Friday, June 3. 2016
At Althouse:
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, a Clinton supporter, praised the police... “At some point Donald Trump needs to take responsibility for the irresponsible behavior of his campaign”....
Incredible. Liccardo isn't some small-town naif. This is San Jose, and Liccardo is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
The violence appears to mostly come from immigrants with Mexican flags, and Bernie people. Trump supporters themselves never bother anybody.
More: Democrat Criminals and Foreign Terror Squads Attack American Citizens
More: "... a common chant at anti-Trump riots in California is “make California Mexico again.”
 Steyn may not live to see the conclusion: Trial of the Century Update
Shock research finding: Mars has experienced massive climate change
I blame the Mars Rover
A Major Malaise of Climatology is Pervasive in Science
Bad news
The Worst Airport in the U.S. for Delays Is...
Knives used far more often for murder than firearms
Stop Knife Violence Now!
Preppiest man alive
Even this poser's wife is a perfect prep specimen. Seems gay to me, not that that matters.
Obamacare’s 13th Co-Op Is Closing. Why More Could Follow.
Just as intended
Students say they’ll have mental breakdown if Johns Hopkins stops hiding their grades
Too late. They already have had one.
Thanks to EPA and Army Corps of Engineers, American farmers are a newly endangered species
Regulated to death, like banks, insurance companies, doctors, and every small business
De Blasio just killed a quality pre-K program to please his paymasters
Working for the union
3.1 Million New Immigrants Arrived in US Over the Past 2 Years
Who voted for that?
The Donald Trump Conversation: Politics' "Dark Heart" Is Having the Best Time Anyone's Ever Had
Majority of Fortune 500 CEOs Prefer Clinton over Trump
"If Clinton wants to become the president of the United States, she needs
to explain how she could make such a reckless decision."
Hillary's Habits of Haughtiness - The email controversy recapitulates themes from Clinton's handling of health care reform.
Z-man:
The dynamic in America has always been that the Progressives yank the window toward some fringe issue. The normals would grudgingly go along, kicking and screaming, so that the Overton Window gradually shifted in the direction of the loonies. All of a sudden, the normals appear to have simply let go of it. Set loose of that tether, the American Left is rocketing off into madness. There’s really no other way to describe the trannies in the bathroom business. It’s madness.
Clinton’s warnings about Trump actually describe … her
A strange speech
How Is Trump Like Reagan? Frank Rich Makes the Case
Clinton School Appearances Are Totally Scripted, Controlled
Strange
More Z-man, on election math:
The Democrats are now the anti-white party and the anti-male party. In a country that is 70% white and 50% male, that’s going to be a losing hand in the long run. Having a shriveled hag as your candidate makes the task impossible.
Why Trump's Attacks on the Media Work Every Time
Key Info Missing From UN Report On Iran’s Nuclear Program, Says Think Tank
Israeli novelist David Grossman: The Dissenting Patriot
Pic below of the High Line last Sunday. I was one of the people who thought the whole idea was stupid. The entire length of the old elevated railroad is now open, from the distant view of the Statue of Liberty in the meatpacking district up to the Javits Center.
A few more pics below the fold -
3.1
Million New Immigrants Arrived Over the Past 2 Years - See more at:
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/06/new-analysis-over-3-million-new-immigrants-arrived-over-the-past-2-years#sthash.1Rw9Fb8Z.dpuf
Continue reading "Friday morning links"
Thursday, June 2. 2016
Trump is the Great Disruptor. He is doing the Repub Party a great favor by going to where the votes are - the ordinary people of America like me. The wealthy will always be mostly Dems, as will (for no good reasons) the minorities and the effete snobs. But there are lots of other people in America, and they have felt voiceless in DC.
From I was wrong: Trump WILL be the next president:
Winning an election is still very much about connecting personally with key voters and you can only do that if you present a clear personality or brand to the voters in the first place. If you're the person who sees Trump's personality/brand and have decided you hate everything about it, I have news for you: You're not the target audience. But you're still proof that Trump's messaging is at least very clear and that's often more than half the battle in business and politics.
