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Needless to say, carotene is a valuable dietary supplement.

Needless to say, regressives call it “frankenfruit” and want it made illegal.

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Some people have just entirely too much time on their hands.

And yet … it is through pointless monomania such as this that civilization advances. Go figure.

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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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And would it be counted as taxable income?

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The sort of thing that happens when the governement tries to “fix” the economy.

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And the long slide into irrelevance begins….

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It appears that there is some common sense remaining in Britain after all.

Look quick or you might miss it.

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Like watching a snowman melting in the sun.

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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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In summer 2003, an Illinois state senator used a new law to collect campaign contributions six times the normal limit for his insurgent U.S. Senate race against a multimillionaire securities trader.

But last week the Supreme Court struck down that law, the “Millionaire’s Amendment,” which helped launch the national political career of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) by leveling the financial playing field a bit. Writing for a 5 to 4 majority, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said the law amounted to an “unprecedented penalty” on candidates such as Obama’s opponent who want to exercise the First Amendment right to spend their own money in a run for office.

And once again a “minority” benefits from a discriminatory law. Rich leftoids will just have to go back to spending their own money to buy their legislative seats again. What a drag.

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At Harvard, the star of Arabic A is a girl named Maha. Maha Muhammed Abulaal, to be precise. She’s the pouty protagonist in the melodrama that runs throughout “Al-Kitaab,” the standard beginning text in Arabic classes at Harvard and other American universities.

We are taught to speak our first Arabic sentences by expressing Maha’s incurable angst. We learn in Chapter 1 that Maha is desperately lonely. In later chapters, we are told that she hates New York, has no boyfriend and resents her mother.

Soon we encounter her equally depressing relatives in Egypt — such as her first cousin Khalid, whose mother died in a car accident and who was forced to study business administration after his father told him literature “has no future.”

Like Maha, Khalid is loveless; his only romantic prospect ran away with a rich engineer. The family eventually intervenes with plans to marry the cousins off to each other. This makes everyone equally unhappy.

Then the story ends.

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Of course, one person’s taste is another person’s crap. The world is full of people who think that their taste is exquisite while yours is vulgar. When such people gather together in a pack, it makes a lynch mob look sedate.

“There is a lot of history in the Cord Meyer area and a lot of historical houses that have a specific aesthetic character in that community,” said Melinda R. Katz, a city councilwoman whose district includes Forest Hills. “A lot of the houses that are going up there are just simply too big relative to the other houses that are there and have been there for generations. They are out of character.”

New York, for example, is just full of such people.

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That’s what government control of health care gets you.

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Good. I never liked urang-utans anyway.

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Liberals rightly feel defensive about their patriotism because they always seem to find themselves blaming the United States for this or that, exhorting us to be more like the “enlightened” nations of Europe or forever shouting that we are a “laughing stock” in the eyes of other nations.

Funny how that works.

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It’s in a newspaper, so it must be true, right?

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No doubt there’s an environmental message there somewhere, but I read it as “too much time on somebody’s hands”.

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Change you can believe in.

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Can’t really blame them.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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Remember when the “benchmarks” for Iraq were all the rage in Congress? They were constantly being cited last year by opponents of the war effort when Iraq was failing to meet them. Funny how, now that Iraq has met 15 of 18 benchmarks, we don’t hear loud huzzahs from Democrats. In fact we don’t hear anything about the benchmarks, period. Yet another sign of the shifting goalposts when it comes to Iraq: Some critics are so committed to a narrative of American defeat that they seem unable to acknowledge our success.

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Ah, the federal government — glacial in its slowness.

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There’s nothing like visiting a foreign country like China to get an appreciation of what it’s like to live under an authoritarian regime.  I was reminded of this when I arrived home and found that the TSA had rifled through my baggage.

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And you can believe as much or as little of that as you care too.

Mostly it’s just that they won’t SHUT UP and let men get their work done. But that’s me.

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Let that be a lesson for us all.

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Britain used to be a law-abiding country.

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I’d call it a whitewash but it’s too early to start with the puns.

Mandela remains a Marxist, and the fact that he’s too old to participate in terrorism doesn’t erase the past.

And the ANC is still the party whose leader has as his theme song “Bring Me My Machine Gun”.

Those who consider George W Bush a conservative need to examine what they’re smoking.

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Everything good is bad for you.

Don’t like the conventional wisdom? Wait long enough and it will change, typically to the exact opposite.

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What do you think about when you meditate? Usually, some form of trying to excavate any kind of negative thing cycling in the mind and turn it toward the positive. For example, when I am annoyed with Dick Cheney, I meditate on how Dick Cheney was my mother in a previous life and nursed me at his breast.

