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Police enforcing the law. What a concept.

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And this differs from the other 6,000 years of Chinese history how?

There is nothing new under the sun — it’s just that the names are changed to deceive the dim-witted.

Anne Applebaum brings up an interesting point.

I hate to put it so crudely, but — European newspaper reporting to the contrary — racism is not unique to the United States.

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The Chinese won’t take them back.

They may be crazy but they’re not stupid.

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I guess all that “innocent until proven guilty” doesn’t live in Britain any more.

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Guess who it hurts most? That’s right — Flyover Country.

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I mean, that stuff was just SO yesterday….

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Just reading the titles of the posts is entertaining.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

(I’m sorry, when I see the phrase “Jewish Lobby” I get this mental picture of a hotel in the Catskills with their front area full of Hasidim all bobbing and praying and paying no attention to their surroundings. Maybe it’s the Advil.)

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I am not making this up.

Of course, the obvious conclusion — that it’s not really a “man” — is the elephant in the room that nobody is going to notice.

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Guess “Star Wars” really works. You’d think that this would be front-page news. Nope, page A07 in the WaPo. No sign of it on the evening news that I’ve seen or heard tell of.

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President Bush, whose administration has been dominated by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the global battle against terrorism, helped break ground yesterday on a $185 million facility for the U.S. Institute of Peace — a government-funded think tank with the mission of preventing conflict and helping promote postwar stability operations.

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Just another rack of sinecures for the Chattering Class. Your tax dollars at work.

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It’s the good thing the government regulates these things, otherwise we’d be in deep doo-doo.

Oh, wait:

The federal agency that oversees oil trading, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has exempted these firms from rules that limit speculative buying, a prerogative traditionally reserved for airlines and trucking companies that need to lock in future fuel costs.

The CFTC has also waived regulations over the past decade on U.S. investors who trade commodities on some overseas markets, freeing those investors to accumulate large quantities of the future oil supply by making purchases on lightly regulated foreign exchanges.

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People always seem so surprised when a Communist country acts like a Communist country. *sigh*

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Well, yeah. Duh.

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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.