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What’s it like to be a real African among African-Americans?

The word “racist” should be banned. It is like a sweater wrung completely out of shape; it has lost its usefulness. It makes honest debate impossible, whether about small realities such as little boys who won’t say hello to black babysitters or large realities such as who is more likely to get the death penalty. In place of “racist,” descriptive, albeit unwieldy, expressions might be used, such as “incidents that negatively affect black people, which, although possibly complicated by class and other factors, would not have occurred if the affected people were not black.” Perhaps qualifiers would be added: “These incidents do not implicate all non-black people.”

Of course, this particular African has bought into the whole “victim” mentality of modern black American culture — otherwise you don’t get published in the Washington Post — but it’s an interesting perspective.

Perhaps Africans coming to American ought to be given a pamphlet explaining the ways in which American black culture is dysfunctional and that, for better or worse, they will be assumed to be a part of that culture, by both white and non-white alike.

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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 know what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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The agreement sets the fines lower than the $357,500 proposed in December by the U.S. Department of Education. The fines, to be paid to the department, are for violating the federal Clery Act, which requires schools to accurately disclose campus security information.

Life at a government school.

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I tell you, that Republican “culture of corruption” is just disgusting.

Oops, sorry, they’re all Democrats. Never mind.

Yaacov Ben Moshe takes a look at the looney French Overclass.

Cringely has an excellent discussion of the fuels problem.

And, by the way, there’s a couple in Indiana who just might be solving it for us.

Enter SwiftFuel, the Splenda of motor fuels because it is made from ethanol yet contains no ethanol. SwiftFuel is the invention of John and Mary Rusek from Swift Enterprises in Indiana. To your airplane SwiftFuel looks and tastes just like gasoline. It has an octane rating of 104 (higher than the 100 octane fuel it replaces) yet contains no lead or ethanol. SwiftFuel mixes with gasoline, can be stored in the same tanks as gasoline, and be shipped in the same pipelines as gasoline. It is made entirely from biomass, which means it has a net zero carbon footprint and does nothing to increase global warming. Its emission of other polluting byproducts of burning gasoline are significantly lower, too. SwiftFuel has more energy per gallon than gasoline so your airplane (or your car) will go 15-20 percent further on each gallon.

Oh, and based on an average $1.42 per gallon wholesale cost for the ethanol used as its feedstock, SwiftFuel costs $1.80 per gallon to produce, meaning that it ought to be able to sell for $3 per gallon or less no matter what happens in the Middle East.

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No good deed goes unpunished.

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National Health Service is what you get when the government runs the health care system.

Let’s profit from Britain’s mistakes, can we?

Today is D-Day.

It’s also the anniversary of RFK’s assassination.

So what’s important to Google?

A picture about Velazquez.

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We have new technology for voting — unfortunately, it depends on old technology humans.

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D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced a military-style checkpoint yesterday to stop cars this weekend in a Northeast Washington neighborhood inundated by gun violence, saying it will help keep criminals out of the area.

But D.C. has the strictest gun ban in the country! Surely that prevents gun violence!

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

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Just because we have the technology doesn’t mean that it actually works.

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Hey, if you’re serious about food….

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Could very well be. We have the technology.

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No word on the elderberries.

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You knew it had to happen.

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

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Why? Because it’s conclusions are Politically Incorrect, of course.

The board had delayed an April vote to approve the report after concerns were raised that findings were based on subjective measures, such as elementary report card data, and that they would fuel negative stereotypes.

Board member Phillip A. Niedzielski-Eichner (Providence) said yesterday that he plans to propose at a June 19 meeting that a vote on the report be postponed indefinitely.

Don’t like the facts you find? Sweep them under a rug and push on. That’s the government way.

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And where was the Washington Post when Mugabe was installed as President by the “international community”, including Bishop Tutu, thirty years ago? You know where.

Boy, it’s a good thing that Zimbabwe isn’t suffering under that oppressive white regime any more, isn’t it?

George Will points out that our government is keeping gas prices artificially high.

