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Bari Weiss is a staff editor in the opinion section at the New York Times. Like many women, she was initially enthused by the Women’s March movement which began after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Since then she has, for many good reasons, become disillusioned.

She detailed that disillusionment in a Tuesday op-ed which clearly runs against the grain at the Times, and received predictable, name-calling blowback from a Women’s March leader who pretended that they and their movement are non-violent. It isn’t, and they aren’t.

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In his new book, Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books, Philip Nel studies the paradox of stories that are meant to nurture but can also do harm. An English professor at Kansas State University, Nel has probed racism in kids’ books in his classes and in previous books, and he uses this volume to highlight how dozens of beloved picture and chapter books leave negative messages in children’s minds. “No one wants to admit to enjoying something or liking something that perpetuates racial stereotypes. But we do, because a book can be beautiful and racist, a book can be a classic and racist, a book can be really pleasurable and also really racist.” For instance, one of Nel’s personal favorites, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, has a big problem in the Oompa Loompas. The characters, which were depicted in early editions as African pygmies, are portrayed as happy slaves, content to leave their native land behind and toil in a factory. Especially for children who are descendants of slaves, such messages can have a pernicious effect on how they interpret their value in the world.

I’m a racist, you’re a racist, he’s a racist, she’s a racist, wouldn’t you like to be a racist too?

Women and minorities hardest hit etc. etc.

The Other McCain points out some inconvenient truth.

A few days before the election last November, police say, Zachary McClimans stole his grandfather’s pistol and went to the Wal-Mart in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, where he shot Jayson Hall four times.

The motive, according to police, was that McClimans (a/k/a “Claire Wolfever”) had recently revealed to his co-workers at Wal-Mart his intent to undergo gender reassignment, and didn’t like Hall’s reaction to this news. McClimans, 22, claimed to feel “threatened” by Hall, and had filed a complaint with Wal-Mart management, which was under investigation at the time of the November shooting. McClimans was charged with attempted murder and is awaiting trial.

Steve Sailer jumps on it.

The Establishment is freaking out over one unknown Google worker circulating a well-reasoned dissent against all the anti-white male propagandizing and programs that Google has subjected their hardworking employees to in recent years.

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This time, The Rock reacts to The Scorpion King, the actor’s very first leading role that was critically mauled. The commentary – which basically acts as a director’s commentary – is, by all accounts, great. Watch below.

I thought it was great fun.

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But of course there’s no voter fraud, nope, none whatsoever. Just ask a Democrat.

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The fact that it’s characterized as a ‘screed’, when it appears to be an earnest and thoughtful presentation of the writer’s argument, demonstrates what sort of bias he’s up against.

The fact that it is publicly available, on the other hand, offers us hope that the rot isn’t too bad yet.

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And if they all had horses their fertilizer problems would be solved.

Or Bitcoin! Give them each a Bitcoin,  call it Guaranteed Basic Income or something.

You’re welcome.

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Apparently being white and formerly male trumps being transgender.

Good to know, if you’re keeping score.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Nine Best Air Fryers. None of them useful as interrogation tools, unfortunately.

Nifty Strawberry Huller.

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Hundreds of National Trust (NT) members have reportedly quit over the charity’s decision to require volunteers at one property to wear LGBT lanyards.

The NT has found itself at the centre of controversy after volunteers at Norfolk’s Felbrigg Hall were asked to wear the rainbow-coloured neckwear to celebrate the last lord of the manor, Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, who was gay.

But the decision provoked a furious backlash from volunteers who accused the trust of “outing” the late owner and infringing on their political freedoms.

The march toward a totalitarian Britain isn’t as smooth as they would have you believe.

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Women and minorities hardest hit etc. etc.

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Let’s see how Bernie Sanders’ program for America works out.

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As usual, Mother Nature scoffs at the Prophets of Doom.

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North Carolina State University wants to create segregated housing for black women on its campus, the The North Carolina State News reports.

This latest initiative is the brainchild of the university’s new director of multicultural student affairs, Nashia Whittenburg. The new “living and learning village” will be for women of color only, while Whittenburg also envisions celebrating cultural differences at the academic institution.

Orval Faubus is facepalming in his grave. “Damn! All we had to do was wait, and they’re segregating themselves! Why didn’t we think of that?”

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It was invented by Erin Robertson, from Los Angeles, who said she came up with the idea when she couldn’t stop sweating while getting ready to go on a date.

Is this a great country, or what?

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I’ll bet that put her panties in a wad.

Bee is a rather prominent Voice of the Crust.

