Peter Thiel blows the whistle.

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People actually pay big money for these things.

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The Usual Suspects are fond of tearing their hair out over the bad things that are happening to illegal undocumented immigrants, but don’t seem to see what illegal undocumented immigrants are doing to each other.

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It’s so hard to get good help these days….

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A rat ran through a live shot of Baltimore during a local news outlet’s coverage of the controversy surrounding Trump’s tweets that the city is “rat infested.”

Well. There it is.

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I venture to suggest that someplace in Texas is not a good location for Antifa to get salty.

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws in Chicago, or the place would be like Texas.

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An eight-year-old boy died instantly after a 40-year-old man believed to be of African origin pushed him and his mother in front of a high-speed train at Frankfurt’s main rail station Monday, according to German police.

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The 40-year-old man, who police suspect is a citizen of Eritrea, intended to push a third person onto the tracks, “but she was able to defend herself,” police spokeswoman Isabell Neumann told reporters.

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The University of California-Berkeley has been taken off of the U.S. News 2019 Best Colleges rankings after U.S. News says it handed over incorrect alumni contributions data.

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Ever notice how these mass shootings seems to happen in Blue states? California appears to be especially bad.

Joel Kotkin.

I’m not a free-market fundamentalist. To me, the beauty of liberal capitalism lies in its performance: More people live well, and live longer, than ever before. Millions of working-class people have moved from poverty to become homeowners and have seen their offspring rise into the middle class or higher.

Today this egalitarian capitalist progress is showing signs of fading, not only in the United States but also in Europe, Australia, and increasingly East Asia. This marks a drastic reversal from the conditions that prevailed after World War II, when the incomes of those in the lower quintile surged by roughly 40 percent, while the gains in those in the top quintile grew a modest 8 percent, and the top 5 percent saw their incomes drop slightly. Social mobility since the 1990s has declined dramatically, not only in the United States but also throughout Europe, including Sweden. Despite the European Union’s vaunted welfare state, the middle class has shrunk in more than two-thirds of the countries there.

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• White liberal academics charge exorbitant speaking fees to lecture about their own “white privilege.”
• Robin DiAngelo, known for coining the term “white fragility,” charged the University of Kentucky $12,000 for a two-hour session.
• White liberal author Tim Wise received $10,000 from the University of Michigan to speak at an MLK Jr. symposium.

Doing well by doing good.

Steve Sailer.

Baltimore’s current Carnival of Murder can be timed precisely to Black Lives Matter’s Freddie Gray memorial riot in downtown Baltimore on April 27, 2015.

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Democrats in Washington are trying to push through a bill to raise the federal minimum wage, but around the country dozens of cities and states raised the wage floor at the beginning of the year. And like clockwork, small businesses across the country are already struggling with some of the issues that conservatives warned about. To wit, many businesses, particularly restaurants, which are notoriously low-margin businesses, have been forced to lay off employees, even after raising prices to meet the new wage requirements.

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Self-checkout theft has become so widespread that a whole lingo has sprung up to describe its tactics. Ringing up a T-bone ($13.99/lb) with a code for a cheap ($0.49/lb) variety of produce is “the banana trick.” If a can of Illy espresso leaves the conveyor belt without being scanned, that’s called “the pass around.” “The switcheroo” is more labor-intensive: Peel the sticker off something inexpensive and place it over the bar code of something pricey. Just make sure both items are about the same weight, to avoid triggering that pesky “unexpected item” alert in the bagging area.

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Here’s one “green energy” Earth-saving scenario to chew on: Your landscaper comes to your door early one morning asking you to move your car so that they can service your lawn. Except, your car is the in driveway. So you venture outside to see someone else’s Tesla, sitting on your lawn, with an extension cord running across your grass and plugged into the side of your home.

According to WPBF ABC, this is exactly what happened to Phil Fraumeni, who has lived at his house in Lake Worth, Florida for 20 years.

Socialism in action. In the world of Bernie Sanders, anybody can help himself to your stuff, because his claim to it is as good as yours.

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Google engineer Greg Coppola, who was suspended by his company for speaking to Project Veritas, published a July 25 post on Medium analyzing Google News. Coppola re-enacted a project done by PJ Media’s Paula Boylard in order to demonstrate Google’s liberal manipulation of its algorithms. Using what he called “data science,” Coppola found that the top 20 sites most relied on by Google News were all liberal.

Not really news but a useful reminder.

The top five sites were CNN, USA Today, The New York Times, Politico, and the Guardian. None of these sites are conservative or even bipartisan in their approach to news. The other sites include the New Yorker, Deadline, HuffPost, CNBC, Newsweek, Vox, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, ABC News, The Hill, and Salon. Not one of them could ever be accused of leaning right. In fact, most are bastions of left-wing hackery.

