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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is making plans to move the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) out of Washington, D.C., to a city in the West.

Excellent move. With modern technology, there is no reason for all of these Federal bureaucrats to work in D.C.

I’m thinking that Helena, Montana, would be a good location for BLM.

Flint, Michigan, would be appropriate for the EPA.

Ace of Spades nails it.

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Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj rejected housing illegal immigrants through the European Union’s migrant center plan.

“We are absolutely opposed to Europe officially wanting us to accommodate illegal immigrants the EU does not want to take in,” Sarraj said in an interview with German news publication Bild, according to Reuters.

Well, then, why don’t they stop them at the Libyan border? For the same reason Mexico doesn’t, I suspect.

The plan was proposed by Italy in June to calm tensions between western European countries, who are divided over how to process and handle the large number of people seeking asylum and entering as refugees.

Uh, how about putting them on a plane, landing the plane in Libya somewhere, and kicking them out the door?

Scott Johnson at Powerline finds some hidden gems.

I’m not a big fan of Twitter but there are some people who can play it like a guitar.

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That assumes that he actually had track of those ‘refugees’ in the first place, and I doubt that.

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The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) picked up Ibraheem Musaibli, a 28-year-old man from Dearborn, Michigan, earlier this month as he was attempting to flee the Middle Euphrates River Valley, The New York Times reported Thursday. Musaibli is expected to be brought to the U.S., along with Samantha Elhassani, an Indiana woman whose husband joined ISIS, for prosecution.

Yeah, ‘Ibraheem Musaibli’ sure says MICHIGAN MAN to me.

No, the fact that he comes from Dearbornistan doesn’t make him a ‘Michigan man’.

That’s certainly my idea of Paradise.

Welcome to the Islamic People’s Republic of Amsterdam

Assad Retakes City Where Syrian Uprising Was Born Seven Years Ago

Isis supporter who called for terror attacks on Prince George’s school jailed for life

Province Promises No More Public Sharia Caning, Promptly Canes 15 People Publicly

US-led coalition cannot confirm who was behind air strike in Syria which left at least 54 dead

Culture-Enricher Attacked His Ex With an Ax, But Didn’t Intend to Kill Her — So His Sentence Is Reduced

15-Year-Old Palestinian Shot To Death By Israeli Forces Near The Gaza Strip  Throwing rocks at people with guns will often have unfortunate consequences.

Pakistan bombing: At least 128 killed in explosion ahead of elections

Israel pummels Gaza with biggest daytime bombardment against Hamas since 2014 war

Trump protest news: Thousands demonstrate as US president plays golf in Scotland  An equitable division of labor.

Trump UK visit: Thousands take part in third day of protests as president golfs after wreaking diplomatic havoc  Mission accomplished.

Pakistan bombing: Appeal for blood donations after 128 killed and hundreds injured

Israel Trades Fire With Palestinian Militants As Gaza Protests Rage On  ‘If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.’ — The Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, Portion 72, Verse 1.

Gaza air strikes: Israel launches heaviest barrage since 2014 war amid militant rocket attacks

Police clash with protesters in Basra as unrest sweeps neglected sourthern cities of Iraq

Rebels and families begin evacuating cradle of Syria uprising after surrender deal

Isis’s genocidal crimes demand justice – but how can it be done?  Answer: It can’t.

Anti-Iran protests rock southern Iraq

SOMALIA: Singing, Dancing And Stealing

Civilian Death Toll At Record High In Afghanistan  The biggest threat to Muslims is other Muslims.

Rasmus Paludan Attacked by Culture-Enrichers in Vollsmose

Israeli rockets strike military position near Aleppo in Syria

Al-Shabaab: Who are the East African jihadi group and what are their goals?

Iraq protests: Three killed as oil-rich southern regions rage over joblessness

IDF: Hamas Plans to Strike Israel with Exploding Drones

Death Toll In Election Bombing In Pakistan Continues To Climb To 149, Making Attack Second Deadliest In The Country’s History

Murderous Gang-Bangers Get a Slap on the Wrist While Sweden Descends into Chaos

ISIS And Taliban Jihadists Are Blowing Each Other Apart In Afghanistan

US-Backed Iraqi Forces Drive ISIS Out Of Mountain Hideout

Israeli Forces Tell Syrians At Border To Turn Around

Jon Meacham Suggests Trump Committed Treason at Helsinki Summit

Critics say Turkish government using US mosques to play politics, spy on foes  My, what a surprise.

