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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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I guess they were expected to be Over The Border And Far Away by now.

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Six years ago I wrote a book about Barack Obama in which I predicted that modern American liberalism, under pressures both fiscal and philosophical, would either go out of business or be forced to radicalize. If it chose the latter, I predicted, it could radicalize along two lines: towards socialism or towards an increasingly post-modern form of leadership. Today it is doing both. As we saw in Bernie Sanders’ campaign, the youngest generation of liberals is embracing socialism openly—something that would have been unheard of during the Cold War. At the same time, identity politics is on the ascendant, with its quasi-Nietzschean faith in race, sex, and power as the keys to being and meaning. In the #MeToo movement, for example—as we saw recently in Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle—the credo is, “Believe the woman.” In other words, truth will emerge not from an adversarial process weighing evidence and testimony before the bar of reason, but from yielding to the will of the more politically correct. “Her truth” is stronger than any objective or disinterested truth.

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This is news?

I remember when Joe Scarborough was a Republican — or at least pretended to be one.

Seems a long time ago,

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Those who claim to be ‘ganstas’ just might be telling the truth.

Shocking, I know.

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Released last Saturday, this year’s list of American Rhodes Scholars is a remarkable document. For, judging by the moral values evidenced in it, we’d hardly know that these rather accomplished young people are Americans.

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There’s little in this document that represents a desire to help Americans. On the other hand, we read sentence after sentence about doing good for foreigners, immigrants, women, people of color—all the usual victims.

Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar.

Robert Reich was a Rhodes Scholar.

Strobe Talbot was a Rhodes Scholar.

Cory ‘Spartacus’ Booker was a Rhodes Scholar.

Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Rhodes Scholars.

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If you have to ‘figure out your heritage’, you don’t have one.

If you need a DNA test to figure out who your ancestors were, it doesn’t matter.

London Bridge terror ringleader Khuram Butt released by police eight months before attack despite jihadist propaganda, report reveals

CAIR Continues Building Its “Wall of Resistance” Against Law Enforcement

Rotherham grooming ring: Gang of six men jailed for total of 101 years after sexually exploiting teenage girls

‘Sultan of Coins’ executed as Iran violates human rights to placate anger over economy and corruption

Saudi women launch protest against abaya by wearing garment inside out  Yeah, that’s gonna work.

Woman blows herself up near police checkpoint in Chechen capital

Preparing German Schoolgirls for Life Under Sharia

Egypt Sentences ISIS Supporter To Death For Murdering Christian Doctor

Central African Republic MP nicknamed ‘Rambo’ arrested over alleged war crimes against Muslims

Suspected Iranian migrants found on Kent coast after crossing channel in inflatable boat

Myanmar police shoot and injure four Rohingya Muslims in refugee camp raid, witness claims

The Culture-Enriching News From Catalonia

Yemen government agrees to UN peace talks after Houthi leader calls for halt to attacks

Pakistani minister ‘sets fire to possessions’ at airport in rage over cancelled flight

Somali Culture-Enricher Experiences a Sexual Emergency in Ortona

Kabul explosion: At least 50 dead and 80 injured in suicide blast at religious gathering in Afghanistan capital

A Modern Multicultural Christmas in Berlin

The Number Of Sunni Jihadists Worldwide Has Quadrupled Since US Launched ‘War On Terror’

Number of Sunni militants have quadrupled since 9/11 terror attacks, US think-tank claims

Saudi Arabia accused of torturing female activists by electrocution and flogging leaving them unable to walk

Reformed gangster Nedim Yasar shot dead at launch of book about how he rejected life of crime

‘Hate preacher’ banned from UK still broadcasting to millions in Britain through ‘personal TV station’

Harlesden latest: Police make arrest after two bombs found at flat in London

Parsons Green bomber was not investigated by MI5 after admitting he had been ‘trained to kill’ by Isis

A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off on Facebook  Islam has no problem with slavery. Never did.

Islamists Going Door-to-Door Looking To Kill Asia Bibi

A Rapist Walks Free in Coutances

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At ZeroHedge, Tyler Durden reports that the Clinton Foundation “saw contributions dry up approximately 90 percent over a three-year period between 2014 and 2017, according to financial statements.” If there’s anything surprising about this report, it’s that the Clinton Foundation still receives as much as it does ($23 million in 2017) in contributions.

Why pay if you can’t play?

Grassley Has Trump’s Back On Roberts Rebuke — ‘I Don’t Recall The Chief Attacking Obama’

Trump Dings ‘Fake News Media’ For Blaming Traffic Congestion And Low Gas Prices On Him

#PsychicNewsNetwork Trump confuses climate change with weather, prompting widespread despair  Uh, no.

