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A few years ago, Ellen Pao’s discrimination lawsuit against a Silicon Valley venture capital fund was heavily promoted in the national press as proving that the only reason most tech founders are male is because of bias. But then she lost bigly.

Now Pao is divorcing her gay black disgraced financier husband Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher. After all these years, I still can’t find a photo online of these two in the same picture where they weren’t photoshopped together.

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The core element of political correctness is killing free speech. The political correctness police view any speech they don’t agree with as hate speech and by the political correctness rules, such speech must be condemned first and then eliminated, even if by force. The college campuses of America have been the laboratory for this anti-American lunacy. Political correctness is censorship and a direct violation of the First Amendment. These censorship threats and name-calling are designed to compel the opposition to shut up.

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The laws we currently have has not stopped the mass killings. The laws we have has not stopped the killings in Chicago, Baltimore, or Los Angeles. So, more laws are not the answer. We need a gut check on our culture.

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They must think that Obama is still President.

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It’s a salad dressing! It’s a foot ointment!

Hurricanes? Get Serious

Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants  What could possibly go wrong?

The Bigotry of Environmental Pessimism

NYT: Lawns are Symbols of Racism and Bad for Global Warming

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Apparently any failure to bow down to the golden calf of Diversity is Not Allowed.

Let’s just say that Rachel Maddow is not the product of a concern for racial purity.

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Cue proglodyte meltdown.

This is why it’s so important for him to focus on the judges first.

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They ought to let Apple handle the airports.

You could only go where they wanted you to go, and it would cost you, but they would Just Work.

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Yesterday, Israel reversed a previous decision and determined that two Israel-hating congresswomen — Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib — would not be permitted to visit the country. It relied on a law that forbids the entry of people calling for and acting to place a boycott on Israel. However, it seemed clear, at least to me, that President Trump’s hand was the decisive factor in Israel’s decision.

Tlaib responded to Israel’s decision with a letter to the government requesting to see her 90-year-old grandmother, a Palestinian who lives in the West Bank. She promised in her letter that she would “respect any restrictions and will not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit.”

Israel agreed that Tlaib could visit, conditioned on the pledge in her letter not to advocate a boycott of Israel while in the country.

Tlaib then reversed her position and refused to accept this condition.

Obviously the letter was just a ploy to give her an opportunity for more grandstanding.

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long-running voucher program boosted college graduation rates among low-income students, a recently released study shows, providing powerful evidence for the continuing positive effects of voucher-based approaches to education.

The study, a collaboration between two researchers at the University of Arkansas and one at the University of Missouri, examines data from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, the oldest voucher program in the United States. First enacted in 1990, the MPCP offers private school vouchers to low-income Milwaukee kids using a lottery system. Just 341 students participated in the program’s first year. Today, that figure is nearly 30,000 across 126 public schools.

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

I’ve always felt that if foreigners had anything to say they would say it in Latin.

And if they had anything important to say they would say it in Greek.

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I guess the Citadel of Wokeness isn’t such a Paradise of Diversity after all.

Or maybe they just attract Special Snowflake minorities who are more prone to being whiners.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care! Don’t you want to live in a nation where there are Health Bosses?

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And another career field for uneducated people is going to bite the dust.

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Some people have entirely too much time on their hand.

With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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Virtually every single one of Hillary Clinton’s emails were sent, potentially secretly, to a cryptically named Gmail address, according to a new Senate report.

The finding, which has not been previously reported, means that Clinton’s emails, including classified ones and ones which were later deleted, likely existed on Google’s U.S.-based servers. The FBI said in the report that it knew this — and of the suspicious explanation for it — but did not alert other intelligence agencies or the public, according to the report.

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Of course, this is from BuzzFeed so they see this as Not A Good Thing. Example:

(SJW is the initialism for “social justice warrior,” a pejorative term for people concerned with feminism, civil rights, and liberal ideology.)

Islam: Can a Religion Actually Be Evil?

