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What good is a second amendment or any law if the government will not abide by them? A government that will only interpret law against its opponents and forgive them against their friends. This is not the America I thought I live in. I have to thank COVID for that. As cynical as I ever was about my government and its legal system this, the pandemic is proving that I was a babe-in-the-woods optimist at heart. Did any of you foresee or even think possible the never-ending lockdown and the politics afterward?

What use is a Second Amendment to defend yourself and your home only to have your government keep coming after you until you fall? Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple that defended their home over the summer from a large group of marching demonstrators, should be protected but that does not seem to be so. Maybe they will stay out of jail but this thing is going to cost them dearly.

On the other hand, if you loot and riot in a city for 120-plus days and finally got yourself arrested, if you are on the Left it’s just a resume builder. Especially if you are a Democrat politician. Louisville’s Democrat mayor has been bending over backward to help these “protestors” and is handing out settlements like they are candy.

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OceanBird has five “sails” that are more like airplane wings or helicopter rotors, using rushing air at different speeds to pull the ship forward. For now, it can reach 10 nautical miles per hour, or knots, and will make the trip across the Atlantic Ocean in 12 days compared to eight in a fossil fuel cargo ship.

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Diamond is an effective electrical insulator, but that might not always be the case according to a new study from MIT and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. The team has calculated that deforming diamond nano-needles would change their conductivity from an insulator to a semiconductor to a highly conductive metal – and back again at will.

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Working with colleagues, he has developed a thin, mirror-like film engineered to maximize radiative cooling on a molecular level. The film sends heat into space while absorbing almost no radiation, lowering the temperature of objects by more than 10 degrees, even in the midday sun. It can help cool pipes and panels — like a booster rocket for refrigerators and cooling systems. Incorporated into buildings, it may even replace air conditioning. And it requires no electricity, no special fuel — just a clear day and a view of the sky.

“It sounds improbable,” Raman acknowledged. “But the science is real.”

If COVID-19 pushes people to the suburbs, how can we make them more environmentally friendly?  The suburbs or the people?

Three Scenarios for the Future of Climate Change  (The New Yorker, noted scientific journal)

Spreading Asbestos Fibres and Running Fans Might Help Combat Climate Change

Surprising science – There’s no such thing as clean energy

German Prof: Climate Science Politicized, Exaggerated, Filled With “Fantasy”, “Fairy Tales”…”Paris Accord Already Dead”!

Homeland Security report finds White supremacy ‘the most consistent and lethal threat’  I guess it was them doing all that rioting and looting and so on. Who knew?

McCloskeys indicted on gun charges stemming from standoff at St Louis mansion  Of course they are.

A Historical Epidemic Has Been Making a Scary Comeback Due to a Bacterial ‘Clone’  Stand by for the next Pandemic Panic.

US senator took off mask repeatedly on flight. He chairs committee that oversees airline safety and policy.  The latest Mask Removal witch-hunt.

Fight Breaks Out On Allegiant Airline Flight After Man Wearing Face Shield Refuses To Put On A Mask  It’s not enough to wear a ‘shield’, you have to wear a MASK.

COVER-UP ALERT: Nets Hide CIA Notes Exposing Hillary’s Collusion Plot

‘Let The People Govern Themselves’: New York City Restaurant Owner Describes Mass Business Closures Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

New Rules to Deal with an ‘Offensive’ Professor  The Thought Police have arrived.

Pure Anti-Semitism At the Highest Levels in New York City

Portland Rioters Hurl ‘Incendiary Device’ At ICE Building, Pelt Officers With Rocks, Police Say

China Threatens War If Taiwan Resumes Diplomatic Ties With US

Hundreds In NYC Orthodox New York Community Protest New Coronavirus Mandates

Man Who Agrees With The Media, Universities, Corporations, And Hollywood Thinks He’s Part Of The Resistance  Babylon Bee.

New Jersey Mail Carrier Arrested For Throwing Election Ballots Away  But of course vote fraud is not a thing, as the DemLegHump Media keep assuring us.

Negative coverage on steroids: Trump’s victory lap angers the media

After Donald Trump’s deranged balcony address, we’re all gasping together  (The Guardian) Deranged!

The only bright spot in Trump’s Soviet-style COVID-19 strategy is that it’s not working  (USA Today) Soviet-style!

