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It has been sought for centuries but remained a mystery, still out of reach. Now an expert has pinpointed a site that could be Atahualpa’s resting place: the last Inca emperor’s tomb.

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The James Baker family wants to stop the cancer-causing emissions floating into their home during their neighbors’ patio smoking breaks.

“We’re just saying, ‘please don’t poison us,’” James Baker said. “Can you smoke inside your home? The reason they don’t want to do that is because they don’t want their family breathing it in. But it’s okay for your neighbor?”

Well, yeah, if they’re a bunch of fascists like these swine.

Kelly and her two sons, ages 11 and 16, have asthma. After l0 years of being surrounded by smoking neighbors, Kelly said her children have become sicker.

So move to Arizona. I guarantee that the cost of living will be lower.

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 The Budget Act of 1974 requires the House and Senate to meet certain deadlines, culminating in the adoption of a budget resolution. The Republican House has obeyed the law, but the Democratic Senate has thumbed its nose at the statute, illegally refusing to meet any of the statutory deadlines or to adopt any budget at all for the last three years.

The Senate’s scofflaw ways are shared by the Obama administration. Federal law requires the Medicare trustees to report annually on the solvency of the Medicare program. The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 further provides that if, for two years in a row, more than 45% of Medicare funding is coming from general revenues rather than Medicare taxes, the president must submit legislation to Congress to address the Medicare funding crisis. President Bush dutifully followed the law, but President Obama has ignored it for the last three years.

Today was the deadline for Obama to comply with the Medicare Modernization Act by submitting a plan to rescue Medicare’s finances. Obama, of course, has no intention of doing anything to reform entitlements. So, for the fourth year in a row, he chose to act illegally. He did nothing.

Earlier today, I was on a call with Senator Jeff Sessions, and I asked what can be done to hold the Democrats accountable for their wanton law-breaking. Unfortunately, the statutes in question contain no sanctions or enforcement mechanisms. The only real recourse is to public opinion. For that recourse to be meaningful, Americans would need to know that their president and the Democratic Senate believe that they need comply with the law only when it is convenient for them. Unfortunately, the press has no interest in publicizing the fact that the Democrats are scofflaws. So the Democrats ignore the law, secure in the knowledge that their secret is safe with the national media.

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

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“Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school,” Fluke told the hearing.

$3,000 for birth control in three years? That’s a thousand dollars a year of sex – and, she wants us to pay for it.

Where were these chicks when I was in law school? Sheesh, talk about born too soon….

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Perhaps you have heard of taqiyya, the Muslim doctrine that allows lying in certain circumstances, primarily when Muslim minorities live under infidel authority. Now meet tawriya, a doctrine that allows lying in virtually all circumstances—including to fellow Muslims and by swearing to Allah—provided the liar is creative enough to articulate his deceit in a way that is true to him. (Though tawriya is technically not “new”—as shall be seen, it has been part of Islamic law and tradition for centuries—it is certainly new to most non-Muslims, hence the need for this exposition and the word “new” in the title.)

The authoritative Hans Wehr Arabic-English Dictionary defines tawriya as, “hiding, concealment; dissemblance, dissimulation, hypocrisy; equivocation, ambiguity, double-entendre, allusion.” Conjugates of the trilateral root of the word, w-r-y, appear in the Quran in the context of hiding or concealing something (e.g., 5:31, 7:26).

As a doctrine, “double-entendre” best describes tawriya’s function. According to past and present Muslim scholars (several documented below), tawriya is when a speaker says something that means one thing to the listener, though the speaker means something else, and his words technically support this alternate meaning.

Being a Muslim is like belonging to the Mafia: Rules only apply to others in your group; anything goes with outsiders.

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Fast-food giant McDonald’s has taken ownership of France’s signature bread and decided to start dishing up burgers in baguettes.

McDo, as the French call it, is trying to appeal to more upscale diners by mixing their famous beef burgers with French-made Emmental cheese and mustard.

Starting in April, the 1,228 McDonald’s restaurants across France will feature the limited edition McBaguette.

I am not making this up.

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‘Oh, we can’t possibly leave funding of the arts up to the private sector. The government has to provide the money, otherwise the arts will languish and all of us artsy people will have to get real jobs.’

An interesting point made by Carl Franzen, looking at the continued growth of Kickstarter raising funds for content creators, is that the site is expected to surpass the amount of funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts this year. They’re expecting to break $150 million (this past year it was closer to $80 million), while the NEA has $146 million to give out. Obviously, there are all sorts of differences between the two, but as a milestone, it seems interesting and noteworthy.

No shit.

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Gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus in the northern Pakistani district of Kohistan in an apparent sectarian attack on Tuesday, killing 18 people, police officials said.

