Maggie's Farm

Wanted: Stories of Successful People Without College Degrees

Juan Williams: ‘Time to Defund NPR’

Arab News: What if Arabs had recognized the State of Israel in 1948?

Gifts of bogus statistics for the health-care law’s birthday

HNN: LIBYA ANOTHER IRAQ OR IRAN?

O: Let’s be even more dependent on foreign oil

The great paywall debate: Will The New York Times’ new model work?

SEIU Sued for ‘Harassment’

Noted Constitutional scholar on the US intervention in Libya

“…there is no greater truth than global warming, with its threat of a shrinking snowpack…”

Slate: Law of Averages - Why the law-school bubble is bursting.

Hubristic Republicans Misread Political Landscape: Albert Hunt

US Army Apologizes for Horrific Photos from Afghanistan

These guys were diabolical, if they did what is alleged. As Insty puts it:

OBAMA GHRAIB: They told me if I voted for John McCain, the news would be filled with reports of war and atrocity year after year. And they were right! 

Payne toon above from Reason.

Andrea Mitchell Explains Why NPR Should Be Funded With Your Money

Modernist cuisine, with germs and feces

NEWSWEEK gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship Test--38 percent failed.

Obama as arms dealer

Who was more conservative, Bush or Reagan?

Jacobson's Saturday Night Card Game ("I didn't call you racist, I just pointed out you're white")

Apartheid is Alive and Well in Araby

UN Organization Erases Holocaust from Palestinian Textbooks in Jordan

WaPo: Obama’s odd war

WaPo: Is there a Chavez terror network on America’s doorstep?

BBC World Service to sign funding deal with US state department

El Baradai stoned and shoed: The truth in Egypt comes out. Rubin says:

The only thing surprising to me is that the Islamists have been emboldened so fast. I thought they would be cautious a while longer in their pretense at being moderate and pro-democracy.  But revolutionary Islamists quickly become arrogant when people make concessions to them and they conclude that they are strong and victorious.

Leftists, Marxists, Anti-Semites & Pro-Union Activists Hold Antiwar “Palin Whore” Rally

Cuomo and 'the Rich' - A Democrat who isn't raising taxes.

One of my staunchly Conservative brethren at church today (all are my brethren, regardless of their politics) was adamantly opposed to American intervention in a Libyan civil war, or uprising, or whatever the heck it is.

Naturally, we Americans are being labeled "Crusaders." Not an insulting label in my view (because I view the Crusades as an effort to push back against the Moslem invasion and occupation of the Holy Land which closed it off to pilgrims), but I think it's a roll of the dice, maybe too late, partly designed to prove Obama's - or Hillary's - masculine bona fides.

War is always interesting, horror that it is. I do not know whether this all makes sense or not. Latest update: Allied Forces Attack Libya. That article leaves me confused about goals and purposes, but I am not too smart and have never claimed to be.

Our Commander in Chief is partying in Rio but he knows nothing about military matters so it doesn't make any difference. The Libs are having a fit, and  the Arabs suddenly are not pleased either.

Now back to yard and farm chores. Spring is coming, and I see the feisty Redwings at my bird-feeder. Lots to get done here to fend off entropy and nature's relentless rebellion against man's efforts to make things his way.

Government unions gone berserker:  "Governor Scott Walker wants to kill puppies."

Related: The Greatest Blog Post Ever Written?

Unreal. Now They’re Changing the Bible to Make It More Gender Neutral

That's crazy. We all know that God is a woman.

Blackfive: The UN actually acts on Libya- now what?

Powerline: One-Third of a French Fry Short of a Big Mac Meal

Obama Administration Compounds the Inherent Contradictions in Foreign Policy

Jonathan Chait Completely Misses the Point

Government Motors Guilty of Fraud on Chevy Volt

Sixty-four senators call on Obama to take up tax and entitlement reform

Good stuff on Ring Lardner: Baseball’s Loss of Innocence

NPR Admits It's Packed With Liberals

When Is It Okay To Rape A Woman?

