Civilization. A Sid Meier update at Drezner. Meier says he cannot win at his game.
Greedy Geezers want more of our money. Viking. Of course they do - everyone wants to separate me from my money. Honestly, they don't give a damn about me. Why don't they get a job?
How does Europe put up with the EU? Now the EU wants to re-write history to glorify themselves. Is this a would-be Empire?
Israel's oldest kibbutz goes private. How about an LBO? (h/t, Samizdata)
The strange story that refuses to go away. Why? Because you have to wonder who is protecting Berger - and why. If I walked out of the National Archives with national security documents in my underwear, would that be OK? Or an absent-minded mistake, because I usually put all of my documents in my underpants. More thoughts at RWNH and Blue Crab.
Women in politics, at Gates of Vienna. A quote:
The silence of the professional feminists in the face of the barbarities of Islam regarding women has long been a source of wonder — if not disgust — for regular folks. We keep waiting for them to speak out on behalf of women who suffer slave status in Muslim theocracies. There has been only silence…or even worse, a disturbing preoccupation with trivialities like the Vagina Monologues or the rage against those who dare to disagree with their victim whingeing. The decades-old complaint about gender inequity has been transformed into a full-fledged deep hatred of men that makes these upper middle-class women look like spoiled, overprivileged narcissists.
The elected women in Congress are a good example this narrow self-absorption, the kind that follows in the wake of setting oneself up as a victim…in this case, of course, women are the victims of patriarchy. Yawn.
Mississippi vs. State Farm: What does this sound like to you? It's about flood insurance. It sounds like tyranny to me. Theft of services, too.
Gotta like this quote from Maliki (piece at Flopping):
Iraqiya state television showed Maliki, a Shi'ite Islamist leader, talking to an Iraqi soldier near an armored vehicle in central Baghdad. The soldier pointed to an area from where he said insurgents had been firing at security forces.
"Don't just fire back, crush the place where the fire came from," Maliki replied. "Don't treat them with leniency. This is an armored vehicle here, use it."
Would you call this stalking and this attack a hate crime? Quotes from a nice, tolerant Dem at Michelle.
Not being big TV people, we never posted this obit. But it's interesting to see that the guy wasn't a TV-watcher.
I often agree with Hewitt, but on this one, I am with Balloon Juice. No need to "go Lamont".
Most boring legal case of the year: Libby update at Lib Leanings. Tell me, what did he supposedly do wrong, again?
The myth of the shrinking middle class. Env. Repub
Dems fight like girls. Atlas. Ouch.
IBD, via Attack Machine:
New Orleans: Nearly a year and a half after Katrina, most of the Gulf Coast is recovering nicely — with one major exception. So who is to blame for that?
I think there's a case to be made for banning partisan politics at universities if this is what leftists are going to do, and start ruining themselves over their political viewpoints. First, here's a starting report from the Fredricksburg Free Lance-...
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