Maggie's Farm

 Is Safetyism Destroying a Generation?

 Weight-loss pills can help. So why don't more people use them?  (h/t Instapundit)

Why New York City Stopped Building Subways - Nearly 80 years ago, a construction standstill derailed the subway’s progress, leading to its present crisis. This is the story, decade by decade.

Netflix has spent years crushing movie theaters – turns out, it kind of needs them now

 New York Alt-Weekly Publishing Legend The Village Voice Is No More

What the nonreligious get wrong about religious people

Pope Declares ‘Emergency’ Not Related To Pedophile Scandal

Williamson:  The Psalmist And The Sex Doll

Prof touts 'ecosexuality' as 'environmental activist strategy'

 Claim: Weather Catastrophes are “Pearl Harbour” Opportunities to Implement a Carbon Tax

University of Kansas Hosts 'Feminist Parenting Group' to Explore 'Strategies for Raising Intersectional Feminist Children' 

 DSA SOCIALIST CANDIDATE JULIA SALAZAR LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING

Editing out the American flag 

 National security goals in McCain's wake

 ‘OUTRAGED’ Americans Disgusted With Hyper-Politicized McCain Funeral

Is bashing Trump the fraternity's new secret handshake?

Roaring economy isn't lifting Donald Trump approval rating. He has only himself to blame.

President Trump Keeps Winning – Everything Else Is Just Noise…

 The Bizarre Story of Britain’s Last Great Auk

How a plan to save Kenya's rhino left 11 dead in historic blunder

 New Zealand council plans to ban all pet cats in bid to protect native bird species

Let's hope the world follows that example 

How America Killed Mass Transit - Streetcar, bus, and metro systems have been ignoring one lesson for 100 years: Service drives demand.

NYT:  Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?

Story of bombshell charges against Pope more surreal by the minute

David Warren: What to do about the Church 

 Postmodern leftism even lays waste to the Catholic Church.

When was the Church entirely pure and holy? 

 Dem Socialist Candidate’s Brother and Mother Say She’s Lied About Her Upbringing

She's a cute little liar 

Good quote this week from Marco Rubio:

Politics today is a lot less about ideology and a lot more about the disconnect between the people who make our laws and the people that live underneath them. If you want to understand 2010, 2014, 2016, and I believe, future elections, you have to understand that there’s an enormous gap between what public policy elites – people in government, the media, and academia – are focused on, and what everyday people care about. And they’re not lined up.

So I think there’s a sense across the American political spectrum that the people in office spend all their time fighting for things that don’t matter in the real world. And the things that matter in the real world aren’t getting enough attention. And so, they want to send people that are going to blow it up, that are basically gonna force change in the status quo, and the more the established figures in politics attack you, the stronger it makes you in the eyes of people that want to see something different.

Weiner Laptop Scandal, the Mueller Witchhunt, the Clinton Foundation and China Hacking Hillary’s Emails All Have One Thing in Common

The Case for Sessions' Resignation Grows 

 “THE BIG MONEY IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS NOW ON THE LEFT”

Is South Africa quietly planning a genocide? 

PETA Hopes To Build Memorial Where Lobsters Died In Maine Crash

More lobsters are killed in a day by Striped Bass than died there 

Bear News:  Black bear spotted in Davidson County for 1st time in more than 100 years

More: First Yellowstone-area grizzly hunt in 40 years blocked by federal judge

The growth of the world’s middle class may be the greatest story of our age

Brown U. censors ´gender dysphoria´ study, worried that findings might ´invalidate the perspectives´ of transgender community

Facts do have a funny way of invalidating perspectives 

 Archbishop’s shocking letter reveals scandal and priority schism in Catholic Church

 I Sold My Soul on Twitter. Now I’m Trying to Win It Back

At campus orientation, speaker bashes Fox News, rugged individualism, says America not that great

Failure: The $1.7 Billion Federal Job Corps Program Doesn’t ‘Demonstrate Beneficial Job Training Outcomes'

Duh 

California update:  State Which Uses Lots Of Fossil Fuels Vows To Move State Off Fossil Fueled Electric Grid ‘Cause ‘Climate Change’

More on  Suspicion and the Corruption of the Liberal Mind.

