Stephen Colbert’s Showtime Cartoon Shows Reagan in Hell, Adelson as Jabba the Hut

Sunday Sadness: WashPost Empathizes with Leftists Who Made Mueller Prayer Candles

Schiff: Impeachment A ‘Tool’ To Expose Trump’s ‘Illegal Acts’

Women’s March Demands Twitter Suspend Trump for ‘Hate’

‘Certified Rotten’: Kathy Griffin’s Trump-Bashing Film Gets Theatrical Release

Amash Defends Trump Impeachment Claims Amid GOP Backlash

Unhinged Deutsch: Trump Is a ‘Sociopath’ Who Won’t Leave Office If He Loses

Jeff Daniels Claims That Trump’s Re-election Would End Democracy  No, I have no idea who Jeff Daniels is.

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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.?

We could call it, oh, I don’t know, maybe — Medicare For All?

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My, what a suirprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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The Narrative is one thing, but money is money.

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More embarrassing than Chelsea Clinton?

More embarrassing than Hunter Biden?

More embarrassing than Jesse Jackson Jr.?

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The most amusing aspect of this is that it’s describing most of the readers of the New York Times, from Blotto O’Rourke and Pete Buttplug right on down to Joe Biden.

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And a lot of it is ‘journalists’ mind-reading Trump and members of his administration — as if they could.

Don Boudreaux, a Real Economist, takes on one of ‘Progressivism’s dearest myth.

Few pieces of legislation in the United States are so widely respected as is the Sherman Act. But this respect is undeserved. The referee of Bradley’s book along with Stigler and the many other people who continue to take the Sherman Act at face value ignore the full history of antitrust legislation in the U.S.

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As a way to keep proglodytes out of your state, anti-abortion legislation just might do the trick … kind of like crosses and vampires, right?

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That would complete the destruction of the California economy. The population of the state would be reduced to those wealthy enough to buy and drive electric cars and the underclass who would survive by serving them.

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While Washington pols and pundits angrily debate who counts as a spy, and whether any such exotic creatures have ever been employed by the FBI, new evidence is emerging that the FBI not only uses spies, but has done so extensively, including in the Trump-Russia investigation.

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Two studies published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine andLancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology show that for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and colorectal cancer, one whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) scan can work just as well as multiple scans, offering a quicker, cheaper alternative, preferred by patients and involving less exposure to radiation.

The average cost of a WB-MRI scan for NSCLC patients was £317, half the £620 cost for multiple scans and the cost of a WB-MRI scan for colorectal patients was £216, compared with £285 for multiple scans.

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‘Free WiFi’ takes on a very different meaning….

Terrorists have been caught strapping Wi-Fi-activated backup triggers to bombs in Indonesia, police claimed this week.

The explosives were discovered in a raid earlier this month, and included a switching mechanism that enabled them to be detonated using a signal sent via Wi-Fi if the main trigger, which uses a SIM card and waits for a mobile phone message to detonate, was blocked by radio-frequency jammers.

“With that, he can put [the bombs] in some backpacks, and later he would just detonate them from a distance of 1km, for example,” said Brigadier-General Dedi Prasetyo at a press conference, according to The Strait Times. Yes, we know Wi-Fi doesn’t normally have a range of 1km. We’ll get to that in a moment.

GOP House Lawmaker: ‘Trump Has Engaged In Impeachable Conduct’  Uh, what, exactly?  (He doesn’t say. They never say.)

Dave Sussman: Fran Lebowitz: Still Upset Fawn Died in Animal House

Michigan’s Justin Amash becomes first Republican to back Trump impeachment  Oh, I doubt that he was the first.

Jim Cramer: Talking Heads Fail to Understand China Trade War

Justin Amash Takes It On The Chin From Conservatives After Impeachment Stand

On Colbert, Pelley Lectures Lazy Americans Let Trump Poison the Information

NeverTrumpers assemble!

Gen. Petraeus DESTROYS ABC Fear Mongering, Trump Not for War With Iran

Aussie Election Lesson: Climate Activism is a Game for Lazy Rich Elitists

Academic quits in disgust over university sacking of Peter Ridd

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Guess he was wrong.

What else has he been wrong about?

Well, almost everything.

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When crossing the border with a child and pretending it’s yours gets you a better chance to stay, children will have a market value whether anyone likes it or not.

Things with a market value, in an environment full of criminals, tend to get stolen.

‘Progressives’ forget everything they know, or ought to know, about human behavior whenever such knowledge is inconsistent with whatever brilliant idea they just had.

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The pushback continues.

Perhaps the pendulum is starting to swing back.

Perhaps we can stop it somewhere near the middle.

