Maggie's Farm

Moore's Law still going strong

Moms, ‘Myths’ and Cultural Marxism

Barnes: On Spending Cuts, Democrats Give Voters the Brush Off

Republicans will not be killing 350,000 women a year by de-funding Planned Parenthood.

SEIU drops mask, goes full commie (h/t, Tiger)

Nearly Half Of Detroit's Adults Are Functionally Illiterate, Report Finds

Obvious solution: more money for schools!

From VDH's Thoughts on a Surreal Depression:

...in the present depression, the out of work and poor are as numerous, but both unhappier and yet far better off than prior generations. This is not the rant of some right-wing laudator temporis acti, or the death throes of an aging old white guy, but rather empirically based and shared by most of my friends in the ascendant Mexican-American middle and upper-middle classes, many of whom are becoming quite conservative.

The cars of our poorer brethren in our major discount stores are late model and often expensive. People get into them with full carts of food and clothing. Housing here is cheap and good. How to square this circle between official poverty and misery and the veneer of a well-off general public?

and

I did an experiment the other day. I priced “wicker” furniture at Kmart and Wal-Mart and then drove up to an upscale North Fresno design outdoor living boutique. In short, the local version from China was about $300 for an ensemble, the high-end version was priced at $1700. To the naked eye, they were again almost identical and explain what I mean by the “veneer” of affluence. Ditto everything from jogging clothes to watches, and one can be outfitted in Selma for 10% of the cost of the brands of those popular in Palo Alto.

Is government spending what makes the US great?

Is every driver in Russia drunk?

Good for giggles

Government offers payouts to Hispanic, female farmers who claim discrimination

Powerline:

One wonders: if killing bin Laden was a courageous, gutsy decision by Barack Obama, where were the liberals when President Bush approved the killing of Zarqawi? Do you remember any of them praising that decision as courageous and "game changing?" No, neither do I.

Horrible!… Juan Williams Claims the US "Pulls Out Teeth & Eyeballs" of Terror Detainees (Video)

Hope and Change and Noam

Even Some Liberals Horrified by Ethnic Studies Agenda

AP IMPACT: China's spying seeks secret US info

Hamas' useful idiots

Drug thugs called greatest security threat in the Americas

Rare rally tests Vietnam's religious tolerance

Pakistan’s ISI On Trial….In Chicago

Home Market Takes a Tumble

Emotions run high on days of Remembrance and Independence

Bamboozled: Two Recent Biographies Shed New Light on Liberal Icons. It begins:

Did you hear that ripping sound? Two liberal icons known by their silly stage names — Mahatma Gandhi and Malcolm X — have just been torn down from their sanctified perches thanks to a pair of massively researched but finally damning new biographies.

Both men, it turns out, were at pains to take on phony identities. Each hid his homosexuality, each was racist, each took pains to manufacture favorable coverage, each was driven by petty hatreds instead of shining ideals — each of these supposedly principled figures was an out-and-out phony.