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A large group of anarchists interrupted a left-wing protest against a canceled right-wing demonstration in Berkeley, Calif., attacking five people Sunday afternoon.

Scorecards! Getcher scorecards here! Can’t tell the victims without a scorecard!

A hundred anarchists moved through the police line and were able to enter into the crowd of about 2,000 people. While there, the group assaulted some Trump supporters and other right-wing counter protesters who showed up to the rally.

The ‘No Hate’ shields were a nice ironic touch.

Sarah Hoyt provides some adult supervision.

Science fiction and fantasy icon Ursula K Le Guin  has a rather tiresome essay saying that she was once “a man.”  Because, she says, once upon a time the only role models available for women were male, and therefore she viewed herself as a man.  Yes, I’m rolling eyes as I type this, just as I rolled them while reading the nonsense the first time.

I’ve often expounded my theory that people who need someone who is exactly like them in external characteristics to enjoy a book or a movie, have never left the early toddler stage, where having your name in a book really helps you enjoy it.

I never had that problem, and reading stories with men or boys never made me less of a woman.  Perhaps, of course, because I knew a lot of women in normal, everyday life.

Don’t look around for a role model — strive to be a role model.

Donald Trump ‘might refuse to leave the White House when his term ends’, historian warns

ABC Panel: Trump’s Pardon ‘Decimating’ U.S. Institutions, ‘Law and Order’  Horseshit. Clinton did worse.

Biden: Trump’s Contempt For The US Constitution Won’t Stop  Not a word about Obama’s unconstitutional actions, of course.

Give generously.

Hopefully none of your money will find its way to the SPLC.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Fifteen years ago this month, on Jan. 20, 2001, his last day in office, Bill Clinton issued a pardon for international fugitive Marc Rich. It would become perhaps the most condemned official act of Clinton’s political career. A New York Times editorial called it “a shocking abuse of presidential power.” The usually Clinton-friendly New Republic noted it “is often mentioned as Exhibit A of Clintonian sliminess.”

Congressman Barney Frank added, “It was a real betrayal by Bill Clinton of all who had been strongly supportive of him to do something this unjustified. It was contemptuous.”

And yet nowadays who remembers?

At least Arpaio wasn’t asked to fork over cash.

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Hint: P. J. O’Rourke. Need I say more? I think not.

A European analysis.

Politicians and car manufacturers praise electric cars as a solution to fight climate change, but the life cycle analysis of the whole vehicle shows that electric cars also cause pollution, sometimes even more than gas and diesel cars.

Manufacturing of batteries is a highly energy-consuming process. However, the main reason why the carbon footprint of electric vehicles can be significant is the way electricity is produced. Electricity emission factor is different according to the type of power plant (coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectricity, wind power…), so greenhouse gases emissions produced by an electric car change a lot from one country to another due to the type of power plants.

I will buy an electric car when I can get 400 miles on a charge and can recharge it in the five minutes it takes to fill up a tank of gas — only then.

The American Revolution gave us George Washington.

The French Revolution gave us Napoleon.

The German Revolution gave us Hitler.

The Russian Revolution gave us Stalin.

The Chinese Revolution gave us Mao.

I rest my case.

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The ludicrously misnamed Southern Poverty Law Center has become a scam operating as a left-wing hate cult. The SPLC specializes in directing something far beyond the Orwellian Two Minutes Hate to the likes of Charles Murray and Ayaan Hirsi Ali and others it designates for opprobrium as “extremists” or a “hate group.” Where once was Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers is now Murray, Ali and a host of others guilty of thoughtcrime.

Earlier this year Charles Murray responded to the SPLC’s libel of him in “Charles Murray’s SPLC page as edited by Charles Murray.” This week Ms. Ali took to the New York Times to ask why the SPLC is hating on her and her friends.

If there is such a thing as a “hate group,” the SPLC is it. Indeed, I think it can safely be declared “Our leading hate group.”