When there aren’t any Jews or Americans handy, Muslims will quite cheerfully murder each other.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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

1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Oh, wait, it already is.

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We have the technology.

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In a twist on typical union activity, employees of the National Labor Relations Board are accusing their bosses of treating them unfairly. NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce and Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon are facing resistance as they attempt to limit the amount of on-the-job time unionized employees can spend on union business, and on attending seminars and other meetings.

The biter bit. God forbid that they should actually do the work they’re getting paid for rather than union business.

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No surprises here. Ron Paul appears completely ignorant of the existential threat to Western civilization posed by Islam. (Unfortunately, most politically active libertarians share the same blind spot.)

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

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Not that the world-savers care. They’ve got a notion in their heads and there’s no intruding reality into it.

It has been said that the worst part of being poor in the US is having to live next to other poor people.  A huge part of this is that people outside the upper middle class and upper classes aren’t allowed to maintain control over their own neighborhoods.  Hell, under high diversity, they can’t even maintain soft power by controlling normative behavior.   And if this isn’t bad enough, the SWPL/DWL crowd even supports stuffing Section 8 residents into whatever lower income neighborhoods are too functional for their tastes.

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Placing his belongings, including a scarf, into a tray to pass through the X-ray scanner he spotted a Muslim woman in hijab pass through the area without showing her face.

In a light-hearted aside to a security official who had been assisting him, he said: “If I was wearing this scarf over my face, I wonder what would happen.”

The quip proved to be a mistake. After passing through the gates, he was confronted by staff and accused of racism.

Fisking the minions of the Obamassiah, the Koch brothers turn over a rock and watch the Democrats squirm.

Because every American has the right to take part in the public discourse on matters that affect the future of our country, I feel compelled to respond directly about a fundraising letter you sent out on February 24 denouncing Koch. It is both surprising and disappointing that the President would allow his re-election team to send such an irresponsible and misleading letter to his supporters.

For example, it is false that our “business model is to make millions by jacking up prices at the pump.” Our business vision begins and ends with value creation — real, long-term value for customers and for society. We own no gasoline stations and the part of our business you allude to, oil and gas refining, actually lowers the price of gasoline by increasing supply. Either you simply misunderstand the way commodities markets work or you are misleading your supporters and the rest of the American people.

I’d call it deliberate bald-faced lies, myself, but one can’t rule out mind-numbing stupidity. Neither is in short supply in the Democratic Party.

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Unlike conventional silicon, the new chip uses light — not electricity — to perform its logic. By creating an array of nano-rods, light-flow can be treated like voltage and current. These rods can then be configured to emulate electrical components such as resistors, inductors and capacitors.

We have the technology — or soon will.

Lileks.

In the old days, kids would roam from dawn to dusk, and Mom would pack them a lunch and a .45 and say “Be back by August.” Now we overreact.

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New York City has eight specialized high schools whose admission is based entirely on the results of an entrance exam, a meritocratic system that does not consider race or ethnicity. The top score on the exam is 800. In recent years, the cutoff for Stuyvesant has been around 560; Rudi scored 594.

Earning a spot at Stuyvesant is unquestionably a badge of honor, sort of a secret knock to an exclusive club. As high school admissions decisions are revealed across the city in the coming week, many people are concerned that it is a club that black students — and, to a similar extent, Latinos — have an increasingly hard time cracking.

Entrance based on merit? How did that happen in New York City? This is the New York Times, after all; the real miracle is that it is being written about at all.

No one claims that the disparity is caused by overt discrimination. But in a school that is devised to attract the best of the best, parents and educators alike find the demographics troubling. It has become a question of perception as to who belongs.

They don’t quite say ‘women and minorities hardest hit’, but you know they’re thinking it.

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Dick Cheney, funded by George W. Bush, parachutes into your house and rips it out of your hand, pummeling you with the bottle before calling in the Men in Black. (I heard it from a Ron Paul supporter, so you know it has to be true.)

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As of earlier this month, commuters waiting for the next train on Philadelphia’s platforms have been able to shop for groceries by opening the Peapod app and scanning barcodes on a sign.

Scott Johnson points and laughs.

I’m pretty sure that the algae angle would have earned a Republican president hoots of derision and charges of detachment from the real America in the spirit of the mythical story of George Bush’s wonderment at supermarket scanners. The story of Bush’s wonderment, it cannot be stated too often, was fabricated by the New York Times. By contrast, Obama’s support for the transubstantiation of pond scum is in the text of his big energy speech. (The Times mentioned it in the third-to-the last paragraph of Mark Landler’s story.)

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As mentioned here a few days ago, a new “grooming and pimping” trial is currently underway at Liverpool Crown Court.

