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The UN Migration Pact will be signed in a few days in Marrakesh. At the rate potential signatories are dropping away (Bulgaria announced against it yesterday), the nawabs of the UN will be able to seat the assembled delegates around a couple of card tables for the ceremony.

They’ll still claim that it’s now International Law and noogie countries that don’t comply with it.

Scott Johnson of Powerline looks at the Elizabeth Warren Industry.

The Times story is itself illustrative of the absurd racialism that has returned to control the Democratic Party and its media adjunct. The Times story presents the intellectual crosscurrents — to use a neutral term — roiling the Democratic Party. Even though they contradict each other, each is presented as the effectual truth of the matter. Thesis: Race is all-important. Antithesis: Race, like sex, is a social construct. If you challenge either thesis or antithesis, get ready for the Two Minutes Hate from the Democrats and their media adjunct.

Elizabeth Warren is a poster child for the sort of person who grows up in East Butthole, Nowhere, and escapes to one of the Left Coasts as quickly as possible. New York City and Los Angeles is full of such people, which is why those cities are traditionally described as Millions Of People Being Alone Together, and why one of the great occupations of young people in such places is trying to assemble an affinity that will replace what they shit-canned on their way to the big-time.

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An apparent smuggler has been caught on camera appearing to throw two migrant children over an 18-foot (5.5 metre) tall border fence between Arizona and Mexico and into the arms of their families. The video footage of the nail-biting moment was released by US Border Patrol on Monday.

The footage captured the moment a suspected smuggler attempted to help a Guatemalan family cross the border by climbing the fence. In the video, the smuggler dropped the family’s three children—who were the ages of 2, 7, and 10—from the top of the wall for their adult relatives to catch them from 18-feet below on the other side of the border fence.

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One of the problems with treating individuals as merely intersections of their various attributes, such as race, ethnicity, sex, etc., is that it promotes the ignorance of individual behavior and capabilities, such as (in this case) prior evidence that the perp felt at liberty to ignore (a) the law and (b) the rights of others. Expecting somebody with ‘cognitive disabilities’ to be able to overcome these sorts of predilections is setting things up for a huge failure — which actually happens.

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People of Color behaving badly — what are the odds?

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Leftism provides many of the same comforts that religion does without the expectation of personal sacrifice. Its adherents can feel that they’re caring for the “least of these” because they vote for policies that empower the government to offer more welfare to the poor. It is a lazy form of compassion, and it is appealing to those who want to pat themselves on the back without having to voluntarily spend of their own time, energy or money.

On a personal level, unlike Christianity, leftism doesn’t worry its adherents with sin and life-change. The only sin is to say there’s sin. The only wrong is to say there’s wrong. The highest virtue is one’s own happiness, and the only truth is that which one finds in themselves. This, of course, is antithetical to what the Bible teaches, which is part of why it is very difficult—if not altogether impossible—to be a Bible-believing Christian and a radical leftist.

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Perhaps if he’s executed this time he’ll stay out.

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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.?

Feel the Bern….

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She certainly behaves as if she believes it.

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The letter campaign was organized by Democracy Fund, a Washington, D.C.-based foundation. Its wealthy benefactor is Pierre Omidyar, the Parisian-born son of Iranian expats who founded eBay and became a billionaire. Omidyar and his wife have a net worth of around $10 billion, and they’ve pledged to donate most of that fortune to charity. They fund an extensive network of nonprofits, programs and foundations around the world that underwrite everything from early education projects in Central America to microloans in Africa.

One of Omidyar’s charity cases closer to home is the NeverTrump movement, a loose collection of disgruntled “conservatives” and Republicans now partnering with the Left to destroy Donald Trump’s presidency, his family, and anyone else in the president’s orbit. Omidyar donated $250,000 to a NeverTrump political action committee in 2016. He remains a powerful foe of the president and—like everyone on the Left—inexplicably views Trump’s reign as a dire threat not just to American democracy but to the entire world.

