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And the reason they do that is because people will buy it. But do trendy leftoid journalistas look into that question? Oh, no.

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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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He did not, apparently, have a waistcoat and pocket watch.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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If you’ve ever seen the size of some Japanese apartments, this will come as no surprise.

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Turns out, quite a few. So of course we have to let the rest of them go. (Huh?)

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I am not making this up.

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Wouldn’t it be a kick to see a headline “Barack Obama urges Amnesty International to suspend political aid to the enemies of freedom”? Won’t ever happen, of course, but it’s a delightful thought.

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This is just cute.

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A teachable moment?

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It’s not what you think.

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So of course they’re going to close the Guantanamo detention facility.

The only thing that saves us is, we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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Our Canadian neighbors are somewhat more restrictive of political speech than we are here in the USA.

Up there in the Frozen North, it’s not permitted to speak out against Islam. In fact, if you’re not a Muslim, quoting the Koran is considered hate speech.

As, indeed, it often is, depending on which sura you quote — but not in the way they mean it. But socialism is like that.

The issue of free speech in Canada has just been raised in an unusual context. An alleged terrorist named Said Namouh is on trial in Quebec, and the case against him is based entirely on his internet activities. The Crown maintains that what Mr. Namouh did — distributing jihad snuff videos, offering bomb-making instructions, and helping networks of mujahideen communicate — aided and abetted terrorism. The defendant’s lawyer doesn’t dispute these facts, but maintains that what his client did was protected by — wait for it — Canada’s hallowed traditions of free speech and freedom of religion.

Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn must surely be startled to hear such an assertion. And, coming from Canadian Muslims, this is a butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-their-mouths moment.

I guess some animals are more equal than others.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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It is, however, a work of art.

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And all the leftoid press say “Amen!” Guess it wasn’t Bush’s fault after all.

Pass the popcorn.

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These images show members of the Ku Klux Klan as they want to be seen, scary and secretive and waiting in the wings for Barack and his colour-blind vision for America to fail.

Precisely so — “as they want to be seen”; here we see the leftoid media acting as their propaganda shills.

Today the Klan is a mere shadow of what it used to be and there are at least 34 differently named Klan groups. “They are a fairly low-rent bunch of people, many of whom use their local organisations as a way of raising money for themselves,” says Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama.

Ah, so they really aren’t that big a deal after all. The truth is that they’re not alive and kicking, they’re dazed and limping.

When was the last time they blew up innocent people? When was the last time they cut people’s heads off?

This shows the peculiar blindness of the leftoid media. They’d be smarter reporting on the Muslim “no-go” areas in their own country.

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

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Yeah, we want more of those people in this country.

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A professional gatecrasher who snuck his way into last year’s Oscars has been hired by the event’s bosses to plug the gaps in their security for this weekend’s ceremony.

That shows more sense than I’ve seen Hollywood people use in my lifetime.

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If the government is going to bail out the irresponsible, why be responsible?

… I had to decide if it was worth getting out of bed to earn the money to pay my mortgage or not. Like all those bankers that got a bailout, I was wondering if it might be worth more to me to default on my mortgage than to pay it. I mean, what if the only people getting bailed out are the ones who truly screwed up? Being right doesn’t mean being rich and I didn’t want to miss out.

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Gotta admire his willingness to experiment, though.

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The last nail in the coffin of the Segway.

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We have the technology.

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

Arnold Kling is tired of the government’s hand in his pocket.

I’m tired of watching Paulson, Geithner, Bernanke, and now the Obama Administration picking through my wallet and giving my money to people who I don’t want to see get it. President Reagan expressed a vision for the fall of the Soviet Union when he said, “Mr. Brezhnev Gorbachev, tear down that wall.” My vision for the fall of the technocratic dictatorship might be expressed as, “Mr. Obama, give back my wallet.”

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One Israeli soldier is worth more than peace in Gaza.

I knew they were valuable, but I had no idea.

Or maybe they really don’t want peace after all? Nah, that can’t be it.

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Although why that’s a problem, they don’t say.

