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Oh, Please, Give Me Another Unnecessary Lecture About Classical Liberalism

19th November 2020

The Other McCain is fed up.

Nothing annoys me quite so much as people who presume me to be so ignorant of political philosophy that they must tutor me. Sometimes this happens in the comments (you know who you are) whenever I use the word “liberal” to mean, roughly, whatever Democrats believe this week.

I know how he feels.

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Tough New Bioinspired Material to Replace Petroleum-Based Plastics

19th November 2020

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A new bioinspired material is here to overtake petroleum-based plastics. A team led by Prof. Shu-Hong Yu from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) reports a method to manufacture materials with similar structure as nacre from wood-derived fiber and mica, with adaption to mass production, good processability, and tunable coloration.

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In Shocking Reversal, Wayne County Election Board Republicans Rescind Certifications; Claim Family Threatened

19th November 2020

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Their initial refusal to vote placed the Board in a 2-2 deadlock, putting in jeopardy the state’s ability to certify Joe Biden’s win. Hours later, the two flip-flopped and agreed to certify. Now, they’re taking it back.

“I rescind my prior vote to certify Wayne County elections,” wrote Monica Palmer in a sworn affidavit, who along with fellow GOP board member William C. Hartmann refused to certify the election on Tuesday. The two fell under intense pressure from the left – with Palmer claiming that her family was threatened (via Just The News). The two were also doxxed over social media.

“The comments made accusations of racism and threatened me and members of my family,” continues Palmer’s affidavit, addimg: “The Wayne County election had serious process flaws which deserve investigation. I continue to ask for information to assure Wayne County voters that these elections were conducted fairly and accurately. Despite repeated requests I have not received the requisite information and believe an additional 10 days of canvas by the State Board of canvassers will help provide the information necessary.”

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Fort Apache Minneapolis

19th November 2020

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

Yesterday, the Washington Post took a moment off from Trump bashing and Biden promoting to run an actual news story on its front page. The story had a surprisingly (for the Post) honest and direct headline: “Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves.”

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Tech Titan Flees San Francisco for Florida, Says City Is Poorly Managed

19th November 2020

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Keith Rabois, a former exec at Square and PayPal, has lived in the Bay Area for two decades.

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Computers and Phones Have Become the Go-To Note-Taking Method for Many. But Your Brain Benefits From an Old-Fashioned Pen and Paper.

18th November 2020

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Researchers have found that note-taking associated with keyboarding involves taking notes verbatim in a way that does not involve processing information, and so have called this “non-generative” note-taking. By contrast, taking notes by hand involves cognitive engagement in summarising, paraphrasing, organising, concept and vocabulary mapping — in short, manipulating and transforming information that leads to deeper understanding.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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How Oregon’s Governor Became the Latest Poster Child for COVID-19 Tyranny

18th November 2020

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Standing out from the rest, the trio of Left Coast governors are apparently competing for the dubious distinction of “America’s Top Tyrant”—and Oregon’s Kate Brown might have just upped the ante.

 

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Here Are 8 Lawyers in the Thick of Trump’s Election Fight

18th November 2020

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As postelection litigation rages in multiple battleground states, lawyers representing President Donald Trump include big and small names.

Several lawyers withdrew after reporting pressure from anti-Trump activists that included posting the lawyers’ names and contact information on social media. Twitter removed such information posted on its platform.

Of the lawyers who remain, some are litigating in court while others largely play a media role. Here are eight of them.

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Today in Black Privilege

18th November 2020

The Aerobic Adoration of Obama

Study Warns That New Work-From-Home Trend is Making People More “Racist”  Possibly because they are no longer surrounded by virtue-signalling crowds.

Warnock’s Wright stuff (2)

With Oprah, ‘Scandal Free’ Obama Mourns MSM ‘Gatekeepers’ Losing Influence to Conservatives

With Fate of the Senate in the Balance, Nets Hide Radical Raphael’s Anti-U.S., Anti-Military Hate

DC Mayor Bowser Said Businesses Didn’t Need To Board Up Anymore. Then Violence Erupted At The ‘Million MAGA March’

Obama’s Echo Chamber at MSNBC Worries About Trump Echo Chambers

Obama Releases New Memoir About Writing His Memoirs  Babylon Bee.

