Maggie's Farm

I was addicted to making money:

 IN my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted.

The chemicals in our food

Why I Let My Daughter Get a ‘Useless’ College Degree

Nigel Farage says the unsayable: women have maternal impulses and wombs!

Gov. Cuomo needs to meet some New Yorkers

Never forget: The ‘War on Drugs’ is a ‘War on Freedom’

Obamacare: Turning the Middle Class into Ward of the State

Security Expert Hacks Obamacare Website In 4 Minutes; Accesses 70,000 Records

How Little Lindy Became a Fat Feminist (video)

So Hip It Hurts - Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen looks back.

Philomena and the back story of a D.C. insider

Pretty good movie

1 In 20 US Households Has Over A Million In Assets: This Is Where They Are

A guy who owns a gas station or two, or a dry-cleaners or two, has a million in assets right there, not including his equity in his cabin.

The Working Rich - The wealthiest Americans work for their money, and the poor could learn from them.

Eagle Scout. Idealist. Drug Trafficker?

California’s drought situation in pictures – what a difference one year makes

ObamaCare gets outsourced amid unemployment crisis

At Dartmouth, Conservative Students Barred From Campus MLK Meeting

People forget that MLK was a liberal Republican

You Might Not Know Your City Is Going Broke

Censors on Campus - Hundreds of colleges have unconstitutional speech codes. (Paywall)

Liberal journalist both decries lack of competition in news and makes a case for government monopolization of news

The man is confused

Hillary Clinton: Triumph of the Mediocre

Taxpayers on the hook for 9/11 Memorial & Museum

A plaque at the site would have been sufficient. 

Broken windows and stop-and-frisk weren’t “devastating” to “communities of color” — they saved countless lives in those communities.

Florida Universities Change Policies to Allow Guns on Campus

A book: Restoring Valor: One Couple’s Mission to Expose Fraudulent War Heroes and Protect America’s Military Awards System

White Food: “Anytime somebody orders a corned beef sandwich on white bread with mayonnaise, somewhere in the world, a Jew dies.”

 To American women looking for relief from their endless homemaking duties, the invention of sliced bread in 1928 was the greatest thing since, well…since the invention of wrapped bread in 1915, which allowed consumers to buy bread never touched by (no doubt diseased) human hands.

Forget deer birth control, State opens special hunting season in Ithaca area

I recommend importing a few wolf packs. There used to be wolves everywhere in the Northeast before the farmers cleared the land of trees.

"I don’t think anyone should be sending their children to government
buildings to learn about the perils or pleasures of intercourse or
masturbation or sodomy."

Why not? Math is too hard.

High School Teaches Children “Oral Sex” and “Anal Sex” Are Ways to Express Feelings

Teach the kids to be monkeys. That's an easy job. In the olden days, education was about an aspiration to being something more than a monkey.

More on this: UN Climate Chief Bummed About This Whole Democracy Thing

Why Texas Is Growing (and Illinois Isn’t)

Texas has more faith in the people

First tobacco, then booze, then sugar: the control freaks who would happily ban everything

Almost right, but the real statement is Anything Not Banned Must Be Mandatory

Ann Coulter: 'The Country Has Not Voted to Turn Itself Into Mexico'

NSA Official: 'We Are Now a Police State'

Krugman Can't Understand How Someone Could Be So Stupid As To Believe What He Used To Believe

Global Warming A Back Door To Socialism - And Now Even The UN Admits It

Scientists Decide Americans Are Too Stupid to Understand Global Warming’

Tens of thousands fled socialized Canadian medicine in 2013

Cuomo: Pro-life people have “no place in the state of New York”

T&A, with guns: (video) The Borderline Sociopathic Blog For Boys

Video:  Mac Pro vs. iMac: How Much Computer Do You Need?

