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After 11 years of hemorrhaging money, the Baltimore Sun on Friday announced that the Newseum, a 250,000 square foot temple dedicated to journalists by journalists, will close.

The Sun reported that the $500 million building will shut down at the end of 2019, finally ending the saga of a Washington D.C. museum that was always in debt and had five chief executives in the last nine years. In 2017, the Washington Post announced it was on “death watch” after a “stunning decline.”

Ain’t That a Shame.

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Dynamite drumming.

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No good deed goes unpunished.

The subtext of the Independent article, of course, is that this wouldn’t happen in a Modern Progressive Country with Socialized Medicine Like Britain.

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There certainly is systematic racism in America today, but it’s anti-white racism, which nobody in the Chattering Class will admit.

To the extent that there is any anti-minority racism, it’s a result of modern minority misbehavior rather than a relic of the Bad Old Days.

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This will, of course, only work in areas of town populated by white people. (Like ‘progressive’ enclaves such as Seattle or Portland, the whitest city in America.)

Send one of these robots through the Vibrant Diversity ‘hood and see how far it gets. I’ll lay my money on three blocks, max.

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J. K. Rowling, having grown up in modern Democratic Socialist Britain, couldn’t conceive of an area of life that wasn’t regulated by the State — so, OBVIOUSLY, there HAD TO BE a ‘Ministry of Magic’. (Which, apparently, pays for a full ride of all the students at Hogwarts.)

And yet Rowling, despite portraying accurately the pernicious effects of such government regulation in the Harry Potter books, remains a dyed-in-the-wool proglodyte.

There is no hope.

Jon Gabriel lays it out.

Another week, another dumb internet outrage. This time it was about the Covington kids. Before that, it was the fake news story and that celebrity who said the thing and a mean lady who yelled at a nice man and the bad man who was mean to the dog.

Each time, the usual suspects bellied up to their keyboards and rage-typed at each other until the next “scandal” made them type at different people. If you want to remain sane in the face of today’s Outrage-Industrial Complex, I’ll let you in on a secret: Twitter doesn’t matter. The viral video doesn’t matter. Our opinions don’t matter. This article doesn’t matter. None of this matters.

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What does matter is holding a damp towel to your sick kid’s forehead and bringing in the groceries for your elderly neighbor and surprising your wife with take-out from that Vietnamese place she loves even though you hate fish sauce. Almost no one will notice it; certainly not the strangers who “follow” you online or the historians of the next age. These little acts still matter more than anything.

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‘Don’t commit crimes’? Hey, why didn’t we think of that….

Feel free to commit crimes against Michael Moore. I’m sure he’ll understand.

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‘Vegan’ and ‘happy meal’ do not belong in the same sentence.

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The style guides say: keep your sentences short. Write cleanly, cut as many words as you can, and don’t overburden your reader’s short-term memory by delaying the arrival of the full stop. But sometimes a sentence just needs to be long. The world resists our efforts to enclose it between a capital and a full stop. The sentence has to withhold its end because life is like that, refusing to fold itself neatly into subject, verb and object.

Long sentences are ideal for people who can keep up. Those of us who can keep up don’t have a lot of use for those who can’t.

For what it’s worth, I too love Frank Sinatra and Karen Carpenter.

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The tiny gribble?—?less than an inch long?—?lives in coastal marine environments and feasts upon wood. It gobbles up sticks and logs that wash into the sea from river estuaries, performing an important ecological function. But it also can be a damaging nuisance, eating the wood from boats and piers, causing considerable damage.

Unlike other wood-eating creatures, such as termites, that require thousands of microbes for digestion, the gribble’s gut needs no such help. Its digestive system is sterile, meaning it’s free of the complex microbial communities that inhabit other intestines, including ours. Scientists say that understanding how the gribble breaks down wood could help them develop better methods for turning timber into fuel. Currently, wood that is burned to generate energy must first be broken down in costly and energy-intensive processes. Gribbles may hold the key to a cheaper and energy-efficient means of unlocking the energy in wood.

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

Palestinian Authority Uses Foreign Aid to Pay Millions to Terrorists

Media Silence on Muslim Rape Gangs in Finland

Beware of the Knife

Department Of Defense Identifies 3 Out Of 4 Americans Killed In Syria Attack

Sudan police officers shoot at people mourning man killed during anti-government protests, witness says  Seems pretty consistent.

Islamic Terrorist Arrested in Spain Didn’t Even Pray

Egypt: Four churches closed by furious mob — “The hate is clear”

Linda Sarsour Promotes Anti-Israel Movement During Women’s March

Islamist extremists kill 10 UN peacekeepers in Mali

Forgotten Women: How one Kenyan woman escaped FGM and saved thousands more girls from the cut

Iran threatens to ‘eliminate Israel from the Earth’ as tensions escalate over Syria airstrikes

Egypt sentences TV host to year in prison for interviewing gay man

Syria attack: Second suicide bombing in days hits US convoy

Afghanistan attack: More than 100 security officers killed in Taliban assault

Skier’s helmet camera captures moment Israel intercepts missile fired from Syria aimed at Golan Heights

How the West let down the people of Sudan – and emboldened regimes across the Middle East  All of which are –wait for it — run by Muslims.