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The federal agency says Philip Roesel of North Carolina, and his corporation Best Insurance Contracts, purposefully altered caller ID information in an attempt to dupe people into accepting their robocalls. Spoofing, as it’s typically referenced, was made illegal after the Truth in Caller ID Act passed in 2009. The statute specifically outlines how “the intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value” is strictly forbidden, except for certain law enforcement endeavors.

Roesel “especially targeted vulnerable consumers, including the elderly, the infirm, and low-income families,” the FCC said in a statement.

The Other McCain is on the case.

The Church Militant is an independent Catholic online media group led by Michael Voris, and since 2015, they have sponsored an annual conference for Catholic men called “Strength and Honor.” Last week, an “antifa” (anti-fascist) group calling itself Michigan Peoples Defense Network (MPDN) announced their plans to “shut down” the conference at a hotel in the Detroit suburb of Sterling Heights.

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

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In Congo President Joseph Kabila remains in power and continues to ignore the December 31 2016 agreement he signed in which he promised to allow elections and comply with the constitution and not proceed with his plans to remain president-for-life. This crises began when Kabila refused to step down at the end of his second elected term in December 2016. The constitution limits him to two terms. He won the elections in 2006 and 2011, but he claims his first term really didn’t count so he can run again. National elections to replace him were supposed to be held in November 2016 but Kabila’s government intentionally delayed preparing for the election until it was too late.

Sounds as if he’s got a bright future in the Democrat party.

Why Trump Can’t Trust the Kabul Government

Hyperloop Projects May Be Uniquely Vulnerable to Terrorism  A world full of Muslim jihadis is not a good place for delicate infrastructure.

Australian Community Bans Synagogue Construction Because Terrorists Might Target It

Muslim Brotherhood Leader Reaffirms “Islamic Caliphate” Ambition

The Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee Just Took a Big Step to Curb Palestinian Terrorism

Herat attack: Father of Afghan girl robotics team captain killed by Isis suicide bombing Herat mosque

Sophisticated Australian Airplane Bombing Plot a Warning To the West

Father Of Afghan Robotics Team Captain Killed By ISIS Suicide Bombers

Italy Deploys Navy To End Migrant Crisis

Man threatens to blow up Islamic bookshop and ‘kill the Muslims’ in London

Bassel Khartabil Safadi dead: One of Syria’s most famous activists has been executed in prison, widow confirms

Briton who died fighting Isis in Syria ‘killed himself to avoid capture’

‘Three Musketeers’ terror cell may have met with Anjem Choudary days before starting to plan Lee Rigby-style attack

A Killing in Amman Portends More Animosity Between Israel and Jordan

Lawful or Unlawful? Ask the Imam at the Fatwa Kiosk

European Court Stops Germany From Deporting ‘Dangerous’ Islamist

American ISIS Supporter Headed To Prison For 20 Years After Advocating For Death Of US Troops

Palestinian Man Confesses To Killing His Pregnant Jewish Girlfriend

How the Somali Government Is Getting Terrorists to Defect

‘Three Musketeers’ Terror Group Found Guilty Of Plotting Attack On UK Authorities

California CEO Arrested For Smuggling Military Equipment To Syria

Saudi Arabia: Women’s rights activist freed after 104 days of detention without her male guardian

Yemen man convicted of raping and murdering three-year-old girl executed by machine gun

Muslims Form Fundamentalist Biker Gang In Germany  I am not making this up.

The Islamization of History

Woe betide the Kurds of northern Syria when the war is over

Islamic State Supporter Arrested in Basque Country

A Big Bomb in Småland

Malmö: Graduate School for Gunshot-Wound Surgeons

Revealed: Arrested ISIS Terrorists Planned To Gas Everyone On Australian Plane

MP slams decision to ‘release former child sex gang ringleader Mubarek Ali 17 years early’

UK Reportedly Strips 150 Jihadis Of Their Passports

4 Additional Key Terrorists Killed In Drone Strike On ISIS Leader, US Reveals

Isis fighters’ bride reveals horror of life in the so-called caliphate

Australian Police Foil ‘Islamic-Inspired’ Plot To ‘Bring Down An Airplane’

Iraqi Man Identified As Perpetrator In German Nightclub Shooting

Mogadishu explosion: Car bomb leaves ‘at least six’ dead and 20 wounded in Somali capital

The Hamburg Mujahid: A Lone Wolf, and Mentally Unstable

Hamburg attacker who killed one and injured six is ‘known Islamist’ with psychological problems

Muslim radio station shut down after broadcasting 25 hours of lectures by al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki

British man who fought against Isis in Syria is arrested by Turkish authorities over ‘terrorism’

Hamburg attack: One dead and six injured after stabbing in Barmbek supermarket

Israel risks igniting ‘religious war’ over Jerusalem security measures, warns head of Arab League  News flash: There already is a ‘religious war’, which is why the ‘security measures’ are needed.

