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From reading it, I must assume this is a parody. I would have a hard time taking usage advice from someone who misuses ‘should’ in the place of ‘ought’.

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But was 2012 really the warmest year on record in the U.S.? It may have been, but the truth is that we don’t know. There are two reasons for this. First, the historical data sets published by NCDC and NOAA lack integrity. Those organizations, which receive many millions of government dollars to promote global warming theory, do not publish raw data. Rather, as we explained here, they first adjust the data. How do they adjust it? They depress the temperatures that were actually recorded in past decades, in order to make today’s temperatures look warmer by comparison….

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Then there is the fact that weather stations in the U.S. are generally sited in areas that are getting warmer for reasons having nothing to do with global warming, i.e., urbanization. Moreover, Anthony Watts’s research found that no less than 89% of weather stations in the U.S. fail to comply with the National Weather Service’s own siting requirements because they are located too close to heat sources.

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In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, CNN’s Piers Morgan found a cause: gun control. Now some Americans want him deported. And…

Oh, sorry: You’re wondering who Piers Morgan is.

Well, I’m not, but most normal people might be.

He draws half the viewers of Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow in the same time slot.

That many? Color me surprised.

I can spare those Americans who want me deported a lot of effort by saying this: If you don’t change your gun laws to at least try to stop this relentless tidal wave of murderous carnage, then you don’t have to worry about deporting me….I would…seriously consider deporting myself.

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

George Will spanks a Stanford law professor.

Karlan’s disdain for the Citizens United decision — which held that Americans do not forfeit their First Amendment rights when they choose to speak collectively through corporate entities — is muddled. She denounces “spending by outside groups” without explaining what they are outside of. Evidently she accepts the self-interested assumption of the political class — the parties and candidates — that elections are their property and independent participants are trespassers. Karlan approvingly quotes the unsubstantiated assertion of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer — itself disdainful of elected officials to whom Karlan urges vast deference — that contributions “buy candidates’ allegiance.” She seems unaware that abundant social science demonstrates that contributors respond to candidates’ behavior, not the reverse. And when darkly warning about campaign contributions from corporations’ “management,” she seems unaware that much of the corporate political spending is by nonprofit advocacy corporations — Planned Parenthood, not Microsoft.

It is disappointing when a professor at one of the top law schools in the country is so ignorant and confused.

She concludes: “For if the justices disdain us, how ought we to respond?” Her pronoun radiates democratic sentimentality — “us” conflates the citizenry and Congress. Today, just 18 percent of the citizenry approves of Congress’s performance. What becomes of Karlan’s argument when the conservative justices’ distrust of Congress, for which she disdains them as anti-democratic, is exceeded by the public’s distrust of Congress?

Like most progressives, she has a Maoist view of democracy — democracy is only truly democracy when it agrees with the views of the Crust.

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While liberals on Twitter pointed at the shooting of four firefighters in upstate New York as evidence that more gun control is necessary, NBC News reports that the gunman, one William Spengler, was already banned from owning guns.

Stopped him cold, didn’t they? My, those gun control laws really work, don’t they?

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The typical accusation about the Post and its decline over the last several years is that the paper is too liberal. The problem is even more fundamental than that. The Post‘s writers and editors no longer have any idea what makes an interesting story. It’s as if a hospital hired doctors who did not know the human body. I genuinely think the problem is that simple, and that profound.

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I noted here that the news media’s performance on the Sandy Hook elementary school murders has been terrible, with news outlets committing one factual error after another. Yet in all the calls for “soul searching” that have followed Adam Lanza’s rampage, I haven’t seen a single one suggesting that reporters and editors should reflect on their own conduct, either in publicizing (and thereby encouraging) mass murderers like Lanza, or in making sure they have their facts straight before going public with information.

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I have to assume that it’s fundraising time at the Southern Poverty Law Center, because Morris Dees and company have gone looking for new people to label enemies of the republic. This time, they’ve found those long underappreciated serpents nesting in our midst, notorious fellow-travelers of the Patriot Movement knows as … anarcho-capitalists?

Be sure to check your sock drawer — you never know where they’ll show up.

