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All of them are Democrats, and almost all of them are black.

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A team of researchers in Louisiana has proposed a method of combating the coronavirus: issuing booster doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, CNN reported.

The MMR vaccine is a “live vaccine,” using highly weakened versions of the measles, mumps and rubella viruses to provide protection to the immune system that goes beyond just the injected viruses. The MMR vaccine works to boost general immunity, as well as train the body to recognize specific viruses, which may be effective in combating COVID-19.

‘It got ugly’: What happened when Black Lives Matter protests came to small town Ohio

Chicago Chase Bank Branches Close Over ‘Pop-up Protests’  Basically racist extortion.

National Arm Of Black Lives Matter Spent Millions On Travel And Consultants, Financial Statements Show  Sometimes it is good to be oppressed.

FBI Data: Blacks, Who Are Only 13.4% of the Population, Were 54.9% of Known Murder Offenders in 2018

Baltimore City Police Confirm President Trump’s Claim 68% Of All Homicides Unsolved In 2019

America Hater Kaepernick to ‘Lead Discussion’ on Race for ‘Medium’ Site  In other words, he’s going to be the Duty Oppressed Black Guy at a high salary charged with keeping Medium out of the hands of the mob. Look for that to become a new regular corporate position.

Shrill ‘Comedian’ Sam Bee: GOP ‘Punishes Black’ Voters for Voting  How? Everything is run by Democrats. If blacks are being punished, Democrats are doing it.

‘Compared To Hitler’: St. Junípero Serra Statue To Be Removed From Ventura  Well, Hitler was a Catholic, too; it all adds up!

Taylor Swift Makes The Case For Why Juneteenth Should Be A National Holiday  Anybody who wants to give their employees a holiday on June 19th is free to do so. This is an attempt to make everybody do so, and that’s racism straight up.

Chicago Trib Columnist: Texas Rangers Were Racist, So MLB Team Should Change Name

Here Are Ten White People Who Destroyed Communities After George Floyd’s Death

Bucknelldad: What Will the Mob Do with Woodrow Wilson?  What they always do with racist Democrats, nothing.

MSNBC: Trump Rally a ‘Slap in the Face’ to Black Tulsa Residents  Only the racist ones.

Stepmother Of Officer Who Allegedly Shot Rayshard Brooks Fired, Employer Gives Little Explanation  And your little mom, too….

AP Wants You to Know That “Near” Where Trump Will Hold a Rally in Tulsa, a Race Massacre Occurred in… 1921

USA Today Pushed Leftist Event Calling for Boycotts of Businesses Not Supporting BLM

Bestselling Book ‘Cancel Culture Isn’t Real’ Pulled From Stores After Author’s Old Tweet Surfaces  Oops.

Brands Tout Black Heritage as Some Shoppers Question Authenticity

MSNBC’s Hayes Calls ‘Duplicitous’ John Bolton the Leader of the GOP  Uh, don’t think so….

Twitter Labels Trump Post as ‘Manipulated Media’ With Video Mocking CNN

Tulsa Mayor Declares ‘Civil Emergency’ for Trump Rally  If it weren’t for that pesky Constitution he’d shut the thing down.

At NY Times, Peter Baker Works Hard to Make Trump a ‘Law and Order’ Hypocrite

MSNBC’s Morning Joe Says Trump Would ‘Execute’ Journalists and Committed ‘Treason’  Today in Scarborogh Derangement Syndrome.

Scarborough: After ‘Madman’ Trump Loses, Insiders Will Claim They Pushed 25th Amendment  More Scarborough Derangement Syndrome.

Jim Scuitto Spreads Fear about COVID and White Supremacists at Trump’s rally

Jim Sciutto Presses Mulvaney To Attack Trump, But He Only Had One Criticism: ‘He Didn’t Hire Very Well’

In Now-Deleted Tweet, Vanity Fair Reporter Suggests Trump Supporters Will Show Up To Tulsa Rally In KKK Robes  More likely the press will — the KKK were Democrats to a man.

