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Angela Saini has an interesting review in Nature of Skin Deep, a ridiculous book about how racial differences have no role in sports achievement. Of course, that’s just nonsense, obviously so: some Kenyan and Ethiopian populations are way better at distance races,while people of West African descent always win the Olympic 100-meter. And so on.

Now you’d think that if if you were trying to defend blank slatism, you wouldn’t want to spend much of your time on your weakest possible point, any more than a PR-wise Stalinist would go on and on about how wise and good Katyn Forest was: how the Chekists killed those Polish POWs in self-defense, after a heroic struggle, etc. Arguing for zero physical differences between populations is that weak: everyone can see them, for Christ’s sake. And a lot of people are very interested in, and knowledgeable about, sports.

Yet, in Saini’s review, she does just that. She’s pushing obvious falsehoods – not just ones that can only be noticed by the elite that know how to do long division.

Joel Kotkin.

I’m not a free-market fundamentalist. To me, the beauty of liberal capitalism lies in its performance: More people live well, and live longer, than ever before. Millions of working-class people have moved from poverty to become homeowners and have seen their offspring rise into the middle class or higher.

Today this egalitarian capitalist progress is showing signs of fading, not only in the United States but also in Europe, Australia, and increasingly East Asia. This marks a drastic reversal from the conditions that prevailed after World War II, when the incomes of those in the lower quintile surged by roughly 40 percent, while the gains in those in the top quintile grew a modest 8 percent, and the top 5 percent saw their incomes drop slightly. Social mobility since the 1990s has declined dramatically, not only in the United States but also throughout Europe, including Sweden. Despite the European Union’s vaunted welfare state, the middle class has shrunk in more than two-thirds of the countries there.

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No, this is not a joke.

The area surrounding King County Superior Court includes a homeless shelter and other social-services organizations and has become an “unsanitary and potentially frightening” scene — one “that reeks of urine and excrement” — according to an article in the Seattle Times. Desperate for help with the disgusting environment, two of the court’s judges have asked the city to please power-wash the poop-covered sidewalks. That seems like a pretty reasonable request, but apparently, one councilman is worried that doing so might be a form of microaggression.

According to the Times, Councilmember Larry Gossett “said he didn’t like the idea of power-washing the sidewalks because it brought back images of the use of hoses against civil-rights activists.”

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n the event of war with Pakistan or China, India has determined that the first domain of warfare to defend is low Earth orbit.

Indian news reported last week that the country’s first space war drill on Thursday [July 25] was focused on defending space assets in the event of a shooting conflict with China.

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Following Iran’s provocative test firing last week of its medium-range ballistic missile the Shahab-3, which is capable of hitting Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday the successful test firing of Israel’s own Arrow-3 ballistic missile shield over Alaska, tests previously considered secretive.

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• White liberal academics charge exorbitant speaking fees to lecture about their own “white privilege.”
• Robin DiAngelo, known for coining the term “white fragility,” charged the University of Kentucky $12,000 for a two-hour session.
• White liberal author Tim Wise received $10,000 from the University of Michigan to speak at an MLK Jr. symposium.

Doing well by doing good.

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The dream of nuclear fusion has long been out-of-reach, but now, with companies like the Jeff Bezos-backed General Fusion and a huge pool of fusion startups heating up the competition, fusion is quickly becoming a reality. Just this week, the “world’s largest nuclear fusion experiment” has made a major breakthrough.

Climate Geoengineering Prizewinner: Refreeze the Arctic with a Big Mobile Submarine

Why Climate Change Chicken Littles Demand Action NOW!

Anti science L. A. Times hypes propaganda denying global wide Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age

Climate more pressing than Brexit, say 71% of Britons – poll

Extreme Climate Events Impact Marine Habitat Forming Communities Along 45% of Australia’s Coast  Women and minorities hardest hit, etc.

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump has unleashed a torrent of hatred  Mostly aimed at himself.

Baltimore Sun Calls Trump A ‘Rat’ In Response To President’s Tweets About The City  And Bali-more knows rats.

