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An Austrian woman attacked by four migrants from Afghanistan in a train station says when she reported the crime police officers told her she should not have been using public transportation after 8 p.m. and told her to dye her blonde hair another color.

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The latest essay by Anestos Canelides looks at the massacre and expulsion of the Greeks from Turkey as part of the larger picture of the Great Jihad.

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A former Republican member of the 9/11 commission, breaking dramatically with the commission’s leaders, said Wednesday he believes there was clear evidence that Saudi government employees were part of a support network for the 9/11 hijackers and that the Obama administration should move quickly to declassify a long-secret congressional report on Saudi ties to the 2001 terrorist attack.

The comments by John F Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, signal the first serious public split among the 10 commissioners since they issued a 2004 final report that was largely read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia, which was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.

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

Syriac Catholic Patriarch: West Is an Accomplice to Syria’s Genocide

Suspected car bombing in Istanbul injures at least eight people, reports say

Baghdad bombings: Isis kills more than 100 people in 24 hours of suicide attacks and car bombings in Iraq capital

Isis ‘sets up office to manage relations with foreign fighters’ to stop infighting and defections in Syria

Female politician disqualified from entering Iran’s parliament over photos ‘showing her not wearing headscarf’

Ohio restaurant owner says he was machete-wielding terrorist’s target

Germany doubles number of suspected Islamist militants under investigation after entering during refugee crisis

Saudi family therapist gives advice on how to ‘beat your wife’

Refugee crisis: Three-year-old child among Syrian asylum seekers ‘shot by Turkish border guards’

ISIS-claimed car bomb targets Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, 45 dead

‘Life is horrible’: Syria’s Christians fear total genocide

Saudis take to social media with campaign supporting womens’ right to drive in the kingdom

Refugee crisis: For 350,000 Syrians, the move across the Turkish border has not brought the threat of violence to an end

Isis suspects arrested by Italian police over ‘Canary Wharf terror attack’ plot

Brothers who raped 14-year-old girl in Pakistan go free after paying 1200kg of wheat

Syrian refugee shot by border guards trying to enter Slovakia from Hungary

Iraq’s Kurds urge Jews, other religious minorities to come, practice faith

US airstrike kills ISIS ‘Emir of Anbar Province’ in Iraq

ISIS reportedly executes 7-year-old boy for cursing while playing with friends

One dead, 3 hurt after suspected Islamist stabbing spree at Germany train station

A War Like No Other: With the Peshmerga on the Front Lines Against ISIS

Poland refuses to take a single refugee because of ‘security’ fears

Isis stab man in the heart and then shoot him for being a spy. Apparently the stab was just to get his attention.

Turkey kills dozens of Isis fighters in a revenge attack

Pakistani activist murdered after praising London for electing first Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan

At least 52 killed after two buses collide with fuel tanker in Afghanistan

Gunmen kill 8 police officers in Egypt

Two Nato soldiers killed in Afghan ‘insider attack’

UN envoy says more than 50 mass graves found in parts of Iraq re-taken from ISIS

After presiding over bin Laden raid, CIA chief in Pakistan came home suspecting he was poisoned by ISI

Islamic State using homing pigeons to deliver messages to operatives outside its ‘caliphate’

Australia’s most wanted jihadist ‘killed in US air strike’ in Iraq. Happy to help.

Syrian civil war: Clashes between Assad troops and jihadist alliance near Aleppo leave 73 dead

Fundamentalist interpretations of Islam that restrict women’s rights are rising, says former leading imam

Pakistani teenage girl burned alive in ‘honour killing’ after helping friend elope

London Elects a Muslim Mayor Who Defended 9/11 Terrorists

10 die as suicide bomber targets crowd trying to help car bomb victims in Syria

Syrian prisoners take over prison, claiming President Assad is about to start torturing and executing them

The Guardian, Voice of the Crust, and relic of the pro-Soviet British Press, is … on the case, so to speak.

I look forward to the day when his corpse, like Cromwell’s, will be hanged, drawn, and quartered, and his pitch-covered head put on a spike over the Kremlin’s mail gate.