Revealed: Amy Coney Barrett lived in home of secretive Christian group’s co-founder (The Guardian) Cue scary Twilight Zone music.

Duckworth: Block Supreme Court Pick Who Thinks ‘My Daughters Shouldn’t Even Exist’  (NPR) That’s quite a strawman you’ve got there.

Amanda Kloots slams Trump: ‘Have some empathy!’  (CNN) Remind me who Amanda Kloots is. Is she related to Rula Lenska?

CNN’s Get-Well Card: ‘Deeply Dishonest’ Trump Has Left ‘Wreckage’ in ‘His Wake’

Charting the Left’s Religious Bigotry Toward Amy Coney Barrett

Reid, Guests Insist ‘Mussolini’ Trump Is Sicker Than Said; Suggest He’ll Die Like Herman Cain  I guess we’ll find out.

NYT: Trump Is Wrong! Crime Is Down! (Except for Homicides, Which Are Up 28%)

They Can’t Help But Make Everything About Trump

Gaslighting: GMA Dismisses Clinton Collusion Plot as Nonsense Trump ‘Twitter Spree’

CBS Touts ‘Groundbreaking Journalist’ Connie Chung Endorsing Biden (and Shaming Trump)

Scare-Mongering Morning Joe: Drug-Addled Trump Has Nuke Codes!

Stephanopoulos and Zakaria Wail: If Trump Wins, We Can’t Fight COVID!

Gross: ‘View’ Fantasizes About Line of Succession With ‘Dream’ President, Nancy Pelosi

Spike Lee Says There ‘Could Be A Civil War’ If Trump Loses, Suggests ‘MAGA’ Means ‘Roll Back The Clock’ To Slavery

The Superspreading Presidency of Donald Trump (Wired ‘Science’) No mention of BLM or AntiFa, of  course.

Kavanaugh, the Sequel? WashPost Hit Squad Turns From Crying Rape to Crying Creepy ‘Handmaid’  Apparently the worst thing that a man can be is a rapist, and the worst thing that a woman can be is a Christian.

Unhinged John Cusack: Trump is like Hitler, Pence can go to Hell

NeverTrumper Bill Kristol’s Omidyar-Funded Group Is Top 2020 ‘Dark Money’ Spender  Fully moved to the Dark Side.

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The Russian Collusion Hoax was apparently a Clinton campaign maskirovka operation.

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You knew it had to happen: wearing face masks in restaurants is ridiculous, since you have to take them off to eat or drink. So as a practical matter, we wear them for 15 seconds each way as we walk to our tables. A sensible person would say that the whole farce of wearing masks in restaurants should be abandoned. But that person doesn’t live in California:

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A new study led by University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign astronomy and physics professor Brian Fields explores the possibility that astronomical events were responsible for an extinction event 359 million years ago, at the boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous periods.

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Going to college isn’t about learning, but about credentialing — for most students anyway. They take a smattering of courses, the content of which they quickly forget, have fun, and blow through a great amount of money. At the end, a school gives them a piece of paper attesting to their “education.”

To many employers, that paper is now “required.” They seldom care about the content of the individual’s supposed studies, but merely that he made it through. What if there were a better device for signaling trainability without the huge cost?

British universities grant their degrees based on examinations. The three years a student spends at the university is devoted to attending lectures and working with a tutor, and the degree depends on the outcome of a series of in-depth exams extending over about a week. This ensures that the recipient actually can do what the degree says the recipient can do. I like this system a lot. It is much superior to the collect-enough-boxtops approach modern American colleges use.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Last week, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified information to the effect that U.S. intelligence agencies “obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.” Ratcliffe also indicated at that time that CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama and others on the intelligence. Today Ratcliffe declassified documents relating to last week’s communication, including handwritten notes by John Brennan.

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Philosophy’s goal was once to learn how people can flourish, how they can employ their lives to the best effect. As the West has become increasingly wealthy, though, Philosophy has become unmoored. It has ventured off into beliefs that are not only contrary to human flourishing but are contrary to human survival.

Take, for example, the postmodern’s non sequitur: There is an infinite number of ways in which to interpret a text (which is true), and no interpretation is better than another (false). The example I like to use is a text on defusing a bomb. While it’s true that there is an infinite number of ways in which to read the text, there is only one that will keep you alive.

