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"Kristi Noem didn’t read her own book"

Neither did all the propagandists who stopped their research at, "Kristi Noem didn't read her own book"

What would you do with a dog who attacks people and kills your neighbor's chickens, and you are not the President?

That this story get picked up by thefp and was reported on so uncritically is an embarrassment at best.

DO. BETTER.

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Arab Funding of American Universities: Donors, Recipients, and Impact https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/arab-funding-of-american-universities-donors-recipients-and-impact-may-2024

So now you know why there are protests in college campus

And how much was paid in cash like that traitor democratic congressman from Texas

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Kristi Noem had to read what she "wrote"-she read the audiobook version.

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Re Vesper Martini: A small point, perhaps (although not a small point for cocktail lovers), but Lillet Blanc is not a proper substitute for Kina Lillet in a Vesper martini. Lillet Blanc is a sweet drink that add sweetness, rather than the subtle bitterness that characterizes a kina. To accurately recreate the taste and spirit (as it were) of Ian Fleming's recipe, use Kina l'Aero d'Or by Tempus Fugit.

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We already have the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, and the 14th Amendment that any discrimination is against the law and EVERYONE is protected. DEI must DIE.

We the People are the Heirs of the American Experiment and We are Squandering Our American Inheritance!

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Re: no. 2: "Civil War II? That’s what 41 percent of American voters believe is on the horizon, according to a new Rasmussen poll." I'm laying bets that we can even predict when that War will officially commence:

Right around Nov. 1, 2024.

And just by coincidence, the presidential elections will be indefinitely 'postponed' due to the necessity of imposing nationwide martial law.

It's the only way to keep Sleepy Joe in office. He will never get enough votes for re-election, even if the Dems resort to open ballot-stuffing.

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I hope every American who visits London will make a trip to Duke's Hotel, where the Vesper martini was invented for Ian Fleming/Bond. It *is* lethal, there's no getting away from it - I believe the maestro who makes them will refuse a customer more than two! - but *everything* about it is exquisite and magic. Some of my happiest afternoons with friends etc etc ... just watch the video! https://www.dukeshotel.com/dukes-bar/

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I’ve been out of town for a week and disconnected from the news, probably for the better. I really like The Free Press and, in general, trust them as a news source. But man, it can be depressing to read and really darken your day with all the doom and gloom.

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The TCW story on Kirn was just so nauseatingly contemptible. I don't even know what to say to a person who makes sure to mention he is an "elite" and thinks middle-class and working-class Americans are or could be "irredeemable." I want to remind people like him that we don't need redemption. We actively do NOT want to be in the "elite." Becoming one of them (other than more money because who doesn’t want money even though it's trash to admit it) is a nightmare scenario to individual thinkers. We'd like to keep our souls, thank ya very much.

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The Tablet article on freedom of speech was very good. I saved it to re-read and internalize the arguments. I have often thought of politically correct speech as a form of cant. This essay contained a marvelous quote that captures the idea perfectly:

"Academics understand words not as most of us have traditionally understood them as sharp and

useful tools with which to explore reality in all of its complexity but rather as pagans do, as fetishized, magical spells and incantations that have the power to cause actual harm or bring about real rapture."

Keep finding and referencing this type of article.

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The academic freedom article by Jacob Howland was an excellent exposition, thanks for linking to it. One of the reasons I subscribe is for pointers to this type of essay.

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that Tablet article was outstanding. thank you for sharing that.

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Kristy Noem is the reader of the audio version of her book. What’s the basis for saying she didn’t read it?

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Her commentary when asked about it was weird. Why remove those passages from the book if they are, in fact, accurate. Poor girl. Unfortunate blow up.

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Wiseman says, "This is a watershed moment: MIT is the first elite school to reverse course on this policy." I think what MIT is doing is not abolishing DEI, but concealing it. The hundreds of DEI commissars remain to police thought and speech. And the far left radical professors remain to advocate for DEI, critical theory, race, sex, and sexuality activism. The MIT move is not reform, it is obscurantism.

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Reader Hottip:

Jared Bernstein, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, does not understand why the USA borrows our own currency, and now neither do I.

It looks like a scene from Idiocracy.

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786272981058220187

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Saw this. This is like letting a five year old drive the car. Is there anyone in Biden's administration that is not a moron? The efforts this administration is taking to undermine our financial system, banking, investments, ESG etc does not get enough talk.

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Holy shit. How does that dude even find his own house every day? He makes Idiocracy look like a documentary on particle physics

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