The Right think the Left are stupid.

The Left think the Right are evil.

That explains everything you see on television (including movies and commercials), hear on the radio, or see in the print media.

It will get worse before it gets better.

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That explains a lot.

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Like the great majority of American white people of earlier eras, slaveholder Thomas Jefferson and abolitionist Abraham Lincoln held the belief that (a) blacks probably could not hack it as free men in modern society and (b) white people would never tolerate them as equals, in any event.

Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, and the rest of the leadership of the civil rights movement had no illusions about immediately converting the great mass of angry/terrified white Southerners to the cause of equality so they always pitched their words and deeds to a larger national white audience.

What white people thought about black people largely controlled and constrained the lives of the latter for most of our history. One the perverse, unexpected consequences of that fact is the increasingly weird, magical thinking that what white people think still controls and constrains black lives. 

This is key. Until black people quit thinking that their lives rotate around what white people think, things will never improve.

When a African-American cop (working under a African-American police chief) in a city where white supremacists in power are about as common as unicorns (Milwaukee) shot Sylville Smith, an armed African-American suspect who aimed a weapon at pursuing police, there was a three-day riot and a relative of the fallen suspect said “white people are the devil.”

Which is as delusional as the Nazi fantasy that the Jews were responsible for everything wrong in the world.

Similarly, in Baltimore, Freddie Gray was killed in a negligent fashion in a police van with an African-American police driver after an arrest by three African-American and three white officers who worked under a African-American police chief responsible to a African-American mayor and majority African-American city council in a country where civil rights complaints were referred to a African-American US Attorney General appointed by a African-American President. Yet for many, the incident was somehow about white racism.

The whole ‘intersectionality’ excuse is just another way of saying ‘whatever happens, white people are to blame, even if they weren’t even involved’.

White people actually have constrained and deformed black lives in the modern era but not from malignant racism so much as spectacularly bad social welfare policies designed by white liberals. Our national policies destroyed family life, natural social ties, and solid childhood formation. These programs have had the net effect of fostering crime, poverty, and substance-abuse and thus made clashes with law enforcement vastly more common.

White liberals also found various ideological means to crush substantive academic achievement just in case the deformative process of atomization was not sufficiently harmful.

For the majority of African-Americans who are not part of the poverty culture, white liberals also found a way to undermine their place in society with “affirmative action.” The previous presumption that an African-American with a professional degree is probably at least as good if not better than most whites because of what he or she had to overcome has been replaced with the nagging suspicion that he or she may be in that position only because of affirmative action.

There are white people against which black people have a legitimate beef, but it’s the white people who are allegedly on their side.

Stelter: The Racism in Trump Kneeling Comments ‘Unmistakable’  Except to those not making it up.

The Flying Wedge Issue

Evil Klingons Modeled After President Trump on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’

Steve Kerr wants to have it both ways

Becoming a Columnist in the Age of Trump

London Mayor Compares Trump With ISIS, Wants To Stop State Visit To UK  Pretty cheeky for a Muslim.

USA Today Columnist: #TakeAKnee Marked One of NFL’s ‘Finest Moments’ Fighting Back Against ‘Racist’ Trump  Except that there isn’t a shred of evidence that Trump is a racist; that’s a proglodyte fantasy.

CNN Commentator Compares Trump To ‘Slave Master’ Of Black Athletes

ESPN Turns Into A Daylong Anti-Trump Talk Show

LeBron James Says His ‘Calling Is Much Bigger’ Than Donald Trump’s  Certainly his ego is bigger, and that’s an achievement.

MSNBC Guest: Trump Wants Blacks ‘Kneeling in the Cotton Fields Again’  Again, something for which there is no evidence.

Excuse Me? CNN Panelist Says Trump Criticizing Kaepernick Is ‘Racial Code For The N-Word’  Remember: If you hear the ‘dog whistle’, then you’re the dog.

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Specifically tailored with the urban cyclist in mind, the Levi’s Commuter Trucker Jacket was designed for getting around the city. The jacket features articulated shoulders to provide extra room to maneuver, reflectors, and a dropped hem to keep you covered as you ride. You can easily access your digital world because Jacquard technology is woven right into the sleeve.