Related, from Reynold's Donald Trump is the response to a bullying culture:
...when “respectable” people won’t talk about things that a lot of voters care about, the less-respectable will eventually rise to meet the need. That’s what Trump’s doing. And a lot of people are cheering him on not so much because they’re fans of Trump personally as because they’re happy to see someone finally stand up to the PC bullies.
Amusing on the elections: Zombie time at campaign Hillary: Camille Paglia on Trump’s real strength and Clinton’s fatal sleepwalking
The piece has this photo of the wonderful Clintons last week, having a good time pretending to be a couple. I think he's rather be on orgy island, or anywhere else, but he owes her:
At Norbert Michel's piece on the topic:
... virtually all financial market activity has taken place under the watchful eye of federal regulators since at least the 1930s. True deregulation would establish a market where no government agency regulates the types of products and services people are allowed to produce and purchase. This type of financial market does not currently exist in the U.S., and it certainly did not exist prior to the 2008 crisis. Financial regulators have increasingly micromanaged financial firms’ activities despite the fact that this approach has repeatedly failed to prevent financial market instability.
 Pic from around W 14th St. last weekend, with the wonderful Chelsea Market, housed in an old Nabisco factory, in back
The ‘Other NRA’ and the Future of American Food - The
2016 annual meeting of the National Restaurant Association is all about
“local” food — with a very liberal definition of “local.”
Campbell Apartment to ask judge to block eviction
Against Historic Preservation
Against Historic Preservation
The Big Uneasy - What’s roiling the liberal-arts campus?
Adults take the kids too seriously. No serious adult wants to be schooled by kids
Roger L. Simon’s new book on moral narcissism
Climate change update: Stonehenge under threat from moles
ACLU leader quits after daughters encounter men in the women’s restroom
Michelle Obama Calls Out Military Racism – This Marine’s Answer Is DEVASTATING
State Dept. admits intentionally altering video of Iran press conference
Evil
How the Democratic Party Ruined Atlanta - Corruption, tax-&-spend, and racial demagoguery: The familiar Democratic trinity claims another city.
On Baltimore:
Talk to a cop that works the ghetto and he’ll be the most cynical guy you will meet. The reason is he spends his days working cases that have no rational explanation. Ray-Ray pops Darius one night not because of a business beef. No, Ray-Ray did not like the way Darius looked at him at a cookout so he walked up on him and started blasting. Sometimes, there’s simply no reason at all. Ray-Ray just decided to kill Darius “cause he got to go.”
Bill Clinton Profits from World’s Largest For-Profit University
That’s convenient! Clinton’s chief of staff is
quizzed about her secret email server – but can’t answer questions
because she is now Hillary’s lawyer
Is Hillary Clinton a better commodities trader than George Soros, or did she just get really, really lucky?
The Obama Navy as Farce
China: Seven empty Manhattans
Venezuela: Has The Word "Socialism" Been Banned From American Mainstream Press?
Brazil moves to shrink the state
Secret Deal With Saudis Made After '74 Oil Embargo Haunts The U.S. Today
The expulsion that backfired: When Iraq kicked out its Jews
Sweden’s double standard - a betrayal of the weakest
Obama's Ho Chi Minh Trail
In 2010, Qaddafi warned the Europeans of the growing threat of African illegal immigration.
Wednesday, June 1. 2016
Facebook, Twitter Banning Free Speech to Form Virtual “Superstate” - Social media censoring anti-globalist speech to transform real nations into on-line Oceania
Garrote Tightens Around the Neck of Free Speech
Shaidle:
I’ve said for years that transsexuals are delusional amputation fetishists, and way too many are manipulative narcissistic bullies and liars, and often prone to violence.
That if they really do commit suicide in epidemic numbers, that’s because, well, they’re clearly insane.
Voters in Austin rejected a measure that would overturn onerous regulations that Uber and Lyft said would force them out of the city. You can imagine what happened next.
