Good morning.

1. Two disparate views of the terrorism threat.
2. A motor.
3. A philosophy joke. 
4. Looks like, but isn’t really.
5. A cartel. 
6. Not getting it. If you make choices for religious (or any other reason for that matter) those choices have consequences.
7. Insurance rates the the crash.
8. The euro jig.
9. Another discussion, science and religion.

Happy Thanksgiving.

1. More talk about procedure and terror.
2. Why has this man not been defrocked?
3. If they called it stimulus the left of the aisle would be all behind it.
4. St. Catherine and Ms Harvey.
5. QE2 primer.
6. A tell.
7. Thanksgiving.
8. Here too.
9. Some very good Nork links located here. More here.
10. A girl going.
11. Mr Obama and boredom. As I’ve noted before, boredom is a flow not in the universe but the person who is bored. To be more specific, it’s a matter of a lack of maturity. 

Good morning.

1. Stalin and genocide.
2. Why monasticism?
3. North Korea.
4. Dancing with flaming balls of gas, here and here.
5. Tribalism and the green movement.
6. A conversation on Gitmo.
7. On death.
8. Not a fan of human exceptionalism … which is one of the causes of the mass tragedies of the 20th century (for which I refer to Ms Delsol with The Unlearned Lessons Of the Twentieth Century).
9. Making a stand.
10. Mr Maxwell’s demon.
11. Microsoft developers had a phrase for this, “eating your own dog food”, a practice the beltway should take up, i.e., subject themselves to the same regulatory burdens they shovel on the rest of us. (link corrected)

Good morning.

1. Islam, violence, and education.
2. Monday SCOTUS links.
3. supercallifragiousexpialidoconstiutionalism.
4. Etymology of gerrymander.
5. Talking about Benedict and the condom kerfuffle.
6. Marble wonders.
7. Raising taxes and their effect on deficits.
8. Time spent.
9. Ms Levy.
10. For the Palin fans.
11. GM bailout.
12. Of government and market.
13. Hezbollah, Hamas, and the International courts.

Good morning.

1. A monastery and the Soviet era gulag.
2. US, China and currency manipulation.
3. TSA and following the money. 
4. Moral obligations in the midst of immoral behavior.
5. Myanmar.
6. Cinema anticipation.
7. Witness.
8. Links with a philosophical bent.
9. Falling asleep in the Lord with company.

Good morning.

1. Free speech and the left, although generalizing the notions of idiots in the beltway to the rest of the populus is probably wrong … the majority would prefer to just silence FOX I’d think.
2. Voters intelligence. Too bad the beltway denizens are dumber. 
3. Divorce and habits of confrontation.
4. DREAM.
5. Waffling on the TSA scans.
6. Iowa, SSM and their high court.
7. For the Palin fans, a sympathetic NYTimes piece noted. Of the five points listed at the start, 2 and 5 will be disbelieved by the epistemically closed left.
8. A AGW quote/poll,  “For example, why don’t they appreciate that it’s irrelevant that “97%” of the grant parasites, cowards, and left-wing activists pretending to be scientists in various institutions with scientific names subscribe to the AGW crap?” Heh.
9. A strange road to charity.
10. My (admittedly outsiders) view of the sport of golf.
11. 12 on joy.
12. Rural China.
13. Seriously? The TSA considering offering search exceptions to those wearing burkas? 

Good morning.

1. A chicken egg question. (and for the original question, it seems clear genetically the answer must be egg). 
2. Of science and god.
3. An Orthodox Jewish convert noted.
4. Fer the Palin fans. The most attractive thing, alas(?), about a Palin candidacy is the fits it will incite on sectors of the left.
5. Global warming.
6. Simpson-Bowles discussed.
7. Blogging as an activity.
8. Some wonderful puns to enjoy.
9. The FDA puts its two cents in against Irish coffee. As an aside, Mr Hemmingway used to use the combination of alcohol, sugar, caffeine, and nicotine as a truth serum to bust writers bloc (Irish coffee and cigars). 
10. Hiring practices.
11. Bang bang.
12. Ban lawyers from battlefields.
13. A hero interviewed. So … how many people in your company would list her as a modern hero? How many kids today?
14. Academics in the beltway.

Good morning.

1. Meta-Consequences.
2. QE2. 
3. Talking about intellectual curiosity. OK name the 4 people you think are histories greatest rulers/leaders/lawmaker/executives. Consider their qualities.
4. START.
5. Conservative media and the UK.
6. History, conservatives and the whole closed information system meme.
7. Putin and Lativa.
8. Chasing rocks. This is not unrelated.
9. The trivial and boredom. I often (not usefully) instruct my kids that the cause of boredom is not  the universe but is internal to them.
10. Coming soon to a computer near, well, if not you at least me.

