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The robot doesn’t care who or where you are.

Michael Kosanovich, a New Jersey native, was standing between two parked 2002 Lexus IS300s in South Jamaica on Friday evening when one of the cars was “accidentally started by remote,” according to a preliminary investigation. Authorities believe that the remote feature somehow caused the car to roll forward, pinning Kosanovich between the two vehicles on 148th Street.

Guess Elon isn’t the only Justin Hammer out there.

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Appaenlty it’s not OK to be white any more.

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As predicted.

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It was only January when certain journalists went way out on a limb to give friendly news coverage to the racist and anti-Semitic Black Hebrew Israelites cult. This very odd editorial decision seemed to come in the service of better sticking it to the high school students from Covington Catholic — boys whom Black Hebrew Israelites had taunted on the national mall, inciting what became a famous incident.

So, now that one of the black nationalist cult’s former members stands accused of a deadly shoot-out with police, possibly in an act of anti-Semitic terrorism targeting a Kosher grocery market in Jersey City, we are probably not going to hear much talk about the fringe group in the broader context of radicalization and gun violence. That would be a personal and professional embarrassment for a lot of reporters and editors, some of who are currently in the middle of defending against lawsuits by the Covington teens.

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Stay out of That Part of Town and you won’t have a problem. Just sayin’.

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Which is why I no longer use it, although I used to.

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I guess scientific consensus doesn’t really get you that much.

Don’t like your doctor’s advice? Wait five years and he’ll reverse it.

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Looking for the ambulances, I’d guess.

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Feces and needles on the streets — gee, I wonder why?

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Plenty of room for that in Texas.

Jonathan Turley.

Despite this shockingly damning report, much of the media is reporting only that Horowitz did not find it unreasonable to start the investigation, and ignoring a litany of false representations and falsifications of evidence to keep the secret investigation going. Nothing was found to support any of those allegations, and special counsel Robert Mueller also confirmed there was no support for collusion and conspiracy allegations repeated continuously for two years by many experts and members of Congress.

In other words, when the Titanic set sail, there was no reason for it not to. Then there was that fateful iceberg. Like the crew of the Titanic, the FBI knew investigative icebergs floated around its Russia investigation, but not only did it not reduce speed, it actively suppressed the countervailing reports. Despite the many conflicts to its FISA application and renewals, the FBI leadership, including McCabe, plowed ahead into the darkness.

Turley is a Democrat and a Professor of Law at Georgetown.

UPDATE: Turley Takes Down Media Trying to Spin ‘Damning’ IG Report

UPDATE: Jonathan Turley Says Even His Wife And Dog Got Threats After Impeachment Testimony

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

Steve Sailer.

Makes you wonder how they get from Africa to Mexico. It’s not as if they could walk.

I smell the fetid stench of progressive NGOs.

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Just waiting for Chicago to go the way of Detroit.

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Liam Hemsworth, whom I’ve never heard of and cannot be bothered to look up, must have a Forrest Gump-level IQ. What rational adult would marry Miley Cyrus?

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Complicating matters, socialism exists entirely as a response to capitalism, as has been the case from the time Marx first put pen to paper. And as if that weren’t enough, the very usage of the terms “capitalism” and “socialism” has evolved past the point of clear meaning.

Everybody is Humpty-Dumpty: Words mean what you want them to mean, no more, no less.

Don Boudreaux.

David Brooks’s recent criticism of socialism and applause for capitalism contains much that is good. Indeed, much of it is very good (if not original to Brooks)…

Yet reading Brooks’s essay left me somewhat less than satisfied.

I know the feeling.

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Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the diversity.

Climate Change: What Does Science Really Say? – YouTube

German farmers set bonfires across the country in protest at being ‘ignored’ in climate drive

Activist junk science breeds bad policy

Survey: Aussie Voters Put the Economy and Healthcare Ahead of Climate Change

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The problem with putting government in charge of things is that when they screw up, things go more bad more quickly, and it takes longer to fix it; nobody gets fired and nobody goes to jail. The Animas River disaster in Colorado, caused by the government agency in charge of preventing such things, is a good example of that.

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Hammer tech.

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Question: Do you think that one in five managers would refuse to hire a black person?

What does it tell you that Trump supporters are more discriminated against than black people?

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Been waiting for this to happen somewhere.

Actually, I’m waiting for some parent whose kid catches measles from an anti-vaxxer to beat the anti-vaxxer into dust. That would be appropriate.

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Joe Biden is probably the unfittest candidate out there.

And yet he is the front-runner for the Democrat nomination. What does that tell you about Democrats?

Confronted by a skeptical independent voter about his corrupt dealings with Ukrainian gas company Burisma, and the icky spectacle of his son with his hand out following him in his capacity as vice president wherever he went, Biden flew into a rage against the man, an 83-year-old retired Iowa farmer with the central casting name of Merle Gorman.  Not only did Biden fail to answer the man’s question, but his response was to attack him, not once, but three times, for being fat.

And there you have it.

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It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.

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Only among the foolish. Think of it as evolution in action.

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In what appears to be the biggest disruption to French society since the gilets jaunes demonstrators nearly torched Paris last year, public workers across the country stayed home on Thursday, immobilizing public transit across the country as the first general strike in more than 20 years began.

