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After every terrorist attack committed by mass murderers who have nothing to do with Islam, ordinary Muslims all over the world (who presumably also have nothing to do with Islam) take to the streets to celebrate. Some hand out candy to passers-by, others fire automatic weapons into the air, and still others drive their cars madly around in circles while gesticulating and honking.

That last form of celebration was on display in Brussels last week the day after the massacre in Paris. A Polish resident of Brussels took the following video, and offered some brief commentary while recording it.

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We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.

The portrayal of Muslims as victims or heroes is at best partially accurate. In recent years the violent oppression of Christian minorities has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations stretching from West Africa and the Middle East to South Asia and Oceania. In some countries it is governments and their agents that have burned churches and imprisoned parishioners. In others, rebel groups and vigilantes have taken matters into their own hands, murdering Christians and driving them from regions where their roots go back centuries.

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To see the full cynicism of the Obama approach to the refugee issue, one has only to ask President Obama’s least favorite question: Why is there a Syrian refugee crisis in the first place? Obama’s own policy decisions—allowing Assad to convert peaceful demonstrations into an increasingly ugly civil war, refusing to declare safe havens and no fly zones—were instrumental in creating the Syrian refugee crisis. This crisis is in large part the direct consequence of President Obama’s decision to stand aside and watch Syria burn. For him to try and use a derisory and symbolic program to allow 10,000 refugees into the United States in order to posture as more caring than those evil Jacksonian rednecks out in the benighted sticks is one of the most cynical, cold-blooded, and nastily divisive moves an American President has made in a long time.

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Instead of capturing energy via the circular motion of a propeller, the Vortex takes advantage of what’s known as vorticity, an aerodynamic effect that produces a pattern of spinning vortices. Vorticity has long been considered the enemy of architects and engineers, who actively try to design their way around these whirlpools of wind. And for good reason: With enough wind, vorticity can lead to an oscillating motion in structures, which, in some cases, like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, can cause their eventual collapse.

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Consider Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire: it recently became the first Muslim-majority prison in Britain. Between the ages of 22 and 39, Muslims now represent 56 per cent of the population there. “Prisoners and staff found the Muslim presence overwhelming” says a recent report. Non-Muslims “were often bullied into converting to Islam, and those who resisted were too scared to cook pork in communal kitchens in case it caused offence.”

It’s a religion tailor-made for violent felons. Mohammed himself was a brigand and mass-murderer; they feel right at home.

As for those non-Muslim inmates who refuse to convert, they are being pressured to pay a “protection tax”—or in Islamic parlance, jizya—to Muslim gangs. Along with Whitemoor prison, the collection of jizya is taking place in at least three other of Britain’s largest prisons.

All perfectly according to the Koran. Obviously they don’t really understand Islam.

In fact, it is the Koran, Islam’s holy book, that calls for the collection of jizya from subdued Christians and Jews:

Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and who do not embrace the religion of truth [Islam], until they pay the jizya with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued” (Koran 9:29).

In other words, Muslim prisoners are not copying ISIS; rather, both they and ISIS are obeying the Koran.

Oh, well, somebody around here doesn’t understand Islam. Who exactly that might be is left as an exercise for the reader.

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It’s not just stagnating cities in states like California or Illinois that are running into pension troubles. The pension vise is now tightening around Houston too, an oil-rich metropolis that has been enjoying rapid job growth for years.

NB: Run by Democrites, as all major cities are, even in Texas.

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Well. There it is.

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The Government has released advice on what people should do in the event that they are caught up in a Paris-style gunman attack.

The instructions, from the National Counter Terrorism Policing Security Office, suggest anyone caught up in such an incident should try to “escape if you can” – and if this is not possible, to hide.

How about ‘shoot back’? Oh, yeah, they banned guns. Forget I even mentioned it.

Note that jihadists don’t try this shit in Texas.

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It is well known that a lot of very strange stuff lurks on the internet, but one French blogger’s ‘Gluten Free Museum’ is one of the stranger artistic discoveries.

Got that in one.

Graphic artist Arthur Coulet decided to airbrush all wheat-containing products out of classic paintings and film stills, not to make fun of the gluten-free movement, but as “a joke”. The idea first came to him when he noticed gluten-free ads, but he does not follow a gluten-free diet himself.