Kaepernick Rant: Cop-killer’s Life Stolen Away From His Loved Ones, Community

Hardcore Gangster LL COOL J Equates Aborting Babies To Not Wearing Your Mask

DC Mayor Sued Over Arrest Of Advocates Who Wrote Pro-Life Messages On Sidewalk

Black Activists In Portland “Want Nothing To Do” With The City’s Leftist Anarchists

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

18th November 2020

Report Claim: In retrospect, the burning of wood in district heating plants has resulted in climate saving  Sometimes the old ways are best.

Progressives Slam Biden For “Corporate Friendly” Admin After First Climate Appointment Is “Fossil Fuel Industry Ally” Welcome to The Swamp, kids.

We still Have a Chance? Norwegian Climate Doomsday Authors Issue a “Clarification”

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

18th November 2020

Rep. Lee Zeldin to Newsmax TV: Businesses Won’t Survive New COVID-19 Restrictions

Joy Reid Accuses GOP of Wanting to See People Die from COVID

Trapped Travelers In Australia “Scream From Hotel” After Being Ordered Into Another 2 Weeks Of Quarantine

Quarantine Dodging, Maskless Cuomo Attacks Sen. Cruz as ‘COVIDiot’

Washington Post: President Biden will Punish Australia for Climate Failures

We need to protect the free speech of dissident doctors

UK MP Suggests People Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Work Without COVID Vaccine

COVID Contact-Tracing Has Been A Monumental Failure

Forced Vaccination Law In Denmark Abandoned After Public Protests

The genetic structure of SARS?CoV?2 does not rule out a laboratory origin

US Sees Most COVID Deaths Since Spring, FDA Approves Rapid Home Test: Live Updates

Kayleigh McEnany: States’ Thanksgiving Coronavirus Guidelines Are ‘Orwellian’

“Largest Distribution Ever” – Thousands Of Cars Lined Up At Texas Food Bank 

Danish Study Suggests Masks Do Little To Stop COVID As Iowa Gov Insists There Is “Evidence On Both Sides”

CRAZY: New Scientist Exploits Virus to Push Population Control

COVID-19 Tracking Program Can’t Trace 80% Of Infections In New York City

Sen. Rick Scott Says ‘Let Americans Make Choices’ About COVID-19

What if the virus that causes COVID was man-made?

800 Nurses Gather For Protest Over Ongoing Pandemic, Staff Shortages

Seven Men Charged With Wire Fraud For Stealing COVID-19 Relief Checks To Buy Porsche, Lamborghini

Does Science Really Demand That Bars And Restaurants Close?

‘That’s The Law!’: Andrew Cuomo Shouts Down Reporter For Asking About New York Schools

Bernie Sanders Confused After U.S. Beats Cuba To Producing COVID Vaccine  Babylon Bee.

 

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China Used ‘Secret Microwave Pulse Weapon’ Against Indian Troops in Border Battle

18th November 2020

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Initial claims that a military-grade crowd control sonic pulse weapon capable of causing severe bodily discomfort, including dizziness and nausea, was used by China’s PLA military on Indian soldiers along the Line of Actual Control, were recently made by a notable professor at a Beijing university.

It would mark the first known instance in history such a controversial weapon was deployed in battle.

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The Corn of the Future Is Hundreds of Years Old and Makes Its Own Mucus

18th November 2020

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In the 1980s, Howard-Yana Shapiro, now chief agricultural officer at Mars, Incorporated, was looking for new kinds of corn. He was in the Mixes District of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, the area where the precursors to maize (aka corn) first evolved, when he located some of the strangest corn ever seen. Not only was it 16 to 20 feet tall, dwarfing the 12-foot stuff in American fields, it took six to eight months to mature, far longer than the 3 months needed for conventional corn. Yet it grew to those impressive heights in what can charitably be called poor soil, without the use of fertilizer.. But the strangest part of the corn was its aerial roots–green and rose-colored, finger-like protrusions sticking out of the corn’s stalk, dripping with a clear, syrupy gel.

