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Think of it as evolution in action.

(How do you get elephant tranquilizer in West Virginia?)

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It doesn’t help. Trust me.

My understanding is that it boils down to “Gee, we didn’t mean anything bad. Sorry. Uh, no, we can’t promise not to do it again.”

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Change ‘could’ to ‘will’.

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On the Internet, people can track when you work to make their lives impossible.

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Women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

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They must have it confused with something build from Legos.

The banner, which reads “DISMANTLE WHITENESS AND MISOGYNY ON THIS CAMPUS,” was installed under a highly frequented archway near the school’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. It is intended to start a conversation about tolerance and raise awareness for “racism, sexism and xenophobia,” its masterminds say.

What they’re really raising awareness of is the degree to which college students these days are mind-numbed robots. The ‘conversation’ they want to start consists of them saying SHUT UP and everyone else complying.

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Who could blame them? Vox is doing its best to help that along.

Victor Davis Hanson lays out some inconvenient truth.

Gang members next door and dead dogs dumped in your yard? Don’t complain, or you’ll be called racist.

Illegal immigration has become so deeply embedded for so long within contemporary power politics, demography, and cultural change, so charged with accusations of racism, nativism, and xenophobia, that we have forgotten its intrinsic contradictions.

We saw a glimpse of reality with the recent “caravan” of Central Americans. With a strong wink and nod from their Mexican hosts, the travelers assumed an intrinsic right to march northward into the United States. Had they done so, they would have confirmed the impression, advanced during the last administration, that the border is porous and that a sovereign United States and its citizenry have scant legal right to secure it.

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Flowers, balloons and cards had been tied to a fence near 78-year-old Richard Osborn-Brooks’ home in memory of Henry Vincent, who was stabbed to death during a home intrusion at the house in south-east London.

The makeshift memorial included one card saying the 37-year-old – who had armed himself with a screwdriver for the intrusion – was “too good to walk the earth”. Another, apparently from the Vincent’s daughter, read: “You was the best…you would do anything for your family, especially us girls.”

But the tributes have now been ripped down, with burst balloons, soiled cards and ruined flowers left strewn across the pavement of South Park Crescent, Hither Green.

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Dershowitz said if Hillary Clinton or a liberal were being raided, the ACLU would speak up and defend them, but because Cohen works for Trump, they’ve purposely remained silent.

“If this were the shoe on the other foot. If this were Hillary Clinton being investigated and they went into her lawyer’s office, the ACLU would be on every television station in America jumping up and down,” Dershowitz said.

“The deafening silence of the ACLU and civil libertarians about the intrusion in the lawyer-client confidentiality is really appalling,” he added.

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Numerous women have been tweeting with the aforementioned hashtag, fantasising about the traits that they hope their future husbands will embody.

Obviously not feminists.

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Whether it is learned the easy way or the hard way, the truth remains that your safety is yours. It is not the responsibility of the police, the government, industry, the apartment building manager, or the security company. Too often, we take the lazy route and invest our confidence without ever evaluating if it is earned. As we send our children off each morning, we assume the school will keep them safe, but as you’ll see in chapter 12, it might not be so. We trust security guards–you know, the employment pool that gave us the Son of Sam killer, the assassin of John Lennon, the Hillside Strangler, and more arsonists and rapists than you have time to read about. Has the security industry earned your confidence? Has government earned it? We have a Department of Justice but it would be more appropriate to have a department of violence prevention, because that’s what we need and that’s what we care about. Justice is swell, but safety is survival.

Highly recommended.

Government really has only two jobs: (1) Keep people safe, and (2) Keep people honest. Almost all governments do a very shitty job at both, and ALL governments waste time and money sticking their fingers into other areas that are really none of their damned business. This country is full of, and far too often run by, simple-minded fools who think that the predators in our midst are impressed by protests, demonstrations, candlelight vigils, and social media hashtags. “The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated!” Sorry, but history says pretty clearly that the people are wrong.

You are responsible for the safety of yourself, your kin, and your kith. Nobody else. You.

Take whatever action you deem appropriate. I hope I won’t be seeing you at your funeral.

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The Chicken Littles are very good at that sort of thing.

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I am not making this up.

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When YouTube, Facebook or Twitter cracks down on some form of expression—conspiracy theories, radical rants, terrorist propaganda—some of the targets inevitably complain that their freedom of speech is under attack. (This feeling of victimhood may be what sent Nasim Aghdam to YouTube headquarters, gun in hand.) There is a strong retort to this: These are private platforms with a right to decide what they publish. It is no more a violation of the First Amendment for YouTube to muzzle a channel it finds offensive than it is for this newspaper to refuse to run a column calling for Minnesota to invade Wisconsin.

But what if a private platform suppresses speech because it’s afraid the government might otherwise step in?