‘Gotta Let Me Finish, Jim, This Isn’t A Cable News Segment’: Kayleigh McEnany Chastises CNN’s Acosta For Interrupting

Sneering Joe Scarborough: Evangelicals Sold Their ‘Political Souls’ to Trump  Scarborough wouldn’t know a soul if one bit him on the butt.

Susan Rice Says Trump Supporters In The Senate Belong In ‘Trash Heap Of History’

Tulsa Rescinds Curfew for Trump Rally Area Day After Imposed  I would say that he didn’t so much see the light as feel the heat.

CNN’s Sciutto Demands Trump Staffers Testify ‘Under Oath’ About Bolton Claims  They still think they can ‘demand’ something.

Low-cost solar-to-hydrogen cell achieves breakthrough 17.6% efficiency

The Mystery of Antarctica’s Record Drop in Sea Ice Has Been Solved

Al Gore Hails Al Roker’s ‘Consistent Advocacy’ on Climate Change  To which nobody pays any attention whatsoever.

Polar Bears and Climate Scares – the Real Truth Behind the Issue

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Bernie Sanders fan Joe Rogan – who admitted in April that he’d rather vote for President Trump Trump over former Vice President Joe Biden – says the left-wing media is ignoring Biden’s cognitive decline.

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In our experience, the “objective” media tilt dramatically in favor or abortion advocates. But amazingly, it’s not biased enough for them. NARAL Pro-Choice America released a “media analysis,” a “deep dive” this week on the way journalists cover abortion. They hired the Global Strategy Group, a Democratic polling and PR firm, to do the study.

How flawed is it? Start with how they read the media: “A random sample of more than 300 abortion-related articles were elected for study across ten major news outlets…from January through June of 2019.” It would be much more accurate to pick just one media outlet and read every article. But listen to some of their actual complaints/findings, which are really complaining that the pro-life side gets too much attention:

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If they wanted to give DC residents representation, they merely need to give DC back to Maryland, as the did with the portion that fell in Virginia. The federal government doesn’t need its own Fantasy Island — they don’t do anything with it anyway, now that they have a city administration to give out jobs to black people.

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Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Population – 150,000

Worst Case Projected Hospitalizations – 14,000

Best Case Projected Hospitalizations – 120

Worst Case Projected Death Toll – 900

Best Case Projected Death Toll – 9

Actual Death Toll – Nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. Zilch.

Currently Active Cases – Zilch.

Megan McArdle is always worth reading.

The left’s long march through the centers of culture has influenced mainstream values, and conservatives saw tech employees being fired for opposing gay marriage, bakeries shut down by civil rights commissions, and their own employers “inviting” them to publicly declare themselves allies of various social justice causes, removing even the option of keeping tactfully quiet on the job. Of establishment Republicans who said moderation was the path to political power, they demanded to know what all that power was for, if not to protect them from this sort of thing.

Thus, instead of a moderate conservative who would defer to liberal sensibilities on touchy issues such as immigration, they chose a champion whose superpowers were reflexive belligerence and utter indifference to social mores. When the GOP establishment warned that nominating Trump would end with Democrats running things, the base responded, “So would nominating one of you.”

The civil war that ensued saw Schwarz’s iron law working in both directions: Both the #NeverTrumpers and the Trumpists were willing to lose the election before they’d allow the other side to run the party. Come November, both sides may get their wish.

ZMan’s weekly podcast, to which you really ought to subscribe. It’s only an hour, and well worth it.

I was tempted to take this week off, given that it is the sacred holiday of Juneteenth, a day when all white people are supposed to contemplate their guilt. According to this newly minted ancient custom, whites are supposed to sit at home with the shades drawn and the lights off. It’s sort of like what Jews are supposed to do on their sabbath, except there’s never any forgiveness or the possibility for salvation. This new religion is a one-way street for white people. We’re all going to Hell.

While it is not official, you can be sure our corporate tyrants will try hard to impose this holiday on us. It has already started. My bank is closing early today in celebration of Juneteenth, a holiday they just heard of last week. You can be sure the other global pirates will follow suit for next year. Then there will be a push to make it a Federal holiday, which will get no resistance. The reason for that is anyone who would resist will be silenced or threatened, as Juneteenth intended.

