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Beyond questions of corruption and abuse is the matter of simple competence. How exactly is the Guard going to stop illegal immigration from Guatemala along a porous 541-mile border that almost entirely lacks the security features of our border with Mexico? As Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies noted in a recent post, the Mexicans shouldn’t expect any help from Guatemalan officials, which they will certainly need to be effective.

“That’s because Guatemala’s leadership, border patrol, and police forces all have been neck-deep in the smuggling industry for years, despite ongoing corruption investigations and a contentious national election campaign,” writes Bensman, adding that the smuggling infrastructure in Guatemala and southern Mexico is “entrenched, dynamic, and politically connected, having grown uninhibited for decades and with citizen populations on both sides depending on it for sustenance.”

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Been wondering when Black Lives Matter would heat up again? Well, wonder no more.

At least 24 police officers have been injured in protests over the lethal shooting of a black man in Tennessee Wednesday night.

Brandon Webber, 21, was shot and killed by U.S. Marshals on Wednesday evening in Memphis after he allegedly crashed his vehicle into officer’s cars, Washington Post reported. Webber had multiple warrants out for his arrest.

Webber left his vehicle in possession of a weapon, according to a statement from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI). TBI is investigating the shooting.

“At least 24 officers and deputies were injured—6 were taken to the hospital,” said Democratic Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland in a statement. “At least two journalists were injured.”

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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.?

In a private health care system, if somebody screws up, they can be sued.

In a health care system manned by government employees — eh, not so much.

Ever try to sue the Postal Disservice for not delivering the mail?  Wonder how far you would get? Not very far.

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Seriously – who would drink Budweiser when they could have beer?

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Documents leaked to Project Veritas by a Pinterest insider reveal that the San Francisco-based social media company has blocked links from Zero Hedge and several conservative or religious-based websites – adding them to a ‘porn domain block list’ originally intended to keep the platform free of sexually explicit material.

The old Soviet Union used a similar trick, stashing dissidents in mental hospitals.

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Duh. Communist dictatorship.

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My, what a coincidence.

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Surprise  surprise.

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Aspiring totalitarians at the BBC want to know.

The world is full of people who are perfectly comfortable, nay, extremely joyous, telling other people how to run their lives.

Many of these work for governments around the world.

Many more work for government auxiliaries in the so-called news media.

Nick Triggle is one such.

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Good luck with that.

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Despite hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through Los Angeles to stem the rising tide of homelessness, a resurgence of medieval diseases has the city – and neighboring states – on edge. Typhoid fever and typhus, borne by fleas, body lice, and feces, are turning the once glitzy and glamorous city into a third-world worthy environment. Yes, Typhoid Mary is back, in a sense, living on the streets and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting people in the Golden State.

These diseases, along with an uptick in tuberculosis, hepatitis A, and staph, are easily and rapidly spread and have wide-reaching consequences. They’re highly contagious and can infect anyone through casual contact.

Steve Sailer.

“When we called Border Patrol to confirm, they said yea another 2-300 from the Congo and Angola will be coming to San Antonio,’” Dr. Collen Bridger said.

If you havent read Jean Respail’s Camp of the Saints, you need to do so.

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All over America, large portions of our major cities are being transformed into stomach-churning cesspools of squalor. Thousands of tens cities are popping up from coast to coast as the homeless population explodes, even the New York Times admits that we are facing “the worst drug crisis in American history”, there were more than 28,000 official complaints about human feces in the streets of San Francisco last year alone, and millions of rats are currently overrunning the city of Los Angeles. And yet the authorities continue to insist that the economy is in good shape and that everything is going to be just fine.

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Don’teven need to say it.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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The Left contains the seeds of its own destruction.

Let’s just hope it doesn’t contain the seeds of our destruction as well.

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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.?

When health care is provided by private entities, victims can sue those responsible for damages.

When health care is provided by a government agency, who can you sue? And how successful is it likely to be?

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Ace of Spades blows the whistle.

Yet another reason not to buy at Target.

Victor Davis Hanson.

A veritable mini-industry of celebrity calls for Trump’s violent death or assassination is now old and boring—and getting dangerous.

