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That might work with people full of Toxic Masculinity, but today’s kids have been conditioned to scream and cower with faced with something unpleasant.

Books are more effective at distracting shooters than rocks, and the books are already at hand. Yet none of the mass shootings have any instances of people pelting the guy with books.

Steven Hayward returns with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.

he biggest albatross of environmentalism is its well-deserved reputation for apocalypticism: the world is always going to come to and end because of. . . plastic bags! Bee colony collapse disorder! Endocrine disruptors! Velociraptors! And of course the big one: c—— c—– (formerly known as g—– w——). This apocalyptic outlook always comes with the same sort of moral unctuousness you associate with a fire-and-brimstone street preacher: repent of your fossil-fool ways!

Why, people often ask me, are environmentalists so gloomy about the human prospect? I have a simple answer: it makes them happy. Seriously: if you point out to environmentalists the data showing many environmental problems on the national and global scale are improving, they usually go into a rage. Good news is bad news.

A few of the smarter environmentalists know that decades of nonstop environmental gore (heh) has been counterproductive, as public opinion surveys show that “apocalypse fatigue” set in a long time ago. That’s one reason why recent surveys even of Democratic voters show climate change to be a very low priority. Most sensible people would rather spend an evening trapped with a life insurance salesman than spend five minutes with an environmentalist.

Despite all of the efforts of the smarter environmentalists to shed their Malthusianism, they just can’t help themselves. Like an AA dropout who succumbs when walking by a well-lit tavern, orthodox environmentalism repeatedly stumbles and goes on a bender. For example, consider Paul Ehrlich apparently getting ready to imitate the Rolling Stones with a 50th anniversary tour of his famous book….

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The problem with democracy is that by its very nature the “inventors” tend to be philistines (for example, that grotesque trio: Zuckerberg, Gates, and Bezos), money-grubbers, and cowards, happy to truckle to the diversity rabble and other low types, since there is such a good living and so much social distinction in that. As with the preservation of high culture, it takes a truly elitist social order and an aristocratic tradition to produce statesmen such as those Great Dead White Men, America’s Founding Fathers.

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It all depends on whose doing the mining.

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Note that you never see articles about Midwestern sociologists who spend years asking urban Americans why they’re such assholes.

Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University, spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country. He had one goal: to understand why rural America is so angry with Washington.

God knows there’s no obvious reason, right?

Wuthnow’s work resulted in a new book, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America. He argues that rural Americans are less concerned about economic issues and more concerned about Washington threatening the social fabric of small towns and causing a “moral decline” in the country as a whole. The problem, though, is that it’s never quite clear what that means or how Washington is responsible for it.

Certainly it is — if you’re willing to look at the evidence. The problem is the government, the Federal government in particular. Government is run by urban degenerates, and the laws and regulations they impose on everybody else is what’s pulling the whole country down.

C’mon, Sean, be a journalist for once.

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You aren’t what you eat, exactly. But over many generations, what we eat does shape our evolutionary path. “Diet,” says anthropologist John Hawks, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “has been a fundamental story throughout our evolutionary history. Over the last million years there have been changes in human anatomy, teeth and the skull, that we think are probably related to changes in diet.”

Steve Sailer keeps finding Reality intruding on the media.

Here’s a brand new academic paper that makes the same point I immediately made back in 2013 when the New York Times first trumpeted Raj Chetty’s map of where there is high upward mobility of income: it didn’t look like a map of respectable regional attributes, such as a lack of Sprawl. Instead, it looked like a Map of Where the Blacks Aren’t.

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Not ALL the grown-ups, of course; just the CrimeThinkers.

Ever notice how journalists say this stuff as if they were space aliens not a part of any of the groups under discussion?

Mika Brzezinski Says Trump Has ‘Difficulty Reading’  Now they’re just clutching at any insult they can come up with.

‘Morning Joe’ Jumps To Wild Conclusions About Trump’s Cabinet And Think’s Country Is Headed For War [VIDEO]

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The New York Times seems to have a habit of scrounging up conspiracy theorists in order to tell us the many ways in which The Sky Is Falling. And the overlap between these Chicken Littles and Nanny Staters In Training is huge.