Perhaps.

Freeberg nails it.

It happened long before the beginning of recorded history, so we don’t know if it was sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, or a bunch of cavemen still in the throes of evolution from monkeys. But it was undoubtedly profit-driven, motivated by the realization that a group can achieve in breadth & depth something that a lone individual cannot. And that had to be a meal because it could not have been anything else. It must have been meat, because the farmer labors in solitude when he sows and reaps.

So the most able hunters in a village, or in a locale that was later to become a village, pooled their resources together and brought down a mighty beast. They gathered to cook it over a fire, and divide the portions. They ate better and fed their families better than they had before, as a result of previous attempts in solitude, and so they resolved to do the same again and again.

The process of allocation must have become an issue very soon, likely within mere moments. The first liberal caveman who didn’t know how to hunt, or didn’t care to expend the effort, proposed that his contribution to the feast would be the knowledge of how to apportion the meat among the various other participants. Those stronger cavemen who brought down the beast then tore him limb from limb…and so, having anticipated this, he didn’t actually say anything, opting instead to keep the thoughts to himself. And probably starved, or survived on the scraps.

But the desire remained — the desire to make one’s living by way of dictating where the energies of better people should go, as a substitute for actual contribution. It was left to churn away, like an underground fire, for thousands and thousands of years before technology would permit it to see the light of day

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If the presidential candidacy of Mayor de Blasio has any hope (and it does not), it is because Americans have stopped looking for leadership and started looking for mascots.

Dopey Twitter war with Eric Trump? Half-understood and half-serious “Green New Deal” promises? That is what modern presidential campaigns are made of.

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Some employees say Google is losing touch with its “Don’t be evil” motto. What happens when an empowered tech workforce rebels?

Steve Sailer reads this stuff so you don’t have to.

At least four top Department of Education executives who have been demoted or stripped of duties under Carranza’s sweeping reorganization are poised to sue the city, claiming he has created “an environment which is hostile toward whites,” a source told The Post.

The women — all white, veteran administrators — contend they were pushed aside for less qualified persons of color.

To the victors belong the spoils. Suck it up, babes.

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The floating homeless population in wealthy Marin County, just across the Golden Gate Strait from San Francisco, has doubled in the last five years to over 100. The community of 200 barges, sailboats, and other vessels comprise of people who are employed but can’t afford to live on land, jobless folks, the homeless, and some people who are mentally ill. Boat life for them isn’t easy:

Trump ‘deserves’ Khashoggi treatment, Maher guest Fran Lebowitz says before backpedaling

Hysterical Behar Claims She’s ‘Never Heard’ of Ignoring Subpoenas Before: ‘Becoming a Third World Country!’

Fran Lebowitz Says Trump Should Be Murdered By The Saudis

On ‘Real Time,’ Fran Lebowitz Fantasizes About Trump’s Death at the Hands of the Saudis

Toyota Slams Trump After Making Them Feel “Not Welcomed” In US

The Guardian officially goes full climate alarmist language

@Newsweek goes full retard

Climate issue rejected – Historic win in Australia after Labor loses ‘unlosable’ election

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I guess the Dark Ages only ended in 1975. Good to know.

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Australia held a national election yesterday which all of the polls predicted for weeks would be won handily by the Labour Party. The ruling Liberal Party (which is the conservative party in Australian politics because they still understand the historic meaning of liberalism) has been on office for over a decade, and had struggled as ruling parties often do when they grow stale in office. In fact leadership struggles within the Liberal Party had left it in chaos heading into the election campaign. The pollsters and the media called it an “unlosable election” for Labour.

But in a stunning upset, the Liberal Party has won the election. It sounds a lot like our 2016 election, no? Apparently lots of voters told the pollsters one thing, but voted differently in the voting booth.

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Fusion will be very nice, once they get it to work.

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Be careful what you wish for — you just might get it.

Unintended Consequences will be master of them all….

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Amazon.com has jumped into the market of the third-party logistics broker, roiling the waters and raising concern that the Seattle-based e-commerce giant could disrupt the freight industry forever and indelibly.

Amazon’s new freight-hauling site — located at freight.Amazon.com — has been up and running since August 2018, but it went largely unnoticed by media until early May, when The Wall Street Journal and others reported on Amazon’s entry into the market. Reports noted Amazon was offering “beta service” full truckload hauling in dry vans. The service is available for pickups in Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

A tentacle here, a tentacle there,
Jeff Bezos brings you into his lair….

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And coastal California lurches every closer to the edge….

UPDATE: In San Francisco, Tech Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness

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Allegedly. This is from Popular Science, which has gone from being a popular science mag to a Voice of the Crust, so I’d want to check it against a couple of reliable sources.

