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It says a lot about the state of the country when the President of the United States can make a laudatory, if oblique, reference to having fascist goon squads commit violence on his behalf, and it’s not the biggest headline of the day. Nevertheless, that’s evidently where we are after Donald Trump’s latest, sincerely horrifying, interview with Breitbart News. Responding to a question from Breitbart Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle about how the American left plays, in Trump’s words, “cuter and tougher,” the president offered the following (emphasis mine): Yes, that is the president seemingly touting the “very bad” things...

Pastini was the brash ex-Chicago cop who befriended a brothel mogul and spun yarns of a bare-knuckled youth in the Windy City that read like a cross between "Goodfellas" and "The Outsiders." They were one and the same person. He used two names and two Social Security numbers. He kept different driver's licenses and bank accounts under the two names, an ex-wife alleged. The ex-wife - one of four - said in court filings that he kept multiple identities to hide money, and she hinted that he had "trouble with the law." But he might have lived out his days...

We’ve been hearing lately that civil war is coming to America. It’s not coming. It’s here. It’s not a war of extreme violence like the American Civil War, but a full-fledged ideological war where the stakes of winning or losing are just as high. In the heat of battle, accidental friendly fire is part and parcel of war. But when friendly fire is deliberate – with weapons aimed at the commander’s head – it would be no shock if howitzers suddenly shifted to the “friendly” shooter. Is Ann Coulter one those “friendly shooters” in the ideological war? I hope not....

Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli brought the horse to water, but it just would not drink. The embattled couple is currently facing up to five years in prison for falsely presenting their daughters as crew recruits at the University of Southern California and then allegedly paying over $500,000 in bribes to guarantee that both teens would be admitted to the school. There were early signs however that the investment made by the two might not yield great returns, especially when their younger daughter Olivia decided to skip the first week of her freshman year and fly off to...

Lori Loughlin's YouTube star daughter is at the center of a second 'cheating' episode over allegations that a TV game show she took part in was rigged to let her win, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Lifestyle vlogger Olivia Jade Giannulli, 19, took on fellow influencer Marissa Rachel and singer Rydel Lynch in a 2016 episode of Tap That Awesome App for a now defunct Verizon mobile phone channel. But when Rachel was declared the winner in front of a live audience she says studio execs mysteriously stepped in and ordered producers to re-shoot the final few questions. When the trivia...

We all know that the best male athletes are faster and stronger than the best female athletes. This is Biology 101, not advanced Rocket Science. Still, it was striking for me to see the disparity between the fastest mile run by a man (3:43.3, by Hicham El El Guerrouj) and the fastest mile run by a woman (4:12.56 by Svetlana Masterkova). That’s quite a difference! Already in 1965, Jim Ryun set a world record for high school students by running a mile in 3.55.3, a record that is 17 seconds faster than the top female athlete in the world has...

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate joined the House in passing a resolution disapproving President Trump’s Emergency Declaration to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The resolution—H.J. Res. 46—faces certain veto from the president, which will not be overridden; the House fell 45 votes short and the Senate fell eight votes short of a veto-proof majority. Although many, including my colleague Elaine Kamarck, see this as a striking rebuke for President Trump from several of his own partisans in Congress, there are multiple silver linings for the president. First, Mr. Trump won in his battle with Congress over his emergency declaration....

"I want to thank Minister Farrakhan for offering up a number of precepts that we ought to adhere to,” Rep. James Clyburn said, at an event featuring the anti-Semitic hate group leader. Eight years later, to the month, Clyburn, now the House Majority Whip, defended Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitism. “There are people who tell me, ‘Well, my parents are Holocaust survivors.’ ‘My parents did this.’ It’s more personal with her," he argued, dismissing the concerns of Jewish legislators. Rep. Clyburn is one of the most powerful figures in the House. He’s also one of Farrakhan’s allies in the House who had...

<p>Add self-flagellation to the list of ways to get a dangerous viral blood infection.</p> <p>Researchers said Wednesday they were initially puzzled how 10 British Muslim men had become infected with a little-known virus because the men hadn’t taken risks usually associated with the disease.</p>

BOSTON—He was a test-taking whiz who could get any score on demand, federal prosecutors say, and the secret weapon in the college-admissions cheating scandal. Mark Riddell, a 36-year-old Harvard University graduate, used his uncanny ability to boost scores fraudulently on college-entrance exams for teens of wealthy families participating in the scheme, according to federal filings. “He did not have inside information about the correct answers,” the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Andrew Lelling, said after announcing Tuesday’s federal charges. “He was just smart enough to get a near-perfect score.” Prosecutors say Mr. Riddell, who lives outside Tampa, Fla.,...

