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A Gentleman’s Club That Turns Boys Into Me

I will be Helen Mirren when I am 70, goddammit.

Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar Is Getting a Makeover

First makeover in 700 years

PITT STUDENTS ‘IN TEARS’ AND FEELING ‘UNSAFE’ AFTER MILO YIANNOPOULOS EVENT

Revisiting the Financial Crisis

FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate

The industry that adds jobs throughout a recession, but makes no profits - New numbers show how non-profits staffed up even as everybody else cut back.

Melissa Harris-Perry: The Host Who Cried Racism

Surber:  Rest of the world, butt out of our election

Yale University Closes Climate Change Institute

The Most Pro-Sanders Zip Codes

DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP SUCCESS STORY #70 BAJILLION: 30 Blocks of Ya Gotta See It to Believe It

Roger Stone: $70 Million in Ads Going After Trump in Florida

Four Laws Hillary Appears to Have Broken

Donald Trump and This Week’s Torah Portion

Ingraham:  It will be the most brutal, vicious two weeks in GOP primary history — here's what to expect

Mitt Romney Is The Real Super-Fraud: Here’s The Proof, Chapter And Verse

The Donald Turns Into a Pumpkin - Column: Donald Trump's worst debate yet

Former Mexican Leader: Donald Trump Is ‘Absolutely Racist’

Wrong

Air Force Thunderbirds too male, too white, top general warns

McCain's Showdown With the U.S. Air Force Over the A-10

Our Military Is Ready to Write – Not Ready to Fight

Rules of Engagement for the 21st Century Battlefield

The Continuing Battle for Human Rights in Russia

UN PASSES TOUGHLY WORDED PIECE OF PAPER AGAINST NORTH KOREA

Why Islamic State’s Ancient Jihadi Tactics “Shock” the West

HAMAS SUPPLYING ISIS W/BOMBS, GUNSAND COMMUNICATIONS

‘No education toward 2 states in Palestinian textbooks,’ report finds

Implications of Greater Chinese Involvement in the Mideast

Vietnam's Communists Put to the Test as Dissidents Bid for Parliament

Iran’s elections: Hope, but no change

Today's masters of the universe are less likely to work on Wall Street and more likely to work in Silicon Valley.

The Ultimate working lunch: Inside the envy-inducing canteens at companies like Dropbox, Google and Pixar that offer free food, extensive menus, and gourmet desserts

If I have lunch I fall asleep

Teaching economics to the sixth grade

Why Billions of Patients Worldwide Lack Access to Opioid Pain Meds

Verona Takes Stand Against Multiculturalism

Chaos Set to Return to Big Apple Streets

Blue town follies

VDH:  The Strange Case Of The Campus Cry-Bully

Yale’s Crime Wave

Very dangerous school, esp. for women and minorites. Remember its history as a school for white boys who wanted to become scholarly ministers in the Congregational Church. At the time, even scholarly ministers had to learn chemistry, physics, math, Latin, Greek, history, etc.

REVERSE THE ROLES AND YOU’LL UNDERSTAND ANTI-SEMITISM - Anti-Jewish hatred has become increasingly acceptable in the West.

Don't Look Now, But The European Union Is Now Calling for... A Wall

Insuring Crony Capitalism Obamacare leads trade groups to fight for a bigger place at the trough

Labor unions gave $420 million to Democrats, left-wing groups from 2012-14, report shows

Washington Post Columnist Takes ‘Islamophobia’ Bait

Obama's Empty Judicial Chairs

Hillary Pushing Racial Warfare: White Are Too Rich And Blacks Too Poor So We Need More Wealth Redistribution……

Romney is from another era

Ted Cruz Shines

Who is more personally (not politically) unappealing - Cruz or Hillary! ?   Mrs. BD and I were thinking about about which candidates we'd be glad to have as next-door neighbors. We came up with Carson and Bernie. Maybe Kasich.  Nothing to do with political preferences.

GOP Comes Into Focus As Yet Wide Open, Particularly for Ted Cruz

Could Trump Win the Election?

Trump is the voters' tool

Related,  How the Republican Party earned a hostile takeover

Trump’s a disrupter — but most of the fire aimed his way is just shooting the messenger.

