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In times of stress, in times of uncertainty, people often return to their roots.

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How many does that make? Really, I’m losing count.

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The resistance rises.

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Just as everyone with half a frontal lobe had expected, the WSJ reported late on Monday that according to an initial U.S. assessment, “Iran was likely behind the attack” on the two Saudi Arabian oil tankers and two other vessels damaged over the weekend near the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said, a finding that, whether confirmed or not, will certainly inflame military tensions in the Gulf and likely result in a global proxy war that drags in the US, China and Russia. Oh, and that would be the Persian Gulf for those wondering, not the Gulf of Tonkin, which is where another famous False Flag naval incident occurred.

Longest-Serving Iowa Republican Andy McKean Switches Parties, Blames Trump  The Sorting Hat seems to be working.

‘The Simpsons’ Mocks ‘Corporate Tax Cuts,’ Lies About Health Care

CNN Morning Host Berman Suggests Lindsey Graham’s Gone ‘From Wingman to Wingnut’

Man Indicted for Threatening to Blow Up Trump, Government Officials, and Federal Property; Media Silent, Does Not Criticize Itself or Democrats for Dangerous Rhetoric

The Washington Post: Trump Has Launched an “All-Out War” Against… the Democrat Congress Which Has Launched Over 20 Investigations In Order to Derail His Presidency

Black Brooklynites Attack Hasidic Jews, De Blasio Blames Trump And ‘White Supremacy’

Richard Epstein: The President’s Privilege

Singapore’s highly successful economic evolution in an era of irrational global climate alarmism propaganda

UN Climate Rant: “political will seems to be fading”

Ireland Declares Climate Emergency  Perhaps now they’ll be permitted to sit with the Cool Kids at lunch.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #359

What’s Wrong With The Surface Temperature Record? Guest: Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.

‘Worst Mayor Ever’: Protesters Drown Out Bill De Blasio At His Own Climate Change Event

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I suspect that eventually the Supreme Court will have to weigh in on this issue.

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The reason is simple: The victims are Jews, who the left now considers to be near or at the bottom of the “Progressive Stack” and not worthy of defending from unprovoked street attacks, and the perpetrators are by blacks and Hispanics, who are at or near the top of the Progressive Stack and therefore cannot be criticized, even if they’re knocking out a minority group for no reason except that they’re Jews.

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Some good news for a change.

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Whatever happens, we have got
Apple’s buy-back program, and they have not.

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John’s post yesterday about how Denmark’s left-leaning social democrats are turning against immigration—not just any immigration but specifically from you-know-where—has prompted me to writing about a broader dilemma that, sooner or later, America’s liberals will need to confront.

Milton Friedman and other libertarians long argued that you can have high rates of unskilled immigration, or a generous welfare state, but not both. The basic thought is that high rates of unskilled immigrants will eventually bankrupt the welfare state, and while this may yet prove true, the deeper reason is not fiscal, but cultural and social. This is what the Danes have figured out.

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I am curious as to how this particular pissing match is going to turn out.

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Anyone who drives or rides in a Tesla is a moron.

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I guess Asians are honorary white people now.

Public schools are subject to political maneuvering just like any other government program.

Don’t send your kid to a government school.

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Reporters today believe that their coverage serves higher agendas of social justice, identity politics, “equality,” and diversity. To the degree a news account is expanded or ignored, praised or blasted, depends on its supposed utility to the effort to fundamentally transform the country into something unlike its founding.

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Just another fashion victim.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Progress!

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Notable about all this is that workers plainly agree that Amazon’s working conditions are pretty logical. Indeed, according to the New York Times Amazon reached 300,000 employees faster than any public company in history. It wouldn’t have if conditions were of the “sweatshop” variety, and if the work culture were defined by “human suffering.” Unemployment is presently low, there are countless employers out there that aren’t Amazon, yet people flock to Amazon.

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The bizarre and mysterious explosions that rocked the UAE port of Fujairah on Sunday just got even more strange after Saudi Arabia admitted overnight that two of its oil tankers were attacked while sailing toward the Persian Gulf possibly as part of the incident.

The world just got more interesting.

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Sharing was supposed to transform our world for the better. Instead, the only thing we’re sharing is the mess it left behind.

Markets are self-organizing, based on the incentives inherent in any given situation and the amazingly sophisticated operations of human ingenuity. Ignorance of this basic fact is one of the chief causes of the disasters that can often plague the best-laid plans of mice and men, not to mention governments and tech start-ups.

Jim Goad takes a look behinds the myths.

Why the hell are these mass shooters always straight white males?

