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Twitter Suspends James Woods. Woods Stands His Ground. | Daily Wire

Twitter Suspends James Woods. Woods Stands His Ground. | Daily Wire:

The official said that they would do the same for the Republican National Committee (RNC), but did not know if the Republicans had ever flagged content for Twitter to review, or if the platform had ever taken the same actions for Republicans in the past. The Daily Wire spoke to multiple officials throughout the Republican Party about whether the party had ever flagged content for a social media platform to review — none of the officials were able to find any specific instances.
Sarah Miller, Wood's girlfriend, wrote in a tweet that Woods was suspended for the following tweet:

Economics Gets It Wrong Because Research Is Hard to Replicate - Bloomberg

Economics Gets It Wrong Because Research Is Hard to Replicate - Bloomberg
"By now, most people have heard of the replication crisis in psychology. 
When researchers try to recreate the experiments that led to published findings, only slightly more than half of the results tend to turn out the same as before. 
Biology and medicine are probably riddled with similar issues.
But what about economics? 
Experimental econ is akin to psychology, and has similar issues. 
But most of the economics research you read about doesn’t involve experiments — it’s empirical, meaning it relies on gathering data from the real world and analyzing it statistically. 
Statistical calculations suggest that there are probably a lot of unreliable empirical results getting published and publicized. 
Those results in turn drive policy.
...This strongly suggests that there is a lot of mystery meat that goes into economists’ analysis. 
...That doesn’t mean that single results aren’t worth reporting or taking into account, but a single finding shouldn’t be enough to generate certainty about how the world works..."
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Why The Left Demonizes The Right Instead Of Presenting Better Ideas

Why The Left Demonizes The Right Instead Of Presenting Better Ideas
When those paid to be well-informed are uninformed, small wonder mischaracterizations of conservative ideas pervade public discourse.

By David Weinberger

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”—Mark Twain

The left routinely distorts conservative ideas, but it is not always clear whether their misrepresentations are deliberate or simply due to unfamiliarity with conservative thought.

Consider, for example, the left’s characterization of supply-side economics as “trickle-down economics” or “tax cuts for the rich.” Despite having been shown to utterly defy the facts, politicians and media continue arming themselves against these caricatures with invincible ignorance.

Never has a major marginal income tax rate reduction over the last 100 years slashed tax burdens for merely “the rich.” Every major tax cut—whether during the 1920s, the 1960s, the 1980s, the 2000s, or most recently under President Trump—has benefited all income groups. Furthermore, these cuts have made the tax code more progressive. Following the tax cuts of the ‘20s, for instance, historian John Steele Gordon writes:

The distribution of the tax burden became radically more progressive, not less. In 1921 those earning less than $10,000 had paid $155 million in taxes, 21 percent of person income tax revenues. In 1926 they paid only $33 million, or 5 percent. Mellon himself boasted in 1928 that a bachelor with a $4,000 income in 1920—enough to make him comfortably middle class—would have paid $120 in tax that year, but in 1928 would owe only $5.63.

NBC News has concluded that the same pattern followed the cuts of the 1960s, ‘80s, and 2000s..."
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Christine Blasey Ford Polygraph Results Reveal Inconsistencies in Testimony | National Review

Christine Blasey Ford Polygraph Results Reveal Inconsistencies in Testimony | National Review:

Almost immediately after the results’ release, inconsistencies in Ford’s testimony were pointed out. The written statement used as the basis for the polygraph test said there were “four people” present at the party where the alleged assault occurred but, at some point, “four people” was crossed out and replaced with “four boys and a couple of girls.”
Both of these versions of events are inconsistent with the letter Ford sent in July to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, in which she described the party attendees as consisting of “me and four others.”

#1 This day 1964-----Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman

Gigantic A380 Barely Nails Dangerous Crosswind Landing - World War Wings

Gigantic A380 Barely Nails Dangerous Crosswind Landing - World War Wings
"A flight can be perfect in every way, but every so often there is that occasion where crosswinds pick up and the landing becomes dangerous. 
The pilot of an A380 faced this challenge along with the uneven terrain of the Dusseldorf airport. Despite the odds against him, the pilot rose to the challenge knowing that the lives of his passengers were on the line.
“I have filmed a few thousand crosswind landings at several airports in Europe within the past years, but this Airbus A380 crosswind landing was extremely hard and extraordinary.”– Cargospotter

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Even for Californians, Federal Taxes Are Going Down | The Heritage Foundation

Even for Californians, Federal Taxes Are Going Down | The Heritage Foundation:

Considering the rhetoric swirling around the tax cuts, it’s ironic that many of the areas getting the biggest tax relief — both as a percentage of income taxes paid and sheer volume of dollars — are represented by Democrats. The Republicans delivered the tax cuts, but Democrats are benefiting just as much, if not more.
The SALT cap moves the federal tax code toward the bipartisan goal of fairness and equity between taxpayers of similar incomes. Yes, a small fraction of Californians may see their taxes go up. But this is not because the federal tax system is somehow tilted against Democrats or California. It’s because California’s state taxes are too high. Blame Sacramento, not Washington.

