Israeli Gov. Releases Report Alleging Terrorists Have Infiltrated NGOs That Push BDS Movement  My, what a surprise.

Ilhan Omar Gave Interviews To Host Who Called Israel ‘Jewish ISIS’ And Compared Hamas To Holocaust Victims

The Lügenpresse Refuses to Acknowledge Murder by Culture-Enrichers

‘We will finish them soon’: The last days of the Isis caliphate loom as jihadis face defeat in Syria

FGM conviction: Mother of girl, 3, becomes first person found guilty of female genital mutilation in UK

US cuts all aid to Palestinians in occupied West Bank and Gaza

130 Mujahideen Expected to Return to France From Syria  Oh, boy.

Isis ‘could reclaim territory in months’ after US military withdraws, Pentagon warns

Saudi Arabia runs online database of women to track them, stop them running away

MPs warn Saudis they face prosecution for torturing imprisoned women’s rights activists

From al-Shabaab to Boko Haram: We ignore African terror at our peril

Muslim patrol group in New York faces backlash including far-right conspiracy theories

Afghan government furious as Russia invites Taliban to talks in Moscow

Kashmir Solidarity Day: What is the separatist protest and how is it observed?

John Cantlie: British journalist captured by Isis in Syria is still alive, government believes

French Legislator Recommends the Targeted Assassination of “French” Jihadis Before They Return From Syria

“Dutch” Wives Returning From the Jihad in Syria

Muslim prisoner’s execution blocked because request for imam was denied

China ‘forcing Muslims to eat pork and drink alcohol’ for lunar new year festival

Anti-Semitic Incidents Reach Record High In UK For Third Year Running

NYT’s Gay Incensed Trump Would ‘Graphically’ Talk About Abortion in ‘Dark’ Speech

Washington Post Celebrates Nancy Pelosi’s ‘Exquisite Rudeness’ to Trump

Petty CNN Hosts Decry Trump Campaign’s Cheesy Fundraising E-Mail

Trump campaign aide compares Democrats wearing white to KKK: ‘The only thing missing is the matching hood’  The implication being that this was a rude thing to say. And yet even ruder things are said about Republicans every day.

Trump investigation: Senate committee launches probe into Russia links and foreign financial interests  Actually, it’s a House committee; you’d think that a Voice of the Crust could get at least that much right.

Jemele Hill Attempts To Clarify Trump Assassination Tweet  Apparently she didn’t mean it in a bad way.

Liberal Abdul-Jabbar Lashes Out At Trump, NFL Owners

Wash Post: Trump to Stoke Evangelical Fears at Prayer Breakfast  All he has to do is list what Democrats are doing.

House Democrats’ Battle For Trump Tax Returns Begins

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The Equilateral Triangle of a Perfect Paragraph is a theory developed by Matej Latin in the Better Web Type course about web typography for web designers and web developers. Too many of them still set line-height, font size and line width as independent features when in fact they should all be considered together. The equilateral triangle is a perfect representation of how the three features work in harmony. The theory is explained in details in an article on CSS-Tricks.

This game elaborates on the theory and puts it into practice. Its goal is to teach you about the three features that need to be considered for a perfect paragraph and help you train your eye.

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I  am not making this up.

They ought to hire a hit man to whack him. Obviously he was defective.

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I propose that we send each Democrat member of Shit’s committee a witch’s hat.

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The horror! The horror!

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Hey — this is a serious issue….

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

It’s coming….

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Proponents of government control and coercion suffered a big loss last week.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, well-known for its liberal leanings, helped deliver the blow to those big-government proponents.

The court granted a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the city and county of San Francisco’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Ordinance.

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I deduced the Booker Doctrine from Senator Cory Booker’s disgusting interrogation of D.C. Circuit nominee Neomi Rao on Tuesday in her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee (video below, transcript here). Under the Booker Doctrine, orthodox Christians and Jews are disqualified from public life because of their adherence to traditional views of sexual morality.

If Booker were consistent, the Booker Doctrine doctrine would apply to Muslims as well as Christians and Jews. I am quite sure, however, that Booker has a secret proviso that exempts Muslims from the strictures of his doctrine.

