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This reminds me of grade school when it was social suicide to touch anything that had been touched by the Official Pariah of the class, a condition designated by the phrase “It has (name) cooties’.

Trump DOJ suggests iPhone encryption costs lives following Texas shooting  Forget the fact that Obama’s DOJ took the same position; one must get a dig in on Trump even in a technical blog talking about a technical issue, because Trump Is The New Hitler and nobody must be allowed to forget it.

Former CIA Director: Foreign Leaders Manipulating Trump’s Insecurities Is National Security Issue  These ‘insecurities’ exist only in their fantasies, of course, but that never stopped them before.

Former Clinton Advisor Calls Trump A Russian ‘Agent’

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The White House may soon advise President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees not to cooperate with the American Bar Association’s independent vetting process, further weakening the dominant role the interest group has played for decades in judicial confirmations.

The American Bar Association has been a fully-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party since I was in law school. This change is long overdue.

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For all of you time-travelers out there.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

But you’ll learn. You’ll learn….

Kevin Williamson brings the heat.

The Republican tax plan may be kind of dumb, but if it were three times as dumb as it is, it would only be half as dumb as the Washington Post’s analysis of it.

Don’t hold it in, Kevin, tell us how you really feel.

Frustrated MSNBC: ‘What’s it Going to Take’ for Latino Voters to Dump Trump?

Al Gore Says The ‘Worst Of Climate Deniers’ Have ‘Captured’ Trump’s Mind

Eco-Billionaire Tom Steyer Doubles Down On Anti-Trump Ads Over Dems’ Objections  Never underestimate what can be accomplished by a monomaniac with pots of money.

WashPost Believes Trump ‘Forced’ Granddaughter to Perform for Chinese  No more so than any kid in company. But this allows them to ignore the powerfully positive effect on Chinese public opinion of the grandchild of the President of the United States learning a difficult and narrowly focused skill.

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What goes around comes around.

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This puts things in about as understandable a form as I suspect is possible.

If you’re interested in this subject, this will help.

Personally, I prefer the Senate version, except that I believe the Death Tax ought to be immediately and totally repealed. But we’ll see what happens.

I almost joined the Marines once. Fortunately, they wouldn’t have me.

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Hint: You do.

These days, there is considerable obfuscation about the true costs of “green” energy–basically, wind and solar. Politicians, regulators and sometimes utilities assert that wind and solar are efficient–that they actually are price-competitive with reliable energy sources like coal and natural gas. If you know anything about energy, you know this is an absurd claim. If it were true, we could do away with all subsidies for wind and solar, but no “green” energy advocate would dream of allowing that.

Paul Mirengoff sums up my position on the Roy Moore kerfuffle very efficiently.

Her allegations may be true. But based on what has been reported so far, I think her most serious allegations — the ones that, if true, would constitute criminal conduct — are more likely false than true.

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Genuine play exhibits all the classic characteristics of flow. For the child at play, time seems to distort, self-consciousness disappears, and attention is absorbed. In play, there is no fretting, reluctance, or inhibition, so the activity feels effortless, even though the player may be putting forth strenuous effort, say, to beat a video game level. A player might even have a pained look on his face as he pushes up against the limits of his current ability, and yet will later report having had the time of his life.

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For the school-minded, any activity freely chosen by the child, no matter how growth-inducing, is considered “mere play” in the denigrated sense. An activity is only deemed “work” and “learning” if it is involuntary and assigned by adults.

Wisdom. Attend.

People Scream Helplessly At The Sky To Protest A Year Of Trump  ‘… and to hear the lamentations of their women.’

Tavis Smiley and Celeb: We ‘Don’t Want to Be Here in This’ Trump ‘Madness’  Welcome to reality.

NBC Treats Woman Like a Hero for Flipping Off Trump

Kathy Griffin Takes Back Apology for Fake Severed Trump Head ‘One Thousand Percent’

Sarah Silverman Marks Trump Election Anniversary With Fear And Hatred On Hulu Show  Hey, you work with what you’ve got, and fear and hatred is all she’s got.

ISIS Hijacks Swedish Radio Station To Play 30 Minutes Of Propaganda

Bill Clinton suggests Donald Trump is a member of ‘the dictators club’  Of course, if he actually were, Bill and Hillary would be in jail.

Billionaire investor doubles funding for Trump impeachment campaign  I’d rather he waste his money doing that than something that might make a difference.

Woman leaves restaurant date after finding out man voted for Trump  You dodged a bullet there, Bryan.

A Day To Remember: AU Students Burn American Flag To Protest Trump [VIDEO]  So Trump = American flag? That’s good to know.

European Businesses Say Badmouthing Trump Won’t Bring US Back Into Paris Deal  Funny how that works….