That even SPLC writer Leah Nelson, may think her organization is reaching a bit far with this one might be indicated by the oddly passive title of the piece, “‘Anarcho-Capitalists’ Seen as Cousins of the ‘Patriot’ Movement.” They are? By whom? Oh. You mean the SPLC sees them as “cousins” yada yada and somehow potentially dangerous and hateful.

We’re self-referential, we’re proud, and we’re in your face. Not to mention your wallet.

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Kyriarchy – a neologism coined by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and derived from the Greek words for “lord” or “master” (kyrios) and “to rule or dominate” (archein) which seeks to redefine the analytic category of patriarchy in terms of multiplicative intersecting structures of domination…Kyriarchy is best theorized as a complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression.

I am not making this up.

Sarah Palin’s kid’s divorce.

Al Gore’s kid’s divorce.

Media bias? What media bias?

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… climate alarmists have been remarkably adept at defining fringe views as the mainstream skeptic position, a sort of bait and switch that allows them to avoid debating the more difficult topics (for example, the proposition that the Earth’s climate system is dominated by strong positive feedbacks is far from settled and a literature review of that critical topic would show an incredibly broad range of results).   In the climate debate, the supposed “Defenders of Science” much prefer painting skeptics as beyond the bounds of polite society and therefore unworthy of response to actually debating the difficult points.

‘Climate-changers’ lie. Who knew?

I’m still waiting for someone to demonstrate how they can accurately measure the temperature of the entire planet to an accuracy of one tenth of a degree centigrade. Then we can discuss how exactly that allows them to predict what will happen in the future. Then we can discuss how exactly that justifies them blaming it on human activity. Then we can discuss the extent to which this aggregate overall warming is a Bad Thing. Then we can discuss what, if anything, can be done about it. Then we can discuss whether or not the proposed cure is worse than the situation it purports to cure.

So far they haven’t even reached first base, much less brought in the winning run. All of these fanciful ‘peer-reviewed climate articles’ are based on estimates, approximations, models, and highly questionable assumptions, and are science in the same way that astrology might be called science — yeah, there are some correlations here, but no demonstrated causal links, and that’s the key part.

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    Think about it for a second. The president loves basketball. He has an Indian name, he knows what it’s like to be poor and he hasn’t forgotten where he came from. And his theme song is “Hail to the Chief.” I think he definitely qualifies as the first American Indian president.

‘Has an Indian name?’ ‘Knows what it’s like to be poor’? Did they have a Jay Silverheels impersonator standing in for the President? And I wasn’t aware that basketball was a particularly Indian sport.

I suppose the fact that the throws like a girl makes him the first female president. Well, better him than Hillary. Congrats, Barry; don’t get your tits in the wringer.

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Just another silly politically fashionable Crustian buzzword, apparently.

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In conversations with POLITICO, some of the left’s most influential voices in media said that, with the concerns of re-election over, they intend to be more critical of the president’s performance and more aggressive in urging him to pursue a progressive agenda as the clock ticks on his last four years in office.

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

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Oh, really? What a novel idea….

Read it. And watch the video, if you’ve got ten minutes to throw away that you never want to have back.

Cheap entertainment for your Monday — I wouldn’t let this clown near any sick person if I had anything to say about it.

My first idea was to seek other opinions. Maybe this hospital is wrong. Maybe there are other places that wouldn’t need to do surgery. Maybe there is a laser, a chemical, an ancient tradition, a shaman, a scientist, a nanorobot.

As you might have guessed, he’s an artiste, and so knows very little about the real world.

My main objective — the best thing I felt that I could do — was to make my digital information available on the Internet, in formats that would allow people of multiple cultures, skills, professions and inclinations to access, use, recombine and redistribute it.

In other words, he’s depending on other people to cure him — for free. A poster child for the New World Order.

I see a cure as a dynamic process, in which multiple doctors, professionals, artists, scientists and others join as a society — to converse, support each other, be open to various contributions and shape solutions that merge humanity, technology, technique, philosophy and art. Creativity and “normal life” become part of the process and bring “diseased” people back to life.

I guess the important part is to realize that being cured is not a physical thing but a state of mind. All together now: ‘I feel cured. I feel cured.’

