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Voter ID rule finds support

22nd January 2008

Read it. Democrats, the party of institutionalized voter fraud.

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Supreme Court Allows EULAs On Seeds

21st January 2008

Read it. I bet you didn’t know that you weren’t allowed to keep any of the seed you grew this year in order to plant it next year, did you? Neither did I.

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The Unburdened Mind

20th January 2008

Read it. Our political system is now much more clear.

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Web GEDs wrong answer

20th January 2008

Read it.

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Anti-spammer fined $60K for DNS lookup ‘hack’

18th January 2008

Read it. And stay out of North Dakota — apparently Larry Craig isn’t the only wacko from Up North.

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Prosecutors decry Mexico loophole

18th January 2008

Read it.

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Prosthetic-limbed runner disqualified from Olympics

17th January 2008

Read it. Bionic Man gets no respect.

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Class, Not Race, Divides the Democrats

17th January 2008

Read it. Of course, not (strictly speaking) true — all of the candidates are People of the Crust, it’s just the pandering that focuses on class and race.

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How Much Do You Pay A Year In Sneaky Fees?

16th January 2008

Read it. Clue: It’s more than you think.

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Liberal Fascism Watch

13th January 2008

Read it. The usefulness of the phrase suggests its accuracy.

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Car Loan Finances Show People Living Beyond Their Means

13th January 2008

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

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The Decline of Classical Languages

13th January 2008

Read it. It marches hand in hand with the decline of civilization.

Everyone who uses “data” with a singular verb ought to be taken out into the courtyard and shot.

And it’s coming. It’s coming.

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Radio-Controlled Thermostat Lowering In Electric Shortages

13th January 2008

Read it. Just another example of liberal fascism.

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Virginia Attorney General Supports Breakaway Anglicans

12th January 2008

Read it. The people can leave, you see, no problem, but God forbid they should take their church property with them.

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The End of Sprawl?

11th January 2008

Read it. What I’d like to see is an editorial by somebody who doesn’t favor people living cheek-by-jowl in crowded inner city tenements, which is the alternative to “sprawl”. Why is it that Regressives want to turn back the clock to where people had no individual transportation freedom? Is individual freedom such a threat?

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Rich Kid Syndrome

11th January 2008

Read it. “We live right now in a culture of unprecedented, voluptuous wealth.” Well, some of us do. And some of us like to pretend that we do for the sake of magazine articles.

The British upper class had to deal with this problem for hundreds of years. Surely they would be the first resort fo data on what works and what doesn’t. But I guess the American overclass is just too narcissistic.

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Australia To Test Cars That Won’t Let You Speed

10th January 2008

Read it. Well, sometimes Australians aren’t all that lovable.

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Testosterone Causes Aggressive Humor?

10th January 2008

Read it. Why not? It apparently causes everything else wrong with the world.

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The fugliest laptop you’ll see all day

10th January 2008

Read it. And it truly is.

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Traitor Dies, Reuters Whitewashes

9th January 2008

Read it.

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Litigation strains Episcopal diocese

9th January 2008

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

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Gang Leader for a Day

9th January 2008

Read it. And go punch a sociologist. You know you want to.

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Addicted to Sneering: Why The Left Taunts the Tiger

8th January 2008

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Iranian Face-Off

8th January 2008

Read it. More on the Iranian provocations.

So, why aren’t today’s newspapers plastered with stories about five sunken terrorist boats in international waters?

An excellent question to which there seems to be no satisfactory answer.

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Virginia Diocese opens $2 million line of credit

8th January 2008

Read it.

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Mexico Rebukes U.S. Candidates On Migrant Issues

7th January 2008

Read it.

I have an idea: Why doesn’t America rebuke Mexico on migrant issues?

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Boron nanotubes beat carbon at its own game

6th January 2008

Read it.

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The Problem with Populists

6th January 2008

George Will has some thoughts on the subject. Huckabee as the Republican John Edwards? Well, he’d need to get more hair….

The way to achieve Edwards’ and Huckabee’s populist goal of reducing the role of “special interests,” meaning money, in government is to reduce the role of government in distributing money.

