Donald Trump’s ‘crooked’ and ‘fake’ media slurs crumble as reporters excel chronicling Hurricane Harvey  An alternate reality inhabited by the new clerisy.

World’s largest general science organisation slams Trump’s lack of ‘scientific thinking’  Uh, actually, that’s not his job — he hires people to do that for him. His job is political thinking, and that’s what they’re really objecting to.

Harvey: Former White House photographer highlights contrast between Trump and Obama’s disaster responses  And you know, without even reading it, that Obama was right and Trump was wrong.

CNN’s Brinkley: Trump Pushing ‘BS’ of ‘Slashing, Slashing’ FEMA, EPA

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Early Friday, the Politico’s Josh Meyer reported that the Department of Homeland Security had formally classified the activities of the left-wing and anarchist-driven movement known as “antifa” as “domestic terrorist violence” — in April 2016. Yes, during the Obama administration, which chose to keep this assessment hidden.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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The history of academic criminology is one of grand pronouncements that don’t often prove out in the real world. In the 1960s and 1970s, for example, criminologists demanded that public policy attack the “root causes” of crime, such as poverty and racism. Without solving these problems, they argued, we could not expect to fight crime effectively. On this thinking, billions of taxpayer dollars poured into ambitious social programs—yet crime went up, not down. In the 1970s and 1980s and into the 1990s, as crime rates continued to spike, criminologists proceeded to tell us that the police could do little to cut crime, and that locking up the felons, drug dealers, and gang leaders who committed much of the nation’s criminal violence wouldn’t work, either.

These views were shown to be false, too, but they were held so pervasively across the profession that, when political scientist James Q. Wilson called for selective incapacitation of violent repeat offenders, he found himself ostracized by his peers, who resorted to ad hominem attacks on his character and motivations. Wilson’s work was ignored by awards committees, and criminological reviews of his books, especially Thinking About Crime and Crime and Human Nature, were almost universally negative. In the real-world policy arena, however, Wilson attained significant influence: the Broken Windows theory of policing and public order, which Wilson developed with criminologist George Kelling, became a key part of the proactive policing strategies that would be largely responsible for the great crime decline starting in the mid-1990s.

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.

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Of course not. It’s all about the Narrative.

Will Trump Suffer Nixon’s Fate?  Uh, no.

NYT’s Kristof Finds Trump ‘Scary’ on Taxes, Must Talk ‘Climate Change’

NBC Blackout: Ignores Trump’s $1 Million Pledge to Harvey Relief  Of course they did.

Joy Reid: Trump Ending DACA Hypocritical Because ‘He’s Married to an Immigrant’

Major Garrett Sneers: Trump ‘Kept His Distance From Suffering’ in Texas

Matt Damon Attacks Trump’s ‘Abhorrent’ Reaction To Charlottesville  I rather doubt that Matt Damon bothered to read Trump’s reaction ot Charlottesville.

Reporters Lobby WH’s Sanders on Behalf of DREAMers, Question Whether He Has a ‘Big Heart’

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I am not making this up.

Import some black people from Detroit. I hear they’ve got extra, and would appreciate the work.

Donald Trump suppressed report into coal mining’s risk to public health, accuses world-leading Nature scientific journal  The odd that he even knows this ‘report’ exists are slim to none.

Alt-Left Insanity: Trump ‘Is Actually a Blind Carnivorous Cave Zombie’

Not Good Enough: CBS Moves the Goalpost for Trump’s Texas Visit

MSNBC Brings on Obama Hack to Blame Trump for Chemical Plant Explosion

‘The Misogynists’ Labels Trump Voters ‘Misanthropic Sociopaths’

Jim Acosta: Could Trump’s Texas Visit Be ‘Harmful’?

Asians ‘being victimised’ because of Trump’s policies, says family of murdered Sikh man  ‘Trump’s policies’, of course, have nothing to do with it.

Donald Trump’s attacks on ‘fake news’ media an incitement to violence, says UN human rights chief  That’s why all those journalists are being murdered in the streets. (Oh, wait….)