Just as one effective end-run around the Fourth Amendment is to ask private companies for data they slurped up on their own, the First Amendment can be sidestepped when officials pressure the private sector into self-censorship. The end result can be rules more restrictive than the companies would impose on their own—and more intrusive than the government could get away with if it tried to impose them directly.

It’s happened before.

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Eventually we’ll work our way down to Legos and everyone will be perfectly safe.

Except from the criminals, who will all be laughing to hard to do anything.

Note that they aren’t banning cars, which is what Muslims are using these days for their mass-murder attacks.

By some odd coincidence, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is a Muslim. What are the odds?

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

Imagine you are asked to have some sort of contest with another person. Let’s say it is a manly contest like boxing or martial arts. The person arranging it talks about the fight in a conventional way, allowing you to assume the match will abide by the conventional rules for the sport. Let’s say it is agreed that on a given day, you will show up and box the champion from the other team. You show up on that day to learn that the guy is twice your size and he will be allowed to use a sword or a club with spikes on it in the ring.

That’s a ridiculous scenario, but the point is the only way there can be a fair competition is when both sides abide by the same set of rules. Otherwise you find yourself in the ring with a giant, trying to dodge the club with the spikes on it. This is something most men learn on the playground as kids. The exception seems to be conservatives, who have been allowing themselves to be clubbed by the Left for as long as anyone reading this has been alive. Even at this late date, they still cannot grasp this basic concept.

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It’s tempting to write-off the Buckleyites as sellouts and grifters. There’s certainly some of that. Being a good punching bag has put Jonah Goldberg into a million dollar home in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods on earth. Being wrong a lot pays really well, if you’re willing to be the Left’s footstool. There’s also the dunce factor. Being a pundit does not require a high IQ. That’s why you don’t find too many math majors in the chattering classes. It is entirely possible that many conservatives think they are right.

To continue to play by a set of rules that guarantees failure and failure guarantees a non-conservative outcome is pretty much the antithesis of conservatism. Fundamental to conservatism is the belief in a transcendent moral order. No matter what political mechanisms it may utilize or the rules it relies upon to operate its political machinery, a society of people morally adrift, living at odds with the natural order, is an immoral and unjust society. Ordered depravity is still depravity. Principles are a means to an end.

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Race advocates and the media are greeting a new General Accounting Office report on racial disparities in school discipline as a vindication of Obama administration policies. The GAO found that black students get suspended at nearly three times the rate of white students nationally, a finding consistent with previous analyses. The Obama Education and Justice Departments viewed that disproportion as proof of teacher and principal bias. Administration officials used litigation and the threatened loss of federal funding to force schools to reduce suspensions and expulsions radically in order to eliminate racial disparities in discipline. The GAO report, which implicitly rubberstamps the Obama approach, comes just as Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos is evaluating whether to rescind Obama’s school discipline directives. DeVos should go forward with that rescission: the administration’s policies were fatally flawed, as is the GAO report that attempts to justify them.

The GAO report ignores the critical question regarding disciplinary disparities: do black students in fact misbehave more than white students? The report simply assumes, without argument, that black students and white students act identically in class and proceeds to document their different rates of discipline. This assumption of equivalent school behavior is patently unjustified. According to federal data, black male teenagers between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at nearly 10 times the rate of white male teenagers of the same age (the category “white” in this homicide data includes most Hispanics; if Hispanics were removed from the white category, the homicide disparity between blacks and whites would be much higher). That higher black homicide rate indicates a failure of socialization; teen murderers of any race lack impulse control and anger-management skills. Lesser types of juvenile crime also show large racial disparities. It is fanciful to think that the lack of socialization that produces such elevated rates of criminal violence would not also affect classroom behavior. While the number of black teens committing murder is relatively small compared with their numbers at large, a very high percentage of black children—71 percent—come from the stressed-out, single-parent homes that result in elevated rates of crime.

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How about that great Welfare State in Britain? Don’t you wish we had one like that over here?

When one is dependent on the government for one’s living, any petty bureaucrat can jerk the rug out from under you.

Taki takes the gloves off.

In an editorial, the Big Bagel Timesthundered: “We live at a time when a porn star displays more credibility and class than a president.” Well, that’s because the Bagel Times prefers someone who has sex in front of a camera for money over The Donald, who I admit has never been accused of having class, except he has a bit more than The New York Times. The paper can no longer be taken seriously, its animus against anyone white, heterosexual, and Christian so pronounced, it makes some of us who are still all three of the above feel like Jews in Germany circa 1936.

The Other McCain points out some inconvenient truth.

We may summarize the Hart family story in a single sentence: Two white lesbians adopt six black children, abuse them for a decade, parade them around as mascots, and then kill them in a murder-suicide.