As a result of which:

In the column linked above Ms. Ali notes that the SPLC has hit the jackpot in the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville that left one woman dead and 19 injured. It “is set to receive millions of dollars in donations” from Apple, JPMorgan Chase and others. John noted Apple’s $1 million pledge to the SPLC last week; Apple will also match employee donations to the SPLC on a two-for-one basis.

Why do liberals hate so much? Because that’s where the money is. (Just ask Al Sharpton.)

President Trump’s flagrant Friday night news dump  As if everybody hasn’t done this since radio was invented.

Donald Trump is using Hurricane Harvey to distract attention from his shameful actions

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Sure your speech is free — so long as you agree.

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

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Sounds pretty fascist to me. And yet Trump is the New Hitler.

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“Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight” is pretty good advice, but evidently nobody told this to Kenneth “Kiwi” Herring. On Tuesday in St. Louis, Herring attacked a 30-year-old neighbor with a knife, inflicting “severe lacerations” on the man’s face, arms and torso. When police arrived and attempted to arrest Herring, they say he/“she” refused to put down the knife and attacked one of the officers, slicing him in the arm. The officers then fatally shot Herring, who thus became “the 18th Trans Person Murdered in 2017,” according to the lesbian blog Autostraddle.

Of course, if you attack a police officer with a knife, it’s not murder when the cop shoots you, but this is how it how social-justice crusades operate — when the facts don’t fit the narrative, the facts don’t matter.

Kabul mosque attack: Suicide bomb explosion and gunmen launch assault on Imam Zaman mosque in Afghan capital

Yemen: Saudi-led air strike on capital Sanaa kills at least 14 civilians including children

Rohingya Muslim militants armed with machetes ‘ambush Burma police’ killing up to 32

Has Netanyahu Defeated the Palestinians?

Prominent Muslim Leaders Reject Instant Divorce Ruling  Will the Islamophobia never cease?

Venice mayor: Anyone shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ in St Mark’s Square will be shot  Stay woke.

Man bleeds to death from stabbing while people record him on their phones

Barcelona attack: Thousands of Muslims march against terrorism

Strangled With Her Own Handbag Straps for Smoking in Front of a Mosque

SDSU College Republicans Labeled Islamophobic Hate Group By Social Justice Activists  Of course they were.

Nadeem Muhammad: Man who tried to board Ryanair plane with pipe bomb jailed for 18 years

Barcelona attack: Suicide vest found in exploded safehouse in Alcanar, say Catalan police  My, what a surprise.

Saudi-led air strikes hit Yemen hotel killing 60 people including civilians and rebels

Barcelona Terror Imam’s Familiar Path From Prison to ISIS Soldier

Lebanese beauty queen stripped of title after her Israel visit is revealed

Orange County Imam Exposed

Suspect: Imam planned to blow himself up in Barcelona

Four Signs Your Neighborhood Is Turning Into A No-Go Zone

Finland stabbings: Moroccan teenager admits to killing two women in Turku but denies terror link

Palestinian Authority Payments to Terrorists Far Exceed Regular Welfare

Lebanese army recaptures land from Isis and raises Spanish flag in honour of Barcelona attack victims

Barcelona suspect admits Spanish terror cell was planning a bigger attack with explosives

India rules Islamic practice of instant divorce ‘unconstitutional’ in major victory for women’s rights

#NotAllMuslims Murder 14 People In Barcelona, Get Shot By Cops

Teen Faces Pakistan’s Death Penalty For Destroying Quran

Christian teenager almost beaten to death in Pakistan ‘for burning Quran’

Barcelona attacker Younes Abouyaaqoub shot dead by police near the city after four-day manhunt

Marseille incident: Van crashes into two bus shelters killing at least one person in the southern French city

Finland names Turku knife attack suspect as Abderrahman Mechkah

Spain attacks: Manhunt for driver of Las Ramblas van Younes Abouyaaquoub extended across Europe

Barcelona attack: Moroccan imam at centre of Spain terror cell had links with Madrid bombers and Belgium