William Jacobson fisks Nicholas Kristof of the NYT (granted, not a high bar).

I just visited relatives on Long Island for Thanksgiving, and the stumps of downed trees were everywhere.  There was a failure — most likely of prophylactic tree trimming, lack of emergency planning by LIPA, and failure to coordinate outside help – but none of that has anything to do with federal spending on the national grid.

Moreover, a back-up generator is like insurance, there when you need it, not a substitute for the grid.  Why would someone like Kristof consider it a bad thing for individuals to self-insure against the next Sandy?

But most of all, where is the link between marginal tax rates and (a) the percentage of total taxes actually paid by top income earners, which has risen in the last 50 years, and (b) the electric grid.  Assuming the false arguendo that higher marginal rates would have resulted in more tax revenue, where is the evidence it would have been spent on the national electric grid, rather than pork projects and giveaways for political constituencies?

The column goes on with a long list of similar non-sequiturs involving police services and gated communities, schools systems and private schools, and so on.

Completely ignored is that government spending is going through the roof, including on police and schools, yet we have little to show for it.  The answer for Kristof, more of the same.

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Jihadists are becoming expert and posed atrocities that cater to simple-minded mainstream media folks, and sometimes the MSM folks are accomplices in the deception.

I wrote a knowledgeable observer to ask whether he could shed any light on the suspicions I express in “Jihad poses for the cameras.” In response he invited me to check out the footage that the BBC played over its interview with Jonathan Sacerdoti last night. He observes:

2:10 – guy being picked up “injured.”

2:40 – same guy wandering around scratching his bits and pieces.

UPDATE: Some screen-shots.

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Black Chicagoans from the south and west sides took their message to what they say is the source of the problem when they converged outside of a fundraiser held by Mayor Emanuel for Barack Obama and then marched to the studios of ABC News.

Their message, “let us work in our own community,” was made all the more poignant as the ABC News crew ignored the news event outside their very studious. Not one camera was sent to cover the news that was, literally, placed at their doorstep.

Media bias? What media bias?

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He’s not a Magic Negro. How boring is that?

Photographer Gene Young thinks Romney could force the paparazzi to abandon Washington altogether.

“If he were to win, you might have, say, Kelsey Grammer or Jon Voight, but that’s not money you can make off the photographers,” said Young. “You’re not going to have the Eva Longoria, Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith, the big name A-Listers who come and support Barack Obama. … You’ll have to travel or maybe you’ll have to find something totally different to shoot.”

Photographer and autographer collector Mark Wilkins said a Romney administration would “bring back the same old boring celebrities we saw back when Bush was around.”

“Trace Adkins, all those country stars that no one really cares about,” said Wilkins. “I hope Romney doesn’t get elected because it will slow things down. Right now, there are celebs visiting the White House, four, five times a week that we don’t even know about until after they leave. Romney? Who wants to visit Romney?”

The horror! The horror!

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As it so happens, I’ve written on this issue before. So let me lazily quote myself rather than come up with something new. Specifically, I’m pulling from a piece I wrote for the Las Vegas Review-Journal after Hurricane Katrina.

But government officials really did prevent experienced private relief organizations and convoys of supplies from reaching people in need in the wake of Katrina. Police and bus drivers really did abandon their posts. And private companies really were ready to help.

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While you at it, I’d like a pony and a new iPad.

Freebergnails it, as he so often does.

See, I have this belief about assholes: We can disagree about whether or not a specific person is one, or is behaving like one within a defined setting as we evaluate some defined behavior of his, with reasonable points presented on both sides of such a disagreement. Right up until the individual is trying to be one. Asshole-ish-ness gets an automatic A for effort; if you’re working at it, it really doesn’t matter what the achievement is. People manage to do asshole things all the time without characteristically behaving like assholes, or without the personality deficiencies of assholes, but you don’t apply yourself toward asshole effort unless you’re an asshole.

