Christopher Hitchens is always worth reading.

Although Steve Sailer isn’t all that impressed.

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Read it. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

Read it. A useful distinction, well explained.

Read it. We’re doing amazing things these days … for animals.

Read it. Pretty in pink.

Read it. Presumably the other half want to be Steve Jobs.

Read it. No word on whether it involves armored bears.

Read it. It’s still farming.

Read it. Bionic Man gets no respect.

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

Apparently Mencius Moldbug supports Ron Paul. With reservations.

(part 1)

(part 2)

Suppose Ron Paul is elected President. What makes you think that President Paul can fix the US Federal Government?

What makes you think that any President can fix the US Federal Government?

What makes you think that the US Federal Government can be fixed at all?

And if you don’t think it can be fixed, what do you hope to achieve by voting in its elections?

And those are good questions for everyone to be asking.

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Obama’s ‘I’m not an operating officer’ admission seems near-disastrous.

a) Obama makes the presidency sound like a grand, slo-mo transformation of vision into legislation. But there are crisis requiring quick, coordinated action, and the type of leader who can act effectively in a crisis is likely to be a good “operating officer” rather than a visionary;

b). Once you pass a law you have to implement it, which requires getting results out of the civil service departments. This would seem to be especially true of national health care. The president who ignores the bureaucracy and focuses on ‘vision’ is apt to be defeated by that bureaucracy.

c) Immersing yourself up to the elbows in the various departments is one way to find out the information that bureaucrats are unlikely to pass up the chain of command.

… I’m not saying Obama’s model of the presidency can’t work if he chooses the right “operating” officer to actually run his administration. I’m saying voters would be justified in preferring a president who was a good “operating officer.”

Read it. Of course, not (strictly speaking) true — all of the candidates are People of the Crust, it’s just the pandering that focuses on class and race.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Read it. Now this is just silly.

Read it. Clue: It’s more than you think.

Read it. Imagine The Terminator in High School.

You know you want one.

Read it. And it would, too.

Read it. And the hits just keep on comin’.

Watch it. This is really freaky.

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

Read it. Afterwards you can eat the losers. What’s not to like?

Anne Applebaum looks at the Tata Nano. Try and say that three times fast.

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

Read it. For those who really truly long for a washing machine that costs as much as a small car.

Read it. Sorry to intrude geek stuff into all the doom and gloom, but this is pretty significant.

Read it. There’s a lot of old people out there. Some people think that’s a problem.

Read it. As long as politicians have access to your wallet they’re going to use tax dollars to try to buy your vote. This is not a concept difficult to comprehend.

Read it. Yeah, let me know if that works.

The inimitable Mencius Moldbug is not afraid to deploy the Hot Needle of Inquiry upon appropriate occasion.

Read it. The New York Times could use the exercise.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Read it. Votes are more important than principles, it would appear.

Inside the Beltway.

Inside Politics.

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Read it. Now that’s comedy.

Read it. This ought to shake things up a bit.

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

Read it. Admit it — you had to look that up.

Read it. As is traditional, government interference (from the best of motives, natch) hinders rather than helps.

Read it. Predicted first use: Mapping the distinctions between Red States and Blue States. John McCain will at last be revealed as a Scoop Jackson Democrat operating under deep cover.

Read it. Count the number of lies Congressman Frank puts in the first paragraph. (Or else he’s just terminally stupid — which I’m willing to believe.)

Note to the ignorant: The Financial Times is the British equivalent of the Wall Street Journal … if the Wall Street Journal were run by socialists.

Jonah Goldberg is always worth reading.

Read it. The usefulness of the phrase suggests its accuracy.

Mark Steyn on Redacted.

Read it. Pluck is not completely extinguished. Ya gotta love Australians.

A band played Waltzing Matilda and Maoris performed a haka as they were each handed a beer.

Kiwis are pretty cool, too.

Read it. As Will Rogers once said, the problem is that a lot of what people “know” ain’t so.

Check it out. A need whose time has come … oh, has it ever.

Tyler Cowan reviews the economy.