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Never mind the insane and arcane details. The big picture is that the world’s countries have built a great tax maze by competing to offer the most attractive rates to multinational companies, and the most sophisticated firms know how to navigate the labyrinth. It’s not unlike a shopping pro using coupons, sales, and return policies to pay bottom price at competing electronic stores — except at a much more complex and international level.

The reaction to the Times story has been fraught with indignation. But readers on every side of the federal tax debate ought to get used to this sort of thing. Yes, it’s frustrating, and yes, it’s morally debatable. But no matter what, U.S. multinationals are going to make most of their money overseas. No matter what, they’re going to use (legal) overseas loopholes to hide their money from our relatively high corporate tax rate. And, no matter what, we’re not going to see the vast majority of this money. And maybe we shouldn’t. Apple is an American company, but it makes two-thirds of its money overseas and its Asian market is growing almost three times faster than the American market.

Who wins in this system? Not the U.S. government, which is poorer for our efforts to have a high marginal tax rate that drives money out of the country. Not Apple and other multinationals, whose business plans are shaped by tax arcana rather than endogenous business strategies. And not Americans, who benefit neither from the tax money we don’t see nor the domestic investments we don’t get.

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Boyer describes his course as an “Intro to the Planet” that brings “the average completely uninformed American” up to speed on world issues. His approach? Decentralize the rigid class format by recreating assessment as a gamelike system in which students earn points for completing assignments of their choosing from many options (1,050 points earns an A, and no tasks, not even exams, are required). Saturate students with Facebook and Twitter updates (some online pop quizzes are announced only on social media). Keep the conversation going with online office hours.

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The decapitated body of a “gentle and caring” British aid worker has been found almost four months after he was kidnapped in Pakistan with all the hallmarks of a Taliban execution, police said.

I guess ‘gentle and caring’ aren’t Muslim values, either.

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

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There’s a reason why most would-be politicians start by running for lesser offices, as Massachusetts Democrats are finding to their chagrin this spring, as their anointed US Senate candidate springs one unpleasant surprise after another.

The Warren campaign is becoming an excellent illustration of the Cerberus-like combination of government, academia, and the media that Mencius Moldbug used to call The Cathedral.

Last week, news broke that Harvard Law had cited Warren as a minority hire — a Native American — when it was under criticism for lack of faculty diversity in 1996. Asked Friday for proof of her Indian ancestry, Warren’s said it’s part of her family “lore.”

Of course, one must be a member of a fashionable minority if possible. Don’t bother us with pesky facts.

Better a Native American than a ‘white Hispanic’, presumably.

When the campaign began, The Boston Globe saluted Warren for her “rise from poverty” as a child in Oklahoma City. Since then, as the truth has trickled out, the narrative has evolved. Goodbye poverty, hello to “the jagged edge of the middle class.”

We’ve learned that, by 1965, Elizabeth’s family had three cars, including a white MG that the hard-scrabble Native American drove daily to her tony high school. Still, the Globe insisted, the MG was “beat up.”

Well, that’s all right, then. That surely qualifies as Working Class. Don’t bother us with pesky facts.

Last Friday, she released four years of tax returns. Over those four years, Warren and her husband, another Harvard Law prof, averaged $300,000 more than Sen. Brown and his spouse, a TV anchor. In 2009, the Warrens made $981,000 vs. the Browns’ $249,000.

Even the Globe had to admit that Warren was “in the top 1 percent of earners” — ironic, considering her bragging that she provided the “intellectual foundations” of Occupy Wall Street.

Hey, it doesn’t matter who you really are, what matters is who you want to be. Don’t bother us with pesky facts.

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EVE Online’s largest economic hub is currently under attack by a massive alliance of the game’s most ruthless players, infamously known as “Goonswarm,” and they may succeed in damaging it. For those who haven’t heard of it, EVE is a gargantuan space-based MMO from developer CCP Games that’s been home to several rich tales of high-stakes drama since it launched in 2003. The open-ended game is like a Lockean dreamworld in its no-security (“null-sec”) areas, that are open to scamming, murder, corporate espionage, economic manipulation, ruthless warmongering, and mind-boggling heists. But many of EVE’s law abiding players stay within safe high-security (“hi-sec”) areas that have mostly protected them from null-sec raiders, much to the chagrin of Goonswarm and its allies. According to some players, many of those in null-sec, including Goonswarm and its leader, resent hi-sec’s existence and aim to force their vision of the game on hi-sec players (who they insultingly refer to as “empire dwellers”). To accomplish that, they’re waging economic warfare and aiming to strike fear into all those who play in hi-sec space.

