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The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
2nd November 2020
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Christopher Eisgruber, the president of Princeton, got his university in trouble when he said that “systemic racism” persists at Princeton and that it damages people of color there. The Department of Education took Eisgruber at his word and launched an investigation of Princeton.
Now, the interim dean of Northwestern’s law school has gone one better. James Speta described himself as a “racist.” He did so during an online “town hall” event.
The only decent thing for Speta to do is to resign — not just as interim dean, but as a professor at the law school. Avowed racists shouldn’t be running a law school or teaching students.
If Speta doesn’t step down, Northwestern should fire him. If not for being a racist, then for being an idiot.
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2nd November 2020
Glenn Greenwald.
In September, 2018, The New York Times published an op-ed that became an instant media sensation. The content of the opinion piece was unremarkable: banal anti-Trump agitprop. Noting “the president’s amorality,” the author wrote that Trump “is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making” and his “impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic” — no different than what one reads virtually every day from that paper’s small army of relentlessly on-script anti-Trump columnists or that one hears daily on panels assembled by MSNBC or CNN.
But what triggered so much media attention was that the author of the anti-Trump denunciation was “a senior official in the Trump administration” who claimed that he and other like-minded dissidents were “resisting” and “thwarting” the elected president from inside the government. Moreover, the New York Times took the extraordinary step of granting anonymity to the author. All of that created an exciting parlor game in which media and political insiders attempted to guess the mysterious author’s identity.
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1st November 2020
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Fredo’s really got Russia on the brain, doesn’t he? Where was he back during the Cold War?
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1st November 2020
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31st October 2020
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I am not a conspiracy theorist. And as recently as a year and a half ago, if someone had told me the things I am reporting here, I would have accused them of culture-war paranoia. That was before I enrolled in a professional training program that I’d hoped would expand my skills as a therapist, but instead delivered an extreme form of ideological indoctrination.
The Sexual Health Certificate Program is a prestigious University of Michigan program conducted in affiliation with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). As someone who recently studied in the program, I can attest that, notwithstanding whatever mission AASECT once had, it now operates largely as a de facto activist group that seeks to reshape standards applied to mental health care and education, and to limit the rights of parents to make decisions about their children.
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31st October 2020
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31st October 2020
Vice.
Conservative news thrives on Facebook because the incentives Facebook values align with those pioneered by conservative media.
That’ll be news to ‘conservative’ media. I guess if you’re insufficiently left-wing then you’re right-wing by definition.
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30th October 2020
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30th October 2020
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And once they find it they beat it to death and hide it in an unmarked grave.
She sure looks like a Karen to me.
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30th October 2020
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Actress Kirstie Alley battled CNN’s communications department over the network’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.
The “Cheers” actress criticized CNN in a tweet early Friday morning, accusing the network of stoking fear over the continued spread of the virus.
“I now Know why my personal friends who walk around in SHEER TERROR of contracting Covid are simply CNN viewers!” Alley tweeted. “I decided to watch CNN myself to get a their viewpoint and oh my God DID I EVER!!!! IF YOU TOO WANT TO LIVE IN TERROR WATCH CNN!!
FEAR OF DYING IS THEIR MANTRA! OMG!”
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30th October 2020
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Hot from The Guardian. (I am not making this up.)
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30th October 2020
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We learned this week that the “senior administration official” who trashed President Trump in a 2018 op-ed under the name “Anonymous” was, in fact, fairly far removed from the center of power as a mere deputy chief of staff to the Secretary of Homeland Security. “I think many people were under the impression — I know I was — that the article was written by somebody with a much more senior role,” ABC’s Jonathan Karl complained on Wednesday’s World News Tonight.
If the Times had given readers a more precise description of the op-ed’s author, though, it’s unlikely anyone would have cared. It was the description of a “senior administration official” that teased the imagination; “senior” being the key word that suggested real proximity to the President, such as a cabinet secretary, prominent West Wing adviser or even Vice President Pence. Learning that the writer was Miles Taylor, someone unknown to most Americans, revealed the op-ed for what it was: a cheap anti-Trump gimmick.
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30th October 2020
Steve Sailer.
The New York Times is committed to bringing you almost as much late-breaking Angela Davis news as its stop-the-presses Emmett Till coverage. Angela Davis’s name has come up in the NYT 48 times over the last year, almost once per week.
