Friday, September 13. 2019
Photo: A handsome Osprey in Long Island Sound, preparing for his flight to Florida or the Caribbean. Ospreys go south in Sept.
Harold Lloyd’s Death-Defying Comedy - “With comedy, trouble is one of the greatest ingredients because there are so many variations to it,” the silent film actor told one scholar.
Hubble telescope spies water raining on distant world
It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Party Doll
Dispersing the clouds of the vape panic myth - Illicit THC products are the problem
Vaping: A Moral Panic - The hysteria must end.
Indoctrination: Greta Thunberg Wants You To “Feel The Fear” She Feels About Climate Change
Sheesh, no thanks
Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas
Average U.S. FICO Score Hits All-Time High Thanks To Trump Economy
Teaching That America Is Hopelessly Racist
Welfare Reform’s Payoff - New data from the Census Bureau shows that female-headed households are lifting themselves out of poverty through work.
ARE BLACKS MOVING TOWARDS THE CENTER AS THEIR PARTY LURCHES TO THE LEFT?
Blue State Blues: Trump Proves Growth, Not Redistribution, Helps Black Americans
Not blacks - everybody
How One Journalist Covered Robert Mugabe’s Rise to Power: Cue the Carrier Pigeon
Whatever happens in the world, the answer is always mass migration to the US
El Salvador sends hundreds of police to border to thwart migrants
Christine Blasey Ford’s Father Told Brett Kavanaugh’s Father He Was Glad He Was Confirmed
TIME Editor, MSNBC Host Agree: Don’t Give Voice To Climate Change Dissenters, ‘There’s No Debate’….
CNN vs. What the Science Says
CNN’s big ‘mistakes’ all run in one direction: anti-Trump
Trump's Trade War Is a Loser for America - The president’s economic agenda is harming U.S. businesses and consumers.
Not if some good comes of it
Trade War a Weapon Against China's Spy War
Trump “Becoming Presidential” Would Be His Doom
Bill Maher Laments The ‘Cancer On Progressivism’ As Democrats ‘Race To The Far Left’ - "I don’t think you’re gonna win this election."
Joe Biden’s Platform Illustrates The Breakneck Speed Democrats Are Lurching Left
US attorney recommends proceeding with charges against McCabe, as DOJ rejects last-ditch appeal
The Air Force Just Dropped 80,000 Pounds of Bombs on Island 'Infested' with ISIS Fighters
Is England Still Part of Europe?
Thursday, September 12. 2019
 Image via Ace
Cool ways to serve eggs
What does 'living fully' mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense
From a 46er friend, Adirondack hiking
Taking the Ham Out of Hamburger
Those Plant-Based “Burgers” Aren’t Better For You, So Why Are You Eating Them?
How Conservatives Can Protect the Environment and Win Voters, Too. Making America beautiful is part of making America great.
Environmental Playacting - Today’s youth will fight climate change, we’re told—but they’re no more willing to give up luxuries than anyone else.
Oh To Be a Democrat in New Jersey
Dems Secretly Trained Thousands of Activists to Manipulate Media, Clinton Library Docs Show - DNC coordinated with activists to 'infiltrate' talk radio
A book: The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs
Target: New York. Eighteen years after the 9/11 attacks, Islamist extremism doesn’t make much news—but it’s not for lack of trying.
CNN Anchor John Avlon Uses 9/11 To Argue ‘Right-Wing Terrorists’ Represent Biggest Threat To U.S.
Commemorating a lie
MSNBC Anchor Asks Condoleezza Rice If Russia’s Interference Elected Trump; Rice Leaves Her Speechless
Buzz: IG Report Is ‘Being Circulated Inside And Outside’ Of The DOJ And Finds That FISA Warrants Were Illegally Obtained
Trump Caves to Lindsey Graham; U.S. Troops To Stay the Neverending Course in Afghanistan
EU Accused Of Fascism After "Protecting Our European Way Of Life" Commissioner Announced
Wednesday, September 11. 2019
 What I Saw: Notes Made on September 11, 2001 from Brooklyn Heights
9/11 Solidified The Destruction Of Our Freedom
DID WE LEARN ANYTHING FROM 9/11? Or are we still sleeping?
New York Times Says ‘Airplanes’ Killed Thousands On 9-11 — Forgets To Mention Islamic Terrorists
Amazon Has 30,000 Open Jobs. Yes, You Read That Right.
