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Think of it as evolution in action.

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But you knew that.

This summer, air travel is for people who expect to go to hell and want to know what it will be like. Security lines have reached epic lengths in many airports. Thousands of travelers have missed flights. And the Transportation Security Administration now advises passengers to arrive two hours before departure for domestic flights—and three in some places.

I’ll belabor the obvious and point out that the terrorists have won.

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Whenever supposedly non-denominational prayer rooms are established in public buildings, they are rapidly co-opted by Muslims and turned into de facto mosques. Non-Muslim religious symbols are excluded from the rooms, women are forcibly segregated from the men, and openly expressed practices of other religions are forbidden. This occurs not just in Germany, but throughout Western Europe, North America, and Australia.

The following video is the second post in a series on the controversies surrounding the closure of “prayer rooms” at German universities. It shows a TV panel discussion featuring an attractively hijabbed young woman named Hatice Durmaz of the Council of Muslim Students and Academics.

Pay attention to the taqiyya-dance executed by Ms. Durmaz in this clip. When confronted with facts that she has previously denied, she skillfully changes direction, diverts her interviewer’s attention, and takes a different tack to reach her goal: the assertion that Muslims are blameless, that they are not responsible for the discrimination against women and infidels that is so blatantly manifested in the “silent rooms”.

Steve Sailer reviews the news that’s fit to print.

Hillary is currently running for President on how we must have more gun control to save innocent black baby bodies from racist Republican white males hunting them down for sport:

… Clinton addressed a fundraising dinner organized by the Trayvon Martin Foundation, … “If you want to imagine what Trump’s America would look like, picture more kids at risk of violence and bigotry,” Clinton said.

In the real world, however, the big story is blacks shooting blacks.

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Mandatory financial disclosures released this month show that, in just the two years from April 2013 to March 2015, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state collected $21,667,000 in “speaking fees,” not to mention the cool $5 mil she corralled as an advance for her 2014 flop book, “Hard Choices.”

Throw in the additional $26,630,000 her ex-president husband hoovered up in personal-appearance “honoraria,” and the nation can breathe a collective sigh of relief that the former first couple — who, according to Hillary, were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2001 with some of the furniture in tow — can finally make ends meet.

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As opposed to the rest of the time, when they wouldn’t dream of it.

I guess the all-day fast makes them a little testy.

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It appears that one of the secret codicils to the immigration agreement between the EU and Turkey granted the latter the right to choose which “refugees” to send on to Europe, and which to retain in the Turkish migrant camps. In practice, Turkey — surprise, surprise! — lets only the riff-raff go through — the most problematic cases — and keeps well-educated, useful, and productive people for itself. Most notably, Syrian academics are not being allowed to travel on to Europe.

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It’s surprising that medieval people got anything done, so politically incorrect were their diets.

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A Muslim girl who took a “defiant” selfie at an anti-Islam protest in Belgium allegedly posted anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter, Facebook, and Ask.fm accounts, according to a Belgian former soldier and a leading Dutch website.

Zakia Belkhiri, 22, was lauded as an “inspiration” by the media as her picture next to Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) protesters went viral.

But web sleuths have now claimed that Ms. Belkhiri’s “peace sign” in the picture is perhaps out of character for her. They claim she tweeted in 2012: “Hitler didnt kill all the jews, he left some. So we [would] know why he was killing them.”

Even Brits are noticing.

As the Washington Post highlighted, liberals are more likely to unfriend you over politics. I suspect that they are also less likely to have conservative friends than vice versa, and are less tolerant overall on social media. This may perhaps be because the liberal-left is now the prestige, established faith of the western world, so its adherents are naturally more likely to feel theirs is the one true way, and less likely to meet people their own age with different views.  It doesn’t help, of course, that the social justice-loving Facebook has been politically curating their stories, as one former staffer admitted, because ‘they had a bias’.

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The last decade has seen a huge increase in websites and articles pushing a social justice political slant, among the biggest being Salon and the Huffington Post. As the years have gone by their articles and headlines have become increasing shrill and bizarre, since shrill and bizarre is what people share on social media.

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Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store.

