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Just How Big Should the House Be? Let’s Do the Math.

29th March 2023

Washington Post.

To get our politics working again, we need a system that delivers energy (the ability for the government to get things done), republican safety (protection of our basic rights), popular sovereignty (adaptive responsiveness to the will of the people) and inclusion (all voices should be synthesized in the national voice of our House of Representatives). Real proximity of representatives to their constituents is necessary for delivering on all those design principles. For that, we need a bigger, and continuously growing, House of Representatives. We need smaller districts and fairer representation between more- and less-populous places.

But how big should the House be? That is also to ask how small should a district be. And based on what math? And on what principle of growth?

Scholars and advocates have been working on this question for decades. There are seven basic options, all compiled in a report on enlarging the House by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences commission on the state of our democracy, which I co-chaired. Those options would increase the size of Congress from 435 to between 572 to 9,400.

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The Issue With Our Toilet Tissue

29th March 2023

CBS News Pittsburgh.

Every day, we make environmental decisions. Recycling has become almost a reflex.

But did you ever think you are making an environmental or climate decision when you buy toilet paper?

Last week’s World Forest Day went pretty much unnoticed, except for one group which chose the day to release its Issue with Tissue report.

The report takes toilet paper makers to task for wiping out a lot of forest land.

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Armor: Scruffy Leopards Straggle In

19th March 2023

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Germany and other European NATO members that agreed to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine are running into logistical problems. Germany finally relented and allowed NATO nations that had purchased Leopard 2 tanks from Germany to send them to Ukraine whereupon the real problems started. Most contributors found that their Leopard 2s needed remedial work because they never expected another recurrence of European military tension, let alone another war, and failed to complete, or never started, planned or recommend upgrades.

Delaying these upgrades seemed reasonable because the Americans were still an active NATO member and their M1 tanks were known to be up-to-date. There are still about 2,000 Leopard 2s in service with European nations. Unlike the Americans, the Europeans saw no need to complete needed upgrades to their tanks or even keep most of them operational. So the Ukrainians will have to wait until the Europeans get enough of their Leopard 2s operational or the Americans change their minds on how quickly they will deliver M-1s. There are already over 200 operational M-1s in Europe with American armored brigades. The Ukrainians don’t need American soldiers but they could use their M-1 tanks.

No, they couldn’t. Like the F-16s that everyone is talking about, it would take Ukranians about a year to get enough expertise with the M-1 to survive, much less prosper, in actual combat.

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10 Strategies to Build Your Anxiety Toolkit

10th March 2023

Washington Post.

You don’t have an anxiety toolkit? Well, you’d better get with the program.

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Muslim Politician With Extremist Ties Set to Become Leader of Scotland

28th February 2023

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For eight years, the Scottish National Party (SNP) was synonymous with Nicola Sturgeon’s name. However, her legacy will always be a divisive one, marked by (among other things) a continuous fight for a second independence referendum in the wake of Brexit, as well as controversial progressive policies such as transformative green initiatives or the infamous Gender Bill, which may have contributed to her eventual resignation.

Now, the SNP appears to be moving in an even more leftist direction under the future leadership of Humza Yousaf. The health minister was the first to announce his intention to enter the leadership contest and chances are he will win it comfortably after most other prominent members of the SNP turned down the opportunity. Instead, they have chosen to back Yousaf, believing that the party needs a “fresh perspective.” At the moment, the biggest challenger to Yousaf’s bid is Kate Forbes, the SNP’s young, more socially conservative finance secretary, albeit with considerably weaker prospects.

Yeah, I can’t think of a more obvious Scottish Nationalist than ‘Hamza Yousaf’.

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Robot Spirit Guide

24th February 2023

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A silicon-based Guide for the Perplexed.

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Florida Lawyer Argues Pregnant Inmate’s Fetus Is Being Illegally Detained

22nd February 2023

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It’s this kind of shit that gives lawyers a bad name.

