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Prosecutor Pierre Sennes told reporters three fires had been started at the site and authorities were treating the incident as a criminal act. He gave no other details.

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In recent decades, income inequality in the United States has increased sharply, and the novel coronavirus crisis seems to have exacerbated the problem. Some blame tax cuts for creating billionaires and leaving the middle class behind, but it’s not that simple. While lower taxes did influence inequality, taxes alone are a red herring. Mounting evidence shows something else driving the uptick in inequality: Regulation.

Taxes are salient to this conversation, while regulation is silent. Every year on your W-2, and even more frequently on your paycheck, you see how many dollars of income you lose to taxes. Yet there is no such accounting for the unseen power of regulation to lower the average American’s income, raise prices and protect the position of the wealthy.

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I’ve known people like that.

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Follow the science.

Climate change: Summers could become ‘too hot for humans’ BBC. Or maybe not….

US farmers’ beef with Burger King over cow fart ad

The entire world’s carbon emissions will finally be trackable in real time  Sure, I believe that….

Apocalypse never

GOP to Trump: Change tune on mail-in voting or risk ugly November  CNN. Apparently the GOP uses CNN to communicate with Trump. Who knew?

Even Donald Trump knows he is in deep, deep trouble in the 2020 race  CNN. Apparently CNN is the expert on what Trump knows and doesn’t know.

Replacing a Campaign Manager Won’t Rescue Trump from the Coronavirus Debacle  The New Yorker. Debacle! Just short of a quagmire!

Chicago’s Lightfoot calls White House’s McEnany a ‘Karen’ after reported ‘derelict mayor’ slight  Strong talk from somebody who looks like the walking dead.

Chomping Chomsky

Fredo Taps Mentally Ill Howard Beale, Demands People Be ‘Mad as Hell!’

George Will’s over-the-top attack on Donald Trump

CNN Hacks Use COVID to Trash Trump, Call for ‘Shadow Task Force’

‘Case Study In Media Bias’: Kayleigh McEnany Blasts Washington Post For Taking Her Out Of Context

Hypocritical CNN Comes to the Rescue of the Disgraced Al Franken, Publishes His Guide to Beating Trump

San Antonion’s NBA Coach Labels Texas Leaders as Trump-Pleasing Cowards

Big Three Ignore Mary Trump Is Dem Donor in Coverage of Her Anti-Trump Book

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With a hefty severance package and a generous pension, no doubt.

Once they’re gone, perhaps we can recruit some people who value teaching children,

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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If the Democrats nominated Karl Marx, they’d describe him as a “moderate Marxist” . . .

It’s SOP for the Democrats and the liberal media: they invariably try to peddle their presidential candidates as “moderates” or “centrists.”

But on today’s Morning Joe, MSNBC’s John Heilemann took things an absurd step further, actually describing Biden as “culturally conservative.” That, of course, is baldfaced balderdash.

Freeberg lets loose.

Most of the frustrations involved in living as an adult human, have to do with conflict between appealing narratives vs. inconvenient realities. And perhaps the best example of this is the narrative that conservatives & liberals can, and should, “sit down and work out their/our differences, find common ground, labor toward the common good and learn from each other.” I think deep down both sides really do want that…so long as it doesn’t involve giving up anything. If it’s cost-free, most people with political opinions would like to be Archie & Meathead after they’ve softened up and learned to see eye-to-eye.

Our parents did that with other grown-ups who didn’t share the same political affiliations, right? Should be easy!

The problem is that what we today call “liberalism” has eschewed any & all notion that its adherents have anything at all to learn from those who are not adherents. This is non-negotiable. All electoral contests and all differences of opinion involve illegitimacy and ignorance on the side of the argument that is not theirs. Every election they lose, was cheated. Every dissenting opinion, indeed every statement or question that bleeds off some of the momentum, intentionally or not, comes from someone who shouldn’t have opinions at all.

Liberalism has devolved into a slightly off-center “I know something you don’t know” smirk. Worn by people who haven’t accomplished anything. And want to make all the decisions that matter, without accepting any ownership of the eventual results.

