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As George Orwell once noted, “The worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.” According to Orwell, the typical socialist is “either a youthful snob-Bolshevik … or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler, and often with vegetarian leanings.” Orwell wrote those words in 1937, but they’re entirely recognizable today, especially the line about vegetarianism. There’s something about the left that makes them highly neurotic about food. That’s been true for generations, but there’s evidence the impulse is getting worse.

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Catch that? Warren says you eat too many cheeseburgers — as if it’s any of her business. But that’s the thing: She actually thinks it is her business. They all think that. The activist left seeks to control everything you do, including what you put in your mouth. For the last few years, they’ve been pushing you to eat bugs. Recall this headline from The Washington Post: “Eating bugs can help the environment.” Or this one from The New York Times: “Why aren’t we eating more insects?” Bizarre. Why would they want you to eat insects? Because it’s repulsive and un-American, of course, and therefore, in the eyes of the left, it must be awesome. The more perverse and unnatural the better. That’s always been the left’s standard.

Media Hyped ‘Wrong’ Study Linking Trump Rallies To Hate Crimes, Then Ignored Second Study Debunking It

CNN: Democrats, forget Mueller. Here’s what could really impeach Trump

Obnoxious Nicolle Wallace Makes 9/11 About the Press Under Attack By Trump

Deadspin’s Roth Slams ‘Amphetamized’ Trump for Putting Sports Above Cancer Cure

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Suggests Trump Fired Bolton Because Kim Jong-Un Didn’t Like Him  I’m curious as to which Comic Universe Scarborough lives in.

MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch Urges Democrat Debaters: ‘Assault’ Trump the ‘Ogre’

Always a ‘Dire Crisis’: After Bolton, CNN’s Bernstein Rants Trump Is ‘Dangerous’  Not many people can wangle a well-paying gig out of something they did 40 years ago.

Pelosi Walks Out On Reporters, Refuses To Answer Questions On Major Impeachment Development

Lawrence O’Donnell: John Bolton Could Write ‘Most Explosive Trump Book Ever’  But won’t.

Meghan McCain Warns Democrats Ahead Of Debate: ‘The Trump Ads Write Themselves’

CNN Frets Trump Immigration Victory in Supreme Court

Even MSNBC Isn’t Buying Democrats’ Impeachment Spin

Why the Democrats Will Lose on Climate Change

Green Technology’s Dark Side

Polish Police Raid Rainbow Warrior Climate Protest, Arrest Protestors

Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world

CNN vs. What the Science Says, Part 2

Time Editor Touts All-Climate Issue, Insists ‘There Is No Other Side’

NYC Public Schools Excusing Students Who Plan On Participating In Upcoming Climate Strike  Why not? It’s not as if they’re missing anything important.

Eco-activists arrested by Brit cops after threatening to close Heathrow with drones

Shut Up, Franzen

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All I know about preppies I learned from the movie MAKING THE GRADE, which I heartily recommend.

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It’s all right for successful, college-educated professionals like Lara Bazelon, Jeff Bercovici, Meghan Daum, and others to write about how much joy their working lives bring them. The people who edit the publications in which such articles appear are themselves college-educated professionals. They too probably enjoy their upper-middle-class lives. To my knowledge, when Bercovici wrote positively about his happy experience as a Forbes staff writer, no one accused him of sucking up to Steve Forbes, the magazine’s owner and publisher and a man whose net worth is estimated to be north of $400 million. When Meghan Daum enthuses about her work at Columbia University, no one accuses her of shilling for an institution with an endowment of more than $10 billion. Lara Bazelon has written for the Washington Post, which, like Amazon.com, is owned by Jeff Bezos. But as for as I know, no one has accused her of shilling for him.

But for working-class people, the rules are different. All those upper-middle-class professionals who edit the nation’s most prominent publications permit only one narrative when it comes to the toiling masses. Their lives are nasty, brutish, and short, and must always be portrayed as such. To publish a story about a person who enjoys working at Wal-Mart or Starbucks or Georgia Pacific or Amazon is considered tantamount to white-washing the horrific crimes (whatever those may be) of oligarchs such as the Walton family, Howard Schultz, the Koch brothers, or Bezos.

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We have the technology.

Can’t do that with Facebook.

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Unfortunately, not by the neck.

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In other words, self-employed Americans enjoying moderate success will enjoy a particularly swift kick in the nuts under a Warren administration.

Professor Umbrage is after your wallet. Not really news but a useful reminder.

