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The 5:2 diet, based on intermittent fasting, involves eating pretty much whatever you like for five days a week, then for two nonconsecutive days restricting calories to 500 for women and 600 for men.

Orthodox Christians have been doing this for 2000 years. The fast days are Wednesday and Friday.

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Heh.

Welcome to the land of No First Amendment, Professor. Please stay off the grass.

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And the Trump just keeps on winning….

Scarborough Tries To Make Obstruction Case Against Trump And Fails Miserably  Maybe because there IS NO CRIME THERE.

Schumer Attacks Trump’s Treatment Of Illegal Immigrants — Sarah Sanders Shuts Him The Chuck Up

Eminem’s Psychosis Continues: White Rapper Now Claims A ‘Turd’ Would Be A Better President Than Trump  A white guy who wishes he was a black guy has some serious issues.

Media Report Shows CNN’s Biased Coverage Of Donald Trump Is Still In Full Swing

Celebs Unveil Grand Plans to ‘Resist’ Trump’s State of the Union  ‘Posture’ would be more accurate.

Nancy Pelosi: WH Immigration Plan Is A ‘Campaign To Make America White Again’

NYT Doomsday Clock Hysteria Finds ‘End of World’ Closer Due to Trump; Ignored It During Obama

New York Times Shows ‘Hard-Line’ Bias in Favor of Dreamers vs. ‘Draconian’ Trump

Three-quarters of ‘unintentional’ civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria have occurred during the Trump presidency  For which he is PERSONALLY responsible, because TRUMP! (Not included, of course, are all the intentional civilian deaths caused by jihadists, but he’s undoubtedly responsible for those, too, because TRUMP!)

Donald Trump can’t talk his way out of legal peril in the Robert Mueller investigation  Nor does he need to.

Chelsea Handler: White Women Voting For Trump ‘Made Me Sick To My Stomach’  Mission accomplished.

By Don Lemon’s Twisted Logic, Should We Blame MSNBC for Scalise Shooting?  Works for me.

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A tired maxim provides that if liberals didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all. But sometimes they really abuse the privilege.

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If your mother was a hamster, this will no doubt be of interest to you.

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No, the Gestapo of America are ATF, followed closely by EPA and OSHA.

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Democrats are great at saying things that sound like English — but are just nonsense.

If you listen to the first video, it does sound like English that you can’t quite catch.

There is, of course, the famous scene in The Court Jester where Danny Kaye does the same thing with French, Italian, and German — and later on for Spanish. So it’s not just a one-way street.

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That would be entertaining, as well.

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Actually, that would be very entertaining.

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Funny how he wasn’t shunned and shamed at Davos as everybody in the DemLegHump Media were SURE he would be.

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If you need any reason to dislike it other than how it turns people into obnoxious assholes.

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He hides it very well.

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This sort of thing is why we need a Wall.

I know the feeling.

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And this is not Doogie Houser we’re talkin’ about, either.

Has anyone investigated their ‘climate science’ claims?

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Hereditary White Privilege, thy name is Democrat.

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Yale man. Just sayin’.

215 Million Christians Persecuted, Mostly by Muslims

Targeting Kurds in Syria: Making Turkey Feel Imperial Again

Sweden, Migrant Gang Crime, and No-Go Zones

The Turkish-Kurdish War Spreads to the Mosques of Germany

Nets Ignore Christian Nigerians Butchered By Radical Islamic Nomads

Hizballah Helps Hamas Enhance Terrorist Infrastructure on Israel’s Northern Border

Feminism and Sharia in Finland

Pakistani Islamism Flourishes in America

Turkey-Kurdish conflict: British YPG volunteers head to front line as thousands flee Syrian war

State Department Confirms 4 Americans Killed In Kabul Hotel Attack

Member Of German Nationalist Anti-Islamization Party Resigns After Converting To Islam

