April Ryan: ‘The Great Dan Rather’ Loved Me Asking Trump If He Was a Racist

CBS Disregards Historic Dow Rally, Gets Snarky With Trump Rally Over Virus

CNN’s Begala: Trump will ‘dump Pence’ for Haley on day of Democratic nominee’s acceptance speech | TheHill  And if you believe that one he’ll tell you another one.

MSNBC’s Mike Barnicle Heaps Praise on ‘Humble’ Joe Biden, the Alleged Anti-Trump

Sickening: New York Times Sees Only Pro-Trump ‘Partisans’ Exploiting Coronavirus

Just 3 Out Of 260 Harvard Faculty Members Plan To Vote Trump: Survey

‘Racist Commentary Disguised As Humor’: SNL Actor Criticized For Calling Black White House Guests ‘House Negroes’

Joy Behar Spooked by Trump Winning 2020: You’ll ‘Lose Your Rights, Clean Air, Water, Health Care!’  Well, if he couldn’t do that in the first four years, how is four more years going to work?

Trump Donates Quarter 4 Salary To HHS To Help Fight Coronavirus  Guess he didn’t get the word that he’s making the crisis worse.

‘We Love You Massa’: Spike Lee Mocks Black Trump Supporters

CNN’s ‘New Day’ Gives Paul Krugman Free Time to Bash GOP on Coronavirus, Tax Cuts And he’s always been right before, hasn’t he?

‘I Thought Thanos Was Trump But Apparently It’s Bernie Sanders’: CNN Anchor Compares The Vermont Senator To Marvel Villain  If Thanos were Trump CNN anchors would be in shallow graves.

Rep. Hoyer: House to Vote Soon to Limit Trump’s War Powers  Which will go absolutely nowhere. But I guess they need to look as if they are working.

Obama Defense Secretary Hagel Endorses Biden for President  As with Mitt Romney, he can claim to be a Republican till the cows come home, but everybody knows the truth.

Tammy Duckworth Claims That Mike Pence’s Plan To Fight Coronavirus Is ‘Just Pray’  Ignorance pays well in Washington.

The Soyciety Pages: Politico Claims That “Movement Conservatives” — Rather than Ex-Republicans Who Declared They Were Democrats a Year Ago — Are Considering Voting for the Socialist Bernie Sanders

Half of world’s beaches will disappear by 2100 because of climate change, experts say  And they’ve always been right in the past, haven’t they?

The UK’s first climate change refugees?  Any excuse to get out of the Turd World.

Svalbard Norway now has more polar bear habitat than it did two decades ago

Climate “crisis” to eradicate world’s beaches by 2100  Don’t tell the people in Malibu.

Does Information About Climate Risk Affect Property Values?  Evidently not.

GMA Lectures: Listen to Climate ‘Better Angels,’ Ignore ‘Devilish Instincts’

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But will they? Especially in ‘Sanctuary States’.

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It’s a war.

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Get with the program, bunkie.

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Last week, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform conducted a hearing that purported to examine the history and current state of voting rights in America. Witnesses testified that Texas’s free voter ID cards, for example, are too burdensome on the poor and on minority communities, particularly blacks.

If free voter IDs create such a hardship, why don’t we hear more complaints about the various fees and expensive IDs that are required to own a gun and pass a background check?

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How bad will it get before they accept the aid Trump offered them?

UPDATE: BBC Publishes Leaked Iran Footage Showing Bagged Bodies Of Covid-19 Victims Piling Up

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The UN’s nuclear watchdog says Iran has more than tripled its supply of enriched uranium in the last three months and now has more than a ton stockpiled, in violation of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Who in their right mind ever expects Muslim governments to keep the agreements they make? Mohammed never did, and he is their Perfect Man.

ZMan does some analysis.

Trump, for example, would love to spend a trillion dollars on roads and bridges. The Democrats have talked about it for years, but now they oppose it, because they hate Trump.

That’s one of the dimensions to politics. The opposition to Trump is entirely personal, often stemming from class identity. The more candid anti-Trump people come right out and admit that they oppose him because they don’t like his style. The personal dimension to politics plays a much larger role that it should, but democratic politics always attracts small-minded narcissists. The system itself rewards this sort of behavior, so even the more mature fall into the trap of personal politics.

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The Greek border is being besieged by thousands of migrants convinced they can reach EU welfare havens following Ankara’s decision to stand down.

Following clashes that saw migrants pelt police with rocks and other objects, one victim was shot through the mouth and died at the scene.