Black market, natch
"I’ve been meaning for a while to knock out an article on the theme, “there’s
nothing wrong with America that 4 percent growth won’t solve.”
Foxconn Robots Replace 60,000 Workers at Chinese Apple Supplier
Z-man:
It turns out that married women are twice as happy as single women. This is a biological fact of life. The females of our species are wired to seek out a high status male, with whom they build a life-long bond. From the point of view of nature, this guarantees the greatest chance of reproductive success. Since it is vastly easier for a young adult female to land a suitable mate than it is for a middle-aged female, getting married early makes the most sense. Sure, the man could be a dud, but there are no guarantees in life.
Official “Sanctuary City” Philadelphia Gets Hotline To Help Illegal Immigrants Avoid Deportation…
TSA Says Passengers Only Have Themselves to Blame For Long Lines
The Liberal Hypocrites Fighting the Koch Brothers on Campus
NPR: We probably shouldn’t have taken funding from Ploughshares Fund to cover Iran deal
MSNBC: We’ve Been Waiting to Hear Clinton’s Message for Two Years
L.A. Times Amazed to Find Latinos Who Support Trump
The presidency is not a place for sympathy ribbons and participation medals.
Hillary Clinton yet to hold single press conference in 2016
Even White House Won’t Defend Clinton Decision Not To Cooperate With IG Probe…
New spin: If only she’d known about them, Hillary totally would have addressed “any concerns” about her emails
The GOP intelligentsia is behaving like a delusional narcissist, reveling in its (false) superiority over the little people.
This past weekend Donald Trump announced he puts 15 blue states into play in the general election this year.
Yes, Trump Can Win
Repub Party has been invaded by....Republicans
1996-98: nearly a million “lost” West Wing emails
What’s Wrong with Europe
Monday, May 30. 2016
 Women who cheat
Four Lost Decades: The Bumbling Incompetence Of The Power Elite
"Fix law schools’ diversity problem, NOW!"
Dartmouth: President Hanlon, include me out
Every American college student today, no matter his race or gender, is among the most privileged individuals in human history.
Christakises (and Free Speech) Not Coming Back to Yale
Yale says all-gender bathroom project ‘is about public signaling’
Laurence Tribe on the Royall Asses’ misguided radicalism
So the Feds require me to categorize an employee as a male or female but
New York makes it illegal to do so if the employee does not want to be
in one of those categories.
Good stuff at Woodpile
Transgender Studies Week at College Insurrection
Big Bureaucracies Beget Bad Behavior
Trump's Intellectuals - They’re out there--beyond the Beltway.
Why Trump Won, and Why the Current Crop of Purported Leaders Must Be Swept Aside
Hillary Embodies Washington's Decadence
CBS News Political Director: It’s Media’s Job To STEER AWAY From Clintons’ Past
‘We have to destroy her story’: How Hillary enabled Bill
Hillary has been burying emails since she was First Lady
And burying things long before that:
...For this purpose, Clinton, working with Webster Hubbell and Vince Foster, stole hard copies of the billing records of the Rose law firm where they were partners. They erased the electronic version of these records. One set of the documents was later found in the White House, just outside Hillary’s private office, by an employee. Another set was found in Foster’s attic by his widow, some years after he committed suicide. Clinton’s time sheets (handwritten, as was the practice back in the day) were never found.
The theft of the billing records occurred on March 7, 1992. It was then that a story on Whitewater/Castle Grande by New York Times reporter Jeff Gerth “hit the wire.” That night, Rose Law Firm documents were passed to a Clinton campaign aide in the firm’s parking lot.
Never Trump? Don’t stop there! Never anybody!
Hillary Clinton -- Career Criminal
Who Says Muslims Don't Have a Softer Side?
‘The French Have Been Silent For Too Long’: Identitarians March Through Paris
Shaking hands in Switzerland
Sunday, May 29. 2016
The Battle Against ‘Hate Speech’ on College Campuses Gives Rise to a Generation That Hates Speech
Kristof: The Liberal Blind Spot
He misses the point. The new liberalism is totalitarian.