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Used to be that ‘migrants’ could depend on Eurotrash NGOs and their ‘rescue’ ships to pick them up once they were out of Libyan territorial waters and take them to some Mediterranean port, so all they had to do was find something that would float and stay afloat for 3 miles.

Now that European governments are falling into the hands of nationalists who don’t want their countries invaded by Turd World ‘migrants’, that trick is no longer working, and ‘refugees’ are discovering that the usual minimal-flotation jury-rigs provided by the cartels who arrange their ‘migrations’ for a hefty fee aren’t good enough to make it all the way across.

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The hive known as Google is quick to punish those who undermine its authority.  Hours after Google engineer Greg Coppola appeared with James O’Keefe in a Project Veritas video, he was put on administrative leave by his company. In the video, Coppola said that he believed that Google News and Google’s search engine algorithms were biased.

My, what a surprise.

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As George Carlin once famously said, ‘If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it.’

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Persons of Color behaving badly! What are the odds?

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Restaurants in Emeryville say they can’t keep raising prices, but workers say $16.30 an hour is barely enough in Bay Area

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The industrial elites have lost their way. In every major profession and institution, they once commanded vast, widely-admired projects that filled their lives with meaning and endowed the entire class with an unconquerable confidence. But the twentieth century couldn’t be preserved forever, like a bug in amber. The elites now face a radically transformed environment – and they are maladapted and demoralized. An inability to listen, an impulse to spew jargon in broadcast mode, a demand for social distance as the reward for professional success: such habits, which in the past placed them above and beyond the mob’s reach, now drag them down to contempt and mockery in the information sphere. Among the public, trust has curdled into loathing. The elites are horribly aware of their fall from grace – hence the conference – but being deaf to the public’s voice, they are clueless about how to respond.

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According to the report, “Earlier this year clashes between farm owners and protesters forced the police to step in Western Australia, and the owners of a small goat farm in Victoria blamed closure on continual harassment by abusive “vegan activists”.”

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Increasing educational attainment has apparently not improved verbal ability among Americans. Instead, as educational attainment has increased, those at each educational level are less verbally skilled even though the vocabulary skills of the whole population are unchanged.

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Sources from within the NYPD and the officers union spoke with the New York Post about the “outrage” they felt toward both the criminals who carried out the attacks and the mayor, Bill de Blasio, who was out-of-state when the attacks occurred. Senior NYPD officials and union leaders have repeatedly criticized de Blasio for going easy on criminals and undoing some of the progress that happened under Mayors Bloomberg and Giuliani, where crime rates in the city began a dramatic slide (though, in recent years, crime rates have started ticking higher again).

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When abortion is easy and cheap, cultures that value males over females (China, India, Muslim world. etc.) will wind up with a hefty surplus of males.

A hefty surplus of young males historically leads to war.

Just sayin’.

Ace of Spades is indignant.

And, second tweet — the New York Times headline blares that she says this guy (who is super anti-Trump, and anti-Trump’s statements about immigration, btw) told her to “go back where she came from,” but then, in the fourteenth (14th!) paragraph, concedes that she walked that back and said “I don’t want to say [that he said that]” and changes her claim to “he was making that type of reference.”

I want her to make formal charges (of what? Who knows) and swear under penalty of perjury as to what she’s claiming he said.

Taki is delightfully dyspeptic today.

Standing right below the Acropolis, where pure democracy began because public officials were elected by lot, I try to imagine if random political selection today would be a good thing. The answer is a resounding yes. Both Socrates and Aristotle questioned fundamental norms and values, and if they lived today they would certainly question the acceptance by us of career politicians who have never had any other profession. (Corbyn, Biden, I could go on.) Socrates was skeptical about many things, especially the arts, because he believed they led us away from the truth. Yet so-called “artists” today influence public opinion as never before. Even numbskull rappers have a say and can alter public opinion, hence election by lot should be a must.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is not really incestuous or polyandrous — the alleged marriage to her brother was never more than a scam, presumably to advance his immigration status. Her main squeeze, whom she belatedly married, was not her husband when she falsely filed joint tax returns with him. So there was no bigamy, just plain old tax fraud.

For the rest of this post, readers are asked to mentally insert the word “alleged” in front of any description of a crime or potential crime. Except for the fraudulent tax returns — which are documented in the public record — Rep. Omar has not been convicted of any crime, so the “alleged”s are de rigueur. Nor has she been investigated for any of the other crimes, as far as I know. Since she is a Woke Woman of Color, and a Muslim to boot, she generally gets a free pass.

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Looks as if they want a war. Trump will probably oblige  them.

