The Other McCain says what all people know.

Monday, I noticed an unexplained surge of traffic to my April 14 post with the simple title “Max Boot Is an Idiot,” in which I described the Trump-hating former Wall Street Journal writer as “one of the most overrated neocon gasbags in Washington.” What could have caused this increase of interest in Max Boot’s idiocy? I had no idea, and because I spent Monday driving back from Georgia, there was no opportunity to investigate this mysterious phenomenon. Who cares about Max Boot? Certainly, I never have, even when he was an influential advocate of our ill-fated invasion of Mesopotamia. Once the Bush era ended, so also did Max Boot’s influence, and no one paid any attention to him for the next eight years, but then Boot jumped on the #NeverTrump bandwagon as the vehicle by which he intended to return to relevance. Still, I have made a habit of ignoring him, as every conservative should, so what could explain this week’s sudden uptick of search traffic for Max Boot?

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Perhaps they would like to visit Guantanamo instead.

UPDATE: Israel PM Netanyahu: You’re Damn Right We Ordered the Code Red on These Terrorist-Sympathisizing, Antisemitic Agitators

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Left to its own devices, California’s Republican Party would be ready to be embalmed for display at the Museum of Natural History. But there’s one last hope for the state GOP: the growing lunacy among Democrats.

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One of the most interesting threads left dangling in the curious case of Ilhan Omar is the one hanging from Wilecia Harris. Harris signed the 2009 marriage certificate for Omar’s marriage to Ahmed Elmi. With Harris’s signature the clock strikes 13 (or higher) in the Omar saga. As I noted in “Whence Wilecia?,” I posted the certificate and commented in it in part 3 and part 7 of my “mixed-up files” series.

The Daily Mail’s Martin Gould has sought to contact Harris for clarification. He reports the results of his inquiry this afternoon in “‘It’s not going to happen, not now – and not never!’ Christian minister Wilecia Harris, who officiated at ceremony of Ilhan Omar’s wedding to her ‘brother,’ refuses to shed light on what she knows.”

Harris’s husband, Marcus Harris, responded on Mrs. Harris’s behalf: “he rebuff[ed] all attempts to shed light on how she — a Christian minister — got to perform the marriage for two Muslims.” He quotes Harris’s response in a Facebook message: “It’s not going to happen, not now and not never.” This is the modus operandi of the protagonists in the curious case.

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If you can eat just five olives, kudos to you. I can’t.

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

Personally, I wouldn’t risk it.

World’s first solar road turns out to be colossal failure

Penn State Professor Demands More Control Over Agriculture Because Climate Change

Icebergs delay Southern Hemisphere future warming  Who saw that coming?

Google Pitchman Bill Nye: Green Tech Will Make You ‘Filthy F—king Rich’

Arctic permafrost is thawing fast. That affects us all

The world is running out of sand and there’s a violent black market

These toilets use worms to compost your poop, and they are our future

Media and USGS biologist sensationalize recent report of a polar bear encounter in Alaska  That’s a pretty small polar bear.

A Green And Pleasant Land

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Women and minorities hardest hit.

Scott Adams.

That’s how the American people are fooled by the media. They package coincidences.

Babylon Bee.

Actually I think we have more communists than they have protesters.

We’ll need to give the protesters the communists’ university places to make it fair.

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Really, what could go wrong?

Steve Sailer.

Should Harvard be required to accept the wretched refuse of its applicant pool even though they are likely to flunk out?

Should the Golden State Warriors be forced to draft the huddled masses of short and slow college basketball players who are likely to get torched in the NBA?

And should the United States government be mandated to let in immigrants likely to go on welfare?

Is Global Warming Really An Existential Threat?

Student Union president who banned beef admits students wouldn’t pay more for universities to be greener

L. A. Times hypes coastal cliff erosion 9+ centuries into the future at existing sea level rise rates  So we’d better get right to work on fixing that….

CBS Marvels at Radical Teenage Climate Activist Lecturing U.S.  Sure, we all look to high school students for policy advice.

Goldsmiths College, University of London Bans Cafeteria Beef to Stop Climate Change

Elephants and monkeys are fighting climate change in ways humans can’t  Mostly by pooping, I suspect.

Scott Johnson of Power Line provides some background.

THAT’S THE POINT with Brandon has posted the video of Chris Cuomo in meltdown mode below. According to Brandon, the clip was “sent in by a TTP fan” who “went to ask Chris Cuomo for a photo, mind you the man who asked him DID NOT know his real name and knows of him only through The RUSH LIMB[AU]GH SHOW and on that show Rush repeatedly calls him ‘FREDO’ so the man legitimately thought his name was FREDO. At this point CHRIS CUOMO LOSES IT AND THREATENS THE MAN WITH VIOLENCE!”

