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Chaos erupted outside a popular Brooklyn brewery Friday night, when an apparently annoyed craft-beer hater pulled a gun on a long line of people who were waiting to buy the latest designer IPA, according to cops and online reports.

No shots were fired during the squabble outside the Other Half Brewing Company in Carroll Gardens — and a suspect was being questioned Saturday, police said.

The gun-slinging skeptic struck around the corner from the brewery, on Garnet Street, where beer lovers with camp chairs and hand trucks regularly line up overnight to buy limited-run, $18 four-packs in collectible cans, sold when the doors open Saturday mornings.

Thank God for those strict gun control laws in New York or somebody might have gotten hurt. Assuming hipsters can shoot straight at all.

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I’ve always thought so.

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

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Rather than outlawing virtually all private coverage and replacing it with a single government plan, as Medicare for All does, public option proposals would create a government health plan to compete directly against private health plans. Yet, the economic and political dynamics of a public option would still lead to a single government-controlled health care system. One needs only to repeat the words of then-Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who, during the debate on Obamacare, said “I think that if we get a good public option, it could lead to single payer and that is the best way to reach single payer.”

We looked at six leading public option legislative proposals. The bills differ in design, but all these proposals would tilt the playing field in favor of the public option, drive out existing private health coverage options and ultimately leave the government plan as the dominant, or only, health plan in the insurance markets.

ABC Desperately Tries to Downplay Trump Victories, Record-High Approval

Chris Cuomo Calls Trump An ‘Autocrat’ During Debate With New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu

Trump steals the Dems’ spotlight at New Hampshire rally  Hammer time.

Todd Compares Trump Supporters to Bernie’s Online ‘Brownshirt Brigade’

Executed? CNN’s Toobin Slams Trump’s ‘North Korean-Style Punishment’ of Vindmans  I guess Toobin has never held a Real Job – firing people is what CEOs do.

Joe Biden Attacks Trump, Giuliani Following The President’s Impeachment Acquittal

Biden Says Democrats ‘Could Run Mickey Mouse’ Against Trump And Win  Nominate Bernie and let’s see.

Biden: Trump Is ‘Deathly Afraid to Face Me’ in November

Accused Mar-a-Lago Trespasser Rejects Plea Offer

Biden: Dems Could ‘Run Mickey Mouse’ and Have a Chance  On va voir, as Captain America would say.

Police Report Reveals Why Anti-Trump Van Driver Targeted GOP Voter Registration Tent  Funny how Trump is Hitler but it’s the anti-Trumpers who are doing all of the violence.

New York Times Hits ‘Trump-Inspired Conspiracy Mongering,’ Ignores Leftist Kind

Police: Driver Who Targeted GOP Voter Registration Tent ‘Did Not Like’ Trump Oh, ya think?

Hydrogen not the magical answer to zero-carbon prayers

What happens to all the old wind turbines?

Whales are vital to curb climate change

Climate Change is not a problem: Unless we make it one.

Climate science does an about-face: dials back the ‘worst case scenario’

New Hampshire Voter Mocks CBS Host Over Climate Change: ‘You Gotta Be Kidding Me’

Too much climate research money being spent on science… AEUHHH???

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Remember Jussie Smollet, Mister Hollywood Hate Hoax?

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Fun for the whole family.

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Just look at how much of the Federal deficit was run up by Democrats.

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If your dishwasher or busboy is getting money from the government, then that’s money you don’t have to pay them. And they have to vote for Democrats to keep the money coming. Win-win for the Crust.

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Only 45% of Americans said they would be willing to vote for a socialist for president, while 53% say they would not, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday.

Gallup also asked voters on their willingness to choose candidates with other diverse characteristics, but “socialist” was the only one receiving majority opposition.

Let’s pull together and put Bernie over the top. With any luck there will be a machine gun waiting for him.

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Declaring that law enforcement officers are being “put in harm’s way by these ideologically driven policies,” Attorney General William Barr said the Trump administration is suing the state of New Jersey and the county that is home to Seattle over immigration policies that offer protections to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

The Justice Department said New Jersey is violating federal law by prohibiting state and local law enforcement from sharing information about inmates in the U.S. illegally. Washington state’s King County was hit with a lawsuit over a policy that prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from using the King County International Airport-Boeing Field for deportation flights.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

(Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.)

