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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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The pre-election edition of the New York Times Sunday Review was a peculiar 14-page beast featuring all 15 of the paper’s columnists weighing in on Trump (12 liberals, two slightly right-of-center voices, and David Brooks) under the rubric “What Have We Lost.” In the Times‘ case, news judgement and emotional maturity would top the list.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

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Scott Adams is a big fan of ‘let’s try something in a limited way somewhere and see whether it works’, and this will be a test of whether that approach is useful.

I suspect that it will not end well, but we’ll see.

There is still the problem of coordinating drug policy between the state and Federal levels.

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As opposed to orange hydrogen, I guess.

Biden Campaign Manager: “Under No Scenario” Will Trump Be Allowed To Declare Victory

Marxist Teen Vogue: Even After Biden Win, U.S. ‘Will Remain a Problem That Needs to Be Fixed’

Judge Rules Gov. Newsom Violated California Constitution (Again) With June Order For Mail-In Ballots

National Guard Moves Into Chicago To Quell Possible Election Unrest

US Election Fraud Is Real—And Its Impact Is Being Ignored

European Police Conduct Widespread Raids Against Those Suspected Of ‘Hate Speech’

CNN Promises Not To Call The Race Unless Biden Is Ahead Babylon Bee.

ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Police For ‘Voter Intimidation’ In Clash With Protestors

Portland Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Election Results

Vandals On Bicycles Reportedly Spray Paint Graffiti Outside Of Former Deputy Mayor’s House

Left-Wing Organizations Plan Protests In DC Pending Election Results

Philadelphia City Commissioners Say They Are Investigating After Video Reportedly Shows GOP Poll Watcher Getting Kicked Out Of Polling Place

Scarborough: We Will Not Air Any Trump Victory Speech Tuesday Night

National Guard Moves Into Chicago to Quell Possible Election Unrest

YouTube Pulls Video of Left-Wing Activists ‘Inciting’ Election Unrest

ONE LAST DITCH ATTEMPT: Media Wastes October Using Same Old Playbook

Yahoo Buries Millions of Users Under Avalanche of Anti-Trump Headlines

NERVOUS? Hollywood Left Prays to God for ‘Evil’ ‘Racist Criminal’ Trump’s Defeat

Thousands Of Witches Are Casting “Binding Spells” On Donald Trump To Lose The Election And the Democrats claim to be the Party of Science. I’ve never met a New Age Nutjob yet that wasn’t a Democrat … or worse.

Keith Olbermann Apologizes After Calling Trump ‘A Whiny Little Kunta Kinte’

Morning Joe & Susan Rice: Trump Victory Would Be a Win for ‘Russian Disinformation’

MSNBC Likens Trump Caravans to ISIS, Racism Behind Backing McCloskeys  Yeah, ISIS sure likes to wave the American flag.

Tapper Leads Off Election Eve Coverage With Venomous Anti-Trump Rant  As he does.

Deloitte: Australia to Lose Trillions Unless We Act on Climate Change

Recent USHCN Final v Raw Temperature differences

Stevie Wonder: ‘You Must Vote Justice In And Injustice Out.’  I had thought Stevie Wonder more intelligent than that. Pity.

Jackie Robinson Saw Today’s Coming GOP Racism Back In ’64, Says Deadspin Writer

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

I have assumed that Joe Biden’s pledge to ban fracking ruined his chances in Pennsylvania, but the polls are still close. On Halloween, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General tweeted his party’s determination to carry the state by hook or by crook, continuing to count “votes” until they get the numbers they want.

The Democrats have also warned the television networks against calling the election for President Trump tonight, regardless of where the vote stands. That is to make sure the Democrats have time to find, or manufacture, more votes in the states where they are close, and to pursue lawsuits.

Philadelphia is a notorious haven for voter fraud. In past cycles, there have been Philadelphia precincts that recorded 100% turnout with a virtually unanimous Democratic vote. I think that can be explained only by the assumption that at some point, when there are no Republicans around–sometimes Republican poll watchers have literally been kicked off the premises–Democrats have filled out empty ballots and run them through the machines until they reach the number of ballots on the voter rolls.

 

ZMan is not optimistic.

