students love Medicare for all…until learning what’s in it

The Ascendency Of Magical Economic Thinking In The Democratic Contest

 New Poll Has Still More Very Bad News For Democrats

 Pelosi Announces That the House Democrats Support New Trump NAFTA Deal

 FISA Report Reveals Clinton Meddled In 2016 Election

 Carter Page: FBI Investigation 'Ruined My Life'

As I recall, he was a CIA asset 

 IMPOSSIBLE! EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 17 Flaws and Omissions Listed in IG Report WENT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP

A Trail of FBI Abuse - The Horowitz report confirms that the bureau deceived FISA judges with the Steele dossier.

 LIVE FROM COMEYWORLD

BARR IS ON THE CASE - with an excellent interview

 China’s Library Officials Are Burning Books That Diverge From Communist Party Ideology

Ideas are dangerous to ideologies 

 NATO has worries more pressing than Donald Trump. It needs a new role in a changed world.

If it has no role, why does it need to find a new one? 

5 Infuriating Takeaways From The ‘Afghanistan Papers’ - Lies, spin, over a trillion dollars wasted, and no strategy. They knew for 18 years and no one said a thing.

Europe No Longer Hides Its Hostility to Israel

Why is it hostile? Israel is not their enemy