Give Trump an ultimatum on his stonewalling

Responding to Pelosi’s ‘prison’ remark, Democrats say Trump committed crimes

CBS Helps Jim Acosta Paint Himself in Heroic Hues, Endangered by Trump’s Taunts

Cory Booker Brings Up Holocaust Refugees While Discussing Trump’s Border Policies  Surely you know about the extermination camps in Honduras and Guatemala?

MSNBC Hypes Dems ‘Bringing Mueller Report to Life’ With Stunt Hearings

Even Andrea Mitchell Panel Thinks House Democrats’ John Dean Stunt Is ‘Theater’

Chris Hayes: Unlike Hillary, Trump ‘Committed a Whole Bunch of Crimes’

Scarborough: Trump ‘Created’ the Border Crisis  Uh, yeah.

Bill Maher: ‘President Trump Is the Ugliest American Ever’  He obviously doesn’t spend much time in front of a mirror.

Steyer Is Targeting 12 Dem Incumbents Because They Haven’t Backed Impeachment

Three islands disappeared in the past year. Is climate change to blame?

First ICESat-2 Global Data Released: Ice, Forests and More

Greenpeace activists stage climate protest on BP oil rig as it is towed out to sea in Scotland

Unusual Cool Temperatures over the Pacific Northwest Leads to Strong Winds and Power Outages in California

Ace of Spades is on the case.

A beautiful cure to congenital neuroticism and borderline personality disorder. I applaud their decision to self-exile from the human genetic pool. I think falling human average IQ scores just started falling a little less quickly.

Read it.

In 2016, the pink hat seen around the world was used by feminists as a symbol of “resistance” to protest the inauguration of the duly elected President Trump. Now, the latest virtue-signaling garb of the feminist movement is a red robe and white hat derived from the popular show, The Handmaid’s Tale. It is difficult to miss the slew of pro-abortion activists donning the trendy ensemble outside of the Supreme Court and state legislatures around the country.

Politics as theater. Or theater as politics. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

UPDATE: Gayle King ‘Worries’ ‘a Lot’ About U.S. Turning Into ‘Handmaid’s Tale.’  Except that that’s a Leftist fairy tale (no pun intended), not reality.

UPDATE: Kylie Jenner’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Party Like ‘Holocaust Theme for Bar Mitzvah’  No meme too sordid for a ‘celebrity’ to make a party theme out of it.

Steve Sailer.

Only $20. Be the first on your block.

Read it.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

My question is: How did they come up with the idea?

Read it.

The country club, once a mainstay of American suburbia, faces a cloudy future, with a changing culture eroding its societal influence. Golf and tennis, the traditional club pastimes, have lost popularity. Declining marriage and fertility rates mean fewer families joining. Young professionals, many burdened with limited incomes and high debt, balk at paying dues. And a yearning for broader community makes the clubhouse’s exclusivity unappealing. The country club is increasingly a refuge for retirees—and, upon closure, a site for mixed-use development.

Much like the urban male business and university clubs.

Read it.

A sea change has taken place in American political life. The force driving this change is the digital era style of moral politics known as “wokeness,” a phenomenon that has become pervasive in recent years and yet remains elusive as even experts struggle to give it a clear definition and accurately measure its impact. Where did it come from? What do its adherents believe? Is it just something happening inside the Twitter bubble and on college campuses or is it really spreading across the social and cultural landscape and transforming the country as sometimes appears to be the case? In reality, “wokeness”—a term that originated in black popular culture—is a broad euphemism for a more narrow phenomenon: the rapidly changing political ideology of white liberals that is remaking American politics.

Read it.

My, what a coincidence.

Read it.

Surprise  surprise.

Read it.

Well, he’s not Muslim, so he must be ‘white’.

Read it.

In the wake of the Christchurch mosque massacres, gun confiscation fizzles as Kiwis ignore new law.

Read it.

Composite metal foam—or CMF, for short—is a material made from hollow metallic spheres that are surrounded by a matrix that can be made from various types of metals, including titanium or even alloys. If you’ve ever had to clean up those tiny white balls of styrofoam after unboxing a gadget, then you already have a good understanding of what this material is. The researchers behind this study made their CMF exclusively from steel, to maximize its strength and stopping power.

