I, on the other hand, are looking for the cheat codes.

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We have the technology.

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In the delightful confection that is Modern Multicultural Milan, two of the flavors in the recipe — gypsies and Muslims — don’t seem to mix all that well.

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People don’t go to MacDonald’s for healthy food.

Why bankers close their ears to the ‘climate nut jobs’ talking about the end of the world (The Guardian)

Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier is shedding ice faster than it has in 5,500 years (Interesting Engineering)

Antarctica is currently melting at an ‘unprecedented rate’ when compared to the last 5,500 years: study (AlterNet)

Thirty years of climate summits: where have they got us? (The Guardian) That pesky Reality keeps getting in the way.

Fifty Years After the UN’s Stockholm Environment Conference, Leaders Struggle to Realize its Vision of ‘a Healthy Planet’ (Inside Climate News) The enduring picture of environmentalism: Activists making noise at a demonstration that will have no effect on the real world whatsoever.

Diversity and ecological footprint of Global Ocean RNA viruses (Science)

Environmental group opposes natural gas plant in Marshall [MI] that could power 1 million homes

Carbon Dioxide Levels Now Higher Than Ever in Human History (Smithsonian)

Aussie Farmers Demand Compensation for the new Green Electricity Grid

Members of white nationalist group charged with planning riot at Idaho pride event (Reuters) Notice the difference in treatment between these guys and those planning – in public! – to shut down the Supreme Court.

Energy & Environment —Biden EV pitch faces headwinds (The Hill)

Biden administration proposes national EV charging station standards

Biden responds to $5 gas: ‘Outrageous what the war in Ukraine is causing’

Biden Approval Plummets To 22% Among Young Adults, 24% Among Hispanics

Yahoo: “Biden’s on the verge of losing on climate change”

Biden’s Homeland Secretary Lied About Disinformation Board: Whistleblower Documents

Kuwait Summons US Diplomat Over Gay Pride Month Tweet

US white supremacists arrested at Idaho gay pride event – police (BBC)

Trump’s forces are preparing for the next storming of the Capitol. This time, they plan to win (The Guardian)

Biden says forces behind January 6 attack ‘remain at work today’ – as it happened (The Guardian) The desire for an unstolen election? I’d say that’s correct.

Liz Cheney Is Ready to Follow Donald Trump to the Gates of Hell (Daily Beast) Good luck with that.

Former Trump Official Says Panel’s Jan. 6 Videos Are ‘Doctored’ (Newsweek) As they obviously are.

Trump’s judges will keep moving the country to the far right for decades (L.A. Times) There is no right but the far right.

Proud Boys leaders say DOJ mixed ‘politics and criminal justice’ with sedition indictment (The Hill) Which they obviously did.

Rep. Perry Says Rep. Cheney Lied About Claim He Sought Presidential Pardon

NYT Targets AG For Going After Censorship Online

Russia Says It Destroyed Depot With Western Weapons in Ukraine

Rafael unveils new Spike NLOS missile version with in-flight control transfer

I guess the war is wearing out its welcome.

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Using CRISPR-Cas9, they switched off an enzyme in tomatoes that ordinarily prevents the molecular forerunner of vitamin D3 (called 7-dehydrocholesterol, or 7-DHC) from accumulating in the plant.

The result is a tomato plant that, when exposed to ultraviolet light (like from the Sun), creates massive amounts of the prized vitamin in its leaves and, more usefully for us, also a fair amount in the fruit.

Cue meltdown by Eco-Nazis.

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Pathfinder 3, a huge all-electric airship designed by LTA Research, is in the final planning stages in Akron. Prototype carbon fiber and titanium framing has been put together inside the airdock for testing. Pilots are undergoing flight training using sophisticated simulators. And the airdock itself is undergoing renovations and updating.

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Less and less as time goes one.

Current Affairs cries wolf.

Author Elizabeth Sandifer explains the dangerous ideas of the far-right neoreactionaries, who have ties to Silicon Valley and a hostility toward democracy.

