Kevin Williamson turns over a rock.

There is a peculiar paradox at the heart of modern progressivism: Progressives, especially Democratic candidates for office, claim to speak for the poor, the low-income, the marginalized, those born and raised without the benefits and (inevitable word) privilege of a Bush or a Romney or a McCain. But, at the same time, there is nothing they hate worse than somebody who comes from such a background entering public life: You’ll recall the sneering at Sarah Palin’s education — six years spread out over four colleges, none of them very good ones. There are many good criticisms to be made of Sarah Palin and the shtick into which she eventually sank, but she is a self-made woman who entered public service in one of the least glamorous and least lucrative ways, as mayor of a small city — as thankless a job as there is in elected office. She was ridiculed as a “snowbilly” and worse.

And this is especially true of those who move from Nowhereville to Noo Yawk precisely to leave that kind of background behind them, and then write articles about What’s Wrong With Kansas for the Times to let everyone know that they were never really from Flyover Country after all.

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Three young female Hoodlums of Color steal a car, eventually drive it into a pond, and drown as a result.

Naturally, the mothers sued the law enforcement authorities.

Yashica Clemmons, the mother of Dominique, could not be reached for comment after repeated attempts and a visit to her home, nor could a lawyer who represented her in the aftermath of the March 2016 crash. The lawyer, Aaron O’Neal, worked with Clemmons, who later adopted the name Kunde Mwamvita, through the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement. The community group rallied around the families after the crash and contend police killed the girls because they were black.

The three girls had seven arrests among them in the last year for Grand Theft Auto. Obviously raaaaaaacism.

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For example, any course with ‘Studies’ in the name.

‘We will crack down on courses that do not deliver value for students’

Oh, if only that were true….

Government must stop cheap post-Brexit food imports threatening UK farmers, MPs warn

Food bank use to soar to record levels over Christmas as UK families struggle to pay basic living costs, charity warns

And the government doesn’t even see the connection.

Unfortunately, our government has the same blind spot.

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Boulder County growers, chefs and bakers are bringing back ancient wheat grains.

One of the biggest incongruities of the so-called ‘progressive’ movement is the number of areas in which they denounce actual progress and strive to turn back the clock, and the most obvious of these is with respect to food. We now have food crops that can beat most of the diseases and pests that have troubled farmers across the centuries, and we even have genetically-modified strains (like ‘golden rice’) that can compensate for food deficiencies in the diets of the poor — and yet ‘progressives’ want to go back to where we were a hundred years (or more) ago.

Perhaps be ought to be calling them ‘regressives’ instead.

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They’re right — it’s not ‘their America’, because their America sucks.

Example:

Scott Adams pointed out that CNN cropped this picture to show only the woman and children with a little smoke, suggesting that the border guards were just gassing women and children. As Scott pointed out, this is a Lie, and a very deliberate one.

UPDATE: Here’s the cropped photo:

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Except that the Jews didn’t form convoys, invade neighboring countries, and throw rocks at border guards.

And Honduras isn’t rounding the convoy people up and shipping them off to death camps.

Other than that, it’s exactly the same!

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Only months after its CEO claimed Twitter “does not take sides,” Twitter unveiled a policy that bans people for disagreeing with trans ideology. A statement as simple as “women aren’t men” can now be a policy violation, as even a liberal feminist discovered.

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Twitter banned feminist Meghan Murphy’s account for tweeting such statements as “Women aren’t men” and “How are transwomen not men? What is the difference between a man and a transwoman?” She was forced to delete these tweets in order to regain access to her Twitter account, after which she eventually doubled down in her rhetoric saying,

“This is f—— bull—, @twitter. I’m not allowed to say that men aren’t women or ask questions about the notion of transgenderism at all anymore? That a multi-billion dollar company is censoring basic facts and silencing people who ask questions about this dogma is insane.”

Welcome to our world, Megan. Be careful not to step in the Diversity, and watch out for the Inclusion.

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Lesson: Don’t open a store in New York. It’s full of violent crazy people.

Actually, that applies to any urban area run by Democrats.

