Victor Davis Hanson.

In his latest incarnation as president emeritus and corporate multimillionaire community activist, we are reminded of the earlier Barack Obama of “get in their face,” “take a gun to a knife fight,” and “punish our enemies” vintage. From time to time, Obama ventures from his hilltop, seaside, $12 million “you didn’t build that” Martha’s Vineyard Estate or his tony Washington, D.C. $8 million “spread the wealth” mansion to lecture the nation on all of its racist sins, past and present.

In these outings, he seeks to advise lesser folk on how we can still find redemption (make Puerto Rico a state?), given that his own eight years as president apparently proved that the United States remains hopelessly captive to the spirit of Bull Connor and that a president such as himself—starting out with complete control of the Congress—had no power to change much.

His latest weaponization of the funeral of John Lewis revealed all the Obama signature characteristics.

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The owner of a Virginia smoke shop is outraged that a juvenile who allegedly plotted to burglarize his store “is walking free.” He said Monday that his employee is on house arrest with an ankle GPS for defending himself and the store.

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CNN’s New Day aired a segment this morning that included an interview by CNN reporter Miguel Marquez with an Arizona gun shop owner wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with “CNN” — except the ‘C’ had been replaced with . . . a hammer and sickle. His message was clear: the Communist News Network!

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An NPR report suggests the global response to COVID-19 may have been based on a flawed assumption about the volatility of COVID19. We already know that the model used to initially predict infection and death rates was completely flawed, and now discredited, along with the modeler Neil Ferguson of London’s Imperial College.

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Judge Torres is, of course, a Woman of Color.

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Ballot harvesting refers to the practice of party volunteers or campaign workers collecting mail-in ballots from voters and submitting them in batches to polling places or election offices.

There have been several documented voter fraud cases involving ballot harvesting. A prominent occurrence was during North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District election in 2018. A county operative was arrested after illegally collecting hundreds of absentee ballots, many containing forged signatures. The results were also overturned by the state’s election board.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #418

Pacific Islands must stop relying on foreign aid to adapt to climate change, because the money won’t last

Two Arctic ice caps have vanished as NASA reveals shock satellite images of global warming

Study Finds That ‘Chemical Recycling’ Is All Talk and No Recycling

Phys.org: “Climate change and COVID-19: The denial playbook is the same”

“An obstacle to electoral success”: Aussie Left Feuding Over Climate Policy

Climate change-fueled heatwaves could kill millions  Could.

Magic Johnson Arrives in Split on $150 Million ‘Aquila’ Super-Yacht  It’s just astonishing the way black people are oppressed in this country.

More Shootings in NYC So Far in 2020 Than in All of 2019

BLM: Nice Little Cuban Restaurant You Have Here, be a Shame if Anything Happened to It, by Steve Sailer

Portland suffers most killings in three decades

Jonathan Isaac Jersey Sales Shoot Up After He Stands Alone During The National Anthem  Nobody dares wear them, though.

NYC Has Already Seen More Shootings This Year Than In All Of 2019

Police Made 4 Arrests For Defacing Property As DC Faced Occasional, Destructive Riots. Then They Arrested 2 Pro-Lifers For Writing ‘Black Preborn Lives Matter’

‘And You Get New Health Care!’ Oprah Launches Voting Registration For BLM-Supporting Voters

BLM Uses ‘Mafia Tactics’ To Threaten Cuban Restaurant Owner With Diversity Demands

Spanish Nets Omit BLM Extortion of Hispanic Business in Louisville

Trader Joe’s Agrees To Discontinue Racist Food Labels, Replace With New ‘Trader Don’s’ Brand  Babylon Bee.

Black Ministry of Justice employee accused of car theft while jogging

The Lincoln Project’s plan for preserving the union: Drive Trump out of office by driving him nuts  Washington Post. Hey, he did it to them first….

