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23rd July 2020
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China’s Houston consulate has been the “epicenter” in terms of stealing U.S. biomedical research, and it’s known that “they’re actively trying to steal” the coronavirus vaccine, Rep. Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House GOP task force on China, said Thursday.
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23rd July 2020
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The fact that the Czech are attempting, with some success, to make the philosophical and political case for self-defense and gun ownership is good news.
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23rd July 2020
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23rd July 2020
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A Chinese biology researcher has taken refuge in China’s San Francisco consulate to evade arrest by the FBI after lying about her connections to the Chinese military to obtain a visa and gain access to the United States.
The revelation came in court documents filed Monday that detailed several instances in which Chinese nationals supposedly lied to hide their military connections in order to obtain U.S. visas.
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23rd July 2020
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Olivia Enos, The Heritage Foundation’s senior policy analyst for the Asian Studies Center, joins “Problematic Women” to explain what we do know about these human rights abuses and what action America is taking in response.
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23rd July 2020
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With almost 150,000 COVID-19 deaths, the United States, putative leader of the free world, now is competing with Brazil and Russia for global supremacy in pandemic mismanagement. Not only does the United States lack any kind of coherent federal leadership on this issue, but even state and city leaders have fallen into bickering—and even lawsuits—over the correct response. While many Western nations have all but extinguished COVID-19 within their borders, the American pandemic is raging with a new ferocity. Yet some conservatives continue to protest even basic public-health measures, including masks. How could some of America’s best and brightest abet their country’s collapse into dysfunction in the face of a once-in-a-century pandemic?
Maybe, just maybe, they’re not buying what you’re selling.
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23rd July 2020
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Buy those votes! Buy those votes!
Where were these guys when I had student loans to pay?
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23rd July 2020
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And serves him damned right.
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22nd July 2020
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Twitter was accused of anti-Semitism after locking multiple accounts of users with profiles that feature images of the Star of David, which the platform called “hateful imagery.” Days later, the platform then unlocked the accounts, but one group that fights anti-Semitism called that response “inept.”
The users got a message from Twitter saying: “We have determined that this account violated the Twitter Rules. Specifically for: Violating our rules against posting hateful imagery. You may not use hateful images or symbols in your profile image or profile header. As a result, we have locked your account.”
The Campaign Against Antisemitism said it received complaints from users over the last few days saying their accounts had been locked by the social media platform.
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22nd July 2020
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22nd July 2020
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22nd July 2020
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22nd July 2020
The Minority Victims of Whitenessphobia
SF Giants Manager, Coaches, Players Kneel During National Anthem
Smithsonian Institution Explains That ‘Rationality’ & ‘Hard Work’ Are Racist
At Least 20,000 People Walked Off Jobs To Protest Racial And Economic Inequality
‘Multiple People’ Shot on Chicago’s South Side, Police Say
CNN Is Hiring Race Writers
“Bodies Everywhere”: 14 Shot In Chicago Funeral Home During Memorial For Shooting Victimg
Shooter Opens Fire On Chicago Mourners As They Attend Funeral Of Another Shooting Victim
A black woman faces prison for a voting mistake. Prosecutors just doubled the charges The Guardian.
Poisonous Joy: Trump’s ‘Dystopian’ ‘Secret Police’ Are ‘Kidnapping’ ‘Peaceful’ Protesters
At a Chicago Funeral, the Gun Violence Epidemic Shoots 14, by Steve Sailer
As Stalin Would Say, You Can’t Make a Mostly Peaceful Protest Without Burning to Death a Few Murder Victims, by Steve Sailer
Chicago Mayor Says She Won’t Allow ‘Trump’s Troops … To Terrorize Our Residents’ As 14 People Are Shot Amid City’s Gang Violence BRAINS!
Sierra Club Denounces Racism of Founder John Muir It’s getting crowded under the bus….
New Poll Shows More White Americans Now Oppose Black Lives Matter Than Support Took ’em long enough.
Armed Chicago Children As Young As 10 Years Old Carjacked More Than A Dozen People: Police
These 25 Celebrity Farrakhan Fans Roll Out The Red Carpet For Anti-Semitism, Racism
Joy Behar: ‘Right Wing Mob’ Criticizes AOC Because They Think She’s ‘Not a Person’ She is a person, just a very ugly one.
Philly DA Says He’ll Prosecute Trump ‘Stormtroopers’ Sent To Control BLM Chaos Good luck with that.
One-Year-Old Twins Shot In Ohio As Violence Continues To Escalate
Black Lives Matter Organizer Arrested For Stealing Donald Trump Flags In Miami They’d have given some to him if he had asked.
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22nd July 2020
ZMan chronicles the degeneration.