The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and blamed for spreading Wahhabism — the conservative ideology dominant in Saudi Arabia — in the 17 years since an American-led intervention wrested tiny Kosovo from Serbian oppression.

Since then — much of that time under the watch of American officials — Saudi money and influence have transformed this once-tolerant Muslim society at the hem of Europe into a font of Islamic extremism and a pipeline for jihadists.

It’s in the New York Times so it MUST be true, right?

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I am not, and never will be, on Fakebook.

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No one can explain exactly how Belton came to see again, not even the doctor who treated her as part of an unconventional stem cell study shortly before she regained limited vision.

Despite their promise, stem cell treatments often garner skepticism from experts who are still studying their safety and effectiveness. While stem cells can be grown into any type of cell in the body, scientists generally believe proving the cells can repair or cure anything is a ways off. The only U.S. government approved stem cell treatment involves blood clotting disorders, but that hasn’t stopped those who can afford the treatments from seeking them.

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Disco Ball Helmet.

Smart Bottle Opener. Texts your friends when you open a beer.

Used Book Perfume.

KittySplit app divides expenses among participants automatically.

Slipit sliding compound.

Scrubba portable laundry system.

These stick-on lenses turn your smartphone into a digital microscope.

Portable Microwave for adventures.

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Last we checked in on the $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar power facility out in the California desert, it was in danger of being shut down because it was failing to produce the promised amount of electricity, despite all that free desert sunshine. (Before that we reported on how it was merely incinerating birds by the hundreds.)

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Now we know:

Transgender trumps black.

Transgender trumps female.

Write it down. You can’t keep score without a priority list.

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Looks like the ‘Democrat coalition’ of interest groups is dissolving.

Blue-collar union leaders—already furious over the Obama administration’s scuttling of the Keystone XL pipeline and Hillary Clinton’s vow to shut down the coal industry—took another hit earlier this month, when the Democratic Party announced the formation of For Our Future PAC, a voter-turnout initiative in partnership with billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, who has long waged war against projects that the trade and construction unions hoped would create jobs. The New York Times portrayed the reaction to Steyer’s involvement in the new $50 million super PAC as a “rift between labor and environmentalists” within the Democratic Party, but that’s nothing new: trade unions and environmentalists have long been at odds. The real news was that much of the rest of the labor movement—led by public-sector unions—had agreed to work with Steyer, highlighting the ever-widening divide between blue-collar labor groups and their public-union counterparts. That split has already driven some trade unions into the arms of Republican candidates, and may account for some of the support Donald Trump gets in polls from working-class voters.

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Is a career as an assistant liaison to athletic maintenance to the task force on employee partnerships in your future? Or how about as an associate provost for the deputy provost for facilities climate for the subcommittee for investor partnerships? It pays well — $393,369 a year.

Those are some of the job titles produced by the University Title Generator, a website that pokes fun at administrative bloat at colleges and the creative job titles it has spawned (and, perhaps on a less amusing note, the hefty salaries that come with some of those titles).

“Damning indictment of the corporatization of higher education, or career finder?” the website’s description reads. “You decide!”

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Think about it.

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The Ten Words are: dawah, dhimmi, hijra, jizya, kafir, shaheed, shariah, takfir, taqiyya, ummah

If you don’t know what the mean, you really need to find out.

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Yeah, just like Clinton. Yeah, just like Carter.

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

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Funny how the ‘progressive’ agenda seems to cause more problems that it solves….

Above all, for men, marriage equals a soul-destroying divorce: “talk to the men in MGTOW who have had their wallets ripped out their a** in family court. Go to the graves of men who killed themselves after they were unemployed and couldn’t afford child support and faced jail. Talk to those men about how wonderful marriage was… Ask them about the hundreds of hours they work extra each year to avoid going to prison because they owe so much child support or alimony that they gotta move in with their parents.”

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A house visit by a daughter of a prominent ayatollah to a female leader of the persecuted Bahai religious minority touched off a debate this week in Iran about the harsh treatment of a group deemed pagans and impure by the country’s dominant clerics.

‘Forgive Isis’: Girl’s dying request to mother after she is burnt alive by militants in her own home.

