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Sunday, February 19. 2012Sunday morning linksImage via Knish A note to smallish blogs: The New Media Proletariat We prefer to think of ourselves as "boutique" rather than "prole." Germania: Hitler's Dream Capital For women under 30, most births without benefit of marriage How anyone can build a good family and a charming life without a partner's help and companionship is beyond me, but certainly many are better at life than I am. How changes in the marriage market affect inequality stats More single adult households = lower household income That JFK was a lying, drug-addled male slut is yesterday’s fish wrap as far as average, ordinary, grown-up people are concerned. Spanish artist Miro’s farm needs tender, loving care Shocking racist incident The Economist: Over-regulated America - The home of laissez-faire is being suffocated by excessive and badly written regulation "Is Any CEO Worth $189,000 Per Hour?" Yes. I am worth that.
Federal Intrusion Into Local School Diets = Massive Waste Denmark update: The Welfare State and Freedom: A Mismatch - In order to feed the growing welfare state, Danish citizens are heading down the road to serfdom. (h/t, SDA) Al Gore Crafts Blueprint for ‘Sustainable Capitalism’ and Responsible Investing Aw, shut up Absent sincerity, diplomacy is less a system for problem solving than it is an asymmetric warfare strategy. The GOP’s Problem with Sex Could Cost Them in November - The right presents an outdated, even primitive, critique of human sexuality. Why Libya Is Becoming More Dangerous After Gaddafi's Fall Every Injury Shouldn’t Result in a Lawsuit – But That’s Just Me Germany drawing up plans for Greece to leave the euro
Saturday, February 18. 2012Saturday morning linksImage via Theo He Said/She Said: Things I Wish Guys Would Do More Flexible Hours in Your Working Environment The dark side of the universe - Scientists are trying to understand why the universe is running away from them Darn cosmos is running away from me, too Golden Eagles Killed By Environmentally Friendly Windmills In the UK: 8 INCHES OF SNOW IN NEXT 24 HOURS Kyoto worked! When I took the job at the bar, I looked down on it -- and the women who worked there. But I had so much to learn Obama: This time, he is openly running as a radical. Howie: If your name were Joseph Patrick, your candidacy would be a joke:
Geithner Admits Obama Budget Leaves America With "Unsustainable" Entitlement Commitments Why Multiculturalism Is Racism - “The worm inside the doctrine of multiculturalism is the lie that all cultures are worthy of equal respect and equally embracing of individual freedom and democracy.” - Dr. Salim Mansur A wee bit of Goldman history Are Brazilian immigrants Latinos? Communism By Insurance Mandate Mitt Romney: Campaigner without a cause Santorum is right about feminism Are Republican Voters Suicidal? Taxing Medical Progress to Death Paul Ryan: Next Generation Will Have Lower Standard Of Living Can Obama Win Re-Election by Promising Free Stuff? Poll: Scott Brown opens up 9-point lead over Elizabeth Warren Young Kennedy looking to make name for himself among the people Reid attacks Rubio for insufficient racial loyalty Farewell to the Free Market? Western governments have compounded the economic crisis by rejecting the one force that can end it. Learning from Others’ Mistakes: What Europe’s Experience with Renewable Mandates and Subsidies can Teach Texas Pelosi: Government Should Require Churches Themselves to Knuckle Under to Obama’s Mandate Is birth control fight a Terri Schiavo moment? The War on Wyden - For daring to work on Medicare reform with Republican Paul Ryan, the Democratic senator from Oregon is lambasted by keepers of the liberal flame. The Obama Effect in Latin America - Placating enemies instead of strengthening partnerships with friends Tea Party and OWS Protest Side-By-Side Against Obama in San Francisco Presbyterians Take Another Step Toward Hate for Israel Why aren't you skiing this weekend? Stupid not to: Friday, February 17. 2012Friday morning linksAbove, art's classic nudes get Photoshopped to be skinnier I read Powerline for the articles A review of the fine movie Margin Call Just what you want to hear: Planned Parenthood works around the clock to hook your kids on sex Fat in food is not "bad for you" Why Do People Oppose Development? Why Alleys Deserve More Attention DHS: 'CBP Stops Thousands of Unsafe Hair Dryers' Your tax dollars at work HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is Obamacare's deadly enforcer and leading Democratic operative. The Little Sisters of Limousine Liberalism Bill O’Reilly: If Obama Wins in November “You’re Not Going to Recognize This Country in 4 Years” This is what happens when the governing class is insufficiently afraid of the public. Detroit: The Triumph of Progressive Public Policy:
The non-religious liberty liberty critique of Obama's contraception mandate CNN poll: Obama’s job approval back to 50%; Update: Obama leads all GOP candidates in swing states Complete List Of Europe's Expanded Bank "Junk" Africa's Air Traffic Boom George Will on the Unconstitutionality of Rent Control The Advancement of the Toxic Totalitarian Nanny State - A 4-year old girl's home-brought lunch is confiscated for being "unhealthy." Henninger: What Would Clint Eastwood Do? Regarding the nation's purpose, Clint Eastwood and Barack Obama couldn't be further apart. DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz: Religious Groups “Shouldn’t Be Imposing Their Values on Employees”… That’s the Governement’s Job The abortion and contraception decision was not a mistake. Related: Beware the ObamaCare Win-Win Minnesota Lawmakers: Kill Regulations, Create Jobs Derbyshire: Facing down the Liberal Thugs The campaign to undermine Marco Rubio For Liljenquist, Mourdock, and Cruz: A Tea Party Senate takeover How the bishops undermined individual responsibility Uncle Sam and the Chinese Dragon Driscoll: The Collapse of Jon Corzine Meet the ObamaCare Mandate Committee - Think the contraception decision was bad? Wait until bureaucrats start telling your insurer which cancer screenings to cover. Federal funds flow to clean-energy firms with Obama administration ties Why We Need Words Like 'Islamist' Mitt Romney’s candidacy has revived the canard that Mormons are plotting to take over America. Jews have faced that charge for centuries. Queen of Sheba's Lost Gold Mine Discovered? (art of the Queen meeting Solomon below. Later, story is that he knocked her up):
Thursday, February 16. 2012Thursday morning linksHazard of the Trade: Bankers' Health The owls of NYC Dreyfus and the Birth of Intellectual Protest The Chastened Adulterer: How an Affair Is Like a Heart Attack and The Case for Psychotherapy His Hour Upon the Stage - As a lifelong reader of Shakespeare’s plays, Lincoln had reservations about how they were presented What Has Happened to Academic Freedom? Who Knew?: European Carbon Market Is An Expensive Failure Knish: The Liberal Uses of Race Italians expect lifetime job security Taranto: Birth Control Yes, Government Control No - Intolerance is at the heart of the ObamaCare mandate. Sierra snowpack study instantly attacked because it undermines AGW claims Nearly -40° in Europe The pupette is in Prague. She says it's cold! She left her parka at home. Media Matters Could Lose Its Tax Exempt Status Due To Coordination With White House? The workers are rebelling against their fat-cat union bosses Walter Williams: Rising black social pathology:
Talking to China about religious freedom The myth of China as a harmless tiger
Worst. President. Ever… 85% of Small Businesses Are Not Hiring – Half Fear Obamacare Costs Seeking to avoid a politically toxic vote, Congress has failed to pass a federal budget for three years. This year's new twist? Congress might not even try. Republicans Denounce Obama's Nuclear Cuts as 'Reckless Lunacy' Wednesday, February 15. 2012College for all?Kevin Carey in The Wilson Quarterly makes the case for college - or at least some college - for all. Naturally, I think that is insane, and for more reasons than I have time to list. A rigorous high school degree can still provide all that is needed to continue one's education on one's own, if wanted; all that is needed to be a good citizen, and all that is needed to perform 90% of the work out there. We all know that a college degree can mean a great deal, or next to nothing - same as a high school degree. A couple more education links: Are Colleges Ripping Us Off? Half of all college students make no learning gains in their first two years, and 36 percent show no significant intellectual growth even after four years. McArdle: Envisioning a Post-Campus America
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Weds. morning linksSee the dog show last night? Lots of wonderful sporting breeds, including the Field Spaniel (photo) Porn stars set for pole dancing battle to be mayor of Italian town Taranto Preschooler Forced to Eat Chicken Nuggets After Homemade Lunch Confiscated by Government Agent Confiscated her turkey sandwich? Obama’s Continued War on Philanthropy Bullying Statists Are Destroying Private Philanthropy The Left hates private philanthropy, always has Harvard Needs Some Schooling on the Middle East The New Rules: The Coming War With Iran Health insurance exchanges in limbo It was a silly job, but someone had to attack Obama’s #TruthTeam Millions of Dead Voters, Brought to You By Eric Holder Chinese blocked visit by U.S. religious freedom envoy, advocates say Our Benevolent Marxist Masters - Obama's budget obfuscates the difference between "need" and "desire." Government Produces Obscene Gay Sex Manual Do they have one like that for straight people too? Obama's War on School Vouchers More Doctors 'Fire' Vaccine Refusers Tuesday, February 14. 