Related, Dazed And Confused, The Republican Establishment Has Had It Coming

Donald Trump defends size of his penis

Show us, Don

Calais orders up to 1,000 residents of Jungle camp to leave by Tuesday

Ex-spy links Argentine gov’t to Nisman death, spurring venue change to murder court

Mob Of 30 Afghan Migrants Molest And Harass People, Chase Teenage Girls Thru German Mall

Afghan?

Neocons declare war on Trump - Prominent Republican hawks are debating whether to hold their noses and vote for Clinton instead

Do neocons want more US war in the middle east?  Then Hillary! is their gal.

French Diplomacy on 'Palestine' Will Run Aground

NATO commander says ISIS spreading like cancer among Syrian refugees

The Israeli-Egyptian love affair

P.C. fatigue: Progressives Suddenly Realize They’ve Created Frankenstein

The Expression ‘TMI’ Is Sexist

School Reportedly Creates ‘Safe Space’ for Students Hurt by ‘Tequila Party’

U. OF SOUTH CAROLINA PROMISES  ‘NO LIMITS’ … EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO FREE SPEECH

You Are Richer Than a 19th Century Billionaire

The predictable effects of marijuana legalization

Oscar Snow Job

Moms Ask Man to Leave Seattle Locker Room While Their Swim Team Daughters Are Changing

Terry McAuliffe to Virginia Homeschoolers: ‘You Can’t Have That Privilege’

Illegals Rushing to Get into U.S. Before Trump Wall

Racism Charges in Bus Incident, and Their Unraveling, Upset University at Albany

Food Stamp Users Near Record High Despite Low Unemployment Rate

" Public health problems resulting from climate change continue to increase"

What?

New York Progressive Geniuses Express Their Views On Energy Policy

Why America abandoned nuclear power

Stephanopoulos reminded on air that he’s a political operative playing a journalist on TV

Republican Romney to Make 'Major Speech' on 2016 Presidential Race

It will help Trump

Douthat: "... a strange, almost eerie parity between Trump’s rivals, which has given
him exactly the running room his fascinating, frightening candidacy needs."

Wasn't my choice, but "frightening"?

Harsanyi also wants Trump stopped

But Classic Conservatism isn't selling this year. Wrong salesmen, or wrong message.

Hillary Emails Betrayed Whereabouts of Murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens

Duke Prof: Feminist 'Soft' Jihad a Force for Peace

Girl Power: Hillary's Macho Posturing in Libya

What the United States Is Really Doing in Syria

An Ominous Election in Iran

Bombed, Burned, and Urinated On: Churches Under Islam

Why are Palestinian Christians Fleeing?

 Hmmm. Not bad for an amateur, plus no teleprompter.

Just How Much Power Does the Mind Have to Heal the Body?

David Lang's 8 Favorite Movies About Music

Oklahoma Wesleyan President to Receive Kirkpatrick Prize

Kurilskoye Lake freezes for first time in 10 years

"A third-grader from St. Louis was told he couldn’t return to his elementary school next year — because he’s black.

Liberal Intolerance Rising At Colleges

Louisiana Sheriff Who Called Gang Members 'Animals' Gets the Axe

Wounded Warrior charity downgraded

Politics today is about one thing and one thing only: maintaining the status quo between the Controllers (the politicians, the bureaucrats, and the corporate elite) and the Controlled (the taxpayers).

The presidential race is looking awfully … European

Hillary Clinton is winning votes with vile race games

According to Larry "Ban $100 Bill" Summers, Donald Trump Is The "Greatest Threat To American Democracy"

What? Voters seem to like him

David Axelrod: Georgia Voters Are Poor And Dumb, That’s Why Trump Won

Republicans want to cut government spending? Not these Trump supporters

The Daily 202: Why Donald Trump’s support keeps expanding

It is a rebellion

Related, on Cloud People vs. Dirt People:

What we are seeing here is something about how the Cloud People view the Dirt People. Loyalty to a society has always been anchored in loyalty to the people in that society. A man is willing to take up the sword on behalf of the king, because the king is doing the same for his subjects. In other words, you’re not fighting for the king, you’re fighting for what the king embodies, what the king represents. Loyalty flows in both directions.

