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 Your Carbon Pollution Infused Beer Is Killing Off Bloody Mary’s Which Help With Your Beer Hangovers

How US Sugar Subsidies Bring A 'Red Tide' Of Algae To Florida's Shores

Sugar and corn subsidies are abominations 

 Women At War

Related,  Why statistical discrimination is higher than is either socially optimal or Bayesian rational

How does diversity strengthen us? 

When digital platforms censor 

GAY ANTI-TRUMP LEFTY UNDER FIRE FOR SAYING NOT ALL REPUBLICANS ARE RACIST

John Brennan’s Trumpian Turn

 "Deeply Troubling" - Wall Street Journal Implores "What Was Bruce Ohr Doing?"

 Bruce Ohr Docs Show Christopher Steele “Very Concerned” About Comey’s Firing – “Afraid They Will be Exposed”

NY Times Columnist: Trump ‘Would Certainly Like to’ Murder People Without Due Process

Iranian-Backed ‘Sleeper Cell’ Militants Hibernating in U.S., Positioned for Attack

 Google employees demand more oversight of China search engine plan

 Shark attack victim suffers puncture wounds to torso, legs

Just down the beach from where we were last week 

A Weird-But-True Story Takes Flight In 'The Feather Thief'

NYC's  Gowanus Canal cleanup has unearthed historic treasures — covered in toxic goo

 Prof Claims 'Responsible Fatherhood' Reinforces 'Patriarchy'

 COLORADO IS GOING AFTER JACK PHILLIPS OF MASTERPIECE CAKESHOP AGAIN

 K-12: Creating the 'Ideal' School

 Obama Foundation’s monumental rip-off

We are not Rome. I detest these self-aggrandizing presidential monuments 

 Democrats are out to sabotage the middle class on health care

Dems against choice, just one-size-fits-all government medical care 

 Not a joke: The New York Times has an advice column about how to 'cure' white skin privilege

 Trump Slams NY Gov Cuomo's "Total Meltdown" After "America Was Never That Great" Comment

"The narratives that painted Black Lives Matter activists as 'violent' have turned into legislation that targets black people, leftists, and other marginalized groups."

Washington Post: Trump’s Guilty Till He Proves Himself Innocent

 Michael Barone: Either Trump is delivering on his economic promises, or he's very lucky

 Mainstream media ignores Trump’s success on world stage

 A Journalist Reflects On His Profession’s Anti-Trump Collusion

 Laws of Armed Conflict in Gaza

The Nastiest Feud in Science - A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate.

 Good News: Climatruther Computer Model Predicts End Of Civilization By 2040

Al Gore says Trump undoing environmental regs has done less ´damage´ than he once feared

 Pennsylvania priests 'abused thousands of children'

  How To Identify Racist And Sexist Remarks And Slurs

NY Times Advice Column Tackles White Guilt

 Antifa, Democratic Socialists, & New World Order All Want Same Thing: "No Borders, No Wall, No USA At All"

 Forbes Slammed for Wilbur Ross 'Grifting' Report

 Feinstein, Strzok, and the Sinister Russia Probe

Prof: Free speech could normalize Trump 

Re Kavanaugh:  DEM DESPERATION DIALED TO 11

 Boycotting Sam Adams Beer Over Trump Support?

 Stung by President Trump’s repeated charges of “fake news,” last week The Boston Globe announced an alliance of more than 70 newspapers planning to run editorials protesting a ‘‘dirty war against the free press.”

 America’s Newspapers Just Played Right Into Trump’s Hands

THE COORDINATED 'WAR OF WORDS' AGAINST TRUMP - The latest surge of fake news from the establishment media axis.

 Kurt Schlichter: NeverTrumpers Don't Hate Trump. Primarily They Hate You.

