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Hammertech.

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A student who sued Boston College over its mishandling of a sexual assault allegation against him won a $100,000 judgment. The case is considered legally significant because it is the first lawsuit to reach a jury since the Obama administration altered rules for adjudicating sexual assault allegations back in 2011.

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Reporters from The New York Times and elsewhere said the company’s decision to exempt politicians like President Donald Trump from a fact-checkers’ gavel will likely turn social media into caldrons of misinformation. Facebook said the move was done to ensure speech from politicians will be heard and seen ahead of elections.

In other words, Facebook has retired from the media circus that supports the Narrative.

Bad Facebook! No biscuit!

Victor Davis Hanson.

So upset are our woke progressive candidates that they insist that the rich, the privileged, the white, and the native-born must now pay ever more penance. Amid such acrimony is an inconvenient truth, though one that remains utterly unspoken: Most of those on stage who are so livid at the exploitative “system” have become wealthy and quite privileged through it — especially since they have spent so much of their adult lives gaming supposedly poorly compensated political service.

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In their paper, Krapivsky and Redner map three simple parking strategies onto an idealized, single row parking lot. Drivers who grab the first space available follow what the authors call a “meek” strategy. They “waste no time looking for a parking spot,” leaving spots near the entrance unfilled. Those who gamble on finding a space right next to the entrance are “optimistic.” They drive all the way to the entrance, then backtrack to the closest vacancy. “Prudent” drivers take the middle path. They drive past the first available space, betting on the availability of at least one other space further in. When they find the closest space between cars, they take it. If no spaces exist between the furthest parked car and the entrance, prudent drivers backtrack to the space a meek driver would have claimed straightaway.

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Democratic “exit tax” proposals in 2012 (Charles Schumer) and 2015 (Hillary Clinton) had me remembering the Reichsfluchtsteuer, the 25% tax that the Nazis imposed on Jews trying to flee Germany in the 1930s.

Now the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who back a “wealth tax” — Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders — are also both backing Reichsfluchtsteuer-style proposals. “Sanders’ wealth tax plan includes a steep “Exit Tax” similar to that proposed by ewarren,” an economic policy reporter at the Washington Post, Jeff Stein, tweeted yesterday.

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A new study released on Wednesday by the Guttmacher institute shows that abortion rates have fallen to their lowest level since the procedure was legalized in 1973, according to the BBC.

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Hammertech.

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I am not making this up.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was such a thing as ‘broken heart syndrome’.

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This particular ship, the Celebrity Solstice, bound for Alaska’s Inside Passage, holds about 2,800 patrons and looks like the offspring of a jet-age airport and a Las Vegas casino, lightly dosed on acid. Up in the top-floor Sky Observation Lounge, 111 passengers, all varying flavors of libertarian, are assembled for the fourth annual Contra Krugman Cruise, a weeklong meetup for like-minded listeners of the eponymous podcast. As its moniker implies, the show is dedicated to rebutting the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman’s weekly New York Times column. Its hosts, Tom Woods and Bob Murphy, dissect Keynesian dogma and revel in finding reversals in Krugman’s positions and in plain old partisanship.

I am not making this up.

Pelosi quietly sounding out House Democrats about whether to impeach Trump, officials say

Rep. Al Green warns Dems: ‘The public is going to turn on us’ if we don’t impeach Trump

On Stelter Show, Zurawik Trashes Trump as ‘Adolescent Psychopath’ and ‘Laughingstock’

“The Dam Could Break On Thursday”: Here Are 12 Quotes That Signal Democrats Are Primed To Impeach Trump

Gavin Newsom Rips Trump To The U.N.  Perhaps just as well that Trump pays no attention to either.

NBC Appalled By ‘Wrong in Tone,’ ‘19th Century’ Trump UN Speech

Rep. John Lewis Calls For Impeachment  Of course he does.

OBSESSED: Nets Bang Impeachment Drum 73 Times in a Day

Pelosi To Announce Formal Impeachment Enquiry Despite Trump Release Of Ukraine Transcript

McCain Calls Out View Co-host’s, Dems’ History of Pushing to Impeach Any Republican

Once Democrats Decide to Impeach, Things Will Move Quickly

Joe Biden To Call For Trump’s Impeachment If He Doesn’t Comply With Investigation Over Ukraine Call  Or, indeed, even if he does.

