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A security guard who worked at a Belgian nuclear medical research facility was murdered two days after the Brussels bombings, it emerged on Saturday, deepening fears that Islamist terror cells are plotting attacks against nuclear installations.

Didier Prospero, a guard with the G4S security company, was shot dead at his home in the Froidchapelle district of Brussels on less than 24 hours after Belgian authorities stripped several workers of their security passes at two nuclear plants this week.

The circumstances of 45-year-old Mr Prospero’s death remained murky on Saturday night, with conflicting reports over whether or not the murder was linked to terrorism, or if his work security pass had been stolen.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

No connection, of course; none whatsoever.

You know, this outburst of black on black killings isn’t some random fluke like the weather, it’s a direct result of last fall’s BlackLivesMatter agitation in Chicago and Obama Administration anti-police interventions, just like the pattern in St. Louis and Baltimore.

I’m sure we’ll soon see more learned articles about how there is no Ferguson Effect because, while homicides were up almost 17% overall in the fifty biggest cities from 2014 to 2015, crime wasn’t up in El Paso. So that proves there’s no general Ferguson Effect. Instead, the only thing that’s up significantly is black-on-black homicides in heavily black cities where there has been Soros-funded anti-law & order agitations. Science!

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I presume that there will be a test later.

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Hint: Yes.

NATO will celebrate its sixty-seventh anniversary in April. Instead of being an occasion for the usual expression of mind-numbing clichés about the alliance’s enduring importance both to U.S. security and world peace, it should become an opportunity for a long overdue assessment of whether the NATO commitment truly serves America’s best interests in the twenty-first century. There is mounting evidence that it does not.

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The entire security environment is different. Instead of being a collection of demoralized, war-ravaged waifs, the European democracies are now banded together in the European Union, with a population and collective gross domestic product larger than that of the United States. Although they are troubled by the turbulence in the Middle East and the occasional growls of the Russian bear, they are capable of handling both problems. Indeed, Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a pale shadow of the threat once posed by the Soviet Union. The European Union has three times the population and an economy nearly ten times the size of Russia.

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The 22,000 peacekeepers, 20,000 Somali soldiers and over 10,000 pro government militiamen have not been able to eradicate Islamic terrorists like al Shabaab or unruly clan leaders and warlords. Violence has been greatly reduced over the last few years but al Shabaab continues to stage high profile (likely to make the international or regional news) attacks, especially in the capital (Mogadishu). Corrupt government officials and clan leaders help keep the violence going by tolerating all manner of illegal activity as long as the bribe is large enough. Fortunately the neighbors (especially Ethiopia and Kenya) are tired of all this Somali lawlessness as neighboring countries have been victims of it for as long as anyone can remember. The UN agrees that something should be done but so far no one has been able to come up with a plan that will bring long-term peace.

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No rose without a thorn.

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Schizophrenia can present itself with any number of symptoms, from disorganized thinking or motor behavior, to hallucinations or delusions. Together these manifestations often leave a patient unable to function normally and with very few effective treatment options. And though researchers had not been able to figure out the underlying cause of the disease, they’ve learned a lot in the past few years—genetic mutations probably play a role, as does the immune system and the microbiome. Now scientists have identified a genetic variant in schizophrenic patients that links many of these previous observations, according to a study published today in Nature. If the researchers have in fact discovered the underlying biological cause for schizophrenia as they claim, it could lead to better treatments for the condition.

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Micromanagement, first seen during the Vietnam War when advances in communications allowed someone in Washington to communicate directly with commanders in combat, has reached new heights and is causing major headaches for another generation of battlefield commanders. The latest disaster is a combination of still better communications in addition to growth of White House staffs. In particular an advisory group like the NSC (National Security Council) has been overwhelmed many additional personnel, most of whom have only opinions to offer, not advice based on long experience. In the beginning, when the NSC was created in 1947, it consisted of senior military and State Department officials based in Washington. These original NSC members all had long experience in their fields and the president used the NSC for advice and to test new ideas. But over the next fifty years more support staff were added to the NSC and after the end of conscription in the 1970s fewer of these staffers had any military experience and even less understanding of how diplomacy actually worked. When the NSC got so large (about fifty members) that the staff seemed to be getting in the way some directors sought to reduce the size. But after 2001 NSC growth got out of control and is currently about 400 people. As a result the experienced people are so outnumbered that they are often considered “the enemy” by the inexperienced (in national security and diplomacy matters) “support staff”. The tail was truly wagging the dog. This type of NSC has become an embarrassment and seemingly invulnerable to reform. This mutant NSC is one reason U.S. military and diplomatic policy seems so random and aimless. No one in the government can muster sufficient support to change the situation and return the NSC to its original usefulness.