Celebrity Rage: Trump’s Name Is the New ‘Swastika,’ You’re Better Off Worshiping the Devil

Nadler Says Impeachment Still On Horizon, Trump ‘Violated The Law Six Ways From Sunday’  Nadler’s only acquaintance with Sunday is reading about it in a newspaper.

ABC, NBC Insist Trump’s Baltimore Comments Are ‘Racist’, Loved By Base

Van Jones Says Attacks On Cummings Prove ‘The President Is Failing Kindergarten’

Trump Says Baltimore Is A Dump, The Media Freaks Out. Then Came Videos Of Garbage Strewn Everywhere

Baltimore Journo: ‘Sick’ Trump on ‘Road of Evil’, Media Should Oppose in 2020

Nadler: Trump “Violated Law Six Ways From Sunday”… Just Waiting On That Evidence To Impeach  And waiting … and waiting … and waiting ….

Democratic Candidate Asked Why He’s ‘Hypercritical’ Of Trump Immigration Policies He Once Praised Under Obama

MSNBC: ‘Christian Fascist’/’Hitler’ Trump ‘Wants to Be President for Life’  Romper room is missing some inmates.

Donald Trump ‘richly deserves’ to be impeached, says top Democrat on House committee  They keep saying that….

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Like many, I was wrong about the subscription model for the news media. I thought that a possible scheme for subscriptions could be: one for national media, in the $12–20 a month range, another, less expensive ($5–$9/month) for local news, and the last one for specialized content, whether it is a business or a leisure publication.

I was wrong. Recent studies show that in most markets, not only is a small 10 percent slice of the readership is willing to pay for an online publication, but, on average, there is room for ONE, paid-for media subscription per consumer unit.

The migration to digital has put news content in direct competition with everything else. News, social, video-on-demand, games, are now fighting for spending allocation, and time spent.

An interesting analysis.

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For those who think the world of high technology looks only with scorn at Midwestern “flyover country,” FarmWise is proof otherwise. Two and a half years ago, the Silicon Valley company’s founders had an idea for a chemical-free method of removing weeds in big farming operations: an autonomous weeding robot. That’s a focus that obviously offers big potential benefits to much of middle America. Today their machines are actively working in farm fields.

Maybe now we can limit immigration from Turd World countries without agribusiness lobbyists crying and wringing their hands about ‘crops rotting in the fields’.

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Ponder how successful that approach would be in China or Russia or any country in Africa.

Hint: ‘No, but we can shoot quite a few of you Your call.’

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

ZMan wades in.

Just when you thought it was safe, after the Mueller testimony was a colossal flop, President Trump finds a way to get everyone outraged all over again. His tweets about Congressman Elijah Cummings and his congressional district, have all the usual suspects pointing and sputtering. Given the amount of pointing and sputtering they have had to do the last three years, it is a miracle that they can even sputter. It should not be possible to be outraged for three years, but here we are.

Of course, the usual suspects are howling about the racism, as Cummings is black and his district is a black carve out. It includes some of the worst parts of Baltimore city, which means the mostly black parts. The district is about 30% white, which is why Cummings wins his elections with ease. In 2018 he won with 76% of the vote. If you are white and trapped in one of these districts, voting is pointless. In fact, voting for anyone is pointless as the results are known in advance.

I don’t know of any areas in the United States where Republicans approach anywhere near to a ‘one-party state’ the way Democrats do in (a) predominantly black areas like most inner cities and (b) predominantly hipster areas like the Left Coast. How much this situation makes an oxymoron of their party name will be a fun subject for historians — if we last long enough.

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We have heard much this year about how much the country needs a Green New Deal to reverse the negative effects of climate change, ensure economic security, revamp the nation’s transportation system, restore damaged ecosystems, secure a sustainable environment, and achieve justice and equality. Overlooked in all of the analyses of the Green New Deal is that Americans didn’t need the original New Deal.

Previous recessions had recovered in two or three years; the New Deal turned the 1929 recession into the Great Depression that dragged on for over a decade.

