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Licensing boards are perhaps the most powerful labor institution in American history.

The best estimates available suggest that roughly 30 percent of American workers are now required to get a license from one of those quasi-government agencies before they can enter the workforce. That’s about the same percentage of the workforce that was a member of a union in the 1950s, the decade when union membership peaked before falling off to about half that percentage today.

There’s no debate about whether the federal government has a role to play in regulating the activities of labor unions, of course. Should Congress do something about licensing boards?

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The biggest surprise in President Trump’s willingness to work with Democrats is how much of a surprise it is to much of America. Expressions of shock are coming from all corners, suggesting that many of us view fierce polarization as normal and bipartisanship as abnormal.

If so, add that to the legacy of Barack Obama. He was the ultimate my-way or the highway president.

ESPN Anchor: ‘Donald Trump Is A White Supremacist’  For which there is absolutely no evidence, much less proof.

Study: The Liberal Media’s Summer of Pummeling Trump

Study: 91 Percent Negative Coverage Of Trump Over Summer

Joy Reid: Trump Era Is ‘The Worst Time to Be a Human’  Yeah, ’cause they lost.

MSNBC’s Katy Tur: Trump ‘Endangered My Life’  Well, no, he didn’t; she just had an anxiety attack because Hillary lost, and that’s her problem, not Trump’s.

Lauer and Tur Share Trauma of Trump Attacking the Media  Poor iddle snowflakes. They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

Wall St CEO Says ‘I Was Accused By People Of Being A Nazi’ For Being On Trump Council

Joy Reid Claims Trump Era Is ‘The Worst Time To Be A Human’  What would she know about being a human?

ESPN: Host Calling President Trump A White Supremacist Was ‘Inappropriate’  So a little wrist slap and everything’s cool. We can’t really punish her because she’s black and doing so would be raaaaaaacist.

Andrea Mitchell: Hillary ‘Really Does Connect the Dots’ Between Trump and Russia  Of course, she has to make most of them up, but that’s Hillary.

Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump ‘is a clear and present danger to America’  Wow, those grapes are really sour, aren’t they?

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Ah, Democrats — they sure do love the children. Doesn’t that just warm your heart?

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Ah, just like the old Soviet Union.

They will eventually be assigned to Re-education Camps, no doubt.

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The ThoughtCrime of Noticing is always to be punished. No one may be permitted to doubt the Narrative.

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Apple is one of the few companies that can have their commercials covered as news. Glad I’m a stockholder.

Makes it cool for police, too — if they want to search your phone, no tedious getting a warrant or rancorous fight with your attorney; just show it your face (assuming you haven’t had the shit beaten out of you) and they’re good to go.

I don’t think I’ll buy one of these anytime soon….

UPDATE: Why you should never unlock your phone with your face

Dennis Prager takes a stab.

If someone asks what I am politically, I just say ‘anti-progressive’.

Like anti-Communist in the Good Old Days, it tells you everything you need to know.

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A Texas professor resigned Tuesday from his position at a law firm after tweeting the he would “be ok if” Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos “was sexually assaulted.”

Robert Ranco, who serves as a paralegal studies adjunct professor at Austin Community College, resigned from the Carlson Law Firm after speaking with the firm’s founder, Craig Carlson, reported Fox 7.

Boy, they’re quick — he’s already been purged from their firm web site.

From a Music major at Dartmouth to a community college professor to instant Internet fame. What a career arc.

Let’s see: Shaved head? Check. Chin beard? Check. The Breaking Bad aesthetic has its grip on the (SJW) nation.

“The recent social media comments made by a part-time employee on his personal page do not represent ACC’s vision, mission, and values,” said an Austin Community College spokesperson to Campus Reform. “The college does not condone these comments and their sentiment.”

Austin is the state capital of Texas, the heart of Travis County, the blue pustule towards which every Leftish heart in Texas eventually drains.

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Imagine going to the Post Office — or the DMV — for a checkup.

Or read any of the horror stories coming out of Britain. The British newspapers are all online.

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Oberlin is the alma mater of Lena Dunham and, somehow, Michelle Malkin. Until recently, it was the professional home to finally-fired, virulently anti-Semitic professor Joy Karega, who has suggested that Israel plotted the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. which killed 2,996 people.

Markets work, even when it’s Politically Incorrect.

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

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When the Marquess of Salisbury was asked whether there was a future for Randolph Churchill in the Conservative Party, is reputed to have said, ‘What man, having gotten rid of a boil on his neck, ever wishes it back again?’ I imagine that’s what a lot of Democrats are thinking about Hillary right now.

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Ah, just like the old Soviet Union.