Joel Kotkin.

I may have already linked to this, but better too many references than too few. The economic and demographic changes in this country, of which California is on the leading edge, are pretty disturbing. People need to figure out where we are going so that they can prepare to cope, and in order to know where we are going we need careful and comprehensive analysis of the changes that are occurring. I don’t buy all of Kotkin’s analysis, but at least he’s asking the right questions and putting up a structure for discussion.

Deadly Bomb Explosion Kills At Least Four At Mosque In Kabul

Ten million more people in Pakistan set to fall below poverty line

“Allahu Akhbar!” in Rimini

Turkey Blasts Twitter As “Propaganda Machine” For Removing Pro-Erdogan ‘Fake’ Accounts

UN Report Finds Missiles In Last Year’s Aramco Attack Came From Iran

Iran’s Plans for the Disintegration of the West

MSF to close Kabul maternity unit raided last month by gunmen because of safety concerns

CAIR Sues to Muzzle Arizona Community College Professor

US May Stop Aid to Jordan to Force Extradition of Terrorist

Turkey’s Big Bet Has Put Libya In Center Of A Global Power Struggle

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The talks appear to have faltered over a recurring issue: Ethiopia’s refusal to accept a permanent, minimum volume of water that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, should release downstream in the event of severe drought.

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Now a lofty new air taxi being built by the Israeli startup firm Urban Aeronautics hopes to cash in on those promises with its new Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) car that unites technology with Jetsons-like futuristic dreams mostly only observed in films like Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Back to the Future, and most recently on TV in Season 3 of HBO’s Westworld.

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Cora, the world’s first all-electric, self-flying air taxi, resumed testing in both the US and New Zealand after a three-month delay because of Covid-19 concerns. Cora is considered one of the most advanced electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, having gained its flight certificates in 2017. It was designed and is being developed by Wisk, an urban-air-mobility company backed by Boeing and Kitty Hawk.

Most of these devices are designed to be ‘self-driving’, and I can’t see that getting a lot of traction.

Atlanta Police walk out following murder charge against officer who shot Rayshard Brooks

Group attacks customer outside Texas convenience store: cops

Man Charged With Shoving 92-Year-Old Woman Has Been Arrested At Least 65 Times: NYPD

Prof Says University “Inclusion & Diversity” Efforts Are A “Smokescreen” That Harms Black Students

Ignoring a Black Conservative: ABC, NBC Skip Sen. Scott’s Police Reform Bill  Everybody knows that black Republicans aren’t genuinely black.

Black mass: the Georgetown Lecture Fund’s odd diversity campaign

Vermont Principal Put On Leave For Not Agreeing With Black Lives Matters

WashPost Exposes Its Own Cartoonist Tom Toles Lying About Friend in Blackface at His House

Dana Bash: Talking About America’s Heritage Is a Racist Dog Whistle!  Funny how the only people who can hear these ‘racist dog-whistles’ are lefty journalists….

Britain’s government can’t handle COVID or Black Lives Matter, either

Atlanta PD Calls Out Sick En Masse As Former Officer Charged With Murder In Killing Of Rayshard Brooks

Washington state mayor now calls BLM protests ‘domestic terrorism’ after her home vandalized

Fired Former Black Worker at “The Lincoln Project:” Why Was I, a Black Woman, Fired Immediately For Calling Trump “Retarded Ass,” Whereas Rick Wilson, a White Man, Gets to Fly the Confederate Flag and Suffer No Setbacks At All?

Georgia Bureau Of Investigation Says It Was ‘Not Consulted’ On Charges Against Officer In Rayshard Brooks’ Death  Their minds were made up; why confuse them with facts?

Oakland Mayor Launches Hate Crime Investigation Over ‘Nooses’ In Trees — Black Resident Says They Were Exercise Aids

Mayor Of Olympia, Washington, Says Her Home Had ‘BLM’ Spray-Painted On Door And Porch, Cites ‘Domestic Terrorism’  Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Medium Announces Colin Kaepernick Is Joining Board Of Directors And you can’t get much more ‘token’ than that.

