Read it. Unlike the Russians, the Chinese have been doing this sort of thing for thousands of years. They are very, very good at it.

Read it. Didn’t Michel Savage write a book about that?

David Friedman is always worth reading.

Read it. I’d love to see a corresponding headline “Bush presses U.N. chief on corruption”, but I’m not holding my breath waiting for it.

Read it. Like watching a snowman melt in the sun.

The five leaders from Africa and South America said they could not share communion with Episcopal bishops who in 2003 consecrated V. Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire.

The technical term for this is “schism”. Let’s see how long they can dance around it without actually using the term. I predict years, if not decades.

Read it. Apparently so.

Read it. “Best”, that is, from the standpoint of the employee. Worst from the standpoint of the employer — which is why they’re in jeopardy. Duh.

Read it. Think of it as evolution in action.

Read it. The Europeans would step right up; that’s less than they’re paying for gas right now. The anti-nuke regressives would hyperventilate and pass out. Win-win!

George Will really doesn’t like the Clintons. Not that I blame him.

Read it. Apparently the fact that it’s a Communist dictatorship responsible for the deaths and mutilation of millions of their own people doesn’t bother him, but God forbid it should put him on the outs with his Hollywood friends.

Regarding which, you think that they would catch on after a while that a Communist dictatorship is going to act like, well, a Communist dictatorship.

Read it. Guess that old McCain-Feingold law didn’t really succeed in keeping the money out of politics, did it?

Watch it. I really don’t like John McCain.

Read it. Our friends the Communist Chinese. Remind me why we buy so much from them? Oh, right, we want to make that last nickel profit on the rope before they hang us with it.

Read it. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

And the crowd sound you hear is all of the big-name conservative enablers insisting that we all fall into line behind him.

Hey, can I have a jumbo side of spousal abuse with that?

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George Will is not yet a Saint of Dyspepsia, but he’s certainly racking up points.

Read it. Someone whom you wouldn’t invite into your home, much less want to see dating your daughter.

Ross Douthat cuts right to the chase on the light bulb question.

The incomparable Mencius Moldbug takes us on a merry romp through “Lysenkoist pseudohistorical nonsense”.

I use the L-word because this history is not just accidentally bad – it exists because it serves a political function.

Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the hard questions – and mention the obvious answers.

Read it. And do some thinking. Assuredly Tsar Vladimir is.

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

Being Politically Correct is so much more important than actually helping people, after all.

Read it. Too bad the guy can’t win against the Clinton Machine.

Read it. And yet she makes more money than you, dude. What conclusion can we draw from this?

The whole point is that there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference, policy-wise, between McCain and Clinton. And if Clinton is President, then the Republicans in Congress will have room to oppose that shit, whereas if McCain is President they’ll be roped into going along, as happened with Mr Spend-It, George W Bush. People who can’t learn from history ought to shut up about politics because their opinions are not worth hearing except for entertainment purposes.

Read it. Of course they are. Look at Bill Clinton.

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Some on the right feel it would be less damaging to their cause to lose the 2008 election with the Republican-conservative alliance intact than to win with John McCain.

I’m coming around more and more to that opinion.

Read it. They could have stopped with “McCain ignores”.

Read it. Democrats: The party of “We Give Up!”

Democrats just wander the earth looking for people to whom to lose. At least the socialists pretended that they would make life better.

Read it. In an era of Identity Politics, it ought to come as no surprise that they Democratic Party would ineveitably host a fight between the fashionable victim groups, blacks and latinos. Perhaps this year is the year.

Read it. A useful reminder that, were it not for his assassination, and the administration of Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy might well be known as the worst American President of this century.

I was there. I saw.

If he hadn’t allowed Krischev to roll him in Vienna, there wouldn’t have been a Cuban Missile Crisis for him to handle. A fantastic save after you trip doesn’t make you any less a klutz, it just makes you a very lucky klutz.

He colluded in the murder of President Diem in Vietnam, which war (and country) had been doing very well until then.

He didn’t do shit for civil rights, other than have the FBI wiretap Martin Luther King.

Other than boffing more women-not-his-wife in the White House than Bill Clinton, it’s truly hard to think of one positive accomplishment of the Kennedy administration.

Feh.

Read it. A good reason to steer clear of MySpace, at least so long as most people are stupid.

I suspect that our country may have exhausted its supply of common sense. Or at least the tank is making those ugly gurgling noises.

Read it. I like the picture — I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

Read it. Shucks, I missed it.

Christopher Hitchens is almost always worth reading.

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

After all, they’re breaking the law just by being here. Not a big step to breaking the law in other respects.

Read it. Well, democracy in Russia didn’t last long, did it? Wonder how long before we’re back to 95% turnout and 95% majorities.

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In some circles elections are held to be a sort of universal balm or cure for what ails a society. Terrorism? Elections will cure it. Poverty? Just need elections. Corruption? Elections will throw the bums out. Well, in reality elections sometimes tear a society apart into warring tribes.

Read it. Democrats can dish it out but they can’t take it. Of course, only a publication run by Regressives would characterize Bill Clinton as any kind of “statesman”.

Read it. Thus aiding and abetting criminals is described as “Christian duty”. No wonder their church is dissolving around them.

Read it. Of course, Regressives in charge of the Political Correctness Police don’t have the mental acuity to make — or appreciate — such distinctions.

Read it. No connection, of course, between the diocese’s financial problems and the lawsuit against separating parishes, oh no.

They don’t have these problems in Europe, of course, because of the church tax.

Read it. And pity a country that thinks more of political correctness than its own heritage.

A Reigate and Banstead Borough Council spokes-woman said: “The site is located on the Green Belt and the developments constitute inappropriate development, which is harmful to the openness of the Green Belt.”

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

Read it. Pretty disgraceful.

Read it. Orthodox seminary in Israel decides to start ordaining women rabbis.

Naturally this is hailed in “feminist” circles.

Giving learned female teachers the title of rabbi is a big deal—it may grant them better pay and more respect at the schools they work in.

But, of course, just sticking a label on a duck doesn’t make it a drake.

 But as for whether this will herald the beginning of an era of Orthodox women rabbis, it’s not so clear that the title will be recognized within the Orthodox world.

This is a pervasive tendency within the human animal that Regressives just don’t seem able to wrap their minds around.

Read it. Of course, this has always been the problem.

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Read it. Why not just draft them into The Young Pioneers or the Hitler Youth and be done with it?

Read it. Well, that’s today’s Britain for you.

Read it. An excellent summary.