John Hinderaker at Power Line takes a shot.

The meaning of “socialism” has evolved; or, one might say, it is flying under a false flag. When Democratic politicians advocate socialism, they don’t talk about North Korea, Soviet Russia, Albania, Cuba (anymore) or Venezuela (anymore). Rather, they talk about Sweden, Denmark and Norway–countries that are not, in fact, socialist. One might conclude that they just want a slightly larger welfare state–accompanied, although they never say this, by a less progressive tax system and often more business-friendly policies.

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As, indeed, they do.

The United States “owes a profound and enduring debt of gratitude” to its historically black colleges and universities, President Donald Trump said in an address Tuesday, at which he announced new support from his administration for the institutions.

“Previously, federal law restricted more than 40 faith-based HBCUs and seminaries from fully accessing federal support for capital improvement projects,” Trump told the audience at the National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference in Washington, D.C.

Sure sounds like a thorough racist to me.

Steve Sailer.

From the New York Times Magazine, an article about how colleges are biased in favor of lazy white boys and discriminate against amazing hard-working black and Latino Women of Color. That’s why Silicon Valley is full of indolent white boys making huge amounts of money in easy jobs like starting their own businesses, while amazing black women and Puerto Rican men have to take on life’s greatest challenges, such as being a college admissions staffer or writing op-eds about how society should pay more attention to their hair.

Common Sense versus Climate Hysteria

Ship with Climate Change Warriors caught in ice, Warriors evacuated

Nuclear power station could destroy wildlife haven I’ve loved since childhood  “could” but won’t.

Bill Gates Is Funding a Chemical Cloud That Could Put an End to Global Warming

What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped?

NBC Announces New ‘Climate Unit’ and ‘Climate in Crisis’ Series  Cue scary music.

Climate Crisis! Companies are Investing Big in New Oil Fields  They may be crazy but they ain’t stupid.

Behar Scolds Republican: Trump’s Economy ‘Not Good’ If It’s At ‘Expense of Environment!’

Liberal Amazon faces Walkout from Employees over Climate Change  You can never be so woke that someone else isn’t more woke than you.

Swedish Student Tells People Not To Be Hopeful About Climate Change, But To ‘Panic’ Instead  After all, you don’t get any attention for advising calm.

Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike  You mean I may have to go into an actual store? Whoa….

New Yorker: We Can’t Prevent the Climate Apocalypse  So shut up about it already.

Surprise! The Left is Now Pressuring Google To Stop Even Linking Climate Skeptic Blogs and News Sources

USA Today Assails Natural Gas, Omits Links to Bloomberg, Steyer

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

I always use those little plastic packets (available for free from any fast-food restaurant), laying them carefully on the table and using a Xacto knife to put a small nick in one end. Then you hold it over the food with the nick toward the food, put two fingers on either side of the packet, and slowly run your fingers from the top to the bottom, neatly extracting the sauce.

Or you can just put them on the table and slam them with your fist. If you hold your hand correctly all of the sauce will go on your companions instead of yourself. This is especially handy when faced with armed assailants.

Babylon Bee.

An insane man who is known for stumbling through the streets of Troutdale shouting at people that he’ll buy back things from them that he never owned after he takes money from them that he does not possess has become one of the leading candidates in the 2020 presidential election.

I’m sure this is a satire on one of the current Democrat candidates but I can’t for the life of me figure out which one.

The Other McCain does the reporting that American ‘journalists’ just won’t do.

Let’s start with the Klan kook: Thom Robb calls himself the “national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.” Robb lives about 10 miles from Harrison and his “Knights” receive mail at a post office box in Harrison, which gives the town a dot on the SPLC “hate map.”
This reflects a problem I’ve addressed at The American Spectator (“Another Dot on the ‘Hate Map’,” Feb. 22), where the SPLC targets entire communities as “hate” locations based on dubious claims, in order to create an exaggerated sense of menace for fund-raising purposes. By the standards of the SPLC, just about every Baptist church in America could be designated an “anti-LGBT hate group,” and if hate groups are everywhere, what’s the point of all those dots on the map?

Babylon Bee.

Makes sense to me.

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Low unemployment will do that.

But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

Steve Sailer.

Since the 1970s, the U.S. has had a National Transportation Safety Board to inquire into the causes of jetliner crashers and the like and issue recommendations. We should also have a National Immigration Safety Board to investigate how we came to let in losers like, say, this Iraqi who sabotaged a jetliner to get some extra overtime pay.

DNA from cigarette butt leads to arrest of pipeline protester 3 years later

NASA Visualization Shows Decline of Arctic Sea Ice Over the Past 35 Years

‘Alarmism enforcement’ on hurricanes and global warming

“From Scientist to Activist”

CNN Democratic climate gabfest displays candidate’s monumental energy ignorance

The Faith Component of Global Warming Predictions

What if we stopped pretending we can prevent climate apocalypse?

Climate Change Economist Commits Suicide Nearly A Year After Not Winning Nobel Prize

We are not edging up to a mass extinction

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This ought to be tattooed on each politician’s forehead so it will stare back at him (or her) every morning from the mirror.