Look, the reason languages die out is that people don’t want to speak them any more. Languages are tools, nothing more. If your tool doesn’t work for you, you find a better one.

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Steve Sailer is eager to get with the new Attorney General’s program.

So, let’s talk about the Holder family’s racial background, which is pretty interesting, although he forgot to mention it during his big Black History Month speech to his new charges in the Department of Justice.

I’m sure he won’t mind us talking about his family’s race, since he just insisted that we all talk about race all month.

Be careful what you wish for, Eric.

Funny thing: Most of the “black” elite in the U.S. — Holder, Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Beyonce, Halle Berry, the Governor of New York whose name I can never remember — would pass the paper-bag-and-ruler test.

“Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.” — Luke 6:42

Steve Sailer joins the dogpile on Eric Holder.

America’s most distinguished man of science, James D. Watson, talked about race back in 2007. How’d that work out for him?

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And basic skills. Don’t forget the totally illegitimate focus on basic skills. (Or “skillz”, as modern kids think it’s spelled.)

A generation of pupils has been left impoverished by a “fundamentally deficient” primary school system that focuses only on tests and basic skills, according to the Cambridge Primary Review.

The swine. How dare they give our children basic skills — and test them to see if they’ve learned it. Oh, the humanity….

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If you think Senator Chris Dodd was friendly with former Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo, check out the bond the Connecticut lawmaker enjoys with Richard Blumenthal, the state’s attorney general. While Mr. Dodd refuses to make public the details of his sweetheart loans from Countrywide, the state’s chief lawyer not only won’t investigate; he has taken to the airwaves to proclaim Mr. Dodd’s innocence and even predict his re-election in 2010.

This is why you don’t want to live in a blue state.

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This has serious implications for the Democratic members of Texas’s Congressional delegation.

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Watch the sausage being made. Bring a bag.

The rich don’t mind high taxes because, as Leona Helmsley said, “Only the little people pay taxes.”

For what it’s worth, one of Paul’s representatives told the WSJ the billionaire didn’t lobby for the windfall. It just fell into his lap, lucky dog.

I feel so much better now.

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How cool is that?

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Darwin Award trainee.

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Quelle domage.

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A woman who had steel plates inserted into her back managed to smuggle a gun and explosives into a maximum security prison to help two inmates escape.

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This is why Europe is doomed.

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In my day they would have warmed her butt and sent her home. But that was then; this is now.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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Men, of course, don’t have any comparable “love affair” with neckties. I suppose there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

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Lots of taxpayers would like to get the deal UAW workers still get.

As would I. If I had gone to work in an auto factory right out of high school, I’d be better off financially than I am right now, with three degrees (one from Yale).

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

In Japan, “nationalist economics” is a serious, well-thought out philosophy that entails short run sacrifices for the long run general welfare. In the West, our elites have been trained to scoff at nationalist economics as mere mindless populism, but the best minds in Japan have developed an economic culture that’s perhaps too sophisticated for American economists and their fellow travelers in the punditry to understand.

The Chinese, in contrast, have followed the Taiwanese model of manufacturing anonymously under contract to Japanese and American brand names. They churn out stuff and let other countries’ companies sell it as their own. For the Chinese, it’s all about meeting minimum quality and cost parameters to get the next deal, not to build a reputation with the public for high quality. How many recognizable brand names have the Chinese created so far? There’s Lenovo, and then there’s …

Megan McArdle considers the President’s plan.

Well, the obvious point is that it represents a massive transfer to borrowers from lenders and the rest of us.  As far as I can tell, there is no penalty for having borrowed more than you could realistically afford to repay–not so much as a speck of dirt on the credit report.  The administration’s release talks a lot about “responsible homeowners”, but very few responsible homeowners have payments that amount to 43% of their monthly income.  There are exceptions, of course, such as people who have just lost their jobs, but most of the people being helped are, nearly definitionally, people who bought more house than they could afford in the belief that prices would keep rising indefinitely and they would make big bucks.  It was leveraged investing, just like a hedge fund, and often at the same kind of leverage ratios.

But I bet they all vote Democrat.

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How useful and constructive.