Steve Sailer does the count so that you don’t have to.

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What would be more appropriate than to celebrate the day remembering a black lawbreaker by blacks breaking the law?

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How very … natural.

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“I just think for safety’s sake and to protect the town, the developers and residents a moratorium is something reasonable,” Karen Carlson, a city-councilwoman who voted for the ban, told The Coventry Courier. “The feeling among the vast majority in Greene, I think, is to preserve that district and keep residential areas as residential and industrial areas as industrial.”

Sometimes you can’t tell the players ever with a scorecard.

I suspect this is a case of somebody not getting paid off.

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How? By not being socialist enough, of course!

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“So what’s happening, and this is ironic, is that a movement with the goal of saving black lives at this point is getting black lives taken, because 80 percent of our murder victims here in Chicago are male blacks,” McCarthy continued.

Black Lives Matter! Or maybe not.

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How many can you name? None? Maybe that’s because the DemLegHump Media DIDN’T COVER THEM.

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That would be … entertaining.

President-elect Donald Trump met with a Princeton University physicist and skeptic of man-made global warming who observers believe could be the next White House science czar.

Trump met with Dr. Will Happer in New York City Friday. Happer didn’t take any questions entering or leaving Trump Tower last week, so it’s hard to say what the meetings were about. Trump has yet to fill key energy and science roles in his administration.

He’s from Princeton, so his Crustian credentials are impeccable. Trump is a judo-master with Leftist brain-space.

Shelby Steele turns over a rock.

One of the points that I feel very strongly about, coming as a black [man], is that the deference that America has shown us since the ’60s with the War on Poverty and the Great Society and welfare, these deferential policies that defer to our history of victimization now victimize us more than racism did. I grew up in segregation. I know exactly what it’s like. And I had a more positive attitude toward America than many blacks do today who are the beneficiaries of Affirmative Action. I think that deference has become a very corrupting influence on the people that it tries to help. It’s honorable that it wants to help these people but they never ask the people to be responsible for their own transformation and uplift and that’s the great tragedy of deference and political correctness.

As is traditional, if you didn’t know that he claimed to be black you wouldn’t ever know it; certainly not by looking at him.

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It’s called ‘plasmaphoresis’ and I did it as a graduate student. It’s a great way to make money for students and other people with more time than cash. That and my Reserve drill pay paid my living expenses.

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And they’re overpaid.

Jim Goad clues us in.

“Intersectionality,” which I’ve previously referred to as “Cannibalism Among The Oppressed,” refers to the highly amusing tendency of leftist identity politics to devolve into petty pissing matches about whose group has had a shittier, more miserable history. In case you didn’t realize, the more of a historical loser you are, the more advanced and noble you are as a human being. When it comes to shuffling the Progressive Stack, straight white Christian males go to the bottom of the deck by default. But if you just happen to be a one-armed HIV+ obese transgender black lesbian with multiple personality disorder, you might as well be the second coming of Gandhi.

To their befuddlement, white feminists are waking up to the fact that they are being herded to the back of the progressive bus due to their shamefully inescapable whiteness.

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There is probably not one issue that Bill Kristol and John Lewis agree on. Lewis is a partisan lefty who may be more of a dedicated Communist than Vladimir Putin.

Several years ago Lewis accused Tea Party protesters of spitting on him and calling him the “N-word” during a political stunt – the walk to the Capitol to vote for ObamaCare. There were cameras everywhere. The late Andrew Breitbart initially offered $10,000 to anyone who could prove it happened. There were no takers even when Breitbart upped the reward to $100,000. The reason Breitbart never payed out a dime is that John Lewis is a liar who’s reputation was built (and peaked) during the Civil Rights marches of the 1960’s.

And then there’s this reality, that while John Lewis may be a Civil Rights Icon™, Vladimir Putin is the head of a nation of 143 million with an estimated 7,000 nuclear weapons. And if Bill Kristol doesn’t respect that then who really has the problem?

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Geographic mobility–the movement of people from place to place in response to changing job trends–had declined in the United States, which in turn contributes to the reduction in economic mobility. David Schleicher, a Yale University associate law professor, has written a paper arguing that this reduction is due to government regulations, including land-use regulations that make it expensive to move and occupational licensing that makes it expensive to enter new markets.

Steve Sailer turns over a rock.

