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Billionaire Tom Steyer accused House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of “straight up” anti-Semitism for a now-deleted tweet about Democratic mega-donors.

“In terms of interpreting what [McCarthy] said, that seems to me like a straight up anti-Semitic move. I think that is a classic attempt to separate Americans. I think that absolutely falls in the category of what I’m describing as political violence,” Steyer stated Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Sounds to me like he’s got a sensitivity problem. He needs to dial it back a bit.

Sarah Sanders Fires Back At Washington Post For Tying Terror To Trump

Donald Trump’s MO Is To Divide America, Says Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff  Gee, I thought that twas Adam Shiff’s agenda. Don’t like division? Get with the Trump program; problem solved.

The Left Blames President Trump For Mail Bombings — Are They Right?  Well, no.

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: Donald Trump makes false 9/11 claim to justify campaign rally  Actually, he didn’t. He was trying to motivate people, and his memory (never too good at the best of times) failed him. Not a patch on Obama’s callout to the ’57 states’, I think.

Liberals don’t want Donald Trump to be civil. They want him to lose

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Gee, I wonder why.

They’re going to have to hop it if they expect to get at the border by the mid-terms.

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In the last two weeks, Candace Owens has exploded onto the political scene. Beginning with Kanye West’s famous tweet, her life has been a whirlwind of television and radio appearances and speeches. The Left is attacking her viciously, while some on the right view her as a potential savior.

Candace spent yesterday in Minnesota. As Scott described here, she spoke at a lunch forum for Center of the American Experiment, the think tank that I run. We booked Candace before her sudden burst of publicity–sometimes you get lucky–and ticket sales went through the roof as her fame grew. Ultimately, 550 people attended the lunch forum. Candace said that she was stunned both by the size of the crowd and the warmth of her reception.

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Too bad Trump is in the pocket of the Saudis when he isn’t in the pocket of Vladimir Putin. Makes you wonder how he has time to hold rallies and cut regulations and push tax cuts and stuff.

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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That’s me. Many things in this life make my ass tired, from drivel on the TV to slackers on the streets. Sometimes it gets so bad I just stay in bed. That doesn’t fix the problem, of course, but, not being a Democrat, I don’t pretend that it’s my duty to fix everybody else’s problems.

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Well, not exactly. I’m sure the Voices of the Crust who generated this article would wish it were so, but it isn’t.

Nothing is more perennial than proglodyte dreaming about turning Texas into a Blue state. It ain’t gonna happen.

Americans embarking on nationwide journeys to support progressive candidates in battleground states wouldn’t likely stop in Texas during any other campaign season — but something is clearly happening across the Lone Star state in 2018.

Yeah, Voices of the Crust are using biased polls to get their hopes up. They think that if they say it enough times it will come true. Which is why they depend on ‘blue wave tour’ activists for their ‘facts’:

“We’re travelling from here to Georgia to support Stacey Abrams, and then we’re going to Florida to support Andrew Gillum,” Mr Pierce says. “I really think Texas is on its way … This is the start of their story. The next generations are going to build from here, and maybe that’s the most inspiring part of all of this.”

Uh, no.

Mr O’Rourke is within five points of Mr Cruz’s lead in the reliably red state, according to the latest polls, reflecting a surge of energy surrounding progressives across the country, including in regions typically believed to be Republican strongholds.

Such polls typically oversample Democrats, which is why they all predicted a landslide for Hillary that Didn’t Happen.

Along the campaign trail, Mr O’Rourke has sought to set himself apart from the national Democratic Party by avoiding discussion of political affiliations and attempting to focus on the issues that matter most for local voters, from immigration to healthcare.

Uh, no. He has tied himself to the national Democrat fetish of Identity Politics by ‘identifying’ as Hispanic (hence the ‘Bet0’), and in general follows the socialist line concerning Free Stuff for everybody. Still, all this handwaving doesn’t escape the core fact that he is, indeed, Just Another Democrat:

At the same time, he hasn’t shied away from defending the progressive stances he’s taken on issues generally considered too taboo to discuss in Texas politics, from abortions to impeaching Donald Trump.

