Eugene Robinson on MSNBC: Under Trump, America’s the ‘S-hole’ Country Now  Despite, rather than because of.

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Presumably they are wearing masks and social-distancing.

Monday Mirthiness – Follow The #COVID19 Science You Like

Here’s How China Is Treating People In Its Concentration Camps  Just in case you forgot.

Airport Security Is Finding Loaded Guns In Triple The Number Of Passenger Carry-Ons Compared To Pre-Pandemic Rates  And that’s the ones that they find. Think of how many that the Security Theater TSA aren’t finding.

Austin Voted to Defund the Police, its Murder Rate Rose 67%

The Newest Demon in the Left’s Sights: Woke White Women

Antifa Propagandists: WashPost Praises Violent Portland Rioters’ ‘Stamina’ ‘Creativity’

Biden Staffers Donated to Nonprofit That Bails Out Violent Suspects  My, what a surprise.

Shocking Video Emerges Of Biden Saying Something Completely Coherent  Babylon Bee.

Trump attempts to bypass Congress on coronavirus relief, though his power to do so is unclear  Boy, that almost sounds like something Obama would do, doesn’t it?

The economy is not Trump’s strong suit | TheHill  I guess those improved unemployement numbers were just a mirage, then.

Trump walks out of news conference after reporter asks him about Veterans Choice lie he’s told more than 150 times  CNN.

I was a Republican, and I drew my red line too late. I’ll answer for my choices for years to come.  CNN loves these ‘true confession’ types of stories.

Brian Williams and His Obama Guy STILL Claiming Trump’s Russian-Owned

CNN Guest Says There’s No Network On The Left Dedicated To Tearing Down Trump  Of course not. There doesn’t need to be. The Herd all moves in the same direction because they all want the same things.

Riot Declared as Fire Burns in Portland Police Union Offices

The COVID Crisis Has Helped Make The Blueprint For A European Superstate

NPR fires weatherman for comparing Seattle riots to Germany in 1938 on his personal blog

Nancy Pelosi Admits On CNN: “China Would Prefer Joe Biden”

Aussie Covid-19 Response: Warrantless Home Invasion, Smashed Car Windows  Australia appears to have degenerated into Just Another European Police State after all. Pity.

STOP the Presses: NYT Commits Journalism, Finds Antifa Thuggery in Seattle

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In my prior life as an insurance executive, it was my job to deceive Americans about their health care. I misled people to protect profits. In fact, one of my major objectives, as a corporate propagandist, was to do my part to “enhance shareholder value.” That work contributed directly to a climate in which fewer people are insured, which has shaped our nation’s struggle against the coronavirus, a condition that we can fight only if everyone is willing and able to get medical treatment. Had spokesmen like me not been paid to obscure important truths about the differences between the U.S. and Canadian health-care systems, tens of thousands of Americans who have died during the pandemic might still be alive.

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Due to increasingly squalid conditions on the Upper West Side, including two new homeless shelters packed with junkies and registered sex offenders, longtime dwellers are departing the Big Apple with no plans to ever return.

Whatever your take on the jobs numbers, the economy still needs a federal boost  Washington Post. Because it just does!

Raise taxes on the super rich. They have it, we need it  Los Angeles Times.

Bernie Sanders proposes 60% tax on wealth gained by billionaires during pandemic  Bernie has never seen a wallet he didn’t want to lift.

Karen Bought a Printer and a Roll of Duct Tape

ZMan understands the dialectic.

The petty tyranny of the Covid panic has gone from a genuine response to a public health concern to just another aspect of post-sanity America. People now wear all sorts of silly face coverings when going about their day for the same reason they wear pants or shoes. It’s just another thing that is required. Soon, it will be custom, like not wearing white before Memorial Day. The ever changing rules issued from local tyrants are now taken in stride like, the weather or earthquakes in California.