Nowadays, the outrageous gay guy act is the leisure suit of public performance. It’s not just out of style, it makes everyone stare at their shoes. In fact, gay males are now totally out of fashion on the Left. They have been replaced in the catalog with hairy Jewish guys in sundresses. In fact, the wide array of imaginary sexual identities has displaced suburban white girl feminism too. In order to get in the Progressive catalog, you better have at least two things going wrong for you.
The Sullivan incident and other similar happenings during this phase of the revolution puts the lie to the whole coalition of the fringes thing. If there was really an intelligence behind this stuff, playing four-dimensional political chess, they would not be swapping out the gays for guys in lady’s underwear. Feminists are also financially and organizationally strong. In reality, it is the old Progressive hatred of tradition manifesting itself as a quest for the novel and bizarre.
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22nd July 2020
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22nd July 2020
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“What we showed is: up to four years before these people walk into the hospital, there are already signatures in their blood that show they have cancer,” says Kun Zhang, a bioengineer at the University of California, San Diego, and a co-author of the study. “That’s never been done before.”
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21st July 2020
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It was just 24 hours ago that the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were playing stupid about the weeks of violence in Portland, Oregon, claiming there was “no explanation” for the Department of Homeland Security arresting Antifa terrorists trying to burn down the federal courthouse. Now, on Tuesday, those same networks took up positions on Antifa’s side of the battle line; blaming federal agents for the violence and chaos.
The CBS Evening News carried the most water Antifa’s thugs. “Tonight, the mayors of several big cities including New York and Chicago are warning the President not to send federal officers to patrol their streets. The mayors are alarmed by the ongoing violence in Portland, Oregon where protesters have battled for weeks with police and officers from the Department of Homeland Security,” declared anchor Norah O’Donnell, suggesting federal agents were the problem.
Even though federal agents had been responding to attacks on the courthouse for well over 50 consecutive nights, correspondent Carter Evans painted DHS officers as a roving band of assailants targeting innocent protesters. “Round after round of tear gas and rubber bullets fired into the crowd by federal agents is becoming a nightly routine,” he began his report.
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21st July 2020
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There is, I think, a growing awareness of the fact that, however much the current unrest in cities on both sides of the Atlantic owes to anger over the killing of George Floyd, police brutality, and racial injustice, other factors are also at work, most notably a struggle within the elite, or more broadly, within the elite and those who would be in it, much of it a consequence of what the University of Connecticut’s Peter Turchin has dubbed “elite overproduction”.
Too many potential Crustians for the Crust to absorb.
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21st July 2020
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21st July 2020
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21st July 2020
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21st July 2020
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And who could blame them?
Firms in New York’s financial district are facing an onslaught of headwinds amounting to great reasons to simply pick up and leave: employees working from home, unused office space, a mayor who has squelched law and order in the city and a state legislature obsessed with taxation, just to name a few.
That’s why we weren’t surprised when Bloomberg reported that New York’s financial and professional-services industries are considering eliminating up to 20% of their footprint in the city.
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21st July 2020
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This week, former New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to six and a half years in prison on corruption charges. For those unfamiliar with the Silver, he was a Democratic Party kingmaker in New York for many years, serving as speaker for 20 — from Mario Cuomo to Andrew Cuomo — before being automatically expelled over a felony conviction. Silver, in fact, had gotten unanimous support from Democrats for his eleventh term as speaker in 2015, even as a federal probe was ongoing. It’s long been an open secret that Silver was crooked. Then again, New York politics is a den of corruption, and one party has been running the state more or less forever. Yet, despite all of this, not once does the Associated Press piece about Silver that ran in major outlets across the country use the word “Democrat” or the phrase “Democratic Party.”
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21st July 2020
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I think he just did it to see what sort of dance moves the Democrats can come up with.
This is one of those “let’s pull their chain and see what happens” moments that he likes to do when he gets bored.
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21st July 2020
ZMan keeps asking inconvenient questions.
For example, the odds of knowing someone who has died from the corona virus is very low, unless you work in a nursing home. For the typical person, you are more likely to know someone who was murdered. In fact, in most of the country, you are four times more likely to know a murder victim than a corona victim. Yet, many people on the Left will tell you they know many people who have died from corona. They really believe this is true and display the appropriate emotions to prove it.
Adding to the intrigue is the fact that these people have had the math explained to them many times by the more skeptical. The same is true about the stories of overwhelmed hospitals everyone hears about, but no one has seen. The nurses and doctors posting TikTok videos of themselves dancing in empty hospitals had no effect on the believers in these claims. Even now, they are sure the “first responders” are nearing exhaustion as they heroically fight the virus.
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21st July 2020
Steve Sailer keeps asking inconvenient questions.
For months I’ve been asking for somebody to calculate the cost of COVID-19 deaths in terms of the medical research standard of Quality Adjusted Life Years lost (a.k.a., Disability Adjusted Life Years lost). For example, assuming that average life expectancy is 80 and the average age of people who die in car accidents is 40, then car accidents take somewhat less than 40 years of Quality Adjusted Life Years (due to downward adjustments for quality of life).
