Thursday, February 18. 2016
Wednesday, February 17. 2016
Fortunately, central bankers can not control the world's economies. Unfortunately, they often seem to imagine that they can. Simple Janet——The Monetary Android With A Broken Flash Drive
Related: WSJ's Fed Whisperer Confirms - Fed Is Confused
Why do central bankers care about market moves? Does that have anything to do with their job? For whose benefit do they work? Do central bankers do any good at all?
Tuesday, February 16. 2016
 Should Taxpayers Subsidize the Arts?
University tells students to report ‘incidents of discomfort’ to campus police
Pussies, or cry-bullies?
The accusation of “verbal harassment” is the authoritarian censor’s primary weapon against our constitutional rights
What passes for microaggressions at Columbia: White male professors, ‘stressful situations’
Vassar Feminist Prof under student fire for allegedly using improper Transgender pronouns
Zero Tolerance: 2 Teens Face Expulsion, Jail for Fishing Knives, Advil in Their Cars
Brutal Dictatorship Seeks Climate Cash to Fund Continued Atrocities
Families to Be “Equal Partners” to Big Government Regarding Parenting
Families
to Be “Equal Partners” to Big Government Regarding Parenting - See more
at: http://moonbattery.com/?p=68821#sthash.WwcvQBSb.dpuf
Kotkin: We Now Join the U.S. Class War Already in Progress
In 2007, Chuckie Schumer Called For Blocking All Bush Supreme Court Nominations
What If Vladimir Putin Has Hillary Clinton’s Emails?
Guaranteed he does
Z Man:
Sanders and Trump are not leaders of new political movements. Both are where they are because they are willing to put a finger in the chest of their respective party leaders. Neither man makes a great case for himself, but like those Muslim men wandering into Germany, threatening to collapse Europe, they correctly see that the old guard is a collection of yesterday men, unable to defend their position.
TRUMP: “I Was With Marco When He Had His Meltdown. He Was Soaking Wet. I Thought He Came Out of Pool”
Stay classy, Donald
Goodbye to Leading from behind
Monday, February 15. 2016
In the socio-economic utopia to come, there will be no winners and no losers, and there will be no consequences. Human nature will be revised, and psycho-utopia will ensue.
Well, freedom and utopian equality will only be possible when every citizen is lobotomized, including the benevolent, altruistic bureaucracy (there will be no politicians, because equality of power and influence).
Drudge will have to distribute some percent of his website visits to olde Maggie's Farm. I can't wait! But which unequal person will force that to happen? Will they not need to win elections or win wars?
Joke going around DC today: "The Bernie Sanders drinking game: Each time he mentions getting something for free, you have to drink some other guy's beer."
Quite related: The Character of Modern Liberalism in One Paragraph
and on the freedom part of the equation, Quotation of the day on the relationship between free men in a free society and their government….
Sunday, February 14. 2016
Sheesh. Climate change hits New England. 6 below zero F around here, frozen pipes. Amazing what global warming can do to us. A few years ago, Mrs. BD and I skiied at 10 below. That was zippy, and we had the whole place to ourselves, almost. Wonderful. I remember putting anti-freeze in the toilets.
Agree or disagree with his opinions, the late Justice Scalia was a brilliant legal mind full of passion and wit
Geography and Economic Growth
Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender
Blame an Ivory Ban for China’s Vanishing Giant Clams
Chef removes foie gras from Valentine's Day menu after getting death threats from vegans
NYPD used stingrays over 1,000 times without warrants since 2008
"The Politics of life are easy. It's the Poetics that are tough."
The Poetics of life are much more persistent in their knocking at the door of your inner self than the Politics. Politics have their seasons, but the Poetics are our constant companions, waking and sleeping, thinking and dreaming. In a very real sense, since they run deeper than the Politics, the Poetics are the Politics' power source. But what are the Poetics about? Simply put, they are "like all Greek songs, about love and death."
...
I've stood in a room high above Central Park West where the only sound was a death rattle in an old man's throat, and told the doctor on the telephone that there was really no reason to send the emergency resuscitation crew for the twelfth time in half as many months. I sat quietly holding the old man's hand for around thirty minutes until his breathing stopped. Then I left that room, told my in-laws he was dead, and watched them mask their expressions of relief.
