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A US psychologist has warned of the dire consequences of a “stunning rise” in “vanity” names for kids, revealing that no less than 811 “Messiahs” were proclaimed during 2012, joining 243 Princesses, 588 Princes and a whopping 1,423 Kings on the list of newborns.

Jean Twenge used Social Security data to identify a growing trend among parents to slap their unfortunate sprog with glorious monikers, using infants as “opportunities to show off”, as the New York Post puts it.

Bet most of them are Democrats. Think about it.

Twenge – the co-author of The Narcissism Epidemic – puts this sorry state of affairs down to society’s “increasing vanity”. She said: “From the research literature we know that people who score high in narcissism also score high in trait called ‘need for uniqueness’.?When you get into these name that proclaims the child’s greatness, that takes it to the next level.”

Don’t forget ‘cluelessness’ and ‘viewing kids as fashion accessories rather than actual human beings’.

“Narcissism is toxic to others and to society. Narcissists tend to lack empathy, they tend not to be interested in helping others, they are aggressive when threatened and they take more for themselves and give less for others.

Democrats to a T.

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And who can blame them? Government welfare programs have been erected on the backs of providers since time out of mind. I’m surprised we have any people willing to practice medicine any more.

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What’s wrong with Kansas, as Thomas Friedman so famously asked? Well, it keeps electing people like Bob Dole and Kathleen Sibelius, who then go on to blight the entire country with their presence.

Speaking of resignations, how about Barack Obama? As I recall, this whole fiasco was his idea in the first place. (Oh, right, I forgot — he’s a congenital narcissist who wouldn’t give up office if his children’s lives depended on it….)

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The US military secretly used a variety of tactics to break the resolve of the Guantánamo Bay hunger strikers, including placing them in solitary confinement if they continued to refuse food, newly declassified interviews with detainees reveal.

Oh, let us weep for the poor terrorists oppressed at Gitmo. Perhaps we ought to do that they do, beat and behead their prisoners.

The key to handling a ‘hunger strike’ is let them starve; their choice, their consequences. Western governments are too soft-hearted to keep their citizens secure, as Gandhi discovered and exploited brilliantly — if the French, Germans, or Italians had been ruling India, he’d have been dead by the side of the road with a bullet in his head the first time he tried any of that shit, and the world would have been saved a lot of mawkish foolishness.

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The problem is the plan closest to what he has now will mean a 24 percent increase over his current payment– after subsidies.

And his co-pay for emergency room visits almost tripled — from $125 to $350 — an important factor for a family with two young boys.

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

How do these fools keep believing that getting the government involved in something is going to lower prices? When has that ever happened?

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    1) As to those in the World Trade Center…Let’s get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. …If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I’d really be interested in hearing about it. — Ward Churchill, University of Colorado at Boulder

2) Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents. — Bill Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago

3) The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military…I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus. — Nicholas De Genova, Columbia University

4) There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it’s better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong … not like killing the chimpanzee would be. — Peter Singer, Princeton

5) Real freedom will come when [U.S.] soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors. — John Daly, Warren County Community College

Try to guess how many are paid with your tax dollars.

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A man flashed a gun several times on a crowded commuter train in San Francisco, but passengers were so absorbed in their phones and tablets they didn’t notice until he randomly shot and killed a university student, authorities said.

Boy, it’s a good thing San Francisco has all those strict gun control laws, or the place would wind up like Texas or something.

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Criticize Christianity? Not a problem. Criticize Islam? See you in court.

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In the spring of 2012, a senior examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York determined that Goldman Sachs had a problem.

Under a Fed mandate, the investment banking behemoth was expected to have a company-wide policy to address conflicts of interest in how its phalanxes of dealmakers handled clients. Although Goldman had a patchwork of policies, the examiner concluded that they fell short of the Fed’s requirements.

That finding by the examiner, Carmen Segarra, potentially had serious implications for Goldman, which was already under fire for advising clients on both sides of several multibillion-dollar deals and allegedly putting the bank’s own interests above those of its customers. It could have led to closer scrutiny of Goldman by regulators or changes to its business practices.

