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Qwasie Reid, an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) in New York City, was transporting a nursing home patient to a doctor’s appointment in an ambulance last week when he was flagged down by a “frantic man” near a Brooklyn school who said a student was choking.

Ignoring his partner’s advice to stay in the ambulance, he went to help the seven-year-old who had reportedly started choking while eating a sandwich.

According to WABC-TV, Mr Reid “cleared out the little girl’s mouth, put an oxygen mask on her, used a defibrillator and started CPR.”

Mr Reid told the TV station that the girl, Noelia Echavarria, was already “blue in the face and lips” when he got there but that no one at the school had administered first aid.

He said he was subequently suspended without pay by his employer, Assist Ambulance.Company, because the firm’s policy forbids paramedics from making any unauthorised stops.

I would not work for such a company. Hopefully this guy will get a job elsewhere.

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Imagine that. This is like Himmler complaining that nobody makes good bagels any more.

Just keep it in mind.

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To make a case against the viability of a modern socialist state—particularly one that relies on exporting natural resources—one need only point to Venezuela. Since President Nicolás Maduro ascended to power following the death of Hugo Chavez, the country’s economy has spiraled into a meltdown replete with shortages of basic commodities, depletion of reserves, pawning of fixed assets, and hyperinflation north of 100 percent annually.

The foundational principle of socialism is theft. A political system that does not respect the right of property will respect no other right, and eventually descends into kleptocracy as government workers accrue all power and status to themselves. Venezuela is merely the most recent poster child for this inevitable truth.

The Other McCain comes out and says what everybody knows.

This has profound repercussions, because every intelligent college student is aware of the political biases of the faculty. Because the left-wing prejudice of professors is so extreme — 14-to-1 — young conservatives know that they have a near-zero chance of ever being employed in academia. Therefore, conservatives simply don’t pursue advanced degrees that would qualify them for such employment. No matter how much interest a conservative student might have in a field like psychology or history, there is no incentive for a conservative to seek a Ph.D., because no university would ever knowingly hire a conservative scholar.

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Discrimination against conservatives in academia, in turn, influences the larger culture. An obvious reason for the blatant bias of the mainstream media is that all the university professors who train journalists are Obama voters. Go to Northwestern University or Columbia University and try to find a Republican on the communications, journalism or political science faculty. Think about this: Who is the most successful radio broadcaster of the past 25 years? Rush Limbaugh. Has any university communications department in America ever asked Rush Limbaugh to lecture their students? Don’t be absurd.

Freeberg nails it yet again.

One of the most wrong-headed people I know, is fond of saying “It’s true to a certain extent.” She says this when something is undeniably true, but to acknowledge the undeniable truth would be to concede defeat about something she wants. And I don’t think she’s ever been compelled to go without something she wants, so she goes after this “certain extent” thing. She doesn’t really have any such certain-extent in mind, she’s just avoiding things. The same is true of liberals when they argue with you on the Internet.

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Furthermore, progressives are — progressive. If the application of the word contains a shred of honesty to it at all, it is because they don’t believe in standing still. There’s no “certain extent” or optimal level of anything. We all know it. Liberals argue as if we could achieve this optimal level, and they’d go away happy. The ensuing years would not bring any of them back to say something like “It’s a problem that the rich aren’t paying their fair share” — they wouldn’t say that, because everyone would be paying their fair share already. Does anyone believe that? If you do, you’re just wrong. Progressives progress.

Exactly right. The God of ‘progressives’ is progress, and progress doesn’t occur without change. Therefore, change must always be happening, otherwise progress cannot occur. So there’s no such thing as ‘enough’. The goalposts are always receding into the distance.

The Left, as we know it today, pulls this crap pretty often. “Oh but it’s not one or the other, there are shades of gray in between.” They have yet to define how that matters. Increments show that a measurement is relative; when we observe that a point on the Earth’s surface is East of one thing but West of another, this proves the relativity. It does not, however, show that East is West, or vice-versa. And the same is true of relative measurements that deal with abundance and absence, like heat & cold, light & darkness. So, no. Even if you can define your increments of something like gender, which would really just be more nonsense, this still wouldn’t show that men are women, or women are men. These are two different things.

