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A man was reportedly arrested in California after allegedly trying to run over two Jewish individuals on Friday night with his vehicle in what is now being investigated as a hate crime.

Anti-semite, eh? Probably a Trump supporter or some kind of rabid right-winger, right?

Mohammed Mohammed was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, according to CBS’s Los Angeles affiliate.

Oh, wait….

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Well. There it is.

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That explains why my brother is a communist, I guess.

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Liberals are preparing for Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris’s possible expulsion from the Senate Judiciary Committee by highlighting she is a black woman.

Findthe ‘black woman’ in this picture.

For reference, this is an actual black woman;

In the event that Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith wins the Mississippi runoff election on Nov. 27, the makeup of the Senate Judiciary Committee will shift in favor of the GOP, with a seat currently held by a Democrat flipping red. Consequently, Harris, the most junior Democratic member of the committee, will likely be squeezed out.

So it’s an entirely mechanical process and there’s no racism involved. But, of course, the Zoo has to shout ‘RACISM’ because that’s all they’ve got to say.

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The Task Force’s main line of effort is devoted to recruiting, selecting, training and acculturating superior infantrymen. We can’t go back to the days of “Willie and Joe,” the iconic World War II caricatures of poorly-treated and poorly trained doughboys. From now on, infantry will be treated as an “excepted” category, a force set apart from other arms and the usual personnel bureaucracy. Initiatives the Task Force has launched or is considering include a new system for evaluating recruits for the special attributes of close combat soldiers; increasing the time leaders spend in a specific small unit before being reassigned; adding additional professional schooling for small unit noncommissioned officers; extending the training time for new recruits; selective bonuses and incentives to serve in the close combat branches and policies that exempt close combat units from the distractions of non infantry duties.

I have a copy of the author’s book Scales On War. Highly recommended, if you’re interested in that sort of thing.

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Only months after its CEO claimed Twitter “does not take sides,” Twitter unveiled a policy that bans people for disagreeing with trans ideology. A statement as simple as “women aren’t men” can now be a policy violation, as even a liberal feminist discovered.

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Twitter banned feminist Meghan Murphy’s account for tweeting such statements as “Women aren’t men” and “How are transwomen not men? What is the difference between a man and a transwoman?” She was forced to delete these tweets in order to regain access to her Twitter account, after which she eventually doubled down in her rhetoric saying,

“This is f—— bull—, @twitter. I’m not allowed to say that men aren’t women or ask questions about the notion of transgenderism at all anymore? That a multi-billion dollar company is censoring basic facts and silencing people who ask questions about this dogma is insane.”

Welcome to our world, Megan. Be careful not to step in the Diversity, and watch out for the Inclusion.

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Of course not. It’s all guesstimates that they accept as fact. That’s why their ‘predictions’ never come true.

And these are the people who attack their skeptics as ‘science deniers’….

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When I was just a young man, my grandmother said to me, ‘Young man, you will not let a fruit or a vegetable past your lips unless it has been washed off first.’

I said to her ‘Why is that, grandmother?’

She said, ‘You do not know where that fruit or vegetable has been. More importantly, you do not know what has been put on that fruit or vegetable. So you will rinse first, then eat.’

And that advice has stood me in good stead from that day to this.

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Lesson: Don’t open a store in New York. It’s full of violent crazy people.

Actually, that applies to any urban area run by Democrats.

Of course, it doesn’t bother Jeff Bezos — he’s not the one in the store facing down the crazies.

Sarah Hoyt has some insight.

The goats are needed because the sheep are too social.  I don’t know if it’s true they’ll follow their leader over a cliff, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Sheep ain’t too smart.

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But when you put this on a national scale, it’s a terrible thing.  We’ve seen exactly how horrible it is over things like the Cultural Revolution, or under Stalin, or for that matter under Hitler, or, in a smaller scale — it was a smaller time — the French revolution.  Because people will do horrible or destructive things rather than buck the group under any circumstances.