It would be even ‘funnier’ if he included the starved corpses of the people who depended on wheat for their daily bread. ‘ROFL’ as I believe the ‘kids’ say today.

Coulet’s Gluten Free Museum started drawing attention in April and soon, news sites began interpreting his project as a mockery of the suddenly popular gluten-free diet. “It’s art, minus the gluten. Finally,” The Huffington Post wrote, but Coulet insists there is no message behind his blog.

Yeah, having a point is just so fifteen minutes ago.

Adam Garfinkle speaks sense to stupidity.

Gems:

Fromkin identified terrorism as a weapon of the weak, a trap of sorts designed to provoke stronger forces into acting on the basis of fear in counterproductive ways. Those counterproductive ways could take several forms: foolishly exaggerating a terrorist enemy’s power and legitimacy; doing things that betray one’s core values or alienate natural or objective allies; spending huge sums of public money to prevent tactics that terrorists have no intention of reusing; and more besides

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The distorted formation of the Department of Homeland Security and the massive TSA bureaucracy are very expensive, and most of the money we spend year after year is spent by rote and mostly in vain. Somewhere Ayman al-Zawahiri is sucking oxygen, and he probably smiles regularly at the thought of how little al-Qaeda’s operations cost compared to how many billions of dollars we have spent ever since.

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If basic number one is “don’t foolishly help the bad guys with their strategy of terrorism,” what is basic number two? It is that destroying a relatively weak enemy is easy compared to building a stable peace in its wake. Or, as P.J. O’Rourke once memorably put it, it’s one thing to burn down the shithouse, another to install plumbing.

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Farid Esack, a former professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard University, blamed the West for the Paris attacks in a post on his Facebook page, calling them “your chickens come home to roost.”

By this logic, Negroes are to blame for being lynched by the KKK.

Esack, who is now a professor at University of Johannesburg and a prominent activist in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, has previously spoken at interfaith events aimed at mutual understanding.

Sounds as if he’s a little unclear on the concept of ‘mutual understanding.’

These are the people teaching the future Ruling Class. Be very afraid.

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Like many government agencies, the U.S. Postal Service is an expert at hemorrhaging money. Just last week, the USPS reported a $5.1 billion loss for fiscal year 2015, marking its 9th consecutive year of multi-billion dollar losses. Since 2007, the USPS has accumulated $56.8 billion in losses.

This is why people have misgivings about putting the government in charge of health care — which the history of the NHS in Britain and Obamacare in the U.S. fully support.

Although the Postal Service claims it does not receive taxpayer support, the fact is that USPS enjoys a variety of special privileges as a government agency. The USPS maintains a government protected monopoly over delivery to mailboxes. This gives the USPS a roughly $14.9 billion advantage in recent years over private competitors.

Additionally, the USPS is exempt from virtually all taxes and fees that its competitors must pay – it does not have to pay: state and local property and real estate taxes; sales and use taxes; state franchise taxes; license fees; title fees; and vehicle registration fees. The USPS is not even accountable for parking tickets and tolls. In all, these exemptions give the USPS an over $2 billion dollar edge over the free market.

Oh, a government agency lie to us? However did that happen?

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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The author of Memoirs of an Addicted Brain and The Biology of Desire, Dr Lewis became addicted to opiates when he was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley.

He faced “serious personal and legal troubles resulting from his addiction,” his website explains.

“I know what scientists are looking at when they say addiction is a disease. I don’t dispute the findings, but I dispute the interpretation of them,” he told The Huffington Post.

He went on to argue that addiction is a “developmental process” and that while the brain changes, addiction is not “chronic” because people “continue to change when they recover.”

Dr Lewis said that the label also makes recovery more difficult because it means that patients can be exploited by expensive programmes with low success rates, and ultimately dehumanises addicts.

Cue the attacks by Social Justice Warriors. What this poor guy fails to notice is that (a) classifying it as a disease means you can force insurance to cover ‘treatment’ costs; (b) classifying it as a disease means you can push for government-funded ‘treatment’ programs; (c) classifying it as a disease means It’s Not Your Fault and pushes the Narrative that nobody is responsible for what he does, that Society Is To Blame for everything bad, and that we all ought to surrender to Big Brother, who will kiss it and make it all better.

