More depressing news from the land of the Magna Charta

The UK Labour Party wants to require "journalism licenses" in order to distribute or broadcast news or opinion. So much for a "people's party" that wants to shed its image as an overbearing, intrusive, social engineering-obsessed mob of nannies.
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Sign of the times...cont'd.

Hey we're just making the market more efficient!

How to make money from a dying city: Speculators complicate Detroit's efforts to reconfigure its increasing empty neighborhoods. As Bob Dylan noted once "...money doesn't speak, it swears...".

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The the multi-cultural movement is starting to stumble and lose momentum  these days says Jim Goad.
"You don’t hear China, Japan, or Israel being lectured to swing open their doors to foreigners. Almost exclusively, multiculturalism is a psychological marketing program designed for majority-white countries."

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What will really lead to the legalization of marijuana - Ann Althouse

The government's need for something else to tax.

Chinese state launches human wave attack on the Web - Ars Technica (Nate Anderson)

280,000 people paid to post in forums, blog and etc on the order and for the benefit of PRC apparatchiks.

Nevada Democratic Party disinformation campaign for Harry Reid unravels. (Yahoo News)

25 Things to always have on you "just in case"- Code Name Insight blog (h/t: LRC)

The poet laureate of modern American male loserdom - NY Review of Books

Facebook to automatically share all your stuff with sites you never signed up for? - TechCrunch (Jason Kincaid)