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Students with any kind of criminal history should be rigidly separated from normal children for schooling purposes.

This is yet another indicator that not only is our educational system broke, but it’s a positive agent of evil.

Not that anybody will pay attention, of course, until we wind up like Zimbabwe….

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Look for … the Union label ….

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Currently there are about 246 drugs that are in short supply, a record high. These shortages are not just a result of accident, error or unusual circumstance, the number of drugs in short supply has risen steadily since 2006. The shortages arise from a combination of systematic factors, among them the policies of the FDA. The FDA has inadvertently caused drugs long-used in the United States to be withdrawn from the market and it’s “Good Manufacturing Practice” rules have gummed up the drug production process and raised costs.

Your tax dollars at work. These are the people in whose hands Obama wants to put ALL of our health care.

Steve Sailer pulls no punches.

One reason colleges can pull the wool over the public’s eyes on this is that very few people think in systems terms about how this works. It’s hard to think about the effect of more than one college doing this at a time. If Rice was the only college in the country to have a quota, then, sure, it could fill its quota with black applicants who are “fairly indistinguishable” from the white norm.

But, funny thing is, Harvard also has a quota, so all those black applicants are going to Harvard instead of Rice. And the black students who are just below the Harvard-bound are going to Stanford and MIT on quotas instead of Rice. So, Rice takes the blacks who would be going to Texas A&M if nobody had a quota, and Texas A&M takes …
The whole system winds up pretty accurately reproducing at each college the one standard deviation gap seen in the whole population. But that’s really hard for most people to grasp.

The myth that colleges have a merit-based admissions process is one of the most persistent in American political folklore. When you get down to it, saying that colleges ought to admit the best-qualified student that are going to do well is like saying that a restaurant should only serve gourmands who will most appreciate the meal or that a movie theater should only admit trained theater students who will most understand the cinematic nuances of the films being shown.

Of course, in a world where there are more applicants than places, a college needs to have selection criteria. How about having an auction? Think of how much Harvard would pull in a year if students had to bid for a place; it’s endowment would soon be the size of the national debt, and it could still flunk the kid out freshman year if he weren’t qualified for work at that level. Differentiating service by price is what a free market is all about; that’s the American way. (Want to tax the rich? Make them bid against each other to get their kids into Yale or Stanford or MIT.)

Of course, many of these application essays are written by professional essay writers or the like, so I guess it all evens out in the long run.

That’s why British Universities, and British public schools, at least before the rot set it, used to have entrance examinations that one would sit for, like the SATs. if colleges truly cared about the quality of their students, they would require that essays be done in a limited amount of time under the eyes of proctors. Otherwise it’s just a gauge of how well the kid (and his family) can game the system.

Anyway, the message from Rice U. is: If you’ve got it, play the Race Card. Over and over again. Be as authentically nonwhite as you can. (We can tell!) You’ve got to feel deep down that you deserve this quota spot.

One commenter once noted that Dreams from My Father sounds like the President’s monstrously enlarged Diversity Essay.

I can’t improve on that for snark so I won’t even try. Steve’s a professional, after all.

For getting into college, black is best, and the one drop rule applies to who gets called black, so anybody who credibly claims to be part black will be treated as black for quota / bragging rights purposes.

And that’s the bottom line.

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Homa Dashtaki was eager to demonstrate that her yogurt was safe and healthful, but complying with California regulations turned out to be not so easy. In fact, authorities told her that she would face possible prosecution unless she established a “Grade A dairy facility” employing processes more commonly found in factories. A highlight: she’d have to install a pasteurizer even though she made her yogurt from milk that was already pasteurized. What’s more, California law makes it illegal to pasteurize milk twice, so there went any hope of continuing her straightforward way of obtaining milk, namely bringing it home from a fancy grocery store.

One of the chief means that nanny states use to destroy businesses too small to employ lobbyists in favor of businesses big enough to employ lobbyists is to require processes and equipment that only big businesses can afford. The Federal government rings the changes on this by requiring levels of benefits and paperwork base-touching that only big businesses can afford. Your tax dollars at work, although not for you.