REPORT: TV Networks Now Hiring Private Investigator To Search Stars’ Social Media For Racism

Mexican-American Guy Gives “OK” Sign as He’s Driving Truck; Fired By Employer for Making “White Supremacy Symbol”  Any excuse will do.

Statue Of Black Tennis Legend Arthur Ashe Defaced With ‘White Lives Matter’  Sauce for the goose….

CBS Analyst Who Wouldn’t Condemn Omar’s Hate Now Authors ‘Anti-Racist Baby’ Book  Nothing more important than anti-racist babies, I guess.

Arctic Ocean acidification worse than previously expected

What we learned from John Bolton’s eye-popping tale of working with Trump  CNN. Eye-popping! Now consider what headline they’s have used if it were a pro-Trump book rather than (presumably) an anti-Trump book.

Trump is trying to block publication of John Bolton’s book. What’s he scared of?  The Guardian. OF COURSE he has to be ‘scared of something’.

‘Something’s wrong with Donald Trump’: New ad from Republican group that drove president into a fury questions his health

‘Complete Idiot’ Donald Trump and ‘Dope’ Karl Rove Now Working Together  New York Magazine.

Teens On TikTok Are Trying To Save Barron Trump From The White House  God forbid he should grow up to be a Trump.

McEnany Tells Off Jim Acosta, Lefty Journalists on Social Distancing Double Standard

Pelosi Says Trump’s Ego Trip Putting American Lives at Risk  Bunny, she never complained about Obama’s ego trip….

Bolton Book Prompts CBS to Push Schiff for New Impeachment Charges

ABC Cheers Supreme Court’s ‘Body Blow’ to Trump On DACA

Bruce Springsteen Slams President Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Response  As if he knew anything about it.

Facebook Censors Trump Ads for ‘Organized Hate’  Bias? What bias?

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And about time, too. I’m getting tired of this shit.

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We have the technology.

The nice thing about tattoos is that it make it easier to track down perpetrators. If we could get them to use handcuffs as a fashion statement….

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Who could have seen that coming?

Kevin Williamson.

The Washington Post has published a 3,000-word exposé, a double byline for two senior staffers, about the fact that a woman nobody’s ever heard of at a Halloween party years ago wore a costume that somebody didn’t like. The woman has, of course, immediately been now fired from her job.

Tom Toles, the liberal Washington Post cartoonist who hosted the party and then lied when asked about it, has not lost his job, as of this writing. It’s nice to be in the family.

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Criminals be stupid.

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Us this a great country or what?

With thanks to Bluebird of Bitterness, who always has the best cat pictures.

ZMan does some history.

The general pattern in American politics, at least from the perspective of normal White people, is that the Left gets carried away with itself, then there is a snap-back followed by a calm period of putting things back in order. For example, by 1985, most normal White people thought the books were closed on the cultural revolution of the 1960’s, even if the irritants had not been removed. The culture had developed the necessary callouses to carry on with the important functions of life.

Margaret Thatcher called this the ratchet effect. The Left would push society to the left, there would be a click and that’s where things would stay for a while. Everyone would get used to the new normal, finding a way to make things work. There was never a return to the old ways, as roll back was always impossible. For the Left, what they have, they keep, so rollback requires a continuation of the bloody war that the normal white people seek to end. There is never a rollback.

This is where the ‘right side of history’ talk comes from. Proglodytes look at the past fifty years and see that every day in every way things are tending toward their positions, so they think that there is something inherent in the historical process that insures their eventual victory.

Ann Coulter points out that we now live in Fantasyland.

Quick! Who was Fort Bragg named after? What did he do? Do you even know his first name? When you have to Google the guy on a statue to figure out who he is, maybe it’s not really the daily humiliation you claim it is.

Anybody who doesn’t know who Braxton Bragg is without looking him up is probably a product of the modern public school system and therefore one of the victims.

But she has a point.

How about a bill withholding all federal funds from Yale University until it changes its name? The school’s namesake, Elihu Yale, was not only a slave owner, but a slave trader.

I’m good with that.