Yes, that applies to sitting United States Presidents. What an asshole! “We have these things called aircraft carriers…”

One of the things that the debate brought out is that Obama really is an arrogant ass. See, if you’re running for President, and you’re in a public debate that supposedly demonstrates your qualifications for that job, you don’t talk to your opponent in a voice dripping with contempt as if his comment were beneath your notice. (Well, maybe if it’s Jimmy Carter. But otherwise: no.) I do my best to avoid looking at Obama but I’m sure he was rolling his eyes as he said it.

Mull this statement over in your mind a minute or two, and it becomes clear: Some teenager at heart, having successfully used elaborate Marxist rhetoric to get out of garbage-hauling duty for the entirety of his young, snot-nosed existence, managed to bullshit His way into the White House. That is a problem, and by no means a small one.

And that is the basic flaw with Obama. He needs to grow up. He needs to approach life in an adult manner. He needs to act like the President of the United States, not just the Homecoming King.

Even disregarding the ideological spectrum, this is precisely what I do not want to see in the Oval Office, this swaggering hipster can’t-be-told-anything mentality.

That’s what this election is all about: Putting the adults back in charge, and sending the Bros back to the frat house.

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The International Cycling Union announced Monday that Armstrong is being stripped of his Tour de France titles.

And yet he still won the races — a historical fact. How are they going to get around that? The Ministry of Truth doesn’t yet have an effective Memory Hole, much as the International Crust might wish they had one available.

“The UCI has tested Lance Armstrong 218 times. If Lance Armstrong was able to beat the system, then the responsibility for addressing that rests not only with the UCI but also with” the anti-doping agencies that accepted the results, the cycling union said in its statement.

Ann Althouse brings up an interesting point:

 Shouldn’t the UCI be stripped of something for missing the evidence? I’d like damages for all the time I’ve wasted paying attention to this sport. If all those races are now to be understood as phony, all of the money that anybody made promoting and presenting this sport was a big fraud. Stripping Armstrong of his titles doesn’t restore what we’ve lost.

Actually, I’m inclined to believe Armstrong over some semi-government agency. Their statements sound like the classic mentally-deranged conspiracy theory: ‘The fact that we found no evidence of doping merely underlines the insidious nefarious nature of his evil plot!’

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Walk into most tech companies and you’ll be greeted by the same picture – a room made up entirely of men. You can practically smell the testosterone.

Uh, no. Programmers are not known for excessive levels of testosterone — those guys do football and sales, not Javascript.

The technology industry is still struggling to shake off the image of the male, pizza-guzzling, antisocial nerd – a perception that initiatives like this month’s Ada Lovelace day – which celebrates the role of women in technology – and Lady Geek’s “Little Miss Geek” campaign, are striving to change.

And, of course, pizza-guzzling (how do you ‘guzzle’ a pizza?), antisocial nerds are justly famed for their testosterone. Watch a couple episodes of CHUCK and you’ll be convinced.

Although women fill close to half of all jobs in the US economy, they hold less than 25% of jobs in the science and technology sector, according to a government report. In the UK, the problem is even worse: currently only 17% of jobs in the technology sector are held by women. Both numbers are declining year-on-year.

Conspicuous by its absence: Any explanation as to why this is a ‘problem’; it’s just assumed, in the sure and certain knowledge that anyone reading a BBC article will know, just know, that it is.

Can you say ‘political agenda’? I’m sure you can.

So long as shiny new gadgets keep flying off the shelves, what does it matter who’s making them?

A good question. Let’s see whether it gets answered. My money is on No.

It’s all very well appealing to a tech chief exec’s sense of social injustice – but the bottom line is that they are running a business.

Gee, there’s that pesky political agenda again — the definition of ‘social injustice’, and how it differs from just plain ol’ ‘injustice’, is left as an exercise for the reader (no pun intended).

What do they care about gender diversity, really?

Indeed, why ought anyone to care about ‘gender diversity’ (i.e. Jobs For The Girls)? Again, one of those Politically Correct Good Things That All Right Thinking People Want Without Knowing Why.

We ultimately need to appeal to the thing that matters most: their wallets.

Feel free to wonder about who the ‘we’ is in that sentence. Hint: It’s probably not you, unless you get your news from MSNBC.

That’s why every chief executive should be made aware of the following stat: tech companies with more women on their management teams have a 34% higher return on investment.