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Statists love ‘caseworkers’ because that means more government jobs for their people.

So let’s send a battalion of ‘caseworkers’ over to deal with Putin….

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Rodney Scott, the chief U.S. Border Patrol agent of San Diego, outlined the circumstances Monday morning that led to law enforcement utilizing tear gas at the United States-Mexican border.

Like Muslims in the Middle East, they use women and children to shield their rock-throwers.

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Waiting for Trump to slap a huge tariff on them….

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Not to mention the cries of ‘Yes we can!’ I guess they were expecting Obama to magically appear.

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Why should I provide free content to people I don’t like, who hate me? I’m currently working on a book on social media, and I keep coming back to the point that Twitter is far and away the most socially destructive of the various platforms. So I decided to suspend them, as they are suspending others. At least I’m giving my reasons, which is more than they’ve done usually.

UPDATE: Banned! Twitter Bows to the Left, Silences Conservative Voices

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Well, you know, it’s that time of year….

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I am not making this up.

I wish I were.

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Uh-oh.

Joel Kotkin takes  a peek.

Ultimately the gig economy, even as it uses the latest technology, represents something of a devolution of labor. Although widely associated as “progressive,” the arbiters of the gig economy are, perhaps unconsciously, recreating the conditions that led to the impoverishment of the peasants and mechanics — replaced by slaves — at the end of the Roman Republic, or what befell artisans whose livelihoods were destroyed in the 19th century by machines.

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The whole “refugee” thing is a sham. Activists tell would-be illegal immigrants to sneak across the border. If they don’t get caught, head for California or another scofflaw jurisdiction. If they do get caught, immediately request asylum as a refugee. That triggers due process rights under existing, misguided law. While supposedly awaiting a hearing, invaders can simply disappear and make their way to a scofflaw jurisdiction.

Even Rich Lowry has woken up.

There was a scene at the border today that we were told was literally impossible by the media and Trump’s critics, as migrants from the caravan tried to storm a border crossing.

Steve Sailer connects the dots.

Apparently both Senators fromHawaii are pretty much proglodyte fools.

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Has “radical feminism” been bad for women? University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Amy Wax argues a resounding yes. “Radical feminism has had a baleful influence on college campuses, and on women’s education, in all sorts of ways,” she said. “It’s really made them dumber.”

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Embedded in the cerebral folds of every city planner who’s ever lived, there’s a cluster of neurons that lights up like Las Vegas when confronted with the possibility of a blank slate. It started with Hippodamus, the man Aristotle claimed was the father of urban planning. When the Persians destroyed his hometown of Miletus, Hippodamus discovered a bright side to catastrophe: The attackers had erased all the regrettable improvisations that, over the centuries, had made a mess of the place. Tasked with rebuilding, he seized his chance to impose order upon chaos. And so the concept of the urban grid was born.

A designed city is just right from the viewpoint of the designers but might not be from the viewpoint of those who might have to live there. Rather like a planned economy under communism, and we all know how those turn out.

Steve Sailer bring you the news.

In other words, even leaving aside immigrants, scientists can see that English people who migrate out of coal towns like Rotherham for the bright lights of the metropolis tend to have higher polygenic scores for educational attainment (i.e., years of education) than English people who stay home in dead end coal towns. Of course, a simpler way to do this would be just to ask people what their years of educational attainment are, but it’s kind of cool that you can get to a similar result by looking at their DNA.

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It is only now, a decade after the financial crisis, that the American public seems to appreciate that what we thought was disruption worked more like extraction—of our data, our attention, our time, our creativity, our content, our DNA, our homes, our cities, our relationships. The tech visionaries’ predictions did not usher us into thefuture, but rather a future where they are kings.

They promised the open web, we got walled gardens. They promised individual liberty, then broke democracy—and now they’ve appointed themselves the right men to fix it.

Easily seen here is the proglodyte fondness for change-for-the-sake-of-change-because-the-result-is-inevitably-progress. Facebook is the poster child for this process, with Google rapidly degenerating into a cheap copy.