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All lives matter, or black lives matter? Supposedly, there’s something wrong with “all lives matter.” But what?

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A new poll shows that a majority of leftist college students oppose censorship in theory – but also support censorship in practice when it boosts their “politically correct” progressive ideology.

First, the platitudes. Ninety-seven percent of leftist students claimed free speech was important and 74 percent claimed that preserving free speech is more important than assuring no-one gets offended, according to the poll, which was commissioned by Young America’s Foundation (YAF).

But next the reality: Fifty-four percent of student leftists believe that the Confederate flag should be banned.

Among all students surveyed, 77 percent favored their schools flying the gay pride flag, but only 41 percent say schools could fly the Confederate flag.

The Left is, at its core, totalitarian. Always has been, always will be. Animal Farm and 1984 were not written about conservatives.

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They like diversity in appearance but not in substance.

Scholarly studies have piled up showing that race and gender diversity in the workplace can increase creative thinking and improve performance. Meanwhile, excessive homogeneity can lead to stagnation and poor problem-solving.

Unfortunately, new research also shows that academia has itself stopped short in both the understanding and practice of true diversity — the diversity of ideas — and that the problem is taking a toll on the quality and accuracy of scholarly work. This year, a team of scholars from six universities studying ideological diversity in the behavioral sciences published a paper in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences that details a shocking level of political groupthink in academia. The authors show that for every politically conservative social psychologist in academia there are about 14 liberal social psychologists.

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This is not so much evidence of Obama lying his ass off — although he does do that — as of Obama not knowing what the hell he is doing.

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Hey, we’ve all been there.

Steve Sailer insists on doing That Science Thing.

Here are the brand new 2015 federal National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests scores sorted in order of the size of the White-Black Gap on 8th grade math. The color reflects whether the state went for Obama (blue) or Romney (red) in 2012.

Looking up the lineup of income inequality among states is left as an exercise for the reader. Hint: Blue states predominate there, too.

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Attending the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the ultimate dream for Harry Potter superfans. Now, that dream is going to come true for some lucky Muggles, too.

Royal Cannaught Park, one of the Harry Potter series’ filming locations, is undergoing renovations to become a luxury apartment complex. On one level, this is a bit of a bummer — sleek condos aren’t quite as magical as stone walls hiding secrets and grand moving staircases. But, an opportunity to live ven slightly adjacent to the fictional wizarding world is still pretty cool.

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It happens every year, but this year is shaping up as one of the worst ever. During Indonesia’s dry season, certain people—rarely identified, much less punished—set illegal fires to make land suitable for the palm oil and paper-and-pulp industries. Those fires generate huge amounts of smoke, and the toxic haze often reaches neighboring countries, including Singapore and Malaysia. But this year the El Niño weather phenomenon has created extremely dry conditions, leading to an unusually intense, long-lasting “smoke-out” for the region, affecting everything from travel to sporting events to respiratory health.

So far this year, Indonesia’s fires have produced more pollution than Germany or Japan does in a year. On 26 days from the period of Sept. 1 to Oct. 14, their daily emissions surpassed those of the entire US (the world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases after China), according to researchers led by Guido van der Werf from VU University Amsterdam. They calculated that the 100,000-plus fires in Indonesia detected so far this year (as of Oct. 21) have emitted about 1.4 billion metric tons (1.5 billion tons) of carbon dioxide equivalents. That puts the country on track for its worst fire year since 1997. On Oct. 14 alone there were more than 4,700 fire alerts—that’s more than on any single day in the past two years.

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The concept of identification has been much in the news lately. If I say that I “identify” as a conservative American man, a lawyer, a Lutheran, a resident of Minnesota and a fan of the Minnesota Twins, my announcement will provoke zero interest, because I actually am all of those things. How boring can you get? For one’s “identification” to be newsworthy, and perhaps profitable, one must identify as something that one is not–an African-American, a woman, and so on.

