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Eeeeewwww.

Next step: Hug your flat tire. You’ll be glad you did.

Eeeeewwww.

Steve Sailer finds the key.

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I’ll bet there’s a story there.

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After Trump’s surprising success in the economy and surprising success on the world stage, many people are surprised that Trump won the Kavanaugh nomination. I’m surprised at the surprising number of conservatives who are surprised at the surprisingly consistent record of one success after another of President Trump.

Some of us are here waiting to say ‘Told You So’.

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She must not be paying attention. That’s the whole point of Trump appointing Justices. Wakey wakey.

John Hinderaker at Powerline looks at the future.

Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed to the Supreme Court tomorrow, bringing to a close one of the most appalling episodes in American political history. The Democrats’ shameful treatment of Robert Bork in 1987 has distorted our politics–not just the politics of the Supreme Court–for the last 30 years. But the slanders the Democratic Party directed toward Kavanaugh were, if anything, even more disgraceful. We will feel their impact for many years to come.

So, looking to the future, what are the notable features of our political landscape?

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All fields have at least a few weak journals. All fields can boast of plenty of lousy journal articles. All fields are embarrassed by occasional frauds. All fields suffer from ideological biases or conflicts of interest that interfere with good scholarship.

But I can’t think of any serious field in which an amateur who’s done a few month’s reading could even produce a plausible parody, let alone a paper that would be taken seriously by dozens of editors and peer reviewers. If that’s all it takes, a PhD is a meaningless five-year waste of time.

Gee, how did that come about?

They can’t be treated as dumping grounds for impassioned mediocrities and then ignored.

If they are, and everyone tacitly agrees to sweep away the whole episode because the hoaxsters didn’t get IRB approval or something, it just gives the game away: these fields exist only to placate troublemakers, and nobody in the serious parts of the university cares about them.

So these fields are basically a parking garage for people who would otherwise just be troublemakers, and whose only utility is that they pad out headcounts in universities who then paid for them through federal student aid programs. Traditional universities who wail and moan about the frauds being perpetrated on unsuspecting students by for-profit vocational schools are essentially doing the same thing in a Clever Plastic Disguise.

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I hope it happens. That would be entertaining.

In fact, I hope it happens no matter how Murkowski votes on Kavanaugh. The Murk has been treading the RINO path for far too long.

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And if you’ll believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Zman pulls it together.

Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin is credited with coining the phrase “war on women” in 1989, when she first used the phrase in a book introduction. Perhaps sensing she had something useful, she later used it in a book title. Democrat politicians have used it ever since to gaslight single female voters. Given the life of Mx. Dworkin, it is no surprise that the phrase is one of those fine examples of the Opposite Rule of Liberalism. The actual war on women has always been from the cult-Marx radicals of feminism.

I am reliably informed by Yale classmates who knew her that Andrea Dworkin habitually wore overalls.

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Whine whine whine and see what it gets you.

A demonstration that ‘wage’ and ‘remuneration’ are not the same thing.

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Heh. Be careful what you scream for, you just might get it.

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Prediction: The DemLegHump Media will ignore it as long as they can, then dismiss it as ‘not credible’.

Like here: Networks, CNN Ignore Letter From Ford’s Ex-Boyfriend That Raises Questions About Her Sworn Testimony

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Curing congestion by adding more lanes is like curing obesity by buying bigger pants.

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Well, why not?

As George Carlin famously said, if you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck out there will buy it.

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Used to be, two northern states, Illinois and New York, took top prize for vivid geographic divergence on matters of political and cultural reality. What had machine-run Chicago to do with the all those prairie-dwellers downstate in the Land of Lincoln? Or sophisticated Manhattan with the upstate provinces north of Yonkers? Not much. More and more, that’s the way things feel in Virginia. It’s not the first time the state has pulled itself apart. It happened, literally and permanently, back in 1863; the counties west of the Allegheny Mountains, not much invested in slavery and distant from the capital in Richmond, sided with the Union and went their own way,  hence West Virginia.

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‘Funding’ is bureaucratspeak for ‘you give us money and we’ll pass a small part of it along’.

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No, I haven’t read the actual article. I’m afraid to.

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Perhaps we could have an FBI investigation. Or at least play one on TV.

Where is Raymond Reddington when you really need him?

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Ideology is all well and good, but it’s the money that does the talkin’.

Even Democrats gotta eat.