Culture-Enriching Murder in Northern Norway

Boko Haram: Who are the Nigerian jihadist insurgents and how are they funded?

Fatwa issued against woman who defied Muslim clerics over ‘triple talaq’ instant divorce

The Taliban Has Apparently Decided To Stop Bombing Afghan Civilians

Chinese authorities accused of cutting Uighur dresses in latest crackdown on Muslim minority

Iraq protests: Demonstrators blame ‘bad government, bad roads, bad weather, bad people’

US mayor apologies after Muslim children kicked out of swimming pool over religious dress

Syrians waving white flags turned away from Israeli border as they flee regime offensive

Libya sinks into poverty as the oil money disappears into foreign bank accounts

Abbas Amir-Entezam: Iranian politician who went from deputy prime minister to longest-suffering political prisoner

Spanish charity accuses Libyan coastguard of leaving a woman and toddler to die in the Mediterranean

Home Office had information on Rotherham grooming gangs in 2002 but failed to act, review finds

Isis fanatic who planned to bomb Downing Street and behead Theresa May convicted  C’mon, who hasn’t wanted to do that?

Iran-Backed Militants Attack Aramco Refinery In Riyadh With Drone

Gaza’s ‘fire kite’ flyers threaten more attacks as Israel tightens blockade

IRAN: Fear And Factionalism At The Top

Syrian rebels surrender in Quneitra as Assad continues advance in south

Terror Plot Reveals Iran Is More Afraid of Democratic Opposition Than European Policy  And rightly so, I should think.

Swedish Politician Fantasizes About Deporting Jews From Israel

Syrian Attempts Rape, Gets Six Months. Then Violence and Mayhem — Five Months. And Still No Deportation.

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Ethnic cleansing proceeds in South Africa, with black politicians marching down the same road that turned Zimbabwe into a failed state.

Matthews Blasts ‘Kremlin-Style’ WH Press Office; Appears to Attack FNC’s Roberts for Not Backing Acosta  Not accustomed to losing.

Journalists come together in an act of solidarity against hostile White House  No mention of the fact that the ‘journalists’ were hostile first.

Flattened President Trump Graces New Cover Of The New Yorker

The ‘No’ (Mis)Heard Around The World ‘I don’t want to work, I just want to bang on the press all day….’

The New TIME Magazine Cover Will Make You Cringe  Uh, not really news.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper Tries To Justify Calling Trump ‘Disgraceful’ On Colbert  I’m surprised he even bothers.

James Comey’s cheerleading for Democrats plays into Trump’s hands

The USS Trump! High Adventures on Rough Seas!

CNN’s ‘New Day’ Turns To James Clapper To Push Putin Blackmail Theory

Trump Comes Up When Searching ‘Idiot’ On Google Because Protesters Gamed The Algorithm, Says Report

Samantha Bee Orders Women to ‘Get Maximum Hysterical’ Over Kavanaugh  There she goes, promoting stereotypes.

Rand Paul: ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Has Infiltrated The Senate  He’s rather late to the party.

Whoopi Snaps After Judge Jeanine Accuses Her of Suffering From ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’  Thereby proving the point.

New Trump Foundation investigation ‘may yield criminal charges against first family’  Then again, it may not. But they wanted to be first to put the innuendo in play. It’s what they do.

US Supreme Court Could Intervene In Youths’ Climate Change Lawsuit Against Trump  What responsibility Trump could possibly have for ‘climate change’ — beyond TRUMP! — is difficult to discern, but connection to reality has never really mattered for SJW lawsuits.

CNN Finally Finds Former Trump Supporter Who Regrets Her Vote  Evidently it took them a while.

Watch Liz Warren Yell At Trump Nominee For Being In The Trump Administration  It just offends them that everybody doesn’t think the way they do. How dare they!

Protestors hold candlelit vigil for democracy outside White House  Since they want to overturn a valid election, I guess they know whereof they speak.

‘Give Me a Break!’ Matthews Brutally Mocks Calls by Anti-Trump Republicans to Vote for Dems

Obsessed: CNN Devotes Over 7 Hours to Trump’s Summit ‘Treason’  CNN has more light-skinned Negroes than I’ve seen anywhere outside of a Jack & Jill convention.