Sarah Hoyt adds some focus to the discussion.

First let me say right here, that yes, I think we should control our borders. A country that can’t control its borders is not a country. It’s Tragedy of the Commons on a grand scale.

But where I disagree with people who run around saying “the most important thing to do is to stop illegal immigration” is that they make me think of when my husband went to the doctor coughing blood and the the doctor told him “the important thing is not this pneumonia. It’s that you gained 40lbs.”

Yes, that he’d gained 40 lbs was a serious problem and one that the doctor couldn’t deal with, because he didn’t realize there was an underlying problem and assumed we were eating butter fried in lard for every meal.

BUT the most immediate problem, and the one that would kill my husband faster, left untreated, was that he had walking pneumonia.

In the same way, we have a massive problem with illegal immigration, sure, but those huge numbers bandied about hide the fact they’re still a tiny percentage and that a lot left when the economy soured, so that now the statists are limited to the children’s crusade to try to have net positive immigration.

Our problem with LEGAL immigration is just as bad, both in what it does — mistake itself for a charity organization that brings in people from the poorest and most backward countries by preference, with no regard to the chasms between the cultures or their potential usefulness — and in what it fails to do — make it almost impossible to bring in educated people who will be a plus value, except via the subterfuge of workers’ visas that put these people forever at the mercy of their employers.

A good point that I don’t recall seeing anyone bring out before.

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California is well on it’s way to becoming an entire state that looks like New York City, where the population is composed of a very rich Upper Crust and a very poor unemployed government-benefits-dependent Bottom Crust.

Perhaps we’ll have our own North Korea after a bit.

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A bill introduced to the Connecticut Senate would tax the annual gains of any college endowment valued at over $10 billion. The high threshold effectively singles out Yale, as no other schools in Connecticut even come close to having an endowment that large. Yale’s endowment of about $26 billion is the second largest in the country, behind only Harvard University’s gargantuan $38 billion nest egg.

This is the sort of thing that the Tax Code specializes in — a provision that appears to be generally applicable but is specially crafted to help or hurt specific interests.

Connecticut needs money because of a rapidly-growing hole in the state’s budget that lawmakers are desperate to fill. The state has a current budget shortfall of $266 million, and its unfunded pension liabilities total about $26 billion, one of the most underfunded pension systems in the country.

Yale will soon find out that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.

Yale certainly presents a tempting target to lawmakers. In contrast to regular citizens or businesses, the historic school can’t simply relocate to avoid taxes.

Heh.

Scott Johnson at Powerline waxes wroth.

It should be a stunning fact that every proposition on which President Obama promoted the sale of Obamacare was a complete and utter lie. I tried to document the foundational lies and their close relations in the endless Power Line series “Lies of Obamacare,” featuring the thumbnail image of the man having Obamacare shoved down his throat.

If politicians were subject to truth in advertising laws, Obama would be behind bars. Obama is incorrigible. When it comes to lying to advance the cause, he and his Democratic allies simply lack a conscience.

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“After hearing the truth about the false charges brought up against [me] by Diana Jimenez, my fellow senators decided to vote against my impeachment,” Jacob Ellenhorn told Campus Reform in a statement. “That said, while they have voted against removing me from office, they have decided to still punish me for my political views, and for exercising my First Amendment right to speak with members of the press. As part of this official punishment the last $250 installment of my $2 thousand stipend will be withheld.”

Steve Sailer speaks truth to stupidity.