They start off with The Enemy, speaking about the sugar industry in terms more suitable to Jimmy Swaggart denouncing the Devil or Jeff Sessions talking about a Mexican Drug cartel:

The sugar industry and its various offshoots, like the soda industry, have spent years trying to trick you.

Big Sugar has paid researchers to conduct misleading — if not false — studies about the health effects of added sweeteners. It has come up with a dizzying array of euphemistic names for those sweeteners. And it has managed to get sugars into a remarkable three-quarters of all packaged foods in American supermarkets.

How dare they try to make their product attractive! It’s a plot, I tell you! This sounds in the standard proglodyte meme that the Common People are too stupid to be able to make their own choices in life, and so must have Cloud People run their lives.

Most of us, as a result, eat a lot of sugar. We are surrounded by it, and it’s delicious. Unfortunately, sugar also encourages overeating and causes health problems. As confusing as the research on diet can often seem, it consistently points to the harms of sugar, including obesity, diabetes and other diseases.

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from sucrose. Big Sugar, like a roaring lion, roams the world seeking someone to add pounds to. Resist it, steadfast in the faith.

Virtually the only way to eat a healthy amount of sugar is to make a conscious effort. You can think of it as a political act: resisting the sugar industry’s attempts to profit off your body. Or you can simply think of it as taking care of yourself.

They’d prefer that you think of it as ‘a political act’, of course. Everything is political these days, or ought to be, at least to people who write in the New York Times.

What would these people do if they didn’t spend their days sticking their noses into other people’s business? They’d have to face the fact that everything they do is stuff that the world could get on perfectly well without. Natural Selection can’t be depended on to weed out the Dirt People, so we have to help it along. I keep expecting one of these op-ed pieces to advocate the establishment of re-education camps for everyone who walks out of Walmart with a six-pack of soda.

“Hate Speech” in Cottbus: Islam Will Never Integrate

Syrians stream out of Eastern Ghouta as Assad army warns ‘death is coming’ to those who stay behind

US Military Strikes Al-Shabaab Terrorists In Somalia

ISIS Suicide Bombing Leaves Dozens Dead In The Afghan Capital

The Latest: Nigeria says no ransom paid for girls’ release

Number of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants are freed

Rocket attack on Syrian capital Damascus kills 35  They just can’t stop killing each other.

Florida Man Allegedly Shouts ‘Allah Akbar,’ Shoots Wife, Knifes Children, Sets House On Fire  No doubt the hunt is on for his motives.

Radicalization in The Classroom: A Continuing Problem in Europe’s Schools

British woman killed fighting for all-female Kurdish militia in Syria

Polio vaccination team ambushed and two members killed in remote tribal region of Pakistan  Everybody knows that polio vaccine is Islamophobic.

Africans Riot in Madrid

Don’t Be Alarmed But Radical Islamism Is Spreading In America’s Prisons On The Taxpayers’ Dime

As a Rotherham grooming gang survivor, I want people to know about the religious extremism which inspired my abusers

Moroccan protesters clash with police in poor mining town and ‘set cars on fire’

Rwanda’s capital bans mosques from using loudspeakers during Muslim call to prayer

Turkish forces fire on Kurdish-controlled Afrin in northern Syria killing 18 civilians

Parsons Green attack: Tube bomber Ahmed Hassan convicted of attempted murder

German Cabinet Minister Says ‘Islam Doesn’t Belong To Germany’

Colombian Police Arrest Cuban ISIS Suspect Who Threatened U.S. Diplomats

Deadly Attack Follows Palestinian Factions’ Call for Violence

Parsons Green attack: The ‘bored’ Iraqi asylum seeker who launched terror attack on country that offered him sanctuary

Turkish forces seize control of Syrian town of Afrin and celebrate by tearing down statue of Kurdish hero

Telford child abuse: New victims come forward after MP says she has been ‘inundated’ with reports

Militants from Isis-linked group to be executed for hacking shrine worker to death in Bangladesh

Swedish Countess Who Escaped to Hungary: “There is no Public Safety. We Live in Fear.”

‘Europe Is Already Under an Invasion’

Former Syrian Terrorist Convicted In Federal Court

Bodies of 39 Indian construction workers abducted by Isis found in mass grave in Iraq

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How is this news? It’s an obvious thing.

