Ace of Spades does not suffer fools gladly. (Or at all, really.)

National Review is tired of waiting for people to accept their begrudging, compelled apologies, so they’re accepting their own apology now.

You’re welcome.

Oh, and send them money.

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Why has the conduct of the black nationalists escaped notice while that of the Covington students has been unfairly denounced? I think it’s due, in large part, to the identity politics hierarchy. Black women (though under challenge) remain at the top. Black men aren’t far behind. White Catholic boys are firmly entrenched at the bottom.

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Except that they didn’t. I would be embarrassed to have a Congresswoman so ignorant representing me.

I guess the fact-checkers at the Washington Post were too busy piling on Trump to deal with this.

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Well, at least they don’t have those white racists running their country and being productive and oppressing everyone.

(Man, that’s dedication! He gave up his Davos trip!)

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And why wouldn’t they? Fashionable Victim status brings enough Pokemon Virtue SignallingPoints that can be traded for valuable prizes.

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It’s no question that Saturday Night Live has just about completely lost its ability to be funny. If you’re still scratching your head as to why the once loveable sketch comedy has fallen so far off, just look to the behavior of its creative staff. On Monday SNL writer Sarah Beattie posted a crude Twitter status offering lewd sex acts for anyone willing to harm Nicolas Sandmann, the Catholic teen accused of racism for merely standing in front of a triggered native American man.

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As anything that is mostly an anti-Republican hatchet job will. The title tells you everything you need to know.

Kevin Williamson reminds us of some inconvenient truth.

David Klinghoffer scoffs at the notion of “passively allowing our views to be determined by others.” It has been a while, but, if memory serves, that is more or less how I learned algebra. Physics and chemistry, too.

Where we disagree is this: I do not believe that lawyers and novelists have anything of real value to contribute to our knowledge of evolution, and I have not seen any evidence that they do, however committed and well-intentioned these amateurs may be.

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See, this is why we need open borders. These people would feel right at home in Chicago or any other Democrat-run metropolitan area.

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‘Ableism’?

I’m an ism, you’re an ism, he’s an ism, she’s an ism, wouldn’t you like to be an ism too?

I suspect that it’s not just disabled people that need protection from online abuse….

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Because we all know that such is the main threat to The World Today, right?

I really wish that there were such a thing as ‘Alt-Right Christian Mercenaries’ so that I could go join them.

Ah, well.

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So we’ve solved climate change and AlGore + dog will shut up about it, right?

Foolish mortal….

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There is no corner of life into which ‘vegans’ cannot intrude.

David Cole explores an interesting question.

The point is, there’s no shortage of writers who’ve envisioned a future in which sex, sexism, and other gender-related issues continue to exist.

But you know what’s conspicuously missing from the dystopia genre? Race. No one likes to write stories of a future world in which race is still a thing. Why? Why is it easy to believe that the battle of the sexes will continue after a nuclear war or a devastating plague, but racial tensions will somehow vanish? It’s the Lathe of Heavenprinciple, the belief that in the future we’ll still have every current social ill except racism (in The Lathe of Heaven, author Ursula Le Guin presents an ashy future in which all humans have become the color gray).

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Recently, Calhoun’s inquiry piqued the interest of researchers in the United Kingdom, who wondered if it was possible to identify an author from his or her punctuation alone.

For decades, linguists have been able to use the quirks of written texts to pinpoint the author. The process, called stylometric analysis or stylometry, has dozens of legal and academic applications, helping researchers authenticate anonymous works of literature and even nab criminals like the Unabomber. But it usually focuses on an author’s word choices and grammar or the length of his or her sentences. Until now, punctuation has been largely ignored.

But according to a recent paper led by Alexandra N. M. Darmon of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, an author’s use of punctuation can be extremely revealing. Darmon’s team assembled nearly 15,000 documents from 651 different authors and “de-worded” each text. “Is it possible to distinguish literary genres based on their punctuation sequences?” the researchers asked. “Do the punctuation styles of authors evolve over time?”

Apparently, yes.

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The liberal media had been left reeling after a weekend of spreading misinformation and smears against a group of innocent Catholic high school students who were being harassed in front of the Lincoln Memorial. At the start of the Monday’ edition of his show, on Fox News Channel, Tucker Carlson shamed those who jumped to the conclusions that fit into their narrative. Naming names, Carlson also called out those on the right who did the same thing.

