Can’t say he’s wrong.

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A Columbia University student was angry with her sociology professor for saying it was appropriate to use the term negro when referring to people of color while discussing the 1960s. She wrote to the professor, explaining to him that negro was an offensive and outdated term, but he failed to adjust his vocabulary. “I didn’t pay attention in class after that,” the student, Maria Martinez, told The Columbia Daily Spectator.

And there you have the entire problem with American education, if not modern education in general, in a nutshell.

Students feel perfectly entitled to stop listening to a teacher when that teacher says something with which the student disagrees. The automatic question that arises is: What the hell are you in the class for if you’re not going to pay attention to the teacher? If you’re so smart, why are you in school at all?

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Turns out that most of what you see on TV ain’t so.

NIGERIA: Religious War Looming

15 killed in suspected Boko Haram attack in Nigerian city of Maiduguri

ISIS Gunmen Slaughter Christian Family In Pakistan

Journalistic predictions of Middle Eastern politics are – mostly – an exercise in futility

Qatar allows women to do military service for first time

Two Coalition Personnel Killed In Syria

Deaths Rising As 17,000 Palestinians Clash With Israeli Military On Gaza Border

New York Times Op-Ed Takes Stand Against Islam In France

Boko Haram Won’t Free Christian Schoolgirl Who Refuses Islam

Isis ‘Beatles’ militants captured in Syria accuse government of breaking law by removing British citizenship

Israel threatens to step up military response if Gaza protests and violence continues

Vehicular Jihad in Pompeii

A Culture-Enriching Arsonist in Leipzig

Syrian Arsonist Blocked Apartment House Door So Residents Couldn’t Escape

Saudi Airstrike In Yemen Kills 14 Civilians, Including Children

Pope Mourns Deaths Of ‘The Defenseless’ After Israeli Forces Kill Hamas Terrorists

A Syrian culture-enricher was offended. Vivien got stabbed. Sometimes these things just happen.

US Airstrike Kills 5 Terrorists In Somalia

Syrian American Council Learns How to Pressure Washington

Kenyan Forces Are Allowing Money to Flow to a Terrorist Group in Somalia

Islamic Terror Attacks Thwarted in Italy

Land Day and the continued attacks of Hamas on Israel

Yemen civil war: White House urges calm after rebels retaliate for Saudi air strike that killed six children

Egyptian news editor arrested for reposting New York Times article criticising Egyptian election

Austria To Ban Headscarves At Kindergartens And Schools

The Islamization of the German Family

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I am not making this up.

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But is there really such a thing as a ‘medieval film’, and if so, what defines it? In her book, Filming the Middle Ages, Bettina Bildhauer argues that medieval films should be considered a genre unto themselves, sharing a portrayal as a time of monks, death, sexual repression and violence; this demonization has its origins in the Reformation and the Enlightenment. But the accuracy (or lack thereof) of events and scenery aside, there are three characteristics which define a medieval film; non-linear time, a visual rather than a literate culture, and an anti-individualism that Bildhauer calls ‘pre-individualism’. This is relatively broad criteria for medieval films, and encompasses everything from The Name of the Rose to Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

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Thank God for those strict gun-control laws in Britain, or the place would look like Texas.

‘Hardball’ Game Plans Trump’s Impeachment, Speculates Possible Logan Act Violations

CNN Deeply Concerned by ‘Trump Playing to His Base On Multiple Fronts’  I guess only Democrats are allowed to do that.

Joe Scarborough Living In An ‘Alternative Reality’ Where The Southern Border Has Been Secure For 50 Years [VIDEO]

Oregon Gov. Says She Will Refuse Trump’s Call To Deploy State Guardsmen To Border  Good luck with that.

Washington Post Uses Stock Downturn to Blast Trump and Tax Cuts  Hey, if they can blame him for a downturn, then they have to give him credit for the upturn. Fair is fair.

Former Obama Economic Adviser Larry Summers Compares Trump To Mussolini For Attacking Amazon  I guess he forgot how he got ThoughtPoliced out of the Presidency of Harvard.

Seth Meyers Makes Sex Joke About Melania Trump — Is This Appropriate?  Well, ya gotta admit, nobody’s going to make a sex joke about Michelle or Hillary.

Jimmy Kimmel says Donald Trump hates Amazon because ‘Jeff Bezos is actually a billionaire’  I assume that at one point Kimmel was actually funny, but it’s hard to credit.

CNN’s Psaki: Trump’s New Obama Nickname Might Have ‘Racial Undertones’  Whether they are there or not, some Never Trumper is going to find them.

Donald Trump’s Petty Authoritarianism Is Driving His Vendetta Against Amazon  tReason magazine continues to demonstrate that they are as susceptible to Red Dot Attention Deficit Disorder as any of the DemLegHump Media.

Kamala Harris Jokes About Killing Trump, Pence  Imagine the eruption if a Republican Senator had joked about killing Obama and Biden.