German Far-Right Politician Converts To Islam

ISIS Suicide Bombers And Gunmen Launch Deadly Attack On Children’s Charity

Isis claims responsibility for deadly attack on Save the Children office in Afghanistan

NIGERIA: Range Wars Revival

Jalalabad bombing: Gunmen clash with security forces after attack on Save The Children offices in Afghanistan

LIFE Goes on for Embattled Islamist Charity

Libya car bombing: 33 dead after blasts kill worshippers outside Benghazi mosque

Somali-Born ‘Ohio Man’ Sentenced For Aiding Terrorists

Zainab Ansari: Police arrest ‘serial killer’ over rape and murder of 7-year-old that sparked protests across Pakistan

Iranian woman reported missing after waving headscarf in public with her hair uncovered

Kurdish forces in Syria launch powerful counterattack to set up extended battle against Turkey

2 IEDs explode at Florida mall, police say

Florida mall explosion: Manhunt under way after pipe bombs detonated in shopping centre

Kabul attack latest: Survivors of Taliban hotel siege that killed 18 recount horrific ordeal

L’Oreal Hijab Model Steps Down After Anti-Israel Tweets Surface

Young But Dangerous: Still No Answer to Handling Europe’s Children of ISIS

Thailand: Foreign office warns tourists of high terror threat amid ongoing insurgency

Mugging and Mutilation in Berlin

Syria crisis: Turkish assault on Kurdish enclave threatens to open deadly new phase in bloody seven-year civil war

Turkish troops enter Afrin in northern Syria as offensive against Kurds continues

Kabul attack latest: 14 foreign nationals and four Afghans dead after Taliban assault on Intercontinental Hotel

Turkey Goes To War Against US-Backed Kurds In Syria

Iraq sentences German woman to death for joining Isis, reports say

Kabul hotel attack latest: Taliban claims responsibility for Intercontinental siege as Afghanistan government says all gunmen killed

A Jihad in Minnesota

Afghan Forces Retake Control of Kabul Hotel After Deadly Siege

Muslim Convert Professor Goes On Bizarre Religious Rant In Class, Prompting Police Call

Christian in Indonesia publicly flogged for selling alcohol in Sharia law breach

Turkish warplanes bomb Kurds in Syria  No matter what else happens in the Middle East, everybody hates the Kurds.

Palestinian family shoot dead relative believed to be spying for Israel

Iraqi Green Card Holder Sentenced For Murdering His Wife And Burying Her In Front Of Son

National Islamic Organization Sues Maryland Jail For Allegedly Discriminating Against Muslims

Syria: Turkey war planes launch strikes on Afrin

Kabul hotel attack: Intercontinental under attack and ‘hostages taken by at least three gunmen’

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I’m a great fan of Reba McEntire but this is just stupid.

Steve Sailer reads the news so you don’t have to.

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Virtue Signalling at its finest. It doesn’t do a damned thing, but we’re all so ‘woke’ we can’t stand it.

Malala Yousafzai says men like Donald Trump should ‘think about their daughters and mothers’ when considering how to treat women  Except that there’s no evidence that Trump has anything to worry about, aside from Chattering Class talking points. Malala might want to do some thinking for herself for a change.

MSNBC’s Review of Trump Debut in Davos: ‘Uninformed,’ ‘Strange,’ ‘Nonsensical’  Because TRUMP! That says it all.

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Boy, that Trump really stepped on it in Davos, didn’t he?

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Amazon’s voice assisting software Alexa is not woke enough for the fine people at The Atlantic.

That’s at least according to male writer Ian Bogost, who spent the latter half of his Wednesday criticizing Amazon for not designing a more progressive robot.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of proglodytes is that they assume what they believe to be the laws of nature, in opposition to which all contrarians are effectively ‘science deniers’.

What’s he getting at here? That women are too detail oriented and preachy — and that it’s a gendered thing? This guy is so woke that he’s actually reaffirming stereotypes and reestablishing the gender divide. I can’t get enough of it.

