Steve Sailer.

In accordance with our culture’s declining intellectual prowess, our new creed is a very simple faith, with one black-and-white dogma:

Blacks are best and whites are worst.

In 2020, all you need to know is who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.

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We’ve seen it over and over: when activists make war on the police, and politicians sell them down the river, police officers respond as one would expect. They pull back. They respond to 911 calls but do as little active policing as possible. Inevitably, that is happening in Minneapolis.

UPDATE: ‘Morale Is In The Toilet’: Police Union Officials Wouldn’t Want Their Own Sons In Law Enforcement

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Daily riots and protests have entered a seventh consecutive week in Portland, Oregon, including a clash that lasted into Tuesday morning in which demonstrators and cops faced off for hours at a police union building in a North Portland neighborhood.

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In a paper in Nature Sustainability, researchers in the laboratory of Chunlei Guo, professor of optics, demonstrate how a burst of femtosecond laser pulses etch the surface of a normal sheet of aluminum into a superwicking (water-attracting), super energy-absorbing material.

Gov. Cuomo: ‘Trump’s COVID Scandal Makes What Nixon Did At Watergate Look Innocent’

Black Lives Matter in Front of Trump Tower Painted Over in Red

Manhattan DA Targets Trump After Giving Epstein and Weinstein a Pass

Who thought putting Betsy DeVos on TV was a good idea? It wasn’t.  Washington Post.

DeVos slammed for meetings with conservatives while school reopening debate rages  Politico. Conservarive cooties! Eww!

Donald Trump Jr’s new anti-Biden book misplaces apostrophe in title  The Guardian. Scraaaaaaape that barrel.

North Carolina Takeout Customer Refuses to Wear Mask, Invokes ‘Trump 2020’  Newsweek.

MSNBC’s Sharpton: Trump Wanting to Reopen Schools Is Racist

Thousands Of CEOs Announce They Support Trump In Hopes Of Triggering A ‘Buycott’  Babylon Bee.

He Thinks Your Dumb: Colbert Hails ‘Umpire’ Journalists Against ‘Authoritarian’ Trump

How Much Hate Will MSNBC Tolerate? O’Donnell: ‘Sociopath’ Trump Is Fine With Kids Dying

Cancel Culture Tries to Cow Goya Foods’ Bob Unanue

MSNBC’s Mitchell Invites Chicago Mayor to Blame Trump for City’s Soaring Gun Violence

The Fathers of Communism Were Racist

Washington Post Editor Claims Texas Rangers’ Name Praises Racist History

St. Louis Home Defender: The Media Is Siding With the ‘Marxist’ BLM ‘Mob’

The Fight Over Monuments of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest Holds a Lesson About Whiteness in America  Or at least anti-whiteness.

Rapper Torey Lanez Arrested On Felony Gun Charge In California

Angela Davis Is Biden’s Only Woman of Color VP Possibility with Experience Running for VP, by Steve Sailer

CNN to Dramatically Expand Race Coverage on Network

Princeton Professor Shunned By University After Criticizing Faculty ‘Anti-Racism’ Requests

Nick Cannon Claims ‘Savage’ Whites and Jewish People Are ‘Less’ Than People of Color  Racism straight up.

Man Charged With Assault After Allegedly Attacking Man In Rosary Prayer Group At St. Louis Statue  I guess prayer is racist.  Who knew?

‘We Need To Reevaluate’: 2 Prominent Black NY Community Leaders Call For Return Of NYPD Anti-Crime Unit  “We claim a do-over!”

Hollywood Actors Fret That There’s Now “Reverse Racism” Against Straight White Male Actors and Crew  Oh, ya think?

San Francisco Museum Curator Resigns After His “White Supremacist”-Informed Philosophy of Art Collection Is Exposed

San Francisco Museum Curator Reportedly Resigns After Using Phrase ‘Reverse Discrimination,’ Being Accused Of White Supremacy

Beer Brewed To ‘Celebrate’ All Things ‘Progressive’ Taken Off Shelf Over Racist Look

RACISM DEFEATED: ‘Call of Duty’ Developer Removes ‘White Supremacist’ ‘OK Sign’ From Game  You can’t make this shit up.

Actress Viola Davis Says ‘The Help’ Was Created In A ‘Cesspool Of Systemic Racism’

What Greta Thunberg Forgets About Climate Change

UK government support for modular reactor deployment : New Nuclear

BBC Asks Dr. Willie Soon to Respond to Climate Conspiracy Claims

Acid Oceans? & Oyster Shells

Claim: Climate Change is Helping Herbivorous Crabs To Wreck Salt Marshes  Feel free to wring your hands and hyperventilate.