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Gee, it looks as if all of those warnings about ‘if you ban guns people will use knives’ came true.

Imagine that.

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Obviously Trump is to blame.

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Flap, flap, flap as those chickens come home to roost.

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This is God telling you not to play golf.

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Good luck with that.

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This should come as no surprise to anybody.

Sherlock Hibbs, a wealthy Wall Street financier with ties to the University of Missouri, died in 2002. A fan of free market economics, the Austrian School, and Ludwig von Mises in particular, Hibbs specified in his will that $5 million would go to the university for the purposes of hiring “dedicated and articulate disciples” of this philosophy.

There was an interesting catch. If Mizzou failed to use the money to fund acolytes of Mises, the donation would instead go to Hillsdale College, a conservative institution in Michigan. Hibbs seemingly did not trust Mizzou to fulfill his terms and thus structured the gift so that an ideologically sympathetic college would have an incentive to hold the Mizzou accountable.

Hibbs was apparently right to worry. Hillsdale is now suing Mizzou, and alleges that the university willfully misspent the funds on faculty members who have nothing to do with either von Mises or Austrian economics.

Trudeau did a series of Doonesbury cartoons on this very subject.

I don’t know why he didn’t just cut to the chase and give the money to Hillsdale.

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Well what if I told you a Policy Director at Facebook was Nancy Pelosi’s Chief of Staff before taking said job directing policy at Facebook? What if I told you the head of algorithm policy at Facebook worked for Hillary at The State Department? Or that the Head of Content Policy worked for the Hillary presidential campaign? What if I told you the person in charge of privacy policy at Facebook used to work for Al Franken, before he worked for Senator Bonoff, before he worked for Congressman Oberstar? Or that the Director in charge of “countering hate and extremism” at Facebook came from the Clinton Foundation? Did you know that the person at Facebook who currently “oversees programs on countering hate speech and promoting pluralism”, and “develops internal third party education and drives thought leadership on hate speech and content moderation” was one of Obama’s policy advisers at The White House? Do you even know what “pluralism” is? Let me help you out:

Joel Kotkin sounds the alarm.

In the 20th century most business leaders were predictably conservative. Big money aligned with their class allies in the “party of property,” and some of those elements still back Donald Trump and conservative causes. Left-wing politics were left to their unions, academics and parts of the media.

But over the last twenty years most of the oligarchy — whose firms are overwhelmingly non-union — have embraced the progressive social and environmental agenda. The clear majority of wealthy donors support the Democratic Party while vast majority of the ultra-rich foundations — funded by the offspring of the Rockefellers and the Fords based on fossil fuels — now all tilt well to the left.

So deep-seated is gentry progressivism that a company like Nike quickly sides with a mediocre NFL quarterback who has worn socks showing police as pigs over an iconic image from the country’s founding. This could be one way that company, which relies on low-wage, largely un-unionized foreign labor in what the Baltimore Sun called “abysmal working conditions,” can sell itself as politically correct.

Steve Sailer.

So now we know.

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No-brainer. The government can’t confiscate a gun it doesn’t know about.

Not really news but a useful reminder.

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In short: Too many Democrats.

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William van Spronsen, a 69-year-old Antifa radical who was arrested for assaulting a police officer at a protest last year, was shot dead Saturday after he attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Tacoma, Washington, with molotov cocktails.

UPDATE: Twitter Users Defend Willem Van Spronsen After He Attacked Detention Facility, Died In Shootout With Police

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My question is, how the Hell is it the business of the Prime Minister whether children are active or not?

This is how absurdly totalitarian the British government has gotten.

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And the Coalition of the Fringes unravels a little bit more.

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At least we now know which side they’re on.

Christopher DeGroot.

As if to please American patriots, another video went viral this week. Taken on July 4, it shows some sixty young blacks at a Walgreens in Philadelphia celebrating the holiday by looting the store. A cashier tried to intervene, but fortunately he was hit in the head with a glass bottle. Next time, perhaps, he won’t try to spoil the fun.

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In January, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, tasked his Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, to “present a global plan of action against hate speech and hate crimes on a fast-track basis”. Speaking at a press conference about the UN’s challenges for 2019, Guterres maintained, “The biggest challenge that governments and institutions face today is to show that we care — and to mobilize solutions that respond to people’s fears and anxieties with answers…”

One of those answers, Guterres appeared to suggest, is shutting down free speech.

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Ridesharing company Car2Go experienced a significant theft of its high end cars, including dozens of Mercedes CLA sedans and GLA sport utility vehicles, on what should have otherwise been a dull Monday in April in Chicago, according to Bloomberg.

Rule by Democrats — it’s a jungle out there.