We can only indulge this belief if someone else defuses our bombs for us. In other words, post-modern thought is a belief system born of the privilege of not having to perform countless humdrum tasks that are needed for bare survival.

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Less than you might think.

New York City Council expels Bronx’s Andy King over ethics charges

California Professor: “As A White American, I Am, By Definition, Racist”  Not to mention an idiot.

Joe Biden Thanks “Black Women” For Enabling His Home-Stay “By Stocking Grocery Shelves”  Maybe where Biden lives. In my town, shelves are stocked by young white males.

White Supremacy Poses ‘Persistent And Lethal Threat’ In US, DHS Report Says

BLM Indoctrination: Miami Heat’s Leonard Confesses White Privilege

Britain clambers aboard the BLM bandwagon

Climate change is drying the lifeblood of Navajo ranchers as their lands become desert

Scientists: Nuclear Energy is a Waste of Time

Three Scenarios for the Future of Climate Change

Carbon Tracker Fantasy: “Cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells could cost Texans $117 billion”

When Evolution Is Infectious

Asbestos could be a powerful weapon against climate change (you read that right)

Earth’s Optimal Temperature?

The dimmest state of the Sun: TSI and Global warming

Parents sue after 4th-grader suspended for BB gun during virtual class

Fight breaks out on plane after passenger refuses to wear face mask

Idaho high school football game called at halftime after activist refuses to wear mask

More Melbourne Insanity: Mom Arrested At Beach For Traveling ‘Outside Her Permitted 5km Radius’

Supreme Court Reinstates South Carolina Ballot Witness Requirement, Says It’s Up To State To Make Election Law Changes

Mattel Releases Susan B. Anthony Barbie Doll For Suffragette’s 200th Birthday  Signal That Virtue! Signal That Virtue!

Yes, Associated Press, There’s a Riot Goin’ On

Twitter Allows Hollywood C-Listers to Encourage Doxxing on Platform

Science Journals Have Become Intensely Political

Biden Campaign Rally Crashes After Trying To Load Too Many NPCs  Babylon Bee.

The Biggest Mask Hypocrites Wear Masks

Sounds Like MSNBC Hosts Are the Ones in Bed With Putin!

Antifa Supporter Sarah Iannarone Leading In Portland Mayor Race, Poll Shows

Docs: Obama Was Briefed on Hillary Starting Russia Controversy

Virginia Public School District Wants Teachers to Enforce ‘Woke’ Revolution, Or Else

Restaurant Goers In CA Told To Wear Mask ‘In Between Bites’ By Governor’s Office

Trump’s reckless return met with a dramatically changed White House (CNN)

I was afraid of covid-19, Mr. President. I’m not ashamed of it. (Washington Post)

Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin calls to ‘defund’ Walter Reed after Trump announces White House return

What’s happening to Jennifer Rubin?

Leader of non-profit labeled ‘hate group’ attended White House Amy Coney Barrett event (The Guardian) Labelled (and libeled) by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

VOA White House Reporter Investigated For Anti-Trump Bias By Political Appointees  (NPR)

Maryland School Board Member To Resign After Reportedly Wishing For Trump’s Death Following COVID-19 Diagnosis

CNN Compares Trump Release from Hospital to ‘Dear Leader’ Autocrats

Greenwald Asks “Why Are Democrats Praying For The Speedy Recovery Of A ‘Fascist Dictator’?”  If he were actually a fascist dictator, Greenwald would be in jail.

MSNBC Lets Al Franken Lie That ACB Supports Sterilization of Transgender People

Cuomo Thanks God He Doesn’t Need to ‘Feign’ to Care for Trump’s Life

How Dare He Recover?!!

Joe Scarborough: Trump and GOP are ‘Obliterating 300 Years of Science’!  As if they could do that.

CNN’s New Day Revels in ‘Karmic Twist’ of Trump’s COVID Diagnosis

“I Was Aghast” – MSM Attacks Trump For Removing Mask On White House Steps

Celebrities React To President Donald Trump’s Positive Coronavirus Update  Yanking their chain is what he does best.

CNN Melts Down Over Maskless Trump: WH is ‘Chernobyl;’ Trump ‘Doesn’t Care’ About Saving Lives!

Is CBS’s Gayle King Embracing Trump COVID Truther Conspiracies?