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Hey, fair’s fair.

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Apparently The Social Construct That Is Race affects even newborn babies. Who knew?

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What do you want to bet that she was included just so they could say that?

If the Nobel Committees weren’t notorious for political correctness that wouldn’t be an issue. They’ve nobody to blame but themselves.

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I’ve always been suspicious of coconuts.

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Heartburn, here it comes.

A lot has been written about how the internet undermined and destroyed media. What we are seeing today may be the more important story, however, which is the tech industry is explicitly buying out the media, particular culture making elite media institutions.

This was illustrated again when it was recently announced that Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff is buying Time magazine for $190 million. Jeff Bezos already owns the Washington Post. Steve Job’s widow owns the Atlantic. These are all people who have essentially infinite funds to sustain these over the long term – as vanity projects if necessary. How many high status print publications are left to acquire? The New Yorker is owned by Condé Nast, which reportedly hemorrhages money, though is owned by a very wealthy family. The WSJ is already in corporate hands, so should be buyable at some point. The NYT is still family controlled for the time being. Broadcast media is tougher but might ultimately share the same fate. (Foreign elite media is a different story than the US).

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Nobody remembers the word ‘Comintern’ any more.

House lawmakers sent a letter Monday to the environmental group Earthjustice demanding documents regarding its ties to foreign officials and environmental activists, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The letter from top Republicans on the House Committee on Natural Resources is the fourth sent to environmental groups over their ties to foreign governments. It’s the second letter related to environmental opposition to the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, Japan.

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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.

Steve Sailer takes a peek at ‘Doctor” Ford’s background.

No standardized tests are required and no average test scores are published. It has two campuses, plus arrangements with various Silicon Valley community colleges to use their facilities, plus an online presence. Tuition was $21k in 2015, about half of a typical 4-year private college. Main majors are Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Social Action and Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Psychology, depending on whether you want to work for a government or NGO agency or a corporation.

Finishing school for would-be Crustian drones is my guess.

John Derbyshire unloads.

Nothing matters to these people but power: not our institutions, not our laws and customs, not out history, not our Constitution, not truth or falsehood, not science or reason, not decency or respect, only Lenin’s who-whom—whose boot is stomping on whose face? They are determined that it shall be their boot, our face; and in their view, every means is legitimate to bring that about.

The U.S. Senate was a last bastion of constitutional collegiality, even into the Trump era. In April last year three Democratic Senators voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. I wouldn’t bet on that happening this time around. We are now firmly in an era of smash-mouth politics, of Leninist who-whom.

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Vertical farming is great for growing lots of food in a small space, but productivity comes at a cost: high energy use.

The same reason ‘renewable’ power sources don’t beat coal and oil.

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Another woman accuses Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. A third says she was at multiple parties in the Eighties where women, including herself, were drugged and gang raped by the Supreme Court nominee and his friends. But she kept going back. And never complained until two days before an important Senate vote. And, coincidentally, Christine Blasey Ford’s attorney was her attorney in a sexual harassment suit 10 years ago.

And we’re supposed to believe all this.

Bethany Mandel leaves the reservation.

In the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh allegations conservative women have heard a great deal of the following:

HOW CAN YOU… AS A WOMAN DARE QUESTION THE VERACITY OF THESE ALLEGATIONS?

Well, the simple, half-joking answer is: I’ve met a lot of women in my time. But here’s the real one: I’m a woman, but that doesn’t make me part of some feminist club, because the part of my value more than my womanhood is that I am the mother of sons and I am the wife of the greatest man I’ve ever known. If allegations of this nature were made against the men in my life, here is what I would expect and demand of the public: take into account their character prior to these accusations, and evaluate the credibility of the accusations and the accuser.

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In the left’s view, it is racist to believe that (a) there are races, (b) they differ in their genetic inheritance (which is much the same thing), and (c) the distribution of intelligence (vis-a-vis other races) is a manifestation of genetic inheritance (and therefore of race) is a racist. Which leads me to ask this: If there is no such thing as race, how can there be racism and racists?

If you can pick out, from a crowd, who’s the victim of racism, then race exists. It’s just that simple.

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Go, global warming.

I still want New York under three feet of water.

Ace of Spades puts it all together for you.

Well, so glad we could clear that up.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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You know the one:

The proglodyte war on reality proceeds apace.

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Life imitates (bad) art.

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I’ve always wondered whether this stuff really works.

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.