The more the ‘migrants’ push, the harder the reaction will be.

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In theory, a Supreme Court ruling allowing so-called “faithless electors” would add a new level of uncertainty to the race, with no guarantee the winner of the popular vote in a state would get the state’s full number of electoral votes.

Actually, that’s what the Founders intended. It was only the Progressive ‘let’s have more democracy!’ movement in the early part of the 20th century that changed things.

Last May, the Washington state Supreme Court held that the state could regulate the vote of an elector either directly or indirectly, upholding a $1,000 fine for the Clinton defectors. In August, a federal appeals court said a similar Colorado law was unconstitutional. Now, the Supreme Court will have its turn.

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Just days after Beijing promised to send a a 1,000-duck “army” to Pakistan to help farmers fend off one of the largest locust swarms in decades, senior government officials warned that China could soon face an “invasion” of desert locusts and urged local authorities to prepare for battle, even as the country struggles to get back on its feet after being shut down for so long.

Wow, you’d think Somebody Up There doesn’t like them.

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Not being Chinese or a resident of either Left Coast, I don’t feel an urge to do that.

However, I am surrounded by low-IQ people, so who knows?

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Bet the DemLegHump Media don’t cover it.

Joel Kotkin.

Politicians across the Western world like to speak fondly of the “middle class” as if it is one large constituency with common interests and aspirations. But, as Karl Marx observed, the middle class has always been divided by sources of wealth and worldview. Today, it is split into two distinct, and often opposing, middle classes. First there is the yeomanry or the traditional middle class, which consists of small business owners, minor landowners, craftspeople, and artisans, or what we would define historically as the bourgeoisie, or the old French Third Estate, deeply embedded in the private economy. The other middle class, now in ascendency, is the clerisy, a group that makes its living largely in quasi-public institutions, notably universities, media, the non-profit world, and the upper bureaucracy.

Standing between the oligarchs, who now own as much as 50 percent of the world’s assets, and the growing population of propertyless serfs, the traditional middle class increasingly struggles for survival against those with the greatest access to capital and political power. The power of this modern-day equivalent of the Medieval aristocracy, what the French referred to as the Second Estate, seems likely to grow; a recent British parliamentary study projects that, by 2030, the top one percent will expand their share to two-thirds of the world’s wealth, with the biggest gains overwhelmingly concentrated in the top .01 percent. One of the upshots of this concentration of economic power is that entrepreneurship is now declining even in the capitalist hotbed of America.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #411

Anti-Greta Knocks ‘Climate Alarmists’ During CPAC Speech

NASA Selects New Instrument to Continue Key Climate Record

Think Flash Floods Are Bad? Buckle Up for Flash Droughts

A lot of people are saying ‘SNL’ trolled Trump perfectly  CNN. They’re still behind the number of times Trump’s ‘trolled them’ perfectly.

Trump made a baseless attack on two Supreme Court justices. Here’s why he did it.  Loserthink: mind-reading. And the attacks were far from ‘baseless’.

CNN Tells Viewers to Take Trump’s ‘Hoax’ Comment ‘How You Wish’  In other words, they got caught lying.

Lisa Page Slams Trump’s Obsession With Her  I still don’t understand why she’s not in jail.

NBC’s Ruhle Still Pushing Fake News: Trump ‘Calling the Virus a Hoax’

Media Barely Hides Disdain For Prayer After Trump, Pence Photos

MSNBC Hits Pence Over Prayer, Trump Appointed Him as ‘Fall Guy’

Dems Break Ties With Taliban After They Make Deal With Trump  Babylon Bee.

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

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Margaret Sanger would be very pleased.

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These days, even the silliest concepts get respectful and prominent feature play if they are sufficiently “woke.”

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Well, that didn’t take long.

Unlike Judaism and Christianity, Islam has no problem with lying.

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Furious Canadians slammed the government for failing to cancel flights from Iran, presently the country with the worst outbreak outside China, and other policies that suggest a dangerously blithe response from the government, perhaps as a consequence of PM Trudeau’s commitment to ‘woke’ policies (many have slammed travel bans as racist).

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I’m waiting for the Ayatollah to croak and Iran to descend into anarchy.

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

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Just do it.

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“Given that this research brings us past the known ability to split one photon into two entangled daughter photons, we’re optimistic that we’ve opened up a new area of exploration.”

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Six years ago he tried to tell the Beaverton City Council there’s a problem with its red light cameras. Then there was the State of Oregon, which fined him for practicing engineering without a license.

