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30 Days Hath November ONT
Old Rich White People's Party Continues Losing Tradition
Romney After Trump Meeting: "I've Been Impressed by What I've Seen"
Pence, Trump Used Carrots and Possible Stick to Convince Carrier to Leave Close to 1000 Jobs in the US
Adam Carolla, Dennis Prager Teaming Up For Documentary on College "Safe Spaces"
Obama On Why Democrats Failed: See, It's Because FOXNEWS! Is On the TV In "Every Bar and Restaurant"
Islamist Mole Discovered in, Get This, German Intelligence
Dispatches from the Alternate Reality Where Hillary Clinton Won the Election
ESPN's Subscriber Numbers Plummet for Second Straight Month
Mid-Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/30/16
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (11/29/16)
Democrats Will Have Secret Ballot Vote to Either Keep Pelosi as Minority Leader, or Dump Her for Tim Ryan
Disgusting Progressive Monsters Behaving Exactly As You'd Expect After OSU Attack
ISIS: OSU Attacker Was Our Soldier Media: Still No Motive in Knife Attack John Kasich: We May Never Know the Attacker's Motive
Jim Geraghty: OSU Jihadi Proves That the Progressives' Victim Mentality Kills
Even Hillary's Loyalists Think the Recount Is Silly; They Just Feel the Obligation to See It Through to Appease Their Supporters
Trump: Flag Burning Should be Illegal, Maybe Punished by a Year in Jail or Forfeiture of Citizenship
Mid-Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/29/16
Monday Overnight Open Thread (11/28/16) Back To Normal Routine Edition
Of Course: OSU Jihadi Attacker Too "Scared" to Practice Islam Openly
White House: Election Vote Tally "Accurately Reflects the Will of the American People"
Recommitting Oneself to One's GAINZZZZ Thread
Drama: Trump Either "Furious" or "Irritated" About Kellyanne Conway's Disparagement of Mitt Romney
Update on Ohio State "Shooter:" No Mention of Gunshot Wounds Following Attack; Suspect Identified as 20 Year Old Somali Man
Hypocrite Hillary Now Joining In Recount Effort
Active Shooter at Ohio State: Eight Wounded, One CriticallyOfficials Say Situation Is Resolved; Shelter-in-Place Order Cancelled
Mid-Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/28/16
Overnight Open Thread (11-27-2016)
GUNS GUNS GUNS....
Food Thread: "Idle Hands Are The Devil's Workshop"
Afternoon Open Thread
Sunday Morning Book Thread 11-27-2016
EMT 11/27/16 [krakatoa]
Overnight Open Thread (26 Nov 2016)
Ode(s) To A Dead Guy
Saturday Afternoon Chess/Open Thread 11-26-2016
Ace of Spades Pet Thread
Open Thread Below the Pet Thread
Saturday Gardening Thread: Kansas? We're in Kansas? [KT]
Thread below the Gardening Thread: 26Nov16 [KT]
Castro Is Dead.
Saturday Morning Weird News Dump
EMT 011/26/16
Overnight Open Thread (25 Nov 2016)
Here's Another Company That Doesn't Want Our Business
Snow Day Open Thread
Keep Obama In The Spotlight...It's The Only Way To Be Sure
She Knows Her People Well
Zero Content Open Thread
Mid-Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/25/16
Thursday Night Overnight Thread-Thanksgiving Edition- (11/24/16)
Post Thanksgiving Dinner Time Open Thread
All Talk And No Action
A Poetry Slam....AoSHQ Style
FreeBeacon: How To Talk To Your Pansy Marxist Nephew At Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/24/16
Thanksgiving Eve ONT
Transgender Cyclist? This Dude Is Pathetic.