 The Media Are Hiding Their Knowledge and Duplicity – Buzzfeed, WaPo and New York Times Had Unredacted FISA Application For Over A Year

Brennan, the Spooks, and Russian Collusion

 No time limits, no 'public circus': Bruce Ohr to testify behind closed doors, Trey Gowdy says

 How Were Bruce and Nellie Ohr, Christopher Steele, and Fusion GPS Plotting?

Jews:  The Middle East’s Other Refugees

THE CONFERENCE THAT PAVED THE WAY TO THE MURDER OF MILLIONS - In one fateful day, 200,000 Austrian Jews were caught in the jaws of the power-hungry, Jew-hating monsters to whom nothing was sweeter than Jewish blood.

 "Furious" Swedish PM Rages At Violent Gang Rampage: "What The Hell Are You Doing?"

 London Declares TERROR ATTACK After Man Mows Down Bicyclists In SUV

 British Prime Minister's Comment On Terror Attack Makes CNN Look Stupid

 Paris baulks at 'horrible' eco-friendly public urinals

 Residents of the small French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon saved thousands of Jews during World War II 

Demonizing Ride Hailing

 The pros and cons of NYC's ban on new Uber and Lyft cars

 Professors allow students to pick their own grade

 Without Free Speech, Everything You Say Is Meaningless

 Most of us are familiar with the Stepford Wives, but how many of us realize that the men involved in the so-called Deep State have wives that are anything but Stepford-type women?

 Alex Jones doesn’t represent anything new in this country. We’ve always had our share of paranoid crackpots

 Democratic Socialism: Who Knew That 'Free' Could Cost So Much?

Howie Carr:  If I ever get jammed up, I ask for no special treatment — just treat me like an illegal immigrant.

  The Trump economy is destroying the Obama coalition. 

 An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida's Presidential Vote At A Hacker Convention.

 SARA CARTER: House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte Preparing to Depose Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr and Glenn Simpson

 That Time Omarosa Was Fired from the Clinton White House

A democratic revolution has just begun in Vietnam. Massive but orderly protests across the country hint at the beginning of the end of Communist Party rule

 China's state firms cementing lucrative role in South China Sea, new research shows

Painting by John Grillo. We have met him on many occasions and have some of his pictures. Always wanted one of his big oils but too much $. No wall space anyway.Yes, Wellfleet had a secret ocean nude beach for the free-love bohemians, artists, architects, and Harvard intellectuals. Not easy to find.  Not much nude there now.

What Is War Good for? Ask a Chimpanzee. What apes and monkeys can teach us about the roots of human aggression.

Now another poet gets in trouble with the Red Guard 

Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition. Where are the grown-ups?

 The troubled 29-year-old helped to die by Dutch doctors

 Canada To Chronically Ill Man: How About A Little Euthanasia Instead Of Home Care?

 Apple Vows iPhones Do Not Listen In On Users... But Its Apps Are Another Story

Ethanol Is Destroying the Environment

We had corn on the cob with steak last nite. Corn is good food. And ethanol is for cocktails. 

 How Do You Tell If The Earth's Climate System "Is Warming"?

Steyn: MS-13 are nice kids

Why California Cities Are Becoming Unlivable. California has the highest poverty rate in the U.S. and is rated dead last in quality of life.

A tale of 3 ctiies: In 1960, Detroit had the US's highest average income 

 Sarah Jeong Is a Boring, Typical Product of the American Academy

She is predictable: Hates the US, hates whites including Jews, loves Palis. illegals, and loves all self-anointed victims, hates the New York Times (yeah). I doubt she ever met a roofer or a hunt dog trainer. 

 Twitter Explodes After Ocasio-Cortez Attacks Shapiro In Response To Debate Offer

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy: Big Tech ‘Must Do More Than Take Down’ InfoWars

Who next? Is Maggie on his little list? We feel he is a deplorable punk. 

Court denies preliminary injunction in U. Michigan Bias Response Team lawsuit

The Red Guards win one 

Watch Ivy League Students Try To Explain First Amendment

Berkeley:  In addition to higher wages, the union workers are demanding that the school guarantee them free tuition and childcare, subsidize their housing costs, disarm the campus police, and provide financial support to illegal immigrants.

