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Rail systems promoted by lovers of mass transit suffer from especially high rates of lying. What does this tell us about the most enthusiastic mass transit supporters?

I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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Probably just as well — it’s not as if they had, like, you know, teachers.

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What further sign of the End Times do we need?

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As has often been noted, jihad — violence against the infidel for the purpose of spreading Islam — is just one of the tactics used by Muslims to Islamize the infidel world. Various forms of “stealth jihad” supplement and support terrorism as a means of extending Islam’s reach.

Zakat, the religiously-mandated giving of alms, is one such supporting function. Islamic scripture and tradition require that charitable giving be used for the support of violent jihad, in addition to the more mundane eleemosynary functions.

It’s hard to fight this process. Who, after all, objects to charitable organizations?

Every time a Western prosecutor goes up against a Muslim “charity”, the deck is stacked against him due to our intuitive misconception of what an Islamic charitable organization must be like. Add to this the routine dissimulation of Muslims (which is also required by scripture and tradition), and you arrive at the toxic situation we face today: large amounts of money used to fund terrorism flow through the world’s banking systems in accounts maintained by Islamic “charities”.

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The establishment media is saying almost nothing about the man who co-founded Earth Day, and who also happens to be in jail for life for murder. Arlen Specter’s involvement with the Ira Einhorn case is an important event in the party-switching Senator’s career that curious readers would want to know about — if the establishment media cared to note it.

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A Labour Party member who expected to be able to stand for election in a local race was denied the opportunity because she was too white — and too Jewish.

All indications are that this well-meaning woman is a whole-hearted supporter of Multiculturalism. Which means that she should have known the rules: political offices, like other spoils, are dealt out on a racial and religious basis. Whites and Jews are not part of the equation in her little corner of Multi-Land, so she had no business expecting things to be any different.

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Let’s face it: the rules are different for white people. What would be called racism if I did it becomes perfectly acceptable when it is done by someone who has slightly more melanin in his skin or who bangs his head on the floor when he prays.

Is this racism? You betcha!

But it’s not my racism. It’s the racism of the ruling Multicultural elite, who believe that black and brown people are not capable of civilized behavior, and thus refuse to hold them to the same standards that white people are expected to meet.

So if most of my friends are white, or if I hire mostly white employees to work for my business, then I’m a racist. Period. No court of appeal.

But nobody thinks anything of it if all of an African-American’s friends are black. And if an Iranian businessman has nothing but fellow Iranians as employees, what’s the big deal? It’s diversity at work — something to be celebrated.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

Why is this sort of a scandal, but the First Lady having the equivalent make-work diversity racket job at the U of Chicago Hospitals, and getting paid $117k when her husband was chairman of the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee and then getting her salary more than doubled when her husband got elected to the U.S. Senate, not a scandal?

What an excellent question.

(The existence of the Diversity Racket makes all this easier because it’s obviously unimportant whether they accomplish anything. The less they accomplish in, say, getting no-bid contracts for minority firms, the better for the general public.)

It does indeed.

Holman Jenkins reveals an inconvenient truth about the auto industry.

The erosion of the Big Three’s market share since then has really been the erosion of the market for monopoly labor-produced cars. The UAW standard tactic, “pattern bargaining,” which it pursues without embarrassment, would have gotten Bill Gates thrown in jail under the antitrust laws.

In a real bankruptcy, which is the natural fate of companies unable to meet their obligations, Chrysler and GM would be run (or liquidated) for the benefit of their creditors, not their workers. But, here, “pattern bargaining” will remain the law of the Detroit jungle. The UAW will continue to use its unnaturally augmented clout to extract uncompetitive pay and benefits (it can do no other given its internal incentives). As it has for 40 years, Washington will pitch in with one improvisation after another, disguised as energy policy, trade policy, health-care policy or environmental policy, to stop the rivets from popping off. Politics, especially Democratic electoral politics, will play a more dominant role than ever.

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I suspect a Jesuit plot.

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I suspect that lashing your mother-in-law to a fender won’t count.

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Great – I’d like one to chase down and stomp to death that damned GEICO lizard.

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Be the first on your block….

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I am not making this up.

Steve Sailer turns over the rock of government education.

When it finally dawns on Obama that if we actually start firing worse teachers and hiring better teachers, we’ll be, on net, firing blacks and hiring whites, you can expect this whole effort to get buried so far under affirmative action that nothing good comes of it.

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I don’t blame them.

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The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) report card said the increasing acidity of the oceans caused by carbon dioxide could affect the climate further and hit wildlife.

And who are they?

The report was produced by five groups of experts for the MCCIP, a coalition of scientists, the Government and devolved administrations, agencies and charities.

In other words, people who have a vested interest in climate alarmism and increased goverment spending.

In response to the threat, the Government today announced an £11 million, five-year project to investigate the effects of acidification on biodiversity, habitats, species and wider economic and social impacts in the north east Atlantic, Antarctic and Arctic oceans.

So: mission accomplished.

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Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to be lawyers….

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But environmentalists are all about fantasy, not reality.

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Congressmen are shocked, shocked that waterboarding was going on.

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

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Guess she is trying to make up the deficit in the human birth rate for Britain.

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Sounds like a good excuse for a war.

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Well, that’s a relief.

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Well. There it is.

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This would make a great wall hanging for somebody into wine.