Much of the outrage over Trump is from the few thousands of people in the Republican and Democratic establishments who had good cause to hope back in 2015 that their resumes and thus net worths would be permanently burnished by spending a couple of years in a Hillary or Jeb White House, thus upping their market value to private industry.

Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

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Brazilian based company Mandala da Montanha, was set up by Martin Schneesche and Alexandre Yokoyama in 2015 as a farm for selling home-grown food but, unlike other subscriptions services, it allows the consumers to be part of the farming process.

Tapping into the rise of the Millennials for whom convenience is King, this service lets people decide what they want to plant – from a variety of lettuces, beets, onions and spinach to more indigenous ingredients like scarlet aubergine and okra – and for a small fee, delivers it right to their front door.

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People used to chase economic opportunity across the country. Then the government got in the way.

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Remember when those pesky other branches of government wouldn’t bow down to Obama’s whims, and the president famously bragged about going it alone? Now Obama’s out and it will soon be Donald Trump wielding his pen and phone.

As Barack Obama bids farewell to his presidency this week, keep in mind these five scary powers that President Trump will inherit from him.

Someone needs to remind the Left ‘be careful what you wish for’.

Orbit Lawn Watering Soaker Irrigator.

Magnasonic Cleaner.

LED Candles with Timer and Remote. Add a mini-microwave and I’m in.

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Phrased as ‘he could’ but you know that ‘he will’.

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Stefan Hagopian, a doctor in Santa Monica, California, received an email from his healthcare insurance company on Nov. 8 saying his plan would be canceled on the first day of 2017. He had been one of millions of Americans whose coverage failed to qualify under the mandates insurance companies had to abide by under the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare.

Hagopian hopes to see Obamacare repealed entirely because of its requirement that all Americans obtain health insurance or pay a fine. He said the healthcare law benefitted insurance companies more than U.S. citizens and doctors.

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In the movie The Godfather, there’s a scene where Don Corleone is giving Michael some advice about life. He says, “I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.” It’s a great line and it was true for most of human existence. The role of males in society has always exposed them to the greater risk. That and male competition has often been for keeps. When the stakes are high the room for error is smaller so men have always had to be the less reckless of the sexes.

We live in a soft age where women run most things so that means we live in a careless age as well. All sorts of silly and ridiculous things are indulged because the margin for error seems endless. You can make up a bunch of silly diversity rules, for example, on the college campus, because little serious work is done on the college campus. Most of what is done is busy work. In the areas where serious work is done, like the hard sciences, you see very little of the PC nonsense we associate with the academy.

The Guardian is the iconic left-wing publication in the U.K., honestly partisan in a way that its counterparts in the U.S. (New York Times, Washington Post) avoid.

This article is a good example of the constant obsession with race that has occupied the Left since the 1970s; ‘progressives’ find racism everywhere, much the way that Jonathan Edwards found sin.

Ezra Klein has some some shrewd observations.

When a grave-faced announcer on CNBC says “technology stocks are down today,” we all know he means Facebook and Apple, not Boeing and Pfizer. To Thiel, this signals a deeper problem in the American economy, a shrinkage in our belief of what’s possible, a pessimism about what is really likely to get better. Our definition of what technology is has narrowed, and he thinks that narrowing is no accident. It’s a coping mechanism in an age of technological disappointment.

“Technology gets defined as ‘that which is changing fast,'” he says. “If the other things are not defined as ‘technology,’ we filter them out and we don’t even look at them.”

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“We were promised flying cars; we got 140 characters,” he likes to say.

Paul Graham.

Because biographies of famous scientists tend to edit out their mistakes, we underestimate the degree of risk they were willing to take. And because anything a famous scientist did that wasn’t a mistake has probably now become the conventional wisdom, those choices don’t seem risky either.

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And so are we.

Major Linux distros, Microsoft, PC hardware manufacturers, big industry turnarounds (Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola) the dawn of the GPU era, the end of Moore’s Law speed clock wars into parallel computing, the dawn of ARM. It took 10 years for all the smoke to finally settle, and it took having Apple standing still for 6 years for everybody to finally catch up.

