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NYC Migrant Crisis to Cost Staggering $5 Billion for Shelters, Security and Food

14th August 2024

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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61-Year-Old Brit Gets 18 Month Prison Sentence for Chanting “Who The F**k Is Allah”

14th August 2024

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The sentence handed out to David Spring is the latest shocking example of how low the bar has now been set in terms of free speech in response to rioting that occurred after the murder of three girls in Southport last month.

Spring attended a demonstration of around 700 people in London on July 31 which turned disorderly.

Police bodycam footage that was played in court showed Spring calling police officers “cunts,” making “hostile gestures” and joining in with chants of “who the fuck is Allah” and “you’re not English anymore.”

 

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Make a (Wild) Wish! PA Congresswoman Organized Birthday Fundraiser for Radical Group That Supports ‘Decriminalizing Hamas’

14th August 2024

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Rep. Susan Wild (D., Pa.), considered one of the most vulnerable House incumbents running for reelection, personally raised money for a “social justice” group that wants to defund police and abolish immigration agencies. It has also expressed support for “decriminalizing Hamas.”

And that’s just the beginning of the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) far-left activism. The Philadelphia-based group blamed Israel for the “root cause” that it said prompted Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack. In the 2000s, AFSC organized a series of controversial “dialogue” events with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president who has denied the Holocaust. And decades earlier, AFSC officials defended Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime, which murdered 1 million Cambodians in a genocide.

It’s a group whose “mission means a lot to me,” Wild wrote in a June 2020 Facebook post obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. “For my birthday this year, I’m asking for donations to American Friends Service Committee.”

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Conservative Prof. Settles Lawsuit Against Calif. College

14th August 2024

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A conservative college professor has agreed to settle his lawsuit against a California community college district for $2.4 million after arguing that school officials retaliated against him and a colleague.

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EU Disavows “Attention-Seeking Politician” Thierry Breton Over ‘Electoral Interference’ Letter Threatening Musk

14th August 2024

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With Monday night’s unfiltered discussion between Donald Trump and Elon Muskgenerating a reported billion views, it’s no wonder the left collectively freaked out.

Not only did the Washington Post ask the White House if there was anything they could do to stop the conversation from taking place…

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

13th August 2024

Losing Makes Trump Crazier, and Being Crazy Makes Him Lose (New York Magazine)

Donald Trump’s ego cannot handle being trounced by Kamala Harris (The Guardian)

‘AI’ crowds and unskewed polls: Trump prepares to reject another loss (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Harris Campaign Said Walz ‘Chaired Veterans Affairs’… He Did Not

Desperate Trump Returns to X as Poll Numbers Keep Tanking (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)

JD Vance’s false claim that ‘green energy scam’ ships jobs to China (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)

Why Donald Trump Can’t Let Go of Joe Biden (Jeet Heer/The Nation)

Second Photo Alleged to Show JD Vance in Drag Posted Online (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)

Trump Can’t Deal With Harris’s Success (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

EU’s Breton warns Musk on hate speech ahead of Trump interview; receives profane response (Seb Starcevic/Politico)

The First Amendment is in grave danger if Trump wins (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  And the Second if Harris wins.

Trump spent the weekend flying around America on a plane previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein (Business Insider)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Broadcast news and major papers failed to cover report of possible Egyptian bribery involving Trump (Tyler Monroe/Media Matters for America)  Sure, I believe that.

Donald Trump’s Campaign Admits It Rented Jeffrey’s Epstein’s Jet (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

 

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Today in Democrat Stupid

13th August 2024

A.F. Branco for Aug 13, 2024

Tim Walz Clarifies That He Is Not Stealing Valor, Just Redistributing It Babylon Bee

‘I Will Fix Things If You Vote Me Into Office,’ Says Woman Currently In Office Babylon Bee.

‘Worse Than Biden’: Border Patrol Agents Say Four Years of Harris Would Prolong the ‘Nightmare’

ABC Carries Water for Biden-Harris Administration Policy to Sway Votes

Tim Walz Touted Endorsement From Kremlin Propagandist Who Called 9/11 a ‘False Flag’

After Weeks Promoting Kamala, Media Celebrate Her ‘Amazing’ ‘Momentum’

Tim Walz Pushed a 70 Percent Gas Tax Hike—Then Called For a Federal Gas Tax Pause

‘They Set Her Up To Fail’: Dems Blame Biden for Harris’s Dismal Approval Ratings as VP  Sorry, she earned those all by herself.