Climate change could revive medieval megadroughts in US Southwest

Underwater glacial melting is occurring at higher rates than modeling predicts

Concerns grow regarding sea ice and Greenland’s ice sheet

Paris Set Their All-Time Hottest Temperature This Week. Is it Climate Change? No.

We have the tech to suck CO2 from the air–but can it suck enough to make a difference?

Cuomo Trashes ‘Demagogue’ Trump for Bringing Back the Death Penalty

Mueller fallout: Highest-ranking House Democrat to date calls for Trump impeachment

Prospect of Trump impeachment grows as Democrats seek grand jury evidence

Mike Hulme: Climate Deadlines are Politically Dangerous

British Actor Jamie Bell To Colbert: ‘You Have a Clown as a President’  And yet he keeps winning.

Pelosi Denounces Trump’s ‘Racist Attacks’ Against Cummings  Does anybody seriously think that Trump wouldn’t have said the same things about Cummings if Cummings had been white?

Mitchell Declares Mueller Hearing ‘Pretty Devastating’ For Trump  They actually pay him to say stuff like that.

CNN’s Sellers: ‘Donald Trump is a Racist, Period’

Media Plays The Racist Card After Trump’s Tweets On Baltimore, President’s Supporters Push Back

Steve Sailer.

Baltimore’s current Carnival of Murder can be timed precisely to Black Lives Matter’s Freddie Gray memorial riot in downtown Baltimore on April 27, 2015.

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Democrats in Washington are trying to push through a bill to raise the federal minimum wage, but around the country dozens of cities and states raised the wage floor at the beginning of the year. And like clockwork, small businesses across the country are already struggling with some of the issues that conservatives warned about. To wit, many businesses, particularly restaurants, which are notoriously low-margin businesses, have been forced to lay off employees, even after raising prices to meet the new wage requirements.

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Self-checkout theft has become so widespread that a whole lingo has sprung up to describe its tactics. Ringing up a T-bone ($13.99/lb) with a code for a cheap ($0.49/lb) variety of produce is “the banana trick.” If a can of Illy espresso leaves the conveyor belt without being scanned, that’s called “the pass around.” “The switcheroo” is more labor-intensive: Peel the sticker off something inexpensive and place it over the bar code of something pricey. Just make sure both items are about the same weight, to avoid triggering that pesky “unexpected item” alert in the bagging area.

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Here’s one “green energy” Earth-saving scenario to chew on: Your landscaper comes to your door early one morning asking you to move your car so that they can service your lawn. Except, your car is the in driveway. So you venture outside to see someone else’s Tesla, sitting on your lawn, with an extension cord running across your grass and plugged into the side of your home.

According to WPBF ABC, this is exactly what happened to Phil Fraumeni, who has lived at his house in Lake Worth, Florida for 20 years.

Socialism in action. In the world of Bernie Sanders, anybody can help himself to your stuff, because his claim to it is as good as yours.

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This marked discrepancy is due to the fact that western mass media outlets serve not a political party, nor even money, but the power structures of the western empire. This is the real reason why Russia hysteria has been mainlined into mainstream consciousness day in and day out for three years. Not for ratings, not to hurt Trump, not to help the Democrats, but because Russia is viewed as a disobedient geopolitical adversary by the US-centralized power alliance. That’s all it’s ever been.

There are many gaping plot holes in the Russiagate narrative that outlets like MSNBC have been bashing everyone over the head with, but the most obvious and easily provable of them is the indisputable fact that Donald Trump has escalated tensions against Russia more than any US president in decades. You never hear anyone talk about this self-evident fact in all the endless yammering about Russia, though, because it doesn’t advance the agendas of either of America’s two mainstream parties, and it doesn’t advance the interests of US imperialism. Democrats don’t like acknowledging the fact that Trump has been consistently and aggressively working directly against the interests of Moscow, and Trump supporters don’t like acknowledging that their president is just as much of a neocon-coddling globalist as those they claim to oppose, so the war machine has gone conveniently unchallenged in manufacturing new cold war escalations against a nation they’ve had marked for destruction since the fall of the Soviet Union.

