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I guess that means freedom of speech is ‘white supremacy’. Good to get that cleared up.

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In the early 1990s, California tax authorities traveled to Las Vegas in pursuit of Gilbert Hyatt, an inventor who earned a fortune as the patent holder of the microcomputer. They staked out his home, dug through his trash, and hired a private eye to look into his background. He’d moved to Nevada in 1991, but California made a claim that the state was entitled to millions of his recent earnings.

What transpired over the next twenty-five years is a story of greed, harassment, anti-semitism, and the abuse of power. And it wasn’t the first time that the California tax agency has strong-armed a former state resident. What’s so unusual about Gilbert Hyatt is that he fought back—and won.

The major difference between taxing authorities and the Mafia is that taxing authorities don’t speak Italian.

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You can’t make this stuff up.

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UCLA used to be a highly-respected university. They appear to be throwing that away with both hands.

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The fools.

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I’ve always wondered about that.

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I think General Kelly ought to demand that all Congressional Black Caucus women apologize to the country. Every damned one of them looks as if she’d been sucking on a lemon for the last twenty years.

Wilson is just letting her inner Black Congresswoman out.

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Tell the truth, we’ve all wanted to do that.

Apparently, since Harvey Weinstein wasn’t porking Actresses of Color, he’s not only a pig but also a racist.

Glad we could clear that up.

I suggest that those who see everything in terms of race are the Real Racists ™.

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Superconductivity — a phenomenon in which electrons can travel through certain materials with zero resistance — has revolutionized parts of medicine, travel and science. Now, an intriguing experiment has seen the same behaviour that underlies superconductivity — but in particles of light. The finding has left physicists wondering how far the comparison might reach.

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Imagine falling asleep in the 1990’s and waking up today. You nodded off watching the news explain looming pension crises, a need to raise the retirement age, and some really old guy talk about “cost disease.” You wake up in 2017 and all of that happened, we really are out of money, Baumol is dead, and many “millenials” aren’t sure what the definition of a “pension” is, exactly. Then you read about UBI. Many an article explain proposed positives, but none explain quite how we’ve made the leap from “we can’t pay for people’s retirement anymore” to “let’s give everyone money and see what happens.”

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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, dude, but the Klan were Democrats.

OOPS, down the MemoryHole….

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“As soon as we turned a corner, Antifa rushed us, they started getting into our face, they just started throwing punches, they started kicking,” Cameron told CP24.

The brownshirts of the Left are on the march.

Yet Trump is the New Hitler.

Freeberg sums it up.

Conservatives desire to teach. Yes this is in contravention against the stereotype, with the “new ideas” emerging and conservatives saying “No no no to new ideas, for I am a conservative.” But conservatives conserve civilization, and civilization is conserved by way of teaching. The old teach the young, so the young don’t have to re-learn everything the hard way; that is how it works. This is how you tie a knot, tie a bow, start a fire, use a knife, shoot a gun, go to Church. Yes, conservatives get surly about certain things. But very, very few of them go so far as to say “My kids are not allowed to watch movies because the actors are liberals.” Certainly, they don’t make a political movement out of such a thing. They don’t have the time for it. They’re too busy at their jobs, building things other people can use.

Liberals desire to restrict. Constantly. We don’t even need to wait past the next sundown to see more examples of it anymore, they emerge daily. Cultural appropriation! Sexist! Racist! It’s become such an unremarkable event for them to add more examples, to embiggen the definitions. So they can restrict some more. “Toxic masculinity!” With one single sweeping pronouncement, they declare 48% to 49% of humans to be toxic…”Don’t teach that in science, take it to a mythology class where it belongs!”…dishonest. What they mean is they don’t want kids to be taught religion. Even if the parents wish it. “Prosecute climate denialism!”…criminalize the very act of disagreeing with, or merely questioning, their catechism.

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The government has said the term “pregnant woman” should not be used in a UN treaty because it “excludes” transgender people.

Feminists reacted with outrage to what they said was the latest example of “making women unmentionable” in the name of transgender equality.

The statement comes in Britain’s official submission on proposed amendments to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the UK has been a signatory since 1976. The UN treaty says a “pregnant woman” must be protected, including not being subject to the death penalty.