Turkey’s Erdogan Declares Hagia Sophia a Mosque After Court OK

Leaders of minority Muslim sect accuse ‘fanatics’ of digging up baby’s grave in Bangladesh 

Turkey Vows to ‘Liberate’ Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa’ After Hagia Sophia Mosque

Another Somali Success Story From Sweden

Iran Says Radar Operator “Forgot” To Make Crucial Adjustment, Leading To Airline Downing

UN: 700 Die In Syrian Camp For ISIS Families – “Explosive” Situation For Renewed Terrorism

SUDAN: The Cost Of Ending Sanctions

New Zealand mosque shooter dismisses lawyers to represent himself at sentencing

Series of Mystery Attacks on Iran’s Nuclear Sites

Assad Sends Pantsir Air Defense Systems To Counter Turkey In Libya

Iran Executes Defense Ministry Staffer as Alleged CIA Spy

New Report Confirms Al Jazeera’s Role as Qatari Agent

Massive Pipeline Fire In Egypt Burns Highway Of Vehicles 

Seven Ships On Fire At Southern Iran Port In Another ‘Mystery’ Disaster  Sounds as if somebody has it in for Iran.

US says Russian mercenaries laid land mines in Libya

The hypocrisy of Turkey and Pakistan’s Islamophobia claims

Algerian Mujahideen Busted in Barcelona

Turkish Proxies In Syria Went Out Of Control, Attack Joint Turkish-Russian Patrol

Hamas Courts Iran and Terrorist Allies to Fight Israel

Iran Dissident Executions on Hold as Trump Joins in Criticizing Move

ZMan does a weekly podcast. You ought to subscribe. (I get it through what used to be called iTunes; don’t know what they’re calling it these days.)

The thing is, I could probably go on a ten hour, Chris Farley rant without too much trouble, other than the possible stroke. I don’t know about anyone else, but I am done with the ongoing revolution. It seems that everywhere we turn, there is some new madness or new tax on our patience. It is close to impossible to live a normal day, much less a normal life now. Even the most basic task brings a reminder that we live in a continent sized lunatic asylum.

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Toleration has its limits. The other day I got an e-mail from a client. I’m not sure why I was included, as it was an internal e-mail to employees. The point of the e-mail was to suggest all employees list their preferred pronouns in their signature. It’s not enough that these people feel the need to deny reality. They insist that the rest of us participate in their madness. Everywhere you turn, someone is trying to make you carry the burden of their madness. It is tax that is never paid in full.

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Last year we detailed the political firestorm unleashed in the UK after so-called British jihadist bride Shamima Begum demanded of British authorities to be repatriated.

The now 20-year old UK citizen joined Islamic State in 2015 after fleeing the UK when she was just 15. Last year she gave birth in a Syrian refugee camp and is demanding safe return to Britain for fear that she and her child could die in the camp, so near the war zone. Proponents for her legal return to British soil have argued that as a teenager she was unwittingly manipulated into traveling to Syria by ISIS propaganda.

But over a year ago her family was notified in a letter (on Feb. 19) from the Home Secretary that authorities had revoked her British citizenship because she traveled to join a foreign terrorist group. The decision has been under appeal while Begum and her child remain in custody of US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria.

That sounds pretty reasonable, actually.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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That would be … all of them? Except maybe Hillsdale.

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As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

And here I thought it was Gavin Newsome, the Governor, who shut down the state.

Ya learn something new every day….

Polar bear survival contradictions: sea ice decline vs. documented harm

Methane rises to highest level on record

Federal Court Allows Dakota Access Pipeline To Keep Pumping Oil, Dealing Blow To Environmental Activist

Vice: The New Ford Bronco Is An Obscene Monument to Climate Denialism

Philly Mayor’s Ban On Large Events “Does Not Apply” To Protests Or “Demonstrations”

NBC Hides Defund the Police Mob Beating NYPD Cops in the Head, ABC/CBS Gawk

San Francisco reporter details ‘disaster’ of city’s ‘hotels for homeless’ program: ‘It is pandemonium’

Why Is MSNBC So Worried About an Economic Recovery?