The mask issue is another great example of how American politics is just a morality play with the same roles every time. The Official Left strutted onto the stage warning about the great monster and how the democracy was at risk. Their solution was mandatory mask wearing like their sponsors in China use. The Official Right tried to minimize the issue and resisted for a while, but the Official Left whipped up their partisans in the crowd and the Official Right eventually relented.

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The problem is simple but vicious circular logic. In the 2006 case sanity was able to reassert itself because there was a much slower test which was considered reliable. It defined what we call the ground truth: the final arbiter of reality. PCR tests could be cross-checked against the ground truth after enough time had passed, allowing the big reveal that the error rate on the PCR was 100%.

But with COVID-19 there is no other test. And it’s a “new” virus, whose exact effects are unknown, so it was decided that the obvious choice of using symptoms as the ground truth would be taking too much risk.

In this situation something new and very nasty has happened. The PCR test has itself become the ground truth. Despite having had an error rate of 100% in the past, it now by definition has an error rate of zero.

Georgia teens shared photos of maskless students in crowded hallways. Now they’re suspended.

De Blasio suggests Cuomo is wrong to ask New York City’s wealthy to return, says residents shouldn’t buy cars

Supermodel Bella Hadid Throws Up The Middle Finger To New York Cops Not Wearing Face Masks

Economics Professor Says University Blocked His Anti-Marxism Class From Being Available To All Business Students

NRA Announces Lawsuit Against New York Attorney General  Saw that comin’.

Trump Suggests NRA Relocate To Texas After New York AG Files Lawsuit Against Them  Works for me.

Dozens Of Minneapolis Businesses Consider Leaving, Cite Possibility Of Police Being Dismantled

Iowa Teachers Write Their Own Obituaries After Governor Pushes Schools To Hold In-Person Classes

Forty-Five Businesses Mull Leaving Downtown Minneapolis Over COVID, Police Dismantling

People Renouncing US Citizenship Jumps by 1,210 Percent

Protesters Who Caused Thousands In Damage In Utah Could Face Up To Life In Prison For Gang Affiliation Charges

Portland Protesters Cause Mayhem Again, Police Officer Hurt

Portland Mayor Turns On Protesters, Accuses Them Of ‘Attempting To Commit Murder’

Portland Police: Protesters Disguised Themselves As ‘Press,’ Harassed Officers  I’m sure I couldn’t tell the difference.

WNBA Players Start Full-blown Campaign For Democrat Senate Candidate

‘You Want To Buy Crack?’: NYC Homeless Staying In Luxury Hotels Urinating In Public, Harassing Residents

How climate change affects allergies, immune response and autism

New Series “Idiots guide to Climate Change” aims to Educate

‘Climate Scientist Explains …’

Canada’s Last Intact Ice Shelf Collapses Due to Warming

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The tunnel intended for smuggling ran from San Luis, Arizona, to a Mexican neighborhood and had a ventilation system, water lines, electrical wiring, a rail system and extensive reinforcement, federal officials said Thursday.

“This appears to be the most sophisticated tunnel in U.S. history, and certainly the most sophisticated I’ve seen in my career,” said Carl E. Landrum, acting chief patrol agent with the Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector.

Homeland Security Investigations found the tunnel in late July. A camera was sent 25 feet (7.6 meters) underground after federal agents discovered a sinkhole in the area of a tunnel investigation, authorities said.

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For the last week, I’ve been lobbying for our local private schools, which have been closed until at least October 1st by the executives in Montgomery County, Maryland. You may have heard about the controversy, which could become a battleground for private school parents across the country.

Last month, the public schools announced that they would not be opening for in-person instruction until at least January. In part as a result of that announcement, their projected enrollments saw a significant drop-off. Local media reported, “MCPS was expecting over 2,500 new students by the end of August. As of July 1, only about 300 K-12 new students had been enrolled.” There’s no word about how many kids who were enrolled have been pulled out, but it’s likely as significant as the lowered projected enrollment numbers. Schools are funded by the number of bodies enrolled, and this exodus is an existential threat to the stability of the public school model.

