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’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.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Read it. And now to the important stuff.

Read it. This looks very clever.

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

Read it. After you laugh, start thinking. Yeah, I know it hurts, but do it anyway.

Read it.

Read it. *yawn* The Sky Is Falling; film at 11.

There is no recession. Deal with it. Certain politicians and journalists would like you to believe that there is a recession because if you believe that one, they can tell you another one, i.e. that they can fix what ain’t broke. It is an elementary fact of politics that you have to convince people that they need saving if you’re going to pose as their savior. This is not rocket science.

Certain people are getting hammered because they made silly economic decisions that are finally catching up with them. Clue: That’s the way the system is supposed to work. People who make bad decisions are — what’s the technical term? — LOSERS. The distinguishing characteristic of LOSERS is that they lose. Do the math.

Read it. Former Communists are irate that current Communists are acting like, well, Communists.

When you sell something to people who don’t believe in property rights, don’t be surprised when they steal it. That’s hardly rocket science.

Read it and wallow in antipathy. We do that a lot here.

Steve Sailer points out that it’s not a conspiracy if you call it a conference and invite everybody, right?

Read it. A key step forward.

Read it.

After a Moroccan thug was stabbed to death in self-defense by a German man he was trying to rob, Muslims in Cologne took to the streets in protest. Apparently, they believe it’s their right to mug Germans, and the Germans should just accept it.

Reminder for the dimwitted: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology with which no co-existence is possible.

Read it. Of course, if he weren’t the sort of fellow who writes that kind of shit, people wouldn’t be so ready to believe it.