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I haven’t tested whether this would work on Democrats but I suspect that it would.

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But they were thinking it.

‘Don’t hate me cause you ain’t me, fellas,’ congresswoman tweets.

Why not? She hates them because they aren’t her. Turn about is fair play.

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Yet to be explained: Why the mere fact that ‘the rich get richer’ is a bad thing, much less why something ought to be ‘done about it’.

Belgium: A Surge of Asylum Seekers From Gaza

Female member of Isis ‘morality police’ charged over murder of five-year-old girl kept as slave in Iraq

Cairo bombing: At least two killed after explosion hits tourist bus near Giza Pyramids

Two Tourists, Tour Guide Dead After Bomb Explosion Near Giza Pyramids

Sweden: See Nothing, Say Nothing

Zineb el-Rhazoui: The Crime Against Charlie Hebdo Will Remain Unpunished

Egypt police kill 40 suspected militants a day after tourists die in roadside bomb blast  Would that ours were that efficient.

Swiss man arrested over links to alleged killers of Scandinavian tourists in Morocco

Five Mujahideen Rounded up in Rotterdam

Bangladesh election marred by ‘vote-rigging’, deadly violence and fears of media crackdown

Off With His Head!

Confident Hamas Claims Foreign Policy Independence After Tehran Visit

Ozkan Ozdil: Man arrested at Luton airport under terror laws fought against Isis in Syria

Confusion swirls over US policy in Syria after Trump nixes talk of troop withdrawal

Allahu Akhbar at Schiphol Airport

Allahu Akhbar at the Victoria Station

Two men discovered hidden inside mattresses on van crossing from Morocco to Spain

Suspected far-right attacker ‘intentionally’ rams car into crowd of Syrian and Afghan citizens in Germany  The pot is starting to boil.

Swedish Court Sentences Culture-Enriching Child-Rapist to Six Years in Prison

Women rescued from forced marriages made to pay for repatriation

Culture-Enrichers on the Rampage in Amberg

US doctor sacked after saying she would give Jews the ‘wrong meds’

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe announces hunger strike to protest lack of medical care in Iran prison

Spanish coastguards rescue 400 migrants trying to cross Mediterranean in first two days of 2019  At that rate, we only have 73,000 to go.

Asylum Seekers Go on Rampage in Bavarian Town, Beating Citizens and Shouting “Kafir”

Isis supporter plotted to kill 100 people in Oxford Street terror attack while going through Prevent deradicalisation programme  Guess it really works, huh.

When is a Beheading Not a Beheading?

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The New York Times reports that when Nancy Pelosi was asked whether she considers herself President Trump’s equal, she replied, “The Constitution does.” It’s difficult to say which is more staggering, the ignorance or the arrogance of that boast.

But not unexpected.

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Must be all those white males, the swine.

Taki puts the boot in.

The demise of The Weekly Standard was a pleasure, not because I like to see print magazines go down the drain—to the contrary—but because of its parentage, William Kristol and John Podhoretz. These two unpleasant neocons are known as the “Poisoned Dwarf” and “Four Pizzas,” respectively, and rarely have I seen two bigger con men get away with more stuff than this pair. They are smarmy, loquacious, and incompetent except for self-promotion, and were the movers and cheerleaders for the worst foreign-policy decision Uncle Sam has made, with the possible exception of Vietnam. They, of course, have never apologized but insist to this day that going to war to ensure the safety of Likud is good for America.

Donald Trump Will Resign the Presidency in 2019 in Exchange for Immunity for Him and His Family, Former Bush Adviser Says  You can’t make this stuff up.

Obscuring the Issue of Trump’s Character  Jonah Goldberg continues his anti-Trump ways.

Warren Calls Trump An ‘Accelerate’ Because He ‘Takes A Problem’ And ‘Sets It Off’ I guess that makes her an ‘Obfuscate’ because she takes a problem and confuses the Hell out of it.

Pelosi Doesn’t Rule Impeaching Trump Out, Says Indicting A Sitting President Could Happen

NBC News Veteran Warns About Cable News’ ‘Trump Circus’

US Congressman Repeatedly Compares Trump To Hitler

CHAVEZ: It’s Time For Congress To Call Trump’s Bluff And Pass A Budget  Good luck with that.

Democrats Prepared To Impeach Trump On First Day Of New Congress  Well, they can try.

Rick Wilson Claims That Trump Spends His Time ‘Hoovering Up Rails Of Adderall’

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Perhaps she thinks that there are too many Dicks in the Senate.

Can’t say she’s wrong.

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This is why we need a wall. Duh.

Ace of Spades has the skinny.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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This is news?  I suspect Americans feel the same way.

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

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It would work better if she didn’t look like the Wicked Witch of the West.

Every time I see her I want to throw a bucket of water on her just to see what would happen.