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Despite a Supreme Court decision banning their behavior, unions in 11 states continue to engage in one of the most predatory practices they have ever conceived. In a process known as dues skimming, some states allow union bosses to automatically confiscate funds from Medicaid checks intended for patients whose primary caregiver is a direct family member, often without the patient or caregiver even being aware that they are losing money.

While in theory, these dues are designed to represent caregivers who are employees of the state, they are certainly not being spent in collective bargaining agreements for people who care for their elderly parents or in legal fees defending caregivers in lawsuits brought by their dependent children. Instead, this process merely takes funds from needy patients on Medicaid and redirects it to union bosses, who, in turn, spend tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions every election cycle in order to maintain their power.

Union bosses are invariably, as you might expect, Democrats.

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I can understand that.

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As was once said of academia, the reason why student activist fights are so vicious is because the stakes are so small.

An episode that highlights everything wrong with petty student-politicians is now unfolding at the University of Kansas, where activists want to impeach the president of their own alternative student government.

That’s right: KU has two parallel student governments—an official one, and a rival Multicultural Student Government (MSG). Though both receive funding from the university, MSG isn’t formally recognized as an autonomous government, because that would be ridiculous. Instead, it’s a student group with extra rights and a yearly budget of $45,000 that comes from a $1 fee charged to everyone enrolled at KU.

As in many such cases, acquiescing to stupidity costs the innocent bystanders money.

MSG was born out of an earlier controversy. In 2015, student activists alleged that the president, vice president, and chief of staff of the KU Student Senate—the official student government—had refused to stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. The three leaders vehemently denied the charg, and put out a statement affirming that “black lives matter at the University of Kansas.” Nevertheless, activists called on them to resign from office because they were “standing in the way of institutionalizing a safer, anti-racist environment.”

KU activists were inspired by protests at the University of Missouri, which successfully forced a leadership change on that campus. But they ultimately failed to oust the trio. So instead, the activists decided to form an alternative student government that would represent the interests of marginalized students.

The Student Senate permitted the activists to form MSG, but KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little vetoed a proposal to fund it by charging students a $2 fee, on the grounds that setting up a second government was sort of a bonkers idea. Activists said the decision not to fund their group was pure racism—”This is racism, we don’t need to call it anything else,” said one—even though Gray-Little is herself a woman of a color.

Really, you can’t make this shit up. As a general rule, when you hear of some situation in a school that sounds like a parody, it’s more than likely true.

The Other McCain turns over a rock and watch the creepy crawlies thus exposed.

Jack Posobiec is a conservative activist with more than 250,000 followers on Twitter. A woman claimed to have discovered that Posobiec had a profile on the feminist dating app Bumble, and BuzzFeed claimed that Bumble verified this was actually Posobiec’s account. Posobiec is married and his wife is pregnant, and he has threatened legal action against those he says have defamed and harassed him by “criminal fraud.”

One of the pernicious effects of ‘social media’ is that, on the Internet, not only does nobody know you’re a dog, but also nobody knows that you’re not a dog, or at least not the particular ‘dog’ they have in mind. I suppose that every celebrity (plus and minus) has had to cope with people pretending to be them on Facebook and Twitter, for good or ill. (I’m immune from this because those who know me know that I loathe Facebook and Twitter, and those who don’t know me are of no importance.)

This is also a familiar tactic. In 2010, Democrat operative Neal Rauhauser was caught red-handed organizing a Twitter harassment campaign against Tea Party activists. Rauhauser then persuaded Adrian Chen of Gawker to publish an article explaining this away as an innocent “prank.” Left-wing journalists are willing enablers of this kind of harassment, even while they claim that conservatives are perpetrators of harassment. This was the liberal media’s narrative of #GamerGate, after all — supposedly, Anita Sarkeesian and others were victims of right-wing “harassment,” which became a pretext for Twitter’s shutting down the accounts of various conservatives (myself included), but no one at Twitter ever took action against Neal Rauhauser or any of the left-wing trolls who participated in his anti-Tea Party harassment campaign.

