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Northwestern University’s Associated Student Government rejected the nomination of Stephen Piotrkowski for associate vice president of diversity and inclusion last week. The student-run committee “oversees diversity initiatives that stem from the undergraduate student body.”

My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

“This university is not ready, in any capacity, for a heterosexual white male to be in charge in any way of diversity and inclusion,” said Ian Coley, a member of the diversity committee. “I don’t know if any university is.”

And that tells you all you need to know about modern education.

The outgoing vice president for diversity and inclusion had endorsed Piotrkowsi as the best candidate for the job – noting that he identifies with a religious minority and has a sister who is gay.

And Campus Reform reported that he had previously served as a member of the Northwestern Inclusion Task Force – created last year to help advocate for campus diversity.

“The fact that senators did not take Piotrkowski’s relevant experiences into consideration and rejected him on the basis of race, gender and sexual orientation symbolizes a step backward for our community in diversity conversations,” the newspaper noted.

No shit, Sherlock. But qualifications have nothing to do with Identity Politics, and that’s what rules in these degenerate modern times.

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

If not for the activism of the California Democratic Party’s most prominent special-interest group, the state party convention last month would have been a humdrum affair. The party’s top officials, including governor Jerry Brown and attorney general Kamala Harris, took to the podium to urge action on their pet issues, including gun control and property-tax “reform.” Not much news there—until, that is, the California Teachers Association went on the warpath, sponsoring an inflammatory resolution that ripped into two Democratic-run organizations.

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(Disclaimer: Please disregard all of the following, because the mainstream media and America’s social-sciences community have already established beyond all doubt that anyone who criticizes, or even dares to think bad thoughts about, America’s 44th president is motivated solely by blind feral bigotry, which is a defect of character—and, verily, the soul—that is exclusive to white males.)

Not only was Obama’s administration rocked by the Benghazi hearings and revelations that the IRS during his reign has targeted Tea Party and “patriot” groups for extra scrutiny, it has become increasingly evident even to Obama’s Borg-like defenders that he may care more about appeasing his wealthy benefactors and toasting his celebrity friends than he does about uplifting the vanishing middle class and the squirming proletarian masses.

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Esther Gokhale teaches techniques for maintaining better posture. She says her advice can relieve nagging back pain.

Yet another First World problem. Eight weeks in boot camp will solve that posture problem for you, guaranteed.

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Doctors have long assumed that saturated fat and cholesterol in red meat are what raise the risk of heart disease. But a study in the journal Nature Medicine fingers another culprit: carnitine, a compound abundant in red meat that also is sold as a dietary supplement and found in some energy drinks.

My only worry about red meat is not having enough of it.

The Other McCain turns over a rock.

Homosexuality has gone from being “the love that dare not speak its name” to being “the political agenda that won’t shut up,” and its enthusiasts — 3.4 percent of the U.S. population, according to a Gallup poll last year – seem determined to make up in angry outrage what they lack in numbers.

Victims are where you find them — chiefly in the newsrooms.

Some of you young people might not believe it, but there was a time when being gay was mostly about sex. Also, disco.

Then, during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, being gay became mostly about blaming Republicans for AIDS. Nowadays, being gay seems to be mostly about wishing violent death on Republicans.

How homosexuality changed from being a personal preference to being a political identity is deserving of an essay or even an entire book, but nobody’s offering to pay me to write either. Still I can’t help but wonder: Is hating Republicans really that much more fun than sex and disco?

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Trayvon Martin’s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against a Florida homeowners association where their teen son was killed, Fox News confirms.

Riddle me this: How is it the responsiblity of the homeowners’ association that Trayvon Martin attacked somebody and was shot for his trouble? This is extortion, pure and simple.

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A man who was found dead hanging by a rope off an 18-story Sacramento high-rise appears to have been a graffiti tagger, Sacramento police said Monday.

Fire Battalion Chief Marc Bentovoja said the man appears to have died accidentally of asphyxiation when he created a harness from the rope and lowered himself down the east side of the office building.

Let’s see … I’m sure I’ve got a violin here somewhere….

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Somebody’s gotta pay for your Obama Phone….

