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Funny how the people who scream the most about racism are the most racist people going.

The Other McCain in on the case.

So, a woman who worked as a biochemist and became a mother at age 40 has a child who is, for lack of a better phrase, mentally defective. Resisting the temptation to  go off on a tangent here, I’ll just say that there are known risks of delayed childbearing, and this is one of those risks — your mentally defective child turns out to be an evil genius….

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This is 21st-century parenting: Your mentally defective child is such a weirdo you couldn’t let him attend school, but yeah, just let him have unrestricted Internet access, because what could possibly go wrong?

Up to 100 Dutch citizens ‘prevented from leaving Turkey after criticising President Erdogan’

Female Tehran marathon participants forced to run inside

Isis kidnapping refugee women, forcing them to convert and selling them as sex slaves in Libya  Islam has no problem with slavery; never did.

A glimpse into Iran’s underground fashion and style – where modelling is illegal

Muslim babies born will outnumber Christian births by 2035

Isis executes 33 people in largest mass killing since 2016

Jewish Woman Shoved to Her Death From Apartment Window in Paris

Jihad Attack in Venice Thwarted

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Nab Suspect Charged With Attempting To Join ISIS

Mounting confidence nerve gas was used in Syria attack

Germany Moves To Ban Child Marriages After Finding 1500 Cases Among Refugees

Acid Attack in Erkrath-Hochdahl?

Submission Even After Death

Indian politician defends mob of ‘cow vigilantes’ who killed a Muslim cattle farmer for transporting them

Swedish Prime Minister condemns gender segregated Muslim school bus as ‘despicable’

Syria chemical attack: Sarin gas likely weapon used in Idlib as experts say Russian claims ‘don’t add up’

Pro-ISIS hackers release ‘kill list’ with 8,786 targets in US, UK

Life With Islam And Its Enablers

Army General: Stopping ISIS’s Flow Of Foreign Fighters ‘Will Take Years’

Beatings, cattle prods and mock executions: Kidnapped journalist reveals horror of 6 weeks captive in Sudan

Saudi women in silent walking protest over right to drive in the Kingdom

Palestinians Exploiting Children to Fight Israel

Ethiopian maid filmed falling from seventh floor ‘trying to escape Kuwaiti employer wanting to kill her’

Muslim Students Beat Jewish Boy At German School  Purely a coincidence, I’m sure.

Heroic Dog Saves Wedding By Tackling Female Suicide Bomber  Not something you see every day.

ISIS Fighters Hiding Behind Children To Avoid Airstrikes

Suspected Gas Attack Leaves Dozens Of Bodies In Syrian Streets

Syria gas attack reportedly kills dozens, including children

Your Money or Your… Never Mind, We’ll Just Beat You Up

A Bum Trip for the Salafist Scene in Hesse

Isis used 17 suicide car bombs ‘to help leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi flee Mosul’

St Petersburg attacks: Isis celebrates explosions that killed 10 people

Jihad — It’s Nothing New (But It’s Not the Real Problem)

I Criticised Hamas and My Life in Turkey Became a Nightmare

New Hamas Document Reaffirms Radical Islamist Goals

Our Garden Isn’t Big Enough — Give Us Yours!

UK Launches ‘Jihadi Jail’ To Keep Inmates From Getting Radicalized  Good luck with that.

Rape on the Dance Floor: Culture-Enriching “Child” Heeds Terpsichorean Urge

Iran Working To ‘Inflict Grave Damage’ To Key Anti-ISIS Ally, US Believes

Pakistan shrine leader accused of murdering 20 people for ‘cult ritual’

Isis deputy to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘killed in Iraq air strike’

When is it OK to shoot a child soldier?  When he points a gun at you. Duh.

Report: Iran built a guided missile in a drone’s body for rebels in Yemen

British woman jailed in Iran ‘dreams of watching husband and daughter playing’ as detention reaches one-year mark

Refugee children in Sweden are falling into coma-like states on learning their families will be deported  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Isis deputy leader ‘killed in air strike’ by Iraqi forces

Mujahideen on the Runways and in the Terminal of Montréal-Trudeau Airport

Germany opens investigation into Turkish group accused of spying on Erdogan opponents in 35 countries

Another Day, Another Culture-Enriching Lunatic With a Knife

More aggressive US strikes in Somalia said to risk civilians

Revealed: How Isis turns normal towns and villages into theatres and factories of death