THE NORMALIZATION OF BAD IDEAS:
While American education goes further down the tubes, lame-brained notions are raised to levels of respectability in academe that should shock any halfway reasonable person. What has happened is the normalization of bad ideas, thanks mostly to identity politics. We constantly hear that we live in a hopelessly racist and sexist society, but the truth is that we live in such a liberal atmosphere that identity-based complaints are always taken seriously. And rarely does a student shouting obscenities at a professor or administrator get told to just “shut up and study.”
The mess that is Fannie and Freddie
The imperial federal agencies
Macho Man vs. the Pussy
Steyn having fun: Notes After New Hampshire
Trump was out of control in South Carolina debate
Something wrong with him? Acting like a complete a-hole
ISIS extremists stone four women to death on charges of ‘committing adultery’
Raped them, then accused them of adultery for it. Multicultural morals.
Geography and Economic Growth
Saturday, February 13. 2016
Grandma or Grandpa? After 7 years of a Dem president, the Dem candidates say they feel like the US has gone to hell. Go figure.
Friday, February 12. 2016
How bad is this? Huma Abedin and the Tangled Clinton Web
It is all almost unbelievable, except that it is the Clintons so nothing should be surprising. Normal people do not do life this way, even fantastically rich people like the Clintons.
Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein’s Theory
Slam-dunk Nobel
If You See A Quarter On A Fallen Soldier's Grave, This Is What It Means
University Of Texas Police Give Preacher Citation For ‘Offending’ Students
Liberal intolerance is on the rise on America’s college campuses
Where is the bold free speech movement?
Why The Sugar-Tax is So Bitter.
Government subsidizes the growers, then taxes the buyers. What?
*The American Slave Coast*
*The American Slave Coast*
Climate Alarmists Invent New Excuse: The Satellites Are Lying
New Bill Introduced in U.S. Congress to Block State-Level Efforts to Weaken Smartphone Encryption
ACLU Identifies 'Critical Civil Liberties Challenges Facing Our Country.' Does Not Include First Amendment - Is the ACLU going soft on the First Amendment?
The great money-in-politics myth
Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25.
“Sexism has nothing to do with it”: Camille Paglia on Hillary
Clinton, Gloria Steinem — and why New Hampshire women broke for Bernie
Sanders
Who Influences Hillary Clinton on Israel?
Powerline:
According to McGuire, it’s widely believed among those in the
intelligence community that a typical employee “would already be behind
bars if [he or she] had apparently compromised sensitive information, as
reported.”
Past Time for the GOP to Go Hard for the Black Vote
Top Republican: ‘Political Ineptitude' Caused Crash of Puerto Rico
North Korean Leader Kim Has His Military Chief Executed
The executions will continue until morale improves
Syrian Archbishop to West: “Why Are Your Bishops Silent?”
Christians, Gays And Women Fleeing Asylum Centres In Germany Over Growing Violence By Muslim Men…
Pentagon Kills Its Killer Drone Fleet
Ozzies solve migrant problem – for a while
Iran Infiltrates the West Bank
The Shift in Saudi Foreign Policy
Thursday, February 11. 2016
Donald Trump is post-ideological. Why is Trump, the Honey Badger, such a pheenom? Trump and the Culture of Political Correctnes (h/t Reader)
For the effort to make headway against the stories our rulers force-feed us, it has to be outside the script of our public life, but immediately comprehensible to a public educated by pop culture. And it has to be pushed forward by someone who can’t be shut up, and somehow occupies a bully pulpit that can’t be taken away from him. Basically, that means the champion has to be Donald Trump. He’s never been taken very seriously, but that only adds to his ability to say what he wants and to stretch the truth in support of the story he’s telling, and also makes it difficult for respectable people to respond to him effectively. And in any case, he has the incontrovertible authority that comes with loads of money and success in bringing off impressive projects. The effect of it all is that he can’t be ignored, shut up, or bought off, and if he insists that something is an issue that obviously should be an issue—like immigration or trade policy—he can’t be ignored. Those advantages may be enough to send him to the White House—especially in a country that chose Barack Obama, another man with a large ego backed by a compelling myth, but with far fewer accomplishments.
How American tipping grew out of racism
Out of slavery, really. My rules on tipping in the US: Always tip restaurant staff, hotel cleaners daily, bartenders, bell boy, Dunkin Donuts people, garbage man and postman at Christmas, Stanley Steemer guys, outdoor helpers for special projects, barber, etc. In Europe, always tip hotel cleaners daily. They will be much more attentive.