Omidyar is a former donor to the Democratic Party and a devoted Leftist whose main causes include promoting open borders, climate change, and racial politics. But his latest crusade, funded to the tune of $100 million, is to infect every corner and crevice of the public square with anti-Trump bias.

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

If it sounds ominous, it’s because it is. What’s even more alarming is that a cabal of longtime influencers on the Right—the political world’s self-appointed moral superiors who now vilify Trump as a greedy, unprincipled charlatan—have their hands in the deep pockets of a Leftist billionaire while pretending to represent core conservative values they clearly have abandoned for political and personal gain.

This list features not only Bill Kristol (as I wrote last month) but others including Evan McMullin, Mindy Finn, Mona Charen, Matthew Dowd, and Linda Chavez. Former GOP officials such as U.S. Representative David Jolly (R-Fla.), former GOP governor Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, and former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff are all tied to Democracy Fund affiliates. All are reliable and frequent “conservative” critics of the president and his administration.

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She said: “We will only get a grip on this problem when we know its scale and it is my sincere hope that the government will soon bring forward a legislative solution for the registration of children in elective home education so at the very least, we collectively know where these children are.”

On illegal schools, Ms Spielman added: “Until we are given proper powers to tackle these operations and the definition of a school is set out more clearly in legislation, we are fighting the problem with one arm tied behind our back.”

Britain — a place that can call a school ‘illegal’. I’m certainly glad I don’t live in such a country.

Of course, it’s For The Children. That seems to cover a multitude of statisms.

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Unions breaking the law — whoda thunkit?

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That’s not how he spins it, of course.

The standard operating procedure of progs who want to improve the world is suppression of people they don’t like.

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Migrants have reportedly broken though the U.S. border at Tijuana, Mexico and some may have escaped. Reuters reports that about 25 migrants climbed a 10-foot metal fence as darkness descended Monday night.

U.S. Border Patrol guards caught most of them, according to Reuters, but others may have escaped detention. Witnesses say the would-be refugees used blankets and ropes to climb over the wall, where thousands of them remain, despite Tijuana’s apparent resolve to move the migrants further south amid reports of infectious diseases at the border shelter.

UPDATE: Homan Accuses Rep. Jayapal Of Helping Migrants As ‘A Political Stunt’

The Other McCain sounds the alert.

Permit me to register my protest against this word, which was coined in the past 15 or 20 years by the progressive Left (the kind of people who take Noam Chomsky seriously) as analogous to “neoconservative.” The purpose of the word “neoliberal” is to discredit anyone on the Left who would compromise with the Right. People who use this word mean to say that if you are not an outright socialist, you are a “neoliberal.”

Proglodytes love labels. They love having smear-words that they can attach to Heretics and Sinners. This is merely the latest fashion; as Wikipedia points out, it means whatever the user wants it to mean, but it’s never good.

ZMan has a sharp insight.

In the West, allowing talent to bubble up from the bottom, often in military service and later business, was a way to keep the ruling class vigorous and on edge. This used to be way things were done in America.

Today, the ruling classes of the West are a closed system. The children of the elite head off to prep schools nestled away in secluded areas. They head off to nice colleges and then start their apprenticeship in the system. Outsiders can only gain entry by first proving they are no threat to question the system. The managerial class is becoming a hot house of make believe work and fatuous airheads. Like the people in the valley enjoying the good life, they are wholly unequipped to handle the next conqueror.

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Government control in Venezuelan is collapsing along with the economy and much else. At the end of 2018 GDP is down to about a third of what it was in 2013. It cannot fall much further because Chinese cash and technical assistance is keeping some oil production going. This is done because over 90 percent of oil produced goes to China or Russia to repay debts that were specifically made to be repaid with Venezuelan oil. China could take all of the oil production (Venezuela is currently several million barrels behind in repaying this debt) but China is aware that Venezuela requires some income so that the key government employees and security forces can be fed and otherwise compensated for their loyalty and service and encouraged to remain where they are.