Repeat after me the magic phrase: ‘Correlation does not imply causation’. I guess they don’t teach logic in Gender Studies 101.

The reasons are obvious.

Are they really? Really?

Diversity is important in any industry, but is especially relevant when it comes to technology.

Why? No discussion, just assertion. After all, we’re preaching to the choir here. It seems plausible that diversity of products is important, and perhaps diversity of approaches, but I know of no peer-reviewed studies that hook this up uniquely with two X chromosomes.

Tech is the way that world talks to each other. People have never emailed, liked, commented, called, messaged and tweeted more than we are doing right now. And guess what? Half of all those people are women.

And guess what? They seem to be using the current male-created tools just fine. (Men, just to use one example, don’t typically spend a lot of time posting cat videos on YouTube. Yet there they are.) So how are women uniquely qualified to create products for women to use? Is there a secret handshake or IP address or something?

It’s not that we believe women are better or more effective than men – they just simply provide a different point of view, something that is vital when bringing a new product to market.

And that’s why marketing tends to be dominated by females — certainly the marketing departments of every company I’ve ever worked for seem to be run that way. Why do we especially need women writing code in order to create products that appeal to women? ‘Sharon, would you buy this program?’ ‘Hell, no.’ ‘What would you buy?’ ‘Something that makes it easier to put cute videos of my cat on YouTube.’ ‘Okay, boys, there’s our product spec. Let’s get to it.’

What special skillset do women as women bring to the creation of these products? The answer is not provided.

Well, we could do this sort of barrel-fish-shooting all day, but my fingers are getting tired.

(Oh, you might want to look for any mention of the author’s technical credentials. All I see is a celebration of her ability to get her opinions into print — not exactly the sort of person I’d hire to do a web site or a search algorithm. Perhaps the smell of testosterone gave her the vapors.)

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Democrats are all about feminism — so long as women stay on the Democrat plantation.

“The fact that they use this theme of Martha McSally in a kitchen cooking up recipes is…overtly sexist and insulting to any woman, but it certainly doesn’t fit specifically with me,” she said. “For crying out loud, I served 26 years in the military. I was too busy shooting 30 mm out of my A-10 at the Taliban and al Qaeda to spend any time in a kitchen.”

My kinda girl. I’d vote for her, if I lived in Arizona, which thank God I don’t.

How politics became a business.

Political ‘consultants’ — corrupting our politics (for a modest fee) since 1933.

Of course, since it’s The New Yorker, Republicans are the villains of the piece (all the specific Bad Examples cited are Republicans, like that Enemy of Mankind Nixon (boo, hiss); no mention of the Clintons, James Carville, or Paul Begala, much less of Tommy Boggs), and the examples are all stuff that Right Thinking People Support While Cretinous Republicans Oppose, like compulsory health insurance (‘But they turned the President’s sensible, popular, and urgently needed legislative reform into a bogeyman so scary that, even today, millions of Americans are still scared.’), but it’s still an interesting read, if only for the way in which they point the Finger of Indignation at slanted tendentious writing while practicing the same thing themselves.

Nicholas Kristof thinks that life is a kindergarten, where Teacher is in charge and the supreme achievement is Play Nicely With Others.

The problem: Reality isn’t a place in which all of the toys are already provided and the chief worry is a fair ‘distribution’.

The tragic flaw of Kristof and his fellow Crustians is that they all read Rawls in college and actually believed it.

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 Since the dawn of the space age, more than 20 000 objects larger than a softball have accumulated in Earth’s orbit. About 1000 of those objects are spacecraft that carry active payloads, serving many valuable missions for mankind. But the rest could best be called junk, the by-product of thousands of launches and routine spacecraft deployments, nearly 200 explosions, and several collisions. And this junk poses a serious problem.

Not to me, it doesn’t. I’m sure that the people for whom it does represent a problem, i.e. the people (mostly governments and corporations) who have satellites up, are aware of it and taking whatever action they think is appropriate. (Or maybe not – the chief achievement of government employees, including NASA, is to kick the can down the road.)

