Maggie's Farm

A beginner’s guide to beefing up your privacy and security online

Bob Dylan skips White House event

Amazon's Growing Power In The U.S. Economy

The Quandary of the Two Pope Francises:

 Recently, returning from another World Youth Day in Kracow, Poland, the Pope made the fantastic and disturbing claim that “Catholic violence” is just as much a problem as “Islamic violence”—and this right after the brutal assassination of Father Jacques Hammel by Islamist terrorists in a church in northern France.  The only example of “Catholic violence” that Pope Francis could come up with was that of a baptized young man who had killed his girlfriend for clearly non-religious reasons or motives.

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Cardinal Zen of Hong Kong recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the Pope has no understanding of Communist theory and practice, that he associates Communists exclusively with those activists and intellectuals imprisoned or killed by the military government during the “dirty war” in Argentina during the 1970’s. In a word, his vision is remarkably parochial and blind to the greatest evil of the twentieth century, a totalitarianism inspired by viciously anti-Christian ideology.

Feminism is really white supremacy

THE PROPAGANDA ABOUT RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA

Nearly 2,500 refugees from terrorism hotspots around the world are bound for the U.S. after being rejected by Australia, but not even top lawmakers can get answers about who they are.

The Myth of Racist America

VDH:

Almost every major initiative that Obama pushed has largely failed. Obamacare is a mess. He nearly doubled the national debt in eight years. Economic growth is at its slowest in decades. The reset with Russia, the Asian pivot, abruptly leaving Iraq, discounting the Islamic State, red lines in Syria, the Iran deal — all proved foreign-policy disasters.

Yet Obama has been quiet about one of the greatest economic revolutions in American history, one that has kept the U.S. economy afloat: a radical transformation from crippling energy dependency to veritable fossil-fuel independence. The United States has become the world’s greatest combined producer of coal, natural gas, and oil. It is poised to be an energy exporter to much of the world.

NYP:  Trump already winning — and he’s not even president yet

Get Ready for the Trump Jobs Rally

FLASHBACK: OBAMA MOCKS TRUMP FOR PROMISING TO KEEP CARRIER PLANT IN U.S

How Donald Trump Sealed the Deal to Keep Carrier Jobs in the U.S.

From  It's time for Democrats to fight dirty:

 Stop using Republican interpretive frames like "entitlements" to describe the very things that benefit the hopeless people who just granted unfettered power to Paul Ryan and his fellow granny-starvers. If Republicans are intent on gutting Medicare, do not under any circumstances compromise to make such a fiasco slightly more palatable. This is the only way for the Democrats to recapture power at a scale significant enough to fundamentally transform the American political system. And when this moment finally presents itself, in 2022 or 2024 or 2028, Democrats must have an extraordinarily radical agenda ready to roll: A massive amnesty. Compulsory voting. The end of plurality-rule elections. A new Voting Rights Act. Sweeping criminal justice reform. Medicare for all. Higher education whose cost is truly nominal. A basic income for all Americans. A Marshall Plan for climate change.

Sheesh

Things the Democratic elites should do in order to live up to their party principles.

Mead:  Trump’s Path to Mount Rushmore

Cubans ´fear reprisals´ if they don't show grief over Castro´s death, dissidents say

France: Islamists Target Transportation Companies

China loves Cambodia

I was working tonight, but I gather from Mrs. BD that his speech was wonderful and uplifting, humorous, half-scripted and half off the cuff, and neither Republican nor Democrat but just plain American. It takes a lot to impress Mrs. BD, especially if you are not a Conservative (which Trump is not).

It reminded some pundits of Teddy Roosevelt.  Things are getting more and more interesting.

If you heard or watched that speech, what did you think? 

(Here's the speech) 

Boycott Frosted Flakes!

Fun Christmas presents:  Good Fucking Design

The Man Who Stands Between Earth and Asteroid Armageddon - Because every day could be “asteroid day” for NASA’s planetary defense officer.

The figures showed nine in ten London newborns had at least one parent from overseas

The Problem With Hunter Avallone’s Generation Is Moonbattery  (video)

Why the Democrats Can't Stop Calling the GOP Racists

How The Electoral College remains an essential constitutional safeguard of American liberty

Obama On Why Democrats Failed: See, It's Because FOXNEWS! Is On the TV In "Every Bar and Restaurant"

Obama White House Scoffs at Trump's Carrier Deal

Trump makes sense once you realize you’re watching improv

Europe:  "I think European nations should increase their defense budgets."

Trump was persuasive. Euroland needs to get off America's welfare.

