Monday, September 19. 2016
 Missed it: Happy Constitution Day
Edward Albee, writer of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', dead at 88
P.J. O'Rourke on Why Snobbery Is a Good Thing
Taleb: The Intellectual Yet Idiot
Letter With Arabic Writing Found on Second Bomb in New York City; Witnesses Saw ‘Arab’ Man With Suitcase
A red herring. Presbyterians did it
University Warns Students Against Thoughtcrime
The New Age of Orthodoxy Overtakes the Campus
Sally Kohn: It’s ‘Good’ If Conservatives Feel Unable To Speak On Campus
College-Aged Students Are Ill-Informed About Global Issues
The federal government happily subsidizes inferior state colleges that graduate few if any of their students.
An AVI quote: "When your current-event justice argument is basically founded on long-past injustices, it means your current argument isn't very strong. "
Your Good Intentions Mean Virtually Nothing
Racism: The Vicious Circle of Crises, Or, How the Drama Queens Operate
Dog rescue scams
Blue Model Blues - Desperate Pension Funds Mull Buyouts
California: The pension gap - It was a deal that wasn’t supposed to cost taxpayers an extra dime. Now the state’s annual tab is in the billions, and the cost keeps climbing.
California: Drug crime Leniency has been hard on homeless
Z-man:
The media’s new war on their readers is part of the general unrest we are seeing in the West. People in the media have long viewed themselves as the fourth estate, part of the ruling class, but policing the ruling class. This was always nonsense.
Having Solved All Other Problems, France Bans Plastic Cutlery And Crockery For ‘Climate Change’
Evil Trump kids killed a Triceratops
Endangered species, isn't it?
Normal Interest Rates - Low Neutral Rates Blunt Central Banker Tools
Politico: Donald Trump Does Have Ideas—and We’d Better Pay Attention to Them. The post-1989 world order is unraveling. Here are 6 ideas Trump has to replace it.
A Frail Looking Hillary Hits Trump for Calling NYC Attack ‘Bombings’ — After Doing the Same
Seems confused about her message
Clinton Foundation Spent Millions More On Travel Than Charitable Grants, IRS Filings Show
Trump Says Clinton Would ‘Effectively’ Abolish U.S. Borders
The wheedle and the damage done: Hillary edition
A disastrous Sec of State
The Adventures of Superwoman
Illegal immigration: What Trump should say:
“Mexicans? Splendid hard-working guys. Great family folk. Love ’em. And when we’ve got the economy booming again as a result of my policies, they’ll have their place in the sun. Until then, though, we have to give our own hard-working Americans the first crack at the new jobs. Look, the Mexicans are fine people. They’ll understand.”
ANGELA MERKEL’S VIRTUE-SIGNALLING WAS A TERRIBLE BASIS FOR POLICY
Kremlin’s Election Games Provide Opening for Opposition
Putin’s lesson for Obama in Syria
Congress Investigating Obama Admin-Funded Campaign to Unseat Israeli PM - State Department purged emails about $300,000 grant to anti-Netanyahu group
The "Virtuous" New Nazis
Saturday, September 17. 2016
The issue pits the conservationists against the sentimentalists. It comes down to this: If you want to protect the native fauna and flora of the American West, the imported ungulates need to go. (The same goes for feral pigs, aka Wild Boar).
Wild horses should be killed or sold, government board decides
 Low- functioning men play a lot of video games
Privacy Concerns Around 'Smart' Dildos
Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt
Fully-intact. What a find! With video (h/t NYM)
Here Are The "Lines Of People" Waiting For The New iPhone 7
He said "Thank God you're getting a makeover"
Colorado College Accused of ‘Body Shaming’ for Being Committed to Healthy Living
Fit-looking people make others feel bad. The pursuit of proud victimhood never ends.
Canadian college student sees “safe space” violated by classmate … wearing Trump hat
The fundamentals of personality do not change
It's why we can pick up with old pals after 20 years, and not miss a beat
Is 70 the new retirement age?