Although a small artisan cheese sector struggles to get by, the California dairy market generally is dominated by mass-market producers selling blandly standardized wares. And you can see how that winds up happening.

Come to Texas, which is creating jobs (not destroying them, as California persists in doing). A lot of people are.

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Not a bad record for a country that has no actual reason to exist.

Don’t forget to send a card. I’m sure it would be appreciated.

Family relations were a weaker tie than party membership, since party members were more ready to go to any extreme for any reason whatever. These parties were not formed to enjoy the benefits of established laws, but to acquire power by overthrowing the existing regime; and the members of these parties felt confidence in each other not because of any fellowship in a religious communion, but because they were partners in crime. If an opponent made a reasonable speech, the party in power, so far from giving it a generous reception, took every precaution to see that it had no practical effect.

— Peloponnesian War 3:82.

There is nothing new under the sun….

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Conservative and libertarian critics of immigration like to cite Milton Friedman’s observation that “[y]ou cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state,” which co-blogger Ken Anderson recently endorsed. The fear is that, given relatively open borders, immigrants from poor countries will flock to wealthy ones and undermine their economies by consuming huge amounts of welfare benefits.

This would seem fairly obvious.

British newspapers, for example, are rife with stories about Muslim terrorists and purveyors of terrorism who live off of the British welfare state, a singularly appalling situation.

I suspect that if one were to look at the incidence of, say, illegal Latino immigrants in the U.S. getting welfare benefits, either illicitly or due to White Liberal Guilt in such places as the Left Coast and the Other Left Coast, the situation in the U.S. would be equally disturbing.

I am a great admirer of Friedman and his scholarship. But he was not an expert on immigration, and, as far as I can tell, he never systematically studied the evidence on the impact of immigration on political support for the welfare state. That evidence overwhelmingly shows that ethnic heterogeneity greatly reduces support for welfare state spending because voters are less willing to support welfare programs if they believe that a large percentage of the money is going to members of a different racial or ethnic group.

Perhaps so, but that reluctance hasn’t expressed itself politically so far — at least not very effectively. The situation may change in the future, but we pessimists aren’t going to be holding our breath waiting for it.

This feedback effect creates a difficult dilemma for liberals and leftists who support immigration but also want to expand the welfare state. Paul Krugman calls the welfare-immigration tradeoff an “agonizing issue” for liberal Democrats. But for libertarians and other supporters of economic liberty, immigration is a win-win game. It is both an important exercise of economic freedom in its own right, and has the secondary effect of constraining the welfare state.

However much that may be true in the long run, in the short term it just degrades the quality of life for everybody, and those of us who see the glass as half-full (and emptying rapidly) are unwilling to assume the existence of some guarantee that the process will bottom out before we are all in the poorhouse.

One of the problems with libertarianism as a practical political program is its Polyannaish insistence that ‘everything will work out in the end’, when all that bystanders can actually see are things descending rapidly into the toilet.

Faith may indeed be the hope for things unseen, but there isn’t a lot of faith in the modern world outside of the Ummah, and they can hardly be called libertarians.

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The tactic which has come into vogue, particularly for SEIU protests, is to go to your opponents’ home to protest, even if it means frightening the children in the house.

Pro-illegal immigrant groups in Rhode Island have taken it one step further, not only protesting in front of the home of Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, but also knocking on neighbors’ doors in protest of Rhode Island’s participation in the federal Secure Communities Program.

As detailed here before, Governor Linc Chafee and a host of others want to turn Rhode Island into a sanctuary state, refusing even to participate in the Secure Communities Program which requires that fingerprints for all people arrested on other charges be sent to Homeland Security for an immigration status check.  The feds say localities cannot opt out, and AG Kilmartin supports the program as a way of getting criminals out of the community.

Chafee has tried to prevent Rhode Island’s participation even after a plea from the victim of a kidnapping and rape committed by an illegal alien.

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Well, of you spend all of your money on welfare and can no longer afford your own aircraft carriers, you have to work with what you’ve got.

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France was punished on Thursday for not taking proper care of its hamsters.

