Pinker argues that there has over time, been a great decline in violence, mistaking progressivism for progress. “The better angels of our natureâ€
Herman Cain wrote his own book
Often when a politician campaigns for an important post, he promotes a book about his life. And almost always that book is ghost written. I compared the partial transcripts of his interview with O’Donnell, with an extract from the book discussed by O’Donnell. They are similar in style. Likely the book was edited by a white editor, because most English language books are edited by a white editor, but if …
Progressives are not commies.
Commies propose the government run everything by a central plan. Progressives propose the government run everything with no plan at all. Commies believe that underdevelopment is a sin committed by wealthy capitalists against poor people, and propose to fix this by commanding stuff to be developed. Progressives believe that development is a sin committed by wealthy capitalists against Gaea and the trees, and propose to fix this by prohibiting stuff …
US dollar rises, because Euro smells even worse
The value of the US dollar has risen, as valued by gold and by the fiat currencies of countries that are relatively solvent. The apparent cause of this is not that there has been any improvement in the prospects for the US dollar, but that a chaotic dissolution of the Euro zone looks likely, so traders are switching to the most liquid asset that there is.
Repression
A conservative blog by an anonymous right wing academic announced that it had been suppressed, shortly after he was outed. And then, predictably, the announcement of censorship was itself censored.
Herman Cain: Not the affirmative action candidate
Because Herman Cain has black accent, and tends to use simple sentences to express himself, while Barack Hussein Obama has a ruling class accent, I initially got the impression that Obama was smarter. I should have known better. Herman Cain will answer tricky questions extempore. No teleprompter for him. Who then is smarter?  He has lots of facts at his fingertips.  If someone expresses himself simply, it is apt to …
Andrew Bolt convicted of heresy and impiety
Andrew Bolt was convicted for impugning various people by accusing them of being white, merely because they and their parents on both sides were physically and culturally white. This (calling people white) has been declared to be a racist insult. Having created special privileges for black people, many of our ruling elite naturally declared themselves to be of the privileged caste, though few of them have ever been close enough …
“Arctic ice hits near record lowâ€
“Arctic ice hits near record low, Threatening Wildlife†Since we have been observing the total ice area for thirty years, on average, assuming that there is no long term warming trend, arctic ice will hit a near record low one year out of ten. But, of course, there are two poles, so in one year out of five either arctic or antarctic ice will hit a near record low. And …
Herman Cain is front runner for Republican Presidential nomination
Governor Romneycare is, or was, the establishment Republican nominee. When his campaign turned out to be dead on arrival, Rick Perry was the emergency backup establishment republican nominee. But Herman Cain now leads 28% to 17% Herman Cain has from the beginning been the main Republican Republican nominee. Back in May I said “It is a long, long way to the 2012 presidential elections, but they are Herman Cain’s to …
The astroturf arrives to “Occupy Wall Streetâ€
Until yesterday, the movement to occupy Wall Street was genuine, with a handful of lunatics and a few homeless hippies who had lost their way to the 1969 San Francisco love in. The hilariously tiny turnout, and the general level of idiocy, was an embarrassment to the left, revealing that the left is not a mass movement, but an elite movement, that the left is merely the voice of the …