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Comments, themes, etc.
A reader brought it to my attention that on Chrome/Firefox the new theme was forcing registration. That was not the setting in WordPress, but the caprice of the theme. An issue I did not notice because I am always registered. … Continue reading
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Race riots, past and future
The similarities between the build-up to the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the media demagoguery around the Trayvon Martin case are eerie and disturbing, as I write about here: Could it happen again? That is the taboo question on … Continue reading
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California’s insufficient bite of the Apple
The New York Times is shocked that Apple seeks to minimize its liability under California’s exorbitant tax rates by moving profits to lower taxing states and countries. The paper melodramatically suggests in a front page “expose” today that the economic … Continue reading
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The limits of rational thought
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has eloquently opposed two local living wage bills championed by New York’s left-wing City Council: “Government cannot bend the laws of the labor market,” he said, arguing that the bills would destroy jobs, and … Continue reading
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Doubt and belief
From the Wall Street Journal’s Houses of Worship column, by the author of When God Talks Back: in more experientially oriented evangelical Christian communities . . . people expect to have a personal relationship with God. They go for walks with … Continue reading
Christianity: a pagan heresy
Ross Douthat has a provocatively titled book out, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, so he’s making the media rounds. In general I find Douthat to be an interesting thinker, but there is one domain where I … Continue reading
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The next battle for “gender equity”
It is only a matter of time before the all-male character of prominent Silicon Valley start-ups triggers the following backlash: A flood of articles and conferences exploring the “gender gap” in the high-tech sector; personal testimonies from disgruntled female … Continue reading
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Romney’s gender pandering
Unlike National Review readers, I find no justification for Romney’s craven exploitation of delusional feminist tropes against Obama. The Republican National Committee is parroting the absurd charge that the Obama White House is a “hostile environment” for females, for example. … Continue reading
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Miscellany, April 5
More from Bradlaugh on his health issues [NRO, earlier] Saudi Arabia: “Defense Lawyer Objects to Testimony of Genie Expert” [Lowering the Bar] Monkeys taught by scientists to use money; gambling and prostitution soon appear [ZME Science] Adam Smith prefigures Charles … Continue reading
The lack of opportunity defense
At a panel last night on the ACLU, I mentioned that the organization’s standard method for accusing the police of racial profiling–comparing police stop rates to racial population ratios–ignores crime rates. In New York City, for example, blacks are 23% … Continue reading
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