Most retired people I know had no choice about it. People like work best when they do not feel like they have to do it.
Why Black Tie Optional Deserves to Die - The "optional" part of the dress code should never be an option.
I agree
Former French President and presidential candidate Sarkozy states his position as a climate skeptic
Marc Jacobs is accused of 'cultural appropriation' after sending white models including Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid down the catwalk with fake dreadlocks
Gotta laugh
Stop the insanity! High school football fans told to stop chanting "USA, USA"
New Study Finds Taxpayers Are Fleeing New York, Illinois and California
The Greediest People in America Are Liberal Democrats
Just Why Does Hillary Clinton Want to Be President?
Release The Chakra! Hillary Campaign In Talks To Bring Al Gore To Campaign Trail…
Clinton and Trump in child care bidding war
Free candy time
From Scott Adams' When Reality Turned Inside Out:
'LES DEPLORABLES!' Trump floors cheering Miami crowd as he enters to Broadway anthem
Having fun
Enthusiasm gap looms for Clinton
Ethnic cleansing: Memories of 1929 and 1948
Can the European Union Survive? Scholars debate the E.U.'s future but agree the answer is in the economy.
Nope. It's also culture and history.
Why the U.N.’s Israel obsession should worry even people who don’t care about Israel
Friday, September 16. 2016
WaPo: Trump admits Obama born in USA, but erroneously blames rumor on Hillary
Breitbart: Hillary Clinton Campaign Manager Admits 2008 Birther Link
Related, for many years Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) did indeed claim to have been born in Kenya. Even his bio on this first book said so. The Rickroll - Brilliant and amusing tricksteration. The Donald is having fun. Like I say, not a fan but have to cast my meaningless vote for some fool, so why not him? National politics in America was a reality show long before TV.
Paris, Sept. 2016
Listen to the oldest known melody in the world — 3400 years old.
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
The Greatest Doctor’s Note Ever
A reminder about O'Sullivan's Law
How to tell if you're a jerk: If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
Yale students cry, scream and berate professor as he attempts to apologize
Milo Yiannopoulos update
As Marijuana Prohibition Winds Down, What Will Control Freaks Ban Next?
Computer prices go one way, college tuition goes another — why?
Ford to move all small-car production to Mexico from U.S.
Merkel Meets With German CEOs To Address 99.97% Unemployment Among "Highly Unqualified" Migrants
Germany’s Merkel Hammered on Migrant Policy Ahead of EU Summit
DHS accused of sitting on damning border report as immigration issue drives presidential race
Unaccompanied minors swelling ranks of American gangs, say experts
On his recent Asian tour, President Obama characterized his fellow
Americans (the most productive workers in the world) as “lazy.”
Trump: I Would Shoot Confrontational Iranian Ships
Hillary Throws Stones From Her Glass Castle
Greed?
$216 Million From Clinton Foundation Donors Bought 205 Invitations to White House State Dinners
The $1 million supper
The Hillary Facts Legacy Media are Hiding From You
U.S. confirms two more freed Guantanamo inmates rejoined militant groups
Internet Group ICANN Boosted Member Who Transferred U.S. Technology to Iran - Obama administration pushing to hand over control of internet to ICANN
First female soldier in Green Beret training fails to complete the course
The UK: Labour Whitewashes its Anti-Semitism
The Businesses of Mahmoud Abbas and His Sons
‘New Peace Theory’ aside, the persistent nature of war has a way of giving the lie to rumors of its demise.
Sultan on 9-11
If we had been civilized, then 9/11 would have been a temporary tragedy. But we had lost the ability to distinguish between ourselves and the barbarians. Out of this loss of confidence, we set out on a missionary expedition to save them by converting them to our faith in democracy. When that failed, we encouraged them to come and convert us to their faith in our inferiority and their superiority.
