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Liberals and the media love to hate billionaires — but without them, where would the world be today? This Thanksgiving season, we can remember some of the contributions America’s billionaires have made to impact society. People like Charles and David Koch, Bernard Marcus and Frederick W. Smith are among a billionaire class of individuals that have drawn the ire of the liberal media and some Democratic Party presidential candidates, but little coverage is given to their extensive history of philanthropy.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Good to know that I qualify if someone decides to pick me for a world-ruling-leadership slot.

Steve Sailer.

I’ve been pointing out for a number of years the striking growth in antiquarianism among opinion-molders. E.g., the NYT’s “1619” crusade, the constant invocations of redlining in the middle of the 20th Century, Emmett Till’s murder in 1955, etc etc.

Not that long ago, in contrast, the media’s version of history more or less started sometime between JFK’s assassination and the Beatles’ appearance on the Ed Sullivan show.

Don Boudreaux, a Real Economist, is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

1. Why do so many American Progressives, fearing that rich people abuse state power, aim to reduce the riches of rich people, instead of the state power that Progressives admit is subject to being abused?
2. Why do so many American Progressives wish to put even larger swathes of our lives under political control given their belief that politics is so very easily corrupted by oligarchs and big-money donors?
3. Why do so many American Progressives – fearful of corporate power and understandably dismayed by cronyism – support tariffs and export subsidies (such as those dispensed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank)? After all, each tariff and every cent of subsidy is an unearned privilege granted by government to corporations at the expense of consumers, workers, and households – a privilege that creates corporate power and fuels abuse by corporations that would otherwise not arise.
4. Why do so many American Progressives, with one breath, criticize free-market economists for allegedly failing to take account of the immense importance that we humans attach to community, cultural identity, and other non-monetary values and features of our existence, and yet with the next breath talk as if the only inequality that matters is inequality of monetary incomes or wealth? (That this “Progressives” criticism of free-market economists is baseless is a subject for another day.)
5. And why do so many American Progressives, given their correct understanding that monetary values are not all that matter, treat differences in monetary incomes and wealth as sure evidence of economic malfunction?

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

New York Times Gives Fusion GPS ‘Dossier’ Duo a Do-Over to Bash Trump, GOP

CNN’s Smerconish Wants Hearsay Evidence Diplomats as Time Person of the Year

Trump-splaining Ukraine

CNN: Trump Is Leader Of “Destructive Cult”; Using “Mind Control” On Americans

Networks Spend 75 Hours on Trump’s Impeachment, Barely Bothered During Clinton Years

Joy Behar: Facebook Allowing ‘Dangerous’ Free Speech Like Nets Airing Trump ‘Propaganda’ in 2016  Truly insane.

Bloomberg News Won’t Investigate Owner, Rivals, But Will Investigate Trump

‘Doctor’ on Set? CNN’s Jim Sciutto Suggests GOP Has ‘Psychosis’ on Russia, Ukraine

Media Unleashes Criticism After Trump Brings Hero Dog To White House

Why Everything They Say About Climate Change Is Wrong

Fill ‘er Up with Outrage

Claim: US Climate Inaction is Driving Pacific Islands to Embrace China

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We have the technology — and so do they.

Babylon  Bee.

Ha, that’ll learn ’em.

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It’s that time of year again, when the cold bitter truth about our wretched Thanksgiving holiday must be brought to the surface. Rather then let today’s Americans celebrate a day of gratitude for our blessed lot in life in this successful, multicultural country, we must fixate on North America’s first bloody instances of identity politics.

What we call ‘Thanksgiving’ is the traditional English harvest festival of Martinmas, although they couldn’t call it that because Protestants don’t have saints, so pop a ham in the oven and let the Scraelings do their Cultural Appropriation somewhere else.

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The first migrant deported under the Trump administration’s new asylum program with Guatemala opted to go back to his home county instead, an indication of how other asylum seekers may respond to the policy.

Despite claiming to be fearful of returning to his home country of Honduras, Erwin José Ardón Montoya — when given the choice of receiving asylum protection and a job in Guatemala — opted instead to go back to his village, according to The Associated Press.

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Published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) Sunday, the documents offer a rare look into the massive internment camp for Muslim-majority Uyghur in the troubled western region of China.