Impeachment Holdout Rep. John Lewis Says ‘Time To Begin’ Proceedings Against Trump

CNN Counts Down The Number Of House Democrats Who Support Impeaching Trump With ‘Impeachment Clock’

Pelosi to announce formal impeachment inquiry of Trump  What has Nadler been doing since the election?

35 Straight Months: Even Before Trump Took Office, Media Began Impeachment Obsession

Pelosi to Announce Impeachment Inquiry; “Whistleblower” Being Represented by…. Former Schumer Staffer and Hillary Clinton Campaign Operative

Democrats, Media Question Whether Trump Will Release Doctored Ukraine Transcript  Because that’s what they would do.

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Thank God white people are no longer running the country or who knows what sort of hellhole it would be.

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You could get the same effect by converting a gas station into a residence.

Babylon Bee.

It’s always worked  before.

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In a surprise move Tuesday, a federal judge in Virginia acquitted Bijan Rafiekian, a former business partner of Michael Flynn’s who was convicted in July in a case spun off from the special counsel’s investigation.

Rafiekian, who served as vice chairman of Flynn Intel Group, was convicted July 23 of illegally lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

But Judge Anthony Trenga reversed the jury decision in a 39-page ruling, saying the government’s evidence against Rafiekian “was insufficient as a matter of law” to justify conviction on either count.

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My, what a surprise.

38-year-old Sherikia L. Hawkins, a city clerk for the city of Southfield, has been charged with a variety of different election crimes, including falsifying and forging public records. The indictment against Hawkins stated that ballots from the 2018 midterm elections in Hawkins’ precinct were found in the trash. State police investigated and found that records had been altered for almost 200 voters.

Judging by the name, I’d guess she’s a Woman of Color.

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Dont confuse our Narrative with facts!

Scott Adams has come up with a taxonomy of the various stages of a Trump Impeachable Offense, by analogy to the well-known Stages of Grief:

1. Bombshell report in either the New York Times or the Washington Post. ‘We can’t name any of our sources , but it’s A  BOMBSHELL!’
2. The softening — turns out that the situation isn’t exactly the way it was originally reported.
3. The inversion — turns out that whatever took place is perfectly legal and in line with what Presidents are supposed to be doing.
4. Carl Bernstein is trotted out to squawk that it’s Worse Than Watergate.
5. Mitt Romney is trotted out to show that there’s at least one (nominal) Republican who is Deeply Disturbed by the situation.
6. The media try to flog life back in the story by shouting ‘It really happened! It did! You’re talking about it wrong!’

He goes through this about halfway through the linked podcast.

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I recently completed a book defending free speech. Emerald Press scheduled it for publication but then decided not to proceed.

Ace of Spades is on the case.

All of a sudden we’re supposed to put public policy in the hands of the most ignorant and impulsive portion of the population. Yeah, that’ll end well.

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The next step in the Proglodyte Puritan plan to make sure nobody anywhere has a pleasant life.

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Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen! Which will be the next Public Health Crisis, now that Climate Change has turned up a loser?

I’m voting for Mexican Food. Visit Chipotle and tell me I’m wrong.

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The House is staying busy now that the August recess (such as it was) is over. One of the latest items of business was having the House Judiciary Committee approve that new red flag law everyone has been talking about. But they ran into a bit of a snag when Republicans offered an amendment that would have allowed the addition of anyone whose name appears in a law enforcement gang database to the list. Even if that might sound like common sense to you, the Democrats on the committee found reasons to object and defeated the amendment.

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Not, you will note, in California or New York or any other Blue State.

Ask yourself why.

David Cole peeks behind the curtain.

Last month, The New York Times went all-in on born of sin, declaring that every single thing about the U.S. is a direct result of slavery. Take sugar, for example. Your affection for candy bars is racist. Sure, today’s sugar is not the product of slavery. But because it used to be a really long time ago, the mark of (sugar) Cain has forever branded your malted balls. Even your sweet tooth is racist, the Times reasons, because if not for the slaves behind the initial mass production of sugar in the Americas, we might be perfectly content today sucking on lemons and eating a flavorless mush called rootmarm.