Here's How That Pro Cyclist Probably Hid a Motor in Her Bike
Students at Duke Condemn Racial Protestors and Call for Free Speech
The Holocaust as ‘white on white crime’ and other signs of intellectual decay
Free Speech or Hate Speech? I’ll Take Both, Thanks
Sorry, we can't ban everything that offends you – video
REFLECTIONS ON THE PANTHERS - A look back at what the Black Panthers did to deserve Beyoncé's rousing tribute at the Super Bow
Sultan on Traditionalist Rebels:
The traditionalist rebel is the snake in the liberal Eden because he does not have faith in the noble motives of the bureaucratic activists who claim to be the gods of this Eden. He knows enough of human nature to reject the fallacy that the right ideology makes men so righteous that they can be trusted with absolute power without absolute corruption following in their wake. He knows that socialists have not risen above the crimes of selfish self interest that they condemn mankind for.
Maggie's Farm is sort of a Traditionalist Rebel site
Psychiatrist Dalrymple on Psychology:
Of all the subjects of academic study, psychology is probably the most useless, or at least the most useless by comparison with its pretensions to use. In a century and a half, it has not told us anything of undisputed value. It is subject to absurd fashions, and its published experiments, even when they are interesting, are often either not reproducible or their relevance to life is unclear. The overall cultural effect of psychology is negative, insofar as it tends to alienate people from their own direct experience and causes them to speak of themselves as if they were mere objects. They then attribute their actions to forces or things other than their own decisions, one of the popular explanatory forces or things at the moment being neurotransmitters. This is a boon to drug companies but not necessarily to the population as a whole.
Study proves urban heat islands exist, even in the Arctic
The EPA is out of control – now they want to ban hobby race cars
5 Huge Problems with David Brooks' 'I Miss Obama' Puff Piece
Sanders may have won 22% more votes than Hillary, but Hillary gets more delegates
Hillary Has A Big Problem With "Everyday Americans"
Hillary’s National Security Crime Needs a Special Prosecutor
Republican Candidates Fall in Line with Social-Justice Warriors on Selective Service
New Hampshire: Carnage In The Establishment Lane
... the peccadilloes of these two individuals, while not entirely beside the point, matter less than what their ascendancy tells us about the seismic changes that are transforming the American political landscape. The political and corporate elites that have ruled, unchallenged, since the end of World War II, and whose perspective is globalist, imperialist, and mercantilist, is facing a serious insurrection: the peasants with pitchforks are gathering in the shadow of the high castle, their torches illuminating the twilight of the West. Whether they succeed in penetrating the fortress and violating the inner sanctum matters less than the destructive effects of the battle itself. Does our ruling class have the will to fight and win? We’ll have the answer shortly.
The U.S. Cyber Vulnerability Goes On
100,000 say NO to the EU: Poll says Britons wants Brexit vote - SUPPORT for Britain to quit the EU is gaining unstoppable momentum among British voters.
Go Rebels!
THE NEW EUROPE: “Refugees” Given Priority at Hospitals, Free Train Tickets, Free Museum Visits
Winning an unconventional war - Disadvantage goes to the side that abides by the Geneva Conventions
Obama/Trump Back Russian Invasion of Syria
I don't give a darn about Syria
What Vladimir Putin is really up to in Syria
The US military’s malaise - Defense policy run by the White House is faulty
U.S. Intelligence Assessment of Iran
Africa's Third Term Power Grabs: Prelude to War
Wednesday, February 10. 2016
Heard Trump via radio today. "We're gonna kick the crap out of Isis." "We're gonna close the border and eliminate the drugs."
The guy knows nothing and does not want to bother to. Why should he? He's The Donald.
Heard a black guy endorsing Sanders too. Guy said "Bernie has been consistent with his views since he was a teenager."
That's a compliment?
 Image via Moonbattery
This Is Why You Can’t Afford a House
Teddy Roosevelt: "The light has gone out of my life"
"[E]qually fit men and women demonstrate their fitness differently."
Why Food Trucks Locate Where They Do - Five big takeaways from a unique new study.
I love food trucks. Nobody has time to sit down for lunch anymore.
Rumor Says Scientists Have Finally Detected Elusive "Gravitational Waves"
Those waves make my dead lifts too difficult
When Addiction Has a White Face
The government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying
Paranoid yet?