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Don’t tell Tom Friedman, he’ll be heartbroken.

ZMan scratches his head.

One of the puzzles to the impeachment stuff is why certain elements of the ruling class think this is a productive use of their time. The impeachment show put on by the Democrats last week struck most people as boring and weird. It was mostly a parade of people with funny sounding names babbling about insider baseball. There was also the fact that the guy appointed to be the master of ceremonies gives people the creeps. Adam Schiff looks like frog peeping through the ice. He is a very odd man.

One of the most telling arguments against democracy as a political system is a close examination of the sort of people that get elected to Congress. Any political system under which Sheila Jackson Lee or Alcee Hastings is chosen to take part in the creation of laws is obviously seriously defective.

The Harvard-Yale football game was delayed after students and alumni stormed the field to protest climate change

How “The Limits to Growth” Broke Australia’s Bipartisan Carbon Tax

Climate Scientists Reduced to Hiding from Climate Thuggery in Germany

Climate Change Cult Update

Samoa climate change resilience challenges Western perceptions

California Taxpayers Reportedly Pay $21 Million For State’s Anti-Trump Lawsuits

Liberal ‘Dark Money’ Operation Behind Ads Urging Republicans To Support Impeachment

Atlantic Magazine Admits Impeachment Really About Harming Trump 2020

Adam Schiff: ‘We Can Darn Well Be Sure’ Trump Will Commit ‘More Egregious Acts’ Soon

Bloomberg Officially Enters 2020 Presidential Race To “Defeat Trump And Rebuild America”  Good luck with that.

Todd Boasts Hearings Were ‘Very Successful,’ But Didn’t Move Needle

This is CNN: Trump a ‘Destructive Cult’ Leader Using ‘Mind Control’ on Supporters

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No woke deed goes unpunished.

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Perhaps people just don’t want police who look like freaks. I can understand that.

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Compared to Elizabeth Warren, maybe.

Scott Adams.

Learn to think in microsteps. If you are experiencing couch lock, try wiggling one finger. Then build from there.

Hypnotists and entrepreneurs have overlapping thinking styles when it comes to motivating themselves to take action. When entrepreneurs don’t know how to get from A to B, they take the smallest step in that direction that is available to them, and then see if they can figure out the next one from that new starting point. Hypnotists who see humans as programmable entities understand that they have to start with small suggestions, such as “Your eyelids feel heavier” in order to work up to larger actions, such as “Your arm is so light it will start to float.”

I’m impressed.

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Senator Bernie Sanders lives in a $476,000 colonial in Burlington VT. The house in New North End is one of three homes that he and his wife own. Burlington VT is 85% white and less than 5% black. Unlike the Old North End, which is diverse, the New North End has an older and more conservative population. The average household income is $80,000, and a number of the elected officials have been Republicans.

Despite Bernie’s socialist image, he chose to live in a white conservative suburban neighborhood where lefties are only slowly beginning to make inroads as younger couples start to move into the area.

Bernie’s vacation place in North Hero, Vermont, by Lake Champlain, is over 97% white and only 0.25% black. His 1890 rowhouse in Washington D.C.’s Stanton Park is in a somewhat more diverse area

John Hinderaker doesn’t like Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren very much.

Shrinking violets don’t become presidential contenders. Still, even at the highest level of overweening ambition, Elizabeth Warren stands out. She has clawed her way to the top by hook and by crook. One of her favorite techniques is the bald-faced lie. As an academic, she is best known for an article claiming that medical crises are largely responsible for personal bankruptcies. Warren’s article has been used (as she no doubt intended) to promote socialized medicine, but it has been thoroughly debunked. See Gail Heriot’s analysis in the Texas Review of Law & Politics, embedded below.

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Breitbart News reports: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) intends to file lawsuits against both CNN and the Daily Beast over fake hit pieces the outlets have published about him in recent days, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden lashed out at Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for launching an investigation into whether Biden abused his office when he had Ukraine’s top prosecutor fired while he was looking into Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company paying Hunter Biden to sit on its board.