2012My reply to Dr. X's queries about church, and individual, autonomy, and state powerOur internet friend Dr. X seems to raise two questions about religious charitable organizations to which I will try to respond as an "amateur bloviator." His first is to ask, what about, say, Muslim patients who refuse to see other-sex doctors (and but hey - what about the nurses and the gay docs?) Second, he considers whether it is up to the government, via the Big Government payors Medicaid and Medicare or (slightly indirectly) Obamacare, to decide what they want to pay for. As for the first question, no problem. They should get their care from whomever they choose in whatever form they choose (unless trying to die in the ER). It's called freedom. (Last I read, however, Muslims may be waivered from ObamaCare anyway because it's not Sharia or whatever reason.) As for the second question, of course government payors can decide what to be willing pay for, given whatever Congress, the bureaucracy, and etc decides. However, that does not, or should not, require that it be provided. The requirement is the rub, and it constitutes a federal takeover, an overreach, an intrusion into choice. Of course, the larger issue is the politicization and governmentalization of medical care, which promises to create endless explosions if ObamaCare proceeds. Dr. X is quite right that we are headed towards turning the corner where medical coverage is no longer insurance, but plain payment with the feds as the Grand Medical Commission in DC. Rather than ObamaCare, I would have liked to have seen a wide-open, nation-wide market for private (including charitable) medical coverage of every size, shape, and sort with no federal involvement, and subsidies for the poor of any age - old or young. (Medicare was a giant error, since the elderly, statistically, are wealthier than the young who pay those bills with their taxes.) Muslim policies for Muslims if they want them, Muslim clinics and hospitals if they want them, Catholic policies if Catholics want to buy them, etc. etc. If unrestrained by government, the market would be providing for every individual or family want. Unfortunately, we never had a wide-open market for medical insurance due to the state insurance commissions' protectionism, or whatever it has been.
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Tuesday morning linksDon’t Be Dissin’ the Bohr Model! It's only fair. At least on Valentine's Day. Yankee Doodle, keep it up. The White Male Shortage on Campus The campi have been feminized Are Liberal Arts Colleges Becoming Finishing Schools for Women? Shocker: dirty electric cars Worse than gasoline cars Writing about Attraction to Professors Gets Oakland U. Student Suspended What's wrong with love? Brooks: The Materialist Fallacy Brooks' naivete is usually depressing for me. He needs to spend a month on the streets of Waterville, Maine (no, not in the pot smoke-infused glades of the Colby campus) if he wants to get it. Academics cannot inform him. He needs to chat with the single 22 year-old chickie with a nose ring and tats, on disability for ADD and substance abuse, with three out-of-control kids, with an entrepreneur brother who has a meth lab, a Dad in jail, and an obese 42 year-old mother on "disability" with a "bad back." This is a choice of "life-style" that even Murray cannot comprehend. "Free To Be You and Me." People "find themselves" in different ways...and these folks have "social capital" - just not the sort Murray and Brooks have. They know how to survive, how to have fun, and how to work the system to their advantage. Barack’s Smug Assault on Freedom of Religion Isn’t Just Anti-American—It’s Unforgivable Fortuño's Plan to Energize Puerto Rico MacDonald: California’s Demographic Revolution - If the upward mobility of the impending Hispanic majority doesn’t improve, the state’s economic future is in peril. Kimball: Limited Government, Religious Liberty, and Joe Biden’s Rosary:
'Takers' overtake 'makers,' threatening American self-reliance Obama hikes subsidy to wealthy electric car buyers Why, if they are more polluting than gas cars? Because it's another subsidy to the unions via GM. Young women are making more than men George Will: Catholic bishops got what they deserved Commentary: The President’s “Accommodation” "Chavez also will likely use a bonanza of public spending as he seeks re-election in the Oct. 7 presidential election" Syria, Iran, and the risks of tactical geopolitics Moody's just went apeshit on Europe Democrat Schakowsky: No Americans Actually Follow Their Christian Faith That's an argument for government control of churches? Christianity 101, Mrs. S: We are all sinners, and we all disappoint God (and ourselves) with our choices and our thoughts. Otherwise, no need for salvation. I think she is an idiot.