Elites still disconnected from voters 

 Kanye West Goes All In To Win Black Community Over For Trump

Kling: I wrote The Three Languages of Politics in part because I realized that most political statements are made for the purpose not of opening anyone’s mind but instead for the purpose of closing the minds of people on your side.

Democrat Threatens ICE Agents Conducting Deportations: 'You Will Not Be Safe'

Chuck Schumer: Illegal Immigration Is Wrong, Plain and Simple

Spectator:  

The end game is to crush what they see as a peasant’s revolt. Mueller’s function is to provide a legal pretext for removing the President from office. The role of the media is to misrepresent everything he does in order to trick independent voters into giving the Democrats a majority in the House. This will prevent Trump from continuing to act on his 2016 mandate.

The Democrats will impeach the President if they gain a majority in the House, regardless of their chances of securing a conviction in the Senate. Impeachment will effectively shut down his Presidency either way. Fighting it would involve so much White House time that virtually nothing else would get done. And this is an important Democratic goal.

 Is It Worth Cutting Global Warming By Tenths Of A Degree If It Means Millions Starve?

J-Post: An open letter to Jeremy Corbyn 

Steyn:  Danes, Davos and Denial

 London Deplorables Strike Back: Bikini-Clad Blimp of Mayor Sadiq Khan Ready to Fly Over City

The highly privileged lady who invented White Privilege

The transgender fad

 Reading Teens Become "Dying Breed": A Third Of Teenagers Haven't Read A Single Book In The Past Year

 The School Shootings That Weren't

 The Trump administration brings much needed improvement to the Endangered Species Act.

 U.S. court rejects atheists' appeal over 'In God We Trust' on money

Why is it on money? 

 Task force suggests 'compulsory social justice training'

 College deems students’ 9/11 ‘Never Forget’ posters bias incident for highlighting Islamic terrorism

We should all be worried about Google’s power

Who was the Jacksonville shooter? 

You Won't Find the Words "Fired" or "Terminated" In This Article

 VOX: Just Uncaging Fake Animals On A Cracker Box Isn't Enough. You Must Dismantle Capitalism.

 Contrary to Media Coverage, Most Americans Aren’t That Into Politics - It’s the politically obsessed who may not know what's really going on.

 U.S. Workers Report Highest Job Satisfaction Since 2005

 The MSM's Revisionist Love Affair With McCain Is a Bit Much to Stomach

 Why California's Gavin Newsom campaigns for free health care for illegals

 SARA CARTER: Congress Seeks to Question Nellie Ohr After Explosive Testimony by Bruce Ohr

 How the war on climate change slams the world’s poor

How to be human: the man who was raised by wolves. Abandoned as a child, Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja survived alone in the wild for 15 years. But living with people proved to be even more difficult.

 University will allow students to opt out of anti-stress program … if they’re too stressed

If people are too stressed by school, wait til they see real life

Berkeley students teach peers about 'whiteness,' 'decolonizing'

Thank God for higher ed 

Men only at The International: Why are there no female competitors at esports' biggest event?

May I opine that these games are the biggest waste of life that exists? 

Group at Facebook reportedly challenging its 'intolerant' liberal culture - More than 100 employees have joined the group, The New York Times reports.

The Latest 'Privilege' Scam: Decorated Dorm Rooms

Chicago Cardinal Cupich: The Pope Has More Important Stuff To Talk About Than Sex Abuse, Like Climate Change And Immigration

 Catholic Cold War Turns Hot

 ‘Why Socialism Failed: A 2018 Update

 The world is on the brink of a historic milestone: By 2020, more than half of the world’s population will be “middle class,” according to Brookings Institution scholar Homi Kharas.

Greenfield:  TRUMP'S 5 RULES FOR RULING THE WORLD - Trump isn’t reacting to the world. The world is reacting to him.