One million barrels is what might today be flowing from ANWR if in 1995 President Bill Clinton had not vetoed legislation to permit drilling there. One million barrels produce 27 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel. Seventy-two of today’s senators — including Schumer, of course, and 38 other Democrats, including Barack Obama, and 33 Republicans, including John McCain — have voted to keep ANWR’s estimated 10.4 billion barrels of oil off the market.

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

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Looks like they may have.

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

Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they no longer live under a repressive white regime.

Bet they really appreciate all the U.N has done for them.

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Smile for the camera, son.

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No wonder they’re still Communist.

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Apparently, no more so than we otherwise would be.

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Save the trees! Lay a carpet!

Be the first on your block to pick a side in this exciting new conflict.

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It’s a good thing that we’ve got the U.N. and all those human rights groups, isn’t it?

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Ponder this scenario, offered by the National Cultural Values Survey: “You lose your job. Your friend’s company is looking for someone to do temporary work. They are willing to pay the person in cash to avoid taxes and allow the person to still collect unemployment. What would you do?” Almost half, or 49 percent, of self-described progressives would go along with the scheme, but only 21 percent of conservatives said they would. When the World Values Survey asked a similar question, the results were largely the same: Those who were very liberal were much more likely to say it was all right to get welfare benefits you didn’t deserve.

Doesn’t surprise me.

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And ponder just who wants to turn the U.S. system into the European system. Hint: For whom would that change be better? You? Or AlGore?

Remember: Me and my chauffer can use the HOV lane.

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

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Give some to Nancy Pelosi — she’s the worst pickle-puss I’ve seen in ages.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

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Savor the irony of Black Panthers participating in a rally to protest violence. I guess we can expect the Saudi royal family to start investing in pork futures next.

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One of the UK’s current favourites, according to a recent survey, is Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

No wonder Britain is falling apart.

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His top showed the Transformers film character Optimus Prime holding a gun.

I’m convinced that these people do this sort of absurd stuff just to amuse themselves, and don’t really care that it makes them look like pettifogging morons.

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Well, it can’t be “the recession”, since there isn’t one. Wonder what it could be?

Gee, seems to me that Mark Steyn wrote a book about this not too long ago….

And since when do leftoids care about low birth rate? I thought that they were all worried about overpopulation?

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There you go — Iraq is safer than Cleveland. And yet no calls for withdrawal from Cleveland from the Chattering Class.

City administration? Democrat.

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That would be amusing. It’ll never happen, but it’s fun to think about the Overclass being subjected to the same government importunities as Flyover Country.

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Yeah, promises, promises….

Eight years of George W Bush, and Alec Baldwin is still hanging around like a bad smell.

What do we have to do, elect Dick Cheney? Not that I would mind, you understand; but still. These people are just all mouth and no action.

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No, it just seems like five years.

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Note that the “National Cathedral” in question is Episcopalian, which tells you a lot about American culture.

Unfortunately, both the Episcopalian church and American culture are unravelling at an ever-increasing pace.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

Not surprisingly, players in all countries chose to give up some money to punish freeloaders. The difference was in how the freeloaders reacted to being punished. In prosperous countries, the cheaters tended to respond to punishment by mending their ways. In the more uproarious countries, however, the bad guys just got mad and hit back.

In countries with democratic market economies, peer pressure goaded people to cooperate. Among authoritarian societies or those dominated more by ties of kinship, freeloaders instead lashed out at those who censured them, the researchers found.

That explains a lot about the Middle East.

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And the octopus draws its tentacles ever tighter.

George Will points out that whenever politicians come up with a complicated “solution” for a problem that exists primarily in the media-fueled fantasy world of public opinion, it’s all about money and power for the Overclass.

AlGore isn’t bleating about Global Warming because he’s worried about the fate of the earth — if he were, he wouldn’t have a carbon footprint as big as King Kong. He’s pushing it because it stuffs his pockets with dollar bills.

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Ships, helicopters … what is Greenpeace’s carbon footprint these days?

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At American Thinker, William Tate observes that other publishers approached by McClellan don’t even recognize it as the same book.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

Modern Western culture, dominated as it is by status striving among whites to score points off each other by most fervently embracing “The Other,” has largely become dependent upon a tiny handful of Others to say the things that need to be said.