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Thank you, minimum wage.

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Well, why not?

As George Carlin famously said, if you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck out there will buy it.

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Used to be, two northern states, Illinois and New York, took top prize for vivid geographic divergence on matters of political and cultural reality. What had machine-run Chicago to do with the all those prairie-dwellers downstate in the Land of Lincoln? Or sophisticated Manhattan with the upstate provinces north of Yonkers? Not much. More and more, that’s the way things feel in Virginia. It’s not the first time the state has pulled itself apart. It happened, literally and permanently, back in 1863; the counties west of the Allegheny Mountains, not much invested in slavery and distant from the capital in Richmond, sided with the Union and went their own way,  hence West Virginia.

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Not even Russia requires that.

Note to self: Avoid New Zealand.

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Over the past few months, The Heritage Foundation team has been traveling the country to explain the benefits of tax reform. Below, we answer the most frequently asked questions about last year’s tax cut and the effort to pass Tax Reform 2.0.

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Can I get an Ay-men?

‘Jazz hands’? Sounds like cultural appropriation to me.

Alternative: Just sit there with a bored expression. Totally appropriate.

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‘Funding’ is bureaucratspeak for ‘you give us money and we’ll pass a small part of it along’.

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I know it’s around here somewhere….

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I’ll risk it.

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By getting rid of politicians who steal (which is why, in the modern world, we have famines) and the vehicles that encourage them to steal (like the World Bank)? I’ll believe it when I see it.

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No, I haven’t read the actual article. I’m afraid to.

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For over a decade the Chinese army has been stressing accurate shooting in general. That means more time in basic training is devoted to shooting and rifle use in general. That is one reason China recently increased army basic training from three months to six. The three month course proved inadequate for many recruits. By doubling the basic training a lot of problems are solved. For one thing, no one graduates from the six month course without being physically fit and competent in basic military skills (including how to “act and look like a soldier.”) That last item has been an issue in China and the West were too many volunteers show up overweight and out of shape.

Don’t know how long basic training for infantry is in the U.S. these days but when I went through Navy boot camp in 1968 it was eight weeks. We got to fire a .22 rifle a few times and watched an instructor fire a .45.

UPDATE: Why do snipers open their mouth when about to shoot?

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Perhaps we could have an FBI investigation. Or at least play one on TV.

Where is Raymond Reddington when you really need him?

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Ideology is all well and good, but it’s the money that does the talkin’.

Even Democrats gotta eat.

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Hey, fair’s fair.

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There are 40 September ice extent minima  “on record”… How is the 6th lowest out of 40 the continuation of a “spiral” or anything else?

Stephen Colbert found a new way to needle the president: a children’s book  Which confirms what I’ve always thought about his audience.

So many lies, so little time to investigate  The newest Democrat party line.

John Oliver criticises Brett Kavanaugh hearing, calls the process ‘deeply flawed’  And of course he’s the expert.

NBC’s Seth Meyers Calls Trump A ‘Sexist Dick’ For Fighting With Reporters At Press Conference  All the news that’s fit to print.

CNN’s Jake Tapper Thinks We’ve Heard Enough From Men On Brett Kavanaugh And Tells Stephen Colbert It’s Time For Women To Be Heard  I guess he wasn’t in the elevator with Jeff Flake.

Jeff Flake Takes A Swipe At Trump During Speech In Presidential Battleground State  Never was an elected official better named.

NBC Stealth Edits Article Accusing Kavanaugh Of Perjury

ACLU Launches Million Dollar Ad Campaign Likening Kavanaugh To Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton  Both Democrats.

WaPo Equates GOP Fears Of False Allegations In Kavanaugh Era To Fear Of White Males Losing Their ‘Grip On Power’  Or maybe it’s just that whole lynch-mob vibe that the Democrats are giving off these days.

Three Different NBC News Stories On Kavanaugh Face Accuracy Issues  And that’s just for openers.