Donald Trump and Joseph Stalin have a lot in common when it comes to science  I guess their Hitler muscle is getting tired.

Trump is ‘seized with fear’ over Russia investigation, says veteran news reporter Dan Rather  Uh, no.

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A new report on diversity among library employees at America’s four-year colleges and universities has concluded that there are entirely too many white librarians.

Ithaka S+R, an academic research firm, released the “Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity” report on Wednesday.

As a group, librarians “are over three quarters white and nearly 90 percent white in leadership roles,” the Ithaka S+R report reveals.

The lack of “library employees of color” is a “shortcoming” in the academic library industry, the report also says.

Perhaps it’s because ‘people of color’ (don’t say ‘colored people’, that’s racist) don’t want to be librarians.

I’m still waiting to hear a persuasive argument that ‘diversity’ is somehow advantageous in a library, or how growing up in an inner-city slum brings something ‘vital’ to shelving books.

Donald Trump’s pardoning of Sheriff Joe Arpaio is an impeachable offence, say law professors  Well, no, it’s not. The constitution is quite clear.

Liberals Protest Trump’s Texas Visit Following Devastating Storm

Celebrities Slam Trump And First Lady As They Step Up To Help In Texas

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny Claims Trump Showed Little Empathy for Hurricane Harvey Victims

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Journalists are giving Donald Trump‘s White House another reason to find them unAmerican. Some wasted no time giving first lady Melania Trump a hard time about wearing 5-inch black stilettos to tour Tropical Storm Harvey.

Odd that they have nothing more important to write about. The resemblance between the DemLegHump Media and the Heathers is getting frightening.

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Of course not. Greed on the part of Official Victims is bottomless.

A British professor argued in a Monday op-ed that many of the calls for reparations don’t go far enough when addressing the history of slavery.

Birmingham City University Associate Professor Kehinde Andrews wrote in a Guardian op-ed that proposals for free college education for black people and canceling debt in third world countries aren’t good enough calls for reparations.

“In many ways the calls for reparatory justice do not take go far enough. Caricom includes a demand to cancel third world debt, and the Movement for Black Lives for free tuition for African Americans,” Andrews wrote. “Both of these are examples of removing the knife from our backs, rather than healing the wound. Third world debt was an unjust mechanism for maintaining colonial economic control and allowing free access to a deeply problematic school system will not eradicate the impacts of centuries of oppression.”

Dude, there is no knife in your back; if there were, you’d be picking cotton rather than lounging in comfort in your professor’s office. What there is, is your hand in other people’s pockets.

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You can’t make this stuff up.

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Sounds pretty fascist to me. And yet Trump is the New Hitler.

Steve Sailer does a little fisking.

– It’s almost as if 45 to 50 years of affirmative action haven’t succeeded in making blacks and Hispanics smarter …

Assumed without any attempted justification in the NYT article: That ‘blacks and Hispanics’ ought to be ‘represented’ somehow in ‘top colleges’. (This is a proglodyte religious dogma based on the contrary-to-fact beliefs that All People Are The Same and Race Is Not A Thing.)

Reality is something that exists even when you don’t believe it.

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Some journalists are frustrated at the leaked Wall Street Journal emails revealed to The New York Times Wednesday, showing Editor in Chief Gerard Baker lamenting them for injecting too much “opinion” into the outlet’s reporting, imploring them to stick to the facts.

To Hell with that facts, we’ve got a Narrative to push here.

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Because nothing promotes peace like violently suppressing other people’s free speech.

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Recently, a Black Lives Matter activist named Chanelle Helm published a list of 10 requests for white people. It included such reasonable entreaties as “When you die, will your property to a black or brown family” and “Build free housing for black and brown people” and “Get a racist fired.” Have you done what you’re told yet, white people?

Looks like White Privilege has nothing to compare to Fashionable Minority Victim Privilege.

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Major news outlets around the country would have you think that the United States Secret Service is running out of money due to President Trump’s frequent travel and large family.

