Asian Sotheby’s realtor arrested for telling black YouTuber, 25, he was in a ‘no-n***** zone’

Sen. Bernie Sanders Calls For Police Responsible For ‘Murdering’ Walter Wallace Jr. To Be Prosecuted By Justice Department  Shooting someone attacking you with a knife isn’t murder, Bernie. Time for you to retire, gramps.

Van Packed With Explosives Found In Philadelphia Amid Riots And Unrest

Ice Cube Doubles Down On Why He’s Working With President Donald Trump

Lifelong Democratic Flint City Council Member Endorses Trump

Princeton president tries to double talk his way out of pickle he created

Deadspin Fillets NBA Player For White Privilege Over False Claim About Trump Support

NAACP Sues Trump Over Diversity Training Executive Order That Prevents Government Agencies From Offering ‘Anti-American’ Diversity Training

Another Professor Resigns Following Accusations She Pretended To Be Non-White Must be that ‘white privilege’ we all keep hearing about.

Anonymous Top-Level White House Official Revealed To Be Jussie Smollett  Babylon Bee.

8-Year-Old Girl Shot While Doing Homework Dies In Hospital

NYT Advice for Aspiring Termagants: Scold Anyone You Overhear Asking if the Latest Aspiring/Expiring Rapper in the Headlines Resisted Arrest, by Steve Sailer

Vimeo Removes Video Showing Ties Between Pro-China Group, Black Lives Matter Founder

Deluged by floods, America’s ‘oldest city’ struggles to save landmarks from climate crisis

Mean and Unclean: Electric Cars Powered by Child Labor in Africa

ANZ Bank Demands Carbon Divestment as a Condition of Business Loans

Where’s the sea ice? 3 reasons the Arctic freeze is unseasonably late and why it matters

This election could decide the climate’s future (Popular ‘Science’)

The Laptev Sea hasn’t frozen

The Futility of “Renewable” Energy in Two Easy Charts

Pompeo Talks Climate Change in the Maldives

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Rare and valuable plants that naturally “mine” large quantities of nickel are thought to be hiding in Indonesia’s forests – but it is a race to discover them before they are wiped out.

This is from the BBC so there’s no guarantee it’s accurate.

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Heading into the final week of the 2020 campaign, the most important names on the ballot might not be Donald Trump and Joe Biden, but rather three third-party candidates: Howie Hawkins, Jo Jorgensen, and Kanye West. Hawkins is running as the nominee for the Green Party, Jorgensen the Libertarian Party, and West an independent. These candidates likely have the power to sway who is sworn in as president next January.

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Nearly a third of black voters would cast that ballot for President Donald Trump “if the presidential election was held today,” a new survey reported.

According to Rasmussen, that’s exactly 31% of black voters on Thursday, an uptick from 27% on Monday. The polling organization predicted the result of the 2016 presidential election.

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Well, that’s what happens when your city is run by Democrats.

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With just five days to go, polls show a tight race in many of the key battleground states. But one place where the race isn’t tight: newsrooms across America. The country’s newspapers have absolutely thumped Donald Trump in their official endorsements, favoring Joe Biden by a count of (88) to (7).

Out of a total of (95) newspapers that have offered an editorial on who their readers should vote for, 88 (93 percent) of them have endorsed Joe Biden. Only seven (The Las Vegas Review Journal, Santa Barbara News-Press, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Spokesman-Review, The New York Post, The Washington Times and Boston Herald) have advised voting for Trump.

I still read the news, but I refuse to pay for it. No way I’m going to shell out money for lies.

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The elderly victim that was “virtually beheaded” had come to pray at or near the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice, BBC reported. Two of the people who died were killed inside the church, and a woman was able to flee to a nearby cafe after being stabbed several times before dying later that day. One of the victims is believed to be the church warden, Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said, according to Reuters.

UPDATE: ‘Muslims Have A Right To Be Angry And To Kill Millions Of French People,’ Former Malaysian Prime Minister Says

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What goes down, must come up, and one quarter after US GDP collapsed by a record 31.4% annualized, moments ago the BEA reported that in Q3 the US economy rebounded by a similarly record high 33.1%, the biggest annualized increase in history.

This isn’t as amazing as it appears, because most of that growth is just a return to normalcy after the Pandemic Panic, but it’s still a Trump win.