A Moment of Hate During Ellen’s Lovefest With Kamala Harris

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Don’t hold your breath, though. The Chicken Littles have a lucrative gig there.

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Therefore changes will have to be made to make sure that it doesn’t happen again — because TRUMP!

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It looks like a tube made of glass but it’s actually aluminum. Well, aluminum with an asterisk beside it — this is not elemental aluminum but rather a material made using it.

Scotty, you’re in there, I know you are….

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Bear in mind that the people so sure that Democrats will take over the House are the same people who were just positive that Hillary would win in a landslide.

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Scott Pruitt is the greatest-ever Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. To be fair, though, the competition was never exactly stiff. The bar was set low right from the start, under the Nixon-era administrator William Ruckelshaus.

Ruckelshaus is best known for his decision to ban the use of the insecticide DDT in the US. This, in turn, led to a near-global ban which deprived the world of its most effective prophylactic against the malarial mosquito, arguably causing millions of unnecessary deaths.

But what was perhaps most shocking about Ruckelshaus’s decision was that it ran roughshod over science and due process. At the time, the EPA had just finished a seven-month hearing under Judge Edmund Sweeney concluding in a 9,000-page document that DDT was essentially harmless to humans and wildlife. Ruckelshaus decided to go with the green activists rather than the scientific evidence and banned it anyway.

This puts into perspective the liberal media’s vendetta against the EPA’s current administrator, Trump-appointed Scott Pruitt. If you believe the New York Times, for example, Pruitt is trying to “muzzle the scientific inquiry that for years has informed sound policy at an agency he seems determined to destroy.”

Perhaps there’s an element of truth in the last part. Since Nixon founded it in 1970, the EPA has grown into a mighty behemoth with more than 17,000 employees – many of them hardcore green activists opposed to the very notion of free markets and industrial civilization.

Say what you will about how much the Democrats have damaged this country, RINOs have been almost as bad.

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West University Park is a blue pustule suburb of Houston.

Some people need to learn that Texas is not California.

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In the past, I have often enjoyed Kevin Williamson’s essays. Even when I found them occasionally incoherent and cruel, I thought it hardly my business to object to a colleague’s writing. But I gather, under changed circumstances, such deference no longer applies, given that in Williamson’s very first column at The Atlantic he attacks both me, and in a backhanded way, his former employer National Review for publishing a recent article I wrote.

I am a great fan both of Victor Davis Hanson and of Kevin Williamson, and so I found this article to be of compelling interest. It is in precisely this sort of contention between persons with whom one would ordinarily expect to agree that one’s own views are more precisely refined and delineated.

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I’m impressed.

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This explains why there are so many socialists in the world.

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Of course they will. It’s what they do.

I hope they use that as their campaign slogan.

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No wonder Hillary won the ‘popular vote’.

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Yeah, where do I go to get my share of this White Privilege I’ve been hearing so much about? Somebody else is stealing my share. Maybe Jeff Bexos.

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Researchers have revealed that Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th century lord of Kyusyu, Japan, ordered his people to produce not only wine but also opium for medical purposes.

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Perhaps they realize that Trump is more likely to respond with troops than with apologies and free stuff.

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By ‘your whiteness’ they mean, of course, ‘your sinfulness’.

Joe Scarborough Loses His Mind Over Trump’s Tweets  Not that that’s news.

New Book Alleges Trump Poses As ‘WH Official’ And Leaks His Own Stories To Press

CNN’s Analyst: Twitter Is a ‘Pacifier’ for Trump, Fox News is a ‘Propaganda Channel Now’

Tapper Cracks Joke About Trump’s ‘Cheatin’ Obama’ Jab, Then Jen Psaki Goes To ‘Very Evil Place’

Jorge Ramos Says Trump Wants To ‘Make America White Again’ — Tucker’s Response Embarrasses Him

CNN Plagiarist Zakaria Says Trump’s ‘Words Are Weightless Often’

Bharara Asks Bezos To Silence Trump

Al Sharpton Claims Trump Has ‘Re-Introduced What Dr. King’s Life Was Against’

Morning Joe Speculates On Trump’s ‘Senility’ And Whether He’s ‘Losing It’

CNN’s Burnett: Is There Any Way to Interpret Trump’s Tweets as ‘Anything Other Than Racist?’  Well, not if you’re deranged….

Faux-Feminist Director Whedon Wants Trump to ‘Die, Just Quietly Die’  “How do you regain your cred in liberal Hollywood? It’s simple: just wish for the president’s death.”

MSNBC Sees Trump ‘Playing the Race Card’ Against ‘Uppity Black Person’ Obama

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A New York judge who is on probation for a drunk driving charge will receive an $11,700 raise to her salary although she has only worked one out of the past 214 days, according to a report.

Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio will now be paid $187,200 instead of $175,500 due to a raise for all city judges across the state. The raise comes although Astacio has not been to work since Aug. 31, 2017, even though she was ordered by state Supreme Court Justice Craig Doran to return in February, Fox News reported.