Proglodytes accept as proof things that not even High School students ever would. This fits under the Dan Rather ‘fake but accurate’ rubric.

What has happened, during the past year or so, is that Democrats and their media allies have played their customary connect-the-dots guilt-by-association game. It works like this: Person A (e.g., Richard Spencer) becomes notorious, and then everyone on the Right is expected to denounce Person A. Prior to becoming a notorious symbol of “hate,” however, Person A had some association with Person B, Person C and Person D. These three persons who were in some way associated with Person A are now deemed “radioactive,” and everyone associated with them falls under the penumbra of suspicion, even if there is no actual evidence that they share the “hate” that made Person A notorious.

This is a combination of the proglodyte neo-Puritan Hunt for Heretics and Sinners with the proglodyte cultural Marxist inheritance of the Stalinist Hunt for Revisionists and Counter-Revolutionaries. Virtue Signalling is an outgrowth of the requirement to line up to denounce Emmanuel Goldstein lest you be suspected of suspicious lack of Zeal for the Narrative.

Alex Tabarrok, a Real Economist, discusses Blue Privilege.

Earlier I wrote about how police unions around the country give to every officer dozens of “get out of jail” cards to give to friends, family, politicians, lawyers, judges and other connected people. The cards let police on the street know that the subject is to be given “professional courtesy” and they can be used to get out of speeding tickets and other infractions. Today, drawing on the Police Union Contracting Project, I discuss how union contracts and Law Officer “Bill of Rights” give police legal privileges that regular people don’t get.

The proliferation of public employee unions is one of the pillars of our modern dystopian society. You’d think that, as public sector union pension largesse bankrupt local government after local government, they’d wake up and say, ‘Hm, that was a bad idea’, but no. It is a truth universally acknowledge but uniformly ignored that an organized special interest group can almost always triumph politically against the general mass of the public.

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Ol’ Dan is still around, his deficiencies having been swept under the run of the Memory Hole by his accomplices in the DemLegHump Media, kind of like the black sheep of the family who did a little time for possession but keeps showing up at family events.

His phrase ‘fake but accurate’ is the governing metaphor for the Fake News industry.

Nick Gillespie of tReason magazine picks up on the fact that much of the drivel inflicted on us these days is by people of demonstrable incompetence in their presumed core activity attempting to play Wise Guru in an entirely different field.

Obama and health care come immediately to mind.

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And the wins just keep on coming.

Even hipsters get the word — eventually.

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And the Great Sorting proceeds apace.

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Researchers at Washington State University have developed algorithms that scan a tree for individual branches, then determine what bit of each branch to grasp and shake to extract the most cherries—up to nearly 90 percent of them. Sure, that’s not as dramatic as the machine-driven apocalypse. But at least it gives us an intriguing vision of a robotics-fueled agriculture industry.

If the idea of a tree-shaking robot seems a bit oddball to you, know that you’re the reason it may soon exist. Americans don’t just want a lot of produce; they want a lot of flawless produce, free of dings and bruises and discoloration. And you can’t have flawless cherries if you’re using a giant machine to shake a tree trunk willy-nilly, flinging fruit all over the place. (Though that method works fine with hardier fare like almonds.)

Bond will be pleased.

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I suggest ‘Jihadists cut here’.

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New proposed legislation, introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener and co-authored by Sen. Nancy Skinner, that would require California cities to allow denser, taller housing developments near transit hubs and bus lines, has ignited controversy in Berkeley and nationally.

With some limitations, SB 827 would eliminate restrictions on the number of houses that can be built within a half-mile of BART and within a quarter-mile of major bus routes, including Muni and AC Transit. It would also block cities from mandating parking requirements.

For those curious as to why it’s impossible to find affordable housing in California.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Steve Sailer looks at the news.