If private schools opened and offered a refuge for these parents, the public school system would suffer a crushing blackeye, not to mention guarantee their numbers (and cashflow) wouldn’t bounce back whenever schools do reopen. And so, what did the county do? They kneecapped the private schools, declaring that they would not be allowed to reopen until the day after public schools would receive money for an enrolled student. The county hopes that if a family are forced into choosing between online-only options, they’ll choose the school without tuition.

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Chinese fishing vessels come every year to the seas around the Galápagos, which were declared a Unesco world heritage site in 1978, but this year’s fleet is one of the largest seen in recent years. Of the 248 vessels, 243 are flagged to China including to companies with suspected records of illegal, unreported and unregulated, or IUU, fishing, according to research by C4ADS, a data analysis NGO.

The fleet includes fishing boats and refrigerated container – or reefer – ships to store enormous catches.

Transferring cargo between vessels is prohibited under international maritime law yet the Chinese flotilla has supply and storage ships along with longline and squid fishing boats.

“There are some fleets which don’t seem to abide by any regulations,” said Wray.

‘I’ll Buy You A Drink’: Gov. Andrew Cuomo Begs Rich New Yorkers To Return Amid Budget Shortfall  And make you wear a mask. Oh, and tax your ass off. Enjoy your drink.

LA Mayor Authorizes City To Shut Off Utilities Of Houses And Businesses That Hold Gatherings

So posting will be sparse.

A Woman Reportedly Stabbed A Protester In Portland After An Argument

U.S. prosecutors do not charge Portland protesters with antifa ties  Which means they’ll keep doing it.

Ohio Governor to Mandate All K-12 Students Wear Masks  Perhaps that will shut them up.

‘They Can F*cking Get Over It’: Providence Councilwoman Confronts Police When Friend’s Bar Gets Noise Complaint  Only the little people have to obey the law.

Here Are All The Weapons Rioters Have Used Most Against Cops

Shock: NBC Admits New York’s Mail-In Ballot System Is a ‘Fiasco’

‘No apparent social distancing’: NYC river cruise stopped, arrests made over illegal party

New York City — the new liberal utopia

Woman Throws Coffee In Man’s Face For Not Wearing A Mask, Gets Boyfriend’s Ass Beat

Cuomo Urges Wealthy New Yorkers to Come Back to City  And why would they?

Union at NY Times Demands ‘Sensitivity Reads’ to Censor Content

Federal Prosecutors Say Alleged Gang Member Went Right Back To Committing Gun Crimes After He Was Released Without Bail

NYC’s Upper East Side Logs 286 Percent Increase in Robberies  Gee, I wonder why?

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I guess the criminal element is tired of preying on its own and going where the money is.

The police situation being what it is, I’m surprised it took them this long to figure that out.

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Judge Torres is, of course, a Woman of Color.

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Ballot harvesting refers to the practice of party volunteers or campaign workers collecting mail-in ballots from voters and submitting them in batches to polling places or election offices.

There have been several documented voter fraud cases involving ballot harvesting. A prominent occurrence was during North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District election in 2018. A county operative was arrested after illegally collecting hundreds of absentee ballots, many containing forged signatures. The results were also overturned by the state’s election board.

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How many of them are run by Democrats is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Some months ago, I saw a shocking video: someone rode a bicycle down a sidewalk in Los Angeles, filming as he went, for something like a half hour. The entire time, he passed tent encampments or cities on both sides of the sidewalk. They seemed to go on forever and had an appearance of permanence.

Yesterday a friend sent me a similar video, on a smaller scale, which was filmed by a resident of South Minneapolis. It shows Minnehaha Park, near the famous Minnehaha Falls. The tent city that has sprung up there is replicated in many other Minneapolis parks. These encampments are the result, I believe, of an executive order by Governor Tim Walz that decreed all 38 parks within the city of Minneapolis to be open for occupancy by tent squatters. I assume this order ostensibly has something to do with the governor’s emergency powers based on the COVID epidemic, but how the two are related I can’t tell you. Basically, we are living under martial law.

