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Archive for October, 2007

Albany Muslims Seething

18th October 2007

Read it. How appalling that this guy would dare prosecute Muslims. Doesn’t he know that Islam is a religion of peace? Just look at any car bombing — there’s a piece here, there’s a piece over there….

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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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The Wages of Appeasement

17th October 2007

Read it. You get what you pay for … and that includes terrorism.

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The Future Calling In Estonia

17th October 2007

Read it. Anne Applebaum underscores the differences between how Germans cope with their Nazi past and how Central Europeans cope with their Communist past.

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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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Afghan Koran Burning Story: Another Fable

17th October 2007

Read it. Wonder when they’ll rename AP the BG for Brothers Grimm.

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Islamic Riots in Amsterdam

17th October 2007

Read it. They’re protesting the death of a guy who stabbed a couple of cops.

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After Guantanamo, An Empty Freedom

17th October 2007

Read it. Typical modern snotty-journalism narrative, “Victims and Villains”. Seems like nobody can write straight news any more.

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Greenpeace dismantles iPhone, discovers “hazardous chemicals”

17th October 2007

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

Is there a more tediously paranoid organization than Greenpeace? Maybe PETA. I’m sure these people (if I may use the term so loosely) wear latex gloves to shake hands.

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‘Skills Shortage’ Debate Misses the Point

17th October 2007

Read it. An admirable reminder of how markets work, and why they’re good for us.

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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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GMU Muslim Student Association Defends Taking Over ‘Meditation Room’

17th October 2007

Read it. Same old same old.

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Get Rich Off of Liberal Bias

16th October 2007

Mikey Kaus has a great moneymaker of an idea.

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Why Be Pro-Life?

16th October 2007

Read it. Jonah Goldberg puts it in a nutshell.

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Jailed border agents backed

16th October 2007

Read it.

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A Common Word Between Us and You is a Call for Conversion

15th October 2007

Read it.

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Mechanism Design for Grandma

15th October 2007

Read it. How to be a Nobel Laureate in Economics.

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Researchers looking to print living cells in 3D

15th 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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Technology Will Change Politics From Top Down To Bottom Up

15th October 2007

Read it. No, it won’t, because most people don’t pay any attention to politics unless it sticks its snout in their laps — they have lives and jobs and all that sort of thing. At most it will make things more confused. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that….)

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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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Conan Visits Intel

15th October 2007

Watch it. I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

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Today’s Harvest of Shame

15th October 2007

Read it. I have an idea — let’s not subsidize farmers at all.

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It’s time to draw the line on gerrymandering.

15th October 2007

Read it. Actually, I think a good case can be made for gerrymandering — at least it ensures that the majority of people in a district have a representative they approve of.

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Dems Are the New Republicans

15th October 2007

Read it. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that “Republicans are the new Democrats”.

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Candidates try penning their way to presidency

15th October 2007

Read it. Actually, the best way for a politician to sell a book is to run for President. I wonder how many of these not-a-prayer candidates are doing it just to make a little money.

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Pork is healthy at alma maters

15th October 2007

Read it. Gives new meaning to the phrase “the old college try”.

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CAIR Director Caught in a Blatant Lie

14th October 2007

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

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Air Force Commissions Study by Anti-Military Hack William Arkin

14th October 2007

Read it. Well, it’s not as if the Air Force were actually military….

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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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Palestinians Kill Children, Mainstream Media Yawns

14th October 2007

Read it. Hey, it’s just wogs killing wogs, so nobody in the Brahmin caste cares. It’s like blacks killing blacks; no headlines there.

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Dame Vivienne attacks ‘racist’ magazines

14th October 2007

Read it. This behavior is not, of course, racist — if they refused to put black models on the covers even if doing so would cause circulation to go up, that would be racist. This is purely a business decision.

This woman is a poster child for why socialists need to be kept out of any position of power or influence — they are totalitarians to the core, with no moral commitment to freedom. Much like racists, come to think of it.

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NEC shows off cloth antenna: receives OTA, clears nostrils

14th October 2007

Read it. Clever, however much it sounds like a joke advertisement from an old Monty Python sketch.

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Some Candidates May Win By Losing

14th October 2007

Read it. It’s all a game with many moves, and what you see is not always what you get.

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Even the ultra-rich are abandoning the Republicans

14th October 2007

Read it. Talk about late to the party — that happened a long time ago, fella.

Actually, one must distinguish between people who make their money as entrepreneurs, who tend to be Republican, and people who make their money through financial manipulation or inheritance or pretending to be other people in public, who tend to be Democrat. Sadly, a lot of CEOs are in the latter category rather than the former.

I suspect that the latter crowd subconsciously feel that they haven’t really earned, and hence don’t really deserve, their wealth; that guilt makes them “liberal” and hence Democrats. Of course, that’s just a theory; I’m too lazy to do the research necessary to test it. But it fits the available evidence.

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Science reveals secrets of food craving

14th October 2007

Read it. Talk about low-hanging fruit….

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The Right Brain vs Left Brain test

13th October 2007

Read it. Mine just sat there and said “Sorry — too much like work.”

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Overwatch

13th October 2007

Safire on language.

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Money Always Talks

13th October 2007

Read it. And you could probably count the number of Republicans in the Hamptons on the fingers of one Latino housemaid.

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SCHIP Howlers

13th October 2007

Read it. And yet they would be the first to boil in their own outrage if Republicans had pulled such a stunt.

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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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As Logging Fades, Rich Carve Up Open Land in West

13th October 2007

Read it. And, of course, since most rich people are Democrats, this hits the Left right square in its schizophrenia.

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Islamists and Leftists Converge in Tehran – Islamists Win

13th October 2007

Read it.

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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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They do more good than they know

13th October 2007

Rush Limbaugh is auctioning off the letter that Senate Democrats sent to his syndication partner in a vain attempt to pressure him into apologizing. You would think that they would have seen that coming — but they’re politicians, and therefore had their common sense surgically removed when they reported to Washington.

Proceeds will go the the foundation providing scholarships for kids of military and law enforcement people for which Rush has raised $30 million over the years — because, as you know, Rush hates “phony soldiers”.

The head of Clear Channel send a very polite response. I’d have just written, “Hey, Harry: Bite me.” But that’s why I’m not in charge of a huge media conglomerate, I guess.

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A New Look for the Classic .45 Sub

13th October 2007

Read it. Blackwater? Where have I heard that name before?

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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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Iraq Bomb Targets Children

13th October 2007

Read it. Well, there’s the moral high ground and no mistake. I guess killing people is part of traditional Ramadan celebration.

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Watchdog of C.I.A. Is Subject of C.I.A. Inquiry

13th October 2007

Read it. Why don’t you just go investigate yourself?

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Heidolph’s VV Micro Evaporator: the flavor extractor

13th October 2007

Read it. Not sure what this would be useful for, but it sure looks useful for something, doesn’t it?

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