No free lollipops?

 With the possible exception of Baltimore, there is no city where the consequences of leftist policies in terms of law and order are more dire than Chicago.

Democratic Socialism Threatens Minorities. Nothing better protects victims of bigotry than a system where they can pursue their needs and wants outside the realm of popular control.

 Dear LeBron: Democrats, Not Trump, Ran Cities Like Akron Into The Ground

NAACP's own poll reveals surge in black support for Trump – and they react badly

 Blacks' approval of Trump reaches a high of 21% and NAACP charges 'racism'

 Here We Go… Far Left Actress Alyssa Milano Blames Russia for Republican Win in Ohio Special Election

I blame climate change 

 Michael Moore: ‘F—k Hope, Seriously, F---k Hope;’ Trump Will Be ‘Last President of the U.S.’

VDH:  How can Americans now trust the intelligence agencies shown to be corrupt in the very recent past?

 Dianne Feinstein was an easy mark for China’s spy

 Byron York: What Was Hillary Clinton's Cut-Out Christopher Steele Doing Pallin' Around With a Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch Who Wasn't Allowed in the United States But Really Wanted that Prohibition Lifted?

Is there any doubt about a spy-FBI- Russia-Clinton nexus? 

 "The Outlook Has Become Grim": Trump Trade War Causing "Rare Cracks" Within China's Communist Party

 Why the EU Won't Comply with Trump

There has never been free speech in China 

Who Really Stands Up for America?

 Trump Wins: Germany’s Central Bank Stops $400 Million Cash Delivery To Iran

Richard Jarecki, Doctor Who Conquered Roulette, Dies at 86

 CAL POLY TO REQUIRE PROFS TO SUBMIT ‘DIVERSITY STATEMENT’ AMID CRACKDOWN ON WHITE STUDENTS

Surprise: Warmists Admit Carbon Taxes Are Jobs Killers

Poetry:  The progressive heretic-hunters turn their eyes to The Nation, and the nation.

American Jews: oppressed minority or privileged ?

Rabbi Sacks: On not being a victim 

 Meet America's Elite Farm Subsidy Club

 Hall of Famer Jim Brown says he'd never kneel during anthem

 Why Chicago can’t get a handle on deadly shootings

Drug gangs killing eachother. Maybe Chicago doesn't care about that 

"Heavily Armed" Muslim Extremists Arrested In NM; Trained 11 Children To Commit School Shootings

 The Great White Culture War

Never will you hear the Progressive say “this is good enough, we can stop now.”

 The Elite Freaks Out When Trump Puts Americans First

 Trump May Lose Star on Walk of Fame, But Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey Won't

  Americans Give Trump An 'A' For Economy

 STEELE, SIMPSON, AND OHR LINKED WITH RUSSIAN OLIGARCH

Via Ace:

 Hundreds of pages of previously undisclosed FBI emails and memos show that the Democrat opposition research firm Fusion GPS, through former British spy Christopher Steele, worked closely with the FBI, and DOJ official Bruce Ohr, to take down Donald Trump before, during, and after the 2016 presidential election.

Beijing demands Christians infuse faith with 'Chinese characteristics' amid crackdown on religion

 Saudi Arabia crucified a man in Mecca while aggressively calling out Canada over human rights

 China has had a strategy to supplant the United States as the dominant military and economic power since 1949. 

How to Combat the Left’s ‘Alternative’ Israel Brainwashing - My time among the propagandists

The real story behind the ‘Little House on the Prairie’ controversy

UCLA students forced to pay for ‘Toxic Masculinity Committee’

 THE LEFT’S WAR ON WHITENESS

 Should Christians Vote for Muslim Candidates?

