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From PZ Myers:

Much credit has to go to the Portland Antifa, who turned up in numbers to mock and dissipate any action by the racists. Eric Ward summarizes the day on Twitter, as does Robert Evans, with lots of photos. It sounds like the Proud Boys rally mostly fizzled, although there was a scattering of arrests and weapons confiscated. I think the best sign that they failed, though, was that they were reduced to arguing that they won because “Go look at President Trump’s Twitter.” He talked about Portland, said he’s watchin’ antifa. That’s all we wanted.. Your victory is getting Donald Trump to blab some nonsense on Twitter? That’s what he does every day while sitting on the toilet.

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From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:

This is the poll that has Donald Trump shaken. It shows. the four leading Democratic candidates would all beat Trump if the election was held right now — Biden by 12 points, Sanders by 9 points, Warren by 7 points, and Harris by 6 points. All of those advantages exceed the poll’s margin of error.

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From The Onion:

“Another foe vanquished, and another step taken toward Messam’s glorious ascent,” said the former mayor and 2020 contender, tacking up his own photo above the former Colorado governor’s. “My plan is continuing apace…”

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• Scotties Toy Box posts a photo array so that we can pick out the terrorist.
   
• The Propaganda Professor tracks how fine people from one of two sides still maintain that my President never said what he said after the Charlottesville killing. Video? What video?
   
• At MadMikesAmerica Joe Hagstrom suggests that Donald Trump is turning out to be the NRA’s worst enemy.
   
• Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post follows the history of one of my President’s very good people as that individual is inspired to turn a retail outlet into a shooting gallery.

Continue reading “Terrorists, Fine People, NRA, Israel, Truck Assault, Trump, Omar, Tlaib”

 

From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:

The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) released a study on Tuesday that shows greater price transparency in health care prices leads to lower costs for the consumer.

In an interview with Steve Scaffidi on 620 WTMJ, study author Will Flanders explained what other states have done to increase health care cost transparency.

“So we do have some states that are kind of leading the way on price transparency,” Flanders said. “What these states have done is they’ve set up an all payers database where you can actually see the average cost of someone with your insurance has had for a particular procedure.”

Using data from the Center for Disease Control, the study found that states that have this level of price transparency report a reduction in the number of people that say they can’t afford their health care.

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From Blue in the Bluegrass:

The hardest-working and most economy-supporting people in this country have the lowest-paid jobs. Those would be the jobs the rest of us literally can’t live unless somebody else does them: the lettuce-pickers and all the other food crop harvesters, the toilet cleaners and the garbage collectors, the diaper-changing, vomit-mopping-up caretakers of our infants and our elderly.

They are the ones who keep this country running. They are the ones whose hard-earned taxes repugs are giving to the real public charges: the oxygen-wasting idle rich.

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From Linda at The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser:

It was the 1970s. Hippies were everywhere. Stores carried posters and signs with slogans like: “Keep On Truckin’,” “Peace,” and “Smile God Loves You.” One week our sweet Sunday school teacher had a warning for us kids. She told us not to believe the signs that said “Smile God Loves You” because they weren’t true. God did not love everybody. I didn’t think much about this warning at the time. I was already learning not to question the things I heard in church. As the years went by and I transitioned from a curious child into a quiet teenager, I grew frustrated with church. Those early lessons about kind and helpful Jesus didn’t mesh with the grown-up sermons about a righteous, angry God. The punishment doled out by God at the Tower of Babel seemed like a prank compared to burning unbelievers in Hell forever. I didn’t understand what we were supposed to do for Jesus. I knew that He had died for us wicked humans, but there was something crucial I was missing. Why did all these people spend every Sunday listening to the preacher talk about it? What was the point? Our preacher spent a lot of time and energy ranting about all these other preachers who had everything wrong. There was a long list of these false preachers. He also had a long list of behaviors that would not help you get into Heaven: praying, tithing, getting baptized, helping the poor, caring for the sick, winning souls, going to church, volunteering in church, building the church, studying the Bible, serving your community, and on and on and on. I got tense just listening to him talk about all the ways you could waste your time trying to be a good person. It was like listening to a song with an overly long introduction. I kept waiting for the tension to break and for him to finally say what we should do to get into Heaven, but he never did.

It occurred to me that church was vastly different from school. In school, you learned about a new subject, studied it, took tests on it, then you moved on to the next level. You repeated this process from first grade to second grade to third grade and so on. By the time you got to middle school, you didn’t keep going over the same topics you learned in grade school; you were expected to have them memorized so they could form the foundation of more advanced subjects. Not so in church. In church you went every Sunday, year after year, to hear the same lecture about how horrible you are and how you deserve to burn in Hell and how Jesus would save you from Hell if only . . . something. What that something was, I couldn’t quite grasp. I wondered if I was dumb. Obviously, every other person in church understood it, so why didn’t I?

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From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara:

To my knowledge, Rand didn’t spend much time specifically on the issue of pollution. But given that her political philosophy is grounded in the principle of individual rights, it logically follows that she would believe that anti-pollution laws have their place in a free, industrial society.

And she did have a few things to say explicitly on pollution and the government’s role:

As far as the issue of actual pollution is concerned, it is primarily a scientific, not a political, problem. In regard to the political principle involved: if a man creates a physical danger or harm to others, which extends beyond the line of his own property, such as unsanitary conditions or even loud noise, and if this is proved, the law can and does hold him responsible.

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From driftglass:

I would like to imagine that a heated, principles debate over the importance of precision and accuracy in journalism took place in the newsroom of my local, dying newspaper when they decided to run with this headline:

Racially charged video from Auburn emerges on social media

Because the video in question is not “racially charged” or “racially tinged” or “controversial” or any of the other soft-language euphemisms that America’s most timorous profession seems to roll out every day in order to protect the delicate sensibilities of their fence-straddling Centrist subscribers and/or to avoid pissing off their racist Republican subscribers.

Because that’s what this video is.

Racist.

Period. This is an observable fact —

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