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South Korean researchers have solved a longstanding problem that stopped them from creating ultra-strong, lightweight aluminum-steel alloys.

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Inquiring minds want to know.

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Rob O’Neill’s details are contained in a text file, along with instructions as to how to find him, that has reportedly been posted online by extremists using a sinister hashtag.

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The Post describes the program as having the potential to become “a rare legislative victory in Washington for President Obama — not on Capitol Hill, but down Pennsylvania Avenue inside city hall.” If so, it would be a limited victory. The District’s largest employer would be exempt from the measure, because the city cannot force the federal government to comply.

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Yeah, well, what’s Obama going to do? Play golf at them? Parachute Michelle in to make their kids eat organic vegetables?

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‘Vigilantes’? Say rather ‘crusaders’.

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Of course, they don’t have to pay for it.

Look up how much U.S. taxpayers pay for WHO.

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Nuclear war isn’t the end of the world. Ask the people in Hiroshima.

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Substitute the name of any other race in this story and watch what happens.

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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.

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Washington DC’s H Street streetcar ran down a police car last week. But, as the Washington Post headline notes, it’s “still not carrying passengers.”

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That’s all the luck you get for this life, my friend.

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I’m shocked, shocked I tell you….

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Susan Taffe Reed will not be director of Dartmouth College’s Native American Program after all. Her appointment, announced a month ago, drew criticism from many Native American groups who said that her claim to be Native American was false (which Taffe Reed denied) and that the appointment insulted them.

Dartmouth issued a brief statement about the latest development. “Susan Taffe Reed will no longer serve as the director of the Native American Program. Unfortunately, the distraction around her appointment prevents her from effectively serving in this role. It does not prevent her from contributing to Dartmouth in other ways and we are currently exploring other opportunities with her. The experience of Dartmouth students is our priority and we are working to ensure that we have a strong and easily accessible network of support in place for our students.”

Another fauxcahontas bites the dust.

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 Twin Cities Marathon went off without a hitch yesterday. The perfect weather didn’t hurt a bit. The Star Tribune reports that Kenyans placed first, second, and third among the men competing in the race. An Ethiopian joined two Kenyans in the top three among the women. A good time was had by all. Black Lives Matter could not be reached for comment.

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The Black Lives Matter crew also staged a die-in to kill for. The photograph published by the Star Tribune may provoke inappropriate laughter. The casting might be deemed racially insensitive. From the looks of the photograph, men of pallor were vastly overrepresented among the theatrical decedents.

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Because all the Chattering Class, following the lead of the Mouth that Roared, spout off about increased suppression of gun rights and people start stocking up before the anticipated ban.

This is the same reason why stores sell out of food and batteries before a storm hits.

Duh.

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The Patriarchy Strikes Back.

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

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Victory of the Proletariat Zuckerberg has sort of a ring to it.

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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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When Frank Hudock, 35, a restaurant manager in the Chicago area, first told his wife, Jennifer Hudock, 30, an executive assistant, that his grandparents wanted them to name their son Frank, per generations of family tradition, her response was, “That’s never going to happen.”

They had just decided on a name they both agreed on — Max — after arguing about dozens of others, and that had been a big relief.

But then the grandparents threw in a sweetener: an offer of $10,000 in exchange for choosing Frank.

Ms. Hudock’s company didn’t have a maternity leave policy, and she wasn’t going to get paid for several months. She agreed to think it over.

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Early this past week, teacher Michael Frassetto led a walk-out-of-class protest at the Allentown (Pennsylvania) School District because of the district’s alleged disdain for minority students.

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Frassetto, who “twice applied for jobs in Allentown,” currently teaches at the Medical Academy Charter School. He did not have his contract renewed for this year at the Roberto Clemente Charter School.

Gee, I wonder why?

He and his protesters called for “a summer employment program and a representative on the school board who is chosen by the students.” They also want Superintendent Russ Mayo’s resignation.

But a good portion of the student “activists” were more excited about missing class — and eventually heading home and/or getting some grub….

There’s a Doonesbury cartoon in there somewhere.

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Western Europeans, especially Germans, have been generally supine in the face of the massive flood of “refugees” that is currently being thrust upon them by their political leaders. They seem to accept — or at least remain passive about — the EU’s insistence that welcoming the migrants is a moral necessity, and a net benefit for the natives.

Besides, it’s a done deal — they’re here, you’re kfir, get used to it!