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A useful thing.

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An Argentine man legally changed his gender so he could retire earlier, according to a Thursday report.

Sergio, 59, an Argentine tax official, legally changed the last letter of his name to Sergia, assuming the identity of a woman, so he could retire five years early, the Daily Nation reported. Argentine law allows women to retire at 60 while men have to wait until they are 65 years old. Their legislation also states a woman can retire at age 65 — the same as the age of a man — but they will receive a higher pension, according to the United States Social Security Administration’s website.

And now it starts.

Ana Navarro: GOP ‘Seems Absolutely Lost’ Under Trump  A lot of winning for being so lost. I suspect that Anna is the one who is lost.

At Harvard Law School, A Course In Impeaching Trump  They’re not even pretending any more.

CNN Analyst Compares Trump-Biden Feud To A ‘Class War’  Gonna catch that red dot, just see if we don’t.

The View’s Sunny Hostin: Why Hasn’t Someone Taken Trump ‘Out Back’ and ‘Kicked His Butt?’ Big talk from a TV infobabe.

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Ah, the sweet sound of chickens coming home to roost.

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He’s been saying that for fifty years, and he’s been wrong all that time.

You’d think he’d give it up.

And you’d think that people would quit listening to him.

The head-scratcher is that this guy has tenure at Stanford. The shame.

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Brazilian women want to be impregnated from the sperm of white American men, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal Thursday.

Wealthy Brazilian women and lesbian couples are requesting white male sperm from the U.S. so their kids will have more Caucasian features, the Wall Street Journal reported.

At least 50 percent of Brazil’s population is black or mixed-race, but women are selecting young sperm donors who will more likely produce children with blond hair and blue eyes. The number of American sperm donors to Brazil surged at least 3,000 percent in the past seven years. It is also illegal to pay men for their sperm in Brazil, which allows American donors more opportunity in the market.

White supremacy on the cheap. Women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc. CNN might report on this, assuming that they can ever tear their attention from the Trump red dot.

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You knew it had to happen.

Next step: Suing Budweiser for pretending to be beer at all.

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And do so very nicely.

What would ‘campaigners’ have to do if they couldn’t ‘warn’?

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I guess the Jews have gone back to being not-white people again.

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Polygamy nearly always means rich men taking multiple wives. And if the top 10% of men marry four women each, then the bottom 30% cannot marry at all. This often leaves them not only sexually frustrated but also socially marginalised. In many traditional societies, a man is not considered an adult until he has found a wife and sired children. To get a wife, he must typically pay a “brideprice” to her father. When polygamy creates a shortage of brides, it massively inflates this brideprice. In South Sudan, it can be anything from 30 to 300 cattle, far more wealth than an ill-educated young man can plausibly accumulate by legal means.

CNN Panel Goes Gaga for Stormy Daniels After Tweet: ‘The President Has Met His Match’  In their dreams, perhaps.

Brian Williams Slams GOP Lacking ‘Courage’ to Impeach Trump; ‘Opposite of…a Profile in Courage’  I’m curious about his assumption that lack of courage is the reason the GOP won’t impeach their own President. Where was he when Clinton was impeached?

Of Course: WashPost Compares Ted Kennedy’s Dead Woman to… Trump Era

Former CIA Director John Brennan Offers Crazy Theory That Putin Is Blackmailing Trump  It’s embarrassing that this guy was ever associated with a U.S. intelligence organization. No wonder the CIA gets it wrong most of the time.

Clinton: Trump ‘Undermined’ Presidency To ‘Enrich’ Family  Gee, that sounds just like what she and Bill were doing. Projection?

Biden Says He’d Have ‘Beat The Hell’ Out Of Trump In High School [VIDEO]  Uh, sure. I believe that….

White House Fires Back After WaPo Claims President Trump ‘Ignored’ Warning Not To Congratulate Putin  The Washington Post has, apparently, a very high opinion of itself.

Sean Penn’s Bizarre New Book Slams #MeToo And Calls For Trump-Like Character’s Assassination  Sean Penn isn’t an important person and the fact that he plays one in the movies has deluded him.