Thursday, September 15. 2016
Travelogue: The Imperial Capital. It's a part of the world where there is never a recession, pay and benefits are generous, and where few can feel good about their job. Managers and paper-pushers by the tens of thousands, and a large load of talented schmoozers. A modern Ancient Rome.
Wednesday, September 14. 2016
She has never accomplished anything in life. She has held positions, but that's not the same thing as accomplishment. That is resume-building.
She got into Yale Law (gee, a real ordeal) and met Bill there. She got a job with the Watergate Commission, but got fired for being dishonest. She failed the bar exam in DC. Smartest woman in the world. She went to Arkansas with Bill, passed the Ark. bar, got jobs through Bill's political connections and made money via shady deals. When Bill was Pres, she screwed up everything she touched but managed to parlay her Bill connection to a NY Senator gig (being from Illinois and Arkansas but going where the $s are). She got to be a marquee-name Senator but did little there. She had some books ghost-written. Then she got Sec of State as a booby prize for losing to but endorsing Obama, and screwed up all of their major decisions there (Russia, Libya, Syria, Iran, Egypt). In the meantime, she devoted herself to making a magnificent fortune, because she and Bill love money and hobnobbing with the rich. On top of it all, she and Bill have a farcical marriage. They do not live together. Theirs is a political (and financial) alliance because he owes her.
To you Feminists, what would she be doing in life without Bill? Or without an adoring press (for being a Lefty female)? Surely she wonders that too. Famous for being famous.
This is not an ad for Trump, just putting things in perspective. If you are a Lefty, you will hold your nose and vote for her regardless. Obama had zero accomplishments too but he had some charm and youth.
Addendum: Colin Powell has more scathing things to say about the lovely Clintons
Just for fun, to whom did Bill confess, a few years ago, that "Hillary gets more pussy than I do"? A trivia quiz. BTW, I do not care whether HRC is gay. Lots of people say Obama used to be gay in his Chicago days hence his "Bathhouse Barry" nickname. But so what? It's been a good gig for Mrs. O.
 Italian immigrants: How Did “Vincenzo” Become “James?”
Why not Vincent? Or Vinny? I think Giacomo is James (or Jacob)
2016 Waterfowl Forecast - Another large fall flight is on its way as duck and goose populations remain strong
Dutch police fight drones with eagles
The Metro-North Bar Cars Are Coming Back
A venerable Fairfield County tradition
Is There an Epidemic of ADHD?
Another ObamaCare co-op folds, leaving only 6 remaining
U.S. tech firms urge Congress to allow internet domain changeover
Good News Liberal-Arts Majors: Your Peers Probably Won’t Outearn You Forever
Open Letter to University of Vermont Students Regarding The Bias Response Team
The Prof concludes:
"If you find anything in this letter suggestive of unreasoned thinking or judgment, and if it offends or otherwise upsets you, you can report the author to the Bias Response authorities at the University of Vermont."
University Of Oklahoma’s ‘Bias Hotline’ Goes Hot After Six-Month Delay…
Sick
Columbia U. conservatives’ horror stories: Threatened, bullied, censored
Brownshirts at work
The Blue State Exodus
An example of the above: Greenwich Is the Worst U.S. Housing Market, Sternlicht Says
Improve your fight for racial justice by cleansing yourself of ‘toxic whiteness’
Columnist Says He Won't Date Feminists, Feminists Instantly Validate Him
Citing bathroom law, NCAA pulls 7 championship events from North Carolina
SC University Deems “9/11: Never Forget” Posters Offensive To Muslims, Bans Student Group From Displaying Them…
Records Show Obama Hired Behavioral Experts to Expand Use of Govt. Programs
ABC/WaPo Poll: Obama Approval Rating Highest in Over 7 Years
John Kerry’s State Department Funneled MILLIONS To His Daughter’s Nonprofit
On Election Day, it's OK not to vote. Really.
