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Opioids Have Killed as Many Americans as World War II, But Cable News Still Won’t Talk About It

21st March 2019

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There’s no way they can twist it to make it Trump’s fault, so they’re not interested.

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San Francisco Considers Banning Cashless Amazon Stores

21st March 2019

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I guess they’re tired of being on the cutting edge of technology.

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There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway.

21st March 2019

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The last time I rode in a train it was an overnight journey from New York City to Indiana in 1980.  It wasn’t all that pleasant.

The 28-inch mattress is exactly the same width as seamen had available on old-time wooden warships, although they slept in hammocks. I guess there really is nothing new under the sun.

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California Leads the Nation in Bringing Back Medieval Illnesses

21st March 2019

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Underlines the very reactionary nature of modern ‘progressivism’.

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Bookstore Removes Jordan Peterson Book Over Mosque Shooting, Continues Selling ‘Mein Kampf’

21st March 2019

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A New Zealand bookstore stopped selling Dr. Jordan Peterson’s book in light of the Christchurch mosque shootings, but continues offering “Mein Kampf.”

I used to think that New Zealand would be a pretty cool place to live. Now, not so much.

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J.P. Morgan Replaces College Visits With Online Games To Recruit Aspiring Bankers

21st March 2019

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They haven woken up to the fact that you don’t need a college degree to be a banker, you merely need a certain set of skills that can be tested for, and trained, through appropriately designed games.

That’s how we get drone pilots — more Call of Duty than Top Gun.

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Morning Shows in Awe of ‘Tough’ ‘Impactful’ NZ Gun Ban, Lament U.S. Constitution

21st March 2019

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…which will last until the next mass shooting, which I predict will be in a country with strict gun control laws like Britain, Australia, New Zealand, or France.

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Texas Man Tests Petco’s Any Leashed Pet Policy by Bringing Steer to Houston Store

21st March 2019

Texans.

America used to be full of people like this. Now, not so much.

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Biden May Choose Stacey Abrams as His 2020 Running Mate So People Don’t Think He’s ‘Another Old White Guy’

21st March 2019

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More assassination insurance….

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Thought for the Day

21st March 2019

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Anti-Immigrant Dutch Party Surges in Regional Election Days After Utrecht Attack

21st March 2019

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Gee, I wonder why.

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After Multiple Reports About New Zealanders Turning In Guns, Guess How Many Actually Did It?

20th March 2019

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Following reports that a flood of New Zealand gun owners have been voluntarily surrending their firearms in the wake of last Friday’s Christchurch mosque attack that left 50 dead, the numbers are in on how many Kiwis actually handed over their weapons.

Out of an estimated 1.2 million registered guns, New Zealand police report that as of Tuesday night, 37 firearms have been surrendered nationwide, according to BuzzFeed.

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What if Bernie Sanders held a rally in a black church and no blacks came?

20th March 2019

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The Washington Post reports that a Bernie Sanders rally held in the gym of a black church in North Charleston, South Carolina drew more than 1,600 people. Fewer than 40 were black.

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80-Year-Old Man Raises $250K for Bernie and Beto. Buys Mercedes Instead, Feds Say

20th March 2019

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Socialism in a nuitshell.

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‘Second Amendment Sanctuary’ Cities, Counties, & States Spring Up Across The Country

20th March 2019

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Sounds like a great idea.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

20th March 2019

Former Prosecutor Reveals He Considered Taping Phone Call With Trump

Toobin: Trump’s ‘Personal Grievance’ Is ‘Precisely Consistent With the White Nationalist Agenda’

Koppel: NYT And WaPo Not What They Used To Be Thanks To Trump Vendetta

Report: Democrats Suggest More People Are Working 2 Jobs In Trump’s Economy. Here’s Where They’re Wrong

Top Democratic Lawmaker Compares Trump To Hitler After McCain Dust-Up

Former DOJ Attorney Claims Ambassadors Worked With Feds To Take Down Trump

Kasie Hunt Says Trump Has No Shot At Re-Election Because He’ll Never Be Able To Turn Key Voting Group  They said the same thing before he was elected the first time.

Joy Behar: Trump Jumped Into Conway Feud Because ‘He Likes Separating Families’  Uh, no, it was because George Conway insulted him.

Kimmel to Harris: As President, Will You ‘Prosecute’ Trump and ‘Hench Characters?’

“Sitting Ambassadors” Participated In Plot To ‘Take Trump Down’: Meadows

Trump’s Tax Cut Won’t Power the Growth He Predicts, Officials Concede  Except that it already is.

