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Black people are SO oppressed in America, it’s just a shame.

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Not something you see in the headlines every day.

Trump Heights: a monument to folly

Rep. Omar Blames Alleged Iranian Aggression On Trump Rejecting Obama Nuclear Deal

Ocasio-Cortez Says The US Is ‘Running Concentration Camps On Our Southern Border’

MSNBC Guest: Trump Is ‘Enacting Terror On Families’ By Enforcing Immigration Laws

Mika Begs Mattis: Call Me to Trash Trump, U.S. Standing in World  Ain’t gonna happen. Mattis is an adult – unlike Mika.

AOC Says “Fascist” Trump Running “Concentration Camps” Along Southern Border

A Question about Trump

Border Patrol Agent Offers To Give Ocasio-Cortez A Personal Tour Of Detention Facility After ‘Disgusting’ Holocaust Comparison

MSNBC’s All In: ‘To Know Trump Is to Hate Trump’  But you knew that.

CNN’s Golodryga Pushes Conspiracy Theory Regarding Mick Mulvaney’s Coughing

The Concentration Camp Smear

CNN Suggests Trump Cabinet Member Is Corrupt Despite ‘No Evidence’  Evidence? We don’t need no steenking evidence!

Cthulhu and the Stewards of Creation

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I ate two portions of yogurt in colleg so now I guess I’m safe. Whew!

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And you wondered what recycling leads to. Now you know.

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Not a parody, I think.

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These are the same ‘midwest farms’ that get hundreds of millions of dollars a year in subsidies and price support payments.

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My, what a surprise.

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So not only health insurance but housing will come to you through your employer.

Read GLADIATOR-AT-LAW to find out how this story ends.

There is nothing new under the sun.

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Good.

UPDATE: High School Girl Who Lost Race to Transgender Athletes Files Federal Complaint

Victor Davis Hanson.

Everyone realized the Paris Climate Accord was a way for elites to virtue signal their green bona fides while making no adjustments in their global managerial lifestyles—at best. At worst, it was a shake-down both to transfer assets from the industrialized West to the “developing world” and to dull Western competitiveness with ascending rivals like India and China. Not now. Trump withdrew from the agreement, met or exceeded the carbon emissions reductions of the deal anyway, and has never looked back at the flawed convention. The remaining signatories have little response to the U.S. departure, and none at all to de facto American compliance to their own targeted goals.

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I guess it’s a fan.

Democrats Reportedly Consider Calling On Lewandowski, Christie, Manafort To Force Out Dirt On Trump

Ocasio-Cortez Tweets Back At Trump: ‘I’ll Call Your Bluff’

Bill Maher: Republicans Are Part of a ‘Fascist Club’

‘View’ Mocks, Boos ‘Liar’ Sarah Sanders Leaving White House  Wondering when they’re going to graduate from high school.

Oliver Begs Dems to Impeach: ‘The Case For Inaction’ ‘Getting Pretty Weak’

New York Times Leaves Out A Major Detail In Their Latest Trump Hit Piece

MSNBC’s Velshi Disgusted by Trump Saying Queen Enjoyed His Company

David Spade Says Jokes About Donald Trump Off-Limits On New Show: It’s ‘Just Piling On’ Now

Scarborough Calls Pompeo a ‘Disgrace’ and a ‘Joke’ After FNC Interview

Sorry, banning plastic bags won’t save our planet 

NY Times Reporter Still Asking for Forgiveness After Climate Sins  Hang ‘im.

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Unbelievable.

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The left wants to prevent Sarah Sanders from gaining employment, now that she has moved on from the Trump White House. An outfit called American Bridge is seeking signatures in support of the blacklisting of Sanders.

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A useful site for people who make things.

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Swiss journalist Urs Gehriger recently visited African migrants who breached the border and hung out on the streets of San Antonio, Texas, waiting to go elsewhere in the country, and he met hostility from people who didn’t want to share details about their experiences, conflicted each other, and had rolls of $100 bills.

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Funny how that works.

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A gunman opened fire Monday morning outside the federal courthouse in downtown Dallas and was killed by law enforcement, an FBI official said.

The suspect allegedly started shooting around 8:50 a.m. local time at the U.S. Courthouse while wearing a mask and combat boots, which prompted return fire from federal officers, according to the Dallas Morning News. No one else has been reported to be injured.

And THAT’s the difference between Texas and all of the other shooting stories.

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You want fast food, go Chinese.

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But you have to bear in mind that Donald Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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It sounds amazing, like an organ for strings.

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Not bad for s guy who reportedly hates Jews.

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Duh. Communist dictatorship.

Steve Sailer points out that it’s just going to get worse.

