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Told You So.

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

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

Alex Tubarrok, a Real Economist, turns over a rock.

The food deserts idea was especially implausible for America because Americans spend less of their income on food consumed at home (6%) than any other nation. The Dutch, for example, spend (12%) of their income on food, the Italians and Japanese (14%), the Vietnamese (35%). There is plenty of room in the American food budget for healthy eating. Finally, Allcott, Diamond, and Dubé show that relative to unhealthy food, healthy food is actually a bit cheaper in low-income areas.

More importantly, just open your eyes. Walk into a fast food joint in a food desert and ask yourself, do the customers really want brussel sprouts but are reluctantly settling for Chips Ahoy? The idea is ridiculous and not a bit insulting in denying agency to the people who live in low-income areas. If what people living in food deserts wanted was brussel sprouts, they would get them.

The Whole Foods class think their kale and kombucha are so obviously superior to what the poor eat that the only possible explanation for poor eating is that poor people are denied choice. Yet put an inexpensive but colorful produce stand next to a McDonald’s and you can be sure that the customers will differ by class. Why the poor choose to eat differently than the rich is an interesting and important question but one more amenable to answers focusing on culture, education and history than price and income. The idea applies widely.

Taki looks back in anger.

Rose-colored glasses conceded, the ’50s were still the best decade ever. Uncle Sam was propping up recovering Europe, our borders were not being overrun, the French Riviera was not covered by cement and inhabited by oligarchs and oil-rich camel drivers, tennis players played for love, and Mickey Mantle hit balls way out of the park without the aid of steroids. And pro football had suddenly caught on. The pros ran onto the field wearing those capes that made them look like ancient warriors, and once the game began we heard the noise—unheard-of until then—of bodies hitting bodies at great speed. That wonderful novelist Irwin Shaw once took me to the Giants’ training camp and told me to just listen: for the noise. I was hooked. There was the great Sam Huff, a nice boy from the South, whom Time magazine had put on its cover when Time was the No. 1 weekly in America. The story was called “The Violent World of Sam Huff.” There was the all-American boy hero, clean and handsome Frank Gifford; the Texan Kyle Rote; the two grizzly, beaten-up quarterbacks Chuck Conerly and Y.A. Tittle; the two Roosevelts, Grier and Brown; and Arnie Weinmeister; and Andy Robustelli; and many more. The present winless Cleveland Browns had not lost a game throughout the ’50s, or so it seemed, as they won the NFL championship year in and year out. Their quarterback was Otto Graham, their fullback Marion Motley; and coach Paul Brown had given his name to the team. There were other great stars of other teams—too many to mention, but names like Unitas, Bednarik (last pro to play both offense and defense), Van Buren, Waterfield, and Ameche stand out.

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But that was then. And this is now: cheap shots, head shots, blindside shots, tackles designed to disable, unsportsmanlike conduct as routine, post-play trash talk, taunting of fallen opponents, and, of course, exploitation of the national anthem to show the rest of us that NFL players are righteous, socially concerned young men. Oh yes, I almost forgot. Once upon a time a touchdown was celebrated not at all, the player simply putting the ball on the ground and returning to the bench to be congratulated by his teammates.

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Yesterday was not a proud day for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). The agency spent close to $800 million of federal funds on a so-called high-speed rail project between Seattle and Portland–only “so-called” because top speeds would be just 79 mph, which is conventional rail. Much of the money was spent upgrading existing tracks to give passenger trains a shorter (but less scenic) route through and around Tacoma.

As you probably know, the very first train to use this route derailed on an overpass over Interstate 5, blocking half the freeway and killing at least three, and probably more, passengers. It so happens that Mayor Don Anderson of Lakewood, Washington–about 10 miles north of the crash–warned WSDOT on December 5 that it was not taking safety seriously enough. “This project was never needed and endangers our citizens,” he declared.

The fascination with which ‘urban planners’ hold collectivist forms of transportation has always puzzled me.

