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The world is rapidly going downhill. Unfortunately, we can’t get off.

Informer tells of corrupt Mexico

25th October 2007

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

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Elcomsoft turns your PC into a password cracking supercomputer

24th October 2007

Read it. Not good news.

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It’s a made-up word used to trick students

24th October 2007

Read it. I can’t say they’re wrong.

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Who will defend James Watson?

24th October 2007

Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

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Musicians deliver ‘no nukes’ petition

24th October 2007

Read it. The headline alone tells you pretty much all you need to know about how far American culture has degenerated.

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A Congregation of Customers

23rd October 2007

Read it. Shopping for God in all the wrong places.

Mr. Twitchell manages to reduce this profound idea to the dictates of basic consumer theory. Sacrifice, he says–not least, tithing–signifies value. The more you sacrifice, the more you visibly value the product for which you are giving something up, and the more you show other people that you value it, too. “Why do true believers sometimes puncture themselves, walk on their knees until they bleed, fast until they are skeletal or join a monastery and go mum?” Mr. Twitchell asks. “Brand allegiance.”

This is obviously someone who knows as much about religion as Hillary Clinton knows about life in Omaha.

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Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week Begins

23rd October 2007

Read it.

What do you call people who want to kill you? (Hint: Enemies.)

What do you call people in your group who favor your enemies? (Hint: Traitors.)

What is so hard to understand about this?

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Native Hawaiians’ status set for vote

23rd October 2007

Read it. Ask yourself: Why this particular legislation at this particular time?

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GE Engineer Sees Competitive Photovoltaics In Under 10 Years

22nd October 2007

Read it. Of course, they’d get a lot farther if they could find some way to include ethanol in the manufacturing process.

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Chinese astronauts want space-based communist party branch

21st October 2007

Read it. Funny, I thought that was NASA’s job.

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Venezuelan Monument to Che Guevara Destroyed

19th October 2007

Read it. Apparently Venezuela isn’t totally lost.

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Sex and the Presidency

19th October 2007

Peggy Noonan describes Hillary’s attempts to make an asset of herself.

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Democrats tell business to pay up or else.

19th October 2007

Read it. Unfortunately, being a fiduciary means never having to say, “It’s the principle of the thing.”

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Tough Punishment Expected for Warhead Errors

18th October 2007

Read it. This would seem excessive. After all, it’s not as if they were attempting to enforce immigration laws.

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Deputy salute planned by town after prison term

18th October 2007

Read it. That’s modern America for you. It’s okay to break the law to come into America; in fact, if law enforcement officials try to, you know, enforce the law, they’re violating the criminals’ civil rights and will go to jail.

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College Admissions Coach Earns Big Money

17th October 2007

Read it. Rather points out what a defective system college admissions is these days.

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Britain’s Orwellian Problem

17th October 2007

Read it. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. No, wait, it’s already happening here….

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Jailed border agents backed

16th October 2007

Read it.

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The hate that dares to speak its name at GWU

15th October 2007

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

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Same Sex Couples Travel To US For Designer Babies

15th October 2007

Read it. I guess there are at least a few jobs Americans will do.

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Not Nobel Winners

14th October 2007

Read it. Guess the Swedes and Norwegians only read the local papers.

Of course, the Nobel “Peace” Prize isn’t about peace and hasn’t been since its inception.

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Not pregnant under-age southern girl seeks lawyer with view to marriage

13th October 2007

Read it. How could you not?

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Saluting Lieutenant Murphy

13th October 2007

Read it. A true American hero, whose story you won’t see celebrated in any of the Drive-By Media.

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Flexible lawyerspeak: manifestly

13th October 2007

Read it. Mothers, don’t let your babies grow up to be lawyers.

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Sir-names

12th October 2007

Steve Sailer finds an incongruity.

Aw, who has time for that history stuff, anyway?

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Who Cares About Academic Diversity?

12th October 2007

Read it.

The elite, selective slices of higher education are essentially extremely expensive theme parks staffed by highly-educated people who like ideas and having a fairly relaxed schedule.

Yup. I can vouch for it.