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Tech of the Rings

18th February 2023

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Tech companies with names from the world of Lord of the Rings.

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Life With the Distinguished Gentleman

7th February 2023

Zeldin dumps campaign treasurer he shared with Santos (Politico)

Journalist finds something unusual in George Santos’ campaign expenses (CNN)

Meet the Auschwitz survivor saluted by George Santos in Congress (The Forward)

Susan Quinn: Get Rid of George Santos

Santos’ unusual $199.99 campaign expenses are putting scrutiny on his longtime treasurer (CNN)

Santos expected to face House ethics committee probe (CNN) But no probe of Maxine Waters for funneling funds to her daughter’s business.

McCarthy: House Ethics Committee Investigating GOP Rep. George Santos

 

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Life With the Distinguished Gentleman

6th February 2023

Santos is accused of harassing prospective staffer in his D.C. office (Washington Post)

About Those 2,500 Dogs That George Santos Claims He Saved (N.Y. Times)

George Santos, who claimed mom survived 9/11, invites ground zero volunteer to SOTU (ABC)

 

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Life With the Distinguished Gentleman

5th February 2023

Ex-staffer claims George Santos sexually harassed him, violated pay rules (N.Y. Post)  Joining the witch-hunt for fun and profit.

George Santos Is Accused of Sexual Harassment in His Capitol Office (N.Y. Times)

 

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Life With the Distinguished Gentleman

4th February 2023

The most important secret George Santos is keeping (CNN)

The One Lie That Could Get George Santos in the End (Daily Beast)

George Santos may owe thousands for traffic violations in two states (CBS)

George Santos: ‘I’ve kept 100 percent of my campaign promises’

 

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Portland Café to Sell ‘Black Jaguar Geisha’ Coffee for $150 A Cup

30th January 2023

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Welcome to the Whitest City in America.

Just 22 cups will be available from Proud Mary Coffee Roasters, which has locations in Portland and Austin, Texas.

Of course.

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Fully Clothed Bathing Burglar Found in Seattle Bathroom

29th January 2023

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A man suspected of breaking into a Seattle home has refused to come clean about his intentions, even though police found him fully clothed in a bathtub filled with water.

A woman returned to her home Friday night to find a window smashed and an unknown man inside the house, according to the Seattle Police Department.

She remained outside the home and called police. Upon their arrival, officers instructed anyone inside to come out. When they got no reply, they went in to search the home — and found a suspect in a bathroom.

“The man was clothed but very wet, and the bathtub was full of water,” police said in a statement.

Full of hopes and full of fears
Full of laughter full of tears
Full of dreams to last the years in Seattle

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UK Man Dies in Freak ‘Telescopic Urinal’ Accident

29th January 2023

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A UK man was crushed to death by a hydraulic ‘telescopic’ Urinal designed to pop out of the ground for use.

The man, who has not been named, was performing maintenance on the pop-up urinal at Cambridge Circus outside the Palace Theatre, when the hydraulic unit trapped him below street level.

Think of it as evolution in action.

These types of pop-up urinals appeared in London around 20 years ago to discourage urination in the street.

Uh-huh. San Francisco, take note.

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Florida Woman Rescued From Storm Drain for Third Time in Less Than Two Years

26th January 2023

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A Florida woman was pulled from a storm drain for the third time in two years last week.

The Delray Beach Police Department said officers and firefighters responded to a report of a woman possibly in distress while swimming in a canal near the 500 block of Lindell Boulevard around noon on Wednesday. The department said officers located the woman, identified as Lyndsey Jane Kennedy, and asked if she needed help.

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Selective Neutralisation and Deterring of Cockroaches With Laser Automated by Machine Vision

24th January 2023

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees….

