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The Navy is accelerating developmental testing of its high-tech, long-range Electro-Magnetic Rail Gun Hyper Velocity Projectile -- such that it can fire from existing weapons platforms such as an Army Howitzer.

The thing about computer hacking is that it's such a general, far-reaching term that it's almost impossible to explain to someone who isn't already familiar with it. So, news networks who need b-roll footage to show while they're talking about hacking usually just show keyboards or random

Donald Trump questions why Republicans in Congress have voted to weaken an ethics watchdog.

Liberals are panicking about the fact that President-elect Donald Trump will be able to fill four vacancies on the left-leaning Ninth Circuit.

Julian Assange says it's "impossible" to know if WikiLeaks influenced the election.

Assange tells Hannity that his sources for DNC and Podesta emails was not the Russian government, in an exclusive interview on Fox News Tuesday 10PM EST.

I first read Thomas Sowell in college — no thanks to my college. At the majority of America’s institutions of “higher learning,” reading Thomas Sowell was a subversive act in the early 1990s when I was a student. It remains so today. Why? Because the prolific libertarian economist’s vast body of work is a clarion rejection of all that the liberal intelligentsia hold dear. Among the Left’s most corrosive ideas is the concept of perpetual and permanent racial victimhood, which social engineers pretend to rectify through federally mandated, taxpayer-subsidized preferential policies. Sowell’s groundbreaking academic analyses of these programs in the U.S. and around the world exposed how elites profit mightily at the expense of the alleged beneficiaries of government-coerced affirmative action. The grand rhetoric of diversity masks the true intent and actual impact of current racially discriminatory “solutions” to past racial discrimination: solidifying the power of the few over the many. As Sowell put it succinctly in one of the first pieces of his I came across in the journal The Public Interest: “Live people are being sacrificed because of what dead people did.” In that essay, and much more deeply in his book Preferential Policies: An International Perspective, published that year, Sowell explored the “mismatch” effect in the ivory tower. While prestigious schools such as the University of California, Berkeley, congratulated themselves for manufacturing “wonderfully diverse” student bodies, ostensibly to make up for the legacy of American slavery (which Sowell pointed out was in no way unique to either the American South or blacks), he reported that more than 70 percent of black students at Berkeley failed to graduate. “What they’ve effectively done” by lowering academic standards by race in the name of social justice, Sowell explained in an interview with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb, “is rented these bodies for window dressing for a few years, and then, when they’re through with them, they’re put aside and a new bunch of bodies are brought in.” Who benefits? Not the students, but the bean-counting administrators and political-correctness marketers at Berkeley — Diversity, Inc. — who exploit minority students for their glossy admissions brochures. The other vested interest? Tenured radicals in what Sowell called the “black-studies establishment” who “need students to be in their classrooms” to justify their paychecks. Sowell, who grew up black and poor in Harlem, worked as a delivery man, served in the U.S. Marines, graduated from Harvard Law School, earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago, and fully realized the folly of Marxism during a stint as a federal-government intern, spurned identity-politics collectivism. He embraced time-tested, transcendent principles grounded in the reality of how things really are. “Fortunately, even during my period of Marxism I had respect for evidence and logic,” Sowell told an interviewer in 2004, “so it was only a matter of time before my Marxism began to unravel as I compared what actually happened in history to what was supposed to happen.” Chromosomes and skin color and partisan loyalty didn’t dictate his thinking. He embraced time-tested, transcendent principles grounded in the reality of how things really are — as opposed to the fantastical imaginings of what he trenchantly called the “Vision of the Anointed.” Sowell’s book on that subject (published in 1995, the same year the Anointed One, Barack Obama, emerged on the national scene with his fabrication-filled memoir, Dreams from My Father) thoroughly dismantled the tyranny and tactics of self-described “progressives” whose control-freak narcissism is wrapped in good intentions and false narratives. Sowell’s assessments were rooted not in fear or hatred or fanaticism or moral superiority, but in empirical evidence. He judged outcomes, not oration. He didn’t make excuses. He made sense. “In the anointed we find a whole class of supposedly ‘thinking people’ who do remarkably little thinking about substance and a great deal of verbal expression,” Sowell observed. He continued: In order that this relatively small group of people can believe themselves wiser and nobler than the common herd, we have adopted policies which impose heavy costs on millions of other human beings, not only in taxes, but also in lost jobs, social disintegration, and a loss of personal safety. Seldom have so few cost so much to so many. In another giant contribution to contemporary political and policy analysis, Sowell’s 1999 tome The Quest for Cosmic Justice addressed the abject failures of those who seek to cure all inequities, inequalities, disparities, and ills through government intervention. He summed up his findings thusly: 1. The impossible is not going to be achieved. 2. It is a waste of precious resources to try to achieve it. 3. The devastating costs and social dangers that go with these attempts to achieve the impossible should be taken into account. #related#The former leftist playwright David Mamet, in his 2008 manifesto “Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal,” cited his exposure to Sowell, whom he dubbed “our greatest contemporary philosopher,” as a critical factor in his conversion. Whether tackling the “bait and switch media,” the “organized noisemakers,” or the lawless enablers of “social disintegration,” Thomas Sowell’s dozens of academic books and thousands of newspaper columns have sparked generations of his readers across the political spectrum to think independently and challenge imposed visions. Asked once how he would like to be remembered, Sowell responded: “Oh, heavens, I’m not sure I want to be particularly remembered. I would like the ideas that I’ve put out there to be remembered.” Mission accomplished. Though it has been decades since he taught in a formal classroom, his students are legion. Thank you, Professor Sowell. — Michelle Malkin is a senior editor at Conservative Review. Her e-mail address is [email protected]. Copyright © 2016 Creators.com

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OPINION | The confiscator-in-chief builds an environmental legacy on the rubble of limits to executive power.

President-elect Donald Trump attacked General Motors, claiming the auto giant is making a Chevy Cruze model in Mexico and then sending them to U.S. dealers tax free.

They doubt they can reach the finish line this year, but advocates pushing for a new constitutional convention convened by the states say 2017 could still be an important year in building momentum, after major GOP gains in the elections left them with even more ripe target among state legislatures.

A few of our more perceptive government officials seem to realize they’ve been choking off entrepreneurship.

We have previously discussed how some criminal cases highlight the porous border that we share with Mexico. The most recent example is Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, 38, who is accused of raping a 13-ye…

The United States and Russia today agreed to resume bilateral military cooperation, which has been on hold since the conflict between Russia and Georgia erupted in August.

What do the voters who elected Donald Trump want him to deliver?

The thing about computer hacking is that it’s such a general, far-reaching term that it’s almost impossible to explain to someone who isn’t already familiar with it. So, news netw…

The House Republican Conference approved a change with no advance public notice or debate.

The company on Friday said a laptop triggered an alert, potentially related to a Russian hacking operation.

The question isn’t whether conservatives have a health care plan. It’s which plan they’ll pick.

On Monday, a group of 37 scientists published a letter they wrote to president-elect Donald Trump encouraging him to stand by the disastrous nuclear deal (JCPOA) Barack Obama signed with Iran.

And they wonder how they lost the Middle Class? Pennsylvania Democrats enacted their sugary drink tax this week in Philadelphia. ...

Casa Girl, a website run by a woman from Brooklyn, New York, has sold out of its latest product: "Privilege Cards."

Last year a manhunt for at least 1000 men had started as the women of Germany was raped whilst out celebrating. This year German police had identified measur...

Congress can't be a rubber stamp. Activists must be vigilant.

The marching band of Alabama's oldest private, historically black liberal arts college has accepted an invitation to perform at President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural parade, organizers said.