See, it was hard enough for us to make ends meet in New York City as full-time retail workers. But by keeping hours under 30 per week, Juicy Couture will no longer be required to offer their workers affordable health care – part of the Affordable Health Care Act’s plan to make sure more working Americans have basic health care. Further, we were told we’re only eligible for paid time off in case we’re sick or have other responsibilities if we work 1400 hours in one year. We did the math, and realized part-time workers would never hit the 1400 hours in a year at 21 hours per week. This means that the vast majority of Juicy Couture’s workers will not ever get one single paid sick day.

My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Since it is probably a safe bet that many of Juicy Couture’s (former) employees voted for Barack Obama, it appears that they are (or should be) learning three things simultaneously:

1. The law of unintended consequences;
2. Elections do matter; and
3. There’s no free lunch.

In their case, as with so many other Obama supporters, one might add: Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it.

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 If liberals in the sports media have their way, your favorite sporting event will soon be a little more like an episode of “Glee.” Writers and talking heads at outlets from ESPN to NBC Sports are in a full-court press. They want to see openly gay athletes in American sports, no matter what it means for the games, the fans, or the athletes themselves.

Perhaps envious that their news colleagues get to cover – and advocate for – what a Washington Post reporter recently called “the civil rights issue of our time,” sports journalists have been long been obsessed with gay athletes. Commentator after commentator have taken to ESPN’s website to assure us “the issue of sports and homosexuality isn’t going away,” to call a football player “intelligent and articulate athlete when he made a stand for gay rights,” and to wonder where the gay Jackie Robinson is.

The current round of “When will a major athlete come out” blather began when, in the run-up to the Super Bowl, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver released poison gas in a crowded subway, killing 234. No, he didn’t really, but the media reaction was about the same. Culliver made some stupid comments about gays not being welcome in the 49ers locker room. Around the same time there was speculation that Notre Dame star Manti Te’o’s girlfriend hoax was an elaborate cover for homosexuality, which Te’o denied. Then it was reported that Te’o was asked about his sexual orientation by prospective coaches during the NFL combine.

Steve Sailer looks at the modern victim culture in academia.

While reading up a couple of weeks ago on the Oberlin College KKK fiasco, I became fascinated by the various Web pages at colleges such as Oberlin, Smith, Scripps, and similar advanced, lesbian-heavy institutions for the documenting of “microaggressions.” Since the Ku Klux Klaxon can’t be sounded every week (at least not yet), in the meantime young people are encouraged to fondle and document for posterity the subtlest of slights they feel they’ve suffered.

Steve Sailer kicks over a rock.

 Oberlin has a wonderful website for the racially aggrieved, of which it has no shortage, called Oberlin Microagressions. The New York Times opinion page today features the ubiquitous (but, to be frank, not scintillatingly bright) Ta-Nehisi Coates on a Manhattan microaggression against a movie star.

The election of Obama in 2008 was promised to usher in a post-racial age. The re-election seems to have ushered in an age of intensifying racial animus against whites.

How come?

Hey, if you ain’t a victim, you’re an oppressor — it’s all about getting on the winning team.

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Maybe she’s trying to tell us something.

A French mother is on trial for charges of “glorifying crime” after sending her son to school in a rather explosive T-shirt that referred to 9/11. Last September, Bouchra Bagour dropped off her son Jihad at school in a shirt that read “I am a bomb” and “Born on 11 September.” Bagour claims that she just wanted to accent her son’s birthday with the shirt, and that she put it on him “without stopping to think about” the connection to the 2001 attacks.

And if you believe that one, she’ll tell you another one.

Steve Sailer looks on with amaze as some people resist Identity Politics.

     A survey by a Portuguese-American group has so far seen 90 percent of its almost five thousand respondents oppose moves to have people of Portuguese descent declared Hispanic.

May, Philip II is going to be pissed.

 Pay no attention to ancient rivalries of Hispanics and Lusitanians! The point is to get as many people invested in the racial/ethnic spoils system as possible. Sure, Tom Hanks may seem like a normal American white guy (heck, he may seem like the normal American white guy), but that’s just your ethnic insensitivity speaking. No doubt, he has been victimized by our society’s pervasive institutional anti-Lusitanianism. Admit it — you weren’t even aware that “anti-Lusitanianism” is a word! That just proves that Tom is a victim, so his descendants unto the 7th generation must be accorded hereditary Hispanic privileges.