Ongoing Kashmir Cross-Border Fire Kills 3 Pakistani, 5 Indian Soldiers; India Disputes

Terrorist Attacks in Southern Yemen Complicate Civil War Peace Process

Jerusalem Bomb Plot Underscores Ceaseless Hamas Terror Efforts

Raped and Murdered by an Asylum Seeker in Buitenveldert

NY Imam Active in Interfaith Work Disseminates Extremist Propaganda on the Side

Former Islamist Extremist Describes His Escape From the Ideology and How to Help the Most Vulnerable

A Big BOOM! In Landskrona

Wife-Beating in Morocco

Indians mobilise for ‘resettlement’ amid warnings over Hindu nationalist occupation of Kashmir

“Don’t Go Out Alone” – Swedish Cops Warns Women After 4 Rapes In 4 Days

Benghazi Car Bomb Attack Targets UN Officials, Leaving 2 Dead & 10 Wounded

Refugee Trouble in Sweden? Just Russia, Neo-Nazi Disinformation, Says NYT

Worshipper, 65, takes down heavily armed mosque gunman before he can kill anyone

In 5 States, 1 in 5 Prisoners are Muslims

Mohammed bin Salman backs Yemeni government as Saudi-led coalition descends into infighting

NYT Screws Up: Blames Shut Down Site for Mosque Shooting

21-Year-Old Suspect In Botched Terror Attack On Mosque Stands Trial With Two Black Eyes

Taliban Ends Latest Talks With US

Pakistan Mobilizing Forces At Kashmir Base Near Line Of Control: Report

Huge Blast At Pro-Iran Militia Base Rips Through Baghdad Near ‘Green Zone’

Iraq Accuses Pentagon Of “Extremely Exaggerating” Numbers Of ISIS Fighters

Hundreds Of Germans Probed Over Anti-Migrant Comments On Facebook

British-Iranian academic arrested in Tehran amid rising tensions

Child of the caliphate: The teenager paying for the sins of his Isil father

Al Qaeda releases ‘blooper reel’ of Islamic State videos amid jihadi spat

Qatar Foundation International Funds Arabic Programs In Select US Schools

Austria: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Guide Dogs For The Blind

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According to Lifehacker, every meal plan on Budget Meal Planner can be made for less than $5 a day—which is roughly equivalent to the average food stamp allotment in the United States. Every meal plan includes grocery lists and recipes for seven days worth of breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. The plans on the site are broken down into different themes, including mushroom, Thai, Tex-Mex, potato, and Mediterranean. The recipes listed may be cheap and healthy, but they don’t skimp on flavor. With Tex-Mex, you’ll get chicken tacos, stuffed bell peppers, and chili. Choose Thai and enjoy Thai chicken cabbage wraps with peanut sauce and Thai yellow chicken curry.

The site includes meat-free options as well. Just select “vegetarian” beneath the “meal plans” tab for vegetarian versions of Budget Meal Planner’s recipes lists. The vegetarian take on the Thai meal plan, for example, uses tofu instead of chicken and mushrooms instead of beef.

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Since the intelligence test was invented more than 100 years ago, our IQ scores have been steadily increasing. Even the average person today would have been considered a genius compared to someone born in 1919 – a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect.

We may have to enjoy it while we can. The most recent evidence suggests that this trend may now be slowing. It may even be reversing, meaning that we have already passed the summit of human intellectual potential.

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CeramicSpeed and Friction Facts have made a business of reducing friction to an absolute minimum, whether with ceramic bearings or oversized pulleys or highly specialized chain lube. Today, the company won a Eurobike Award at the tradeshow in Germany for its DrivEn drive shaft concept, which CeramicSpeed claims to be substantially more efficient than even the most optimized chain system.

Steve Sailer reports.

From Slate, a transcription of an internal meeting at the New York Times between top editor Dean Baquet and disgruntled New York Times staffers complaining that the New York Times doesn’t call Trump racist often enough.

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News reports are pointedly not mentioning his ethnicity so I suspect that he belongs to a Fashionable Minority.

I’m curious as to how the DemLegHump Media are going to spin this to make it the fault of the police.

UPDATE: Apparently, this is the suspect:

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The news media reported relentlessly on all matters relating even remotely to the horrific murders in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Fair enough.

But I haven’t heard much from the mainstream media about the shooting in Philadelphia of six police officers by a felon who wasn’t permitted by law to possess a firearm. Maurice Hill is believed to have fired more than 100 rounds during his standoff with police. Reportedly, he was armed with an AR-15-style weapon and a handgun.

How many people die every week in places with rigidly strict gun control laws, like New York, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, and D.C.?

If gun control worked, those cities ought to be havens of safety. Instead, they’re free fire zones, especially for young black males.

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Two years ago, left-wing billionaire George Soros wrote a $1.45 million check to Larry Krasner’s campaign for district attorney of Philadelphia. This is a gigantic sum to spend on a local election, and enabled Krasner to defeat six rivals in the 2017 Democrat primary, then coast to a landslide victory in the general election. Krasner ran as the anti-police candidate, and has made it his official policy to turn dangerous criminals loose on the streets of Philadelphia. One of the beneficiaries of Krasner’s policies, Maurice Hill, had an extensive criminal record — drug charges, aggravated assault, perjury, fleeing and eluding, escape and weapons offenses — before he engaged in a shootout Wednesday in North Philadelphia that wounded six cops.

