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Things you don’t even need to read it to know:

1. He’s got a book coming out.
2. He wouldn’t have gotten any mention at all if he were supporting what he’s now condemning.

There are some situations for which the word “meretricious” is clearly appropriate.

Also the word “whore”.

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Well, yeah. All they read in the papers and see on TV is how shitty the economy is getting. Cry wolf long enough and people start barring the door.

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Takeaway bite:  “For months, teams of journalists and academic researchers dug into the workings of all 50 states and graded them….” Can you think of a more chattering-class mentally-masturbatory proceeding?

Were they using corporate CEOs or Army generals — you know, people who actually have to do this crap day-to-day — it would be impressive. As it is, it is merely sad.

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Europeans are discovering what Republicans have always known: The foundation of the modern Democratic platform is to sacrifice any possible foreign policy interest, ours or any ally’s, for the sake of gaining and keeping domestic political power.

Thanks, guys.

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A useful discussion of why the Democrats are wrong on foreign policy.

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It is not a pretty sight.

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Apparently their politicians are as pig-ignorant as our politicians. Who knew?

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Democrats are corrupt. No surprises here.

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Yaacov ben Moshe looks at the modern world. It is not a pretty sight.

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A civil disturbance would result in the complete shutdown of the financial system in the capital. Watch for any preliminary signs of organised violence, closure of shops and businesses, and attacks upon civilians.

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Regressives want more centralized control of schooling. Adolf, call your office.

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An excellent and useful addition to the language.

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More inconvenient truth.

One of the great truths about the Left is that they have no abiding principles (such as respect for the individual or a skepticism about human wisdom). All the Left have is a lust for power. And because of that they can turn on a dime when it suits them. And history is a good tool for showing that. But with their command of the educational system, the Left have ensured that only selected bits of history get taught in the schools or mentioned elsewhere. So the lessons of history are usually well-hidden from most people.

I wonder what the reaction would be to reproducing that classic poster today?

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It’s just a sham … which reinforces the notion that Russia is just a Third Worl country with nuclear weapons.

The answer, I think, can lie only in the ruling clique’s fundamental insecurity, odd as that sounds. Though the denizens of the Kremlin do not, cannot, seriously fear Western military attack, they do still seem to fear Western-inspired popular discontent: public questioning of their personal wealth, public opposition to their power, political demonstrations of the sort that created the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. To stave off these things, they maintain the democratic rituals that give them a semblance of legitimacy.

This also gives us a good look at what Germany would be like if National Socialism had fallen from power “naturally” rather than through the country being pounded into rubble in war. Imagine Heydrich as Chancellor of a “democratic” Germany.

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Well, in tribal cultures, that’s what happens when one of your guys gets elected to public office: He gets spaces at the public trough for as many of his tribe as possible.

Remind me why the British decided to allow these people to govern themselves.

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Guess some women are more womenly than others. Or something.

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Yeah, when the economy is strong the Democrats all wring their hands about how bad the recession is.

Every time you hear a Democrat complain about how piss-poor the economy is, perk up — it means things are going well.

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Of course, we’ve got the technology to do individualized instruction, so why have “classes” at all?

Ask the bureacrats in the schools why they’re using a process model that hasn’t been updated since the textbook was invented in the 16th century.

Go ahead, ask.

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Once again, political fashion gets smacked upside the head by the Law of Unintended Consequences.

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When in doubt, sue. That’s what Americans do.

Besides, nobody likes Harvard anyway.

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And about time, too.

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Just a suggestion.

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No word on whether they help prevent heart attacks, like cats.

On the other hand, if a mechanical dog is sufficient to cure your lonliness, perhaps a less expensive solution, like a Pet Rock, would do as well.

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All your nightmares about Microsoft validated.

Your challenge: Find a Microsoft employee who’s a Republican. (Hey, if it were easy, anybody could do it, right?)

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If Obama shows up one day without a hand, well….

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

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This is what happens when literature majors deal with computations requiring something beyond taking off their shoes.

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Doesn’t pay to cross the union, apparently.

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Not to mention that your Friendly Neighborhood Fascists behind zoning regulations and housing codes won’t let you do this most places.

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And why not? He’s being paid.

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It’s always amusing when people who don’t understand markets attempt to do things in what they think is a market-oriented way.

It’s like watching cargo-cult natives in operation.

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It would be funnier if there were a bunch of endangered-species birds sitting around laughing themselves sick. But one can’t have everything.

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I suppose that, if you belong to the New York Times demographic and are accustomed to potty-mouths as comedians, this would be astonishing.

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Some people just never leave the sixties behind.

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“Would you please tell the judges your name and what planet you’re from?”

Let me know if that works for you, guys. I’m not holding my breath.

Read it. All your childish illusions, shattered.

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Fashion magazines don’t help much either. Elle talks to Ashlee Simpson. And writes down what she says. To be recorded for all time.

If I tried to dress to hide all the parts of my body I have ever been self-conscious about, the only thing left to wear would be a hazmat suit.

“Show me a woman with a good three inches of cleavage on display, and I’ll show you a woman who, rightly or wrongly, has little faith in her powers of conversation.”

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

Read it. The People of the Crust of Potomac, Maryland, are irate at having government treat them the way they would have the federal government treat the entire nation. Irony seems too inadequate a term.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

Read it. Britons are voting with their feet, with most wanting to come to — where else? — America.

Read it. A classic symptom.

Read it. A concept is a concept, but unless the economics works out….

Read it. Well — there it is.

Watch it. This is just so wrong….

Yaakov ben Moshe is always worth reading.

Read it. One wonders about the viability of the other post-colonial “nations” that European states cobbled together out of disparate tribes.

Read it. Of course, some of us think “NGO” and “bad” are redundant.

The primary problem is that what we think of as “corruption” is what most of the world thinks of as “family duty”. And our regressives are too foolish to cope with any outlook other than their own.