Why not? It depends 

 The Latest “Trump The Tyrant” Article From The WaPo Is A Real Gem

HOW THE MEDIA EMBRACED EN MASSE FAKE NEWS ABOUT TRUMP TOWER MEETING

 CNN’S OWN LEGAL ANALYST DASHES PANEL’S COLLUSION NARRATIVE

Obviously. And unlike Clinton, there was no payment for Russian dirt 

 The Big Tech censorship storm has landed

 Socialist ‘Future of the Democrat Party’ Just Had a VERY Bad Night

 Beyond family separation: Trump’s ongoing war on asylum, explained

But if you get arrested, you can't be with your kids 

How a senior DOJ official helped Dem researchers on Trump-Russia case

 Why Doesn’t President Trump Get More Credit?

 German Spy Chief Warns, Islamist Children "Pose Real Threat" To Nation

Asylum seeker who raped 17-year-old student in a cemetery replies ´Yes, I did that. Why not?´ as he is jailed for 16 years for attacking her and another woman five months apart

We have to be more multiculturally understanding, right?

 China may have to resume U.S. soybean purchases in weeks

Trump drives tough deals 

Trump Insults Anybody Who Angers Him, Regardless of Color

 Elderly Men Escape Nursing Home To Attend World's Biggest Heavy Metal Festival

 Amish man starts "Uber" ride service with his horse and buggy

Air Force silent after 2-kiloton meteor hits Earth near base

I blame climate change

 EPA: Maybe adding ethanol to gasoline wasn’t smart after all!

 Kudos to Netflix For Dropping Farrakhan ‘Documentary’

Apple’s Stock Market Scam - The tech giant just became America's first trillion-dollar company, but it wasn't thanks to the iPhone.

Free the carmakers from government regs 

 We’ve Got To Stop Letting ‘Outrage Mobs’ Get People Fired

 CHINA Murdered or Imprisoned 20 CIA Operatives and Sources While Feinstein Had a Chinese Spy as Office Manager

 Mayor Blames Trump For Black Doll Hung In Playground. Reverend: Here's Who Actually Did It.

California government official:  “Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.”

Unfunded US state and local government pensions totals $5 trillion 

AVI: My thought has been that while nationalism has dangers and can be a false god, internationalism is a worse one.

 FAR LEFT MOBS RIOT In 3 Major US Cities — NOT ONE Mainstream Outlet Reports on the Widespread Leftist Violence

 The New Underground Railroad… To Canada

Bees are not in Danger

 An extensive report from the Environmental Protection Agency found that including ethanol into the U.S. gas supply is wreaking havoc on the atmosphere and soil

 New York Bill Mandates Three Months Paid Bereavement Leave

That is crazy on so many levels 

California fires and sprawl into fire zones 

NRA Sues New York Officials Over 'Blacklisting' Campaign

Scott Adams discusses his visit with Trump 

A delightful report 

 CBS News Tries To Blame Portland Violence On Trump Supporters

 This will not stand: Judge orders DACA fully reinstated

 Fact Check: Trump Says 3.5 Million People Have Been Lifted off Food Stamps

The Fate of the Atlantic Alliance

 South Africa Moves Forward with Expropriation of White Land Without Compensation

 Americans Are Rapidly Warming Up to Porn, a New Gallup Poll Shows. Here's Why.

San Francisco Bans Everything

Except pooping on sidewalks

Thugs in Portlandia 

On Liberal Numerology

Why  The Left Wants to Control Ohio Elections

Sarah Jeong Was Just Talking The Way Most People On The Left Talk About White People

Is there really that much hate? 

 Sarah Jeong Is A Warning Sign Of Something Wrong With The Left

Funny: Trump will surely read her tweets at his next rally 

Why does she hate the utterly limp and innocuous David Brooks? 

‘Why Do The Press Hate The American People?’

Cory Booker Bashes America: Things Are “Savagely Wrong”

The Clinton campaign sought dirt on Trump from Russian officials. Where’s the outrage?