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he called herself Kalamity, though that’s not her real name. She’s the white woman who called me a racist for noting that Indigenous children who live in communities where parents own their homes tend to have a higher standard of living and care than those who live in reserve communities where property is owned communally. This was the day after she schooled me, a Desi, together with a Kenyan woman—the only two non-white individuals in our class—on the proper use of people-of-colour nomenclature.

“I’m not sure I like that phrase,” said the Kenyan woman.

I agreed. Of all the ways to describe oneself, why would I self-define as not white.

“Women of colour chose it,” Kalamity informed us. By this, I learned, she meant black intersectional feminists.

This wasn’t the first or last time that Kalamity treated us like elementary-school children in catechism class. I didn’t like this feeling.

Steve Sailer.

With the news that Quaker Oats is canceling its Aunt Jemima maple syrup, because, well, nobody associates blacks with good cooking anymore, I’m reminded that one of the funnier biographical patterns is that two frontmen of the leftist 1990s rock group Rage Against the Machine have the two most Obama-like biographies imaginable.

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The families of some of the 85 people killed by a horrific Northern California wildfire ignited by Pacific Gas & Electric’s long-neglected equipment vilified the company Wednesday as greedy, corrupt and reckless, telling heartbreaking stories of their loss in court.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

The Conversation: 21% of Rural Australia Ignores Climate Change News

To Halt Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Leninism

Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace

Trevor Noah Tries to Make Sense of Rayshard Brooks Killing  Vanity Fair. A more accurate headline would be ‘Trevor Noah squeezes every last drop of political advantage out of the Rayshar Brooks killing’.

CHAZ Occupier Suggests “Rounding Up All The White People” Into Work Brigades

Here Are the Heroes Whose Statues Black Lives Matter Has Attacked

The New Childishness, by Steve Sailer

By only seeing the world through a white lens, we are all missing out  The Telegraph, which has apparently succumbed to ‘wokeness’.

Aunt Jemima Brand Will Change Its Name  God forbid any white people should retain a favorable image of black people.

Biden Campaign Coy on Black Lives Matter Advisers

Elected Official In Mississippi Says Black People ‘Became Dependent’ During Slavery  And even more so during the Great Society.

New Program Helps People Of Color Adopt A White Liberal To Speak On Their Behalf  Babylon Bee.

They’re Not ‘George Floyd Protests’  The Other McCain.

‘Formal Apologies,’ ‘Reparations’ Needed For People Of African Descent: UN Human Rights Chief  How about reparations for the riots? How about reparations for the crimes?

Boston mayor reportedly open to taking down 140-year-old statue of Abraham Lincoln  Yeah, the Old White Dude, that Lincoln.

MSNBC Turns to Blackface Scandal Dem to Lecture on Race

Concrete Walls Put Up Around Confederate Statue In Virginia

Every Player Took A Knee In Premier League’s First Game Since Season Was Postponed  Yeah, the ‘strong message’ it sends is that you guys are a bunch of wankers.

6 Civil Rights Groups Boycott Facebook Ads  Every cloud has a silver lining.

Breitbart: Credibly Accused Racist and White Supremacist Rick Wilson Was In Dire Financial Straits Before He Cashed in as a NeverTrumper  Imagine that.

‘Distressing’: Reverend reveals what evangelicals say privately about Trump  CNN, so you can predict it’s going to be negative.

Domino’s Pizza mocks Rick Wilson for politicizing Kayleigh McEnany’s 2012 compliment: ‘Guess that’s 2020 fo…

Iowa Grandma Attempts To Troll Trump Into Speaking In Front Of An Empty Auditorium  Which worked about as well as you might expect that it would.

‘Very Compassionate’: Ahmaud Arbery’s Mother Describes Visit With Trump  News you’ll never see in the DemLegHump Media.

‘One Day at a Time’ Cartoon: Trump ‘Made Racism Cool Again’

Trashing Trump in Prime Time

Scaramucci Funding GOP Group Backing Biden Over Trump

Politico: Trump’s Right, Polls Underestimate His Appeal

Cuomo Cheers Court’s ‘Stunning Defeat’ of Trump, Gays ‘Still Not Safe’  Bias? What bias?

Woodward’s Next Trump Book Due This September  Leave no meme unmonetized.