Read it.

Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani—two brash New Yorkers as New York as New York can get—are planning to become residents of Florida.

The president and the former mayor both have homes in the Sunshine State and already spend much of the year down south.

Sources tell me the two are planning to give up their New York State residency because it is clear the state faces huge budget problems and will continue raising taxes, though New York is already the highest-taxed state in the nation.

Read it.

A group of Senate Democrats spearheaded by Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have demanded that the United States grant amnesty to foreign nationals living in the country on Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

Read it.

High-net-worth individuals and families from high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, California, and Illinois are moving to the Miami area to take advantage of Florida’s status as a no-income-tax state, Dora Puig, a top real-estate broker in the area, previously told Business Insider.

Climate Change: What Can’t It Do?

The Guardian: Rebuilding Shattered Climate Action Reputations in the Pacific will require Lots of Aid Money

Mike Bloomberg Devotes $500 Million To Kill Coal Jobs, Influence 2020 Elections  What a guy.

On ‘Real Time,’ NYT’s Blow Contrasts Trump Base With ‘The Rest of Us Who Are Sane’

“Nervous Nancy” Pelosi Slams Trump’s “Temper Tantrum” Tariff Win With Mexico  Loser, loser, what a snoozer.

Collins Warns Nadler About Rules Of Conduct In Upcoming ‘Mock-Impeachment Inquiry’

For Democrats, Trump impeachment question is a personal struggle transcending politics

President Trump ‘Should Be in Jail,’ Says Progressive Journalist Now Under Arrest

NBC Unwilling to Admit Trump’s Hardball Negotiation Tactic Against Mexico Worked

Top House Democrat: ‘I Don’t Have Any Difficulty’ With Pelosi Calling For Trump To Go To Prison

George Conway: Giuliani ‘Destroyed His Reputation’ Working For Trump

Bernie Sanders Stands By ‘Fake Border Crisis’ Comments, Criticizes Trump’s Deal With Mexico

MSNBC in Overdrive: Here’s a Joy Reid Impeachment-Frenzy Mashup

CNN’s Acosta Regrets the Media Are Not More Hostile to Trump

Jim Acosta: Trump Is ‘Crazy Like A Fox’  The sleeper wakes.

Read it.

“Alexa, get me the NSA.”

“We’re already here.”

Read it.

Aspiring totalitarians at the BBC want to know.

The world is full of people who are perfectly comfortable, nay, extremely joyous, telling other people how to run their lives.

Many of these work for governments around the world.

Many more work for government auxiliaries in the so-called news media.

Nick Triggle is one such.

Read it.

Good luck with that.

Read it.

Welcome to our world, Bill.  Make yourself at home.

Read it.

In 1956, Philip K. Dick published a short story that follows the tribulations of a police chief in a future marked by predictive computers, humans wired to machines, and screen-based video communications. Dick’s work inspired a generation of scientists and engineers to think deeply about that kind of future. To adapt that same story into a $100 million Hollywood film 50 years later, Steven Spielberg sent his production designer, Alex McDowell, to MIT. There, a pioneering researcher — and lifelong Dick fan — named John Underkoffler was experimenting with ways to let people manipulate data with gloved hands. In 2002, a version of his prototype was featured in the film, where it quickly became one of the most important fictional user interfaces since the heyday of Star Trek. Bas Ording, one of the chief UI designers of the original iPhone, told me his work was inspired directly by the gesture-based system showcased in Minority Report.

Read it.

Imagine an ageing magnate in his private retreat, and you might picture English industrialist William – first Baron – Armstrong in the luxurious wood-panelled library of his Northumberland pile: Cragside.

…

He was connected to leading scientists and engineers, in many cases buying their inventions for installation in the house or grounds. “He was known for going into a trance-like state with his hand on his head and the other in his pocket and was oblivious to what was going on around him,” Sawyer said, with the result that people wondered if he was still breathing. “For me his greatest gift was the ability to gather amazing people around to achieve his dreams.”

Read it.

Both to satisfy my own curiosity and set out a vision for what a city-oriented United States might look like, I decided to make a map that dispensed with the continental 48 states and instead divvied up the land into 100 city-states.

Read it.