Well, duh.

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Congress never lets the Constitution get in the way of passing a law with a catchy title. Thus, the Senate’s version of the bill reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act will likely pass the House this week, even though UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, a leading First Amendment scholar, earlier noted that provisions in it violate the First Amendment. (Legal scholars have criticized other provisions in the bill as violating Articles II and III of the Constitution, and for undermining due-process safeguards.) The House GOP had earlier objected to the Senate’s version, citing various flaws in the bill, but under political pressure, some GOP members in swing districts have switched sides and endorsed the bill, which is backed by Democratic leaders and the White House.

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Back in the 1990s, the wealthy couple of David Gelbaum and Monica Chavez Gelbaum bought the Sierra Club’s soul for $100,000,000 on the condition that they drop their immigration restrictionist stance and thus their stance against population growth in the U.S. and in the Sierra Club’s home state of California. This epochal switch has largely disappeared down the memory hole. Today, everybody assumes that plant nativists are, by the nature of their superior morality, human antinativists. But there are psychological tensions in this inherent contradiction.

Impossible. Everybody knows that rich people are all Republicans, and want illegal immigrants so they can have them pick fruit for less then minimum wage. This guy must not read any newspapers or watch the TV news.

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Members of Reddit’s /r/gaymers community are taking legal action following a cease and desist letter regarding their use of the trademarked term “gaymer”.

“Gaymer” — a term for gamers who self-identify as part of the LGBT community — was granted as a trademark in 2007 to Chris Vizzini who owns gaymer.org but members of the gaymers subreddit are petitioning to have the trademark revoked on the grounds that the term should remain in the public domain.

Pass the popcorn.

Case in point.

‘Never let a crisis go to waste.’ Quasi-communist legislator Zoe Lofgren (D., Left Coast) takes this advice to heart and get a little tech geek love in advance of her next election campaign.

The government was able to bring such disproportionate charges against Aaron because of the broad scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and the wire fraud statute. It looks like the government used the vague wording of those laws to claim that violating an online service’s user agreement or terms of service is a violation of the CFAA and the wire fraud statute.

The Other McCain is on the case.

News from the competitive victimhood sweepstakes in Great Britain indicates that transsexuals have won the Most Oppressed Group prize, and are now able to demand complete deference.

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All of this uproar began, remember, with a feminist’s jocular complaint about ridiculous pressures on women about their looks. And the moral of the story: Angry bullies always win!

From whom did the transgender community learn this lesson?

Why, yes, of course: From feminists themselves, who ruthlessly bullied their way to power by organizing hate-fests to denounce men whom they accused of sexism, discrimination, and/or harassment.

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There are copies available but kiddie porn involving small furry animals is easier to find.

The film’s live-action depictions of Uncle Remus and his fellow smilin’, Massah-servin’ black folk are embarrassingly racist.

Only to the SWPL crowd who see racism under every bush. The same people who will fall all over themselves praising Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky will run away screaming with White Liberal Guilt when face with a film that is far less bigoted and tendentious. I suppose the next targets will be A Day At The Races and Mississippi, all from the same period.

If you were born after 1980, you’ve almost certainly never seen it in full, and it’s unlikely that will change anytime soon.

Yet another sad truth about modern America.

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And I bet Obama is thinking, ‘Sheeit, why did’t I think of that?’

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Note the similarity between the rhetoric used here and that used by those who promote the ‘war on drugs’.

Today’s economic warfare is not the kind waged a century ago between labor and its industrial employers. Finance has moved to capture the economy at large, industry and mining, public infrastructure (via privatization) and now even the educational system. (At over $1 trillion, U.S. student loan debt came to exceed credit-card debt in 2012.) The weapon in this financial warfare is no larger military force. The tactic is to load economies (governments, companies and families) with debt, siphon off their income as debt service and then foreclose when debtors lack the means to pay. Indebting government gives creditors a lever to pry away land, public infrastructure and other property in the public domain. Indebting companies enables creditors to seize employee pension savings. And indebting labor means that it no longer is necessary to hire strikebreakers to attack union organizers and strikers.