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I’ve always wondered why drug smugglers didn’t start using submarines earlier. These are only semisubmersible and so aren’t true submarines. And, of course, with government tax laws chewing on people who buy luxury boats, boatyards will be turning to such business more and more in order to stay in business.

Your tax dollars at work. Use the law to create a profitable market opportunity, then use that “problem” as an excuse to expand government activity — oh, and government spending, of course.

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Lisa Ashton, who worked for BMI, was told that she was expected to wear the abaya, a long black robe that leaves only the face uncovered, when she was out in public in the Gulf state.

She was also told that she should walk behind male colleagues irrespective of their rank, in order to conform with the social codes of the conservative country.

In her letter of dismissal, BMI said it was “proportionate” to ask female employees to walk behind men out of respect for Saudi culture.

An employment tribunal in Manchester earlier cleared BMI of sexual discrimination saying it was justified in imposing “rules of a different culture” on staff.

It ruled there was no evidence that women would regard BMI’s requirements on wearing the abaya, or walking behind men, as “placing them under any disadvantage.”

Moral: Don’t fly BMI, the official dhimmi airline of not-so-Great Britain.

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Gee, I wonder why?

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Tragic. Agonizing. And for me, the story is frustrating, even infuriating. It raises gigantic questions and then seems determined not to answer them. It appears that the journalists involved in this project thought it was important not to try to seek answers. Why?

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Well, those cousin-dating fundamentalist Southern rednecks have really crossed the line, now….

They are looking for George Zinkhan, a professor in the Department of Marketing and Distribution at the University of Georgia.

He is described as a white man with a goatee, last seen wearing a polo shirt and blue shorts, and may be traveling in a red car.

Oh, wait, that can’t be right….

Mr Hardy says his son told him that the victim, his friend Tom Tanner, was shot twice — once in the front and the back. “At 22 you’re not supposed to watch people die,” he said.

Tell it to the Marines, kid.

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Rule of thumb: Anybody who capitalizes “Other” save at the beginning of a sentence is a pseudo-intellectual moron who ought to be taken out and shot to improve the gene pool and safeguard what little culture we have left.

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If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people – not even Jimmy Carter.

Pretty bad when even British journalists are noticing.

Obama’s problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail.

Well, that sounds like a typical Democrat to me.

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Turns out that trains are like organic food — a costly option being foisted on the public by people who would like to cancel about the last century of progress. (How did these guys steal the name “progressive”, anyway?)

The enduring problem of “mass transit” is that it’s inefficient from the point of view of the passenger — it takes you from point A, which is probably not where you live, to point B, which is probably not where you want to be, at a time that is convenient to somebody else. Thus the enduring popularity of individualized transportation like automobiles, despite constraints like air pollution and traffic congestion; the history of America is proof that people will put up with quite a bit of inconvenience to get freedom.

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Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

Who could possibly have imagined back when the solons of California came up with the idea of having a high school exit exam that NAMs would fail it at a higher rate? And that girls would do worse at math than boys? That’s just crazy talk!

Surprise, surprise.

The study by researchers at Stanford University and UC Davis concluded that girls and non-whites were probably failing the exit exam more often than expected because of what is known as “stereotype threat,” a theory in social psychology that holds, essentially, that negative stereotypes can be self-fulfilling.

There certainly couldn’t be any other explanation.

Stanford has a School of Education? Who knew? Wouldn’t it be fun to hear what Stanford’s Electrical Engineering Department professors say in private about the quality of their colleagues in the Education Department?

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IF YOU shine a laser on the floor, where does the light go? With the right preparation, some of it might pop out at the other side of the world – an effect that could be exploited to transmit secret messages through the ground.

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“Massive energy generating ship”? Dude, that’s what nuclear reactors are all about.

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A German mother who abandoned her three small children at a pizzeria in northern Italy at the weekend when she went outside to smoke a cigarette with her boyfriend was found on Thursday wandering in the woods, Italian police said.

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Now comes further evidence of this effect. Two days ago, economists Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund published an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examining the ratio of male to female births in “U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean, and Asian Indian parents.” Among whites, the boy-girl ratio was essentially constant, regardless of the number of kids in a family or how many of them were girls. In the Asian-American sample, the boy-girl ratio started out at the same norm: 1.05 to 1. But among families whose first child was a girl, the boy-girl ratio among second kids went up to 1.17 to 1. And if the first two kids were girls, the boy-girl ratio among third kids went up to 1.5 to 1. This 50 percent increase in male probability is directly contrary to the trend among whites, who tend to produce a child of the same sex as the previous child.

There’s no plausible innocent explanation for this enormous and directionally abnormal shift in probability. The authors conclude that the numbers are “evidence of sex selection, most likely at the prenatal stage.”

If you think of yourself as a techno-progressive—someone who believes, as Barack Obama does, that “maximizing the power of technology” will help fix everything from energy to the environment to health care—the increase in sex selection should give you pause.

Technology can facilitate regression as easily as it facilitates progress.

Oh, really? Imagine that.

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I am not making this up.

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Remember when Russians, outside of the Communist Party, were terminally poor?

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Imagine that.

As schools struggle more than they have in decades to fund their core operations, many are looking to a rich pool of so-called restricted gifts — held in endowments whose donors often provide firm instructions on how their money should be spent.

In other words, the arrogance of academics is exceeded only by their dishonesty. No surprises here.