How trade policy caused them to lose it.
The Individual Mandate
Why both Gingrich and Romney are awful, and unconservative, though at least Gingrich has figured out the score, while Romney continues to double down.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s video of Romney continuing to defend the mandate as “conservative.” This tells us that he has no idea what conservative principles are, because in fact it is tyrannical.
The Beauty Who Killed The Beast
The little-known story of the woman who was instrumental in bringing down the Soviet Union.
New Frontiers In Biometrics
Britain’s Future
…lies with America, not Europe.
Time to restore the Anglosphere.
The Seven Most Illuminating Economic Charts
…of 2011. This is just one of them.
Life Among The Barbarians
A story of hoplophobic bigotry in New York.
Two Weiners Better Than One?
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse: Anthony Weiner wanted to do a threesome — with another guy.
[Update a few minutes later]
More thoughts from Ace. All I can say is eeeeeeeuuuuuuuwwwww. And TMI.
You know what, though? After watching the slime for years, none of this really surprises me.
The Singularity Is Not Near
Michael Shermer may be right, but he certainly doesn’t make the case for it. It just looks like an unsupported assertion to me. And he seems to conflate AI with the Singularity.
The New York Times Gun Lie
…and media lies in general:
What would happen if all of the stories in the Times – or the Washington Post, or your local newspaper or television news – were subject to the sort of expert scrutiny as this Luo article, in a given day or week? What percentage of reporting would we discover is marginally biased, seriously slanted, or even fabricated?
I strongly suspect that the resulting scrutiny would reveal a dark and ugly secret that the media isn’t remotely interested in reporting the news, it’s interested in shaping the news, and your perception of the world.
Yes, and a full decade into the blogosphere, they still often get away with it.