Anyone, it seems, can take a ride on the Not-Mitt Roller Coaster. It’s all pretty devestating, but here’s the twist of the knife: And no one seems to care about this, but as Ben Domench was noting yesterday on Twitter, Ron Paul’s posture as a “small government conservative” is a lie. While he makes sure… Read More Ace Cuts Ron Paul Into Tiny Little Pieces, Then Jumps on Them
Crises, as yesterday’s Dynastic Cycle chart (which is every Dynastic Cycle chart you looked at in school) shows, tends to happen all at once. So the rebellion in Wukan coincides with the collapse of China’s credit markets, with the stock markets following close behind. Chinese stocks are flashing warning signs. The Shanghai index has fallen… Read More China: The Thing About Crises
Last night I dropped the H-word. Even saying that strikes me as funny, because the slurs that have been applied to white people have always so struck me. “Cracker” has obvious snack-related joke connections; “ofay” seems to be a kind of breakfast cereal, perhaps an ersatz Cream of Wheat. Only “paleface” ever seems to really… Read More On the Premises of Yesterday’s Post
“Honky” derives from the Wolof word honque, or “pink man.” Wolof is the source of several common slang words in American English, such as “jive,” “dig,” and “hip.” They’re among the few things that the slaves brought with them. I don’t use the word as a means to co-opt black racism for my own personal… Read More The Racism of Honky Guilt
And it appears they are soon to lose the Mandate of Heaven. (h/t: Instapundit) Thousands of Wukan’s residents, incensed at the death of one of their leaders in police custody, gathered for a second day in front of a triple-roofed pagoda that serves as the village hall. For five hours they sat on long benches,… Read More The Communists are Just Another Dynasty
Camp of the Saints links me approvingly, like a gentleman and a scholar. And then he draws an interesting parallel between Beck and Founding Father James Otis: Otis suffered from increasingly erratic behavior as the 1760s progressed. Otis received a gash on the head by British tax collector John Robinson’s cudgel at the British Coffee… Read More Glenn Beck as James Otis
Oh, did we inconvenience the shooting of your crappy retread TV show with our silent tribute to the comrades we saw get blown apart by Japanese bombs seventy years ago? We’re sorry. (h/t: Protein Wisdom)
Dan Riehl doesn’t like like Thomas DiLorenzo very much at all. But he provides concerted proof — if proof were needed — of the neo-confederate sensibilities I found myself disliking about DiLorenzo’s book on Hamilton.
Jeff Goldstein hits Mitt Romney on an oft-ignored weakness: judicial moderation. Statism is in the very strictest sense anti-Constitutional. Or, if you wish to be kind, extra-Constitutional, which really amounts to the same thing. The first step toward fixing a politicized judiciary is NOT to bracket political leanings when choosing justices. And that’s because such a… Read More A Constitution That Can Be Escaped is Not a Constituion at All.
P.J. O’Rourke, right as usual. (h/t Instapundit) But the Occupiers are wrong about something much more important. They believe in the Zero Sum Fallacy — the idea that there is a fixed amount of the good things in life. Anything I get, I’m taking from you. If I have too many slices of pizza, you… Read More The 99% Demonstrate the Zero Sum Fallacy.
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