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Once again, Texas holds the line.

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The Wall is one of many ways in which Trump controls the National Conversation about immigration that the chatterati would really prefer not to happen.

CNN Touts Diplomat Who Resigned Because of Trump’s ‘Anti-American’ Values  Judging by the record of our State Department over the last 50 years, no ‘diplomat’ has any room to talk about ‘American values’.  Madeleine Albright, for example, wouldn’t know an American value if it peed on her foot.

California AG: Trump Should ‘Be Careful’ If He’s Ever In ‘A Dark Alley With Maxine Waters’  Is that supposed to be complimentary toward Maxine Waters? That she’s just another Thug of Color?

MSNBC Rejects ‘Mythology’ of Trump’s ‘Humanity’: He’s a ‘Sociopath’  Ah, yes, the psychic psychiatrist strikes again. Funny how most of these work for the networks rather than making more money in private practice.

‘Shame On You’: ABC, NBC Whine Trump ‘Caved Entirely’ to NRA  Those who view politics through the Lenin filter of ‘who, whom’ see outcomes not as a result of a persuasion process but as the outcome of a power process. If Trump reversed himself on an issue, it wasn’t because he was persuaded toward the other position, he must have caved to pressure from, e.g. the NRA. (I think this is a little projection on the part of the newsies.)

WashPost’s Gerson: Evangelicals for Trump ‘Sycophantic’ and ‘Slimy Political Operatives’  Much like Gerson.

MSNBC’s Johnson: Trump Is ‘Half a Rally Away from Using the N-Word’  The same ‘N-word’ that black people use all the time? That ‘N-word’?

David Miliband says Corbyn ‘sounded like Trump’ over Skripal, amid criticism of Labour leader’s response  How long before saying that somebody is ‘like Trump’ will be prosecutable as a Hate Crime?

John Kasich Attacks Trump For ‘Soap Opera’ White House  Compared to who, Bill Clinton?

CNN’s Navarro: ‘Glad They’ve Ended This Sham Investigation’, Trump is ‘Unhinged’  Not as unhinged as Navarro, unfortunately.

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Anybody who flies on (‘we break guitars’) United is a fool.

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The Mayor of New York has conceded defeat to Texas, admitting the Southern US state produces a better barbecue.

During a discussion at the South by Southwest Festival in the Lone Star state, Austin mayor Steve Adler goaded Bill de Blasio on the topic by asking, “Oh, New York has a barbecue?”

To which the Mayor of New York responded, “We do not have as good as barbecue as you.

That’s a no-brainer.

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But it’s by a Republican, so it doesn’t count.

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Apple’s senior vice president of internet software and services, Eddy Cue, said Monday the company believes “free speech is important, but we don’t think it’s everything.”

“It’s important for Americans to have debates on certain issues, but we don’t think hate speech from white supremacists is important free speech,” he continued, according to Business Insider

Free speech is important only if its the Correct free speech.

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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin wants limits on virtual currencies, like Bitcoin, that help people keep their financial lives private from folks like him. Senator Dianne Feinstein wants government regulation of political speech by foreign agents—or maybe just by people with whom she disagrees. Gun control activists want more restrictions with which to threaten peaceful gun owners so that violent predators who break laws will have more things to ignore.

If ever there was a “there oughta be a law moment,” we’re living in it. At least, we’re living in one of all too many such moments. Because people are forever looking to the law as the solution to the ills they perceive in the world around them—often only to spackle over the failures of the previous round of laws. In the process, they’re forever forgetting that laws are usually nothing more than codified prejudices, imposed against resistant populations, by sometimes incompetent and often corrupt enforcers.

That’s one of the best definitions of modern law that I’ve ever seen.

Most letters can be much improved by judicious editing.

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One of the first political discussions I recall being witness to was the aftermath of the Congo carnage following the granting of independence to a lunatic by the name of Patrice Lumumba. The Belgians fled for their lives and the country collapsed into civil war, which continues today. Independent rule in Zambia and Tanzania was quickly followed by nationalization, the denial of property rights, and those economies quickly crumbling, but mountains of Western largesse poured in, most of which was stolen. Nobody was censured, of course, because the liberal socialists running Europe were on their knees saying sorry for being white.

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It didn’t matter how “infatuatedly in love” she was then with everything about Jeremie — his long chocolate hair, his bad-boy attitude, tongue stud and 28 tattoos. In Iowa, a 21-year-old having sex with a 15-year-old is statutory rape. The evidence was alive in her womb.

Bryan Kaplan counts the ways.

When parents and teachers urge kids to go to college, they visualize the success stories: kids who graduate on time with marketable degrees. If every student fit this profile, college would be an outstanding personal investment. Unfortunately, most students don’t fit this profile, and their returns are mediocre or worse. Indeed, plenty would be better off skipping college in favor of full-time employment.

Rod Dreher is upset.

It’s okay to be mean to white students, so long as they aren’t from one of the Left Coasts.

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And if they were, who could blame them?

I think it’s more a case of baby-phobic women. And that’s quite understandable, too.

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Scientists have discovered Antarctic Krill can digest or at least break up lumps of plastic into even smaller lumps.