But I’m sure Trump is somehow to blame.

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If you don’t know who Harold McGee is, this will tell you.

If you do know who Harold McGee is, this will tell you more.

If you want to be a good cook, you need to find out who Harold McGee is.

Just saying’.

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And why should we? Every article ever written on the prospect of languages dying out proceeds from the unspoken assumption that That Is A Bad Thing. I don’t buy it.

A language is a tool. Tools that no longer serve a purpose are abandoned. The sole criterion for whether a tool serves a purpose is whether it is used. Abandoned tools may have some historical interest, but that hardly justifies a massive effort to make sure that the tool is retained in use.

Consider the hitching weight. A hitching weight was a lump of metal or stone carried in a horse-drawn vehicle that, when the vehicle was stopped, was attached to the horse’s reins to keep the horse from moving. How much use is there for a hitching weight nowadays? So close to none as to be negligible. Ought we to have a crash program (complete with taxpayer funding) to ‘preserve the hitching weight’? The question answers itself.

Yes, languages are valuable indicators of how the groups that use them thought about the world.

Yes, languages ought to be fully documented, if possible, before they die out, just as examples of other abandoned tools ought to be stored in museums.

But neither case justifies going to extremes of effort or expense to do that. I personally feel that all this hoo-hah is just a tempest in a teapot ginned up by people who have an obscure hobby to get other people (like you and me) to pay them to pursue it.

We see a lot of that these days.

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Interior Minister Gerard Collomb made it official. France is “in a state of war”.

It’s not just rhetoric. Bombs turn up in a posh Parisian suburb. Two young women are butchered at a train station. And it’s just another week of an Islamic World War III being fought in France.

From the November attacks in 2015 that killed 130 people and wounded another 400+, to the Bastille Day truck ramming attack last year that killed 86 and wounded 458, the war is real.

French casualties in France are worse than in Afghanistan. The French lost 70 people to Islamic terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. And 239 to Islamic terrorist attacks in France.

The French losses in Afghanistan were suffered in over a decade of deployment in one of the most dangerous Islamic areas in the world. The French losses in France were suffered in less than two years.

There’s something very wrong when Afghanistan is safer than Paris.

CNN Guest: Trump Has ‘Impulse’ To ‘Go After Women And Critics Of Color’  An ‘impulse’ that exists only in the mind of proglodyte commenenters.

Billionaire investor launches multi-million dollar campaign to impeach Trump: ‘This president is mentally unstable’  And of course some random rich Democrat is qualified to make that judgement.

Trump’s JFK files release: The stories the US President could be trying to distract us from by clearing assassination files  So Trump declining to extend the secrecy of these files is therefore an attempt to distract from … what? A constant baseless assault from all the talking heads in Washington? They must be easily distracted.

MSNBC Guest: Trump ‘Defecating on Women,’ ‘Taking Away Rights’  By giving a forum to such delusions, MSNBC merely cements its position as a proglodyte mouthpiece.

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Looks like a trend. Cue media frenzy.

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And well they might.

Job website Indeed.com surveyed more than 1,000 employed tech workers and found that 43 per cent of respondents expressed concern about losing their job due to age. And 18 per cent said they worried about this “all the time.”

The survey falls short of a revelation. Rather, it’s a reaffirmation of an issue that has troubled tech employees for years and has prompted lawsuits such as the one brought by Robert Heath against Google in 2015, since joined by at least 269 aggrieved elders.

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I guess they couldn’t find Idi Amin.

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Part of what is going on here is that coastal liberals think that people in places like South Dakota are both dumber than they are, and more prone to violence. Actually, that is the opposite of the truth, in both respects. In South Dakota, where I grew up, most people are familiar with shotguns and rifles, know how to use them, and don’t irrationally freak out if they encounter a few, even at an airport. And the violent crime rate is vanishingly low.

At some point during the day, a reporter from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, South Dakota’s dominant and liberal newspaper, asked Rich Larson whether he knew that his modest auction booth was all over Twitter. The Argus Leader ran a story headlined: No, firearms weren’t for sale at Sioux Falls Regional Airport on Friday.