Shapiro suspected that those mucousy fingers might be the Holy Grail of agriculture. He believed that the roots allowed this unique variety of corn, dubbed Sierra Mixe and locally bred over hundreds or even thousands of years, to produce its own nitrogen, an essential nutrient for crops that is usually applied as fertilizer in epic amounts.

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Florida Dem Arrested for Threatening to Shoot GOP Politicians

18th November 2020

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Funny how all this violence seems to come from the Left.

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Trade-Offs

18th November 2020

ZMan deals with a puzzle.

Back in the Cold War, one of the unanswered questions that came up from time to time was why did the people in the Soviet Union put up with it? American propaganda said that the living conditions were terrible. They had to stand in line for essentials like toilet paper and meat. The secret police regularly hauled people away, sending them into exile in Siberia or worse. Despite it all, the people, including those in the captive nations never revolted against the state or the communist party.

It is a useful question to ponder now as America and the West slip into the abyss of soft totalitarianism. We don’t have cops busting down doors and hauling away dissidents, at least not yet. We do have ideologues armed with the power of the state pushing people around because they can. The Covid hassles are the result of petty pipsqueaks in government offices dreaming up new ways to torment us. Curfews and bans on alcohol are punitive measures, not palliative ones.

It brings up that old question. Why are people tolerating this?

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We Need to Change Teacher Training

18th November 2020

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One of the great looming battles in America will pit the forces of statist education against parents who are increasingly coming to realize that such education is making a terrible mess of their kids.

There is a vast amount of Real Science out there regarding how people, especially kids, learn, and very little of it is being taught in schools of education. That’s why Education degrees are held in about as much esteem as Gender Studies degrees.

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Thought for the Day

18th November 2020

Speed Bump Comic Strip for November 15, 2020

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US Navy Destroyer Shoots Down an ICBM in Milestone Test

18th November 2020

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The U.S. Navy has shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean with an SM-3 Block IIA missile in a milestone test that demonstrated a potential scheme to defend Hawaii, the Missile Defense Agency announced Tuesday morning.

The test, which comes on the heels of the revealing of a larger North Korean ICBM in October that could potentially strike the U.S. East Coast, is the first time the United States has shot down an ICBM with anything other than a ground-based interceptor, an MDA official said.

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After Tuesday, We’ll Still Be ‘Forgotten Man’

18th November 2020

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Regardless of your politics, you have to agree that Donald Trump remembered the “forgotten man” and woman. Yet that particular class of American still seems forgotten, frankly – or deliberately overlooked. And that doesn’t bode well for Flyover Country no matter what happens on Tuesday.

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Nigeria: A Cure Worse Than the Disease

18th November 2020

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While the army is finding and attacking Boko Haram bases in the north, the Islamic terrorists continue disrupting commerce in Borno state by attacking road traffic and occasionally even army bases. The army has set up a convoy system and even these escorted convoys are attacked. Boko Haram continues to raid rural towns and villages for supplies and prisoners. The captured civilians are either convinced (if they are teenage boys) to join the fight or used as slaves. Prisoners from families with money can be ransomed. The threat of attacks on civilians keeps the northern half of Borno state a chaotic combat zone. Since 2009, when Boko Haram turned violent, the Islamic terrorist violence, largely in Borno state, has left 30,000 dead and nearly three million people driven from their homes. The economy in the northern half of Borno state was devastated and continued Boko Haram violence has crippled efforts to revive the economy.

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Georgia Poll Watcher Explains State’s Recount of Votes for President

18th November 2020

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Brant Frost V, second vice chairman of Georgia’s Republican Party, joins the show to explain the state’s recount process and why he is suspicious of the recount in Fulton County, which includes the city of Atlanta. Frost also describes his own experience as a poll watcher and why Georgia appears to be turning a little more blue with each election.

