WHY ARE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGNS SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM?

And yes, this really happened.

UPDATE: More here:

UPDATE: Now Snopes says this never happened. Hard to see how Huerta and Ferrera could have been mistaken here.

REPORT: Clinton wins in Nevada.

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UNSETTLED SCIENCE: Foods High in Cholesterol Don’t Raise Heart Risks.

Want to be healthy? Try following Taubes and Rippetoe.

UMBERTO ECO, AUTHOR OF THE NAME OF THE ROSE, DEAD AT 84.

Related: From 2008, Andrew Bostom ‏on Umberto Eco and Islam as an Ur-Fascism.

DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER: Robert Reich makes the case for Ted Cruz!

LYING DEFINES THE CLINTONS, JONAH GOLDBERG WRITES:

When my dog caught a rabbit at Hillsdale College a couple years ago, I was horrified. I’m no hunter and I don’t like seeing cute things kill other cute things. But when I yelled at my Carolina swamp dog, she looked at me with a single clear conviction she wanted to impart: You don’t understand — this is what I am about.

Lying is what the Clintons are about.

And, no, I’m not talking about Bill Clinton lying about his “relationship” with Monica Lewinsky, or the numerous credible accusations that he was a sexual predator. Bill earned the name “Slick Willie” long before he questioned the meaning of “is” or claimed that while Lewinsky had made sexual contact with him, he had not had sexual contact with her.

Bill lied with half-truths, whole lies, whole truths wrapped in deceptive contexts. He was like the air-traffic controller in Airplane! when handed a weather bulletin just off the wire. Lloyd Bridges asks, “What do you make of this, Johnny?”

Johnny replied, “I can make a hat! I can make a broche! I can make a pterodactyl . . .”

Well, like the replicator in Star Trek that just moves molecules around to make you any meal you want, Bill Clinton can pluck nouns and verbs from the air and serve them as if they were hot steamy piles of truth.

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Now I am being a bit unfair to Hillary Clinton. She is not a born liar the way Bill is. Bill is the Michael Jordan of lying. Lots of people can score baskets. But Jordan was in a class by himself both for his skill and his ability to make it look fun.

With the possible exception of barking like a dog, Hillary Clinton doesn’t make anything — anything — look fun. She even makes being married to a fun guy seem unfun. (I should say, he’s probably more to blame for that.) Hillary lies as much as Bill, but she’s more like Larry Bird; she gets the job done, but no one would call it graceful. (Caveat: Sports analogies are not my forte so my apologies if this misses the mark like a volleyball falling short of the goalposts.)

There’s no doubt the Clintons have made a career of it, but how much of their lying to advance both their own careers and the Democrat agenda of the moment unique to the Clintons, or systemic to “Progressivism” itself – or 21st century power politics in general? As Victor Davis Hanson has written, “Obama is the most impressive sophist of his age,” and as Jonah goes on to write, Donald Trump is the “F6 Tornado” of maximum chaos, but the Clintons’ tenure in Washington paved the way for both men.

FROM THE INSTA-WIFE: Thoughts on Charisma and the Political Candidates.

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TRUMP: NEMESIS OF THE GOP: “The Republican Party created this monster,” Rod Dreher writes. “He is Nemesis for the hubris of the George W. Bush years and all that has followed. They deserve him…And by the way, to the extent that Bernie Sanders lays into Hillary Clinton for the sins of the Democrats in doing Wall Street’s bidding under her husband’s presidency and beyond, he is serving a similar constructively destructive role in his party.”

Read the whole thing.

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WELL, IT CERTAINLY LOOKS THAT WAY AT THE MOMENT: Is Twitter Silencing Conservatives?

Related: Twitter’s suspension of conservative R.S. McCain had #FreeStacy trending overnight.

AND LOSING. America Is Now Fighting A Proxy War With Itself In Syria: Confusion in the Obama administration’s Syria policy is playing out on the ground as U.S.-backed groups begin battling each other.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: In First Human Test of Optogenetics, Doctors Aim to Restore Sight to the Blind.

ABUSE OF POWER: Reason: Did Twitter’s Orwellian ‘Trust and Safety’ Council Get Robert Stacy McCain Banned? Prominent GamerGate figure clashed with council member Anita Sarkeesian. Now he’s gone. “Banning McCain wasn’t even Twitter’s only questionable activity last night. It seems that Twitter also suppressed the pro-McCain hashtag subsequently created by his supporters, #FreeStacy. After it started trending, Twitter made it so that the hashtag wouldn’t autocomplete when people typed it. . . . If Twitter wants to go full-on Ministry of Truth, it can. But its user have the right to raise hell about it—to call out the platform for punishing dissident alt-right figures while empowering their adversaries. I’m not convinced that’s what’s happening, but the exclusion of Robert Stacy McCain—a mere 10 days after the Trust and Safety council came into existence—is cause for concern.”

JANE THE ACTUARY: Recommended reading: Trump, Fishtown, and Belmont.

ROGER KIMBALL: A Modest Proposal For Williams College President Adam Falk.

THINKING: Marvin Minsky’s Legacy Of Students And Ideas.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: ‘Trust Us With More Data,’ Say Government Agencies Hacked By A 16-Year-Old.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Rutgers Students Melt Down After Listening to a Conservative Speaker on Campus.

YOU MIGHT ALMOST CALL HIM A “SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR,” EVEN: Top Khmer Rouge leader tells court he fought for ‘social justice.’

WELL, BLADE RUNNER IS SET IN 2019, SO THAT WORKS OUT PRETTY WELL: Flying cars are just TWO years away: Terrafugia claims its TF-X will be ready to take to the skies by 2018.

Related: My 2001 interview with Syd Mead, Blade Runner’s production designer, futurist and legendary automobile stylist, which features a few illustrations from his gorgeous late-’70s book Sentinel. Many more can be found here.

STACY MCCAIN: The #FreeStacy Story: Why Was My @rsmccain Account Suspended?

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