‘I Have Never Been Called That’: Dr. Birx Responds To Pelosi Criticism

The Panopticon Is Already Here

Portland Recorded More Homicides In July Than Any Month Over Last 30 Years  Sure, we’ll de-fund the police and see what happens.

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Chicago has, of course, some of the strictest ‘gun control’ laws in the country — not that they appear to do any good.

Maybe de-funding the police will help. They seem to have tried everything else.

Steve Sailer.

If you were in a cynical frame of mind, you might conclude that The Great Awokening / Black Lives Matter is mostly a Jobs for the Boys racket.

But of course the current Racial Reckoning can’t be a Jobs for the Boys grift because that would be sexist and cisgendered. The proper term is, therefore, Jobs for the Theys.

Authorities Seize IEDs In Seattle — DHS Also Confirms Their Use In Portland Protests

Pure Evil: Navarro, Reid & Co. Berate Herman Cain After Death for Not Wearing Mask

Dianne Feinstein Says China, Which Is Putting Muslims In Camps, Is ‘Growing Into A Respectable Nation’

Breitbart Still Suspended From Twitter After Viral HCQ Video; Doctor Gets Axe Over Involvement

DC Rebrands Wonder Woman As Wonder Person Who Menstruates  Babylon Bee.

Tax hike on California millionaires would create 54% tax rate  Time to bail.

‘These Are All Signs Of Organized Activities’: Leading Security Expert Reacts To Portland Riots

The New York Times Union Is Pushing For Compensated Pre-Publication ‘Sensitivity Reads’

Protesters Assault Two Officers Near Richmond Robert E Lee Statue, Police Say

Report: Facebook Censoring Hydroxychloroquine as Cure, Despite Drug’s Use in Other Nations  They don’t want a cure. They want to tank the economy in order to get rid of Trump.

CNN Spokesman Doubles Down On Network’s Decision To Say ‘Individuals With A Cervix’ Instead Of ‘Women’

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“A Twitter spokeswoman has defended the company’s decision to block and restrict tweets from President Trump but not those of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei which call for genocide of the Israeli people,” The New York Post reported July 29. International Human Rights Lawyer and political analyst Arsen Ostrovsky tweeted a video of a Knesset (or Israeli parliament) hearing on anti-Semitism, where a Twitter representative was roasted for restricting President Donald Trump’s tweets while allowing Iran’s Supreme Leader Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei to call for Israel’s violent destruction.

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The Twitter representative claimed that “foreign policy saber-rattling” and “commentary on political issues of the day” are “generally not in violation” of Twitter’s rules. Trump’s condemnation of rioters, however, “was violating [Twitter’s] policies regarding the glorification of violence” and “could “possibly inspire harm.”

Antifa Trash Fire Roundup

It’s Now Even Easier to Fire US Workers for What They Say

‘I Was Stabbed For Being A Conservative Journalist’: Videographer Injured At Portland Protests

4 Men Admit To Voter Fraud Scheme In Los Angeles

School Social Worker, Physical Therapist Charged With Assaulting Wisconsin State Senator During Protest

Fitton Fumes After Adam Schiff Gets Away With Doxing High Profile Conservatives

Florida Couple Faces Charges For Refusal To Quarantine

14 Parents Sue a School District Over Secretive Transgender Policy

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Over the past two days the authorities have attributed four new deaths (7/28) and nine deaths to (7/29) COVID-19. In yesterday’s report, 7 of the 9 new decedents were residents of long-term care facilities and 8 of the 9 decedents were in their 70’s, 80’s or 90’s. One was in his 50’s. Long-term care residents account for 76.5 percent of deaths attributed to the epidemic.

And yet the beat goes on in the Minnesota Department of Health’s daily press briefing (audio below) as it does in the media nationally. The panic will be sustained as long as Donald Trump remains president. That much I can tell you.