Following a 30-day ban that resulted from his efforts to mock a suicidal player, Goonswarm leader Alexander “The Mittani” Gianturco is leading “Burn Jita:” an attack on hi-sec space that’s intended to crash the game’s market for an important resource and cut off trillions of player-made assets through blockades. Eurogamer reports that The Mittani and his team of over 1,500 players have spent months planning the Jita attack, and have built an army of 15,000 small, single-purpose suicide ships that render the protection of Hi-sec’s AI police useless. So far, they’ve destroyed thousands of ships, and continue to attack vessels in hi-sec space — but it’s not clear if the attack has succeeded in crashing the market, as conflicting reports about its stability have surfaced on the web.

One of the most glaring defects of the ‘progressive’ worldview, to which ‘progressives’ are functionally blind but which appears to Real World People™ as a great gaping hole, is the inability to accept that there are evil people in the world, and that these evil people not only act to work evil on everybody else but also combine in groups whose major reason for existing is to make those evil works more effective. This is a fairly blatant example of such a dynamic, which has the virtue of all simulations in that it leaves behind the clutter of daily details and thus makes more stark the operation of underlying principles.

As in real life, those who work to create dystopias for their own benefit nevertheless realize (whether consciously or unconsciously) that a well-ordered and peaceful society is superior to the world that they strive to make (and far too often succeed), and so are eaten up with envy and hatred that just reinforces their evil tendencies. One of the most attractive features of The Lord of the Rings is that the struggle between these monsters and the rest of creation is perennial and ongoing, and that those who try to ignore it only make the triumph of evil more certain.

The resemblance between this operation against the hi-sec space Jita and the ongoing jihad against Western civilization ought to be sufficiently obvious as to require no comment.

While other MMO developers would likely prevent such a scenario from occurring, CCP welcomes Goonswarm’s efforts. EVE Online senior producer Jon Lander tells Eurogamer that Goonswarm “is going to do exactly what you’re able to do in the game, and people will have to roll with it” — he says the attack on Jita is “absolutely brilliant.” And lead game designer Kistoffer Touborg tells Eurogamer that “we want people to be able to do this. If Goonswarm want to do it, we want them to do it and we want them to have a great time doing it.” Touborg adds that “the worst thing we could do is to stop it happening… it would be against everything we stand for.”

In other words, just as with real life, there is no grown-up who is going to step in at the last minute and make sure of a happy ending.

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Almost every technological and medical innovation in the world has its roots in a scientific paper. Science drives much of the world’s innovation. The faster science moves, the faster the world moves.

Progress in science right now is being held back by two key inefficiencies:

• The time-lag problem: there is a time-lag of, on average, 12 months between finishing a paper, and it being published.
• The single mode of publication problem: scientists share their ideas only via one format, the scientific paper, and don’t take advantage of the full range of media that the web makes possible.

The stakes are high. If these inefficiencies can be removed, science would accelerate tremendously. A faster science would lead to faster innovation in medicine and technology. Cancer could be cured 2-3 years sooner than it otherwise would be, which would save millions of lives.

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Actually, they’re just breathing hard. And eventually they’ll get over it, because, like the ‘occupy’ movement, their generation has endemic ADHD, and soon another squirrel will cross their paths, and then — all gone, leaving nothing behind but a monumental pile of trash that the grownups will have to clean up, at taxpayer expense.

Nothing better illustrates the ‘graphic novel approach to life’ adopted by far too many of the post-Boomer proletariat than this silly petition.

For one thing, the right in question belongs, not to the corporation as such, to the management of the corporation as agents for the shareholders. So there’s no ‘there’ there — no attribute of a corporation qua corporation to remove. Just as your attorney can spend money on your behalf on political speech in exercise of your First Amendment right, so can a corporation, acting on behalf of the shareholders, individual citizens, in exercise of their First Amendment rights.

(The question whether the shareholders want ‘their’ corporation to exercise their First Amendment rights in any particular individual manner is a question of corporate governance, not of Constitutional right. This is what happens when people not trained in the law attempt attempt political action based on a misapprehension — the problem ain’t what they know, but what they ‘know’ that ain’t so.)

For another thing, that a corporation is in law a person is of the essence of the corporate form of doing business. Wipe that out, and we return to the quasi-partnership joint stock arrangements that were the best that people could do before the Industrial Revolution (which the corporate form was a key ingredient in fostering). So our kiddies are not only ignorant of the law, they are also appallingly ignorant of both history and economics. Somehow that doesn’t surprise me.