Judge refuses to dismiss terrorism charges against Ohio man

Airstrikes escalate despite Syria cease-fire

Syrian medics report ‘systematic’ targeting of hospitals and medical personnelI

SIS retakes historic city of Palmyra

“The World is Not Moving Towards Order, But Rather in the Direction of Jittery Unpredictability”

Child Bride Gang-Raped by Eight Men at the Asylum Shelter?

A Bad Internet Connection? Destroy the Migrant Shelter!

German Girl Outsmarts Dim-Witted Migrant Groper

Probe identifies 33 civilian deaths in U.S.-Afghan raid on Taliban

Paris attacks: Two suspects arrested for ‘supplying fake documents to Isis militants to plan atrocities’

Taliban release video showing American, Australian captives

The Great Migration 2011-2016: Trafficking Routes to Europe

Afghanistan’s ‘ghost soldiers’ take scary toll on US taxpayers, says watchdog

Assad ‘dropped 13,000 barrel bombs on Syria in 2016’, watchdog claims

ISIS Drowns A Man In Shampoo For Claiming The Terrorist Group Is Dirty

Hamas, ISIS Affiliates, See Opportunity in Terror Truck Attack

ISIS using small drones to drop bombs on Iraqis

Morocco bans burqa over security concerns

United Arab Emirates: 5 diplomats killed in Afghanistan bombing

Immigration Official Okays Syrian Immigrants With Fake Passports [VIDEO]

Afghan official: Twin bombings rock Kabul, 50 wounded

Up to 50 people feared dead in twin blasts in Kabul

Gaziantep attack: ‘Terrorist’ killed in gun battle outside police station in Turkish city by Syrian border

Turkish marriage guide advises wives to wear sexy outfits after being beaten to ‘please’ their husbands

The Truck Jihad in Jerusalem

World Condemns Deadly Jerusalem Terror Attack; Palestinians Celebrate It | The Tower

Battling ISIS, Iraq troops reach bank of Tigris River in Mosul

Aggressive Intent, Advance Collusion by “Nafris” in Germany on New Year’s

ISIS Conducts Third Major Truck Attack in Six Months

Latest ISIS Vid Features Toddlers Slaughtering Prisoners [PHOTOS]

Egypt suicide attack: Bomber in truck full of explosives kills 10 at Sinai security post

Israel detains 5 relatives of Palestinian responsible for deadly Jerusalem truck attack

New Year’s Eve at the Brandenburg Gate: Groping Jihad Worse Than Thought

Germany’s Islamist Scene Approaches 10,000 Followers

French Police Beaten, Seriously Injured by Culture-Enrichers

Claus Strunz: “Germany: The Country of Deniers of Reality”

Massive tanker bomb kills 48 in Syria border town

Sixty children referred to UK Government counter-terrorism programme every week

Catholic Church Unrepentant for Working with Muslim Brotherhood Front Groups

One of the world’s most wanted terrorists married a British woman  Well, actually, she was a Bengalis living in Britain. But you know how ‘journalists’ are.

Obama Breathes Life Into Syrian Marxist Movement, With Millions In Aid

Four Killed In Jerusalem Truck Attack On Israeli Soldiers

Guns & Politics: Europe Once Protected Itself Against Arab Invaders

Jerusalem truck ramming was ‘terrorist attack’, confirms Israeli police

Police gun down Isis fighters on streets of Saudi Arabia

“The Islamic State is Already Here in Europe”

Archbishop of Mosul: “Don’t Accept Refugees Who Have Made us Refugees Here”

New Year’s Eve in Cologne: Surveillance, a Massive Police Presence, and a Zero-Tolerance Strategy

95% of Asylum Applicants in Italy Are Fake “Refugees”

The secret civilian network rescuing Yazidi women from Isis

Car bomb ‘kills at least 19’ in Syrian border town of Azaz

Nigerian schoolgirls kidnap: Chibok girls return to a different kind of captivity

Silvesternacht Becomes a Woman-Free Zone

An American Pastor Has Been Held In Turkish Prison On Bogus Terror Charges For 3 Months

Fort Lauderdale Shooter Told FBI He Was Forced To Fight For ISIS  Just Another Jihad Atrocity, then.

British mother jailed in Bahrain ‘after husband accused her of adultery’

This Christian Got His Throat Slit For Selling Sweet, Godly Booze

Turkish police arrest Canadian woman for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan  Well, you know how Canadians are.

