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AIR TRAVEL has gotten so bad these days that going to the airport requires either an exercise in sadomasochism or an abiding faith that everything will be okay. That faith seems to be shattered daily.

Told you so. It’s so bad that even the Washington Post has noticed. That’s pretty bad.

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For more than two decades, 250 historians and specialists labored to produce the first six volumes of the General History of Latin America, an exhaustive work financed by UNESCO, the United Nations organization created to preserve global culture and heritage.

Then, over the course of two years, UNESCO paid to destroy many of those books and nearly 100,000 others by turning them to pulp, according to an external audit.

Remind me what good the U.N. is.

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Good luck with that. Anybody with an iPhone is a journalist these days.

But what exactly is he trying to hide, eh?

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They dress like characters from the days of Laura Ingalls Wilder, their old-fashioned clothing covering them from neck to ankle. They’ve never eaten processed food or watched television. They’ve been trained to fear and mistrust outsiders.

Sounds like how regressives would like the rest of us to live. No processed food! No TV! No videogames! They probably oppose Global Warming, too.

They’ve also been conditioned to believe it’s normal for men to have multiple wives and for a young girl to marry a much older man as soon as she reaches puberty.

They should have moved to Pakistan. Or London.

And guess how much this is costing the taxpayers of Texas.

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Everybody wants to use alternative energy sources, but nobody wants it in their neighborhood.

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But he was still a Dead White Male Who Owned Slaves, which makes him invisible to the Brahmin caste in America.

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If, indeed, she exists at all. Wouldn’t be the first time “law enforcement” officials trumped up some excuse to stick their hands into something of which they disapproved.

Just sayin’.

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Yeah, they might actually get something productive done, which would be mightily embarrassing.

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

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I guess there’s safety in numbers.

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Just makes you want to live in Washington, doesn’t it.

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

Remind me: What, if any, use is the U.N.?

The biters bit.

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Law enforcement authorities Tuesday continued searching the 1,700-acre ranch run by a reclusive polygamist sect but announced there were no new developments in the search for the 16-year-old girl who sparked the raids by telling state Child Protective Services a 50-year-old man has married her and fathered her child, a spokeswoman for the Texas Rangers said Tuesday afternoon.

Guess they’ll have to leave then, right? And I’m sure that the Washington Post will be editorializing in favor of these guys civil rights, which have been so egregiously violated, right? And the ACLU will be parachuting in lawyers to help out, right? Right?

Oh — I guess not.

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That’ll be a first.

What a great t-shirt: “I was a token white person for Michelle Obama.” I’d buy one.

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Hey, it’s not as if anybody is going to those churches for anything these days.

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

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An oxymoron, of course, but — like the expungement of the term “liberal” by those who are of that persuasion — an attempt to spin statism as actually being something else. Don’t be fooled.

Invariable rule: If you ever see an adjective in front of a well-understood general term, someone is trying to snooker you. This is how the nice man who says “Pick a card — any card” is able to take your money.

Examples: Social justice. Compassionate conservatism. Social democracy.

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Rice has always disclaimed any intention of running for political office, and of course the Chattering Class (to whom such a desire is literally unimaginable) just nods and winks and continues to speculate. How soon they forget Colin Powell!

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A rather jaundiced view of FDR.

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Obviously there is so little competition for America in the world that we have to provide ringers to our enemies just to enable them to be competitive.

In the countries from which these potential defendants came, organizations like the ACLU would be shut down and people associated with it imprisoned or worse. Why do so many delusional Americans have such a suicide drive?

Pogue knows.

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

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You know it had to happen sooner or later.

Problem is, I can’t really blame them. I wouldn’t want somebody putting street-level pictures of my house on the Internet, for sure.

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The problem is that we aren’t likely to get either from the Democrat party in general and Hillary Clinton in particular. I don’t see her or any of hers going into plumbing; what I do see is her and her fat-cat friends castigating successful plumbers as ‘the rich’ and trying to tax them back into the poorhouse.

The problem is that the Democrat base is chock full 0′ people on welfare who’ve never done an honest day’s work in their lives and have no plans to do so. In order to preserve that base they have to confiscate as much money from working people as they can get away with in order to buy the votes of the slackers. That’s just the way it is. The Democrats are no longer the party of the working man trying to get a fair shake; they’re the party of the parasite trying to leech off the body politic, and have been ever since Lyndon Johnson. I don’t see that changing any time soon, and I therefore substantially discount (into negative numbers) any pronouncements by Democrat politicians on the subject.

Talk is cheap, Hillary. You want to walk the walk, come out for some significant tax cuts.

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Yaacov ben Moshe is always worth reading. Depressing, but worth reading.

(Talk about a target-rich environment….)

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The problem with lawyers suing everybody is that when they win then the next person will pay up without actually having to do through the process.

Politicians do this a lot, too. ‘Give me a hefty contribution and I’ll stop/not start that investigation/punitive legislation that I’ve got on my calendar.’

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But you knew that.

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You think you’ve got a strange job? Try being a lawyer.

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When health care is a right, providers eventually stop providing.

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Just in case you thougth everything was hunky-dory in the Magic Kingdom.

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The Democrats appear so invested in a failure that a half-week of violence erases a year of progress. What is the source of such instincts?

An excellent question.

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Hey, as long as nobody messes with The Mouse, what do they care about your libraries?

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Funny, I thought doctors had medical degrees and nurses didn’t.

What’s next? “Doctor of Mechanics” to fix your car?

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When I was an undergraduate, there was a joke common among the graduate students who ate at Silliman to the effect that a political scientist was a historian who didn’t want to do the work, and a sociologist was a political scientist who didn’t want to do the work.

Nothing I’ve seen from that day to this has undercut the applicability of that formulation.

E. J. Dionne, liberal opinionator extraordinaire, is discovering that all of the the Democrat Party candidates are shitty. That’s because the truth is finally coming out about the Identity Politics that has sustained them for the last forty years.

Dionne’s answer?

This is obviously a problem for Hillary Clinton herself, but it is also very bad for a Democratic Party that cannot afford to see the entire Clinton legacy discredited.

Say NA NA NA NA NA very loudly and hope it goes away, I guess.

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These are the people that Warren Buffet and the other rich Democrats are attempting to destroy.

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“Judge, he needed killin’.” Sometimes the old ways are best.

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The Post seems so surprised that a Democrat would do this.

I’m not.

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Well, when there’s money to be made, technology follows.

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Not really a surprise.

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The politics of hair.

Apparently “hair on the face” = “not in the race”. Another “boys’ club” that Hillary can’t join.

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Events this year have exposed, once and for all, in a way that cannot be denied, elided, or spun, Democratic liberals as the party of abject incompetence and institutionalized corruption.

The truth is out there.

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The AlGore tidal wave gathers momentum.

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The party of take-our-football-and-go-home.

Steve Sailer has the goods on the Reverend Wright.

Like Michelle Obama, Rev. Wright apparently doesn’t practice what he preaches.

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