Fossil Fuel Production Plans Shred Paris Agreement Fantasies

“More Eco-Friendly” Meets “Horrors Of Capitalism”: $34 Toilet Paper ‘With A Conscience’

Why Worse Wildfires? Part 1

UN phony 1.5 Degree C “temperature limit” scam is kaput

‘Bombshells Upon Explosions’: Watch How The Media Primed The Public With Impeachment Narrative

Cuomo Slams ‘Partisan’ Republicans for ‘Ignoring Facts’ Outlined in Impeachment Inquiry

Did Schiff Turn Trump Into Billionaire Martyr With Ill-Advised Impeachment Gambit?

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Former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who led the Bureau’s investigation into both the Hillary Clinton email scandal and what turned out to be the Russia hoax–simultaneously!–has sued the Attorney General over his ultimate dismissal from the Bureau. A filing in that case a few days ago has made public the letter to Strzok from Candice Will of the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility that suspended Strzok without pay for 60 days and demoted him to a non-supervisory position. If the letter has been made public before now, I am not aware of it. It is embedded below and is well worth reading in its entirety.

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I guess if a Democrat does it, it doesn’t count.

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VA Secretary blasts top federal union for culture of harassment that ignored workers’ complaints.

Steve Sailer.

Basically, South-Central Los Angeles ought to be Magic Dirt, due to its superb climate and close commuting distances to vast numbers of jobs downtown, near LAX, Beverly Hills, and at the giant port. For example, two Presidents of the United States once lived in Compton.

But for some reason that can’t quite be spelled out in the newspapers, all this Magic Dirt turned into Tragic Dirt.

Media Wrongly Claim Trump Reversing ‘Decades’ of Policy on Israel

MSNBC Panel: Dems Aren’t Partisan! They’ve Made ‘Phenomenal Case’ to Remove Trump  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Gleeful Bee Reacts to Sondland Testimony: ‘I’ve Come Down With Impeachment Fever!’

Todd Frets That Trump Is Like OJ: Acquitted ‘But Everybody Knew He’s Guilty’

New York Times Gets Excited, Invokes John Dean and ‘an Echo of Watergate’

Soros-Linked ‘Dark Money’ Group Is Funding Ads Urging Vulnerable Republicans To Impeach Trump, Records Show

Impeachment Theater Offers Americans Glimpse Of The Unseen-Unelected Who Actually Rule Over Us

The Epic Hypocrisy of Tom Steyer, Revisited

“Climate Myths” by John Stossel

Prince Charles to witness devastating effects of rising sea levels on Solomon Islands

China Set for Coal Expansion in Threat to Climate Goals

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “The case for neglecting global warming”

Bernie Sanders Announces Plan To Prosecute Oil Execs Over Climate Change

Vice Climate Alert: “The Collapse of Civilization May Have Already Begun”

Disney accused of hypocrisy for ‘pumping out’ plastic Frozen 2 merchandise despite eco plot line  Uh, don’t confuse The Narrative with The Bottom Line.

Steve Sailer explains it all to you.

It all has something to do with Sacha Baron Cohen.

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News from the Turd World.

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Sure, we all want to eat a meal cooked by a mentally-ill drug addict.

Nothing finer.

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I guess that’s allowed now.

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Researchers linked to the Chinese government formed a Chinese cell within the Department of Energy, attained access to American genomic data, and recruited other U.S. researchers to join, the bipartisan report stated.

China’s Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) aims to get foreign governments to finance the communist power’s military and economy by buying off researchers who are doing work abroad. The experts apply to the program, and if approved by the Communist Party, they join China’s payroll and sign secret side agreements that the experts will share their research with that country, according to the investigation.

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You have to appreciate the distinction between GoodWhite and BadWhite.

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he newest form of virtue signaling for the left involves cutting more than just carbon emissions. Now men are getting their nether regions snipped to save the planet – let’s see if this craze catches on!

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About his strategy, I could make a quick and accurate analogy with medication: most pills are designed to cure a problem, but come with an array of secondary after-effects. Well, Trump is using medication solely for their after-effects, while the first intent of the pill is what’s keeping him in power and alive. By the end of this article, you’ll see that this metaphor applies for just about every decision, move or declaration he’s made. Once you understand what Trump is about, you’ll be able to appreciate the extraordinary presidency he’s conducting, like no predecessor ever came close to match.