The ‘issues that matter most for local voters’, outside of the urban blue pustules, are taxes and jobs. Trump has those nailed, and Cruz is right behind him.

Meanwhile, Mr O’Rourke has broken national fundraising records in the latest three-month period, vowing to spend the whopping $38m entirely on his own race, rather than sharing some of the cash flow with other Democrats in the region.

Most of which has come from out-of-state, underlining that fact that, popular Media mythology aside, the Democrats are the Party of the Rich.

You will note the lack of mention of the Invasion Caravan approaching the southern border, which has increasingly focused Republican attention and has energized Republican turnout for what is normally a snooze-fest election.

UPDATE: Mural depicting Beto O’Rourke as a superhero is vandalised days after being unveiled

‘El Paso gentrifier supports Israel’ among slogans spray-painted on Austin artwork

Guess Beto isn’t the liberal dreamboat that everybody says he is.

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Many U.S. college professors now regularly share their own social and political beliefs in class, and their students feel increasingly afraid to disagree. That’s according to a new national survey of undergraduates due out next week.

Paul Mirengoff shares the wealth.

Most of us have heard of the midlife crisis and some may know about it first hand. Max Boot’s midlife crisis seems unusually acute.

First, he abandons long-held positions. Then, he forgets how to make a coherent argument. Now, he tweets: “I enjoyed chatting with ??@StormyDaniels?? at the reception after ??@RealTimers?? tonight.”

I’m not on Twitter, but was under the impression that only teenagers, narcissists, and the hopelessly starstruck put up tweets about whom they just chatted with.

Boot doesn’t tell us what he and Stormy chatter about. It’s probably just as well.

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Don’t say we never have useful stuff here.

BBC presenter recalls how ‘creepy’ Donald Trump called her ‘beautiful’ 

Jeez, not now, Iran… Facebook catches Mid East nation running trolly US, UK politics ads

Maher Rips Media For ‘Doing Donald Trump’s Dirty Work’ On ‘Stupid’ Caravan Coverage  Rope-a-dope depends on the participation of a dope; the DemLegHump media are always happy to oblige.

NYT’s Paul Krugman Blames Trump For Deadly Synagogue Shooting  Of course he does. Everything is Trump’s fault, from Global Warming to cracks in the sidewalk.

Maher: ‘Sounds Like’ Trump Is ‘Partnering’ With Bomb Suspect  The way Obama ‘partnered’ with Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayres? Or anti-American hate preacher Wright?

GQ Writer Blames Trump For Synagogue Shooting  Not a word about the demagoguery from Democrats. Apparently that doesn’t count.

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Urrah!

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There you have it. Invasion. Anti-American in all its parts.

This needs to be stopped at the border. With machine guns, if necessary.

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Another talking head whose only qualification seems to be that he is black. His biggest claim to fame is that he is a ‘music journalist’, which of course gives him special expertise in political opinions.

Anti-Media? With good reason, if you turn on the TV.

Anti-Science? Hey, the witches and Satanists aren’t voting Republican.

Anti-Intellectual? Let’s take a look at those ‘intellectuals’ in ‘gender studies’ in the Ivy League and ponder whether that’s a bug or a feature.

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Logic was never his strong suit.

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I guess the fact that most of the bombs were crude theatrical props doesn’t have anything to do with it.

Never heard of Malcolm Nance? Me neither. But he’s black, so he gets on the news.

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Apparently the Pittsburgh shooter didn’t vote for Trump because Trump had too many Joos around.

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When ionic salts, made of bundles positively and negatively charged particles, dissolve in water, the bundles break apart, leaving positively and negatively charged particles free to participate in osmosis. By placing charged, thin membranes in between salty water and freshwater, scientists can create an expressway for the flowing particles, generating electric current. But these membranes are often expensive to manufacture and they tend to get leaky over time. That lets particles pass back through in the wrong direction, cutting into how much electricity they can produce.