Free speech, lesbian gorillas, and related topics
Saturday, May 28. 2016
No acceleration in sea level rise in 150 years. None. Just the normal post ice-age trends. Obama promised, and he delivered.
Sowell on this year's commencement speeches:
Two themes seem to dominate Commencement speeches. One is shameless self-advertising by people in government, or in related organizations supported by the taxpayers or donors, saying how nobler it is to be in "public service" than working in business or other "selfish" activities.
In other words, the message is that it is morally superior to be in organizations consuming output produced by others than to be in organizations which produce that output. Moreover, being morally one-up is where it's at...
Term “Start a Family” Denounced as “Loathsome”
The dominance of the New York City subway
The dominance of the New York City subway
Why Solar Energy Is Bad for the Environment
80 Percent of Americans Want to Label Food That Contains DNA
Yale is racist and bigoted
Fun items at David Thompson
Penn Jillette on Atheism and Libertarianism
U.S. dynamism is in the dumps: Americans are less likely to switch jobs,
move to another state, or create new companies than they were 30 years
ago (or 100 years ago). What’s going on?
Government got in the way
How About Some “Landlord-Protection” Legislation?
DePaul Professor Offended By Milo Resigns, Calls Free Speech ‘Delusional’
Sheesh
Controlling labor costs in the new $15 an hour minimum wage world: kiosks, robots, and housekeeping opt-out rewards
Sub sailor's photo case draws comparisons to Clinton emails
Washington Post exonerates Hillary by subordinate clause
How Hillary Loses - Donald Trump can actually win if Clinton makes
these four mistakes. Spoiler alert: She’s already making all of them.
Hillary Has Been Lying Through Her Lying Teeth
Clinton's E-Mail Shenanigans Sure Don't Look Like an Honest Mistake
Why Trump Won, and Why the Current Crop of Purported Leaders Must Be Swept Aside
Charles Murray against Trump
Weekly Standard Is Holding #NeverTrumper Cruise with Top Trump Bashers – Buy Your Tickets Today!
Trump Derangement Syndrome
Deposition Reveals Hillary Clinton Didn’t Know How To Use Emails On Computer
Rubio has made too many career errors
Trump eats McDonald's
Krauthammer: Obama's naive idealism has caused havoc as America makes the same mistakes over and over again
‘Too Sick to Work’ Migrant Allowed to Bring in 12 MORE Children and 2 MORE Wives to Live Off the System in Denmark
So why can't the 3 wives get jobs?
Friday, May 27. 2016
VDH: Trump stays in the news by taking extreme positions on issues that are already extreme. His point I think, is that in a crazy world Trump may be the one with his feet on the ground.
... many conservatives are not quite sure whether Trump is just a more in-your-face version of current politicians or if he truly is an outlier in his vulgarity. Consider, after all, the last month in politics. Recently, news stories noted that a White House guest rapper, paroled on a pending felony charge, had his ankle bracelet go off. The White House deputy national security advisor and senior speechwriter Ben Rhodes bragged about how he more or less lied and perpetuated a con to ram through the Iran deal without Senate oversight. Former Obama speechwriters joked on television about writing the lie, “If you like your insurance, you can keep it.” Obama himself threatened to cut off federal funds to states that did not share his reinterpretation of the 1972 Title IX Amendments to include bathroom access of their choice for the transgendered. Meanwhile, the FBI weighs a federal felony indictment against Hillary Clinton, just as stories have resurfaced of Bill Clinton’s frequent and unescorted flights on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein notorious “Lolita Express.” If that is a typical month in the life of the current administration and ongoing presidential campaign, then what exactly are the norms by which we can judge Trump as a renegade? The proper critique of Trump is that he would not restore decorum to political discourse and behavior that long ago were debased.
Pretty much everybody agrees that government charity enables dependency and dysfunction. Pretty much everybody also agrees that there are numbers of people who will not or can not attain functional independence.
