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And the normalization of the abnormal marches on….

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Anybody who has tried to set fire to a well-aged log is going to be skeptical of the ‘old wood went up like tinder’ claims.

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And yet they complain about Trump, who didn’t even do anything like that.

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Baltimore is the city ZMan calls ‘Lagos on the Chesapeake’.

The 69-year-old mayor is under investigation by the Maryland Office of the State Prosecutor after selling her books to University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) for $500,000 while on the system’s board.

Baltimore City Council members called on Pugh to resign in an April 8 letter. Pugh’s office said she “fully intends” to return to her position, The Baltimore Sun reported.

Urban corruption appears to be stereotypically Democrat; certainly Republicans have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar (especially in Illinois, thanks, I suspect, to the Chicago influence), but Democrats certainly seem to comprise over 95% of them. The great political machines — Tweed in New York, Pendergast in Kansas City, Daley in Chicago — were all Democratic.

UPDATE: Feds Raid Baltimore Mayor’s Homes As ‘Children’s Book’ Corruption Scandal Snowballs

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In  other words, the people who are conspiring and colluding to evade the immigration laws.

In other words, criminals and the abetters of criminals.

They would strongly object to that label, of course, but that’s what they are.

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Much of the gold was not recorded in the exports of African states. Five trade economists interviewed by Reuters said this indicates large amounts of gold are leaving Africa with no taxes being paid to the states that produce them.

That’s what really burns their asses — the government isn’t getting to wet its beak. That’s what makes it a ‘black market’.

Whenever you see the term ‘black market’, it indicates that some government isn’t getting its cut.

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For the millions of third-party sellers on Amazon’s marketplace, maintaining a successful business is a constant battle to rank high in search results, collect positive product reviews, and keep up with Amazon when it releases its own branded versions of sellers’ most successful products. This intense competition has led to the emergence of a secretive, lucrative black market where agents peddle “black hat” services, sometimes obtained by bribing Amazon employees, that purportedly give marketplace sellers an advantage over their rivals, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.

This is from BuzzFeed so I’d want to get it confirmed from another source.

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San Francisco – thanks to its balmy year-round climate and hospitable reputation – has long suffered from growing homelessness which, despite the city’s nosebleed-inducing taxes, it has been unable to curtail. This led to articles such our recent piece documenting the city’s 132,562 cases of human feces on city streets. As we noted then, San Francisco hosts an estimated homeless population of 7,500 people. As a result, affluent sections of the city have become borderline dangerous with open-air drug use, tens of thousands of discarded needles, and, sadly, overflowing human excrement.

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We need a wall.

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Of course. There are no penalties for politically-correct lawbreaking any more. That’s why we’re getting more of it.

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Russia has launched a new submarine that will carry underwater nuclear torpedoes capable of devastating enemy coastlines with a tsunami wave up to 500 meters (1,600 ft) that can leave behind radioactive isotopes, according to NBC News and US-Govt. funded outlet RFE/RL.

If they work, which Russian weapons sometimes do and sometimes don’t.

Let’s see — coastal cities at risk. I don’t think I have a problem with that.

But, still, it’s probably Trump’s fault.

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It seems that crime DOES pay.

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“I’ll give you more free stuff!” “No, I’ll give you more free stuff!’ “NO, I’LL GIVE YOU MORE FREE STUFF!”

UPDATE: Sanders, Harris Say Boston Marathon Bomber Should Be Able To Vote From Prison

UPDATE: Nets Bury Bumbling Biden’s Most Embarrassing Moments

UPDATE: Not ‘Bold’ Enough: CNN Pans Kamala Harris for Not Matching Bernie on Terrorist Voting!

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Memory of past atrocities fades like arctic ice under Global Warming.

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As has been obvious for some time now, “diversity” is an Orwellian term that means everyone looks different, but thinks the same. The enforced narrow conformity of the diversicrats cannot survive the real world for very long (college campuses, being insulated from reality, are another matter), and sure enough, it appears that James Damore, the software engineer fired from Google for doubleplusungoodwrongthink about diversity, will have to share his cell at the Diversity Re-Education Kamp (DREK for short) with some renegade anti-social criminals at Microsoft.

