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Prediction: The murder rate will go up, not down.

(Seriously, who could vote for somebody named Preckwinkle?)

Find the ‘black woman’ in this picture:

For reference, here is a picture of an actual black woman:

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Global Warming — is there anything it can’t do?

Ace of Spades brings the heat.

In case you spend as little time watching TV as I do, here’s Chris Hayes:

The term ‘Beta Male’ seems entirely too rugged for this guy.

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The entire circle-the-wagons effort to save Joe Biden from a political witch-hunt that nobody else is allowed to escape demonstrates rather plainly that It’s All Politics.

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I wouldn’t drive a Tesla if I were you. Just sayin’.

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The ‘rightwing thinktank’ in question is the Heritage Foundation, one of the most respected think tanks in Washington.

This is getting absurd.

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Ever since the sixties, these twits inflict themselves on public gatherings. Nominally about ‘raising consciousness’, to the extent that it has any effect on public opinion the effect is negative; people who agree with them get a warm fuzzy, and the people whom they are theoretically trying to win over are merely confirmed in their initial impression that these are rude children. But it’s mostly about people who have no chance of any serious impact doing something symbolic that will make them feel good about themselves – ‘virtue signaling’ is the most polite term for it. The whole basis for the activity is the firm conviction ‘We can do what we want to you, but you can’t do shit to us’. The viewpoint of children.

In totalitarian societies, of course, such people disappear into large vans and spend the rest of their days in Labor Camps of Strict Regime. There’s a lot to be said for it.

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The group has publicly celebrated its work. But in fact, the Red Cross has repeatedly failed on the ground in Haiti. Confidential memos, emails from worried top officers, and accounts of a dozen frustrated and disappointed insiders show the charity has broken promises, squandered donations, and made dubious claims of success.

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We can’t train the Ruling Class if they’re not going to subscribe to the Narrative.

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I’ll bet it is, I’ll bet it is.

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For almost two decades, Ted Gordon has been leading tours of UT Austin that show how racism, patriarchy, and politics are baked into the landscape and architecture of the campus. This month, that tour goes live online. In honor of the launch of the new website, “The Racial Geography Tour,” we are featuring an interview Joan Neuberger conducted with Prof. Gordon last week.

UT Austin is the metastasizing core of the Blue tumor of Travis County in Texas. If there’s any place in Texas where racism, patriarchy, and ‘politics’ have been expunged, it’s UT Austin — and yet people like Gordon attempt to prop up the decaying corpse of the past because otherwise their Change Compulsion would wither and die.

The central paradox of Progressive politics is the fact that, even as they cling to the certainty that Progress Is Inevitable, they have to believe that Progress Hasn’t Arrived Yet AndWe’re Still Stuck In The Bad Old Days.

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California, in a typical feat of “virtue signaling,” has committed the state to getting half of its electrical power from renewables such as wind and solar, up from 16 percent today, within the next decade. This drive has meant the rapid abandonment of electricity generated by nuclear power as well as natural, gas which together comprised nearly 70 percent of all electricity production in 2015.

This may not end well. California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Picker suggested recently that we could soon return “the kind of crisis we faced in 2000 and 2001.” The rapid abandonment of existing reliable energy sources makes the state, in the estimate of the Institute for Energy Research, “vulnerable to rolling blackouts.”

Plenty of room in Texas.

Plenty of power, too.

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In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called on governments to increase regulation of internet speech. It is easy to understand why Zuckerberg wants governments to tell Facebook what to do. Following regulations will insulate Facebook against liability, and the free speech controversies of recent years have been an unwelcome distraction from Facebook’s remarkably successful business model.

God save us from an Internet run according to the ideas of Mark Zuckerberg.