Harvard CNN Analyst Claims “Russian Agents” Were Inside Walter Reed Hospital With Trump

CNN Analyst Calls Donald Trump ‘A Biological Terrorist’

Media Criticizes Trump For Downplaying Virus Threat By Not Dying Babylon Bee.

CBS Sends Well Wishes to Trump: ‘You Shot Yourself in the Foot’

‘View’ Invites Doctor Endorsing Biden to Diagnose, Trash Trump on COVID

Steve goes shopping.

Okay, okay. My house was already stuffed with guns. But you always need another one. You don’t ask a woman why she has 200 pairs of shoes, and you don’t ask a man why he has a gun for every day of the year. It’s understood.

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Just a few days ago, a caravan aiming at the U.S. border to coincide with the election campaign was broken up in Guatemala in cooperation with the United States.

At the same time, Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott announced the completion of the construction of 350 miles of wall on U.S.-Mexico border and concluded the government was well on the way to completing the target of 450 miles by the end of the year.

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President Donald Trump continues to confound academics as they try to explain possible correlations between Google searches and electoral victory. The conclusion? It’s all up for grabs!

Psychology Today’s report concluded that Trump is once again the chaos candidate. The article’s main observation suggested: “The polls might be way off, again.” In past elections, there has been a correlation between a candidate’s popularity in Google search and his electoral victory. The study “Google Search Predicts Big Surprise in November Election,” clarified that “in 2016, search interest in Trump actually did accurately predict the election result.” Even so, the article mused that “Google search data may not have the same predictive power as in previous elections.”

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An open letter released today and signed by 21 scholars and public writers calls on the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the Prize for Commentary awarded to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her lead essay in “The 1619 Project.”

The letter revisits the sorry tale of the 1619 Project’s errors and distortions and invokes these in calling for the revocation of the prize. The recent revelations that The New York Times stealthily edited out the signature claim of the project—that the advent of slavery in the year 1619 constitutes our country’s “true founding”—were, however, the immediate occasion for this letter. As Phillip Magness (another signatory) has shown, Nikole Hannah-Jones has several times denied ever claiming that 1619 was our true founding, although in fact she has made this latter claim repeatedly.

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The federal government has several programs aimed at making affordable housing available to low-income families, and people have found numerous ways to scam those programs.

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So, Trump is on steroids. My first question is, how can you tell? Second, is not the phrase “Trump is on steroids” a liberal’s worst waking nightmare? I have every expectation that if he’s still on steroids at the next debate, the first time Biden pops off Trump will go all Incredible Hulk on him, and it will look something like this (which I still enjoy almost as much as those highlight reels of the media on election night in 2016), except on steroids!

Watching left-Twitter the last few days, coming up with a new conspiracy/deception theories about every 15 seconds, it occurs to me that they’ve never realized that of course a Manhattan real estate developer would know how to live rent-free in their heads for four years. Rent control won’t help them now! And the great thing is, even if Trump loses the election, he will continue to haunt liberals for the rest of their lives.

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The foundation’s report, “Critical Condition,” highlights the severity of the problem: inaccurate voter rolls, duplicate registrations, dead voters, and incomplete registrations—all of which allow fraud by those willing to exploit vulnerabilities in the system.

The foundation discovered more than 140,000 instances of potential election fraud in the 2016 and 2018 elections, ranging from individuals illegally voting in multiple states to someone voting in the name of a deceased person.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation created the type of database that President Donald Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity wanted to create, but was prevented from doing so by numerous frivolous lawsuits filed by the left.

But of course vote fraud doesn’t exist, since all the DemLegHump Media say it doesn’t.

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In a study, published in the journal eLife on September 29, 2020, the researchers identified a factor that acts like a molecular switch in the skin of baby mice that controls the formation of hair follicles as they develop during the first week of life. The switch is mostly turned off after skin forms and remains off in adult tissue. When it was activated in specialized cells in adult mice, their skin was able to heal wounds without scarring. The reformed skin even included fur and could make goosebumps, an ability that is lost in adult human scars.

