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Cue enviro-Nazi hysteria.

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This is why Trump got elected.

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Hipster life is worth millions to the right people. Hey, it’s free! Government money!

‘Kanye doesn’t care about black people’: Questlove spotted in T-shirt criticising rapper over Trump comments

Daily Beast Hails ‘Alarming Relevance’ of Anti-Trump ‘Misery Porn’ in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’  A very rich fantasy life.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Manages To Make Sarah Sanders Insults All About Him [VIDEO]

Ana Navarro: Trump People Aren’t Fun To Hang Out With  But better company than proglodytes, who spend their time looking for people to hate on.

NBC Excuses Offensive Correspondents’ Dinner: ‘The President Has Said Much Worse’  I think not.

Sam Stein: ‘Press Scandal’ Is Trump Avoiding Interviews With Unfriendly Outlets  A problem Obama never had.

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Of course he is.

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

White House Correspondents’ Dinner: Conservatives walk out as Michelle Wolf brutally ridicules Trump and aides

Reporters Slam White House Correspondents’ Dinner As ‘Embarrassment’ And ‘Gift’ To Trump Admin  Any demonstration of proglodytes acting like proglodytes is a gift to the Trump administration. And the American people.

CNN’s Acosta Laments WHCD Didn’t Focus Enough On Trump’s ‘Constant Attacks On The Press’  It also didn’t focus on their constant attacks on him.

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This school is currently pretty diverse: 46% white, 26% Hispanic, 17% black, but the nonwhites are exceptionally smart. In English tests, both the Hispanics and blacks score above the state average for whites. So it’s a nice bubble for wealthy liberal white families.

Posturing aside, blue state Party of Haters have as solid an appreciation of race realism as any al-right punching bag.

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A prime example of an organization that keeps hanging on long after its original objective has been accomplished.

Melber: Trump ‘Literally Endorsed White Supremacy After Someone Was Murdered’  Well, actually, he didn’t.

MSNBC Guest Claims Mike Pence Would Put Gay People In ‘Concentration Camps’ If He Became President  Guess they’ve realized that this trick no longer works with Trump, so they’re trotting it out against Pence.

Dershowitz: Dems And Left-Wingers Think Trump Is ‘The Devil’  And, from their point of view, they’re right.

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Slavery is DoublePlusUnGood for white people, but People of Color apparently don’t have a problem with it.

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As you might expect, she is a Person of Color.

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This looks at the Left Coast but it’s still pretty startling.

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He’s back on the proglodyte plantation after being tagged as a Heretic and Sinner. I guess that, since he isn’t the Big Name that Kanye is, he couldn’t afford the hit to his income.

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‘How long before a federal judge in Hawaii rules the Korean War must continue’

Steve Sailer does a fine fisking of William Saletan at Slate.

Most of the proglodyte arguments about race and IQ boil down to ‘Shut up! Shut up!‘, but occasionally one will expose enough target area for entertainment purposes.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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One of the things you can always count on from liberals is that their earnest care about the poor and disadvantaged always ends when policies to alleviate inequality might affect them. Like this story from the Wall Street Journal today about how parents on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (it hardly gets any more correctly liberal than the Upper West Side) object to a plan to admit student with—gasp! lower test scores!—to the schools where they send their own kids:

Parents Worry About Diversity Plan for Some Manhattan Middle Schools

A New York City proposal to diversify middle schools on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from parents worried their high-achieving children might lose access to the popular public schools.

Scott Adams lays it out.

“The Left defines itself by its hatred of individuals for their ideas.”

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As do I.

Nikki Haley Condemns Hamas For Using UN Facilities As Cover For Terror Operations

Armenian genocide: Thousands march around world to commemorate and demand recognition for atrocity

Syrian Imam Who Endorsed Suicide Bombing Tours U.S. Mosques

French Leaders Demand Muslims Denounce Anti-Christian And Anti-Jewish Verses In Quran  Good luck with that.

Muslim Jew-Hatred in Germany

Prague Waiter Beaten Unconscious by Culture-Enrichers

German Jewish community warns not to wear kippahs amid anti-Semitic attacks

“Wild-Eyed, Angry and Middle Eastern”: Eight Dead in Toronto

Al Jazeera TV Host Advocates Expulsion Of Jews From Israel [VIDEO]   Of course he does.

Yemen: ‘At least 20 killed including bride’ after airstrike by Saudi-led coalition hits wedding party

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam jailed for 20 years for attempted murder in Brussels shootout

IPT Exclusive: U.S.-based Imam Advocates Violence Against Israel in Anti-Semitic Sermon

Israeli military shoots dead two Palestinians after dropping leaflets on Gaza warning against border protests  Guess they didn’t get the memo.

Beasts From the Brute Farm Attack Young Woman in Essen

Gaza: 15 year-old boy among four dead as Israeli soldiers fire on Palestinian protesters at border

A Movement to Resist the Great Replacement

Women on the front line of protests in Gaza’s buffer zone  And yet there is such hand-wringing when they get shot.

