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In people with the condition, light receptor cells are arranged in matching patterns in both eyes, which may confuse the brain.

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Thomas Hargrove is a homicide archivist. For the past seven years, he has been collecting municipal records of murders, and he now has the largest catalogue of killings in the country—751,785 murders carried out since 1976, which is roughly twenty-seven thousand more than appear in F.B.I. files. States are supposed to report murders to the Department of Justice, but some report inaccurately, or fail to report altogether, and Hargrove has sued some of these states to obtain their records. Using computer code he wrote, he searches his archive for statistical anomalies among the more ordinary murders resulting from lovers’ triangles, gang fights, robberies, or brawls. Each year, about five thousand people kill someone and don’t get caught, and a percentage of these men and women have undoubtedly killed more than once. Hargrove intends to find them with his code, which he sometimes calls a serial-killer detector.

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Hargrove is sixty-one. He is tall and slender, with a white beard and a skeptical regard. He lives with his wife and son in Alexandria, Virginia, and walks eight miles a day, to Mount Vernon or along the Potomac, while listening to recordings of books—usually mystery novels. He was born in Manhattan, but his parents moved to Yorktown, in Westchester County, when he was a boy. “I lived near Riverside Drive until I was four,” he said. “Then one day I showed my mom what I learned on the playground, which is that you can make a switchblade out of Popsicle sticks, and next thing I knew I was living in Yorktown.”

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There’s some White Privilege for you.

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Warren responded to the President, saying “It is deeply unfortunate that the president of the United States cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to throw out a racial slur.”

I guess, then, that referring to somebody as Martin Luther King would be regarded by Senator Fauxcahontas as a ‘racial slur’.

At Monday’s White House press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was asked by a reporter why Trump felt the need to say something that is “offensive to many people ” at the ceremony. Sanders bluntly responded, “I think what most people find offensive is Senator Warren lying about her heritage to advance her career.”

Oh, not so much — most people expect Democrats to lie.

BET’s Soul Train Awards Starts With Host Taking a Knee to Trump  More Virtue Signalling from those whose livelihood depends on race obsession.

December May Be The Most Critical Month Of Trump’s Presidency  Or maybe not.

Tom Steyer: We Can’t Wait to Impeach Trump  Well, what’s stopping them? Other than lack of evidence?

Donald Trump’s motorcade cut up by angry van driver who swears at him  No one would have dared do that to Obama, of course.

Morrissey says he would kill Donald Trump ‘for the safety of humanity’  I’d be happy to kill Morrissey in order to clean out the gene pool.

John McCain slams Donald Trump as an opportunist ‘not anchored by a set of principles’  Gee, I was about to say the same thing about John McCain — with more reason.

Billionaire behind $20 million Trump impeachment campaign calls President an ‘urgent threat’  And a billionaire attempting to buy the impeachment of a President is not, of course.

Donald Trump uses ‘Pocahontas’ slur in address to Native American veterans  Unexplained, of course, is how ‘Pocahantas’ is somehow a ‘slur’.  (The real term used is ‘Fauxcahontas’, referring to her absurd claim to being of scraeling descent. You’d think that a newspaper would do some research.)

Turkish actually ought to be Category IV*, along with Magyar and Finnish.

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King County Superior Court Judge John Ruhl, in a summary judgement, sided with many angry city residents who contended the local income tax violated state law. Ruhl rejected a wide range of arguments cooked up by Seattle to save its legally dubious levy.

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Seattle’s progressive income tax, passed unanimously by the City Council in June, levied a 2.25 percent rate on individual incomes above $240,000 or $500,000 for joint filers.

The tax proved immediately and wildly unpopular. Three State Supreme Court decisions have called the progressive income tax a violation of Washington’s state constitution. A 1984 state law reinforced those rulings, flatly saying “a county, city, or city-county shall not levy a tax on net income.”

Apparently the Left Coast is still part of America.

Getting around the plain text of the law required some creativity. The council defended its ordinance as a tax on “total income”—as defined on various IRS tax forms. Ruhl decided the IRS’s “total income” figure incorporates various deductions and write-offs, making it in fact a measure of “net income.”