The Die-Hard Republicans Who Say #NeverTrump

Venezuelan education policy

Police Fire Tear Gas at Migrants Demanding Passage Across Greek-Macedonian Border

Welcome to Europe!

Pakistan: ONE MILLION MUSLIMS Attend Funeral of Terrorist Who Assassinated Moderate Lawmaker Who Defended Christians

Victory for BDS as SodaStream’s last Palestinian workers lose their jobs

Iran's Elections Are Magic

Would The Beatles be Sex Offenders Today?

For the love of God, rich people, stop giving Stanford money

Time to Drop the Curtain on Radical Chic

Drone-Mounted Handgun, Flamethrower Reignite Lawmaker Debate

Stuff Keeps Getting Cheaper

What the End of Moore's Law Means

Leonardo DiCaprio Lectures Oscars About Global Warming After Using Private Jet 6 Times in 6 Months

Six is not often

When Vassar students demanded William F. Buckley Jr. be disinvited

Teaching Antisemitism at Vassar—and Beyond

The New California Crime Wave - A criminal-justice “reform” measure unleashes thousands of predators.

Gary Kasparov on the Cold War

Hotcoldwetdry Is Totally Wreaking Havoc On Our Mental Health Or Something

Italy: Al-Qaeda Imam Has Woman Dismembered For Wearing Bathing Suit…

We need to capitalise on America’s overly hostile business environment

Cash is the currency of freedom

Related,  On the $100 bill

New FBI Site to Counter Extremism Fails to Mention Radical Islam

VDH:  Obama: The Lamest Duck

Brace Yourself For the Greatest Prosecutorial Discretion Event in History

Hume on Hillary Emails: ‘Not a Huge Case,’ ‘You Don’t Have Any Criminal Intent’

Just How Bad a Candidate Will Hillary Be?

Converted Trump Now Running for Pope

A new GOP is born - Pat Buchanan: Regardless of nominee, Trump surge marks 'death rattle' of establishment

The Death of Reagan’s Republican Party

On Rebranding "CONSERVATIVE" and "REPUBLICAN" with "AMERICAN"

Thunderdome: Gone Savage For Trump - The
Trump phenomenon is neither a disease nor a symptom – he is instead the
beta-test of a cure that the American people are trying out.

Why Rubio is the candidate of the past

Trump’s rise is only one among many signs that something has gone profoundly amiss in our popular culture.

That is a condescending piece

The Road to Internet Serfdom - China, Russia, and Orwell’s boot

The Right Solution for Puerto Rico

Right solution is independence for Puerto Rico

Merkel's Humanitarian Folly

Sweden's Migration Industry

North Korea's Nuclear Missile Threat: Very Bad News

In Libya, What Hath Hillary Wrought?

Moderation in Iran? Don't get your hopes up

When I Seafood, I Eat It

Capture, Slaughter of Yellowstone Bison Roils Big Sky Country

Bison are not really mountain critters

Annals of Salt: Nanny de Blasio embraces the worst of Bloomberg

San Francisco Wants Homeless to Leave Tent Camp, but Some Vow to Fight

The Status Quo City - Celebrated for its openness, San Francisco has a hard time with change.

Does Mass Transit Actually Save Energy? Maybe Not!

U. Michigan LGBT Center Creates Safe Space to Protect Students from Offensive Speakers—Both of Whom Are Gay

Albany Hate Hoaxers Face Charges

Hate Crime Is Almost Nonexistent

Hollywood Celebs Wear Anti-Gun Bracelets at Oscars While SURROUNDED BY MEN WITH GUNS

Keynesian Skeptics Ask "Can Binge Drinking Really Cure Alcoholism?"

West Philly:  30 Blocks of Democrat Governance

How Dynasties Sank the GOP and the Democrats

The effect race could have on the race

Decency for President

More From the Housewives, Please

The New York Times Accurately Portrays Hillary Clinton as an Unrepentant Warmonger - Who will call her on it?

Press Forbidden from Filming Hillary Boarding Private Plane

No photos of her from behind

"Despite all the forces arrayed against Mr. Trump... the party has been gripped by a nearly incapacitating leadership vacuum and a paralytic sense of indecision and despair..."