Yemeni woman who campaigned for female literacy shot deadYemeni woman who campaigned for female literacy shot dead  My, what a surprise.

Muslim politicians in Indonesia call for nationwide alcohol ban

Isis militants ransack and destroy 3,000-year-old Iraqi city of Nimrud

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Two women have created a line of clothing and accessories to rally home the message that they were not included in the 53 per cent of white women who voted for Donald Trump.

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“We found ourselves wanting to tell people on the street, strangers on the subway, ‘it wasn’t me’,” they wrote on their website. “When visiting the Subway Therapy  Wall in New York City, Michelle added a sticky note that said, ‘not this white woman’. Karen and Michelle commiserated and collaborated and the idea of a t-shirt was born.”

The Left: It’s All About Race and Signalling.

“It’s hard to see how this really helps anyone or anything other than the conscience of the white women buying this sh*t. I’ll tell you, as a black woman, seeing that shirt doesn’t necessarily tell me you’re an ally or worth trusting any more than the sanely-dressed white woman next to you. It doesn’t tell me you understand intersectional feminism, All it says is you want people to know you’re not a complete asshole. The irony is, this shirt kinda does make you look like an asshole,” writer Kara Brown wrote.

I agree, although not for the same reason.

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It has been a calamitous winter inside the NHS. Last week, three people tragically died at Worcestershire Royal hospital with a women dying of a heart attack after waiting for 35 hours on a trolley. A similar picture has developed across the country with patients on trolleys due to lack of beds, many hospital trusts on red alert and ambulances missing targets for life-threatening emergencies. The British Red Cross declared a humanitarian crisis in the NHS.

How about that government-provided healthcare! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in America?

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Honorably discharged veterans could be able to shop online at military exchange websites as early as Veterans Day, barring any objections from Congress.

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A defense official confirmed a letter announcing the change was signed Wednesday by Peter Levine, acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness. Copies were sent to lawmakers on four House and Senate committees, and if no objections are raised within 30 days, officials with Army and Air Force Exchange Service and Navy Exchange Service Command expect to be able to implement the new benefit by mid-November.

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Exchanges sell items at a discount, without a sales tax, and any profits after operating costs are either returned to the services’ morale, welfare and recreation programs, or used for construction and other improvements to stores.

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I guess that’s why they keep taking ’em out — they want it for themselves.

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“Go around your house and look for things you’re not utilising, look for things you can re-use and re-purpose to help you get organised,” Costello said.

Everything in Costello’s home is sorted and labelled, but the secret to her ultra-organised house is simply upcycling things she already owns: she uses old medicine bottles to store earbuds, coins and safety pins, and a square divider to keep her teabags in order.

On the other hand, nothing ‘declutters’ like simply Throwing Shit Out.

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“If you are a very talented person, you have a choice: You either go to New York or you go to Silicon Valley.”

This statement by Peter Thiel, the PayPal founder and venture capitalist, unsurprisingly caused a stir, given that he made it in Chicago. Simon Kuper had made a similar observation in the Financial Times when he described how young Dutch up-and-comers had their sights set on London, not Amsterdam. “Many ambitious Dutch people no longer want to join the Dutch elite,” Kuper wrote. “They want to join the global elite.”

This same attitude is leading to the drain of young people out of the small towns of the heartland into the big cities, often those on the coast. Anyone with an ounce of talent or ambition heads for the city.

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Housing, jobs, and other destinations are so diffused throughout American urban areas that they don’t generate the large numbers of people moving from one point to another that mass transit systems need to work.

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Urban and transit evolution parted ways in 1913, when Henry Ford built the first moving assembly line to make his Model Ts. Cheap cars were an obvious threat to transit, but a bigger threat was less visible: unlike steam-powered, belt-driven factories, moving assembly lines required lots of land, so factories moved to the suburbs. When the suburbs refused to be annexed to the cities, monocentric cities became polycentric urban areas.

At least through the 1970s, urban planners and central city officials pretended their cities were still monocentric, and they wrote numerous downtown plans, urban renewal plans, transit plans, commuter-tax plans, and other plans designed to maintain the preeminence of downtown. The construction of the San Francisco BART and Washington Metro systems were among these plans, but were as doomed to fail as all the others.