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New Frontiers in Menstruation

19th January 2023

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

When it comes to gender follies, Minnesota Democrats are keeping up with their insane colleagues on the coasts. DFL state representative Sandra Feist has been pushing a bill “that would require school districts and charter schools to provide students in grades four through 12 with access to free menstrual products in student restrooms.” Feist’s bill was approved in committee last year by a 12-4 vote. See Feist’s news clip. The news clip also maps out new frontiers in poverty: “Elif Ozturk, a sophomore at Hopkins High School, said ‘period poverty’ is an issue she’s encountered among classmates.”

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Reparations For All!

17th January 2023

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

We wrote here about a task force of the State of California that is developing a proposal to pay reparations to the state’s black residents, to the tune of perhaps $800,000 apiece. But that is chump change compared with what is being demanded in San Francisco.

The City of San Francisco appointed an African American Reparations Advisory Committee which delivered its draft Plan in December. The Plan is embedded below, so you can peruse it at your leisure. It acknowledges, as it must, that neither the State of California nor the City of San Francisco ever countenanced slavery, but nevertheless claims that San Francisco has systemically discriminated against blacks from the beginning. And, of course, the “legacy” of such discrimination is still felt today, reflected in every “disparity” that is to the disadvantage of blacks.

On the whole, the document comes across as whinier than Prince Harry’s memoir. But for now, let’s focus on the proposed remedy. News accounts have reported that the Plan provides that San Francisco blacks should get $5 million apiece. Currently, San Francisco’s population is 895,000, of whom around 5% are classified as African-American. Assuming those numbers, around 44,750 people would get $5 million apiece, for a total of $223,750,000,000. Each San Franciscan who is not a recipient of reparations would be on the hook for approximately $263,000, or a little over $1 million for a family of four. (I know, there aren’t many families of four in San Francisco, but you get the idea.)

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The Bugs Are a Feature

16th January 2023

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Leftists, perhaps thinking their war on reliable energy is well in hand, are now making war on scientific agriculture. The war has two main elements: opposition to fertilizers, without which billions of people could not be fed, and hostility toward animal husbandry. Leftists don’t want you to eat meat.

When you tell people that liberals’ end game is for them to eat bugs, they sometimes think you can’t be serious. Those are the people who aren’t paying attention. This article in an ostensible scientific site, is typical: “Making the case for using insects as food for both humans and livestock.”

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The Gas Stove Conspiracy

15th January 2023

Steve Sailer.

My impression has long been that the White House during Democratic administrations, bureaucrats, NGOs, academics, and the media routinely conspire together to promote The Latest Thing.

Occasionally, though, The Establishment screws up and gets the pieces in the wrong order, so the conspiracy is more evident. We can see this with the Gas Stove Fiasco of 2023.

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Who Needs ChatGPT?

14th January 2023

Steve Sailer.

Dear ChatGPT: Write me a Washington Post book review of a novel by a whiny Asian-American guy obsessed with an Asian-American player in a black-dominated sport who once got a hot hand for seven games in a row. Blame everything on white people.

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The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts About the History of U.S. Physical Fitness

30th December 2022

TIME magazine wanders out into Left field.

How did U.S. exercise trends go from reinforcing white supremacy to celebrating Richard Simmons? That evolution is explored in a new book by a historian of exercise, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, author of the book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession, out Jan. 2023.

Because, you know, black people just can’t do shit when it comes to exercise.

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Welcome to Stanford Kindergarten

20th December 2022

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Perhaps you’ve seen the story on the Wall Street Journal editorial page today (or in some other outlet where it is booming this morning) about Stanford University’s “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” which reads like a parody of our idiotic woke university culture today. But no—Stanford employed a task force that worked for months to advocate that no one on campus use the word “American” because “This term often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas. . .”

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Thought for the Day

20th December 2022

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REVIEW: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’

19th December 2022

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For much of its running time, Avatar: The Way of Water resembles nothing so much as one of those screensavers from the early 2000s that turned your computer monitor into a simulated aquarium. Remember? Fish floated by, there were some bubbles, it was very colorful and completely unrealistic. Soothing, though.