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In the ascendance during the Reagan and Clinton booms, our kulaks—the roughly 10 million businesses under 500 employees that employ 40 million people—are clearly in secular decline, with grave implications for the economy, employment, and the future of democracy.

Rather than a new age of democratic capitalism imagined by Reagan era conservatives, we increasingly live in a world dominated by large companies. The overall revenues of Fortune 500 companies have risen from 58 percent of nominal GDP in 1994 to 73 percent in 2013. At the same time, small business start-ups have declined as a portion of all business growth, from 50 percent in the early ’80s to 35 percent in 2010. Indeed, a 2014 Brookings report (PDF) revealed that small business “dynamism,” measured by the growth of new firms compared with the closing of older ones, has declined significantly over the past decade, with more firms closing than starting for the first time in a quarter century. Only 35 percent of small business owners, according to a recent survey by the National Small Business Association, express optimism about the economy.

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The Obama administration’s progressive-sounding rhetoricmay offend some of the thinner-skinned members of the oligarchy, but his economic policies—the bank bailouts, super-low interest rates, and growing federal power—have also improved the balance sheets of the corporate hegemons and the super-rich. In contrast, these policies do little, or less than little, for the yeoman class. Money today is made far more easily today by playing games with the market than making or selling on Main Street.

Progressives just love big businesses because (a) they serve as convenient whipping boys when an oppressor needs to be found for all of the ‘victims’ in their political base and (b) they serve as willing ‘partners’ in government-centric consolidations.

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On my recent road trip to and from Arizona to Minnesota, I had to pass through a checkpoint in New Mexico. Several uniformed Border Patrol men and vehicles were clustered around. A few relaxed drug-sniffing dogs were hanging out as well. Everybody hates someone who holds up the line, especially when it’s 110 degrees and you have to roll down your window. So, with uncharacteristic restraint, I didn’t ask, “What do you do if you find someone who is not here legally?”

Because the answer, of course, is “Absolutely nothing. We’re not allowed to.” The only way an illegal could maybe possibly get deported would be if he refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding.

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The Democrats will soon get nine to eleven million more voters, distributed nicely to change every red state to blue for all time. The Chamber of Commerce will get the cheap labor they salivate for. The rich liberals will get nannies and housekeepers from Guatemala and El Salvador and yard guys from Mexico. And the open-borders crowd will get to congratulate themselves on how open-minded they are, how morally superior to us crude “nativists.” At least until some thug shoots their daughter.

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Last month’s news that Volkswagen had been illegally rigging its diesel-powered cars to cheat on pollution tests has sparked all sorts of outrage. Hearings, lawsuits, fines, general opprobrium. And rightly so; the company’s deception was appalling.

But there’s a broader, more consequential problem here that a lot of coverage has danced around or hinted at only indirectly. So let’s say it: Europe’s promotion of diesel vehicles as a green transportation option has been a disaster thus far — for reasons that go well beyond the Volkswagen scandal.

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One main drawback of diesel cars is that they can emit higher levels of other harmful air pollutants like particulates and nitrogen oxides. And those ended up being much harder to clean up than experts initially predicted. We now know that Europe’s regulators have failed spectacularly to control diesel pollution, relying on weak rules and flimsy testing procedures. Lots and lots of automakers — not just Volkswagen — have been manufacturing diesel cars that emit far more gunk than they’re supposed to. It’s one reason why cities like London and Paris are still clogged with unhealthy levels of air pollution, causing thousands of premature deaths each year.

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The injury helped police identify the alleged attacker.

I imagine it did.

The alleged attacker was … wait for it … not a white person.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., is one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the country. In 2012, President Obama won Ward 6, which includes Capitol Hill, with 87.3 percent of the vote.