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California’s minimum wage increase has cost the state thousands of jobs worth of growth in the state’s booming restaurant industry, according to a recent study by the University of California Riverside.

California passed a bill in 2016 to bring the state’s minimum wage up to $15 an hour. For businesses with more than 25 employees, the state’s minimum wage rose to $12 in January and will hit $15 in January of 2022. Other businesses have until 2023 before the full $15-an-hour minimum takes effect.

If you raise the price of something, people buy less of it. That’s elementary economics, about as elementary as it gets.

Markets work, even when you don’t want them to.

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Christians are the only religious group you can hate with impunity.

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In Seattle, people are losing patience with city leadership over the homelessness crisis, but the frustration is running in both directions: the city’s political, cultural, and academic elites are conducting their own revolt—against the people.

Since the release of Eric Johnson’s documentary Seattle Is Dying, which depicts an epidemic of street homelessness, addiction, crime, and disorder, city elites have launched a coordinated information campaign targeted at voters frustrated with the city’s response to homelessness. Earlier this month, leaked documents revealed that a group of prominent nonprofits—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Campion Advocacy Fund, the Raikes Foundation, and the Ballmer Group—hired a PR firm, Pyramid Communications, to conduct polling, create messaging, and disseminate the resulting content through a network of silent partners in academia, the press, government, and the nonprofit sector. The campaign, #SeattleForAll, is a case study in what writer James Lindsay calls “idea laundering”—creating misinformation and legitimizing it as objective truth through repetition in sympathetic media.

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Earlier this month, we reported that Baltimore was dubbed the ‘most robbed’ city in America, and also mentioned its population continues to collapse.

This is the city that ZMan calls ‘Lagos on the Chesapeake’. Why anyone would want to live there escapes me.

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I’ll bet they didn’t see that coming.

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A six-year-old boy was injured when a group of men opened fire on a house with a shotgun, police said.

The boy is thought to have been inside the house when the shots were fired and he sustained non life-threatening injuries to his back and hand.

The incident happened shortly before 4pm on Friday afternoon at a house on Ashbourne Road in the Eastfield area of Wolverhampton.

Boy, banning the private ownership of firearms sure reduces gun crime, doesn’t it?

Detective Inspector Rod Rose said: “This was a shocking incident where someone has opened fire with a shotgun in the middle of the day.

Perhaps they were motivated by the assurance that nobody inside could shoot back? That’s just a guess, you understand.

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You always get more of what you subsidize. If you welcome homeless people, you get more homeless people.

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This is what comes from sending your kid to a government school.

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As always happens when law enforcement breaks down, citizens step in to safeguard themselves.

The servants of the state, of course, will punish the citizens, not the lawbreakers.

UPDATE: Armed Militia Rounding Up Migrants At Southern Border

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But you knew that.  San Francisco is literally a turd-world city.

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Yale keeps getting worse and worse.

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Tell your proglodyte fellow Pythonites.

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Have you ever seen Spartacus Booker smile? I haven’t. He always looks like he’s fixin’ to punch somebody out.

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Central American migrants apprehended at the border claimed to have been encouraged by local newspaper advertisements that promised work opportunities and free assistance from the U.S. government.

“The whole word knows, they put it in the news. They tell us everywhere if you come to the United States, they’ll help you,” said a Honduran woman apprehended at the southern border near the Rio Grande Valley. Speaking to CBS 4 news, a local news outlet, she and her family claimed they decided to make the trek to the U.S.-Mexico border after seeing several advertisements.

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While funding remains an issue, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Joe diGenova agreed with Judd’s assessment that the administration can resettle immigrants wherever they choose. He pointed to the refugee resettlement programs under the Obama administration, including a secret deal with Australia wherein refugees were reportedly taken in by Arizona, Texas, California, Oregon and New York.