Shame Is Part of the Kink, Continued: Kellyanne Conway Blasts Own Husband For Claiming That He Has Diagnosed Trump with Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Will Washington State’s Plan To Ban Trump From The 2020 Ballot Backfire?

 

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Coffee Shop Employees Forced to Clean Up After Counter-Hopping Beto O’Rourke

20th March 2019

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Sounds like a Democrat to me.

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Canada’s Oldest Rape Crisis Centre Stripped of City Funding for Refusing to Accept Trans Women

20th March 2019

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The coalition of the fringes is unravelling quite quickly.

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UK: Open University Forced to Cancel Conference Following Threats From the Transgender Lobby

20th March 2019

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“The Open University faced quite significant pressure from transgender activists. They received a number of emails where some of the language was extraordinarily overheated,” a source told The Telegraph.

“They were effectively being threatened with demonstrations and disruptive activity, possibly in the conference hall itself, and some kind of picket line or protest outside the conference.”

Every time the mob succeeds, more mobs form.

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NYU Hires Fact Checker, Who New Yorker Fired for Falsely Labeling Veteran a Nazi, to Teach on Far Right Coverage

20th March 2019

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Sounds like a good fit.

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Illegal Released by De Blasio Bites Off ICE Agent’s Finger

20th March 2019

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A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokeswoman explained to The Daily Caller that Dominican national Christopher Santos Felix “entered the United States on a visitor’s visa in June 2015, but failed to leave within the required timeframe.” Felix then racked up a litany of criminal charges, including driving while intoxicated, before he was arrested for assault by the New York City Police Department on Sept. 29, 2018.

If I were that ICE agent, I would take the first opportunity to go to New York and cut off the corresponding finger on Mayor de Blasio.

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NBC’s Chuck Todd Awarded for Excluding ‘Deniers’ From Hour-Long Climate Change Broadcast

20th March 2019

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NBC host Chuck Todd received a Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism for an hour-long feature on climate change that excluded “climate deniers.”

Just like Cronkite. How appropriate.

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Arsonist Sentenced to Federal Prison for Fire at Republican Headquarters in Wyoming

20th March 2019

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A Federal District Court judge sentenced Kellen Michael Sorber, 27, on Monday to 44 months in federal prison for setting fire to a GOP headquarters in Laramie, Wyoming.

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CNN Still Hasn’t Told Viewers It’s Being Sued for $275 Million for Defamation

20th March 2019

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Well, you know, that’s not really news, is it? After all, it doesn’t mention TRUMP….

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Public Schools Are No Longer a Foundation 0f America’s Republic

20th March 2019

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When Thomas Jefferson made the case for state-supported public schooling to Benjamin Franklin and other skeptics, he emphasized the necessity of turning young students into fully-fledged citizens. If our new form of government was to survive, Jefferson argued, it would need to be buttressed by an education system that taught the virtues of self-government. Public schooling was to become “the keystone in the arch” of our new constitutional republic.

Education was never meant to be values-neutral, and recent decades have shown that the public schools are indeed aggressively teaching a set of values to the almost 90 percent of American kids who travel through their halls. They’re just not the small-r republican values Jefferson had in mind.x

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POLL: 1 in 5 Americans Blame Global Warming for Cold Winter Weather

20th March 2019

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Perhaps there ought to be IQ requirements for voting.

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Cambridge University Withdraws Visiting Fellowship of Academic Who Refuses to Refer to Transgender People by Chosen Pronouns

20th March 2019

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Cambridge University has rescinded its offer of a visiting fellowship to controversial academic Jordan Peterson, who refuses to refer to transgender people by their chosen pronouns, after outcry from faculty and students.

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Mother Whose Son Was Killed by an Illegal Immigrant Demands Justice After Judge’s Light Sentence

20th March 2019

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Jamar Beach was riding his motorcycle in North Carolina on Sept. 1, 2018 when Cruz Carmona failed to yield and crashed into Beach’s bike. Beach was then decapitated, and Carmona kept driving.

“At that point, yes, it was an accident,” Robinson said. “However, Mr. Cruz Carmona never stopped. He decapitated my son and kept going with his body lodged in the side of the van. And so for me, that’s not an accident. That was a choice at that point.”

Carmona only received 20-33 months in prison after prosecutors said they couldn’t pursue further charges without evidence, according to WRAL. He could be released in as little as 14 months with credit for time served.

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Billy Joel Predicted

20th March 2019

H/T Dave Zincavage.