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The virus that has spread through much of China has yet to be confirmed in Africa, but global health authorities are increasingly worried about the threat to the continent where an estimated 1 million Chinese now live, as some health workers on the ground warn they are not ready to handle an outbreak.

The ‘Skeptical Science’ Kidz go a bridge too far with blacklisting

SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 5: Bending the Trend

Unlike in Europe, the US approach to climate change is actually working

‘Overwhelming and terrifying’: the rise of climate anxiety  The Guardian.

Why Antarctic heat record is more worrying than new coronavirus  To certain people.

A Climate Blacklist That Works: “It Should Make Her Unhirable In Academia”

We must fight climate extremists before they upend society

Media’s Horribly Dishonest Antarctica Propaganda

The Green Oscars: A high-fashion nightmare!

‘I Am Here To Assassinate President Donald Trump’ — Man With Knife Arrested Outside White House

Atlantic Mag Foams Over Trump’s Press Attack: Using Web ‘Disinformation’ Like Dictator for 2020

Brad Pitt Slams GOP, Trump Impeachment Trial at the Oscars

Chuck Schumer Demands Inspectors General Investigate Trump For ‘Instances Of Retaliation’ Against Whistleblowers  I’m sure he’ll get right on that.

Joy Behar Floats Theory On Why Trump Fired LTC Vindman’s Twin Too: ‘He Couldn’t Tell The Two Apart?’  Nor could I.

Scarborough: I’m Getting ‘Panicked Calls’ From Dems About 2020

A NYT Writer Said Trump’s Immigrant Crime Stories Were ‘Bogus’ – Then DHS Provided Him Examples  Oops.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

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We like to have useful stuff here, and with the Democrats going Full Socialist on us….

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I’d like to think so.

Kevin Williamson has some insight.

The problem with ‘democratic socialism’ is that it is both.

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But the socialism that reduced the United Kingdom from world power to intermittently pre-industrial backwater in the post-war era was thoroughly democratic. The policies that turned the lights out in London were not imposed on the British people by a repressive junta. And that is part of the problem with democratic socialism even as notionally presented by Sanders et al.: It is both of those things. In the United States, we use the word “democratic” as though it were a synonym for “decent” or “accountable,” but 51 percent of the people can wreck a country just as easily and as thoroughly as 10 percent of them. That is why the United States has a Bill of Rights and other limitations on democratic power.

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Ought to have done that long since.

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That’ll clear ’em out fast.

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My question is: What does Bill Gates need with a yacht?

On the other hand, it does look like the Nautilus from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen….

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On Friday, Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib participated in a “radical democracy” event at Howard University in Washington. The YouTube video below shows Omar’s four-minute riff on the theme that everything that goes wrong in the world is America’s fault. Thanks to the Washington Free Beacon for bringing it to light.

She’s always free to go back to where she came from.

Climate Activist Leaves Environmentalist Movement Because It’s “Too White”  Indeed, I was thinking very much the same thing myself. (Although the Filipina in question would have no problem ‘passing for white’ herself….)

Revolutionary New Recycling Method for Plastic and Waste is Killing Two Birds With One Stone

Climate change: Why are US senators wearing this symbol?  Because they’re hip, and trendy.

Claim: Climate Change is Speeding Up Global Ocean Currents

Breaking Down The Last Decade Of “Terrible” Climate-Change In 7 Narrative-Busting Charts

Shocker: study finds global warming may be net beneficial for the global economy  Drowning the Left Coasts would certainly by a good start….

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“I would accuse my party at this point of having engaged in three years of fantasy football politics,” Jones told CNN’s “SE Cupp Unfiltered” on Saturday. “Where we said, ‘don’t worry, Trump is never going to be seated, because the Electoral College will not seat him.’ Remember that?

“‘Don’t worry, Bob Mueller is going to take him out of the White House in handcuffs.’ Remember that? ‘Oh, don’t worry, he’s going to be impeached and removed.'”

Joel Kotkin speaks the trend.