This sort of the-sky-is-falling thumbsucker of an article is why there are so many hysterical buttinskys wandering around.

How do we change our ways?

What do you mean ‘we’, paleface? ‘We’ don’t. It’s not been demonstrated that it’s any of ‘our’ business.

One of the ugliest features of modern ‘journalism’ is the habitual, reflexive tendency to find something that can be characterized as a problem, and then JUMP to the conclusion that it’s some sort of character flaw in ‘us’ that ‘we’ need to fix. And the MUST HAVE proposed solution is invariably something that the government MUST DO, at taxpayer expense.

NASA continues to fight a growing hazard with what has been, at best, a level budget.

Translation: WE NEED MORE MONEY!!!!! (Not surprising when you look at who’s writing the article..)

What NASA—and the world—needs is a clear mandate.

I’ll give you a ‘clear mandate’: Mind your own bloody business.

You want to ‘fix’ this ‘problem’, fine, it’s your problem, you pay for the fix. Put YOUR money where YOUR mouth is, leech.

At least in Wisconsin.

A frequent state Capitol protester known for navigating the statehouse on a Segway was charged Monday with two counts of misdemeanor disorderly conduct for allegedly harassing journalists working in and near the second-floor Capitol press room.

Of course, when they do it to you, they’re just doing their jobs….

Nicholas Kristof has a Blind Pig moment.

“PISS CHRIST,” a famous photograph partly financed by taxpayers, depicted a crucifix immersed in what the artist said was his own urine. But conservative Christians did not riot on the Washington Mall.

“The Book of Mormon,” a huge hit on Broadway, mocks the church’s beliefs as hocus-pocus. But Mormons haven’t burned down any theaters.

So why do parts of the Islamic world erupt in violence over insults to the Prophet Muhammad?

Perhaps because Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology under the guise of a religion, with which no co-existence is possible.

Perhaps because Islam is a deliberate construct by Satan in an attempt to destroy the Jews, God’s chosen people.

The possibilities are endless, although writing for theNew York Times bars Kristof from considering the obvious ones:

Let me try to address that indelicate question, and a related one: Should we curb the freedom to insult religions that are twitchy?

So, in the face of massive evidence that Islam is a murderous, dysfunctional belief system, Kristof turns his head to the side to consider ‘religions that are twitchy’. The term ‘clueless’ seems totally inadequate, like going up to an ax-murderer caught in the act and pondering whether we ought to criticize the fact that he has tattoos.

I guess the pig is still blind. False alarm.

The Atlantic completes it’s transition to a full-on Lefty rag.

Look at the “Voices” sidebar titles if you doubt it.

Ross Douthat is disgusted. Unfortunately, he’s hung up on this whole ‘moral equivalence’ hobby-horse that he needs to ride if he’s going to keep his lucrative gig at the New York Times, so he’s pretty much a walking illustration of what’s wrong with America.

For rich Republicans, the stereotype is all about the money: They have it, other Americans don’t, and those resentful, entitled others might just have enough votes to wage class warfare and redistribute the donors’ hard-earned millions to the indolent and irresponsible.

Which is the stone cold truth that very few are willing even to admit to themselves, much less utter in public.

For rich Democrats, the stereotype is all about the culture wars: They think they’ve built an enlightened society, liberated from archaic beliefs and antique hang-ups, and yet these Jesus freaks in flyover country are mobilizing to restore the patriarchy.

Which is a fantasy ‘progressives’ have clung to since Teddy Roosevelt. It’s the equation of truth with fantasy that makes Douthat such a caricature of a columnists, a would-be David Brooks pandering to his paymasters by licking their hands while peeing on their legs in hopes that this somehow will be interpreted as ‘balance’.

Hence the category Axis of Drivel, which (besides being a clever pun) is pretty much an exact description of our modern information media.

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I guess the goober doesn’t fall far from the bush.

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Frankly when I saw the release about Fquare’s launch I thought it would be about crowdfunding for… I don’t know… food? Buying cows? Anyways, it turns out it’s about something pretty cool for struggling farmers out there. This is about investing in farmland and potentially keeping hard-pressed farmers on the land in a totally new way.