Iranian Expat in Germany: “The Country is Being Islamized”

France Gives Up On Rehab Center For Jihadis

The Hamburg Mujahid: A Palestinian “Refugee” — And an “Extremist” Known to Police Who Could Not Be Deported

Prayers in the Jordanian Parliament Celebrating Palestinians Who Killed Jews on the Temple Mount

Deadly Knife Jihad at a Hamburg Supermarket

Australia’s Halal Chief Says White Women Need To Be Fertilized By Muslim Men

One Dead, Several Injured In Suspected Terror Attack In Germany

U.S. Islamists Promote Nationwide Protests Despite Israeli Concessions

British Girl Gets Raped By ‘Asian Man,’ Runs For Help, Gets Raped Again By ‘Asian’ Rescuer

Tank DEMOLISHES ISIS Suicide Car Bomb To Contain Fallout [Video]  Undoubtedly American-trained.

Joint US-Afghan Operation Kills Two Al-Qaida Leaders, Captures A Third

Women raped daily by Isis are so damaged they are falling into deep sleeps and not getting up

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The Millennials favorite city, Portland, is showing just how well light rail works in reducing congestion. Which is to say, it’s not working at all.

The Progressive ideal of hundreds jammed into a cattle car that goes from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be and takes twice as long as driving is, apparently, not even suited to the Whitest City in America.

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But with his high G.P.A., nearly perfect SAT score and activities — debate team, tennis captain and state orchestra — Mr. Jia believes he should have had a fair shot at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. Those Ivy League colleges rejected him after he applied in the fall of 2015.

It was particularly disturbing, Mr. Jia said, when classmates with lower scores than his — but who were not Asian-American, like him — were admitted to those Ivy League institutions.

Women and minorities hardest hit etc. etc.

The Social Justice Warriors apparently think that Asians are Honorary White People, and I’m good with that.

The Other McCain is on the case.

If you’re a show-business multimillionaire, what do you do for fun? In the case of feminist TV performer Lena Dunham, you try to ruin the lives of people who have to actually work for a living.

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Once upon a time, brothers-in-law William Procter and James Gamble sold candles and soap. Their 19th-century family business grew into the largest consumer goods conglomerate in the world — launching the most recognizable brands on our grocery shelves, including Tide, Pampers, Crest, Nyquil and Old Spice.

Now, Procter & Gamble want to conquer a new market: identity-politics pandering.

Industry marketers aren’t satisfied with selling useful products people want and need. They’re hell-bent on transforming successful businesses into social justice busybodies.

To be honest, they have little choice. Many are the Social Justice Warriors who will trigger a boycott of a company’s products unless the appropriate PR flacks utter the Politically Correct noises.

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West Virginia Democratic Gov. Jim Justice plans to officially switch parties during a local rally with President Donald Trump Thursday evening.

Well. Ain’t that special.

The newly-installed governor is one of the state’s only coal billionaires. He owned 70 active coal mines across 5 states and was also officially endorsed by the United Mine Workers Union during the course of the campaign.

That would explain it.

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I liked the original and I fully intend to see this one.

The reaction by The Usual Suspects among the Chattering Class are fairly typical.

The chief characteristic is ignorance: Ignorance of history (Reagan was President in 1974? And I missed it?), ignorance of language (a vigilante going around shooting people is ‘fascist’? Tell Mussolini the news.), just general ignorance of the conditions under with the Underclass are forced to live in this country (and our Underclass has it better than most).

Any community that cannot depend on government to protect its members will generate ‘vigilantes’ who will do what needs to be done to keep them and their people safe. This is what a street gang is all about; that’s why you don’t see street gangs in Beverly Hills, Grosse Pointe, or the Hamptons.

The people who react with disgust and alarm are the very people who don’t have to live that life — notice that all of the complainers are affluent white people whose worst worry is the possibility that they’ll strain a muscle during their daily ride on their $2000 Italian bike. Or maybe that their latte won’t be up to spec.

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On the bicentenary of her death, Jane Austen is still everywhere, often where one least expects to find her. Most of her devotees will have their own story; mine occurred in a Manhattan courthouse, with its stale-coffee smell and atmosphere of anxious boredom, in the midst of jury selection for a criminal trial involving a double homicide. Upon learning that I taught British literature, the defendant’s attorney—a woman who spoke with intimidating speed and streetwise bluntness—skipped the usual questions (how much did I trust police testimony, had I ever been a victim of a violent crime) and asked instead whether I taught Jane Austen. Puzzled by her indirection, I answered yes. A theatrical flash of disgust crossed her face: I was, evidently, one of those people. At which point the presiding judge interrupted to say: “Careful, counsel. Some of us here like Jane Austen.”