House GOP Hardliners Threaten Government Shutdown Over Baseless Illegal Voters Bill (Jonathan Nicholson/HuffPost)

Make-Believe Moderates: Here’s Why Harris, Walz Makeovers Won’t Fly

Fmr Commander Rips Walz Over Rank ‘He Did Not Earn’

Kamala Harris is going on the offensive on border security. It could keep Arizona blue and cut off Trump’s path to victory. (John L. Dorman/Business Insider) Don’t hold your breath.

Kamala ‘Unequivocally’ Supported Cutting the US Defense Budget. She Won’t Say Where She Stands Now.

WATCH: KJP Says a Harris Administration Will Be No Different Than Biden’s

RUNNING SCARED: Nets Skip Vance Beatdowns, Cheer Kamala-mentum

WaPo Journo Asks How Biden-Harris Admin Can Quash Trump-Musk Interview

 

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The Haunted Present

13th August 2024

ZMan is not optimistic.

At the dawn of the information age, it was assumed that everyone having the sum of human knowledge at their fingertips would unleash human potential in ways that had never been imagined. Instead of vast swaths of information being cloistered in the books of specialists, it would be available to everyone. The democratization of information would not only raise all of humanity but unleash the potential of people who would otherwise be denied access to the information.

A couple generations into it and this has clearly not been the case. Creative output, for example, has grounded to a halt. New movies and television shows are, at best, technically superior, but creatively inferior, remakes of past works. The traditional arts, like painting and sculpture, have been made ridiculous in an attempt to find novelty rather than genuine cultural expression. The creative side of Western culture has reached a nadir as technology has reached its zenith.

The public space, of course, has become so narrow that comparisons to the Soviet era are becoming trite. In the UK, men are being sent to dungeons for the crime of mentioning that foreigners are murdering British school children. In the United States, the secret police is everywhere looking for dissidents to harass. The great democratization of information and the public square has led to a dark age of authoritarian violence and suppression.

Other than that, how was your week?

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US Records 2nd Biggest July Deficit in History as 25% of Tax Revenue Go to Pay Interest

13th August 2024

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“Spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect.” — Harry Hopkins (Democrat)

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FOIA Files: How Feds, Press, and Academia “Coordinate” On Speech

13th August 2024

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In March 2023, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) put out an article asserting that the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) — comprised of the CIP, the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) — was not a “government cut-out” controlled by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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Dr. Fauci Admits He’s Infected With COVID for Third Time After Being “Vaccinated and Boosted Six Times”

13th August 2024

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Yes, really.

The former chief medical advisor to the president, who became the face of the COVID vaccination drive from late 2020 onwards, reacted to catching COVID-19 yet again by thanking the vaccine.

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Migrants Charged in Coney Island Rape, Assault

13th August 2024

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In Coney Island on Sunday, a woman allegedly was raped at knifepoint and her boyfriend was assaulted when he tried to intervene, law enforcement sources told the New York Post, and the two suspects charged in the attack are migrants.

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Thought for the Day

13th August 2024

Infographic: What Effect Will Voter ID Laws Have in the 2024 Election? | Statista

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Scientists Just Found Oceans of Liquid Water on Mars – But There’s a Catch

13th August 2024

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There are literal oceans’ worth of liquid water hiding out on Mars. There’s just one big problem. That water is actually in Mars, at depths that are too far below the surface for us to access.

That’s according to new analysis of seismic data collected by the Mars InSight lander, for which huge reservoirs of liquid water are the best explanation. And, although that water is out of reach, it is an important piece of the strange puzzle of the aquatic history of our dry, desiccated, dusty neighbor.

“Understanding the Martian water cycle is critical for understanding the evolution of the climate, surface and interior,” says geophysicist Vashan Wright of the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

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Patriotism Is Replacing Purpose in American Business

13th August 2024

The Economist.