The Court of Justice in Luxembourg, theEuropean Union’s highest court, ruled Thursday that France had failed to protect the Great Hamster of Alsace, sometimes known as the European hamster, the last wild hamster species in Western Europe. If France does not adjust its agricultural and urbanization policies sufficiently to protect it, the court said, the government will be subject to fines of as much as $24.6 million.

I am not making this up.

Apparently, even other Europeans hate the French.

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Similar to a move made in Illinois a few months ago, Amazon has shut down its Associates program in Connecticut after the state imposed a sales tax measure that would tax any purchases made online starting July 1.

Politicians just never learn, do they?

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On April 20th of this year, a group called the BCHRT (British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, a sort of maple-syrup-flavored version of a Stalinist show-trial committee) fined stand-up comedian Guy Earle $15,000 for offending a lesbian woman, Lorna Pardy, from the stage at an open-mike comedy night back in 2007. The owners of the club which hosted the offending performance were also fined $7,500.

Thank God you don’t live in Canada. Canada is what the U.S. would look like had the American Revolution failed, a prospect more dreadful than any other I can think of.

The Other McCain calls foul.

So now, it seems, Gingrich’s wife has helped destroy his presidential campaign.

Oh, I think his habit of discarding Current Wife when he feels like a change has had a bit to do with it, but certainly she’s piling on.

For the record: If one claims to be a conservative but discards a present spouse merely because one feels some personal advantage in doing so, don’t be surprised when people assume that your other principles are equally subject to change without notice.

Just sayin’.

George Will is shocked (shocked, I tell you) that the Obama administration is attempting to buy the votes of the union goons upon which his re-election depends.

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

In 2001, when approximately 80,000 people worked in 7,500 music stores, the iPod was invented. Largely because of that and other technological changes, today only about 20,000 people work in 2,500 music stores. Should those 60,000 people be entitled to extra welfare because they are “victims” of technology? Does it matter if the 60,000 have found work in new jobs — perhaps making or selling electronic devices?

The Democrat answer is, ‘They don’t? Well, we’ll fix that!’

In 2008, Americans bought 1.4 billion books made of paper and 200 million e-books. Soon they will buy more e-books than paper books, and half the nation’s bookstores will be gone. Should the stores’ former employees be entitled to special assistance beyond unemployment compensation?

If they don’t, they soon will. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will make sure of it. All those votes to buy, and all it takes is borrowing more money from Communist China. What’s not to like?

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The reporter, by quoting the mother complaining that black-on-black crime, unlike these present crimes, is not taken serously, is telling us that these present crimes are black-on-white crimes. Such is the Pravda-like journalism of liberal society, in which you get at the truth by reading tea leaves.

And yet this ‘mother’ would be at the head of the line to complain about racism if anyone were to be so foolish as to point out that, well, black-on-black or black-on-white, it’s still black folks committing these crimes.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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Perhaps they decided to dish it out for a change rather than being limited to taking it.

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Members of a Latino gang affiliated with the Mexican Mafia conspired for nearly 20 years to drive African-Americans out of the Southern California city of Azusa through violence and intimidation, federal authorities alleged Tuesday.

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

I’ll bet they belong to ‘La Raza’.

“The Azusa 13 gang waged a campaign of hate during a two-decade crime spree in which African-Americans were harassed and attacked,” U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. said in a written statement Tuesday. “We hope that this federal case will signal the end of this racist behavior and will help vindicate all of the victims who have suffered over the years.”

I’m curious as to why it took so long.

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The suits claim Hirsch suffered “an injury” from being denied access. But it is unlikely the 31-year-old Hasidic Jew would patronize some of the establishments he cites — including the non-kosher City Crab restaurant.

Gee, there’s a hint.

He targeted a pedicure station at the Red & White Spa in SoHo — even though he has no feet.

Thank you, George H.W. Bush, for this supremely stupid piece of legislation.

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Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start to kick in during 2014, at least three of every 10 employers will probably stop offering health coverage, a survey released Monday shows.

While only 7% of employees will be forced to switch to subsidized-exchange programs, at least 30% of companies say they will “definitely or probably” stop offering employer-sponsored coverage, according to the study published in McKinsey Quarterly.