Islamists Won: Charlie Hebdo Disappears

François Fillon’s French Revolution:

 He is a Thatcherite, a devout Catholic, and a political realist.  The fact that he won the primaries by a two-third majority is but another confirmation of the gap between elitist narratives and popular feelings.

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Fillon is also an outsider because of his social conservatism and of his foreign policy realism.  He is a practicing Catholic in a country where religion is mocked by the elites (Fillon is dubbed a “Catho,” the secularists’ catchword to deride church-goers).  He is a faithful husband of 36 years and a father of five in a country where divorce, mistresses and affairs are de rigueur for politicians.  And while he has vowed not to repeal abortion and gay marriage, he is an unabashed and proud conservative when it comes to family and to education.

They let the peasants vote. That's what happens sometimes. Peasants can be wise, politicians are mostly just clever.

Iran regime even more oppressive since nuclear deal, dissidents say

Planning for retirement? Check out ‘one of the scariest charts in human history’

99,726 Somali Refugees Settled in U.S. Since 9/11

Abdul Razak Ali Artan was oppressed by Islamophobic stereotypes of violent Muslims

CNN Anchor: Americans Should Wear Hijabs To Show Solidarity With Fearful Muslims

Department of Homeland Security Overwhelmed by Green Card Catastrophe

Hillary Reportedly Eyeing Another Presidential Run

Hillary 2024!

That moment when the MSM realizes Trump just took a position advocated by Hillary Clinton in 2005

Why Trump’s Education Pick Scares Unions

Trump's CMS pick is viewed as both patient advocate and foe

Trump taps Obamacare critic Tom Price as health secretary

Stand down, #NeverRomney conservatives: Trump’s pick isn’t a betrayal — and you might thank him in 2020

I agree with Salon!

How Trump can win re-election

Assuming he will want it

Dems in the wilderness:

What is left is the reality that the Democratic Party has been propped up by the personal likability of President Obama that pushed them past the finish line in 2008 and 2012. Now they are grappling with what is next in a post-Obama landscape.

 Mose Allison, RIP

Julius Caesar was not delivered via Caesarian

Question the Conventional Wisdom about College Degrees

Althouse is retiring from her day job

Economic Localism Is No Better than Economic Nationalism

Record Drop In Global Temperatures As El Nino Warming Ends

Zuckerberg and China

Cuban-Americans Humiliated By Obama’s Comments On Castro’s Death

Bad Government Policy Begets More Bad Government Policy

Tim Kaine Tweets About Gun Violence at OSU After Islamist Knife Attack

Democrats, Not Trump, Racialize Our Politics - A party obsessed with race won’t have much luck reaching out to non-elite whites.

My Freedom Trumps Your Fake Mandate

If Trump Were A Democrat, He’d Be A Hero

Scott Adams: The Trump talent stack

A concept of interest beyond politics

The FT is sad and scared:  Goodbye to Barack Obama’s world - It is the failing of liberal technocrats to think reason governs how people act

"The New York Times story alludes to "potential conflicts of interest." Hillary posed real conflicts of interest.

Immigration:  Trump vs. Silicon Valley

The Real Legacy in Jeopardy Under the New Congress? LBJ’s.

Team Trump Offers Evidence For Millions Voting Illegally

Merkel Says She Will Deport 100,000 Migrants

Abbas orders Palestinian flags be flown at half-staff for Fidel Castro

Balfour Declaration, November 2016 : Richard Kemp

History Will Not Absolve Fidel Castro

Castro's regime, saturated with sadism, should never have existed.

Journalists Hail Castro’s Achievements, ‘George Washington,’ ‘Folk Hero to Most of Us’

Hmmmm. "Us"?

Trudeau:  “It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President."

Justin Trudeau Mocked After Praising Oppressive Dictator Fidel Castro

Pope Francis Grieves Death of Fellow Socialist Castro

Jeremy Corbyn hails Fidel Castro as a ‘champion of social justice’

Trump Slams "Brutal Dictator" Castro's "Legacy Of Firing Squads, Theft, Suffering And Poverty"

Cuba: A museum of socialism

Places like Cuba and Venezuela are good reminders

Castro’s Utopian Hellhole

Why Fidel Castro's Death Won't Lead To Immediate Changes In Cuba

Man Gets Credit for Being Top Female Finisher in Bike Race

Greedy Green Energy Corporatists are Clear Felling Protected Forests for Biomass

You’re not alone, almost everyone feels like a fraud at work

Shoreline Gentry Are Fake Climate Victims - A reduction in federal subsidies is behind lower coastal home values.

