Wednesday, July 6. 2016
From McArdle, Sorry, Republicans. Clinton's E-Mails Won't Take Her Down.
Clintonian dishonesty was already baked in the cake. It's not news to anybody.
 New book reveals Ice Age mariners from Europe were America’s first inhabitants
Riding the California Zephyr: A Long Lost "High Peak of Enjoyment"
When a Culture Unmans Itself
"The Scandal of K-12 Education" - and How To Fix It - Charter schools get ragged on all the time, except by grateful parents and students.
Indemnity health insurers win major ACA court fight
Skidmore College Bans The Phrase ‘Make America Great Again’
Book: Trump the Press - Don Surber's take on how the pundits blew the 2016 Republican race.
College bias unit says Trump slogan a 'racialized, targeted attack'
VDH: The government/media power elite are spectacularly ignorant of the American people.
Alternative Headline: “FBI Declares Hillary Clinton to be Complete Liar”
Andrea Mitchell: FBI 'completely disputes' Clinton's email story
FBI Director James Comey: Any Other Person Who Did What Clinton Did Would Have Faced “Security Or Administrative Sanctions”
Did Comey Actually Destroy Hillary Clinton by ‘Exonerating’ Her?
A commenter on When Trump Fought the Racists:
Trump is such a narcissist he thought he could be a successful real estate developer. Then he was for decades.
Trump is such a narcissist he thought he could be a successful author. Then he was, several times.
Trump is such a narcissist he thought he could be a successful reality tv show host. Then he was, for many, many seasons.
Trump is such a narcissist he thought he could be a successful national candidate, then he was, defeating 17 professional politicians, including Jeb! and $120 million.
As they might say in TX, it ain't narcissism if you do it.
Left-wing German politician who was raped by migrants admits she LIED to police about her attackers' nationality because she did not want to encourage racism
Queue forming as nations lining up to sign trade pacts with post-Brexit Britain
A New World Order
Backwards Brexit doomsayers
Tuesday, July 5. 2016
 As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. Also, I help spot demonic possession.
Why small talk is so excruciating
Watch: Joey Chestnut Sets Hot Dog Eating Record by Eating 70 in 10 Minutes
From Ace:
Where is the evidence that a "majority" of Americans value "self-rule and freedom"? Thanks to several decades of poisonous and corrupting progressive propaganda combined with steadily increasing prosperity, I believe that most Americans now value security (i.e comfort) over freedom. Fortunately for them, it's a lot easier for the ruling class politicians to sell comfort than freedom, because freedom means responsibility and work. And they're not greatly interested in selling freedom anyway, because when you get right down to it, a free man really doesn't need much of a ruling class.
Milo on Minority Wars: Why The Next Ten Years Will Set Everyone Against Everyone
It sounds laughably ironic, but the modern progressive movement has argued itself into a position where people can be discriminated against on the basis of gender, skin colour and orientation.
That’s why you hear dismissive and in some cases even vituperative comments about “straight white males” in the media today: men are being ridiculed for things they cannot change about themselves. And it’s the political left doing the discrimination.
Left Eats Left: Black Lives Matter Briefly Halts Toronto Pride Parade…
Academic Absurdity of the Week: Advanced Gibberish
Why the World Is Rebelling Against ‘Experts’
Trump vs. the global elite
DONALD TRUMP Responds to Hillary Clinton’s Ugly Anti-Semitic Smear
Huma admits under oath that Hillary burned her daily schedule
Sen. D’Amato Drops Bomb: Hillary Allowed Russia to Take Ownership of US Uranium to Sell to Iran
Dealing With Con-Men
Desperate Dems Wheel Out ‘Trust Hillary’ Campaign
Hillary Is Considering Keeping Loretta Lynch As Attorney General
Trump's Hidden Advantage -- He's Crazy
Nigel Farage resigns as head of the U.K. Independence Party after Brexit vote
Mead via Powerline:
[R]arely has a presidency seen so many things go so badly for the U.S. in foreign policy. Obama’s track record is not looking good: at the end of his watch, the Middle East, Europe, and East Asia are all in worse shape than when he entered office, relations with Russia and China are both worse, there are more refugees, more terrorists and more dangerous terrorist organizations.