In its tireless struggle to innovate, fashion is turning to mass customisation. Luke Leitch examines a trend which is both very new and very old
In Hawaii, Protest Of Planned Giant Telescope Continues
The real story behind 'The Spy,' Sacha Baron Cohen's new Netflix series
Government policy and The Cobra Effect
FBI Arrests Top FEMA Administrator, Two Others For Hurricane Maria Relief Fraud
Betsy DeVos’s Extraordinary Crackdown on Michigan State
Left Wing Students Cry Foul as U. Texas Removes Campus Free Speech Zones
California Stops Disruptive Students From Being Suspended
DEM CONTENDERS RALLY AROUND A CARBON TAX, MAY SOON REGRET IT
Hey Democratic Candidates: Are You Going To Ban All Fossil Fuels?
The Myth That the Polar Bear Population Is Declining
UN Claims Human Rights Violations From ‘Climate Change’ Or Something
ILLINOIS INCOME TAX HIKES FAILED TO FIX STATE FINANCES
Duh.
Liberal Supreme Court justices vote in lockstep, not the conservative justices
Michelle Malkin’s 10-Step Action Plan From Open Borders, Inc: Who’s Funding America’s Destruction?
KLAVAN: When A Republican Speaks, It's A Scandal
No, Rachel, there is no Russia Russia Russia!
Don’t Waver, Deplorables! Washington Will Never Accept Trump
President Trump Is Making History For Black Colleges And Universities
The roots of Brexit go back to the Spanish Armada
Tuesday, September 10. 2019
Monday, September 9. 2019
Everybody knows we do not use that term anymore in public. It's been a kerfuffle this past week.
Interestingly, "Mental Retardation" was introduced as a euphemism for uglier terms, as it seemed to imply slower, but not unable. The currect correct term is "intellectual disability".
However, in casual conversation, people still say "I'm retarded" after foolish actions.
It may come as news to the #MeToo generation, but women have sexual power over men. It's so potent that in some societies (Muslims et al.), it is brutally reined in. This sexual power has to be acknowledged and respected, and it is precisely what civilization arose to hold in check. We're not talking about some playful, casual one-off, but rather the volcanic energies surging deep within the human psyche. As with all powerful natural forces, it can engender great beauty in addition to great savagery.
Saturday, September 7. 2019
Elite Failure Has Brought Americans to the Edge of an Existential Crisis - The nuclear family, God, and national pride are a holy trinity of the American identity. What would happen if a generation gave up on all three?
BREAKING: Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency after Hurricane Dorian ravages California cities
America’s aging population is leading to a doctor shortage crisis
Everything is a crisis nowadays
Porsche's 750 HP Tesla-Killer Has Landed... And Elon Is Getting Nervous
Unionizing Uber
Black Unemployment Hits Record Low, Black-White Unemployment Gap Shrinks to Smallest Ever
Great news
Betsy DeVos wants to make sure another Larry Nassar isn't possible
USC prioritizes belly dancing course over mandatory Constitution course
Academia today. But isn't belly dancing a cultural appropriation?
Which Is Worth More, an Eagle or a Human?
Mexico Boosts Deportation Of Migrants Heading To US By 63%
De Blasio Wants To Seize Semi-Automatic Rifles From Citizens, But His Bodyguards Can Keep Theirs
Thing is, I am my own bodyguard
A Feminist Capitalist Professor Under Fire- The students who demand her firing, Camille Paglia argues, take prosperity for granted, are socially undeveloped, and know little about Western history. Who’s Moses?
As a teacher of undergraduates, Ms. Paglia despairs at how “bad it is for young people, filled with fears, to be raised in this kind of a climate where personal responsibility isn’t spoken of.” Since her own youth, she says, college students have devolved from rebels into skittish supplicants, petitioning people in authority to protect them from real life. Young adults are encouraged to look for “substitute parent figures on campus, which is what my generation rebelled against in college. We threw that whole ‘in loco parentis’ thing out.”
The ‘Simple’ Homeless Solution - As California cities are overrun with homeless encampments, progressives tout an easy fix that isn’t easy, won’t work, and will cost a fortune.
DNC Resolution Takes Aim at Christians, Warning Against 'Religious Liberty'
Sufferers from Rufuspetasumphobia
Why 2020 Democrats’ plans on climate change are pure fantasy
All of the candidates’ plans would gut the US economy and lead to soaring energy prices, which would impoverish all of us. In return, their plans would have no measurable effect on the world’s climate. Zero. Nada. Zip.