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Problem is, that’s not true. According to a press release from Director Alles:

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More Democrat projection. Being called a racist and a liar by a Democrat Congressman is like being called ugly by a frog.

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The class “interrogates mathematics as a field of inquiry, asking what is recognized as math and what isn’t, who had and has access to math, and what privileges it gives access to,” according to the course description. “Through a grounding in feminist critiques (from critical theory, science studies, and women-of-color feminisms), we will examine how mathematical knowledge becomes legitimized and the ways in which power structures influence what counts as knowledge.”

And for this they get credit has having studied mathematics, rather than politics.

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Taxpayer-funded PBS and NPR are now in the polling business with Marist College, and like the other networks, their polls are often used to support putting heat on Republicans. On Wednesday, they announced they had found a majority of Americans were disappointed with the president’s responsive to the violence in Charlottesville. PBS then ignored their own finding that 62 percent favored leaving Confederate statues in place, while only 27 percent want them removed. NPR reported it once, and then insisted that had nothing to do with Charlottesville.

Buried in the weeds: They also asked if Americans approve or disapprove of Black Lives Matter: 50 percent disapproved, and only 33 percent approved. They even asked about approval of Antifa, but few had heard of them yet: Five percent approved, 24 percent disapproved, 18 percent said they had no opinion either way, and 53 percent were unsure. But if the results don’t fit….you must omit?

It’s all about the Narrative, Larry.

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Virtue-signalling at its finest. We can all rest easy now.

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I’m still waiting for one of these people to start giving his own money to poor people. (Bill Gates is famed as a philanthropist but he doesn’t give money to poor people, he gives it to other ‘good causes’. And he still winds up the richest guy in the world more often than not.)

But they never do. They’re all about giving away other people’s money, by force (which is how the government gets its money) if necessary.

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Being called a Nazi by Rosie O’Donnell is like being called ugly by a frog.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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As every living American with European ancestors knows, the Confederacy is our fault. We did that. We’re responsible for that. It’s our solemn duty to apologize at every turn for looking like people who died 150 years ago. If you don’t think it’s your fault just because you weren’t even born yet, you’re a racist.

Down the Memory Hole.

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The headline suggests that this is just a ploy on the part of the government, but if you actually read the article you findthe reluctant admission that they are, in fact, illegal immigrants.

This in the British newspaper ironically titled The Independent.

Steve Sailer is having fun connecting the dots.

Today Google is under growing scrutiny, and the cognitive dissonance between the outward-facing “Don’t be evil” stance and the internal misogynistic “brogrammer” rhetoric was too extreme.

As a general rule, you can be sure that anybody who uses the word “brogrammer” non-ironically is yanking your chain.

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Chelsea Handler suggested on Friday that U.S. generals should carry out a military coup to replace President Trump, who she called “our idiot-in-chief.”

“To all the generals surrounding our idiot-in-chief…the longer U wait to remove him, the longer UR name will appear negatively in history,” the TV personality wrote on Twitter.

Funny how these people who think that Trump is the New Hitler are sounding an awful lot like, well, Hitler.

Funny how these ‘Democrats’ don’t seem all that fond of, well, democracy.

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One of the dependable tools of totalitarians is the smear-phrase, an invented nickname created as a stick to use to beat their opponents. ‘Black market’ is a famous one, along with ‘price gouging’, ‘profiteering’, ‘frankenfood’, ‘microagression’, ‘intersectionality’, and that most venerable of all smear-phrases, ‘capitalism’. Since people’s thoughts are constrained by the language they use, these brain-reprogrammings are successful to the extent that even people on the other side of the issue feel compelled to use them.

In this case, however, the mob was unsuccessful.

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Of course they did. But you knew that.

The Politics of Blondness.