But Central Europe is another matter entirely. The citizens of the former East Bloc threw off the shackles of Communism a mere quarter of a century ago, and many people can still remember life under the commissars. They’re not necessarily willing to go gentle into that Islamic night.

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Well, not so’s you’d notice.

On September 30, the New York Times published a long article about Donald Trump’s wife Melania in its Fashion and Style section. The article said little of substance–Mrs. Trump is a nice lady, apparently–but it resulted in an epic sequence of five corrections.

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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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A Voice of the Crust must support the Narrative. Rinse. Repeat.

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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.

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I am not making this up.

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Scientists at an American chocolate company specialising in herbal technologies claim to have developed the “medicinal” chocolate, which contains only 35 per cent fat.

Cacao, the key ingredient in chocolate, contains a variety of antioxidants and minerals, which perform health benefits such as protecting the nervous system, reducing stroke risk and lowering blood pressure.

However, cacao is extremely bitter meaning many chocolate companies sweeten their products with fat and sugar, overriding cacao’s health benefits.

Kuka Xoco, the Boston-based firm, have discovered a new de-bittering agent in the form of a little-used herb from the Andean region of Bolivia and Peru.

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As would any veteran. A pack, not a herd.

More here.

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I guess those strict gun control laws really had an effect.

Police said they had identified the gunman as a 15-year-old of Iraqi-Kurdish background who had been born in Iran.

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

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

I’d have included the Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duc de Berry, but it’s really a matter of taste.

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Surely the Los Angeles Times, Voice of the Crust, cannot be wrong.

Jimmy Delshad, former mayor of Beverly Hills, says his friends are asking: “Who the hell do they think they are, coming here and behaving like that?”

Steve Sailer can’t help but notice.

Of course, if they had been white, this would be widely denounced by the Usual Suspects as institutionalized racism.

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, established in 1949, has 28 members devoted to the idea of collective security. Prediction: By the time President Obama leaves office in 2017, the NATO pledge of mutual defense in response to aggression will have been exposed as worthless. Objectively the alliance will have ceased to exist. The culprits? Vladimir Putin—and Barack Obama.

Color me indifferent. The reason for NATO went away once Communism disintegrated in Eastern Europe. All it does now is make Russia feel threatened, and drag the U.S. into situations that are none of our business, and allow Eurotrash to piggyback on our defense spending so they can use their budgets to buy votes through social programs. I see a lot of pain and not much gain by continuing NATO.

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I used to joke that it costs as much to house an inmate in the California state prison system as it would to send the same person to Stanford, but that sending the inmate to Stanford (at least in the humanities) would be bad for the inmate.

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Why were elite Harvard students “caught off guard”? The simplest explanation is that they suffered the defect of an elite university education, whereas the prison inmates had the challenge of thinking for themselves. Golly—the private sector might do a better job of educating kids? Yes indeed, that is an unheard-of idea at Harvard. I think there’s a broader lesson here about how ideologically monochromatic universities do a great disservice . . . to liberals.

Theodore Dalrymple turns over a rock.

But what most interested me about the VW episode was the speed with which VW owners in Britain made inquiries of litigation lawyers as to whether they had grounds to sue. It used to be said that the definition of an instant is the time it takes for the first horn to sound after the traffic lights in Mexico City turn from red to green; but in Britain, and no doubt elsewhere, the definition might now be the time it takes for the first inquiry to be made of a litigation lawyer after some wrongdoing is publicly revealed—wrongdoing, that is, by people or corporations with deep pockets, for defendants are selected as much by capacity to pay as by anything they have done.

It goes without saying that corporations, being run by people, are capable of the deepest-dyed villainy, but that does not mean that the rest of the population is honest. What harm has VW so far done to the owners of its vehicles that they have grounds for legal action? I am sure that they, the owners, are already telling themselves lots of convenient lies, for example that they have been deeply traumatized by the revelation that their cars emit more pollution than they thought when they bought them.

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Hint: Unions + Democrite Politicians

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Many of the posters kept mentioning the phrase “Beta Uprising”, with some users asking whether they could join in, while others said they were happy to stay at home and watch it on the news.

According to a thread on Reddit, the term Beta Uprising refers to people who see themselves as being socially awkward, unattractive, shy, not popular with mainstream society or deviant in some way (the “Betas”) rising up and “rebelling against the society that they believe makes their lives difficult because they’re ostracised or don’t have success with women by shooting random people, usually people more attractive and popular than them”.

