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Almost as good as a wall.

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On a map of the United States color-coded by party, big cities and university towns and a few regions with large immigrant and racial minority populations are a chain of Democratic islands in a Republican ocean. Similar patterns appear on maps of voting for Brexit in the UK and elections in continental Europe.

That’s what Texas looks liker: A bunch of blue pustules on an otherwise rosy red state.

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It is very profitable being a Voice of the Crust.

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And like Bernie Sanders himself, he’s quite a big fan of the Soviet Union, and the weapon of revolution they created, the AK-47. He actually defends the gulags.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Steve Sailer has a modest proposal.

One of the great mysteries of recent years is the exact rank ordering of the Intersectional Pyramid of Privilege. We know that it was invented to elevate black women over black men and white women. And it goes without saying that straight white men are at the bottom.

But what about more subtle questions like how does a Muslim immigrant straight man from a fairly white-adjacent place like Malaysia match up with a Jewish lesbian from Park Slope? Who wins?

Zman does some ‘splainin’.

The white American Progressive has always imagined society as a fully enclosed community, that is judged as a whole. A popular slogan among them is that “society is judged by how it treats it weakest members.” This is an explicit expression of communal judgement, which is the traveling partner of communal salvation. The white Progressive looks at society as an organism that moves forward as a whole. If some parts lag behind, the whole thing slows to a halt.

Further, the white Progressive believes in the unitary reformer. That is, the reformer is not just focused on one area of society, but the whole of society. Even if their efforts are in one area, those efforts support the whole community. A reform effort that does not promise to move the whole of society forward is of no interest. For white Progressive reformers, society is the flock and they are the shepherds. Anything that threatens their effort to guard and guide the flock must be eliminated.

It is this spatial understanding of the world that helps explain these largely symbolic attacks on the Second Amendment. In the hive mind of the white Progressive, people who own guns are outside the domain of the righteous. Therefore, they must be marginalized from society. Much in the same way they anathematized smoking, white Progressives seek to make owning a gun disqualifying. Symbolically, these measures are aimed at putting gun rights outside the whole of society.

The Other McCain blows the whistle.

There was a mass shooting Sunday night in Kansas City in which one woman was killed and 15 other people were injured. Three of the injured victims were listed in critical condition Monday. Mass shootings have become part of propaganda campaign by Democrats and the media, who seek to blame President Trump for these crimes — a “climate of hate” supposedly inspired by the White House. However, not every mass shooting lends itself to this political narrative, and so CNN viewers will not be getting 24/7 coverage of the Kansas City shooting….

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If more than a dozen people had been shot by an “alt-right” Trump supporter, CNN would be airing hourly updates, with politicians and pundits being asked to weigh in on the “climate of hate” that allegedly caused the mass shooting. However, when an angry dope dealer opens fire because people are cutting in front of him in the line to get into the club after the Chiefs won a trip to the Super Bowl? That’s just local news.

John Derbyshire speaks truth to power.

Disparate Impact Theory is a key principle in our ruling ideology. It has the authority of, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court [U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Fair Housing Disparate Impact Principle, National Low Income Housing Coalition, June 29, 2015]. You might think that these disproportions could possibly be caused by Sun People actually jaywalking, turnstile-jumping, or acting up in class more than Ice People.

But if you do think that, you’d be wise to keep quiet about it. That’s crimethink.

The Antiplanner brings the heat.

Fifty years ago, housing was affordable everywhere in the country. The 1970 census found that the statewide ratio of median home prices to median family incomes was greater than 3.0 only in Hawaii (where it was 3.04). Price-to-income ratios were under 2.5 in every other state, and under 2.2 in California, New York, and other states that today are considered unaffordable.

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It’s difficult to discern just what these ‘protesters’ think they’re going to accomplish. These aren’t the poor people of the world; it takes significant cash to even get to Davos. Presumably indulging in such theatrics, yet another case of ‘Look at me! Look at me!’, gives them a warm and fuzzy feeling — but the whole ‘I guess we told them!’ attitude is very much disconnected from the obvious reaction of the people being protested, which is more on the order of ‘don’t get any of this stuff on your shoes’.

Steve Sailer.