Angela’s looking pretty white in this picture.
In contrast, the last time the Times has mentioned the name of Harold Haley, the judge whose head was blown off by the shotgun Davis had purchased two days earlier, was 1986.
Since then, the Times has written about Davis 397 times without mentioning the murdered judge by name once.
Harold Haley. Say his name.
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29th October 2020
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With just five days to go, polls show a tight race in many of the key battleground states. But one place where the race isn’t tight: newsrooms across America. The country’s newspapers have absolutely thumped Donald Trump in their official endorsements, favoring Joe Biden by a count of (88) to (7).
Out of a total of (95) newspapers that have offered an editorial on who their readers should vote for, 88 (93 percent) of them have endorsed Joe Biden. Only seven (The Las Vegas Review Journal, Santa Barbara News-Press, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Spokesman-Review, The New York Post, The Washington Times and Boston Herald) have advised voting for Trump.
I still read the news, but I refuse to pay for it. No way I’m going to shell out money for lies.
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28th October 2020
Fact check: Trump campaign deceptively snips video of Biden quoting the Pope (CNN) The ugliest thing about CNN is their smarmy attidude of moral superiority, as if they weren’t doing the exact came thing that they complain about (and often worse).
Former U.S. attorneys — all Republicans — back Biden, saying Trump threatens ‘the rule of law’ (Washington Post) Of course, anybody can just say they’re Republican, and the WaPo wouldn’t know the difference.
HATE: Nightline Hypes George Lopez Sliming ‘Self-Loathing’ Latino Trump Voters
Late Night ‘Comedy’: Colbert, CNN Doc Agree Trump ‘Planned’ to Let ‘Millions’ Die
‘I Was Out Of My Tree’: Chelsea Handler Admits Trump Hate Led To Assaulting Conservatives In Airports Has any conservative ever assaulted a liberal in an airport? I’ve never heard of one.
‘It Plays Right Into Donald Trump’s Playbook’: Ana Navarro Says Riots In Philadelphia Help Trump In the sense that Leftist violence points out why people ought to vote for Trump, she’s right.
Bloomberg Employees Trash OAN as Network of the Trump ‘Firenado’ and the ‘MAGA Hajj’
USA Today Acknowledges NBA’s All-Out War on Trump
Jeff Flake Films Biden Campaign Ad: ‘Our Country Will Be Better For It’ One of the great things about Trump that is never discussed is how successful he is in flushing RINOS out of the underbrush.
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27th October 2020
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26th October 2020
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26th October 2020
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And of course he’s been right so many times before.
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26th October 2020
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Once again, CNN’s New Day is covering for the network’s preferred presidential candidate, Joe Biden, for not venturing out of the comfort of his basement. One would think that with the election eight days away, that Biden would be hitting the campaign trail and talking to the voters. Instead, as co-host Alisyn Camerota noted: “President Trump is holding three rallies in the critical state of Pennsylvania today. Joe Biden is back home in Delaware, but plans to campaign in Georgia tomorrow.”
It is honestly concerning how often the Biden campaign has called a lid before 10:00 in the morning. Most people are just getting into work at this time. In order to “prepare” for the last presidential debate, Biden called a lid for the entire week leading up to it. If only everyone was able to take off so much time to prepare for a big meeting.
This is in contrast with President Trump, whose whirlwind schedule includes hosting three rallies a day across the country. CNN criticized this move with senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson noting: “the picture of it, I think, goes against not only science, but what most Americans want to see, these big rallies with people outdoors and not wearing any masks and not social distancing either.”
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26th October 2020
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Well, let’s not just confuse people with facts that are inconsistent with the Narrative….
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26th October 2020
Scott Johnson at PowerLine.
Watching Lesley Stahl’s interview of President Trump on 60 Minutes last night, one might get the impression that she gets her news strictly filtered and refined by CBS. She therefore doesn’t know anything beyond what can be acknowledged with the approval of CBS News.
Trump gave her 37:40 of his time for the interview last week. In the event, that was about 37 minutes too much.
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25th October 2020
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24th October 2020
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23rd October 2020
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23rd October 2020
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They weren’t so picky with Dan Rather re George W. Bush.
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22nd October 2020
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned continuing attacks on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett Wednesday, warning that “anti-religious bigotry needs to stop.”
