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Not your father’s Britain.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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I was right — Nixon without the 5 o’clock shadow….

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It’s official: George W Bush is Richard Nixon without the 5-o’clock shadow.

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Crime rates are up from last year. Arrests, traffic stops and gun recoveries are down. And while there is dispute over the precise reasons, the union representing police officers in this city says it is partly because officers are doing their jobs gingerly, out of fear that the controversial police superintendent won’t back them if they face misconduct charges.

Well, that’s what happens when politics intrudes into police work.

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But we won’t, because the teachers’ unions won’t let us.

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This must be what it was like living in the early 16th century.

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Thus bringing the Old World in line with the New.

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Sure, watch our Overclass destroy the Indian culture the way they’ve destroyed the American.

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Of course the stupid ones, like Sanchez, will ignore the ban, while the sensible ones are made to suffer.

Government — narrowing in on the most ridiculous solution with unerring accuracy.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

Public Health.

“Today’s students want to contribute, to empower individuals and communities to take charge of their own health,” said Ruth Gaare Bernheim, who teaches health policy at the University of Virginia. “I think they also intuitively realize that the world is their community and that the gains of the 21st century will be in global public health.”

AIDS is a dramatic example of how whole populations, not just individuals, can be at increased risk for disease — a key epidemiological concept. The emergence in the mid-1990s of life-extending treatment, which is only now being brought to Africa and Asia, where most AIDS patients live, provides a lesson in equity — the principle that underlies public health.

Only if you stick your weiner where it doesn’t belong. But I guess that describes most kids today.

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Too bad — that will just encourage people to stay in California.

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Hey, times are hard…. Anyway, the airlines do it, and who, riding an airplane, isn’t treated like a drug dealer? Makes perfect sense to me.

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Well – there it is.

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Here’s the scary part:

Officials checked the maps but found no record of the mystery village surrounded by trees and bushes and set about removing it as it did not adhere to the planning rules.

It’s out in the middle of nowhere, on private property, and they were going to remove it “as it did not adhere to planning rules.” When did Britain turn into the Soviet Union?

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The woman who masterminded the biggest embezzlement in D.C. government history inherited a scam running in the city’s tax office and relied on a culture of mismanagement and corruption so entrenched that she escaped notice for almost 20 years.

You’d never know from reading this Washington Post article that she’s a Democrat. Indeed, since the DC government has been controlled by Democrats ever since there was a DC government, guess who’s responsible for the “culture of mismanagement and corruption” we’re tut-tutting about here?

Whether a Republican administration would have been treated so politely is left as an exercise for the reader.

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And how much of that was pork?

“We’re not trying to give incentives to drill, we’re giving incentives to invest in renewables and natural gas that will take us where we need to go,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) told reporters before the vote.

Well, that answers my question.

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Mostly resume-building on the part of politicians — they don’t plan to be mayors and city councilmen forever, you know.

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They need a mascot, like the gekko with the Aussie accent.

I know: A slug that talks like Peter Lorre. That always says “government” to me.

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We’ve been asking for months why the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty is being negotiated in near total secrecy, allowing the entertainment industry to effectively rewrite international copyright law in substantial ways with almost no legislative review. Basically, various trade representatives, together with industry insiders, have been crafting ACTA to their own liking, with a plan to push it through for approval, claiming it’s a trade agreement that shouldn’t involve any legislative overview. It’s an incredibly one-sided affair, from what’s been leaked so far, and would substantially change copyright law around the globe in favor of protecting the entertainment industry’s business model.

But, of course, what we need is more government regulation. That has really worked so well for us in the past.

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Your tax dollars at work.

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I’d be more impressed if Wall Street ordered a wide Pelosi probe. Considering what they cost they American taxapayer, respectively, Congress is a better target for such a probe. I’d love to see big spenders like Robert Byrd and Ted Stevens lose their “golden parachutes” and do the perp walk into the slammer.

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A revolt led by terrified passengers forced a German airline to change their plane after it twice had to abort take off.

Now that’s comedy.

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Funny how every time “progressives” come up with another bright idea, it turns out to be a disaster.

Lileks limns the looney Left.