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The biter bit.

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The upside of this woke culture is that if any of these smetterlings are employed at your business, the least whiff of Political Incorrectness will make them walk out, saving you the trouble of rooting them out and giving them the bounce. It’s nice when troubles sort themselves out like that.

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The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), founded in 2019 by Labour party organizers, put out a call for donations Tuesday after NBC News reported that Google was poised to ban The Federalist and Zero Hedge, a libertarian-leaning website, from making money off of Google Ads.

CCDH’s affiliate, Stop Funding Fake News, claimed on Wednesday that it had pressured Ford, the auto maker, to consider dropping ads on Breitbart News, another conservative website that the British non-profit has accused of publishing racist material.

Google ultimately backed off of its decision to kick The Federalist off of Google Ads, but CCDH appears emboldened nonetheless.

Proglodytes: Wherever stupid people are found.

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A military veteran, who helped disarm an Islamist gunman during a train ride from Amsterdam to Paris in 2015, is vying to get involved in politics, Fox News reports.

Alek Skarlatos, an Army National Guard veteran who served in Afghanistan, is looking to unseat liberal Oregon lawmaker Peter DeFazio.

It’s in LeftCoastistan, so he probably won’t win, but kudos to him for trying.

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As Ed Morriseey asks, if right-leaning people declared an autonomous zone and nominated their own (violent) members to impose their idea of street justice on the “soverign zone,” would the left cheer it?

Or would they demand that the military roll in and kill these rightwing fascist warlords?

Obviously the latter.

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Senator Durbin, who has been on the public payroll all his adult life, is certainly free to introduce legislation that he regards as better, if he doesn’t like what Senator Scott ( the Only Black Senator) has done.

UPDATE: Sen. Tim Scott Slams Dick Durbin For Calling His Police Reform Bill ‘A Token’

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This is possible because of the Western ‘human shield’ fetish — activists deliberately put themselves in danger in the sure and certain knowledge that people will go to almost any extreme not to injure them. The correct response to someone deliberately running out in front of your care is, of course, to run that fool over.

Charlie Cooke, one of the few remaining good writers at National Review.

We know Google can’t be evil, because it says it’s not, and that’s how reality works now. But what about stupid?

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I would. He might not win, but he can sure make her spend anything she makes to pay for legal fees.

People who act like your enemy are, almost by definition, not family.

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As demonstrations continue to occupy part of the Capitol Hill district of downtown Seattle, MSNBC’s Vaughn Hillyard and Stephanie Ruhle defended the occupiers from accusations of anarchy and mayhem on Monday by citing their “very peaceful” nature and their dedication to community.

Hillyard hyped the, “very peaceful week here on these streets” and credited that peace to the city’s decision to abandon the East Precinct. Despite the fact the group calling itself the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest once called itself the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Hillyard insisted, “this is not some hostile takeover.”

The former Soviet Union was very peaceful, as is today’s North Korea.

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I’m sure they will.

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Perhaps I need a new category, Today in Scarborough Derangement Syndrome.

ZMan waxes philosophical.

In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu outlined the motivations that drove citizen behavior in the three types of political systems known at the time. In republican forms of government, love of virtue is what motivates the people. In monarchies, it is the love of honor that motivates the actions of the people. In despotism, the people are motivated by fear of the ruler. He argued that the political system must match the inclinations of the people or it would not last.

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Unlike the motivations behind monarchy, republicanism and tyranny, there is no structure to liberal democratic morality. There is no sacred text or body of philosophical work to provide authority. Like a school of fish, morality shifts on a dime and that new direction is assumed to be the general will and therefore the proper course. Morality in a liberal democracy is a riot with no real purpose, other than to feed the need of the people to feel they are the virtuous actor in the great drama of life.

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“One of their low-level employees in Washington, D.C. contacted my office out of the blue and said ‘you have to delete these tweets in 30 minutes or we are going to permanently lock your account,'” Cotton said Wednesday. “We asked for an explanation of why that was. It was not really forthcoming. They cited a policy that didn’t explain or apply to my situation. We sent them back some clear evidence of my meaning on Twitter.”