Michigan AG Dana Nessel Won’t Prosecute People For Breaking Whitmer’s Lockdown Orders, Leaves It Up To Local Law Enforcement

Record-Breaking California Wildfires Surpass 4 Million Acres

The Slow Suicide Of New York City

Thousands Protest Against German COVID-19 Restrictions

Florida Registered Dem Charged After Allegedly Requesting Ballot For Dead Wife

COVID Whistleblower’s Mother Reportedly Arrested In China

In Illinois, The Ultimate “Fair Tax” Treachery Is The Ballot Itself

Sacrificing Children to Identity Politics

Leftist Paul Krugman Tried to Make ‘Very Strong’ Case for ‘Bidenomics’

California Policies Foreshadow a Nation Enslaved to Identity Politics

‘Religious Institutions Have Been A Problem’: Andrew Cuomo Threatens To Shut Down Churches, Synagogues

(Identity) Politics as Usual Must Change

‘Veep’ Showrunner Bribes Fans: Vote for Biden and We’ll Bring Show Back

CDC Updates Coronavirus Guidance Again, Warns About Transmission From More Than Six Feet

Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Actor in Spike Lee Films, Killed in Atlanta

Arizona State student suing after being fired over her report on Jacob Blake’s criminal record

Megan Thee Stallion Torches Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron During ‘SNL’ Performance  It’s not enough to be black, you have to be the right kind of black.

‘Another Smollett Hoax’? Police Find ABC’s ‘Hate Crime’ Story Is FAKE NEWS

‘Democracy in Jeopardy:’ ABC’s ‘Black-ish’ Pushes ‘Conspiracy Against Us Voting’

Chicago Records Another Bloody Weekend, At Least 36 Shot, 3 Killed

Quinnen Williams Gets His Gun Charge Dropped

Trump Adds ‘Black Lives Matter’ Sticker To SUV So Media Can’t Claim He’s Spreading COVID  Babylon Bee.

St. Louis Matches Its All-Time Record Homicide Rate

Larynzo Johnson Accused of Shooting Two Louisville Police Officers

19 Times Donald Trump Has Denounced White Supremacy

Baltimore’s next mayor can’t handle the truth

REPORT: Bullet Lands On Teen’s Bed After Flying Through Window Of Bronx Home

Baltimore Museum To Sell Andy Warhol Painting To Fund “Diversity Initiatives” 

Black Leaders Seek Pro-Life Ruling in Alabama on Equal Protection Grounds

‘This is insanity’: Walter Reed physician among critics of Donald Trump drive-by visit (The Guardian)

Trump and COVID-19: We need an independent commission to monitor president’s health (USA Today) Oh? Why?

Coronavirus live news: Moscow considering tougher lockdown; Trump drive criticised as ‘irresponsible’  (The Guardian)

Secret Service agents, doctors aghast at Trump’s drive outside hospital  (Washington Post)

Remember Trump’s taxes? They are still a scandal.  (Washington Post) Or at least they’d like you to think so. (I guess it’s a scandal that Trump didn’t break any laws.)

Venomous Brinkley: Biden Is a ‘Real Human Being’ Unlike Trump

CNN MELTS DOWN Over Trump’s Public Appearance at Walter Reed  Trump shows he’s still willing to shake the box.

Donald Trump Among Evil Cabal of Businessmen in Hulu’s ‘Monsterland’

Will This be the Next Conspiracy Theory?

Americans Travel From Far And Wide To Set Up Shop At Walter Reed And Pray For Trump  Guess he isn’t as universally hated as the DemLegHump Media would have you believe.

‘The Third Time It’s Enemy Action’  I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

The Left’s Most Deranged Conspiracy Theories About Amy Coney Barrett

Here’s What A Divided America Is Saying About President Trump Since His COVID Diagnosis

CBS Lies, Spins SNL Rooting for COVID Against Trump as ‘Respectful’

NBC-WSJ Poll Gives Biden 14 Point Lead… By Massively Oversampling Democrats

Morning Joe Freakout Over Trump Ride: ‘It Really Shocks the Conscience!’  I see no evidence that the Morning Joe people have a conscience among them.

Trump’s Hospital Room Flooded With ‘Get Dead Soon’ Cards From Democrats  Babylon Bee.

CNN Claims Trump Doctors Are “Purposely Misleading” And “Hiding Things”  And they know this how? It’s not as if CNN were a famous investigative journalism outfit.

