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While there’s disagreement around how different types of sugars affect our health, the irony is we might be better off thinking about it less.

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I take it as a given that Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma paid the Biden family a $3 million bribe. That follows from the facts that 1) Hunter Biden doesn’t speak Ukrainian or have any experience in Ukrainian business, 2) Hunter Biden has no experience in the natural gas industry, 3) Burisma nevertheless paid Biden more than $83,000 a month (!) for three years to serve on its board of directors, a role that usually is only nominally compensated, and 4) Joe Biden at the time was responsible for Ukraine policy in the Obama administration. But there may be even more to the scandal than that.

11,000 Scientists? Just Kidding

Robert Redford Calls for Reversal of Climate ‘Damage’ Caused by Trump

One of the world’s thickest mountain glaciers is melting because of global warming  They think.

Texas State Geologist Scott Tinker on Solving Climate Change and Energy Poverty

How Climate Activist Arnold Schwarzenegger Became Box Office Poison

How Bad Science & Horrific Journalism Misrepresent Wildfires and Climate

‘Greta’ Uber Alles?

Say What? Kimmel Suggests Trump Is a Criminal With THIS Fake Ad

‘Daily Beast’ Swoons Over Seth Meyers’ Netflix Special: ‘Does Trump Jokes Better Than Anybody’

The United States is being run by a toddler  Washington Post.

Joy Reid: I’ll Explain Impeachment Simply So Even Trump Supporters Can Understand

Activist Shrinks Want To Tell Impeachment Panel Trump Is Crazy

Scott Adams is now convinced that Communist China is using Falun Gong prisoners for replacement-organs-on-demand.

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We have the technology.

Audacious Epigone keeps track.

Through the first four debates of the 2020 Democrat primary election cycle, candidates have mentioned the middle class an average of 5.3 times. Through the first six debates of 2016, candidates mentioned the middle class an average of 12.5 times. Rhetorical attention paid to the middle class has been cut by more than half on the Democrat side over the last four years, this in spite of the 2020 debates being longer than the 2016 debates were.

Though Bernie Sanders gets criticized for saying the same thing every time he’s in a televised debate, his rhetorical shift on this has been remarkable. In the 2016 cycle, he mentioned the middle class 30 times in the first four debates he was in. In his first for debates in the 2020 cycle, he has only mentioned the middle class one single time.

Byron York.

One notable and little-reported conclusion emerging from the House Democratic impeachment proceedings is a consensus among some foreign policy professionals that President Trump’s Ukraine policy has been an improvement over President Barack Obama’s.

The World’s Thickest Mountain Glacier Is Finally Melting, and Climate Change Is 100% to Blame  Women and minorities hardest hit.

NY Times’s Cave Takes Side of Climate Cult ‘Extinction Rebellion,’ Disrupting Ordinary Life

On the 1998 Apparent Step-Up in UAH Land-minus-Ocean Lower Tropospheric Temperatures

Simulated sunlight reveals how 98% of plastics at sea go missing each year

It can make more sense to build new renewable capacity than run old coal plants  Or maybe not.

Arctic critters are sneezing on each other like never before  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Meet the Doomers: Climate Worriers so Extreme Other Radicals Avoid Them

Jane Fonda: Teenage Activist Greta Thunberg ‘Inspired Me’ to Protest Climate Change  Yeah, she was getting all the good press.

Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World

“The World Could Look Like This”: Weather Channel Unveils Global Warming Apocalypse Propaganda  They keep promising it but it never arrives.

Rich Residents Build Defenses Against Rising Seas; Poor Ones Leave

Book by ‘Anonymous’ describes Trump as cruel, inept and a danger to the nation  Washington Post

‘The View’ Hosts Blatantly Lie, Falsely Accuse Don Jr. Of Crime In Wild Segment

‘Concerning And Scary’: Andy Ngo Speaks Out On Antifa’s Future If Trump Wins In 2020

PBS Gives Ex-Obama Official Forum to Bash Trump on Paris Accord

Misreading the Twitter presidency

Poor CNN! Yang Says He Gets ‘Very, Very Few’ Questions on Impeachment from Voters

USA Today Accuses Trump Of Using Sports Events For ‘Crass,’ Political Gain  As if Democrats never did that.