Labour shadow minister from Rotherham out after mentioning who is raping girls

Death Threats and Declining Attendance at Tolerant, Inclusive Mosque in Berlin

A Culture-Enriching Flash Mob Swarms the Carabinieri

Pakistani police arrest Christian youth on blasphemy charges

Brits who risked their lives to fight ISIS say they return home only to be accused of terrorism

Ghouta chemical attack: Four years later, the world looks on as Syria’s people continue to be gassed

Barcelona’s chief rabbi urges Jews to move to Israel because ‘Europe is lost’

Barcelona Terror Cell Planned To Bomb Church, Might Have Accidentally Blown Up Imam Instead

Barcelona attack: Three suspects could be on run as investigation focuses on imam at centre of Spain terror cell

Linda Sarsour’s Terrorist Friend Stripped Of Citizenship, Permanently Banned From U.S.

Moroccan Gang Arrested After Fatal Knife Rampage In Finland

Russia attack: Eight injured in Siberian city of Surgut by ‘man running along streets stabbing people’

Finland stabbings: Turku killings being investigated as terror attack, police say

Barcelona attack: Terror van driver Younes Abouyaaqoub still on the run, police say

Lebanon starts offensive to clear border of IS militants

Spain attacks: Terrorists were planning to hit multiple targets

‘Kill All The Infidels’: Teen Suspect In Barcelona Attack Left Radical Messages On Social Media  My, what a surprise.

One Dead After Knife Attack In Germany

Here’s Everything We Know About The Barcelona Attacks

Barcelona Terror Cell Allegedly Planned To Use Explosives, Accidentally Blew Up Bomb Factory  Hey, math is hard.

Steve Sailer does a little fisking.

– It’s almost as if 45 to 50 years of affirmative action haven’t succeeded in making blacks and Hispanics smarter …

Assumed without any attempted justification in the NYT article: That ‘blacks and Hispanics’ ought to be ‘represented’ somehow in ‘top colleges’. (This is a proglodyte religious dogma based on the contrary-to-fact beliefs that All People Are The Same and Race Is Not A Thing.)

Reality is something that exists even when you don’t believe it.

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An Arizona State University professor has expressed disappointment at the results of a study she conducted with around 20 women, all of whom consider gaining 100 pounds to be a negative thing. She expected them to embrace her views of fatness as a “liberatory” experience.

To begin with, ‘liberatory’ isn’t a real word.

Breanne Fahs, a self-described “fat woman” who teaches Women and Gender Studies at ASU was dismayed by the study in which “no participants described gaining 100 pounds as a positive thing to imagine.”

Maybe they know something that she doesn’t.

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Sure, your speech is free — so long as you agree.

Of course, if anybody had dared try that on proglodyte protesters, you would hear the screams in Pyongyang.

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The group currently hosts anti-police workshops called “Our Enemies in Blue.” The group draws inspiration from convicted murderers and calls for violence against the police, theft of goods, and armed insurrection.

Antifa websites like It’s Going Down, Sub.Media and Insurrection News have been promoting the group, which calls itself the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement, calling on their readers to donate to a Fundrazr account for the creation of the new cell.

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Sure, open the border! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

The first duty of a government is to protect its citizens. Ours is about as good at that as at spending money wisely.

Lion of the Blogosphere lays it out.

A former Christian who is now an atheist and speaks out against Christianity would surely be considered one of the good guys.

A former Muslim who is now an atheist and speaks out against Islam is considered an “anti-Muslim extremist” spreading “hate.”

Well, I’m glad we’ve cleared that up.

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Sure your speech is free — so long as you agree.

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Some journalists are frustrated at the leaked Wall Street Journal emails revealed to The New York Times Wednesday, showing Editor in Chief Gerard Baker lamenting them for injecting too much “opinion” into the outlet’s reporting, imploring them to stick to the facts.

To Hell with that facts, we’ve got a Narrative to push here.

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Oh noes! Democracy is broken! People are voting for whom they want, not equal gender representation!

