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Big Fat Red Line
Someone chalked a red line down the street near my house. It’s sloppy, it turns, smears, and meanders. Car tires have rubbed it pink and dogs have done to it what large four-legged animals do...
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Patterns and Incidents
Last Wednesday [that is, Sept. 4, 2013], Lashawn Marten was playing chess when he announced, “I hate white people”. Then he began hitting random white people who were walking by. By the time he was...
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The Central Planning Solution to Evil
We are not a violent society. We are a society sheltered from violence. No one in Rwanda spends time wondering what kind of man would murder people. They probably live next door to him. If your...
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From Problemtown to Solutionville
“There is no more neutrality in the world,” said Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver. “You either have to be part of the solution, or you’re going to be part of the problem — there ain’t no more...
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Government is Magic
Our technocracy is detached from competence. It’s not the technocracy of engineers, but of “thinkers” who read Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman and watch TED talks and savor the flavor of...
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Apologies from Utopia
Lilypad Ecopolis, 2008, Vincent Callebaut Architectures Obama’s non-apology apology “I’m sorry that you’re unhappy” is typical of the passive aggressive apology of the twenty-first. What was once...
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Government Power is an Economic Inequality
The editorialists talk about income inequality and the 1 percent, but they focus on individuals rather than institutions, and it is the concentration of wealth and power in institutions that...
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A Nigerian Prince Called Islam
First Lady Laura Bush, October 24, 2007 Say that you get a tempting offer from a Nigerian prince and decide to invest some money in helping him transfer his vast fortune from Burkina Faso or Dubai...
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Covering Up Islamic Terrorism for Fun and Profit
Image Tweeted August 9, 2014 If the weather is too hot or too cold, if there is a natural disaster, if a plane crashes, if crime increases, if crime decreases, if the Ebola virus rampages across of...
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The Savage Lands of Islam
The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia ruled that ten year old girls can be married off, because in his words, “Good upbringing makes a girl ready to perform all marital duties at that age.” The Mufti, who...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Feminism
Photo by Craig Hibbert In Nigeria and Iraq, Muslim armies are selling women as slaves. Iran hanged a woman for fighting off a rapist. ISIS was more direct about it and beheaded a woman who resisted...
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Super-Amnesty Will Turn Every City into Detroit
Detroit Bankruptcy Visual After another bloody weekend in Chicago [that is, Nov. 9-10], Mayor Rahm Emanuel branded the shootings unacceptable and the city’s top cop demanded more gun control laws....
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Life in Post-Truth America
Next month Americans will experience the fifteenth anniversary of the time that the President of the United States shook his finger at the country and informed it, “I did not have sexual relations...
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European Colonialism is the Only Thing That Modernized Islam
A Persian Slave by Emile Bayard (1837-1891) Like math and the Midwest, ISIS confuses progressives. It’s not hard to confuse a group of people who never figured out that if you borrow 18 trillion...
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Smartly Stupid
The infrastructure of manufactured intelligence has become a truly impressive thing. Today as never before there is an industry dedicated, not to educating people, but to making them feel smart. From...
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Youmerica
The paradox of the individualistic society is that it can only exist if individuals embrace virtues that are greater than their own needs and whims. A society where each individual acts as a little...
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The Endless Ages of Purim
Tonight the celebration of the holiday of Purim begins. Purim is a Jewish holiday often neglected outside the more religious communities in America and the State of Israel because it commemorates an...
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Surrendering to ISIS is the Only Way to Defeat It
Image Tweeted August 9, 2014 If you’re keeping score, freeing Islamic terrorists from Gitmo does not play into the hands of ISIS. Neither does bringing Syrians, many of whom sympathize with Islamic...
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In the City of the Decadents
Civilizations go through three stages: Barbaric, Vigorous, and Decadent. We can find all the barbaric civilizations to suit an entire faculty’s worth of anthropologists in the Middle East. And then,...
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The Fallacy of Focusing on Islamic Radicalization
Image Tweeted August 9, 2014 There are Jihadists from dozens of countries who have joined ISIS. What do they all have in common? The official answer is radicalization. Muslims in Europe are...
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