Cameroonians generally fly to Ecuador because no visa is required and take about four months to reach Tijuana. They walk for days in Panama through dense jungle, where they are often robbed and held in government-run camps. They come from Cameroon’s English-speaking south with horrifying stories of rape, murder and torture committed since late 2016 by soldiers of the country’s French-speaking majority, which holds power.

The U.S. becomes the universal sink to which all adversity drains, apparently.

Portland officials tweeted Thursday that rumors some of the migrants are carrying the Ebola virus “are patently false,” and said that as asylum seekers, they are in the United States legally.

Lucky us. Why not send them to Vermont, and let Bernie socialist them?

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Maryland banned “high capacity” magazines and a variety of “assault weapons” via the Firearm Safety Act of 2013. That Act also required would-be handgun buyers to submit fingerprints to the state police as a part of the registration scenario.

On March 27, 2017, Breitbart News reported the criminal use of “high capacity” magazines was at a seven-year high. In other words, the ban had only impacted law-abiding citizens. Criminals still had – and still used – the prohibited magazines.

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This would appear to be God reminding us not to eat Turd World food.

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I missed the notice a few days ago that publisher Houghton-Mifflin is delaying publication of Naomi Wolf’s latest book, Outrages, for the simple reason that it has been exposed as an embarrassing piece of crap.

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How do statistics so often lead scientists to deny differences that those not educated in statistics can plainly see? For several generations, researchers have been warned that a statistically non-significant result does not ‘prove’ the null hypothesis (the hypothesis that there is no difference between groups or no effect of a treatment on some measured outcome)¹. Nor do statistically significant results ‘prove’ some other hypothesis. Such misconceptions have famously warped the literature with overstated claims and, less famously, led to claims of conflicts between studies where none exists.

Bryan Caplan blows the whistle.

I have been in school for more than 40 years. First preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, and high school. Then a bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley, followed by a doctoral program at Princeton. The next step was what you could call my first “real” job—as an economics professor at George Mason University.

Thanks to tenure, I have a dream job for life. Personally, I have no reason to lash out at our system of higher education. Yet a lifetime of experience, plus a quarter century of reading and reflection, has convinced me that it is a big waste of time and money. When politicians vow to send more Americans to college, I can’t help gasping, “Why? You want us to waste even more?”

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The labor market doesn’t pay you for the useless subjects you master; it pays you for the preexisting traits you signal by mastering them. This is not a fringe idea. Michael Spence, Kenneth Arrow, and Joseph Stiglitz—all Nobel laureates in economics—made seminal contributions to the theory of educational signaling. Every college student who does the least work required to get good grades silently endorses the theory. But signaling plays almost no role in public discourse or policy making. As a society, we continue to push ever larger numbers of students into ever higher levels of education. The main effect is not better jobs or greater skill levels, but a credentialist arms race.

Top US Regulator Warns Financial System Is At Risk Due To… Climate Change

Temperatures leap 40 degrees above normal as the Arctic Ocean and Greenland ice sheet see record June melting

Extremes

Why we do nothing to prepare for climate change

More electric cars means more mining, but recycling could help minimize the impact

FLASHBACK: ABC’s ’08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015  And I was so looking forward to it….

What Is Called Nuclear Waste Is Mostly Fuel for Molten Salt and Fast Reactors

UK: Grass cuttings from roadside verges to be sold to the National Grid to raise money to save the environment

On MSNBC, George Takei Slams Trump Use of Former Internment Camps: ‘Cruel’ ‘New Low’  Unfortunately for The Narrative, Saint Barack did the same thing.

Bill Maher: GOP Has Become the ‘A**hole Dad Party,’ Trump ‘Useless Piece of Crap’

Washington Post blames Trump for Iranian attacks in Persian Gulf

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Well, this is what happens in a country with no Bill of Rights.

Freeberg nails it.

Rant: I do not believe in conspiracies but I do believe in common incentives and I believe some of these are hidden. These could be fairly called “conspiracies” because they achieve the same effect although they do not involve the collusion that should be necessary to qualify for the term.

There is a conspiracy to fuck with people.

Show me a hundred people who want a “climate surcharge” and I can show you a hundred people who want higher taxes. Show me a hundred people who want higher taxes and I’ll show you a hundred who want the climate surcharge. If things were on the up-and-up it wouldn’t be that way, because higher taxes are not good for the environment. Also, every dollar you spend on higher taxes leaves a dollar less available for surcharges, and vice versa. Furthermore, I would not be able to show you a hundred people who, by their own private conduct, do good things for the environment. On average, their “climate skeptic” dissenters would be kinder to the environment. So these are not people who want to preserve a livable climate; they are people who just want to make it more expensive to live.