Monday, July 4. 2016
Hope you are on a boat today in a bathing suit with a fishin' pole. If not, my condolences. I feel sorry for you.
Independence Day Created Greatest Empire the World Will Ever Know: The Anglosphere.
Sunday, July 3. 2016
If your spouse were the subject of a major, high-stakes criminal investigation, do you suppose you would get a meeting with Loretta Lynch?
So claims the WaPo. It made me laugh because this is America's #1 barbecue weekend and only quite peculiar people are not grilling meat.
A few thoughts.
If cows and sheep and goats are killing the planet, what about all of the wild animals that roamed the globe before domestication? Should we kill all the farting deer, caribou, bison, wild pigs and Wildebeests?
Why do they always talk about Red Meat? What's so specially bad about it compared to pork or chicken? Not a thing, as far as I know. That old beef about red meat's health badness has long been disproven.
And how bad can red meat be, given that the human body is made of it? Are the cannibals worried?
Anyway, it's all silliness.
The final debunking
I don't think the topic is very important, but it's quite a story of modern academia and academic politics.
Clinton Labor Secretary Warns Against July 4th ‘Americanism’
Would Robert Reich be directing that warning to all new immigrants, or to the children and grandchildren of immigrants, who left everything behind to come to this lovely place for freedom and opportunity?
Saturday, July 2. 2016
Five Steps Universities Could Take to Revive Free Speech on Campus
Most Americans still believe in free speech but don't know much about it
Major League Baseball must permanently retire ‘God Bless America,’ a song that offends everyone
Good grief. Leave them alone
Federal regulation of Internet coming, warn FCC, FEC commissioners
Inventor of “Microaggressions” Term Says Liberals Are Misusing His Research
That Time the European Union Tried to Ban Cinnamon Buns
Greg Gutfeld: Brexit's babies: Why the Leavers won and the losers can't stop crying
Are Human CO2 Emissions Saving Life on Earth?
Owner of iconic Brooklyn pizza joint gunned down in hit job
Casa Nostra is still around
Elite K-8 school teaches white students they’re born racist
Snowflake Intern Petitions for More Informal Dress Code
Hilarity ensues
Minneapolis Is the Wrong Place to Try a $15 Wage
Ahmed The Clock Boy: “I Want To Help Change Texas For A Better State”
CNN Has A Sad That People Are Talking About Terrorism, Not ‘Climate Change’
Reporter: FBI ordered ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones’ during Clinton/Lynch meeting
FBI?
Rush claims that you're being played:
Lynch doesn't want her indicted. She doesn't want to be indicted. Bill Clinton doesn't want her to be indicted. The idea that rank partisans like this are going to let some process play out with no influence on it whatsoever and run the risk that somebody might actually indict Hillary Clinton, they're not gonna let that happen. That's not who these people are. And yet look at all the people who are holding all this hope out, thinking this might be the one. They say, "She is so guilty, they can't hide this. She's so guilty, they can't cover this up. This is so bad." What do you mean, they can't cover it up, they can't ignore it? They can do all of that, and they will. It's who they are.
Lynch’s plan to “remove herself” and “accept the FBI decision” over Clinton’s emails is probably a smokescreen
Dems circle wagons of lies around Hillary after Benghazi report
Clinton sought secret info on EU bailout plans as son-in-law's doomed hedge fund gambled on Greece
No rules apply to them. Like Leona Helmsley, above the law.
Forget the White House. Dump Trump to Save the Rest of the Ticket?
Did Anyone Talking About Trump’s Speech Actually Hear It?
Clinton Spending Roughly $500,000 a Day on TV Ads, Trump Zero
Public Schools Told To Help Students ‘Recover’ From Trump Rhetoric
His rhetoric about keeping their parents' jobs in America?
Obama Administration Promoting Navy Commanders Based on Support for Global Warming
Czech President Calls For EU, NATO Referendums
Israel’s Water Revolution and Its Overflow for the World
Friday, July 1. 2016
Why Skipping College Was One of the Smartest Decisions of My Life
For Frigate Birds, Staying Aloft for Months is a Breeze
99-Million-Year-Old Bird Wings Found Encased in Amber
Why Do Some Radio Stations Begin With 'K' and Others With 'W'?