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Today, the rise of Iran is less of a political topic to debate and more of a reality to recognize. Compared to its Middle Eastern neighbors, Iran has made impressive strides in space technology in the past few years, putting the first satellite into orbit in February 2009; has emerged as a cyber power on the level of China or Russia; and has achieved significant advances in military hardware production, including sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles, main battle tanks, and medium and long-range ballistic missiles. The Iranian defense industry is making gradual inroads into global armament markets, with Iraq, Syria and Lebanon already receiving regular arms shipments to fight Islamic State and other rebel forces. The Iranian state is capable of projecting force in the Gulf and the Levant, and has often challenged the United States—successfully or not—to stay out of the Gulf region, showing a high degree of foreign-policy independence.

The Other McCain pulls no punches.

Most parents fail to understand that the educational bureaucracy profoundly hostile to parental sovereignty. Your children are actually their children, the “progressive” educator has been trained to believe. The public school system in America is a union-controlled apparatus of the Democrat Party, operated by cultural Marxists who despise Christianity and capitalism. If you are a Christian who is trying to raise your children with decent moral values, keep them far away from the government education bureaucracy. Public school teachers hate you, and they consider it their professional duty to teach your children to hate you, too.

Two words: Home. School.

Beyond that, remember: Feminists hate your sons. Feminists want your sons to fail in school. Feminists don’t want your sons to go to college. Feminists don’t want your sons to have professional careers. Feminism is about achieving “equality” by destroying opportunity for your sons.

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The Soviet Union invaded Poland on 17th September 1939. The invasion was carried out in collusion with Nazi Germany, and the subsequent Soviet occupation of eastern Poland was in accordance with a secret protocol of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, which had been signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop on 23rd August 1939. As a consequence of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Great Britain declared war on the German nation on 3d September 1939, but no such declaration followed the Soviet invasion of Poland 14 days later.

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Tough. If government employees are going to be allowed to unionize, and if unions are going to be allowed to endorse candidates, then the border patrol agents have as much right to endorse Trump as the Teamsters have a right to endorse Obama. (And don’t get me started on teh NEA….)

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With a single spear throw, a spearman killed the future. He was at a mock battle, part of Rusborg 2016, a festival about the early Middle Ages in Russia. An observer filmed the battle from above with a quadcopter. One of the participants, perhaps out of sport, perhaps out of a sense for authenticity, decided to knock it out of the sky. With a step and a toss, he did.

We have the technology.

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Being a Child of the Crust only takes you so far.

The Eaglevale Hellenic Opportunity Offshore Fund, a pooled investment fund domiciled in the Cayman Islands, lost 90 per cent of its value after its main investment – Greek banking stocks and government debt – failed to recover.

It would have been a blow for executive Marc Mezvinsky, who married Chelsea Clinton in 2010, as he had pitched the idea for the portfolio, as reported by the New York Times.

Note they key phrase: ‘would have been’.

Prediction: Nobody will get fired, nobody will go to jail.

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A federal judge ruled today that the Obama administration has been implementing Obamacare illegally, paying out billions in subsidies to insurers that aren’t authorized under the law.

The lawsuit, led by House Republicans, argued that the administration had no authority to fund law’s cost-sharing reductions, which provide an additional subsidy to people who earn up to 250 percent of the poverty line, which ended up being a little more than half of people enrolled in coverage through the health law’s exchanges. (The cost-sharing subsidies are distinct from the law’s main insurance subsidies, which cover a portion of the cost of insurance coverage for people up to 400 percent of the poverty line.)

The subsidies were authorized by the law, but Congress rejected an appropriations request from the administration to fund them. The administration moved some money around and funded them anyway. Estimates indicate that the program would funnel about $130 billion to insurers over the course of a decade.

Of course, the Crust will find a way around this temporary bump in the road. But it will be entertaining to see what form the necessary wiggle-dance will take.

It’s pretty sad when a political system degenerates into sophistry as a spectator sport — but that’s all we’ve got, so we’d better enjoy it.

Sarah Hoyt talks about being an Odd.

Which brings us to Odds and the way Odds cope with being Odd, and the way only Odds really understand other Odds and, by definition, most people aren’t Odds.

My former form (eh) was exhilarating to be in because until this blog I’ve never before or since found myself in a group of “my people.”