Iran accuses Kim Kardashian of working with Instagram CEO to corrupt Iranian women

Wife faces deportation for looking at her husband’s phone in UAE

US drone strike reportedly kills senior Al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan

Woman who wanted to join Isis and marry ‘Jihadi John’ is jailed for four and a half years

Finland says Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq are ‘safe’ for refugees to return to

Syrian army ‘kills over 200 Isis militants’ in three-day Deir ez-Zor offensive

U.S. Special Forces take the fight to ISIS in Libya

Is Iran’s Iraq Policy Coming Apart?

Chibok girl ‘found’ in Nigeria two years after Boko Haram kidnap of 276 schoolgirls

We need to acknowledge the link between joining ISIS and supporting an Islamic state

Isis in Libya: Executions and ‘unbearable’ atrocities in group’s biggest stronghold outside Iraq and Syria

After bombings in Baghdad kill 77, Sadr’s forces deploy in some areas

Rights group report details ‘scenes of horror’ in ISIS-held Libyan city

Australian NGO worker killed while defusing Isis bomb in Iraq. Let that be a lesson to us all.

Former al-Qaida Terrorist Sought Asylum in Norway

Baghdad attacks: At least 58 killed by female suicide bomber and car bombing in Iraq capital

Isis terror suspect from Birmingham arrested over ‘plans to travel to Syria’

Iranian women arrested for posting ‘vulgar’ photos on Instagram without wearing headscarves

Isis in Libya: West takes first steps towards military engagement to counter jihadi threat

Iranian judge tells man: ‘If you’re innocent you’ll go to heaven after you’re hanged’. So he’s got that going for him.

Turkey Rushes Armed Drones after Increased ISIS Threat

Syrian civil war: Turkish and coalition forces kill 27 Isis fighters ‘on verge of firing rockets into Turkey’

Al Qaeda Magazine Calls For Targeting American Business Leaders. So they are Democrats after all.

The Jihad on Christian Church Tents

Malala Yousafzai pens open letter to parents of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram

Paris attacks Isis suspect Salah Abdeslam had nuclear files stashed in his flat

Missing Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram shown alive in video. Yeah, Michelle’s hashtag really worked, didn’t it?

Yemen bombing: Isis claims responsibility after suicide attack kills 25 in Mukalla

What the killing of Mustafa Badreddine means for Hezbollah and the future of the Middle East

Isis claims responsibility for deadly suicide attack on Baghdad gas plant

Suspected Islamist militant arrested for murder of Bangladesh gay rights activists

Hebrew University campus gate firebombed; no injuries reported

Majority of Germans think Islam does not ‘belong’ in their country

Saudi Arabia: Women face flogging and jail for checking husband’s phone

Isis kills at least 13 Real Madrid supporters in attack on cafe in Iraq

Turkey’s Parliament Speaker Calls for a ‘Religious Constitution’

In blow to Hezbollah, senior commander killed in Syria

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Solid and cellular tyres are one of those bicycle design ideas that potentially hold huge practical advantages; no punctures and none of the extra time and delay that entails and the need to carry round a spare tube, tools and pump with you.

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Now Gecko Rubber from the UK has produced their own version of punctureless tyres, made from a cellular rubber compound (based on traditional thermoset rubber compounds similar to those being used in conventional pneumatic tyres). They claim to have a softer ride than Tannus and to be ‘70% less damaging to the environment than a leading puncture resistant alternative.’

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The four genes that determine exactly how your schnozzle formed have been revealed by scientists.

The researchers looked at the faces and DNA of more than 6,000 people, finding out what determined their breadth, pointiness and other characteristics.

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Being run by corrupt Democrats will do that to you, as California is discovering.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Into somebody’s pocket, of course.

Iraq, with lamentably high corruption, can be a litmus test for revived effort. Iraq also desperately needs to recover stolen assets, because it is running out of money for both fighting ISIS and rebuilding Iraq, in order to prevent ISIS 2.0.

Luckily, the United States is leading the way with the formation of the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative (KARI), but far more global coordination is needed. In Iraq, financial assistance should be put into ministries to train people in spotting and preventing corruption.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is urging caution by the media as a far-reaching federal investigation into a slush fund economic redevelopment program the state set up for the Buffalo area, “Buffalo Billion.”

