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I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google, but this looks like an interesting contender.

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Notwithstanding the nature of Mr. Trump’s treatment of Mr. Brennan, the gravest threats to free speech in democratic countries now have little or nothing to do with government action (which is what Constitutions serve to restrain). And with few exceptions, public officials now sit as bystanders to the fight over who can say what.

Communists and other totalitarians (such as Muslims) have long recognized that the most secure form of imprisonment is when the prisoner imprisons himself, what Orwell characterized as the avoidance of CrimeThink. Modern technology has allowed political actors to cut free from formal government and work their will through socialization structures. This is why the ‘long march through the institutions’ that Marxists have pursued so successfully.

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Which is a lie. The improvements were ordered when Susan Rice was ambassador; government being government, it took them two years to show up.

This sort of crap is why people don’t trust the media, not name-calling by Trump.

UPDATE: NYT Issues Correction On Nikki Haley Curtain Story  Don’t hold your breath waiting for all of the other Usual Suspects to raise their hands and say ‘My Bad’.

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How long before Trump is blamed for the looting? Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen….

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Just as Obama is due the credit for economic prosperity after he left office, Nikki Haley is responsible for wasteful government spending that was arranged  before she took office. See how that works?

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Wouldn’t that be nice?

Here’s How Safe We Are 17 Years After 9/11

Trump Shuts Down the Palestinians, One Step at a Time

Anjem Choudary remains ‘genuinely dangerous’ ahead of imminent release, says prisons minister

Notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary to be released from prison despite remaining ‘genuinely dangerous’

Incinerated by a Syrian Culture-Enricher

A Swedish Court Overturned A Deportation Sentence For A Palestinian Man Who Tried To Burn Down A Synagogue

US-Backed Forces Launch Assault Against Final ISIS Stronghold In Eastern Syria

China installing QR codes on Uighur Muslim homes as part of mass security crackdown

12 dead in Basra as rockets fired at airport and Iranian consulate torched

Egypt sentences photographer to jail and hands down 75 Muslim Brotherhood death sentences 

The Murderer of Mia in Kandel Will Serve at Most Eight Years in Prison

Iraqi protesters torch Iran’s embassy in Basra

Muslims to be Fined for Illegal Street Prayers in Clichy  Good luck with that.

Egypt sentences 75 protesters to death after demonstrations where 900 were people killed by security services

At least four Syrian civilians killed as air strikes stepped up in rebel stronghold Idlib

The Cultural Enrichment of Boostedt, Part 2

Germany pleads for calm as two Afghans detained over death of 22-year-old man   Good luck with that.

Suicide Bomber Kills 7 Amidst Massive Demonstrations In Kabul

SOMALIA: Murderous Mayhem As A Career Choice

ISNA Speaker Decries Focus on Palestinian Incitement as “a Form of Islamophobia”

Saudi Arabia arrests man who filmed video of himself eating breakfast with female colleague

Two killed in suspected Islamic State suicide bombing of Libya oil company headquarters

Unarmed police officers ran for their lives as Khalid Masood went on Westminster knife rampage, CCTV footage reveals

Pakistan’s female vaccinating team moves from polio to measles  Wonder whether they’ll still be targeted by Muslim extremists.

Setback for Houthis as Yemeni government forces seize key road

The Circus of Resistance  Plenty of clowns.

Debra Messing Tells Susan Sarandon To ‘STFU’ After She Credits Trump With More Woman Running For Office

Michael Moore: ‘It’s Possible’ Trump Is The Last U.S. President Ever

Washington Post: President Trump “is complicit” in Hurricane Florence Because Climate Change

‘Deeply Offensive’: Leaked Videos Show Google Leadership Reacting To Trump’s Victory

Google denies left-wing bias after leaked clip of co-founder discussing Trump

Debra Messing tells Susan Sarandon to ‘shut the f*** up’ about Trump

Google accused of anti-Trump bias after leaked video of co-founder Sergey Brin emerges

JP Morgan CEO Claims He Could Beat Trump — Trump Ridicules Him

Trump Challenges Puerto Rico Death Toll Estimates  The ‘3000 dead’ figure was determined, not by counting bodies on the ground, but by comparing deaths after the hurricane to the number of deaths expected without the hurricane, i.e. the same way that climatistas determine that THE SEAS ARE RISING without actually measuring.

