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Archive for March, 2008

Doctor Claims That Sending Too Many Text Messages Is A Sign Of Mental Problems

31st March 2008

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Can’t say that I disagree. But that’s me.

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Meet the Middle-Class Millionaires

31st March 2008

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These are the people that Warren Buffet and the other rich Democrats are attempting to destroy.

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Missing Ohio Soldier’s Remains Identified in Iraq

31st March 2008

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When we capture them, they wind up in Guantanamo with three halal meals a day, daily prayer, and government provided health care that’s better than anything they’ve ever had before.

When they capture us, we get paraded in propaganda videos and our bones are later found in an unmarked grave, when we haven’t been beheaded on TV.

That tells you everything you need to know about this war.

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Cancer patient has PSP stolen en route to chemotherapy treatment

30th March 2008

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“Judge, he needed killin’.” Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Mr. Wynn’s Ignoble Exit

30th March 2008

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The Post seems so surprised that a Democrat would do this.

I’m not.

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Political Ads as You’ve Never Seen Them

30th March 2008

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Perhaps a new rest stop on the Information Superhighway.

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Coke Boats Winning Their War

29th March 2008

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Well, when there’s money to be made, technology follows.

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Educational Levels Declining In America

29th March 2008

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Not really a surprise.

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Amish Paradise

29th March 2008

Cringely takes on an unusual topic for a tech columnist.

As my friend Henry from down the road in Mansfield, Ohio, points out, the Amish have been on this same “new” educational path forever. Their ability to produce nearly 100 percent productive citizens (and very nice furniture) for about fifty bucks per student per year is especially galling to those government schools that spend $16K and turn out a lot of slackers.

Or maybe not.

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How did the Diveroli family qualify for “minority ownership” preferences?

29th March 2008

Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

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Another ‘Free’ Business Model Experiment

29th March 2008

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How do you make money from giving stuff away? Read it and find out.

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The Sunday Stalin

29th March 2008

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More illustrations of the fact that fascists and communists differ only in the color of their flags — and sometimes not even then.

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Avoiding the razor’s edge

29th March 2008

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The politics of hair.

Apparently “hair on the face” = “not in the race”. Another “boys’ club” that Hillary can’t join.

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The party of corruption

28th March 2008

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Events this year have exposed, once and for all, in a way that cannot be denied, elided, or spun, Democratic liberals as the party of abject incompetence and institutionalized corruption.

The truth is out there.

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It’s solved! Democratic race prediction: Neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama will win

28th March 2008

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The AlGore tidal wave gathers momentum.

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42 Democrats Vow a Drawdown in Iraq If They Win Seats

28th March 2008

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The party of take-our-football-and-go-home.

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Schizophrenia Linked to Rare, Often Unique Genetic Glitches

28th March 2008

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Cuckoo for Switzerland

28th March 2008

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Note that they have joined neither the European Union nor the U.N. What do they know that we don’t.

The nation also has a high degree of personal freedom, linked to a decentralized government in which voters are the ultimate sovereign through an elaborate system of direct democracy—citizens can both propose their own laws and challenge any action of the government.

Well, quite a lot, really….

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Army tests of Land Warrior high-tech uniform successful, soldiers request more

28th March 2008

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To revel in the glow of choice is to court glare of the eco-correct

28th March 2008

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But, hey, progressive p0litics is never about choice, if you make the wrong one.

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Down with Middleclassness! Up with Upper Middleclassness!

28th March 2008

Steve Sailer has the goods on the Reverend Wright.

Like Michelle Obama, Rev. Wright apparently doesn’t practice what he preaches.

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L.A. Times’ blunder caught by Web editor

28th March 2008

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Makes you wonder what they teach in “journalism” school.

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Calif. court to rehear home-schooling case

28th March 2008

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Bleeding Hearts but Tight Fists

27th March 2008

George Will points out that regressives are only free-spenders with other people’s money.

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Egyptian Hate Singer to Release Pro-Obama Song

27th March 2008

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No surprises there, either.

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Virginia Tech students create “smart” brake lights for cars

27th March 2008

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How long before the government mandates these for cars?

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It Turns Out Plenty Of People Reply To DoNotReply.com

27th March 2008

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If people had to get a license to reproduce, these would be on the Do Not Fly list.

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Another Former CAIR Official Indicted

27th March 2008

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And the hits just keep on coming.

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Education, Assortative Mating, and Inequality

26th March 2008

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Economists write the darnedest things.