Via City Journal:
Cortez’s Svengali-like former chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, took an expansive position when discussing the Green New Deal. “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” he asked. “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
Friday, September 6. 2019
 Photo from a friend in Denver
You’re Not Allowed to Laugh at That!
Five Things They Don’t Tell You about Slavery
Is Political Activism Responsible for the Decline of the Episcopal Church?
The Washington Post’s lost summer
Four years after allowing universal ‘concealed carry’ law, Maine rated the safest state in the nation for crime
Christine Blasey-Ford's Attorney: My Client Was Motivated to Make Claims Against Kavanaugh Partly to Protect Roe V. Wade
Storming Back to the Impeachment Charade
CNN’s Presidential Climate Change Town Hall Was Insane - And the hysteria is getting dangerous.
Democrats Blame Global Warming on Meat, Air Travel, and Business at CNN's "Climate Crisis" Town Hall, and Then CNN Airs Ads F the Decline of the Episcopal Church?
The Washington Post’s lost summer or All of Those Things
Media's embrace of 'climate crisis' raises alarm about journalistic objectivity
Democrat Climate Change Cult: Ban Everything!… Plastic Straws, Factory Farming, Hamburgers, Incandescent Light bulbs.. ‘There Will be Pain’
Buttigieg Compares Climate Change Issues To Winning World War II:“Perhaps Even More Challenging Than That”…
Brexit Has Its Risks. But Staying In The EU Is Now Unthinkable.
Thursday, September 5. 2019
 Photo: Mile 8 of Gwynnie's 11 mile driveway in the Sierras this week
VDH on the importance of physical labor
Opioid Ruling Bodes Trouble for All Businesses
Vermonters Strive to Preserve Their Culture against False Charges of Racism
CA Bill Would Bar Schools From Suspending Students For Defying Teachers
THE ENVIRONMENTAL FIASCO OF WIND ENERGY
Trump administration rolls back Obama-era lightbulb rules
Government should get out of the flood insurance business
Emory U. professor claims recent hurricanes are ‘man-made’
Big 2020 Problem For Democrats: Shrinking Labor Unions
New York Times Blames Sexism For Failure Of 2020 Dem Gillibrand
Kamala Harris Wants To Ban Plastic Straws…
Elizabeth Warren comes out against nuclear power
Elizabeth Warren Resurrects Her ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Speech in New Hampshire
“This Is Insane”: Leftists Begin Blacklist In Pittsburgh To Get Trump-Supporters’ Businesses “Closed Down”
CAN AMERICANS STILL CO-EXIST?
Max Boot displays TDS, a bad case of it
Trump punches up:
A Democrat president inherits a full blanket of media protection that acts like air superiority protecting that president from any effective attack. Entertainers and professors bring in supporting fire like artillery from the hills, ensuring that everyone understands both the Democrat president's greatness and how terrible are his foes.
A Republican president starts on day one with a disloyal bureaucracy, a hostile media seeking to destroy him, and relentless fire from the entire cultural heights. Every day of his presidency is like Groundhog Day when it comes to this dynamic. Instead of his morning starting with "I Got You, Babe" blaring on the radio, it starts with incendiary headlines and stories screaming his villainy.
Within this context, President Trump's counterpunches are a real act of courage.
Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill - Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare.
DECEIVING THE SKY - Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy
Wednesday, September 4. 2019
Tuesday, September 3. 2019
How Many Humps on a Camel? In Kazakhstan, It’s Complicated
Decades of sedentary lifestyle may double risk of early death, study says
Cause or effect?
CNN falsely pushes claims that ‘climate crisis is making hurricanes more dangerous’
Atlantic: People Should Stop Taking ‘Far-Flung Vacations’ To Save The Planet
Ethanol fight divides key groups in Trump's base
Ethanol is an Iowa scam. Is there no better use of cropland than to destroy our engines?
Mother Jones: Here’s Why I’m No Longer Thrilled by Carbon Tax Plans
What the Jewish Left Needs to Understand About Working People
How US Universities' "Assault On American Excellence" Threatens Democracy
Demonizing The Founders, Again
Powerline's Hayward loves George Will's new book
University researcher claims she can communicate with plants
A Feminist Capitalist Professor Under Fire - The students who demand her firing, Camille Paglia argues, take prosperity for granted, are socially undeveloped, and know little about Western history. Who’s Moses?
Air conditioning around the world
Milano Wants To Know Why Self-Defense Is God-Given Right. Cruz Educates Her.
