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In their study, the researchers teleported the quantum state of one photon (light particle) to another distant one. Previously, only two-level states (“qubits”) had been transmitted, i.e., information with values “0” or “1”. However, the scientists succeeded in teleporting a three-level state, a so-called “qutrit”. In quantum physics, unlike in classical computer science, “0” and “1” are not an ‘either/or’ – both simultaneously, or anything in between, is also possible. The Austrian-Chinese team has now demonstrated this in practice with a third possibility “2”.

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While some researchers theorise that nuclear fusion is just around the corner, we have yet to see a reactor that can successfully recreate the power of the sun for any useful length of time. However, a physicist at the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has developed a mathematical technique that simplifies the design of complex magnetic coils within the twisty machines that house fusion reactions.

Using this new technique, these machines, referred to as stellarators, could be made significantly cheaper, which would potentially bring nuclear fusion within closer reach.

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In a ruling that kicks at the foundation of how America chooses presidents, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said members of the Electoral College, who cast the actual votes for president, may choose whomever they please regardless of a state’s popular vote.

The ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver said Colorado was out of bounds in 2016 when it canceled the vote of a so-called faithless elector named Michael Baca. Mr. Baca, a Democrat, wrote in the name of John Kasich, a Republican who was Ohio’s governor at the time, even though Hillary Clinton carried Colorado, earning its nine electoral votes. The secretary of state replaced Mr. Baca with another elector who then voted for Mrs. Clinton.

“The text of the Constitution makes clear that states do not have the constitutional authority to interfere with presidential electors who exercise their constitutional right to vote for the president and vice president candidates of their choice,” the court majority wrote in a split ruling by a three-judge panel.

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Demonstrating the inherent tyrannical nature of socialism. ‘You’re going to do it my way because I know better than you.’

“It is no secret that we must transition away from fossil fuels, period. End of discussion. There ain’t no middle ground…There is no middle ground,” Sanders said during a speech Thursday in California.

Trump’s capital gains and payroll tax cuts are probably fake  Much like the news.

Trump Makes A Joke, Journalists Show Why They Are One

Psychic News: This Is Why Trump Is Nervous  The writer, of course, has no idea whether Trump is actually nervous, but that the writer would be nervous in Trump’s place. The available evidence suggests that Trump is rarely nervous.

MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson Grills Gay Republican for Daring to Support Trump  For daring to exist, I should think.

Former GOP Rep Joe Walsh Prepares A Primary Challenge To Trump  Didn’t know that Trump was running in the former-GOP primary.

Rob Reiner Rages: ‘Donald Trump Is Out of His F***ing Mind’  I guess it’s too much to ask him to be specific. (They didn’t call him Meathead for nothing.)

How Trump Started a Civil War Between the UN and Hamas

Journalists Blow Up Over Trump’s ‘I Am The Chosen One’ Comment  Like teasing a dog with a stick.

Trump Fatigue Is a Bigger Threat to Trump than Trump Derangement

Trump adds Jews to his hit parade of hatred  I guess that’s why Israel named a settlement after him.

Rashida Tlaib Claims That Trump Goes After Her Because Of Her Ethnicity  No, it’s more personal than that. She’s just a hateful twit.

‘Dancing With The Stars’ Host Meditated To Survive Trump’s Election  Try crystals. Marianne Williamson swears by them.

Crazy Lefties: Not Bashing Trump on Greenland Is ‘Disloyal’ to Racist, Sexist America

CNN’s Stelter Demands ‘Outrage and Backlash’ for Dancing Sean Spicer  He has Trump Cooties, you see.

Fredo Cuomo: Trump Isn’t Aging Poorly In Office Only Because He Doesn’t Care Enough About the Country to Age

China Criticises Australia for Not Doing Enough about Climate Change  This from the greatest polluting nation on earth.

Environmentally-Hypocritical Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous

The Economist: The World’s Poor Are Eating More Meat Which Means They’ll Live Longer and Healthier Lives But It’s Very Sad Because of Global Warming Plus: Slavery-Shaming from the New York Times and Nation of Islam

The Green New Deal: Less About Climate, More About Control

Forbes Toes the Line on Climate

The “Lungs Of The Earth” Are Being Burned Away As Unprecedented Wildfires Absolutely Ravage The Planet Women and minorities have hair on fire, etc.