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This story is a predictable continuation of the left’s ownership not just of media but indeed of all institutions. It is depressing. It is predictable. And it is where we are as a country now. It is not confined to the realm of ideas. Eich, Damore, Williamson and others are subject to blacklists and HR reports and firing in every arena of industry and culture. If you have wrongthink, you will not be allowed for long to make your living within any space the left has determined they own – first the academy, then the media, then corporate America, and now the public square. You will bake the cake, you will use the proper pronoun, and you will never say that what Planned Parenthood does is murder for hire, and should be punished as such under the law.

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A number of the reigning oligarchs—among them Mark Zuckerberg (net worth $64.1 billion), Elon Musk (net worth $20.8 billion), Richard Branson (net worth $5.1 billion) and Stewart Butterfield (net worth $1.6 billion)—are calling for a guaranteed basic income. It looks progressive. They couch their proposals in the moral language of caring for the destitute and the less fortunate. But behind this is the stark awareness, especially in Silicon Valley, that the world these oligarchs have helped create is so lopsided that future consumers, plagued by job insecurity, substandard wages, automation and crippling debt peonage, will be unable to pay for the products and services offered by the big corporations.

The oligarchs do not propose structural change. They do not want businesses and the marketplace regulated. They do not support labor unions. They will not pay a living wage to their bonded labor in the developing world or the American workers in their warehouses and shipping centers or driving their delivery vehicles. They have no intention of establishing free college education, universal government health or adequate pensions. They seek, rather, a mechanism to continue to exploit desperate workers earning subsistence wages and whom they can hire and fire at will. The hellish factories and sweatshops in China and the developing world where workers earn less than a dollar an hour will continue to churn out the oligarchs’ products and swell their obscene wealth. America will continue to be transformed into a deindustrialized wasteland. The architects of our neofeudalism call on the government to pay a guaranteed basic income so they can continue to feed upon us like swarms of longnose lancetfish, which devour others in their own species.

It’s not often you see a criticism of the Welfare State from the Left, nor do I know how such a clear insight into the Crustian program can be reconciled in the brain with obvious adherence to other planks of the proglodyte program, but it’s rather refreshing to encounter such a chaemera.

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A Columbia University student was angry with her sociology professor for saying it was appropriate to use the term negro when referring to people of color while discussing the 1960s. She wrote to the professor, explaining to him that negro was an offensive and outdated term, but he failed to adjust his vocabulary. “I didn’t pay attention in class after that,” the student, Maria Martinez, told The Columbia Daily Spectator.

And there you have the entire problem with American education, if not modern education in general, in a nutshell.

Students feel perfectly entitled to stop listening to a teacher when that teacher says something with which the student disagrees. The automatic question that arises is: What the hell are you in the class for if you’re not going to pay attention to the teacher? If you’re so smart, why are you in school at all?

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

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West University Park is a blue pustule suburb of Houston.

Some people need to learn that Texas is not California.

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Researchers have revealed that Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th century lord of Kyusyu, Japan, ordered his people to produce not only wine but also opium for medical purposes.

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By ‘your whiteness’ they mean, of course, ‘your sinfulness’.

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Perhaps, when the ‘refugee caravan’ gets to the U.S., we ought to take a page from Mexico’s policy manual by putting them on trains and sending them North.

The Other McCain is on the case.

There are other derangement syndromes out there beside the Trump.

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Which explains why the murder rate in London is greater than that in New York.

Memo to self: Don’t go to Britain.

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Oh, I think it’s more than a theory. If you read the comments that the SJW President of YouTube made during the James Damore incident, it’s quite clear that she wouldn’t hesitate to stifle contrary views on YouTube — and I’m sure her team reflects her outlook, as all companies tend to do.

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Funny how all these shooters never turn out to be right-wing gun nuts, even though NPR did a long segment recently identifying ‘right wing extremists’ as being the biggest dangers in such situations.

Tuesday’s shootings at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno were committed by an animal rights activist apparently angry because she felt the company had censored her videos. On her website, Nasim Aghdam said YouTube “filtered my channels to keep them from getting views.” Her family confirmed that she was angry at the company….

What goes around comes around.

UPDATE: YouTube Shooting Witness Says He Wished He Had A Gun

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In 2014 President Obama welcomed the influx of unaccompanied minors crossing our southwestern border daily. I wrote about it for the Weekly Standard in “Disorder at the border.” I thought the scenario derived from “the fevered dreams of a dystopian novel.”

I was referring, of course, to Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints (1973). Mac Owens extended my thoughts in his NR column “Camp of the Saints, 2014 Style?” In the novel, Mac recalled, “liberals and Christians foolishly embrace the idea that the onslaught of migrants should be welcomed into the wealth and comfort of Europe. Indeed, the French military is directed to attack those who seek to resist the horde.”