More young people contracting 'old-age' conditions including varicose veins due to sedentary lifestyles

Gravity Light: Our Renewable Energy Future

BLACK FRIDAY ZOMBIES 2016

Columbia students demand punishment of ‘hate speech’ as faculty waffle on free speech

How the FAA is Killing Drone Innovation

The Real Reason We Have Ethanol in Our Gas

The Cult of Anti-Racism

Student at Harvard fights liberal bias by launching conservative women’s group

Progressives without Power

After Trump University, Why Not Sue All Colleges?

How teachers unions drive Jersey’s pension crisis

San Francisco middle school withholds student election results due to winners’ insufficient diversity

Are there any adults left in the Democratic Party?

The Democrats’ real strategy in launching recounts

Exactly right

Obama's agencies push flurry of 'midnight' actions - But in Congress, Republicans are warning them to
stop and are preparing to repeal those regulations en masse.

The Bureaucracy Is Now More Powerful Than Congress

Guess which federal agency gave 100% of their political contributions to Democrats?

François Fillon on course for Thatcherite victory in French Right presidential primary battle

Re Trump, I am not a big fan but I am amused by it all. A Pres does not need to be your best pal. He has made some good appts. Yes, he should give Mittens a job. Romney needs a job. Take one more guy off unemployment in this economy.

Viking Ship Stopped by Gov Regulations

Hot Tubs and Luxury Dorms and Climbing Walls, Oh, My!

Who Raised the Snowflake Generation?  Who’s to blame?

Try emigrating to China

How Scientists Are Using Poop to Study New York City's Coyote Population

Soft Drinks Number One Purchase By Food Stamp Recipients…

Free Coke!  Why not?

Toronto is a hotbed of racial intolerance.

Teachers' unions are unhappy

Teachers have unions? WTF? Why?

Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say

Colin Kaepernick Castro T-shirt is ignorant of facts, insulting

SURVIVING CASTRO'S TORTURES

FORTY THREE YEAR STRUGGLE AGAINST CASTRO

Repeal and Revise - Life after Obamacare won’t be as dire as some on the left are predicting

The outrage over fake news is based on fake news about fake news.

Fake rates: CalPERS Staff Nudges Board To Consider Lower Return Rates

I haven't slept in my own room since the election

Sheesh

Bookends to a Disastrous Presidency

Nov. 8 represented an explosion of anger on the right at years of smugness and disdain by liberals.

Trump’s media feud enters new era

Isn't it the media's Trump feud?

Network CNN Vows To Oppose Trump Administration

The Real Legacy in Jeopardy Under the New Congress? LBJ’s - The GOP has plans to take apart many of Johnson’s Great Society reforms. Will Trump let them succeed?

President Trump’s Pentagon To Do List

Unlearned Lessons in Haiti

Sick governance, sick culture. They have to fix it themselves. Not in my lifetime, though.

The Federal Regulations That Affect Your Thanksgiving Foods

Florida Woman Accused of Shooting at House Guests Who Stayed Too Long

Makes sense to me

Here's why batteries have started catching fire so often

'Atlas of the Underworld' reveals oceans and mountains lost to Earth's history

A Shocking Find In a Neanderthal Cave In France

A third of men never dance

How AirBNB Awakens Dormant Capital

Rush Limbaugh Children’s Books Banned at Wisconsin School: They’re “Inappropriate”

Yes, it's the Gulag, Western Style

Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high
computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete
medium-complexity tasks.

Students Need Much Better Counseling Before Going Into Debt for College

Black Lives Matter Activists Plan to Disrupt Black Friday Shopping in Major Cities

Spoil sports

Forest Service trying to seize private land from Montana ranchers

Evil

The GOP's Track Record on Illegal Immigration

Central Americans surge north, hoping to reach U.S. before Trump inauguration

Freakout at Vassar College

Why People Lost Their Minds When A Brooklyn Store Played ‘Sweet Home Alabama’

WaPo Releases Report on Russian Propaganda Sites- List Includes: Drudge Report, Wikileaks, Zerohedge, Infowars…

Not Maggie's Farm? The Russians are always emailing me hot info

Stop faking hate crimes. You're hurting your own cause

There aren't enough real ones

The snarling contempt behind the media's fake news hysteria

Flashback: Trump-Trashing Journalists Oozed Over Obama’s ’08 Transition

AVI: Jews and the Left

Jared Kushner’s first interview reveals what the media completely missed in the Trump campaign

Thornton: "If the delicate millennial Eloi were really interested in reforming
their team instead of indulging phony moral exhibitionism, they would
start with the Democrat party."