Former Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal claimed in 2015 that he was not informed that refugees were being resettled in his state as the Obama administration announced plans to take in another 10,000 Syrian refugees.

“Under the Obama administration these same groups of people with the same legal status were sent to cities and states secretly without notifying those states and cities through the Obama administration working with NGOs,” diGenova said. “And if the states tried to find out where they were being sent they were told, ‘you’re not allowed to know.’”

“That’s the precedent. They did it and they did it without telling people. At least the president is being honest about it,” diGenova added.

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“We have 8 Congolese right now in one of our shelters and a dozen in Nuevo Laredo,” said Dr. Hector Gonzalez during an April 4 meeting of the Laredo City Council. Gonzales is the director of the Laredo Health department, according to Breitbart.

Ask yourself how ‘African migrants’ got to the Texas border.

I don’t think that they swam.

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How is this a surprise? Buttigieg thinks that an active homosexual can be a good Christian. That he is ignorant of basic economics is the least of his deficiencies.

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In the MemoryHole, no one can hear you XXXXXXX….

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Is anybody surprised by this?

For the record, I would have done the same. What’s the use of power if you can’t abuse it?

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But you have to remember that voter fraud doesn’t exist — it’s just a Republican myth.

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Well, you know, New York City….

There are so many cockroaches in NYC that some of them get elected to Congress.

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We live in an era where people go ballistic about the most trivial stuff.

To be clear, this is not ‘Netflix’, it’s some Grievance Studies major at Netflix who has chanced upon some modicum of power.

Probably female, although these days you can never tell.

Victor Davis Hanson.

The U.S.-Mexican border is essentially wide open.

Why? Because there is a general expectation in Mexico and Latin America that American immigration law is unenforced. Or it is so bizarre that simple illegal entry almost always ensures temporary legal residence, pending an asylum hearing.

A scheduled asylum hearing, in turn, is seen by border crossers as a mere formality to be ignored. The popular perception on the border, then, is to stick one foot illegally onto U.S. soil, and, presto, win permanent residence for you and any family members who wish to follow.

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Who is primarily behind these ongoing and increasing attacks on churches in Europe? The same German report offers a hint: “Crosses are broken, altars smashed, Bibles set on fire, baptismal fonts overturned, and the church doors smeared with Islamic expressions like ‘Allahu Akbar.'”

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No, we’re talking real piracy, not breaches of the government-defined monopoly on ‘intellectual property’.

It is only through modern corruption of the language that one needs to specify nautical piracy.

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I don’t even have to say anything, do I?

UPDATE: Shepard Smith Shuts Down Discussion of Attacks on French Churches: ‘Not on My Watch’

UPDATE: Cavuto Hangs Up On Bill Donohue After He Links Notre Dame Fire To Recent Paris Church Attacks

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Chao led the five-year project, combing through decades of census data, national survey responses, and birth records to build models that could estimate national sex ratios across time. In doing so, she and her collaborators at the United Nations discovered that in most regions of the world, sex ratios diverge significantly from the historical norm. Across a dozen countries, the chasm amounts to 23.1 million missing female births since 1970. The results, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide an unprecedented look at how societal values can skew the laws of nature.

I don’t see why they’re so confused. When people can abort unwanted babies, those in countries whose cultures value males over females are going to get rid of the ones they don’t want.

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Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, 24, was allegedly angry because women kept rejecting him and wanted to kill an adult before going for the child, The Associated Press reported Monday.

ZMan, in his podcast last week, went down the list of Newsweek’s ‘top ten best American cities to live in’, looking at the top seven or eight, and pointed out that off of them were at least 70% white. Perhaps people like Aranda are the reason.

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Is anybody in this day and age surprised that Democrats lie? Really?

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one of the greatest writers of the age is no longer with us.

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free — unless we arrest you first, in which case, too bad.

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Congresswoman Omar is not among them. She’s a volunteer.

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California is full of people who more and more are not comfortable being Americans.

I say, let ’em go.

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Well, he wasn’t a Berni Bro. Duh.