Read it. Because most of us spend our days with turkeys? That’s just a guess.

Read it. That sound you hear is a bunch of Democrat heads exploding.

Read it. Of course, if you write for the Washington Post, this is the very definition of news.

Read it. Dictatorship appears to be on the march again in South America.

Read it. That’s because colleges, with typical Brahmin arrogance, are ignoring donor intent.

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

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

It’s also an excellent example of how even a sect that attempts to preserve the outward forms of Christian worship eventually wanders all over the map and comes apart once it is severed from the living tradition of the Church. Sad, but there it is.

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 What’s amazing in this case is how the White House has allowed intelligence analysts to drive policy.

And that says pretty much all that needs to be said about the Bush administration generally. One of these days we may actually get a Republic President (or even a Democrat one, although that’s hardly likely) who understands that (a) the bureaucracy is not your friend and (b) they need to be stepped on, hard. I just hope I live to see it.

Read it. I’ve always been a sucker for artist’s renderings of vehicles that have no chance of seeing actual production.

I especially like this bit: “Road vehicles offer personal freedom and door-to-door travel; yet they cause unacceptable congestion and pollution.” Unacceptable to whom? Not unacceptable to the people who use them, or they wouldn’t use them. Unacceptable to the People of the Crust, perhaps. Unremarked here is that the congestion is the fault of governments who control the roads yet won’t expand them so as to eliminate congestion. Also unremarked is that breathing modern car exhaust is safer than breathing the air in places like Los Angeles fifty years ago; reducing congestion, for example, would decrease the amount of time cars spend traveling at inefficient low speeds on the highways, and nuclear power would reduce the amount of coal and oil burned for “clean” electric power. We have the technology to solve these problems, it’s just that the People of the Crust are too busy pursuing their political agenda to get with the program and use what we know to fix what we can fix.

Read it. Just stupid, I guess. I haven’t given a dime to Yale since I graduated, and I sleep well at nights. Of course, if they didn’t do their best to produce 6,000 new Communists every year, I might feel differently.

Read it. I was particularly struck by this passage: “We saw a great deal of interest in these donors providing their children with philanthropic budgets to give money on their own”.

Now, consider: By doing that, what are you training your children to do? Give their own money to those less fortunate? I suggest not. I suggest that they are training their children to underwrite their own momentary sentimentality with money that they did not earn but which came from someone else.

No wonder the children of the People of the Crust grow up to be such tax-and-spenders.

Read it. And who could blame them?

Read it. Well, when they quit being a computer company and turned into Best Buy without the refrigerators, the writing was on the wall.

Read it. The iron laws of economics makes socialized medicine a joke. Markets work even when you don’t want them to.

Read it. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked. You’d think they were the New York Times.

Read it. And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one. Guess the concept of “in loco parentis” has been replaced by the concept “under constant surveillance”. Hope they feel better.

As it stands, the university has yet to see the Rave Guardian technology used in situations other than false alarms, but a 32-member police force is kept on staff in case any future calls prove legitimate.

Well, that’s a relief….

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And there you have it.

Read it. Guess he cut a little too close to home.

George Will says it best.

Read it. Their funding must be up for renewal. These “estimates” would be more impressive if they ever turned out to be even halfway close to the truth.

Read it. She’s got a point.

Steve Sailer points out the a lot of “big name authors” don’t actually write their own stuff. Of course, that’s been the cornerstone of academic writing from time out of mind. But it doesn’t hurt to remind people of it now and again.

That also applies to politicians who put out books when they’re running for President. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that some bottom-tier candidates run for President merely to increase the sales of their books, which otherwise would probably sink without a trace. Just monetizing the name, that’s all; if a football player can do it, why not a Congressman?

Read it. Why, they would never do that, surely?

Read it. Of course, it’s all about power and money. Any Democrat will sell our culture down the river in order to get more of either.

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The study is interesting reading if only to remind oneself how crime is concentrated among a small minority of repeat offenders.

Can’t have profiling, though; that would be wrong.

Read it. Well, that’s what happens as socialists consolidate power. Better get used to it.

Read it. A very good illustration of the idiotarian nature of most do-gooders: They’d rather fail than succeed in a way that contradicts their a-priori political and economic beliefs.

Read it. The Sky Is Falling! Not convinced? Join the crowd.

Read it. “Lou Dobbs is winning.”? What a bizarre thought.

Read it. I graduated from college in 1978; I could have used one of these.

Read it. So naturally they won’t be used. In fact, they’ll be banned by legislation on some specious excuse. Mark my words.

Read it. Because too many parents don’t beat their kids when they do bad things. Kids who are beaten when they do bad things cease to do bad things, and eventually develop a habit of not doing bad things. From the habit of not doing bad things grows responsible citizenship.

Pain is nature’s way of saying “Stop doing that.” Those who waste such a gift deserve the results.

Read it. The problem with Social Security is that it’s a defined-benefit, rather than a defined-contribution, plan. If you don’t know what that means, we discourage you from voting, because you’re too ignorant to be trusted with the franchise.

Read it. Saudi Arabia is exporting their jihadi problem to Iraq just as Mexico is exporting its poverty problem to the United States. In both cases America is left paying the tab. And people wonder why I’m so grumpy.

Read it. Wonder what would happen if Israel ever decided to quit doing the heavy lifting for the free world?

Read it. Actually, the three words I have for the next President are Cut Government Spending. But I suspect that, whoever he may be, the next President is more likely to listen to David Broder than to me.

And that tells you pretty much all you need to know about American politics.

Read it. John McCain has a lot to answer for.

Read it. Perhaps that’s why we were losing when he was in charge. Ya think?

Read it. Mainly because nobody wants it.

I love that conceit, “sets aside”. From what? Are there developers just chomping at the bit to build condos there?

Read it. Apparently Amazon delivery dates are set based on how much they expect to make from you in the future. I thought that Congress had developed this over a century ago.

Read it. I told my wife that AT&T was run by Stalinists, and she didn’t believe it. This is the proof I need.

Read it. Sometimes the system works to make things better, even when it’s designed to make things work.

That’s not on his copy, of course.

Read it. Me, too, although I would still prefer Taft.

He is not known for any significant legislation, any major treaties, or for starting any wars.

Not quite in Calvin Coolidge’s class, but up there.

Read it. Think it’s about saving the planet? Nope, it’s about raking in the bucks.

Read it. Oh, this could be really fun.

Some academic disciplines are more bogus than others: Women’s Studies is not Mathematics. But as far as I know, no one has tried to quantified these differences.

Read it. I’m SO glad I don’t live in Britain.

Read it. Of course, if they’d tried this during World War I, or even World War II, they’d be behind barbed wire.