You know who you are, even if you don’t know why.  You’re the people who given a choice between vanilla and chocolate say “strawberry” and if you can at all set about making it happen.  You’re the people who don’t fit in, and all of you at some point read the story of the pink monkey, torn apart by the brown monkeys.  You’re the people who either learned to go away from normal human intercourse, or else learned to fit in — often not perfectly, but well enough. — In a world of sheep and dogs and wolves, you’re the goats.

Been there, done that.

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Funny how that works.

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Three Atlanta girls walking to school were forced into a truancy van last week, even though they were just 50 yards from the school.

WXIA 11Alive reports that Carrie and Colleen Miller, twins in their teens, normally take the school bus. But on May 4, a substitute driver missed their stop, so they decided to walk the 2.5 miles instead, along with another friend. Just when they had almost reached the school, truant officers confronted the girls and told them they had to get into the MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) van.

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‘If we had a void, we should have a strong reflection,’ Dean Goodman, a geophysicist at GPR-Slice software told National Geographic News, which published a feature on the research.

‘But it just doesn’t exist.’

Perhaps they ought to put some Climate Scientists on the job; then we would get a Consensus and go home.

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The case below is reminiscent not just of the one against Susanne Winter, but also the charge on which Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was convicted. In Austria, you absolutely are not allowed to refer to Mohammed as a pedophile or a child molester. It doesn’t matter that any other man who has sex with a 9-year-old would be so designated. If you call Big Mo a pedophile, you can end up in trouble with the state.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

Next step: Goose concealed carry. Hey, this is America.

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What do cows need horns for, anyway?

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‘Some’? Try ‘most’.

“Eliminationist” might be a good word for this censorious attitude. Most liberals and progressives aren’t eliminationists, they favor debate and still believe in the competition of ideas. But in all corners of the Modern Left, you can find the imperious types who are simply done arguing, or, as the President says, “We know what works. We know what we have to do. We’ve just got to put aside the stale and outmoded debates.”

Colleges across the country have begun to roll out speech codes, and to disinvite speakers whose views are foreign to the liberal majority of the student body and the faculty. (President Obama, to his credit, warned colleges against this latter pernicious trend.) The colleges’ argument: Unpleasant views are inherently discriminatory or bigoted, and they might trigger sensitive students.

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The government agency in charge of New York City’s JFK, Newark, and LaGuardia airports has sent a scathing letter to the Transportation Security Administration criticizing growing passenger wait times at the three airports, some of the busiest in the country. Additionally, the letter reveals that the airports are “exploring” participation in a program that replaces TSA screeners with private security contractors.

Pushback is coming.

Mary Beth Griggs points out that the sky is falling.

Last week, researchers announced that the disease known as sudden oak death was now unstoppable. In the 21 years since it was first spotted, the disease has killed millions of trees, devastating forest ecosystems, and permanently changing the landscape.

The study had a bittersweet note. Turns out, the disease could have been stopped in its tracks back in 2002, if only there had been a large investment in prevention programs.

Well, then, let’s just get the government right on that. So many things would be fixed if only everyone realized that all it takes is a large investment in prevention programs.

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The naming of the Royal Research Ship (RRS) attracted huge interest after the Natural Environment Research Council encouraged Britons to come up with suggestions, leading to a stream of light-hearted ideas such as RRS Usain Boat, RRS I Like Big Boats&I Cannot Lie and RRS Watch Out For The Iceberg.

Backed by a social media campaign, Boaty McBoatface easily topped an online poll with more than 124,000 votes, although even the instigator of the Boaty name later apologized for his suggestion.

However, the government decided that the state-of-the-art ship, which is due to set sail in 2019, would be named after Attenborough, 89, famed for his BBC TV natural history programs spanning six decades and whose name had attracted 11,000 votes.

Yeah, we’ll allow democracy except where it crosses the opinions of the Great and the Good.

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Jamba Juice Inc. this week said it plans to move its headquarters from Emeryville, Calif., to Frisco, Tex., becoming the latest California-based restaurant chain to move out of the state.

The juice chain said it plans to move its headquarters for operations, business development, sales and marketing, finance, supply chain, technology, human resources and other corporate functions to Texas. It will then close the Emeryville office after a six-month transition.

