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ANALYSIS: TRUE. CNN’s Acosta stopped being a journalist long ago.

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THE TOXIC MASCULINITY MYTH: “People say guys are violent because of toxic masculinity, but that’s not why they are violent. That’s kind of a mythology of this culture-based paradigm that doesn’t really look at male development.”

Plus, forget the “testosterone poisoning” myth: “Male testosterone levels have gone down a little over 30 percent in 30 years, Lowered testosterone is one of the reasons that we have so much violence.”

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MICHAEL LEDEEN: Big Issues That Will Be Urgently Important in Trump’s Second Two Years.

OBVIOUSLY, THIS MEANS IT’S TIME TO GET ROLLING WITH ENHANCEMENTS: French Study: The Human Race Has Peaked.

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BUT OF COURSE: Samantha Power, Allegedly Super-Smart Obama Foreign Policy Thinker, Fooled by Parody DPRK Site As She Tries To Dunk On Trump.

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IT BEGINS: VOX Co-Founder Matt Yglesias Gets Doxxed After Defending Harassment of Tucker Carlson.

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JERRY POURNELLE WAS A FAN OF THIS SORT OF THING: The Air Force’s ‘rods from god’ could hit with the force of a nuclear weapon — with no fallout.

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