Monday, February 13. 2012Advice to Americans, from Euro parliament member Daniel HannanWhat Does it Take to Heal an Economy?The Fed has kept interest rates at an historic low in an attempt to help 'heal' the economy. Fed Governors have no fear of dead weight in assets, in the form of declining values and poor potential returns. The assumption is that with economic expectations so low, inflation is not a risk, and that rates can be used to 'fix' things by keeping rates low indefinitely. This artificial approach to soothing our economic woes is a dangerous game. The economy has, in many respects, become unlinked from the stock market. In pursuing the current path, the Fed has gambled on some concepts which have been tried before, though in different conditions and with varying results. Does this sound familiar? Because if it doesn't, remember that the current situation was caused, in part, by the creation of bundled mortgages, an existing tool which was utilized to try something new, with the assumption of safety baked in. In theory, the level of risk was limited. The problem with them was related to the nature of the individual loans themselves. Each bundled group offered had varying degrees of risk involved. Despite the levels of risk, many high risk assets were given very good ratings. In the end some failed, which put all at risk. Continue reading "What Does it Take to Heal an Economy?"
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Monday morning linksConstitutional Right to Moderately Corporally Punish One’s Child How the poor live in India The Perils of Romantic Love - You remember Romanticism. In Darkness - A Harrowing, Intense Film "Screw sustainable development." Personal Finance: Cyber crooks target those looking for love Energy expert on why Solyndra is the ‘tip of the iceberg’ Obama seeks return of the cool Obama Budget: More Taxes, $1.3 Trillion Added to Deficit Barack Obama is not an especially talented man, except in one respect: he is a genius at raising money. ‘Occupy CPAC’ protesters have no idea what CPAC is Canada's Harper talks oil with China as U.S. faces $4 gas Do Medical School Acceptance Rates Reflect Preferences for Preferred Minority Groups? Obama proved it is government-run health care ...taking on a billion Catholics for no reason, as opposed to taking on a measly 16 million Jews, in order to favor a billion Muslims…lacks pragmatism as well as morality. Binds and Bonds: Why the EU Should Break Up Bin Laden Gave Up on Jihad Global warmists throw in the towel Steny Hoyer: The Fact is You Don’t Need a Budget Sarah Palin on HBO Palin Movie: I’ve Created More Impersonators Than Obama’s Created Jobs NYT terms Medicare a welfare entitlement program The States Are Leading a Pro-Growth Rebellion " I’m downright repulsed by the media’s habit of mistaking a person’s celebrity for expertise, popularity for acumen, and visibility for enlightenment." At Am. Thinker:
Times Writers Rush to Obama's Defense Like It's Their Job ‘To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit’ China's impending real estate debt crash Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations Muslim Persecution of Christians: January 2012
Sunday, February 12. 2012Sunday morning links
Lincoln's Birthday: The Atlantic's Civil War commemorative issue The sound of a baby crying motivates our brain’s alertness and sharpens our ability to react with highly accurate movements. The sound of a woman crying does not have the same effect. Sipp's predictions from 2006 We Might Have Been Hauling Our Heads Around in Our Asses Forever, If the Obamas Never Told Us to Pull Them Out 'Without a New Beginning, Athens Is Lost' Top Leftist Blog: Obama Must Quash Religious Freedom to Save Earth From Global Warming
OMG, We Have Really Hit Bottom – Young People Forced to Work to Support Themselves Why DO We Still Hold These Truths...? WSJ Almost Uniquely Raises Self-Insurance Issue in 'Immaculate Contraception' Editorial CLIVE CROOK: US Taxes Really Are Unusually Progressive Obama Budget Again Skips Making Hard Choices Vid of Gov. Walker's speech: Will we let them take this guy down? Ed Koch: The Last Sane Liberal Via Hot Air:
Toon below via NYM:
Saturday, February 11. 2012Muslims exempt from Obamacare?Is this correct? If you are Muslim you can opt out of the Obamacare health care reform laws with no penalties:
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Groupon released their first earnings report, and to say the least, they underwhelmed. I had shared some of my thoughts about Groupon several months ago. But something new is afoot. In the last week, we've seen Facebook file for an IPO. It's been talked about incessantly, and there are many interesting things within the filing which have caused people to begin sharing opinions about it. Since Facebook is in my industry, I find this discussion intriguing and certainly have my own point of view, particularly since I use Facebook. Originally, I didn't want to join Facebook. Several friends emailed me invitations to join in 2007. I wouldn't accept. Finally, I joined just to stop the invitations. At first, what I found fascinated me. It's actually a terrific picture sharing facility. On the other hand, as Betty White famously said on Saturday Night Live about when she was younger, "We had PHONEBOOK...seeing pictures of people's vacations was a punishment."
