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Wednesday, October 29. 2014

Wednesday morning links

Ten Things That Are Killing the Family


The baseball Playograph


Environmentalists Are Ruining Everything, Including Halloween


Will Food Allergy Hysteria Destroy Halloween?


Z:  The College Rackets


The Utter Moral Collapse of UNC-Chapel Hill


NY to colleges: Don't ask applicants re criminal history


Berkeley students try to boot Bill Maher


Indian Communities Chose Redskins for Athletic Mascot


In US,  Foreign-Born Job-Holders Break 25 MILLION…


EconLog’s David Henderson does a splendid job explaining that minimum-wage legislation harms the very people its well-meaning proponents mean to help.


Organic activists reject science, propose ‘natural’ Ebola cure, claim government conspiracy


2040’s America will be like 1840’s Britain, with robots?


Scott Walker, in Dead Heat, Faces Third Election in Four Years - The national Democratic Party throws everything they have at the possible presidential contender.


How Goldwater Changed Campaigns Forever


British Minister: Global Warming “Pause” Result Of Government Climate Change Regulations…


Good grief


Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 04:46 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

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Nice topical picture BD.
#1 EriK on 2014-10-29 07:14 (Reply)
I guess if the current regulations have stopped warming in its tracks, there's no need to enact any new ones.
#2 Texan99 on 2014-10-29 10:06 (Reply)
...and if global cooling were to set in, they could just rescind a few regulations and warm it up again. We've finally mastered climate control.
#2.1 BillH on 2014-10-29 10:14 (Reply)
Texan99 and BillH

Great one-liners! This is why I read MF.
#2.1.1 mary on 2014-10-29 10:29 (Reply)
From a commenter on Holman Jenkins's column today:

Liberals (and greens) are constantly invoking the precautionary principle to demand spending trillions on global warming, a problem that, if it exists, will not begin to cause harm for at least decades, and yet when it comes to an epidemic that could easily and immediately spread via the porous borders of the United States and infect thousands of people, the precautionary principle becomes excessive, burdensome and to some even "racist."
#2.1.1.1 Texan99 on 2014-10-29 11:24 (Reply)
I am surprised no one has cited government regulations as the reason for the stabilizing of 'climate change' before this. I can only speculate they have not because that would imply further regulation is not necessary, and ever more regulation is what 'climate change' is all about.
#2.1.1.1.1 feeblemind on 2014-10-29 11:51 (Reply)
Re: Ten things that are killing the family

The link only shows the last five. Here is the correct link: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2014/10/ten-things-that-are-killing-the-family.html

Father Longenecker makes some interesting points, but I have some disagreements at least about the amount of damage that is done. I think increased mobility, enhanced education, and suburban living are overstated.

At the risk of being called a prude, I agree with him that the sexual morals that died in the sixties were superior to those of today and that feminism is hugely damaging but more because it sought to lower the morals of women (because men got away with 'it') than raising the morals of men (they shouldn't have gotten away with 'it' in the first place).
#3 mudbug on 2014-10-29 10:11 (Reply)
From another prude who agrees--we could now stop men from getting away with "it" through DNA testing. I commented once on the intertubes about women stopping a lot of problems by abstinence and got thoroughly chastised--I commented anon. and they assumed I was male.
#3.1 mary on 2014-10-29 10:27 (Reply)
It's interesting that they would assume you were a male! They're the horndogs.
#3.1.1 mudbug on 2014-10-29 11:08 (Reply)
Re: Bill Maher and Berkley

Bill Maher's objection to Islam is principled and reasoned (as is Pat Condell's - both atheists) so it doesn't surprise me that he might have a problem at Berkley where they have a park named for free speech yet they don't actually believe in it (any more at least). This is just an example of how the left will eat itself because it has no coherent philosophy but a hodge podge of angry, unhappy people.
#4 mudbug on 2014-10-29 10:19 (Reply)
The baseball Playograph

"A more elaborate scheme could be found in Atlanta's opera house. Dug up by Hannah Keyser of Metal Floss earlier this year, an April 1866 article in the Atlanta Constitution tells of "actual running of the bases by uniformed boys, who obeyed the telegraph instrument in their moves around the diamond.""

Ronald Reagan, of course, calling the play by play.
#5 Bluefields on 2014-10-29 11:35 (Reply)
Z: The College Rackets

The Utter Moral Collapse of UNC-Chapel Hill

Taking the low road here. Don't care. Even if I were a fan of amateur football, I wouldn't care. I'd rather see the best possible minor league football than worry about "afro-american studies" majors. These student athletes can make their own bad decisions, they're adults.
#6 Bluefields on 2014-10-29 13:06 (Reply)
A pairing worthy of Drudge; "Ten Things That Are Killing the Family" as the lead and a picture of an alluring example of depraved imagination to illustrate.
#7 razorbacker on 2014-10-30 09:15 (Reply)

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