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In 2014, Murray Energy Corporation and several of its affiliates sued EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, alleging that the EPA was in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 7621, § 321(a) of the Clean Air Act, which requires the agency to “conduct continuing evaluations of potential loss or shifts of employment which may result from the administration or enforcement of the provision of [the Clean Air Act] and applicable implementation plans, including where appropriate, investigating threatened plant closures or reductions in employment allegedly resulting from such administration or enforcement.”

The case is venued in West Virginia, and U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presides. In 2016, the parties filed cross motions for summary judgment. On October 17, 2016, Judge Bailey denied the government’s motion and granted Murray Energy Corporation’s motion. This means that Murray won the case.

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Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in seven days. Here’s who the president-elect has named to his cabinet so far.

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The Beam family is an unmatched dynasty in the Kentucky bourbon industry. It’s said that you can’t make a decent bourbon without a member of the Beam family behind the still.

Barack Obama is the first two-term U.S. President to have been at war every day of his tenure.

Not bad for a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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Crime, sexual harassment, and other invasions of privacy are common on metro systems throughout the world. Sexual harassment is especially bad on Tokyo subways, and a survey of 600 women transit riders in Paris found that 100 percent of them reported having been sexually harassed.

Such harassment often depends on the anonymity that comes with extreme crowding, but most American transit systems don’t get that crowded precisely because Americans won’t accept the invasions of personal space required for such crush conditions. Still, there are numerous complaints of sexual harassment on the New York City subway. Crime is rapidly rising on the DC Metro as well.

Crime, including thefts of smart phones, as well as violent crime, can be a big problem on light rail, partly because there is rarely anyone aboard to keep vehicles secure. Bus drivers presumably provide a modest deterrent to crime, but still there is the problem of bus-stop crime.

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A 42-year-old Dutch woman recently had her Swiss citizenship application rejected because of her “annoying” lifestyle.

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Urs Treier, a spokesman for the local government, said the rejection had little to with her political stance, but rather how she chose to express it.

“If someone is so much in  the spotlight and rebels against things that are accepted in the local community, it can cause the community to not want such a person in their midst,” Treier told The Local.

Q: How can you tell a vegan?
A: You don’t. They tell you.

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Starting from a highly-accurate computer model, the researchers 3D printed diatomic cubes to represent the material’s sponge-like structure and then subjected them to compression tests. The shape here is incredibly important; the cube itself looks like a magenta sponge. Its porous nature means that there’s more surface area, and more surface area means higher strengths at lower weights.

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Much like Democrats with social media.

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The 2015 National Transit Database shows that people pay an average of 28 cents per passenger mile to ride transit. To compare this cost with driving, the American Public Transportation Association uses American Automobile Association calculations of the cost of driving, which show an average cost of about 57 cents a mile for medium-sized cars. So it seems like a no-brainer to conclude that transit saves money.

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If you have a car, no matter how old it is, you only pay the variable cost whenever you drive it on any particular trip. According to the AAA data, that variable cost–fuel, maintenance, and tires–averages less than 15 cents a mile, and would be even lower if you had a more fuel-efficient car. So right there you are saving at least 13 cents a mile over transit.

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Local governments routinely spend resources on infrastructure they don’t really need or want simply because available funds are sitting in a federal account and are therefore viewed as “free,” according to Sen. Jeff Flake’s new edition of the Wastebook.

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Among the transportation and infrastructure examples highlighted by Flake in the latest Wastebook are the “two federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants totaling more than $65 million” supporting a streetcar that no one seems to want.

“I’ve never been on a car with more than 25 other people; it’s usually about a dozen, in a car that can seat 60 and carry up to 195,” a journalist observed, and many passengers are homeless people just looking for shelter, who often “got a little bit rough with the operators” and left it smelling foul, according to the Wastebook.

John Hinderaker is not afraid to ask the hard (well, not that hard) questions.

As a conservative, I essentially never encounter racism. I don’t have any racist friends or acquaintances. The issue never comes up. Liberals, on the other hand, tell us that they are swimming in a sea of racism. I don’t know, they might be right. Maybe in their liberal world, racism is still an issue.

It’s certainly an obsession.

But what is it with liberals and racism? Remember when liberals tried to make some kind of scandal out of the fact that one of Mitt Romney’s grandchildren was African-American? What is wrong with these people? This kind of thing happens a lot. If you are looking for racism, look to the left.