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Jeremy Wagstaff is always worth reading.

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Too late.

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Some good news for a change.

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If, indeed, she exists at all. Wouldn’t be the first time “law enforcement” officials trumped up some excuse to stick their hands into something of which they disapproved.

Just sayin’.

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Perhaps they could adopt the old system of having a guy ride ahead on a horse waving a red flag.

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Yeah, they might actually get something productive done, which would be mightily embarrassing.

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Of course, this is from the BBC, so you’ll want a second source for the information.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here.

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I guess there’s safety in numbers.

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Just makes you want to live in Washington, doesn’t it.

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It wouldn’t surprise me to see somebody run for President just so it would get them a book deal. I even have the perfect name for the book: “Doing It For Real”. You saw it here first.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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Better keep them away from Washington; they’d probably blow up.

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And about time, too.

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Wonder if anybody mistook him for one of the grounds staff.

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Here’s a thought: How would it be if you could depend on every chain supermarket to have a mini-Emercency Room, where you could go and get stabilized and maybe transferred to a Real Hospital if necessary? What would that do for the health care system? What would that do for health care, period?

Jerk those tears!

Another example of the persistent drumbeat of the media campaign to use examples of personal irresponsibility as an excuse to increase government intervention.

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

Remind me: What, if any, use is the U.N.?

The biters bit.

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Me want. Plus a supply of appropriately-sized fragmentation grenades.

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One thing not taken into account is the negative effects of Security Theater.

For example: The hassles inflicted on passengers by the TSA don’t materially improve security so long as they are barred from doing the most effective thing they could do to prevent hijacking, which is profiling — indeed, they impose extra and unnecessary hassles just to demonstrate that they aren’t profiling and would never dream of doing so — so I refuse to fly. Some people don’t have that option, but a lot of people do, and many (like me) choose to exercise it.

Does this charade make life better for people? I suggest not.

But the reality of how we make security decisions begs an important question– should security professionals focus on real solutions to security problems, or just on making people feel better about security? Unfortunately, there’s no easy answer to this question. It depends on who’s paying the professional’s salary, what they expect, and how rational they area. At one extreme, any professional should certainly want to improve security in real terms, but delivering the perception of improved security may be a practical job requirement.

And there’s the rub. Far too often when politics gets involved — as it is with security and flying — being seen to be Doing Something is more important than actually doing something constructive, and the image is (to those who hold the reins of power) more important than the reality.

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Perhaps it could be rigged to give doggy advice, like the famous “Magic 8-ball”.

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We have the technology.

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Law enforcement authorities Tuesday continued searching the 1,700-acre ranch run by a reclusive polygamist sect but announced there were no new developments in the search for the 16-year-old girl who sparked the raids by telling state Child Protective Services a 50-year-old man has married her and fathered her child, a spokeswoman for the Texas Rangers said Tuesday afternoon.

Guess they’ll have to leave then, right? And I’m sure that the Washington Post will be editorializing in favor of these guys civil rights, which have been so egregiously violated, right? And the ACLU will be parachuting in lawyers to help out, right? Right?

Oh — I guess not.

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

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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That’ll be a first.

What a great t-shirt: “I was a token white person for Michelle Obama.” I’d buy one.

Read it and see.

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Hey, it’s not as if anybody is going to those churches for anything these days.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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The Democrats will still lie about it. But it’s interesting to know.

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Leftoid rags are so much more worth reading when they stay away from politics.

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Was he even aware of his fathers Communist ideology? He seems unaware of so much else.

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Great news if true. If it can be detected, it can be screened for — and perhaps treated.

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Amazing how old stuff just keeps being useful.

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An oxymoron, of course, but — like the expungement of the term “liberal” by those who are of that persuasion — an attempt to spin statism as actually being something else. Don’t be fooled.

Invariable rule: If you ever see an adjective in front of a well-understood general term, someone is trying to snooker you. This is how the nice man who says “Pick a card — any card” is able to take your money.

Examples: Social justice. Compassionate conservatism. Social democracy.

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Learning to tell things apart and sort them into different piles is a key cognitive milestone of early childhood. It’s probably not a surprise that the skill comes in handy all through life and in all manner of activities.

Now, if we could just get people to PUT THE PILES AWAY, everything would be perfect.

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More than 25,000 raging Muslims turned out in Pakistan today, burning effigies and flags and screaming for blood, to show how much they resent being portrayed as uncontrollable violent madmen

Lucky for them they aren’t Mormons. Then they could be insulted with impunity.

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Rice has always disclaimed any intention of running for political office, and of course the Chattering Class (to whom such a desire is literally unimaginable) just nods and winks and continues to speculate. How soon they forget Colin Powell!

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A rather jaundiced view of FDR.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

We’ve heard of the U.S. Postal Service losing packages before, but not one containing human remains — in this case, the ashes of a longtime Washington-area resident who was to have been interred with U.S. Navy military honors last Friday at the Quantico National Cemetery. 

Guess they should’ve used FedEx.

“We did everything as we usually do,” a representative of Wilke-Clay-Fish said Friday. “We transported the ashes to the post office and sent them registered mail. I could not believe the answers we were getting from one woman at the [Austin] post office who kept saying, ‘They’ll be arriving the next postal day; they’ll be arriving the next postal day.’

“I told her a lot of good that answer’s going to do the DeKay family, which has a funeral scheduled. But she kept repeating, repeating, repeating the same answer.” 

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Be the first on you block….

The nice thing about silly people having silly amounts of disposable income is that sometimes they use it to buy toys that, by the way, advance the cause of civilization. Not necessarily a bad thing.

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We have the technology.

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When you consider that English is about the only language all Indians have in common, this makes perfect sense.  Between the fall of Rome and the early modern period, for example, it was impossible to be a successful academic in Europe without knowing Latin.