Developing nations surging energy use shatters UN & California’s climate alarmism crusade

Bernie Sanders Says His $16-Trillion Green New Deal-Like Plan Will Create 20 Million Jobs  Mostly in offices administering welfare payments for people thrown out of work.

US To “Drown The World” In Oil  I thought we were supposed to run out of oil next week or something?

Jon Meacham Anoints Al Gore a ‘Prophetic Voice’ on Environment

Chuck Todd: ‘Nothing Better’ Than Being ‘Attacked by Donald Trump’  That and getting paid. Todd’s salary is reported to be ‘over $750,000′, which is a good deal for playing Scott Adams’ ‘Dale’ character on national TV.

This London Pub Might Be the Most Ethical Bar in the World  “Ethical”, of course, meaning Dances With Socialism.

Climate Crusading Youngsters Erupt After DNC Officials Reject Global Warming Debate

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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.?

But maybe with a Chick-Fil-A next door for … you know….

UPDATE: Cannabis oil too expensive to prescribe to epileptic children on NHS, advisory body finds

When the taxpayer foots the bill, there’s a limit to the care you can have. Sorry.

Babylon Bee.

When you’re raised as a socialist, it’s hard to blend in the adult world.

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Sounds like a case of Noticing to me.

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Funny ow they all say the same thing.

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Which just might have saved the owner’s life. Just sayin’.

Kevin D. Williamson looks at Ben Shapiro.

In this Jordan Weissmann column about Trump’s talk of Jewish “disloyalty,” it probably is worth noting that Ben Shapiro, who is quoted complaining about “bad Jews,” is a practicing Orthodox Jew. The kind of detail that matters, at least a little bit, no?

My question is: How much longer must Shapiro practice in order to have a reasonable shot at going pro?

Many people have their hair on fire because the President allegedly referred to himself as the Chosen One. (I say allegedly because I can’t be bothered to look it up.)

Well, he was chosen by the Electoral College to be President. But I guess that’s not good enough.

The sound of chains being yanked along the Other Left Coast is deafening.

Babylon Bee.

A new study surveyed everyone on planet earth and found that of all the 7.7 billion people on the planet, you are definitely the most oppressed one.

Take whatever action you deem appropriate. (No, you can’t get paid for that.)

In a rare fit of laziness, Snopes hasn’t fact-checked this yet.

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Slumming among the proles used to be more gratifying.

I’m surprised that a reporter actually wrote about it, and astonished that it actually got published.

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Or maybe not. (Hair on fire, women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.)

As with the rising seas of Global Warming, I’ll worry about the recession when it arrives.

Eric S. Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar,  translates for us.

Hi, I’m Joe Biden. I’m the perfect apparatchik – no principles, no convictions, and no plan. I’m senile, and I have a problem with groping children. But vote for me anyway because orange man bad.

Hi, I’m Kamala Harris. My white ancestors owned slaves, but I use the melanin I got from my Indian ancestors to pretend to be black. My own father has publicly rebuked me for the pandering lies I tell. I fellated my way into politics; put me into the White house so I can suck even more!

Hi, I’m Elizabeth Warren. Even though I’m as white as library paste, I pretended to be an American Indian to get preferment. My research on medical bankruptcies was as fraudulent as the way I gamed the racial spoils system. So you should totally trust me when I say I’m “capitalist to my bones”!

Hi, I’m Bernie Sanders. I honeymooned in the Soviet Union. I’m an unreconstructed, hammer-and-sickle-worshiping Communist.

Hi, I’m Kirsten Gillibrand. I used to be what passes for a moderate among Democrats – I even supported gun rights. Now I’ve swung hard left, and will let you just guess whether I ever had any issue convictions or it was just pandering all the way down. Tee-hee!