I don’t know if anyone’s stated the obvious yet, but this might be the first time people have become unhinged in advance over a vice-presidential candidate. Not to say some aren’t painting McCain as something the devil blurted out in a distracted moment during his daily conference call with Cheney, but a Veep? It took a while for people to believe that Cheney commissioned private snuff films with runaways dressed up to resemble a portion of the Bill of Rights, but Palin is She-Wolf of the Tundra right off the bat. And god help us she can use email, which means she will control the government. The most Spy ever did with Quayle was stick him in a dunce hat. By the time we reach the election Oliphant will probably draw Palin sodomizing by an oil derrick with guns for arms. I have to confess: I think Palin is an interesting politician, but the people she’s driving batty are much more fascinating.

I don’t see why people are so surprised by Al Qaeda, considering the amount of irrational hate that our native “progressive” fringe is ready, willing, and able to spew — and they don’t even have the fragile excuse that God wants them to.

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Well, they see how well it works for the Muslims….

Steve Sailer is having a great time.

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And the educational system is staffed by … Democrats!

The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Yup, grinding their faces into the cream cheese, we are.

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Let’s face it, no one gazing at the crowd of the Republican convention in St. Paul last week would have mistaken it for Sam and Becky Lebowitz’s grandson’s bar mitzvah party.

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Left-wing feminists have a hard time dealing with strong, successful conservative women in politics such as Margaret Thatcher. Sarah Palin seems to have truly unhinged more than a few, eliciting a stream of vicious, often misogynist invective.

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Jerry Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy in action.

Not to mention a good reason not to live in California.

Jerry Pournelle has some thoughts on the subject.

And it suddenly occurred to me. Here we were discussing what ought to be done for people we have never met, do not hang out with, and generally don’t really understand. Here were three high IQ people talking about what ought to be done for low IQ people.  And: the ONLY people discussing what ought to be done with/about/for the low IQ people are high IQ types who do NOT KNOW ANY LOW IQ PEOPLE, do not hang out with them, and probably cannot remember when they last met a person of, say, IQ 85, much less had any extended conversation with them.

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I’m taking bets on how long before some nutter decides that this is the fault of the U.S. in general and George Bush in particular.

What Would Barack Do?

Probably wring his hands and try to talk them to death.

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America is aways reluctant to believe that there are hostile people in the world. It’s time to face reality and admit that there are people out there who don’t like us, who want to harm us, and who are working actively against us. The technical term for such people is “enemy”.

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Jonathan Haidt is an anti-gun activist who thinks a poodle is his nephew. He is also a distinguished psychologist. Few people will be surprised by that juxtaposition. His orientation is of course Leftist and he accepts some of the convenient myths that Leftist psychologists cling to.

Haidt’s own thinking on gun control would seem to be an excellent example of how simplistic and deficient Leftist thinking is on moral issues. Conservatives look at the fact that gun control takes guns out of the hands of law-abiding people but not out of the hands of criminals and see that as a huge problem. Leftists seem to see that as no problem. To conservatives, anybody who ignores that problem seems to have a bit missing in his brain.

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Fascism comes on little cat feet, wearing an artist’s beret and waving academic credentials.

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Who remembers Jack Kilby? And yet he is easily as important as Thomas Edison — or even Henry Ford.

Compare and contrast with Stephen King.

Try not to get too depressed.

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Neoteny appears to be the prevailing disease of our time.

Wendy Brown, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, looked old for the Jaguars cheerleaders’ squad but was timid and ‘had a high-school demeanour’, according to an employee of Ashwaubenon High School.

I won’t comment on people who are willing to believe that a 33-year-old woman is actually a 15-year-old girl.

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

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Let me know how that works. I have my doubts.

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Well, I wouldn’t, but that’s me.

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I could believe the 5th Amendment. I don’t believe the 4th.

This is an obviously stupid decision not based on legal principles or a rational reading of the 4th amendment but rather on the fantasies of people who wake up in the morning thinking that this is 1930s Germany. Unfortuantely those peopel are in control of the courts, and the rest of us have to suffer the consequences.

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Senior State Department officials recently talked about the successful disarmament of Libya’s nuclear and other weapons programs, but one of the most revealing aspects of the case did not come up: how U.S. officials found and removed Chinese-language nuclear warhead design documents in Libya.

Reminder: The Chinese are a Communist dictatorship. They are Not Our Friends.

One of the Pentagon’s newest advanced weapons systems reached a milestone this week when the Airborne Laser successfully carried out the first ground testing of a high-powered beam that could be used to shoot down missiles and perhaps aircraft in flight in the not-too-distant future.

I guess “Star Wars” is on its way to working after all.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder. These are the people who train the people who populate legislatures and the courts.

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Well, that explains the nutroots.

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Quite frankly, I don’t blame them.