Before she could formalize her findings, Segarra said, the senior New York Fed official who oversees Goldman pressured her to change them. When she refused, Segarra said she was called to a meeting where her bosses told her they no longer trusted her judgment. Her phone was confiscated, and security officers marched her out of the Fed’s fortress-like building in lower Manhattan, just 7 months after being hired.

“They wanted me to falsify my findings,” Segarra said in a recent interview, “and when I wouldn’t, they fired me.”

The Crust not only take care of their own, they punish heretics.

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Survivors and family members of nearly 700,000 Haitians who have contracted cholera are suing the United Nations for billions of dollars, accusing the U.N. of covering up its role in starting the worst outbreak of the deadly disease in modern history.

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

The people who founded the U.N., I suspect, had a vision of the Enlightened Nations of the West stepping in to suppress disorder and spread beneficence among ‘developing nations’, as European nations did during the 19th century. What they got was contingents of Third World rent-a-thugs, paid for by unwitting First World taxpayers, under a blanket of tedious and tendentious rhetoric so thing that by itself it promotes Global Warming.

“They have to help us because there are so many kids that are orphans now, that lost their mom, that lost their dads,” said plaintiff Felicia Paule, 45, who survived cholera but lost a daughter, brother and nephew to the disease. “They’re responsible, so they have to help.”

Yeah, well, good luck getting any ‘help’ from the U.N. You’re not part of the gravy train, so you’re not important. Sorry.

The suit will be filed in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday despite the U.N.’s longstanding immunity to all legal claims of wrongdoing.

Don’t forget the unicorn-poop you need to power the process with.

Since the cholera outbreak began near Mirebalais, Haiti in late 2010, just ten months after a devastating earthquake, more than 650,000 Haitians have contracted the disease, which had been unknown in the country for centuries. It has now spread to Venezuela, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, and has now killed more than 8,500 people.

Sounds like the U.N. to me.

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From next year, British atheists and their offspring will be able to join the Scouting movement without having to lie or breach their Scout’s honour, thanks to an amended promise.

All Scouts, and Scout leaders, are required to make the promise. The words vary with age group, and alternatives exist for different religions, but until now there’s been no atheistic version so members who don’t believe in any god have been forced to make an empty promise. But come January, Scouts will get an option on a new promise which takes the Big Guy out of the picture entirely….

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Well guess what, mom?  Turns out new research shows that while most people hold sympathy for environmental causes, it turns out they don’t much like environmentalists.  Or feminists.  And it may have the effect of reducing people’s efforts (I’ll resists saying compliance or submission—more accurate terms in many ways) with the idealism of the mother-earth-saving mothers.  (I mean, if you really want to stare into the abyss, just contemplate environmental feminists.)  I know a lot of people who disdain recycling, even when it makes resource and market sense, simply in healthy reaction to the relentless moral hectoring of environmentalists.

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We already know how software will eat manufacturing (robots and 3D printing) and transportation (self-driving vehicles.) This new servant economy shows us how software will eat much of the service sector; by turning turn many of its existing full-time jobs into a disconnected cloud of temporary gigs.

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The slow transformation of a huge swathe of the economy from steady jobs to an ever-shifting maelstrom of short-term contracts with few-to-no benefits, for which an ever-larger pool of people will compete thanks to ever-lower barriers to entry, in a sector where most jobs are already poorly paid…does this sound to you like it will decrease inequality and increase social mobility? Maybe, it certain specialized high-skill areas. But across the spectrum? I doubt it.

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I am not making this up.

Next: Rum for Rugrats. Once they pass out, they’re quiet for the rest of the day….

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All of which will be paid by the taxpayers, of course. Not that the ACLU gives a shit about taxpayers — hey, it’s free government money, right?

The Jackson City School District, located in Jackson, reached a deal on Friday after the ACLU, along with the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation, sued the district in February, citing “unconstitutional” actions and charging that students and visitors to the school “will continue to suffer permanent, severe and irreparable harm and injury,” according to the lawsuit.

The picture had been hanging in Jackson’s high school since 1947 as part of a “Hall of Honor” display meant to highlight famous historical figures.