Hi, I’m Amy Klobuchar, and I’ve demonstrated my grasp on the leadership skills necessarily for the leader of the Free World by being notoriously abusive towards my staff.

Hi, I’m Robert Francis O’Rourke. I’m occupying the “imitate the Kennedy” lane in this race, and my credentials for it include DUI and fleeing an accident scene. The rumors that I’m a furry are false; the rumors that I’m a dimwitted child of privilege are true. But vote for me anyway, crucial white-suburban-female demographic, because I have such a winning smile!

Hi, I’m Pete Buttigieg. I was such a failure as the mayor of South Bend that my own constituents criticize me for having entered this race, but the Acela Corridor press loves me because I’m fashionably gay. And how right they are; any candidate you choose is going to bugger you up the ass eventually, but I’ll do it like an expert!

Hi, I’m Bill de Blasio. I’m as Communist as Bernie, but I hide it better. And if Pete thinks his constituents don’t want him in this race? Hold…my…beer!

Hi, I’m Cory Booker, and I’m totally not gay. OK, maybe I’m just a little gay. My city was a shithole when I was elected and I’ve done nothing to change that; I’m really just an empty suit with a plausible line of patter, especially the “I am Spartacus” part. But you should totally vote for me because I’m…what was the phrase? Oh, yeah. “Clean and articulate.”

Hi, I’m Marianne Williamson. If elected, I will redecorate the White House so it has proper feng shui. I am the sanest and least pretentious person on this stage.

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Sometimes it is profitable to be the kind.

The Obamas will purchase the house from Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck for a discount, according to a report published by TMZ Thursday. The property contains 29 beachfront acres, 7 bedrooms, and is listed at $14,850,000.

Let’s see: The Clinton’s didn’t go back to Arkansas. The Obamas didn’t go back to Chicago.

How ya gonna keep ’em down in Flyover Country after they’ve seen D.C.?

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Here’s a rule of thumb: Words ending in “ism” tend to generate more heat than light. Try to avoid getting burned. Try to avoid burning others.

We know what they’re talking about, of course — ‘nationalism’ is the label being applied to What Trump Voters Like, as opposed to ‘patriotism’ which is What Trump Opponents But Not Yet Democrats Like.

Sometimes it’s hard to keep up without a scorecard.

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“While I appreciate his allyship, I think someone that is actually a part of the queer community, that understands the day-to-day struggles, would be a better representative than an ally,” Girl said of Schiff. “I want people to know that there are more progressive people on the ballot.”

Further testing the theory that Democrat voters will elect anything to Congress.

John Hinderacker at Power Line suspects that it is.

The Babylon Bee, which describes itself as “Christian news satire,” has been engaged in a running battle with Snopes.com, a liberal “fact check” site that serves mostly as a mouthpiece for the left. Snopes has repeatedly undertaken, with a straight face, to “fact check” Babylon Bee stories that are obviously humorous. This has given rise to considerable ridicule, but some suspect that Snopes has a more sinister purpose in mind: to give liberals at platforms like Facebook an excuse to downgrade or even ban the sharing of Bee posts. The humorless left has nothing like the Bee, and would like to get rid of it.

Psychic News: Cuomo: Trump Sleeps Well Because He ‘Doesn’t Care’ About Dead Soldiers  Yeah, Fredo is the expert on what Trump thinks.

Dana Milbank: The U.S. must take Greenland by force  Dana Milbank is one of the Chattering Class’s pet clowns.

Another domino just fell toward an impeachment inquiry for Trump  Or so they hope.

More Violence Against Trump: Woman Stabs Piñata, Friends Laugh

Joe Biden: ‘We’re Going To Make’ Trump ‘Feel The Pain’  Uh, with what?

Morning Joe: Anti-Semite Trump ‘Gonna Hide Behind His Jewish Son-in-Law’

This Lefty Hollywood Director Slams ‘Coward’ Pelosi Over Impeachment

David French: Trump Is a Bigot Against Jews For Saying That Jews Who Vote Democrat Are Betraying Other Jews and Israel  Here a cuck, there a cuck, everywhere a cuck-cuck….