Emphasis added to draw attention to the verbal sleight-of-hand being used to re-direct blame and paint the perpetrators as victims. As with using drugs, borrowing money is a voluntary choice, and if you do so stupidly, nothing external to yourself can save you — not the law, not the government, not your family, not your friends, not the Obamassiah. It’s a self-inflicted wound. Nobody can ‘load you up with debt’ without your consent.

Sure, financiers (like drug dealers) prey on the stupid and immature. But stupidity and immaturity are not features, but bugs — and the way you get over them (if you ever do), as with sticking your hand in the fire, is to get burned. Sure, modern society promotes stupidity and immaturity, since the Crust likes dependent, easily manipulable clients — but life is tough all over, and ‘the woman tempted me, and I ate’ is not an adequate excuse.

With thanks to Bob, who has all of the good stuff.

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Eighteen Democratic U.S. Senators and senators-elect sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last week calling for a “delay in the implementation” of the medical device tax in Obamacare, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Perhaps they ought to have thought it through before they passed Obamacare.

Sorry — I knew I couldn’t type that with a straight face….

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Not a word about all of the kids that get gunned down every day in the slums of Chicago, Detroit, New York, D.C., Miami, L.A., Oakland, Memphis — they’re just black and brown kids, not white kids from SWPL rural Connecticut.

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Pity the poor oppressed brown people of South of the Border.

Charles Murray turns over a rock.

Of course. They’re so uppity as to be smarter than white people and therefore don’t need the government’s help to get into and succeed at a rigorous educational program. The ungrateful swine. And they ruin the curve for all of the SWPL slacker-get who otherwise would rule the roost while pitying the poor affirmative-action seeds.

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A cadet quitting West Point less than six months before graduation says he could no longer be part of a culture that promotes prayers and religious activities and disrespects nonreligious cadets.

I think the Army just dodged a bullet. I certainly wouldn’t want to be under this guy’s command.

Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out, rosebud.

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Racial tensions are mounting over the state Senate’s new, virtually all-white ruling coalition.

Okay, let’s Kremlinologize this: ‘virtually all-white’ means it has some non-white elements, otherwise there would be no need for the ‘virtually’. And ‘virtually’ suggests that those non-white elements are effectively no different from the white elements, because that’s what ‘virtually’ means. So there’s something going on here that depends entirely on color, because that appears to be the only significant feature. What might that something be?

Three black senators — Eric Adams of Brooklyn, Bill Perkins of Harlem, and Ruth Hassell-Thompson of The Bronx — are expected to join the Rev. Al Sharpton Saturday in a campaign to empower 15 black and Hispanic Democrats with key committee chairmanships and more influence, said a source.

Here, obviously, ‘empower’ means ‘pay off’. So the ‘something’ under discussion is dividing the swag.

Sharpton claimed the coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats denies black and Latino senators power that should be “rightfully theirs” given that Democrats won a majority of Senate seats last month.

Suspicion confirmed. Democrats apparently are the party of non-white people, so when Democrats win, obviously non-white people are entitled to power. Competence? Doesn’t matter. Political beliefs? Irrelevant. Skin color? The only thing that matters.

In the old days, that would be called ‘racism’. But doublespeak reigns. I hope you love Big Brother; at least we can be sure he’s a Democrat.

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The graphic photo of Zimmerman, taken the night of his fateful confrontation with Florida teen Trayvon Martin, shows the accused murderer with a bloody face. Zimmerman’s legal team released the photo, which was taken by police, after prosecutors substituted it in for a black and white photocopy that had been submitted earlier.

What did he expect? It didn’t fit the media myth of a ‘white Hispanic’ foully murdering some harmless black kid.

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And about time, too.

We’ve been thanklessly making this same argument since forever: The idea that we’re “afraid” of gays is laughable, but more importantly, allowing the elites to categorize unpopular opinions as mental illnesses is the sort of Stalinesque junk science that criminalizes common sense and ruins lives.

Unfortunately, while there is a popular Greek-based suffix for ‘irrational fear of’, there isn’t (so far as I have discovered) a convenient Greek-based suffix for ‘justified contempt for’ (although perhaps ‘homoligoria’ might work). Disappointing.