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Donald simply doesn’t care if you like him or not, which makes him the ultimate anti-narcissist, by its psychological definition. And that’s not even up for opinion, it’s a quite simple and undeniable fact.

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Hammer tech.

Tenured Columbia Professor Endorses Terrorism Against Israel

Series Of Blasts Target Mass Protest Gathering In Baghdad, Multiple Dead & Wounded

Turks vs. Kurds in the Streets of the Hague

Culture-Enriching Gang Rape by the Blue Danube

Homelessness In Germany On The Rise; Migrants Hit Hardest

One dead in Iran fuel protest after government hikes pump prices up to 50 per cent

Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals

Iran Burning: Shock Gas Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests After Subsidy Cuts

Palestinian militant groups come to blows over Israel diplomacy 

Violent Cultural Enrichment in the Netherlands

Three family murder-suicides within ten days shock Turkey as the country faces record unemployment

The Arc Of Turkey’s Descent Into Islamic, Third-World Madness

Iranian police officer dies in clash with oil price protesters as supreme leader hints at crackdown

Migrants Encouraged to Leave Bosnia — For the EU

Lawmakers Ask State Department to Investigate Jamaat-e-Islami’s U.S. Affiliate for Terror Financing

Russian mercenaries ‘beat and beheaded Syrian man’ in leaked video 

Food security fears as locusts destroy crops in Pakistan’s worst plague since the 1990s

Abandoning Malmö,SWE to Its Criminals

Leaked Cache of Diplomatic Cables Proves How Thoroughly Iran Has Corrupted and Co-Opted the Iraqi Government

Isil terrorists hack ordinary people’s dormant Twitter accounts to promote jihad  Yet another reason not to use Twitter.

Mass Protests Break Out in Iran to Protest Government’s Increase in Fuel Prices

Is The Middle East Beginning A Self-Correction?

US Publicly Backs Iran Protests As Khamenei Says Crackdown On “Thugs” Coming

Iran kills the internet for its people’s own good as riots grip the Middle Eastern nation

ISIS Secrets Spilled In Rare On-Camera Interviews: “We Just Walked Into Syria”

Dutch police find 25 migrants in refrigerated lorry leaving port bound for England The British need to ask themselves what it is about their country that makes people risk their lives to go there from places like the Netherlands and France. I doubt that it’s the culture.

Muslim AK-47s and Bombings Turn Sweden Into War Zone

Denmark: Shootings, Car Torchings, & Gang Violence

Left-Wing Journalist On Sweden’s Migrant Suburbs: “Everyone Knew It Would End In Disaster”

Britain is country worst affected by terrorism in EU, study reveals

Israel strikes ‘dozens of Iranian targets in Syria in retaliation for rockets’  I’m not sure this qualifies as ‘news’.

Over 100 Protesters Killed In Iran Amid Largest Internet Shutdown In Nation’s History

“Wide-Scale” Israeli Strike On Damascus Kills 23 After Alleged Iranian Rocket Attack

Culture-Enriching Gang Rape in Krefeld

Mother of Satan Comes to Berlin

A Deadly Game Of Chicken In Iraq And Lebanon

America’s Top Islamist Network Pledges Support to Pro-Jihad Kashmir Leader

Fearful Norwegians Wonder: Are ‘Swedish Conditions’ Coming to the Streets of Oslo?

Sixteen people found in sealed container on ferry bound for the Republic of Ireland 

UK Government rescues British orphans of Isil fighters from Syria in first repatriation mission

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While “Mayor Pete” rises in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, it is a delight to watch the media tiptoe around his very weak pull with black voters. The New York Times today ran a story headlined, “Pete Buttigieg is Struggling with Black Voters. Here’s Why.” Except the story never really tells you probably the biggest reason why: American blacks are highly hostile to homosexuality. This fact goes completely unmentioned anywhere in the Times story, no doubt because it would blow all the fuses at the Times‘s intersectionality switchboard.

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Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign rally in Atlanta on Thursday was derailed by parents protesting the Massachusetts senator’s opposition to charter schools.

The group of parents interrupted Warren’s event, which was aimed at courting black female voters, with chants of “Our children, our choice!” and “We want to be heard!”