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[quote]Dabo strongly hints at leaving Clemson for the NFL if college football players get paid[/quote] That’s not really what he’s arguing. He’s saying “what’s the point of college sports if they’re just another professional league.”...

The left has spent the last century dismantling the social structure that held us together, and most recently, has decided to push mental illness as a health lifestyle choice. So this doesn’t seem unpredictable. ...

[quote]Diversity isn't as strong as it seems[/quote] Diversity is negatively correlated with trust. The more diverse a community, the more likely residents are to bunker down, and stop talking to each other. The communities with the best numbers, and the best outcomes, are very homogen...

- Sputnik reports that a 72 hour ceasefire has been agreed to. - The Turks have sent additional forces to Idlib, deploying within 2kms of the Syrians. - They’ve also pulled their Syrian auxiliaries from the Kurdish front, and sent them to Idlib to block further Syrian advances. - Fightin...

The OPCW ordered a study to look at the Douma attack. The authors concluded it was a fraud, and that embarrassing conclusion, and the study, have now leaked out. https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/05/assessment-by-the-engineering-sub-team-of-the-opcw-fact-finding-mission-i...

[quote]The common connection to all of these that caused homelessness was loneliness[/quote] That makes a sad sense to me. With the way people move around now, they’re often very far away from family, and those family bonds are much weaker. ...

[quote]I honestly think Brennan is the puppet master of this ploy[/quote] One of his coworkers from Riyadh describes him as a snarling menace. Unpleasant and ruthless. ...

[quote]Maybe it's time to quit coddling women to the point they have no idea there are consequences to their actions. [/quote] Women are always testing men. That’s their nature. It’s our job to stand up for ourselves. ...

This wanders into a different topic, but the meritocracy that we built in the last forty years has been a disaster. Look at Joe Biden, look at how he’s fed his family at the trough. What was Hunter making in Ukraine? I was watching Chernobyl on HBO the other night and there’s this wonderful s...

It would have started in Washington. And it’s probably because of his foreign policy world view. They can’t imagine friendly relations with Russia, for example, without Russia bent over at our feet, begging. We never moved on from the Cold War and we still see the world through that len...

[quote]You could touch someone on the shoulder, or say something completely innocently and mean nothing deviant, and all it takes is one time for the female to take it the complete opposite of its intention[/quote] It’s the easiest way in the world to get fired. And it’s not what happened, ...

What a soulless little creature. He will do anything to win. ...

I would never have a meeting with a female subordinate without a witness present. And if I was on a work trip, I would reduce my exposure to as close to zero as possible. There are no benefits. ...

[quote]we have heard clearly and unequivocally from Maine tribes that they are a source of pain and anguish[/quote] I don't believe it....

[quote]Not seeing this anywhere.[/quote] There might be two journalists in this country that read Italian unfortunately. And the papers no longer have real foreign correspondents, people who live and report from the region. So no ones reading [i]la Republicca[/i]. And at this point, repor...

I move a lot and I’ve always rented. Homeowners have a much greater stake in their communities. They’ll make better long term decisions for those communities. ...

Culture has turned to fetishize and celebrate weakness. Victim hood. ...

Camille Paglia has a great essay about how conflict, and pain, make us. These people will be useless as adults. ...

Tucker appears profoundly disillusioned with the ruling class in Washington. Or whatever you want to call them....

The social implications of this are [i]awful[/i]. Because they’ll learn to do this with everything. And it will destroy community trust. Something like this exists in France, jealous neighbors will report you to the police for suspected tax fraud. It happens so often they have an expressio...