E-Cigarettes Spark New Workplace Issue for Employers (WSJ paywall)

Uncle Sam’s dubious drinking advice

UN Climate Chief: Communism Is Best Way to Fight Global Warming

Beijing air pollution at dangerously high levels

'Journalism has died' at New York Times: Graham, McCain slam Benghazi report

Is Obama a Liar? EPA Administrator Can’t Say

NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep

De Blasio: NYC needs more monitoring cameras

Quotation of the day on the Marxist impulse…

Obama FBI Closed Case on IRS Targeting Scandal Before Interviewing Single One of 292 Targeted Groups

NYT’s Bill Keller to terminal cancer patient: You’re doing it wrong

Die already, for the greater good

Incoming ASA Chief Accuses Forbes Writer of Homophobia After Scathing Critique
of Her Anti-Israel Stance

My wife and I are atheists, but our daughter wants to be baptised Catholic

Your life is over when you have kids

Or does it begin?

The Outsized Dangers of Overfishing

Ditto to that

Fly like a bird: The V formation finally explained

A book:  The Underground History of American Education

Feminism and the Razing of the Village - Feminism promised to empower women. Instead it destroyed their support system.

“If he cheated on his wife what makes you think he won’t cheat on you?”

Capitalism is, you know, like, wrecking the earth, man.

Sultan:  Why People Fail

NSA Reportedly Can Monitor 100,000 Computers Worldwide

Poll:  Government Itself Still Cited as Top U.S. Problem

Obama Once Again Proposes Caps On Charitable Giving

Obama On Executive Actions: ‘I’ve Got A Pen And I’ve Got A Phone’

GOP AWOL As Obama Crushes Federalism

Henninger: Chris Christie Is an Amateur - The left's political methods make Gov. Christie look like Little Bo Peep.

John Kerry: Root Cause of Terrorism Is Poverty

Is he that stupid? I doubt it

13,000 teens complete Hamas training camps to emulate ‘suicide
martyrs’

Kamikazis for Allah. Sheesh.

Breathtaking Pool Trick Shots by Florian “Venom” Kohler

Why Texting Is Dying Out - The cool kids have found a new way to talk.

Iran's Rouhani: 'World Powers Surrendered to Iranian Nation's Will'

US Foreign Policy Hits New Lows After Israel Mocks John Kerry

Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and
Verizon, your overlords

America's Dwindling Economic Freedom - Regulation, taxes and debt knock the U.S. out of the world's top 10.

Creeping liberalism in America: How the ‘long march’ became a blitzkrieg

The ‘crime’ of the IRS

Lt. Lorance was accused of violating the rules of engagement and convicted of murder.

Surprise: Economic Mobility is Alive and Well in America!

The first time I saw New Jersey governor Chris
Christie on television, a few years ago, my first reaction was
astonishment: “A talking Republican!”

Homeschoolers:  Don’t Destroy This Family

The Federal war on school discipline

College Administrator Who Ran Adult Escort Service Will Not Be Fired

The Clinton hit list

Irving Kristol's evolution to conservatism: The Brooklyn Burkeans

NSA Data Have No Impact on Terrorism: Report

Welfare Dairy Queens: Will America's Farmers Ever Be Weaned From Government Support?

A Rat-Infested "Shithole" - This Is New York City's Worst School (And The Reason Why)

These are sure-fire ways to lose weight: 21 Truly Upsetting Vintage Recipes (h/t Dr X)

It's funny, but also sad. We forget how relatively poor people were in America during and after the war. People tried to stretch things, and tried to make inexpensive food appealing. Nobody was eating steak or roast chicken for supper the way middle class people do now.

Truman campaigned on a chicken in every pot. Now you can get a delicious fat rotisserie chicken at Costco for $4.99 and $3.99 when it's on special.

Ancient times table hidden in Chinese bamboo strips - The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table.

Keeping warm in Maine

How private industry used government force to kill the traditional light bulb for higher profits

The Hand of God Probably Only Looks This Way from Earth. But What Does That Tell You?

Where Life Has Meaning: Poor, Religious Countries - Research indicates that lack of religion is a key reason why
people in wealthy countries don't feel a sense of purpose.

Politics is truly the perfect con game.

Business con artists cannot hold a candle to politicians.

The Unshocking Christie Scandal - Who is surprised that New Jersey politicians play hardball?

"Compassionate Conservatism" ... Kill It With Fire!