Well, he did to to Berkeley, so I guess that explains it.

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The last few years have seen a rise in the number of specialist, trend-led accessory brands creating luxe-looking pieces from ethically sourced materials. All these bags listed here are part of the PETA-Approved Vegan scheme so contain no leather or other animal-derived fabrics. There are range of styles, from clutches and bucket bags to roomy shoppers and structured shoulder bags.

You too can be Politically Correct and fashionable at the same time.

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A blind girl has been banned from using her walking cane at school over “health and safety fears”.

Lily-Grace Hooper, seven, is virtually blind after suffering a stroke when she was just four days old and needs the cane to get around.

But Hambrook Primary School in Bristol said she could no longer use the cane after a risk assessment said the cane was a “high risk” to teachers and other students.

No actual evidence of any trouble, just a theoretical ‘risk assessment’. I bet these people believe in Global Warming. (It’s all about not getting sued.)

The school said she should have “100 per cent” adult support at all times instead.

What a great way to foster independence and self-reliance. She’ll fit right into the dependency-welfare state.

Her mother Kirsty said having a helper following her around would isolate her from the other pupils.

Oh, ya think?

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China is destroying swaths of coral reefs in one of the most important fisheries in Asia and causing enormous environmental damage as it builds the fake islands it is putting up in the South China Sea,

To get some idea as to just how extensive China’s ruination of the reefs is, I went through some of the statistics gathered by the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative. Fiery Cross Reef has had 2.74 million square meters built up with sand and cement. The before and after shots are shown here. The photo below shows the reef before the Chinese had made much progress building on it. The photo above shows the latest satellite photo of the reef. You can see how completely the reef has been smothered in sand and concrete. Little of the original living reef can still be seen.

And, of course, the ‘environmentalists’ are nowhere to be seen.

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Trump keeps saying what a lot of people are thinking.

Sure, people are going to be throwing up their hands in horror over this; certainly more horror than they would show if they saw what is happening to Christian churches in Muslim countries. But I guess some churches are more equal than others.

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On Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton unloaded on Mr. Sanders, charging that he wants to raise taxes on the middle class to pay for his single-payer health care plan, whereby the government would replace private insurance companies and pay for almost all health care costs.

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And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Don’t listen to the talking heads try to spin how terrorists aren’t ‘real’ Muslims — watch what Real Muslims do in response to terrorism.

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You read the headline correctly. The administration of Dartmouth has issued an apology, not to the students who were trying to study in the library, but to the protesters who made a scene.

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In Aceh (westernmost Indonesia), the local government ordered several Christian churches to be shut down in October 2015.  This was the result of an effort to deal with Islamic intolerance of other religions by trying to use local councils, with clergy from all local faiths (usually Moslem, Christian and Hindu) working out and agreeing to who could build new churches where. The problem is that hardline Islamic clergy dominate in Aceh and make no secret of their desire to drive all other religions out of Aceh. The recent violence led to Islamic clergy leading mobs to burn down Christian churches they considered “intrusive” and illegal. The violence spread to local Christians and so far over 10,000 have fled their homes.

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On the evening of Friday November 13th 2015, Paris was shaken by a coordinated series of extremely brutal Islamic terror attacks that left at least 129 people dead and hundreds wounded. It is strongly suspected that the Jihadist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was behind these bloody attacks against multiple targets in the French capital.^[1] This happened after the city had barely recovered from the Islamic massacre on the staff of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo some months earlier.

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You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to detect a Freudian slip in Kerry’s statement that was “perhaps even a legitimacy” to the Charlie Hebdo attack. Charles Krauthammer was a psychiatrist and he detects it. Kerry, he says, inadvertently evinced the same mentality that caused President Obama to say “the future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.”

Were is not for Hillary Clinton, John Kerry would certainly be the Worst Secretary of State Ever.

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Damn, I’m not qualified for any of these jobs.

Sarah Hoyt lays out some inconvenient truth.

When I woke up this morning we were snowed in, and we still are.  Which makes me feel like I should crawl back between the covers.