Of course, it doesn’t bother Jeff Bezos — he’s not the one in the store facing down the crazies.

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Rodney Scott, the chief U.S. Border Patrol agent of San Diego, outlined the circumstances Monday morning that led to law enforcement utilizing tear gas at the United States-Mexican border.

Like Muslims in the Middle East, they use women and children to shield their rock-throwers.

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Not to mention the cries of ‘Yes we can!’ I guess they were expecting Obama to magically appear.

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Uh-oh.

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The whole “refugee” thing is a sham. Activists tell would-be illegal immigrants to sneak across the border. If they don’t get caught, head for California or another scofflaw jurisdiction. If they do get caught, immediately request asylum as a refugee. That triggers due process rights under existing, misguided law. While supposedly awaiting a hearing, invaders can simply disappear and make their way to a scofflaw jurisdiction.

Even Rich Lowry has woken up.

There was a scene at the border today that we were told was literally impossible by the media and Trump’s critics, as migrants from the caravan tried to storm a border crossing.

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Has “radical feminism” been bad for women? University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Amy Wax argues a resounding yes. “Radical feminism has had a baleful influence on college campuses, and on women’s education, in all sorts of ways,” she said. “It’s really made them dumber.”

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It is only now, a decade after the financial crisis, that the American public seems to appreciate that what we thought was disruption worked more like extraction—of our data, our attention, our time, our creativity, our content, our DNA, our homes, our cities, our relationships. The tech visionaries’ predictions did not usher us into thefuture, but rather a future where they are kings.

They promised the open web, we got walled gardens. They promised individual liberty, then broke democracy—and now they’ve appointed themselves the right men to fix it.

Easily seen here is the proglodyte fondness for change-for-the-sake-of-change-because-the-result-is-inevitably-progress. Facebook is the poster child for this process, with Google rapidly degenerating into a cheap copy.

I am astonished that this could get published in a Voice of the Crust like Wired.

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In the following video you’ll see an instructor explaining the ins and outs of the asylum scam to members of the migrant “caravan” in Tijuana. It’s worth noting that a member of the European Parliament seems to have come to Mexico to help the migrants get into the USA. Which country? Which party? I have no information other than what’s in the video.

I think we ought to do a Natural Selection Border: If you can get over the first fence with razor wire, through the minefield, past the dogs and the guys on the towers with machine guns, and over the second fence with razor wire, then you’ve earned your way to a green card. Be sure to be wearing a tag with the name and address of your next of kin.

UPDATE: US border agents fire tear gas at migrants seeking to breach US border

Ace of Spades is far from gruntled.

What is it about the Left and stupid chants and droning, unpleasant songs? I won’t torture you with links to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, but you get the idea.

I am reminded of the Tom Lerer song The Folksong Army : ‘They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!’

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• Scammers are using Google Maps to trick people into giving up their bank details.
• The app lets users edit and update listings, so the fraudsters are changing banks’ phone numbers to their own.
• Victims then call them up and give up their details without ever realise something’s gone wrong.

I always use Apple Maps myself.

Mother Jones somehow let this article get published.

But Carmon, and others who’ve helped turn Ginsburg into a pop-culture icon, are deluding themselves. Ginsburg is a mere mortal. Falling down is the leading cause of accidental death in people over 85. The actuarial table is not in her favor. There’s a real possibility Ginsburg will not outlast the Trump administration or live long enough for a Democrat to replace her. The situation today is one many liberal lawyers feared years ago and worked hard to avert. But the feisty justice rebuffed them all, a decision that makes all the hero worship hard for some of us to stomach.

We anticipate a show trial and the public execution of Stephanie Mencimer any day now.

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The historical parallel between Jews and Asians is striking for a number of reasons—including the fact that both cases involve an explicit rejection of the idea that academic merit alone could be a tenable basis for admission. Like today’s affirmative-action supporters at Harvard, the gentiles of a century ago also started poking into applicants’ personal lives to discover what their “character” might be. And what a weasel word that turned out to be.