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Which surprises nobody.

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Which points up a foundational aspect of Trump’s strategy: Use of selective tariffs as a means of leverage againsg both China and domestic corporations.

Ignorant chatter-heads can’t follow this and just complain about ‘Trump’s whims’.

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There’s a reason it’s called the Turd World.

No One Seemed To Notice Greta Thunberg’s Critique Of The Green New Deal

The Washington DC Climate Strike Gets Crashed By A Polar Bear

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #377

Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the country

New York Times Pushes ‘Ecocide’ as ‘International Crime Against Peace’

Climate Change Protesters Descend On DC, Nuke Their Own Cause

SolarCity Panels Spontaneously Ignite On Colorado Residential Rooftop  Gotta love that Global Warming.

Global Warming Cooling Change

Zealot Moppet Greta Thunberg Damns Adults as “Evil,” Curses Alexandria Donkey-Chompers’ Cowardly, Lethal Green New Deal

Ukraine drama could give Democrats no choice but to impeach Trump

AOC calls out her own party’s ‘refusal’ to impeach Trump

AOC says bigger scandal than Trump’s ‘lawbreaking behavior’ is Dems’ refusal to impeach

Professional Crazies Dominate The Weekend

Bill Weld Accuses Trump Of Treason, Says The Penalty For Such Actions Is Death  Hard to remember that Bill Weld once pretended to be a Republican.

MSNBC Political Analyst Asks About Potentially Executing Trump For Treason

Steyer Compares Multimillion Dollar Impeachment Campaign to Fighting Nazis  Especially when you keep losing.

UN Audience Laughs In Delight When Bloomberg Thanks Trump For Attending Climate Change Summit  I hope Trump was busy playing golf.

‘Morning Joe’ Refuses to Disagree with Weld’s Claim Trump Should Be Killed Due to Treason

Swalwell Claims Random Guy Punched Him For Not Impeaching Trump Yet  Whatever the reason, it’s good.

At The Gay Presidential Forum, Nearly Every Democratic Candidate Misrepresented Trump’s Record

Network Morning Shows Hype Trump Impeachment 17 Times  A very rich fantasy life.

Al Gore Tells CNN Trump Is ‘The Face Of Global Climate Denial’  i.e. the face of ‘we don’t believe you’.

Kevin Williamson.

You know what kind of grown man uses a straw? The guy who is watching something loud and obnoxious on his phone in public without headphones. In shorts. Like it’s normal. Like he shouldn’t be murdered on the spot.

Kevin Williamson, thank God, doesn’t determine what ‘grown men’ do — as if some guy who shaves his head and arranges his facial hair to resemble a goat’s ass has any room to talk about cultural norms.

I use a straw because I don’t like ice cubes clinking on my teeth. Straws are one of those little conveniences that our ancestors invented to make life easier, which have been transmitted to us down the years, and which elevate us above the animals. Kevin is welcome to pour his drink into a dish and lap it up like the dog he is.

UPDATE: For Straws, against Kevin

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Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez revealed to local media over the weekend that he will soon begin deporting Cubans who arrive in his country illegally, marking the latest immigration agreement in the region.

“With Cuba, we are about to sign an agreement at this time that if an irregular migrant Cuban appears, we will immediately return him to Cuba,” Hernandez announced in a television appearance that aired Sunday night, according to Reuters.

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You mean it doesn’t?

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I guess that’s why so many of their graduates make it on Wall Street and the Supreme Court.

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I’ve always been suspicious of green tea.

Joel Kotkin.

From Jefferson and Madison’s republic of yeoman farmers to the suburban homeowners of the postwar era, the notion of dispersed property ownership shaped our democracy. The founders understood the role of small property owners in ancient Athens and the Roman Republic, as well as contemporary examples in such places as the Netherlands. Those who own something — a house, a farm, a small business — tend to be far more engaged with their communities than those who rent or work merely for wages.

This era may now be coming to an end. In the United States, the proportion of land owned by the nation’s 100 largest private landowners grew by nearly 50 percent between 2007 and 2017. In 2007, according to the Land Report, this group owned a combined 27 million acres of land — holdings larger than the entirety of New England.