Now, researchers have developed a new kind of gatekeeper—a “two-faced” membrane that has different properties on either side, from the size of the pores to the charge of the membrane itself. This encourages a steady flow of charged particles from one side to the other while preventing them from drifting back in the wrong direction. These so-called Janus membranes, named after the ancient Roman god of gates and passages, can also be manufactured to have different-size pores and hold different charges, allowing them to accept different kinds of particles.

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Be careful not to be caught with a bad trigger when the Antifa goons come for you.

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We lawyers call this being an ‘accessory before the fact‘.

Presumably Trump will take this into account when dealing out Consequences.

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Geez, it’s like they’re ignoring the teleprompter. Why can’t these people get with the program?

ZMan turns over a rock.

The old paleocons were right about most things, particularly about the growth of the managerial state, but they were not right about everything. There were things they simply could not imagine, much in the same way sci-fi writers cannot imagine the cultural implications of technology. No matter how smart you are, you can only think so many moves ahead. One thing the paleocons got wrong about the managerial state is just how corrosive it was to the people inside the managerial class. It makes them weak and stupid.

One of the insights that ZMan brings to the current state of the nation is the realization that the current setup in Washington is a house of cards. Like the court of Louis XIV, the people inside the Beltway have different values than those who live in Real America and the expectation that everyone who sets foot in D.C. will either share or adopt those values. Therefore, those who are adept at Maneuvering At Court will have an advantage. When somebody like Trump comes along who recognizes the artificial, ephemeral nature of those values, and declines to play their silly games, the best they can do is hyperventilate and wring their hands — which works on people inside the bubble, but is nothing but an entertaining shadow-play to those who deal with things in the real world. Like being snubbed by Mrs Astor, being called a racist by Maxine Waters is only effective on people who give a shit what Maxine Waters thinks, among whom Donald Trump is not numbered.

This is the corrosive river in which the political Establishment find themselves dissolving — all their mystic hand gestures are ignored, their invincible whisper campaigns are ineffective, their sugar-plum-fairy edifice of comme il faut has been blown into dust. Trump doesn’t follow the traditional Republican dance moves that they could depend on from a Bush or a McCain or a Romney, and they are left without even a fingertip on the levers of power, which Trump and his ever-increasing band of Mongols are using to roto-till what had been their magic garden to prepare it for sowing the seeds of resurgent America.

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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.?

We could call it … MEDICARE FOR ALL!

Just sign the back of your paycheck and send it to Beto O’Rourke (or Bernie Sanders) to get the ball rolling.

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Just in case you were keeping track. I must confess that I wasn’t.

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I guess they’re Not Real Negroes either. Trump does indeed work miracles.

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I guess they’re Not Real Negroes.

Actually, that’s a neat trick. If you register as a Republican and become an UnNegro, does it push you all the way to White or just to Brown? And, if the latter, what kind of Brown do you become?

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Some people have too much time on their hands.

Another U.K. Rape-Gang Case

Palestinian security forces accused of using torture ‘to crush dissent’ in Gaza and occupied West Bank

HRW Report: Palestinian Authorities Systematically Torture and Repress Dissent

REPORT: Palestinian Authority, Hamas ‘Routinely’ Torture Journalists And Students

Huddersfield grooming victim feared abusers would ‘gang rape her mum’

Algeria bans women working in public sector from wearing full-face veils

Chicago Man Charged with Disseminating Online Propaganda for ISIS

Uzay Bulut: The Persecution of Non-Muslims in Turkey

Mohammed Dewji: Africa’s youngest billionaire ‘home safe’ after being kidnapped by masked gunman

I am a terror attack survivor and this is how I am fighting extremism  Mostly by being a victim.

At least 15 killed by suicide bomber at polling station during Afghanistan parliamentary election vote  Apparently voting is not a Muslim value.

