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The last time we looked at Brightline, Florida’s private moderate-speed rail line from Miami to West Palm Beach, it had killed three people before even opening for business. Since then it has killed five more. While you might think that people will learn not to cross the tracks in front of fast passenger trains, it turns out that freight trains on the Florida East Coast Railway (which owns Brightline) have consistently killed about two people per month for the last several years.

This helps explain why some Florida residents are vehemently opposed to Brightline’s plans to extend service to Orlando. So far, opponents have been unable to stop the train in the courts.

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All air traffic control applicants are required to complete the biographical questionnaire. Those who “pass” are deemed eligible. The questionnaire gives more points to an applicant who answers that he has not been employed in the previous three years than it does to an applicant who answers that he has been a pilot or is a veteran with an air traffic control-related military background.

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Incumbent New York Democratic Rep. Joseph Crowley, the fourth most powerful Democrat in the House, lost to his Democratic Socialist challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the New York primary on Tuesday.

Crowley lost with 42.4 percent of the vote to Ocasio-Cortez’s 57.6 percent of the vote with 88 percent of precincts reporting, according to a New York Times report.

Ocasio-Cortez, who is 28 years old, ran on a progressive platform of Medicare for all, a federal jobs guarantee and abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to her campaign site. Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and she praised the DSA, saying that she is “so honored to have their endorsement” in a June 4 tweet.

Apparently Democrats think that the way back to power is to run to the Left. Good luck with that.

UPDATE: Loser Joe Crowley: “I can’t help that I was born white”

No, but it’s your mistake to be a Democrat.

Steve Sailer’s take: Rep. Joe Crowley (D-San Juan Norte), Retire In Peace

The fourth ranking House Democrat Joe Crowley lost badly in his primary to a 28 year old Puerto Rican socialist lady who wants open borders and free handouts, which sound like quite a combination. (After all, open borders and generous welfare have worked so many wonders for Puerto Rico that practically nobody lives there anymore. So let’s extend the PR Plan to the 50 states. But do we Americans have somewhere else to go the way Puerto Ricans have Orlando? I should check into that …)

But wait, there’s more: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 28-year-old socialist Latina woman from Bronx hailed ‘future of Democrats’ after primary defeat of Joe Crowley

The message here appears to be that there is no future for white men in the Democrat Party. Let’s see how that plays out.

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

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Let’s hear it for the Party of Hate.

Paul Rahe is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

There will be midterm elections in November. It is the perfect time to separate the sheep from the goats and force the Democrats in the House of Representatives to take a stand against the species of incivility advocated by Maxine Waters … or stand in her defense. The people of this country have a right to know where the Democrats stand.

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That lays it out, raw and bleeding. These people ought not to be allowed out unsupervised.

John Hinderaker turns over a rock.

Justice Sotomayor wrote the dissent that Democrats were hoping for. It is a fiery denunciation of President Trump, but one that includes little material relevant to the case. She quotes, at great length, statements that candidate Donald Trump made during the campaign about wanting to restrict all Islamic immigration. One problem, of course, is that the order at issue doesn’t bar all Islamic immigration–it affects only a tiny percentage of it. The fact (if it is a fact) that Trump would have preferred to issue a different order, obviously can’t make the order he did issue unconstitutional.

Justice Sotomayor and Justice Ginsberg, who joined in her dissent, do not shy away from the conclusion that if another president had issued the same order, it would have been valid and constitutional. It is only Donald Trump who can’t issue this proclamation, on account of various statements he made that the justices interpret as being hostile to Islam. If Hillary Clinton had issued the same order, it would have been fine.

I therefore see the Sotomayor opinion (and the Breyer opinion, too, although it is more circumspect) as political, not legal, documents. They reflect the Democratic Party’s continuing refusal to accept the result of the 2016 election. In their view, Donald Trump isn’t really our president: he doesn’t have the powers that any other president would have.

So we have two Justices of the Supreme Court who would have made a blatantly wrong decision for partisan political purposes. I think that’s grounds for impeachment. But that’s me, and I have more testosterone in my hangnail than the whole Republican Congressional delegation.

Michelle Wolf calls out CNN Trump coverage: ‘You’re all getting paid and we’re all getting f**ked’ I gotta say, it couldn’t happen to a nicer girl (using the term loosely).

MSNBC Guest: Kicking Sarah Sanders Out Of A Restaurant Is ‘Going High’ When Trump Goes Low  He must be speaking a different dialect of English than what the rest of us use.