I’m curious as to what ‘irreperable harm and injury’ is caused by including Jesus among ‘famous historical figures’.

Mike Masnick doesn’t think so.

 In the short-term tech-kills-jobs view, you could easily see this new “technology” as killing jobs. Indeed, it’s reported that there are somewhere around 18,000 telephone operators in the US today. But… there are also about 100,000 call center operators and 290,000 telemarketers (and of course, in a globalized world, many of those jobs have moved overseas). But, more importantly, moving from having a human operator connect you to an automatic switched network was just an early step in leading to tremendous follow-on innovations that created all kinds of new jobs and economic growth. Automatic switched phone networks created all kinds of new business opportunities and convenience, but also eventually enabled easy access to the internet. And the internet has since created millions of new jobs (including mine!).

Yeah, but for whom? I doubt that Mike Masnick would have been a telephone operator in any conceivable parallel universe. The point of concern about technology and jobs is not that the absolute number of jobs might be less — it obviously is not — but who gets the jobs that result? Eliminating jobs for average-IQ people and creating new jobs for high-IQ people still leaves more and more average-IQ people out of work. Nobody I know of worries about high-IQ people getting work — it’s the average and low-IQ people that are worrisome. This is not Lake Woebegone — by definition, half of the population has a below-average IQ. When my parents were in their 30s and 40s, somebody of average intelligence with a high-school education (which was really a high-school education in those days, not just marginally functional literacy and numeracy masquerading as such) could get a semi-skilled job and make enough to buy a house and support a family. That day is rapidly disappearing, if it hasn’t disappeared already.

 Bessen does note that the type of work and skills may change — tellers are more focused on more complex transactions rather than simple ones, just like call center employees have to help customers with problems, rather than just connect person A to person B. But is that such a bad thing?

Yeah, if you’re the guy who doesn’t have the brainpower to handle these complex transactions. People like Mike Masnick live in a high-IQ bubble of tech people and journalists; they need to get out to 7-11 and Walmart and find out what the Lower Half is actually going through.

Purifying Cutting Board System

32 Real-Life Cheat Codes

Log & Roll Paper Towel Holder

Chillsner Beer Cooler

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Sweden is proud that it guarantees freedom of the press. Every news outlet is free to publish anything it wants — provided that it agrees with the consensus of the government and the major political parties, if the minister of culture has her way.

Swedish media outlets depend on government subsidies for the survival of their operations. Without the help of taxpayers’ kroner, a newspaper would find it hard to survive, as attested by the recent experience of Dispatch International.

Up until now the government has guaranteed the impartiality of press subsidies. No matter the opinion expressed, the government would not curtail the funding of any newspaper. But what the government may grant, it may also withhold, and the temptation to manipulate content by withholding state subsidies is all but irresistible.

One suspects that this principle of government neutrality has been more honored in the breach than in the observance, even in Sweden. However, the real state of affairs has now been revealed — the iron fist is out of the velvet glove.

Steve Sailer reveals an inconvenient truth.

 For a long time, I’ve been pointing out that many standard statistics of income, poverty, or cost of living fail to fully get at the underlying question of most interest: standard of living. Now, a new study from the Public Policy Institute of California that includes a better cost of living measure and government benefits finds that California, home to Silicon Valley and Hollywood, has the worst poverty rate of any state in the country, with vast Los Angeles County having the worst poverty rate in the state.

Having Democrats run your state (into the ground) will do that.

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It somehow is considered illegitimate and terroristic that we are willing to use lawful and constitutional legislative authority in the form of the House’s funding power to offset Democrats’ power in the Senate and Executive Branch.

Elections matter, and Republicans control the House. Those elections matter just as much as elections for the Presidency and Senate.

As Laurel pointed out earlier, Democratic rhetoric is so extreme from the highest political levels that it now amounts to schoolyard taunts.

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In Fresno County, California, some hundreds of workers have walked away from their jobs at Gerawan Farming in protest at the United Farm Workers, a union that the workers have been forced to join by the state of California. The union has attempted to seize some three percent of each worker’s paycheck based on a union vote two decades ago. The union has been completely inactive at Gerawan Farming since it was established. Workers at Gerawan make $10 per hour and receive health benefits. That is significantly higher than industry standard, and the union simply wants employee cash based on negotiations that never involved the union. “They’re not asking us if we want it or not, they’re forcing us to have a union and we don’t want that,” said Silvia Lopez, one of the employees. “We have a right to vote to choose.”