This is what comes of sending your kids to government schools: A lot of indignation, but no real knowledge.

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The war on Christianity and its adherents rages on in the Muslim world. In March alone, Saudi Arabia’s highest Islamic law authority decreed that churches in the region must be destroyed; jihadis in Nigeria said they “are going to put into action new efforts to strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women”; American teachers in the Middle East were murdered for talking about Christianity; churches were banned or bombed, and nuns terrorized by knife-wielding Muslim mobs. Christians continue to be attacked, arrested, imprisoned, and killed for allegedly “blaspheming” Islam’s prophet Muhammad; former Muslims continue to be attacked, arrested, imprisoned, and killed for converting to Christianity.

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Jack Berghouse doesn’t dispute that his son, a sophomore at Sequoia High School, copied someone else’s homework. But the Redwood City father believes the school district was wrong to kick his teenager out of an English honors class for the offense, and his decision to sue has embroiled the family in a public, opinionated debate.

Why not? Everybody else does it.

“I’m getting a lot of hate calls at my office,” said Berghouse, who practices family law. “I had no freaking idea this would happen.”

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

Perhaps lawyers ought not to be allowed to reproduce.

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Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of violent video games is that constantly playing them will make you a pussy. Compulsive gamers don’t experience enough real sex and violence to become grown men.

Stanley Fish has some fun with ‘literary studies’.

I was pleased to see that the program confirmed an observation I made years ago: while disciplines like physics or psychology or statistics discard projects and methodologies no longer regarded as cutting edge, if you like the way literary studies were done in 1950 or even 1930, there will be a department or a journal that allows you to proceed as if nothing had happened in the last 50 or 75 years.

Absent are the titles that in the past gave reporters an opportunity to poke fun at academics who apparently had too much time on their hands. This year the only candidate for that kind of attention is “The Material History of Spider-Man,” but given the serious study devoted to comic books in a number of disciplines, there’s not much there to ridicule. By the evidence of this program at least, literary scholars are no longer gifting critics and pundits with an open invitation to skewer them.

Once again, as in the early theory days, a new language is confidently and prophetically spoken by those in the know, while those who are not are made to feel ignorant, passed by, left behind, old. If you see a session on “Digital Humanities versus New Media” and you’re not quite sure what either term means you might think you have wandered into the wrong convention. When the notes explaining the purpose of a session on “Digital Material” include the question “Is there gravity in digital worlds?”, you might be excused for wondering whether you have become a character in a science fiction movie. And when a session’s title is “Digital Literary Studies: When Will it End?”, you might find yourself muttering, “Not soon enough.”

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“The fracture between the common traveller and the people providing the services is broken,” said Hawley, “and I’ve used the term ‘toxic,’ and I think that is dangerous to security when neither side are particularly listening to the other and I think that is what needs to be fixed.”

Of course, the obvious response is: Well, whose fargin fault is it that the TSA is resented? Hmmm?

And don’t get me started on that whole ‘security theater’ thing….

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Luke Skywalker is alive and well, but he is trapped in Cindy Sheehan’s body.

She’s baaaaack….

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‘I could have been Bill Gates, but I didn’t have the working.’

A new study offers evidence  that higher-educated (and therefore higher-earning)  Americans do indeed spend more time working and less time on leisure than poorer income groups. In fact, while income inequality may be growing, “leisure inequality” – time spent on enjoyment – is growing as a mirror image, with the low earners gaining leisure and the high earners losing.

A red herring — it’s irrelevant whether the wealthy work harder; the work they do is more valuable, in the eyes of the only people competent to judge: Those who are paying for it. Even those who pretend to be in favor of free markets have this inner compulsion to substitute their own judgments about what something is worse for that of the market in cases where what is going on seems massively ‘unfair’, but they need to get over it.

The more surprising discovery, however, is a corresponding leisure gap has opened up between the highly-educated and less-educated.  Low-educated men saw their leisure hours grow to 39.1 hours in 2003-2007, from 36.6 hours in 1985. Highly-educated men saw their leisure hours shrink to 33.2 hours from 34.4 hours.  (Mr. Hurst says that education levels are a “proxy” for incomes, since they tend to correspond).

That’s because low-educated men tend to be on welfare, be it unemployment ‘insurance’ or whatever. Let’s tell the truth, here, guys.

(The study defines leisure as time spend watching TV, socializing, playing games, talking on the phone, reading personal email, enjoying entertainment and hobbies and other activities.)

