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Damn. That means my copy is incomplete.

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National Review stalwart Jonah Goldberg this week announced the creation of The Dispatch, a site for conservatives who are skeptical of the president, which will compete with The Bulwark, launched earlier this year by former Weekly Standard co-founder Bill Kristol and commentator Charlie Sykes.

“I’M the Real Conservative!” “No, I’M the Real Conservative!”

Goldberg and Dispatch CEO Steve Hayes, in interviews with POLITICO, insisted their new site won’t be reflexively anti-Trump, but guided by principles over party.

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

“I’ve never given a rat’s ass about being a Republican,” said Goldberg, who will be The Dispatch’s editor-in-chief.

I believe it. They’re including David French, which tells you everything you need to know. (Well, at least it gets French away from National Review….)

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Hammer tech.

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“I had breakfast with Stacey Abrams a couple of weeks ago and she said people don’t realize one of my best friends is a white Republican,” Baldwin said.

Maybe Mitt Romney.

The Other McCain is disgruntled.

If these murders had been committed by a deranged white man, the story would be getting wall-to-wall coverage on CNN, the killer portrayed as a Trump-inspired perpetrator of a “hate crime.” But the suspect is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, and so . . . crickets chirping.

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Trans zealots are outraged by this — obviously!

She’s trying to steal their phoney-baloney identity-supremacy gimmick!

But if she says she’s a woman who’s attracted to men who’s really a gay man inside (also attracted to men), and will continue dressing like a woman — why shouldn’t she be allowed to Live Her Truth?

Scorecards! Get yer scorecards here! You can’t tell the victims without a scorecard!

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Nor am I.

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Like the history of racism in the Democrat party, nobody much mentions the fact that rich people these days are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans.

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The Fight Against Racism ends up by promoting it. Who knew?

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

There is nothing about being a government employee that makes you either smarter or more ethical then some random homeless guy. Those who work to give more power to the government always ignore that simple fact.

Steve Sailer looks at the new JOKER movie.

With the shift in pop cultural hegemony from Old Americans to Ellis Island Americans, movies based on comic book superheroes, most of whom were dreamed up by American Jews from the 1930s into the 1960s, now fill the role once played by Westerns as Hollywood’s bread-and-butter genre. Writer-director Todd Phillips, who previously made comedies of masculine excess such as The Hangover and War Dogs, dreamed up a story that ingeniously merges the DC Universe, the Scorsese-verse, and the Trumpian present.

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For Israeli intelligence organizations 2019 was a revealing year, literally. The Israeli government continued its policy of going public with the accomplishments of Mossad (foreign intelligence) and Shin Bet (domestic intelligence). Israel made it clear this year that these growing number disclosures over the past few years was done because it was felt this played an important role in deterring attacks. There was also the impact on foreign governments, and the enemy, because the disclosures made it clear what the enemy was up to and why international action was necessary. These disclosures, especially the identity (and photos of) foreign terrorist leaders reinforced the personal danger these foreign terrorist leaders placed themselves in. Israel has gone after terrorist leaders in the past, usually after a particularly gruesome attack, especially when a lot of civilians were killed.

Steve Sailer descends into the swamp that is the Woke New York Times.

In the woke future, social media will require all users to take a DNA test to prove their racial bonafides.

Audacious Epigone crunches the numbers.

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Massachusetts Senator and 2020 hopeful Elizabeth Warren was no stranger to spreading tall tales about her life, just look at her false claims of being Native American. On Monday, The Washington Free Beacon caught her in another apparent lie. This time it was about allegedly being fired from a teaching gig for being “visibly pregnant”. The broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were so obsessed with President Trump’s impeachment that they failed to report it on their flagship morning and evening newscasts.

Not really news, but a useful reminder.

Steve Sailer does a little fisking.

Seems as if schools are more interested in ‘prompting conversations’ than in, you know, actually teaching.

Said ‘conversations’ are, of course, never a conversation but always a lecture by Grievance Studies people.

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The entire article is about her and her feelings rather than, oh, say, the Yacht Show.

That’s how ‘journalism’ has degenerated these days.

Sheesh.

Babylon Bee.

I see it every day.