Fox News and Donald Trump have given blonde hair a new chapter: Now, blonde is the color of the right, for whom whiteness has become a hallmark. Over the past decade or so, as inclusiveness became the hallmark of Obama-era liberals, the left found feminist icons in Rachel Maddow, Samantha Power, and Michelle Obama, who make no apologies for their failure to fit traditional ideals. But #MAGA, Fox News America is a place where all the classic signifiers of privilege and wealth work on overdrive: country-club-issue blue blazers with brass buttons and khaki pants, and above all else, for women, that yellow-blonde, carefully tended hair — a dog whistle of whiteness, an unspoken declaration of values, a wink-wink to the power of racial privilege and to the 1980s vibe that pervades a movement led by a man who still believes in the guilt of the Central Park Five. During that Republican Preppy Handbook era, when Dynasty and Dallas were on TV, the type of conspicuous ostentation that would lead a real-estate developer to sheath his entire apartment in gold leaf was actually in vogue. Look at the movies: Jake’s girlfriend in Sixteen Candles with the lush swoop of thick, blonde locks that ended up stuck in a door (losing the boyfriend to a redhead of all things meant, literally, losing that luscious hair). Johnny, the villain of the Karate Kid films, had a decisive swoosh of blond hair that obscured his headband. We knew, the moment we saw that hair, that small, ethnic Daniel was up against more than another teenager, he was up against privilege itself.

I am not making this up.

The chief defect of Identity Politics is that it makes people into units of a group rather than individuals, and hence interchangeable. This is a relic of tribal politics rearing its ugly head. Taken to its logical extreme, in such places as Pakistan and Nigeria, it means that if somebody from group X has offended you, it is enough to punish some other unit from that group; no need to find the actual perpetrator. ‘They all look alike to me.’

Of course, if somebody did this trick with a Fashionable Minority, I’m sure this chick would be the first to go ballistic. It’s all about The Evils of Being White.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (I am not making this up) delivers a hiding to your lying eyes.

It’s 2017, and people are still debating whether or not women are intellectually inferior to men, and whether we are entitled to a workplace that isn’t toxic to people simply based on their gender and sex.

Well, no, actually. People are debating how much to tar and feather the straw man of ‘women intellectually inferior to men’, which nobody actually believes any more, but it’s such a useful straw man than it’s perennially resurrected for the Two-Minute Hate.

Note the forced distinction between ‘gender and sex’, and the focus on whether women have a workplace that isn’t toxic and to hell with whether men have the same. Men and women are absolutely identical and besides women are superior in SO many ways.

To make a tedious story short, she has a problem with science because it doesn’t square with her Diversitarian religious beliefs. Poor baby. I am especially struck by her treatment of ‘the invention of whiteness and the invention of race’, as if these were constructed surreptitiously in a lab in the basement of the Koch brothers mansion and then foisted on an unsuspecting proletariat, women and minorities hardest hit etc. etc.

This woman is a ‘philosopher of science’ (how can you be a ‘philosopher’ of a field that you despise?) and alleged ‘particle physicist’ (not sure I believe that) at a state university. Your tax dollars at work (or, in this case, at random).

Apparently science is just another instance of White Privilege. Who knew?

UPDATE: Liberals Are For Science—Until They’re Not

Steven Hayward weighs in on the subject.

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This is the sort of I-won’t-grow-up antic that journalists find irresistible (when it’s for their side) or reprehensible (when it’s not).

I suspect that ‘arrested adolescence’ is the chief characteristic of our time.

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An American law professor — and self-described Islamophobia researcher — has taken to the pages of Al Jazeera English to compare subpar NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick to boxing legend Muhammad Ali.

The professor is Khaled Beydoun of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law — a school so obscure that U.S. News & World Report doesn’t even bother to rank it.

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Once upon a time, brothers-in-law William Procter and James Gamble sold candles and soap. Their 19th-century family business grew into the largest consumer goods conglomerate in the world — launching the most recognizable brands on our grocery shelves, including Tide, Pampers, Crest, Nyquil and Old Spice.

Now, Procter & Gamble want to conquer a new market: identity-politics pandering.

Industry marketers aren’t satisfied with selling useful products people want and need. They’re hell-bent on transforming successful businesses into social justice busybodies.