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In fact, the states with the highest state and local tax burdens are California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Between them, these 12 states send exactly one Republican senator to Washington and all but one have gone Democrat in every presidential election since 1992. According to the Google machine, all of these states but Maryland and Wisconsin have recently raised taxes, and/or are planning on tax increases in the coming year.

What that tells me is, the people who live in these states want higher taxes. And the top income earners — Hollywood people, Silicon Valley techies, New York hedge fund managers who live in Connecticut — give huge amounts of money to the Democratic Party. They should be celebrating that their taxes are going up. Instead, some of these wealthy Democrats are apparently thinking of leaving. Lousy traitors.

Remember all those Democrat billionaires weeping and wailing about their taxes not being high enough? They ought to be jumping for joy.

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Holdout Republican Sen. Bob Corker finally announced he would support the Republican tax bill in an upcoming vote — after the proposal was tweaked in a way that could personally enrich him.

Corker claims he has not read the mammoth bill being sped through the legislature and has no idea how the language, which was not in previous Senate versions of the bill, got into the plan.

Gee, however did that get in there?

The provision reduces taxes on income from real-estate LLCs, according to International Business Times, which broke the story.

Corker, a South Carolina real-estate mogul, made $7 million off such income last year, while President Trump raked in between $41 million and $68 million, according to the outlet.

Democrats have been doing this for years (yeah, I’m looking at you, Senator Reid), so it’s no surprise that Republicans are lining up for their turn at the trough.

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I’ll pass.

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I am not making this up.

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The very thing for a pointed message.

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Lest they forget that this is a Communist regime.

Or maybe they’re engaged in some sort of one-upmanship competition with North Korea. Hard to say.

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To reinforce the message that this is going to be a no-holds-barred witch-hunt.

UPDATE: Why the Anita Hill Hollywood Commission’s a Joke, II: She Dissed Bill Clinton’s Accusers

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Most of them voted Democrat in the last Presidential election.

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They will say it means ‘stay away from Uber’.

I say it means ‘stay away from Beirut’.

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This is one seriously weird-looking ship.

Peace Boat has been working since 1983 to spread a culture of peace through education programs carried out primarily on its chartered vessel. Its new cruise ship—the Ecoship—is slated to launch in 2020, in time for the Tokyo Olympics, and better embody the organization’s commitment to sustainable travel.

That explains a lot.

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“I had a tier one operator, meaning a top of the top special operations guy on detail from the National Security Council … come up to me in maybe week five of the administration and say, ‘Sir, you have no idea, no idea how the morale amongst our forces have skyrocketed because we are no longer micromanaged…and we are allowed to do our job, and it is clear the president trusts us,” he said.

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Apparently the Magic Negro has some skeletons still in the closet.

This from the Politico, a fairly reliable member of the DemLegHump Media.

Byron York looks at the scorecard.

Assume that tax reform passes and is signed into law. If in, say, 2014, a Republican, of either the conservative or moderate variety, predicted that in 2017 a newly-elected GOP president and Congress would —

1. Cut corporate and individual taxes.
2. Repeal the Obamacare individual mandate.
3. Appoint a highly-respected conservative to the Supreme Court.
4. Appoint a one-year record number of judges to the circuit courts.
5. Get rid of reams of unnecessary regulations.
6. Destroy ISIS.
7. Approve pipeline projects and new oil drilling.

— then a lot of Republicans would probably have cheered. Loudly.

But it’s Trump, so we have to remember that he has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in his first year in office.

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I think this is what Franken was counting on by announcing his upcoming resignation but not actually, you know, doing it. Historically Democrat politicians have circled the wagons whenever any of their number have been caught with a hand in the cookie jar, and Franken knows this as well as anybody.

The real question is How Low Can They Go, upon which depends whether Franken will weasel out of it.