“Islamophobia” will prove a tougher demon to exorcise. After all, as annoying as they are, angry gays (unless they’re serial killers) typically limit themselves to direct or indirect suicide. Pissed-off Muslims vastly outnumber homosexuals (not incidentally because they keep killing them) and aren’t averse to murdering others to get their own way.

Food for thought.

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Residents of a Southern California suburb are protesting against a hilltop home that they say serves as a maternity center for Chinese mothers paying thousands of dollars to give birth to so-called “anchor babies.”

Ah, I see. Anchor babies are just fine if you’re a poor Mexican but a no-no if your a rich Chinese. That makes perfect sense.

Protesters say they don’t want to see a business in a residential area.

I’m sure that’s it.

Kelly Good tells the Sun the come legally on tourist visas, but their intention is to give birth in the United States so their children would automatically gain citizenship. She said that’s a “false pretense.”

How is it false? It’s not as if they’re hiding their intentions. She obviously had no problem finding out about it. If our laws are so silly as to make an American citizen out of any kid who happens to be here when he pops out, she needs to talk to the Supreme Court, not the local newspaper. (I’d say her Congressman, but he’s probably a Democrat and also probably has no problem with it.)

Steve Sailer challenges you.

If you ace that one, try to pick out Susan Rice’s ‘black’ kids from any other group of pink ones.

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The poor you have always with you, especially if the government gets to decide who’s ‘poor’.

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While preparing for the launch of its new restaurant chain, the company doesn’t have to worry about potential chefs because it plans to start the world’s first “smart restaurant” chain. All cooking is done entirely by robots.

The company proudly boasts on its product page: “Our alpha machine replaces all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant. It does everything employees can do except better.”

And that’s certainly a better-looking burger than I’ve ever seen come out of a fast-food kitchen.

Single-item menus, zero line cooks and almost no wait times, Momentum Machines proposed restaurant is entirely minimalist and tailored to improve upon the guests’ experiences. Capable of pushing out approximately 360 burgers per hour, the machine takes up only 24 square feet, allowing for more spacious seating areas and hopefully more time spent improving the overall dining experience.

Hey, all you people who depend on flipping burgers for your living — guess what? YOU’RE NOW UNEMPLOYED! Or will be as soon as they get this on the market.

And the higher the Democrats raise the minimum wage and mandate expensive benefits like Obamacare, the sooner fast food companies can financially justify replacing you with a robot and THE SOONER YOU’LL BE UNEMPLOYED! Isn’t that tremendous?

How’s that vote for Obama working out for you now?

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When Randy Adams, 60, was looking for a chief-executive officer job in Silicon Valley last year, he got turned down from position after position that he thought he was going to nail — only to see much younger, less-experienced men win out.

Finally, before heading into his next interview, he shaved off his gray hair and traded in his loafers for a pair of Converse sneakers. The board hired him.

“I don’t think I would have been able to get this CEO job if I hadn’t shaved my head,” says Adams….

They’d have hired him faster if he had grown a goatee as well. That would have made him look Hip And Trendy.

Adams has supplemented his makeover by trading in his button-down shirts for T-shirts, making sure he owns the latest gadgets, and getting an eyelid lift.

After all, nothing says technical competence like dressing like a kid who lives in his parents’ basement.

On the other hand, in a field where everything technical you knew five years ago has no value today, it’s hard to say that the people who prefer kids don’t have a point.

Plus they’re cheaper, of course.

And who wants to work someplace that’s run by Old White Guys? That’s not the Obamanation, where all the Hip And Trendy people live.

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The Karans are demanding that the town pay them $375,000 for damaging their ocean view. How? By building the dune in front of their house, the very dune that officials say saved their property from Sandy last month.

Truly, no good deed goes unpunished.

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But is there any loud clamor about this sexual imbalance? Of course not.

Now, imagine the outcry if there were a courthouse that was 100% male … you’d be hearing it in Chicago.

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As with most union bosses, Hurt and the rest of the officers at the Bakery, Confectionery & Tobacco Workers (BTCGM) have themselves covered with six-figure salaries, their own fully-funded pension plan, as well their own benefit plan.

While Hostess employees now face unemployment, Frank Hurt doesn’t get hurt at all. He gets to walk away with his six-figure salary, his benefits intact, and a fully funded pension plan still intact–because it’s all paid for by his union’s members.

