Bryan Caplan is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

In hindsight, I’m amazed that people who don’t think twice about killing conscripts (or even civilians) are so reluctant to justify violence against serial killer statesmen.  What could be less objectionable than trying to stop mass murder by killing the specific individuals most responsible for it?

Actually, come to think of it, it’s not really a hard question at all. The hard question is, What are these numbwits thinking that are so opposed to terminating psychopaths like bin Laden, Assad, Chavez, Morales, and Achmedinijad? It goes beyond stupid.

Alan Jacobs has an excellent and thought-provoking post that I highly recommend to anybody who has more than a superficial interest in culture.

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Gee, that’s too bad.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

And yet, when you think about it, like medieval noblemen, they really don’t have to be, do they?

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Well, actually the Anglican tradition of being a Christian-themed Cargo Cult.

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Probably couldn’t stand the thought of Zero Obama being President.

Wish I could make the move myself.

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And that’s just in the Politburo.

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Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The UAW golfed. While carmakers soak up $17 billion in taxpayer bailout funds and demand more for their ailing industry, United Auto Workers bosses have wasted tens of millions of their workers’ dues on gold-plated resorts and rotten investments. The labor organization’s money-losing golf compound is just the tip of the iceberg.

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And about time, too.

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Stretchable electronics and the strongest material ever were just two achievements of 2008.

Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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And, to the best of my knowledge, the only people who give a shit can be numbered on one hand.

Guys, get a life.

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I guess the President’s every move, gesture, and thought is subject to legal regulation. Hope he’s down with that.

Were I ever to be elected President (in some alternate universe), I’d be tempted to recite the Nicene Creed at the beginning of every public appearance. No doubt that would cause a number of heads to explode and raise the average IQ in the country by a significant amount.

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I am not making this up.

If I were an English Lit or Gender Studies major I could no doubt say something very hip & trendy about this, but I’m not, so I won’t.

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The only surprise is that they’re admitting it.

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Couldn’t come too soon for me.

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They always go wobbly at the last minute.

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

YouTube belongs to Google, and Google is run by left-coast “progressives” who favor Muslim fascists. This isn’t really news.

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The FEC nevertheless concluded that the commercials and the mailings—which “included photographs of Mr. Stork under which his name was printed,” along with “location and business hours information” and offers of “discounts or prizes to customers who made purchases at the Stork bakeries”—constituted illegal corporate donations to his campaign.

Yet they have no problem with the Clintons getting big bucks from foreign donors for their campaigns. Truly you cannot make this stuff up.

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Actually, he isn’t really all that useful.

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“Of gods we believe, and of men we know, that those who have power will exercise it.”

The law clearly gives him the right to appoint somebody to the vacant Senate seat. Absent any evidence that the appointment is corrupt, this is a blatant and illegitimate power-play by the Senate Democrats.

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If the smell is so bad that even the Washington Post can tell, then it must be really bad.

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A timely reminder that insanity is no bar to elective office.

Israelis: Doing jobs that Americans won’t do.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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No more Bush to bash, apparently. We won, so it isn’t news any more.

Once upon a time, we had journalists. Those were the days.

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Well, that’s important, you know?

Pupils have also been asked to look at a Kleenex-sponsored website at home with their parents, called Sneezesafe, to help them understand cold germs and how they are spread.

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Fine Religion o’ Peace you got there, Mohammed.

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Uh-huh. And where was he when Hamas was bombarding Israel with rockets?

Egypt’s U.N. Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz said he was sure there would be swift and decisive action on the part of the Arab League.

I guess “swift and decisive” means “whine about it for the next ten years”.

While Abdelaziz and the Palestinian U.N. observer, Riyad Mansur, seemed to be looking forward to a renewal of the cease-fire, Israel’s Ambassador Gabriela Shalev said the attacks would continue “as long as it takes to dismantle Hamas completely.”

There’s your “swift and decisive”.

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Geez, O. J. just can’t catch a break.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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More here.

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

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To tell the truth — most of them, it wouldn’t help.

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Can you say “Darwin Award”? I knew you could.

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You knew it had to happen.

Hey, hamsters are cheaper than Arabs — and they don’t blow shit up.

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I am not making this up.

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No doubt many were named McTavish.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Nothing else.

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Convicted robber Nathan Brooks, 31, broke bones in both feet when he jumped 30ft from the roof three years ago.

He is now seeking compensation amid claims he did not receive sufficient treatment because he was moved from prison to prison.

Brooks’ action is costing the taxpayer thousands of pounds in legal costs after hiring a firm of solicitors and a barrister to fight his case.

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Shasta County health officials are cracking down on an 86-year-old disabled World War II veteran who has been selling homemade fruitcakes for more than a decade.

Health specialist Fern Hastings says Melton must use a commercial bakery that has passed a health inspection even if he gives his cakes to the public.

Taxpayer-funded assholes.

The Hog is history.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. (What am I saying? It’s already happening here….)

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Slavery is still clandestinely practiced in Muslim countries — it wasn’t officially abolished in Saudi Arabia until the 1960s — and there has never been an anti-slavery movement in the Muslim umma.

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This does not, of course, preclude a long and successful career in the Senate; look at her uncle Ted.

Michelle Malkin takes a look at media double standards.

Sighed smitten reporter Eli Zaslow, “The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.” Drool cup to the newsroom, stat.

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Not a massacre, of course, by definition.

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Bear in mind that a “massacre” is what occurs when one or more Palestinians are killed by Israelis. When a suicide bomber blows up dozens of Jews, or a Qassam rocket drops into a school, that’s not a massacre. It’s an act of random vandalism, or a criminal matter to be investigated by the appropriate authorities, or justifiable resistance against illegal occupation by a foreign power, or an understandable reaction to decades of apartheid oppression.

Take your pick. But, unless Palestinians are dead, it’s not a massacre.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California.