This is too bad, because I need to speak to several things that are alien to native-born Americans.  These include how the rest of the world works, how a religious mono-culture works, that yes, most Muslims are not actually insane terrorists BUT that doesn’t mean they don’t support the insane terrorists even as they recoil from the things they do and in the cool light of day think they are farkin insane.

It is important to explain this, because the US is so large and has been in peace and prosperity so long that the arguments that broke up all over facebook were like watching two people discuss whether the greatest danger to the Titanic was bad soup or a measles epidemic, even while the iceberg tore the ship apart.

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Students at the University of South Carolina (USC) are the latest to launch a large-scale campus protest inspired by the one at the University of Missouri. Students walked out of class Monday morning and called on administrators to submit to a list of 12 demands, which include allowing them to minor in “social justice.

‘Walk out’? Are they under the impression that the University will stop working if they aren’t on the academic assembly line? Somebody needs to remind these children that they are customers, not a labor force. Next step, I supposed, is to organize a Local of the Aggrieved Students International (AFL/CIO).

College Insurrection has the best quip: ‘USC students are demanding their school offer a minor in Social Justice which makes sense since there are so many high paying jobs in that field.’

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Of course, I’ve often written about this scam here. What the Crust mean by ‘wealthy should pay more in taxes’ is that ordinary income tax rates ought to be raised; of course, they don’t get their wealth through ordinary income, so it won’t touch them.

And even if it did, their focus is on income taxes rather than wealth taxes; nobody dares mention the latter, because the wrong ox would get gored. (Pun intended.) If you’ve already got a hundred million dollars, it’s no skin off your wallet if the government taxes income at 75% — you’ve got enough to live in comfort for the next five generations. All it means is that there are less grubby entrepreneurs and farmers and contractors getting in your way when you want to book a table at the French Laundry or buy a condo on Central Park West.

In the case of the Clintons, their actual power comes through the financial leverage of their foundation(s), and so even if they didn’t have two dimes to rub together they’d still be getting their butts licked by people who want ‘funding’ via the sacred foundation grant. (‘Funding’ is a fine Crustian term for ‘money I get to spend that I don’t have to work for’, like a teenager’s allowance or food stamps.)

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Are you willing to have taller buildings and more market-rate housing in your neighborhood in order to get more affordable units?

City planners are proposing a policy that is asking neighborhoods across San Francisco to grapple with this question.

Called the Affordable Housing Bonus Program (AHBP), it combines recent legislation and legal decisions to argue for a compromise approach to more neighborhood development.

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SYDNEY—What do you do when a hot property-market has driven bricklayer salaries to nearly $100,000 a year in Australian cities like Sydney? Call in the robots.

When the price of labor goes up, automation becomes more cost-effective. Eventually the lines cross, and the robots are cheaper. Duh.

This is a lesson that the minimum-wage-bloviators never learn — possibly because none of them have to worry about only making minimum wage.

Fastbrick’s remote-controlled Hadrian robot—named after the Roman Wall built by the emperor Hadrian across the north of England in the second century A.D.—could eventually lay 1,000 bricks an hour. That compares with roughly 100 bricks an hour for an experienced human mason. A prototype version lays about 300, according to Mr. Pivac.

 

Sarah Hoyt offers some perspective.

Sarah is Portuguese and grew up under a socialist government, but came to the U.S. because it was better.

As I said, I already had some idea that in the US communist authors and singers weren’t shunned. I’d listened to enough singers who sounded like the Portuguese communists and who were multimillionaires in the US. But that was the first time I met an on-the-street American (he was a new employee there) and realized that it not only wasn’t true that communism and socialism were looked down upon on the US, but that the “cultured” groups in the US were pretty much indistinguishable from cultured groups in Europe, where leftism was a positional good and saying things like “Stalin was a little harsh” was not a reason to recoil in horror but a reason to nod and know the speaker was on the vanguard of culture.

By the time I moved to the US in the mid eighties, leftism and posing as a leftist were very much a mark of the “educated” and the “smart.” While the popular idea was that the Republicans were “the party of the rich” in fact to move in the wealthy and “classy” sets you had to parrot opinions that were indistinguishable from the opinions of the left and even the extreme left in Europe.