The winnowing campaign a century ago began with a request for personal essays by candidates, describing their activities and interests, and promoting their leadership abilities. Fine: That sort of thing still goes on now. But then, the universities also began asking for photographs (wink, wink). By the fall of 1922, Jerome Karabel wrote in his 2005 book The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, “applicants were required to answer questions on ‘Race and Color,’ ‘Religious Preference,’ ‘Birthplace of Father,’ and ‘What change, if any, has been made since birth in your own name or that of your father? (Explain fully).’”

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Jordan Peterson recently tweeted that, “The STEM fields are next on the SJW hitlist. Beware, engineers.”  I’m convinced that Peterson is correct and I feel that my ongoing case has allowed me to see a likely avenue of attack from those who support the equity agenda. They will characterize any discussion of sex differences, no matter how calm and rational, as a form of gender harassment which in turn constitutes sexual harassment. In other words, if you dare to discuss the science of sex differences—even at a university—there’s a good chance that you’ll be accused of violating US law.

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The following report discusses Cuban doctors who practice medicine in Brazil. Like all Cuban professionals, these doctors do not practice privately, but serve the Cuban state. And the state requires that they surrender 70% of their salary to advance the cause of Cuban socialism.

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I recently spent several weeks in the slum districts of Nairobi, researching al-Shabaab’s criminal activities in the Horn of Africa. I expected to learn about the traditional criminal practices of terrorist groups: drugs, arms, money laundering, and perhaps even a regional particularity like sugar smuggling. What I wasn’t expecting to discover was a highly structured, hierarchical network in which sex workers sell information gleaned from their customers — specifically, corrupt police officers — to al-Shabaab. As one interviewee noted, “If you want information here, you use the prostitutes and street kids — they see everything, go everywhere, and nobody notices them.”

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

The jewelry store employees were South Asians and perhaps more in tune with traditional ways than most.

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I guess they were expected to be Over The Border And Far Away by now.

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Six years ago I wrote a book about Barack Obama in which I predicted that modern American liberalism, under pressures both fiscal and philosophical, would either go out of business or be forced to radicalize. If it chose the latter, I predicted, it could radicalize along two lines: towards socialism or towards an increasingly post-modern form of leadership. Today it is doing both. As we saw in Bernie Sanders’ campaign, the youngest generation of liberals is embracing socialism openly—something that would have been unheard of during the Cold War. At the same time, identity politics is on the ascendant, with its quasi-Nietzschean faith in race, sex, and power as the keys to being and meaning. In the #MeToo movement, for example—as we saw recently in Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle—the credo is, “Believe the woman.” In other words, truth will emerge not from an adversarial process weighing evidence and testimony before the bar of reason, but from yielding to the will of the more politically correct. “Her truth” is stronger than any objective or disinterested truth.

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Those who claim to be ‘ganstas’ just might be telling the truth.

Shocking, I know.

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Released last Saturday, this year’s list of American Rhodes Scholars is a remarkable document. For, judging by the moral values evidenced in it, we’d hardly know that these rather accomplished young people are Americans.

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There’s little in this document that represents a desire to help Americans. On the other hand, we read sentence after sentence about doing good for foreigners, immigrants, women, people of color—all the usual victims.

Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar.

Robert Reich was a Rhodes Scholar.

Strobe Talbot was a Rhodes Scholar.

Cory ‘Spartacus’ Booker was a Rhodes Scholar.

Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Rhodes Scholars.

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A cemetery of Google products and why they died.

I still miss Google Reader.

#PsychicNewsNetwork Donald Trump ‘too afraid’ to visit troops in combat zones, report says  Ah, that good old ‘unnamed official’. That’s your guarantee of hard news.

CNN Panel Goes Off The Rails When Trump’s Treatment Of The Media Comes Up

Trump excoriated by Michelle Wolf after president’s taunts over White House Correspondents’ Dinner I’m sure he’s spent a lot of time thinking about it.

Europe refrains from harsh response against Iran over terror plots for fear of emboldening Trump

#PsychicNewsNetwork What makes Donald Trump so intriguing? The fact he can’t help saying whatever is on his mind

Cindy McCain says she will ‘never get over’ Trump’s war hero slurs against late husband  And the GOP will never ger over her late husband being such a RINO.