What is it about walking, in particular, that makes it so amenable to thinking and writing? The answer begins with changes to our chemistry. When we go for a walk, the heart pumps faster, circulating more blood and oxygen not just to the muscles but to all the organs—including the brain. Many experiments have shown that after or during exercise, even very mild exertion, people perform better on tests of memory and attention. Walking on a regular basis also promotes new connections between brain cells, staves off the usual withering of brain tissue that comes with age, increases the volume of the hippocampus (a brain region crucial for memory), and elevates levels of molecules that both stimulate the growth of new neurons and transmit messages between them.

Read it.

Monopolies aren’t forever.

Read it.

Despite hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through Los Angeles to stem the rising tide of homelessness, a resurgence of medieval diseases has the city – and neighboring states – on edge. Typhoid fever and typhus, borne by fleas, body lice, and feces, are turning the once glitzy and glamorous city into a third-world worthy environment. Yes, Typhoid Mary is back, in a sense, living on the streets and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting people in the Golden State.

These diseases, along with an uptick in tuberculosis, hepatitis A, and staph, are easily and rapidly spread and have wide-reaching consequences. They’re highly contagious and can infect anyone through casual contact.

Don’t Mention the Gigantic New Coal Mine: Al Gore’s Paid Climate Speech Avoids Uncomfortable Local Issues

All The World’s Carbon Emissions In One Chart

Latest Global Temp. Anomaly (May ’19: +0.32°C) A Simple “No Greenhouse Effect” Model of Day/Night Temperatures at Different Latitudes

Steve Sailer.

“When we called Border Patrol to confirm, they said yea another 2-300 from the Congo and Angola will be coming to San Antonio,’” Dr. Collen Bridger said.

If you havent read Jean Respail’s Camp of the Saints, you need to do so.

Read it.

The AMA, like every such ‘trade association’, is essentially a cartel or guild, devoted to making sure that it’s members, and only its members, get the benefits that the association can collar through lobbying and publicity. Lawyers have a similar cartel, and accountants keep trying to form one with less success. Whenever you see the term ‘Licensed X’, that’s a cartel. (If you see ‘Certified X’, that’s a cartel wannabe.)

Doctors are smart, so they know that becoming government employees (effectively) means cushy jobs for second-rate people but limits on upside income enhancement for first-rate people … and doctors think of themselves as first-rate people (like lawyers). This is why smart people with medical training in the Turd World all want to come to the U.S. where they can get rich (they think).

Read it.

When The New York Times‘s hostility to police collides with the unyielding demands of solidarity and multiculturism, we get upside-down reporting like the kind that appeared in Saturday’s New York Times, when reporters Matt Furber and Mitch Smith question the harsh sentencing of a former police officer, Somali-American Mohammed Noor, found guilty in a woman’s death: “Over 12 Years in Prison for Minneapolis Officer in Woman’s Death.”

Substitute “seen by some” with “seen by Times journalists” in the weasel-worded text box: “Far from building trust in the system, a case came to be seen by some as a sign of a double standard.”

After the guilty verdict in May, Times reporter John Eligon, who has spent years criticizing police in the aftermath of racially charged shootings, did a 180-degree turn and showed bizarre new concern over alleged unfair treatment of cops.

Lenin said it best: ‘Who? Whom?’. If you’ve been following the Powerline coverage of the trial, you know that the Times had a seat reserved in the courtroom for the trial, which seat was never occupied. So this is not about what happened at the trial, or the evidence, or even the case. This is about the Narrative, and according to the Narrative, the search is for the Victim, which means the search for whomever has the most Pokemon Victim Points. In this case, the convicted cop is Muslim and Somali, so he wins.

Read it.

All over America, large portions of our major cities are being transformed into stomach-churning cesspools of squalor. Thousands of tens cities are popping up from coast to coast as the homeless population explodes, even the New York Times admits that we are facing “the worst drug crisis in American history”, there were more than 28,000 official complaints about human feces in the streets of San Francisco last year alone, and millions of rats are currently overrunning the city of Los Angeles. And yet the authorities continue to insist that the economy is in good shape and that everything is going to be just fine.

Read it.

Don’teven need to say it.

Read it.

