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An excellent question, to which I have yet heard no good answer.

To quote my old boss in the ’76 Reagan campaign, Larry Uzzell: “The next four years are going to be a disaster, and we’d rather they were a Democrat disaster than a Republican disaster.” And Jimmy Carter stepped up to the plate and provided us with one — and gave us Reagan.

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The Washington Post begins by assuming what it ought to be proving, and it goes downhill from there.

 THE ABSENCE of competitive congressional districts takes a toll on the political process.

Why? They never say.They just state it as if it were a law of nature. But it’s exactly wrong.

What is the purpose of a representative in a representative democracy? Is it not to represent the interests of his (or her) constituents? Of course it is.

Consider this: Is a Congressional district tailored in such a way that the vast majority of its population likes and will vote for the incumbent more or less representative than one in which the incumbent barely squeaks by (and thus can be said to truly represent only half-plus-a-smidge of the people in his district)? I suggest that it is.

An election is not a basketball game, in which it is more exciting when one side wins about half the time and the other side the rest. The goal of an election is to put the candidate in who best represents the majority of the people in the district. An ideal election would have the candidate (in a free and fair election) winning 100% of the vote, thereby signifying that every voter in the district preferred him to his opponent. And yet the Post and the other members of the chattering classes would react to such a result with horror.

Why? Because they haven’t any better notion of the objective of a representative democracy than a slug does. They just want a fight — prefereably a cliff-hanger — because it’s more interesting (and is a lot more fun for “journalists” to cover). And it sells more newspapers.

Think about that next time you hear the pot-thumpers complain about “uncompetitive” elections.

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A useful discussion of why the Democrats are wrong on foreign policy.

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It is not a pretty sight.

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And the sooner they realize it, the sooner they’ll get better at it, and we’ll all beneift.

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I wonder whether we could combine this with the paint-ball firing robot.

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Apparently their politicians are as pig-ignorant as our politicians. Who knew?

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I’d want one with rapid-fire capability.

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Global Warming, if it exists, will bring economic benefits to many. And that’s probably why all of the eco-fascists are agin it.

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What do perfumes and wine have in common, other than an ability to attract the pretentious?

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Many people and cultures view t-shirts as a simple piece of apparel that can be acquired cheaply and worn in casual situations. For white people, it’s never that easy. The t-shirt is one of the most complex and expressive items in their entire wardrobe.

Mickey Kaus has a good point.

The meters measure the voter’s visceral reaction to whatever the candidate is saying. If the voter hates abortion, and Candidate A attacks abortion, the meter goes up. If the voter is pro-choice, the meter goes down. What the meter doesn’t capture is actual rumination–even fleeting doubts or flashes of confidence. The reaction loop’s too short for that. So if something Candidate B says, in the course of defending a right to abortion, actually makes a pro-life voter think twice about the issue, that will happen later, after the meter has moved on (and probably after the meters are locked up and everyone’s gone home). Indeed, the voter’s immediate reaction to a candidate who prompts reconsideration of a long-held position may be more negative than usual, reflecting the voter’s annoyance at being challenged and forced to think. ….

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Democrats are corrupt. No surprises here.

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I, for one, think it a fine idea. For one thing, it eliminates the tip surcharge on the top of your meal price.

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 Though professional graduate schools like law and medicine are desirable, the true ivory tower of academia is most coveted as it imparts true, useless knowledge. The best subjects are English, History, Art History, Film, Gender Studies, <insert nation> Studies, Classics, Philosophy, Political Science, <insert European nation> Literature, and the ultimate: Comp Lit. MFA’s are also acceptable.

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

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If it works, this will be huge.

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Most “problems” that government purports to solve will solve themselves, if left alone to do so.

Many “solutions” provided by government will eventually fail, because they are (like government) essentially static, and can’t cope with a world that changes.

Yaacov ben Moshe looks at the modern world. It is not a pretty sight.

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Mencius Moldbug, in the course of announcing a hiatus, generates an afflatus.

