Feminist Banned by Twitter Fires Back With Lawsuit
12th February 2019
Is there a more What’s Happening Now headline than this one?
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12th February 2019
Is there a more What’s Happening Now headline than this one?
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12th February 2019
An elegant solution that will never happen because it won’t guarantee the appropriate ‘diversity’.
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12th February 2019
The problem with having only one health-care provider for everybody is that everybody suffers if a mistake is made.
How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?
Think of the DMV or Post Office in charge of your health care. You want to know how ‘Medicare For All’ would work. look at the V.A. hospital system.
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12th February 2019
We already have ‘gun control’. What he wants is ‘gun restriction’, but no newspaper will be honest about that.
If she had been a Republican, she would have been in no danger.He really ought to campaign for ‘Democrat control’.
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12th February 2019
Sometimes the old ways are best.
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12th February 2019
The anti-Semitic emperor still has no clothes, but she’s learned to move faster – that’s the real, and ominous lesson of Congresswoman Illhan Abdullahi Omar’s weekend fiasco (See: Minnesota Muslim Congresswoman Maligns AIPAC in New Anti-Semitic Tirade). Because while she apologized and, evidently, rejoined the civilized world in accepting that attacking Jews is bad, she made great strides in defining the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the prime example of what’s wrong with Washington, delegitimizing in the process the very right of pro-Israel US Jews to participate in the political process.
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Her so-called apology the next day reflected all of the above unabashedly. She opened with, “Anti-Semitism is real, and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes.”
Or, I’m just a poor girl from Somalia who doesn’t know much about the historic evil of Jew hatred. Thank you, enlightened liberal folks, especially the Jews among you, for showing me the light.
Seriously? A Muslim woman living in one of the top three most radical Islamic communities in the US does not know about Jew hatred? Please respect our intelligence, Congresswoman.
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12th February 2019
In a 2015 podcast conversation with American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks, Vox’s Ezra Klein declared that “there’s nothing more dangerous than somebody who’s just taken their first economics class.” Often expressing a similar contempt for Econ 101 is University of Connecticut law professor James Kwak.
This expressed skepticism of Econ 101 comes across as wise and sophisticated — even hip — to many people who don’t grasp Econ 101. And it gives the mistaken impression that those who warn of the alleged folly of taking Econ 101 too seriously are expert not only in elementary economics but also in advanced economics.
Yet this contemptuous dismissal of the relevance of Econ 101 is foolish. Those who express it either really don’t know any economics whatsoever or mistakenly presume that the theoretical curiosities explored in Econ 999 are more relevant than is the reality revealed by Econ 101. But the truth is that Econ 101 taught well supplies ample, important, and timeless insights into the way the world works.
Even that doesn’t always work — Congresswoman Occasional-Cortex supposedly was an Econ major at a decent college. But it’s better than nothing.
If I had to design a school system, basic economics and basic statistics would be required subjects in high school.
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12th February 2019
Like cockroaches crawling out of the woodwork.
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12th February 2019
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12th February 2019
Those marijuana munchies will do it to you.
Police in Houston, Texas, said the “concerned citizen” contacted them after he found the overweight mammal crammed inside a tiny cage.
Officers initially assumed the caller had smoked too much cannabis and was hallucinating, but soon discovered his report was entirely grounded in reality.
Any police officer who thinks that weed is hallucinogenic needs to go for re-training.
“Finding a forever home for a tiger is not easy,” she said. “I tried to explain to people it’s a lot like having a child.”
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12th February 2019
I love the idea of a ‘prosthetic limb’ on a plastic doll.
Victim Barbie?
Grievance Studies Barbie?
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12th February 2019
I’ve had my suspicions….
You’ll notice that you never see her and Paul McCartney in the same place.
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12th February 2019
Joel Kotkin points out how California is doing it wrong.
Newsom has promised to have 3.5 million homes built over the next seven years to solve the problem. That is, conservatively stated, more than 2.6 million that would be built at the current rate of construction.
This effort is doomed, though, since it fails to address the fundamental cause: regulations that block expansion of housing on the urban fringe, a housing area that serves to lower the price of both urban and suburban land. NIMBYs, who often block new projects, may contribute to the shortage, but by far the biggest problem lies in regulations, many issued from Sacramento, restricting lower-density housing construction on the urban fringe.