‘Typhoid Marys Of The 21st Century’: Joy Behar Advises Kamala Harris To ‘Hose [Pence] Down With Insecticide’ Before Debate

Maine High School Student Kicked Off Zoom Class Over Trump Flag

‘All Aboard the Manslaughter Express!’ Celebs Rage Against Trump’s Limo Ride

‘View’ Panics for Kamala: Will ‘Typhoid’ Pence Bring ‘Rose Garden Massacre’ to Debate?

NJ Gov. Murphy: Trump ‘Acted Recklessly’ by Holding Fundraiser  I gather that came as a surprise to him.

NBC & ABC Tout Trump-Trashing Doctor Who Wants Him to Resign

Washington Post Columnist Jennifer Rubin Suggests Congress Should ‘Defund Walter Reed’  I’ve seen more intelligent remarks come out of fifth-graders.

Twitter Allows at Least 10 Violative Tweets after Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19

‘YOU DISEASE SPREADING C***’: Silverman & Co. FREAK Over Trump Going Home

Melting Antarctic Snow Is Revealing The Preserved Remains of 800-Year-Old Penguins

A teachable moment on sustainability  The importance of government schools in indoctrinating children.

The Economist: Future Gasoline Automobile Bans are as Effective as a Carbon Tax

Go FERC yourself: Carbon Pricing Conference

To Save the Climate, Give Up the Demand for Constant Electricity  Have you noticed that all of the prescriptions for How To Save The Climate involve making your life suck?

Michael Mann Appeals to, Then Ignores Scientific Consensus on 60 Minutes

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I’d refund their tuition and send them home. They obviously aren’t bright enough to attend college.

The Other McCain pulls it all together.

Teenagers seem to be doing a seminar lately on this topic. For example, carjacking people at gunpoint? What do you think the odds are that a teenage boy is going to get away with this crime? He’s not an experienced driver, whereas the cops have logged many hours of training in pursuit tactics, with radio communications to assist them. And when the cops catch you, knowing that you have just used a firearm to commit a felony, do you think they they’ll leave their pistols in their holsters?

No, boy, you’re going to be confronted by cops with guns drawn screaming: “Let me see your hands! Let me see your hands!”

How does this night differ from every other night?

It’s nice to have an opportunity to highlight white teenagers getting shot by the cops. No protest marches. No NBA players kneeling. No mention of these victims of “excessive force” on CNN. Cops can shoot as many white perps as they want, and nobody cares. Just a local crime story.

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The New York Times has just published a big investigation of President Donald Trump. It says the president used big tax losses in some years to avoid paying taxes in other years, that he invested some of his profits into money-losing businesses, that Trump paid his daughter as “a way to transfer assets to his children,” that his businesses are propped up by foreign revenue, and that Trump “has written off as business expenses costs — including fuel and meals — associated with his aircraft, used to shuttle him among his various homes and properties.”

The Times ought to know — because the New York Times Company and the Ochs-Sulzberger family that control it have done the same things.

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Presidential candidate Joe Biden has announced that, if elected, his goal will be to make major changes to tax rules, mostly by raising taxes on the wealthy as well as on corporations. In fact, the Penn Wharton model, prepared by the University of Pennsylvania, indicates that Mr. Biden’s plans would raise $3.375 trillion in additional tax revenue from 2021 to 2030.

And how much would it go up once they realize that it’s still not enough to pay for all that extra spending?

French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs  You can’t have a Surveillance State without proper paperwork.

Portland Officer Hit A Demonstrator With His Motorcycle After Being Surrounded, Police Say

Local Montanans Decide They’re Done Wearing Masks

At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second

Ilhan Omar and Voter Fraud. It’s Happening.

More than 1K alumni from Amy Coney Barrett’s undergrad college sign letter of concern

MSNBC Finally Realizes Trump Really Has Built New Border Wall, Freaks Out

NEW LOW: ‘SNL’ Debut Roots for COVID to Beat Trump, Science Meets Karma If they want to have somebody portray Joe Biden, they could do worse than the star of DUMB AND DUMBER.

ABC Whines Trump Getting ‘Best Medical Care Possible’ to Protect His Life  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Pelosi: Republicans, Trump ‘Don’t Trust Science’ And Have Allowed COVID-19 To ‘Run Free In The White House’

‘Death Watch’: CNN Media Panel Likens Trump Health to Stalin’s Demise

‘Get Well And Get It Together’: Jake Tapper Accuses Trump Of ‘Inflicting’ Failures On Americans

Univision Falsely Reports Trump Never Condemned White Supremacists

Bernstein Accuses Trump of ‘Homicidal Negligence’

Restoring Scientific Debate on Climate

The Guardian: Americans Need to Accept Climate Migrants from California  No problem, as long as they repent and are baptized.