 

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Vote No, They’ll Build It Anyway

18th November 2020

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In 1998, Portland-area voters rejected plans to build a new light-rail line. So TriMet, the region’s transit agency, built it anyway.

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6 Factors Which Point to a Rigged Election

18th November 2020

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There is plenty of evidence, both circumstantial and direct, which breaks down into six basic categories:

  1. Precedent – It has happened before.
  2. Motive – Deep State/Military dislike of Trump’s policies is widely known.
  3. Foreknowledge – Establishment voices predicted this exact situation.
  4. Opportunity – The voting system is highly susceptible to fraud.
  5. Voting Irregularities – Known software “glitches” & irregularities in the reporting of the results.
  6. Cover-up – Dishonesty in the reporting of the situation.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

17th November 2020

Millions in Africa Being Sacrificed to Extreme Poverty, Premature Death on Altar of ‘Green Energy’  When the only tool you’ve got is a Prius, I guess everything looks like California.

‘Gas Chamber’: Environmental Activist Compares Pipeline To Auschwitz

Saving historical landmarks from climate change could mean altering them  We may have to destroy the village to save it.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

17th November 2020

Ilhan Omar Calls Trump Campaign Events ‘Klan Rallies’  As if she would know a Klan rally if she saw one.

Do we dare call Donald Trump a treasonous president? (USA Today) I suspect they do.

Trump’s New Vote Fraud Theory Is So Much Crazier Than You Realize (New York Magazine)

Fact checking Trump’s barrage of lies over the weekend (CNN)

Will Trump Burn the Evidence? (The New Yorker) Evidence of what? They never say.

Amid the worst of the pandemic, our mad king rages only about himself (Washington Post) Almost as much as the Washington Post does.

Columbia Prof Urges Constitutional Amendment ‘To Prevent Another Trump’  Virtue-signaling writ large: It will have no effect except to polish his reputation among the Crust.

Unhinged CNN: GOP Hates ‘Democracy,’ ‘Uncomfortable’ With Voters

Here’s Why Big Pharma Hates Trump

Partisan CNN Gushes Over ‘Upset’ Obama Blasting Trump

REPORT: James Harden Wants Off Of The Houston Rockets Because The Owner Is Pro-Donald Trump

Sen. Hirono Pressures Social Media CEO’s to Ban Trump

DEFUND PBS: Amanpour Offers WEAK Apology for Comparing Trump to Hitler

 

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Today in Black Privilege

17th November 2020

Science: COVID Lockdowns Are Racist

Daughter Dies While Chasing Gunman Who Killed Father, Dallas Police Say

Dallas Rappers Believed To Be Focus Of Violent Crime Spree

Parents shot on way to pick up 2-year-old from daycare, Dallas police say

Police Chief Fired After Charges Dropped in Confederate Vandalism Case

‘Assault After Assault’: Daily Caller’s Shelby Talcott Lays Out What She Saw During BLM Protest In DC

Huck Finn, To Kill A Mockingbird, Other Classic Books Banned In California Schools For “Racism”

CBS’s Woke Legal Drama ‘All Rise’ Pushes All BLM Propaganda

Convicted Sex Offender Charged in Attack on Trump Supporters at D.C. Event

Why Do Almost All TV Ads Feature a Dumb White Husband with a Smart Black Wife?

‘The Failure of Black Lives Matter’  Rich Lowry, National Review cuck, decides to put in some token time as a conservative.

REPORT: Lil Wayne Charged With Federal Firearms Crime, Faces Up To A Decade In Prison

DAY 5 of Obama TV on CBS: Vacation Pal Gayle King Cheers Michelle

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

17th November 2020

California pulls ’emergency brake’ in bid to stop unprecedented virus surge

I Live in the Middle of Nowhere. I Still Got COVID. Or at least that’s what I’m told.

Despair Porn: NBC Cheers Lockdowns While Lamenting Pain Caused

Senators Clash Over Mask-Wearing on Senate Floor

Whatever You Do, Don’t Go Against the Narrative

UK Citizens ‘Could Be Banned From Going Into Work’ Without Proof Of COVID Vaccination

Scotland’s Covid Disaster

US Could Be “Close To Normal” By Fall 2021 If 75% Of Americans Get Vaccinated, Dr. Fauci Says: Live Updates

IOC: Olympic Athletes Won’t Be Forced to Get COVID-19 Vaccinations  Because that would be playing it too real.