Here’s The Scientist Who Helped ISIS Get Its Chemical Weapons

Most Palestinians Killed in Gaza Protests Have Terrorist Ties

Three Arrested In Michigan For Allegedly Planning To Join ISIS, Wanted To ‘Kill Non-Believers’

More than 140 rescued refugees taken to Libya despite violence and human rights abuses

Deaths of Saudi sisters found bound together in New York’s Hudson River ruled to be suicide

Pakistan police shooting: Officers face murder charges after nine-year-old boy exposes extra-judicial killing of family

Yemen political parties to agree prisoner swap terms ‘within days’ as UK pledges millions to shore up peace deal

From flogging journalists to crushing protests, the ‘staggering’ levels of repression in Iran

Turkey’s Islamist Push into South Asia Aided by American Proxies

Safiah Saleh: Kidnapped woman brought home to Britain 34 years after being taken to war-torn Yemen

UK starts returning migrants to France to ‘deter’ Channel boat crossings

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I haven’t tried using these but they look as if they would be useful.

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Don’t laugh. It might come in handy during the post-socialism apocalypse.

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hey hitchhike across Europe, instantly recognizable in the wide-bottomed, corduroy trousers, white shirts and colored jackets that identify them as bricklayers, bakers, carpenters, stonemasons and roofers.

They are “Wandergesellen,” or journeymen — a vestige of the Middle Ages in modern Europe — young men, and these days women, too, who have finished their required training in any number of trades and are traveling to gather experience. Most are from German-speaking countries.

In the past, journeymen traveled under the auspices of a trade association, and today many still do. But many also take up the practice freely, though still adhering to the strict, often arcane, rules handed down largely through word of mouth to preserve the tradition.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Was there ever a more perfect story for the DemLegHump Media?

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If you’re worried about the way baristas at Starbucks judge you, you have bigger problems than how to order.

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Sounds as if they’ve got it handled.

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Give ’em guns and send ’em back. Tell them they have to solve their own problems

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

I guess he’s taking over from Jeff Flake.

‘Worst in Cinema’ Awards Blows Its Golden Raspberry at Trump, First Lady

Pompeo Fires Back At Kerry For Suggesting Trump Should Resign

Trump ‘far less dangerous’ than Dick Cheney, says Vice star Christian Bale

Jeffries Seems To Walk Back Calling Trump The ‘Grand Wizard’  Apparently Trump is not allowed to be grand at anything.

Mob Movies?! CNN Plays ‘Godfather’ Clip to Attack Trump on Alleged Cohen Intimidation

Trump administration ‘rolling back women’s rights by 50 years’ by changing definitions of domestic violence and sexual assault  Well, not really.

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Time to start eating at home.

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Let’s all break out the violins.

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It won’t happen, of course. But sometimes the old ways are best.

Do Pelosi while you’re at it.

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‘Placed on leave’? How about ‘locked in jail’?

Ace of Spades dishes the dirt.

Prosecutors are currently looking at a Stolen Valor charge against him….

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They ought also to have jerked his license for being too stupid to be on the road with other people.

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Robots are capable of building all kinds of structures, but it’s usually in service of research. As cool as a spiky plastic pavilion looks, it’s not exactly livable.

Australian company FBR is taking a different tack. It’s spent the last few years working on a robot called Hadrian X that will make bricklaying easier and faster. The robot is mounted to the back of a truck, where its 100-foot arm is able to grab bricks and lay them in a precise arrangement.

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Because they’ve always been so accurate before.

The Antiplanner turns over a rock.

More than eighteen years ago, the Onion reported that “98 percent of commuters favor public transit for others” so that everyone else can drive on uncongested roads.

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The old Dan Rather Rule. The BabylonBee is entertaining; Snopes, not so much.

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Yeah — let’s just not go there. That wouldn’t help the Narrative at all.

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Can’t say that I blame him.

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In the latest example of the liberal broadcast networks burying the scandals Democratic politicians, ABC, CBS, and NBC ran away at full speed from Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who was forced to step down from key posts Wednesday following accusations she mishandled a rape allegation by a female staffer. This, after they pushed aside the breaking news last week.

“Democratic Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee, of Texas, is stepping down from two major roles as she fights off criticism of her handling of a sexual assault claimed by a former aide,” reported anchor Bret Baier during Wednesday’s Special Report on the Fox News Channel. “Jackson Lee is giving up the chairmanship of a key House Judiciary subcommittee. She is also resigning as chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.”

CBS Spins Trump as ‘Beholden’ to Limbaugh vs. Dems Fighting President’s ‘Bad Behavior’  They say that like it was a bad thing.

Travel company gives away free Trump stress balls to people booking Mexico holidays

MSNBC’s Eleanor Clift Praises Dems for Refusing to Negotiate With Republican ‘Terrorists’

Democrats investigate White House security clearances of Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and other Trump associates

Barnicle Suggests Trump Represents ‘Clear and Present Danger to Our Democracy’

MSNBC Claims Anyone Wearing MAGA Hat Is Looking to Fight, Covington Kids Are Symbol of White Privilege

Pelosi Officially Cancels State Of The Union  She’ll regret it. She’s on Trump’s court now.