Suicide blast hits Afghan voter registration center, killing 31

Kabul bombing: 31 dead in Afghan suicide bombing at voter registration centre

Palestinian journalist shot by Israeli troops at Gaza protest has died two weeks later

Muslim women wear kippahs over their hijabs in solidarity with Jewish community after antisemitic attack

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Another win for Trump.

Watch the DemLegHump Media bend over backwards trying to explain it away.

Ought to be entertaining.

UPDATE: Korea summit – live updates: North and South leaders agree to denuclearisation of peninsula in historic joint statement

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The innate totalitarian nature of the Democrat party often comes out in surprising ways.

CNN’S Acosta Whines About Being Called Fake News, Vilifies Trump Supporters  Poor baby.

James Comey defends memo release, says Donald Trump is ‘just making stuff up’  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Unhinged Blogger Claims Trump’s Presidency Forced Her To Become A Shopping Addict  Yeah, it caused me to retire. Who can I sue about that?

Chicago Tribune Columnist Claims Trump’s ‘Silence’ On Waffle House Murders ‘Reeks Of Racism’  Yup, the President has nothing better to do than engage in public virtue-signalling whenever proglodytes think he ought to.

Joy Behar Asks Dr. Phil: Isn’t President Trump Grooming Macron Like an Orangutan?  Keepin’ it weird.

Trump’s cell phone use is security “nightmare” waiting to happen, lawmakers say  Democrat lawmakers, of course.

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Thank you, enviro-Nazis and ever-increasing gas mileage requirements.

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Generous pensions have always been a prime perk of government jobs. Now those pensions are causing government layoffs, reduced services, and tax increases.

Take Harvey, Illinois. The city has laid off half of its fire department and 13 police officers so it can meet its obligations to its retired police officers and firefighters—the result of decades of overpromising benefits and underfunding pension plans.

The laid-off first responders are just the first casualties of Harvey’s pension crisis. Residents and other government employees will feel the pain as Harvey cuts services, reduces salaries, or increases the workloads of its remaining employees. Harvey’s residents already face a property tax increase. Last year, a court ordered the city to impose a property tax levy specifically for its firefighters pension fund.

More info from Wikipedia:

The town is 75% black and 19% Latino, i.e. it’s run (and has been run) by Democrats.

In the 2000s and 2010s, Mayor Eric Kellogg attempted to boost Harvey’s economy with little success. Kellogg offered developers millions of dollars in incentives to revive the long vacant Dixie Square Mall. In another plan to redevelop the Chicago Park Hotel, a developer was given $10 million from the city but then abandoned the project, leaving behind a gutted building.

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The material created by Professor Eugene Chen has many of the same characteristics of everyday plastics, including strength, durability and heat resistance.

However, unlike conventional plastics it can be converted back to the molecules that form its building blocks with ease.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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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 the thing. Most of our problems are ones of resource allocation: who gets to consume how much of what. After thousands of years of social evolution, humans have developed three main tools for allocating resources: government, religion, and markets. Government and religion always come up with simplistic solutions that usually don’t match the complexity of the problems they are trying to solve.

Markets, however, have the unusual property of being able to use simple rules to solve complex problems. That’s because markets depend on the simultaneous processing of billions of computers called human beings. Those human beings base their individual decisions on two simple metrics.

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I suspect that if you examine his wallet you’ll find that Cuomo is plenty green enough.

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The Starbucks vagrancy/racism episode that occupied so much of the news cycle last week presents us with an opportunity to learn more about how boycotts may have changed – for better or worse – in our digital age. While it’s easy to shrug off the episode as mere “slacktivism” or corporate virtue signaling, remove the cynicism and the issue presents a deeply layered set of principles that all Americans interested in free speech and social activism of all kinds should examine.

I detest coffee, so I don’t have a dog in this fight.

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The Clintons have been money-launderers with respect to illegal foreign campaign contributions since at least 1996.

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The case of Alfie Evans once again brings to light the ethical and moral landmines that are promulgated as governments intrude further and further into the personal lives of its citizens.

Young Alfie suffers from a so-far unknown and undiagnosed congenital ailment that has left him in a near-vegetative state since late 2016. As such, the officials of the UK’s National Health Service have brought it upon themselves to hasten the death of the child … for his own well-being.

If you think that is sarcasm … it is not. The Royal College of Pediatrics literally made that argument this week. And that would be bad enough except for the fact that there is no medical or moral reason for their conclusion. So far, there is little to no medical evidence that the child has been suffering at all.

Well, that is not totally the case. The child did suffer over the last 24 hours … after NHS physicians removed his ventilator and then for hours refused to provide any ancillary support to reduce his difficulty as he was gasping for air and suffering from dehydration. In short, the physicians themselves have caused more suffering than any decision the parents have recently made.

This debate could have been avoided if the UK had taken up the Italian government’s offer to fly Alfie to Rome and provide him with any care he required. With the blessings of the Pope himself, Italy even granted Alfie citizenship on Monday. Italian diplomats further offered to evacuate him by military air ambulance to an Italian hospital for treatment and, if needed, end-of-life care.

The UK government said “No thanks.”

