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Category Archives: Media Criticism
Don’t Go To Mars
David Attenborough takes a novel and courageous stand. Let’s “sort out life on earth, first.” [Paywall]
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone make that argument before, except a lot of people, for decades.
“America? Let’s sort out life in Europe first.”
“Europe and Asia? Let’s sort out life in Africa, first.”
It’s obviously a mindless prescription for never settling new territory.
Body Fat And Age
Thoughts from Mark Rippetoe on personal health and appearance.
Multi-Culturalism And Rape
Rotherham is a part of England that will be forever Pakistan:
Pakistanis first came in significant numbers to Rotherham in the late 1950s and early ’60s, in the wave of immigration that brought men from the Indian subcontinent to Britain, largely to do work that the indigenous white working class no longer wanted. My father was part of this first wave. He worked on the production line of the Vauxhall car factory in Luton, an unlovely town north of London. In Rotherham, many Pakistani men ended up doing dirty, dusty work in the steel foundry.
The new immigrants were from rural villages, typically in Kashmir, the northern province bordering India; they were socially conservative and hard-working. When I was growing up in the ’80s, the stereotype of Pakistanis was that we were industrious and docile.
The Pakistani community in Rotherham, and elsewhere in Britain, has not followed the usual immigrant narrative arc of intermarriage and integration. The custom of first-cousin marriages to spouses from back home in Pakistan meant that the patriarchal village mentality was continually refreshed.
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Continue reading the main storyBritain’s Pakistani community often seems frozen in time; it has progressed little and remains strikingly impoverished. The unemployment rate for the least educated young Muslims is close to 40 percent, and more than two-thirds of Pakistani households are below the poverty line.
If you allow unrestricted immigration with no assimilation, you are basically welcoming your future conquerors.
Libertarians
Thoughts on idiotic and ignorant things people say about them.
Saturated Fat
…reduces the risk of sudden cardiac incidents.
Do tell.
Republicans And The Economy
This is a pretty strong correlation.
When Republicans control Congress, unemployment falls. When Democrats control Congress, unemployment skyrockets pic.twitter.com/6Y3T4sGFHv
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) September 15, 2014
[Update a few minutes later]
Yes, I know that Republicans didn’t take control of Congress in 2010. The point is that the removed control of it from the Dems. That was all that was necessary. But it will also help to oust Harry Reid in November.
Our Brilliant President
The tragedy of being off teleprompter.
Contest: Which quote best sums up Obama's ridiculous presidency? http://t.co/0KcuvAccO7 pic.twitter.com/D2mHluV7iB
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) September 14, 2014
[Update a few minutes later]
And now, he apparently thinks he's a better ISIS adviser than ISIS's advisers. pic.twitter.com/PNCyIacfFB
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 14, 2014
[Update a while later]
Five lies that shaped the Obama presidency.
[Afternoon update]
Barack Obama’s biggest lie (and not, it’s not about keeping your plan and doctor). No, Mr. President, the Islamic State is actually as Islamic as can be.
Criminalizing Dissent
Why the Left wants to repeal the First Amendment.
Free speech for me, not for thee.
Free Speech At Berkeley
Eugene Volokh rewrites Chancellor Dirks’s email for him.
[Via Ken White, who notes that Dirks has clarified his position, no doubt in response to the justifiable criticism]