Johnn Hinderaker at Powerline turns over a rock.

Liberals control every newspaper in America, as far as I know, except the Manchester Union Leader. They control CBS, ABC, NBC and every cable network except Fox News. They control what is left of the news magazines, and pretty much every other magazine, too. Only talk radio and the pesky internet lie outside their grasp, so that is where they seek to impose censorship.

But they have a problem: the First Amendment. The government can’t suppress conservative speech on the ground that it is “hate speech,” i.e., something that liberals don’t like. That was recently reaffirmed by a 9-0 decision of the Supreme Court.

So liberals have outsourced censorship of the internet to the tech titans of Silicon Valley.

John Derbyshire does a little mind-picking.

So there was Cuomo doing the soft-shoe shuffle. Our Governor is a sort of grandee of the Democratic Party: son of a former three-term Governor, ex-husband of a Kennedy gal.

But I should say that the phrase “Democratic Party” in my last sentence refers to the oldDemocratic Party, the party of FDR, JFK, Bill Clinton, and John Kerry. Andrew Cuomo, like those other names, is a white guy of European ancestry. Like other white guys in his party, Cuomo has the uncomfortable feeling that the ground is moving under his feet—that the Democratic Party is turning into something different from what it has been though his, and my, lifetime.

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The Progressive vision is narrow, provincial, and present-centric. The past, according to them, was bad; the present is just tolerable; the future will be radiant.

And that’s about the best summary of the proglodyte vision I’ve ever seen.

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Apparently the presence of ‘journalists’ would make ‘vulnerable populations’ feel unsafe.

The rest of us, I guess, just have to suck it up.

The Other McCain lays it out.

America’s triumph in the Cold War, which consigned the Soviet Union’s “evil empire” to the “ash heap of history,” to quote Ronald Reagan, has been followed by a sad retreat from the values that enabled freedom to prevail in that long ordeal. We are today less of a Christian nation than we were when the Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989, and part of the reason for this loss of values is that our nation’s education system is now to a shocking extent controlled by godless Commies. Although they generally do not identity themselves as such, we should be under no illusions about the ideological loyalties of our nation’s university faculties, and the Democrat-controlled public-education bureaucracy. Recall that Sen. Elizabeth Warren — who now wants to “nationalize everything,” as Kevin Williamson says — once taught at prestigious Harvard University, and this should give you a general idea of what sort of latter-day Bolsheviks are now teaching America’s impressionable youth.

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I guess the progression is now Lies, Damned Lies, and Journalism.

Trump, GOP Lands Epic Troll Of Omarosa — Using Her Own Words

Trump Adviser Responds After CNN Analyst Attacked Her For Adopting A Black Down Syndrome Child

Los Angeles mayor claims ‘thin-skinned’ Trump has done ‘plenty of racist things’  He just can’t think of any right now.

Joke’s on Brennan for failing to find humor in Trump’s remark, ‘Dilbert’ cartoonist says

Ron Reagan on Trump’s Omarosa Tweets: ‘Imbecilic Sociopath’ Is Dragging Presidency ‘Through Gutter’  Yeah, Ron Reagan is everybody’s go-to guy for political analysis.

Attorney: Former IT Aide Imran Awan Deserves No Jail Time Because Trump, Republicans Were Mean

Fake America great again

‘Morning Joe’ Guest Claims Trump Campaign Colluded With Russia But Provides No New Evidence

Christopher Steele Told DOJ’s Bruce Ohr He Was ‘Afraid They Will Be Exposed’ After Comey’s Firing

Donald Trump, the N-Word, and the GOP

The Daily Beast Claims Popular Resistance Warrior Is Actually A Pro-Trump Troll

Donald Trump feels guilty about the impact of his presidency on his wife – but overruled her furniture plans  More fake news from the New York Times.

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Sometimes the system works.

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And there it is.

Sometimes the Left is too much even for the Left:

Trevor Noah Ridicules Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok For Starting A GoFundMe Page

Stephen Colbert Calls Out Andrew Cuomo For Comments About America’s Greatness

But then things get back to normal:

Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Colorado Baker Who Refused To Bake Gender Transition Cake

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Tip #1: Stay away from bears.

