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Nothing to see here … move along, move along….

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There’s gotta be a law against that.

I would love to see some U.S. Marshals perp-walking this proglodyte into Federal court.

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Yeah, that’s a real head-scratcher.

This is the sort of thing that makes me think that psychology is a pseudo-science.

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Just because somebody calls it ‘free trade’ doesn’t mean that it’s actually free trade.

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The Deep State has minions everywhere.

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Bias? What bias?

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First World Problem.

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And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Anyone with a lot of money who’s worried that the government doesn’t have enough has a quick and easy route: Just give the government your money. And they aren’t doing that, so, unless you think that billionaires are too dim to think of this possibility, that’s not what this is about.

Taxation is about force, force used by the government to confiscate property. If people are asking to government to confiscate property, are they focused on their own property? No, they’re focused on somebody else’s property. Look for the person (or persons) that will be harmed by this tax scheme, and harmed more than the people proposing it, and you will find the true target. Sure, the proposers will take a hit, but the true target will get hit worse, I guarantee it.

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Well, no; it was a victory for ordinary people.

The law at issue authorizes heightened penalties for individuals who use firearms to a commit a “crime of violence.”

“Only the people’s elected representatives in Congress have the power to write new federal criminal laws,” Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion. “And when Congress exercises that power, it has to write statutes that give ordinary people fair warning about what the law demands of them.”

“Vague laws transgress both of those constitutional requirements,” Gorsuch added. “They hand off the legislature’s responsibility for defining criminal behavior to unelected prosecutors and judges, and they leave people with no sure way to know what consequences will attach to their conduct.”

I have absolutely no problem with that. I’m liking this Gorsuch guy.

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Trump is the master of the Mixed Signal. You never really know what he’s going to do, or what he’s even thinking of doing. This sort of thing keeps his opponents off-balance, This, I think, os one of the keys to his success in negotiation.

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I’ll take the other side of that bet.

For one thing, I doubt that Gavin Newsom would recognize ‘hyper-masculinity’ if it peed on his leg — which it would probably do.

For another, I see no signs of ‘hyper-masculinity’ anywhere in the Republican party — more’s the pity.

For a third, no prediction of the coming demise of either the Republicans or Democrats — and there have been plenty of both during my lifetime — has ever come true. I suppose it’s possible, but the structure of our political system argues against it.

ZMan.

The aggressive assault on dissidents is a direct result of the unpreparedness of the ruling classes. They really were convinced they had ushered in the post-historical moment as imagined by Francis Fukuyama. The great battles of political economy in the 20th century were settled. All the “isms” had been vanquished by liberalism and there was nothing left to discuss. The sudden reappearance of old cultures and old ideas about how people should organize themselves was like seeing a ghost.

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The modern Western state is now a collection of cultural parts robbed from graves around the world. It is neither organic nor natural, so it is always at war with normal human sensibilities.

Joel Kotkin has his hair on fire.

Like most exercises in mind-reading, this article is based more on what people are afraid might happen rather than on what is likely to happen. To say that ‘the oligarchs’ have something ‘in mind for us’ other than our buying their goods and services and them having pots of money to spend is the sort of conspiracy-theory nonsense that wouldn’t get a lot of credibility in any other context. You might as well blame it all on the Jews (which some, of course, are perfectly willing to do.) Individual tech billionaires have their political preferences, but if you put Tom Steyer and Peter Thiel in the same room you’ll get a cage match, not a conspiracy, and much the same goes for the Kochs and the Zuckerbergs.

Steve Sailer takes a look.

The various London School of Economics left-wing sociologists are sure there must be one out there somewhere, but they can’t think of any off the top of their heads.

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Switch or upheaval, the days of France as we knew it are numbered: the society has lost its cultural center of gravity: the old way of life is fading and close to “extinction”. “Frenchness” is disappearing and being replaced by a kind balkanization of enclaves not communicating with one another. For the country most affected by Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, this is not a good recipe.

We need only to look at what is happening in Europe to see what will happen in the U.S. if certain trends continue.

When the canary dies, it’s time to get out of the coal mine.

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Some racists are more equal than others.

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The Washington Post put the December beheading of two young female Scandinavian hikers in Morocco on the front page with this strange headline: “In 2 brutal killings for Islam, a weapon for the far right.”

You can’t make this stuff up.

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Professor Umbrage wants you to just hand over your wallet and shut up.

Todd to Trump: You Holding Migrant Kids ‘Hostage’? ‘Prepared to Lose?’

Illegal Journo-Activist Calls on US Citizens to Take ‘Risks’ to ‘Protect’ Illegals During Arrests  Not in this neighborhood.

New York Times Catches Up on Hysteria Over Oklahoma ‘Internment Camp’ for Migrant Kids

CNN Claims Trump Gets All His Military Advice from Fox News

De Blasio Promises NYPD Will Investigate Trump If A ‘Complaint’ Is Made In New Rape Allegation  Which it won’t be, of course; this is all about the book deal.

Biden Likens Cultural Effects Of Trump’s 2016 Victory To RFK’s Assassination  Apparently RFK died for Trump’s sins, he just didn’t know it yet.

Ravelry bans support of Donald Trump and his administration

The poisons released by melting Arctic ice

Vox: Republican Generation Gap Over Climate Change Policy

Terence Corcoran: Why the global fossil-fuel phase-out is a fantasy akin to time travel

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The ‘asset forfeiture’ scam needs to be stopped and stopped soon.