NYT Forced To Admit Mistake On Biased Kavanaugh Hit Piece Hours After Doubling Down

Cosmetics company to donate proceeds from ‘F*** Kavanaugh’ lipstick to anti-sexual assault organisations

Cory Booker Says It Doesn’t Matter If Judge Kavanaugh Is ‘Innocent Or Guilty’  He’s right. What matters is that he was nominated by Trump, and is therefore a Heretic and a Sinner, and must be destroyed.

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Funny, I don’t see a flamethrower here….

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Note to self: Avoid the Left Coast.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Note to self: Avoid bowling alleys.

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But ought not to come as a surprise to anyone.

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Democrats, doing what they do best.

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Will the Usual Suspects stop complaining? No, they will not.

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Civil war is coming. Pick your side.

It will start in Europe but the U.S. will not escape unscathed.

ZMan peers behinds the curtain.

The game began when Mitch McConnell decided to schedule the hearings and vote on the nominee before the election. He calculated that it was good politics for the Republicans and tricky politics for the Democrats. They have half a dozen Senate seats up this time in very Trump states. Now, McConnell correctly figured that the Democrats would have to go nuclear on the nomination, so he and the GOP brain-trust convinced Trump to go with the cleanest guy on the list. Kavanaugh had been vetted many times, so he was safe.

That was the first mistake by McConnell. Despite being in Washington for a lifetime, he somehow failed to notice that the Left never abides by its own rules. When their rules work against them, they either ignore them or make up new rules, swearing that the new rules are ancient traditions handed down by Moses. That’s what they did here by hiring the Jewish lesbian to troll for middle aged women willing to swear Kavanaugh assaulted them in the time before anyone could verify. They were going to #metoo him into withdrawing.

Given the climate in the world in which the beautiful people live, this seemed like a clever ploy to Feinstein and Schumer. After all, they could count on the cucks in the GOP to run screaming into the darkness at the first sign there was heresy afoot. In other words, they never thought they would have to actually produce witnesses. That’s why Feinstein leaked the anonymous letter she was holding since the summer. She figured all she needed was a good whisper campaign run by the fake reporters in the media.

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Apparently The Social Construct That Is Race affects even newborn babies. Who knew?

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I sure would like to put Maxine Waters on ice. She could use some serious cooling down.

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Well, if it reduces the noise level, I’m all for it.

Note the assumption that everyone present will wish to applaud whatever is going on. Resistance is futile.

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Steve looked at each phone screen, pulled his round-rim glasses up so they rested on his forehead, stared again closely, then put his glasses back down and returned each phone to the table in front of him. Then he expressed himself. I was left wishing I had a plastic bag in my pocket to clean up my work.

I went back to comb through fonts with colleagues, and in a couple of days, we discovered Helvetica Neue. This Neue (German for “new”) version had subtle improvements that made every letter look perfectly sharp on the new screen. Steve approved it on sight.

So I guess he was right.

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What do you want to bet that she was included just so they could say that?

If the Nobel Committees weren’t notorious for political correctness that wouldn’t be an issue. They’ve nobody to blame but themselves.

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I’ve always been suspicious of coconuts.

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Authorities said the makeshift weapons were created by Gregory Rodvelt, who was forced to forfeit his property as part of an elder abuse case involving his mother.

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Heartburn, here it comes.

A lot has been written about how the internet undermined and destroyed media. What we are seeing today may be the more important story, however, which is the tech industry is explicitly buying out the media, particular culture making elite media institutions.

This was illustrated again when it was recently announced that Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff is buying Time magazine for $190 million. Jeff Bezos already owns the Washington Post. Steve Job’s widow owns the Atlantic. These are all people who have essentially infinite funds to sustain these over the long term – as vanity projects if necessary. How many high status print publications are left to acquire? The New Yorker is owned by Condé Nast, which reportedly hemorrhages money, though is owned by a very wealthy family. The WSJ is already in corporate hands, so should be buyable at some point. The NYT is still family controlled for the time being. Broadcast media is tougher but might ultimately share the same fate. (Foreign elite media is a different story than the US).

