Maggie's Farm

I have no idea what the Dem Senators were doing when they voted against the John Doe provision. It's a vote for terror success, and I just don't get it.

Totten: Welcome to Baghdad.

Ed Koch bails out of his support of Iraq. He has had it with the Iraqis.

Prostate cancer. It can be aggressive, and it can be very lazy, indolent and harmless in older guys. A new test to tell the difference.

Your tuition dollars at work. New Zealand considers college courses in prostitution. Moonbattery. Hey - it's the world's oldest profession. Sally Smith, B.J.

A new grand Roman villa discovered in Rome.  AOL News. See the photos.

How smart does Gen. Petraeus sound? Interview via Attack Machine.

Barry Obama believes that criminals just need more love. Pretty to think so. Where did he learn that theory?

Image: A famous Alberto Vargas girl from the 1920s.

Our Editor sent out an email suggesting that we not avoid the subject of food. "Our readers like food," he said simply, "so when you have a food thought, feel free to post it if you have the time."

As a Christian Yankee lad, I was not raised on potato latkes, but they have become one of my favorite eats, and they are easy to make. You can eat them for breakfast or lunch or snack, and especially with pork for dinner. I like them with sour cream on top, or applesauce.

I make them like this:

- Shred three or four large potatoes in the Cuisinart, then squeeze them in a towel to dry them a bit
- Shred one or two onions in the Cuisinart, and squeeze them too.
- Mix above in a bowl with one stirred egg, some salt, and a couple of tablespoons of flour - just enough to hold them together.
- make irregular patties out of them, and fry them like pancakes. Oil better than butter.

Megaflood created the English Channel.

Fastest internet connection in the world - in Sweden. A 72 year-old lady has it. Me want. (h/t to somebody - I forget who)

Is Bush's freedom-oriented foreign policy a "Messiah complex"?

Flesh-eating bacteria in Galveston beaches

Nuke power for California. It's about time. Am Thinker

Heard any good yodeling yet today? Einen Jodler hor i gern. (h/t, David Thompson)

Perfectly preserved baby mammoth found in Siberia. No freezer burn? (h/t, Flares)

Eating beef is less green than driving. Telegraph. Gonna get me a big burger tonight, with bacon.

A damning quote by Newsweek's Evan Thomas re Duke, from piece at Op. Journal:

"It was about race. Nifong's motivations clearly were rooted in his need to win black votes. There were tensions between town and gown, that part was true. The narrative was properly about race, sex and class. . . . We went a beat too fast in assuming that a rape took place. . . . We just got the facts wrong. The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong."

Undersecretary of Defence Eric Edelman said this in response to Mrs. Clinton:

"Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia," Edelman wrote.

He added that "such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks."

Image:  1959's Coppertone Girl is one of the most famous ads of all time. The artist used her daughter as the model. Here's their story. In 1959, the only sun block was that white zinc stuff that sailors put on their noses.

Banned in Britain: Christian purity rings. Moonbattery. Impurity rings? No problem.

JetBlue: Do you still like them after reading this?

CAIR: Islamophobia is the problem. LGF. It is? What hutzpah these guys have. I am Islamophobic, now. I don't play golf in thunderstorms, either. Most lightning is harmless, so am I lightningophobic, or just sensible?

Millionaire farmers and subsidies: Surber

NYT and WaPo play useful idiots for Hamas

Blair's Legacy: Corruption and a diminution of personal freedom. Opinion Journal

An academic conference: No, the papers are not about Plato or Aquinas. What I saw in America

Finally! A Media Mythbusters site. Their headline quote: "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." -- John F. Kennedy. Nowadays, we call that "the narrative," and they are deliberate, contrived and dishonest. 

How Italy is screwing the rest of the EU with immigration: Free Republic

From Hatemonger's Quarterly:

Simply put, contemporary Americans appear to want a few things out of their wars:

1) No casualties
2) No setbacks of any kind
3) No use of any troops
4) No mistakes
5) No waiting

John Kerry: We need more votes for surrender. Ace

Quoted from Strategy Page in INDC:

Corruption and lack of civic spirit continue to be the biggest problems in Iraq. This sort of thing does not make loud noises, so does not get into the mass media much. But what is done about corruption, will have more to do with Iraqs future, than the battle with terrorists.

The press has this guy's phone number. When they want a "staunch Republican who plans to vote Dem this time," they call him. Every year.

Biofuels are messing up EU agriculture too. EU Referendum. It would seem rather elementary to me that one does not use food for fuel.