Hypocrite Scarborough, Who Called Trump and Bush Dumb, Is Angry at GOP Slam of Pelosi

Tucker Carlson, Lee Zeldin: Key Partisan Democrat Witness Lied When She Claimed She “Had Not Personally Responded” to Democrat Request for Impeachment Dirt

NBC & ABC Thrilled By Anonymous Book Decrying ‘Danger’ of Trump  My, what a surprise.

Is This a Joke? WashPost Writer Claims Republicans Have a Problem Accepting Election Results

MSNBC Analyst Fears GOP Will Hurt Impeachment Witnesses Like With Blasey Ford

CALABRESI: House Democrats Violate The 6th Amendment By Denying Trump A Public Trial

MSNBC Fact Checks Pence on Economy, Says Obama Should Get Credit  Oh, I think not,

Top Defense Contractor Lockheed Martin Promotes Anti-Trump Video

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Law enforcement agencies around the country have for the past few years eagerly latched onto consumer-facing DNA sites as a rich repository of information to help them close cases. Many of those sites have been allowing users to adopt privacy settings and restricting what data they allow police to access, but a first-of-its-kind search warrant may blow those users’ data banks wide open.

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THROUGHOUT HER 20s, Yayoi Matsunaga was groped, almost daily, on packed rush-hour trains going to and from work. Three decades later, she discovered that her friend’s daughter was being molested on her commute to high school. The teenager, after fruitless talks with the police and railway companies, decided to hang a sign from her bag that read: “Groping is a crime. I will not cry myself to sleep.” The groping stopped immediately. Inspired, Ms Matsunaga launched a crowdfunding campaign in 2015 to create badges with the same message. They proved as effective as the sign: nearly 95% of users stopped experiencing groping on public transport, according to a survey.

I’m thinking AntiFa + paint guns.

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I don’t even have to say anything.

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Coffee logs which are better for the environment than wood are going on sale in supermarkets for the first time this week.

Each log is made from the grounds of approximately 25 cups of coffee, which come from coffee shops, offices, restaurants, instant coffee factories and even universities, airports and train stations around the UK.

The logs, which will be sold in Waitrose, smell slightly of coffee when not in use, but when they are burned they smell similar to wood.

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Well, you know, California.

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Hammer tech.

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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a “reboot” button for an entire state? Because the truth is that if an entire state ever needed to completely start over it is the state of California. At this point it has become the epicenter for just about everything that is wrong with America, and each year it just keeps coming up with new ways to become an even worse cesspool of social decay and depravity. Millions of people have already left the state, and millions more are thinking of leaving. One recent survey found that 47 percent of all Californians are thinking about moving out of the state in the next five years, and a different survey discovered that 53 percent of those currently living in the state would like to leave. If about half the people in your state are seriously considering leaving, it is safe to say that things have gone horribly wrong. But instead of changing course, those running California continue taking the state down a very self-destructive path.

Kid Doing ‘The Worm’ Upstages CNN’s Jim Acosta At Trump Rally

CBS Anchor Advertises Televised Impeachment Hearings Like Fight Entertainment

MSNBC Has Jerry Springer On To Blame Trump For Lack Of Civility

‘South Park:’ Trump ‘Brought Down Moral Meter,’ Giuliani ‘Treasonous Pig’

The mesmerizing mediocrity of Trump’s opponents

CNN Frets: Trump Success Keeping Illegal Immigrants in Mexico

Pence Aide Calls Suggestion VP Would Have Supported Having Trump Removed ‘Fake News’

‘This Isn’t A MAGA Rally!’: Joy Behar Scolds Audience For Cheering Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle

‘View’ Hosts Panic As Donald Trump Jr. Attacks ABC Over Whistleblower Hypocrisy

Nets Eager for ‘Drama’ of ‘Compelling’ Public Impeachment Hearings  They really need the money.

Swalwell Says It’s An ‘Abuse Of Power’ For The President To Remove An Ambassador ‘For Political Reasons’

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

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Yale students, if they’re still anything like they were when I graduated a few short years ago, likely aren’t overly concerned with the college admissions scandal that dominated the news this past spring, even as Lifetime releases its TV-movie based on the events and Felicity Huffman walks free after having served her eleven days in jail. Instead, Yale students will be focused on their classes, fulfilling their language requirements, agonizing as early as November about their plans for the following summer, and scrambling to join the various clubs that, like so many activities on campuses, require a surprisingly vigorous application process. For the newly arrived freshmen, who are, by now, probably starting to feel a bit more at home on campus, there is also probably still that lingering sense in the back of their heads that they made it: that they were admitted from the record 36,829 who applied for a spot in the class of 2023 to a school considered among the most prestigious in the world.