 Trump’s foreign policy rooted in Nixon, Reagan principles

 Independent voters a major headache for the GOP as midterm elections loom

The idea that Trump et al are ignorant about trade 

These guys still get it wrong. They are just doing hardball negotiating 

 Trump Creates 830,000 Manufacturing Jobs in 19 Mos. — 804,000 More than Obama in Previous 19 Mos.

 Mike Pence scolds mainstream media outlets that did not cover ceremony honoring return of Korean War remains

 FBI CONTINUED TO GET INFO FROM STEELE AFTER TERMINATING FORMAL RELATIONSHIP

Steele was on a mission to destroy Trump 

 Denmark Bans the Niqab, and Media Reacts Exactly as Expected

Not drinking alcohol in middle age increases dementia risk, says report

Scientists reverse aging-associated skin wrinkles and hair loss in a mouse model

Omega-3 fatty acids do your heart no good - waste of money 

Aborigines:  Reclaiming Work as a Virtue

 WALSH: Diversity Is Not Our Strength

Whenever I get around to running a most punchable face contest on Power Line, Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal will be one of the contestants. 

NYTIMES’ NEWEST HIRE SENT TONS OF ANTI-WHITE RACIST TWEETS

Times has to keep up with radical chic

 IRONY: Social Media Mob Comes For Sarah Jeong, Who Cheered Social Media Mobbing Of Others

 This isn't culture war. It's worse.

College hangs up on student asking about free speech policy

 Proposed Changes to CAFE Standards are Good News for Consumers

"Start with a politics cleanse: For two weeks — maybe over your August vacation — resolve not to read, watch or listen to anything about politics."

Africa:  Poor Countries Need Economic Freedom, Not Handouts

 Socialist Venezuela Falling Apart As President Maduro Shockingly Blames Party

 Venezuelan Dictator Nicolás Maduro Now Admits Socialism Sucks

 'Force field' technology could make US tanks unstoppable

The Enlightened Superstitions of Steven Pinker

 Are All Cultures Equally Good?

About Cardinal McKerrick 

Paramount Owes America an Apology for Jay-Z's Trayvon Series

MIDDLE RAGES - WHY THE BATTLE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES MATTERS TO AMERICA

Environmental scare stories 

 Photographer of starving polar bear admits losing control of “climate change narrative”

EPA: Key Air Pollutants Drop 73 Percent Since 1970

But there is still CO2 in the air! 

Social Justice Warriors Have Finally Come for the Comedy Classic ‘Animal House’

 NY Dem Governor Attacks Media For Asking Tough Questions

They're sposta be on his team 

SURVEY: Americans support 1A rights, but don’t know what they are

 Understanding Trade Deficits

Report: Worker pay rising at fastest pace in 10 years

Z-man:  The fight over open borders today is actually a battle to expand the franchise by those seeking to push through a post-national agenda.

Noncitizens across U.S. find it easy to register to vote, cast ballots. Russian national surprised to be on rolls in San Francisco

 Majority of Democrats: Illegal Aliens Should be Given the Right to Vote

 Media don´t want to understand Trump voters, all 63 million of them

 Politico Reporter: Between Them, You’d Get A Full Set Of Teeth From The Crowd At A Trump Rally

Democrats wheel out the 'kids' as a campaign theme, again

 All Democrats have to do is act crazy, and Steyer will back them.

Toon via Theo 

Mario Vargas Llosa’s journey from Castro groupie to steel-eyed critic of both Leftism and populism gives the observations and commentary of his latest book the authority of a long life both lived and examined. To describe it as a joy of the first order would be to engage in understatement

UW-Madison encourages students to report communists ‘microaggressions’

The Nation Apologies for Publishing an 'Ableist' Poem  - "Caused harm to members of several communities"

I doubt it. Nobody reads it

 Distributing the Green (Cards): Permanent Residency and the Income Tax after the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

 Former Hippies Put in Horrible Position of Rooting for F.B.I.