For a solid hour of The Way of Water—it’s the movie’s second in a complete running time of 3 hours and 10 minutes—we are treated to tall blue and green cartoon characters swimming and diving and riding on the backs of alien seahorses and having sign-language conversations with whale-like creatures. It’s like a nature documentary, only there’s no actual nature, just the world’s most unimaginably expensive computer-generated imagery blended with live-action performances the computer then draws over. (Kate Winslet is in this movie. You’d never know. It could have been me.)

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Every NPR Story You’ve Ever Heard

5th December 2022

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Move over David Deeble, J.P. Sears, and Ammo Grrrll: we have a new comic to induct into the Official Power Line Comedy Club: Tyler Fischer.

Here he neatly skewers NPR and practically every other major woke news media sensibility in just sixty seconds.

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Joseph Eagar: Yes, It’s David French Again

4th December 2022

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I’m sure we are all tired of hearing about David French.  But this is ridiculous.  This isn’t a legal issue (as French knows full well).  It isn’t just about Twitter either; Facebook also suppressed the story.  Nor was the government totally uninvolved; Congressional Democrats applied pressure behind the scenes.  But this idea that there is something wrong about making a political issue out of an entire sector of industry conspiring to secretly manipulate an election.  That is obscene.  French should be ashamed of himself.

But he’s not. Which is the problem with David French.

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FACT CHECK: Do History’s Greatest Monsters All Drink Diet Coke?

29th November 2022

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But it was the very serious journalists at the Bezos Post who delivered the death blow, gravely noting that Musk’s affinity for Diet Coke puts him in league with the beverage’s other “unsavory acolytes, including former president Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein.”

I’m sure Hitler would have drunk Diet Coke if it had been available to him. After all he was a vegetarian, and you know what fascist assholes vegetarians all are.

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The Strange Morality of the Bay-Area Billionaire Left

22nd November 2022

Victor Davis Hanson.

For various loose definitions of the term ‘morality’.

Sam Bankman-Fried is the ultimate dangerous and ridiculous expression of the most toxic and creepy culture in America. If he did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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No Deal

19th October 2022

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Meghan Markle (the Duchess of Sussex) has a podcast on which, earlier today, she hosted Paris Hilton as a guest. The topic of their discussion was “bimbos.” (They said it, I didn’t.)

All actors/actresses are narcissists. Narcissists are crazy. Crazy people are dangerous. Avoid if at all possible.

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Protestor Who Ran On Field During MNF Sues Bobby Wagner For Tackling Him

6th October 2022

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Alex Taylor, the animal rights activist who stormed the field on Monday Night Football’s game between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers, is suing Rams linebacker Bobby Wagner for tackling him to the ground at Levi’s Stadium. Santa Clara Police Department Lt. Cuong Phan confirmed that Taylor filed a police report on Tuesday afternoon.

That will go nowhere. He was a trespasser. He’s lucky that the NFL isn’t suing him.

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Food Phobia

5th October 2022

ZMan scratches his head.

Food plays an important role in every culture. Since culture evolves in a place and that place has certain foods not known in other places, food helps ground the culture in a time and place, which helps ground the people in a time and place. A big part of the answer to the only question that matters – who are we – is the place where the answer was created by our ancestors. It is why our holidays have special foods. They help remind the people of the answer to the big question.

In the West, fear of food is also a big cultural item. For some reason, Western people remain convinced that their food is out to get them. From time to time certain foods have been banned. In pre-modern times the reasons ranged from the superstitious to the ritual, while in modern times “science” is the blame. In this age, we are told every day that something in our diet is trying to kill us. These days, people are often defined by the foods they think are plotting against them.

Fear of food seems to track with belief. The more ideological the person, the more likely they are to be paranoid about food. Vegans and vegetarians are almost always in one of the subcultures on what we call the Left. The exception will be someone who got it into his head that something is bad for his training regimen. Otherwise, when someone tells you they are a vegan, and they almost always tell you that as soon as you meet them, they are telling you their politics.