Large Hadron Collider Could Be World's First Time Machine, Researchers' Theory Suggests

Make me 32 again

A classic headline

Moonbattery: Madison Commies Sound Off

Dem suggests GOP housing opposition racially motivated

Germans? Israel Seizes German-Owned Vessel, Aiming to Arm its Enemies

Democrats wonder: What's our plan?

How Does It Feel To Be a Victim? Ask Prof. Bayoumi

Reason: Save the Internet From Al Franken

When Can Students Challenge Speech Codes?

Sowell: Redevelopment: A High-Priced Political Hoax

Harvard’s Ferguson: Obama Leading Us Back to Carter '70s

Kerry finds his voice

You gotta be kidding.

Iran Widens Crackdown on Religious Minorities

Lastest From Project Veritas: NPR Execs Admit to Soros Funding

WSJ: Progressive Government Is Obsolete

Relationships: 10 Reasons You Should Break It Off (h/t Linkiest)

Refuting a Myth About Human Origins

Schneiderman: The Meaning of Life

It's the Enlightenment secular-humanist view. Not bad at all. Me? I take a Christian view.

“Conyers: Obamacare Is ‘Platform’ for Creating Single-Payer System”

I think it's designed to drive private insurors out of business

Housing starts see biggest drop since 1984

Lots of inventory out there. Lucky time to be a buyer, lousy time to be a seller. Them's the breaks.

Insty:

THE INTOLERANCE of the avant-garde. “That helps to explain why the ideas of the avant garde have been the same for more than a century, and why, today, avant garde means defending the statist status quo.”

And that’s a good excuse for linking this piece.

McArdle: When rail becomes ridiculous

Portland Bans Scent

I wonder if that includes anti-perspirant

Common-Sense Meltdown

Nuke terror - but it's the old-fashioned tsunami that killed thousands

Jammie on Atlanta: A Lesson In How To Scam Tax Dollars

Problem is, there is nowhere to go to in Atlanta. There's no there, there - except the airport.

Waxman-Markey:

Our agenda is more important than any constitutional principle that might interfere with it.

They aren't joking and, of course, the Left can apply that argument to anything. "By all means necessary..."

JPC: Palestine Betrayed

Rubin Report: The weapons-laden ship marks a big transformation

I believe (Jesse) Jackson and company are intentionally distorting the truth, misleading, manipulating and abusing the American people. They have been getting away with it for far too long. It is time they are called out and held politically accountable.

Are Christians Obsessed with Gays and Abortion?

Hansen in 1986: 2°-4° warmer in 2010. Reality: No change

It's not from The Onion, and it's not about a community college: "Community college overwhelmed by dumb students"

Food price inflation

Wind Farms Blamed For Stranding Of Whales

Also slice up hawks

J Street: 'Maybe Israel really ain't a good idea'

Why It’s Bad Business to Hire the Long-Term Unemployed

Prelutsky: Trying to Make Sense of Liberals

Nearly 2/3 Of Americans Say Afghan War No Longer Worth Fighting

Paul Krugman Admits He Lives in a Bubble

GOP 2012 theme: American 'decline'

I suggest "Hope and Change"

Slacking off as self discovery: The Rebranding of Indolence as ‘Emerging Adulthood’

Reynold's Law:

“The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people.

But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.”

The case that Immigration Doesn't Hurt Native-Born Workers

Intellectuals and tyrants: The Intellectual as Courtier

Powerline: The White House is trendy and ignorant

Tennessee:

"This General Assembly will not be intimidated by nomadic bands of professional agitators on spring break bent on disruption," he said. "We talk through our differences here. Tennessee is not Wisconsin."

What it's like to have an ax murderer in your classroom

A survey … invited the very rich to write freely about how prosperity has shaped their lives and those of their children

Grabar: No Longer Academic: When Activism Is on the Curriculum

We missed this: Question Insanity: What to Ask Progressives - An ex-Soviet immigrant goes Socratic on his liberal American critics.

Smart comment from Eric: Have conspiracy theories have become the modern equivalent of P.T. Barnum's freak shows?