What America’s two political tribes want from business is not always the same. When it comes to the environment and diversity, they are at loggerheads. That helps explain why chief executives’ enthusiasm for esg, which Republicans deride as woke capitalism, has proved so brittle. But both Democrats and Republicans are eager for corporate America to churn out middle-class jobs while remaining one step ahead of China in the race for technological supremacy. Calls for corporate purpose may have quietened. Those for corporate patriotism are getting louder.

Although there has “always been the proverbial military-industrial complex”, says Curtis Milhaupt of Stanford Law School, “the number of firms wrapped up in national-security policy is much larger today.” Trade for some industries has become fraught. Companies dealing in areas of cutting-edge technology must now keep one eye fixed on the expanding list of Chinese firms they cannot do business with. Carmakers are bracing for rules prohibiting the use of Chinese software in autonomous vehicles. Some fret that Mr Trump, if he is re-elected in November, could expand export restrictions—though he may also lean harder on allies to match America’s measures on China, lessening their impact on American businesses, notes Jeremy Zucker of Dechert, a law firm.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

12th August 2024

CNN Panel EXPLODES When Frum Says Vance Is Claiming Tim Walz ‘Is a Sexual Deviant’

Donald Trump Is Freaked Out in Ways He Never Imagined Were Possible (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

Trump spreads false conspiracy theory about Harris’ Detroit crowd size (Eric Bradner/CNN)

Democrats continue to joke about false JD Vance rumor after years of criticizing Trump for spreading misinformation (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)

Republicans can’t replace their old man nominee, so they’re pretending JD Vance is the GOP candidate (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

George Conway: Sociopath Trump Like Hitler in The Bunker, Family Should Have Him Committed

‘A different level than 2020’: Trump’s plan to steal election is taking shape (Sam Levine/The Guardian)

The 2024 campaign will now turn on whether Trump can blunt Harris’ soaring start (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

Desperate times: Trumpers launch Swiftboating 2.0 (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

Trump reportedly used a slur against Harris in private conversations (Associated Press)  Ah, yes, the famous ‘reportedly’. Next it will be ‘sources say’.

The most expensive political ad of all time (Popular Information)

Trump’s Private Anger Over Kamala’s Poll Surge Takes an Ominous Turn (The New Republic)

‘Maybe I’ve gotten worse’: Trump’s attempt at discipline unravels (The Guardian)

Behind the Curtain: Inside Trump’s slump (Axios)

‘Grandpa Donald’ is ‘not capable of being president’: Rick Wilson (MSNBC) Why anybody listens to Rick Wilson is a puzzle.

COORDINATION? ABC, CBS Ask JD Vance The Same Weird White Supremacy Question

To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris (David French/New York Times)  David French is one of the most infamous faux-conservatives alive today. Of course he’s voting for Harris.

Trump falsely accuses Harris campaign of fabricated AI crowd photos (Ariana Eunjung Cha/Washington Post)

JD Vance’s Campaign Won’t Deny That’s Him in Viral Drag Photo (Lily Mae Lazarus/The Daily Beast)

Trump Falsely Claims That the Crowds Seen at Harris Rallies Are Fake (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)

Will Trump End Elections? Anatomy of a Failed Hoax

Big Question: How Are Ukraine Stakeholders, CIA, & The US Intel Community Going To Stop Donald Trump?

Trump Is a Threat Whether He Wins or Loses, Biden Says (Julianne McShane/Mother Jones)

Harris is beating Trump by transcending him (E.J. Dionne Jr/Washington Post)

Harris is pushing joy. Trump paints a darker picture. Will mismatched moods matter? (Associated Press)

Poll: Democratic attacks on JD Vance are working (Kadia Goba/Semafor)

 

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Today in Democrat Stupid

12th August 2024

 

A.F. Branco for Aug 12, 2024

ABC News Debate Exec Is Major Harris Donor  My, what a surprise.

Obama secretly running Kamala Harris campaign: ex-Speaker McCarthy (Carl Campanile/New York Post)

Walz’s candidacy is making kindness great again (Na Eng/The Hill)

Fox News Highlights Deadly Results of Kamala Harris Being Soft on Crime

Jerusalem Post Editor: Harris Poses Existential Threat to Israel

NPR Links Questions on Walz’s Service to ‘False’ 2004 Swift Boat Accusations Except, of course, that they were true.