Reducing Cows´ Methane Emissions  And saving the planet!

Your Car Is Spewing Microplastics That Blow Around the World  Wired ‘Science’.

Burger King Posts RANK Climate Change Video: ‘Cow Farts & Burps Are No Laughing Matter’  Fooled me.

Global Warming Disaster: Dangerous Amounts Of Methane Released As Republicans Rush To Buy Goya Beans  Babylon Bee.

Biden steps up his clean-energy plan, in a nod to climate activists

Sterilization, Forced Abortion And Mandatory Birth Control: Inside China’s Xinjiang Province

Movement Grows to Drop ‘Plantation’ From Place Names

New York To Fine Out-Of-State Travelers If They Don’t Provide Their Contact Information

Radical Left ‘Repeatedly Consulted’ on Facebook’s New Oversight Board

Woke News Network: CNN’s King Gushes over Redskins Name Change

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Hires ‘Census Cowboy’ To Boost City’s Low Response Rate  Gotta get those numbers up so we can get more of that Federal money!

Jimmy Fallon Fawns Over Cuomo: ‘Such Amazing Leadership…You Were There For Us When We Needed You’  Especially when we had too many old people in care homes.

Mask Dispute Leaves Michigan Man Dead One Day After Gretchen Whitmer’s Mandatory Mask Order Went Into Effect

Instagram Removes ‘Mute White People’ Sticker After Backlash from Right, Don Jr.

Collusion: Gushing CNN Panel Pushes a Biden Campaign Ad

UK to Fine Unmasked Shoppers $125 Starting July 24

‘Straw That Broke The Camel’s Back’: 150 Minneapolis Police Officers File For Disability, Citing PTSD

California’s Indoor Religious Worship Suspended Indefinitely, State Health Department Says

Kentucky Governor To Have Mansion Surrounded With Fence After Protests

Air Force’s Roper Sparks Debate On ‘Nationalizing Advanced Aviation’ Industry

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That’s Just Wrong.

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Of course she’s a Nazi — she’s white! Doesn’t she read the New York Times?

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This starts out as the typical Trump Bash. But it gets better.

There’s always somebody More Woke Than Thou.

UPDATE: ‘Donate To These Savvy Grifters’: Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson Gets Trolled By Cartoon Interviewers

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Is that ironic? I’ve lost track.

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“Igor! Where’d I put my stapler?”

There are, of course, instructional YouTube videos.

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A Democratic strategist called a Republican female senator “inbred racist trash” for criticizing the founders of the Black Lives Matter group.

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The band formerly known as The Dixie Chicks made the front of the New York Times Sunday Styles with a full-page photo under the puffed-up headline “Still Fearless.” Inside was a two-page spread with posed photos, “A Sisterhood Skilled at Ignoring the Static.” The text box: “Three women flourished in an industry that never really loved or defended them.” Fortunately for the “Chicks” (who recently ditched the “racist” part of their name but kept the “sexist” one) the gushing by the liberal press made up for it.

All chicks, no Dixie. The universe ultimately rights itself.

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On Monday’s New Day, CNN co-hosts John Berman and Alisyn Camerota brought on White House correspondent John Harwood to spew campaign propaganda for their presidential candidate, Joe Biden. Harwood flat out lied by claiming that “a significant majority of the country” supports Joe Biden and even had the gall to blame President Trump for America being “on fire.”

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

Back in the Cold War, one of the things Americans would puzzle over was the political violence behind the Iron Curtain. Most Americans assumed they would resist the state terrorism they heard about from the media. Of course, they assumed such a thing could never happen in America. Today we are seeing just how easily state sponsored terrorism can get going in any country. The reason is there is a political logic to murder that comes as a part of ideological movements.

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And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

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Not to mention constant political pressure to raise the minimum wage.

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Past time. Inflation has made it effectively worthless.

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

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The headlines are screaming about recent increases in coronavirus cases, with some suggesting that the essential problem is the loosening of the lockdowns and restrictions. A number of media sources note that many of the problematic locations are “red” states with Republican leadership.

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Some military experts believe the Bonhomme Richard can’t be saved, and if that’s the case, the mini-aircraft carrier — it was being retrofitted to deploy the latest-generation fighter jets — would be among the largest Navy ships ever lost.

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Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia District Court issued a short opinion last week in Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In it, he instructed Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline builder, to temporarily cease using its 1,172-mile-long Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which ships up to 570,000 barrels a day of crude oil from the Bakken and Three Forks fields of North Dakota to terminals and refineries in Patoka, IL.