David Pace, the chain’s chief executive officer, said the company is making the move to better position itself to support franchisees. But the company also cited operating costs as a reason for the move.

Of course. Who wants to stay in California, and put up with all that hassle?

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These Hindus consider Donald Trump the “saviour of humanity”, and have invoked the help of the Hindu pantheon to ensure his election as president of the United States.

So at least he’s got that going for him.

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Those exit polls show a plurality of the primary’s Sanders voters—44 percent—planning to vote for Donald Trump in November. Obviously, this is consistent with the theory that they simply don’t like Clinton, but it goes further than that. Nearly 40 percent of the Bernie backers say they’ll vote for Trump even if he’s running against Sanders.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder….

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David Rutz draws attention to alleged journalist Charlie Rose and three of Barack Obama’s former speechwriters having a good laugh Monday night wjoking about the president’s infamous, oft-repeated false promise that under Obamacare, “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan” (video). It must have been a helluva whopper for the leftist PolitiFact to name it the 2013 “Lie of the Year.”

As Rutz notes, Obama speechwriters Jon Lovett, Jon Favreau and David Litt appeared on Rose’s PBS program “to gush over Obama’s writing abilities and the art of speechwriting in general.” Rose asked if they had significant “impact” on Obama’s more “serious speeches.”

“The joke speech is the most fun part of this, but the things I’m the most proud of were the most serious speeches, I think,” Lovett said. “Health care. Economic speeches.”

“Lovett wrote the line about, ‘If you like your insurance, you can keep it,’” Favreau said.

“How dare you,” Lovett said, as Rose and the three wordsmiths roared with laughter.

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Some Chinese state-owned entities, backed by the key government agency that oversees major state industrial companies, have adopted a controversial defense when they face U.S. lawsuits: You can’t touch us because we enjoy sovereign immunity.

That’s a one-trick pony; once an entity claims ‘sovereign immunity’, even if the claim is successful, it can be barred from further doing business in that jurisdiction, as happens when diplomats are sent home for breaking host-country law.

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This is, of course, nonsense, although it’s very understandable that NPR finds it attractive nonsense.

A man using a bathroom posted ‘Women’ or a woman using a bathroom posted ‘Men’ would be liable for arrest for trespass, just as if a customer went through a door marked ‘Employees Only’. The same doesn’t — and wouldn’t — require any police to be standing on guard, but rather would be triggered by a complaint, as most cases of trespass are. The situation doesn’t require a birth certificate, but merely an answer to the question ‘Do you have a penis?’, which can be determined by visual inspection.

Journalism schools must rival college education departments for the dimness of their students and the ability to charge people for imparting no discernible amount of education.

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Wal-Mart is suing Visa for allegedly forcing the retailer to let customers use signatures when paying with their chip-based debit cards.

The retail giant filed a lawsuit in New York court, saying that Visa wouldn’t allow Wal-Mart to just use the “chip-and-PIN” protocol and that it was required to allow customers to sign when using a chip debit card. Wal-Mart is seeking a jury trial, according to the complaint, first reported in the Wall Street Journal.

Foolish me — I thought that was the whole point behind the ‘chip-and-PIN’ business. But apparently not.

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Because diversity or white privilege or something.

I should like to point out that there was a time when there were no black female cadets at West Point, and that in that halcyon day we didn’t have these problems.

When a change leads to problems, how is that progress?

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Tribalism works, even when you don’t want it to.

Steve Sailer picks at the scab.

There’s been a lot of talk about Trump as the so-called “alt-right” candidate, but he’s actually been running an “alt-center” campaign, staking out positions that are controversial because they dissent in a commonsensical fashion from the increasingly bizarre mainstream globalist ideology.

One of the striking side effects of the Trump phenomenon is how he encourages more respectable sorts to attempt to articulate their establishment principles, which, when spelled out, turn out to be terrifying in their implications.

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Sykes-Picot (official name: the Asia Minor Agreement) bears recalling because its profound two mistakes are in danger of being repeated: one concerned form and the other substance.

