Saturday, November 30. 2013
 A book: Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner
Welcome to the USA
The end of the Bar Car?
3 Unpublished Salinger Stories Appear Online
Doris Lessing's Impatience With Political Correctness - As we bid Lessing farewell, the blight she
spoke of—“political correctness” and, in particular, its toxic feminist
strain—is on the move again
Hillary Clinton Supporters Slowly Realizing She Didn’t Do Anything as Secretary of State
Hate Crime Hoax Exposed at Vassar College
San Francisco 'Values' Pricing Poor Out of the City - Rent control is killing the city's stock of apartments.
Campus sex:
...they discovered that young women are more likely to regret having indulged in too many or the wrong kind of sexual experiences while young men are more likely to regret having missed out on sexual opportunities, for not having been sufficiently assertive.
Friday, November 29. 2013
And the Winner of the Most Idiotic Leftist Rant Against Thanksgiving Is…
Can Red Wine Really Heal Cancer And Prolong Your Life?
Probably not, but it's worth a try
The Dirty Secret of Black Friday 'Discounts' - How Retailers Concoct 'Bargains' for the Holidays and Beyond
A sucker born every minute. But that's not really the point. I think the faux deals just provide an excuse, or rationalization, for the immediate-gratification fun of going out and getting shiny new stuff.
Church Lady says it’s Satan: Hystories
I think it's satanic
Insty found a very fun toy for Christmas
Fun for all ages
Faith and Pascal's Wager
Media still feasting on Bush ‘fake’ turkey claim; erroneous story still repeated 10 years on
From Now They Tell Us:
"Take the New York Times. In a fit of candor, it now agrees with what we've said all along — "redistribution of wealth lies at the heart of" the Affordable Care Act.
The paper reported that "economic justice" was Obama's real goal in taking over a sixth of the economy. But to make his plan "palatable" to "middle-class voters," he had to mislead them into thinking nothing would be taken from them."
Let's talk about "Thin Privilege"
Let's not. Instead, let's talk about fat privilege: they eat up all the food.
Ezra Klein: The Senate Killed the Filibuster to Save Itself
Rep. Charlie Rangel demands Americans “Drop the charade of democracy”
Small business Obamacare online enrollment delayed a year
Pope Francis Is Wrong: Free Market Is Not A Tyrant
Governments have tyranny in their DNA. People making free market choices can't be tyrants.
Is Obamacare Challenging Enough for Obama?
Too easy
The Magic Money Theory of Leftism/Statism
Che Guevara in 10 Great Quotes
China's rumor crackdown has 'cleaned' Internet, official says
Wednesday, November 27. 2013
Tuesday, November 26. 2013
Yes, Obamacare's insurance standards cover quackery: Obamacare and the New Age quacks
1. How to sell Obamacare to your family at Thanksgiving:
2. And see how seriously the MSM takes this crazy story of hate:
Family Says They Did Tip Gay Server, Didn't Leave Note
3. And we received a comment from a site called Mondoweiss asking that we never link their stories again. We linked the report on Chucky Shumer. I checked their website, where they say "To publish a diversity of voices to promote dialogue on these important issues." Hmmm.
 Who says Poodles don't hunt? Photo above and on right via Lakeland Hunting Poodles
A book: Arthur Herman's The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
Obviously racist: Katy Perry Flagged as Racist After AMAs Performance
The FDA Wants to Ban Berger Cookies, the World's Most Delicious Dessert
Derbyshire on Stupid Wars
Fewer people want gun control
After 85 years,
antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and
everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?
Why The Fed Can't See A Bubble In Equity Valuations
From The New Republic's Obamacare's Threat to Liberalism:
Liberalism has spent the better part of the past century attempting to prove that it could competently and responsibly extend the state into new reaches of American life. With the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, the administration has badly injured that cause, confirming the worst slurs against the federal government. It has stifled bad news and fudged promises; it has failed to translate complex mechanisms of policy into plain English; it can’t even launch a damn website. What’s more, nobody responsible for the debacle has lost a job or suffered a demotion. Over time, the Affordable Care Act’s technical difficulties can be repaired. Reversing the initial impressions of government ineptitude won’t be so easy.