White House launches broad new regulatory effort, as Harris prepares to unveil economic plan (Josephine Rozzelle/CNBC)

15 States Sue To Block Federal Government From Expanding Obamacare To Cover Illegal Immigrants

FOOD Section Bias: Washington Post Fawns Over Kamala’s ‘Cooking Wisdom’

Theater Of The Absurd, Harris-Walz Edition

Playbook: The unwritten Harris agenda (Politico)

The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris (Charlotte Alter/TIME)

 

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Seattle Children’s Hospital Segregates Doctors by Race, Asks Them To Tap ‘Repressed Racial Memories’ in Leaked Training

12th August 2024

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Stomach doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital were forced to attend a racially segregated diversity training that included lessons on “critical race theory,” claimed black people are “systematically targeted for demise,” and pressed white doctors to “tap into their repressed racial memories” to develop a white “race-consciousness,” according to slides from the training obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Held in August 2022, the training was mandatory for the gastroenterology department and divided participants into three “racial caucuses”—a white caucus, a black caucus, and a “Non-Black POC Caucus”—to “minimize harm to our black learners and facilitator.”

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Remember His Fantasies of ‘Murdering Zionists’? Now, Columbia Won’t Say Whether He’s Returning to Class as It Locks Down Campus Ahead of Fall Semester.

12th August 2024

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Khymani James made national headlines when video surfaced of him telling Columbia University officials that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” With that, James became the most infamous anti-Semitic student protester in the country.

Columbia said in April that it was banning James, who told his social media followers to be “grateful” that he was not “murdering Zionists,” from its Morningside Heights campus. It announced an “interim suspension” and indicated disciplinary proceedings are underway.

“We initiated disciplinary proceedings which encompass this and additional potential violations of university policies,” a Columbia spokesman said in April.

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Now Even Viewpoint Diversity Is ‘White Supremacy’

12th August 2024

The Foundry.

Do you want a perspective other than the stifling woke orthodoxy being imposed on society through classrooms, TV shows, and corporate boardrooms? Tired of seeing “LGBTQ” this and “BIPOC” or “AAPI” that? Do you want a discussion of ideas without constant identity politics?

You just might be a white supremacist.

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Far-Right Rallies Abandoned Amid Warnings of 10-Year Sentences

12th August 2024

The Guardian.

Far-left marches, on the other hand, have clear sailing.

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ICC Monitoring Venezuela’s Crackdown on Opposition After Election

12th August 2024

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Not that they’ll do anything.  They only target people on the right.

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Thought for the Day

12th August 2024

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Riots, Knives and Double Standards

12th August 2024

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Now that the rioting seems to have passed, one wonders what was the point of it all. It has created no tangible change. The ‘no-go’ areas in Britain remain – not the kind of places one would go out of one’s way to send a postcard from, rather than places one cannot enter. The motive of the perverted Southport child murderer is no clearer. Appallingly, more boats full of illegal immigrants continue to land on British beaches. The threat of extreme Islamism across Europe via recent immigrants and their offspring persists, as the Swift concert arrests in Austria have so clearly demonstrated.

Some other truths have emerged or been confirmed during the recent chaos:

Firstly, two-tier policing is undeniably real. It’s still one rule for ‘Asian’ minorities and another for British blacks and whites, despite the government’s and police’s denial and the repeated lessons of places like Rotherham and Telford. It was good to eventually see some of the Muslim knife-carriers arrested, charged, and sentenced. For a while, it seemed they had once again escaped justice.

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His Clients Have Included Bin Laden’s Son-in-Law and a Hamas Cofounder. Now He’s Helping Anti-Israel Columbia Students.

12th August 2024

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The anti-Semitic attorney who helped lift anti-Israel Columbia University students’ suspensions has a history of representing terrorists and recently mourned the death of his “friend,” top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Besides the Columbia students, attorney Stanley Cohen’s clients have included a Hamas cofounder and Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law. Cohen has also repeatedly posed for pictures with Hamas honchos and defended the terrorist group’s violence.

“Hamas is not a person. It is not a movement. It is not an ideology,” Cohen wrote while mourning Haniyeh’s July 31 assassination. “It is the winds of freedom, justice and equality that can never be stolen from the hearts and souls of millions.”

