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According to a number of reports, people are unhappy. Nothing new about people being unhappy, except that they seem to think this gives them the right to take to the streets and attack other people. That makes me unhappy. Except I’m not going to take to the streets and attack other people over it. In…

Note the police officer who testifies at the beginning. Here is a site that thinks Burzynski is a quack. Here is a link to the Burzynski Clinic. And the link from the end of the movie: www.burzynskimovie.com Cross Posted at Power and Control

A discussion of male/female relations in the Black Community. There is a LOT of pain in this rant. Here is a white guy with a similar rant. Probably safe for work. This one by a young lady is excellent. At 11+ minutes in she talks about the war on men and shows the parallels to…

So, to review, if a woman has second thoughts about a tryst a few days later, she can, without penalty, ruin a man financially and send him to prison for 15 years. ‘Feminists’ consider this acceptable. At the same time, even though men consider being cuckolded a worse fate than being raped, ‘feminists’ want to…

I have been looking at a number of news sites trying to figure out who is behind the burning of Britain. It has taken a while but I have some results. 23.49 Damian Thompson, the Telegraph Blogs editor writes: This is what happens when multiculturalists turn a blind eye to gang culture The roots of…

Evidently, our Drug Warriors, stung by a lack of success, have decided to throw in their lot with the ATF in order to drum up support for a bigger drug war. The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration has admitted that the agency knew about and played a role in “Operation Fast and Furious,” a…

A friend of mine asked me to write something about the racially motivated attacks on white people at the Wisconsin State Fair. “It looked like they were just going after white guys, white people,” said Norb Roffers of Wind Lake in an interview with Newsradio 620 WTMJ. He left the State Fair Entrance near the…

That would be Halsted Street. Named after the founder of modern surgery. William Stewart Halsted. Who was a life long heroin addict. I propose we petition Chicago to change the street name. It sends a bad message to the kids. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Some fascinating statistics are in the news. Earlier I read that 29% of the public consider the Tea Party members to be terrorists. That seemed pretty high to me, and I wondered how many of them literally believe that believe that political advocacy against raising the debt ceiling is terrorism. I suspect that a substantial…

Why am I only finding out about this today?  Everyone should see this video.  The Rahn curve basically shows where economic growth peaks as a function of the size of government, about 15-25% of GDP.   This is the most crucial question facing our dmeocratic societies today. The video also makes some an excellent point about historic…

…but is it really a good idea to go out of your way to piss off the people who threw your party of the House last elections, and whose motivation level in the next election probably determines whether your party is thrown out of the White House and Senate too?

A fan of the American Family Association I have never been. But even I was quite startled earlier to read a report in the San Francisco that the AFA believes the First Amendment applies only to Christians: Perry’s audience Saturday was filled with people who sang with arms outstretched in prayer — and wept —…

A woman who met a man at a sex club had her car taken from her by him at gunpoint. SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A woman had her car stolen at gunpoint in San Francisco early Friday morning by a man she met at a sex club in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood, police said.…

Tyler Cowen suggests the GOP needs to be more open to tax increases. I’m skeptical. Doing the math, you could impose a 100% marginal tax on income over $100K and not close the deficit. Nor does it make much sense to seize more income below $100K, as the marginal propensity to spend is much higher…

Today’s irritating Drudge headline was this: USA DOWNGRADED: FIRST CREDIT RATING CUT IN NATION’S HISTORY… DETAILS [.PDF FILE]… And here’s Megan McArdle’s reaction to the downgrade: Americans are not going to be happy about this downgrade. They will blame the GOP.  And the GOP is not going to find it easy to defend themselves. If…

It can happen.

Like most people, I get all caught up in petty day-to-day issues. Even when discussing politics, I tend to rant and rave about the many petty tyrannies of the nanny state. A report that Glenn linked recently reminded me of how petty tyrants love to dismiss objections to their petty tyrannies. Look how petty Republicans…

In honor of Eric’s obsession with people’s obsession with what other people eat.

A little music for our time.

Ravi & Anoushka Shankar