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More nannystatism in the Land of Fruits and Nuts.

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An ugly term for a false distinction. But the cartoon is funny.

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Around 40 per cent of people with European origins have “high risk” versions of the genes, which affect the brain’s sensitivity to nicotine.

Well, that explains a lot.

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And we think we’ve got immigrant problems….

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Is there anything in the modern world that someone won’t sue over? If so, I haven’t seen it.

Of course, the guy involved is a lawyer, so he may be just drumming up business.

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You might find it natural to wonder about an industry that depends on deception to sell their products.

Randall Parker has an excellent idea.

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Things must be getting Really Bad in Britain.

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I can think of nothing more pathetic than being part of a “fat pride” group. I suppose that, in these degenerate modern times, there would be “stupid pride” groups as well, did they but have the wit to form them.

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Notice how, when the WaPo writes about somebody in a Third-World shithold, they never write about people who are actually doing manual labor — craftsmen, manufacturers, famers, ditch-diggers, goatherds. They always interview artists, poets, actors, playwrights, “journalists”, editors … or, as here, booksellers. If it’s not someting you can do downtown in a major American metropolis, they have no interest in it or anybody who is involved with it.

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A woman was prevented from taking her own son to school because she hadn’t been screened for a criminal record.

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

Megan McArdle has the numbers.

Gee, when tax rates go down, tax revenues go up. Isn’t that amazing.

Too bad Democrats can’t count.

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Another stage in the campaign by the left to cancel the Industrial Revolution.

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Let us assume that Saint Al of Gore and the IPCC are correct in their direst predictions and that Lord Stern and his ilk are correct in their assessment of the cost of global warming. What possible benefit can result from slashing emissions in the west when India and China are committed to industrialisation and its consequential CO2 production?

A really excellent question.

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Darwin Award nominee.

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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.