Dangerous ideas! Far-right! Neoreactionaries! Ties to Silicon Valley! Hostility toward democracy

OH NO WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Or maybe not. Proglodytes have this problem with agency: Just as they behave as if non-white people are too feckless to run their own lives without well-educated rich white leftists to tell them what to do, they behave as if ideas can cause cancer – just being in the wrong place at the wrong time can make you contract Long Trumpism or worse. This attitude is why progressives are often characterized as the New Puritans: You’ve got to be saved from yourselves because by yourselves you’re too weak/stupid/evil to do the Right Thing, so your Betters need to force you into it (For Your Own Good, of course).

Hence there is always a bull market for these sorts of hand-wringing pearl-clutching articles in the Narrative Media. If you’re looking for a side job and can stomach it, write up a few and send them to the New Yorker, you might get lucky.

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I use Harry’s products because I like them and they’re very cost-effective compared to Big Razor companies like Gillette and Schick. I also resist any urge that I might have – and, if it exists, it’s a small one – to buy stuff based on the politics of the people who make it. (Except Ben & Jerry’s; they deserve to die in penury.)

But I find this whole notion of ‘They won’t advertise with us because of our politics, so we’ll do what they do and do it better nyah nyah nyah’ to be strangely attractive and (dare I say it?) typically American.

My hesitation is due to the fact that ‘Jeremy’s razors’ sounds rather … metrosexual.

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A would-be mujahid in Catalonia was arrested by Spanish anti-terror police before he could carry out his planned jihad attack.

Officers Respond to Domestic Incident at Kim Foxx’s Home: Police Report  (NBC Chicago)

Colleges create AI to identify hate speech, finds minorities are worst offenders

Man Sought in Shooting Death of Mississippi Officer Arrested

Appeals Court Suspends Lower Court Ruling on Louisiana Congressional Map

Police Identify 3 Killed in Tennessee Shooting  The victims are all ‘persons of color’ (not ‘colored persons’, oh no, that would be waycist), so it’s almost a certainty that the perp(s) are the same; no description is given, of course.

Biden bashes big oil: ‘Exxon made more money than God this year’ (The Hill)

‘Start investing’: Biden jabs Exxon Mobil for high fuel costs in inflation speech (CNBC)

Texas congressman says busloads of migrants heading to his district: ‘System is completely overwhelmed’  To be clear: illegal migrants.

Biden administration launches ‘unprecedented’ operation to disrupt human smuggling as caravan moves north (CNN)

Biden Administration To Provide Grief Counselors At All Gas Pumps (Babylon Bee) There’s a problem? Well, we won’t do anything about the way we’re creating that problem, but we’ll establish programs (at your expense) to do what we think will help you cope.

Texas Judge Blocks Federal Policy Letting ‘Criminal Aliens’ ‘Roam Free’

FBI Chief Comey Misled Congress’ “Gang Of 8” Over Russiagate, Lisa Page Memo Reveals

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Being a government hack has its advantages. You get eleven paid holidays per year. You get promoted for poor performance. The benefits are superb. Best of all, you can get remarkably rich…even if you’re a screw up.

President Joe Biden, for example, has worked for the federal government for nearly 50 years. His net worth is about $9 million.

Yet Biden and his wife Jill really made the big bucks between 2017 and 2020, when Biden was out of office. Together, they hauled in $17.3 million in book deals and speaking fees. These are some of the fringe benefits of having been a government bigwig.

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The free-money PPP “loan” obtained by a prostitute frequented by Hunter Biden offers a vividly teachable insight into American capitalism: you don’t maximize your private gains by offering a product or service that’s faster, better, cheaper, you maximize your private gains by securing a government-gimme. Hunter’s Hooker Scored $20,000 PPP Loan As Joe Biden Entered White House.