Indeed. Why should they offer coverage when they can throw it on the taxpayers?

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Gee, I wonder why?

The USPS has 571,566 full-time workers, making it the country’s second-largest civilian employer after Wal-Mart Stores. It has 31,871 post offices, more than the combined domestic retail outlets of Wal-Mart, Starbucks, and McDonald’s. Last year its revenues were $67 billion, and its expenses were even greater. Postal service executives proudly note that if it were a private company, it would be No. 29 on the Fortune 500.

No, if it were a private company, it would be long gone.

The problems of the USPS are just as big. It relies on first-class mail to fund most of its operations, but first-class mail volume is steadily declining — in 2005 it fell below junk mail for the first time. This was a significant milestone. The USPS needs three pieces of junk mail to replace the profit of a vanished stamp-bearing letter.

Well, perhaps if they raised the price of junk mail rather than lowering it, and lowered the price of first class mail rather than raising it every time they felt a pinch, things would be different. But I guess that’s not one of the famous vanishing ‘options’.

Since 2007 the USPS has been unable to cover its annual budget, 80 percent of which goes to salaries and benefits. In contrast, 43 percent of FedEx’s budget and 61 percent of United Parcel Service’s pay go to employee-related expenses. Perhaps it’s not surprising that the postal service’s two primary rivals are more nimble. According to SJ Consulting Group, the USPS has more than a 15 percent share of the American express and ground-shipping market. FedEx has 32 percent, UPS 53 percent.

Perhaps the USPS might, you know, take a look at those companies and see what might be learned from them. That’s what a private company would do.

This should be a moment for the country to ask some basic questions about its mail delivery system. Does it make sense for the postal service to charge the same amount to take a letter to Alaska that it does to carry it three city blocks? Should the USPS operate the world’s largest network of post offices when 80 percent of them lose money? And is there a way for the country to have a mail system that addresses the needs of consumers who use the Internet to correspond?

Prediction: Not one of these questions will be seriously addressed, especially by Congress.

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A joint resolve introduced by Rep. Beth O’Connor, of Berwick, won final Senate approval on Wednesday after winning House approval last week. Connor characterized corn ethanol as “a colossal waste” that’s subsidized by billions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers.

Her criticisms include damage it can cause to small engines and its inflationary impact on food prices. She says it takes nearly twice as much energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than the ethanol itself yields.

Even blue states get the blues.

Peter Suderman lays out some Inconvenient Truth.

The AP’s Q&A on the Obama administration’s 1,400 health care waivers, which exempt specific businesses and union organizations from certain provisions of the health care law, strongly implies that the waiver process is best understood as “a safety valve” designed to “prevent unintended consequences.” There is, however, an easier way to prevent such unintended consequences: Don’t pass laws that cause them in the first place.

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In all the news footage I’ve seen and every online account I’ve read of these events, the troublemakers—the ones throwing gang signs and roving in huge packs and attacking random strangers and often planning such mayhem on Twitter and Facebook—were somewhere in the ballpark of 99 to 100 percent black.

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

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Just 162 years after history’s greatest gold rush, the state’s last remaining prospectors are about to have their way of life declared illegal, amid a long-running battle with salmon-loving environmentalists.

Forward into the past!

The report’s findings are due to come into force in six months. But a few weeks ago, opponents of dredging quietly succeeded in amending California’s proposed budget in a way that will extend the moratorium for at least the next five years – and perhaps for ever.

With the help of a Democratic state assemblyman, Jared Huffman, they had a paragraph in the document changed to prevent the Department of Fish and Game, which compiled the impact report, from spending any money reissuing dredging licences until 2017. And with no money to spend, there is no way to relegalise the practice.

This sort of surreptitious amendment of legislation is more common than you would think, and a rich target for corrupt legislators (and their staff members).

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Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park.

‘All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.’ — Benito Mussolini

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Ben Post works for Urban Homeworks, and sympathizes with Haege. But he said volunteers were given explicit directions to stay out of banned zones, so if Haege was in one, he was on his own.

“People were super ramped up to help, and frankly there wasn’t much to do,” he said. “The hard part is, I’m sure people were asking volunteers for help in those areas. But if we just released 600 people into the neighborhood, it would have been a nightmare.”

