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Rising prices for organic groceries are prompting some consumers to question their devotion to food produced without pesticides, chemical fertilizers or antibiotics. In some parts of the country, a loaf of organic bread can cost $4.50, a pound of pasta has hit $3, and organic milk is closing in on $7 a gallon.

Quelle domage.

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Well, if we can’t clean out all of the corrupt Democrats, at least we can make some progress in cleaning out the corrupt Republicans.

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All he has to do is appoint Michelle Obama. All Democrat minds would be eased, and nobody else matters, right?

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Yeah, that bailout thing really works, doesn’t it?

The problem is that these people are POOR and STUPID. You can fix poor, but stupid is forever.

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Hey, that bamboo can get to you after a bit.

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She’s sellin’, are you buyin’?

Bitter? Not Arnold Kling.

One of the most frustrating experiences you can have is dealing with a bureaucracy where no one has a sense of responsibility. Have you ever tried to deal with an organization in which no one can solve your problem? In which everyone says, “Sorry, that’s the way it is. There’s nothing I can do about it.”

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Not your grandfather’s Britain.

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Pretty bad when a Labour government comes down on a working girl….

On the other hand, I have yet to see a policewoman that was worth £100 an hour.

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I think Obama should pledge to have all of his personal television and video appearances lit solely by Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs. And he should get all the Democratic movie stars in Hollywood to pledge that their next movies will be lit only by CFLs.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California.

See any mention of it in the news? No, neither have I.

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

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Hey, they’re just doing what “activists” do.

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The Democrats keep putting up Presidential candidates designed to ensure that Jimmy Carter isn’t remembered as the worst President in the nation’s history. Clinton came close but managed to fall short. Will Obama succeed?

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Makes you wonder why they bother.

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This is of a piece with the bogus prosecutions of Mark Steyn and his publishers. Fascism advances in the Great White North.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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Of course the obvious next step is to sue Steve Jobs.

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As they have for thousands of years.

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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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I am not making this up.

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That old devil Unintended Consequences rears its ugly head….

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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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Of course. It’s their fault for not having armor-plated doors.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California.

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The whole idea of patenting genes is overwhelmingly absurd.

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Raise your hands, everybody who gives a shit.

My, what an overwhelming majority of the earth’s population that appears to be.

Now, raise your hands all of the people who are willing to watch your children starve in order to accommodate the de-industrialization required by the eco-nazis whose first priority is to save this creature and others like it.

(sound of crickets chirping)

I thought not.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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And of course they’ll never not have access to the Internet.

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I love this part: “Speculation over who will succeed Kim in the communist world’s only hereditary regime….”

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I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

President Robert Mugabe’s government will defy an international court ruling that its seizures of white-owned farms were illegal, it said on Monday.

Boy, that international court is really a useful thing, isn’t it?

The Hog has an interesting experience with the government Home Depot.

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Apparently activists are suing people for giving in to the activists’ previous demands.

That’s the world we live in.

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Keep an eye on Britain. They’re a couple of miles further down the road that we’re all on.

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Hint: No.

Leef points out that a lot of higher education is in pursuit of a credential. Why would a company want to hire someone with a credential when there are more efficient means of testing aptitude? Leef cites economist Lowell Gallaway’s argument about the effect of the Supreme Court’s 1971 Griggs v. Duke Power Company decision, which held that employers can be liable for violating federal equal employment law if they use general aptitude testing that has a “disparate impact” on minority job seekers. This, say Gallaway and Leef, has caused many employers to abandon such tests in favor of using educational credentials. On its face, the Griggs decision seems to argue against credentialism. But read Gallaway’s subtle reasoning to see why the unintended consequence is more credentialism.

And bear in mind that, the way education sucks these days, an employer has to require a 4-year degree to be reasonably sure of getting an employee who has what his parents would consider a high-school education.

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Trailing too closely behind trucks taking broiler chickens from factory farms to the slaughterhouse could expose motorists to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, say researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Oh, No, Mr Bill….

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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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The Rev. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, a revolutionary Nicaraguan priest, sounded like the old-school, 1980s-style Latin American leftist he is when he began his presidency of the 192-member U.N. General Assembly in September.

I give up — what business does a “revolutionary Nicaraguan priest” have being President of the U.N. General Assembly? And what benefit has any “revolutionary Nicaraguan priest” ever brought to Nicaragua, much less the rest of the world? Truly, this is Fantasy Land. And your taxes are paying for it! Aren’t you proud?

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I don’t doubt that many people shop at Wal-mart in order to save money, but I seriously doubt that this insane mob of people consisted mostly of suburban mothers looking for jumbo-sized diaper packs. No, these were people looking for slashed prices on electronics, outdoor gear, and clothing. These were bargain shoppers, for sure, but no one who stepped on Damour’s chest was there because they had run out of bread and heating oil.

One of the great blind spots that “caring people” have is the inability to appreciate that there are people in the world who just don’t care. Appreciating that historically demonstrable fact is the true basis of wisdom.

Amity Schlaes gives Krugman some noogies.

Here’s the meat:

Mr. Krugman is a new Nobel Laureate, teaches at Princeton University and writes a column for a nationally prominent newspaper. So what he says is believed to be objective by many people, even when it isn’t. But the larger reason we should care about the 1930s employment record is that the cure Roosevelt offered, the New Deal, is on everyone else’s mind as well. In a recent “60 Minutes” interview, President-elect Barack Obama said, “keep in mind that 1932, 1933, the unemployment rate was 25%, inching up to 30%.”

The New Deal is Mr. Obama’s context for the giant infrastructure plan his new team is developing. If he proposes FDR-style recovery programs, then it is useful to establish whether those original programs actually brought recovery. The answer is, they didn’t. New Deal spending provided jobs but did not get the country back to where it was before.

And here’s the moral: Even somebody who has impeccable Establishment credentials can be demonstrably wrong in pursuit of a political agenda. This is why it’s important not to just believe somebody because they have a lot of tickets punched, but to make them show you the numbers, and be able to explain them in terms a non-specialist can understand. “Trust me, I’m an expert” is the worst of all bases for public policy.

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I am not making this up.

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Germany reverts to the Middle Ages.

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One of the primary functions of a government is to ensure that people can go about their daily business in peace. It would appear that Mexico does not, effectively, have a government.