Just Why Is MSNBC Trying to Take Away Your Guns?

Gun Control Groups Receive Taxpayer Protection Funds To Fund Antigun Candidates

‘Bullshit’: Chris Cuomo Loses It On Trump For ‘Selling Beans’ Amid Pandemic

Screenshot May Have Exposed Twitter’s Blacklist and Shadowban System

Democrat Governor Of Michigan Uses Emergency Alert System To Dictate Mask Wearing

Sham Bailout Statistics Shroud Shutdown Tyranny

Go Figure: Mika Upset with Trump Attacking Hunter But Fine with Blasting Trump Kids

White House says Trump followed CDC guidance after Atlanta mayor accuses him of breaking mask law

Dem Candidate Compares Border Policies to China’s Concentration Camps

Tiffany Cross Claims Trump Is ‘Spitting In Our Face And Trying To Convince Us It’s Raining’  Halfrican racist Tiffany Cross is well worth spitting in the face of. If Trump ever gets tired of doing so, I’ll be happy to take over.

Trump Campaign WIPES THE FLOOR With MSNBC’s Katy Tur  I doubt that the floor was any cleaner as a result.

‘Bullshit’: Chris Cuomo Loses It On Trump For ‘Selling Beans’ Amid Pandemic

MSNBC’s Cross Rants Against Trump’s ‘BS’ on Police Killings: ‘Red Meat’ to His ‘Klan-Like Base’

White House Adds Cry Room For Fussy Reporters  Babylon Bee.

He’s Just LYING Now: Chuck Todd Denies ‘Editorial Point of View’ on MSNBC Daytime

Maxine Waters Seeking To Block Trump Admin’s Transgender Rule Change  I’ve always thought that she was actually male.

Just How MANY Conspiracy Theories Do MSNBC Personalities Believe? Floats ‘Stolen’ 2020 Election  If they don’t win, then obviously it was stolen. Clear as the nose on their face.

Will NBC Stop This? Unglued O’Donnell: Trump Lacks ‘Human Emotions’

Teen Suspect in Shooting of 8-Year-Old Atlanta Girl Is Charged With Murder

The Smithsonian Has Lost Its Mind

Bristol council removes statue of Black Lives Matter protester that had replaced Colston memorial 

NYT Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones Owns Up To Writing Racist Screed In 1995, Refuses To Apologize

Apple expands coding partnerships with Historically Black Colleges as part of Racial Equity and Justice Initiative

Pandervision: CBS ‘Partnering’ with NAACP to Develop Content

Left-Wing Newsrooms Fail the True Black Lives Matter Test

Black Portland Cop: Yeah I Guess It’s a Little Weird Standing With Majority-Minority Police Officers and Being Attacked in Racialized Terms by Majority-White Antifa Members

Local Crime Blotter News, by Steve Sailer  Police say Washington claimed he shot the officers in self-defense to keep them from taking his vehicle, marijuana and gun, according to the statement.

Federal Government’s Stamp of Approval of Black Lives Matter

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But nevertheless we have to PANIC!

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Name that Party! (Hint: Not Republicans.)

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Letting anarchists roam the streets will do that.

Democrats: Party of Fear — Party of Hate — Party of Death.

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Americans don’t respond well to totalitarianism.

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Hammer tech.

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We have the technology.

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Nevertheless we still need to PANIC!

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That will flush the rest of them to Florida and points west. Manhattan will be a ghost town.

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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is keeping the city’s mask mandate in place, despite an order from the governor that prohibits cities from issuing mask requirements, Newsweek reports.

Let’s have the would-be despot governor fight the would-be despot mayor.

I predict that ordinary citizens will be the losers.

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The school said in a statement that the complaint said the newspaper, reporter Elizabeth Williamson and a photographer said the school suffered a COVID-19 outbreak when it reopened after spring break and that nearly a dozen students were sick with the virus.

