Hayek, in “The Road to Serfdom†predicted the welfare regulatory state must inevitably become the totalitarian terror state. Observe: We have arrived. America is now a totalitarian terror state. In 1992 I visited Cuba. Thereafter, I argued it was a totalitarian state, because when I asked certain questions some people fled, fearing that merely hearing …
Month: December 2010
The future is Muslim, Mormon, and Catholic
Anglican Christmas church service, ten attend, eight with one foot in the grave. Sermon is about the other foot dropping. Catholic Christmas church service, approximately one hundred attend, most of them young. Sermon is about Christmas being a time for children. Some months ago I checked the graveyards. To judge by the absence of angels, …
High returns on IQ between countries, but low returns within country
If we control for academic qualification, there is zero or negative return on IQ within a country. That is to say, of two people of different IQ but same country and the same academic qualification, the smarter one will have similar or lower socioeconomic success. If we do not control for academic qualification, IQ still …
Leftist fratricide
The unity of the left in part derives from room at the top, that the ruling elite promised endless expansion – government jobs, and quasi governmental jobs like “diversity trainingâ€, “human resourcesâ€, and “sensitivity trainingâ€, jobs for which one must demonstrate adequate leftism as a entry requirement. As the west moves into financial crisis, there …
Political correctness kills
Pajamas Media has a long list of notable and obvious terrorists, who, as moderate Muslims, were invited into the highest reaches of the US government. They only tell stories of high terrorists in the bosom of authority, simultaneously in authority in the US government, and in authority in Al Quaeda, neglecting to mention lowlier foot …
Julian Assange’s “rapeâ€
Roissy has the details: The Assange “Rapeâ€: A Case Of Spurned Groupies: These girls, excited by his internet fame, pursued him, stalked him, and jumped his bones.
Julian Assange is a hero
Yes, he is a leftist, but he is an enemy of the regnant left, an enemy of the state, an enemy of my enemy. Why are all these rightists complaining when Assange makes Obama look like a dangerous lunatic and the state department look like deluded religious fanatics? Are these rightists loyal to a government …
about one third banksters, two thirds …
The crisis is about one third theft by banksters, one third theft by rude, arrogant, and uncivil civil servants, and one third theft by the bastard spawn of welfare moms. The split is not between rich and poor, but between tax consumers and tax payers. I have emphasized the role of affirmative action loans in …
If Keynesians believed what they say they believe …
Nobel prize winning economist Krugman tells us we need stimulus, that is to say, more deficit spending. Government needs to spend more to stimulate the economy, he tells us. Government spending puts money in peoples pockets. Then they spend stuff, so people get hired to produce stuff, so the newly employed get money too. Being …
Anthropology stops pretending
Anthropology stops pretending to have contact with reality, and positions itself as pure brainwashing.