Why Bridgegate made headlines but Obama’s IRS scandal didn’t

$12 an hour is conservative rocket fuel, says Ron Unz

President Obama's Legacy Of Economic Failure

Second wave of health-insurance disruption affects small businesses

Chamber of Commerce: Only Permanent Democratic Party Rule Can Solve Entitlements Crisis

How British taxpayers fund 'Marxist' manifesto for European superstate

A Reddit Gun Lover Has A Hilarious Present For Anti-Gun Mother Jones

Gun Auction Site GunBroker.com Marks Industry Milestone with $3 Billion in Sales

Scientists say Americans are becoming weather wimps

Lions are 'critically endangered' in West Africa

The Painted Bird: Stigma and Mental Illness

Children who watch TV may have 'damaged brain structures'

A New Market for Hedge Funds

Heroin "crisis" in Vermont

Amy Chua, from a couple of years ago:  Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior

China Overtakes US As World's Largest Trader

Dennis Rodman and Other Stalinist Fellow Travelers

Liberal Writer Calls the Florida State Seminoles the ‘Champions of Racist Mascots’

Better Health Insurance doesn’t Equal Better Healthcare

The law with the Orwellian name continues to lose support

Media Again Humiliated After Hyping Unreliable ADP Jobs Numbers

Obama State Department Finally Admits Benghazi Killers Were Al-Qaeda Linked Terrorists

Seriously, common sense is all but illegal in this country;

Michelle: Common Core and the EduTech abyss

Barone:  The Democrats' Feckless Attacks on Income Inequality

Via Zero Hedge:

The War on the Way We Were:

 When I first heard that the newest mayor of New York’s first action in office was to denude the city of horse-drawn carriages, I thought it was probably a joke. I figured some card over at Fox News or The Wall Street Journal had taken an obscure quote out of context in order to start His Honor out on the wrong hoof.

Abraham Lincoln's speech to 14 Indian chiefs: "We pale-faced people think that this world is a great, round ball"

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: “Redskins” is derogatory and offensive

Is the War on Cancer Hopeless?

Where is this Gwilym Morgan?  Where is the man who can say, they are men as we are, not savages?

I do not own a coal mine.  I am a professor of literature at an American college.  We professors, like the mine owners, do not do hard manual labor for a living.  Unlike those mine owners, if I may speak generally, we spend none of our time around such men.  We do not break bread with them, we do not live near them, we do not worship at the same church, our children do not see one another on the streets.  We are almost entirely insulated from the exigencies of bodily life.  We do not grow our own fruit and vegetables, we do not build our own homes, we do not raise our own livestock, we do not dig our own wells, we do not repair our own vehicles, we do not clear our own fields, we do not pave our own driveways and roads, we do not lay the bricks for our own schools, we do not fight our own fights.

College sports: The Elementary School of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Who’d a-thunk it? Taxi cartels don’t like competition?

Does Paying People Not to Work Create Jobs?

There’s a Scandal Brewing in Colorado, But It Involves a Democrat, So It’ll Die Quickly

Sarah Palin: I Went to Fox to 'Piss Off the People' Who Wanted Me Dead

24 Underreported Democrat Scandals That Make News Media's 'Bridgegate Mania' Look Like a Joke

Sequester: LEAKED EMAILS DEMONSTRATE THAT VINDICTIVE EXECUTIVE SOUGHT TO PUNISH CITIZENS IN GAME OF POLITICAL PRESSURE

Obama’s war on discpline standards coming to a school near you

Remember this, via neoneo?

"I argue that autonomy, or the freedom to act in accordance with your own decisions, is overrated—that the common high evaluation of the importance of autonomy is based on a belief that we are much more rational than we actually are. We now have lots of evidence from psychology and behavioral economics that we are often very bad at choosing effective means to our ends. In such cases, we need the help of others—and in particular, of government regulation—to keep us from going wrong."

Global Warming: The Unfalsifiable Hypothesis

BBC editor: BBC blackballed immigration debate

End Result of Germany’s Green Energy Policy: More Coal

Maine EBT Cards Used in All 50 States

’Nam comes to Iraq: Losing to al Qaeda, after winning