Former NY Times Top Editor Fights with Fox About Paper’s Trump-and-Racism Hype

‘The Simpsons’ Slam President Trump In ‘West Side Story’ Musical Parody  I must confess that I have never watched the Simpsons and never felt the lack.

When It Comes To The US Economy, Everyone Wants To Pin The Credit Or The Blame On President Trump

‘We Should Be Retreating Already From the Coastline,’ Scientist Suggests After Finding Warm Waters Below Greenland

Offshore Oil and Gas Production Leaks Virtually No Methane

Jorge Ramos Serves Up Green New Deal Propaganda on Facebook Watch

Environmentalists Killed More Europeans Than Islamic Terrorists Did

Explaining Wind Turbine Lethality

The Cost of Rising Seas: More Than $400 Billion (and Lots of Angst)  Wake me when the seas actually rise.

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That Elon, just burnin’ it down….

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Former NAACP Assistant Director Michael Meyers said Wednesday that the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls who embraced reparations were “pandering to black voters.”

Well, duh.

This guy needs to get out more, maybe read the news.

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An illegal immigrant mother whose nursing claims were disputed by a medical examination has been slapped with multiple felony charges for using another person’s social security number.

Maria Domingo-Garcia was federally indicted on Tuesday for knowingly using another individual’s social security number, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The ruling, handed down in the Northern Division of the Southern District of Mississippi, will result in her being placed in the custody of U.S. Marshals as she awaits federal trial.

News of the indictments come after Domingo-Garcia made national headlines for claiming she was a nursing mother unable to breastfeed her baby because Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed her in detention.

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March For Our Lives, a student group aimed at promoting gun control, recently released “a Green New Deal, but for guns,” on Wednesday

The agenda calls for many progressive gun control measures, such as a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and high capacity magazines. The group also seeks to eliminate 30% of the guns in America via government buybacks, and create a new federally appointed “National Director of Gun Violence Prevention.” Additionally, the plan calls for increased gun registration, which has historically lead to confiscation, as well as the inclusion of “in-person interviews” and “personal references” into the gun-buying process.

The defect here, of course, is that they are ‘students’. Students are basically parasites on society, who neither produce things or make life better, but are rather given a privileged position one the grounds that they need to concentrate on their studies. But they don’t — they pick up a few half-baked ideas and use their Copious Free Time to get in other people’s faces about them.

Adults ought to refuse to pay any attention to people who’s only job is ‘student’.

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I can think of no circumstance under which I would own bonds or a bond fund.

Katharine Hayhoe Attacks Greta Thunberg’s Climate “Shaming” Crusade

New study offers roadmap for detecting changes in the ocean due to climate change

Green Technology’s Dark Side

Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change

Blacklist by Nature follows defamation by BioScience: journals reject ethics of science

Trump impeachment push gets important new ally

Assistant House Speaker Ben Ray Lujan backs impeachment inquiry

Biden Campaign Ad Bashes Trump, Calls Him An ‘Erratic, Vicious, Bullying President’  Still not enough to get Sleepy Joe elected.

CNN Turns to Iran for Condemnation of Trump

CNN’s New Day Has All-Liberal Panel to Bash Trump on Guns  Not really news, but a useful reminder.

IT’S WAR: Scaramucci Calls Trump An ‘Orange Cancer’  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Miss Nevada Banned From Entering Miss America Over Her Support For Trump

Facebook Bans “Women For Trump” Ads

Ace of Spades rolls his eyes.

Why aren’t there any DINOs to match our RINOs?

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Galaxy (and its partner, If) was one of my go-to magazines for SF when I was growing up. I look forward to many happy hours reliving the halcyon days of my youth.