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Call me arrogant, but I’d rather optimize my indoor environment than try to spend more time in the capricious outdoors. I think it’s defeatism to give up on improving our indoor spaces and resign ourselves to the fickle weather and seasons.

If I was going to create an ideal environment for a human, I think there are several things I would include that we routinely fail to include in our homes and offices.

I see some good ideas here.

One common piece of advice given by doctors to insomniacs is to only use your bed for sleeping and for sex, and it’s good advice. If you use your bed for reading, studying, and watching TV, then your mind will not form a strong association between the bed and sleep, and you will have a harder time falling asleep.

Many people make this mistake.

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By prioritising allocation of H-1B visas to highly paid workers, the administration hopes to stop businesses importing workers who are wiling to accept lower wages than American workers, and therefore raise wages for Americans.

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

The Washington Post reports on “the racial undercurrents of city politics” that loom over the upcoming city council election in Washington, D.C. The city is no longer majority Black due to the influx of young Whites and, says the Post, this development threatens the hold of Black establishment politicians.

Read it. And watch the video.

Allie Stuckey makes the case for voting Democrat. Her ad is a parody, and a funny one, but what is scary is how accurately it represents today’s Democratic Party.

Newsom’s Absurd Thanksgiving Rules

Chicago On Verge Of Credit Downgrade As Mayor Lightfoot Suggests Novel Idea Of Raising Taxes  BRAAAAAAAINS!

China’s Top Censor Orders Another Crackdown On Dissent

Editor Daily Rundown: Riots Sweep Philly, NYC, DC In Wake Of Police Shooting

Big Tech Alters Election Policies 26 Times to Stop ‘Social Media President’

Border Boss Morgan Predicts ‘Invasion’ Under Biden

“We’re Going To Make Sure Trump Leaves”: Leftists Plan To Storm DC After Election

Dorsey Admits To Mob-Driven Censorship On Twitter During Heated Section 230 Hearing

After Peddling Trump-Russia Hit-Pieces Before 2016 Election – MSM Totally Ignores Bobulinski Bombshells On Bidens

Tur: Dems Have No Choice But To Consider How to ‘Reform’ The Court

Pro-Biden Ad Predicts Future Where Cops Drag Pregnant Teens From Cars For Crossing Border For Abortions

Scottish Hate Crime Bill To Prosecute People Who Use Hate Speech Even While Home

Five Arrested As “Illegal Agents” Of China In FBI Bust Of Major PRC Operation On US Soil

CENSORED: Nets Maintain Bobulinski Blackout Despite Bombshell Interview

Dem Asks Big Tech to Censor MORE, Decries Trump ‘Propaganda Parrots’

Tech CEO’s Struggle to Give Single Example of Liberals Getting Censored on Platforms  Gee, I wonder why.

Ed Markey: ‘Anti-Conservative Bias Is Not a Problem’  Certainly not for a Democrat from Taxachusetts.

Wall Street Banks, And Their Employees, Now Officially Lean Democrat  Don’t think of it as selling out – think of it as buying in.

Wall Street Has Given Biden $74 Million

Parent Groups Call On Education Department To Launch Civil Rights Investigation Into Critical Race Theory At Public Schools  Unfortunately for proglodytes, the civil rights laws aren’t written in the form of ‘blacks win, whites lose’.

‘Misleading The Public’: Backlash Builds Against NYT For Hyping ‘Anonymous’ Author Miles Taylor As ‘Senior Administration Official’

Meet Eric Feigl-Ding: How A Nutritionist-Turned-Politician Became A “COVID-19 Expert” With A Far-Left Agenda

COVID-19 Vaccine Will Be Safe, Operation Warp Speed Leaders Vow

Anti-Lockdown Protests Erupt Across Northern Italy

Welcome to Covidworld

Spanish Doctors Stage First Walkout In 25 Years To Protest Government’s New COVID-19 Order

What Should You Do About Holiday Gatherings and Covid-19?

Futures Tumble, European Stocks, Oil Plummet As Europe Imposes Partial Lockdowns

New York COVID-19 Cases Top 500k As Merkel Orders “Lockdown Light” Across Germany: Live Updates

CNN Medical Expert Claims U.S. Could Have Prevented 90% of COVID Deaths

Houston Texans Close Their Facility After A Positive Coronavirus Test

Dr. Fauci: ‘Normalcy’ May Not Return Until 2022  Let’s see how long we can keep this grift going.