China seeks to defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 national election with the help from who else? Americans
Italy In Decline
Grateful London Immigrant Says “English Is a Dirty Word” and British Flag represents Racism
Growing Number Of Governments Shutting Down The Internet To Squash Dissent…
Monday, September 2. 2019
Brief quote from her column this week:
Mr. Kronman comes down on the side of addition, not subtraction—for building new memorials, not toppling old ones. He’d like more context. But essentially he asks: Why erase history? Why not face it? Are we really “disfigured by emblems of unrighteousness”? Must everything be leveled and scrubbed clean?
He quotes Milan Kundera ’s “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”:
“You begin to liquidate a people by taking away its memory. You destroy its books, its culture, its history. And then others write other books for it, give another culture to it, invent another history for it. Then the people slowly begins to forget what it is and what it was.”
On Labor Day 2019, Americans Strongly Support Unions, Just Not Belonging
‘Hire the Best People, Not the Best Resumes’
Here’s Why Housing Is So Expensive
Hudson Yards Retail Center Set to Draw Over 20M Annual Visitors
It's just a high-end mall
NOAA debunks assertions that global warming has spurred more hurricanes
GET READY FOR A HURRICANE OF NONSENSE
How fuzzy science fooled Macron and his G-7 cronies on Amazon dangers
New York is running out of fuel and power — just as Cuomo planned
Sorry Folks, It Isn't Grandma's Codeine Prescription That Is Fueling The "Opioid Crisis," It's China And Mexico And A Porous Border
David Gelernter Takes On Darwinism
Darwin and Wallace were probably right about species, but can't explain entirely new phyla
Ann Coulter: Can't America have a little self-respect on immigration?
In praise of Melania Trump, the first lady treated terribly by the media
Hate and envy
HBO Producer David Simon Asks God to Wipe Out Mar-a-Lago with Hurricane Dorian
Pure hate speech
Anti-Trump Talking Points All Aligned, Check This Out…
VICIOUS HOLLYWOOD, THEN AND NOW
Hate
Black Church Sign in Birmingham, Alabama: “A Black Vote for Trump Is Mental Illness, A White Vote for Trump is Pure Racism”
Crazy, psychotic hate
Coming Legal Attractions
UNLIKE HIS PREDECESSORS, TRUMP GETS CHINA
What Was Free about Our Trade Relationship with China before Trump?
European Dreams Vs. Mass Migration:
"European pride or European self-consciousness depend on the rejection of European history and European civilization! We want nothing to do with the Christian roots and we absolutely want to be perfectly welcoming to Islam".
So why accepting of Islamic "roots"?
Saturday, August 31. 2019
Tourists don't get it: The Last Communist City
Posting will generally be light this holiday weekend.
DON’T FEAR THE SIMULATORS
How to Make the Thrill of Love Return in Marriage
Hmmm. "In love" is about novelty. Marital bonding is something else.
Mass Shootings Are a Horrible Way to Understand Gun Violence. Gun homicides have declined sharply in recent decades, but polls show most Americans are unaware of this fact.
Remembering the Outbreak of the Second World War
Amazon Fires, Summer of the Shark, and the Unintended Consequences of Stupid Climate Policy (ie Ethanol Mandates)
The Surreal End of an American College - Small schools across the United States are facing budget shortfalls and low enrollment—leading some to shut down in the middle of students’ higher-education experience.
Whom Will Socialized Medicine Kill?
Full-court press - A review of Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court by Mollie Hemingway
" The central claim of those three stories -- and there were a whole bunch more -- were completely wrong. CNN never explained why."
Comey was one creepy cop.
Brennan Defends Partner-in-Crime Comey Following Release of DOJ IG Report – Fires Off Ominous Warning to President Trump
The worst is still to come for Jim Comey
Comey’s description of his choice as being between “two doors,” one labeled “speak” and one labeled “conceal,” was a false dichotomy. The two doors were actually labeled “follow policy/practice” and “depart from policy/practice.”