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‘I Might Have to School Them a Little Bit’: Embattled Democratic Rep. Susan Wild Smears Conservative Constituents in Private While Publicly Embracing Moderate Views

12th August 2024

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Susan Wild, the Democratic Pennsylvania congresswoman in one of the country’s tightest House races, has privately and repeatedly trashed working-class conservative voters in her district as bigots who “drank the Trump Kool-Aid.” But in public, the Pennsylvania Democrat has drastically moderated her positions on hot-button issues as she seeks reelection in her battleground district.

Earlier this year, Wild was caught on a private conference call saying she was “dismayed” that her eastern Pennsylvania district was redrawn in 2022 to include Carbon County, which she lamented had transformed from a “working class blue district” to a “red county.” And on her personal Facebook page this year, Wild smeared a military veteran constituent, suggesting the man was homophobic because he refused to shake her hand at a Memorial Day event. These were not the first times she was caught lamenting new constituents she viewed as backward and uneducated.

Wild has been on the defensive since redistricting changed the complexion of her Lehigh Valley district, adding Carbon County’s overwhelmingly white, lower-income voters to a constituency that also comprises the majority Hispanic city of Allentown. Wild has since been caught in a series of gaffes denigrating her new constituents as backward yokels she needs to “school.”

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Blue State Blues: These Are the Cities With the Highest Robbery Rates in 2024

12th August 2024

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Veterans Affairs Resources Are Being Diverted to Help Illegal Aliens, Disabled Vet Says

12th August 2024

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“Essentially, what’s happening is, the VA was caught moving processors from the VA to support [Immigration and Customs Enforcement Health Services Corps] processing detainee medicals,” he says.

“We’re talking over 1.1 million people,” said Carver, who currently serves as a graduate fellow in the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation.

“We’re talking hundreds of thousands of initial medical exams, with follow-up exams, hundreds of thousands of prescriptions being filled, dental appointments, vision appointments,” he added. “I mean, the care that the detainees are getting is better than a lot of what the veterans are getting and without … the hoops to jump through, because they just have access to this once they’re detained.”

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Jordan Ready to Shoot Down Any Iranian Missiles Breaching Its Airspace

12th August 2024

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The Middle East is approaching two weeks since the Israeli killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran but the expected major Iranian retaliation still has not come. Things have ratcheted somewhat on Israel’s northern border amid the daily titi-for-tat with Hezbollah, but Iran’s ballistic missile launchers have remained silent.

Amid the waiting game, Jordan has reportedly informed Israel and Arab countries that it will not allow warring parties to use its airspace and is ready to confront any Iranian projectile that breaches its skies, as it did on April 13.

Sunni Jordan has very little affection for Shi’a Iran.

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New Mexico Governor Invites Texas Doctors to Practice in Her State Following Restrictive Abortion Law

12th August 2024

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If the doctors in Texas who want to perform abortions all move out — well, mission accomplished.

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Audit Finds NYC Overpaid Upstate Hotels by Millions for Sheltering Illegal Immigrants

12th August 2024

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A new audit by the New York City Comptroller’s Office found the city overpaid upstate hotels and other subcontractors by millions to shelter illegal immigrants last spring.

The audit also finds sizable undue commission payments to DocGo, a main city contractor responsible for running temporary shelters in the metro area at an annual cost of $432 million.

DocGo was one of a few city contractors tasked with developing upstate hotels-turned-shelters last May, a novel city practice that auditors deem “unusual,” and has met with strong opposition from several upstate counties, including Rockland and Orange.

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Combatting “False Narratives”: D.C. Circuit Refuses to Block Judge Limiting the Speech olf Jan. 6th Defendant

12th August 2024

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We have previously discussed controversial sentences handed down in cases involving rioters on January 6th, including sentencing orders that, in my view, violate First Amendment rights. That included the case of Daniel Goodwyn, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. That crime would ordinarily not involve any jail time for a first offender.

However, Judge Reggie B. Walton of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia decided that he would use the case to regulate what Goodwyn was reading and communicating with a chilling probation order. After the case was sent back by the D.C. Circuit, Walton doubled down on his extraordinary order. Now the D.C. Circuit has refused to hear an emergency appeal.