The MSM sorta missed this item-----Texas Republicans Flip Long-Held Democratic State Senate Seat

Texas Republicans Flip Long-Held Democratic State Senate Seat
GOP pushes back on narrative of an approaching 'blue wave' in the Lone Star state
Texas Republicans refuted talk of a coming "blue wave" on Tuesday by flipping a state senate seat that had long been held by the Democratic Party.
Republican Peter Flores, a retired game warden, pulled an upset win in a special election for Texas’s 19th Senate District over the Democratic nominee, former congressman Pete Gallego.
The district...until recently one of the most Democratic in Texas.
...The seat became vacant earlier this year after the long-serving Democratic state senator, Carlos Uresti, resigned upon being convicted of 11 federal felonies relating to his alleged involvement in a Ponzi scheme.
...Apart from becoming the first GOP member to hold the seat in 139 years, Flores will further have the distinction of being the Texas Senate's first Hispanic Republican..."
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History for September 27

History for September 27 - On-This-Day.com
Thomas Nast 1840 - Political cartoonist that created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey, William Conrad 1920, Wilford Brimley 1934 - Actor


Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) 1947, Shaun Cassidy 1958, Gwyneth Paltrow 1972 - Actress


1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America. It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.


2004 - North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon announced that North Korea had turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons. He also said that the weapons were to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent nuclear war in northeast Asia. The U.S. State Department noted that the U.S. has repeatedly said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea.

The assault on Kavanaugh is proving Trump voters right

The assault on Kavanaugh is proving Trump voters right:

Senate Democrats may delicately talk about the importance of norms and civility on Sunday shows, but watch how they act. They sat on an accusation throughout an extensive process of vetting and questioning a nominee, then declared it dispositive evidence against his confirmation when it leaked at the 11th hour. They delayed a hearing with Christine Blasey Ford long enough to allow time for the second accuser to be persuaded to come forward.
All of this plays into Trump’s support. Surely, a reason that the president appealed to many Republicans in the first place,

The Smear Campaign Against Brett Kavanaugh Is Truly Evil

The Smear Campaign Against Brett Kavanaugh Is Truly Evil:

Kavanaugh isn’t facing criminal prosecution in part because his accusers have come nowhere near the standard required for criminal prosecution. And senators predisposed to vote against him are not the definition of an impartial jury. That does not mean disputed allegations should form the basis of destroying a man’s life, career, and reputation. It also does not mean that a precedent should be established of allowing the left to weaponize use of disputed allegations to thwart the seating of justices.

The way we were-----The Peppermint Rainbow - Will You Be Staying After Sunday - [STEREO]

Boob-tube-----Farrah Fawcett on The Dating Game 1969

What Happens When Democrats Run Your State?

"Here's What Happens When Democrats Run Your State Government.
Examining How the Left ruined California"

Corporate America Is Obsessed With Debate on Elite Campuses - Bloomberg

Corporate America Is Obsessed With Debate on Elite Campuses - Bloomberg

• The day Donald Trump was elected, the five-college Claremont campus east of Los Angeles went into mourning. 
• Maria Klawe, the president of Harvey Mudd College, sent out an email expressing sympathy for anyone feeling “vulnerable and unsafe.” 
• David Oxtoby, president of Pomona College, said, “On a day like this, the personal and the political cannot be separated.” 
• Pitzer College President Melvin Oliver urged students to channel energy into activism.

...A new study shows that 39 percent of the top U.S. liberal arts campuses haven’t a single Republican faculty member; at many others, the number is insignificant.
Its author, Mitchell Langbert of Brooklyn College, wrote: “Thus, 78.2 percent of the academic departments in my sample have either zero Republicans, or so few as to make no difference.”
...One thing all sides agree on is that what happens on elite campuses influences what happens in corporate America—even if the majority of students view the debate as background noise as they earn credentials and broaden their knowledge.
The battle over how much to protect students from potentially offensive speech is playing out more and more in companies as graduates of elite institutions bring their sensibilities to work..."
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Twitter Refuses Comment On Threatening Message Sent To Sen. Ted Cruz | The Daily Caller

Twitter Refuses Comment On Threatening Message Sent To Sen. Ted Cruz | The Daily Caller:

After a group of Antifa and socialist protesters drove Sen. Cruz out of the high-end restaurant Fiola on Monday night, the account “Smash Racism D.C.” promised future harassment from their members. (RELATED: Antifa Sends Threatening Message To Cruz After Disrupting His Dinner: ‘You Are Not Safe.’)
“You are not safe,” they wrote. “We will find you. We will expose you. We will take from you the peace you have taken from so many others.”