BAM: Billy Bush Says NBC Built Trump in Their Lab, Now ‘Despises Him Most’

Top 13: ‘Virus Is Winning,’ Time to End ‘Dictator’ Trump’s ‘Reign of Terror’

Hey, Chris Cuomo: Maybe YOU Have Hate In Your Heart? Not Trump

Trump ‘Doesn’t Plan To Have Fair And Unfettered Election … Plans To Install Himself In Some Emergency Way,’ Says Rep. Clyburn

Rasmussen Poll: Trump Approval Rating Hits 51 Percent

“Blood-Chilling” Or Just A Tweet? Debunking The Coup d’Trump  Jonathan Turley.

Willfully Covering Up Dem Lies: CNN Calls Trump ‘Pinocchio’ on ObamaCare

CNN Doesn’t Care About Facts: Ryan Claim ‘Armed Forces’ Will Force Trump to Leave Office

MSNBC FAIL: Watch Claims of Racist Trump Policy Immediately Collapse

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A drive in a European-market 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S with matrix LEDs shows just how dumb our headlights are in the U.S.

Europe good, America bad.

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How many of them are run by Democrats is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Who are you going to believe, CNN or some professor somewhere?

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Be the first on your block….

Jim Goad speaks for all right-thinking people.

I’ve always been antisocial, and from my perspective, that’s society’s fault. When you see how people operate in groups, you’d realize that being antisocial is a virtue rather than a character flaw. Being antisocial merely means being wise to how people operate in groups. And it’s never pretty. That’s why I refuse to declare myself part of any movement, because it would involve being surrounded by people.

This is why I never needed government agents or social-media scolds to tell me to keep my distance. I don’t go anywhere I’m not wanted and I avoid most of the places where I actually am wanted.

Concur.

Steve Sailer.

Must be Youthful Exuberance.

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Some months ago, I saw a shocking video: someone rode a bicycle down a sidewalk in Los Angeles, filming as he went, for something like a half hour. The entire time, he passed tent encampments or cities on both sides of the sidewalk. They seemed to go on forever and had an appearance of permanence.

Yesterday a friend sent me a similar video, on a smaller scale, which was filmed by a resident of South Minneapolis. It shows Minnehaha Park, near the famous Minnehaha Falls. The tent city that has sprung up there is replicated in many other Minneapolis parks. These encampments are the result, I believe, of an executive order by Governor Tim Walz that decreed all 38 parks within the city of Minneapolis to be open for occupancy by tent squatters. I assume this order ostensibly has something to do with the governor’s emergency powers based on the COVID epidemic, but how the two are related I can’t tell you. Basically, we are living under martial law.

‘I Have Never Been Called That’: Dr. Birx Responds To Pelosi Criticism

The Panopticon Is Already Here

Portland Recorded More Homicides In July Than Any Month Over Last 30 Years  Sure, we’ll de-fund the police and see what happens.

Greenland Ice CO2 – Chemical Reactions or Natural Variability?

British Academics: Delay is the new Climate Denial

Satellite survey shows California’s sinking coastal hotspots

A favourite lie of the environmental movement takes another blow

Four held after British GP climate action protest

Blue crabs become scourge of fishermen in Adriatic as warming sea temperatures boost their numbers

Hartford police say man decapitated landlord during rent dispute, claimed ‘sovereign’ status

How ‘good White people’ derail racial progress CNN.

NBA’s Jonathan Isaac Becomes First To Stand For National Anthem And Refuse To Wear A “Black Lives Matter” T-Shirt

College Expels Student For “Racist” Social Media Post, Then Discovers What Actually Happened

BLM Fascists Harass Restaurant Patrons [Updated]

The moment impeachment managers realized how corrupt Trump’s defense was  Washington Post. (How can a ‘defense’ be ‘corrupt’?)

Confederate Coolers and Grifters: ABC Promotes Anti-Trump Lincoln Project

Iran’s Supreme Leader: Fresh Talks With US Would Only Boost Trump Ahead Of November  And we can’t have that, now, can we? (I guess this makes Biden the Islamist candidate….)