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Pop star Madonna saw a bit of her own social media censorship the other day, when Instagram removed her post from their platform for spreading “conspiracy theories” about coronavirus. Interestingly, the 61-year-old pop star is a Chinese Virus truther who believes that hydroxychloroquine may be a helpful therapeutic drug for people.

Understanding Totalitarianism

New York Post columnist describes NYC as ‘disaster area,’ predicts many who have left won’t return

Armed civilian groups surge into local politics in the Pacific Northwest

Portland hits feds with $500 fine every 15 minutes fence stands outside besieged courthouse

Rep. Jayapal Spars With Barr: ‘I’m Starting to Lose My Temper’

The mob comes for Seattle’s mayor

ACLU asks U.S. court to sanction agents for targeting journalists at Portland protests

CNN’s Tapper Throws Sophomoric Fit, Implies Rep. Jordan Is Dishonorable, Bad for America

I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn’t Let Me Speak

‘F**k It. If One Of Them Cops Got Killed, Good’: Two Portland Protesters Laugh Off Explosion Near Federal Courthouse

NYPD Responds After Viral Video Shows Plainclothes Officers Pulling Protester Into Van  It’s called “being arrested”, something that, granted, protesters have little experience with.

Dems Waiting for Bloomberg’s Promised Funding  The best politicians that money can buy

Barr Rightfully Defends Federal Response to Dangerous Rioting, as House Democrats Attack Him

Mostly Peaceful Protests

Who Are You Gonna Believe?, by Steve Sailer

ON THE GROUND: Exclusive Footage Of Tactics Used By Protesters In Portland

Portland Police Disperse Wall Of Moms With Air Drop Of Target Gift Cards  Babylon Bee.

Jon Gabriel lays it down.

Everyone’s angry these days. We’re mad at people wearing masks and people not wearing masks. Mad at the crowds in Portland and mad at the cops trying to keep the peace. Mad at Trump and Biden and Kanye West.

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While the Trump administration shut down the Chinese consulate in Houston amid espionage allegations, the true hubs of Chinese spying are believed to be in New York and San Francisco.

“San Francisco is the real gem, but the U.S. won’t close it,” a former U.S. intelligence official told Axios.

David Cole understands the dialectic.

There’s an old saying I just coined: “You can ignore the race war, but the race war won’t ignore you.” No matter how insulated you think you are, the people in this country who are dead-set on making everything about race will eventually reach your doorstep.

Hollywood, that most leftist of leftist towns where every white wears a BLM pin and conservative thought has long been banished, just learned the hard way that the race war awards no points for wokeness. Whites gotta go. And that includes woke whites. Because race wars aren’t about ideology but, well, race (as should be obvious from the name).

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For whites, “their careers are pretty much over,” said one of the execs. Adding insult to injury, certain skilled whites are being asked to continue working behind the scenes as advisers—unpaid and uncredited—so that all those new nonwhite hires can appear more capable than they actually are.

On The Ground In Portland — Protesters Ripped Down The Federal Courthouse Fencing Last Night. Will They Do It Again?

Media Downplays Ongoing Violence In Portland, Claims ‘Right-Wing’ Outlets Are Playing Up The Unrest  Yeah, it’s called “reporting the news”.

Police and Protesters Clash in Violent Weekend Across the US

Nadler Calls Antifa Violence A ‘Myth’ In Stunning Example Of DC Disconnect  Guess he needs to watch TV more.

Portland Police Recover Molotov Cocktails, Ammunition During Violent Protests

Fordham University Punishes Student For Picture Of Gun In Off-Campus Home  The Jesuits were always criticized by other Roman Catholic Orders for being too much conformed to the ‘spirit of the age’. Fordham continues that proud tradition.

Woman Maces Couple Having Picnic For Not Wearing Face Masks

Orcs March On Minas Tirith In Mostly Peaceful Protest  Babylon Bee.