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What I mean is that Chinese is not only hard for us (English speakers), but it’s also hard in absolute terms. Which means that Chinese is also hard forthem, for Chinese people.

How can you have a dictionary for a language that doesn’t really have an alphabet?

ZMan pokes around.

The argument from the Right is that the Left controls everything, so it is impossible for normal people to escape left-wing proselytizing. At your work, it is angry single women and bitter minorities lecturing you on diversity. At school, it is the same, supplemented by emotionally unstable coeds. In pop culture, it is the usual suspects peddling the latest Progressive fads. There is no escaping the tidal wave of cultural and political sewage that gushes from the Left, so everyone understands it.

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In the past, troops, of course, had their weapons with them when in a combat zone. But when not in a combat zone, troops rarely handled their weapons. The rifles and such were locked safely away in the “arms room,” and, for most troops, only taken out every week or so for cleaning, and once or twice a year for a trip to the rifle range. Combat troops would take their weapons out of the arms room when they trained, but the rifles and machine-guns still spent most of their time locked up in the arms room. After 2003 recruits spent their first three months in the army carrying around an M-16, and ammunition. The ammo was special training rounds, or “blanks”. These contained propellant, but no bullet. If one is fired, it sounds close enough to the real thing. If someone is really close (a few inches/40-70cm) to the barrel when the blank fires it can cause blast injury that can take an eye out, burst an eardrum and so on. The blanks were deadly enough to have the desired effect on the troops.

Steve Sailer fisks The Guardian.

I know that these days we are supposed to conceive of Russians as the opposite of Jews, but these days there are more than a few people in Russia, Israel, and Valley Village, CA who are mixtures.

UN Chief Poses For TIME Cover Off ‘Sinking’ Pacific Island Nation That’s Actually Growing In Size

Joy Behar: Climate Change Could Prevent Joe Biden From Curing Cancer  What a pity.

Politics Distorts the Science of Floods

Scarborough, Panel Trash ‘Robotic’ Evangelicals for Supporting Trump

Watch Chinese People Bash Trump Bobblehead With Hammer As A “Stress-Relief”

A New Low In Press Cluelessness?

Media Matters Defends Democratic Foreign Oppo Research Because They Paid For It After Condemning Trump’s Comments

Mika Brzezinski Suffers EPIC Meltdown Over ‘Evil’ ‘Dictator’ Trump

CBS Sneers: ‘Many Believe’ Sarah Sanders Did a ‘Disservice to Her Country’

Seth Meyers: Trump Has ‘No Shame,’ Just Gave Collusion ‘Confession’  Uh, actually, no.

DOJ Issues Legal Opinion Backing Treasury’s Refusal To Release Trump Taxes

CNN’s King Compares President Trump to a ‘Toddler Who Got Caught’

To Trump or Not to Trump? That is the Question

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Duh. Totalitarian dictatorship.

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Woodrow Wilson was probably the Worst President Ever, even worse than Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama.

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I have recently seen a poll in which the majority of millennials claim to want to live under socialism. Bully for them, and don’t let the door hit you in the bum on the way out, kiddies. One of my favorite comedians back in the day was a (then) young man named Jake Johannsen. And one of my favorite lines of his was “I live in California now, but I grew up in Iowa. I was 21 before I realized I was…free to go.” Well, guess what, guys? You are not only free to leave Iowa (even you, Dave Begley!) you are free to get the heck out of the entire country! You can leave here on the next plane and try your hand at North Korea or Venezuela. Take a rickety raft to Cuba. There must be at least one used raft lying around in Florida.

See, one of the easiest ways to tell which countries are good and which countries are the President’s inelegantly but accurately expressed “s***holes” is to ask yourself “which countries have walls to protect their borders from invasion and which countries have walls to PREVENT their own people from leaving?” Many young people won’t understand that difference until they desperately want to leave but find that they can’t. This really couldn’t be simpler. But our miseducated youth who got all their post-college news from Jon Stewart have no idea of what life under socialism is like.

David Friedman explains it all to you.

Suppose you are a professional academic who wants to publish a journal article in order to improve your chance of getting an offer, getting tenure, getting a raise. One way to do so is to produce and write up research that provides support for a novel theory. One problem is that, if the theory is true, it is quite likely that someone else in your field, over the past century or so, has already discovered it and published it, making your result not novel, hence likely to be rejected by the journal you submit it to.

If, on the other hand, your theory is false, the odds are much better that nobody else will have come up with it, found evidence to support it, and published. So if you can produce what looks like good evidence for a false theory, the odds that it will be novel, hence publishable, hence will contribute to your career, is much higher than for a true theory.