George Will Helps MSNBC Liberals Push Image of Putin Day Care for ‘Baby Trump’

News Media Find Trump Guilty of Treason  I’m sure the conviction is mutual.

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You diverge from the Narrative, they’ll hurt you.

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I’m surprised he didn’t also attack the 1%, of which he and his worshippers are so large a part.

“Right now, I’m actually surprised by how much money I got,” Obama said of the more than $20 million he earned between 2005 and 2016.

I am too. Not bad for an affirmative-action hire.

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Sure, open the borders! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

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Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Oysters have always been on my ‘eat only if the alternative is death’ list. I’m told they taste like cold snot and I can well believe it.

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Rather an eccentric position for a Jew. I guess Virtue Signalling knows no intellectual bounds.

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Low unemployment and booming economy just might have that effect.

They are right to worry.

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This is very curious.

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Obviously not everyone in Oregon is a Social Justice Warrior. I hadn’t realized that they’d been 31 years a scofflaw state.

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Reality is what sticks around even when you quit believing in it.

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The ‘problem’ with MS-13 is the same as the ‘problem’ of the Yakuza in Japan: Both groups would effectively disappear if you just rounded up everyone with their distinctive tattoos and executed them. The reason the problem is a problem is that the people in charge aren’t willing to take the obvious action that would solve the problem.

This is a problem that all authorities, such as governments, have. Authorities have to abide by the rules; rule-breakers don’t feel obliged to do that. So long as the authority self-constrains by abiding by the rules, they are at a disadvantage.

This is why authoritarian and totalitarian regimes are always so apparently more orderly than others. Those in control of the regime only abide by the rules when they judge that it is to their advantage to do so. In the normal course of events, that is the case; most people are happier living under an authority that obeys the rules. If this rule-breaking is only indulged in when the group faces an existential threat by non-regime rule-breakers (‘criminals’), then most people will wring their hands and privately breathe a sigh of relief.

The difficulty arises when those in control of the regime don’t restrict themselves to breaking the rules only in the face of an existential threat, but whenever they feel like it; and that destabilizes the group as badly as, if not more so, than the existential-threat-group. Both the Nazis and the Communists run into this problem damned near every time. This is what gives rise to the term ‘kleptocracy’, which more often than not characterizes such regimes.

This is not a new problem — the Roman Republic died because there was no effective way to deal with an existential internal political threat other than by obviously breaking the rules; and the Roman Empire died  because this system eventually degenerated into one where the rules were defined as ‘whatever the people in charge want them to be’ (under the rationalization salus populi suprema lex, which begs the question of who defines what ‘salus’ means).

Modern societies try to avoid this problem through some combination of democracy and ‘checks & balances’. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn’t. Alexander Pope summed it up: ‘For forms of government, let fools contest; That which is best administered is best.’ No matter what the legal structure might be, if the people in charge of enforcing the rules just routinely ignore the rules, then you might just as well not have any rules, because the result is the same. So the key factor is the attitude of the people enforcing the rules. And that’s a cultural matter.

So the key is culture. My chief objection to Social Justice Warriors and their fellow travelers is that they feel perfectly justified in ignoring the rules when doing so helps them to attain their utopian end-state; they are the poster children for ‘the end justifies the means’. This is at odds with traditional American culture. That’s why it is perfectly accurate to characterize Social Justice Warriors as both unAmerican and anti-American (although of course they would deny it and really really feel offended by it, although distinguishing it from the myriad other things by which they are really really offended is often difficult).

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Can you spell L-A-W-S-U-I-T? I’m sure you can.

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Guess it’s not that much of a problem, huh. Wonder why all the Chicken Littles are running around and shouting ‘OMG WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!’.

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“There are not two sides.”

That’s not true, but it’s a quote from the editor in chief of BuzzFeed. And it could be the motto for all activists determined to make sure they’re the only voice in the room on marriage, life, education, family and politics.

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But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just bear that in mind.

Absolutely Nothing.