NJ Gym Owners Accuse Gov Of “Flexing His Little Tyrant Muscles” After Being Arrested For Contempt  Time to leave.

University Of Minnesota Students See Reported Violent Crime Spike After Cutting Ties With Police Dept

“I Need To Buy A Firearm”: Radio Host Who Defended “Peaceful” Protesters Has Apartment Destroyed By Rioters

Portland Police Raise Millions By Letting Citizens Throw Tear Gas At Antifa For $5 A Pop  Babylon Bee.

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Whether these best known of the glut of church-burnings recently were ideologically-motivated or were merely the work of the usual nuts, perhaps excited by the media-endorsed craziness of 2020, is unknown.

BOOTS ON THE GROUND IN PORTLAND: Reporters Recount Night Of Chaos On Location At The Federal Courthouse  Societal disintegration is a common theme in literature, yet when it actually happens people just sit around watching it.

Does Universal Mask Wearing Decrease or Increase the Spread of COVID-19?  “A survey of peer-reviewed studies shows that universal mask wearing (as opposed to wearing masks in specific settings) does not decrease the transmission of respiratory viruses from people wearing masks to people who are not wearing masks.”

Police Declare Riot in Portland as Federal Courthouse Fence Breached

Seattle protesters set fire to juvenile detention centre construction site

After 59 Days of Riots in Portland, ABC Claims ‘Weeks’ Since Protests Were Violence

Seattle Police Department Battles Rioters As Construction Site Set Aflame  That sure sounds like a Mostly Peaceful Protest to me….

The Saturday Night Riots

Nevada Church Avoids Coronavirus Restrictions By Installing Slot Machines  Babylon Bee.

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Days after a federal judge paused the public release of New York City police disciplinary records, a news website has published a database containing complaint information for thousands of officers.

ProPublica posted the database Sunday, explaining in a note to readers that it isn’t obligated to comply with Judge Katherine Polk Failla’s temporary restraining order because it is not a party to a union lawsuit challenging the release of such records.

Steve Sailer.

I’m fascinated by the decline in first the word and then the concept of “disinterested.” First, the word acquired a new meaning as “bored,” then the old concept was almost completely forgotten. For example, it is now considered a GOOD thing that executives being paid to fire white men are not white men themselves but are instead of races and genders who personally benefit from their anti-white male push.

‘The Arena’ Examines ‘Global Pandemic’ of Racism, Demands Sports Owners Stay Focused on Social Justice

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Lashes Out At Conservative Media When Asked About Nursing Home Deaths

‘Trump Might Not Accept The Results Of The 2020 Election,’ Says Movement That Still Hasn’t Accepted Results Of 2016 Election  Babylon Bee.

UK Christian ministry receives death threats, loses bank accounts after ‘mob rule’ campaign

Shameless CNN Sucks Up to Cuomo: Please Tell Red States What to Do on Coronavirus!  Yeah, we’ve got a lot of old people to get rid of.

Federal Judge Denies Request to Restrain Homeland Security Agents in Portland

MSNBC’s Brian Williams Whacks Federal Agents as ‘Jackbooted Thugs,’ Invokes Mussolini  Mussolini was a socialist. You can look it up.

EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS: Hours-Long Battle In Downtown Portland Ensues As Rioters Refuse To Back Down On Day 58  Time to leave.

Seattle Police Abandon Residents As Antifa Uses Twitter, Facebook To Organize Nationwide Protests

Seattle Police Chief Sends Simple Message To Businesses During Riots: You’re On Your Own

New York Liberty And Seattle Storm Players Walk Off Court During The National Anthem

Gov. Mike Parson: Over 100 St. Louis Murders Go Uncharged While Kim Gardner Charges McCloskeys

Report: Many Chicagoans Fleeing City For More Peaceful Places Like The Middle East  Babylon Bee.

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There has never been any love lost between Turkey and Greece, but the danger of war between the two NATO members has not been this high since the Cyprus conflict more than forty-five years ago. In the past, Turkey and Greece have gone to the brink, but policies initiated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an may very much push the two neighbors over the edge.

