Maggie's Farm

What is 6 months of your life worth? Do you want the gummint to decide?

Schools eliminating Fs. Failure problem solved!

We all saw this coming: reporters want government jobs

Warming debunkers to hold conference in DC in March. Related: News articles about global warming fears. Is this the real hockey stick graph? (graph from the NYT article)

Chinese house-hunting tours to the USA

Here endeth the new Gilded Age. This will please the envy-ridden.

Removing God from American history

Steyn: UK demographic deathwatch story of the day

Royal Navy not looking too royal

70% of black kids grow up without two parents. It's the socio-cultural catastrophe we aren't supposed to talk about.

Insty:

Virginia Postrel comments:

If anyone should fear a Depression, it should be journalists, who are already the equivalent of 1980s steelworkers. But instead, they seem positively giddy with anticipation at the prospect of a return to ’30s-style hardship–without, of course, the real hardship of the 1930s. . . . Oh the thrill of imagining a Great Depression. It’s an opportunity for Great Design and Really Cool Government.