Seattle also tried to argue that their ordinance—whose own text describes itself as “imposing an income tax”—was not an income tax at all, but rather an excise tax. The distinction is that an excise tax is levied “on a taxpayer for voluntarily exercising a certain right or privilege.”

Living and earning a wage, according to Seattle’s legal team, is a privilege that residents choose to exercise, and thus can be taxed.

The proglodyte mind laid bare.

Scott Johnson does the fisking.

Last night CBS Minnesota broadcast excerpts of the interview Al Franken gave to anchor/reporter Esme Murphy at his daughter’s home in Washington, where he rode out the storm over the long Thanksgiving weekend during which he issued laughable and inconsistent statements on his misconduct. CBS Minnesota has posted the broadcast report (video below, about six minutes) and a companion summary here. It has also posted the entire 33-minute interview. If you have been following this story, the whole thing is must viewing; I have posted it at the bottom. My comments below are based on the full interview.

Certainly Al Franken is the sorriest son of a bitch I’ve ever seen sneak into the Senate.

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Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi was actually grilled by moderator Chuck Todd on numerous sexual harassment allegations made against Senator Al Franken and Congressman John Conyers. She had clearly grown accustomed to the usual softball treatment she has received on the network and complained about not being given enough time to bash Republicans.

After spending the exclusive interview pressing Pelosi on the accusations against her liberal colleagues and even pointing out her past defense of Bill Clinton, Todd attempted to wrap up the segment: “Leader Pelosi, unfortunately for time, I’ve got to end it there. I appreciate you coming on.” The House Minority Leader was outraged: “You mean we’re not even going to talk about taxes?”

‘MOMMEE! JOHNNY HIT ME BACK!’

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The “White Student Union” hoax that targeted universities in 2015 has spawned a fictitious University of Virginia chapter, according to a Sunday report.

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However, the message is very similar to messages posted by purported white student unions at other schools such as Pennsylvania State University, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of California, Berkeley, reported The Cavalier Daily. Matt Charles, UVA’s deputy spokesperson, said that the page owner likely is not a part of the UVA community and disavowed the content of the page.

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I wrote here about an op-ed by professors Amy Wax and Larry Alexander in which the authors praised America’s 1950s “bourgeois culture.” Though acknowledging the existence of “racial discrimination, limited sex roles, and pockets of anti-Semitism” in that culture, they insisted that the modern “loss of bourgeois habits has seriously impeded the progress of disadvantaged groups.”

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Predictably, Wax and Alexander were instantly accused of racism by what Robert Woodson describes as “the growing army of angry academics who police the prevailing narrative of black victimhood.” Woodson observes that, according to this narrative “black progress is determined not by personal choices and individual behavior, but by white supremacy, America’s history of slavery and discrimination, and institutional racism.” Thus, “touting ‘bourgeois values’ is interpreted as an offense against authentic black culture.”

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Wow, who would have guessed that?

Dr John Gottman, a man who is said to be able to predict divorce with over 90 per cent accuracy, has revealed that making a partner feel despised or worthless is the number one sign a marriage could be coming to an end.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

Steve Sailer dishes the dirt.

What really jumped out at me reading up on the Tunnel of Oppression phenomenon was that it seems to appeal most to the most fly-overish colleges imaginable: Boise State, Wichita State, Texas Tech, Indiana, Southern Illinois, Northern Illinois, Western Illinois, and so forth.

You might think that the Tunnel of Oppression would appeal to coastal elitists, but I can’t find any evidence that Harvard, Yale, or Princeton have ever touched the Tunnel of Oppression with a ten-foot pole.

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Similarly, the Tunnel of Oppression Test can distinguish Directional State Universities from the more prestigious Flagship Universities. The Tunnel of Oppresion was featured at the U. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, but not at the U. of Wisconsin-Madison. It was at the Texas State (which What Would Tyler Durden Do suggested is not an actual college but merely a made-up university to play against in the Big Game in football movies), but not at the U. of Texas-Austin. Washington State in Pullman on the Idaho border is a stronghold of the Tunnel of Oppression, but not the U. of Washington in fashionable Seattle.