Models with Three Breasts Walk the Runway in GCDS Show - Three-Breasted Models Milan Fashion Week

Models with Three Breasts Walk the Runway in GCDS Show - Three-Breasted Models Milan Fashion Week

The Democrats have viciously overplayed their hand

The Democrats have viciously overplayed their hand:

Can there be any Americans following this story who are not enraged and offended by the obvious orchestrated smear of a good and decent man? According to some polls, yes. Who are the people who believe these accusers? How could any American fall for such a scam? No mystery there. American educational standards have fallen so drastically that young people have no civic knowledge. They know nothing about American history or the Constitution.
This has been by design. The left has controlled how history is taught for at least three decades. Young people don't even know that one must be presumed innocent until proven guilty. These Ford-supporting senators don't seem to remember this, either. That in itself is stunning. The Democrats have assembled a mob, and "The mob is the mother of tyrants" (Diogenes).
As Blasey Ford's story disintegrates, the Dems conveniently found the second woman willing to throw herself on the pyre of indecency in order to destroy a fine man and his family.

Lunch video-----Getting Clarence Thomas'd!

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Median income in the US hits all-time high - Business Insider

Median income in the US hits all-time high - Business Insider:

It's now the highest income year on record, beating the previous high of $58,655 in 1999 (all numbers are adjusted for inflation).
The US poverty rate simultaneously declined about 1% to 12.7%, returning to nearly the same level as in 2007, prior to the recession. In total, 2.5 million fewer people were in poverty in 2016 than in 2015.
Plus, almost every demographic group experienced a rise in incomes last year, according to the Census, thanks to more Americans securing full-time and better-paying jobs — a total year-over-year rise of about 2.2 million workers.

U.S. Urged to Rapidly Prepare for Electromagnetic Pulse Attack

U.S. Urged to Rapidly Prepare for Electromagnetic Pulse Attack
"The United States is vulnerable to a devastating electromagnetic pulse event caused by a high-altitude nuclear blast or solar superstorm, according to a recently published book.

..."Today the United States and the world faces another existential threat—from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) catastrophe...topple the technological pillars of modern electronic civilization," said Pry, who served on a congressional EMP commission in the early 2000s.
The book contains fresh assessments of the EMP threat produced by a more recent congressional commission last year that concluded the United States would suffer millions of deaths from a major EMP incident.
..."An extended blackout today could result in the death of a large fraction of the American people through the effects of societal collapse, disease, and starvation," the commission stated in its July 2017 report. 
"While national planning and preparation for such events could help mitigate the damage, few such actions are currently underway or even being contemplated."

William R. Graham, former head of the EMP commission, stated in a preface to the book that a nationwide electrical blackout of one year "could kill millions, perhaps prove fatal to most Americans, by starvation, disease, and societal collapse."

"EMP is a civilization killer," Graham said.
The book warns that China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are preparing to use EMP attacks combined with traditional military strikes and new cyber attacks in future conflicts..."

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The European Union Wants to Control the Internet—and You - Reason.com

The European Union Wants to Control the Internet—and You - Reason.com
"Will the future of your online experience be controlled by some random overseas bureaucrats that you would never and could never elect? 
If the European Union has its way, it may very well be the case. 
If not, they may fragment the international nature of the internet as we know it.

The E.U. is currently engaged in an all-out, all-fronts policy war against foreign technology companies..."
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#! This day 1965-----Hang On Sloopy

Resisting a Lynch MobThe American Spectator

Resisting a Lynch MobThe American Spectator
"Atticus Finch resisted, but the Democrat lynch mob won.

When it was published in 1960, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize for literature and became an instant classic. 
In 1962, it was made into a movie starring Gregory Peck, a role for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.

The story is based on Lee’s childhood in rural Alabama during the 1930s. 

The narrator is six-year-old Jean Louise Finch. The protagonist is her father, Atticus, who is a small-town lawyer appointed by the court to represent Tom Robinson, a black man who has been charged with raping Mayella Ewell, a young white woman. Despite the community’s near universal condemnation, Atticus defends Tom in and out of court.

One night, Atticus sits vigil outside the county jail where Tom is being held. A lynch mob arrives, and, while Atticus blocks their way, little Jean Louise appears and sweetly greets some of the lynchers by name. Shamed by her innocence, they back down.

At the trial, Mayella testifies unconvincingly that Tom raped her. When Atticus gently cross-examines her, she breaks into tears and angrily repeats her claim.

Under questioning by Atticus, Tom convincingly protests his innocence. After Atticus’ closing argument, it is clear to the reader that Mayella is lying and Tom is innocent.

But facts and logic do not carry the day. The jury quickly convicts Tom. While Atticus is visiting Tom’s wife to discuss the appeal, word comes that Tom has been shot and killed while trying to escape.

Viewing this classic tale from the perspective of 2018 and the #MeToo movement, it is clear that Harper Lee, a female, was a self-hating misogynist who promoted for profit the idea that a woman could actually lie about sexual assault and that such a lie couldunfairly destroy an unjustly accused man’s life. 

Atticus Finch, the so-called hero of the story, is glorified for questioning the victim’s credibility, as if that sort of behavior is supposed to be acceptable and, even worse, praiseworthy. 

How did such a disgustingpiece of trash get published? 

Why haven’t the book and movie been banned for promoting a negative stereotype of women?...

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