Negotiated in secret by three European imperial powers, it became the great symbol of European perfidy. Not surprisingly, the Allied Powers secretly carving up the central Middle East without consulting its inhabitants prompted an outraged response (George Antonius, writing in 1938: “a shocking document … the product of greed at its worst … a startling piece of double-dealing”). Sykes-Picot set the stage for the proliferation of a deeply consequential conspiracy-mentality that ever since has afflicted the region.

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Among the many minority groups to suffer heavy losses in the Syrian civil war are the Palestinians. Nearly one percent of the Syrian Palestinians have been killed so far, most of them civilians. Overall nearly two percent of all Syrians have died in the war so far. What is odd about this is that the Syrian Palestinians are not citizens of Syria but long-term refugees. Many of these Palestinian families have been in Syria since the 1950s. This is the result of an odd aspect of UN rules concerning refugees that only applies to Palestinians. This began in 1949 when Arab nations refused to accept and absorb Moslems who fled (mostly) from what is now Israel on the promise of the Arab nations would soon mobilize sufficient military strength to destroy Israel, drive the Jews out and allow the refugees to return home. That never happened and it was quickly recognized that there was a serious refugee problem. The UN established a program to take care of these refugees but in a very unusual move the 750,000 original Palestinian refugees were allowed to pass on their refugee status to their children. No other refugee group was allowed to do that by the UN. About the same number of Jews were driven out of Moslem countries after 1948 and they were all accepted and absorbed by other nations, mainly Israel and the U.S. Since 1947 the number of “Palestinian refugees” has grown to five million and Arab states continue to refuse to absorb them. A nasty side effect of this UN policy was to make Palestinian refugees unwelcome and untrusted in the countries they did settle in. Many Moslem nations have had serious problems in the past with Moslem refugees that were given sanctuary, but not citizenship.

Steven Hayward at Powerline mentions some inconvenient truth.

The Ben Rhodes story takes me back to the infamous Atlantic article of September 1981, “The Education of David Stockman.” That was the story where lefty writer William Greider sweet-talked a gullible and naive David Stockman into confessing that supply-side economics was supposedly a trickle-down fraud (though in fact Stockman never understood it and wasn’t a sympathizer to begin with).

The media greeted that story as a major scandal about the Reagan Administration. By contrast, the revelation that the White House manipulated the media because, as Ben Rhodes rightly said, “they literally know nothing,” has not caused the media to be outraged that the White House was deceitful in the same way it argued in 1981.

Lots of reasons for this, of course, starting with the sympathy most journalists have for Obama and his Iran diplomacy. As several people have pointed out, the real ruckus here is not the revelation that the White House lied, but that the media have been exposed for the lightweights they are.  That’s much more unforgivable than being lied to. Did Rhodes have to rub their noses in it? Let’s start calling them (Ben) Rhodes Scholars for their acuity.

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Parents at San Francisco’s Raoul Wallenberg High School are angry at administrators’ efforts to increase diversity on the student council by ending elections for most freshman posts on the council. School officials say they were concerned that most of the elections have been won by Asian girls. James Ortiz says he was excited when a faulty member nominated him for the council then he learned it was largely because he has a Hispanic surname. “They were, like, bribing me into being on the student council. It was basically a thanks, but no thanks.”

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A group of liberal activists at Claremont McKenna College in California called out minority students and faculty who disagreed with their cause by placing them on a “shady person of color” list, the Claremont Independent reports.

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

The list includes the names of minority CMC students and faculty who protest leaders believe have disrespected their movement by expressing some form of disagreement with the protesters. The “King” SPOC was Brandon Gonzalez, the assistant dean of admissions, who led a diversity initiative that protesters found problematic. “Queen” SPOC Hannah Oh was the editor-in-chief of the Claremont Independent, the campus paper, who criticized the protesters’ tactics in an op-ed.

Join the Narrative or else.

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An injectable regenerative gel causes new vessels to grow and restore blood flow in the limbs of diabetic mice with severe vascular disease, and the inventors of the experimental therapy say it could be ready for clinical testing in just a few years.

Peripheral vascular disease is an expensive and often devastating medical condition that affects millions of people and has no long-term treatment options. It is especially prevalent among diabetics, and up to 25 percent of diabetic patients with peripheral vascular disease require amputation. In a recent demonstration using diabetic mice, researchers led by Aaron Baker, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, showed that their regenerative gel restored 85 percent of normal blood flow to limbs with diseased blood vessels.