The Hill has remained firmly Democratic even as African-Americans have moved out and white professionals have moved in. In 2000, Ward 6 was 64 percent African-American; by 2010, with gentrification rapidly increasing, the black population had fallen to 43 percent.

What? No protests about the neighborhood being ruined for poor people diversity?

A 22.3 percent increase in violent crime over the past year on Capitol Hill is driving the debate. From mid-October 2013 to mid-October 2014, there were 298 such crimes: robberies, assaults with a deadly weapon, rape and murder. For the same period in 2014-2015, there were 364 such crimes, according to the Metropolitan District Police.

Well, that’s what happens when you let liberals move in. The neighborhood goes to the dogs.

A small sampling of recent day-in, day-out neighborhood crime highlighted on the listserv includes a midafternoon sexual assault on a mother by an intruder who “violently beat and assaulted her while she worked from home”; a flash mob attack on a local 7-Eleven; and the videotaped beating of a 69-year-old man by a 19-year-old at a subway exit.

Not mentioned, because it will give the game away, is the ethnic group to which all of these perpetrators belong, IYKWIMAITYD.

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Hillary Clinton has proposed a new tax on stock trading. The tax increase would only further burden markets by discouraging trading and investment. Inevitably, costs associated with this new tax will be passed on to millions of American families that hold 401(k)s, IRAs and other savings accounts.

Clinton always comes up with an excuse for why she needs to raise even more taxes on the American people. This time, she claims that her plan will curb “unfair and abusive trading strategies” – as defined by her and her future appointees in the federal government, of course — and levies a tax on Americans who make “excessive” order cancellations when trading on the stock market. The campaign has not said what is considered “excessive” or how high this new tax will be.

Hillary’s only virtue is that she isn’t as bad as Bernie Sanders.

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Assume for the purposes of discussion that catastrophic global warming from human CO₂ emissions can be reliably predicted. Here’s a thought: since we know trees sequester carbon (but couldn’t be planted on a scale large enough to mitigate 30 billion tons of annual CO₂ emissions), why not go one step further and investigate whether there might be technologies that would remove carbon dioxide from the air? The idea is called “air capture,” but whenever the idea is brought up, you can hear the crickets chirping among the climatistas, for whom nothing less than destroying hydrocarbon energy will suffice as atonement for humanity’s sins of emission. (Near as I can tell, the IPCC completely ignores the idea.)

Which just points up the fact that the ecoNazi agenda is not about climate change but about how much human beings suck and so how much human beings must be penalized for not being animals.

In more enlightened times, ‘environmentalists’ would be recognized for what they are, rabid reactionaries dedicated to a new religion that opposes progress and human welfare, and would be opposed by ‘progressives’ however defined.

These, however, are not enlightened times.

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n fact, TV is doing pretty well across the LGBTQ spectrum as a whole – MTV’s teen hit Faking It has gay, lesbian, bi, questioning and even intersex characters. The Fosters has biracial queer parents and Caitlyn Jenner is pursuing equal opportunities for reality television in I Am Cait.

But while this public celebration of same sex love is great, it’s somehow all a bit…samey.

Take Orange is the New Black. While Ruby Rose was voted by straight girl social media users as ‘most likely to turn them gay’ (despite the fact that she identifies as gender fluid), out lesbians Samira Wiley and Lea DeLaria – a woman of colour and a curvy butch woman respectively – have yet to be clutched to the heterosexual audience’s collective bosom.

It’s almost like there’s still a massive double standard at work.

It’s not enough to be a pervert, you have to be the right kind of pervert.

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

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On college campuses, cracking down on dissident viewpoints isn’t censorship; it’s just “reducing paper waste.”

In a move that certainly looks like a revenge of sorts for The Argus publishing a conservative take on #BlackLivesMatter, Wesleyan University’s student government voted to consider cutting the student newspaper’s funding.

“Of gods we believe, and of men we know, that those who have power will rule.”

Jim Goad reveals all.