It illustrates the Fundamental Law of Markets, but that’s not even it’s core benefit.

It’s more useful lesson is that When Circumstances Change People Change Their Behavior In Response.

Over 90% of the laws passed in the modern world are based on the assumption that people will not change their behavior as a result of the law. But they invariably do, and that change means that the predicted effect of the law WILL NOT TAKE PLACE. What actually takes place is something different, often something wildly different, which wise people refer to as the Law of Unintended Consequences.

If you meet a politician on the road, make him explain to you how markets work. If he (or she) can’t, kill him (or her) as a threat to your species, and look for another. You’ll be doing God’s work.

A gig economy is based around flexibility and convenience. That’s a problem for municipalities which make money by taxing established industries. New York City is destroying ridesharing because it makes a fortune from auctioning off taxi medallions. Ridesharing ruined that business, so it’s ruining ridesharing.

That’s what politicians do. If something benefits you and not them, they will do their best to ruin it.

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And an overwhelming need for electrical power, which means widespread nuclear power.

Just waiting for the politicians to wake up….

Where’s the Hot Spot?

Historical European Sea Level Records

Drowning in plastic: Visualising the world’s addiction to plastic bottles

Propagation of Error and the Reliability of Global Air Temperature Projections, Mark II.

A beginner’s guide to the debate over nuclear power and climate change

There is NO climate emergency!

Here’s what I’ve learned about climate change and it’s terrifying

Hydrogen Could Replace Coke in Steel Production

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In 1958, a Czech-born sociology professor named Nat Mendelsohn purchased 82,000 acres of land in the Mojave Desert, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, and founded the optimistically named California City. Intended to eventually rival LA in importance, California City was just one of the countless master-planned communities that sprouted up across the state in the post-World War II boom years. But unlike Irvine or Mission Viejo, California City never took off.

It needs a nuclear power plant.

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N THE 1950s, the small town of Ivrea, which is about an hour’s train ride north of Turin, became the site of an unheralded experiment in living and working. Olivetti, a renowned designer and manufacturer of typewriters and accounting machines, decided to provide for its employees through retirement. They were given the opportunity to take classes at an on-site sale and trade school; their lunchtime hours would be filled with speeches or performances from visiting dignitaries (actors, musicians, poets); and they would receive a substantial pension upon retirement. They would be housed, if they liked, in Olivetti-constructed modern homes and apartments. Their children would receive free day care, and expecting mothers would be granted 10 months maternity leave. July would be a time of holiday, so that workers with homes in the surrounding countryside could tend to small farms — it was important to the company that workers not feel a division between city and country. Italy’s best Modernist architects would be hired to design in the Modernist style: Factories, canteens, offices and study areas would be airy palaces of glass curtain walls, flat concrete roofs and glazed brick tile. It would be a model for the nation, and for the world.

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I like these Actionable Book Summaries, which are more in-depth than a review but don’t require you to read the book if you don’t have the time.

This is an area in which I’m very interested, and, based on this article, I’m going to get and read this book.

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A very thorough analysis. If you’re wondering what’s going on with Flynn, and I was, this will fill you in.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Boy, it’s a good thing that these countries are no longer run by white people or who knows what would be happening?

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

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In truth, though, nothing the Egyptians achieved on the Giza Plateau was impossible for a civilization at their level of technological development. It was just really, really difficult, requiring that virtually all of the resources available to them that weren’t required for the basic maintenance of their civilization be bent in the direction of Giza.

NYT Keeps Readers In The Dark On Bernie Sanders’ Population Control Comments

Bernie Sanders in climate change ‘population control’ uproar

Hurricane Dorian “Man-Made” According to Emory University Professor

Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans To “Save The Planet”

Pete Buttigieg: I Don’t Think God Will ‘Let Us Off The Hook’ For Climate Change  I think Mayor Butt-Plug will be on the hook for more than climate change.

WHAT? MSNBC’s Jackson Grills Bernie Campaign on ‘Pain’ of Climate Plans

Pollution could be to blame for rise in whales and dolphins washing up dead on British beaches, report finds

Democrats Hope to Seduce Young Republicans with Climate Change Socialism

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Unions are finally fighting back against automation.

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One must not let daylight in upon magic.

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Get on it, Elon.

Babylon Bee.

A number of Democratic candidates have seized on a new initiative to make Americans feel safer: a mandatory buyback. “There are a number of ideas out there that just make people upset when they’re said out loud,” said presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. “It’s time to take those ideas off the street. That’s why it’s past time for a mandatory free speech buyback.”

It’s difficult for parody sites to stay ahead of the news curve.

Unfortunately there are a ton of government programs for that.

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Fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that studied the collapse. The secondary conclusion of our study is that the collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

The Environmental Fiasco of Wind Energy

Pete Buttigieg: Combatting Climate Change May Be ‘More Challenging Than’ Winning WWII  Well, for some people, maybe.

Bernie Sanders Says Abortion Will Help Fight Climate Change

Castro Plans For Legislation To Fight ‘Environmental Racism’  Yeah, them clouds is just too damned white.