SJW indoctrination proceeds apace. Down with CrimeThink! All hail the (Democrat) Party!

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I wonder whether that inclues idiolects like SJW (‘You’re all racist!’), proglodyte (‘You’re all bigots!’), and Antifa (‘You’re all Nazis!’) — granted, the latter are somewhat limited in their vocabulary, but make up for it in volume.

Courts in other states also were examined and faulted. Along with California, they began working to comply with U.S civil rights law, which bars discrimination based on national origin. Failure to act meant the possible loss of federal money.

That’s why Calexit will never happen — it would cut off the flow of ‘federal money’, which (unlike your money) is free for the taking and inexhaustible.

At least 220 languages are spoken in California, and 44% of residents speak a language other than English at home. Seven million Californians say they cannot speak English well.

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Ah, just like the old Soviet Union. Report all ThoughtCrime immediately.

I don’t suppose this includes the racists who want black-only dorms…?

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A fascinating look at all the people of whom the Chattering Class love to make fun.

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You know you’re at a world peace meeting when you’re sitting next to a sheikh who advocates death for apostasy — after all, what could be more peaceful than a dead apostate?

Just ask Angela Merkel.

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Please, please, let us continue to use your country as a dumping ground for the people we don’t want.

Invasion? What invasion?

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We have the technology.

How about that Climate Change? Is it time for us all to die, women and minorities hardest hit etc. etc. yet?

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Gotta love Australians.

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A Marketplace investigation of the world’s largest diploma mill has discovered many Canadians could be putting their health and well-being in the hands of nurses, engineers, counsellors and other professionals with phoney credentials.

Fake diplomas are a billion-dollar industry, according to experts, and Marketplace obtained business records of its biggest player, a Pakistan-based IT firm called Axact. The team spent months combing through thousands of degree transactions, cross referencing personal information with customers’ social media profiles.

The investigation revealed more than 800 Canadians could have purchased a fake degree.

“Keep in mind this is just the one operation,” said Allen Ezell, a former FBI agent who investigated diploma mills for decades. “This does not give you totality of how many are being sold throughout Canada by all schools that are operating.”

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Yeah, we’re such a shitty country that people are dying to get in.

Keep it classy, Estevez.

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Forty-eight years later, let’s be clear on what the meaning of Chappaquiddick is. Ted Kennedy should, by all rights, have stood trial for involuntary manslaughter, which would likely have ended his political career. The fact that the Kennedy family — the original postwar dynasty of the one percent — possessed, and exerted, the influence to squash the case is the essence of what Chappaquiddick means. The Kennedys lived outside the law; the one instance in American history of an illegally stolen presidential election was the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960. He in all likelihood lost the race to Richard Nixon, but his father tried to steal the election for him by manipulating the vote tallies in (among other places) Illinois. That’s the meaning of Chappaquiddick. too.

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Naruto the macaque monkey took the image in the Indonesian jungle in 2011 when it picked up a camera owned by David Slater from Monmouthshire.

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Peta’s appeal on the “monkey’s behalf” was dismissed but Mr Slater has agreed to donate 25% of any future revenue.

I wonder whether animals are as embarrassed by the morons in PETA as humans are?

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

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That’s okay. The useful Mexicans are already here.

Donald Trump’s ‘spiritual adviser’ claims God elevated him to presidency  No doubt this is meant to trigger yucks among their presumably liberal atheist readership. It just makes them look patronizing.

Miss America contestants asked about Trump-Russia collusion, Confederate statues  That’s really important when you’re wearing a swimsuit.

Over DACA, Gold Star father Khizr Khan calls Trump ‘illiterate and uneducated’  I suspect that somebody who went to Fordham and Wharton is at least as literate and educated as the son of a chicken farmer who went to the University of Punjab.

Miss America Contestants Asked to Condemn President Trump  That’s really important when you’re wearing a swimsuit.

Miss America Gets Political As Judges Grill Contestants On Trump  ‘Gets’ political? It’s been political for at least a decade.

Amazon’s ‘One Mississippi:’ Trump Gives People ‘Permission Now to Be Racist’

Pope launches thinly veiled attack on Trump, saying: ‘History will judge climate change deniers’  I see this big picture of Pope Benedict waving with a caption ‘Miss me yet?’

MSNBC Uses 9/11 To Go After Trump [VIDEO]

Behar: ‘Trump Is The Biggest Mistake In Modern History’  Bigger than Clinton allowing North Korea to get nuclear weapons? Bigger than Obama allowing Iran’s nuclear program to continue?

Adamant Whoopi, Behar Deny Trump Gets Negative Media Coverage on The View  Guess they don’t watch their own program, or listen to themselves. Can’t say that I blame them.