Yes, Trump University Was a Massive Scam

When Bernie Sanders Thought Castro And The Sandinistas Could Teach America A Lesson

Treasury Dept. Plays Tricks with Puerto Rico Debt

Why nobody believes China's econ numbers

Tablets Are Dead

‘Helicopter Money’ Next? New Course for the Fed Is Growing More Urgent

Why?

Talia, leave your heart in San Francisco--your job is moving to Arizona

The Incredible Rise of Urban Real Estate - New data from Zillow shows that average urban home prices in the U.S. now surpass those of the suburbs.

Get the jump on Apple’s plans to fully secure your iPhone with two simple changes

Apple Is Not Such a Freedom Fighter In China

NYC's  war on small business slams ‘cat cafes’

Churchill and His Money

Government jobs and hospital jobs have replaced manufacturing jobs

The Northeast megalopolis from space

Fearing 'Monsters' Like Total Wine, Liquor Sellers Want the State to Keep Prices High - Connecticut is the only state that sets minimum prices for wine and spirits.

NY College Students Who Claimed Fake Racial Attack Are Charged

Racial hoaxes keep coming:  The Great Racial Hoaxes

Sharpton started it. Nowadays, the only real racisms are hoax racism and reverse racism

Harvard ‘racial justice’ protesters protest award ceremony about … racial injustice

U. Michigan LGBT Center Creates Safe Space to Protect Students from Offensive Speakers—Both of Whom Are Gay - Why do people bother going to college if they are literally afraid of disagreement?

Sanders on dealing with Putin: 'I took on a lot of people as mayor of Burlington'

Via Cafe Hayek:

Since Trump has never held public office and seems to have few firm beliefs about anything aside from his own unparalleled competence, it’s hard to predict what he would do as president. Clinton, by contrast, has a long, almost uniformly awful record of public service. Whether Americans decide to be stabbed in the stomach or shot in the kneecaps, the consequences will be painful.

Justice Department Shenanigans Involved in Helping Illegal Aliens to Vote

The cultural disconnect about the value of work explains why there’s an
open revolt in both parties and the future seems so uncertain.

Trump's Negatives with Hispanics Now Through the Roof

Grow Up, Donald Trump

IRS to Trump: 'Nothing prevents you from sharing your tax documents'

Trump: 'I Love The Poorly Educated.' So Should the Other Candidates. - If you're wondering why Trump is connecting with GOP voters (and why Sanders is with Dems), you're part of the problem.

Hussain brothers jailed in Rotherham abuse case

Kenyan FM: Most African Countries “See Israel as a Very Close Friend”

U.S., Europe Fund Torture by Palestinian Authority

Why the ISIS WMD Threat Is Massively Underestimated

Lacking Basic Gear, Special Operators Stuck Buying Their Own Equipment

The Marines Corps' CH-53E Super Stallion Fleet Is In Inexcusably Horrible Disrepair

Remember That War in Ukraine? They’re Still Fighting It

Nuclear Deal in Place, Iran Is Testing New Missiles and Doubling Down in Syria

Syria, Number of ISIS Fighters Drops, Iranian Troops Increase Presence as Hezbollah Death Toll Shoots Up

Polls Show Most Muslims Reject Both Extremism and Islamic Reform

ThoughtCrimes: "Why Women DESTROY NATIONS * / CIVILIZATIONS - and other UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS"

Check it out, Euroland - if you can handle it

Related,  The Refugee Hostel: Germany’s Islamist Hell - A terrifying glimpse into Germany’s future.

How the Government’s War on Fat Harms Kids

16 year-old wins very cool prize

What's wrong with To Kill a Mockingbird?

Remember "colony collapse"? Now it appears as the bee-pocalypse has been called-off!

Bill Gates: Israeli tech ‘changing the world’

Education MISMATCH: THE END OF A LIBERAL DREAM

FIRE’s South Carolina Case Highlights the Disrespect for Free Speech

Stanford Students Furious at Idea of Studying Western Civilization

Hillary on guns: There’s a Constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, too

What?

De Blasio administration mixing a toxic brew of class and racial warfare

Dear American Voters: Welcome to Europe - Are Sanders and Trump both flukes? Maybe—but they could be our first taste of the ideological rifts tearing Europe apart.

