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Diversity for thee but not for me.

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According to a new study released by the Department of Education, students who pursue an occupational credential (an education that is career-centered) are more likely to be employed than those who get an academic credential. This suggests that recent efforts to encourage more individuals to pursue college (President Barack Obama said that all Americans should have at least some postsecondary education) may be misguided. The data also suggest that the administration’s antagonism toward more career-focused educational tracks—often provided by for-profit trade schools and community colleges—is misplaced.

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Compare with today’s bloviating.

Rich Lowry lays out some inconvenient truth.

President Obama won’t explicitly say Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history, but surely it’s what he believes.

I rather suspect he’s been explicit about it, it just hasn’t been reported by the DemLegHump Media.

The president basically thinks anyone who gets in his way is transgressing the larger forces of history with a capital H. During the 2008 campaign, he declared Sen. John McCain “on the wrong side of history right now” (the “right now” was a generous touch — allowing for the possibility McCain might get right with History at some future, undetermined date).

Which McCain has shown a distressing tendency to do.

Obama is given to quoting Martin Luther King for the proposition that the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice. Whoever is deemed to be on “the wrong side of history” by progressives is always loosely associated with the opprobrium directed toward the Southern Fire-Eaters and the defenders of Jim Crow.

That’s because they think that everyone who doesn’t agree 100% with them must therefore disagree 100% with them and is therefore ipso facto a racist/sexist/bigot/homophobe/younameit.

For the left, History isn’t a vast, unpredictable, untameable force, but just like someone who might be standing in line next to you at Whole Foods. History is a board member of Planned Parenthood. It reads the Huffington Post and Vox, and follows Lena Dunham on Twitter.

It really cares whether transgender people are allowed to use the appropriate bathroom. History was probably hanging out at the Javits Center on election night and collapsed into a puddle of tears right around the time Wisconsin was called.

The political dangers of this point of view should be obvious.

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My liberal friends sometimes ask me why I don’t devote more of my science journalism to the sins of the Right. It’s fine to expose pseudoscience on the left, they say, but why aren’t you an equal-opportunity debunker? Why not write about conservatives’ threat to science?

My friends don’t like my answer: because there isn’t much to write about. Conservatives just don’t have that much impact on science. I know that sounds strange to Democrats who decry Republican creationists and call themselves the “party of science.” But I’ve done my homework. I’ve read the Left’s indictments, including Chris Mooney’s bestseller, The Republican War on Science. I finished it with the same question about this war that I had at the outset: Where are the casualties?

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The members of the American Sociological Association have decided to be very angry about the Cleveland Indians “Chief Wahoo” logo, and they have collectively written a letter to Major League Baseball commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr., telling Manfred just how angry they are.

Alert the media! Oh, wait, they already know … because the first thing one does in a situation like this is release the letter to the DemLegHump Media. You might even eventually get around to sending it to the nominal recipient, but that’s not required — he can read in in the news like everybody else.

“Academic research clearly demonstrates” that nicknames and logos honoring Native Americans “reflect and reinforce societal stereotypes,” “undermine” “accurate understandings of” Native Americans and “harm Native Americans” by “depressing their self-esteem,” Lamont claims. Also, she and other cloistered sociology professors are just sure that Native American team names “convey disrespect.”

Such letters as these certainly reflect and reinforce stereotypes about Professors of Sociology as a bunch of far-left tofu-heads. Perhaps they ought to be banned as well.

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I suspect it wasn’t a Republican who did it.

Jim Goad reminds us that the default for the Left is lying.

According to Nevada Senator Harry Reid—who is retiring from politics to pursue a career as a Roy Orbison impersonator—Donald Trump’s election “has sparked a wave of hate crimes across America.” Almost as if they were in an echo chamber together with Reid, the passionately white-hating website Salon confirms Reid’s assertion that ever since Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton in the electoral count, there have been “hate acts reported across the country.”

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Unfortunately—or fortunately, I guess, depending on how you feel about these things—it appears that many of these reported pro-Trump hate crimes simply did not occur.

Hate crime hoaxes have been “a thing” at least since the very notion of “hate crimes” was invented. To my knowledge, they were first documented extensively by Laird Wilcox in the early 1990s. In the late 1990s, I even found myself on the receiving end of an attempted hate-crime hoax.

Steve Sailer reminds us of some inconvenient truth from 1802.

The next exceptionable feature in the Message [from President Jefferson], is the proposal to abolish all restriction on naturalization, arising from a previous residence. In this the President is not more at variance with the concurrent maxims of all commentators on popular governments, than he is with himself.

Of course, it’s obvious to those who were paying attention that the play Hamilton is a Leftist fantasy pushing the Crustian narrative,  but the Left knows nothing of history, and cares even less.

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When Denver’s new airport rail line experienced severe glitches shortly after it opened, including malfunctioning crossing gates and a lightning strike that shut down the entire line for seven hours, among other problems, transit officials assured the public that they were just getting the bugs out of the system. But now, more than six months after it opened, the bugs are still thriving.

The crossing gate problem is so severe that the Federal Transit Administration has threatened to shut down the line until it is corrected. The contractor that built and operates the line tried to claim the lightning strike was an act of God, so the contractor shouldn’t be held responsible, but Regional Transit District officials responded that they had pointed out the company’s design was vulnerable to lightning as early as 2013, yet the company did nothing to fix the flaw. Meanwhile, the system continues to perform unreliably.

What is it with Democrats and trains? Why do they insist on living in the past?

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San Antonio police officer Benjamin Marconi was writing a traffic ticket outside police headquarters earlier today when a motorist pulled up behind him, got out of his car, approached Marconi and shot him twice in the head. The murderer got back into his car and drove away.

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The Democrats and their media adjunct played the race card over and over in the campaign that concluded with the election of Donald Trump on November 8. They aren’t about to give it a rest now. They have done a superb job of devaluing the charge. One might reasonably infer that the equal treatment of men without regard to race means nothing to them. Rather, they treat the issue of racism as a charge to be invoked purely for instrumental purposes.

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It took an election that gave the Republican Party control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, but at long last the American left is starting to discover the virtues of devolving authority to state and local governments.

The technical term for this is subsidiarity and we would all be better off if our Ruling Class adopted it.

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The Left is not accustomed to being treated the way it treats others.

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Maybe they know something that white people don’t.

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The murder count in Chicago reached 700 this week. It’s the first time since 1998 that the city has seen such high numbers.

Thank God for those strict gun-control laws in Chicago, or the place would look like Texas.

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Jovan Wilson, 15, was shot and killed Friday night.

His grandfather is Democratic Rep. Danny Davis, who represents the 7^th Congressional district and who was previously a Chicago alderman.

At least two assailants entered Wilson’s Englewood neighborhood home before firing a bullet into Wilson’s head. Local police say the boy was shot after an argument that accelerated beyond control.

Black Lives Matter — except in Democrat-run cities.

Sarah Hoyt identifies a trend.

Years ago, watching science fiction magazines and newspapers of various sorts come and go, I identified a process I called “roll hard left and die.”

When a magazine or a newspaper or any news or entertainment media was in real trouble, they went hard, hard left, then died.

It took me a little while to realize this was a sane strategy.  In a field completely controlled by the left, when you knew that your job was in peril be it through missmanagement or whatever, your last hope was to go incredibly hard left, so you could blame the failure on ideology.  And instead of not being able to find a job, you found yourself lionized by all the “right” (left) “thinking people.”  New jobs were assured.

Nothing else explains Keith Obermann.

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Looks like the whitest city in America just can’t get it right.

The Census Bureau estimates that the city of Portland is growing by more than 10,000 people a year while the Portland urban area is growing by more than 40,000 people a year, or more than 100 people a day. Despite, or more likely because of, hundreds of millions of dollars spent on growth planning, the region is doing a very poor job of producing the housing those people need to live in.

Metro, Portland’s regional planning agency, brags that not only is the region following most of the advice recently offered by the White House for making housing more affordable, it actually pioneered several of the techniques. Yet according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Portland-area housing prices are currently growing at 13 percent per year.

Perhaps that’s because ‘most of the advice recently offered by the White House’ is just a load of crap?

That’s my guess, what’s your guess?

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At last! Somebody who gets it.

Knork.

Hillary Hammers.

Date rape nail polish. I am not making this up.

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To gain power, totalitarian movements always portray themselves as victims. And while they are in the process of abusing, they cry in front of the world posing as the abused. They stage “hate-crime” attacks against themselves because hate crimes are their political and cultural capital. When those hate-crimes don’t exist, they must be invented.

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They told us that if Donald Trump was elected president, Americans would be punished for exercising their free speech. What they didn’t tell us was that the ones doing all the cracking down would be the losers.

The Other McCain breaks out the jaundiced eye.

Maybe they figured that having elected a half-Kenyan to the White House proved that Democrats could elect any random weirdo to any office anywhere, but 2016 proved them wrong. This year, Democrats decided Hope and Change meant nominating hopeless sex-change candidates.

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Notice that both of these trans-Democrats are (a) young, (b) white and (c) Bernie Sanders-style “progressives.” Coincidence? I think not. Democrat Party rhetoric in the past decade has focused so relentlessly on demonizing “white heterosexual males” as the stereotype of Republican evil that any young “progressive” is likely to take it for granted that being white is bad, being male is wrong and being heterosexual — why, heterosexuality is a form of prejudice: How dare you refuse to join the “LGBTQIA community”? The incessant pounding drumbeat of Democrat Party propaganda — “Sexist! Racist! Homophobe!” — is intended to inspire hatred of Republicans by depicting the GOP as bigoted, but what is the psychological effect of this propaganda on young Democrats who happen also to be both white and male? Well, the white male Democrat is not only inspired to hate himself, but also he realizes that he can never hope to represent his party, because his party does not represent him.

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The brownshirts of the Left are on the march.

Nazi is as Nazi does.

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Did the guy die? Yes? Then how was it ‘botched’?

Lockett’s brother, Gary Lockett, sued Gov. Mark Fallin (R-Okla.) and other state and prison officials saying the drawn out death of his sibling was “barbaric” and that the fumbled execution violated the inmate’s constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

Lockett, imprisoned at an Oklahoma state penitentiary for fatally shooting and burying alive a 19-year-old woman in 1999, was administered a cocktail of midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride, a mix of lethal drugs never before used in Oklahoma.

Oddly enough, I don’t think I’ll lose a lot of time worrying about how long it took somebody who fatally shot and buried alive a 19-year-old woman to die. Perhaps if they were to have shot him and buried him alive it would have been better, but that’s all I can think of.

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Just as socialists always claim that socialism’s failures were because it wasn’t socialist enough, Democrats are claiming that they lost this election because they weren’t Democrat enough. (In other words, ’round up the usual suspects’.)

What Democrats should realize, because everyone else does, is that voters rejected both their policies (which have undermined middle- and low-income families) and their governance (which has fueled rage at a power-hungry federal government). Hillary Clinton proposed more of the same. Coal workers said no. Blue-collar union workers said no. Suburban moms said no. Small businessmen, drowning under Dodd-Frank and ObamaCare, said no.

Instead Democrats think last week was an accident. Mrs. Clinton tells donors that she only lost because of FBI Director Jim Comey.Barack Obama faults Hillary’s tactics—she didn’t spend enough time in the right states. Michael Dukakis says Democrats only lost because of the Electoral College. Rachel Maddow blames third-party candidates.

All this denial has cleared the field for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the leading voice now calling on the party to recognize it has erred and needs change. She is telling the masses, however, that Democrats lost because they didn’t go big enough. They didn’t spend enough. Didn’t regulate enough. Didn’t socialize health care enough. Her prescription: Double down.

The DNC sent John Hinderaker a begging letter. Big mistake.

The Democrats write: “Before Donald Trump even takes the oath of office, his administration-in-waiting is already looking for a way to relive one of the darkest moments in the history of our country”–i.e., internment. That is a flat-out lie. No one in the Trump camp has proposed, or even hinted at, internment of anybody, and any such suggestion would be ridiculous on its face. The concept of interning Muslims is a fantasy dreamed up by the Democratic National Committee to raise money from suckers.

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And the browshirts of the Left are on the march.

Nazi is as Nazi does.

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Nazi is as Nazi does.

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The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) threw its support behind House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in her race to retain her leadership post Thursday.

Who says Republicans can’t be bi-partisan?

Congressman Kramer pulls the lid off.

From the outset of this process, Standing Rock Sioux leaders have refused to sit down and meet with either the Army Corps of Engineers or the pipeline company.

The Army Corps consulted with 55 Native American tribes at least 389 times, after which they proposed 140 variations of the route to avoid culturally sensitive areas in North Dakota. The logical time for Standing Rock tribal leaders to share their concerns would have been at these meetings, not now when construction is already near completion.

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And this comes as a surprise?

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Ever tried to bring attention to an issue close to your heart, but didn’t quite have the star power to do it? Well fret no more because rap supergroup Run the Jewels is here to help.

Through the music website Daylight Curfew, the famed duo of Killer Mike and El-P are offering an exclusive “Self-Righteousness for Sale” package, where for the price of $350,000, the two artists promise to spend six months “pretending to care about whatever you care about.”

This pretending to care will include “eloquent and timely speeches,” a co-authored info packet, a “heartfelt” video about the purchaser’s cause, and travel to a maximum of three events. As if all of this weren’t enough for any cash-laden social justice warrior, Run the Jewels will even compose an original song entitled “WE’VE GOT TO BRING _______ TO AN END” as part of the package.

One of the perennial conundrums of being a Bleeding Heart Liberal is figuring out a way to monetize it. This milestone appears to have been achieved. (Actually, I think that Bill Clinton was the first guy to do this ‘We feel your pain’ but he never got it to scale.)

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Researchers say the recently discovered smallest pyramid, which is 10m tall, was built at some point between 550 and 800 AD, as the Mayan civilisation reached its peak.

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Bernie supporters are sexist? Who knew? Off to the re-education camp with them!

‘Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.’

Maybe I need another Category: Circular Firing Squad.

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And I’m sure that Donald Trump is listening hard to Bernie Sanders and will just hop to it. Any second now.

This is just public posturing on Bernie’s part, to demonstrate to his followers that he’s still more-progressive-than-thou.

I guess he didn’t want people to forget that he’s Just Another Politician.

And of course the DemLegHump Media report this as ‘news’. Actual news would be Bernie Sanders saying, in public, that people ought not to jump to conclusions about Stephen Bannon on the basis of hysterical vaporings by the Far Left. But, of course, Bernie would never do that.

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Ordinarily I skip over these, but every now and one I stumble across one that’s worth a look.

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Two green energy companies contributed a quarter of a million dollars to the American Indian tribe spearheading a months-long demonstration against an oil pipeline in North Dakota.

Standing Rock Sioux voted unanimously April 5 to accept two $150,000 donations from ConEdison Development and Fagen Inc., both of which have partnered up to build windmills in the North Dakota area, according to internal documents kept by the tribe.

I guess there aren’t enough dead birds in North Dakota to suit the skraelings.

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Please give generously. They keep track of the ongoing defense against the Muslim threat to the West pretty much full time so that the rest of us don’t have to; they are the ‘community organizers’, if you will, of Flyover America.

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One of Hillary Clinton’s campaign themes was her alleged competence, based on years of public service, which she tried to contrast with Donald Trump’s amateurism. Yet, Clinton, through her campaign once again demonstrated that she is not competent. That she was outperformed by an “amateur” undermines her “competence” theme all the more.

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Hillary’s time at the State Department produced the failed “reset” with Russia, chaos in Libya, and a self-inflicted email scandal she couldn’t shake. More evidence, along with her health reform botch during Bill Clinton’s first term, of her incompetence.

Note that there is no mention of Hillary’s time in the Senate. That’s because it might as well not exist; Hillary did absolutely nothing of note during her time in the Senate, other than keep her name in the DemLegHump Media for a possible Presidential run to be named later.

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Wonder how much they’re charging George Soros for his AstroTurf?

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No flying car, though.

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Orval Faubus must be kicking himself for being 50 years too early.

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And the brownshirts of the Left are on the march.

Nazi is as Nazi does.

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How can the murder capital of the country be a ‘sanctuary city’?

Sanctuary cities are like the Land of Oz:  a magical but terrifying world where reality has been stood on its head and the realm is ruled by weak leaders who hide behind grand words and imposing facades. Did I just describe Chicago and its delusional mayor, Rahm Emanuel?  Get this vigorous quotation from the freedom-loving civic leader:  “To all those who are, after Tuesday’s election, very nervous and filled with anxiety as we’ve spoken to, you are safe in Chicago, you are secure in Chicago and you are supported in Chicago.  Chicago will always be a sanctuary city.”

Yes, about as safe as a hen in a fox house.  Seriously, nobody is that safe and secure in Chicago because Chicago is the murder capital of North America and carries that distinction like a murderer caught in the act with a gun in hand.  With an annual homicide rate above New York and Los Angeles, Chicago has become a little bit of hell on earth with competing gangs, drug wars, and the general ascendancy of the lowlifes.  Contemporary life – and death – in Chicago has far outweighed all of the worst stereotypes of the Prohibition era when Al Capone ruled this town.  Does Mayor Emanuel really think the illegal immigrants are “nervous and filled with anxiety?”  What universe is this completely unfeeling, utterly detached municipal politician living in?  It’s the legal citizens of Chicago who are more than just nervous and filled with anxiety; they are scared as hell of being caught in the crossfire of a gang gunfight.

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Mitchell Mormon Jr. was gunned down outside of a popular, Atlanta, Georgia, bar early Sunday morning shortly after entering into an argument over Donald Trump’s immigration plan.

That’ll learn him, by gum.