The Times cited Dr. Thomas W. Eppes Jr., who was described as the doctor who runs Liberty’s health service. The lawsuit said Eppes’ job description was misrepresented as well as the information he provided. The school disputes that Eppes told the Times that students started getting sick after returning from spring break or that nearly a dozen Liberty students had symptoms that suggested COVID-19.

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But at the heart of many of these arguments is another disagreement, about the nature and purpose of journalism. As a Bloomberg employee is said to have remarked at a recent meeting, reporters are meant to be objective, but to many the distinction between right and wrong now seems obvious. A new generation of journalists is questioning whether, in a hyper-partisan, digital world, objectivity is even desirable. “American view-from-nowhere, ‘objectivity’-obsessed, both-sides journalism is a failed experiment,” tweeted Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer-winning 30-year-old now at CBS News. The dean of Columbia Journalism School described objectivity as an “inherited shibboleth” in a message to students. The Columbia Journalism Review pondered: “What comes after we get rid of objectivity in journalism?”

The problem arose with so-called journalism schools, which attracted a couple generations of people who went into ‘journalism’ to ‘make a difference’ — the way you ‘make a difference’ is by pushing an agenda, and that agenda was invariably progressive.

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Facebook engineers have developed a new robot that winds fibre-optic cable around existing medium-voltage (MV) power lines, enabling the cost-effective expansion of high-speed internet infrastructure.

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Cats can transfer a variety of infections, including MRSA, toxoplasmosis, ringworm, and hookworm.

Gee, thanks, guys.

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Engineers have developed a new type of hybrid solar energy converter, which uses energy from the Sun to create both electricity and steam. The device reportedly has high efficiency and runs at low cost, allowing industry to make use of a wider spectrum of solar energy.

Orange County’s largest school districts won’t comply with Board of Education vote to return to classroom

Defiant Portland mayor tells feds to ‘stay inside’ or ‘leave’ city, asks DHS to clean up graffiti

‘Cancel Culture Is A Cancer’: Dean Cain Says The Twitter Mob Will Attack For ‘Literally Anything’

Walmart To Require Face Masks For All Customers

Schumer Calls on GOP to Remove Cap on State, Local Tax Deductions

‘We Don’t Need Or Want Your Help’: Portland Mayor Tells Feds To Stay Inside Or Leave City Despite 6th Straight Week Of Unrest

Triggered! Facebook Uses ‘Micro-Phone’ Tool for Workers to Report ‘Microaggressions’

NYT Drools Over Soros’s Open Society Foundations Spending $220M on So-Called ‘Racial Equality’

LA Times Article Calls for Replacing ‘Star-Spangled Banner’  I agree — let’s replace it with America the Beautiful, which sounds nicer and is easier to sing.

Portland Antifa Sets Up ‘Occupied Zone’ Outside Courthouse, Goes With Stupid Acronym

NYPD, Police Chief Injured by Protesters

Federal Court Allows Dakota Access Pipeline To Keep Pumping Oil, Dealing Blow To Environmental Activist

COLLUSION: Nets Hide Skyrocketing Costs of Biden’s ‘Clean Energy’

Against Environmental Pessimism

The future of flooding and how it may affect waterside cities

‘The epitome of the swamp’: Brutal new attack ad turns Donald Trump Jr’s comments against the president

Man in MAGA hat flashes his gun when asked to follow his state’s mask order

Ivanka Trump Promotes Goya, Violates Ethics Standards  New York magazine.

If you aren’t filled with rage at Trump, you aren’t paying attention  Washington Post.

Mary Trump Tells Uncle Donald to Resign Presidency  There is no chance of his doing that, which makes you wonder why people engage in this sort of silly activity.

Venomous CNNers Copt to Hating ‘Incoherent’ Trump: He’s ‘Failed the American Public’

Juvenile Hack Cooper Snarks Over ‘Tan Man’ Trump, Claims He Doesn’t Care About Dead Americans

‘Kool-Aid Drinkers And Next Of Kin’: Acosta Says All The Adults Have Left The White House   But he’s still there so what does that make him?