Trump reportedly left staffers ‘genuinely horrified’ in his phone calls with Putin, Saudi Arabia  Note: ‘reportedly’, which means Voice of the Crust Business Insider is trying to pass off rumor as fact.

‘I’ve Been Called A Nazi’: Black Conservatives Open Up About The Hate They Receive From The Left For Supporting Trump

‘Black Lightning’ Premieres With ‘Kids in Cages,’ Blames POTUS  My experience around children suggests that we’d all be better off if they were kept in cages, but that’s me.

US Ambassador Ordered Not To Testify In House Impeachment Inquiry; Schiff Cries Obstruction

CNN’s Don Lemon, John Kasich Get In Feisty Exchange Over Trump Impeachment  A fake Negro and a fake Republican walked into a studio….

The Unfairness of the Left’s Impeachment Push Against Trump  Congessman Andy Biggs.

Elizabeth Warren Slams Facebook For Helping ‘Elect Donald Trump’

Trump’s Acting DHS Secretary Shouted Off Stage At Georgetown Event

HUGE: Former Top Spy Admits Obama Ordered Investigation of Trump Campaign

Surprise! Fake “Whistleblower” Is Not Merely a “Registered Democrat,” As Jake Tapper Claimed. The Fake “Whistleblower” Has Actually Worked For One of the Democrats Running for the Presidential Nomination.

City of Minneapolis Tries to Derail Trump Rally

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Just in case you have nothing better to do.

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Meanwhile, back in the sandbox….

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Drip… drip… drip….

The Unmasking continues.

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Oops.

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“Where the streets have no name”, the first song on u2’s blockbuster 1987 album, “Joshua Tree”, begins with 40 seconds of ambient noise. A guitar arpeggio enters and accelerates into the driving rhythm of the drums and bass that arrive around 1:10. Nearly two minutes pass before Bono breathes the first lyrics. Such leisurely intros are no more, says Justin Kalifowitz of Downtown Music Publishing, a rights manager. Streaming platforms like Spotify have reshaped the music business—and pop songs. The gist of it: songwriters now get to the good stuff sooner.

Well, if it means less ‘artiste’ crap from rockers, I’m fur it. They need to get back to the ‘it has a good beat and you can dance to it’ roots of rock & roll.

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Celebrity scandal is as old as the tabloids, but the type of protection Spotted will offer was hardly used even a decade ago. Under the studio system, the financiers were in control — their stars’ transgressions easier to cover up, their contracts easier to tear up. True outrages like the Fatty Arbuckle case were relatively rare, and when they happened, the machine smoothed things over and rolled on. But today’s stars are the machine, commanding millions in endorsement deals and the lion’s share of indie-film budgets and carrying billions in market value on the backs of their reputations.

Joel Kotkin is not optimistic.

Actually, since the reason Millenials are such mental basket cases is because Boomers educated them that way, I can’t say it isn’t deserved.

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All told, the U.S. government spends $20 billion annually on farm subsidies, with approximately 39 percent of all farms receiving some sort of subsidy. For comparison, the oil industry gets about $4.6 billion annually and annual housing subsidies total another $15 billion. A significant portion of this $20 billion goes not to your local family farm, but to Big Aggie.

(Note that this $20 billion annual farm subsidy figure doesn’t take into account the 30+ years of ethanol subsidies to the corn industry nor export subsidies to U.S. farmers issued by the USDA.)

The government never properly explains why this is. Certainly small farmers are growing their crops at enormous risk. However, it’s not clear that agriculture is any different than other high-risk industries – especially because the United States is blessed with some of the most fertile farmland in the world, and a highly skilled labor force.

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I’m sorry, I can’t imagine Elizabeth Warren ever being pregnant.

UPDATE: Bethany Mandel: Is Liz a Pathological Liar?

Well, she’s a Democrat….

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Rice University scientists have transformed their laser-induced graphene (LIG) into self-sterilizing filters that grab pathogens out of the air and kill them with small pulses of electricity.

Former Trump Organization executive says she expects President Trump will resign They hope, they hope, they hope….

Kamala Harris’s Mentor Says Hillary Clinton Is Only Democrat Who Can Beat Trump

Former Congressman Who Led Clinton Impeachment Weighs In On Trump Impeachment

NPR Ombud Upset a Republican Said on NPR That Schiff Lied About Whistleblower (He Did)

Trump Wins Emergency Stay Of Tax Returns Release Ruling As Appeal Begins

Why Schiff?  A good point: The House Intelligence Committee is not a proper venue for an impeachment investigation.