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Eh? Arabs have been saying that publicly and repeatedly for over 1400 years.

I know Zuckerberg dropped out of college but does he have to hire uneducated people as well?

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This is what happens when Africans run your country.

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The money funded a lavish lifestyle for the president and his circle, with €114,000 spent on crocodile skin shoes, €2.3 million splurged on watches, and hotel stays in Paris that cost up to €11,000 a night.

 

The French-trained former paratrooper has been dogged by corruption allegations, with accusations that he plundered state finances in order to buy cars and expensive homes in France.

This is what happens when Africans run your country.

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Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it don’t.

Imagine expecting Cancun when you step off the plane and getting Ireland instead. Bummer.

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Imagine my disappointment.

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And I’d like to apologize to the United States for Alenxandria Occasional Cortex.

In a rightly-ordered society, such twits would neither be elected to a legislature nor feel that they had some right to speak for the entire country.

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Eventually we might learn that all the Concerned Christian Conservatives agitating for Barack Obama in 2008 were, as strongly, strongly suspected, hired by David Axelrod to interfere with the election.

As Instapundit noted, if this were a right-wing effort to flood the channels of public discourse with fake, paid political advertisements (and shouldn’t these be classified as advertisements, and disclosed as such, as required by federal elections law?), the media would be shrieking about this with Russia Conspiracy Theory level hysteria.

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Got the solution: Convent.

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Guess the proles in New Yawk aren’t as woke as the DemLegHump Media would have you believe.

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In what appears to be a huge victory for Google employees who don’t ascribe to the ultra-liberal Silicon Valley monoculture, the National Labor Relations Board has reached a settlement with Google over complaints that the search giant punishes employees for speaking out on political and workplace issues that don’t comport with the company’s agenda.

Well, let’s see how long that lasts.

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After Porsche announced that its 750 HP Taycan EV, being dubbed a “Tesla-killer”, had set a 7:42 time at the Nurburgring, Elon Musk quickly Tweeted out that the Model S would be there the “next week” to make a run of its own.

With results as you might expect.

Elon Musk isn’t Tony Stark, he’s Justin Hammer.

Michelle Malkin.

These are the rules of the militant open borders media: If you are a self-declared Donald Trump-hating “activist journalist” who works for an ethnic separatist TV network that unapologetically elevates illegal immigrants over American citizens, you get to be a “moderator” at the next Democratic presidential candidates’ debate. Case in point: Univision’s Jorge Ramos.

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It is no shock that most Americans, most of the time, disapprove of politicians and political parties. Thus, the task of a party is not to be universally beloved, but rather, not to be disproportionately disliked.

Steve Sailer.

In Slate, a 5,000 world article by a black woman with dyed blonde hair about how anti-whiteness white lady Robin DiAngelo may claim to be anti-white but she is really just a huge Becky….

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What? You mean I don’t have to try to understand a Mexican or Pakistani accent over a horrible PA system any more?

UPDATE: McDonald’s To Replace More Humans With Drive-Thru AI

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No doubt because it did such a great job of making New York City so unaffordable.

Hey, y’all, plenty of cheap nice housing in Texas.

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As the second week of preliminary criminal hearings against undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt continue to reveal gruesome admissions of baby body part trafficking in a San Francisco court, mainstream media outlets remain uncharacteristically silent about an important First Amendment case.

ABC, NBC Falsely Suggest Trump Called Fleeing Bahamians ‘Very Bad People’

NYT: CIA Extracted Kremlin Spy From Russia Because Of Media Reports, Not Trump

‘Tomorrow, You’re Going To See Headlines’: Trump Takes Direct Aim At Media Critics With ‘Extra Term’ Joke

BUSTED: CNN, WashPost Peddled Deceitful Hate Crime Stat Smearing Trump

Trump Derangement Syndrome Infects The News Cycle Again

Report: Study Linking Trump Rallies To Hate Crimes Debunked

CIA Crushes CNN’s Latest Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theory

Politifact’s Gaslighting on Trump, Northam, and Abortion

Trump ‘Scotlandgate’ Air Force Story Crushed By NYT Report Of Long-Standing Lodging Deal

Whoopi on Trump’s Bahamas Comments: “How Do You Not… Say This Is Racial?’  Easy: This is not racist.

Liberal Civility: D.L. Hughley Uses ‘Retard’ Slur Against Trump

WaPo Alters Story Angle On Trump Census Data Four Times, Burying The Administration’s Successes

CNN Guest Says Trump Could Help More Republicans Win If He’d Just Golf For A Year

Trevor Noah: Axed Taliban Meeting Shows Trump Is a ‘Pu*** A** Bi***’  Proof positive that you can dress a mulatto up in a suit and send him to a fancy college but when the chips are down his inna gansta will still come out.