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Writes Adams: “Identity is always the strongest level of persuasion. The only way to beat it is with dirty tricks or a stronger identity play. … [And] Trump is well on his way to owning the identities of American, Alpha Males, and Women Who Like Alpha Males. Clinton is well on her way to owning the identities of angry women, beta males, immigrants, and disenfranchised minorities.

“If this were poker, which hand looks stronger to you for a national election?”

Scott Adams starts getting the credit he deserves.

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Well, duh. They know perfectly well that she can’t be trusted not to throw them under the bus, as she did in Benghazi.

Steven Hayward at Powerline actually runs the numbers.

I’ve been wanting to circle back around to the story about the leaded water in Flint, Michigan, for some time now, on the suspicion that a close look at the data would show that the blood lead levels turning up in children are likely much lower than was typical of the majority of American children just 40 years ago, when airborne lead levels from leaded gasoline were very high.

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control, in the mid-1970s 88 percent of children nationwide had blood lead levels above 10 micrograms per deciliter (ug/dl). In the old days the dangerous level was thought to be around 30 ug/dl, but of course we’ve moved that down to about 5, and you hear a lot of people breathlessly say that there is no safe level.

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Too bad. I suspect the world would be better off without so many piss-ant island nations in the Pacific whining to First World countries about how poor and underprivileged they are.

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Obamacare chief Andy Slavitt lied before a Congressional hearing investigating wasted Obamacare state exchange funds, according to a new report by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. While under oath, Slavitt claimed that “over $200 million” in funds had been returned to the federal government. In actuality, just $21.5 million has been recovered despite state exchanges receiving $4.5 billion in taxpayer funds. In addition, the $21.5 million figure represented leftover funds, not money that had been recovered as a result of federal oversight.

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

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During the height of the racial protests at Claremont McKenna College last November, CMCers of Color issued a list of demands including the resignation of Dean Spellman and the establishment of a permanent “safe space” that would function as a Resource Center for students from marginalized backgrounds.

The student group wrote an official proposal to the administration, but also created a private Google doc with other miscellaneous items they wanted for their safe space, such as kitchen items and a sound system.

Among this list is a Shady Person of Color (SPOC) board, which includes a royal court of five members of the CMC community who opposed the group. Brandon Gonzalez, the King SPOC, is the Assistant Dean of Admissions. Gonzalez led the diversity initiative that CMCers of Color felt misrepresented CMC. The Queen SPOC, Hannah Oh (CMC ’15), was the Editor-in-Chief of the Claremont Independent at the time, and coauthored an editorial critiquing the protestors’ tactics. In a similar vein, Nathan Tsai (CMC ’17), the “Ignorant SPOC,” wrote a letter that garnered 277 signatures in opposition to the protestors’ demands.

Kurt Schlichter states the obvious.

But I have principles too, and a key one is not electing a man-hating progressive fascist who has the liberal infrastructure behind her that can make her goose-stepping dreams actually come true. Trump is a one-off loner who Congress could contain. Hillary Clinton has eager allies and potentially the Senate and, God forbid, the House behind her. She’s just malignant and stupid enough to start people shooting, while all Trump could do is get us yelling. Slight advantage, Trump.

Just so. Trump is one man, and one man, even with our current Imperial Presidency, can’t do as much damage as Hillary, who is merely the figurehead for an evil movement that needs to be stopped.

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Back in 2009, when the Department of Defense had but one problem on its mind, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Air Force had the idea of developing a light air support (LAS) aircraft for the close air support (CAS) mission for counterinsurgency operations. The focus was on a non-developmental platform, one that was cheap and easy to operate and maintain, intended primarily for foreign militaries with limited budgets, infrastructure and trained personnel. Initially, the Air Force thought it might acquire some number of this aircraft for its own use, but the decision was made to focus entirely on exporting them to allies and partners. At present a total of 15 aircraft are being provided to the Afghan National Air Force.

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws in Chicago … otherwise the place would wind up like Texas.

Community members spoke out against the violence on a weekend when mothers are supposed to be spending time with their children, not saying goodbye.

And we see how well that worked. Maybe we need more ‘community organizers’ like Barry Obama.