“Questions are normal, questions are natural,” told reporters in Rochester yesterday as the federal probe got closer to Alain Kaloyeros, the president and CEO of SUNY Poly, which administers the Buffalo Billion program. “Get the facts, don’t rush to judgement.”

Gee, that doesn’t sound like a Democrat.

The investigation has engulfed a number of former top Cuomo aides, including one who the governor has called a “brother” and another that is a friend of the Cuomo family. “If there is something wrong, I want to know about it,” Cuomo told reporters. “We will fully prosecute according to the law.”

Uh-huh. And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

Politicians like Cuomo talk a lot about money in politics but they don’t mean the money politicians spend on programs like Buffalo Billion that enrich all kinds of government hangers-on, from the donors looking for a kickback to the low-level bureaucrats those government functions depends on. The kinds of campaign finance reforms Cuomo and his ideological fellow-travelers support could stifle attempts at blowing the whistle on wasteful, corrupt spending like Buffalo Billion while keeping the routes to government money open for exploitation by the political class.

Ann Coulter is the Mikhail Baryshnikov of sarcasm.

First — and this is corroborated by five contemporaneous witnesses — in 1978, Trump violently raped Juanita Broaddrick in a Little Rock, Arkansas, hotel room, then, as he was leaving, looked at her bloody lip and said, “Better put some ice on that” — oh wait, I’m terribly sorry. Did I say Trump? I didn’t mean Trump, I meant Bill Clinton.
Hang on — here we go! Knowing full well about Bill Clinton’s proclivity to sexually assault women, about three weeks after that rape, Trump cornered Broaddrick at a party and said, pointedly, “I just want you to know how much Bill and I appreciate the things you do for him. Do you understand? Everything you do.”

No! My mistake! That wasn’t Trump either. That was Hillary Clinton. … But this next one I’m sure was Trump.

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A minor witness testifying briefly yesterday made for a highly symbolic moment during the trial of the “Minnesota men” charged with conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS. In mid-afternoon The prosecution called Bashi Ibrahim to the stand. Ibrhaim required a Somali translator for his testimony. Though he arrived in Minnesota with the first wave of Somali immigrants almost 25 years ago, in 1992, he was unable to understand the questions, or give his answers, in English.

‘Sure, go ahead, let ’em in! They’ll assimilate just like the Italians and the Poles and all those other immigrants.’

Through the translator, Ibrahim testified that Yusuf Jama was one of his sons. Jama graduated from Minneapolis Public Schools in August 2012. After high school Jama worked as a teacher at an Islamic school.

Jama was determined to join the jihad with ISIS in Syria. He tried unsuccessfully to leave in May 2014 along with defendant Guled Omar and a friend who later turned and became a confidential source for the government. (The confidential source has now been identified as Abdhirahman Bashiir; Bashir took the stand at the end of the afternoon.)

Trump’s program is looking better and better.

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Mickey Fearn, the National Park Service Deputy Director for Communications and Community Assistance, made headlines when he claimed that black people don’t visit national parks because they associate them with slaves being lynched by their masters.

I am not making this up.

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Let’s hear it for the Religion of Peace[tm].

That’s me. I am a Thought Leader. (Minus the coffee, which I can’t stand.)

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Andrea Quenette, the University of Kansas communications professor subjected to protests and a formal investigation after offending her liberal students, was cleared of wrongdoing. But she is still ultimately out of a job.

“Andrea has been denied continuation of her tenure,” her husband, Scott Quenette, told Reason. “Despite having a recommendation from the tenure committee and her department. The new dean unilaterally denied it.”

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Last fall, members of Quenette’s class asked to discuss the racial tensions on campus. Quenette made the mistake of confessing her own blind spots, and used imperfect language when she did so. She said, “It’s not like I see nigger spray-painted on walls,” according to her students. She also denied that racism was the sole explanation for some black KU students falling behind in their studies.

Quenette’s statements weren’t malicious, and she didn’t use the n-word as a slur. Moreover, she’s a professor of communications, and the classroom was an appropriate place to have a conversation about these issues—even if the conversation bothered some people.

But her students didn’t see it that way, and published a letter calling on KU to fire her. A lengthy investigation ensued: months later, the university determined that Quenette had broken no policies.