15 Things Trump and Reagan Have in Common

Robert Reich: How to resist Donald Trump’s first 100 days

Slate: Democratic Politics Have to Be “Identity Politics”

Democrats Lose the Future by Trusting Their Demographic Doomsday Clock

LGBT Advocates Debate Future of Movement Post-Election

Bob Herbert:  The War on the Poor Is Already Underway

Sheesh. I thought LBJ solved poverty decades ago

DONALD TRUMP Addresses Nazi Conspiracies at NY Times: “Boy, You’re Really Into This Stuff”

GOP: Get with the Permanent Campaign

Trump’s GOP: The end of ‘checklist conservatism’

Yes, Trump will keep on changing his mind: here’s why

Trump is seriously committed to the destruction of planet Earth

Of course he is.  He hates the Earth

UCLA Professor Has Had An Especially Tough Time Dealing With Trump’s Victory

Supermarkets are packed with aggressive white supremacists, Esp. Whole Foods. They hassle me all the time cuz of my Hillary button. Hey, she could still win.

The video is amusing. 

Image via Ace

Giving thanks for the invisible hand of strangers, spontaneous order, kaleidoscopic market energy & no turkey czars

Renewed Circus Maximus reopens after 6 years

The Factory of Fakes - How a workshop uses digital technology to craft perfect copies of imperilled art.

Obama Education Secretary John B. King Calls for End to Paddling in Schools

Paddling in schools? Bring it back.

William & Mary Offers ‘Thanksgiving Toolkit’ for Sensitive Students

How come Trump voters do not get toolkits for dealing with their moonbat relatives?

Watching the Snowflakes Melt

But Don’t Call Them Hysterical

The Trump-Climate Freakout

Possibly scariest interview with college Social Justice Warrior I’ve ever seen

University Bullied Students to Change 'America' Theme Party Because Trump Won - America party 'provides an opportunity for students to dress or behave in a way that offends or oppresses others.'

How about a Cuba-themed party?

There is great irony in the sheer hate from those who whine about Trump being hateful.

VDH:  Who Are Wise, Who Not?

Manhattan doesn't love The Donald anymore

After 30 years of love and admiration, a sudden divorce

Green Incoherence: Reaching Out to the Deplorables

The trouble with Keith Ellison

Liberals Are Freaking Out Over The Possibility Of Questioning “High Risk” Immigrants

Every immigrant to the US should make legal application, and be vetted, interrogated, and given probationary status. That's normal everywhere. Basically, a would-be immigrant is applying for membership.

Trump is right: Let’s finally move on from the Clintons

Dem Lawmaker: We Are a Permanent Minority – Not a National Party, We Are a Coastal Party

Jeff Sessions May "Prosecute" Sanctuary Cities That Don't Obey Federal Law

Illegal immigrants pose as families, tell tales of woe to gain entry to U.S.

Illegal Immigrants Set Record By Using Children As Deportation Shields

THE HIDDEN COSTS OF IMMIGRATION

Academics are dangerously racist

Do red state Americans and blue state Americans live in the same country anymore?

America has many more than two subcultures

Democrats’ Answer Is Always the Same: Move More Left - Nearly
every time the Democrats face a crisis, their answer is the same—move
left. This time, they’re about to fall off the edge.

Delusional

Belmont Club on elections:

In socialism's 1930s heyday cadres were exhorted to bear on their shoulders the task of murder, genocide, deceit etc -- so that the masses might be happy in their simple hopes for a Worker's Paradise. The ones in the know knew the earthly paradise would never come. The Grand Inquisitor wore Chekist uniform but his function was otherwise the same. In 2016 the Inquisitors no longer shoot people but they still kept the secret. The reason the liberal project will never perform an autopsy on itself is because that would reveal there's no there there.  It's the pretend that counts. The big secret the Left never wants to face is there's no "arc of history" they control.

Still there are always enough people who would rather be ruled by Grand Inquisitors than bear the burden of freedom; enough to keep a leftist project alive indefinitely.  Life in a community is simple.  And perhaps they are on the correct side after all.  There may be nothing beyond the Big Crunch and the Big Pretend.  So let's pretend.

I have never met a lib who could tell me when the Progressive Project of government expansion could be considered completed

Trump needs to stop denouncing nutcases every time the media heads to the fainting couches

Time for him to rise above. But can he? He's a street-fighting man like Obama wanted to be

MEDIA MOGULS COMPLAIN ABOUT MEETING WITH TRUMP, GET SPANKED BY . . . GLENN GREENWALD?

A Third of Germans Report Feeling ‘Like A Stranger In My Own Country’

A Tiny Minority of a Million Muslims in America

Muslim Refugees: "We Must Have More Children than the Christians Because it’s the Only Way We Can Destroy Them Here.’”

The UK has to accept not being special to the US

World Leaders Gather to Worry About Trump

Migrants Burn Down German Refugee Center After Camp Runs Out of Nutella and Gummy Bears