The dispute was about a short-stretch of pipeline (1,094 feet) that ran approximately 100-feet below a lake, about one-half mile from tribal lands. From the moment that DAPL was announced, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe mounted a full-scale attack on the venture. The pipeline was seen as yet another affront to its tribal way of life—the latest in a long string of historical injustices undertaken by, or with the blessing of, the United States government. At a more concrete level, the Tribe argued that the pipeline would run through its sacred lands and damage its water supply.

In fact, the pipeline does not cross into the Tribe’s land. Nonetheless, the Tribe sought to exercise its statutory rights to be consulted about the pipeline under both the National Historic Protection Act (NHPA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In 2015, the Tribe sued the Corps to reroute DAPL away from its lands, and raised multiple objections about the design and site of the pipeline. The objections to the pipeline continued even after it was put into operation in June 2017 without serious incident.

Indiana woman shot, killed after argument with Black Lives Matter supporters, family says

Twitter Users Forced To Correct ‘NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt’ On Police Shooting Of Hakim Littleton

Race Relations Plummeted While Joe Biden Was Vice President Under Barack Obama

Portland #BlackLivesMatter Rioters Manufacture ‘White Supremacist’ Hoax

Europe: Rape Victims Accused Of Racism

Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now

With cops away, it’s like Capitol Hill is slipping back to the Pinkerton’s era  People who feel threatened will arrange for security, and if the government won’t keep them secure, they’ll pursue other alternatives.

Brian Williams Pushes Liberal Trope That Opposing Crime Is Racist

Chicago Mayor Blames National Policy For Local Murders

Tulsa to Start Digging for Mass Grave Related to Race Massacre

1-Year-Old Baby Dies After Getting Shot In The Stomach During NYC Cookout, According To Police

BLM Supporters Ambush, Murder Young White Mother For Saying ‘All Lives Matter’

The Spate of Shootings Continues 

AOC Blames NYC Crime Wave On People “Needing To Feed Their Child”  With a gun, of course. And if the child gets shot and dies, well, then, problem solved.

12-Year-Old Arrested in England For Racism!

Showtime’s ‘The Chi:’ ‘Let’s Hope’ Black Teen WON’T Turn into ‘the Next Ben Carson’

‘View’ Outraged by Carlson Calling Out Duckworth With His ‘Racist, Homophobic’ Commentary  Gee, Senator Duckworth doesn’t look black….

The University Of Texas To Keep ‘Eyes Of Texas’ As Alma Mater While Acknowledging Alleged Racist Origins

Why New York Times praises ‘cancel culture’ but skips over its own racist history

Atlanta Police Seek To Identify Suspect From Footage In Secoriea Turner Killing

CBS Hails ‘Compelling’ Trevor Noah Rant Justifying Looting

Mayors back reparations that could cost $6.2 quadrillion, or $151M per descendant

AOC blames NYC crime spike on parents shoplifting food  I’m sure that explains the kids that get shot.

Pressley hits DeVos over reopening schools: ‘I wouldn’t trust you to care for a house plant let alone my child’ | TheHill  Funny how Democrats are all about the government running everything — until the government has Republicans in it, and then it’s OMG!

Andrew Cuomo’s Report On Nursing Home Deaths Marked By Clear Conflicts Of Interest

Penn State Deletes Tweet Saying Conservative Viewpoints Matter

The Washington Redskins Will Officially Retire The Team Name Monday

University Of Southern California Will Take Down John Wayne Exhibit

OF COURSE! CNN’s Zakaria Blames Reagan for High Corona Death Toll in U.S.

Hateful MSNBC: Joy Reid Compares Republicans to Apartheid South Africa

He ‘Deserved To Go To Jail’: National Review Condemns Trump’s ‘Indefensible Commutation’ Of Roger Stone

Cat That’s Been Dead For 12 Years Gets A Voter Registration Application In The Mail  Must have been a Democrat cat.

DNC Complains Facebook Has Not Censored Trump, Conservatives Enough

NBA Won’t Sell Custom Jerseys That Say ‘FreeHongKong,’ Will Create Uniforms That Say ‘F**kPolice,’ According To Its Online Store System

You Don’t Need Single-Use Plastic Bags. You Need a Mask

An uptick in NYPD retirements and a canceled police cadet class ‘could spell disaster for the city’

Twitter Censors Photos of Goya Spices, Beans as ‘Potentially Sensitive Content’

Ricky Gervais Blasts The ‘New Weird Sort Of Fascism’ Of Targeting ‘Hate Speech’

New York Times: Trump considered selling Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, former acting Homeland Security chief says  CNN. Later in the article they have to confess that it was never seriously considered, but they still have to be outraged about it.