Despite the perverse incentives, and many unpleasant side effects (including creating a permanent underclass and supporting fatherless families), such people require basic food and shelter provided by the productive classes. It's not 1800 anymore when everybody could find something useful to do on the farm.
Via Assistant Village Idiot, see Three Great Articles On Poverty, And Why I Disagree With All Of Them
The problem with a guaranteed minimum income is that, if people can not manage their life adaptively, they probably can not handle money adaptively either. Every day we see how foolish people can be with unearned money.
Somewhat related, Hope for Public Housing - The House GOP leadership tries to pass much-needed reforms.
Bread and circuses are the costs of civilization.
 White Man's Game: Saving Animals, Rebuilding Eden, and Other Myths About Conservation in Africa
What's the future for Great Lakes salmon?
Interesting story about this introduced, non-native fish - landlocked salmon
28% of US bees wiped out this winter, suggesting bigger environmental issues
Yes, Guardian - everything is a canary in a coal mine. Fact is, the honeybee is a non-native, agricultural critter imported for beehives. Never meant to live in the northern US. Cold winters kill them.
Warmists Really Need To Stop Calling It “Climate Science”
Sorry, There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
Best breakfast for an adult is two coffees and a cigar
The Curious Case of JP Sears
This pope means business
Socialism for the people, capitalism for the Vatican. Sounds like good plans for the Vatican finances.
A woman in her prime years has the cardiovascular capacity of a man in his 50’s.
Hiker who went missing on Appalachian Trail survived 26 days before dying
Wilderness is not for amateurs
President Obama Is Visiting Hiroshima. Why Not Pearl Harbor?
The biggest racial lie: How the Left defames America.
At Harvard, Leftist Professors Inspire Leftist Students to “Rebel”
Tenured radicals using the kids as pawns
Profs Take Brave Stand Against Harvard's Latest Anti-Privilege Witch Hunt - Let students join fraternities if they want to.
ObamaCare Now Mandates Sex-Change Operations
What about my age-change?
Autism and the Transgendered
The MOST DANGEROUS Thing In Obama’s Transgender Policy You Didn’t Know
British TV Special Features LGBT Movement of 'Human Pups'
Sharing Blame/Credit for the 1994 Crime Bill
Katie Couric’s fake documentary proves ‘new media’ is a farce
Vanderleun:
The Democrat party is somewhat like a first wife thought about at a safe distance from the divorce.
You know you loved her at some point, but you can't really remember why.
You know she was beautiful to you then, but now you can only see the ruins of that beauty, and you are glad you had the best years.
The Overhyping of Hillary
Smartest woman in the world
Clinton Plans to Dissolve U.S. Border Within 100 Days of Taking Presidency
A brief guide to Clinton scandals from Travelgate to Emailgate
Trump blasts Susana Martinez
Beyond stupid
Even Andrea Mitchell Calls Bullshit on Hillary Surrogate's Lies on the IG Report on Her Illegal Emails
Swedish Girls Blamed for Steep Climb in Migrant Sexual Assaults
The EU is proposing to spend up to ten percent of its budget on the immigration crisis.
Pathetic
The U.S. Air Force Is Running Out of Fighter Jets
Palestine is a hoax
Hamas stealing 95% of civilian cement transferred into Gaza
That day a lone Gurkha took out 30 Taliban using every weapon within reach
Thursday, May 26. 2016
If Western men can’t stand up to mouthy college twats, they stand no chance against the Mohammedan.
Should We Eradicate Manhood?
I don't know what to think about all this. There have always been beta males, fearful males, but boys were taught to be brave and not to take crap no matter how they feel. When it comes to capacity for aggression, it often seems to me that women exhibit more.
The mental image of Milo bitch-slapping those jerks is enjoyable, could have happened but "that's violence."
Pizza Hut To Replace Waiters In Asia With Robots – And They Don’t Need $15/Hour To Do Their Jobs…
Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
McDonald's and robots
Robots are the new slaves
Chanel: “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
The contemporary world is not very well built for a large chunk of males.
