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Computer scientists at University of California, Davis, Maynooth University in Ireland and the California Institute of Technology have created DNA molecules that can self-assemble into patterns essentially by running their own program. The work is published March 21 in the journal Nature.

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A few months have passed since President Trump last threatened to close the southern border, but with another caravan of 2,500 Central American and Cuban migrants making its way through southern Mexico – where the group has reportedly received a cooler welcome than previous groups – the president has apparently decided that it’s time to revive those threats.

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Since when is it the government’s job (i.e. the taxpayers’ job) to fund programs to make handicapped people feel good about themselves? How much do ‘participation trophies’ cost, anyway?

Steve Sailer looks at modern travel.

Apparently the New York Times isn’t a dependable source for travel advice. Who knew?

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that ‘truancy’ was still a thing.

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Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 67
Shot & Wounded: 326
Total Shot: 393
Total Homicides: 75

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White people, the only people you can still be racist about.

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Says There Are Still Grounds To Impeach Trump  Of course, because they just want to.

New York Post: Choose Your March Madness Brackets for the Leftists and NeverTrumpers (But I Repeat Myself) Who Were Most Wrong on the Russia Hoax

Opinion | George Conway: Trump is guilty — of being unfit for office  And Conway is an expert. He’s in the Washington Post, so he must be an expert.

MacCallum Grills Swalwell For Standing By Debunked Dossier

CNN Analyst Ralph Peters: ‘The Steele Dossier Rings True To Me’  As, of course, it would.

NY Times Unhappy With ‘Weird’ Mueller Decisions, Hits Barr on Page One: ‘Is He Impartial?’  Is he supposed to be? No Democrat AG ever pretended to be.

Crazy Train: ‘Hardball’ Panel Offers Conspiracies on Mueller Report, Trump as a Dictator  If Trump were a dictator, these guys would be in jail.

Undaunted By the Facts, CNN Continues to Push Collusion Conspiracy Theory

CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Offers Bizarre Defense on Russiagate: ‘We Are Not Investigators’  I’d have to agree. They’re not even journalists.

Rep. Maxine Waters Says ‘Only A Few Of Us’ Wanted To Impeach Trump  Congresswoman BitterBeerFace walks it back.

Scarborough Tells DCCC Chair He’s Worried Freshman Dems Are Giving Trump ‘Ammunition’  They’re your dogs, Charlie Brown.

Swalwell Doubles Down: Maintains Trump Is A “Russian Agent” Despite Mueller Findings  You don’t have to be stupid to be a Democrat Congressman, but it certainly helps.

Trump Not a Traitor, Rachel Maddow Hardest Hit  Let the gloating begin….

Democrats Threaten Consequences After Pentagon Shifts $1 Billion For Trump’s Wall  What are they going to do, trash-talk Trump on the national media?

WashPost Fact Cops Still Imply ‘No Collusion’ Is a False or Misleading Claim

Deb Heine: Here Are 50 “Journalists,” NeverTrumpers, Celebrities, and DicPic-Sending Twitter Weirdos Who Most Embarrassed Themselves With Their Collusion Delusion Conspiracy Theories

Man Arrested In Plot To Assassinate Trump, Blow Up Pentagon

We’re Naming And Shaming The Absolutely Worst Reporters On The Russian Collusion Conspiracy Theory

NY Times Frets Over Trump Supporters’ Triumph: ‘Playing a Dangerous Game’  ‘Power mooning’ coming up.

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Civil forfeiture is the law enforcement tool which allows property or currency to be seized and permanently forfeited, even in situations where the owner is neither charged with, nor convicted of, a crime.

Prior to the 1980s, civil forfeiture was a niche law enforcement tool relegated chiefly to admiralty and customs law. But Congress, followed later by nearly every state, ramped up the practice to target the assets and ill-gotten gains of drug kingpins, criminal organizations, and money launderers.

And to encourage law enforcement agencies to use this powerful new tool, Congress empowered federal agencies to retain the proceeds of successful forfeitures, and authorized them to share the funds with state and local agencies that participate in forfeiture cases through what is known as the “equitable sharing” program.

In other words, lawmakers empowered agencies to seize their way to bigger budgets. It should come as no surprise that forfeiture exploded in the United States.

‘Civil asset forfeiture’ is the biggest end-run around the Constitution in the country today. This legislation is badly needed.

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I should like to point out that this problem is the direct result of the bogus government-mandated monopoly on certain information under the guise of ‘intellectual property’. Once you decide that people providing you with information can dictate what you can do with it, they’re going to make sure they charge you out the wazoo to do ANYTHING with it.