Anti-war activists attempt citizens arrest on Saudi general visiting London over alleged Yemen war crimes

German Minister Proposes ‘Islam Law’ To Regulate Muslim Communities

FBI Grabs South Carolina Teen Headed To Join ISIS At Airport

Pakistani Christians accused of lynching ‘offered acquittal’ if they convert to Islam

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Dr. Frankenstein had nothing on leftists. Frankenstein’s monster merely terrorized the countryside. The monsters birthed by the left tend to terrorize countries, cultures, and occasionally even the entire world. And like Dr. Frankenstein’s hulking brute, the left’s monstrosities eventually turn on their creators. Take communism, for example. The only thing communists love more than killing innocent people is purging those within their own ranks. One of the left’s most recent hellspawns, the Muslim “refugee” tidal wave, is wreaking havoc throughout Europe, menacing women, gays, and Jews—three of the left’s most sacred “victim groups.” That horror show is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better (if it gets any better). And the malformed beast known as Black Lives Matter has done little except encourage cops to stop policing black neighborhoods, leaving residents at the mercy of the “black-on-black crime” that MSNBC swears doesn’t exist.

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Let’s see: You can identify as a different sex (which is genetically determined) but not as a different race (which is also genetically determined, but is claimed by the Left ‘not to exist’).

Boy, it’s getting hard to tell all the victims without a scorecard.

Pass the popcorn.

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Victim groups are more and more fighting to see who gets a bigger piece of the White Guilt Pie.

Pass the popcorn.

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Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix faces charges of cruelty and maltreatment, drunk and disorderly conduct, failure to obey a lawful general order and obstruction of justice, TECOM announced Wednesday in a news release. This comes more than a year after the March 18, 2016, death of Raheel Siddiqui, 20, of the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, who was killed at Parris Island after falling nearly 40 feet down a stairwell.

Felix was one of Siddiqui’s drill instructors. Prior to Siddiqui’s death, Felix had been accused of making another Muslim recruit exercise in the shower and then ordering the recruit to sit in a commercial dryer, an investigation found. Felix is accused of turning the dryer on several times while taunting the recruit about his religion, such as asking if he took part in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

This is intolerable.

Far be it from me to prejudge a judicial matter, but if he’s found guilty, I hope they hang him.

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We need to encourage Steve to insult and make fun of unpopular people so he can get rich like all the other liberal comedians.

Steve Sailer (who may or may not be a liberal comedian) reports.

It would appear that the one thing white people and black people agree on is that the way to get a good education is to send your kid to a school with a lot of white kids in it. I’m glad that’s settled.

Of course, that raises a number of questions that we’re not allowed to raise because that would be Noticing.

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In the old days we just put it down to their being inconsiderate assholes, but you can’t say that any more, it might be ‘triggering’.

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Advocates for big government often equate expanding government with concern for the poor. But reality speaks to the contrary: Expanding government often has very harmful effects on the poor.

This reality is precisely what is addressed in a forthcoming special report from The Heritage Foundation, “Big Government Policies That Hurt the Poor and How to Address Them.”

Rather than looking at welfare policy—a usual focus of analysts when discussing policies that impact the poor—the report focuses on economic policy, including regulation.

The authors identify 23 policies and provide concrete solutions that would allow those struggling financially to have more opportunities and a higher standard of living. As indicated in the report, these policies are just the tip of the iceberg.

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Civil forfeiture lets the government confiscate property allegedly linked to crime without bringing charges against the owner. Since law enforcement agencies receive most or all of the proceeds from the forfeitures they initiate, they have a strong financial incentive to loot first and ask questions never, which explains why those sheriffs were not eager to enlighten the president about the downside of such legalized theft.

A new report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) highlights the potential for abuse. Between fiscal years 2007 and 2016, the OIG found, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) took $4.2 billion in cash, more than 80 percent of it through administrative forfeitures, meaning there was no judicial oversight because the owners did not challenge the seizures in court.

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I don’t think I believe that.

Steve Sailer goes where nobody else dares.

Just as the 21st century has witnessed the paradox of the rhetoric of white privilege and the reality of white death, we’ve also seen increasing black privilege, but with the benefits flowing mostly to the whitest of blacks. The ongoing flight from white helps those blacks who are almost but not quite white, such as former national security adviser Susan Rice and her affirmative-action-eligible children.