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
Washington State Schools to Start Promoting Gender Dysphoria to Kindergarteners
Sick, sick, sick
New Barnard College curriculum to teach its female students ‘how to think’
So why do they admit gals who cannot think?
WHY ARE LEFTY INSTITUTIONS SUCH HOTBEDS OF RADICAL INEQUALITY?
Michelle Obama: Why Don’t We Have Football Teams For Girls?
It's oppression!
New Hires at U. Cincinnati Must Prove Commitment to Diversity
Smugglers use Uber-registered drivers to move migrants to U.S. border
A comfortable way to come
Energiewoopsie, Or, What Happens When You Dump Nuclear Power
Scientists Scorn Greenpeace’s Deadly GMO Scare Tactics
Less than 3 in 10 Americans believe the country's headed in the right direction
Do people really want Superstates?
Rationalia - the utopian totalitarianism of experts
The Elites Have Lost The Right To Rule
America’s Latest Epidemic: Bureaucrats with Guns
Brexit Shows Us the Future and It's Great
Judge upholds voter citizenship checks
Good riddance to George Will:
Anglo-American conservatism has never been a single thing. That was the whole point about conservatism, beginning with the British Glorious Revolution of 1699, which helped to define English rights and liberties against a power-grabbing royal house.
This is the drama we just saw play out again in Europe when the Brits revolted against the absurd new Juncker Class, trying to exert Franco-German power over Britain. That Sovietized political machine is not going to give up its drive to dictate the size of cherry tomatoes in Scotland: That is its only mission in life. Without those forty thousand regulations from Brussels, the Euro Soviets would have no function at all.
They are parasites. They do not produce anything useful, anymore than the Soviet Apparat did before the crumbling of the State. Vladimir Putin just pointed out the eerie similarities between the end of Soviet dominance and the end of the EU. That similarity is not an accident. It represents the eternal fight between self-serving power freaks and ordinary people trying to live their lives.
Ordinary Europe has wandered into the ancient trap of deceptive political con artists talking people into giving up their rights and powers. Obama has tried to do the same thing to us.
Mika Rips Media Blackout on Clinton-Lynch Meeting: ‘People Too Afraid to Talk About the Truth’
How Hillary has used donations to the Clinton Foundation as her ‘personal piggy bank’
What Hillary Clinton doesn’t get: It’s the freedom, stupid - Americans have hit a wall of their own, after decades of abuse by the bipartisan ruling class
Hillary Spent $26 Million on Battleground Ads in June – Trump Spent $0 => Leads Hillary by 4 Points
Hillary Clinton’s Absurd Student Debt Forgiveness Plan
Just pandering
How safe is your holiday? Turkey, Egypt and Spain at 'high' risk of terrorist attacks
Why the Generation that Left Egypt Was Kept in the Desert - They looked inside themselves and saw only their own fear, not the confidence needed to make the land of Israel their own.
Senator to 'Post': Congress acts to shut loophole on Palestinian convict stipends
Iran is as belligerent as ever
Thursday, June 30. 2016
 Photo: If you know what that is, you are old
Grizzly Bear Kills Mountain Biker Near West Glacier
Army of 1,000 Ducks Used as Brilliant Pesticide Alternative
Plus the duck eggs and the duck dinners
Why police were called to a South Jersey third-grade class party
California Hits the Brakes on High-Speed Rail Fiasco
Warmist guru Michael Mann tells DNC platform committee to use scary
propaganda, not science, to panic voters into accepting flawed theory
“Fundamentally, I’m a climate scientist and have spent much of my career with my head buried in climate-model output and observational climate data trying to tease out the signal of human-caused climate change.
"Tease out"?
Don’t blame Brits for the Brexit: The EU strayed from its roots in
post-war unity to become a neoliberal technocracy
EU Army on way? EU cannot rely on NATO and needs new defence policy says Brussels chief
Time to invade Britain
The Tyranny of the Regulations Equation
Stonewalling Muslim Homophobia - When gay people ally with their killers.
The Fed Is in an Epic Battle With Itself
Why Did Bill Clinton And Loretta Lynch Meet On Her Airplane In Phoenix This Week?
Just to say "Hi"
The FBI Investigation of Hillary: Is the Fix In?