Well, for starters, because they’re not. According to a study of mass shootings in the USA between 1982 and February 2019, 62 out of 110 shooters were white, which comprises 56% of the total. Since non-Hispanic whites accounted for nearly 80% of the public in 1982 and currently hover at about 63%, whites have consistently been underrepresented as mass shooters over the past 37 years.

I’ve previously written about a similar myth—that there are no black serial killers. In reality, blacks are overrepresented among the ranks of serial killers by anywhere from 200% to 400%, and that’s assuming that no one counts gang members as serial killers.

Why the myths, then? It’s almost as if some people harbor intense racial hatred for whites.

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We have been writing for years about the fact that any European who expresses skepticism about the wisdom of mass immigration is immediately branded “far right,” no matter what his other views may be. This has had the unhealthy effect of driving voters toward parties that, in some cases, have indeed been unsavory. But it was probably only a matter of time before “mainstream” parties would see the writing on the wall.

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I doubt that anybody living really appreciates the shit that black people had to go through before the changes in the mid-60s. The fact that race-pimps and professional victims have metastasized that achievement into the cancer that race relations have become doesn’t detract from the significance of the achievement itself.

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More adventure from the Whitest City in America.

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But since the company’s founding in 1948, nothing about Dr. Bronner’s has been conventional. Its CEO, David Bronner, a ponytailed vegan surfer who wears tie-dyed shirts and drives a rainbow-colored Mercedes-Benz, has planted hemp seeds on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s lawn and was once arrested for locking himself in a cage outside the White House.

Michael Bronner, David’s more buttoned-up brother, says that social media, where so many beauty and wellness brands have built virtual empires, is “essentially amoral.” Dr. Bronner’s calls itself the “fighting soap company” because so much of its revenue goes toward activism. Most revealingly, perhaps, the brand claims that the first ingredient in all its products, from soap to coconut oil to household cleaner, is “love!” — exclamation point and all.

I see a lot of virtue-signaling, not very much in the way of ‘wellness’.

If you’ve got a First World Problem, America has a product to assuage it.

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I think this is well argued. We are long past he day when almost every girl was taught to cook in Home Ec in high school. Most men would rather eat junk food than prepare a nutritious meal, and women who have a full-time job don’t feel like spending an hour over a stove when they get home.

Gutfeld Ridicules NYT for Trying to Make an Old Trump Story a New Scandal

Adam Schiff: Country Could Not ‘Survive Another Four Years’ Of Trump  Yeah, all of the Democrat Underclass might have jobs.

Judge Puts Fight For Trump Financial Records On The Fast Track

Bernstein: Only a ‘Miracle’ Can Save Trump from Criminal Prosecution  I must have missed Carl getting his law degree.

NPR’s Maria Hinojosa Suggests Impeaching Trump for Kids in ‘Cages’  But it’s okay when Obama did it.

Climate Activist Patagonia Clothing Chain Founder: Buying Clothes off Other Chains is Evil

The Peculiar Blindness of Experts

Global Cooling..errr…Global Warming…errr…Climate Change! But Mostly Virtue-Signalling, Redistributionist Policies Of The Left

Ocasio-Cortez Rebuffs ‘Fact-Checkers,’ Says The World Ending In 12 Years Was ‘Dry Humor’  But that doesn’t stop her bitching about Trump, who is actually funny.

Bernstein: Only a ‘Miracle’ Can Save Trump from Criminal Prosecution

Climate Change Is Making Trees Grow Faster

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Amid China’s increasing military threat, Taiwan unveiled a miniature model of the country’s first indigenous submarine at a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday, reported Focus Taiwan.

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I have an idea: Let’s unleash the NRA on the IRS. I think that would get a lot of votes.

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During the first Jobsian era at Apple, I used to joke that Steve Jobs cared deeply about Apple customers from the moment they first considered purchasing an Apple computer right up until the time their check cleared the bank. Of course, in later years, the check was replace by a credit card, and check clearance was replaced by the 15-day return period, but Steve’s and Apple’s focus remained the same.

What do most buyers not want? They don’t want to see all kinds of scary-looking controls surrounding a media player. They don’t want to see a whole bunch of buttons they don’t understand. They don’t want to see scroll bars. They do want to see clean screens with smooth lines. Buyers want to buy Ferraris, not tractors, and that’s exactly what Apple is selling.

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I was back: I was at MLA (short for “Modern Language Association”), the annual pageant for literary studies, my old vocation. Here scholars gather every January, performing the time-honored rite of solemnly chanting 20-minute papers before one another in hotel conference rooms. And here, until recently, the field held interviews for its ever-dwindling pool of tenure-track professorships. They’ve largely switched to Skype now.