Dodgers Delay World Series Celebration Because of Pandemic

British Student Agrees To Pay Around $8,500 Fine After Breaking COVID Quarantine

One Bank Asks How Historians Will Judge A Second Round Of COVID Lockdowns  I suggest ‘shit-stupid’.

Germany, France Imposing New Lockdown Restrictions As Coronavirus Cases Surge

Wash Post: Covid-Positive Dodger Celebrating With Team Lessens ‘Accomplishment’

SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G variant confers enhanced replication and transmissibility

“A Lot Of Hoarding” – Americans Race To Supermarkets As Second Wave Arrives   Haven’t noticed anything here in Texas.

Do Masks Work?

Climate Virtue Signaling Falls Short

Senate Republicans Release Coronavirus Documentary, Hope To Change Messaging On Virus Response

‘Sleeping giant’ Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find

A beloved Jamaican beach is succumbing to climate change. It won’t be the last (The Guardian)

CNN Proposes Climate Friendly Battery Powered Military Vehicles

UN: Urgent Climate Action Required to PREVENT the Greening of the Sahara Desert

Aussie PM Defies Pressure to Set a Net Zero 2050 Climate Target

CBS Developing ‘Climate Change Drama’ ‘Antarctica’

Reusable grocery bags aren’t as environmentally friendly as you might think  A low bar….

Fact check: Trump campaign deceptively snips video of Biden quoting the Pope (CNN) The ugliest thing about CNN is their smarmy attidude of moral superiority, as if they weren’t doing the exact came thing that they complain about (and often worse).

Former U.S. attorneys — all Republicans — back Biden, saying Trump threatens ‘the rule of law’ (Washington Post) Of course, anybody can just say they’re Republican, and the WaPo wouldn’t know the difference.

HATE: Nightline Hypes George Lopez Sliming ‘Self-Loathing’ Latino Trump Voters

Late Night ‘Comedy’: Colbert, CNN Doc Agree Trump ‘Planned’ to Let ‘Millions’ Die

‘I Was Out Of My Tree’: Chelsea Handler Admits Trump Hate Led To Assaulting Conservatives In Airports  Has any conservative ever assaulted a liberal in an airport? I’ve never heard of one.

‘It Plays Right Into Donald Trump’s Playbook’: Ana Navarro Says Riots In Philadelphia Help Trump  In the sense that Leftist violence points out why people ought to vote for Trump, she’s right.

Bloomberg Employees Trash OAN as Network of the Trump ‘Firenado’ and the ‘MAGA Hajj’

USA Today Acknowledges NBA’s All-Out War on Trump

Jeff Flake Films Biden Campaign Ad: ‘Our Country Will Be Better For It’  One of the great things about Trump that is never discussed is how successful he is in flushing RINOS out of the underbrush.

‘A Total Loss’: Looting Continues For 2nd Night In Philadelphia Following Fatal Police Shooting Of Walter Wallace Jr.  Who, don’t forget, attacked them with a knife.

Ex-boxer jailed on drug charges granted clemency by Trump after Obama denial

DA’s Gun Violence Counselor Shoots And Kills Male Prostitute

CBS Angry Philly Cops Didn’t Let Knife-Wielding Attacker Wound or Kill Them

Media Promotes BLM Lies in Philadelphia, as Rioting Continues for the Second Night

Cuomo Cries Racism for Philly Shooting, Downplays Knife Aimed at Cops  Not to mention the perp’s extensive criminal record.

EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS: Police Unable To Handle Philadelphia Looters As Businesses Get Ransacked

National Guard Responds As 1000s Of Looters Ransack Philly In 2nd Night Of Chaos; Reporter Brutalized By “BLM Rioters”

Uber Sued For Firing Minority Drivers Who Get Poor Service Ratings From Customers

‘Burn The Precinct To The Ground’: New York City Rioters Reportedly Hurl Rocks At Cops, Drive Through Police Line

Here’s How The Media Is Describing Violence In Philadelphia

Report: Brawl Breaks Out On Spirit Airlines As Woman Who Refused To Wear A Mask Tased By Cops

Texas Ballot Chaser Reveals ‘Massive’ Voter Fraud To Elect Biden

2-Month-Old Baby Thrown From Balcony Mid-Domestic Dispute Dies, Father Arrested

Detroit couple accused of stealing unemployment money busted after Instagram posts

Stores Looted Amid Dodgers World Series Celebration In Downtown LA

Two Birds With One Stone: Man Protests Racial Injustice, Completes Christmas Shopping In One Trip  Babylon Bee.