We all live in a yellow submarine. Want one of your own? Theo

Photo proof of GI torture of Iraqi children. Slower Pace

Drugs and alcohol in the workplace. There's plenty of it, but who's surprised? It's been going on forever, and I guess it's just part of life.

The Dem Iraq offensive: All Dems ordered by leadership to trash Bush and Iraq war.

Yet another campus rape story that won't get big press. Ace. Does the press make the racist "low expectations" assumption here, that black campus rape is dog bites man, but white campus rape is man bites dog?

Al Quaida leaders lurking in Iran. Big surprise there. h/t, Jules

Nuclear fearmongering. Blue Crab. At Maggie's Farm, we love nuke power. It's as close to a free lunch as we will ever have.

If you missed it, scroll down and read The Barrister's Railroad piece about retirement. Quite interesting, with Dr. Bliss' comments.

John Edwards vows to end all bad things by 2011. h/t, Sister Toldja

What would Hillary be without Bill? RWN

Do dead people have rights? Or does their cadaver belong to "the collective"? Stumbling. My two comments: 1. There is no "collective" in the USA. 2. If dead people vote, they surely have rights.

FBI says Iraqis being smuggled across the Rio Grande

Dems actually find a federal program they want to cut. John Fund

Moonbats dream of human extinction. Moonbattery

The Coming War in Pakistan. Front Page. This should be interesting. 20,000 armed tribesmen.

New Haven to issue ID cards to illegals. CSM

Why a dollar spent on a Toyota gets you more than a dollar spent on a GM car. Small Dead Lemmings

Why I am not a Marxist (anymore). At David Thompson

Wicked, wicked ironies. Biofuels starve humans. Kim

Europe indifferent to their own demise. Driscoll

Environmental doomsayers usually wrong. Lib. Leanings. What is always their solution? "We're going to have to restructure the global economy." Of course."  Speaking of which, plants can run for their lives down under.

"Baiting the devout": Fitzpatrick reviews Hitchen's atheist book at Spiked. A quote:

Intellectuals who have lost their belief in progress are turning venomously on those who retain a vision of the good society: the religious.

On mandated student volunteering, in the CSM. A quote:

The real audacity of the situation lies in the underlying assumption that students would do nothing without their schools' guiding hand. Why else must kids document their hours? Schools clearly feel obliged to teach our children to care, implying we don't teach them ourselves. America is the most charitable country on earth, so it's an odd assumption. But more important, the schools' mandated volunteerism has slowly turned a noble tradition of philanthropic service into another competition, another thing our kids check off their to-do lists as they plot their college applications.

Photo: a 1958 Deere 320, in excellent shape

I disagree with Roger Simon that there are too many Pres. candidates. The more the merrier. And, speaking of merrier, Ralph Nader will probably run again. Ralph is always a cheerful, optimistic presence. Did you know that he is from the lovely Litchfield Hills town of Norfolk, CT?

Rick Moran is gloomy about Iraq:

Iraq really has become the stickiest of tar babies; we can’t withdraw too precipitously, if at all and yet our military cannot do much of anything to help solve Iraq’s massive political, sectarian, and security problems. We are well and truly stuck. We can’t move forward and we can’t go back.

But Bill Kristol is optimistic.

Are you old enough to remember Green Stamps? Do you know what the Green Stamp Syndrome is? Most people don't bother collecting their rebates.

Church and Community. Patrick Deneen doesn't care for suburbia, either as a place to worship or to live in.

Sand sculpting at Revere Beach. SISU. Yes, it isn't ordinary sand.

USMC officers get the M4. Never Yet Melted

Free range chickens aren't happier chickens. Synthstuff

Expensive study shows "Kids who are taught how to behave, behave better."

Only 49% of teens have summer jobs these days. NE Repub. I consider that very bad news.

Another scatological Hillary collection. She is a serious potty mouth.

Re Africa, quoted by Glenn:

The relationship between the West and Africa is no longer based on openly racist beliefs, but such articles are reminiscent of reports from the heyday of European colonialism, when missionaries were sent to Africa to introduce us to education, Jesus Christ and "civilization."

Now it's hypersensitive Sikhs. What next? h/t, Education Wonks

Chavez: His polls don't look good. That's why socialism requires dictators.

The Fairness Doctrine: its history, going back to JFK

Citizens pay tuition. Illegals go to school free. Rhymes with Right

Fear of Fred. Dems taking no chances. Blue Crab. Is he really all that scary?