Hillary Clinton Suggests Trump Wants To Strip All Americans Of Due Process  More Democrat MagicMindReader delusion.

MSNBC: Harassment of Trump Officials a Tool to Avoid Genocide  For which, of course, there is no evidence. These people have a very active fantasy life.

CNN Guest: Civility Is In Decline Because People Don’t Believe Trump Is Legitimate  Which belief is delusional. Ball’s in your court, punchy.

MSNBC Meltdown: Court’s Ruling Due to Seat ‘Stolen’ From Obama  Such a bunch of sore losers I’ve never seen.

NYT Op-Ed Defends Discrimination Against Trump Administration Officials  ‘It’s not evil if we do it because TRUMP!’

We Asked Liberals If It Was OK To Kick Trump Supporters Out Of Restaurants. Their Answers Will Shock You  Well, no, it won’t — that’s the problem.

Jon Meacham: Trump Governs on ‘Grievance and White Nostalgia’ for America’s Racist Past  Uh, actually, America’s ‘racist past’ was run by Democrats. You can look it up.

Schmidt Invokes Hitler; Trump ‘Faction’ ‘Trying to Impose Cruelty’  Where do they get these so-called ‘Republican strategist’ people? If these are Republican strategists, no wonder the Republicans keep losing.

Celebs Rage at SCOTUS: Travel Ban ‘Un-American’ and ‘Islamophobic’  Of course, it is really neither.

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About half of all Border Patrol agents – 51 percent – were Hispanic or Latino at the end of Fiscal Year 2016.

Obviously they aren’t ‘real’ Hispanics.

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“An elderly woman came up to me and said that I needed to get the ‘eff’ out. And then she turned to the crowd and whipped them all into a frenzy and they were saying ‘go home Jim, CNN sucks, fake news,’ and so on. And to me, it’s sort of like, really? This is civility?”

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The brownshirts of the Left are on the march. They are encouraged by all of the other ‘activism’ that doesn’t seem to get any official discouragement.

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Colbert only wishes he had that kind of power. Colbert is more like the wizard that masquerades as the red-headed kid’s pet rat.

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Of course, if they ever get a Labour government again they’ll go right back in.

Proglodytes never accept anything as final unless their side wins, in which case it’s set in stone.

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Now that is a service dog.

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One down, several thousand to go.

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The lawsuits sought to recoup damages from sever weather from oil companies, as well as force the companies to invest into a fund that would pay for future infrastructure to protect against more severe weather and rising sea levels.

California has long had a collection of courts that are accustomed to weaken, sometimes to the point of invisibility, the traditional notion that you have to show that a particular party caused a particular injury before you can recover from them. I’m glad to see that it hasn’t infected the Federal Court system … yet.

Steve Hayward from Powerline gives us an analysis: Frivolous Climate Lawsuits Hit the Wall

Protesters Gather Outside White House Adviser Stephen Miller’s Apartment, Pass Out ‘Wanted’ Flyers

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Republican legislators grow a spine. When did that happen?

UPDATE: MSNBC Contributors Awkwardly Defend Maxine Waters’s Call for Harassment

NYT Whines About Trump’s ‘Racially Incendiary…Slur’ Against Sen. Warren: ‘Pocahontas’  Incindiary? I don’t see anybody burning. Most real native Americans laugh along with everyone else.

Poli Sci Professor Compares Sarah Sanders To Nazi Propaganda Minister

Pelosi Finds A Way To Blame Trump For Maxine Waters Mob Comments

CNN ‘New Day’ Panel: ‘King Donald Trump’ Only Wants White People Coming Into the Country

‘The View’ Cohost Tries To Defend Sarah Sanders Being Asked To Leave Red Hen  Hate is okay if our side does it.

‘View’ Defends Time Magazine Cover Lie: ‘Not Fake’ ‘It’s a Symbol’  They get the Dan Rather ‘Fake But Accurate’ award.

Maxine Waters Calls for Targeted Harassment of Trump Cabinet Officials; Nancy Pelosi Calls This Unacceptable (But Blames on Trump); Trump Calls Waters a “Low-IQ Person”  That about sums it up.

Morning Joe: Trump Voters Are Frightened of Non-White Country  I … don’t think so. That’s another proglodyte MindReaderFantasy.

George Takei Slams Trump on Immigration: ‘New Low In American History’  Lower than FDR interning the Japanese, including Takei’s family? Odd definition of ‘low’ he’s got. Odd choice of political party, too.