Continue reading "Facebook" It's not medical insuranceClearest explanation I've seen about Obamacare: The Real Trouble With the Birth-Control Mandate -Critics are missing the main point. There are good reasons that your car-insurance company doesn't add $100 to your premium and then cover oil changes. One quote:
That doublespeak about access and cost is what I have been writing about. If it's a plan to pay for every medical cost, it isn't insurance in any ordinary sense.
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Friday, February 10. 2012Republicans Falling Into Obama’s False DichotomyMany Republicans are falling into a false dichotomy, between social and other issues, instead of focusing on the common thread that unites these issues, the gross overstepping and inadequacies of the Obama administration. Astute commentators are pointing out that President Obama is strategically steering the national conversation toward social issues – inequality or contraception, as examples -- in order to neutralize his weaknesses in other areas. Republicans, it is said, are either playing into Obama’s re-election playbook or allowing themselves to be neutralized in stressing Obama’s failed economic and foreign policies, which are part and parcel with his social policies in undermining American and global freedoms. The serial rallying of many conservatives to the non-Romney contender of the month is central to proving this point. Deep anger at the Obama administration fuels the desire for a more “red meat” candidate. This is largely unfair to Romney and fails to stress the commonality among Republicans on the core issues. Instead, it falls into the Obama trap of a false dichotomy between social and other issues. Romney's campaign had tried to calmly sound the theme of competence in facing the common thread of the Obama administration’s failures: incompetence and ideology. Romney tried to remain the gentleman he is but, defensively, instead has had to fiercely attack his opponents who fiercely attack him. This has consumed resources and credibility, and detracted from the attractiveness of the core Republican issues: the gross overstepping of the Obama administration into personal lives, crony mismanagement of the economy, and alienation of allies left adrift by Obama fecklessness in facing anti-Western foes. The social policies of the Obama administration should not be faced in isolation, allowing Democrats to draw in social liberals, but be placed in their proper context of more indicators of class warfare that undermines the freedoms of all to succeed or to have private moralities untrammeled by Washington. Democrats are smiling, as well they should. The Republican primaries are shielding them from the main thrust of the Republican message while Republican contenders for the nomination savage each other, weakening unity, and fall into the Obama traps on stressing social issues. Newt Gingritch was a false vessel for conservative hopes. Rick Santorum, a more consistent and saner conservative, lacks the attractiveness to a wider audience of those on the cusp. Mitt Romney, however, while not a red-meat orator has the unique ability to present the Republican theme in a manner, with conviction and deep understanding of the intricacies, that doesn’t antagonize moderates. Romney is not charismatic but he is competent, and has the abilities to deracinate Obama’s pretensions and unify a majority around stopping the Obama administrations’ transgressions that weaken us in all ways. Romney may not be red-meat but he is meaty. It’s about electability, and that with adequate confidence that together with a Republican Congress a new administration in Washington will accomplish more Republican and American priorities. Moreso than his opponents, Romney is what Republicans need to win, and what America needs to unseat Obama. I’ll vote for whoever gets the Republican nomination. But, I’m not happy at being part of many of my compatriots playing out a self-destructive temper tantrum that could lose the election. Get over it: there is no Reagan available, nor was Reagan all that fond memories say he was.
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The abortion and contraception issue: "If an unexpected pregnancy is a disease, then I am a disease."I think the entire discussion misses the point. The issue is not whether birth control and abortion are available. They are. The issue is whether the government should have the power to force your neighbor to pay for these things, and/or to require all insurance policies to cover them. Also, neither of these things are particularly expensive. The insidious premise of the discussion is this: If it isn't covered, it's not available. But don't people buy their own Nyquil, Tylenol, heat pads, Viagra, divorce counseling, cosmetic surgery, toe fungus medicine, toothpaste, Botox, morning-after pills and Dr. Scholl's foot products? Have people become so trained to expect somebody else to buy what they want that the premise has become distorted? I am a happy product of an unexpected pregnancy, and refuse to regard pregnancy as a disease. Pregnancy is health. If an unexpected pregnancy is a disease, then I am a disease. A tumor, or something. In fact, I cannot understand why some medical insurances cover pregnancy at all, much less abortions. In my view, we all ought to be free to buy, or not buy, medical insurance of any sort with any sorts of coverage, depending on what makes sense for us. We ought to be able to bring a check list of what we want to the table, and see some nation-wide competition for our business. Get bids, like anything else. Here at Maggie's, we tend to prefer high-deductible Major Medical coverages with our own choices of docs. Cheap protection from financial catastrophe. Here's a link: Policy and Politics of Contraception Rule Fiercely Debated Within White House
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Rand Paul "I Have A Question For The President... Do You Hate ALL Rich People?