CNN Is Running Out Of Ammo — Get A Load Of How Are They Trying To Tie ‘Joker’ To Trump

NBC Analyst Pulls a Schiff, Invents Fictional Trump Quotes

Michael Moore Claims ‘Joker’ Mirrors Violence of Trump’s America  Say, rather, Michael Moore’s America.

Trump-Supporting Art Gallery Owner Brutally Beaten By Drunken Anti-Trump Youths  In ‘Trump’s America’ all of the violence seems to be coming from the anti-Trump side.

Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin Gets Booed After Announcing Support For Impeachment

NYT Columnist Admits Deep State Exists…To Protect Us From Trump

Rep. Adam Schiff, Trump’s Nemesis, Is 2-0 So Far on Impeachment  Bobblehead isn’t doing so well.

Michigan Voters Give Democrat a Chant of “Four More Years” In Support of Trump and Against Impeachment

Former CIA Officer: Trump Impeachment ‘Hoax’ “Very Similar To A KGB Operation”

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The underlying anxiety here is that the Army has tried and failed repeatedly to modernize its Reagan-era arsenal over the past 30 years — the problem Army Futures Command was created to fix. Armored fighting vehicle programs, above all replacements for the Bradley troop carrier, have been particularly fraught. The Future Combat Systems family of vehicles, which included a lightweight Bradley replacement, was canceled in 2009, while the Ground Combat Vehicle, a better-armored and correspondingly heavier Bradley replacement, was cancelled in 2014. The Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle is the Army’s third swing at this ball.

Maybe the Russians have something we could buy. They don’t seem to be having these problems.

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Detroit’s chief of police is calling out as “racist” and “insulting” a freshman congresswoman’s criticism of his department’s facial-recognition system and the personnel who operate it.

As, indeed, they are.

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Update your Official Victim Scorecards appropriately.

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Get woke, go broke.

Multiple online publishers have made large reductions in editorial staff over the last few years — and one factor seems to permeate many different newsrooms that have faced this peril — unions for journalists.

Indeed, newsrooms in New York City and Washington, D.C. may be the last place many Americans think of when they think of workers’ unions, but in fact, many unions can be found right there. Over the last half decade or so, media staffers, especially at online news sites, have made an effort to unionize their newsrooms, and in many cases, succeeded.

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Over the years, senior Navy weapons developers have explained some of the key areas of modernization focus; these include new coating materials to make the submarines stealthier, new antennas for longer-range, more accurate undersea surveillance missions and new “quieting” engine propulsion technology, among other things.

All of these technologies, in fact, already exist in the USS South Dakota attack submarine — the most advanced submarine ever to be delivered to the Navy. The new boat, which is now operational, began as a prototype, test-bed platform to evolve these new technologies. What all of these USS South Dakota innovations also amount to is that, Hanson said, they are informing both Block V as well as current conceptual discussions now underway regarding a future generation Virginia-class submarine now only in early conceptual development – called Block VI. Block VI, according to Hanson, is not likely to begin to materialize until the mid 2020s.

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Let’s begin with the primitive drones. These are devices which, according to one Russian military expert, roughly need a 486 CPU, about 1MB of RAM, 1GB of harddisk space and some (now extremely cheap) sensors to capture the signals from the US GPS, the Russian GLONASS or both (called “GNSS”). In fact, the “good terrorists” in Syria, financed, assisted and trained by the “Axis of Kindness” (USA/KSA/Israel) have been attacking the Russian base in Khmeimim with swarms of such drones for years. According to the commander of the air defenses of Khmeimin, over 120(!) drones were shot down or disabled by Russian air defenses in just the last two years. Obviously, the Russians know something that some “Axis of Kindness” does not.

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

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Sort of makes Detroit and Chicago more understandable.

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And so, the researchers painted six Japanese Black cows with black-and-white stripes, which took just five minutes per cow. They then observed the cows for three days, taking high-resolution images of them at regular intervals to count the insects on the animals and also recording any fly-repelling behaviors like leg stamping, tail flicking, and skin twitching. The same cows were also observed for three days with painted-on black stripes (to see if it was the paint chemicals, not the coloring, that repelled flies) and and with no stripes at all.