ThoughtCrime leads inevitably to the MemoryHold.

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The tiny, utterly pointless chapter of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at California Polytechnic State University is a microcosm of the embarrassing futility America’s socialists face as they promote their untenable revolution and the oddly unpleasant utopia which would result.

But you knew that.

Osselburn, a sophomore from New Jersey majoring in anthropology and geography, started the club during his freshman year.

The club is seriously struggling, Osselburn admits. He blames bourgeois apathy.

The dastards.

The socialist club has at least two other members: Christian Kelleher, a civil engineering major, and Lorenzo Nericcio, a philosophy major.

Let the campus tremble.

Kelleher said the Cal Poly socialist club’s goals include ending slavery, starvation and, in fact, all humanitarian crises and war around the world. Love, music and theories of peace are the group’s tools as they wage this fight from the San Luis Obispo campus.

They may have won all the battles — but we had all the good songs.

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Yesterday the National Academy of Sciences released a 407-page report on genetically engineered crops that debunks most of the frothier claims of the anti-GMO crusaders. From the summary:

While recognizing the inherent dif?culty of detecting subtle or long-term effects in health or the environment, the study committee found no substantiated evidence of a difference in risks to human health between currently commercialized genetically engineered (GE) crops and conventionally bred crops, nor did it ?nd conclusive cause-and-effect evidence of environmental problems from the GE crops.

Even worse from the greenie point of view is the finding that GMOs have produced positive economic outcomes for their users. Better living through chemistry, and higher profits too! Talk about feeling the bern burn!

Take that, deniers!

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“Potential safety concern.” That’s the reason school officials cited for giving a 5-year-old girl a one-day suspension after she brought a bubble gun to school.

The brightly-colored non-weapon is Frozen themed, and has pictures of Princesses Elsa and Anna on it.

Where was this when I was that age? I’d have loved to get a day off school for the mere price of a bubble gun.

These kids today are so spoiled….

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Complaints about long lines at security checkpoints in U.S. airports are crescendoing. More folks are missing their flights even though they show up at the airports hours in advance. “I don’t know what that was,” responded TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger when told about the major such snafu at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport yesterday. Let’s abolish the Transportation Security Administration.

But wouldn’t that put lots of people in danger of terrorist attacks? First, let’s agree that after the September 11, 2001 atrocities American air passengers will never again permit a commercial flight to be hijacked. So, no need for a TSA to protect against hijacking.

But what about bombs? Doesn’t the TSA protect us against terrorist bomb attacks? First, consider that last year TSA security screeners missed 95 percent of weapons and explosives in security tests. According to the TSA, its screeners found 2,653 firearms in carry-on baggage last year, and lots and lots of knives. Keep in mind that these weapons were in general not hidden by essentially innocent (if forgetful) travelers. So far, I can find no reports that the TSA has caught a single terrorist.

The perfect government program: Pisses everybody off and has no discernible impact.

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1) Environmentalists increasingly work at EPA. Want to find a former Union of Concerned Scientists employee? Look at the Obama administration.

2) EPA officials are throwing parties for environmentalists, they are using secret email servers to send them regulations in advance for commentary, they are even letting environmentalists draft them under the President’s name.

3) How many EPA officials have recused themselves from a decision because their friends at their former employer are doing the lobbying? Zero.

Look for ‘cronyism’ in the dictionary — it’s right after ‘collusion’ and ‘corruption’.

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As European governments slam the gates shut on illegal Middle Eastern immigrants, where can Syrians and others go to, not far from their homelands, for safety and employment? The answer is obvious but surprisingly neglected: to Saudi Arabia and the other rich Arab sheikhdoms.

Yeah, well….

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Highmark, the insurance arm of Pittsburgh-based nonprofit Highmark Health, said in the suit that the U.S. failed to live up to obligations to pay the insurer nearly $223 million owed under an ACA program known as “risk corridors,” which aimed to limit the financial risks borne by insurers entering the new health-law markets. The suit claims “violations of the mandatory risk-corridor payment obligations prescribed” in the health law.

This is money that Congress refused to appropriate, so Obama is providing it from his ‘stash’.