Damn, there’s that pesky democracy thing again!

Look for … the union label….

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Golden Rice has been genetically enhanced to produce vitamin A as way to prevent millions of deaths and cases of blindness annually in poor countries where the grain is the chief food staple. Back in August, some Filipino “farmers” rampaged through the fields where the non-profit International Rice Research institute was growing out the Golden Rice variety. The “farmers” were actually anti-biotech activists who have worked with Greenpeace in the past to block other biotech crop varieties.

Frankly, the scientific community has been too passive for way too long in confronting anti-biotech groups like Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and the Union of Concerned Scientists for their campaigns of lies against the safety of biotech crops. But the Golden Rice outrage has finally aroused researchers. Last week, Science magazine published a strong editorial, “Standing Up for GMOs,” condemning activists for their anti-scientific attacks on crop biotechnology.

For self-styled ‘progressives’, Greenpeace and its fellow eco-nazis are some of the more regressive forces on the planet.

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 “I am a Christian, and if you want to kill me for this, I do not object to it” – such were the last words of one of three Christians, killed by extremists after their refusal to accept Islam in Ma’loula, which has already become famous among the faithful as “a land of Martyrs”.

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It’s almost like this guy completely ignored all the “no guns on campus” signs. Can you believe it?

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

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Prior to the 20th century, these people would have been executed for treason in any country on earth. Nowadays they get positions in academia and while away their time rotting the brains of the young.

The Other McCain points out some inconvenient truth.

Most people don’t realize that, according to some studies, about half of the “homeless” population have criminal records. Many others have substance-abuse issues or are mentally ill.

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Chuck’s email tagline reads: “Notice: It’s OK to print this email. Paper is a biodegradable, renewable, sustainable product made from trees. Growing and harvesting trees provides jobs for millions of Americans. Working forests are good for the environment and provide clean air and water, wildlife habitat and carbon storage. Thanks to improved forest management, we have more trees in America today than we had 100 years ago.”

And when you sign up for electricity, be sure to request wind-farm ‘green’ power — despite being an endangered species, eagles really just get in the way.

Battle Mug

Sprout Pencils

Smartphone microscope

Nature Sounds

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Because some ‘progressive’ causes are more equal than others, I suppose.

Let’s start with Don Henley.

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McDonalds has an amazing technology when you look hard at it: They have figured out how to run restaurants in a way that dramatically conserves on the world’s scarcest resource, human capital. To run a McDonalds, you don’t have to know how to cook, how to order food, how to buy kitchen equipment, or all the other hundreds of bits of tough knowledge and skill that it takes to run a restaurant. Hamburger U trains the rest.

The whole operation is about taking low-skill teenagers living typically unstructured lives, and training them to what it takes to work.  Peering around the side of the cash register at an earlier trip, I noticed there were pictures on the buttons! You can work at McDonalds and operate its cash registers even if you’re functionally illiterate! To say nothing of not knowing what to do when offered $10.12 to pay a $7.62 bill. And McDonalds has a big investment in that technology.

In the face of technical change, it is seldom the successful incumbents who adapt, even when they innovate. Kodak did not bring us digital cameras, trying to protect their film advantage. Print media did not bring us the internet, and are floundering at it. Walmart tries to go online, but Amazon.com is displacing it. The major airlines flop in every attempt to imitate Southwest.

So, as I gaze around the familiar golden arches, it strikes me that the automated fast food restaurant — and the rapid decline in low-skill employment that it implies —  will likely not come from McDonalds itself. Rather, new competitors will arise that perfect the automated, people-less technology. In the same way that McDonalds displaced the previous era of fast-food restaurants, by perfecting a technology that brilliantly used lots of low-skill people and conserves on scarce human capital. For McDonalds to go automatic would be for it to throw away the key innovation that defines it and has made it such a success.