Joe-Bob Briggs evaluates our new Ambassador to the U.N.

The journalists are furious.

(For those of you just tuning in, I don’t defame the reputations of real reporters and newsmen with the froufrou French word. I’m only talking about the posers.)

As I say, the journalistes are furious. They’re furious because Trump has nominated that woman, that unqualified amateur, to be Ambassador to the United Nations.

Why are they furious?

Because she’s a reporter. A newswoman. One of them.

It’s very telling that the working press corps thinks being a member of the working press corps doesn’t equip you with the knowledge to work in government.

I’m willing to take their word for it.

I suggest that our Ambassador to the U.N. ought to be Paulie Walnuts from The Sopranos. ‘Nice country you got there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it.’

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Their idea is a border less secure than Obama’s house.

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How is this ‘powerful’? How does this differ from a mashup of twenty pictures of Nancy Pelosi?

The ‘new wave’ of Congresswomen don’t look a bit different from the ‘old wave’. They all have the same BitterBeerFace that Maxine Waters displays all the time.

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My brain insists that I have no more friends than I can count on my two hands.

That seems a manageable number.

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Much like voting for a Democrat, this simple tool makes the user feel as if something is being accomplished with absolutely no credible evidence that anything at all is happening.

I like it.

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It should go without saying that a Senator will support policies he agrees with and oppose ones he doesn’t like. It should also go without saying that a Senator will not “comment on every tweet or fault” of a president, and certainly not a president of the same political party. The people of Utah didn’t elect Romney to provide punditry. It shocks me that Romney would even think this role might be on the table.

Romney’s pledge to speak out against “significant statements or actions that are divisive” is pathetic. Any statement or action of a conservative-leaning Republican president is going to be “divisive.”

Apparently, Romney wants Trump to be a punching bag. That didn’t work so well when Romney was the GOP standard-bearer.

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I agree. In fact, I think that the Democrats ought to bar from their nomination process anybody who has a net worth of more than a million dollars.

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Also: Florida man filmed attacking McDonald’s employee in argument over plastic straws

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PETA wants a lot of things that they’re not going to get.

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Well, we’re just superior, is all.

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Immigration experts tell The Daily Caller that President Donald Trump’s vision for a border barrier is informed directly by the requests of Border Patrol agents.

I’ve always thought that guard dogs and machine guns were an essential component but apparently not.

Mitt Romney Writes Anti-Trump Op-Ed, Questions President’s ‘Character’ *sigh* (Ah, The “Character” Issue)

The Trump Tax Cut: Even Worse Than You’ve Heard  Sorry, New York Times, there’s no such thing as a bad tax cut.

MSNBC’s Mika Says Mitt Romney Will Bring ‘Dose Of Reality’ To Trump  No, he’s just Another Sore Anti-Trump Loser.

Dying Harry Reid On Trump: He’s Amoral, Has No Conscience  I think this is called ‘projection’.

 Trump Derangement Syndrome — Using Dirty Means To Destroy The President

In Re: Romney  The problem is that Romney just performed the equivalent of the shortstop taking a bat to the pitcher in the middle of a game.

Trump is ‘without question the worst president we’ve ever had’, Harry Reid says  Worse than Jimmy Carter? Seriously? Seriously?

What has Trump tweeted today? The latest Twitter posts from the US President and what they really mean  ‘What they really mean’? Since when did journalists become mind-readers?

Romney Will Not Endorse Trump For 2020 Until He Sees ‘What The Alternatives Are’  The obvious alternative is ‘losing’, which historically Romney has favored.

Jewish Groups, Holocaust Museum React Differently To Rep. Comparing Trump To Hitler

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Vegetarians are the Social Justice Warriors of nutrition.

The late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain famously quipped that meat avoiders “are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit”.

The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.

— Malcolm X

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Elite projection is the belief, among relatively fortunate and influential people, that what those people find convenient or attractive is good for the society as a whole.  Once you learn to recognize this simple mistake, you see it everywhere.  It is perhaps the single most comprehensive barrier to prosperous, just, and liberating cities.

This is not a call to bash elites.  I am making no claim about the proper distribution of wealth and opportunity, or about anyone’s entitlement to influence. But I am pointing out a mistake that elites are constantly at risk of making.  The mistake is to forget that elites are always a minority, and that planning a city or transport network around the preferences of a minority routinely yields an outcome that doesn’t work for the majority.  Even the elite minority won’t like the result in the end.

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Well, duh – Democrats.

Michelle Malkin blows the whistle.

Border wall opponent Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., tweeted three times between Christmas and New Year’s Eve bemoaning the plight of illegal immigrants and their children.

But not a peep was heard from Harris about the brutal shooting death of Newman, California, Police Department Cpl. Ronil Singh at the hands of a Mexican gang member illegally in the country and protected by the very sanctuary policies Harris champions.