I have no doubt. Better add ‘smoking weed’ in there to be complete.

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I spoke with a woman at a recent networking event. After she finished telling me about her children, she turned the conversation to me: “Do you have kids?”

To be fair, the question wasn’t unreasonable; she was searching for a common bond, as people often do at these kinds of events. And maybe I was looking a bit haggard that night.

But this was the first time anyone had asked me that question, and my mind reeled with the possible implications: Did she think I looked older than my age? Was I giving off a maternal vibe? I didn’t know whether to scoff at her question or to make a joke of it, so I did both – and then, worried that I had come across as anti-motherhood, explained that I wasn’t married yet and kids were still a long ways off.

I usually just answer ‘Not that I know of’, but I imagine that, for a woman, that would make an awkward situation even more so. On the other hand, ‘Not any more’ would just shut the conversation down straightaway — if that’s what you’d like to do, which in many cases it might be, I gather.

Actually, the answer is just not to speak to other people, and I’m good with that.

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Churchill appreciated, as modern ‘progressives’ and their catamites do not, that rich people and their organizations are the ones that drive prosperity for everybody. Whacking them is like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs — a greedy and shortsighted strategy.

This money-gathering, credit-producing animal can not only walk—he can run.  And when frightened he can fly.  If his wings are clipped, he can dive or crawl.  When in the end he is hunted down, what is left but a very ordinary individual apologizing volubly for his mistakes, and particularly for not having been able to get away?

But meanwhile great constructions have crumbled to the ground.  Confidence is shaken and enterprise chilled, and the unemployed queue up at the soup kitchen or march out upon the public works with ever-growing expense to the taxpayer and nothing more appetizing to take home to their families than the leg or the wing of what was once a millionaire.  One quite sees that people who have got interested in this fight will not accept such arguments against their sport.  What they will have to accept is the consequences of ignoring such arguments.  It is indispensible to the wealth of nations and to the wage and life standards of labour, that capital and credit should be honoured and cherished partners in the economic system.

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Is teacher tenure a “human right”?

That’s what the head of the Nevada State Education Association seemed to suggest in a television interview last weekend.

Appearing on a local news show, NSEA President Lynn Warne said the Silver State’s new education reforms – which focus largely on teacher tenure – “really struck at the heart of what are educators’ rights, workers’ rights, human rights really.”

No doubt the next step is a complaint to the U.N. Human Rights Council (notable members: China and Cuba).

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Egyptian husbands could soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives for up to six hours after their death, local media is claiming.

The controversial new law is claimed to be part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament.

It will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding of women’s rights of getting education and employment.

Yeah, I guess that’s worth overthrowing your government. In fact, an Arab screwing a corpse sounds like a great metaphor for the Dar al-Isam throughout history.

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Because of the local government, of course — the local Democrat-controlled government, which is apparently less interested in new jobs and economic growth than they are in wetting their beaks.

But this week, Dave Porter, senior vice president for economic development at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, said those plans are now in doubt, according to The Statesman. He said the problems stem from the county government, which has allegedly been holding up the deal by asking for new conditions tied to the financial incentives.

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I suppose one can credit the Obama administration for knowing when to admit it is wrong, but one also has to wonder what it says about the administration, or the bureaucracy, that it constantly tosses out these ideas only to have them overruled. Imagine all the bad press the administration could save itself if these ideas were shut down at some earlier stage before they became official proposals, and all the time and money that could be saved if the people who sit around dreaming up these overreaches were given the opportunity to seek more productive work in the private sector.

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Not that they ever did….

This comes back to mind with the firestorm over the comments of EPA regional administrator Al Armendariz where he described his philosophy of regulatory enforcement that’s right out of Scalia’s analogy:

    “I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff about my philosophy of enforcement. It’s kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they’d go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they’d run into, and they’d crucify them and then, you know, that town was really easy to manage over the next few years.”

Of course, Armendariz should be fired immediately.  Of course, that won’t happen.  Instead, he’s issued a lame apology: “I apologize to those I have offended and regret my poor choice of words. It was an offensive and inaccurate way to portray our efforts to address potential violations of our nation’s environmental laws.”  Yes, it was offensive, but it was a highly accurate description.  His only mistake was candor.  The White House is backpedalling just as fast as it can, but Jay Carney has become an especially unconvincing liar.

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Over the years, there had been a number of incidents at Bedia in which individuals had felt misunderstood, mistreated, or disrespected. Eventually, someone sued.