As plebes make the Donald increasingly acceptable, expect elite Trump supporters to come out of the closet.

Washington Post desperate to stop Trump

Why?

Trump Is A Rump, But He Has A Point - "I’ll vote for anybody you put up against Donald Trump, but neither do I believe that everything he says is untrue or without merit. In fact, he’s hit on one big true idea our society has lost."

What Is Marco Rubio Waiting For?

She likes Bernie, but her reasons are interesting and worth reading: Fight the soulless juggernaut: Big money, machine politics and the real issue separating Sanders and Clinton

If you can't see the caption, it is View from School House on 42nd St  Between 2nd and 3rd Ave, looking North to Dutch Hill (c. 1863)

Image above from Affordable Housing Starts From the Bottom Up

"My plumbing was installed by Helen Keller and maintained for a century by the Shirk Brothers."

Busting Cactus Smugglers in the American West

There are more female teachers sleeping with their students than you thought

Can't keep their hands off those young studs

In Biggest Victory For Saudi Arabia, North Dakota's Largest Oil Producer Suspends All Fracking

Saudis will not decrease output

They are back in control of oil prices, and they want to keep them low

Beijing overtakes NYC as 'Billionaire Capital of the World'

Is There a Better Way to Diagnose Psychosis? A new study opens a door to more biologically based categories of major mental illness

The Ten Worst Colleges for Free Speech

Leftist piety as status signaling

Against the Sticker Chart - Priming kids to expect rewards for good behavior can harm their social skills in the long term.

Aren't school grades sticker charts?

The Rise of Independent, Single Women

The "time gap" between men and women — the difference in the amount of time spent on unpaid work.

Don't Worry, Raising The Minimum Wage Just Passes Out Free Money With No Downside

Brooklyn College Faculty Pushed Into Israel Wars

Flow of Illegal Immigrant Children Into U.S. Expected to Rise in 2016

Identity politics and the new segregation

Z-man on politicians as Turd Sandwich Salesmen

Pols are by nature fraudulent salesmen

Robbins: It's over; Trump is going to be the Republican nominee

The Blaze explains why you are stupid to like Trump

The Republican Establishment Needs to Stop Worrying and Love the Donald

Donald Trump's Record of Business Failures and Bluster

All entrepreneurs have lists of failures

Why Closing Gitmo Is Still a Terrible Idea

Iran pledges thousands of dollars for Palestinian terrorists

How The Iran-Russia-Syria Alliance Is The Middle East’s ‘Number One Problem’

Nope. Maybe our problem, but not their problem.

Photo from Death Valley Is Experiencing a Colorful ‘Superbloom’

U.S. Government Says Hoverboards Not Safe, Surprising No One

Urban backyards contribute almost as much CO2 as much as cars and buildings

An Island of Rattlesnakes: What Could Go Wrong?

This State Offered Free College Education. Here’s What Happened.

University president celebrates ‘inclusiveness’ by excluding conservative speaker

New York Yankees Don't Understand The Free Market

Denmark: I lived there two years. IT SUCKS

Confessions of a Depressed Pastor

Is Your Bacon Sandwich Oppressing Women?

How Pro-Choice Zealots Tried To Run A Family Grocery Store Into The Ground

The collapse of the intellectual Left.

Feds: Schools Must Grant Mentally Disturbed Boy Unfettered Access to Girls’ Locker Rooms

In Safe Space, Everyone Can Hear You Scream

Rhodes not taken - On the recent controversy over the Rhodes Scholarship.

Trump Could Sew Up The GOP Nomination By Winning in Florida

Media Elite Dismiss Trump Voters As Racist Rubes

Why President Trump Would Be A Bigger Disaster Than Hillary

Hillary Clinton Is Backed By Billionaire Republican Donors

Sanders Reluctant to Embrace His Jewish Heritage

"Dear Bernie, I'm Sorry. I Am The Problem With America..."

Why Democrats Should Beware Sanders’ Socialism - He’s a socialist, not a liberal—and there’s a big difference.

The Foreign Policy Conversation Democrats Would Rather Not Have

Beijing Hurries to Cash in on Perceived U.S. Weakness