Blue-state boosters insist that talent will cluster only in elite places like San Francisco, New York, West Los Angeles, or Seattle, but companies seeking to recruit educated workers increasingly flock to places like Dallas–Fort Worth, Orlando, Nashville, and other affordable red-state metros. The movement of corporate offices has been particularly marked, with an estimated 1,800 firms leaving California for the Lone Star State in just one year. These companies are not just low-wage employers but high-paying firms like Toyota, Nissan, McKesson, Bechtel, Jacobs, Parsons, and Sanford Bernstein. Once a jobs magnet, California has emerged as the largest sender of jobs to Texas. Between 2000 and 2013, the Golden State was the source of more than 51,000 jobs, about one-fifth of all jobs moving to Texas. The most recent survey for Chief Executive Magazine ranks Texas, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Indiana as more business-friendly, while blue bastions California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut stood at the bottom.

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If travel bans to and from the infected parts of China turn out to have been justified then one country in particular may be worth watching, Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s Bole International airport is the main African gateway to and from China. On average 1500 passengers per day arrive from China every day. Ethiopia scans them all for symptoms which essentially means taking their temperature.

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Haters gotta hate.

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When Trump makes such mistakes, AOC is first to pounce. I predict that the ‘news media’ will downplay this one.

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Hammer tech.

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DNA is not a blueprint: it’s a recipe coding for thousands of different proteins that interact with each other and with the environment, just like the ingredients of a cake in an oven. Whereas a blueprint is an exact, drawn-to-scale copy of the final product, a recipe is just a loose plot that leaves much more room to uncertainty. Open a packet of cookies: each one was made from the same recipe and baked in the same conditions, but there are no two that are identical. Look closely, and you’ll spot hundreds of little differences: a burn here, a chocolate chip there, bumps and lumps appearing in distinct places, all because of chaotic interactions between the ingredients and the environment.

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Private hospitals are now consulting a secret medical credit score from Experian before you even see a doctor. As a patient you do not have access to this score, nor can you see how it is generated. All you know is that you may be denied care, or receive different care, because of it.

I guess the ‘medical care is a human right!’ crowd will have their hair on fire about this now.

UNSW Psychologist: “We are all Climate Deniers”

Antarctica Appears to Have Broken a Heat Record

Want to Fight Climate Change? Stop Believing These Myths

Climate Activist Plan to Use Dodd-Frank Banking Laws to Force Fossil Fuel Divestment

Study: Climate Change Is Killing Bumble Bees

The World Just Missed a Five Year Paris Agreement Deadline to Raise Climate Ambition

Breaking down the last decade of climate change in 7 charts

Cambridge Professor: “The only way to hit net zero [carbon] by 2050 is to stop flying”

Activist Explains Why Climate Change Movement’s ‘Whiteness’ Drove Her To Stop Saving The Earth  Guess it wasn’t really all that important after all.

Early climate models successfully predicted global warming

Where America’s climate migrants will go as sea level rises

More Great Economic News – Low Gasoline Prices – A Situation That Democrats and Never Trump Vow To Reverse

‘I Don’t Think Congress Did Their Job’: Maryland Gov. Hogan Rips Congress On Impeachment

San Francisco Official Rails Against Twitter’s Move To Relocate, Says Dorsey Is Trump’s Hand-Puppet  I doubt that either Dorsey or Trump would agree.

Steyer invokes Nazi prosecutor father to condemn Trump

Nets Aghast Trump ‘Striking Back’ Against Impeachment Witnesses  Y0u’d think they’d learn.

“Moments Of Triggering”: Rashida Tlaib Explains Why She And Ilhan Omar Held Hands During The State Of The Union  Yeah, being surrounded by kfiri must be frightening.

New York Times Chronicles Leftist Demoralization Over Failed Trump Supporter Conversions  If you speak loudly enough and slowly enough, foreigners will understand English and normal people will become socialist.

CNN’s Rye: Trump’s ‘Pro-Life’ Judges ‘Want to Kill Off Everyone Else’  uh, I don’t think so….

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.  I suspect that having a Girlfriend of Color looms large.

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Africa is home to about 1 million Chinese, the Associated Press reported Saturday. Many of these people are in Africa there as part of China’s efforts to extract African mineral resources, according to the Institute of Developing Economics. However, the threat of Chinese workers bringing coronavirus with them into Africa has officials gravely concerned, AP reported.

As Eric S Raymond warned us.

Steven Hayward.

