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I am not a conspiracy theorist. And as recently as a year and a half ago, if someone had told me the things I am reporting here, I would have accused them of culture-war paranoia. That was before I enrolled in a professional training program that I’d hoped would expand my skills as a therapist, but instead delivered an extreme form of ideological indoctrination.

The Sexual Health Certificate Program is a prestigious University of Michigan program conducted in affiliation with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). As someone who recently studied in the program, I can attest that, notwithstanding whatever mission AASECT once had, it now operates largely as a de facto activist group that seeks to reshape standards applied to mental health care and education, and to limit the rights of parents to make decisions about their children.

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Oh, c’mon. Who hasn’t made that mistake?

Investigators Stop Attempt To Register Dead People As Democrats In Florida  Funny how it’s always Democrats who do this vote fraud stuff.

California Threatens To Arrest 12-Year-Old For Missing 3 Zoom Classes

Shut Down DC Targets Conservative Organizations as ‘Trump Boosters’

Philly City Council Strips Cops Of Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas After Dozens Wounded In Street Violence  

After 16 Days of Censorship, Twitter Unlocks the New York Post’s Account (The Other McCain)

An iPhone app designed to verify Pennsylvania mail-in ballots gets rejected by Apple

Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’

France Remains A Bastion Of Free Speech — Will Americans Take Note?

From Midtown To Portland, Businesses Are Boarding Up In Anticipation Of Election Night Chaos

New Orleans Officer Shot In The Face While On Patrol, Police Say

Washington DC Preps For An Attack

Business Owners Boarding Up In Case Party Of Love And Tolerance Loses  Babylon Bee.

Cop Roasts Leftist Protester After She Demands To Deal With Female Police Officer

NBC Finally Responds To Hunter Biden Story… With An Exhaustive Exposé Of An Unrelated Document

Antifa Celebrates Halloween With Fun Evening Of Brick-Or-Beating

‘Justice League’ Star Accuses Warner Bros Executives Of ‘Blatantly Racist Conversations’

‘I’m shaking right now’: CNN reporter describes 3 racist attacks within an hour

Small business owner challenges Oregon’s race-based Covid relief program

Security Guard Alerted To Manchester Bomber Didn’t Report Terrorist For Fear Of Being Branded “Racist”  Remind me when Muslim became a race.

PBS Liberal Pundit Embarrassed His Fellow White Males Would Re-Elect Trump

Unrest Erupts over Police Killing of Black Man Near Portland

Trump rolled back more than 125 environmental safeguards. Here’s how.  (Washington Post.)

9 Ways To Make Everything You Do in the Bathroom More Eco-Friendly, According to a Sustainability Expert  And we all want that – right?

“Where’s the sea ice?” Right where it’s been for most of the Holocene.

Religion of Green

Ricky Martin: ‘It’s Really Scary,’ ‘Super Sad’ That Latinos Would Vote For Trump

Why I feel insulted when Trump mispronounces Kamala Harris’s name  (Washington Post) Cry, little snowflake/Quiver, quiver….

Donald Trump Jr.’s ugly rant on Fox makes a strong case against his father (Washington Post) But Hunter’s laptop has nothing to do with Sleepy Joe, oh no….

CNN Promotes Unhinged Philly Dem Threatening to Put Trump Supporters in ‘Jail’

Donald Trump’s Walk Of Fame Star Vandalized By Man With A Pickaxe, Turns Himself In Afterwards

MSNBC’s Tur Lets Billy Eichner Call Trump Voters Racists, Push Biden

Democrats Reportedly Cancel Texas Campaign Rallies After Trump Supporters Swarm Biden-Harris Bus

Watch: Convoy Of Trump Trucks ‘Escorts’ Biden Campaign Bus Out Of Texas  Guess the Democrats won’t be flipping Texas after all.

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The 2016 presidential race permanently changed the jokes broadcast after the nightly news.

Late night comedians, fearing a Donald Trump victory, shifted their content aggressively to the Left. Jokes got massaged or simply nudged aside for talking points ripped out of a New York Times op-ed.

In short, they took sides in the Trump-Clinton steel cage match. The only thing missing? Blue pom poms. (Maybe they were just off camera…).

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The need for nightly cyber-therapy will be all but gone for hardened liberals. Where does that leave late night comedy without its go-to bogeyman?

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Publication by the New York Post two weeks ago of emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop, relating to Vice President Joe Biden’s work in Ukraine, and subsequent articles from other outlets concerning the Biden family’s pursuit of business opportunities in China, provoked extraordinary efforts by a de facto union of media outlets, Silicon Valley giants and the intelligence community to suppress these stories.

