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.

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

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.

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

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

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Read it. Bionic Man gets no respect.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Read it. Just another example of liberal fascism.

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

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?

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.

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

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

Read it. And it truly is.

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

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

Yaacov Ben Moshe is always worth reading.

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Ross Douthat draws a necessary distinction.

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.”