I have often felt puzzled by this tendency of the proglodyte press to shout RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA all the time.

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A Voice of the Crust emits an opinion that, until the 1960s, would have been derided by ‘progressives’ as reactionary.

According to a recent Pew Research survey, a staggering 85% of Americans support policies to restrict the rise of robots. We even have a presidential candidate in Andrew Yang running to protect jobs from automation.

Economists tend to dismiss anti-technology sentiment as backwards and Luddite. But they miss an important point. As I argue in my new book, The Technology Trap, The Luddites, who smashed machinery during the Industrial Revolution, were right to fight back. Much like today’s factory workers, they weren’t going to benefit from new technology.

‘Progressives’ have always viewed economics with their own particular moral squint. To them, the purpose of a business is not to make stuff as efficiently (and profitably) as possible, but rather to hire and pay workers (who will then vote reliably for ‘progressive’ candidates in order to preserve those jobs). Proglodytes don’t see workers as individuals but as a vast Marxist mass of Workers, each of which can be substituted for any other — which, in Marx’s day, they were.

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Unfortunately, round doors are more trouble than they’re worth.

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Judge John Miraldi ordered the Ohio liberal arts college to post a bond of more than $36 million to cover the judgment plus interest while Oberlin appeals. Without explaining his reasoning, he approved the exact amount the Gibson’s Bakery plaintiffs had asked Oberlin to pay in lieu of letting them collect on the judgment immediately.

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Europe is now facing the same situation the United States confronted in 2002 when hundreds of Islamic terrorists were captured in Afghanistan and it was unclear what could be done with them. By 2009 that was still an unresolved problem and ten years later the Americans are not the only ones forced to deal with it. European nations, after accepting millions of illegal Moslem migrants who refused to adapt to their new homeland, found that thousands of their Moslem residents went off after 2014 to join the “Islamic State” in Syria. Most of those European Moslems were killed, captured or, for the moment, are untraceable.

Mueller fallout: Highest-ranking House Democrat to date calls for Trump impeachment

Nets Lament Mueller ‘Blunted Momentum’, Didn’t ‘Move the Needle’ for Impeachment

TILT: WashPost Fact Checkers Pick Entirely on Republicans in Mueller-Hearing Check

De Blasio Says Trump Won’t Be Welcome In New York City After Presidency

Colbert Frets: Republicans Obstructing ‘Doctor’ Mueller Saving Country From ‘Terminal Illness!’

‘View’ Predicts Russia Will Help Trump Steal 2020: ‘Can’t Win Election Legitimately’

MSNBC Host Says Democrats Aren’t Going To ‘Play Fair’ To Put Trump In Jail  My, what a surprise.

CNN Panel Seems Unaware Media ‘Berate’ Trump Constantly

MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch: We are ‘At War’ With Republican ‘Liars, Cheaters, and Stealers’

Reddit CEO on The Donald Subgroup: ‘This Is Not What We Want Users Seeing’

An ‘Unstoppable Push’; Cranky Matthews Badgers Nadler from the Left on Impeachment

‘Rocketman’ Actor: ‘Trump Leaves Me Hopeless,’ Fears for Children’s Future

Desperate Dem Rep Goes Full Conspiracy Theorist: Claims “Somebody Got To Mueller”

Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought

The geoengineering of consent: How conspiracists dominate YouTube climate science content

CNN: Rich People Can Save “the Planet From Climate Change” Aeuhhh???

CNN: “One of America’s oldest power companies is going carbon free” apart from coal and natural gas.

Another heartbreaking story of climate doom!

A Massachusetts Tree Is Live-Tweeting Its Perspective on Climate Change

LSE: We Need to Name Deadly Climate Heatwaves Over 82F (28C)

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Apparently they’re just high-tax-and-spend.

According to a Tax Foundation report, “Scandinavian income taxes raise a lot of revenue because they are actually rather flat. In other words, they tax most people at these high rates, not just high-income taxpayers.”