Good morning.

1. Oddly enough most kids like gymnastics.
2. Cats drink … how?
3. The nativity fast began yesterday, more here.
4. Conservative praise for Wal-Mart.
5. Mr Obama’s science guy.
6. A “panic” … of which I’ve only heard from the one source … doesn’t sound like much of a panic. I don’t think my head is that far in the sand.
7. A TSA song.
8. Lustration and the Macedonian life.
9. A massacre of which you’ve never heard.
10. Truth and manners.
11. Ms Merkel on Islam and Christianity in Germany.
12. Mr Mohler might note that the traditional rite of Baptism is an explictly and exorcism. 

Good morning.

1. Blaming the GOP.
2. “God doesn’t want you to change.” … Huh? That’s just about as really really wrong as one could imagine.
3. The uninsured.
4. Atheist “ads” and a response, and the point is that the riposte(s) are as “fair” as the initial thrust.
5. Trust your rack? I don’t think I’d trust the window adhesive that much.
6. The political thinking of JRR.
7. A book list.
8. The dome.
9. How not to do a public hearing.
10. TSA.
11. Advice regarding charity.
12. An oasis found in the midst of the self-help desert.
13. Zach hack (HT: Dr Platypus).

Good morning. In a blog post title that I didn’t link, “Obama opposes permanent tax cuts for the wealthy” … I was confused by what the word ‘permanent’ might mean in that context. Permanent if it has any meaning at all really shouldn’t mean, until any given Congress decides to repeal it. 

1. Progressives and Hayek countered.
2. Presentation at the Temple.
3. Selling meat not under false pretenses.
4. Wealth and the US.
5. Discussing Obamacare.
6. Tax talk.
7. Math pedagogy.
8. Doubt.
9. Movement in the Anglican communion.
10. Heh.

Good morning.

1. Why is the method never questioned? That the poll (or polls in general) might be mostly garbage is not offered as a possibility. 
2. Get thee to the gym.
3. Free will and stuff.
4. 2010 census and the 2012 House.
5. On gaming debt.
6. Planned Parenthood and the Garden State.
7. Book selection and choices.
8. Memory and damage.
9. Is journalism witness?
10. Piracy.

Good morning. 

1. Personal responsibility.
2. A pie chart and a “non-shocker”.
3. More seriously, a discussion of humanism.
4. Our liberal ruling elite.
5. A book list for liberty.
6. A small view of ritual, which sort of knocks the linch-pin out of the discussion.
7. What people will do with their phones.
8. Pain.
9. The UK and the church state divide.
10. The empty tomb.
11. Recalling a good first post.
12. Mr Biden’s phantasmagorical delusion (one shared by not a few on the left I suspect).

Good morning.

1. Some post-election demographics.
2. Apparently the “it’s the economy stupid” memo hasn’t reached the White House post-election.
3. Of fear and climate.
4. How not to do diplomacy, Obama in India.
5. Mr Olberman and a prediction, specifically that the right wing will “howl for his resignation”. Oddly enough the first I’d heard about it was the NRO corner defending Mr Olberman against his firing. Hmmm.
6. A discussion between an atheist and Christian continues … now talking early church. Both side make claims that are in error often enough that I gave up on the notion of writing a post correcting their errors. I think there is more error than right in them thar woods.
7. Custody and law.
8. Predictability and democracy.
9. Dating advice for the distaff set.
10. The decaffeination process. Heh.
11. Golden tongue.

Good morning.

1. He carries both, although I think the broom gets used on the floor.
2. Our American political dialectic.
3. Orwellian language and war.
4. When “kinds of slavery” are discussed, and “racial slavery was especially severe” whence the gulag and Kolyma?
5. Money and commodities.
6. A black man and the left.
7. Speaking of stupid racial notions. Consider this sentence “Frankly, I would not bet on the consistent returns of any black man who regularly employed anger in a room full of white people” remove “black” and “white” from that sentence and it remains just as true … for “Frankly, I would not bet on the consistent returns of any man who regularly employed anger in a room full of people” is just as obvious. Duh.
8. More racism on the left.
9. What the Admin is not doing to help the economy.
10. People scoffed at Ms O’Donnell … but her concession speech cannot be beat. I applaud her sensibilities.
11. Obamacare and healthcare costs.
12. Checks and balances in the Roman Republic.
13. Fatherhood and daughters. I liked the line in a recent movie a dad giving ‘advice’ to the young man taking his daughter out on a date, “Don’t do anything to her that you don’t want me to do to you.”