Astacio, whose term is not up until 2024, was arrested in February 2016 after a state trooper found her car damaged. After a bench trial in August 2016, Astacio was found guilty of driving while intoxicated. Astacio was sentenced to three years of probation in July 2017 after violating her original probation.

Memo to self: Stay away from New York.

Niall Ferguson scratches his head.

I was raised to believe in the equal rights of all people, regardless of sex, race, creed, or any other difference. That the human past was characterized by discrimination of many kinds is not news to me. But does it really constitute progress if the proponents of diversity resort to the behavior that was previously the preserve of sexists and racists?

Publishing the names and mugshots of conference speakers is the kind of thing anti-Semites once did to condemn the “over-representation” of Jewish people in academia. Terms such as “SausageFest” belong not in civil academic discourse but on urinal walls.

What we see here is the sexism of the anti-sexists; the racism of the anti-racists. In this “Through the Looking Glass” world, diversity means ideological homogeneity. “The whitesplaining of history is over,” declared another heated article by Satia last week. Hideous Newspeak terms such as “whitesplaining” and “mansplaining” are symptoms of the degeneration of the humanities in the modern university. Never mind the facts and reason, so the argument runs, all we need to know — if we don’t like what we hear — are the sex and race of the author.

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Perhaps, when the ‘refugee caravan’ gets to the U.S., we ought to take a page from Mexico’s policy manual by putting them on trains and sending them North.

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What is the Imra Awan scandal, you ask? Read it and find out what the DemLegHump Media won’t tell you.

The Other McCain is on the case.

There are other derangement syndromes out there beside the Trump.

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Which explains why the murder rate in London is greater than that in New York.

Memo to self: Don’t go to Britain.

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Oh, I think it’s more than a theory. If you read the comments that the SJW President of YouTube made during the James Damore incident, it’s quite clear that she wouldn’t hesitate to stifle contrary views on YouTube — and I’m sure her team reflects her outlook, as all companies tend to do.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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Funny how all these shooters never turn out to be right-wing gun nuts, even though NPR did a long segment recently identifying ‘right wing extremists’ as being the biggest dangers in such situations.

Tuesday’s shootings at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno were committed by an animal rights activist apparently angry because she felt the company had censored her videos. On her website, Nasim Aghdam said YouTube “filtered my channels to keep them from getting views.” Her family confirmed that she was angry at the company….

What goes around comes around.

UPDATE: YouTube Shooting Witness Says He Wished He Had A Gun

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Nothing good.

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Well, yeah, sure, everybody sues about everything these days, but it’s not clear that they have a cause of action. The Census can pretty much ask whatever it wants to, and does. I’d dearly love to see a resistance movement of people telling them ‘We’ll tell you how many people are here, and that’s all the authority you have under the Constitution’, but I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon.

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Let he without frequent flyer miles cast the first meme.

I doubt that Nancy Pelosi has ever flown coach in her life.

Resistance man Jim Acosta yelled questions at Trump during Easter Egg Roll

MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’: Trump’s Base Will Support Him if He Keeps ‘Viscerally Hating’ Immigrants  Once again a refusal to make the necessary distinction between legal and illegal immigrants.

MSNBC Commentator: Trump ‘Basically A Dictator’  If Trump were actually a dictator, you’d be in jail.

NYT Front Page Features Child Crying At Trump’s Easter Egg Roll  No shot is too cheap….

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In 2014 President Obama welcomed the influx of unaccompanied minors crossing our southwestern border daily. I wrote about it for the Weekly Standard in “Disorder at the border.” I thought the scenario derived from “the fevered dreams of a dystopian novel.”

I was referring, of course, to Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints (1973). Mac Owens extended my thoughts in his NR column “Camp of the Saints, 2014 Style?” In the novel, Mac recalled, “liberals and Christians foolishly embrace the idea that the onslaught of migrants should be welcomed into the wealth and comfort of Europe. Indeed, the French military is directed to attack those who seek to resist the horde.”

You saw it here first.

President Obama didn’t have to go that far, but he welcomed the horde. He sought to turn the invasion to his own uses. He didn’t much defend American national sovereignty in word or in deed. In his eyes, American national sovereignty is obsolete or undeserving of the president’s unambivalent support. As becomes more evident every day, more and worse is to come when the Democrats retake the presidency.

And we’re supposed to take advice from these people on public policy?

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Sauce for the goose….

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

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Deploy that extra finger on each hand and make it count.

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Extra points if you can correctly guess how many times we’ve heard that before.

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These are just a taste of the freaky stuff you can find in judicial opinions.

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws in London, otherwise the place would look like Texas.

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The Pakistani military has increased its censorship of Pakistani media identified as potentially troublesome. It has reached the point where any criticism of the military or Islam (and especially Islamic terror groups protected by the military) is punished, often by kidnapping or murder of repeat offenders. At the same time the military is using the media to create a new image of the Pakistani military. There are more pro-military videos available to show on TV and in movies theaters. TV shows and movies that make the military look good have an easier time getting made while those that criticize the military are increasingly rare.