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My high-level impression… Suppose that a dystopian science fiction novel published in the 1950s had imagined a city in which fabulously rich people lived in new gleaming towers, getting marijuana delivered to them by runners on electric skateboards. The rich people who work stroll on sidewalks that are half covered in tents in which the “homeless” (but not “tentless”) reside. When they get to work they’re in a bullpen that is packed tighter than a commodities trading pit. If they need to make a phone call while at work they’ll duck into a soundproof transparent pod.

People who read a book like that circa 1950 would have said “This author has a great imagination, but none of this could ever happen. Even in the Great Depression people didn’t simply pitch tents on downtown sidewalks. And an employer wouldn’t have valuable workers distracted by noise and crowding.”

Yet that imagined future has been fully implemented by San Franciscans today! What are people saying as they live and visit this unusual place? Some miscellaneous sentiments gathered from around the Bay Area during a recent trip…

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Because they’re disgusting? That’s just a guess….

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A Colorado school district superintendent recommended dismissing the middle school teacher who allegedly claimed on Twitter that a random student was part of the “Hitler Youth,” mistaking him for one of the Covington Catholic High School boys caught in the viral encounter with American Indian activist Nathan Phillips.

Michelle Grissom, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Mountain Ridge Middle School (MRMS) in Colorado, allegedly named and posted a picture of Covington Catholic student Jay Jackson as one of the boys wearing Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18. Jackson was not in Washington at the time of incident that went viral on social media. Jackson’s dad, John Jackson, repeatedly asked Grissom to take down the tweets, but she only removed them once the district was contacted.

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The real threat to Optum may be Amazon, which has already made some forays into the pharmacy business and is willing to sacrifice profits as it builds market share. Optum is vulnerable because its customers — particularly employers — have little insight into its businesses, which range from health data services to pharmacy benefits, said Michael Turpin, a former UnitedHealth executive who is an executive vice president at USI, an insurance brokerage.

“It is truly the most opaque of all black boxes in health care,” Mr. Turpin said. He added, “Amazon is lying in the grass and will someday pop up and do something disruptive around pharmacy.”

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

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Well, I’m glad we cleared that up.

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Auj-e Taqaddas was sentenced to six months in prison after footage of the confrontation was shared widely online last year.

Steve Sailer surveys the state of Grievance Studies.

Nobody can deny Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose one historic accomplishment: They’ve permanently affixed the name Grievance Studies to their targets.

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Google searches show that the term “grievance studies” appeared only 85 times in the history of the internet before they announced their hoax last October, but 89,700 times since then.

As Confucius famously said, Rectification of Names is the most important part.

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You know it’s bad when Chris Matthews is your fact checker. The MSNBC host on Tuesday inadvertently took on this role when his colleague Joy Reid claimed Donald Trump has been talking about the “brown scare at the border.” He hasn’t. Reid was awkwardly forced to admit she made up the quote, saying, “That’s not his exact text.”

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws or the murder rate in London would look like Chicago’s.

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The official Twitter account for the Georgia Democratic Party took the time to respond to a satirical website’s mockery of failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

The Onion, a well-known satirical website, published an article on Tuesday titled “Guilt-Ridden Stacey Abrams Wondering When She Should Tell Democrats That She Lost Her Election.” The article pokes fun of the fact that Abrams, who lost her bid to become Georgia’s next governor, is still considered a rising star among the Democratic Party.

I’m waiting for her to complete her species-reassignment surgery.

CNN Hosts Whine About Bullied 6th Grader Named Trump Invited to SOTU

Trump investigations: Prosecutors order inaugural committee hand over documents relating to ‘foreign donations’  I guess Trump colluded with … somebody … to be inaugurated. The nerve of that guy.

Trump news – live: President’s aides subpoenaed over host of crimes ahead of State of the Union address  Hey, something’s gotta stick….

Forget the state of the union Mr Trump, check out the state of you  Another mind-reading journalist thinks that Trump obviously ought to listen to him.

CNN’s Berman Warns Ex-Trump Aide Is ‘Hardly Impartial Reporter’ Before Letting Him Speak  Gee, I was about to say the same about CNN.