Unfortunately for nonprogressives, progressives run the world, so there has to be some way to get a message to them. Unfortunately for progressives, they are quite unaware that they run the world. They believe it is run by their enemies, who oppress them or are at least trying to, and must be resisted with all their energy. If we could convince them that this was a misperception, we could convince them to stop being progressives. The matter is not without delicacy.

And that’s the truest thing you’ll read today.

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Ohio’s most crippling handicap may be that its politicians — and thus its employers — are still in the grip of such industrial unions as the United Auto Workers. Ohio is a “closed shop” state, which means workers can be forced to join a union whether they wish to or not. Many companies — especially foreign-owned — say they will not even consider such locations for new sites. States with “right to work” laws that make union organizing more difficult had twice the job growth of Ohio…

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When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.

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A civil disturbance would result in the complete shutdown of the financial system in the capital. Watch for any preliminary signs of organised violence, closure of shops and businesses, and attacks upon civilians.

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“Public” (i.e. government ownership) causes more problems than it solves. But you knew that.

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This is the same Scott Nearing who was a regressive icon for his and his wife’s Good Life books.

Adolf, call your office.

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Well, I thought it was interesting.

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A reminder that these people aren’t our friends, they just suck up to us as long as we are willing to protect them from their enemies.

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Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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Regressives want more centralized control of schooling. Adolf, call your office.

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Hey, life is full of choices.

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Don’t use Windows. Just sayin’….

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In fact, the main reason white people like soccer is so they can buy a new scarf. As you may or may not know, many soccer teams issue special scarves, and white people cannot get enough of them!

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I want one of these so badly it makes my teeth hurt.

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The “youths” in question, of course, are Muslim.

It would appear that the French are about to have demonstrated to them that eternal truth, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”

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An excellent and useful addition to the language.

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No wonder Rush Limbaugh refers to Reuters as “al-Reuters”.

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More inconvenient truth.

One of the great truths about the Left is that they have no abiding principles (such as respect for the individual or a skepticism about human wisdom). All the Left have is a lust for power. And because of that they can turn on a dime when it suits them. And history is a good tool for showing that. But with their command of the educational system, the Left have ensured that only selected bits of history get taught in the schools or mentioned elsewhere. So the lessons of history are usually well-hidden from most people.

I wonder what the reaction would be to reproducing that classic poster today?

The Washington Post, of course.

It’s obvious what advantage accrues to the MSM like the Washington Post by having a “shield law” that excuses their reporters from the obligation that every citizen has to assist the police and courts in preventing and solving crimes, but what advantage accrues to the public? The opportunity to read all about it — after it happens, when it could have been prevented?

The fact that a “source” gave information to a reporter under a promise of confidentiality doesn’t trump a citizen’s obligations under the law, media mythology to the contrary notwithstanding. If reporters feel that strongly about it, they’re free to accept the consequences of breaking the law; they just want to skate free without consequence, privileged snoopers above the fray who don’t have the same duty to prevent crime that the rest of us do.

Do the public a service and slap the next “journalist” you see. You’ll feel better for it.

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It’s just a sham … which reinforces the notion that Russia is just a Third Worl country with nuclear weapons.

The answer, I think, can lie only in the ruling clique’s fundamental insecurity, odd as that sounds. Though the denizens of the Kremlin do not, cannot, seriously fear Western military attack, they do still seem to fear Western-inspired popular discontent: public questioning of their personal wealth, public opposition to their power, political demonstrations of the sort that created the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. To stave off these things, they maintain the democratic rituals that give them a semblance of legitimacy.

This also gives us a good look at what Germany would be like if National Socialism had fallen from power “naturally” rather than through the country being pounded into rubble in war. Imagine Heydrich as Chancellor of a “democratic” Germany.

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Well, in tribal cultures, that’s what happens when one of your guys gets elected to public office: He gets spaces at the public trough for as many of his tribe as possible.

Remind me why the British decided to allow these people to govern themselves.