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The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news story of the sort I’ve seen many times. So many times that it might as well be generic. A small child was killed by his mother’s boyfriend: A 21-year-old Nicetown man, who police said fatally struck a toddler he had been disciplining, was formally charged Sunday with murder. Malik…

What do you do when it’s the Fourth of July and you have a blog but don’t have anything to say? Say “HAPPY 4TH!” I guess. And supply some completely useless but entertaining trivia, in the form of fun facts I want to be true! Did you know that…. The Taft’s owned the last presidential…

For those of you who take an interest in that sort of thing, this year’s July 4th Bikini Edition is up. Not only do we have the latest Tactical Girls but we also have women shooting machine guns – visuals with sound. Plus the usual bevy of semi naked patriots. Men and women. And some…

A lingering question which arises from yesterday’s post about Cultural Marxism is this one: Are ideas by one person responsible for behavior of others? Let’s start with, Who is responsible for an idea? Normally, credit goes to whoever has a new or original idea, regardless of the idea’s rightness or wrongness. If some engineer were…

Overheard on the ‘net: Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism I note that Eric has a post up on Political Correctness. Generally I try to avoid reading the blog until I do a post so I do not feel constrained by anyone’s recent posts. So you can count this post as serendip. BTW ancient people had…

Rarely have I been so disgusted as I was when the Philadelphia Eagles hired the dog torturing psychopath Michael Vick. I had a feeling that regardless of whether he ever harmed dogs again, the man would be nothing but trouble, and guess what? It’s looking like the guy who once ran “Bad Newz” kennel continues…

Political correctness sucks bigtime. My biggest objection to it is that the focus on the proper language and rectifying “power imbalances” and shit like that gets in the way of reasonable communication, especially if you’re white, because anything you say can be interpreted as having a white privilege male power racist sexist subtext. And subtexts…

Of life’s many annoyances, one of the most irritating to me is bad driving. More often than not, the bad drivers I see are distracted. While there is no curing drivers who are distracted by their own brains, the most frequent visible distraction I see involves an incompetent driver driven to further displays of incompetence…

A new Bill Whittle video. And don’t miss his take on soccer. Hilarious. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Sarah’s last post — “You Are NOT my Mother” — was one of the most compassionate arguments I have seen in favor of leaving people alone. Whatever became of true compassion? Sometimes I think that in the name of compassion, compassion is being destroyed. Those who want to rule us forget that compassion does not…

While it’s rather tough to defend Dave Weigel’s unhinged rantings about Matt Drudge or his arrogant attitude in general, it has increasingly become apparent that something about the release of personal remarks that he had emailed to a private site just smelled funny. My suspicion was that the Post — for reasons unknown — wanted…

A song for our times. Written by Sheldon Harnick. You might think this song was written recently. The above recording of the Kingston Trio was made at the Hungry I in 1958. Cross Posted at Power and Control

While I have absolutely zero sympathy for corrupt public officials (see my extensive posts about the scandals surrounding Philadelphia’s Mayor Street), I find myself wondering why it is that the entire Michigan electorate should be forced to step in and wipe the asses of the voters of Detroit. At least, that’s my take on this…

It’s not every day that I feel as if I am the equivalent of Paul Krugman (or that my lay economic opinion is equally as valuable as his), so today is a day I can rejoice. But first I will explain. Greg Mankiw linked an influential essay by Kartik Athreya, Ph. D. (a senior economist…

When we think of eminent domain, normally we think of the government taking private land in order to put it to public use, although the controversial (and incorrect, IMO) Kelo decision expanded the concept to include government takings for private use — if that private use can be said to improve a city’s tax base.…

It all started (in modern times) with Richard Nixon “You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.” Richard Nixon as quoted by H.R. Haldeman, supporting a get-tough-on drugs strategy. Thus begins the Fort Worth…

The topic of collusion is of longstanding interest here, as I am always fascinated by the way politics makes strange bedfellows, especially the way sworn political enemies can end up working towards the same goal. This can take many forms; the following are only a few examples selected from some of my blog posts over…

The site Resist.net, billing itself as The Home of The Patriotic Resistance, is supporting Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio. So let me tell you a few things about Sheriff Joe. How about we start with the wrongful death of Scott Norberg. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: The Norberg wrongful death lawsuit was settled out of court for…

Instapundit linked to the RS McCain blog which was discussing the resignation of Washington Post reporter David Weigel. I found this comment there of interest: Danby June 25th, 2010 @ 5:41 pm The deal here Stacy is that Weigel was NEVER A CONSERVATIVE. He’s not a member of set B. He’s a member of set…