Steve has made a hobby of documenting the self-absorbed victimhood of black activists. It can get pretty silly.

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Since there was no violence what so ever at the gun rights rally in Richmond, Virginia on Monday, CBS Evening News apparently decided to make-up some fake news and claim there was. As fill-in anchor Maurice DuBois began discussing the event, he falsely claimed there was “more than a week” of “violence” leading up to the rally. But back in reality, there wasn’t.

The only violence I saw was the violence of the ‘media’ against Trump.

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fter a peaceful Monday rally by Second Amendment activists in Richmond, Virginia, CNN and MSNBC deserved thoughts and prayers seeing as how their fear-mongering about “violence” a la Charlottesville by “thousands” of “heavily armed” “guns rights activists, white nationalists, militia groups swarming” the Capitol fizzed into puddles of lies.

Where was Antifa? Did the guns scare them away?

Ace of Spades points and laughs.

h right. I can see how that would work perfectly for, you know, clothes.

How do you fight toxic masculinity with clothes, you ask?

Simple. You just do what every designer’s been doing for 30 years — dress up men in effeminate clothing, including skirts and babydoll dresses.

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That’s how the New York Times characterizes the Massachusetts Senator in an editorial today. I would have said “liar,” but why quibble?

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One of the many odd things about the New York Times‘s “1619 Project” on slavery is that Martin Luther King Jr is barely mentioned (ditto Frederick Douglass). This omission may not be accidental, since both Douglass and King found sources for the remedy of slavery inside the American founding that today’s left wishes to repudiate completely. It will be a curious thing to see whether and how the 1619 Project appears in any of today’s observances of MLK’s birthday (or whether, in the fullness of time, there will be a push to rename MLK Day for someone or something else).

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Everything is bad for you so you might as well just kill yourself.

Never touch the stuff myself.

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The Cardiff University team discovered a method of killing prostate, breast, lung and other cancers in lab tests.

The findings, published in Nature Immunology, have not been tested in patients, but the researchers say they have “enormous potential”.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #395

Davos: “Climate Change seems to be Outgrowing the … Institutions … who have Dealt with it Until Now”

The Biggest Lie About Washing Your Clothes, Debunked By Experts

Discovery Regarding Arctic Sea Ice and Permafrost Has Significant Implications for the Future

Venus may have been habitable and Earth-like before greenhouse gas took over  Popular ‘Science’.

California’s trees could shift as global warming forces birds to move out Or maybe not.

An obvious solution to the climate policy crisis

The Senate Impeachment Trial: 8 Things You Need to Know

The Nation’s Global Warming Freak-Out: Sports Will Either ‘Sink Into Sea or Burn’

McConnell “Kill Switch” Rule Will Shut Down Impeachment If Dems Get Wild

NYTimes: Trump’s ‘Conspiracy Theory’ on Pelosi, Impeachment Pure ‘Disinformation’

CNN Anchor Frets ‘Iconic’ Photo of ‘God Hates Trump’ Sign Was Censored in D.C. Exhibit Would he have felt the same way about a sign that said ‘God Hates Obama’?

Bloomberg Would Cast Vote to Convict Trump in Impeachment Trial  My, what a surprise.

Trump Jr.: “Democrats And Media Hate Trump Much More Than They Love America”  Undoubtedly.

As Impeachment Trial Looms, CBS Pushes Flake: Why Didn’t You Stop Trump Sooner?

Joy Behar Blames Trump For Racial Division, Cites Two Fake Stories To Prove Her Point  Go on, make shit up! It’s in a good cause!

Check Out This Supercut Of Media Personalities Arguing Witnesses Should Not Be Admitted To Clinton Impeachment Trial  How the worm has turned.

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As they do. For MSNBC, any white person who isn’t apologizing is a white nationalist.

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I eat at McDonalds all the time, and I’ve never noticed that the Coke there is anything to write home about.

If they wanted their Coke actually to taste good, they’d serve Pepsi.

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Yuval Levin’s new book — available for presale on Amazon; released tomorrow — argues that we are living through a social crisis.

Duh. If all it takes to write a book is to wake up and look around, we’re all in clover.