NYT’s Blow Compares Trump to David Duke, Says His Campaign Was ‘Blue Print’ For Present GOP

Why Trump doesn’t always get it wrong on the Middle East  That’s a big admission for a Voice of the Crust.

CNN Edits Trump Clip to Appear He Broke LGBTQ Promise

Ace of Spades does a profile of Nathan Philips.

You guys probably know this, but Chief Refer Madness was not in fact a “Marine Recon Ranger” (a thing which does not exist) but instead was a refrigerator mechanic who went AWOL three times and served at all times in wartorn Nebraska.

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Weep, weep for these unfortunate ones.

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Georgia’s new Governor, Brian Kemp, may want to send New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo a thank you note and a bushel basket of peaches.

That’s because another New York-based, firearms-related business has made the decision to expand its operations not in the Empire State with its highly restrictive gun control laws, but in this case in Georgia with its far friendlier business and political climate.

Check-Mate Industries, based in West Babylon, N.Y., makes handgun and rifle magazines, among other firearms-related equipment as well as life-saving devices for the medical industry. The company is an original equipment manufacturer for firearms makers and the U.S. military.

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Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar continued to promulgate a debunked narrative on Tuesday by misrepresenting an incident between Catholic high school boys, black supremacists and American Indian activists.

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Omar tweeted on Tuesday evening that the Covington students were “taunting 5 Black men before they surrounded Phillips and led racist chants.” The five black men the Minnesota congresswoman was referring to were members of Black Hebrew Israelites, an organization designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a black supremacist group “on the extremist fringe.”

The full video shows that while the Black Hebrew Israelites criticized the students’ “racist” MAGA hats and referred to them with derogatory terms such as “crackers” and “incest children,” the students did not engage in the confrontation. Rather, they chanted the Covington Catholic spirit cheer to drown out the vulgar shouts.

UPDATE: Isn’t it rich?

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A U.S. District Court judge allowed a forestry company’s defamation lawsuit against Greenpeace and affiliated groups to proceed Tuesday, but dismissed racketeering claims leveled against the environmentalists.

It’s the latest development in a multi-year legal battle between Resolute Forest Products and Greenpeace.

“Although the Judge did not allow all of Resolute’s claims to proceed, we are pleased the proceedings will now move forward on our defamation and unfair competition claims against Greenpeace,” Seth Kursman, spokesman for Resolute, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Google’s charitable branch Google.org has donated $250,000 to the Southern Poverty Law Center, since 2016. The SPLC is a liberal bastion of hate against Christians, conservatives, and anyone who dares to question left-wing values. It has worked with Google and its sister company YouTube in the past. The SPLC is also one of the trusted flaggers responsible for marking videos considered to be “hateful” on Google’s sister site YouTube.

Google also recently announced that it had launched a new program to pay its employees to do work for nonprofit groups that are partnered with Google. One of the partners, listed on Google.org’s website, is the SPLC. Google will theoretically pay its employees to work for the SPLC, should they choose to do so.

Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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I suppose they need one of each if the kid is ‘gender fluid’.

I am not making this up. I wish I were.

Steve Sailer says ‘told you so’.

The media’s latest Days of Rage, in which a white boy drove the national press into a frenzy by smiling at the leftist Person of Color banging a drum in his face, was like a greatest-hits collection of my old observations. So I’m going to take a victory lap to review how ideas I’ve been offering for years help explain much of the latest elite fury.

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Now researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant — pothos ivy — to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it. The modified plants express a protein, called 2E1, that transforms these compounds into molecules that the plants can then use to support their own growth. The team published its findings Dec. 19 in Environmental Science & Technology.

“People haven’t really been talking about these hazardous organic compounds in homes, and I think that’s because we couldn’t do anything about them,” said senior author Stuart Strand, who is a research professor in the UW’s civil and environmental engineering department. “Now we’ve engineered houseplants to remove these pollutants for us.”

Or you could use a Molekule.

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For sufficiently eccentric definitions of ‘America’.

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Yup, Bill Gates and his crew just PICKED PEOPLE UP and THREW THEM OUT OF THEIR HOMES, just THREW THEM OUT. And don’t get me started on Jeff Bezos….

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The periscope itself is not the rotating tube most people think of thanks to Hollywood movies. Nowadays, the Pilot reported, subs are equipped with two photonics masts that rotate 360 degrees. High-resolution cameras send back images that are displayed on large monitors that everyone in the control room can see.

“The Navy got together and they asked a bunch of J.O.s and junior guys, ‘What can we do to make your life better?’” said Lt. j.g. Kyle Leonard, the USS John Warner’s assistant weapons officer. “And one of the things that came out is the controls for the scope. It’s kind of clunky in your hand; it’s real heavy.”

In an effort to cut costs, Lockheed Martin and Navy officials were looking at off-the-shelf technology, and for crew members who grew up playing video games, the answer was simple. The Xbox controller typically costs less than $30. The Pilot’s report said the photonic mast handgrip and imaging control panel cost about $38,000.

Rather convincing evidence that our military procurement process is horribly broken.