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All around them, the humanities burned. The number of jobs in English advertised on the annual MLA job list has declined by 55 percent since 2008; adjuncts now account for all but a quarter of college instructors generally. Whole departments are being extirpated by administrators with utilitarian visions; from 2013 to 2016, colleges cut 651 foreign-language programs. Meanwhile the number of English majors at most universities continues to swoon.

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In fact, recycling is one of the least environmentally friendly “environmental” things one can do.

Steve Sailer reports from the front.

To help understand the latest Becky Bashing in which a non-black woman riding on the DC Metro had distribution of her upcoming novel yanked because she dared to Police a Black Body by reporting a black female Metro employee for violating a Metro rule, here’s an article from the Washington Times in 2012 on why the DC Metro system is such a mess….

Podcast – TERRIBLE EARTH DAY PREDICTIONS

Saturday Silliness: Who is behind sad Greta Thunberg?

Trump Administration Might “Re-Examine” Climate Modeling  Heh.

Does NASA’s Latest Study Confirm Global Warming?

Trump’s ‘Uplifting’ Letter To Cancer Patient Meets With Hateful Response On Twitter  None of whom, I suspect, will be banned.

Left-Wing Advocacy Group Shops Dishonest Hit Piece On Trump Campaign Staffer

London Mayor Disses Trump: He’s Not Worth A ‘Red Carpet’

Maher Calls Trump and Fox News ‘The Axis of Evil in the World Now’

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Today, wealth is portable. We can shift funds across the world with a mouse click, and spread our assets across multiple jurisdictions and territories with hardly any effort.

The world is a big place, and there are a lot of jurisdictions where wealth, talent, and productivity are still highly regarded.

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Whether you are from China, Bangladesh, France or the USA, there may come a time you decide it’s time to hit the eject button and get out of Dodge.

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Obama’s lies to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Brooklyn’s MetroTech Center lacked a unified vision with its variety pack of 90s-fad architecture and is today largely unremarkable. Hudson Yards developer Related Companies took a similar approach, commissioning numerous so-called “starchitects” to build what New York Times Architecture critic Micheal Kimmelman describes as an “architectural petting zoo.”

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Which makes him unfit to be President, if you ask me.

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A proposed hike in Illinois’ annual registration fee for electric vehicles, from $17.50 to $1,000, is being called unfair by current EV owners, and a sales disincentive by manufacturers — just as the new technology is beginning to gain broader traction.

“It’s outrageous,” said Nicoletta Skarlatos, 56, of Chicago, who bought a Tesla Model S five years ago. “I thought Illinois was progressive and would want to encourage EV ownership.”

Illinois is progressive, and these ‘progressive’ politicians have realized that electric vehicles are toys for the rich — and what do they do with the rich? Soak ’em!

The justification for the dramatic hike? Electric vehicles don’t provide the state with any gas tax revenue.

And tax revenue comes before everything. Democrat pols to taxpayers: Pay us now or pay us later, you’re gonna pay us.

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Much of journalism is now alarmist clickbait or fearmongering. To attract viewers and readers, reporters make it seem like Nazis and white supremacists are everywhere.

Well, that’s how they get their money. As long as that’s the case, that’s what we’re gonna see.

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In a nutshell, this team found that if you start learning a language before the age of 18, you have a much better likelihood of obtaining a native-like mastery of the language’s grammar than if you start later. This is a much older age than has been generally assumed and is really interesting for reasons I’ll get into a bit later.

I question the characterization of 18-year-olds as ‘adults’ but it’s still interesting.

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I hope that whoever has legal control of Alyssa Milano’s body tells her to put a sock in it.

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All that goes down the Memory Hole, of course, and nobody in the DemLegHump Media is going to be so crass as to bring it up.

ZMan indulges in a little schadenfreude.

Way back in the olden thymes, there was a pop act called Milli Vanilli. They were sold as an R&B duo from Munich, but both members were black. That added to their appeal, even in the pre-woke 1980’s. Their debut album was wildly successful in Europe and the US, selling millions of copies. They won a Grammy and had a world tour. The whole thing fell apart when they foolishly revealed that neither of them sang the songs on their album and their shows were lip-synced. They were disgraced and that was the end of the act.

There is a whiff of that with the fallout from the Ben Shapiro interview on the BBC that has been making the rounds. He agreed to be questioned by Andrew Neil, without bothering to learn anything about the format of the show. The setup is the host grills the guest, giving them a chance to rise to the occasion and show their stuff. Alternatively, as in the case of Ben Shapiro, it is a chance for the guest to reveal themselves to be a lightweight incapable of playing with the big boys. It was not a good day for Ben Shapiro Inc.

ZMan doesn’t have much use for Ben Shapiro. I don’t dislike him as much as ZMan does, but I can’t say that I like him very much either.