Alt-right Trump supporters and left-wing Bernie Sanders fans should join together to defeat capitalism  Somebody has been watching too many Jason Bourne movies.

Steyer: We Can’t Wait To Impeach Trump  So do it already.

Donald Trump plays golf almost three times as much as Barack Obama after one year in office  And has gotten about three times  as much done. What an over-achiever.

Eminem upset Donald Trump hasn’t said anything about his BET freestyle yet  Perhaps because Trump has better things to do that waste attention on a white guy who wants so badly to be black.

Former CIA director criticises Donald Trump for ‘outrageous assault’ on free speech  Apparently calling out ‘journalists’ who are actually writing opinions masquerading as news is an ‘attack on free speech’. Who knew?

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Sort of a metaphor for modern life.

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Every time I see a picture of Howard Dean I am overwhelmed by the impression that this is a man who has spent his life with a stick jammed up his butt.

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An excellent example of how the Crustian Clerisy view people outside of their bubble as verging on semi-human knuckle-draggers whose lives must be governed for them by Their Betters.

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Current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai memorably told Reason that “net neutrality” rules were “a solution that won’t work to a problem that doesn’t exist.”

Yet in 2015, despite a blessed lack of throttling of specific traffic streams, blocking of websites, and other feared behavior by internet service providers (ISPs) and mobile carriers, the FCC issued net neutrality rulesthat gave the federal government the right to punish business practices under Title II regulations designed for the old state-enabled Bell telephone monopoly.

Now that Pai, who became chairman earlier this year, has announced an FCC vote to repeal the Obama-era regulations, he is being pilloried by progressives, liberals, Democrats, and web giants ranging from Google to Netflix to Amazon to Facebook, often in the name of protecting an “open internet” that would let little companies and startups flourish like in the good old days before Google, Netflix, Amazon, and Facebook dominated everything. Even the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which back in 2009 called FCC attempts to claim jurisdiction over the internet a “Trojan Horse” for government control, is squarely against the repeal.

The Usual Suspects, of course, consider it the End Of The World and reacted accordingly:

Pai is also being targeted by net neutrality activists, who have posted signs naming his children by his house and reportedly ordered pizzas as a nuisance.

This is the sort of bullying that the proglodyte fringe always indulge themselves in because they always feel justified in standing in the way of Hitler or whatever.

As a general rule, the side of a question that mobilizes ugly people marching in the streets and carrying ugly signs can be presumed to be wrong. This works 90% of the time.

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An eco-terrorist responsible for sabotaging an oil pipeline in North Dakota suggested Saturday that shutting down the multi-billion dollar line was necessary to defuse the ticking time bomb of man-made global warming.

Temporarily taking offline a pair of pipelines in Minnesota earlier this year was part of an effort to save the world from fossil fuels, Seattle activist and poet Emily Johnston wrote in an editorial for The Guardian. A judge is allowing her to use a “necessity defense” to justify her actions last year against the Enbridge pipeline.

This country is crawling with people who have fully internalized the plethora of OH MY GOD WE’RE GONNA DIE scenarios pushed by the proglodyte fringe and who therefore feel fully justified in committing any conceivable atrocity because they’re somehow preventing Hitler or equivalent.

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In a provocative new book, Against the Grain, Scott now challenges us to rethink legends about the state and its origins. Populations ruled by states tell stories about their emergence into civilization, stories that cast the non-state peoples around them as primitives and barbarians. These stories are familiar from the era of European imperialism and from early modern philosophers like Locke and Rousseau, but they’re common to state-governed populations around the world and throughout history. Scott calls them into deep doubt.

I have a copy of Against the Grain and have worked about half-way through it. It is well worth reading.

