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And draw your own conclusions.

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And where are the environmentalists complaining that we’re tampering with Mother Gaia?

Just sayin’.

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We have the technology.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

What makes Zimbabwe so unsexy compared to Darfur is that in 1965 the British Colonial Office tried to give the colony of Rhodesia to its black majority. But its white population declared independence and for 15 years resisted an international trade embargo, building a substantial manufacturing base. Finally, in 1979, Margaret Thatcher organized the handover of the country to Robert Mugabe.

The new President devoted the next decade to slaughtering his tribal enemies, largely leaving the white farmers alone to feed the country. In 2000, however, Mugabe began to reward his supporters by telling them to drive out the white minority and steal their land. Not surprisingly, his bully boys proved to be worthless farmers and the country has teetered on the brink of starvation ever since. Mugabe’s government has responded to the shortages it created by printing money, driving the annual inflation rate up to 165,000% in April 2008.

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In virtually every activity at the school, administrators say, the goal is to help create “a new man,” instilled with communal values, filled with love for the republic and ready to battle “internal or external aggression” against Venezuela.

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I find this particularly amusing:

This scandal should blow over very quickly, since the minister in question is not a powerful figure whose name is easy to link to GOP politics.

Parts I find appalling: A congregation with 26,000 members (I’ve lived in towns smaller than that); a congregation with over 40 ministers (can you say “impersonal”?), and a minister specifically in charge of a narrowly sliced demographic (“married adults, ages 42 to 58”).

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Once again, the private sector does the jobs that the public sector fumbles.

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But all of the Usual Suspects are wringing their hands about Club Gitmo, so nobody gives a shit.

Tell me how much Zimbabwe is better off than it was under Ian Smith. Try to do it with a straight face, and without your nose growing by a meter.

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Mobs are legal entities here. Their fan magazines and comic books are sold in convenience stores, and bosses socialize with prime ministers and politicians.

When reading a science fiction story, I never account an alien species convincing unless they are stranger than the Japanese.

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Ride ‘im, cowboy.

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Fortunately, I don’t have that problem.

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I particularly love this passage: ‘. As it remade itself in recent decades from a bedroom suburb into a more densely settled, partly urban, more diverse cluster of communities,…’. In other words, ‘as it went from middle class to incipient slum’. Don’t you just love the way Washington talks?

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Ain’t no biased media here, no sir.

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I am not making this up.

Megan McArdle points out some Inconvenient Truth.

Farm subsidies overwhelmingly do not go to struggling farmers; they go to large, flourishing concerns.

And once the Death Tax gets done with them, they won’t be struggling any more.

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The course of true love doth ne’er run smooth.

Wonder how much the book rights will go for.

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Ask yourself why India thinks it needs submarines capable of launching ballistic missiles.

And take a look at this.

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“Juveniles and former child soldiers should be treated first and foremost as candidates for rehabilitation and reintegration into society, not subjected to further victimization,” Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU’s human rights program, said in a statement.

This appeared in the same issue of the paper that described terrorists strapping explosives to an 8-year-old child in order to bomb somebody they didn’t like.

A rational person would see this situation as evidence that the bad guys are wickedly using children in their plots. The ACLU sees it as Just Another Excuse to Bash America. That tells you all you really need to know about the ACLU. (Question: Why is the ACLU involved in this at all? And what is somebody named “Jamil Dakwar” doing as a director of the ACLU’s “human rights program”?)

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The future looks dim after all.

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Well, I never like Houston anyway.

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And, more to the point, has (much like this column) demonstrated why.

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No wonder academics are gun-shy.

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Although an obsession with healthy eating is not officially in the DSM-IV, the diagnostic manual for psychiatrists, at least one doctor has given it a name: orthorexia. Colorado alternative physician Steven Bratman coined the phrase in his 2001 book, “Health Food Junkies,” saying it is a disease disguised as a virtue.

Probably.

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An endangered species that isn’t really endangered; it’s merely endangered in the fantasy world of enviro-wackos and simple-minded bureaucrats.

“We now have a species threatened which is both healthy in size and population; the real risk is litigation that will follow,” Crockett said. “Lawsuits will continue to be filed opposing individual operations, lease sales and permits, and that could have a significant impact on business up here.”

They don’t give a shit about the polar bears; that’s just a convenient stick with which to beat anybody wanting to solve the oil crisis by, you know, actually pumping American oil.

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Hey, when the government provides your health care, you don’t get a lot of options.

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AlGore is only #2? I’m offended.

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If we ever lose Al Gore, we’re sunk.

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If anyone is wondering why Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II, here’s an example why.

So long as group loyalties exist, members of a suspect group are going to be suspected. Whether that is appropriate or inappropriate depends on the circumstances; those who claim that it is always and everywhere inappropriate need to read up on human nature, because they live in a world that does not exist.

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

Perhaps if Senator Obama will just talk to them, they’ll quit and decide to play nice.

A handy reminder.

A handy compendium.

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Driving a car at a Marine holding a rifle is not something that would occur to a normal intelligent person.

Megan McArdle takes a look.

To be clear, I do not object to the teacher’s unions because they have a union. I object to the teacher’s unions because teachers are among the competing interests that run low-income school districts for the benefit of the various interest groups, rather than the children. The union merely gives them more power to move value from children to teachers.

And that is the essence of a union. Whenever you see a union, you see a group of people who are attempting through politics to gain an economic advantage that they cannot gain through a free market.

Sort of like a government that way, come to think of it.

Or a street gang.

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Perhaps because it helps to be soused when listening to what passes for music these days.

But that’s just me.

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

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Where have I seen this before? Oh, yeah — Star Treck, one of those episodes where Kirk or Spock or somebody gets court-martialed.

He looks really happy to be wearing it, doesn’t he?

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Money may not buy happiness, but it can rent Harvard and Jimmy Carter for a good long while.

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Megan McArdle points out some common threads of “alternative medicine”.

I love the ionic foot baths that use salt ions and your skin fat to create lye while telling you that the disgusting looking brown stuff is “cleansing your liver”.

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Oh, no!

Wait for the enviro-nazis to mandate it.

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Consider this tough talk from UN chief Ban Ki-moon: “I want to register my deep concern and immense frustration on the unacceptably slow response to this grave humanitarian crisis.” The problem is, something is only unacceptable if it’s not accepted. So, eleven days into the unacceptable, we’re still pretending that the UN is going to get around to caring about corpses that can’t be linked to the American military or the Israeli Defense Force.

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Time to invade Burma?

Remind me what use the U.N. is.

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We have the technology.

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I am not making this up.

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Okay, new technique that differs from what everybody else is doing, and it demonstrably works —

Chances of it getting widely adopted: None.

Amount of time between now and when it is in general use: Approximately 100 years. And homeschoolers will have been doing it for 50 of them.

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I’d want to specify “No socialists need apply.” But that’s me.