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“The bottom line: Copy the Nordic model if you like, but understand that it entails a lot of capitalism and pro-business policies, a lot of taxation on middle-class spending and wages, minimal reliance on corporate taxation, and plenty of co-pays and deductibles in its health care system,” the J.P Morgan report adds.

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Who’s on first?

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Google engineer Greg Coppola, who was suspended by his company for speaking to Project Veritas, published a July 25 post on Medium analyzing Google News. Coppola re-enacted a project done by PJ Media’s Paula Boylard in order to demonstrate Google’s liberal manipulation of its algorithms. Using what he called “data science,” Coppola found that the top 20 sites most relied on by Google News were all liberal.

Not really news but a useful reminder.

The top five sites were CNN, USA Today, The New York Times, Politico, and the Guardian. None of these sites are conservative or even bipartisan in their approach to news. The other sites include the New Yorker, Deadline, HuffPost, CNBC, Newsweek, Vox, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, ABC News, The Hill, and Salon. Not one of them could ever be accused of leaning right. In fact, most are bastions of left-wing hackery.

Kevin Williamson blows the whistle.

Why is Trump’s “poor foreigners are exploiting us” shtick racist and xenophobic while Paul Krugman’s “rich foreigners are exploiting us” shtick is progressive conventional wisdom?

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“In this experiment, we targeted the prefrontal cortex with individualized non-invasive stimulation montages,” lead HRL researcher Praveen Pilly said in a statement. “That is the region that controls many executive functions, including decision-making, cognitive control, and contextual memory retrieval. It is connected to almost all the other cortical areas of the brain, and stimulating it has widespread effects.”

The Other McCain is not impressed.

Twitter rolled out a site redesign this week and it sucks — a giant leap backward, to a clunky and inefficient user interface. Who did this? It was a crew of social-justice quota hires….

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That’s the thing about “social justice” as a human-resources policy — if your employer decides it needs to hire more “women of color,” just to satisfy some diversity goal, the people hired under this policy can never be fired, no matter how spectacularly incompetent they are, or no matter how much harm their failures inflict on the company’s profitability

The Rape Jihad in West Bengal Claims a 5-Year-Old Victim

Turkey Prepared To Reinvade Cyprus If Needed – Erdogan Says Following EU Sanctions

Brooklyn Man Charged After Joining ISIS, Training Other Members

Germany: Nest Of Middle-Eastern Spies

Mujahideen Sentenced for Attempted Sabotage of a High-Speed Russian Train

Over the Wall We Go — Into Melilla

LIBYA: The Mythical Moderate Moslem Militant

Radical Anti-Israel Group to Host Capitol Hill Briefing

Online Rumors: Turkish Islamist Tyrant Erdogan Is Reported to be in Stable Condition, Because Dead is as Stable As It Gets

Radical Islamists to Participate in Publicly-Funded Screening of Anti-Semitic Film

IPT Exclusive: CAIR Leader’s Consequence-Free Anti-Semitism

Peace Doesn’t Exist. Neither Do the Palestinians

Ilhan Omar Frustrated By Moderator Question About Female Genital Mutilation

Tory Leaders in Full Submission to Islam

Remote control car bomb plotter jailed for 15 years

Australia to ban suspected extremists from returning home for up to two years

How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals

CNN Photo Editor Celebrated Deaths of ‘Jewish Pigs’ in Anti-Semitic Tweets

INDIA-PAKISTAN: A Partial Confession

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I guess Trump didn’t get the memo that he wants all black people rounded up and deported, if not exterminated.

You’d think he could stick to the script.

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I am not making this up.

Many of the Puerto Ricans who rallied against Ricardo Rossello, the island’s deeply unpopular governor, who resigned in disgrace earlier this week, would welcome this investigation. Vasquez has a reputation for being a corrupt official who will carry on Rossello’s policies, and marches had been planned to demand that she also resign, and that the island allow the people to select a new leader.

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I like him already.