Coronavirus in one state (126)

Pushback: New York Sheriffs Refuse To Enforce Cuomo’s Thanksgiving Gathering Restrictions

Elon Questions The Cult

An Idea for COVID-Relief Compromise  Roger VerBruggen, National Review cuck, makes the case for a slow-motion sellout.

California Gov Newsom Offers Misleading Apology For Attending Lobbyist’s Birthday Dinner

“People Are Afraid” – 300,000 New Yorkers Flee City Due To COVID-19  Much as people fled the old Soviet Union.

Where Are All the Sick People?

‘You Embarrassing Quack’: Joy Behar Calls Dr. Scott Atlas A ‘Menace To Society’  Guessed I missed the episode where Joy got her medical degree.

Fauci: ‘We Must Obey The Government Without Question As The Founding Fathers Intended’

Conserving tropical peatlands could be key to preventing the next pandemic

The “COVID Coup”

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

17th November 2020

Governors Ratchet Up Restrictions Ahead of Thanksgiving

Liberal Media Suggests Biden Should Take Aggressive Approach To Censoring Conservative Media

California lawmakers head to Maui with lobbyists despite pandemic, travel warnings

California authorities insist people stay home — meanwhile they’re escaping to lavish getaway in Hawaii

‘The Mandalorian’ fans call on Disney to fire Gina Carano after tweet mocking Democrats, masks

Californians must wear face masks when outside of home, new state order says Time to leave.

DC Police Refuse To Say Why More People Weren’t Arrested During Civil Unrest Over The Weekend

Joe Biden Said His Family Wouldn’t Engage In Foreign Business If He Won The Election, But Records Show Hunter Still Holds Stake In Chinese Firm

China attacks fishing boats in conquest of South China Sea

Anti-Christian Fox Drama ‘Filthy Rich’ Justifies Abortion: ‘It’s Not a Child’

FEC Chair: If Sidney Powell Says There Was Rampant Voter Fraud, “I Believe Her”

States, Governors Must Be The Ones To Stop The Spread, Former GOP FDA Commissioners Say

New Free Speech App Parler Could Cause ‘Harms’ to ‘Democracy’: Tech Researcher on CNN

Global Abortion Group Drops Founder’s Name over Her Support for Eugenics  Guess the ‘optics’ finally caught up with them.

California Men Charged With Voter Fraud After Allegedly Submitting Thousands Of Applications For Homeless People

Washington Post Editorial Board Says Electoral College ‘No Longer Tenable for American Democracy’

Liberal Media Suggest Biden Should Take Aggressive Approach to Censoring Conservative Media

Michigan Restaurant Association Sues State Over Latest Lockdown Measures Banning Indoor Dining

Crackdown on ‘Gendered Language’ Does Not Bode Well for Free Speech

New Normal? These States Want To Micromanage Your “Safe” Thanksgiving Celebration

 

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Second Memory Card With 2,755 Votes Found During Georgia Election Audit, Decreasing Biden Lead

17th November 2020

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Although not by much. Still, every vote counts.

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Two Oregon Counties Petition sto Join Idaho Over Political Differences

17th November 2020

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Members of two rural Oregon counties voted to push their lawmakers towards moving their communities to Idaho because they feel the neighboring state is more reflective of their political views.

This is measure is part of a larger movement to create Greater Idaho, a group mainly composed of citizens from Southern and Eastern Oregon, Northern California, and Idaho who wish to be better represented by their state, according to their webpage.

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Biden’s Lobbyists

17th November 2020

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Joe Biden “named at least 40 current and former registered lobbyists to his transition team,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Restore the soul of America, indeed. More like restore the soles of the loafers at Gucci gulch.

The swamp is back in the saddle again.