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Empowered Nerds and the Coming Dropout Boom

12th October 2007

Read it. Really, you don’t learn anything in college except Political Correctness, and it costs and arm and a leg. Wouldn’t we be better off, oh, say, learning a useful skill instead?

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Momentum

12th October 2007

Read it. My, that’s certainly a nasty crack.

A modern art museum is the only place where they have to warn the janitors “Don’t throw out the artwork.”

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Dr. Paul’s Malpractice

12th October 2007

Read it. Putting the fruitbat under the microscope.

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We’ll Sue You If You Don’t Takedown Your Opinion Of Our Game!

9th October 2007

Read it. Of course. It’s the American way.

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The economics of malaria net distribution

9th October 2007

Read it. On the other hand, I’ve read studies that explained that the reason they sell the nets is because when they give them away for free the recipients conclude that they aren’t worth anything and throw them away without using them, while those that they pay money for are seen as valuable and used.

Still, Rachel Carson will be spending a lot of eternity trying to explain away the people her acolytes have killed.

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Listening to the African Anglicans

9th October 2007

Read it. Not that anybody in this country does that….

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Apple hit with class-action antitrust lawsuit over bricked iPhones

9th October 2007

Read it. Poor Steve just can’t win for losing.

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Don’t Post This Cease-and-Desist Letter, Or Else

8th October 2007

Read it.

Remember: just because a lawyer says so, it doesn’t mean it’s true.

One would think everyone would be aware of that by now.

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Top 1% Pays More Federal Income Taxes Than Bottom 90%

8th October 2007

Read it. Things you won’t learn from the class-warfare media.

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What would GOP do without Hillary?

8th October 2007

Read it. I shudder to think. Might have to work for a living.

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Ivory Tower Decay

8th October 2007

Read it. And this comes at a time when the college credential is becoming more and more central to success.

Of course, college and university administrators insist they aren’t actually using quotas when in fact they are, as O’Connor’s decisive opinion in 2003 invited them to do. The result is that one indispensable requirement for being a college or university administrator is intellectual dishonesty. You have to be willing to lie about what you consider one of your most important duties. So much for open inquiry and intellectual rigor.

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Why the Left should learn to love [classical] liberalism

7th October 2007

Read it. This illustrates why “a conservative” and “conservatism” are meaningless terms.

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India-Pakistan Nuclear War Would Kill Over Billion People

4th October 2007

Read it. Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

But it would sure solve the “global warming” problem. Look for it in AlGore’s next book.

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The Slight Gay Way

4th October 2007

Steve Sailer talks about American culture. I know that will come as a surprise….

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Get Congress Out of the Classroom

3rd October 2007

Read it. Hear, hear.

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Who killed the grown-up?

1st October 2007

Read it. Probably George W Bush.

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Sad news

30th September 2007

Read it. Cox & Forkum are calling it quits. They will be missed.

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What happened to our troops in Oakland

30th September 2007

Read it. Is there some other country that we could sell the San Francisco Bay area to? They certainly don’t seem very happy being part of America, and I for one would love to see them go elsewhere.

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Groups Plan New Branch to Represent Anglicanism

30th September 2007

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

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Legacy of School Segregation Endures, Separate but Legal

30th September 2007

Read it. And ask yourself: Does this represent an improvement, long-term? Is this anything even close to a united community?

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Discontented iPhone owner sues AT&T, Apple and Steve Jobs

29th September 2007

Read it. When distressed, sue somebody — it’s the American way.

Somebody with the name “Dongmei Li” probably wasn’t born here, but is certainly successfully assimilated.

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Episcopalians plan to leave denomination

29th September 2007

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

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In the Hands of Banks, ‘Orphan’ Trusts Change

28th September 2007

Read it.

 With no family members to encourage gifts to the original donor’s favorite causes, the banks and lawyers have wide latitude to remake the way the trusts operate and to decide which charities will receive grants. Banks can reduce gifts and grow the foundation’s assets, thus increasing their fees. At the same time, banks and lawyers stand to gain personal influence and prestige by selecting new charities.

Rather like gifts to universities. Or government in the hands of Democrats.

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TSA screeners found to cheat; probe expands

28th September 2007

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

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