Once the Soviet Union collapsed, the rationale for having Turkey in NATO went away. NATO is now a relic the only function of which is to involve the United States in pointless foreign wars.

Nets’ Portland Coverage Evaporates After Antifa Attempted to MURDER Agents

The McCloskey Frameup

Cal Students to Be Required to Take Ethnic Studies, Social Justice Course

MSNBC’s Velshi Enables Violent Marxists, Calls America ‘Fascist’

‘Fascist’: What Top Democrats Say About Federal Law Enforcement Help for Their Cities

‘Pigs Go Home!’: Thousands Gather In Portland For Another Night Of Protests  Time to leave.

Chicago Takes Down Christopher Columbus Statue in City Park

Chicago Mayor Solves City’s Crime Problem by Removing Columbus Statues

‘They Are Terrorists’: DHS Says Investigations Into ‘Criminal Rioters’ Continue

EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS: ‘Unlawful Assembly’ Declared In Portland As Fires Burn, Federal Officers Battle With Rioters

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Calls Police Union Leader A ‘Clown’ In Leaked Text Messages, Won’t Apologize  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Gunshot To Head, Parkinson’s Disease, Deaths In Palm Beach Incorrectly Attributed To COVID-19

Froot Loops Finally Changes Offensive Name To LGBTQ Loops  Babylon Bee.

Radical Activists Plan Weekend Protest Outside Chad Wolf’s House Over Portland DHS Deployment

Demonstrators Swarm Chicago Mayor’s Home After Phone Call With Trump

Journalists And Legal Observers Exempt From Arrest, Force In Portland, Federal Judge Rules

Varney: Biden $775B Spending Plan Shows Socialism’s Impact on Dems  It’s easy to spend other people’s money.

Soros-Funded Wikipedia Warns Editors Against Citing Fox News as a Reliable Source

Facebook Shuts Down Page for Largest ‘Back the Blue’ Rally

UN Human Rights Council Exploits COVID-19 Pandemic to Support Funding for Abortion

Aiding Antifa: Seattle Times Fights Subpoena to Give Police Riot Footage Showing Gun Theft, Arson

‘Invasion’: Reid, Friends Compare Federal Agents to Nazis Enacting ‘Authoritarianism’  Gee, one of the things that got Nazis their start was opposing Communist rioters in the streets.

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China’s Houston consulate has been the “epicenter” in terms of stealing U.S. biomedical research, and it’s known that “they’re actively trying to steal” the coronavirus vaccine, Rep. Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House GOP task force on China, said Thursday.

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Olivia Enos, The Heritage Foundation’s senior policy analyst for the Asian Studies Center, joins “Problematic Women” to explain what we do know about these human rights abuses and what action America is taking in response.

WSJ Employees to Publisher: Opinion Page Spreads Misinformation

‘It’s Absolutely Disgusting!’: Mark Morgan Unloads On Nancy Pelosi For Calling His Officers ‘Storm Troopers’

Many Mayors Join Portland in Requesting Withdrawal of Federal Forces  I’d tell ’em Yes.

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Blames COVID-19 For Crime Surge  Sure – the virus drives them to crime. Uh-huh.

Facebook’s Neutral “Fact Checkers” Exposed As Ex-CNN Staffers And Democratic Donors  My, what a surprise.

‘Walking On Eggshells’: 62% Of Americans Are Afraid To Express Political Views, Survey Finds

3 Federal Officers in Portland In Danger of Losing Eyesight Permanently  My, what peaceful protestors.

Portland Dads With Leaf Blowers Help Shield Protesters From Police Tear Gas  Okay, then. Portland deserves what it gets.

Pelosi calls coronavirus the ‘Trump virus’ following revived White House task force briefing

Fact check: At his first coronavirus briefing since April, Trump repeats a handful of classic false claims  CNN.

What Could Happen if Donald Trump Rejects Electoral Defeat?  The New Yorker.