The sheer unaffordability of replicating “affordable housing” giveaways on a mass scale is hard for innumerate liberals to grasp. The progressive mindset holds two contradictory assumptions: that the oppressive dominance of the white majority is soon to be swept away by the righteous demographic tidal wave of minorities; and that minorities are a vanishingly tiny percentage of the American population, so of course they can be subsidized indefinitely with special privileges, such as nice houses in nice neighborhoods.

In contrast, Republican candidate Donald Trump knows a few things about real estate, which helps explain the frenzied establishment reaction to his candidacy.

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One way libraries are opening their secret worlds to everyone is by putting some of their most curious or majestic items online. Oxford’s Bodleian, one of Europe’s greatest and oldest libraries, is the latest to do so with digital.bodleian giving users unprecedented opportunities to browse precious volumes and their wondrous illustrations from our armchairs, if anyone still has armchairs, or cafe stool or even in a punt (it’s Oxford after all).

You can do all the online things people love to do online, from assembling your own collection of favourites to taking a selfie with Cicero (except the latter), but the most intriguing aspect of this and other digital rarity collections is that it changes the nature of research. Instead of an arduous activity undertaken by determined scholars, visiting the digital Bodleian is a pleasant browse through the virtual past that all of us can undertake. It is like something out of a story by the librarian and fabulist Jorge Luis Borges in which all the great books and philosophies of the world have become one walk-through art gallery, their strange languages fusing into brilliant illuminations. That is to say, this way of consulting a library replaces reading with seeing.

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Often enough over the years I’ve heard my humanities confreres say that a liberal education makes us finer people, more sensitive, more concerned, more humane, even more human. Pretentious shibboleths such as these, expressed in our egalitarian age, are an excellent way to lose one’s audience. And that’s exactly where the liberal arts are today.

Liberal arts has not been killed by parental or student philistinism, or the cupidity of today’s educational institutions whose excessive costs have made the liberal arts into an unattainable luxury. In too many ways the liberal arts have died not by murder but by suicide.

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But why would any student spend tens of thousands of dollars and, rather than see the world in all its aspects, instead spend his time being indoctrinated and immersed in the prejudices of the current culture and the opinions of his tendentious professors? The job of teachers is to liberate minds, not capture them.

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What’s the connection between the Beatles’ George Harrison, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, and Chrysler cars? The Highway Hi-Fi: a vinyl record player that just happened to be the world’s first in-car music system. It appeared 60 years ago this spring, in 1956, and should have been a smash hit. It was innovatory, a major talking point, arrived as the car market was booming as never before, and it came with much press hype. It also had the backing of a leading motor manufacturer. What could possibly go wrong?

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A week ago Ingrid Carlqvist of Dispatch International was invited to speak in Helsinki. In her talk she described the transformation of Sweden from a successful, prosperous, homogeneous nation into a crime-ridden multicultural nightmare. Thanks to the continuing mass immigration of hostile Muslims, Sweden is rapidly on its way to being a third-world failed state.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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An Easter egg hunt descended into chaos on Saturday after parents in Orange, Connecticut, stormed the field. 

Children as young as four were trampled by adults in a rampage to steal buckets and grab as many of the 9,000 hidden eggs as possible from the third annual free event at the PEZ headquarters.

One four-year-old son was left ‘bloody’ on the sports field and a two-year-old girl was shoved into the mud, witnesses claimed.

A horrified parent described the scene as ‘an angry mob of chaos’ with ‘not one toddler hunting for eggs’ among the crowds of adults.

Decades of rule by Democrats will do that to you.

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A Londoner who brought his Pakistani bride to the UK to use her as a slave and beat her so badly she tried to end her life faces jail.

Safraz Ahmed, 34, was charged with conspiracy to hold a person in domestic servitude, initially denying the offence.

Yeah, that sure says ‘British man’ to me.

Remember when ‘journalists’ published facts rather than ‘progressive’ propaganda? (Well, maybe you don’t.)

Ammo Grrll connects the dots.

Near the end of the Passover Seder, the celebrants sing a song called “Dayenu” which means “It would have been enough.” It goes on for roughly as long as I was in labor, (17 hours, in case it comes up on a quiz show) but the idea of it is a hymn of praise and thanks to the Almighty saying, “If you had just brought us out of Egypt” Dayenu. It would have been enough. “If you would have only parted the Red Sea,” Dayenu. It would have been enough. “If you had only given us the Torah.” Dayenu. You get the idea.