Canadian Foreign Minister Negotiating NAFTA Participates In Forum Linking Trump To Dictators

It’s Not Just WaPo. More Join The Chorus Of Alarmists Blaming Trump For Hurricane Florence  Scraaaaaape that barrel.

CNN’s ‘Reality Check’ On Trump And Hurricane Florence Leaves Out Some Inconvenient Data

Maxine Waters Unloads on Trump: ‘The Most Deplorable, Despicable Human Being’  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Evidence of Crimes Irrelevant to Impeaching Trump, a Texas Democrat Insists  Apparently, just being Trump is sufficient. Glad we could clear that up.

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Well, hey, at least they’re not using guns any more … oh, wait….

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Well, duh.

At last we have somebody at the U.N. who is on the side of America. About fargin time.

Rule 1 for Success: Don’t give money to people who hate you.

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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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I’m curious as to what the ‘real price’ for a piece of murdered baby might be.

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I’m sure she also has a secret plan to win the war in Vietnam, too.

Apparently Kavanaugh did something naughty in High School and that obviously precludes him from being qualified for the Supreme Court.

(Scraaaaaaape that barrel….)

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As if they wouldn’t try to do that anyway; after all, she is a Republican (in name, anyway).

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‘We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.’  — Leona Helmsley

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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My question is: What business is it of the mayor’s whether or not people use the library? This strikes me as a telling indicator of the proglodyte tendency to spend far too much time worrying that other people might be spending their time in bad ways, i.e. ways of which the proglodyte doesn’t approve.

The function of a mayor, I think, is to make sure that the taxpayers’ money is spent in an honest, efficient, and effective manner. We do not look to the mayor for ideas on how taxpayer money ought to be spent; that is the job of the city council, which is why the two functions are split. Certainly a mayor can have ideas on what those spending priorities ought to be, and certainly most mayoral candidates run on a ‘platform’ of some sort, but the place where that determination is made is the city council. That is their job.

One of the most ugly characteristics of Democrats is their uncontrollable impulse to stick their noses in other people’s business.

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Someone leaked to Breitbart an hour-long video of an “all hands” Google meeting that was held just after the 2016 election. The video features Google’s co-founder, Sergei Brin, its CEO, Sundar Pichai, and numerous other high-ranking “Googlers” speaking in turn about the election’s tragic outcome. It is stunning.

All of the speakers express grief over Donald Trump’s election. All of the speakers assume that every Google employee is a Democrat and is stunned and horrified that Hillary Clinton–the worst and most corrupt presidential candidate in modern history–lost. There is much discussion about what Google can do to reverse the benighted world-wide tide exemplified by Brexit and Trump’s election. The insane doctrine of “white privilege” rears its head.

You really have to see it to believe it. Having suffered through the hour-long cri de cœur–OK, to be fair, there is a huge element of schadenfreude, too, and you will relish much of it–you probably will have several reactions: 1) These people may have certain valuable technical skills, but they aren’t very bright and are unusually lacking in self-awareness. 2) It is remarkable that they can achieve such an extraordinary monoculture in an organization with thousands of employees. It must require vigorous enforcement of right-think. 3) It is easy to see how these uniformly left-wing robots/people seamlessly transitioned into Resisting the duly elected Trump administration.

MSNBC’s Mika Suggests Don Jr. Is Going To Be Indicted After He Attacked Joe Scarborough’s 9/11 Op-Ed  Where do these morons get these absurd ideas? How do they get paid for spewing this drivel?

California Governor: President Trump is the “Enemy of the People” Because Climate Change  He’s certainly the enemy of people like Governor Moonbeam.

Days Before Florence Makes Landfall, Democratic Congressman Already Criticizing Trumps Response to Aftermath  Why waste any time?

Donald Trump says ‘you’ve got to deny’ accusations by women, according to Bob Woodward book  Sounds like the Bimbo Eruption operation Hillary ran for Bill back in the day. Didn’t hear any complaining by Woodward then.

WaPo Editorial Board Says Trump Is ‘Complicit’ In Hurricane Florence. Why? Because Of Global Warming ‘Denial’  Obviously we must sacrifice a goat to Gaia that this calamity will pass us by.

How Anti-Trump Leakers Moved From Offense to Defense

Joy Behar: God Forbid Trump ‘Lives Another 20 Years’ [VIDEO]

College Professor Shoots Himself To Protest Trump  Here’s hoping its a trend.