Jim Carrey: Americans May Have to ‘Struggle’ Like ‘People Did Under the Czar’

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Gee, cutting prices increases business. Who knew? (Well, economists….)

And yet The Usual Suspects don’t see how cutting taxes increases economic activity.

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Perfect response to the Kardashian in you.

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A facial recognition experiment that claims to be able to distinguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between its creators and two leading LGBT rights groups.

Science deniers!

The Stanford University study claims its software recognises facial features relating to sexual orientation that are not perceived by human observers.

Although human observers are pretty cunning. Google the term ‘gaydar’.

The work has been accused of being “dangerous” and “junk science”.

Sure. ‘LGBT rights groups’ are famous for their scientific expertise compared to Stanford.

Dangerous it may be; reality tends to be dangerous, and admitting reality is certainly dangerous to political prejudices.

But the scientists involved say these are “knee-jerk” reactions.

Got it in one.

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The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily lift restrictions on the President’s travel ban, quashing an opportunity for some 24,000 refugees to enter the country.

And a bunch of Islamist terrorists, potentially. The use of the term ‘refugees’ is tendentious, as one would expect from a Voice of the Crust.

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I blame it on Trump Derangement Syndrome, oh wait, some were deranged before he got elected. Here is a collection of some of the most hateful tweets, essays, and posts from climate alarmists that are trying to pin hurricanes Harvey and Irma on the shoulders of climate skeptics. I must not be trying hard enough, because I’m not on the death sentence list.

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He must not have taken a shower that morning.

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As Scott Adams has famously said, if you’re wearing a hood and beating on people because of their skin color, then you’re the Klan.

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I know I am.

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Gotta love Australians.

Of course, unless they had the wit to fill the pool with seawater first, the shark will die (different osmotic pressures, which is why there is such a thing as ‘freshwater fish’), but hey, it’s the thought that counts.

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What Scott Adams‘ book taught me about goals: Goals are for losers; winners use systems.

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Of course, this is in St. Charles, Missouri. ‘Where?’, I hear you ask — essentially a suburb of St. Louis.

Looking at the two upside-down cathedral windows, I’m not surprised. And these people supposedly remodel houses — how clever to make the garage down a sloped driveway from the street.

Personally, I’d rather have a mortgage than be brain-dead stupid.

Look at the images.

What do these looters obviously have in common? Can you tell?

I’m sure you can.

Unless you’re a proglodyte, in which case you literally can’t see it.

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We have the technology.

Lion of the Blogosphere explains some inconvenient truths.

As I’ve written before, that’s an old-fashioned definition of rich. Today, it’s considered low class to not have some kind of job. And the thing about the top out-of-sight rich is that because of their high social capital, in addition to their inherited financial capital, they tend to get paid a lot more money than you think relative to their actual value-creating contributions to the economy. So a top out-of-sight lifestyle can be maintained with less inherited wealth because it’s supplemented with a six-figure salary.

Furthermore, as I’ve also written before, non-transferable capital (what might be called human capital) has become a more important component of being rich. Mere ownership of assets have become a declining source of income. The dividend yield on stocks, the interest rates paid on corporate debt, have never been lower. If you’re just sitting on your assets, then your wealth is declining. I believe that the money which used to go to stockholders is now being transferred to C-level executives, investment bankers and other finance types, and to a lesser extent overpaid corporate helpers like BIGLAW partners and management consultants.

Most of the Chattering Class, and all of the Democrat Underclass base, have no clue about these simple truths.

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All the people involved were ‘Persons of Color’, but of course you can’t say that in a news story; that would be the ThoughtCrime of Noticing.

New York Times Accepts Full-Page Anti-Trump Ad from Venezuelan Despots

LSE Bob Ward: Hurricanes are President Trump’s Fault

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

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There are a few younger candidates from the margins of the long shots, like Mark Zuckerberg (39 in 2020), or Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (49 in 2020), but the real frontrunners are all well past any normal political sell-by date. Elizabeth Warren will be 71; Joe Biden will be 77; Bernie Sanders will be 78. And people say the Republican electorate is getting old.

Old people with old ideas. It kinda fits.

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Portland police will no longer maintain a database of suspected gang members, due to concerns that the vast majority of people with the gang label are racial minorities.

Starting Oct. 15, the Portland Police Bureau will end the 20-year practice of issuing gang member designations, which police say can lead to “unintended consequences” and a lifelong stigma even for those who have given up the gang lifestyle. Officials intend to notify the approximately 300 people on the gang list that the bureau will purge all records related to the designations, The Oregonian reported.

I am not making this up.