Even though his union lost roughly 30% of its membership over the last decade and Frank Hurt condemns the pay cuts and other concessions his members took at Hostess, as the union’s president, Hurt saw his total compensation rise nearly 45%–from $181,840 in 2000 to $262,654 in 2011, according to Department of Labor reports.

In addition to the six-figure salaries paid to the union’s executive staff, both Hurt and the union’s secretary-treasurer have their kids working inside the union’s headquarters, pulling down over $71,000 and nearly $49,000, respectively.

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The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties has been working without a contract since June 2011. Unions and negotiators for the Pennsylvania state college system have met 40 times but have been unable to reach an agreement.

I am not making this up.

[Recap for the dimwitted: Unions arise when a particular occupation has a skillset that is easily subject to substitution on the part of management because supply vastly exceeds demand, hence collective coercion on the part of workers is the only way to raise (or sustain) their price over what the market-clearing amount would be.]

Think how clever the American higher-education system is. They have arranged it so that they can generate an oversupply of PhDs and thereby drive down the price that they pay for faculty, and the silly buggers pay them to do it, often in the process incurring crippling debt in amounts that an old-time Company Store could only dream about.

Insensitive Politically Incorrect Analogy: ‘Hey, Pedro, for the low, low price of $1000, I’ll be happy to help you sneak a hundred of your relatives over the border so that I’ll never have to pay more than $1.00 an hour for labor ever again. What do you say?’ ‘Gracias, Senor, that is very white of you.’

Isn’t it just.

The Other McCain explains it all to you.

What we are supposed to believe, according to political correctness, is that all problems experienced by homosexuals can be attributed to the hateful bigotry of homophobes. In much the same way, all problems experienced by black people are the result of racism, and all the problems of women are blamed on the oppressive sexist patriarchy. So when we encounter a black lesbian terrorizing her black lesbian ex-girlfriend, this is somewhat difficult for the politically correct to explain. However, if you dare to point out the seeming contradiction — the victims victimizing their fellow victims, without any prompting from straight white male oppressors — the politically correct will say that the mere fact that you noticed this makes you a sexist, racist homophobe. Heads, they win the argument. Tails, you lose. Never argue with a liberal. You’re only wasting your breath.

I predict a bright future collecting unearned benefits from her awesome victim status. Is this a great country, or what?

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A lesbian requested a manly haircut at a barbershop in Toronto, but was turned down by the Muslim proprietor on religious grounds. Now she has taken her case to — surprise! — the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

The HRC spokesbeing in this news report says that there is no hierarchy of rights, and no one class of right can trump another. But I think she’s wrong: experience has shown that ethnicity trumps women’s rights, gay rights, and all the others. Since Islam has deliberately and deftly converted itself into a “race”, the rights of Muslims trump everything.

Steve Sailer turns over a rock.

Asians apparently voted overwhelmingly last Tuesday for the Party of Affirmative Action in Admissions.

How’s that working out for them?

So far, not so hot.

Why Paddy’s Not At Work Today

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A KPIX news cameraman was punched and robbed during a live broadcast outside an Oakland high school, the latest in a spate of holdups targeting the media, police said Thursday.

Apparently they were doing a piece on how much local public schools had improved under SantaClausism.

Reporter Anne Makovec and cameraman Gregg Welk were on the air shortly after noon Wednesday outside Oakland Technical High School near the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway. They were at the school to do a story on the passage of Proposition 30, the tax measure preventing deep cuts to education.

I’ve always heard that a conservative was a liberal who’d been mugged … somehow I don’t think it will work in this particular case.

One of the assailants punched Welk in the mouth before the group fled in a Mercedes-Benz, which apparently was accompanied by a Lexus, police said. Welk declined treatment by paramedics but saw his doctor.

That’s California for you — most affluent low-lifes in the country. Aren’t you proud?

The incident comes amid a series of robberies in which media representatives have been victims throughout Oakland, often in broad daylight.

The perps were only identified as ‘five men’, which means that they were either black or Latino, because otherwise their race would have been reported, since then there would have been no danger of the ‘journalists’ being suspected of racism.