Trans Teacher Wins $60,000 Settlement Because Co-Workers Wouldn’t Call Her “THEY”
The
contemporary world is not very well built for a large chunk of males. -
See more at:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/05/what-in-the-hell-is-going-on.html#sthash.KafpzXWg.dpuf
Why Are So Many People Dying on Everest?
Better ask why so few? The danger is the appeal.
Protesters storm stage, threaten Milo Yiannopoulos while spineless security do nothing
Milo is something else. I don't get why black people protest him
Why The Flyover Zone Is Hurting——–Bubble Finance Is Strictly For The Bicoastal Elites
MSNBC Praises Violent Anti-Trump Protesters Starting Fires, Assaulting Cops, Attacking Police Horses
LET PROS RUN YOUR CAMPUS PROTEST
Rent-a-Mob is now a business
Anti-Semitic Mob at University of California Attacks Jewish Students
The Party’s Over for Pro-Israel Dems
Networks Complain About Trump's Anti-Hillary Ad
The State Department’s Top Cop Imperils Hillary Clinton’s Campaign
Rousseau, via neoneo on Islam and leftism:
…whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body [the public and the state]; this means merely that he will be forced to be free…[if the leaders of the state say to the citizen] “it is expedient for the state that you should die,” he should die.
Military Suicides: Most Attempts Come Before Soldiers Ever See Combat
Should women be required to register for draft?
Avigdor Lieberman Is Just What Israel Needs Right Now
The Russian Threat: NATO Struggles to Recover after Years of Budget Cuts
Vietnamese dissident a reluctant tourist during Obama visit
Freedom was never popular in the East, never will be
Wednesday, May 25. 2016
Many others around the intertubes have been saying what I have been saying: The Republican Party is not a Conservative Party, just the more conservative party.
Conservatives are a faction, and libertarian/conservatives like me are a sub-faction.
In the US, parties are designed to compete in elections and nothing more. Hard-core Conservatives do not win national elections. From today, A right-wing revolt against Trump? Dream on. Conservatives never truly spoke for the Republican Party rank-and-file. Sad maybe, but true. (link fixed)
This lady is posturing as a principled heroine, but she is just naive: Portraits in Countermoonbattery: Katrina Elaine Jorgensen
The never-Trumpers have to grow up or they will resemble the Bernie die-hards. Immature and unrealistic.
Image from the famous lady's topless duel. Guess what they were fighting about
Lady in front with an old-fashioned laptop?
Trans-species
Well, I used to identify as a ham sandwich and before that as a bird dog, but now I identify as a 32 year old, 6'2" tall, dark and handsome male with an IQ equal to my weight of 178 lbs of pure muscle and $40 million in my checking account. Call me crazy.
"The eruption of transgender madness has very deep roots in feminist theory..."
About the Donald's hair
The Missing Links: Why 'Calvin and Hobbes' Was So Great (video)
Life is unfair
Why Millennials are stuck in their parents’ basement
Just 5% of Terminally-Ill Cancer Patients Fully Understand Prognosis, Study Finds
The Crisis of Scientific Credibility
Global warming causes squid
Yummy calamari
Crocodiles and palm trees in the arctic
Watch Out For The Campus Bias Team
U. of Oregon rejects criticism that its Bias Response Team is akin to Thought Police
I REMEMBER WHEN LOYALTY OATHS WERE CONSIDERED BAD
Oberlin Students Want Below-Average Grades Abolished, Midterms Replaced with Conversations
Normal things for the kids to want
Carhartt Jacket Stops NYPD Speer Gold Dot 9mm 124-Grain +P Hollow Points
Are America’s Abortion Laws as Restrictive as Western Europe’s?
Professor raised under communism explains academics’ love of socialism – and why they’re wrong
One U. Wisconsin-Madison solution to bias and hate: Read about ’em while taking a dump
Why is white bread, liberal Madison such a hotbed of racism, hate, and bias?