Call the UN! Call the ACLU! Call the SPLC! Women and minorities hardest hit! CALL THE NEW YORK TIMES!

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After attending a vigil, some people took to the streets and blocked an intersection, St. Louis police officers said. A man tried to drive through the intersection and honked many times to try and get protesters to move, the department said in a statement. Some of the protesters refused to get out of the intersection, instead choosing to jump on the car and beat it, the department went on.

“The protesters surrounded the vehicle and began striking it with their hands and a flag pole. Several protesters also kicked and jumped on top of the vehicle. The driver of the vehicle … proceeded to drive away when three protesters … fell from the vehicle,” a department spokesperson said in a statement.

If he were Muslim, they’d have arrested the protesters for ‘Islamophobia’.

Donald Trump displays ‘so many of the traits of a sociopath,’ says MSNBC commentator  Which is nothing compared to the traits of a sociopath displayed by MSNBC commentators.

Donald Trump’s Phoenix rally speech revealed a man deteriorating before our very eyes  And yet he never seems to change. An odd definition of ‘deteriorate’. (Unexplained: How ‘the New Hitler’ could get any worse. Stay tuned.)

Donald Trump must be impeached ‘as soon as possible’, says former US Labour Secretary  Robert Reich emerges from a well-deserved obscurity whenever some media hack needs an anti-Republican quote. But nobody else ever seems to listen.

‘Blacks for Trump’: The strange story of the US President’s least likely fan who considers Oprah Winfrey the devil  All Trumps supporters must, of course, be portrayed by the Lamestream Media as oddities. After all, nobody they knew voted for Trump.

Ex-CIA agent seeking to crowdfund Twitter acquisition so that she can shut down Donald Trump’s account  Of course, if any Republican had announced that about Obama, the nuclear firestorm in the press would have blown the ozone layer away.

Companies Aren’t Talking About Trump Anymore on Earnings  Guess they found out that Trump isn’t a good excuse for their poor performance.

Donny Deutsch Takes to MSNBC to Diagnose Trump as a ‘Sociopath’  And of course an ad executive is qualified to diagnose somebody.

To the great disappointment of many, Trump remains President. Ah, well.

Steven Hayward at Powerline has some fun.

I see Trump has said some outlandish things lately. Like this: “I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing, and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.” More: “Germans of future generations will honor Herr Hitler as a genius, as a brave man, a matchless organizer and much more.”

Wait—did I say Trump? Sorry—these comments came from Gandhi. The first quote was made in May 1940, as Hitler was readying to roll over France, and the second quote was made on June 22, 1940, the day France capitulated. Time magazine seriously considered Gandhi to be “Person of the Century” back in 1999 before settling on Einstein as a safe and uncontroversial choice.

I guess Trump is the New Gandhi, except that he’s not.

Time had to tap dance to explain why they didn’t re-up with their “Man of the Half Century” from 1950, who was Winston Churchill. Here’s how Time explained it then:

Well, the passage of time can alter our perspective. A lot has happened since 1950. . . In his approach to domestic issues, individual rights and the liberties of colonial subjects, Churchill turned out to be a romantic refugee from a previous era who ended up on the wrong side of history.

In other words, Churchill was politically incorrect.

Whups, there’s that Wrong Side of History again. Like the boogey-man, it’ll get you if you don’t watch out.

Now Timereports that the African nation of Ghana is taking down a statue of Gandhi because of his condescending views of Africans (long known by anyone who studied Gandhi even casually), because why should the U.S. have all the fun:

Ghana has said it will remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a university campus in the nation’s capital where it had sparked protests over the leader’s allegedly racist attitudes.

I love that “allegedly.” I note that Trump’s supposed racism is never considered to be “alleged.” In any case, I think Time has some old editors to erase from their collective memory for their bad judgment about Gandhi.

Maybe Hitler was the New Gandhi, except when he wasn’t. Gandhi can’t be the New Trump, because Hitler came first, or something.