Senator Chuck Schumer promises more Iran sanctions, vows to ‘defeat’ Arab world and Palestinians
The 10 Corporations That Control Almost Everything You Buy
Daniel Henninger: Worse Than ObamaCare - Obama's biggest failure is that he hobbled the U.S. economy.
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Monday, November 25. 2013
It is true. Student loans simply enable higher ed to raise costs. Economist Says Higher Ed Bubble Starting To Burst
Does higher ed produce a better product than it did 50 years ago? I very much doubt it.
Is it abuse of the system, or is it the Obama economy? As Disability Spending Surges, So Does Gov't Dependence
There was a time when anybody would be ashamed to take charity, and would knock themselves out to avoid it or to get out from it. The way some people talk nowadays, you're a chump if you don't take what you can. There is never gratitude towards the taxpaying neighbor. No Thank You notes for the charity.
People should never give up on engagement with life. Can you find dignity?
Sunday, November 24. 2013
Manias, Panics and ObamaCare Crashes - A reader's guide to the coming Affordable Care Act traumas.
A synopsis of what patients, hospitals and doctors have to look forward to, thanks to our moral and intellectual superiors who take pride and pleasure in forcing "our own good" down our throats.
Saturday, November 23. 2013
Let's give thanks to government this year for all of its benevolence:
Barack suggests we give thanks for obamacare at Thanksgiving
Bloomberg suggests we address gun control around the table.
Thanks for the handy social tips, geniuses. These are recommendations for intra-family mass murder.
Friday, November 22. 2013
Tesla electric cars look pretty cool. The owners of a Tesla (assuming it's an owner whose car didn't catch fire) love their cars and evangelize them.
I'm not sure I'm a Tesla guy. Nothing against the technology, but they are expensive to buy and maintain. They take too long to 'refuel'.
Regardless, these are cars that more or less sell themselves. So why in the world do they need to engage in false advertising and hyperbole? My father, a surgeon, never advertised even after the law was changed and he was allowed to. Why, I asked? His response was that good product and good service sells itself. His business was always strong. Sometimes, however, it pays to advertise if your product is very good. But it doesn't pay to create your own standards when you do it.
It's official: Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich is Racist, Says Portland School Official
What about Fluffernutter?
Being a gentleman
No High School Diploma? No Problem: Here Are The Best Paying Jobs For You
The federal government's war on school choice
The War on Achievement
Sharpton Won't Apologize for Barneys Shakedown
Is the NY Times editorial board for the filibuster, or against it?
CEO: ‘When we go to the White House, we talk to people we wouldn’t hire.”
"Our check’s gonna come in the mail every month, and it’s gonna be on
time, and we get subsidized housing. We even get presents delivered for
our kids on Christmas. Why should I work?"
Living the reality of Santa Claus
PM Cameron: We need to get rid of all this green crap
ObamaCare Forced Mom Into Medicaid
Top Cancer Hospital Not Included on Obamacare Plans Sold in NY
Healthcare.gov can't tell consumers whether they can keep their doctors
Only a limited number of doctors and hospitals will be covered by insurance bought through the exchange. It doesn't mean you can't use them, but it's on your nickel. The Obamacare "system" seeks the cheapest "vendors."
Mead discusses The NY Times' turning against Obamacare:
Middle America isn’t frothing over Obamacare because we are a nation of racist policy wonks who did the math and hate the blacks. The public is angry first (as Edsall mostly seems to understand) because of the supremely infuriating blend of incompetent arrogance our Second Lincoln has brought to the greatest domestic challenge of his presidency. They are angry because an expensive and cumbersome new piece of social engineering looks badly engineered. But in the second place, they are angry because the liberal wing of the Democratic Party and its journalistic spear carriers in the MSM systematically misrepresented the nature of the new system.
Does Edsall or anybody else really think that Obamacare would have passed Congress if public opinion had understood back in 2010 that all those assurances about keeping your plan and your doctors were as bogus as the old line that the check is in the mail?