Luna Lee And Her Mighty Gayageum
Transition: Nikki Haley to be Ambassador to US; Molly DeVos to Education
"Environmentalist" Group Urges EPA to Reject "Climate Denier" Head... By Wasting Electricity and Pumping CO2 Into the Atmosphere With Light Show
Democrat Activists Urge Hillary Clinton to Challenge Vote, Claiming Statistical Vote Anomalies
When Hillary Clinton Came to See the Overrated Rappin' Founders Musical Hamilton, She Got a Very Different Reception
Everything You Need to Know About Richard Spencer, The National Policy Institute and the Resugance of the American Neo-Nazi Movement
Mid-Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/23/16
Tuesday Night ONT - Progressive Jackpot Edition
Another Day, Another Media Meltdown [Warden]
Leadership Makes A Difference
Sources: Romney Leads Trump's Short List for Secretary of State
NYC Cab Driver Charged for Trying to Join ISIS, Plotting to Run Down Americans on New Years Eve With a Stolen Garbage Truck
Paul Krugman Got His Degree In Being Wrong All the Time
Loyola University Snowflakes Demand "America"-Themed Party Be Changed to Something Less "Divisive"
"Source:" Trump Won't Pursue Criminal Charges Against Hillary
Mid-Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/22/16
Overnight Open Thread: Adorable Animal Videos Edition
Media Comes A-Courtin' Trump to Discuss Access and Groundrules; Trump Blasts Them as Liars Who Should be "Ashamed"
Police Officer Shot and Killed in San Antonio; Police Chief Thinks It Was a "Targeted "Assassination
Jeff Sessions May "Prosecute" Sanctuary Cities That Don't Obey Federal Law
Mike Pence Shrugs Off "Hamilton" Hectoring
Obama Supporters Plot Weak, Womanly Resistance Against Trump
Mid-Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/21/16
Overnight Open Thread 11/20/16
Happy Happy Joy Joy
Food Thread: Hillary Clinton Will Never Be President
Larry Correia, Liberals, The 2nd Amendment, Lots Of Snark
Sunday Morning Book Thread 11-20-2016: Myths
EMT 11/20/16 [krakatoa]
Overnight Open Thread (19 Nov 2016)
153 Years Ago Today...
Saturday Afternoon Chess/Open Thread 11-19-2016
Ace of Spades Pet Thread [Mis. Hum.]
Saturday Gardening Thread: Thanksgiving 2016 Edition [KT]
Thread below the Gardening Thread: Nov. 19, 2016 [KT]
ScarJo And "Ghost In The Shell" A Match Made In Heaven or In Hell?
Saturday Morning Weird News Dump [Mis. Hum.]
EMT 11/19/16 [krakatoa]
Overnight Open Thread (18 Nov 2016)
Tucker Carlson Embarrassed DNC Stenographer, Politico "Reporter" Jonathan Allen
NYT: Hillary's Loss Represents the Death of Liberal Identity Politics
Can't Think Of A Title Other Than, Hah Hah Hah Hah!
Thanksgivingmanship: Your Guide to Surviving the SJW Imbeciles Who Have Spent a Week Reading Vox Articles About How to Survive You
Some GOP Senators Hint at Nuclear Option if Trump's Supreme Court Picks are Fillibustered
White Hispanic Pyramid Accused of Concealing a Second Pyramid
Kanye West: 1. I Voted for Trump 2. I Feel Persecuted as a Black Man for Supporting Trump. 3. I'll Have the Political Experience to Run for President in 2020
Appointments: CIA: Mike Pompeo National Security Advisor: Mike Flynn AG: Jeff Sessions
Mid-Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/18/16
Thursday Night ONT - One Day Until the Weekend!
The Devil Exists: The Horrifying and Heartbreaking Tale of Rosemary Kennedy [Warden]
Financial Regulation As A Template For Journalistic Transparency
ESPN's Public Editor: Why Yes, ESPN Does Seem To Be Injecting Itself Into Politics A Lot, and Its Political Leanings Have Become a Little Too Obvious
Romney for Secretary of State?
Swedish Union Opens Hotline to Let Women Report Instances of.. Mansplaining
Trump Meeting With... Romney
Keith Olbermann Declares He's Offering Himself as a Leader of the "Resistance" Against Trump
Watch NYT's Digital Front Page Evolve Through Election Night
Mid-Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/17/16 [J.J. Sefton]
Wednesday Night ONT - A Little of This, A Little of That
The #Winning Thread
Can America Survive the Mass Panic of the Adult Babies?