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Sure, yeah, go ahead, read the articles, watch the hand-wringing and distribute the crying towels. I’ll wait.

Back? Good. I’d like to pose a question of my own: Who the Hell cares what it means to ‘be a conservative’ in the The Age of Trump? Who. The. Hell. Cares?

1. There is no Age of Trump. Trump is President and is doing stuff that is shaking the box like there’s no tomorrow; that’s not just an issue for conservatives but for everybody. He is not the leader of a movement, he was not thrown onto the national scene by mobs in the streets or an intellectual wave that swept the nation; he’s just a guy who was fed up with what he saw going on and managed to connect with a bunch of people who felt the same way and have been ignored for a long long time. He’s not Lenin, he’s Jack Cade. There is no Age of Trump.
2. Trump is not a conservative, as he and the staff of every think tank in Washington will gladly tell you, so he has nothing to do with what it ‘means to be a conservative’, in the Age Of Trump or anytime else. Most ‘conservatives’ who are involved in politics are worse than Marxists for trying to define who is In With The In Crowd and who is not; this is just intellectual masturbation and these people have too much time on their hands. Get a life.
3. President is a job. Either you like the job he’s doing or you don’t. Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

Sheesh. These people….

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The reason the Scouting USA organization is facing bankruptcy is that it isn’t doing what it’s traditional customers have always wanted it to do. My brothers and I all grew up in Scouting and while we grumbled a bit we went with it because it was presented to us as a way to build good character. That is no longer true. I would actively discourage any child of mine (if I had one) or any child over which I have any influence from getting involved in Scouting USA on the grounds that the character they apparently seek to build is not one that I would encourage a young boy to acquire.

If you take a sports bar that historically has hosted the Superbowl and turn the TVs to Ice Capades instead, you can’t be surprised when nobody shows up.

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If you’re interested in the seamy side of the Crust, this is a must-read.

Otherwise, you might consider reading a good book instead.

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But you knew that.

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At least ICE haven’t turned into the Portland Police.

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What would you get if you designed the scientific paper from scratch today? A little while ago I spoke to Bret Victor, a researcher who worked at Apple on early user-interface prototypes for the iPad and now runs his own lab in Oakland, California, that studies the future of computing. Victor has long been convinced that scientists haven’t yet taken full advantage of the computer. “It’s not that different than looking at the printing press, and the evolution of the book,” he said. After Gutenberg, the printing press was mostly used to mimic the calligraphy in bibles. It took nearly 100 years of technical and conceptual improvements to invent the modern book. “There was this entire period where they had the new technology of printing, but they were just using it to emulate the old media.”

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I do.

The Independent, of course, thinks this is a bad thing.

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws, or the murder rate would be skyrocketing.

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The rise of the costs of the American higher educational system began when expansion became the aim of education policy. The new objective was to have as many students as possible in college. Students’ increased ability to pay, which came with easy access to student loans, allowed universities and colleges to raise prices and to invest in areas such as sports and recreational facilities that had little to do with education but made campus life more attractive. Inasmuch as private universities also depend on public subsidies, the whole university system has come under the control of the state and must meet the criteria set by it. The current system puts pressure on the young to go with the crowd. While the costs keep on rising, the benefits fall.

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

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“House to test Trump on wall.” So reads the headline (paper edition) of the lead story in today’s Washington Post.

The statement is true. However, it’s also true that Trump will test the new House. I think the test he poses might be the stiffer one.

The Democrats have a constituency — government workers — that will clamor for an end to the shutdown. Trump has no such constituency. Not as long as the partial shutdown is managed well enough to prevent ordinary folks from experiencing pain or significant inconvenience.

But the more salient point is that Trump probably has more flexibility than Nancy Pelosi.

Trump is going to play these toads like a cheap guitar. I’m looking forward to it.

Big Oil’s Monster Decade Reveals Why Energy Experts Are Not Very Good At Making Predictions

Federal Worker Union Sues Trump Over Shutdown  Because, as we all know, anything bad that happens in the world is Trump’s fault.

Steve Sailer does  little fisking on a New York Times hit piece regarding Nobel Laureat James D. Watson.

Said hit piece starts with: “The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. He still thinks he’s right, a new documentary finds.”

‘Unfounded’ pronouncements? I’m going to believe some random DemLegHump Media journalist over a guy who got the Nobel for GENETICS?

Unbelievable.

UPDATE: Nobel Prizewinner James Watson Won’t Stop Talking About Race, DNA, and Genetics

And the cry goes ’round the Times ‘Why won’t he just SHUT UP?’

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Jane, you ignorant slut….

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Most color printers have a secret tracking or forensic code added to every page that lets governments and others know when and where the page was printed.