Friday roundup
As His Final Move in Office, Jeff Sessions Limits Use of Court Settlements to Reform Rotten Police Departments
I Think I Have Lost the Plot -- When Did AG Jeff Sessions Become a Liberal Icon?
What Causes a Normal Election to Spiral into Tribal Warfare?
Senate Judiciary Committee Report: 45 Interviews, Zero Evidence To Corroborate Claims Against Kavanaugh
China’s president vows to lower tariffs, increase imports amid tensions with US
Harvard's Racist Diversity
Why Are so Few Americans Able to Get Ahead?
Keith Ellison, Farrakhan groupie and go-to Congressman for anti-Israel activists, elected Minnesota AG
Note to Resistance media: The First Amendment wasn’t written to protect a reporter’s right to grandstand in the White House
Devastating wildfire blazes through California town: 'The community of Paradise is destroyed'
Florida Official Overseeing Vote Count Destroyed Ballots, Accused of Not Removing Dead Voters from Rolls
McSally vs. Sinema ballot update: About 9,600 votes separate the candidates, with Sinema in the lead
ABC, NBC Ignore Antifa Mob Assaulting Home of Fox News Host Tucker Carlson
Saudi prince MBS tells US evangelicals the world should focus on Iran, not him
Monday extra-big roundup
Headlines that don't merit their own entry
Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016
How about that? They paid more than their fair share.Gore: Jet Stream 'Getting Loopier and Wavier,' So 'We Have a Global Emergency'
Al Gore is capitalizing on the news and fear. The jet stream hasn't changed.Trump snubs Feinstein, Harris to nominate conservative judges to liberal 9th Circuit
Mary Robinson on climate change: ‘Feeling “This is too big for me” is no use to anybody’
Italian Interior Minister prepares legislature for self-defence: “No trial for those who defend their property”
‘Bitcoin and Guns, That’s the Only Way to Save This Country’
From the UkraineLibertarian and Police Accountability Pages Deleted in Facebook Purge
Golly gee whilikers, could Facebook have an agenda?Facebook has lost 30% of its value since July
500,000 Afghan migrants are ready to enter Europe via unprotected Turkish-Greek border area
Technically, isn't that an invasion?Bear spray, bloody brawls at Patriot Prayer 'law and order' march in Portland
Dozens of Witches Gather to Place Public Hex on Brett Kavanaugh
They have decided that he is guilty and they are going to be very public about itBlack Man Cuffed on His Own Property While Moving Into New Home
Venezuela Has Lost 13% of its Population in a Mass Exodus from Socialism
Fight Fizzles Before Police Arrive; Cops Start Tasing and Arresting People Anyway
Violence, Public Anger Erupts In China As Home Prices Slide
Lawsuit: KSP trooper attacks man after Facebook post
Strange doings in KentuckyFusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson in 'real legal jeopardy', GOP investigator says
Toronto's Sick Kids hospital preparing policy for euthanasia for youth over 18 that could one day apply to minors
Human 2.0 Is Almost Here: The Transhumanism Agenda Just Went Mainstream
The view from Saudi Arabia as world holds its breath
“With Saudi Arabia one of Britain's closest allies, diplomats are treating the alleged death of Jamal Khashoggi very carefully.”Thousands line up for zero-down-payment, subprime mortgages
This won't end wellHow the Heir of the White Nationalist Movement Learned to Let Go of Hatred
Congress Can’t Create an Independent and Unaccountable New Branch of Government
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was designed to be unaccountable.Bonus Saturday roundup
Headlines that don't merit their own entry
WATCH: #HimToo: Neil Patrick Harris Recalls Proposition From Whoopi Goldberg When He Was A Mid-Teen
So why isn't Goldberg being attacked over hitting on a teen?Democrats agree to confirmations of 15 Trump judges
"Principle" bows to politicsSometimes I Just Go Full Potato
“By engaging in this public surge and display of unfettered hate – for there is no other name for it – they are revealing themselves for what they really are: extreme radicals and bullies willing to do anything, including burn down the house while you are in it, to get what they want. They do not believe society’s laws and rules apply to them, because they regularly and intentionally (or stupidly) misinterpret the Law of the Land. They are encouraged to do so, and to traipse as close to the edge of anarchy as possible to get what they want, with no thought to the consequences.”I Won’t Support An Elizabeth Warren Presidency While She Appropriates My Identity
So the author would support a liar as long as she stops lying about what's important to the authorWe’re Not on the Brink of Civil War. Here’s Why.
How Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Finally United The Right Under Trump
Sad to say, totally accurate.Six Months Later, People Are Finally Realizing That FOSTA Actually Is Putting Lives At Risk
Top Ten Alternative Media Sites BANNED on Facebook and Twitter
First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were
What Sears’ Bankruptcy Says About Amazon’s Future
Posers, the lot of them
We “refuse to be silent any longer”: magic as self-care after Kavanaugh
They don't want justice. The want attention. They don't know the least little thing about magick. But they know how to put on a show.
Exactly what is it that either Trump or Kavanaugh have done to threaten them?
It all boils down to putting conservative judges on the bench. Eighty-four so far.
The implications are terrifying. It means that most progressives know that they only way they can have a progressive society is by controlling the judiciary. Not by getting people elected, but by having a moral authority with the final say.
I don't like conservatives either. But the actions of the progressives are driving me away.
And progressives still can't point to one thing that has been done and say, "Look, here is the threat!"
It's about who is on the bench. Not about what was said. Not about what was done. But about who sits in judgement.
That is tyranny.
Tuesday roundup
Headlines that don't merit their own entry
Do Half of All Marriages Really End in Divorce?
“This outdated statistic has many young people hesitant to tie the knot.”NATO to Deploy 45,000 Troops Near Russian Border—Calling it a “Defensive” Move
China confirms detention of former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei
U.S. not invited to Canada’s upcoming trade meeting — only ‘like minded’ nations allowed
How the mushroom dream of a ‘long-haired hippie’ could help save the world’s bees
ACLU's Opposition to Kavanaugh Sounds Its Death Knell
BOMBSHELL: audit of global warming data finds it riddled with errors
Politico: 'After Failing to Stop Kavanaugh, Dems Wonder If It's Time to Be More Ruthless'
"Next time they should just murder the nominee."Former Google boss launches scathing Silicon Valley attack urging tech giants to end the delusion that it's making the world a better place
Trump Isn’t a Self-Made Man. His Wealth Is the Product of Years of Government Subsidies.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'Eliminate' Electoral College, It 'Undermines' Democracy
There is one thing good I can't deny about the Electoral College, it kept Al Gore and Hillary Clinton the Presidency.IPCC Report Reaches Dire Conclusions Based on Models that Overstate Rate of Warming
The Democrats' Complaints About the Senate Being Undemocratic Are Pure Whining and Excuse-Making: Here's Why
Witch hunt
Trauma and Truth
““That idea—that the presumption of innocence, fundamental to common law, should be suspended for accusations of sexual assault—has been the cornerstone of the campus-rape bureaucracy; during the Kavanaugh hysteria, that conceit jumped out of the ivory tower into the world at large. It will be no easy task to put it back. In preparation for the next Salem witch trial-like ordeal, therefore, it is worth empirically rebutting the #BelieveSurvivors mandate, as well as its corollary: the claim that if most self-professed rape survivors in our patriarchal culture don’t report their assaults, that’s because the “social and emotional” costs are too high, as California congressman Ted Lieu explained on MSNBC last Sunday.””
— Heather Mac Donald
Monday roundup
Wannabe
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