Venezuela is literally falling apart. Many areas are being depopulated because, so far, over ten percent of the 2014 population has left and opinion surveys indicate over two-thirds of Venezuelans want to leave. Many more would leave if they had the means to reach the border. Those Venezuelans with education, skills and a little money have largely gone. The middle class and entrepreneurs were the first to go because they could. For most Venezuelans that is not an option and is even less so with the economic decline and the collapse of everything, including public transit, especially in rural areas.

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Better them than us.

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Stevens was one of the liberal justices appointed to the Court by a RINO, in this case Gerald Ford.

Funny how you never see a Democrat appoint an conservative justice, or even one that ‘grows’ into a conservative over time as too many Republican-appointed justices when they turn left..

From Wikipedia:

When he was appointed to the Supreme Court, Stevens was a registered Republican. Asked as a sitting Justice in September 2007 if he still considers himself a Republican, Stevens replied, “That’s the kind of issue I shouldn’t comment on, either in private or in public.”

Abner Mikva, a close friend, said that as a judge, Stevens refused to discuss politics. “He was more particular about it than a lot of them,” Mikva stated.

In 2018, Stevens told a Boca Raton crowd that Brett Kavanaugh’s performance during recent Senate hearings should disqualify him from the U.S. Supreme Court bench, citing the potential for political bias should he serve on the Supreme Court.

Yeah, that sure sounds like a ‘Republican’ to me. ‘Republicans’ like this is why we can never have nice things.

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New York’s State Senate is considering a bill that will allow the government to investigate a citizen’s social media and search engine history before the sale of a handgun.

The bill, proposed by Democrat Kevin Parker, would allow police to reject applications to purchase pistols or even revoke current gun licenses based upon the presence of “biased language” in a person’s social media. If this bill passes, people can be denied access to firearms because they typed politically-incorrect statuses, messages, or searches. The bill is reportedly designed to prevent shootings like the Tree of Life attack. Adams stated that with the current laws on the books, “someone can technically say on their social media profile, ‘I’m going to buy a gun to go shoot someone’ and still walk in the store and buy the gun without the flagging and announcement of that illegal action being dealt.”

The witch-hunt for Heretics and Sinners proceeds apace.

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No good deed goes unpunished in the Witch Hunt for Heretics and Sinners.

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If you own any Shell stock, now is the time to sell it. When businesses board the Virtue Signaling bus, their performance for their shareholders plummets.

Joel Kotkin looks at politics.

Thirty-five years ago Tracy Kidder electrified readers with his “Soul of a New Machine,” which detailed the development of a minicomputer. Today we may be seeing the emergence of another machine, a political variety that could turn the country toward a permanent one-party state.

This evolution has its roots in California, where a combination of Silicon Valley technology, changing demographics, control of media, culture and academia have worked to all but eliminate the once-fearsome state GOP. For all intents and purposes, the California Republican Party has ceased to exist.

But this is not, as some conservatives contend, a case simply of California lunacy. Several once historically conservative states — Colorado, Arizona, Nevada — have been turning ever-bluer in recent elections. The party now barely is able to hold onto seats in places such as Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida, while the Midwest, the region that elected Donald Trump, seems to be shifting back to its bluer past.

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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.?

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Seems as if the French proletariat don’t like the New World Order.

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California is, indeed, a foreign country.

In his home office, Newsom pointed to his clutter-free desk and said, “I eat here and work here and watch MSNBC here. And I always check Tucker Carlson on Fox, to see how far he’s going on the racism spectrum.”

Anyone so detached from reality as to think that there is a shred of racism in Tucker Carlson is a brain-dead ideologue.

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Ask yourself why they aim for Britain rather than, say, Germany or France.

Compare the welfare systems for useless people in each country. Use both sides of the paper if necessary.