Author Compares Christian Trump Supporters to Salem Witch Hunters Looks to me like it’s Trump’s opponents who are doing the witch-hunting here.

CNN Does Live Shot From Trump Rally – Trump Supporters Make Them Immediately Regret It

Trump warns Maxine Waters ‘be careful what you wish for’ after she called for people to ‘harass’ administration officials  Heh.

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The robot arm is performing a peculiar kind of Sisyphean task. It hovers over a glistening pile of cooked chicken parts, dips down, and retrieves a single piece. A moment later, it swings around and places the chunk of chicken, ever so gently, into a bento box moving along a conveyor belt.

This robot, controlled by software from a San Francisco–based company called Osaro, is smarter than any you’ve seen before. The software has taught it to pick and place chicken in about five seconds—faster than your average food-processing worker. Within the year, Osaro expects its robots to find work in a Japanese food factory.

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How about that GREAT government-provided healthcare? Don’t you wish we had a system like that over here?

Feel the Bern….

Eric S. Raymond has the answer.

I dearly love classic American breakfast food. I delight in the kind of cheap hot breakfast you get at humble roadside diners. I think it’s one of the glories of our folk cuisine and will cheerfully eat it any time of the day or night.

I posted a fancy breakfast-for-two recipe a while back (Eggs a la ESR). What follows is the slightly plainer breakfast I make for myself almost every morning. It’s the stable result of a decades-long optimization process – I haven’t found a way to improve it in years.

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Let’s hear it for the Party of Hate!

If they think that they can freely indulge their penchant for violence, they will eventually pick somebody who will not put up with it. ‘Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.’

UPDATE: Decapitated Animal Left On Front Porch Of DHS Official’s Home

James Woods Issues Warning To Conservatives After Maxine Waters Rant

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A New York Times journalist at the center of questions about media ethics and how information leaked from intelligence services reached new heights Monday after a report from the paper shows the reporter had dated more than one member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Ali Watkins, currently with The times, faced scrutiny after a Department of Justice investigation revealed that she was having a romantic relationship with Senate Security staffer James Wolfe, a man around 30 years her senior, while she was working at other outlets like BuzzFeed news and Politico.

Round, round, git around, Ah git around….

While Watkins disclosed her relationship to editors in the past, her reporting on intelligence issues never received a disclaimer about any supposed conflict of interests.

The Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed on June 8 that BuzzFeed News, Watkins’ earlier employer, knew about her relationship with Wolfe but the outlet chose to never disclose this fact at the bottom of any of her reporting.

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

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Demagogues have no problem doing this because they think everyone not of the Crust won’t remember their previous position. When it comes to their supporters, of course, they’re right.

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And Maxine Waters is the ideal face for that effort.

I’m pushing for an outright ban.

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Sure! Open the border! Let everybody in! What’s the worst that could happen?

Jim Goad is fed up.

I’m not sure whether you’ve noticed, but the overwhelming percentage of online “discourse” these days is nothing loftier than grown men and women acting like schoolchildren in their bloody competition to out-care each other. Forget about policy and numbers and reason and what will work and what won’t. It’s all about whether you have a heart, and if you don’t, well, you should probably be hit with a shovel.

Welcome to the High School From Hell.

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Perhaps he acts as if he were a Democrat rather than a Republican.

Just perhaps.

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Deviancy must be hereditary. Fortunately it appears that we won’t have to suffer through three generations of imbeciles.

CONFUSION: Bernie Sanders Mixes Up Trump And Obama Over Immigration

CNN Still Using Debunked Child Immigrant Photo, Frets Trump Will Benefit  Any deception is okay, because TRUMP!

Media Go Gaga for ‘Conservative’ Calling for GOP to Lose Control of Congress  George will is a card-carrying Crustian; I’m only surprised it took this long for him to turn his coat.

Maxine Waters Says God Is On The Side Of People Driving Trump Officials From Restaurants  God must love the BitterBeerFace…. ( I thought Demagogues didn’t believe in God?)

Time Mag Head Defends Deceptive Cover, Rationalizes Dishonesty  Any dishonesty is justified by TRUMP!

Donald Trump demands immediate return of undocumented migrants as bitter debate divides America  The nerve of that guy.

Unhinged: Joe Scarborough Claims Red Cross Spinning for the White House

Rob Reiner and Wife Liken ‘Evil’ Trump to Hitler, Supporters Are ‘Hardcore Racists’

Read a review of the BBS program in The Times of London.