Oh, c’mon! Where are you going to find a virgin these days?

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If you consume the mainstream media, you might be under the impression that President Trump is about to take the U.S. into war with Iran. Even if you only watch Fox News, you might believe that John Bolton is pushing Trump to go to war. Tucker Carlson says that Bolton wants a war with Iran.

This is fake news. There’s no evidence that Bolton desires a war with Iran and none that, even if this were what Bolton wants, Trump would be willing to start such a war.

Even Fox News is merely the best of a bad lot. Most of the talking heads in Washington are pretending that they can read the minds of Trump and his administration’s officials in order to report what they ‘want’ and ‘desire’ and ‘secretly yearn for’, and it’s all bullshit. There is NO official in Trump’s administration that can ‘make’ him do anything; if nothing else, the last two years have demonstrated that conclusively. That being true, what inferior officials ‘want’ is of no consequence, even if (which I doubt) the Chattering Class had some way of discerning that beyond their own fantasies.

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The American entrepreneurial spirit lives on, even in such a statist wasteland as California.

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Once again, ‘progressives’ show themselves to be actually regressive.

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The Trump administration has officially pulled a $929 million federal grant to the California High-Speed Rail Authority after terminating a 2010 agreement.

In a release, the Federal Railroad Association – a component of the US Department of Transportation – said that California’s rail authority “repeatedly failed to comply with the terms of the FY10 agreement and has failed to make reasonable progress on the project. Additionally, California has abandoned its original vision of a high-speed passenger rail service connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles, which was essential to its applications for FRA grant funding,” according to CNBC.

The FRA added that it “continues to consider all options regarding the return of $2.5 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds awarded to CHSRA.”

Since Governor Newsome has already said they won’t complete the project, but will continue work so that they can get the Federal money, this is a no-brainer … which, of course, doesn’t mean that California public officials won’t whine about it.

Larry Ellison apparently agrees with me:

“Trains leave when you don’t want to leave, from a place you don’t want to leave from, and take you to a place you don’t want to go to, at a time you don’t want to get there, and then you have to get into a car and go wherever you’re going. It is a crazy system.”

Resistance TV: Wallace, Panel Blast ‘Cowardly’ Dems Not Impeaching Trump, Bash Voters

Rep. Ralph Norman: Democrats Are Overplaying Their Hand Investigating Trump

‘The Good Fight’ Season Finale: Unenthusiastic Trump Appointee Kicked Off Rally Stage

Psychic News Network: Lemon: Trump ‘Doesn’t Just Surround Himself’ With Dictators, ‘He Wants to Follow Their Lead’  Amazing how someone who doesn’t know anything about Trump can read his mind about what he wants.

“Never Trump” Republican Now Lobbying For Russia After Calling For “Sanctions From Hell”

Omar Wants To Abolish ICE Following Trump’s Immigration Reform Proposal

Facts Fractured: CNN Showboat Jim Acosta Mangles Trump’s Words on Asylum Seekers

Tom Steyer Takes A Break From Attacking Trump, Moves On To Blaming Dems For Not Impeaching

WashPost Blogger Promotes Steyer’s ‘Brutal’ Ad Slamming Weak-on-Impeachment Democrats

Maxine Waters Slams Trump’s “Very Racist” Immigration Plan

Peacock of CNN, Jim Acosta, Spreads Misquote on Twitter, Then, When It Is Proven Conclusively That He Is Spreading Fake News, Doubles Down on the Lie

Hateful Colbert Cartoon Mocks Trump-Voting Farmers as Drunk Hicks Not a surprise.

Maxine Waters Calls Trump’s Immigration Plan ‘Very Racist’

Jay Inslee’s “Evergreen Economy” Plan – Unleashing Subprime Climate Change Debt

Study finds 24% of West Antarctic ice is now unstable

Atmospheric Methane Levels Are Going Up—And No One Knows Why

Public’s Dread of Nuclear Power Limits Its Deployment

Listen to a haunting song composed using climate data

Plastic chemicals could harm the ocean bacteria that produce 10 percent of our oxygen  ‘could’

Bethany Mandel: How to Read Stories about Garbage “Science” Studies

‘Newspeak’: Major Newspaper Will Refer To Climate Change As An ‘Emergency,’ ‘Breakdown’

‘Emergency!’ Guardian Goes Activist With ‘Global Heating’ Style Guide

Robots Recreating Past Temperatures – Are Best to Avoid Australian Data

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Conservative students enter college with higher SAT scores and GPAs than liberal students, but by the fourth year of college have lower GPAs than liberal peers, which may be a consequence of institutional bias, finds a new working paper from the University of Arkansas.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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For 2017, data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows non-citizens comprise about 7 percent of the country’s population, but the 2018 Annual Report and Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics shows they committed more than 40 percent of all federal crimes.