And if that works, they’ll do the same with blacksmiths, buggy-whip makers, and God knows what next.

Face it, clowns, the 40-acres-and-a-mule model of the ‘family farm’ is as obsolete as kerosene lamps and cracker barrels. Try to keep up.

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An American Ambassador and three American security guards were butchered, anti-American riots broke out across the Middle East, a U.S. Embassy both before and after being stormed issued apologies for the exercise of our constitutional rights, our Secretary of State practically prostrated herself, the President had a good night’s sleep through it all and then went to Vegas for a fundraiser, and Mitt Romney commented intelligently on the absurdity of it all.

So on whom did the media collectively and in unison lash out?  Mitt Romney.

Media bias? What media bias?

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

Maybe we ought to start a web site called “90 Days, 90 Reasons Why Obama Sucks”. We could start with his golf game.

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Apparently the preferred retirement occupation for those who have gotten rich from shuffling numbers around is to stride the highways and byways warning against those evil rich people. (Funny, I don’t see any of them giving the money back.)

Quite frankly, I’d be more impressed if one of these Lame-Stream Media outlets could find a ‘journalist’ who actually knew what the term ‘oligarch’ meant…. Obama is an oligarch. Harry Reid is an oligarch. John Kerry is an oligarch. Vladimir Putin is an oligarch. George Soros is merely a corrupt rich guy.

Read it. But don’t bother watching the video; it’s just more of the same old shit.

Barack Obama last night told residents of America’s Gulf Coast that they should evacuate their homes if necessary and that they should not to “tempt fate” as Tropical Storm Isaac was upgraded to a category one hurricane.

Because, you know, if he didn’t, then they would just ignore it, having no experience of hurricanes on the Gulf coast.

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These are the 1%, if anyone is. I’ll leave you to guess how many of them support Obama.

But everybody knows that The Filthy Rich Are Republicans, right? Right.

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

Although the dimwitted refuse to acknowledge it, merely calling yourself a Republican doesn’t make you a Republican, any more than calling watch a Rolex makes it a Rolex.

Certain people run for election as ‘Republicans’ because the competition for pro-government pro-welfare pro-degeneracy candidates is less in the Republican party than it is in the Democrat party, and there are a lot of apparatchiks in the Republican party who regard it as some sort of sports contest in which winning is everything so they’re willing to play along. Nanny Bloomberg in New York is one such (Hey, it worked for John Lindsay, didn’t it?), and Charlie ‘The Tuna’ Crist in Florida is another.

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One of Barack Obama’s recent ads for his re-election campaign purports to feature Republican women who have turned away from the GOP to support Obama/Biden. But, as it turns out, one of the women in the ad is not so “Republican.”

Maria Ciano has been a registered Democrat for the last six years — several years longer than Obama has been president — according to her voting records.

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… which doesn’t hold a candle to how much Republicans are turned off by the sniveling toady-to-the-left positions espoused by the current so-called ‘Conservative’ Party in Britain.

Brooks Newmark, a government Whip and MP for Braintree in Essex who was born in the US and campaigned for George Bush Snr as a student, said that Barack Obama remained much more popular with Tory MPs than Mitt Romney and his fiscally conservative running-mate Paul Ryan.

Really, I’m surprised that they dare use the name.

“More importantly the whole Tea Party movement doesn’t sit comfortably with most conservatives in the UK. And the whole Bible-Belt thing; looking to God the whole time; the extreme anti-abortion approach; it just doesn’t sit well with the Conservative Party at all.”

Dude, we left for a reason. Think about it.

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On matters of basic science and peer-reviewed knowledge, from evolution to climate change to elementary fiscal math, many Republicans in power cling to a level of ignorance that would get their ears boxed even in a medieval classroom. Congress incubates and insulates these knuckle-draggers.

Oh, really? Google the following: Sheilia Jackson-Lee. Cynthia McKinney. Major Owen. All Democrat Congresscritters. All dumber than sand. And I don’t even need to bring up Joe Biden, do I?

And when it comes to ‘matters of basic science’ and ‘elementary fiscal math’, I haven’t met a Democrat in my 62 years that knows what a market is or how it works. Getting your ears boxed in a medieval classroom? Most Democrats, put in a medieval classroom and allowed to vent, would get beaten until they couldn’t move for incorrigible stupidity.