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

All it takes is one I’m-the-victim whiner and your diversity training (and the expense of it) goes down the drain.

Diversity training doesn’t extinguish prejudice. It promotes it.

No shit. Nothing solidifies prejudice like making a big deal out of it — as, say, diversity training does.

A study of 829 companies over 31 years showed that diversity training had “no positive effects in the average workplace.” Millions of dollars a year were spent on the training resulting in, well, nothing. Attitudes — and the diversity of the organizations — remained the same.

It gets worse. The researchers — Frank Dobbin of Harvard, Alexandra Kalev of Berkeley, and Erin Kelly of the University of Minnesota — concluded that “In firms where training is mandatory or emphasizes the threat of lawsuits, training actually has negative effects on management diversity.”

Nothing solidifies prejudice like making a big deal out of it — as, say, diversity training does.

But it’s deeper than that. When people divide into categories to illustrate the idea of diversity, it reinforces the idea of the categories.

Which, if you think about it, is the essential problem of prejudice in the first place. People aren’t prejudiced against real people; they’re prejudiced against categories. “Sure, John is gay,” they’ll say, “but he’s not like other gays.” Their problem isn’t with John, but with gay people in general.

But the ‘experts’ either don’t know that (they’re ignorant) or won’t admit it (they’re prejudiced — there’s irony for you).

Categories are dehumanizing. They simplify the complexity of a human being. So focusing people on the categories increases their prejudice.

And making a big deal out of ‘diversity’ just demonstrates to people that they live and work with a lot of strangers, because if you didn’t, nobody would make a big deal of diversity. ‘Let’s celebrate the fact that we have all these minorities here!’ merely causes people to focus on how many minorities you have here. This is not a strategy destined for success.

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We have the technology … to be real assholes.

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

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The majority of state school teachers are refusing to advise their brightest pupils to apply to Oxbridge because they believe Britain’s top universities are too elitist, according to research.

So they’re putting their own political prejudices ahead of the interests of their students. What a role model for young people. Way to go, ‘teachers’.

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In addition to the $369 billion in underfunded union (private-sector) pension plans, the abundant evidence that unions kill companies and destroy jobs, today’s unions are doing such a miserable job at the one thing they’re supposed to do—negotiate contracts—that union members should demand refunds from their union bosses.

Given that union dues for most union members range from around 1.3% to 5% of pay, once union dues are deducted from members’ wages, the negotiated increases unions “achieved” for their members in 2011 are eaten up (and then some) by union dues.

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Three years ago the city of Portland, Oregon, enacted regulations requiring car services to charge at least $50 for airport trips and at least 35 percent more than taxicabs for other trips. The city also requires that car services (limos and sedans) make customers wait at least an hour before picking them up. These consumer-unfriendly rules were expressly designed to shield taxicab companies from competition.

Wherever Democrats rule, freedom and prosperity dies.

Biden on Iran: “I Promise You, the President Has A Big Stick”.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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Environmentalists have persuaded the Department of the Interior to remove four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River. These dams not only provide clean, green energy to the Klamath community, they sustain area ranches and farms with continual access to water. An environmentalist’s dream, right?

But the fish! We must always put fish ahead of people!

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Among scholars, the simplistic debate over whether Columbus was good or bad has become considerably more nuanced. The full significance of 1492 for global history — and the history of globalization — has come into ever-sharper relief. Historians now focus more on the role that native peoples played in the course of European expansion and conquest, treating them less as passive victims and more as active participants in global integration.

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A company director has criticised the benefits system after his firm offered jobs to seven unemployed people – and not one turned up for their first day.

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

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What product can you buy that is expensive, works with your PC, does things that could be critical to your health, but the salesman can’t tell you how to use it?

Sounds stupid, huh?

A lot of medical products, that’s what.

I found this out during a long and painful experience with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Taki pulls no punches.

Listening to some European protesters nowadays, one would think that nothing has changed since Pliny’s time. A leftist Oxford professor told me it was the blithe impenitence of the upper class that drives him up the wall. He said they display a demented disregard for common decency’s humblest demands. When I suggested he get real, he called me a fascist, then asked me to buy him a drink.

It began with a healthy challenge to deference from below and became a crisis of nerves from above. The people who belonged to the Establishment, the old authority figures—and by that I don’t mean only lords of the manor and millionaires, but also teachers, religious leaders, and politicians—no longer believe in the ethos that made them what they were. They no longer feel able to uphold traditional values. Parents, bombarded by generations of lifestyle gurus on bringing up their children, simply lost the plot. Respect for one’s elders is now an alien concept.