MSNBC Repeatedly Alleges Trump is Being Blackmailed by Russia  And the proof is that Trump has removed all of the Russian sanctions. Oh, wait….

Media Blast Trump Econ Pick Kudlow as ‘Hack,’ More Wrong ‘Than Anyone Alive’  More wrong than Nobel Laureate Krugman? I find that hard to believe.

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Couldn’t hurt. It would keep out some of the riff-raff, anyway.

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Justine Damond had called police at about 11:30 p.m. to report a suspected rape in progress behind her south Minneapolis apartment. A squad car responded, but as Damond approached the car in her night clothes, Officer Mohamed Noor fired across his partner, Matthew Harrity, killing her.

Yeah, she sure looks like a rapist to me.

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A federal judge ruled last week that a federal agency’s actions to improve habitats for endangered species along the Missouri River exacerbated floods, causing damage to local farmers whose land was temporarily inundated. Although this was only the first part of a multiphase case, if the ruling is upheld it could undermine future river restoration efforts nationwide and stymie enforcement of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by forcing the government to pay damages to any landowner affected by environmental restoration activities.

“The implications of this ruling are huge,” says Brad Walker, who headed river restoration efforts for the Missouri Coalition for the Environment in St. Louis before retiring earlier this month. “It’s attacking the heart of the legitimacy and reason for doing river restoration.” If the ruling is upheld in the next phase of the case, which is anything but certain, “it would effectively kill the application of the Endangered Species Act,” says John Echeverria, an environmental lawyer at the Vermont Law School in South Royalton.

At last, some concern for people rather than animals.

Bill Kristol: Trump Is ‘Scared’ Of The Mueller Investigation  More psychic psychiatry. Trump must be scared because Kristol, in his place would be scared. (Funny — Trump doesn’t act very scared.)

Matthews Hypes Trump and Mueller Locked in ‘Battle to the Death’  You can tell he’s a Democrat because of the Bitter Beer Face.

CNN Panelists: ‘Trump Is Nixon on Steroids and Stilts,’ Country Headed for ‘Crisis’  Running out of actual issues, they revert to their default tactic of name-calling. I thought that whole ‘Trump is Hitler’ thing was so five minutes ago….

‘We Love You’: Morning Joe Panel Fawns Over Impeachment Activist  I’m sure they do.

CNN Freaks: Trump Has Hired a ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Lawyer  They’re just pissed because they didn’t hire him first.

Jim Carrey unveils painting of Donald Trump as Wicked Witch of the West  When he eventually hits puberty it’s going to come as quite a shock.

McCain Slams Trump For Congratulating Putin: ‘Trump Insulted Every Russian Citizen’  One of the reasons that McCain is such a RINO is the fact that his method of thinking is exactly the same as a liberal Democrat’s: When the available evidence is contrary to his position, the problem is not with his position but rather some defect in the evidence.

Holder: Sessions Needs To Stand Up To Trump  The way Holder stood up to Obama?

Joy Behar Compares Trump To Duterte [VIDEO]  Trump ought to compare Joy Behar to Whoopi Goldberg, but that would be unkind.

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Blaine Gaskill is a hero.

Officer Gaskill was stationed as the school resource officer at Great Mills High School in Maryland Tuesday morning when he heard reports of a shooter in the building.  Gaskill engaged the shooter in under a minute, according to reports, and fired on him. The school shooter had already wounded two other students severely and may have continued his rampage were not for the actions of Officer Gaskill.

The school shooter was pronounced dead at the hospital.

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The irony of the persistent Lefty castigation of Income Inequality is that actual implementation of Lefty programs leads to … massive income inequality.

California’s high housing prices and rising gas prices are driving away what remains of the state’s low income citizens. Those migrating from the coastal state are making way for places like Las Vegas and Arizona, where housing prices are relatively cheap compared to California.

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California saw a loss of over 138,000 people in that 12-month period, according to the data, while Texas experienced an uptick of more than 79,000 people. Arizona and Nevada, meanwhile, gained more than 63,000 and 38,000 residents, respectively. California’s extraordinarily high gas taxes is another reason for the mass exodus, CNBC’s report noted.

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Border patrol agents are refusing to hand over illegal immigrants with felony warrants to police in California because they can’t be sure local authorities will return the criminal aliens to federal custody, according to a top border security official in San Diego.