The cornucopia of government-gimmes is vast. There are “loans” which are forgiven, i.e. free money such as the PPP “loans;” government subsidies and tax breaks designed to serve the interests of a single enterprise or cartel; low-interest loans unavailable to tax donkeys; sweetheart contracts where the private cartel/monopoly can overbill the government without consequence; toothless anti-trust agencies allow monopolies to scoop up dozens or even hundreds of potential competitors, and skims/scams funded by government largess: Medicare / Medicaid fraud, the student-loan racket, and so on, in an endless profusion of ways to maximize private gains via investing capital in capitol, i.e. bribing politicians and bureaucrats to use the government’s vast powers to enrich the few at the expense of the many.

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The group tweeted an infographic with the name of Barrett’s church. It also identified the school that Barrett’s children attend, and encouraged protesters to “voice your anger” by demonstrating there.

The graphic also stated that a protest would be organized there every Thursday evening. The tweet was posted in response to another tweet by ‘Duty to Warn,’ an anti-Trump group, which quoted Barrett as saying that “a legal career is but a means to an end and that end is building the Kingdom of God.”

This is despicable.

They have a web site. It ought not to be too difficult to track them down and discourage this sort of thing.

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Recently, a tiny group of people with rectal cancer saw their disease vanish after experimental treatment.

It was a very small trial done by doctors at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, wherein the patients took a drug called dostarlimab for six months. At the end of their trial, every single one of their tumors disappeared.

Now, in another breakthrough, a new compound synthesized by Dr. Jung-Mo Ahn, a University of Texas at Dallas researcher, has been found to kill a broad spectrum of hard-to-treat cancers, including triple-negative breast cancer, leaving healthy cells unscathed.

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The attempt on Kavanaugh’s life has only emboldened the Democrats’ efforts to intimidate conservative justices. Thus, the dark money group called “Ruth Sent Us,” which has been behind much of the publication of justices’ home addresses and threats against their families, is calling for action against Justice Amy Barrett.

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Authorities on the Gulf coast of Mexico said the bodies of seven men have been found dumped on a roadway in the Huasteca region, long popular among tourists. Prosecutors in San Luis Potosi state said late Thursday the bodies did not appear to be from the township of Aquismon, and may have been killed elsewhere and dumped in the rural area. Photos of the bodies showed extensive bruising on the corpses, suggesting they had been beaten. Writing scrawled in markers on the corpses said “this is what happened to me for working with the Gulf,” an apparent reference to the Gulf cartel, which operates mainly along the U.S. border to the north.

Sure, open the border! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

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Jonathan Weissman and collaborators used their single-cell sequencing tool Perturb-seq on every expressed gene in the human genome, linking each to its job in the cell.

That’s necessary but not sufficient. We also need a map of how the non-gene sequences determine how genes are expressed. Still, it’s a great step forward.

Of course they’re doing it on purpose.

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School surveys that collect information from students and create a perceived need for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum have caught the attention of Missouri authorities. Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued subpoenas this week to seven school districts that allegedly employ student surveys—created by education companies Panorama and Project Wayfinder—to gather data about parents’ political beliefs and income levels, as well as racial identity, sexual behaviors, and mental health. “Those same groups come in and sell that curriculum to the schools,” said Kimberly Hermann, general counsel with Southeastern Legal Foundation, a national nonprofit law firm that defends liberty. “The contracts with these companies are public record so they’re supposed to be approved during school board meetings, but the surveys are happening without parental consent and parental notification.”

“When will my side learn not to give in to lefty scum?”

— Taki

Will monkeypox spread as fast as COVID? (The Hill) Just in case, we’d better PANIC!

COVID Symptoms Timeline: Signs to Expect With the Virus and When (NBC)

NYC Now at 10 Monkeypox Cases, City Warns of ‘Greater Risk’ for One Group (NBC)

Fauci Suggests He’ll Retire Once This Key Requirement Is Met: ‘Better Control’ of COVID

Some English Hospitals Telling Patients to Keep Wearing Face Masks Despite Restrictions Being Dropped  These people are just ugly, that’s all there is to it.

Gigi Foster: Did Our Pandemic Policies Kill More People Than They Saved?