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Tennis umpires are reportedly discussing a boycott of Serena Williams’ matches after the female tennis player accused a chair umpire of sexism.

Sounds reasonable.

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It was the second time a Japanese ship armed with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system was able to intercept a ballistic missile, the first being in February 2017. A second test in June of last year failed, but the Navy blamed sailor error for that miss after the interceptor blew up in flight.

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Alex the Bug-Eyed Socialist strikes out again.

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Well, that makes a certain degree of sense.

Perhaps the book ought to have been about How to Kill Your Husband and Not Get Caught.

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A Toronto man with tattoos bearing the symbol of the infamous MS-13 criminal gang is not being deported.

As the National Post reports, a Canadian judge has ruled that René Pacheco could be subject to persecution if he returns to his native country of El Salvador with the tattoo emblazoned on his body.

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With Democratic Party politicians and press whipping their true believers into a frenzy, violent acts by liberals are becoming more common.

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I’m sure they’re just here for a  better life … even if they have to shoot somebody to get it.

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Chair umpires and other officials are shaken by what they perceive as a lack of official support for chair umpire Carlos Ramos, given that his actions against Serena Williams during Saturday’s US Open women’s final were well within the rules.

“The umpiring fraternity is thoroughly disturbed at being abandoned by the WTA,” Richard Ings, a retired, elite Gold Badge umpire told ESPN.com on Tuesday. “They are all fearful that they could be the next Ramos. They feel that no one has their back when they have to make unpopular calls.”

Ramos cited Williams three times Saturday during her 6-2, 6-4 loss against Naomi Osaka — for getting coaching signals; for breaking her racket, which cost her a point; and for calling Ramos a thief, which cost her a game. The incident has sparked heated reactions, from former and current players to celebrities to the officials themselves.

We live in a world where truth does not matter, rules do not matter, civility does not matter — what matters is the Narrative, and the mob will determine who is the victim and hence the proper victor.

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Had California and Germany invested $680 billion into new nuclear power plants instead of renewables like solar and wind farms, the two would already be generating 100% or more of their electricity from clean (low-emissions) energy sources, according to a new analysis by Environmental Progress.

The analysis comes the day before California plays host to a “Global Climate Action Summit,” which makes no mention of nuclear, despite it being the largest source of clean energy in the U.S. and Europe.

Maxine Waters Sounds Off On Impeaching … Mike Pence — ‘You Knock One Down, And Then We Go After Him Too’  The BitterBeerFace will get you in you don’t watch out.

Strzok-Page texts reveal ‘coordinated’ FBI leak strategy to harm Trump, GOP congressman claims

Maxine Waters goes on Trump ‘impeachment’ tear, vows to ‘get him’

Trump invents Obama quote in tweet boasting of economic performance  And why not? People do it to him all the time. Fair’s fair.

Trump’s unpopularity with independent voters gives fresh warning to Republicans ahead of midterms  At least we hope it does.

Joe Scarborough Calls Trump A ‘Far Graver Threat’ To America Than 9/11 Attackers

Woodward: Trump Lawyer Called President ‘Disabled’  Why anybody believes this guy’s lies is beyond me.

Mike Pence is worse than Donald Trump, says Omarosa

Parkland Dad Fact-Checks MSNBC Reporter Who Says Trump Is Not A ‘Consoler-In-Chief’  I don’t see any ‘consoler-in-chief’ language in the Constitution.

Two More Key Trump Officials Dispute Woodward Claims

Protesters Accused Trump Of Inciting A Riot Against Them. Here’s What The Court Said

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Funny how all the political violence is coming from the Left.

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

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Uh, sure.

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I’m glad somebody remembered to.

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But there’s no bias here, no siree, not a bit.

Just ask James Damore.

Steve Sailer maps some trends for us.

I can’t get enough of all these Tennis Temper Tantrum op-eds about how Black Women are Angry about the Angry Black Women stereotype.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

Feel the Bern….

9/11: Donald Trump’s bizarre quotes about September 11 attacks before becoming president  Gee, I don’t remember anybody going back into Obama’s life before he became President to cherry-pick ‘bizarre statements’ he made.

Dem Candidate Claims ‘Nazis’ Work In The White House

Maxine Waters Doubles Down On Harassing Trump Officials In Public  The BitterBeerFace will get you if you don’t watch out.

America ‘underestimating how serious’ situation is in Trump’s White House, Bob Woodward says  Women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

How Anonymous Hurt the Anti-Trump Opposition

Triggering a Trump meltdown: What was the point of that anonymous Op-Ed piece?