The truth of democracy is it makes everything political. Even the smallest act becomes a moral signifier, indicating which side you are on. This is because politics forces everyone to be a partisan. In order for democracy to work, everyone must participate, which means everyone picks a side. Partisanship turns everyone into the enemy of someone, often people they do not know. A country full of enemies is not a country, but a forest full of dry underbrush waiting for a match.

This is an election where one side will ultimately conclude that the system itself is no longer worth respecting or defending. The Biden camp is much closer to that point, maybe even resolved to it, but still pretending. The Trump side is not there yet, but inching closer. There is no result that can leave both sides satisfied that the system worked as intended. Like the period after the Great War, we are entering a crisis of legitimacy, which begins with the election results.

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Daily Caller News Foundation reporters have been poring over the contents of Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop since former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a copy of the computer’s hard drive on Wednesday.

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Gee, I wonder why.

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The Department of Homeland Security is preparing for attacks against any of the dozens of federal buildings in the Washington region it believes might be put under siege by rioters in the days and weeks after the election, according to a DHS spokesman.

“We are concerned about attacks on federal facilities,” the spokesman told the Washington Examiner under anonymity Monday. “[Tuesday], that is our No. 1 mandate where you would see a DHS response.”

Each of the 190 buildings could face extremist violence such as the type that has occurred in Portland over the past few months.

Which was not perpetrated by Republicans.

Perhaps in his second term Trump will tag the Democrat Party as a terrorist organization.

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Police in Austria arrested an Afghan man suspected of attacking a nun amid a series of other incidents targeting Christians in Europe, Catholic News Agency reported.

The 19-year-old Afghan-born man allegedly hit the 76-year-old nun in the face while she was on a bus in Graz on Saturday before fleeing, according to CNA.

Police reviewed video footage from the bus, which led them to the suspect who had prior drug and assault offenses. Police say his motive remains unclear, according to CNA.

Yah – ‘motive remains unclear’. They’d have said the same if he had actually shouted ‘Allahu akbar!’

Trump lashes out after FBI announces investigation of Biden bus incident (NBC News) Lashes out!

Positively shocking: Trump’s boasts of help from Sean Connery fall apart (The Guardian)

NASTY: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Fake News Anchor Claims Trump’s a Mass COVID Murderer

Colbert’s ‘Our Cartoon President:’ ‘You’d Have to Be a F***king Idiot’ to Vote Trump

The US government’s subversion of Trump, 2016-2020

Scarborough Brags: We’ll Censor Trump If He Declares Victory!

Joe Scarborough Says ‘If Trump Declares Victory’ Tuesday He’ll Tell Network To Block ‘The Feed’

Multiple Arrests After Midday Clash Between NYPD And Anti-Trump Rioters

MSNBC’s Ruhle Fears Violence From Trump Supporters if Biden Wins  But she has nothing to say about the BLM/AntiFa violence that has already occurred.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Says Trump Will Lose Election If All Votes Are Counted In Pennsylvania Sounds like they’ve got the vote fraud all lined up and ready to go.

Pushback: Kansas Man Allegedly Shoots 3 People He Believed Stole His Trump Yard Signs

Last Ditch Hollywood Appeal: Celebs Are ‘Begging’ For You To Be the ‘Heroes,’ Vote Biden

Trump-Supporting Sports Figures Are Dead to Deadspin

Psychiatrist Who Sought A Mental Health Check For Trump Compares Him To Hitler

SAT Now Just A Single Page Requiring You To Draw Devil Horns On A Picture Of Trump  Babylon Bee.

All Aboard the Crazy Train! CNN and MSNBC Guest: Trump Is WORSE Than Hitler!  How ironic — an insane psychiatrist.