Biden Administration Makes Available 10 Million Doses of COVID Vaccine for Kids Under 5 — Before FDA Authorizes Shot

Connecticut Families Challenge ‘Arbitrary’ Religious Exemption Ban for School Vaccines

Twitter Quietly Removes Warning Added to a CDC Study

World Health Organization Finally Admits COVID Lab-Leak Theory Is A Possibility

EXCLUSIVE: Military Official Predicted mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Might Be Paused Over Heart Inflammation

Biden Admin Dropping COVID-Testing Requirements For International Travel

NYT Essay Praised Sky-High Inflation Because It’ll Make Our Diets Climate-Conscious And only the Dirt People will suffer.

The world’s first CO2 battery for long-duration energy storage is ready for global launch

‘The inevitable’: People living on the coast could be forced to move due to climate change, UK warns (CNBC) Call me when real estate prices in Malibu start dropping.

Aerosols from burning fossil fuels are masking global warming, UW researchers find (Seattle Times)

Climate policy dragged into culture wars as a ‘delay’ tactic, finds study (The Guardian)

Group aiming to defund disinformation tries to drain Fox News of online advertising (NPR)

Arctic sea ice extent continues the slow melting season in May tracking above levels not seen since 2013 while the meteorological summer just started (Severe Weather Europe)

New Zealand Introduces a Climate Change Meat Tax  I guess there’s something in the water; they’ve all gone crazy down there.

CNN Hypes False Dengue Fever Claims, Putting Climate Fears Ahead of Facts, Again

Plastic Eating Worms Show Promise for Plant-Scale Recycling

Lake Michigan Water Levels Have Dropped To Near Normal, So Yet Another Climate Explanation Emerges

EU lawmakers vote to ban sales of combustion engine cars from 2035

Climate Change Weekly #437: Persistent Lies about Green Power

Key takeaways from the first Jan. 6 hearing: It’s all about Trump (NBC) But you knew that.

Cheney’s Jan. 6 committee spotlight burns her in Wyoming primary (NBC) “Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.” Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

Name and Shame White Christian Nationalism, the Ideology Behind Jan. 6 (Daily Beast) So I guess non-white Christian Nationalism is okay?

J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel Accused of ‘Secret Website’ Shenanigans (Daily Beast) Shenanigans!

Michigan candidate for governor, Ryan Kelley, charged for Jan. 6 involvement (NPR)

Bipartisan Senate group eyes deal ‘this week’ on bill to prevent future coups (NBC) Future coups!

Kavanaugh threat: MSNBC’s Joy Reid, ABC’s Joy Behar pivot to attacking Mitch McConnell over gun control

Priorities: Morning Networks Spend Over 3x More on January 6 Than Kavanaugh Threat

Democratic Philly Mayor Wants To Arrest Man for Defending Himself During Mass Shooting

Norms Restored: FBI Now Literally Arresting Republican Candidates

‘Morning Joe’ Mocks Shooting Survivor Scalise for Speaking Truth on Guns

Pennsylvania Dem Says ‘Diseased’ GOP Must Be ‘Cleansed’ After Preaching ‘Unity’

Chinese students at Cornell “taunt” Uyghur classmate

How Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg could get removed from office

Joy Behar Faces Ridicule For Saying “Once Black People Get Guns In This Country, The Gun Laws Will Change”

Democratic Illinois AG Targets Schools for Punishing Minority Crimes

At the Mattis plea hearing

If You’re the Right Race, Your Doctor Will See You Now

State Department’s Skewed Reports Enabling Nigerian Violence: Rights Advocates  Your tax dollars at work.

2 Arrested, Facing Murder Charges in Philadelphia Shooting

Crazy or Evil? We Report, You Decide

Judge: Death Row Inmate Can Pursue Disability Claims

What Medicare Patients Should Know About Biden’s Woke ‘Anti-Racism’ Rule

Ump Claims MLB Is Racist For Not Allowing Him To Officiate In WS

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With border cities overwhelmed by a record surge in migration, the Department of Homeland Security is planning to start transporting migrants into cities away from the border, according to DHS documents reviewed by NBC News.