Former World Bank principal urban planner Alain Bertaud has pointed out that these regulations raise land prices and exacerbate housing shortages that particularly affect the poor. Before such policies were adopted, California’s housing prices relative to incomes were not far above the national average, even though the state’s population was expanding far more rapidly than today.
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12th February 2019
Steve Sailer has the details.
Racist Shoes would be a good name for a band.
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11th February 2019
There has been tons of speculation about whether or not the AAF would get off the ground. Judging from what I saw Saturday night and Sunday, I think it’s safe to say the eight-team league will be just fine.
I didn’t know white people were allowed to play football.
If you have any interest in football — which I don’t — you might check it out.
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11th February 2019
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11th February 2019
Let’s be honest here, the way the Dems are going bat-excrement crazy right now is, I think, bearing this out. They’ll be up to 30 candidates before long, and each trying to out-Left and out-crazy and out-Communist the other. That sort of rage is frankly unsustainable, and really their entire platform is boiling down to “Not Trump.”
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11th February 2019
MSNBC Guest Slams ‘White Supremacist,’ ‘Half-Witted’ Fox Host
Elizabeth Warren: Trump ‘May Not Even Be A Free Person’ In 2020 He’ll at least be inexpensive, compared to Warren.
Trump again confuses climate change with weather in tweet attacking Amy Klobuchar Alleged journalist once again mistakes Trump joke for Trump confusion.
Morning Mirror: Washington Reporter Says If You Like Trump You’re A P.O.S.
Video Venom: 33 TV Shows in Jan. Slam ‘Terrorist’ Trump, Praise Abortion
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11th February 2019
Sometimes the old ways are best.
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11th February 2019
I’m glad to hear it.
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11th February 2019
Silicon Valley is full of opportunities for political donations. But a Soros-funded organization wants to make sure any support goes to the correct side of the political spectrum.
Politico reported on February 9 that major tech companies, such as Google and Facebook, offered “the same technical assistance,” as well as financial aid, to the Republican party as they did to the Democrat party in 2016. George Soros-funded Color of Change objected to tech giving the GOP any support. “It’s no longer acceptable for these companies to play both sides like they’re equal,” said the group’s President Rashad Robinson.
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11th February 2019
The Washington Post Fact Checker page has a habit of “hiding the Pinocchios” for Democrats when liberal staffers aggressively engage them. This happened again early Monday with the much-mocked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking points for the “Green New Deal.” Post “fact checker” Salvador Rizzo admitted the new congresswoman and her supporters misled the public, but they were “walked back,” so no Pinocchios. Rizzo concluded the only document that mattered was the actual House resolution submitted:
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11th February 2019
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10th February 2019
INSANE: Women Crying Sexism at NPR Can’t Recall Trump-as-Mean-Boss Stories in 2016??
Wealthy Taxpayers Screaming About Lost Deductions Under Trump Tax “Cuts”
New tax law only gives high-tax states what they deserve
Trump appears to joke about Native American genocide in Elizabeth Warren ‘Trail of Tears’ tweet He really didn’t, of course, so they have to use the weasel-word ‘appears’.
Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 presidential bid announcement has rattled Donald Trump – and the pressure will only mount from here More make-it-up ‘journalism’. Trump isn’t rattled; he’d pound her into the ground like a tent peg.
We Hear You: Media Outlets Slime Teens for Wearing ‘MAGA’ Hats
Elizabeth Warren says Trump ‘may not even be a free man’ in 2020, on first day of campaign
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10th February 2019
Of course. Republican women aren’t Really Women the way Republican African-Americans aren’t Really Black.
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10th February 2019
Cass Sunstein, usually a dependable Voice of the Crust, suffers an attack of atavism.
Sunstein rightly points out that many vocal fans of socialism have no clue as to what it actually means. I’ll pace him by suggesting that many people who complain about ‘capitalism’ have no clue as to what that means, either, and just use ‘capitalism’ as a catch-all term for ‘not-socialism’ — which it isn’t. The problem is that we don’t have a clever one-word term for an economic system based on private property and free trade, so we’re forced to thrash around in a verbal swamp that helps nobody.
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10th February 2019
This is what happens in a country with no First Amendment. Since the election of New Labour under Tony Blair and the ‘invite the world’ policy of the Labour Party to import ever-increasing numbers of underclass clients, Britain has rapidly become just another EuroTrash sinkhole.
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10th February 2019
I would not allow any child of mine to go to Yale these days, nor indeed any of the ‘top tier’ universities. (Well, maybe Chicago.)