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Rock and Roll May Never Die, but Sometimes It Gets Sick

26th March 2008

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Ah, but do they get Dental?

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Morgan Stanley: 40% of college students plan to buy Macs

26th March 2008

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Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

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Krugman proves himself right

26th March 2008

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 Case in point, Krugman has predicted economic recession in each of the last six years. That’s 24 consecutive fiscal quarters (we’re actually up to 25 now, and 26 if we keep our heads above water for the next 6 days) without a single reading of negative growth, despite Krugman’s perennial prophecies of wreck and ruin around every corner.

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“It’s not the economy, stupid”

26th March 2008

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America’s inequality problem — and I mean the stagnation at the lower end, not the hedge funds guys at the top — does indeed seem to stem from dysfunctional families and bad education…

And that’s a matter of culture, and all the people involved in culture are just making things worse.

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Affirmative Action Foes Push Ballot Initiatives

26th March 2008

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Of course, they can’t get it past the courts and the regressive foot-draggers in government, but at least it’s on the books.

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Stuff White People Like #92 Book Deals

26th March 2008

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Our research has slowed in recent weeks as we worked out the details, but Stuff White People Like are proud to announce that our textbook on white people is becoming a reality.

A must-read. Be the first on your block to find out everything you always wanted to know about White People, but were too busy Having A Life to ask.

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How to save the world

26th March 2008

Steve Sailer is shocked, shocked I tell you, that there are flaming hypocrites in L.A.

As far as I can tell, environmentalism in LA is mostly about shopping, buying stuff white people like to flaunt your social conscience and income, about showing the world that you’re living life in the fast lane.

And that about sums it up.

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Forget E-Voting Problems, Now We Have To Worry About E-Census Problems Too

26th March 2008

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It would appear that all these movies in which Sinister Government Agencies have all this high-tech gear that works perfectly and allows them to keep on top of the Hero And His Plucky Band is all hot air.

The bureaucrats rarely have the latest gear, and what they have doesn’t work all that well, when it works at all.

I am comforted by that realization.

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Washington Today

26th March 2008

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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Nihon Uni shirts resist stabbing, make you feel like a superhero

25th March 2008

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Chain mail has the same benefits and makes you feel a lot more butch.

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Turnitin Found Not To Violate Student Copyrights

25th March 2008

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This sort of thing is why otherwise normal people consider going to law school.

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Clear Channel wants the FCC to force XM / Sirius to obey indecency laws

25th March 2008

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The chief impediment to capitalism is capitalists.

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The Long Defeat

25th March 2008

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A look at Hillary’s life. It’s not a pretty sight.

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That Old Isolationist Tug

25th March 2008

Victor Davis Hanson thinks isolationism a Bad Thing.

On the other hand, there’s a lot to be said for Minding One’s Own Business.

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Righting the Right

25th March 2008

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Few things are more entertaining than regressives opining on what “conservatives” ought to be doing.

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Forest Service May Move to Interior

25th March 2008

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

And this is worth more column-inches in the Washington Post than good news from Iraq.

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Don’t Elevate Me, Please!

25th March 2008

Mickey Kaus gets in touch with his inner Derbyshire:

 Alter has presented the most compelling case for Al Gore I’ve read.

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Building Stonehenge

24th March 2008

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This is fascinating.

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Raining McCain

24th March 2008

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This is just wrong. And it’s all Jonah’s fault.

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Obama’s Charm Offensive Winning Over D.C. Lawyers

24th March 2008

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That’s because they realize that he’s one of them. Harvard-educated, politically correct, statist to the core. Bill Clinton with a functioning zipper.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Cruel and Usual Punishment

24th March 2008

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THE BEST-INFORMED PERSON I EVER KNEW was a friend of my grandfather’s back in the Bronx, where I grew up. Every morning of every day of his life, this elderly man — his name, as I recall, was Boris — would dress impeccably in a suit and waistcoat and shuffle to the public library, where more than a dozen of the day’s local and out-of-town newspapers were threaded through bamboo poles and hung from racks. One by one, Boris would read them all, front to back; at dusk, he would walk home alone. This daily pilgrimage was conducted with ecclesiastic solemnity, a quiet, dignified homage to the majesty of knowledge. Even as a little boy, in that intuitive if primitive way that children comprehend important things, I understood the fundamental truth that Boris was, in some clear but compelling way, a douche bag.

Not your usual newspaper story.

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