When Donald Meets Hillary - Who will win the debates? Trump’s approach was an important part of his strength in the primaries. But will it work when he faces Clinton onstage?
Why a Trump victory in November is a virtual certainty
Why Kimball will vote for Trump
Trump Emerges in Center, Outmaneuvering Clinton, As Race Enters the Stretch
You Know What’s More Important Than Hillary’s Health? Climate Change!!!!!!
An Unplanned Absence for Hillary Clinton at an Inopportune Time
A Helpful Step-By-Step Guide To Defending Every Clinton Scandal - Now you can also be a member of the Praetorian Guard.
Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia cover-up reinforces hard-earned reputation for dishonesty
Colin Powell lashes out at Hillary
Also, Colin Powell Calls Trump A “National Disgrace” In Personal Emails
The reach of Saudi Wahabism
Tuesday, September 13. 2016
 Hillary's health has little to do with the election in my view, but I am curious about what this movement is which alarmed the press. Any ideas? A tic, a movement disorder, an odd startle reflex?
I am not a Trump fan, but I will be a Trump voter. Via Powerline
 Photo via American Digest
Why your protein shake hurts your stomach
Your body can only process about 10 gms of protein per hour. More than that goes to poo and pee. Multiple small meals, for you exercisers and especially lifters.
PC: The Era of the Drama Queens: Every Crisis Is a Triumph
Debunking The Income Inequality Fallacy - In 'Equal is Unfair,' authors Yaron Brook and Don Watkins cut through the dishonesty of the debate over income inequality and extol the virtue of individual effort.
Share Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jetset Climate Burden
Arrest warrant issued for journalist Amy Goodman after covering Dakota Access Pipeline protests
US Government Climate Modellers Prove SINGAPORE is a Violent Uneducated Unproductive Wasteland
Share Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jetset Climate Burden
SAMUELSON: Building wall could end immigration impasse
Ralph Nader: Clinton Foundation’s Actions Should Result in Indictment
Dr. Jane Orient: ‘Media Is Being Told Not to Give Us the Whole Story’ on Hillary Clinton’s Health
Darn that internet. It needs regulation
Guardian: Does the left have a future? All over the west, the left is in crisis. It cannot find answers to three urgent problems: the disruptive force of globalisation, the rise of populist nationalism, and the decline of traditional work.
Left is stuck in the past
Home Depot Co-Founder Has a Message for Republicans
WATCH MSNBC DEFEND HILLARY=> She Was”A Little Bit Wobbly” After Standing in “Oppressive Heat”\
Nicest day of the year
You Are A “Deplorable”
If you are not a mega-millionaire Lefty or an LGBT, she does not wish to meet you
Mysterious Piece of Metal Falls Out of Hillary Clinton’s Pant Leg During Collapse
Some truth falling out would be welcome
Hillary ‘Attack Ad’ On Trump’s Immigration Plan Ends Up Being Pro-Trump
Who Are Trump’s people? There is something the polls are not seeing.
Hillary ‘Attack Ad’ On Trump’s Immigration Plan Ends Up Being Pro-Trump
Clinton’s cover story for her pneumonia diagnosis further proves her first instinct is to lie
2005: Hillary Clinton faints during speech
She has "spells." It's a female thing.
‘I’ve Become a Racist’: Migrant Wave Unleashes Danish Tensions Over Identity
Even Amid Cease-Fire Countdown, Syria’s Conflicts Deepen
Bill Clinton’s terrorism strategy led to 9/11. Hillary Clinton’s is the exact same thing.
Our Press Falls Down on the Job Again Libya is no closer to stability or peace than it has been since
the invasion. Western plans to bring order to the country are failing
yet again.
US Intel Chief Blames Climate Change For Rise Of ISIS…
" I believe that the day America first started meddling in the Middle East was the day America stumbled."
