HILARIOUS DILEMMA FOR BRITISH LEFTISTS As part of their “all men are equal” mania, Leftists hate to acknowledge the high level of crime among blacks. Among Leftists you are allowed to blame black crime on anything but blacks themselves — with police “racism” being the usual explanation. But what if the crime is detected...

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Absurd bureaucratic attack on church music in Left-ruled Australian State When the Reverend Warwick Cadenhead, the minister at Paddington Uniting Church, tallied the costs of hosting live music at the 130-year-old sandstone pile he knew it must be a test. “My God,” he said, “There has to be a better system.” There is not....

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LYING DEMOCRAT BOSS MAKES IT EASY FOR THE GOP It looks like John Kerry has made flip-flopping into the Democrat modus operandi. Not impressive Democratic chairman Howard Dean mischaracterized his party’s platform on gay rights in an interview courting evangelicals, then set the record straight Thursday when an advocacy group called him on it....

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Hispanic future now set for the USA Nearly half of the nation’s children under 5 are racial or ethnic minorities, and the percentage is increasing mainly because the Hispanic population is growing so rapidly, according to a census report released today. Hispanics are the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority group. They accounted for 49...

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ANOTHER DOS ATTACK? TONGUE-TIED is down again at the time of writing — apparently because of a DOS attack on the host. The mirror version of TT is still available here. ************************** Brookes News Update How China’s monetary policy drives world commodity prices: Since China’s monetary pumping relative to real economic activity has been...

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SOME ARTICLES RECENTLY UP ON THINK ISRAEL ISRAELI AND JEWISH USEFUL IDIOTS: We are so used to blatant distortions and outrageous statements by anti-Israel Jews such as Noam Chomsky or Norman Finkelstein or Ilan Pappe, we have ignored the damage that can be done by Jews that Jack Berger calls “useful idiots” — Jews...

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THE LEFT ARE THE BIGGEST PART OF THE MUSLIM PROBLEM Islamic beliefs, ideas and intentions as such pose a threat to our civilization and our way of life, and not some allegedly aberrant variety of Muhammad’s faith. The elite class rejects this diagnosis, of course, but among reasonable, patriotic, and well-informed citizens the debate...

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THE REAL HISTORY OF CUBA Just an excerpt: Andy Garcia blew it big-time with his movie “The Lost City.” He blew it with the mainstream critics, that is. Almost unanimously, they’re ripping a movie 16 years in the making. In this engaging drama of a middle-class Cuban family crumbling during free Havana’s last days,...

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THE RECENT STUDY SUMMARIZED BELOW WOULD SEEM TO SUGGEST A LINK BETWEEN LEFTISM AND SCHIZOPHRENIA Leftists often follow simple rules and generalizations (e.g. “all men are equal”) to an absurd degree — in defiance of all commonsense. The study below shows that schizophrenics do that too Now, scientists say they have found that the...

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His Eminence on the Koran and on the Greenies His Eminence, the Cardinal archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Pell, advises reading the Koran as a way of knowing your enemy. He also very reasonably identifies extreme environmentalism as a religion. Muslims and Greenies are fuming, of course. Summary of Dr. Pell’s speech below: Australia’s most...

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Brookes News Update Is free trade destroying manufacturing and exporting jobs?: The trade account deficit and the movement of manufacturers to other countries has been blamed on free trade. But the picture is far more complicated than it looks Minimum wages and capital accumulation: lefty economists fail again: The Liberal Party’s labour reform legislation...

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THE HILDABEEST Taranto seems to have caught Hillary Clinton out. She said of her personal history: “So I wrote to NASA and said, ‘How do I sign up to be an astronaut?. And they wrote back very politely and said, ‘We don’t take girls.’. Taranto comments: But wait. Is that NASA story believable? First,...

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RECENT ARTICLES UP ON ICJS The Euston manifesto: For a Renewal of Progressive Politics Harper urged to block UN appointment Wolves in sheep’s clothing on extremist Islam mission Hamas in charge Visa row on links to terror B’nai Brith Press Release Why `this night’ is still different The rise of the Islamist Axis The...

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ARAB PSYCHOLOGY Excerpt from The Autonomist: Although I’m weak in anthropology, I did get an ‘A’ in biology years ago, and what I learned has given me insight into these strange organisms we call Middle Eastern Muslims. Every organism alive on the planet is good at something. Each has some sort of defense or...

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SAUDI ATTACK ON CONSERVATIVE BLOGGERS Readers who logged on to TONGUE-TIED at various times in the last 12 hours or so found the blog “down”. The firm hosting the blog — Hosting Matters — hosts a number of big-time conservative blogs such as LGF and Powerline and they came under a DOS (Denial of...

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JEWISH LEFTISM Excerpt from Dennis Prager Liberal Jews fear most religion. They identify religion — especially fundamentalist religion and especially Christianity — with anti-Semitism. Jews are taught from birth about the horrors of the Holocaust, and of nearly 2,000 years of European, meaning Christian, anti-Semitism. They therefore tend to fear Christianity and believe that...

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STRANGE NEW IQ STUDY We read: “Girls have big advantage over boys on timed tests “Vanderbilt University researchers Stephen Camarata and Richard Woodcock discovered that females have a significant advantage over males on timed tests and tasks. Camarata and Woodcock found the differences were particularly significant among pre-teens and teens…. Though males and females...

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ANGER AT BRITAIN’S WARPED WELFARE STATE From an article by a Labour party member of the British pariament: This is not about race. Immigration and bogus asylum seekers act like the barium meal of an X-ray, showing up the weakness of the body politic. Yet the revolt of working-class voters is not limited to...

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SERVICE OUTAGE Blogger.com has been having a lot of trouble in the last 24 hours. It has been hard to get posts up and I did not manage to get up today’s offering here until several hours later than usual. So forgive me if I once again preach the little sermon I always do...

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BIRTH ORDER DOES NOT AFFECT IQ The study partially summarized below is of considerable interest in its own right but has broader implications as well. It does of course once more show that environmental effects on intelligence which were once thought important are not in fact important but, as well as that, it shows...

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