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The expression of concern about nano-plastic seems a stretch. Breaking micro-plastic into smaller chunks, making it available to even more versatile and varied microorganisms further down the food chain, is likely enough to effect complete clearance. Anyone who has ever owned a boat knows how difficult it is to protect fuel from contamination by the ubiquitous fungus and bacteria which thrives in sea water. It seems highly likely that at least one other organism, somewhere in the world’s oceans, has developed a taste for our plastic waste.

Allergic to Good News? CNN Stops Tracking Trump-Era Job Growth

CNN Panelist: If You Laugh at Trump’s Jokes, You’re Damaging Society  And glad to do it.

On Trump Tariffs, AP Reporter Tries to Frighten, Misquotes Prominent Economist

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Brazenly Compares Trump To Mussolini  I guess Hitler must have worn out.

‘Like a Mussolini Rally’: Scarborough in Hysterics Over Trump’s Pennsylvania Speech  He does that a lot.

Mitchell Laughs at ‘Funny’ Idea of Rep. Waters Attacking Trump ‘in A Dark Alley’  Just another case of black-on-white crime. Not funny.

Late Night TV Producer:Trump’s America Reminds Me of What It Was Like Living in Concentration Camp  Yeah, the barracks, gas chambers, and crematoria are eerily familiar. (I think he’s just getting senile.)

Eichenwald: ‘Trump Is Either A Russian Agent Or The Pee Tapes Are True’  No, I have no idea what he’s talking about either.

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Who is this guy, and why is he in the news?

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That would be another huge (excuse me, yuge) win for Trump — and America.

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A former employee of YouTube (a subsidiary of Alphabet, parent of Google) alleged in a recently filed lawsuit that YouTube is discriminating against white and Asian men. “YouTube last year stopped hiring white and Asian males for technical positions because they didn’t help the world’s largest video site achieve its goals for improving diversity,” the suit alleges.

Liberal discrimination against white men is nothing new, but many people are caught by surprise to see such explicit discrimination against Asian males in the name of diversity from one of the most progressive companies in one of the most liberal zip codes. After all, don’t liberals always define diversity in terms of external traits such skin colors?

For ‘progressives’, some colors are more equal than others. For being intelligent and successful, Asians are lumped in with Evil White People.

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Of course, he’s a Republican and therefore not a Real Negro.

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Humanity isn’t destroying the natural world. We’re changing it. And in many ways, our changes are creating richer and more vibrant ecosystems.

Maybe so, but I still want to see New York under 3 feet of water.

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When entire countries lose an hour of sleep simultaneously, bad things happen.

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How about that great government-provided healthcare! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in America?

Well, Obama tried.

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I have always hated Krispy Kreme donuts, which look and taste as if they had been extruded from a Play-Doh Fun Factory. I much prefer the flakier hexagonal shaped ones you get from mom-and-pop donut shops.

John Hinderaker of PowerLine tells all.

Jill Abramson, former Executive Editor of the New York Times, told the Guardian that she keeps a Barack Obama doll in her purse and calls on it for comfort in the distressing Age of Trump:

It’s easy to look at what’s happening in Washington DC and despair. That’s why I carry a little plastic Obama doll in my purse. I pull him out every now and then to remind myself that the United States had a progressive, African American president until very recently. Some people find this strange, but you have to take comfort where you can find it in Donald Trump’s America.

OK, that’s pretty funny. But the rest of Abramson’s column strikes me as more significant. Why? Because she makes no pretense of being anything other than a Democratic Party operative. Writing for the Guardian’s far-left audience, she is among friends. Any pretense of objectivity is gone.

Meet the Press Panel Freaks: Incompetent Trump Handing NoKo a Victory  At least they’ve given up on saying that it’s just the fruits of Obama’s Magic Negro diplomacy.

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I can understand that. I often do the same thing. (I won’t call it a mistake….)

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Citrus trees migrated from the Himalayas to the rest of the world after sudden changes in the climate 6 to 8 million years ago, according to new research. As citrus spread, it changed, eventually bringing sweet orange juice to our kitchen tables.

I, for one, am looking forward to Global Warming.

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Recently, I arrived at a moment of introspection about a curious aspect of my own behavior. When I disagree with a conservative friend or colleague on some political issue, I have no fear of speaking my mind. I talk, they listen, they respond, I talk some more, and at the end of it we get along just as we always have. But I’ve discovered that when a progressive friend says something with which I disagree or that I know to be incorrect, I’m hesitant to point it out. This hesitancy is a consequence of the different treatment one tends to receive from those on the Right and Left when expressing a difference of opinion. I am not, as it turns out, the only one who has noticed this.

No shit, Sherlock.