I never trust anybody who advertises themselves as more virtuous than others
How Obama-era social engineering transformed the US military
A Europe That Hates Itself
Israeli Government Reveals Stunningly Close Ties Between Terror Groups And Anti-Israel NGOs
Protecting American Combat Technology: The Turkish F-35 Saga
Thursday, August 29. 2019
Wednesday, August 28. 2019
Photo: View from our porch
Vermont will pay you $10K to move there: Here is how many spots are left
The Problem With MRIs for Low Back Pain
A book by Stephen Meyer: Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
Stanford pushes separate physics course for minority students
For Students Who Grew Up Poor, An Elite Campus Can Seem Like a Sea of Wealth and Snobbery
Study finds more than half of colleges ‘facially violate’ Title IX with women-only scholarships
NOAA Data: No Warming in USA Since at Least 2005
New Report: Electric Cars Have ‘Higher CO2 Emissions’
THE GREAT AMAZON FIRE FRAUD
While Celebrities Pass Off Fake Pictures Of Burning Amazon, Here's What The Raging Fires Actually Look Like
No, ‘the lungs of the world’ are not burning up heralding climate doom
The New York Times’ latest hysterical, hypocritical panic
David Koch’s Philanthropic Legacy - Sneers about the life and death of a libertarian donor will not erase his good works.
Leftists Are Extremely Upset About MTV’s VMA Host Making Jokes About People Who Get Upset About Jokes
Sorry, Bernie: America's Poorest Are Richer Than 60 Percent of Developed Countries
Panel Appointed by Bill Di Blasio Concludes That New York City's Gifted and Talented Magnet School System Must Be Eradicated, In Order to Desegregate Schools
Obama slams selfish greedy rich people from his new $15 million Martha’s Vineyard estate
Obama Blows $15 Million on Mansion Doomed by Rising Tides He Failed to Slow
Beto O’Rourke: Abortion The Day Before Birth A ‘Decision For The Woman To Make’
Bill Dudley Shocker: Ex-NY Fed President Urges Fed's Powell To Prevent Trump Re-election
TRUMP, AGAIN, IS CORRECT: Get Greenland Before China Does
Greenland – live and learn
Trump is right to confront China, reversing Obama’s policy of weakness and appeasement
In 2019, Bombings And Explosions Up 45% In Sweden
Israeli jets strike in Syria to thwart attack by Iranian ‘killer drones’
Tuesday, August 27. 2019
Vacation guilt? "Seems like this advice, which will provide essentially no meaningful benefits to the world, is designed to achieve an exquisite balance..."
Best Digital Piano With Weighted Keys For 2019 Reviews
6 Google Tricks That Will Turn You Into an Internet Detective. Even if you’re already a Google pro, these tricks will get you to your desired results even faster.
NYT: Five best hikes in NYC
The Driverless-Car Pile-Up
In Defense of the Chicago Principles - They have become a gold standard among institutions that wish to show their commitment to American higher education's core principle of freedom of expression, argues Michael Poliakoff.
Before moving on from this business of July 2019 supposedly being the “hottest month ever,” I want to pause to take note of some follow-on propaganda fresh out of the Washington Post. ..
The Beginning of the End of the Outrage Mob - The Times turns against the crowd.
Adams has the term "outrage theater"
The New York Times' Wrongheaded Anti-Racism Agenda
How U.S. Foreign Student and Exchange Visitor Policies Undercut National Security
Bill Barr’s Test – U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu Punts McCabe Indictment Decision Back to Main Justice…
“IN MANY CASES, RENT CONTROL APPEARS TO BE THE MOST EFFICIENT TECHNIQUE PRESENTLY KNOWN TO DESTROY A CITY — EXCEPT FOR BOMBING”
Yet Another Court Rules That Obama’s “Waters Of The U.S.” Rule Is Unlawful
PEWSLAG: The 7 Deadly Sins of Progressivism
Psychiatrist Claims Trump Greatest Mass Killer Ever
LINDA SARSOUR RESPONDS–STILL LYING
Beauty Queen That Made China ‘Run Away’ Says Many Chinese Live in Culture of Fear, Risk Persecution
China’s Spies Are on the Offensive - China’s spies are waging an intensifying espionage offensive against the United States. Does America have what it takes to stop them?
Trump Isolates China by Making Deals with the Rest of the World
Saturday, August 24. 2019
- 5 out of 6 depressed doctors recommend Russian Roulette
- If your job has Jamaican hairstyle day, do you dread it?
- I'll never get married to a traditional woman. How hard can it be to boil your own sandwiches?
- When life gives you melons, you have dyslexia
- Welcome, everyone, to the Plastic Surgery Anonymous meeting. I see a lot of new faces this week, which I find disappointing.
- The ambulance driver said CPR isn't necrophilia if you keep using the paddles.
- When you go in for a job interview, smart candidates always ask if they ever press charges.
- French waiters give me the crepes.
- An apple a day keeps just about anyone away if thrown hard enough.
- A drunk ventriloquist told me she thought I was cute, but I wasn't sure if it was her or the beer talking.
- Say what you want about deaf people.
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