Tiny electronics contained in the flexible snap tag connect the Jacquard Threads in the jacket’s cuff to your mobile device. The snap tag lets you know about incoming information, like a phone call, by giving you light and haptic feedback. Inspired by a strap that you would see on a cuff, it looks and feels like it’s a part of the jacket. The tag also houses the battery which can last up to 2 weeks between USB charges.

We have the technology.

Update: Google and Levi’s first smart jacket is a wash  Oops.

Paul Rahe looks the situation over.

I will say this for Donald Trump. He really knows how to hit a nerve. He has an instinctive understanding of wrongs swept under the carpet and of how to get those who perpetrate those wrongs to rise up and do themselves harm.

I do not personally much like his way of going about things. Schoolboy taunts seem to me childish and unpresidential, and they can be counter-effective. But let’s face it: with this weapon, he made mincemeat of his Republican opponents, and he defeated Hillary Clinton. He knows something that those of us who are more conventional do not quite get.

Scott Adams has been teaching this almost daily for about a year.

Every once in a while, however, I get a glimpse of what Trump is up to, and then I really am impressed. His attack on the NFL could not be more timely.

I knew Paul at Yale in the mid-70s. He is scary smart and very sound on political questions.

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Living happily ever after, I trust.

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The backlash continues….

Steelers Fans Burn Their Team Gear

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Considering the crap they had to put up with from John XXIII and Paul VI, this is pretty huge.

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Imagine that.

Hopefully he gets a piece of the action.

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Thus the NFL ‘protest’ is explained.

My younger brother played football in High School and has been a pinko ever since, so I’m fully prepared to believe that even holding a football is enough to cause brain damage.

And, of course, the Usual Suspects in the DemLegHump media are engaged in a massive effort to link Trump with the flag and the National Anthem in the minds of the American people.  Not their brightest move….

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Now that’s comedy.

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A cloud upon the horizon no bigger than a man’s hand…. (1 Kings 18:43)

Shortly followed by Luke 12:54. “Then Jesus said to the crowds, “As soon as you see a cloud rising in the west, you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and that is what happens.”

Hope the NFL players have their umbrellas with them.

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Waiting for somebody to ‘take a knee’ over Ram Emanuel’s performance in Chicago….

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It seems pretty obvious that the murder bulge has been concentrated among blacks killing blacks, especially in cities where Black Lives Matter was active and successful at discouraging cops. In both Baltimore and Chicago, for example, the increase in murders started the same week as BLM protests.

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Environmentalists are suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for suspending environmental regulations in order to construct a border wall along the U.S. boundary with Mexico, despite evidence of “significant” environmental damage caused by illegal immigration.

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While wall construction will affect animal movements to a certain extent, illegal immigration also poses a threat to endangered animals. The CBD lawsuit runs counter to the stated goals of environmentalists, GOP Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email.

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

CNN: Trump’s Attacks On Athletes Were ‘Racial’  Only in the sense that the players causing the problems are all black. It’s certainly racial on their part.

ABC/NBC Smear Trump, Claim Racially Coded Rhetoric on Kneeling  Remember: If you hear the ‘dog whistle’, then you’re the dog.

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Nobody attending a ‘global citizen festival’ is doing anything ‘for America’, no matter what is blathered. The whole point of a ‘global citizen festival’ is that we need to get beyond such nationalist ideas as America and embrace the world as our home.

This is just racialist politics and virtue signaling. I had thought Stevie Wonder was above that, but I guess not.

Everyone who puts skin color before country ought to have the honesty to just leave.

Jerome Lucille points out some inconvenient truth.

Once upon a time, mass transit was the technocrat’s preferred method for prying people out of their wasteful, dangerous cars. If only we could subsidize the right combination of buses, trolleys, jitneys, light rail, monorail, and bullet trains—the thinking went—all our problems would be solved. To save the planet, “public transportation should be favored over private automobiles, and the cars heavily taxed,” wrote Hugh McDonald of New York City College of Technology in a 2014 book on environmental philosophy. That view is shared by a number of other scholars and policy makers who hope to eliminate traffic deaths, largely by getting rid of cars.

