John Derbyshire makes a few obvious points.

If you’ve been wondering how a bunch of adolescents could manage the funding and organization of this march, and similar events nationwide, allow me to direct you to Daniel Greenfield‘s excellent bit of investigative reporting over at Front Page. Greenfield has done the spadework the Main Stream Media will not do, and uncovered the men behind the curtain.

Needless to say, they are Democrat anti-gunners to a man.

And in fact the impression you got from MSM accounts — the impression I definitely got, that the Washington march was of youngsters, which is why I got to thinking about the Children’s Crusade — is false. An academic sociologist (University of Maryland sociologist Dana R. Fisher) analyzed the crowd and concluded that no more than ten percent were under eighteen. The average age was 49!

Well, they certainly sounded like children to me.

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Remember seeing this on the evening news? No? I wonder why.

For five days now hundreds of Central Americans — children, women, and men, most of them from Honduras — have boldly crossed immigration checkpoints, military bases, and police in a desperate, sometimes chaotic march toward the United States. Despite their being in Mexico without authorization, no one has made any effort to stop them.

Organized by a group of volunteers called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders, the caravan is intended to help migrants safely reach the United States, bypassing not only authorities who would seek to deport them, but gangs and cartels who are known to assault vulnerable migrants.

Organizers like Rodrigo Abeja hope that the sheer size of the crowd will give immigration authorities and criminals pause before trying to stop them.

Time to break out your copy of Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints to find out what happens next.

Perhaps they could be sent to California to replace all of the Californians who are moving to Texas.

It’s a thought.

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PBS and NPR both use New York Times columnist David Brooks as their one “house conservative” to assess the week in review on Fridays. And both know that isn’t the slightest bit accurate. On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Brooks beat liberal Mark Shields to the punch in declaring it was “menacing” for the 2020 census to once again ask people if they are a citizen of the United States, and he proclaimed the anti-gun “March for Our Lives” was a “moderate” march that gave him hope.

The relevant distinction is not liberal/conservative but Crust/nonCrust. And Brooks is dyed-in-the-wool Crust.

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A few people have occasionally claimed that natural selection takes a long time to change any trait that might bother them – sometimes, they say this of polygenic traits, ones influenced by many genes, like height and intelligence. Kevin Mitchell has said this (“at least 100 millennia to evolve appreciably”), so has Brad Delong (an economist at Berkeley). David Reich mentions Joseph Graves, a biologist at Harvard, saying something similar in a lecture in 2016. They’re all 100% wrong: it is easy to select on polygenic quantitative traits, and we do it every day. Dogs vary a lot in height and most of the big differences are the result of fairly recent selection: nobody had Chihuahuas or Great Danes back in the Ice Age.

Steve Sailer points out how Californians are even sillier than you can imagine.

As you may recall, I closely covered the recent whoop-tee-doo in Palo Alto that led to stripping the name of the Terman Middle School, the public middle school with the highest standardized test scores in California. The school had been named for Lewis Terman, the father of standardized testing in America, and his son Fred Terman, the father of Silicon Valley. Lewis Terman is accused of advocating eugenics, while a proposal to change the school’s name to solely honor his son Fred, the Stanford dean of engineering who more or less invented the Silicon Valley model, was rejected on the grounds that Fred must have inherited his father Lewis’s Bad Genes.

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Fred Yamamoto was an interned Japanese-American who volunteered to fight for America, was assigned to the famous Fighting 442nd, the most decorated unit in American military history, winning 21 Medals of Honor. Yamamoto was killed in action in Europe at age 26.

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Steve Sailer does an extended fisking of a recent interview with Reich in the New York Times.

Mostly the interview was an attempt to absolve Reich from Racial ThoughtCrime by explaining that his book didn’t really mean what it said.

Warning to Berlin Schoolchildren: If You Don’t Believe in Allah, You Will Burn

Hamas Mobilizes 30,000 Terrorists For Two-day Military Drill

What Lies in Wait For Us, If We Do Not Stop Islam

Bloody Weekend: Knife Attacks All Over Germany

Catholic And Muslim Leaders Demand Boko Haram Release Girl Who Refuses To Renounce Christ

With first death in Riyadh, the Saudi-led war in Yemen hits home

Trèbes siege – live updates: Gunman with ‘allegiance to Isis’ kills hostages at supermarket in southern France in terror attack

Parsons Green bomber Ahmed Hassan jailed for life with minimum term of 34 years for terror attack

Car Bombing Outside Sports Stadium In Afghanistan Leaves At Least A Dozen Dead

Last-Remaining Jew In A Tunisian City Runs For Office As An Islamist

Redouane Lakdim: Who is the Trèbes gunman and why did he kill three people in a French supermarket?  You mean, other than being a Muslim>?