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BadSpeech leads to ThoughtCrime, and we can’t have that.

The Other McCaine is on the case.

The usual suspects on the Left are upset that Professor Mark Lamont Hill lost his contract as a CNN commentator Thursday — he remains on the payroll of Temple University — but he said what he said:

He is, as so many such people are these days, a Person of Color.

But apparently judnehasse isn’t quite yet respectable in polite company.

So we have that going for us.

Hill was speaking at the “U.N. International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,” which provides an annual platform for extremist rhetoric against Israel.

But probably not for long….

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After declaring the migrant caravan a “humanitarian crisis” this week, Mayor Juan Manuel Gastélum told Fox News that he can no longer continue to fund the municipal effort to shelter them without federal assistance.

“I’m not going to break public services to solve this problem,” the Tijuana mayor said.

Even worse, he could be forced to raise taxes on Tijuana’s 1.7 million residents who have already suffered from Sunday’s clashes.

“In those six hours that the border was closed, we lost approximately 129 million pesos,” he said. “That’s not fair. How do you think people from Tijuana feel towards those people who are making problems?”

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People of Color behaving badly — what are the odds?

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T.M. Landry College Preparatory School in Lousiana made headlines with a series of viral videos showing their students reacting to news that they’d been accepted to Ivy League Universities.

But a new report from The New York Times has exposed the dark underbelly of the school that once boasted “a 100-percent college acceptance rate.”

According to the report, transcripts were doctored and extracurricular activities were invented. Students were encouraged to lie about their family situations in order to make their successes appear even more dramatic. And students and teachers alike described a “culture of abuse” that was widespread.

If something is too good to be true, it is usually false.

When you reward certain types of behavior, you get more of it.

‘But if the Republican Party cannot get some grip of the actual world we live in and from it generalize and actively promote a program that means something to the masses of people–why, somebody else will. Then there will be nothing to argue. The voters will simply vote Republicans into singularity. The Republican Party will become like one of those dark little shops which apparently never sell anything. If, for any reason, you go in, you find at the back an old man, fingering for his own pleasure some oddments of cloth. Nobody wants to buy them, which is fine because the old man is not really interested in selling. He just likes to hold and to feel….’  — Whittaker Chambers, Witness, 50th Anniversary Edition, page x.

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Tell the truth: We’ve all wanted to do that.

Steve Sailer turns over a rock.

For example, back in early 2010, I pointed out that Google had gone out of its way to not suggest “Pat Buchanan” as the auto-complete for “Pat Bu”, suggesting “Pat Buttram,” who played Mr. Haney on “Green Acres” and a whole bunch of even more obscure people whose names started “Pat Bu” but not Pat Buchanan. It stayed like that for quite some time, and then it stopped.

But almost nobody anywhere else ever mentioned this.

I tend to doubt that these kind of micro-gaslights are part of some grand plan that comes down from Larry and Sergey. Maybe it’s part of Google’s culture that hard workers are rewarded by being allowed to screw over a few people they don’t like?

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Google employees debated whether to bury conservative media outlets in the company’s search function as a response to President Donald Trump’s election in 2016, internal Google communications obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation reveal.

The Daily Caller and Breitbart were specifically singled out as outlets to potentially bury, the communications reveal.

Trump’s election in 2016 shocked many Google employees, who had been counting on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to win.

Communications obtained by TheDCNF show that internal Google discussions went beyond expressing remorse over Clinton’s loss to actually discussing ways Google could prevent Trump from winning again.

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

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While a fiercer than usual outbreak of influenza contributed to the decline last year, the main causes are rising suicides rates and the increasing number of deaths from drug overdoses associated with opioids.

Evolution works, even when you don t want it to.

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My thought is that these aren’t people that we are particularly going to miss.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Jeff Flake pees on the rug on his way out.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Note to self: Don’t drive into elephants. They don’t take it well.