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I soon learned that I was hardly the only Midwesterner left tongue-tied by the Midwest. Articulate neighbors, friends, colleagues, and students, asked to describe their hometowns, replied with truisms that, put together, were also paradoxes: “Oh, it’s in the middle of nowhere.” “It’s just like anywhere, you know.” “We do the same things people do everywhere.” No-places are as old as Thomas More’s Utopia, but a no-place that is also everyplace and anyplace doesn’t really add up. Nor, at least in my experience, does one hear such language from people in other regions—from Southerners, Californians, Arubans, Yorkshiremen. Canadians live in a country that has been jokingly described as America’s Midwest writ larger—Canada and our Midwest share, among other things, manners, weather, topography, and a tendency among their inhabitants to downplay their own racism—yet they are hyperspecific in their language, assuming a knowledge of local landmarks that it never occurs to them non-Canadians may not possess. They assume that whatever their setting is, it is a setting, not, as Midwesterner-turned-expatriate Glenway Wescott once wrote of Wisconsin, “an abstract nowhere.”

Explaining ‘Flyover Country’ to the Coastal Crust. Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion did a lot of this.

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How To Be A Progressive: Take some random noun, add ‘-ism’ and the end, and start whining.

This sharp shift in the age of authority derives from increasingly rapid technological change. In the nineteen-twenties, an engineer’s “half life of knowledge”—the time it took for half of his expertise to become obsolete—was thirty-five years. In the nineteen-sixties, it was a decade. Now it’s five years at most, and, for a software engineer, less than three. Traditionally, you needed decades in coding or engineering to launch a successful startup: William Shockley was forty-five when he established Fairchild Semiconductor, in 1955. But change begets faster change: Larry Page and Sergey Brin were twenty-five when they started Google, in 1998; Mark Zuckerberg was nineteen when he created Facebook, in 2004.

So there’s actually a good reason for preferring young people.

Like the racist and the sexist, the ageist rejects an Other based on a perceived difference.

Well, ol’ Tad has the lingo down, I’ll give him that.

Jim Goad is triggered.

I’ll bet you didn’t realize that “Jingle Bells” is an unabashed celebration of white supremacy and that “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” inadvertently celebrates the bullying of a closeted homosexual.

What’s worse, I find your willful ignorance on these issues to be highly problematic.

According to the pelican-faced Kyna Hamill of Boston University:

The legacy of ‘Jingle Bells’ is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history….Although ‘One Horse Open Sleigh,’ for most of its singers and listeners, may have eluded its racialized past and taken its place in the seemingly unproblematic romanticization of a normal ‘white’ Christmas, attention to the circumstances of its performance history enables reflection on its problematic role in the construction of blackness and whiteness in the United States.

As far as I can tell, she thinks the song would have been more accurately titled “Slave Bells Ring.” She appears to be arguing that behind every “Jingle Bells” lies Emmett Till’s bloated corpse. Remind me not to buy her a Christmas card.

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Today’s exhibit is Hilary Rosen, Democratic Party insider and CNN political commentator. Rosen is best remembered as the DNC shill who, during the 2012 presidential campaign, told us that Ann Romney had never worked a day in her life–an Obama theme that blew up in her face like an exploding cigar.

Yesterday, Rosen went to a basketball game between Georgetown and Syracuse and noticed a kid wearing a coat with a bacon pattern. For some inexplicable reason, she jumped to the conclusion that the bacon outfit was an anti-Semitic slur. I have no idea why she thought this, as most people like bacon for obvious reasons. And if she wanted to go down that road for some reason, why wouldn’t it be an anti-Muslim slur?

Unbelievable.

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Overall, perceptions of worsening racial relations have been building since the Obama years. And now, with everything from the Kate Steinle murder verdict to President Trump’s dog-whistling Muslim tweets, they see destined to worsen further.

Ironically the strongest demand for racial exclusion comes mostly not from traditional racists — still not extinct — but from a campus left determined to address the evils of “whiteness” through policies of racial separation not seen since Jim Crow days. At some campuses, events are held that whites are excluded from and racially separate dorms are being developed. Even at the high school level, there are attempts to be “racially conscious” towards students, essentially teaching them to their racial “profile,” with dubious educational benefits.

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One of the most disturbing features of current discourse is the increasing level on both sides of the political aisle of utter irrationality and loss of any sense of proportion. This seems to be manifesting itself in particular over three issues.