The establishment’s conventional wisdom that past immigration morally mandates future immigration is kind of like saying that because your favorite NBA star’s ancestors got here due to the slave trade, Congress should re-legalize the Middle Passage.

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Likewise, it’s comical that so many have denounced Trump as an “authoritarian” whose election threatens that “democracy dies in the dark,” as Jeff Bezos’ Washington Postclaims.

In reality, of course, Trump’s administration is the most public in memory. Comedians are making jokes about the president for the first time since 2008. Americans are enthusiastically arguing over politics. Trump, love him or hate him, has revitalized democracy.

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Palestinian boss Mahmoud Abbas recently declared that Israel is “a colonial enterprise that has nothing to do with Jewishness”. Moses, King David and thousands of years of Jewish history would disagree. Israel and the Jews are part of the story of human civilization. Over 50% of the human race has a holy book that tells of the Jewish journey to Israel. That includes Mohammed’s own copy of the Koran.

Israel isn’t a “colonial enterprise”. Palestine is.

Perhaps Jews ought to re-brand themselves as Native Palestinians.

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The dog-whistle message received by young wannabe journalists was that they should take sides, as did the highly praised Post, wearing invisible jerseys while presenting themselves as objective arbiters of truth. As part of its long campaign reviling Nixon’s cover-up, the Post has perpetuated its own dishonest cover-up for these same 45 years.

Today’s media investment in partisanship and ‘fake news’ all comes from the Watergate era. Everybody who graduates from journalism school wants to be another Woodward/Bernstein.

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Illinois has been losing population for four years. The state’s outmigration crisis is so bad that Illinois has dropped from the fifth-largest to the sixth-largest state, falling behind Pennsylvania. Since 2010, the Land of Lincoln lost a whopping 640,000 people on net to outmigration. The state is shrinking so rapidly that it’s at risk of losing a House seat.

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Illinois ranks near the bottom in terms of economic freedom compared with the rest of the country, according to the Fraser Institute’s recent Economic Freedom of North America, or EFNA, report, released in partnership with the Illinois Policy Institute. This report ranks states based on an index of 10 variables related to government spending, taxes and labor market freedom. Only 12 states were ranked lower. Unsurprisingly, blue states California and New York ranked at the bottom of the economic freedom list.

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Don’t be that guy.

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Seems fair. I think Megyn Kelly’s a bitch, too.

And Joy Behar should certainly know from bitch.

Dem Senator Blames Trump For Dems Shutting Down The Government

Number of Anti-Muslim groups in US increased three-fold since Trump launched his Presidential campaign, say experts  And so, of course, it’s All His Fault. (I have an idea: How about Muslims stop blowing people up? Think that would have an effect on the number of anti-Muslim groups? I suspect it would.)

DACA latest: Chuck Schumer calls off Mexico border wall deal with Trump over Dreamers repeal  Guess he doesn’t want a deal after all. (Cue DemLegHump Media blaming this setback on Trump.)

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Davos is a work of art. And like all the best art, it both delights and instructs. It reminds us that the smartest people in the world are actually the dumbest.

Imagine being one of those exalted personages, graduates of our finest universities, global citizens equally at home in Manhattan, San Francisco, Paris, Tokyo, and Bombay, for whom “Creating a shared future in a fractured world” is a highly erudite proposition, a paradox of chin-scratching complexity. Imagine going every year for decades without realizing that this year’s “theme” and “The Power of collaborative innovation” (2008) and “Global cooperation and megacompetition” (1990) and “Competitive cooperation in a decade of turbulence” (1988) are virtually identical. Imagine thinking that “Responsive and responsible leadership” (2017) is not a meaningless phrase. Imagine having any idea what “Resilient dynamism” (2013) even means. Imagine thinking that “globality,” as in “Responsible globality: managing the impact of globalization” (1999), is a word.

I would say ‘foolish’ rather than ‘dumb’, but a case could be made for it.