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Dominion Confirms Clinton Foundation Donation, Pelosi Staffer Link

17th November 2020

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Dominion Voting Systems has refuted claims about being biased toward Democratic officials during the Nov. 3 election, including allegations about a raid on a server in Germany as well as ties to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

However, it did note that it made a donation to the Bill- and Hillary Clinton-operated Clinton Foundation and did not dispute that a former staffer of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was hired as a lobbyist.

Totally unrelated! Totally unrelated!

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How to Lose Georgia in One Easy Step

17th November 2020

National Review cuck Rich Lowry blames the victim.

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Virginia College Dean Resigns After Anti-Biden Post

17th November 2020

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Funny how nobody ever has to resign after an anti-Trump post, even though he’s the President and Biden isn’t.

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Biden Starts Doling Out White House Jobs to Longtime Democratic Operatives, Campaign Staff

17th November 2020

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The Crust jumps the gun. The gators can’t wait to get back in the swamp.

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Education Reform

17th November 2020

Severian is not a happy camper.

College as I have taught it — and I did it for many, many years — is pretty much nothing but socialization. Not in the sense that you get a bunch of students together and hang out with them — most profs I know, being the kind of socially awkward autistic dorks that make “gamers” seem well-adjusted ladies’ men, would commit suicide first — but in the sense that all the “schoolwork” consists of nothing but recitations of the catechism. You don’t go to college even to learn a skill, much less anything so gassy as “critical thinking.” All you learn is the catechism, how to fill out Social Justice Mad Libs. This isn’t a side-effect of a “college” “education;” it’s the entire point.

One of the chief objections to homeschooling that I have heard from civilians is that their kids will miss ‘socialization’ with their age-group. I usually point out that such brainwashing is one of the chief benefits of homeschooling; do you really want your kid to have to write an essay apologizing for being white (or Asian, ‘honorary white’). They looked stunned and say ‘Oh.’

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The Next Phase of the War

17th November 2020

ZMan looks at ch-ch-ch-changes.

Very bad people back in the cultural revolution of the 1960’s noticed that radicals were very good at the first phase of their project, but not the second. The radicals wanted to knock down the institutions of society and replace them with something better, but they never managed to pull off that last part. In fact, the thing they cooked up as the new and improved version of what they destroyed tended to create new problems, which required new solutions that created new problems and so on and so on.

An obvious example of this is family life. The nuclear family, with clear and natural roles for the sexes, worked pretty well. The radicals, on the other hand, could not understand why divorce laws and custody laws were as they were. They could not understand why those sex roles existed. They smashed them up and replaced them with family courts, liberal divorce and weird feminist ideas about sex roles. The result has been three generations of family and social dysfunction.

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Special Operations: Chinese Extraction Teams in America

17th November 2020

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Chinese illegal espionage operations inside the United States were worse than originally thought. Recently the U.S. arrested and charged one American private investigator (Michael McMahon) and seven Chinese citizens. Th charge was operating a secret repatriation effort to coerce fugitives from China to return to China. The victims were usually political opponents who were falsely charged with corruption and faced long prison terms in China. In the past the Chinese have sought to extradite such people. These efforts usually failed when it was discovered that they were political opponents of the government facing false charges to halt their protest activities and discourage others from doing the same. Since the Americans won’t extradite political opponents of the Chinese government the Chinese resorted to trying long distance demands, via email or phone, threatening to jail family members in China if the wanted men, along with wives and children, did not return. It was noted that China was already using illegal repatriation teams in other countries.

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Daily Beast: Dems Knew Hunter Biden Drew HUGE Social-Media Buzz, But MSM Spiked

17th November 2020

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The Daily Beast posted a piece on Monday warning that “Dems Are Losing the Social Media War.” Left unsaid was the Dems are winning the “news media” war.

Lachlan Markay, Hanna Trudo, and Sam Stein reported the Biden campaign had a reason to be worried about the potential damage of reporting on Hunter Biden’s sleazy gig trading on his powerful father’s name overseas.