On Britain’s departure from the EU, the Remainers seemed to lose the plot from the referendum result onwards. They have consistently stated that, as a result of Brexit, the British economy would collapse. Today, faced with evidence that the economy is in fact doing quite well they state the economy has now collapsed. It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to Britain. Oh, and don’t forget also that, according to No 10’s wine supplier among others, we’re all going to starve to death.

This hysteria over Brexit is matched, if not exceeded, by the wild, indeed maniacal, exaggerations, distortions and misrepresentations of the words and deeds of President Donald Trump. It is being stated as established fact, for example, that he has admitted assaulting women, that he colluded with Russia and that so far he has achieved absolutely nothing whatsoever.

These claims are all untrue. In his infamous (and revolting) remarks about grabbing women, he was in fact boasting that women were throwing themselves at him; there is still not one shred of evidence that he or his campaign team had inappropriate ties with Russia; and his record of achievements so far, including stimulating the economy, rolling back regulations and tackling illegal immigration, exceeds that of many if not all his predecessors in their first year of office.

The third issue, after Brexit and Trump Derangement Syndromes, is Islamism. For large swathes of the left, any claim that Islamist extremism and terrorism are rooted in any problematic features of Islamic religion and culture is regarded as evidence of bigotry and “Islamophobia”.

With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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“In Boston, the leader of a businesswomen’s group said that some women were so angry about the wave of sexual harassment revelations that they no longer wanted to hire more men.” That’s the opening line in a recent article in the New York Times. The woman is 32-year-old Kristina Tsipouras, and the group she founded and heads is Boston Business Women.

At first glance, the idea of not hiring men seems and probably is, legally, quite discriminatory. But think about it. Aside from its unfairness to good men, from a practical point of view, it does appear to be the easiest solution to all the gender difficulties we’re now witnessing. Writing in the Times in early October, following the Harvey Weinstein allegations, Claire Cain Miller wrote of the uneasiness a lot of men now had in having one-on-one interactions with women, and how this can be detrimental to women’s advancement. Miller went on to say, “In interviews, women in companies with many female or gay executives were more likely to say one-on-one relationships had never been an issue for them.”

The implication is clear: Companies will do better with one-on-one interactions if they show a preference for putting women and gay men in executive positions. But that was before revelations about Kevin Spacey and James Levine, which showed that gay men can be, at the very least, inappropriate too—though in this case, with other men.

One important thing is true as of today: All of the people thus far publicly accused of sexual harassment are male. So why take chances? Why not simply hire women? And only nominate women for public office?

Alternatively, why hire women? In areas like tech where the numbers of competent women are almost negligible, there’s a good chance that your shop is either all men or vastly majority men. Hiring a woman would be like installing an IED in the break room.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

Without eternal vigilance, it can happen here.

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Some real talk: most writing isn’t worth consuming. That includes cereal boxes and New York Times wedding announcements. More real talk: most people urging you to read widely probably have a hard time ranging outside their comfort zones. There’s no doubt that, in the political realm, we need more connection with those we disagree with. But for the most part, “read widely” belongs to a class of expression that’s good to be heard saying (as in: we need “more dialogue” or we need “to have a national conversation about sheet cake”). In my experience, only a minority of writers like to chase their Leslie Jamison with some Conrad Black, or their Yvor Winters with some Roxane Gay. Many can barely metabolize a Stephen Marche tweet without declaring a stomach ache, and Marche is a reasonable guy who can write a good sentence.

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Temp-to-oerm Dem Senator in Alabama knows very well which side of his bread is buttered, and is already starting to walk it back.

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Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Tim Ferriss, and most recently Sam Altman (but see his clarification) think there are too many opinions that are held to be taboo in Silicon Valley. There has also been a backlash against these posts, to the effect that the only ideas being suppressed are expressions of bigotry that don’t deserve debate and are actively harmful (see, for instance, Anil Dash’s response).

But some people are just confused. What exactly are these supposedly heretical ideas? Parker Thompson tried to collect ideas in a shared Google Doc, but that quickly turned into a dumpster fire.