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Anything-and-Everything Socialism

27th September 2022

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The 2022 Socialism Conference in Chicago earlier this month felt more like an academic conference than, as the promotional materials pronounced, “a place where activists can share lessons from their struggles.” Attendees paid $150 for full-price passes granting access to four days of panels, talks, and social events for professional schmoozing at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place hotel and convention center in Chicago’s swank South Loop neighborhood. Panels hosted academics and writers plugging and signing books that could be purchased at the conference book fair. Keynote speakers gave the kind of rousing and impassioned prewritten talks to restrained applause that one would expect of a literary reading. The only real perceivable difference between the Socialism Conference and, say, the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference was that of genre, which was social justice instead of more traditional literary poetry or prose.

Socialism is the astrology of the modern intellectual class.

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Today in Crazy

25th September 2022

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We’re a queer, feminist-led tech and media company on a mission to make astrology and its wisdom accessible to everyone as a tool for self-discovery, mindfulness, and healing.

Every believer in astrology and witchcraft I ever met was a Democrat.

They sure are ‘the party of science’.

UPDATE: Astrology Is Back (Steve Sailer)

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Take a Lemon

21st September 2022

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CNN’s Don Lemon played the fool — okay, he did his thing as usual — in conversation with Strelmark president and “Royal Watcher” Hilary Fordwich. Lemon packs slavery, reparations, the empire, and the monarchy into his boffo question. Fordwich dispatches it in a baloney meets the grinder moment. Lemon was unprepared to engage beyond the shibboleths. That must be why this highly satisfying video has gone viral.

Halfricans are smarter than Africans, but not as smart as their white ancestors.

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Huffing for Your Health

12th September 2022

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While water is an essential element to life that can be found for free most everywhere you look, that does not stop business from turning it into a profitable commodity. There is a whole aisle at the store dedicated to bottled water in a variety of forms. While some of us are too cheap to splurge on fancy water, it still manages to be a $283 billion global industry. With that in mind, it was only a matter of time before we circled fully around and went full Spaceballs by selling air in a can.

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Sailer’s Law of Mass Arrowings Holds True in Amazon’s Tolkien Prequel,

3rd September 2022

Steve Sailer.

Holding your bow sideways isn’t as accurate.

Seriously, Tolkien’s masterpiece The Lord of the Rings is obviously inspired by Wagner’s hyper-masterpiece The Ring. Tolkien’s work is about northern Europeans, just like The Iliad is about southern Europeans, and Journey to the West is about Asians. Like Wagner’s, Tolkien’s work is awesome, but not diverse.

If you are a giant global corporation like Amazon, it’s a difficult conundrum that the world loves northern European artistry, but also is instructed to resent northern Europeans.

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Golf Balls ‘Are the Product of Colonial Exploitation’

28th August 2022

Steve Sailer sniffs out the truth.

Golf is connected to imperial “exploitation”, according to display information, because balls were once made using rubber harvested from colonial territories.

The game itself was also “imposed” across the Empire, the St Andrews exhibition claims, as British enthusiasts established clubs from South Africa to Hong Kong.

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The Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Docu-Series of Your Wildest Dreams

24th August 2022

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The cast of empowered women includes Kim Kardashian, Megan Thee Stallion, Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer. It looks like Amy was sick of being the most hated woman on the planet and wanted to surround herself with more like-minded souls that do… not very much. In response to the trailer, one person asked Chelsea, “Did hanging out with women who have actual jobs make you feel inadequate?”

All America wants to know!

UPDATE: See Hillary Clinton Lose a Legal Knowledge Quiz to Kim Kardashian: ‘It Was Heartbreaking’ (People) Kim is studying to be a paralegal. Hillary hasn’t practiced as a lawyer in 30 years.

 

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Down With the Constitution!

