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Thank God for those strict gun control laws, or the murder rate would be through the roof.

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The more I thought about that response, the more I realized it’s indicative of a malignant and rapidly growing pathology among leftists these days—the need to frame all political discourse in terms of “us vs. death.”

“We’re just tryin’ to save lives, man!”

Want a fun little exercise? Google “people will die if.” Nothing more. That little semi-phrase alone will bring forth a wealth of dire warnings about the consequences of not doing as leftists demand. “People will die” if Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed (Yale law students). “People will die” if Congress doesn’t create a “Green New Deal” (Alexandria “Crazy Eyes” Ocasio-Cortez). “People will die” if the government shuts down (Sen. Dianne “Fossilized” Feinstein). “People will die” if the GOP health care bill becomes law (Nancy Pelosi, Pocahontas Warren, Bill de Blasio, etc.). “People will die” if Trump cuts refugee numbers (Barack Obama). “People will die” if the GOP tax bill passes (Larry Summers and assorted other Democrat nutbags).

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The available evidence indicates that ‘following your passion’ will get you killed quicker than damned near anything.

Let that be a lesson to us all. Think of it as evolution in action.

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The caucus of black New York state lawmakers run a charity whose stated mission is to empower “African American and Latino youth through education and leadership initiatives” by “providing opportunity to higher education” — but it hasn’t given a single scholarship to needy youth in two years, according to a New York Post investigation.

The group collects money from companies like AT&T, the Real Estate Board of New York, Time Warner Cable, and CableVision, telling them in promotional materials that they are “changing lives, one scholarship at a time.”

The group — called the Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators, Inc.  — instead spent $500,000 on items like food, limousines, and rap music, the Post found.

The politicians refused to divulge the charity’s 2017 tax filing to the Post despite federal requirements that charities do so upon request.a

Like many things involving black Democrat politicians, it’s a scam, designed to line their own pockets while allowing them some virtue-posturing points.

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

Of course, it could be worse: Chicago had 542, Baltimore had 307, and D.C. had 160.

London is lucky it isn’t run by Democrats.

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The way things are going, that is increasingly likely. Perhaps ICE ought to drop the illegal immigrants they haven’t room to house on D.C. rather than El Paso.

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Not sure why this comes as a surprise.

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More flask for FaceBook.

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If you need stylish clothes to motivate you to work out, you’re doing it wrong.

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Apparently Britain has its share of crooked left-wing black female politicians.

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When children are raised to think that the government is the source of all justice, this sort of thing happens.

In many jurisdictions this would trigger harassment by CPS.

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Four NGOs, including Oxfam and Greenpeace, have initiated legal proceedings against the French government, claiming that France has defaulted on its environmental obligations by eliminating, under intense pressure from “Yellow Vests,” the stiff carbon tax it had imposed. The initial filing gives the government two months to formulate a response, after which the organizations can choose to move forward with their lawsuit in administrative court.

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Reverend Franklin Graham says that he was banned from Facebook pursuant to a more than two-year-old post in support of North Carolina’s House Bill 2, which mandated that citizens use the bathroom that corresponds with their biological sex.

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‘Lagos on the Chesapeake’ as ZMan calls it.

This Washington Post article about homicide rates in Baltimore is important for two reasons. First, it confirms with updated statistics the killing spree that followed attacks on policing in Baltimore after Freddy Gray’s accidental death.

Second, it demonstrates why recidivism rates based on arrest statistics vastly understate the amount of crime committed by those released for prison. This point has major implications for the federal jailbreak legislation that recently became law.

Ace of Spades digs out the dirt.

Can you believe Trump is “politicizing” this merely because it proves each of his political claims about a current highly-disputed political question to be completely true?!?!

What a scandal. Who does that?!!

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Of course he is.

California is doing everything it can to pretend it’s not really part of the U.S.

I think we ought to send them on their way, with a farewell present of all our illegal migrants.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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In fact, the word “PETA” has become a pejorative for stunts, gimmicks, and putting feelings over facts when it comes to animal issues. I argue in my new book, The End of Animal Farming, that animal rights will succeed in building a food system where we eat meat, dairy, and eggs without the use of animals, but it’s a tragic irony that one of the biggest obstacles for activists might be the bad reputation of its best-known advocates.

‘Animal rights’ isn’t a movement, it’s a mental disorder.

Ann Coulter takes you behind the scenes.

You Can’t Make This Shit Up — because some proglodyte has beaten you to it.

The Antiplanner points out how people are getting a hernia tugging on their own bootstraps.