Yes, like the warmist hysterics.

Good details of the battles of Staten Island at Walking the Berkshires

Sipp: Marketing, Advertising, and Sales 101. Great video ad for Telluride. Skiied there one week, a few years ago. Great. I hate the chair lifts without bars, though, especially when you're going over canyons. Yikes. I still have the Osprey backpack I bought there for dumping kids' clothing in when it warmed up during the day, and things were shed. You find challenging and exciting skiing there. Same as tennis: keep those knees bent.

Scorsese’s Gangs of New York: How the Left Misuses American History.

It's called "propaganda."

T-shirt via Q&O -

Belmont on urban renewal: Saving the village in order to destroy it  h/t Dr. Sanity

Are People Nicer In Cities?

Family breakdown was elephant in the room at anti-bullying circus

Medicare paid $3.1M for Viagra, other erectile-dysfunction drugs

Dead Men Risen: The snipers' story

Why is there no looting in Japan?

The Law of Demand: Pirates Cut Ransom Demands

Re taxes: How Much Money Do the Rich Have?

Internet will soon be top choice to get news in America as it overtakes newspapers for first time

Is the iPad magical?

Hennessey: The President’s budget: whistling past the graveyard

Breaking: Bill Clinton Diagnosed With Psychiatric Disorder

Not a joke

Military 'diversity': more DC silliness

 God forbid you bought an original Powerbook in October 1997 instead of buying shares (in Apple)

When Are Religious ‘Progressives’ Going to Get Serious?

Not from The Onion: Climate Change Advocates Glom Onto Tsunami to Advance Arguments

Always remember: It's always the Jews' fault

Steyn: Dead Jews Is No News

Independents want government to do more

Related, good interview from Canada: The Dependency Trap

World's capacity to store information

Alexandria has changed: Arabian Nightmare?

Pakistan council protests use of padded bras by Muslim women

Owsley Stanley is dead

Detroit Plan Makes Big Charter School Bet

Reacting with hysteria: Lieberman: Stop new nuclear plants in US

Related: WARNING: Fear-Mongering And Health

David Thompson on the Wisconsin union protests

We missed Pi Day yesterday

The invention of adolescence

"Liberals want to eradicate bullying. Conservatives want to raise kids strong enough to handle it."

One of the functions of Maggie's Farm is to push back against the Leftist bullies and Nanny State bullies and government bullies.

Moonbattery: The Ultimate Dirty Job

Are these really adults? Looks like the State Troopers are taking out the trash.

Karzai: Leave our country, please

Illinois Governor Signs Amazon Internet Sales Tax Law

So Amazon says they'll quit the state

Betsy:

When your FICA tax is taken out of your paycheck, it does not get squirreled away in some lockbox in West Virginia where it's kept until you and your contemporaries retire. Most goes out immediately to pay current retirees, and the rest (say, $100) goes to the U.S. Treasury - and is spent. On roads, bridges, national defense, public television, whatever - spent, gone.

When all else fails, lower your standards:

The Dayton Police Department is lowering its testing standards for recruits.

It's a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam.    

Robert E. Lee, read your Sun Tzu!

Libya and War

Driscoll: We are the Euroweenies We’ve Been Waiting For

Sipp: Business 101 with funk

Not from The Onion: global warming caused earthquake

Insane. But nuke plants in earthquake zones seems like a lousy idea on the face of it.

Why Moonbats Love Trains

I love trains too - if they make sense and require no more subsidies than our roads do. We have enough roads.

Obama Blames Oil Companies For Lack Of Drilling

NYM:

You do not have to be Tocqueville to recognize that the fundamental American character has always featured a powerful determination to get ahead, to build a better future on the basis of current effort and sacrifice. It is not sectional ethnic animosity that stands in the way of implementing socialism in the United States, it is the fundamental American character and the values and attitudes that the country was built upon.

We are not Canada, not because we have blacks, but because we are the rebels who threw off the yoke of monarchy in favor of Liberty and individualism, and Canada was, practically speaking, founded by the Tories who preferred being subjects and dependents. We will never be Canada.

