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Your future under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

We send these degenerates billions of dollars in aid each year. Aren’t you proud?

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Fortunately, I don’t have that problem.

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This is actually very clever.

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I particularly love this passage: ‘. As it remade itself in recent decades from a bedroom suburb into a more densely settled, partly urban, more diverse cluster of communities,…’. In other words, ‘as it went from middle class to incipient slum’. Don’t you just love the way Washington talks?

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Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Inside the Ring.

Hans A. Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists Nuclear Information Project has found a hidden Chinese nuclear missile base using commercial satellite photos.

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Ain’t no biased media here, no sir.

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Load it with OS X, and you’re in business.

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I am not making this up.

Megan McArdle points out some Inconvenient Truth.

Farm subsidies overwhelmingly do not go to struggling farmers; they go to large, flourishing concerns.

And once the Death Tax gets done with them, they won’t be struggling any more.

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The course of true love doth ne’er run smooth.

Wonder how much the book rights will go for.

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Ask yourself why India thinks it needs submarines capable of launching ballistic missiles.

And take a look at this.

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“Juveniles and former child soldiers should be treated first and foremost as candidates for rehabilitation and reintegration into society, not subjected to further victimization,” Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU’s human rights program, said in a statement.

This appeared in the same issue of the paper that described terrorists strapping explosives to an 8-year-old child in order to bomb somebody they didn’t like.

A rational person would see this situation as evidence that the bad guys are wickedly using children in their plots. The ACLU sees it as Just Another Excuse to Bash America. That tells you all you really need to know about the ACLU. (Question: Why is the ACLU involved in this at all? And what is somebody named “Jamil Dakwar” doing as a director of the ACLU’s “human rights program”?)

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The future looks dim after all.

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Remark what it takes to make Slate use “good” and “soldier” in same phrase.

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Well, I never like Houston anyway.

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And, more to the point, has (much like this column) demonstrated why.

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No wonder academics are gun-shy.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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Although an obsession with healthy eating is not officially in the DSM-IV, the diagnostic manual for psychiatrists, at least one doctor has given it a name: orthorexia. Colorado alternative physician Steven Bratman coined the phrase in his 2001 book, “Health Food Junkies,” saying it is a disease disguised as a virtue.

Probably.

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An endangered species that isn’t really endangered; it’s merely endangered in the fantasy world of enviro-wackos and simple-minded bureaucrats.

“We now have a species threatened which is both healthy in size and population; the real risk is litigation that will follow,” Crockett said. “Lawsuits will continue to be filed opposing individual operations, lease sales and permits, and that could have a significant impact on business up here.”

They don’t give a shit about the polar bears; that’s just a convenient stick with which to beat anybody wanting to solve the oil crisis by, you know, actually pumping American oil.

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“We’re from the government, and we’re here to help. Stick up your hands.”

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Hey, when the government provides your health care, you don’t get a lot of options.

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AlGore is only #2? I’m offended.

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Another teachable moment from the Religion of Peace(tm)

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If we ever lose Al Gore, we’re sunk.

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More good news from the Religion of Peace(tm).

Ross Douthat makes a surprising connection.

He includes a map.

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Yup, we really need open borders down south.

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My heart breaks for them. They could always just, you know, not come here, or obey the law while here.

I put this on a par with the people who climb into animal cages and then cry piteously because they’ve been bitten.

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If anyone is wondering why Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II, here’s an example why.

So long as group loyalties exist, members of a suspect group are going to be suspected. Whether that is appropriate or inappropriate depends on the circumstances; those who claim that it is always and everywhere inappropriate need to read up on human nature, because they live in a world that does not exist.

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

Perhaps if Senator Obama will just talk to them, they’ll quit and decide to play nice.

A handy reminder.

A handy compendium.

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Marion Barry comes out in favor of school vouchers.

I am not making this up.

Steve Sailer isn’t afraid to ask the hard questions. I think.

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[I]n the American media, which is to say American public life, Republicans are a despised group, much like used car salesmen, Congressmen, lawyers, or, in former times, certain ethnic and religious minorities. Anyone who watches NBC, CBS, ABC, MTV, CNN, MSNBC, or almost any other television outlet, or who reads the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, or virtually any other daily newspaper, or who reads Time or Newsweek, is exposed to a steady diet of Republican-caricaturing and Republican-bashing. We have had partisan media in this country before, but I don’t believe we have ever experienced such a unanimously one-party media at any time in our history.

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*sigh* All of my illusions, shattered….

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There’s a Darwin Award waiting to happen….

Nancy Kress leads us into temptation.

11. Karmageddon : It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.

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Slate magazine is doing a series of articles on procrastination.

I wish I’d gotten around to doing something like that….

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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Driving a car at a Marine holding a rifle is not something that would occur to a normal intelligent person.

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Megan McArdle takes a look.

To be clear, I do not object to the teacher’s unions because they have a union. I object to the teacher’s unions because teachers are among the competing interests that run low-income school districts for the benefit of the various interest groups, rather than the children. The union merely gives them more power to move value from children to teachers.

And that is the essence of a union. Whenever you see a union, you see a group of people who are attempting through politics to gain an economic advantage that they cannot gain through a free market.

Sort of like a government that way, come to think of it.

Or a street gang.

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Tell the truth — who, being an elephant, would not have done the same?

They’re lucky it didn’t try to climb on top of the car just to see how far it would squish.

I would have. But that’s me.