“It is so revealing to watch elite society keep stumbling upon mainstream religious beliefs and practices that are shared by huge numbers of Christian Americans and thinking they’ve discovered some secret scandal,” McConnell said in a Wednesday statement.
Well, from their point of view, it is — nobody they know would admit to being religious, and if they did they would be shunned like a non-hybrid car.
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22nd October 2020
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It’s all about the Narrative.
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22nd October 2020
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Well, which would you rather talk to?
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22nd October 2020
The Guardian.
And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.
This is all a desperate last-ditch attempt to derail the Coney nomination, which will have no effect except on the wokerati.
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21st October 2020
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20th October 2020
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Every other day, we’re bombarded with news about a celebrity lecturing us to vote out Donald Trump. At this point, it’s practically a relief to see an actor or singer not ordering us to vote for Biden come November. Unfortunately, as Chris Pratt proves, that’s all you need to be canceled nowadays. Or worse, remaining quiet gets you labeled as a MAGA supporter.
Pretty sad.
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20th October 2020
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A Michigan bar owner featured in a Joe Biden campaign ad saying his business may fail because of President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 response is a wealthy tech investor who made it big after receiving a large family inheritance.
Democrats lie. This is not news.
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19th October 2020
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19th October 2020
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Friday’s Real Time With Bill Maher showcased the liberal hate fest the HBO series has become known for. But in addition to sliming Any Coney Barrett’s religious faith as “nuts,” host Bill Maher brought on TV and movie actor John Leguizamo to slime Latinos who may vote for Donald Trump.
Maher wondered, “There was an article I saw on the paper this week and I thought this was trading on stereotypes that said Trump is doing rather well with young Latino men because of the machismo factor.”
The John Wick actor sneered, “Latin people for Republicans are like roaches for Raid. Let’s just get real.”
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19th October 2020
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My, what a surprise.
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19th October 2020
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On Saturday night’s CNN Newsroom, host Ana Cabrera collaborated with Michigan’s Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel to forward insane conspiracies about President Trump inspiring the attempted kidnapping of Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Seemingly forgetting that some of the would-be kidnappers have expressed sentiments that are decidedly not right-wing, Cabrera stood by as Nessel declared “I know it is” Trump who inspired the kidnappers.
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18th October 2020
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18th October 2020
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MSNBC regularly gets away with fantasies that would shame the National Enquirer.
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17th October 2020
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17th October 2020
Steve Sailer.
Back in the liberal 1960s-1970s, the most important judge in the United States not on the Supreme Court was David L. Bazelon, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1962-1980 and best friend of William Brennan, the Svengali of the Warren Court. Bazelon and Brennan would frequently collaborate on how to tee up cases for the Warren Court to issue landmark rulings upon.
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16th October 2020
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16th October 2020
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Integrity is apparently a myth with the journalists at NBC News. The network’s insufferable Business Correspondent Stephanie Ruhle was just exposed for filming promotional videos for a bank she covers.
The Washington Post, which broke the story, wrote that Ruhle “doesn’t promote banks when she’s anchoring for the cable network. But on the Internet, it may be a different story.” In a September 22 clip produced and sponsored by JPMorgan Chase, Ruhle said: “‘Hey, this is Stephanie Ruhle, and I’m looking forward to my conversation with Chase, where we talk about life’s unpredictable moments and how important it is to save and plan for them.’” The Post concluded that “Ruhle isn’t a paid endorser for Chase, but her association with the bank raises questions about potential conflicts of interest.”
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16th October 2020
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Minneapolis’s Star Tribune dominates the news in our region and yet it something beyond a pitiful excuse for a newspaper. It has the resources and material to be great, but it is a thoroughgoing partisan rag.
Over the past few days the paper has unfurled its endorsements to great fanfare. The suspense is great for all those around the state who are slow on the uptake or blind to unvarying patterns. This just in: Democrat rag supports Democrat candidates, except in an uncompetitive race where it can further the pretense that it is anything other than a partisan rag.
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16th October 2020
Charles C.W. Cooke.
I suppose it represents a minor victory that even the most committed of judicial consequentialists feels obliged to disclaim their consequentialism. But it sure makes reading them difficult. At Slate, Dahlia Lithwick begins her most recent essay by insisting that she is not arguing that Supreme Court justices should make up the law in order to yield outcomes they prefer. By the end of it, however, she is arguing exactly that. Any reader who makes it that far is likely to come out with whiplash.