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Vivian Yee of the New York Times has written an account of immigration enforcement under the Trump administration in Atlanta, a non-sanctuary city. Yee reports that the regional ICE office in Atlanta made nearly 80 percent more arrests in the first half of this year than it did in the same period last year, the largest increase of any field office in the country.

It has done so with cooperation from local sheriffs and the police, who are working with federal agents to identify and detain immigrants. Yee correctly calls this “the model of cooperation that the Trump administration is rapidly trying to expand throughout the country.”

But we have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his first year in office.

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And the proglodyte witch-hunt for Heretics and Sinners proceeds apace.

(Gee, isn’t that what they were afraid Trump was going to do to them a year ago? How times change.)

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The witch-hunt for Heretics and Sinners marches on.

Steve Sailer says what we all ought to be thinking.

As I’ve mentioned before, Vallejo, CA has been perhaps the most racially diverse town in America since Sly and the Family Stone formed there a half century ago. (And who has been more of a paragon over the years of bourgeois respectability and fulfilled potential than Sly Stone?) But even the healing balm of Diversity can’t keep some Deplorable-Americans in Vallejo from the crime of Noticing. In fact, as the New York Times‘ black reporter on blackness reports, maybe Diversity even encourages Deplorables to Notice by, to coin a phrase, rubbing their noses in Diversity.

Eminem Whines That Trump Hasn’t Noticed His Unhinged Rap  Quelle surprise.

Andy Murray parody ridicules Donald Trump’s claim he snubbed Time over Man of the Year  I’m more likely to believe Trump than Andy Murray, an uninvolved third party doing his daily Virtue Signalling exercises.

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Because we all know how something gets more efficient and effective and fair once the government is running it, right?

There ought to be a law that no one is allowed to write for publication unless he or she has spent a day standing in line at the DMV.

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From lawmaker to lawbreaker in one easy step.

I guess he took ‘Black Friday’ a bit too literally.

On the other hand, I suggest that every black lawmaker under arrest marks an advance toward civilization.

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Oh, my homophobia! Oh, my Islamophobia! What’s a hipster to do?

Angelo Codevilla dishes the dirt.

First, the basics. During my eight years on the Senate staff, sex was a currency for renting rungs on ladders to power. Uninvolved and with a hygroscopic shoulder, I listened to accounts of the trade, in which some one-third of senators, male senior staff, and corresponding numbers of females seemed to be involved. I write “trade,” because not once did I hear of anyone forcing his attention. Given what seemed an endless supply of the willing, anyone who might feel compelled to do that would have been a loser otherwise unfit for survival in that demanding environment.

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It certainly ought to facilitate it. That’s what the whole ‘trophy wife’ thing is about. (Ever wonder why you don’t read about ‘trophy husbands’?)

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Here’s an editorial from The Guardian. This is not an op-ed by some random social justice jihadi, like the similar excoriation of Taylor Swift’s whiteness that Buzzfeed ran a couple of weeks ago, this is an editorial representing the official stance of Britain’s leading left-of-center broadsheet on the Taylor Swift Question.

And the proglodyte quest for Heretics and Sinners goes on and on and on….

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Look for … the Union label….

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Yup, irritating people when they are out shopping will sure win support for your cause.

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Remember: If you’re the one obsessed with race all the time, then you’re the racist.

If these guys didn’t have race to talk about, they wouldn’t have anything at all to talk about.

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Over the next six months, the archaeologists uncovered bronze basins, weapons and armor, but also a tumble of even more precious items, including gold and silver cups; hundreds of beads made of carnelian, amethyst, amber and gold; more than 50 stone seals intricately carved with goddesses, lions and bulls; and four stunning gold rings. This was indeed an ancient grave, among the most spectacular archaeological discoveries in Greece in more than half a century—and the researchers were the first to open it since the day it was filled in.

Politico: ‘How Donald Trump Ruined Thanksgiving’  Must have been serving meals to active duty military folk. Or maybe it was mentioning God in his Christmas message.

Trump’s bizarre comments about ‘invisible planes’ to the Coastguard: Read them in full  Every day, in every way, Trump is yanking their chain. You’d think they’d eventually wise up.