FULL TITLE: 'I saw people drop dead in front of me': Christchurch shooting witnesses describe the moment a gunman opened fire in a Christchurch mosque - as tradesman recalls cradling an injured five-year-old as her father lay in the street dying A tradesman who witnessed people 'running for their lives' outside Masjid Al Noor Mosque has told how he rushed to nurse a wounded young girl on a footpath after she was shot alongside her dying father. The man, who was not identified, was driving past the mosque with his colleagues when he heard 'rapid fire' and saw people taking...

The Count is an ardent Beatles fan and was inspired to write a tribute to John and Yoko. You will hear rarely heard humorous dialogue between John and the news reporters at the time of his wedding. This is all layered in a sonic background that gives us a gestalt or zeitgeist of their times, the late 1960s. If you like the music please go to his channel and subscribe.

Three converts from Islam to Christianity who live in the Netherlands recently spoke about their experiences, and it’s clear that they’re not exactly finding diversity, in the form of mass Muslim migration into Europe, to be their strength. An ex-Muslim from Kurdistan named Faraidoun Fouad recounted: “I converted in 1999. In 2002 God called me to reach out to my own people. Directly after my conversion to Christianity I received the first threats. People who I thought were my friends, became my enemies.” Nor were his former friends all jihadis: “Even Muslims who are not very conservative told my wife...

Pope Embracing Envirowhackoism For Deconstruction Of The Faith The blog Non Veni Pacem put up some commentary regarding the murder of Natacha Jaitt in Argentina that occurred two weeks before she was to testify against Gustavo Vera, long-time friend of Cardinal Bergoglio, now Pope Francis.  Security cameras detected suspicious activity in the area just after Jaitt died.  The blogger pointed out that Vera and Jeffrey Sachs were speakers at a Vatican conference held March 4-5.  The conference focused on Laudato Si and Sachs shilled for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.  Journalists were not invited to this pow-wow.  Well, golly-jee! ...

Rarely does a U.S. president deserve credit for an economic expansion. The U.S. economy typically heals itself despite the best efforts of the government to damage it. One example is the Reagan recovery of the 1980s, impelled by the supply-side tax cuts championed by our greatest postwar president. Another is the Trump recovery of 2018. More than 100% of all jobs created in 2018 came from small businesses, while larger exchange-listed businesses shed jobs. The surge in small business confidence after Trump's election and his late-2017 tax cuts unleashed the animal spirits of small entrepreneurs and produced 3% economic...

Donald Trump tweeted a link to Breitbart, ​a far-right website that peddles xenophobia and extremist ideologies, as a terrorist conducted a brutal massacre in New Zealand after releasing a manifesto that celebrated the US president as “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.” The tragedy, in which two mosques were seemingly the target of a terrorist attack spearheaded by an Australian 28-year-old white male, occurred on Friday in Christchurch, New Zealand — the same day Breitbart featured an interview with Mr Trump on its homepage. The president responded to the mass shootings the following morning on Twitter in...

Thoughts on the MSM's flood of tears over the Dissenter app.

Criminal organizations in Mexico have mounted a lucrative new smuggling operation that uses express buses to deliver Guatemalan migrant families to the U.S. border in a matter of days, making the journey faster, easier and safer, according to U.S. law enforcement reports and U.S. and Guatemalan officials. The smugglers entice families with promises their journey will be free of the perils usually associated with travel to the U.S. border, along with assurances that by turning themselves in to U.S. authorities they will be released into the country within days. Paying up to $7,000 per adult with child, families are transported...

Full header: "Hirono on Breitbart Story: Trump Is ‘Encouraging’ Supporters to Assault People, Behave in a Dangerous Way" Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) reacted to an exclusive Breitbart News Network interview with President Donald Trump. Hirono said, “I think it’s more than an implicit threat. I think it sounds very much to me like he’s encouraging them to engage in something that’s probably illegal such as assaulting people, you know behave in a dangerous way. That sounds like a threat to me. I think it’s appalling.”

That witticism is attributed to the Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky, and the same applies to industrial policy, that is, government investment in industry. As a free marketeer I abhor industrial policy, except as a war measure. This is war, of sorts. I don't think the United States and China will start shooting at each other at any time in the foreseeable future, but that isn't the way this war will be fought. China is striving to dominate game-changing technologies starting with 5G broadband, but also including quantum computing, quantum communications, artificial intelligence, and others. If it succeeds, the United States...