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I am bird-hunting today with Gwynnie, a real dog, and some friends. 20 ga., not binoculars. Hope our readers have a fine and jolly day too. I am in fine fettle, having only indulged in one beer last night, and early to bed. With a little luck, some pheasants for a late dinner tonight and a little vino.

US on Pace for Slowest Decade of Population Growth Since 1930s

Mead: Why did God choose the Jews?

Sentimentalizing Serial Murder - A recent book exemplifies the erosion of moral judgment in Britain.

The Death of the American Shopping Mall

Public Funding for Stadiums Jumps the Shark in Miami

Building Congregations Around Art Galleries and Cafes as Spirituality Wanes

Top 10 Food Policy Success Stories of 2012 - This year had its share of good news for supporters of food freedom.

US Shale Boom Is So Big You Can See It From Space

NYC Wants to Mandate a No-Smoking Ban in Peoples’ Homes

Map: Where are the Journal News employees in your neighborhood?

A Liberal Comes Clean: We Hate the Constitution

The New York Times comes out pro-gun: but only for African elephant protection

Shaidle: Ban Schools, Not Guns

Barone: When Government Offers to Help, It Often Makes a Mess

Two interesting infographics were published recently that make it so easy to see the decline of the West, even a caveman can do it.

Marriage Gap, one more time

Obama demonstrates the virtue of the sequestration

Are you ready? ObamaCare: Pain 2.0 Health costs on top of tax hikes

Health care law may mean less hiring in 2013

Watch Out: Your 401(k) Is Being Targeted

Now I get the bone-deep mendacity of President Obama's politics.

Krauthammer: Obama showed´incredible arrogance´ in´astonishing´ press conference

Hiring criminals: EEOC Protected Classes

Steven Korn's Disastrous Tenure at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: A Postmortem

A Life of Integrity: Vladimir Bukovsky at 70

Two-thirds of Israelis support peace with Palestinians that ensures security, polls find | The Times of Israel

European Jewish History Is Nearing Its End by Giulio Meotti

Bad news, Hamas. Israel’s Iron Dome gets better every day

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Public Funding for Stadiums

Makes Bob Kraft look like a freakin' genius building Gillette for $300 million of his own money with the only public financing being the expansion of Route 1 in two directions for a couple of miles. The build Patriots Place on top of it. Patriots alone are worth $1.4 billion and that doesn't include Patriots Place.

US Shale Boom

QUOTE:

The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast that the United States will become the world’s biggest oil producer by 2017 thanks to an explosion in hard-to-reach energy trapped in shale.

And we'll still be paying $3.00+ for gasoline, none of that export money will go to the government to help pay down debt and we'll still be in an economic slump.

Israel’s Iron Dome gets better every day

I worked with some Israeli engineers when I did a consult for Joe Gerber at Gerber Scientific. They are simply the best. It was great watching them work too - constant arguing over this, that and the other thing and by the end of the day the product was better than when they began. Doesn't surprise me at all.

And with that, Happy New Year to The Editor, the contributors and all the readers - hope its a good one.

#1 Tom Francis on 2013-01-01 08:00 (Reply)

"I am bird-hunting today with Gwynnie, a real dog"

That's just a shameful way to talk about a friend, BD. Remember the hunting "accident" with Dick Cheney and Harry Whittington? Harry had just said "Yeah, I'm going hunting today with Dick, a real dog-" when suddenly, BLAM!

I'd think you would have learned a valuable lesson that day in grammatical phraseology!

Nonetheless, I hope thing turned out well today. Maybe he didn't hear you correctly and thought you said "a real dear".

#2 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2013-01-01 09:48 (Reply)

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Two interesting infographics were published recently that make it so easy to see the decline of the West, even a caveman can do it.

A couple of problems with the assertion. First, it takes a very recent period, just after a financial meltdown in the developed world to extrapolate to "the decline of the West". Second, the third world is experiencing industrialization, which typically results in a rapid period of growth as people move from low productivity jobs in subsistence agriculture to higher productivity jobs in industry. Once this process is completed, then further gains take place at a more moderate pace as they are predicated on increases in efficiency. In the long run, growth in the third world will mean increased opportunities for everyone.

#3 Zachriel on 2013-01-01 10:59 (Reply)

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Christopher Chantrill: Now I get it. I get the bone-deep mendacity of President Obama's politics.

OBAMA: "David, I want to be very clear. You are not only going to cut your way to prosperity. One of the fallacies I think that has been promoted is this notion that deficit reduction is only a matter of cutting programs that are really important to seniors, students and so forth. That has to be part of the mix, but what I ran on and what the American people elected me to do was to put forward a balanced approach. To make sure that there's shared sacrifice. ... And it is very difficult for me to say to a senior citizen or a student or a mom with a disabled kid, 'You are going to have to do with less but we're not going to ask millionaires and billionaires to do more.'"

... You don't hear a peep out of the president about the need for a plan to reform entitlements, and you never will.

Actually, it says that there should be a balanced plan and that it will have to include everyone. That's what is meant by "shared sacrifice". Not sure how else to read it.

#4 Zachriel on 2013-01-01 11:17 (Reply)

$1 in cuts vs $41 in new taxes is not a "balanced" approach.

The President and Democrats have no intention to "balance" the approach despite the rhetoric.

#4.1 Tom Francis on 2013-01-01 17:44 (Reply)

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Two-thirds of Israelis support peace with Palestinians that ensures security, polls find | The Times of Israel

Peace. Easy as Pie.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/poll-most-palestinians-want-peace-with-israel-1.297196

#5 Zachriel on 2013-01-01 11:44 (Reply)

Malls: I went to the writer's links on shirts and pants. Those prices are too high for me.

Sports Stadiums: And I thought Al Davis was a pirate. Now the raidees compete for being raided. (See also Glendale AZ at coyoteblog.com).

Smoking: I don't either, but the lefties want to ban what they disapprove of, don't like, or viscerally hate. Tobacco-no; MaryJane-OK.

Yay!, BookWorm. Let's all arm ourselves to defend local elephants! (And what do you bet those Africans are using those horrible, insane, really really REALLY BAD "assault weapons" to do that? (AK-47s widely used.)

Obama may have said he wants a balanced approach, but he has not proposed any balanced approaches.

EEOC: Having embezzled from a previous employer is not ipso facto a valid reason for not hiring that person for a job handling money. Riiiiiiiiiiight.

RFE/RL: It is not allowed to embarrass our Russian allies and close friends.

The kicker in "2/3s of Israelis" is "peaceful Palestine": does anyone besides Zachriel think that's going to happen? Hezbollah, Fatah, Hamas, PLO are the cast of characters who are in control in and of "Palestine and Palestinians", and they have no record of wanting peace. "Peace, limited in time", yeah, maybe. Until they feel strong enough to attack again.

European Jews. "Got that? To be identifiable as a Jew in public in Europe is to invite violence." Blaming the victim for inciting violence upon himself. Thought we'd gotten beyond this.

#6 Sam L. on 2013-01-01 13:08 (Reply)

Here is an article in a south Texas newspaper about the guy who discovered the Eagle Ford shale and how it was developed.

http://www.caller.com/news/2012/dec/29/the-wildcatter-corpus-christis-gregg-robertson/

#7 JD on 2013-01-01 16:13 (Reply)

Great story, thanks for the tip.

#7.1 XRay on 2013-01-01 19:49 (Reply)

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