But now there’s a new kid on the block: self-driving cars. The trouble is that neither of these approaches takes into account the reality that almost 20 percent of the population of the United States live in the low-population rural areas that make up the majority of the country’s land mass, and they’re not about to trade in the F-150 for a newfangled robot chariot.

Automobiles mean freedom — freedom to go from where we are to where we want to be at a time and pace of our own choosing. Those Who Know How To Live Our Lives Better Than We Do (Socialists, Communists, Environmentalists, and other varieties of Democrat) don’t like this freedom; they’d much rather we Do It Their Way. They pretty it up with cool-sounding words, but that’s the bottom line.

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This general phenomenon of intense critical hostility to Tolkien in the face of his undeniable popularity is open enough; however, the reasons for it often remain unexpressed, hints and sneers rather than statements. Several attempts have been made to explain this deep and seemingly compulsive antipathy. This is the first of two linked posts that deal, firstly, with Tolkien’s critics and, secondly, with his legacy in the form of his many admirers and emulators.

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“Although it is impossible to establish a causal relation, the impact of climate change-related phenomena (such as the higher frequency of extreme events, be them floods or drought) cannot be ruled out as one of the causes for the reduced per capita availability of food in several countries,” the U.N. admitted.

Even so, the U.N. warned droughts and floods, “linked in part to El Niño phenomenon and climate-related shocks,” hurt food production, they can’t say for sure this is behind the increase in global hunger. The U.N. even admits global food production was high enough to feed everyone on the planet, despite weather shocks.

The U.N. still claimed global warming was a compounding factor behind the spike in hunger statistics.

MSNBC Contributor Compares Alabama Senate Candidates To Ku Klux Klan

LeBron James Targets Trump, Claims He Has Disgraced The Presidency

Comments Like Trump’s Make the Sports World a Political Battleground  Sorry, fartface, the ‘sports world’ was a political battleground long before Trump ever got here.

Keith Olbermann: NFL Fans Should Sit During National Anthem To Protest Trump  I don’t think everybody’s on board with that.

Pat Sajak brings the heat.

I’m not much of a joiner. Besides, any club that would have me as a member obviously has standards too high for me to live up to. But I am excited about my first meeting tonight with the “Monitor Twitter and Facebook Looking for Anyone Who Says Something Positive or Evenhanded About Donald Trump So We Can Bully and Harass Them on Social Media and Recreational Drugs Club.”

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Ask not for whom the robots come; they come for thee.

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Gee. What a tragedy. I’m outraged. (yawn)

Joe and Mika Cringe Over ‘Pornographic’ Trump, Bash GOP as Not Real Conservatives, On ‘View’

MSNBC Admits Media Covers Trump Tweets Instead Of His Actual Policy Victories

Celebs, Journalists Want to ‘Trade’ ‘Sociopath’ Trump for Kim Jong-Un  That truly is deranged.

Megyn Kelly: ‘Absurd’ How Many Reporters Are Biased Against Trump

Morning Joe More Upset by Trump’s Tweets Than North Korea’s Nukes

Green Day Frontman: ‘Batsh*t Crazy’ Trump Like Saddam Hussein, Satan   Well, just looking at him, I’d say he’s an expert on batshit crazy, not to mention Satan.

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You can’t beat Mother Nature. Make a pile of something, and life will find a way to use it.

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There is no such thing as ‘equality’ because life doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

The tests that a chaotic world throws at human beings is never equal or balanced in measure to our strengths to pass them. Equality, in the terms that egalitarian equalists are comfortable in defining it, implies that that every individual is equally matched in both value and utility within a totality of random challenges. Aside from this being patently false, it also demerits both strengths and weaknesses when that individual succeeds or fails at a particular challenge as a result of their individual character.

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Popular musician Robert Ritchie, also known as “Kid Rock,” is leading the GOP’s U.S. Senate race in Michigan, according to a poll released Friday.

The poll reportedly showed Ritchie leading other candidates in the Republican primary. This poll comes as Ritchie continues hinting at officially announcing his Senate bid against Michigan Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, but has yet to do so.

Ritchie has more support in the Republican primary than every other candidate combined, with a 29 percent lead over the potential candidates, according to the poll. Pollsters also said that Ritchie looks strong among supporters of Trump.