Former Yale admissions officer reveals secrets of who gets in
Panel discussion prompts UCLA professors to admit truths about diversity courses
Do College Students Hate Free Speech? Let's Ask Them.
Arizona considering bill to ban 'free speech zones' on college campuses
AVI recommended this to me: Donald Trump supporters think about morality differently than other voters. Here’s how. Moral Foundations Theory was invented to compare different human cultures. But it can also explain our political landscape.
I read the article a couple of times and decided that I am not persuaded by that whole construct of moral foundations because the dimensions themselves seem so socio-culturally specific. Furthermore, politics is not about morality. Obviously.
Maine Required Childless Adults to Work to Get Food Stamps. Here’s What Happened.
Hmmm. So that means people like free stuff?
Government employee union president: “God help us all” if the GOP wins
"I have written here before that all the free time I used to invest thinking about how to improve my business has been spent over the last 4-5 years solely on figuring out how to comply with new government regulations."
I believe it. Only very big biz can afford the lawyers and compliance staff
Bernie Sanders is the future of the Democratic Party
Left not happy with NH
David Brooks' man-crush
New Hampshire will go down as the place where Hillary Clinton's campaign lost its way
"Settle for Hillary!"
Bill O'Reilly: Bernie Knows He Won't Win, Playing Political Theater
HuffPo Furious: “Racist, Sexist, Xenophobe” Won
After a devastating defeat, Hillary! campaign hopes to rebound with a sharp focus on African Americans.
"I ain't no ways tarred."
France to Shut Down Up to 160 Mosques Used as Terror Centers
What North Korea’s Latest Missile Test Means for theUS and Its Allies
Hamas, ISIL Said To Be Close
Tuesday, February 9. 2016
Trump? Seriously?
A Progressive Statist Is Attempting a Hostile Takeover of the Republican Party
Trump hijacked the Republican Party. Or should it be said that the primary voters are hijacking the Party? I think Trump is non-ideological, not very well-informed, and vulgar but he is one heck of a salesman.
Reading the morning links, the Signs of Bad Science piece caught my attention, having just read this bit over at Manhattan Contrarian:
More On The Epidemic of Orthodoxy Enforcement in the World of Science
There's plenty of good science out there, but there seems to be is a political agenda at work with most of what we're being fed by the mainstream press and government.
 Michelangelo's house for sale
I want it
Indian leopard injures six in Bangalore school
Something Slimy: The Signs of Bad Science
Check out how this health nut eats
3 mistakes to avoid in your first 3 years of retirement
The LGBT mob
UConn completely blows off civil rights group complaint
How the Leftist Monoculture Took Over the Campus
White liberals and black careerists vigorously reject the MLK ideal of a color-blind society.
New Hampshire serves democracy well
AVI in New Hampshire
Obama admin accused of forcing bank to pay baseless racial settlement
Why I Hope DeRay Mckesson Wins the Baltimore Mayoralty
Bernstein Finds White House 'Terrified' Clinton 'Blowing Up Own Campaign,' Invokes Nixon
Hillary's Voice Dooms Her Campaign
Hillary Not Truthful About Wall Street Speaking Fees
Lefty pressure building on Hillary to release transcripts of talks to Goldman Sachs
Krauthammer: Youth Attracted to Sanders Because Promise Of "Utopia Where Everything Is Free"
Williamson: The real race is between Cruz and Rubio, and conservatives are asking themselves whether they can elect Cruz and whether they can trust
Rubio.
Dick Morris: Bill Clinton on Campaign Trail is 'Counterproductive'
FBI formally confirms its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server
Commenter at Surber:
For me, the point of greatest significance about all this is that the Democrat party kingmakers have known for years -- possibly decades -- that the Clintons are felonious scum, with Hillary being the lower of the two, and still felt that Mrs. Clinton was their best shot at extending their grip upon the Oval Office. They embraced criminality, probably under the assumption that the fatal facts about Mrs. Clinton could be effaced until she'd been firmly installed as president.
Every political party contains lowlifes. Power attracts that sort of person. But when a party's top managers consciously embrace the kind and degree of criminality Hillary Clinton represents, it's time for the entire nation to take note and reject it, whether or not the individual criminals in its ranks can be brought to justice.