This is one of the largest cases of its kind ever to come to trial. The total number of defendants in the case is said to be 47, eleven of whom are currently on trial. The behavior of the alleged perpetrators was so heinous and brutal, and the victims of rape and trafficking so young, that the trial looks to be a national sensation in Britain over the next few weeks or months.

What may transform the case from a sensation into the cause of mass unrest is the fact that the perpetrators were all Muslims of Pakistani descent, and their victims were all white girls, some of them as young as thirteen.

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

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A North Stamford father trying to make his 11-year-old son listen to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech last month was arrested on a warrant Wednesday, accused of striking his son with a coffee mug when the boy would not pay attention.

Who would dare touch his child in such a fashion? Must be a Republican … or worse.

Mohamed Shohan, 49, of 55 Mather Road, Stamford, was charged with third-degree assault, disorderly conduct and risk of injury to a minor. He was released after posting $5,000 bond for arraignment at state Superior Court in Stamford.

Oh, wait…. Well, I guess we know who the Muslim candidate for the next Presidential election is.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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

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Iran has called Israel a “one bomb state,” meaning one nuclear bomb could effectively end the existence of the tiny, New Jersey-sized nation. Israel has a population of 7.8 million people. Some 42 percent of the population live in the Tel Aviv metro area.

And this is why it will come as no surprise if Israel does a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

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Lileks.

Face it: As long as you’re going to live around other members of your fellow species, you’ll be annoyed. You’re annoyed with me already for not getting to the point. I’m annoyed with your lack of patience.

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The US is often talked about as a major supporter of the “free market,” but as we’ve seen over and over again what we have is really crony capitalism, with lots of efforts being made to protect certain industries through regulation. This hasn’t gone unnoticed. The Economist has an article more or less mocking the US for pretending to be all about small government free markets, while really being buried in pointless, confusing and unnecessary regulations:

    But red tape in America is no laughing matter. The problem is not the rules that are self-evidently absurd. It is the ones that sound reasonable on their own but impose a huge burden collectively. America is meant to be the home of laissez-faire. Unlike Europeans, whose lives have long been circumscribed by meddling governments and diktats from Brussels, Americans are supposed to be free to choose, for better or for worse. Yet for some time America has been straying from this ideal.

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

To legislators, creating legislation is the only hammer in their toolbox, so they see every issue as a nail, even when that’s rarely the case. And that hubris of being able to create perfect legislation to account for every eventuality is the opening for the lobbyists. Politicians who want to think through every possibility ask the lobbyists to help — and the lobbyists then have every opportunity to tilt the playing field to their clients, and against the public interest. And that’s exactly what happens all too often.

I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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Comment: Now, could we please stop talking about how we need more taxes to pay for roads and bridges or to help the poor? The main function of our government is to write checks to middle-class and wealthy voters. And that’s the reason its finances are in the toilet.

Gone to goldbricks, every one….

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Chris Christie on Warren Buffet: The gift that keeps on giving.

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At least two Americans were killed inside the interior ministry in Kabul, a senior Afghan police official said Saturday.

According to the International Security Assistance Force, initial reports indicated that “an individual” turned his weapon against NATO service members.

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

“They were part of the advisory mission there,” the official said. “At this stage we can’t say why they were killed.”

Possibly the only one in the world who can’t. (1) They weren’t Muslim and (2) they were American.

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Well, you know, they don’t want to rush into anything.

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And about time, too.

The breakthrough at the heart of what her group’s ISSCC paper defines as “fully autonomous implantable systems with locomotion” was how to wirelessly supply power to a tiny chip that can swim in your blood – or in any fluid, for that matter. Simply put, earlier assumptions about how electromagnetic power would traverse human tissue were wrong.

It had been assumed for years that the high-frequency waves required for antennas small enough to fit on an intraveneous voyager would be absorbed by muscles, guts, and other innards, but Poon’s research discovered that not to be the case.

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‘What “key 50% mark”?’, I hear you ask. The key 50% mark at which the tax-eaters outnumber the tax-payers. That’s the tipping point at which the  tax-payers realize that theirs is a losing demographic, and so the rush to go from tax-payer to tax-eater becomes a flood, and the system slides every faster into bankruptcy, at which point the starving masses are willing to do anything to keep the wolf from the door, and so the New World Order arises in waves of blood and iron.

Mark my words. It’s coming. And it probably speaks Arabic.

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 I think it gets it exactly right, that while both Santorum and Obama say that marriage is between a man and a woman only, everybody knows that only Santorum actually means it, and Obama is just saying so.