It’s only got worse since then. In the last thirty years, the long march through the institutions was completed, and art, news and academia are all firmly in the hands of the left. Which means that parroting the right (left) opinions is not only the way to advance, it’s the ONLY way to advance. In fact you have to at least nod to them in order not to be sent to Coventry.

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A quarter of the century after the end of the Cold War, the only cannon that has actually fired in space finally comes to light.

Installed on the Almaz space station in 1970s, the R-23M Kartech was derived from a powerful aircraft weapon. The original 23-millimeter cannon was designed by Aron Rikhter for the Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder supersonic bomber. That gun is relatively well known. However, its space-based cousin had largely remained in obscurity.

Until now. This year, thanks to a Russian television show, the world got to see grainy footage of the space gun. Using that footage, we created the virtual model of the R-23M that you see above. Here’s the inside story:

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The ‘car pool’ urban planners to the contrary notwithstanding.

Given the proliferation of microtransit services trying to match drivers and passengers, you might think they had ride-sharing and carpooling all figured out. But the recent demise of Leap Transit in San Francisco—to say nothing of the other transportation start-ups that have failed without a media whimper—reminds us that even in a big city it’s not easy to fill empty vehicle seats. And in the suburbs, it’s downright mathematically impossible.

Or just about, anyway, according to a provocative new thought-experiment by Steve Raney, principal at a smart mobility consultancy called Cities21. In a working paper, the former Silicon Valley tech product manager crunched the numbers on ride-sharing in the Palo Alto area and found the odds of matching drivers with passengers long, to say the least. Raney calls it the “Suburban Ridematch Needle in the Haystack Problem.”

“I wanted to gently inject some reality into this,” he tells CityLab.

What a concept.

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Don’t ever say we don’t have useful information here.

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Got that right.

In a recent study, researchers at the University of Barcelona, Spain, compared “morning people,” those early birds who like to get up at dawn, and “evening people,” night owls who prefer to stay up late and sleep in. Among the differences they found is that morning people tend to be more persistent. Morning types are also more resistant to fatigue, frustration and difficulties, which often translates into lower levels of anxiety and lower rates of depression, higher life satisfaction and less likelihood of substance abuse.

On the other hand, evening people tend to be more extravagant, temperamental, impulsive and novelty- seeking, “with a higher tendency to explore the unknown.” They are more likely to suffer from insomnia and ADHD. They also appear to be more likely to develop addictive behaviors, mental disorders and antisocial tendencies, and even to attempt suicide.

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I’m sure it was just a coincidence that the first issue of my firearms association’s magazine to arrive after Justin Trudeau’s election came wrapped in an opaque gray plastic wrapper instead of the usual transparent variety.

I’m not being sarcastic. I do try to leave the augury of such quotidian “signs” to the world’s cranks, yet in this instance I can’t help but wonder:

Was the National Firearms Association concerned that some posties, buoyed by the election of their chosen one, would be emboldened to fold, spindle, and/or mutilate any snail-mailed materials they disapproved of?

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In response to the idea that the U.S. should limit the flow of Syrian refugees into this country to Christians, President Obama had this to say:

That’s not American. That’s not who we are. We don’t have a religious test for our compassion.

This sounds good in the abstract. For at least two reasons, however, it is not a persuasive objection to limiting entry to Christians.

First, Syrian Christians face persecution from ISIS based on their religion. Syrian Sunnis do not. If ISIS conquers their town, they will not be slaughtered because of who they are. Christians are likely to be. (Alawites might be, but they can relocate to areas controlled by the Assad regime; there is no need for them to leave Syria).

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Second, in its radical form, Islam is a militant, murderous political movement. It may well be that only a small percentage of the Muslims fleeing Syria subscribe to, or are even sympathetic with, this movement. However, we can’t tell which ones are and which ones aren’t. Our intelligence services have no comprehensive list of ISIS adherents and sympathizers in Syria.

Obama keeps going out of his way to demonstrate that he is an ignorant amateur floundering in the deep end of a pool with which he is entirely unacquainted.