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

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Today Education Secretary Betsy DeVos withdrew the Obama-era letter instructing colleges to use the preponderance of evidence standard when adjudicating sexual assault.

DeVos called the previous guidelines—distributed to colleges in 2011 as part of a “dear colleague” letter, then clarified in 2014—well-intentioned but flawed.

“These documents have led to the deprivation of rights for many students—both accused students denied fair process and victims denied an adequate resolution of their complaints,” reads the new “dear colleague” letter, which was signed by Acting Assistant Secretary Candice Jackson and approved by DeVos.*

Another Trump win for the American people.

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Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee want to block a Trump administration judicial nominee because of his conservative Christian views.

President Donald Trump tapped Jeff Mateer as a lifetime federal judge. But comments he has made on same-sex marriage and transgender rights are upsetting Democrats Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, according to The Dallas Morning News.

“There’s no question these views cast serious doubt on his ability to fairly enforce federal law and treat people impartially,” Feinstein said in a statement.

Article VI, section 3, of the United States Constitution provides, in relevant part: “… but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”  Senator Feinstein, who took an oath to support the Constitution when she was sworn in as a Senator, appears to be laying herself open to impeachment.

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I was amused to hear Larry Page, a co-founder of Google, in this YouTube video clip. It’s almost like hearing myself — another native of the east-central-south portion of Michigan’s lower peninsula.

I was interested to note, when I actually had a chance to listen to Dan Rather in person, that he has a definite Texas accent that disappears entirely when he is in front of a camera.

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New research shows that all blue-eyed people share a common ancestor. This person lived more than 6,000 years ago and carried a genetic mutation that has now spread across the world.

The exact cause remains to be determined but scientists do know that eye color began to change long before recorded history began.

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There are two types of fat tissue in the body: the good brown kind – which helps us to burn calories, and the bad white kind – which leads us to gain weight.

Now, there might be a way to covert the bad into the good, new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis has found.

Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving must remain because they ‘lack the intellect’ of men, says leading cleric

Culture-Enriching Crime Statistics From The Netherlands

India calls Pakistan ‘Terroristan’ in UN speech row

Saudis Stike Deal to Monitor WhatsApp Calls

Anti-Islamic Discrimination Rising In Countries Attacked By Jihadis  My, what a surprise.

Free Speech Activists Brawl with Supporters of Turkish President Erdo?an

Widows Of Afghan Soldiers Forced To Perform ‘Sexual Favors’ To Receive Pension Benefits

Report: Just 3 Percent Of Europe’s 2 Million Asylum Seekers Have Been Returned

A year on from the murder of Christian writer Nahed Hattar in Jordan, many questions remain unanswered

Taha Hussain: Friend of London Bridge terror attack ringleader jailed for four and a half years

British IT worker ‘facing six months in prison’ in Dubai for giving fellow driver the finger

Muhammad replaces William in the top 10 boys’ names

‘Like a Slave:’ Three Muslim Women, At Least One Of Them Bloodied, Called Police on Imran Awan

Germany: SJWs Protest the Deportation of Afghan Rapists and Child Abusers

Without Islam it Would be Boring in Germany

ALGERIA: Islamic Terrorism Takes A Back Seat

A New Wave of Cultural Enrichment in Lisbon

Turkish NATO Delegation Walks Out of Event Over Dissident Speech  I see no reason for Turkey to continue as a NATO member. It’s not as if it touches the North Atlantic, after all.

Turkey drops theory of evolution from national curriculum as children go back to school

Watch Suicide Car Bomber Get Obliterated By US Air Strike

Trump Calls Out ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’ By Name At UN  Which Obama never did.

#NotAllIslams Set Fire To Melbourne Bank Due To Long Wait Time

Ibrahim Halawa freed: Irish student facing death penalty in Egypt released after four years  Yeah, ‘Ibrahim Halawa’ sure says ‘Irish’ to me.

Refugee Resettlement in Hellerup, Act Two

India trying to deport 40,000 Rohingya Muslim over ‘ties to terrorism’  What do they know that this alleged journalist doesn’t?