Composer finds fertile ground for environmental change as a rancher

“Voting is Such a Blunt Instrument”: Britain’s Climate Assembly Report Gathers Momentum

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #429

Claim: Fracking will increase radon down wind

The Case Against More Ethanol: It’s Simply Bad for Environment

sIt’s Evolving: Coronavirus Genetic Mutation May Have Made COVID-19 More Contagious

Anti-Lockdown Epidemiologist Intimidated, Shamed By Contagion Of Hatred And Hysteria

WaPost: 3 Charged With Whitmer Plot Were at Anti-Lockdown Demos

10 reasons why a second lockdown is a terrible idea

“We’re Not Guinea Pigs!” – Brazilians Protest São Paulo Governor’s Mandatory Vaccination Push

Global COVID-19 Deaths Top 1.2 Million After Worst Week Since April: Live Updates

WHO Struck Deal With China on COVID-19 Probe

Lockdowns don’t work

Vaccine politics will soon replace electoral politics

Maajid Nawaz corners epidemiologist over cost of second lockdown

Thousands Attend Utah Halloween COVID ‘Protest’

Police searching for 20-year-old accused of killing 3 people in shooting at Dallas nightclub

Hate crime against Black couple jolts beach town known for tolerance

‘I Will Never, Ever Forgive Them’: Maxine Waters Blasts Black Voters Who Choose Trump

‘I Will Have To Pray For Them’: James Clyburn Suggests Black Trump Supporters Need Prayer

Joe and Kamala Go All in on Anti-White Buzzphrases

Obama or Trump: Who Has Done More for Blacks in America? Author Keeps Score

Rioters in Kenosha Burned This Immigrant Family’s Business to the Ground

Discipline Suffers as San Diego Schools Adopt ‘Anti-Racism’ Grading System

Lil Pump Attends Donald Trump’s Rally In Florida

Kamala’s Bail Fund Continues To Bail Out Alleged Sexual Assaulters

Hey, What Ever Happened to Jaime Harrison in South Carolina?

Pro-Trump Black Voters Shamed Again After Maxine Waters ‘Disowns’

CNN Marks 100th Anniversary of FLA Election Day Race Riots

Whoopi: Trump Supporters Looked Like KKK Murderers Surrounding Biden Bus  I guess it was the American flags that clued her in.

Meet Kim Foxx, the Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies are Wreaking Havoc in Chicago

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One of the advantages of a Trump Presidency is that it flushes all of the RINOs out of the woodwork.

Kevin Williamson points the finger of shame.

A Slate headline: “Most Slate Staffers Are Voting for Biden—but Not All of Us.”

Another way of writing the same headline: “Not One Slate Staffer Is Voting for Trump, But At Least One Is Voting for the Green Party Candidate.”

It is of some interest that National Review, an explicitly conservative journal of opinion, has more political diversity among its contributors than does Slate, which, unless I have missed something, still presents itself as a conventional news source rather than as a journal of left-wing advocacy such as The Nation or The New Republic. The New York Times does not have one pro-Trump columnist on its pages.

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A reminder that the Pandemic Panic is not the most pressing problem we have to worry about.

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No doubt Trump is to blame.

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I’m not bothered at all by all the wild anti-Trump rhetoric that we’re seeing as we approach next Tuesday. I fully expect it from the Democrats (and their sycophants in the media), the never-Trumpers, and the Hollywood flapdoodles. But what is really beginning to concern me is the number of historians who have totally nutted up over the Trump presidency.

I suppose I shouldn’t be bothered. However, it’s sometimes difficult for me since I view history, more or less, in the same vein as Professor Terguson (in Back to School). (Warning: if you’re offended by harsh language, you’d better quit the video after the first minute.)

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We’ve seen the editorials by now: Certain columnists with National Review, Commentary, Dispatch, Bulwark, if you still think they have any morality, the Lincoln Project, Peggy Noonan, George Will, et al., telling you it’s not a binary choice. Vote Biden because he has…something that’s not Trump, which, seems like a binary choice. There’s the occasional “you don’t owe your vote to anyone” contrarian who is voting for someone who can’t win just to posture that he or she is an individual. Oh, that’s cute, you wrote in someone that’s getting as many Electoral Votes as I am, and I’m just as impressed with the person who doesn’t vote because they don’t really have a voice. If I vote for Mickey Mouse, is that a powerful statement or a waste of my responsibility? Why is it different if I write in Mitch Daniels who will probably get fewer votes?

The biggest failure of this election cycle are the people who are faced with a choice between the guy who accomplished what even Reagan wasn’t able to do and the guy who would be the second coming of Jimmy Carter, and would pick the latter merely because the former didn’t fit their idea of The Perfect President. These are the people who would rather lose with Romney than win with a middle-class guy from Queens.