If you’re camping or hiking in the woodlands of North America – particularly Canada, Alaska, Washington, Idaho, the Dakotas or Montana – or in parts of northern Europe and Asia, it’s perfectly possibly you could encounter a large bear.

So, obviously, don’t do that.

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Well, It’s Mexican food. The surprise would be if they didn’t get sick.

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

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

Don’t ever say we never have useful stuff here.

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The contest for Victim Pokemon Points gets down and dirty.

More than a dozen community groups have called on Rep. Bettie Cook Scott (D-Detroit) to apologize for a series of racial slurs sources say she used to describe her primary election opponent, Rep. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit).

Scott is alleged to have referred to Chang as “ching-chang” and “the ching-chong” to multiple voters outside polling precincts during last Tuesday’s election. She’s also said to have called one of Chang’s campaign volunteers an “immigrant,” saying “you don’t belong here” and “I want you out of my country.”

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The Chicago Tribune reported a big drop in violence in Chicago this past weekend. Forty people were shot.

This down from the weekend before, when 74 were shot.

The Tribune’s Steve Chapman rejects what he calls the “popular myth, cynically promoted by Trump and other outside critics” that Chicago is an “exceptionally dangerous city.”

Not exceptionally dangerous among Democrat-run cities, perhaps.

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Of course, that’s not what Trump said. Democrats spend most of their time beating up on straw-men because they have nothing else to live for.

Still, even though that’s not what Trump said, there are still a lot of people who believe it, and it’s going to take more than a resolution by a slime-meister like Chuck-You Schumer to convince them otherwise.

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It’s not that I’m lazy; I’ve merely chosen the contemplative life.

Not me. I’m just bone-lazy.

One of the annoyances I most dread is peeling my sfat derriere off the couch to buy a few more palettes of Funyuns and Coke Zero. Thankfully, Silicon Valley is working on a solution.

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It’s difficult to know, in such cases, whether the people who put them up to it were actually serious or whether this was just a case of extended Virtue Signaling, or even whether this was a case of Tinkerbell Effect.

You will note that none of the kids is both white and male.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Another illustration of why tattoos aren’t a good thing.

Kevin Williamson pulls back the curtain.

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has one-upped socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: She proposes to nationalize every major business in the United States of America. If successful, it would constitute the largest seizure of private property in human history.

Warren’s proposal is dishonestly called the “Accountable Capitalism Act.” Accountable to whom?you might ask. That’s a reasonable question. The answer is — as it always is — accountable to politicians, who desire to put the assets and productivity of private businesses under political discipline for their own selfish ends. It is remarkable that people who are most keenly attuned to the self-interest of CEOs and shareholders and the ways in which that self-interest influences their decisions apparently believe that members of the House, senators, presidents, regulators, Cabinet secretaries, and agency chiefs somehow are liberated from self-interest when they take office through some kind of miracle of transcendence.

Perfectly reasonable, for a socialist.

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Labor unions in the northeast U.S. are struggling to keep many of their members working because environmental policies and lawsuits are delaying energy projects already approved by the federal government.

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Coastal states are using environmental regulations to destroy American Indians’ ability to produce coal, gas and forms of energy required to lift communities up and out of poverty, according to one prominent American Indian tribe.

The Other McCain reads this stuff so that you don’t have to.

Obviously her father wasn’t a valuable parent.

A feminist professor at California State University-Fresno recently published an article lamenting that federal programs to promote “responsible fatherhood” among vulnerable men in fact perpetuate “patriarchy,” “gender norms,” and “hegemonic masculinity.”

Sounds good to me.

Professor Randles teaches sociology, reminding me of Thomas Sowell’s quote: “The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”

Very few, I’m thinking. (They’re probably busy out spreading Hegemonic Masculinity. That’s hard work.)

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Except that THERE ARE NO RISING SEA LEVELS.

Paul Mierngoff at Powerline blows the whistle.

When candidate Donald Trump rolled out his “Make America Great Again” slogan, Hillary Clinton chided him for taking the position that America isn’t great now. But today, New York governor Andrew Cuomo attacked the slogan from the opposite perspective. He said: “We’re not going to make America great again; it was never that great.” He added that America “will reach greatness when discrimination and stereotyping against women, 51 percent of our population, is gone, and every woman’s full potential is realized and unleashed and every woman is making her full contribution.”

