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  A RECENT SENSIBLE ARTICLE ABOUT DIET Worrying about your diet is bad for you! Stay happily fat. Ignore media messages about obesity. Those are unusual lessons but they are lessons to be learned from the following findings. Journal abstract follows: Is Dieting Advice From Magazines Helpful or Harmful? Five-Year Associations With Weight-Control Behaviors and Psychological Outcomes... »

Multiculturalism doesn’t make vibrant communities but defensive ones (Excerpt from an article by Steve Sailer ) “In the presence of diversity, we hunker down. We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities,... »

  TN: Armored car courier shoots holdup man: “An armored car courier shot and seriously wounded a would-be robber this morning at a Whitehaven gas station. The courier was leaving the Mapco at 979 Brooks at about 8:30 when a robber, possibly armed with a pistol, began spraying him with tear gas or some chemical... »

TYRANNICAL FOOD REGULATORS BACK DOWN FOR ONCE By John Stossel Mary Baker and Ruth Neikirk love to cook. What’s more, they love to cook for poor people. They do it frequently, preparing meals at home and bringing them to their church in Virginia. “I love it,” Mary says. “I can take a little bit of something,... »

US Attacked: National Guard Routed How utterly disgusting. If this was a diversion, as one scenario suggests, we can only hope that something even more dangerous wasn’t smuggled in. And if you need a better example of an alleged super power so hobbled by political correctness and weak political leadership that it can hardly protect... »

AZ: One fatally shot in home invasion: “One home robbery suspect was killed and another critically wounded when six men burst into a Southwest Side home Tuesday night, sheriff’s deputies say. As the suspects yelled for people in the home to get on the floor, a man in a back bedroom locked his door... »

  EDUCATION PREDICTS GOOD HEALTH AND LONG LIFE Of course it does. The elite are educated more and — as Charles Murray showed years ago — are elite because they are brighter — and high IQ is one aspect of good biological functioning. But you won’t see THAT mentioned below. There may nonetheless also be a... »

  ISLAMIC “BEDROOMS” “Just recently, the Taliban issued a new set of 30 rules to its fighters. But there is a curious rule that the Western media has typically ignored. Rule No. 19 instructs that Taliban fighters must not take young boys without facial hair into their private quarters…. Aside from the question of what is permitted... »

The Second Amendment, North Korea and Iran: “Serious supporters of the Second Amendment and the right to self-defense of one’s person, family and personal property, fully understand the amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with hunting, skeet and trap, or Cowboy Action Shooting. It has to do with protecting ourselves from a tyrannical out-of-control... »

Make mine a happy meal, thanks I pointed out the positive role of McDonalds in hospitals on Dec. 20th., 2006 here so I was pleased to see the realistic Australian article below. Referring to campaigns to get McDonalds out of hospitals, I said: “The fact that for many people the McDonalds is the most comforting... »

  ANTI-DEMOCRATIC LEFTISM Ever since the 1950 book “The authoritarian personality”, Leftist psychologists have been saying that it is conservatives who are anti-democratic — ignoring great democrats like Joe Stalin and Mao Tse Tung. So the events decribed below by Taranto are another little dose of reality for them — not that reality has ever mattered... »

  NC: Ex-trooper kills assailant: “A retired trooper with the state Highway Patrol says he was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed the boyfriend of a family friend on New Year’s Day, according to a sheriff’s detective. Robert “Sonny” Moore, 63, killed 24-year-old Travis Worriax with a single shot to his torso, according... »

  Food fanatics impossible to satirize I have had satirical comments about the evils of cheese and butter at the bottomn of each day’s postings here for some time now. But reality has caught up with me. Even cheese (and lots of other mainstream stuff) is now under attack in the Unhinged Kingdom. Have they gone... »

BLOGS+GOOGLE = INFLUENCE The small readership of most blogs would strongly suggest that no blogs other than the top three or four could possibly have much influence on anything. That however overlooks something: Google and other search engines. Because they are heavily interlinked (well over 1,000 other blogs link to this one) blogs tend to... »

New Orleans: Bar owner ready for robbers: “Bar owner Frank Barrera acted quickly and quietly when he spotted two men pulling out pistols as they entered his newly opened Mid-City business Saturday about 2 a.m. Pulling an armed security guard behind a wall next to the bar, Barrera waited a few moments as one... »

  FAT POLITICS “It began with Ethnic Studies, which, even if you don’t approve of them, at least contain some fragments of actual history and sociology. Then our universities opened themselves to Women’s Studies, closely followed by Queer Studies, then Disability Studies. If you think that has exhausted the possibilities for giving claims of victimhood their... »

AMERICANS AS THE NEW JEWS Implications of a British survey I have written at some length here about why the Jews have been hated for so long by so many but there is no doubt that, particularly among Leftists, that hatred goes back to the fact that Jews are both distinctive and successful — in a... »

  Gov. Doyle, Mayor Barrett should reimburse Milwaukee crime victims: “Anti-gun Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett should financially reimburse armed robbery victims who have been left unable to defend themselves, thanks to the policies of these two politicians, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.... »

PROGRESS IN TREATING DIABETES AND ITS EFFECTS Notes from a diabetic The first breakthrough, one I didn’t predict, is a drug, called Metanx (pronounced, stupidly enough, “MET-an-ex” when it obviously should be “met-TANKS”). My doctor tells me it’s acquiring a reputation for reversing diabetic neuropathy, something I’d thought impossible. Let me assure you it ain’t. I... »

Mary, ‘Palestinian refugee’ When it comes to the politicization of the Christmas story, I thought I had seen it all. But the London Independent’s shameless mischaracterization of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as “a Palestinian refugee” takes the proverbial cake. The story by Johann Hari published Dec. 23 begins: “In two days, a third of... »