Steve Sailer keeps track of the downward spiral.

Checkmate, racists! “The majority of crimes in the state of Victoria are committed by people born in Australia,” so, logically, there is zero reason to be concerned about the effects of immigration policy, at least not until 51% of the crimes in Melbourne are committed by South Sudanese. And by that point it will be too late to do anything about it, so just lie back and think of basketball.

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I have a hypothesis that I’ve not yet published anywhere, but it seems like the propitious time has arrived. My hypothesis is that while places like Berkeley, Colorado/Boulder, the University of Wisconsin, etc. have the rap for being the most politically correct and radical institutions of higher education, in fact they are relatively sane compared to small, elite private liberal arts colleges.

That ought not to be any surprise. Major liberal arts colleges skim off the cream of the PhD factory, and such people have to have a demonstrated commitment to scholarship along with any ideological baggage they’re carrying. The smaller colleges get the remnants, those who got their degrees by parroting radical gibberish rather than making an actual contribution to their field. By this point in the proglodyte ‘march through the institutions’, they have aged into control of their peripheral institutions and see nothing wrong with making them over into progressive re-education camps.

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If you’re at all curious about the Twitter Twist-o-thon, this is a good summary.

The Other McCaine is on the case.

No doubt he was just looking for a better life, free from the oppression at home.

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Andy Ngo refers to the cable series Portlandia in the conclusion of his chilling Spectator USA column “What’s the matter with Portland?” He writes: “The city has gained a comic reputation as a bastion of wokeness due to the comedy sketch show Portlandia. That’s way off the mark. Real life Portland is much, much worse, and it’s no joke.” His column is published at the Spectator USA together with the related video below (which is also posted here on his YouTube channel).

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You will notice that they do not try this in Texas.

The Other McCaine declines to get personal.

David French published a rather strange column at National Reviewentitled “The White-Supremacy Surge” that drags, among others, Milo Yiannopoulos, Allum Bokhari, Steve Bannon, Mytheos Holt, Corey Stewart and Rep. Steve King. Because I know David French and like him, despite his #NeverTrump politics, I don’t want to engage in ad hominem insults, as calling him a “cruise ship conservative” wouldn’t solve anything and would fail to accomplish my educational mission.

French cites an increase in “right-wing” racial violence as somehow linked to the sort of politics he despises, and doesn’t seem to have spent much time wondering about the connection between the two phenomena. Let us stipulate that the vast majority of racial violence, whatever its target or whoever its perpetrators, is committed by people who could justly be labeled losers or kooks. If racial violence usually reflects some combination of personal failure and mental illness, what does this tell us about the underlying causes of the “surge” French laments?

For those who don’t recognize the name, David French is a cuck who often writes for National Review and, not coincidentally, hates Trump and anybody on the Right who doesn’t kiss Crustian ass. (Stacy McCaine may be polite but I’m not.)

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The coffee shop is quiet, probably as quiet as it can be while still being occupied. Even at its slowest and most hushed, the average background noise level hovered around 73 decibels (as measured with my calibrated meter).

That’s not dangerous—noise levels become harmful to human hearing above 85 decibels—but it is certainly not quiet. Other sounds that reach 70 decibels include freeway noise, an alarm clock, and a sewing machine. But it’s still quiet for a restaurant. Others I visited in Baltimore and New York City while researching this story were even louder: 80 decibels in a dimly lit wine bar at dinnertime; 86 decibels at a high-end food court during brunch; 90 decibels at a brewpub in a rehabbed fire station during Friday happy hour.

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According to data from DHS, there has been a 110 percent increase in male adults showing up at the border with children. Further, DHS separated 507 illegal immigrants between April 19 and September 30 because they fraudulently claimed they were part of a family unit.

170 family units were separated because DHS found no familial relation — 139 of the people in those fake families were children. Eighty-seven family units were separated because a person posing as a child turned out to be 18 years or older.