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“This the first time that we’ve been able to take exactly one atom and another atom of another species and combine them in a molecule, isolated,” said Lee Liu, a Harvard graduate student. “Some have been able to do them on surfaces, but we do it with no other things to interfere.”

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Most ‘industries’ are cool with government regulation — they see it as a way to stifle competition and prevent that ole debbil ‘disruption’. (Witness the reaction of cab companies to Uber and Lyft, or hotels and motels to AirBnB.)

This is behind Mark Zuckerberg’s call for government regulation of FaceBook; he (rightly) sees it as a method of locking in FaceBooks effective monopoly on the social media space.

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There are things the left really hates, but it seems to me that they hate Christianity more than anything.

This has been demonstrated repeatedly throughout time. Be it booing God at the DNC, or their irrational hatred of politicians that openly show their faith.

The Witch-Hunt for Heretics and Sinners knows no bounds.

We want to pray for those in need, eat our chicken sandwiches, and run our businesses in peace. I wish many on the left felt the same way, but we’re constantly assaulted with evangelist mobs of this or that interest group as they “boo” our God during their political conventions.

“You will be made to care,” says the left.

“Eat mor chicken,” says the Christian.

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It doesn’t help. Trust me.

My understanding is that it boils down to “Gee, we didn’t mean anything bad. Sorry. Uh, no, we can’t promise not to do it again.”

Journalist who broke Watergate scandal says it is ‘clear Trump is presiding over a massive cover up’  He must have a book coming out.

James Comey’s book ‘A Higher Loyalty’ likens Donald Trump to a mafia boss who is ‘ego driven and about personal loyalty’  With Deep State apparatchiks like Comey all around him, I don’t blame him.

Even Chris Matthews, ‘Hardball’ Panelists Blast Comey’s ‘Cheap’ Shots at Trump in Book

Nets Fawn for Comey Book Excerpts Blasting Trump, Apology for Angering Hillary

After reading James Comey’s autobiography, I wonder whether this might be the final blow to a presidency in crisis  Uh, no. Wishful thinking doesn’t work.

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The US Navy Seals just rolled out an unrecognizable new boat to help them out in future conflicts. Photos of the watercraft are scant for obvious reasons but the current images available to the public are pretty unbelievable.

I want one.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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Note to self: Steer clear of Idaho.

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According to a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the states collectively carry more than $1.4 trillion in pension debt—and only four states have at least 90 percent of the assets necessary to meet their long-term obligations to retirees. The Pew paper, which is based on states’ 2016 financial reports, shows that pension debt increased by about $295 billion since the previous year, making 2016 the 15th consecutive year in which state-level pension debt increased.

How are those public-sector unions working out for you?

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At least 11 towns in Orange County have taken steps to officially oppose Senate Bill 54, the divisive law that sharply limits cooperation on immigration enforcement between California officials and the federal government.

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The opening salvo in the battle between Orange County and Sacramento was fired on March 19 by Los Alamitos, a city of about 12,000. In a 4-1 vote, the council agreed to exempt Los Alamitos from SB54 over concerns the law was forcing local officials to undermine federal law.

State legislators in Sacramento were “bullying local elected officials into violating our oath of office,” council member Warren Kusumoto said at the time.

Though it is Orange County’s smallest city, Los Alamitos proved to be a bellwether for other jurisdictions in the county

Fleeing From Sweden

Leading Australian Muslim activist barred from entering the US

NYT Does Not Explain Boko Haram Targeted Victims Because They Were Christian

Asifa Bano: Rape and murder of eight-year-old girl highlights tensions between Indian Hindus and Muslims

Pregnant Pakistani singer shot dead during performance

Swedish Culture-Enrichers: Armed to the Teeth and High as a Kite

Eric Zemmour: Islam Targets ALL Infidels in France

Why Islam is a Racist Doctrine

Hatem and Ahmed’s Ironic Islamophobia Adventure

India says Pakistan killed two soldiers near Kashmir border, violating ceasefire

A Knife Attack Against Two Children by a Culture-Enriching Schoolboy in Hamburg

Enforcement of Sharia by the Metropolitan Police — It Doesn’t Get Any More Blatant Than This  Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

Israel ‘Examining’ Shooting Of Palestinian Journalist At Gaza Protest  No doubt with satisfaction.