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Why women put up with wearing some of the things they’re expected to wear has always puzzled me.

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They just HAD TO, you see!

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Useful in case you get caught in a Black Lives Matter rally.

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

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Wealthy New York City elites are preparing to flee the state because the Republican tax bill is going to make them face the full brunt of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Democratic state leadership’s tax rates.

They may lose a certain percentage, but there are enough rich people who want to live in New York City no matter what that I doubt it will make a noticeable difference.

CNN’s Jake Tapper: Trump Supporters Using ‘Incredibly Extremist Rhetoric’ On FBI  As opposed to, say, the ‘moderate’ language CNN uses toward Trump supporters every day?

MSNBC’s Joy Reid Compares President Trump To The Romanovs  More projection.

On the Left, It Is All Hysteria, All the Time

MSNBC Guest: ‘Psychologically Deranged’ Trump Called Gillibrand A ‘Whore’  Uh, no he didn’t That’s a flat lie.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid Suddenly Loves Law Enforcement When It’s Going After Trump  Gives depth to the phrase ‘affirmative action hire’.

Obama’s Ethics Czar: ‘Take The Streets’ If Trump Fires Mueller  He looks more like he needs to take the pledge.

Somebody asked me what podcasts I listen to, being an affluent man of leisure and all. Here’s the list:

Scott Adams on Periscope. Google ‘Scott Adams Periscope’ and follow the yellow brick road.

The ZBlog Power Hour
Ricochet Podcast
GLoP Culture
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Commentary Magazine Podcast
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
MacBreak Weekly
This Week in Tech
Triangulation

All of these are available on iTunes, which is my go-to place for media.

I am not on Twitter or Facebook — that way madness lies.

BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): Ain’t no such thing as ‘Trumpism’, and anybody who uses that word as if it were a thing is an idiot.

Our political class is wired to look behind ‘positions’ to ‘principles’, as if every person running for office, or pushing an issue through the political process, were one of Plato’s Philosopher Kings with a coherent deeply-considered philosophy that informs all of their issues, positions, and activity. Any non-superficial exposure to actual politicians, living or dead, exposes this as nonsense. Of the people you’ve heard of, maybe Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were such; no other U.S. President in the 20th (or 21st) century fit this model.

The Republican chattering class, from George Will right down to the people who write for National Review, spend about 90% of their time wringing their hands about the fact that ‘Trump isn’t a conservative!’, as if that actually had anything to do with the U.S. Presidency, American politics, or the Republican Party. The problem is that each and every one of the people parroting that phrase has a different view of what ‘a conservative’ is, and none of them agree. Nor is there any reason to think that being (or not being) ‘a conservative’ has something to do with being a Republican, much less with being an effective U.S. President.

Trump is not ‘a conservative’, in the same sense that William F. Buckley or Ronald Reagan was ‘a conservative’. Trump is like every other American: Conservative in some things, liberal in others, and God-knows-what regarding matters in between.

What Trump is, is what every other American corporate CEO is (or ought to be): A problem-solver. Trump sees that America has certain problems, problems that aren’t being fixed, and he’s decided that he wants to take a crack at fixing them. That’s all there is.

If that means doing ‘conservative’ things, then that’s what he’ll do; if it means doing non-conservative things, then he’s perfectly willing to go there. This pragmatic approach drives the American political chattering class nuts. They keep looking for some sort of consistency, and they’re not going to find it, any more than the kid given a pile of horse manure for his birthday is going to find a pony underneath it all, no matter how convinced he may be that there has to be one.

As a result, the fact that what Trump has been doing so far is ‘a conservative’ wet-dream is being abandoned by the roadside while the people who ought to be out partying about it are instead engaged in a snipe-hunt for some sort of ideological consistency to the Trump program. I am reminded of the (probably spurious) tale of Talleyrand during his tenure as Bishop of Autun — when he asked his chancellor why a certain priest had not attended a local church synod, he was told that the fellow had died. ‘Well, that would explain it,’ he is said to have responded, ‘… but I wonder what his real reason was.’ The right-wing chattering class keep looking for ‘the real reason’ behind what Trump is doing and ignoring the reasons that are in front of their faces.