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Even if you have read the Quran cover to cover and you come out thinking, “Yeah, fair enough, that wasn’t so bad,” there’s no doubt that Islam is a core component of radical, terrorist ideology, and perhaps just as concerning, of fundamentalist, non-violent, segregationist, and intolerant politics in the West.

The reason the first is bad is clear. It will remain clear to those wounded and their families, and not least to the families of those who died in this weekend’s terrorist attacks in Paris.

The second has to do with a more long-term, disturbing kind of cultural attack on the West.

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When “Islamophobes” quote the Koran to buttress their arguments about the inherently violent (or hateful, or intolerant, or misogynistic…) nature of Islam, they are frequently accused by Muslims or their useful-idiot kafir apologists of “taking the verse out of context”.

In the following video, David Wood of Acts 17 Apologetics demonstrates the way in which Islam-apologists do exactly the same thing that they accuse their opponents of doing when they quote the “peaceful” Koran verse 5:32 not only out of its context, but omitting part of the verse itself. Dr. Wood rectifies matters by including the entirety of 5:32, plus 5:33 and relevant hadith, so that non-Muslims can see just exactly how peaceful this particular verse really is.

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How should we explain the fact that black student militancy is now manifesting itself in the disruption of campus libraries and demands for postponement of exams? Here’s one plausible explanation: mismatch is to blame.

“Mismatch” refers to the fact that, due to aggressive race-based admissions preferences, many African-American college students fall short of the white students with whom they attend school in terms of the credentials most closely associated with academic success — high school performance and SAT scores. As such, they are less likely to succeed academically than their white counterparts. Through no fault of their own, they are running uphill (to the extent they choose to run).

Exams are the main mechanism that, in many classes, separates high performing students from average and poor performing ones. Studying is an important mechanism through which highly capable students convert their potential into high performance.

Most colleges do what they can to reduce and mask the disparity between the performance of affirmative action admittees and their better-credentialed peers. Grade inflation means that below average performers can still get decent-sounding grades. Courses in which little more than mastery of politically correct jargon can yield an A or A-minus are offered. On a more salutary note, tutoring and writing assistance are available.

In the end, however, students admitted due to racial preferences surely understand that they are at a competitive disadvantage. This realization is likely to have adverse psychological consequences for some.

Such as rampant cases of Impostor Syndrome.

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BEDFORD, United Kingdom – As the distressing attacks in Paris were occurring last night, some of Britain’s most high profile and notorious Islamist extremists gathered just north of London, unimpeded, to tell hundreds of British Muslims to “struggle” for an “Islamic State.” Breitbart London was there.

At the “Quiz a Muslim” event held last night in the Corn Exchange in Bedford, panelists called British values “junk,” demanded that Muslims should “define” British law, and ominously appeared to suggest Muslims were at war with the British.

The event was organised and chaired by Bedford-born blogger Dilly Hussain, an avid Islamist and a supporter of a global Islamic caliphate.

This could get amusing.

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A group of Black Lives Matter protestors at Dartmouth College led a violent protest Thursday, hurling racial insults at students and pushing them up against a wall as they tried to study in the library, The Dartmouth Review reports.

“Fuck you, you filthy white fucks!” “Fuck you and your comfort!” “Fuck you, you racist shit!” they reportedly yelled.

About a 150 Dartmouth protesters shouted as they marched through Baker-Berry Library at Dartmouth College. Students who didn’t join in on their protests were harassed, one woman was pinned to a wall by protesters who shouted, “filthy white bitch!” in her face. Students who were seated were told to, “Stand the fuck up!”  “You filthy racist white piece of shit!”

The protesters actively disrupted students reviewing for exams, entering study spaces and shouting at students who tried to close their door. One student was forced to abandon her study room and ran out of the library.

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Well, they’re all Muslims, for one.

U.S. counterterrorism officials reported in February that more than 20,000 foreign fighters have joined the fray in Syria to fight with the rebels, with most going to help the Islamic State. Of these, 150 or so are from the United States and over 3,000 are from the West.

According to British scholar Peter Neumann, the Syria conflict has generated more foreign fighters than Afghanistan, post-2003 Iraq, Somalia, Mali and other fields of jihad combined.

Doesn’t seem like the Obama Doctrine is helping very much.