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Thought for the Day

17th November 2020

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How to Read Fewer Books

17th November 2020

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The modern world has dramatically parted ways with this minimalist pre-modern approach to reading. We have adopted an Enlightenment mantra that runs in a very different direction, stating that there should be no limit to how much we read because, in answer to the question of why we read, there is only one response that will ever be encompassing and ambitious enough: we read in order to know everything. We aren’t reading to understand God or to follow civic virtue or to calm our minds. We are reading to understand the whole of human existence, the full inventory of the planets and the entirety of cosmic history. We are collective believers in the idea of totalising knowledge; the more books we have produced and digested, the closer we will be to grasping everything.

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Why COVID-19 Testing Is a Tragic Waste

17th November 2020

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Positive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests have been used as the justification for keeping large portions of the world locked down for the better part of 2020.

This, despite the fact that PCR tests have proven remarkably unreliable with high false result rates, and aren’t designed to be used as a diagnostic tool in the first place as they cannot distinguish between inactive viruses and “live” or reproductive ones.

Dr. Mike Yeadon, former vice president and scientific director of Pfizer, has even gone on record stating that false positive results from unreliable PCR tests are being used to “manufacture a ‘second wave’ based on ‘new cases,’” when in fact a second wave is highly unlikely.

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The Next Tea Party Is Going to Be Much, Much Angrier

17th November 2020

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The first generation of Tea Party protests were, unlike media depictions, filled with happy warriors pushing the country towards more fiscal responsibility. It involved crowds of flag-waving Americans who cleaned up every bit of garbage they may have created in the process of protesting across the country. The next round of protests by conservatives will look nothing like the last; they will be angry, deeply angry, and you won’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out why.

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“No, This Is Trump”: Georgia Recount Auditor Claims Multiple Trump Ballots Fraudulently Called for Biden

17th November 2020

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A GOP recount observer in Georgia claims that several ballots recorded as Biden were actually votes for Trump, and workers conducting the recount became angry when he reported what was happening to elections officials.

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State Representative Calls for Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to Be Impeached After Announcing Latest Coronavirus Restrictions

16th November 2020

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Republican Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock joined with lawmakers to call for an impeachment of Democratic Michigan Gov, Gretchen Whitmer after she announced new coronavirus restrictions, according to Fox News 2 Detroit.

“The list of violations is long and the call is overdue,” Rep. Maddock tweeted Sunday, announcing his intent to work with Michigan legislators for impeachment hearings. Maddock argued the new restrictions violate an individuals’ constitutional rights, and that “ignoring court orders” is “impeachable conduct,” per Fox News 2 Detroit.

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Contesting Election Results in Court Isn’t the End of Democracy. Quite the Opposite.

16th November 2020

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It seems that much of the media hivemind now insists that voter fraud never happens, that it’s equally impossible for an election to be stolen or tainted in any way, and that going a few weeks with two rival candidates both declaring victory (including one they really don’t like) means we are witnessing the end of America as a free country.

It’s amazing that this is the case after countless Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, insisted that Trump colluded with Russians to steal the 2016 election, a story that most major media outlets ran with for years without providing any hard evidence.

It’s also amusing to see so many in the media praising former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams for her work to flip the Peach State into the Democrat column in 2020.

Abrams lost the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election to Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, in a race Kemp won by almost 55,000 votes.

Abrams insists that voter suppression is the only reason Republicans came out ahead and never conceded defeat. Yet she has received, literally, glowing profiles in The Washington Post and countless other media outlets.

Whatever the results of Trump’s legal challenges, the situation hardly portends a slip into dictatorship.

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Georgia Secretary of State Lashes Out Over ‘Baseless Allegations’ Regarding Signature Mismatches, Dominion

16th November 2020

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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, lashed out on Monday over ‘baseless’ accusations coming from President Trump and his allies, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), questioning the validity of ballots cast in the state, according to the Washington Post.

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Is It Actually Legal to Move to Georgia to Vote in Its January Runoff?

16th November 2020

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“It is a felony to vote in Georgia if you are not a resident of Georgia with no intention of leaving and is punishable by up to 10 years in jail and a $100,000 fine,” Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Friday. He also vowed to prosecute those who do so and said it constitutes voter fraud.