Nice to find at least one person willing to do the heavy lifting on this.

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

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Now, imagine what would have happened had this incident occurred in California or Florida.

The Other McCain comments: Advice to Criminals: Avoid Texas

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Gee, I wonder why?

Experts quoted in the story ascribe the flight to several reasons, not the least of which is the reduction of the local and state tax deduction. People with the kind of wealth we’re talking about often have more than one home and can go live in Florida where the taxes are more manageable. Financial advisors are recommending their high net worth clients to move out of state if possible to avoid the tax burden and many are taking their advice.

Oh, yeah.

Tapper to Senator: If Trump’s Immigration View Is ‘Racist,’ Were You Once Racist?

Lady Gaga Says Pence Is ‘Worst Representation Of What It Means To Be A Christian’  And, of course, she’s an expert … Oh, wait….

Trump Silences Critical Media With Surprise Visit To MLK Memorial

Now Kamala Harris is a 2020 candidate, Trump stands no chance at winning another election  Well, we’ll just see about that.

BAUER: The Media Has Trump Bipolar Disorder

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

I must confess that the phrase ‘dumber than a box of rocks’ leapt immediately to mind.

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One of the ugliest characteristics of the DemLegHump Media is that even when a story is demonstrated to be nonsense they keep going on about it as if it were true.

We are in a state of bloodless civil war. No common principles, no respect for common institutions or traditions unite the various groups of politicians who are struggling for power. To loot somebody or something is the common object under a thick varnish of pious phrases.

— Robert 3d Marquess of Salisbury, 5 February 1889

There is nothing new under the sun.

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Twitter has refused to delete many calls for violence by verified Twitter celebrities against conservative Catholic students or let the offenders stay on the platform.

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

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Plenty of room in Orthodoxy for ex-Catholics. They make some of our best converts.

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As it tends to do.

UPDATE: ABC Admits Others ‘Rushed to Judgement’ on Catholic Teens Viral Vid, Ignores They Did Too

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And why not? You don’t have to DO anything or actually BE anything, just ‘identify’.

Fashionable victim status can be traded for valuable prizes.

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Presumably they got their money’s worth.

Let this be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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

Steve Sailer continues following the Two Minute Hate of the Catholic kids.

UPDATE: A Statement by the Student in the Middle of the Maelstrom

UPDATE: Merciless Indian Savages and Their Mendacious Media Sodomites, by Audacious Epigone

MSNBC Analyst: Buzzfeed’s Been Debunked, but Hey, Something Could Still Turn Up!

MSNBC Guest Calls Trump A Domestic Terrorist, Compares Speech To ‘1933 Nazi Germany’

CNN Blows Gasket Over Trump’s ‘Inflammatory,’ ‘Scare-Mongering’ Speech Offering to Compromise

Clueless: WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ Sees ‘No Excuse’ To Skip Real-Time TV Trump Rebuttals

Gillibrand Doesn’t Think Trump’s ‘Racist’ Border Policies Were Racist When She Supported Them  Also, she wasn’t running for President then.

BuzzFeed Doubles Down On Trump Story, But Won’t Discuss Documents Or Sources  “Sources? We don’t need no stinkin’ sources!”

On CNN, Buzzfeed Defends Dubious Report With Shady Deflections

We Watch CNN’s Terrible Media Show So You Don’t Have To  Brian Stelter looks like a bit player from Seinfeld.

Trump confuses weather with climate change again: ‘Wouldn’t be bad to have a little good old fashioned Global Warming right now!’  He was, of course, making a joke. But the media pinheads have no sense of humor.

Two years of Trump’s anti-immigration tactics have put marginalised groups in peril – another couple will create complete devastation  The fact that Trump’s policies aren’t any different than Obama’s is, of course, contrary to the Narrative and therefore Not Seen.

Trump says San Antonio shows border walls works, despite city being 150 miles from border and having no wall  Which had nothing to do with what he was saying, but the dimwits in the media can’t keep up.

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Well, for one thing, I don’t think they spend much time reading diet books or government nutrition guidelines.

That may be the real secret.

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Well, at least they don’t have those white racists running the country and being productive.

Nabila Ramdani, being virtually non-white for Pokemon Victim Point purposes, has to relate everything to ‘whiteness’ because that’s her job. Making sense is not her job, so she doesn’t bother.

They actually pay people to write this shit.

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Except that her son didn’t harass the Native American man; the Native American man was trying to harass her son.

