Pogue. Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

Read it. Lest you think it’s all sweetness and light around here.

Read it. Well, the worthwhile of us do. As for the rest, hey, some people eat okra.

Read it. Well, the worthwhile of us do. As for the rest, hey, some people eat okra.

Read it. You will of course remember the famous scene in the first Michael York Three Musketeers movie.

Read it. One of the few theoretical discussions I’ve seen on the subject.

Read it. Wisdom from John Stossel. “No one washes a rental car.”

Read it. David Brooks attempts to explain what’s going on in China.

Imagine the Ivy League taking over the shell of the Communist Party and deciding not to change the name. Imagine the Harvard Alumni Association with an army.

And that’s not the strange part….

Ross Douthat has an interesting perspective. Apparently it’s a struggle for market share.

Read it. A lot of inconvenient truth here.

Read it. Not something you normally spend much time thinking about.

Read it. And take your pick. Not a libertarian? Fie upon you then.

Read it. I would say your parents, but that’s just me.

Read it. This comes recommended to me as the best review available — advice that is worth what you paid for it.

Peggy Noonan.

Read it. It has truly been too long.

Read it. Pretty embarassing when the French are more sensible than we are.

Read it. Not sure I’d be as willing as he is to give polemicists the benefit of the doubt with respect to these questions, but I’m naturally a cynical and suspicious personality.

Read it. George Will spanks some Democrats. Fun to watch.

Steve Sailer points out a good reason to have the death penalty.

Of course, those who maintain that the death penalty doesn’t provide any deterrent effect will deny this.

Read it. I am of two minds about this sort of thing. On the one hand, social pressure has for millenia been the way that what, for want of a better term, one might call “good manners” have been enforced. On the other, we often wind up in Romeo-and-Juliet situations that can be pretty tragic. I suspect that it will be a while before we work out a livable balance between these two concerns; I’m hoping that it will be sooner rather than later.

Read it. Steve Sailer talks about Shelby Steele talk about Barack Obama. Well, I guess you had to be there.

Read it. There’s still a long way to go.

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Thomas Sowell points out some inconvenient truth.

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Read it. Impossible to say, really.

Robert Novak pulls the trigger.

Read it. Well, maybe because Muslims (unlike Communists) are nutters? That’s just a theory, you understand.

Read it. I wonder whether that trick works on spam comments too?

Nobody told me, before I started this blog, that the chief expense is tracking down the people who put spam links in the comments and then paying someone to go break their fingers. It can add up.

Read it. And take it to heart.

Sometimes Steve Sailer comes up with some pretty scary stuff. Tell the truth: Would you want to breed from any of these people? I am not optimistic about our species.

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Read it. Hint: No.

John Stossel points out that Thanksgiving is about showing how socialism doesn’t work.

Read it. They might could.

Read it. Never had this problem with Western Electric.

Read it. Why must everyone pick on Shatner?

Rod Dreher has some inconvenient truth.

Thomas Sowell is always worth reading.

Read it. Giving New Zealand a run for its money.

Steve Sailer gets back to basics. As my old granny used to say, “Trash comes from trash.”

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

Read it. I wonder what it must be like to have a life that consists of one eternal anxiety attack.

Read it. Is bad grammar hazardous to your health?

Mickey Kaus is one of those rare people, a liberal with interesting ideas.

Some problems are loaf-splitting problems–funding for the arts, maybe, or roads. They’re easy to solve. But I’d argue that precisely because they’re easy to solve most of them have been solved already. The problems we’re left with are problems where one side or the other is willing to fight to the death to protect a core demand that must be denied to achieve a solution.

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Mona Charen sums up what’s wrong with Ron Paul.

Read it. Just what we need….

David Friedman, a person smarter than you or I, has some advice.