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Which of the many “Bush tactics” that Obama has embraced are we talking about here?

President Obama has issued signing statements claiming the authority to bypass dozens of provisions of bills enacted into law since he took office, provoking mounting criticism by lawmakers from both parties.

Why, how Bushitler of him. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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Remember that the next time you watch one of those stupid action/adventure movies.

1. No, the CIA and the military don’t get the latest and greatest equipment. Typically their stuff is 20 years out of date, and was provided by the lowest bidder.

2. No, you can’t plunge through a plate glass window without getting cut all to shit. Ask an ER doctor if you don’t believe me.

3. No, not even Steven Segal can beat six armed opponents with bare hands. Don’t try this at home.

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The image of Ian Fleming’s character has also been good for morale in the service, said Sir Colin McColl, who ran MI6 from 1989 to 1994.

They get James Bond, we get the Obama Apology Tour. *sigh*

Arnold Kling is always worth reading.

Consider the following definition of freedom: the absence of monopoly.

The absence of monopoly means that you can exercise exit, even if you cannot exercise voice. The presence of monopoly means that, at most, you can exercise voice.

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You know why.

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Israeli and Belgian lawyers acting for Eyal Katorza, who is also a French citizen, are preparing a legal case demanding that the EU does more to protect the 300,000 Europeans living in Israel.

Legal documents, seen by The Daily Telegraph, have accused the EU of indirectly funding Palestinian terrorism because of a failure to “prevent the misuse of European funds by non-profit organisations which use these funds to finance terrorism”.

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Check it out.

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California could get nine House seats it doesn’t deserve because illegal aliens will be counted in 2010.

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A look at “salad bar” evolutionists.

A brief analysis of human social behavior would conclude that there is a strong selective pressure against pacifism, especially absolute and unconditional pacifism. Those social groups whose political institutions are based on pacifism will sooner or later be confronted and overcome by groups that observe no such restrictions on violence.

Neither great intelligence nor advanced technology is required to defeat a pacifist polity. Fists, cudgels, and knives are more than enough to put an end to a people that refuses to defend itself.

This isn’t rocket science. A few minutes’ application of basic logic leads inexorably to this conclusion. So why does pacifism as a political ideal continue to enjoy such a pervasive vogue amongst left-leaning literati in all Western societies?

The obvious explanation is that pacifism — like all the other destructive ideologies of the Left — is nurtured under the roof of Western military might. Pacifists are free to dispense their noxious fumes because they are hothouse flowers, and would be unable to survive as a political movement in the cold world outside.

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“You’re a fraud, you have not read the bill,” screamed Mike Sola, who got directly in the lawmaker’s face in furious confrontation, wheeling his 36-year-old son, Scott, who has cerebral palsy, directly to the podium before police stepped in and encouraged the Milan, Mich., man to leave. He asserted that the bill would not help his disabled child.

“Fascist America,” Mr. Sola screamed on his way out.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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You can find anything on the Internet.

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I am not making this up.

Darwin Award.

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The zebra crossing which featured on the cover of The Beatles’ Abbey Road album should be removed because fans are causing too many accidents, politicians have claimed.

Whoa, this is a valuable national resource–dimwitted fans ought to be encouraged to use it so as to remove their defective genes from the gene pool. Politicians never think things through.

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Although not, of course, the question of who actually wrote his plays.

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Indeed, it’s already happening. Remember: Except for Lake Woebegone, half of the population is below average, by definition.

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In the last few years, I have had the opportunity to compare the human and veterinary health services of Great Britain, and on the whole it is better to be a dog.

Just think: In the Obama Nation, we could have this same situation in the U.S.

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I am not making this up.

Didn’t realize that Muhammad Ali had an ancestral home in Ireland, did you?

Neither did I.

I do notice that Muhammad Ali would appear to pass the brown paper bag test, though.

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Of course, a hundred years ago this would not have been worthy of comment.

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But, of course, they would say that, wouldn’t they?

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Don’t believe the surrender-monkeys.

Peggy Noonan looks at the Obama Nation.