The Columbine High School massacre in 1999 may have started the trend off, but it is common for 4chan users to joke about shooting up public places:

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President Obama has the habit of offering advice to other leaders,  explaining how they should think. In 2014 he told Iran that an “Iraq in chaos on their borders is probably not in their interests”. Later in 2014 he told Vladimir Putin that a standoff in Ukraine was  not in the interests of either country”. In September of that same year he told Turkey that “it’s certainly not in their interest for all that instability and violence to be occurring so close to their border”.

Surely they see it; and just as surely they will respond as he has foreseen. It must come as a cruel disappointment that so many world leaders disregarded his counsel in 2015, often doing the opposite of what he suggested. Iran is deeply enmeshed in Iraq. Russia is building up forces in the Ukraine.  Turkey is in a renewed fight with the Kurds upon its borders.

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Earlier this week, I attended an event in Michigan that included a screening of a brand-new documentary called Farming In Fear. The film, just 28 minutes long, tells the story of Martha Boneta, who bought a small farm in Virginia and tried to make a go of it by selling produce and so on. She was viciously harassed by a variety of government agencies and environmental groups who evidently intended to drive her out of business.

It appears to be a classic example of the abuse of regulatory power to promote private interests and ideological agendas. Ms. Boneta’s farm home was subjected to repeated and apparently purposeless inspections of closets, bathrooms and so on. At one point, she was cited for holding an “event” without obtaining thousands of dollars worth of licenses and permits. The “event” was a birthday party for a friend’s daughter.

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Hey, look, it’s yet another victory for the Institute for Justice. They stepped in when the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology said nationally syndicated advice columnist John Rosemond’s writings constituted the unlicensed practice of psychology in their state. They also said he could not identify himself as a “family psychologist,” even though he is, because he’s not licensed in Kentucky.

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Tolbert said the boys got into a staring match with a female student last school year.

“He was playing a game with her. He said she was laughing. They were engaged. When she finally giggled and said stop. He stopped,” Tolbert said.

The female student was cited in court papers as saying she also stared at the boys.

However, the Cincinnati Archdiocese said the 12-year-old boys were suspended for one day after the girl’s parents complained.

Even Catholic schools aren’t safe from the rot nowadays.

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Last night I wrote that the most effective measure to reduce the number of mass shootings would be to stop publicizing the names and purported grievances of perpetrators. The principal motivation of these deranged criminals is to become famous–as they see it, to go down in history. The Umpqua Community College murderer confirmed this once again when he wrote, prior to his rampage, “The more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.”

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The film Truth premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12. Starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather and Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes, the film retells the Rathergate scandal based on Mary Mapes’s memoir Truth and Duty. I must be one of the few people in the United States actually to have read the book.

Mapes is the hero of her memoir and the hero of the film. In Mapes’s telling, she is not the perpetrator of a scandalous hoax. Rather, she is a liberal martyr to the truth. If she’s a martyr at all, she’s a martyr a la Julius Rosenberg and Alger Hiss. In other words, she’s guilty as hell but she’s not confessing, ever, and now she has the best of Hollywood to lend her aid and comfort. The left does not give up promoting them, as we can see also in Kevin Williamson’s timely NR column “Codename: LIBERAL.”

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

Zoodle Slicer.

CitrusZinger.

PhotonGrill.

The Micropig.

Random Fashion Buzzword Generator.

TeleBouncer. ‘…it intercepts all incoming calls and tells callers to press 1 (or 2 or 3) to reach you. Only after the caller presses 1 does your phone ring. This immediately shuts out robocallers and all recorded messages.’

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The dog was unharmed

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When the man looking after her phone accidentally dropped it in the ocean, Ms Cee likely thought she’d never see it again.

But the dancer was amazed when a dolphin named Cacique “retrieved” the phone and handed it back to her friend.

Steve Sailer asks a question of which I had not thought but to which I would love to know the answer.

The fine 1990s parody of the Star Trek phenomenon, Galaxy Quest, had a lot of fun with how random casting events set extremely actorly actors on the path to sci-fi stardom. For example, the 1984 sci-fi cult film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai appears to have launched John Lithgow and Jeff Goldblum into being regulars in sci-fi films, even though I doubt they have much more than a professional interest in the genre. Actors tend to be extreme People Persons, while sci-fi tends to attract readers at the other end of the spectrum.