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.

Steven Pinker is always worth reading.

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.

Read it. A neat trick — if it works.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

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

Read it. It marches hand in hand with the decline of civilization.

Everyone who uses “data” with a singular verb ought to be taken out into the courtyard and shot.

And it’s coming. It’s coming.

Read it. Just another example of liberal fascism.

Read it. Apparently Hitchens has stopped smoking. You can believe as much or as little of that as you care to.

Read it. An intriguing idea.

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

Read it. Singapore doesn’t get near the respect it deserves for its achievements in practical economics.

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Have you wondered how corporate scandals can go on for so long?:

Philip Soergel, a parent who complained to Howard schools administrators about the principal’s offer, said: “We were aghast. I had never heard of this. Kids are getting these kinds of lessons in how to tattle on one another.”

Read it. Go, Fred.

Read it. A view from abroad.

Read it. Judges upholding the law. When was the last time that happened?

Read it. The people can leave, you see, no problem, but God forbid they should take their church property with them.

Read it. What I’d like to see is an editorial by somebody who doesn’t favor people living cheek-by-jowl in crowded inner city tenements, which is the alternative to “sprawl”. Why is it that Regressives want to turn back the clock to where people had no individual transportation freedom? Is individual freedom such a threat?

Read it. An important point that bears repeating. Far too many people thing that “innovation” and “invention” are synonyms.

Read it. Whoa … Reuters may have a sense of shame after all. But probably not.

Notice how they published one of the more unhinged of the mail they undoubtedly got on the subject, just to point out that they were being magnanimous toward the Unwashed.

Read it. Is it just me, or does Giuliani not look like the ideal Lex Luthor?

Read it. “We live right now in a culture of unprecedented, voluptuous wealth.” Well, some of us do. And some of us like to pretend that we do for the sake of magazine articles.

The British upper class had to deal with this problem for hundreds of years. Surely they would be the first resort fo data on what works and what doesn’t. But I guess the American overclass is just too narcissistic.

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Peggy Noonan takes a look at Hillary and Barak.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Inside the Ring.

Read it. I guess Federal employment goes to the lowest bidder, too.

Steve Sailer is always coming up with interesting stuff.

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Read it. If I ever wind up in a wheelchair, this is the wheelchair I want to wind up in.

I still say it needs a 50-cal mount. (Or a Phalanx! Yeah, that’s the ticket.)

Pogue has the inside skinny.

Read it. Well, sometimes Australians aren’t all that lovable.

Read it. As do I.

Read it. Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

Read it. Why not? It apparently causes everything else wrong with the world.

Read it. The Washington Post, of course, never saw a totalitarian intrusion into personal liberty that it didn’t like.

Read it. No kidding — there are pictures.

Read it. And it truly is.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Read it. When you care enough to send the very best.

Read it. What’s interesting is that the motion detector is actually in the bulb.

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