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The Diversity Racket IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.solitary-tree

The Diversity Racket

Will May 19, 2009
There are more than a few compelling reasons to avoid a completely homogeneous workforce, but Matt Labash’s...
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Angels & Demons

Erik Kain May 19, 2009
I read Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons several years ago.  I liked some of the puzzles, and...
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The Taliban as Mafia

Chris Dierkes May 18, 2009
Here’s what I wrote the other day: Now they [The Taliban] are more like a mafia, in...
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Quote of the Day

Chris Dierkes May 18, 2009
To James Poulos: Having Terry [McAuliffe] around is like having the Geico gecko’s uncharismatic loan shark cousin...
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faux serious introspection

Erik Kain May 18, 2009
Daniel Larison takes issue with Obama’s Notre Dame speech and especially Obama’s use of doubt, which Larison...
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a quote for when it’s about to rain outside… IFRL-Plague-AngelOfDeath

a quote for when it’s about to rain outside…

Erik Kain May 18, 2009
Pelosi-gate, in a nutshell: What did one member of the minority party know about the majority party’s...
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Slide!

Erik Kain May 18, 2009
Never understimate the value of a good slide…
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Notre Bama

Chris Dierkes May 18, 2009
The text of Obama’s commencement address is here. – Some thoughts on Obama’s speech starting with conspiracy...
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reductio ad absurdum

Erik Kain May 18, 2009
This is just nonsense.  I swear, as hapless as the Democrats may be, every time John Boehner...
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the disposition

Freddie May 18, 2009
Reihan quotes Jeffrey Toobin: In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts...
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old media, meet new media… IFRL-Plague-Pavia

old media, meet new media…

Erik Kain May 18, 2009
…just don’t steal from new media, okay?  Oh, the scandal of it all….  For shame!
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it was never the case that all terrorists were Muslim

Freddie May 18, 2009
So on the occasion of the apparent demise of the Tamil Tigers, it’s worth pointing out that...
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Sunday Poem Series

Freddie May 17, 2009
The Golf Links Sarah Norcliffe Leghorn The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every...
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Saturday Juke Joint

Chris Dierkes May 16, 2009
Back by popular demand positive comments from Dave and Will and the fact that with Scott gone...
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George R.R. Martin is not your bitch. IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-31837358563_2a043dbf2e_o

George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.

Erik Kain May 15, 2009
Well, it looks like HBO will begin shooting the pilot episode for George R. R. Martin’s A...
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I was a teenage border patrol agent

Will May 15, 2009
This is, without a doubt, the creepiest thing you will read all week: The responding officers —...
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an ocean full of paper boats

Erik Kain May 15, 2009
“I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood...
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Transatlanticism

Will May 15, 2009
Via Reason, here’s an interesting article on Europe and the United States’ cultural and political commonalities. Worth...
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(non)coercion

Chris Dierkes May 14, 2009
Reading over Will’s post about Geert Wilders’ manifesto to save Western Civilization got me thinking.  Not so...
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thursday art walk

Erik Kain May 14, 2009
The 2000 Yard Stare by Tom Lea
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