The key fact here is that when government provides your health care, government makes your medical decisions, even to the point of deciding whether you live or die. When government provides your health care, health care has become what economists call a ‘public good’ (think military defense or law enforcement) and, as with other public goods, attempts to enforce a government monopoly on the provision of such goods. When government provides a service, the constant inclination is to make it a government monopoly and to de-legitimize other potential providers, even when the ‘good’ in question has historically been adequately supplied by non-government providers. Look at the history of homeschooling — in some countries, like Germany, it is actually illegal to homeschool your children.

UPDATE: The Sad Case of Alfie Evans: A Sordid Lesson in Government-Controlled Health Care

UPDATE: The Lesson of Alfie Evans

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The China, personally selected by First Lady Melania Trump, was originally the “Clinton China Service”, as first identified by CNN reporter Kate Bennett.

Making the selection even more appropriate, Bill and Hillary Clinton stole this China Service from the White House and were forced to return it in 2001.

Ross Douthat looks at California.

For all its deranging effects, I am always grateful to Twitter for the interesting ideas it surfaces. But rarely does this surfacing happen quite so overtly as it did earlier this month, when Jack Dorsey, the Twitter C.E.O., tweeted out as a “great read” an article series urging national Democrats to seek the kind of final victory they’ve won in California, in which the G.O.P. is reduced to a rump under one-party Democratic rule.

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And ambitious liberals will have to do so while evangelizing on behalf of a social-political model that right now looks nothing like the ideal egalitarian society liberalism claims that it can build. Under one-party liberal rule, California is presently as unequal as a Central American republic, with one of the highest poverty rates in the country once you control for its exorbitant cost of living. Its educational performance is lousy and its racial gaps are stark — which is why it’s not only lower-middle class whites moving back to red America, and why black complaints about white liberal gentrifiers in SoCal or the Bay Area can resemble the complaints of Trump-leaning ex-Californians. As in other enclaves where Democrats are dominant, its ruling party has proved itself pretty good at rentier-friendly environmentalism and kicking social conservatives while they’re down, O.K. enough at redistribution, and completely terrible at figuring how to build an information-age middle class.

MSNBC’s Reid Repeatedly Compares the Russia Probe to Watergate  Perhaps she thinks, like Goebbels, that if she repeats it often enough, people will believe that it’s true.

Oliver Stone Compares Trump To The Devil While In Iran

Bill Kristol Predicts Democrats Will Sweep Midterms And Turn GOP Against Donald Trump [VIDEO]  He also predicted a Hillary landslide, so I wouldn’t be too worried.

Maxine Waters: Trump Just Needs To ‘Get Out’  She appears to believe that if she just says it often enough somebody will listen to her.

Whoopi Goldberg Angrily Reads Note Card Trashing Trump’s Cabinet  Beats working for a living.

Maxine Waters Hopes ‘Cohen Tapes’ Give Democrats ‘Treasure Trove Of Information’  I have no doubt that she does.

Jake Tapper and Ellen DeGeneres Discuss Life Under Trump as ‘Crazy’ and ‘Scary’  For them, it surely is. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

‘Dead To Me’: Ex-Kanye Fans Flip Over His Acceptance Of Trump  No room for Heretics or Sinners.

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Anybody who would characterize Scott Adams as ‘alt-right’ is still sucking his thumb.

The fact that ‘Business Insider’ would publish such drivel underscores the oxymoron of their name.

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You knew it was coming.

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

As a landowner of my acquaintance once said, ‘I’ve got a gun and I’ve got a shovel.’

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Women and minorities hardest hit, of course.

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Lest we forget.

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The venture, announced in January, is aimed at lowering healthcare costs for the companies’ employees, though there haven’t been many details about what that looks like. At the time, news of the partnership sent healthcare stocks plummeting, especially health insurers and members of the pharmaceutical supply chain who might be impacted by the three business giants getting into their lines of work.

But those who have been in the healthcare industry for a while are skeptical of the speed at which the venture could potentially threaten existing healthcare companies. Of the 300 healthcare professionals, large employers, investors, and academics surveyed by venture capital firm Venrock, 73% thought that it’s going to take a lot longer than expected and face many challenges.

In particular, 25% of those surveyed said that the companies “have no idea what they’re getting into.”

Tyler Cowen, a Real Economist, gets in their faces.

Paul Krugman recently made a splash in a New York Times column by suggesting there are no “serious, honest, conservative intellectuals with real influence,” referring to the “unicorns of the intellectual right.” I largely agree with his criticisms, but I would like to offer a very different perspective. This column is my corresponding warning to the left, like when somebody tells you your shirt is not properly tucked in.

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I find that left-wing intellectuals complain more about the right wing than right-wing intellectuals complain about the left. This negative focus isn’t healthy for the viability of left-wing intellectual creativity.

Steve Sailer understands the dialectic.

Now that the New York Times has shone the spotlight on the whiteness of the Fortune 500 names, I am looking forward to the NYT’s followup on the Forbes 400 of the Jewishness of the first and/or last names of America’s billionaires.

They are going to do that analysis, right?