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In a shrewd move — given the imminent inflation of at least three of the world’s major currencies, including the dollar — an Indonesian sultan has decided to mint Islamic gold and silver coins to be used in the payment of zakat. Not only does his initiative fulfill the requirements of Islamic law, but it will also sidestep the collapse of the world’s reserve currency.

Steve Sailer loves talking about the stuff other people shun.

Here’s a question: Whom would you rather have as a neighbor: George Zimmerman or Trayvon Martin?

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‘It’s free! It’s free! Just put your helm a-lee!’

Sometimes the old ways are best.

The masts look like those on Tom Perkins’ yacht The Maltese Falcon.

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Last week, Steve Fought, spokesman for Dem Rep. Marcy Kaptur, lashed out at Kaptur’s election opponent, Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher, calling him “Joe the Faux Plumber.” Ever since Joe was thrust onto the national stage he’s had to face charges that he isn’t a ‘real’ plumber. The reason Fought and others claim Joe isn’t a “real” plumber? He received his training in the military, not the civilian world.

Unbelievably, as thousands of veterans learn upon discharge every year, the training they receive in the military doesn’t necessarily translate into skills recognized by the civilian world. In Joe’s case, he was a plumber in the Air Force for 4 years achieving a level comparable in the civilian world of a “journeyman”, allowing him to do jobs solo. After discharge, Joe went to the local union and was told that his training didn’t ‘count’ and he’d have to start at the bottom of the ladder.

I’d trust a military-trained plumber over some random union guy.

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And Dan Brown will by God be there with a notebook and a camera.

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Woolrich, a 182-year-old clothing company, describes its new chino pants as an elegant and sturdy fashion statement, with a clean profile and fabric that provides comfort and flexibility.

And they are great for hiding a handgun.

The company has added a second pocket behind the traditional front pocket for a weapon. Or, for those who prefer to pack their gun in a holster, it can be tucked inside the stretchable waistband. The back pockets are also designed to help hide accessories, like a knife and a flashlight.

The chinos, which cost $65, are not for commandos, but rather, the company says, for the fashion-aware gun owner. And Woolrich has competition. Several clothing companies are following suit, building businesses around the sharp rise in people with permits to carry concealed weapons.

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NPR’s Mara Liasson outraged female listeners on Weekend Edition Sunday on April 15 when she said Mitt Romney’s political problems aren’t with “stay-at-home moms,” but rather with “educated women.”

Seven days later, NPR admitted it scrubbed the clip and the transcript for the website.

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A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.

The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.

Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.”

“Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read, “would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”

Thank you, Mr Community Organizer. Next will be a ruling requiring them to join a union.

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-Great definition of “nerds”: “I’ve come to the conclusion that “nerdy” translates to, “An item or activity pursued by men that isn’t directly related to attracting or providing for women.”” For some reason, I have a visceral dislike of nerds and overly smiley, nice men.

-Predicting today’s news: Someone was killed by someone else over some conflict in some country. In other news, someone had sex with someone else when they weren’t supposed to.

-Twitter is populated by bots and people following other people so that other people follow them. I have a feeling no one actually reads anyone else’s tweets.

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1. Most undergraduates and professionals actually want to learn applied software engineering, not “computer science”. Most companies want to hire college graduates who know applied software engineering. But most university CS programs don’t actually teach applied software engineering. This isn’t to say that CS isn’t useful or valuable (even to someone who goes on to become an applied software engineer). But the majority of university CS programs are oriented to training undergraduates to become either systems programmers or academic computer scientists. I’m going to go out on a limb and say this isn’t what most 18-year-olds who enter undergraduate CS programs actually want to do. And I’m certain that the ratio of the demand for software engineers to systems programmers in industry is on the order of 100:1 (maybe even 1000:1).

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Planned Parenthood is worried that they may be targeted and outed again, this time for performing sex-selection abortions.  They are accusing Lila Rose, the head of Live Action, the pro-life group that exposed victims of rape and sex-trafficking hiding their pregnancies by abortions through Planned Parenthood, of sending volunteers to various Planned parenthood clinics to ask about aborting a fetus because it’s a girl.

Well, think it through — the way to reduce the population is to get rid of the ones who can have more babies.

Makes perfect sense.

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Another pointed reminder, if one is needed, that Judenhasse is endemic in Muslim society — not surprising, since the Koran makes Mein Kampf seem like a New York Times Op-Ed.