Real News About Fake Nigerians in Rome

Syria says strike on military base carried out by Israeli warplanes

‘Very Close Call:’ Berlin Police Thwart Terrorist Attack On Half-Marathon

Thwarted Knife Attack at the Berlin Half Marathon

Syrian government accused of using nerve agents as death toll from Douma ‘chemical weapons attack’ rises to at least 49

Protests in Gaza are leading to many deaths and injuries among Palestinians, yet Israel has faced little criticism  Perhaps because people are coming to realize that the Palestinians are troublemakers who deserve what they get.

Syria civil war: At least two people dead after violence erupts in and around a rebel-held town near Damascus

Mother Hanane Mouhib Cut Off Her 7-Year-Old Son’s Head With A Kitchen Knife, Police Say

US Forces Attack Islamic Terrorists In Iraq, Syria And Somalia

Palestinian journalist in vest marked ‘PRESS’ shot dead by Israeli troops in Gaza

Culture-Enricher in Italy Attacks Police With a Knife and a Hammer

Five Algerians Busted For Gang Rape in Prague

At least 10 dead as clashes on the Gaza-Israel border continue

Jeremy Corbyn condemns Western ‘silence’ over Israel’s killing of at least 27 Palestinians on the Gaza border  Without mentioning, of course, that the ‘Palestinians’ were rioting and attacking Israeli troops.

Possible Vehicular Jihad in Münster

Syria civil war: ‘Dozens of civilians killed in chemical weapons attack’ on Douma in eastern Ghouta, says monitor

Campaign Pays Off: Sex Offender Allowed to Stay in Sweden

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I’m a sucker for unusual homes. I especially like houses made out of other things, like airplanes.

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Change ‘could’ to ‘will’.

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Besides having to offer more diverse services, the trade also faces increased competition in its products. Its roots are in carpentry. “You’d buy an expensive casket and the funeral would be included in the price,” remembers Dan Isard, a funeral consultant in Phoenix, Arizona. The unwritten agreement was that the dead would be treated with dignity and that families would not ask if there was an alternative to the $1,000 or $2,000 coffin, or whether embalming was really needed. The business has something in common with prostitution, reflects Dominic Akyel of the University of Cologne. It is legal (as prostitution is in some places) but taboo, “and certainly not to be discussed or haggled over”.

Once I die, I don’t care what happens to what’s left — although I must mention St. Barbara Monastery, which makes nice plain caskets for the Orthodox.

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This creeps me out.

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According to a report in the Guardian, Coleridge’s lead coffin, along with those of his wife Sara, his daughter, his son-in-law and his grandson, were discovered in the crypt of St Michael’s church in Highgate – which was built on the site of a demolished mansion.

Literary pilgrims have travelled to the church for years to pay their respects at a memorial plaque to Coleridge in the church, unaware that his remains were concealed just below the memorial slab inscribed with an epitaph he wrote himself.

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President Donald Trump has signed off on a pardon for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, who was convicted in 2007 of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements.

Good Bush ought to have done this and didn’t have the courage.

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On the Internet, people can track when you work to make their lives impossible.

Of Course He Did: Jim Acosta Floats Possibility of Impeachment in White House Briefing

Matthews Admits Media Show Trump Tape Because It’s ‘Fun,’ Trump’s ‘Wagging the Dog’ on Syria

MSNBC: Ryan Not Quitting Over Trump Will Be ‘Stain on His Political Reputation Forever’  I’m sure he loses a lot of sleep over it.