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It has always been considered bad form to point out that the German Nazis had a conscious environmental quotient to their ideology, but what’s this? The Washington Post noted yesterday that two of the recent mass shooters—the New Zealand shooter last year and the El Paso shooter two weeks ago—embraced environmental themes, fusing them together in fact with anti-immigration views. The Post is shocked and befuddled at this seeming anomaly (though to be fair, the Post notes as briefly as possible: “Ecofascism has deep roots. There is a strong element of it in the Nazi emphasis on “blood and soil,” and the fatherland. . .) But this is only anomalous to clueless liberals, who suffer cognitive impairment when it comes to imagining the connection between the anti-natalism of the “population bomb” mentality and seeing immigration as a driver of population growth.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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On Tuesday morning, syndicated talk-radio host Chris Plante mocked “National Panhandler Radio” for having some seriously high salaries for a taxpayer-subsidized network that begs for listener donations in pledge drives. Plante cited tweets by Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi from the latest IRS 990 form for nonprofits revealing the high salaries of NPR stars.

Plante marveled first at Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon, who is a one-day-a-week anchor and yet made $479,578. Farhi reported this was a 16 percent pay increase. Plante underlined “That is more than the President of the United States” for one day’s work, and insisted he would love to get a job with that much pay for that little on-air time.

Being a Voice of the Crust pays pretty well. Ask Paul Krugman.

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The group she and Ilhan Omar partnered with, Mitfah, has promoted the actual blood libel found in the antisemitic hoax “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” that Jews use the blood of Christian babies to bake their Passover bread.

And the terrorist-connected Tlaib couldn’t wait to jump into bed with them.

Hey, I’ve seen pictures of Tlaib — she has to take these opportunities when they come.

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How did Marianne Williamson, the author of 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever, and other stuff you might see on the bottom layer of a garage sale, end up on the 2020 debate stage?

The obvious answer is that she’s been there for a very long time.

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Guess it didn’t work.

(Hey, when all you’ve got is a zombie knife, every problem looks like a zombie….)

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Oops.

(Let me just mark that down….)

Ace of Spades has the dirt.

‘Bigger than Watergate’, as Scott Adams says, a major news outlet has been outed as a propaganda factory masquerading as a news source — and none of the Usual Suspects is reporting on it. ‘Nothing to see here, move along, move along….’

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Fresh from the same Dept. of Energy and EPA that gave us: toilets that don’t flush; light bulbs that don’t light; dishwashers that don’t wash; plant-based fuel that burns like carrots; and paper straws that dissolve in liquid…

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If they would video his suicide, then we could all watch.

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Living on a ranch, we have numerous types and styles of shovels: plastic shovels to push snow off our steps; strong but lightweight shovels strapped onto snowmachines; short, narrow shovels to dig up weeds; wide, curved shovels for firefighting; manure shovels; and traditional wooden-handled shovels in every ranch truck. Each shovel is best-suited for specific tasks, as each firearm we wield.

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When major media in our nation talk about guns, the discussion involves speakers in metropolitan areas, usually after a horrendous tragedy. They aren’t airing interviews of people who take their children out with gundogs to hunt birds; elk hunters preparing for mountain trips they’ve dreamed about for years; former military members who enjoy competitive shooting sports; women who train to never become victims; gun collectors dedicated to preserving history; or ranchers who use firearms as tools, to name a few.

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Lately, some op-eds have been questioning whether Greta Thunberg is simply a mindless puppet.

ZMan peeks behind the curtain.

n modern America, there are two things that are on display simultaneously in the realm of public debate. One is the celebration of the fact that white people and the interests of white people are in sharp decline. The other is a growing fear of white people. It is a strange combination at first glance, as this should be a time for the coalition of the ascendant to celebrate their looming hegemony. Instead, they endlessly talk about themselves, but in the context of a prophesized white backlash.

The root of this is the strange obsession with racism that has become a religion of its own over the last two decades. The anointing of Obama as the completion of the Second Founding, the event that was supposed to wash the stains of slavery, segregation and racism from America, instead ushered in an era of race panic. The Left is in a near frenzy over racism, which they now see everywhere. It is an obsession to the point where even the so-called Right is infected by it.

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Plenty of room in the U.S.

We could use some immigrants with IQs greater than 100.

As John Derbyshire used to say, there’s nothing wrong with New York that a million ethnic Chinese couldn’t fix.

DeBlasio would have to go, though.

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Considering that AntiFa consists predominantly of white ‘men’ (stretching the term a bit), I agree.