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I’d pay that much for it if I could then be entitled to execute each staff member.

Heather Mac Donald on the new SAT ‘adversity score’.

For decades, the College Board defended the SAT, which it writes and administers, against charges that the test gives an unfair advantage to middle-class white students. No longer. Under relentless pressure from the racial-preferences lobby, the Board has now caved to the anti-meritocratic ideology of “diversity.” The Board will calculate for each SAT-taker an “adversity score” that purports to measure a student’s socioeconomic position, according to the Wall Street Journal. Colleges can use this adversity index to boost the admissions ranking of allegedly disadvantaged students who otherwise would score too poorly to be considered for admission.

Advocates of this change claim that it is not about race. That is a fiction.

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Soon to be a major motion picture, for all I know.

I presume from the lack of coverage that he is a Trump supporter, or at least a Republican.

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Absolutely. As a fat ugly black woman, she is the very image of the modern Democrat party.

Farrakhan Slams ‘Satanic Jews’ After Facebook Ban

Sri Lanka sets up hotline to report increasing anti-Muslim harassment in the wake of Easter Sunday attacks

Brunei LGBT community living in fear despite sultan’s death penalty reprieve 

I’d Like to Buy the Ummah a Coke

Gunmen storm five-star hotel in Pakistan port city of Gwadar

Men ordered not to look at women during Ramadan in Iran as hardliners tighten control amid nuclear deal row

FBI Discovers Homegrown Islamic Terror Compound In Alabama

Rasmus Paludan: “Either You Throw Out the Muslims, or They Take Over”  Binary decision.

First mass in Sri Lanka churches since Easter Sunday massacre

Omar Suleiman’s Invocation Triggers Textbook “Islamophobia” Deflection

Jihadi John’s assassination was  ‘symbolic’ and ‘personal’ spy chiefs reveal

Culture-Enricher in Italy Slits His Wife’s Throat

FBI Uncovers Terror Training Camp in Alabama

WHO Warns Ebola Outbreak Critical As Armed Militants Target Healthcare Workers

Eight al-Qaeda linked militants charged with LGBT murders in Bangladesh

Feds Charge Kentucky Islamic Center Leader With Hiring A Hitman

Sri Lanka blocks social media and imposes curfew after anti-Muslim attacks

Steny Hoyer Stands By Rashida Tlaib’s Holocaust Comments After GOP Leadership Calls On Democrats To Condemn Her

World War 3? Top Iranian Official Taunts: US “Not Ready For A War, Specially When Israel Is Within Our Range”

Youths Gone Wild, Act I

Youths Gone Wild, Act II

Youths Gone Wild, Act III

Senior Palestinian Official Claims US Denied Her Visa

Jihadists In Idlib Unleash Repeat Attacks On Nearby Christian City

Five protesters and army major shot dead in Sudan protests as ousted president Bashir charged over crackdown 

Dutch Struggle to Rein In State-Funded Salafist School

Sri Lanka Police Arrest 23 For Assaulting Muslims In Retaliation For Easter Bombings

BBC Doubles Down On Translating ‘Jew’ As ‘Israeli’ In Palestinians’ Anti-Semitic Comments

Qatar-Run Al Jazeera Posts Video Attacking Alabama Law. The Middle Eastern Country Jails Women For Abortion

Austria votes to ban Muslim girls from wearing headscarves to school

Rashida Tlaib’s comments about Palestine are blatantly misleading

Hamas thanks Jeremy Corbyn for message at pro-Palestinian rally

Isil branches out into Pakistan as it bids to rebuild collapsed caliphate

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FIRST, CLOSE the blackout blinds in your bedroom. Eat dinner at 4pm, and do not eat or drink anything after 6pm. Put on your blue-light blocking glasses at 8pm. Set your bedroom temperature to 67ºF (19.4ºC) and your electric blanket to 69.8ºF (21ºC). At 8.45pm, meditate for five to ten minutes. Switch on your deep-wave sound machine. Put on your Oura sleep-tracking ring. You are now, finally, ready for slumber. This may all sound a bit over the top. But this is the “sleep hygiene” routine described in a recent blog post by Bryan Johnson, who sold his previous company to eBay for $800m and is now chief executive of Kernel, a startup developing brain-computer interfaces. He admits that his sleep routine has “decimated my social life”, and that his partner sleeps in a different room, but says all this trouble is worth it, because it has boosted his level of “deep sleep” by as much as 157%. He has bought Oura rings for all his employees.