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San Francisco residents seem to be divided into four broad classes, or perhaps even castes:

• The Inner Party of venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs who run the tech machine that is the engine of the city’s economy.
• The Outer Party of skilled technicians, operations people, and marketers that keep the trains belonging to the Inner Party running on time. They are paid well, but they’re still essentially living middle-class lives—or what lives the middle class used to have.
• The Service Class in the “gig economy.” In the past, computers filled hard-for-humans gaps in a human value chain. Now humans fill hard-for-software gaps in a software value chain. These are the jobs that AI hasn’t managed to eliminate yet, where humans are expendable cogs in an automated machine: Uber drivers, Instacart shoppers, TaskRabbit manual labor, etc.
• Lastly, there’s the Untouchable class of the homeless, drug addicted, and/or criminal. These people live at the ever-growing margins: the tent cities and areas of hopeless urban blight. The Inner Party doesn’t even see them, the Outer Party ignores them, and the Service Class eyes them warily; after all, they could end up there.

This is the society that the Democrats are striving to achieve. California is a harbinger of our future, if we let it.

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The Palestinian Authority has long paid bounties to the families of terrorists who murder Israelis. Israel has been trying to deal with this incitement to mass murder for quite a while. Recently, Israel passed a law under which amounts paid by the PA to the families of convicted and deceased terrorists will be deducted from tax collections remitted by Israel to the PA.

Seems reasonable. But in this video, Hassan abd Rabbo, Spokesman for the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, explains that the Israeli law is an outrage because it infringes on the Palestinians’ natural right to murder Jews. Payments to the families of terrorists, he says, will never stop. Paying terrorists and the families of terrorists is a “sacred national obligation of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership.”

Joe Scarborough Questions Trump’s Loyalty To America, Compares Russian Hacking To 9/11 Except for all of the dead bodies, of course. Joe Scarborough is a moron.

Abdul-Jabbar: Trump to Blame for Social Justice Movie Villains  Must be the conservative lock on Hollywood.

Maria Bartiromo Laments ‘Low Point’ Of Donald Trump’s Presidency

Michael Moore Calls For ’25th Amendment’ To Be Invoked For Trump And America’s Safety Following Putin Meeting

MSNBC Guest Compares Helsinki To 9/11, Pearl Harbor  Except for all the bodies, of course. They always forget that.

Behar: Trump’s Russia Rhetoric As Bad As Denying Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor  Except for all the bodies, of course. This must be the new Talking Point.

Joy Behar: Trump Questioning Intel Community On Russian Meddling ‘Rises To The Level Of Treason’  Wow, that’s news.

Christian Slater Slams Trump As An ‘Ass****’ For Summit With Putin  Yeah, actors are really the people I go to for advice on foreign policy.

‘Morning Joe’ Brings On Economist To Discuss Trump’s Mental State  Up next: A psychologist to discuss the Tax Cut.

President Trump Goes After ‘Fake News Media’ For Coverage On Press Conference With Putin

CNN Analyst: Yes, There Are Americans ‘Stupid’ Enough to Believe Trump’s Excuse  There are even American’s stupid enough to believe CNN’s fake news. Sad but true.

CNN Historian: What Trump Did Was ‘Clearly Treasonous’, Flashed Guilt

Useless Idiots: The Anti-Trump Protests in London

EU signs biggest ever trade deal and attacks Donald Trump

Sen. Blumenthal Tries To Pin Obama’s Weakness On Trump, CNN Anchor Lets It Go

Dem Senator: ‘We Are In A 9/11 National Emergency’  Except for the bodies, of course.

The Helsinki Hysteria

Occupy ICE Protesters Behead Trump Piñata With Guillotine  ‘Occupy ICE’? Is English not these people’s first language?

NYT Mag Let’s Berserk Anti-Trump Tennis/Wine Writer Profile Lefty Soros  Sure, that makes perfect sense.

MSNBC’s Barnicle: Rewrite the Constitution and Remove Trump Now  They get paid for this dreck.

Donald Trump more likely to be impeached after Helsinki summit with Putin, bookmaker says  Yeah, the odds increased from 3% to 5%. That’s news.

Trump’s fawning performance in Helsinki has only lent credence to the worst theories about him  To those who don’t understand how Trump operates.

This photograph of Trump’s notes during his Russia backtrack reveals something worrying  The Kremlinology of anti-Trump. (I wonder where all those guys went….)

‘Totally Out Of Control’ — Sarah Sanders Calls Out The Media For Reporting Literal Fake News

Trump’s ‘mind control superpower’ is stopping angry Republicans speaking out over Helsinki summit, says top DC pundit  Because obviously — OBVIOUSLY! — even Republicans MUST agree with Top DC Pundits about Trump. Obviously. So there must be something else going on here. As Sherlock Holmes said, when you remove the impossible, then what remains, however unlikely, must be the truth. Obviously.