The UN and Israel: A History of Discrimination
Thursday, November 21. 2013
The US is not the Soviet Union. I am reaching my boiling point with this BS: The 5 Economic "Big Lies" The Government Is Telling You.
No doubt these lies are "for my own good," just like the Obamacare lies. I am sick of an overly-powerful federal government, and sick of the fawning respect it gets from the media. It disgusts me, this culture of branding and pop-culture, high-school, leg-tingling nonsense which has invaded government.
From a good post on Washington DC and it's over-importance and self-importance, Fifty Years after Dallas - In a TV cult like Kennedy’s, there is more than a whiff of Roman decadence.
The real difficulty is that the presidency has come to occupy too large a place in our individual psyches, even as the federal nation-state over which the president presides has come to occupy too large a place in our individual lives. The imperial presidency that had its beginnings in the administrations of the first Roosevelt and Wilson has grown up with the imperial state, a noxious weed that is only too likely to culminate in a kind of Caesarian first magistracy, an office very different from the one the Founders envisioned when they drafted the second article of the Constitution.
As the federal government grows ever more potent, local and regional culture diminish apace; we are left only with national power and the national sanctities. Kennedy, who made the slenderest of marks on the policy of the nation, left the greatest impression on its imaginative life. He had, indeed, an eye for the enchanting symbol. He approved the peculiar logo that is to this day blazoned on the presidential aircraft; he conceived the Medal of Freedom; he laid down the protocols for the pageantry of the modern state visit. What is more, he chose for his mate a brunette of excellent taste who turned the dowdy White House into the most stylish of 20th-century courts, and selected for his (most notable) concubine a platinum blonde who continues to haunt that dream-vision of an America in which Huck Finn, Abe Lincoln, and Betsy Ross (or some such mythical company) are forever laughing and swapping yarns on a raft on the Mississippi.
It is, alas, a spurious dream.
JFK was not much as a president, but he was a pre-Beatles pop-idol for the gals, and he enchanted the media. The only good thing about him was his basic conservatism. Rich and handsome, with good, expensive speech-writers. So what?
Wednesday, November 20. 2013
...it would be the 13th largest economy in the world.
Quite remarkable, really. It could be like Singapore or Hong Kong, or something, but much bigger, I guess. It is odd that such a thriving metropolis would elect a Commie mayor. Something in the water, maybe. Sure, it's expensive, but that's supply and demand. There is high demand to be here. Sometimes it feels like the whole world wants to move here, despite the living challenges and the fierce, if invigorating, competition.
I will ask one more time: "Why don't all the ardent Lefties who love living in this terrible, capitalistic, and thriving NYC move to Portland, Oregon? Better yet, Mexico City, Havana or Managua."
Tuesday, November 19. 2013
Sultan: The God of global warming
If You’ve Lost Country Music and College Football Fans…
Failed Left-Wing Policies Sinking Obama's Presidency
If the true history of
the West and Islam is being turned upside its head, what other
historical “orthodoxies” being peddled around as truth are also false?
The Cult of Outrage
Employment data was falsified prior to election
Capital gains: Spending on contracts and lobbying propels a wave of new wealth in D .C.
Obamacare vs. the Dutiful - Hard-working Americans might wonder, “Why bother?”
Marxist Sandinista Movement Could Maintain Permanent Control of Nicaragua - New constitutional amendments could put dictator in place
A tribute to Prince Charles, champion of anti-science, on his 65th birthday
Ireland Will Bulldoze 40 Vacant Housing Developments — Only 1,260 to Go
Monday, November 18. 2013
Sunday, November 17. 2013
Head Start is just one more useless, expensive federal boondoggle. It has a constituency, however, and nobody really wants to be "against the children." It was a failed and possibly destructive experiment which devolved into federal babysitting with unionized babysitters.
The wisdom of Reagan: "...a government program is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"
Image is h/t Moonbattery -
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Blatantly-racist Thanksgiving artwork via Pirate
A book: 
Heritage