Greenland Melting Fastest Any Time in Last 12,000 Years  And they’ve been there to measure it for all 12,000 of those years.

Psilocybin Can Save the Environment

Claim: A Canadian Climate Lawsuit May Succeed Because of a Dutch Climate Activist Victory

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They don’t come out and say so, but the finger pretty plainly points to the regulatory burden imposed by the FDA and similar agencies.

And then when they do come up with a successful product, the pressure starts to sell it for less than it costs to make, or even to give it away for free.

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The next time you unlock your front door, it might be worth trying to insert your key as quietly as possible; researchers have discovered that the sound of your key being inserted into the lock gives attackers all they need to make a working copy of your front door key.

It sounds unlikely, but security researchers say they have proven that the series of audible, metallic clicks made as a key penetrates a lock can now be deciphered by signal processing software to reveal the precise shape of the sequence of ridges on the key’s shaft. Knowing this (the actual cut of your key), a working copy of it can then be three-dimensionally (3D) printed.

This discovery of a major vulnerability in the physical keys that millions of us use to secure domestic and workplace doors and lockers was made by cyberphysical systems researcher Soundarya Ramesh and her team at the National University of Singapore. At the 21st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2020) in Austin, TX, in early March, Ramesh revealed how their technique works.

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For the purist – and there are many purists – top-class jamón ibérico de bellota (acorn-fed Iberian ham) must come from Iberian blackfoot pigs that spend the last months of their lives eating acorns on the dehesa, a traditional Spanish or Portuguese pasture shaded by mature oak trees.

After being hung and dry cured for at least 36 months, the meat produced is silky with fat, and, say experts, has a flavour that can only come from the acorns. Spaniards consider jamón ibérico their greatest gift to international gastronomy – the caviar of the Iberian peninsula.

But now two American companies have had the incredible temerity to begin importing blackfoots to the US in order to make their own jamón.

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Carmen Sandi recalls the skepticism she faced at first. A behavioral neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, she had followed a hunch that something going on inside critical neural circuits could explain anxious behavior, something beyond brain cells and the synaptic connections between them. The experiments she began in 2013 showed that neurons involved in anxiety-related behaviors showed abnormalities: Their mitochondria, the organelles often described as cellular power plants, didn’t work well — they produced curiously low levels of energy.

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Absolute pitch, the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without a reference point, has a critical period, i.e., it can only be acquired early in life. However, research has shown that histone-deacetylase inhibitors (HDAC inhibitors) enable adult mice to establish perceptual preferences that are otherwise impossible to acquire after youth. In humans, we found that adult men who took valproate (VPA) (a HDAC inhibitor) learned to identify pitch significantly better than those taking placebo—evidence that VPA facilitated critical-period learning in the adult human brain. Importantly, this result was not due to a general change in cognitive function, but rather a specific effect on a sensory task associated with a critical-period.

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New research by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) revealed that a simple, earbud-like device developed at UCSF that imperceptibly stimulates a key nerve leading to the brain could significantly improve the wearer’s ability to learn the sounds of a new language. This device may have wide-ranging applications for boosting other kinds of learning as well.

I don’t think a taser counts.

The data scientist exposing US white supremacists: ‘This is how you fight Nazis’ (The Guardian)

Breaking: Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend says SHE opened fire on cops

Arlington SWAT Arrests Teen Implicated in Robberies, Stabbings, Hit-and-Run, Police Say

Rochester, NY Mayor Warren indicted on charges including defraud in first degree and violation of election law  Yet another crooked black female Democrat politician.

Man Arrested, Charged With Murder Of Man Killed At North Central Service Road

LA Police Call for Calm, Condemn Spasm of Gun Violence

‘Knockout Game’ Attack on Rick Moranis Raises Awareness of Racial Violence

Media Ignore White Police Shooting Deaths, Even When There’s Video

PROPAGANDA: Univision Uses COVID Report To Push Latino Victimhood  To the victims belong the spoils?

Florida Man Charged With Vote Fraud  How come Republicans never get charged with vote fraud?

Feds Close Investigation Into Yet Another ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax