The Manchurian President - Rich Lowry - National Review Online

The Manchurian President - Rich Lowry - National Review Online: "The paranoid interpretation of Barack Obama’s presidency would be that he’s a plant from the libertarian Cato Institute slyly working to discredit government.

Could the Tea Party have devised a more diabolical scheme than a liberal president delivering a passionate speech plugging an enormous jobs program that won’t work and doing it in grandiose terms that identify it with the historic liberal agenda?"

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Boost Your WiFi Signal Using Only a Beer Can : Discovery Channel

Boost Your WiFi Signal Using Only a Beer Can : Discovery Channel: "Couldn't cut my Yuengling Lager bottle so I used a Mountain Dew can...
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Luis Estrada
did it work?
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Richard Mcenroe
He only gets the Fox News, Hooters, NRA and NASCAR websites, and all his spam is from the Sportsman's Guide..."

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Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers - NYTimes.com

Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers - NYTimes.com: "Though the electricity figure may seem large, the company asserts that the world is using less energy as a result of the billions of operations carried out in Google data centers. Google says people should consider things like the amount of gasoline saved when someone conducts a Google search rather than, say, driving to the library. “They look big in the small context,” Urs Hoelzle, Google’s senior vice president of technical infrastructure, said in an interview."

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LearnLiberty's Channel - YouTube

Counterpoint.

LearnLiberty's Channel - YouTube:

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I thought these videos about socialism were interesting, although ultimately flawed.

The PJ Tatler » Libyan Rebels Round Up Black Africans

The PJ Tatler » Libyan Rebels Round Up Black Africans: "The latest bad news for Obama from Libya where we learned earlier that a leader of the rebels we support is a member of Al Qaeda. Now we learn that the rebels are rounding up Black Africans there. AP says they are being held in makeshift jails, suspected of working for Gaddafi. African leaders have protested this action."

Three Articles on Bias

First from Russ Roberts at Cafe Hayek.

Second from Megan McCardle.

Third is more a case study.

Cafe Hayek — where orders emerge

Cafe Hayek — where orders emerge: "Don’t think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.”"

Could this be more Orwellian?

Intellectual Crack - By John Derbyshire - The Corner - National Review Online

Intellectual Crack - By John Derbyshire - The Corner - National Review Online: " College is primarily a credentialing rite, a prolonged and fantastically expensive mental bris."

Althouse: "Labor Day parade organizers confirm that no Republicans will be allowed to participate in this year's Labor Day Parade."

Althouse: "Labor Day parade organizers confirm that no Republicans will be allowed to participate in this year's Labor Day Parade.": ""[Marathon County Labor Council] president Randy Radtke says they choose not to invite elected officials who have 'openly attacked worker's rights' or did nothing when state public workers lost most of their right to collectively bargain."

Pretty sure this is viewpoint discrimination, making this a violation of the First Amendment.

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Andy Warhol Quotes (page 2 of 2)

Andy Warhol Quotes (page 2 of 2): ""Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what."
"My mother didn't love me." So what.
"My husband won't ball me. So what.
"I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.
I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget." "

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Andy Warhol Quotes

Andy Warhol Quotes: "What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good."

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Buchanan: Collected Works, Buchanan and Tullock, The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy, Front Matter | Library of Economics and Liberty

Buchanan: Collected Works, Buchanan and Tullock, The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy, Front Matter | Library of Economics and Liberty: "Constitutional "choice" in the Calculus is unique in that such choice presupposes a type of generational uncertainty that prevents the decision maker from predicting how the choice will influence his or her welfare in the future. Thus, constitutional choice differs from ordinary political decision making in that it is devoid of direct self-interest."

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The Desperation-of-Deprivation Myth - Mark Steyn - National Review Online

The Desperation-of-Deprivation Myth - Mark Steyn - National Review Online: " President Obama has further incentivized statism as a career through his education “reforms,” under which anyone who goes into “public service” will have their college loans forgiven after ten years.

Why?

As I point out in my book, in the last six decades the size of America’s state and local government workforce has increased over three times faster than the general population. Yet Obama says it’s still not enough: The bureaucracy needs even more of our manpower."

The Desperation-of-Deprivation Myth - Mark Steyn - National Review Online

The Desperation-of-Deprivation Myth - Mark Steyn - National Review Online: "Any tourist in London quickly accepts that, unless he hails a cab or gets mugged, he will never be served by a native Londoner: Polish baristas, Balkan waitresses, but, until the mob shows up to torch his hotel, not a lot of Cockneys. A genial Member of Parliament argued that the real issue underlying the riots is “education and jobs,” but large numbers of employers seem to have concluded that, if you’ve got a job to offer, the best person to give it to is someone with the least exposure to a British education."

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