One outcome is that the Biden campaign concluded, rationally, that there is no need for the front-running presidential candidate to address even the most basic and relevant questions raised by these materials. Rather than condemn Biden for ignoring these questions — the natural instinct of a healthy press when it comes to a presidential election — journalists have instead led the way in concocting excuses to justify his silence.

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Long but worth every minute.

The Intercept is the poster child for the maxim that every institution that isn’t explicitly right-wing eventually winds up left-wing.

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Not good news for the Democrat base Underclass.

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As we enter the final days of the 2020 presidential election, compliant journalists have protected Joe Biden on many fronts. But the most egregious and shocking is the lack of interest by reporters when it comes to the sexual assault allegation made by former staffer Tara Reade against the Democrat.

After Reade went public in March to assert that Biden forcibly penetrated her while a Senate staffer in 1993, the networks, as well as CNN and MSNBC, buried the story. Since protective journalists don’t want to tell the truth, Reade is telling her own story in a new book called Left Out: When the Truth Doesn’t Fit In.

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Prediction: Nobody will get fired, nobody will go to jail.

ZMan discusses some inconvenient truth.

An old expression in the collectibles world is that anything that has value will eventually be faked or stolen. Art is faked so often that certain types of art have lost all value, because no one can tell the fakes from the genuine items. It’s not just crooks trying to beat the rules of the game. The people responsible for policing the fraud are often the people perpetrating the fraud. The truth is, anything that does not have objective value, but relies on insiders, will be subject to fraud and theft.

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Everything I’ve read suggests that people would prefer adopting DST year-round, which isn’t quite the same thing.

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I am not making this up.

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That’s what you get when your city is run by Democrats. (But nobody ever learns….)

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Asian American businesses are besieged by racism that leaves them open to attacks and by economic stereotypes that render them forgotten.

Vice.

Conservative news thrives on Facebook because the incentives Facebook values align with those pioneered by conservative media.

That’ll be news to ‘conservative’ media. I guess if you’re insufficiently left-wing then you’re right-wing by definition.

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Jambalaya is going to have to get over it.

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According to the legal news website, Project Veritas accused the Times of defaming it by describing it as ”deceptive.”

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

In Minnesota, polls show a tight race between President Trump and Joe Biden. This has Democrats worried; in 2016, the last October poll showed Hillary Clinton with an 11-point lead, and she carried the state by a point and a half. That was remarkable, in view of the fact that in 2016, the Trump campaign allotted $50,000 to Minnesota, according to Mick Mulvaney. This year, the campaign is spending millions, most significantly on voter turnout efforts.

The most tangible evidence that Minnesota is in play is the fact that Joe Biden has added a stop in St. Paul to his schedule for Friday. He didn’t to that because his campaign is happy with their own polling here.

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Thousands fled Paris Thursday night causing 430 miles of traffic jams in and around the French capital as residents evacuated just before a nationwide stay-at-home order was to take effect to stem a second surge of infections from the novel coronavirus.

As of midnight Parisian time, people were ordered to stay at home except for essential work or medical reasons, resulting in many relocating to more rural areas to wait out the month-long lockdown, the BBC reported.

Video posted to Twitter showed never-ending streams of crawling headlights on every road in every direction. There also were reports of restaurants jammed with diners enjoying a last meal out for the time being. Heavy traffic also was reported in and around the cities of Lyon and Bordeaux.

I hope they remember this next election.

Trump is one of the best conservative presidents in modern history — if you turn the sound off  (Washington Post)

Why this conservative voted for Biden and you should too: Trump is a morally defective man (USA Today)

Trump’s Voter-Suppression Strategy Is a Crisis (Even If It Backfires) (New York Magazine) There is, of course, no such strategy.

Trump Corruptly Meddled With Probe Into Crimes by Bank in Turkey (New York Magazine) Still no mention of Hunter Biden’s laptop, though.