It’s the duty of the White House press secretary to hold briefings. But not like this.  Washington Post. Guess she’s winning too much.

Heated exchanges as Donald Trump supporters protest BLM mural outside Trump Tower

A New Low In Trump Derangement?

Vile NY Times Smears Trump With Nazi Insults: Upcoming ‘Reichstag Fire’

Jake Tapper: I Wonder How Many Lives Could Have Been Saved If Trump Had Just Worn Masks During All Public Appearances (The Same That I Don’t)

Genius Trump Wears Mask Causing Media To Question Effectiveness Of Masks  Babylon Bee.

So NOW CNN Opposes Anonymous Sources? Acosta Says White House Lacks ‘Guts’

Protesters Clash At Black Lives Matter Mural In Front Of Trump Tower

NY Times Fakes a Climate Change Debate

Climate Wars: Try Removing the Word “Denier” from a Wikipedia Entry

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #416

The Ideological Corruption of Science

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Several Catholic properties including churches and cemeteries have been targeted throughout June and July.

While some of the incidents are still under investigation, at least two people have been arrested, with charges ranging from vandalism to attempted second-degree murder.

Here is Mr Gomera:

Obviously a white supremacist in a Clever Plastic Disguise.

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The nation’s largest abortion provider’s political arm is launching ads in Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Colorado, Arizona, Florida, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The ads contrast Biden and Trump’s leadership and highlight how each candidate approaches abortion rights, Axios reports.

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In 2019, people working outside their homelands sent $554 billion of their earnings back to their native countries. Nearly all of this cash flowed from developed nations to less developed ones. The $554 billion in remittances eclipsed the total of all foreign investment in these receiving nations, and three times the amount these nations received in foreign aid.

Then came the COVID-19 pandemic. The global health crisis touched off a global economic crisis, resulting in millions of lost jobs and restrictions on travel that make it difficult for foreign workers to get to a job in another country, even if one is available. For countries like the United States, the long-term impact of millions of foreign workers – legal and illegal – and the resulting loss of job opportunities and wages for native workers and the outflow of $150 billion each year is a problem.

ZMan points out a trend.

Bertrand Russel said, “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” It is a pithy aphorism that has now been amplified by modernity into a description of liberal democracy. In every Western country, the stupid drown out everyone else in the court of public opinion, but do so with a breath-taking degree of self-righteous sanctimony. The hallmark of the modern man is to have an opinion on everything, almost all of them wrong.

It is not that the stupid have been made supreme, although it certainly seems that way when you encounter public opinion. It’s that everything has been politicized to the point where every issue, no matter how small, becomes a moral signifier. Where you stand on the issue says something about you and your position in society. If you don’t have an opinion on an issue, it is assumed you are ignorant or possibly in league with dark forces, those who hold the “horrifically” wrong opinion.

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‘Voter Suppression’ is DemSpeak for actually enforcing the rules.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

I’m surprised that tReason magazine was able to break out of its obsession with marijuana legalization to address so mainstream an issue, but I suppose we ought to be thankful for small favors.

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The Ford was envisioned as a revolutionary leap forward with technological advancements undreamed of when its Nimitz-class predecessors were launched decades ago.

But the ship, the first in the Ford class of supercarriers, has been plagued with a series of mechanical problems that have pushed its price tag into the stratospheric $13 billion range. The Gerald R. Ford has been in the fleet for almost three years but has yet to deploy on a single mission.

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

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I guess nobody ever told them that they could just write a check to the government, which would be very happy to get it.

No, the whole point of the exercise is to tax other people more heavily.

Outlets like The Guardian never tire of this kind of story, as if this self-selected group of woke affluent brainwashees were somehow representative of All Rich People, or could somehow speak for them.

The simplest way to close the racial wealth gap? Direct cash payments  The Guardian.

Scott Wilmot: Hey BLM, Do These Lives Matter? The Ongoing Persecution of Christians Worldwide

Redlining? What Can’t It Do?, by Steve Sailer

“No justice, no sleep”

Woman Shot And Killed After Group Says ‘All Lives Matter’

Trump Administration Turns Down Request to Pay for Minneapolis Riots

Trump Admin Tells Minnesota Governor To Get Bent Over $16 Million Aid Request Following Riots

2 Texas police officers killed in ambush attack; suspect dead, authorities say

USC’s School of Cinematic Arts announces plan to remove John Wayne exhibit

Five Guys employees fired or suspended after refusing to serve Alabama police officers

LA Teachers Union Says Schools Can’t Reopen Unless Charter Schools Get Shut-Down, Police Defunded

Scott Alexander Was Right to Fear Doxing After All: CNN Doxes a Tucker Carlson Writer, by Steve Sailer

Zuckerberg Never Fails to Disappoint  New York Times. Zuck won’t cuck, and they have a problem with that.