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YouTube Bans Navy SEAL Who Exposed Covington Activist

20th March 2019

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Shipley’s YouTube account “Buds131” was reportedly banned by the platform for videos he had published years ago on the grounds of being “multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s policy prohibiting content designed to harass, bully or threaten.” Shipley told PJ Media that his channel was put in YouTube Prison” for this, because “phony SEALs would cry to them about being posted.” He had been penalized for this by YouTube in the past for 6 months.

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Thought for the Day

20th March 2019

Frazz Comic Strip for March 13, 2019

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Trump Derangement Syndrome

19th March 2019

Morning Joe Wonders If Trump Has ‘Oppositional Defiant Disorder’  I guess they had to come up with something to match TDS.

Fake News Jim and Friends: ‘Extraordinary,’ ‘Surreal’ WH Must Answer If Trump’s Mentally Stable!  They’re just pissed that he’s more entertaining than they are.

NY Times Reporter-Turned-Columnist David Leonhardt: ‘Trump Encourages Violence’  Not as much as the New York Times.

Ted Koppel: Trump’s ‘Not Mistaken’ That Liberal Media Are Blatantly ‘Out to Get Him’

Gillibrand Claims She Has The Best Voting Record Against Trump Nominees Ever  She’s still a Becky.

MSNBC: Trump’s Tweets Are Sign of ‘Crisis Level’ ‘Psychological Duress’

Congress to probe Trump administration’s response to rising threat of white nationalism

Stephen Colbert criticises Trump’s response to New Zealand terror attack: ‘He never condemns racists’  Except, of course, that he often has. (I’ll bet you didn’t know that ‘Muslim’ was a race.)

NBC’s Idea of ‘Tough Question’ for 2020 Dem: Is Trump a ‘Racist’?  It serves a purpose: Anyone who answers ‘yes’ is too stupid to be President.

CNN Shocked to Find Latinos Who Support Trump, Border Wall

CNN’s David Gregory Slams George Conway’s Anti-Trump Tweets as Inappropropriate  Gregory has obviously be replaced by an alien.

Facebook Blocks President Trump’s Social Media Chief Scavino

Trump aide Kellyanne Conway denies president’s mental health is ‘getting worse’ after her husband voices concerns  I’d be more inclined to worry about her husband’s mental health. He sure has a bad case of TDS.

Woman Who Climbed Statue Of Liberty To Protest Trump Sentenced To 5 Years Probation

 

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Controversial Jordan Peterson Now Making Over $500K a Year in Donations

19th March 2019

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This may be a viable financing model for Politically Incorrect professors.

The controversial professor who drew ire of trans activists by refusing to use genderless pronouns is now making more than $50,000 US a month from his adoring fans.

In October of last year, Peterson—at the time an relatively unknown psychology professor—was thrust into the spotlight because of his refusal to use gender neutral pronouns for his students. This became a flashpoint in a debate about political correctness and Peterson rode the controversy to that of a very well paid star. Before courting controversy, Peterson was an accomplished academic—one that taught at Harvard before being granted tenure at the University of Toronto.

Now, less than a year since hitting fame, Peterson pulls in (at the time of writing) $51,135 from the crowdsourcing website Patreon which, as the Toronto Star reports, makes him the 32nd highest earner on the site. In April of this year, Peterson was denied research funding for the first time and the professor saw fans, which includes Canada’s answer to Infowars, Rebel Media, launch crowdfunding campaigns on his behalf—raising almost $200,000.

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Google VP Stepped In to Ban Christian Political Advertisements About Traditional Marriage When Employees Began Complaining That Lawful, Respectful Political Disagreement Was a “Microagression”

19th March 2019

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More evidence that tech firms have about as much diversity as a bag of Oreos.

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Tribe and Trap

19th March 2019

Sarah Hoyt speaks some inconvenient truth.

The people who do those cute and vapid studies on how your toddler is racist — by which they mean he prefers people who look like mommy and daddy, or their surrogates in his life —  don’t seem to understand that.  They don’t seem to understand that for most of human existence, (prehistory is much longer than history) for a toddler to stray outside his tribe meant at best he was raised as a slave, and at worst he became lunch.

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Everything Is Racist! NY Times: Opposing ‘Social Justice Engine’ of Light Rail Is Bigoted

19th March 2019

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that light rail was a ‘social justice engine’. I sure didn’t.

 

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You Thought Occasional Cortex Was an Accident?

19th March 2019

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Nope. There’s a guy behind the curtain that shields her from reality. AOC was groomed by rich capitalists. Think of those talent shows that find performers who look good and sound good reading a script. Then polish them up till they’re good enough for prime time. Simon Cowell comes to mind…but he’s in real show business, not politics.