Tulsi Gabbard To Trump: ‘Being Saudi Arabia’s Bitch Is Not America First’ Apparently being a Hawaiian Democrat inflates the ego tremendously.

Talk in Trump’s tweets tells whether tale is true: Code can mostly spot Prez lies from wording  Run that on what Obama said and let’s see who is the liar.

Criticism of Trump’s Saudi decision misses the mark  As does criticism of many of the things Trump does. The Donald is continually being nibbled to death by ducks.

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More accurately, the panic over ‘climate change’ is a — plot? say rather ‘syndrome’ — by cultural Marxists.

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Of course they are. What part of ‘illegal immigrant’ do these people not understand?

Steven Hayward of Poweline blows the whistle.

Yesterday we reported on research showing liberal attempts to measure “implicit” racism may actually make racial bias worse, and today there is research out of Yale confirming that the racism of liberals is more than just “implicit.” See if you can notice the howler in the very first paragraph of this press release from the Yale School of Management….

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Because inconveniencing people is a sure-fire way to convince them to join you.

I think it ought to be legal to run such people over.

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People of Color behaving badly. What are the odds?

This never happened to Pat Boone.

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Nielsen said there were 6,200 migrants already camped in Tijuana and another 3,000 in Mexicali, a few hours’ drive to the east. She said most were young single men who have no legitimate claim to U.S. asylum, adding that wanting to get a job in the U.S. or be reunited with family were not reasons to be allowed in.

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The Mexican government gave the Haitians temporary transit permits, and after they failed in attempts to enter the United States, many have since applied for Mexican residency. The majority in the Central American caravan have refused Mexico’s repeated offers of residency or asylum, and vowed to cross the border.

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Not an encouraging development.

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Listening to a speech, he pantomimed shooting himself in the mouth. Looking at the person speaking, I’d say he had just cause.

Brits are SO seriously humor-challenged.

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

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Lecturers at the journalism school of Leeds Trinity University in the U.K. have reportedly been warned in an internal memo that an excessive use of capitalized letters might distress students, and scare them into failure.

Whine, little snowflake, quiver, quiver….

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Remember when President Trump said the migrant caravan from Honduras included Middle Easterners? Remember how the liberal media claimed that was paranoid fear-mongering? Guess what? Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents continue to find illegal immigrants from Bangladesh who cross the border from Mexico.

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

UPDATE: Migrant Complains About Free Food She’s Been Given By Mexico, Calls It Pig Food

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“When we’re prevented from managing our forests by these radical environmentalists — they’ve had lawsuit after lawsuit, they have somehow promulgated to let nature take its course — this is the consequence of letting nature take its course,” Zinke said in an interview on the Breitbart News Sunday radio show.

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“We need to go back to prescribed burns late in the season so you don’t have these catastrophic burns, remove the dead and dying timber, sustainable harvests, get the small mom and pop mills back where they’re grazing the forest and return to healthy forests,” Zinke said.

“You look at Finland. I had an opportunity to live in Germany. Germany has the Black Forest — their forests are healthy, they don’t have the catastrophic burns because they manage the forests.”

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

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

Journalist, photographer, and Quillette editor Andy Ngo attended the event and recorded several engagements between the counter-demonstrating groups. Ngo stated that he himself was “assaulted” by a “mob” of black-clad masked demonstrators who also insulted him and “targeted” his equipment.

In other words, Antifa thugs. But he can’t say that, because that’s not consistent with the Narrative. So he has to slip it in sideways.

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

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Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams came up short in her race against Republican Brian Kemp. She got around to saying as much in what should have been a concession speech yesterday, but neither Abrams nor her most visible public supporters are in a mood to concede anything. So she gave a language lesson in lieu of a traditional concession (video below) — a language lesson in which she testifies implicitly to her superiority. She is suffused with the warm glow of her own virtue. How great she is.

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

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

When a large group of people set out to break the law, somehow violence always ensues. Isn’t that amazing.