‘Looting, Horrible Destruction’: Here’s What People In DC Think Will Happen If Trump Gets Reelected

Despite Having Lied to Them, CNN Again Trots ‘Anonymous’ to Attack Trump

Brett Favre Endorses President Donald Trump, Says His ‘Vote Is For What Makes This Country Great’

(VIDEO) Beyond Bias: Proof the Media Openly HATE Trump Voters

Sports Figures Backing Trump Leaves USA Today’s Brennan in Full Meltdown Mode

‘I Have PTSD From 2016’: Ana Navarro Is Worried That People Are Relying On Polls

Rapper 50 Cent Warns Lil Wayne About Repercussions Of Taking Picture With Trump

‘Emotional Aftershocks’: George Washington University Offers Mental Health Services To Cope With Election Results

Abdul-Jabbar: Trump Supporters Have ‘Blind Faith’ In ‘Cult Figure’

Panicky Colbert Freaks Over 2016 ‘PTSD,’ Worries About Replay in 2020

National Academy of Sciences Declares Global Warming Contributes Hot and Cold Severe Weather

Joe Biden Wants to Jail Oil Executives for Causing Climate Change  But not, of course, the ones who paid off his son Hunter in Ukraine.

New satellites can pinpoint methane leaks to help us beat climate change  Your tax dollars at work.

Brain Scans Show a Whole Spectrum of COVID-19 Abnormalities We Can’t Fully Explain

COVID Comedy ‘Connecting…’ Complains About ‘Colonizer Behavior’

WHO Special Envoy On COVID Reiterates Caution Against Lockdowns As Primary Virus Plan

CORONAVIRUS ISOLATION DAY 231 UPDATE: Coronavirus Lands A Right Hook Directly On My Jaw

The Facts on Andrew Cuomo’s Nursing Home Policy

The Great COVID Lie

Texas County Judge Orders Two-Week Shutdown Of Non-Essential Businesses Due To Rise In COVID-19 Cases  Democrat.

Plague controls became social controls

How to plan a COVID-safe Thanksgiving, week-by-week (Popular ‘Science’)

A Holiday Season Covid Surge, Outbreaks in Swing States, and More  (Popular ‘Science’)

2 Florida men allegedly used device to fish out mail, mail-in ballots: report

‘He Will And Can Get It Done’: Rapper Lil Wayne Comes Out In Support Of President Trump

Philadelphia Police Face Rebuke from City, Wallace Family

The ACLU Is Suing Police Across The Country For “Brutality” In Response To Riots And Looting This Summer

Philadelphia City Council Votes To Ban Police From Using ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons On Protesters

Family Claims Police Who Shot Wallace Were Improperly Trained  How much training does it take to shoot somebody attacking you with a knife?

NBC’s ‘Superstore’ Lies: BLM Protests ‘99% Peaceful’

This Week in Identity Politics: “I’ll Find Someone the Right Shade of Brown”

Halfrican Racist Lemon Laments He Had to ‘Get Rid of’ Trump ‘Addicts’ from His Life

“He Assured Us He Will Get It Done” – Lil Wayne Meets With Trump On Plan To Financially Empower Black Americans

Rampant shoplifting leads to another Walgreens closing in S.F.

Halfrican Racist Don Lemon Says He Cut Out A Lot Of Friends In His Life Who Are Trump Supporters: ‘They Have To Hit Rock Bottom Like An Addict’  It’s all about the Narrative; can’t breach the bubble.

Walter Wallace’s Family Doesn’t Want Murder Charges Against Officers Because They Were ‘Improperly Trained’  Yeah, they didn’t just stand there and get stabbed. Obviously inadequate training.

What Killed Michael Brown? It’s Not What You’ve Been Told.

Politifact Agrees With Calling ‘Thin Blue Line’ Flag ‘Anti-Black Lives Matter’  Since BLM is a pro-criminal racist organization, I have to agree.

Virginia Mandates Police Receive Anti-Racism Training, Bans No Knock Warrants

DC Held Hostage

Louisville Police Officer Sues Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend For Emotional Distress, Assault, Battery

Professors Call Out Beer And Beethoven As Latest Examples Of Racist Bias

Activist Tries to “Take Back” an Artifact for Africa from the Louvre Museum  Except that it was Indonesian.

Chelsea Handler Patrols Polling Places To Make Sure No Black People Are Voting For Trump  Babylon Bee.

Cover-Up: CNN, MSNBC Spend 94 Mins on ‘Anonymous,’ Zero on Bobulinski Interview

Melbourne Parties As 112-Day COVID-19 Lockdown Comes To An End

Criminal Justice Programs Embrace ‘Wokeness’

Business Insider: Journalists Are Donating to Democrat Campaigns  Not really news, but a useful reminder.

New York Post Twitter Lock Reaches Seventeenth Day

MSNBC’s Ruhle Outraged By Fox Actually Reporting on Biden Scandal

Democrats Hand Out Extra Ballots To Trick-Or-Treaters  Babylon Bee.