President Trump Doubles Down On Criticism Of The 9th Circuit

#WhileNotProvidingEvidence Trump blames judges for ‘bedlam and chaos’ in escalating attack on courts

Trump condemned for politicising Thanksgiving Day call to troops  As if any other President would have acted differently.

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A cemetery of Google products and why they died.

I still miss Google Reader.

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Notice how the ‘mainstream media’ (a) always take a side in such cases and (b) always take the side of the striking workers, never that of the management. What are the odds that the management is always wrong in every strike? Well, if you’re a proglodyte, it’s 100%.

The dirty little secret about strikes is that any employee who doesn’t like the pay or working conditions is free to quit and go work somewhere else. What a strike says is ‘We don’t like the way you run your business and we are somehow entitled to force you to do it our way instead’. This is derived from the proglodyte notion that everybody is entitled to a job and it is the function of businesses to provide those jobs, ‘good’ jobs, regardless of whether they can actually afford to do so.

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Note that, in these days of Identity Politics, it’s vital to let people know Who You Are before they will give any credibility regarding what you have to say. And in most cases Who You Are is the sole qualification indicating that what you have to say is credible.

This technique is usually of the form ‘As An X …’,  as if just being an X is sufficient; typically there’s nothing about being an X that implies any expertise in what one is saying, which is why it’s so important to play that card right off the bat.

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Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

Eric S Raymond looks at computers.

Some years ago I predicted that eventually the core of your desktop PC would morph into a physically tiny compute engine that would merge with your smartphone, talking through standard ports and cables to full-sized peripherals like a keyboard and (a too large to be portable) flatscreen.

More recently I examined the way that compute bricks – small-form-factor fanless PCs running low-power chips – have been encroaching on the territory of traditional tower PCs. Players in this space include Jetway, Logic Supply, Partaker, and Shuttle. Poke a search engine with “fanless PC” to get good hits.

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In the video we can observe the hauteur and condescension that we came to loathe about Obama. He combines unearned technocratic arrogance with the will to power. He thinks we didn’t get enough of it during the eight-year reign during which he lectured us at regular intervals to demonstrate his superiority and put us in our place. The otherwise mysterious reference to “mommy issues” that John notes adds an obvious element of projection to this incredibly offensive display.

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I think the scraelings are correct on this one.

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Of course, ‘popular vote’ doesn’t mean anything, any more than ‘total number of runs’ means anything in the World Series. But I suppose they need to grasp for any straw they can reach.

Paul Mirengoff of Powerline pushes back.

I like and respect Chief Justice Roberts, but I disagree with him. I believe we have too many federal judges who are doing their level best to assist the left in resisting President Trump. And while I would never refer to a judge as an Obama judge, it’s more than fair to refer to one as an Obama-appointed judge. This may well have been what Trump meant.

The questions of whether it matters who appointed a federal judge and whether such judges view litigants, including President Trump, with equal regard in any meaningful sense are empirical ones. If one can predict with a high degree of accuracy how a judge will rule in a highly controversial case, or in a case challenging a Trump edict the left doesn’t like, just by knowing which president appointed that judge, then Roberts’ defense of the federal judiciary fails.

#PsychicNewsNetwork Donald Trump ‘too afraid’ to visit troops in combat zones, report says  Ah, that good old ‘unnamed official’. That’s your guarantee of hard news.

CNN Panel Goes Off The Rails When Trump’s Treatment Of The Media Comes Up

Trump excoriated by Michelle Wolf after president’s taunts over White House Correspondents’ Dinner I’m sure he’s spent a lot of time thinking about it.

Europe refrains from harsh response against Iran over terror plots for fear of emboldening Trump

#PsychicNewsNetwork What makes Donald Trump so intriguing? The fact he can’t help saying whatever is on his mind

Cindy McCain says she will ‘never get over’ Trump’s war hero slurs against late husband  And the GOP will never ger over her late husband being such a RINO.

Tulsi Gabbard To Trump: ‘Being Saudi Arabia’s Bitch Is Not America First’ Apparently being a Hawaiian Democrat inflates the ego tremendously.

Talk in Trump’s tweets tells whether tale is true: Code can mostly spot Prez lies from wording  Run that on what Obama said and let’s see who is the liar.

Criticism of Trump’s Saudi decision misses the mark  As does criticism of many of the things Trump does. The Donald is continually being nibbled to death by ducks.

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More accurately, the panic over ‘climate change’ is a — plot? say rather ‘syndrome’ — by cultural Marxists.