Let’s see:

• Ivy League Professor? Check.
• Professor of Buddhist Studies? Check.
• American but ordained Tibetan monk? Check.
• Daughter a famous actress? Check.
• Interviewed for the New York Times? Check.
• Deranged opinions about politics? Check.

No doubt about it — a certified White Person.

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And rightly so, I think.

It would have been more amusing had he been shot.

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Liberals unclear on the concept masquerading as Christians. Next question.

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This is like Jews vowing to battle on against Hitler.

Guys, take the hint. Leave.

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Hosted on his own blog. Well, that ought to settle the question of whose side he’s on.

Just for fun, imagine what the drive-by media would do if they saw a “Nazis/Fascists for McCain” page on McCain’s web site.

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Why travel to the Third World? Wait long enough, and it will come to you.

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Well, that’s New York for you.

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Actually, I heartily endorse having the military not recruit its lawyers from schools that don’t like the military attitude toward homosexuals. Now if we can just work a similar deal with Islamists….

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More than 100 geese have gone missing from an ancient castle sparking fears the birds are being stolen to eat.

Ya think?

A local bird protection group has appealed to the public to be on alert for any suspicious activities.

I would think so.

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Darwin Award nominee.

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Except, of course, that they’re not “marching for gay rights” — gays have exactly the same rights as everybody else — they’re marching for the right to be publicly and toleratedly gay, which is a different thing entirely.

Funny how “progressives” are all for democracy … until they aren’t.

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Sen. Webb is expected to travel on a tax-payer funded junket to Southeast Asia.  He  wants both his wife and his 18 month old child to accompany him without having to pay reimbursement to the government.  Unfortunately, according to a March 9, 2007, letter from Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), while spouses are permitted to go with the Senator, “relatives of Senators (other than spouses) will not be permitted to travel with Senate delegations.”

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There was a remarkable exchange on the floor of the Senate this past Thursday between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. It offers pretty stunning evidence of how personally petty Reid is, as well as his penchant for defining “partisanship” as anything that keeps him from getting his way.

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In the late 1980s, before international experts arrived to tell us we had it all “wrong,” we in Uganda devised a practical campaign to prevent the spread of HIV. We recognized that population-wide AIDS epidemics in Africa were driven by people having sex with more than one regular partner. Therefore, we urged people to be faithful. Our campaign was called ABC (Abstain, or Be Faithful, or use Condoms), but our main message was: Stick to one partner. We promoted condoms only as a last resort.

Because we knew what to do in our country, we succeeded. The proportion of Ugandans infected with HIV plunged from 21 percent in 1991 to 6 percent in 2002. But international AIDS experts who came to Uganda said we were wrong to try to limit people’s sexual freedom. Worse, they had the financial power to force their casual-sex agendas upon us.

PEPFAR calls for Western experts to work as equal partners with African leaders on AIDS prevention. But as co-chair of Uganda’s National AIDS-Prevention Committee, I have seen this process sabotaged. Repeatedly, our 25-member prevention committee put faithfulness and abstinence into the National Strategic Plan that guides how PEPFAR money for our country will be spent. Repeatedly, foreign advisers erased our recommendations. When the document draft was published, fidelity and abstinence were missing.

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Well, perhaps the Church of England will become a family business — right when the customers seem to be leaving in droves.

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Well, that’s how the Anglicans got their start in the first place, after all, so they ought to be used to it.

That sputtering sound you hear is 1 billion Roman Catholics trying really really hard not to laugh.

It’s like watching a snowman melt in the sun.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

But the funny thing is, Bailyn’s long list of about a dozen or more things the Anti-Federalists warned would happen if the Constitution were ratified … they have all happened. They didn’t all happen right away. Many took until the Civil War, or the New Deal, or the Warren Court, or whatever. Still, when it comes to making long-run accurate predictions, the despised Anti-Federalists were right and the sainted Federalists were wrong.

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Boy, those South Africans 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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Mr Giscard d’Estaing told the Irish Times that Ireland’s referendum rejection would not kill the Treaty, despite a legal requirement of unanimity from all the EU’s 27 member states.

“We are evolving towards majority voting because if we stay with unanimity, we will do nothing,” he said.

Forget all of this democracy nonsense. We will decide what’s best for the people.

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There is an inverse side to all this dithering: the rush to resolve gargantuan problems that do not exist: global warming, institutional racism, “Islamophobia,” American military overreach, etc. Hanson is right. Action brings risks. Perhaps the hand-wringers figure that treating a non-problem involves no risk. If you multiply something by zero, after all, you end up with zero. So: by applying aggressive policies to challenges that don’t yet exist, they once again feel safely ineffectual. This is a mad type of preemption.