Severian blows the whistle.

In an offline, a reader* argues that the Biden/Harris ticket isn’t just a “protect the brand” sacrificial lamb, as I’ve been suggesting. Rather, this is the prelude to them pulling the trigger on massive civil unrest nationwide, which has been the plan all along – go all in; force Trump to roll the tanks. They want another Kent State, in other words, only this time, it’s everywhere.

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…unless the pollsters are in on it. We can excuse 2016 — they were wishcasting. They ended up with egg on their faces, but it wasn’t a job killer. This time it will be. The only explanation I can think of that makes sense is that yeah, they’re in on it. The “Biden is leading yuuuuge!” narrative is exactly that, a narrative, so that when Trump wins, the Democrats can jump up and exclaim that the very fact Biden was up so big, yet lost, proves that the GOP rigged the election. And then the riots start for real.

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The Communist Party has begun expanding the concept of the nation, attempting to create a new type of global entity. But back home, large numbers of people within the country’s borders no longer see themselves as Chinese at all. From Kashgar to Causeway Bay, millions of citizens are beginning to define themselves in direct opposition to the status that appears on their passports. Today we find that the very notion of a “Chinese” identity is being alternately stretched and compressed, warped and concertinaed, and our old classificatory grid provides us with no meaningful guide.

First, the expansion. The Chinese authorities are looking to win recruits to their hyper-nationalist cause, and so Party propaganda now preaches a new China—a China that includes not only the 1.4 billion citizens living within the country’s borders, but also the huaqiao (Chinese citizens living overseas) and the huaren (ethnic Chinese with foreign citizenship).3 “The unity of Chinese at home requires the unity of the sons and daughters of Chinese abroad,” according to a CCP teaching manual for United Front cadres. The Party hopes that by appealing to these vast groups, it can “awaken their ethnic consciousness,” in the semi-mystical words of He Yafei, deputy chief of the Party-run Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO).

Hitler’s vision was not so all-embracing.

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The PAL-V Liberty, the flying car’s full name, is a gyro-copter. The rotor can be folded so that the vehicle can also drive on the road like a regular car.

It needs a runway of between 180 – 330 meters for takeoff, but only 30 meters for landings. Both in the air and on the road, its maximum speed is 180 km/hour (112 mph). Converting from road to air mode (or vice versa) takes between five and ten minutes.

Me want.

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Experts told Crunchbase News that a sustainable food supply chain begins with the farmers, who are utilizing technologies, innovated by startups, to ensure their crops have a good start.

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The discovery of impaled sharks on Mediterranean shores backs up old fishermen’s tales of the marine predators dueling with swordfish.

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New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has done it again. His continued hostility and contempt toward Second Amendment supporters and the lawful firearm industry means another storied New York-based company is taking steps out the door and heading to friendlier and sunnier skies. All this as the industry sees record sales of firearms and a growing diversity among gun owners.

In a move not surprising to industry watchers, Kimber Manufacturing, headquartered in Yonkers, N.Y., announced it will officially move its corporate headquarters to Troy, Ala., continuing its years-long shift away from Gov. Cuomo’s antigun atmosphere.

Gov. Cuomo is likely pleased with the news of these particular jobs leaving his state.

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In her essay “Stop Being Shocked” published October 14 on Tablet, Bari Weiss listed troubling anti-Semitic trends taking place in the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party. She brings up multiple true-life examples reinforcing her assertion. She then goes on to say that she, like the majority of American Jews, is “disgusted by Trump and Trumpism”; a movement which in her words “normalized bigotry and cruelty in ways that have crippled American society.”

In his book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, published in 2009, Jonah Goldberg highlights penetrating methods and tools used by progressive Democrats to vilify their opponents. Nevertheless, today, Goldberg is a member of the #NeverTrumper community. He finds members of the American Left like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris less offensive than the intrepid, braggadocious, and proud American patriot Donald J. Trump.