Summer blogging: A July-August dip in blog readership is predictable, especially on weekends. We want our readers outside getting exercise and sun, taking vacations far from broadband connections and cellphone towers, and lounging at the beach looking at the scenery, such as one of Theo's gals in photo. Still, don't forget to check in with us: farmers don't take vacations.

Canadians consider legalizing polygamy. Dust my Broom. Dhimmitude masquerading as sensitivity.

Conrad Black: A "compromise verdict"? Prof B. Compromise verdicts do not serve justice. And at American Thinker - what are the business effects of criminalizing bad business decisions? And, about the case, Best Englishism of the Day. (h/t, Worstall)

Police catch ETA terrorists with plan to blow up Brit tour ship.

Is Michael Moore's agitprop career done? Blue Crab. He has no credibility except as a deceptive  propagandist.

More unpleasant truth about Che Guevara. No Pasaran

Ahmadinejab losing support fast. We should just step back and let it happen. Iran poll at Dinocrat

Did you read Dalrymple's piece on The Case for Distrusting Moslems?

Hirsi Ali takes on "cartoonishly anti-American" Canadian journalist. Video at Hot Air

Wary of getting to close to Americans. Captain Ed. Thanks to the defeatists, who for partisan reasons seem determined to sabotage freedom for the Iraqis. Quoted in the piece:

Local Iraqis touched by the surge of US troops seem grateful for the increased security, but some are scared of getting too close to the Americans in case they leave.

“I cannot help the coalition because I worry that if I do and the soldiers go then the terrorists will come back and kill me,” said Mokdat Ahmed Shahib, a 40-year-old security guard, who lives in a village near Patrol Base Murray. He was speaking as a group of US military medics handed out free medicine and advice to scores of families, who had no other healthcare facilities in their village.

Can Iraq manage without the US? At Breibart. I wonder how serious they are. I thought there was a war, or something like it. Where do they go for vacation? Cape Cod? Maine? Sweden? A quote:

In August, the parliament is taking a one month vacation—a shorter break than the usual two months, but still enough to anger some in Congress who say lawmakers should push through the measures.

Important Krauthammer piece: Deserting Petraeus. A quote:

Just this week, Petraeus said that the one thing he needs more than anything else is time. To cut off Petraeus's plan just as it is beginning -- the last surge troops arrived only last month -- on the assumption that we cannot succeed is to declare Petraeus either deluded or dishonorable. Deluded in that, as the best-positioned American in Baghdad, he still believes we can succeed. Or dishonorable in pretending to believe in victory and sending soldiers to die in what he really knows is an already failed strategy.

Who was Winston Churchill? The UK doesn't think kids need to know. Or, more likely, doesn't want kids to know.

The 60-Second Climate Skeptic. Excellent summary, at Coyote.

Musharraf and Pakistan: He has a tough job.

Is is volunteering if they pay you to do it? Latest moonbattism from Massachusetts.

No connection at all between Islam and terrorism. Avoiding the M-word.  And Theo wants advice, hypothetical at the moment: Moslem  Presbyterian hordes are charging up your driveway to cut off your head. What small arm to you want?

And no Al Quaida in Iraq, either. Gateway

People should be banned. Samizdata

Dan Boudreux on Free Trade. Excellent brief summary.

The Beast of Basra, identified. Sounds similar to a Wolverine.

Update on gun and knife crime in the UK. (h/t, Free Market Fairy Tales) Perhaps it never occurred to them that criminals do not tend to obey laws.

Do you believe that stuff you hear about lycopene in tomatos? Is there really any such thing as a "healthy diet"? Probably not. As Junkfood Science says in the above piece:

(a major Harvard study) had followed 71,910 women and 37,725 men for 15 years and found no relationship between fruits and vegetables and cancer, or any statistically significant associations with major chronic disease or cardiovascular disease.

Education and Hiring: Kim du Toit agrees with us. Quote:

As the man said: in fifty years, we’ve gone from teaching Greek and Latin in high school, to teaching remedial English in college.

Did we honestly think that this would have no effect on academic standards at universities?

The Bad Science Prize. More on the Dr. William Hurwitz pain pill case. NYT. The case is shameful and never should have been brought against this poor doc. h/t, Junk Science

Rick Moran slams the Bushies for politicizing the government. He has a point, but perhaps he isn't recognizing to what extent that always happens. Governance is never separate from politics.