Syrian civilians fleeing Raqqa are taking up arms to go back and fight Isis

The Rival Approaches to Islam

US Absolutely Slaughters ISIS Suicide Bombers Attacking Base In Iraq

Snapchat Removes Al Jazeera Channel in Saudi Arabia

Two Pakistani teens accused of plotting to elope tied down and electrocuted by own families in ‘honour’ killing

OSCE Warsaw: Islam Denies Women Full Equality Under the Law

Police Raid Syrian Refugee’s Home In Connection To London Attack

London Subway Bomber Believed To Be Problematic Iraqi Refugee  My, what a surprise.

The Awan case: Curiouser and curiouser

Female American Tourists Attacked With Acid In France

Hamas clears the way for Palestinian unification by agreeing to hold general elections in Gaza

London attack: Second man arrested in connections with Parsons Green Tube attack

A Culture-Enriching Murder Epidemic in Sweden

Leaving the caliphate: The struggle of one Isis bride to get home

London Attack Used ‘Signature’ ISIS Explosive

Christian man sentenced to death in Pakistan over ‘blasphemous’ WhatsApp message sent to friend

Daily Mail: Saudi Arabia rounds up and arrests at least 20 people considered opponents to the new crown prince

Today’s Londonistan Bombing: A Prophecy, a Warning, a Question and an Answer

London attack: Terror threat level upgraded to ‘critical’ as Theresa May puts soldiers on streets

Isis claims responsibility for London bombing attack

Isis is stepping up its attention-grabbing atrocities to counterbalance its defeat in Iraq and Syria, where the vast majority of terror victims are

Never Forget: Muslim Hate Crime Hoaxes

Britain Expects More Attacks As ISIS Claims Responsibility For Subway Blast  Which doesn’t necessarily mean that they actually had anything to do with it, of course.

Credulous Journalists Help Islamists Thrive

Cultural Enrichment at the Church Fair in Hirschaid

Saudi authorities arrest 30 clerics, intellectuals and activists in ‘coordinated crackdown on dissent’

IDF’s Gaza Wall May Change Hamas Terror Strategies

Tunisian Muslim women allowed to marry non-Muslims for first time in decades

Iran Quadruples Cash Flow to Hizballah Since Nuclear Deal

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On Tuesday, PBS’s Tavis Smiley show hosted two guests to discuss the issue of “white rage” in America in the age of Donald Trump. So did the taxpayer-funded network hold a balanced discussion with two opposing points of view? Of course not. True to form, the show was merely a conservative-free zone with two left-wing guests joining the left-wing host to go after Republicans with charges of “white nationalism,” “white supremacy,” and efforts to “move African-Americans back in their place.”

The Atlantic: “How This Year’s Oscar Contenders Are Tackling Trump”  As if there were any significance to how ‘Oscar contenders’ deal with politics — except inside the Trump Derangement Syndrome bubble.

The Nation’s Zirin Takes on Trump and ‘Toxic Masculinity,’ Ignores Bill Clinton’s Sexual Misdeeds

Alex Jones claims the US government is drugging Donald Trump through his diet cokes  Perhaps that accounts for its awful taste.

‘Morning Joe’s’ Mika Can’t Handle Video Of Trump

Maxine Waters ‘Guarantees’ That Trump Colluded With Russia  And I guarantee that Maxine Waters is Yet Another Fat Ugly Black Female Democrat Crook. Let’s see which proves true.

Maxine Waters Wonders When The Black Community Will Impeach Trump  Funny how I don’t see The Black Community mentioned anywhere in the Constitution.

Morning Joe Unhinged: ‘Far, Far, Far Right’ Pundits Advocate Killing Trump?

Prophets Of Rage Release Music Video Depicting Trump As Hitler  JUMP on that bandwagon, especially if no one is buying your ‘music’.

Journo Levies Bizarre ‘Exploitation’ Charge Against Trump

Donald Trump: World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall likens US President to a chimpanzee  Nobody would dare compare Obama to a chimpanzee, of course, because that would be raaaaaaacist.

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When did a Democrat politician’s opinion ever have a connection with what he was criticizing?

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These people are truly deranged.

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Not half as tired as the GOP is of you, Joe. Tell the truth: You just wanted to cash in.

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The bullwhip is never far from Democrat thought. Just ask Bull Connor.

Apparently his glow from the past is wearing thin.