Los Angeles has been designated as the first city to be the recipient of the transported migrants, with Albuquerque, Houston, Dallas and others to follow. In a statement to NBC, DHS said “no decision has been made.”

Away from microphones, DHS officials jokingly refer to the scheme as the “Abbott plan,” according to an unidentified official who spoke to NBC. That’s a reference to Texas governor Greg Abbott, who earlier this year sent at least 10 busloads of illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C. as a means of redistributing the wealth of inbound Latin American diversity.

He’ll just send them back to D.C.

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It’s the inflation you’re not supposed to see.

From toilet paper to yogurt and coffee to corn chips, manufacturers are quietly shrinking package sizes without lowering prices. It’s dubbed “shrinkflation,” and it’s accelerating worldwide.

In the United States, a small box of Kleenex now has 60 tissues; a few months ago, it had 65. Chobani Flips yogurts have shrunk from 5.3 ounces to 4.5 ounces. In the UK, Nestle slimmed down its Nescafe Azera Americano coffee tins from 100 grams to 90 grams. In India, a bar of Vim dish soap has shrunk from 155 grams to 135 grams.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Anyone testing positive would have to delay his or her return. That quarantine would entail spending thousands of dollars in finding scarce hotel accommodations, additional living expenses, and rebooked airline tickets—depending upon the length of the mandatory sequestration.

Contrast the tens of thousands of foreign nationals now mustering to cross illegally into the United States again this summer. They follow the already 2 million who have entered the country unlawfully since Joe Biden became president.

Does any foreign national worry about being tested for COVID-19, much less fear being turned away if he tests positive or for lack of proof of vaccination?

Or do we scrutinize far more carefully U.S. citizens entering legally their own country than we do noncitizens crossing our borders unlawfully?

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In the biological sciences, there are a group of measures used to test the health of an ecosystem or the health of a species. In the case of a species, estimates of the population are usually the starting place. Then it may be the population density of the species, which can determine if the pressure is the loss of habitat or some unknown environmental factor that is lowering fertility. It is assumed that a declining population relative to territory is always a sign of crisis in a species.

Of course, these measures are never used to test the health of European populations because that is a conspiracy theory. Everyone knows that all you have to do is utter the abracadabra phrase “conspiracy theory” and all of the related things that are easily observed can no longer be mentioned. Putting that aside, the same measures we use to test the health of a species could be applied to humans. In fact, we could have much more granular and accurate measures.

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In the north there is yet another crisis for the federal government to mismanage in a spectacular and embarrassing fashion. In Kaduna State the local bandit problem has reached critical levels. During three days (March 26-28) over 200 Hausa bandits attacked the Kaduna International Airport, killing a security guard, and forcing the airports to remain closed until May 23rd. The government upgraded security at the airport in an effort to restore public confidence in local aviation and airports.

On March 28th a coalition of local gangsters and Boko Haram Islamic terrorists used explosives to destroy some of the track and cause a locomotive and eleven passenger cars to derail, halting service on the 190-kilometer track from Kaduna City to Abuja, the Nigerian capital. The train had departed Abuja with 362 listed passengers. The derailment killed nine people and it is unclear how many are being held for ransom because 141 passengers are still unaccounted for. Many apparently returned home without notifying the railroad or police. Rail service was supposed to resume in May but a few more attacks and uncertainty over how many passengers are being held for ransom meant few people were willing to travel on that route until there were assurances that it was safe and there was news about how many passengers were being held by the kidnappers. One hostage, a banker, has been freed but refuses to provide any details. It is suspected that a large ransom was promptly paid. Few of the missing passengers can afford a substantial ransom and the attackers said they were willing to trade passengers for jailed bandits and Boko Haram members.

Around the world, ‘Muslim’ and ‘criminal’ are increasingly synonymous.