 Merkel Facing “Xenophobic Riots” After Migrants Kill German Citizen

 As Land Confiscations Loom, South Africa Rules 300,000 Gun-Owners Turn Over Their Weapons

China May Scrap Two-Child Policy, Ending 40 Years Of Limits

 The Man Who Predicted the Venezuelan Catastrophe in 1893

Image via Yet another climate change boat trapped in Arctic ice 

 Meet an ivory trafficker's 'worst nightmare

Sounds of Music: A Salzburg Journal

Protestants Should Care Deeply about the Catholic Catastrophe

We do. 

What I learned when I met a real life exorcist. Padre Manuel Acuña is famous in his home city of Buenos Aires, Argentina – and I helped him perform an exorcism

 THIS PROFESSOR WANTS JOB TRAINING TO START AT AGE 12

With good parents, work training begins earlier than that

WSJ: The Liberty of Nations

 In certain respects, today’s demands for the imposition of universal standards of speech and belief are a reversion to a pre-Westphalian view of the world. Like universalists of the old school—whether Christian, Muslim or Marxist—the new liberal universalists tend to reject the constitutional, religious and cultural diversity of independent nations. As they see it, the way of life they propose—the downplaying of national distinctions, the unrestricted movement of peoples and goods, the elevation of individual judgment over tradition in all areas of life—will provide what everyone needs. Not surprisingly, the correlate of this rejection of diversity among nations is often a disdain for diversity of viewpoints at home, in one’s own country.

Klavan:  Why Are We in Media Hell?

Lanny Davis admits he was source for CNN´s Trump Tower story, lied about it on air

 Candace Owens: ‘I absolutely love this president … he’s killing political correctness’

Trump is a splinter in the establishment 

U.S. SLASHES AID TO WEST BANK AND GAZA

 Trump deal with Mexico eases fears of trade wars, offers template to end other conflicts

 "Canada Just Got Played": How Mexico Stabbed Canada In The Back

 Life Without Water: Sweaty, Smelly, and Furious in Caracas

A lesson in how to turn a vibrant nation into a s-hole 

 Germany’s retreat from Paris Climate Accord goals

Lennon and McCartney sons come together for selfie

Re McCain: Insty claims that the only Repubs that the MSM like are dead ones. 

Nordlinger: About McCain

That ice-free Arctic 

Parents fight back after school drops Pledge of Allegiance for student-authored oath to ‘global society’

Why You Can’t Stop Creating Problems in Your Mind - We’re not built to be happy. We’re built to survive.

One way to get rid of a problem: Stop defining it as a problem.

 THE CRISIS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

 DRIVER LOSES SPONSORSHIP OVER RACIST REMARK FATHER MADE BEFORE HE WAS BORN

 Facebook’s Definition Of “Hate Speech” Grows Even More Bizarre

 ESPN Pays Big Bucks To Break Up With Trump-Bashing Jemele Hill

 ACLU DEFENDS THE NRA AGAINST ANDREW CUOMO’S ‘BLACKLISTING CAMPAIGN’

 7 Things I'd Do if I Wanted to Keep Poor People Poor

 EXCLUSIVE: Agenda for 2020 Democrat National Convention

DEMOCRAT RUNS ON OPEN BORDERS: Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke Calls for Legalizing Unauthorized Border Crossings

How Trump can survive this onslaught against his presidency

Zero Hedge on Starr and Mueller:

 Robert Mueller’s original mandate was also narrow. He was appointed to find evidence of “any links and/or coordination” between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign. Fifteen months and more than $16 million later, it is impossible to know when and how the probe will conclude. However, the conviction of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and the guilty plea of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen on grounds entirely unrelated to Russia mirror how Starr’s investigation also morphed into altogether new areas.

The Unusual Difficulty Of Photographing Pandas

Defense Against Bears with Pistols: 97% Success rate, 37 incidents by Caliber

That's a great website 

Why the Earth Has Fewer Species Than We Think - A primer on the epigenome.

Why bigger planes mean cramped quarters. The incredible shrinking airplane.