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Wealthy Americans are rushing to set up trust funds, gift their heirs and philanthropies and even sell their businesses in anticipation for a potential Joe Biden win.

Tax professionals are gearing up for a spike in services should Biden win, as wealthy customers want to make gifts, set up trusts and other funds before the end of the year, according to Axios.

Other families are toying with the possibility of selling their family businesses before Biden could take office in order to avoid 40% in transaction taxes compared to paying 20% this year, per Axios.

Funny how none of this took place when Trump was elected. What do they know that you don’t?

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In the closing days of the most consequential presidential election of our lifetimes, the New York Post has dropped a bombshell into this race. Whether Democrats or the mainstream media want to admit it, serious concerns have been raised about Joe Biden and his family – and the evidence is now pouring out to the public.

The question Americans should be asking is, “Why are we only now hearing about this?”

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Christopher Eisgruber, the president of Princeton, got his university in trouble when he said that “systemic racism” persists at Princeton and that it damages people of color there. The Department of Education took Eisgruber at his word and launched an investigation of Princeton.

Now, the interim dean of Northwestern’s law school has gone one better. James Speta described himself as a “racist.” He did so during an online “town hall” event.

The only decent thing for Speta to do is to resign — not just as interim dean, but as a professor at the law school. Avowed racists shouldn’t be running a law school or teaching students.

If Speta doesn’t step down, Northwestern should fire him. If not for being a racist, then for being an idiot.

Glenn Greenwald.

In September, 2018, The New York Times published an op-ed that became an instant media sensation. The content of the opinion piece was unremarkable: banal anti-Trump agitprop. Noting “the president’s amorality,” the author wrote that Trump “is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making” and his “impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic” — no different than what one reads virtually every day from that paper’s small army of relentlessly on-script anti-Trump columnists or that one hears daily on panels assembled by MSNBC or CNN.

But what triggered so much media attention was that the author of the anti-Trump denunciation was “a senior official in the Trump administration” who claimed that he and other like-minded dissidents were “resisting” and “thwarting” the elected president from inside the government. Moreover, the New York Times took the extraordinary step of granting anonymity to the author. All of that created an exciting parlor game in which media and political insiders attempted to guess the mysterious author’s identity.

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Fredo’s really got Russia on the brain, doesn’t he? Where was he back during the Cold War?

Steve prepares for unwelcome guests.

oday I decided to take a small step toward preparing for post-election leftist terrorism. I looked into protective gear, and I ordered a red dot scope and a better laser for my rifles.

I have been through a number of elections, and I have been concerned about election outcomes before, but I can’t recall being concerned about the other side trying to harm me physically or take my home, my possessions, and my wealth. This is new, for the United States of America. I don’t think we’ve seen an atmosphere like this since Sherman marched through Georgia.

I’m not overreacting, either. Leftist terrorism started months ago, so no one can say I’m concerned about something that isn’t going to happen. It’s happening today. It happens every day. The only uncertainty concerns degree and duration. Will the terrorism decrease or increase? Will it go away quickly, or is it a permanent part of a new way of life?

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Will terrorism decrease or increase after the election? I think it will ramp up until our cities and suburbs are Iraq-style “red zones,” at least where Democrats are in charge. Terrorists in such areas have no reason to quit, and they have ample incentive to continue. They get free stuff by looting. Many are paid by BLM, which is a multi-billion-dollar concern funded by insane Caucasians. The lowest people on earth, who would ordinarily be ignored, are now given bullhorns and the privilege of cursing at random citizens; they enjoy a certain type of local fame, so their already-swollen egos are pumped up. They don’t face prosecution. They don’t have to compensate their victims. What possible reason could they have for quitting? It’s not like they have productive careers they’re putting on hold.

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At least ten more votes for Trump.

Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

‘Saturday Night Live’ Roasts Trump, Compares Him To John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer

Lancet Medical Journal Goes All In for Progressive Politics

ABC Shocked By Trump’s Post-COVID Energy to Campaign, ‘We Love You’ Chants

‘We Are No Longer Free’: Amanda Carpenter Blames Trump For Making America ‘More Dangerous’

Brennan Claims Trump Backers Have No Enthusiasm, Gets SCHOOLED By RNC Boss

Corporate America Against Trump

Watch: Young Minority Trump Voters Respond To Being Called “Traitors”

Katerra is On a Roll With Catalyst Building Skyscraper made out of wood.