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Post-pandemic, the homeschool boom hasn’t let up, as parents realize they can effectively teach their children and guide their education in a way that aligns with their values.

Christian actor and filmmaker Kirk Cameron wants to demonstrate how freedom-loving Americans can best start their own homeschool journeys with his new documentary film “The Homeschool Awakening.”

“No one loves [your kids] more than you do as a mom and dad, and no one’s better positioned to teach them. You’ve been doing it since Day One,” says Cameron. “You taught them how to walk. You taught them how to talk. At the end of the day, whoever controls the textbooks has possession of the future, either for good or for evil.”

Send your kid to a government school
And he will turn out a fool.
That’s the way
Things are today:
Your tax bucks at work and play!

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A suspected Australian ISIS terrorist has had his Australian citizenship returned after the High Court ruled that the government could not revoke a person’s citizenship if they are accused of terrorism-related conduct overseas.

It must be something in the water; they’ve all gone crazy over there.

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A former congressman has pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fraudulently create votes for Democratic candidates in five different election years.

Michael “Ozzie” Myers, 79, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election.

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UPDATE: NHTSA upgrades Tesla Autopilot probe, could lead to recall

UPDATE: NHTSA Upgrades Probe of Autopilot Teslas Colliding With Emergency Vehicles, Increasing Possibility of Recall

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Robots get all the good stuff.

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Threat to democracy: When Republicans win an election.

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If someone attempts to murder a Supreme Court justice, but corporate media barely covers it, did it actually happen?

Sure, most outlets covered the news of the arrest of man who, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, arrived at Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home, armed with a “tactical knife, a pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crowbar, pistol light, [and] duct tape,” per the Justice Department.

But after reporting the basic facts—that the suspect’s name was John Nicholas Roske, that he had been deterred by the sight of two deputy marshals outside Kavanaugh’s home—America’s journalists didn’t seem to rush into any analysis.

Because, of course, when it comes to political violence in the United States today, here’s a maxim you can always rely on: If the victim or likely victim is on the right, the perpetrator is simply a lone wolf. But if the victim or likely victim is on the left, the perpetrator was fueled by dangerous rhetoric.

Sarah Hoyt.

Our would be overlords believe in magic words. They’ll decree it, and it will be so.

They have a plan, proclaimed by great international thinkers (who have no idea where food comes from, but that’s something else) and by gum, they’re going to herd us all into mega cities, and make us live the way they want, owing nothing, being happy, eating bugs.

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Democrat leaders in the House of Representatives on June 9 blocked a bill to increase security for Supreme Court justices, asserting that more time is needed to alter the legislation and that nobody is in danger.

I wonder whether she’d change her tune if it were some deranged Republican outside her house with a gun?

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You may have heard brief mention of a massacre in a Catholic Church a few days ago in Nigeria that killed more than 50 people at latest count. It’s the latest terror attack in Nigeria that appears to have been committed by adherents of that well-known “religion of peace.”

The president of Ireland, Michael Higgins, issued a statement deploring the massacre, which he attributed to . . . climate change.

Ireland was subject to one of the most prolonged ‘brain-drain’ processes in history. As a result, those Left Behind have degenerated to a genuine Turd World population.

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As you may have heard, there’s been slightly more than the usual amount of drama at the Washington Post the past few days. In the midst of the ongoing, junior-high quality drama, a young employee and Stanford graduate named Holden Foreman decided to white knight on behalf of the women generating the drama. He did this by tattling on male Washington Post employees who agreed with a different female employee that everybody should give it a rest, put the drama behind them and get back to work.

So, who is this courageous Generation Tide Pod person, Holden Foreman, standing up for the right of women to create and sustain workplace drama? As I said, he is a graduate of Stanford. While at Stanford, he apparently published an article … I am not making this up … complaining that he had to go hungry at college because eating food from a cafeteria was too traumatizing for him and he lacked the ability to determine for himself how much food to eat. The remedy he demanded … still not making this up… was that the university should cut and portion his food for him individually so he would be spared the trauma of eating at a buffet.