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A law firm representing a Google engineer fired for faulting the company’s diversity policies is seeking other clients who have faced “discrimination” for their political views.

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A post on the website of Ms Dhillon’s law firm, entitled “Have You Experienced Illegal Employment Practices At Google?”, suggests that Mr Damore’s case could be part of a broader legal action that enlists other frustrated Google employees.

Every cloud has a silver lining — and a lawyer standing by to cash it in.

Sue! Sue!
It’s what we do!
We learned it from
The ACLU!

The Other McCain is scouting the trail and finding nada.

According to “social justice” advocates, there is an epidemic of anti-transgender violence for which Donald Trump and Republicans are to blame. The only thing wrong with that claim is the complete lack of evidence to support it. LGBT activists and liberal journalists keep calling attention to the murders of “Transgender Women of Color,” and the facts continue contradicting the social-justice narrative.

Apparently transgender groups are shooting each other and blaming it on Trump. Or something like that.

Steve Sailer understands the dialectic.

… and then the world came crashing down on their heads.

The ACLU has been fading relative to the SPLC for a long time. That’s because the SPLC is an overt hate group that sees virtually everything through the Who? Whom? lens. In contrast, the old-fashioned ACLU actually sometimes supports objective principles such as free speech.

Blink and you’ll miss it.

UPDATE: ACLU Apologizes For Tweeting Photo Of White Baby With U.S. Flag

Obviously a congenital Nazi.

‘When your Twitter followers keep you in check and remind you that white supremacy is everywhere’

Underneath your bed! In your sock drawer! In the toilet! OMYGAWD THEY’RE IN THE TRASH CAN!

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The road to cleaner, meltdown-proof nuclear power has taken a big step forward. Researchers at NRG, a Dutch nuclear materials firm, have begun the first tests of nuclear fission using thorium salts since experiments ended at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the early 1970s.

Thorium has several advantages over uranium, the fuel that powers most nuclear reactors in service today. First, it’s much harder to weaponize. Second, as we pointed out last year in a long read on thorium-salt reactors, designs that call for using it in a liquid form are, essentially, self-regulating and fail-safe.

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In a 1946 essay in the London Tribune entitled “In Front of Your Nose,” George Orwell noted that “we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”

The intellectual battlefields today are on college campuses, where students’ deep convictions about race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation and their social justice antipathy toward capitalism, imperialism, racism, white privilege, misogyny and “cissexist heteropatriarchy” have bumped up against the reality of contradictory facts and opposing views, leading to campus chaos and even violence. Students at the University of California, Berkeley, and outside agitators, for example, rioted at the mere mention that conservative firebrands Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter had been invited to speak (in the end, they never did). Demonstrators at Middlebury College physically attacked libertarian author Charles Murray and his liberal host, professor Allison Stanger, pulling her hair, twisting her neck and sending her to the ER.*

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Because nothing promotes peace like violently suppressing other people’s free speech.

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Camerota asked how many panelists were troubled by President Donald Trump’s response to Charlottesville, and not a single panelist raised their hand.

“I didn’t see anything wrong with it. I mean he addressed the problem. Let’s face reality, there are problems on both sides,” panelist Bob Viera said.

Which won’t stop Democrats and the Media (but I repeat myself) from lying about it.

“I think it’s ridiculous to have me choose between Hitler and Stalin which is what I consider what both groups are,” he added.  “If you’re willing to set fires and burn places to the ground, that doesn’t seem like a very peaceful group to me.”

As indeed they are not. But no doubt that’s Trump’s fault as well — everything is Trump’s fault, even Democrat stupidity and venality.

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A protester was struck in the crotch with a tear gas canister outside the Phoenix Convention Center Tuesday night after refusing to comply with police orders to vacate the area.

That sounds about right.

What was initially a peaceful protest erupted into chaos after the speech when protesters began hurling projectiles at the police. The police responded by clearing the streets using tear gas and rubber bullets.