What We Do Know about the Benghazi Attack Demands a Reckoning
A Socialist Les Miserables in Venezuela
Why more nations are reacting to migration with walls
Turkey-Israel Rapprochement
Tuesday, June 28. 2016
The biggest problem for governments is the people they supposedly work for. A great annoyance, and frequently an obstacle to Progress as they see it.
'WaPo': Brexit Shows Some Things Shouldn't Be Decided by the People
Interesting topic. It usually only comes up when an establishment consistently deviates far from the majority. In the case of the UK, the politics are special: Cameron was elected in part by promising a referendum on EU membership. So their national election was, in effect, a referendum on a referendum. It seems to me that, if national sovereignty can not be held to a referendum of the citizens, then nothing can be presented to the direct will of the citizens.
Lyme, CT is a quaint little village, perfectly located on the Connecticut River but close to Long Island Sound. I love this 1789 farmhouse and its easily-manageable 6 acres. It's for sale. I want it. Good for boats and birds and plenty of hunting nearby. Perfect.
And, with our friends, church, kids, and complex lives, I would never have time to get there. A shame we can't have everything we like. Even billionaires can't, because time can not be purchased and it is a rare item.
Monday, June 27. 2016
European SUPERSTATE to be unveiled: EU nations 'to be morphed into one' post-Brexit
An ultimatum instead of more referendums. This will not go over well with the common folk.
Angela Merkel warns other countries should be stopped from leaving
Sheesh. This is insane or maybe evil. Brits got it right, dodged the bullets.
Inside Silicon Valley’s Robot Pizzeria
Narcissists Get More Dates
PowerPoint Makes Us Stupid - How PowerPoint has killed the art of rhetoric
Bill Maher: Liberals Don't Know Jack About Guns
Alaska rafting deaths highlight response challenges
No it doesn't. Wilderness adventures are not meant to be safe.
At UNC, 'Christmas vacation' is now a microaggression
The Orwellian Charge of the Campus Bias Response Team
Paglia: Transgenderism as a Symptom of Cultural Collapse
Feds: Schools Must Grant Mentally Disturbed Boy Unfettered Access to Girls’ Locker Room
Maine's First Lady Takes Summertime Waitress Job to Pick up Cash
Exercising your right to own firearms now lands you on a federal database in Hawaii
Once Again Obama Argues We Need Illegal Immigrants Because They “Make Our Beds”
The House unveils its Obamacare replacement plan—and have you heard about it?
(George) Will to Irrelevance
Everything Is Broken - Cynicism is the cancer at the heart of this election year.
Despite Market Turmoil, Britain Was Right To Brexit
Brexit’s success is unsurprising
EU To Launch Kettle And Toaster Crackdown After Brexit Vote
The EU's olive oil rules
From Crooked Cucumbers To Powerful Vacuum Cleaners, The Barmy EU Rules Britain Is Now Free Of
Shop starts selling meat in pounds and ounces after Britain voted to leave the EU
The Certainty of even More and More Disturbing Power Grabs by the EU
Moonbat Reduced to Tears by Brexit
"When
asked 'Where are you from?' almost no one would answer 'Europe,'
because after 50 years of assiduous labor by the eurocrats, Europe
remains a continent, not an identity."
Basta Ya, Brussels! British Voters Reject EU Corporate Slavestate
Brussels simply went too far. They cross the line moving from an economic union to a political subordination of Europe. Now eight more countries want to hold referendums to exit the EU – France, Holland, Italy, Austria, Finland, Hungary, Portugal, and Slovakia all could leave.
Conrad Black: A fresh start for Europe
This is not a vote against Europeans or even against Europe, nor will it divide the U.K. as the ungracious Remainers are saying. It is a vote for Britain to be governed by the British and to co-operate closely and fairly with the European countries. It is not really a vote to leave, but a vote to renegotiate for the next two years. Gove and Johnson are broad-minded, fair-minded modern Thatcherites, and they will strike the right balance between defence of British domestic interests and retention of good relations with the European powers. Prime minister Edward Heath threw Britain’s lot in with Europe, and put the Commonwealth over the side. Thatcher bet on the special relationship with the U.S., and she and Ronald Reagan were the principal victors in the Cold War, but that relationship couldn’t survive the last two American presidents. Britain has come full circle.