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21st July 2020
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21st July 2020
Matt Taibi is offended that the Left is now acting like those red-necked rubes from flyover country.
We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn’t joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody’s laughing.
Oh, you’re still laughing, Matt, but the joke is now on you.
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21st July 2020
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One of the candidates for president in this November’s election is known by the nickname, “Amtrak Joe.” The Democratic-controlled House wants to triple federal funding for intercity passenger trains. A member of Congress from Massachusetts has proposed spending $205 billion on high-speed rail.
Given the growing momentum behind these ideas, it is instructive to take a look at how well the last frenzied spending on intercity passenger trains worked. In 2009 and 2010, President Obama persuaded Congress to dedicate $10.1 billion to high-speed rail projects around the country. To this was added at least $1.4 billion in other federal funds and at least $7 billion in state and local funds. After ten years, some of those projects must be working, right?
Of course not. Outside of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, there are still no trains in America that could be called high-speed trains by any definition. Trains in the Northeast Corridor are, if anything, going slower than they were before. Most corridors where high-speed rail money was spent see trains going no faster and no more frequently than they were before the grants were given out. Aside from new service to two small towns in Maine, a modest speed-up of trains in Vermont, and the addition of two daily trains between Raleigh and Charlotte, the nation has little to show for more than $18 billion in the federal and state spending.
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21st July 2020
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Even the most expensive bike locks can be compromised in just a few minutes, and mostly serve as deterrents so your ride is a less appealing target. But researchers from Durham University in the UK and the Fraunhofer Institute have created what they’re claiming is the first man-made material that is non-cuttable, by actively destroying tools that are trying to slice through it.
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20th July 2020
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20th July 2020
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20th July 2020
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20th July 2020
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The University of California has been admitting underqualified international students ahead of some of the state’s top students, according to a lawsuit.
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“Over the past several years, the university has undermined its commitment to residents in an effort to increase its revenue by recruiting and enrolling nonresidents,” state auditor Elaine Howle wrote in 2016.
Money money money mon-ey … MONEY….
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20th July 2020
ZMan looks back in time.
Lost in the turmoil of the present revolutionary moment is the fact that one side of the political class remains trapped in a strange time warp. Look through the publications of mainstream conservatives and it is as if they stopped publishing new material somewhere in the last decade. They acknowledge that Trump won the White House, but they refuse to see it as anything but a one-off anomaly. There was no reason for it, other than a bug in the code or a one-in-a-million event.
For a while after Trump took office, they carried on with the anti-Trump stuff, but the money from the usual suspects ran out, so they dropped it. The Israel First wing of Conservative Inc. has setup shop at The Dispatch and The Bulwark, sites that cater to an audience that is similarly lost in time. Both sites look like recycled versions of the Weekly Standard circa 1996 or maybe The New Republic in 1986. What’s left of the old conservative coalition looks like a museum exhibit.
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20th July 2020
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20th July 2020
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Transit agencies are stepping up their campaigns for more subsidies to make up for their lack of riders during the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Times reports that, unless Congress forks over billions more than it has already given the agencies, transit systems could experience a death spiral.
Technically, a death spiral takes place if cuts in service cause a loss of customers leading to more cuts in service. But if they don’t have any customers, they can’t spiral much further downward.
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20th July 2020
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he Washington Post is so relentlessly liberal you can’t even read an architecture review without being lectured that America and its founding stinks.
The critic is Philip Kennicott, who also recently wrote a rant on how “Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle.” He meant Trump’s July 3 speech in front of the so-called “giant myths.” This memorial “effectively dramatizes the idea that national myths are not to be looked at too closely.”
All politics, all the time!
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19th July 2020
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19th July 2020
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19th July 2020
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19th July 2020
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19th July 2020
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I suggested a week ago that Minneapolis might have surpassed Portland in the race for the title of America’s Worst-Governed City. That apparently spurred Portland residents to redouble their efforts, and today that city stands unchallenged as America’s worst.
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19th July 2020
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18th July 2020
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18th July 2020
Don’t Fall for Cuomo’s Gaslighting on Coronavirus
COVID-19: Phase 1 Of The “Permanent Crisis”?
ACLU Sues DHS, Federal Agents for Portland Protests Response How dare they arrest people who were breaking the law?
Washington Post: America Needs Fewer Laws Against Rioting, by Steve Sailer
“I Was Terrified” – ‘Protesters’ Fume About Feds Brutally Suppressing Portland Riots Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Oregon, Journalists Sue U.S. over Portland Arrests, Violence Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
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18th July 2020
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18th July 2020
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18th July 2020
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And what they want is, of course, far more important than what anybody else might want.
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18th July 2020
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Hammer tech.
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