Donald Trump Will Tee It Up With Tiger Woods And Dustin Johnson  But of course you have to remember that Trump is a horrible racist who is deathly afraid of black people and would like to put them in camps or something.

MSNBC Criticizes Trump’s Thanksgiving Call To Troops  Which couldn’t have been a good thing, because Trump!

Senator Al Groper in his natural habitat.

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All the ways that Texas rocks and California sucks.

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Somehow, I do not see this as a bad thing.

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And you thought it was just you….

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Black Lives Matter, White Lives Spatter.

Iraqi woman describes ordeal as an Isis sex slave, three years after her escape

Deobandis Meet in Virginia to Incite Violence against Persecuted Islamic Minority

Hardcore Muslim Clerics Meet In Virginia To Incite Violence Against Persecuted Islamic Minority

Islamic schools in Pakistan plagued by child sex abuse, investigation finds

ISIS Calls For Assassination Of Barron Trump, Release Detailed Plan To Kill 11-Year-Old

Nigeria mosque bombing: At least 50 killed as people arrive for morning prayers

Culture-Enrichers Trash a Store in Essen and Send a Store Detective to the Hospital

At Least 50 Killed In Bombing During Mosque’s Morning Prayers In Nigeria

Tank Blows Suicide Bomber Sky High Seconds Before Terrorist Attack

Greeks Protest After Island Goes Into ‘State of Emergency’ From Refugee Overcrowding

Stop trying to interfere with my right as a parent to dress my daughter in a hijab  Try dressing your son in a hijab. They wouldn’t dare do anything about that.

The Islamic Society of Boston: From One Scandal to Another

Terrorists, Victims, or Both? The Children of ISIS Return

No one talks about the fact that in Sharia courts, British Muslim women have fewer rights than women in Islamic countries

France to stop Muslims praying in the street, interior minister says‘  A variant of ‘manspreading’?

Hero’ police officer leapt on suicide bomber with bear hug to sacrifice himself and save lives

Minnesota men at large

MALI: The Long Term Effect Of Cattle Theft

Yazidi rape survivor, Nadia Murad, tells of her time as an Isis sex slave

France Seeks To Ban Muslim Street Prayers In Paris After Clashes

The Boston Islamic Seminary Is Training the Next Generation of Extremists

NY Times Chides D.C. Bible Museum, Suggests Critics of Islam as Bad as ISIS

Egyptian singer arrested for ‘inciting debauchery’ after eating a banana in music video

Turkey bans all LGBT events in capital to ‘protect public security’

Serafín Fanjul: “Islamic communities are very much opposed to integration”

Mauritanians Call for Stricter Punishments for Blasphemy

“Youths” in Falkenfels Trash Their Asylum Accommodation

Teacher Put On Leave After Pulling Off Student’s Hijab

ISNA President Addresses Jamaat-e-Islami Crowd In India

Trump Admin Threatens To Shut Down Palestinian Office In DC

Austrian authorities investigate after 11-year-old Afghan boy ‘kills himself in refugee camp’

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And they’d none of them be missed;
No, they’d none of them be missed….

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Wow, what a narcissist. All he things about is himself.

But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in his firs year in office.

CNN’s Marc Lamont Hill FREAKS OUT On Air Over Trump Tweets  You know, as they do.

CNN Guest: Trump Is ‘Half Awed And Half Frightened By Black People’  More remote psychoanalysis by non-doctors. Judging by the crime statistics in America, being ‘half-frightened’ by black people is a rational response.

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Why build a luxury hotel that’s a living embodiment of the Saturday Night Live skit about lefties escaping into a bubble after Trump’s victory? Because that is what a spiteful and elitist left really wants. Behind the flattery about innovators, thinkers and provocative minds are a bunch of wealthy leftists who hate the rest of us. They’re the media, the entertainment industry and a big chunk of the government.

That’s why Eaton House is opening in Washington D.C.

They hate us because we are Heretics and Sinners. We hate them because they’re busybody assholes.

It works out.