White elites are happy to promote black privilege because they don’t see many American blacks as being anything other than token competition for their children at getting the really good jobs. For example, in 2016, more than a half century after the political triumph of civil rights and in a year in which the legal profession donated 28 times more money to Hillary than to Trump, only 1.81 percent of law-firm partners were black.

ZMan waxes philosophical.

Ethical theories like utilitarianism, say that an action is right or wrong, depending on the consequences it produces. A deed is judged as good if it has a good result. The intentions of the actor are of little or no consequence, because what matters is the final result. Similarly, the deed has no intrinsic morality because the morality is entirely dependent on the results. The most common expression for this is that the ends justify the means. Most of what we think of as the Left falls into this ethical category.

The obvious alternative to this is what Jeremy Bentham called deontological ethics or deontology. This loosely means the knowledge of what is right and proper. A Catholic, for example, acts in accordance with the teachings of the Church. A lawyer conducts himself in accordance with the demands of Lucifer. The act is good or evil intrinsically, regardless of downstream outcomes. What matters is the fidelity to principle or a moral code. The means justifies the ends is the most common formulation of this.

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“I don’t know what Donald Trump’s judicial philosophy [is] as president, but we sure do know the judicial philosophy of the Federalist Society, which was given the responsibility of coming up with a list of nominees to fill the [Antonin] Scalia vacancy on the Supreme Court,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Monday before Gorsuch’s Senate Judiciary Committee vote.

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The Federalist Society, established in 1982, was “founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be,” according to the society’s website.

Yeah, I can see where Democrats would have a problem with that.

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Browshirts of the Left are on the march. And yet Trump is the New Hitler.

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An international team of researchers are seeking 7500 euros to finance excavations sand specialized research at the Castle of Belvoir, located in northern Israel. The fortress was built by the Knights Hospitaller in the second half of the twelfth-century.

Anna Josephsson, one of the members involved in the project, explained that they launched the campaign “to extend and accelerate the work on the site (excavations, lapidary, architectural study and valorisation toward public ). We particularly want to progress in the 3D documentation and the planned full-scale reconstruction of the chapel (in collaboration with the Israel Antiquities Department and the National Parks authorities.)”

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We’re from the government, and we’re here to help … ourselves.

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Well, not really — just food and drink. Still….

Got some money to invest? These are the ones to buy.

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I am not making this up.

They actually pay people to write this stuff. And they wouldn’t write it if there weren’t dim bulbs out there willing to read it.

Our civilization is dying.

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Gender discrimination is bad. Paying women less than men, even when they do the same job just as well, is wrong. If you believe this to be true, why are you letting Elizabeth Warren get away with it?

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The education system has now reached the point of collapse.

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Knoxville, Tenn., could be the first city in the U.S. where Obamacare completely collapses, leaving tens of thousands of people without the option to buy a subsidized insurance policy.

Humana, the city’s only remaining insurance provider on its Obamacare exchange, announced it is exiting the market in 2018. If that happens, Knoxville citizens will be in a rough spot. Unless another insurance provider fills Humana’s place, some 40,000 people in the Knoxville area will likely be left without the option to purchase an Obamacare-subsidized insurance policy, CNN reports.

Knoxville is illustrative of one of the main problems with Obamacare: It doesn’t promote market-based competition. Insurers pull out of marketplaces where it is not cost-efficient for them to provide services, and, as a result, consumers are left with fewer options at higher prices.

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

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Funny thing about that. The Berlin Wall was there for a reason; it worked.

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“The Patriotic Millionaires, who I am a group of, and Responsible Wealth members, we are all feeling like we could pay more taxes” LaMagna said on in an interview March 31.

Varney repeatedly asked the millionaire CEO why he doesn’t act on his feelings. “Why don’t you pay more in taxes? You could just write a check. Why don’t you?” LaMagna excused his inaction by saying “it would be like me putting a drop in the ocean.”

“No,” Varney exclaimed “it’s putting your money where your mouth is.”

Which, of course, they refuse to do, because it’s all a big lie, as I have explained many times in these posts.

Frustrated, Varney argued that men like LaMagna, who have accrued wealth over time can actually avoid paying income tax. However, wage earners would be subject to these higher taxes. “I just think it is outrageous that wealthy people should tell strivers, people who make money in income, that we pay more tax but you won’t do it. That’s outrageous.”