I suppose mainstream media provide many Americans with necessary reasons to generate feelings of “disgust” toward Trump. “The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses,” wrote Vladimir Lenin 100 years ago. He continued: “He who now talks about the freedom of the press goes backward and halts our headlong course toward socialism.” Mainstream media omit Trump’s administration efforts to improve the lives of low and middle-income Americans with newly designed trade agreements; they don’t discuss policies that revived crippled economy. Nor do they highlight the tremendous success of the Trump administration in the Middle East.

ZMan looks at the changes.

An old Ronald Reagan joke from the 1980’s was that the closest thing to immortality was a government program. The first time he said it was in his 1964 speech, A Time for Choosing and it was not intended as a joke. By the 1980’s he had mellowed and the line was so obviously true it made a great punchline. In one of life’s great ironies, the conservative movement actually proved the maxim correct, by never cutting a single program in their time in control of government.

It is a good thing to keep in mind when thinking about the end game for the Covid-19 panic that is entering the ninth month, depending upon who is counting. The great and the good are telling us the prophesied second wave is upon us. Britain is back in lock down, even though all the evidence says it does not work. The Welsh are banned from buying clothes and snacks. The Scots saw their pubs closed. It’s all a big drama to prove that the prophesy was true.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Like it or not, Trump hit on a great truth that no country can write off its vast industrial interior, destroy its borders, or prefer managed decline over renewal, and meanwhile call itself moral.

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Scientists at Australia’s RMIT have developed a tiny sponge with big potential, and say the micron-sized material can be used to convert discarded cooking oil into biodiesel in a very cost-effective manner. And the catalyst is no one-trick pony, with the ability to also turn other waste products into valuable building blocks for a range of materials.

The sponge-like material is a new type of ultra-efficient catalyst for turning complex molecules into raw materials. The RMIT team behind it actually describes it as the first of its kind, in that the ability to carry out a series of different chemical reactions within the one material while offering a high degree of control over the output is unprecedented.

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Google really whiffed with the new logos for its “reimagination” of G Suite as Google Workspace, replacing icons that are familiar, recognizable, and in Gmail’s case iconic if you will, with little rainbow blobs that everyone will now struggle to tell apart in their tabs. Companies always talk loud and long about their design language and choices, so as an antidote I thought I’d just explain why these new ones are bad and probably won’t last.

I agree. They suck.

Steve Sailer.

With the conventional wisdom increasingly prejudiced and extremist on the question of who are the Good Guys and who are the Bad Guys, how much longer can we expect the federal government to collect and publish objective crime statistics by race? After all, nothing undermines The Narrative more than official numbers about who are the real victims.

Would a Biden administration make it harder for citizens to access data on crimes committed by blacks versus whites?

This may sound paranoid, but there is precedent. Back during the Bush administration, the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics posted homicide count graphs online in convenient HTML format that made them easy to cite in online debates. Under the Obama administration, however, that was deep-sixed and only the much more awkward PDF format remained. PDFs are fine for people like me willing to read thirty-page reports to find one key data point, but they are pretty useless for informing the general public.

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Before I became a parent, I didn’t have especially strong feelings about the time shifting by an hour twice a year. Like most people I was aware of the downsides — increased car accidents, schedule confusion, etc. — and I figured it would be better to knock it off. But I didn’t feel personally offended by having to mess with the handful of clocks in my life that don’t switch automatically. I’m not sure I even had an opinion as to whether, when we stopped changing, we should go with Standard Time or Daylight Savings.

With kids in the fall, it’s different. The days slowly get shorter, cutting deeper and deeper into the early-evening daylight hours where the young ones can play outside. And then, bam, the time change takes away another hour all at once, just because.

As if anybody spent time outdoors any more, with or without kids.

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Flippy also helps restaurants facilitate social distancing amidst the coronavirus pandemic, according to ZDNet. With Flippy in a kitchen, there is less crowding, a fact that Miso Robotics has repeated.

Thank you, minimum wage and pandemic panic lockdowns.

Lane Kiffin Fined $25,000 For Criticizing SEC Refs On Twitter  Shut up, slave!

Facebook tells academics to stop monitoring its political ads for any rule-breaking…. on privacy grounds

Putin Mandates Masks in Russia

IRONY: NY Times Accuses Conservative Outlets of Spreading Misinformation

WaPo Owner & World’s Richest Man Jeff Bezos Reportedly In Talks To Buy CNN  That fits.