Black pro-life speaker shouted down at Harvard Law event, called ‘f*cking piece of sh*t’
20,642 New Regulations Added in the Obama Presidency
Can't open a candy shop without a team of lawyers
NY Times: Darn, These Black People In Mostly Democratic Run Cities Sure Like Shooting Each Other
Nationwide crime wave confirms the Ferguson effect
The Nationwide Crime Wave Is Building
If Bernie Sanders and His Supporters Get Their Way, This Would Be the Food Line
Trump Starts Doing the Job the Media Won't Do on the Clintons' Tawdry Past
Bill Cosby Will, Unlike Bill Clinton, Stand Trial For Sexual Assault
Althouse on Hillary's new motto
Hillary Totally Wants Other People To Pay For Child Care
Why would I pay for your child care?
HILLARY CLINTON Defended WALL STREET – Blamed Homeowners During Financial Crisis
She was right about that. Foolish to take a loan you can not hope to repay. Caveat emptor.
Hillary still can’t explain why she should be president
The Problem With Those Waving Mexican Flags at Trump Rallies
Here's The Full List Of Organizations That Paid Hillary Clinton From 2013-2015
Pure bribery
McAuliffe is just one of many shady Hillary fundraisers
Trump Heads To Hollywood To Fundraise With The Stars…
Good
There’s no such thing as free trade with China
The Deep Mystery Of Why Venezuela Is Failing
The Muslim world has no prospects for getting any better. The Arab Spring was a Western delusion.
Islamic State Testing Weapons-Grade Chemicals On Humans
For Allah
ISIS Executes 20 By Feeding Them To Dogs…
For Allah the Most Merciful
MOST PALESTINIANS VIEW GOVERNMENT AS CORRUPT
OBAMA IN VIETNAM: VIETNAM WAR WAS CAUSED BY US POLITICIANS
True, of course. But not the whole picture
Obama’s Moral Lapse in Vietnam
Tuesday, May 24. 2016
VDH on Clinton Agonistes:
Facing a free-wheeling Trump, she is weighted down by tons of baggage. This year was supposed to be Hillary Clinton’s “turn,” after her humiliating loss in 2008 to Barack Obama. She has paid her dues as secretary of state for Obama. And the apparent Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, is written off by most pundits as a buffoon without a chance in the general election. Yet, Clinton’s campaign continues to be dismal, and is getting worse — to the point where the socialist Bernie Sanders polls better against Trump than does Hillary Clinton. How can that be?
At least eight reasons come to mind — several of them relating to Clinton’s innate character flaws and past scandals...
Hillary Clinton Is the Jeb Bush of the Left. Wonky. Earnest. Bathing in Benjamins. The Democratic frontrunner and the Republican belly-flopper are more similar than you think.
Mead:
The failure of the center-Left to transform its institutional and intellectual dominance into policy achievements that actually stabilize middle class life, and the failure of the center-Right to articulate a workable alternative have left a giant intellectual and political vacuum in the heart of American life. The Trump movement is not an answer to our problems, but the social instinct of revolt and rejection that powers it is a sign of social health. The tailors are frauds and the emperor is not in fact wearing any clothes: it is a good sign and not a bad sign that so many Americans are willing to say so out loud.
Those of us who care about policy, propriety and the other bourgeois values without which no democratic society can long thrive need to spend less time wringing our hands about the shortcomings of candidate Trump and the movement that has brought him this far, and more time both analyzing the establishment failures that have brought the country to this pass, and developing a new vision for the American future.
The Z-man is onto something here: The End of Left and Right
I am not sure how new it is, though. The masses of voters were never strongly ideological, just the pundits. Donald Trump is post-ideolological, which is why he could win an election.
Barry Goldwater and Rand Paul were ideological. Well, Reagan was too, in some ways, but he was more American Flag primarily. Like The Donald is. How much did Reagan do to advance the Conservative agenda? Not too much. He was handcuffed. I wish he could have accomplished more such as eliminating entire federal departments.
Monday, May 23. 2016
How much of a workout is sex, really?
