Read it.

Read it.

Read it. Truly, tenure at Harvard is a wonderful thing. It’s like being rich without the tedious forms and publicity.

Steve Sailer keeps coming up with interesting thoughts.

Apparently not. The way economists deal with externalities is monetary. Most non-economists prefer more coercive measures.

Read it. Our friends the Communist Chinese. Remind me why we buy so much from them? Oh, right, we want to make that last nickel profit on the rope before they hang us with it.

Read it. This is obviously targeted at college students and similar parasites.

Read it. Trouble, I hope. I really don’t like John McCain.

Read it. That would be interesting. One by one the nits are picked.

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

And the crowd sound you hear is all of the big-name conservative enablers insisting that we all fall into line behind him.

Hey, can I have a jumbo side of spousal abuse with that?

Read it. Proving that he isn’t a total idiot after all.

It’s comforting to know that he has more sense than most of his followers. (Sorry, Derb.)

Read it.

Read it.

George Will is not yet a Saint of Dyspepsia, but he’s certainly racking up points.

Read it. An excellent illustration of why we ought to be using this technique on terrorists: It Just Works, without doing any actual damage.

(And on teachers in community colleges. But that’s me, somebody who also spent six years in the Navy.)

Read it. Someone whom you wouldn’t invite into your home, much less want to see dating your daughter.

Steve Sailer will write about anything, as this demonstrates.

Read it. Actually, I’d say that’s a good sign. People are buying what they actually need rather than what the marketing industry is trying to convince them that they want.

How do you like that? People by consumer crap and the media is all over it, wringing their hands about how shallow people are. Then they cut back on the consumer crap, and the media are wringing their hands about how the economy is going to tank. I think they just like wringing their hands.

Sky is falling. Film at 11.

Read it.

Jerry Pournelle explains the “rebate”.

 A government running a deficit has no money to “rebate”; it has to borrow the “rebate” money, and that means it must collect it back along with the interest it cost to borrow it. Why be astonished?

In the US the problems are two-fold. First the housing bubble, caused by government pumping money out and financial rulings that allow lenders to sell off shaky loans packaged with sound ones. The intention was to make it easier for people to own homes; the result was the inevitable bubble. Another result was to put temptation in the way of people who would not normally be thieves. If you allow someone to loan money with no consequences for making bad loans, and pay them according to the number of loans they make, then you have put enormous temptation in their path; and this is not an age of Saints.

Read it. I think we ought to trade California to the Palestinians for all of their Jewish hostages and a first-round draft pick. Let’s see how soon they can come up with pink burkas.

Read it. I just wish it were true.

Read it. This sort of thing happens in every war. We’re lucky it hasn’t happened a lot in this one, despite the Views Media’s obsession with painting everybody in camo as a psychopathic murderer. But when it does happen, it needs to be rooted out.

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

This explains a great deal.

Read it. Not until we purge the species of the genetically deficient.

That’s not on their copy, of course.

Read it.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

Peggy Noonan.

Read it. Of course. That’s how they buy votes.

Read it. We have the technology….

Read it.

Ross Douthat cuts right to the chase on the light bulb question.

Read it. Of course.

The incomparable Mencius Moldbug takes us on a merry romp through “Lysenkoist pseudohistorical nonsense”.

I use the L-word because this history is not just accidentally bad – it exists because it serves a political function.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Lileks. If you’re not reading Lileks, you’re missing out.

Read it. God forbid somebody should break a public employee’s rice bowl. This is why conservatives want to shrink the government, and libertarians would like to eliminate it. Apparently some people think that “public service” means “help yourself to what belongs to the public”.

Read. This why we don’t have a lot of Arabic translators in government service. Keep it in mind the next time you hear a lot of handwringing on the subject from people who, shall we say, don’t necessarily think things through.

Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the hard questions – and mention the obvious answers.

Read it. And do some thinking. Assuredly Tsar Vladimir is.

And it’s free.

It doesn’t get much better than this.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Read it. Step by step, closer and closer….

Read it. This is very exciting news.

Read it. This is just freaky.

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

Being Politically Correct is so much more important than actually helping people, after all.

Read it. One RINO sticks up for another, and a conservative is supposed to pay attention?

Read it. The day you never thought would come.

Read it. Of course. No matter what rationalization is used, it’s just the government passing out “free” money (and they hope you’ll exchange a vote for it), so everybody wants a dip, whether they fit the bill or not. It’s like everybody wanting a refund from Nordstrom, even if they didn’t buy something there. As Nordstrom found out, you can’t keep that up forever.