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Soon to be a major motion picture.

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China on Thursday jailed nine people for selling fentanyl to Americans, the result of a landmark joint probe, and pledged further co-operation following President Donald Trump’s fury at Beijing’s perceived inaction against Chinese suppliers fuelling the deadly US opioid crisis.

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Vice President Mike Pence deserves praise for not only remembering the national horror but also personally showing up and speaking out at Fort Hood, Texas, the scene of the Nov. 5, 2009, terrorist massacre that killed 13 American soldiers and citizens.

It has been a decade since that terrorist attack on U.S. soil by a self-identified Islamic terrorist and American traitor. Ten years on and only a damnable trickle of mainstream media bother to reflect on this horror. In terms of mainstream printers, TV images and internet pixels, this savage outrage has been … briefly mentioned, barely touched.

For the record, the terrorist who perpetrated the massacre is still alive, on death row in the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, military prison.

More than 11,000 scientists from around the world declare a ‘climate emergency’

GPS – An Unconventional Tidal Gauge  If you don’t like the data you find, find some data you like.

Johan Norberg’s Message to St. Greta

HuffPost: Cancel Thanksgiving to Save the Planet

Extinction Rebellion protesters set for million pound pay out as they plot general election disruption, after High Court rules ban illegal

Green New Deal Dems Toss Their Support Behind Report Pushing To Fast-Track Population Control

Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, And The End Of The World

Georgetown: How a Texan Town’s Green Energy Dream Turned into a Nightmare

Margot Cleveland: We Have Confirmed That CIA/FBI Informant/”Consultant” Stefan Halper Planted Deep State/Coup Stories With Washington Post Stenographer David Ignatius

Most Americans Have ‘Little To No Trust’ In Impeachment Process, Would Rather Let Voters Decide In 2020

Leftist Media Outlets Falsely Claim Trump Failed To Recognize Native American History Month

Trump’s Impeachment Lures Democrats Into A Cold War Mentality

Scarborough Taunts: ‘Donald, Son’—You’re to Blame for Bevin Loss in Kentucky  Actually, Bevin caused his own loss.

D.C. Radio Blasts Nationals Players Who Harmed Fans by Supporting Trump

Noah, Norton Slam Trump as ‘Racist Landlord From New York,’ ‘Insane Clown’

Fake Whistleblower’s Lawyer in 2017: “The coup has started,” Brags That Deep State Will Impeach Trump and His Friends at CNN Will Play a Key Role

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When is government unjust? When a strong few — such as a king and his knights — tax to enrich themselves, or when a government does the opposite of what it should do, such as taking something from the community, piling up what has been taken and burning it.

Predatory governments serve themselves, not the community as a whole, and perverse governments impoverish the community instead of enriching it.

Which brings us to Illinois.

Hint; Democrats.

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Human challenge studies—where researchers infect healthy volunteers with strains of the flu virus—help scientists better understand the flu and how to treat it.

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

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The government is not hour friend.

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Apple’s plan to include Veteran’s health records in the iPhone Health app has come to fruition, with all US veterans eligible for VA health care now able to access records in the app.

Can Medicare be far behind?

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The daughter of one of America’s most prominent Islamist leaders became the youngest woman and one of the first Muslim women elected to office in Virginia on Tuesday.

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You keep beating that rented mule, eventually he stops working.

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The Libertarian Party is plausibly responsible for a Democratic victory in Kentucky’s gubernatorial election. It’s not final, but Democrat Andy Beshear is set to unseat Gov. Matt Bevin pending a possible recount.

Results show Beshear received 5,150 more votes than Bevin, the Republican, while 2 percent of the vote went to Libertarian John Hicks — or 28,426 votes.

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All Trump has to do to be re-elected is show his results: Stock market up, job creation up, black unemployment at a historic low, and his smiling face — “What some more of that? Vote for Trump.”

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Think about how woke it must have been. HBO specializes in Woke Television for House-Bound Liberals and Obese NeverTrumpers Who Want to be Part of the Twitter Club.

Thirty million pounds — down the drain because they put the project into the hands of untalented #Woke ideologues.