For anyone interested in the often fraught relationship between politics and the media, Reporting Trump’s First Year: The Fourth Estate (BBC Two) was a big draw. Documentaries exploring the internal workings of newspapers are nothing new but Liz Garbus’s series about The New York Times promised particularly rich pickings, capturing the embattled mood at the newspaper during the USA’s most turbulent political period in living memory.

I’m sure you can see the elephant in the room as well as I do.

But there was also something missing in Garbus’s account: any sense that a newspaper is made for readers, or anyone other than journalists and wonks, for instance. Or that those working for it might have political agendas of their own.

Oh, say it ain’t so….

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Looks like the Italians are hanging tough. Good for them. (I guess they’ve given up on the ‘refugee’ meme.)

‘Stranded’? I suppose it out of the question for them to, like, go back where they came from? That’s just a guess, you understand.

Lileks.

It’s summer reading time, we’re told. Apparently people who read nothing more substantial than the back of the cereal box now go to the beach with 1,000-page tomes and settle back to read while squinting and slapping bugs.

But what makes a summer book? It can’t be Russian literature, since that would call for snow. It can’t be something scientific. If you showed up at the beach with “A Brief History of Time,” everyone would kick sand in your face. “Hey, look at the loser, improvin’ his mind! Get him!”

No, it has to be a genre novel, something invariably described as a roller-coaster ride, because everyone remembers how much fun it was to read a book on a roller coaster. So let’s look at some examples of summer beach reading…

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Hint: Quite possibly.

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And the browshirts of the Left are on the march.

John Derbyshire summarizes what we know.

As of last Friday, you’re probably acquainted with the backstory behind Time magazine’s current cover picture of a weeping tot who, according to Time, had been ripped from her mother’s arms.

The true story—uncovered by the British press, of course, not by our own worthless hacks—is that the child comes from a comfortable middle-class family in Honduras; that the child’s mother long fantasized about living in the U.S.A.; and that she at last acted on her fantasy, paying six thousand dollars to people traffickers and heading north without telling her husband, who is left in Honduras with their other three children, aged fourteen to six.[ Honduran father reveals daughter was never separated from her mother, By Daniel Bates and Karen Ruiz , Daily Mail, June 23, 2018]

The husband tells us that to the best of his knowledge child and mother have not been separated … though child and father obviously have, by several hundred miles, at the mother’s initiative.

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Of course they would.

Joe Scarborough Uses Krauthammer’s Death To … Attack Trump

Orwellian Media Call for Firing of NBA Analyst Kevin McHale for Attending Trump Rally  Nobody who fails to denounce Trump may be allowed to keep a job.

Bill Maher Calls For ‘Economic Manipulation,’ Doubles Down On Recession Comments To ‘Get Rid Of Trump’

Stormy And Kathy Griffin Team Up Against President Trump

‘We Have A Lot Of Things’: Tom Arnold Says He’ll Soon Expose President Trump

Tom Arnold has Epic Meltdown During CNN Interview with Poppy Harlow

Eight Times Hollywood Used Melania to Attack President Trump

Juan Williams: Peter Fonda’s Tirade Only ‘Poorly Worded,’ Other Fox Hosts ‘Delight in It’

Sarah Sanders asked to leave restaurant because she works for Donald Trump

Ana Navarro Says Sanders’ Restaurant Ejection Is The ‘Cost To Being An Accomplice’ To Trump  I’m sure the brownshirts used the same justification.

CNN’s Cuomo Claims Trump ‘Treating Kids Like Crap,’ Links Advisor to ‘White Supremacists’

Georgetown Prof Bashes Trump As ‘Fleshly Thesaurus Of White Supremacy’ [VIDEO]

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Doing well by doing good.

Ever notice how much it costs to signal your virtue these days?

Sort of underscores that the target demographic of proglodyte ‘truth’ tends toward the 1%.

Of course, with the Times‘ subscriber base doing a shrink-wrap around the Coastal Crust, they’ve got to find the money somewhere.

Steven Hayward does some spelunking.

Ever notice how much ‘progressive humor’ is just another way of saying ‘high school backbiting’?

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Guess those gun-control laws really work.

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Pesky villagers. I bet they voted for Trump.

Victor Davis Hanson sums it up.

‘Hamartia’ is the Greek term in the Bible that is commonly translated ‘sin’. More correctly it means ‘failure’ or ‘shortcoming’ or ‘falling short’, as when a marksman misses his target.