We got yer fake news, right here.

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Why would they update it? They got what they wanted.

I’m a big fan of flatness, myself.

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After one look at the author, I can see why.

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Community Thrift is a second-hand staple in San Francisco, a spot consistently mobbed with shoppers and donators alike, employees say. For the past week, though, the mob of people armed with donation bags has grown. By a lot.

Another weird thing has been happening, says Susan, who works the front desk: People have been thanking their objects before giving them away. She rolls her eyes.

Breaking: Trump Was Getting Impeached No Matter What

WashPost Slams Trump Fast Food, Touted Obama ‘Love Story’ with Cheeseburgers  Trump is the Dick Deadeye of politics.

This may be the smoking gun in the Russia investigation  They hope they hope they hope.

You Know BuzzFeed’s “HUGE SCOOP” That NeverTrumpers Like John Podhoretz Spent All Day Jacking Themselves Off To? Mueller’s Office Has Made the “Rare” Move of Specifically Denying That Report

BuzzFeed’s Trump Story Latest In Long List Of Russia Bombshells That Weren’t  But they keep on hoping.

CNN And MSNBC Repeatedly Floated Impeachment Over Disputed BuzzFeed Report  Fake news springs eternal in the DemLegHump Media breast.

Chances of Trump running in 2020 election ‘diminishing every day’, says former White House adviser  They hope they hope they hope.

Chris Cuomo: Mueller’s Office Did Not ‘Do The Media Any Favors,’ Helped Trump Out  How dare he not do the media any favors!

PBS, NPR Skip Their Own Poll Finding of 50% Latino Approval for Trump  It’s all about the Narrative, Larry.

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Obviously Virginia isn’t what it used to be. All those Democrats moving into participate in the D.C. trough, no doubt.

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Let’s hear it for government shutdowns.

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All across the United States, private property rights are under assault – assault by state and federal legislators and regulators, environmentalist groups, wealthy liberal foundations, corporations and other special interests, often acting in coordination or collusion with one another. They are seizing or taking control of lands and other valuable property without due process or just compensation, under a host of environmental and other justifications, many of which are fictional at best.

Scott Johnson at Powerline does some fisking.

Lo these many years since the Russian Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the New York Times is still doing public relations for Communism. The most recent example — I find it almost unbelievable — is Nicholas Kristof’s January 18 Times column “Why Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than Cuba” (accessible here on Outline).

For those not aware of it, Outline (https://outline.com) offers a tool that, if you paste in a piece’s URL, will eliminate all the tedious persiflage and just give you the story in an easily readable form. It will also pierce many paywalls, such as that of the New York Times.

“Cuba has the Medicare of All that many Americans dream about” may be true in a sense, but this is so old and so lame. Kristof’s column is based on Cuba’s low infant mortality rate as reported. He acknowledges the gauzy veil of Cuban health care statistics yet he fails to get at the essential problems they raise. He is a fool for Communism. He promotes what Jay Nordlinger aptly derided as “The myth of Cuban health care” in his 2007 NR column on Michael Moore’s Sicko.

Jay noted that “Cuba’s infant-mortality rate remains respectable,” but put it in the context that Kristof failed to provide. Jay noted, for example, “if there is any sign of abnormality, any reason for concern — the pregnancy is ‘interrupted.’ That is the going euphemism for abortion. The abortion rate in Cuba is sky-high, perversely keeping the infant-mortality rate down.” See also Katherine Hirschfeld’s case study below. The word “abortion” doesn’t appear in Kristof’s column.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Leave bicycles to the young and stupid.

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To a proglodyte, everything looks like a Nazi.

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President Donald Trump brought up House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar vineyard Friday to criticize her for planning to travel out of the country during the shutdown after he banned her from using military aircraft for the trip Thursday.

“Why would Nancy Pelosi leave the Country with other Democrats on a seven day excursion when 800,000 great people are not getting paid,” Trump wrote on Twitter Friday. “Also, could somebody please explain to Nancy [and] her ‘big donors’ in wine country that people working on farms (grapes) will have easy access in!”

Pelosi and her husband own a California vineyard and mansion worth at least $5 million that brings in thousands of dollars in grape sales each year, according to TIME Inc.’s Money magazine. California’s “recruitment of agricultural guest workers has grown sevenfold” since 2011, and it ranks fifth among states hiring for foreign workers, reported The Los Angeles Times.