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‘They may have won all the battles — but we had all the good songs!’ — Tom Lerer

NBC: Will Military Leaders ‘Tackle’ Trump, ‘Lock Him in a Room’ to Prevent War?  Somebody’s smoking’ and not sharin’.

Donald Trump’s ‘downward mental health spiral’ could lead US to war, clinical psychologist says  Wonder what his professional association would say about this long-distance diagnosis. Everything I’ve read suggests that it’s considered unprofessional.

Newsweek Callously Trumpets: ‘You Can Now Bet’ On Melania Dumping President Trump  Newsweek used to be a serious magazine. Sad.

CNN Contributor: Trump Makes People Choose Between Flag, Anthem, Borders, ‘Or Just Hating America’

Three-quarters of Americans think Trump is going to lead them into war  At least, that’s what they would have you believe. If you actually dig into the poll you find that it seriously oversamples Democrats, as most such media-driven polls do.

Armando Iannucci interview: ‘The danger is turning Donald Trump into a comedy character. He’s not. He’s dangerous’

Donald Trump may not be Adolf Hitler but his habit of weaponising untruths offers eerie parallel  Actually, Obama and Clinton are closer ‘parallels’.

Scarborough: Trump Is A ‘Thug’ For Praising Maria’s First Responders

Donald Trump has insulted the UK one too many times – he is not welcome here  Of course, Trump has never insulted the U.K. — except in the eyes of those who are insulted that he even exists.

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President Donald Trump’s tax plan seems to really resonate with millennials, but only when presented as if it were a proposal from Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Campus Reform asked a number of students at George Washington University if they supported some of the features of Trump’s tax plan, but sold the provisions as key parts of Sanders’s vision for tax reform.

Isn’t that amazing.

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The brownshirts of the Left are on the march.

Yet Trump is the New Hitler.

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Federal funding for basic research—more than half of it conducted on university campuses like this one—has effectively declined since 2008, failing to keep pace with inflation. This is before we take into account Trump administration proposals to slash the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) budgets by billions of dollars more.

Unexplained: Why it’s the job of the Federal government (i.e. the Federal taxpayer) to fund all of this stuff — other than vague handwaving about ‘an economy more dependent on it that most people understand’ (i.e. you ordinary people are dump while we journalists are smart).

Unmentioned: The conversion of ‘public research universities’ into indoctrination camps for left-wing political causes, starting with ‘climate change’ right the way down to ‘gender and queerness studies’. (Also unmentioned is how much of this ‘basic research funding’ goes to stuff like ‘queering‘.)

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No, she had no political agenda — perish the thought — she just recorded the call because, hey, that’s what you do.

It does demonstrate, however, that Frederica Wilson is just another lying Democrat politician.

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Kelly, of course, has no ‘racist past’. And if he had, it would be nothing compared to Wilson’s racist present.

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Because whenever a white person criticizes a non-white person it is ipso facto racist, regardless of the facts.

“That’s a racist term, too. I’m thinking about that one. We looked it up in the dictionary because I had never heard of an empty barrel.”

I guess black Democrats are not only stupid but also ignorant.

Kelly said the term was meant to be metaphorical, to represent someone who “makes the most noise,” but Wilson took it as racially demeaning.

I’m sure she thinks that anything a white person says is ‘racially demeaning’. If you hear the dog whistle, then you’re the dog.

I personally think that Wilson’s cowb0y-hat fetish is cultural appropriation and she ought to be jailed.