Suicide Car Bomb Rocks Downtown Mogadishu

British children being forced into modern slavery in UK as 5,000 potential victims found

Parents Allegedly Poured Hot Oil On 16-Year-Old Daughter For Refusing Arranged Marriage

Pakistan police arrest 12 people for ordering ‘revenge rape’ of alleged rapist’s sister

Riyadh Just Came Under Ballistic Missile Attack

Isis fanatic who tried to radicalise ‘army of children’ for London terror attacks jailed for life

British ISIS Supporter Who Raised ‘Army’ Of Teen Jihadis Gets Life In Prison

German Judge Throws the Book at Culture-Enricher: Six Years for Raping an Old Lady Five Times

US Airstrike Kills Top Al Qaeda Boss

Israel protest: One Palestinian killed in clashes on border of Gaza Strip as Hamas organises mass demonstrations

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

I’m surprised that ‘arteriosclerosis from eating red meat you bad boy you’ didn’t make the list, but I guess things haven’t degenerated quite that far yet. Yet.

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Seems reasonable under the plain text of the 14th Amendment. If Puerto Ricans are citizens, I don’t see how Samoans aren’t.

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The woman, named locally as Myriam, an animal rights activist, received a seven-month sentence after she posted on Facebook there was “some justice” in the murder of Christian Medves by Radouane Lakdim last Friday.

Moroccan-born Lakdim killed four people, including Mr Medves and gendarme Arnaud Beltrame, during a rampage centred on a supermarket in the town of Trebes.

Myriam, who lives in the nearby village of Saint Gaudens, subsequently posted: “So then, you are shocked that a murderer is killed by a terrorist. Not me. I’ve got zero compassion for him, there’s some justice in it.”

This is why we have a First Amendment.

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Live is truly not worth living unless you are well-stocked with concealed-carry yoga pants.

POLL: Trump’s Approval Rating Trends Upwards After Stormy Daniels Allegations  Scott Adams estimates that three more porn stars coming forward with allegations about Trump could have him breaking 50%.

On ‘The View,’ Samantha Bee Says Trump’s ‘Worse Than I Imagined,’ ‘Incoherent’ and ‘Mean-Spirited’  I find him perfectly coherent, so the problem must be in Bee’s brain. And if you want ‘mean-spirited’, check out CNN.

Joy Behar: ‘A Porn Star Has More Credibility Than’ The President [VIDEO]  Only to blinkered people like you, Joy.

Jim Carrey Tweets His Drawing Of The Trump Sons Getting Killed By An Elephant  And nobody bats an eye….

Morning Joe Hosts Try to Bait Trump into Tweeting About Stormy Daniels  Sorry — they don’t control the red dot; he does.

Steve Sailer leads us in a game any number can play.

A couple of days ago, I posted “Reading the New York Times Upside Down” about how an NYT article on the reportedly anti-Semitic murder of 85 year old Jewish lady Mireille Knoll kept any hint about the identity of the murderers hidden until the 12th paragraph when it finally mentioned that the prime suspect was “North African” (i.e., Muslim)

Now, the New York Times has a second article on the killing. Let’s see how long it takes for any clue to be revealed….

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David ‘Camera’ Hogg finds out that activism doesn’t outweigh academics.

He ought to try Brown.

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A CNN student panel quickly devolved into cries of racism on Wednesday morning as the students discussed the implications of gun control.

Well, that didn’t take long.

And people say that the Three Stooges are dead.

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Some good advice.

Steve Sailer looks at David Reich’s new book.

Since then, an endless stream of anthropologists have assured us that race is just a social construct, that ancient peoples made pots not war, that Aryan conquests in India and Europe were Nazi delusions, that the caste system was imposed on the egalitarian Indians by British colonialists, and many other agreeable suppositions.

As Fitzgerald’s friend Hemingway ended The Sun Also Rises, “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”

But now the brilliant Harvard geneticist David Reich has published a bombshell scientific book, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, whose revelations would have been found congenial by a smarter version of Buchanan (such as Fitzgerald himself).

Joel Kotkin checks it out.

Whatever his grievous shortcomings, President Trump has succeeded in one thing: smashing the once imposing edifice of neoliberalism. His presidency rejects the neoliberal globalist perspective on trade, immigration and foreign relations, including a penchant for military intervention, that has dominated both parties’ political establishments for well over two decades.

Some of Trump’s actions, notably the proposed tariffs, may be crude and even wrong-headed but other moves, notably focus on China’s buying of American technology assets, expose the fundamental weakness of the neoliberal trade regime. Trump’s policy agenda would never have risen if neoliberalism was able to improve the lives of the vast majority of citizens rather than promote stagnation and downward mobility for a large portion of the population.

NB: Good luck trying to nail down what ‘neoliberal’ means.

The Antiplanner points out some inconvenient truth.