I believe that democracy is a sham designed to prevent the proles from rioting by fostering the illusion that politicians actually give a flip about whether voters live or die after they’ve voted for them. A president’s importance is sorely overrated. The Federal Reserve Chairman is who actually runs the country, so a president’s job is largely symbolic—their chief role is to fool voters into connecting with them emotionally, even if it’s behind a wall of trained killers from the Secret Service.

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I thought I was angry until I saw Bernie Sanders. He looks like the world’s bitterest Muppet and belches up the same old cliches about socialism that have failed everywhere except Scandinavia, where they will fail soon once those nations receive a sufficient diversity injection. He used the terms “the 1 percent” and “billionaires” at least one billion times and made some patently fraudulent and easily disproved claims about where the US stands compared to the rest of the world when it comes to wealth inequality. When asked whether black lives matter or all lives matter, he chose the blacks, even though his fanbase is almost entirely white. He even cited the Southern Poverty Law Center as a reliable source. Oy gevalt!

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Someone has calculated that it would be less expensive for San Francisco workers to rent a two-bedroom apartment in Las Vegas and commute by air than to rent a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco. They reasoned that a one-bedroom in San Francisco is about $3,100 a month while a two-bedroom in Las Vegas is about $1,000 a month, and four-day-a-week airfares would be about $1,100 a month. Even with local transport, Las Vegas is less expensive than San Francisco.

While most responses focus on the quality of life in Las Vegas vs. San Francisco, the point is that the latter is so terribly overpriced that some software engineers are actually living out of their cars.

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San Francisco has other barriers to affordable housing. Rent control discourages builders from building much more rental housing. The city’s strict tenant-rights ordinance discourages people from renting out their homes. Inclusionary zoning ordinances in many Bay Area suburbs discourage new development in those suburbs. Lengthy permitting processes make it difficult for builders to respond to changes in demand. All of these things help explain why San Francisco is so expensive that someone might find it cheaper to commute from Las Vegas.

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One lesson we have learned over the years is that the Left never gives up. No defeat is permanent. Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury. He was innocent! The Rosenbergs were executed. They were framed! Mary Mapes and Dan Rather were fired. Their Texas Air National Guard story was a model of investigative journalism! Socialism has killed more than 100 million people, and impoverished countless more. Let’s give it another try!

The Other McCain reviews a book.

In his new book SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, Vox Day summarizes the habits of progressive “social justice warriors”:

1. SJWs always lie.
2. SJWs always double down.
3. SJWs always project.

Vox Day’s Third Law of SJWs, the role of psychological projection in social justice discourse, is interesting to observe in practice, as accusations made against #GamerGate must always reflect some wrong of which progressives are themselves guilty. If you don’t understand #GamerGate, Breitbart.com’s Allum Bokhari has described it as “an online uprising of gamers against poor journalistic standards, political correctness, and moral crusaders in the world of video games.”

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Of course. Businessmen can — and do — go to jail. I have never encountered any bureaucrat going to jail (or even being fired) for breaking an EPA or OSHA regulation.

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Two years ago a Dutch team created the world’s first laboratory-grown burger, which was made and eaten in London, according to the BBC. It cost £215,000 to produce.

Now researchers – aiming to tackle the growing demand for meat –  are to set up a new company, Mosa Meat, to make a tastier and cheaper version which they hope will be on general sale in 2020.

Oh boy.

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That’s because they figure they’ll get more Democrat Free Stuff from Bernie, who has floated free from all reality, than from Hillary, who is still holding on with one hand.

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In combination, a person’s full name, Social Security number and birthdate have become a skeleton key for identity verification and, thus, identity theft. Yet the nine-digit number was never intended to be anything of the kind. In fact, from 1946 to 1971, cards came printed with the disclaimer: “FOR SOCIAL SECURITY PURPOSES – NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION.” That was before the rise of the personal computer; the data-rich environment of public- and private-sector digital transactions, from online voter registration to shopping; and the accompanying cavalcade of data breaches, from Target to the Pentagon.