If you listen only to Rush, you might indeed be led to believe that Chris Cuomo’s first name is “Fredo.” Rush never refers to him as anything but. However, you probably wouldn’t recognize “Fredo” in the flesh if you only listen to Rush.

“Today I remember no Greek. I have never read Latin for pleasure, and should now be hard put to it to compose a simple epitaph. But I do not regret my superficial classical studies. I believe that the conventional defence of them is valid; that only by them can a boy fullly understand that a sentence is a logical construction and that words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. Those who have not been so taught — most Americans and most women — unless they are guided by some rare genius, betray their deprivation.The old-fashioned test of an English sentence — will it translate? — still stands after we have lost the trick of translation.”

— Evelyn Waugh, A Little Learning, p. 139

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The Iron Curtain was an 8,000-mile border separating East from West during the Cold War. Something unexpected evolved in the “no man’s land” that the massive border created. In the absence of human intervention and disruption, an accidental wildlife refuge formed.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservationists from both sides of the divide realized this long-unused space could become the core path of a “European Greenbelt” connecting habitats across countries, including national parks and nature preserves.

Scott Johnson at Power Line has a recommendation.

Today is the official publication date of my friend Andrew McCarthy’s Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. Courtesy of Encounter Books I read an advance copy of the book last week and want to recommend it enthusiastically to Power Line readers. Even though I have closely followed the “collusion” story as it has come into public view since January 2017, I was reminded of pieces I had forgotten and learned details I had overlooked on every page of this riveting book.

I will certainly listen to anything that Andy McCarthy has to say on any subject.

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Some people are still not Woke.

You’ll note that they don’t give the driver’s name or any other information. I suspect that means that he belonged to a fashionable minority like Muslim.

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If you don’t yet know what your spirit animal is, you’re prosbably a Republican.

Time to level up. Take the quiz.

(Mine is the Badger.)

Modern Transportation – A Miracle under Attack By Climate Zealots

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #371

Floating solar farms could make fuel and help solve the climate crisis

University Bans Beef To Battle ‘Climate Emergency’

Cauliflower off the menu after hot July kills crop  Sometimes the system works.

Beef banned by university in bid to fight climate change  (all together now) WHERE’S THE BEEF?

Monday Mirthiness: job posting ‘CLIMATE EMERGENCY OFFICER’

California Sets Regulations for Diners Bringing Their Own Reusable Containers to Restaurants

Amazon emergency: two-thirds of species are under threat from deforestation – dispatch  Women and minority species hardest hit.

Brazil’s President: Poop Less, Save The Earth  Good luck getting Washington to comply.

Greenland’s ‘Record Temperature’ denied – the data was wrong

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The biter bit.

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Of course, she could double their salaries out of pocket change, but that solution never seems to occur to rich people who encourage other people to spend money.

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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Salvini hit back at Richard Gere, suggesting that the actor fly 160 migrants stranded off the Italian coast back to Hollywood on his “private jet.”

Gere, appearing at a press conference for NGO Open Arms on the Italian island of Lampedusa, implored Italy to allow the ship to dock – a request Salvini has staunchly refused for weeks, according to Bloomberg.

UPDATE: Richard Gere Brings Supplies To Migrants In Mediterranean Sea

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It’s quite amusing to watch Democratic presidential contenders respond to attacks on their record regarding crime. They have no defense to assert that would not hurt them with their Party’s base. Thus, they respond by attacking the record of the candidate who has attacked them.

Babylon Bee.

Media immediately jumped all over Biden’s comments, responding to his horrifying gaffe by calling on President Trump to resign.

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The US Navy will replace the touchscreen throttle and helm controls currently installed in its destroyers with mechanical ones starting in 2020, says USNI News. The move comes after the National Transportation Safety Board released an accident report from a 2017 collision, which cites the design of the ship’s controls as a factor in the accident.

On August 21st, 2017, the USS John S. McCain collided with the Alnic MC, a Liberian oil tanker, off the coast of Singapore. The report provides a detailed overview of the actions that led to the collision: when crew members tried to split throttle and steering control between consoles, they lost control of the ship, putting it into the path of the tanker. The crash killed 10 sailors and injured 48 aboard the McCain.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Ye shall know the Crust, and the Crust shall make you rich.

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In case you haven’t been keeping your own list.

In the future, only the rich will be able to escape the unbearable heat from climate change. In Iraq, it’s already happening

The Menace of Eco-Fascism

Steve Sailer.

