Saturday, June 18, 2011

"The only thing you really have in this world is your family"; Now, thanks to the government, neither we nor our children have that

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There really are no surprises on how the system works once you know how it actually works. And it does not work anything like they taught...

Child support was less a response to "deadbeat dads" than a mechanism to create them

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In her post about a husband and father who set himself on fire on the steps of a (New Hampshire) courthouse (hat tip to Instapundit ), Elie...

Americans and their Crazy Do-it-Yourself Hope ‘n Change

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What was really that historic about the election of Barack Obama? The extent to which he’s simply repellant. Number of U.S. Expatriates Con...
Friday, June 17, 2011

What the MSM Doesn't Tell You: Reasonable Doubts Persist Regarding the Claims that Jefferson Fathered Some or All of the Children of His Slave Sally

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While the tests did show that one descendent of Sally Hemings had a Jefferson male line haplotype, … there are at least seven Jeffersons ot...

Fundamental differences in world view regarding what this country is about: Why 2012 looks like 1860

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As the season of presidential politics 2012 unfolds, Star Parker is struck by similarities between today and the tumultuous period in our ...

It’s What You get for Programming you Population into a Bunch of Needy Crypto-Marxist Ninkompoops

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There are no takers. Literally none. Even at 28%, no-one is willing to lend the Greek government money. Zip. Nada. Nichts. Bupkus. The...

What Would that Wall of Worry Really Look Like?

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Hyperventilating CNBC host, and evil genius of stocks, Jim Cramer outlines the unlikely but worst-case scenario for PIIGS defaults . It doe...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

A Tale of Two Rationalizations

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Spain’s Cinco Días Germany's demand that private investors contribute to the bailout package must be softened, notes the business paper ...

Federal and state laws and subsidies that undermine marriage are the biggest fiscal as well as cultural issue of our times

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The 1.7 million out-of-wedlock babies born last year and their unmarried moms now look to Big Brother as their financial provider writes P...

Great Moments in Self-Awareness

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They're finally admitting how dull and pointless their summits are. Now for the stunning epiphany: "Arguably, the two sides could...

"The Catastrophe" to the Party: Some Socialists Are Calling for the Expulsion of DSK Victim's Mother from the PS

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Nine years ago, Anne Mansouret dissuaded her daughter from filing a legal complaint for attempted rape against Dominique Strauss-Kahn , a...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

1850s: "Discourage litigation" and "Persuade your neighbors to compromise"

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As Righthaven's case of frivolous lawsuits (rightfully) collapses (hat tip to Glenn Reynolds ) — with Clayton concluding that "Ri...

They Really Don’t Get any Phonier than This Guy

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Typical , usual , like whatever. Sadly, the Internet is the predator's venue of choice today. We need to update our strategies and our l...

The whole point is the effect of what Weiner did on the House of Representatives and on the country as a whole

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…among liberal commentators and millions of other Americans, there is a great deal of flawed thinking about whether [Anthony] Weiner sho...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

For One African Leader: 7 Ferraris, 4 Mercedes-Benzes, 5 Bentleys, 4 Rolls-Royces, 2 Bugattis, 1 Aston Martin, 1 Porsche, 1 Lamborghini, & 1 Maserati

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Africa's "Ill-Gotten Gains" Are Embarrassing France , writes Le Monde on its front page, as it emerges that a Paris investiga...

Bitter, Party of One!

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Many Europeans, just like fantasy-“revolutionary” Jack-in-the-Box Juan Cole, are reacting as expected the warning-laden message in Robert G...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Compare with Bin Laden's Death at the Hands of the U.S.: When a Cuban Dissident Is Killed by Havana, Only a Couple of French Readers Bother Reacting

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While a Cuban dissident dies in the custody of the Santa Clara police, excitement is the order of the day as the AFP recounts in Le Monde ...

Highly Recommended

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David Mamet's The Secret Knowledge (On the Dismantling of American Culture)

The European Members in NATO should just “Declare Victory and Go Home”

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In a policy speech given in Brussels, outgoing US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates took umbrage with NATO’s European members’ dismal non-pa...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

"A victory for biodiversity in Europe”: EU Court Backs French Hamsters

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The wheels of justice have spun in favour of the Great Alsatian Hamster, reports the Wall Street Journal's John W. Miller from Bruss...