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The Californication of Texas

11th August 2024

UnHerd.

When I first moved to Texas in 2006, I spent several months living with my in-laws in Georgetown, a quiet town of about 46,000 people located 30 miles north of Austin. There was a giant house in their neighbourhood that looked different from all the others; apparently the owner had sold a much smaller property in California and built this dream home with the proceeds. Large-scale migration from California to Texas had not yet begun so nobody thought this was a harbinger of social and political change. The concern, rather, was that too many of these “McMansions” would increase property taxes.

But internal migration to Texas did kick in, and then some. Newly released census data shows that between 2020 and 2023, nine of the 10 fastest growing cities in the US with a population of 20,000 or more were in Texas, and Georgetown was on the list having grown by 40.1% during that period. Today, census data puts the population at 93,612. Other towns grew at an even faster clip: Celina — outside Dallas — by 143.2% and Fulshear — outside Houston — by 142.7%. Now the possibility of social and political change seems very real — a popular T-shirt/bumper sticker reads “Don’t Californicate my Texas”. The country singer Creed Fisher (whose oeuvre includes such classics as “Girls with Big Titties”), released a song about the same anxiety: that exiles from the sunshine state will vote for the very same policies that caused the conditions they fled from, changing Texas forever.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

11th August 2024

Trump Reportedly Refers To Harris As A ‘Bitch’ In Private (Sebastian Murdock/HuffPost)

Donald Trump Privately Rants That Kamala Harris Is a ‘B***h’ as His Polls Plunge (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s 270-Page Dossier of JD Vance’s ‘Vulnerabilities’ Hacked by Iran (Owen Lavine/The Daily Beast)

Russiagate Continues To Survive Like A Sci-Fi Monster Resilient To Bullets

Trump’s Crucial Power Has Been Neutralized (Jeff Greenfield/Politico)

Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular (James Risen/The Intercept)

162 lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact checks former President Trump (Domenico Montanaro/NPR)  Gether Narrative, right here!

JD Vance Has Right-Wing Friends in High Places (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times) I certainly hope so.

Behind the Curtain: Inside Trump’s slump (Axios)

Vibes matter: Trump can hardly restrain his jealousy over the Harris campaign’s joy (Sabrina Haake/Salon)

Trump’s Anger Out of Control as Poll Numbers Keep Cratering (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast)

Kid Rock Threw the Party. MAGA Faithful Brought the Joy, Rage and Smirnoff Ice. (Richard Fausset/New York Times)

 

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Appeals Court Rules Against ATF’s Pistol Brace Ban

11th August 2024

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A federal appeals court in North Dakota has found that a rule issued by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that restricts ownership of pistol attachments known as stabilizing braces is “arbitrary and capricious,” ordering a lower court to re-consider a motion that would block enforcement of the brace ban.

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The Case for Mass Deportations

11th August 2024

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Name one advantage that mass immigration from third-world countries has brought to any Western nation, anywhere, at any time. I’ll wait…

The riots that engulfed Britain this past week have again shone a spotlight on the issue that the authorities keep insisting is “beneath discussion.” And the issue isn’t racism, xenophobia, white supremacy, or any other scare word. The issue is Western ruling classes importing, against the expressed will of their citizenries, enormous numbers of immigrants who have absolutely no desire to assimilate into Western society or to respect Western values.

Following their operating manuals, the political classes and their media eunuchs refer to the British riots, along with any opposition in the Western world to mass immigration, as “far-right.” But for the past 25 years, mass immigration has been THE top concern for a plurality of American voters. Half of Americans currently view mass immigration as a “critical threat.” Half of Americans, including 42% of Democrats, favor mass deportations of illegals. It does beg the question: If half the country is “far-right,” then what does “moderate right” look like? The Green Party? The Trotskyists? Raul Castro?

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Why Does Iran Keep Sending Amateurs to Conduct Assassinations in the U.S.?

11th August 2024

NBC News.

The murder-for-hire charge announced this week against a Pakistani national linked in court papers to Iran marked the fourth alleged Iranian assassination plot inside the United States over the past three years thwarted by the FBI, in what the attorney general called a “persistent” and “brazen” campaign by Iran to punish its enemies on American soil.