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Time to abandon pretense that the Federal government’s power is somehow limited.

The Obama Labor Department has just finalized rules that will effectively require businesses that get federal contracts to adopt a 7 percent hiring quota for the disabled. Much of the American workforce is employed by a federal contractor, since most large companies have federal contracts. So this will affect much of the economy, and impose massive new costs on American business.

Disturbingly, the new rules require a 7 percent quota not just for the division of the company that receives a federal contract, but for the company as a whole. And they require that the 7 percent quota be met not just for the company as a whole, but also in each line of business in the company. That means they effectively must be met even in job categories where the number of disabled people is lower than average, either because the qualified labor pool is disproportionately able-bodied (like those that require hard physical labor) or because the job is not compatible with certain mental or psychological impediments that qualify as disabilities.

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Hollywood Casino in Grantville, Pennsylvania has told its part-time workers that they may no longer work over 30 hours. The reason: Obamacare.

“Not the first, won’t be the last,” Gene Barr of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry told WHTM-PA. “The casino is clearly one of many. We’re gonna see more and more of this.”

Todays reading is from Econ 101: If you raise the price of something, people will buy less of it. If you raise the price of having full-time employees, employers will cut back on the number of full-time employees to the level that they can afford.

How’s that Hope & Change working out for ya?

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws, or the place would look like Texas.

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The National Guard has taken control of the plant, and officers will monitor production and distribution.

Oh, yeah, that’ll work. The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money … and toilet paper.

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It’s not strange at all — Ramsey Clark has been a supporter of the enemies of America for as long as I can remember, milking his brief stint as Attorney-General until the cow squeals.

Joining him on the trip is former six-term member of Congress from Atlanta, Georgia, the virulently pro-Arab and anti-Israel Cynthia McKinney. (Her father blamed the loss of her Congressional seat on the Jews, who, he claimed, “bought everybody.”)

Yet Another Crazy Black Congresswoman. Washington is full of them.

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Yeah, people might get the idea that California is actually a part of the United States (instead of, say, Mexico) and that would never do.

Paul Mirengoff has it right, I think.

As John noted last night, congressional Republicans are moving toward a showdown with President Obama over defunding Obamacare. The House is poised to pass a continuing resolution that funds government operations beyond September, but does not include Obamacare. The Senate will pass a CR that funds Obamacare.

After that, it’s a question of who blinks first, and whether the blink will occur before or after a government shutdown. Call it a “blinksmanship.”

This crap happens all the time, and it’s usually the Republicans who cave.

An extended shutdown would, in all likelihood, tank the economy.

As to blame, it would, of course, be shared primarily between Obama and House Republicans. More blame would likely fall on Republicans. They, after all, will be the ones who disturbed a status quo that won’t look so bad when government services aren’t forthcoming and the economy takes a hit.

Moreover, Obama doesn’t have to face voters again. House Republicans have a rendezvous with the electorate next year.

That’s why I expect that Boehner and company will be the ones to blink, and do so pretty quickly.

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Earlier, we wrote about the Obama administration’s attempt to inject a race-conscious “disparate impact” provision into colorblind anti-discrimination laws like the Fair Housing Act, and how that could lead to risky, race-conscious lending, bad loans, and future bank failures, mortgage meltdowns, and financial crises. Now, Ohio University economics professor Richard Vedder highlights an additional area where disparate-impact rules may be having a negative impact: higher education. (“Disparate impact” is a term in anti-discrimination law for when a neutral policy happens to affect minorities more than whites. One example is a standardized test that whites pass at a higher rate than some minority group, even though test scores are calculated the same way for members of all races. Some civil-rights laws contain language authorizing “disparate-impact” claims, but others do not, and are phrased in colorblind terms.)

Guy Somerset has some advice.

Whenever a colleague asks for voting advice, I have one stock answer—vote for whoever doesn’t have commercials with children. Whichever candidate trots out the tykes is the one lacking in ideas, so avoid him.

I’m betting you were starting to forget that we actually have one.

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When talking about ‘white privilege’, how about let’s include this one — the privilege of not talking to racist academics.

Some animals are more equal than others.