The difference between these two takes may simply reflect the fact that Cuomo is more honest than Hillary. I’m not convinced she thinks America is great or ever was. I don’t think Barack Obama does.

However, this much is true: There was a time not very long ago when no mainstream Democrat would publicly deny that America has been great. I’m pretty sure that Andrew Cuomo’s father, Mario Cuomo, never denied it and would have appalled to hear any Democrat, and certainly his son, make such a declaration.

Steve Sailer covers what the American media won’t.

Melbourne, Australia now has an “African gangs” problems because it’s the Current Year so of course Melbourne has an African gangs problem. Why wouldn’t it? In fact, Melbourne has two African gangs problems: the African gangs of street criminals themselves, and, far worse, the Australians who have noticed and even talked about this new problem that the politicians have imported for them to endure.

Omarosa’s Trump ‘N-Word’ Narrative Is Falling Apart, Where Are The Tapes?!

Don Lemon Reveals The Sad Reality About Trump’s Alleged ‘N-Word’ Tape

Maxine’s Birthday Wish: Waters Says She Wants Trump ‘Removed From Office’

Joe Scarborough Claims Robert Mueller Would Beat Donald Trump In An Electoral Landslide  Joe has a rich fantasy life.

CNN’s Don Lemon Says Tape Of Trump Using The N-Word ‘Wouldn’t Change Anything’  He’s right — it wouldn’t. They’d call him a racist regardless.

NBC’s Brian Williams Runs Fake News Segment About Trump And Dogs  Scraaape that barrel.

Maxine Waters’ Birthday Wish: Trump’s Impeachment  My wish for her birthday: Her institutionalization.

Jim Carrey Goes On Unhinged Rant Against Trump And Supporters: ‘It’s Just The Worst Of Us ‘  Which one was he, Dumb or Dumber? I always forget.

Trump Foes Assail Mexican Restaurant Chain After Jeff Sessions Eats There

Dominique Prynne: Dateline DC

Omarosa’s Close Friend Just Blew A Gaping Hole In Her Claim That Trump Used The N-Word

Michael Moore Attacks Trump As A ‘Tyrant, Liar, Racist’ In Movie Poster For ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ [PHOTOS]

Politico Claims Trump, Backers Don’t Read Newspapers  They say that like it was a bad thing.

Lawrence O’Donnell Claims Donald Trump Showed Him Mercy ‘Because I’m White’

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Grade inflation, the ‘puff pastry’ of modern education.

The A-levels are the tests Brits take to get into university. British secondary education stops at 16, what American’s would call 10th grade; ‘school leaving certificate’ used to be called O-levels and is now called GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education). Those going on to college take two more years (called Sixth Form) and then take A-levels. Like the SAT or ACT, your A-level performance pretty much determines how spiff a university you can get into.

Education in the U.K. is much more centralized and government-controlled than in the U.S.

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It could happen. The Nanny State never sleeps.

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Really, I don’t know of anyone who looks to MSNBC for accuracy; do you?

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Or their parents, too, obviously.

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Really, impeachment is just so five minutes ago.

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Long overdue.

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He looks like what he is — a guy in a dress with long hair.

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In modern industrial societies, Marx’s claim that the major division would be among capitalists who control the means of production and proletarians without productive assets other than their own labor has proven to be influential and useful. In these pages (Summer 2017), I have argued that the Marxist conception was usefully modified by James Burnham and others, for whom a bureaucratic, managerial group in both the private and public sectors displaced an older, owner-operator-investor bourgeoisie. In this view, modern advanced industrial societies are divided chiefly among two classes. One is a substantial managerial-professional minority, as large as 30 percent or so if all recipients of college degrees are included in it, but arguably no more than the top 10 or 15 percent. The other is the working class, increasingly working in the nontraded domestic service sector as manufacturing jobs are eliminated by a combination of offshoring and automation.

But a vocation, or a constellation of related vocations, is not in itself a class, any more than an income category is. In ordinary discourse, one is born into a class. What turns a mere vocation or income or wealth category into a class is a high degree of persistence of its membership across generations. The source of hereditary class advantage need not be formal legal privileges, or even inherited wealth; it can also take the form of attitudes, skills, and connections bequeathed by parents to their children.