Levin, my colleague at AEI, focuses on the important role of institutions. He writes that public trust in institutions is commonly undermined by abuses of power. That isn’t our era’s unique problem.

Institutions are only as good as the people who man them. If an institution is full of corrupt power-hungry sociopaths, all the paper guarantees in the world will not keep it from going to Hell.

This is what has motivated the proglodyte ‘march through the institutions’ that has been proceeding successfully during all of my adult life.

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The New York City Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA), a police union representing the city’s active and retired sergeants, blamed Mayor Bill de Blasio for the death of a 92-year-old woman.

A 92-year-old woman, Maria Fuentes, was sexually assaulted and murdered on the streets of NYC earlier in January. The man suspected of killing her, Reeaz Khan, is an illegal alien who had been arrested by the New York Police Department in November 2019, but was released and never handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because of the city’s strict sanctuary policy.

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It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

I’m waiting to see what happens if he attempts to prosecute ICE agents.

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Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal carried Mene Ukueberuwa’s excellent column “Boomer Socialism Led to Bernie Sanders.” Subhead: “Government policies limit millennials’ prosperity, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser argues. Will they realize more of the same isn’t the answer?”

ZMan blows the whistle.

Today is the big pro-gun rally in Richmond Virginia. The rally is in response to the gun grabbing proposals by the newly ascendant Democrat party in the state. For the first time in a long time, Democrats gained control of all three branches of government in the last election and immediately set about implementing their fantasy agenda. Their first order of business was a series of vindictive, retributive proposals aimed at the normal population of the state, starting with guns and gun owners.

What’s going on in Virginia is a glimpse of what is coming for the country as a whole as we descend into the multicultural paradise. Virginia was a solidly normal state over the last seventy years. The politics were usually uneventful. Most issues were controlled at the local level. The state government was limited and usually run by the sorts of people, who thought that was a good thing. Once in a while a colorful governor would get his name in the paper, but otherwise politics was sober minded.

Decades of immigration have done to Virginia what it did to California, with the addition of massive Federal growth in Northern Virginia. Manufacturing and agricultural concerns have championed the importation of millions from Central America. Government has imported people from all over the country into Northern Virginia. The result has been the same sort of political shift we saw in California. The sprawling urban areas control state politics, which means the Left controls politics.

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Answering the burning question that nobody asked ever.

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Make knife without a tip.

Give it to a criminal.

Watch him file a tip on it and use it to kill somebody.

Pat yourself on the back for virtue-signalling that has no effect.

Rinse. Repeat.

New York Times.

I am not making this up.

It’s impossible to do satire these days, because reality keeps passing you.

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Hammer tech.

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Thank you, President Trump.

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What the Inequality Weepers never realize is that when one of the 1% like Bloomberg gets a bug up his butt about something he will do out and spend massive amounts of money on it, whether that spanding will be useful (Bill Gates) or wasteful (Bloomberg, Steyer); either one gives thousands of people employment and hundreds of businesses profits. Economic inequality is one of the chief engines of economic growth.

Trump Blasts “Brazen, Unlawful” Coup Attempt After House Files “Framers’ Worst Nightmare” Legal Brief

A Meticulous Account of Trump’s Tenure Reads Like a Comic Horror Story  New York Times.

Trump’s lawyers call impeachment charges ‘brazen and unlawful’

WashPost Smears ‘Civil War’ on Gun March, Touts ‘Hope’ in Feminist Fury at ‘Rapist’ Trump

Adam Schiff: Removing Trump Urgent Because He’s ‘Threatening’ To ‘Cheat In The Next Election’

‘We Just Saw The Pictures’: Chris Wallace Challenges Hakeem Jeffries’ Claim That Souvenir Pen Ceremony Was ‘Solemn’

Jerry Nadler On Impeachment: Trump ‘Betrayed His Country’

NY Times Front Page: Women, Stripped of Rights by Trump, Still Won’t Vote For Women  What do they know that Lieawatha doesn’t?

Liberal Media Forced To Concede: Trump Was Right About Puerto Rico’s Government

The carbon footprint of dinner: How ‘green’ are fish sticks?

Michael Moore Arrested With Joaquin Phoenix  ‘Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!’