STILL HIDIN’ HUNTER: Nets Spend a Meager 21 Minutes Out of 113 Hours on Biden Scandals

Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar Call for Expanding Supreme Court After Justice Amy Coney Barrett Confirmed

Pennsylvania Election Board Seeks Justice Barrett’s Recusal

Illinois Gov Ends Indoor Dining Across 2/3rds Of State As Winter Cold Looms  That’s what happens when you vote for Democrats.

Google Suppresses Breitbart News in Search – Even with Exact Headline

Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers

Here We Go Again: Mostly Peaceful Protests in Philadelphia

50 Cent retracts support for Trump after ex-girlfriend continues to blast him  That didn’t take long.

US Republicans are starting to look a lot like authoritarian parties in Hungary and Turkey, study finds (CNN) By ‘authoritarian’ they mean ‘getting things done, resisting Turd World immigration, and not following the Narrative’.

Republicans closely resemble autocratic parties in Hungary and Turkey – study (The Guardian) Well, which is it, autocratic or authoritarian? You can’t have both.

BLM: Following the Money

PHILADELPHIA RIOT  I think Trump just won Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia Overrun By Rioting, Looting After Police Shoot Knife-Wielding Black Man

More Than 30 Arrested After Riots Erupt In Philadelphia Following Alleged Police Shooting Of Man With Knife

Postal Worker Charged After Dumping Over 100 Absentee Ballots In Louisville Construction Site Dumpster

‘A Fart In A Dust Storm’: Whoopi Goldberg Slams Jared Kushner Over Comments On The Black Community

Strip Club-Related Fight Between Army Captains Ends With Overturned Car In Flames, One Dead

Gwyneth Paltrow Rooting For BLM To Smash ‘Patriarchy Of White Men’ I’m waiting for Gwyneth Paltrow to grow up.

Meet Marilyn Mosby, the Rogue Prosecutor Wreaking Havoc in Baltimore

Arizona Cardinals Wide Receiver Flips Off Trump Supporters As He Speeds Along I-10

Obama Slams Kushner’s Remarks on Black Americans

Chicago sisters stab store worker 27 times after being asked to put on a mask

30 Philly Officers Injured After Protest Following Police Shooting

Black Democrats Are the New Palestinians

Student Newspaper Condemns Harvard Republicans For Endorsing Trump

Schumer Promises That ‘Generations Yet Unborn Will Suffer’ From Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation  At least they might get the chance actually to be born.

Trump Let the Right Make Him the Herbert Hoover of the Coronavirus  (New York Magazine)

‘Nobody Has Ever Done So Much To Kill So Many People,’ Joe Scarborough Says Of Trump  Oh, well, there was that Hitler guy – oh, yeah, and Lenin, and Stalin, and Mao – and maybe Genghis Khan….

Sorority Apologizes For Congratulating Amy Coney Barrett  Throws a sister under the Diversity bus.

Twitter Launches Unprecedented Censorship of Trump Tweet Critical of Mail-In Votes

The HORROR! CNN Freaks Out Over Trump and Pence Events

Forget the Hitler Comparison, Now MSNBC Thinks Trump Is ‘Benedict Arnold’

CNN Blocks Pro-Trump Ad Rejecting Biden’s Middle-Class Tax Hike

CDC warns against worldwide travel on cruise ships Oh, wait – there’s an industry we haven’t destroyed yet….

Follow The Science – 1.2 Million COVID Deaths Edition

British Study Finds COVID-19 Immunity Doesn’t Last

‘That’s A Fear Term’: Fox News Medical Contributor Criticizes Biden For COVID-19 Rhetoric

GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago  The swine!

Study finds over 80 percent of Covid-19 patients have Vitamin D deficiency

Arctic Sea Ice not freezing In October – first time since measurements began

CMIP6 Update

Map Shows Arctic Blast Sweeping Across The US   Gotta love that Global Warming.

Meet the Climate Scientists That Social Media Censors Don’t Want You to Know About

Michael Bloomberg Gives $20M to Down-Ballot Races Focused on Climate

Matt Taibbi weighs in on the latest fashionable fantasy.

How do you call something “Russian disinformation” when you don’t have evidence it is? Let’s count the ways.