‘Diabolical’: Gov Cuomo Blames Trump As Citizens Flee New York For Low Tax Red States

Judge Napolitano Says The Reason Democrats Want Northam Gone Is Trump

Morning Joe Discovers A Love For Separation Of Powers It Didn’t Have In Obama Years

Nets Giddy Over Trump Facing ‘Sea of Opponents’ During SOTU

Joy Behar Tries To Call Trump Soft On Russia — Abby Huntsman Makes Her Regret It

Democrats Cope With State Of The Union By Acting Out

Joe Biden aides told to prepare for 2020 presidential run against Trump ‘at moment’s notice’  As if an old white male has any possible chance of getting the Democrat nomination.

Trump’s excessive hours of ‘daily executive time’ defended by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders  As if some ‘journalist’ is qualified to call anything Trump does ‘excessive’.

NPR Host Compares Bullying Children With Trump’s ‘Cyberbullying’  Mommmeeee! Donald hit me back!

Republicans Plan To Turn On Trump If He Declares National Emergency To Build Border Wall  This is why Republicans always lose.

Maddow, Schiff Dance Around Newest Trump Tower Meeting Evidence Without Acknowledging That It Refutes His Theory  Scott Adams characterizes Rachel Madow as ‘very bright’. I don’t see any evidence of it.

The Left Blames Trump For Northam’s Blackface  Of course they do.

‘Shoddy’ — Maddow Can’t Admit Her Feverish Trump Jr. Collusion Speculation Collapsed

Newly unearthed video shows Trump ‘meeting with Russians in Moscow in 1995’ over ‘building project’  So what?

NY Daily News’ ‘Justice Journalist’: ‘Trumpian Clone’ NFL Owners Selling Whiteness To White Fan Base

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Bernie is a squirmer.

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This past April, the FBI made an admission that was nothing short of catastrophic for the field of forensic science. In an unprecedented display of repentance, the Bureau announced that, for years, the hair analysis testimony it had used to investigate criminal suspects was severely and hopelessly flawed.

The Innocence Project’s M. Chris Fabricant and legal scholar Tucker Carrington classify the kind of hair analysis the FBI performs as “magic,” and it is not hard to see why. By the Bureau’s own account, its hair analysis investigations were unscientific, and the evidence presented at trial unreliable. In more than 95 percent of cases, analysts overstated their conclusions in a way that favored prosecutors. The false testimony occurred in hundreds of trials, including thirty-two death penalty cases. Not only that, but the FBI also acknowledged it had “trained hundreds of state hair examiners in annual two-week training courses,” implying that countless state convictions had also been procured using consistently defective techniques.

I have yet to see any persuasive scientific explanation supporting the common assumption that fingerprints are unique and determinative for identification.

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Don’t ever say that we never have useful stuff here.

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Wouldn’t it be nice if the lynch mob wound up being lynched?

David Brooks finds an acorn.

In this small story, we see something of the maladies that shape our brutal cultural moment. You see how zealotry is often fueled by people working out their psychological wounds. You see that when denunciation is done through social media, you can destroy people without even knowing them. There’s no personal connection that allows apology and forgiveness.

You also see how once you adopt a binary tribal mentality — us/them, punk/non-punk, victim/abuser — you’ve immediately depersonalized everything. You’ve reduced complex human beings to simple good versus evil. You’ve eliminated any sense of proportion. Suddenly there’s no distinction between R. Kelly and a high school girl sending a mean emoji.

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Presumably because the poor have done such a great job handling wealth and power so far….

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Sometimes toxic masculinity is all you’ve got.

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Inside Higher Ed reports that some parents are having their children take DNA tests to prove they are black (or some other preferred minority) in order to enhance their chances of being admitted to the college of their choice. There’s nothing surprising about this trend. Given the massive advantage they confer on blacks, colleges are hard pressed to take the word of applicants that they are in that category if their appearance suggests otherwise.

Soon we will have a system like the Varnas of India.

Scott Adams is one of the handful of people actually looking forward to the SOTU speech tonight.

No accounting for taste….

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I don’t even have to say anything.

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You can’t make this stuff up.

I’m sure the smugglers are gearing up and rubbing their hands.