A Child of the Crust writes for others of the same ilk. The concern with ‘first female to X’ and ritual denunciations of ‘supremacists’ are signature.

Dinesh D’Souza explains it all to you.

Why does this purported antifascism on the part of progressives so closely resemble the fascism that it claims to be opposing? More profoundly, what is “antifascism” as the term is now used on the American left?

To answer these questions, we turn to the founders of the so-called antifascist movement on the progressive left, the sociologist Herbert Marcuse of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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Of course. The Clintons have always been the best government that money could buy.

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Canada operates under a medicare system that is understood as single-payer. Not only does the federal government use money from its general revenue to finance this taxpayer-funded health care system, individual provinces also contribute by raising money through special levies that are deducted when Canadians pay their income tax.

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“Health care in Canada isn’t free—Canadians actually pay a substantial amount for health care through their taxes, even if they don’t pay directly for medical services,” said Bacchus Barua, senior economist with the Fraser Institute’s Centre for Health Policy Studies, in a statement. He is the co-author of the institute’s report: The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2017.

For all those tax dollars, there is still a long waiting list for a host of operations, both routine and urgent. Another Fraser Institute study recently revealed that 63,000 Canadians left the country in 2016 to seek medical assistance elsewhere — usually the U.S.

If the U.S. gets a ‘free health care’ system, there won’t be any U.S. for us to escape to.

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We assume that if Harvard stopped discriminating against Asians, the student body would very quickly become 40% Asian. U.C. Berkeley is 42% Asian.

Harvard obviously thinks this would be a bad thing for Harvard, otherwise they wouldn’t discriminate against Asians.

Couldn’t hurt.

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On July 24, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi unveiled proposals by House Democrats to create “a better deal” for American families and workers.

Unfortunately, the press releases accompanying the launch of the “Better Deal” initiative outline general policies that would undermine economic opportunities for Americans and harm American consumers.

In other words, this initiative flunks basic truth in labeling standards. More accurately, it constitutes “a worse deal” for Americans.

Steve Sailer jerks back the curtain.

It’s important to understand that the Democratic Party and its PR interns in the media promote Huddled Massesism as part of their plan to steal American elections via foreign collusion. Every year, the right to vote is granted to a substantial number of immigrants who don’t meet any reasonable interpretation of the legal requirement that new citizens must read, write, and speak English, most of whom go on to vote Democratic. But you’re racist to notice.

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Our effort to defend against Islamic terrorism has been cut off at the knees by a ThoughtCrime known as Islamophobia: a dislike of, criticism of, or prejudice against Islam or Muslims. Where did Islamophobia come from? “Islamic law,” observes author and activist Pamela Geller, “considers any critical examination of Islam to be blasphemous and subject to the death penalty.” The term Islamophobia was invented in the 1990s by a front group of the Muslim Brotherhood in order to export Islamic blasphemy laws to the West. Muslim writer Abdur-Rahman Muhammad reveals the original intent behind the concept: “This loathsome term is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliché conceived in the bowels of Muslim think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics.”

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I’ve got an idea: Why don’t we let the Iraqis and Russians and Iranians and the Turks do that, while we stay home.

It’s never been tried before, but I think it’s worth a shot.

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And of course everyone will now do that.

If he had to walk that 3000 miles, he wouldn’t be quite so porky.

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Among the many student-led inquisitions that have swept America’s college campuses recently, this one from Evergreen State Collegestands out as especially egregious and ridiculous. The standard elements of these now-typical incidents were all there: outrage over microaggressions, demands for safe spaces, and some students behaving like cartoonish caricatures of social justice activists.

Now Bret Weinstein, the professor at the center of this episode, is filing a $3.8 million tort claim against the school on behalf his wife and himself, saying in part that The Evergreen State College (TESC) “consistently has failed to set and enforce necessary boundaries in the workplace on campus, selectively has chosen not to enforce its student Code of Conduct, and sent the unmistakable message that the school will tolerate (and even endorse) egregious violations (and even crimes) purportedly to advance racial social goals, diminishing the collegiate experience for all, and fostering a racially hostile and retaliatory work environment for faculty and staff.”

Good to see some pushback against these proto-fascists.

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Al Gore was challenged on climate science Tuesday night when the mayor of Tangier Island, a community threatened by coastal erosion, told the environmentalist film producer he hadn’t seen the sea level change since he began his first career as a commercial crabber in 1970.