Trump Derangement: Noah and Hillary Fear ‘Ominous’ Election

Appellate Court Revives Libel Suit From Trump Supporter Against MSNBC’s Joy Reid

CNN Goes ‘Bonkers’: Avlon Suffers MELTDOWN During Crazed Trump Rant About Stone

The Elephant in the Room: Useless Useful Idiots: Whither The Bulwark and The Dispatch After Trump?

CNN Furious with Twitter for Not Censoring Trump Enough

Who Funds The Lincoln Project? Exactly Whom You Expect

CNN Is Obsessed With Latest Trump Tell-All Book. Maybe Someone Should Write a Book About CNN?

‘View’ Gives MSNBC Reporter Platform to Spew Hate: Trump ‘Tortures’ Migrant Kids, DHS Officials Are ‘White Nationalists’

Bar pulls beer from sale after customer claims the bottle looks like a KKK hood

ViacomCBS Drops Nick Cannon, Cites ‘Anti-Semitic’ Comments

Black Celebrity Says Caucasians Lack the Melanin to be Compassionate, Gets Cancelled (But Not for That), by Steve Sailer

Cam Newton Talks About NFL Teams Passing On Him, Says He Feels ‘Disrespected’

MMA Fighter Jahreau Shepherd Dies After Being Stabbed  Let that be a lesson to us all.

Floyd Family Announcing Lawsuit Against Minneapolis  I’m surprised it took them this long.

Police Say Texas A&M Student Who Found Racist Notes On His Car Put Them There

Smithsonian Museum Says Objective Thinking Is A Sign Of ‘Whiteness’  I cannot disagree.

Business Owner Charged With Hate Crime For Painting Over BLM Graffiti On His Storefront

The Rise Of Black Lives Matter Coincides With Some Of The Worst Violent Crime Recorded In Nearly 3 Decades  My,  what a surprise.

North Carolina Town Creates Reparations Commission For Black Residents  Fifty cents and a voucher for a free one-way flight back to Africa. Problem solved.

REPORT: Teens Beating Pregnant Mom, Kicking Toddler Caught On Video  Perps black, victim white.

Smithsonian Museum of African American Culture: Delayed Gratification, Respect for Authority, and Regard for the Nuclear Family Are White Shit, Man

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People who are blind from birth will gesture when they speak. I always like pointing out this fact when I teach classes on gesture, because it gives us an an interesting perspective on how we learn and use gestures. Until now I’ve mostly cited a 1998 paper from Jana Iverson and Susan Goldin-Meadow that analysed the gestures and speech of young blind people. Not only do blind people gesture, but the frequency and types of gestures they use does not appear to differ greatly from how sighted people gesture. If people learn gesture without ever seeing a gesture (and, most likely, never being shown), then there must be something about learning a language that means you get gestures as a bonus.

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The lesson he learned is probably cheap at the price.

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Well, that didn’t take long.

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When Never Trumper and Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson went on Stephen Colbert’s parody news show on Monday night, Tooning Out the News, it would be a reasonable assumption that he probably looked forward to the interview. After all since the interviewers would be cartoon characters, it would probably be a lot of fun. Plus, since Stephen Colbert suffers from every bit as much of Trump Derangement Syndrome as Wilson he could expect it to be a friendly interview as well.

What could go wrong? Well, everything. As you can see, by the end of interview, poor Wilson was stunned into sullen silence.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

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This is why you don’t want to live in New York.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

They might as well take the next step and rob the place while they’re at it.

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Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson has a Republican pedigree and an evangelical Christian background. He wrote profound speeches for George W. Bush, who was mocked as a mangler of the English language. Today he sounds like a speechwriter for the gaseous opening of the Brian Stelter show on CNN.

A headline for a recent column was “Trump has taken up residence in an alternate political reality.” Gerson writes the most urgent national challenge is “the president inhabits a different country from the rest of us.”

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These creatures have evolved special “nanobodies” that may have an edge over human antibodies when it comes to developing a new treatment.