ALT FACTS: Ordinary Government Acts Are Now Unprecedented Under Trump

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Abortion Barbie: The Motion Picture. Be the first on your block etc. etc.

I was pulling for Julia Roberts but am accustomed to disappointment.

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Riddle me this: Why are we subsidizing farms? Are we short of food?

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Not that it will slow him down any.

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I am not making this up.

The End Times are clearly here.

Christopher DeGroot pokes through the trash.

Generosity, in this egotistical world, is perceived as weakness, and therefore rewarded with disdain. This is the problem of the welfare state—largely funded by white men—in regard to blacks and women, both full of envy, and neither ever to be satisfied. Consider the video about “white privilege” that has been circulating widely on social media. Representative of the authoritarian sentimentalism of our time, it features a number of young people—whites and blacks—about to run a race, with the winner to get a hundred-dollar bill. The implication, of course, is that life itself is a race, and one’s value as a person determined by status: a kind of vulgar idolatry that, I have argued, is modernity’s stand-in for its dead God. With trite, would-be touching music playing, and close-ups of happy young white people juxtaposed to those of sad young blacks, this video is a cynical and disingenuous vehicle of resentment. It is just the sort of thing that leftists employ to effect the revenge that they call “social justice.” The runners are asked several questions to determine their “privilege.” After giving their answers, they are told to take several steps forward, their “privilege” signifying a heartrending “injustice” to blacks. At least this experiment did not occur in an inner city, where the evil whites might have been shot.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Bonus: Medieval manuscripts: The Hours of Charles of Angoulême

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Not so long ago, mere mention of the deliberate murder of whites in South Africa—country folk and commercial farmers, in particular—was called “racist.” “Raaacist!” the media collective brayed when candidate Trump retweeted a related “white genocide” hashtag.

It’s still “racist” to suggest that the butchering of these whites, almost daily, in ways that beggar belief, is racially motivated. Positively scandalous is it to describe the ultimate goal of a killing spree, now in its third decade, thus: the ethnic cleansing of white, farming South Africa from land the community has cultivated since the 1600s.

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

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Of course! Now that ‘sexual harassment’ has been weaponized, it must be deployed against the Real Enemy.

Reflections on a Year with Trump  Snowflake angst.

NYT Columnist On MSNBC: Trump A ‘Brain-Eating Disease’ Who Might Suck The Brains From Journalist Too late.

This day in media freakouts

Trump is no Republican. And if the party has any sense, it should rebel against him  Really? He’s accomplished more Republican things in one year than George W. did in eight.

Trump impeachment vote will take place by Christmas, Democrat vows  Good luck getting that by the Republican majority.

US should be kicked out of UN climate change talks because of Donald Trump, say African campaigners  You can’t fire somebody who’s already quit.

2,470 tweets and 0 major legislative achievements: A year of Trump in numbers  Not just ‘legislative achievements’ but ‘major legislative achievements’. ‘If you squint just right and look down there you can just see that he’s really not accomplished anything.’

Liberals Gather to Scream at the Sky The taste of their tears is sweet.

Alec Baldwin Calls Trump: ‘A Blind And Drunk Guy At the Controls of A Train’  No wonder Alec Baldwin can do such a good impression of him, then.

Henry Racette: Trump After One Year: As Bad As We Expected  All your anti-Trump fantasies in one tidy package.

US Media Attacks Trump For Doing The Exact Same Thing Obama Did On His First Trip To China  Your basic double standard.

USA Today Lists ‘Best’ Trump-Bashing, Obama-Gushing Jokes for NYC Veterans Benefit

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We need this state to secede, like, tomorrow.

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I agree.

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The Echo has to be listening at all times in order to respond to the “Alexa” command. So the only question is whether Amazon or some friendly member of the surveillance state is recording then too.

Matches my thinking on the subject.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

Cory Doctorow is one of those people who appear to have an opinion on everything.

I was there when “lifehacking” was born. It was the 11th of February, 2004, at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, held in a giant conference hotel in San Diego. I was on the committee for ETech (as we called it) and I had lobbied hard for the inclusion of a talk called “Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks” by Danny O’Brien, a technology columnist and former standup comedian who is also a good friend (I am now godfather to his daughter, Ada). I’d watched Danny compiling his research for the talk and I knew it would be a great one.

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Just in case … you know….

Joe Bob Briggs does food.

Two weeks ago I’m in Orlando, and my colleague suggests we Uber over to Winter Park for a restaurant that gets rave reviews on the internet. I love barbecue, so yeah, The Ravenous Pig, cute name, let’s hit it.

