14th June 2020
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14th June 2020
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14th June 2020
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14th June 2020
The Other McCain is not afraid to ask the obvious question.
Every ‘black’ person in the U.S. ought to be required by law to watch Chris Rock’s video How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police before they are allowed to leave the house.
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14th June 2020
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The Left are masters at political organization, and a major reason is their brutal and uncompromising orthodoxy. Step out of line, and they will whip you back. Take a few steps, and they will kill you…metaphorically or in reality, depending on the location.
That is a tremendous advantage in the political arena, because it allows them to speak with essentially one voice, and the messages are amplified by the image of unity. But the obvious disadvantage is that like the Trojans and Cassandra, the truth, if inconvenient or contrary to the cant will be ignored.
The list of the Left’s Cassandras is long, and it isn’t confined to the political. Science, engineering, even basic biology must be subsumed by the Message.
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14th June 2020
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News is about providing readers with information. The opinion section is about providing readers with arguments. Readers use the information to become more informed, and better able to understand, respond to, disagree with, or otherwise digest the arguments. This process makes them better citizens. Journalism thus plays a very important civic function.
Unfortunately, only the last line in that paragraph is true.
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In a recent blog post, the economist Tyler Cowen got it exactly right when he wrote “the feature of media that actually draws viewer interest is how media stories either raise or lower particular individuals in status… The status ranking of individuals implied by a particular media source is never the same as yours, and often not even close.”
These implicit status rankings are baked into almost every aspect of how journalism, from how a lede is written to who to quote and in what order, photo selection, headlines, font size, you name it. Print media is particularly prone to this, since the geography of a newspaper is essentially one big status playground. (I’ll never forget the time I got an angry call from a reader for burying a story above the fold on the front page. The sin was that the story he thought deserved more play was lined down the rightmost column of the page, while another (lesser) story ran across the top three columns.)
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14th June 2020

Hey! That’s MY superpower!
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14th June 2020
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A new Trump administration policy enabling U.S. government financing for nuclear energy projects abroad could help accelerate the use of smaller reactors, a budding technology that supporters see as a lifeline for the struggling industry.
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The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation proposed this week to reverse an Obama-era ban that prevents it from funding civil nuclear projects overseas, a development first reported by the Washington Examiner.
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13th June 2020
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13th June 2020
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13th June 2020
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13th June 2020
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13th June 2020
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So all this panic was over nothing.
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13th June 2020

I wish I had thought of that.
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12th June 2020
Seattle police chief blasts city officials, says leaving precinct ‘not my decision’
Seattle ‘autonomous zone’ has armed guards, local businesses being threatened with extortion, police say
Right-wing media says Antifa militants have seized part of Seattle. Local authorities say otherwise Who are you going to believe, CNN or your lyin’ eyes?
Zoom Disables Accounts Of Exiled Chinese Dissidents During Tiananmen Square Memorial
Nets Downplay, Provide Cover for Seattle’s Extremist ‘Autonomous Zone’
MOFA: Make Orwell Fiction Again, by Steve Sailer
Univision Misrepresents, Hides Mayhem At Seattle’s CHAZ From Viewers
Seattle Mayor: CHAZ Is ‘More Like A Block Party’ Than An ‘Armed Takeover’
Police Chief Says ‘Elected Official’ Allowed Destruction of Portsmouth Monument
It Only Took 2 Days For Seattle’s “Autonomous Zone” To Descend Into Chaos…
Obama Pentagon Declined to Rename Bases With Confederate Names
MAGA At The CHAZ? First The Walls Go Up — And Then The Forced Deportations
Seattle Councilwoman Says Warlord-Controlled CHAZ Should Remain In Public Hands
Churchill, Washington Statues And Cenotaph War Memorial Boarded Up In London
“Mayor Jenny” of Seattle: The New Bandit Kindom In the Heart of Our City is Like a “Block Party” Police: “Robberies and Rapes” Are Taking Place in the Bandit Kingdom and We Can’t Stop Them
Liberal Media Scrambling To Cover Up Reality Of Seattle’s ‘CHAZ’ Zone
Protests Reveal Little Threat of COVID-19 in Outside Air: Why Is Seattle Still Restricting Park Access? Because they can?
The Miami PD Is Not the Seattle, New York, or Portland PD
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12th June 2020
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12th June 2020
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The way it works is simple. Instead of the traditional ink you’d find in everyday pens, the Forever Pininfarina Cambiano Inkless Pen features a metal alloy capable of writing on regular paper. And even without any lead or graphite, this forever pen can be used to draw and sketch with ease. And while the pen represents a new, modern way of writing, it boasts a classic, wooden design, making it a piece you’ll treasure forever.
Well, maybe. I’d want to see how it writes first.
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12th June 2020
Steve spreads some love.
This is mostly about AR-15s (ack!ptui!) but this paragraph lets you know everything you need to know about the author:
It reminds me of what people say when they want to convince you cats are real pets: “My cat is just like a dog!” Why didn’t you just buy a dog, then? No one ever says, “You’ll love my dog! He’s just like a cat!” This is true for the same reason no one ever tries to make fake vegetables from meat.
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12th June 2020
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The Whitest City in America descends into woke chaos.
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12th June 2020
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Mmmmmmmmm … could be.
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12th June 2020
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As if people didn’t have enough reason already to hate lawyers.
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12th June 2020
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12th June 2020
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12th June 2020
Steve Sailer.
How much of the current craziness is a well-thought out, organized putsch in response to the coronavirus economic collapse by organizations and agencies that are funded by states and localities, which are limited in their deficit spending, to defund cops to shift money to themselves?