Among the questions raised by that remarkable, and remarkably unsuccessful, purported campaign: Why do the Iranians keep sending amateurs who seemingly get caught so easily? And what is the U.S. doing to deter this alleged rogue behavior by Iran?

Law enforcement officials and experts who study the Iranian regime say it’s more difficult than most people realize for Iran to carry out a covert operation inside the U.S. Iran has no embassy here to host intelligence officers, and the U.S. intelligence and border protection agencies have been fairly successful at keeping out Iranians with ties to that country’s military and spy services.

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China’s New Wing Design With Holes Could Tackle Sonic Booms, Boost Aviation

11th August 2024

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Conventional aircraft wings follow design principles established by the Wright brothers and rely on Bernoulli’s principle. This dictates that faster airflow over the top of the wing results in lower pressure, while slower airflow underneath generates higher pressure, thus lifting the plane.

However, as an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, shock waves come into existence, creating turbulence and drag. These reduce lift and cause damaging vibrations.

The research team, led by Professor Gao Chao of the university’s School of Aeronautics, proposed that strategic holes in the wing could solve these ill effects.

They employed computer simulations and wind tunnel experiments, which demonstrated that the holes in the wing disrupted shock waves and mitigated the ensuing vibrations. Remarkably, they also discovered a boost of over 10% in aerodynamic efficiency.

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Fasting-Style Diet Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes to Human Brains

11th August 2024

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Scientists looking to tackle our ongoing obesity crisis have made an important discovery: Intermittent calorie restriction leads to significant changes both in the gut and the brain, which may open up new options for maintaining a healthy weight.

Researchers from China studied 25 volunteers classed as obese over a period of 62 days, during which they took part in an intermittent energy restriction (IER) program – a regime that involves careful control of calorie intake and relative fasting on some days.

Not only did the participants in the study lose weight – 7.6 kilograms (16.8 pounds) or 7.8 percent of their body weight on average – there was also evidence of shifts in the activity of obesity-related regions of the brain, and in the make-up of gut bacteria.

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Caltech Team Develops First Noninvasive Method to Continually Measure True Blood Pressure

11th August 2024

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Solving a decades-old problem, a multidisciplinary team of Caltech researchers has figured out a method to noninvasively and continually measure blood pressure anywhere on the body with next to no disruption to the patient. A device based on the new technique holds the promise to enable better vital-sign monitoring at home, in hospitals, and possibly even in remote locations where resources are limited.

The new patented technique, called resonance sonomanometry, uses sound waves to gently stimulate resonance in an artery and then uses ultrasound imaging to measure the artery’s resonance frequency, arriving at a true measurement of blood pressure. In a small clinical study, the device, which gives patients a gentle buzzing sensation on the skin, produced results akin to those obtained using the standard-of-care blood pressure cuff.

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How Brits Really View Americans

11th August 2024

Christ Williamson interview.

“O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!”

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Thought for the Day

11th August 2024

Wondermark Comic Strip for August 08, 2024

Lead, follow, or get out of the gene pool.

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Quotation of the Day

11th August 2024

ZMan, from his subscription service on SubscribeStar:

It is always tempting to think that whatever you are experiencing is new, but almost everything in this world has happened in every conceivable way. As the old saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun, just new ways of doing it. There are, however, novelties of this age that arise from the fact we are the first virtual civilization. The internet, this alternative reality that for many people has supplanted reality, is a new thing and therefore it brings new experiences.
One of those is the virtual campaign run by the regime for Kamala Harris. For the last three weeks we have been subjected to the greatest gaslighting campaign since the Soviets discovered cinema or the Nazis took power in Germany. All of the regime elements have been enlisted to promote the inevitability of Kamala Harris and Elmer Fudd. Meanwhile, the only mention of her opponent are imaginary tales about him raging to his subordinates down in his bunker.
Proof that the universe has a sense of humor is the fact that the self-proclaimed right-wing influencers are the ones most caught up in this media operation. It makes sense though, as these are people who live online, always looking for the latest thing so they can rush to the head of the line and proclaim themselves the leaders of it. They see this tidal wave of pro-Harris media and they get swept up in it while trying to front run it.
What we are experiencing is a test of sorts. Can a regime with near total control of the media organs brainwash enough people to elect an imaginary person? That is what is happening. The real Kamala Harris is fading into the background, while a new, virtual Kamala Harris fills every nook and cranny of the information space. Can this virtual candidate jump from cyberspace into reality? Alternatively, is this the bridge too far and what triggers a change in how people view the media?