Oregon Official Who Hounded Sweetcakes By Melissa Over Gay Wedding Cake Loses Bid for Higher Office When Public Begins to Suspect He Just Might Be a Total Asshole
So The Media Has Just Decided to Double Down on Going Full Retard
I'm Pretty Sure The White Vote Was the Decisive Vote in the Election
So Embarrassing
Lefties Are Unhappy That Rightwingers Communicate On Social Media; Plan To Squelch It
Mid-Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/16/16 [J.J. Sefton]
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (11/15/16)
Great Podcast With Glenn Loury and John McWhorter
Former Hillary Clinton Campaign Spokeswoman: White Women Didn't Vote For Hillary Due to "Internalized Misogyny"
Whoah: Former New York Times Reporter Spills the Beans; Everything You Suspected Is True
Therapy Dogs Brought In to Buoy The Spirits of Depressed Capitol Hill Staffers
A Flurry of Snowflakes: EPA Staffers Cry, Need Safe Spaces as They Contemplate a Nation Without the Benefit of Their Wisdom
Mike Rogers Off Trump Transition Team
In Wake of Disorienting Political Loss, Left Turns to Its Safe Space Comfort Zone -- Making Up Fake Hate Crime Hoaxes
Mid-Morning Open Thread
The Morning Report 11/15/16 [J.J. Sefton]
Monday Overnight Open Thread (11/14/16)
Obama: I Really Worked Hard to Get Elected. In Between Golf and Bono. Too Bad Hillary Wasn't as Hard a Worker as I Totally Was.
Michael Totten's Open Letter To The New President Has Some Gems
To: All Readers From: Ace Re: Your GAINZZZ, Brah
Larry O'Connor: Why Aren't Any High-Profile Democrats Demanding Their People Stop Rioting and Assaulting People?
Obama Gives First Post-Election, Post-Obama Press Conference
Two Funny Videos, and One That Is Horrifying
"Major" Democratic Donors Exploring Possibility of Investigation Into Voter Fraud, "Hacking" Voting Machines
Pissed-Off Democrat (I Assume): The Democratic Establishment is Finished. What a Joke!
Mollie Hemingway Basically Sets CNN on Fire
Old and Busted: Trump Crashes Stock Market. New Hawtness: Trump Crashes Bond Market. [krakatoa]
Mid-Morning Open Thread [CBD]
The Morning Report 11/14/16 [J.J. Sefton]
Sunday Night Overnight Open Thread (11/13/16)[Mis. Hum.]
GunThread: Kids and Guns Mix Very Well [CBD]
A Blow for the Barrel and a Blow for the Ring: Trump Announces Steve Bannon as Senior Counsilor to the President, Reince Priebus for Chief of Staff
Food Thread: Cookie! Cookie! Cookie! [CBD]
What The Hell, Give Kevin Williamson One More Chance [CBD]
I think it's safe to say, Trump was NOT amused. [krakatoa]
Sunday Morning Book Thread 11-13-2016: There's Got To Be A Morning After [OregonMuse]
EMT 11/13/16 [krakatoa]
Overnight Open Thread (12 Nov 2016)
Saturday Night Provisional ONT [Weirddave]
Saturday Afternoon Chess/Open Thread 11-12-2016 [OregonMuse]
Ace of Spades Pet Thread [Mis. Hum.]
Thread below the Pet Thread: Nov. 12, 2016 [KT]
Saturday Gardening Thread: Thanksgiving is coming [KT]
A Missive From Mr Wolfe Comes To Mind [CBD]
Saturday Morning Weird News [Mis. Hum.]
EMT 11/12/16 [krakatoa]
Overnight Open Thread (11 Nov 2016)
Michael Wolff: Trump Exposed Media as Smug Incompetents
Some Commenters Are Saying I Misread, Or Over-read, AllahPundit's Post
Crisis? NFL Considering Reducing Commercial Time During Games
Evil Geek Owner of GrubHub: If You Agree With Trump, You Have No Place In My Company
Powerful Rant: British Leftie Explains That "Being Offended, Insulting People Doesn't Work Anymore," And If You Keep Calling Anyone Who Disagrees With You Racist, Sexist, and Stupid, That's How You Get Trump
Mid-Morning Open Thread [OregonMuse]
The Morning Report 11/11/16 [J.J. Sefton]
Thursday Night Overnight Open Thread (11/10/16) [Mis. Hum.]
