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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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I’ll take one with a street scene from Nablus.

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And would it be counted as taxable income?

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The sort of thing that happens when the governement tries to “fix” the economy.

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And the long slide into irrelevance begins….

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It appears that there is some common sense remaining in Britain after all.

Look quick or you might miss it.

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Like watching a snowman melting in the sun.

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Why the term “dinosaur media” is so appropriate.

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I’m waiting for them to have one powered by a polar bear in a treadmill. That will solve a number of problems at once.

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

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Once you learn the signs, you see them everywhere.

Not skilled at spotting White People yet? Well, buy the book.

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In summer 2003, an Illinois state senator used a new law to collect campaign contributions six times the normal limit for his insurgent U.S. Senate race against a multimillionaire securities trader.

But last week the Supreme Court struck down that law, the “Millionaire’s Amendment,” which helped launch the national political career of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) by leveling the financial playing field a bit. Writing for a 5 to 4 majority, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said the law amounted to an “unprecedented penalty” on candidates such as Obama’s opponent who want to exercise the First Amendment right to spend their own money in a run for office.

And once again a “minority” benefits from a discriminatory law. Rich leftoids will just have to go back to spending their own money to buy their legislative seats again. What a drag.

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Gee, you’d think that Ireland never existed….

We tend to think of the humble spud as nothing but carbs – maybe this is why fewer than 20 per cent of meals eaten by under-35s contain potatoes.

In fact, potatoes are packed full of vitamins and minerals, including iron, potassium more vitamin C than an apple, and vitamins B6 and B1. During World War II, government information leaflets advised Britons to eat ‘at least 1lb of potatoes daily’ to provide vitamin C to ‘prevent against fatigue and help fight infection’.

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At Harvard, the star of Arabic A is a girl named Maha. Maha Muhammed Abulaal, to be precise. She’s the pouty protagonist in the melodrama that runs throughout “Al-Kitaab,” the standard beginning text in Arabic classes at Harvard and other American universities.

We are taught to speak our first Arabic sentences by expressing Maha’s incurable angst. We learn in Chapter 1 that Maha is desperately lonely. In later chapters, we are told that she hates New York, has no boyfriend and resents her mother.

Soon we encounter her equally depressing relatives in Egypt — such as her first cousin Khalid, whose mother died in a car accident and who was forced to study business administration after his father told him literature “has no future.”

Like Maha, Khalid is loveless; his only romantic prospect ran away with a rich engineer. The family eventually intervenes with plans to marry the cousins off to each other. This makes everyone equally unhappy.

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Well, it isn’t really “justice for gays”, but rather “justice for children who happen to be in a position where they’re used as political footballs”. But one can’t expect the Washington Post to appreciate such rational distinctions.

How could the OLC, which gained notoriety for putting ideology before the rule of law to justify extreme interrogation techniques, come to such a conclusion? By reading the law governing Social Security benefits neutrally and correctly — and by keeping politics out of the analysis.

Note the tententious perspective: When they reach the conclusion we like, they’re “neutral and correct” — but when they reach a conclusion we don’t like, they’re “putting ideology before the rule of law”.

Here’s a thought that will cause the nearest leftoid brain to implode: Perhaps, just perhaps, they were applying the same standard in both cases — what the law requires. But that wouldn’t ever occur to whoever writes editorials for the Washington Post.

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Mississippi is the fattest state in the Union, with 30.1% of Mississippians being obese. That’s almost one in every three inhabitants. Not that the Magnolia State (in red on this map) should be singled out for its massiveness. It is surrounded by four of the eight other fattest US states (in brown on this map): Tennessee (29.0%), Arkansas (29.3%), Louisiana (29.5%) and Alabama (30.1%). Being overweight clearly is a Southern thing – even if the second-fattest state, West-Virginia (30.6%), broke away from the rebellious South in 1863 to join the North.

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Of course, one person’s taste is another person’s crap. The world is full of people who think that their taste is exquisite while yours is vulgar. When such people gather together in a pack, it makes a lynch mob look sedate.

“There is a lot of history in the Cord Meyer area and a lot of historical houses that have a specific aesthetic character in that community,” said Melinda R. Katz, a city councilwoman whose district includes Forest Hills. “A lot of the houses that are going up there are just simply too big relative to the other houses that are there and have been there for generations. They are out of character.”

New York, for example, is just full of such people.

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That’s what government control of health care gets you.

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Good. I never liked urang-utans anyway.

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Liberals rightly feel defensive about their patriotism because they always seem to find themselves blaming the United States for this or that, exhorting us to be more like the “enlightened” nations of Europe or forever shouting that we are a “laughing stock” in the eyes of other nations.

Funny how that works.

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It’s in a newspaper, so it must be true, right?

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

Today, though, I’m fascinated by the credulity of younger, well-educated people toward their elders, and the endurance of their bad old ideas. Stephen Jay Gould, for example, has been dead and gone for years, but the mellifluous old blowhard is still constantly cited by the relatively young as a great thinker whose golden ideas must remain unchallenged by we lesser mortals doomed to live in this age of brass.

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No doubt there’s an environmental message there somewhere, but I read it as “too much time on somebody’s hands”.

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I’ll take one….

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Change you can believe in.

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Can’t really blame them.

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I believe politicians are the number-one cause of gastro-intestinal disorder. I think this is true because I get gas whenever a politician outlines his or her vision for America, or when they speak to us about morality, or lectures us about patriotism. I think this is because if anyone should refrain addressing such weighty issues, it is a politician – mostly because beyond the fact they’ve convinced some number of back-home voters that they deserve to be an elected official, politicians aren’t qualified to lecture me about any of these things — especially about Patriotism.

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It’s the American way.

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A female Muslim councillor has been subjected to a hate campaign by Muslim men in her ward, leaving her unable to visit some of the streets that she represents.

Your future under Islam. Take the hint.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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Remember when the “benchmarks” for Iraq were all the rage in Congress? They were constantly being cited last year by opponents of the war effort when Iraq was failing to meet them. Funny how, now that Iraq has met 15 of 18 benchmarks, we don’t hear loud huzzahs from Democrats. In fact we don’t hear anything about the benchmarks, period. Yet another sign of the shifting goalposts when it comes to Iraq: Some critics are so committed to a narrative of American defeat that they seem unable to acknowledge our success.

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Me want.

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Ah, the federal government — glacial in its slowness.

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Chavez urged leaders of the South American trade bloc Mercosur to ask the U.S. government why the fleet is being re-established.

Well, perhaps because of the growth of anti-American socialists — like Chavez. They shouldn’t have to ask.

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Probably both the Democrats and Limbaugh overstated his actual impact. But Operation Chaos was a triumph of interactive political performance art. Limbaugh appointed himself Supreme Commander, deputized his listeners and turned them into merry pranksters. “Rush is a master at framing an issue and creating a community around it,” says Susan Estrich, who ran Michael Dukakis’s 1988 presidential campaign and has since become a talk-show host herself. Operation Chaos drew a crowd, which is what Limbaugh does for a living. It got people laughing at the Democrats, which is what he lives for. And, ever the devout capitalist, he turned an extra buck by peddling Operation Chaos gear. The stuff flew off the cybershelves of the E.I.B. store, the biggest seller since his Club Gitmo collection (“my mullah went to Club Gitmo and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”).

Apparently Rush has renewed his contract for another eight years and will receive on the close order of $400 million dollars therefor.

Whoever said that talk is cheap?

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There’s nothing like visiting a foreign country like China to get an appreciation of what it’s like to live under an authoritarian regime.  I was reminded of this when I arrived home and found that the TSA had rifled through my baggage.