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Let the show trials begin!

The latest travesty in ‘consensus enforcement’

Contraception is the answer to climate change  Fewer progressives is the key.

Gore Says His Global Warming Predictions Have Come True? Can He Prove It?  We aren’t all dead yet, so I doubt it.

Enlisting peer-reviewed science in the climate crusade  Far too often, ‘peer reviewed’ merely means ‘agrees with everybody else’

Steve and John Make the Climate Blacklist!  Two Power Line stalwarts achieve fame.

Iceland grapples with the prospect of a future with no ice  Polar bears and minorities hardest hit.

Why Is Hollywood So Scared of Climate Change?

Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago

Judge slaps down Dem gambit in Trump impeachment probe

Former Biden Chief Of Staff: Obama And Clinton Had ‘A Billion IQ Points On Donald Trump’

CNN: We’re Headed for Recession, But the Good News Is It Will Hurt Trump!

Chuck Schumer Tells Trump to Spend Border Wall Funds Fighting Domestic Terrorism Instead  I’m sure he will.

Israel Refuses Entry to Antisemitic Politicians Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, and Left Goes Nuts (and NeverTrump, Of Course, Makes Cuckish Noises About “Bad Optics”)

CNN Reporter Claims Trump Is Losing With Suburban Women, Interviews Two Who Say Otherwise But a man hears what he wants to hear/And disregards the rest….

Snowflake? Montel Williams Is Offended by Trump Campaign Selling Fredo Cuomo T-Shirts  Although Malcolm X t-shirts or Che Guevara t-shirts would be fine, of course.

The Left Wants to Forget About These Civil Rights Leaders Praising President Trump

Colbert Sucks Up to Anderson Cooper, Trashes Trump, Cuccinelli in CNN Interview

Ocasio-Cortez Comes Out Hard Against Trump Supporters  Scoop! Stop the presses!

House Democrats Escalate Impeachment Inquiry With New Wave Of Subpoenas  All of which will be ignored. But it looks really boss for the base back home. And the media, of course.

Omar Claims Israel Is Implementing Trump’s Muslim Ban  Uh, Israel had it first.

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Serves them right for destroying the planet with their farts.

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Rashida Tlaib’s and Ilhan Omar’s cancelled trip to Israel was sponsored by a Palestinian-based organization whose members have expressed sympathy for terrorist activities and support the BDS movement.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Your tax dollars at work.

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No, it’s explicitly racist blathering like this that is responsible for any ‘ideology of racialized terrorism’.

Eventually you’re going to trigger some unstable individual who is going to say ‘Well, might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb’ and start upon his preferred murder list of professors, politicians,  and news anchors.

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No mention of whether pumpkin-spice SPAM is involved. I have my suspicions. (Hey, Harvard….)

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That’s it. The End Times are on their way.

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You may remember that the original report on Hillary’s emails said something like “they were almost certainly captured by a hostile foreign nation or hostile foreign nations,” but then Comey and Strzok worked that language out to say the emails “may” have been accessed by another country.

And now: Oh no big deal, her system seems to have had a virus implanted into it that sent each and every email, including the top secret classified ones, to a drop box controlled by a Chinese company.

The system had been infected so that every email was sent to this address of a Chinese company, no matter who you actually intended to send it to, or not send it to.

And she did all of this because she didn’t want to turn over any records to anyone — no watchdogs with legitimate FOIA requests, no disclosure in response to a subpoena.

She decided she didn’t want any Americans to have her emails.

But a Chinese front company? Sure, let’s roll the dice on that one.

No intent. No intent no intent no intent no intent.

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The Democrat response: Basically, Abbot ought to be letting Democrats run his state.

“However, let’s be clear this was white nationalist terrorism and Governor Abbott needs to diversify the people whom he listens to. The task force completely lacks any real form of diversity, as it stands, it is comprised of only law enforcement individuals and Republicans. The same Republicans who have been fanning the flames of white supremacy and criminalizing immigration for political profit for years,” Texas Democratic Party Executive Director Manny Garcia said.

So, for Democrats, the problem isn’t terrorism, it’s white people and Republicans. Never let an atrocity go to waste, and all that.

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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.?

Democrats do.

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A 9-year-old girl is suing a centuries-old Berlin boys’ choir, arguing that her bid to join was only rejected because of her gender, in a case that has sparked debate over equal rights versus artistic freedom.

I am not making this up. I wish I were.