The walkout was called by unions angry at President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms (not unlike how a planned – then scrapped – gas tax hike sparked the giles jaunes).

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Well, duh.

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Online deliveries to an apartment building in northern Manhattan are left with a retired woman in 2H who watches over her neighbors’ packages to make sure nothing gets stolen.

Corporate mailrooms in New York and other cities are overwhelmed by employees shipping personal packages to work for safekeeping, leading companies to ban packages and issue warnings that boxes will be intercepted and returned to the senders.

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An international exam shows that American 15-year-olds are stagnant in reading and math even though the country has spent billions to close gaps with the rest of the world.

Guys, it’s not the money you spend, but the methods you use, that are failing.

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2016, only 37% of white high school graduates tested as college-ready, but colleges admitted 70% of them. Roughly 17% of black high school graduates tested as college-ready, but colleges admitted 58% of them.

Sure, we’ll let you in — but we’ll flunk you out after you’ve loaded up on debt to pay our outrageous tuition bills.

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Perhaps we could send them to Honduras. One-way.

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After living on the East Coast for eight years, I’d recently left New York City to take a job at an investigative reporting magazine in San Francisco. If it seems odd that I was a fully employed editor who lived in a thirty-two-square-foot shack, that’s precisely the point: my situation was evidence of how distorted the Bay Area housing market had become, the brutality inflicted upon the poor now trickling up to everyone but the super-rich. The problem was nationwide, although, as Californians tend to do, they’d taken this trend to an extreme. Across the state, a quarter of all apartment dwellers spent half of their incomes on rent. Nearly half of the country’s unsheltered homeless population lived in California, even while the state had the highest concentration of billionaires in the nation. In the Bay Area, including West Oakland, where my shack was located, the crisis was most acute. Tent cities had sprung up along the sidewalks, swarming with capitalism’s refugees. Telegraph, Mission, Market, Grant: every bridge and overpass had become someone’s roof.

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So come to Texas.

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Over a million papers are published in scientific journals each year, and as Stanford University professor John Ioannidis wrote in a now legendary paper published to PLoS Medicine in 2005, most of their findings are false. Whether due to researcher error, insufficient data, poor methods, or the numerous biases present in people and pervasive in the ways research is conducted, a lot of scientific claims end up being incorrect.

Think about that next time you hear some climate-change Chicken Little go on about how The Science Is Settled.

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We need that wall.

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A different story noted that last month, 5.8 million patients had to wait more than two weeks to see their GPs after booking an appointment. Awful.

The Antiplanner peeks behind the curtain.

An article posted on the Atlantic‘s CityLab last week documented that many of the cities that have adopted “vision zero” policies have seen pedestrian fatalities sharply increase. These cities, notes the article, have “spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the process, rebuilding streets to calm traffic and reduce driving, lobbying for speed limit reductions, launching public awareness campaigns, and retraining police departments.” Yet Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, among others, saw sharp increases in pedestrian and/or bicycle fatalities after adopting Vision Zero policies.

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The Secret War in Africa (part 1) covered the overall strategic predominance of US military/ NATO bases – some secret – in Africa, and the expansion by private military contractors (PMC) there in aid of corporate and national interests according to the major powers.

In Part 2 we examine the geopolitical associations in Africa which vary by nation, where major powers have a vested interest in a particular resource causing that major power to assume an aggressive posture to ‘protect’ its national interest by dominating or subverting the African state, in possession of that resource.

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Sure, open the borders! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Hey, grow up in a Communist country, you think like a Communist. Duh.

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Abdel Abdellaoui and colleagues recent put out a paper on genetics and social stratification in Great Britain. Among other things, they found that polygenic scores of educational attainment were lower in seriously economically depressed areas, such as coal mining towns – and that this depression has increased with time. The smarter people are going where the better paying jobs are.

Perhaps this is why inner city IQs never get any better.

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I read cook books all the time, and I see mention of beef stock, chicken stock, and vegetable stock, but I never see any mention of pork stock.

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Congressional sponsors of Medicare for All single-payer legislation — bills abolishing virtually all existing public and private health insurance — routinely promise that all Americans will get equal access to higher quality care and enjoy superior medical outcomes.

Performance, however, is the acid test of sound policy. While the U.S. “single payer” experience is limited to the Veterans Administration program, recently plagued by headline-grabbing care delays, working models of national health insurance can teach Americans sober lessons in government-controlled health care.

Hint: It sucks.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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It’s that time of year again, when the cold bitter truth about our wretched Thanksgiving holiday must be brought to the surface. Rather then let today’s Americans celebrate a day of gratitude for our blessed lot in life in this successful, multicultural country, we must fixate on North America’s first bloody instances of identity politics.

What we call ‘Thanksgiving’ is the traditional English harvest festival of Martinmas, although they couldn’t call it that because Protestants don’t have saints, so pop a ham in the oven and let the Scraelings do their Cultural Appropriation somewhere else.

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Published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) Sunday, the documents offer a rare look into the massive internment camp for Muslim-majority Uyghur in the troubled western region of China.

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Don’t tell Tom Friedman, he’ll be heartbroken.

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Perhaps people just don’t want police who look like freaks. I can understand that.