Gore was taking questions from the audience on a CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper when the fisherman and Tangier Island mayor James Eskridge refuted Gore’s assertion that rising sea levels were endangering coastal communities.

“I’m a commercial crabber and I’ve been working the Chesapeake Bay for 50+ years. I have a crab house business out on the water and the water level is the same as it was when the place was built in 1970,” Eskridge said. “I’m not a scientist, but I am a keen observer and if sea level rises are occurring, why am I not seeing signs of it?”

Facts? AlGore don’t need no stinkin’ facts.

Here’s a fact: Al Gore’s Home Devours 34 Times More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household

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Good luck wading through the article to find the three supplements in question. I couldn’t.

Steve Sailer points out that actions have consequences.

The key moment in the self-destruction of the once great American city of Detroit over the past half century can be dated precisely to July 23, 1967, when blacks began the Detroit Riot. Before 4,700 paratroopers from the U.S. Army’s 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions finally halted the orgy of criminality, African Americans had looted 2,500 stores and burned down 400 buildings in their own neighborhoods.

The next year, 80,000 whites moved out of Detroit. (In 2017, the total population of Detroit is almost a million lower than fifty years ago.)

And who could blame them? (Well, the Left, of course, but they would have done that anyway.)

For example, the opening text for the new movie Detroit, which opens nationally on Friday, pins the blame for the black riot of 1967 on the economic devastation caused by the 22,000 whites who had presciently left Detroit the year before, apparently taking all the magic dirt with them, leaving only the tragic dirt.

Evidently black people need some white people around to blame, otherwise they cannot succeed at anything.

Go re-read ZMan’s essay about Identity Politics to see how that works.

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Years ago, someone made a documentary – “A Private Universe” – in which they talked to to a gaggle of Harvard students at commencement & asked them what caused the seasons. Almost all said that summer happened when we were close to the Sun in our elliptical orbit, winter when we were farther away. Which isn’t true – not of Earth, anyhow.

Now you might think they were just jackasses, but they make up a key fraction of our intellectual/governing elite. It can’t be that simple – they can’t just be a bunch of ignorami – there has to be a deeper, more subtle explanation.

Well, Harvard. Children of the Crust, being indoctrinated into the Narrative. There is little room for education in that scenario.

David Cole has some advice for us.

Trannies remind me of libertarians. To be more precise, the thing I find most objectionable about trannies is also the thing I find most objectionable about the hardcore, uncompromising “no government” anarcho-voluntaryist libertarian types. These “get rid of government” crusaders spend every moment of their lives hectoring nonbelievers like me, trying to make us acquiesce to their vision of a world without the state. What cheeses me off is, if you want to be free, if you want to live “off grid” without government, if you want to grow your own food and barter hens and nanny goats for potatoes and butter, go do it. What’s stopping you? It’s a big world and easy to get lost in. Sure, there’s never any guarantee that you’ll be safe from the long arm of the state—Randy Weaver found that out the hard way when he and his wife made the logical decision to drop out of society rather than try to change it to suit their beliefs—but still, living off grid (which I’ve done several times in my life) is way easier than getting 300 million people to agree in unison, “We’re going to dismantle government and live as medieval farmers and tradesmen.”

The anti-government ideologues act like they can’t go and “be free” until they’ve persuaded the rest of us to follow suit. Essentially, they’ve made their freedom quest dependent upon me coming along for the ride, even though it’s a trip they could easily take solo.

He’s got a point. Cf. Harry Browne’s book How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World.

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The Associated Press has devoted itself to helping the Democratic Party bring down President Trump. The AP’s effort consists mostly of producing multiple negative articles about Trump and his administration every day; these are picked up by hundreds or thousands of newspapers around the country. But that isn’t all: the AP also conducts a rear-guard action, trying to defuse any positive news about Trump and his administration.

Because sinners can never be allowed to prosper, no matter what the circumstances.

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The highlight of CNN’s primetime lineup Tuesday was  The Climate Crisis town hall where they teamed up with former Vice President and climate alarmist Al Gore to push his propaganda. “Consensus in the scientific community is clear. Sea levels are rising. The oceans are warming,” moderator Anderson Cooper declared as he started the program. The event became even more ridiculous when Gore equated getting people to believe him was like the Civil Rights movement, in that “it’s just really a question of right and wrong.”

So it’s not a “scientific” issue, it’s a MORAL issue. Climate change “deniers” aren’t just wrong, they’re heretics, they’re sinners, who must be punished for not believing What All Right Thinking People Believe.

Watching these people on TV is like an eternal episode of the Leftist version of the 700 Club. It’s all utterly predictable “preaching to the choir”, and all utterly BORING.