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What is the sound of one hand shooting?

I guess we’re all Trayvon Martin now. (Except for white people, of course.)

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Funny how that works.

Jim Goad sticks up for the underdog.

The most stubbornly hypocritical glitch in the egalitarian mindset is that eugenics is roundly and vigorously dismissed as a dangerous and discredited pseudoscience…unless it can be wielded to portray ideological enemies as genetically inferior throwbacks.

Thus, the same sheltered, daydreaming buttercups that strain to deny even basic visual differences between ethnic groups are the first to blame rural white poverty on things such as inbreeding and overall crappy genes. In such cases, eugenics are not only suddenly real, they are highly pertinent—decisive, even.

Yeah, funny how that works. Just like the people with the “NO H8” t-shirts are the loudest haters around. I guess some animals are more equal than others.

The same double standard permits politicians—who’d never dare publicly suggest that sub-Saharan Africa is not exactly the Hope Diamond of intellectual achievement—to smear large swaths of people who don’t kowtow to their dim notions of “progress” as “Neanderthals.”

Vice President Joseph Biden, that asshole, recently referred to Republicans as “Neanderthals.” A couple of years ago, current Secretary of State John Kerry, who resembles an archeological dig even while alive, dismissed global-warming critics as “Neanderthals.” In 2003, now-dead Senator Ted Kennedy said he would resist the appointment of any “Neanderthal” that George W. Bush might nominate as a judge. The Daily Kos, that festering armpit of self-congratulatory leftist delusion, recently suggested that NRA members possessed the “Neanderthal gene.”

The forces of tolerance on the march.

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Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the diversity, it’s Hell getting that stuff off of your shoes.

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The protesters who uprooted a 9/11 memorial display at a liberal arts college in Vermont claimed they were defending Abenaki tribal lands and taking a stand against U.S. imperialism.

The Abenaki tribe’s response? “Disgusting.”

As indeed it was. My experience has been that in general skraelings are more sensible than their proxenoi among the Young And Stupid.

“We didn’t know anything about this and if we had we certainly wouldn’t have sanctioned it,” he said in a statement to The Addison Independent.

Irrelevant — it is sufficient that a Sensitive White Liberal is offended for you; no need to consult the actual constructive offendee.

The field is tribal land, they claimed, and Native American beliefs prohibit disturbing the earth on hallowed ground.

But Steven said there’s no evidence that the field is an Abenaki burial site. And even if it was, the flags would be a welcome presence.

“Our burial sites honor our warriors and their bravery,” said Stevens. “Putting flags in the earth to honor bravery would not be disrespectful.”

On the Left, fantasy trumps reality every time.

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With a national debate still going on as the new national health care plan (Obamacare) is taking effect, what do federal employees think of the new system?

This week, we asked their views on being included in the new health care exchanges. There is apparently little debate among the federal workforce. Federal employees do not want to be part of the new system. Instead, they prefer to keep their current health plan based on a survey with about 2500 readers responding.

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

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Your tax dollars at work.

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 More than 200 colleges and high schools across the nation participated in Young America’s Foundation’s 9/11: Never Forget Project. Students came together to establish an American flag memorial on campus consisting of 2,977 flags representing each person murdered in the terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, five student protesters at Middlebury College ripped the flags out of the ground before 3:00 pm.

The 9/11: Never Forget Project has been an annual nonpartisan event at Middlebury College for the past ten years. By participating in the 9/11: Never Forget Project, students honor the victims of the attacks, as well as honor the American principles for which they died.

Middlebury student groups spent nearly two hours setting up the flag display yesterday morning. The protesters told Ben Kinney, president of the conservative club on campus, they were “confiscating” the flags in protest of “America’s imperialism.”

The protesters refused to compromise with the students because the flags were supposedly located on an “Indian burial ground and you can’t have anything penetrating the Earth.”

And there you have it. Where’s the ‘diversity training’ when you really need it?

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The one-year delay of the tax on businesses which fail to provide health insurance (or adequate health insurance) has led some managers to put the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) out of their mind.  However, there are three other tax and reporting obligations that have taken effect – or will soon take effect – of which businesses need to be aware.