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15th October 2020
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15th October 2020
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With the story having circulated for hours online Wednesday, the Biden campaign had yet to dispute the veracity of a New York Post story detailing how Hunter Biden had exchanged emails with a Ukrainian energy executive talking about exploiting his relationship with his vice-presidential father, Joe Biden. And being the loyal Democratic foot soldiers that they were, ABC, CBS, and NBC all censored the bombshell from their evening newscasts.
As one would expect, Fox News Channel’s Special Report didn’t play favorites like the liberal broadcasters and covered what anchor Bret Baier dubbed “October surprise.” “An explosive story at a critical stage in this presidential campaign, newly released emails allegedly from Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s computer leading to Capitol Hill investigators starting a probe,” announced senior political correspondent Mike Emanuel.
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14th October 2020

Kamala Harris grilling prompts doubtful claim from Amy Coney Barrett (The Guardian) Doubtful!
I’m a cancer survivor, but I might not survive Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court (USA Today) These people don’t just borrow trouble, they take out a 30-year mortgage on it.
Trump’s Incompetence Does Not Excuse His Authoritarianism (New York Magazine)
Melania Trump is having a hard time distancing herself from the president (Washington Post)
Justice Department sues author of Melania Trump tell-all book, says Stephanie Winston Wolkoff broke nondisclosure agreement
The Trump Show is facing cancellation. It feels as if it’s already over. (Washington Post)
Kamala Harris Says Affordable Care Act Hinges On Amy Coney Barrett Nomination Really?
CNN Hysteria: Barrett ‘Spells Doom’ for Abortion; Hearings Are ‘Mortal Danger’
‘Dodging Questions’: CBS Anchor Smears ACB for Following ‘Ginsburg Rule’
‘Senator Harris Just Called You A Liar’: John Kennedy Questions Amy Coney Barrett On Her Oath
CNN’s Unhinged Avlon Wails: Barrett Sitting in ‘Stolen’ Federal Court Seat!
Chris Cuomo: Amy Coney Barrett’s People Of Praise Affiliation ‘Makes Her Different Than Most Catholics’ Yeah, she actually believes that stuff.
SHOCK: NBC Shoots Down Dem Claims ACB on Mission to Nix ObamaCare
The Cultural Failure That Makes Spouting Nonsense About Trump Possible
Time Magazine Hates the Illogical Masses
Democrats Smear Barrett for Saying ‘Sexual Preference,’ a Term Recently Used by Biden and Ginsburg
Of The 88 Notre Dame ‘Colleagues’ Who Signed Letter Criticizing Barrett, There Are 4 Gender Studies Profs, 4 ‘Peace Studies’ Profs, 7 Librarians… And No Lawyers
Where’s the Fact-Check? CNN Lets Cuomo Deny Nursing Home Order, Call It Trump’s ‘Propaganda’
‘I Take Responsibility For Every Death’: Andrew Cuomo Tells ‘Morning Joe’ — After Blaming Trump, GOP
Orwellian: Dictionary Changes Definition of ‘Sexual Preference’ To Smear ACB
Joy Behar Outraged by ACB’s ‘Sexual Preference’ ‘Dog Whistle’: ‘There’s Something Wrong’ With Her!
Report: Biden Has Had 50% Fewer Media Questions Than Trump Since Aug. 31
Demi Lovato Releases Song Aimed At President Trump
Billy Eichner Wants To Make Amy Coney Barrett’s Life ‘A Living Hell’
More Demagoguery from Richard Blumenthal
Gross: ‘View’ Star Accuses GOP Senators of ‘Flirting’ With Barrett
‘COVID Superspreader Event’ Billboard Says With An Arrow Pointing To Trump Rally
Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against A Duck To See If She Is A Witch Babylon Bee.
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14th October 2020
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Webster’s Dictionary quickly edited the definition of the word “preference” after it was declared by some as an “offensive” term to use when discussing sex.
The dictionary previously added in a definition for “preference” to include “orientation” and “sexual preference,” Steve Krakauer, the executive producer of Megyn Kelly’s podcast, tweeted.
Of course, no intelligent person has depended on a “Webster’s” dictionary for twenty years.
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13th October 2020
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13th October 2020
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No, they just poke fun at the proglodytes, and that gets a laugh every time. Mission Accomplished.
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