Sippican Cottage did not like the link we had earlier, via Insty from Popular Science, about what skills a homeowner needs. He has his own list.

Iran to execute more moral degenerates, including gays and those who "insult religious sanctities." Gateway. Where's the outrage?

More Where's the Outrage: Syria invades Lebanon. Willisms. Ho-hum. Guess the story doesn't fit the narrative of the poor oppressed Moslems.

Protein Wisdom seems to have retired his blog, abruptly. I am sad to see that - he has been a regular read for me.

VDH rips apart the NYT surrender, while Crittenden takes a close look at Bush's speech on Iraq yesterday.

Are there people out there who secretly hope for more terror attacks, for political reasons? Jon Swift

Flopping Aces continues his series about the Shadow Party.

World's tallest man. AOL video

Owsley update: The Grateful Dead's original sound engineer and LSD manufacturer is still around. (h/t, Driscoll)

Photo: The beautiful Olivia de Havilland, sister of Joan Fontaine. Yes, she is still living. Why her today? Because we stole this photo from a Dr. X series on sisters in Hollywood.

Ratatouille. Good clean simple fun for any age. Amazing computer graphics or whatever it is. Difficult to believe that no photography was used, but it wasn't. Cramer agrees.

Basic Life Skills. Popular Mechanics. h/t, Insty

Living from hand to mouth on a good income. Lots of folks in that category.

Trying to buy stuff without a Made in China label. Difficult. But why would anyone bother? Just stay away from their food.

Golf courses can double as wildlife sanctuaries. I think it's a great concept, and I have heard that it's beginning to catch on.

Cattle produce more CO2 than all of the cars and trucks in the world. So why are they picking on cars and gasoline? Classical Values

Africa needs trade not aid. Cafe Hayek

Don Luskin blows his top about Krugman and socialized medicine. If people have to lie and distort to make their point, then they must have no point to make.

Pope Benedict: More Latin, more pilgrims, more money - and no relativism or rock concerts. Times Online

Where are all the single ladies? Map at Coyote. Lots of towns with lots of lonely ladies.

Fed up with the Log Cabin Repubs. Gay Patriot

Sex is private unless you are a Republican. Surber. Fair enough, but there is one difference: the Dems don't seem to care about sexual morality at all, and the Repubs say that they do. Thus the issue is hypocrisy, not morality.

Bruce Bartlett retires his column, comments on the future of media. Town Hall

The Netherlands re-thinking their liberal identity. Too bad they didn't think first. WaPo. h/t, Dr. Bob

Bizarro world, bizarro eminent lawyers. Prof B

In Poland, a Jewish Festival without Jews. NYT. Strange.

Neoneo has it figured out. What's the big rush about Iraq? Same as the rush was with immigration: the Dems, and now the Repubs too, want those messy issues off the table before the election. Nobody likes what is going on in Iraq - especially the failure of Iraq internal politics - but nobody wants to deal with the consequences of the mess in the ME that would probably follow if we throw them overboard.

Chantix: It reduces desire for both tobacco and alcohol. Maybe they should put it in the water (along with Prozac, of course).

We have been saying it for over a year - that the EU is an unelected Empire - the Empire that Napoleon and Bismark and Hitler had hoped to achieve by arms. Finally, the EU admits it. Remarkable that anyone would admit the truth so directly. As we have said before, nowadays invasions happen via immigration, Imperialism via bureaucracy, and individual freedom is stolen by "caring" elected officials. Europeans have become such sheep that arms are no longer needed to run them over.

The Ides of July. Shrinkwrapped speculates about looming trouble.

Studies show that wives rule the roost, statistically anyway. Dr. X. Duh. Any time a woman tries to give you that "poor little me" BS, watch out for that iron hand inside that soft Gucci glove. Just ask Larry Summers.

The 24-hour rule on news. Wizbang. Problem is, most folks just remember the first version.

Another old-time back woods Southern tradition falls victim to the goo-goos. NeverYet Melted. Gentrification of the swamp? What would Pogo say?

How foolishly does the gummint spend your hard-earned money? Right Wing Prof on a monumentally unsuccessful obesity campaign. Didn't you older folks have the big fight about colleges being in loco parentis back in the 60s? So why now do we have those old 60s libs trying to do the opposite with kids now? On my nickel.

Speaking of obesity, the obese survive heart attacks better. The experts can't figure it out, but I have a theory: carrying all of that lard around all the time gives them stronger hearts.