21st August 2022

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

In recent years, many liberals have become openly hostile to the Constitution. The present moment in history, with the Democrats controlling the House by the barest of majorities, a 50/50 Senate with a Democratic vice president, and a Democratic president, has heightened liberal frustration with the Constitution. With their hands, for a brief moment at least, on all of the levers of power, why can’t the Democratic Party effect a total transformation of American society?

To a normal person, that question perhaps answers itself. But check out this op-ed in the New York Times, which is literally one of the stupidest things I have ever read. Its authors are Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn, professors at Harvard Law School and Yale Law School respectively. The op-ed advocates doing away entirely with the Constitution. Why? The authors don’t quite put it this way, but the reason is that the Constitution fails to establish a pure democracy by plebiscite, and makes it difficult to use a transient majority to effect radical change. Those who had a high school civics class understand that this is more or less the point.

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He’s Not Making This Up, You Know

7th August 2022

The Other McCain is on the case.

A Baltimore ex-gang member who uses graffiti to designate ‘no shoot zones’ to discourage gun violence around the city was shot in his back, neck and jaw on Wednesday.

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US Army Is Developing a Tactical Bra for Its Female Soldiers

6th August 2022

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Your tax dollars at work. (Wait ’til you see the kevlar ceramic inserts….)

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Georgia Anti-abortion Law Allows Tax Deductions for Fetuses

3rd August 2022

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This is truly silly. The purpose of allowing a deduction for children on taxes is that children require support, which involves extra expenditure and (like the corresponding tax credit) the government gives people a break. Certainly pregnancy involves a bit of extra expense but nothing like what a born child would cost.

On the other hand, I love seeing people able to deduct stuff from their taxable income and thereby reduce the amount the government is allowed to confiscate. And I suppose any economic incentive for women to carry their children to term rather than kill them is a good thing.

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Kavanaugh Assassin Suspect Identified as a Transgender Female

1st August 2022

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The man who authorities say planned to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh in a bid to impact the Roe v Wade decision identified as a transgender female called Sophie, according to court documents.

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Man Wakes Up After Night on Sleeper Train to Find It Never Left Glasgow

28th July 2022

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A passenger on an overnight rail service from Scotland to London said he was left speechless after waking to find the train had not even left Glasgow, where he boarded.

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Obama, Syria, Ukraine, and the Honorable Cold War

20th July 2022

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What the Ukrainians can expect from the progressives is an airlift of thoughts and prayers.

 

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Progressives Change Name Of ‘Quidditch’ Over Rowling’s Transgender Stance

20th July 2022

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The International Quidditch Association (IQA), which governs nearly 600 teams over the world, Avada Kedavra-ed the original name of the highly confusing game in order to distance themselves from Rowling’s “anti-trans positions.”

“This is an important moment in our sport’s history,” said Chris Lau, chair of the IQA board of trustees. “We are confident in this step and we look forward to all the new opportunities quadball will bring.”

Unbelievable.

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Against Food

17th July 2022

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Imagine this: you’re blessed with opposable thumbs and breathtaking mental faculties. You have a notion of object permanence. You can use language, do mathematics, and decipher the world around yourself. There is no question that you are the pinnacle of evolution, a simply amazing, staggeringly rare thing to exist, the very poster child for the best that Mother Earth has to offer. And how do you spend your days? Drinking lattes and eating cheeseburgers.

Day after day, I swipe the Hinge profiles of girls endowed with the greatest gifts known in the universe, only to find that their hobbies are sleeping and eating. The last million years of evolution has been wasted on them; they might as well live with orangutans.

Excuse me … I’ve got a cherry turnover calling my name….

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The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism

17th July 2022

Minnesota University Press.

Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency that will revolutionize everything from online commerce to the nation-state. Yet supporters of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology subscribe to a form of cyberlibertarianism that depends to a surprising extent on far-right political thought.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that cybercurrency is Right-Wing Extremism.

 

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