 YDSA urges socialists to infiltrate public education

Asia Argento's Time Is Up - A tale of fame, fallacy, and the perils of good intentions

The Billion Dollar Homeless Scam

 Two officers suspended after body cam video was leaked of the Denver mayor's son berating cops

 America is experiencing a major culture war between its interpreters and the people.

 The NYT is doing an effective job at instilling revulsion for Trump.

"Every day it becomes clearer that the true object of the investigation taken over by Robert Mueller is the removal of President Trump from office."

Powerline:

We live in a schizoid time. In the world most of us inhabit, things are going extraordinarily well. We are in the midst of the longest bull market ever. Employment is at a record high, unemployment–especially among minorities, young people and women–at or near record lows. GDP is growing at a 4% clip, which liberal economists deemed impossible in the last administration. Wages are rising. We are at peace, but at the same time our government is finally taking steps to deal with long-festering problems in Iran, Russia, China and North Korea. What’s not to like?

If you listen to most journalists and pundits, none of that is important.

Just how communist is Mainland China?

E U Meeting Ends With No Deal On Migrant Redistribution

 Netherlands Prosecuting Man for Insulting Turkish President Erdogan

 At present, Muslims make up about 17% of the population of Antwerp and Brussels, 22% of Birmingham, 25% of Marseille, 11% of Amsterdam, 13% of Rotterdam, and 13% of Frankfurt. Immigration patterns and demographic trends indicate that those numbers will increase steadily in the years to come, and eventually, I repeat, all of Western Europe will be under sharia law. Or, as John puts it so prettily, “many things will be different and some things will be better.”

 Why Prosperity Has Increased But Happiness Has Not

 Venice restaurant bill outrages Japanese tourists

It's a tourist trap 

San Francisco "Poop Patrollers" Make $185,000

 The Folly of Scientism

Passing the Torch - Why the eons-old truce between humans and fire has burst into an age of megafires, and what can be done about it

 Social Media Companies the Most Dangerous Monopolies Ever

The Guardian: Men’s Fixation on Younger Women is Indicative of a Crisis in Masculinity

Says Legal Insurrection, "Longest “crisis” in human history"

 If neo-Nazis didn’t exist, the left would have to invent them. And to some extent have.

Texas School Removes 'Ladies' and 'Gentlemen' Quote After Single Twitter User Complains

 ‘Social Justice’ is Overrunning the University of Texas

Kling:  I think that the case for spending “public money” (i.e., money extracted from taxpayers) on schools is quite weak. Until I see a well-controlled experiment, I will be skeptical of the benefit of schools. 

 College bans ‘racial’ and ‘offensive’ discussions on campus network for 11 years

 52.1% of Kids Live in Households Getting Means-Tested Government Assistance

THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER’S PERFECT STORM - And why religious freedom is at stake.

 What Socialists (and Most Other People) Don't Understand About The Oil Industry

 Anti-Trump Harvard Law prof ‘has lost his mind’ over Supreme Court nominee

Steyn:  The Priorities of US Justice

 Anatomy of a Sting: Robert Mueller Likely Used FBI and Foreign Intel to Set-Up George Papadopoulos in July 2017…

Woodrow Wilson's biographer discusses the 28th president's racism and the disabling stroke he suffered in 1919

 Don’t subsidize coal; just stop trying to kill it off

Sea level rise has been average 7 inches per century for 7000 years 

 Can Sexual Orientation Change?

Cultural appropriation update 

 New Jersey governor bans black bear hunting on state grounds, but not without backlash

 Asia Argento: I Deny Everything — And The Payoff To My Accuser Was Anthony Bourdain’s Idea

Do People Really Think Earth Might Be Flat? A poll says lots of Millennials evidently do

 Not The Onion: PETA Frees Animal Crackers From Cages

At UCLA, 20 paid diversity advocates isn’t enough

Is Democracy Really Dying? Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate

When the Left admits they hate America and Americans 

 Pulling Their Clearances Is Only The Start — It’s Time To Stamp Out Elite Privilege

Vanderleun:

 The monsters from the id that seized control the Democrat Party have transformed that party into a mob of undead extras from The Walking Dead (Season 285). From “the friend of the working man” this party has become an indecent and disgusting spectacle of crazed cultists and prevaricating perverts claiming they are “normal”.