Leftists Ruin Everything, Including Childhood [Warden]
Reason's Robby Soave: I Tried Telling My Confreres on the Left That Social Justice Warrioring Was Going to Produce a Trump-Shaped Backlash, But They Refused to Listen
Hillary Clinton's Top Aides Have Figured Out Who to Blame For Her Epic Loss (Come on, It was Epic; Don't Judge Me For Using That Word)
As Calls for Political Violence Increase, CNN Keeps Putting on Van Jones, Who Stokes Fires of Political Panic
CBS Opinion Writer Will Rahn: Gee, The Press Sure Is Unbearably Smug, Isn't It?
As Anti-Trump Violence Perpetrated By Hillary/Obama/Soros Minions Spreads Across America, Media Blesses It and Encourages It With Their Silence and Even Support
Roll Call: The Real Bubble Is Rural America, For Not Understanding the Many Challenged Faced By Hipsters in Brooklyn
How About Some More Delicious Tears from SJWs?
Mid-Morning Open Thread [CBD]
The Morning Report 11/10/16 [J.J. Sefton]
The Wednesday ONT is Tired [Weirddave]
Pass The Hat!
Early Night For Me
Hot New Meme Among Dejected Progs-- #NotMyPresident
One Anecdote That Helps Explain the "Rage" Our Liberal Masters Don't Understand
This Social Justice Warrior's Tears Are Sweet Like Honied Milk
So, Not To be All Obama On This, But: Tell Me About Your Emotional Journey Last Night
These 23 Celebrities Vowed to Leave the US if Trump One. Time to Go, D-Bags.
Son of Mid-Morning Open Thread [OregonMuse]
Mid-Morning Open Thread [CBD]
The Morning Report 11/9/16 [J.J. Sefton]
Pence Announcing Victory; Trump to Address Crowd Soon
AP CALLS PENNSYLVANIA FOR TRUMP; TRUMP HAS WON THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES Hillary Clinton Has Conceded the Race
AP Calls Senate Race in Pennsylvania for Toomey; Dem Challenger Calls to Concede to Blunt in Missouri
Election Night Overnight Open Thread (11/8/160 [Mis.Hum.]
Still Waiting for the Last Blow
Election ERECTION THREAD: TRUMP WINS WISCONSIN AND IOWA!
Election Thread Five: Fox Calls North Carolina for Trump Damn: Colorado to Hillary
Election Thread Four: Virginia Called For Hillary By FoxCBS Calls Ohio for Trump
Election Thread Three: Florida Still Too Close to Call; Virginia Close
Second Election Thread: Florida Tied Up with 86% of Precincts Reporting
First Election Thread
Shelby Steele: Deference to the Stigmatizing Power of PC is "Desptoism"
Should You Re-Friend the People You have De-Friended Over This Election?
If Hillary Wins, There'll Be Nothing Left "To Fix" by the #NeverTrump Wing in 2020
Guest Post: "Be Not Afraid"
Hillary Appears Wobbly, Unsteady on Her Feet Last Night
Mid-Morning Open Thread [CBD]
The Morning Report 11/8/16 [J.J. Sefton]
Monday Night Overnight Open Thread (11/07/16) Election Eve Edition [Mis. Hum.]
Can Trump Win?
Twitchy: Journalists Had One Last Chance to Grill Hillary Clinton, and They Did Exactly What You Expected Them To Do
The Media Has Ring-Led Social Media Hate Campaigns For Years. Only When That Same Social-Pressure Tactic is Directed At They Themselves Do They Suddenly Complain.