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12th June 2020
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Does anybody remember the grocery store looting TV game show that debuted after the Watts Riots of 1965? You ran through the store loading your shopping cart for 90 seconds and the crew that grabbed the most dollar value of loot won.
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12th June 2020
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A Democratic congressional candidate downplayed looting and arson during a digital campaign event on Tuesday.
This is why there aren’t a lot of Democrat office-holders in Texas, outside of the urban behavioral sinks.
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11th June 2020
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11th June 2020
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Taking it out of the hands of coward politicians.
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11th June 2020
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To the growing list of opinions that could cause you to be cast out of public life we can now add: thinking white privilege is a bullshit idea and thinking that staging a protest in Wales against police brutality in Minneapolis is a bit stupid.
For over the past 24 hours it has been revealed that two British men have been sacked and suspended respectively for the crime of gently criticising the tactics and rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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11th June 2020
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Today’s unrest involves two sections of US society, African-Americans and upper-middle-class whites, who together form the axis of the Democratic Party, but it is the latter who are far more engaged in racial activism. The “Great Awokening”, the mass movement focused on eradicating racism in America and with a quasi-religious, almost hysterical feel to it, is dominated by the upper middle class.
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That noble tradition of haute bourgeoisie revolution continues today, especially in the US. The Occupy movement, for example, is deeply opposed to the 1% but largely because they come from the 2-5%; Amy Chua cited figures suggesting that in New York, more than half it members earned $75,000 or more while only 8% were on low incomes, compared to 30% of the city. They also have hugely disproportionate numbers of graduates and post-grads among their members.
The wider Great Awokening, of which the 2020 disturbances are a part, is a very elite phenomenon, with progressive activists nearly twice as likely as the average American to make more than $100,000 a year, nearly three times as likely to have a postgraduate degree, and only one-quarter as likely to be black. Likewise with the radicalisation of American academia, with the safe spaces movement most prevalent at elite colleges, where students were much more likely to disinvite speakers or express more extreme views.
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11th June 2020
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This is the very definition of insurrection, for which the National Guard is the designated response.
If I lived in Seattle, I would leave as soon as possible.
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11th June 2020
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Some of us predicted the National Review would run a “Two cheers for antifa rioting” article.
But we weren’t really predicting that — we were darkly, archly suggesting that that was within the realm of possibliity.
Barely.
Well, we should have put money on the actual prediction coming to pass.
NR is now ‘woke’. Let’s hope for all our sakes that it will soon go broke.
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11th June 2020
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11th June 2020
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Facebook’s third party fact-checkers, selected by the liberal Poynter Institute, have officially labeled World Health Organization’s (WHO) statement about asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 as “misleading.” Ironically, in April, Facebook used the WHO to disprove myths about COVID-19.
According to Healthfeedback.org, a wing of Sciencefeedback.org, two scientists analyzed a piece on CNBC and determined that the “statements by the WHO and the reporting by CNBC were misleading and imprecise.” The CNBC piece touting the WHO’s statement was covered up with an interstitial, or filter, and labeled “partially false.”
There’s an echo in here.
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11th June 2020
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A local authority in southern England said it would remove a statue of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide scouting movement, the latest memorial to be taken down in the wake of anti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.
This is unconscionable.
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10th June 2020
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10th June 2020
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10th June 2020
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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
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10th June 2020
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When George Floyd tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill in a Minneapolis grocery store, did he imagine that his crime would set in motion a chain of events leading to his own death, riots that caused the destruction of millions of dollars of property, and a three-hour funeral service with a sermon by Al Sharpton broadcast live on national TV?
The grocery store has become “Mecca” for the Cult of Social Justice that worship at the Shrine of the Blessed Martyr. This reminds me of how some extremists were drawn to the Branch Davidian compound near Waco as the symbol of an “anti-government” movement that led to the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
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10th June 2020
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Morning Joe has abandoned any pretense of being anything other than an abject mouthpiece for the DNC in general, and the Biden campaign in particular.
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10th June 2020
Babylon Bee.
BILLUND, DENMARK—The world is hurting right now, and everyone knows that the only thing that can heal the wound is big corporations announcing their positions on things.
Well, we’ve taken a big step toward unity today as LEGO announced all building sets in the future would remove the police and replace them with rioters from groups such as Antifa. The new “LEGO Riot City” line of building bricks brings a real, police-less LEGO utopia right to your tabletop.
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10th June 2020
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The Minneapolis Police Department will be withdrawing from union contract negotiations amid concerns that police unions hinder accountability and reform measures, numerous sources reported.
Gee, Republicans have been saying that for decades.
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10th June 2020
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Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party merged with the state Democratic Party in April 1944. Thus was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party born.
Working from inside the Democratic Party, Hubert Humphrey helped engineer the merger. The Farmer-Labor Party was riddled with Communists. Humphrey knew it, but he had no trouble working with them. At the time he was a Popular Front kind of guy with no enemies to the left.
Packing the 1946 party caucuses, Communists promptly took over the DFL. In Hennepin County (including all of Minneapolis), then Minneapolis Mayor Humphrey could not even get elected a delegate to the state convention. Communists picked up no fewer than 120 of the 160 Hennepin County delegates. In Minneapolis’s Second Ward, both Humphrey and his ally Arthur Naftalin (future Minneapolis mayor and father of Paul Butterfield Blues Band keyboardist Mark Naftalin) went down to defeat.
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10th June 2020
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Police arrested two men in New York City after allegedly impersonating NYPD officers and using the disguise to rob a Manhattan jewelry store.
Ismael Igartua and Jose Rodriguez were charged with robbery, conspiracy, brandishing a firearm and felony possession of a firearm, according to a statement issued by an attorney for the Southern District of New York on Monday.
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