Saudi cleric says women are to blame for rape and harassment

Mubashir Jamil: Wannabe jihadist convicted after telling undercover police officer he dreamed of joining Isis

Recep Tayyip Erdogan ready to close Turkish border with Iraq in response to Kurdish tensions

Isis and other Islamist terror groups plotting similar attack to 9/11, says US security chief

Quebec bans Muslim women from wearing face veils on public transport

In Erdogan’s Post-Coup Turkey, Anti-Semitism is on the Rise

Human Rights Lawyer: ‘Fear Of Some Elements Of Islam Is Mere Prudence’

Only Two Out Of 60 Troops Walked Away From New Taliban Tactic

When Islamists Fall Out

Turkey Plans Move to Box in Kurds in Northern Syria

Edmonton Terrorist’s Movements Highlight Threat to U.S. Southern Border

Man Convicted For Planning To Behead Pamela Geller Over Muhammad Cartoon Contest

Nigeria kidnapping: Four British people abducted in Delta state

Media Falsely Reports Trump’s EPA Is ‘Weakening Radiation Safety Levels’

Bill Banning Muslim Face Covering Would Be A First In North America

Somalia truck bomb attack that killed more than 300 people in Mogadishu ‘may be revenge for US-led operation’

Allah Shall Punish You All!

UN Human Rights Council’s Newest Members Practice Systemic Rape, Modern-Day Slavery  Which is about what we’ve come to expect from the U.N.

Quebec to vote on law forcing Muslim women to remove face veils on public transport

Death toll climbs to 61 after Taliban suicide bomb attack on Afghan police station

Jeffery Barry found guilty of murdering refugee after calling him rapist and terrorist

Suicide bomb attack on Afghan police station leaves at least 12 dead and 60 injured

Who Are The Haqqanis, Afghanistan’s Most Feared Insurgents?

Ahmad Khan Rahimi: Man who bombed New York’s Chelsea neighbourhood found guilty

New York man hails cab after ‘abandoning woman trapped in his burning car’

Macron Calls For ‘Severe Measures’ Against Illegal Immigrants

German Intelligence: Hizballah Fighters Posing As Refugees

Marawi city siege: Last two leaders of Isis-linked militants killed as Philippines troops retake streets

Why is the press reporting on Hurricane Ophelia but not the worst ever terrorist attack in Somalia?

Afghan Immigrant Found Guilty Of New York Terror Bombing Spree

Islam Will End Abuse Of Women, Says Writer For The Independent  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Gianluca Buonanno: “Do we want to be completely subjugated by Muslims?”

Days after devastating truck bomb in Somali capital, death toll still climbing

Kurds say “lots of casualties” as Iraqi forces move on Kirkuk

Why There Is No Peace in the Middle East

Switzerland to hold referendum on whether to ban burqa after successful far-right petition It’s not just right it’s far-right. In fact, you won’t find ‘right’ anywhere in print; it’s always ‘far-right’. (Just try to find ‘far-left’, however.)

Nearly 200 Killed In Massive Mogadishu Blasts

Somalia bomb attacks: Death toll rises to 85 in twin blasts in Mogadishu

Coptic Orthodox Priest Killed in Egypt

Forget the Asylum Centers — All Italians Must Take in Migrants

Migrant Center on Sardinia Bombed

Mogadishu truck bomb: At least 20 dead after huge explosion in Somali capital

Taliban Hostage’s Ex-Wife Has Al-Qaida Ties, Once Justified 9/11

Canadian rescued from Taliban captivity in Afghanistan says wife was raped and child killed during 5-year ordeal

German City Bans Migrants From Moving In

Freed Taliban hostage says captors raped his wife, authorized child’s killing

Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Ali: Teenager to stand trial over Parsons Green terror attack

Middle East Studies Profs Gone Bad

Nigerian Terrorists Kidnap Italian Priest

Violence and Rape at a Bucharest Asylum Center

“Refugees” With Fake Papers Caught at the Hungarian Border

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Can’t say that I blame her.

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According to a 2016 Washington Post-ABC poll, nearly half of Americans say voter fraud happens often. With this much distrust in the voting system, it’s time the voters took action and push for more voting identification standards to be evaluated and improved.

The same poll shows that Trump supporters specifically think voter fraud occurs often, and in my opinion, Trump voters have every right to feel this way considering multiple instances of voter fraud being uncovered in recent elections.

Viscount Ridley lays down some inconvenient truth.

The curse of modern politics is an epidemic of good intentions and bad outcomes. Policy after policy is chosen and voted on according to whether it means well, not whether it works. And the most frustrated politicians are those who keep trying to sell policies based on their efficacy, rather than their motives. It used to be possible to approach politics as a conversation between adults, and argue for unfashionable but effective medicine. In the 140-character world this is tricky (I speak from experience).