Bjorn Lomborg on Ethanol

It's all about buying votes in Iowa. Ethanol belongs in beer and cocktails. I don't know why they don't call it "alcohol" - or moonshine, because that's what the pols want us to inflict on our teetotaling chain saws, lawn mowers, and outboard engines.

Nordlinger on O'Keefe

Factories having trouble finding skilled workers

Ready for Unionized Airport Security? As payback for union support, the Obama administration greases the wheels for the largest federal organizing effort in history.

All Hail ... Analog? When it comes to the quality of photos and music, the digital revolution may be failing us

Our ancestors are the Bushmen

So much for my family geneology

Americans Line Up for the Jobs They Allegedly Won't Do

Honor killing in Leviticus

The therapeutic mindset:

...where Hanson says that the opposite of the therapeutic mindset is the tragic worldview, I would say that if therapy sees us living within a utopian world where price doesn’t matter and where consequences don’t count, then the alternative would be a world where thrift rules and where you earn what your work is worth.

Voegli: Thoughts on Wisconsin 

Neoneo: Peter King McCarthy

Teacher tenure is poisonous: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, says it's time to put performance first

Editorial: Is America Becoming A Welfare Nation?

Yes. Entitlement is a cultural and spiritual cancer.

AVI on pick up artists

Overcoming introversion. Is the cure worse than the disease?

Forget the seven-year-itch, the breaking point for couples comes after THREE years

Schneiderman: Sex, Marriage, and Happiness

A Day in the Life of the Soros Empire

Sowell: Cynical Unions Are No Friends To U.S. Workers

"Why Aren't Environmentalists Cheering Higher Gas Prices?"

Ace:

State of Maine Gets Obamacare Waiver. As suggested (or re-tweeted) by one of my Senators, how about all 50 states?

The Bullet Train to Bankruptcy - Researchers and residents are growing suspicious of high-speed rail in California.  h/t Insty

Driscoll: The New York Times, Still Looking Out for the Common Man

Helmut Schmidt calls for IPCC inquiry

Juan Williams: NPR 'All White Organization,' Exhibited 'Worst Of White Condescension' In Firing Me

Via Doug Ross:

Juan Williams lets it fly at NPR

O’Keefe: More Controversial NPR Videos to Come

Harsanyi:

...it is nearly unimaginable that anyone on the left would support subsidizing programming imbued with even a subtle right-center bias. Let's be honest; if NPR weren't substantially left-leaning, Democrats wouldn't be such huge fans of federal funding. The rest of us can listen to, say, Nina Totenberg's slanted dispatches with the appropriate filter.

Welfare State: Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages

Corporate Social Responsibility: A Fundamentally Subversive Doctrine In a Free Society

Sick Days in CT

Volokh: Afghanistan and Nation-Building

de Rugy: The Truth About Fannie and Freddie’s Role in the Housing Crisis

Malanga's Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer:

WSJ: The Decline of U.S. Naval Power

Marginal Rev: In praise of impersonal medicine.

I still prefer the personal version. He doesn't address the shortcomings of a doc or computer who doesn't know you.

How the Tax Code Broke Healthcare (h/t SDA)

The UK wants to be a Third World nation

Rasmussen: What You Can Learn About Wisconsin Dispute from Differences in Poll Questions

The Obama Misery Index and the Rise of Obamavilles

Krauthammer to Write Magnum Opus on Politics

Iran and yellowcake again

Suze Rotolo died

WSJ: ObamaCare's March Madness -  After one year as the law of the land, mayhem abounds.

Union greed and the New York Times: Radosh

The Hill: Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000

Samuelson: Why Social Security Is Welfare

Rubin Report: Now We Know: How the Obama Administration is Going to Bring Disaster to the Middle East and U.S. Interests

Harvard for Tyrants - How Muammar al-Qaddafi taught a generation of bad guys.

Wisconsin’s Teachers: Betraying Students, Robbing Taxpayers - Are they loyal to anything but themselves?