The Guardian: A Biden Victory would Push the World on Climate Change

US Vote to Shape How World Warms as Climate Pact Exit Looms

Nearly 50% Of BLM Protesters Arrested In Seattle Were White, From Other Cities

How The Downtrodden Token Story Traps Minority Writers

Lil Pump Says He’s ‘Moving The F**k Out’ Of America If Donald Trump Loses The Election

“A Lot Of People Are Leaving”: COVID Shutdowns Have Turned San Francisco Into A Ghost Town

A Smorgasbord of Coronamadness

Add vitamin D to bread and milk to help fight Covid, urge scientists

A once restrained Fauci unleashes on White House coronavirus approach days before election

Here’s How COVID-19 Deaths Aren’t Rising Along With COVID Cases

‘Le Grand Escape’ From Paris: Footage Shows Record-Breaking Traffic Gridlock Hours Before Lockdown

Four-Week British Virus Lockdown May Last Longer

Global Wine Production Slumps For Second Year As Industry Crushed By Virus   

White House Slams Fauci After Recent Comments on Pandemic

Pre-Election Virus Spike Creates Concerns for Polling Places

Anti-Lockdown Protests Erupt Across Spain As State Of Emergency Extended

‘They Helped Create This’: Wisconsin Gov. Blames Republicans Top To Bottom For COVID Crisis

Claim: Disease-transmission model forecasts election outcomes

No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia yesterday

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The police shooting of an armed black man in Vancouver, Washington, led to violent clashes between demonstrators carrying Antifa-associated flags, chanting “Black Lives Matter” and Trump supporters late Friday night into Saturday morning, the New York Post reported.

Kevin Peterson Jr., 21, was fatally shot after firing a weapon at police around 6 p.m. Thursday night, the Post reported. Demonstrators reportedly traveled from Portland to the candlelight vigil held in honor of Peterson’s memory.

You can’t make this shit up.

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n the search for the chemical origins of life, researchers have found a possible alternative path for the emergence of the characteristic DNA pattern: According to the experiments, the characteristic DNA base pairs can form by dry heating, without water or other solvents. The team led by Ivan Halasz from the Ru?er Boškovi? Institute and Ernest Meštrovi? from the pharmaceutical company Xellia presents its observations from DESY’s X-ray source PETRA III in the journal Chemical Communications.

“One of the most intriguing questions in the search for the origin of life is how the chemical selection occurred and how the first biomolecules formed,” says Tomislav Stolar from the Ru?er Boškovi? Institute in Zagreb, the first author on the paper. While living cells control the production of biomolecules with their sophisticated machinery, the first molecular and supramolecular building blocks of life were likely created by pure chemistry and without enzyme catalysis. For their study, the scientists investigated the formation of nucleobase pairs that act as molecular recognition units in the Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA).

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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I’ve said for a long time that even liberals should stop trying to be woke enough, because there is no such thing as woke enough. Last week brought that reminder to a group of unsuspecting women trying to put together a convention for some sort of sci-fi fan content (I may be wrong about what it actually is, because truthfully I have no idea, even after it was explained to me). After months of work, which included spending significant time trying to find “diverse” speakers and presenters, those in charge of the convention put out an open call for some.

To which the organizers were met with: “You’re just now trying to find diverse presenters?” The tickets were released simultaneously, and the prices listed alongside (which were always listed on their website) and suddenly the narrative was set: the group putting together the convention were racists and scam artists. It took all of twenty-four hours for Twitter bullies to force the cancellation of the convention, scrapping hundreds of hours of work on the part of the organizers.

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His journey will sound familiar to those drawn to the nation’s financial capital. Hefner got a job at an asset management firm in Manhattan, found love and career success, and eventually moved to Pelham, an upscale town in Westchester, to start a family.

He would still be there if it wasn’t for the coronavirus pandemic. When Hefner, co-founder of a research platform called Analyst Hub, sold his house this summer to a couple from London, he wondered if it made sense to look beyond the surrounding neighborhoods for a new home. He ended up moving his family to Dallas last month.