I am astonished that this could get published in a Voice of the Crust like Wired.

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Countries in Eastern Europe tend to be far more socially conservative in this regard, with as few as three per cent of respondents in Georgia and Armenia in favour of legalising same-sex marriage.

Western Europe tends to be more progressive across the questions asked, with 88 per cent of people in Sweden supportive of legalising same-sex marriage, by way of comparison.

There’s nothing like 70 years of living under Communism to bring home to you why proglodyte degeneracy is a bad thing.

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In the following video you’ll see an instructor explaining the ins and outs of the asylum scam to members of the migrant “caravan” in Tijuana. It’s worth noting that a member of the European Parliament seems to have come to Mexico to help the migrants get into the USA. Which country? Which party? I have no information other than what’s in the video.

I think we ought to do a Natural Selection Border: If you can get over the first fence with razor wire, through the minefield, past the dogs and the guys on the towers with machine guns, and over the second fence with razor wire, then you’ve earned your way to a green card. Be sure to be wearing a tag with the name and address of your next of kin.

UPDATE: US border agents fire tear gas at migrants seeking to breach US border

Ace of Spades is far from gruntled.

What is it about the Left and stupid chants and droning, unpleasant songs? I won’t torture you with links to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, but you get the idea.

I am reminded of the Tom Lerer song The Folksong Army : ‘They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!’

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No, you have a moral duty to track down Mark Zuckerberg and beat the living snot out of him and everyone in his immediate family, including his communist sister who has caused so much evil in the world.

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• Scammers are using Google Maps to trick people into giving up their bank details.
• The app lets users edit and update listings, so the fraudsters are changing banks’ phone numbers to their own.
• Victims then call them up and give up their details without ever realise something’s gone wrong.

I always use Apple Maps myself.

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Well, that didn’t last long.

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But I doubt that he will look at the Clinton Crime Family Foundation. That’s not the Narrative.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know there was such a thing as Competitive Ploughing, did you?

The top flight of international ploughing is a limited pool….

I’ll bet it is.

Of course, they use machines — I’d like to give them two oxen and a moldboard and see what they can do.

I wonder if there’s such a thing as Competitive Floor Waxing….

Mother Jones somehow let this article get published.

But Carmon, and others who’ve helped turn Ginsburg into a pop-culture icon, are deluding themselves. Ginsburg is a mere mortal. Falling down is the leading cause of accidental death in people over 85. The actuarial table is not in her favor. There’s a real possibility Ginsburg will not outlast the Trump administration or live long enough for a Democrat to replace her. The situation today is one many liberal lawyers feared years ago and worked hard to avert. But the feisty justice rebuffed them all, a decision that makes all the hero worship hard for some of us to stomach.

We anticipate a show trial and the public execution of Stephanie Mencimer any day now.

Scott Johnson points and laughs.

The Star Tribune never tires of creative ways to tout the alleged benefits of the immigrant waves transforming Minnesota. When one looks for an assessment of the costs, or an assessment of whether the costs might outweigh the benefits, one must look elsewhere.

This weekend the Star Tribune touts the coming of “diversity” to the business of craft beer. It reads to me like unintended satire. First we have the obligatory passing of the white man. We have the obligatory obsession with race.

Apparently the paucity of Negro Beer is the fault of white people … like everything else.

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The historical parallel between Jews and Asians is striking for a number of reasons—including the fact that both cases involve an explicit rejection of the idea that academic merit alone could be a tenable basis for admission. Like today’s affirmative-action supporters at Harvard, the gentiles of a century ago also started poking into applicants’ personal lives to discover what their “character” might be. And what a weasel word that turned out to be.

The winnowing campaign a century ago began with a request for personal essays by candidates, describing their activities and interests, and promoting their leadership abilities. Fine: That sort of thing still goes on now. But then, the universities also began asking for photographs (wink, wink). By the fall of 1922, Jerome Karabel wrote in his 2005 book The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, “applicants were required to answer questions on ‘Race and Color,’ ‘Religious Preference,’ ‘Birthplace of Father,’ and ‘What change, if any, has been made since birth in your own name or that of your father? (Explain fully).’”