“This is a Tory Cabinet from hell, which Donald Trump or Nigel Farage would be proud of — with members that want to scrap the Barnett formula, privatize the NHS, roll back workers’ rights, undo the welfare state, cut taxes for the rich, and even bring back the death penalty,” the Scottish National Party’s Pete Wishart said.

High praise indeed.

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Jimmy’s Famous Seafood announced the launch of a new beer called “PETA Tears” to commemorate the one-year anniversary of their Twitter feud with the animal rights organization, PETA.

Berkeley Bans New Natural Gas Connections Because Climate Change

BBC: Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months

The Total Myth of Ocean Acidification: Science! Edition

Could wooden building be a solution to climate change?

Records Could Be Smashed Today As Second Heatwave Roasts Europe 

U.S. media conceal 4.5+ billion tons increase of CO2 by developing nations – push meaningless “sustainability” propaganda agenda

Pedal powered farms and factories: the forgotten future of the stationary bicycle

Gillibrand Releases Her $10 Trillion Climate Plan Including ‘Immediate Action To Enact The Green New Deal’

No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happening Now  Women and minorities hardest hit, etc.

The 20th century was the hottest in nearly 2,000 years, studies show  Hot blooded – check it and see….

Popular climbing routes in French Alps becoming more dangerous due to climate change, say researchers

Bette Midler Under Fire After Suggesting Trump Paid ‘AfricanAmerican Men’ To Be ‘Blackground’ At Rally

NY Times Perked Up in the PM: Democrats ‘Painted’ Trump as ‘Risk to the Nation’

Nets Try to Keep Impeachment Dream Alive, But Some Reporters Express Doubt

Matthews Wonders ‘Second Term or Prison Term’ for Trump as Lefty Guests Panic

Anti-Trump Harvard Law prof Laurence Tribe calls Mueller hearing ‘disaster’ that helped the president

CNNers Whine Mueller ‘Muddied’ Impeachment Waters With ‘Shaky Performance’

Will Ilhan Omar Re-Elect President Trump?  She’s doing her best.

D.L. Hughley Slams Trump Backers as ‘Morally Vacant,’ Worse than Devil Worshipers  Who?

CNN’s Stelter Rages Against Trump Backers After Bad Mueller Day: ‘Reject the Lies’!

Report: Pelosi Tells Nadler To Cool It On Impeachment

Andrea Mitchell: I’m ‘Sad’ That ‘Shameful’ Republicans ‘Undermined’ Unbiased Investigation

House Democrats: We Won’t Rest Until Trump Is Stopped . . . Okay, Time for Recess

2015: Rashida Tlaib Demanded That the Nation “Deport Trump;” For Some Reason This Did Not Provoke a Racial Firestorm (and Still Won’t)

Chris Wallace Calls Out Colbert: ‘You’re Part of the Anti-Trump Tribe’

Mueller Shot Down A Trump-Russia Collusion Theory That Wouldn’t Go Away

‘View’ Demands Schiff Impeach Trump: Russia ‘Wants Republicans in Power!’

Samantha Bee: There’s Enough Evidence to Impeach Trump, ‘It’s Called the Mueller Report!’

MSNBC’s Solution to Mueller Debacle: More Hearings!

People Roast Trump And Then Find Out It Was Obama

Dems Turning Trump Into ‘Folk Hero’ By Failing To Impeach: NYT Columnist

D.L. Hughley Says Devil Worshippers Are ‘Better’ Humans Than Trump Supporters  I can see where he would be more comfortable there.

Washington Post Fact Checks Only Republicans During Mueller Hearings

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My, what a surprise.

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If Islamism (political Islam) was a sport, the convening members of the Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy Conference in Washington, D.C. this week would be in the American Islamist Olympics finals, the dream teams of Islamist all-stars from a host of American Islamist lobbying groups.

Gone are the days of hidden dissimulation, or “taqqiya,” operating under elusive conference titles like “reviving the Islamic spirit” or “social justice,” or “fighting Islamophobia.” Now this new “Muslim Caucus” openly seeks Muslim power and all of whatever that means to them.

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This could get interesting.