This started with the oh-no-you-don’t-own-that-software-you-just-bought-you-just-have-a-license-to-use-it trick in the early days of consumer computation and, when that worked, they pushed the envelope for all that it was worth, to the point that people can now patent human genes merely because they happened to be the first to figure out how they work.

The Chinese realized early on that this was a scam and they’ve been ignoring it (to their profit) ever since. Smuggling (the fashionable tar-term is ‘piracy’, the historical tar-term is  ‘black market’) exists profitably when I can provide you with something illegally for less than the government will allow you to purchase it legally. The end-game here is Prohibition and the ‘war on drugs’. This is why Columbian narcos had warehouses of dollar bills being eaten by rats because they didn’t have anywhere else to put them.

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No wonder they want to come here from there.

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Sometimes the gaslights get turned off.

UPDATE: Chicago PD Quickly Dump Smollett Hate-Hoax Docs Before Case Sealed By Judge

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Celebrating Black Privilege for the rest of your lives.

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Message: Don’t ‘rescue’ ‘immigrants’ in the Med.

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Apparently he wore dress uniform and thus diverted attention from bridezilla, an unforgivable sin.

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Actually, being a fat ugly black woman, she’s overqualified in terms of Victim Points to be the Democrat nominee.

President, not so much….

UPDATE: Eager CBS Hosts: Run Stacey Abrams, Run!

I second that emotion.

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Phones come with Twitter and Facebook apps baked into the platform. In most cases, you can’t remove them even if you don’t use them. If you can operate a phone, you can be on these platforms, interacting with your fellow morons in minutes. What’s unique about this age is that the people who were encouraged to remain silent for most of human history have now been fitted with the tools to stand in the public square, bellowing like lunatics.

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So much for that “healthy conversation.” Twitter’s rules on abusive behavior and hate speech apparently exclude any form of anti-Semitism. Arsen Ostrovsky, executive director of the Israeli-Jewish Congress, reported a tweet directed at him which should have fallen under abusive behavior. But Twitter determined otherwise. In an email, Twitter Support informed Ostrovsky that the tweet, which called for the “stoning of the Jews,” “is not in violation of the Twitter Rules against abusive behavior.”

Now imagine what their reaction would have been to a tweet calling for ‘stoning the Muslims’.

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You mean she actually believes all that stuff?

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The Israeli military said it continued strikes on Hamas targets throughout the early morning hours of Wednesday after a rocket launch from the strip targeted southern Israel, triggering rocket sirens and seek shelter warnings in the Israeli city of Ashkelon.

Israel never strikes unless it is attacked, yet everybody always complains about Israel.

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The Wall Street Journal story keeps bouncing around Twitter, about how the Baby Boomers who built big custom luxury houses don’t want them anymore, because the Baby Boomers are getting too old to handle such big houses, and they can’t sell them, because everyone else either is not interested in a big custom luxury house, in which case they won’t buy one, or is interested in a big custom luxury house, in which why would they buy someone else’s old one? This seems like funny comeuppance, and it is funny comeuppance, but it’s also just the clown-shoed version of the problem that everyone has in one way or another, which is that homeownership is not a solution but a way of freezing a particular set of problems in place.

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People guess who they are and what their lives are about, and they guess wrong.

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Plus they’re really, really good when properly cooked.

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Physicists have studied quantum heat engines for many years—they work in ways similar to classical heat engines, but their “working fluid,” which behaves in ways reminiscent of steam in a steam engine, can be in a coherent superposition. This has led many in the field to wonder if quantum engines could actually perform better than the classical engines we see around us every day. Just four years ago, a team at Hebrew University of Jerusalem claimed to have found the answer, reporting a theory that suggested that quantum engines could, indeed, be more efficient than classical engines. In this new effort, the researchers have conducted experiments showing that the theory was correct.

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Sure, when he apologizes for the hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices that the conquest ended.

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We still need a wall.

Trump’s Kakistocracy Is Also a Hackistocracy  They do love making up new smear terms.

Despite Mueller’s preliminary findings, freshman Democrat Rashida Tlaib is privately urging colleagues to join effort to impeach Trump  My, what a surprise. Don’t confuse her with facts, her mind is made up.

Maddow’s Crying Again  The tears of our enemies are sweet.

NBC Snaps at Trump for Acting ‘Vindictive’ in His Vindication  Pot, meet kettle.

Don Jr. Takes On ‘Leader Of The Tinfoil Hat Brigade’ Adam Schiff

Giuliani Demands Cuomo Apologize For Collusion Hype In Heated Debate  As if that would ever happen.

Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne Furiously Spins Mueller Report Conclusions

MSNBC Panel Admits Mueller Report ‘Undercuts Almost Everything’ In Steele Dossier  They say that as if the Steele Dossier had any basis in reality.

Colbert Says Trump ‘Only Has Himself To Blame’ For Russian Collusion Conspiracy Theory  Oh, I think people like Colbert had something to do with it.

Trump Admin Refuses to Defend Obamacare in Court  National Review cuck Robert VerBruggen sells out.

There’s Acting Guilty, Then There’s Acting Like Trump When You’re Innocent  National Review cuck Rich Lowry ingratiates himself with his NeverTrump masters.

Joe Scarborough Runs Cover For The Media After Russia Collusion Debunked  He knows who signs his paychecks.

Rashida Tlaib Encouraging Democrats To Investigate Trump For ‘Impeachable Offenses’  Perhaps they ought to investigate him for barratry and mugwumpery as well.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib Pushes Democrats to Investigate Trump for ‘Impeachable Offenses’

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Hold on to your wallets.

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The new Kristol cuckazine lines up with its Crustian masters.

Scott Johnson relates his travails attempting to get another proglodyte ‘fact checker’ to tell the truth.

Wikipedia is just as bad. Scott Adams has been trying for the longest time to correct their coverage of the Trump’s statement about the Covington marchers.

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Scott Adams on Trump.

“One of the distinguishing characteristics of this President is that whenever anyone leaves money on the table, he scoops it up.”

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The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office issued the following statement: “After reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case, including Mr. Smollet’s volunteer service in the community and agreement to forfeit his bond to the City of Chicago, we believe this outcome is a just disposition & appropriate resolution.”

Apparently they did this without checking with the Chicago PD. Smooth move.

This is Kim Foxx:

Ace of Spades: All Charges Against Jussie Smollet Dropped. Sentenced to Community Service Only. KIM FOXX, ALREADY ACCUSED OF DOING FAVORS FOR JUSSIE, DOES ONE MORE FAVOR.

UPDATE: Police Chief ‘Furious’ At Smollett Case Dismissal

UPDATE: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: Letting Smollett Off the Hook Sends a Message That There Is No Accountability in the System; Calls it a “Whitewash;” Says “How Dare He” as Smollett Continues Attacking Police

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Eastern Europe, having actually lived under an oppressive totalitarian ideology recently, is not fooled.

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Republicans ought to do this every time Democrats come up in some pie-in-the-sky powered-by-unicorn-farts idea.

Schedule it for a vote and make them own it. Then hammer them with it in the next election.

Trump is having a beneficial impact on Congressional Republicans; it has given them a taste for winning, which is a heady brew.

The Ten Commandments are not LAWS (i.e. do this and you’ll be cool) but USE CASES (illustrations of ways to handle certain situations). They really ought to have a Preamble that says DON’T DO STUPID SHIT INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

1. I’m the guy who brought you out of Egypt. If it weren’t for me, you’d still be stacking bricks and eating cardboard. A little gratitude would seem in order.
2. Other gods didn’t do shit for you. You going to go with the losers or go with a winner? That’s a no-brainer.
3. Don’t be using me to bad-mouth other people. I’m more powerful than you and smarter than you. I have a short fuse and a loooooong memory. Pissing me off is a very poor career move.
4. I established the Sabbath for a reason — you need a break every so often. Remember, I’m smarter than you. Take the hint.
5. Maybe your parents are a pain in the ass, but they were here first and without them you wouldn’t be here at all. Again, a little gratitude would seem in order. Give them a break. Peace in the family is worth a little eye-rolling.
6. If people can’t go through their day without worrying about being killed, there won’t be a society. They have to be comfortable that they aren’t going to be whacked without a very good reason. This also is no-brainer.
7. Fooling around with other people’s spouses rarely ends well. ‘Feel good now and worry about tomorrow tomorrow’ is what children do. If others are having problems, it’s not your job to make ’em worse; if they’re not having problems, it’s not your job to start something. That’s what assholes do. Think it through and Just Don’t.
8. People also have to have a certain confidence that they don’t have to watch their stuff all the time. If you want to know why some countries are full of prosperous people and some countries are full of poor people, look at who spends their time stealing stuff. Again, this is a no-brainer. Think it through and Just Don’t.
9. When we are resolving disputes, we need to know what happened. When you lie about that, it screws up the system. If we can’t resolve disputes well, things go to Hell very quickly. Again, this is a no-brainer. Think it through and Just Don’t.
10. If you spend all of your time being grumpy about what other people have, you’ll never be happy, and it will be your Own Damned Fault. If you don’t like what you have, work and get more. It’s not that hard if you FOCUS. If you lust after what other people have all of the time, you wind up in number 7 and number 8 and that rarely ends well. Save us all some trouble and Just Don’t.