Politicians frequently talk about whether Social Security is solvent. (It is, until at least 2033, and it will probably be restructured to operate much longer and avoid unpopular cuts.) Some candidates talk about data security, with Democrat Jim Webb decrying Chinese cyber-attacks in the party’s first debate and Republican Mike Huckabee suggesting that we launch a cyberwar against China. (The nation will not admit nor deny its role in the hacks.) But few politicians have tackled the less prominent but still thorny question of whether the Social Security number, as used, has become one of the biggest liabilities in data security.

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That’s because people who get tattoos are narcissists who tend to be very touchy because their self-image is based on external inputs.

It’s all about them.

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Bernie Sanders channeled the id of liberalism with his deliberate shout out last night that we should “look at” Scandinavian welfare states, especially Denmark and Sweden. He probably doesn’t know that Sweden has lately made some significant cuts to its social spending programs. But why let facts get in the way of a religious narrative.

More curious is that liberals always forget to mention that their beloved European welfare states rely on much more than high incomes taxes to pay for their benefits. All of them have very high (and regressive) consumption taxes. Sweden’s value-added tax is set at 25 percent. Any liberals in America want to propose such a tax here? Didn’t think so. You can count on that being one thing we won’t “look at” as Sanders goes forward.

The reason they are willing to give people all this free stuff is that it’s not their money.

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This is, or was, a New York case in which a 54-year-old woman sued her eight-year-old nephew for negligence, alleging that he acted unreasonably when he leaped into her arms after she showed up at his birthday party in 2011. According to the Westport News, the boy had just been given his first bicycle and was riding it around when his aunt showed up. “Auntie Jen! Auntie Jen!” he exclaimed—which is already unreasonable, because once is plenty—and ran toward her. “I remember him shouting, ‘Auntie Jen I love you,” Auntie Jen testified, “and there he was flying at me.” She said she tried to catch the boy but they tumbled to the ground. Auntie Jen broke her wrist in the fall, or maybe I should say that the defendant broke the plaintiff’s wrist by leaping upon her negligently, without warning, and with malice aforethought.

That, or something like it, is what she alleged when she sued her nephew for negligence two years later.

I had relatives like that, fortunately mostly now dead.

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

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Yeah, that increasing ‘diversity’ really has its benefits.

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It’s always devout bakers whom homosexual activists pick on and try to ruin. There have been many cases in different countries involving bakers being asked to bake cakes for homosexual weddings and what splendid moral courage the Christian bakers show, quite unsupported by the clergy. Some have lost fortunes in fines. Meanwhile, bishops talk of global warming.

First they came for the bakers but I wasn’t a baker…

Freeberg looks at the Oregon shooting.

A common refrain is that doing something is better than doing nothing. This is yet another example of liberals failing to understand the motives of their opposition. This is a special strain of ignorance that is shrink-wrapped with a companion-brand of matching apathy, with a side order of pride in the apathy. See, liberals don’t know what motivates conservatives, because they don’t care what motivates conservatives. They’re proud of not knowing and of not caring. They’ll be the first to tell you so, and they’ll also be the first to opine about it. If you merely recognize all of these things at the same time and point out what this means, that they’re forming opinions about a matter on which they have yet to gather any reliable facts, they’ll surely take offense. It is not within their method of understanding the world around them, to recognize that their offense is taken at the mere calculation of the sum of the parts, which they have so unabashedly provided.

They speak of magazine capacity restrictions. So far, reports have held up that the shooter had six weapons on him, seven more at his home. So although the state of Oregon doesn’t have these restrictions in place, nevertheless it seems that whole topic has already gone ’round and ’round in this case, and screwballed its way into irrelevance. They want background checks, but the shooter, again according to the information we have thus far, acquired his weapons legally and therefore in accordance with these background checks. They want registration databases. Again and again I’ve asked the question: How does that work? Alright you have a database record that says one person has all these guns. Then what?