“People in the crowd began fighting and throwing rocks and bottles at police,” Sgt. Jonathan Howard, of the Phoenix Police Department, said in a statement to CNN. “They also dispersed some gas in the area. Police have responded with pepper balls and oc (pepper) spray in an attempt to disperse the crowd and stop the assaults.”

The browshirts of the Left are on the march. Yet Trump is the New Hitler.

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Note that it was the anti-Trumpers, not the ones attending the rally, who descended into violence.

“People in the crowd have begun throwing rocks and bottles at police. They also dispersed some gas in the area,” Phoenix Police Department spokesman Sergeant Jonathan Howard said.

“Police have responded with pepper balls and OC (oleoresin capsicum) spray in an attempt to disperse the crowd and stop the assaults,” he said.

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Media reports said some protesters had thrown bottles at police.

And yet Trump is the New Hitler.

Steve Sailer connects the dots.

Rewriting the past to help disinherit the powerless by demeaning their ancestors is an ancient practice currently growing in popularity. For example, this summer in Madison and Boston, government officials have obliterated or covered up grave markers commemorating prisoners of war who died in captivity.

This is justified as punching up against white supremacy. After all, who is more powerful than a dead POW?

Why are politicians today going out of their way to disrespect Confederate soldiers who died in Union prison camps more than 150 years ago? Because they can. Because this kind of vandalism is a classic turf-marking exercise understood by even the dimmest juvenile delinquents. Because desecration of memorials to the dead signifies that their living heirs are vulnerable to rapacity.

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Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, canceled a panel discussion on “The Stifling of Free Speech on University Campuses” following protests. Officials said they did not think they could protect public safety if the discussion took place.

The brownshirts of the Left are on the march. Yet Trump is the New Hitler.

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We’re not the Soviet Union quite yet, it seems.

PayPal reinstated the accounts of two conservative websites it banned after receiving blowback over their decision.

PayPal notified Jihad Watch and the American Freedom Defense Initiative (ADFI) on Monday night that they were reversing the decision to ban their accounts following public outcry:

Jihad Watch is not a ‘conservative site’, except insofar as wanting to document the existential danger to Western civilization from Islam is somehow ‘conservative’; I guess a willingness to accept reality is ‘conservative’. Both are certainly anti-proglodyte sites, and hence incompatible with the Narrative, which is undoubtedly why they were targeted. It’s all part and parcel of the common proglodyte meme that those documenting actual hate groups, which Islam obviously is, are somehow hate groups themselves.

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Recently, a Black Lives Matter activist named Chanelle Helm published a list of 10 requests for white people. It included such reasonable entreaties as “When you die, will your property to a black or brown family” and “Build free housing for black and brown people” and “Get a racist fired.” Have you done what you’re told yet, white people?

Looks like White Privilege has nothing to compare to Fashionable Minority Victim Privilege.

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This will be huge.

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A new report touting “green innovation” in California actually shows Texas has done more to cut greenhouse gas emissions and grow its economy, despite not having stringent state global warming programs.

Imagine that.

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Ma’lik is one of the two men convicted in the rape case, which gained international attention because of a video posted on YouTube and photos that were texted to people in a West Virginia town of the victim. The judge was flown to a nearby hospital where he underwent surgery and is expected to recover from the gunshot.

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Major news outlets around the country would have you think that the United States Secret Service is running out of money due to President Trump’s frequent travel and large family.

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Problem is, that’s not true. According to a press release from Director Alles:

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Well. There it is.

Read it. And watch the video, if you’re into that sort of thing.

This week’s Charlottesville city council meeting exploded when protesters clashed with police and yelled obscenities at the city’s mayor.

The protesters who attended the meeting Monday were upset with the city’s handling of a white supremacist rally two weekends ago.

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Then, one group of protesters went to the front of the room with a large sign that read, “blood on your hands,” prompting cheers from the rowdy crowd. The group cheered even louder when the city council members finally left the room, and the live stream of the event cut off when some yelled “fuck you!”

I rather doubt that these protesters were Trump supporters.