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!

Democrats split over nuclear energy amid climate fight

Sen. Booker Reveals $3 Trillion Climate Plan  And why not? It’s not as if he’s going to have to pay for it.

Vintage film shows Thwaites Glacier ice shelf melting faster than previously observed

Experts: It May Be Too Late To Halt Climate Change Town Hall On CNN  Unless we act NOW.

@NPR tries and fails to connect “slow moving hurricanes” like #Dorian to “climate change”

Eye Roll: CNN’s Blitzer Opens Town Halls by Blaming Climate Change for Hurricane Dorian

CNN Hypes, Takes Credit for ‘Climate Crisis’ Town Hall

Babylon Bee.

That would do it.

Babylon Bee.

Fortunately, I’m sure there’s an Amendment that secures us the right to look dorkish.

Severian does a deep dive.

The history of medicine highlights the deepest, most dangerous irony of “Progressivism:”  They must assume that what’s now is forever.  Progressivism is, at bottom, just organized envy.  If anyone, anywhere, possesses X, then there can never be justice until everyone, everywhere, possesses X.  That X might just be an accident, a historical hiccup, a blip of static on Time’s radar screen, never occurs to them.  It can’t.  Otherwise, they’d be praising the Gilded Age’s “universal access to healthcare,” since John D. Rockefeller’s kid was just as likely to die of some horrible infection as the poorest immigrant’s.  Same for Rockefeller himself — burst appendixes are no respecters of rank.

This locks “Progressives” into their categories, such that they can’t see the runaway freight train heading right at them.  Bernie Sanders is still on the campaign trail sounding like a refugee from the Wobblies, talking about poverty.  Poverty, fer chrissakes!  As if America’s “poor” people didn’t keel over from heart disease while fiddling with their Obamaphones in front of their HD TVs.  The real driver of social change isn’t poverty, it’s idleness.

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Censorship is in direct opposition to the ideal of free speech and  the First Amendment. However, it seems to be a priority for those who espouse a liberal ideology, as shown by a new study from Marietta College. The research found that liberals were more likely to censor a statement if it disagreed with their values than moderates and conservatives. Liberals were more interested in censoring statements that criticized women, African Americans, and Islam than conservatives and moderates.

ZMan is disenchanted.

One of the features of the current year is the regular reminder that western style democracy is a complete fraud. According to the political class, democracy allows for public policy to reflect the will of the people. The parties put forward candidates offering various policy proposals and the public signals their preferences by voting for one or the other candidates. The winners then set about trying to implement the policies they proposed. That’s how we’re told representative democracy works.

In reality, nothing like this happens. Instead, the parties put on a show for the voters, rarely intending to actually do what they claim. Instead, they manufacture differences between one another, so they can pretend the choice before the voters is stark. Once the election is over, the politicians go back to living their lives of leisure, waiting for instructions from the people who actually run things. The politicians are like robot actors, brought out for elections, then put back in storage.

Hurricane Hype And Climate Change Hysterics

A Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Alarmism.

We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too

Big Tech Offers Paid Leave to Climate Protest “Volunteers”

Sen. Booker Reveals $3 Trillion Climate Plan  Let the bidding begin!

Debunking the Fake Farmland Crisis  If we were short on farmland, the government wouldn’t be paying people not to grow crops.

Climate change protesters admit using a diesel generator to power their stage  Just can’t shake it.

Four Of The Top POTUS Candidates Are Planning To Spend A Grand Total Of Nearly $26 Trillion On Fighting Climate Change  And why not? It’s not as if it were their money.

Alaska’s Sea Ice Completely Melted for First Time in Recorded

Pope Francis Providing His Climate Change Expertise Again

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Classic styles, handcrafted in the USA.

Not excessively expensive compared to the crap you see in the stores these days.

They know the difference between an Oxford and a Blucher, which goes a long with way me.

Scott Adams explains.

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Don’t wander around where there are mountain lions.

That was easy.