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. 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?

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.

Read it. Yeah, let’s get away from all this policy wonk business and get to the important stuff. That’s what a serious news organization does.

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.

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The United States must scrap the current structure of the State Department and radically reshape its foreign assistance, trade and diplomatic programs to create a super-size international affairs agency to meet overseas challenges, a majority in a congressionally mandated bipartisan commission will recommend tomorrow.

The mind boggles to contemplate what a “super-size agency” (in comparison to the current State Department) would look like. Last time I looked, the State Department wasn’t what you’d call small.

 The dissenters instead urged elevating foreign assistance and international development to a new Cabinet-level agency, according to a copy of the commission’s final report.

I’m waiting for the Mohair Subsidy folks to have their own Cabinet-level agency. It seems only fair.

No hint of any suggestion as to how to make sure that the State Department, super-sized or not, contains at least a majority of people who, you know, actually put the interests of the American people ahead of those of foreigners, which would appear to be the real problem with the State Department.

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

Read it. An entertaining grammatical oddity. The comic strip is pretty funny, too.

(For those who went to public schools, the phrase “and that <sentence>” ought to be “and the fact that <sentence>”. )

Read it. Unfortunately, “No Child Left Behind” accomplishes its magic by making sure that no child gets ahead.

Read it. A sordid tale of government bureaucracy at its most corrupt, from the newspaper that attempts daily to convince the entire country that things are different if we just make the bureaucracy big enough.

Read it. A sordid tale of government bureaucracy at its most callous, from a newspaper that attempts daily to persuade the whole country that things will be different with health care.

Read it. Personally, I don’t have a problem with it. Next!

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