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The government spends billions of dollars on paying farmers not to grow crops, and to buy up their crops in order to support the prices. The reason this happens is because farmers are one of the most politically powerful lobbies in Washington, augmented by the dimwits who think that there is some sort of cultural icon value in ‘saving the family farm’, which is like ‘saving the buggy whip shops’. Most of this money eventually winds up in the hands of the agricultural conglomerates eventually, and they’re laughing all the way to the bank.

Google ‘Schumpeter creative destruction’ and read.

I suggest that this is God telling the agricultural industry — because, now, it is an industry — to get with the modern world.

As with an earthquake, all that such domestic protectionism accomplishes is to make the change, when it comes, more violent and destructive than it otherwise would have been. The longer it is delayed, the worse the result will be.

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his month, an Ohio jury awarded the owners of Gibson’s Food Mart and Bakery in Oberlin $44 million in combined punitive and compensatory damages in its defamation action against Oberlin College and a top university administrator. The incident at the heart of the lawsuit stems from a 2016 hate-crime hoax involving three black students, occurring the day after Donald Trump’s presidential victory. Gibson’s, owned and operated by the same family for over a century, has been a popular spot for Oberlin College students looking to buy groceries within walking distance of campus. Gibson’s also supplied the college dining hall with baked goods.

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Video hosting platform Vimeo – whose CEO contributed to the 2016 Clinton campaign – has completely banned Project Veritas over a viral video of a surreptitiously recorded Google employee admitting that the search giant is training its algorithms to to avoid the “next Trump situation,” raising questions of 2020 election meddling.

Crowdsourcing the Ministry of Truth appears to be successful for the proglodytes. Orwill missed that one.

Steve Sailer.

A good reminder of how immigrant groups are hot recruiting grounds for crime syndicates.

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This piece from the Atlantic is nominally a critique of Establishment parents but also serves to highlight the extent to which the Crust is being reshaped by the institutions that nominally serve them and in particular how the Chattering Class is working to brainwash our ruling elite to follow their ideological agenda. This is the sort of environment that produced AlGore and the Obamas.

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But you knew that.

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Crowdsourcing the Ministry of Truth.

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The Brave New World has apparently already arrived in Mountain View,

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Well, elect Democrats and that’s what happens.

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My, what a surprise.

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In 2019 American investigators found that international people smuggling syndicates had expanded into Central America and Mexico. The evidence was the appearance of hundreds of African and Middle Eastern illegal migrants into the United States. That turned the Mexican-Central American people smuggling operations into an even bigger business that was apparently now earning the local and international smuggling syndicates over two billion dollars a year.

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There are numerous reports that an influx of migrants is overwhelming the already-fragile system in the Balkans. You may think this is not pertinent if you don’t live in Europe. But just like the collapse of Venezuela, the Balkan War, and the collapse of Greece, there are patterns of behavior to which attention should be paid.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Progressivism’s signature brand is now tribalism: all of us in different ways are victims of a white male Christian heterosexual patriarchy—or a current 20 percent hierarchy that past and present has supposedly oppressed anyone not like themselves. In contrast, our differences define who we are, and are not incidental to the content of our characters. The salad bowl, not the melting pot, is the new national creed. America is to be a conglomeration of competing tribal parties in the fashion of the Balkans, Rwanda, or contemporary Iraq.

How does the relative victimhood work politically? Progressive elites (oddly often white, but “woke,” males) serve as umpires who adjudicate familial spats and intersectional fractures. Like good cowboys, they ride herd, directing the squabbling and snorting flock in the right direction without losing too many strays on the way to the election booth.

Atlantic Distorts Green New Deal’s Popularity, Cites Far-Left Think Tank

70 Arrested as Climate Activists Protest Against the New York Times

House Democrats ‘Spread Lies’ About Climate Change And Hurricanes, Scientist Says  Wow, that’s news.

David Gilmour sells his iconic “Black Strat”, 125 other guitars, for $21 million, donates money to fight climate change

Coalition Of Medical Groups Cite Climate Change As Greatest Threat To Public Health  Oh, I can think of a few others.

Hearing on climate change & extreme weather

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Nothing to see here … move along, move along….

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Switch or upheaval, the days of France as we knew it are numbered: the society has lost its cultural center of gravity: the old way of life is fading and close to “extinction”. “Frenchness” is disappearing and being replaced by a kind balkanization of enclaves not communicating with one another. For the country most affected by Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, this is not a good recipe.

We need only to look at what is happening in Europe to see what will happen in the U.S. if certain trends continue.