Pentagon Forced To Prioritize ‘Climate Change’ In All Military Actions
"We Can Put Refugees On Buses": Leaked Memo Shows Erdogan Blackmailed Europe For Billions
Is Europe worth saving?
ernstein
Finds White House 'Terrified' Clinton 'Blowing Up Own Campaign,'
Invokes Nixon - See more at:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2016/02/06/bernstein-finds-white-house-terrified-clinton-blowing-own-campaign#sthash.SMUMtUcb.dpuf
ernstein
Finds White House 'Terrified' Clinton 'Blowing Up Own Campaign,'
Invokes Nixon - See more at:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2016/02/06/bernstein-finds-white-house-terrified-clinton-blowing-own-campaign#sthash.SMUMtUcb.dpuf
Monday, February 8. 2016
Boston U encourages students to get 'frisky' with '29 Days of Stimulation'
Hey - it's higher ed in the USA. Kids who don't go to kollege don't learn this stuff, do they? Too busy working.
Students Who Didn’t Get Solos in Burlesque Show Claim Victimhood Status
There are many people one might not choose to see with minimal clothes on
Here Comes the ‘Cashless Society’
Zero privacy, just like the road cameras
Abortion Rights Group Attacks Doritos Super Bowl Ad for ‘Humanizing’ Fetus
In Defense of Football
Bravo. Gladiators must sometimes get injured.
Why is it sexist when a man flirts with a female interviewer but hilarious when the roles are reversed?
Girls love to flirt and they are far better at it than guys
Drug abuse and Libertarians
Intoxicants will always be with us
How large "non-political" government agencies work: The Port Authority of NY and NJ
Bernie's Adventures on a Stalinist Kibbutz
We Thought Marco Rubio Lost The Debate, But New Hampshire Might Think Differently
Gotta think fast and adapt when under the gun of a New Jersey prosecutor with Sicilian blood
You
Go, Girls! People Magazine Gushes Over Hillary, Chelsea, and Charlotte
On the Trail - See more at:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2016/02/07/you-go-girls-people-gushes-over-hillary-chelsea-and-charlotte-trail#sthash.6G8kehZD.3vcTUOYO.dpuf
You
Go, Girls! People Magazine Gushes Over Hillary, Chelsea, and Charlotte
On the Trail - See more at:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2016/02/07/you-go-girls-people-gushes-over-hillary-chelsea-and-charlotte-trail#sthash.6G8kehZD.3vcTUOYO.dpuf
Salon: It’s almost over for Hillary: This election is a mass insurrection against a rigged system
Hillary and the Suspension of Disbelief
You Go, Girls! People Magazine Gushes Over Hillary, Chelsea, and Charlotte On the Trail
You
Go, Girls! People Magazine Gushes Over Hillary, Chelsea, and Charlotte
On the Trail - See more at:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2016/02/07/you-go-girls-people-gushes-over-hillary-chelsea-and-charlotte-trail#sthash.6G8kehZD.3vcTUOYO.dpuf In German Schools, 'Tolerance' Collides with Refugee Reality
Sunday, February 7. 2016
Well, we're going to a Super Bowl party tonight but I will confess that I have only minimal interest in the game, and it will be past my bedtime. I like to see our friends though. The thought of guacamole sickens me - and not just because of the terrible cultural appropriation. We'll have spiral-cut ham and Mrs. BD will bake 50 biscuits for it. Any excuse for a party, I suppose. An early Mardi Gras.
U.S. Streetcars Just Aren't Meeting the Standards of Good Transit
The New College Degrees: The Good News and the Bad News
Sorry, but poor kids can still eat healthy
The Liberal Fantasy of Cultural Appropriation
The
New College Degrees: The Good News and the Bad News - See more at:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/02/the-new-college-degrees.html#sthash.3NV29LtJ.dpuf
Gallup: We Hate to Admit It, but America Is Conservative
Single-payer collides with reality
The EEOC Wants to Know How Much Every American is Getting Paid
It’s Happening Just Like I Told You - The implosion of the Democrats has begun, and they’re nearly ready to be bought.
Madeleine Albright Tells Young Women Voters ‘There’s A Special Place In Hell’ For Them If They Don’t Support Hillary
Hillary’s Sincerity Problem
Hillary Clinton's venality will be her downfall
Marco Rubio is a new kind of Republican. Really.
Why Marco Rubio is a once-in-a-generation candidate - US election 2016: Florida Senator is only political talent who can beat
Hillary Clinton and rebrand the GOP for the 21st century
|
Lady Gaga - 