FREE LOUIS FARRAKHAN! By banning, Twitterbook and Instaface are becoming publishers:

Poor old Louis Farrakhan. There he was, happily vomiting hatred as one of the talented tenth of octogenarians who can navigate a Facebook page, doing no harm other than to Jews, white people, race relations, and the minds of the morons who follow him — and then he’s expelled from the kingdom of Zuckerberg along with Milo Yiannopoulos. It’s the stuff of Farrakhan’s nightmares: purged by the minions of a white Jew, and cast into the media wilderness with a gay Trumpist.

It couldn’t have happened to a nastier person. Actually, it could, but it won’t. There are even nastier people that Farrakhan on Twitterbook and Instaface, but they do their vomiting in languages other than English. If you don’t speak English, you remain irrelevant to the censors in the high castles of California. If you do speak English, or can at least concentrate hard and approximate it in 280 characters, then the tightening of social media censorship means you are on probation, now and forever.

Read the whole thing.

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THIS JUST GETS WORSE: Boeing’s Own Test Pilots Lacked Key Details of 737 MAX Flight-Control System: A culture of close collaboration between test pilots, engineering staff deteriorated in later stages of aircraft’s development. “The extent of pilots’ lack of involvement hasn’t been previously reported and could bring fresh scrutiny from investigators and regulators already looking into Boeing’s design and engineering practices. It isn’t clear whether greater pilot participation would have altered the ultimate design of the flight-control system. But the scaling back of pilots’ involvement and their lack of detailed knowledge about the plane’s system add to the list of questions about engineering and design practices facing the Chicago-based aerospace giant.”

CHANGE: Italy and Hungary Forge Alliance to Defend Europe’s Borders From Migrant Invasion.

AS MY GRANDMOTHER USED TO SAY, THERE’S NO SAFETY THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE: 28-year-old man suffers stroke from cracking his neck.

I FIND LEGO HAS A SIMILAR EFFECT: Women who microdose mushrooms: ‘It makes me enjoy playing with the kids.’

THE IRONY IS DELICIOUS (BUT SCARY): Stephen Green highlighted this earlier, but I just had to add that faux-liberals have been screaming “Russia! Russia!” since Trump’s election. “He’s doing Putin’s bidding!” Yet these very same people are all-in on shutting down websites and blogs that *they* deem “dangerous.”

Democrats doing Russia’s bidding? “The word of the day is “projection,” boys and girls. Can you say Projection”?
#OffToTheGulagMrJournalist

I’VE NEVER BEEN A FAN OF AMBIEN, TOO MANY PEOPLE I KNOW HAVE HAD ISSUES WITH IT: Ambien, other sleep aids get FDA’s ‘Black Box’ warning label.

#JOURNALISM: Poynter: Our blacklist of “unreliable” news sites turned out to be … unreliable.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Wrong, Rep. Omar: Socialism, not America, caused Venezuela’s suffering.

Any European immigrating to Venezuela today, or Cuba for that matter, should consult a headshrinker or spiritual adviser. From 1999 to the present, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has run the country into the ground, first with Hugo Chávez, who at least had charisma, and since his 2013 death by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, who doesn’t.

Yet somehow, Omar saw fit to assure viewers of the far-left television show “Democracy Now” that responsibility for the mayhem we see there today rests with the US.

“A lot of the policies that we have put in place has kind of helped lead the devastation in Venezuela, and we have sort of set the stage for where we are arriving today,” she claimed. “This particular bullying and the use of sanctions to eventually intervene and make regime change really does not help the people of countries like Venezuela, and it certainly does not help and is not in the interest” of the US.

No. The bullying hasn’t come from Washington. It has originated from the Miraflores palace, the Venezuelan version of the White House, and from Havana, where the Castro family has been pulling the strings of both Chávez and Maduro for decades.

Slowly at first, the PSUV took control of all of Venezuela’s ­institutions. The judiciary, the Supreme Court, the military top brass, the electoral council — all fell into the maw of the PSUV. This meant that there were no checks and balances, no electoral accountability. The top officials and generals Chávez and Maduro surrounded themselves with became more interested in narco-trafficking than in serving their nation.

Their economic mismanagement eventually caused GDP to shrink, from an estimated $331.6 billion in 2012 to $96.3 billion today. The breadbasket of Latin America became its beggar.

But what do facts matter when there’s an America-hating narrative to push?

ANALYSIS: DEPRESSINGLY TRUE. Jay Leno: ‘Everyone is Very Politically Correct’ Today.

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THEY AREN’T WRONG: Smart home devices ‘creepy’ say two-thirds of people … who own smart home devices.

You can do some fun things you can do with LED lights which require something smarter than an old-school toggle switch, but for anything mission critical like locks, gas, or water, “smart” is kinda dumb.

ALSO, THEY’RE PRETTY TASTY: Walnuts may lower blood pressure, risk for heart disease.

GREEN NEW DEAL (PREVIEWED): Department of Justice opens investigation into failed carbon-capture plant. “The project received hundreds of millions in grants and may now be scrapped.”

RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES! And Then There Were 22: Sen. Michael Bennet Enters the Presidential Race.

IF THEY WERE SERIOUS THEY’D BAN THEM RIGHT NOW SINCE WE ONLY HAVE TEN YEARS LEFT: Los Angeles Has a Green New Deal of Its Own – No ICE Vehicles by 2050.

DEB HEINE: New York Times Discovers Yet Another Spy Deployed Against the Trump Campaign in 2016.

What did President Obama know and when did he know it?

BLUE ON BLUE: ‘No Better Than White Supremacists’: Students Lash Out at Biden for Using Charlottesville Banner.

LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS: WaPo, Atlantic Rush To Change Stories After Labeling Louis Farrakhan ‘Far Right’ In Facebook Ban Story.

INSTITUTIONAL SEXISM: FOIA Request Reveals Boston Title IX Office Has Never Accepted A Complaint From A Male Alleging Sexual Harassment. “Until very recently, the Boston regional office of the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) had never accepted a complaint filed by a man alleging sexual harassment. In the recent instance, the complaint was accepted on appeal, according to a source, and may have been granted after recent criticism of the office’s alleged discrimination against men. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Kursat Christoff Pekgoz, who has filed multiple complaints alleging anti-male bias at various institutions across the country, revealed that the Boston office had never previously accepted a Title IX complaint in the sexual harassment category from a male accuser or an accused male since 2011, when the Obama administration implemented new, draconian rules regarding campus sexual assault. At the same time, the Boston office aggressively prosecuted academic institutions, such as Harvard Law School, for alleged bias against female accusers.”

WHO IS THIS GUY AND WHAT IS THIS ‘HILLFAITH’ THING HE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT? Why would a conservative journo go out and start something like HillFaith? Glad you asked. Here’s why. And can you believe we actually had sideburns like that?