Andrew Yang would rather that Americans live in shipping containers due to overcrowding than that Americans use their democratic rights to vote to cut back on immigration.

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Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini spoke recently in a public square in the Italian coastal town of Sabaudia. In the midst of the current government crisis, Mr. Salvini’s focus was on the migration crisis, and the recent governmental decree that dramatically increases the penalties imposed on NGOs whose vessels “rescue” migrants and bring them to Italy.

Mr. Salvini’s popularity is at an all-time high, as is that of his party, the Lega.

Global Warming? An Israeli Astrophysicist Provides Alternative View That Is Not Easy To Reject

#ExxonKnew Epic Fail: Oil Companies DID NOT build “their rigs to account for sea-level rise”

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The Bee is what the Onion was but is no more.

Snopes rigorously fact checks Bee stories over and again that are obviously false, funny and targeting progressive stars like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Bee stories skewering conservative figures? Snopes.com leaves them unchecked.

Examples:

Men Agree To Let Women Run The World As Long As They’ll Stop Asking Questions During Football Games

To Show Support For Gun Control, Matt Damon Remakes Bourne Series With Bananas Instead Of Firearms

Mormons Launch Sacred Underwear Store ‘Brigham’s Secret’

and especially

Snopes Strikes Deal With Netflix To Provide On-Screen Fact Checks Of Fictional Shows, Movies

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You ought to know both those names. If you don’t, it’s past time to level up.

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The whole advanced technology of wingmasts and hydrofoils for sailing ships is fascinating.

Byron York has.

But the question is, was he inspired by President Trump? It is hard to make that case looking at the manifesto in its entirety.

Crusius worried about many things, if the manifesto is any indication. He certainly worried about immigration, but also about automation. About job losses. About a universal basic income. Oil drilling. Urban sprawl. Watersheds. Plastic waste. Paper waste. A blue Texas. College debt. Recycling. Healthcare. Sustainability. And more. Large portions of the manifesto simply could not be more un-Trumpian.

How much energy storage costs must fall to reach renewable energy’s full potential

Climate Solution? Trees

Germans Rebel Against Tax on Meat

Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet  Eat more chikin.

Sorry, But We Can’t Just Hack Our Way Out of Climate Doom

Michael Moore-backed Doc, ‘Planet of the Humans,’ Tackles ‘False Promises’ of Green Energy

Leftwingers Getting Their Dicktubes Snipped Because of Climate Worries  Think of it as evolution in action.

Nets Hype Climate HYSTERIA: Save the Planet, Stop Eating Meat!

Apocalyptic Sea-Level Rise—Just a Thing of the Past?

A Guide to Climate Change  The Narrative in a nutshell.

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Dr. Robert Epstein is a psychologist, professor, and author. He’s the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today.

Dr. Epstein is a liberal Democrat. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee (see below), he described himself as a “vocal public supporter” of Hillary Clinton. He said that to characterize him as not a Republican and not a conservative is “an understatement.”

Epstein testified that in the 2016 election, Google generated a minimum of 2.6 million votes for Clinton through deceptive manipulation of search results. He warned that if, in 2020, companies like Google and Facebook all support the same presidential candidate (as surely they will) they could affect up to 15 million votes, e.g. by “go vote” reminders sent only to those believed to be Democrats.

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When an ancient Roman heard the word “liberal” he thought of someone who possess the virtue of “liberality,” or generosity. When most Americans hear the word “liberal” they think of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. When most Europeans hear the word “liberal” they think of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Some scholars trace the roots of liberalism to Christianity, whereas others trace it to a “battle against Christianity,” to quote Rosenblatt (emphasis in original). This makes one wonder whether the word has any meaning at all.

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It isn’t going to be easy. I use Google, Facebook, Amazon, Lyft, Uber, Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify. I have two Amazon Echos, a Google Home, an iPhone, a MacBook Air, a Nest thermostat, a Fitbit, and a Roku. I shared the secrets of my genetic makeup by spitting in one vial for 23andMe, another for an ancestry site affiliated with National Geographic, and a third to test my athletic potential. A few months ago, I was leaving my house in Los Angeles for a hike when I heard my Ring speaker say, “Where are you going, Joel?” in my wife’s voice. She was at a pottery class, but the smart doorbell sent her an alert when it detected me heading outside.

Now that’s creepy.

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Actually, it only takes one question: Do you think Trump is Hitler?

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We have the technology … or don’t, as the case may be.

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Gizmodo: Facebook Patents Shadowbanning

Breitbart: Facebook Receives Patent for ‘Shadowbanning’ Tech

Reclaim the Net: Facebook’s shadowbanning process is now patented