May 22, 2006

"The Da Vinci Code"

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From my upcoming review in The American Conservative : In...

Has anybody seen Victor Davis Hanson and the War Nerd in the same room together?

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And that incident where VDH accused Gary Brecher of setting his vineyard on fire ... didn't that seem a little odd to y...
May 20, 2006

A genuine conspiracy

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While the media is worked up over the ludicrous conspiracy theory in "The Da Vinci Code," Sen....

Swedish fury over miscegenation ... among falcons:

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Nature and falconry writer Steve Bodio sends me this, which offers an amusing perspective on the ...

Huge opening day for "Da Vinci Code:"

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$29.5 million . If that estimate holds up, that's the 12th biggest of all time , and the third biggest ever for a non-sequel. Why do p...

How to Fix Mexico

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It's striking how the liberal media pays so little attention to one massive flaw of the Mexican state: not enough taxation of the rich...
May 19, 2006

Coming to a falafel stand near you:

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I hope Iraqi cuisine is tasty, because Iraqi restaurants may be the only thing we'll get out of our Mesopotamian adventure. (Of course...

The demographics of 2100

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The Opinionator offers some rough forecasts of what the make-up of the US and the world will be like in 2100. I have been musing about cu...
May 18, 2006

How to get rich off of being wrong

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There are a lot of ways to get rich off of making correct predictions, but if you want to get rich off be...
May 17, 2006

Better buzzwords for Tom Wolfe's "fiction-absolute:"

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A reader suggests the following potential replacements for Wolfe's important concept that ...

Electing a new people

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Eunomia on the Senate Bill: Not only doe...

Hey, at least somebody liked it!

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" Bush's Immigration Speech Hit All the Right Notes" By Dick Morris ...

The Debacle of the Economists:

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The immigration debate is bringing out the worst in many economists: their devotion to assume-we-have-a-can-opener models over reality, th...
May 16, 2006

Wall Street Journal: It's Sailer's fault Bush's speech was a relative failure

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James Taranto, editor of the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com website, notes in his " B...

Occam's Butterknife in action

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Missing the point: A press release from UCLA trumpets: ...

Ah, the sweet life in Latin America!

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Real life is making the Brazilian gangster cult film " City of God" look like "Sesame Street." ...

Reactions to the Bush immigration speech

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The VDARE.com blog is covering the Senate as it shoots down common-sense amendments to the Hag...

The American Conservative issue of May 22, 2006

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New American Conservative issue semi-online: ...