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That should leave a mark (but probably won’t)
February 12, 2007 – 12:10 am
Kevin Francis delivers a wonderful and well-deserved bitch-slap to the lefties ensconced at the Economist:
Oh dear! This post is just another example of the decline in standards at the “Economist” and the leftward drift that seems to have accelerated since the change in Editor. You’ve drifted a long way from your supposed standards of support [...]
Real women in the real world
January 5, 2007 – 2:54 am
No one is made at all uncomfortable by acknowledgment of the contributions of evolutionary biology to the behavior of men. And yet, one’s wanderings through the MSM could easily give one the impression that women are unencumbered by base nature, allowing them to exist solely in a political context. IOW, female behavior is either portrayed [...]
Paging Doctor Dalrymple
January 4, 2007 – 11:27 pm
The prognosis is grim (some reshuffling of ‘grafs by me):
BRITAIN is facing the first increase in crime for more than a decade and a 25% jump in the prison population to 100,000, a leaked Downing Street report reveals.
The confidential and unusually frank report from Tony Blair’s strategy unit also attacks the police for failing to [...]
Too lacking in Oxy to qualify as Oxymoronic
January 4, 2007 – 5:36 pm
I’ve only just noticed the month-or-so old Political Intelligence, from the Globe.
I imagine it’ll be a real hoot.
Well, the first sentence was pretty good…
December 28, 2006 – 4:00 pm
The NYT, on immigration:
Our Founding Illegals
By WILLIAM HOGELAND
Published: December 27, 2006
EVERY nation is a nation of immigrants.
I’m with you so far, William!
Go back far enough and you’ll find us all, millions of potential lives, tucked in the DNA of our African mother, Lucy.
BZZZZZT! No, sorry! The correct answer was “Eve”.
Thanks for playing, though.
Senator Incitatus (D, MA)
December 18, 2006 – 10:34 am
Roman emperor Caligula wanted to make his favorite horse a consul, I suspect for two reasons: first, to indicate his lack of respect for Roman officialdom, and second, to indicate that he was totally bug-fuck crazy. From VDH’s Works and Days:
Does running for President allow a candidate to freelance at a time of war by [...]
Still worthy, but more of a Liberal rag every week
December 7, 2006 – 3:37 pm
(Clearing out some older unfinished posts)
The economist blogs about the Lancet study:
The reaction to the study has been reliably partisan.
So, people who put a little effort into staying somewhat reliably informed about what’s going on fail to let propaganda from a bunch of nutjobs (nutjobs far more partisan than the majority of people they hope [...]
Quote of the day
November 26, 2006 – 3:49 pm
Over at Rants and Raves:
It seems that the Republicans self-destruct by betraying their principles, the Democrats by following theirs.
LOL! It hurts because it’s true.
Zing!
November 14, 2006 – 12:42 am
Ouch:
Mark Steyn: [...] I don’t want to get into the Andrew Sullivan, you know, “You must read this book,” says Andrew Sullivan of Andrew Sullivan’s fantastic new book. I don’t want to get into that kind of self endorsement, but I do think there is a lesson in this book for the Republican leadership on [...]
How do you pronounce that?
September 23, 2006 – 12:30 am
Instapundit quotes the Huffington Post:
What galls even more is how hopelessly naive, and reductive, those of us are who suggest that being the victim of American imperialism somehow exempts one from being corrupt and imperialistic [...]
(emphasis mine)
If you’re not sure how to prounce that (possibly French?) phrase, I looked it up. Its “Free rider”.
More crushing of dissent by the left
September 21, 2006 – 5:26 pm
Well, this sucks.
Ilkka, I hope you get yourself a psuedonym and continue your excellent writing somewhere that the politically-correct academic feminazi blackmailers can’t find you. And if you do, please let your readers in the TJICisphere know.
A message to democratic strategists
September 7, 2006 – 10:46 pm
I’ve been reading a lot lately that Democrat politicians are saying that Republican politicians are “using” terrorism to scare Americans into voting for them - a radical departure from the tried and true Democratic methods of buying votes with taxpayer money and encouraging the deceased to make it to the polls on election day.
Message to [...]
Our new Magickal Generation
August 15, 2006 – 1:49 pm
Andrea Harris:
[...] Laved in self-esteem from the cradle, the young enter the world convinced they can turn lead into gold. No situation or experience in life was supposed to be too disgusting for the Brave New Good People to transform — shacking up, spawning bastards, cursing, blasphemy, heresy — these became “living together,” “unwed motherhood,” [...]
Talk about a lack of proportional response!
August 4, 2006 – 4:10 pm
Those damn Israelis have bombed all the color out of Beirut!
I mean, really, NYT - what the f*ck?
*u
Shocking news
July 24, 2006 – 9:49 am
The New York Post:
SMARTER CHARTER KIDS SCORING ABOVE STUDENTS AT NEARBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
July 20, 2006 — Charter schools in the city are vastly outperforming public schools in their neighborhoods, according to a bombshell state report obtained by The Post.
The just-released study by state Education Department found students in 11 of 16 city charter schools outscored [...]
The whole point
July 12, 2006 – 3:33 pm
David Warren, as dead-on as usual:
The whole point of the Geneva Conventions is to encourage legitimate soldiering, even under the pressures of war. It was written intentionally to exclude terrorists and other “informal” fighters, who do not wear uniforms or other clear markings, who arm themselves in exceptionally vicious ways, who target non-combatants as a [...]
Toilet paper innovation
June 11, 2006 – 5:58 pm
Apparently you can now get toilet paper in “issues“, instead of the more traditional rolls.
Islamofascists vs. football hooligans
June 10, 2006 – 1:47 pm
From an interview with Saudi cleric Nasser bin Sliman Al-Omar:
Nasser bin Sliman Al-Omar: With regard to the World Cup… Let me ask you, brother Muhammad… May Allah protect your daughter and sons, but imagine that you are about to undergo a surgical operation, and they tell you the doctor is late because he is watching [...]
Wanking for westernization
June 8, 2006 – 9:48 pm
Just tell the Islamists you only buy it for the articles.
(via, which treats the subject in a much more mature way than either I or the Telegraph)