Brian Stelter Mocked for Lame ‘Gotcha’ Tweet on Trump Rally Weather

Broke-Brained Trump Critics Exhibit More Signs of Mental Illness

Ahead of Debate, ABC Thrills: ‘Democrats Would Trounce’ Trump Uh, no.

COVFEFE Act

World Meteorological Organization Chief Castigates Climate Alarmists: “It’s Not The End Of The World”

Emails Reveal Role Michael Bloomberg’s Climate Crusaders Are Playing In Maryland’s AG Office

Temperatures In The Pacific Ocean Have Shot Up To Dangerous Levels, And Scientists Are Blaming A “Strange Anomaly”  Can Godzilla not be far behind?

BBC: Solar panels: Thousands of customers complain

Plastic Apocalypse: Dangerous Microplastics Now Turning Up In Human Stool   Wake me up when a human dies because of microplastics.

Armstrong: Climate Change Has Been A Routine Scare Tactic Since The 1930s

MSNBC Regular Tiffany Cross: Maybe Donald Trump Is a ‘Secret Muslim President’

1000 Amazon Employees Threaten Strike over Lack of Climate Action

CBS Touts ‘Panic’ Agenda of Teen ‘Climate Warrior’: ‘Push’ World Leaders ‘Against the Wall’

‘Wake The F–k Up’: Eco-Obsessive James Cameron Freaks out About Climate Change

New Yorker Contributor Abandons Hope, Claims ‘Climate Apocalypse’ Is Inevitable

Once Again, Climate Warriors Rescued From Their Ship Trapped In Polar Ice

Polar bear books for kids and young adults are the perfect antidote for climate anxiety

Polish armed border guards smash windows of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior with sledgehammers

Buildings should be made out of hemp and wool to cut carbon emissions, National Farmers’ Union says

Lake found at 11,000 feet in the Alps proves climate change is real

Climate Scientists Look to Poor Countries to Fund Geoengineering

Critique of “Propagation of Error and the Reliability of Global Air Temperature Predictions”

Can we still prevent an apocalypse? What Jonathan Franzen gets wrong about climate change

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The 20-year-old, identified only as Ryan, awoke one morning to an “intense pain” in his right testicle and lower abdomen.

Around 8:00am he called NHS 11, triggering a chain of missed signs and wrong diagnoses eventually resulting in emergency surgery and the loss of his testical – six days after he first sought help.

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

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For the first time, a patient got treated for HIV and cancer at the same time, with an infusion of gene-edited stem cells. The results? Mixed.

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I’m surprised to find this in the Guardian. A highly effective way to kill parasites puts their entire readership and certainly their staff in mortal danger.

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

I doubt you’ll find many grizzlies at 42nd and Broadway in NYC, but that location has it’s own dangers.

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What you are about to read in this article is likely to make you very angry. Once upon a time, the primary mission of our hospitals was to help people, but today they have become vicious financial predators. Many Americans try very hard to avoid visiting the hospital because of what it might cost, but if an emergency happens there is no choice. They often get us when we are at our most vulnerable, and they never explain to us in advance how much their services will actually cost. And then eventually when the bills start arriving we discover that they have charged us 30 dollars for a single aspirin or “$2,000 for a $20 feeding tube”. It is a giant scam, but they have been getting away with it for decades, and so they just keep on doing it. And many hospitals go after those that are not able to pay their ridiculous bills extremely aggressively.

I recently had a negative experience at a hospital. The whole attitude is that the patient’s time is of ABSOLUTELY NO VALUE. You just have to set there and wait for them to get around to telling you what is going on, and pay whatever it is they decide to make you pay. They tell you it’ll be an hour and four hours later you’re still waiting? Too bad.

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I am not making this up.

A married man who died of a heart attack after having sex on a business trip in France was ruled to have been the victim of a workplace accident — making his company financially responsible, according to reports.

Engineer Xavier X was found dead in his hotel room in Meung-sur-Loire shortly after having sex with a local woman he’d just met, according to the Times of London.

Lawyers for his bosses at the Parisian railroad construction company TSO insisted he was not performing duties when he had the heart attack — blaming the “adulterous sex act that he had had with a complete stranger,” according to the report.

But appeals court judges ruled that an employee on assignment “is entitled to their employer’s protection for the duration of their mission … whether or not the accident takes place as part of a professional activity or as an act of normal life,” the report said.