They must know at this point they should not have pushed a national health-care plan. A Democratic operative the other day called it “Hillary’s revenge.” When Mrs. Clinton started losing to Barack Obama in the primaries 18 months ago, she began to give new and sharper emphasis to her health-care plan. Mr. Obama responded by talking about his health-care vision. He won. Now he would push what he had been forced to highlight: Health care would be a priority initiative. The net result is falling support for his leadership on the issue, falling personal polls, and the angry town-hall meetings that have electrified YouTube.

Guess Democrats aren’t really into that whole democracy thing.

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Add a 50-cal mount and I’m there.

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No animals were harmed in the making of this phone.

Mencius Moldbug reveals the truth.

UR can deliver this remarkable savings in both time and tuition because, and only because, our “economics” is an entirely different product from the standard academic sausage. We’ve considered changing the word – but this feels hokey. It also conceals our feeling that (a) for most customers, UR’s “economics” is a more than satisfying replacement for 20th-century industrial numerology; and (b) our version is far closer to the original artisanal craft.

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Well, maybe — you still need to put it on a level surface. But my Y chromasome likes it.

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Gee, I wonder why.

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Some people are bad to the bone. Or perhaps bad to the uncinate fasciculus. Brain scans of the uncinate fasciculus (UF) found distinct differences in psychopaths.

Steve Sailer fisks Dalton Conley’s NYT op-ed.

Personally, I suspect that the main reason that poor people are less likely to pay back their mortgages than rich people is because poor people tend to have less money than rich people, but, then, I’m not the Dean of Social Sciences at NYU like Dalton Conley, so what do I know?

Decades of government programs to make homeownership “affordable” only succeeded by 2007 in making homeownership insanely unaffordable, so I guess the plan is to replace the word “affordable” with the word “attainable” and then just rerun the same old stuff.

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Or ought to be, if the “progressives” can be persuaded to stop attempting to turn the clock back to the Middle Ages.

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How Britain is turning into Londonistan under its Labour government.

Megan McArdle says all that really needs to be said on the subject.

Whether a dish was dreamed up by Mario Batali or the staff at the Cheesecake Factory, preventing people from having it “for their own good” still represents an actual hedonic loss, as well as an actual loss of freedom.  You may think they have some meta-self which will thank you later, but their current self has still had both its liberty and its joy restricted.  Invoking the demon food scientists of agribusiness does not actually relieve you of the obligation to prove that intervening in the liberty of both the customers and the company is morally pressing.

Ultimately, the answer to “what could it hurt”? is that all actions have costs, which you cannot assume away on the grounds that those costs don’t interest you.  But they should interest you, because not least among those costs is the simple fact that the government cannot do everything well.  Making all sorts of changes in the name of obesity means not making others that might be more important, because we have limited political and bureaucratic bandwith.  Do you want obesity intervention, cap and trade, or health care reform?  You may not be able to have any of them.  But you probably can’t have all three.  And if you did, you’d make it more likely that the government would screw all of them up.

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A cartoon expressing disappointment that Lucy Obama has pulled the football away just as Charlie Brown the fringe Left was going to kick it.

x <- world’s smallest violin etc.

Richard Cohen in the Washington Post.

Hell has officially frozen over.

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As rumors swirled that Mr. Chen’s employer, Jianlong Group, planned to shed workers, a group of them found the 41-year-old executive and beat him severely, battering his skull. Workers blocked streets near the factory and hurled bricks, preventing police and paramedics from reaching Mr. Chen.

Bet the Teamsters were just red with envy.

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Hillary had three. Laura only had one. How many does Michelle have? 23.

But Michelle is married to the Magic Negro. She is the Negro American Princess.

Even more than being a NAP, Michelle is a product of the Cook County political machine. Her whine about being a second-class citizen would be a joke were it not (a) such a big fat lie, and (b) so damaging to our social fabric.

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I’d buy one.

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Indeed — God forbid that anybody in Britain might learn self-defense.

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What if China had hobbits?

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Proof positive that New York is an entirely separate country.

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Indeed, one can find anything on the Internet.

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Women’s difficulty in reading maps and men’s uselessness in finding things under their noses could be explained by new research, scientists claim.

For, lo, what would we do without scientists?