When the canary dies, it’s time to get out of the coal mine.

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Some racists are more equal than others.

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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.?

Bernie does.

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A professor of literature at SUNY Old Westbury says it makes him happy when he sees poor white people on the street begging for food or money.

I guess some racists are more equal than others.

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The Left Coast Crust is down for the struggle.

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Mariandra Heunis and her children are the survivors of a vicious, dead-of-night attack on her family. Her husband — her childrens’ father — is not. He was killed in their home outside Pretoria, South Africa, in what has come to be called a “farm attack — the targeted terrorizing of farmers in a country with a long history of strife over race and land.

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The battle for supremacy in the world of hand hygiene is a dirty one, and nothing demonstrates this better than the depressing sight of a paper towel dispenser with a EULA.

That’s right: even dumb plastic boxes whose only use in this world is to hold paper towels apparently need an end-user license agreement now. In this case, the EULA — spotted by Harvard Library curator and Twitter user John Overholt at a recent conference — forbids the people who have to refill this Tork dispenser from using rival, non-Tork products.

What a world.

Steve Sailer.

There’s clearly a campaign going on in George Soros-affiliated media to replace the anti-crime black woman district attorney of Los Angeles County with somebody more Kim Foxx-like, even if it’s a white guy from San Francisco.

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You can’t make this stuff up.

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The battle over ‘prep’ clothing styles.

“Clothes make the man. I believe that.”  — Joe Versus the Volcano

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George Washington High School in San Francisco. Presumably a name change is in progress.

How soon can we make California a separate country?

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Over the years we have documented the incredibly serious and damaging violations of the espionage laws committed by the New York Times colluding with current and former government officials. I recently took a glancing look back at a few of the highlights in “Tears of the Times.”

Working for the Times, James Risen was a prominent culprit. When the government identified and prosecuted one of Risen’s sources (disgruntled former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling) for an incredibly sensitive story Risen retailed in his book State of War, Risen resisted the government’s subpoena for his testimony. Risen asserted an absurd claim of privilege that he took all the way to the Supreme Court, which declined to hear his case. I thought Risen should have been in the dock beside Sterling as his co-conspirator, but the government only sought his testimony.

The number of violations of various laws that ‘media’ organizations get away with is truly incredible.

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This is what happens in a country without a Bill of Rights. When the American Constitution was being hammered out, the rights enshrined in it were those considered to be the traditional rights and freedoms of British subjects, reduced to writing just in case public opinion (or government policy) changed in the future. I think recent history has underscored the wisdom of that approach.

Unfortunately, since class warfare became fashionable in the early 20th century, and socialism soon after, Britain has advanced quite a ways toward political totalitarianism, facilitated by the settled legal doctrine that Parliament can do whatever it damned well pleases and individual British citizens have no rights or freedoms to speak of (and certainly not to sue for).

So what is this ‘Advertising Standards Authority’? Well, Wikipedia says:

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the self-regulatory organisation of the advertising industry in the United Kingdom. The ASA is a non-statutory organisation and so cannot interpret or enforce legislation. However, its code of advertising practice[1] broadly reflects legislation in many instances. The ASA is not funded by the British government, but by a levy on the advertising industry.

This body is not a public authority and has no legal power (and no accountability to the public) but appears to have been set up by the advertising industry itself in order to avoid regulation by an actual political authority. “Not long after the inception of the ASA the Molony Committee considered but rejected proposals to introduce a system to regulate the advertising industry by statute. The Committee reported that it was satisfied that the industry could be regulated effectively from within by the ASA.” I’ll just bet it was.

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Erased like a Soviet apparatchik from a Stalin photograph.

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The recent spike in illegal immigration from African countries underscores the increase in migrants coming from around the globe to sneak across the southern border–including more than 10,000 from Asia and almost 900 from Europe last year.

In recent weeks, U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended more than 500 illegal immigrants from African countries that include Angola, Cameroon, and both the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Associated Press reported.

That’s more than twice the 211 total apprehensions during fiscal year 2018 of illegal border crossers from the continent.

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When the average American thinks about Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, their initial impression is typically that these are destitute countries overrun by crime, poverty and malnutrition, with central governments that are, at best, only semi-functioning. The crisis at the southern border has only helped reinforce these perceptions, as the mainstream media spins a narrative about impoverished migrant families fleeing the ravages of gang violence.

But if these Central American countries are so extremely impoverished poor, then why are bond investors willing to lend to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador at interest rates on par with the preferential terms enjoyed by regional economic powerhouses like Brazil? The truth, as it turns out, is more complicated: All three countries are viewed as stable, even safe, investments because they spend almost nothing on government services. And most of what little is spent is siphoned off by graft.