Steve Sailer reports on the latest tragedy.

Cue hand-wringing; women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

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Landowner Edward Poitevent’s lawyers went before the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to argue against an Obama administration decision to label his land “potential backup habitat” for an endangered species of frog that hasn’t been seen there in decades.

That’s only part of the problem. Should the frogs be relocated to Poitevent’s land in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, today, they wouldn’t be able to survive.

“If you put the frog back on there today, it would die,” Poitevent told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an on-camera interview ahead of oral arguments in the case Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Bias? What bias?

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My, what a surprise.

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Nobody remembers the word ‘Comintern’ any more.

House lawmakers sent a letter Monday to the environmental group Earthjustice demanding documents regarding its ties to foreign officials and environmental activists, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The letter from top Republicans on the House Committee on Natural Resources is the fourth sent to environmental groups over their ties to foreign governments. It’s the second letter related to environmental opposition to the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, Japan.

Statue of Matilda facing down Donald Trump unveiled near Roald Dahl’s home  Actually, it looks more like Trump facing down Matilda (whoever that is).

Lana Del Rey calls for an ‘intervention’ for Kanye West over latest Trump comments  I’ve heard of Kanye West. I’ve not heard of Lana Del Rey. I guess she is missing the attention.

Scottish guide book drops Trump Turnberry hotel due to president’s ‘divisive and dangerous’ politics

Kanye West Scares Democrats Because He’s Blowing A Hole In Their ‘Evil’ Narrative, Says Dan Bongino

Former Trump Aide Provides Proof After Being Criticized For Black Lives Matter Riot Comment

WATCH: President Trump’s awkward exchange with female ABC reporter  It wasn’t awkward for Trump.

Trump Tells Reporters: ‘I Consider You A Part Of The Democrat Party’  As do many of us.

Mitch McConnell Warns About Democrats ‘Moving The Goal Post’ On Kavanaugh Investigation  Of course they will.

Cavuto Stops Dem Strategist Mid-Sentence After She Blames Trump For Partisan Battle Over Kavanaugh

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I guess he did it while sleepwalking.

Scraaaaaaape that barrel.

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The next time you drive past one of those road signs with a digital readout showing how fast you’re going, don’t simply assume it’s there to remind you not to speed. It may actually be capturing your license plate data.

They’d be stupid not to. This seems like a pretty obvious idea.

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Georgetown Professor C. Christine Fair tweeted over the weekend that “entitled white men” should have their corpses castrated and then fed to pigs.

Fair, an associate professor in Georgetown’s Security Studies program, tweeted, “Look at thus [sic] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement.”

Don’t think I’d want to send my kids to that school.

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When you’re engaged in shooting the cows, you don’t want any of the foam to get on you.

Victor Davis Hanson turns off the lights.

The coordinated effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court required the systematic refutation of the entire notion of Western jurisprudence by senators and much of the American legal establishment. And there was no hesitation in doing just that on the part of Senate Democrats, the #MeToo movement, and the press. And I write this at a moment in which conservatives and Republicans still control the majority of governorships, state legislatures, the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court and the presidency—a reminder that culture so often is far more powerful than politics.

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On Friday morning, two women raced past reporters and security officers and blocked a senators-only elevator in the U.S. Capitol. They cornered Arizona senator Jeff Flake, who had just announced he was going to vote yes on moving Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination out of the Judiciary Committee and onto the Senate floor for a full debate. The women wouldn’t let Flake leave until they had yelled at him, face to face, for several minutes. Anyone who thinks the two left-wing activists acted without a well-thought-out plan hasn’t read The Intimidation Gameby Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal.

If I were a Senator or Congressman, I’d carry around one of those compressed-air-powered launch callers for such occasions. Let’s see how they react to someone who can make more noise than they can.

A reporter for the Washington Examiner asked Flake, “Did the women who confronted you this morning, did they have any role in changing your mind?”

“No, no,” Flake said as he shook his head.

And if you believe that one he’ll tell you another one.

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Of course he did.