NBC News Claims Conservatives Paid For Steele Dossier  Uh, no.

Obama Has Been Claiming Credit For Trump’s Economy — Trump Marches Out Economist, With Receipts  Facts are such troublesome things.

Trump’s Top Economist Has Stinging Barb For Hillary Voters In Obama-Economy Fact Check

Broadway Star Pushes Trump Assassination — ‘Where’s John Wilkes Booth When You Need Him?’  In the grave with Democrat chances of getting rid of Trump.

Omarosa releases new secret recordings revealing Trump ‘rambling’ about Steele dossier  ‘Please! I want my fifteen minutes of fame back!’

6 Denials of Claims in Woodward’s Trump Book Before Its Release  Is that a record? Maybe not for a Woodward book….

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If you’re really into knots, there’s a cellphone app called Knots 3D that will walk you through any knot you want via animation.

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Last week’s news underscored growing concerns over the politicization of tech companies. With his inimitable style, President Trump claimed on Twitter that Google shows political bias by skewing the news found in online searches. Relatedly, a group of some 100 conservative-leaning Facebook employees formed an online community to escape the strictures of a “political monoculture” and provide themselves a “safe” place for “ideological diversity” among their 25,000 co-workers.

Good luck with that. They’ll get what James Damore got.

It’s a truism that Silicon Valley leans left, but the average tech millionaire is not easy to pigeonhole ideologically. A revealing, if little-noted, 2017 study from Stanford University compared more than 600 “elite technology company leaders and founders,” 80 percent of them millionaires, with more than “1,100 elite partisan donors” of both political persuasions. The distinctions are revelatory for anyone interested in mapping the future of American politics. “Increasingly, technology entrepreneurs are using their personal wealth and firms’ power to exercise political influence,” the survey’s authors observe. “For example, recent federal candidates have referred to Silicon Valley as a ‘political ATM’.” The study found that 80 percent of tech millionaires overwhelmingly donate to Democrats over Republicans; hardly a surprising finding.

Indeed. The Democrat party is the party of the new clerisy, the establishment upper class, and all of their ‘soak the rich’ rhetoric is just virtue-signalling. The reason that they’re getting involved politically is that they’ve learned the Microsoft Lesson, that if you don’t have guys in Washington and Sacramento looking out for your interests you’re going to be pillaged by the Willie Browns of the world. Modern political life consists of the eaters and the eaten.

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The have to make noise or else little Miss Occasional-Cortex will sneak up and steal their place at the trough.

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A Voice of the Crust relates a modern parable against the latest Heretic and Sinner.

“He’s become the caricature of the rich guy trying to keep people out, and that gives the Coastal Commission a lot of pleasure,” Mr. Pasternak said. But, he added, “I don’t think he’s doing this for money. I really don’t think he’s doing this out of greed.”

“All they said was he has to apply for a permit, and he says, ‘[Expletive] you, I’m not going to apply at all,’” Mr. Pasternak said. “It’s kind of — I mean, he’s awfully sure of himself. You could say he’s principled.”

A grudging admission, to be sure. I have to say I stand with Vinod.

George Orwell is on the case.

Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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Yeah, I’ve been thinking that.

Technology means never having to say you’re tired.

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One rule of identity politics is that you get to choose your identity: ‘I identify as trans Latinx’. Another rule is that your identity is fated: ‘I was born trans Latinx’. The assumption of choice applies the logic of the market in a society of cheap credit and easy bankruptcy. The invoking of biological destiny is the crude mechanics of Victorian race theory.

This is a pastiche of the ‘nature versus nurture’ debate. The purpose, though, isn’t the ‘identity’ part, solving the mystery of how we are made and become ourselves, but the ‘politics’ part. As in evolution, choice and heredity are complementary strategies, deployed for competitive advantage.

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U.S. News and World Report changed the ranking system for its Best Colleges report by recognizing universities with higher enrollment and graduation rates of lower income students.

The changes were announced Monday, according to a U.S. News press release. The changes decreased the weight of SAT/ACT scores and expert opinions along with removing acceptance rate as a criteria in the rankings.

So the rankings have been ‘adjusted’ to reflect SJW values rather than, you know, the actual quality of the education. (Colleges that have strong racial preferences will have larger dropout rates and can’t possibly be allowed to suffer because of that.)