Thus the best definition of a class, I would suggest, is this: a class is a group of families within a society whose members are disproportionately likely to work in certain vocations and also disproportionately likely to marry and have children with one another. This definition unites the functional and nepotistic aspects of class.

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Plenty of room in Texas, y’all.

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

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You know, as you do.

Certainly, if I lived in Connecticut I’d spend a lot of time in liquor stores.

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Well, Somali, anyway. I’ve seen no evidence that she considers herself any sort of an American.

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I suspect they feel safer than white boys feel in black neighborhoods.

Steve Sailer takes a look at the Party of Hate.

One reason the Democrats keep ancient warhorses like Nancy Pelosi around is to forestall the Diverse Party’s upcoming internal war of all against all over who gets the spoils. Now, elderly black Congressional leader Jim Clyburn is putting himself forward as a potential Speaker of the House, cleverly positioning himself as reassuring to non-blacks as being too old to launch the Democratic Party’s upcoming internal race war, but also as galvanizing to blacks by promising to help position younger blacks to win the Race War for Control of the Democratic Party after his time.

Trump Campaign Fires Back On Omarosa, Says She Asked Them For A Job After Getting Fired  Anybody who would hire this ***** chick is asking for a civil-rights debacle.  Ellen Pao would be a safer bet.

Omarosa Offers Mueller A Chance To Review Her Tapes, Thinks Trump Should Be Impeached

Dem Desperation Dialed to 11

Tucker Carlson And Mark Steyn Laugh Uncontrollably Over The Thought Of ‘President Porn Lawyer’ Avenatti

Donald Trump hits back after Omarosa’s secret recording and says n-word isn’t ‘in my vocabulary’

Trump rages at Omarosa and claims TV producer called him to say there are ‘NO TAPES’ of him using the N-word

Wolf Blitzer Says Trump’s Tough Talk Against The Media Is ‘Dangerous’ And Makes Him ‘Very Mad’

Martha MacCallum Won’t Let Never-Trumper Squirm Away From Questions About The Title Of His Anti-Trump Book

Joe Scarborough Predicts Reckoning For Republican Party Once Trump Is Out Of Office: ‘Much To Answer For’  Yeah, Trump is going to be an impossible act to follow.

The Trump Tower meeting revisited

CNN Contributor Backhandedly Defends The White House, Saying Black People Don’t Want To Work There  Yeah, they might actually have to do some work rather than getting by on their skin color as they do in Congress.

Al Gore Strays From Anti-Trump Narrative While Talking About White House’s Climate Record

Former VP Al Gore’s Office Couldn’t Wait To Get Rid Of Omarosa, Too

REPORT: Trump Campaign Files Charges Against Omarosa For Violating NDA

CNN Jeffrey Toobin Shocked By Trump’s Steady Poll Numbers Amid Russia Probe

Harvard Scholar Calls for Blacklisting Trump Officials  I’d like to see a Trump official call for blacklisting Harvard professors.

CNN Slams Trump For Deviating from the “Obama Standard” and Calling a Terrorist Attack a Terrorist Attack  Yeah, the nerve of that guy, doing things differently than The Magic Negro.

The Turkey-Erdogan crisis is the first geopolitical disaster in a while that isn’t actually Trump’s fault

Massachusetts Mayor Boycotts Sam Adams Beer … Because of Trump  Good. Leaves more for the rest of us.

CNN Drags Trump For Calling London Attack ‘Terrorism’ — Hours After AP Reported It  Looks as if somebody didn’t get the memo.

Pearl Jam Poster Features Dead Donald Trump Being Picked Apart By Eagle

Afternoon Mirror: Reporter Says Trump Is In A Nickname Slump  But his RBI record is still gold.

Times Claims Trump Ruined Baseball Caps  No, the people who decided to wear them backwards ruined them.

White House can’t ‘guarantee’ there is no tape of Trump using the n-word  That’s because you can’t prove a negative. Let them ask Obama whether he’s ever used the ‘n-word’ and see what they get.

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So much for the Special Relationship.

Note to self: Avoid New York.