CNN’s Phil Mudd Goes Off The Rails And Calls President Trump A ‘Dirt Bag’  Don’t hold it in, tell us how you really feel.

CFPB’s Leandra English Prepared Legal Case Against Trump On Government Time, Sources Say

CNN Panelists Refer to Paul Ryan as a ‘Coward’, President Trump as ‘Insane’  They actually pay these people.

President Trump Makes An Obvious Joke About Staying In Office Longer — The Media Goes Nuts  As they do.

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Yeah. Good-looking blonde white chicks are subject to such oppression.

Now, she could be talking about black (and white) racism against white people, but somehow I doubt it.

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Obviously a white supremacist patriarchy dog whistle, but we’ll have to wait to see what sort of dog responds.

I predict: A very confused one. Or a journalist. (Sometimes it can be hard to tell those apart.)

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Because NOTHING is MORE EFFECTIVE in SAVING THE PLANET than wearing green shirts for one day.

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Because his views on gay marriage are totally relevant to being Secretary of State.

But the Witch Hunt for Heretics and Sinners knows no bounds.

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Women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

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They must have it confused with something build from Legos.

The banner, which reads “DISMANTLE WHITENESS AND MISOGYNY ON THIS CAMPUS,” was installed under a highly frequented archway near the school’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. It is intended to start a conversation about tolerance and raise awareness for “racism, sexism and xenophobia,” its masterminds say.

What they’re really raising awareness of is the degree to which college students these days are mind-numbed robots. The ‘conversation’ they want to start consists of them saying SHUT UP and everyone else complying.

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Dubbed the ‘Salwa Canal’, the project is to be funded entirely by private investors from the KSA and UAE and executed by Egyptian firms, building on their experience widening the Suez Canal.

The canal would run from Salwa in the west to Ras Abu Gamys, 37 miles (60 km) to the east. It would be more than 200 yards (200 m) wide and 50-65 feet (15-20 m) deep, and thus be able to accommodate merchant and passenger ships of up to 968 feet (295 m) long and 108 feet (33 m) wide, with a maximum draught of 40 feet (12 m). The estimated cost would be around 2.8 billion Saudi riyals (app. $747 million).

As it is a unilateral project, the canal would run entirely on KSA territory, less than a mile (about 1 km) south of the Saudi-Qatari border. This would leave a strip of Saudi territory on the new island, which the Kingdom aims to use to install a military base, and a dumping site for waste from a nuclear power plant, yet to be built.

That would be amusing.

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When you wish upon a star….

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“We”, of course, meaning the government.

Half a century ago, nuclear power was on track to out-compete fossil fuels around the globe, which would have reduced the price of electricity, the amount of harmful air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change. Then came a dramatic slowing of new construction and research into safer and more efficient nuclear reactors.

According to Australian National University researcher Peter Lang, the ’60s and ’70s saw a transition “from rapidly falling costs and accelerating deployment to rapidly rising costs and stalled deployment.” Had the initial trajectory continued, he writes in the journal Energies, nuclear-generated electricity would now be around 10 percent of its current cost.

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What happened? Anti-nuclear activism and regulation.

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When police arrived at the scene, the furious crowd threw rocks and bottles, smashing a window of the officers’ vehicle.

Most. California. Story. EVER.

Ron Unz does a thorough review.

One point he makes, which hadn’t occurred to me, is that the reason white and Asian people in California are so complacent in the face of massive illegal immigration is that those immigrants are largely displacing the resident black underclass, with the result that crime rates are dropping precipitously.

Alan Dershowitz on the Cohen raid.

• The Fourth and Sixth Amendments prohibit government officials from in any way intruding on the privacy of lawyer/client confidential rights of citizens.
• The very fact that this material is seen or read by a government official constitutes a core violation. It would be the same if the government surreptitiously recorded a confession of a penitent to a priest, or a description of symptoms by a patient to a doctor, or a discussion of their sex life between a husband and wife.
• The recourses for intrusions on the Fourth and Sixth Amendments are multifold: the victim of the intrusion can sue for damages; he or she can exclude it from use by the government in criminal or civil cases; or the victim can demand the material back. But none of these remedies undo the harm to privacy and confidentiality done to the citizen by the government’s intrusion into his private and confidential affairs.