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Jewish Voters Nervous About Democrats’ Shift to Become the Home of Antisemites

19th March 2019

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One day the Jews who reflexively vote Democrat will wake up to the fact that, when the proglodytes come for the White People, they’ll once again be on the wrong side of the wire.

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Will New York Become a Chinese-Dominated City?

19th March 2019

Steve Sailer takes a look.

John Derbyshire once said that there wasn’t anything wrong with New York City that couldn’t be fixed by importing a million ethnic Chinese to the place. We may get a chance to find out.

I’m good with that.

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Elite Omphaloskepsis

19th March 2019

Kevin Williamson exposes the rot.

The most serious problem for black students in New York City’s public schools isn’t what’s happening at the best of them — it’s what’s happening at the worst of them.

But let’s have another round of soul-searching over who’s headed for Princeton.

We see the same thing with Black Lives Matter. One black thug gunned down by a cop is headline news. Half a dozen Africans shot by random gangsters in Chicago over the weekend is not interesting enough to mention.

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Lefty Journalist Hill Tweets That the Electoral College Preserves Slavery

19th March 2019

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Of course, everything that Africans don’t like in America ‘preserves slavery’, so that makes it a core American institution.

I’m good with that.

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White Supremacy at Stuyvesant

19th March 2019

Steve Sailer does the numbers.

The New York Times’ main White House correspondent explains that the poor representation of blacks (1%) at Stuyvesant HS in NYC is due to whites (18%) having White Privilege.

Granted, Asians make up 74% of the Stuyvesant student body, but NYT reporters don’t possess concepts like Asian Supremacy, so who can remember random numbers like that?

For reasons of Victim Pokemon Points, Asians are Honorary White People.

I’m good with that.

UPDATE: Jay Nordlinger gives the National Review cuck perspective.

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The Sting of Meritocracy

19th March 2019

Yuval Levin takes a step back.

There are, very broadly speaking, two ways to think about why elites tend to aggravate the broader public in democratic societies: We might call them the sin of exclusivity, and the sin of unaccountability. The first is a function of the fact that it is very hard to enter the elite strata of our society (and any society), and the second is a function of the fact that the people who occupy those elite strata think they can do whatever they want without regard to the consequences for others. Our elites tend to obsess about the first a lot more, but it is the second that really drives populist resentment. And in our time, we have been trying to address the first in ways that have only worsened the second.

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Thought for the Day

19th March 2019

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‘Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke Should Duck Out Now and Make Way for the Real Progressives in the Democratic Race’

19th March 2019

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If it should surprise you that this would appear in a British newspaper, bear in mind that the proglodyte affection for telling other people what they ought to do knows no bounds.

If you didn’t know that Jambalaya had a ‘conservative past’, read on.

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People Are Not Full Adults Until Their 30S, Scientists Say

19th March 2019

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And sometimes not even then, I say.

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AP Pushes New Leftwing Conspiracy Theory: “Puzzling” Number of Activists Connected to Ferguson are Dying (Usually by Suicide or Drug Overdose), And That Suggests They’re Being Secretly Murdered by an Unidentified But Obviously White Cabal

19th March 2019

Ace of Spades sounds the alarm.

I love the smell of conspiracy theories in the morning.

None of these cabals ever thinks of contacting me. I’m offended.

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Whoopi, McCain Slam O’Rourke From the Left: ‘Careful’ About Your ‘White Male Privilege’

19th March 2019

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Why O’Rourke won’t be the nominee, no matter how many teeth he has.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

18th March 2019

Trump defends ‘Judge’ Jeanine Pirro after Fox News host taken off air over Islamophobic hijab comments  They had to put ‘Islamophobic’ in the headline so that you wouldn’t mistake it for actual reporting.

Minnesota Democrats Reportedly Want Ilhan Omar Out — She Blames Trump  I like him already.

Dan Rather Laments Trump’s Media Platform: ‘Manure Spreader in a Windstorm’  Says Mr. ‘Fake but accurate’.

‘My Father Was His Kryptonite’: Meghan McCain Launches Tirade Against Trump  More like his coprolite.

Trump angrily complains about being ‘blamed’ for far-right terror attack in New Zealand  This is news?

 

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Eco-Activist’s Sordid Criminal History Sheds Light on Parents’ Role in Children’s Climate Crusade

18th March 2019

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Points out that these Children’s Crusades are only sock-puppets for the Usual Suspects.

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