Abbas Goes Off Deep End, And Even the NYT Can’t Overlook It
'move jungle to uk' - Calais mayor sparks furious row after demanding that squalid migrant camp be moved to Britain
Saturday, June 25. 2016
 If you are from New Jersey, do you term this food-like product Taylor Ham or Pork Roll?
How Dunkin' Donuts changed the dictionary
Shaidle: Is This Pope Catholic?
WSJ: The Book of Job’s Big Question - Why are innocents made to suffer? One reading might see Job as a devastating text.
Walmart has a problem that's threatening profits — and it's driving police nuts
Climate and Human Civilization for the Past 4,000 Years
To please Muslims, Shall we burn our books and empty our museums?
Report: Released Criminal Aliens Committed Nearly 10 Times More Crimes Than Obama Admin. Told Congress
NY DEM Charlie Rangel – Law Abiding Citizens Don’t Need Guns – But He Does
Even Some Liberals Disgusted by Congressional Sit-In Farce
Coyote: Government, Arrogant Ignorance, and the Power of Incentives
Stockman: In Praise Of Ignorant Politicians…..Unschooled In Beltway Delusions
“Absence of legitimacy is the EU’s main feature."
Britain Exits, Democracy Lives, And Everything Has Changed - A dispatch from liberated London.
HOW BREXIT WILL CHANGE AMERICA AND THE WORLD - Britain is free of global government. America can be next.
Brexit and Trump v Clinton got you down? The good news is we still know how to fix things.
Sessions on Brexit: "The interests of powerful international corporations, media, special interests, and leftist international forces are not coterminous with those of our people.
How Immigration Fueled the Brexit Result
FLASHBACK: UK Prime Minister Cameron Warns Brexit From EU Could Lead to WORLD WAR
Worldwide popular revolt confirmed by Brexit vote:
Britain is leaving the European Union. But that reality doesn't begin to tell the story of the larger historical forces at work that are reshaping global politics, the global economy, and global culture and have been for much of the last decade...
Why Brit Islamist supported Remain
Hillary IT Guy Pleads The 5th 125 TIMES In A 90 Minute Deposition
Right thing to do
Revolting: Sheryl Sandberg is now part of Lena Dunham’s Girl Squad
A big group of major business leaders just endorsed Hillary Clinton
The bad moon rising over Hillary
Friday, June 24. 2016
A reader gave a response to my question about unemployment among young black males in the US. He or she made an interesting comparison with the government's approach to American Indians - give them stuff and hope for the best.
When has that approach ever worked in the world? Now, the US like Europe offers government benefits to new (including illegal) immigrants. Is that a good idea? It has never been tried in the US in the past, and immigrants did very well over time.
From 1925 to 1965 the US permitted essentially no immigration. The people had decided, and the politicians had agreed, that we had enough of them. The country thrived.
Thursday, June 23. 2016
How Subarus Came to Be Seen as Cars for Lesbians
For More Children, Puberty Signs Start at 8
I blame climate change
A Scientist, A Sprinter, And A Sumo Wrestler Attempt To Cross A Human-Sized Cockroach Trap (video)
Reporter goes to shop to buy gun - gets rejected because he's a reporter because of domestic violence
Unfair “Fair Housing" - The new Obama administration policy to “deconcentrate” poverty is a threat to communities.
Butler won her award for writing:
The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
Shock Report: Blacks Commit 11 Times More Homicides than Whites in America
Mostly other black people
Scott Adams: Why Gun Control Can’t Be Solved in the USA
Honor and politics
Politics is not an honor society
House Dem: Constitution was designed to increase government power
Sheesh
No Fly, No Buy' Means No Freedom: New at Reason - If the government can take away our natural rights to travel and self-defense, can other fundamental rights be far behind?
If the government secretly can put an American's name on a secret list and, as a result, his liberty is lost, then there are no freedoms—just government-granted privileges. And if it can do this to the natural rights to travel and self-defense, can other fundamental rights be far behind?
TV Reporters Laugh At Hillary For Avoiding Questions
Anatomy of the terror threat: Files show hundreds of US plots, refugee connection
Afghan War Rules Leave U.S. Troops Wondering When It’s OK to Shoot
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