You saw it here first.

President Obama didn’t have to go that far, but he welcomed the horde. He sought to turn the invasion to his own uses. He didn’t much defend American national sovereignty in word or in deed. In his eyes, American national sovereignty is obsolete or undeserving of the president’s unambivalent support. As becomes more evident every day, more and worse is to come when the Democrats retake the presidency.

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

Steve Sailer looks at the underside.

One of the booming industries in Southern California at the moment is providing drug addiction clinics in the sunshine for junkies from the Midwest. But when their insurance runs out and they still love drugs, do they go home to cold Ohio? Often they get a tent and join a homeless encampment.

Asian immigrants in one of Orange County’s most upscale towns, Irvine, are not terribly compassionate.

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws in Britain. Otherwise the place would look like Texas.

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Hey, he’s had his time in the sun. Time to kick back, make money, and maybe play a little golf.

John Derbyshire makes a few obvious points.

If you’ve been wondering how a bunch of adolescents could manage the funding and organization of this march, and similar events nationwide, allow me to direct you to Daniel Greenfield‘s excellent bit of investigative reporting over at Front Page. Greenfield has done the spadework the Main Stream Media will not do, and uncovered the men behind the curtain.

Needless to say, they are Democrat anti-gunners to a man.

And in fact the impression you got from MSM accounts — the impression I definitely got, that the Washington march was of youngsters, which is why I got to thinking about the Children’s Crusade — is false. An academic sociologist (University of Maryland sociologist Dana R. Fisher) analyzed the crowd and concluded that no more than ten percent were under eighteen. The average age was 49!

Well, they certainly sounded like children to me.

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Remember seeing this on the evening news? No? I wonder why.

For five days now hundreds of Central Americans — children, women, and men, most of them from Honduras — have boldly crossed immigration checkpoints, military bases, and police in a desperate, sometimes chaotic march toward the United States. Despite their being in Mexico without authorization, no one has made any effort to stop them.

Organized by a group of volunteers called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders, the caravan is intended to help migrants safely reach the United States, bypassing not only authorities who would seek to deport them, but gangs and cartels who are known to assault vulnerable migrants.

Organizers like Rodrigo Abeja hope that the sheer size of the crowd will give immigration authorities and criminals pause before trying to stop them.

Time to break out your copy of Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints to find out what happens next.

Perhaps they could be sent to California to replace all of the Californians who are moving to Texas.

It’s a thought.

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The woman, named locally as Myriam, an animal rights activist, received a seven-month sentence after she posted on Facebook there was “some justice” in the murder of Christian Medves by Radouane Lakdim last Friday.

Moroccan-born Lakdim killed four people, including Mr Medves and gendarme Arnaud Beltrame, during a rampage centred on a supermarket in the town of Trebes.

Myriam, who lives in the nearby village of Saint Gaudens, subsequently posted: “So then, you are shocked that a murderer is killed by a terrorist. Not me. I’ve got zero compassion for him, there’s some justice in it.”

This is why we have a First Amendment.

Joel Kotkin checks it out.

Whatever his grievous shortcomings, President Trump has succeeded in one thing: smashing the once imposing edifice of neoliberalism. His presidency rejects the neoliberal globalist perspective on trade, immigration and foreign relations, including a penchant for military intervention, that has dominated both parties’ political establishments for well over two decades.

Some of Trump’s actions, notably the proposed tariffs, may be crude and even wrong-headed but other moves, notably focus on China’s buying of American technology assets, expose the fundamental weakness of the neoliberal trade regime. Trump’s policy agenda would never have risen if neoliberalism was able to improve the lives of the vast majority of citizens rather than promote stagnation and downward mobility for a large portion of the population.

NB: Good luck trying to nail down what ‘neoliberal’ means.

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I am not making this up.

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Yeah, I guess you could say it did.

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We need to ban tattoos, obviously.

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Now you pro-Second-Amendment jerks can shut up and get with the program.

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The rapid resort of ‘anarchist’ and ‘anti-fascist’ groups to the standard toolbox of street-mob fear-based discipline is as characteristic as a skunk’s tail stripe.

“We’re sick of seeing good kids get expelled, arrested, or otherwise screwed over because some holier-than-thou bootlicker decided to fuck up someone’s life,” the group states, “because some snitch reported a graffiti artist, or tipped off a Pitt employee about a darknet mail order, or called the cops on students for flyering and promoting events without a permit, or chose to be an asshole of an RA and actually conduct a random dorm search, or ratted out a student who stole the textbooks they couldn’t afford.”

Not your grandfather’s definition of ‘good kids’. A product of a more thoroughgoing ‘holier-than-thou bootlicker’ would be difficult to imagine.

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Of course they are. It’s all part of the Narrative, which they are the more recent Useful Idiots pushing.