To be honest, they have little choice. Many are the Social Justice Warriors who will trigger a boycott of a company’s products unless the appropriate PR flacks utter the Politically Correct noises.

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On July 24, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi unveiled proposals by House Democrats to create “a better deal” for American families and workers.

Unfortunately, the press releases accompanying the launch of the “Better Deal” initiative outline general policies that would undermine economic opportunities for Americans and harm American consumers.

In other words, this initiative flunks basic truth in labeling standards. More accurately, it constitutes “a worse deal” for Americans.

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And of course everyone will now do that.

If he had to walk that 3000 miles, he wouldn’t be quite so porky.

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Al Gore was challenged on climate science Tuesday night when the mayor of Tangier Island, a community threatened by coastal erosion, told the environmentalist film producer he hadn’t seen the sea level change since he began his first career as a commercial crabber in 1970.

Gore was taking questions from the audience on a CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper when the fisherman and Tangier Island mayor James Eskridge refuted Gore’s assertion that rising sea levels were endangering coastal communities.

“I’m a commercial crabber and I’ve been working the Chesapeake Bay for 50+ years. I have a crab house business out on the water and the water level is the same as it was when the place was built in 1970,” Eskridge said. “I’m not a scientist, but I am a keen observer and if sea level rises are occurring, why am I not seeing signs of it?”

Facts? AlGore don’t need no stinkin’ facts.

Here’s a fact: Al Gore’s Home Devours 34 Times More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household

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The Associated Press has devoted itself to helping the Democratic Party bring down President Trump. The AP’s effort consists mostly of producing multiple negative articles about Trump and his administration every day; these are picked up by hundreds or thousands of newspapers around the country. But that isn’t all: the AP also conducts a rear-guard action, trying to defuse any positive news about Trump and his administration.

Because sinners can never be allowed to prosper, no matter what the circumstances.

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The highlight of CNN’s primetime lineup Tuesday was  The Climate Crisis town hall where they teamed up with former Vice President and climate alarmist Al Gore to push his propaganda. “Consensus in the scientific community is clear. Sea levels are rising. The oceans are warming,” moderator Anderson Cooper declared as he started the program. The event became even more ridiculous when Gore equated getting people to believe him was like the Civil Rights movement, in that “it’s just really a question of right and wrong.”

So it’s not a “scientific” issue, it’s a MORAL issue. Climate change “deniers” aren’t just wrong, they’re heretics, they’re sinners, who must be punished for not believing What All Right Thinking People Believe.

Watching these people on TV is like an eternal episode of the Leftist version of the 700 Club. It’s all utterly predictable “preaching to the choir”, and all utterly BORING.

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It’s all about the Narrative, Larry.

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And yet here is (tiresomely) remains. Perhaps the airlines don’t have a seat wide enough to carry him somewhere else.

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My, what a surprise.

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He could, if you moved to Canada.

Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

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And I suppose that gravity doesn’t determine which way is down, either.

These people are really unhinged.

Jonah Goldberg turns over a rock.

One of the hallmarks of the “Ugly American” is the habit of thinking foreigners will understand what you’re saying if you just shout it louder and louder.

The Ugly Environmentalist does something similar. He exaggerates the challenge of global warming by using ever more hysterical rhetoric, thinking that if the last doomsday prediction didn’t work, this one will.

Women and minorities hardest hit, of course.

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:They may have won all the battles,

But we had all the good plays.”

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Oh noes!

Academics are now finding white supremacy under the medieval studies bed. As Campus Reform reports, some professors of the period fear that the forces of the “alt-right” are using using this storied age to advance a dangerous “white supremacist fantasy.”

Vassar College professor Dorothy Kim issued this dire warning to The Chronicle of Higher Education last Sunday: “It should be a really, really important time to reflect on why are these things going on and what we can do to combat that. The worry I would have is that, is the field going to be forever linked to white supremacy?”

The worry that I have is, is this going to be another field that surrenders respect for reality to pursue a Leftist political agenda?