This song came unbidden to my mind as I thought about all the chances Michael Brown had to save his own life.

If he had only shot some buckets or played a video game instead of getting high and deciding that filching some smokes from a convenience store was a bright idea, he would be alive. At least until the next time he decided to commit a crime. Dayenu.

If The Gentle Giant had not decided as a parting shot to rough up the store clerk who was half his size. Maybe the clerk wouldn’t even have called in the theft. What’s a few cigars? Dayenu.

If, after stealing and assaulting, he had just walked away as unobtrusively as a 300-lb. Man can and not swaggered down the middle of the street, he would be alive today. If, when the officer approached him in his car, he had answered politely, and moved out of the street, he would be alive today. Dayenu.

If, when the officer approached him in his car and noticed that he fit the description of the shoplifter who assaulted the store clerk, he had said, “I’m sorry, officer, I was loaded and acted stupid. Here’s the cigars and I want to apologize to the clerk,” he would be alive today. Almost certainly he would have been able to plead down the assault charge to 5th degree and if he returned the stolen merchandise, they would have let that go, too. “Justice” today is all about plea-bargaining. And several hundred “last chances.”

If, once he made his decision to go after the cop, he had slugged him once and not grabbed at the gun, he would be in seriously deep do-do, but probably still alive. Now, he’s got assaulting an officer to go with shoving the clerk and the petty theft, but Officer Wilson was clearly no hothead. If Brown backs up, hands up, as the narrative pretends to go, and says, “I’m sorry; I’m sorry, that was stupid, I won’t resist any further,” he is probably alive.

If, after he grabs for the gun, it goes off, and he begins to run, he stops, turns, raises his hands and goes down to his knees or prone on the ground, waiting to be arrested, he might get roughed up a bit upon being “helped” into the squad car, but he is alive.

Even after he charges again and again and is shot multiple times, if he had stopped, gone to the ground with his hands locked behind his head, he is probably alive, headed for a hospital at taxpayer expense and then warehoused for a lot of his life, also at taxpayer expense. Apparently, it was the final head shot that killed him.

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In hip, and even not-so-hip, circles, markets, restaurants and cultural festivals across the country, local is in. Many embrace this ideal as an economic development tool, an environmental win and a form of resistance to ever-greater centralized big business control.

Yet when it comes to areas being able to choose their urban form and for people to cluster naturally – localism is now being constantly undermined by planners and their ideological allies, including some who superficially embrace the notion of localism.

In order to pursue their social and perceived environmental objectives, they have placed particular onus on middle- and upper-class suburbs, whose great crime appears to be that they tend to be the places people settle if they have the means to do so.

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What’s the difference between a letter-openier, a page-knife, and a page turner?

The Other McCain is on the case.

Not every narcissist is a sociopath, but all sociopaths are narcissists. Like every other manifestation of identity politics, feminism is ultimately about narcissism, a celebration of selfishness masquerading as “social justice” in which identifying yourself as suffering from oppression serves not only as a rationalization of one’s personal failures, but also as a justification for antisocial attitudes and behaviors.

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In the following video, George Igler discusses the nature of the information war that is currently being waged against the West by Islam. The “kinetic” war — the military campaigns of the Islamic State plus mass terrorist attacks, the most recent of which happened last Tuesday in Brussels — is only a small part of the total war. The information war is arguably the most important front in the conflict.

My, what a surprise.

Isis killed and injured US Marines whom the Pentagon said were not in Iraq as they defended a front line base abandoned by Iraqi troops

The biter bit.

Last Thursday, two days after the massacres in Brussels, protesters for the Austrian Identitarian movement staged demonstrations in Vienna in front of the headquarters of the Socialist Party (SPÖ) , and of the the Greens (Die Grünen). Acting out a simulated terrorist attack at each location, they told the two parties via bullhorn that the carnage in Brussels and Paris was their fault, thanks to their support for the mass importation of Muslim immigrants.

Instant-Dry Umbrella.

Undersea Aquahoverer.

Beer briefcase.