Republican-Primary Debate Moderator John Harwood Asked Hillary Campaign Manager Jon Podesta What Question He Should Ask Jeb In an Interview
Egg McMuffin: We Need a Conservative Movement That Isn't As Deplorably Racist as the One that Currently Exists Is
Hillary Asked Her Maid To Access and Print Out Secret Information
Clinton Foundation Official: Before Chelsea Clinton Criticizes Me for Fundraising, She Should Remember She Used Clinton Foundation Money to Pay for Her Wedding and "10 Years of Her Life"
Impromptu Art Thread [OregonMuse]
The Morning Report 11/7/16 [J.J. Sefton]
Sunday Night Overnight Open Thread (11/06/16 [Mis. Hum.]
Special Correspondent Jay Guevara On The California Ballot Propositions
Food Thread: Cheese Powder - It's Not For Snorting (I Think) [CBD]
Who Are We...And Open Thread [CBD]
Sunday Morning Book Thread 11-06-2016 [OregonMuse]
EMT 11/06/16 [krakatoa]
Overnight Open Thread (5 Nov 2016)
Trump Rushed Off Stage Durning Rally in Reno. Unconfirmed Speculation About an Assasination Attempt [Weirddave]
Installment #26,915 of "Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting For The Pallies To Change" [CBD]
Saturday Afternoon Chess/Open Thread 11-05-2016 [OregonMuse]
Ace of Spades Pet Thread [Mis. Hum.]
Open Thread Below The Pet Thread [OregonMuse]
Saturday Gardening Thread: Pressing forward [KT]
Thread below the Gardening Thread: Nov. 5, 1916 [KT]
Israel's High-Tech Expertise Is Being Applied To Milk And Cheese. [CBD]
Saturday Morning Weird News [Mis. Hum.]
EMT 11/05/16 [krakatoa]
Overnight Open Thread (4 Nov 2016)
Weekend Plans, Hobbies, and Skill-Training Thread
Jury Finds Rolling Stone, Sabrina Rubin Erdely Essentially "Pre-Wrote" UVA Story Before Actually Investigating the Story
Wikileaks Tweet: Hillary Campaign Manager Jon Podesta Invited To, And Apparently Interested In, Ritual Dinner Featuring "Spirit Cooking," Allegedly Derived from Alesteir Croweley's Satanic Rituals
Whoa: Is the IRS Now Looking into the Clinton Foundation, Too?
538: Hillary's Position Is More Precarious Than Obama's Was in 2012
Buh Bayh: Young Surges Ahead of Evan Bayh In Indiana
Anthony Weiner Undergoing "Equine Therapy" At Sex Rehab Clinic
Vanity Fair: Maybe the Right-Wing Media Isn't Crazy. Maybe the Media Is Biased as Sh*t.
Mid-Morning Open Thread [CBD]
The Morning Report 11/4/16 [J.J. Sefton]
Thursday Night Overnight Open Thread (11/03/16) [Mis. Hum.]
Scott Adams: You Should Vote for Trump Because Hillary Sure Likes to Drink a Lot and I Don't Mean Water
Real Question from the Atlantic, Headed by Frequent Ben Rhodes Relay Jeffrey Goldberg: "Why Is Hillary Clinton So Widely Beloved?"
Trump Rising in New Hampshire, Nevada, Colorado and Even Virginia, as Presidential Race Is Suddenly... Interesting?
Megyn Kelly Claims Roger Ailes Repeatedly Sexually Harassed Her In New Book
Wikileaks: Jon Podesta Warned Hillary To Stop Talking About Sensitive Data on Unsecured Gmail Chat Accounts
Confirmed: Liberal Internet Nerds Who Infest Blogs Have Never Played Sports In Their Life Nor Felt the Warmth of a Woman's Touch
Vice Sexclusive: Some Idiots Are Having Sex With, Um, The Earth Because Raping a Planet Will Save It Or Something
FBI Agents Thought They Had Enough Evidence to Seek an Indictment in Public Corruption Case Against Hillary Clinton, But Justice Department Stonewalled Them Ordered Them to "Stand Down"
The Morning Report 11/3/16 [J.J. Sefton]
Wednesday Night ONT - Game 7 Edition [Weirddave]
WORLD SERIES GAME 7 [BCochran]
Failing and Flailing, Glenn Beck Tries Courting the Leftwing Press He Used to Oppose
Rachel Dolezal's New Memoire To Discuss The Racism She's Suffered Due to Not Being Black
"Hillary's Bitter Tears" Drink Recipes Thread
So, CNN Has Blamed a Black Man For Passing the Death Penalty Debate Question to Hillary. Why Can't They Tell Us Who Passed Her the Flint Water Question?