LaMagna insisted that he only is referring to people earning more than $1 million a year. But, Varney again blasted him for his hypocritical refusal to voluntarily donate his own money to the treasury. “There is nothing stopping you from writing a check to the government if you think that the government can use that money wisely and they need it. Why don’t you do it?”

“It works when the collective does it” LaMagna argued. “That’s the point.”

No, the point is that the forms of taxation that these slimeballs want to increase are not the forms of taxation to which they are liable. The point is to sweet-talk the stupid into raising taxes on themselves that these guys will still be able to avoid.

The tense interview concluded with Varney berating the CEO for his hypocrisy. “You come on this program saying you want me to pay more on taxes, but you won’t voluntarily write a check to the treasury, and you’ve got the wealth and I don’t.”

Varney understands the dialectic.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

The DemLegHump Media will do their best to ignore it and cover it up, of course. Nothing to see here, move along, move along….

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Former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce “detailed spreadsheets” of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.

“What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals,” diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.

Oops.

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The Danish reputation got a boost among the American left in last year’s presidential election, when none other than Bernie Sanders himself plugged the country as a model for the United States to emulate. But admirers of the popular democratic socialist politician may be surprised to learn exactly how Denmark was able to become an international leader in ICT delivery. It wasn’t super-charged regulation, top-down “net neutrality” rules, or major government subsidies that did the trick.

So how did Denmark do it? Deregulation. By virtually eliminating their equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Danes now enjoy some of the best ICT service on the planet.

ZMan looks how history has changed.

One difference between the Industrial Revolution and the Technological Revolution is the trail of breadcrumbs each left behind, as it worked its way through society. Today, Americans still drive over roads and bridges built during the peak of the industrial age. Even though our consumer goods are made by foreigners, they still use the same practices the West developed for industry. Even in blighted cities, you can still find old factory buildings that remind us of the past.

The technological age is a different animal. It tends to erase its own footsteps. Lotus Development Corp is a good example. It was not just that it lost the competition for desktop productivity software. Everything about it was consumed and recycled. Walk around Cambridge today and you cannot tell that Lotus even existed. The tech economy is a soylent green economy. Once the utility of its creations are exhausted, everything about it is consumed, erased from existence, as if people are ashamed of it.

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Whether you call it the technological age or the global age, these are just polite terms for cosmopolitanism, scaled to the supranational. In the city, you don’t build, you hustle. You don’t own, you rent. Nothing is permanent because a stationary target is an easy target. Instead you make what you can and you move onto the next thing. If you can shift the burden onto someone else, all the better. That’s how the game is played because in the city, everyone is a stranger.

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Seriously — who would take marriage advice (or any advice, really) from Rosie O’Donnel? This is like Michael Moore coming out with a celebrity diet.

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Keep an eye out for Richard Chamberlain.

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It won’t go anywhere. The Crust takes care of its own.

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The Solar FREAKIN’ Roadways project generated an average of 0.62 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per day since it began publicly posting power data in late March. To put that in perspective, the average microwave or blow drier consumes about 1 kWh per day.

On March 29th, the solar road panels generated 0.26 kWh, or less electricity than a single plasma television consumes. On March 31st, the panels generated 1.06 kWh, enough to barely power a single microwave. The panels have been under-performing their expectations due to design flaws, but even if they had worked perfectly they’d have only powered a single water fountain and the lights in a nearby restroom.

Solar FREAKIN’ Roadways has been in development for 6.5 years and received a total of $4.3 million in funding to generate 90 cents worth of electricity.

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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, helped Los Angeles Pierce College student Kevin Shaw file a lawsuit after he was told he could hand out U.S. Constitutions only in a tiny sector of campus. FIRE calculated the size of the free speech zone at Pierce College to be equivalent to an iPhone on a tennis court.

Last November, Shaw tried to pass out Spanish-language versions of the Constitution in an attempt to recruit new members for Young Americans for Liberty, a right-leaning student organization. As he was doing so, an administrator told him he could not hand out literature outside of the campus free speech zone—and that if he wanted to do it there, he would have to fill out a permit. He was also told he would be kicked off campus if he did not comply.

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Orval Faubus is rolling over in his grave. ‘They’re segregating themselves! Why didn’t WE think of that?’

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Susan Rice, the national security advisor for President Obama, made dozens of requests seeking to unmask the identities of Donald Trump associates identified in raw intelligence reports.