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A devout Muslim shopkeeper was savagely killed in the street shortly after posting an Easter message “to my beloved Christian nation”.

Asad Shah, 40, died from injuries sustained in the attack on Thursday night in which his killers are believed to have stabbed him and stamped on his head. Medics tried to save him but he died in hospital.

Somehow I don’t think he was killed by Christians.

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A Belgian municipal security officer is facing dismissal after saying he would kill “each and every Jew” during a debate on Facebook this past Friday.

“The word Jew itself is dirty. If I were in Israel, frankly, I would do to the Jews what they do with the Palestinians — slaughter each and every one of them,” wrote the officer, who was only referred to as Mohamed N. in Belgian media.

‘The second thought that strikes you is that the ever-longer lines to get into the “secure” area are now the least secure area in America. Why not blow up the security line? You could kill as many people as on an airplane, and inflict more long-term economic damage. But don’t worry. The TSA has plans to expand the “secure” area, so the insecure perimeter will be somewhere else, with even more vulnerable people standing around waiting to get into it.’

— Mark Steyn, 2009

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The biggest loser in the latest demographic analysis is the city of Chicago. Of all the metropolitan areas that lost population in the last year, it lost the most—more than the greater Los Angeles area, more than Boston, more than Minneapolis.

On March 25, 1949, the Soviet Union began mass deportations from the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The chief difference between Communism and National Socialism is the songs that they sing and the color of the uniforms.

Remember that the next time Bernie Sanders starts bloviating about ‘democratic socialism’. Socialism is slavery, even though they don’t call it that.

On this date the British Act to end the slave trade received the Royal Assent.

Arabs, of course, were key players in the slave trade. Islam has no problem with slavery.

Brussels Terror: Belgian Police Find Bomb-Making Factory, ISIS Flag

Paris terror plot: Man arrested in ‘advanced stages’ of plan to attack French capital

Brothers, Prison, and the Reign of Terror

Brussels attacks: Paris bomb maker Najim Laachraoui was killed in airport suicide bombing

Bangladesh: Attackers Stab Christian Convert to Death

Syria civil war: Government troops set to retake ancient city of Palmyra from Isis

Isis has ‘at least 440 fighters trained to attack Europe in deadly waves’. My, what a surprise.

Two UK students convicted of Isis-inspired plot to carry out drive-by shootings in London

UK physics student convicted over Isis-inspired London terror plot

Isis celebrates devastation of Brussels attacks by handing out sweets in Syria

Najim Laachraoui: The ‘Isis bomb-maker’ involved in Brussels attacks whose DNA was all over Paris atrocity

Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui named as suicide bombers behind Brussels attacks

Refugee sets himself on fire in protest of European border closures. Sounds like a self-correcting problem.

Brussels terror attacks: Uefa committed to ‘safe and secure’ Euro 2016

Brussels attacks: Belgian authorities fear suspects could still be at large after Isis bombings at airport and on Metro

Isis supporters claim group responsible for Brussels attacks: ‘We have come to you with slaughter’

Terror in Brussels: at least 13 dead in airport attack; second attack at Metro station

Brussels terror attacks: Several dead after suicide bombing and explosions at Brussels Airport and Maalbeek Metro station

Man jailed for deliberately dousing wife in white spirit and setting her on fire after argument

US firebase in Iraq attacked again, two days after rocket fire killed Marine. Good thing we pulled our troops out last year.

At least 13 dead after explosions at Brussels airport, Metro station

Mali attack: Gunmen open fire on EU military training base in Bamako

Najim Laachraoui: Belgian police to launch manhunt for suspect who could have made suicide belts for Paris attacks

‘British suicide bomber’ carries out attack in Iraq, Isis claims

Student Expelled From Palestinian University for Hugging Fiancé

Pakistan: Girl arrested for allegedly setting on fire her father who ‘raped her and her sisters’

Turkey’s Erdo?an Gambles and Loses

As Iraqi civilian rule weakens, Shi’ite clerics call the shots

Paris terror suspect Abdeslam planned more attacks, official says

Refugee deal between Turkey and EU sparks chaos on Greek islands

London ‘preparing for 10 simultaneous terror attacks’ in wake of Paris

Isis’s backup plan to retreat to Libya is falling apart

Erdogan official ‘tweets she hopes Israeli tourists are dead’ in Istanbul terror attack