Donald Trump may end what George Wallace started | TheHill

How Donald Trump Moved Millions From His Campaign Donors To His Private Business  Forbes.

I took a closer look at the cognitive test Trump claims to have aced  The Guardian.

Former Bar Association Presidents Urge Probe of William Barr  But not Eric Holder?

Pelosi Calls COVID-19 ‘The Trump Virus,’ Blames Trump For Making Face Masks ‘A Manhood Thing’

‘Nightmare Scenarios’: Eric Holder And Joy Reid Discuss How Trump Could Use Paramilitary To Suppress Vote

CNN Anchor Allows Clyburn to Accuse Trump of ‘Gestapo Activities’ in Portland  Yeah, keeping order in the streets is a pretty Nazi thing to do.

Trump Seeks to Appear Tough on China in Run-Up to Election  Seems to be working.

‘Ludicrous’: Ben Domenech Lays Out How Media Is Reframing Trump’s Response To Violence To Help Democrats

Trump’s Measured Presser Sends Rage-aholic Scarborough Into Another Screaming Fit  Maybe he’ll have a stroke. We can always hope.

Overly Alarmist John Heilemann: Trump Could Use Paramilitary to ‘Steal This Election’  Because that’s what this guy would do if he could.

Joe Biden Says Trump Is America’s First ‘Racist’ President, Trump Campaign Fires Back  No, that would be Barack Obama. Or maybe Lyndon Johnson. But more likely Woodrow Wilson.

Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush Accuses Trump Of Trying To Start A ‘Race War’  Like the one BLM is trying to start?

Democratic Fear Mongering: CNN’s Sciutto Suggests Trump Will Interfere with the Election

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It was just 24 hours ago that the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were playing stupid about the weeks of violence in Portland, Oregon, claiming there was “no explanation” for the Department of Homeland Security arresting Antifa terrorists trying to burn down the federal courthouse. Now, on Tuesday, those same networks took up positions on Antifa’s side of the battle line; blaming federal agents for the violence and chaos.

The CBS Evening News carried the most water Antifa’s thugs. “Tonight, the mayors of several big cities including New York and Chicago are warning the President not to send federal officers to patrol their streets. The mayors are alarmed by the ongoing violence in Portland, Oregon where protesters have battled for weeks with police and officers from the Department of Homeland Security,” declared anchor Norah O’Donnell, suggesting federal agents were the problem.

Even though federal agents had been responding to attacks on the courthouse for well over 50 consecutive nights, correspondent Carter Evans painted DHS officers as a roving band of assailants targeting innocent protesters. “Round after round of tear gas and rubber bullets fired into the crowd by federal agents is becoming a nightly routine,” he began his report.

Matt Taibi is offended that the Left is now acting like those red-necked rubes from flyover country.

We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn’t joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody’s laughing.

Oh, you’re still laughing, Matt, but the joke is now on you.

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One of the candidates for president in this November’s election is known by the nickname, “Amtrak Joe.” The Democratic-controlled House wants to triple federal funding for intercity passenger trains. A member of Congress from Massachusetts has proposed spending $205 billion on high-speed rail.

Given the growing momentum behind these ideas, it is instructive to take a look at how well the last frenzied spending on intercity passenger trains worked. In 2009 and 2010, President Obama persuaded Congress to dedicate $10.1 billion to high-speed rail projects around the country. To this was added at least $1.4 billion in other federal funds and at least $7 billion in state and local funds. After ten years, some of those projects must be working, right?

Of course not. Outside of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, there are still no trains in America that could be called high-speed trains by any definition. Trains in the Northeast Corridor are, if anything, going slower than they were before. Most corridors where high-speed rail money was spent see trains going no faster and no more frequently than they were before the grants were given out. Aside from new service to two small towns in Maine, a modest speed-up of trains in Vermont, and the addition of two daily trains between Raleigh and Charlotte, the nation has little to show for more than $18 billion in the federal and state spending.