“If you illegally participate in our elections, you might be spending a lot more time in Georgia than you planned,” Raffensperger added, according to local Georgia outlet

Yeah, but you gotta catch ’em first. Democrats have more experience committing vote fraud than Raffensperger has at catching it, I’m thinking.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

16th November 2020

Fareed Zakaria Likens Trump Contesting Election to Pre-Nazi Germany

Brian Williams Frets Trump Voters are ‘Tyranny-Curious’

What Is John Brennan So Worried About?

Trump tweets Biden won — but won’t concede election or stop fundraising. Here’s why. (NBC News) The odds that NBC News has a clue as to why Trump does anything at all are verging on zero.

London Mayor Cries “It’s Never Been Harder To Be A Muslim” And It’s Trump’s Fault

Whatever Happened to America’s Scariest Problem, Foreign Election Interference, Anyway?

Celebrities Can’t Wait to Kick Trump Out of the White House

Twitter Starts The Week By Repeatedly Dinging Trump’s Claims, Including 2 Tweets Where He Said He ‘Won The Election’

Obama Compares Trump To A Dictator Who Thinks He ‘Can Kill People’ And ‘Suppress Journalists’ In 60 Minutes Interview

Man Who Allegedly Attacked Trump Supporters With A Firework Arrested And Charged  Funny how the violence always comes from the Left.

Rioter Who Punched Out Trump Supporter In Viral Video Is Registered Child Sex Offender

Another Trump Attorney Harassed As Election Challenges Move Through Courts

Israeli Consul Pressures CNN Executive For Apology Over Holocaust, Trump Comparisons

‘Off The Charts’: State Attorneys General Have Filed 138 Lawsuits Against Trump, More Than Obama And Bush

‘Truth Decay’: Obama Claims Trump Is Responsible For The Collapse Of Honesty In Politics

Obama Mocks Trump In Interview, Calls Him ‘Richie Rich’  You’re one to talk, sambo.

Censorship Insanity: Twitter Goes After Trump and Campaign 194 Times

Biden: ‘More People May Die’ From Coronavirus Because Trump Is Holding Up The Transition  Which is horseshit.

Twitter Censors Trump — AGAIN — for Contesting Election

Nets Spin Brutal Attacks on Trump Supporters: ‘Relatively,’ ‘Largely’ Peaceful’

‘Bury Trump in a Nazi Graveyard’: Insane Alec Baldwin Fumes Over Trump Yet Again

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

16th November 2020

Gov. Whitmer Announces New Restrictions As Virus Cases Surge Across The State

Here Are The Companies That Will Benefit The Most From A Covid Vaccine

Man dressed as giant rat takes subway mask requirement to new heights

8 Months of Blunders

More COVID-19 Restrictions Expected Across US, Europe As World Awaits Latest Vaccine Update: Live Updates

Moderna Reveals COVID-19 Vaccine Nearly 95% Effective In Latest “Breakthrough” Results

Dr. Scott Atlas: Michigan Must ‘Rise Up’ Against Virus Restrictions

Trump COVID Adviser: “The Only Way This Stops Is If People Rise Up”  I keep waiting for it.

After COVID-19: The Next Crackdown, or at Least a ‘Reset’ (Spoiler: Climate Change)

AP: 65 WHO Staff Have Virus

Here’s How The Pfizer And Moderna Vaccines Stack Up

California Gyms, Restaurants Sue City For Right To Stay Open After New COVID-19 Crackdown

You can get COVID-19 and the flu at the same time  Lucky you.

Inmates Contracted To Haul Corpses After COVID Spike In El Paso  I’ve seen reports that the reason El Paso is getting hammered is that they are treating sick Mexicans showing up at the international bridge crossings.

Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science

As Coronavirus Cases Hit Record Highs, Here Are The Places That Are Locking Down Again

There Has Been A Sudden, “Huge” Drop In COVID-Testing In The US

Gov. Whitmer Announces New Restrictions as Coronavirus Cases Surge

 

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