Turkish Kurds go home to war-ravaged city of Diyarbakir as curfew lifted

US service member killed by enemy fire in Iraq

Salah Abdeslam: Paris attacker planned to blow himself up at Stade De France but ‘changed his mind’

Teacher fined for showing students Isis beheading video

Istanbul explosion: Footage shows moment suicide bomber kills four in blast targeting busy shopping street

Salah Abdeslam charged with ‘terrorist murder’ over Isis Paris attacks but will fight extradition to France

Salah Abdeslam: Suspicious pizza order ‘led police to Paris attacker’s hideout’ at Molenbeek flat

Mohamad Jamal Khweis: US Isis defector admits ‘I made a bad decision’

Istanbul explosion: At least five dead as tourist shopping area Istiklal Street hit by suicide bombing in Turkey

Saudi-led coalition could be committing ‘international crimes’ bombing civilians in Yemen, UN warns

Refugee crisis: Turkish coastguard ‘attacks boat packed with migrants’

How Recent European Terror Wins Led to Abdeslam’s Capture

Prime suspect for Paris attacks arrested in Molenbeek, terror capital of Europe

University of California Merced Stabbing Suspect Had ISIS Propaganda

Counter-Terrorism: Jordan Builds More Barriers

2 Americans among 5 dead in Istanbul suicide bomb attack, WH says

Marine killed, others injured in ISIS rocket attack in northern Iraq, official says

Captive British journalist appears in Islamic State video

EU reaches agreement to send refugees back to Turkey

1,845 Cases Filed For ‘Insulting’ Turkish President In Just 18 Months

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam caught alive in Brussels anti-terror raid

The human rights abuses Saudi Arabia doesn’t want you to know about

European Union Reaches Deal With Turkey to Return New Asylum Seekers

Death toll from Saudi-led air strikes on Yemeni market rises to more than 100

The Next Disaster: Islamic State Expands as Libya Descends into Chaos

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Yet more evidence that the F-35 is a flying piece of shit.

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Management of the Wagtail Close care home in England have promised better training for staff after a report found that Muslim workers at the home were refusing to serve bacon to residents when requested and even refused to help them buy ham, sausage or pork pies. The report said residents had complained to senior staff but received no help.

Reminder for the dimwitted: Islam is not a ‘live and let live’ religion. Islam is a ‘do it my way’ religion.

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I am not making this up.

One of the two white candidates was briefly suspended from campaigning in response to multiple allegations that he campaigned in an “intimidating, hostile, or coercive fashion which is intentional or persistent,” The Eagle reports.

Of course, you could never say that about a black candidate, even if it were true — that would be waaaaacist.

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I am not making this up.

The unintended but entirely predictable consequences from the UK’s disastrous Counter-Terrorism and Security Act keep on a-coming. You will recall that this handy piece of legislation tasked teachers with weeding out possible future-terrorists amongst the young folks they are supposed to be teaching. This has devolved instead into teachers reporting children, usually children that would be peripherally identified as Muslim children, to the authorities for what aren’t so much as transgressions as they are kids being kids. It has even turned some teachers into literal grammar police, because the universe is not without a sense of humor.

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On Tuesday Diana West reported on the case of Ivar Mol, a Dutch-speaking Belgian man (or, more accurately, a Fleming). Not long after the massacres at the airport and the Metro in Brussels, Mr. Mol posted a tweet about Muslim children who celebrated the atrocities in school. For his temerity in discussing such provocative issues on Twitter, Mr. Mol was visited later the same day by three police officers.

This is how they do things in Belgium. Belgium doesn’t have anything like our First Amendment.

We have the First Amendment, Thank God every day that you do not live in Belgium.

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Perverted children would make out great under a plan by Michigan’s Board of Education: They could use whichever school restrooms, showers and changing facilities they want, regardless of biological gender, and hide it from their parents with the state’s help.

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Just a few things in the guidance:

Children of any age can decide their true gender, and the school must accept their identity

They can be offered single-stall restrooms if the students themselves “request them,” but schools must let them use the traditional multi-stall restroom of their choice

Students who object to those of the opposite biological gender in their locker rooms mustadjust their own schedule to avoid them, or request “a private area in the facility” to disrobe

The school is obligated to hide the child’s gender decision from parents, referring to the student by legal name and biological pronoun whenever talking to parents

Suddenly parochial school is looking better and better….

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I am not making this up.

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The hope is that fortified superbananas could help prevent such malnutrition. To test their efficacy, Iowa State students were offered $900 to eat the bananas for four days during three trial periods, then have their blood tested to measure vitamin absorption. The research is led by ISU professor Wendy White, an expert on vitamin A-enriched crops.

But some of the healthy, well-fed college students in America’s heartland were outraged. In February they delivered a petition with more than 57,000 signatures to the university to oppose the so-called human feeding trials. The petition was also delivered to the Seattle headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is investing more than $2 billion to improve agriculture in the developing world, including through the banana project.

“While we can all support the rights of Ugandans to have access to safe, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food, Ugandans have expressed increasing concern that genetically-modifying bananas are not meant to serve that purpose,” a group of students wrote in the Ames Tribune. “Instead, many suspect the GM bananas to be an attempt to corporately capture the domestic seed market.”

And these are college students, supposedly highly intelligent and highly educated young people. They can’t all be affirmative-action admits.

They sound like they’re trying to save an organic garden in Berkeley. “Those students are acting out of ignorance,” Jerome Kubiriba, the head of the National Banana Research Program in Uganda, tells me. “It’s one thing to read about malnutrition; it’s another to have a child who is constantly falling sick yet, due to limited resources, the child cannot get immediate and constant medical care. If they knew the truth about the need for vitamin A and other nutrients for children in Uganda and Africa, they’d get a change of heart.”

Or maybe not. Compassion rarely wins out over regressive moral outrage; they’ll hold a candlelight vigil and feel that they’ve done their part. Meanwhile African babies die.

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Yet another good reason to avoid Florida. (As if Disney weren’t enough.)

Bet he’s a Democrat.

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Defective genes? (Oh, sorry, did I say that out loud? Usually I just think it.)

Think of it as evolution in action.

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He told Management Today: “A free market system needs citizens to believe that the method of redistributing income is is fair and effective.

Uh, sorry, but a free market system doesn’t redistribute income. He must be thinking of socialism. (But that would imply ‘thinking’ which doesn’t appear to be much in evidence here.)

Parker’s wealth is put at £185 million by the Sunday Times Rich List.

So how much is a 50% income tax rate going to reduce his lifestyle? Not a shred, I would think. Who would it hurt? Um, maybe people who aren’t (yet) as rich as he is but who would like to be? Just maybe?

So ponder what he’s really up to.

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‘Progressives’ have a cow, of course.

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When Iran freed five American hostages in January, President Obama was hailed by many in the mainstream media for his skillful diplomacy. However, more sober analysts, most notably Arthur Herman, wondered whether the Obama administration had, in effect, paid a ransom for the release of the Americans.

The sense that this was a gussied up case of ransom payment, rather than clever diplomacy, arose not from the $100 billion or so that Team Obama had bestowed on the mullahs through the nuclear deal. By January, this was, effectively, a sunk cost.

Rather, the ransom narrative was fueled by a new sweetener — a $1.7 billion settlement on claims relating to the sale of military equipment to Iran before the 1979 revolution, in the time of the Shah. This claim was for $400 million, the amount of money in a trust fund the U.S. apparently seized. The $1.7 billion settlement includes $1.3 billion in “interest.”

Rep. Mike Pompeo immediately voiced his concern about the payment. In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, he asked: “What is the relationship between the $1.7 billion payment and the release of the hostages?” Pompeo also noted that at least one top Iranian official had described the payment as “a bid to buy freedom of [U.S.] spies held by Tehran”.

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The secret to getting rich is as powerful as it is unexciting: live below your means.

That’s it. The bigger the difference between what you earn and what you spend, the sooner you’ll find yourself with enough money to do what you want with your life.

As with many ‘secrets’ to success, it’s simple but requires too much will-power for most people, which is why there are fewer rich people than there are poor people.