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Do you own your own body? A question you may never have considered as the obvious answer would be: ‘yes, of course I do.’ Well, in law, the position is counter-intuitive. The default rule is that there are no property rights in the human body; this is well established in the law of the UK and further afield. Most people live quite happily without ever having to consider the implications of this. However, for others, the consequences of being unable to own your body, parts of it or its products can lead to very undesirable results.

Christopher DeGroot blows the whistle,

The neoconservative movement has always been more of an alternative left than a school of conservatism proper. Hence the right’s main enemy has long been not the left, but the phony, neoconservative right. For the right cannot realize conservative values—nationalist economics, immigration restriction, anti-interventionist foreign policy, opposition to “progressive” social issues like gay marriage and abortion—if the right itself effectively works with the left to advance the opposite values.

In recent decades, Max Boot, a perpetual warmonger who seems incapable of learning from his own mistakes, has evidenced this problem as much as anyone.

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Democrats prefer a system in which politicians who promise the most free stuff to the largest number of people win. Because they can’t admit it, we have to wrestle with preposterous arguments in favor of overturning the Electoral College. The most absurd is the notion that in a direct democracy, every vote “counts.”

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a “highly profitable scam” that “never lived up to the values it espoused,” according to former SPLC staffer Bob Moser.

New York Magazine on Thursday published a scathing essay from Moser, now a Rolling Stone reporter, accusing the left-wing non-profit of “ripping off donors” while turning a blind eye to sexual harassment and racial discrimination within its own ranks.

Ted Koppel: Trump’s Not Imagining Things, The Liberal Media Are Out to Get Him

This Harvard Law Professor Keeps Spreading Conspiracy Theories — But Media Outlets Keep Citing Him  Tribe is certifiably senile.

Did Jeff Bezos Invent A Trump-Saudi Collusion Hoax To Deflect From His Dick-Pic Betrayal?

‘Hardball’ Nonsense: Kellyanne Is a Bad Wife And Let’s Talk 25th Amendment

MSNBC’s Morning Joe: ‘Archie Bunker’ Trump Can’t Compete With Dreamy Dem

Politico: 12 Different Political/Economic Models of Voter Behavior Predict a Trump Victory in 2020, and Not a Small One

LOTT: Trump Keeps Condemning White Nationalists — So Why Does The Media Keep Denying It?  Because they’re lying sacks of shit, that’s why.

Ellen Asks if Trump ‘Losing His Mind,’ Booker Hails Her ‘Decency’

Democrats struggle to address rising border apprehensions as they seek to counter Trump on immigration

Dem Rep. Goes On Morning Joe To Complain Media Are ‘Agents of the Republican Party’  Uh, sure.

Several Economists And Researchers Say Trump Is ‘On Track For A 2020 Landslide’

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Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the diversity.

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

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Imagine everything you need to do to buy a new home. If you already own a property, you’ll probably need a broker to sell it. You may also need a broker to find you a new place. You’ll need a mortgage lender to finance the purchase. You’ll have to buy title insurance and home insurance, and then find a moving company to haul all your stuff to the new digs.

Now imagine being able to get all of these services from one company. And better yet, imagine that this company will coordinate the timing of each stage of the transaction so that moving from one place to another becomes virtually seamless. Several real estate tech companies are racing to make this dream a reality.

I’d like to be able to fold up my existing home and ship it to a lot in a new neighborhood. Now that would be impressive.

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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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Underlines the very reactionary nature of modern ‘progressivism’.

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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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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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…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.

Texans.

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

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More assassination insurance….

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Gee, I wonder why.

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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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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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Socialism in a nuitshell.

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Sounds like a great idea.

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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Sounds like a Democrat to me.

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The coalition of the fringes is unravelling quite quickly.

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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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Sounds like a good fit.

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

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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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Perhaps there ought to be IQ requirements for voting.

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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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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.

H/T Dave Zincavage.

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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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Politics in the modern age was symbolic, as much as practical, as the state had grown so large that meaningful change was going to be gradual. In fact, change was so slow that it transcended generations. One generation of politicians would tinker around with the rules and the next generation would realize the consequences. By the time the consequences of Johnson’s Great Society were felt, the people who pushed it were mostly out of office, so it was the successors who had to deal with the ramifications.

In the post-modern age, some may call it the technological age, political language is becoming esoteric, rather than symbolic. The language and discourse is not supposed to be sensible, but rather designed to test the boundaries of the formal political language. It is a game, of sorts, to figure out how to insert bits of heresy and forbidden topics into the political discourse, in a way that is only obvious to the people doing it. The point of the effort is to get people talking obliquely about forbidden topics and themes.

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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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.

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

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

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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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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.

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.

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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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.

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.