George Will points out that regressives are only free-spenders with other people’s money.

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No surprises there, either.

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If people had to get a license to reproduce, these would be on the Do Not Fly list.

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America’s inequality problem — and I mean the stagnation at the lower end, not the hedge funds guys at the top — does indeed seem to stem from dysfunctional families and bad education…

And that’s a matter of culture, and all the people involved in culture are just making things worse.

Steve Sailer is shocked, shocked I tell you, that there are flaming hypocrites in L.A.

As far as I can tell, environmentalism in LA is mostly about shopping, buying stuff white people like to flaunt your social conscience and income, about showing the world that you’re living life in the fast lane.

And that about sums it up.

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The chief impediment to capitalism is capitalists.

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A look at Hillary’s life. It’s not a pretty sight.

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That’s because they realize that he’s one of them. Harvard-educated, politically correct, statist to the core. Bill Clinton with a functioning zipper.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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The major enemy of capitalism is capitalists.

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Well, duh. A brat kid will likely turn out to be a brat adult. That’s just observed fact.

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Guess what? You have to be of a certain level of importance to get an entry in Wikipedia. Who decides? Apparently it’s impossible to say.

Whatever it is, I suspect that you and I don’t qualify.

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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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Is AlGore over there by any chance?

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Democrats in general, I would submit, confuse change with improvement. They fail to weigh the costs and benefits of change, to consider its unintended consequences, or to worry about what we need to conserve and how we might go about doing that faithfully. They ask Americans to embrace change for its own sake, in the faith that history is governed by a law of progress, which guarantees that change is almost always an improvement. The ability to bring about historical change, then, becomes the highest mark of the liberal leader.

And those are the truest words you’ll read today.

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, my granny use to say.

But when prevention contradicts the Fashionable Liberal Lifestyle, the Chattering Class would rather wring their hands and call for more spending on possible cures.  (Can you spell “AIDS”? I’m sure you can.)

What astonishes me is that this article actually appeared in a White People newspaper like the Washington Post. Somebody must be asleep at the switch over there.

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I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

Let’s trademark our buzzwords and sue anybody who is stupid enough to believe them to be valuable.

Yeah, that’s the ticket.

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Notice that no mention is made of the silly leftoid policies that produce these harsh results for the groups for which the leftoids proclaim their greatest love.

Gas is expensive? Well, we could drill more wells (like in ANWR) and build more refineries to bring the price down. But the leftoids say, No, No, No.

Food expensive? Well, we could shit-can the stupid ethanol mandate that is raising the price of bread and meat products. But the leftoids say, No, No, No.

Chickens, meet Roost. Roost, meet Chickens.

And yet The Poor will keep voting for The Left, the very people who are screwing them. What a world.

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Of course, the Usual Suspects will characterize this as a Republican plot.

As if there were any Republicans employed  by the State Department. Let’s get back to reality, shall we?

(Now, if the suggestion is that a couple of Democrats in the State Department are sufficiently venal to sell information to their ideological enemies, well, that I’d believe.)

What I don’t believe is that, say, the McCain campaign, which has planted both boots on a fellow for just sending around a link to a YouTube video mocking Obama’s link to racist preacher Wright, would be involved at all. And nobody else cares.

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Hope the people who held gold when it was $1000 an ounce took the opportunity to cash in. This stuff always goes up and down — I remember when gold hit $800 an ounce, people were running around in circles and jumping up and down … and then it went back to about $200.

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Well, duh – that’s where their money comes from.

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While it’s good he wasn’t expelled, it’s difficult to see how the school can justify this type of punishment either. Here’s a student trying to help both himself and the rest of the class better learn the subject matter, and he’s punished for it? That doesn’t seem right.

Well, it is Canada….

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Hey, the system actually works.

I rather think that Ron Paul’s backers were slight enough already.

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Yeah, racism kept him from getting into Harvard. (Oops, I guess it didn’t.)

And racism kept him from getting into Harvard Law. (Oops, I guess it didn’t.)

And racism kept him from getting elected head of the Law Review. (Oops, I guess it didn’t.)

And racism kept him from elective office. (Oops, I guess it didn’t.)

And racism kept him from being elected to the Senate. (Oops, I guess it didn’t.)

And racism kept him from getting a book deal worth millions. (Oops, I guess it didn’t.)

And racism kept his wife from getting a 100% pay raise after her husband got elected to the Senate. (Oops, I guess it didn’t.)

Yeah, tell us about all the racism you’ve had to suffer through, Barack.

Are you going to be this much of a whiner if you get the nomination? I guess you will.