Trump’s critics have the same psycological problem. The essence of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ is the persistent delusion that because Trump does X he is some sort of X-ist, without giving serious consideration to the fact that in this particular situation Trump decided to do X but in a different situation might just as readily decided to do Y or Z. The ruling Washington establishment keeps running all over the map trying to cope with the fact that Trump keeps sneaking out of the little ideological boxes that everybody from the New York Times to CNN keeps trying to cram him into. They just finish crying ‘He’s a racist!’ when he invites a black family to visit the White House. They just finish crying ‘He’s a sexist!’ when he appoints a woman to a significant job like Ambassador to the UN or Press Secretary. They just finish crying ‘He hates Jews!’ while ignoring the fact that his daughter, son-in-law (whom they hate), and grandkids are Jewish. There is no sort of popular Leftists bugaboo ‘-ism’ that has been applied to Trump that doesn’t have multiple counter-examples demonstrating that that particular shoe doesn’t fit. It makes their heads explode and provides a great deal of entertainment for the people in the stands, but there’s no future in it.

So don’t go looking for the mythical Trumpism where it isn’t to be found. Whenever Trump does something, ask yourself ‘What problem is he trying to solve?’ and you’ll be better off.

Thom Hartmann: Trump’s Tweet Slamming Gillibrand is ‘Impeachable’ Offense  Uh, no, it isn’t.

Donald Trump ‘not welcome’ in London borough after council passes motion opposing US President’s visit  As if Trump were any of their business. The proliferation of buttinskys around the world is a sign of the End Times.

More than half of Americans say Donald Trump should resign over sexual harassment claims  Which he won’t, so why they’re wasting their time with these bogus polls escapes me. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the sure and certain belief that ‘this time is different’.

MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle: It ‘Isn’t an Opinion’ to Say That Trump Is a ‘Bully’  No, it’s an illusion perceived by people with a political bias.

REPORT: Feminist Lawyer Promised Cash To Trump Sexual Harassment Accusers  Hey, it’s TOTALLY justified because Trump!

US becoming ‘world champion of extreme inequality’ under Donald Trump, says UN poverty envoy  Just exactly how is he doing that? They never say. It’s just trash-talk.

Another errant anti-Trump hit piece from the Washington Post

Seriously? Ellen DeGeneres Turns to Hillary Clinton to Ask: Can Trump Last Four Years?  More wishful thinking.

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Presumably this is the suffering of black men rather than the suffering they inflict on others.

Iranian Honor Killing in Hamburg

Two Dead, Several Injured In Dutch Stabbings

Maastricht stabbing: Two people killed and several injured in knife attack in Dutch city

Somalia’s Defense Minister Calls For More US Drone Strikes

New Study: Middle Easterners 34 Times More Likely to Fake Hate Incidents

Iraq executes 38 Isis suspects on terrorism charges

Rohingya crisis: At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims killed in one month, say Doctors Without Borders

Isis-supporting husband and wife jailed for 26 years for planning UK terror attack

Mohammed Awan: Isis suicide bomber’s brother convicted of preparing terror attack in UK

iWe: 40,000 British Girl Victims of Pakistani Grooming Gangs

An Anti-Semitic Allahu Akbar in Amsterdam

Muslim Nations Unite Against Trump’s Jerusalem Move

Iran Looks to Seize Opportunity as Rivals Fall

New Jersey Imam Rages In Antisemitic Sermon

Egyptian pop singer sent to prison for two years over video that ‘incited debauchery’

Turkey’s President Erdogan tells Jerusalem summit Israel is an ‘occupying’ and ‘terror’ state

Outrage as family of failed suicide bomber complain THEY have been mistreated by law enforcement

What Life Was Like For Christians And Jews When Arabs Ruled Jerusalem

Erdogan Invokes Islamic Text Sanctioning Killing Jews at Party Convention

Iranian media in tailspin over female British diplomat’s lack of headscarf

Akayed Ullah: New York bomb suspect charged with terorr offences

New Jersey Mosque Features Call for Genocide

US Teen Charged With Planning Terror Attack, Trying To Join ISIS

Ibrahim Munir, the Man Who Keeps the Muslim Brotherhood Alive

Suspected NYC Subway Bomber Hit With State Terrorism Charges  Will the Islamophobia never cease?