Duckworth Surges Among Biden VP Picks  “She breaches!”

Police Union Shares Video of NYPD Officer Put in Headlock

USA Today Sports Writer Tells GOP Senators to ‘Shut Up and Stick to Politics’

We’re Police! We’re not trained to handle this kind of violence!

How climate change alarmists are actually endangering the planet

Climate Change Dilemma: Rescuing Nature Through “Assisted Migration” vs Invasive Ecosystem Disruption

Arctic Ocean changes driven by sub-Arctic seas

The once-mocked ‘Never Trump’ movement becomes a sudden campaign force Washington Post. They hope, they hope, they hope….

Mitchell Mis-Corrects Trump Over Fauci Mask Flip-Flop

Donald Trump wears a face mask in public for the first time  Because he was visiting a hospital. Duh.

NBC Host Corrects Record: Doesn’t Think Trump Cares About COVID

USA Today Fact-Check Tweet Claims Trump Camp Shirts ‘Feature’ ‘Nazi Symbol’  Which they don’t.

USA Today Ratio’d Into Oblivion After ‘Fact Check’ Deems American Eagle A Nazi Symbol

‘Never-Trump’ Neocons Target President’s Allies For Cancellation  I think Lenin’s term Useful Idiots applies here.  No side can win when they have a large contingent hanging around for the purpose of bayonetting their own wounded.

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As data accrues on both a national and state-by-state basis, the parameters of COVID-19’s lethality is firming up. Two new papers from Dr. John Ioannidis point to the growing shortfall between apocalyptic pandemic predictions and the vastly more destructive policies implemented in observance of them.

Math is hard.

Jonathan Turley has forgotten more about law than you or I will ever know.

But criticism of this commutation immediately seemed to be decoupled from any foundation in history or in the Constitution. Indeed, Toobin also declared, “This is simply not done by American presidents. They do not pardon or commute sentences of people who are close to them or about to go to prison. It just does not happen until this president.” In reality, the commutation of Stone barely stands out in the old gallery of White House pardons, which are the most consistently and openly abused power in the Constitution. This authority under Article Two is stated in absolute terms, and some presidents have wielded it with absolute abandon.

Followed by a laundry list of such questionable pardons going back to Thomas Jefferson.

Funny how the Democrats and the DemLegHump Media scream bloody murder about stuff that their side would do in a heartbeat — and often have. One could make a long list of political shenanigans indulged in by Obama and Eric Holder.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

The trick, of course, is distinguishing between the two.

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A few days later, a retired mechanic named Charlie buys your grandfather’s watch for $150. A 19-year-old line cook acquires your Beats headphones. And a nurse from Florida becomes the proud new owner of the scarf your mom knitted you for Christmas.

Yet another reason not to fly.

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You can count on it.

You can look it up.

The author’s study found that many young people believe in several moral statutes not exclusive to any of the major world religions. It is not a new religion or theology as such, but identified as a set of commonly held spiritual beliefs. It is this combination of beliefs that they label moralistic therapeutic deism:

1. A God exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on earth.
2. God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.
3. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.
4. God does not need to be particularly involved in one’s life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.
5. Good people go to heaven when they die.

Jon Gabriel at Ricochet characterizes this as “TED talks from the pulpit”.

ZMan lays it out.

At the end of last week, the lead writer for the Tucker Carlson show was fired for blasphemy, after it was discovered he was posting unapproved jokes on an on-line forum under a pseudonym. How his blasphemy was discovered is unknown, but the keepers of truth have teams of top women hunting down these people in order to keep their domains safe from unapproved thoughts. This is, of course, a familiar story that is now what the old newspaper guys would call a “standing head.”

Tucker Carlson has not commented on it, but his bosses at Fox News promise he will have an on-air struggle session Monday. Fox News, of course, “strongly condemns this horrific behavior.” By horrific, they mean saying “given how tired black people always claim to be, maybe the real crisis is their lack of sleep” on an on-line forum dedicated to snarky humor. Clearly, such words are so monstrous it is hard to believe a human being could think such things, much less say them out loud.

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You can’t help but notice how the bold, rock-ribbed defenders of truth and civility have adopted the language of the Left. Like the old communists, Progressive now contort the language to such extremes that it is becoming a genre of humor. How long before they force Sean Hannity to call Peter Brimelow a running dog lackey? What adds to the absurdity is the people indulging in the hyperbole are the sorts of mediocrities you find staffing government offices.