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Frriday morning linksBook World: In ‘Bond Girl’ by Erin Duffy, a woman takes on high finance Cool title. I'll bet the movie rights are already sold. Licked to Death by a Pit Bull Insty contends that this is the best gardening book French parents may be onto something here Shyness, grieving soon to be classified as mental illness Pathologizing normality. Why? What's the Most Shocking Part of Mimi Alford's Story? JFK’s Intern Affair Tests Presidential Character Was the guy a rapist? Sounds like it. Commentary: Current Copyright Law Is Enough Foreclosure Deal to Spur U.S. Home Seizures Magazine Newsstand Sales Still In Freefall Michelle Obama Says Poor Nutrition Is A National Security Issue Aw, shut up and finish your bacon cheeseburger. Global warming is the real national security crisis Obamacare’s Great Awakening Dismantling the Affordable Care Act Washington Footing the Cell Phone Bill for Millions of Low Income Americans Douthat: Why Can't We All Get Along? People won't compromise on their basic values and beliefs Resentment of the Wealthy Elite is at an All-Time High’ Global Evidence on Taxes and Economic Growth: Payroll Taxes Have No Effect
Putin is already dead What Now? Saying Good-Bye to the Peace Process Illusion Attempting to Bolster the Economy: The Effectiveness of Extending UI Benefits Thursday, February 9. 2012Rubio at CPAC today
Good speech. Video here. He's my candidate for Pres.
It's about control, not science: if Americans took the government public health experts' dietary advice, we'd all be morbidly obese.In the past week, we have had links about government (and doctors) advocating against salt and sugar. I don't mind my doctor giving me advice (I pay him for it), but when docs try to get governments to control what to do, I get annoyed. As I understand it, it is the job of doctors to offer advice, not to provide control. Adults get to decide what they want to do. As we pointed out earlier today,Most recent: First Global Warming - Now Global Sweetening!:
Mayor Bloomberg, of course, is the poster child for obnoxious Nannyism. Here's the ultimate governmental rationale for these sorts of controls: Ideology, not science. A quote from Dr. Keane's piece (from Australia):
Indeed. Experts tend towards arrogance, not towards autonomy (freedom). And, in the long run, academic experts usually turn out to have been wrong anyway.
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Thursday morning linksA fun Law site: Above the Law A case of good, old-fashioned mass hysteria Your Food du Jour: Squirrel This is going to sound outrageous, but here goes: I've seen a lot worse. Feds debunk their food pyramid If you ate according to that scientific advice, you would weigh 400 lbs. Union Boss Tells Poor: “Life’s Not Fair” Klavan: Like Your Freedom? Thank a Church. When Democracy Murders Liberty Over time, a democracy cannot protect individual liberty. The ancient Greeks figgered that out. Can A Law School Force You To Be Racially Sensitive? Support for the saturated greenhouse effect leaves the likelihood of AGW tipping points in the cold Harry Reid Says Republicans Want to Put “Arsenic and Mercury” in the Water Of course. And lots of dihydrogen oxide too. VDH: A Post-American World? - The reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated. The truth:
America's Amazing Shovel-Ready Energy Stimulus; And It's Happening Despite U.S. Energy Policy
Pernicious rubbish on employment Surber: Mitt did it all wrong Mission Accomplished: Government Dependence Up 23% Under Obama Coyote: This is the kind of political bullshit that drives me right out of the system. Shaky Grounds for Prop. 8 Ruling Iranian official lays out attack plan to destroy Israel in nine minutes Wednesday, February 8. 2012Six square milesSix square miles of this crap in the Mohave Desert, and not a sound from the Greenies. A landfill would be a more practical use, if you assume that desert is not a worthy ecosystem. RedistributionVia Politico:
No wonder hard-working people are ticked off.
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Can anybody understand their taxes?
All that the regular person can do is to declare all of their income (unless you are somebody like Tim Geithner or Charlie Rangel - hey, nobody is perfect). After that, it's a crap shoot.
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