UNHINGED: CNN Claims Trump Trying to Intentionally ‘Crash’ America

Bill Maher Gushes Over Jim Carrey’s Anti-Trump Painting ‘Wicked Witch of the West Wing’

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It may seem a stretch to compare page design with architecture, but the comparison really works, I think. Looking at the medieval page, it is not difficult to regard it as an engineered construction: a convoluted space defined by columns and corridors, with rooms inhabited by thoughts and ideas (Figure 1). Nothing encountered on the medieval page is a coincidence. Everything is there for a reason and serves a specific purpose; and so, too, is the manner in which the text was spread out over the page. Like other material features of the manuscript, page design is usually reflective of how the book would be used, but in their choices scribes also responded to the preferences – demands, even – of the individuals who would ultimately use the manuscript.

Readers, in turn, preferred their books – and the pages in them – to be formatted in certain ways because they planned to use them for performing particular tasks: to educate or be educated (teachers and students), to entertain or to be entertained (minstrels and courtiers), or to gather a body of information and consult it (scholars, preachers, physicians, lawyers). How and where words were placed on the page – their size and script, and their location – were important considerations in this process of turning the book into a tool that was up to the task. Indeed, it can be argued that a page’s design was (and is) key to a book’s success. What are some of the variables in play? And how did the choice for a certain design affect, positively and negatively, the manner in which the medieval book could be used effectively?

Page layout has ancient roots, and a considerable body of traditional knowledge. Today’s functional equivalent is web-page user interface design, and they still haven’t got it to the same degree of sophistication of those ancient scribes.

The Other McCain sniffs it out.

When President Trump first raised the accusation last month that Joe Biden is planning to destroy the “Suburban Dream Lifestyle,” I didn’t know what the hell he was talking about, and half believed the media claim that Trump was just “stoking fear.” And then I investigated, and discovered that Democrats plan to abolish single-family home zoning.

Crazy? Yes, it sounds so crazy that you can’t imagine that anyone would seriously propose such a policy, but this goes back to something the Obama administration actually did (by executive order) in 2015, “tying federal community development grants to proactive efforts by communities to integrate neighborhoods,” as left-wing Mother Jonesdescribed it. This issue gets very deep very quickly, but the basic idea is that suburban communities that maintain single-family zoning thereby restrict the areas in which “affordable housing” can be built and — stay with me here — “affordable housing” is just code for homes for black people because, presumably, “black” is a synonym for poor.

‘Affordable housing’ is, almost by definition, housing that NAMs can pay for with their Federal housing assistance. You can look it up.

As a wise old Gunnery Sergeant once told me: The only good day was yesterday.

Steve Sailer.

My father’s insight in 1969 that Beverly Hills and Malibu liberals were all jumping on the environmentalist bandwagon to keep out the less privileged remains a head-slappingly rare idea in 2020. One should not underestimate liberals’ ability to vote for the smart thing locally: e.g., the Democrats lost 5 straight elections in New York City after the one term of the only black mayor, without New Yorkers adjusting their hectoring of the rest of the country at all.

Steve Sailer.

My guess is this will be adopted by the Science Proves Race Does Not Exist crowd. They are starting to wonder why they know that Race Is Only Skin Deep but everybody in 2020, including them, acts like it’s the most important thing in the world.

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Chicago has, of course, some of the strictest ‘gun control’ laws in the country — not that they appear to do any good.

Maybe de-funding the police will help. They seem to have tried everything else.

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On the July 31 Real Time with Bill Maher, former New York Times op-ed editor Bari Weiss described her fear of how our nation’s so-called paper of record has now seemingly banned the opinions of half of America from its editorial pages.

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Weiss said mere criticism is “kosher,” it’s the word that journalists do. “What cancel culture is about is not criticism. It is about punishment. It is about making a person radioactive. It is about taking away their job,” Weiss told Maher. “The writer Jonathan Rauch called it social murder. And I think that’s right.”