Scott Adams gives step-by-step instructions.

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In phenotyping, scientists scan a person’s genes for variations known to influence traits like skin color, eye color, geographical ancestry and freckling. They then plug those markers into a set of algorithms to generate a profile. In recent years, pharmaceutical companies like Parabon NanoLabs of Virginia have begun recreating faces.

Parabon’s tests revealed that Monique was primarily of sub-Saharan African descent, and not white as investigators had believed based on the color of the skin found on her remains.

So Race Doesn’t Exist Genetically except when cops are trying to identify a corpse, in which case, hey, I guess it does.

Steve Sailer sums it up:

I do want to point out that even though we are constantly assured that Science Has Proven Race Does Not Exist Genetically, it’s actually completely uncontroversial in forensic science that DNA can determine the race of pieces of corpses found floating in a New York bay.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

Hillary Staffer in Women’s Mag: ‘I Wake Up and Go to Sleep Angry’

Chelsea Handler Shuts Down Talk Show Due To Donald Trump  Hey, the system works.

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The chief of staff to Rep. Bennie Thompson spends his days in the halls of Congress and his weekends in jail for tax evasion, after the Mississippi Democrat violated his pledge to fire his wealthy chief if the aide was found guilty of stiffing the treasury of $150,000.

A Democrat violating a pledge is news?

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Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether the (D) behind someone’s name stands for ‘Democrat’ or ‘Double standard’.

Attention, Target Shoppers.

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The legendary sword has been pulled from the stone – but the owner wants it back and a crowdfunding campaign has been set up to replace the blade.

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What would you think of someone who got sued, lost in court, and celebrated the loss? You’d think there is something seriously amiss. In fact this has been the longstanding practice of a number of federal agencies, who actively cooperate with activist groups (invariably on the left) to set up lawsuits against agencies that result in the agencies having more power and instituting more regulations.

To give a good example, when the EPA lost the 2007 case of Massachusetts vs. EPA (that was the one that said the EPA could regulate greenhouse gas emissions), employees at EPA opened champagne to celebrate their “loss” at the Supreme Court. Much of the time these legal actions never actually make it very far in court, because the agency will “settle” with the plaintiffs through a consent decree, which means in practice that the agency conveniently consents to having more power. It is called “sue and settle,” but I call this “crony administration.” Much of the time these faux lawsuits are filed with the active participation of the agency, making a mockery of the rule of law.

A very bizarre form of ‘regulatory capture‘.

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France’s attitude to the killing of its citizens in Syria fighting for the Islamic State group has rarely been as frankly stated as it was in the lead up to the fall of Raqa.

“We are committed along with our allies to the destruction of Daesh (Islamic State) and we’re doing everything to that end,” Defence Minister Florence Parly told reporters at the weekend.

“What we want is to go to the end of this combat and of course if jihadists die in the fighting, then I’d say it’s for the best,” she added.

Walter Williams, a Real Economist, lays out some inconvenient truth.

Let’s look at who pays what, with an eye toward attempting to answer this question: Are the rich paying their fair share?

According to the latest IRS data, the payment of income taxes is as follows.

The top 1 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted annual gross income of $480,930 or higher, pay about 39 percent of federal income taxes. That means about 892,000 Americans are stuck with paying 39 percent of all federal taxes.

The top 10 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted gross income over $138,031, pay about 70.6 percent of federal income taxes.

About 1.7 million Americans, less than 1 percent of our population, pay 70.6 percent of federal income taxes. Is that fair, or do you think they should pay more?

By the way, earning $500,000 a year doesn’t make one rich. It’s not even yacht money.

But the fairness question goes further. The bottom 50 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted gross income of $39,275 or less, pay 2.83 percent of federal income taxes.

Thirty-seven million tax filers have no tax obligation at all. The Tax Policy Center estimates that 45.5 percent of households will not pay federal income tax this year.

There’s a severe political problem of so many Americans not having any skin in the game. These Americans become natural constituencies for big-spending politicians. After all, if you don’t pay federal taxes, what do you care about big spending?