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Back in October the French authorities ordered the dismantling of the “Jungle” migrant camp near Calais. The camp was duly razed and its inhabitants dispersed, but the “refugees” didn’t abandon hope of getting through the Chunnel to Britain — they just relocated to other spots nearby.

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About 30 miles from Tallahassee, at an archaeological site known as Page-Ladson, archaeologists dove down about 30 feet deep into a sinkhole at the bottom of the Aucilla River in Florida. And it paid off. There they found bones and tools that showed the area may have been where early occupiers of what came to be known as America hunted mastodon about 14,550 years ago. That’s right, a Florida man once roamed the land with Mastodon.

The site is a rare pre-Clovis site, which means they were a people that pre-date the Clovis people (a prehistoric Native American culture). In the sinkhole, the archaeologists found a slaughtered mastodon–including one which those first Floridian colonizers may have killed, as well as a stone knife fragment.

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For their study, the researchers ignored the viruses’ RNA and DNA, which could be key areas to target, but because they change from virus to virus and also mutate, it’s very difficult to target them successfully.

Instead, the researchers focused on glycoproteins, which sit on the outside of all viruses and attach to cells in the body, allowing the viruses to do their dirty work by infecting cells and making us sick. Using that knowledge, the researchers created a macromolecule, which is basically one giant molecule made of smaller subunits. This macromolecule has key factors that are crucial in fighting viruses. First, it’s able to attract viruses towards itself using electrostatic charges. Once the virus is close, the macromolecule attaches to the virus and makes the virus unable to attach to healthy cells. Then it neutralizes the virus’ acidity levels, which makes it less able to replicate.

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Democratic politicians, including mayors in three major cities, are looking to use millions in taxpayer funds to protect illegal immigrants in their cities from deportation.

Mayors of Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco are looking to create funds to provide attorneys to illegal immigrants who face deportation, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Isn’t that special. Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco?

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Forget all the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the left. That’s just for show. Remember that the left was never very enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton, and are not sorry to have seen her lose. Trump’s victory, however, provides the left with something much more important that patronage in Washington DC: it provides them with the supposed evidence to bolster their essential hatred and contempt for America, and endless opportunities to proclaim and parade their supposed moral superiority over their fellow citizens.

I’ve been waiting for concrete evidence in the form of a confession from a certified liberal source, and Slate has stepped up!

Four years of rope-a-dope, here we come.

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I have a little list, they never would be missed….

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

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The state lacks effective means of enforcing the new laws, which now ban the possession of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

After July 1, you will have just three legal options for disposing of these magazines: remove them from the state, sell them to a licensed dealer or turn them in to the police.

Or you will keep your mouth shut and keep your magazines stashed.

I do not advocate flouting the law. But nor do I advocate being naive. After July 1, tens of millions of illegal ammunition magazines will remain in private hands. And there is not much the state can do about it.

That’s the problem with sweeping and arbitrary bans. People have a much stronger incentive to resist than to comply. That’s what happened in Connecticut and New York after the Sandy Hook school massacre in 2012. Both states passed sweeping gun control laws requiring, among other things, registration of so-called assault weapons. Millions of guns remain unregistered.

And here we are not talking about actual weapons. Magazines are simply metal boxes with a spring inside. Even if the state had a way to collect existing magazines, new ones are not difficult to make on the cheap.

Let us all sign up to help California become a free and independent country, so that it can swiftly degenerate into a Third World hellhole, as it deserves, and leave the rest of us alone.

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Funny how that works.

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It’s all about the Narrative, Larry.

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We have long lived with regulated showers, plugged up with a stopper imposed by government controls imposed in 1992. There was no public announcement. It just happened gradually. After a few years, you couldn’t buy a decent shower head. They called it a flow restrictor and said it would increase efficiency. By efficiency, the government means “doesn’t work as well as it used to.”

We’ve been acculturated to lame showers, but that’s just the start of it. Anything in your home that involves water has been made pathetic, thanks to government controls.

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When you travel to Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, or Switzerland – and probably many places I’ve never been – you are suddenly shocked. Why does everything work so well? Why don’t things work as well in the US? The answer is one word: government. This is the only reason.

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Assuming, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Personally, I prefer a Trane.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains it all to you.

The first is the inequality people tolerate, such as one’s understanding compared to that of people deemed heroes, say Einstein, Michelangelo, or the recluse mathematician Grisha Perelman, in comparison to whom one has no difficulty acknowledging a large surplus. This applies to entrepreneurs, artists, soldiers, heroes, the singer Bob Dylan, Socrates, the current local celebrity chef, some Roman Emperor of good repute, say Marcus Aurelius; in short those for whom one can naturally be a “fan”. You may like to imitate them, you may aspire to be like them; but you don’t resent them.