California:

 Its political leaders and a credulous national media present California as the “woke” state, creating an economically just, post-racial reality. Yet in terms of opportunity, California is evolving into something more like apartheid South Africa or the pre-civil rights South. 

Connecticut is poised to reject Democrats’ economic mistakes

 Study: "Medicare for all" plan touted by Bernie Sanders would cost $32.6 trillion

VDH:  Progressive Regression

 German Police: 126,000 Immigrants Set for Deportation Have ‘Disappeared’

On Hating Andrew Lloyd Webber

A 'Mini Ice Age' Is Coming in The Next 15 Years

 'Trigger warnings' may undermine 'emotional resilience,' Harvard study finds

Nonsense. These are crybullies, not snowflakes. Fake snowflakes. 

 GENDER FLUIDITY HAS ITS ADVANTAGES

Whatever Happened To The ‘Unmaskings’ Probe?

 So What’s Paul Manafort On Trial For Again?

Andy McCarthy:  My Collusion Confusion

 Despite Media Hysterics Trump’s Approval Remains Unchanged – And He Is Still 3 Points Ahead of Obama at Same Point In His Presidency

CNN’s Brooke Baldwin: “President Fulfilling A Major Economic Promise, The U.S. Economy Is Booming” - Economy doing so good even CNN can’t lie about it.

THE DEMOCRAT FUTURE ISN’T SOCIALIST, IT’S CRAZY. They don’t want socialism, they want Trump dead.

 Seven 'Great' Marxist Leaders Young Socialists Need to Know

 300,000 Illegal Immigrants in Islamic Colony Saint-Denis

 Echoes of Venezuela: Ortega relies on street gangs to crush Nicaraguan government rebellion

Why Are Men So Terrible, And What Can We Do About It?

A simple guide to CRISPR, one of the biggest science stories of the decade - It could revolutionize everything from medicine to agriculture. Better read up now.

 Nat. Geographic Admits They Were Wrong About Famous Climate Change Polar Bear Pic

WaPo: Connecticut is drowning in debt. Should the rest of us have to pay? 

 Mike Rowe Talks To Ben Shapiro About The Gap Between So-Called ‘Elites’ And Everyone Else

 Martin Armstrong: Is CNN Creating A Civil War?

 You Have Just Entered The Twilight Zone; CNN — Creating Narratives Nightly

 Tucker Carlson Reports the FBI Collaborates With Southern Poverty Law Center

 Trump Anxiety Disorder: Therapists Say Patients Are Experiencing More Trump-Related Anxiety

 Mueller probably hasn’t exhausted the possibilities of building obstruction of justice charges against Trump based on his regular activities. Trump’s use of Twitter barely scratches the surface of the potential wrongdoing that falls within the scope of Mueller’s probe...

President Trump Is Correct--Study Shows 90% Of Administration Media Coverage Is Negative

I see CNN and MSNBC in the gym all the time. It truly is Destroy Trump's Reputation 24/7 

 The Rules For Beating Donald Trump

 Janice Atkinson, MEP: The EU Is Killing Itself from the Inside. As All Dictatorships Do

 Amsterdam 'lawless jungle' at night, ombudsman warns

 Number of Islamists in Germany Reaches Record High, says Intel Report

It's not uncommon to see small family groups of Chimney Swifts overhead during the summer months. Wonderful fliers, catching bugs on the wing.

I've seen parents pass a bug to a child, both on the wing.  Cute. 

Their numbers have declined drastically over the past 40 years, for unclear reasons. Maybe more chimney caps, or steel flues. They need masonry flues to get a grip.

My best Chimney Swift story is about the day one accidentally came down our old church's chimney and started flying around the church - on Pentecost!  I finally was able to snatch it when it was banging against the window, and somebody opened the window and off it went like the Holy Spirit.

There are a couple of other species of Swifts in the western US. If anybody can distinguish a Vaux from a Chimney Swift, good for you. Swifts spend the cooler months in the Amazon basin.