Africa Update: Equatorial Guinea
Monday, September 12. 2016
Farmers Deserve Free Markets, Not Handouts
Farming is a big industry today, thriving on government handouts. Thus the citizen pays twice for food: once in taxes and once in the store. Why is Big Ag insulated from supply and demand (I know - politics). Must be nice to be an industry for which supply and demand do not exist. Nice, but degrading.
And ethanol is the worse.
Saturday, September 10. 2016
 Eton and the making of a modern elite
Update on Shakespeare's portrait
You do not have to be crazy about it, but you do need water in warm weather
Thirst often mistaken for hunger. Strange. Have a Coke or a 'gansett.
The Inside Story of Why Arianna Huffington Left the Huffington Post
Oil! Massive shale discovery in Texas
1950 to 2010: Not One Mass Public Shooting Where Citizens Could Be Armed
Outside of gang neighborhoods, an armed society is a polite society
How Our University Reacted to an Exposé of its Grade Inflation Problem
School got award for promoting diversity, which infuriated the SJWs.
Students oppressed by their college. So change colleges.
Clark University Comes Up With More Microaggressions
Civil rights chief: 'Religious freedom' code words for intolerance
Freedom is slavery to reality, and reality sucks
Professor Who Was Taped Ripping Down 9/11 Memorial Posters Is Chair Of Saddleback College’s History Department…
Ethanol Worse for Environment Than Gasoline
OBAMACARE FAILED BECAUSE IT VIOLATED ECONOMICS 101 AND HUMAN NATURE 101
" …In the past sixteen years, 94 per cent of the net jobs created were in education, healthcare, social assistance, bars, restaurants, and retail, even though those sectors only employed 36 per cent of America’s workforce at the start of the millennium…"
Georgetown Slave Descendants Want A BILLION Dollar Reconciliation Fund
Black Voters Are So Loyal That Their Issues Get Ignored
What are black issues?
57M Hispanics now in U.S., 17% of population, 54% of total growth
CNN Poll Shows Trump Now Leading Hillary Clinton
Facebook Founder Gives $20mm Donation On Hillary To Defeat Trump's "Fear And Hostility" Campaign
Rich guys want cheap immigrant labor
Hillary Clinton Goes Off on Trump Supporters: ‘Basket of Deplorables’, ‘Irredeemable’, ‘Not America’
How the FBI went easy on Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton refuses to explain what she told the FBI about how a concussion impaired her memory
What Did Clinton’s Lawyers Say to Her Tech Guy a Few Days Before He Destroyed Her E-Mails?
It is all incredible. And why?
Given that Donald Trump is the 'devil incarnate' if one listens to any of the Clinton surrogates, Democrats are growing more and more concerned as Hillary's 'insurmountable' lead has collapsed to its lowest since the conventions.
Deeply unpopular Hollande calls for France to 'embrace' Islam
How the Third World was Ruined, And why "colonialism" had nothing to do with it.
The West Cannot Afford To Ditch Nato
Really?
Abbas, the KGB and the world of Middle East espionage
Friday, September 9. 2016
Dear Media: It Is Not News When ‘Transgender Men’ Get Pregnant - Time magazine thinks it’s surprising when women have babies.
Gluten-Free Sales Are Way Up, Thankfully Celiac Disease Isn't
Archaeologists restore Second Temple flooring from Waqf's trash
UMass RAs: 'D**ks Out for Harambe' Is Sexual Assault
Why Lena Dunham Actually Is 'A Sack of Flaming Garbage'
California’s Bag Ban: A Wealth Transfer from Customers to Big Grocers
But it's saving the planet! Personally, I hate seeing all those plastic bags flying around in the wind and getting stuck in trees. Unaesthetic.
Why So Pricey, EpiPen?
Cornell dean candidate criticized for pledging to help 'all students'
Wrong to say that! Only blacks and trannies need special help.
Is the Global Warming Debate Over?
