9 Absurd Edit Justifications By Wikipedia's Neil Tyson Truthers

9 Absurd Edit Justifications By Wikipedia's Neil Tyson Truthers: "What’s the difference between Jesus Christ and a Neil deGrasse Tyson quote? For starters, we have historical evidence that Jesus Christ existed."



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Another Day, Another Quote Fabricated By Neil deGrasse Tyson

Another Day, Another Quote Fabricated By Neil deGrasse Tyson: "“I’m beginning to think this Neil deGrasse Tyson fellow is a serial fabricator of quotes.” — President Thomas Jefferson, “Stuff Jefferson Said: The Prequel,” Originally self-published at Amazon.com in 1573"



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Yale Needs Remedial English | National Review Online

Yale Needs Remedial English | National Review Online: "Not to belabor the obvious but always-worth-reiterating point: If Dick Cheney had deployed a defamatory ethnic stereotype in the course of denouncing some political enemies, the media’s pound of flesh would have been extracted with a degree of giddiness and brutality not seen since Trent Lott had the bad sense to say something nice about some decrepit old Dixiecrat coot on the occasion of his 100th birthday. One suspects that the exquisitely sensitive ladies and gentlemen of the Times would be rather less baffled, too."



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Obama’s Reluctant Rush to War | National Review Online

Obama’s Reluctant Rush to War | National Review Online: "We are through the looking glass when it is okay to say that opposition to requiring elderly nuns to pay for birth control is part of a “war on women” but airstrikes and coordinated ground attacks by allied militias aren’t like a “war” on terrorists."



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MTV Uncovers Incredible, Inexplicable 'Paradox' | National Review Online

MTV Uncovers Incredible, Inexplicable 'Paradox' | National Review Online: "A survey conducted by MTV asked 3,000 Millennials ages 14 to 24 their thoughts on race-related issues, including affirmative action for college acceptance, in May. And what it found was seemingly paradoxical: 90 percent of Millennials surveyed “believe that everyone should be treated the same regardless of race,” yet 88 percent opposed affirmative action."



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Raise the Minimum Wage, Raise it Now «

Raise the Minimum Wage, Raise it Now «: "When I first started writing here at TUW in earnest nearly a decade ago, I actually used to spend time writing up the very simple economic arguments, rooted in price theory and the empirical literature, regarding the minimum wage and many other proposed policies. There was once a time that I persuaded myself that a good dose of pure logic was enough to “win” an argument. Certainly a lot has changed. I don’t try to “win” arguments anymore – I probably spend a lot of energy just evading them now."



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Ian Paisley, R.I.P. | National Review Online

Ian Paisley, R.I.P. | National Review Online: "I suppose that Paisley will have to spend a fair tranche of eternity in Purgatory for his sins. As we have established, however, he would say exactly the same about me."



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REVIEW: ‘Mr. Go,’ The Korean Movie About A Home-Run-Hitting Gorilla

REVIEW: ‘Mr. Go,’ The Korean Movie About A Home-Run-Hitting Gorilla: "Are gorillas even allowed to play professional baseball?

Excellent question. The answer is yes, apparently, as we find out during some sort of sports roundtable show that starts with the host saying “It doesn’t say anywhere that a baseball team has to be made up of nine humans” and features the agent saying “Man is his own worst enemy. A trained animal is much safer than an irrational man.”

CASE CLOSED."



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Vladimir Putin’s Hitlerian Mind | National Review Online

Vladimir Putin’s Hitlerian Mind | National Review Online: "On the evening of August 31, 1939, Nazi SS personnel pretending to be Polish partisans seized the station, which was about four miles inside Germany (Gliwice is now in Poland), proclaiming that Poland was invading Germany to achieve “our just [territorial] claims,” and shot a German prisoner dressed in a stolen Polish uniform, giving Hitler his pretext for declaring war the next day."



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Vladimir Putin’s Hitlerian Mind | National Review Online

Vladimir Putin’s Hitlerian Mind | National Review Online: "The Islamic State is a nasty problem that can be remedied if its neighbors, assisted by the United States, decide to do so. Vladimir Putin’s fascist revival is a crisis that tests the West’s capacity to decide.



Putin’s serial amputations of portions of Ukraine, which began with his fait accompli in Crimea, will proceed, and succeed, until his appetite is satiated. Then the real danger will begin."



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Domestic Policy Archives - If You're Paying, I'll Have Top Sirloin by Russell Roberts

Domestic Policy Archives - If You're Paying, I'll Have Top Sirloin by Russell Roberts: "I left her alone, but I wanted to say, no it doesn't even out. If it "evened out" for everybody, then government spending would really be depressing: all that money shuffled around, all those people working at the IRS, all those marginal tax rates discouraging work effort just to get everybody to get the same deal."



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