He had to file a federal lawsuit to continue his research to prove drivers making turns at intersections often get caught in a dilemma when they’re slowing down to make a turn and the yellow light isn’t long enough.

Järlström said he used 8th-grade math skills to prove drivers have been getting tickets they can’t avoid.

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Slicing open one of these trees or running the leaves of its bush cousin through a peanut press produces a sap that oozes a neon blue-green. This “juice” is actually one-quarter nickel, far more concentrated than the ore feeding the world’s nickel smelters.

That certainly sounds encouraging.

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You may have heard of the Molekule air purifier. It pops up in ads left and right, design-minded businesses such as InterContinental Hotels and the MoMA Design Store have embraced it, and influential media outlets including Wired, Time, Popular Science, Architectural Digest, Town & Country, New York Magazine, and The New York Times’s own T Magazine have sung its praises.1 Those places bought into the company’s claims, but the only two publications to actually test it—Wirecutter and Consumer Reports—found it to be abysmal, or, as we put it in our air purifier guide, “the worst air purifier we’ve ever tested.” Now the company is back in the news making some big promises: Founders say they’re “very confident that this technology will destroy Coronavirus” and that the virus is “a rather simple structure for us to be able to be destroy.” And the company just got $58 million in new funding. So is everyone getting duped by simply taking Molekule’s word for it?

I have a Molekule, and I find these results quite disappointing. I can’t, however, say that they are wrong. My wife and I both have seasonal allergies, which is why I bought it, and at first it seemed to help a great deal. More recently, however, it doesn’t seem to have any beneficial effect.

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In eastern Congo efforts to deal with the Ebola virus epidemic are being disrupted by continuing civil disorder and various armed groups blocking medical aid efforts. The major impediment is the persistent anarchy and warfare in Ituri and North Kivu provinces where 100 to 120 militias and rebel groups continue to operate. The number of new “cases per day” has dropped. From February 18 to 23, there was only one new confirmed case in North Kivu Province. As of February 23, there have been 3,444 total cases, with 3,310 confirmed and 2,264 victims died. This is a 66 percent fatality rate. There are 1,167 survivors, but that some of these are patients still undergoing treatment.

The huge desert locust swarm sweeping across eastern Africa reached Congo’s Lake Albert region in late February. This is the first major locust swarm to strike Congo since 1944. Locust swarms are already ravaging neighboring Uganda.

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And, if I’m not mistaken, the poorest.

The Democratic Presidential nomination: That’s what you can do when you’re old and rich.

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So far, I don’t see that anybody outside of the Left Coast has anything to worry about.

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I’d be inclined to say that we don’t have a wog in that fight, but that’s me.

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They want opportunity, just like the rest of us.

Freeberg is on a tear.

And I’m far from the first to notice…this is the party that’s going to save us from a plutocracy run by rich old white men…and the white men they’re offering us have never been older, or whiter, or richer. Now, what is that? Is it fair to call it “irony”? That word would imply some sort of an accident, and it’s getting harder and harder to call this an accident. An election year comes about, the democrats put together a platform of “Don’t ever trust any rich people” and then they implore us to cast our votes for…their rich people. It just keeps happening that way.

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Perhaps because that’s when the press started to be obviously biased.

I was there in 1964. I remember.

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No, it’s just going to bankrupt California that much sooner.

Climate Skeptic Freeman Dyson Dies at 96

Freeman Dyson takes on the climate establishment (2009)

Pew Research: US Climate Concern is Soaring – Amongst Democrats

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True to Erdogan’s prior threat that Europe would see 18,000 to as many as 30,000 refugees pour across European Union borders on Saturday after Turkey ‘opened the gates,’ it’s being reported that the number of migrants at Evros — a key land border between Turkey and Greece — has now reached 15,000.

Throughout Saturday the area became a war zone as thousands of refugees, urged on by Turkish authorities, attempted to cross into Greece en masse.

Sounds as if they need a wall.

Germany’s Der Spiegal published footage showing migrants hurling tear gas grenades at Greek police, reportedly canisters provided by Turkish security themselves.

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This is why Turkey ought not to be a member of NATO.

UPDATE: Two Syrian Jets Shot Down By Turkey Near Idlib As War Escalates

Any resemblance  between the guy in the yellow shirt and Jonah Goldberg is (I’m sure) completely coincidental.

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I like to find out whether the reporter has any training in the field about which he (or she) is writing. I am always disappointed.