When even the New York Times notices that things have gotten silly, then they’ve really gotten silly.

Name an inequity, and it is highly likely that social media has helped call meaningful attention to it, if not started and hashtagged a movement.

But a glance through your acquaintances’ aggrieved online posts may well show equal attention paid to the slings and arrows of everyday vexations. The same technology that allows people to voice their displeasure with dictatorships, police brutality and prejudice also enables them to carp about mediocre meals, rude customer service and that obnoxious guy at the next table who won’t shut up.

It was once considered unbecoming, or annoying itself, to moan publicly about trifling personal ordeals. Now, in a seismic shift for the moral culture, abetted by technology, we tolerate and even encourage the “microcomplaint”: the petty, petulant kvetch about the quotidian.

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Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes made the rounds on the Sunday morning gabfests yesterday. The burden of Rhodes’s comments as he made the rounds was to explicate Obama’s declaration on Thursday that ISIS had been “contained” just before ISIS demonstrated its reach with the massacres it committed in Paris on Friday. Rhodes danced as fast as he can to explain that Obama didn’t mean that ISIS was “contained.”

And those Syrian refugees Obama is admitting to the United States? Don’t worry, they are fully “vetted.” Who ya gonna believe, political hack Ben Rhodes or FBI Director James Comey?

The non-bizarro brother of Christopher points out some inconvenient truth.

Could we please skip the empty bravado? This is a time for grief above all else, and a time to refrain from soundbites and posturing. France – our closest neighbour, oldest friend, beloved rival, what Philip Sidney called ‘that sweet enemy’ – France is stricken, and we should weep with her.

Over the past 40 years or so, most of us have heard quite enough politicians and others pledging to stand firm against terror, hunt down the vile perpetrators, ensure that it never happens again, and the rest.

Then there have been the emergency meetings of grandly titled committees, the crackdowns, the increased surveillance, the billions spent on spying and snooping, not to mention the various wars on terror which have certainly killed a lot of our troops, but never seem to make us any safer. It is remarkably hard to defend yourself against an enemy whose language few of us speak, yet who speaks ours and can move freely in our world, and who is willing, even happy, to die at our hands – or his own – if he can kill us first.

Meanwhile, many of the demands of terror, from the IRA to the Palestinians, have been quietly met. And the extraordinary connections between our supposed ally Saudi Arabia and the worst terrorist incident of all – September 11, 2001 in New York – have been politely ignored.

Hey, we need that Saudi money — and that Saudi oil.

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Adjusted for inflation, tuition and fees at public four-year colleges have increased 394 percent since 1976, according to the College Board. Students aren’t necessarily paying the “sticker price” thanks to scholarships, grants, and other financial aid, but net tuition and fees have steadily increased, and even more so if room and board is factored into prices.

Federal and state largess has done little to restrain tuition and fees. While federal and state funding has different goals, public colleges and universities fund a larger percentage of their budgets from government sources (37 percent) than from tuition and fees (21 percent), according to research from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

The federal government also funds tuition and fee payments through its student loan program. In fact, by volume, “federal loans grew 376 percent between 1990 and 2013 in real terms, compared with enrollment growth of 60 percent,” and $103 billion in loans were issued in 2013, according to Pew.

The hefty government involvement, rather than helping students, has remained one of the reasons that college costs keep rising. Growing demand for college attendance, and a government willing to lend money to any prospective student, has let universities raise costs without a drop in enrollment as students hold more debt.

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Well, we can be pretty sure he’s a Muslim.

And I think it’s a stretch to call him ‘Belgian’. I suggest that ‘Moroccan’ would be more accurate.

Jim Goad utters a cri de coeur.

I’ll believe we have an unbiased media the moment they start using the term “far left” as frequently as they use “far right.” But don’t hold your breath, because you will surely die waiting.

The blood hadn’t even dried from Friday night’s carnage in Paris before the major media’s lackeys and lickspittles were issuing dire warnings about a disturbing political trend in Europe. Despite the fact that Islamic extremists spilled gallons of blood Friday night, the media’s respectable class—those craven lackeys and lickspittles—did not seem in the least bit terrified about Islamic terrorism, but rather about the “far right” gaining traction in Europe.