Read it. He will be missed.

Read it. Pawlenty is being talked about as a possible Republican VP candidate. I think he’s more useful where he is.

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

Read it. Pretty clever.

Read it. This one’s for you, Roy.

Read it. Perhaps the Law of Unintended Consequences actually works in our favor sometimes.

Read it. This is actually a very clever concept.

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

Read it. I’m certainly ready to do my part.

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Under these kinds of conditions, a cow (or a goat or pig) is a much better medium for saving. It is sturdier than paper money. Friends and relatives can’t ask for small pieces of it. If you own a cow, it yields milk, it can plow the fields, it produces dung that can be used as fuel or fertilizer, and in a pinch it can be slaughtered and turned into saleable ­meat or simply eaten. With a small loan, people in rural areas can buy that cow and use cash that might otherwise be diverted to less useful purposes to pay back the microcredit institution. So even when microcredit looks like indebtedness, savings are going up rather than down.

Then go here and lend a hand.

Read it. And go punch a sociologist. You know you want to.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Yaacov Ben Moshe is always worth reading.

Read it. More on the Iranian provocations.

So, why aren’t today’s newspapers plastered with stories about five sunken terrorist boats in international waters?

An excellent question to which there seems to be no satisfactory answer.

Christopher Hitchens is always worth reading.

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Read it. Just another attempt on the part of the government to avoid doing what’s in the public interest, i.e. buying the least expensive equipment that will do the job.

How soon after the government publishes its requirements will there be companies founded to game those requirements into profitability at the taxpayers’ expense? I estimate about 3.2 seconds.

Not including, of course, those “friends of the system” who get a head start through leaks from “friends in the system”.

Read it. Just because we have all of this technology available to us doesn’t necessarily mean that we ought to be using it 24/7.

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I have an idea: Why doesn’t America rebuke Mexico on migrant issues?

Read it. I gather that Bill Gates will be retiring from Microsoft soon. Time to sell the Microsoft stock, then. Unless they hire Steve Jobs.

Does Bill Gates look like an over-the-hill English professor, or is that just me?

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Read it. Even Communists get weird in Tibet.

Read it. Some good news for a change.

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Read it. Our government cannot be parodied. It’s just impossible to keep up.

Read it. Primarily because it doesn’t soak the rich, so the government can’t make as much money unless it turns the screws tighter than most people will accept.

Read it. But will Bush have the balls to do it? Stay tuned.

Read it. People are starting to get a clue.

Read it. Especially all you cynical folks out there who think it’s all about enhanced citation revenue.

The problem appears to be that red-light cameras cause more people to slam on the brakes at the last second, leading to more rear-ender collisions. Plenty of studies have shown that if you really want safer intersections, the solution is rather simple: increase the length of time for yellow lights and include a pause after a light turns red before the cross-traffic signal turns green.

But that doesn’t make any money … for anybody ….

A big part of the problem is that red-light cameras are big money makers for municipalities, who share the revenue with the makers of the cameras — who have every incentive in the world to set the traffic lights to encourage more violations, rather than fewer.

Oh, say it ain’t so.

Read it. Release your inner geek.

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Perpetual war?

George Will has some thoughts on the subject. Huckabee as the Republican John Edwards? Well, he’d need to get more hair….

The way to achieve Edwards’ and Huckabee’s populist goal of reducing the role of “special interests,” meaning money, in government is to reduce the role of government in distributing money.

And that’s the bottom line, folks. Nobody fights to control a government that can’t pass out money and favors.

Read it. I find myself asking “What would it take to make it go away?” more and more as time goes on.

Especially when watching C-SPAN.

What we get from the commenters on the LSSU list (and the characters in Unshelved) is visceral cringe reactions, hostility towards inventiveness and playfulness, disdain for the Internet (as the enemy of thought), and cries to make it all go away.

Yeah, pretty much.

Mark Steyn ponders Charlie Bass’s affection for John McCain.

Read it. Remember, guys, you’re all paying for this.

Read it. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked to find out that it’s all about money and power after all.

Picking a political party these days is coming to look more and more like picking a football team to root for — ideology doesn’t matter, what matter’s is who’s going to win.

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Read it. In case you were wondering why they’re all trying to move here.

Read it. Coming soon to a Blue State near you.

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David Friedman is always worth reading.

Read it. Sometimes one encounters a situation for which “genius” is an inadequate characterization.

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Ross Douthat draws a necessary distinction.

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Saw that coming.