Video resurfaces of Trump struggling to vote in person in 2004 as he ramps up attacks on mail-in voting  CNN. Pretty sophomoric.

Drooling MSNBCers Long for Obama as They Campaign Against Trump

Leftist Insanity: Bernstein Demands GOP Force Trump Out of Office

Ghoulish CNN Exploits Herman Cain’s Death to Attack Trump

Amanpour Cues Jerry Brown to Bash Trump Over Portland, Election

Surprise! Aussie Bushfire Climate Change Outrage Pivots into an Activist Demand for Cash

How to improve climate modeling and prediction

Biden’s false climate promises

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Thank God for the strict gun ban in Britain, or the place would look like Texas.

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Glucosamine is a polysaccharide that is found naturally in cartilaginous joint tissues, bones, skin, ligaments, and nails, and it is involved in protein and lipid synthesis. In the context of joints, synovial fluid contains glucosamine and occupies the space between joints, helping to reduce the friction of joint surfaces.

The evidence for its usefulness in addressing conditions such as arthritis is, however, small at best, though there is some data for its effectiveness as an anti-inflammatory, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial in 2015 [1].

However, glucosamine supplementation seems to correlate with lower all-cause mortality and other mortality risks, such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, respiratory and digestive diseases. A recent analysis published in the journal BMJ showed that glucosamine supplementation conveys around a 15% reduction of all-cause mortality [2]. This is a considerable amount when compared to other lifestyle interventions as well as other supplements. The data gathered is from a large number of people, and the trend of reduced mortality is unmistakable.

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On Friday’s New Day, CNN co-host Alisyn Camerota and reporter Kara Scannell committed random acts of journalism in discussing the newly released documents from a 2015 civil lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre against Jeffrey Epstein.

The documents detailed the alleged sexual abuses perpetrated upon Guiffre by Epstein and some his powerful friends, which may help to clarify the relationship between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Shockingly, Camerota and Scannell acknowledged Giuffre’s claim that Bill Clinton visited Epstein’s Caribbean island where much of the sex trafficking purportedly occurred.

Job Interview:

“So tell me, what is your biggest weakness?”
“I’m too honest.”
“I don’t think that being too honest is really a weakness.”
“I don’t give a rat’s ass what you think.”

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Darren Wilson is the former Ferguson, Missouri police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, who assaulted him. The shooting was a wholly justified act of self defense. Yet, it triggered the Black Lives Matter movement. It’s fitting that a phony justice movement originated with a phony claim of police misconduct.

Wilson has been cleared of any criminal conduct by a grand jury and by the Obama-Holder Justice Department. But the left never gives up. Thus, as Bill Otis notes, yet another prosecutor, Wesley Bell elected in 2018, reopened the investigation of Wilson.

Bell, who is African-American, gained office by attacking Robert McCulloch, the incumbent prosecutor. McCulloch led the grand jury proceeding that resulted in no indictment of Wilson. Yet, Bell reached the same conclusion as McCulloch: Darren Wilson is not guilty of any crime that could be proven to a jury under the same standards applied to everyone else.

Steve Sailer.

If you were in a cynical frame of mind, you might conclude that The Great Awokening / Black Lives Matter is mostly a Jobs for the Boys racket.

But of course the current Racial Reckoning can’t be a Jobs for the Boys grift because that would be sexist and cisgendered. The proper term is, therefore, Jobs for the Theys.

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In the following interview, former CIA station chief Brad Johnson discusses the “Clinton body count” — the string of fatal incidents that have mysteriously befallen dozens of people who opposed, thwarted, or held damaging information on Bill and Hillary Clinton.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning….

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Friday afternoon, CNN and MSNBC anchors tried to discount Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) after he tried to get Dr. Fauci to say whether or not protests spread coronavirus, during a congressional hearing today. CNN’s Brianna Keilar and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell were not amused by Jordan exposing the double standard placed on left-wing protesters vs. churchgoers, and each tried to discredit him in their own way.