I should have thought about it for ten seconds first. Because why is it a ravenous pig instead of a hungry pig? A name like The Hungry Pig or The Hungry Hog would imply fat slabs of pork, whereas The Ravenous Pig is a red flag indicating we’re entering the Neverland of Food Disinformation, like one of those episodes of Iron Chef where the guy with the bow tie says, “I’m impressed that the sriracha doesn’t overpower the wine-shallot reduction, but the pilaf is a bland choice.”

Been there, done that.

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While the Iron Curtain and Bamboo Curtain separating the USSR and Red China from the rest of the world were partially dismantled, some other 20th century barriers are still extant. And new ones are being erected all over the world at steady pace.

I haven’t spoken to my family since they elected Trump as President one year ago – I’m not ready to forgive and forget

Rogues of The Resistance: The liberal activists and conspiracy theorists who want to take down Trump

Jon Stewart perfectly summed up one year of Donald Trump in four words  You might think they would be ‘He Won, We Lost’, but you’d be wrong.

Resistance Is a Four-Letter Word: Over 60 Celebs Say ‘F*** Trump’  Of course, if 60 prominent Republicans had said ‘F*** Obama’, it would be denounced far and wide as ‘racist’, ‘divisive’, and ‘irresponsible’.

MSNBC’s Katy Tur To Journalists: ‘Everyone Needs To Tone It The F Down’ On Trump Coverage

It’s Been A Year Since Trump Won — When Are These Celebs Leavin’ The Country? [SLIDESHOW]

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Scratch Drexel off of your kids’ list.

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Of course they do.

Maybe it’s time for California to secede. Then they can have Kumbaya or whatever song they want.

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Let’s see how that works out for them. I predict that it will end badly.

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Former President Barack Obama is facing backlash from Chicago community organizers over his plan to build a sprawling 20-acre community center in the heart of the city featuring a sledding hill, recording studio and garden.

Surely they’ve included an Endangered Species Petting Zoo?

I first encountered Ed Gillespie when he worked for Dick Armey, back in the day. He was a Republican Establishment apparatchik then and remains a Republican Establishment apparatchik today.

Virginia has been turning more and more blue as the Washington environs attracts more and more bureaucrats and hangers-on. The surprise here is not Gillespie losing but how close he came to winning — he barely won the primary, so the Republican party was far from unified behind him.

The DemLegHump Media will, of course, be spinning this as a ‘referendum on Trump and the Trump program’, despite the fact that Gillespie’s campaign was run by never-Trumpers from the start. Trump’s name was not on the ballot, and Gillespie’s campaign didn’t make any attempt to grasp Trump’s coat-tails, in any respect.

Nevertheless, even though this guy Northam won, all of the talk will not be about him but about Trump. That demonstrates who is still the 800-pound gorilla in the room.

UPDATE: REPORT: Bannon Offered To Campaign For Ed Gillespie But Was Denied

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Did you know that a sitting Democrat Senator is on trial for bribery and corruption.

Yeah, I know that’s not news, but you’d be forgiven for not knowing about it — since it isn’t being covered by the DemLegHump Media.

If it were a Republican Senator, of course, they’d be all over it like Obama on a golf course.

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Find the ‘black woman’ in this picture:

For reference, here is a picture of an actual black woman:

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Apparently nobody has clued in these people to the fact that there are more PhDs out there than can find jobs.

The best students, the ones who ought to be going for these degrees, will get scholarships. That’s what scholarships do. Subsidizing the worse students through easy cash lending guarantees does neither them nor the rest of us any good.

(Hint: The children are NOT ‘all above average’.)

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

As many seem to these days…

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We have the technology.

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Seems to be popular among black folk these days.

Victor Davis Hanson commits the crime of of Noticing.

The English has been clear and exact for nearly a century: illegal alien (cf. Latin alienus) was a descriptive term for any foreigner who crossed the US border without coming through customs to obtain proper legal sanction.

Illegal alien, then, was a politically neutral, exact, and descriptive term: one used by both the Supreme Court and Internal Revenue Service.

But open-borders advocates did not like the adjective and noun because they accurately emphasized both illegality and the foreignness of those arriving into the United States from another country.

What followed was a slow Orwellian devolution. Illegal alien initially was reinvented as “undocumented alien,” as if the violation became one of simply forgetting (rather than never having) one’s supposed legal documents at home. But the noun “alien” still implied arrivals were somehow separate from US citizens by virtue of their illegal resident status. So next the noun changed to immigrant, as if undocumented immigrant gave the impression that forgetful visitors had just strayed innocently across the border.

The Left is very fond of distortion-through-adjective. ‘Justice’ isn’t good enough; it has to be ‘social justice’, ‘racial justice’, ‘distributive justice’, etc. — which is to say, injustice.

Victor Davis Hanson observes the phenomenon.