The second is the inequality people find intolerable because the subject appears to be just a person like you, except that he has been playing the system, and getting himself into rent seeking, acquiring privileges that are not warranted –and although he has something you would not mind having (which may include his Russian girlfriend), he is exactly the type of whom you cannot possibly become a fan. The latter category includes bankers, bureaucrats who get rich, former senators shilling for the evil firm Monsanto, clean-shaven chief executives who wear ties, and talking heads on television making outsized bonuses. You don’t just envy them; you take umbrage at their fame, and the sight of their expensive or even semi-expensive car trigger some feeling of bitterness. They make you feel smaller.

Theodore Dalrymple turns over a rock.

Future historians, if there are any, will look on our epoch as one of bad temper. The ease with which people are provoked to the expression of outrage suggests that it has a very important function in our mental life, if not necessarily in our mental equilibrium. Outrage is a substitute for religion: It convinces us that our existence has some kind of meaning or significance beyond itself, that is to say beyond the paltry flux of day-to-day existence, especially when that existence is a securely comfortable one. Therefore we go looking for things to be outraged about as anteaters look for ants. Of all emotions, outrage is not only one of the most pleasurable but also one of the most reliable.

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By just about everyone’s reckoning, the so-called signature achievements of the Obama years are the enactment of Obamacare and the Iran nuclear deal. They have a lot in common. Both are ruinous and both were built on an edifice of bald-faced lies. President Obama is the lyin’king and these are the lyin’ years.

We recall the foundational lies of Obamacare: If you like your insurance plan, you can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can keep him. Obamacare will save the average family $2500 a year. Obama enunciated these lies in a manner suggesting that anyone who disputed them was an idiot. The compilation below documents Obama’s incessant reiteration of the lie about keeping your health care plan. Our familiarity with it should not dull our contempt for the liar, his partisan allies and his mainstream media adjunct.

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Guess they realize that nobody was buying what they were selling.

We got your fake news, right here.

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The 2016 year saw an explosion in “hate crime” accounts that turned out to be hoaxes. Many of those accounts were attributed to supporters of Donald Trump.

Of course. Because Trump is the New Hitler.

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

When you hear the DemLegHump Media complain about ‘fake news’, remember what they do for a living.

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Hey, at least we have a plan. This is the country that elected a SWPL college frat-boy Prime Minister.

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A notion so stupid that, in Orwell’s phrase, only an intellectual would believe it.

Considering the number of dumb-ass things that left-wing academics embrace, is it any wonder that Normal People disbelieve Global Warming basically because left-wing academics embrace it?

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Guess it didn’t work.

Heavily armed terror cell ‘under orders from Isis’ arrested in Russia

A Bomb at the Door of a Church in Toulouse

Unhinged Georgetown Professor Attacks Muslim Woman Who Voted for Trump

CNN’s Beinart Calls It ‘Racist’ to Warn Jews Would Be Killed in Palestinian Arab State

While Obama Blames Israel, Hamas Prepares For Another War

Religious Freedom in Pakistan Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

ISIS Leader Who Defaced Priceless Ruins Destroyed By US Missile  What goes around comes around.

British woman ‘kidnapped and abused as a sex slave for 13 years’

Kidnapped schoolgirls ‘used as human shield’ by Boko Haram

Turkey and Russia have ceasefire plan for Syria, says Turkey’s foreign minister  Once everyone is dead, they will cease fire.

Russian embassy in Damascus hit by shells, claims country’s foreign ministry

Woman beheaded in Afghanistan ‘for going out in city without her husband’

Berlin attack: Tunisian man arrested in connection with Christmas market tragedy

Muslims Celebrate the Christmas Jihad in Berlin

Report: Latin America Offers A Haven For Jihadis

U.S. official says top Islamic State commander killed in Syria

Obama Admin Rushes To Resettle Refugees During Last Days In Office

Culture-Enrichers Brawl “Like Monkeys” on an Augsburg Bus

Germany: Suspected contact of Berlin attacker arrested

More Terror, More Denial

Turkish Intelligence Agents Funneled Weapons To ISIS, Says Captured Terrorist

More than 2,000 Saudis fight for militant organisations, says interior ministry

Berlin attack: Donation page for family of murdered Polish lorry driver raises £170,000 in six days

Erdogan says he has evidence US-led coalition has given support to Isis

Myanmar: Rohingya Muslim man’s headless body found in river after speaking to journalists

MEF Presents 15 “Useful Infidels” Who Enable Islamists

Cultural Enrichment in Cologne: A Turk, the Police, Gasoline and a Lighter

Five of the Berlin Subway Firebugs Are Syrians, And One is Libyan

Erdogan’s Daughter Tells US Muslims That Gulen Movement Is ‘More Dangerous’ Than ISIS [VIDEO]

Syrian Refugees Celebrate Christmas By Torching Homeless Man [VIDEO]

Irate Nigerians Lynch Failed Boko Haram Female Suicide Bomber

Isis fighters in Syria found to be receiving benefit payments from Danish government

Hamas condemns video of Muslim and Jewish people dancing as ‘disgraceful spectacle’

It’s not only Germany that covers up mass sex attacks by migrant men… Sweden’s record is shameful

Teenager forced to marry Pakistan man ordered by Foreign Office to pay fees to return home

Turkish man arrested after saying he wouldn’t serve President Erdogan tea

Saudi ‘Morality Police’ Arrest Party-Goers For Dancing And Drinking [VIDEO]

A bigger problem than ISIS: The Mosul Dam is failing

European border agency Frontex warns Isis is weaponising refugees  My, what a surprise.

Berlin: Seven Migrants Set Homeless Man on Fire

Berlin Truck Jihadi’s Pledge of Fealty to the Islamic State

Syrian man who filmed his daughters being sent on suicide mission is killed

‘I can’t believe I lived through all this evil’: Worshippers celebrate Christmas in a town finally liberated from Isis

Dozen women and girl, 8, massacred in ethnic Christmas Day violence in Congo

Mass graves found in eastern Aleppo, Russia claims

First female Afghan Air Force pilot has applied for asylum to the United States  Gee, I wonder why.

A Moving Look At The Lone Kurdish Sniper Fighting ISIS In Kobani [VIDEO]

Switzerland: Muslims Attack Christians Going to Mass in Longeborgne

Man Easily Enters Germany Dressed As ISIS Fighter [VIDEO]

Hundreds Of Iraqis Displaced By ISIS Return Home For Christmas Mass

Yemeni army claims snipers shot dead six Saudi soldiers

Council worker blames ‘people of certain culture’ for drowning deaths at Camber Sands

Boko Haram ‘crushed’ by Nigerian army in final forest stronghold

Berlin attack: Tunisian police arrest nephew of Christmas market terror suspect Anis Amri

The tragedies of Syria signal the end of the Arab revolutions

Keith Ellison Cancels Speech At Radical Islamist Group’s Annual Convention

Berliners Come To Terms With Terrorism Being The New Normal

FBI Warns of Attacks on US Churches

100 people feared dead in Mediterranean taking toll for 2016 to 5,000 – the highest ever

The 12 most unsafe cities in Europe

Berlin attack suspect Anis Amri ‘recorded video pledging allegiance to Isis’

Leading Jewish scholar prosecuted in France for alleged anti-Muslim remarks – Europe – Haaretz.com

2 Kosovo-born men held in suspected German mall attack plot

Media Desperate To Cast Berlin Jihadi Hellbent On Murdering ‘Crusader Pigs’ As Hopeful Refugee

Alleged ‘Avowed Jihadist’ Searching For Midnight Masses Busted In Phoenix

ISIS Celebrates Christmas By Burning Two Captives Alive

HuffPo Columnist: ‘Women to Blame’ for New Year’s Sex Attacks in Germany

US military says 28 al-Qaida militants killed in Yemen since September

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Hey — being the Magic Negro ain’t cheap.

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Not that it will end their whining.

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In his lame-duck attempt to undermine the State of Israel with a diplomatic knifing in the front, President Obama has created fertile ground for a campaign to lead the United States out of the United Nations. Or as I call it: USexit.

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Commenting at the time, Rep. Mike Rogers said: “Why should the American taxpayer bankroll an international organization that works against America’s interests around the world?” The time is now to restore and protect American sovereignty and get out of the United Nations.”

“I dislike paying for something that two-bit Third World countries with no freedom attack us and complain about the United States,” his Senate colleague, Rand Paul (R-KY), previously remarked. “There’s a lot of reasons why I don’t like the UN, and I think I’d be happy to dissolve it.”

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Disclaimer: This reviewer has never played the video game Assassin’s Creed and has minimal knowledge of the game’s major characters or storylines.

Thus putting the reviewer on the same level as the game’s designers, who have an equivalent ignorance of the Middle Ages.

Gavin McInnes runs down the list.

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This was the month everyone told us they were going to move to Canada if Trump won. None of them did.

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Mexico’s Cartel War passed the ten year mark on December 11. That’s the day then-president Calderon ordered a military-led task force to enter Michoacan state and defeat very-well armed organized criminal gangs that out-gunned local and state police. Calderon feared the drug gangs were on the verge of carving out “drug duchies” similar to those in Colombia. Calderon was quickly criticized for “militarizing” a criminal problem. However, Mexico faced an unusual situation. The drug cartels had gunmen who were better trained than the police. They also had military-grade arms. The drug gangs had lots of cash to bribe politicians as well as local and state police. Drug gang firepower and cash had overwhelmed local police forces and government institutions. The drug cartels also turned their guns on one another as they fought “turf wars” for control of drug trafficking routes to the U.S. Mexican citizens were often caught in crossfires. The gangs also extorted money from legitimate businesses and kidnapped people for ransom. With cartel gunmen ambushing and out-gunning municipal, state and federal police, Calderon decided he had to use the military as a last resort. The Mexican military is the one institution the long-governing PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) had never completely corrupted. As 2017 begins, the military remains one of the most highly trusted institutions in Mexican society.

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My favorite is blaming the Russians for showing us how much Democrats suck.

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On consistent lesson from these failures is that it’s as important to make the politics work is as important as getting the particulars of the policy right. A well-designed policy that is likely to fail politically is not a well-designed policy. Often the two are at odds.

Another is that it is better to avoid entangling complex and vital systems—like, say, the health care sector—with politics in the first place. Because we are now in a situation in which we have a health care system that weighs down both the federal government and the private sector, a system which nearly everyone agrees is inefficient and unsustainable in its current form, but which, despite the efforts of reformers, also consistently and frustratingly refuses to be reformed.

A perennial problem when attempting to take money from one class of people (e.g. taxpayers) and use it to provide a benefit for another class of people (e.g. influential voting blocks) is that choices are made on political grounds rather than on economic grounds; this way leads to inefficiencies, as always happens when people try to substitute politics for economics.

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A 5-year-old in Berwick, Pennsylvania, woke his dad up on early a Saturday morning and said it was time to go to school. Daddy told him no, hon, it’s Saturday—no school!—and went back to sleep.

Now the dad, Jeffry Wagner, is facing child endangerment charges. Unbeknownst to him, his son continued to get ready for school and ventured out into the chilly day to make his way to the bus stop.

Of course, no bus arrived, so the determined little boy started to walk to school.

There’s something about working for the government that just makes people stupid.

Joe Bob Briggs explains it all to you.

Probably the worst thing you can say to Donald Trump is “Mr. President, you have to do it that way because we’ve done it that way for the past fifty years.”

That’s like telling an alcoholic, “Don’t touch this MacAllan single malt I’m leaving on your nightstand over the weekend.”

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Best. News. Ever.

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Since Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in the late presidential election, the entirety of the Democratic Party has descended into its own Blanche DuBois madness. They have latched on to fantasy after fantasy on exactly how they were going to stop Trump’s presidency and/or cut off all future instances where a Republican could win the White House through the Electoral College.

And I do mean fantasies. Because every last one of them needs the explicit participation of Republicans. Every last one.

The whole issue of faithless electors needed massive amounts of Republican help.

The whole idea that an election thrown into the House would produce anything but a Trump victory needed massive amounts of Republican help.

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Two words: Amazon Prime.

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In poetic terms, the typewriter means thudding while word processing means deftness. Word processing on one’s own software or computer or special device—on WordPerfect (1980), the Osborne 1 or IBM PC (1981), the Kaypro II (1982), Microsoft Word (1983)—was for many writers special because it is done with light. Andrei Codrescu wrote that the Kaypro “let you write with light on glass, not ink on paper, which was mind-blowing. It felt both godlike and ephemeral.” The word processor is a powerful and empowering tool, far less about dominating the prone typewriter than about feeling humbled in the presence of infinite possibility.

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Before cereal, in the mid 1800s, the American breakfast was not all that different from other meals. Middle- and upper-class Americans ate eggs, pastries, and pancakes, but also oysters, boiled chickens, and beef steaks. 

The rise of cereal established breakfast as a meal with distinct foods and created the model of processed, ready-to-eat breakfast that still largely reigns. And it all depends on advertising and convincing you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. 

Sometimes the old ways are best.

The first is that any company that convinces you to eat their cereal, pop tarts, or bagels absolutely owns your breakfast, because most people eat the same breakfast every day. Studies have found that consumers have strong brand loyalty to breakfast foods like cereal. Our breakfast choices are likely more habitual because of the strength of morning routines. Ads by the chicken lobby may convince people to eat a bit more chicken. But an avalanche of Tony the Tiger ads can get tens of thousands of children to eat Frosted Flakes every morning for years. 

Another is that while some Americans cook breakfast, people’s desire for a fast, convenient meal means that many breakfast foods are packaged products that rely on advertising. You can glean this from the structure of the cereal industry: cereal is extremely easy to make—a fact that angered Dr. Kellogg, who patented his creation but failed to prevent others from copying it—yet just a few companies dominate the market. 

Rather disturbing.

Try the Breakfast on a Bun by Whataburger. Basically a breakfast cheeseburger.

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Imagine a world in which the font you use is chosen for you, based entirely on your demographic affiliations. All doctors write in Garamond, while designers are mandated Futura Bold. Middle-aged men get Arial; women, Helvetica. Goofy aunts must use Comic Sans.

Seem strange? A few centuries ago, that was just how things worked. In colonial America, “the very style in which one formed letters was determined by one’s place in society,” writes historian Tamara Thornton in Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. Thanks to the rigorous teachings of professionals called “penmen,” merchants wrote strong, loopy logbooks, women’s words were intricate and shaded, and upper-class men did whatever they felt like. So different were the results, says Thornton, that “a fully literate stranger could evaluate the social significance of a letter… simply by noting what hand it had been written in.”

I’m a Palatino man, myself, with occasional forays into Zapf Chancery.

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The New York Times was once known as The Grey Lady. Today, a more apt moniker would be The Hysterical Bag Lady. The Times editorial board is home to the most immoderate, shrieking Leftism you will find this side of The Nation.

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Think of that next time you’re feeling put upon.

Kurt Schlichter sounds the alarm.

I wish I could tell you that, having dodged the naggy bullet that was Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit, we can now spend the next four years being left alone. But that’s not in the cards. Liberals won’t – because they can’t – pause to reflect on how they should stop being such insufferable jerks and live with us normals in peace and mutual respect. Instead, they are doubling down on their gambit for unrestrained power over every aspect of our lives, fueled by a hatred for Donald Trump that is, in reality, a hatred for us.

Remember, they really do hate us. Just ask them.

Or don’t — they’re like vegetarians, they can’t wait to tell you how much you suck.

When it comes down to it, they are more worried that some buffoon will sneer at a woman trapped in burka than that the psychotic creep who stuck in it will butcher a bunch of normal Americans while shouting “Allah akbar!” We have to say “No” – normal lives matter.

Uh oh — that sounds raaaaaaacist….

Look, none of us want to spend our lives in permanent battle mode, but there’s no time out for the foreseeable future. We don’t have a choice. Our enemies – and understand that progressives are our enemies, not just opponents of good will who merely disagree with us – will not give up. They can’t give up, because they are so invested in liberal fascism and in controlling us that they have nothing else, leaving them no option but perpetual cultural and political war. We would rather life get back to normal, but there is no “normal,” not anymore.

And that about covers it.

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The idea is to involve students, engineers and anyone from the community who has ideas and wants to work on the next generation of smart appliances.

“Our view is that speed of innovation is really a competitive advantage now, not secrecy,” said Kevin Nolan, vice president of technology at Louisville-based GE Appliances.

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Black Lives Matter — except when inconvenient.

Jim Goad is making a list, and checking it twice.

My selections are rated in escalating levels of annoyance. Nonwhites are cut some slack because they don’t know any better, while white ethnomasochists get top billing.

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Unmentioned, of course, is their utility as an Enhanced Interrogation Device. Trust me, it works.

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The New York Times reports that at least 27 people were shot, at seven of them fatally, during a 48-hour period over Christmas weekend. The seven fatal shootings brought the total number of homicides in Chicago so far this year to 745, a 56 percent increase from the number at the same time last year. According to the Chicago Tribune, this year is the first in nearly two decades that more than 700 homicides have been recorded in the city.

Blacks made up around 78 percent of the homicide victims; Hispanics around 17 percent.

Black Lives Matter — except when blacks are pulling the trigger.

As for shootings in Chicago, the total now stands at 4,252. That’s an increase of 47 percent from the same time in 2015.

According to this source, the Chicago police have shot 25 people so far this year, killing 11 of them. Both numbers are somewhat lower than usual.

Chicago has long been administered by liberal Democrats.

Thank God for Chicago’s strict gun control laws, or the place would look like Texas.