The Other McCain says what all people know.

Monday, I noticed an unexplained surge of traffic to my April 14 post with the simple title “Max Boot Is an Idiot,” in which I described the Trump-hating former Wall Street Journal writer as “one of the most overrated neocon gasbags in Washington.” What could have caused this increase of interest in Max Boot’s idiocy? I had no idea, and because I spent Monday driving back from Georgia, there was no opportunity to investigate this mysterious phenomenon. Who cares about Max Boot? Certainly, I never have, even when he was an influential advocate of our ill-fated invasion of Mesopotamia. Once the Bush era ended, so also did Max Boot’s influence, and no one paid any attention to him for the next eight years, but then Boot jumped on the #NeverTrump bandwagon as the vehicle by which he intended to return to relevance. Still, I have made a habit of ignoring him, as every conservative should, so what could explain this week’s sudden uptick of search traffic for Max Boot?

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Perhaps they would like to visit Guantanamo instead.

UPDATE: Israel PM Netanyahu: You’re Damn Right We Ordered the Code Red on These Terrorist-Sympathisizing, Antisemitic Agitators

ZMan points the finger.

The pattern is unmistakable. Time after time the people come under threat from a well understood enemy of bourgeois order and time after time the people in charge do nothing about it. Only the most naive think the Epstein affair or the massive corruption in the FBI will be addressed. At this point, everyone knows the plot. The flow of stories will slow to a trickle and then the whole thing will be forgotten. In time, Epstein’s plotters will be partying with the FBI plotters at Lois Lerner’s Vineyard mansion.

The people are under threat by a variety of monsters. It’s not just Grendel, but Grendel’s mother and the whole extended family. The people in charge, whether out of fear, avarice or degeneracy do nothing about these threats. People thought the Orange Knight was the hero, who could slay the monsters and bring peace to the people, but thus far he has remained under his desk, posting insults on Twitter. In fact, the king sees the hero as a greater threat than the monsters that savage his people.

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

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Tell the truth: We’ve all wanted to do that.

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Left to its own devices, California’s Republican Party would be ready to be embalmed for display at the Museum of Natural History. But there’s one last hope for the state GOP: the growing lunacy among Democrats.

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It came to light last year that a handful of rich left-wing donors led by Michael Bloomberg have collaborated with New York University Law School to recruit, place and pay for lawyers in attorney generals’ offices around the United States. These lawyers, compensated outside the executive structure of state government, are embedded in state governments to pursue lawsuits that fit Bloomberg’s liberal agenda. In particular, they are directed to bring lawsuits against oil companies and others based on “climate change.” Bloomberg’s scheme is corrupt, poses inevitable conflicts of interest, and in some states is flatly illegal.

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One of the most interesting threads left dangling in the curious case of Ilhan Omar is the one hanging from Wilecia Harris. Harris signed the 2009 marriage certificate for Omar’s marriage to Ahmed Elmi. With Harris’s signature the clock strikes 13 (or higher) in the Omar saga. As I noted in “Whence Wilecia?,” I posted the certificate and commented in it in part 3 and part 7 of my “mixed-up files” series.

The Daily Mail’s Martin Gould has sought to contact Harris for clarification. He reports the results of his inquiry this afternoon in “‘It’s not going to happen, not now – and not never!’ Christian minister Wilecia Harris, who officiated at ceremony of Ilhan Omar’s wedding to her ‘brother,’ refuses to shed light on what she knows.”

Harris’s husband, Marcus Harris, responded on Mrs. Harris’s behalf: “he rebuff[ed] all attempts to shed light on how she — a Christian minister — got to perform the marriage for two Muslims.” He quotes Harris’s response in a Facebook message: “It’s not going to happen, not now and not never.” This is the modus operandi of the protagonists in the curious case.

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A landmark deal for US procurement of Israel’s Iron Dome anti-air missile defense systems was finalized this week. It became official when on Tuesday the US Defense Department announced it had formally signed a contract for two complete Iron Dome systems.

Co-developed by Raytheon and Israeli defense firm Rafael, the system has been touted by Israeli leaders as the most advanced short to mid-range interceptor in the world with a proven track record, given that even within the past year it’s been engaged in dozens if not hundreds of Hamas rocket intercepts from Gaza.

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A new study has found that media-generated fear, not right-wing conspiracy theories, is the main driving force behind the rise of ‘doomsday prepping’.

The study, published in the Journal of American Studies, confirms that neither a backlash to the Obama presidency nor ‘extremist’ beliefs were responsible for the trend of Americans stockpiling food over the last 10 years.