That’s going to make for some pretty interesting expense reports.

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These make good weapons in a pinch.

After the Fall of Civilization, these can easily be turned in to excellent arrowheads.

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It’s a beautiful sight.

When I was a kid in the 1950s they commonly had programs on daytime TV about army operations and historical appreciations of WWII and the Korean war. I could sit and watch them blow stuff up for hours.

YouTube is almost as good but you’ve got to hunt around for it. (You want to watch the Javelin anti-armor missile in operation.)

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How about going all the way back to horses? That would REALLy help, wouldn’t it! No fossil fuel emissions at all.

Oh, except for all the horse poop. But that doesn’t count, since an oil company doesn’t profit from it.

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The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit late Tuesday night rolled back a decision a federal judge made. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, appointed by former President Barack Obama, had reinstated a nationwide ban against Trump’s new asylum policy Monday, but the appeals court put the policy back into place.

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Chicago has been losing people for years now, but Los Angeles and New York City have also found themselves on the decline. Both cities had been seeing domestic outmigration (people moving out of the city to other parts of the country) for several years, but foreign immigration into the two cities have long made up for it.

But new census data show that Los Angeles County is seeing a net loss of about 13,000 folks, and New York’s Bronx, Kings, and Queens counties (all containing parts of New York City) have seen a combined net loss of about 40,000 people, based on census data released back in April.

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I guess he expected them to respond like Democrats.

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And they’ll party like its 1999 until most of them lose their gigs because the companies can’t afford to ’employ’ them all because of raised costs.

I wouldn’t be surprised if one or both of the companies just took a look at the numbers, realized they can’t make a profit under these new regulations, and just shut up shop in the state, throwing all of the snowflakes out of work. That would really be a win, wouldn’t it? Certain for the businesses that Uber and Lyft are ‘disrupting’; those people would really party. And the snowflakes would be sitting on the curb with empty pockets saying to themselves “Wait a minute — I thought we won.”

UPDATE: Uber lays off 435 people  And so it starts.

UPDATE: Uber’s Layoffs Continue As Cost Cutting Reigns At The Former Unicorn King

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

Being a werewolf is my number one choice. But that apparently didn’t make the cut.

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Patients with advanced lung cancer were far more likely to be alive after five years, compared with those given standard chemotherapy.

The immunotherapy drug nivolumab, which is used for several cancers, works by blocking a protein that stops the immune system attacking cancer cells.

Walter Williams.

Just when we thought colleges could not spout loonier ideas, we have a new one from American University.

They hired a professor to teach other professors to grade students based on their “labor” rather than their writing ability.

John Hinderaker at Power Line takes a shot.

The meaning of “socialism” has evolved; or, one might say, it is flying under a false flag. When Democratic politicians advocate socialism, they don’t talk about North Korea, Soviet Russia, Albania, Cuba (anymore) or Venezuela (anymore). Rather, they talk about Sweden, Denmark and Norway–countries that are not, in fact, socialist. One might conclude that they just want a slightly larger welfare state–accompanied, although they never say this, by a less progressive tax system and often more business-friendly policies.

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The people who have made an industry out of destroying ordinary people’s lives over old social media posts and out-of-context comments are very upset that it’s happening to them. The New York Times, clearly worried by the recent exposure of blatantly anti-Semitic tweets posted by one of its reporters, and clearly worried that even more embarrassing material is in reserve, tried to stop the hemorrhaging with a rambling article demonizing the independent journalists who uncovered the tweets.

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As, indeed, they do.

The United States “owes a profound and enduring debt of gratitude” to its historically black colleges and universities, President Donald Trump said in an address Tuesday, at which he announced new support from his administration for the institutions.

“Previously, federal law restricted more than 40 faith-based HBCUs and seminaries from fully accessing federal support for capital improvement projects,” Trump told the audience at the National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference in Washington, D.C.

Sure sounds like a thorough racist to me.

Steve Sailer.

From the New York Times Magazine, an article about how colleges are biased in favor of lazy white boys and discriminate against amazing hard-working black and Latino Women of Color. That’s why Silicon Valley is full of indolent white boys making huge amounts of money in easy jobs like starting their own businesses, while amazing black women and Puerto Rican men have to take on life’s greatest challenges, such as being a college admissions staffer or writing op-eds about how society should pay more attention to their hair.

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I guess she things that single payer is already here.

UPDATE: She’s Crazy and Married to a Democrat