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Tyler O'Neil: On Sunday, Tesla founder Elon Musk tweeted a four-word message that made conservatives jubilant. Musk had defied the coronavirus lockdown orders in Alameda County, Calif., opening his plant and announcing he would move much of his company to freedom-loving Texas. Yet his message on Sunday seemed to confirm his support for freedom over socialism. “Take the red pill,” Musk tweeted, with a rose emoji. His tweet went viral, with 89,000 “retweets” and more than 400,000 “likes.” Elon Musk ✔ @elonmusk Take the red pill 481K 12:44 PM - May 17, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 128K people are talking about this Conservatives cheered the message as a sign that Musk had sided with conservatives and reopening the economy over Democrats and their increasing support for technocratic limitations on free markets. ... Errol’s support for Musk taking the “red pill” may come as a surprise to some Democrats who ...

Jeff Dunetz: At a time when the country is begging for a more civilized dialog between different political persuasions, Sarah Silverman appeared on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and told lies about President Trump. After Bill Maher congratulated Silverman for receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Silverman said:“You know, in a time, Bill, where anti-Semitic crime is up 57 percent since this douchebag has taken office, it is not lost on me that I am very lucky that I get a star and I don’t have to sew it on my clothes.” (video below) As a Jew, I feel extremely fortunate that Silverman doesn’t put a star on her clothes because I would hate to have it shoved into people’s faces that someone who is that stupid is also Jewish. If there is anything as bad as Antisemitism is when people make the charges of Jew-hatred when it’s not true. It makes it much easier for people to deny the charge when it is true. It’s one thing to disagree with Trump’s policies or even his d...

David Horowitz explains why the cities are failing.

Washington Post: U.S.-built Ebola centers in Liberia are nearly empty The epidemic had drastically subsided by the time the first new treatment facilities were finished. Several American-built centers haven’t seen a single patient infected with the virus. This appears to be a case of too much too late.  Fortunately the epidemic subsided  while the facilities were being built.  Hopefully they can find another use for them in a poor country like Liberia.

AP: The Liberian man infected with Ebola who brought the disease to the United States will be prosecuted when he returns home for lying on his airport screening questionnaire, Liberian authorities said Thursday. With an Ebola epidemic raging in West Africa, passengers leaving Liberia are being screened for fever and are asked if they have had contact with anyone infected. On the form obtained by The Associated Press and confirmed by a government official, Thomas Eric Duncan answered "no" to questions about whether he had cared for an Ebola patient or touched the body of someone who had died in an area affected by Ebola. Neighbors say Duncan had days earlier helped carry to a taxi a pregnant woman who later died of Ebola. Her illness at the time was believed to be pregnancy-related. At the time Duncan left, it's not clear if he knew of the woman's diagnosis. Officials have said Duncan was showing no symptoms when he boarded the plane and he was therefore not contagio...

NY Times: Over the past three years, United States authorities say, South American drug traffickers have worked to build a base in the West African nation of Liberia , where vast quantities of cocaine could be sent by boat or plane and then reshipped to markets in West Africa and Europe. As part of the plan, the traffickers met with two senior Liberian officials, offering them millions of dollars in bribes to ensure safe passage for the shipments. But what the traffickers did not realize was that both of the officials — one of whom is the son of the country’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — were secretly cooperating with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration to help break the foothold of drug rings in the region, a federal prosecutor in New York said Tuesday. The prosecutor, Preet Bharara , the United States attorney in Manhattan, announced the unsealing of narcotics conspiracy charges against nine defendants in the case, underscoring the internationa...

Mathew Vadum: The so-called Commission on Accountability which mysteriously appeared on the political scene a few days ago to push for show trials related to War on Terror interrogation policies is a PR hoax created by liberal philanthropist George Soros and political operatives sympathetic to the Obama administration. The push is part of a vindictive campaign to pay back the architects of the War on Terror for making a good faith effort to defend America To some the arrival of the Commission on Accountability, with its 19 member groups including Amnesty International USA and Human Rights Watch, suggested a significant groundswell of support in the nonprofit activist community for the proposed creation of an independent, non-partisan commission to examine the treatment of captured suspected terrorists. These groups all want Bush administration officials investigated for doing their jobs. But the Napoleonic plotter Charles Maurice de Talleyrand's eternal...

Telegraph: A former warlord known as General Butt Naked has confessed to Liberia’s post-conflict reconciliation commission that his men killed 20,000 people during the country’s civil war. The feared rebel commander earned his nom de guerre for charging into battle dressed only in his boots, at the head of a gang of fighters known as the Butt Naked Battalion. The nude gunmen became known for terrorising villagers and sacrificing children whose hearts they would eat before going into battle during Liberia’s 14-year on-off civil war which ended in 2003. “I have been looking for an opportunity to tell the true story about my life and every time I tell people my story, I feel relieved,” General Butt Naked, whose real name is Milton Blayee, told The Associated Press. Mr Blayee returned from exile in Ghana, where he is now an evangelical Christian preacher, to face Liberia’s truth and reconciliation commission last week. ... He appears to have a lot to ask forgiveness for. Were they afrai...