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Sounds good to me. The party of slavery and segregation has been skating along on historical amnesia for far too long.

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A black writer was booed Wednesday for testifying against slave reparations in a congressional hearing.

Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes said reparation payments to the descendants of slaves would insult black Americans, further divide the country, and make him and other descendants of slaves “victims without their consent.”

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Not that it will matter a damn.

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Let’s face it, all of Venezuela’s problems are caused by Venezuelans.

If they hadn’t wanted Chavez in, he wouldn’t have gotten in.

If they hadn’t wanted socialism, they wouldn’t have wanted socialism.

If they wanted Maduro out, he’d be out.

The essential problem of democracy is that it allows 51% of the population to pee in the soups of the other 49%.

No regime, however repressive, can survive without a modicum of support from the population.

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Not something you see in the headlines every day.

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And you wondered what recycling leads to. Now you know.

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These are the same ‘midwest farms’ that get hundreds of millions of dollars a year in subsidies and price support payments.

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So not only health insurance but housing will come to you through your employer.

Read GLADIATOR-AT-LAW to find out how this story ends.

There is nothing new under the sun.

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Good.

UPDATE: High School Girl Who Lost Race to Transgender Athletes Files Federal Complaint

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The left wants to prevent Sarah Sanders from gaining employment, now that she has moved on from the Trump White House. An outfit called American Bridge is seeking signatures in support of the blacklisting of Sanders.

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A gunman opened fire Monday morning outside the federal courthouse in downtown Dallas and was killed by law enforcement, an FBI official said.

The suspect allegedly started shooting around 8:50 a.m. local time at the U.S. Courthouse while wearing a mask and combat boots, which prompted return fire from federal officers, according to the Dallas Morning News. No one else has been reported to be injured.

And THAT’s the difference between Texas and all of the other shooting stories.

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Duh. Communist dictatorship.

Steve Sailer points out that it’s just going to get worse.

Cameroonians generally fly to Ecuador because no visa is required and take about four months to reach Tijuana. They walk for days in Panama through dense jungle, where they are often robbed and held in government-run camps. They come from Cameroon’s English-speaking south with horrifying stories of rape, murder and torture committed since late 2016 by soldiers of the country’s French-speaking majority, which holds power.

The U.S. becomes the universal sink to which all adversity drains, apparently.

Portland officials tweeted Thursday that rumors some of the migrants are carrying the Ebola virus “are patently false,” and said that as asylum seekers, they are in the United States legally.

Lucky us. Why not send them to Vermont, and let Bernie socialist them?

Bryan Caplan blows the whistle.

I have been in school for more than 40 years. First preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, and high school. Then a bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley, followed by a doctoral program at Princeton. The next step was what you could call my first “real” job—as an economics professor at George Mason University.

Thanks to tenure, I have a dream job for life. Personally, I have no reason to lash out at our system of higher education. Yet a lifetime of experience, plus a quarter century of reading and reflection, has convinced me that it is a big waste of time and money. When politicians vow to send more Americans to college, I can’t help gasping, “Why? You want us to waste even more?”

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The labor market doesn’t pay you for the useless subjects you master; it pays you for the preexisting traits you signal by mastering them. This is not a fringe idea. Michael Spence, Kenneth Arrow, and Joseph Stiglitz—all Nobel laureates in economics—made seminal contributions to the theory of educational signaling. Every college student who does the least work required to get good grades silently endorses the theory. But signaling plays almost no role in public discourse or policy making. As a society, we continue to push ever larger numbers of students into ever higher levels of education. The main effect is not better jobs or greater skill levels, but a credentialist arms race.

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Well, this is what happens in a country with no Bill of Rights.

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Duh. Totalitarian dictatorship.

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Woodrow Wilson was probably the Worst President Ever, even worse than Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama.

Steve Sailer reads this stuff so you don’t have to.

You know how each spring the media is full of reports of some high school student who was accepted into all eight Ivy League colleges, and then it usually turns out to be some Nigerian girl?

So even with that kind of affirmative action mojo, a girl at Sidwell named Dayo Adetu still managed to go 0 for 13 in applying to college, not even getting into Spelman HBCU. So she and and her Leopard Parents (both MDs, I believe) are suing Sidwell Friends for allegedly conspiring against her after a long list of discrimination lawsuits the parents filed involving her and her older sister. They’ll take their latest case to the Supreme Court!

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I guess they just wandered across the ocean and said, Hey, let’s stop over in America.