And that’s the bottom line, folks. Nobody fights to control a government that can’t pass out money and favors.

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Rejecting innovations

5th January 2008

Read it. I find myself asking “What would it take to make it go away?” more and more as time goes on.

Especially when watching C-SPAN.

What we get from the commenters on the LSSU list (and the characters in Unshelved) is visceral cringe reactions, hostility towards inventiveness and playfulness, disdain for the Internet (as the enemy of thought), and cries to make it all go away.

Yeah, pretty much.

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The Republican agenda

5th January 2008

Mark Steyn ponders Charlie Bass’s affection for John McCain.

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Lott and Breaux Open Bipartisan Lobbying Firm

5th January 2008

Read it. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked to find out that it’s all about money and power after all.

Picking a political party these days is coming to look more and more like picking a football team to root for — ideology doesn’t matter, what matter’s is who’s going to win.

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Mexican Drug Cartels Threaten Elections

5th January 2008

Read it. In case you were wondering why they’re all trying to move here.

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Modern Party, Polygamist Tradition Clash in S. Africa

5th January 2008

Read it. Coming soon to a Blue State near you.

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Welfare and Work

4th January 2008

Ross Douthat draws a necessary distinction.

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Four Types of Government Operatives: Bullies, Muggers, Sneak Thieves, and Con Men

4th January 2008

Read it. A great counterweight to “progressive ideology”.

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

There you have it in a nutshell. “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help ourselves, specifically to the contents of your pockets.”

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Swords into Plowshares?

4th January 2008

Victor Davis Hanson always has something cheerful to say.

Ever seen somebody killed with a plowshare? The surprised look is the most entertaining part.

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President Considers A Boost to Economy

4th January 2008

Read it. Just the sort of thing we’ve come to expect from a Democrat President.

Oh, wait….

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Nigerian Corruption Official Faces Removal

4th January 2008

Read it. The reason democracy doesn’t work in Africa is because the people in charge of making it work don’t want it to work. Until they fix that, democracy has nowhere to go, and that’s a cultural thing.

Come to think of it, one could say the same about America….

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Out With the Old, In With the New

4th January 2008

Peggy Noonan ponders the new political season.

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EFF Busts Yet Another Bogus Patent… But It’s Taking A Long Time

4th January 2008

Read it. Monopolies are like vampires … it takes a lot to kill them, and even then they tend to rise from the dead.

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When Genetic Diseases Lurk in Egg and Sperm Donors

3rd January 2008

Read it. The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.

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Are compact fluorescent bulbs causing migraines?

2nd January 2008

Read it. They sure give me a headache….

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Blame The Mobile Phone For Your Slow Commute?

2nd January 2008

Read it. Indeed — the swine.

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Why Journalists Demanding Newspapers Charge For News Need To Check Up On Newspaper History

2nd January 2008

Read it. Journalists appear to be people who didn’t have the grades to get into Ed school.

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Insurance Scofflaws Face Bigger Fines in Massachusetts

2nd January 2008

Read it. Another reason to avoid living in the People’s Republic.

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For Democrats, Change Is of the Essence

2nd January 2008

Read it. Or don’t — the headline tells you everything you need to know about the Democrat party … and why it’s a bad influence on American history.

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Same-Sex Divorce Challenges the Legal System

2nd January 2008

Read it. Guess it would be rather petty to say “I told you so” at this point, huh?

Of course, this ISN’T A PROBLEM for the other 49 states that don’t allow “gay marriage”.

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Tribes of Terror

2nd January 2008

Read it. Lord Curzon:

Not until the military steam-roller has passed over the country from end to end, will there be peace.

Yup. That about sums it up.

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Killings In D.C. Up After Long Dip

1st January 2008

Read it. Yeah, banning handgun ownership tends to do that — in the classic phrase, “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” A bit of common sense that most of the Ruling Class refuse to acknowledge.

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Bush Signs Bill to Pressure Sudan, Letting States and Localities Curtail Investments

1st January 2008

Read it. I remember  day when it didn’t take Federal legislation to allow states and localities to “curtail investment” anywhere.

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