The federal Department of Health and Human Services announced last fall that insurers initially would receive only 12.6% of the money they claimed under the risk-corridor program for 2014, its first year of operation. Highmark is seeking the full amount it says is due to it for that year.

Apparently Obama’s ‘stash’ is pretty bare.

The risk-corridor suits are the latest sign that six years after its passage, the ACA continues to generate intense legal controversy. Just in the past week, a federal court ruled that the Obama administration overstepped its authority in making certain payments under the law without explicit appropriations from Congress, and the Supreme Court sent back to lower courts a case regarding religious employers’ role in covering contraception.

Apparently Obama doesn’t really have a ‘stash’ after all. Perhaps he’ll dip into his book royalties. (Cue raucous laughter.)

Highmark’s suit says agency officials have reiterated that the federal government is obligated to make full risk-corridor payments.

But that acknowledgment “is an insufficient substitute for full and timely payment of the amounts owed,” the complaint says.

Obamacare – the gift that keeps on shivving.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I wasn’t.

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Mere anarchy is a fair description of the state of the Republican Party, at least amongst those who purport to be its falconers. Mimicking the vulgarity they decry in Trump, they employ every vile epithet to describe him and his followers. National Review’s Rich Lowry enthused that Carly Fiorina had “cut his balls off.” For Lowry’s colleague Kevin Williamson, Trump is a “witless ape … not just an ass, but an ass of exceptionally intense asininity.” As for Trump’s followers, George Will calls them “invertebrates,” while John Hood describes them as “a motley crew of simpletons, bigots, and cynical manipulators.” In their hatred of Trump, they have come to resemble the man they despise.

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There is, I fancy, one more thing that troubles our falconers. Worse still than Trump is the fact that so many Americans like him, ripping apart the imagined America of the elites, a preppy, mid-Atlantic country south of Iceland and east of The New Yorker. Their America has no monster-truck races, no hip-hop, no reality TV, no Donald Trump; and yet Trump is authentically American. He is Sam Slick the Clockmaker, Thomas Chandler Haliburton’s fast-talking, Yankee peddler, whom Haliburton’s Canadian and British readers saw as the archetypal American. He is, like Johnny Cash and Muhammad Ali, a person who could only be American, and whom Americans will recognize as one of their own. At some level, our elites must recognize this too, and in their anger experience the rage of Caliban seeing his face in the mirror.

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In a rebuke to the EU, and environmental activists worldwide, the biggest scientific metastudy yet conducted of genetically modified foods concludes they’re good for human health and the environment.

The National Academics of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, an advisory body of scientists, finds no evidence of risks over conventional crops, and huge benefits in the shape of increased yields in poor countries, and healthier crops. Nor did the boffins find any evidence of the catastrophic environmental risks touted by scaremonger green groups.

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Most of us have found ourselves in the awkward situation of trying to communicate in a foreign language. Sometimes it’s funny. Sometimes it’s embarrassing. And sometimes it’s downright disastrous. But thanks to a new translation device that easily fits into your ear, the days of struggling to speak the local lingo might soon be a thing of the past.

The device is called The Pilot system and Waverly Labs is the company behind this brilliantly simple yet potentially groundbreaking idea. When it hits the shelves in September, the system will allow the wearer to understand one of several foreign languages through real-time in-ear translation. A handy app will allow you to toggle through the languages you want, and the selection includes French, Spanish, Italian, and English. It’ll retail for $129, and you can pre-order one here. Or you can just keep talking to people really loudly and slowly in English. Good luck with that.

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Samsung has been experimenting with mirror and transparent displays for years, but mostly in concept form. While we saw a pair of impressive 55-inch mirrored and transparent OLED displays last year, Samsung is revealing the first commercial installation of its mirror display today. A hair salon in Seoul, Korea is using four of Samsung’s 55-inch mirror displays to make haircuts a little more entertaining.

The mirror displays will show different styles, colors, and information on the latest cuts for customers to pick and choose from. When the displays aren’t providing information, they’ll look like regular mirrors for the salon. Samsung is planning to sell its mirror displays to businesses specializing in fashion, furniture, interior design, and retail in the third quarter of this year.