The apparent effects of the stripes were remarkable. The number of biting flies observed on zebra-striped cows was less than half the number seen on unpainted cows and far less than cows painted with black stripes. Moreover, zebra-striping reduced fly-repelling behaviors by about 20%, indicating that the cows were less bothered by the insects.

Well, then, all we need do is breed some striped cows.

Scott Adams sums it up.

As Americans watch two different movies, here’s a way to discern what’s happening off the screen.

Scott Johnson at Power Line responds: Dilbert’s  rules of reading

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After capitalizing on her grossly exaggerated Native American ancestry, frontrunner Elizabeth Warren has been caught in another lie, by her own words from twelve years ago. However, you wouldn’t know this if you only watched ABC, NBC and CBS.

Ramesh Ponnuru doesn’t buy it.

If parts of Judge Allison Burroughs’s decision in the Harvard affirmative-action case don’t seem to make sense, it’s not entirely her fault. She was bound by the Supreme Court’s precedents on the subject, and the justices have been refining absurdity ever since they took up the issue in 1978.

The question this time was whether Harvard was unlawfully discriminating against Asian-American applicants. Harvard “testified that race, when considered in admissions, can only help, not hurt, a student’s chances of getting in” – as the New York Times reported with a straight face. Judge Burroughs bought it, writing that race “is never viewed as a negative attribute” by Harvard’s admissions department.

Think about that for a moment. Logically, if a particular racial or ethnic background is a plus, then another background must be a “minus.” Harvard has a finite number of places to offer. Putting a thumb on the scales for certain racial minorities means putting a thumb on the scales against everyone else.

Eight House Democrats holding out against impeachment inquiry after Rep. Ben McAdams flips

David Brooks Conjures Up Imaginary Trump Supporter for Fake Interview

Report:  A second “whistleblower” may be coming forth. Does it matter?

AOC Accuses Trump Of Anti-Semitism Over Attacks On “Lyin’ Shifty Schiff”  I suspect it’s because Bobblehead is a dick, not because he’s a Jew.

New Yorker Journo Who Peddled Discredited Kavanaugh Claims Calls Biden-Ukraine Scandal A “Conspiracy Theory”

ABC Annoyed Senate GOPers Not Prejudging Possible Impeachment Trial

“Conspiracy Propaganda Stuff!” Chuck Todd Shouts Down GOP Senator In Fiery Trump-Ukraine Exchange

Maxine Waters: ‘I Am Disgusted’ With ‘Spineless’ Trump Supporters In Senate  (The Pinch-Faced Scolds Of The Left: Never Happy, Always Angry, And Undoubtedly Unpleasant To Be Around)

Democrats deliberately conceal global energy & CO2 emissions realities from the public

Police use a battering ram to break into Extinction Rebellion warehouse in Kennington, south London

“We need support”: Pacific Islands Demand More Climate Action

Former senior police officers risk arrest as they join Extinction Rebellion protest 

Extinction Rebellion warned protest could alienate the public   They dont’ care. Protest isn’t about convincing the other side, it’s about bonding with your own side and, incidentally, proclaiming your virtue.

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The latest U.S. jobs report tells a complex tale about American workers and the industrial economy. Unemployment, at 3.5%, is the lowest it has been in half a century. At the same time, hiring missed projections and wage gains have cooled off. The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index, a key measure of U.S. manufacturing output, slipped in September to its lowest level since June 2009. The ongoing U.S.-China trade dispute and weakening global economy contributed to a figure so low — 47.8 — it missed every estimate in a Bloomberg survey, which had expected the index to rise from August’s 49.1.

Meanwhile, a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco found that increased adoption of robotics and automation equipment has been a substantial driver of the declining labor share of income for U.S. workers, even during a period of extremely low unemployment. In the last global recession, industrial robot shipments fell significantly but did not stop; the labor-force growth rate for manufacturing, needless to say, went negative. I’m not a macro-economist, and I won’t predict anything about the health of the global economy. Instead, let’s look at something micro with global implications: how the world’s industrial robotics markets have grown and changed in the past decade