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

Guess there’s really no reason to keep those poor fellows locked up in Gitmo, is there? I’m sure they’ll go straight once they get out.

Read it. This would be a useful thing. But a mug of hot tea or cocoa is just as effective and a lot more social.

Arnold Kling critiques Mencius Moldbug.

Read it. The primary defect of the common lefty trope “No blood for oil” is that if we wanted the oil we could just pay for it; no blood is required. That was certainly the case with Saddam’s Iraq — if it had really been “all about oil”, we wouldn’t have invaded, we’d have just ended the sanctions and bought to oil.

Read it. Oh, the lies these newspapers tell.

Israel only borders Gaza on two sides.

One side is ocean, and there is no naval blockade. Nothing of value comes in there because the “Palestianians” can’t be bothered to engage in commerce like other people.

One side is Egypt, a fellow Arab nation. What are they doing to help their fellow Arabs, their fellow Muslims? Not a damned thing.

The reason Gaza is “reduced to beggary” is because they are by nature a bunch of beggars, and Israel is quite properly refusing to continue handouts to people who turn right around and murder Israeli women and children. It’s just that simple.

Read it.

Read it. And place your bets.

Read it. Just doin’ that “religion of peace” thing.

Yaacov ben Moshe speaks.

Read it. If this sort of stuff were not essential to Islam, Muslims everywhere would be rushing to condemn it, as Christians do when soi-disant Christian nutters pull the same shit. But they don’t. What does that tell you?

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Read it. I’m not sure that having something so fargin cold in my mouth is much better, but choice is good.

Kimberly Strassel over at the Wall Street Journal takes a lemon and attempts to extract some lemonade.

Christopher Hitchens is really on a tear about religion recently. He writes so well that one sometimes forgets that he is a socialist and therefore prima facie an idiot. He’s sound on the Muslim threat, though, and I’ll forgive him a great deal for that.

David Friedman is always worth reading.

Read it. Apparently not.

Read it. This is a great idea. I’m surprised that the government actually did it.

I’m even more surprised that there was any mention of it in the Washington Post.

Read it. And about time, too — crime in South Africa is worse than in D.C., and that’s saying something.

The WaPo is, of course, shocked. Police attempt to thwart crime? The very idea.

Read it. I have a question: Why is this any of the business of the U.S. government? Are we supposed to be Nanny State to the World along with everything else?

Read it. San Francisco truly does not consider itself part of the United States.

Perhaps we could sell it to Canada.

Read it. These would be pretty useful, once Congress figures out how to subsidize it.

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But then the entire question of financial aid at Harvard (and Yale) is a farce: it would cost only $238 million—about 1 percent of an endowment that gained $5 billion in fiscal 2007—to pay tuition, room, and board for all Yale College students this year. Financial aid is about increasing the size of the applicant pool so you can turn more of them down, and win the prestige that comes with enhanced selectivity.

So you establish rules that say that you value diversity, then set the price so high that admission is controlled by the financial aid decision rather than the formal offer to admit. That way you can ignore diversity behind closed doors while piously praising it in public. Very clever, these People of the Crust.

Read it. I’ve got to say that Tom Cruise looks pretty sharp in that Wehrmacht uniform.

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

Read it. There will be no peace in the Middle East until Muslims love their children more than they hate Jews.

Read it. Especially if you’re a libertarian.

If you are a libertarian, you are already resigned to the fact that most fashionable people think of you as a nutcase. Today we are going to ask you to crawl a little farther out on that limb, and suggest that you replace your libertarian views with thoughts that are even more extreme.

Read it. The chief issues seem to be “Who is the biggest victim” and “Who gets the most taxpayer-funded loot”. That’s not on your copy, of course.

Read it. No wonder people hate cellphone companies.

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

Read it. People without legal training (or a knowledge of history, for that matter) often mistake how limited the Fourth Amendment really is. Even otherwise intelligent and knowledgeable people (as here) often forget that the government has a legitimate interest in knowing what people are doing, even if they don’t like it much.

Read it. Tell the truth: It’s weird shit like this that keeps you comin’ back, ain’t it?

Read it. And buy a book.

Read it. It’s amazing what people thought the future would be like.

Read it. That wouldn’t be so bad, if it weren’t for all of the target advertisements….

Read it. They’re not hard to find.

Read it. Let’s all go push on a rope….

Read it. This could be very important.

Read it. I wonder why?

Read it. Guess John McCain’s tougher than we thought.

“The next day, he told his interrogator that Allah had visited him in his cell during the night and told him to cooperate,” said Kiriakou in an interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News’ “World News With Charles Gibson” and “Nightline.”

“From that day on, he answered every question,” Kiriakou said. “The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks.”

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

Read it. An interesting point.

Christopher Hitchens is apparently unaware of what a secret intelligence agency is supposed to do.

Still, he’s got a point.

Steve Sailer doesn’t ask the obvious question, which is: Faster than what?

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Conflicts within the Middle East cannot be separated from its peoples’ culture. Seventh-century Arab tribal culture influenced Islam and its adherents’ attitudes toward non-Muslims. Today, the embodiment of Arab culture and tribalism within Islam impacts everything from family relations, to governance, to conflict. While many diplomats and analysts view the Arab-Israeli dispute and conflicts between Muslim and non-Muslim communities through the prism of political grievance, the roots of such conflicts lie as much in culture and Arab tribalism.

Read it. Not much, apparently. The gostak distims the doshes.

Read it. I’m not sure I buy it, but it’s an interesting perspective.

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

Read it. A reminder that we have no “friends” in the Muslim world, least of all in Saudi Arabia.

The Defense Department considered more than 90 percent of the transferred detainees to be terrorist threats to the United States and its allies, but sent them home as part of an agreement that Saudi Arabia would mitigate the threat, according to Cmdr. J.D. Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman.

Yeah, and if you believe that one they’ll tell you another one.

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Read it. Progress, of sorts.