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The deadline of yet another, and perhaps the most insidious, element of the post-9/11 initiatives (a partial list of which includes the establishment of the Transportation Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and a never-ending international war against a nebulously-defined, noncorporeal enemy, “terror”) is less than one year from coming to fruition. Beginning no later than October 1, 2020, citizens of all US states and territories will be required to have a Real ID compliant card or US passport to board a commercial plane or enter a Federal government facility. Pundits citing the inevitability of what amounts to a national ID card have, regrettably, been vindicated.

Personally, I welcome this gilt-edged excuse to avoid getting on a plane or entering a Federal government building.

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It was also the last thing that ISIS needed. Caliphate relinquished, the group’s operations inevitably will be disrupted by the death of its emir, especially with Abu Hassan al-Muhajir—a potential successor—killed in a U.S. airstrike just hours later.

Still, the demise of the Islamic State’s “caliph” does not mean the fight against Islamist terrorism is over; far from it. As the dust settles on the al-Baghdadi raid, here are five things to look out for in the days and weeks ahead.

MSNBC Connects Fires to ‘Climate Denial,’ Obama-Era Rollbacks

Claim: Climate Change will Break the Housing Market

U.S. Starts withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord.

Polar bears precipitated Netflix walrus deaths, new Attenborough TV special shows

Lawsuit Says Obama Entered Paris Climate Agreement Illegally, Cites Mysterious Legal Memo

Inconvenient Truth: Best Way To Help The Environment Is To Avoid Green “Eco-Friendly” Products

Liberal ‘Climate Mayors’ Are Proving Trump Right On Paris Climate Accord

Trump, the phone call, and consciousness of guilt

Liberals Horrified To Learn The President Controls Foreign Policy

Blain: “Trump Could Not Have Planned It Better”

Stelter Devotes Entire Segment to Obsessing Over Trump’s Twitter Typos

‘Amazing’ Oprah Winfrey could beat Donald Trump if she were to run for office, claims Tina Brown  I’d like to see her try.

Media Carp as Nats Catcher Surprises President by Wearing MAGA Hat at White House Event

MSNBC Pundit: Trump Worse to Ukraine Ambassador Than….Hillary on Benghazi

Portly, Well-Paid Spy Who Infiltrated Trump Campaign Source Of WaPo Disinformation On Flynn: Report

CNN Slams Rand Paul’s Call for Transparency as ‘Deceptive’ ‘Bullying’ of ‘Brave’ Whistleblower

CNN Tries, Fails to Get U.S. Soldier to Condemn Trump

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Reminds me of ‘thranx’, the name of an alien species invented by Phllip Jose Farmer.

Latinx: Name of an illegal alien species.

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“See, if you want to cut off a leg or an arm you’re mentally ill, but if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you’re transgender.”

Babylon Bee.

Local socialist millennial man Matthew Hatter lamented Monday that there are no concrete examples of socialism he can point to in order to have some kind of idea how it would turn out.

We feel his pain.

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Concur.

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Sounds as if somebody thinks we have too many Africans.

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Three years ago, during the 2016 presidential election, ABC spiked an expose into convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his network of connections to powerful men, including Bill Clinton. That’s the bombshell scoop by investigative journalist James O’Keefe. In a hot mic video leaked to O’Keefe, 20/20 co-anchor Amy Robach can be heard angrily lamenting the fact that ABC killed the story.

The Crust takes care of its own.

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Via Tyler Cowen we learn there’s a new paper from Duke’s Peter Arcidiacono — the economist who served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the recent lawsuit against Harvard. (I’ve written about Arcidiacono’s work before here and here.) In this one, Arcidiacono and his coauthors detail a rather bizarre pattern in the school’s admissions data.

Basically, starting about ten years ago — in the wake of some Supreme Court activity that mildly limited affirmative action — the school began seeking out lots more applications from black students, leading the black share of the applicant pool to grow from about 6 percent to about 10 percent. Some of this effort seems to have taken the form of recruitment letters sent out on the basis of test scores, with far lower cutoffs for members of underrepresented groups.

Yet the new applicants apparently had little prayer of getting in. “The share of admits who were African American remained unchanged,” the authors write. “At the same time, the average SAT score of African American applicants fell by 33 points (on an 800-point scale)” between 2008 and 2012, something that did not happen for other racial groups.