Lawyer Says Police Beat Up, Arrested Mother Who Accidentally Drove Into Protest Area And Used Photo Of Her Toddler As ‘Propaganda’

Apple refuses to engrave ‘liberate’ protest slogan on HK customer’s Apple Pencil

Shops Boarded Up In San Francisco Ahead Of Anticipated Election Night Unrest  Notice that Republican areas don’t need to do this.

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And once they find it they beat it to death and hide it in an unmarked grave.

She sure looks like a Karen to me.

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On the evening of November 8, 2016, much of the country found itself transfixed by the vacillations of a tiny needle. It was the graphical representation of the New York Times’s presidential election forecast, which initially rated Hillary Clinton’s chances of victory at above 80 percent. Around 8 p.m. Eastern on election night, it began to lurch unsteadily toward her opponent. In the end, the needle correctly projected his victory a few hours before it was called. The needle’s jittery motions made it the object of collective outrage on the part of Clinton partisans, but it was fundamentally doing what it was designed to do: model the likelihood of outcomes based on available data.

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Sometimes called ‘The Australia Ballot’, we used this system in the Yale Political Union when I was an undergraduate, and it worked out very well.

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Did you enjoy World Pasta Day? It was last Sunday. Me, I made a big bowl of it and tucked in along with my mates Mark Arony and Al Dente.

“World Pasta Day” indeed. I have so many questions. Who invents this nonsense? How does one go about registering such a pivotal moment in human endeavour? Who approves it? Some bewigged official in Geneva? What does the stamp of approval look like?

Or can anyone claim a day for themselves? I dunno… World Leaf Blower Day, perhaps, or the International Day of the Shoelace.

I might also point out that I was born on Schicksalstag, the so-called Germanic “Day of Fate”. I was thinking that I might register it as a trademark and earn micropayments every time a TV channel runs footage of the Berlin Wall coming down. (That’s done it: all you need now is my mother’s maiden name and the name of my first pet, and you’re rolling.)

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Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

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The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 22, which represents firefighters and paramedics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, declined to rescind the endorsement of President Donald Trump in a 1,444 to 782 vote, the union announced Wednesday. Local 22 members protested and national IAFF leadership spoke out against the union’s September endorsement of Trump.

“There is tremendous support for President Trump among first responders and we encourage other IAFF locals to confer with their members,” Michael Bresnan, president of Local 22, wrote in the union’s endorsement letter.

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Actress Kirstie Alley battled CNN’s communications department over the network’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

The “Cheers” actress criticized CNN in a tweet early Friday morning, accusing the network of stoking fear over the continued spread of the virus.

“I now Know why my personal friends who walk around in SHEER TERROR of contracting Covid are simply CNN viewers!” Alley tweeted. “I decided to watch CNN myself to get a their viewpoint and oh my God DID I EVER!!!! IF YOU TOO WANT TO LIVE IN TERROR WATCH CNN!!

FEAR OF DYING IS THEIR MANTRA! OMG!”

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Hot from The Guardian. (I am not making this up.)

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Police saw the men hanging around a mailbox in Lighthouse Point in Broward County, the report continued. An officer questioned 28-year-old Junior Alexander Cabral and 20-year-old Vladimir Cabral Cuevas and noticed a bag of mail and a tool used to fish out mail from a drop box in the front seat of the suspect’s car. Two ballots were separate from the other mail, according to records, per the AP.

Let’s see, Cabral and Cuevas — obviously Republicans.

Severian continues his analysis.

That’s just the most glaring case of a general flaw: Leftism is, and always has been, an oppositional identity. “Rebelling” against “the Man” isn’t a bug, it’s a feature, and despite a half-century of practice, Liberals haven’t figured out how to handle the situation when they, themselves, are The Man. It doesn’t compute. Hence the strange spectacle of modern life, where Lefty controls everything but carries on like he’s a tiny, persecuted minority…

Exactly right. The fundamental characteristic of progressivism is that there is no endpoint. There is no time at which they can say ‘Okay, we’ve got enough Progress, we can stop now and enjoy it’, because Progress is not a state but a process, so they are obliged to Keep On Changing, no matter what the change might be. Nothing is ever good enough, no time is ever satisfactory, because there is always something More To Do. This is why ‘activist’ is the mark on their souls and the badge that they all carry.

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We learned this week that the “senior administration official” who trashed President Trump in a 2018 op-ed under the name “Anonymous” was, in fact, fairly far removed from the center of power as a mere deputy chief of staff to the Secretary of Homeland Security. “I think many people were under the impression — I know I was — that the article was written by somebody with a much more senior role,” ABC’s Jonathan Karl complained on Wednesday’s World News Tonight.