The Fruit of Chain Migration

Jew-Hatred in Sweden

Tomio Okamura: “Violent Acts Are an Indivisible Part of the Political Doctrine of Islam”

Family Of Alleged Port Authority Terrorist ‘Outraged’ Over Police Behavior  Of course they are.

White House: 142,000 Bangladeshis In US Under Family Visa Laws

Alleged NYC Terrorist Got To US Through Chain Migration

A Suicide Bomber Attacks the New York City Subway… and Life Goes On

BRATTON: NYC Attack ‘ISIS Inspired,’ Suspect ‘Possibly’ Bangladeshi Immigrant

Muslim leaders visit Swedish synagogue in show of support following anti-Semitic events

Indonesia’s Muslims burn Donald Trump’s image in protest at decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israeli capital

Three arrested for Molotov cocktail attack on synagogue in Sweden

UK police hold training exercise to prepare for chemical attack on Israeli embassy

Paris Residents Threaten Hunger Strike If Migrants Aren’t Cleared From The Streets

German Intel Agency Reports Rapid Increase In Islamic Radicals

Turkey Rejects “Moderate Islam”

Pentagon Expects To Battle Islamic Terrorists In Somalia For Two More Years

London ‘grooming gang’ exposed as police warn abuse happening across Britain

British-Pakistani researchers say 84% of grooming gang members are Asian: ‘It’s very important we talk about it’

Israeli security guard stabbed and ‘seriously wounded’ at Jerusalem bus station

The Army of Mohammed is Returning … To Malmö

Theresa May warns Isis is ‘not yet defeated’ after Iraq declares victory in war with extremist group

Chronicler of Islamic State ‘killing machine’ goes public

Jerusalem latest: Two dead in fresh Israeli air strikes on Gaza Strip after ‘Day of Rage’

Palestinians Advance the Peace Process by Shooting Rockets at Israel From Gaza

CAIR Lashes Out at ‘Heretical’ Muslims

IPT Exclusive: U.S.-Based Imam Prays That “Allah Destroy the Zionists”

Age Tests Show Thousands Of ‘Underaged’ Migrants In Sweden Lied About Age

Palestinian Killed In Gaza Clashes Over Trump’s Jerusalem Move

Palestinian Calls For ‘Day Of Rage’ Provoke Clashes With Israeli Forces

Jailhouse Jihadi: The Intriguing Case of Casey Charles Spain

Jerusalem protests latest: Two Palestinians shot dead ‘by Israeli soldiers’ in ‘Day of Rage’, say officials  No mention of what the ‘Palestinians’ were doing, because that’s not part of the Narrative.

Mohammed Abdallah: How an unemployed Manchester cannabis dealer became an Isis sniper in Syria

President Trump’s Jerusalem decision risks uniting the entire Arab world against the US  When has the ‘entire Arab world’ ever united? On anything?

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reversed a former President Barack Obama-era policy Thursday, that held employers responsible for violations committed by their subcontractors.

Another nail in the coffin of Obama’s statist legacy.

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Can’t tell the oppressors without a score card.

A YUGE Amount Of Media Reporting Has Devolved Into Anti-Trump Fanfiction

Doug Jones’ victory in Alabama should make Donald Trump nervous  But it won’t. Very little makes Trump nervous. He makes other people nervous.

The Year of the Headless Liberal Chicken

Prepare Yourselves For Another Awards Speech Aimed At Donald Trump  Trump is living rent-free in so many celebrity heads, he ought to start his own AirB&B franchise.

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

One of my beefs with the Bushes is that they didn’t do enough with judges.