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About C$180 million ($137.21 million) in cryptocurrencies have been frozen in the user accounts of Canadian digital platform Quadriga after the founder, the only person with the password to gain access, died suddenly in December.

That shrieking sound you hear is me laughing hysterically at people who waste their time on cryptocurrencies.

Victor Davis Hanson chronicles the behavioral sink that is modern California.

Last week I stopped at a quick stop and held the door open for a customer behind me, whose thanks was, “What the f— you looking at?” And I had deliberately not studied his roadmap of tattoos.

The Other McCain is on the case.

You should read the entire complaint online, as McGinnes’s legal team go point-by-point in explaining how the SPLC’s “hate” label is being used to silence conservative voices. When McGinnes started Proud Boys, it was basically a social thing — meet-ups for fans of his podcasts — but then the media started paying attention, Trump got elected, and “Antifa” started harassing the Proud Boys. Last year, SPLC evidently decided to target McInnes for destruction, and this lawsuit is about his refusal to be destroyed. Keep in mind, SPLC is also being sued by Baltimore attorney Glen Keith Allen, and many other organizations are said to be contemplating their own lawsuits. Whatever the ultimate outcome of these suits, they are valuable in that (a) the SPLC is forced onto the defensive, and (b) if the lawsuits get to the discovery phase, we could learn a lot about the internal workings of their billion-dollar smear machine. The fact that SPLC was willing to pay $3.3 million to Nawaz shows how much they fear what might be revealed in discovery.

About time somebody did something about these sleaze bags.

Stephen Colbert mocks Trump’s comments about letting Barron play ‘dangerous’ football  If it weren’t for Trump, would he even have a show?

TV’s Shutdown News Blamed Trump, Touted Victims Over Border Debate

Joe Scarborough Says Trump Wants to ‘Start a War With Iran’  For which, of course, there is absolutely no evidence.

NBC Analysts Try to Blame Trump for Northam Blackface Scandal  Of course. If it’s racist, it’s got to be Trump.

‘Never Trump’ Conservative Bill Kristol Donated To Ralph Northam’s Campaign  Any resemblance between Kristol and Mussolini is purely coincidental. Purely coincidental.

Cardi B Reminds Everyone ‘Racism’ and ‘Trump’ Made her Decline Halftime Performance  Yet another reason to be grateful for racism and Trump.

Nearly half of Americans say Trump administration is doing ‘worst job of governing in their lifetimes’  These were the people who predicted tht Hillary would win in a landslide.

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Circle the date: Andrew Mitchell worrying about something being too politically correct.

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Parents used to worry about “peer pressure” encouraging their kids to experiment with alcohol or drugs, or to have sex. Now, they have to worry that it may encourage their kids (especially daughters) to change sex altogether.

If you are a parent of a child or teenager, you owe it to yourself to read World magazine’s latest cover story, which addresses the relatively new but expanding phenomenon of “rapid-onset gender dysphoria,” abbreviated “ROGD.”

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Ralph Northam is in for a very bad year.

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The nation-wide hunt for new victims enters a new phase.

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To be completely honest, I’m not really sure I want a toilet seat that monitors my ‘heart health’.

UPDATE: Techies tinker with toilet-topper to turn it into ticker-tracker

Donald Trump Jr. Will Be Indicted by Mueller, Former Prosecutor Says, and Will Help to Ensnare His Father Well, no, that’s not what he said. More fake news from MSNBC.

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The lost monastery is known as Whitefriars, also called The College of Carmelites, and was founded in 1268 outside the city walls of old Gloucester, where it stood until the 16th century when King Henry VIII had it demolished during his purge of Catholic church property in England. Archaeologists said according to past findings and historic maps, the remains of the Carmelite monastery should be right under the old bus station in Market Parade.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

It is not, of course, a monastery, which is used by monks, but rather a friary, because the Carmelites were one of the four great orders of Friars in the middle ages. (Monks stay in one place, friars wander around, if you want to know the difference)

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But writing in the New York Times under the headline ‘Mary Poppins, and a Nanny’s Shameful Flirting With Blackface,’ Professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner attacks the scene. Not surprisingly, the film’s legions of devoted fans have reacted with disbelief.

Insane. Just … insane. Insane that he would write it, and insane that the Times would publish it.