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Read it. Progress, of sorts.

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The United States must scrap the current structure of the State Department and radically reshape its foreign assistance, trade and diplomatic programs to create a super-size international affairs agency to meet overseas challenges, a majority in a congressionally mandated bipartisan commission will recommend tomorrow.

The mind boggles to contemplate what a “super-size agency” (in comparison to the current State Department) would look like. Last time I looked, the State Department wasn’t what you’d call small.

 The dissenters instead urged elevating foreign assistance and international development to a new Cabinet-level agency, according to a copy of the commission’s final report.

I’m waiting for the Mohair Subsidy folks to have their own Cabinet-level agency. It seems only fair.

No hint of any suggestion as to how to make sure that the State Department, super-sized or not, contains at least a majority of people who, you know, actually put the interests of the American people ahead of those of foreigners, which would appear to be the real problem with the State Department.

Read it. Unfortunately, “No Child Left Behind” accomplishes its magic by making sure that no child gets ahead.

Read it. A sordid tale of government bureaucracy at its most corrupt, from the newspaper that attempts daily to convince the entire country that things are different if we just make the bureaucracy big enough.

Read it. A sordid tale of government bureaucracy at its most callous, from a newspaper that attempts daily to persuade the whole country that things will be different with health care.

Read it. The toys are nice — when they work.

Read it. And there was much rejoicing.

Is there no nook or cranny of American life that some Democrat will overlook having the federal government regulate? Apparently not. And the Washington Post is there to cheer him on.

Read it. Experts explain the weasel-words endemic to “intelligence” estimates. As if anybody gave a shit other than the people busy covering their asses. Your tax dollars at work. Enjoy.

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Guess which side the government is on.

Now guess which side is winning.

And YOUR tax money is paying for this.

Suckers.

Read it. What happens when politics gets involved in providing goods and services.

Read it. Why I won’t be voting for Guiliani. If I ever vote for a crook, it will be a Democrat crook.

Read it. No surprises here.

Read it. Take money from people who aren’t likely to vote for you and give it to people whose relatives probably will. Sounds like Democrats to me.

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Leaders of the Seminole Tribe of Florida have spent millions of dollars from the group’s vast casino income on themselves and their relatives, a newspaper reported Sunday.

You would think they were in Congress or something.

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 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said he called the pro forma sessions because the Bush administration had informed him the president would be making recess appointments during the current congressional layoff.

What a great way to ensure that they never tell him about it beforehand again. Way to go, Harry!

Read it. Well, duh. That’s what pork is all about. That’s why Non-Asian Minorities overwhelmingly vote Democrat.

Read it. Sometimes the system works.

The Democratic scheme to present President George W. Bush with a bill that he could not veto seemed a clever strategy, but it was based on presumption of Republican ignorance and cowardice.

Well, usually that’s a safe bet.

Read it. To be read to the tune of the Beatles “Tax Man”.

Read it. The best Congress money can buy.

Of course, if they didn’t have so much power over people’s incomes, this situation would never have arisen.

Read it. The only thing that saves us is that we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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

Read it. Unions invariably destroy the industries that they dominate. We’ve seen it from manufacturing, we’re seeing it in autos, and we can expect to see it in government. This is a plain fact from history. Are so many people actively delusional?

Read it. If you buy a Congressman, you can be a pork barrel too.

Read it. Another dirty little secret laid bare.

Read it. To what extent will this devalue H.S. diplomas from Maryland, as affirmative action has damaged the resumés of black people?

Read it. Good old Ted Stevens, the gift that keeps on giving.

Even Steve Sailer sometimes gets it wrong. Perhaps if we paid our military a competitive wage, they wouldn’t look elsewhere for work? Hmm? Actually, they ought to be paid higher than market, including a premium for the risk of getting shot. But no — people like Steve want their monopsony. Dorks.

The dirty little truth is that working for the government means being paid less than a competent person could make in private industry … which is why most government employees come from the shallow end of the gene pool, and take their bonus in petty exercises of power that this monopsony gives them.

And if Steve had bothered to do a little research, he would have found out that “Blackwater” is the name of the area in which their headquarters is located. Don’t go Ron Paul on us, here, Steve.

Read it. And laugh.

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Wash: “Gee, college is good. But not everyone can afford to go. We’d better subsidize it.”

Rinse: “Wow, demand for college has sure jumped.”

Repeat: “Whoa, the cost for college has gone up a lot. We’d better increase the subsidy.”

A basic requirement for any sane political system is demonstrable evidence that candidates for office are familiar with elementary economics. (In case you were wondering, no, we don’t have one of those.)

Read it. I have an idea — let’s not subsidize farmers at all.

Read it. Actually, I think a good case can be made for gerrymandering — at least it ensures that the majority of people in a district have a representative they approve of.

Read it. Actually, the best way for a politician to sell a book is to run for President. I wonder how many of these not-a-prayer candidates are doing it just to make a little money.

Read it. Gives new meaning to the phrase “the old college try”.

Read it. Well, it’s not as if the Air Force were actually military….

Read it. It’s all a game with many moves, and what you see is not always what you get.

Read it. Why don’t you just go investigate yourself?

Read it. Guess tax cuts really work, huh.

Read it. I guess Scientology is comparatively normal after all.

Inside Politics.

Read it. Boy, that didn’t last long, did it?

Read it. Hey, if we go to war against the Indians again, this could prove pretty useful.

Read it. Bulletproof pork. Whoda thunit?

Read it. This makes an extraordinary amount of sense, and hence has no prayer of being implemented.

Read it. What, no free school for illegal immigrants at American taxpayers’ expense any more. Outrageous!

I guess enforcement works; it just takes a while.

Read it. Bean counters in the service of silly ideology.

As a rule, the concept of hate crimes bothers me. I have trouble understanding why a criminal deserves a worse punishment because he or she is thinking a specific hateful thought than a person who commits the same crime who is not thinking that same specific thought. The legislating of which hateful thoughts are worse than others is another concept that bothers me.

Well, it bothers me too. Hate crime? As opposed to what, a love crime? Please.  But that’s not the weird part.

Once again, officials are trying to figure out what people are thinking at the moment when they commit crimes. If a Sunni bandit kills a Shia merchant for money, is it a “sectarian” or “hate” crime? What if the same bandit kills the same merchant while screaming “die, apostate, die”? Is it a “sectarian” crime if he stabs the victim, but not if he shoots him?

Your tax money is paying for this nonsense, people.  Enjoy.

Read it. Boy, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Read it. Libertarianism works. If government goods and services were dependable, there wouldn’t be all these private security companies around.

Read it. What a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Read it. Nothing steams a politician more than missing an opportunity to demonstrate lack of principle in a politically profitable way. “They never let poor Susan / Join in all their RINO games….”