We have spoken on many occasions about the new wave of investments in automation could stimulate the economy after the next economic reset.

And we have also offered many sobering reminders that robots will likely displace 20% to 25% of current jobs (40 million jobs) by 2030. So, in our search for robots that will take jobs of the bottom 90% of Americans, this week, we have stumbled upon the world’s first raspberry-picking robot.

According to The Guardian, the new robot can pick upwards of 25,000 raspberries per day, outpacing human workers that pick around 15,000 in an eight-hour shift.

Read it.

In November 2016, Jonathan Aladin, a black student at Oberlin College, was caught shoplifting at Gibson’s Bakery near the campus of the elite private school, and two other black Oberlin students, Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone, were charged with attacking one of the bakery owners who tried to apprehend the thief.

People of Color behaving badly — what are the odds?

Activists with the #BlackLivesMatter movement at Oberlin accused the bakery owners of racism, and college officials promoted this false accusation. The three students pleaded guilty and, in November 2017, Gibson’s sued Oberlin, accusing the college of “libel, slander, interference with business relationships, interference with contracts, deceptive trade practices, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent hiring, and trespass.”

One of the deleterious effects of the ‘black people are all victims’ narrative is that it encourages teenage  black thugs to steal from white people whenever they feel like it because, hey, they’re entitled to ‘reparations’.

Read it.

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

Read it.

What better way to stop illegal immigration than to promise them free health care?

Next step: Free money.

New York Times Bashes Trump on UK Trip: ‘Blustering…Bellicose…Unloved…Loathed’  They must think they still live in the days when they controlled the narrative.

Bennett Tries to Diminish Trump’s ‘Scripted’ D-Day Speech Because of Past NATO Comments

NBC Was Excited to Learn Pelosi Wants to Put Trump ‘Behind Bars’

Himes: My ‘Lizard Brain’ Wants ‘Bad Things To Happen’ To Trump

Daily Mail: JAN MOIR: Queen showed she is worth her weight in beaten gold during US President’s state visit – and only our diamond monarch could tame Donald Trump the toddler

Trump impeachment frenzy has top Democrats butting heads

MSNBC Hosts Trash Pelosi’s ‘See Trump in Prison’ Line: Like Something from ‘4th-World Country’

Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Destroying The Media

Really, NY Times? Trump’s Denial of ‘Nasty’ Comment Is Ominously ‘Orwellian’

MRC’s Tim Graham: Media’s ‘Hatred and Loathing’ Much More Obvious Now

On D-Day, MSNBC’s O’Donnell Suggests Trump’s Dad Was Nazi Sympathizer

Democrats Now Pitching a Censure of Trump (For… WHAT?) as a Compromise to Appease Their YOLO Fruitcakes (Including all Presidential Candidates)

Trevor Noah Mocks Trump Tweets with a Presidential Tweet Library  Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

Cuomo Gives Dems Impeachment Pep Talk, Compares to D-Day

L. A. Times article on excess California solar incredibly misleading

‘Skeptical Environmentalist’ Bjorn Lomborg sets fire to the scourge of ‘unbridled climate alarmism’

National Park Quietly Removed Warning That Glaciers ‘Will All Be Gone’ By 2020 After Years Of Heavy Snowfall

Read it.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Read it.

The Left contains the seeds of its own destruction.

Let’s just hope it doesn’t contain the seeds of our destruction as well.

Read it.

How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

When health care is provided by private entities, victims can sue those responsible for damages.

When health care is provided by a government agency, who can you sue? And how successful is it likely to be?

Read it.

just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Read it.

Every year, I have two encounters with John Locke. The first comes when I go to the American Political Science Association, where I try to understand the arguments of the hardcore political philosophers brought in by Claremont and Institute for Humane Studies, and so on. The second comes about a month later when I teach the Founding to a group of Freshmen at my university. A point I try to drive home to my students, and which, given the recent discussions regarding Sohrab Ahmari around here, is relevant to Ricochet, is that the world of 17th Century England, and especially the Civil War and the Glorious Revolution, doesn’t look much like the United States of today, and that properly understanding Locke and Montesquieu requires thinking in terms they would have known.

Locke is a significant figure in modern political philosophy. This new look at his work is well worth reading.

Read it.

Me want.