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Software Activist Resigns From MIT After Defending Epstein, Pedophilia Sep 23, 2019

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A famed software activist stepped down from a prominent MIT position after a series of his writings were made public in which he defended Jeffrey Epstein, the financier, convicted sex offender, and accused sex trafficker who was found dead of an ostensible suicide in his jail cell last month.

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Resurfaced Omar Tweet Revives Marriage Speculation, Then Gets Deleted Sep 20, 2019

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Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was once again confronted with questions about a former marriage this week after she deleted a social-media post that one user claimed was proof that she was previously married to her own brother.

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NYT Writer Angry That Biden Didn’t Believe Anita Hill. The Truth, Known For 19 Years, Resurfaced Five Months Ago. Sep 20, 2019

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Maybe if the New York Times’s Charles Blow read a book or The New American once in a while, he wouldn’t be five months behind the news.

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Did ISIS-linked Airline Mechanic Disable SAME System That Previously Crashed Two 737s? Sep 20, 2019

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Now that we know that the Miami American Airlines mechanic who sabotaged a plane had on his phone Islamic State video, two questions arise: Are any (other?) jihadist-minded mechanics working on our jetliners?

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Facebook Admits in Court Filing That It Is a Publisher, Opening Itself Up to Libel Suits Sep 20, 2019

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Having spent years defending itself against claims of being a publisher — instead, claiming to be a “platform” — Facebook has now admitted in court filings that it is a publisher. The reversal comes in another attempt at defending itself, but might open the company up to a plethora of major libel suits.

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De Blasio Drops Out of Presidential Race Sep 20, 2019

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that he is putting his struggling presidential campaign out of its misery after he failed to qualify for either the September or October Democratic presidential debates.

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“Lettuce Pray”: Seminary Students Confess Their Sins Against Plants ... to Plants Sep 20, 2019

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At last, the students at leftist Union Theological Seminary have dropped any pretense of association with traditional Christian thought. On Wednesday, the school proudly announced on Twitter, the scholars gathered in their chapel and confessed their sins to houseplants.

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Conspicuous Climate Cultists: Look at Me! I’m Helping Fight Climate Change! Sep 20, 2019

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In their zeal to rid the world of so-called anthropogenic climate change, many climate hysterics are guilty of a little bit of hypocrisy on the subject. While many celebrities and politicians are quick to tell us how we need to act in order to avert the worst effects of climate change, they are often lacking in their own personal behavior.

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Worried About Global Warming? Consider These Failed Doomsday Forecasts Sep 20, 2019

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In April, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) claimed there were only “12 years” left to “cut emissions” before the world would be doomed to a future of ever-increasing temperatures. Hers, however, is just one of the most recent forecasts of environmental calamity. Since the late 1960s, doomsayers have been making similar predictions, none of which has come true, as the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) documented in a Wednesday blog post.

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Chinese Woman Pleads Guilty in Birth Tourism Scheme Sep 19, 2019

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Anchor babies, children born in the United States to foreign parents yet still considered citizens, are bad enough when the parents have slipped across the border from Mexico.

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