Water Is Wet: Rubin Deems Trump-Russia Worse Than Watergate, Lobbies for Dems to Win Midterms

We Finally Arrived! Bernstein Declares ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Is Now  Bernstein wishes he had his fifteen minutes of fame back.

Zuckerberg and the Trump Exception

Joe Scarborough Accuses Trump Of Bowing To Putin Just Moments After The President Threatened To Ruin Russia’s Day With Missiles  Makes you wonder what the weather is like on his planet.

ABC: Comey Compares Trump To ‘Mob Boss’ In New Interview  If Trump were a mob boss, Comey would be sleeping with the fishes.

Cuomo Asks Albright: ‘Do You Agree’ that ‘Make America Great Again’ is a Dog Whistle?  If you hear the dog whistle, then you’re the dog.

Bernstein: FBI Raid Tried To Scare ‘The H**l Out Of’ Trump  But that trick never works.

Katie Couric Trashes ‘Insane’ Trump Era, Then Pleads for ‘Civil Discourse’  You first, Katie.

‘We Would Be Happy To Send You Talking Points’ — Sarah Sanders Reminds Jim Acosta About Trump’s Accomplishments

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How does the government screw things up? Let me count the ways….

Long before anyone was talking about the sharing economy, private pilots across the United States were already engaging in it. They used bulletin boards at general aviation airports to advertise planned trips to prospective passengers who might want to come along for the ride and share the costs of the flight.

When drivers do this, it’s called ‘carpooling’ and they get special lanes to drive in and Greenie points that cannot be traded for valuable prizes.

Pilots do that because flying is an expensive hobby. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association warns would-be aviators to be prepared to spend more than $225 an hour when all flying costs—including fuel, insurance, and airport fees—are included. Since private pilots have to log at least three takeoffs and landings every 90 days to maintain their licenses, there aren’t many viable ways to dodge those costs. So they’ve been sharing costs with passengers since at least the 1960s. For pilots, it’s a crucial method of financing a flying habit. For passengers, it’s an alternative way to reach a destination.

In the age of Uber, it has the potential to be much more. But the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stands in the way.

In 2014, the FAA shut down attempts to turn those analog billboards into digital ones, ruling that pilots who use online flight-sharing apps would be regulated as “common carriers” like commercial airlines. While that ruling doesn’t directly ban those apps, no private pilot making weekend trips in a single-engine Cessna is going to subject himself or herself to the additional licensing and certification requirements (or mandatory liability insurance) necessary to be a commercial pilot in the eyes of FAA.

In the wake of the agency’s ruling, one of those just-launched apps, FlyteNow, took the federal regulator to court. But last year the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take the case, seemingly grounding the apps for good.

Now Congress has an opportunity to overrule the FAA.

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Who could blame them? Vox is doing its best to help that along.

Funny, it always works for my wife.

The Other McCain is on the case.

A teacher has slammed her ‘disruptive’ students and their ‘rude’ parents over their lack of respect for her ‘poorly paid’ profession in a Facebook rant that’s gone viral.

Julie Marburger, 45, a mother-of-eight who works at Cedar Creek Intermediate School in Texas, said she had been pushed to quit her role as she feels as though she has ‘no way to do the job I was hired to do… teach kids.’

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Hey, these things happen.

Steve Sailer looks at stuff that proglodytes would rather he didn’t.

On the one hand, America’s most sacred value has recently become “diversity,” which is conceptualized as a sort of all-purpose supplement, our vitamin D, that makes everything better. Despite, or more likely because of, all the evidence that demographic diversity generally makes life more awkward, we are constantly lectured that diversity is a magic elixir that make all institutions, including America itself, less divisive.