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A Culture-Enriching Day at the Movies

11th August 2024

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A Somali culture-enricher didn’t just migrate to Germany, he was flown there, courtesy of the Federal Republic’s “Resettlement of Asylum Seekers” program. After his arrival, while subsisting on state benefits, he committed a series of crimes, culminating in the grisly murder of his roommate in a homeless shelter.

Judged to be a loony, he was sentenced to indefinite confinement in a loony bin. From there the story gets even more entertaining: he was allowed out on a supervised excursion so that he could go to the movies. That’s when — whoops! — he escaped.

By the way: the incident has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

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How Many Laws Did You Break Today?

11th August 2024

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When the Washington Free Beacon asked me to review Over Ruled, I was honored, intrigued, and amused. Honored because this was Justice Neil Gorsuch’s latest work that’s not printed in U.S. Reports, the official publisher of Supreme Court opinions. Intrigued because he, along with his sometime coauthor and former clerk Janie Nitze (an accomplished lawyer in her own right) were arguing that our rule of law was suffering because we had not just too many laws—that ground has been well-trod, not least by my former colleague Walter Olson, who founded and for over 20 years ran the first-ever legal blog, Overlawyered—but too much law.

Wally Olson was a friend of mine at Yale, and I follow his Overlawyered blog with interest.

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MSNBC Frets Gay Illegal Immigrants Not Entering U.S. Quickly Enough

11th August 2024

Newsbusters.

On Friday morning, MSNBC’s Jose Diaz Balart devoted a segment to complaining about both the Joe Biden and Donald Trump administrations slowing down the entry of illegal immigrants as the liberal host fretted that limiting immigrant entry makes it take longer for LGBT asylum seekers to enter the country.

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Is A Much Deadlier Strain Of Monkeypox Going To Be The Next Great Global Health Scare?

11th August 2024

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Many of us have been watching the spread of a deadly new strain of Monkeypox for quite some time, and now it appears that this crisis is about to reach a boiling point. It is being reported that the World Health Organization is going to hold an “emergency meeting” to determine whether or not to declare a “public health emergency of international concern” due to a rapidly growing outbreak of Monkeypox in central Africa. For those that are not familiar, a “public health emergency of international concern” is the highest level of alert that the WHO issues. For example, in January 2020 a “public health emergency of international concern” was declared when COVID started to spread like wildfire inside China.

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Newsom’s Office Paying Famous Photographer $200K a Year

11th August 2024

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office hired a famous photographer on a $200,000 yearly salary six months ago, Politico reported Saturday.

UPDATE: Newsom Hires $200k/Year Celebrity Photographer For Glamor Shots

 

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Ferguson Cop Critically Injured at 10th Anniv. Protest

11th August 2024

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A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was critically injured outside the city’s police station during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a pivotal moment in the national Black Lives Matter movement, police said Saturday.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

10th August 2024

GOP nominee to run North Carolina schools advocated pro-Trump military coup in January 6 video (CNN)

Marine Major CONFRONTS CNN’s Brianna Keilar for Disparaging Vance’s Military Service

Inside the Worst Three Weeks of Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign (New York Times)

Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos (ProPublica)  Dunh-dunh- DUNHHHHH….

The U.S. Press is Broken (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)  They’re not anti-Trump enough.

ABC’s Parks Hails ‘Joyful’ Harris Contrasting With ‘Mean And Nasty’ Trump

A sinking ship? Donald Trump campaign mocked for playing ‘Titanic’ song at rally (USA Today)

Will Late Night Apologize for Sharing Cassidy Hutchinson’s Trump Hoax?  Hint: No.

CBS Hypes Trump as a Border Extremist, Worries Harris May Not Be Left Enough

Trump is putting mass deportations at the heart of his campaign. Some Republicans are worried (Stephen Groves/Sentinel Colorado)  Deport them too.

 

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