Finally, part of the problem is that the policies regional planners adopt to save their cities from becoming like other cities are usually the policies planners in those other regions adopted that made them what they are. Every county in the San Francisco Bay Area adopted urban-growth boundaries in the 1970s (except San Francisco County itself, which has no rural land). So, to keep from becoming like San Francisco, Seattle adopted an urban-growth boundary in the 1980s. For some reason, it didn’t work.

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Gastelum announced that the caravan is “hitting us hard. It’s costing us 550,000 pesos a day.” In American dollars, that is the equivalent of approximately $28,000.

Imagine how much this would be contributing to the American economy if we let them all in, as Democrats demand.

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Sure, open the border! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Socialism — it’s not just for Cubans any more.

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Let’s hear Occasional-Cortex unpack that one.

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What I found most interesting about this story is what pushed him over the edge:

The suspect taken into custody is an unemployed man who was reportedly having a problem with local government officials.

Another interesting aspect is this:

Knife-related attacks are not abnormal in China due to strict gun regulations, according to NYT.

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I don’t know which I find more worrying: The fact that Britain has a ‘curry industry’ or the possibility that its decline is significant for Britain. India, sure, but Britain?

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I’ve always thought so.

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The pews are emptying virtually everywhere in the higher-income world. The Catholic Church is divided and enmeshed in scandal, unable to prevent even historically cleric-dominated Ireland from liberalizing abortion. The once vibrant evangelical movement is losing momentum in the developed world while the more established Protestant and Jewish congregations are shrinking, some at a rapid rate.

Yet rather than an end to faith, this fading of religion may presage the radical re-invention of spiritualism. Just as Christianity replaced paganism at the end of the Roman Empire, rising new faiths—built around notions of social justice, the environment, and technology to extend life or even achieve immortality—may supplant the old ones.

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So is the current party-line of Political Correctness requiring people who are stressed out already to have to cope additionally with weirdos, Social Justice Warriors, and people (both native and foreign) who can barely speak English. Nobody appears to care about that, either.

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Let that be a lesson to us all. Not every country considers ‘activists’ to be bullet-proof.

Steve Sailer lays out the problem.

What’s a Social Justice Warrior to do?

It’s good training in gaming the system, however.

UPDATE: Checking the Racial Box

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Solar panels create 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than do nuclear power plants. If solar and nuclear produce the same amount of electricity over the next 25 years that nuclear produced in 2016, and the wastes are stacked on football fields, the nuclear waste would reach the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa (53 meters), while the solar waste would reach the height of two Mt. Everests (16 km).

UPDATE: If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?

John McWhorter deals out some inconvenient truth.

Just as the first and second waves of both feminism and antiracism transformed social structures, third-wave antiracism may seem parallel to third-wave feminism in moving on to a different form of abuse, psychological rather than institutional. But this focus on the psychological has morphed, of late, from a pragmatic mission to change minds into a witch hunt driven by the personal benefits of virtue signaling, obsessed with unconscious and subconscious bias. As noble as this culture of shaming genuinely seems to many, it’s a dead end.

From 1930 onward, a small intellectual army passed over to the Communist Party with scarcely any effort on its part. Within a decade, simply by pursuing the careers that ordinarily lay open to them, these newcomers would carry the weak and stumbling American Communist Party directly into the highest councils of the nation, would subtly (or sometimes boldly) help to shape the country’s domestic and foreign policies. They would, at last, in a situation unparalleled in history, enable the Soviet Government to use the American State and Treasury Departments as a terrible engine of its revolutionary purposes, by the calculated destruction of powers vital to American survival (like China), or by creating power vacuums (like Germany), which breached the American political outworks abroad. Meanwhile, the party’s agents, working in the communications field, tirelessly justified those catastrophic betrayals to the nation as necessary acts of good faith to an ally (the Soviet Union whose philosophy denied the principle of good faith), or as prerequisites of permanent peace, or, if momentarily threatened with detection, as simply the unhappy blunders of American diplomatic innocence.

— Whittaker Chambers, Witness (1953)

Steve Sailer points out one of the elephants in the yard.

It’s really hard these days for followers of the conventional wisdom to think in terms other than of Good People and Bad People. Good People to do Good Things, so if undocumented workers (definitely some of the Good People) are littering and Tucker Carlson (a very Bad Person) is criticizing them for it, then littering must be good. Or if littering is bad, Carlson must be hallucinating in accusing the Good People of doing a Bad Thing. Or let’s not think about it and get Carlson banned from television so we don’t have to ever think about it.

In reality, of course Latino immigrants litter a lot, both at home and here.