Steve Sailer comments:

 With Jerry Brown on top of the world again and talking about running for a fourth term as governor of California, I recall when I met him a decade ago. When Brown was mayor of Oakland, I attended a Milken Institue speech he gave in which he explained what he had learned as mayor. I was quite astonished, because the gist of his speech, as far as I could tell, was that being mayor of Oakland had been a most eye-opening experience for an old liberal like him, that he had concluded that the main hope for Oakland was persuading poor people to move out and for the the poor people who insisted upon staying, trying to get their kids to go to a public military school he started to get some discipline pounded into their dysfunctional heads.

With results as you see them. You can knock some sense into the Governor, but if the electorate remain morons, it doesn’t help a whole lot.

 Now, that I think about it, why not Jerry Brown for President in 2016? Who is his competition? Hillary? Biden? That would be quite a field. The Democrats could really use some of that Senior Citizen Mojo that’s been working for Republican nominees so well since 1992.

And there you go.

Women and Minorities Hardest Hit

The New York Times isn’t happy with any social trend, not even those of its own side, until it can find — and exploit — a group of Victims.

Unfortunately, this proposal has some serious problems. First, “privatizing” marriage will not cause it to disappear — it will just leave it to be regulated by private institutions, especially religious and ethnic ones. For many centuries, marriage has been the primary mechanism by which people who are not related “by blood” become relatives, and it is unclear that civil unions will acquire this social power. Many families will then be structured and governed primarily by private marriage customs and practices now freed of state regulation. Because of the deep and rich cultural significance of marriage, in many cases marriage arrangements will take precedence over the terms of civil unions. When these arrangements exist in tension with widely shared public values — like those that subordinate wives and daughters and limit their opportunities — privatizing and deregulating marriage will curtail the government’s ability to promote gender equality within families structured by marriage. In other words, privatizing marriage will give private organizations, including inegalitarian ones, more influence over the institution of marriage without giving individuals negatively affected much protection by having access to civil union status.

In other words, if we get rid of government control of marriage, the Crust will no longer be able to use the power of government to fiddle with social relationships. God forbid that our ruling class give up any of their coercive power to regulate individual lives, even if it clashes with their public propaganda narrative.

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Rather than a coldly elucidated set of principles in a Benthamite fashion modern social liberalism is fundamentally a movement of justice rooted in feeling. That everyone get a fair-go, that everyone can engage in their own personal project of self-actualization. But at some point this universal principle is going to hit diminishing marginal returns. In the 19th and early 20th century progressives argued for women’s suffrage. About half of the population. In the 1960s in the USA they argued for civil rights for racial minorities, and blacks in particular. On the order of 10 percent of the population of the day in the United States. Over the past generation they have argued for civil rights for homosexuals who identify as gay or lesbian. Being generous, this is probably on the order of 5 percent of the population (I am willing to accept the proposition that the self-identified ~2 percent value may be an underestimate).

Last year the center Left publication The New Republic published a story, Transitions, which had the cover lead “America’s Next Great Civil Rights Struggle.” As a matter of numbers this is farcical on the face of it. Transgender people do face a great deal of discrimination and are the objects of hate, to the point of violence. But the reality is that they are far less than 1 percent of the population. As a matter of numbers it seems that modern social liberalism is running out of victims to uplift if it has to target such a small segment of the population.

Not that it will stop them….

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 The new material, which can be injected, molded, and set in place by exposure to light, could benefit people disfigured by disease or injury.

But it won’t be, of course. The primary use will be in creating fake boobs, and the companies that make this material, building a new railroad to that particular gold mine, will price it accordingly. And it will be too expensive for insurance to cover under Obamacare, as similar pricey treatments are already under  government systems like those in Canada and the U.K.

But it’s a nice thought.

Steve Sailer fisks the NYT, rings the bullshit alert.

 It’s fascinating how little college development there has been over the last century. Brandeis, for example, is a good faith effort by liberal Jews to build a Jewish university on the model of all the various kinds of Christian but not exclusive universities. But as quotas on Jews fell at the older schools, Jewish donors lost interest in creating more Brandeises. Asian Americans have shown negligible interest in starting up their own Brandeises.

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The horror! The horror!

(Three words: Off. Site. Backup.)

No doubt PETA will want an appropriate memorial raised, at taxpayer expense.