Obama on Climate Change: The Trends Are ‘Terrifying’
Obama Rips Into Americans: Lazy, And When They Hit Hard Times, They Turn to Racism
Pure BS. Americans are the least racist people on the planet
Diversity update: Black Students at California State Wanted Segregated Housing. They Got It.
Trump will definitely have an address on Pennsylvania Avenue next year
Hillary's Health Concerns Serious, Say Most Doctors Polled by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
It's settled science
Obstruction of Justice Haunts Hillary’s Future
Don’t Let Comey Put a Criminal in the White House - BleachBit Timeline is a shot at redemption: FBI should indict
Hillary Brags about Libya – Tells Audience No Americans Killed There
Bill Clinton’s racist appeal
The Trump Blitz Begins
Trump Supporters Call for Boycott After Starbucks CEO Endorses Hillary
No problem. I've been boycotting Starbucks (and Whole Foods) for many years. Makes me feel virtuous and morally superior.
BILL CLINTON CLAIMS “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” SLOGAN RACIST, BUT USED PHRASE IN 1991
It's called Politics
Donald Trump is poised to lose in the biggest landslide in modern American history
Nothing would surprise me
Peter Thiel: Trump has taught us this year’s most important political lesson
From here:
Orban tendered a dire prediction if Europe continues to accept Muslim immigration. “There will eventually be more Muslims than Christians in Europe as the continent’s non-Muslim population is ill-equipped to fight the coming cultural competition.”
Europe’s progressives rejected Orban's warning. “In a refugee crisis of unprecedented proportions, Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, has set himself up as a bulwark against a generous-spirited, pan-European approach,” The Guardian editorialized.
Why should western Europeans listen to Viktor Orban?
BDS: A threat to the entire Middle East
‘Socialism of the 21st Century’ Collapses in Brazil. Here’s Why It Failed.
China to Expand Military Reach with a Fleet of the World’s Largest Planes
Soviet Document Suggests Mahmoud Abbas Was a K.G.B. Spy in the 1980s
Not sure what difference that makes. KGB had spooks everywhere. So did the US
Uncovering the truth about a West Bank Palestinian refugee camp
Thursday, September 8. 2016
History: 417 Bleecker St.
Five Awful Plants for the Front of Your House
I could add to that list
That '70s home! Kitsch house that hasn't changed in 47 years goes up for sale
'I escaped a North Korean Prison camp'
The Protected Classes Must Not Hear Harambe Jokes
BIG changes at Legal and College Insurrections
Why Lego wanted people to stop buying its toys.
Steven Hayward has fun with a Berkeley prof
Perfect Example of Blaming the Free Market for Government Interventions
The Fraud Of Full Employment
Amazon Wants to Deliver Stuff, Too? That's Weird
Western public opinion has never come to terms with the crimes of Communism.
Since the Party was the agent of History itself, it could not be mistaken, and so anything the party did was morally right by definition. “Morality is entirely subordinated to the class struggle of the proletariat,” Lenin declared. At the Thirteenth Party Congress in 1924, Trotsky explained:
"Comrades, none of us wishes or is able to be right against his Party. The Party in the last analysis is always right, because the Party is the sole historical instrument given the proletariat for the solution of its basic problems. . . . I know that one cannot be right against the party. It is only possible to be right with the Party and through the Party for history has not created other ways for the realization of what is right."
It Won’t Be Long Now—-The End Game Of Central Banking Is Nigh
Special Report: Border crisis reality check
All the Lies: They’ve Turned Us Into a Rotting Banana Republic
The “people don’t care” election
Douthat does not like Trump: The Gift of Clinton
Clinton bought used Blackberrys on eBay
Colin Powell DID teach Hillary Clinton how to use
private servers and personal email to 'do business with foreign leaders'
without State Department oversight
Strange. Secret from the State Dept but accessible to hackers.
Five ways Hillary could be blowing it
House probe targets Clinton contractor who deleted subpoenaed email; refused to answer key question from FBI
A conspiracy, and a crime
Hillary Clinton's People Knowingly Destroyed Emails They Knew Were Under Congressional and Legal Subpoena
Makes Nixon look like a piker. Speaking of Nixon, do you know why Hillary was fired from the Watergate Commission?
