Frigatebirds sleep in mid-flight
Why You Should Always Dress Up When You Go Out to Eat
For More U.S. Cities, Downtown Is a Center of Economic Strength
Two murals at University of Wisconsin-Stout to be removed: 'Psychologically devastating'
Indian history and Indian heritage are being erased in the name of correctness. Crazy.
The civilization of the Mayan Indians
A Surreal Life on the Precipice in Puerto Rico
A failed state. Give them independence from the US
The Law Of Unintended Consequences Hits Biofuels
New Twist In Global Warming Madness: Olympic Records Won't Come Easy
Crack Down on Law Schools That Don't Pass the Bar
N.C. school board: Don’t call children ‘boys’ and ‘girls’
Illinois College Defends Offering Course For “Blacks-Only”…
Dalrymple:
"I have spent much of my life among the poor or relatively poor. I can honestly say that it never occurred to me for a single moment that any one of them was not a true human being. Indeed, if they were not true human beings, their poverty would be nothing to worry about. I neither romanticized them as the fount of all goodness and wisdom nor saw them as mere objects."
How Do You Tell The Corrupt Politicians From The Honest Ones?
... government is inherently corrupt. There is no way around it. That's just one of the reasons (although perhaps the most important one) why we are complete fools to entrust to the government more and more power to redistribute the wealth of society, supposedly to create more fairness and justice in the world. What this process actually creates is more corruption. And does this process create more fairness? If it did, why does Manhattan -- the jurisdiction with the highest taxes and the most extensive suite of progressive welfare and redistributive government programs in the whole country -- have the highest income inequality?
Well, that last question is not entirely fair to NYC. It takes a while for all of the new immigrants to get with the program but they get more help than NY immigrants of the past. The help probably slows them down. Plus NYC has large dysfunctional, dependent "inner city" "communities" which nobody knows what to do about except to give them stuff and get their votes.
Related, from Z Man:
The American colonies were doing well economically and the taxes and levies the King wished to impose were minor. Despite this economic realty, the colonies revolted anyway. It was early proof that homo economicus has always been nonsense. Humans as not rational and narrowly self-interested agents. Humans, individually and collectively, are biological.
When the Brits went to the polls and decided to leave Europe, they did not do so with economics in mind. That was part of it, but patriotism, identity, class and other non-economic factors were at the front of their mind. The winners were not waving the Union Jack because it happen to be handy. The Brexit forces were not talking about sovereignty and self-government by accident. Libertarians are so blinkered they could not comprehend what was so blazingly obvious. They remain convinced that humans are just moist robots.
VDH on borders:
Today’s open-borders agenda has its roots not only in economic factors—the need for low-wage workers who will do the work that native-born Americans or Europeans supposedly will not—but also in several decades of intellectual ferment, in which Western academics have created a trendy field of “borders discourse.” What we might call post-borderism argues that boundaries even between distinct nations are mere artificial constructs, methods of marginalization designed by those in power, mostly to stigmatize and oppress the “other”—usually the poorer and less Western—who arbitrarily ended up on the wrong side of the divide. “Where borders are drawn, power is exercised,” as one European scholar put it. This view assumes that where borders are not drawn, power is not exercised—as if a million Middle Eastern immigrants pouring into Germany do not wield considerable power by their sheer numbers and adroit manipulation of Western notions of victimization and grievance politics. Indeed, Western leftists seek political empowerment by encouraging the arrival of millions of impoverished migrants.
iStudy Shows Raising Minimum Wage in Seattle Did Little to Help Workers
After Voter ID Defeats, Lessons From Indiana’s Law That ‘Has Stood Test of Time’
A press conference for Hillary: Softball questions and journalists applaud
From 1996:
Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -- a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -- is a congenital liar.
She is no lady
Short-Circuit Damage to US Security: Hillary’s Lies and Amiri’s Execution - Sensational lying is nothing new for the former first lady
Peyser: I can no longer justify calling myself a Trump supporter
Democrats Touting Billionaire Support for Hillary Have a Short Memory
Why Trump is now the most dangerous man in the world
Because he is a NATO skeptic. So am I. It's a Cold War relic. Europe can take care of itself - or not.
ISIS is not America's problem
Bring back the Ottoman Empire, please.
Munich killer 'went on weapons training day to Iran' before massacre where 9 died
