Arnold Kling looks around and sees a lot of discussion of IQ and genetics.

Read it. Well, whatever works.

Read it. Probably because lawyers are too busy. That’s just a guess, you understand.

Arnold Kling looks at it from the standpoint of an economist. (There’s a thought — Why aren’t more economists terrorists? Actually, I don’t know that we can say they aren’t….)

Read it. Warning: Only for grammar geeks or those raised by nuns. You know who you are.

Read it. But they’re still only halfway to where they need to be.

 Islam predates Fascism by over a thousand years. Islam doesn’t need concatenation with a 20th century political ideology in order to be properly understood. In fact, attempts to equate a branch of Islam with fascist confuses the issue. The term “Islamofascism” tends to imply something other than Islam itself is the cause of terrorism and the clash of civilizations. That conclusion seems dubious to me. The Jihadists are Muslim fundamentalists. They seek to resurrect the use of all the tactics which Muhammad used in his initial spread of Islam. They are textual literalists.

There is no such thing as a “moderate Muslim”, any more than there is such a thing as a “moderate Communist”; merely confused people who don’t fully understand their own system, or sly dogs trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the ignorant. Immoderation is inherent in the system. That’s what makes it so dangerous. No system that is based on violence against outsiders is compatible with modern civilization, and no system that holds up a mass-murdering pedophile as “the perfect man” is compatible with civilization in any form. It’s time to wake up to that fact and act accordingly.

Read it. Well, they could quit preaching hate, for a start.

Somebody needs to remind these people that “Muslim” is not a race, and their attempts to co-opt the language of the civil rights movement merely makes them look stupid.

Read it. An interesting situation.

Read it. So just take the endorphins and skip the exercise. Why sweat when you don’t have to?

Read it. Sounds like the twenties all over again.

Read it. I’m not convinced. Otherwise the children of actresses would shine, and they’re more likely to stink.

Read it. Once again, as he does so well, David Friedman comes up with a mind-bender.

Read it. You will be assimilated … resistance is futile….

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You will remember (unless you went to a public school) that the Dark Ages were that period of European history where civilization was under attack from the pagan Vikings from the north, the pagan Magyars from the east, and the quasi-pagan Muslims from the south. But Christianity survived, and eventually flourished, and kicked their asses. The Vikings and Magyars got with the program and became Christian; the Muslims retreated into the barbarism whence they had sprung.

Perhaps it’s time for a little of that action yet again….

Read it. Bear in mind that this guy has followers.

Steve Sailer is pretty much always worth reading.

Read it. The superhero’s best friend.

Read it. Wonder how all this will turn out.

Cringely is on the case.

Read it. What, after all, is life without an eco-friendly super-toilet?

Read it. This is what you get when economists look at marriage. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Read it. You really don’t want to be caught with short telomeres. Trust me on this.

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Read it. From reader Cathy, who knows some very strange people.

This says something about our culture, although I’m not sure exactly what.

Read it. Only by leftists.

If you were next door to a Communist superpower for 70 years, you’d have an active gun culture too.

Read it. To be read to the tune of the Beatles “Tax Man”.

Read it. And the hits just keep on coming.

Read it. The comedian George Carlin once famously said, “If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it.” Apparently this works for concepts as well.

Usually this sort of flim-flammery is thought of as being distinctly American, but the fact that this is a British firm demonstrates that the roots go far deeper.

Read it. Modern America: Criminal sues somebody for calling him a criminal.

Read it. I guess he’s running for Pope — not one of these things is the job of the President of the United States.

Read it. Verizon is Spanish for “Firebug”.

Read it. Of course! I always do.

Read it. Makes you wonder whether there would be any story there if certain people weren’t blowing up other people.

Read it. What will they think of next?

Read it. What a marvelous idea.

Read it. Words fail me.

Read it. Try getting a group of State Department drones to do something like that. No doubt they would whine about not having any Grey Poupon.

Read it. I suspect that “bile” is a major component.

Read it. Perhaps because whining to the government pays better? That’s just a guess, you understand.

President Bush’s official science adviser is a Democrat, which shows the current administration’s level of interest in science.

Boy, doesn’t that say it all.

Read it. The best Congress money can buy.

Of course, if they didn’t have so much power over people’s incomes, this situation would never have arisen.

Read it. The only thing that saves us is that we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Read it. Yeah, I was surprised too.

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

When an entire diocese and its bishop chooses to leave, that’s not a defection — that’s a schism.

Read it. It’s amazing what some people can accomplish when they have ENTIRELY TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS.

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Read it. A review of Robert Frank’s book, which I found very enjoyable.

While single-digit millionaires trend Republican, those worth $10 million or more largely favor Democrats.

Charitable and progressive though they may be, Richistanis often indulge in obscene luxury.

And that tells you a lot about who’s the “party of the rich” these days.

Read it. I like it. It has texture, and scope.

Christopher Hitchens is always worth reading.

Read it. Good advice.

Read it. Just as politics is show business for ugly people, it’s a way for pretty people whose day job is pretending to be somebody else to pretend that they’re something more than shallow reflections of some writer’s indigestion.

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