Woman Who Takes Lots Of Fossil Fueled Flights Blames ‘Climate Change’ For Hermine
She also predicts that there will be hurricanes in the future
WaPo's Cringe-Inducing Love Letter Gushes That 'First Lady' Bill Clinton Will Embody 'Wholesome Living'
The artcile goes so far as to pretend that the Clintons live together, which they have not since the White House
Pollster John Zogby: Trump 'Can Actually Win'
Goldman Sachs Bans Top Employees from Donating to Trump-Pence Campaign
Why Hillary Clinton can’t close
Dems Fume at Trump’s Outreach to Blacks
They think they own the black voters
Merkel Mum As Five German Women Assaulted By Migrants, Danes Post Arabic Ads Saying "Don't Come Here"
'We´re still in charge here!´Germany orders Britain not to seal trade deals before Brexit
Sheesh. A threat.
Morgan Stanley Economists Join Goldman Revising Brexit Outlook
Britain’s June 23 referendum on independence was the most important vote in a democratic nation in a generation.
German conservatives divided over answer to state election rout
Wednesday, September 7. 2016
I have hardly seen any this year other than a couple of Hillary!s on Subarus and a couple of Trumps on the pick-ups of workmen
It means something but I do not know what.
Remember these lines?
Everything done will justified by my foundation
And the money kept rolling in from every side
Eva's pretty hands reached out and they reached wide
Now you may feel it should have been a voluntary cause
But that's not the point my friends
When the money keeps rolling in, you don't ask how
Think of all the people guaranteed a good time now
Eva's called the hungry to her, open up the doors
Never been a fund like the Foundation Eva Peron
 Cats are bird killers. These animal experts let theirs outside anyway.
I’m an Adult Woman, and I Call My Mother Three Times a Day
The Mammoth Pirates - In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush is under way. (h/t NYM)
College Students Told All White People Are Racist
What Liberals Don’t Get: Blacks Often Hurt by Government Regulation
The $15 minimum wage is racist
SF official suggests taking slaveholders’ names off schools
Connecticut Limits Free Speech Using Campaign Finance Rules
Cillizza: Can we just stop talking about Hillary Clinton’s health now?
Rationing Health Care in Great Britain
No surgery for overweight people
VDH: The Virtue-Mongers
The wealthy, the influential, the intelligentsia, and the cultural elite all broadcast their virtues — usually at a cut-rate rhetorical price — to offset their own sense of sin (as defined by feelings of guilt), or in fear that their own lives are antithetical to the ideologies they espouse, or sometimes simply as a wise career move. Sin these days is mostly defined as race/class/gender thought crimes. Wearing a mask of virtue is done not to save one’s soul for eternity but to still feel good about enjoying privilege.
Greenfield: American presidents were meant to retire. They were never supposed to use taxpayer money to set up cabals. It was unthinkable for them to solicit foreign rulers in a bid to return to power.
VDH again: The Strange Case of Mexican Emigration:
Mexico has zero tolerance for illegal immigrants who seek to work inside Mexico, happen to break Mexican law or go on public assistance -- or any citizens who aid them.
In Mexico, legal immigration is aimed at privileging lawful arrivals with skill sets that aid the Mexican economy and, according to the country's immigration law, who have the "necessary funds for their sustenance" -- while denying entry to those who are not healthy or would upset the "equilibrium of the national demographics." Translated, that idea of demographic equilibrium apparently means that Mexico tries to withhold citizen status from those who do not look like Mexicans or have little skills to make money.
If the United States were to treat Mexican nationals in the same way that Mexico treats Central American nationals, there would be humanitarian outrage.