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Jussie Smollett isn’t alone in trying to fake a hate crime for personal or selfish reasons. Hate crime hoaxes happen more often than many well-meaning Americans probably realize, and often they’re orchestrated as part of a trend intended to provoke hysteria and panic. Sometimes, innocent conservatives guilty of nothing more than living in the area where the “crimes” allegedly occurred are falsely accused of carrying out the attacks, and subjected to a storm of online threats and abuse. The political subtext of these false reports is easy to spot. Just like the Smollett case, they’re intended to portray Trump supporters and conservatives as violent bigots and homophobes willing to indiscriminately target members of the trans and gay communities.

Hot times in the Whitest City in America.

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They are bound and determined to nickel-and-dime people out of their state.

That’s fine. Plenty of room out here in America.

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The long-awaited trial of former Minneapolis police office Mohammed Noor for murder begins tomorrow in Hennepin County District Court before Judge Kathryn Quaintance. In an egregious example of police incompetence, Noor killed Justine Damond on July 15, 2017. Noor should not have been on the force. His killing of Damond represents an utterly needless tragedy that exposed Minneapolis’s kakistocracy for the world to see and now, in the words of the old antiwar left, the whole world is watching. The Star Tribune previews the trial in today’s paper.

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Even at a time of low interest rates and rising wages, Americans simply can’t afford a home in more than 70% of the country, according to CBS. Out of 473 US counties that were analyzed in a recent report, 335 listed median home prices were more than what average wage earners could afford. According to the report from ATTOM Data Solutions, these counties included Los Angeles and San Diego in California, as well as places like Maricopa County in Arizona.

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We need a wall, fast.

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We need a wall,. badly.

John Derbyshire describes the elephant in the room.

The phrase “black privilege” is being thrown around in connection with this story. That’s not altogether inappropriate. That Smollett’s blackness—black-ish-ness, whatever—was an important factor in the charges being dropped, can’t be denied.

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One of liberal Democrats’ favorite tactics these days is to smear anyone who doesn’t agree with them as a racist. However, they don’t always follow their own rules due to an apparent “do as I say, not as I do” mentality. That philosophy was on full display in Savannah, Georgia, on Wednesday night, when reporters attempting to cover an event for candidates in the upcoming mayoral election were greeted with signs that said “Black Press Only.”

Racism, straight up.

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In 1991, Sen. Joe Biden was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who permitted the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas to become a “high-tech lynching.” Among other things, this squalid episode had the effect of causing young Andrew Breitbart to begin questioning the liberal beliefs he had grown up with. (See, for example, Larry O’Connor’s column from last October, “The Kavanaugh effect: The next Andrew Breitbart is watching.”) What Biden and his fellow Democrats did to Thomas was so clearly wrong, and so obviously motivated by political hatred, that it was henceforth impossible for Democrats to appeal to a sense of decorum or bipartisanship without being seen as hypocrites.

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Could the next great Chinese advanced missile threat come disguised as an innocuous looking shipping transport vessel? A new report in The Washington Free Beacon suggests so, as it details China’s new long-range cruise missile which can be launched directly from a shipping container device, which is meant to conceal detection of the threat right up until the moment of launch.

Alarmingly, it’s already being flight tested, according to analysts cited in the report, which further finds the technology “could turn Beijing’s large fleet of freighters into potential warships and commercial ports into future missile bases.” If cruise missiles can be hidden in international shipping containers, China could be a major threat to western targets simply as it moves millions of tons of goods every year.

Those pesky Chinese.

Michelle Malkin brings the heat.

How did hate crime huckster Jussie Smollett get away with it? All crooked roads in Chicago lead back to the Obamas.

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

As Tom Wolfe pointed out in 1987, one of the obsessions our age is Plaques for Blacks. In Bonfire of the Vanities, the Mayor of New York winces everytime he asks his chief of staff what’s on the schedule today and his aide answers “Plaques for Blacks.”

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They can’t get here except through Mexico.

If Mexico lets them through, then that’s an Unfriendly Act.

Closing the border with Mexico sounds like a good plan.

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Pretty scary stuff.