Climate Crazies: CNN Pushes for Global Eugenics, Trillions in Spending, No Beef

Elizabeth Warren comes out against nuclear power  Professor Umbrage is now officially part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

Circus: Five CNN Hosts Spend Six Hours Blaming Climate Change for Hurricane Dorian

Establishment preparing for “climate refugees” to come to Canada  That wouldn’t be my choice.

We Watched CNN’s Interminable Climate Town Hall So You Don’t Have To

Dems Blame Airplanes, Meat, Business For Climate Crisis – CNN Immediately Runs Ads For Those Three Things  Gotta love those algorithms.

Climate Change Economist Commits Suicide Nearly A Year After Not Winning Nobel Prize  Vita adversitatis plena.

Bethany Mandel: Bernie Sander’s Climate Eugenics

Did Setting a Timeline Doom the Fight Against Global Warming?

2020 Election Could Put Oil Out Of Business

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In short, while academic criminology has had much to say about crime, most of it has been wrong. How can an academic discipline be so wrongheaded? And should we listen to criminologists today when, say, they call for prisons to be emptied, cops to act as glorified playground attendants, and criminal sentences to be dramatically reduced, if not eliminated? Answers to the first question are readily available—and suggest the answer to the second.

I should think that Democrats would prove a fertile field for criminologists.

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Only one?

Abby Huntsman said Thursday that 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg made her “uncomfortable” when he presumed to tell people “what God thinks.”

Well, that’s rather what Democrats live for.

Somebody who chooses to ignore what St Paul has to say about homosexuality doesn’t really have a lot of room to tell people what God thinks. Of course, maybe he has in mind a different god.

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Correspondingly, it’s hard to feel sorry for black victims of black crime in Democrat-ruled areas.3

Sauce for the goose….

Babylon Bee.

Hey, those little fetuses don’t make themselves.

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Which will come in handy when they succeed in banning fossil fuels and have to cut them down for firewood.

Think ahead, that’s the key.

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Cue outraged gun-control SJW mob.

That would make an awesome D&D character: Half-elven bisexual. Alignment Chaotic Well-Intentioned.

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Cilla Carden made headlines this week for her legal beef, in which she claimed the odors from her neighbors’ barbecues had destroyed her quality of life, 9News reported.

Now more than 3,000 people are planning to attend a cookout outside her Perth home, organized on a Facebook page called “Community BBQ for Cilla Carden.”

Gotta love Australians.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-which-universities-have-the-richest-graduates/

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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Depends on how well it pays.

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Or, alternatively, racism/sexism/’homophobia’ have some actual basis in external reality.

But a Voice of the Crust couldn’t admit that, obviously, so they wander off into Political Correctness Land.

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In one sense, the argument is too silly to merit a serious response. The fact that defenders of slavery have in the past appealed to reason and civility no more discredits anyone who appeals to those values than the Nazis’ love of calisthenics discredits anyone who exercises. But the essay does raise, in an absurd, wrong-headed way, an interesting question about the fate of civility and free speech in a society that no longer operates on shared moral premises.

Just because Hitler liked something doesn’t make it bad. (Except for vegetarianism.)

Ann Coulter lays it out.

Leaving aside the usual suspects, who are rushing to the microphones to demand the immediate confiscation of all guns, liberals are appealing to us to come together in good faith and formulate a plan to keep guns out of the hands of these monsters, using fair process and common sense.

The only problem is that no one on their side believes in good faith, fair process or common sense. Here’s the reality: We don’t trust the other side, nor should we.

This is the best and most concise delineation of the positions of the combatants in the current civil war that I have yet seen in print.

Actress Debra Messing is collecting names of Trump supporters for a new Hollywood blacklist. Armed and masked left-wing brown-shirts patrol the streets of Portland, Oregon, beating up suspected Trump supporters. I tweet, “It’s a nice day,” and 2,000 people respond that they hope I will die.

We’re dealing with people who are not honest brokers. We can no longer have any expectation of good faith, sound process or common sense.

Democrats: Party of Fear – Party of Hate – Party of Death. There can be no compromise with such people.

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U.S. Army aviation is catching the air force disease as it finds itself with a persistent shortage of lower-ranking pilots. The shortage is not great, about 700 pilots short out of a total of 14,000 active duty and reserve pilots. The problem is that the army has two types of pilots. The minority are commissioned officers who, among junior officers (lieutenants, captains and some majors) fly a lot because they command the actual flying units (platoons and companies). As these officers get promoted to lieutenant colonel and colonel they fly a lot less because they spend most of their time commanding larger units or in staff jobs. Most of the actual flying is done by warrant officers, a type of officer used mainly by the army because these officers do not command. They make a career of a technical specialty, in this case flying. The warrants have four ranks that correspond in pay to the first four officer ranks (second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain and major). The more senior warrants are expert fliers because normally that is all they do. This is a major advantage for the army because they have always attracted the many pilots who just want to fly and have no interest in commanding units, staff jobs or rising to higher rank.

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Hah!