Trump's call for high-skill immigration is no 'hate speech'
Republicans for Clinton: Why we oppose Trump
Canadian Partnership Shielded Identities of Donors to Clinton Foundation
UN human rights office accused of 'bizarre' behaviour after condemning the 'free market'
Human Rights office condemns freedom?
Renewed Turkey-Kurds conflict has killed nearly 2,000
Syrian Army, Hezbollah Readying to Launch Large-Scale Operation at Border with Israel
Tuesday, September 6. 2016
Monday, September 5. 2016
Qualifications to run for President of the US? Just age and birth citizenship, I believe. In my view, Hillary! is disqualified on moral, ethical, and responsibility grounds. Trump is more qualified than Obama had been, by being an executive, entrepreneur, and by having lots of real life experience.
As I have said many times here, few people care anymore about Hillary's flaws. They are assumed, and she and Bill are somewhat admired for their handling of their countless errors of morality, ethics, and judgement. Having the wind of the media at your back never hurts.
 A salute to Labor
First Africa-Wide Elephant Census Shows Dropping Populations - Survey confirms the damage wrought by poaching
Is Your Manliness Hurting the Planet?
Sorry, Uncle Sam: E-cigarettes just aren't that bad
Safe spaces 'critical' to student success, college prez says
Higher education, beyond parody - A voice from Chicago U. against the retreat from reason and learning
College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults
Political Correctness Prevents Syracuse University from Screening Israeli Film - 'I will lose credibility with a number of film and Women/Gender studies colleagues.'
ESPN Speaker Apologizes for Saying America Does Not Oppress Blacks
Obamacare: No Successes to Build On
Why Now is the Right Time to Talk About Ethanol
Red States Really Are The Model Of Economic Success
The Yankee State (CT) was once one of the most prosperous places on the planet, and until 1991 it had no income tax. Its other key attribute was its proximity to high-tax, anti-business New York. But over the last 25 years, Connecticut has been in a free-fall as it has raised its income tax four times, leading to towering deficits.
The joke now in Connecticut is: Will the last person in the state please turn out the lights? As Connecticut depopulates, there may come a time when one super-rich person is left living in a Greenwich mansion who is highly educated and with three patents to his name, and the Times can say: Look how prosperous and highly educated Connecticut is.
By the way, a 2014 poll found that 49% of Connecticut residents say they want to leave the state — second only to Illinois at 50%. The exodus is on: 156,057 people have left Connecticut since 1992, taking $9.5 billion in income with them. As people in Fort Lauderdale and Naples, Fla., will tell you, it seems like every third person here is from Connecticut.
Our view is that the best measure of where the future is happening is to look at where people and businesses are moving to and where they are leaving — voting with their feet. In the day, East Germans fled to West Germany, not the other way around. This rapid migration, more than any distorted statistic that the USSR could cook up, was evidence that free-market capitalism was superior to communism.
Top Clinton Foundation Official: “This Is Not Charity”
We Citizens Have to Guard the Media 'Guardians' - Mainstream media journalists rationalize their war on Trump.
Rutenberg recycles one of the progressive media’s most cherished self-justifying myths, that there really is an “objective” journalism they supposedly practice. Such a notion has seldom existed in American history, and has especially been scarce since the 1960s, when activist journalism came out of the closet with its ideological coverage of Vietnam and then Watergate, all perfumed with the spurious claim to journalistic integrity and public service.
The truth is, journalism has been a form of political activism long before Jim Rutenberg noticed. Orville Schell, dean of the prestigious UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism from 1996-2006, was not shy about embracing this role for journalism: “In a democracy,” Schell wrote over a decade ago, “indeed in any intelligent society, the media and politicians have to lead. The media should be introducing us to new things, interesting things, things we don’t already know about; helping us change our minds or make up our minds, not just pandering to lowest-denominator wisdom.”
Via Insty, Trump speaks in a black church in Detroit and Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild makes a “nice night” for Hillary Clinton on the lawn of her Martha’s Vineyard estate.
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