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Of course they are. What part of ‘illegal immigrant’ do these people not understand?

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In a paper out today in Nature, MIT researchers report that they have created and flown the first plane that doesn’t require any moving parts. This 2.45-kilogram (5.4-pound) experimental aircraft did not spin turbine blades to propel itself 60 meters (200 feet, the length of a school gym): it used electricity directly.

Steven Hayward of Poweline blows the whistle.

Yesterday we reported on research showing liberal attempts to measure “implicit” racism may actually make racial bias worse, and today there is research out of Yale confirming that the racism of liberals is more than just “implicit.” See if you can notice the howler in the very first paragraph of this press release from the Yale School of Management….

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And Trump keeps winning.

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Because inconveniencing people is a sure-fire way to convince them to join you.

I think it ought to be legal to run such people over.

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People of Color behaving badly. What are the odds?

This never happened to Pat Boone.

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Can’t say that I blame them.

UPDATE:

Kind of awesome, really.

Steve Sailer keeps bringing up topics that disturb people.

Diversity is supposed to be “our strength,” but the interracial romance marketplace generates much resentment among those groups, such as black women and East Asian men, who tend to be in less demand than their racial rivals.

Markets work even when you don’t want them to.

The reason the black women writing op-eds stick to blaming just the white Beckys rather than also the Asian Amys is, of course, that it is respectable for blacks to blame whites for their problems. For a black woman writer to admit that Asian women also tend to have advantages over her in the hair-length department would be problematic, as they say. But mostly black women are just not into lacerating self-appraisals.

I, for one, don’t find black women at all attractive. I guess that makes me a waysist.

In my 1997 National Review article “Is Love Colorblind?” I pointed out that the 1990 U.S. Census found that white men were married to Asian women 2.5 times as often as Asian men were married to white women.

Conversely, black men were married to white women 2.5 times as often as white men were married to black women.

These racial ratios imply that some Asian men and some black women are going to be out of luck, unless they want to try marrying each other (which, generally speaking, they don’t).

At least black women have an easier time getting into Harvard or Yale or Princeton than Asian men. At least that’s something.

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Nielsen said there were 6,200 migrants already camped in Tijuana and another 3,000 in Mexicali, a few hours’ drive to the east. She said most were young single men who have no legitimate claim to U.S. asylum, adding that wanting to get a job in the U.S. or be reunited with family were not reasons to be allowed in.

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The Mexican government gave the Haitians temporary transit permits, and after they failed in attempts to enter the United States, many have since applied for Mexican residency. The majority in the Central American caravan have refused Mexico’s repeated offers of residency or asylum, and vowed to cross the border.

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Perhaps they will learn from the experience that People of Color are not their friends.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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This is probably the future of the Democrat party. Be very afraid.

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Not an encouraging development.

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The future is here, it just isn’t evenly distributed.

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

Idea for a new Reality show: Rich People With Monomania.

Steve Sailer has a brain-wave.

Testing your personal DNA is hot right now, of course, but the product is increasingly moving against the growing anti-science / pro-feelings current in the culture. Personal DNA testing sounds like something that Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker came up with at an evolutionary psychology conference in 1992, notan idea in sync with the current year. Where are the feelings in the data?

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Nice work — or not — if you can get it.

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More myth than man, at this point.

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Listening to a speech, he pantomimed shooting himself in the mouth. Looking at the person speaking, I’d say he had just cause.

Brits are SO seriously humor-challenged.

Jim Carrey says Trump administration is ‘raping our system and destroying it right in front of us’

Adam McKay would ‘choose Donald Trump over George Bush and Dick Cheney’

As Predicted, San Francisco-Based Obama Judge Blocks Trump Asylum Order

Schumer Calls For Probe On Whitaker’s Ties To Trump  Surprise! There aren’t any.

Trump Trolls Democrats During Turkey Pardoning  No doubt they all took him seriously. Somebody get the smelling salts for Jim Acosta.

Susan Quinn: Trump Fatigue Syndrome: Is There a Cure?  Not for Susan Quinn.

Obama suggests Trump is held back by ‘racism and mommy issues’  I was thinking the same thing about Obama.

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Mmmmm … could be.

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Unfortunately, they have no advice for how to cope with your Angry Uncle punching you out for being a Pussy Communist, with your parents’ approval. They never think it through.

Not one of my uncles, who all fought in The War, would have hesitated.

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Just because it’s called the Democratic Party doesn’t mean they allow any, you know, democracy. Let’s get real.

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Trump: Making proglodyte heads explode since 2015.