The Antiplanner is frequently reminded of H.L. Mencken’s statement that “there is always a well-known solution to every human problem: neat, plausible, and wrong.” Millennials, for example, blame baby boomers for ruining the world. Most of the mistakes that baby boomers made were in adopting simple and plausible but wrong solutions to complex problems. Now the millennials are promoting their own simplistic and wrong solutions to the problems created by the baby boomer’s errors.

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Here’s a question for you: In 1950, would it have been possible for anyone to know all of the goods and services that we would have at our disposal 50 years later?

For example, who would have thought that we’d have cellphones, Bluetooth technology, small powerful computers, LASIK, and airplanes with 525-passenger seating capacity? This list could be extended to include thousands of goods and services that could not have been thought of in 1950.

In the face of this gross human ignorance, who should be in control of precursor goods and services? Seeing as it’s impossible for anyone to predict the future, any kind of governmental regulation should be extremely light-handed, so as not to sabotage technological advancement.

Compounding our ignorance is the fact that much of what we think we know is not true. Scientometrics is the study of measuring and analyzing science, technology, and innovation. It holds that many of the “facts” you know have a half-life of about 50 years. Let’s look at a few examples.

CBS Prompts ‘Class Act’ Jimmy Carter to Bash Trump: ‘Do You Have Faith’ in Him?  I don’t know about Trump, but nothing would disturb me more than to think that Jimmy Carter had faith in me.

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace: My ‘Flats’ Have ‘More Integrity And Character’ Than Donald Trump  They probably tilt to the Left, too.

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Apple fans with a bent for nostalgia have some to wallow in after a HyperCard clone debuted on Monday.

The brainchild of one Ben Fisher, ViperCard made itself known….

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HyperCard was created after Apple decided it wanted a “programming for non-programmers” environment, and in 1987, HyperCard arrived with a price point of US$49.95. It featured database capabilities, a graphical UI users could modify, and the HyperTalk programming language that let users create something not a million miles away from a static HTML website, only on the desktop. Hyperlinks were moderately-brain bending stuff in 1987, and HyperCard became a success on Mac Classic environments. The product made it to Version 3.0 before Steve Jobs abandoned it, and end-of-sale arrived in 2004.

HyperCard was a powerful and flexible tool that a lot of people greatly missed.

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I am not making this up.

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An elderly holocaust survivor was brutally murdered by a Muslim neighbor she had known since he was seven years old, her family members told Israeli media.

Mireille Knoll, 85, was killed Friday in Paris. Two men were charged in the murder. They allegedly stabbed Knoll and then set her apartment on fire. One was a Muslim neighbor that she had known since he was a seven-year-old boy, The Times of Israel reported. The assailant, 21, spent time in the elderly woman’s building the day of the attack, The New York Post reported.

As with wild animals, you can never turn your back on followers of extremist political or religious doctrines.

The assailants also wrecked the woman’s home and set fire to her belongings. The neighbor was found in possession of the woman’s phone. He was previously arrested for sexually assaulting her former caretaker’s 12-year-old daughter, Reuters reported.

How assimilated.

Knoll’s murder took place one year after the murder of Jewish woman Sarah Halimi-Attal, 65. A neighbor threw her out of a window while shouting “Allahu Akbar,” according to reports.

But his motive remains a mystery, at least to the FBI.

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Yeah, I guess you could say it did.

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We need to ban tattoos, obviously.

Don’t Let President Trump Distract You with Stormy Daniels  Nick Gillespie has it bad. (Don’t let that Jew arranging to get himself crucified fool you for a minute!)

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This hasn’t gotten as much discussion as it deserves.

The left’s favorite bit of language manipulation is the inventing (or repurposing) of words and phrases that function as vague, nefarious placeholders for their grand political ambitions. (Think of them as linguistic Trojan Horses). The idea is to introduce a concept into mainstream thought using a word and phrases that, quite literally, have no fixed meaning. In fact, the more nebulous the term the better. Once this word or phrase becomes embedded in public discourse, it becomes the vehicle for a host of far-left progressive agendas. The lack of a concrete meaning makes the appropriated word or phrase ideal for whatever is currently in vogue with the left.

The most notable example of this technique is the infamous “social justice,” a word phrase that literally means whatever the hell you want it to mean. The social justice movement is in one way bone-jarringly idiotic. How can so many people latch on to a phrase that has no concrete meaning? In another way, the fact that progressives have been able to infect so many universities, public schools, and well-meaning people with the social justice virus is a marvel of political engineering.

My favorite leftist verbal sneak is the term ‘capitalism’. Coined by Marx to spit-tag the system he thought he was fighting against and picked up by people who ought to know better on the free-market side because they didn’t have anything to use in its place, it doesn’t describe anything in the real world and is useful only for the creation of hate-speech against people who think they ought to be able to do what they want rather than what the government wants.

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Let’s see whether any of the Usual Suspects chases the red dot.