California’s Environmentalist Democrats Force Children to Swim in Diluted Sewage

Chuck Schumer Votes No On USMCA Because It Doesn’t Address Climate Change

Pyrenees glaciers to disappear within 30 years, scientists warn  Like the ones in Glacier National Park?

The Guardian Admits Climate Action Costs Jobs

A Surfeit Of Temperatures

Maine’s giant spinning ice disc looks like it’s reforming

YouTube Has Been ‘Actively Promoting’ Videos Spreading Climate Denialism  Burn the heretics!

How Long Do We Have Before Arctic Ice Melts Away?  Wired ‘Science’.

Surveyors’ Maps and Journals an Untapped Source for Climate Scientists?

Another Permian Basin Peak Oil Prediction… Yawn.

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Today very few people know that national socialists are just another branch of socialism. They lack the ‘inter prefix’. That’s all. Hitler was a socialist. He admired Mussolini, who also was a socialist. Mussolini was congratulated by Lenin himself when he took over the Italian government. A lot of Nazis and Fascists admired the Roosevelt administration. The feelings were mutual: the US Democrats of the day admired the Nazis and the Fascists. Hitler was particularly impressed by the racial policies of the Democrat party and its Jim Crow laws. He based his Nuremberg laws on those laws. Eugenics were thought up by Democrats, and ‘improved’ by the Nazis. Hitler was Man of the Year 1938 in Time Magazine. On the other side of the pond Mussolini was greatly admired as the guy who made the trains run on time. Socialism really works, and it rules!

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In the latest example of MSM hackery, Bloomberg reporter Emma Kinery took it upon herself to fabricate a quote from Bernie Sanders (I-VA) to suggest that 2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg has a ‘gay’ problem.

Tell me you’re surprised.

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It’s amazing now many people reason backward from their preferred outcome rather than forward from some sort of basic principle.

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… European leaders are already thinking about how to cope with a scenario where they face a resurgent empire to the east, and a fading—and no longer friendly—superpower in the west. Under these conditions, a real European army could emerge for the first time.

Won’t happen when they realize that it means they have to spend some money that could go to social programs i.e. buying votes.

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Adolfo Cardenas smiles faintly at the memory of traveling with his 14-year-old son from Honduras to the U.S.-Mexico border in only nine days, riding buses and paying a smuggler $6,000 to ensure passage through highway checkpoints.

Father and son walked about 10 minutes in Arizona’s stifling June heat before surrendering to border agents. Instead of being released with paperwork to appear in immigration court in Dallas, where Cardenas hopes to live with a cousin, they were bused more than an hour to wait in the Mexican border city of Mexicali.

“It was a surprise. I never imagined this would happen,” Cardenas, 39, said while waiting at a Mexicali migrant shelter for his fifth court appearance in San Diego, on Jan. 24.

UPDATE: Buttigieg Says American ‘Economy Needed 11 Million’ Illegal Immigrants

Neil Ferguson.

The aftermath of the killing of Iran’s Major General Qassem Soleimani, the mastermind of Tehran’s dirty wars, not only confirmed the weakness of the Iranian government, it also exposed the weakness of President Trump’s domestic opponents.

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So far, the team has identified four distinct ageotypes: Immune, kidney, liver and metabolic. Some people fit squarely in one category, but others may meet the criteria for all four, depending on how their biological systems hold up with age.

Yuval Levin.

Our institutions lost the capacity to mold character and have become platforms for performance instead.

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If you’ve got Hammer tech, flaunt it.

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Federal authorities are turning to a new tactic in the escalating conflict over New York City’s so-called sanctuary policies, issuing four “immigration subpoenas” to the city for information about inmates wanted for deportation.

“This is not a request — it’s a demand,” Henry Lucero, a senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, told The Associated Press. “This is a last resort for us. Dangerous criminals are being released every single day in New York.”

In a pissing contest between the Feds and a city, I suspect that the Feds hold most of the high cards.

CNN.

Well, I’m glad we cleared that up.

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More evidence that President Trump’s immigration policies are having great effects, from the Wall Street Journal: “Mexican Forces Clash With Migrants at Border With Guatemala.”