Outbursts of emotional hostility from progressive activists – now described as Social Justice Warriors or SJWs – have come to be known as getting ‘triggered.’ This term originally applied to sufferers of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, but activists have adopted it to describe the anxiety and discomfort they experience when they are exposed to views with which they disagree. “Fuck free speech!” one group of social justice advocates recently told Vice Media, as if this justified the growing belief among university students that conservatives should be prevented from speaking on college campuses. It’s no secret that, with the rise of the triggered progressive, university professors are increasingly intimidated by their own students. An illustrative example of this alarming trend was provided by the hoards of screaming students who surrounded the distinguished Yale sociologist Nicholas Christakis and demanded his head (which they duly received). Christakis had made the mistake of defending an email his wife had written gently criticizing Yale’s attempts to regulate students’ Halloween costumes. “Who the fuck hired you?!” screamed one irate student in response. “You should step down!”

Obsessed: MSNBC’s Stormy Daniels Gossip Eclipses North Korea Coverage

Must-See Moments: Media’s Meltdown Over Trump, North Korea Talks

North Korea: New York Times Columnist Whines About Trump’s Diplomatic Process

New dating site launched for those opposed to Donald Trump  Kind of like the plan to eliminate mosquitos by releasing sterile drones into the wild.

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Federal regulator furious to discover untrackable mini-satellites in space.

Of course he was. Federal regulators are always furious when people do things without permission.

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has pulled permission from Silicon Valley startup Swarm Technologies to launch four satellites into space after what it says was an “apparent unauthorized launch” back in January.

Ask yourself why the FCC ought to have any jurisdiction over satellites. Sure, they’e communication satellites, and I could see the FCC having a say over what they emit, but actually launching them?

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It’s absurd – and fitting – that a century later, opponents and supporters of daylight saving are still not sure exactly what it does. Despite its name, daylight saving has never saved anyone anything. But it has proven to be a fantastically effective retail spending plan.

Most of what you hear for and against Daylight Saving Time is junk science. The only thing we know for sure, because the relevant studies are consistent, is that changing time twice a year causes problems on the change days.

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Cryptocurrency mining takes a lot of energy, and anything that uses that much energy generates a lot of heat, which is why cooling systems are so important for computers using high-end graphics cards. But what if instead of cooling down your mining rig, you found another use for all that excess heat — like, say, heating your entire home?

Qarnot’s QC-1 “crypto heater” looks to do just that, combining a cryptocurrency mining rig with a wall-mounted radiator to heat your home and earn you some of that sweet, sweet digital money at the same time (via TechCrunch).

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This started with the “Challenge”: feeding four for less than twelve dollars.

I wish I’d had this when I was younger.

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Note: Not carrying; just for having the permit.

Funny how those who decry violence against women are the first in line to leave them defenseless.

It certainly does.

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Why proglodytes have a train fetish is beyond me, other than a general desire to turn the clock back to 1900. (Which is why they ought to be called ‘regressives’ rather than ‘progressives’.)

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A Missouri man who has been indicted in the killing of three white men specifically threatened white people — but the police don’t think that killings are racially motivated.

Yeah, that’s a real head-scratcher, all right.

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I am not making this up.

I guess the Magic Negro has powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.

‘View’’s Behar: We ‘Need’ ‘Smoking Gun’ to ‘Impeach’ Trump Over Stormy Daniels!  I thought they were against smoking guns.

CNN’s Jones: ‘If Barack Obama Had Done Just Half of What Trump Did Last Week’, ‘He’d Be in Guantanamo’  If he’d done just half of what Trump did in his first year, he’d be in Statuary Hall.

CNN’s Symone Sanders: If Dem President Did Tariffs, Republicans ‘Would Be Trying To Burn Them At The Proverbial Stake’  But of course Democrats are just standing by in silence.

Americans drinking tequila in protest of President Trump, report claims  Hard to tell what virtue this is signaling.

The Mooch Accuses Maddow Of Having Trump Derangement Syndrome, Tells Her To Take Her Meds  From his lips to her ear.

‘Morning Joe’ Poses Conspiracy Theory About North Korea Talks And Accuses Trump Of Deflecting  Watch them streeeetch….

CNN Analyst: ‘There Is No Way President Trump’ Can Pull Off This N. Korea Meeting  Hope she likes crow….

NBC Obama Flack Refuses to Credit Trump for North Korea Talks  Who, then? Obama?

Bitter Chris Cillizza Throws ‘Reality Show’ Shade on Trump-Kim Meeting

NYT’s Kristof Slams Trump’s ‘Dangerous Gamble’ on North Korea  There’s no pleasing some people.

Salon: Only Losers Voted for Trump  Salon apparently defines ‘loser’ as somebody who wins a lot.

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How about that great government- provided health care? Don’t you wish the U.S. had a system like that?

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Be the first on your block to survive the Socialist Apocalypse.

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The “assault weapon” controversy first became a national issue in January 1989, when a career criminal murdered five children at school playground in Stockton, California. The failures of law enforcement before and during that crime—and the media and political failures thereafter—were similar to those related to the recent murders in Parkland, Florida. These failures are part of the reason why school shootings, and other mass attacks, persist in the United States today.

This article is the first in a series detailing the “assault weapon” hoax from 1989 to the present.

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Good news can’t be allowed to remain unqualified because people might get the mistaken totally wrong don’t even think about it idea that some credit is due to the New Hitler Trump.

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If they’re stupid enough to pay her, she’s smart enough to take the money.