Ontario Bill Would Strip Returning ISIS Fighters Of Privileges ‘Trudeau Doesn’t Seem To Take’ Seriously

Decapitating Granny

NATO Soldier Killed In Suspected Afghanistan Insider Attack –The Second In Less Than A Week

Extremists attempt to consolidate power in northern Syria with wave of arrests during ceasefire

Turkey’s Erdogan says Saudi officials planned to murder Jamal Khashoggi days before his death

Israel Keeps a Wary Eye on Iranian Entrenchment as Syrian Border Crossing Reopens

France Pushing Back On Growing Muslim Schools By Offering Arabic Classes

School which taught that only Muslims were saved on Noah’s Ark becomes first to be prosecuted for operating illegally

Islamic Leaders Declare Popular Game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Haram, Claim It Causes Obsession

Israel Strikes Back After Hamas Rocket Attack

Leading Pro-Abortion Irish Activist Sinead O’Connor Converts To Islam  Good. They can try to cope with her.

Ohio Man Allegedly Wanted ISIS Training, Hoped to Trigger U.S. Conflict

A Night of Culturally Enriched Sexual Violence in Tiburtina

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Told you so.

CNN’s Jeff Zucker Rips Trump: ‘Words Matter’

CNN Pounces, Seizes on Nonfunctional Bomb Scare As 17,883rd Reason Trump Must Never Dare Criticize CNN as “Fake News”

Yesterday, The New York Times Published Five (Awful) Fiction Pieces About How the Trump Presidency Would End. One Naturally Went to the Assassination Fantasy — with Trump’s Secret Service Helping to Kill Him.

Celebs Blame Trump After Suspicious Packages Are Sent To Obamas, Clintons And CNN  Of course they do. When in doubt, blame Trump.

Trump’s nationalist declaration ‘like pouring gasoline on a fire’ ahead of midterms  Boy, I’m sure scared.

Trump has called for unity over the bombs sent to CNN, Hillary Clinton and others – but his words ring hollow after everything he’s done

New York Times Publishes Trump Assassination Fantasy After Asking Fiction Writers To Imagine End To Mueller Investigation

John Kasich Claims Trump Is Responsible For Division That’s Tearing Country Apart

MSNBC Commentator: Bomb Scare May ‘Exceed The Scope’ Of Lincoln’s Assassination  Uh, yeah.

Donald Trump’s attacks on the media have brought us to a dangerous moment in US politics  No mention, of course, of the media’s attacks on Donald Trump.

How Trump turned the Democrats into the nasty party  We prefer the term ‘Party of Hate’.

Pelosi Blames Trump For Mail Bombs, Condemned Idea That Democrat Rhetoric Played Role In Scalise Shooting

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski Tells GOP It Has To Ditch Support For Trump’s Rhetoric After Bomb Scare  And of course we’re all going to take advice from Mika.

When the U.S President Phones Friends, the Chinese Listen and Learn  Yeah, they’re learning not to mess with Trump.

CNN’s John King Claims ‘No One’ Is Blaming Trump For Bomb Scares, Guest Immediately Does Just That  And these people are alleged to be professionals….

Democrat Sen. Doug Jones Compares Trump To George Wallace, Bull Connor  Except that they were Democrats. But no Democrat knows any history these days.

Michael Moore: ‘Trump — You Know EXACTLY What You’re Doing’ With Anti-Media Rhetoric  Yup — holding up a mirror to slugs like you.

200 Members Of The Media Sign Open Letter Condemning President Trump’s Rhetoric About The Industry, Claims He’s Inciting Violence  ‘Mommeee! Donald hit me back!’

MSNBC’s Katy Tur Becomes Livid When Guest Points Out Violent Left-Wing Rhetoric

Maxine Waters Calls On Trump To ‘Take Responsibility’ For Bombs  Sure, Maxine, if you’ll take responsibility for Hitler.

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I’m thinking hoaxes.

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Funny how that works.

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The current lawsuit challenging Harvard University’s use of racial preferences in admissions is about “white supremacy,” according to the school’s supporters. So, too, was the defense of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh against the charge of sexual assault, according to Kavanaugh’s critics. Never mind that the plaintiffs in the Harvard lawsuit are Asian-American students who were denied admission to the school despite academic qualifications superior to those of whites, and that Kavanaugh’s accuser was white herself. The roiling mass of resentments and one-upmanship that is identity politics is becoming ever more irrational in the Trump era. Whether a crack-up is imminent remains to be seen.