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Apparently he didn’t get the Diversity Memo.

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Now you pro-Second-Amendment jerks can shut up and get with the program.

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The rapid resort of ‘anarchist’ and ‘anti-fascist’ groups to the standard toolbox of street-mob fear-based discipline is as characteristic as a skunk’s tail stripe.

“We’re sick of seeing good kids get expelled, arrested, or otherwise screwed over because some holier-than-thou bootlicker decided to fuck up someone’s life,” the group states, “because some snitch reported a graffiti artist, or tipped off a Pitt employee about a darknet mail order, or called the cops on students for flyering and promoting events without a permit, or chose to be an asshole of an RA and actually conduct a random dorm search, or ratted out a student who stole the textbooks they couldn’t afford.”

Not your grandfather’s definition of ‘good kids’. A product of a more thoroughgoing ‘holier-than-thou bootlicker’ would be difficult to imagine.

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That’s a real head-scratcher, alright. (Funny how the FBI doesn’t seem very good at finding things these days. That’s not a good look for an investigative organization.)

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A French waiter said that getting fired for his behavior at a Vancouver restaurant was a “discrimination against my culture.”

Guillaume Rey, who worked as a waiter at Milestones Restaurant from October 2015 to August 2016, claims that his attitude, which one time left another server “borderline in tears,” was due to cultural differences, the New York Post reported. Rey is currently filing a suit with British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal, arguing that many French people are raised with a more aggressive and direct culture than Canadians.

I guess he wouldn’t object if I just walked up and punched him out for no reason. I’m Irish; it’s part of my culture.

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Of course they are. It’s all part of the Narrative, which they are the more recent Useful Idiots pushing.

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As the Chicago Tribune reported this morning, University of Utah Economics Professor Richard Fowles and I have just completed an important article on the 2016 Chicago homicide spike. Through multiple regression analysis and other tools, we conclude that an ACLU consent decree trigged a sharp reduction in stop and frisks by the Chicago Police Department, which in turn caused homicides to spike. Sadly, what Chicago police officers dubbed the “ACLU effect” was real—and more homicides and shootings were the consequence.

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Which was the plan all along.

The proglodytes think they’re fooling people but they’re not.

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What teens and younger student can do is treat each other with courtesy and respect. Most school shooters are fatherless boys who have been ostracized by their peers. While students can’t prevent divorce, they can reach out to their peers. This can be as simple as sitting with someone at lunch or including them in one’s won group. Basically, children befriending other children.

Unfortunately, being a decent human being doesn’t garner media attention. Ironically, what does get this attention is the same kind of narcissism and inflated sense of self-importance that leads to children being ostracized and humiliated by their peers.

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Whether we are children in school or adults in the public square, we can’t befriend each other unless we first grant each other at least the possibility of goodwill.

So what can kids do? Stop imitating those adults who assume the worst in those who disagree with them.

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Calling itself Falmouth Hates Students, FHS, the group sent the threatening letter to university management and media where they confessed to being behind a hate campaign that included damaging student property and vehicles.

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Claiming the town had become overrun with students, the group blamed them for pricing locals out of the local housing market.

“The Nazis at Falmouth University have had their way for too long, wrecking the lovely town of Falmouth with too many students and overdevelopment and not accepting there own responsibility to house students on-site,” the letter reads.

“No-one listens to the good people of Falmouth so now we are taking our own direct action. We have no option but the make Falmouth a no go area for students.

Britain has a long tradition of town/gown animosity but I find this very odd.

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It has been observed that Marxism is a religion masquerading as political theory, and Islam is a political theory masquerading as religion. It is revealing that both of these organizations view the United States as their greatest enemy. I hope they’re right because that would reflect well on the United States. Because what those movements have in common is their efforts to harness the power of groups of people. This creates two major problems, in my view. First, when you are working upstream against human nature and against God, there’s likely to be significant difficulties. Second, when you set groups of people against each other using anger and envy and so on, what you’re doing is you’re creating mobs.

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I also find it interesting that collectivist organizations tend to wear uniforms (Communists and hippies), masks (Islamists and Antifa twits), and other things to hide their individuality. That’s not a coincidence.

The Other McCain is on the case.

In January, 16-year-old Maarib Al Hishmawi was reported missing in Bexar County, Texas. She was last seen leaving Taft High School in San Antonio. Was she a victim of right-wing anti-Muslim violence?

No, she was a victim of her parents.

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This is the kind of “violence against women” feminists will ignore.

Indeed not.

Maxine Waters: Trump ‘Doesn’t Deserve’ To Be President  And Maxine Waters doesn’t deserve to be in Congress. Waiting for you to resign, Maxine.

When Unfounded Smears Are Treated as Facts  “Brennan admitted his charge that the Russians were blackmailing Trump was pure speculation. But that didn’t stop him or anyone else from spreading the smear.”