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It’s just another “Those People” Conversation, about what most-recently-tweaked New Perfect Rule should be imposed upon distant strangers. How should we twiddle with the public policies, under which those people shall be living? There are people walking around, among us, building (hopefully not often) things we actually use, sharing highways with us, voting, and even accumulating levels of influence far greater than what’s available to the average voter. But not thinking. My questions about How Does This Registration/Background Check/Magazine Capacity Restriction should actually WORK, remain for the most part unanswered…can we stop pretending there is rational thought going into this rule-twiddling?

Richard Fernandez looks at Obama’s foreign policy.

Things are now so bad the media are now actually talking about the possibility of accidentally stumbling into World War 3.  Not seriously yet, but for the first time since 1989 it has become plausible.  Fear has made a comeback with the headlines full of stories about the expanding conflict in the Middle, possible civil strife in Turkey, millions of Middle Easterners landing on Europe’s shores, Russian tanks in Eastern Europe and Syra, and a possible collision between China’s fortified islands and the US Navy.

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Washington seems unable to do anything at present. The Republican inability to lead an impeachment is matched by the impotence of the president and his party actually get anything done. Obama’s failures have not only created a crisis abroad, they have created a crisis at home in the form of political paralysis.

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He was one of the standard Disney actors that were fixtures in our lives.

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The University of Manchester Student Union has banned Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos and Guardian journalist Julie Bindel from participating in a debate on whether or not modern feminists stifle free speech.

Guess that answers the quesstion.

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And stick out your hand — the government want to give you Free Stuff that will eventually come out of your own pocket.

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More than a dozen prominent Washington research groups have received tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments in recent years while pushing United States government officials to adopt policies that often reflect the donors’ priorities, an investigation by The New York Times has found.

And if the New York Times says it, are we not obliged to believe it.

Bet: None of this money goes to conservative think-tanks like Heritage Foundation or American Enterprise Institute, or libertarian ones like Cato Foundation.

The Other McCain reminds us of some inconvenient truth.

Michael Wang, a young Californian, came second in his class of 1,002 students; his ACT score was 36, the maximum possible; he sang at Barack Obama’s inauguration; he got third place in a national piano contest; he was in the top 150 of a national maths competition; he was in several national debating-competition finals. But when it came to his university application he faced a serious disappointment for the first time in his glittering career. He was rejected by six of the seven Ivy League colleges to which he applied.

For purposes of discrimination, Asians are honorary white people, i.e. fair game.

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The Patriarchy Strikes Back.

Ridley Scott, I’ve got your next Oscar….

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Seems like we more need an overhaul of US reproduction laws.

America: A land in which the makers of the gun are vilified and the maker of the gunman gets sympathy.

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In 1996, I wrote a long article for The New York Times Magazine arguing that the recycling process as we carried it out was wasteful. I presented plenty of evidence that recycling was costly and ineffectual, but its defenders said that it was unfair to rush to judgment. Noting that the modern recycling movement had really just begun just a few years earlier, they predicted it would flourish as the industry matured and the public learned how to recycle properly.

So, what’s happened since then? While it’s true that the recycling message has reached more people than ever, when it comes to the bottom line, both economically and environmentally, not much has changed at all.

Despite decades of exhortations and mandates, it’s still typically more expensive for municipalities to recycle household waste than to send it to a landfill. Prices for recyclable materials have plummeted because of lower oil prices and reduced demand for them overseas. The slump has forced some recycling companies to shut plants and cancel plans for new technologies. The mood is so gloomy that one industry veteran tried to cheer up her colleagues this summer with an article in a trade journal titled, “Recycling Is Not Dead!”

Recycling, like ethanol in the gas, solar power, wind power, and Grrl Power, is just another feel-good SWPL boondoggle by the Children of the Crust so that they can feel good about themselves while passing the costs on to others.

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I give up — just what the fuck business is it of his?

The most dislikeable aspect of the ‘progressive’ personality is this congenital compulsion to stick their noses into everybody else’s business.