Well, it certainly would have been a nightmare for those who think that everything has to be done through the government. I guess we know where Ben Post sits.

‘All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.’ — Benito Mussolini

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A Canadian student has been suspended from school and had the police sicced on him due to satirical animations that he posted to YouTube.

Jack Christie, a 12th-grade student at the Donald A. Wilson Secondary School in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, created the videos in his own time, off-campus.

So why is the school getting involved? Why, because of the Thought Police, of course.

While we may find the animations entertaining, Durham District School Board spokeswoman Andrea Pidwerbecki was not amused. “If something is considered detrimental to the positive moral tone of the school, it doesn’t necessarily have to happen inside the school [for us to get involved],” she told The Globe and Mail of Toronto.

Thank God you don’t live in Canada.

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Supporters of ‘net neutrality’, like Free Press, think equal access to the internet is a “civil right” and that service providers should be prohibited from charging certain prices for certain speeds. When providers have this kind of control, they say, customers in weaker coverage areas get stuck with weaker service. Opponents of ‘net neutrality’ say that if service is regulated in this way then content will soon be regulated as well.

In April 2010, a federal appeals court ruled that the FCC did not have any authority to regulate the internet in this way, however the government agency voted to move forward with its ‘net neutrality’ program in December, just a few months later.

Listen to the courts? Nah, that’s for the Little People.

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Yesterday I noted that the Feds have inspectors looking for unlicensed rabbit sellers. It turns out that’s not all of the story.

I find that the rabbit police has at least 64 employees we could get rid of without losing much. They are now harassing stage magicians who have rabbits in their act. It would be legal to buy a rabbit, take it home, and feed it to a rattlesnake without a Federal permit; but if you use the rabbit in a show, you must have a Federal license, and there are Federal inspectors who scour the newspapers hoping to find the names of stage magicians who don’t have Federal rabbit licenses. I understand you probably think I am making this up.

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The Great Recession has created a growing underclass of millions of unemployed who are unlikely to ever re-enter the labor force. Instead, they’re relying on government support that they qualify for because of health issues.

The real culprit: Workers with modest health problems are usually willing to take jobs when they can get them. But when they can’t, they turn to the government. That’s why the number of people who apply for — and get approved for — disability payments typically increases during bad economic times.

“There are people who, despite disability, are out there working when times are good,” said Mark Lassiter, spokesman for the Social Security Administration, which runs the disability programs.

Though the benefits are relatively modest — only about $1,000 a month — getting approved for disability can be a difficult process of appeals and hearings that typically lasts a year or more. Few who have qualified want to risk those benefits for a job that might not last.

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Stateside boffins say that, contrary to popular perception, it would often be better for the planet if people avoided using biodegradable products compliant with the recommended US government guidelines.

This is because biodegradable wastes – for instance cardboard cups, “eco friendly” disposable nappies, various kinds of shopping and rubbish bags etc – often wind up in landfill, where they will degrade and emit methane. Methane is, of course, a vastly more powerful greenhouse gas than CO₂, so it is seen as important to prevent it getting into the atmosphere.

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In the 2008 presidential campaign Barack Obama served up President Kennedy’s conference with Khrushchev in Vienna in June 1961 as support for his thought that it would be a good idea for the president to meet unconditionally with leaders of the Iranian regime. As is so often the case when it comes to history, however, Obama didn’t know what he was talking about. By all accounts — and I mean all accounts — including Kennedy’s own, the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit in Vienna was a disaster. Historians continue to add to the record, but the record has been clear on this point for a very long time.

Here, of course, ‘blinked’ is a code word for ‘had it packed up his pooper’. Khruschev’s ability to roll Kennedy in Vienna directly led to the Cuban missile crisis.

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Boredom is the common condition of schoolteachers, and anyone who has spent time in a teachers’ lounge can vouch for the low energy, the whining, the dispirited attitudes, to be found there. When asked why they feel bored, the teachers tend to blame the kids, as you might expect. Who wouldn’t get bored teaching students who are rude and interested only in grades? If even that. Of course, teachers are themselves products of the same twelve-year compulsory school programs that so thoroughly bore their students, and as school personnel they are trapped inside structures even more rigid than those imposed upon the children. Who, then, is to blame?