On the other hand, Americans also tend to act as if the only kind of racial diversity that interests them is blackness. In America, diversity isn’t actually a variety of races, it’s being black.

For example, over the last generation, African-Americans have won a proportional share of acting Oscars, while no American-raised Mexican actor has even been nominated since the 1980s. Yet barely anybody, not even Mexican-Americans, cares much about the latter, while the media got all worked up during the #OscarsSoWhite brouhaha over a supposed black lack. To the American press, diversity demands, in effect, that blacks win all the prizes.

Look at any of his pictures and tell me I’m wrong.

UPDATE: Scott Adams apparently agrees with me.

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Los Angeles is spending $40,000 per mile painting asphalt streets white to try to prevent global warming.

I am not making this up.

95% of Univision’s ‘Fact Checks’ Target Trump, Republicans  My, what a surprise.

Matthews: Will Trump Bomb Syria to ‘Distract’ from Mueller?  Will Chris Matthews get over his TDS?

Donald Trump’s oversized coat sparks uproar

Joe Scarborough Mocks Trump’s Witch Hunt Comments And Says His Own Party Is After Him  Except that it’s not ‘his own party’, it’s the apparatchiks left over from the Obama administration and the other Deep State vehicles.

CNN Makes Excuses For FBI’s Cohen Raid And Calls Trump’s Comments ‘Dangerous’  They have no problem with the Thought Police when it’s their goons breaking down the ‘correct’ doors.

Schumer: ‘Crystal Clear To Me’ Trump Is Attacking ‘American Values, Particularly The Rule Of Law’  Projection?

Anti-Trump Comedian Arrested After Calling In Bomb Threat

CNN’s Dystopian Profile on Michael Cohen  Needless to say, they would never have dared to do this to Obama’s personal attorney. Of course, nobody would have dared to raid Obama’s personal attorney in the first place.

In Rapper Snoop Dogg’s Religion, The President is The Devil  Allow me to doubt that Snoop Dogg has any religion.

‘The View’ Pushes Panic That ‘Trump Could Turn America Into a Fascist Country’

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If you keep a Commonplace Book, as I do, these will give you some food for thought.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

Victor Davis Hanson lays out some inconvenient truth.

Gang members next door and dead dogs dumped in your yard? Don’t complain, or you’ll be called racist.

Illegal immigration has become so deeply embedded for so long within contemporary power politics, demography, and cultural change, so charged with accusations of racism, nativism, and xenophobia, that we have forgotten its intrinsic contradictions.

We saw a glimpse of reality with the recent “caravan” of Central Americans. With a strong wink and nod from their Mexican hosts, the travelers assumed an intrinsic right to march northward into the United States. Had they done so, they would have confirmed the impression, advanced during the last administration, that the border is porous and that a sovereign United States and its citizenry have scant legal right to secure it.

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Flowers, balloons and cards had been tied to a fence near 78-year-old Richard Osborn-Brooks’ home in memory of Henry Vincent, who was stabbed to death during a home intrusion at the house in south-east London.

The makeshift memorial included one card saying the 37-year-old – who had armed himself with a screwdriver for the intrusion – was “too good to walk the earth”. Another, apparently from the Vincent’s daughter, read: “You was the best…you would do anything for your family, especially us girls.”

But the tributes have now been ripped down, with burst balloons, soiled cards and ruined flowers left strewn across the pavement of South Park Crescent, Hither Green.

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Dershowitz said if Hillary Clinton or a liberal were being raided, the ACLU would speak up and defend them, but because Cohen works for Trump, they’ve purposely remained silent.

“If this were the shoe on the other foot. If this were Hillary Clinton being investigated and they went into her lawyer’s office, the ACLU would be on every television station in America jumping up and down,” Dershowitz said.

“The deafening silence of the ACLU and civil libertarians about the intrusion in the lawyer-client confidentiality is really appalling,” he added.