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10th February 2019
I’ll bet you’d have thought that there was no room for hair-on-fire alarmism about the humble orange, but you’d be wrong.
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10th February 2019
Find out your marching orders regarding the latest insane proglodyte oppression outrage.
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10th February 2019
I think this is why Canada has strict gun control laws.
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10th February 2019
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10th February 2019
The story of Colombia’s hippos starts in Villa Napoles, the former estate of Pablo Escobar, who in his heyday had four hippos smuggled there for his private zoo.
Escobar’s ranch housed hundreds of exotic animals including rhinos, elephants and giraffes. By the 1980s, his cocaine empire made him the wealthiest and most feared drug lord in the world. For Colombia, it was a reign of terror. He’s said to be responsible for some 7,000 deaths.
Around the time Escobar met his death in the early 90s, the government relocated most of the animals but not the hippos who were basically allowed to roam free.
“People forgot the hippos,” said biologist David Echeverri, who works with CORNARE, the environmental agency in charge of tracking and managing the hippos in the region. He estimates there are about 50 or more of them now.
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9th February 2019
John Derbyshire considers that the prospect.
February is, of course, Black History Month. So far, just one week in, the reminders are piling up. I have logged the following outrages that have black Americans cowering in fear in their tarpaper shacks.
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9th February 2019
Trump Weighs In On ‘Hatred And Scorn’ From Democrats At Hearing With Matthew Whitaker
On MSNBC, Sinbad Slams ‘Atrocious’ Shutdown by ‘Fool’ Trump Who Deserves ‘A Pimp Slap’ I suspect that Sinbad knows a lot more about ‘pimp slaps’ than Trump. Sinbad doesn’t sound like somebody that I would look to for advice on government policy.
Maher Trashes Republicans: ‘If You Drew a Venn Diagram of Insane and 21st Century Republican, It Would be a Circle’ I must have missed where Maher got his psychology degree. Amazing that they pay these people for this crap when they could get the same
Butterflies, bulldozers and barbed wire bring out spirited resistance to Trump’s border wall None of which will matter when the wall is built.
Trump claims Obama was causing economic ‘depression’ in misleading Twitter rant They have to add ‘misleading’ so that you’ll know not to mistake this for actual journalism.
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9th February 2019
In an essay at Curbed San Francisco, Diana Helmuth explores why so many young people have left California. It’s not normal, she writes, considering a dozen loved ones have moved away in the past two years.
We are witnessing two migrations. One is the continuation of the Californian dream, where young people flock here for gold and glory, ready to hustle and disrupt, hammering to hit the motherlode and laughing at the odds. The other is the migration of young people out of California, which seems to have affected everyone I know, but which I rarely hear examined. These people want to be artists, teachers, blacksmiths, therapists, mechanics, and musicians. They want to have children, open bakeries, own a house. But they can’t. There is no room here for those kinds of dreams anymore.
Here is the original story, which is well worth reading.
The one assertion the author make is, I think, demonstrably wrong:
To the angry locals of Portland, Seattle, Denver, New Orleans, Kansas City, Phoenix, Austin, and elsewhere, please hear this defense: The Californians who are coming in and “ruining” your cities are not snobs. They don’t have trust funds. They aren’t entitled. They are the opposite. They have been kicked out of their own backyards for not learning Python fast enough or not having a dad who could introduce them to VC firms or not wanting to live in their family’s in-law unit at age 30 or not being able to afford a $2,000/month studio on a $20/hour paycheck. They aren’t techies; they had the audacity to want something besides tech. They are some of our best, most creative, most hardworking people—and you are getting them. We are losing them.
We are kind to your friends who move here to grow, to start things, to feel safe, to dream. So, please, be kind to my friends and their dreams too.
Sorry, Debbie, but the reason why people hate your Californians moving in is not because ‘they are just like you’ but because they are NOT ‘just like you’. They are leaving California because they are victims of the results of the way Californians think, but they don’t realize that they think that way too, and they are importing that way of thinking to the places to which they are moving. If enough Californicators move into Boise, for example, eventually Boise becomes just like California in all the bad ways that caused them to move in the first place.
We have the poster child for this in Austin, Texas, which is just a little slice of California dropped into the Hill Country. THE ONLY REASON that Austin isn’t the shit-hole that San Francisco has become is because it’s surrounded by Texas, and Texans won’t allow Californicators to ruin their state-wide government the way they’ve ruined the state-wide government on the Left Coast.