Al Gore's persuasiveness and intellectual brilliance finally got through to us. We are officially going green. One Friday per month will henceforth be Green Beer Night in order to save the planet. (Sorry for showing a photo of green beer at what is breakfast time for some our Yankee readers.) Next month, maybe Green Eggs and Ham.

What was so memorable about JFK? Town Hall. Not much that matters, really. He was a pretty good conservative, though, the way I see it.

Iraq FM warns against US withdrawal.

TANSTAAFL. Enuf said.

Dem advisor: "Appeal to their emotions, not their brains." I find that approach overly logical...

RFK Jr on warming deniers (via Drudge): "Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmentalist author, president of Waterkeeper Alliance and Robert F. Kennedy's son, who grew hoarse from shouting. "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors."  Hyperbole or insanity? I find it a bit creepy. I guess I'm a traitor, RFK Jr. I dare you to try to hang me.

Mom complains about her Marine Corps son going to war. It's his job, for Pete's sake. Jules

Cognitive dissonance at the NYT. Donnelly at The Daily Standard. In one hand they hold the narrative, and in the other hand, the facts.

I like Melanie Phillips, but how naive is she? Larry Auster. I have heard her interviewed, and she didn't seem this out to lunch at all.

A note at Villainous led me to the Paragraph Farmer's essay on "snark," defined as "snidely derisive".

I went to prep school with a kid named Snidely P.Q. DeRiseve lll from Locust Valley, Long Island. It must be the same guy. Wore an ascot, family had a place in Quogue, a nice pied a terre on Park Avenue and a flat in Paris?

And that piece led me to an old piece by our hero P.J. O'Rourke from Parliament of Whores about a Farm Bill. 

Everything O'Rourke said about Farm Bills then is still true, except that the farmers are much wealthier today.

Re-wiring the addicted brain. Tyee.

Straight talk about immigration. "Close the f-ing border first." Right. Kim. If you have a leaky pipe, you turn off the water before you repair the leak.

Wishful Thinking Department. The desire to believe that terrorists are the Keystone Cops. Neoneo

What is Syria up to now? Why isn't it reported by the MSM? Classical Values. Likewise the Red Mosque story: why not reported?

Dreaming of a heroically liberal Supreme Court. Althouse

Zawahiri is worried about how things are going in Iraq. SDA

Is Al Gore still involved in politics? Hewitt

Ten politically-incorrect truths about human nature. Psychology Today, via Flares.

Why Moslem docs in the UK? Because Brits don't want to be docs working for the NHS. Dino

Excellent example of how screwed-up the NYT is these days: Powerline. They have a political agenda, and that is what they are all about. When facts don't fit the narrative, they land on the cutting room floor. For another example, why does the NYT deal with Iran as it does? Lasky at American Thinker. A quote:

The paper's power is hard to overestimate. The Times creates the newscape of America: the issues it chooses to highlight and the perspective it brings to these issues are the genesis behind the news coverage of the mainstream media. What it chooses to be "fit to print" becomes, through its sway and news syndicate, the stories that fill America's daily news. Arthur ("Pinch") Sulzberger has alluded that it has been his desire to drive public policy since his Vietnam-war era college days. He has accomplished his mission. The paper's potency reaches the halls of Congress; the agenda that drives the paper often becomes the agenda in Washington. Herein lies the peril: by presenting a Pollyannaish view of Iran's intentions and abilities, the paper has served to spin the news in a way that has demonstrably minimized the threat from Iran, has eroded our ability to thwart Iran's nuclear program, and has ridiculed and dismissed the concerns of people who take a more wary and realistic view regarding the Iranian regime.

A letter from Canon Andrew White, an anti-war "liberal's liberal", as quoted in a piece on the subject of the medical bombers by Rick Moran:

Dear Friends,

Just over two months ago I wrote in my Update that I had the worst meeting in my life. I said I have seen the Devil today. I met this awful man in Amman prior to our last major meeting in Baghdad.

I referred to him as the Devil and I even refused to continue the meeting and told the Sheikh who had brought him to me never to let me meet him again.

He told me that they were going to start killing in the UK then the USA. One sentence I remembered but did not understand was “those who cure you will kill you”.

I did not understand this then but in the last two days since the terrorist activities in the UK were brought to a head I was not surprised when there were reports that those arrested were all involved in the health services.

Those terrible words “those who cure you will kill you” suddenly made sense.

The litany of planned killing was horrendous. I do not know why I was told this by an Iraqi Sunni living then in Syria. I passed on this information to our FCO. I then learned that this person was a senior Al Qaeda figure and so was indeed bent on the destruction of innocent lives.