If the Times had given readers a more precise description of the op-ed’s author, though, it’s unlikely anyone would have cared. It was the description of a “senior administration official” that teased the imagination; “senior” being the key word that suggested real proximity to the President, such as a cabinet secretary, prominent West Wing adviser or even Vice President Pence. Learning that the writer was Miles Taylor, someone unknown to most Americans, revealed the op-ed for what it was: a cheap anti-Trump gimmick.

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Two former U.S. Navy SEALs started a business (Matbock) to develop and sell equipment they wish they had while SEALs but could not find. One of their first products was the ARDS (Acquire Read Deploy Sight) for use on assault rifles equipped with an M203 or M320 under the barrel 40mm grenade launcher. The M320 already had available a detachable DNS electronic sight. While the DNS was an improvement over the original iron sight, there were several obvious (to users) features missing. ARDS provided what DNS lacked and users wanted. ARDS sight enables the user to select model of grenade launcher as well as ammo type (illumination, smoke or explosive). ARDS contains a microprocessor and sensors similar to those found in smartphones or smartwatches. This enables to ARDS to sense positioning of the grenade launcher and calculate how far the grenade will go and where it will land. A small LCD tells you how far away the shell will land based on how you are holding the rifle mounting the M203 or M320. A handheld laser range finder is used to get the range to target. ARDS can be demonstrated on a firing range to first time users, who are convinced once they see their first ARDS directed grenade land on the target. ARDS was introduced in 2019 and within a year SOCOM (Special Operations Command) had ordered a thousand.

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Iran was recently found equipping their UAVS with aircraft engines built for hobbyist remote control aircraft. The UN has been studying the wreckage of many of these Iranian UAVs employed as weapons and an examination of the key components revealed many items that are not banned from going to Iran because these items are widely used in civilian products. Iran was still careful, because there is not a lot of demand for these small hobby engines in Iran. Any unusual quantity of these engines sold to Iran would be noted. To avoid discovery Iran had these engines, mainly models made in Germany or China, sold to a middleman in a third country and then those engines could be diverted to Iran and smuggled in. At that point Iran can smuggle the engines, and other forbidden components to pro-Iran groups that will use assemble the Iranian designed UAVs with the help of Iranian advisors for use as weapons or just reconnaissance.

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Today is the 50th anniversary of Congressional passage of the Rail Passenger Service Act, which created the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, later known as Amtrak. This law was based on several factual errors, the most important one being a claim that passenger trains could make money if only they were freed from the stodgy railroad executives who supposedly preferred freight over passenger service.

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Graham Stewart visits Orkney and the Shetlands to find the islanders keen on independence — from Scotland.

Steve Sailer.

The New York Times is committed to bringing you almost as much late-breaking Angela Davis news as its stop-the-presses Emmett Till coverage. Angela Davis’s name has come up in the NYT 48 times over the last year, almost once per week.

Angela’s looking pretty white in this picture.

In contrast, the last time the Times has mentioned the name of Harold Haley, the judge whose head was blown off by the shotgun Davis had purchased two days earlier, was 1986.

Since then, the Times has written about Davis 397 times without mentioning the murdered judge by name once.

Harold Haley. Say his name.

If ‘white privilege’ is such a thing, why don’t we have any reports of ‘black’ people pretending to be white? Why is it always white people pretending to be black?

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An email Hunter Biden received in April 2015 from a Burisma executive discussing an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden, which lies at the heart of a New York Post investigation, is unquestionably authentic, a cybersecurity expert told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.

The DCNF obtained a full copy of Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday. The DCNF provided Robert Graham, the founder of the cybersecurity firm Errata Security, with a copy of the email and its metadata for forensic analysis.

Graham, who has been cited as a cybersecurity expert in The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Wired, Engadget and other news and technology outlets, told the DCNF that he used a cryptographic signature found in the email’s metadata to validate that Vadym Pozharsky, an advisor to Burisma’s board of directors, emailed Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

France has sustained a series of attacks by Islamic terrorists, leaving three dead. The Sun has a good account with lots of photos.

UPDATE: Behind the bloody attacks in France

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If a 3D printer leaves gaps in the plastic that it deposits, it’s usually thought of as an unwanted flaw. Now, however, the process has been harnessed to quickly and cheaply produce pliable polymer textiles.

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Good luck with that.