As if on cue, actors, singers, comedians, and banal entertainers compete with each other to hope for the most gruesome manner of killing the president—and thereby insidiously lowering the bar for unhinged minds of what could be conceivable or even acceptable to big screen icons and popular culture’s cool crowd.

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I smell a lawsuit.

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Every day roughly 126 million people hop on Twitter to participate in a near-instantaneous flow of information, and it’s making users more stupid according to a team of Italian researchers.

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The next step is for the US to occupy about 100 miles of the northern part of Mexico and clean house.

Mexico has had decades to clean its own house without success.

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Where will it end?

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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It has often been observed that progressives are re-segregating some areas of the country, especially college campuses. But Minnesota has never been segregated, so our progressives are boldly venturing to segregate our citizens by race for the first time.

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California, land of tomorrow — we hope not.

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Tucker Carlson lit the New York Times ablaze Monday night after one of its own interview subjects was murdered in a racially motivated attack in South Africa.

Four men entered 62-year-old vineyard owner Stefan Smit’s Western Cape home and shot him dead as he was having Sunday dinner with his friends and family. Smit became the latest victim in the struggle between white landholders and black South Africans living in poverty who believe the land should be redistributed to them as reparations.

We saw this same scenario play out in Zimbabwe, with horrible results for both blacks and whites.

Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

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Because I teach kids robotics, I get to see the dexterity of kids and how long it takes to develop. While our robot kids were doing LEGO for several years, they were pretty good already but the transition to screws, nuts, plyers and screwdrivers was the hardest thing they had to tackle all year. One guy kept snapping the heads off screws, permanently ruining parts we couldn’t now get the screw body out from.

So what is happening to our kids? Well, this article goes over how we have removed shop, hobbies and other activities that develop good hand eye coordination, dexterity and three-dimensional thinking from our kids daily life. Parents would rather give babies an iPad that work with them and the frustration of LEGOs or heaven forbid, have them help them with tools.

This points up an increasing problem. It doesn’t just affect surgeons and dentists — it also spells problems finding carpenters, plumbers, electricians, machinists, welders … you name it, if it requires good hand/eye coordination, we are soon going to be running short. There are a lot of things robots still can’t do.

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Before the emails roll in telling me that I “don’t science,” I’m well aware that the theory of natural selection was about genetic changes that occur over a series of generations. However, the point remains that once upon a time, being stupid got you killed. And no one got sued. The person who couldn’t figure out that some ill-conceived idea was a bad one faced the consequences. If the consequences didn’t kill them, they learned not to do the stupid thing again, making them just a teeny bit smarter and more equipped to deal with the world. Some who believe our planet is overpopulated might even argue that the obsolescence of natural selection is the root cause of the people boom.

But now, we are coddled, cautioned, and warned out of needing to think for ourselves. Another evolutionary theory says that when some trait or characteristic goes unused, it disappears after a few generations. Sort of like those cave fish that don’t have any eyes, After multiple generations deep underground in the pitch black, their eye sockets are now empty. Perhaps after multiple generations without the need for critical thought and common sense, those in “civilized societies” are going to evolve into creatures with their own empty spots where something useful was previously.

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Anyone who buys or rides in a Tesla is a moron.

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Sounds like a Democrat to me.

Democrats: Party of Fear – Party of Hate – Party of Death

ZMan follows it down.

The defining feature of American Conservatism since the rise of Buckley and National Review is that it managed to conserve nothing. In fact, the movement was largely born out of the Civil Rights Movement, in which the New Right, as they were called then, conceded the right of free association to the Left. From that point forward, conservatism in America was mostly just a modification of Progressivism, often following it around like a shadow from one new radical idea to the next.

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A group of illegals from Angola, Cameroon and Congo waded across the Rio Grande River and into the United States, video from Customs and Border Protection shows.

I suspect a concerted effort by pro-immigration NGOs, similar to those doing ‘rescues’ in the Mediterranean, designed to dump as many foreigners into the U.S. as possible.

UPDATE: And So It Begins: Border Patrol Arrests 116 Africans Crossing Rio Grande, by Steve Sailer

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A room full of San Francisco Democrats booed former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D) on Saturday after he warned against embracing socialism and socialist policies ahead of the 2020 presidential race, suggesting that it could place the entire Democratic party outside of the political mainstream.