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The mayor told the radio hosts that the $10,000 bond Smollett forfeited after charges were dropped against him “doesn’t even come close to what the city spent in resources.”

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They certainly are.

Roy, a first-term lawmaker, said that while traffickers were still moving marijuana, they were also “moving towards human trafficking for profit.”

“We know, talking to Border Patrol,” Roy said, “that in the area in and around the Rio Grande Valley sector, the Gulf Cartel, particularly in Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel, will make upwards of $130 million, probably more now this year alone, moving upwards of 400,000 people through that part of the border.”

Roy, 46, who represents Texas’ 21st Congressional District, recently visited the border town of McAllen, Texas, to survey the situation there. The 21st District abuts Austin and San Antonio, but does not share a border with Mexico.

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Hurry up with that wall.

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I wonder whether they’ll ever get the Victim Points sorted out.

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A few months have passed since President Trump last threatened to close the southern border, but with another caravan of 2,500 Central American and Cuban migrants making its way through southern Mexico – where the group has reportedly received a cooler welcome than previous groups – the president has apparently decided that it’s time to revive those threats.

Steve Sailer looks at modern travel.

Apparently the New York Times isn’t a dependable source for travel advice. Who knew?

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Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 67
Shot & Wounded: 326
Total Shot: 393
Total Homicides: 75

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White people, the only people you can still be racist about.

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Celebrating Black Privilege for the rest of your lives.

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Apparently he wore dress uniform and thus diverted attention from bridezilla, an unforgivable sin.

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So much for that “healthy conversation.” Twitter’s rules on abusive behavior and hate speech apparently exclude any form of anti-Semitism. Arsen Ostrovsky, executive director of the Israeli-Jewish Congress, reported a tweet directed at him which should have fallen under abusive behavior. But Twitter determined otherwise. In an email, Twitter Support informed Ostrovsky that the tweet, which called for the “stoning of the Jews,” “is not in violation of the Twitter Rules against abusive behavior.”

Now imagine what their reaction would have been to a tweet calling for ‘stoning the Muslims’.

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The Wall Street Journal story keeps bouncing around Twitter, about how the Baby Boomers who built big custom luxury houses don’t want them anymore, because the Baby Boomers are getting too old to handle such big houses, and they can’t sell them, because everyone else either is not interested in a big custom luxury house, in which case they won’t buy one, or is interested in a big custom luxury house, in which why would they buy someone else’s old one? This seems like funny comeuppance, and it is funny comeuppance, but it’s also just the clown-shoed version of the problem that everyone has in one way or another, which is that homeownership is not a solution but a way of freezing a particular set of problems in place.

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People guess who they are and what their lives are about, and they guess wrong.

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We still need a wall.

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Hold on to your wallets.

Scott Johnson relates his travails attempting to get another proglodyte ‘fact checker’ to tell the truth.

Wikipedia is just as bad. Scott Adams has been trying for the longest time to correct their coverage of the Trump’s statement about the Covington marchers.

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Just in case you were feeling good for a change….

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Proglodytes do this on a regular basis.

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Funny how she looks white but probably ‘identifies’ as black. I’m sure that gave her s leg up.

If I were a college I’d admit anybody at $70 mil a pop.

Veronique de Rugy lays it out.

I get why so many are devoting such amounts of energy to this task. First, the likes of Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and few others have made the notion of socialism acceptable in some circles and even hip. Also, according to a poll from August, for the first time since Gallup has asked the question, more Democrats approve of socialism than of capitalism.

However, if all we do is talk about how Venezuela is a hellhole and Cuba is a terrible place, I fear that we might end up being the modern equivalent of Don Quixote fighting the windmill.

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In total, 41% of New York residents say they can’t cope with the city’s high cost of living. They believe they will be forced to go somewhere where the “economic climate is more welcoming”, according to the report.

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But you knew that.

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Welcome to the Left Coast. Be careful not to step in the diversity.