We seem to have discovered a moral hazard that is really, really hazardous and arguably not very moral either.  It would be funny if it weren’t so sad that the descendants of the people who brought us prohibition should now have done so much to create a society where the men sit around and play video games and the women work and have babies the fathers of whom are long gone (see above) in ever increasing numbers.  And the solution to this is somehow that we all should subsidize the already dirt cheap Pill (presumably because cigarettes and lottery tickets are so expensive).  And all this somehow follows from hygiene.  Very strange.  It’s all as clean and sterile as a condom still in its foil wrapper and as pastel as diaphram case and yet it ends up with a 4 month old whose daiper hasn’t been changed in two days.  Go figure.  But here I am being naive.  I am forgetting that the solution to failed policy is always more of the same.

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No, it’s not a joke involving Armenians.

2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s still on my list.

8. I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not so sure.

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New Jersey: “The state Department of Environmental Protection requires permits and engineering work totaling $12,000 before the township can pull a tree out of a creek near Pittstown, Committeeman Scott Bauman told the Township Committee on Feb. 9.” The tree fell on private property and is causing a drainage problem by obstructing the creek.

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Don’t say we never have useful stuff here.

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Not even a Communist dictatorship can make trains useful.

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I think I may need a new category: The UN — Money Well Spent.

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Liam Aitchison, 16, was found dead in a derelict building in the Steinish area of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in November.

His death was later raised during a newspaper review section on the Wright Stuff show.

He put on a Scottish accent and said ”there’s been another murder”, copying a phrase from TV detective show Taggart, while talking about the teenager’s death with guest Charlie Baker in December last year.

His remarks prompted 2,358 complaints to Ofcom from viewers of the broadcast on December 6.

A statement issued on behalf of Liam’s family at the time said the comments were ”very upsetting”, ”insulting” and ”insensitive”.

To begin with, it wasn’t a news show, it was a talk show, and these Sensitive Souls need to get over themselves. If they don’t like the way the guy does his show, don’t watch. Eventually his ratings will go down enough that he’ll be canned — if enough people agree with them. If not, too bad; don’t watch it.

The more important point, however, is that however much this might be a matter between the guy who made the remarks and his employer, it is most certainly no legitimate business of a government agency.

The reason it’s worth thinking about is, that Britain is about a year farther down the path to cultural toiletry than we are, and if something stupid is happening in Britain, we have a limited amount of warning before it shows up on our shores.

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

So, why would you invest in getting trained (typically, on your own dime), when executives have been boasting to Wall Street for years about how they’ll offshore your future job the moment you start to make real money?

Indeed.

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A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation Sunday near Ehrhardt, S.C.

Imagine that.

Steve Hindi, president of SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness), said his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when law enforcement officers and an attorney claiming to represent the privately-owned plantation near Ehrhardt tried to stop the aircraft from flying.

“It didn’t work; what SHARK was doing was perfectly legal,” Hindi said in a news release. “Once they knew nothing was going to stop us, the shooting stopped and the cars lined up to leave.”

In other words, they were a bunch of shits devoted to sticking their noses into other people’s business — their citizenship may be American, but their hearts are European.

He said the animal rights group decided to send the drone up anyway.

“Seconds after it hit the air, numerous shots rang out,” Hindi said in the release. “As an act of revenge for us shutting down the pigeon slaughter, they had shot down our copter.”

Quelle domage.

He claimed the shooters were “in tree cover” and “fled the scene on small motorized vehicles.”

Laughing like loons all the way, I’m sure.

“This was SHARK’s first encounter with the Broxton Bridge Plantation, but it will certainly not be the last,” Hindi said in the release. “We are already making plans for a considerably upscaled action in 2013.”

Perhaps the next time higher caliber weapons will make their appearance. I should think a drone an even more challenging target than a clay pigeon. Just sayin’.

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An appointee to the United Nations Human Rights Council has issued a four-page memo warning Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson that local officials could be violating the human rights of the homeless people living within the city. In the January 23rd dated letter, Catarina De Albuquerque, the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation for the United Nations human right council, says that the current policy of evicting the homeless from their “tent cities” and denying the homeless with safe access to clean water is, in effect, prohibited discrimination based on their economic and social status.

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That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

On the other hand … if they succeed in blowing up David Cameron, perhaps the Conservative Party might actually get a Real Conservative leader for a change. It could happen.

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Some analysts (including myself), when pondering the Obama decision to reject Canada’s application to build a pipeline from Alberta to the Gulf coast, have laid the blame at the feet of the environmental movement and political operatives within the Obama administration. I’ve speculated that the decision was purely political, and I presumed it was driven by the intense urge to shove a thumb in the eye of Congressional Republicans. Turns out, I was wrong.

Now we know that the decision to reject the Keystone pipeline really came down to the desires of one ultra-wealthy person: Susie Tompkins Buell, a leading donor to Democrats….

Democrats: Party of the Rich, although you’re not supposed to know that.