Democrat Pollster Celinda Lake Urges Dem-Supporting Union Bosses to Lie to Their Members About Whether Dem Candidates Are "Good on Guns" and Things Like That
Marc Rich Pardon Enabler and Current DOJ Overseer of Hillary Email Investigation... Was Feeding Hillary Campaign "Heads Ups" About Email Investigation While a Justice Department Employee
New York Times Reports Slight Fall in Quaterly Profit -- Falling 95.7%
Black Early Voting Turnout for Hillary Drops, Raising Anxiety of Campaign
Mid-Morning Open Thread [CBD]
The Morning Report 11/2/16 [J.J. Sefton]
Tuesday Night Overnight Open Thread (11/1/16) [Mis. Hum.]
World Series Game 6 [BCochran]
Trump Jumps to Seven Point Lead in North Carolina
NFL Slump Continues, Bud Light Fires Fat Liberal Pitchmen, ESPN Loses Record Number of Subscribers: Is a Wave Building?
Hillary Clinton Introduced By Gangster Moll and Accused Getaway Driver for a Murder Plot Alicia Machado, For Some Reason
Mark Levin Goes Right the Hell Off on Megyn Kelly
No
Wikileaks: Clinton Campaign Manager Jon Podesta Told Hillary to "Dump Those Emails" After Revelation of Secret Illegal Server
Washington Post/ABC News Tracking Poll Finds Clinton's Lead Falling from Twelve Points to Minus One I Mean, Trump Now Ahead By One
Mid-Morning Open Thread [CBD]
The Morning Report 11/1/16 [J.J. Sefton]
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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Here I Am at Intifada : "Are we willing to do whatever is necessary to preserve our freedom? The other side has clearly demonstrated what it is willing to do, and is actively doing, to take it away. That requires self-preservation 'by any means necessary.' As Allen Ludden (or Bert Convy) might say, the password is
Revolution . Contemplating such a thing is unfathomable. But seeing New York City “fundamentally transformed” into Nuremberg-on-the-Hudson, the unfathomable quickly becomes not only fathomable but quite reasonable." My latest at Taki's Magazine. Please read and comment! [J.J. Sefton]
CJN is shocked at how shocked Jews and other liberals are to discover anti-Semitism coming from the movement they supported for decades, while being somewhat heartened that maybe the scales are at last falling from their eyes. Happy Passover to all!
CJN SPEAKS! THE PODCAST
After his groundbreaking poll showing widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election,
Jim Lakely , VP and Dir. of Comms at the
Heartland Institute discusses a shocking poll showing an equally large percentage of respondents willing to commit election fraud this November, and what it says about the state of our nation and society.
86 All Agents of Control ". . . [the chaos] of elegant, natural freedom and independence [what Adam Smith referred to as 'the invisible hand'] is in direct contravention of those who have unleashed ideologically driven chaos by destroying freedom of choice in the quest to 'control' individuals as just one mass of a populace. Again, for our own good because we're too stupid and unenlightened to know what's good for us." My latest essay at Taki's Magazine. Please read and comment. [J.J. Sefton]
A reviewer from Tablet calls Civil War a "good movie" with "stupid politics" The film relies on a mostly unexplained premise that a future third-term U.S. president has dissolved the FBI, turning the United States into an authoritarian state. Garland doesn't beat the audience over the head with his intentions or his politics. However, in his press tour for the film--including an advance NYC screening earlier this week I attended--he revealed that he felt no need to explain why the country broke apart. "Everyone knows," he says. Indeed, we do.
Without making it explicit in the film, Garland clearly wishes to make an allusion not just to the orange man--and his all-too-familiar badness--but the much-lamented rise of "dangerous populism" across the West. Garland is subtle in how he takes sides, but he clearly aligns with the elitist interpretation of rising mass dissatisfaction as driven by the bad behavior of deplorables and their ignorant love of "disinformation."
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