Looks like Mr Egan knows as little about Republicans — and Democrats — as he does about medieval classrooms.

And they pay money for this drivel….

Read it.

And lose with dignity, as he did.

Dyspepsia Generation urges Mitt Romney to stay away from RINO squish losers like Bob Dole.

Note to Republicans: Advice from losers can safely be ignored.

Read it.

Yet another hit-piece by our ‘unbiased’ media. The completely factual ‘Romney Uses Data Mining’ is neutral and objective and doesn’t advance the pro-Obama agenda, so they needed to stick in some scare words to make sure everyone gets the message.

Anyone who doesn’t think that the Obama campaign isn’t using data mining to identify potential donors is too stupid to be allowed to vote.

President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has long been known as data-savvy, but Romney’s project appears to take a page from the Fortune 500 business world and dig deeper into available consumer data.

And there you have it: Obama is ‘data-savvy’, Romney is installing TV cameras in your toilet.

An AP analysis this week determined that Romney’s campaign has made impressive inroads into even traditionally Democratic neighborhoods, collecting more than $350,000 this summer around San Francisco in contributions that averaged $400 each.

Of course, it couldn’t possibly be that ‘traditionally Democratic neighborhoods’ might realize that Obama is a slow-motion train wreck, and it couldn’t possibly be that ‘traditionally Democratic neighborhoods’ might harbor people who, you know, actually prefer Romney. Nope, it’s got to be sleazy CORPORATE MANIPULATION. The swine.

High-dollar donors have been essential to Romney’s election effort, unlike Obama, who relies on more contributors giving smaller amounts.

Hollywood will be delighted to hear it — so I guess Morgan Freeman will get his $1,000,000 back? And all those $50,000-a-plate fundraisers that Obama’s been doing are just camouflage? Hey, good that the record is being set straight.

Romney and the GOP have out-fundraised Obama’s re-election effort for the past three months.

And that’s what really burns: People putting their money on the line to Support the Wrong Guy. That’s why this article had to be written, and plastered all over the nation’s front page; the first in a never-ending drumbeat until November.

Read it.

New ice core data from the Antarctic Peninsula has revealed that temperatures in the region during the past 10,000 years have often been higher than they are today, and that warming of the sort seen there recently has also occurred in the pre-industrial past.

Shucks – all that Global Warming hysteria, wasted. Well, better luck next time.

Thomas Friedman is a comedian but just doesn’t know it.

This is like Stalin writing an article on Jeffersonian democracy.

True conservatives know that both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush used both tax revenue and spending cuts to fix budget shortfalls.

Actually, true conservatives know that Reagan accepted increased taxes as the price he had to pay to get Democrats to agree to spending cuts that then never happened — in effect, he was rolled by Tip O’Neill & co. And George H.W. Bush isn’t a model that any true conservative would want to emulate. But Friedman, a classic Beltway liberal, has a definition of ‘true conservative’ that only another Beltway liberal would recognize. I’m sure he things of Andrew Sullivan and David Brooks as ‘true conservatives’.

John Hinderaker has some fun bashing biased reporting.

Mayer, no believer in Occam’s Razor, hypothesizes that the problem is that rich Republican donors are greedy, while rich Democratic donors are altruistic:

    Creating a sense of intimacy with the President is especially important with Democratic donors, a frustrated Obama fund-raiser argues: “Unlike Republicans, they have no business interest being furthered by the donation—they just like to be involved. So it makes them more needy. It’s like, ‘If you’re not going to deregulate my industry, or lower my taxes, can’t I at least get a picture?’”

This is profoundly stupid. Given the endless overreach of the federal government, every substantial business is affected by federal laws and regulations. Democratic businessmen have “business interests” just like Republican businessmen–leave my industry alone, or regulate my competitors, or don’t single out my industry for a destructive tax, or don’t adopt a stupid regulation. Or pay my business money: when the federal government spends $3 1/2 trillion a year, it is supporting not just a lot of senior citizens, but a lot of businesses, too.