We don’t know a whole lot about how the New York Post story about Hunter Biden got into print. There are some reasons to think the material is genuine (including its cache of graphic photos and some apparent limited confirmation from people on the email chains), but in terms of sourcing, anything is possible. This material could have been hacked by any number of actors, and shopped for millions (as Time has reported), and all sorts of insidious characters – including notorious Russian partisans like Andrei Derkach – could have been behind it.

None of these details are known, however, which hasn’t stopped media companies from saying otherwise. Most major outlets began denouncing the story as foreign propaganda right away and haven’t stopped. A quick list of the creative methods seen lately of saying, “We don’t know, but we know!”

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I love these fantasy maps.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip “Papa Goat” Erdogan has filed a lawsuit in a Turkish court against Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) in the Netherlands. Mr. Erdogan is upset over “insults” by Mr. Wilders as expressed on social media. The Turkish president considers the issue to be under the jurisdiction of Turkish courts because the alleged insults were directed at the office of the presidency.

The incident reminds me of the initiative by Jordan back in 2009, when the Hashemite Kingdom issued a warrant for Mr. Wilders’ arrest and extradition to Jordan to be tried for insulting Islam with his movie Fitna.

Some things never change.

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Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev apparently blamed “Dallas” for the fall of his country.

“Dallas” was a hit show on CBS that started in the late 1970s, and was one of the most successful television series ever made. Well, it turns out it might have been successful at a lot more things than just entertaining American audiences! It might have helped destroy communism!

Sometimes it is good to be the capitalist.

The Other McCain sums it up.

This is the only political principle you need to guide your election choices. Never vote for a Democrat, nor support any policy endorsed by Democrats. Insofar as it is possible, avoid residing in any community where Democrats are a majority, but if it happens that you find yourself living in a “blue state” (e.g., California) try to find a place to live in that state that is “red” (e.g., Kern County). Apply the same principle to your choices in terms of education and employment. Where should you go to college? Someplace where students care more about football than “social justice.” Where should you work? A private sector company that actually produces goods and services for profit, and not one of these gigantic “woke” conglomerates that embraces “progressive” values.

Democrats always ruin everything. Communities that were once peaceful and prosperous can rapidly be converted into dangerous hellholes, if the people start electing Democrats. Once upon a time — up until the 1960s — Detroit was one of America’s great cities. Then Democrats got in charge of the place and turned it into a desolation, where many acres of residential property were bulldozed into vacant lots. Every law-abiding resident who could afford to get out of Detroit fled the Democrat-controlled city, and a similar process can now be observed in many other places that Democrats have turned into hellholes.

The Joe Biden campaign is about doing to America what Democrats have done to Detroit (and Baltimore, and Chicago, and every other crime-plagued hellhole city in America). If you want the entire country to become violent and dangerous, populated by criminals, drug addicts and sex offenders, then by all means, you should elect Joe Biden president.

And that’s really all you need to know.

Steve is focusing on what’s important.

Our nation is hurtling downward toward chaos, BLM is trying to kill cops in Philadelphia, Christians are predicting a 2020 rapture, and what am I doing? I’m smoking ribs.

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A male deli customer in Queens, New York, was shot dead Monday evening by a homeless man who had just been kicked out of the store prior to the murder.

The victim, 26-year-old Mohmediyan Tarwala, was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead after being shot twice in the stomach at Cross Bay Express Deli, according to the NYPD police report.

As The Other McCain likes to say, crazy people are dangerous.

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A new border wall, stretching nearly 100 miles, is getting results in western Arizona.

The Washington Examiner noted that over the last three years, crews have constructed about 90 miles of border wall and nearly 40 miles more of a parallel, back-wall in the Yuma border patrol region.

“Two thousand, nine hundred drive-through vehicles came through Yuma sector alone in one year,” recalled Border Patrol’s head of the Yuma region Anthony Porvaznik. “We caught maybe one out of 10 of those, if that. So, we have no idea what got away at that point because there was no fence.”

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Of course. Follow the money. If Trump wins, they’re all going to be looking for jobs anyway; and if he doesn’t, they’ll be crowding into Washington with their hands out.

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As long as they were white, of course.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., wants the College Board to detail its partnership with a Chinese government backed group that has allowed Beijing to try to influence American students.