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In the old Soviet Union, the Communists allegedly used the term “useful idiot” to describe Westerners whose naïve political views furthered the Soviet agenda, even though these Westerners didn’t realize that they were being exploited in such fashion. It is in this context that I confidently declare that American economists have been useful idiots for the green socialists pushing extreme climate change policies. The radical environmentalists were quite happy to embrace the economic concepts of “Pigovian negative externalities” and a carbon tax in the past, but now that it is impossible for economic science to endorse their desired agenda, the activists have discarded the entire field as hopelessly out of touch. Economists who still support a carbon tax and other climate “mitigation policies” should be aware of the bigger picture.

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Anyone who buys or rides in a Tesla is a moron.

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To Stelter, the fact that there wasn’t any wall-to-wall coverage was a bad thing, that it meant we’re becoming totally desensitized to news like this. I too worry about this possibility, especially given how many mass shootings we’ve had since Columbine. What Stelter doesn’t seem to acknowledge, however, is the role the media has played in that increase.

Scott Adams is of the same opinion. He would prefer if the name of the shooter were never mentioned on the news.

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A Person of Color behaving badly — no doubt White Privilege was to blame.

I note also that this was a government employee, the sort of people for whom the phrase ‘going postal’ was coined. Make of that what you will.

You might also ponder how much less the death toll would be if any of his victims had been armed.

UPDATE: (Steve Sailer) NYT Suddenly Shuns Identity Politics When It Comes to Virginia Beach Shooter’s Race, by Steve Sailer

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Pembroke Pines police released security footage, Thursday, capturing two women twerking as they were shop lifting at the Madrag clothing store in Pembroke Pines, Florida.

Women of Color behaving badly — what are the odds?

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It’s what we’ve all been waiting for.

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Academe, as anyone knows who’s tried to leave it, is like a partner who is wrenchingly hard to quit. When it was good, it was amazing. God, the highs! The horizon of your happiness seemed unbounded. But the partner turned out to be a nut job who demanded nothing less than all of you. Move to a different city every year, they stipulated. Subsist on bread crumbs. Completely debase yourself. They constantly evaluated your “performance.” On a whim, they dressed you up in a sailor suit and beat you.

Christopher DeGroot: It Is the Left That Believes in White Male Supremacy

Cue four predictably middling women academics—Devin M. Garofalo, Anna Hinton, Kari Nixon, and Jessie Reeder—who decided to use Kay’s article as an occasion for punishing him for the crime of being a white man. In “The Humanities Without Nostalgia,” their response to Kay published in The Chronicle Review on May 17, Garofalo et al. claim Kay is nostalgic for the good old days when academe was a function of white male privilege. The irony of attributing (without contextual evidence) such a belief to Kay—a PhD who gave up on academe because he couldn’t find a career in it—while they themselves are all tenure-track professors was apparently lost on these bluestockings.

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Americans’ theory that more trade with China would open up the country to more democracy has been proven wrong. In fact, say Reggie Littlejohn, Huchen Zhang and Chen Guancheng on The Bill Walton Show, they have backfired. “You cannot tolerate evil. You cannot treat evil with kindness,” Zhang said.

Duh. Some people don’t seem to understand what the phrase ‘Communist dictatorship’ means.

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The Chief medical officer is considering a tax on all unhealthy foods in a bid to reduce the levels of childhood obesity and persuade parents to buy fresh fruit and vegetables.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that Britain had a ‘chief medical officer’ who could decide what to tax and what not to tax.

I’m REALLY GLAD that the U.S. doesn’t have one of those.

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Unfortunately for the Left, the mob will come even for their own. Such people face the choice of subsiding back into the proglodyte dream world or making some painful adjustments in their thought patterns. Most choose the former.

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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.?

We do. It’s called the VA Hospital System. And it works about as well as you would expect a government-run system to work.

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Accessory after the fact. Open and shut.

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Your tax dollars at work.

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Sort of a self-correcting problem.

Think of it as evolution in action.