Rodney Scott, the chief patrol agent in the Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector, said earlier this month that California’s statewide sanctuary law was undermining normal cooperation between his agency and local law enforcement.

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

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That flapping sound you hear is chickens coming home to roost.

This is the final stage of the natural bias of proglodytes toward equality of condition. Proglodytes have given lip-service to ‘merit’ until now, but they are beginning to realize that ‘merit’ fundamentally means that sometimes Deplorables are going to win out over Fashionable Victim Groups, and this they cannot allow. The War on Competition has produced, in addition to creeping socialism, such dreck as ‘participation trophies’; the War on Meritocracy is next up. ‘When everyone is Somebody then no one’s anybody.’

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I am reminded of the Tom Lerer lyric: ‘They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!’

I doubt that it is a good idea to take public policy advice from people who impersonate other people for a living.

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How about that Global Warming, eh?

I’m still not going to be happy until NYC is three feet under water.

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I’m waiting for them to discover that whale snot is superconducting and cure’s Alzheimer’s.

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

For all of your yuppie hipster job site needs.

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Don’t think it will work with proglodytes, though. Theirs is more a brain problem.

Colbert’s Anti-Trump Cartoon Mocks: ‘Pence Is So Poor, He Believes in God’  One would hope all these TV personalities who wouldn’t have a career without Trump to bash at least send him a fruit basket for Christmas or something.

John Oliver releases children’s book about Mike Pence’s gay rabbit  Makes you wonder what these people would do if they actually had to work for a living.

Trump’s Anti-Speech Agenda Gets a Boost From the Left: New at Reason  tReason magazine specializes in being wrong from both directions.

The truth behind Donald Trump’s error-filled tweets on Russia election ‘meddling’  What are the odds of a British newspaperman knowing ‘the truth’ about anything having go do with Trump?

People think Donald Trump talks more rubbish than any other celebrity  What ‘people’ are those? Why, the handful we talked to on the way to the office this morning. That’s always been recognized as statistically significant.

Opioid crisis: Donald Trump’s call for death penalty in drug dealing cases dubbed ‘cynical’  By whom? They never get around to saying.

Stephanie Ruhle Accuses Sean Hannity Of Dark Agenda After Mocking His Appearance On ‘Fox & Friends’  As if they didn’t have an opposite agenda.

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I don’t blame him — even thinking about Hillary makes me squirm.

I have a question: Find the black man in this picture:

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

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In 2016, Irina Conboy’s research team used a blood exchange technique between old and young mice, without surgically joining them. The results of this method would be easier to translate into a human medical setting than parabiosis, as it resembles exchange transfusions that are already used medically.

When they received old blood, the muscle strength of young mice decreased, and the growth of their brain cells slowed down.

Ever notice how mice always get the good stuff?

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One hand washes the other. Of course, any excuse will do for milking the taxpayers.

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Progressives, ever-ready to congratulate themselves on their “curiosity, creativity, and open-mindedness,” are curiously quick to grasp at psychological and medical diagnoses to explain the existence of opinions they don’t share.

Just recently, Slate told us that conservative gun users are sexually repressed and lacking empathy. Not to be outdone, the unhinged lefty site Alternet Friday published an article asserting that there is scientific evidence linking religious fundamentalists and conservatives to brain damage.(It came too late to help Joy Behar, who finally apologized on Thursday for calling Mike Pence and other believing Christians mentally ill.)

I should think it would rather be the people who deny reality (e.g. you can pick whether you want to be a man or a woman today) who would be suspected of brain damage.

Matt Welch documents the virtue signaling by the Republican coastal establishment.

Also, Trey Gowdy looks like a space alien, perhaps on purpose.

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One of the “arguments” (an excuse, actually) employed by Democrats after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election was, “She won the popular vote!” To which the proper reply is, “Where?” In a handful of large urban states where Republican Donald Trump did not campaign, Clinton won by huge margins, and this proves . . .? Nothing, really.

Makes sense to me.

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Early results from a clinical trial run from four international centres show that wiping out the patients’ immune systems with chemotherapy, and restoring them with the new stem cell treatment, appears to halt the disease and improve symptoms.