By the time I finally retired in 1991, I had more than enough reason to think of our schools – with their long-term, cell-block-style, forced confinement of both students and teachers – as virtual factories of childishness. Yet I honestly could not see why they had to be that way. My own experience had revealed to me what many other teachers must learn along the way, too, yet keep to themselves for fear of reprisal: if we wanted to we could easily and inexpensively jettison the old, stupid structures and help kids take an education rather than merely receive a schooling. We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness – curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight – simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids to truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then.

Inglis, for whom a lecture in education at Harvard is named, makes it perfectly clear that compulsory schooling on this continent was intended to be just what it had been for Prussia in the 1820s: a fifth column into the burgeoning democratic movement that threatened to give the peasants and the proletarians a voice at the bargaining table. Modern, industrialized, compulsory schooling was to make a sort of surgical incision into the prospective unity of these underclasses. Divide children by subject, by age-grading, by constant rankings on tests, and by many other more subtle means, and it was unlikely that the ignorant mass of mankind, separated in childhood, would ever reintegrate into a dangerous whole.

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PC MC is fundamentally incoherent, but since most people never examine it in detail, or even consciously, the essential irrationality never has to be addressed.

Some highlights:

• No culture is better than another — but modern Western culture is bad, and all non-Western cultures are superior.
• To consider the distinct characteristics of different genetic groups is racist — but white people are inherently xenophobic and intolerant compared with “brown” people.
• Islam is a religion, not a race — but people who object to Islam are racists.
• Violence, even in self-defense, is never justified — yet the violence of Muslims and other “brown” people must not be judged, but rather understood within its cultural context.

And so forth.

PC MC requires its adherents to practice doublethink constantly, in order to entertain all these diametrically opposed notions. All races are equal, but white people are especially bad. In order to promote equality, we must treat people unequally, with straight white men receiving the worst treatment of all.

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These days, it is all about the money. The ability to dictate hiring equals the ability to come through for constituencies who have contributed many millions of dollars to the Democratic Party’s coffers. Quotas mean dollars, so they will continue unless and until the majority of Americans understand what is happening and care enough to change it.

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

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For more than 15 years, New York State has led the country in domestic outmigration: for every American who comes to New York, roughly two depart for other states. This outmigration slowed briefly following the onset of the Great Recession. But a new Marist poll released last week suggests that the rate is likely to increase: 36 percent of New Yorkers under 30 are planning to leave over the next five years. Why are all these people fleeing?

For one thing, according to a recent survey in Chief Executive, New York State has the second-worst business climate in the country. (Only California ranks lower.) People go where the jobs are, so when a state repels businesses, it repels residents, too. It’s also telling that in the Marist poll, 62 percent of New Yorkers planning to leave cited economic factors—including cost of living (30 percent), taxes (19 percent), and the job environment (10 percent)—as the primary reason.

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That plus Romneycare means I don’t vote for Romney, not nowhere, not nohow.

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The only free speech at Yale is speech in line with the Politically Correct narrative embraced by the Crust. It was so when I arrived there in 1974 and has only gotten worse since.

Freeberg has it right.

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The company’s restructuring allowed it to wash away legal responsibility for car-accident victims who had won damages or had pending lawsuits before its bankruptcy filing. The same holds true for General Motors Co., which discarded the liabilities as part of its own $50 billion bailout and restructuring.

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I am not making this up.

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David Brooks, who comes in for a lot of criticism around here, makes an excellent point in his latest column: “This week, Senate Democrats voted on four separate budget proposals and not a single Democrat voted for a single one. Even President Obama’s budget received zero votes.

That’s because it’s all about being important and getting paid in tax dollars, not, you know, actually doing anything constructive.

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I’m thinking: Yeah, probably.

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Another attempt to save socialism by making it as painless as possible.

Why not just get rid of Medicare and make people pay for their own health care. Oh, no, can’t have that….

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Let that be a lesson to us all.