Rice’s involvement in the request to unmask the Trump officials was discovered by White House lawyers last month, Bloomberg View’s Eli Lake reported on Monday.

Michael Cernovich, the pro-Trump publisher of Cernovich Media, first identified Rice in a report on Sunday night.

According to Lake’s sources, Rice’s requests to unmask Trump advisers was discovered by Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence.

Nothing to see here, move along, move along.

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Last week New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof joined Robert Redford, Mike Huckabee, and Norman Ornstein in conflating the humanities with federal subsidies for the humanities. Kristof assumes that those of us who think we could muddle through without the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must not understand the importance of books. He therefore sets out to educate us.

The major defect of people who want the government to do everything for us is the overwhelming delusion that if the government doesn’t do something it therefore won’t get done.

Lest you think that Kristof “sounds elitist” when he talks about the importance of Big Bird, he wants you to know that “I’ve seen people die for ideas,” including the Tiananmen Square protesters who in 1989 “sacrifice[d] their lives for democracy.” What that has to do with the merits of federal funding for the CPB is anyone’s guess. Kristof seems to be invoking dead dissidents in the name of keeping Sesame Street available on all of the local channels where it currently can be seen.

Another major defect of people who want the government to do everything for us is rampant infection with the Aggregation Fallacy. Those whose lives consist of roaming the land seeking for some discrimination to smash appear incapable of making elementary intellectual distinctions where such distinctions are important.

Walter Olson rips the mask off of some Fake News.

It made for great copy – irresistibly clickable and compulsively shareable. “Trump’s Budget Would Kill a Program That Feeds 2.4 Million Senior Citizens,” blared Time Magazine’s headline. “Trump Proposed Budget Eliminates Funds for Meals on Wheels,” claimed The Hill, in a piece that got 26,000 shares.

But it was false. And it wouldn’t have taken long for reporters to find and provide some needed context to the relationship between federal block grant programs, specifically Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), and the popular Meals on Wheels program.

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Correspondingly, the country is more worried about John McCain than it has been in his entire lifetime.

Ponder what would cause a Brit Voice of the Crust to give a shit about what John McCain worries about, probably for the first time ever. (Anything that worries John McCain is probably a good thing, so we’ve got that going for us.)

Steve Sailer shows you the ropes.

As I’ve often pointed out, the NYT tends to employ first rate reporters, but it strikes a devil’s deal with them: rather than put the interesting news at the beginning of the article, the good stuff gets hidden away at the end. NYT reporters are significantly smarter than NYT subscribers, but they are only allowed to disturb the worldviews of the small fraction who read all the way to the end.

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Another reminder that the F-35 is a flying piece of shit.

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A clarification, before I continue (since deliberate misconstrual is itself a tactic of the phenomenon in question). By political correctness, I do not mean the term as it has come to be employed on the right—that is, the expectation of adherence to the norms of basic decency, like refraining from derogatory epithets. I mean its older, intramural denotation: the persistent attempt to suppress the expression of unwelcome beliefs and ideas.

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So this is how I’ve come to understand the situation. Selective private colleges have become religious schools. The religion in question is not Methodism or Catholicism but an extreme version of the belief system of the liberal elite: the liberal professional, managerial, and creative classes, which provide a large majority of students enrolled at such places and an even larger majority of faculty and administrators who work at them. To attend those institutions is to be socialized, and not infrequently, indoctrinated into that religion.

Steve Sailer reviews a book.

Goodhart renames the new tribes the “Anywheres” (roughly 20 to 25 per cent of the population) and the “Somewheres” (about half), with the rest in between. And it broadly works. Those who see the world from anywhere are, he points out, the ones who dominate our culture and society, doing well at school and moving to a residential university, and then into a professional career, often in London or abroad. “Such people have portable ‘achieved’ identities,” he says, “based on educational and career success which makes them . . . comfortable and confident with new places and people.”

Looked for the phrase “based out of” in bios. It used to be that only hitmen identified themselves as “based out of” somewhere.

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One paradox is that Anywheres tend to have extremely strong prejudices against living just about anywhere, instead paying $4000 per month rent to live in San Francisco, say. Just ask an Anywhere why Queens isn’t good enough for him compared to pricier Brooklyn. He’ll tell you why. …

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And if you clap loud enough Tinkerbelle will be saved.

Democrats: Smoking and not sharing since sometime in the ’60s….

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Beats a hashtag any day.