Cast your mind back to 2009, when Democrats, coming off Barack Obama’s convincing victory in the 2008 election, had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a more than ample majority in the House. Happy days are here again! Here comes pro-union card check, higher income taxes, amnesty and open borders, sweeping climate change legislation, and universal health care! It was around this time that James Carville, the impresario behind Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 campaign, confidently declared that Democrats were now set to rule for the next 40 years! He even published a book—40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation.

Carville had drunk the Kool Aid of the liberal-Hegelian conceit that demographics and “the side of history” had delivered Democrats into the Promised Land, from whose commanding heights it was Progress as far as the mind’s-eye could imagine. Well, that glorious 40 years quickly became a fast one-way trip to the wilderness, as it didn’t even last 40 months. All liberals got out of that heavily Democratic Congress was . . . Obamacare? And oh what a success that was. No card check for labor unions, no amnesty for illegal immigrants, only a slight increase in income taxes for the very rich, while climate change legislation went down in fossil-fueled flames, as U.S. oil and natural gas production soared. Obama resorted to trying to get some of these things through executive action, but much of that was stymied in the courts or reversed by President Trump, who came to office and said, “Hey look—I found Obama’s pen!” In the 2010 election, the Democrats got creamed, with Republicans achieving their strongest position on all levels in 70 years.

All this came back to mind watching the Democrats’ debate in New Hampshire last night, which occurred conveniently during cocktail hour out here on the Left Coast, so in fact I literally ate popcorn along with adult beverages while I watched the Democratic field show once again that it is running to be president of Twitter more than President of the United States.

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Curiouser and curiouser.

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The New York Times published a rather shocking article for Saturday’s newspaper. Online, the headline was an attention-grabber:

Black Workers’ Wages Are Finally Rising
Their pay is increasing after a decade of stagnation. One man’s story shows the hope — and limitations — with that shift.

Wait. So black workers’ wages stagnated….all through the Obama presidency. This is a rather stunning headline. This is NOT the headline that made the Saturday paper, published on page B-1. Instead, it was “He’s Gained A Foothold, But Worries About Falling.”

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US Vice Admiral Andrew Lewis, the head of the Navy’s 2nd Fleet, raised eyebrows this week with alarming comments made at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event.

He told the think tank audience that a recent uptick of Russian submarine presence of the US East Coast means that the coastal area should no longer be considered “uncontested” nor should any longer be deemed a “safe haven” for US ships or submarines.

Perhaps they could arrange for marine biologists to tag them, the way they tag sharks. I’m always reading about sharks that have appeared off the east coast because they picked up the tags. Maybe the Navy ought to get on that.

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Assuming, of course, that you survive the experience.

Physicist and television presenter Brian Cox and musician Ed Sheeran have both admitted they can get a bit over-emotional when watching movies on aircraft. A survey by Gatwick Airport in London found 15 percent of men and 6 percent of women said they were more likely to cry when watching a film on a flight than they would if seeing it at home.

Perhaps the prospect of sudden death has something to do with it.

The reduced air pressure on airline flights can reduce the amount of oxygen in passengers’ blood between 6 and 25 percent, a drop that in hospital would lead many doctors to administer supplementary oxygen. For healthy passengers, this shouldn’t pose many issues, although in the elderly and people with breathing difficulties, the impact can be higher.

For none of which, of course, the passengers have expressed informed consent. Interesting how airline passengers are treated in ways that under other circumstances would justify a lawsuit.

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Louisiana’s continual land loss has created a monumental legal headache: When privately owned land vanishes under the water, who does it belong to?

A task force created in the summer of 2018 to come up with policy recommendations sent its list of possible solutions to state lawmakers Friday, ahead of their regular session.

The problem is a result of the state’s rapidly changing landscape. About 80 percent of Louisiana’s coast is privately owned. But, under an old law, as coastal erosion and sea level rise turn the land into open water the area becomes property of the state, including the mineral rights underneath.

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As the 2020 Democratic presidential field dwindled, so did their apparent prospects at winning the election come November. Friday was witness to the latest installment in banal Democratic Presidential debates and even their greatest allies in the media could not help but take note of its dull nature. So much so, that ABC (the network who hosted the event) shifted into worrisome mode once the debate concluded.

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Democrat love for government-sanctioned racism comes back from the depths.

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In the UK a Muslim man is being prosecuted for removing his son from LGBT lessons, which he claims risk the safety of his child.