TL;DR. If you wouldn’t want other people to do something to you, don’t do it to other people. Doing shit to other people that pisses them off causes hate and discontent and makes everybody unhappy and it’s NOT NECESSARY. Nobody NEEDS to go through life pissing other people off.  Give us all a break and don’t be a jerk. If you forget everything else, remember that.

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Which doesn’t mean that American cities will give it up.

Nobody ever got voted out of office for chasing a political fashion trend.

The Other McCain is on the case.

Remember that the SPLC became a $400-milllion left-wing hate machine by “exposing” alleged Thought Crimes by others, and is now the target of at least three different lawsuits — one by Baltimore lawyer Glen Keith Allen, another by the D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and a third by Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes. The mounting problems at the “Poverty Palace” in Montgomery were compounded when a former SPLC official wrote about the “hate” scam in the New Yorker….

Victor Davis Hanson points out that Trump really isn’t that much of an outlier as President.

eggy Noonan, apparently like many, believes that Trump’s occasional callousness and crassness are unprecedented. And they have so befouled the political landscape that he has spawned rude and crude leftwing imitators. The result allegedly is the vile language of the “mean girls” such as the anti-Semitism and foul speech of Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib…

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With all due respect, I don’t think we “all” know that this started with Trump, however crass he can be. Rather, we know all too well the political landscape a decade before Trump.

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To get an Apple Card, users will be able to sign up on their iPhone in the Apple Wallet app and get a digital card that they can use anywhere Apple Pay is accepted “within minutes.” Customers will also be able to track purchases, check balances, and see when their bill is due right from the app. There will be a physical titanium card, too, but there’s no credit card number, CVV, expiration date, or signature. All of that authorization information is stored directly in the Apple Wallet app.

I suppose it was inevitable. I doubt they can match the sweet deal I get from Costco.

Scot Adams, in order to have a collective term for Congressman Jerry Nadler and his coterie, has decided to give them the name, like that of a rock band. I kinda like it.

Matt Taibi brings the heat.

Nobody wants to hear this, but news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is headed home without issuing new charges is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media.

Steve Pressfield reveals all.

Here it is. Here’s the #1 lesson you learn working in advertising (and this has stuck with me, to my advantage, my whole working life):

Nobody wants to read your shit.

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For which they will no doubt be criticized by the Usual Activists.

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This is stupid political pandering. I had thought better of Rubio.

MSNBC Analysts PANIC Over Barr Letter: There’s No Complete Sentences from Mueller!

Scarborough on Mueller Exoneration: Trump Still Just a ‘Lying’ ‘Mr. Magoo’  He forgot the ‘nyah nyab nyah’.

House Intel Readies Criminal Referrals For Clinton Operatives Who “Perpetuated This Hoax”

Dershowitz Says The Media Must Apologize To The American Public Following Mueller Report Revelation  But it won’t.

Rudy Giuliani Calls On Democrats To Apologize For Advanced Collusion Story: ‘Shame On Them!’  But they won’t.

Kellyanne Calls For Adam Schiff Resignation In Wake Of Mueller Report  But he won’t.

CNN’s Attack on Mueller Begins: No Ruling on Obstruction ‘Atrocious’  It’s all they’ve got.

7 Collusion Theories That Died With The Mueller Report

Just Sad: Dan Rather Still Hoping for Media to Find Collusion  After all, they KNOW he’s guilty.

The View Hosts In Denial Over Mueller Report Findings: ‘We Don’t Know Anything!’   Yeah, say it again.

NY Times Sourly Shifts Subject to Trump ‘Obstruction of Justice,’ Slimes AG Barr

Disappointed by Mueller, Nets Hype ‘Scores’ of Dem Investigations

‘The Russians Have Clearly Won’; MSNBC Melts Down Mueller Chose to ‘Abdicate’ Responsibility

CNN’s Stelter Defends Media’s Russian Collusion Speculation, Decries Right-Wing Media Calling Them Out  He still looks like a Seinfeld character.

New Mantra: CNN Chants Report ‘Does Not Exonerate’ 120 Times in a Day  If they wish hard enough, maybe Tinkerbelle will recover.