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Jordan Peterson recently tweeted that, “The STEM fields are next on the SJW hitlist. Beware, engineers.”  I’m convinced that Peterson is correct and I feel that my ongoing case has allowed me to see a likely avenue of attack from those who support the equity agenda. They will characterize any discussion of sex differences, no matter how calm and rational, as a form of gender harassment which in turn constitutes sexual harassment. In other words, if you dare to discuss the science of sex differences—even at a university—there’s a good chance that you’ll be accused of violating US law.

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The following report discusses Cuban doctors who practice medicine in Brazil. Like all Cuban professionals, these doctors do not practice privately, but serve the Cuban state. And the state requires that they surrender 70% of their salary to advance the cause of Cuban socialism.

Trump uses Thanksgiving call to Navy officer to voice a weird grudge about aircraft carriers  Scraaaaape that barrel.

Media Misses: How Leftists and Pundits Got It Wrong on the Economy

Trump lays bare America’s smelly little orthodoxies

Trump may have a point about fake news

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I’m a racist, you’re a racist, he’s a racist, she’s a racist, wouldn’t you like to be a racist, too….

I’ll bet you don’t know what ‘orientalism’ is. The author doesn’t, either, but it’s an ‘ism’ so it must be bad. Proglodytes love ‘ism’s, because it gives them a heresy to rail about.

Despite what some have claimed, the video is clearly not an homage to Chinese culture – but instead a racist depiction of the white West’s orientalist perception of Chinese culture.

Whenever a journalist says ‘clearly’ it’s a hand-wave regarding something that isn’t clear at all except to people who have the same delusional view of the world as the writer. The advertisement was clearly a humorous reference to how badly certain Western habits, like pizza, don’t match the way non-Western people live, like eating with chopsticks. The writer, of course, is incompetent to make any judgments about ‘the white West’s orientalist perception of Chinese culture’, because that’s just ‘burn the witch!’ fulmination.

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I recently spent several weeks in the slum districts of Nairobi, researching al-Shabaab’s criminal activities in the Horn of Africa. I expected to learn about the traditional criminal practices of terrorist groups: drugs, arms, money laundering, and perhaps even a regional particularity like sugar smuggling. What I wasn’t expecting to discover was a highly structured, hierarchical network in which sex workers sell information gleaned from their customers — specifically, corrupt police officers — to al-Shabaab. As one interviewee noted, “If you want information here, you use the prostitutes and street kids — they see everything, go everywhere, and nobody notices them.”

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Goats get all the best stuff.

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The pragmatism of Kennedy and Kirkpatrick has guided U.S. post World War II foreign policy for 70 years. The only major exceptions were the Carter and Obama years.

Yet the Washington Post, in a hissy fit of an editorial, advances the absurd claim that President Trump, by not scuttling relations with the current Saudi regime over the slaying of one regime opponent, has “undermin[ed] the basic understanding that has worked to the United States’ advantage since World War II under presidents both Republican and Democratic.” Because Trump hasn’t insisted on accountability for those who planned and committed the murder of the Post’s man Jamal Khashoggi, the editors warn that “U.S. standing in the world — and, therefore, U.S. influence and prosperity — will dwindle.”

Re-writing history to fit a political Narrative is a hallmark of the Left, as Orwell pointed out so chillingly in 1984.

Yet Another Open Letter to Trump  People keep writing ‘open letters’ to Trump, not to influence Trump (because they know that won’t happen), but to score Pokemon Virtue Signaling Points. It’s all about ‘Hey, look at me!’

Republicans wary of plot to impeach Trump: ‘We know the Democrats have a plan’  Democrats are full of plans. Few ever make it to reality.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

The jewelry store employees were South Asians and perhaps more in tune with traditional ways than most.

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People of Color behaving badly. What are the odds?