More Universities Adopt Guide On Anti-Oppression And Coping With Trump As President Flinch, little snowflake, shiver, shiver….

‘Elders of the Internet’ apologise for social media, recommend Trump filters to fix it

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There’s a thought for you: What would our child mortality rate look like if we were honest and included all of the aborted babies? What would that do to our life expectancy figures?

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Wow. New emojis. What a milestone. I can barely restrain my enthusiasm.

Steve Sailer spots the enemy coming over the hill.

‘Becky’ seems to be the sort of racial stereotype-slur that you or I would be called a RAAAAAACIST if we did the same thing to a black person — or even a soi-disant black person like Kamala Harris or Eric Holder.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care system? Don’t you wish we had one like that over here?

Feel the Bern….

(The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. When your country starts out rich, it just takes longer, but eventually you get there.)

UPDATE: Thousands more patients made to ‘beg for treatment’ as NHS rations hip operations, investigation finds

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The degeneration continues.

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But you knew that.

Whenever the government establishes a program, whether it be legitimate, like military procurement, or a boondoggle, like half of the Politically Correct fads these days, it’s like a dinner bell for those who specialize in gaming the system to profit from cheating the taxpayer. They do it for the same reason that Willy Sutton robbed banks: Because that’s where the money is, and a plentiful potful of money it is. They come out of the air like midges after dark, and most of them get away with it because no bureaucrat is as careful with YOUR money as he would be with his own, or with that of an employer would can (and would) fire him for what bureaucrats get away with daily.

It is a sad world that we live in.

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Uh, yeah. Sure, I believe that.

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

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Guess he wasn’t really a Republican after all.

What a shock.

I’m waiting for him to explain how putting Democrats in control of the government makes things better from any kind of Republican point of view.

Not, however, holding my breath.

Let me know when he quits screaming and stomping his feet.

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Down the Memory Hole it goes. All hail the Ministry of Truth.

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That’s a no-brainer.

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Well, that explains a lot.

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The problem with being a radical is that there is always somebody more radical than you.

UPDATE: Jeremy Corbyn called ‘f****** racist and antisemite’ by Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge

UPDATE: Media Yawn as Top Liberal Leader in Europe Denounced as Jew-Hating Bigot

Michelle Malkin points out the obvious.

costs a pretty penny to earn a diploma in stupid.

The annual list price to attend Boston University — including tuition, fees, room and board — currently rounds out to $70,000. To acquire a degree in economics from this tony institution of higher learning, an undergrad must complete courses in calculus, microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis, empirical economics, statistics and assorted electives.

Four years, 52 credits and nearly $300,000 later, the school promises that BU economics majors will depart “with a firm understanding of core microeconomic and macroeconomic theory” and the “empirical skills that are essential to applying economic reasoning in our increasingly data-driven world.”

How, then, to explain the abject economic illiteracy of meteoric media darling and democratic socialist “political rock star” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? The 28-year-old BU alumna graduated with an economics and international relations degree in 2011.

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Well, that’s certainly a relief. We can all rest easy now, right?

(Would it be cynical to suggest that it’s the ‘artificial intelligence experts’ who haven’t made such a promise that we have to worry about? ‘Why, what artificial intelligence experts are those?’ ‘Uh, the ones who think it would be cool or profitable to build autonomous machines that can kill everyone. Those guys.’)

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And watch the video for Wolf Blitzer melt down into full Trump Derangement Syndrome.

I’m surprised that the Senator, who is a physician, didn’t order him to be sedated.

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Duh.

The findings of a new peer-reviewed study suggest that college masculinity programs may be “damaging” to the romantic prospects of male students.

Oh, ya think?

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Tom Smith has a useful notion: ‘Someone should do a study of how the demographics of top universities is falling into line with those of the Democratic party.’

That’s actually very astute. What do we see at Harvard/Yale/Princeton these days?

• Children of the Crust, like Malia Obama.
• Future Crustians In Training to make up the Diversity Pokemon Points, like most of the affirmative-action admits.
• Kids whose major accomplishment in high school was Social Justice Warrior activity.
• Enough semi-competent jocks to placate the alumni and keep the money rolling in.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just keep that in mind.

Absolutely nothing.

Oh, except maybe treason….

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Central European nations, who actually have experience with communist oppression, aren’t buying what the trans-national ‘progressives’ are selling.