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But that trick never works….

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I’m sorry, but I’m not impressed by psychiatrists. If you can’t measure it, it isn’t science; what they do is just literature using medical terminology.

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Duh. Time is constantly replenishing, money only does that for rich people.

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We used to be the world’s most skillful entrepreneurs and managers. Now we’re laughingstocks. What happened?

You’ll find that the answer is “government”.

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The problem with many liberals is that while they say they espouse tolerance, love for your fellow man, and discussing problems instead of resorting to fisticuffs, when they’re actually expected to “walk the walk,” things get ugly. To them, just listening to conservative ideas is akin to Dracula finding out about a nationwide tainted blood supply. It’s painful when liberals realize that not everyone thinks the way that they do: that there are unenlightened souls out there who don’t recycle, who go to church once in a while, who respect our military, and who don’t think that the sun shines out of Barack Obama’s nether regions.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

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But he’s a Democrat, so they’ll have to drag him out with a backhoe. These people didn’t watch Bill Clinton for eight years for nothing.

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You’d think that farmers all had five votes apiece, when we know that’s only true for Democrat farmers — and their deceased relatives.

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Not to be confused with “boomer socialism”, which is a different gig that doesn’t pay as well.

Local governments have been so eager to engage in this “race to the bottom” of offering special breaks and subsidies to corporations who just might come to their community if the pot is sweetened enough that one might be forgiven for thinking it an immemorial custom. It ain’t.

Just once I’d like to see local voters say to, oh, a sports team, “Pay for your own goddam luxury-box-choked stadium”. Just once. Not a lot to ask.

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Hint: No.

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Of course. It would be Disneyland over there if it weren’t for Bush. Who could doubt it?

What I find depressing is that so many morons reach general officer rank in our armed forces.

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Markets always emerge, even when you don’t want them to.

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A good reason to avoid Germany. If you need one.

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That ought not to surprise you. The worst disasters in history were all caused by government action.

The crisis has its roots in the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, a Carter-era law that purported to prevent “redlining” — denying mortgages to black borrowers — by pressuring banks to make home loans in “low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.” Under the act, banks were to be graded on their attentiveness to the “credit needs” of “predominantly minority neighborhoods.” The higher a bank’s rating, the more likely that government regulators would say yes when the bank sought to open a new branch or undertake a merger or acquisition.

But to earn high ratings, banks were forced to make increasingly risky loans to borrowers who wouldn’t qualify for a mortgage under normal standards of creditworthiness. The CRA, made even more stringent during the Clinton administration, trapped lenders in a Catch-22. “If they comply,” wrote Loyola College economist Thomas DiLorenzo, “they know they will have to suffer from more loan defaults. If they don’t comply, they face financial penalties . . . which can cost a large corporation like Bank of America billions of dollars.”

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Notice that this is taking place in Britain, and that it isn’t a professional association for teachers that is having this debate, but a teachers’ union. I know that everything is unionized in Britain these days — I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the homeless and indigent have a union (International Brotherhood of Useless and Unproductive People?) — but unions are for people who have no bargaining power as individuals because their skill sets are fungible and easily acquired. What does it tell you about teachers that they fit this category?

If you’re still not depressed, think about the fact that most American government workers are unionized. What does that tell you about the quality of our government? Hm?

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… I see a lot of good that came from having a headstrong blowtorch of a man speaking truth to power.

And that’s why David Ignatius is an idiot, with an idiot’s cluelessness about how both the military and the government operate.  But read it and make up your own mind.

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A good regressive can find identity politics in the most unlikely places. It’s a gift.

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Everybody wants good health care, but nobody wants to pay.

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Would that the CIA were as effective as these eco-freaks.

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I certainly plan to.

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How badly do you have to suck as a Senator to be behind Al Franken, even in such a pinko state as Minnesota?

Steve Sailer has an interesting illustration of how combining one silly notion (identity politics) with an entirely silly career path (sociology) makes for entertainment for the rest of us.

I have spent my life studying the pictures and symbols of racism and slavery,…

And there’s his problem right there.  If you only have a hammer, problems tend to look like nails; if you spend your life studying racism and slavery, you’ll find it crop up in the most unlikely places. That’s why they warn med students not to get too excited when they think they’re developing the symptoms of every new disease they study.

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And I might win the lottery.

You might not think it but Reuters used to be a news agency.

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Records also show that Jessie Dotson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 1994 and spent 14 years in prison. He was released from prison in January.

It always astonishes me that opponents of the death penalty can sleep at nights.