Above: Perry's Venn Diagram related to MacDonald's Gender is a construct - except when it's not

Tyler Cowen is visiting Baku 

 Most wildfires are started by humans, we can do a lot to prevent them too

Ethanol Is Terrible for Health and the Environment, but Government Keeps Backing It. The US federal government still strongly pushes corn- and soy-based ethanol despite the EPA's new study showing its harmful effects.

US military having trouble finding good recruits 

 California Dems Pass Bill Banning Sale Of Soda And Juice To Kids…

Public Housing’s Most Notorious Failure - Revisionist history notwithstanding, Cabrini-Green more than deserved its reputation for crime and squalor.

Dalrymple on bureacratese 

The Pernicious Impact of Government Intervention in Healthcare, Captured in a Chart. This “third-party payer” system basically means market forces are absent.

 Weinstein accuser Asia Argento made deal to pay her own sexual assault accuser, bombshell report says

 Asia Argento Paid Off Sexual Assault Accuser (Report)

ANDREW CUOMO: TRUMP’S AMERICA CONSISTS OF ‘SEXISM, RACISM, BIGOTRY, AND INTOLERANCE’

"...conservatives also cave in large numbers even when their most sacred cows are in danger."

 Chelsea Clinton Now Calls Running for Office a ‘Definite Maybe’

David Horowitz:  Trump’s Character and Trump’s Presidency

This is why all Americans should support President Trump on immigration

Trump is gaining black support because his policies are improving the lives of all Americans

Dino:

...  this was never about Russia at all, although if they caught some Russia this or that, they’d scream to the high heavens. (Expect that in the Mueller report.)

No, this was about getting a gangster, Don Trumpeone, by getting people like Fredo Manafort and Clemenza Cohen on some tax thing or other, and having them turn on the Dogfather. And if there’s no tax thing, there’s always perjury, simply manufactured by Mueller’s preferring some statement from Party X over one from the mouth of Fredo or Clemenza (truth isn’t truth as you know — cue screaming).

The left made multiculturalism and the multinational order unviable as a power play. But the play went awry. Instead of the left’s plans moving forward, they’ve been set back. And instead of taking responsibility, the left is blaming everyone else for its own crimes against liberalism. 

Trump didn’t break the old order. The left did. 

What Are Red Tides and Why Are They Getting Worse? When algae get a surplus of nutrients, they grow at ridiculous rates.

The cheese of ancient Egypt 

Roundup and junk science 

 The internet has transformed the search for love and partnership

First They Came for Alex Jones

In Stunning Admission, Jack Dorsey Acknowledges Twitter's "Left-Leaning" Bias

 SO, YOU WANT TO BE A POLICE OFFICER?

 Editorial Collusion By Dozens Of Newspapers Proves Trump's Point: The Media Are Biased

 Poll: Government Back On Top As Nation’s Leading Problem

 Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything

 ICE BUSTS ILLEGAL ALIEN WANTED FOR MURDER IN MEXICO, MEDIA OUTRAGED

 ANOTHER TRUMP MIRACLE: President Brings Hope and Investment Back to Gary, Indiana – A Democrat Dead Zone

  Black Business Ownership Under Trump Jumps 400% in ONE YEAR

 WHAT TO MAKE OF THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL’S COOPERATION WITH MUELLER

 Progressive Cities Go To Work On The Problem of "Homelessness"

RAHM EMANUEL ACCUSED OF RACISM FOR SUGGESTING SHOOTINGS COULD BE FIXED WITH FAMILY VALUES - "Our kids need that moral structure in their lives. And we cannot be scared to have this conversation.”

 One of the most touching of the #Walkaway stories

 EITHER OHR

 Will South Africa Follow the Path of Zimbabwe?

 VIETNAM’S CATHOLICS: CROSS WITH CHINA, AND ALL COMMUNISTS

 Peru And Ecuador Demand Passports From Venezuelans Migrants

Photo is a big slice in Yonkers 

Yum

 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