‘White supremacy’ is the Communism of the Left. Except that Communism really exists.

The core premise of academic victimology is that whites game the system to disable non-whites. The effort seems to have failed miserably. But rather than acknowledging the implications of Asian success for the narrative of systemic pro-white bias, the proponents of identity politics simply trot out the “white supremacy” mantra as if doing so routs any countervailing evidence. That some left-wing Asians adopt the same rhetoric is a testament to the status accorded to alleged victims of white privilege and to the lure of oppositional identity politics in elite circles.

I’m a victim/you’re a victim/he’s a victim/she’s a victim/wouldn’t you like to be a victim too?

Ace of Spades does a witch-hunt play-by-play.

It was just a matter of time.

The backstory here is that Kelly dared to ask if there were any circumstances in which it would be okay for a White Devil to wear blackface — say, dressing up like Mr. T, as a friend of mine did one year, decades ago* — if there’s no intent to demean the race.

But you’re not allowed to even ask that, and the Mobs began baying for her head, and she offered the Ritual Coerced Apology, and, as usual, the Ritual Coerced Apology was not enough, because, as Jordan Peterson says, you can apologize to a person but you can’t apologize to a mob.

Ah, well. She knew the risks. You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

UPDATE: Megyn Kelly: I Want Ronan Farrow In The Room When I Meet With NBC Execs To Negotiate My Departure, So He Can Be a “Witness”

John C. Wright provides a musical interlude.

Kinda lame,  but headed in the right direction.

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Looking more and more like a ginned-up publicity stunt designed to make Democrats look like victims before the midterm elections.

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Filed on Wednesday, the lawsuit names Steyer and Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona as defendants. Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona — which has benefited from millions of dollars in donations from Steyer — is campaigning to require Arizona electric utility companies derive half their power from renewable energy sources by 2030. The ballot proposal is officially known as Proposition 127.

Brnovich’s lawsuit is in response to Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona’s campaign against him. The renewable energy group has aired attack ads against him, claiming he “bailed out” the state’s largest electric utility company by wording the Proposition 127 ballot language in a way, it argues, puts the proposal in a bad light.

When you push the envelope, sometimes the envelope pushes back.

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Yeah, there’s a lot of that going around.

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Wow, didn’t see that coming.

This is smelling more and more like a false-flag operation — the incompetence is signature for Democrats.

UPDATE: Dan Bongino Claims Explosive Devices Sent To CNN And Democratic Politicians Were Amateur On Purpose

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I guess it didn’t work.

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When they signal their virtue, the Democrats expose their distance from voters’ concerns about the economic, legal and cultural consequences of immigration. Of course, the Republicans are also doing little more than signaling their virtue by shouting about law and order, and sticking it to the Mexicans. But while the Democratic strategy is cynically foolish, the Republican strategy is cynically effective. The domestic politics of the migrant caravan may be a double act of inanity and cynicism, but the electorate will not applaud the actors equally. The Democrats are cueing up the Republicans’ electoral punch line.

Tyler Cowen, a Real Economist, turns over a rock.

Who would have thought that an attack on socialism would be so controversial? But these days it is. The White House’s Council of Economic Advisers issued a report called “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism” to a scathing reception on social media: “dreck,” said the economist Justin Wolfers, while Paul Krugman referred to it as “amazingly dishonest.”

I’m here to tell you that I have read the entire report, and many of the sources it cites, and most of it is correct.

John Hinderaker celebrates diversity.

Most assume that the “caravan” is one of the Democratic Party’s several October surprises. I suspect that is probably true. But so far, it doesn’t seem to be turning out well. We know this because some Democrats are now suggesting that the caravan was organized by Karl Rove. Whose superpowers have never abated, apparently.

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Apparently just a publicity stunt. I suspect that this is just another hate-crime hoax.

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The President of the National Border Patrol Council says we need the Military deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border now to prepare for the arrival of the Honduran migrant caravan that’s on it’s way to the U.S.

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No doubt Trump was to blame.