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Hogg was accepted into Harvard, despite scoring a 1270 on his SAT and having previously been denied entrance into schools such as UCLA and UC Irvine. Hogg’s acceptance is likely to bring more attention to Harvard’s admissions practices that have been criticized as discriminatory and un-meritocratic. Harvard is currently being sued after allegedly discriminating against Asians in favor of other minorities and white people with lower test scores.

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Multiple reports detailed the Russian government-backed Internet Research Agency spent up to $100,000 on Facebook advertisements throughout their entire disinformation operation. As The Daily Caller News Foundation reported Wednesday, billionaire-backed Democrats “created more than a thousand Russian-language accounts that followed [Roy] Moore’s Twitter account overnight.”

The group of Democrats behind the “elaborate ‘false flag’ operation,” as described in an internal report obtained by The New York Times, also created fake conservative Facebook accounts for the purpose of convincing voters not to support Republican candidate Roy Moore.

Apparently you can’t tell the Russian Bots without a scorecard.

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Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins opened up about all of the hate and threats she received leading up to the confirmation vote for then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during an interview with Martha MacCallum Thursday night.

Democrats: Party of Fear, Party of Hate, Party of Death

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There is no manger without a dog ready to jump in it.

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A twice-deported illegal immigrant felon allegedly killed a man and injured numerous others Sunday, and authorities are blaming the criminal’s violent actions on California’s sanctuary state law for allowing the violence to occur.

Gustavo Garcia, 36, shot a farm worker in Tulare County in California Sunday before stealing $2,000 from an AA Gas and Grub mini mart in Exeter, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Garcia went on to shoot a woman in the parking lot of a Motel 6 in Tulare, spray bullets into a Shell gas station, shoot and kill a man at a second gas station in Visalia, and finally attack his ex-girlfriend’s house, the Post reported.

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Sheer numbers have radically changed electoral politics. Take California. One out of every four residents in California is foreign-born. Not since 2006 has any California Republican been elected to statewide office.

The solidly blue states of the American Southwest, including Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, voted red as recently as 2004 for George W. Bush. Progressives understandably conclude that de facto open borders are good long-term politics.

Progressives want open immigration for the same reason Tony Blair’s government wanted it — massive influx of underclass proletarians means increasing vote margins for the Party of Free Stuff.

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Our children are being taught by the stupidest people we can find.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Smash Racism DC organizer Jose Martin, also known as “Chepe,” is a radical communist and Antifa leader operating in the U.S. He advocates for the violent overthrow of the government and for the murder of the rich and claims to have international involvement in left-wing movements.

Smash Racism DC is the Antifa group that protested in front of Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s house and berated Sen. Ted Cruz at a restaurant until he and his wife were forced to leave. It’s only one of the Antifa leader’s radical left-wing projects.

But the agitator has made great efforts to separate his fanatical personas from a third identity, his legal name: Joseph “Jose” Alcoff. Under that identity, the 36-year-old has worked as a payday campaign manager for Americans for Financial Reform since 2016, where he advocates for reforms of predatory loans before members of Congress.

Hey, a secret identity works for DC superheroes, why not for communist agitators?

Watch the interview on C-SPAN.

Carlson correctly points out that California has changed over the last 40 years from Reagan Country to a Latin American polity with a super-rich upper class and a degraded underclass with no middle class to speak of.

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Listening to Democrats is a sure way to lose money if you’re a taxpayer.

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As reported here a few days ago, a rent-a-riot funded by George Soros recently came to Budapest to stir up trouble, throw things, and light stuff on fire. The intention was to provoke a reaction from the Hungarian police so that the international media could bray in unison about the “neo-fascist regime” of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

It didn’t work out quite the way the globalist progressives planned. The Hungarian authorities showed restraint, the interlopers looked like thugs, and the majority of Hungarians continue to support the Orbán government.

But that didn’t stop the Soros forces from trying more tricks. Below are two videos, two reports, and a series of photos from our Hungarian correspondents.

And you know you can’t do that.

Spotted earlier today by a reporter for the Eastern Echo, one of the walls in the Free Speech Space reads “it’s okay to be white.” The message comes a week after a statement condemning anti-semitism was tampered with on the same wall.

“As soon as we saw that message, we knew it couldn’t stay up,” said Student Government Vice President Ethan Smith. “To whoever did this, I’d just say give it up. Your message is never going to take root here, and the EMU community isn’t even going to give it a chance.”

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The message was painted over at 6:00 p.m. by members of Student Government and the Silver Linings Fellowship Group.