Trump’s Cabinet Has Had More Ex-Lobbyists Than Obama or Bush  So what?

Trump’s contempt for Congress is now stratospheric  Can’t say that I blame him.

Trump has done plenty to warrant impeachment. But the Ukraine allegations are over the top.

Trump vs. the Media, Part 2,563,901

Maher and His Guests Excited to Talk Impeachment Over Whistle-Blower Scandal

Ocasio-Cortez: House Democrats’ Refusal To Impeach Is A Bigger Scandal Than Trump’s’ ‘Lawbreaking Behavior’  Uh, which law did he break, Occasional Cortex, specifically?

Whistleblower Had No ‘Direct Knowledge’ Of Trump Telephone Call — Just ‘Hearsay’

Adam Schiff Calls On Trump To Release Transcript Of His Phone Call With Ukraine  Uh, no; Presidents don’t do that.

Mitt Romney Weighs In On Trump, Ukraine  Mitt Romney is a constant reminder of why I hate RINOs.

Cheap Gas Is Killing Nuclear, Green Power May Finish the Job

MSNBC: Climate Protestors with Nooses Around Their Necks

Exposing Junk Climate Science

UK: Eating meat could be banned like smoking, says top barrister, as he calls for new crime of ‘ecocide’  Britain is going insane.

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Why does this come as such a surprise? If you do a drive-by and only wound the guy, the next sure place to catch him is at the Emergency Room. That’s a straight-line computation that is not beyond the capabilities of Fashionable Minorities.

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The term “useful idiot,” often credited to Vladimir Lenin, applies to people supporting a cause or movement injurious to their own self-interest. Nowhere is this more relevant these days than in Silicon Valley, a place dominated by brilliant technologists and marketers who often seem to have the social and political acuity of middle schoolers, as evidenced by their strong support for progressive Democrats poised to destroy the underpinnings of their businesses.

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When it comes to the impact of automation (robots, AI, etc.) on jobs, there are two schools of thought: one holds that technology has always created more and better jobs than it destroys, and this will continue to be the case. The other holds that the current wave of automation will destroy far more jobs than it creates, but the solution is to tax the robots and use these revenues to distribute the wealth to everyone who no longer has a livelihood.

John Hinderaker at Power Line gives it to you straight.

If, like me, you have wondered how a left-wing loony like Jeremy Corbyn can remain in control of the Labour Party, this poll, reported in the Sun, suggests the answer: Labour is a party of left-wing loonies.

All of the adults have abandoned the Labour Party. That’s why they suck in the polls even though progressivism is more popular in Britain than it has ever been.

Ace of Spades throws up his hands.

I am sure that all of you are, like me, breathlessly waiting for the next blockbuster charge to be flung against the White House walls by the barking-mad moonbats of the media. Those charges are so often based on the sleazily leaked half-truths and disinformation leaked to them by their compatriots and handlers in the Deep State. But as Angelo Codevilla writes, the Constitution gives the president essentially all the power to conduct foreign policy, and all of the braying and whining and backstabbing in the media arsenal isn’t going to change that.

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One of the revelations from the character assassination attempt of Justice Brett Kavanaugh by The New York Times was that Leland Keyser, an alleged witness to the allegations of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, was viciously pressured by Blasey Ford’s allies to back up the claims unless she wanted to be discredited with her past history of drug abuse. Well, one of the reporters behind the hit piece did the work for Team Blasey Ford in an appearance on CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources” and slimed Keyser’s rebuttal.

Don’t ever forget that these people are all playing for a side. They don’t.

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Lord knows, the New York Times serves as a reliable media arm of the DNC. But let the newspaper stray from that mission for a millisecond, and the liberal establishment will come down on it like a ton of bricks. On Joy Reid’s MSNBC show today, Maria Teresa Kumar of “Voto Latino” was furious at the Times in general, and its Ken Vogel in particular, for reporting the story of how Joe Biden intervened to have fired the prosecutor who was investigating a company that was paying Biden’s son Hunter.

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I’d add that hairstyle to the list.