I will never forget this meeting. It remains the worst I have ever had. I hope I never have one like it again.

More lunacy from Planet San Francisco, with comments from Dr. Sanity. (Photo on right is a recent piece of SF "art" from her piece.) Looking back fondly on Stalin and Mao, I guess.

Robert Heinlein. The prophet of Southern California. Reason

Can a society be too broken to be fixed? Darfur, at SC&A

Blogs are an "early warning system" for pols? SDA. Well, maybe sometimes sorta kinda.

Justice Thomas is a self-hating minority member? Whoa. Gotta disagree with Mod. Voice on that statement, as do many highly self-respecting black commentators. We were are all imbued with some Liberal Condescension towards black Americans, and it is tough to get rid of it and to treat them like normal people. If I were a black man, which I would not mind being at all, I would hate this kind of thing.

Marcus Luttrell: He says that his Christianity got in the way of a prudent military decision. Flopping. Quote:

"It was the stupidest, most southern-fried, lamebrained decision I ever made in my life," Luttrell writes. "I must have been out of my mind. I had actually cast a vote which I knew could sign our death warrant. I'd turned into a (expletive) liberal, a half-assed, no-logic nitwit, all heart, no brain, and the judgment of a jack rabbit."

The Farm Bill. Boring topic, relatively speaking. But it is, in fact, the lowest form of vote-buying and corporate welfare. I refuse to believe that modern farming carries any more risk than any other form of business. Plus nowadays they have crop insurance, can hedge prices, buy and sell futures, etc etc. These folks aren't your grandfather's farmers.

Telegraph reviews AK-47. A History of the People's Gun.

Big Brother reads blogs in the UK. A creepy story from Mr. Free Market

Hunting and fishing decreasing in popularity. Should anyone care? Env. Economic

The Two Americas: Soft America and Hard America. Buddy noted this 2003 piece by Barone.

The Tridentine Mass is back. Frivolity ensues.

Thompson dazzles Young Repubs. AOL News

Venus is back. Her opponent deserves credit for hanging in there, but Venus looked great. Her coverage of the court is mind-boggling.

How a teacher should behave, if he wants the students to behave.

The Gore shark jumping. Blue Crab. Still confused about the meaning of "shark jumping"? It's about Fonz.

Japanese hutzpah. Playing the WW2 victim card. It never ceases to amaze me how effective the victim card is in concealing blatant aggression.

A smoking rebellion begins in the UK. I hope it spreads. Tangled

San Francisco. I cannot believe this. Horrifying. Is it something in their water? Maybe a Haldol deficiency in their Starbucks?

More on rights and needs and wants. Reisman.

Twisting reality to fit the Leftist narrative. I love these examples, but they are endless.

Some musicians are in touch with reality. Cramer

What about Moslem doctors in the US? Jules

Genocide or disease? Disease wiped out vast numbers of American Indians, although that does not fit "the narrative." (h/t, Assistant Village Idiot) Squanto was alone because, when he returned from his European travels, all of his kin had died either from influenza or from the common cold virus. He must have had a tough immune system.

Who knew that running and jogging were right-wing activities? Ya can't make this stuff up.

No blog has better folksy old-timey photos.

Fake massacres widely reported. Real massacres not reported. Powerline. Our press has no shame in their anti-American crusade.

Quoted at Cafe Hayek:

...the whole idea of "sharing prosperity" seems to imply that prosperity is some kind of aggregate to which we all have some claim, much like members of a family. What justifies looking at society as a family? If it is, Prof Summers can just send me a monthly cheque without the need for legislation.

Offshoring of jobs: Has it peaked? Dresner

Al Gore: Ignorant or Dishonest? Reisman. We need to add George Reisman to our blogroll.

Taxes and the Dems: From a piece at Kudlow:

...you can’t have capitalism without capital. The process works for “rich people” and the middle class.

Whenever Democrats wage war against the rich, the middle class becomes the collateral damage. This may be the law of unintended consequences, but it is something this Congress fails to understand.

Quote of a quote at Rhymes with Right:

Those who enter Mexico illegally have committed a criminal offense, and under 1974 law are subject to two to five years in prison.

Excellent case study of the contradictions, hidden subsidies, and insane economics when a state (MA in this case) tries to control insurance pricing. Squaring the Boston Globe

Photo: 1959 tugboat for sale. Nice. You can live on her, but she ain't the Mirabella V.