We let our men have sex with other women
NYC subways: Victims of their own success
California's high speed rail delayed another 4 years
High-Speed Rail Is a Fast Train to Fiscal Ruin, in California and Elsewhere
Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE your risk of a heart attack or stroke
Making Sense of Transgenderism
Who Am I? Gender and Locker Rooms
"... his legacy is going to be mandating that pretend females will have
access to all real females’ bathrooms, showers and locker rooms."
78 Representatives Ask Obama Admin How It Will Force Schools to Obey LGBT Bathroom Order
CDC: Southerners ‘Racism’ And ‘Homophobia’ Cause Gay Men’s High HIV Rates
Liberals love science — unless it proves them wrong
Meet the real ‘Redskins’ bigots
Dershowitz and Other Professors Decry ‘Pervasive and Severe Infringement’ of Student Rights
It’s Conservatives Who Need ‘Safe Places’ on Campus
The Joys of Mandatory Workplace Diversity Training, a Guided Tour
Fire breaks out at world’s largest solar power plant
Heavy Rainfall Is Easing California's Drought Crisis. A Free Market in Water Would Actually Solve the Problem.
The school board of Portland, Oregon, has passed a resolution banning any books that express any skepticism about climate change alarmism
Notwithstanding Keynesian Fantasies, Redistribution Does Not Stimulate Growth
Libertarian legal superstar Randy Barnett challenges conservative judicial orthodoxy.
407,000 Workers Stunned As Pension Fund Proposes 60% Cuts, Treasury Says "Not Enough"
Fast and furious: The scandal in Washington no one is talking about
Former White House Reporter: Media ‘Happy To Be Managed’ By Obama
Group ID'd as One of Ben Rhodes' "Force Multipliers" In Selling Iran
Deal Also Gave $100,000 to NPR to "Help" It "Report" on the Deal
J Street Was Paid to Help Obama Administration Promote Iran Nuclear Deal
Elizabeth Warren Takes On the ‘Gig Economy’ - It’s one of the first serious attempts by Democrats to deal with the new part-time model for work.
"New model"? My electrician is gig economy. So is my doc. Lots of people work as much or as little as they wish.
Does Hillary Clinton Know How to Attack Donald Trump?
Why Hillary Clinton is sinking faster than the Titanic
Trump Spent Only $46 Million on Campaign So Far=> Clinton and Sanders Spent Over $150 Million Apiece
Begrudging WaPo poll
Donald Trump's map: The downside
Hilarious: Hillary’s tweet bungles the concept of a Venn Diagram
It must be hard for Hillary to look at all the pictures of young women swooning over Bernie as though he were Bieber.
Donald Trump: ‘Crooked Hillary’ Wants to Take Your Guns–and Keep Her ‘Fully Armed’ Security
David Warren:
The world, in all its imperfection, will have empires of one kind or another. Not one will always be a force for good. But there is better and worse, and if we are sane, we will allow that in our time the American power has been a blessing
Votes for sale in the DR
In France, “Basic facts of economic science are completely dismissed”; French people view
the workplace as a zero-sum battle between workers and bosses
"there is a growing feeling that Europe is not safe for those who dissent even a little from the received wisdom of the bureaucratic state, or dare to confront the Muslim taqiyya so prevalent there."
Pope Francis’ Jihad on Christianity
Friday, May 20. 2016
To keep some of our readers inspired:
Fridays are still mostly moving/calisthenics day for me. It's always a different mix.
After a five-minute elliptical warm-up:
- 4 sets of increasing wt leg press (to try to improve my barbell squats next week)
- Then what I call a circus: 5 go-rounds of a circuit of ladder drills, heavy ball floor smashes, and jump pull-ups. Whew. I still can not get 10 regular pull-ups, but getting there. A goal.
- Then 4 rotations of heavy ball wall smashes alternating with jump rope variations (singles, running man, and practicing one-footed jumps)
Total body fatigue in one hour, barely able to move. Good stuff, highly stressful and exertional. If I were not doing my program, my life would contain no extreme physical exertion.
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