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9th February 2019
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9th February 2019
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9th February 2019
Sounds reasonable to me.
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9th February 2019
“Your government has breached our terms of service. Until you replace them we are unable to provide your country with service.”
Want access to login to your Gmail?
Sorry.
Need files from your Google Drive?
Nope.
Lost and in need of directions from Google Maps?
I hear you can use the sun for that.
Visiting a site hosted in Google Cloud?
Not anymore.
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8th February 2019
Trump Versus the Socialist Menace
ABC, CBS Boast Dems ‘Kicking’ Trump Probes into a ‘Higher Gear’
‘Big Bang Theory’s Chuck Lorre Launches Ugly, Sexist Attack Against Sarah Sanders
CNN’s Cooper Rages at Trump Campaign’s Fundraising Parody Poll
Trump associate Roger Stone tried to make conspiracy theorist have heart attack, lawsuit claims I guess ‘Trump associate’ is the new tar-brush.
Kellyanne Conway Speaks About Alleged Assault At Restaurant
PolitiFact Checked Trump Almost 25 Times More Often Than Nancy Pelosi in 2017-2018
Ivanka Trump Says Art Exhibit Depicting Her Vacuuming Is ‘Sexist’ As indeed it is.
Media Pounce on Trump Misspeaking at Prayer Breakfast, Bury Abortion Comments
Trump Has A New Reason To Go After Adam Schiff. It Has To Do With Fusion GPS
Group Wants Psychiatric Star Chamber To Declare Trump Mentally Unfit To Be President
Khashoggi murder: Pressure mounts on Saudi government and Trump four months after killing Let’s see how well that works.
Classless ABC Thrusts Sexist ‘Art’ at Ivanka Trump: ‘How Does It Make You Feel?’ Like a Republican being slimed by Democrats.
Roger Stone: New video shows Trump associate wearing shirt saying he ‘did nothing wrong’ when arrested You need the ‘Trump associate’ there to know who the villain is.
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8th February 2019
By reforming its criminal justice system, Texas has sensibly and carefully reduced its prison population, cut state spending, and expanded prisoners’ access to drug- and mental-health treatment and to education programs—all of which have reduced crime and recidivism rates and improved people’s lives.
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Now, Texas is once again leading on key issues by analyzing and reconsidering some of its laws that hinder Texans’ ability to pursue a livelihood, a right guaranteed to all Texans by both the state and federal constitutions. Many of those laws carry criminal penalties for those who violate them.
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8th February 2019
I rather doubt that The Independent’s campaign had anything to do with it, though.
I guess he didn’t get the memo that Trump is the New Hitler.
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8th February 2019
Yeah, that sounds like about the most useful thing Ellison could do with his time.
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8th February 2019
Addicts are addicts. Providing them with a ‘safe injection site’ doesn’t fix the problem.
Addicts have an inherent character defect: They prefer life with the drug to life without. Unless somebody can fix that, addicts will persist in self-destructive behavior until they kill themselves — and sometimes others.
The problem with Natural Selection is that it works even when you would rather it didn’t.
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8th February 2019
The plan, which would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city, has come under fire since it was announced last year, with local politicians concerned that the incentives Amazon has demanded would strip much needed cash from the community.
“The question is whether it’s worth it if the politicians in New York don’t want the project, especially with how people in Virginia and Nashville have been so welcoming,” one official told The Washington Post, which first reported the potential change in attitude from Amazon towards the project. No official plans have been made against New York so far.
Any passerby on the street could have warned them about this.
Jeff needs to realize that his side of the field has most of the crazies. Being Of The Crust only gets you so far.
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8th February 2019
Rush Limbaugh led off his show today with this — it’s pretty funny.
Of course, the Democrats on this committee are trying to set up a ‘perjury trap’ for the AG nominee, and he is leading them around the maypole while enjoying himself doing it.
UPDATE: Rep Nadler Won’t Clarify His Questions, Demands An Answer Anyway — Whitaker Fights Back
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8th February 2019
And there it is.
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8th February 2019
The inevitable effect of which will be to increase unemployment and destroy small business, especially in Chicago.
Plenty of room down in Texas, y’all.
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8th February 2019
Well, many of them are ‘Native Americans’, genetically; certainly as much so as Jambalaya Harris and Spartacus Booker and Trevor Noah and Ta-Sneezy Coates and Racist Don Lemon are ‘black’.
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