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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.?

Bernie does.

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A professor of literature at SUNY Old Westbury says it makes him happy when he sees poor white people on the street begging for food or money.

I guess some racists are more equal than others.

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It avoids the media frenzy that would have erupted after a missile strike. CNN reporters would have stood next to piles of smoking rubble and interviewed wailing Iranian women about the death of their puir wee bairns. It’s harder to gin up public outrage over the disabling of a puir wee server farm.

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Doing well by doing good.

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As your business goes down the tube, fella, we’ll give you a slew of awards so you can at least feel better about yourself.

D0n’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

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A good look at what ‘Trumpism’ is and what it is not.

The author seems to think that Trump is attempting to return American government to the role it had prior to the World Wars, i.e. an referee rather than a manager. I hope he’s right, and I hope it sticks.

ZMan.

Political and social activism is most effective when it reveals some moral contradiction hidden from public view, reveals perfidy by the ruling class or exposes some immoral activity by the rich and powerful. Activism is about changing the moral battle space so that the critics appear to have the high ground, while their targets appear to have something to hide. What the activist is doing is using morality to even the fight, but also using the disparity in power to amplify their moral claims against their opponent.

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Recently, scientists from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences cracked this intriguing black box by fully elucidating the biosynthetic pathway of MPA.

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The guy’s problem is not being himself, it’s being himself in everybody else’s face.

Being yourself doesn’t mean you have to let everybody + dog know what that self is; in fact, it’s usually none of their damned business.

The point here is to Be Yourself, not the Person You Would Like Everybody Think You Are.

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Apparently there is a collection of such things in Dallas. Who knew?

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We developed a noninvasive stimulation procedure for modulating long-range theta interactions in adults aged 60–76 years. After 25?min of stimulation, frequency-tuned to individual brain network dynamics, we observed a preferential increase in neural synchronization patterns and the return of sender–receiver relationships of information flow within and between frontotemporal regions. The end result was rapid improvement in working-memory performance that outlasted a 50?min post-stimulation period.

Mayors Vow To Obstruct ICE During Sunday’s Immigration Raids

Twitter Battle Rages As Critics Pounce And Supporters Defend President Trump Following Rape Allegation

Pelosi: Trump Cannot Strike Iran Without Congressional Approval  Betcha he can.

Late to the party

Fort Lauderdale Deals Another Blow to Climate Litigation Campaign

Alexandria Occasional Cortex Blames Philadelphia Refinery Explosion on Climate Change

Contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet to sea level over the next millennium

A National Narrative for Media on Climate Change

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The Left Coast Crust is down for the struggle.

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Lies, damned lies, and the New York Times.

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Now, biophysicist Joshua Weinstein and colleagues have invented an unorthodox type of imaging dubbed “DNA microscopy” that can do just that. Instead of relying on light (or any kind of optics at all), the team uses DNA “bar codes” to help pinpoint molecules’ relative positions within a sample.

With DNA microscopy, scientists can build a picture of cells and simultaneously amass enormous amounts of genomic information, Weinstein says. “This gives us another layer of biology that we haven’t been able to see.”

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Mariandra Heunis and her children are the survivors of a vicious, dead-of-night attack on her family. Her husband — her childrens’ father — is not. He was killed in their home outside Pretoria, South Africa, in what has come to be called a “farm attack — the targeted terrorizing of farmers in a country with a long history of strife over race and land.

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Hey, if they want to stay and get shot, it’s their call.

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I’d say that’s about right. But Iran will be the ones burning.

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‘Mayor Pete’ meets the real world and it is not a pretty sight.

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Companies can’t advertise on social media — so they have female influencers do it for them.

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The unexamined life is not worth living, said Socrates, but users of social media are increasingly discovering that the too-closely examined life is not worth living either; or at least, others try to make it not worth living unless one is possessed of a rhinoceros hide.

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The battle for supremacy in the world of hand hygiene is a dirty one, and nothing demonstrates this better than the depressing sight of a paper towel dispenser with a EULA.

That’s right: even dumb plastic boxes whose only use in this world is to hold paper towels apparently need an end-user license agreement now. In this case, the EULA — spotted by Harvard Library curator and Twitter user John Overholt at a recent conference — forbids the people who have to refill this Tork dispenser from using rival, non-Tork products.

What a world.

Steve Sailer.

There’s clearly a campaign going on in George Soros-affiliated media to replace the anti-crime black woman district attorney of Los Angeles County with somebody more Kim Foxx-like, even if it’s a white guy from San Francisco.

Stockman: America Last – The Real Meaning Of Trump’s Deplorable Aggression Against Iran  The swamp speaks.

Jerry Nadler Has To Be Told To Stop Calling Hope Hicks ‘Ms. Lewandowski’

Adam Schiff Wants To Change Federal Election Laws After Trump Comments  Actually, they all do.

George Will Tells ‘View,’ Trump Republicans Are Like Cockroaches  The chief difference between ‘conservatives’ and ‘liberals’ is that liberals never forget which side they’re on.

Condi Rice Has No Time For NBC Reporter Claiming Race Relations Worse Under Trump

Columnist E Jean Carroll Says Trump Raped Her In 1990s. White House Calls Claim ‘Completely False’

‘Do The World A Favor’: George Conway Tells Trump To Resign After Aborting Iran Strike  Why anybody listens to this guy is beyond me.

Some Iran Spin

John Brennan Applauds Trump’s Decision Not To Strike Iran  Almost.